Decktician Logs Vol 3: March-August 1973

[steve]

Many thanks, Rob! Will add the info to the page.

Cheers,

Steve

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, RobF <robfleay@...> wrote:
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> 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"
> 
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> On 23 December 2011 07:10, steve <saipanda@...> wrote:
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> > 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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