[peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970

[Sean Carolan]

All,

As a backup, I'm also reel-to-reel equipped.  4-track stereo, specifically.

-Sean
 Altrok Radio



At 01:18 PM 4/15/2007 -0000, hills1902 wrote:
>I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear 
>programmes 
>that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following 
>bands:
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>26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family
>11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo 
>Dog 
>Band
>Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John 
>Dummer Blues Band
>Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band
>29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, 
>6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat 
>Khan
>4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise
>11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House
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>Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at 
>1 
>7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though 
>unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I 
>seem 
>to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is 
>not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker 
>terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder 
>was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so 
>some 
>of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes 
>also have various LPs of that era on them. 
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>Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing 
>to 
>send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity 
>if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in 
>copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them.    
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