Yet More from Peel Night...

[ken garner]

Well, not much is missing, Steve. The night was recorded back to back on 3 C120s on my auto reverse record TEAC double cassette deck. The tape automatically flips to reverse record therefore between parts a and b, c and d, and e and f, and these flips are therefore almost instantaneous, with less than second missing. There are a few seconds missing from Gene's penultimate live number Where Are They Now?, when the first tape got to end side 2, and there's a momentary pause before the second deck fires in for part c - but seeing as that number and indeed Gene's entire performance that night is commercially available on their Peel Sessions double CD (Polydor/Universal 2006), that's hardly a loss and a reconstruction of the gap would be possible if anyone were so minded (though I can't see much point myself) [NB. listening back to the tape and my CD just now to check, I heard Martin Rossiter crediting Mick Talbot as guesting on keyboards, so that's another little nugget/emendation for the book, you see, no research is ever wasted!]. The only possibly longer gap is between parts d and e, when I had to pop into the room and put a third tape in tape deck A, I suppose, because the deck will only record on two decks in order, it won't go back and do tape deck one again (I have no memory of any of this of course but logically this is what I must have done), and so John's well known anecdote about the Faces at Newcastle or Sunderland is truncated and maybe 30 secs to one minute are lost from Stay With Me. Again, not much of a loss, in my view, in the circumstances.

And seeing as someone asked, here are the links for all 5 parts so far:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GC1U9RBD
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ETL3IXYO
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0OEIAIP7
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ND1ZMPH3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BF9S4CW3

...oh and what the hell, here's part 6, just for Steve:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNH8OTWN

the final part is naturally the best: Broken Dog's cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, followed by a somewhat drunken Peel intro to Pavement's live set - wow! - then tearful final birthday speech and thanks from John (including a moment which will effect us all emotionally, you'll know it when you get to it) - then John's jukebox memories from the 90s (with some live show clips not normally trotted out, and it's nice to hear those years given the same worship and prominence, and the show ends with Solex's somewhat quirky electronic cover of Teenage Kicks. And so in the end the long journey was worth it, wasn't it?

happy listening

ken

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Ken
> 
> Thank you so much for this recording: very soap opera style, making us wait for the next instalment!
> In the 500 Box, there is about 3 hours worth of this programme: would you mind letting me know if there are any sections missing due to tape flips, and then maybe Bill, would you be interested in a reconstruction jobbie if Colin's tapes have any of the missing sections? I wasn't going to rip them at all, but this is such an excellent show that in this case it might be worth the trouble.
> 
> Best wishes
> Steve [TK]
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> >   ...honestly, we're nearly there. And at last it's getting quite interesting. This 5th and penultimate installment concludes John's memories from the 70s, then it's Cha Cha Cohen's somewhat inconsequential, noodling cover of Interstellar Overdrive, Dave Angel's disappointingly short live mix set, a montage of John's 80s memories, finally leading into one of the best things of the night, Broken Dog's special cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (I know, I know, this is wrongly attributed to the Pastels in the book, and all the time I had the tapes somewhere unknown), but in another  cruel blow from the gods, the tape flips a few seconds in. So you'll have to wait another week to hear it in full.
> > 
> > k
> > 
> > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BF9S4CW3
> >
>