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terryc
Senior Member
Username: terryc

Post Number: 1650
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 3:16 am:   Edit Post

Any club members on facebook..
billostech
Intermediate Member
Username: billostech

Post Number: 169
Registered: 1-2011
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 6:29 am:   Edit Post

Yep! I got teens to keep track of...lol
Why you ask?
terryc
Senior Member
Username: terryc

Post Number: 1651
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 10:55 am:   Edit Post

Just wondered if anyone want to talk music/alembics/amps etc on the site...bit easier than here as it is direct
serialnumber12
Senior Member
Username: serialnumber12

Post Number: 904
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 1:19 pm:   Edit Post

yep there's a few of us here on the book mine is under keavin barnes....friend me up!
charles_holmes
Intermediate Member
Username: charles_holmes

Post Number: 149
Registered: 3-2009
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 3:02 pm:   Edit Post

Chalie Holmes in my handle on facebook
friend me up too,
just reference Alembic Club so I can accept your request!
wishbass
Junior
Username: wishbass

Post Number: 28
Registered: 5-2011
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 4:19 pm:   Edit Post

Very new to Alembic,but glad to be here.Karl Stumpf,friend me.
oddmetersam
Intermediate Member
Username: oddmetersam

Post Number: 156
Registered: 7-2008
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 6:49 pm:   Edit Post

I'm on facebook (Samuel Sheats) and have encountered so many players and innovative luthiers -- magic resides in the minds and hands of many throughout this wonderful planet -- that they constitute 2/3 of my "friends".

But when I have a music-oriented question THIS is the only resource I'd even dream of accessing. You guys are the very best from top to bottom.

And the pictures on this site are also second to none!
5sicks
Junior
Username: 5sicks

Post Number: 22
Registered: 8-2010
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 8:08 pm:   Edit Post

Can you ever have enough "friends"? I think the moniker is inappropriate for people who you have never met or shared experience with. Other than a love for Alembic instruments and associated activities, knowledge and anecdotes, what makes us friends? My friends I can count on one hand with a finger left over. Granted, I am a self-proclaimed and quite happy hermit, so I'm no expert, but it seems the term "friend" has lost some significance in favor of cache'. Sites like Facebook make me nuts because I neither care or need to know every little detail of the days of people with whom I am, at best, peripherally involved with. OMG
wishbass
Junior
Username: wishbass

Post Number: 29
Registered: 5-2011
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 9:05 pm:   Edit Post

Interesting.You took the time to comment.All I can say is life is what you make it.You get what you give.You know the cliches.But they are all true (that's why they've been around so long,).In some regard you are right.Maybe they should call it Associates instead.That being said,you could never get to know anyone on Facebook from the info they have posted.Its controlled and manipulated.A persons character is defined by actions,not words (sorry, another cliche).However,I don't think you can have to many friends(of course that depends on how narrowly you define friend).How you catagorize them is a personal matter,and honestly not subject to anyone elses judgement.Just a thought.....no ill will or soap box intended.=)
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1007
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 10:45 pm:   Edit Post

I have to say that Facebook and the internet in general has created friendships for me. There are people now with whom I have ongoing conversations and have developed great relationships. I know that some of them I will never meet in real life, but in every case in which I have met them, it's been great. It's not that far off from people I've met here or elsewhere online. I know some of these people will be friends for the rest of my life and if I arrived destitute on their doorstep, they'd take me in and I'd do the same for them. When you travel as a musician there are tons of opportunities to meet a lot of people and having facebook allows that community to keep in touch and get together as we criss-cross the country. I guess it might be different for people who don't travel or gig much. So, I'm out there on facebook, send a request!
mike13
Intermediate Member
Username: mike13

Post Number: 103
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - 6:22 am:   Edit Post

On facebook Mike McCall
terryc
Senior Member
Username: terryc

Post Number: 1652
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 5:44 am:   Edit Post

Cheers guys...Terry Capewell is the name if anyone else wants to hook up.
deburgh
Member
Username: deburgh

Post Number: 71
Registered: 3-2007
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 8:26 am:   Edit Post

On facebook also, Todd Hauck
speicky
Senior Member
Username: speicky

Post Number: 436
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 2:17 pm:   Edit Post

me too, Christian Spiecker...

I am wasting far too much time in these social networks... but hey, isn't this some kind of SN, too ? My love for Alembics led me over the pond for three times now, and I've met wonderful folks in Dallas, Fort Worth and Chicago... so far, LOL ! Life's a wonderful journey, keep your eyes and your mind open !

low notes forever, Christian
speicky
Senior Member
Username: speicky

Post Number: 437
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 2:56 pm:   Edit Post

eeh, ummm, and some high notes, too :-)
afrobeat_fool
Advanced Member
Username: afrobeat_fool

Post Number: 356
Registered: 7-2009
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 6:30 pm:   Edit Post

Just posted some vid of my band with #405 there. The quality is not that great, but I like facebook. It allows me to share with family and friends.Anyone from the club is welcome on my page!

Nick Miesle
crobbins
Senior Member
Username: crobbins

Post Number: 896
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 7:21 pm:   Edit Post

I'm on facebook as well. Craig Robbins
crobbins
Senior Member
Username: crobbins

Post Number: 897
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 7:27 pm:   Edit Post

If you search Alembic on facebook this is what comes up.

I copyed the link and it took me to my page. Wtf?

(Message edited by CRobbins on August 04, 2011)
elwoodblue
Senior Member
Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 1273
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 9:02 pm:   Edit Post

I'm trying to get off Facebook ; )
oddmetersam
Intermediate Member
Username: oddmetersam

Post Number: 157
Registered: 7-2008
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 9:50 pm:   Edit Post

My list of friends includes some I only know through facebook. I am aware of all the arguments against FB and have no rebuttal except this: Thanks to my love of aviation history, I have an Italian friend who shares the most incredible and rare shots of WWII Italian warplanes and pilots (all with Italian captions I can't understand, mind you) that are simply a joy. And thanks to him I have a new-found appreciation of Holocaust Day and the particulars of humanity at its worst, followed by its best.

At the other end of the spectrum, I've gotten more personal communications from fellow Alembic fans via FB than even from our forum. My point is that you can control your degree of immersion and participation in FB by your privacy and other settings. It is what you make of it.

If you subscribe to the belief that art in general and music in particular will point the way to Mankind overcoming our shortcomings, then FB is just another conduit to that end.

I'm finished. Soapbox air is too rarified to remain lucid for long. And my Alembic bass is telling me to "shut up and play!"
bigredbass
Senior Member
Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 1747
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 10:50 pm:   Edit Post

Ahh, but the REAL question: Any Club Members in F A R M V I L L E ? ? ?

J o e y
elwoodblue
Senior Member
Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 1274
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 04, 2011 - 11:33 pm:   Edit Post

hehe... LOL
terryc
Senior Member
Username: terryc

Post Number: 1653
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Friday, August 05, 2011 - 3:36 am:   Edit Post

Building up a collection on my profile, FB can be misused by the minority AND it is always the minority that spoils it for the majority.
FB allows me to talk with my daughter who lives in Dubai and I have also contacted some long lost colleagues from my college years so in my opinion it is a great place but I repeat..as long as it isn't used for any political, religious, racial or slanderous rantings it is fine by me.
Maybe we should start an Alembic group on FB???
jazzyvee
Senior Member
Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 2544
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, August 05, 2011 - 7:03 am:   Edit Post

Although I don't mind connecting with members here on my facebook page, I feel that this Alembic forum is a better place for the resource of alembic knowledge to be centred rather than have it less focussed and spread all over a general social networking site like facebook.

I can see that facebook may be a better place for some of the more highly charged/emotive topics that raise personality clashes and don't always have much to do with Alembic instruments that come on here now and again as there would be no involvement from moderators. Members who wished to express themselves in a stronger or less censored manner could do so without raising the temperature of the forum with heated exchanges. Maybe opening a thread here with a link to the facebook thread would work well for those situations.

One of the other things I prefer about using this forum is that I can choose to get involved with the information on the threads. Facebook would push all the subsequent responses to something I may only have comment on once to my wall if I respond to a thread. And.. since my wall is readable by my friends they would also end up with stuff that is of no interest to them.

Maybe I can find out how to stop that in the settings but i don't find their security system very user friendly.



Jazzyvee
hieronymous
Senior Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 948
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Friday, August 05, 2011 - 11:17 am:   Edit Post

I have to agree with Jazzyvee - this is a better place for public discussion, partly because the information is available to anyone, not only those registered with facebook. But for private conversations facebook is easy (though maybe private email exchanges is safest?)

But feel free to friend me - search for "gyokyo" - made my Stanley sig as my profile pic to make me easier to find!

Oh, and don't forget to check out the SoundCloud thread - that's another fun place online where we can share recordings - I've got an Alembic Players group set up too.
elwoodblue
Senior Member
Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 1275
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, August 05, 2011 - 11:45 am:   Edit Post

I like soundcloud because you don't have to give up your rights to media posted.

Unlike FB where they have rights to pics, etc. posted there...and their data-mining probably permeates private messages and anything else they can gleen from our participation.

I have enjoyed finding old friends and family that I wouldn't have otherwise...but the constantly changing privacy policies are a hassle and more and more it just seems like they want to be a Big Brother with no concern for it's little bro's welfare.
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1014
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, August 05, 2011 - 1:22 pm:   Edit Post

Nice to see some of you on facebook. I should warn you, though, I tend to write political rants! It's one of the things I love about being here, it's free of that kind of thing and is a different kind of community. I like being able to have places that are devoted to different things that require different types of etiquette. I have no desire to try to act and look the same way in every part of my life. The only common denominator is respect for people's integrity. I welcome other people's points of view and can't stand ad hominem attacks. FB can get extreme and I have recently defriended someone because he went on a binge of insulting my friends through a thread I started. Not cool. I don't like to have to be a moderator on my own FB wall with people I've known for more than 20 years.

I love the atmosphere here, where we are guests of the Wickershams and I try to treat every place I go on the net with a similar perspective. I don't mind disagreement and sometimes a rowdy time going there, and it's great when people can do that without crossing the line of attacking each other personally. I also really love places like this where we have a common interest and it's important to be very circumspect when veering outside of that interest.
hieronymous
Senior Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 951
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Monday, August 08, 2011 - 12:07 pm:   Edit Post

I think we've been slowly adding each other. One thing that's nice about facebook is that you can create "pages" and "groups" for your musical projects. Not sure which is better, I have one of both and just post in both. Feel free to join or "like" them:

hieronymous page

hieronymous group

The addresses in facebook can be confusing - if you start on your own profile page and then go to a group then your profile address is stuck in there. Hopefully my links will work!
jazzboy621
New
Username: jazzboy621

Post Number: 1
Registered: 7-2011
Posted on Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 5:49 pm:   Edit Post

Im on FB. Pat Jeudy.
Check out my Elan !!!
jazzboy621
New
Username: jazzboy621

Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2011
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 6:01 pm:   Edit Post

Having an issue uploading my photo!!!!
jazzboy621
New
Username: jazzboy621

Post Number: 3
Registered: 7-2011
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 6:03 pm:   Edit Post

Having an issue posting my photo!!!!
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin

Post Number: 1023
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 8:23 pm:   Edit Post

Nice to see all you folks on FB!

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