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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
I think there should be an era devoted to irishgrl (or whatever her name was). She was a big basket of nutty goodness, and I always looked forward to her insane/inane posts. She is the real deal unibombtress hiding out in the wilds of California and probably ready to go postal at any moment. The **** she stirred in the chit chat forum is legend. And thanks to her, many of our erstwhile ledgies were banned while she went down in a blaze of hot messy glory herself. I would say the nuttiness absolutely reached a crescendo in 2006 (or 2007). And 2006-2008 coincidentally also happened to cover the era when the Ledge changed ownership, old timers left in droves and splinter groups emerged. It was a pretty chaotic period during which the Ledge practically went extinct, and it really wasn't until the first stirrings of the "Unleashed" tour started making the rounds that the Ledge started to pick up again. So you could almost call 2006-2008 the beginning of the end/a new beginning.
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Ahh, the glory days
. I remember the board changing ownership very well, and it was about that time I took a couple year break from the Ledge. Partly because I just got busy living life, but mainly because it seemed the people had just become so psychotic and mean. People started getting banned left and right, and I was like "I really don't need all this... I just wanna talk about songs!"
I really am glad most of those people are gone though. Especially those horrible, bitchy, cliquish "cool crowd" Stevie fans. I won't name any names, but good God, there were some insufferable people. It was like the movie "Mean Girls"... but it was on a message board
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I still can't really break the Ledge down into eras. A huge new crop of fans came in every time the band or it's members released albums. I'd probably break it down into:
'97-'01 The Dance Era (I lumped Enchanted in there, b/c it rode the Dance's coattails IMO)
'01-'03 Trouble In Shangri La Era
'03-'05 Say You Will Era
'05-'08 Solo Era (Lindsey's solo albums and Stevie's solo tours)
'08-? Unleashed Era
I still can't decide if '98-'01 should be categorized as simply the 'Stevie Era.' In the end, I think no. Because the Dance was still the biggest lingering shadow, and Stevie's Enchanted Box Set and Tour were simply riding the wave of The Dance.