Re: [FatesWarning] Digest for fateswarning@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 2 topics

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Get to the LA show, Mike. It's been a while, dude! Ah, the orange Fates board, too... remember that? And all the interesting characters and the conversational madness that would ensue? Good times, too.

Btw, cool little anecdote about your history and evolution to being the FW site webmaster. :)

I appreciate your FW website, brother - but you knew that already.

S

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:23 AM, <fatesw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Another SoCal tour date added...     

Michael Kizer <mki...@gmail.com>: Sep 21 10:08AM -0700 I'll be at the Ramona show for sure, and will definitely try to make the LA show.   Here's my Fates story so far...   Back in 1994/95 I was doing a small website type thing for Dream Theater, purely just from a fan perspective (an online song book of lyrics). I had also wanted to do a full fledged website of some king, but there were already tons of DT sites. I looked around and found almost nothing for Fates, and since I'd been a huge fan of theirs since Perfect Symmetry was released, I decided to create a Fates fan site around mid 1996. First hosted on my ISP account as seen here in gloriously bad 90s style HTML - http://web.archive.org/web/19970618050944/http://www.goodnet.com/~mkizer/fw/fw.htm   I ran and updated that site for a while, eventually moving it to its own domain, ivorygate.com and then a bit later to fateswarning.info (which would run until the end of 2010).   I had seen Fates a few times, Parallels tour (my first show), the DT Awake tour with Fates opening, etc. It wasn't until the A Pleasant Shade of Gray tour (1996) that I would have my first real contact with the band. On that tour I decided to road trip and catch as many shows as possible in the AZ - CA area. At one of the first shows I asked the merch guy if it would be cool to put a little flyer on the table that advertised the fateswarning.info web site. He said sure.   I went back to the table at the end of the night to pickup any leftover flyers. When I did, the merch guy said, "Hey, Jim wants to talk to you". I thought perhaps he isn't happy about the flyers or the website. Gulp.   The merch guy took me backstage where I met Jim who said the website was cool and he'd been following it for a while. I got to chat with him and Ray for a bit. Ray thought I was crazy to be following them to multiple shows.   After that tour I heard from Jim via email periodically, just little things here and there. Sometimes dispelling some rumor or false news report, occasionally discussing music we were currently listening to, etc.   It wasn't until January 2011 that Jim asked me to take over the official site. I merged old stuff into a new site at fateswarning.com and slowly shut down the other site. I've been running it since then and adding a couple of others to the roster (OSI, Jim's personal site). Info here: http://michaelkizer.com/website-portfolio/     ~Michael Kizer http://MichaelKizer.com

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