[peel] Extensive collection of 'In Concerts'

[MARK LUETCHFORD]

wow


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Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012, 20:46
Subject: Re: [peel] Extensive collection of 'In Concerts'
 

  
Great collection Paul!


On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:39 PM, pauliesarchive <pauliesarchive@...> wrote:

 
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>Hello, newbie here. Been following this group for some time now and figured it's time to get involved :o)
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>The collection I have is not related to John Peel but I do notice that some of you have 'In Concerts' in your collections so this might be of interest to some.
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>I have around 750+ 'In Concerts' dating from various years and am currently in the process of transferring them all to CD. I've already done around 200 to CD already.
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>Everything was recorded myself onto TDK 120's - so there are no tape flips, no missing bits and sound quality wise (the most important bit), ALL are pristine, hiss free and drop-out free. I always was a little over fussy about sound quality!
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>I have pretty much every 'In Concert' broadcast from late '88 to around '95/'96 - I pretty much lost faith in the Beeb 'In Concert' output after that, apart from a few oddments that is. The 200 that I've already transferred are various years from 1970 up to 1988 and again, ALL in superb sound quality.
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>Here are a couple of piccies for those interested:
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>This is the next batch I'm starting on next week:
>http://www.thehockeyforum.com/paul/batch.JPG
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>This is the (tank of a) machine they were all originally recorded on and is being used for the transfer to CD:
>http://www.thehockeyforum.com/paul/hitachi.JPG
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>This is how I documented the tapes - many also have the 'Radio Times' snippet included along with the transmission date:
>http://www.thehockeyforum.com/paul/tape.JPG
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>Irony - looking at the above piccie, the double bill on the tape is Blur!
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>Sorry for the length of my first post, I just thought I'd let those interested know the mammoth project I'm on with. Also, if I can help anyone with transmission dates or anything else relating to the 'In Concert' series, fire away! I can't promise to know the answers, but I'll do my best to find out.
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>Regards,
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>Paul.
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