John Cav Tapes: Ep #5

[Humphrey]

God, I hate to point this out, Bill, as I am a huge admirer of your remastering/noise reduction jobs, but I think you have accidentally introduced a dropout at position 105:07(via Winamp) in the song 'Layla' ; strange as I didn't think that song needed changing at all... Nice work rebuilding/completing the first song, "Johnny" by Thin Lizzy !

Btw there's a nice docu on Poly Styrene/X-ray Spex from 1979 on Dimeadozen and Thebox, with footage of the band's visit to Erics and Poly being interviewed on a Mersey ferry.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Humphrey" <thebarguest@...> wrote:
>
> 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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