[peel] Viv Stanshall Sessions

[Dr Mango]

Thanks Bill.

By a coincidence, only last night I watched the 30 mins of b&w footage of the Bonzos at the Bilzen festival in 1969, shown on the Sky Arts channel. Great to see Viv in action on stage.

DM

--- On Fri, 29/4/11, billfromnorthwales <billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:

From: billfromnorthwales <billfromnorthwales@...>
Subject: [peel] Viv Stanshall Sessions
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 29 April, 2011, 16:21







 



  


    
      
      
      
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:

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If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.
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" 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 

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 
(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 
(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