The One That Was Played Backwards

[ken garner]

The community radio station Radio North Angus in the East of Scotland will be airing a bit 
of Peel history thought lost for ever this weekend. My correspondent Andy Garibaldi, 
station DJ, and music promoter, will be devoting his show this coming Saturday 20th 
December to a tribute to Peel, and plans to play some clips from his almost complete, 35 
year old cassette recording of Peel's infamous Top Gear "Sounds of the Seventies" show of 
18th December 1973... the show in which Fripp and Eno's 'private tape' of their No 
Pussyfooting album was inadvertently played backwards by Peel, as documented on page 
81 of my book.

Andy Garibaldi is on Radio North Angus every Saturday from 12.30pm to 15.00.
For further info visit Andy's website at:
www.deadearnest.btinternet.co.uk
where you'll find a link to Radio North Angus and more:
http://www.radionorthangus.co.uk/rna.html

RNA is run entirely voluntarily and developed out of a network of hospital stations but now 
broadcasts freely to the wider area. It's available in Arbroath and Carnoustie and much of 
Angus on 96.6FM, to Brechin and Montrose on 87.7FM, and is also on the local regional 
DAB transmitter.

But for those not within hailing distance, you may be pleased to learn that Andy has 
loaned me the original tape recently, and I will be posting a rip of it here for Sunday 
morning. The quality is a bit hissy, muddy, subdued and frayed at times - with 3 internal 
edits and and some omissions - but it is worth hearing as an example of the lost early 70s. 
The Fripp and Eno tracks are included complete.

So stay tuned

ken