In the past several months I've assisted on at least 2 different albums that have seen proper release that I knew I was gonna get credit on. On both of those projects I actually got really cool with the artist/bands and received the cds before their release dates. I was really grateful to have my name very clearly written in both liner notes as one of the assistant engineers. Here's what kills me, though. In both cases friends of mine are also given assistant engineer credits in the liner notes AND on AllMusic's site. For some reason, though, AllMusic left me of the credits for both releases. What the hell? The first time it happened I thought, "Oh, I guess someone screwed up. I'll just submit a correction and they'll fix it." That was like 8 or 9 months ago, I've submitted a handful of correction requests since then and now that it's happened again. I'm thinking of 3 possible scenarios:
1. My vindictive ex-girlfriend actually runs AllMusic and never wants to me get credit for anything
2. I share a name with the murderer who killed the mother of the person who types in the credits at AllMusic and this is his or her way of getting their revenge.
3. Or, although I've worked on a good number of projects, since these both were to be my first credits on proper releases, someone at AllMusic is too lazy to make up a new ID entry for me and just leaves me out
All 3 seem very possible in my head. In all honesty, though, as a young dude still trying to establish myself every credit means a lot to me, especially the ones I know should be up on AllMusic cuz as far as I can tell it's the most recognized online resource for that sort of thing.
I actually just pre-ordered another release on which I might get credit. Not sure. If my name's in those liner notes, though, and AllMusic dicks me over again, GRR! ... I'm just gonna walk into AllMusic headquarters and start karate chopping people in the neck.
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-JV