Well, things have happened in a few hours.

My last post here was about a bad review I got on Jamendo; well, soon after posting it, this became two bad reviews — by the same reviewer, one for each of my albums.

I was pretty upset.

Now, I’m in a bad situation here. Right now, except for my two dogs, I’m all alone. My wife is away, out of town on business. Where to turn?

I posted my situation in the DMusic forums. I figured with all the great musicians there, someone surely had gotten plugged unfairly once or twice and could offer coping strategies.

Well, instead, a fellow musician named leedsquietman saved the day, singlehandedly.

Here is the thread I started on DMusic: Damnation. If you scroll down to the sixth post, you see he did something I didn’t — he considered the source. In fact he did a bit of detective work and looked up the other reviews this person had made on Jamendo.

When I looked myself, I saw that just as leeds said, 2 out of 3 of this person’s reviews were arrogant, abusive, condescending, and blatantly troll-like. As leeds said, it was as if he wanted to be the Simon Cowell of the online music world.

So what now? Not certain. Keep practicing and hope the wheel of karma spins full circle, I suppose.

I should have known that this day would come; I just wasn’t prepared.