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What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 9:29 am
by repoman
where'd he go?
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 9:47 am
by Faldoe
Is that the noise guy that spreads his ass?
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 11:11 am
by ritz
Hmm, everyone who knows the dirt must be camping out over in the modular thread.
He got trashed on a fair amount for incessant posting of his paper circuits. And his kinda-maybe borderline autistic interaction style.
His secret identity was also semi-revealed. Turned out to be a person who was often bashed by this forum. It's slightly shrouded in mystery and I am not 100% on the details. The "truth" as I heard it was almost too surreal to believe, or perhaps too surreal to not believe.
I think, given all that, he simply found ILF to be a no-longer-hospitable place.
I miss him. In a place full of weirdos he was one of the truly weird ones.
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 11:17 am
by resincum
he got tired of our shit.
he still uploads from time to time here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2e6nM ... sbClp5u-3w
i think he even has a reverb shop nowadays, but I forgot the name of it
i miss him too
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 11:32 am
by Ugly Nora
He was the embodiment of this place what with his unabashed, over the top consumerism and dedication to the art of noise. A true music lover. A part of ILF died when he left.
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 11:33 am
by Confuzzled
I completely forgot about him until I saw this thread but I agree. He was a fun poster. Now my curiosity is piqued!
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 11:47 am
by coupleonapkins
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 12:28 pm
by repoman
He was the GOAT and the reason I found ILF because he would always shit post his gear in the guitar general thread on 4chan and piss everyone off so I googled his shit learning about all the weird ass pedals he had and it brought me here.
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 12:43 pm
by Muff_Diver
ritz wrote:Hmm, everyone who knows the dirt must be camping out over in the modular thread.
He got trashed on a fair amount for incessant posting of his paper circuits. And his kinda-maybe borderline autistic interaction style.
His secret identity was also semi-revealed. Turned out to be a person who was often bashed by this forum. It's slightly shrouded in mystery and I am not 100% on the details. The "truth" as I heard it was almost too surreal to believe, or perhaps too surreal to not believe.
I think, given all that, he simply found ILF to be a no-longer-hospitable place.
I miss him. In a place full of weirdos he was one of the truly weird ones.
After some brief searching these tidbits make a lot of sense.
But it couldn't really be, could it?
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 12:59 pm
by 01010111
I’m glad he’s gone. The guy drove away a ton of good people when he joined. He killed all of the gear threads for months with his incessant posting. I maintain that the guy should have been banned very early on.
But where are these odd tidbits? The only thing I found was a joke by ruiner stating that he was Rod Stewart?
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 1:19 pm
by Scruffie
Funny, I heard Toto the other day on the radio and wondered the same thing.
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 2:33 pm
by nogodsnobedtimes
repoman wrote:
shit post his gear in the guitar general thread on 4chan and piss everyone off
I always wondered where all those obnoxious assholes ended up. Stands to reason a few would be here

Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 2:40 pm
by UglyCasanova
ritz wrote:
His secret identity was also semi-revealed. Turned out to be a person who was often bashed by this forum.
I know his identify/name and I don't know what you're referring to here. Might have been before my time, as I've only known him as UG and BOB.
That being said, we got into arguments towards the end of his stay here, but overall I've had good interactions with him both on the forums and via facebook and PMs. I still don't get the appeal of those paper circuits, but that's another topic.

Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 3:09 pm
by ritz
Ah, well in this case perhaps the truth isn't actually stranger than the fiction.
Re: What happened to Uncle Grandfather?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 7:15 am
by D.o.S.
Scruffie wrote:Funny, I heard Toto the other day on the radio and wondered the same thing.
I liked UG. He was a lot more fun when he decided to drop the shtick of being reclusive famous musician and just came to peace with being a dude with a hefty disposable income and zero social skills.