[peel] Is it sad...?

[MARK LUETCHFORD]

likewise I admire your dedication. I did try and copy a tape the other day for a pal but my old tape to tape failed miserably but I still listen to my tapes and was right annoyed when my car cassette broke and I couldn't get another one cheaply! 

I heard that Jack White has installed an acetate cutting machine backstage in his venue 

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/third-man-records-revive-direct-to-acetate-recording-process-for-live-release-series/ 
  
so maybe you are in the vanguard of the fightback rather than "sad" rearguard action. And if you were to complete (that I must admit would be even more admirable)  I would say you should leave it to posterity or at least the John Peel centre! Cassettes are getting valuable (I was told) as they aren't made anymore or is that a rumour?


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 From: stephen phythian <theallnewadventuresofspp@...>
To: "peel@yahoogroups.com" <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Friday, 31 January 2014, 15:01
Subject: Re: [peel] Is it sad...?
 


  
It's not sad at all. I know of people who will only watch the recent 'Top of the Pops' repeats on old CRT televisions because they just don't feel right on modern flat screen digitals, it's all personal taste. For me, there's enough tape hiss and AM crackle in the old shows to remind me of the source material and the advantages of being able to carry (and share) on an ipod  more shows than you could ever resonably fit onto tape, far outweigh the aesthetics of having them on cassette. But you must do what you feel is right of course...

Stephen

From: "ukbongo@yahoo.co.uk" <ukbongo@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, 31 January 2014, 14:30
Subject: [peel] Is it sad...?



  
Before I found this wonderful group, I relied on my own, rather haphazard, collection of Peel on cassette tape. I tend to associate Uncle John with that venerable format and so, I have to admit, feel slightly at odds with a hard disc full of digital file shows (grateful though I am, of course). My pseudo confession is that I am contemplating transferring the entire Peel archive back to cassette where I'm sure it will sound 'right', having passed through the analogue filter. I even have a Nakamichi Dragon and a heap of blank tapes at the ready. Reason for my post? Just wondered if anyone else had already undertaken this Herculean, although perfectly reasonable, task and if they might have regretted starting the might feat at all? Paul