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John Peel Comments Left on Old Cassettes

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  Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Tuesday, 19th May 2009

  Loving those little snippets of Peel on the Beefheart tracks.
  
  When home taping was killing music and I was helping it do so between 10pm and midnight, I used to leave the back announcement (?) by Peel on the tape. Partly because I didn’t want to forget who or what it was before going to Penny Lane or Probe at the weekend, but also because his voice added something to the experience when you played it back.
  
  My favourite was when The Fall clearly surprised him by launching into Do The Hucklebuck on a session. He snorted a laugh and said β€˜Cover Versions is it now?’, incredulously.
  
  Maybe you had to be there.
  

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  Posted by rileydj (U2509737) on Wednesday, 20th May 2009

  I vaguely remember Johns reaction to the 'Hassle-schmuck' (?) .... it was an unusually playful offering from a bunch of supposed miserys!

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  Posted by Greg (U8004659) on Wednesday, 20th May 2009

  By spooky coincidence, I was having the very same conversation on Sunday evening. During my many years of home-taping (and later on home-minidisc-ing),when recording sessions from any other programme I always tried to edit out as much of the DJ/presenter as possible. Not so for a Peel Session. His intros, outros, asides, anecdotes and even cock-ups were all essential!

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  Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Wednesday, 20th May 2009

  Well Marc, given your insider knowledge, why did you do that particular track? I saw The Fall a lot around that time and you were miserys! Funny miserys, though.
  
  And how about Gideon playing it, as this is on his thread and that, and Mr Riley would be too bashful to do so?
  
  I wonder if Peely's comment has been preserved? That would add a certain piquancy - and prove to me if it actually bloody happened (even though I know it did).
  
  gM. Minidiscs... I too was an early adopter, but home minidiscing just never took off as an industry slogan regarding the death of music, did it? I think it was because with those fiddly little cases you couldn't really design your own covers using Gloy Gum, the local library photocopier and a copy of Sounds.

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  Posted by motorzone (U13845941) on Thursday, 21st May 2009

  I was always more a fan of felt tip pens and white cardboard me'sen. Spending hours desperately trying to copy the artwork on albums that you'd copied from your mates. They never quite looked the same (I was never much cop a that drawing lark) but I still have a few left and I have to say in retrospect they have a charm all of their own. Olias of Sunhillow being my personal favourite.
  
  Don't think I ever taped Peely though. Think that was my β€˜listening to the radio in the dark in my bedroom with a chair against the door and a can of Guinness* on the go’ phase. Must check out some old tapes just to check though.
  
  
  *Other alcoholic remedies for early teenage angst are also available.

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  Posted by Greg (U8004659) on Saturday, 23rd May 2009

  The first major problem with the minidisc is that Sony tried to market them as an alternative to CDs. By the time they realised that the minidisc recorder would be the natural successor to the cassette recorder, it was too late.
  
  I bought mine for the duel purposes of recording 'sessions' from the radio and transferring all my old vinyl to a convenient digital format. I also liked the idea of instant access to tracks, rather than the unscientific fast-forward/rewind searching of cassettes.
  
  IANAN is quite right. Even though I never tried putting any artwork on my minidisc cases, I struggled to be able to write small enough to even manage a simple tracklisting on the labels provided. The "electronic labelling" system was great in theory but painstaking in practice, meaning that I never kept up with it and consequently, I now have have around 100 unmarked, unlabeled minidiscs in a box upstairs! From my original intention of having instant access to any Peel Session I had recorded, it now often takes me days to find what I'm looking for....

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