hi from daren
 

hi- I was banned from here last year
and respectfully never returned - also
I apologize for any trouble the link on our
site may have engendered . We sent out
an email to tell fans to chill out -- I am
here only as a music fan - hope that is cool

Hi Mr. Oedipus Next :-) Thank you for not being mad at me!!!
NN

I PM'd you w/ details too!! Looking forward to July and Don Hills.

See you in the threads!

Why were you banned?

I guess I never realized that band members
can't post songs, lyrics here...one day I tried to
log on and I got the banned message--for that I am sorry
-- still I liked this forum and thought there might
be good stuff here so I came back -- but
I won't put up any band's material anymore - I promise

Could never ever be mad at you - you're too good of
a person -- besides all the bs here is really all my fault
I just want to move on and away from all the small stuff in life--
too much going on this year to get bogged down in silliness

Got you PM too -- tyvm

Thank you. Thank you!!! :-) Now I am just worried about your reading the review; you need to understand that originally all the posts were in separate threads; just that with all the confusion I asked the moderators to help me and they 'consolidated' everything into one thread. Actually, I must say that as upset as I was, the moderators were wonderful in explaining to me 'the lay of the land' here; and that is why I choose to stay and was hoping you would come too and 'smooth out everything'. They are really nice once you get to know them.

if you did get banned you certainly aren't now (account was daren/MRI right?). and it was nothing personal; most of our contributing members don't even promote their stuff. we try to keep the forums promotion free so that we can partake in active discussion

looking forward to seeing you post in the forums

Maybe I should clarify why you were banned.

Nobody is saying you can't post songs or lyrics, IF you contribute to the place.

Once you reached your 15 posts with token discussion about other bands virtually all of your posts contained links to your songs , as well as that you were going around in other threads like people's introduction threads and threads that had nothing to do with your band and posting links in those.

THAT is a big no-no and THAT was why you were banned.

I hope that clarifies the issue.

No need 2 explain. I was in the wrong. I don't wish to use
my old account as it had my band's name too so I think it's better
I get rid of old appelation as part of my promise not to pepper the forum
with MRI.

The only thing I simply want to say about the matter is that
we don't have a big corporate label behnd us and do everything ourselves--
the web is the way we have reached many fans and I belong to dozens of web forums.

Thing is, I don't like most of the others--
MB was one of the exceptions where I thought real
interesting valid discussions were going on. I see that this is a big
UK/European community so maybe thats why
it's way cooler here... I may be from the USA but
I think I may have more a world perspective on things as I find many Americans limited in the way they think and feel-- and/or get all their
education from television and the media...which is sad

This forum is much more US-centric and the Brits and Europeans are far out numbered, however the forum as a whole is very progressive and open minded and for that I am grateful.

Clear as crystal - Like I said in post above -- I was in the wrong.
I am here as a fan and normal Joe like us all. I am very glad to
see that you were able to work out a thread with Nina as she
explained to me & I understand it. Consolidated is great idea. Thanks for that- when I have more time I will read that thread more to make sense of it Lol
--but for now I'd rather explore other parts of the forum and keep a lower profile until you learn more about me. I also dig the sense of humor here--
I look forward to reading and laughing more. I had to remind Nina that 'it's just a bunch of dudes having a laugh'

I did not know that. I was married to a French girl so I had a lot more European friends at one time & I got used to cool company. I live in Florida now which is cool in terms of my property but the people down here suck for the most part. Bunch of illiterate racists rednecks really.. I loved flaunting my Obama stickers last November and was excited as hell that Florida went blue
(even though the economic situation here now is so completely disasterous is scary...I feel so bad that the O-man has such an enormous project in trying to fix a broken country)

As to your saying that there are open minded folks here-- I concur.
Why I came back. Thanks!

I am so glad you are here now and explaining this and you don't find it upsetting!! :-) Thanks! I hope we all can be friends now too. I did feel like a 'dumb blond' at some points Ha Ha. I will PM you as well with some of the Moderator's work as I know you were asking about them. Also no rush on reading 'my review' Ha Ha. At least you don't have to read the interviews. :-)

If Alan or Dan joins here have them PM me before posting anything in here ok?

I want to make sure they understand the rules first.

-NN