That article is chock full of Lloyd and Lloydisms. Check out this direct quote where it consists of three sentences, yet four instances of the term "musician", of which he immediately identifies himself as one. He then repeats it for emphasis.
"Being a musician myself, I realized that Zagreb lacks a platform that would bring together unconfirmed, but not less talented musicians, enabling them to perform in front of a live audience. This was confirmed by numerous friends and fellow musicians, which encouraged me to start Uncovered Open Mic Zagreb. In the diWine bar we found an excellent partner, and to be completely honest, I myself did not expect the project to come to life so quickly and become popular. I hear from musicians of different ages and profiles every day, with and without prior experience, to apply to participate in the Open Mic," said Lloyd Evans, the initiator and initiator of this platform, a native of Manchester, where, he says, such events are commonplace.
These three sentences are a lot of unpack. Again with the criticism of Zagreb which he touched upon with his ridiculous stand-up routine. In his mind, everybody and now every locality must stack itself up to his standards, and he immediately zinged Zagreb as not having a forum where "unconfirmed" musicians could play. I reckon that term was probably translated from amateur in his original quote in English. I doubt Zagreb lacks a venue for amateur musical performances. What it does evidently lack is a bonehead who can't speak the local language organising performances in English.
But it is not good enough to call them amateur, which all of them are, especially Jabba the Hutt. Indeed they are "not less talented musicians", as if professional musicians were just lucky and amateurs generally have talent equal to that of the professionals.
Another Lloydism is his constant usage of the truth by association logical fallacy which he employs often in his exJW work. It wasn't him who felt the Open Mic would be a great thing. No, it was all these musicians who encouraged him to start this. He then states that he never envisioned the amount of success this idea of his would attain, which is the exact way he describes the beginning of his activism. People just demanded more and more videos! They told him he was great! In one of his first meltdowns here, he insisted that an unnamed and well respected poster reached out to him to compliment him on his intelligence, something which was lacking on this forum. When called out, he hides behind "well someone else said that!". This is how this guy thinks. It's why in his begging video he plants an idea that he would be perfectly fine doing something else when we all know he has no other options. He wanted to frame it as the people calling him back into activism, which he was threatening to casually leave.
From the Uncovered Open Mic platform, they invite other musicians to join these meetings. Before participating, it is necessary to register via e-mail [email protected], where it is advisable to send a few recordings of your own performances. The rule of performance is very simple: there are no covers. All performers perform exclusively their own compositions.
This is vintage Lloyd. For an amateur open mic night, which of course offers no compensation, Lloyd still wants aspiring "musicians" to apply for the "job". Oh, and he wants samples of a few recordings these people have made of themselves. Who is qualified to judge whether an amateur musician is qualified to sit for an Open Mic night? Lloyd Evans of course. He's a musician! Thought he was busy saving lives?
This played out the same way with his Spanish translation debacle of TRA which was aborted. He wanted qualified and experienced translators to send him their CV listing details of previous work, even though it was all volunteer.
And the one man who could not speak more than one language was the one to decide whether or not these people were qualified to translate into Spanish.
