[peel] Re: Yet More from Peel Night...

[Ray Culkin]

Ken

Thank you very much for this.  It is greatly appreciated.

Ray

On 7 Mar 2009, at 00:52, ken garner wrote:

>
> Well, not much is missing, Steve. The night was recorded back to  
> back on 3 C120s on my auto reverse record TEAC double cassette deck.  
> The tape automatically flips to reverse record therefore between  
> parts a and b, c and d, and e and f, and these flips are therefore  
> almost instantaneous, with less than second missing. There are a few  
> seconds missing from Gene's penultimate live number Where Are They  
> Now?, when the first tape got to end side 2, and there's a momentary  
> pause before the second deck fires in for part c - but seeing as  
> that number and indeed Gene's entire performance that night is  
> commercially available on their Peel Sessions double CD (Polydor/ 
> Universal 2006), that's hardly a loss and a reconstruction of the  
> gap would be possible if anyone were so minded (though I can't see  
> much point myself) [NB. listening back to the tape and my CD just  
> now to check, I heard Martin Rossiter crediting Mick Talbot as  
> guesting on keyboards, so that's another little nugget/emendation  
> for the book, you see, no research is ever wasted!]. The only  
> possibly longer gap is between parts d and e, when I had to pop into  
> the room and put a third tape in tape deck A, I suppose, because the  
> deck will only record on two decks in order, it won't go back and do  
> tape deck one again (I have no memory of any of this of course but  
> logically this is what I must have done), and so John's well known  
> anecdote about the Faces at Newcastle or Sunderland is truncated and  
> maybe 30 secs to one minute are lost from Stay With Me. Again, not  
> much of a loss, in my view, in the circumstances.
>
> And seeing as someone asked, here are the links for all 5 parts so  
> far:
>
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GC1U9RBD
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ETL3IXYO
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0OEIAIP7
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ND1ZMPH3
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BF9S4CW3
>
> ...oh and what the hell, here's part 6, just for Steve:
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNH8OTWN
>
> the final part is naturally the best: Broken Dog's cover of The  
> Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, followed by a somewhat drunken Peel  
> intro to Pavement's live set - wow! - then tearful final birthday  
> speech and thanks from John (including a moment which will effect us  
> all emotionally, you'll know it when you get to it) - then John's  
> jukebox memories from the 90s (with some live show clips not  
> normally trotted out, and it's nice to hear those years given the  
> same worship and prominence, and the show ends with Solex's somewhat  
> quirky electronic cover of Teenage Kicks. And so in the end the long  
> journey was worth it, wasn't it?
>
> happy listening
>
> ken
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Ken
> >
> > Thank you so much for this recording: very soap opera style,  
> making us wait for the next instalment!
> > In the 500 Box, there is about 3 hours worth of this programme:  
> would you mind letting me know if there are any sections missing due  
> to tape flips, and then maybe Bill, would you be interested in a  
> reconstruction jobbie if Colin's tapes have any of the missing  
> sections? I wasn't going to rip them at all, but this is such an  
> excellent show that in this case it might be worth the trouble.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Steve [TK]
> >
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ...honestly, we're nearly there. And at last it's getting quite  
> interesting. This 5th and penultimate installment concludes John's  
> memories from the 70s, then it's Cha Cha Cohen's somewhat  
> inconsequential, noodling cover of Interstellar Overdrive, Dave  
> Angel's disappointingly short live mix set, a montage of John's 80s  
> memories, finally leading into one of the best things of the night,  
> Broken Dog's special cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (I  
> know, I know, this is wrongly attributed to the Pastels in the book,  
> and all the time I had the tapes somewhere unknown), but in another  
> cruel blow from the gods, the tape flips a few seconds in. So you'll  
> have to wait another week to hear it in full.
> > >
> > > k
> > >
> > > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BF9S4CW3
> > >
> >
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