@Lu Zwei I had to use Google Translate in order to read it (!), but that was a lovely post. Thank you for sharing. Indeed, my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has commented in this thread so far - reading your thoughts has helped me to process my own, and taken some of the sting out of the past few ...

Marsupialized was equal parts abrasive, intimidating, and fucking hilarious . When I think back to that era of the PRF, two of the first things that spring to mind involved Marsup: 1) A thread titled (I'm paraphrasing), 'So, I punched a yuppie on my way to work today.' 2) A put-down along the lines ...

Thanks, Sparky. It's nice to be back (although what I wouldn't give for the circumstances to be different).

And I totally agree with you - that awful nonsense doesn't deserve any attention. Will redact the troll's name from my previous post now.

It's just abject fucking cowardice, as far as I'm concerned. Now that Steve Albini is dead... In other words, "Now that he's not around to speak for himself, I feel able to sling some mud without having to worry about the consequences!" If that [name redacted] dipshit wanted to play at inv...

Although I only racked up 200-odd posts during my tenure as a 'regular' at the old board, and stopped lurking altogether at some point, the PRF was still the first place I'd come whenever anything big happened in the music world. I guess my most recent visit, prior to this week, was when we lost Ric...

Long time, no see. I'm not sure anyone will remember me - I lurked more than I posted, and even that was a long-ass time ago - but it's academic, especially given the circumstances. I've been a music-obsessed nerd for the vast majority of my life. Looking at my record collection now, there's no one ...