I'm going to treat this as a finality and give the best sendoff I can to the nicest person I've ever met on any forum I've gone on!
I know people wonder why I take part in a forum that honestly doesn't really fit my focus in music. I mean I have nothing against the music from the past decades and I realize they were the building blocks for everything I have today. Having said that if I was just Googling for a forum I never would've included "Classic" in my search and there's no way I would've ended up here. In fact, the forum I was on prior was a perfect fit for me musically. My post were rarely ever empty and even if it was a band no one liked there was usually always some activity in there. That's not what I found to be the most rewarding part though. When I went there, which was my first time in a individual music forum (MTV Message Boards and Myspace were my priors) everyone was ready to greet me, welcome me in and when they saw what I put into my post it was appreciated.
It should be no surprise who the administrators were there at the time. Magic and LG stood out amongst the whole crowd there because it was them that pushed that ambiance. In a forum full of young kids I saw more maturity than a number of adults in my online travels. This is because Magic and LG showed them respect and they got it back. Magic had a way of being able to talk to everybody like they are meaningful. She's the nicest, most forgiving out of all of us and I've seen so many examples of this. She has a way of breaking down that wall and showing friendships can legitimately form through what I thought was an environment devoid of true social connections. I swear she appeals to anyone who has a lick of sense! It's like that person who you can say: "Really, who doesn't like Magic?" or "If they made Magic mad they really must have done something messed up because It takes a lot to piss Magic off!"
So when Magic and LG left the last forum I was on I tried to be positive! Without going into details it immediately wasn't the same and the best part of the place had gone. Everything was quiet as to where Magic and LG were but the second I found out I came here just as a friend. I just wanted to be around my friends again. The place as a lot of you remember was smaller but instantly it was just nice to be here because of that ambiance that they brought. I started spending more time here even knowing that this wasn't necessarily going to be where my taste were appreciated. Nonetheless, I wanted to help out build something that my friends were building and I believed with them at the helm it would get better. I would find out later they were right!
My transition became complete and the icing on the cake is that they paid me the highest compliment of thinking I could be a good mod here even though I had no idea how to do that! It may not sound like much to everyone but it made me feel good honestly
! It made me want to work even harder and I have no idea what I rate mod wise but I put the work in because of them and because of them I've ended up in a place that's become the best forum I've ever experienced. Thanks to Magic and LG, I have a place to talk about my passion, I have made true friends not only in them but with people of all types, genders, locations, cultures and I have something I'm passionate about to come to when work is over and I'm not out with my family and friends.
This is my last stop because I'll never find another place that contains this much content, has as great of a member base and has been run as good as this place. I could and would never start over anywhere else and this would be my last exit anywhere! What Magic and LG do can never be replaced!
So if anyone ever ask "How'd that Sooty guy end up in a Classic Rock Forum?" or "Why is there a guy named Sooty writing all these 2,000's threads that get a minimal amount of responses?", the answer is because I owe it all to Magic and LG and I don't regret a single moment of it! It's worth it and we all owe a severe amount of gratitude to Magic for her time here!
Thank You Magic For Everything!!!!!!! May Wherever You Go From Here Bring You The Happiness You Deserve!!!!!!!! 
GoodBye. 
Re: GoodBye. 
I'm not going to say bye...I'm going to say, see you later. I know you will be back. 
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