Bapu Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 Julibee, bitflipper & bapu 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grem Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 BassPower? What's that? Never heard of such a thing!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 21 minutes ago, Grem said: BassPower? What's that? Is it the name of the shade of lipstick he appears to be wearing ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Bapu said: Julibee, bitflipper & bapu Which is which? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 Well, I'm not going to point out the obvious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted November 10, 2023 Author Share Posted November 10, 2023 1 hour ago, 57Gregy said: Which is which? Even to this day I'm not entirely sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 2008, iirc. A historian would find a clue in the fact that we're wearing watches. Nobody does that anymore. Trying to remember who else was in attendance that night. The late Old_55 (Jan) was there. A couple guys from Cakewalk who aren't with the company anymore. Middleman (Phil), who had a most impressive collection of vintage compressors. LanceInDaStudio (Lance). Though not at that gathering, I'd also met TheStringMaster (Les) earlier in the day. Interesting guy. He designs guitar strings for Dunlop, which makes pretty much every brand of string you've ever heard of. I still have the MXR shirt he gave me, although it has a big burn hole in the front now. Come to think of it, I still have the Cakewalk t-shirt. It, too, has a burn hole in the front. You'd think I'd eventually learn not to smoke, um, cigars whilst reclining in a lawn chair. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heath Row Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 (edited) I once thought about being a carer who escorted the less fortunate out on field trips. Look at the look on that one on the right, hes been cooked in the pot for to long. Edited November 11, 2023 by heath row 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted November 11, 2023 Author Share Posted November 11, 2023 Hey @Shane_B. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennywtelejazz Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheens Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 On 11/10/2023 at 4:31 PM, Bapu said: Julibee, bitflipper & bapu But that ain't no UK's finest W-sauce there mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 On 11/10/2023 at 12:06 PM, bitflipper said: The late Old_55 (Jan) was there Jan is gone?!! And no one told me... Ouch... It's amazing how people you never even met matter. Remember Ba-MIDI? Sharky went out of his way to find him, only to learn that he was gone. You guys better be around until I croak... All of you's. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Yep. Jan left us many years ago now. BA-MIDI, Bill, Space Cowboy, all gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Don't any of you guys dare leave... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 I think of ba-midi often. Years ago when I was very poor due to a problematic relationship with the IRS, he gifted me a license for FabFilter Pro-Q, which remains my most-used plugin to this day. So yeh, I think of Billie every time I Ioad it up. He inspired me to pay it forward whenever an opportunity arose, mostly by gifting gear to other musicians. Which reminds me, I need to create a will. I'd hate to have all my stuff end up in a yard sale to be snatched up by Craigslist resellers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 11 minutes ago, bitflipper said: I need to create a will. I'd hate to have all my stuff end up in a yard sale to be snatched up by Craigslist resellers. Let me help. That's 57Gregy, with a capital G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 3 hours ago, craigb said: Yep. Jan left us many years ago now. BA-MIDI, Bill, Space Cowboy, all gone. I still have our last email exchanges, with Jan and Billy (BA-MIDI), archived after all these years. The thing that bothered me most when I was banned years ago was not talking to all of you here. This always has been a special place on the internet with a really great group of people. I don't include myself in that category because I really used to let the software side of this place get to me. My behavior wasn't up to par with the rest of the group. But I'm grateful I was accepted warts and all. I've grown up a lot since then, I think/hope. It would be very painful and a great loss if anyone here, including the ones we greatly disagree with, were to pass away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, bitflipper said: Which reminds me, I need to create a will. I'd hate to have all my stuff end up in a yard sale to be snatched up by Craigslist resellers. I was just talking about this today with someone. All the hours I've put in to creating music, all of my guitars that I cherish so much. My guitars will end up at a pawn shop and all my music I have created will simply be deleted. I keep everything private on YouTube and Soundcloud so eventually after years of inactivity that will be eliminated too. It made me feel selfish and kind of sad to think I created all this, just for myself. All the hours, months, weeks, probably totalling years of actual hours I've spent that never benefitted anyone but me. I share what I created with a handful of friends and family that listen to it once, say it's nice, then never listen again. It makes me question why I even bothered to be honest. I was with my wife 26 years. She never once actually sat down and listened or enjoyed anything I recorded nor was interested in my playing in the least. It was just a thing I wasted time and money on to her. I can't say she was wrong I guess. I've always been in to woodworking too, but now Im diving in to it like I did music. At least it will leave something behind. I still have the itch to record and create music but I don't because it consumes me and I realize I'm not good enough to creat something quickly and it just takes me too much time. I haven't touched my guitar seriously in years. My new 'family' keeps asking me to play at parties and in their living room but I'm too embarrassed. I'm way out of practice. After proofreading this I realize how dark this post is. Sorry. But it is the sad truth. Lol. Edited December 11, 2023 by Shane_B. Fixed typo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Where there's a Will, there's a way, so I'm saying "No way!" and making a Won't instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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