1975 extracts

[Steve]

Thanks Eddie! I really enjoyed hearing this, especially with an early play for 'Cricketer': magic!

Best wishes
Steve [TK]

--- In peel@...m, Eddie Duffy <eddie.duffy@...> wrote:
>
> Here's another tape of Colin's that I ripped and encoded back in'07: a 
> compilation of various Peel extracts from 1975. Again, it's mostly lo-fi 
> stuff, and heavily edited, but well worth cocking an ear to, I think.
> 
> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DKAVEOU3
> 1hr16mins, 69.8Mb, 128K MP3.
> 
> Eddie.
> 
> Ed Duffy wrote:
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Here's three bits of Peel from the late '60s and mid-'70s you might be 
> > interested in. Colin Ellis gets the credit for all of these, which 
> > I've sat on for a shamefully long time. Thanks to Steve for giving me 
> > the nudge to finally put these up.
> >
> > First of all, please be aware that, apart from the Eye flexidisc, all 
> > MP3s herein come with the warning "caveat audiens", i.e. don't bother 
> > at all if sound quality is your only god. We're talking pretty lo-fi 
> > stuff here. But hopefully very interesting stuff too.
> >
> > So, first up is a 65-minute compilation of the retrospective shows 
> > Peel put out in August 1976. Looking at this file now, I'm amazed to 
> > find that it's been two years since I ripped it from Colin's cassette. 
> > I was always planning to try and tidy it up a bit as there's speed 
> > issues, tape hiss, all sorts. But I think it's time to just upload it 
> > now and see what others make of it.
> >
> > Ken's The Peel Sessions p.216 (halfway down column three) describes 
> > these shows, which are basically drawing a line under the Top Gear 
> > years and, in hindsight, clearing the way for punk, New Wave and 
> > beyond. You'll hear the unseen hand of the person who originally taped 
> > the shows, and, as mentioned earlier, a lot of tape hiss and other 
> > problems. But here we go:
> >
> > John Peel - 1976 Retrospectives compilation
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EU74IVAW 
> > <http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EU74IVAW>
> >
> > The other two offerings are much shorter. First of all, here's Peelie 
> > from 1975 or thereabouts absolutely LAYING into current critics' 
> > darling Patti Smith (and, while he's at it, Bruce Springsteen). It's 
> > probably from Radio 1's Round Table, as Kid Jensen can be heard 
> > attempting to moderate. I've corrected the speed on this as best I 
> > can, but quality is still ultra-dodgy:
> >
> > Peel on Patti Smith
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7KW2VHMB 
> > <http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7KW2VHMB>
> >
> > And finally, one you might have heard before. >From Private Eye's 
> > flexidisc "The Loneliness of the Long Playing Record", given away with 
> > Eye 187 (14th. February 1969), this is a Peter Cook spoof of the 
> > Lennon/Ono episode of Night Ride from two months previous. To these 
> > ears Cook sounds more like a Brummie than a sort-of-Liverpudian, but 
> > never mind, here it is:
> >
> > Private Eye 187 flexidisc (Peel excerpt)
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T7IN4PMQ 
> > <http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T7IN4PMQ>
> >
> > Hope these are of some interest, despite the lack of fidelity.
> >
> > Eddie.
> >
> > 
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