Here Today... Gone To Hell!

The first version of my Guns N' Roses fan site (or home page as we called them back then) went online.

19 years later, Happy birthday to us!

Thanks to the GN'R family, those who've helped and the fans for these first 19 years!

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Feel free to share your GN'R and/or HTGTH related memories from the last 19 years here if you want.  :beer:




/jarmo

When Axl's fax then hit 5 days later, were you thinking "oh...SHIT"?

happy Anniversary! We don't always see eye to eye but this is a great site.  :beer:

I come here to shoot the shit pretty much every day... I'm very appreciative of the entertainment it brings me.

Thanks for that.

Yeah, its the most serious of all the GNR boards, this place.  We'd be worse off without it.

I cannot for the life of me post anywhere else anymore but for an occasional thought here and there.  Most of the other sites seem to be taken over by 15 yr old south american fans in desperate need of a high prozac dosage.  At the very least, this place offers pretty decent conversations with only minimal brain damage inflicted.  And if by some miracle a new album materializes, I cannot imagine there will be a happier place than this board.

Happy Anniversary HTGTH!! Great site. Keep up the good work Jarmo!

The funny thing is that I didn't.
I didn't think it'd be the end of GN'R.

I just kept typing up articles from my old magazine (yes, typing. This was before scanners were the norm) and trying to figure out what else to add to the site.
And when there were news of any kind, I put them on the site.... Things were a bit quiet back then.  :hihi:




/jarmo

Happy 19th to HTGTH, its been a great place for GNR fans and was a truly life changing thing when I came across this place back in 2000. The amount of people I have have gotten to know and in a lot of cases met who share the same passion I have for this band is nothing short of fantastic, so thank you jarmo.

I started coming here shortly after Rio 2001...my name was Madagas then. Jarmo, through thick and thin you have maintained a great site.  :beer:

I thought it were Slashs parts and Paul "imitated" them because Axl said so.

great tune. Slash said you here the band breaking up and he wasn't into it because of the whole PAul Huge drama but I tinnk it's great. I also dig the question-answer soloing which Axl wanted. Slash didn't want to do it but fortunately he gave in and kept the f'n thing going...

I may not be here everyday but this site will always be home. And always be where I relay on real news! Thanks Jarmo! :beer:

I remember stumbling on HTGTH when taking a web design course at lynn community college.
Apparently I decided to catch up on GN?R rather than pay attention to the class I was paying for..
Must have been ?99, ?00 or so. I?d come back every now and again to check any news, and didn?t join the message board until a few years back.

I find the extreme contrast in opinions of the posters on this site as interesting, probably moreso at this point as any GN?R related news.
Even though I seldom agree with many here, for the most part the conversation is civil, and the site well run.

I started coming to this site nearly everyday hoping for news starting around 2002.  My first post on the board wasn't until July 1, 2005, where after a long silence I asked a stupid question that had probably been asked many times over.


Guns N' Roses / Dead Horse / Newbie Here

 on: July 01, 2005, 04:04:01 PM


Whats up folks.  I've been coming to this website nearly everyday now, for several years.  Used to go to to site called lostrose.com before this one.  Very frustrated but still hopeful.  Do you think Axl has given up?  Makes me think of that movie the Aviator.  Is Axl holed up in his mansion? 

Six months later Axl appeared at the Korn party.  Its been a blast coming here.  Thanks for keeping it going Jarmo.  Here's to the hoping that we'll be discussing songs from the next release when the 20th anniversary arrives!
 

I started checking the site for headlines back in 1999 while living in California.  I didn't know about the messageboard until sometime later, then I'd start checking more often.  This was and still is the best site for anything newsworthy  : ok:

Thanks Jarmo!

The father of all global forums for GNR

Congrats jarmo and team!  : ok:

cheers from gnrla.com

I remember 55555 calling me pseudo-educated in response to my first post on HTGTH.  ;D

Congratulations, Jarmo!
Thanks for all you do!!!
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Fuck time flies  :D  HB

Been some characters pass through this forum thru the years..................

Congrats Jarmo, I've been coming here for I believe nearly all of those 19 years.  I submitted some news for your news section back in the day as well!  I give you credit for keeping me interested in this band for as long as I have. 

Congrats Jarmo

Cool man. Been lurking sense 2001 or 2002. Lots of good stuff over the years.

Congrats Jarmo!  Can you put up any of the old archives?  It would be cool to see some of the early discussions and happenings that occurred before people like me were enlightened to HTGTH.

Keep up the good work.  :beer:

HTGTH has the honor of being one of the first websites i ever visited on my own in 2005.


I joined the forum when i was confident that my English was good enough, in 2010. Time sure flies.


Great site! : ok:

I heard about the site from someone several years ago n' have been checking it pretty much daily ever since...Actually saw Jarmo at the Brooklyn Bowl show, but didn't risk losing my front row spot to introduce myself...

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Wow......brings back memories

Congrats on surviving the years.

Congrats Jarmo! I've been coming to this website when you first started it. It was this, Jeff's website, Online Onslaught, Scoops Wrestling, and a NY Giants  website.

woah! this site used to look like a sega game! youve come a long way jarmo. i find it so interesting that this guy from finnland started up this little site years back, typing up news articles from magazines to create content for his site, and now he is part of GNR lore, a character in the gnr mythology.

despite how crazy i am, jarmo has always been welcoming to me. he has answered my myriad of probably very annoying messages and emails, and continues to manage this insane asylum we call home day after day, all for us, the fans. that takes dedication, and patience. im amazed he continues to let us all stay in this guest house despite how badly we tend to trash the place. i want so badly to buy him a beer someday. i would rather meet him than axl at this point, believe it or not. ax is awesome, but it must be tiring to be pursued all the time so i would leave him alone, maybe just say hello if he was in close proximity. but jarmo? id yell his name across the room if i saw him!

Congratulations Jarmo!  : ok:

Happy Anniversary HTGTH  :beer:

Congrats to you Jarmo, and to everybody else who've been hangin around here  :beer:

Still here today, not in hell

Yeah there have, used to like the posts of  1 in a Million, whatever happened to him?

Congrats Jarmo  : ok:

Omfg LOSTROSE.com ... i've really forgotten that site, it was a good one  :).  There was even an italian site where the webmaster was a young boy who died of cancer and one his last wishes was to see  axl & slash togheter once again  :'(

 

Thanks everyone. :)



/jarmo

Congratulations Jarmo, Amazing Forum

 :peace: : ok: :beer:

Thank you.



/jarmo

Congrats Jarmo! You have come a long wayyyyy. Shit, we all have. I have kids now hahaha. My mom bought my forst computer summer of 1998. First thing I did after she connected AOL for me was go to WEBCRAWLER (NOT Google) and search GUNS N ROSES. Who remembers WEBCRAWLER??? Hahha. Before that, I used to go to my HS library after school and use their Netscape internet. Wow... Im an nold 34 year old. Dont post much but def check here 2-3 times per week. Yo Jarmo, you ever think you will become "cool" with the band?? Thats fkn crazyyyyyy. And we all hate you for it j/k lol

Congrats Jarmo!  :peace: : ok: :beer:

Oh, those innocent carefree days of Hotbot, Altavista and Lycos.

~Happy HTGTH Day~

You forgot Yahoo, when it was a list of subjects and sites relating to them.  :D


Thanks for sharing your stories. It's always nice to read about fellow fans who remember those days.
Before social media, Youtube and all that.



/jarmo

Congratulations mate, for all the sparring on here between us, you have a very good website that i enjoy coming too.   :beer:

It's funny.  People think I must hate the guy, and ask me that all the time.

But on the other boards, I actually defend him.  Because its always people that don't post here, talking nonsense.  So I guess its like that dynamic where I can give my own family member a hard time, but that doesn't mean you can.  Wagons are circled.

Also think he gets a bad rap.  I haven't racked up over 5,700 posts here in just over 2 years because he crushes all dissent.  Fuck off outta here with that.

The most consistent GNR fan environment since the start. I think this is a great place to be, congrats Jarmo!! :D

Many great memories up through the years, hopefully many more to come!

he does get a bad rap. doesnt deserve it one bit. hes a part of the gnr family. he deserved that cd gift thingy from axl as much as anyone else. i basically see him as part of gnr.

i hope axl writes a song for him some day! how cool would that be, a song dedicated to Jarmo!?

"jarmo... something... blarmo... um".

im no good at this. what ryhmes with jarmo? actually it wouldnt have to use his name haja.

Thanks for the kind words.  :-[




/jarmo

How about. Jarmo. Jarmo. Remember the Alarmo!
For fighting the good fight.  We will never forget our Jarmo

I get what you mean. When Jarmo comes across as angry at me (maybe he is, maybe he isnt??) I dont take any of it too seriously.. We just differ on certain topics.. but in the end we are all here because we love GNR's music. I have a big deal of respect for someone who can stay the course and dedicate so much time to the band through this website.. its a big effort.

I'll answer this for you, without actually believing it matters since I wouldn't know how I feel, apparently. Isn't, that's the answer. :)




/jarmo

that statement makes literally no sense.

you asked 'is he' or 'isn't he' .... he responded "Isn't" is the answer.  :)

The first part apparently refers to people doing exactly what I am doing now, which is, someone other than Jarmo telling people what Jarmo means or feels about any given subject.  :P
 

all good.

I read it whilst i was doing a thousand other things at work. All good.

 ;)