Session request...please!

[so_it_goes_2512]

Hi Martin

Thanks so much for these! I see the truth of what you're saying, so I suppose it will just have to remain a Holy Grail...rather like the 1976 Festive Fifty. Unless there's somebody who has it. Can't think who.

Best wishes
Steve [TK]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@...> wrote:
>
> At 02:00 27/09/2009, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Hi Martin
> >
> >Thanks for the response! I really look forward to receiving these. 
> >Yes, you're right, the EJ was a Wednesday show, and from what I can 
> >see, it was never repeated, so I'm not holding out much hope for 
> >that. As I said, a long shot: in fact, one writer about the other 
> >session on that CD thinks that the only reason they put the DLT 
> >Sunday show session out was because the masters for the first 
> >session were 'lost'.
> >Or perhaps they're in some collector's hands, because in one of the 
> >shows put up by B, John talks about the session tapes, and says that 
> >originally the BBC was only allowed to keep them for three months 
> >after transmission as part of the contract with the artist, and 
> >after this time had elapsed were often put in a skip outside and 
> >people helped themselves to what they wanted, which is pretty 
> >incredible. Can you confirm the truth of this, Ken?
> >
> >Best wishes
> >Steve [TK]
> 
> 
> Bang Bang Machine
> 
> http://www.divshare.com/download/8662477-6b2
> 
> Sugar Cubes
> 
> http://www.divshare.com/download/8662507-c45
> 
> 
> You've a lot of things against you to get 1968 sessions
> The battle then was to get records on the air rather than sessions because of
> needletime and people didn't regard sessions as important
> So too many got chucked away or the tapes reused
> Added to that not too many cassette recorders about and low level mono radio
> broadcasts mean very few off-air recordings
> 
> martinw
>