Couple of new partial 1987 shows

[steve]

Hi Stuart,

Many thanks indeed to you for setting it up in all up in the first place! Very much appreciated in these parts, and many others I'm sure.

SW




--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Stuart Mchugh <stuart@...> wrote:
>
> > Also I have a vague feeling it may not originally have been a Yahoo  
> > group
> > Stuart McHugh , the list owner know all about this
> 
> hello  (*waves*)
> Yup, guilty on setting the group up - interesting to hear people  
> talking about how it started, as I'd not realised it had passed the  
> 10 year point. I'm not as old as martinw it would seem, though my  
> memory is clearly dulled more than his, so how I could have set up a  
> group I wasn't a member of is a bit of a mystery... anyway, the  
> history goes roughly like this, for those interested:
> 
> I had started a Peel tape chain in the mid-90s and interviewed John a  
> couple of times I think, and for whatever reason decided that a  
> usenet group (of the form alt.music.peel) would be useful - for  
> younger readers, the usergroups were, I suppose, the old web version  
> of yahoogroups, or even forums.
> The usenet people were very snotty, deeming the Peel 'genre' of music  
> to be already covered elsewhere.
> 
> A mailing list was something that you needed to have a server to run  
> - uk-indie, grunge-l and chugchanga were a few of the mailing lists  
> that existed, maintained by people with technical skills and  
> importantly, computing firepower.
> 
> But around that time, I think that egroups started up offering easy- 
> to-manage mailing lists. So I set up the Peel list.
> At that time mp3s didn't exist, and Peel himself was happily still  
> with us, so the traffic was more about discussion of last night's  
> show and what have you.
> 
> Yahoo bought over egroups at some point, and then when John left us  
> and technology advanced, the traffic turned more to digitising old  
> shows and membership obviously increased - I'd not realised quite how  
> large the numbers were though! I haven't got involved with ripping  
> tapes as the only ones I have left (out of maybe hundreds that  
> entered the US via the Adobe mailroom in Seattle) are F50s already  
> very well covered by the members here. Plus all my spare time is  
> spent trying to run www.isthismusic.com and www.jockrock.org, to  
> varying levels of competence).
> 
> Anyway, that's the story...  keep up the good work - back to lurk  
> mode for me
> 
> Stuart
>