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Post by SydV on Sept 22, 2011 11:04:24 GMT
Anybody know the tx date of the edition including Family, Richie Havens and Thunderclap Newman? I’m assuming they were all on the same show and that this is the only survivor of the 1969 series (which went out in a late night slot, hence the revised title.)
Known performers….
1968 series - How it is
19th July 1968 - The very first edition including Yoko Ono, Arthur Brown and a feature on Yellow Submarine.
26th July 1968 - Eric Burdon / Pentangle
2nd August 1968 - Mike Stuart Span
23rd August 1968 - The Nice (Presumably this edition is the source of their performance of "America" on “Sounds of the Sixties”
6th September 1968 - Moody Blues
20th September 1968 - Status Quo
27th September 1968 - Tyrannosaurus Rex
11th October 1968 - The Who "Magic Bus" / Spooky Tooth "The Weight"
25th October 1968 - Pentangle
1st November 1968 - Pentangle (A bit odd for them to be on 2 weeks running, maybe they cancelled on the 25th October)
22nd November 1968 - The Gun (also some film used to illustrate the Beatles White album which was released the same day)
13th December 1968 - Fairport Convention
1969 series - How Late it is
14th March 1969 - The Who "Pinball Wizard"
21st March 1969 - Led Zeppelin (as a last minute replacement act)
25th April 1969 - Chicken Shack
2nd May 1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono interview
Peter Asher (Peter and Gordon fame) was one of the presenters on the first show, but appears to have only done that one or left early on, possibly replaced by John Peel. Tony Palmer directed and also appeared, Angela Huth was on both series. Oz magazine editor Richard Neville was another regular face of the programme.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Sept 22, 2011 12:59:57 GMT
All I can ascertain is it seems to be May 1969, which would make it either episodes 7 or 8, 9, 10 or 11. That doesn't help much, I know. Something in the Air was released that month. RICHIE HAVENS WAS IN THE US ON THE 4TH, SO THAT MAY RULE OUT EPISODE 7.
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Post by SydV on Sept 22, 2011 13:40:09 GMT
Would be lovely to see a whole edition on BBC4, it sounds very interesting from what I’ve read about it. Apparently Tony Palmer became frustrated with everybody assuming it was for teenagers, which is why it was moved to a late slot in 1969.
The Family clip (performing “Dim” released on an LP in March) is apparently from a Bob Pratt tape, so I guess that could come from a separate show, but I think he also taped the Thunderclap Newman set and the presenter looks as though she’s wearing identical clothes and sitting in the same spot to introduce Richie Havens, so maybe he recorded near enough a whole show rather than this being an officially archived example?
There’s a transcript of the John & Yoko interview floating around, but I would think that’s come from a home taped audio that’s still locked in somebody’s private collection, so I doubt that interview is from the same edition - and as you say - Havens was still in the US then.
They obviously liked Pentangle during the 1st series, guesting at least twice. There’s BBC clips of them doing “Travelin’ Song” and “Let No Man Steal Your Thyme”, which doesn’t look as though they came from "How it is" , but I’ve yet to see a source programme nailed down for those numbers.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Sept 22, 2011 13:53:30 GMT
It's from 'Degrees of Folk'.
""DEGREES OF FOLK: with The Pentangle, Dixie Ingram, Alex Duthart (1968)"" (exists)
""The excitement generated by Pentangle’s unique
sound is captured near the quintet’s inception in two BBC
(Degrees of Folk) performances from 1968. “Traveling Song”
was actually a single, released in May 1968 (and) “Let No Man
Steal Your Thyme,” with its spacey free improvisation over
the 1 chord in the solo""
(from John Renbourn, rare performances 1965-1995)
Sorted!
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Post by SydV on Sept 22, 2011 14:00:17 GMT
Excellent, that one has been bugging me for months. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2011 9:02:08 GMT
Yes, me too, Ray!
By the way, Syd, there will be no chance of BBC-4 showing a complete How It Is as none survive. All that's left are a few clips and some inserts. All those VT bits mentioned above plus one or two more (The Nice / Joe Cocker?) and some film reports. I think they're all from different shows though.
I looked at the PasBs for this series some time back and it's a real shame more doesn't exist as it looked to be an interesting show. Another one that's been almost forgotten historically (as with Disco 2) due to it's non-existence.
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Post by Joe Haynes on Sept 23, 2011 23:13:25 GMT
Does anyone know what song Led Zeppelin performed and if any footage exists?
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Post by LanceM on Sept 24, 2011 2:13:07 GMT
Joe: I was just able to find this bit of information here for you. www.ledzeppelin.com/show/march-21-1969Looks as if this sadly no longer exists. However, at least we now know which track was being performed ( Communication Breakdown ) Cheers, Lance. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2011 9:24:20 GMT
There is a poor quality clip of what purports to be the Zeppelin performance from this show circulating (and has been around for years). I've seen it myself. You just get the song though and no surrounding material for identification. It's, I guess, likely that the insert survives (a while since I looked at it but I think it was a film insert; the quality was not that great and so it was hard to tell!).
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Post by Jake Morrison on Sept 24, 2011 12:52:21 GMT
Does anybody have the Spooky Tooth video? Or the whole episode?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2011 14:17:28 GMT
There aren't any whole episodes, Jake!
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Post by Eugene Reingold on Sept 25, 2011 10:18:02 GMT
2nd August 1968 - Mike Stuart Span
part of this survives on "A Year In The Life" 1968 Documentary about MSS
I have it
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Post by John Smith on Sept 25, 2011 10:34:32 GMT
There is a poor quality clip of what purports to be the Zeppelin performance from this show circulating (and has been around for years). I've seen it myself. You just get the song though and no surrounding material for identification. It's, I guess, likely that the insert survives (a while since I looked at it but I think it was a film insert; the quality was not that great and so it was hard to tell!). It's not the so called Japanese promo is it? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 16:51:53 GMT
It looks a bit like it, yes. Long time since i've viewed it but could well be that.
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Post by SydV on Sept 25, 2011 19:19:18 GMT
I doubt that Led Zep clip is from “How Late it is”, it’s looks a little too amateurish in terms of the camera work and the way it’s shot for the BBC in 1969, and I’d also expect them to appear on the same stage/set as Family and Thunderclap Newman. I know Richie Havens was filmed against a light background, but I’d imagine they only broke with tradition there for the shadow effects.
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