Which PA member do you miss the most?

Fellow vinyl buff Catcher10 - Jose. I miss his in-depth tech discussions and uploads regarding every aspect of vinyl. A man with great taste too.
Oh, and Katie too. Miss having her around these parts heaps.

Edited by Tom Ozric - October 07 2017 at 16:43

You should miss Dean. The old boy added class to PA and knew of what he spoke about. And hated Sventonio. That's three important points.

BaldJean wrote: Raff wrote: I miss the atmosphere rather than any specific people. Though things in the "good old days" were often fraught with controversy and strife, there was also a genuine sense of caring for each other that has gone almost completely missing. Case in point? The birthday threads. Nowadays hardly anyone wishes other members happy birthday, even if we've been around here for years. A forum is a community of people, after all, and this sense of community is something that - when things go the way they should - goes well beyond the fake friendship of Facebook and other social media. Now all I can perceive is indifference, and this makes me a bit sad. I definitely agree with you, Raff. I remember the reactions when Friede and I and our two 5 year old girls Alice and Dorothy had the car accident that landed us in hospital (well, with only Friede and me injured; the kids were unharmed but were allowed to stay with us) when we were on our way to the PA-meeting in the Hague. we got so many well-wishes, and from a lot of people we had not talked to here before. I am not certain the same would happen today. I miss Snow Dog (though Friede and I had lots of fights with him), Trouserpress, MikeEnRegalia, Tony R, Syzygy and many others whose names just don't come to my mind right now

(Jean, you quoted a two-year-old post... not that it matters, since I'm quoting it as well )

I was just thinking of that a couple of days ago (well, I go by The Hague twice a week).....

Personally, I miss Bob (EL), Chris (Syzygy), Martin (Trotsky), Martin (Alucard, but I readand exchange with him elsewhere) and (he may not believe it) Tony R(eed Lover)

I also miss ProgLucky... and the old M@X (the new one is simply absent)... and my homeric fights with Ivàn (though that's probably pure nostalgy)

Raff wrote: I miss the atmosphere rather than any specific people. Though things in the "good old days" were often fraught with controversy and strife, there was also a genuine sense of caring for each other that has gone almost completely missing. Case in point? The birthday threads. Nowadays hardly anyone wishes other members happy birthday, even if we've been around here for years. A forum is a community of people, after all, and this sense of community is something that - when things go the way they should - goes well beyond the fake friendship of Facebook and other social media. Now all I can perceive is indifference, and this makes me a bit sad.

I definitely agree with you, Raff. I remember the reactions when Friede and I and our two 5 year old girls Alice and Dorothy had the car accident that landed us in hospital (well, with only Friede and me injured; the kids were unharmed but were allowed to stay with us) when we were on our way to the PA-meeting in the Hague. we got so many well-wishes, and from a lot of people we had not talked to here before. I am not certain the same would happen today.

I miss Snow Dog (though Friede and I had lots of fights with him), Trouserpress, MikeEnRegalia, Tony R, Syzygy and many others whose names just don't come to my mind right now


Edited by BaldJean - October 07 2017 at 01:07

Bump!!

Prog Sothoth wrote: Who was the guy with the very pregnant yoga instructors as avatars and signatures? There was something definitely "off" about that character, but I always cracked up when I read his posts...although I'm thinking it might have been due to the pregger images more than the post content.

Mandrakeroot.  Later to become something like 1967/1976 or some such.

Definitely a "personality" 'round these parts. 

Sean Trane wrote: PROGMAN wrote: velvet room bunch those days when the forums were more edgier and colourful lol Remember that the first VC room was called Mariah Carey? never participated in those thread, lack of time and I'm not silly enough to indulge in), but a lot of fortunes (in turns of posts published) were built in those kinds of threads.

It was art, man.

micky wrote:   he can do that to you. A potent mix of brains and stubbornness

I thought that was Raff...