How many members?

[Duncan Muller (muller1007)]

Does anyone have any idea how many members this club has today? I couldn't find a listing anywhere on the club's site.
 
Duncan

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

Hoi Duncan,
 
please visit in this department a 10 storage lower:  
http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/3489.html?1046808545
It's all there I guess.
 
Paul

[Valentino Villevieille (valvil)]

Paul,
 
there's now more of us, from that last update; somebody seems to be joining almost every day.  
 
Current member count stands at 410.
 
Valentino

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

Well-well,
and how does that feel being the moder of that bunch?
Don't you start talking with a strange chewing mouth, a litlle raw  
why didn't you come to me in the first place?
Hm ... ooops you were italian?
 

[Valentino Villevieille (valvil)]

Well brother Paul,
 
being a moder, as you like to put it, to you all is pretty much a breeze. It is nice to see a forum where people can be very opinionated ( as one should  be when thinking about one's own sound & playing preferences) and yet very tolerant of and interested in different viewpoints.
I've seen plenty of other forums where a moderator has a about as tough a time calming down tempers as a policeman does when trying to settle a domestic dispute.
My brother is an avid fly-fisher, and I was somewhat astonished and bemused when he showed me the tone of the messages on a fly-fishing forum that he checks out on a semiregular basis ; folks insulting each other (and their poor mothers too as often as not) because one prefers one type of bait or fish to another or one type of casting technique over another. It was hysterical, like some crazed Woody Allen movie .
 
Yessss, Paul, I'm Italian & from the south too...lol...so be very, very careful...
 
Valentino

[Roger Smith (rogertvr)]

Absolutely spot-on Valentino.  This is the friendliest forum I have ever used.  When I first got back into keyboards about 18 months ago I was using a newsgroup (that shall remain nameless) for help with questions. The very first question I asked, someone set me alight because I didn't know the answer to the question I asked. Isn't that the whole point of a forum?  
 
It's great in here, I really love it but it gets addictive!!  Not that that is a problem!!
 
Edited for crap spelling!!!!!!!!
 
(Message edited by rogertvr on March 14, 2003)

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

Moder Valentino,
 
I think we touch one of the essentials of bass-playing here: being tolerant. It's so inherent  at the instrument and what we do (are supposed to do). There were some interesting thoughts about it in another thread.  
You don't see bass-players becoming bandleaders very often I think. Bert Kampfert and James Last were I think from the older and more easy-listening side.
Beware: being a bandleader is something else as being a frontman as MK or SC.
 
Well, I Leave that. I'm not saying that a bass-player has no meaning and can stand for it, but for some reason we are very diplomatic (or convincing ...without the south-Italian arguments LOL)
 
So: you are still up at 5:30 in the morning (or already up) to work in this peaceful club?  
Good fishing
 
Paul
 
BTW: a good friend of mine is still repeating: Paul, you have to come fly-fishing with me. I think I'm gonna do that once too (apart visiting Alembic to dicuss my dream - did you read it? I changed already some parts. It's getting wilder to some points. I wonder what Mica will say when she'll have the time to look into it...HA)