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Anybody else going? Would love to catch up.

Hey Micha,

I thought a second about going since I just moved back to Hannover. But after seeing the Beach Boys in 2012 I said that's it for me, I've seen the real Beach Boys and I won't go to a Mike&Bruce or Brian&Al show, although I probably would think twice about it if Blondie is with them. But otherwise I'm not really interested anymore after seeing the real thing - but if any of the band reads this and wants to share a beer afterwards, I'm up for that, let me know. Hope you'll enjoy it, Micha! Let us know how it was.

Hey, if a band performs Beach Boys songs whithin 10 minutes walking distance from my home, I go - no matter how many actual Beach Boys are on stage, even if there aren't any at all.


Not on this board, no. Took a peek in a few threads and found: what made me leave and still makes me want to puke is still the essence of this board, an agenda that spoiled all the fun this board once provided for me. I can't stand this hate. Probably my last post on here unless, say, Brian performs in this town which is unlikely to happen.

I can't stand hate & the other extreme - sickening over-niceness & over-kindness. Jus' sayin'.
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Last post here?? Huh? I mean, hey, how are we gonna go on form here without your posts? You're not gonna go away and leave us all alone, are ya? Really? All because of someone's else's POV? C'mon boy, quit pukin' and start manin' up and start your very own agenda, dude. Yeah, that's it! You can do it! Man, you need a mantra, that's all. Well, I got one for y'all. Start by sayin' egg mcmuffin reeel slow, keep on sayin' it over and over and over and over.... :lol

I can understand that. Some people take this Beach Boys stuff far too serious. Anyway, have fun and enjoy the show tonight!

Kokomaoists = the snowflakes of BB fandom.

It looks like Micha wanted a reaction, so here is one:

You do NOT come back and post after 3 years' absence and proceed to trash the board and the people here in one fell swoop. The agenda in this case appears to be yours and yours alone in this thread, and it will fail as it has failed for the past 5+ years...the agenda being paint this forum and everyone here as "haters", "toxic" (that old chestnut...) and throw the word "hate" around because you disagree with some of the opinions posted. Ignorant, naturally, of the other 98% of the posts that are made and have been made in the three years since you last posted.

The board is still here. The same mods are still here. There are little or no dust-ups or disturbances where bans have to be issued as in the past due to member behavior. The numbers of members, readers, and posters/posts have both exceeded previous averages and stayed consistent since the public exit and subsequent trashing of this community by former members who perhaps thought a mass exodus would follow them to greener pastures, or maybe the thought was they were too important to lose.

Well, we're still here. And the numbers are the same or greater than they were when all that garbage happened back in 2016 or whenever it was. I can see where there would be some bitterness after realizing all attempts to destroy and trash this place have failed and continue to fail, but that's no excuse to come back in the guise of setting up a meet-up at a concert then proceeding to badmouth everyone here after the one reply you received wasn't what you wanted to hear.

So, yeah...it's not welcome. Take the failed attempts to wreck this place and the people here back where they belong and let them fester there.

Says the person who took a shot at us despite nobody saying anything bad to you at all.  There's the  puke-inducing "hate" right there. As I like to say, if someone wants to make the world a better place,  make it a better place by being a better person.

Just saying

I think that’s a ‘no’ then.

Micha's comments were an answer to my post, so there is certainly no 'agenda' there, just his opinion so that I (and everybody else who wondered) know that he won't share his thoughts here and why he won't. The reason he started the topic was to ask if anybody else was going to the show - an agenda to talk crap about this board certainly looks different. No one can deny that the board has gone through changes over the years; some members left, others joined, that's how it is. But there have also been a lot of heated debates - to say the least - that quickly got to a personal level. That's how the internet works unfortunately, we forget how to take criticism, instead we fall all over each other like wild animals (whch is also one of the main reasons of the big social divisions in our democracies right now, but that's another topic).

I suggest to close this thread and move on to talk about the Beach Boys.

What Micha said is available for all to see. Instead of being cool about the whole thing, he instead chose to trash this forum and all the people here by painting us and this place with the word "hate" because he doesn't like some of the opinions posted here. Micha also did this after being gone for 3 years, not posting or contributing anything, and above that did so in a thread about a concert meet up where no one had been disrespectful or "hateful" toward him. He only got one reply...

So the two mods saw it for what it is and called it out. What will stand is that this kind of nonsense is not welcome here, and nor will it be tolerated moving forward. As Billy said, the irony is how the only hate was coming from the guy complaining about the hate on this board.

Period.

Quod erat demonstrandum.


I suggest to close this thread and move on to talk about the Beach Boys.

Yeah, obviously nobody here went...closing

FYI Most people here were and are talking about the Beach Boys and will continue to do so. Too bad Micha didn't do the same.

Closed and good riddance.