[peel] Re: JP plays TD

cannon alan ajcauk@...
Sat Mar 1 12:13:28 CET 2008


hi 
you are right of course

--- ajking106 <ajking106@...> wrote:

> hi alanjc
> 
> Cheers, BTW when you said it was introduced by JP, I
> take it you 
> meant the BBC's FM recording of TD live at the Royal
> Albert Hall in 
> 1975 (from the Bootleg Box)? this was the short
> lived lineup of 
> Froese, Franke with new boy Michael Hoenig. John
> also saw the group 
> at Liverpool Cathedral, in fact he said it was one
> of the most 
> memerable gigs he ever went to.
> 
> Shame you missed out on the Tangerine Tree and
> Tangerine Leaf discs, 
> these were done by fans 'or fans' and are basically
> the source 
> material for the 'two' Bootleg Box volumes. The TT
> and TL series ran 
> to hundreds of discs, covering TD's in 1968 right to
> their last gigs. 
> Shame the plug was pulled, but the discs are still
> out there.
> 
> andy
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, cannon alan
> <ajcauk@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > This Xmas i treated myself to 7CD bootleg set
> > of TD (thought u meant Technical Drawing for a
> sec)
> > effectively an infinity's worth
> > live recordings from the mid 70's
> > saw them once in the Southampton Union refectory
> > c.1974
> > anyway one is at Croydon Fairfield Hall
> > Introduced by you know who
> > very succinct and respectful
> > still assimilating the said boxed set
> > haven't checked KG for sessions
> > but TD are a personal favourite 
> > weird early stuff
> > middle commercial fairground rides
> > film stuff
> > overlapping best ofs
> > even got some Edgar Froese on 
> > vinyl  how annoyingly heavy
> > or more conveniently on 
> > C90    how annoyingly non-mp3 compatible
> > can't get to grips with audacity etc.
> > and torrenting sends me doolally.. sigh
> > be nice to catch TD in a cathedral some time
> > alanjc
> > 
> > 
> > --- ajking106 <ajking106@...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi first post here
> > > 
> > > Here's a long shot, but has anybody got a
> recording
> > > of John Peel 
> > > playing TD in the early 70's? Perhaps a more
> > > complete version of 
> > > this: 
> > > 
> > > cheers
> > > 
> > > andy
> > > 
> > > BBC Radio One, Top Gear, Feb 21st, 1974 
> > > 
> > > John Peel: "The interesting thing about
> Tangerine
> > > Dream is that in 
> > > the 6 or 7 years that Top Gear's been on Radio
> One
> > > we've featured a 
> > > lot of remarkable sessions from people like
> Cream
> > > and Jimi Hendrix 
> > > and the first ever sessions from people like Led
> > > Zeppelin, and Jethro 
> > > Tull and Ten Years After, and T-Rex of course,
> and a
> > > great number of 
> > > people who've gone to be become rich and famous
> and
> > > gone on to forget 
> > > us (laughs*) but during all those 6 or 7 years
> I've
> > > never had as much 
> > > mail about and favourable mail at that, about
> > > anybody as I have had 
> > > about Tangerine Dream and that must mean
> something
> > > even if you don't 
> > > like them and the first one from the band is,
> and
> > > don't ask me what 
> > > it means as I have no idea, is called Mysterious
> > > Semblance at the 
> > > Strand of Nightmares" 
> > > 
> > > Plays Track 
> > > 
> > > "Well, people are always writing in to me to
> tell me
> > > I'm opinionated 
> > > sort of dude and I suppose that's actually
> probably
> > > true, it would be 
> > > difficult to do programmes like this if I wasn't
> and
> > > I know I'm 
> > > right about Tangerine Dream despite what people
> > > occasionally say to 
> > > me, I do think they're excellent and their music
> I
> > > think is 
> > > marvellous. That was the first from Tangerine
> Dream,
> > > written by Edgar 
> > > Froese and it was called Mysterious Semblance at
> the
> > > Strand of 
> > > Nightmares the kind of title which I must
> confess I
> > > don't know�" 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >      
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