[peel] Re: Potential trove of shows...

MARK LUETCHFORD M.Luetchford@...
Fri Aug 12 00:14:42 CEST 2011


I suspect we need a US team - although if shipping costs are reasonable I'll chuck a tenner in ...

If it would help I could also scrutinise photos and see what shows are needed but as I'm fortunate enough to still be in fulltime work may take some time.


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From: haze_harrison <haze.harrison@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 11 August 2011, 17:35
Subject: [peel] Re: Potential trove of shows...


  
Tom has sent some jpgs of his tapes if you are interested they are
here....
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/peel/files/TR%20tapes/

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "haze_harrison" <haze.harrison@...> wrote:
>
> I have been exchanging e-mails with Tom Roche regarding his collection
> of tapes from the 90's and this is the reason I asked earlier about a
> spreadsheet of available shows. Tom has given permission for me to
copy
> part of his latest e-mail to the group....
> Your note from last month prompted me to begin culling all my Peel
tapes
> into  one place - they were in an attic and a loft and a closet and
> kitchen and etc.  Now they are in one place. The rough tally is about
> 275 tapes! Mostly the 1990s  but a few from 85-90.
>
> Perhaps 80 are mono normal bias BBCWS half hour  shows recorded off
> satellite. Maybe another 10 are actual shorwave recordings  captured
> here in Atlanta. Then the other 175 or so are hi-bias UK FM stereo
> recordings, and more than half of those are on 100 min blanks and not
> the usual  90 minute blanks.
>
> The bad news is that the whole trove weighs about 53  pounds which
will
> cost dearly to ship.
>
> I dont have time to copy them, or  even create an index of what I've
> got. So I've taken pictures of the tapes so  you and others can gauge
> how to proceed.
> What I'd suggest is that you or I re-post this to the whole list, and
> I'll put  the attached pictures in the group's files section. Maybe if
I
> could get some  sort of spreadsheet or list of shows that already are
in
> the archive complete  and good quality, I could subtract those from
what
> I might ship  over.
>
> Then, considering that some money materialized from somewhere when 
that
> opportunity to acquire that 400 box off ebay arose... maybe some
readers
> could throw a quid or three in my Paypal account for the shipping
costs
> and then  I'd try to pay the rest.
>
> I have asked Tom to get an estimate of the shipping costs for the
whole
> collection to the UK so we know what we are looking at. Unless there
is
> someone Stateside who can take on the ripping (which would be the
> cheaper option) I'd be more than happy to rip any unshared shows...
> Haze
>


 


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