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Post by Jim Exley on Apr 29, 2020 7:33:12 GMT
Hello all,
Just been having a look through an old box of cassettes from thirty years ago or thereabouts and came across a couple of the 1 hour BBC 'In Concert' programmes, recorded because they were from gigs I attended. In one case I have domestic and overseas versions of the same show containing different songs. It led me to wonder if recordings of the entire shows were normally retained by the BBC, or merely the edited programmes as broadcast?
Thanks
Jim
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Post by Daniel E on May 2, 2020 17:07:39 GMT
Your posting doesn’t say for which bands ?
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Post by johnleach on May 3, 2020 10:04:44 GMT
I'm guessing it's quite complicated - there were original broadcasts, repeats with either all or some of the original broadcast tracks and then transcription discs (vinyl) that had some or all of the tracks in different orders to cope with the length of time available on 1 side of vinyl which were sent all over the place for broadcast. I would think the BBC did retain the original tapes - several CD sets have appeared officially over the years, but I don't know for sure. I have a few taped live at the time and a good number of these have appeared over the years with either the same tracks or less on official releases - and Radio 6 features "highlight" tracks from many of these shows currently and occasionally repeats full shows www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rwm3t/broadcasts/upcoming |
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Post by Jim Exley on May 15, 2020 12:26:05 GMT
Thanks very much, greatly appreciated!
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jul 6, 2020 12:10:01 GMT
Genome has a new feature \Explore which is suppposed to allow searches of the Achives. I've not yet managed to get this to find anything useful.
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Post by johnleach on Jul 7, 2020 12:54:25 GMT
Genome has a new feature \Explore which is suppposed to allow searches of the Achives. I've not yet managed to get this to find anything useful. Don't see how to get to that Stephen, could you explain? - thanks in advance |
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jul 15, 2020 1:09:24 GMT
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jul 15, 2020 1:10:28 GMT
Genome has a new feature \Explore which is suppposed to allow searches of the Achives. I've not yet managed to get this to find anything useful. Don't see how to get to that Stephen, could you explain? - thanks in advance Sorry - should be /exporer/ |
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Post by garycritcher on Oct 13, 2022 16:39:06 GMT
I can easily answer this. There were different types of concerts recorded for BBC Radio/Television.
Things like the Radio 1 In Concert transmissions would be a mixture of recordings either recorded at BBC studios (The Paris or Golders Green Hippodrome) or at actual concerts.
You also had audio coming from series like Rock Goes To College or Sight & Sound In Concert.
For recordings from BBC studios, the band would not play a full set like a normal gig, if the bill the night of the recording was two bands then they would both play for around 40 minutes each, they would then have 30 minutes on radio each within the 60 minute time slot. I can think of literally one time when the bands were Dr.Feelgood and Ian Dury & the Blockheads, on Radio 1 they had half an hour each, but we at Transcriptions issued only the Blockheads recording across a one hour disc, they played enough material for us.
For RGTC AND S&S In Concert, again the band would play a minimum of an hour and then the TV programmes were edited from that. So again, they wouldn't play a full set.
I myself attended recordings in all of these examples.
Just remembered of a VERY few occasions we would use on radio, recordings supplied by the bands themselves; Pink Floyd at Wembley in 1974, Supertramp at Hammersmith in 1975 and Rainbow in Atlanta in 1977 are the only ones I can think of. In fact, the Rainbow concert was never used for either Radio 1 OR Transcriptions, it went out one time only in the 'BBC Rock Hour' series across America and nowhere else.
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