A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: pyroman on April 21, 2010, 01:31:35 AM
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Any old fans from DSIS newsletter and Telegraph-road mailing list here ?
I've just found this forum.
I lost touch with a lot of the fans from those days.
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There are a lot of fans here who used to be active in the TR mailing list, including our sexy Britney, you'll recognize some. ;)
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I was only a reader of the TR mailing list ;)
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Ahh, the good ol' TR mailing list! I was a regular contributor. Got to know some nice people there. And I remember a very lively discussion about the Pyrobass abuse back in 2001. I still wonder: Do bass guitars have feelings? ;)
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Forgot to mention, I was a member there, too. ;) Welcome to our new home.
Wishes
Allen
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I was in the TR mailing list too. I first got the internet at home in '97 when I started uni so I must have joined about then.
I remember following the STP tour and general consensus being that TR was better than the GH tour versions.
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I was also a TR member and used to write quite a lot :D
About DSIS, I wasn
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Yep, TR member as well.
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I was a TR member. I met Lady Writer there. And Cisko1, and a neat guy from Norway named Per, whom I can't find anymore. They all helped me immensely with my bootleg collection.
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Yes TR member here. By the time I want to become a DSIS member too Liz stopt with this newletter.
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Hi Nice to see some of you old TR list members here.
I was a frequent contributor.
The only person from Seattle, if you remember me.
I also went on a road trip in 2001 with Frosty our admin throughout the Northwest to see Mark.
Sadly I've lost touch with Frosty.
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I think I recognize Lady Noe from TR List.
Probably the Jeroen's too.
Whatever happened to Tomas Molin's list, I was on that for a while too,
I guess afte TR list died out, I lost touch with everyone.
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I think I remember most Hazel, Frosty, Tomas, and a lot of the dutch fans.
Cisco was the guitar player from spain right ?
Lots of lively discusion, and I see it has carried over here.
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I was in the TR mailing list since 2000 or 2001
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Cisko1 is in Italy. Different guy.
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TRoad member since 1998. Man, that was a hard time between the end of TRoad and the start of AMIT! :'( I never felt well on the other forum :-X ;D
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See the tagline :)
T-roadie from 1996 and until the burial... Finding AMIT was a relief!
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TRoad member since 1998. Man, that was a hard time between the end of TRoad and the start of AMIT! :'( I never felt well on the other forum :-X ;D
yes After TR died I really stopped MK discussion on Internet
these bulletin boards seem to be a better method than email
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i am really happy to see so many old faces, and to see they found a new "home" :-)
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Yeah, the T-Road mailinglist. I've been there too, since 1995, not only reading it, but I also took part in discussions. It was a good source for MK/DS-related-news, as there wasn't an official MK-site nor the MK news site during the early years.
Regards,
Lars B
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I was a member of the DSIS and also on the TR mailing list.
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Back in the 80's and early 90's(?), I got the news from Damage Management...I think the secretarys name was Liz Whatley?.. never heard of DSIS or TR though.. ??? :)
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Hi,
Was on TR also. For a looooooooon time ;) The great days !!!
Loved to reveive all these emails, from all around the world.
And loved to post sometimes too...
This mailing-list has let me to meet a LOT of people. Especially during the 2001 tour.
I don't feel so easy to be/read/post on the forum. Found it easier that it arrives directly to my mailbox rather than being "forced" to go on the forum.
But the forum is far better to explore/search through.
And I still don't understand why no real name are given here.
David
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Hi David,
If you know some Spanish, don't miss to join the Spanish fan mailing list, and in that way, you can continue receiving tons of mails every day. ;)
Wishes
Allen (Zhang Lun is my name :P)
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Back in the 80's and early 90's(?), I got the news from Damage Management...I think the secretarys name was Liz Whatley?.. never heard of DSIS or TR though.. ??? :)
Liz's mailed newsletter was DSIS
Dire Straits Information Service
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Back in the 80's and early 90's(?), I got the news from Damage Management...I think the secretarys name was Liz Whatley?.. never heard of DSIS or TR though.. ??? :)
Liz's mailed newsletter was DSIS
Dire Straits Information Service
Oh, ok... :-[ :)
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I was on the TR email list from about 1995 on. I started when Frosty was running it. Thanks to administrators Frosty and Tomas. TR was a great way to stay informed, and I am indebted to them.
Unfortunately for me, I never knew about DSIS until it was too late to join.
linda
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Yeah I was on TR from 95 when I first used Netscape and the internet. Anyone remember Cathy Cross?
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Yes, I remember Cathy.
I recall a big move to a different city happened for you at that time.
I think I joined TR list in '93, and lived through the first demise and rescue by Frosty,
and then the final demise.
Those were fun times before browsing really took off, and email was the only way to get info.
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Just saw in facebook a member of the TR mailing list and though about awaking this old post, in case he is looking for it. I was a member as well, wrote the first SL review after a trip in London and an early promo copy I tracked down at a second hand store in Portobello, a couple of weeks before the official release.
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Just saw in facebook a member of the TR mailing list and though about awaking this old post, in case he is looking for it. I was a member as well, wrote the first SL review after a trip in London and an early promo copy I tracked down at a second hand store in Portobello, a couple of weeks before the official release.
I always find it funny when I read Portobello because most people don't realise it's actually a suburb of Edinburgh. It's very well know in Scotland because it was a great Victorian seaside resort especially for Glaswegians. They would travel East across the country at the time of the Glasgow Fair when most of their local businesses would close. Porty was still going strong as a resort until about the mid 20th century probably. Sean Connery used to work as a lifeguard there!
Still a lovely place but no longer a resort, it has lost it's pier, it's beautiful Art Deco swimming pool (where Connery worked) and gained an amusement arcade. Much the same as Whitley Bay and most British seaside towns in that respect. It still has it's wonderful Turkish baths though.
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There's also an area in Dublin called Portobello, but I have always assumed the song was about Portobello Road in London. :)
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There's also an area in Dublin called Portobello, but I have always assumed the song was about Portobello Road in London. :)
Yes, that's what I have always assumed too. I suppose it can be about what you want it to be though and what it means to you...
It's not too far fetched to assume that Mark and family would have visited Portobello for a holiday during the Glasgow Fair though. :think
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I used TR Mailing list on a daily base, but only reading. I liked Tomas Molins site a lot because it was a great source of information. Later I changed to Oneverybootleg which was even nicer. Can hardly remember any of the discussions on TR except a long one about The Ragpicker's Dream...
LE
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Portobello must mean "Nice harbor", so it probably more fitting for seaside districts! ;)
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There's also an area in Dublin called Portobello, but I have always assumed the song was about Portobello Road in London. :)
yes I think so to, and I believe there are some early gigs (boston 79, barbarella's 78) where Mark said before the song something like "and now back to london" (but he said that before single handed sailor and wild west end to) and in 82-83, during the song intro he spoke a lot about that district in london with carabean music and so on...
but on the over hand, there is the line with "irish girl" (that made the crowd in Dublin liking the song so much in 91) so it could also be about the Dublin district (maybe that was what the Dublin crowd was thinking about ?), but I doubt it
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There's also an area in Dublin called Portobello, but I have always assumed the song was about Portobello Road in London. :)
yes I think so to, and I believe there are some early gigs (boston 79, barbarella's 78) where Mark said before the song something like "and now back to london" (but he said that before single handed sailor and wild west end to) and in 82-83, during the song intro he spoke a lot about that district in london with carabean music and so on...
but on the over hand, there is the line with "irish girl" (that made the crowd in Dublin liking the song so much in 91) so it could also be about the Dublin district (maybe that was what the Dublin crowd was thinking about ?), but I doubt it
Also "the blind man singing Irish" :)
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I don't think there's much doubt about it being about the Portobello Road market. Mark has spoken before during a concert about there being all sorts of nationalities there and all sorts of musical styles (reggae rumble). This would also explain the (paper) "rhino" on a truck (Notting Hill Carnival).
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I have a photographic book entitled "Portobello Road -The Early Sixties", published by the Antique Collectors' Club. The photographs recall a time when the market was more local and less international (and you could, occasionally, pick up bargains). One of the photos has this great, handwritten sign: "Very useful hard-wearing single size SHEETS" (and then in smaller size) "with slight repairs". The price was "5/- each or 2 for 9/-".
Portobello Road was originally Green's Lane and, later, there was a farm there called Portobello Farm, which took its name from a victory in the "War of Jenkin's Ear" between the British and the Spanish in the mid 18th century. Puerto Bello, as it was called back then, is in Panama.
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I too was on TR list. Is there a web based archive anywhere of those posts to that list?
And whatever happened to Tomas Gygaxs Neck and Neck site and Tomas Molins knopfler.net sites? They were the first generation of DS and MK websites
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And whatever happened to Tomas Gygaxs Neck and Neck site and Tomas Molins knopfler.net sites? They were the first generation of DS and MK websites
Both were my primary sources on MK's related issues.
I was in TR too, and was an occasional poster. As I was in Spanish City, even though I don't speak Spanish...
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I became a T-Roadie on friday the 7th of June 2002 at 12:02 in the afternoon. :D
The last Digest I received was on tuesday the 9th of October 2007 at 12:08. :-[ It felt terrible when the T-Road mailing list died. I felt disconnected from the other fans. After the death of the T-road mailing list I moved to Terry's forum. Luckaly at some point I discovered amarkintime somewhere down the road.
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I discovered the solo music of Mark in September 2006! I knew some songs of Dire Straits before but at that time I wasn't a big fan! After discovering by accident the beautiful song
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I loved the Neck and Neck site, too. It had a lot of information. I can only find the discography section of it now. Thomas G and Tomas M. helped keep me informed before forums came online. and I was grateful.
I also went to MK.news forum after losing TR and N&N ceased to be updated, then went joined AMIT when it started as well as MK.com's red page. Now I'm on a couple of Facebook MK sites, too.
Before I found TR email list, when Frosty was still running it, it was really hard to find out much here in the States - had to rely on Rolling Stone and Billboard and maybe a guitar magazine.
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http://www.superseventies.com/faq_direstraits.html