29 September 1968

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1968-09-29
; Comments
*Peel plays an album track from the Idle Race, but admits he hasn't got the album, and says this copy was borrowed from Bernie Andrews.
*Peel announces Ten Years After's Woman Trouble session track, but accidentally plays the Top Gear theme music, and then mentions the football result yesterday of Liverpool beating Wolves 6-0. He then decides to play a track from Traffic, dedicated to Violet Wright, who was with him in the Top Gear studio last week and yesterday at the Hyde Park free concert, as well as sending him some tissues for his cold !!
*He mentions attending a concert at the Royal Festival Hall the previous evening, featuring Joni Mitchell, Fairport Convention and others (see Gigography 1968) and reads an excerpt from the concert programme to introduce the first Joni Mitchell session track. Later in the show he says he received a dinner invitation from Joni Mitchell's manager Elliott Roberts but turned it down because of his bad cold. It's not known if this was the reason why the singer never did another session for Top Gear, although Peel remarks that he hoped she would do one when she visited Britain in December.
*Peel enthuses over the Doors’ “Five To One” and compares it to “You Got To Trust Us" by Captain Beefheart. He says that next week he'll hopefully receive the new Beefheart album. He also says he'll play tracks from Duster Bennett's latest album, which he says is amazingly good and the best LP the Blue Horizon label has yet produced.
*Peel dedicates a David Ackles record to Ian Anderson's mum, whose son, the singer of Jethro Tull, he met yesterday at the Hyde Park free concert. Says Anderson's father sent him a letter mentioning that it was his mother's birthday tomorrow. The DJ also says that Ackles and fellow American singer (and Elektra recording artist) Tim Buckley will both record sessions for the show on Tuesday.
*Peel mentions seeing a TV programme the other day about sea otters and says that listeners should think about the fur coats they wear, where these come from, and what satisfaction the sea otters would have, if they weren't killed for these fur coats. (It's unlikely that many of his listeners wore fur coats, unless they were old ones from the second-hand clothes shops favoured by hippies). Peel may be referring to Wild New World: 3: Bering Sea, which was a wildlife programme, broadcast at 6.40pm on BBC One on 26th September 1968.
*Peel dedicates a Fugs record to Sarah Henry, who allegedly threw beef curry on a cinema screen showing the John Wayne film The Green Berets.
*Peel dedicates a Byrds record to four girls from Ipswich, who stayed at Peel Acres overnight. They had travelled down to London in the hope of seeing Canned Heat perform at the Roundhouse, but the gig was cancelled, due to "local politics", he says.
== Sessions ==
*Joni Mitchell only session. Accompanied by the John Cameron Group. Recorded: 1968-08-23. No known commercial release.
*Jeff Beck #2. Recorded: 1968-09-17. No known commercial release.
*Fairport Convention #4. Recorded: 1968-08-26, repeat, first broadcast: 01 September 1968. Available on 4-CD set Live At The BBC (Island Remasters)
*Ten Years After #3. Recorded: 1968-08-14, repeat, first broadcast: 18 August 1968. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*Idle Race: Don't Put Your Boys In The Army Mrs Ward (LP - The Birthday Party) Liberty
*Traffic: Withering Tree (7" - Feeling Alright ?) Island
*Ten Years After: Woman Trouble (session)
*Fairport Convention: If It Feels Good You Know It Can't Be Wrong (session) ~2
*Donovan: Laléna (7") Epic (US release)
*Jeff Beck: You Shook Me (session)
*Joni Mitchell: Chelsea Morning (session) $
*outro with band line-up $
*Doors: Five To One (LP - Waiting For The Sun) Elektra (JP: “a record that will tell you exactly everything you need to know”)
*Ten Years After: Woodchoppers Ball (session)
*David Ackles: Down River (7") Elektra (JP: "If you think that's good, wait until you hear the LP")
*(JP: 'Here's a single from Love and this released in this country too and it's very good and probably nobody will buy it, it's called Laughing Stock')
*Love: Laughing Stock (7" - Your Mind And We Belong Together) Elektra
*Fairport Convention: Eastern Rain (session) ~1
*Big Brother & The Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin: Piece Of My Heart (7" - Piece Of My Heart / Turtle Blues) CBS
*Jeff Beck: Shapes Of Things (session) (JP: "very together that, l think you'll agree")
*Grateful Dead: That's It For The Other One (LP - Anthem Of The Sun) Warner Bros.
*Joni Mitchell: The Gallery (session) $
*Amboy Dukes: Flight Of The Byrd (LP - Journey To The Center Of The Mind) Mainstream This track is suspiciously of much clearer sound quality, perhaps patched in to cover a tape flip
*Says he’ll be on Woman’s Hour this week but can’t remember on which day (unfortunately Genome only lists the Radio 4 schools programmes for that week)
*Fairport Convention: Suzanne (session) @
*(JP: 'Suzanne from the Fairport Convention - and Leonard Cohen songs should be sung repeatedly and loudly in Parliament...")
*Mothers Of Invention: Flower Punk (LP - We're Only In It For The Money) Verve
*Ten Years After: Spider In The Web (session) #
*(JP: 'Ten Years After and Spider In My Web...')
*Fugs: Fingers Of The Sun (LP - Tenderness Junction) Transatlantic
*Jeff Beck: Sweet Little Angel (session)
*Byrds: Nothing Was Delivered (LP - Sweetheart Of The Radio) Columbia
*Joni Mitchell: Night In The City (session) $
*(4:30pm news - British car wins Le Mans 24 hours race, South African government bans mixed race audiences at boxing matches, heart transplant in Canada, and finally the Derby horse racing winner Sir Ivor, ridden by Lester Piggott, came second at Longchamps)
*Fairport Convention: Gone Gone Gone (session)
*Ten Years After: I'm Going Home (session)
*Wonderland: Moscow (7" - Poochy / Moscow) Polydor (German group; JP says this track has some interesting sounds, if sometimes a bit dated, but the other side of the single is “pretty desperate”)
*Joni Mitchell: Cactus Tree (session) £
*Jeff Beck: Mother's Old Rice Pudding (session)
*Steve Miller Band: In My First Mind (LP - Children Of The Future) Capitol
*Show ends - "thanks to Bernie Andrews.…don’t forget to listen to Night Ride….have a very peaceful week..."
*Tracks marked # also on File 1
*Tracks marked @ also on File 2
*Tracks marked $ also on File 3
*Tracks marked ~ also on File 5
*Tracks marked ~ also on File 6
== File ==
;Name
*1) TenYearsAfter1968-08-14TopGearLondonUK
*2) Fairport Convention - Peel session - Top Gear 29/9/68
*3a) Joni Mitchell - Peel session - Top Gear 29/9/68
*3b) 1968-09-29 TG 29.9.68 Joni Mitchell 5 songs.mp3
*4) TG29-9-68.mp3
*5) 1968-09-29 TG 1.9.68 Fairport Convention 2 songs.mp3
*6) 1968-09-29 David Ackles TG 24.1.69.mp3
;Length
*1) 0:05:51
*2) 0:05:32
*3a) 0:17:24 (from 0:03:45)
*3b) 13:40
*4) 2:02:49
*5) 6:52
*6) 3:46
;Other
*1) Full details at and thanks to Sugarmegs
*2,3,5,6) Many thanks to Colin Harper.
*4) Many thanks to Warwick Johns. Sound quality muffled, but audible.
;Available
*1) Download
*2) Youtube
*3a) Youtube
*3b) Mooo
*4) Mooo
*5) Mooo
*6) Mooo
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