[peel] Re: peel shows

[John Bravin]

When I finally got my RTR down from the loft and converted all my tapes 
from the 60's I discovered three things:

i. we put up with truly horrible AM sound quality in those days, 
especially in the evenings
ii. the early tapes had become very brittle - handle with great care and 
avoid using the FF if you can
iii. tapes left unplayed for many years do leave a faint sound image 
from the adjacent layer of tape, it's like a faint echo you can hear 
during the quiet passages.

Actually none of the above seemed to matter.  You can pretty much get 
the music from anywhere if you try, but it was the hand crafted mixture 
of music, DJ links and abrupt endings etc that was special. Like the 
whole is more than the sum of parts.

John

Julian Porter wrote:
Soon after, I sold the RTR deck to my brother and have, up until the end 
of last year I think, never played the tapes.