[peel] Re: WE HAVE THE TAPES!

[Riving Ton]

What do you expect for one pound thirty per tape?! Ho Ho!!
Personally, I spent a long time listening to recorded Peel shows on crappy car radios and straining to tune into SW so this will be acceptable in the interim. (I'm hoping that eventually these shows will turn up in a better quality format!).
Better than nothing and still cheap considering the volume!
Cheers,
DeeDee



----- Original Message ----
From: thebarguest <thebarguest@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 5:34:21 PM
Subject: [peel] Re: WE HAVE THE TAPES!


"AM" - Oh SHIT - yes, it does happen.

Why couldn't this chap answer the quality question properly ?

AM - makes a joke of all the FLAC vs mp3 debating, ha ha....

Hey, Rocker, well done, thanks, you've done your best......

I'm not sure I'd have donated 20 quid for AM recordings.. ...
Still, its gone to a good cause.

--- In peel@yahoogroups. com, rockerq@... wrote:
>
> Sorry to shout! Yes - I made the pickup last night - in a 
supermarket carpark 
> near Cheltenham - and got to meet Bryan, the seller - he's a very 
interesting 
> chap, he actually knew Peel in the late 60s / early 70s - when I 
have time I 
> will recount to you a couple of his stories. I suggested that he 
should join 
> this group himself, not sure how much he uses email, though.
> 
> He tells me he emailed Ken a reply last week offering to stop the 
auction and 
> sell to us direct - I guess Ken was away and didn't read it in time 
(or it's 
> in his spam box!). He certainly was keen that the tapes should go 
to 
> enthusiasts / archivists - so a bunch of obsessives like us 
certainly fits the bill! He 
> also said that as he is clearing some of his old stuff out he may 
be able to 
> find some more tapes - and if he does he will be happy to let us 
have them (he 
> did mention a Top Gear he used to have on reel-to-reel with a 
session by The 
> Nice - he's not sure if he still has it though).
> 
> Anyway - the tapes are in good condition, in a large cardboard box -
I have 
> been so busy I so far have only had time to stick a couple in my 
cassette deck 
> - and am leaving in an hour for Indietracks in Derbyshire, so next 
chance I 
> get to go through the box will be Monday daytime.
> 
> The ones I listened to are (and thus probably all of them) are mono 
> recordings from am - both seemed to be complete shows - the 
cassettes are fairly 
> low-quality - Bryan told me he was working at the time for a major 
record company & 
> quite a few of the tapes are demos and pre-recorded tapes which he 
liberated 
> from work and recorded over. (The only thing which stopped me 
keeping my own 
> peel show tapes in those days was the cost of buying so many tapes -
so like a 
> lot of us I used to copy just the tracks I liked, and edit out 
Peelie's 
> links). I think with a bit of eq-ing they should sound OK - they 
are certainly 
> likely to be our only copies of most of these shows so I do think 
we should be 
> very happy with our purchase!
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Rocker
>