What Was 'The Pleasure Dome' Like?

[Cathedral]

Re: Re: What Was 'The Pleasure Dome' Like?

Originally posted by azcrdnal
it was alot like the links a sam love fest and some tool named fernando.

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[Cathedral]

Damn, I found a shit load of pages from my first days at that site.

Thank God for the Roth Army because i was pretty fucking lame tip toeing around that place pretending to be all sweet and innocent.

And i'm still proud as the dickens cider that i walked from that place before it was shut down.

As a matter of fact, i remember someone giving me shit because my personality was different between this site and that one.
I was like what the fuck? If i posted as myself at the Pasture Dump i'd have been banned in less than an hour, lmmfao.

As lame as that place was, I can't discount the fact that i made many cyber friends there and most i still contact today.

[Panamark]

As a posting environment, It was very similar to the Links.
(No Offence intended Brenty Brents)
Rules and guidelines, with people enforcing these.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Nah, I don't know if I agree with that mate....

At least at the Links, even though the arguments weigh decidedly pro-Hagar, which eventually resulted in the exodus to the Army for most of us oldtimers, Brett and his compadres don't/didn't attempt to act like some Catholic school nun with a steel ruler to your hand....

Starks and those mods at the Dump attempted to enforce their guidelines by treating it's patrons like children, and that's why it sucked from day one....

[ThrillsNSpills]

Here's what sucked about the Dome.
The fans that just wanted to know what the hell the band was up to...........interested people who wanted to buy the next album (with Dave) maybe catch a show couldn't go on there and ask a question and get an answer that wasn't just cryptic bullshit. No news is good news read like fuck you for asking. With that kind of enviornment of course there would be bashing, which of course wasn't tolerated. How does being lied to by the band not drive fans away?

[Cathedral]

Jays Spokesperson was the coolest of the mods, You'd know her here as Sweet Irony.
SoCalChelle dished me out some Karma points for being myself, lol.

It was tough getting on at that site for me, but at the time i was a strict Ed-Head and pretty much worshipped the ground he jammed on.

Then the cryptic shit happened, Brad even promised the mods something for their trouble when the place went belly up...But that never happened, did it?

The only draw that kept traffic at that site was the fact that it was the Official site.
Beyond that, it was a dictatorship, webstyle.

I guess you could say that finding that site was the downfall of my respect and love for Edward.

The man is a total dickhead when it comes to those who allowed him his lavish lifestyle.
Hey Ed, if not for the fans support you'd have been stuck in the pay to play scene of the era...do they still do that out there?

Dave was Edwards ticket to stardome, it must suck for him to know he owes a majority of his success to Dave, lmmfao.

I'll tell you one thing though, I wouldn't hesitate busting Ed in the mouth if he ever talked down to me in person.

[Cathedral]

The only thing worse than a loser is a rich loser...sup, Eddie!

[Brett]

Originally posted by Panamark
As a posting environment, It was very similar to the Links.
(No Offence intended Brenty Brents)
Rules and guidelines, with people enforcing these.

It had to be similiar, because it supported both sides, plus we were there first, we had built the wheel already for them in some way. But we didn't have shit like karma points, my god that was beyond pathetic. And Brad would delete ANYTHING remotely negative about the band, and come on, we've never done anything like that. I only started having to have so-called "rules" once the fucking PD went away, and people had nowhere else to fucking argue about the stupid Sam/Dave shit and were ruining the fucking site, and wasting my time.

When the PD existed, along with the Army, was the time I loved running my site. I didn't have to deal with all of the official's site's BS and arguments, and useless posts, and stupidity. Once it closed, it all started to shift back to my site. Great to have the traffic again, but content-wise, it was a pain.

Brad used to be the great villian, now it's me I guess. Lou's still a hypocritical pussy though.

[street_lethal]

It was like this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405224140/www.van-halen.com/cgi-bin/bradman/mb/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

You can actually still read some of the threads.

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Va Beach VH Fan
Nah, I don't know if I agree with that mate....

At least at the Links, even though the arguments weigh decidedly pro-Hagar, which eventually resulted in the exodus to the Army for most of us oldtimers, Brett and his compadres don't/didn't attempt to act like some Catholic school nun with a steel ruler to your hand....

Starks and those mods at the Dump attempted to enforce their guidelines by treating it's patrons like children, and that's why it sucked from day one....

Amen.

CHELLE was the biggest cunt in the world from what I heard... She still is, actually. Stupid nun bitch.

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Brett
Lou's still a hypocritical pussy though.

LOL. Yup. He sure is.