There is a problem with Cadence. Actually, I've had great luck with their sales service and Vladimir at North Country Audio has been extremely helpful for my vinyl affliction. He's selling a NAD phono preamp I've been looking for well under the competition. My issue is with the editorial staff for the magazine.
About a year ago, I submitted to them an interview with British saxophonist/pipist Paul Dunmall, on the condition that the text would print by May of last year. Not that they would be interested, but I do not regularly write for Cadence, and never have, largely a decision influenced by the complaints I have heard from members of their masthead past and present. They agreed to print the interview and here Paul and I sit, a year later, with many thousands of words yet to be read by anyone but ourselves. I would have published the interview here but Cadence is bound to get much wider circulation than anything published here (I could be wrong?) and as such it would be nice for Paul's story to reach a wider audience. Today, I'm at the end of my rope. I contacted the magazine, they are looking into it, and you may well be reading the interview here within the week.
I'm still getting that NAD preamp, tho. And I'm due for a music order. Sue me, I'm shifty.
Posted by al on February 23, 2004 9:46 AMFwiw, Dunmall is listed near the top of the ‘upcoming interviews’ list in the February ish’. Slight recompense for a year’s delay, I know. Did you express your beef to Bob directly when you talked to them?
Posted by: derek at February 23, 2004 10:27 AMthat's a good sign. I'll wait to hear what they say today.
Posted by: al at February 23, 2004 11:17 AMI think they just put 'em line as they come in. I believe I warned you about this around a year ago!
Posted by: walto at February 23, 2004 12:35 PMConsidering they always have a really, really long list of forthcoming interviews, & each issue only holds 2-3 interviews, I'm not surprised it's taken a while: even a record review usually takes two-three months minimum to show up in its pages. Why the stipulation about time limits? Was there something time-sensitive in the interview?
Posted by: N.D. at February 23, 2004 1:40 PMNothing too time-sensitive, but Paul had a couple of releases (one of them a CIMP) that were released around that time, and I thought it beneficial that a printed interview would run concurrently.
Posted by: al at February 23, 2004 2:24 PMYeah, something of a missed opportunity, but I suppose I'm always sympathetic to the difficulties of editors trying to cram stuff into their journals..... I've found it virtually impossible to keep stuff in The Gig to the 64pp limit & have had to push something commissioned for #15 into #17 for instance.
Posted by: Nate Dorward at February 23, 2004 7:05 PMThat's the fun of internet magazines..
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