{"id":45887,"date":"2020-11-22T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45887"},"modified":"2020-11-21T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:24:14","slug":"aircheck-cassette-leads-to-lost-album-with-heavy-shortwave-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/aircheck-cassette-leads-to-lost-album-with-heavy-shortwave-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircheck cassette leads to lost album with heavy shortwave influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Pete Polanyk, who shares the following story that all started with a recording he submitted to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Remember I sent you that clip of Radio Canada (that went up on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive)<\/a> that was on the other side of a punk tape? Well I digitised and sold it on eBay. The tape featured a live gig of the band ATV (Mark Perry was the lead singer<\/a> and main ideas person). A few days later I received an email from the buyer–a nice chap called Phillipe in France–who’s a big ATV fan.<\/p>\n

“Just listened to the ATV one… I wonder, have you the faintest idea what the B-side is? It sounds like radio recordings, but on repeated listening sounds like some kind of noisy pieces or experimentation, which reminds me of similar ‘shortwave’ experiments done by ATV at the time of the second album. Do you know if this was somehow linked to the band?”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I replied saying it was a recording by me off the shortwave from the early 1980’s sadly, not the band, he wrote back:<\/p>\n

“So, I guess playing with shortwave must have been something in the air back then?!<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe funny thing is that there is a very similar track from a \u2018lost ATV album\u2019 entitled The End Of Flight 182<\/a> from late \u201878.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/shortwave-from-the-end-of-flight-182-1\/Shortwave%20from%20%27The%20End%20Of%20Flight%20182%27%20%281%29.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

It\u2019s actually more Dave George (later of The Good Missionaries<\/a>) than ATV but still Mark Perry contributed a bit to the recordings; and one of its tracks was released somewhere else as ATV. Anyway\u2026 the album features a \u2018Shortwave\u2019 track (entitled as such) by Dave George, and I\u2019ve have included it here (I’ve attached the track he sent us.) Can you hear how it sounds similar to yours? The track\/experimentation may also been what led ATV to write \u2018The Radio Story\u2019, but that’s just a personal assumption. Mark and George were definitely in touch back in those days since Mark contributed a bit to his album which was was recorded a few months before Dave joined ATV (which then soon became The Good Missionaries). Sadly Dave George passed a few years ago, so we won\u2019t know much more about the album and the track.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n