Viv Stanshall Sessions

[So It Goes 2512]

One word: Wow.
Thank you so much for these, Bill. As I said when I made the complete Housemartins and Smiths sets available on TK, it's about time somebody did the job properly.

Best wishes
Steve (TK)

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales" <billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:
>
> 
> I have uploaded 3 files that cover all the sessions Viv did for Peel.
> 
> Most of these of course, are Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, but I have
> gathered files from many sources (including my own 1977 recordings from
> Alan Freeman's show - who knew they were repeated there?) and have as
> many Peel links for the intros and outros that are available.
> 
> Anyway, I have tried to make them all sound similar in quality, and
> volume, and they do make a good set.
> 
> You will know that individual files have been available on a few
> dedicated websites, but i believe these are the best quality available.
> 
> You wil have heard the BBC 7 repeats, but I knew they had been trimmed
> to fit into 14 minutes, but can honestly say I was shocked to find they
> had been butchered to fit.
> 
> (Absolutely murdered, and it was bad enough as a book of the week in
> 1996, but now these seem to be the only versions the BBC has, sadly)
> 
> People will study Viv's work in years to come, and he will be held in
> the reverence of Shakespeare since he is the only one who came close to
> Viv's wordplay.
> 
> "The bloke doth protest too much, methinks." you may say (to paraphrase
> the elder one), but you just cannot go through life without dropping
> these lines into conversation:
> 
> " If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink. "
> " That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it."
> " Generally speaking, if I've eaten something I don't want to see it
> again. ."
> " Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol."
> " Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said: WILL YOU LET
> GO!"
> " I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!"
> " If a thing is worth doing, it is worth forcing someone else to do it"
> " I want my meat burned, like St Joan.  Bring me pickles and vicious
> mustards to pierce the tongue like Cardigan's Lancers"
> " Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party
> ..."
> 
> Anyway I made my own files, as a "complete Peel Sessions" archive, so I
> thought someone else may like them cause a lot of work went into it
> 
> I have done 3 files - ALL AVAILABLE PEEL LINKS ARE INCLUDED
> 
> 1972-1975
> <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/01Sessions/1972-1\
> 975%20Viv%20Stanshall.mp3>
> 
> John Peel Intro
> Rawlinson End (Bonzos LP track not a Session but essential introduction)
> (27 October1975 Session)
> Trail of the Lonesome Pine
> The Unbridled Suite
> In The Final Analysis
> Aunt Florrie Remembers
> (22,23,24,26December 1975) Session
> Christmas At Rawlinson End Part One
> Christmas At Rawlinson End Part Two
> Christmas At Rawlinson End Part Three
> Christmas At Rawlinson End Part Four
> 
> 1977-1978
> <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/01Sessions/1977-1\
> 978%20Viv%20Stanshall.mp3>
> (6 April 1977)
> An Absence Of Whelks
> (23/May/1977)
>   Spades, Balls and Sausage Trees
> (19 December 1977)
> The Road To Unreason
> (5 April 1978)
> Fall Of Felt Hats
> (25 July 1978)
> Cabbage Looking In Mufti
> 
> 1979-1991
> <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/01Sessions/1979-1\
> 991%20Viv%20Stanshall.mp3>
> (24 December 1979
> Gooseflesh Steps
> (18 April 1988)
> The Crackpot At The End Of The Rainbow
> (23 November 1988)
> The Eating At Rawlinson End
> (6 April 1991)
> Cackling Gas Capers
> (21 September 1991)
> The Thing At Rawlinson End
> 
> 
> For me, the two of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th Century - Peel
> and Stanshall
> 
> 
> Bill fnw
>