Fleetwood Mac Convention Austin TX 1992
 

I was looking through some of my Mac stuff and I found my commemorative program that they gave us at the convention. I was looking at the list of attendees and I was just wondering what happened to some of these people. Would they still be active in the fan community? I was wondering if anyone here on the Ledge attended. I know that sadly a few of the people did pass away. I would love to go to another Mac convention but I don’t think that would happen again.

Hi Pattie, I was there. :)

John

Oh wow that would be the coolest thing. Especially more-so now since there is such an established on-line community, it could be a whole different dynamic than in years past.

Anyone want to organize one? :)

-Lis

I would like to be part of some sort of convention. Maybe like you mentioned with the internet it could be better. I was just a bit disappointed with the vendors. I thought that there would be more then they had but I always want more. :lol:

Sadly, I think that the internet has hurt some of the fun of going to record conventions. I used to go to a few up in Boston and they would have quite a few vendors selling everything from, posters, promo CDs, import CDs, press kits, photos, 'recorded shows" ;) ,etc. Today it is basically a waste of time.
Most of the vendors don't even bother coming anymore or just went out of business.

I haven't heard of anyone who's heard anything from or had any dealings with George Kane. Joe Admire is probably still around, wherever he hangs out online these days. Frank Harding, of course, grabbed his loot & fled overseas. I think a lot of those attendees are still around; everyone's got a registration-only Web board these days, which makes it tough to track old-timers.

Yeah, I don't see him advertise any more in Goldmine or anything. Goldmine has really gone down hill, too. Maybe he no longer has the store.

A lot of those vendors just faded away. There aren't too many places to find promo CDs anymore either. I had an advanced promo copy of the Dance a week before it came out. I even got a promo TISL CD a week before it's official release. When SYW was due to be released I could not find anyone that had an advanced promo copy. I still don't know if they ever did release a promo copy.

We met Joe Admire, watta name from the past! My god that feels like ages ago. I guess it was about early 1996, i think I was pregnant w/ Brittany. But anyway, we met up in DC at Mick's old restaurant, 'Fleetwood's'! That was the first person we knew from on-line that we 'met' in person.

Anyone else ever been to Fleetwood's before it went under? There were some cool old pics (of FM/Christine Perfect and others) hanging on the walls. Actually we went a 2nd time w/ friends of ours from DC, our friend Jon stole a beautiful spoon and then presented it to me after we'd left. :laugh: Criminals, we are. But I still have the darn spoon, I love it!!

anyway i digress. We met Joe Admire. I actualy acquired a huge amount of my FM collection from him-- articles etc. Nice guy.

-Lis

George Kane sells a lot of stuff on eBay now.

:shocked: So I guess that we now know the really reason the place folded! :laugh:

I did not even know that there was such a place. Now, with the internet you know just about everything that goes on in the Mac community. :blob1:

I was in Austin in '92
 

That seems like a long time ago... remember we got to talk to Mick on the phone? He was very gracious! Cool to meet the people I corresponded with by (gasp!) mail, like Joe Admire and others...

I was too shy to talk to Mick, anyway. Yeah, remember all the Mac pen pals and trades on TAPE. lol I don't miss those days at all.

God forbide...
 

not the dreaded Tape trades :lol: :nod: :laugh:

Brian j.

Tapes and snail mail. Ooh the horror of it all. :lol:

All of this sounds very cool except for the tape trades and what not. It just hit me that I was a mere six years old in 1992. :p

Should I be embarrassed that this is still how I do trades??

:eek:


--Lis