Transistor Blast

[Tom Roche]

PeelList:

I've yet to see this mentioned, but has anyone given a careful listen to the recent XTC 4-box Transistor Blast?

2 CDs are BBC sessions from 77-89 , other 2 are concert recordings. It has the usual extensive track credits yet CD 1 starts with a sort of uncredited track runnig 1:01, no songwriter or studio info, just called "Opening Speech."

And what this turns out to be is this funny, phoney "John Peel" welcome to the circa-79 evenings program...  There's even a phoney combo in the background doing a just-short-of-copyright-problems Grinderswitch / "Pickin' The Blues" as this guy who says he is Juhn Peel (and he is not) intros all these great made-up bands until getting to "new up and coming beatnik group" XTC.

A classic. someone should post the track as a file or something.

tom
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