[peel] Tom In Atlanta No More - but still has 300 tapes.

[Stuart Brooks]

Great stuff, and much easier do download them with DownThemAll!

Stuart

From: mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 10:31 PM
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [peel] Tom In Atlanta No More - but still has 300 tapes.

  

Hi all

The first 10 of Tom's BBC World Service tapes are now uploaded to Mooo in  this folder
Tom Roche BBC World Service Tapes Mooo Folder

There are no wiki pages yet for the shows (feel free to create them - I'll concentrate on the ripping and organising) but I've added the details to the master wiki page for the tape box
Tom Roche BBC World Service Tapes Wiki Page

So far we have on these first 10 tapes:


05 December 1984 (BBC World Service) 
Late December 1984 (BBC World Service)

04 January 1985 (BBC World Service)
14 January 1985 (BBC World Service) 
08 April 1985 (BBC World Service)
26 August 1985 (BBC World Service)
28 October 1985 (BBC World Service)
03 December 1985 (BBC World Service)

02 January 1986 (BBC World Service)
28 February 1987 (BBC World Service) 
23 March 1987 (BBC World Service) 
05 November 1987 (BBC World Service)
13 November 1987 (BBC World Service) 
26 July 1993 (BBC World Service)
23 February 1993 (BBC World Service) 
10 March 1997 (BBC World Service)
17 March 1997 (BBC World Service) 



The last 4 skip ahead in time because the dates were wrong on the inlays, should be back to 1988/89 with the next batch

One curious thing is that on two different shows Peel plays a band and then says they are booked to record a session for the domestic show (Hail and Bette Davis & The Balconettes) but I don't see any evidence of either session in Ken's book. I wonder if bands blowing out sessions was more common than you think?



On 28 July 2016 at 08:44, RobF <robfleay@...> wrote:

  I'm currently going through the 10 or so undated/unmarked tapes so that I can get them in some semblance of date order and I have to say these World Service shows are great.


  I've never heard any of the WS shows before, but the 30 minute format means that he just sticks to the good stuff from the regular shows, but mostly plays alternate tracks from the same records. In that respect it's like some sort of alternate reality. 


  I can't wait to start sharing the spoils


  On 27 July 2016 at 21:55, 'm.Luetchford' M.Luetchford@btopenworld.com [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:




    Thank you for this effort ... priceless indeed 



    Sent from my Samsung device


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    From: "'Stuart Brooks' stuartb@...us.com [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
    Date: 26/07/2016 18:39 (GMT+00:00) 
    To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
    Subject: Re: [peel] Tom In Atlanta No More - but still has 300 tapes. 

      
    Oh well, I think the next batch will miraculously have the value of £33.99 (converted to $)

    From: mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com 
    Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 6:27 PM
    To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
    Subject: Re: [peel] Tom In Atlanta No More - but still has 300 tapes.

      
    Well it seems that even though Tom marked the parcel as a gift and gave a nominal value of $50 - the rules are that any non-EU gift parcels are subject to VAT (plus the "handling fee") if they are worth more than £34. Thanks to Brexit the Pound is now so weak that it came in way over that threshold. We may have just squeezed it past if it had come before the Referendum!
    So we had an extra £24 to pay - which Rocker sorted out from the funds.
    We should have given the true value as "priceless" and let them figure out the VAT on that

    On 26 July 2016 at 18:16, Stuart Brooks stuartb@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:



      Thats good news, I was thinking it had all gone quiet! I wonder how HMRC worked out the value of some old tapes...... 



      On 26 July 2016 16:14:02 BST, "RobF robfleay@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
          
        To keep the group up to date with progress - Tom's box of BBC World Service Peel tapes arrived by Parcelforce this morning (after a slight hiccup with the HMRC extortion services..) and I'm currently in the process of sorting them into years. 

        For those that want to keep an eye on things, I've set up a skeleton wikia page here

        http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Roche_BBC_World_Service_Tapes

        Once I get everything in order I will of course start sharing the results here


        On 19 June 2016 at 16:46, Alan Ford ford.alan@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:




          A belated 'Hello Tom' from me. I can chip in towards postage, but can't help with ripping. You may remember sending me stuff in the past, particularly - if I remember correctly - a World Service 75th Anniv show introduced by John. I've still got it somewhere, but everything's still in boxes since moving house last year. 

          This clip of John playing French Toast Man mentions you at the start and me at the end. 
          https://soundcloud.com/alan-ford-9/peel-2001-03-01-extract-french-toast-man
          The slightly pretentious email I sent was kept with the record and now forms part of The John Peel Archive:
          https://www.flickr.com/photos/25624382@N02/14767339484/in/album-72157624296952539/

          Cheers
          Alan



          On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Tom Roche troche2255@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

              
            Hello longtime PeelList friends,


            It has been some time since I posted. Last year I began closing up 30 years in Atlanta and moved to New Orleans - which of course has the most music-rich history of any city in the US. Having a grand time; all the effort to get here (and whew it was a damn chore) was worth it.


            As stated previously, I had UK friends in the 80s and 90s recording and shipping Peel BBC Radio One shows on cassette for me. Meanwhile I was recording his BBC World Service Shows both over the air (SW low-fi) and via a cleaner - but still mono - satellite link. My plan was to log all the dates of the shows I have - and post to this list - before making the big ATL to NOLA move, but life got complicated .... and I moved the all the tapes here in November still un-catalogued. 

            (Somewhere I even have my own recording of the funeral service in Bury St Edmonds. I believe the only Yanks to drop everything and fly over were Jack White, Laura Cantrell and me.)


            I want to inquire how your digitization of tapes is going. Are you ready for another large batch? Obviously I need to post a logging of all the FM shows I have... so that shows you have already archived are not shipped over. 

            But what I have done this week is separated out all the BBCWS shows I have... it is between 75 and 80, and the parcel weighs 12-13 pounds. All the shows begin with an often-clueless continuity announcer intro-ing the show (the best intro is the BBCWS promising music from "Prince Far The First.") Then comes Grinderswitch and then an ever-changing clever greeting from JP, then basically a 30 minute condensation of the week's 6 hours of domestic shows, sans sessions. He would get maybe 4 letters a month and he'd read those out, sometimes even a letter from me. Then Grinderswitch again as the outro, later changed to any extendable techno track he liked.


            For a time he was limited to playing UK tracks only, some BBCWS silly rule, then about 1990 that changed. My satellite dish friend probably recorded every show over 10 years, but we only saved the best ones and rolled over the rest, alas. So the surviving shows are good ones.


            Anyway, shall we extend the Peel Wiki to the World Service shows? Who would like all these cassettes? And do we want to do a little funding-site thing to pay for the overseas shipping? I can contribute but can shoulder all of it.


            Then I'll move on to logging the (plus or minus) 300 R1 tapes, yes?


            Hello Martin Wheatley - still around? Hello Phil Edwards and the missus. Hello Ken Garner?  Is David Cavanagh on the list? Love love love the Good Riddance book.


            If anyone on the list is passing through New Orleans and wants to re-define the term "pub crawl" please please get in touch. I buy the first 4 rounds. I am still doing film video editing.... here is a little taste of my new world.

            https://vimeo.com/155266481


            I urge you to check out our startlingly good R&B/jazz/heritage station here WWOZ-FM. Truly exceptional 24/7.

            Let the good times roll ... and my best to all ya'll as we say 'round here.


            Tom Roche














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