General Chat (Non-Music-Related)

BM has fallen from the lofty height it once occupied. The remake of the Site was a bad attempt of claiming to improve an already wonderful Site , and an even poorer attempt at attempting to hide the rampant censorship that has now infested our entire existence. FEAR and Cowardice are obviously great motivators with the psuedos who beat their pale scrawny chests claiming to be so very independent and open minded and religious and fair and wonderful. HYPOCRITES the lot of you and destined to die as stupidly as you live.

There, now I feel better. What a load of wank BM has become when compared to the previous load of wank it was. Still there are a few individuals left but they also are being run off by the rampant idiocy of rules and fearful sucking that now has become the audio of this Site. We are all supposedly musicians so by mere virtue of that alone anything we say, do or think is musical related. Pathetic little rules by pathetic little men who dart about bumbling in a most comical fashion.

My, my we would not wish to offend any of these fearful little cretans lest they might weep, cry or rattle their instruments or mouths. After all thew creative process must conform and not offend. Bloody Hell what a laugh. Some excellent musos with brilliant minds have chosen to depart this new circus of political filth ... Case in point Slacker and more follow. Soon all there will be here will be pretend musicians being the best little jukeboxes they can be and afraid ... very afraid.

The comradeship that once existed here is gone and the tolerance and Love is gone as well. I do not know why Glen bothers to spar with a bunch of paper men.

Though I will always err on the side of "freedom of speech" there is necessarily a line where it becomes offensive simply for the sake of offending.

Much as I really like Glenny (have visited his house and he came out to one of my concerts in NY) I do think he crossed that line on too many occasions. They should have known that liberals will be liberal and there is no reason to expect anything less. Those who are blind to what seems so obvious to you or I, will not suddenly gain sight because we were able to beat them in a contest of insults.

I lament that freedom of speech is no longer what it used to be here...but that is because some people were stretching that liberty a bit far. With liberty comes responsibility and once discussion here devolved into name calling, it was only a matter of time before the hammer came down.

So they brought it on themselves, and upon all of us, when they allowed themselves to be manipulated by anger. I hope that we who remain will learn that lesson and carry on with a more civil tone.

My guess is that they will all come back with cooler heads some day. Or not.

BM has fallen from the lofty height it once occupied. The remake of the Site was a bad attempt of claiming to improve an already wonderful Site , and an even poorer attempt at attempting to hide the rampant censorship that has now infested our entire existence. FEAR and Cowardice are obviously great motivators with the psuedos who beat their pale scrawny chests claiming to be so very independent and open minded and religious and fair and wonderful. HYPOCRITES the lot of you and destined to die as stupidly as you live.

There, now I feel better. What a load of wank BM has become when compared to the previous load of wank it was. Still there are a few individuals left but they also are being run off by the rampant idiocy of rules and fearful sucking that now has become the audio of this Site. We are all supposedly musicians so by mere virtue of that alone anything we say, do or think is musical related. Pathetic little rules by pathetic little men who dart about bumbling in a most comical fashion.

My, my we would not wish to offend any of these fearful little cretans lest they might weep, cry or rattle their instruments or mouths. After all thew creative process must conform and not offend. Bloody Hell what a laugh. Some excellent musos with brilliant minds have chosen to depart this new circus of political filth ... Case in point Slacker and more follow. Soon all there will be here will be pretend musicians being the best little jukeboxes they can be and afraid ... very afraid.

The comradeship that once existed here is gone and the tolerance and Love is gone as well. I do not know why Glen bothers to spar with a bunch of paper men.

Sorry, I must have missed the 'lofty height'. People insulting others, trolls posting garbage and hate and spam are now gone. Glenny still has a profile, but hasn't returned - that's his choice. Maybe he just got fed up with everyone telling him that he was wrong. His antics got many others fed up with this place.
Please show us the 'rampant censorship' that exists here, now. We're gaining new members and there are posts about music subjects again.

Yod ... Well stated and with your usual conviction and very open mind when compared to many of the rest of us. The video link lived up to your reference. Perhaps it is time to tear it down and start again as two of my fellow Nebraskans once sang long ago. It is a true tragedy all round .... All Fall Down. Take care of yourself. And it is said that Pagans have the best parties. But life increasingly becomes less and less partylike for all. My Thread has been deemed nonmusic despite my avid attention to almost always not only making reference to music and linking and relating what I state to music and musos but also despite its widespread and growing relevance to everyone ... musician, idiot or whatever else. I would have thought that a first step in this Overton Window that BM has instituted might possibly have been to require any who joins the Esteemed Musical Site to actually Post some. But alas that would be like expecting the government to actually look adfter the people or political filth not to lie would it not.

The world is dying all around us all now and it is a terminal prognosis. This despite or in spite of what any might believe in as it were. It is past due time that those who still can think should commence and even back date it if they can.

There have always been people who would destroy the world if they could. They were usually counter-balanced by people who were competing for the same power. Things do look bleak in the world today, but I'm not going to let it stop me from living like they don't matter a whit.

It's always possible that their plans will fail miserably, and at the ground level we won't notice much difference in the USA. So I'll worry about tomorrow when it gets here.

Today I'm going to live like it's not coming.

As far as I know, no one was banned. VInny was not troll-like at all, but maybe he was just an alter-ego for one of the others.

As far as I know, no one was banned. VInny was not troll-like at all, but maybe he was just an alter-ego for one of the others.

Aha!
So you were Vinny!
I would never have guessed that!!

... at least you did finally stop doing that, so it's cool.

No, not me - he knows a whole lot more obscure musical stuff than I do. VInmy's profile is still up, and he has a message about being banned from the forum, but I would bet that's just made up so that people don't question where he is (I sent him a message to check!)

Vinny tells me he got locked out of his old account (he couldn't remember his password), so started a new BM profile, but he still can't get into the forum.
As I mentioned to him, maybe they have an IP address blocker in the new forum software, but unless someone complained to the BM admin about him, I dont' see they would have done this.

Vinny is a troll? ??

LOL He's not even here and he's getting his ass slapped.

I thought that the bitch patrol just complains about everyone..but Vin? AS IF.

Guitar Mike …I thank you for responding to my Post.

Irrelevant or Disrespectful … interesting

Freedom of Speech and Press …

The Bill of Rights and The Right to Bear Arms …

The Right to Free Speech …

There will always be those who can connect the dots and a greater number who can not for whatever reason. The concept of a Forum is an ancient one. This concept in its current corruption and misinterpretation clearly demonstrates at least to me a lack of general education, morality, duty, responsibility, right action, honesty, and abilities.

There will always be spam, advertisement, ignorance and such until the full and total censorship of the internet comes to pass. Any who think this is not happening are sadly out of touch with the dots. Garbage will continue obviously to be posted by not just trolls.

Hate is gone …. NO …Hate has become the Great Motivator and Method of the 21st Century. There is no Enlightenment here. Where have you been, obviously not reading the news or books. In my humble opinion many of the musos here need to take some time and get their fingers off the worn out chords they repeat over and over and over and over and over … and get them on the pulse of Humanity. Stop being jukeboxes and whores and become true Artists and create instead of regurgitate . Is that Lofty enough …

Glen has a choice …No he does not. Glen can only be true to himself and be Glen .. pure and simple. He is not a conditioned gutless and emasculated good little boy or citizen. The line of separation becomes increasingly more and more blurred in every aspect of this miserable, materialistic, Kali Yugan World. I would not advise anyone to guess maybe why Glen does anything and most certainly everyone is not telling him he is wrong. Most in fact are not telling him anything. Another and perhaps better way of relating his supposed antics might be to say that his being outspoken, uncompromising, opinionated and firmly set in his method, belief and Self … could be a vastly better way of putting it.

It used to be Once Upon A Time in this country one could get away with such nonconforming antics … especially in a proclaimed Forum. As long as BM continues the course it has now chosen it will indeed gain many new members, useless appendages and even tumors no doubt. But alas even this will end when the rampant and growing censorship reaches full flower and control.

I wish you well Mike as I do all the others that have graced this Forum. The time for debate is long past now. Either one sees or is blind, one connects or does not, one cares or does not. I respect any who create and there are many here who do. This includes you as well. Good Luck to you Mike.

"I run on hate", I wrote that on the sole(s) of my sneakers.. LOL (you should see the looks I get when they read it)

Glenny, my strings are old, and my guitar is out of tune..

First of all let me make this clear... I have not tucked my tail and allowed a few to SHUT ME UP... I been fishing and jamming and having a whole lot of fun this summer.

Second. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Mike Birch, you go and justify to your God why you deleted my 2 previous posts with the same title. You say you didn't... You are a liar. BANDMIX didn't do it... YOU DID. Why don't you just pull a trigger and kill people you don't like or agree with? You are a major offender of the worst order, willing to censor even musicians. By the way... Why are you following around all my old posts just to complain about them? Only cowards would do that! By the way I did appreciate your explanation about "contextimony". Your buddy is an expert at that.

Ted... You are one heck of a performer. One of the most talented songwriters I have been privileged to meet. You are a very kind soul. Don't attack me. All the beliefs I stand behind are very close to yours... Only I have no fear. We would be good friends if you lived next door.

Stephan, Stephan, Stephan... VAMPIER!

What can I say? You are one of the most amazing people that can ever post on ANY forum. Every one of your words are posted with such intelligence and concern that the average person will often miss the point. You are extremely kind and talented. You have taught me much. I will always wish you well my friend and hope to meet someday.

For all the rest... Dayne just put some new strings on. This is a non musical post. I guess I shouldn't have added that in. XXXXXXXXXXXXXX censoredXXXXXXX

Am I being facetious? Damn right I am! Many of you still think that we are a DEMOCRACY. MOB RULE. LET THE WEAK HAVE A VOICE. A NATION of LAWS THAT CAN BE CHANGED TO MAKE THE MOB HAPPY... Even if it brings us to the steps of anarchy.

It is true that bandmix invites people into their house. It is also true that when you invite a man into your "house" you are inviting his very soul and beliefs. If there is disagreement, then the resolve would not be so simple. In this case you have a website that has allowed a practice and then applied DEMOCRACY or MOB RULE. The fastest way to lose FREEDOM. Just ask Ted about hitler and his ability to invoke MOB RULE.
Thank you Mike. Even though you are a minor player... You have proven your individual ability to help turn this into a very boring site... We used to have some great, ballsy, musicians on here.... I didn't chase them away... People like you and bandmix themselves did.

I suggest you let this one die Mike... OH... AND...STAY OUT OF MY FACE...G!