I didn't realise there was so much!!!!!!
Jun 13, 2016 20:33:08 GMT
Post by PinkFloyd on Jun 13, 2016 20:33:08 GMT
I was having a look through this one album this afternoon and had forgotten JUST how much was in it....... mostly photos of audio projects I have done over the years on Rock Grotto..... 109 pages in that album alone and then there are all the other albums! s157.photobucket.com/user/pinkfloyd2007_bucket/library/?sort=3&page=1
Phew, that was real trip down memory lane and it just goes to show how stale I have become, these days, with regard to "input" on this forum. There was probably twice as much as that but most of them were lost when I switched over to photobucket..... jesus, that's a lot of photos and ALL of them in threads here somewhere.
I'd love to be "that" active once again and find something I'm passionate about but it seems like hard work I just cannot believe I was that active a few years ago, I've obviously become a really lazy slob and more of a watcher than a contributor.
Looking back, I think the turning point (for me) was a house full of equipment / random wallwarts all over the place / tons of amps, headphones etc...... it all became too much and, believe it or not, was very stressful constantly being asked for my "opinions" / "under the hood" snaps and "reviews"..... I didn't realise it at the time but what I was doing was burning me out to the degree that it started to have an effect on my health. My alcohol consumption increased and I started to get ratty with people and almost deliberately try to piss them off...... I now realise that it was my body telling me to "slow down" and the only way I could slow down was to stop.
Looking back (again) I spent over TEN years of my life glued to this forum, it was my pride and joy and I would literally spend every last hour I had available to me helping people out / having a laugh / doing my best to post interesting topics of conversation and build an "impartial" free to speak your mind / non censored forum. It worked, this place was the best........ we had a great time and I don't regret a single second of time spent being part of it.
To name but a few..... Alex, Rick, Leo, Nigel, Chris, Graham, Ian, Franz, Miguel, Jon......... I could go on and on. I think the best days of the forum were from day one to the day Rick died..... that really did knock me for six, we kind of fed off one another and to lose such a gem of a friend was quite a blow. You could see he was suffering in the "Happy Birthday Rick" post: rockgrotto.proboards.com/thread/5029/happy-birthday-wishes-rick?page=2 but he was a true man / gentleman and friend right up to the last breath he took.
The pain he was enduring was not shared with us..... he was a true gent / man even on his deathbed. "no Cry babies on my watch" he was true to his word in life and in the throes of death.
Rick also joined this forum on Dec 6, 2004 at 6:05pm..... his "profile" says he joined in 2008 but, remember, he was also somebody who would leave (have a brain fart) and rejoin after "going native" for a while
I don't know what I'm trying to say here so will stop pretending to be an Alpha male and come straight out with it..... I miss Rick and miss the part he played in this forum...... there, I said it.
Those were truly enjoyable "good" times on this forum and I miss them.... will it rise from the ashes? I doubt it very much. The memories will always remain alive and, at the end of the day, I'd like to think they were good memories of good times.
Anyhoo....... I seem to have gone off topic (most unlike me to do that)....... what was I saying again?...... oh yes:
In or out of Europe? I for one am most definitely OUT!
Mike.
Phew, that was real trip down memory lane and it just goes to show how stale I have become, these days, with regard to "input" on this forum. There was probably twice as much as that but most of them were lost when I switched over to photobucket..... jesus, that's a lot of photos and ALL of them in threads here somewhere.
I'd love to be "that" active once again and find something I'm passionate about but it seems like hard work I just cannot believe I was that active a few years ago, I've obviously become a really lazy slob and more of a watcher than a contributor.
Looking back, I think the turning point (for me) was a house full of equipment / random wallwarts all over the place / tons of amps, headphones etc...... it all became too much and, believe it or not, was very stressful constantly being asked for my "opinions" / "under the hood" snaps and "reviews"..... I didn't realise it at the time but what I was doing was burning me out to the degree that it started to have an effect on my health. My alcohol consumption increased and I started to get ratty with people and almost deliberately try to piss them off...... I now realise that it was my body telling me to "slow down" and the only way I could slow down was to stop.
Looking back (again) I spent over TEN years of my life glued to this forum, it was my pride and joy and I would literally spend every last hour I had available to me helping people out / having a laugh / doing my best to post interesting topics of conversation and build an "impartial" free to speak your mind / non censored forum. It worked, this place was the best........ we had a great time and I don't regret a single second of time spent being part of it.
To name but a few..... Alex, Rick, Leo, Nigel, Chris, Graham, Ian, Franz, Miguel, Jon......... I could go on and on. I think the best days of the forum were from day one to the day Rick died..... that really did knock me for six, we kind of fed off one another and to lose such a gem of a friend was quite a blow. You could see he was suffering in the "Happy Birthday Rick" post: rockgrotto.proboards.com/thread/5029/happy-birthday-wishes-rick?page=2 but he was a true man / gentleman and friend right up to the last breath he took.
The pain he was enduring was not shared with us..... he was a true gent / man even on his deathbed. "no Cry babies on my watch" he was true to his word in life and in the throes of death.
Rick also joined this forum on Dec 6, 2004 at 6:05pm..... his "profile" says he joined in 2008 but, remember, he was also somebody who would leave (have a brain fart) and rejoin after "going native" for a while
I don't know what I'm trying to say here so will stop pretending to be an Alpha male and come straight out with it..... I miss Rick and miss the part he played in this forum...... there, I said it.
Those were truly enjoyable "good" times on this forum and I miss them.... will it rise from the ashes? I doubt it very much. The memories will always remain alive and, at the end of the day, I'd like to think they were good memories of good times.
Anyhoo....... I seem to have gone off topic (most unlike me to do that)....... what was I saying again?...... oh yes:
In or out of Europe? I for one am most definitely OUT!
Mike.