No Post Today, But Please Respond to a Kind of 'Survey'
Help improve this newsletter "experience" going forward with a Comment or two.
As I announced yesterday, after two solid months of daily reports, I am taking a day off today—also giving you a break—and henceforth will only post one day on the weekend, alternating my profiles in music (such as yesterday’s popular one on Joni Mitchell) and excerpts from my memoir-in-progress on the Crawdaddy 1970s. So this is a good time to seek one day of concentrated feedback from subscribers before moving forward. I don’t have any kid of real survey form so I will simply list questions from which you might pick one or several for a response. Use the Comment button or email me and I’ll appreciate everything, even if (especially if) critical. Thanks in advance, and I hope you keep reading and rocking!
Again: Just respond as briefly as you wish, or stop after the first one below and ignore nearly all of the specific queries.
Very simple and general: What do you like or not like about the content of the newsletter? Ways to improve?
Frequency: prefer 7 days, 6 days, or less, and why?
How often do you actually open the email? Why do you not bother on some or many days?
If you rarely or never bother to Comment on anything—why?
Content: The daily political cartoons?
Content: The daily news/political short takes and humor?
Content: The daily music (songs and videos)?
Music: Wish to see less of some types of music and more of others?
Content: The profiles in music (so far, Leonard Cohen, Sam Cooke, Joni Mitchell). And who would you most like to see profiled in the future?
Content: Excerpts from my memoir (so far my first concert, re-launching Crawdaddy, interviewing Ray Davies, driving with Springsteen to my hometown).
Would you be willing to pay a very small amount each month or annually to continue to receive this newsletter? If so, how much?
That’s all folks, thanks for any response, even if very, very brief!
I love your newsletter. Was born in 1948 and subscribed to Crawdaddy and the music pieces are worth the read alone. The daily added commentary is a huge plus. Thank you, thank you. I don’t know how you could sustain a daily newsletter but I’ll read it religiously however often you sent it out; just don’t stop.
I enjoy the content very much: the variety, the humor, the political slant, and the links to those vintage video performances, many of which I'd never seen. I open all of the emails and look forward to their daily delivery. If I'm too busy one day, I catch up the next. The longer profiles have been great: informative career-spanning looks at artists I've long loved and admired. The memoir excerprs are especially enjoyable. Yes, I'm happy to pay for great entertainment and would like to acknowledge the hard work and time you put into these newsletters.