[peel] My Peel tapes

[Tom Bartlett]

I saw JAMC the other month for the first time in 16 years and they were 
great. You are not going to buy the new single then? :-)
Or go to the MBV gigs?

Riving Ton wrote:
>
> Hello Tony!
>
>  
>
> Nice introduction! I think that if I say on behalf of the Peel Group 
> that we'd all be thrilled to grab a copy of what-you-got that we'd all 
> be in agreement!
>
> I imagine that we all share a similar experience of taping cassettes 
> and then re-recording over the top of them. I know that in a warehouse 
> somewhere where all my gear is currently stashed I have a box of 
> fragmentary Peel tapes!
>
> I loved the early JAMC too - Never Understand was great! What a shame 
> they got back together. I can't see the point of middle-aged people 
> banging out tunes they wrote when they were 17. It's no longer music 
> but cabaret!
>
>  
>
> Cheers,
>
>  
>
> DeeDee
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: arclight2525 <todsy94@...>
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:35:14 PM
> Subject: [peel] My Peel tapes
>
> I've spent the last month converting my old John Peel tapes to MP3/CD
> (the best I can, I've used the Audacity programme, which is good as
> you can slow down any old recordings that have speeded up over time.
>
> I don't know if I have anything that's not already out there, but if
> I do I would be happy to share it with you and the Peel fans
> websites. I don't have any full show (the nearest to that is 90
> minutes of the Black Keys at Peel Acres in 2003).
>
> I started listening to the great man's show around about 1981 after
> it was recommended to me by my older punk/student sister (and never
> stopped listening, I was tuned in to his last ever show) From the mid
> 1980's I used to tape his shows all the time. This was because I knew
> I'd hear groups and tracks on there that I'd possibly never hear
> again, so left his voice on the ones I saved so I knew who they were.
> Alas I taped over most of them with another show when I bought the
> records, not everything though. I've now 11, 80-minute compilation
> CD's with tracks/sessions from the mid 1980's onwards with Peels
> voice on.
>
> The earliest and possibly the most important recording I have is the
> 1st Jesus and Mary Chain session (Never Understand, You Trip Me Up,
> In A Hole and Taste The Floor) from 1984, with Peelie's voice
> introducing and commenting on the tracks `I suspect you're going to
> hear more from these people.'
>
> I loved the JAMC since the day John Peel played debut single Upside
> Down (hence being paused over the pause button when they were in
> session) and it's because of him that I saw them live twice before
> Psychocandy came out. They only played for about 25 mins, William
> Reid had his back to the crowd and a certain Bobby Gillespie was
> banging away on one base drum.
>
> 3 years on from his passing and I still miss John Peel a great deal
> (it's only this year that I've been able to bring myself to listen to
> the radio between 10 pm and 12.00 again) It's great that people are
> unearthing their tape recordings and making them available to
> everyone.
>
> Best wishes
> Tony Hill
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See 
> how. <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51732/*http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/>
>