Peter G Gleeson: Author at OriginalRock.net

Early in June I got chatting to a writer for OriginalRock.net and, after I found my own back-catalogue from the late 90s/early 00s, I wrote to Original Rock myself to see if he would be able to use my work.

He sent me a couple of records, I wrote them up, and now I can claim to be an author on that site!

My first review was posted yesterday for the fantastic new album by Remo Drive and I'm just listening on BandCamp to the back-catalogue for the second review, Ten Foot Wizard's forthcoming album "Get Out Of Your Mind".

Back in the 1990s I was writing about music I was sent and gigs I was either invited to or just turned up at, and the only outlet was my Geocities platform. When whomever discontinued that platform pulled that plug I was willing to let that all go by the by as a closed chapter of my life.

Well Amanda Easton, All But Gentlemen, and Glen Colley's various projects all helped me to keep my eye and ear in during the ensuing period, but the guys at Original Rock obviously saw something in both my old stuff and my new stuff and, well, you can see the results for yourself.

I'll maintain my presence here, of course. My next project is already in the making. But my main outlet, under my actual name, will be over at Original Rock! Stay tuned for more Variosities!

PG (Jacky) Gleeson
27/06/2020

Look what I found at http://www.geocities.ws/p_terg/ (Post 2.0)

While chatting online with a fellow reviewer, I decided to see if my stuff from the 1990s was still online.

When it was announced that Geocities would stop hosting free websites I was willing to let it all go.

But since then, many people, including oocities, reocities, and geocities-ws have mirrored content that was (and I'm paraphrasing here) culturally significant!

Which is lucky for me because I have had a look back and there's a helluva lot of material there!

Here are the categories (some of the links in the page are no longer viable):

• Alternative - music that, before 1991, would only have been played on college, community, or pirate radio. 
• Pop & other - Jazz (be it traditional or new-styled), Nouveau-pop, World music, ‘Pop’ of the traditional ‘three-minute’ variety, as well as anything that isn't quite Alternative but probably could be... 
• Compilations - one of the best ways to get your music in more faces, sometimes at less cost than your own CD. And then there’s sampler CDs from organisations whose sole aim is to promote new music.
• Live - my comment on live gigs at various levels around Sydney from 9 August 1995, including Brian May at Sydney’s old Capitol Theatre; Wave Aid; Amanda Easton: the lady who got me back into this; and the band that caused my tinnitus, Screaming Jets, in December 2000.
• Country -  a selection of country and western releases I have reviewed since starting this writing thing! You might note a significant gap between the most recent and the ones before that... take a look at the Mary Schneider review to find out why!
• The Directory has since gone the way of dead websites. It was a huge list, too big for the Geocities servers to handle, containing every artist reviewed on the site. I really have to make that work again.
• Loud - speaks for itself, really. My favourite form of music.
• MP3s - Planned as a review of all artists A-Z on the mp3.com.au website, an ambitious project that never got past A in the writing but Hero Puppy in the pre-planning. None of the links appear to be viable any more.
• Your Reviews - I invited punters, friends, and colleagues to write and contribute their own reviews. I met Cindy on the Yahoo poker-tables and she became the North American arm of the site; Glen, a friend of my brother-in-law’s, was the basis of Trophy Wives ,  Honest John, Salty, and 3 On The Tree; and Mick is a mate of Glen’s who still loves it quite loud!
• Press - only a couple of these links remain viable; the Dan and Mick Carter ones have died, as have the Alta Vista, Anzwers, Google, Hot Bot, Lycos, MSN, and Yahoo! links as they existed at the time. I have recently even referenced the Country Goss article while chatting with a Swedish-metal guitarist.

I hope to be able to revive this aspect of my life again ... if not for these pages then elsewhere (see also https://peterg-gleeson.blogspot.com/2011/12/music-reviews-website.html)