any interest in an early nineties cassette collection?

[ken garner]

agreed on all that mate. Let's get 'em in!

You're right, when I last looked at the complete show tape listings on BBC INFAX, there were no more than 20 or 25 shows from any one year of the Peel show (some years have less than 10, and there are very few from before 1980), UNTIL you get to about 97/98/99, when the full force of the new digitalising policy, recording of each show onto CD during transmission, gradually became real practice.

So I wonder who it was you spoke to in Archives, Steve? Can you dish the dirt? He may have meant, of course, that they think they have all the session tracks, which is probably true... but then it is only a very few people in BBC Information & Archives who truly understand what they have and have not really got! The really enlightened ones are those who realise how much they are missing...

ken

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, rockerq@... wrote:
>
> I think we in this group would be very interested in those tapes!
> 
> The BBC probably have very little of this period saved, as it was before 
> they digitized the shows.
> 
> I am in Bristol, and would be happy for you to deliver them to me! As you 
> may have gathered I am organizing the ripping of the "400 Box" of late 70s / 
> early 80s which we clubbed together & bought on Myspace - this should be 
> completed sometime over the summer - so I would be happy to take on the "92/93 
> Box", provided no-one else volunteers, and you don't mind a bit of a wait!
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Rocker
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > <<Hi. I have a large number of cassettes of complete shows covering a 
> > complete period of more than one year from 1992 through 1993, plus a few shows 
> > and selected tracks with partial links from the early and mid eighties, 
> > also including some Kershaw shows. The tapes include complete tracklists with 
> > dodgy spellings. It is not clear on the tracklists where one show begins 
> > and the next one ends, but possible to work out hopefully by listening to 
> > them.
> > 
> > These tapes have been stored a long time in boxes in an attic, where they 
> > might have deteriorated. I hardly dare try to listen to them, but I am 
> > currently clearing out the attic. If anyone may be interested to have the whole 
> > lot or some of the collection, it is free to a good home. I'm in North 
> > Dorset, and I'm willing to deliver free within Dorset, South Somerset, 
> > Bristol, West Wilts, etc.
> > 
> > If more detailed info is required, please ask for further info. I can 
> > check the quality, the actual range of dates, and perhaps take some photos if 
> > there is genuine interest.
> > 
> > I wrote to the BBC archive to ask whether they have this period covered as 
> > I would not like to dump the tapes if there was any chance of them being 
> > unique, and the guy replied that he thought it highly likely that they have 
> > the whole nineties covered, but obviously couldn't be bothered to check 
> > properly.
> > 
> > Steve Lowman>>
>