Psychedelia what exists from 1967 radio?

[williammcgregor]

Hi Forum members,

Help required!

Does anybody know what exists of John Peel's Perfumed Garden radio show from 1967?

or any other so called Psychedelic performances on any other radio show from 1967?

Thanks

[Barry Hodge]

These are the 'available' Perfumed Gardens (from the Peel wiki):

1967

16 July 1967

1. LONDON 16 07 67 PERFUMED GARDEN with JOHN PEEL.MP3

18 July 1967

2. LONDON 18 07 67 PERFUMED GARDEN with JOHN PEEL.MP3

06 August 1967

3. LONDON 06 08 67 PERFUMED GARDEN with JOHN PEEL.MP3

07 August 1967

4. LONDON 07 08 67 PERFUMED GARDEN with JOHN PEEL.MP3

11 August 1967

5. LONDON 11 08 67 JOHN PEEL.MP3

14 August 1967

6. LONDON 14 08 67 FINAL PERFUMED GARDEN IN FULL with JOHN.MP3

[williammcgregor]

Thank you Barry

[tonyrees]

Hi William,

Try www.azanorak.com/ and go to the Radio London section. If you want to download anything it will ask you to fill in a password when unzipping the files, type in freeradio - also look at the Radio One section as it contains some Top Gear including one with a Pink Floyd session. This is an essential site for anyone interested in pop from the 60s.

[williammcgregor]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the information I will give it a try

[markdixon]

There were lots of sessions on the BBC Light Programme and Radio One in 1967 of a broadly psychedelic nature. Probably the easiest way to work out what still exists is to look at what has been made commercially available. Sessions from 1967 by the following artists have been released on CD: Pink Floyd, the Soft Machine, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tomorrow, the Pretty Things, the Move, Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Moody Blues and Cream. There are probably lots more.

The Top Sounds label has released compilations featuring BBC radio material. One of their albums features two tracks from a 1967 session by Kaleidoscope.

There are probably other BBC radio session tracks of a psychedelic nature in existence that haven't had an official release. There's a 'Top Gear' session by the Incredible String Band from 1967 which I think is only available on a bootleg album.

[williammcgregor]

Thanks Mark seems like I've got a lot of collecting to do!

[ashleywood]

As Mark pointed out, Psych at the BBC hasn't fared too badly considering the near total destruction at archive HQ.
Home taping was more common by this time and Top Of The Pops transcription discs often cherry picked 3 or so tracks from sessions around this time though surprisingly not Syd's Pink Floyd or this one that really stands out for me as a potential missing gem.
4th November 1967 Saturday Club appearance of The Creation.
Don't quote me on this yet as I haven't cross-referenced the paperwork but it looks like their audition/trial broadcast was recorded on 31 oct 1967 and featured Try and Stop Me / Life Is Just Beginning / Making Time / Through My Eyes.
Let's hope an off air shows up of those especially the last 2 songs. Reckon that's in my "top 20 missing BBC sessions wants list".

Agree with Mark, the Top Sounds series is well worth picking up if you like yer psych. As far as official releases by bands go, you're generally better off finding the better bootlegs,fan issues or totp transcription copies because the mastering, intro/outro edits, eq decisions, stereo-isation, loudification etc.. issues are unfortunately highly problematic on virtually all the sets I've bought or heard.
Cream/Hendrix/Who/Hollies/Move and others all suffer in this respect. Pink Floyd's recent box of not enough Syd had pretty low grade copies of two sessions though hopefully this will be rectified in the future.
Not that i want to encourage the bootleggers but if the bands and labels can't do it properly then why not ? The butchery on intros/outros on The Hollies set is particularly bad and iirc it doesn't include King Midas In Reverse.
(The intros are often cut to eliminate Brian Bathtubes but when doing that makes Bobby Elliott sound like he can't keep an intro in time there's something wrong.)

[williammcgregor]

Thanks Ashley I have had a look at the Top sounds web page and I'll be ordering from there lots of good stuff. I also thank you for your comments on the bootleg scene so I'll be investigating that as well.

By the way what is (Brian Bathtubes?)

[Kev Hunter]

Brian Bathtubes = Brian Matthew, the DJ who usually introduces the tracks (mostly taken from Saturday Club performances) on BBC transcription discs. Some of the sessions (John's Children, Kaleidoscope, The Move, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Blossom Toes etc) also have Brian conducting short interviews with members of the bands.

[williammcgregor]

Thanks for the explanation Kev, I listen to Brian Matthew on "Sounds of the Sixties" on Saturday mornings on radio 2. He must be unwell at the moment as Tim Rice has taken over in the last 2 or 3 weeks.

Brian Matthew is 88 now.