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

[m.Luetchford]

Thank you for this effort ... priceless indeed 


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From: "'Stuart Brooks' stuartb@brooks22.plus.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@brooks22.plus.com [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@ntlworld.com 
  [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@gmail.com 
    [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@gmail.com 
      [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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