05 September 1970

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1970-09-05
; Comments
*Tracklisting below is from Volume 1 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*Four tracks played from the soundtrack of the film Performance, and two from Donovan' s Open Road album ("a masterpiece",) which JP lstened to on tape in his van while holidaying in Scotland and "admiring the rain"
*Peel still calls T.Rex "Tyrannosaurus Rex" and mentions that on Sunday they will be "doing an Implosion", meaning one of the weekly underground benefit gigs at the Roundhouse, organised by Jeff Dexter and his associates. 
*He mentions that "you may have a hard time finding Chieftains records in this country". At the time they were recording for Claddagh Records of Dublin, whose records weren't distributed widely in the UK. They later signed with the then fashionable Island label.. 
== Sessions ==
*Chieftains #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-08-03. No known commercial release.
*Family #7 First broadcast. Recorded 1970-08-03.
**'Holding The Compass' and Lives And Ladies' available on BBC Radio Volume 3 1970 (HUX 107)
**Available on "At The BBC" Madfish SMABX1126
*Formerly Fat Harry #1 Repeat of only session. Recorded 1970-05-12. No known commercial release.
**’Goodbye For Good’ is listed as ‘Untitled’ in Ken Garner’s Peel Sessions, which is how John announces it
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
== Tracklisting ==
*Show begins; Peel thanks Johnny Moran for his series of “First Gear” programmes, broadcast in the Saturday afternoon Top Gear slot while he was on holiday
*Little Richard: Spreadin’ Natta', What's The Matter? (LP - The Rill Thing) Reprise RSLP 6406
*Family: Holding The Compass (session)
*John offers some advice to the thief who stole his tapes
*Donovan: Song For John (LP – Open Road) Dawn DNLS 3009
*Donovan: Curry Land (LP – Open Road) Dawn DNLS 3009
*Newsflash - Jochen Rindt, F1 driver, has been killed in practice for the Monza GP
*T Rex: Ride A White Swan (7") Fly BUG 1 (Announced as “a new single from Tyrannosaurus Rex”) John refers to Jewel as being on the reverse of this - to be released shortly - perhaps still the promo? As the released single does not have Jewel on it
*By way of introduction John explains the rationale behind inviting the Chieftains to do a session. Paddy Moloney of the group gives an explanatory introduction to their first piece
*Chieftains: The Foxhunt (session)
*Creedence Clearwater Revival: Before You Accuse Me (LP - Cosmo's Factory) Liberty LBS 83388
*3:30 news
*James Gang: Funk No. 49 (LP - Rides Again) Probe SPBA 6253   (JP recommends Dick Lawson’s review of this LP in the underground paper Friends)
*John and John Walters have been to see a press preview of Performance, which he describes as the ultimate horror film, in that everything is so real, and says it has the best soundtrack album he's ever heard
*Mick Jagger: Memo From Turner (v/a album – Performance: Original Motion Picture Sound Track) Warner Bros WS 2554
*Chieftains: The Munster Cloak (session)
*Formerly Fat Harry: Goodbye For Good (session)
*Swamp Dogg: Dust Your Head Color Red (LP - Total Destruction To Your Mind) Canyon LP-7706 (US release) (JP claims this album reminds him of Otis Redding’s Otis Blue, one of his favourite albums of all time)
*Mothers Of Invention: Toads Of The Short Forest (LP – Weasels Ripped My Flesh) Reprise RSLP 2028
*Family: Lives And Ladies (session)
*Brute Force: Monster (LP - Brute Force) Embryo SD 522 (US release)   (band includes guitarist Sonny Sharrock, “about whom you may have read...another fashionable name for you to drop”)
*Chieftains: Lord Inchiquin (session)
*Super Sister: She Was Naked (7") Blossom 2103 002
*Stackwaddy: Kentucky (LP – Stack Waddy) Dandelion DAN 8003 ( “In a recent Grass Eye (the Manchester underground paper) poll, voted the group most likely to serve extended prison sentences…”)
*Formerly Fat Harry: Seulble (session)
*Chieftains: Kerry Polkas (session)
*4.30 news read by Sean Kelly
*Family: Good News - Bad News (session)
*Randy Newman: Gone Dead Train (v/a album – Performance: Original Motion Picture Sound Track) Warner Bros WS 2554
*Merry Clayton: Performance (v/a album – Performance: Original Motion Picture Sound Track) Warner Bros WS 2554
*Ry Cooder: Get Away (v/a album – Performance: Original Motion Picture Sound Track) Warner Bros WS 2554
*Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do (LP - Safe As Milk) Pye Intl. NPL 28110 (played as a “Disinterred Thirty-Three and a Third", and also featuring Ry Cooder)
*Formerly Fat Harry: Honky Tonk Angel (session)
*Chieftains: Strike The Gay Harp / An Maigdean Mara (session) (JP doesn't attempt to pronounce the Irish Gaelic title)
*Show ends: Peel recommends Bob Harris and Pete Drummond’s shows to his listeners and advises them to visit Sutherland in the north of Scotland, if they have time
== File ==
;Name
*J P Top Gear 05 Sept 1970 complete.mp3
;Length
*1:59:02
;Other
*Many thanks to original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation
;Available
* Mooo
Category:1970
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