Vibracobra wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:34 am now living in hot and humid Ibiza

Lucky bas***d, amazing place.

Curry Pervert wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:31 pm

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:34 am now living in hot and humid Ibiza

Lucky bas***d, amazing place.

Place is nice, but summer heat is too much for me.

I prefer greener landscapes and grey skies from time to time.

Joined the original forum around 2004 - my best friend showed me Action Park, which solidified our need to get instruments and read about recording. can’t exactly remember if I found it from an eBay add for a Sovtek Mig50 the studio was selling, or if I found the forum first and got to the eBay add from there, but either way that was my first tube amp and I still have it. That amplifier showing up to a teenager in Sudbury Ontario Canada was a pretty pivotal moment, and the level of technical acumen and dry wit on the forum kept me lurking and then occasionally posting for years. Changed my life for sure.
I work at Taylor Guitars now - I dont know what my job is anymore, I’m the automation and technology manager or something. I support production machines, build QC, write business software and occasionally design circuits and work in product development.
This forum is the best.

As a life long insomniac this forum's posts kept popping up during my late-night gear and music google rabbit holes. Lurked until about ten years ago. The tech room was miraculously in-line with my tastes and void of the weird blues lawyer vibes, classic rocker worship (with corresponding custom emojis), and boobie magazine avatars so typical of other internet guitar and rock forums. Got to follow a lot of leads to some good music and other cultural veins no one IRL cared about. Wrote some dumb stuff, wrote a lot of neurotic stuff, wound up having some good chats and even met some nice folks. I've got much better meds these days.

I’m going to say 2005… bored at a stupid temp job surfing the interwebs for Shellac and found the EA site… here I am…

I started lurking 2007, registered 2008 with different name (hylje).
I'm from Finland, so I haven't met many of you in physical form. Surprisingly many, though.

Hi, I'm Chris, I live in southern CA. I've been interested in recording music since I had a punk band in high school. Never really pursued it but have been collecting gear I can afford in varying states of disrepair and fixing it up...maybe one day I'll use some of it.

I think I ended up here shortly after seeing the Chicago episode of that Sonic Highways show the foo fighters did on HBO. Pretty sure that was the first time I ever heard of Steve/Electrical. Found youtube vids and podcast interviews, combed through the Electrical gear lists for ideas, if there was anything I could ever afford. Found some useful info in the tech room for some DIY mic projects.

Anyway, I'm here. One day I'd like to build a studio or something, but I'm out of work right now so that's on hold...I mean, it was on hold when I was working too. Life is dumb that way.

thecr4ne wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:01 pm Hi, I'm Chris, I live in southern CA. I've been interested in recording music since I had a punk band in high school. Never really pursued it but have been collecting gear I can afford in varying states of disrepair and fixing it up...maybe one day I'll use some of it.

I think I ended up here shortly after seeing the Chicago episode of that Sonic Highways show the foo fighters did on HBO. Pretty sure that was the first time I ever heard of Steve/Electrical. Found youtube vids and podcast interviews, combed through the Electrical gear lists for ideas, if there was anything I could ever afford. Found some useful info in the tech room for some DIY mic projects.

Anyway, I'm here. One day I'd like to build a studio or something, but I'm out of work right now so that's on hold...I mean, it was on hold when I was working too. Life is dumb that way.

Welcome Chris! We get here however we get here. Most of us are here because we’re trying to keep some spark of an idea from going out, so you’re in the right place.

Dave N. wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:21 pm
Welcome Chris! We get here however we get here. Most of us are here because we’re trying to keep some spark of an idea from going out, so you’re in the right place.

thanks. kinda needed that.

Hey there. I'm Aaron, originally from Pittsburgh, now living in Austin. If I ever get $450 to spend on a vanity license plate, it'll read YINZALL.

I make music in my room but not publicly. I used to make a living writing about it, which I'm glad I don't do anymore. The thing I'm most proud of having done during that time is liner notes for a Dazzling Killmen record.

I was on the old PRF and wasn't super-active but always came around for a shot of energy. I got here because I've been a fan of FM steve's work forever and also used to be on the old Chugchanga-L listserv he haunted alongside a few others who are still cruising the PRF, and those are interesting voices that I'll always pay attention to wherever they turn up. Anyway, I'm glad this thing is back.

Life outside of this place is mostly about a mortgage and a day job and three growing kids, and I can probably count on one hand the number of friends I still have who are as deeply, weirdly, and maniacally into the stuff I am as the people of the PRF seem to be. So I come back here a few times a day, just to imagine what it's like to still have a peer group locally.

I haven't done much posting on the new PRF because life keeps getting in the way, but I'll try to type up some things whenever the mood strikes me. The best thing I ever posted on the old PRF was an armchair-psychologist reading of Metallica, whom I haven't actively listened to in almost 30 years.

Nice to meet y'all. I mean yinz all.