[peel] Re: Decktician Logs Vol 3: March-August 1973

[RobF]

The Can session track did get an official release on the Strange Fruit CD
Can - The Peel Sessions
http://www.discogs.com/Can-The-Peel-Sessions/release/303659
An other alternate title - this time an abridged "Up The Bakerloo Line With
Ann"


On 23 December 2011 07:10, steve <saipanda@...> wrote:

> Many thanks to Ken for all his hard work on this. Great to be able to get
> some detailed information on shows of this period, very few of which seem
> to have survived in audio form.
>
> Have got the first tracklisting up on the wiki - pretty interesting, not
> least for the sessions (including the first from Can and first from Wyatt
> repeated):
>
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/13_March_1973
>
> Won't notify everyone for every new page, but hope to get them all up
> sooner rather than later. Best place to follow progress is probably the
> 1973 wiki page calendar (blue dates have pages up):
>
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/1973
>
> If anyone has time on their hands between mince pies over the holiday
> period and can help with getting the pages up, please get in touch with me.
> All help much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve W
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
> >
> > I have now completed scanning, dating and annotating volume 3 of
> Decktician's logs, covering mid-March to the first week of August 1973, and
> have sent the digital files back to him, and to Rocker (Decktician
> tape-digitisation central controller), and Steve and Steve of the WIki, for
> track listing production for all.
> >
> > For the benefit of those new here, the logs are a very short series of
> surviving school exercise books in which Peel listener Decktician noted
> down every record played in each show he listened to. Vol 1 was Top Gear
> 1969-1970, Vol 2 contained both almost the complete run of Peel's Radio
> Luxembourg show, Stenhousemuir 2 Cowdenbeath 2, Jan-June1972, and his BBC
> Friday Night is Boogie Night show for the same period. Still to come are
> vols 4 and 5, which cover similar 4-6 month periods in 1974 and 1975, I
> seem to recall. I am comparing them with the BBC scripts I still have, such
> as they are, from these years, from when I wrote IN SESSION TONIGHT, and
> once again, can confirm Decktician is a highly reliable source, often more
> reliable than the BBC documentation, in terms of sequence of tracks played,
> if not always in precise track titles (but who would blame him for that?).
> >
> > There is perhaps little in this volume that is of as rare or lost
> historic interest as those Luxembourg shows, with the possible exception of
> the first broadcast of Tubular Bells at the end of May. Decktician's notes
> suggest the BBC documentation here is correct - which I used for my item on
> p80 of THE PEEL SESSIONS: Peel did not tear up his script and play no
> records but Mike Oldfield's, and, comparing the total needletime in this
> shows to others it looks like he did just play side 1, not the whole album
> as the myth has it. My calculations suggest he could not have got in all
> 49' of the album AND these other records Decktician clearly heard. The
> total duration of all music played here, including side one of tubular
> bells, comes to just over 100', leaving about 18' for all of Peel's links
> between 23 tracks, which for the mid 70s sounds about right to me.
> >
> > Anyway, those of you knowledgeable and interested in the period can
> offer to help the wiki team in creating the track listings for all,
> >
> > and a Happy Christmas to you all!
> >
> > ken
> >
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