19 February 1976

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1976-02-19


 * Comments
 * Most of the one-hour show where Peel plays Robin Trower's new Live LP and interviews the artist. The available recording interpolates clean versions of the tracks with a rather low-fi version of the original.
 * Start of show: "Tonight, What with one thing and another, we've got the Robin Trower Live LP in its entirety, introduced by young Robin, that's as long as he can find a parking space for his Canneloni V-12 Mato Grosso wife-beater with a nine on the floor transmission and air-conditioned rear view mirror, and also Robin's choice of a pretty neat single."

Sessions

 * None

Tracklisting

 * (JP: 'It's all actually songs you've done before, though, isn't it Robin?')
 * (Trower: 'Yeah, they're all off the previous three albums. As I say, it wasn't really our plan to do a live album, it's just that we did this show in Stockholm, Sweden, and Swedish Radio were recording it, and we didn't even think about being recorded at the time, and then we got a copy of the tapes sent to us a couple of weeks later and we didn't think anything of it, but Bill (Lordan), the drummer, he listened to it and he kept on pushing and pushing to try and remix it and do it as a live album....and he pushed for months and months to convince us to do it. Then we finally did take it in the studio and listened to it, to 8-track, it was remixed and was certainly good enough for a live album.')
 * (JP: 'I've always liked live albums actually, because reviewers tend not to like them, they prefer the things in the studio, but I've always been a live album buff.')
 * (Trower: 'Well I think personally, from my point of view, it's the best thing we've put out. I've always felt that the best things about our music are our performance (sic). It's something that you can't get to in a studio.')
 * (JP: 'Before we play side one, you start on your tour tomorrow, so you might as well tell us where you've got to go.')
 * (Trower gives out tour dates)
 * (JP: 'Hard work, isn't it?')
 * (Trower: 'We haven't done a lot lately because we've been working on mixing the live album, then we went straight in the studio and started recording the studio album.')
 * (JP: 'OK, well we'll talk about the studio album after we've heard side one of Robin Trower live.')


 * Robin Trower: 'Too Rolling Stoned (LP-Robin Trower Live!)' (Chrysalis)
 * Robin Trower: 'Daydream (LP-Robin Trower Live!)' (Chrysalis)
 * Robin Trower: 'Rock Me Baby (LP-Robin Trower Live!)' (Chrysalis)

File

 * Name
 * 1976-02-19 John Peel BBC Radio 1 (Robin Trower)
 * Length
 * 00:48:00


 * Other
 * Many thanks to Bill.


 * Available
 * Mooo