Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

[46and2]

Facebook group? Which one is that?

 

[cornfarmer]

"Talk Me Out Of Bass"

This can be said for 98% of the idiotic threads I see on almost a daily basis. I refuse to do FaceFuggBookface so this right here thread is all I got.

 

[Korladis]

This can be said for 98% of the idiotic threads I see on almost a daily basis. I refuse to do FaceFuggBookface so this right here thread is all I got.

I'm on FB primarily to promote my bands.

 

[cornfarmer]

I'm on FB primarily to promote my bands.

Perfectly fine, my good man, but I've seen that crap destroy people's minds. But I'm probably preaching to the choir again.

 

[cornfarmer]

In other news, I'm heading out in 20 min. to go try out a new drummer. Been out of action for months and have new toys to rock out on.

 

[mlove]

I'm on FB primarily to promote my bands.

Facebook is evil.
Not in the cool way.

 

[Korladis]

Facebook is evil.
Not in the cool way.

Yeah, I know. Worked there on a temp project the last month.

That said, if a band isn't on FB, as far as promo is concerned, they basically don't exist.

 

[IdleTwitch]

So how would one find and join said FB group?

 

[CL400Peavey]

Yeah.. This thread used to put on 3 pages of comments by breakfast and it was the livliest, most hilarious, most friendly and fun thread on the site. Then.. some over zealous mods started handing out bans left and right after complaints from the P&W crowd. To be fair, it was because we bent the TB rules in this thread, but we could because we could bust each others balls, talk politics, religion, tube vs. solid state, tell Class D to suck it, and even talk about "tone woods" and we all stayed friends and noone got butthurt... except a few P&W members who popped in and at least one mod (lol). and so... since talkbass ruined the party we all migrated to facebook, and this thread progresses a page a week now if that. Most of us let our memberships lapse and are on here very little anymore. There are new members, but its golden era is done. I only returned because I wanted an intelligent venue to sell some gear to people who are in the know about that gear.

Funny thing is, this site stays up due to supporting memberships, and advertising dollars attributed to page viewership. This thread is the longest in TB history, meaning it has by far the most traffic. Kind of ironic that stirring the pot here on the rules eliminated so much of that revenue for the site.

 

[eyeballkid]

Well, at the moment there are 337 people online but the homepage also shows 1400+ folks total between guests and members.. Im not sure whats that number represents if only 337 are online, but either way, its decent traffic, but nothing stellar. I wonder what kind of traffic decrease the site has seen since then.

 

[CL400Peavey]

Well, at the moment there are 337 people online but the homepage also shows 1400+ folks total between guests and members.. Im not sure whats that number represents if only 337 are online, but either way, its decent traffic, but nothing stellar. I wonder what kind of traffic decrease the site has seen since then.

We used to move this thread almost 1,000 posts some days. That is a LOT of traffic for one thread.

 

[eyeballkid]

True.

 

[eyeballkid]

and we were VERY active on other threads too. Seems like most of us pretty much ghosted after that with only occassionally hitting other threads nowadays.

 

[bassboysam]

So how would one find and join said FB group?

PM me your FB details and I can invite you to the group.

 

[dukeorock]

I mostly get hired to play upright on Americana/country/rockabilly gigs and this was by far my favorite thread on TalkBass! Just great conversations about music and gear without all the nerdy bickering about nothing. I do miss it

 

[eyeballkid]

Yeah... This Thread was the only thread on the whole site that you could reliably have discussions on ANYTHING that would never descend into total douchebaggery, but somehow we were the problem. Lol

 

[eyeballkid]

Don' get me wrong... we were our own brand of douche but we made everyone smile and feel welcome!

 

[Burnsy]

Yeah this thread used to be the best part of the internet. No offense to the new folks and those remaining from the "old days". I'm grateful to y'all for keeping the light on. But I mean, you came here for relationship / career advice and condolences when your friends / family / pets passed away. All in a haze of thick heavy riffage.

 

[Korladis]

Yeah this thread used to be the best part of the internet. No offense to the new folks and those remaining from the "old days". I'm grateful to y'all for keeping the light on. But I mean, you came here for relationship / career advice and condolences when your friends / family / pets passed away. All in a haze of thick heavy riffage.

Definitely.

 

[bassboysam]

Don' get me wrong... we were our own brand of douche but we made everyone smile and feel welcome!

Our Own Brand of Douche should be the new name of the FB group, or start a new TB thread