[peel] Peel on Radio 3 in 1976!

[John Bravin]

Hi Ken

Sorry I've been off travelling and just got back. 

This program sounds about right.  I used my reel-reel recorder until 
about 1976 when I switched to cassettes (all my punk stuff is on 
cassettes) so it is quite possible I recorded these documentaries.  As 
is common I must recorded over most of them leaving just the bit about 
Bob Dylan.  Another pointer is his voice was more 'normal' and less 
'effete hippy' than I recall from the very early days. And clearly from 
the way he phrased it, it sounds like 'of course every knows Bob Dylan 
now, but in these early days no one knew who he was'.

Hope this helps.

Every time I hear Desolation Row on the radio I think of 'button down 
Madras shirts'.....And also of how timeless the lyrics are

Cheers

John

ken garner wrote:
>
> John Bra... your email is clogged up and I can't get through to you,
> but are these the programmes you had in mind? Just found these in a
> trawl through BBC archive index:
>
> 1976
> F 23/4 -- F 28/5 on R3 John Peel presents 'Where It's At' 6-part
> personal documentary series about the present and possible future of
> popular music: 1 How did it get here? -- beginnings, 2 Rock Art and Rock
> Folly (Dylan, Beatles, ELP, Mike Oldfield), 3 The Supreme Sacrifice
> (blues & gospel), 4 From Highlife to Dub and Skank, 5 Is there rock on
> the moon -- rock spreads around the world, 6 It Gives Me Great Pleasure --
> tax exiles and the music Peel currently likes
>
> ken
>
>