Kudos To The People That Built This Place!

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I think we are the nicest bass community on the planet! DiMarco thinks that too, so it must be right! :)
It is time to thank to all the people that had a significant contribution, they are the reason this place exists in the first place!
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H.P.Wilfer - and not only for building the incredible Warwick basses, but for creating and supporting this forum for almost a decade! He did some insane things together with us, for those who remember - we created the Single Cut Thumb here, we sent two Hellborg preamps all over the world to be tested for free, and two of the forumers won them, and many things some of you don't even know about.

His decision of letting our forum go is hard to understand, but then again, he can be a hard to understand person. Nevertheless he was always kind and generous, and he always chose to spend money on good things for us rather than on cold publicity. He traded Frankfurt Music Messe for Warwick Bass Camp for example!
He still answers personally on all emails sent to Warwick, like he never sleeps. He allowed us to be a "Bass Forum" not a "Warwick Forum" all this time. And finally, he trusted me, and this community so much, that he gave this forum to me to run!


Here is a picture with the beautiful Wilfer family, and in center of the picture is Mr Marcus Spangler - the wizzard that creates all those wonerful CS Warwicks. He is part of the family too!
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Estelle Wilfer, Hans Peter Wilfer, Marcus Spangler, Nicolas Wilfer, Florence Wilfer

H.P. Wilfer is the first man to thank here! He is the original creator of this place! We should never forget that!!!
 
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Oliver Dominguez - he was I think the first moderator here! When I joined in 2006 asking for help he was really kind and helpful! I met him personally in 2007 - at Warwick's 25'th anniversary in Markneukirchen, he was a really cool guy. He had a strong influence in creating "The Good Vibe Zone"
 

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Seth Horan!!!!
He was the Official Warwick Clinician when I joined the Warwick Family. What a guy! What a bassist!!!! He genuinely loved this forum, he has here to answer any technical question we had about amps and basses, he really knew to answer to any question, he was very knowledgeable! That's a guys we deeply missed when he left!
I would really love to see him back, now that this is not a brand owned forum!!!!
 

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Maddrakkett (Mark Robinson)

Ok guys, it is hard for me to even write this, I am crying... Some of you maybe ask yourself why our "Cafe" is called "Maddrakkett's"
He was one of the nicest and helpful guys around here, a true gentleman!
Then he got ill...
His last message was:
I know I haven't been able to post lately, but this one is critical. My Dr. just told me they are running out of options and that my gut condition may well be terminal. They are going to monitor me over the next week to see how I respond, but they feel my mental functions will soon deteriorate and then 2 or 3 functions will go and they will have to let me die peacefully if I hit that stage, which they feel is a real possibility now.

This is a tough pill to swallow, as I had to allow the same for my mom, but I know that where I am going is a far better place to be! So it is still a win-win situation for me and my faith in God!

Keep the prayers up more than ever and be happy for me. :D

And he disappeared from our lives forever!
That moment we all realized that behind screen names, and avatars, we are real people, real souls, and that we just lost one... It was a wake up for us! We started to care more for each other. That was the real start of the "Good Vibe Zone"
He asked us to be happy for him!
His last word here was .... a green smiling emoticon! :)

Mark changed this forum forever.

R.I.P.
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When I came to this Forum in 2007 the Warwick Knowledge of some really impressed me.
At the time I thought Mr. Rabble knows everything that is to know about Warwick :)
At some point in time he seemed to have lost interest but he definitely was the person to ask about vintage wicks.
 

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Whateer happened ot the gentlemen in the wheelchair, who I think was from Finland or Norway or something? I think his name was mala....
 

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Whateer happened ot the gentlemen in the wheelchair, who I think was from Finland or Norway or something? I think his name was mala....
yes he had all limited editions back then. I thought he was crazy :)
 

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Greg Sheppherd @Grgzilla - he was the soul of this place for a very very long time!
He is the reason we started to apreciate a more direct way of... expressing... stuff :)
He was also a moderator for a while, he did a great job!
 

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Our Mockup Artists - Jan Van Hove, and thndstk6, they were awesome. They let us have wet CS dreams.
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Oliver joinede here
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Mark...

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Here is Greg with his son Zakk:
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Hi, Florin
Weird that I should be dipping back into this forum and find this thread. I remember all these guys... especially Greg, Mats (mala), Patrik (my twin) and Stroud. Hope they are all still rocking.
Great tribute to Maddrakket... Clearly not forgotten by this great forum.
Still got my Thumb BO, and I think it'll be getting a waxing and new strings soon... but I spend most of my time playing flute now (how did that happen?) May have to change my name to Flutenbass.
 

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That is quite a story here. I feel like home since I joined a few months (ok, years, now) back. Thank y'all for putting this great vibe.
 

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Hi, Florin
Weird that I should be dipping back into this forum and find this thread. I remember all these guys... especially Greg, Mats (mala), Patrik (my twin) and Stroud. Hope they are all still rocking.
Great tribute to Maddrakket... Clearly not forgotten by this great forum.
Still got my Thumb BO, and I think it'll be getting a waxing and new strings soon... but I spend most of my time playing flute now (how did that happen?) May have to change my name to Flutenbass.

Long time no see, Steve!!!
Greg - he is active on facebook, taking care of the streamer club he created. I miss him here, I miss the long chats we used to have. We even changed baby clothes, he sent me Zakk's clothes haha, that was so cute to show him pictures with Luca in Zakks pj's!
Mala... Patrik miss them too. Stroud at one point stopped giiging and started doing music, then video production IIRC. He is not a kid anymore, isn't it?

We can, and we should create a smaller place in a growing forum, just for us. Happy to see you back, I hope you stay!
I need to see flute video :)
 

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Lex is another one! I have him in FB he is pretty active there
 

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Yeah, LEX too! His bass was a legend!
 

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Lex is another one! I have him in FB he is pretty active there
The forumers!!! Users like yourself, zom, warwickhunt, verb, ken, shelby, Chris, Sascha, root, Karl, Paul, Nacho, Charmand, Chris, Vonk, Luke, Golem, and many many others that even with our page blocked by google were still here...
 
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