06 October 1971

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1971-10-06

Comments

• Edited tracks.
• David Cavanagh's Good Night and Good Riddance book mentions airplay from Pink Floyd, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Kingdom Come, Allman Brothers Band, Weather Report, Leo Kottke, Flamin' Groovies, Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks.

Sessions

• Faces #3 recorded 28th September 1971. No known commercial release.
• Family #8 recorded 2nd July 1971, repeat, first broadcast 17 July 1971. Available on  "BBC Radio Volume 2 1971 – 73" (Hux Records, 2004), "Family At The BBC" (7XCD, Madfish, 2018) and "Fearless (Deluxe Edition)" (3XCD, Esoteric Recordings, 2023).
• Wishbone Ash #1 recorded 5th July 1971, repeat, first broadcast 10 July 1971 No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

• Start of show.
• John starts saying that it's the first show, the Faces are still in the pub, so says he will have to start singing a folk song. Which he does. @
• File 1 begins during above snippet
• Faces: Stay With Me (session)
• Family: In My Own Time (session)
• Wishbone Ash: Lady Whiskey (session)
• Family: Save Some For Thee (session)
• Faces: Miss Judy's Farm (session)
• Wishbone Ash: Lullaby (session)
• Faces: Maggie May (session)
• Wishbone Ash: Jailbait (session)
• File 1 ends

File

Name

• 1) J P tracks only Reel 3.mp3
• 2) JP intro.mp3

Length

• 1) 1:53:06 (1:05:05-1:34:55, 1:50:12 on)
• 2) 0:00:41

Other

• 1) Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation. 1971 Mix Reel
• 2) Many thanks to Tim for digitisation and upload

Available

• 1) Mooo
• 2) Mooo