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<em>echoes</em> Echoesian Archive & Catalog
history and behind the curtain at echoes
(working staging copy for culture block)
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[=== ECHOES ARCHIVE CATALOG SYSTEM REGISTER === VIA BEAR === INVITING FULL REVISIONS AND HISTORICAL REVIEW ===]
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👥 echoes irl togetherness
- "Fleeting /e\ Moments echoes meetups:"
A foundational parts of the echoes mailing list culture was politeness in our dealings. this facilitated friendly, in person, informal meetups where ever and when ever was convenient to whom so ever. some were documented.
Brummen Meetup
Artifact ID: Brummen Meetup
Object Type: Brummen Meetup
Historical Context: A
picture of echoes suscribers at meetup in brummen. photo by gtamb.
bear asked og gtamb: kindly remind us of the circumstances for it.
gerhard reminded with:
> This was the first Pink Floyd fan day in the beautiful city of Brummen (1996-ish)
> Left-to-Right
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> Ralph, Andre, Remco, myself, the pig
> Bottom row Tom en Ed
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> I think the Pig was from The Pink Floyd experience who either were about to do or had just done a full on live performance of The Wall in The Hague
Dick Parry 73 Letter
Artifact ID: parry73letter
Object Type: parry73letter
Historical Context: A
letter in 1973 about payment to Dick Parry found during a subsctiber's visit to europe.
> I did a quick lap of Europe with my son recently, and he spotted this bit of memorabilia on the wall of the Berlin Hard Rock Cafe -
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> jeff...P "
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🎸 Band Awareness & bear's Personal Encounters
While Echosians never knew for certain if members of Pink Floyd or their core management directly subscribed to the list, the band was verified to be explicitly aware of echoes, and it was known to bear that several record company employees were active or lurking subscribers.
bear's connection to the band's history includes direct personal interactions with multiple members. Two memorable such were when bear and kiwi subscriber DAve met drummer Nick Mason during his promotional book tour.
(When he first came out, after a quick cleanup during which he'd acquired a small shaving cut, bear quietly pointed out the resulting bit of blood with the offer of a tissue (and a quick joke about not making any american jokes about a "nick" on his face :) which he accepted (at least the tissue) with thanks and used before going on with the proceedings.)
Later, bear and a few echoes-folks met several band members (including guy pratt meeting with "bloggers on dg's site") at a local pub in Oakland, California, during David Gilmour’s 2006 On an Island tour (which featured keyboardist Richard Wright). Unbeknownst to bear at the time, someone from the tour crew filmed bear during the event—a clip that was later included as a hidden "Easter Egg" feature on the tour's official DVD release "Remember That Night".
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