Your History

[horty07]

I did a search for Dave and ended up on DLRND, I just commited it to memory and checked back every so often; and once the site was updated I was back on a regular basis.

[Cathedral]

Got my first pc in '98, never heard of a message board until I found Van Halen.com and browsed the message board thinking there would be a scoop there on VH.
Actually, I though message boards were the stupidest invention ever, lol.

Anyway, I registered as Drack at the Pasture Dump and just browsed for a little while until one day i created my first post, and nobody responded, lol.

I vanished for a while and then tried coming back one day only to find that my password didn't work, so i re-registered as Cathedral, posted again, added some graphics and people replied, lol.
I later re-registered as Dracko, and posted morbid shit to get a rise out of people...Anyone remember a dude posting caskets? that was me, lmmfao.

Then i drifted over to the Links, registered, but couldn't deal with all the Pro-Spammy crap and lost interest, and remained at the PD until it got to be a pain watching the Karma crap go on.

Just before i left there, Sweet Irony talked me into coming here, but i admit, it was a little intimidating so i approached with caution, lol.
I soon learned that it was my element and i could just be me, so i was hooked, still am.

Then VHFreak started ClassicVanHalen.com and i went there, he offered me a mod job and i took it.
Freak's site and the DLRarmy were my homes.

Then when the army went down Von Halen started his place and that became home away from home. until some shit went down and i felt very unwelcome there.

I signed up at Chelle's site and at this point I only visit here, Freak's, Von's and Chelle's.

It's been fun, made a lot of friends, made a few enemies, did some cybering and became fond of a couple of females, etc...

It's hard to believe that almost 5 years have past, and i'm still here.
But i'll tell ya, none of these sites would be shit if it weren't for the cool members that i have come to know, love, and respect.

It's you all that keeps me coming back, can't imagine finding any better company to waste time with while staying out of the bars at night drinking myself into a stuper, lmmfao.

Roth On!

[Susie Q]

Originally posted by Cathedral
Got my first pc in '98, never heard of a message board until I found Van Halen.com and browsed the message board thinking there would be a scoop there on VH.
Actually, I though message boards were the stupidest invention ever, lol.

Anyway, I registered as Drack at the Pasture Dump and just browsed for a little while until one day i created my first post, and nobody responded, lol.

I vanished for a while and then tried coming back one day only to find that my password didn't work, so i re-registered as Cathedral, posted again, added some graphics and people replied, lol.
I later re-registered as Dracko, and posted morbid shit to get a rise out of people...Anyone remember a dude posting caskets? that was me, lmmfao.

Then i drifted over to the Links, registered, but couldn't deal with all the Pro-Spammy crap and lost interest, and remained at the PD until it got to be a pain watching the Karma crap go on.

Just before i left there, Sweet Irony talked me into coming here, but i admit, it was a little intimidating so i approached with caution, lol.
I soon learned that it was my element and i could just be me, so i was hooked, still am.

Then VHFreak started ClassicVanHalen.com and i went there, he offered me a mod job and i took it.
Freak's site and the DLRarmy were my homes.

Then when the army went down Von Halen started his place and that became home away from home. until some shit went down and i felt very unwelcome there.

I signed up at Chelle's site and at this point I only visit here, Freak's, Von's and Chelle's.

It's been fun, made a lot of friends, made a few enemies, did some cybering and became fond of a couple of females, etc...

It's hard to believe that almost 5 years have past, and i'm still here.
But i'll tell ya, none of these sites would be shit if it weren't for the cool members that i have come to know, love, and respect.

It's you all that keeps me coming back, can't imagine finding any better company to waste time with while staying out of the bars at night drinking myself into a stuper, lmmfao.

Roth On!

Awwww Cat

~hugs~

What a nice post.

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by Sweet Irony
You know what? This is INTERESTING!

It is. Great idea for a thread.

Good to see you around SI...we met some moons ago.

[rustoffa]

A friend told me to check out the audio exerpt from "Crazy from the heat" on the old Slawterhouse sight awhile back.

I musta played that thing 20-something times over the course of some weeks.

Back then, I was getting my ass kicked on a daily basis on the fark and aintitcool chatrooms.....cloning on IRC was all the rage and bizarre Roman Polanski rants would piss motherfuckers off to no end. I would still occasionally listen to Dave talkin' about smokin' joints that big one day but had no clue what a message board entailed. A friend of mine that runs a fishing charter showed be this message board one night and was just ranting about these lying motherfuckers out of St. Augustine and showed me some of it, but I couldn't have given a fuck less and told him to buy a new Hatteras and get over it.

I guess I found the original Army site awhile later, just before it went down....all I did was send postcards to people from the picture section.....still no idea about message boards.

Before the DLR show at music midtown some years back, I noticed that the wall was the only thing on the army site, and someone posted something about the people at DDLR hosting some live clips or something.

I registered over there, got ripped apart by ELVIS, made fun of by Lesfunk, then posted a bunch of pictures of my wife in a lingerie photo shoot in one of the doctor's threads. The "cuntroversy" started and sammycalderone was a paragon of virtue while I was still getting my ass kicked. Flappospammo dropped repeated nuclear bombs on certain people...just fucking brutal.

I had never fucked around with Napster or downloaded any music at that point and just painstakingly figured out Mr. Walker and Cato's downloads. I can't say enough about these guys dedication and knowledge.

So time goes by and the Army comes back. I started posting over here and that's it.

[GAR]

I wonder if Cato even has a job?

[Rikk]

Once subscribed to the VH Mailing List around '96 after the whole reunion debacle occurred.

Joined the Links in early 2000. I enjoyed it there for many years, although I found myself slugging it out with the Ched Heads time and time again. But there were (and still are) many good people there, and I got along with Brett. I did, however, have a big falling-out with him a couple of years ago, maybe less. I can't remember. Basically, it was about a giant war I was having with one of the Ched Heads (and a previous poster at this site) who shall remain nameless but is a rather disgusting individual (and NO, it's not FAB). I left the Links after screaming at Brett...but I was never banned. And a year later, I started posting again and Brett warmly welcomed me back. But I just couldn't stay interested...not his fault at all. I just couldn't take the daily wrestling with Hagar fans. The big turning point for me was seeing a thread in Main titled "Fair Warning - Overrated". I knew I couldn't take it anymore and came here (although I registered for the new Army when it first opened). I've been posting here regularly for a while now, and I love it. Lots of old friends from the Links here, though I also pop by the Links time to time because there are a ton of great posters there still.

Oh, I also was a member of Chelle's site a few days ago...and I probably had the shortest tenure in forum history as the wise and loving Hagar-fan AIR. AIR was indeed brilliant, talking about how Roth is washed-up, FAIR WARNING is...snicker...over-rated and Sammy Hagar is more popular than Mick Jagger. I guess I was just getting some aggression out. I can't believe AIR was banned, because he and SPLOOGE were probably the two best posters in VH online history.

Love this place! Sure is addictive.

[DeadOrAlive]

SWEET IRONY! You're finally back!

[tjvhou812]

i would spray paint message's on the side of 95, and other vh fans would paint back, then i found this place

[Matt White]

Used to roam SLAWTERHOUE AND VHND for info. Found this place. Ain't leavin'.


DAVE OR THE GRAVE BABY!!!!

[Brett]

Wow FORD surprised I got a nice comment from ya. And you were not banned for hating the Lakers....nut. ROFL!

[Panamark]

Ive posted at

PD
Links
DDLR.com
Hitchworld

and of course the Army !!

I only post here these days.

Banned, all of the above, except DDLR.com and hitchworld.
Not necessarily as Panamark

[Rikk]

Who were you at the Links, Mark?

[Brett]

He'll never admit to it.

[Warham]

I got my first real computer on Sept. 9, 1997. That's the first day I was on the internet on my own account. Before that, I had used my parents AOL from time to time, but was never that hooked.

At first, I lurked over at Slawterhouse and the Lounge, and joined the Roth mailing list. Then in '98, I decided to start my own site dedicated to Classic Van Halen and Dave, brilliantly dubbed the 'Classic Van Halen-David Lee Roth Tribute'. I did that for about two years, and eventually got sick of running it, because I assumed Dave and VH would never get back together. Before that, I had joined the Links, my first message board, where I was one of the first posters, and their first moderator (which I forgot about, and Brett reminded me a few days ago).

Then after about a few weeks, I fuckin' disappeared from the online Van Halen community, online to lurk from time to time. Then about December of last year, the bug hit, and I started posting here. I like everybody here (well, except for one cunt that shall remain nameless), and perhaps I might start up another website someday, but there seems to be a deluge of them now. When I had mine, there was only a few, the Army, FORD's, Blair's DLRND, and Fisher's VHND.