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

[Stuart Brooks]

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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