60s-70s Peel Shows - The Decktician Tapes

[ken]

That's very exciting rocker. As some of you who are my fb friends may have spotted, unfortunately I have just been signed off sick for probably two months at least - labyrinthitis: I am wrecked and half deaf - so will be at home all the time, and could maybe do the scanning of the listings. I have a printer / scanner and some OCR conversion software I have never quite worked out how to use, so this would be an excellent opportunity to get started. I can then compare these direct with my boxes of (fragmentary) PasBs for that period, and probably help date them, and post results. That might be one practical and focussed way I could help. If people are amenable, if you, Rocker, or a glamourous assistant perhaps, could copy the lot just to be safe (is there still cash for this in the group account? If not, just ask) then post me the originals recorded delivery. I could then work through them, posting here or on the wiki as files the scans / expanded scans/documents, or whatever my OCR programme can convert them into as I go along. No problem if anyone disagrees with this, of course, it's just an offer...

cheers

ken


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, rockerq@... wrote:
>
> Hi - On Friday I took possesion of 40 - 50 1/4 inch reels dating from the 
> late 60s & early 70s, as what I will call "The Decktician Tapes" - Enjoyed a 
> pleasant pub lunch with our generous listmember, who uses that name when 
> DJing.
> 
> Not sure if there will be many complete shows, I think some of the material 
> will be edited highlights of shows, but hopefully there should be some 
> entire sections of shows at least. Not yet had the chance to listen to any - 
> will need to dig my 1/4 inch machine out of the spare room & set it up, so 
> unsure what sort of quality these recordings will be - but of course we have 
> virtually nothing from this era, so anything bar a blank tape will be a 
> valuable addition to our archives.
> 
> Could anyone who wishes to be part of the ripping team please message me 
> offlist? You will need a 1/4 inch 1/4 track (ie stereo in either direction) 
> machine - all reels are 7" or smaller - and some way of converting the 
> analogue signal to digital - a digital recorder / CDr audio recorder / soundcard 
> equipped PC / a Mac.
> 
> Of almost as much interest as the tapes themselves are the accompanying 
> small pile of excercise books, which are packed with carefully handwritten 
> tracklistings of many many Peel shows, which may or may not correspond to the 
> content of the tapes.
> 
> Particularly with this era we are unlikely to turn up many actual tapes of 
> shows, so written documentation like this may be the closest we get to some 
> of these shows - should be fascinating!
> 
> Does anyone have the necessary scanning / OCR capability / skill to 
> digitize this kind of thing?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Rocker
> 
> PS the reason I am only just now posting about this is that I spent all of 
> yesterday at the World International John Peel Day event at Bloomington 
> Lanes, in North London. Did anyone else here go? The event was a spectacular 
> success, we had around 1000 people through the door all day, raised around 
> £2.5k for the DEC charity. The first band was on at 2pm, and I ended up DJing 
> back to back with Sean Fortuna Pop after the bands finished at midnight, 
> playing Peel classics (as well as Peel obscurities!) ending at 02:45 with Teenage 
> Kicks and Love will Tear Us Apart.
> 
> Highlights for me were my friends Horowitz getting the first noise 
> complaints of the day for their feedback-guitar driven set at 3 in the afternoon - 
> from a hen party! (they are now toying with the idea of calling their next LP 
> "Hen Party Classics"); Laetitia Sadier playing a DJ set of krautrock and 
> obscure soundtrack-type stuff; and playing Lil Louis' "French Kiss" to a 
> roomful of indie kids at 2.30am and watching them try to dance through the 
> orgasmic breakdown in the middle.
> 
> Got home to Bristol at 04:45 - I love the M4 at that time of night!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > <<Just to echo others and say many thanks indeed to our fellow list 
> > member for coming forward with this fantastic offer. It sounds like an amazing 
> > collection.
> > 
> > Perhaps might suggest that if there are several people with equipment 
> > scattered around the UK, we could take up Rocker's kind offer for him to again 
> > act as central controller - despite the pressing demands on his time and 
> > bedroom space.
> > 
> > In the meantime, many thanks to Rocker, Steve in Korea and everyone else 
> > for sharing so many Peel shows spanning the decades. Like others, have been 
> > especially enjoying the recent late 70s ones, so greatly appreciate the 
> > efforts of Doc Mango and Stuart on those.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > SW>>
>