When I moved to Tampa, I found a publication which catered to local musicians by reviewing large numbers of demo tapes. I had recently released my album View With a Room, so I sent it in to get reviewed. Why do this? It's a way to test the waters and see if the message you are trying to put across is, indeed, getting across. This appeared in Music News-Reviews-Interviews from June 17, 1989. In this case, I was crushed to be told that all my efforts were "boring as hell," but I noticed that the reviewer picked up on the overall "extremely experimental" vibe I was after (perhaps the "theme" of the album). He also called it the most "ambitious" submission that week. Although the album was the apex of my early period recording on a 4-track cassette recorder, the sound was below professional studio quality, so that's probably about as good as it was going to get.