White cloud - "The guy that had it commissioned caused a bit of outrage on the club at the time...I personally seem to recall his online persona as coming across as vile and divisive."
Indeed he was . Whenever anyone disagreed with him he'd call that person a racist. Eventually Mica Wickersham asked him to leave. I have a note of one of her comments to him ... "[font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font]
[size="3"][color="#0000ff"]I would venture in saying, Hal, that a pattern of controversy seems to largely track threads you participate in. Some sage advice my mother gave to me long ago was, "if you think it's everyone else, consider that maybe it isn't."[/color][/size]
He was last seen trying to sell the tomahawk to fund his business making his own version - the funkbass.
Not much on the alembic forum rocks the boat but Hal caused quite a bit of controversy and led to a couple of long standing members quiting.