John Cav Tapes: Ep #5

[Humphrey]

Just played the affected part, and yes, it sounds a LOT better - well done and thanks again, B ! That Racing Cars song has grown on me - you could imagine a Joy Division cover version, maybe ....

As to the micro-dropouts, I wonder what caused them - probably a creased tape I would say, had it meself over t'years. Sometimes dodgy tape players can "chew" a tape which can be impossible to rectify.
Thankfully, you have patched the worst affected songs here ...

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales" <billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:
>
> OK I did a remaster job on this and the show is available HERE
> <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/1977-01-03%20John\
> %20Peel%20BBC%20Radio%201.mp3>
> 
> Took a while to find the album version of Racing Cars horses song.
> 
> 
>   I think it is a lot better. I couldn't do anything with the Bill Aitken
> tracks, though
> 
> 
> So I remember exactly what I was doing on 3rd January 1977.
> 
> 
> It was a Bank Holiday Monday, and that meant a special "Alan Freeman
> Show" with part 2 of the best selling albums of 1976. It was a good 3
> hour show.
> 
> I recorded it and it is available HERE
> <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/00Archive/1977-1-\
> 3%20Alan%20Freeman%20Radio%201.mp3>
> 
> The Saturday show was also recorded and is available HERE
> <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/00Archive/1977-1-\
> 1%20Alan%20Freeman%20Radio%201%20%28Incomplete%29.mp3>
> 
> (Also 3 hours, but the first 45 minutes were on a cassette that has been
> lost)
> 
> I just noticed that the Wiki has a nice write up about Fluff
> 
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Alan_Freeman
> 
> 
> I also recorded the Peel show from 3rd January 1977, but I think my
> attitude then, as now, was that anything that featured both Bob Dylan
> and Eric Clapton was to be avoided.
> 
> ONLY JOKING!!
> 
> No I think that it was just one of a series of end of year countdown
> shows, and I did like the Freeman show better, so with tapes being so
> expensive it got recorded over.
> 
> I did make up for that by capturing the entire FF from 1978, though, by
> way of atonement.
> 
> We have 1976 now too, thanks to Ken and John.
> 
> Anyway, listening back to the top 10 of 1976, does at least indicate
> what a challenge Peel faced introducing Reggae and World Music, let
> alone Punk, to his listeners.
> 
> Bill fnw
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Humphrey" <thebarguest@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks again (to the power of 500) for these - the overall quality is
> brilliant but on tape 770103 (a) there seem to be repeated dropouts on
> the left channel from around 16 min to around 51 min. I would
> assume/presume that Ken/John were aware of these and tried different
> playback machines etc. to no avail. Sooo.... if anyone could try a
> remaster/fix either by patching in new song copies or copying the right
> channel to the left (monoising) ( hi Bill ! ), that would be the icing
> on the cake. Sorry for being a neurotic perfectionist !
> >
> > Btw, I would never have thought that JP was such a Racing Cars fan -
> > I remember hearing "They Shoot Horses" on pop radio and not being too
> impressed ; seemed a bit like "Arms Of Mary", nice tune, different words
> etc. but, but ...
> >
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" ken_garner@ wrote:
> > >
> > > So, to the denouement: the show of 3rd January 1977 (minus the sig.
> and first few seconds of the first session track, John admits). No
> comment required, but great repeat session tracks from Thin Lizzy, Bill
> Aitken and The Chieftains, and the unbearable tension of the Top 10.
> What will be number one?
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > Peel 1977-1-03a F50 #10-1
> > > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7XGKBMEZ
> > > Peel 1977-1-03b F50 #10-1
> > > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZWU9OMM1
> > >
> >
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