To suggest Max has no more right than anyone else is as foolish a notion as I have heard postulated. He has all rights. Add the fact that he pays for all this with very little help. I know this man, and what started out as a cool thing to do, has turned into duty for him. He keeps this going because he knows that it is an outlet for folks from all persuasions, places, and music styles to express and be a part of a community. What was a cool thing has become a personal obligation. I remember when he had to share his bedroom with his lady and all the computers. I remember when he worried daily at how he was going to be able to keep it going after Onstage ended. Did he need the headache with a new baby, new wife, and trying to make a living? Nope. A less decent person would have folded the tent and left.

All rights here are Max's. The rest of us are feeding at his trough. Gratefullness is what you should have, Shambles, not criticism. I do not care what you think is right. And it isn't "our" forum. It belongs to the young man who has sacrificed to keep it going. He chooses to give his proxy to some of us. We try to do the best we can to maintain the site and keep it true to its roots. We make mistakes, but we try to fix them. For the most part we succeed. Proof of that is that you are still allowed to post, FOR in most forums they would simply have gotten rid of you and a couple of others here.

And Jack, enough of this POWER TO THE PEOPLE stuff. You just sound foolish. There is no freakin' revolution here. It is a site maintained by a person for the discussion of music, and the issues that spawn it. A little perspective is useful here.

Mick