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Post by Mr. Gordon on Nov 28, 2005 23:25:49 GMT -5
i dont see the possible evil in good rock. its got emotion, politics, and it doesnt all sound the same. of course, there is so much more to go along with good singing, good guitar, good bass, and good drums.
i take it as your looking into the artist very heavily and maybe not focusing not so much on the results?
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Post by Slick on Nov 29, 2005 1:09:49 GMT -5
welcome, ekul i started posting on the pearl jam board january of 2002. it was my last semester of college. i never thought that i'd meet so many cool people there. it's awesome that i got to meet a lot of posters from the pj board, and i never in a million years thought that i'd actually be marrying one of them. i never thought that an internet community could be so tight knit.
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Post by chem 1 on Nov 29, 2005 4:22:55 GMT -5
I first started posting in June of 2000. Mostly on the PJ board. During the initial months, i cant remember who of the present people on this board were around at the time....gr8one i think...mr gordon also....phaet......cant remember exactly. Posted for 6 months or so then stopped for about 3 months. Came back around late march of 2001 and ran into clubber at that point. Evac came shortly thereafter as well as some others. Since then, ive been pretty much constant...short break between rs.com going down and these ones coming up.
Blaney, Holzman and Sigman have been around since mid 98?? Jeez....thats early. I had no idea they have been around since then.
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Post by tracy on Nov 29, 2005 5:50:09 GMT -5
Welcome, luke. Be careful what you sit on, everything Clubber does in here, he does naked.
I don't remember when I started posting on RS. 2000, I imagine. I was mostly a main board whore, I didn't really venture off of them for a long time. The first people I remember talking to were chem and Layla, and the first board off the main ones I posted on was Kath's football board. Eventually I wandered on the Advice Lounge, don't remember how or why. Probably because it needed to up its cool factor, and I of course helped with that greatly. Yes.
I do remember however getting in a long fight with Pissin and mark I think. Probably all of you PJ fuckers. I don't remember what it was about anymore, but I'm sure I won. It was probably about the lameass criteria. Fools.
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Post by Al on Nov 29, 2005 7:52:41 GMT -5
Many try to hate on pearl jam, and they come out with poop on their face.
I started posting mid 2000. I think I first started bashing bands like limp bizkit and linkin park on their boards, just to get a laugh and kill some time. Then I found people that actually had half a brain and good taste on the pearl jam, tool, and aic boards.
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Post by Mr. Gordon on Nov 29, 2005 8:07:40 GMT -5
yeah, believe it or not, i arrived at RS simply for fun and to make fun of limp Bizkit and their fans. there ended up being a few other slaggers on that board (Kat, scottsy) which kept me coming back and eventually onto the Pearl Jam and Tool boards. the rest is history.
the pearl jam board was the best board ever. that few months of posting was ridiculous when we talled hundreds a day.
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Post by Al on Nov 29, 2005 8:20:58 GMT -5
I loved racing for the thousand posts. It was so stupid. I didn't care if I got post number 5,000 or 10,000, but some of the antics and comments that followed were just fucking hilarious.
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Post by luke on Nov 29, 2005 9:19:51 GMT -5
I used to spend a shitload of time on the Limp Bizkit boards making fun of people. CWA used to post there a lot, too. I remember telling one guy there that he needed to get some ass and he responded, "I don't need to get no ass, nigga. I get pussy." It was hilarious.
When I started, I mostly just posted on the Metallica boards. There was a pretty hardcore group there. I later got into a bunch of religious discussion on the Manson boards, where I met JLLM.
Meanwhile, there was already plenty of clique-ing going on. I'd lurk in the Bared Souls boards, where Strat-O, Don Pitcher/Ayinger, Howe, and a bunch of others would get all gushy about their lives and emotions and stuff. Most of those guys ended up meeting each other down the line, too.
But much more impressive were the intellectual boards back then. The political boards and the Blank Generation board. Holzman and Blaney fuck off a lot these days, but back then, holy shit. I thought I was a pretty smart guy with a decent vocabulary until I started reading some of the shit they'd post. Along with Dobs and a few others. There was this guy Mitchpark, this hardcore conservative guy, but he actually used all these huge words and shit and didn't fall back on circular arguments. Of that bunch, I think Dobs and Blaney hung out in person once.
I don't know where the fuck I was posting in the meantime (probably just dead baby jokes with BBP and Art, who was actually a decent fella back then, at least if you didn't get past dead baby jokes with him), but JACkory came on the scene, and Clicker appeared from somewhere, and Jesus started the Coffeeshop. Then the whole Drooge thing started.
Strat-O and samples had this big falling out on the Pet Sounds board, and I for one really didn't see much more of strat until just before the RS boards died. He never really liked me back then, anyway, and there weren't many posters who really "got" the disgusting posts I always made. Back then, every post looked like my first post on that Natalie Halloway board, only for the most part devoid of any real substance. I don't think anyone but JLLM, CWA, and maybe Riley got the joke at first.
But eventually I fell in with the Coffeeshop folk and got in line with the whole Drooge thing. Louisiana ran shit on the boards back then. There were a lot of us. SweetEuphoria and AngelaWeeps met up in N.O., flew to Chicago for the final Smashing Pumpkins show, and are probably still together somewhere. Louisiana and the Smashing Pumpkins were to the boards back then what Canada and Radiohead later became. I.e., a bunch of patriotic loudmouths and a band you got lynched for badmouthing.
Things got pretty tight back then, and everyone was all meeting each other and shit. It was crazy.
Eventually, the JACkory's Insect Lounge folk and the Clicker's Cave folk started to really fucking hate each other, and the whole Drooge thing died. About that time, all the spammers and trolls started appearing all over RS, and pretty much the last tight clique of people was the Pearl Jam bunch, with the last bunch of Drooges just sorta hanging out infrequently. So then somebody had the bright idea for some Secret Boards, and someone else had the even worse idea of inviting me, and shit really hit the fan.
And that's my really long, sad, morning cup of coffee dorky ass internet story for the morning.
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Post by Rit on Nov 29, 2005 9:24:07 GMT -5
it's great to hear these stories and anecdotes. what a little community that RS.com was.
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Post by thorny on Nov 29, 2005 9:35:23 GMT -5
Ah, memories
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Post by mark on Nov 29, 2005 10:08:03 GMT -5
Eventually I wandered on the Advice Lounge, don't remember how or why. you were invited, you whore! In 2001, the canadian entertainment media tried to make a big deal about a feud between Chad Kroeger and Matthew Good. Kroeger said in a RS interview that he wanted to beat up Matt Good, so I got on the RS message boards and mercilessly made fun of Nickelback fans. I was vicious. I think my name at the time was "dirtyfrank69". I left after it died down, then came back a bit later to check out the rest of the boards, under the name "supergenious". the spelling mistake was supposed to make it funny, but most people didn't get it, and just called me an idiot. anyway, I wandered into the PJ boards, and started off being a bit of a dick, because I assumed anybody that posted there would be the wankiest of wanky Pearl Jam fans (like all those homos who call themselves the "Jamily" - fuck that's gay). I gave up on that, and bonded with the rest of the PJers after some heated and hilarious battles with WEATHERED_BULLETS and My Own Prison.
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Post by Rit on Nov 29, 2005 10:15:55 GMT -5
i wish to categorically announce the error of my ways when i was being a dick to the PJers... they're a good bunch of people. except for Proud. whom i don't dislike per se. but he scares me. (No offence, Proud . you're in a period of transition, i understand)
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Post by chem 1 on Nov 29, 2005 11:13:44 GMT -5
A freind told me about the Creed board in the spring of 2000....back when the Creed guitarist said something about Pearl Jam. So that is where i first looked. That Creed board was really, really hilarious right up until vibe and hmf came around. Until that point the board would see a lot of traffic from highly devoted fans and the belittling of them was out of control. I remember really going at some guy good because he came to praise creed and say how he started a tribute band called 'human clay'. Looking back, i feel kind of bad. But what the fuck, you started a Creed tribute band?? C'mon.
Luke, what was the drooge thing? I encountered it occasionally but never really understood it.
I also used to post quite a bit on random top 10. CWA, Dwazee, Luke, tuneschick, drumstein and some others were good people on that board. I liked that board but at times it was really uptight. Anything disgusting or offside was usually frowned upon by several of the wankers that frequented the board. CWA, the board founder, was not one of them of course. It was a good board for music discussion however. Coffeeshop was good on occassion as well. I would go on it a bit.
I remember way back when i started, Jackory and CWA were quite relentless with their attacks on newbies and fans of other bands on particular boards. That was back when Jac was a cool/normal guy (i think). Is that not right Luke, Jac was, in the beginning, a somewhat normal and stable guy? I always thought he was. Now the guy is crazier than a shithouse rat.
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Post by thorny on Nov 29, 2005 11:26:48 GMT -5
Interesting inversion of principled attributes, there chem. Cuz here's how I remember JaC: BACK THEN he was crazier than a shithouse rat - - but in a thoroughly GOOD way. Extremely verbose as well as quite steeped in proper internet etiquette, and at the same time, espousing anti-establishment/ outre opinions in a thoroughly entertaining manner, JAC was actually one of the few standout posters whom I grew to respect because of his thoughtfulness, if nothing else. He was one of the regulars on the infamous TOOL board, and we all used to throw around the wildest convos, good times. I miss MIrrorsideways. What a cutie she was . . . she & I had some extremely close brushes online (exchanging pics & emails); anymore in that direction & we would've met up. I miss her insightful postings & worshipful Tool rants.
Back to JAC: so yeah, the way I see it is, he USED to be crazier than a shithouse rat (a good thing), but NOW he's definitely a somewhat normal and stable guy (which diminishes his status from "way cool" to more of a "normal fool". .. But ain't we all, nowadays?) . . . I ain't one to hold grudges; once a friend, always a friend w/me . . . So yeah . . . .I haven't "forgotten" how cool JAC used to be - - - (and this is entirely aside from the fact he got rankled & sideswiped into the most notoriously insipid flamewar in RS.com history, upon which he emerged from said scandal not entirely unscathed, not his personality nor his reputation).
Me? I just sit back & chill on the sidelines, taking potshots ever once in awhile. Hell I ain't about to bash on JAC here in '05. But I totally see y'all's perspectives on him. Me, I'd just as soon drink a beer with the man on a personal basis, and exchange life's lessons learned on an even keel. I'd buy the man a drink, same as I would for most anyone here.
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Post by Slick on Nov 29, 2005 11:47:24 GMT -5
chem, i actually started posting on the creed board as well. a survey i did or something had a link to that board, and it was pure hilarious entertainment. a lot of the PJ folks were posting on there as well, and ya'll were pretty cool so i ventured on over the PJ board, and the rest is history. anyway, I wandered into the PJ boards, and started off being a bit of a dick, because I assumed anybody that posted there would be the wankiest of wanky Pearl Jam fans (like all those homos who call themselves the "Jamily" - fuck that's gay). I gave up on that, and bonded with the rest of the PJers after some heated and hilarious battles with WEATHERED_BULLETS and My Own Prison. haha, you were a dick at first. i'm glad that you gave up on that i miss WB- he was hilarious. What was that board that some of the metallica posters made..something about the PJ board wanting to declare WWIII or something? fuck, i have a shitty memory. it cracked me up how they would have all the crazy, extreme jobs..like a bounty hunter. i miss jizzfritter. that guy could be so crude, yet he was awesome.
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