How was PA in the very beginning?

Moogtron III wrote: 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.

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...

Rick Robson wrote: ^Yes indeed, but unfortunately these thoughts mean nothing today when the music is accessible plainly by the click of a mouse - you need just an affordable credit card in order to buy ANY artistic work you desire AFTER listening to it first. Besides that, today people in general don't give importance to the 'discomfort' of deep thinking in a world where everything is just the huge information (not knowledge) we have to deal with it everyday. And so the ignorance gives way to the idolatry you meant.

Blacksword wrote: Moogtron III wrote: 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.  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...

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

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.)

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".)

Metalmarsh89 wrote: Dream Theater was cool in the beginning, right?

Right.

Woke up one morning and there was this gleaming black monolith ...........

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.

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.