01.13.04

Remember about a month ago when I said that to keep this site going, we don’t need money, all we need is you? I was wrong. We need money.

If I could make a decent living writing Perfect Pitch, then you’d be reading a new issue right now instead of a final note. But a lot’s changed in the past month or so. My new full-time editing job prevents me from giving the site the respect that it deserves. Plus, new relationships and new priorities have affected Perfect Pitch's other core contributors, and it’s pointless to continue working on the site when, issue after issue, I know it will never be as good as it could and should be.

Perfect Pitch was launched last April with very selfish intentions, and I’ve gotten just about everything I wanted to get from it. I’ve interviewed some of my favorite musicians, made some good friends, fulfilled the dreams of stalker drummers, hurt people’s feelings and offended “the legendary.” It was also used as a way of proving to myself that I still had the talent and the mind to do the things that other people said I couldn't do. If I may be so bold, I think I've done some pretty damn good writing for this site and I've proven my point.

Will Perfect Pitch stay dead forever? If God finally starts answering my e-mails and increases our days by another 10 hours, or if someone just decides to give me lots of money on a regular basis for no reason, then who knows. But should one or the other occur, you’ll be the first to know. Writing is very fulfilling, and I know I'll be able to come back to it down the road if my music doesn't kick as many asses as I hope it will. I can still write jokes and complain about women when I'm 80 years old, impotent and smoking crack through the hole in my throat - performance, at least in this day and age, is a young person's sport, and I've already wasted enough time.

The site will stay up and all articles will be archived so that other publications can keep stealing our ideas (you know who you are). Most of my time now will be spent working and writing music. I'll still be doing some occasional freelance writing for Shock Waves, Infernal Combustion and a few other publications. If you're a musician anywhere on the spectrum between the weepy acoustic singer-songwriter and the greasy headbanger and you'd like me to review your album, send it to my P.O. Box and I promise to tear it apart post haste. The phone number is officially out of commission; editor@perfectpitchonline.com will forward to erik@fongduckdong.com, so from now on, please send your love letters to the latter address. Gay singing telegrams can be sent to Keith Bergman's house.

Thanks for reading, and remember: Just because it's on your plate doesn't mean you have to eat it.

Loving you is easy 'cause you're beautiful,
Erik Fong

P.O. Box 7277
San Jose, CA 95150
erik@fongduckdong.com



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