What happened to GT Forum peeps?

DLM

@Fretwired Only very vaguely from back in the day, but you've often brought his nick up in threads like this. You met him once, right?

TTony

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funkyfraz said:

Is foster still kicking about? 

I requested my account to be deleted about 2 years ago, wasn't in a good place and the forum wasn't really helping

Anyway, times have changed and I thought I'd rejoin! Only this time using Gonzo as an avatar, Rowlf has been retired 

Hopefully, Foster - who became xFoster and then re-joined us as Foster again - will shortly re-appear as Foster.  (I've deleted the new Foster, and renamed the old xFoster back to Foster).

@Foster ...

cruxiform

Would love to see Foster come back..in his Iron Maiden T-Shirt naturally.

Col_Decker

Nevermind all that, I want to know what happened to Foster and the Half Pints? 

fretmeister

Fretwired said:

Who remembers Sad Old Man?

I do! And Sheol. 

Foster

cruxiform said:

Would love to see Foster come back..in his Iron Maiden T-Shirt naturally.

I don't think i've worn a band t-shirt in 10 years! Actually I can't say I even listen to Iron Maiden anymore

Col_Decker said:

Nevermind all that, I want to know what happened to Foster and the Half Pints? 

After Uni (graduated in 2012 I think) nothing else was ever done to the band. No more recordings or the like - I can't even remember how to play most of the songs!

thomasross20

What are you doing now, @Foster ? What were you studying?

Fretwired

DLM said:

@Fretwired Only very vaguely from back in the day, but you've often brought his nick up in threads like this. You met him once, right?

@DLM I met sad Old Man in Old Stevenage with a few other forumites - WYNIR0 and Dennis and someone else. Sad Old Man spent £10k one month on gear - he was a wealthy company director whose kids had left home so he indulged in gear. Bought one week, sold the next. I bought a Strat and a Tweed Fender amp from him. He then got into bikes and bought a Harley and then he vanished.

Sad Old Man was a real character .. he could have started a shop with the gear he bought.

DLM

@Fretwired It wasn't him with the Gus guitars, was it?

fretmeister

DLM said:

@Fretwired It wasn't him with the Gus guitars, was it?

That was Sheol.

Fretwired

DLM said:

@Fretwired It wasn't him with the Gus guitars, was it?

No he was strictly old school - Fender, Gibson, Martin etc although he did buy a £3K PRS ... :-)

Foster

thomasross20 said:

What are you doing now, @Foster ? What were you studying?

I studied Creative Music Technology - really enjoyed it and bagged a 2:1(hons)

Now i'm living in a nice rented house with my devil cat, working as a Senior Job Coordinator at a Soil Testing laboratory

thomasross20

Nice one!

Paul_C

found another Paulo cartoon earlier . . .

bingefeller

Paul_C said:

found another Paulo cartoon earlier . . .

I remember the guy who got drawn in the picture, I forget his name, but he wasn't impressed at all.  

Bridgehouse

bingefeller said:

Paul_C said:

found another Paulo cartoon earlier . . .

I remember the guy who got drawn in the picture, I forget his name, but he wasn't impressed at all.  

Was he Scottish by any chance?

snakemanStoo

Bridgehouse said:

bingefeller said:

Paul_C said:

found another Paulo cartoon earlier . . .

I remember the guy who got drawn in the picture, I forget his name, but he wasn't impressed at all.  

Was he Scottish by any chance?

I think it as someone called Huey

DLM

@snakemanStoo "Is the correct answer" [/AngusDeayton]

@Paul_C That's exactly what I was skirting around posting in my above comment:
 http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1337978/#Comment_1337978
There's instructions for accessing another excellent Paulo cartoon of the same subject in that post, too....

Paul_C

DLM said:

@snakemanStoo "Is the correct answer" [/AngusDeayton]

@Paul_C That's exactly what I was skirting around posting in my above comment:
 http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1337978/#Comment_1337978
There's instructions for accessing another excellent Paulo cartoon of the same subject in that post, too....

I saw that and decided I couldn't be bothered to drop hints etc.

Nunogilberto

thomasross20 said:

I can hardly believe guitarfreek does magic professionally for a living now! I assume he still plays.. and in a band? With Huw?

I took the missus to the Harry Potter studio tour last October; we were watching TV the same night in the hotel room, and he pops up on some '100 greatest magic tricks' countdown on C5 or somewhere... The name jumped out at me first and when I listened to his accent (local to me) and looked at his face (before Googling some old pics of Ten Men Wide), it dawned on me that it was the same bloke...