Perry Tribute Site Bites The Dust

[Chubby321]

Is it popcorn time.....

Come on people the board it too quiet, we need blood.

BTW, let me clarify, blood means debate not menstruation, ok?

This place is really starting to corrupt you Chubby!

[Tarseea]

I have no idea what the situation is with the closure of PV as I haven't been there since I got the boot a few years ago. But I do know that the owner of the site did make donations in Steve's name to Make-A-Wish in the past. Make-A-Wish would send Steve a note in the mail (in care of me) thanking him for the donation that was made in his name. I remember seeing these notifications a couple of times over the past years, but I don't recall seeing one for the last 2 years. Not sure on that, though.

Good to know at least the couple donations I made a few years ago made it to MAW on behalf of Steve. You can ask anybody, there isn't too many people I don't click with on first meet, but K and her sidekick's shinanigan's weren't going to ruin that stellar day. What goes around comes around. Treasured memory for sure no matter what thanks to you and C, and I'm sooooo glad one of the sweetest people I met that day Chrissy, was able to meet SP before she died of cancer so young.

Can't believe in a couple of months it will be three years since we lost Chrissy................Her reaction to him that day is for ever happily etched in my memory

[Ftloperry]

I have no idea what the situation is with the closure of PV as I haven't been there since I got the boot a few years ago. But I do know that the owner of the site did make donations in Steve's name to Make-A-Wish in the past. Make-A-Wish would send Steve a note in the mail (in care of me) thanking him for the donation that was made in his name. I remember seeing these notifications a couple of times over the past years, but I don't recall seeing one for the last 2 years. Not sure on that, though.

Good to know at least the couple donations I made a few years ago made it to MAW on behalf of Steve. You can ask anybody, there isn't too many people I don't click with on first meet, but K and her sidekick's shinanigan's weren't going to ruin that stellar day. What goes around comes around. Treasured memory for sure no matter what thanks to you and C, and I'm sooooo glad one of the sweetest people I met that day Chrissy, was able to meet SP before she died of cancer so young.

Can't believe in a couple of months it will be three years since we lost Chrissy................Her reaction to him that day is for ever happily etched in my memory

Glad that she got to meet Steve before her passing.

[Tarseea]

Wow I was on PV and had no clue all of this was going on.. Fairly new to the site.. 1 year probably.. Not cool at all..

The major part of all the crap went down over 3 years ago now..... things went from bad to worse after the meeting with SP thanks to Kathy and her famous side kick TREE........The BS with what happened to Lora was the clincher for many of us there that day.......Like Deb said she attacked asomeone who only had Steves best interest at heart and called Kathy on it........Of course Kathy can dish it out but she can't take it.....

[Matthew]

You guys are making me glad I never joined that site! I guess my first instincts were good. Seemed to be too secretive, possessive, and odd for me.

The only thing that intrigues me is the whole Deano is my Hero thing.........now that is funny! First he owns an island at MR, now he is the Hero of the defunct PV site...........I can just see it now...........loons laying fern leaves at his feet............trumpets blowing at his arrival on the site.................Steve Perry who? LOL!

O.K. Just to add this before I go to work............I am not trying to disrespect our loveable Deano. I just don't get calling him conquoring hero. I like Lora and Cyndy very much. They gave us some great times with Journey force, Spin, etc......all that Fan Asylum was and is. But I would not call them heros. A man who runs into a burning building to save a baby........this is a hero. I still have respect for all the above mentioned folks.........but it is respect, not hero worship. I am just curious to no end what made you choose those words for Deano. Maybe it was something great I never knew about the man. But let me in on this picture!

Deano was greeted like a hero at PV because he played a key role in bringing the hated Augeri era of the band to an end. If you need to know more just Google "Journey" and "tapegate" or "lip-synch" and you can catch up on the whole saga. Most people here are pretty talked out on the subject...

As much as I respect Deano here, that is over kill. Hero? Because of tapegate? I guess we look at the word differently. Sure Deano is appreciating it though! Deano my Hero! I like you better as the island master.............

You're being so pedantic and obsessive about this, A4P. Didn't you say you had a life?

[Don]

I thought she just got a new job?

[WykkedSensation]

I too was once a member of PV, seems most were at some stage.
I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.
Never dreamed any of this crap was going on.
PV had been surpassed a long time ago anyway by farrr better sites, most of which are still in existance.

[annie89509]

Well, here’s my interjection on my PV experience, for what it’s worth …

Matthew and I have a lot in common … we both “discovered” SP and SP/Journey sites/forums around the same time in ’05. Over the years, I have felt a kinship with Matt, as we shared just about the same opinions and views, visited/posted on the same forums. Like all the reasons he stated, I too felt that PV was the best privately-ran SP fansite there was on the ‘net … devoted solely in honor of the man and his voice. And, like him, I searched and checked them all out at that time. I do believe I was the one that introduced him to PV when we found ourselves posting on the Yahoo forums (the Steve Perry fans mailing list, which was really an Augeri/Journey lovefest disguised as a Perry fan board … lol).

Without trying to take sides, it’s a crying shame what has happened with Kathy. Yes...you don’t really “know” a person unless you “know” him/her personally – and I don’t. Over the years, I have heard of people having fallouts with K. I have also heard of many good things she has done for people. I know about the getting into people’s PM’s … but, as Matt said, there’s always email if you want total confidentiality. Like Andrew with this site, the owner rules; if you don’t like it, you don’t have to join.

It’s true, Kathy was like the queen bee, presiding over her court that was PV … and we were her disciples. I never had any problems with her (she was always nice to me); but then, I don’t invest much of my personal time joining cliques or forming friendships on fan boards. I know she had a lot of people that helped her run the site and forums, but it amazes me when I think about how much SP info she had on there. It was really a joy to go there; and, on the boards, everyone got along. What I did find weird was periodical sniping (usually started by Kathy) that so and so from another site have plagiarized a photo or clip from PV and being posted on the other site as their own – or someone is hot-linking this week’s video posted by Kathy for her site members enjoyment and posting it all over the ‘net; thereby, running up her precious bandwidth’s cost. I’ve always wondered if she was maybe just a little bit paranoid over these things. But then, I don’t know all she had to put up with, either.

Then, as someone alluded to, things really started going south after the gals came back from Perryfest and the WOF meeting with SP. One by one, all the major contributors (like Deb, Cindi, Janna (not this board’s Jana), Sarah,Tarsea) stopped posting. To everyone’s credit, nobody badmouthed anyone. It was like … people just moved on. A new group of regular posters took over the boards …and I just didn’t like the new vibe anymore. Perhaps, I just outgrew the place, (there is only so much SP fawning one can take, lol). I also missed Matthew’s periodic musings, as he seemed to have moved on, also. Anyway, the shit really hit the fan with the Lora fallout. A few days later, Kathy announced she’s closing the boards (“too much stress”) – but keeping the Perryville site open. I stopped going there and starting posting here. I heard she eventually opened the boards up again, but I had gotten used to posting with the people here and didn’t want to go back. There really is more variety here.

I don’t know about previous sign-ons, but Kathy was posting as Wildfire here. She quit after the unpleasantness in a thread here a few months back. Putting myself in her shoes, I wouldn’t be surprised if she felt a lot of people are against her.

[artist4perry]

You guys are making me glad I never joined that site! I guess my first instincts were good. Seemed to be too secretive, possessive, and odd for me.

The only thing that intrigues me is the whole Deano is my Hero thing.........now that is funny! First he owns an island at MR, now he is the Hero of the defunct PV site...........I can just see it now...........loons laying fern leaves at his feet............trumpets blowing at his arrival on the site.................Steve Perry who? LOL!

O.K. Just to add this before I go to work............I am not trying to disrespect our loveable Deano. I just don't get calling him conquoring hero. I like Lora and Cyndy very much. They gave us some great times with Journey force, Spin, etc......all that Fan Asylum was and is. But I would not call them heros. A man who runs into a burning building to save a baby........this is a hero. I still have respect for all the above mentioned folks.........but it is respect, not hero worship. I am just curious to no end what made you choose those words for Deano. Maybe it was something great I never knew about the man. But let me in on this picture!

Deano was greeted like a hero at PV because he played a key role in bringing the hated Augeri era of the band to an end. If you need to know more just Google "Journey" and "tapegate" or "lip-synch" and you can catch up on the whole saga. Most people here are pretty talked out on the subject...

As much as I respect Deano here, that is over kill. Hero? Because of tapegate? I guess we look at the word differently. Sure Deano is appreciating it though! Deano my Hero! I like you better as the island master.............

You're being so pedantic and obsessive about this, A4P. Didn't you say you had a life?

Mathew, I just found it amusing you called him a Hero. I was joking around. And yes I have a life, as do you. I get on here for fun, don't you?

[artist4perry]

I thought she just got a new job?

I start on the tenth. But I work at night right now. Don't you work too?

[Sarah]

Haha wow this thread brought back so many horrible memories. I had much drama with them (she told everyone there I was a sick person and to stay away from me on other sites) but what most screwed me over regarding PV was that I was in talks to buy rare pictures off a private seller until the lady pulled out because she was "warned" about me. It was probably due to the PM-reading. At the time, I was extremely annoyed, but now I should probably be glad because I feel like all of that memorabilia I bought was a complete waste of money and now I have to resell it. lol

But yeah that site was where I first saw the pic that made me fall in love with SP, so I'll give it that.

[nolippin]

The PM "warnings" seem to be a common tactic on Perry/Journey forums in general. As a rule, when someone "warns" me about someone else, I am immediately suspicious of the "warnER".

Haha wow this thread brought back so many horrible memories. I had much drama with them (she told everyone there I was a sick person and to stay away from me on other sites) but what most screwed me over regarding PV was that I was in talks to buy rare pictures off a private seller until the lady pulled out because she was "warned" about me. It was probably due to the PM-reading. At the time, I was extremely annoyed, but now I should probably be glad because I feel like all of that memorabilia I bought was a complete waste of money and now I have to resell it. lol

But yeah that site was where I first saw the pic that made me fall in love with SP, so I'll give it that.

[Marabelle]

lol! the woman was ingenious that it lasted this long and she was able to mismanage so much money without any one going to the police and reporting what was going on! it's like she was managing a ponzi scheme and no one was the wiser cause she kept kicking them out and bringing new members in! i mean she had the audacity to kick off sp's friend and still keep the board going! what in the world were people thinking and how was she able to do that and still keep people on the board without them wondering...what just happened here? she's good too bad she didn't know what else to do with her wit, charm and personality; she could have gone places just like madoff and the ponzi in NY.

[Deb]

Haha wow this thread brought back so many horrible memories. I had much drama with them (she told everyone there I was a sick person and to stay away from me on other sites) but what most screwed me over regarding PV was that I was in talks to buy rare pictures off a private seller until the lady pulled out because she was "warned" about me. It was probably due to the PM-reading. At the time, I was extremely annoyed, but now I should probably be glad because I feel like all of that memorabilia I bought was a complete waste of money and now I have to resell it. lol

But yeah that site was where I first saw the pic that made me fall in love with SP, so I'll give it that.

LOL I remember that, I don't think she liked it when I mentioned you were one of the people it would have been cool to meet that weekend. I knew her MO right away when she was all bent out of shape about Jill and Gary. SP was great with them. Two of the sweetest, give you the shirt off their back, type people on the planet. Good friends to this day, have come down and gone to a couple JSS shows with them since. Jill was just too damn cute........when SP was giving out hugs, she was one of the last people he got to and she was all a flutter and almost crying when he got to her, he even commented to her, "awww you're crying" and then hugged her too. Gary caught a bit of it on video and you could hear him snicker behind the camera at Jill's trying to hold it together. It was Priceless!

[SP Fan in Oregon]

lol! the woman was ingenious that it lasted this long and she was able to mismanage so much money without any one going to the police and reporting what was going on! it's like she was managing a ponzi scheme and no one was the wiser cause she kept kicking them out and bringing new members in! i mean she had the audacity to kick off sp's friend and still keep the board going! what in the world were people thinking and how was she able to do that and still keep people on the board without them wondering...what just happened here? she's good too bad she didn't know what else to do with her wit, charm and personality; she could have gone places just like madoff and the ponzi in NY.

I'm afraid if all the allegations regarding the MAWF money collected from members, but not paid to the organization are true that
Kathy is going exactly where Madoff went. It isn't a Ponzi scheme that she had going, robbing Peter to Pay Paul, it is outright Racketeering,
which is a common scheme of criminal conduct, in two or more transactions, involving theft. The fact that it is on the internet involving many victims
in different states makes it Federal. Federal crimes have LONG prison sentences. Something you do in State Court might get 1 year, in Federal Court, 10 years.... No kidding.

[Sarah]

I knew her MO right away when she was all bent out of shape about Jill and Gary. SP was great with them. Two of the sweetest, give you the shirt off their back, type people on the planet. Good friends to this day, have come down and gone to a couple JSS shows with them since.

I wondered what happened to her! She was really active on BT etc and then disappeared.

[treetopovskaya]

Wow I was on PV and had no clue all of this was going on.. Fairly new to the site.. 1 year probably.. Not cool at all..

The major part of all the crap went down over 3 years ago now..... things went from bad to worse after the meeting with SP thanks to Kathy and her famous side kick TREE........The BS with what happened to Lora was the clincher for many of us there that day.......Like Deb said she attacked asomeone who only had Steves best interest at heart and called Kathy on it........Of course Kathy can dish it out but she can't take it.....

not this tree... just wanted to clear that up. }:C))

[WykkedSensation]

Wow I was on PV and had no clue all of this was going on.. Fairly new to the site.. 1 year probably.. Not cool at all..

The major part of all the crap went down over 3 years ago now..... things went from bad to worse after the meeting with SP thanks to Kathy and her famous side kick TREE........The BS with what happened to Lora was the clincher for many of us there that day.......Like Deb said she attacked asomeone who only had Steves best interest at heart and called Kathy on it........Of course Kathy can dish it out but she can't take it.....

not this tree... just wanted to clear that up. }:C))

Lol

[Deb]

Wow I was on PV and had no clue all of this was going on.. Fairly new to the site.. 1 year probably.. Not cool at all..

The major part of all the crap went down over 3 years ago now..... things went from bad to worse after the meeting with SP thanks to Kathy and her famous side kick TREE........The BS with what happened to Lora was the clincher for many of us there that day.......Like Deb said she attacked asomeone who only had Steves best interest at heart and called Kathy on it........Of course Kathy can dish it out but she can't take it.....

not this tree... just wanted to clear that up. }:C))

Definitely not!

[bluejeangirl76]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

[Tarseea]

Wow I was on PV and had no clue all of this was going on.. Fairly new to the site.. 1 year probably.. Not cool at all..

The major part of all the crap went down over 3 years ago now..... things went from bad to worse after the meeting with SP thanks to Kathy and her famous side kick TREE........The BS with what happened to Lora was the clincher for many of us there that day.......Like Deb said she attacked asomeone who only had Steves best interest at heart and called Kathy on it........Of course Kathy can dish it out but she can't take it.....

not this tree... just wanted to clear that up. }:C))

Absolutley not you Teresa who she gave her self the nickname TREE basically Kathy's Twin as they so like to refer to themselves......No you were the good Tree on that site LOL

[Don]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

Post it, woman. I'll take the blame.

[Jubilee]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

Post it, woman. I'll take the blame.

Now, come on, G. The woman would love to post it, in fact she thinks about it all the time. She's just not yet ready to release it. We have to respect that and let her live her life...

(c'mon, BJG...do it..do it...do it...do it...) :twisted:

[WykkedSensation]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

Oooohhh yeah. They probably have her stamp all over them now.
I have many things i would love to post on here, but i save them for my own members on my own site.

[Don]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

Oooohhh yeah. They probably have her stamp all over them now.
I have many things i would love to post on here, but i save them for my own members on my own site.

Where's your site?

[portland]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

Oooohhh yeah. They probably have her stamp all over them now.
I have many things i would love to post on here, but i save them for my own members on my own site.

Where's your site?

yes do tell?

[bluejeangirl76]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

Oooohhh yeah. They probably have her stamp all over them now.
I have many things i would love to post on here, but i save them for my own members on my own site.

No it's nothing like that.

Please, I can 'shop out that stupid stamp EASY. in fact, I have, a few times.

[tammy]

Haha wow this thread brought back so many horrible memories. I had much drama with them (she told everyone there I was a sick person and to stay away from me on other sites) but what most screwed me over regarding PV was that I was in talks to buy rare pictures off a private seller until the lady pulled out because she was "warned" about me. It was probably due to the PM-reading. At the time, I was extremely annoyed, but now I should probably be glad because I feel like all of that memorabilia I bought was a complete waste of money and now I have to resell it. lol

But yeah that site was where I first saw the pic that made me fall in love with SP, so I'll give it that.

LOL I remember that, I don't think she liked it when I mentioned you were one of the people it would have been cool to meet that weekend. I knew her MO right away when she was all bent out of shape about Jill and Gary. SP was great with them. Two of the sweetest, give you the shirt off their back, type people on the planet. Good friends to this day, have come down and gone to a couple JSS shows with them since. Jill was just too damn cute........when SP was giving out hugs, she was one of the last people he got to and she was all a flutter and almost crying when he got to her, he even commented to her, "awww you're crying" and then hugged her too. Gary caught a bit of it on video and you could hear him snicker behind the camera at Jill's trying to hold it together. It was Priceless!

That was cute - loved seeing that all captured on tape for us (although, wasn't there "drama" with Kathy involving that, too?)...btw, how are Jill and Gary? I remember she had that cool cake made for a get-together once at the WOF.

[JasonD]

I supplied Kathy with some rarities over the time i was there.

Which of course are now "HERS" and may not be posted anywhere, ever, lest you incur the wrath.

I think this is why SP isn't out there and musically active. She owns him and all his shit.

Mannnnnn I have the greatest thing to post but unfortunately, I can't do it.

Oooohhh yeah. They probably have her stamp all over them now.
I have many things i would love to post on here, but i save them for my own members on my own site.

Where's your site?

yes do tell?

Damn, does everybody have a site?

I want a site.

WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Don]

If you don't want any undesirables, just PM us the address instead of putting it out here publicly. It's cyberspace, elitism is allowed out here.