Fast Eddy Ol Buddy,
I truly understand your concern about MAB's Forum being silent for awhile; but I have to share with you my opinion why that is.
For some reason the newer members on SongRamp only want to use this site to upload their music on the Open Mic and don't bother to join in on conversations on various Forums and Threads.
How sad, because none of them realize the resources they have avilable to them; to include MAB and his wealth of knowledge.
Occasionally someone will strike up a conversation about music (most often Philboy) but for the most part we are all older members and have exhausted our questions to MAB. We have mostly resorted to silly chit chat that has nothing to do with music what-so-ever. I admit to being the biggest part of the nonsense; but I too have run out of questions for MAB. I only wish we had newer members to join in; like both you and MAB do also.
I fear our SongRamp site may no-longer be a learning tool for songwriters to improve and learn how to become better songwriters; but only be a source for them to upload their songs on the Open Mic and try to convince us they already know how to write good songs. Sad but probably true.
Anyway, we can always depend on a few of them to ask questions about copyrights and how to protect their average written songs.
OD