Show[]
- Name
- Station
- BBC Radio One
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1970-09-19
- Comments
- Many thanks to Ken Garner for tracklisting information below.
- As Ken points out, the show took place the day after Jimi Hendrix died and tributes in track section are evident. In addition, Moon cover his "Voodoo Child", though their session was recorded earlier in the year..
- Peel mentions that earlier in the week he was in the office of "a certain record company" (probably Kinney, who owned Warner/Reprise, Atlantic and Elektra and where his manager Clive Selwood worked), where he obtained an advance copy (with no track titles) of the new Captain Beefheart album, and plays two tracks from it. Hugh Nolan of Radio Geronimo (a former colleague of Peel on Disc & Music Echo) also had a white label copy, possibly supplied by JP([1])
- Sheila is in the studio and is audible at the end of the show; JP dedicates the Faces' "Country Comforts" to her.
- After their final session track, Peel says he thinks Hawkwind are making their first radio broadcast.
- The football results come in during the final half-hour of the show, and he has another Liverpool win to celebrate; 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest.
Sessions[]
- Faces #2 recorded 15th September 1970. No known commercial release.
- Hawkwind #1, recorded 18th August 1970. "Hurry on Sundown" available on The Text of Festival, "Some of That Stuff" (aka "Came Home") on Hawkwind Anthology Volume 3;
- Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts recorded 18th May 1970, repeat, first broadcast 30 May 1970. No known commercial release.
- Moon recorded 1st June 1970, repeat, first broadcast 13 June 1970 No known commercial release.
Tracklisting[]
- Announcement and time check, then straight into track below, with no Peel intro
- Jimi Hendrix Experience: Like A Rolling Stone (split LP with Otis Redding – Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival) Reprise MS 2029 (US release)
- Faces: Had Me A Real Good Time (session)
- Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals Off, Baby (LP – Lick My Decals Off, Baby) Straight STS 1063
- Moon: Mississippi Woman (session)
- Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: So Tired (session)
- Stray: Time Machine (LP – Stray) Transatlantic TRA 216 (“for Mrs Big Bob from the Nag’s Head in Wollaston”)
- news (edited out)
- Merry Clayton: Poor White Hound Dog (LP – Performance soundtrack) Warner Bros WS 2554
- Hawkwind: Hurry On Sundown (session)
- Jimi Hendrix Experience: Wild Thing (split LP with Otis Redding – Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival) Reprise MS 2029 (US release)
- Livingston Taylor: Carolina Day (LP – Livingston Taylor) Atco SD 33-334 (US release) (As JP mentions, he sounds a lot like his brother James Taylor))
- Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: Crazy With The Blues (session)
- Faces: Around The Plynth (session)
- Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third
- Little Richard: Directly From My Heart (LP – The Fabulous Little Richard) London HA-U 2193
- Moon: Voodoo Child (session)
- Hawkwind: Seeing It As You Really Are (session) @
- Humblebums: Mother (LP – Open Up The Door) Transatlantic TRA 218 (written and sung by Billy Connolly)
- Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: Too Many Hot Dogs (session) (“a warning to all carnivores”)
- news (mostly edited out)
- Moon: Making A Name (session)
- Captain Beefheart: Doctor Dark (LP - Lick My Decals Off, Baby) Straight
- Faces: Country Comforts (session) #
- Hawkwind: Some Of That Stuff (session)
- Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts: Going Back (session) (“Liverpool 3, Notts Forest nil…”)
- Great Awakening: Amazing Grace (single) London HLU 10284 (re-released after being used as theme tune of the Isle Of Wight festival and of Radio Geronimo’s 1970 broadcasts[2]
- Show ends; “produced by the grossly misinformed John Walters (Pig laughs)….three-nil, eh? Fine bunch of lads…” (Reference is to a 3-0 Liverpool home win against Notts Forest.[3])
- Track marked @ available on File 1
- Track marked # available on File 2
File[]
- Name
- 1a) Hawkwind - Peel session - Top Gear 19/9/70
- 1b) 1970-09-19 Hawkwind TG 19.9.70.mp3
- 2a) Faces - Peel session - Top Gear 19/9/70
- 2b) 1970-09-19 Faces TG 19.9.70 possibly.mp3
- 3) J P Top Gear 19 Sept 1970 complete.mp3
- Length
- 1) 0:07:12
- 2) 0:06:13
- 3) 1:56:42
- Other
- 1-2) Many thanks to Colin Harper. Files 1b and 2b have audio centred from wav file.
- 3) Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation
- Available