Ken's Peel Sessions Book

[ken garner]

No, there is currently no online resource of errata to my book! But I am compiling my own 
marked up master copy, and have a half baked plan - don't hold your breath anyone - to 
start a blog via my university website giving a kind of weekly update on various further 
corrections that have come to light. I had planned to do a hard copy corrections slip - ie a 
few pages you lot could stick in the back of the book - this year privately, but have run 
out of time and I suspect a blog might be more visible. So, folks, please do not be bashful 
about sending me anything you spot that's wrong, puzzling, or incomplete - yes, I know I 
missed Van der graaf generator's session releases, for example - my full email is visible 
here anyway. All comments gratefully received

ken

ken_garner@...

ps your query about which sessions are known not to exist is the big one of course. Until 
my book, the R1 and BBC archivists would tell me "we don't know what we haven't got" 
Why would they? Their job is documenting the vast stuff the BBC does every day now - 
they are not paid to ferret around and try and find out what they might be missing from 
1972! I do know that Hannah Brannah-Martin (nee Jacobs) and some Maida Vale people 
are gradually starting to go through ticking off things they do have, thanks to my book, 
which, by implication, will slowly reveal what they are missing. The old rule of thumb used 
to be, unless it was personally produced by Bernie Andrews, Jeff Griffin, or John Walters 
(and was one walters liked), nothing pre-1977 survives. But we now know that's not quite 
true. Very little of all sessions (incl non-peel sounds of the 70s etc) survives from 1970-
1975, but 1967-1969 is not too bad at all. I heard that The Nick Drake night ride session 
has recently turned up in an off air collection, as has the Leonard Cohen on Top Gear, for 
example. Not sure that's right about Tim Buckley's 2nd, though: Bernie produced it 
himself so I bet he has it and / or it's in the R1 archive.


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "rushomancy" <rushomancy@...> wrote:
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Tim Brooks <tb666xx@> wrote:
> >
> > anyone know who has this in the states??? been waiting for it to 
> turn up here to no avail...can I order direct from you ken??? let me 
> know... Timxx
> > ps.thanks to all the tape rippers... just finished the oct 31st 79 
> show.... fantastic stuff..
> >
> 
> I got my copy from Amazon; was there within a couple of days.
> 
> By the way is there an online archive of errata to the book?  I've 
> come across a couple minor, nit-picky errors, mostly about the prog-
> rock groups (and I can understand how most Peel listeners are not 
> exactly devoted to minutae about Van Der Graaf Generator :) ) but I 
> don't want to repeat stuff Ken's probably heard ten thousand times 
> already.
> 
> Also, I know as far as complete shows there's virtually nothing in 
> the archives, but in terms of sessions, what Peel Sessions are not 
> currently known to exist in any form, either in the archives or as 
> off-air recordings?  Specifically, when did it become regular 
> practice to preserve Peel Sessions by bands?  Out of all the early 
> sessions, I know of only a couple that nobody seems to have heard- 
> Tim Buckley's second session, for instance, and a couple by Gentle 
> Giant.  That's not to say they don't exist- Egg's first session, 
> which I at least had believed totally lost, showed up from a fan tape 
> the second the band asked for a copy and is now officially released 
> on a recent archive CD.
>