Wott
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Why do you come onto this forum?
On the RRR related site, the question is raised about what forum posters get out of their time on here.
For me, it's easy. If it hadn't been for the DP forum I would not know that:
(a) Ozzie had left Black Sabbath
(b) Dio had joined Black Sabbath
(c) Gillan had also sung in Black Sabbath and had a solo career between DP.
(d) That DP had not ended after Coverdale/Hughes left
(e) There were other singers in Rainbow after Dio, none of which I'd heard of before.
(e) I liked some DP songs - mainly from the later years.
(f) Ritchie and Candi have had a new baba.
(g) Ritchie had a son called Jurgen
Thanks to Blackmore's Night for re-awakening my very long lost interest in Blackers - long left abandoned any interest in him in the 70s. It was an idle google search, one lazy evening, when I found out that Blackers was in BN, a band I'd never even heard of. This is what eventually led me to this site.
Since I've been on here, it's been a massive learning experience for me and encouraged me to search and out listen and enjoy new music I wouldn't have considered listening to if I hadn't found out about it on here.
It's also nice to interact with other DP fan posters on here - when they're nice, that is. That hasn't always been the case with me from a very few posters who can be quite hostile and nasty. But you tend to get that kind of thing on all forums.
I can certainly see that the die hard long standing fans would get less out of being on here, but not necessarily...
So what about you?
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12/8/2010, 10:21
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
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12/8/2010, 10:22
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
quote: Wott wrote:
So what about you?
I visit this forum to read what you have to say.
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12/8/2010, 10:24
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
quote: TheStargazerKing wrote:
quote: Wott wrote:
So what about you?
I visit this forum to read what you have to say.
If I had a swollen head, and a Blackers size ego, I'd believe you.
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12/8/2010, 10:29
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
I'm here because I'm a fan of Deep Purple's music from 1968 to 1993 and Rainbow's music, mainly Dio and Doogie era.
I'm not mainly here to increase my knowledge about the band's history, there are countless other sources to do that, and there have been some before Internet Age. I've been a DP fan since 1985.
I'm here to find out what other Deep Purple fans have to say about the band's past and present, and naturally to have my own say about these things as well.
And I'm here because I appreciate the board staff's policy. There are DP boards existing on which free speech is suppressed, i.e. you aren't allowed to express your opinion about certain things about DP's music when the administrators think that it's "too negative". I had experiences like that at one certain forum, and therefore I decided not to use that forum any longer. My understanding of a fan board is that it gives place for both positive and negative opinions, as I don't consider fandom being something which implies that you only have to praise your heroes and nothing else.
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
I come here for the cold food and warm beer.
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wazzamadda4u
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I come onto this forum because there are folks here who don't laugh at me when I tell them I'm 50 years old and still listen to Deep Purple.
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28/10/2010, 23:47
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
quote: wazzamadda4u wrote:
I'm 50 years old and still listen to Deep Purple.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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29/10/2010, 6:48
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
Just kidding
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29/10/2010, 6:48
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Re: Why do you come onto this forum?
quote: TheStargazerKing wrote:
Just kidding
No you're not. Really... hi,hi.
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