Archive for the ‘1967’ Category
- Jimi Hendrix Experience: December, 1967
Christmas is a comin’ and it seems like as good a time as any for a bit of sacred cow slaughtering. Hendrix, without doubt, was an unparalleled talent. However, I agree with Peel’s opinion that he would have ended up making dreadful new age twaddle had he lived longer. Not that I’m advocating ridiculous-circumstanced early death, but it really was the making of the legend.
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Anyway, it’s Christmas and I’m in a chipper mood, so no more badmouthing of a rock great. What the hell is that picture on the right, I hear you not bother to ask? That, my dear friends, is the Troutbeck Hotel in Ilkley, the town I grew up in. In March of 1967, this poky little hotel on a backstreet of this small provincial Yorkshire town played host to the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the reason why lost forever in the mists of time. If you’re interested, here are more details of the strangest event in the history of the town.
Apparently, Hendrix, the picture of whom above was apparently taken in Ilkley, and the boys got over this and indeed returned to england frequently, putting in a decent shift at the BBC.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: December, 1967
-Day Tripper
-Spanish Castle Magic
-Radio One Jingle
-Wait Until Tomorrow
Line Up
Jimi Hendrix (Guitar, Vocals)
Mitch Mitchell (Drums)
Noel Redding (Bass, Vocals)
Listen now…
Read more about the Peel sessions.
- Radio 1: The early years
If you’re wondering whether or not that’s John Peel doing an impression of Jimmy Saville in the picture above, it is. That’s just one of the delightful things you’ll find in this clip, which I found while trying to avoid doing any work today.
If you like this clip so much that you want to download it, you can do so here.
- 2nd August, 1967
UPDATE: The bus ride home was both bumpy and precarious, but I still got the track list done.
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This one is so hot off the music file equivalent of the press that it doesn’t even have a track list yet. Of course, I’ll cobble it together when I listen to the show on the bus on the way home tonight (done!), but if you get round to it before I have a chance, please also make a note of the songs here.
Thank you in advance if you do, if not just enjoy this little chunk of the ’60s at their most swinging.
The sound quality is what I like to call wonderfully crap. If you’re a child of the pre-FM era, this will be a particular treat and will no doubt bring back memories of how much better radio was when the signal wasn’t crystal clear.
A monstrous shout out to the wonderful Azanorak website for making this one available to the masses.
Download… or listen now…
Track list:
The Monkees – Pleasant valley Sunday
Billy Forrest and the dream merchants – Hello lover
An advert for cling film
Mike Lewis (?) – You don’t care
Radio London advert for Big L film
The Beatles – Day tripper
Dave Davis – The death of a clown
An advert for a typing course
Eddie Floyd – Things get better
Moby Grape – Omaha (Peel’s climber of the week)
The Who – My generation
Arthur Conley – Shake, rattle and roll
The Strawberry Children (?) – Kiss yourselves (?)
An advert for cooking oil
Unidentified track
- Mod Reggae
Go on, try to find a good reason why you shouldn’t be listening to this in the height of summer.
Mod Reggae (1 of (probably) 1)
01 John Holt – Ali Baba
02 Lynn Taitt And The Boys – Storm Warning
03 The Maytals – Just tell me
04 Laurel Aitken & The Soulmen – Last Night
05 The Message – Rum-Bum-A-Loo
06 Ike Bennett & The Crysyalites – Bombshell
07 Derrick Morgan – Fat Man
08 The Enforcers – Musical Fever
09 Dermott Lynch – Hot shot
10 Jimmy Cliff – The Man (Aka Man To Man)
11 Lord Kitchener – Dr Kitch
12 The Vagabonds – Lindska
- Kat’s Karavan Makes my July
So here we have music-loving Johnny Peel and Thomas (“The”) Vance introducing a Radio 1 Top Gear show from New Year’s Eve 1967. There’s sessions from The Alan Bown (Set), The Herd (featuring Peter Frampton, “The Face of 1968″), The Moody Blues, The Pink Floyd and Eric Burdon and The Animals.
Apart from tape flips and a couple of minor glitches, this is a full 3-hour show in four parts (192K MP3). Admittedly, it’s pretty lo-fi stuff, but perfectly listenable when your ears become attuned to it.
I haven’t listened to it yet but am foaming at the mouth with excitement. Once again I get to use the phrase ‘gloriously washy medium wave‘, yay!
