[peel] Couple of new partial 1987 shows

Alan Ford ford.alan@...
Sat Aug 14 18:01:19 CEST 2010


Oops! Should have checked further. smchughuk is of course Stuart McHugh,
frequent contributor hereto.






On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Alan Ford <ford.alan@...> wrote:

> >> I just wrote down what I thought JP had said.
>
> That's all we could do in those days; some of my phonetic guesses are
> pretty comical.
>
> I'll have a listen to the Electric Prunesy track but I doubt if I'll know
> it.
>
> BTW I see we've had another 4 members this week, taking us to 790. Don't be
> too shy to say hello and, more importantly, whether you've got any tapes to
> share!
>
> I see the oldest member is one Martinw, member since 22/1/99 but the first
> message was apparently from Les Miller on 1/2/99.
> Did you start the group Martin?
> The moderator is 'smchughuk', aka Stuart, who didn't join until December
> 1999; I don't recognise that yahoo ID, but is it the same Stuart who we now
> all know as Mojo Babe?
>
> I joined in 2001, mentioned the Colorblind James Experience in my very
> first posting, and continue to plug them whenever I can. ONE DAY THE WORLD
> WILL LISTEN !!!!!!!!! Or probably not.
>
> I have so far contributed about a dozen tapes and there are more to come. I
> just need to decide whether to persist with trying to get Audacity to work
> on Linux, or give up and go back to Micr*S*FT.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Stuart <stuartb@...>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> Quality control lapse there. I normally copy my track listings from my
>> spreadsheet, which was created many years ago, from my handwritten database
>> of recorded songs. Sometimes the spellings were inaccurate, I just wrote
>> down what I thought JP had said.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I wikify these tapes now, I put them through discogs to get full
>> record label details and often realise at that point that I got the spelling
>> wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> Obviously I forgot to double check the spellings of the session tracks on
>> this occasion!
>>
>>
>>
>> BUT - I notice Discogs spells the track Indoitasei so I am convinced that
>> 'Ndoita Sei?' comes from the session notes, as that spelling has been
>> picked up both by Ken and by the BBC web team, and the question mark must
>> have originated from the session engineers at the time, before True Jit was
>> released and the true spelling became apparent.
>>
>>
>>
>> Incidentally on my spreadsheet and handwritten notes I had laboured for 24
>> years under the delusion that track 16 on my mixtape
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Mostly_Peel_Spring_1986  was a ditty named
>> “Seven Out Of Ten”  by the combo known as “The Rochdale Judge” ……….
>>
>>
>>
>> I don’t suppose you have listened to my February 1986 compilation
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Peel_February_1986 as the 4th track on that I
>> have not been able to identify – it sounds very Electric Prunesy and I feel
>> it is one that I should know as it seems to be one  of those 60s pebbly
>> garage standards?
>>
>>
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of
>> *Alan Ford
>> *Sent:* 11 August 2010 20:26
>> *To:* peel@yahoogroups.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [peel] Couple of new partial 1987 shows
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for these Stuart.
>>
>> Small point: The Bhundu Boys track is Rugare not Regarre.
>>
>> Very much smaller point: Another of the BB tracks is listed by Ken as
>> 'Ndoita Sei?'. Does the question mark indicate uncertainty of the title, or
>> is the title a question? On the excellent CD True Jit it's listed as one
>> word without a '?'.
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>  On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Stuart <stuartb@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> The first is a relatively short one, only seven tracks, but three of them
>> session tracks, two from Brilliant Corners and one from Soup Dragons, and
>> contains JP's end of show wrapup.
>>
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/06_January_1987
>>
>> More survives of my second show of tonight. This contains the complete
>> second sessions of both the Bhundu Boys and the Shop Assistants, a snippet
>> of Steve Fisk and a wonderful old tune by Zebra Stripes. Not much of the
>> great man himself I'm afraid
>>
>> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/07_January_1987
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
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