Please understand that I'm not picking on the younger members, I'm just passing my story. Back in the 90's I went from owning a Hofner acoustic since I was 20 to buying my first electric (Epiphone), and joining WN for the first time.

On the last year of the 90's I chose to get a divorce and I happened to be living in the state of Albama. To shorten a story, in Alabama when you divorce a lady that hadn't had a job for 20'some years, she own you as a slave. As a result of the woman that I used to be married to thinking it was her right to enter anything with my name, I had to ignore WN along with anything else bearing my name.

As a result of that, I spent years visiting WN and just reading FretBuzz without loging in. Eventually I got to the point where I gave in to the thought of registering by using a different name.

The bad part of that, and the reason why I'm writting this, is the recognition of all the names that I've known since the 90's. Some of which have been guys and gals that I've shared a topic with and made comments on. Some of them now have comment numbers in the thousands compared to the few hundreds that I came close to.

I just wanted to tell all you old guys and gals that you have been appreciated for a long time, and that even someone joined recently is aware of the great part you have had inside of WholeNote. :-)

Henry