I better not mention then that Alan Starkie has signed off also 
..iv`e chatted with him on Twitter and know his reasons,,they might not be forever...but i don`t know
It's supposed to be about the music!
I don't know what happened either.... and I'm also saddened that talented people are gone.
AND, (not "but") I'd like to frame this in a slightly different perspective.
I've been on two other songwriter's forums in my life. Both have had the occasional angry, passionate, argument in which people storm off.
That's never a good thing.... but there is a silver lining to what happened HERE (as opposed to every other such argument I've witnessed on songwriting forums.)
You wrote "it's supposed to be about the music."
On one of the other songwriting forums, there are frequent angry exchanges... never about music, always about politics.
On the other, there are fewer angry exchanges, but in every case, when there ARE angry exchanges, they are about religion, not music.
While I feel saddened, and unfortunate that the talented people are (hopefully temporarily) gone from here, AT LEAST THIS WAS ABOUT MUSIC. Not politics, not culture, not religion -- music.
I feel soooooooo fortunate to have found a place where the passion centers around music.
So very, very, very fortunate.
I really hope everyone comes back. And by "everyone," I mean everyone. But either way, I feel fortunate to have found this place. This is BY FAR the best songwriter site I've ever seen.
