WE HAVE THE TAPES!

[thebarguest]

I admire your brave face, Dee Dee, but I'm sure that I'm not the only
one who's deeply disappointed .....

Personally, I'd rather have 10 good quality, FM shows than
4 thousand medium-wave (ie low audio quality) shows. I enjoy the
music as much as Peel's talking.



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Riving Ton <deedeeramain@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>