11 July 1970

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1970-07-11
; Comments
*(Duff Paddy) It's John Walters' birthday and Peel says at the end of the show that this Top Gear is "the nicest we've had for as long as I can remember". Sessions this week come from Son House, Kevin Ayers and East of Eden.
*JP seems both astonished and delighted to have Son House on the programme. And I remember him saying a few years back that Jack White was pretty well incredulous when he told him Son had recorded a Peel session. But Jack's reaction is not that surprising; after all, how many contemporary British DJs in the 00s would have been able to say that they'd had one of the legendary delta bluesmen on their show? I reckon John P, who was developing a good friendship with Jack, was pretty proud to have been able to tell him that.
*Peel mentioned the conversation he had with the White Stripes when the Son House session was repeated on 01 August 2001.
*The Pig's choice for the week is a track from John Simon's current album, apparently never issued in the UK; "Davey's On The Road Again", a song written by Simon and Robbie Robertson of the Band. It was a UK chart hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1978.
*Peel's creation Eddie Lee Beppeaux (see Glossary) gets a couple of mentions.
== Sessions ==
*Son House (Only session) Recorded 1970-07-06
*Kevin Ayers #2 Recorded 1970-06-09
**'Derby Day', 'The Interview' and 'We Did It Again' available on The BBC Sessions 1970 - 1976 CD, (HUX073)
*East of Eden #1 (Repeat) Recorded 1970-04-06 First broadcast 18 April 1970
== Tracklisting ==
*Handover from Noel Edmonds, whose super cheeriness attracts some comment from John
*Doug Kershaw: Mama Rita In Hollywood (LP - Spanish Moss) Warner Bros. WS 1861 (US release) (JP: "specially for those of you who think that Cajun music means the mumblings of Dr John....")
*Kevin Ayers: Derby Day (session)
*East of Eden: Nymphenburger (session) # (JP: “Based loosely on the classic Eddie Lee Beppeaux arrangement of “I Love Paris"...")
*Steeleye Span: The Blackleg Miner (LP - Hark! The Village Wait) RCA SF 8113 (JP: "That's what happens if you wear moleskin pants")
*Traffic: Stranger to Himself (LP - John Barleycorn Must Die) Island ILPS 9116
*Fotheringay: Nothing More (LP - Fotheringay) Island ILPS 9125
*tape flip File d in above
News (edited out in File d) (JP: "we’ll be back after the news with Eddie Lee Beppeaux")
*Poco: Hurry Up (LP - Poco) Epic BN 26522 (US import copy, but "soon to be released")
:(JP: "Several years ago when I was driving to Frank Freeman's Dancing School in Kidderminster with Captain Beefheart, the Captain told me that the person he admired most was Son House. And if somebody had told me two or three years ago when this programme started that we would be having Son House on Top Gear, I wouldn't have believed them, but we do and he's here and it's a joy that he is, because Son House basically is where it all began.")
*Son House: My Good Gal (session)
*John Simon: Davey's On The Road Again (LP - John Simon's Album) Warner Bros. WS 1849 (US release) (JP: "the Pig’s choice for the week")
*JP mentions an upcoming free concert in Luton with Wishbone Ash and “some not quite so well-known bands” (whom he names)
*Kevin Ayers: The Interview (session)
*Kevin Ayers: We Did It Again (session)
*Jellybread: Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu (7") Blue Horizon 57-3174
*East of Eden: Sphynx (session) #
*Son House: Spoken Word 1 (session)
*Son House: Death Letter (session)
*Son House: Spoken Word 2 (session)
*Son House: Don't You Mind People Grinnin' In Your Face (session)
*JP: “That’s really beautiful. Bless you, Son House””
[News Edit] edited out on FIle d
*East of Eden: Jig-a-Jig (session) (JP: “an extended version of their chartbound sound”)
*Tape flip File d in above
*Ronnie Lane: Evolution (album with Pete Townshend, dedicated to Meher Baba - Happy Birthday) Universal Spiritual League
*Fairport Convention: Doctor of Physick (LP - Full House) Island ILPS 9130
*Kevin Ayers: Lunatic's Lament (session)
*Matthews Southern Comfort: Something In The Way She Moves (LP - Second Spring) UNI UNLS 112
*End of show withTop Gear theme - Peel sings "Happy Birthday" to Walters, quietly, and mentions that among next week's session guests are "Soft Machine, stars of the Proms", before wishing his listeners a good week.
== File ==
;Name
*a) (torrent) JOHN PEEL'S TOP GEAR - 8 SHOWS FROM 1969 & 1970
*b) 1970-07-11 John Peel Top Gear BBC Radio 1.mp3
*c) East Of Eden 1970-04-06 (1970-07-11) London,UK BBC Top Gear M1-FM.zip
*d) J P Top Gear 11 July 1970 complete.mp3
*e) J P Top Gear 11 July 1970 Rocker reel.mp3
;Length
*a & b 01.58.09
*c 00.20.37
*d) 01:53:34
*e) 01:56:21
;Other
*(Duff Paddy) This torrent is a re-upload of the 8 classic Top Gear shows that appeared on my Peel blog Kat's Karavan and have now expired. Most of them are full (or nearly full) shows, encoded as 320K MP3s from 7-inch reel-to-reel tapes.
*Many thanks to hills1902 for supplying the tapes, to John for ripping and encoding them and to Phil for originally hosting the MP3s on his server.
*Two East Of Eden session tracks with some JP intros and outros (marked #) are now available as a slight sonic upgrade. Many thanks to the DIME community and JS. (These two tracks were previously credited to the original broadcast.)
*d) Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation
*e) Many thanks to Rocker for purchase and Tim for digitisation. This does sound very much like the Duff Paddy tape, it starts at the same point though ends slightly before it. This may be due to progressive damage to the tape though. Right channel goes silent after 40 minutes.
;Available
*a) Part of the JOHN PEEL'S TOP GEAR - 8 SHOWS FROM 1969 & 1970 torrent
*b) Mooo Server
*c) Mooo Server
*d) Mooo
*e) Mooo
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