23 February 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-02-23
; Comments
*(Introduction to show, mood of Peel, interesting comments, etc. If possible, please add mentions of gigs attended, football matches, TV appearances, stories of past/current activities, etc, for use elsewhere on John Peel Wiki.)
*
*Files 1-4: Edited show, from a set of tapes digitised by Colin Harper. Off-air recordings made by his friend on Reel to Reel.
*Colin's notes below:
*Liverpool Scene recorded 6 items for John Peel's 'Top Gear' on 6/1/69, broadcast over two shows in January and February. These nine tracks derive, in the bloc presented, from an off-air reel of various other indentifiably early-1969 off-air tracks and contain, I think, 5 of the 6 tracks from that first Liverpool Scene BBC session ('Tramcar to Frankenstein' is the missing one) along with 4 other tracks from the group's commercial recordings that must have been played on the show in early 1969: 'Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm' from the LP 'Amazing Adventures of...' and three tracks from 45s: 'Son, Son', 'The Woo Woo' and 'Love Is'. 
* File 5 is also an edited show.
*Peel mentions that he'll be in Liverpool next Saturday for the Tyrannosaurus Rex tour.
*Full tracklisting thanks to Warwick Johns.
== Sessions==
*Liverpool Scene #1, recorded 6th January 1969, repeat, first broadcast 19 January 1969. This recording deduced to be from the repeat, as The Raven and Colours were only broadcast then.
*Moody Blues #4, recorded 18th February 1969. Available on Live At The BBC 1967-1970 2xCD, 2007 (Deram, 984 720-2)
*Spooky Tooth #4, recorded 3rd February 1969. Better By You Better Than Me released on BBC Sessions (CD, 2001).
*Yes only session, recorded 7th January 1969, repeat, first broadcast 12 January 1969. Available on Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969-1970 (New Millenium Communications).
*Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions
==Tracklisting==
*Rolling Stones: Prodigal Son (album - Beggars Banquet) Decca LK.4955
*Spooky Tooth: Better By You Better Than Me (session) @
*Terry Reid: Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (album - Bang, Bang You're Terry Reid) Epic BN 26427
*Moody Blues: Send Me No Wine (session) $
*Cream: Badge (album - Goodbye) Polydor
*Yes: Everydays (session)
*Rhinoceros: I Need Love (album - Rhinoceros) Elektra EKS-74030
*Liverpool Scene: The Raven (session) #
*Taj Mahal: E Z Rider (7") Direction 58-4044
*Spooky Tooth: Waiting For The Wind (session)
*Jackie Lomax: Is This What You Want? (album - Is This What You Want?) Apple APCOR 6
*Moody Blues: To Share Our Love (session)
*Jefferson Airplane: Plastic Fantastic Lover (album - Bless Its Pointed Little Head) RCA LSP 4133
*Yes: Sweetness (session)
*Creedence Clearwater Revival: Penthouse Pauper (album - Bayou Country)
*Liverpool Scene: Colours (session) #
*Blood, Sweat And Tears: Smiling Phases (album - Blood, Sweat And Tears) CBS 63504
*Spooky Tooth: When Will I Get Home (session)
*Donovan: Entertaining Of A Shy Girl (album - The Hurdy Gurdy Man) Epic BN 26420
*Moody Blues: Lovely To See You (session) £
*Captain Beefheart: Beatle Bones N' Smokin Stones (album - Strictly Personal) Liberty LBS 83172
*File 5 cuts in below
*Yes: Something's Coming (session)
*Walter Carlos: Two-Part Invention In D Minor (LP - Switched-On Bach) Columbia Masterworks (Peel calls the artists the Trans-Electronic Music Productions Incorporated, due to the name appearing at the top of the record sleeve and thinks their album name is dreadful)
*edit
*Byrds: Drug Store Truck Drivin Man (LP - Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde) CBS
*Liverpool Scene: The Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool (session) (the last session track from them on this show)
*Fairport Convention: Mr Lacey (LP - What We Did On Our Holidays) Island
*Spooky Tooth: That Was Only Yesterday (session) @
*Ten Years After: Going To Try (LP - Stonedhenge) Deram
*File 5 ends
*Moody Blues: Never Comes The Day (session) £
*Tracks marked # on File 1
*Tracks marked @ on File 2
*Tracks marked £ on File 3
*Track marked $ on File 4
==File==
;Name
*1) Liverpool Scene - Top Gear 6/1/69
*2a) Spooky Tooth - Peel session - Top Gear 23/2/69
*2b) 1969-02-23 TG 23.2.69 Spooky Tooth 2 songs
*3) 1969-02-23 Moody Blues TG 23 Feb 69 (2 songs).mp3
*4) 1969-02-23 Moody Blues unknown 'Just send my love away' (Lp track).mp3
*5) J P Top Gear 23 Feb 1969.mp3
;Length
*1) 32:32 (3:56-6:27, 28:39 on)
*2) 6:28 (to 3:24 unique)
*3) 7:15
*4) 2:35
*5) 24:54
;Other
*Many thanks to Colin Harper. Full tape at Liverpool Scene 1969
*2b) has centred audio.
*Please address all re-up requests to Peel Mailing List.
*5) Many thanks to Tim for acquisition and digitisation
;Available
*1) Youtube
*2a) Youtube
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