Racing Cars

[haze_harrison]

Brilliant, I only got the last track of Racing Cars before the GG set as I recorded it on a C90 for some reason

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales" <billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:
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> 
> Yes it was interesting that Peel went so enthusiatic about Racing Cars.
> 
> I recorded their In Concert from 1978 where they shared the bill with
> Gordon Giltrap
> 
> It is available HERE
> <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/1978-12-09%20BBC%\
> 20In%20Concert%20%28Racing%20Cars%20&%20Gordon%20Giltrap%29.mp3>
> 
> Haze has already posted the Gordon Giltrap part, and his recording
> shades it for quality, but at least we have the full show.
> 
> As for Racing Cars, well it is a bit of a racket, and maybe they suffer
> from what happened to a lot of his favourites - the record company and
> fans demand stuff that takes out the very elements that attracted him in
> the first place.
> 
> And even then, as a one hit wonder band, the least they can do is to
> play that one hit, which they didn't.
> 
> Although I do think Horses deserved it's place in Peel's heart.
> 
> I remember, as apparently the band did, watching the Jane Fonda movie
> (about a danceathon during the Great Depression) on TV a couple of years
> earlier, and so it was  a nice retropective soundtrack to that
> melacholic mood.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Humphrey" <thebarguest@> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks again (to the power of 500) for these - the overall quality is
> brilliant but on tape 770103 (a) there seem to be repeated dropouts on
> the left channel from around 16 min to around 51 min. I would
> assume/presume that Ken/John were aware of these and tried different
> playback machines etc. to no avail. Sooo.... if anyone could try a
> remaster/fix either by patching in new song copies or copying the right
> channel to the left (monoising) ( hi Bill ! ), that would be the icing
> on the cake. Sorry for being a neurotic perfectionist !
> >
> > Btw, I would never have thought that JP was such a Racing Cars fan -
> > I remember hearing "They Shoot Horses" on pop radio and not being too
> impressed ; seemed a bit like "Arms Of Mary", nice tune, different words
> etc. but, but ...
> >
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" ken_garner@ wrote:
> > >
> > > So, to the denouement: the show of 3rd January 1977 (minus the sig.
> and first few seconds of the first session track, John admits). No
> comment required, but great repeat session tracks from Thin Lizzy, Bill
> Aitken and The Chieftains, and the unbearable tension of the Top 10.
> What will be number one?
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > Peel 1977-1-03a F50 #10-1
> > > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7XGKBMEZ
> > > Peel 1977-1-03b F50 #10-1
> > > http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZWU9OMM1
> > >
> >
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