Art Bell Quits Dark Matter

[nooryisawesome]

Art we don't hate you. People are just upset. 6 weeks man. It's not enough we waited 10 years. Work something out with sirius. Get back on the mike like now please. Art, we care about you man.

[tertiaryimam]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

You're trying to get our sympathy now, Art? Poor old guy, just wanted to recovery the lost youthful years the evil PREMRATs took away, but in the end the Good Lord's curse of aging got him. Memory faded, drool on shirt, can barely type. I bet you can already hear Jesus's blessed black footsteps and the swish of his auburn beard through the midnight air. If only Sirius radio agreed to your demands, then you'd regain your health, stand tall and free again, and give us another 2 years of delight!

Poor guy.

I'm so sorry.

[shell88]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

  You illicit strong feelings because we like you a lot.  Yes we have expectations for you, perhaps high ones. We want you back in the studio.  Not being there for us is a shock Art.  You have not lost your skills.  You need to be patient and not demand immediate perfection.

[ItsOver]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Amen.

[Ravenna]

The George clip is classic. He did not make any mistakes. It is unreal the skill George displays when it comes to this sort of thing.
His publicist must be grinning from ear to ear... and from sea to shining sea.



https://soundcloud.com/steven-aric-otero/the-spec-sheet-11-5-2013

This doesn't really sound like George Noory to me.  Close, but no cigar.

[gbneely]

He'll probably sit in stunned silence, reading negative post after post, heart pounding, eyes beginning to water in shame, until he finally arrives at Peppermint's post and realizes that, yes, there is a God, we are all one, and it was all worth it. He'll tell Airyn, "Play my song again, darlin." "What song, Mr. Bell?" She'll say. "My song, damnit! My SONG!" Then she'll hurriedly run over to the ol' dusty shortwave Victrola and puts on "If You Could Hie to Kolob" by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Then he'll lean back in his big easy chair, take a good long drag of his menthol E-cigar, and his eyes will roll back in his head in supernatural ecstasy.

If you could hie to Kolob

This may be the funniest post I've read on any forum, ever.

[phrodo]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

Aww sheesh Art - nice attempt at sarcasm ... but seriously - please suck it up and be an adult and the professional that you are.

If SXM won't let you stream free - why not stream to their subscribers who login with their accounts?? Seems like a WIN WIN to me - you get to stream from your site and they still get subscription revenue.

Or does that solution make tooooo much sense to work??

[shell88]

You're trying to get our sympathy now, Art? Poor old guy, just wanted to recovery the lost youthful years the evil PREMRATs took away, but in the end the Good Lord's curse of aging got him. Memory faded, drool on shirt, can barely type. I bet you can already hear Jesus's blessed black footsteps and the swish of his auburn beard through the midnight air. If only Sirius radio agreed to your demands, then you'd regain your health, stand tall and free again, and give us another 2 years of delight!

Poor guy.

I'm so sorry.

Jeezus don't ruin a good opportunity when there is one.

[HumanBeing]

You're trying to get our sympathy now, Art? Poor old guy, just wanted to recovery the lost youthful years the evil PREMRATs took away, but in the end the Good Lord's curse of aging got him. Memory faded, drool on shirt, can barely type. I bet you can already hear Jesus's blessed black footsteps and the swish of his auburn beard through the midnight air. If only Sirius radio agreed to your demands, then you'd regain your health, stand tall and free again, and give us another 2 years of delight!

Poor guy.

I'm so sorry.

[PathoJen]

Peppermint,

What would you say if Elvis hadn't died, but went in and out of retirement like 2 or 3 times and there were years where you couldn't hear him sing anything new. And instead, he was replaced with the recordings of an anus. Then he suddenly comes back, out of the blue, and says he'll be back for a good long while, but you got to buy some sound equipment and a subscription to listen to him. Then a spider bites him and he threatens to move back to Turkmenistan. But that's not the worst thing: the worst thing is he then says that because the equipment cuts out sometimes when he's singing live, and no one will help him with it --- even though he offers for the subscription-only-company that streams his live stuff the genius option to offer the stream without ANYONE PAYING FOR IT, even though no one else in the company does this except Jimmy Buffet. He says he'll quit if they won't. They won't because they're goddamn business people, so, yes, he takes down his myspace and tells us all he's not going to sing again for at least 2 years and prolly never. Meanwhile the anus gets on gabcast and begins to sound like Bing Crosby, making heart's swoon and tremble with pagan lust.

What would you think, then?

I'm crying! That was awesome!

[nooryisawesome]

Arts left the building.

[The General]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading AND BLAH BLAH BLAH....

The only thing fading is your chance to salvage all of this.
Call Sirius!  Some of us are waiting to cancel because we are holding out hope.
For Christ's sake, man, do you see whose name is at the top of this website?

[RealCool Daddio]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

What the hell, Art? You are the one who has chosen to die on the "free streaming" hill.  You shouldn't expect those of us who paid for the service, just to hear you, to like it.

This kind of response from you isn't going to help, either.

[LAM4:2]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

Actually I'm taking a ride right now, I'm listening to you on Shoutcast.

[ItsOver]

The freeking soap opera continues.  :

[nooryisawesome]

The only thing fading is your chance to salvage all of this.
Call Sirius!  Some of us are waiting to cancel because we are holding out hope.
For Christ's sake, man, do you see whose name is at the top of this website?

I know it's not to late but close!!
Do it art, please. If you don't like the show after trying some changes, re sign with grace. This is prolly your last shot Art.

[EarthAlien007]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

We want you back Art!

[malachi.martini]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

ALL you had to do was try, you silly bastard.  Instead, you made all this happen.  Now that people have called you out on your bullshit, you leave this?  Have some fucking pride, touch some goddamn honesty.  Say you made a mistake.  That'd be asking to much yeah?  You're going to leave us with the idea that this feedback, that was entirely your doing, is to blame for "abandoning" the show.  Unfuckingbelievable.

[RealCool Daddio]

This doesn't really sound like George Noory to me.  Close, but no cigar.

Is that you, Sardondi?

[Eddie Coyle]

        With his last post, I think we got a bit of what it must be like to really deal with Art Bell. Petulant, self righteous and supercilious. What a baby.

[nooryisawesome]

Oh yeah stop making decisions based on idiots on bellgab.
We are a bunch of admitted morons.

[Chine]

This doesn't really sound like George Noory to me.  Close, but no cigar.

It is George.

[Ravenna]

I don't think Art can take all the criticism that reaches him via this site.  Just mind boggled, I am, to think that a complaint about the Spooky Matter show ended up helping him make up his mind about pulling the plug (on Dark Matter, if Sirius had not met his ultimatum).  Wow, that is sobering.  Selfishly, I'm glad I didn't post here about that show sucking, or whatever it was that person said about that particular show that was negative. 

[shell88]

The freeking soap opera continues.  :

Who'd of ever known.

[SixWeekTenure(tm)]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

If that's the kind of reasoning you have, Art, then I feel bad for SiriusXM management for having to put up with your drama. Grow up and realize that this problem over Dark Matter doesn't have to be the end of your career. You didn't handle business appropriately and bullied your new employers, thinking that they would cave to your tantrum over internet streaming. If this thread is any indication, you have not lost your base - we waited so long for you to come back to radio in a meaningful way and you hurt us tonight, which is why emotions are so high over you quitting again. Stop with the excuses already, this isn't beyond saving and if you love radio as much as you claim, you'll be back on the air tomorrow night. 

[23Skidoo]

 Art,

I signed up for this forum last night and waded through the packs of savages because I wanted to try to figure out what happened and what's going to happened going forward. I would not go through the trouble for any other radio host or one who is "washed up".

[SpooksKFC]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

Just get back on the air!

THE GODFATHER - You can act like a Man!

[gbneely]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

I'm sorry, but I can't beg someone to honor their commitments. Art Bell is absolutely the best at what he does and he knows that. But for the love of Christ, this sounds like the delusional ranting of a 14 year old girl. And, perhaps, it is us that is dead to you. We ponied up, we paid to listen, and got abandoned after 6 weeks with a blurb on Facebook and some muddled excuses about streaming and fan base. So, what are we to think? We paid because we love your work, yet you quit over hundreds who wouldn't pay because of the occasional disconnect. It makes no sense to me.

[Lioness]

This is incredible. Whether read sincerely or sarcastically, Arts most recent post should demonstrate that he's not well. This isn't how a stable, well adjusted person behaves -- already evident in storming away from SXM and further demonstrated in this post.

Is his ego really so feeble that he needs CoastGab members groveling? These behaviors belie serious personal issues.

[HumanBeing]

Ok, I agree, I am a washed up has been who has lost what little talent I might have had, my memory is fading
fast and my skills as a Interviewer no longer exist. Like a Prize fighter who took one to many punches I am off
in zombieville. I can take a hint, I am done. So I will now leave and abandon my idea of free streaming along
with a life that has now lost all it's meaning. I am sorry to have crushed so many dreams and now understand
full well that the real King has taken his rightful place on the throne of Bell Gab. I understand I am dead to you
all.

                                                                                                                                Art

Entirely because I disagree with how you handled this shit... gd ridiculous. You got George Noory actually making you look like a bloody fool.
Snap out of it dude. You still got it. Times have changed bro. Stick with it. You can do this! Hurry the hell up and get it together.
It is different this time. People invested not only their emotions but their $$$. Shit like that is real dude.

Take the rest of this week off to gather yourself and come back this Monday night with Graham Hancock.
If you don't, well eat a dick dude. You really screwed some folks over who believed in your strong commitment to SiriusXM.
You can be sure that a large portion of those folks would not have subscribed or bought equipment if they had known you'd throw in the towel only after 6 weeks.

C'mon.