[peel] Re: Kaleidoscope tapes

[Paul Webster]

DNAYS featuring Peel favourite Viv Stanshall as Bonzo Dog Band were the house musicians.
I would expect quite a bit of interest here and over on Bonzo Dog Band group.

Paul Webster

> On 7 Jun 2015, at 01:24, Vince Nzo meltormentsingers@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hi Stuart,
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> Thanks for the reply. DNAYS stands for Do Not Adjust Your Set, broadcast by Rediffusion and Thames TV in 1968 and 1969 and the precursor for Monty Python. I think your right in assuming Ed's tapes are mostly if not all, reel-to-reel tapes.
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> Best regards, Vincent
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> From: Stuart Brooks <stuartb@...>
> To: Vince Nzo <meltormentsingers@yahoo.com> 
> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015 12:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Kaleidoscope tapes
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> It's worth putting this to the group as a whole. Personally I'm kept busy enough with the Peel Tapes and it sounds like a lot of Eds tapes are reel to reel which only a few of us have. Stuart BTW what is DNAYS?
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> On 6 June 2015 23:12:08 BST, Vince Nzo <meltormentsingers@...> wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
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> A question with regards to digitizing tapes. 
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> Since I have found a presumed missing episode of DNAYS two months ago, I was able to establish some contacts at Kaleidoscope.  
> As you might know they acquired the Ed Doolan tapes some years ago. These tapes contain the audio of a number of television shows. It seems there is about 500 hours of tapes. From what I understand only some of it is digitized. 
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> Not much is said about the timeframe in which they want to do all this. It seems to me that its not really a priority, simply because it hardly has any value and not really interesting to broadcast. Probably the only ones who really appreciate these recordings are probably archivists / researchers like myself.
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> As you have already established a whole system of digitizing audio-tapes, and over time gained a wealth of experience doing this, I am wondering if you and some of your fellow-Peel group members might be interested in playing a role in digitizing these tapes.
> Obviously I am not the person who decides this (not even close) but when I read this in an e-mail from one of my contacts at Kaleidoscope, I immediately thought of mentioning you guys. I didn't because of obvious reasons but when there's a genuine interest from your side in wanting to do this perhaps we could establish a contact between you and Kaleidoscope.
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> Very interested to learn your thoughts on this and looking forward to your reply.
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> All the best, 
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> Vincent
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