[Slowhand] Still here after all these years...

[Fabio Dwyer]

Hi people,

Fabio Dwyer, from Brazil, here for the last 7 years - except for a week away 
because I called somebody names and Mr. Hillmann rightfully threw me away to 
think about my bad boy attitude - great times, strong opinions... now I'm 
older and a little bit wiser...

My 2 cents are: Slowhand-Digest went trough different phases - there were a 
time when the real purpose of this group was to make new friends with a 
common and strong interest. After that, the list was the main resource for 
shows reviews, but as someone pointed, Where's Eric can do that better now. 
It's still a great place to plan pre/after shows gatherings. So we went 
trough a period where the list was almost exclusively a spot for trading 
bootlegs and discussing new audio rip technologies, so it got way too 
technical and generic, not really a place for Eric Clapton fans discuss his 
music. There were a time where this list could be named "Where's Mark" and 
then "Where's DeltaNick". We also had a period where this list became the "I 
Hate Eric - He's Not God!" List. After that we got in a limbo, many 
subscribers quit after all the Clapton bashing, etc.

My point is: Almighy Devault raised an interesting issue here: maybe it's 
time to discuss the role for this group, or at least, to silently reflect 
and maybe change some old habits towards it. Maybe just to try to bring new 
ideas, like the SD bi-anual tribute cd, the MP3 of the week, 
heads-on-a-stick, I don't know, all these stuff could sound silly, but 
afterall, it's a list that we all love, it's a place where I can find my ole 
buddies Ron Newark, James Fox, Andre Salles, where I can respectfully make 
fun of DeltaNick, where I can curse on Greg Wrench - and he can curse on me 
too:-), then got suspended and forgiven by Dave Hillmann, actually it's a 
great cyberplace that I wouldn't like to see it fade away.

Let's bring new stuff, all of you who have cool EC sites could post your 
updates - hey Thomas
Misfeldt, my brazilian-german friend, you have a great site over there! Tell 
more about (in English or Portuguese, not only German, please!!!) Maybe 
let's just balance better all the stuff above.

So that's it, I'm like a captain in this boat, I will keep playing (and 
writing) while this thing remains floating, I'll sink together:-)

Cheers,
Fabio Dwyer



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