any interest in an early nineties cassette collection?

[thinkingthinkingthinking]

Really, I would rather the tapes could live with someone who can keep them better than I can as I don't have very good storage conditions. I am quite happy for the team to do all of it, but I may be willing to help in ripping some of them &/or in cataloguing for the database.

They are almost all Philips Ferric 90 minute tapes. The inlays for every tape contain full track lists, so that should save some work in dating. There are a few confusing factors. Some sides finish a Peel Show and then start another, or go from Kershaw to Peel or vice versa, so there will be tasks in listening to find the places where shows finish and start, and in working out the sequence of cassette sides.

Steve

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> Seeing as you want to keep the original tapes, which we can all understand, it's clear you're not after the money. If you want help with the ripping I would recommend taking up rocker or others from the west country's offer(s) - loan them for ripping, then you get them back, seems a good plan to me. In dating your tapes, you will have to listen to up to 15-18 minutes of each side - in the 3 hour shows of that year, that amount of time should normally include at least one session track, and then using my book's index you should be able to connect the sections together (if recent discoveries in my own collection are any model, I am imagining you have perhaps 2 x a C90 or 4 x 45 minute sides per show). It will be a long job, though, with that many. Let the team help!
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> ken
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thinkingthinkingthinking" <slo.coche@> wrote:
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> > It looks like there are somewhere about 270 cassettes (mostly Phillips), possibly more. They seem to start somewhere around May 1992 and go possibly to October 1993. I definitely had a project to record a complete year, and I remember that I did succeed in that, so I hope they are all there. I'll try to sort them out a bit more and get more detail. I hope I may still find a few more good ones.
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> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <so_it_goes_2512@> wrote:
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> > > Hi Steve (from another Steve)
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> > > I read your message with great interest, and I would like to comment on several points you make.
> > > Firstly, your collection sounds extremely exciting. I am currently in the middle of a similar project in conjunction with the most excellent Colin called the 500 Box (because there are around 500 tapes in it-no prizes for my original name). Like you, he recorded many of the shows in mono due to reception difficulties (I assume), but nobody seems to have a problem with that (well, no-one's complained yet). These shows are not otherwise available, and as one person commented, it's better to have good mono than poor stereo.
> > > Secondly, I share your point about poverty, since I was made redundant this year in a foreign country (Korea) due to a big-headed 'employer' with no business sense (but let's not go there). On the other hand, the 400 Box was advertised as a non-profit enterprise: the money made from the tapes was donated to charity. If profit is your motive on this (and I don't think anybody can blame you for that), I'm sure there are others on this mailing list far more well-qualified than me to point you in the right direction.
> > > Thirdly, the searchable index you envisage is in fact already under way: if you go to the main page of the Peel Wiki (http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page), you'll see something along the lines of what you mean. Another Steve (from Japan!) and I are the admin team for this, and we'll be more than happy to deal with any enquiries you have about it, and delighted to receive any contributions you wish to make (everybody is welcome).
> > > Finally, I'm sure we are all eager to help with your project, and the issue with the tape sides and identifying programmes is not problematic. After ripping, any anomalies can be sorted out during track listing. I sincerely hope that this can be pursued, and look forward to hearing from you again!
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> > > All the best
> > > Steve [TK]
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> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thinkingthinkingthinking" <slo.coche@> wrote:
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> > > > Progress report:
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> > > > I listened to bits of a few of the tapes, and I am amazed and I have to admit a bit tearful and excited to find them in pretty much perfect condition. They are recorded in mono. Without extremely strong reception, the sound on FM in stereo was always marred by a pronounced "stereo hiss", so I avoided this by making almost all my recordings in mono. Each cassette has a complete track list, plus month and year. Dance tracks are marked with a little cross, and very fast dance tracks have two little crosses; I was into making dance compilations for parties! And I made a compilation of the very fastest dance tracks from the whole of 1992, or was it 1993? I think I've lost that compilation, sadly. Some cassettes have both Peel and Kershaw shows; cassettes are identified as in "JP Sept 92" OR "JP AK Aug Sept 92". Despite these helpful identifying notes, it is quite difficult to work out the sequence of sides. I used to record a side, and then put in another cassette. This avoided the problem of having to rewind to the beginning of the second side of a cassette. It means the shows are all almost complete, but creates something of a task to work out the sequence of sides. I hope it is mostly clear in the recordings when a show begins and ends, but I need to check this out more.
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> > > > I note that you guys paid some bloke several hundred pounds for a collection of cassettes a while ago. Well, I'm not greedy but I am very poor! I am impressed that some of you are prepared to put so much time and effort into digitising the shows. Does it mean you are as crazy as I was when I made all those recordings? ;)
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> > > > I hope that one day it will be possible to create a searchable index of all the shows, so that listeners can listen to shows from a particular date, find particular sessions or tracks, and even perhaps find quotes from Peel talking about particular subjects, etc. All this would obviously take a lot of work and expertise, and of course the main priority is to get the source material down in a durable, high-quality format before it turns into goo or dust.
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> > > > Being occupied with poverty, career planning, education, etc., I may not have a lot of time to give on this project right now, but if it could involve the possibility to learn or help develop databases, etc. then I may be interested to help and perhaps also do some of the donkey work.
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> > > > I guess I should say that I probably want to retain ownership of my cassettes (unless you want to make me an offer I can't refuse!), but I'm very happy to let one or two of you guys have them for the purposes of digitising, etc., and if you can store them in better conditions than me, then I'd be grateful for you to keep them until I get rich enough to afford a big house with a nice archive room! Or maybe they should go to a museum or other archive if they are worth keeping good.
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> > > > I still haven't assessed the exact range of dates of my tapes. I'll do that very soon and let you know exactly what is there.
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> > > > All the best
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> > > > Steve
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> > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, rockerq@ wrote:
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> > > > > > <<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>>
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> > > > > Of course I meant eBay!
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> > > > > Cheers!
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> > > > > Rocker
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