New download (1981)

[thebarguest]

Great tape, ta la ! Date is July 81 I think, coz Peely
refers to the new release from the Gang of Four, which was
July 3rd 1981 (thanks Mr Google) ......... Great to hear the Magazine 
song - criminally underrated band, much better than their admirers,
Radiohead.


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Dr Mango <dr_mango2004@...> wrote:
>
> I thought it was about time that I sorted out my additions to the 
recent flurry of new downloads. But first of all, I'd like to thank 
everyone who has popped up in the last 6 months or so with excellent 
new shows to share. I've particularly enjoyed the 1982 ones. This was 
several years before I started to tune in regularly, so to have them 
complete to hear 26 years later in fine quality has been wonderful. 
I'm also grateful to have got my hands on shows from the 1990s, a 
decade that seems to be a bit thinly served when you look at what's 
in circulation.
> 
> Before I describe my first tape, I'll tell you all a story. In the 
aftermath of Peel's passing, I rued my meagre archive of recordings 
and cursed myself for not having the foresight (or spare tapes) to 
record more shows, particularly back in the days when I first began 
to listen to the JP show. I used to daydream about stumbling over a 
cache of tapes unexpectedly, perhaps through a casual conversation 
with someone at work. One day, this sort of came true.
> 
> A year ago I was sent off to work for another team on loan. A move-
around of desks a couple of weeks after my arrival saw me sit 
opposite a chap called John, who was about 50. We hadn't really 
spoken much, apart from dull, work-related matters, until we got on 
to the subject of John Peel, which was sparked off when I came into 
work on a dress-down Friday wearing a Wedding Present t-shirt.  He 
revealed that he used to be a regular listener from the late 70s 
onwards and even better, he told me that he had some Peel tapes... 
you can probably imagine my excitement. I asked him if he had any 
complete shows, or part shows, or just sessions. He explained that he 
hadn't listened to the tapes for years, but from what he remembered 
they mostly consisted of compilations of tracks. I asked him if I 
could borrow them to digitise, offering to provide him with CD 
versions in return. A couple of days later he eventually brought in a 
plastic bag containing a total of 18
>  tapes. He did warn me that much of the material he'd recorded was 
just an odd track from here or there, but there were some substantial 
sections of pure Peel, with plenty of Peel's links captured. I could 
hardly wait to get them home so I could get to work, listening and 
cataloguing.
> 
> I suspect that John's (the chap from work) experience was common to 
many people. He said that he'd start recording a show, and if he 
liked the sound of a track he'd leave the tape running. If not, he'd 
stop and rewind and them start recording again. What I found on his 
tapes bore this out to some extent, but there were some great 
contiguous sections without too much evidence of a hasty finger on 
the pause button.
> 
> So now you're probably thinking, "enough of the waffle - where's 
the goods?". Quite so. I've started with the earliest tape in the 
collection. This is actually a compilation of 3 chunks of Peel that 
straddles the sides of a TDK cassette, interspersed with contemporary 
chart hits and what sounds like the typical output of Radio 2. I 
don't have a scanner, but when the light's better tomorrow I might 
take a photo of the tape listing so you can see what a jumble it is. 
The Peel content may not even be from the same show, but I suspect 
they're not very far from each other in origin. Unfortunately, I 
don't have the broadcast date of this show. The contents of the tape 
didn't give me much to go on. The biggest clue is that Peel plays a 
New Order session track, "Dreams Never End". Although he doesn't 
announce it as such, I've checked and it's definitely the Peel 
session version. According to Ken's book, the debut New Order session 
from which the track is taken
>  was broadcast on the following dates: 16.02.81 / 05.03.81 / 
16.04.81 / 14.05.81 (and possibly in Dec 81 for the 'best of' yearly 
roundup). This is definitely not from the first date, as this show 
has been shared out on here recently. Having looked into the release 
dates for some of the other tracks on the tape, both Peel and non-
Peel, I'm of the opinion that this is either April or May 1981. 
Perhaps the full shows of these are lurking in the box of 400, so we 
can confirm this in due course. The sound quality is very good. I 
suspect it's FM mono.
> 
> Track listing:
> Eddie Fontaine - Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)
> New Order - Dreams Never End (Peel session version)
> Black Uhuru - World is Africa
> Peel chat introducing Ian & the Muscletones [side A then runs out]
> ? - Surfin'
> The Notsensibles - The Telephone Rings Again
> Gregory Isaacs - Front Door
> Magazine - The Great Man's Secret
> ? German song
> The Fall - No Xmas for John Quays (frag.)
> Girls at Our Best - I'm Beautiful Now
> Anyway AKA - It's my Party
> Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty
> 
> 31.87 Mb [34:48]
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1SR0OFT9
> 
> I'll post another download tomorrow, this time from November 1989.
> 
> Dr Mango
> 
> 
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