Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
Saturday Club, BBC Radio 1, UK
January 27, 1968

taken from an untitled bootleg LP on Apothecary Records (SORCERY001)

01. All Along The Watchtower
02. Mary Jane
03. Somethin' Else
04. Short Interview with Brian Matthews
05. Flames
06. Mother Writes
07. Flames (acetate)

Tracks 1-6: Saturday Club, BBC Radio 1, 27th January 1968
Tracks 7: Alternate Take/Mix

Notes from back of cover:

"This session predates the first album by six months, and finds the band still relying on some excellent cover versions, as well as group originals. The line up was changeable. Colin Forster would be replaced for the second album by Paul Brett. Hudson and Ford spent a little time in the Strawbs before becoming very succesful and commercial with their 'Hudson-Ford' collaboration."

Info:

Four of the BBC tracks can also be found on two unofficial releases ('Artefacts From The Psychedelic Dungeon' and 'Hard Up Heroes #2 - When The Beeb Was Cool'), but here is the entire session, complete with a brief interview. Another batch of studio outtakes from around this time can be heard on 'The Electric Lemonade Acid Test', vols. 3 and 4 on Tenth Planet and both comes highly recommended.

Source/Lineage:

LP > Dual CS 505-3 (w/ Goldring 1042 cartridge) > NAD 3240PE > SB Audigy 2 > WAV > Adobe Audition 1.5 (remastered, speed corrected, tracked) > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 (level 8)

Your copy will be CDR1 when burnt.

Transfered & encoded by humanoidboogie, May 5, 2005.

Enjoy!