Pope Benedict XVI serves up MAD PROPS for Rock Town Hall’s 6th anniversary of doing the Lord’s work.
Do you know what today is? It’s Rock Town Hall’s 6th Anniversary! Happy anniversary to us!
Rock Town Hall started as a private YahooGroup in 2002. On January 12, 2007, we opened our doors to the public with this stylish, passionate, humorous, even occasionally informative interactive blog. See our Welcome post here.
We really played up last year’s 5th anniversary, with a blog retrospective culminating in sammymaudlin‘s excellent introductory “sizzler reel.” Then-relative newcomers like tonyola and Happiness Stan were regularly contributing new threads, stirring the pot right alongside trusted veteran contributors, like hrrundivbakshi, cdm, machinery, oats, al, and 2000 man, not to mention sophomore Hall members like misterioso, bostonhistorian, and ladymisskiroyale. Who among us didn’t anticipate huge things for 2012: a slew of new participants, renewed activity from veteran contributors, media coverage, and maybe even a Wikipedia page?
If I may, I would like to tip my hat to some damn fine commenters and contributors: Cherguevarra, Funoka, Trigmogigmo, k., Bobby Bittman, Bronzed Nordic God, and Raoul G.
Thanks to Mr. Mod, Sammy Maudlin and to all the Back Office contributors who make this the best Rock discussion site bar none.
Thank you, Rock Town Hall, for providing me one of my favorite means of whiling away the hours. I follow the site daily, and although I don’t always comment, I always enjoy reading everyone else’s responses.
To quote some fine lyrics and reference some excellent fashion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnRqkax44Q
Really happy to be Rennie Stennett in a field full of Bill Madlocks.
Thanks for providing a forum for my personal zeal on rock & “Other” music, and for keeping our household abuzz with silliness.
I agree with everyone above. Thanks especially to the guys that make RTH show up when I click the link! That’s a lot of hard work, and I really appreciate it, especially at times when I’m so busy I barely have time to read RTH, let alone contribute.
Happy Birthday RTH.
It is only in the last year that I finally entered the 21st century & I have been in no hurry to add to the noisy nothingness I found on so many forums. I hang out here because it is, in Mod’s words, “intelligent rock discussion” which does not take itself too seriously. I too appreciate the work to get all this stuff into my computer.
To paraphrase – “It’s Mr. Mod’s world, we just live in it!”
Thanks!
I don’t hit the comments as often as I’d like these days, but I still read almost every thread and appreciate the effort it takes to keep this site running. Happy anniversary!
I repeat my reply Mr. Mod’s happy birthday wish to me last week: it is an honor to participate in the Hall. The knowledge and opinion here amazes me. Thanks cliff for the hat tip.
It’s thru RTH that I’ve also had the pleasure of meeting new friends like the Royales and the Jades (and a couple of other posters who post so infrequently that I don’t even recall their user names offhand!), for local shows and good conversation. Fantastic!
Happy 6th! And here’s to Mod & sammy in appreciation of what I know must be hard work keeping the place running.
Happy Anniversary! Any Boston area folks who’d like to meet up sometime for a beer are welcome to get in touch. Would love to put some faces to names….
6 years already! Time goes by pretty quick. Happy Anniversary, RTH & i hope that my contributions make at least almost sense.
Kudos to all — and Mr. Mod and Sammy — especially. Didn’t work out last year — but perhaps a Nats-Phils game RTH event could be in the cards for 2013.