[peel] Lo-fi Peel recordings from yesteryear

[Phil Edwards]

I may be repeating myself Mark but how about the Peel Session track of their "Moon in June" for Top Gear.
It was a real gem of a session track where Robert Wyatt hastily rewrote the lyrics in the studio prior to recording the session. Basically, the lyrics became a musical diary of their experience of recording a Top Gear session.
Extract:-
"....Not forgetting the extra facilities, such as the tea machine, just along the corridor.
So to all our mates like Kevin, Caravan and the old Pink Floyd.
Allow me to recommend Top Gear, despite it's extraordinary name."

Taken from that book by whotsisname.
Phil

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  From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of mark.whitby2@...
  Sent: 01 July 2009 10:20
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  Cc: Ed Duffy
  Subject: Re: [peel] Lo-fi Peel recordings from yesteryear





  Listening to this now - very enjoyable. Thanks Ed. Makes me think I should put some Wyatt/Soft Machine in my August Peel Back & Sniff feature on Dandelion Radio. Requests welcome, as always.

  Mark W

  ---- Ed Duffy <eddie.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
  > 
  > 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
  > 
  > 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
  > 
  > Hope these are of some interest, despite the lack of fidelity.
  > 
  > Eddie.
  >