21 years at 40 years old. I’ve been getting on this site since 98 and made a new User Name in 2000. Hard to believe it’s been that long.
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Thread for people with join dates 2002 and older
- Thread starter SpankBass
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Guess I qualify. Don’t know how I missed the first two iterations of this dubious club. Lot of names that I used to see every day, several times a day but haven’t seen in years. Nice little walk down memory lane.
That's the same how I feel when I read through this thread.
It's the good guys like you that keep me hanging around TalkBass buddy. Thanks for being here.
-Mike
It's like a fossil convention in here.
Dude, you have no idea. My neck on zoom meetings looks like something a paleontologist might find in a desert somewhere.
I would like to think more along the line of a vintage wine perhaps, but then I do like to kid myself.
“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.” - Woody Allen
Yup. But Allen used it in Annie Hall. Can't get anything past us old timers.
I'm sure I'd have joined much earlier but I didn't even own a computer in 2002!
Come to think of it, I didn't own one in 2009.
And I don't own one now.....................
Come to think of it, I didn't own one in 2009.
And I don't own one now.....................
I'm two-years-too-young to post this but:
Talkbass was instantly 'a thing' for me ... who was always too late on just about everything the internet had to offer. In the 90's I was a youngster in Sarasota FL, and was either outside or playing my bass, so I missed the chat boards/forums.
Ditto on MySpace/Early-Facebook. Late to the party.
Then I found Talkbass.
I learned everything I know about internet etiquette and the unique responses I have to this kind of stimuli. Learned it the hard, falling-on-face way.
I still feel like Twitter/Facebook/etc and essentially this whole thing of addressing people in ways that two humans would likely never do if they were face-to-face and had body language cues is dividing humanity and doing all manner of evil things, but this site is the thing I can not/will never abandon.
I'm content to just read for the most part, and for every time I get drawn into a '34" basses can't have good b-strings', 'basses that don't say Fender on the headstock can never sound like a P-bass' debate (to mention a few of my bugaboos) there are another dozen times I delete a long rant.
I'm thousands of dollars lighter because of this site but could never put a dollar amount on how rich I've become in knowledge.
I'll leave you to your lawns. Sorry to be a bother.
Talkbass was instantly 'a thing' for me ... who was always too late on just about everything the internet had to offer. In the 90's I was a youngster in Sarasota FL, and was either outside or playing my bass, so I missed the chat boards/forums.
Ditto on MySpace/Early-Facebook. Late to the party.
Then I found Talkbass.
I learned everything I know about internet etiquette and the unique responses I have to this kind of stimuli. Learned it the hard, falling-on-face way.
I still feel like Twitter/Facebook/etc and essentially this whole thing of addressing people in ways that two humans would likely never do if they were face-to-face and had body language cues is dividing humanity and doing all manner of evil things, but this site is the thing I can not/will never abandon.
I'm content to just read for the most part, and for every time I get drawn into a '34" basses can't have good b-strings', 'basses that don't say Fender on the headstock can never sound like a P-bass' debate (to mention a few of my bugaboos) there are another dozen times I delete a long rant.
I'm thousands of dollars lighter because of this site but could never put a dollar amount on how rich I've become in knowledge.
I'll leave you to your lawns. Sorry to be a bother.
This is my first day. What do I do next?
