I have moved house, got really sick (bad flu, not Covid), had to change internet provider and lost my old email address, hurt my back moving my piano (!) and to cap it all we had the kerfuffle about John Smies’s removal, which had absolutely nothing to do with me but several members assumed it was, which disappointed me how quickly some here are willing to jump to conclusions without even asking first. Would that have taken more than a couple of minutes?

To be quite honest, I got sick of it all. It’s astounding how the internet and lack of looking someone in the eye will make them say the nastiest things, then they get all bent out of shape when this is pointed out to them. Maybe we are all getting too old for this, I know I am!

Anyway, moved, recovered (although the back pain lingers!) ISP issues resolved, I am back, but I think at this point I’m going to only linger on the Roland sub-forum and restrict my contribution to simple technical help. There was a reason I left years ago and posted much happier on the now defunct Roland-arranger.com site, as that tended to avoid the toxic bickering about ‘mine’s better than yours’ that prevailed at the time, and now has devolved into ‘my President is better than yours’ and ‘my rights are more important than yours’ which I guess is the end game of switching off your cognitive faculties!

I tried my level best when I rejoined to get a discussion about simple MUSIC rather than button pushing arcana, it does seem that few here were up for it. For me, button pushing has become tedium, a distraction from music and musicianship, but it still seems a strong focus here. So, you want button pushing help on Roland’s, you’ll find me tuning in from time to time over there.

Take care….