Couple of new partial 1987 shows

steve saipanda@...
Tue Aug 17 19:58:11 CEST 2010


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
>






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