30 January 1973

Show

Name

• Top Gear

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1973-01-30

Comments

• Many thanks to Jim for a short file "recorded on a Grundig TK141 via microphone off MW broadcast on our radiogram." It features the beginning of the show, two records and a complete (two-track) session by Man.
• (Announcer: Radio 1 on 247 metres and VHF with Sounds Of The Seventies. Tonight, Top Gear with John Peel.')
• (JP: 'I scared meself to death at the beginning of that 'cos I got the wrong switch on, and all I could hear was Radio 2 and it said, "This is Graham Freer." I said, there's no way that I'm Graham Freer. Anyway, it all seems to work out now. Are you alright? Alright. Thumbs up sign or something.')

Sessions

• Kevin Coyne, #1. Recorded 1973-01-02.
• Phillip Goodhand-Tait, #1 (rpt). Recorded 1972-10-24.
• Man, #1 (rpt). Recorded 1972-08-29.

None of these appear to have been commercially released, and only the last is featured on the recording.

Tracklisting

• Man: 'Come On' (Peel Session)

(JP: 'And that's the first one from the excellent group Man, and a very good band they are too. That's called Come On, and it occurs on their current LP.')

• Spontaneous Combustion: 'Sabre Dance (7")' (Harvest)

(JP: Starts very quietly, so turn up your little radios.')

• Ash Ra Tempel: 'Gedanken (2x Compilation LP-Kosmische Musik)' (Ohr)
• Man: 'Life On The Road' (Peel Session)

File

Name

• 1) John Peel 1973.01.30 Man
• 2) J P Top Gear 30 Jan 1973.mp3

Length

• 1) 00:28:31
• 2) 00:29:46

Other

• 1) Many thanks to Jim
• 2) Many thanks to Tim. (Note - this is the same tape that Tim has now acquired)

Available

• 1) Mooo
• 2) Mooo

Footnotes