This is going to be a pointless post, but!…I was around for the Word forum, came to this place when that one folded, somehow forgot about it – I think when work started wondering where so much of their Internet was going – remembered about it today, changed password and…
…I recognize nearly all the names here! What did I miss in 4 years?
And did we ever find out what happened to Stimpy?
Welcome back.
Do you like King Crimson?
Don’t tell him, Pike
I like King Crimson, Jethro Tull, prefer early Genesis, remember Spangles and have a brain that can’t remember what it’s supposed to be doing at work, but has a near total recall of late 70s/early 80s trivia.
You have almost described me there.
Welcome back. Being 40-60 something seems relevant here!
Welcome back. I think I’m going it some when I’m gone four weeks. What have you been doing, talking to real people?
What are they like?
They like Brexit, Jeremy Kyle and food banks.
I emigrated to the States 10 years ago, so I have the double dread of both Brexit and Trump. What did I do? Joined a band that plays to a captive capacity crowd of school kids once a month, had three kids all arrive at their teen years, worked…um…gosh, doesn’t time fly?
Hello nick.
Nice to see a friendly face again.
I’m afraid we think Stimpy didn’t make it. James Blast is also gone.
Otherwise, things are much the same. We all still talk bollocks because we are overwhelmingly male. There are few youngsters but we are all getting older.
Rock isn’t quite dead yet.
…it just smells funny.
Curtis From Ohio also sadly no longer with us.
Oh no! Stimpy, I suspected, but James and Curtis, both sad losses.
On the demographic front, my 15yr old step daughter loves (and I mean, deep dives into the back catalog, likes the alternate version of Animals kind of love) Pink Floyd, and to a lesser extent a healthy part of my music collection, so there is hope that we will be spared the Ben Elton\Queen view of the future of rock.
Is she ready for The Waterboys?
I’m not sure I am, to be honest. I made the mistake of searching “RIP” after this forum! So many UK famous people have shuffled off and I didn’t know – Sean Hughes, Victoria Wood, Bruce Forsythe, Keith Chegwin??? What’s happening over there??
The names on this page are like a who’s who of my childhood, Brian Cant! John Noakes!!, Heinz Wolff!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/notable_deaths_2017?ocid=socialflow_twitter
Thank God we still have Bowie.
Welcome back Nick. Do you still own the blue Les Paul?
I do! My wife won’t let me get it a Fender friend though…I did sneak a Kemper past her, though
Nice. I’ve joined you on the blue LP trip. I don’t know if you watch Darrell Braun’s guitar videos (@Twang has got me addicted), but he made this ‘Ultimate’ Les Paul by fitting Seymour Duncan P-Rails to an Epiphone LP. Something I’m currently trying to achieve, amidst much head scratching. Do you rate the Kemper?
The Kemper is the greatest thing since sliced bread, ironic because it looks like a toaster. If you get the chance to try one out, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. The learning curve is a little steep at first, but once you figure it out, it’s very logical. It’s a real boon for me as I don’t get much opportunity to play amplified given my house is laid out like a giant echo chamber, and the US system of air vents allows a mouse fart in a remote bedroom to be heard throughout the house.
Congrats on the LP! I’ve never modded any guitar, but I have put a small dent in it, which is a heartbreaking, but essential part of new guitar ownership. Even though I’ve had it nearly 5 years now, the 16 year old in me that used to peer through the window of Duck, Son and Pinker in Bath every weekend still can’t quite believe he finally has a Les Paul.
I don’t think I’ve got a guitar I haven’t modded! Like you, I can’t quite believe I now own a Les Paul. Or a lawn mower come to that. Or spade. Or strawberry huller. Or… I could go on.
The Kemper sounds great. I’m way too invested in silly little pedals and tube amps, but I’ll try one if I get the chance.
Welcome back Nick, actually you have missed quite a bit. I was away for a while myself and when I returned I noticed there seemed to be fewer major arguments of a socio-political nature. Turns out some of the more agitated and/or provocative members had flounced and one or two have been kicked out. That being said, robust debate is still there if you want it, as we proved with the Danny Baker thread last week.
True, some professional agitators have thankfully departed and it’s much nicer as a result. I was off-blog until they did.
That must have been a disappointment.
Bad Barty.
Sorry, it’s late, I’m bored and mischievous.
I’m watching This Week. That usually gets me going. I shall miss it.
Pretty much my only reason to pay the licence fee these days.
Wasn’t Galloway good?
I find that show has the “Desert Island Discs effect” – whereby people you normally think are arseholes come across quite well… and the other way round too (I’m looking at you, Bobby Gillespie )
Gillespie is a twat. I still haven’t forgiven him – and plan never to – for turning up pissed and incapable when I had made a big effort to see them play around the time of Loaded. Wanker of the first order he is.
Welcome back.
It’s very much the same, yet different in subtle ways.
Podcasts are a regular feature. I’m sure podmeister Twang would welcome you to join in with one.
You’d be very welcome Nick. Always looking for new participants.
Hello again, indeed.
Don’t forget to blown the fluff off your needle.
Oh I say
Grammar and punctuation all over the shop; it should read: Don’t forget to blow Fluff off, your needle*
*cockernee rhyming slang: needle’n’lace/grace.
Curses. It started out as I hope you’ve blown the fluff off your needle, hence the superfluous n in blow. Where’s Edith whenn you nneed her?
Alan Freeman is nervous right now.
As nervous as you can be while being, er, dead. Welcome back!
Welcome back! We’ve lost some good people along the way (especially just over a year ago after one particularly egregious thread), but there’s plenty of life in the old dog yet.
In other developmenst myself and @kid-dynamite take everyone back to the heady days of Windows XP by running a CD swap club every few months. You’re welcome to join us next time, and can get a flavour of it here:
What a great idea! I’ll be along presently
Hey nick
Good to see you back. I still regularly cook one of your Word recipes: Chicken & Prune Splat, correctly described by your good self as Super easy, super tasty
Nice – that recipe (from my ex Mother in law) was about the best thing to come out of my first marriage (daughter excepted, mostly).
Hey nicktf, how the heck are you? Some of us here have been plodding along quietly on here while you were gone, off enjoying yourself, making no visible contribution to the well-being of the blog, relying heartlessly and cynically on your Afterword compadres to keep the fires burning, to welcome in any civilians who have seen the light, to argue about stuff that really matters, to have massive flouncy strops about stuff that no-one gives a flying fig about, and all the rest, but don’t let that matter. We’ll kill a fatted calf whenever one of our own returns to the fold and have a jolly good party. Welcome back!
Here’s a choooooon for you:
https://youtu.be/dgK21zCLdf8
Vulpes! I’m doing very well, thank you. I got distracted by the Gear Page, spent way too long on Quora, and still have to extract myself from the cauldron of brilliance and sheer idiocy that is Reddit. I’m very glad you remained at the cultural coal face, extracting the fuel (fule, do we still Molesworth?) to keep this place ablaze. My penance is to work back through 4 years worth of posts, I will try not to re-animate any Zombies on the way…
Save me a haunch of fatted calf, that sounds delicious. I would love to play the tune, but it’s “blocked in my country”. To the VPN, Batman!
wtf nicktf? where tf have you been?
I know, right! I’m not sure what happened. One minute, I’m browsing away on the forum, then it’s four years later.
Seeing your name reminded me how great this is.