Cheers Ken

[ken garner]

Many thanks for those kind words Andrew. The guy to credit for the 
design which you feel makes it "a thing of beauty" is not me, but 
designer EstuaryEnglish, a Peel listener the publisher told me, and 
the editor Steve Tribe. My wife said people were going to love seeing 
the session sheets, scripts, wall charts and stuff, and although I 
didn't believe her she was right, whereas I just take them for 
granted because I'm drowning in them here in my office at home and 
have been since 1992. The session sheet images are scans of my own 
copies, and hence some of the image visible in some cases is, er, my 
annotations. The writing on The Beat one on p107 saying "not keyed.. 
his [bob sargeant's] writing (look for tell tale double quotes") is 
me, using this one as an example to my keying helpers 15 years ago, 
as i did for several, to id producers and engineers by their 
handwriting when their names were left off, a frequent occurrence. 
The Syd Barret and Bob Marley sheets are in Walters' hand; Dale 
Griffin's capitals are unmistakeable on Napalm Death and Wedding 
Present; the "SM? MR tick" on the siouxsie one on the back cover is 
me. Sadly the romeo era from 88 onwards ended these adventures in 
graphology, although some handwritten ones came in again at maida 
vale from 98 onwards.


One of the best bits of memorabilia which we strongly considered for 
the book but didn't quite make the final cut, was my Walters wall 
chart from 1990 showing the two solid weeks in August when every 
session was a Fall repeat. The idea was to just show that bit blown 
up big with a witty caption. In 92 I had borrowed and transcribed all 
Walters' old wallcharts that were stuffed in a corner  of egton 318, 
before they were junked, from 86 thru to end 91 (nov 87-Feb 88 
missing), but only ended up keeping a sample of a dozen or so. The 
best one all round is the one on p114. Anyone spotted the red herring 
in there, by the way? Tell you what , I'll post up that fall one as a 
jpeg as a file in the site's photos section if i can...

Louise is not seven feet tall, and knows this picture is funny, taken 
on some steps in Barcelona old town i think during the show's trip to 
Sonar June 02.

ken

I'm rather dizzy with all this file sharing. I very nervously tried 
and got one to work from yousendit - i liked that, it worked, i even 
understood what was happening!

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--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Dean" <koogy@...> wrote:
>
> book arrived from amazon yesterday and is a thing of beauty. love 
the 
> cassette theme running throughout (spent most of peel listening 
years 
> hearing the show a day late via a week's worth of C120s, siphoning 
off the 
> interesting bits as required, so it strikes a chord). loved the 
little 
> glimpses of bbc proforma even. great photos. first chapter still 
hard to get 
> through 3 years later. thanks for the mention(s) too, parents were 
(vaguely) 
> impressed. 
> 
> one question. is louise really 7ft tall like she appears in that 
one 
> picture? 8) 
> 
> ok, this list can now go back to file swapping on industrial 
levels. wake me 
> up when it's over. 
> 
> cheers
> andy
>