I have just been given some 7" tapes. Moody Blues, Beatles and Mike Oldifeld in concert 1974 among others. All are not pre-recorded, so I have no way of telling if the quality is any good!
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I have just been given some 7" tapes. Moody Blues, Beatles and Mike Oldifeld in concert 1974 among others. All are not pre-recorded, so I have no way of telling if the quality is any good!
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How exciting - all those various tapes full of surprises!! Have fun & good luck finding a player!
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Yeah, that's gonna be a load of fun! I'd love to have an excuse to litter my lounge with a r2r of some sort!
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they could all be rubbish! I do not know what they were recorded from at all. I do not even know what type of machine uses these tapes!
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Those Grey & White hard plastic Agfa/Scotch cases are sought after now, i had tons of em..Originally Posted by aquapiranha
I have just been given some 7" tapes. Moody Blues, Beatles and Mike Oldifeld in concert 1974 among others. All are not pre-recorded, so I have no way of telling if the quality is any good!
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There is another smaller box with some more tapes without boxes, a couple of basic looking Akai mics and a demagnetizer that is a 110V model.
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Any open reel machine which will play 1/4' tapes. may be recorded at 3.75 or 7.5ips! hopefully the latter for better sound..
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Mike Oldfield 'In Concert 1974' is likely to be excellent! His '2nd House' live performance on BBC 2 from around that time featured Steve Hillage, Mike Ratledge from Soft Machine, Viv Stanshall - a fantastic lineup.
My experience of these old tapes is that they are often very listenable. People recording on R-R back in the day, especially those who catalogued and saved their recordings like these, tended to take care of the way they did things.
If you're interested, I'd be up for attempting a transfer of the Oldfield reel & the Simon & Garfunkel one... just hear what was on them! How well labelled are the contents of the other reels...??
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As you mentioned Hillage.. Wasnt Oldfield & his brother on Gong's 'Downwind' album even though hillage had nothing to do with it, just jogged mi memory..
Mike Oldfield 'In Concert 1974' is likely to be excellent! His '2nd House' live performance on BBC 2 from around that time featured Steve Hillage, Mike Ratledge from Soft Machine, Viv Stanshall - a fantastic lineup.
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He was definitely on the Pierre Moerlen's Gong Live album from a little later, and did some nice guitar on it as I recall. I do enjoy that phase of the Gong family evolution...
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