[peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970

[Phil Edwards]

These files have finally be converted to MP3 by John and have been uploaded
to the Peel Server.

Phil
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  From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
hills1902
  Sent: 15 April 2007 14:18
  To: peel@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970


  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:

  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

  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.

  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.