Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hello everyone , 

I was just wondering if anyone has ever seen Walt gardus on here 
anymore ? I have tried for the past 2 years to find out what ever 
happend to him and how he seemed to just basically vanish from the 
normal places I used to see him on the net . We used to deal with 
each other through ebay as well but he hasn't had a transaction on 
there since around mid 2004 . Walt was one the guys that I always 
looked forward to hearing from ( not that there isn't others but you 
get the idea ) . I have tried numerous attempts through email and 
even through emailing him through ebay , but haven't ever gotten a 
reply back . I was hoping that someone on here may have some 
knowledge of maybe that he's ok and if anything has happened to him 
since we last spoke in 2004 . Just concerned about a friend that I 
basically met on this group a few years back and figured some 
members that have been on this group for a while may know 
something . 

If anyone has any info please email me directly at the following 
email address : 

otacon28music@... 


Thanks for your time ,

sam(otacon28)

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "otacon28music" <otacon28music@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hello everyone , 
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone has ever seen Walt gardus on here 
> anymore ? 

> sam(otacon28)

Hi Sam,

Walt seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. You may remember 
that years ago, I and another of his pals were able to trace him to a 
new job (if I remember correctly, at IBM), but the most that we ever 
received for the trouble was a message on his answering machine. 
After he had disappeared, he remained the ownwer/moderator of the DTX 
group on Yahoo for a while, though his group began to suffer because 
no one was taking care of it. After I began posting about the need 
for a moderator there, a new moderator was mysteriously appointed. 
Walt must have done it, since only an owner can transefer power 
(Yahoo can't intercede), but not even the new moderator had heard 
anything from him.

Too bad. I was thinking about Walt the other day. The circumstances 
were so odd--one day here, the next day gone. I can only hope that 
nothing bad happened to him or a member of his family. He was one of 
the good guys.

Ed

I work at IBM, so I decided to look up Walt Gardus in the IBM internal 
directory.

He's not there.

 Seems he has fallen off the face of the earth.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Andy Citron" <andycitron@...> wrote:
>
> I work at IBM, so I decided to look up Walt Gardus in the IBM 
internal 
> directory.
> 
> He's not there.
> 
>  Seems he has fallen off the face of the earth.

Thanks, Andy. Last we heard from Walt he was living in Minnesota. He 
was a great champion of the original DTXtreme kit, with the wooden 
shells and mylar heads.  God bless'im. His disappearance is a sad 
unsolved mystery.

Ed