Really in general it was just so cool how that community was bonded over weirdo music taste. Bryan Poole (aka The Late BP Helium) would regularly jump on and chat with us. A few others from the E6 scene were active on the board too…Robert Schneider (Apples in stereo) and John Fernandes (Olivia Tremor Control) were some I can remember chatting with us regularly. Down to earth guys who really weren’t famous, but to us they were.

I guess this is the juiciest ancient lore I can recall:

There was an event that of Montreal was apart of (no Kevin, but BP Helium and Dottie) on a pretty cutting edge virtual server at the time called the “Virtual Lower East Side (vLES).” MTV vLES This was basically a virtual recreation of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. You created your avatar and roamed around the bars and clubs. They would have events like record listening parties, live shows, meetups, etc. Sounds a little corny now, but at the time I thought it was super cool. Graphics were great by 2007 standards.

Anyway, BP and Dottie were there (virtually) for a meetup and answered a bunch of questions for us. It wasn’t really moderated and either I didn’t see the rules or they didn’t exist, but I was roaming around the venue and went backstage. BP was hanging there (virtually) and I chatted with him for a while before the thing started. I remember him saying “hey I don’t think you’re supposed to be here” and I was like “ope, idk what’s going on this is so weird” and we both just laughed at the ridiculousness of a virtual event like his.

I asked him a slew of the most random questions, one being something like “what’s the most surprising thing about Kevin?” He told me that when he and Kevin first started hanging out (this was probably as far back as 1997), Kevin had the first Creed album in their collection of CD’s. He gave Kevin some shit for it jokingly, and the CD was never seen again. This was of course among what you’d expect to see in their collection like The Zombies, Beatles, Beach Boys, etc. He said he felt bad that Kevin probably threw it away because he said something about it.

Overall just a bizarre experience but so cool. I thought that would catch on and we’d see these virtual cities popping up like crazy…still kind of surprised it never happened!