Missing In Action: The Lost Peel?

[Steve]

Dear Colin

Thank you for your response, and I am surprised that nobody has yet 
taken up the baton on your behalf, especially since these recordings 
fill a gap as vital as those in 'The 400 Box' (at least some idea of 
the contents of which would be welcome) and are probably, dare I 
suggest, of much better quality and therefore just as deserving 
of 'flac', 'flic' or whatever?
Since I live in South Korea, I don't see what I could personally do 
at this distance, which is a shame, since I have the equip,emt 
necessary for doing a decent digital transfer...if you wanted to go 
down the route of sending them to me, I would refund the cost of 
postage, of course!!! Ironically, I lived in Plymouth before my move 
5 years ago, so we could have been in business.
Seriously, somebody give this man a modicum of help, please.

Best wishes
Steve [Teenage Kicks] 

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, colin bray <colinbray@...> wrote:
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> Dear friends,
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> In response to Steve's question, I taped a large proportion of the 
shows broadcast during the 90s and also few from the late 80s and the 
early 2000s.
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> These whole shows still exist on tapes in my loft and add up to 
hundreds of hours of JP goodness. As it stands, I have added 
approximately half the tracks broadcast and recorded to an Excel 
spreadsheet. This cataloguing work was hundreds of work hours behind 
when John died and I was so upset that I put the tapes away, never to 
touch them since. 
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> I have been following the eBay story with interest and this has 
caused me to feel guilty that my collection is languishing in 
analogue form. I had always assumed that the shows I recorded are 
fairly readily available online but maybe not!
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> Although I cannot bear to part with my collection for charity or 
any other reason, perhaps if there is the demand we can find a way to 
get the collection digitised or otherwise more widely shared.
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> I would not claim all the recordings are perfect quality but the 
quality does get better as the years roll on due to better technology 
etc.
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> I am not particularly IT literate and have very little time what 
with a new baby in the house so doubt I will be able to digitise my 
collection very easily or quickly. If anybody wants to offer creative 
suggestions as to how we can utilise and share this material please 
respond/discuss on the board or PM me. 
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> I live in Exeter and would consider lending part or all my 
collection over time to somebody who is prepared to do some or all of 
this work. I would do what I could to assist. However, there may be a 
different way of approaching the problem. Suggestions welcome!
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> I am happy to post a list of recorded shows when I get the chance 
but even this would be quite an undertaking and would take a week or 
two to put together.
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> As I said, responses welcomed.
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> With thanks,
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> Colin.
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> To: peel@...: r.fewster@...: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:18:35 
+0100Subject: Re: [peel] Missing In Action: The Lost Peel?
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> I'd very much echo this. Of all the decades, it seems to me like 
the 90s is perhaps the least well represented, which is a shame for 
me since the early to mid 90s were my own Peel halycon days. 
Exceptions to this is Phil Edwards' fantastic coverage of 1990 and 
1991, and some assorted 1991-2 shows that have cropped up on here in 
the last 6 months or so. 1993-98 are pretty much universally barren 
save the odd show here and there, before the BBC went online in 
1999/2000 and thus recording to MP3 became much easier. Whilst I was 
happy to contribute to the recent ebay excitement, I'd have probably 
shelled out the £500 myself if the period on offer was 1990-1995!
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Steve <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
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> Fellow PeelitesAll the recent excitement over the box of tapes 
prompted me to reinvestigate my catalogue of Peel shows, and it 
staggers me to reflect on how little of his output seems to be 
available. Like the rest of you, I have been downloading all the 
files kindly put up by the members here, and Dee Dee's epic torrents. 
Yet some years are conspicuous by their absence.Leaving aside the 
ubiquitous Festive Fities and the years 1971-4, which Ken has already 
told us are not even present aside from a handful of shows at the 
BBC, I have nothing from 1976 (barring the Punk Rock Special), only 1 
show from 1983, nothing from 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, one from 1993, 
one from 1995, and one from 2000...whereas 2001-4 are extremely well 
represented by the Web.Didn't people tape Peel in those years, or 
have I missed a flotilla of ships? I'm looking forward to the tapes 
as a way of filling in some gaps, but what about these 'lost' years?
Best wishesSteve [Teenage Kicks]...now back in full effect
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