I sort of remember some of the weird trippy shit NTV would play late night/early morning in the early/mid 90's. I've heard stories of Geoff taking LSD and demanding certain, wacky videos be played on his station. Please if anyone has any old footage or even stories about this legend, please share them here! I have become fascinated in the man. If anyone knows of a book or anything else about the man, please let me know!
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Geoff Stirling; I must know more.
Actually it’s called Waiting for Fidel https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKd5-kzVJ1s
Skip to 44:19 if you want to get an eyeful of Geoff casually sitting buck-naked watching TV with Joey Smallwood
Hey, Cuba's hot man
I think they've still got DVD's of that down at Fred's Records haha
One Saturday I woke up in the middle of the night with the TV on, and what I saw was Geoff Stirling's face in a colleidescope of colours reading old presidential speeches. I didn't even think it was real at first and thought I was having some insane rum fueled dream. I was mesmerized and couldn't look away.
Yo just FYI this is only played on the demand of his son. He calls the station and says "play it" and hangs up, they finish up whatever 1970s spiritual guru is spouting and play this. If you catch it, you can be sure he's either drunk and trying to impress somebody at that exact moment or very bored. I have secret sources!!!! Add this to the Sterling Apocrypha!!!
No, I’m my experience he was sober and used to call from his ranch in Wickenburg AZ. I recall playing captain Canada over willie Nelson stardust on one occasion. He was never rude or inebriated. He was however very chatty and always interested in the goings on and how your day went. I don’t recall his son Scott ever requesting any overnight programming changes. Usually the programming change would preempt scenes of Newfoundland which was non revenue anyways. Source: Former Overnight Master Control Op at NTV in the mid 90s who took many of these calls.
I don't know anybody who knew Geoff but I have a friend that was around his son a lot in the 2000s. It's probably not true anyway but it's fun to think about
It's not.
This is the story I've heard! I've also heard he'd request inspector gadjet? Like. A small window would pop up on the screen over whatever was on. Late night NTV was fuckin mental growing up.
That is fuckin amazing. I saw this almost 15 years ago and it's seared into my brain. I'm still not even sure it's real.
It's real as hell, and sometimes they overlay Scenes of Newfoundland or Captain Canada on top of THAT. So you have his face, reading speeches, sitar music underlay, wild pseudointellectual bullshit on the chiron, and just kinda semi transparently pasted on top of that Captain Canada or a fucking cgi dolphin or some goddamn thing. It's the perfect representation of schizophrenic night terrors.
I have an odd story. About 20 years ago, I was out very late one night and stopped at a 24 hour gas station. It was about 3:00am and this Ferrari pulls up to the tank on the opposite side and out steps Geoff Sterling with a video camera. I didn't pay much attention to him but then he asked if I minded him filming me while I pumped my gas. I knew who he was so I said I didn't mind, in hopes that I might end up on NTV in a trippy kaleidoscope LSD nightmare.
Geoff was a character in the truest sense. I recall that He often stayed up for 3 days straight and then park his white convertible Mercedes S500 on the curb next to the main door of the Hotel Newfoundland and crash for like 16 hours, up and at em again for another 3 days. He lived very large.
I've uploaded a bunch of his content on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrqDmzOvutZG3g_Lows0RYg?view_as=subscriber
Doing God's work
This is great. Thanks!!
There used to be a manifesto available written by Geoff sterling but I can't find any record of it. It covered a lot of his spiritual beliefs as well as stuff about Newfoundland being part of/ near to Atlantis. I believe it was hosted as part of this site which updated since I saw it around 2010
https://web.archive.org/web/20110708115131/http://www.captainatlantis.com/ccanada.htm
This looks familiar.
I found it, from a link off ntv.ca.
http://captainatlantis.com/in-search-of-a-new-age/ Edit:
Nevermind the link dies. Use the archive.org link
I’ve seen some weird shit on there early in the morning on Saturdays as recently as a few months ago. Sound very similar to what you’re describing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did he not air the entirety of the novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull annually, being read over footage of a seagull?
Have you seen Waiting For Castro?
Watched it just before posting this haha
Waiting For Castro was a local band 15 years ago or so, Waiting For Fidel is what you’re thinking of :)
i always used to leave the hall and go hang out with burnouts when waiting for castro would play
I always remember the weird late night animations but have never actually seen him (I don't think I know what he looks like). Always heard stories though, like the ones here.
Reading his wikipedia page for NTV though, I REALLY want to see his video The Assassination of J.F.K. This sounds bonkers. Any one know if it is around?
Wasn't he actually at the hotel and in the bed with John Lennon when they were recording "Give Peace a Chance". He's one of the background singers.
His Christmas tv address was WEIRD!!!
I have no proof of any of this or any direct sources. I forgot about it until this thread. In Grates Cove, there was a rock called Cabot rock that John Cabot had carved his name into. The rock got stolen when I was a kid and the rumor is that Geoff Sterling stole it and it was built into his mantel in his house in the Bahamas.
My father mentioned it was inscribed by people before Cabot as proof they were here before the English (probably Viking or Norse).
First I’ve heard of this... Crazy...
I saw his will a few years ago. The man might have had some interesting thoughts about banks and finance - he collected A LOT of gold and precious metals.
There was a Captain Atlantis movie made years ago that I would just fucking LOVE to see.
He used to call up from the Bahamas and make the tech put on shows for his kids
Geoff’s grandkid is one of the Real Housewife women. Like a real super Christian one. Her name is Lydia McLaughlin I think.
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