From festive50@... Sun Apr 1 21:46:13 2007 From: festive50@... (Phil Edwards) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:46:13 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: LOVE CHILD Peel Session? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I probably have them. I''l check. Phil -----Original Message----- From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of ken garner Sent: 31 March 2007 15:19 To: peel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [peel] Re: LOVE CHILD Peel Session? Thanks, Martin, I'd found that interview elsewhere, yes. Mike Hawkes, Peel's Producer at the time, has no recollection of it either way, but is going to rummage about in his loft for his old planners/wallcharts to see if they might hold any clues. The funny thing is, with the help of Jon Small, I now have a complete-looking diary of Peel shows for first half of 93, and they simply do not appear there and would struggle to fit in: there are no gaps! I wonder... if, having been recorded on Mon 21/12 by any chance it was broadcast almost immediately over the 92 Christmas period, as a sort of bonus new one (this often happened actually) during the last two of the Festive 50 shows that year, on Friday 25/12 or Fri 1/1/93...? Anyone have a tape of those F50 92 shows? kg --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley wrote: > > At 23:20 30/03/2007, Robf wrote: > > > >Lord Google isn't much help as there appears to be about a million > >bands called LoveChild! > > I found several references on Google in particular this > one > > http://www.matadorrecords.com/bands/runon/teenlooch.html > > If you go down the page you will find a discography of > the guy being interviewed > At the bottom of the Love Child bit it says > > John Peel 4 songs unreleased > > The timing of the session seems to be right at the point when > the band disintegrated which could account for why it didn't > go out > > martinw > From sploozed@... Sun Apr 1 23:07:57 2007 From: sploozed@... (Mark) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 22:07:57 +0100 (BST) Subject: Does anyone still use Oink Message-ID: <522307.7871.qm@...> I remember it used to be publicised here and wondered if anyone could give me an invite. ___________________________________________________________ What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk From philip.gh@... Mon Apr 2 01:38:27 2007 From: philip.gh@... (phil) Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:38:27 -0000 Subject: Does anyone still use Oink In-Reply-To: <522307.7871.qm@...> Message-ID: I used to use it but they banned me for sharing Peel's Radio Mafia Finnish shows on there as they weren't up to their required bitrate standard (or something like that). Phil From hubcity@... Mon Apr 2 13:53:55 2007 From: hubcity@... (hubcity@...) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:53:55 -0400 Subject: [OT] [Altrok] Update #153: Support Your Local Web Radio Station! Message-ID: <0JFV00K82D5BAO90@...> Firstly, the important stuff: Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us. Now then, in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like... Thursdays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm), you get to hear Sean Carolan (often referred to in these dispatches as "me") showcase the new music we've added this week on the Altrok Radio FM Showcase. 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Mon Apr 9 05:18:23 2007 From: troche@... (Tom Roche) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:18:23 -0400 Subject: tiny news item Message-ID: PEEL STILL GETS CDS By Aidan Mcgurran 05/04/2007 http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/tm_headline=peel-still-gets-cds&method=full&objectid=18861157&siteid=89520-name_page.html ASPIRING rock bands are still sending their records to John Peel's home - two and a half years after the DJ's death. His widow Sheila Ravenscroft said artists still wanted their music added to the late broadcaster's record collection. It is thought to be one of the largest and varied in Britain and includes 26,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and 40,000 CDs. Advertisement Mrs Ravenscroft and her four children have yet to decide what to do with the collection which he amassed over 50 years. It is kept in the Peel's family home in Great Finborough near Stowmarket, Suffolk. Peel, 65, born John Ravenscroft, was BBC Radio 1's longest serving DJ. He often played records sent to him by new bands on his show. He died of a heart attack in Peru in 2004. Mrs Ravenscroft said: "People send in their records and ask for them to be part of his collection. It feels a bit strange but it's nice to get them." From hubcity@... Mon Apr 9 15:41:26 2007 From: hubcity@... (hubcity@...) Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:41:26 -0400 Subject: [OT] [Altrok] Update #154: Support Your Local Web Radio Station! Message-ID: <0JG8004Y3GSJF8E0@...> Firstly, the important stuff: Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us. Now then, in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like... 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Tue Apr 10 11:24:12 2007 From: eddie.duffy@... (Ed Duffy) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:24:12 -0000 Subject: Festive 50 1979 (10 to 1) Message-ID: I've just had a very interesting post on Kat's Karavan as follows: "A broadcast version of the 1979 Festive 50 songs 10 to 1 is available... http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBTK1W52 " As I'm at work I haven't listened to this yet, but I thought I'd share it with the group. It's the first pre-1980 F50 recording that's ever come my way. So if the Anonymous poster is reading this, many thanks! Eddie (DuffPaddy) From paul@... Tue Apr 10 18:15:39 2007 From: paul@... (Paul Webster) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:15:39 +0100 Subject: Mark E Smith 50th - celebrated on Culture Show (7th April) Message-ID: <015a01c77b8b$7b5b4c80$0202a8c0@...> Frank Skinner (also 50) has more of a discussion about him than with him - but somewhat more affable than in other interviews. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbbjN9oP7Ik Paul From dunelm@... Tue Apr 10 21:04:52 2007 From: dunelm@... (dunelm61) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:04:52 -0000 Subject: Brief Encounter Message-ID: I once had a bit of a chin-wag with Mark E Smith. I went to see the Fall at the Palm Cove Club in Bradford in the early eighties. After the band's sound-check, I accosted Mark and asked him if their live set still included Bingo Masters Breakout. "No" he said, as he walked past. True story. From thebarguest@... Wed Apr 11 00:41:39 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:41:39 -0000 Subject: Brief Encounter In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Wow - the Palm Cove club. Great place. Used to go there around 1991 and get st*ned. Mark E - about 2 years older than he should be for a true punk / new-waver ! Fraudster ! How many years has booze added to his looks ? 5, 10 ? Regards, Aldo Moro --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dunelm61" wrote: > > I once had a bit of a chin-wag with Mark E Smith. I went to see the > Fall at the Palm Cove Club in Bradford in the early eighties. After the > band's sound-check, I accosted Mark and asked him if their live set > still included Bingo Masters Breakout. > > "No" he said, as he walked past. > > True story. > From pbryant98@... Wed Apr 11 09:35:22 2007 From: pbryant98@... (Paul Bryant) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [peel] Re: Brief Encounter In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <334527.61363.qm@...> --- thebarguest wrote: > Wow - the Palm Cove club. Great place. Used to go > there > around 1991 and get st*ned. > Mark E - about 2 years older than he should be for > a true punk / new-waver ! Fraudster ! > How many years has booze added to his looks ? > 5, 10 ? > > Regards, > Aldo Moro The two most toe-curlingly embarrassing televinsion moments I was unfortunate to see were 1) an interview with Shane MacGowan at his most toothless and drunken, and 2) an interview with Mark E Smith after Peel died. Either he was too overcome with grief to speak or he's not a fully functioning human being. Car-crash tv at its worst. I still shudder as I recall. pb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ From ken_garner@... Thu Apr 12 01:03:31 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:03:31 -0000 Subject: Another puzzler from the data vaults... Message-ID: Wonder if anyone can help. Just spent a day or two at BBC Written Archives reading Peel scripts on microfilm and the blank/incomplete dates for Peel shows are filling up nicely; mostly, as I expected, with records-only shows or not previously documented session repeats plus the odd forgotten exclusive concert set recording; and almost without exception the session/dates information several of you have given me for dates all over 1978-1992 turned out to be bang-on, and more accurate in some circumstances than the scripts (eg. the cover sheet for a script for date Y thinking such and such a session it had was new, whereas you lot and an earlier script for date X prove it was a repeat). But of course. The temptation to blather on here about all this is great, but I'll restrict myself to one utterly baffling discovery. I can find no trace of this band at all on the web. Does it ring any bells with any of you? W 1/11/78 PERIOD (private tape session)* 3 tracks only broadcast: Waste of Breath, It's the same thing, The Butler did it (*means supplied by band direct or record company, and not done in BBC studios; often a genuine original recording for the show, sometimes not.) It was never repeated (well, not before end March 79, which is far into 79 as I got the other day). I've never even heard of a band called Period. Anyone? Anyone? Help! ken PS one other nugget: XTC's 3rd session, despite what the session sheet says, was actually first broadcast on Monday 20/11/78, not Thurs 23/11, along with a repeat of Swell Maps' first. I've found a few little things like that, hardly earth shattering, but sets the record straight. From rockerq@... Thu Apr 12 01:49:36 2007 From: rockerq@... (rockerq@...) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:49:36 EDT Subject: [peel] Another puzzler from the data vaults... Message-ID: > < 3 tracks only broadcast: > Waste of Breath, It's the same thing, The Butler did it>> > Sounds like a forgotten punk gem! Would love to hear it- I did listen to Peel at that time but cannot remember anything about this one! Unless of course the band's name was just too shocking for Peelie to be allowed to say it over the airwaves! Of course it may have been forgotten with good reason! Cheers! Rocker From ken_garner@... Fri Apr 13 12:25:22 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:25:22 -0000 Subject: Brief Encounter In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear dunelm61 AKA 'AB' could you please e-mail me off-line? I've gto some information you might be interested in and a suggestion I'd appreciate your view on... ken --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dunelm61" wrote: > > I once had a bit of a chin-wag with Mark E Smith. I went to see the > Fall at the Palm Cove Club in Bradford in the early eighties. After the > band's sound-check, I accosted Mark and asked him if their live set > still included Bingo Masters Breakout. > > "No" he said, as he walked past. > > True story. > From jon.horne@... Sat Apr 14 01:48:41 2007 From: jon.horne@... (Jon Horne) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:48:41 -0000 Subject: Festive 50 1979 (10 to 1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi folks. Just to let you know that I've put an mp3 version of this onto The Peel Tapes. It's a much smaller file, and the sound quality hardly matters as it was taped off medium wave. The link is: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UGEX5UU3 The sender was Adam, by the way, so thanks to him. Cheers, Jon --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Duffy" wrote: > > I've just had a very interesting post on Kat's Karavan as follows: > > "A broadcast version of the 1979 Festive 50 songs 10 to 1 is available... > > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBTK1W52 " From thebarguest@... Sat Apr 14 14:59:49 2007 From: thebarguest@... (thebarguest) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:59:49 -0000 Subject: Festive 50 1979 (10 to 1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks to everyone concerned for this gem ! Surprisingly reasonable quality for a 30 year-old medium wave tape (no wavering in and out of focus). It could be nicely remastered by 'pasting' in high quality copies of the songs (as per that old 1967 Peel show), just leaving our man's talking ........ btw - can't access your site, Jon H. --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Horne" wrote: > > Hi folks. > > Just to let you know that I've put an mp3 version of this onto The Peel Tapes. It's a much > smaller file, and the sound quality hardly matters as it was taped off medium wave. > > The link is: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UGEX5UU3 > > The sender was Adam, by the way, so thanks to him. > > Cheers, Jon > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Duffy" wrote: > > > > I've just had a very interesting post on Kat's Karavan as follows: > > > > "A broadcast version of the 1979 Festive 50 songs 10 to 1 is available... > > > > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBTK1W52 " > From robfleay@... Sat Apr 14 22:23:35 2007 From: robfleay@... (Robf) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:23:35 +0100 Subject: Peel's First CD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <46214657.28551.240ADE@localhost> Not sure if it's been mentioned on here, but The Wedding Present are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of "George Best" by recreating the tour (well the cities - not the venues) in October this year - and apparently playing the whole album as part of the set.. Anyway - the point being that I dug out an old cassette bootlg of the original Manchester gig from the 1987 tour and halfway through David Gedge says that "tonight we were the first band to ever have a track played on CD by John Peel on Radio 1" - the date was 12th October 1987. An interesting bit of trivia I thought.. From jandchill@... Sun Apr 15 15:18:29 2007 From: jandchill@... (hills1902) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:18:29 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 Message-ID: I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear programmes that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following bands: 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo Dog Band Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John Dummer Blues Band Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat Khan 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at 1 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I seem to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so some of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes also have various LPs of that era on them. Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing to send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. From eddie.duffy@... Sun Apr 15 20:32:54 2007 From: eddie.duffy@... (Eddie Duffy) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:32:54 +0100 Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <46226FD6.1070302@...> I'd imagine there'd be a lot of interest in these. I, for one, would love to hear them. And that fast initial playback should be correctable if the tapes are encoded to digital format. So, does anyone in the group have the capability to encode reel-to-reel to CD/MP3? The only person I'm aware of is the estimable Guy Brown, but he's on the West Coast of the US and is an extremely busy fella. It would be terrific if someone could get these shared around the group. Eddie. hills1902 wrote: > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > programmes > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following > bands: > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > Dog > Band > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John > Dummer Blues Band > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat > Khan > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at > 1 > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I > seem > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so > some > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing > to > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > From roger.carruthers@... Sun Apr 15 20:52:11 2007 From: roger.carruthers@... (Roger Carruthers) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:52:11 +0100 Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: <46226FD6.1070302@...> Message-ID: I certainly have the technology, and the interest ­ what country are you in ? Cheers Roger On 15/4/07 19:32, "Eddie Duffy" wrote: > > > > > I'd imagine there'd be a lot of interest in these. I, for one, would > love to hear them. And that fast initial playback should be correctable > if the tapes are encoded to digital format. > > So, does anyone in the group have the capability to encode reel-to-reel > to CD/MP3? The only person I'm aware of is the estimable Guy Brown, but > he's on the West Coast of the US and is an extremely busy fella. It > would be terrific if someone could get these shared around the group. > > Eddie. > > hills1902 wrote: >> > >> > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear >> > programmes >> > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following >> > bands: >> > >> > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family >> > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo >> > Dog >> > Band >> > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John >> > Dummer Blues Band >> > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band >> > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, >> > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat >> > Khan >> > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise >> > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House >> > >> > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at >> > 1 >> > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though >> > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I >> > seem >> > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is >> > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker >> > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder >> > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so >> > some >> > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes >> > also have various LPs of that era on them. >> > >> > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing >> > to >> > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity >> > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in >> > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. >> > >> > > > > From ken_garner@... Sun Apr 15 22:00:31 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:00:31 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I too would like to hear them, of course. I think I can be of some assistance with confirming your dates, here you go: Sn 27/4/69 Eclection, new session first broadcast (plus repeated sessions from: Family, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre) - yes, defintiely 27th, not 26th, and coincidentally that was the first Peel show Produced by John Walters, I wonder if Peel says anything about this in his links? Sn 11/5/69 T.Rex, King Crimson (Fleetwood Mac, Bonzos) - correct, King Crimson's first, by the way Sn 18/5/69 Pentangle, John Dummer's Blues Band (Blodwyn Pigg, Mandrake Paddle Steamer) Sn 29/6/69 Idle race, Led Zeppelin (Pentangle, Savoy Brown Blues Band) Sn 6/7/69 John Hiseman's Coliseum, Imrat Khan (Pretty Things, John Dummer Blues Band) Sn 27/7/69 Third Ear Band (Roy Harper, Ten Years After) - my notes also say last record in show was Skyline Pigeon by Elton John! Got that? ...Top Gear moved to Saturday afternoons late Sept 69... St 4/7/70 Country Joe McDonald (Fotheringay, Cochise) St 11/7/70 Kevin Ayers + the Whole World, Son House (East of Eden) Most of the major sessions there survived on tape, but I am not sure quite all of these are in the Radio 1 Archive, by the way, especially the Country Joe one, but I can check that easily enough... ken --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > programmes > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following > bands: > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > Dog > Band > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John > Dummer Blues Band > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat > Khan > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at > 1 > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I > seem > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so > some > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing > to > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > From hubcity@... Mon Apr 16 02:35:36 2007 From: hubcity@... (Sean Carolan) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:35:36 -0400 Subject: [peel] Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20070415203536.01e12440@...> All, As a backup, I'm also reel-to-reel equipped. 4-track stereo, specifically. -Sean Altrok Radio At 01:18 PM 4/15/2007 -0000, hills1902 wrote: >I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear >programmes >that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following >bands: > >26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family >11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo >Dog >Band >Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John >Dummer Blues Band >Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band >29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, >6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat >Khan >4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise >11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > >Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at >1 >7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though >unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I >seem >to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is >not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker >terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder >was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so >some >of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes >also have various LPs of that era on them. > >Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing >to >send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity >if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in >copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > From saipanda@... Mon Apr 16 10:29:03 2007 From: saipanda@... (saipanda) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:29:03 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20070415203536.01e12440@...> Message-ID: I'm another who would love to hear these if someone can sort out a digital transfer. > > At 01:18 PM 4/15/2007 -0000, hills1902 wrote: > >I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > >programmes > >that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following > >bands: > > > >26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > >11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > >Dog > >Band > >Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John > >Dummer Blues Band > >Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > >29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > >6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat > >Khan > >4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > >11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > >Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some at > >1 > >7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > >unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I > >seem > >to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality is > >not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker > >terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape recorder > >was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so > >some > >of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The tapes > >also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > >Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm willing > >to > >send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to charity > >if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > >copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > From hubcity@... Mon Apr 16 13:40:08 2007 From: hubcity@... (hubcity@...) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:40:08 -0400 Subject: [OT] [Altrok] Update #155: Support Your Local Web Radio Station! 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An eight hour playlist that features some of the best that decade had to offer, drawing from all the music that was available at the time (yes, even from the seventies.) As if that weren't enough, Fridays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm) you'll find New York's own DJ Shred and her hand-picked set filled with classics from the darker and more challenging corners of the Eighties. But for now - we've got songs to let you know about. This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from: - The Arcade Fire - The National - The Chiara L's - The Sammies - Maldroid - Datarock Plus we've got newly-added music: - Arctic Monkeys - Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend (feat. 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(Guy Brown) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 Message-ID: <625252.66740.qm@...> hills1902:>>I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear programmes that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following bands.... Eddie Duffy>>I'd imagine there'd be a lot of interest in these. ...And that fast initial playback should be correctable if the tapes are encoded to digital format.... The only person I'm aware of is the estimable Guy Brown, but he's on the West Coast of the US Well Eddie is right on all counts. I have a pair of Revox B77s, including one that runs at 1 7/8 ips, just for this kind of restoration. I would love to do this job and circulate the results to the list. Actually I have another project in progress, that I have been really dragging my feet on, that involves about 25 hours of tapes made by a certain Scottish doctor that covers 67-69, and should yield about 9 new CD length volumes of 'UK Sessions' to augment my own 8 volumes. I promise (holy books this time) to finish these by mid summer day 2007. Hills1902 - if you haven't made a deal yet, please consider me for this job. Lots to offer in trade and, of course, I will cover your expenses. GUY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From martinw@... Mon Apr 16 17:09:31 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:09:31 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.20070415203536.01e12440@...> Message-ID: I would suggest that since there is so much interest (including me) that once the conversion is done mp3s be put up somewhere for download that'll save a lot of sending CDs back and forth > > > > At 01:18 PM 4/15/2007 -0000, hills1902 wrote: > > >I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > >programmes > > >that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the >following > > >bands: > > > > > >26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > >11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, >Bonzo > > >Dog > > >Band > > >Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, >John > > >Dummer Blues Band > > >Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > >29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > >6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, >Imrat > > >Khan > > >4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > >11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > > >Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and >some at > > >1 > > >7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > >unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. >I > > >seem > > >to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so >quality is > > >not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the >speaker > > >terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape >recorder > > >was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed >so > > >some > > >of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The >tapes > > >also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > > >Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm >willing > > >to > > >send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to >charity > > >if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > > >copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with >them. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From festive50@... Thu Apr 19 00:21:17 2007 From: festive50@... (Phil Edwards) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:21:17 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: They could always uploaded to my Peel File Server. Phil -----Original Message----- From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Martin Wheatley Sent: 16 April 2007 16:10 To: peel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 I would suggest that since there is so much interest (including me) that once the conversion is done mp3s be put up somewhere for download that'll save a lot of sending CDs back and forth > > > > At 01:18 PM 4/15/2007 -0000, hills1902 wrote: > > >I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > >programmes > > >that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the >following > > >bands: > > > > > >26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > >11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, >Bonzo > > >Dog > > >Band > > >Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, >John > > >Dummer Blues Band > > >Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > >29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > >6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, >Imrat > > >Khan > > >4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > >11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > > >Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and >some at > > >1 > > >7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > >unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. >I > > >seem > > >to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so >quality is > > >not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the >speaker > > >terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape >recorder > > >was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed >so > > >some > > >of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The >tapes > > >also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > > >Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm >willing > > >to > > >send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to >charity > > >if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > > >copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with >them. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From roger.carruthers@... Thu Apr 19 10:01:34 2007 From: roger.carruthers@... (ROGER CARRUTHERS) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:01:34 +0100 (BST) Subject: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <154594.52368.qm@...> If I get the job (still waiting to hear) I will certainly post them somewhere for public consumption, cheers R --- Phil Edwards wrote: > They could always uploaded to my Peel File Server. > Phil > > -----Original Message----- > From: peel@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Martin > Wheatley > Sent: 16 April 2007 16:10 > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 > and 1970 > > > I would suggest that since there is so much > interest (including me) > that once the conversion is done mp3s be put up > somewhere for download > that'll save a lot of sending CDs back and forth > > > > > > > At 01:18 PM 4/15/2007 -0000, hills1902 wrote: > > > >I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of > eight Top Gear > > > >programmes > > > >that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with > sessions from the > >following > > > >bands: > > > > > > > >26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, > Eclection, Family > > > >11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, > Tyrannosaurus Rex, > >Bonzo > > > >Dog > > > >Band > > > >Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, > Mandrake Paddle Steamer, > >John > > > >Dummer Blues Band > > > >Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, > Third Ear Band > > > >29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle > Race, > > > >6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, > Pretty Things, > >Imrat > > > >Khan > > > >4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, > Fotheringay, Cochise > > > >11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son > House > > > > > > > >Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 > inches per second and > >some at > > > >1 > > > >7/8 inches per second, and are of complete > programmes, though > > > >unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly > news on most of them. > >I > > > >seem > > > >to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave > at the time so > >quality is > > > >not brilliant, but they were recorded by > connecting to the > >speaker > > > >terminals of a radio (not using a > microphone). Also the tape > >recorder > > > >was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to > warm up to full speed > >so > > > >some > > > >of them now play back too fast for the first > 10 mins or so! The > >tapes > > > >also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > > > > >Despite all their faults, is anyone > interested in them ? I'm > >willing > > > >to > > > >send them by post in return for the postage > (plus donation to > >charity > > > >if there's a lot of interest), and would be > interested in > > > >copies on CD if that's what someone would > like to do with > >them. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From saipanda@... Thu Apr 19 10:39:54 2007 From: saipanda@... (saipanda) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:39:54 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Phil, I've heard your server mentioned on the list before and wonder if I'm the only person who doesn't know what it is of how to access it. If it's some kind of hush-hush thing, maybe you could drop me a line off list. Cheers. --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Edwards" wrote: > > They could always uploaded to my Peel File Server. > Phil > From grafpoo@... Thu Apr 19 13:55:36 2007 From: grafpoo@... (grafpoo@...) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:55:36 +0000 Subject: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 Message-ID: <041920071155.17382.462758B8000358FD000043E6220073474801019F000E9D09@...> same boat, so i did a search in the forum and found an old message of phil's saying that if you write to him with the subject line 'Peel Server - Enrol' he will give you access. so i did, last night. haven;t heard back yet, by the way... john -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "saipanda" > Hi Phil, > > I've heard your server mentioned on the list before and wonder if I'm > the only person who doesn't know what it is of how to access it. If > it's some kind of hush-hush thing, maybe you could drop me a line off > list. Cheers. > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Edwards" wrote: > > > > They could always uploaded to my Peel File Server. > > Phil > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "saipanda" Subject: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:45:42 +0000 Size: 1229 URL: From festive50@... Thu Apr 19 22:12:15 2007 From: festive50@... (Phil Edwards) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:12:15 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: <041920071155.17382.462758B8000358FD000043E6220073474801019F000E9D09@...> Message-ID: Maybe it was because I was in bed. Your e-mail didn't arrive till after 2.00 am Phil P.S. Will give details off list. -----Original Message----- From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of grafpoo@... Sent: 19 April 2007 12:56 To: peel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 same boat, so i did a search in the forum and found an old message of phil's saying that if you write to him with the subject line 'Peel Server - Enrol' he will give you access. so i did, last night. haven;t heard back yet, by the way... john -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "saipanda" > Hi Phil, > > I've heard your server mentioned on the list before and wonder if I'm > the only person who doesn't know what it is of how to access it. If > it's some kind of hush-hush thing, maybe you could drop me a line off > list. Cheers. > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Edwards" wrote: > > > > They could always uploaded to my Peel File Server. > > Phil > > > > > From jandchill@... Sun Apr 22 13:46:44 2007 From: jandchill@... (hills1902) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:46:44 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks for the information on dates - how do you know all this?? In response to your questions: - in the show on 27/4/69, I haven't played it all through again, but I think the only reference John Peel makes to the new producer is to call him John "Petals" Walters, you get the impression he took a while to warm to him! One of the tapes has the last bit of the previous show (unfortunately I recorded over most of it with a John Peel concert programme) in which JP pays tribute to Bernie Andrews the outgoing producer and says he can't understand the reason for the change - so perhaps he was initially a bit hostile to John Walters. - unfortunately I recorded over the last 10 mins or so of the show on 27/7/69 (also with a JP concert programme) so don't have the last item (Elton John's Skyline Pigeon)- was it significant? The tapes also have some mostly incomplete recordings of the John Peel concert programme (Van der Graaf Generator, Mungo Jerry, Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts are some I've written down) but I don't find these very interesting now, compared to the Top Gear shows which you listen to and think what great music (mostly)! One question from me - does anyone know about the legality of distributing these recordings? I imagine the BBC are the only ones that might take an interest. I've looked for archive recordings on their website and they have the odd disappointingly brief snatch of Top Gear. Does anyone know if they have preserved the recordings of the shows, or is it only the sessions that they have kept? John --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" wrote: > > I too would like to hear them, of course. I think I can be of some > assistance with confirming your dates, here you go: > > Sn 27/4/69 Eclection, new session first broadcast (plus repeated > sessions from: Family, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre) > - yes, defintiely 27th, not 26th, and coincidentally that was the > first Peel show Produced by John Walters, I wonder if Peel says > anything about this in his links? > > Sn 11/5/69 T.Rex, King Crimson (Fleetwood Mac, Bonzos) > - correct, King Crimson's first, by the way > > Sn 18/5/69 Pentangle, John Dummer's Blues Band (Blodwyn Pigg, > Mandrake Paddle Steamer) > > Sn 29/6/69 Idle race, Led Zeppelin (Pentangle, Savoy Brown Blues Band) > > Sn 6/7/69 John Hiseman's Coliseum, Imrat Khan (Pretty Things, John > Dummer Blues Band) > > Sn 27/7/69 Third Ear Band (Roy Harper, Ten Years After) > - my notes also say last record in show was Skyline Pigeon by Elton > John! Got that? > > ...Top Gear moved to Saturday afternoons late Sept 69... > > St 4/7/70 Country Joe McDonald (Fotheringay, Cochise) > > St 11/7/70 Kevin Ayers + the Whole World, Son House (East of Eden) > > Most of the major sessions there survived on tape, but I am not sure > quite all of these are in the Radio 1 Archive, by the way, especially > the Country Joe one, but I can check that easily enough... > > ken > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > programmes > > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following > > bands: > > > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo > > Dog > > Band > > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, > John > > Dummer Blues Band > > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat > > Khan > > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and some > at > > 1 > > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. I > > seem > > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so quality > is > > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the speaker > > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape > recorder > > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed so > > some > > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The > tapes > > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm > willing > > to > > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to > charity > > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > > From ken_garner@... Sun Apr 22 22:42:04 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:42:04 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear John I know a bit about the dates because in order to write my previous book, IN SESSION TONIGHT, I was able, as it was an official BBC project, to print out every Peel show programme-as-broadcast script (the running orders of the music basically) from the launch of Radio 1 to June 78, when I ran out of time and money. I still have them all right here in my office at home in Glasgow. Yes, Peel was initially sceptical of Walters. I have a long quote Peel gave Melody Maker in suport of Bernie but I have not heard that last show link from the week before. If you could transcribe it for me and e-mail it to me, maybe...? I think I simply noted the Elton John spin because it demonstrated that Peel alone was backing Eltona good year or more before anyone else noticed him. Rememebr, elton;s first album stiffed in the uk on first release, it was only after his lvie success in America that... etc Legality? Well legally, unlike TV with video recorders, it is still, would you believe, technically illegal to record radio programmes off air, I think, and this is one of the reasons why the BBC cannot do many podcasts from its website, only 'listen again'. I think it unlikely at this late date anyone is going to try and nobble any of us for exchanging tapes and MP3s of 40 year old radio shows. On a personal level, I know the archivists and producers at Radio 1 are delighted to get copies of anything they do not have - after all, this was how Kevin Howlett was able to make The Beatles at The Beeb series, largely thanks to listener contributions, and several of these ended up on the EMI album. Regarding BBC recordings of full shows, these were rare and haphazardly done internally, at the whim of a producer or not, from time to time, until the mid nineties: since then, a CD is burned of every show as it goes out and this is lodged in the R1 archive, for future storage. Louise Kattenhorn, Peel's last producer, has CDs of all Peel shows back to 2001, and most of Anita Kamath's (previous show producer) going back to 98, for example. But don't expect to find any of this on the peel archive site: that was created independently of R1 staff by the freelance production company Somethin' Else, and they only used two sources for it: my book (I know, because they asked me if I minded them rekeying it!) and the Radio 1 aged computer system Romeo, which contains session sheet files, but which are often incomplete. However, late last year, BBC INfax, the BBC's archiving operation, lanched its experimental programme archive catalogue online. Only the catalogue, mind, not the shows: it's like showing you their card index files online, that's all. Media academics like me were invited to have a look at it and tell them what we think. It's not bad but the information about the entries is inconsistent. Neverthless, it has already proved useful in reconstructing my grand narrative of the Peel show from 99 onwards, with the complete show records for 2000 being particularly helpful. If anyone's interested, it's here: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/ cheers Ken Garner working on book THE PEEL SESSIONS, forthcoming Oct 07, BBC Books/Random House --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > Thanks for the information on dates - how do you know all this?? > > In response to your questions: > > - in the show on 27/4/69, I haven't played it all through again, but > I think the only reference John Peel makes to the new producer is to > call him John "Petals" Walters, you get the impression he took a > while to warm to him! One of the tapes has the last bit of the > previous show (unfortunately I recorded over most of it with a John > Peel concert programme) in which JP pays tribute to Bernie Andrews > the outgoing producer and says he can't understand the reason for the > change - so perhaps he was initially a bit hostile to John Walters. > > - unfortunately I recorded over the last 10 mins or so of the show on > 27/7/69 (also with a JP concert programme) so don't have the last > item (Elton John's Skyline Pigeon)- was it significant? > > > The tapes also have some mostly incomplete recordings of the John > Peel concert programme (Van der Graaf Generator, Mungo Jerry, Brett > Marvin and the Thunderbolts are some I've written down) but I don't > find these very interesting now, compared to the Top Gear shows which > you listen to and think what great music (mostly)! > > One question from me - does anyone know about the legality of > distributing these recordings? I imagine the BBC are the only ones > that might take an interest. I've looked for archive recordings on > their website and they have the odd disappointingly brief snatch of > Top Gear. Does anyone know if they have preserved the recordings of > the shows, or is it only the sessions that they have kept? > > John > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" wrote: > > > > I too would like to hear them, of course. I think I can be of some > > assistance with confirming your dates, here you go: > > > > Sn 27/4/69 Eclection, new session first broadcast (plus repeated > > sessions from: Family, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre) > > - yes, defintiely 27th, not 26th, and coincidentally that was the > > first Peel show Produced by John Walters, I wonder if Peel says > > anything about this in his links? > > > > Sn 11/5/69 T.Rex, King Crimson (Fleetwood Mac, Bonzos) > > - correct, King Crimson's first, by the way > > > > Sn 18/5/69 Pentangle, John Dummer's Blues Band (Blodwyn Pigg, > > Mandrake Paddle Steamer) > > > > Sn 29/6/69 Idle race, Led Zeppelin (Pentangle, Savoy Brown Blues > Band) > > > > Sn 6/7/69 John Hiseman's Coliseum, Imrat Khan (Pretty Things, John > > Dummer Blues Band) > > > > Sn 27/7/69 Third Ear Band (Roy Harper, Ten Years After) > > - my notes also say last record in show was Skyline Pigeon by Elton > > John! Got that? > > > > ...Top Gear moved to Saturday afternoons late Sept 69... > > > > St 4/7/70 Country Joe McDonald (Fotheringay, Cochise) > > > > St 11/7/70 Kevin Ayers + the Whole World, Son House (East of Eden) > > > > Most of the major sessions there survived on tape, but I am not > sure > > quite all of these are in the Radio 1 Archive, by the way, > especially > > the Country Joe one, but I can check that easily enough... > > > > ken > > > > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > > > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > > programmes > > > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the > following > > > bands: > > > > > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, > Bonzo > > > Dog > > > Band > > > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, > > John > > > Dummer Blues Band > > > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, > Imrat > > > Khan > > > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and > some > > at > > > 1 > > > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. > I > > > seem > > > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so > quality > > is > > > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the > speaker > > > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape > > recorder > > > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed > so > > > some > > > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The > > tapes > > > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm > > willing > > > to > > > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to > > charity > > > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > > > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > > > > > From eddie.duffy@... Sun Apr 22 22:18:27 2007 From: eddie.duffy@... (Eddie Duffy) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:18:27 +0100 Subject: [peel] Re: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <462BC313.4060306@...> John, Ken knows all that because he's the author of "In Session Tonight", and he's currently researching a new edition. Regarding legality, well technically, no, I suppose this is not 100% legal. However, if you're dubious about embarking on this, consider what happened when the BBC found out about Guy Brown's reconstruction of the final Perfumed Garden show. They didn't consult their lawyers: they actually broadcast parts of it on BBC 6Music, complete with an introduction from Guy about how it all came about. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/peel/perfumed_garden.shtml ) BTW, have you found anyone who's going to take this on yet? I see you've had some offers. This is the most interesting Peel find for a good while, so I hope it works out. Cheers, Eddie. hills1902 wrote: > > Thanks for the information on dates - how do you know all this?? > > In response to your questions: > > - in the show on 27/4/69, I haven't played it all through again, but > I think the only reference John Peel makes to the new producer is to > call him John "Petals" Walters, you get the impression he took a > while to warm to him! One of the tapes has the last bit of the > previous show (unfortunately I recorded over most of it with a John > Peel concert programme) in which JP pays tribute to Bernie Andrews > the outgoing producer and says he can't understand the reason for the > change - so perhaps he was initially a bit hostile to John Walters. > > - unfortunately I recorded over the last 10 mins or so of the show on > 27/7/69 (also with a JP concert programme) so don't have the last > item (Elton John's Skyline Pigeon)- was it significant? > > The tapes also have some mostly incomplete recordings of the John > Peel concert programme (Van der Graaf Generator, Mungo Jerry, Brett > Marvin and the Thunderbolts are some I've written down) but I don't > find these very interesting now, compared to the Top Gear shows which > you listen to and think what great music (mostly)! > > One question from me - does anyone know about the legality of > distributing these recordings? I imagine the BBC are the only ones > that might take an interest. I've looked for archive recordings on > their website and they have the odd disappointingly brief snatch of > Top Gear. Does anyone know if they have preserved the recordings of > the shows, or is it only the sessions that they have kept? > > John > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com , "ken > garner" wrote: > > > > I too would like to hear them, of course. I think I can be of some > > assistance with confirming your dates, here you go: > > > > Sn 27/4/69 Eclection, new session first broadcast (plus repeated > > sessions from: Family, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre) > > - yes, defintiely 27th, not 26th, and coincidentally that was the > > first Peel show Produced by John Walters, I wonder if Peel says > > anything about this in his links? > > > > Sn 11/5/69 T.Rex, King Crimson (Fleetwood Mac, Bonzos) > > - correct, King Crimson's first, by the way > > > > Sn 18/5/69 Pentangle, John Dummer's Blues Band (Blodwyn Pigg, > > Mandrake Paddle Steamer) > > > > Sn 29/6/69 Idle race, Led Zeppelin (Pentangle, Savoy Brown Blues > Band) > > > > Sn 6/7/69 John Hiseman's Coliseum, Imrat Khan (Pretty Things, John > > Dummer Blues Band) > > > > Sn 27/7/69 Third Ear Band (Roy Harper, Ten Years After) > > - my notes also say last record in show was Skyline Pigeon by Elton > > John! Got that? > > > > ...Top Gear moved to Saturday afternoons late Sept 69... > > > > St 4/7/70 Country Joe McDonald (Fotheringay, Cochise) > > > > St 11/7/70 Kevin Ayers + the Whole World, Son House (East of Eden) > > > > Most of the major sessions there survived on tape, but I am not > sure > > quite all of these are in the Radio 1 Archive, by the way, > especially > > the Country Joe one, but I can check that easily enough... > > > > ken > > > > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com , > "hills1902" wrote: > > > > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > > programmes > > > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the > following > > > bands: > > > > > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, > Bonzo > > > Dog > > > Band > > > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, > > John > > > Dummer Blues Band > > > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, > Imrat > > > Khan > > > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and > some > > at > > > 1 > > > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of them. > I > > > seem > > > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so > quality > > is > > > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the > speaker > > > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). 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Tue Apr 24 14:35:09 2007 From: domesticempire@... (Gary) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:35:09 -0000 Subject: Festive Fifty 2006 Message-ID: The Festive Fifty 2006 as broadcast by Dandelion Radio. Requested a while back and now seeding. Sorry about the delay. Posted here: http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com/ Or direct link to torrent page here: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1128153/ Gary From jandchill@... Wed Apr 25 23:16:02 2007 From: jandchill@... (hills1902) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:16:02 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ken I listened again to the fragments of the last Top Gear of Bernie Andrews and unfortunately the bit I remember about JP saying he doesn't understand the reason for the change in producer etc isn't on there - I only have 9 tracks from the programme (which had sessions from Led Zeppelin, Taste, Nice and Heir Apparent) with some of JP's chat. He dedicates a record (Flying Burrito Brothers) to "a number of people whose association with Top Gear is ending because of the change in producer and because of the change in time - Pam Tarrant, Bernie's and TG's secretary for x number of years, Alan Harris who is balance engineer and Bob Cunduck recording engineer". At the end of the programme he says this is the last Sunday afternoon programme, next week will be 7 to 9 on Sunday evenings and plays out with the whole of the Top Gear theme by The Nice saying "this is for Bernie with thanks from several million of us". So, apologies for misleading you - I don't have quite what I thought I had! John --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" wrote: > > Dear John > > I know a bit about the dates because in order to write my previous > book, IN SESSION TONIGHT, I was able, as it was an official BBC > project, to print out every Peel show programme-as-broadcast script > (the running orders of the music basically) from the launch of Radio > 1 to June 78, when I ran out of time and money. I still have them all > right here in my office at home in Glasgow. > > Yes, Peel was initially sceptical of Walters. I have a long quote > Peel gave Melody Maker in suport of Bernie but I have not heard that > last show link from the week before. If you could transcribe it for > me and e-mail it to me, maybe...? > > I think I simply noted the Elton John spin because it demonstrated > that Peel alone was backing Eltona good year or more before anyone > else noticed him. Rememebr, elton;s first album stiffed in the uk on > first release, it was only after his lvie success in America that... > etc > > Legality? Well legally, unlike TV with video recorders, it is still, > would you believe, technically illegal to record radio programmes off > air, I think, and this is one of the reasons why the BBC cannot do > many podcasts from its website, only 'listen again'. I think it > unlikely at this late date anyone is going to try and nobble any of > us for exchanging tapes and MP3s of 40 year old radio shows. On a > personal level, I know the archivists and producers at Radio 1 are > delighted to get copies of anything they do not have - after all, > this was how Kevin Howlett was able to make The Beatles at The Beeb > series, largely thanks to listener contributions, and several of > these ended up on the EMI album. > > Regarding BBC recordings of full shows, these were rare and > haphazardly done internally, at the whim of a producer or not, from > time to time, until the mid nineties: since then, a CD is > burned of every show as it goes out and this is lodged in the R1 > archive, for future storage. Louise Kattenhorn, Peel's last producer, > has CDs of all Peel shows back to 2001, and most of Anita Kamath's > (previous show producer) going back to 98, for example. But don't > expect to find any of this on the peel archive site: that was created > independently of R1 staff by the freelance production company > Somethin' Else, and they only used two sources for it: my book (I > know, because they asked me if I minded them rekeying it!) and the > Radio 1 aged computer system Romeo, which contains session sheet > files, but which are often incomplete. > > However, late last year, BBC INfax, the BBC's archiving > operation, lanched its experimental programme archive catalogue > online. Only the catalogue, mind, not the shows: it's like showing > you their card index files online, that's all. Media academics like > me were invited to have a look at it and tell them what we think. > It's not bad but the information about the entries is inconsistent. > Neverthless, it has already proved useful in reconstructing my grand > narrative of the Peel show from 99 onwards, with the complete show > records for 2000 being particularly helpful. If anyone's interested, > it's here: > > http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/ > > cheers > > Ken Garner > working on book THE PEEL SESSIONS, forthcoming Oct 07, BBC > Books/Random House > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > > > Thanks for the information on dates - how do you know all this?? > > > > In response to your questions: > > > > - in the show on 27/4/69, I haven't played it all through again, > but > > I think the only reference John Peel makes to the new producer is > to > > call him John "Petals" Walters, you get the impression he took a > > while to warm to him! One of the tapes has the last bit of the > > previous show (unfortunately I recorded over most of it with a John > > Peel concert programme) in which JP pays tribute to Bernie Andrews > > the outgoing producer and says he can't understand the reason for > the > > change - so perhaps he was initially a bit hostile to John Walters. > > > > - unfortunately I recorded over the last 10 mins or so of the show > on > > 27/7/69 (also with a JP concert programme) so don't have the last > > item (Elton John's Skyline Pigeon)- was it significant? > > > > > > The tapes also have some mostly incomplete recordings of the John > > Peel concert programme (Van der Graaf Generator, Mungo Jerry, Brett > > Marvin and the Thunderbolts are some I've written down) but I don't > > find these very interesting now, compared to the Top Gear shows > which > > you listen to and think what great music (mostly)! > > > > One question from me - does anyone know about the legality of > > distributing these recordings? I imagine the BBC are the only ones > > that might take an interest. I've looked for archive recordings on > > their website and they have the odd disappointingly brief snatch of > > Top Gear. Does anyone know if they have preserved the recordings of > > the shows, or is it only the sessions that they have kept? > > > > John > > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" wrote: > > > > > > I too would like to hear them, of course. I think I can be of > some > > > assistance with confirming your dates, here you go: > > > > > > Sn 27/4/69 Eclection, new session first broadcast (plus repeated > > > sessions from: Family, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre) > > > - yes, defintiely 27th, not 26th, and coincidentally that was the > > > first Peel show Produced by John Walters, I wonder if Peel says > > > anything about this in his links? > > > > > > Sn 11/5/69 T.Rex, King Crimson (Fleetwood Mac, Bonzos) > > > - correct, King Crimson's first, by the way > > > > > > Sn 18/5/69 Pentangle, John Dummer's Blues Band (Blodwyn Pigg, > > > Mandrake Paddle Steamer) > > > > > > Sn 29/6/69 Idle race, Led Zeppelin (Pentangle, Savoy Brown Blues > > Band) > > > > > > Sn 6/7/69 John Hiseman's Coliseum, Imrat Khan (Pretty Things, > John > > > Dummer Blues Band) > > > > > > Sn 27/7/69 Third Ear Band (Roy Harper, Ten Years After) > > > - my notes also say last record in show was Skyline Pigeon by > Elton > > > John! Got that? > > > > > > ...Top Gear moved to Saturday afternoons late Sept 69... > > > > > > St 4/7/70 Country Joe McDonald (Fotheringay, Cochise) > > > > > > St 11/7/70 Kevin Ayers + the Whole World, Son House (East of Eden) > > > > > > Most of the major sessions there survived on tape, but I am not > > sure > > > quite all of these are in the Radio 1 Archive, by the way, > > especially > > > the Country Joe one, but I can check that easily enough... > > > > > > ken > > > > > > > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > > > > > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > > > programmes > > > > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the > > following > > > > bands: > > > > > > > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > > > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, > > Bonzo > > > > Dog > > > > Band > > > > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, > > > John > > > > Dummer Blues Band > > > > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > > > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > > > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, > > Imrat > > > > Khan > > > > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > > > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > > > > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and > > some > > > at > > > > 1 > > > > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > > > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of > them. > > I > > > > seem > > > > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so > > quality > > > is > > > > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the > > speaker > > > > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape > > > recorder > > > > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full speed > > so > > > > some > > > > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! The > > > tapes > > > > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > > > > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm > > > willing > > > > to > > > > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to > > > charity > > > > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > > > > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with them. > > > > > > > > > > From ken_garner@... Wed Apr 25 23:44:26 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:44:26 -0000 Subject: Tapes of Top Gear from 1969 and 1970 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: John, well, nice to see it all the same! Mind you, Peel's fatalism was a little misplaced: Alan Harris was back as a Sounds of the Seventies presenter only a year later, and Bob Conduct stepped in and carried on as Walters' main engineer (aided by Tony Wilson), before eventually becoming the head of studio operations group 2, ie. all on- classical music, non-news sound engineers. thanks again ken --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > Ken > > I listened again to the fragments of the last Top Gear of Bernie > Andrews and unfortunately the bit I remember about JP saying he > doesn't understand the reason for the change in producer etc isn't on > there - I only have 9 tracks from the programme (which had sessions > from Led Zeppelin, Taste, Nice and Heir Apparent) with some of JP's > chat. He dedicates a record (Flying Burrito Brothers) to "a number of > people whose association with Top Gear is ending because of the > change in producer and because of the change in time - Pam Tarrant, > Bernie's and TG's secretary for x number of years, Alan Harris who is > balance engineer and Bob Cunduck recording engineer". At the end of > the programme he says this is the last Sunday afternoon programme, > next week will be 7 to 9 on Sunday evenings and plays out with the > whole of the Top Gear theme by The Nice saying "this is for Bernie > with thanks from several million of us". > > So, apologies for misleading you - I don't have quite what I thought > I had! > > John > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" wrote: > > > > Dear John > > > > I know a bit about the dates because in order to write my previous > > book, IN SESSION TONIGHT, I was able, as it was an official BBC > > project, to print out every Peel show programme-as-broadcast script > > (the running orders of the music basically) from the launch of > Radio > > 1 to June 78, when I ran out of time and money. I still have them > all > > right here in my office at home in Glasgow. > > > > Yes, Peel was initially sceptical of Walters. I have a long quote > > Peel gave Melody Maker in suport of Bernie but I have not heard > that > > last show link from the week before. If you could transcribe it for > > me and e-mail it to me, maybe...? > > > > I think I simply noted the Elton John spin because it demonstrated > > that Peel alone was backing Eltona good year or more before anyone > > else noticed him. Rememebr, elton;s first album stiffed in the uk > on > > first release, it was only after his lvie success in America > that... > > etc > > > > Legality? Well legally, unlike TV with video recorders, it is > still, > > would you believe, technically illegal to record radio programmes > off > > air, I think, and this is one of the reasons why the BBC cannot do > > many podcasts from its website, only 'listen again'. I think it > > unlikely at this late date anyone is going to try and nobble any of > > us for exchanging tapes and MP3s of 40 year old radio shows. On a > > personal level, I know the archivists and producers at Radio 1 are > > delighted to get copies of anything they do not have - after all, > > this was how Kevin Howlett was able to make The Beatles at The Beeb > > series, largely thanks to listener contributions, and several of > > these ended up on the EMI album. > > > > Regarding BBC recordings of full shows, these were rare and > > haphazardly done internally, at the whim of a producer or not, from > > time to time, until the mid nineties: since then, a CD is > > burned of every show as it goes out and this is lodged in the R1 > > archive, for future storage. Louise Kattenhorn, Peel's last > producer, > > has CDs of all Peel shows back to 2001, and most of Anita Kamath's > > (previous show producer) going back to 98, for example. But don't > > expect to find any of this on the peel archive site: that was > created > > independently of R1 staff by the freelance production company > > Somethin' Else, and they only used two sources for it: my book (I > > know, because they asked me if I minded them rekeying it!) and the > > Radio 1 aged computer system Romeo, which contains session sheet > > files, but which are often incomplete. > > > > However, late last year, BBC INfax, the BBC's archiving > > operation, lanched its experimental programme archive catalogue > > online. Only the catalogue, mind, not the shows: it's like showing > > you their card index files online, that's all. Media academics like > > me were invited to have a look at it and tell them what we think. > > It's not bad but the information about the entries is inconsistent. > > Neverthless, it has already proved useful in reconstructing my > grand > > narrative of the Peel show from 99 onwards, with the complete show > > records for 2000 being particularly helpful. If anyone's > interested, > > it's here: > > > > http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/ > > > > cheers > > > > Ken Garner > > working on book THE PEEL SESSIONS, forthcoming Oct 07, BBC > > Books/Random House > > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for the information on dates - how do you know all this?? > > > > > > In response to your questions: > > > > > > - in the show on 27/4/69, I haven't played it all through again, > > but > > > I think the only reference John Peel makes to the new producer is > > to > > > call him John "Petals" Walters, you get the impression he took a > > > while to warm to him! One of the tapes has the last bit of the > > > previous show (unfortunately I recorded over most of it with a > John > > > Peel concert programme) in which JP pays tribute to Bernie > Andrews > > > the outgoing producer and says he can't understand the reason for > > the > > > change - so perhaps he was initially a bit hostile to John > Walters. > > > > > > - unfortunately I recorded over the last 10 mins or so of the > show > > on > > > 27/7/69 (also with a JP concert programme) so don't have the last > > > item (Elton John's Skyline Pigeon)- was it significant? > > > > > > > > > The tapes also have some mostly incomplete recordings of the John > > > Peel concert programme (Van der Graaf Generator, Mungo Jerry, > Brett > > > Marvin and the Thunderbolts are some I've written down) but I > don't > > > find these very interesting now, compared to the Top Gear shows > > which > > > you listen to and think what great music (mostly)! > > > > > > One question from me - does anyone know about the legality of > > > distributing these recordings? I imagine the BBC are the only > ones > > > that might take an interest. I've looked for archive recordings > on > > > their website and they have the odd disappointingly brief snatch > of > > > Top Gear. Does anyone know if they have preserved the recordings > of > > > the shows, or is it only the sessions that they have kept? > > > > > > John > > > > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" wrote: > > > > > > > > I too would like to hear them, of course. I think I can be of > > some > > > > assistance with confirming your dates, here you go: > > > > > > > > Sn 27/4/69 Eclection, new session first broadcast (plus > repeated > > > > sessions from: Family, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre) > > > > - yes, defintiely 27th, not 26th, and coincidentally that was > the > > > > first Peel show Produced by John Walters, I wonder if Peel says > > > > anything about this in his links? > > > > > > > > Sn 11/5/69 T.Rex, King Crimson (Fleetwood Mac, Bonzos) > > > > - correct, King Crimson's first, by the way > > > > > > > > Sn 18/5/69 Pentangle, John Dummer's Blues Band (Blodwyn Pigg, > > > > Mandrake Paddle Steamer) > > > > > > > > Sn 29/6/69 Idle race, Led Zeppelin (Pentangle, Savoy Brown > Blues > > > Band) > > > > > > > > Sn 6/7/69 John Hiseman's Coliseum, Imrat Khan (Pretty Things, > > John > > > > Dummer Blues Band) > > > > > > > > Sn 27/7/69 Third Ear Band (Roy Harper, Ten Years After) > > > > - my notes also say last record in show was Skyline Pigeon by > > Elton > > > > John! Got that? > > > > > > > > ...Top Gear moved to Saturday afternoons late Sept 69... > > > > > > > > St 4/7/70 Country Joe McDonald (Fotheringay, Cochise) > > > > > > > > St 11/7/70 Kevin Ayers + the Whole World, Son House (East of > Eden) > > > > > > > > Most of the major sessions there survived on tape, but I am not > > > sure > > > > quite all of these are in the Radio 1 Archive, by the way, > > > especially > > > > the Country Joe one, but I can check that easily enough... > > > > > > > > ken > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "hills1902" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear > > > > > programmes > > > > > that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the > > > following > > > > > bands: > > > > > > > > > > 26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family > > > > > 11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, > > > Bonzo > > > > > Dog > > > > > Band > > > > > Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle > Steamer, > > > > John > > > > > Dummer Blues Band > > > > > Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band > > > > > 29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race, > > > > > 6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, > > > Imrat > > > > > Khan > > > > > 4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise > > > > > 11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayres, East of Eden, Son House > > > > > > > > > > Some of the tapes are recorded at 3 3/4 inches per second and > > > some > > > > at > > > > > 1 > > > > > 7/8 inches per second, and are of complete programmes, though > > > > > unfortunately I edited out the half-hourly news on most of > > them. > > > I > > > > > seem > > > > > to remember Radio 1 was only on medium wave at the time so > > > quality > > > > is > > > > > not brilliant, but they were recorded by connecting to the > > > speaker > > > > > terminals of a radio (not using a microphone). Also the tape > > > > recorder > > > > > was a bit dodgy and took about 10 mins to warm up to full > speed > > > so > > > > > some > > > > > of them now play back too fast for the first 10 mins or so! > The > > > > tapes > > > > > also have various LPs of that era on them. > > > > > > > > > > Despite all their faults, is anyone interested in them ? I'm > > > > willing > > > > > to > > > > > send them by post in return for the postage (plus donation to > > > > charity > > > > > if there's a lot of interest), and would be interested in > > > > > copies on CD if that's what someone would like to do with > them. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From douglas.fisher@... Thu Apr 26 10:53:54 2007 From: douglas.fisher@... (df100179) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:53:54 -0000 Subject: Complete set of 27 LP's on John Peel's Dandelion label on EBay Message-ID: Hi, I noticed that there is a complete set of all the Dandelion records for sale on Ebay, and as I don't have a grand to spare at the moment thought it might be of interest to someone on here! Note, I am not promoting this auction, it has nothing to do with me, just thought it would be of interest. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330110003315&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:UK:12 Item number: 330110003315 Cheers From esinclai@... Fri Apr 27 04:30:25 2007 From: esinclai@... (Eric Sinclair) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:30:25 -0500 Subject: [peel] Festive Fifty 2006 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8F6F4906-394A-4268-A00B-49684B8A4C85@...> Can someone point me to one of the torrent files or similar? When I went to demoid, the signups are locked and the torrent is too old for non-members... Thanks! -Eric On Apr 24, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Gary wrote: > The Festive Fifty 2006 as broadcast by Dandelion Radio. Requested a > while back and now seeding. Sorry about the delay. > > Posted here: > http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com/ > > Or direct link to torrent page here: > http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1128153/ > -- esinclai@... aim/skype/twitter: esinclai http://www.kittyjoyce.com/eric/log/ jabber: esinclai@... From anderson@... Fri Apr 27 04:33:06 2007 From: anderson@... (Graeme Anderson) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:33:06 -0500 Subject: [peel] Festive Fifty 2006 References: <8F6F4906-394A-4268-A00B-49684B8A4C85@...> Message-ID: <004201c78874$6682cae0$a008780a@GraemeAnderson> me too please thanks graeme ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Sinclair To: peel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [peel] Festive Fifty 2006 Can someone point me to one of the torrent files or similar? When I went to demoid, the signups are locked and the torrent is too old for non-members... Thanks! -Eric On Apr 24, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Gary wrote: > The Festive Fifty 2006 as broadcast by Dandelion Radio. Requested a > while back and now seeding. Sorry about the delay. > > Posted here: > http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com/ > > Or direct link to torrent page here: > http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1128153/ > -- esinclai@... aim/skype/twitter: esinclai http://www.kittyjoyce.com/eric/log/ jabber: esinclai@... From domesticempire@... Fri Apr 27 16:27:09 2007 From: domesticempire@... (Domestic Empire) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:27:09 +0100 Subject: [peel] Festive Fifty 2006 In-Reply-To: <004201c78874$6682cae0$a008780a@GraemeAnderson> References: <8F6F4906-394A-4268-A00B-49684B8A4C85@...> <004201c78874$6682cae0$a008780a@GraemeAnderson> Message-ID: Festive Fifty Goes Public! Long Story Short: http://www.mininova.org/tor/677316 As I mentioned on my blog I thought new demonid torrents were 'free for all' for about a week, thus giving me breathing space to add to some public ones. Anyway, for all non demonoid members use the link above that I added yesterday. Gary On 27/04/07, Graeme Anderson wrote: > me too please > > thanks > > graeme > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Eric Sinclair > To: peel@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:30 PM > Subject: Re: [peel] Festive Fifty 2006 > > > Can someone point me to one of the torrent files or similar? When I > went to demoid, the signups are locked and the torrent is too old for > non-members... > > Thanks! > > -Eric > > On Apr 24, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Gary wrote: > > > The Festive Fifty 2006 as broadcast by Dandelion Radio. Requested a > > while back and now seeding. Sorry about the delay. > > > > Posted here: > > http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com/ > > > > Or direct link to torrent page here: > > http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1128153/ > > > > -- > esinclai@... aim/skype/twitter: esinclai > http://www.kittyjoyce.com/eric/log/ jabber: esinclai@... > > > > > -- Gary {aka domestic empire} http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com From ken_garner@... Sat Apr 28 00:36:56 2007 From: ken_garner@... (ken garner) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:36:56 -0000 Subject: NSO FORCE Peel session rec. 5/11/89? Message-ID: Forgot to ask you lot about this one. There is a session sheet in the file which I have had for a long time, by NSO FORCE, recorded 5/11/89, but there appears to be no evidence of it being broadcast. I have a vague memory I might have asked Walters about it at the time of IST, but have no memory of what was said, although I surely must have left it out of IST for a reason (er, I would hope!), and I'm wondering if it was not broadcast for bad language reasons? Or maybe it was, and I've just missed it - although the Walters wall planners which i have complete for that period are reasonably reliable. Anyone remember anything about it, Peel mentioning it...? I was listening fairly regularly at that time myself but my brain has evidently gone... Tracks: Notorious, Storm 10, No Sell Out, A General Thank You. Line-up: Stewart de Cannonville (machines), Robert Gilmore (scratching), Victor Austin (keys), Douglas Haywood (v-1,2) Kenny Clements (v-3), Tyrone Sinclair (human noise effects). Produced Dale Griffin, engineered Mike Engles and Fred Kay It's up on the online archive site, too, with no TX date. cheers kg From martinw@... Sat Apr 28 01:27:05 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:27:05 +0100 Subject: [peel] NSO FORCE Peel session rec. 5/11/89? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At 23:36 27/04/2007, you wrote: >Forgot to ask you lot about this one. There is a session sheet in the >file which I have had for a long time, by NSO FORCE, recorded >5/11/89, but there appears to be no evidence of it being broadcast. I >have a vague memory I might have asked Walters about it at the time >of IST, but have no memory of what was said, although I surely must >have left it out of IST for a reason (er, I would hope!), and I'm >wondering if it was not broadcast for bad language reasons? Or maybe >it was, and I've just missed it - although the Walters wall planners >which i have complete for that period are reasonably reliable. Anyone >remember anything about it, Peel mentioning it...? I was listening >fairly regularly at that time myself but my brain has evidently >gone... > >Tracks: Notorious, Storm 10, No Sell Out, A General Thank You. >Line-up: Stewart de Cannonville (machines), Robert Gilmore >(scratching), Victor Austin (keys), Douglas Haywood (v-1,2) Kenny >Clements (v-3), Tyrone Sinclair (human noise effects). > >Produced Dale Griffin, engineered Mike Engles and Fred Kay > >It's up on the online archive site, too, with no TX date. > >cheers > >kg Amazingly the group still exists and they have a MySpace http://www.myspace.com/nsoforce I don't know if there is anyone still in the band who was there in 1989 but it might be worth asking martinw From martinw@... Sat Apr 28 12:43:58 2007 From: martinw@... (Martin Wheatley) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:43:58 +0100 Subject: Low Message-ID: There is a recent Low concert on line here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9432230 Also they have a recent Iggy Pop And The Stooges concert martinw From tonydonaghey@... Sat Apr 28 15:10:22 2007 From: tonydonaghey@... (tony donaghey) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Missing Top Gears Message-ID: <93414.13358.qm@...> All this talk of Top Gear leads me to one of my occasional Kevin Coyne requests. Does anyone have the following - Siren -Top Gear broadcast 24/9/1969 Siren - Stuart Henry Sound Of The 70's bc 27.8.72 Kevin Coyne - Pete Drummond Sound Of The 70's bc 27/7/72 JP Top Gear/Sound of the 70's bc 30/1/73 JP Top Gear/ Sound of The 70's bc 18/9/73 These are the ones we are missing on the Kevin Coyne Yahoo group. Last time I placed a request was for a cover version of KC's Good Boy the Nightingales did for Peel. This was duly sent (thank you) and sent onto Robert Lloyd who then recorded a new version for their album Out Of True.Funny world this internet thing.The myspace site at the bottom has 4 songs from the Kevin Coyne tribute album and a number of excellent videos of Kevin himself. regards Tony www.myspace.com/kevincoynebooks.com From hubcity@... Mon Apr 30 14:15:12 2007 From: hubcity@... (hubcity@...) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:15:12 -0400 Subject: [OT] [Altrok] Update #157: Support Your Local Web Station! Message-ID: <0JHB00H5H8T8TFM0@...> Firstly, the important stuff: Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us. 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