04 July 1970

Show

 * Name
 * Top Gear


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1970-07-04


 * Comments
 * We fast-forward nearly a year from the previous show to mid-1970, and find music-loving Johnny Plee introducing sessions from Country Joe McDonald, Fotheringay and Cochise. It all gets a bit Pete Frame at this point, because Country Joe had recently stopped working with The Fish (as he told John Walters while recording the session), Fotheringay was Sandy Denny's project after leaving Fairport and Cochise are probably best known for being Mick Grabham's main band before joining Procol Harum. By coincidence, Peel even plays a Procol Harum track right before one of Cochise's session tracks. Hope you're all taking notes; there'll be a test after class.

Sessions
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
 * Country Joe McDonald
 * Fotheringay
 * Cochise

Tracklisting
News News American Tourist photo competition
 * Free - Mr. Big
 * The American Dream - Credamphels
 * Fotheringay - The Sea (session)
 * Wilbert Harrison - Blue Monday
 * Cochise - Woodland Light Irons (session)
 * The Pretty Things - Scene One/The Good Mr.Square/She Was Tall, She Was High
 * Fotheringay - The Ballad of Ned Kelly (session)
 * David Bowie - Memory of a Free Festival
 * Country Joe McDonald - Hold On It's Coming (session)
 * Country Joe McDonald - Balancing On The Edge Of Time (session)
 * Country Joe McDonald - It's So Nice To Have Love (session)
 * Country Joe McDonald - Maria (session)
 * Country Joe McDonald - Tell Me Where You're Bound (session)
 * Medicine Head - Coast To Coast (And Shore To Shore)
 * Fotheringay - Banks of The Nile (session)
 * Procol Harum - Your Own Choice
 * Cochise - Past Loves (session)
 * Wild Man Fisher - The Wild Man Fisher Story ("cadet edition")
 * Mike Cooper - Watching You Fall
 * Grateful Dead- New Speedway Boogie
 * "Disinterred 33 1/3": Soft Machine - We Did It Again
 * Fotheringay - The Way I Feel (session)
 * Cochise - Velvet Mountain (session)
 * Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
 * Malaysian Girls - Hydro Percussion (LP - John Peel's Archive Things)
 * Chickenshack - Never Ever

File

 * Name
 * (torrent) JOHN PEEL'S TOP GEAR - 8 SHOWS FROM 1969 & 1970
 * Length
 * 01.38.20


 * Other
 * (Duff Paddy) This torrent is a re-upload of the 8 classic Top Gear shows that appeared on my Peel blog Kat's Karavan and have now expired onMost of them are full (or nearly full) shows, encoded as 320K MP3s from 7-inch reel-to-reel tapes.
 * Many thanks to hills1902 for supplying the tapes, to John for ripping and encoding them and to Phil for originally hosting the MP3s on his server.


 * Available
 * Part of the JOHN PEEL'S TOP GEAR - 8 SHOWS FROM 1969 & 1970 torrent