New Wave Prog 29/8/77 Reconstruction

[jake]

Well if you can track them down, I sure Andy would appreciate it....

Off air recordings of the first XTC session have been posted on various blogs and one bloke said he'd been contacted by somebody on behalf of Andy Partridge, who was looking for a decent copy.  

see the second and third comments under this post: 
http://mondo-de-muebles.blogspot.com/2009/08/xtc-peel-sessions.html


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken_garner" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> Andy Partridge is generally correct, but no, the BBC did not wipe Hendrix - because Bernie Andrews, Bill Bebb and Jeff Griffin (the shows jimi was on's producers) had the foresight to keep tapes safe, OR, in a couple of cases, the BBC Transcription Service released copies on their 12-inch Top of the Pops radio show discs to the USA (see explanation of this practice in my book, chapter 4 i think)
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> In the same way, I suspect some of XTC's sessions for OTHER R1 shows (not Peel, but DLT, Mike Read, Saturday Live etc) may well have been lost, because their producers were not so cunning or astute in taking tapes home for safe keeping, or simply being forgotten as shows and producers left / were axed.
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> But I am surprised if they could not find all of their Peel ones (4, wasn't it?), I am sure I saw these in the basement in 92, as I say. I am going to check this with Richard at Radio 1, I think, as of academic interest, stay tuned....
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> k
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "jake" <rayytann@> wrote:
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> > I hope you're right - but it does look like some of XTC's session tracks have either been lost or wiped. 
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> > This is a quote from Andy Partridge talking about the "Transistor Blast" boxed set of XTC's BBC recordings (which only includes "Cross Wires" from their first session):
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> > http://chalkhills.org/articles/Pulse9903.html
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> > "We went back to the BBC and got the use of all the sessions that we did for them--well, the ones they haven't wiped. They're notorious for wiping stuff. They've wiped the greats. They've wiped Hendrix. They've wiped just marvelous stuff. They've wiped eight of ours. But all the remaining stuff, we then sifted through it and we made up four discs. Two live discs, live in concert, and two studio sessions discs."  
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> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken_garner" <ken_garner@> wrote:
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> > > I doubt that. The tapes were there in the archive when i did IST in 92, so should still be there in the digital archive now...
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> > > k
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