Remember the "ist" era of HC?
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If you want to do a trip down memory lane before all these memories are lost like tears in the rain, I'll do it. Even further back, I think there's a bunch of us who've been 'here' or 'there' since the late 90s/Y2K. Flamencology definitely, Frank? Maybe Yabba and Peen (in his IHATEMUSIC classic heyday) ? I think DinoMikeSr's been around for a long-ass time too.
But what you're talking about is later than that, it's like mid-2000s I think?
But what you're talking about is later than that, it's like mid-2000s I think?
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Pretty sure that dmn23 and micwalt were around relatively early as well.
Motorik
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Good call!
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Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
That might’ve been post-HC or close to it. 2009-2011 range.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
This New Yorker profile of David Chang was 2008.
And this vid with Grant Achatz was from 2009 or 2010. You can skip to relevant info at 4:35.
Peen Simmons
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I think I probably started posting in 2001ish. Which is not long after I started playing guitar. I burned through a zillion monikers and legit can’t remember them all.
Dew Knot Hump was also a key part of HCGJ Classic. Also Feep (Frank Prince). Rumor has it that Munchy Box has existed since before the invention of guitar forums and will exist when the last on blinks out of existence. I’d also not be surprised to learn that Bones McHorror knows a thing or two.
The Golden Era was probably the first War Against Music. There were a couple later skirmishes also under that umbrella with the final gasp of that whole thing being Uma Floresta’s Reign of Terror. There was the whole Oscar Jordan vs whoever I was at the time Cold War situation. Which was kind of War Against Music adjacent.
After that there was the whole invasion of the fancy lads with what’s his nuts from Texaswith the “harem” or “stable” or whatever and all the fashion talk which freaked people out.
The 2008 election really weirded things out and a lot of them wound up here. And/or at Live Suckus.
Then Jazz Dreamer Night Animal Hands played everyone off like Keyboard Cat and Dendy tried to turn HC into a viable business synergy or some shit.
There was also the MAPS war and various Effects Forum specific nonsense that I mostly steered clear of. And whatever the fuck Cool Jam was. And I remember a political subforum that got pretty out of control at points.
Smurfco was also around for a lot of things. And, of course, Howie.
Dew Knot Hump was also a key part of HCGJ Classic. Also Feep (Frank Prince). Rumor has it that Munchy Box has existed since before the invention of guitar forums and will exist when the last on blinks out of existence. I’d also not be surprised to learn that Bones McHorror knows a thing or two.
The Golden Era was probably the first War Against Music. There were a couple later skirmishes also under that umbrella with the final gasp of that whole thing being Uma Floresta’s Reign of Terror. There was the whole Oscar Jordan vs whoever I was at the time Cold War situation. Which was kind of War Against Music adjacent.
After that there was the whole invasion of the fancy lads with what’s his nuts from Texaswith the “harem” or “stable” or whatever and all the fashion talk which freaked people out.
The 2008 election really weirded things out and a lot of them wound up here. And/or at Live Suckus.
Then Jazz Dreamer Night Animal Hands played everyone off like Keyboard Cat and Dendy tried to turn HC into a viable business synergy or some shit.
There was also the MAPS war and various Effects Forum specific nonsense that I mostly steered clear of. And whatever the fuck Cool Jam was. And I remember a political subforum that got pretty out of control at points.
Smurfco was also around for a lot of things. And, of course, Howie.
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DKH was there, fer sure. He was Rico Suave and a whole bunch of names back into the mists of time. Munchybox AKA Brocktoon AKA Misery Synod AKA whoever has been around forever.
Golden Age HC I think didn't even have GJ, I think it was just 'guitars', and then it got split? Really early days was incredibly fast moving, and also incredibly naive. It was very 'facebook forwards from grandma'-esque. The longest running thread was a super lame 'LARP being in a bar' thread, where people would come in like 'howdy folks, I'll take a Michelob'. Then Wes Powell hit the ground running with the 'take the sock off your head, flogger' shit that picked up incredible momentum and dominated the Golden Age up until it spectacularly imploded in a terrible cover of 'Take 5' and the anal dildo thing.
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I started there in 2005, around the time some guy caused a meltdown by posting about his grocery shopping trip, with multiple pics of his fully-stocked refrigerator.
mongooz
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let's not forget.......airplane on a conveyor !!!
I need this in my life.