I just got a PM from a member saying

OK. That's cool. Listen, we are all different people. I'm not a N'Ville good ol boy. I'd love it if that wasn't held against me. I speak my mind frankly, and up front. I'd sure like it if that wasn't held against me either.  I TRY my best to be helpful, and not get personal, and like most of us, I have varying degrees of success (and failure) at that.  As for the 6 month thing, you've got to be kidding me, right? You sound like a little kid or a spurned lover when you say that.  In the last year while you were getting banned from GS, and then forming and buiding this place into what it is today, I have :

1 - Written, produced and mixed 354 songs with musicians, vocalists, etc. and DELIVERED them.
2 - Gone out of state 7 or 8 times to look for properties.
3 - Put my house and studio on the market AND sold it.
4 - Bought a new house.
5 - Investigated and done research on the logistics and cost of building a new CRM and live room.
6 - Physically moved my studio and house hundreds of miles.  

It was one HELL OF A YEAR, don't ask me how I did it but I've kinda been busy.....   Maybe cut me some slack...

And, in the interest of full disclosure since we're hanging it all out, there are things about the birth of this forum that rubbed me wrong right out of the gate.  Why all the GS hate?  Hell, I've got as many gripes as most of you about that place, but I don't wear it as a badge of "honor", and the childishness and bitterness that was bantered back and forth like angry school kids was unbecoming and un-professional - which I at least strive to be as best I can.  So it took some time and some thought and some lurking before commitment.  Actually, right at the outset, I came on as a guest and asked a question.  I got burned pretty hard.  So be it.  You want the truth?  You're gonna have to take the good with the bad.  You have lost a LOT of people because of some of the attitudes of this forum.  I get a lot of good (along with a healthy dose of aggravation I must admit) from Gearslutz, but it's not like a wife.  You CAN (and actually, most here do) go to more than ONE forum.  I didn't have time to get all huggy - feely with a new group of guys, new admin, new set of "rules" to obey, etc., so I took my own sweet time to get here, on my own terms. So I'm to be penalized, looked down on and have a grudge held against me for that?

And I hope you don't hold my excitement about Brad's new company against him.  He has a good thing going, and I'm happy for him and his brother.

All I can say is WTF dude, you cut a lot of people more slack than you do me. So....call me a late bloomer, call me a traitor, or call me gone.  It's YOUR game baby.  YOU get to call the rules as you so rightly make sure I know.  But I'm here now. What are we going to do about it? Hold grudges? That's not me bro.  Move on?  I'm good with that.  Or continue as is?  If I'm not wanted, then I'll happily be on my way.  Say the word - and please do us ALL a favor and don't tell me I can leave if I don't like it.  We've already passed that place several times now, and I'm typing on this (YOUR) forum right NOW.