OFF: Metaphysical question... is BOC-L dead?

[mary sullivan]

Because I'm just so special, I do hope you would though, if necessary
Wishes for a good day to all.

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Behalf Of Eric
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 8:55 PM
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Subject: Re: OFF: Metaphysical question... is BOC-L dead?

Why would we tell you when we really didn't tell the others. LOL.
All good!

  --Eric


On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:55:16 -0400, mary sullivan
<maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> If I am posting too much please tell me.
>
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> On Behalf Of mary sullivan
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 5:32 PM
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>
> Eric, Gary, and friends, nice to hear from you,  I understand where 
> everyone's coming from, Eric, well said.  I'm not good at that friend 
> request thing on fb, but always interested in what's happening in the 
> scene.  The forum has been real quiet, and that attracts more 
> attention to postings that may offend, I'm not apathetic, but I don't 
> have time to dope slap everyone who says something that I don't like, 
> and I shouldn't need to.  Let's talk about topics relevant to the 
> sound vibrations.  If we're getting into chit chat land, we should 
> take it off list.  Mike, and  Christian you're both real smart, we 
> know that.  Since Hawkwind and BOC do cover a wide range of topics I 
> understand why it gets crazy, there's a lot of reason for discontent, 
> so it's understandable that opinions are strong on  the forum.  I 
> agree, it's much better than the news.  I respect the knowledge of 
> everyone here, we should all consider how appropriate postings are to all
members.  We of similar musical m!
>  inds should keep that in common, and  the rest of the interesting 
> shit, people of like minds will gravitate toward each other.  We all 
> know each other quite well Is it that nobody has anything new to say 
> about Hawkwind or BOC?  I doubt that with so many smart people.  Would 
> someone please post something real trippy to listen to, surprise me, 
> or tell me a Hawkwind story,, please?
>
> I like the people here, even my dear weird friends, and sorry about my 
> postings, too, sometimes I need to put in my few, or not so few words.
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> On Behalf Of Gary Shindler
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 1:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: OFF: Metaphysical question... is BOC-L dead?
>
> Interesting response, I'm not an atheist myself. I'm in a music 
> listening group on Facebook and just marathon listened to the catalog 
> of Hawkwind and BOC. BOC plays locally the end of the month but I'm 
> out if town, not very interested to see the headliner (Boston) either.
> Friend me on Facebook if you're interested in joining the music 
> listening group I mentioned.
>
> Gary Shindler
>
>> On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Eric Falk <des at EFALKMEDIA.COM> wrote:
>>
>> I subscribed to this list a long, long time ago (anyone remember the
>> t-shirts??) because of BOC.  I was already a fan of Hawkwind and this 
>> list helped me flesh out more material from them and related to them.
>> I have also discovered many other wonderful bands and music.
>>
>> Over all this list is a community, and like any community there may 
>> be people who are a part of it with whom we may not like or 
>> appreciate things they do and ways they behave, but they are still 
>> part of the community.  We can ignore them, ostracize them, call them 
>> out or correct them, etc.  Or even react to them.
>>
>> I have come to appreciate all things that come through my inbox from 
>> BOC-L warts and all.  Did I appreciate having 150 emails from this 
>> list pop up this morning.  Not really, but with simple filtering and 
>> occasional reading through it was quite easy to deal with.
>>
>> I appreciate where Christian comes from; he make me laugh and rarely 
>> offends me, and he has targeted my religion at times.  I'm not that 
>> serious a person and I get the feeling he's not either.  Does he have 
>> issues?  Who am I to say?  Frankly I know of no one who doesn't have 
>> issues.
>>
>> Frankly this is a community that strongly enjoys one of or both 
>> bands, each with a rich history but they are dinosaur bands. Though 
>> Hawkwind is certainly the more active of the two.
>> We are a community that listens to music that is in the global 
>> minority, an perhaps for that reason some of us think within a global 
>> minority at least when it comes to posting from the privacy of our 
>> homes.
>>
>> At the end of the day it's better than reading the news.
>>
>> Just my two bits of copper.
>>
>>  --Eric
>>
>>> On 8/3/2015 11:59 AM, Mike c wrote:
>>> I'm pledged to try my very very hardest to conduct myself mature, 
>>> not say insulting things and not get caught up in chit chat mails
>>>
>>> It is hurtful when veterans are bothered, Alex being one.
>>>
>>> Come back Jon you can toss me out yourself if needed
>>>
>>>> On 8/3/15, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Alex S. Garcia wrote:
>>>>> I've been subscribed to BOC-L for nearly 20 years now (time really
>>>>> flies!)
>>>>>
>>>>> I originally subscribed because I am a fan of Blue Oyster Cult.
>>>>>
>>>>> Through the list, I have also come to discover and enjoy Hawkwind.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, it seems that the more time passes and the more this list 
>>>>> is turning into the Mike and Christian Rant Podium, where they 
>>>>> come to vent their own personal griefs -- which most of the time 
>>>>> bear little if any relevance to either BOC or HW, let alone music 
>>>>> in general.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, the racist contents of some of these mails leave me 
>>>>> speechless. The lack of any reaction, from anyone, is even more 
>>>>> baffling to me. Or does that mean everyone else has already 
>>>>> unsubscribed? Or, perhaps, that nobody reads their messages 
>>>>> anymore? (I have to admit, I rarely do myself).
>>>>>
>>>>> Still, if the madness doesn't cease soon, I'll most likely have to 
>>>>> accept the sad fact that BOC-L is now dead and will proceed to 
>>>>> bury it (ie.
>>>>> unsubscribe),
>>>>> which would break my heart considering how attached I feel to it 
>>>>> after all these years...
>>>>      I think today is probably breaking point for me today as well, 
>>>> alas. I have 167 deleted messages from today's log-in and more than 
>>>> half of them are from Christian. Well, he can have it, I want none 
>>>> of them.
>>>>
>>>>      As a parting shot, BÖC played the Rambling Man festival in the 
>>>> UK a week or aso ago, and though I couldn't go, an ex of mine whom 
>>>> I got into the band was there with the family and all agreed that 
>>>> BÖC put on the best show of the festival, so my fears that they had 
>>>> now run their course may be premature. At any rate, this line-up 
>>>> can hold up their heads amid the rockers who will never give up!
>>>>
>>>>      I will check back in on the list in a few weeks and see what 
>>>> things look like then, I guess. It's a pity, because I'd much 
>>>> prefer my news and chatter this way than on a web board, but this 
>>>> is how Usenet went and I guess it's how listserv goes too; only the 
>>>> most determined will hang on when the traffic gets below a certain
level.
>>>> It's been good fun, people, catch you in a gig hall like as not, 
>>>> yours all,
>>>>                              Jon
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>    Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular  
>>>> error
>>>> Medievalist historian    but stands also delivered by some good  
>>>> author."
>>>>       Birmingham         (Sir Thomas Browne, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica",  
>>>> 1646)
>>
>> --
>> "It's strange how the simple things in life go on  while we become 
>> more difficult."  --Richard Brautigan
>>     --Check Out my blog and my journey: 
>> www.areturningadultstudent.com
>


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