Extensive collection of 'In Concerts'

[haze_harrison]

Gary, I knew I had the Zevon show on tape somewhere. It needs a bit of TLC (and speed correction) but I should have it uploaded tomorrow...

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Guzzmonster <Guzzmonster@...> wrote:
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> Wow,that's an impressive collection and I love the Hitachi tape deck,proper hi-fi!!!
> I am looking for a few recordings,which I had but were crap quality!
> I think there was a Warren Zevon gig from Hammy Odeon in 1988,and an Alarm gig from around the same time,also do you have a complete recording of the Elton John gig from Wembley Stadium,June 1984,particularly looking for a recording of Big Country's support set!
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> Keep up the good work!
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> 
> Gary
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 23 Feb 2012, at 18:47, Paul Andrews <pa0353@...> wrote:
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> > Welcome Paul
> > 
> > If you could list in date order the concerts you have that would be fantastic. 
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> > I also went through a period of taping in concert, I recall it tended to be late on a Saturday afternoon in the mid 80s. 
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> > Paul
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> > Sent from my iPad
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> > On 23 Feb 2012, at 18:39, "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)
> > 
> > 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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