Bowing Out

January 16, 2008 by Dave  
Filed under Mystery Lyrics

I am now going to make a decision that I have been thinking of for quite a while. The fact is that I am finding it increasingly difficult to find the time to Host Mystery Lyrics every 14 days. And when I look at the feedback that I am getting back (4 comments this time around, the last few presentations have seldomly brought substantially more), then I’m afraid its just not worth my effort….

Add to that the criticism that regularly flies into my face from certain players for playing via a weblog - “It would be great if you could just send the question like everyone else instead of forcing us to go to the website” (an example from this week from someone who never played my lyrics anyway - even when I was doing it “like everybody else”) - then maybe you will appreciate why I find it difficult to motivate myself.

For these reasons I have decided that yesterdays Mystery Lyrics was the last one from the Sunset Cowboy. In future I will just sit back and play

As far as the website is concerned. I will leave it where it is for the present, but really there doesnt seem any point in continuing - except for the days when Lyrics are posted it is just a playground for spammers - probably nobody will notice any difference anyway.

Yes, it makes me very sad to make this decision, but there’s just no point anymore. Maybe in future I will have time to answer your lyrics

Dave

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3 Comments on "Bowing Out"

  1. Sev on Thu, 17th Jan 2008 1:07 am 

    Dave,

    I’m so sorry that some unappreciative people have pushed you from being a ML hostie, (Shame On them). I always thought you did a fabulous job and brought back memories in music of the old days when I was stationed in Germany with the US Army. Thank you for everything you did for Mystery Lyrics and consider this an open invatation to return to hosting should you see fit.

    Contrary to what you may be thinking,
    “WE WILL MISS YOU”

    Your Brother In Musical Tastes,
    Sev

  2. Mystery Lyrics Review 14-20 January 2008 on Fri, 25th Jan 2008 5:33 pm 

    [...] Last week in Lyricland we saw 8 songs presented, due to Hil doing 2! There were also a couple of floaters from Debi, Diana and Cheryl, so looks like there’s plenty of post-christmas stress around! Then of course we had my last presentation. As from now I will be no longer hosting Mystery Lyrics - I will sit back and play as well as keeping the website up to date. You can read more about my reasons here [...]

  3. RENFIELD on Sat, 26th Jan 2008 12:31 am 

    WOW… people suck (no surprise there)…

    don’t take it personally…
    people resist change…

    personally.. myslyricsthesite
    is a daily stop for me…

    go have a beer (or 3)
    i know how you feel..

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