There were a few people I had been trying to track down for years. Once the internet came I was able to find 2 of the people in the same day.
1 was Chel White from the Minneapolis band Process Blue. I found him living in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, and I was able to get him to dig up the original 1/4” tape of Process Blue’s only release, dump it to a DAT for me so I could burn a disc of it.
I was surprised at how willing some of these people are to go out of their way to provide the die-hard fans with music. Chel went so far as to take his reel-to-reel tape deck into the shop to get it fixed and tuned up before he made me the DAT. You never know unless you ask.