[peel] Re: peel tapes and paypal

[markbursa@...]

Ken, 
 
Sounds just about perfect to me - let's keep it simple and do the  deal...
 
Perhaps insert a caveat regarding the quality of the tapes? Presumably  
they're FM recordings on decent equipment....
 
Cheers
 
Mark
 
>>ok, folks, back after a very long day at work failing students  (only 
joking) and trying to 
clear the decks before holiday from Sunday, let  me sum up where we are. What 
a 
wonderful day of activity to come home to  online...

1. we all pay dee dee £21 via paypal that he will set up and  tell us what to 
do. We can sort 
it all out later

2. I email the  seller, introducing myself and saying i have been asked to 
represent the  
largest peel listener group community on the web, which was instrumental in  
assisting 
with my book etc blah blah (yes it was nice to get Paul 's belated  review in 
Mojo. I also got 
a good one last month on pop matters website in  US, i think).

3. Our proposal is to offer to buy the tapes for a decent  price - via one of 
our number 
named dee dee who will also introduce himself  to you - and make the donation 
to his 
preferred website - or perhaps jointly  to that and John's favourite 
charities (Salvation Army 
and Amnesty  INternational)a

4. We would collectively over the next 12 months  catalogue, digitise, and 
review the tapes' 
contents, and once this process  is complete, present the catalogue and 
whatever the 
collection contains that  is missing from the Radio 1 official archive 
(whether complete or 
near  complete shows or individual sessions / session tracks) to the radio 1 
archivist  
Hannah Brana Martin in digital form, whom I am in regular contact with. I  
also know Sheila 
and the family well and will offer them the original tapes  at the end of the 
process, 
although I suspect sheila will say she has quite  enough cassettes in the 
house already, 
thank you very much.

5. we  respectfully suggest that if the seller is intereted in preserving 
decently  John's 
legacy, we are the people to sell to

After I've done that I  will have to back out of the selling and collecting 
etc because I am off  
abroad for the Scottish academic's summer break and have no intention  
whatsoever of 
looking at email for at least a month. After I spent half of  last year's 
holiday in Switzerland 
sitting in an internet cafe on the shores  of lake geneva tapping out the 
last 2 chapters 
against the clock while my  wife and daughter frolicked in the pool, Magda 
will accept 
nothing  less!

cheers

ken

PS. check out our new course, my  (additional) day job is now running this, 
having written  
it:<<