How many posters from 2003 are still here on the board?

[clifford_thornton]

22 hours ago, Daniel A said:

I joined the BNBB in 2001. My first thread there was about the master tapes for Duke Pearson's 'Sweet Honey Bee', which Tom Evered confirmed to be lost. I came over here on March 10, 2003. I felt young then, I still feel young in a sense, but I guess I'm middle aged now.

I am so saddened and worried about the state of the world today that I cannot muster much energy for online message boards, not even as a means of mental escape. I do not encourage any political discussion here, just explaining the reason for a shift in focus. I am fortunate that I still play piano with a couple of bands and occasionally find time to listen to music at home. I am raising three kids, and I have a lot of concern about the reality they are facing.

This place brought me a lot of joy, enlightenment and I made a couple of friends. Much grateful for that.

Understood on these fronts. It is a dark and difficult world scene. I deal with pretty intense depression, surely not the only person here who does, and though the board is a nice respite, music doesn't always do it for me. But this community has been a great help even when I am just pithily responding to some discographical query.

[Daniel A]

Thanks for your posts, @jazzbo and @clifford_thornton, and especially sorry to hear about your situation, Clifford. Still, they are a good reminder that this forum connects people from anywhere and in some ways still makes this world a better place. 

[HutchFan]

12 minutes ago, Daniel A said:

Still, they are a good reminder that this forum connects people from anywhere and in some ways still makes this world a better place. 

Yes.  "Amen" to that.  

 

[Milestones]

Music is about unity and beauty and harmony. 

[Steve Gray]

I joined April 29th 2003 and was also on the BN board before that.

Don't post much though, too busy listening to music.

I'm nearly 80 though so who knows for how long

[Clunky]

I too was a refugee from the BNBB. I don't post that often or visit these days but I find this place still a good source of information about new releases by living artists. I think I largely have my fill of back catalogue music and indeed have had to wave goodbye to many a CD or LP over the past decade. My collection still sprawls over the house to the irritation of my dearly beloved. Even more space is taken up by my many still film cameras and darkroom equipment. 

 

Joined March 7th 2003

Edited January 26 by Clunky

[Tom in RI]

Joined 3/31/03. I don’t post much but I read a lot. I’ve met a couple of board members and have kept in touch with Pete B who doesn’t post much any more.

[jazzbo]

Pete B! Such a nice man. I found out a few decades ago he was married in a chapel where an organ built by my great great great great great grandfather, David Tannenberg, was played. I visited that chapel and heard the organ when I was a lad.

Edited January 31 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

Lititz, Pa.

[felser]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

Lititz, Pa.

90 minutes northwest of Philly, just north of Lancaster.  Yes, Pete B. is a great guy.

[jazzbo]

Yes, I have a lot of Moravian ancestry centered around Bethlehem, Lititz and Nazareth.

[Bluesnik]

I hadn't been on the BN forum and I joined in July 2004, after a long time lurking. So I must have discovered about here very soon. I have learned a lot here. Especially in the first times, when I built up my collection. I was especially interested in reissues. Nowadays I still visit daily, after a period of not visiting at all. I don't post much anymore, but that's how it goes. I visit daily again now. And I made some really good friends here. I'm a user of other forums now. Particularly guitar forums. But this was the first forum I hung around. I consider forums to be the mother of social media. And this is a really cool place to hang around. Sometimes I get smitten when I think of the long time I've been a user here.

Edited 1 hour ago by Bluesnik
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