Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970

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Many thanks to everyone involved !

Cheers,
Micky Tutte

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Edwards" <festive50@...> wrote:
>
> These files have finally be converted to MP3 by John and have been 
uploaded
> to the Peel Server.
> 
> Phil
>   -----Original Message-----
>   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.
>