[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by davevoeltz

Thanks for the welcome. While I'm new to this group, I am a long time member of the Gord Newsgroup. Too bad its mostly spam nowadays. This looks like an excellent replacement.
Many of you probably have some of the videos I recorded off of my satellite dish years back from Canadian stations. The Juno Awards, Governor's Awards, Gzowski Interview, New Years Eve 1999, House of Blues Special, Alan Thicke interview, and others. I have them on video tapes but will have to convert them to DVD so they last a long time :-)
Regarding the interview, if you have a digital recording, I can convert the file to MP3 for all to share.
Anyway, glad to be here and meeting some old friends again. Hopefully Derek, Doug, Shirley, and the rest of the old gang are here as well.

Wow Dave Voeltz himself!! .
I remember reading some of your postings when I first started reading the Newsgroup regularly back in 1997.
As you pointed out the once almighty and vibrant Newsgroup has slid inexorably towards oblivion , since very few even
bother to post there anymore except cretins. I am just a tad surprised that it has taken you 8 years to find corfid though!!
because Florian did announce its creation on the Newsgroup back in 1999. See:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...e24483fcb705c3
doing a search within the alt.music.lightfoot newsgroup now on your surname reveals 102 postings, however the most recent was way back in 2002 when you replied to a Minnesotan thread started by John Wicklund aka Seafarer62 at:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...e24483fcb705c3
so you have not helped keep the NG going very much!!
and many from 1997/8/9 refer to your generous and much appreciated disemination of rare videos. good on yer!!
Yes we have a few of yours here courtesy of I believe Yuri.
I was particularly interested to see that you used to use a stereo Betamax.Do you still have it??? I have a pair of commercial stereo Betamax tapes
one by Stevie Nicks

scan of front cover as previously displayed by me in a great corfid thread at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...ighlight=nicks
the other is the Mac's Mirage tour but I have only ever had (as now) a mono Betamax recorder . I would therefore ask you to digitise them for me one day. but you would be of no help as my two tapes are in PAL format . Oh well nice thought or could you extract the stereo sound track regardless?? Probably not because as well as the incompatible colour coding method a PAL tape would only play back at a speed and/or different frame rate and my mono and PAL Betamax is of course unable to output a stereo sound signal
By the way John got here before you and posts here as surprise surprise, seafarer62
of the others you mentioned Doug Kirk posts here regularly as "doug", as occasionally does Anne Aspry (now in OK member name here "anneOK"),and the "Grande Dame" Shirley Hoggard also from OK of course is registered here and is now 70 see:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/member.php?u=14920
but has yet to post anything on corfid perhaps you could send her a private message and get her to write something here
I once got into trouble on the newsgroup trying to persuade young Kidd to come here and try to display a picture , infra dig on the non binary newgroup of course and I know Ed Mullen keeps away now from both the NG and corfid. Others here from the NG here include our most charmant Moderator personage CHar and Jenney and Tim Quinn.I am sure we all extend a very warm welcome to you Dave and look forwards to seeing much posting from you in future. There are some great personalities here and new fans appear every week so don't feel too bad that you have only just "got it", what kept you so long??? Better late than never eh?