Undertones in Concert

[Humphrey]

I stand corrected re the early 70's shows but when I first started listening to "In Concert", around 77, there was no chat between every song. Yeah, it does break the flow a bit, esp. if it's someone not as cool as JP ! In fact I reckon a lot of the new-wave bands would not have tolerated the interruptions - the Stranglers famously walked out on a broadcast gig in 77-ish after just 2 or 3 numbers (because non-students had been barred).

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@...> wrote:
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> I think the style changed at some stage. Most of the ones I've heard when Peel was the regular presenter in the early 70s that were BBC events (eg at the Paris Theater), do have the chat between the tunes (the Stones one was obviously a regular gig).
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> Some of the official In Concert releases of the same BBC Paris theater events don't have the chat, but think that's the work of the record companies (eg T Rex), but there may be more DJ if you can get hold of recordings of the actual broadcasts (although I've never actually compared the two).
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> Seemed a bit odd with the DJ breaking up the flow between numbers, so seemed to me like an improvement once this was cut.
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Humphrey" <thebarguest@> wrote:
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> > Well done that chap ! That Steeleye concert is quite unusual in that Peely talks between every track, just like a JP show. Normally with the BBC "In Concert" show, the dj just gave an intro and outro. One of the Steeleye songs is a shanty that proclaims Scousers to be "thick" - John of course didn't like that, and said so ...
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