:-*
;D
Not sure, Dave? :)
I know one thing for sure: My oldest or longest standing classical music "friend" is undoubtedly Navneeth (Opus106). We both discovered classical music around the same time, and joined this Hartford classical music station discussion forum, called Beethoven Radio, back in circa early 2006, I think?
Too long. ;D
I have lost track! I think this might be my 10th year: 2003 sticks in my head as my first year.
Possibly Our Fearless Moderators have a record from before the re-boot. 8)
Quote from: Batty on October 09, 2013, 12:31:51 PM
:-*
Just so you are aware Dave, you have always been the master of starting new threads or creating new polls, but you've been now dethroned by our reigning world champion, Kyle (Kyjo). ;D
You'll have to get in shape to get your title back. :blank:
Quote from: ChamberNut on October 09, 2013, 01:29:48 PM
Just so you are aware Dave, you have always been the master of starting new threads or creating new polls, but you've been now dethroned by our reigning world champion, Kyle (Kyjo). ;D
You'll have to get in shape to get your title back. :blank:
:P
Yes, Dave, you have quite a bit of catching up to do! :D
I think I signed up in 2007.
Someone maybe can tell me when I originally signed up. Make those moderators do a little work. ;)
Starting threads and polls: I'm too old for that shit. :D
Quote from: Batty on October 09, 2013, 01:45:55 PM
Someone maybe can tell me when I originally signed up. Make those moderators do a little work. ;)
Starting threads and polls: I'm too old for that shit. :D
A simple search suggests 2006.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,9.msg328.html#msg328
Quote from: Scarpia on October 09, 2013, 01:57:17 PM
A simple search suggests 2006.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,9.msg328.html#msg328
Nope, I think I go further back than that.
For instance: "Quote from: Minnesota Dave on October 01, 2005, 06:35:42 AM"
But I think it's even further back! Not sure how to find out for sure. :)
Found this! Hm.
Announcements / Please Introduce Yourself... / Re: Tell us about yourself
on: October 26, 2004, 06:13:30 AM
Message by Wilbanks
Relevance: 1.3%
Name: David Wilbanks
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Location: Minnesota
Music Interests: Everything, practically.
Music history / education: Some trumpet, guitar. Otherwise, self-taught.
Favorite Instrument: piano
Favorite work: Beethoven's Ninth (yes, I was a victim of A Clockwork Orange)
Not sure if that's even all the way back. :)
Quote from: Batty on October 09, 2013, 02:14:39 PMBut I think it's even further back! Not sure how to find out for sure. :)
You need to supply a list of every username you've ever registered with. ???
Quote from: Scarpia on October 09, 2013, 02:40:26 PM
You need to supply a list of every username you've ever registered with. ???
There used to be an orange board I've heard. I know I don't go
that far back.
Not to brag, but I go back to '97, Classical Insites. I few members here were refugees from that board.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=20115.0
Quote from: Scarpia on October 09, 2013, 02:45:01 PM
Not to brag, but I go back to '97, Classical Insites. I few members here were refugees from that board.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=20115.0
Very impressive, sir.
I started participating in online forums around 2003, so 2004 is about right for GMG.
I started on Beethoven Reference Site in 2001. The one, long-standing member from there that I know who is still alive AFAIK is Rod Corkin!
Started here and at CMG in 2003. First person I talked to here was Todd. I asked a question about finding Paul Badura-Skoda's PI Beethoven sonata cycle, and he came back with ;'what the hell do you want that for??'. The irony is that he bought it himself just last week. ;D ;D
The first person that I actually became friends with was DavidW. He posted asking about that blue BAT Beethoven box which I had just bought a couple of weeks earlier and I rec'd it. He loved it too and a 10 year long friendship was born.
The site was indeed orange and purple back then. It was freaking hideous, but Rob loved it. :)
Karl was a latecomer. I was already a mod by then so it had to be late 2004 or early 2005. One of the other mods sent me a PM to watch out for the new guy, he was a real pain in the ass. And despite the inherent truth in that, still managed to talk to him nearly every day since. :o
The only way I know to view the old stuff is in the Wayback Machine, which it is so long that I can't remember how to find it. Archives of the early years are listed in chronological order, but I don't think you can see all the pages, just a few.
Time flies when you're having fun! $:)
8)
I posted on rmcr back in '99 asking if Handel ever wrote any violin concertos because I really wanted to hear them if he did. The answer wasn't what I wanted it to be! :D
I became a regular poster on CMG whenever the heck Gurn said it was. ;D
My taste in performers was strongly influenced by Steve M, and Gurn encouraged me to explore chamber music, and Karl got me into 20th century music.
Wait that is right '03 because I was a second year grad student.
GMG says I started in 2007, but that must be the new site? Looking at the site in the Wayback Machine, I had made 3026 posts by November of 2006.
EDIT: I guess I'm misinterpeting that. It must have been 3029 when the old board was retired. I have posts from 2005 2004. Wayback doesn't go earlier than that.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 09, 2013, 04:04:06 PM'what the hell do you want that for??'
I very seriously doubt I used two question marks.
(And I'm working my way through the set right now.)
Quote from: Todd on October 09, 2013, 05:24:25 PM
(And I'm working my way through the set right now.)
I think that officially crowns you king of the backlogs! ;D
Quote from: Todd on October 09, 2013, 05:24:25 PM
I very seriously doubt I used two question marks.
(And I'm working my way through the set right now.)
My memory isn't all it should be. :)
I hope you are enjoying it. It is one of my prized possessions. :)
8)
Quote from: Cato on October 09, 2013, 01:24:33 PM
I have lost track! I think this might be my 10th year: 2003 sticks in my head as my first year.
Possibly Our Fearless Moderators have a record from before the re-boot. 8)
Well, I was close: going on 9 years. The archive says
November 3, 2004 was the fateful day when
Cato joined the group! ???
About a week later, this is apparently (if the archive is complete) my first comment:
Topic - Your Favorite Symphonies
Quote
I like big works, so my list is heavy on the post-Romantics. But I have a soft spot for the Schumann symphonies, as conducted by George Szell with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Everything by Brahms and Mahler and Bruckner! Each of their symphonies is an original, emotional journey through a new universe.
Pelleas und Melisande by Arnold Schoenberg, a work which is usually described as a tone-poem rather than a symphony, but has symphonic aspects.
Scriabin's 5 Symphonies plus the work known as "Universe" which was completed by Alexander Nemtin: showing the ecstatic development of the mystical pianist to the point where he seems to leave the planet and commune in the mysteries of cosmology and quantum physics.
More 20th century works:
The 4 symphonies of Charles Ives, with a warning that #4 is highly experimental, as is typical with Ives.
Symphonies #2, #3, #5, and #6 by Sergei Prokofiev: powerful expressions of emotions, even violence, tempered by bittersweet melancholy or even (protestingly bittersweet in #6) triumph.
Rarities but wonderful: the Symphony by Hans Rott, a pupil of Bruckner. The Symphonies #2 and #4 by Sergei Taneyev (the only ones available).
And then later:
QuoteAllow me to expand on my list presented earlier: the 8 symphonies of Karl Hartmann, who died in the early 1960's, are not to be missed! They are some of the greatest unknown works of the century. We will admit that they are not in a traditional 19th century style, but the expressive content is undeniable.
Recently available on CPO are the complete symphonies of Ernst Toch, a contemporary of Hartmann: more tuneful than the Hartmann works, and therefore a wee bit more accessible.
Huge works in the symphonic style, if not form: the tone-poems of Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, and the hybrid Alpine Symphony
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 09, 2013, 05:58:49 PMI hope you are enjoying it. It is one of my prized possessions.
I shall refrain from posting any detailed comments until I have finished listening, but suffice it to say I enjoy it rather more than HJ Lim's cycle.
Quote from: Todd on October 09, 2013, 06:03:45 PMI enjoy it rather more than HJ Lim's cycle.
"My hometown is nicer than living in Darfur"
"Dinner tonight was tastier than a bowl of raw jellyfish"
"This movie is better-made than
The Room"
"It's hotter than Antarctica in here"
Quote from: Scarpia on October 09, 2013, 02:45:01 PM
Not to brag, but I go back to '97, Classical Insites. I few members here were refugees from that board.
I've been posting to rec.music.classical since before the split to rec.music.classical.recordings. That was about 1994. I think this is the only classical music web board I've posted to. Is there another one worth bothering with?
Quote from: Brian on October 09, 2013, 06:07:01 PM
"My hometown is nicer than living in Darfur"
"Dinner tonight was tastier than a bowl of raw jellyfish"
"This movie is better-made than The Room"
"It's hotter than Antarctica in here"
:)
Quote from: Daverz on October 09, 2013, 06:08:19 PM
I've been posting to rec.music.classical since before the split to rec.music.classical.recordings. That was about 1994. I think this is the only classical music web board I've posted to. Is there another one worth bothering with?
I really, really doubt it.
Quote from: Cato on October 09, 2013, 06:00:10 PM
Well, I was close: going on 9 years. The archive says November 3, 2004 was the fateful day when Cato joined the group! ???
Cato, I think I remember you when Opus106 (Navneeth) and I branched out to Talk Classical, and then we eventually switched to GMG. Am I correct, or was it another Cato? :D
I've been around (here) since (October?) 2005. Good times. 8)
Interesting that in the first 3 years on GMG I posted more than the last 6.
Quote from: Batty on October 09, 2013, 12:31:51 PM
:-*
I could tell you if I only I knew who the hell who you are!!!! :)
I noticed the existence of GMG in 2006, but was in a different phase of my internet life-cycle, and also 14 years old at the time, so I didn't have any real interest in it.
I rediscovered it circa 2011 while searching for some information on Dutilleux (someone had posted a broadcast recording of Correspondances here, which at the time wasn't yet released on CD) and added it to bookmarks, but didn't come back for quite a while. I started "lurking" more regularly in later 2012 and don't think I posted at all before 2013.
As always with internet forums (with one, very significant [to me], exception), I feel like I got here long after the party was over, but I've never been much of a party person anyway. >.>
Quote from: ChamberNut on October 09, 2013, 06:27:40 PM
Cato, I think I remember you when Opus106 (Navneeth) and I branched out to Talk Classical, and then we eventually switched to GMG. Am I correct, or was it another Cato? :D
No, I am and have been the only "Cato" here! 0:)
Quote from: amw on October 10, 2013, 12:43:52 AM
As always with internet forums (with one, very significant [to me], exception), I feel like I got here long after the party was over, but I've never been much of a party person anyway. >.>
As far as the "party" is concerned, I can see where such an impression easily comes from, but it has always seemed that people can plug into any topic fairly quickly.
I am not a "party person" either. I also have never gone to a "bar" for entertainment, and even restaurants with "bars" make me uneasy. ???
I have entered such places about 4 times in my many decades on earth: most of those were to tell Grandpa that Grandma wanted him to come home "right now"! :D
Quote from: Todd on October 09, 2013, 06:03:45 PM
I shall refrain from posting any detailed comments until I have finished listening, but suffice it to say I enjoy it rather more than HJ Lim's cycle.
Damning with faint praise :D
Sarge
Quote from: mc ukrneal on October 10, 2013, 12:37:10 AM
I could tell you if I only I knew who the hell who you are!!!! :)
He's a god, currently in human guise 8)
Sarge
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 09, 2013, 04:04:06 PM
[...] Karl was a latecomer. I was already a mod by then so it had to be late 2004 or early 2005. One of the other mods sent me a PM to watch out for the new guy, he was a real pain in the ass. And despite the inherent truth in that, still managed to talk to him nearly every day since. :o
If nothing else, I am consistent, then! 0:)
I joined Feb 10 2006. I came from the Gramophone forum where I knew Jens, Tony (AnthonyAthletic), Pink Harp and paulb (who alerted me to the existence of this forum).
Sarge
Here, I'll raise a mug of tea to our paulb!
Quote from: Todd on October 09, 2013, 06:03:45 PM
I shall refrain from posting any detailed comments until I have finished listening, but suffice it to say I enjoy it rather more than HJ Lim's cycle.
You're scarin' me, Todd... :o
8)
Quote from: karlhenning on October 10, 2013, 03:51:57 AM
If nothing else, I am consistent, then! 0:)
Why yes, yes you are. :)
I wasn't thinking about non chat board posting. I was on rec.music.classical from '97-'99, when it all became too much for me. The Berlioz lover with the duck fetish was possibly the most normal person there. That's scary! :)
8)
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 10, 2013, 04:15:41 AM
Why yes, yes you are. :)
I wasn't thinking about non chat board posting. I was on rec.music.classical from '97-'99, when it all became too much for me. The Berlioz lover with the duck fetish was possibly the most normal person there. That's scary! :)
8)
I must protest; there's nothing
weird in loving
Berlioz's music! 8)
I joined in spring 2005. It came about after I had a lengthy discussion about Bruckner with Andre (Calaf aka Lilas Pastia) on Musicweb comments board (or whatever was it called, I posted there only couple of times) sometime in late 2004 or early 2005. After that discussion someone (not Andre) sent me an e-mail telling me that there is this great classical music forum and that they would love to have me and that I should check it out, and gave me link. I did check it out and joined shortly after but to this day I have no idea who that was who e-mailed me.
As to forum timeline:
2003(?) - October 2004 = hideous orange/purple board (I've seen only screenshots thankfully)
October 2004 - April 2007 = 'old forum' (http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php)
April 2007 - present = this board
QuoteAs always with internet forums (with one, very significant [to me], exception), I feel like I got here long after the party was over, but I've never been much of a party person anyway. >.>
Well not sure what would be considered a party but GMG
was a lot livelier in 2005/06, for instance, than it is now (quantity/quality questions apart). Easiest to tell by total posts per year count - 190K/2005, 170K/2006, 160K/2007, 135K/2008, 120K/2009, 95K/2010, 110K/2011, 95K/2012, and 2013 is again shaping toward 90K.
Quote from: North Star on October 10, 2013, 04:25:04 AM
I must protest; there's nothing weird in loving Berlioz's music! 8)
That's a discussion for another day.
The duck fetish was a bit OTT though... :D I just seem to have them inextricably tied together now, so Berlioz=Duck. :D
8)
La canard fantastique
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 10, 2013, 05:06:01 AM
That's a discussion for another day.
The duck fetish was a bit OTT though... :D I just seem to have them inextricably tied together now, so Berlioz=Duck. :D
8)
Ah, but did he float?
I joined around 2004. The catalyst for my joining was Eric Anderson's sabotaging of CMG and the mods' inability (refusal?) to do anything about it. But by that point, I was already kind of bored with CMG anyway.
I have never been on rmcr, but I have searched its archives because there are some posters there with deep and useful knowledge. However, since it's unmoderated, there is an incredible amount of garbage there (anyone remember the "Tholen" posts from 2001-2 or so?).
As noted, I started back at CI along with a few other folks here.
For myself, my registration date on the 'old' forum was April 2005 - never joined another music forum - GMG works fine for me then & now - :)
Quote from: Velimir on October 10, 2013, 08:49:21 AM
I joined around 2004. The catalyst for my joining was Eric Anderson's sabotaging of CMG and the mods' inability (refusal?) to do anything about it. But by that point, I was already kind of bored with CMG anyway.
I have never been on rmcr, but I have searched its archives because there are some posters there with deep and useful knowledge. However, since it's unmoderated, there is an incredible amount of garbage there (anyone remember the "Tholen" posts from 2001-2 or so?).
As noted, I started back at CI along with a few other folks here.
I first remember you as Walter Bruno.... :)
8)
I started posting 2004, I believe... not 100% sure, though.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 10, 2013, 10:12:26 AM
I first remember you as Walter Bruno.... :)
Actually I started as "Brian Havergal."
Quote from: Greg on October 10, 2013, 10:13:06 AM
I started posting 2004, I believe... not 100% sure, though.
When you were nine, right? ;)
Sarge
Joined the old forum in 2004, when I was a young teenager. How time flies....
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 10, 2013, 04:15:41 AM
Why yes, yes you are. :)
I wasn't thinking about non chat board posting. I was on rec.music.classical from '97-'99, when it all became too much for me. The Berlioz lover with the duck fetish was possibly the most normal person there. That's scary! :)
8)
And what's wrong with that? ;)
(http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/4318/5586933_1.jpg?v=8C83C0005D77EB0)
Quote from: Cato on October 10, 2013, 12:31:11 PM
And what's wrong with that? ;)
I read that stuff all the time as a kid. :) I've even got an original Finnish magazine of this great story (got it from a friend of my father)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Golden_Helmet_lithograph.jpg)
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 10, 2013, 04:15:41 AM
I wasn't thinking about non chat board posting. I was on rec.music.classical from '97-'99, when it all became too much for me. The Berlioz lover with the duck fetish was possibly the most normal person there. That's scary! :)
There were some great posters there in that time frame, which I think would have included Mario Taboada and Simon Roberts. The current newsgroup is but a pale shadow of what it once was.
Quote from: Daverz on October 10, 2013, 12:45:38 PM
There were some great posters there in that time frame, which I think would have included Mario Taboada and Simon Roberts. The current newsgroup is but a pale shadow of what it once was.
All this talk of the newsgroups inspired me to take a look at alt.rec.whatever.it.was and google myself. Sure enough, I was there around 2000, and I even found a post where David Hurwitz called me an idiot, personally. Now that's an honor, I think. :)
Quote from: Scarpia on October 10, 2013, 12:51:23 PM
All this talk of the newsgroups inspired me to take a look at alt.rec.whatever.it.was and google myself. Sure enough, I was there around 2000, and I even found a post where David Hurwitz called me an idiot, personally. Now that's an honor, I think. :)
I have to say that closer contact with the Hurwitzer did not engender more respect, though I still check classicstoday from time to time.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 10, 2013, 04:15:41 AMI wasn't thinking about non chat board posting. I was on rec.music.classical from '97-'99, when it all became too much for me. The Berlioz lover with the duck fetish was possibly the most normal person there. That's scary! :)
Was that Matthew Tepper?
http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/
He still exists, and apparently still likes ducks.
Quote from: Scarpia on October 10, 2013, 12:58:58 PM
Was that Matthew Tepper?
http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/
He still exists, and apparently still likes ducks.
Yes, that's it! I remembered his first name (same as my brother) but not his last. Actually, at that time it wasn't a particularly nasty place, not like it got in post-millennium.
Actually, I remember you too, although can't remember your name. At CMG. I bought a CD from you on eBay and somehow the subject came up in the discussion of shipping. My user name on eBay was similar to this one and I think you asked me about it. Otherwise though, we ran with a different crowd over there. Ultimately, the lack of organization and the constant political rhetoric doomed me to retirement. :-\
8)
Quote from: Scarpia on October 10, 2013, 12:51:23 PM
All this talk of the newsgroups inspired me to take a look at alt.rec.whatever.it.was and google myself. Sure enough, I was there around 2000, and I even found a post where David Hurwitz called me an idiot, personally. Now that's an honor, I think. :)
I'm so jealous I can hardly contain myself! 0:)
8)
Quote from: Scarpia on October 10, 2013, 12:58:58 PM
Was that Matthew Tepper?
I see him, as well as a few other people I recognize (including from GMG), at the Facebook "Pretentious Classical Elitists" group or whatever they call it. I've posted there a few times, but in general I don't like Facebook as a forum for serious discussion.
I can't remember the exact year - maybe Gurn can help me here - but I was an avid lurker during the "Purple Haze" days of GMG with that garish purple background and orange/yellow type. I started posting right as GMG jettisoned it.
Coincidence?
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on October 10, 2013, 01:56:49 PM
I can't remember the exact year - maybe Gurn can help me here - but I was an avid lurker during the "Purple Haze" days of GMG with that garish purple background and orange/yellow type. I started posting right as GMG jettisoned it.
Coincidence?
Donwyn,
That had to be late 2003 and into 2004, which is the year we went pastel (IIRC). I think that was the first software upgrade. Worked pretty well until the huge crash of early 2007, when there was no choice but to archive the old database and start over. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth at the time!
8)
If you don't have access to a Usenet server, you can still read/post to r.m.c.r using the google groups interface:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.music.classical.recordings
Quote from: sanantonio on October 10, 2013, 02:15:59 PM
Wow; I had completely forgotten that I too, had posted in the news group rec.music.classical. Funny thing is, I was making recommendations for the Durufle Requiem and complaining about Don Vroon. Hah! 1999 - so last century ... No one called me an idiot but the thread I started about Vroon ended up being over 600 posts, including a fairly nice exchange with Philip Haldeman. Is he on GMG?
Hi
San Antone - I sure HOPE NOT! If so, then incognito? Back in the spring of last year, I left a post in a Schubert thread (HIP symphonies, I believe?) about an email exchange I had w/ Mr. Vroon (see quote below; you were involved in the exchange) - since then I've cancelled my subscription to the ARG - Dave ;) ;D
QuoteNow, I subscribe to the American Record Guide but about to drop my subscription - in part (OR, maybe the reason?) because a year or more back I sent Don Vroon an email complaining that he should have his publication archived (like Fanfare) for his subscribers to search easily through previous issues going back for years - unreasonable? WELL, not to me - in a shocking surprise he responded almost immediately basically stated that I had a lousy suggestion because most of his subscribers did not even own computers! NOW, I'm NOT lying - and this is a pretty good approximation of his response - for me, I did not feel that a response would help (like convincing a blacksmith @ the turn to the 20th century not to buy a Model T from Henry Ford)
Quote from: SonicMan46 on October 10, 2013, 04:39:09 PM
Hi San Antone - I sure HOPE NOT! If so, then incognito? Back in the spring of last year, I left a post in a Schubert thread (HIP symphonies, I believe?) about an email exchange I had w/ Mr. Vroon (see quote below; you were involved in the exchange) - since then I've cancelled my subscription to the ARG - Dave ;) ;D
I think the real reason is that he wants to unload back-issues. They've offered a cumulative index, first on floppy, and now online, for as long as I can remember. And they've offered PDF copies of the current issue online for many years.
In fact, I remember at one time ARG reviews would show up in google searches. So somehow they
were being archived.
I was a subscriber from about 1989 until last year, but let my subscription lapse because I just didn't seem to need it anymore. By the time a review would show up, I probably would have already bought anything I was interested in. Don't need the review when I can hear for myself. Also, I got tired of accumulating ARGs and Fanfares.
I now rely on you guys to alert me to new CDs that I might overlook. Don't let me down. ;)
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 10, 2013, 10:26:23 AM
When you were nine, right? ;)
Sarge
Man, I didn't even start listening to music until I was about 11. In 2004 I was 16 through 99% of the year, so that sounds right. The earliest I'd guess would be 2003, but I bet it was 2004.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 10, 2013, 04:06:04 PM
Donwyn,
That had to be late 2003 and into 2004, which is the year we went pastel (IIRC). I think that was the first software upgrade. Worked pretty well until the huge crash of early 2007, when there was no choice but to archive the old database and start over. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth at the time!
8)
;D
Yes, how well I remember all that gnashing of teeth!
And you remembered my old screen name - a sure sign we've been around awhile. :D
Anyway, thanks, Gurn.
I remember some of these old names but not who was attached to them.
I also remember M Forever, Hector, sidoze... :(
Quote from: Batty on October 10, 2013, 05:54:31 PM
I remember some of these old names but not who was attached to them.
I also remember M Forever, Hector, sidoze... :(
Yes, hard to forget some of those old posters. Lots of colorful characters. Some of them I wish would post again, like Hector. M, well, that's another story.
And speaking of old names and attachments, Dave, it's highly ironic that in becoming the "Name Changing King" you've managed to carve out the ultimate GMG niche, and have thus become totally immortalized (that is, unforgettable)! :D
He'll always be Apollo to me . . . .
Quote from: Scarpia on October 10, 2013, 12:51:23 PM
All this talk of the newsgroups inspired me to take a look at alt.rec.whatever.it.was and google myself. Sure enough, I was there around 2000, and I even found a post where David Hurwitz called me an idiot, personally. Now that's an honor, I think. :)
Now you just need to get Santa Fe Listener and Norman Lebrecht to also insult you for completism sake! ;D
(* chortle *)
Happy Friday, Davey!
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on October 10, 2013, 07:10:11 PM
And speaking of old names and attachments, Dave, it's highly ironic that in becoming the "Name Changing King" you've managed to carve out the ultimate GMG niche, and have thus become totally immortalized (that is, unforgettable)! :D
;D
http://web.archive.org/web/20040803232544/http://www.penny-farthing.net/yabbse/index.php?board=9 (http://web.archive.org/web/20040803232544/http://www.penny-farthing.net/yabbse/index.php?board=9)
I used the Wayback Machine to find evidence of a baseball thread I started in the Diner in August, 2004. I think I joined a bit earlier than that.
Quote from: Drasko on October 10, 2013, 04:47:08 AM
I joined in spring 2005. It came about after I had a lengthy discussion about Bruckner with Andre (Calaf aka Lilas Pastia) on Musicweb comments board (or whatever was it called, I posted there only couple of times) sometime in late 2004 or early 2005. After that discussion someone (not Andre) sent me an e-mail telling me that there is this great classical music forum and that they would love to have me and that I should check it out, and gave me link. I did check it out and joined shortly after but to this day I have no idea who that was who e-mailed me.
Too funny to come across this post. I remember doing some recruitment for this forum in the very early days and first came in contact with Andre(Calaf/Lilas Pastia) on Musicweb. So it was probably me. I contacted many of the contributers on that site and mentioned this place. Mystery solved!!!
Quote from: Tom 1960 on March 16, 2014, 06:03:26 PM
Too funny to come across this post. I remember doing some recruitment for this forum in the very early days and first came in contact with Andre(Calaf/Lilas Pastia) on Musicweb. So it was probably me. I contacted many of the contributers on that site and mentioned this place. Mystery solved!!!
I got your letter even earlier than that, since I have been here since '03. You PM'd me on the Beethoven Reference Site. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? :)
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on March 16, 2014, 06:10:53 PM
I got your letter even earlier than that, since I have been here since '03. You PM'd me on the Beethoven Reference Site. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? :)
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Gurn, does that site still exist and if so, could you provide me with a link? Would love to check it out for old times sake.
Quote from: Velimir on October 10, 2013, 08:49:21 AM
I joined around 2004. The catalyst for my joining was Eric Anderson's sabotaging of CMG and the mods' inability (refusal?) to do anything about it. But by that point, I was already kind of bored with CMG anyway.
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My goodness, that brings back memories!
Now that guy was truly, deeply weird, and somehow affecting, too.
Quote from: Scarpia on October 10, 2013, 12:58:58 PM
He still exists, and apparently still likes ducks.
The man who couldn't write a non self-referential thing no matter how hard he tried. He recently got married.
I often wonder if The Pink Harp is still around, I can't remember his name now...was he Eric Anderson? That's such a long time ago.
M Forever, remember him (start an argument on a one man mission in space) LOL
Still wondering if Paul Best is constantly listening to Petterson, and Amazon clip listening?
Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on March 17, 2014, 03:50:00 AM
I often wonder if The Pink Harp is still around, I can't remember his name now...was he Eric Anderson? That's such a long time ago.
Yes, same person, obsessed with L'apres Midi and some less savoury things.
Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on March 17, 2014, 03:50:00 AM
I often wonder if The Pink Harp is still around, I can't remember his name now...
Wish I could say I didn't remember his name; but he pulled such an irredeemable prank at the former
NY Times Classical Music Forum . . . an offender like that, you don't forget his name.
Quote from: Cato on October 09, 2013, 01:24:33 PM
I have lost track! I think this might be my 10th year: 2003 sticks in my head as my first year.
Possibly Our Fearless Moderators have a record from before the re-boot. 8)
In those years some good discoveries thanks to GMG: e.g.
Kalliwoda,
Petrassi, et al.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 17, 2014, 04:32:34 AM
Wish I could say I didn't remember his name; but he pulled such an irredeemable prank at the former NY Times Classical Music Forum . . . an offender like that, you don't forget his name.
Wow! Can you summarize the prank?
Quote from: Tom 1960 on March 16, 2014, 06:19:01 PM
Gurn, does that site still exist and if so, could you provide me with a link? Would love to check it out for old times sake.
Tom,
Apparently it does, I hadn't been there in several years, but here is a good link I googled up this AM.
http://www.gyrix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=c694b966a88a3ed5b1e81c768791b2ce&f=6
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Quote from: Cato on March 17, 2014, 06:03:25 AM
Wow! Can you summarize the prank?
Yeah, it would be good to know. I was around those early days but didn't post on any other forums. Definately missed that one from The Pink Harp. Irredeemable is a word which perks the interest.
Fess up Karl ;D
Quote from: karlhenning on March 17, 2014, 04:32:34 AM
Wish I could say I didn't remember his name; but he pulled such an irredeemable prank at the former NY Times Classical Music Forum . . . an offender like that, you don't forget his name.
Is prank the word you use for something that causes a mass exodus from two different forums? :D
I don't think that's what happened at the NY Times . . . though I may be mis-recollecting 0:) 8)
I miss Mel, the Word Maestro aka Iago. To be more specific, I miss the person more than I miss the poster. I wish I could be with him in his final days as I was when he was near death the previous time, when I went to see him in the hospital and then searched and went to his home where he "escaped" from the hospital hoping to die while listening to Wagner. Needless to say, he eventually decided to live and we became friends. I know how insufferable he may seem much of the time. But there is something so loveable about the person inside. I still kept his last private message to me in the GMG message box to me just before he passed away. Sometimes we do forget that there is a human being somewhere behind the persona that we dislike.
Mel, I am still thinking about you. I will mention you again in my next book.
Gosh, I remember Mel. You either loved Mel or you hated Mel. There was no middle ground. He did have a lot of fans, I remember.
I just don't see why, if you're really a nice guy, you need to be a prick online. That's not very nice.
Anyone heard from Muriel?
Quote from: karlhenning on March 17, 2014, 03:51:26 PM
I just don't see why, if you're really a nice guy, you need to be a prick online. That's not very nice.
Like many people, they can take out their suppressed anger safely online. For example, youtube commentors.
Quote from: Greg on March 18, 2014, 03:28:22 AM
Like many people, they can take out their suppressed anger safely online. For example, youtube commentors.
Are you suggesting that the kind of Youtube commenter you're referring to is probably a really nice guy in real life?
Quote from: karlhenning on March 17, 2014, 03:51:26 PM
I just don't see why, if you're really a nice guy, you need to be a prick online. That's not very nice.
Well, he was a prick offline much of the time as well. Somehow I could tame him.
JdP JdP Jdp JdP
Quote from: springrite on March 18, 2014, 04:09:54 AM
Well, he was a prick offline much of the time as well. Somehow I could tame him.
You have a gift, friend.
Quote from: Jay F on March 18, 2014, 07:15:26 AM
Josquin des Pres, I think.
Oh yes...
But I do missed JQP.
I freely admit that I was a prick to many on here, but I do regret it as I have realized that you guys are important to me and have helped me in more ways than you could imagine. I know I actually don't 'know' any of you outside my computer screen, but I've spent so much time here, and having a good time, too, which is a definite plus, that I've forgotten what it's like to be friends with someone in real life. :) The honest truth is it's just hard for me to find good friends like you guys. I want to extend a sorry to my friends and anyone here who I've been a jerk to. Nobody deserves it and I'm trying to become a little more humble. I've had many people here 'put me in my place' many times and each time that happens, I always learn something new. Modesty and humility will allow you to go a long way.
All the best to each of you!
Well, we all make mistakes.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 18, 2014, 07:58:59 AM
Well, we all make mistakes.
Yes, but only some of you realize it. :) Nice post, John.
Quote from: The new erato on March 18, 2014, 08:12:24 AM
Yes, but only some of you realize it. :) Nice post, John.
Quote from: Benedick. . . happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending.
Quote from: The new erato on March 18, 2014, 08:12:24 AM
Yes, but only some of you realize it. :) Nice post, John.
:laugh:
Aye, I noted that witticism, too :)
Quote from: springrite on March 18, 2014, 04:09:54 AM
Well, he was a prick offline much of the time as well. Somehow I could tame him.
I was going to say something like "maybe you just have that magic touch" or something, but then I realized how weird that sounded. :-X
Quote from: North Star on March 18, 2014, 03:30:29 AM
Are you suggesting that the kind of Youtube commenter you're referring to is probably a really nice guy in real life?
To a certaint extent, I bet most of them are. Many people can be nice to friends and family, but turn into a vengeful person when behind a protective barrier. Most people tend to be nice in general, while on youtube it's rare to see more than 10 comments in a row that aren't involved in someone spewing their garbage online. So either nasty people are very vocal online or people that aren't normally nasty feel the freedom to be that way online, so they behave so when they feel like it.
Quote from: Greg on March 18, 2014, 09:32:17 AMTo a certaint extent, I bet most of them are. Many people can be nice to friends and family, but turn into a vengeful person when behind a protective barrier. Most people tend to be nice in general, while on youtube it's rare to see more than 10 comments in a row that aren't involved in someone spewing their garbage online. So either nasty people are very vocal online or people that aren't normally nasty feel the freedom to be that way online, so they behave so when they feel like it.
Well it's obviously easy to say nastier things online than one would say against somebody's face. But abusing that shows something of the person. I wouldn't like to participate in a re-enactment of the Stanford prison experiment with those people..
Quote from: Tom 1960 on March 17, 2014, 03:46:39 PM
Gosh, I remember Mel. You either loved Mel or you hated Mel. There was no middle ground. He did have a lot of fans, I remember.
Mel loved baseball, so that was a plus in my book.
(I just noticed your location,
Tom. I wonder if I've ever seen you in Congdons?)
Quote from: karlhenning on March 18, 2014, 07:58:59 AM
Well, we all make mistakes.
Indeed, Karl. As my mom told me growing up "If you can't say something nice, then you shouldn't say anything at all."
Quote from: North Star on March 18, 2014, 09:46:32 AM
Well it's obviously easy to say nastier things online than one would say against somebody's face. But abusing that shows something of the person. I wouldn't like to participate in a re-enactment of the Stanford prison experiment with those people..
Yes, I think there is a definitely between "nice" and "truly nice" people and that's what would be the difference. Some "nice" people act nice but aren't truly nice...
Quote from: Greg on March 18, 2014, 07:22:45 PMSome "nice" people act nice but aren't truly nice...
Yeah, like me! 8) I'm bad...very, very, very bad. I'm like the Big Bad Wolf but only in an even more foul mood. Kind of like somewhere between incredibly annoyed and "I'm going to kill you!" ??? :P
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 18, 2014, 04:58:11 PM
Indeed, Karl. As my mom told me growing up "If you can't say something nice, then you shouldn't say anything at all."
I attended a performance of the Rutter
Requiem last week.
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The refreshments were top notch. I distinctly recall a lovely brownie.
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 18, 2014, 04:58:11 PM
Indeed, Karl. As my mom told me growing up "If you can't say something nice, then you shouldn't say anything at all."
Hey, you and
Marge Simpson have the same mother! ;D
Quote from: drogulus on March 18, 2014, 11:26:51 PM
I attended a performance of the Rutter Requiem last week.
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Did you really? Or was this but an awful hypothetical for demonstration purposes only? Here's hoping!
Quote from: Szykneij on March 18, 2014, 03:01:20 PM
Mel loved baseball, so that was a plus in my book.
Yup.
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 18, 2014, 04:58:11 PM
Indeed, Karl. As my mom told me growing up "If you can't say something nice, then you shouldn't say anything at all."
I see that never stopped ya. :P
Quote from: Szykneij on March 18, 2014, 03:01:20 PM
Mel loved baseball, so that was a plus in my book.
(I just noticed your location, Tom. I wonder if I've ever seen you in Congdons?)
Not likely. I moved up here very recently after living my entire life back in Kingston, NY. I am very familiar with Congdons though. It's very close to where my future home is being built. I will have to visit this place at some point. The place is always busy.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 19, 2014, 01:56:15 AM
Did you really? Or was this but an awful hypothetical for demonstration purposes only? Here's hoping!
I did. Before the intermission we heard several works of Britten.
From the program:
Benjamin Britten – a salute to his centenary:Antiphon
A Boy was Born (Variations III and V)
A Wedding Anthem
Song of the Fisherman
Festival Te Deum
Ballad of Green Broom
Quote from: drogulus on March 18, 2014, 11:26:51 PM
I attended a performance of the Rutter Requiem last week.
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:P
Quote from: North Star on March 18, 2014, 11:52:18 PM
Hey, you and Marge Simpson have the same mother! ;D
Yeah, my mom didn't like me making fun of my brother and sister and vice versa.