Well sorry, Donny, we tried...
Just out of curiosity, does the term 'real deal' simply apply to folks who agree with you 100% and fawn over everything you do? Because, no offense, but if you refer to those that CAN play well, work steady (or used to before they retired) and are pretty knowledgeable, you have dissed your fair share of THEM
But, of course, their leaving had nothing to do with YOU, did it?
What's missing here is any sense of SHAME. At least the guy that posted a fake tune here and claimed it as his own work had the good grace to leave and not come back for a very long time. But here you are, just acting as if 'who, me?'
nothing had happened, without even an apology of any kind. I am pretty certain you have no shame for your actions whatsoever.
This, above all the other good reasons, would exclude you from any list of the 'real deal' here. If you miss all the others (some of which were driven away by your own antics) so much, why not join them..? Or rejoin the forum as more than just a pot-stirrer and provider of URL's that anyone with Google can look up for themselves. You were once a valuable contributor here, but 'caricature' is starting to be a pretty apt description.