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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 18:59
Cool to see how it was in the beginning. 10 years ago I was still reading newsgroups! Shocked
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 13:20
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

One music forum that really has changed over the last many years is Metal-Archives, where I posted from 2006-2008. Back then it was populated mostly by crazies and junkies and Nazi Occultists but now it consists just of boring normal people.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 13:13
When was the last time Dick Heath posted ?

He was the only one from here whom I desired to join my forum.

As I seem to recall, he declined the offer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 13:04
Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

There was intrigue, there was violence, there was sex. And that was just my posts.

Ahhh..... the good old days.Cool

I miss them so much.Tongue


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 12:55
Ah... the Wally returns.
What?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 12:49
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

One music forum that really has changed over the last many years is Metal-Archives, where I posted from 2006-2008. Back then it was populated mostly by crazies and junkies and Nazi Occultists but now it consists just of boring normal people.
Personally, I think when the lord and master of many of these crazies, Varg, was finally released from prison and started pumping out these mediocre albums and writing daft and silly blog posts, the Burzum worshipers gave up on everything and went back to school to become accountants.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 06:40
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

One music forum that really has changed over the last many years is Metal-Archives, where I posted from 2006-2008. Back then it was populated mostly by crazies and junkies and Nazi Occultists but now it consists just of boring normal people.

I really need to check that out, because SMN forums are like a wasteland of narcissistic, elitist personalities.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 04:32
One music forum that really has changed over the last many years is Metal-Archives, where I posted from 2006-2008. Back then it was populated mostly by crazies and junkies and Nazi Occultists but now it consists just of boring normal people.
"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 01:43
In the very beginning it was just another prog website like prog toes, prog lands and prog freaks. However, progarchives survived and went way beyond them in part because they allowed anyone to write reviews. There was a site back in the late nineties called prog net that I wrote reviews on that also let anyone write reviews but that one soon went under. Somehow P.A. just exploded and the rest is history. I'd even go as far as to say that P. A. played a role in making prog as popular as it is today.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 01:25
Woke up one morning and there was this gleaming black monolith ...........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 01:07
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2014 at 09:59
Originally posted by Metalmarsh89 Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Dream Theater was cool in the beginning, right?


Right.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2014 at 09:55
Dream Theater was cool in the beginning, right?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2014 at 08:46
That was a good thread. Too bad it did not go anywhere.

My contention remains the same: "war" is the theme most-used in pwog. (Followed closely by "death".)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2014 at 08:03
Originally posted by Wallace The Lad Wallace The Lad wrote:

Wallace here!

Thankyou for the fond rememberances.

I dont remember much of the old days here. (I suppose I was here around 2005 on???) Back then I was mainly posting to a Yahoo prog group.


I would like to look up those elder-days posts, but those two linkiepoos given seem to only get one the Wayback Machine and not much else.

I recall Bald Freida (oar summart loikes) and she was quite knowledgeable. Also there was a very sharp poster, Barbitzoter, or mebbe I'm confusing with Progressive Ears.

Unlike former stalwarts who seem, in the main, to have deserted the ship, I would continue on Progarchives, given the opportunity.
THAT is just the problem. (I expect this post to be wiped-out by the end of the day.)


Click here fer an auld example.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2014 at 07:48
Wallace here!

Thankyou for the fond rememberances.

I dont remember much of the old days here. (I suppose I was here around 2005 on???) Back then I was mainly posting to a Yahoo prog group.

I would like to look up those elder-days posts, but those two linkiepoos given seem to only get one the Wayback Machine and not much else.

I recall Bald Freida (oar summart loikes) and she was quite knowledgeable. Also there was a very sharp poster, Barbitzoter, or mebbe I'm confusing with Progressive Ears.

Unlike former stalwarts who seem, in the main, to have deserted the ship, I would continue on Progarchives, given the opportunity.
THAT is just the problem. (I expect this post to be wiped-out by the end of the day.)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:15
Anyone remember Teaflax?  :)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2014 at 09:13
Originally posted by NutterAlert NutterAlert wrote:

NEW PAGE, ULK and Velvet Clown...it was a much more informed debate back then


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2014 at 00:51
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ I want to believe what happened, but that sounds all too horrifying. If you could call the police on him, I take it that he lived/lives in your vicinity, right?

I had let him have my address so he could send me a CD ( he never did). That was before all this all blew up. I know its unlikely he would visit me but didn't want to take a chance.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2014 at 14:27
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:



Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Does anyone remember KE9?

An utter lunatic ELP 'fanboy' who routinely physically threatened other members if they disagreed with him!

I was just about to mention him, Karney.
I remember him vividly.
Too bad he had a serious temper.
He was one of the most colorful people around.
BTW it's a bit of a pity that a lot of people don't post here anymore, like Threefates, Trouserpress, Snow Dog, the Bald Angels, Erik Neuteboom... Or they pop up every once in a while, like Vompatti...
Well, that's just as it is, but I remember the good old days. Okay, these days are good too, but it's a different kind of good. Smile



Yeah, I remember them all. Snow Dog still posts does he not?

I met Trouserpress at the first Prog Archives curry night in London. Very nice chap. Along with Sean Trane, Chopper, Sigod, Chris Syzergy, Richard H and Jim Garten (?) Memory is hazy...

I missed one planned PA meeting (was there more than one?), which was a pity in retrospect. Oh well... no use crying over spilled milk.

Snow Dog hasn't posted in a long time, but hopefully he turns up once again.
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