I was also lucky to have a very good friend who owned a video recorder from May 1979 in which he taped many music programmes here in the UK like Top Of The Pops, Something Else, Old Grey Whistle Test among many others etc. He has lent me has master tapes which I taped and have now put to DVD, great footage which you won’t find any better.

Please note
Everything on this list is available for trading. I can’t understand why people put items on their list as “Rare item, not for trade” . Why put it on the list then? 

I've now finished putting material to DVD from old VHS tapes. This was a very long and painful process as I had so much stuff, but it's been worth it. 

I'm mainly into the UK/US late seventies punk/new wave but I have a wide taste in music from the 1960's to present although not really that much from the past 10 years or so.

If you trade please let me know by sending me your up to date lists. I do have a fair bit of excellent quality rare footage which many are from masters.

My tastes in music are varied, of which I like the following and have some footage by'.

 
1960's
The Who, The Beatles, Small Faces, The Byrds, The Creation. 
 
Early 1970's
Bowie, The Sweet, The Who.

Punk/New Wave
This is my main interest and like most of these bands.
The Adverts, Generation X, Damned, Clash, Ramones, Ruts, SLF, Magazine, Penetration, Rich Kids, The Jam etc etc.

Indie/Alternative
Primal Scream (1st LP), Mega City 4, Senseless Things, Elastica, Manic Street Preachers (1st LP), Mighty Lemon Drops, My Bloody Valentine (Pre-Creation), Northern Uproar, Oasis, Teenage Fan Club, Revolver, Swervedriver, 3 Colours Red, The Wildhearts.

Grunge
Buffalo Tom, Lemonheads, The Muffs, Everclear, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Midway Still, Paw, Early REM. Gods Eye.

 
Punk/Hardcore
Dag Nasty, All, Descendents, Down By Lay, Snuff, Green Day, Blink 182, Misfits, Dead Kennedy’s, China Drum, Bad Religion, Bad Brains, No Use For A Name, Husker Du,

Guns 'N' Wankers, Moving Targets, Blink 182 etc  

QUALITY GRADES
10: - Master tape only, perfect picture and sound.

9: - Excellent Quality. The first copy from master tape.

8+ - Very Good Quality. 3rd/4th copy, slight noticeable loss in quality.

8: - Good Quality. Obviously copied a fair few times but generally good quality.

7: - Fair. Obviously copied a lot and noticeable loss in quality, probably as not bad as you think though as it‘s pretty comfortable to watch. 

6: - Watch able. This will be rare material, possibly some picture breaks ups and most
probably impossible to find in good quality, so it's this or nothing at all.

5: - Poor. Poor Quality and for collectors and die hard fans only.

RECORDING EQUIPMENT USED
Panasonic NV-W1 world-wide video recorder to play video tapes to transfer to DVD. This machine plays any format so any original video tapes in NTSC have been converted into PAL when put to DVD.

DVD RECORDERS
September 2004 - July 2007 Panasonic DMR-E85
July 2007 - Present Panasonic DMR-EX87

All discs that I compiled myself from VHS tapes were first recorded on the stand alone Panasonic recorder with full menus and chapters. I then make duplicates for trades and copy through the PC to make all discs region 0.

A FEW RULES I LIKE TO STICK BY
1: Please don’t record above SP (short Play) mode. Discs are cheap there is no reason to record in Long Play or above as the quality will be crap. Quality, NOT Quantity.

2: Please do not record from standalone player to standalone DVD recorder. This is not the way to get the best results, use the pc.

3: Traders lists must have quality grades, times and source details where known. I'm not interested in looking at lists that give no information whatsoever, i.e. "The Damned: Great Compilation" (what's on it, what's the quality?)  These lists will be just ignored and no trade will happen. Any serious traders know this as just being standard.

4: I'm not interested in VCD's.

5: Please don't ask "if I send you some blank DVD's & postage will you record some DVD's for me". I know we all have to start somewhere as I did the same back in the early eighties but I just don't have the time for this.

6: I don't trade DVD's over the web, only by post.

7: Anything that says "Recorded by me" means it's been compiled by me >HD >DVD-r. This is mainly material I've taking from my old VHS tapes or recorded straight from the TV and then put to DVD-r disc.

DISCS USED
I like to use Verbatim or TDK discs which I’ve had no problems with but please don’t use cheap unknown brand discs as I will only send them back and I won’t bother trading.

Please send discs {no cases} in plastic pvc sleeve’s or similar and well packed so they don’t get damaged through the post. Don't write on the discs, use paper or sticky labels.

 
HOW MANY DISC TRADES

I like to try and stick to no more than five disc trades at any time.

IMPORTANT
Try NOT to pick all discs that's I've made up i.e full 130mins discs. Pick some 50min type discs etc if possible. I try and match up roughly the same sought of time length that you want from me.
It's not a very fair trade for me if you pick X5 130mins discs from me and I pick X5 1hour discs from you as you get over 10hrs of footage and I get only 5hrs. Don't mean minute for minute as that's stupid but just sort of close time's that's all. You contact me, then you send first.