Let's get real here for a minute.

A quick survey of bb's posting history shows that he made almost 1,400 posts in 2010. Of these only two or three were related to music. All others were in BS, many of them to threads he started himself. If he indeed "spent decades supporting the musical traditions that we cherish, and the people who help them to continue", he didn't do it here.

And the threads he started were generally of a liberal-baiting nature, i.e. he purposely posted material that was sure to be disputed by Mudcat's left-leaning majority. In other words, he was trying to provoke debate (you might say, start fights) knowing full well how his views would be received here.

Therefore it is hypocritical in the extreme to pretend he was driven away by hostile members on the left. My above comment was neither misinformed nor unpleasant, but both sarcastic and to the point.

Don't take my word for it - go to Old Advanced Forum Search and put "beardedbruce" in the box.