The meat and potatoes of what put HR.Com on the map...made it "sellable"...was the dragon cave...For those of us who know...it was an amazing place and space in time...The original owner hated it because it was where 90% of the traffic was...and really had nothing to do with home recording....It was a rock n roller , musician, hobby recordist cyber watering hole in a time when there was no such thing...
There were so many epic threads on a ton of topics from politics , religion to what singer was the best etc..we even had a guy hint he was going to commit suicide and it was awesome see the community take action and make sure he didn't..
Crazy visitors that got schooled...just a trip...but as time went on it got to be a pretty shitty place with a lot of junior high back biting BS and the new owners and mods decided it must be closed....I hated that it went that way...but they took it one step further and deleted 10+ years of incredible banter.... I know a lot of people here are fine with that...I'm not and many other weren't and left never to return...our loss... It's a different time but peeps like you would have fit in just fine and your post are in line with the kind of stuff that would pop up there...Some of these nuts were just incredibly funny and clever...real fun entertainment...Oh well that was then, this is now and things have changed, Names and faces, games and places rearranged.....
It's official.. I'm an HR peepThe meat and potatoes of what put HR.Com on the map...made it "sellable"...was the dragon cave...For those of us who know...it was an amazing place and space in time...The original owner hated it because it was where 90% of the traffic was...and really had nothing to do with home recording....It was a rock n roller , musician, hobby recordist cyber watering hole in a time when there was no such thing...
There were so many epic threads on a ton of topics from politics , religion to what singer was the best etc..we even had a guy hint he was going to commit suicide and it was awesome see the community take action and make sure he didn't..
Crazy visitors that got schooled...just a trip...but as time went on it got to be a pretty shitty place with a lot of junior high back biting BS and the new owners and mods decided it must be closed....I hated that it went that way...but they took it one step further and deleted 10+ years of incredible banter.... I know a lot of people here are fine with that...I'm not and many other weren't and left never to return...our loss... It's a different time but peeps like you would have fit in just fine and your post are in line with the kind of stuff that would pop up there...Some of these nuts were just incredibly funny and clever...real fun entertainment...Oh well that was then, this is now and things have changed, Names and faces, games and places rearranged.....
Spent another couple hours in the 'Don't Fear The Reaper' basement today and picked up a couple tips from back in 2007. One poster, 'pipeline', must not have slept at all because they were going above and beyond to assist new Reaper users. Writing templates and add-ons to help solve problems.
That must have been before my time. But, it sounds like the kind of place I'd have been banned from within a few weeks.
Pipeline is one awesome dude! He was very involved in the opensource Reaper team and communicated was / friends with Justin Frankel the swizzlestick genius who created winamp and Reaper... Aarron ( Pipeline ) is just a cool cat who loves music and recording...incredibly helpful kind of guy....Bad BMX rider too ..He lives in Hawaii now working at a music recording school... Here's a link to his website pipelineaudio.net
Generally back in the day you had to be a genuine ass hat dumb ass to get yourself banned...but it did happen just very rarely ..It was a biker bar...enter at your own risk...later on they made Jenny's place for the fainter of heart...That was changed to Prime Time in the evolution of things
On about 3 occasions over the previous 10 years, I've gone through all the threads that happened while I've been at HR. It's really quite illuminating
On the subject of the cave, on the way to France in 2010, I wrote a song called "In the cave" about the cave. I hadn't looked at the lyric in about 8 years and I had to laugh. It was kind of corny !
Harvey Gerst always had such a sensible perspective. I wonder what has happened to him. The last posts I saw anywhere was about 4 years ago. His Indian Trails Studio website is down. Facebook page hasn't seen action since 2015.
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Just kidding. Yeah, it used to be different. I'm glad it's still here.
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