Posted: 23 February 2006 at 10:42am | IP Logged

I was trawling through my cassette collection last night (mostly to see if the "In Concert" R6 recently repeated was one I'd originally caught) when I came across the following:

Greenbelt 1975 (both the Friday and Monday performances)

Greenbelt 1976 (Monday - complete with rain)

Greenbelt 1976, backing Ishmael

Newsbeat 28/4/78, promoting "Signs"

Sheffield Poly 13/5/78 (as a three-piece. Official bootleg as I got permission to record it beforehand)

Radio 1 Sessions 10,11,15/5/79 (I think there was more but I missed it, there being no "Listen again" in those days)

In Concert 20/12/80

OGWT

Rock Goes to College 16/3/81

And now here's the mega-rarity: Arnion - the Pulse (GB Saturday '75). They used to be Narnia and I've no idea whether PB or JR played in it (sorry).

I've no idea about the quality of these tapes and am a little reticent to try and play them, just in case...

So - what do you have in your collection... (Mick, you are excused listing all 87 pages of stuff).

Paul.

Posted: 23 February 2006 at 3:44pm | IP Logged

Oh Tapes.

Yes they do have their problems

Main problem i come across is usually head quality on either record or playback and one side of tape always had better reproduction than the other.

I did notice that on some heads there seemed to be a leading edge or a coming away on the contact area.

Paul G: had limited results with the praisin tape. tracks 1-3 side 1 passable side 2 all OK

Posted: 24 February 2006 at 11:25am | IP Logged

If you need a tape, I have one!! Cotton buds sadly no, two women in the household, they don't last two minutes!

I didn't know epicentrum lwere still going.