[peel] Update re ripping progress

[Alan Ford]

 >> I'll be coming back to the group cap in hand for more donations before I
can send out the second wave.

No problem; There's 789 of us now. Only need a £1 or 2 each !


On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:17 PM, <rockerq@...> wrote:

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>
> A quick update on where we are at!
>
> Last week I posted out the final last batch of 20 of the eBay "400 box"
> cassettes - these were mainly odds and sods that got missed out of the main
> ripping schedule, plus a few faulty tapes which may just work on a different
> machine. There are around 50 tapes still out there with rippers, a few of
> which have been made available via this group already.
>
> In the last few days I have had time to briefly go through the Steve Lowman
> tapes (and thanks to him btw!). There are 565 cassettes in all, and they are
> a very mixed bag - many are Peel / Kershaw, although of these I am unsure
> how many will turn out to be complete sections of shows, or just
> compilations of edited-down tracks without links. There are also quite a lot
> of non-Peel / Kershaw tapes, a few of "Mixing It", a few one-off radio
> shows, and a few which look like they were mixtapes, or recorded from LPs.
>
> Quite a different task to catalogueing the 400 Box - 95% of these tapes
> come with extensive handwritten tracklistings on the inserts, but no
> specific dates, although quite a few have a month and year - this may
> reflect the fact that they may be compilations from various shows rather
> than individual shows, although the random ones I have listened to today
> turned out to be complete sections of shows.
>
> Aware that there may be duplications, but suggest that we continue and rip
> all of them anyway, as there may be increases in quality, or tape flip /
> end-of-show gaps that can be filled.
>
> Have divided them into sections:
>
> 1991 - mainly Peel & Kershaw - 56 tapes
>
> 1992 - mainly Peel & Kershaw - very full coverage - 174 tapes
>
> 1993 - mainly Peel & Kershaw - very full coverage - 204 tapes
>
> 1994 and later - quite a few are Peel & Kershaw - 65 tapes
>
> Mixed bag - many non-Peel / Kershaw; Some pre 1991 Peel; One off radio
> shows & Lps - 66 tapes
>
> Will start sorting these out and sending to rippers in the next few days.
> Have started numbering the individual tapes pretty much in the order they
> come to hand - have started at "L001" and so on.
>
> Rippers - will mail you individually to let me know when I am sending you a
> batch.
>
> Have updated my spreadsheet with a new page for these tapes, but have not
> had time to enter any detail in terms of length of tape, condition,
> tracklist, date of broadcast etc - so will ask the rippers where possible to
> add information - can someone remind me / us where to find the spreadsheet
> file online - or could someone set up a section in the wiki for this info?
>
> There are a couple of odd tapes without tracklistings, and also a few cases
> with tracklistings but no tapes (no - they don't match!) - so if any rippers
> should find they have a mismatched tape and insert we may be able to swap.
>
> Money-wise I will spend the last of the generously-donated funds from 2
> years ago in sending out this first wave of Steve Lowman tapes with their
> prepaid return special delivery envelopes. So I guess when I start getting
> these back from the rippers I'll be coming back to the group cap in hand for
> more donations before I can send out the second wave.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Rocker
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