Yesterday, I briefly talked about the situation with Steve Augeri and Journey, in 2006 and how some at Melodicrock.com's Journey Message Board jumped all over the opportunity to bash and slash Steve, both professionally and personally.
The hatchet job against Steve Augeri was led and goaded on by an individual that goes by the screen name Rockindeano, also the author of the new Separate Ways Blog, located at http://separateways.blogspot.com/. Dean claims that he has an inside track to Journey's inner most circle and regularly spouts off about supposed facts he claims to have obtained from that as yet unnamed source, or sources.
Although Dean never reveals the source(s) of his so-called facts and that his facts are almost always proven incorrect, a great number of those that are members of Melodicrock.com's Journey Message Boards take his word as gospel. Not only that, they will defend Dean and his propaganda to the fullest extent, using the most vulgar and obscene language (just as is Dean's m/o) and attacking anyone that doesn't agree unmercifully.
There are few that dare speak against Dean, as anyone that dares is quickly swarmed upon by his cult-like followers. The saddest thing about it is that the site's owner Andrew McNeice, mostly allows and many times defends, all of the above behavior. If you speak against Dean, or if you dare post to the Board when you know you are one of those on Dean's vast list of those to attack on site, you are labeled an instigator and a Troll by Dean, his followers and Melodicrock.com's creator, Andrew McNeice.
Dean has always been a source of the most ignorant and arrogant speak anywhere in any Journey related Forum, shouting and crying his propaganda louder and louder, the more he is proven wrong and especially when he is questioned on his motives, sources and tactics. Even after his attack on Steve Augeri last year, that included doctoring illegally obtained bootlegs of Journey shows, attacking Steve's professional ethics and even his personal life, wife and son included, Dean and his supporters insisted that he was a fan of Steve's. Isn't that ironic?
After all of that and the never ending "I was right and you were wrong, now exult me as your God" rants after JSS was named full time lead vocalist of Journey in December of 2006, now he finds himself blindsided by the fact that his prized horse in the race, JSS, was all of the sudden being let go and a new vocalist would be named later in 2007.
Since he can never be proven wrong and the fact that he has portrayed that the change in Journey vocalists, from Steve Augeri to JSS last year was a result of his putting the "truth", as he calls it, out there for everyone to see and hear, he has exploded on another slanderous and very personal rampage against the rest of the band. Mostly Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon, but Ross Valory isn't exempt from Dean's psychotic, self-serving ramblings either.
Don't take my word for it. Go to Melodicrock.com and check out the Journey Message Board. Read the buzz and who is saying what and about whom. You will find that Dean is at the head of the propaganda and inciting, while a handful of others are his enforcers, striking down any and all that dare speak up against him, which is now almost entirely nonexistent, so they simply bounce around parroting Dean's so-called facts to anyone that is forced to listen and standing back watching it all...with the occassional response that let's you know where he really stands (which is not behind the band he claims to love), is Melodicrock's creator and manager, Andrew McNeice.
I could go on and on about this situation, boring everyone to tears, but I think I'll let this one end by simply saying...check it out for yourself. Draw your own conclusions. I believe fair-minded and clear-headed individuals will see that there is something really wrong with this picture and that it has nothing to do with a band that is simply trying to conduct business the best way they know how and to support their families, just like every other responsible individual.
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Rich Meyers,
What you are doing is simply speculating, regarding me and my writings. Unlike my writings, where I was 100% correct, you are 0% correct, and if your writings about me are not erased, expect to hear from my attorney.
I won't ask twice.
Brilliant assessment of a twisted. morbid situation. It seems to me Jeff Scott Soto and Andrew McNeice are committing career suicide by association with this sociopath.
What's the backstory on that? H'mmm?
Don't get me wrong. I believe that under it all, Andrew is a good person.
I just feel that his credibility as a professional is being clouded by his personal feelings as a fan of Jeff's and Journey's.
I don't know why Andrew allows guys like Dean and a few others that spew nothing but hate, trying to incite more hatred. I can understand his wanting to allow both positive and negative commentary, but what we are speaking about goes well beyond that.
Hopefully, Andrew will reflect a bit and see what is truly going on. This isn't about Free Speech. It's about his professional credibility.
Is MR.com a professional journalistic endeavor? Or is it a fan based website, there simply to advance his positions as a afan himself?
I agree with your assessment that Andrew is a decent sort. He also appears to be fairly intelligent.
Is it poor business acumen or apprehension about cutting the head off the vicious reptile and his lackeys? There is nothing that resembles fair commentary going on at his Journey forum. It's so blantantly one sided in favor of a lying psychopath, his mindless followers and the myriad of alias screen names he posts under.
It is all about Andrew's professional credibility, if he cares?
Andrew is one of the most professional, most well respected, men of integrity in his business. U have absolutely no right to drag him into ur shenanigans. He even allowed u to post on his board. I hope he has removed that privilege now.
Susie, since you bring it up...I have issued a public message to Andrew regarding his choice to allow the circus atmosphere he does at MR.com.
In that message, I asked for Andrew to remove my username and to ban my IP. I simply don't even want the ability to view the hateful atmosphere in his Journey Forum.
As for Andrew, personally. I've had the priviledge of knowing him for a number of years now and respect him as a highly professional and intelligent man. I simply question how he allow his reputation to be tarnished by the atmosphere of attack and destroy he allows in the Journey Forum on his site.
By the way, Susie. When you associate yourself with and defend those that wallow in the trash and bash mentality, you acquire all of it's baggage and stench.
The World outside our little Internet haven might not look on the online antics of Dean and some others the way you do. In fact, they will be more than likely to dismiss it all as childish banter between individuals that have way too much time on their hands and most likely wouldn't act similarly without the comfort of the computer screen separating them.
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