John Dummer Blues Band
1968-08-11* _ London, England _ BBC Top Gear re-M-ST
BBC Studio 1 _ 201 Piccadilly

-!- DimeTravel brings you "British Blues BOOM!" Volume 84 -!-
~*~ Slightly remastered fixing a few minor issues, without EQ ~*~

01. --Peel intro--
02. Forty Days & Forty Nights
03. --Peel outro & intro--
04. Travellin' Man
05. --Peel outro & intro--
06. Standing Round Cryin'
07. --Peel outro & intro--
08. After Hours
09. --Peel outro--

Total Time ::: 15:06

::: EXC studio quality mono. Check samples for ear delite factors.
::: Warts: None really. Peel talks over music a bit at some starts & fades, so some songs start with his announced titles.
::: Many of you have this complete Top Gear show, but this is a Dummer-only excerpt & is slightly remastered.
::: NOTE: Peel announces #06 as "After Hours" but it was a mix-up. The actual setlist is as given above.
::: Peel's inbetween Top Gear song comments edited to only those regarding this session.
::: Excerpted from the lossless reconstructed entire show version (aka #3, the "Reconstruction job") which mixed in the missing vinyl trax to restore the entire program. The Dummer trax are unissued live studio versions.
::: *DATE: Peel wiki says this was recorded 1968-06-25. Garner's "In Session Tonight" says 1968-07-02. Both say the session was 1st broadcast 1968-08-11.
::: Garner's book says, "Passed by the panel despite 'some criticism' of vocalist." (BBC music 'authorities' who decided what musicians were 'good' enough to appear on radio).
::: Other session trax played on 1968-08-11 were by Pink Floyd & Tim Rose (both 1st broadcasts) & Leonard Cohen (re-broadcast).

Recording Information (purportedly) ::: master studio tapes -> unknown # of lossless digital generations including 1 or more CD-R gen -> wavs.

Playback 2016-03-xx ::: wavs -> Audacity [fades, a few minor repairs, volume adjustments manually lowering a number of stray peaks to increase overall volume, +0.55% pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. (Note: Peel's overall speaking volume lowered somewhat relative to the music).

Line-up ::: Dave Kelly - slide guitar, vocals // Tony T.S. McPhee - electric guitar, vocals // John O'Leary - harmonica // Iain Thomson - electric bass // John Dummer - drums.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 289 ::: Thanks to the original source & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: While this is around in various forms, you can try this one, which gives you just the Dummer material a little bit touched up for the better IMO. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

Support the artists! -- http://www.thegroundhogs.co.uk (Tony McPhee) -- http://www.thebluesband.net (Dave Kelly)

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!