Only been on board since the old Bedrock forum. So a new boy compared to a lot of the others.
who do we have to thank for running this?
Monostereo. Hursty set up the first iteration for this, which started as a replacement for Bedrock, after Digweed shut it in early 2018.
The early days of GU board where proper wild west, no humour too dark, no melter to wild!
NasserAlazzawi When I see massive threads I tend not to even look because its hard to catch up with where one was going 400 posts in so there are only certain threads that catch my interest from time to time.
Your best bet here, is to read non of it and just jump in feet first and have a dig at Ed or Dave, should pay dividends with a few upvotes.
Amps Gets an upvote from me
I joined Bedrock in 2006 aged 18 when I first got into the scene. The rest is history!
As Homegrove said, when Diggers closed Bedrock, I just googled forums and set one up in a couple of minutes. This was a decent stop gap until mono unleashed this classy platform which is infinitely better and on our own terms.
I do like this format. Did he build this himself or use one of those off the shelf platforms you can buy? Anywhere he would appreciate donations towards running costs?
I’m a GU and 4Four refugee. Some surliness and some weirdos, sure. But all in all, top people all around. Good music. Good bants. Just fun, really.
But, yeah, as Amps said - GU was another level entirely. That place was a riot.
jonattonyeah GU was another level entirely. That place was a riot.
Couldn’t refresh the page quick enough some times. I assume many of those people are now in prison.
Amps
Will never happen again. Social media killed the message board for the most part (sans Reddit which isn’t really the same) and no brand would ever let the hijinks that occurred on GU fall under their name. Oddly, it seemed to police itself quite well. But that might be rose-colored memories.
Was on the old bedrock forum since 2001. Was on 4four as well.
had a lot of good times with a lot of people I have met in this journey.
The old GU board sounds absolute savage.
Dubman Huge influx of people / traffic, at exactly the right place and time regards the internet and dance music. No prisoners where taken. Met a few people in the industry around that time who actually said ’you go on there? Fuck that, it’s mad’ 😆
Dubman You missed some serious fun back in the day. Sorry.
jonattonyeah But that might be rose-colored memories.
Correct.
Amps Met my wife, and a massive number of friends cos of the GU board…
Anyone remember TouretteSyndromeBarbie??
Kells77 No need to say sorry. I did witness some huge arguments on the old JC & bedrock boards. Dermo was certainly in the thick of it. So was Flares.
Think we’ve all perused the GU/Bedrock/MS forums at some point in our life. Not sure about others, but I did so mostly in hunt of tracklistings. Always found some very knowledgeable (about the music scene) people on all said, previous platforms, so it’s kept me looking out for the new iteration. Seems like there’s some decent people on here to boot, but some of the chat does feel like panto from time to time. Famous 5 minutes etc… lol
When did the GU board finish?
Speaking of all this - I’ve been meaning to ask this for years :-
who is Mate Green ? Is this the same person as Flares? Who was doggy ?
And not unlinked to these questions where is Dermo -the only other Leeds fan on this board ?
Doggy owned Hannu and Bedrock, that’s a fact.
I think GU ended in 2010.
sbando I think GU ended in 2010.
Dermo’s still there, waiting for them to fix it.
sbando I thought it was way before that?
If only it was archived. I’d love to read thru some of the old threads. 😅