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Not the same as "Missing Posters", as most if not all of these people never posted here, nor ever will. But who do you miss from the old days? People you liked, didn't like, had good /bad relationships with, who made the place better or even worse? People you miss discussing certain topics with, people you wish were here but you know never will be?
Certainly not
Frownland: I'm not going to say I hate(d) the guy, as I barely knew him except for our interchanges over the forum, but he's one person I would be very sorry to see here. It's probably no secret that we did not get on. Despite his completely condescending attitude to many people, not just me, I tried to take him as I found him, but he seemed always to be spoiling for a fight, or just a sneer. Some of you who knew him over there will say no, that's not what he was like at all, but it's how he was with me. I even tried listening to and reviewing music he recced me (including his own) and on the rare occasions when I, surprising myself, liked it, he never commented, but any time I had something negative to say about his music, he came right at me. Anyway, long story short, I sure don't miss him.
Batty/The Batlord: I do miss him. He was a bit of a gobshite as we say here, but he was mostly fun to be around. I had my run-ins with him, too, but overall we got on fairly well. We certainly bonded over our shared love of Star Trek and Judge Dredd, and comics in general. He also tried to school me on extreme metal, god bless his heart. He'd never fit in here though, which is a pity.
Unknown Soldier: One of the greatest authorities on hard rock and heavy metal outside of Batty, he ran a journal which was, and probably will remain, the standard on that music, and still stands as one of MB's greatest, best-researched and well-informed journals.
Chula Vista: Had the odd spat with him but overall I thought the guy was really a cool dude, and he played guitar well. Bit of an obssessive with Led Zep, which kind of made me wonder why he didn't choose a Zep-themed username. Wonder what he's up to now?
Vanilla/Scarlet O'Hara: Miss her a lot. We had a good relationship and people there used to rib me over her, but she was a really nice person.
Jackhammer: The oldest music swinger in town, he was so in touch with the current music scene that it must have all but embarrassed the younger generation who knew him. Lost his wife tragically and never heard from him after that. He was a great contributor and I think one of the original MB crew, or close to it.
Goofle: I liked Goofle, his take on pop music and his general attitude of "I like it, fuck you if you don't."
Exo: the forum's movie guru, and a real nice guy. Loved his stories of people coming in to the record shop where he worked, and he introduced me to The Black Ryder.
I'm sure there are tons more; these are only the ones who come to mind right now.
Queen Boo
She and I are still in touch fairly regularly outside the forum but I miss talking music with her more often.
Comus
I liked reading his prog rock related opinions and reviews a lot and recall pleasant interactions back when he was on here in the late MB/early SCD days.
Elphenor
Only had pretty limited interactions with him, but when we did he seemed chill, more than some of his older posts I'd seen. And honestly I would love to talk punk with him and see what he makes of my poser ass lol.
Howard the Duck
We need more wacko cloudcuckoolanders on forums and this guy was the king of them all.
Roxy Rollah
She and I were friendly on discord for a while in 2023-24 and I really miss talking fashion and housewife related things with her.
Ribbons
Sending all my love and wishes of safety and happiness wherever you are. <3
And I'll second Chula and Batlord.
Goof, Manky, right-track (or should that be, wrong track, haha!)
That's pretty much it cos I speak to anyone else I liked.
Oh and Hawk, funny old man.
Oh yeah I'll second Hawk, good shout.
I never spoke to Right-Track, but word on the street was he was on a power trip at some point. :laughing:
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 01, 2025, 09:28 PMChula Vista: Had the odd spat with him but overall I thought the guy was really a cool dude, and he played guitar well. Bit of an obssessive with Led Zep, which kind of made me wonder why he didn't choose a Zep-themed username. Wonder what he's up to now?
It would be cool to see him here. I hope Trump's unreal comeback and re-election isn't too much for him. He was always talking about "smoking guns" and "bombshell reports" that were going to get Trump removed from the Presidency and thrown in jail any day during his first term. Now that Trump not only dodged prison and made it through his first term and ran again and won, and is going into overdrive in his second term, it's probably Chula's worst nightmare come true.
a narcissist white supremacist being in power is so many ppls worst nightmare to be fair :( I wish Chula the best.
I liked Batlord, I got along with Frown most of the time, I know a lot of others didn't, and you all may recall I made the #downwithfrown thread in an effort to demod him. My own experiences aside I got to stand up for what is right, period.
idk who to mention that isn't already here tbh!
Deadchannel maybe. but we have some history from the past two years that's been difficult to parse. i hope that we become better friends in the future but i don't like what she's like in this current stage of her life
When Chula lost it once and deliberately tried to get banned, but wasn't 😂
Threatening Frown with his gun. Ah, great days! :laughing:
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 02, 2025, 03:52 PMThreatening Frown with his gun. Ah, great days! :laughing:
https://www.musicbanter.com/current-events-philosophy-religion/30710-wow-i-cant-believe-news-story-thread-1457.html
Read on from here :laughing:
I miss batlord
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 02, 2025, 06:21 PMhttps://www.musicbanter.com/current-events-philosophy-religion/30710-wow-i-cant-believe-news-story-thread-1457.html
Read on from here :laughing:
not hawk saying modding wwwp was affirmative action oml
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I don't understand the Chrissy thing haha is that a reference to someone?
Frown
I'll second Goofle.
I wonder what a lot of the people from MB early days are up to nowadays.
Murder Junkie, holdyoualways, ditto on Jackhammer, Spike Spiegel, Non Submissive Wife, Mojo and Engine
Even though Engine had beef with me and I think it was over Roxy but that was such a weird one sided beef.
Oh Sparky which he went through a couple of name changes and Laces Out Dan
Some of the early users whose posts I always enjoyed:
Cardboard Adolescent
Vegangelica
Mr. Dave
Astronomer
Bulldog
Satchmo
Molecules
And I forgot to mention Plankton for people I knew, albeit briefly. Hope he is doing well.
That thread has convinced me to appropriate DrizzyHawk's laughing gif.
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Quote from: Lucem Ferre on Mar 03, 2025, 08:16 PMThat thread has convinced me to appropriate DrizzyHawk's laughing gif.
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That gif is unassailable.
Oh man Vegangelica, Satchmo and Bulldog. Loved those bunch as well.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 03, 2025, 08:30 PMThat gif is unassailable.
oh my god this gif and that word are the most mb energy i've witnessed in a dekaday
i wonder if mrs tristan rosenstock ever realized she was trans
miss roxy. where r u
Uh-oh! Considering what I said about him, I think I'm in trouble! :yikes:
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Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 05, 2025, 04:19 AMUh-oh! Considering what I said about him, I think I'm in trouble! :yikes:
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said about who? wha
this post is confusing me :yikes: :rage: :guitar:
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 03, 2025, 02:19 PMSome of the early users whose posts I always enjoyed:
Cardboard Adolescent
Vegangelica
Mr. Dave
Astronomer
Bulldog
Satchmo
Molecules
And I forgot to mention Plankton for people I knew, albeit briefly. Hope he is doing well.
Lots of familiar names there.
I hope Plankton is still around somewhere. His final post at MB seemed rather ominous. Gave me the impression that he might be facing some type of serious health problem.
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Mar 05, 2025, 07:21 AMsaid about who? wha
this post is confusing me :yikes: :rage: :guitar:
Yeah the picture is smaller than I had expected. It's an album called....
A Hurricane of Frowns!!!!
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 03, 2025, 02:19 PMSome of the early users whose posts I always enjoyed:
Cardboard Adolescent
Vegangelica
Mr. Dave
Astronomer
Bulldog
Satchmo
Molecules
And I forgot to mention Plankton for people I knew, albeit briefly. Hope he is doing well.
Some of those people are from a long way back, and had all but stopped posting when I joined in 2011. Surely you weren't around then, Lexi ?
Some posters not yet mentioned that I remember as regulars in the World/Folk section of MB:-
Petula07, from Czechoslovakia I think
misspoptart, an American living in Istanbul
Stephen, from Australia: we were both, at the same time equally interested in exploring world music.
Jack Pat, who became Cenotaph and then TockTock. He introduced me to a couple of artists that I still regard as favourites today. Thanks.
Pet_Sounds was clearly a nice guy, both on MB and irl
A guy from Argentina whose name I can't remember off-hand.
Spanish photographer
Zarbaquel, whose name I never learned to spell correctly
Neapolitan, Moshe, adidasss...Blimey, it's a depressingly long list of people who no longer post. :(
And not so much focused on world music:
Mighty Salami, MicShazam and two strange controversial guys:
[MERIT] and
Mord/Zhantiem, whose name is another spelling challenge. To my knowledge he was the only guy who ever had both his wife and his son posting on MB too.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 06, 2025, 03:37 PMSome of those people are from a long way back, and had all but stopped posting when I joined in 2011. Surely you weren't around then, Lexi ?
Yes and no, haha. I first discovered MB in late 2007, but I just lurked and never posted, mostly because I was afraid of my music taste being roasted, lol. I was mostly there to discover new music and expand my tastes, but even though I wasn't really part of the community I still enjoyed reading everyone's posts and seeing all the unique personalities on there.
@Lisnaholic Zaqarbal lol.
And Miss P left Turkey because of the terrorism. Honest truth.
I still talk to Merit on FB. He's still the same way.
I remember Mord and his many name changes. I remember him having some good taste but also some very weird takes too. And I remember when his wife started posting but I didn't know his son also did.
Adidasss seemed cool too. And Neapolitan was a delightful presence from what I remember, his sense of humor always seemed wholesome.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 06, 2025, 03:47 PMYes and no, haha. I first discovered MB in late 2007, but I just lurked and never posted, mostly because I was afraid of my music taste being roasted, lol. I was mostly there to discover new music and expand my tastes, but even though I wasn't really part of the community I still enjoyed reading everyone's posts and seeing all the unique personalities on there.
^ :laughing:
Yes, that was a risk that I was aware of too as a newbie. That's partly why I chose my username: as an admission up-front that I didn't know anything about music.
(I did my own lurking time on the amazon website, where you could read all the reviews you wanted, but could only post something if you had bought a product on amazon first; I was really pleased when I found MB, which allowed me to blah-blah for free !)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2025, 04:52 PM@Lisnaholic Zaqarbal lol.
And Miss P left Turkey because of the terrorism. Honest truth.
Is that so, jj ? I suppose that she was pretty adventurous to be there at all, as a single American woman.
Thanks for the spelling correction. Unfortunately, it will be forgotten in approx 1 second, when I look at a different thread...
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 06, 2025, 05:08 PMThanks for the spelling correction. Unfortunately, it will be forgotten in approx 1 second, when I look at a different thread...
Yes mate. Right from the poptart's fingers - https://www.musicbanter.com/1825690-post3682.html
^ Wow! Well remembered, jj ! I didn't know that she'd reported back to MB about what was going on in her life.
(Also slightly unremembered that I was messaging her about her departure :shycouch: )
Quote from: DJChameleon on Mar 06, 2025, 05:04 PMI still talk to Merit on FB. He's still the same way.
You should invite him here, DJ - or is that a bad idea. I can't remember how disruptive he was.
mord was a very vocal white supremacist
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 06, 2025, 05:06 PMI remember Mord and his many name changes. I remember him having some good taste but also some very weird takes too. And I remember when his wife started posting but I didn't know his son also did.
Adidasss seemed cool too. And Neapolitan was a delightful presence from what I remember, his sense of humor always seemed wholesome.
Yes, Mord was a pretty unusual guy. He was also a published author - of science-fantasy, I think.
Neapolitan was a nice guy: we had a lot of musical interests in common and used to PM recs to each other. Unfortunately he was picked on a couple of times because of his political views :(
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Mar 06, 2025, 05:56 PMmord was a very vocal white supremacist
^ Really ? So that, ironically, is a real black mark against him.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 06, 2025, 06:06 PM^ Really ? So that, ironically, is a real black mark against him.
😂
Quote from: tristan_geoff on Mar 06, 2025, 05:56 PMmord was a very vocal white supremacist
I'd heard rumblings of that. I knew he used to talk about how he was some kind of hardcore Christian so I'm sadly not surprised.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 06, 2025, 06:06 PM^ Really ? So that, ironically, is a real black mark against him.
yeah he would talk about the purity of white blood somewhat often, and his viking heritage, etc.
i vaguely recall him viewing his japanese neighbors (as he lived in japan) as inferior humans on one occasion.
asides this, when talking about black lives matter he doubled down about his eugenicist views on white power.
all of this was in public forum on MB and can probably still be found
Jesus Christ I had no idea. I arrived after most of that I guess. Glad I didn't interact with him much then
Quote from: Marie Monday on Mar 06, 2025, 06:40 PMJesus Christ I had no idea. I arrived after most of that I guess. Glad I didn't interact with him much then
He told me to stop talking black after I said 'mad ting' in plug one time.
Wouldn't mind but I was just doing an Irish accent.
I arrived at MB in 2021 I think, so really late. Via the 'Name That Tune' thread. Rubber Soul, TH and Plankton indirectly helped me find what I was looking for. And I stuck with everyone ever since xx
Admittedly I cratedug a lot. rostasi, Aldo here and Karice (with her Axel Rose stories) are memorable.
Ah yeah, Rotasi was definitely a posting encyclopedia of music knowledge and experience; I remember him always talking very casually about how he was friends with all these famous avant garde musicians. Seemed cool.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 06, 2025, 05:52 PM^ Wow! Well remembered, jj ! I didn't know that she'd reported back to MB about what was going on in her life.
(Also slightly unremembered that I was messaging her about her departure :shycouch: )
You should invite him here, DJ - or is that a bad idea. I can't remember how disruptive he was.
No that's not really a good idea. I did tell him about the place. I think he looked at it but wasn't really interested in posting here which is good for everyone else.
He's super anti Semitic and he has some other edge lord takes that would ruffle people's feathers here.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Mar 06, 2025, 08:08 PMAh yeah, Rotasi was definitely a posting encyclopedia of music knowledge and experience; I remember him always talking very casually about how he was friends with all these famous avant garde musicians. Seemed cool.
Rostasi had that impression on me too. It was like he was regularly bumping into John Zorns, Nick Caves or RIO musicians who would send their regards to forums such as MB. I was thinking, this is my kind of place ;D
^ Thanks for reminding us of rostasi: he was a really great, well-connected guy. He operated an obscure-music radio show, and I remember a video clip he posted once: a small audience listening to some abstract ambient piece, with a Q&A with the artist afterwards. First to stand up: yer man, rostasi !
I didn't even understand the question, let alone the answer. :laughing: