When Bands Attack

[NAD]

Ever wonder if bands are ashamed of their fans? Case in point, I'm sure everyone knows about the theatrics of the Opeth forum here at UM. I was browing forums the other day and noticed that, by request of the band themselves, the Off-topic Bizarro Thing was removed from the Opeth forum and (dis)placed elsewhere. I used to frequent that nightmare, so I thought that was pretty funny.

I hope if I ever make it big I'm not ashamed of my fans.

 

[bloodfiredeath]

Just watch the Fans Rule (I believe that's what it's called) section on the Slayer dvd. Holy fuck... I can't believe that they put that shit on an official band release. The people they interview are soooooo stupid. I've showed it to several people and it's always a laugh riot.

 

[Weapon X]

I think what made that Off Topic Bizzaro thing even more bizzare was all the crying going on. "how could this happen""I feel like I don't have a home" etc etc :Smug: It's just a forum, go invade another forum, but not this one.

They now have a Seriously Off Topic forum so they're happy again. Their forum is always great for a laugh.

 

[JayKeeley]

What kind of lunacy have you witnessed at the Opeth forum?

Amon Amarth are a good example of a band that have publicly denounced some of their fans.

 

[NAD]

Goatse, and lots of it.

That and pretty much just weird, pointless threads. I still go in there some Friday afternoons when I have no work to do, just out of boredom. I used to post in there frequently until the "majority rule" political mentality took over.

By the way, if you do'nt know what that is, consider yourself lucky, and DON'T do a search on it. Awful, awful stuff.

 

[JayKeeley]

I used to drop by, but it was threads discussing the band's favourite colours, or how long their pubes were, that kept me at bay.

 

[NAD]

Opeth forum:
"OMG OMG GOM!!! GOMG!!! I can't glieave how g00d Opetha is!!!!!!"

Opeth Off-topic:
"OMSDGMOSMDS DGOSADLOLZOZLOALXOLZOFZLFALDSK"

My one fond memory is that somebody posted a thread about how to make a miniature replica of the Starship Enterprise using nothing but a 3.5" floppy disc... and I made one and it's still sitting on my desk at work. [/dork]

And here it is: http://chaz6.com/enterprise/ I never felt so extremely giddy and pathetic at the same time when mine was complete.

 

[SonOfNun]

Thats sad to hear about the Opeth forum. I haven't been here long enough to experience that first hand, but it sounds bad. Opeth is a band to me, that influenced forever the way I feel about music and what it really is. I assume the people in that forum haven't actually listened to the music because to do so, you would likely need to have some level of intelligence. Oh well, I guess thats a fair enough amount of ranting for one afternoon.

 

[JayKeeley]

I assume the people in this forum haven't actually listened to the music because to do so, you would likely need to have some level of intelligence.

My cat's breath smells of cat food.

 

[SonOfNun]

I promptly changed the "this" in my post to "that" realizing that it probably looked like I was insulting the members of Royal Carnage. Maybe I should read my posts before I post them.

 

[JayKeeley]

You don't know how close you were to being flamed.

 

[Erik]

I assume the people in that forum haven't actually listened to the music because to do so, you would likely need to have some level of intelligence.

Thank you for illustrating better than our words ever could precisely what is wrong with Opeth fanboys and their forum.

 

[Erik]

I promptly changed the "this" in my post to "that" realizing that it probably looked like I was insulting the members of Royal Carnage. Maybe I should read my posts before I post them.

Oops!

You don't know how close you were to being flamed.

Too late! Heh.

 

[NAD]

Hehe, whoops.

The intelligence level in there was average to high, it was the maturity level that was rock bottom. Actually, the off-topic was entertaining, the regular Opeth forum was the really lame one, seemed like 4 year olds with underdeveloped speech patterns were talking in there.

 

[Demonspell]

I agree with Nad about the differences between the Opeth forums...there were quite a few stimulating discussions there buried within the flood of idiotic threads, and the forum that didn't get moved was the haunt of fanboys.

 

[JayKeeley]

One thing to be said, the Opeth forum pulls the largest crowds by far.

 

[Ayeka]

You guys didn't mention Metallica slagging off their fans?

 

[JayKeeley]

You guys didn't mention Metallica slagging off their fans?

No - what was that in response to? The release of St Anger?

 

[NAD]

Anybody know a good place to host images? I hate uploading all mine to a public website then linking from there. Maybe I'll just do the $15 thing for UM.com...

 

[Ayeka]

No - what was that in response to? The release of St Anger?

The old napster thing, and I recall they are alledged to have mouthed off about their old school long haired fans round about the same time.