Beepster
I'm probably gonna regret asking this but who was this Bobby character you guys elude to every now and again?
Beep, Bobby posts in the Songs forum occasionally as
Serious Noize.
The main reason he's often mentioned in dispatches, should the opportunity arise, is because he had a habit of regularly committing messy and prolonged forum suicide.
Every now and again he'd lose it completely (for the flimsiest of reasons) and then proceed to tell everyone that he was leaving the Cakewalk forums for good never to return. However, within a week or so he'd be back again but usually under a new username. I reckon he came back with a new name at least 7 or 8 times, and if you include the times he 'left for good' and then came back without changing it you'd probably be looking at around 20 'false' suicides.
Plus he often tended to get a bit excitable, even when he was functioning kind of 'normally'.
He once admitted that he had a problem with booze, and said that was the cause of some of his paranoia and excitability. Although he got a fair bit of ribbing, he was often extended compassion and offered understanding by a few of us in here, although most of us eventually got that friendliness thrown back in our face.
It's a shame really, because he played a mean guitar and came up with some decent tunes. But in common with his Songs forum 'friend' "Night Fox" (James Spivey, aka 'Radio'), he couldn't take any (constructive) criticism of his recording technique, and would fly off the handle at the slightest perceived negative appraisal of his tunes.
I think in the end, he'd burned so many bridges that most of us just stopped commenting on his music.