First, let me say I am so thankful for what Dweezil has provided so far. It’s been both fascinating and healing. However, he clearly over promised and people are clearly frustrated by it. I understand life gets in the way and it is a significant project, but I think this really needs to be addressed in some way.
Regarding future episodes, in the interest of expediency perhaps consider cutting out all the post audio effects (which frankly pull the listener out of the experience) and just post them as is (EQ and editing aside).
Regarding the presets (which I’ve been dying to get from the beginning) consider providing a deadline for delivery (by the end of 2022?).
Appreciate all you’ve done, Dweezil. Hope this can be resolved.
Sorry, this is bullshit. I paid $51.50 for this podcast and the deliverables have not been fulfilled. And it's been over a year. And no regular updates. Poor excuses all around.
Please remember that Dweezil makes nothing from doing Runnin' With The Dweezil on top of his regular job and life. All the money from this goes to the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation. I understand the frustration, but I always remind myself of this before complaining in a public forum. The amazing access and content that these episodes contain is worth the wait. Thank you for doing this Dweezil!
But if I take the same approach with my customers (advertise X things, invoice X things, but don't deliver these X things, the customer have all the rights to complain, I'm sorry but that's how it works).
Under promise and over deliver is usually better this way around.
And trust me, I never complain online. But I'm just annoyed and disappointed like many here about the situation. That's all. (and this doesn't question the great quality content already out and that everyone paid for here too)
freak6767 When he started this, it was during Covid quarantine or lockdown. Dweezil probably had a lot more time to do this stuff. Now that’s over, he probably doesn’t paying the bills comes first and he’s underwater with a lot of this. I understand your frustration and totally agree with your comments.
Just a point of clarification: "Runnin' With Dweezil is proud to donate a portion of the proceeds directly to The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation (MHOF)"
Everyone who is frustrated has 100% the right to be, IMO.
This is a classic example of over promising and underdelivering.
It's one thing if this project came out of gate with big aspirations and then had to pivot to promise and deliver less, updating the product page with the features one could expect from their money. I think if that happened, most members of this community would be mostly accepting and understanding based not only the complexity of delivering on the promises but also the circumstances of the past couple years.
The project still promises live listening sessions (I think there was one poorly executed), bonus episodes and presets. Whether or not any of these will ever been delivered is TBD, I guess. If you support the project today, you're supporting what amounts to false advertising. You're assuming the presets are available, that you'll receive a link to special episodes, etc.
At this point, Dweezil is not only adversely affecting his own brand, he's also affecting Premier Guitar and Walrus Audio due to their involvement with the project. But mostly he's affecting himself.
Honestly, it's hard for me to buy Dweezil's "making a podcast is hard" message. For someone who has spent his entire life surrounded by the creation of, the business of and the performing of and distribution of music, delivering on the promises made had to (or should have been) known risks to making this the quality product it could have been.
Having said that, if Dweezil came out with a little more transparency and admitted to the faults and revised what will and won't be made available with this project, I'd be totally fine with it. Right now, if feels like a waiting game of when will my customers get tired of their own frustrations and quit asking about it, and that is quite disappointing.
Lastly, I'll say the majority of what has been delivered is great. It's just that so much more was promised and as of yet no actions have been taken to resolve or course correct on those initial promises.
I didn’t realize that a portion of this went to MHOF. I misunderstood and thought all of it went to them. Like I said, I agree with all the comments, but the rest of the stuff still applies with Dweezil’s career, life and time he had durning CoVID quarantine. Hopefully, he comes up with a solution and some answers soon to rectify this situation.
What makes it more frustrating is that he has been releasing his audio documentaries with reasonable regularity, yet we are left hanging here. I think this is dead in the water to be honest.
I noticed that too. I was trying to justify this in my head when I responded, but the more I think about it I think you are right. The party might be over on this deal.
Hi Dweezil. You don’t remember me, but we spoke at length about Van Halen in Kansas City outside of your Hendrix Tribute tour bus right after ADKOT came out. Your podcast has been amazing, and I appreciate that you are prioritizing quality over timeline for everything included in the 5150 package. I know it would be easy to just quickly record some interviews and post some half-assed guitar presets for AxeFX and Helix, but why do that when so many others already have?
I do share some of the same frustrations as others who have recently posted comments asking about deliverables. An update from you addressing the current state of deliverables and setting new timeline expectations would be helpful and would probably go a long way towards keeping members’ confidence levels up.
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First, let me say I am so thankful for what Dweezil has provided so far. It’s been both fascinating and healing. However, he clearly over promised and people are clearly frustrated by it. I understand life gets in the way and it is a significant project, but I think this really needs to be addressed in some way.
Regarding future episodes, in the interest of expediency perhaps consider cutting out all the post audio effects (which frankly pull the listener out of the experience) and just post them as is (EQ and editing aside).
Regarding the presets (which I’ve been dying to get from the beginning) consider providing a deadline for delivery (by the end of 2022?).
Appreciate all you’ve done, Dweezil. Hope this can be resolved.
Sorry, this is bullshit. I paid $51.50 for this podcast and the deliverables have not been fulfilled. And it's been over a year. And no regular updates. Poor excuses all around.
Please remember that Dweezil makes nothing from doing Runnin' With The Dweezil on top of his regular job and life. All the money from this goes to the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation. I understand the frustration, but I always remind myself of this before complaining in a public forum. The amazing access and content that these episodes contain is worth the wait. Thank you for doing this Dweezil!
I agree.
But if I take the same approach with my customers (advertise X things, invoice X things, but don't deliver these X things, the customer have all the rights to complain, I'm sorry but that's how it works).
Under promise and over deliver is usually better this way around.
And trust me, I never complain online. But I'm just annoyed and disappointed like many here about the situation. That's all. (and this doesn't question the great quality content already out and that everyone paid for here too)
freak6767 When he started this, it was during Covid quarantine or lockdown. Dweezil probably had a lot more time to do this stuff. Now that’s over, he probably doesn’t paying the bills comes first and he’s underwater with a lot of this. I understand your frustration and totally agree with your comments.
Just a point of clarification: "Runnin' With Dweezil is proud to donate a portion of the proceeds directly to The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation (MHOF)"
Everyone who is frustrated has 100% the right to be, IMO.
This is a classic example of over promising and underdelivering.
It's one thing if this project came out of gate with big aspirations and then had to pivot to promise and deliver less, updating the product page with the features one could expect from their money. I think if that happened, most members of this community would be mostly accepting and understanding based not only the complexity of delivering on the promises but also the circumstances of the past couple years.
The project still promises live listening sessions (I think there was one poorly executed), bonus episodes and presets. Whether or not any of these will ever been delivered is TBD, I guess. If you support the project today, you're supporting what amounts to false advertising. You're assuming the presets are available, that you'll receive a link to special episodes, etc.
At this point, Dweezil is not only adversely affecting his own brand, he's also affecting Premier Guitar and Walrus Audio due to their involvement with the project. But mostly he's affecting himself.
Honestly, it's hard for me to buy Dweezil's "making a podcast is hard" message. For someone who has spent his entire life surrounded by the creation of, the business of and the performing of and distribution of music, delivering on the promises made had to (or should have been) known risks to making this the quality product it could have been.
Having said that, if Dweezil came out with a little more transparency and admitted to the faults and revised what will and won't be made available with this project, I'd be totally fine with it. Right now, if feels like a waiting game of when will my customers get tired of their own frustrations and quit asking about it, and that is quite disappointing.
Lastly, I'll say the majority of what has been delivered is great. It's just that so much more was promised and as of yet no actions have been taken to resolve or course correct on those initial promises.
I didn’t realize that a portion of this went to MHOF. I misunderstood and thought all of it went to them. Like I said, I agree with all the comments, but the rest of the stuff still applies with Dweezil’s career, life and time he had durning CoVID quarantine. Hopefully, he comes up with a solution and some answers soon to rectify this situation.
What makes it more frustrating is that he has been releasing his audio documentaries with reasonable regularity, yet we are left hanging here. I think this is dead in the water to be honest.
I noticed that too. I was trying to justify this in my head when I responded, but the more I think about it I think you are right. The party might be over on this deal.
I recall 5% going to the foundation.
Well, it's frustrating that we dont even get a reply from DZ on the questions below anymore...
Im usually not the type of person to complain at all, but the level of frustration for a product we actually paid for is real.
Regards, J
Hi Dweezil. You don’t remember me, but we spoke at length about Van Halen in Kansas City outside of your Hendrix Tribute tour bus right after ADKOT came out. Your podcast has been amazing, and I appreciate that you are prioritizing quality over timeline for everything included in the 5150 package. I know it would be easy to just quickly record some interviews and post some half-assed guitar presets for AxeFX and Helix, but why do that when so many others already have?
I do share some of the same frustrations as others who have recently posted comments asking about deliverables. An update from you addressing the current state of deliverables and setting new timeline expectations would be helpful and would probably go a long way towards keeping members’ confidence levels up.