A Mark In Time

General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Jules on August 24, 2012, 12:11:52 AM

Title: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Jules on August 24, 2012, 12:11:52 AM
If you were a member of the old Telegraph Road Mailing List, just raise your hand and say Hi!!!

Many of us were there, its time to find old friends, invite others if you want!
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Dutchessy on August 24, 2012, 12:14:10 AM
Only a reader in the last (year(s)), not a poster.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Guitarman1972 on August 24, 2012, 12:16:55 AM
Hi! I was a T-roadie from the early beginning. I went by the name Michiel.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: ds1984 on August 24, 2012, 12:19:16 AM
Hi (I was there under a different nickname)
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: vgonis on August 24, 2012, 12:21:58 AM
I was there too, but received no mail, yet. My first contact with organized fans. I really don't remember the nick name I was using.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: ingridswing on August 24, 2012, 12:24:08 AM
Also only a reader at the end, I think I posted maybe once or twice. Don't remember nickname
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: aborille on August 24, 2012, 12:25:48 AM
I was a T-Roadie and even before that I was subscribed to Dire-Straits@merrimack.edu mailing list. More or less since 1992.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: border_reiver on August 24, 2012, 12:46:00 AM
YES!

Since 1996. Nick was Almen.

I used to have the Dire Straits Real Audio Archive website with 30 sec clips from all the albums!  :D


(Btw, I'm still very good friend with (nick) BiA who had a killer website with the picture of the Brothers in arms cover with MK signature and state of the art 90's Photoshop flare  ;D )
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Love Expresso on August 24, 2012, 06:59:16 AM
I was reading (since 1999 - when did it actually end? I remember Tomas Molin writing that he fell asleep in a train during the first listen of Shangri-La, did it really run until 2004? Or am I mistaken and he said it at another place? Or did anybody else say it??  ::) )

I never posted (I think), but really, I can hardly remember anything apart from very bad discussions (political stuff?) and spam posts at the bitter end?

Would be nice to read some of the last threads again (or maybe not), just to remember things a little bit. I was very late with internet connection in my personal life (1999, when I was 28!). The first thing I searched for was (not S E X ) but MARK KNOPFLER and the first hit I had was information about STP coming out soon - I really went crazy - after all those years... And very soon after that (days later) I found TR mailing list. I was more searching through TM's site because I used it as some kind of archive and was wondering how many great live recordings did exist... Those were the times my fandom got reactivated, after a longer break from 1996....

LE
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: tunnel85 on August 24, 2012, 07:41:14 AM
I remember Tomas Molin writing that he fell asleep in a train during the first listen of Shangri-La, did it really run until 2004? Or am I mistaken and he said it at another place? Or did anybody else say it??  ::) )
That can't be true. ;)  Shangri-La is so full of energy.  ::) :disbelief
Now everybody is aware : please make sure you're not in a train, you don't drive and you have a few liters of coffee ready when you'll get your copy of  Privateering.  ::)
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: dustyvalentino on August 24, 2012, 07:50:19 AM
Yup, first thing I did when I went to uni in 96 and got internet access was join.  I don't remember there being nicknames - it was just emails wasn't it?

It was still going in 02, as I went to Shepherds Bush with Hazel from Newcastle's son.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: lfblaauw on August 24, 2012, 10:46:36 AM
I've been on T-road since 1995.  Didn't use a nickname.

Lars B.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: dmg on August 24, 2012, 10:56:36 AM
I joined in '97 I think just after I joined uni and got internet access, a la Dusty.  Only a reader, not a poster.

I remember there were two different versions.  I got the digest version.

I only recall it running up to 2002 but I may be wrong.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: JeroenvG on August 24, 2012, 11:04:04 AM
I was on T-Road didn't post much and I don't remember my Nickname anymore. Think I was there from 1995 - 1996 when internet came to our house.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: ds1984 on August 24, 2012, 12:54:21 PM
I think I was there toward 1998. If I recall well I discovered "neck-and-neck" site then runned by Thomas Gygax that linked me to TR. I was an occasionnal poster and don't remember so much trouble.

Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: lfblaauw on August 24, 2012, 01:09:39 PM
I think I was there toward 1998. If I recall well I discovered "neck-and-neck" site then runned by Thomas Gygax that linked me to TR. I was an

Neck and Neck is still there: http://www.neck-and-neck.com/ 

Tomas Molin his page (www.knopfler.net) is offline, but with the great Waybackmachine you can see it at http://web.archive.org/web/20040609054345/http://www.knopfler.net/


And what about MK's first 'official' homepage?  http://web.archive.org/web/19961221061729/http://www.mark-knopfler.com/

Regards,
Lars B.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Hoops McCann on August 24, 2012, 01:32:57 PM
I joined in 2004, sometime before Shangri-La was released. Unfortunately, the list lost popularity
as new forms of internet communication became popular.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: dmg on August 24, 2012, 01:36:14 PM
I think I was there toward 1998. If I recall well I discovered "neck-and-neck" site then runned by Thomas Gygax that linked me to TR. I was an

Neck and Neck is still there: http://www.neck-and-neck.com/ 

Tomas Molin his page (www.knopfler.net) is offline, but with the great Waybackmachine you can see it at http://web.archive.org/web/20040609054345/http://www.knopfler.net/


And what about MK's first 'official' homepage?  http://web.archive.org/web/19961221061729/http://www.mark-knopfler.com/

Regards,
Lars B.

That's great!  I never knew about web.archive.org  Thanks for that.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Fletch on August 24, 2012, 01:40:31 PM
Quote from: lfblaauw link=topic=2561.msg51843#msg51843 date=
Neck and Neck is still there: http://www.neck-and-neck.com/  

Tomas Molin his page (www.knopfler.net) is offline, but with the great Waybackmachine you can see it at http://web.archive.org/web/20040609054345/http://www.knopfler.net/


And what about MK's first 'official' homepage?  http://web.archive.org/web/19961221061729/http://www.mark-knopfler.com/

Regards,
Lars B.

Cool! Knopfler always looks a bit 'soft' in the Goldern Heart era.  :(

I love some of the last messages on the Guestbook... "Don't drive the Motorbike next time...."
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: knopfling on August 24, 2012, 08:10:13 PM
I was a Telegraph Roadie. I don't recall what year I joined, but Frosty was still running the list then.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: IrisRose on August 24, 2012, 09:22:29 PM
I know it was still going in 2005, but notifications were becoming very rare.    I was a member, or on the mailing list,   but I rarely posted.   First MK associated friends came from that mailing list.    My first first bootleg trade came from that list.   
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: nababo on August 26, 2012, 02:04:26 AM
I was there too. As in here, I was an occasional poster. But I remember the I have read many great discussions and very useful information, specially to me, a Brazilian folk far from the usual MK's habitat. I remember some guys like Jeroen, despite not being a hard poster, Tomas and Thomas, many guys from Spain (who also were in Spanish City mailing list) and a guy named Victor, from Portugal, who used to have a very fine and ironic way of discussing subjects. Are they here by the way?
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: JF on August 27, 2012, 01:47:52 PM
I never posted on T-Road, neither on Mk news, but I read both regularly
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Waterline Man on August 27, 2012, 10:07:12 PM
I remember getting back into MK music around the late 90's & I never posted on TRoad as it was on its last legs at that stage,the first site that I posted on was MK News which was the bee's knees at the time - how things change :o :o Most people are over here now though except for a few die hards.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Best Brown Baggies on August 27, 2012, 10:51:45 PM
I used to read the T-road emails, but only in its latter stages of existence.
I think I may have contributed to it a few times, but my memory fails me.

Cheers BBB
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: marc96er on August 29, 2012, 01:33:53 AM
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Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: goldenheart96 on September 02, 2012, 12:38:58 AM
I joined in 2000 or 2001, don't think I used a nickname. But my dad's email adress  ;D There were some lively discussions on TR, I especially remember the "Do basses have feelings" debate after the Pyrobass incident. Those were great times, met some great people on this list. And if it hadn't been for TR, I 'd probably never met MK!
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Pottel on September 02, 2012, 12:46:15 AM
for the record: never been a member.
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: vgonis on September 02, 2012, 08:56:37 AM
I kind of liked the basic style of TR. There was a time, in 2004, when I became more involved, posted some reviews and opinions about Shangri-LA. I was thrilled when I saw that I had mail from TR and I met the first 2-3 collectors that gave me a view of what recordings are out there, and got some as well.Must have been reading since my first dial-up connection in 1998?
Title: Re: Were you a T-Roadie?
Post by: Marijn on September 30, 2012, 08:12:19 PM
I was there from 1995 onwards. First it was organized by a US fan, later on by Tomas Molin (www.knopfler.net).
I guess there was a pretty solid fan base from the early days of DS till around 1996, when MK started his solo work.
So many fans lost interest and kind of disappeared...   I guess the TR mailing list was suppose to die when it did.
Message boards are way more easy to maintain and offer more possibilities.