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Post by peggs on Feb 16, 2015 21:29:11 GMT
While this forum family is small there are folks here whom I’ve not met and they in turn probably don’t know who I am or how I fit in to the XTC forum family tree - or don’t care - that’s ok. Looking at the membership list, there 14 names out of 67 that I’m familiar with. I’m offering this thread as a place for anyone to introduce themselves to new folks that might come along or veterans to re-acquaint themselves. ———————— I joined the Ideas forum in 2002 (I think) as peggy odin. What a lot of fun we had! In 2004 I had a dream come true and lived in London while attending graduate school and was privileged to meet several forum members on a number of occasions. That time in my life remains precious. Some years later I faded away from the first Backporch forum and then just never got around to joining the Ape forum before membership was restricted. It was by good fortune that I saw the posting about Andy closing the forum. An email to Ned eventually led me a stray here where I changed my name to peggs (keltik or Mr. Tein called me that years ago and I liked it). Anyway, it’s nice to be here again with a bunch of wonderful, witty, warm and welcoming people. Cheers edit to add: this is my 100th post. cool!
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Post by donavan on Feb 16, 2015 23:33:38 GMT
Well, I'm donavan. A massive XTC fan. But not a fan of the aftermath and what Andy is having for his lunch today. And XTC the band was my big thing. Even if Andy drove it, nothing to drive without the nuts and bolts. And they were so much more than that.
I'm also a massive fan of Manchester United FC.
Another forummer alienated.
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Post by Suzi on Feb 17, 2015 0:17:51 GMT
I'm Suzi .... That's not my name. It's really Ellen. You can address me as either; I don't mind. Something most people don't know .... I was the last person to sign up as a new member on the old IDEA forum; 5 months before it went off into oblivion. As soon as I did, Andy and Colin stopped answering questions and then (as mentioned) the forum died. If need be, you can address all hate mail at these two occurrences to me if you are still sore. I guess I was a jinx. I was my own party of one being an XTC fan at 16 years old when Drums & Wires was released. The only other fan I knew of was one of my high school English teachers. My girlfriends all liked Styx... so I did a good "pretend" job around them and I loath Styx to this day. I don't bite... I'm really quite friendly. I actually LOOK pretty similar to my avatar. Ask anyone here who knows what I look like. I think it's comical !!!
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Feb 17, 2015 1:31:07 GMT
My real name is Nick, but I feel Introvertigo most of the time. I started listening to XTC in college about fifteen years ago. Like Suzi, I got onto an XTC forum (in my case the APE forum) not long before the forum came to a halt, so I may be jinx, too. Also, I don't like Styx, either.
Unlike Suzi, I do not look like my avatar. I don't own any swords.
Odd fact about me: I survived a headfirst crash into the bottom of a swimming pool when I was sixteen. I suffered a broken neck and bruised spinal cord, and I had to wear a halo (if you've seen one then you will agree it is one the most misnamed objects in the world, shortly behind the sunshine unit, which was once used to measure nuclear fallout) for three months. I had to relearn moving my hands, walking, going to the bathroom, and everything else, but I nagged my doctors so much that they released me from the hospital about three weeks ahead of schedule because they were tired of dealing me. I guess the lesson is being an asshole pays off--it certainly works for Wall Street.
And a note to Donavan about Manchester United. At least you haven't alienated any of the American forumers--we don't like any soccer teams.
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Post by donavan on Feb 17, 2015 8:38:25 GMT
. But not a fan of the aftermath and what Andy is having for his lunch today. By the way, that was broccoli. Can't stand the stuff.
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Post by sticksman1 on Feb 17, 2015 10:38:50 GMT
My real name is Terry, TC to my long time friends. I have been a long time fan, especially the pre 83 eras of Barry & the new Dave, and I'm a big Terry Chambers fan though I also love Dave Mattacks' drumming on Nonsvch. I was a member of the old XTC forum, thanks to an old old friend of mine "am I plastic", in 2002. With the old XTC forum lifers Stickymoan, Trentbasin & Easter Theatre, I was part of Fuzzy Warblers in 2004 to 2008 - having done the Gathering of 2005 as the FWs and as the backing band to Martin Newell (with the strings assistance of Ali Holden), and with another XTC forum lifer ColinEd (who was previously with the excellent X-sTatiC) with Fossil Fools from 2010 to 2012. Don't like football, but I'm a big F1 fan, and I did work for McLaren between 2010 and 2014.
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Post by lostjockey on Feb 17, 2015 12:31:29 GMT
I'm Andy and I live near the McLaren place where sticks worked. I joined Idea in 2003 (I think) and was a very irregular contributor to old back porch and APE. I got into XTC when an old girlfriend (well she was young at the time) gave me a copy of English Settlement and the Sgt Rock single because she didn't like them (she wasn't my girlfriend for long).
I've met many Forummers at events in Swindon and London and they seem mostly harmless. I'm a bad keyboard player and a worse guitarist but I do record stuff. It used to be my own songs but mostly covers these days (currently Longfellow Serenade by Neil Diamond. No I don't know why either). And I once sold a multi-tracker to trentbasin but it blew up.
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Post by Suzi on Feb 17, 2015 12:50:10 GMT
Don't like football, but I'm a big F1 fan, and I did work for McLaren between 2010 and 2014. My Dad was a friend of Giles and Jacques Villeneuve. He followed F1 but knew them because they were also World Class Snowmobile racers. He used to go to races around Canada and the US to report for the radio station he worked for. Out there somewhere, someone took a picture of me, my Dad, Jacques and Giles and I'm holding on to a then 2 year old Jacques, Giles son... of which you know is also a F1 racer. I had been entertaining the little tot; there with his mother ... while my Dad interviewed Giles and Jacques...... I just happened to be watching with my Dad when Giles crashed and died.... I thought my Dad was going to fall to pieces. So sad. Carry on folks....
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Post by sticksman1 on Feb 17, 2015 13:19:24 GMT
OMG! That is so sad!
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Post by peggs on Feb 18, 2015 1:11:52 GMT
It's interesting to see how our lives, which are separated by so much more than miles, can be brought together by such small things.
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 18, 2015 10:28:29 GMT
My real name is martin - but nobody calls me that. At Junior school my nick=name was Bowie, at Secondary school and to this day my friends know me as Blogs, on line I am Mr Tein
I joined idea in about 2003 as Blogs. I then reinvented myself as Mr Tein. I had planned to run about 4 or 5 forum identities then tuen up at the gathering to reveal I was all of them/ Buy Youie, the first forumer I met, talked me out of it.
I think forumers I haven't met are in a minority - and the ones I have met have all been great people.
I have a cat , a hamster and fish. A wife and 2 daughters. Not only do I support Southampton Fc. I have paid to go see them via the turnstiles at least 1200 times.
I can strum a guitar.
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Post by lostjockey on Feb 18, 2015 11:58:23 GMT
Youie was also the first Forumer I met, where is he now?
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 18, 2015 15:06:53 GMT
New Zealand I think,
Forumers I met first were
1, Youie 2. Polar Bear 3. Dixidoo
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Post by cicadashell on Feb 19, 2015 21:15:31 GMT
my name is available upon request. for about as long as i can remember i liked music. by around 1976 i knew that i wanted to play tenor saxophone like some amalgam of john coltrane, dexter gordon, archie shepp and wardell gray. that's actually all you need to know about me, but it seems like i should say also something about xtc. jazz gigs were limited in the 1970s (not so different from today, i guess) and so i got involved in other kinds of groups and played lots of clubs and was exposed to a lot of music. one of my closest musical allies in those days liked xtc, along with about a thousand other things, and we listened to the earlier records while tooling around the midwest. i remember liking "optimism's flames" especially.
then many years passed, during which i stopped playing popular music and went to college where i studied civil engineering, went to work in water pollution control, started a family all while trying to fit jazz in where i could. by some minor miracle i became aware of "apple venus part 1", remembered liking xtc "back in the day" (which was not an expression we actually used back in the day), and was very taken by it. a deep dive into the back catalog of xtc followed soon after. then i encountered the idea forum and that was a pretty good fit for me at the time. such things being as they are, the fit was no longer so good at a certain point and i started spending more time riding bicycles and less time online. i had been away for a while when the ape forum was brought to my attention. it was interesting and fun to talk with some of the old crowd, along with some new folks.
i poked my nose back into ape after another hiatus, around the time the plug was about to be pulled. that led me here, which leads to now. the kids are grown and out of the house (although still close), so i have more time to work on music again (although not using it optimally). i hope to meet some of you someday!
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Post by peggs on Feb 23, 2015 4:17:03 GMT
But not a fan of the aftermath and what Andy is having for his lunch today. I agree with you on that. TMI is just too much.
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