Comment from Jason
Date: June 20, 2008, 4:05 pm

Wow, I did not expect this at all.

Comment from Dangerous_Napkin
Date: June 20, 2008, 4:06 pm

Excellent, I was getting worried.

Comment from twistedriffster
Date: June 20, 2008, 4:12 pm

I didn’t expect it either. But I respect the decision and the basis on which it was made. Continued success for both I hope will continue. And thanks for keeping us informed.

Comment from Jason
Date: June 20, 2008, 4:13 pm

What exactly is the basis for this decision? Anything in particular?

Comment from salastna
Date: June 20, 2008, 4:14 pm

YAY, I like the name TuneLab better anyway.
Why did you guys decide to stay independent?
Oh, and bring a forum!!!

Comment from Nate
Date: June 20, 2008, 4:25 pm

Kind of surprising. I was looking forward to the mega-site, but I like what we have already.

Comment from twistedriffster
Date: June 20, 2008, 4:58 pm

yeah, a forum would be nice.

Comment from Shameson
Date: June 20, 2008, 5:31 pm

Surprising to hear, yet satisfying, long life TuneLab.

Comment from Shameson
Date: June 20, 2008, 5:31 pm

***live***
(my bad)

Comment from Jay
Date: June 20, 2008, 5:35 pm

specifics don’t really matter. I think you guys are gonna love what’s coming

Comment from Mikel
Date: June 20, 2008, 5:39 pm

i do too

Comment from lateralus
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:01 pm

GOOD!

Comment from harty3113
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:10 pm

in jay we trust lol

Comment from Meagan
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:23 pm

yay! tune lab for life!

Comment from Mike
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:36 pm

I would still have fully supported you guys even if you went to a new site, but to be honest I wasn’t happy at all when you announced a merger.

Comment from Mike
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:38 pm

And if there’s a forum (hopefully), I volunteer myself to be a moderator if you need one.

Comment from flmetal
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:43 pm

Hell yeah thats great news! i was hoping it stayed this way…i love the simple easy to read layout! ;)

Comment from Shadowking
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:44 pm

And yeah, I was a bit reckless in the past. But I will control myself for now on and help out with the forum too. But I’m sure this forum will have no troubles at all. Cuz, that’s all what Tunelab needed.

Comment from meade
Date: June 20, 2008, 6:48 pm

Good luck to Widow’s bed partner and all you guys at TL

Comment from Fred
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:10 pm

I think we will get a forum. Ive been waiting for that. If so, I hope people will really use it this time. The other one was nearly useless and got taken over by spam. Dont make it black either, that was a dark place..lol.

Im happy no merge. A mega site would be decent, but I like the group that we’ve come to know, and its easy to tell when we get new members. Taking on their name also makes it feel like this site was the ‘lesser’ of two sites. It might be traffic wise, I dont know really. But most of us call this place home. I wouldnt have felt the same anymore.

Thanks for re-investing your time to make this site even better.

Comment from harty3113
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:17 pm

im gonna miss this site for the 6 and a half weeks im at basic lol. hopefully it will be even better when i return.

Comment from ohgreat
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:28 pm

Being an indie site doesn’t hurt at all. I hate mergers. Thanks for rejecting the offer to merge otherwise it would be a headache if the site had to be re-designed. NO HEADACHES!

Comment from pen
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:37 pm

I’m glad the merger didn’t go through. I’m glad I’m not the only one, I’d hate to sound like a dick. Unless I meant to.

Comment from salastna
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:41 pm

I think most of us didnt want the merger after all. We should have been honest with Jay when he asked us for our opinion.

Comment from Mike
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:42 pm

I was honest that I didn’t like it. I’m always brutally honest.

Comment from harty3113
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:57 pm

i thought that if there was one merger i wouldnt have mind it would have been cage rattle. but i still like tunelab the way it is

Comment from Sox5452
Date: June 20, 2008, 8:50 pm

The merger may have brought some good opportunities, but I do like the feel of this site already. What ever happened to the TuneLab t-shirt idea? I remember there were some really cool designs in the poll a while back.

Comment from nags
Date: June 20, 2008, 8:54 pm

No offense to Cage Rattle, but I’m also glad that the merger didn’t go through. I did Tunelab as is.

Comment from Chris
Date: June 20, 2008, 9:01 pm

A forum, t-shirts and lots of other awesome stuff are in the works

Comment from Reid
Date: June 20, 2008, 9:19 pm

This made my day.

Comment from worsttofirst04
Date: June 20, 2008, 10:37 pm

Yay! Viva la Tunelab!

Comment from Jason
Date: June 21, 2008, 12:04 am

I think I know how to summarize everyone’s feelings. We all supported the merger because, as a group, we support the mission of TuneLab. If it brings more recognition to the music and the bands, more power to it. However, the community that has developed here can’t be traded for anything else. In other words….Long Live TuneLab!

Comment from Kyle
Date: June 21, 2008, 2:28 am

Yeah, I supported the merger also, but i guess the way i was looking at it was if it was more tunelab than cage rattle i was ok. maybe thats not how it was working out. Over the past 4 years i have come to trust the guys in charge here, so you guys obviously know whats best for us. For real though this site from Audio Aggression days til now has been a part of my every day life. I remember sitting the the IT building on my campus when the announcement to change to tunelabmusic.com happened. I was even sad then. We will support you through anything. Love you guys

Comment from djwvu
Date: June 21, 2008, 3:09 am

Good thing.
I just started frequenting this site only about 6 weeks ago!

Comment from Shadowking
Date: June 21, 2008, 3:20 am

One Big Happy Family! Tunelab Familia!

Comment from harty3113
Date: June 21, 2008, 7:50 am

yea i stopped going to the other rock sites. this is the only one worth going on cuz the others are so biased. which we found out isnt true on here the other day with our convo about maroon 5 and coldplay lol

Comment from pschrade
Date: June 21, 2008, 11:29 am

yea, this site is badass, easy to navigate, and i think it was a good decision to stay as TuneLab. Rock on!

Comment from Shameson
Date: June 21, 2008, 12:57 pm

I’m getting all tingly inside….I just have to mirror what others have said, I have probably been visiting this site for the last 8 months or so, and since the beginning this site has been my number one music news source, so much so that I have turned a friend to this site. All in all glad to see that things will stay the same with a few tweaks here and there. Thanks for a great 8 months and many more…

Comment from Cfw828
Date: June 21, 2008, 1:35 pm

Either way, I’ll keep going to both sites.

\m/

Comment from Blaine
Date: June 21, 2008, 2:21 pm

im actually pretty glad to here that i love our little community of people we have on here, shit i remember when this site was still called audioagression hahah long ass time ago but sweet

Comment from meade
Date: June 22, 2008, 5:43 am

still have my audioaggression.com guitar picks. Collector’s items now.

Comment from Blaine
Date: June 22, 2008, 10:28 am

hahah bad ass dude, soo ne news at all about tshirts being made yet or did that fall through the cracks

Comment from Shadowking
Date: June 22, 2008, 1:37 pm

I actually kind of figured Tunelab would stick on it’s own when they decided to put a forum on here in the first place. They wouldnt have just made a forum here and then merge over. I figured that Tunelab is better off on it’s own.

Comment from salastna
Date: June 22, 2008, 4:14 pm

I thought you were going away for a week Shadowking?

Comment from Anrui
Date: June 22, 2008, 9:12 pm

Heh, my bookmark still points to audioaggression.com. I can’t do change. It burns me.

I support this decision the same way everyone else supports it. You have to do what’s best for you and your people, at the end of the day. I hope that this doesn’t affect whatever relationship you had with CR.

Rock on. \m/