07 March 1972

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1972-03-07
; Comments
*Tracklisting below originally created from Volume 2(ii) of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*In April 2020 a complete recording was found on eBay, one of a group of tapes being sold following a house clearance.
*Little is known about session band Danta, who play in Afro-rock style,,but their 1972 LP on Epic had a sleeve designed by Hipgnosis.
*JP says he likes Egg very much but initially feared they’d become one of those “flash” bands who do LPs of “Wagner’s Ring Cycle on bagpipes, with one of their mates bellowing half-baked poetry over the top of it”
*In 1972 Peel is still playing Donovan's "Guinevere", a Perfumed Garden favourite, but his current likes (Captain Beefheart, the Faces, Ry Cooder) also appear in the playlist. 
*Peel recalls playing the original 1920s recording by Washington Phillips of "Denomination Blues" (played here in a version from Cooder's current album) on Night Ride. He later revisited the Philips original in 1982 and 2004.
== Sessions ==
*Egg, #2. Recorded 1972-02-22. No known commercial release.
*Danta, #2 (rpt). First Broadcast 18 January 1972. Recorded 1972-01-10. No known commercial release.
*Southern Comfort, #2 (rpt). First Broadcast 25 January 1972. Recorded 1972-01-18. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*Detroit: Long Necked Goose (LP - Detroit) Paramount (band fronted by 1960s US chart artist Mitch Ryder; Peel admires the car on the album cover)
*John has had complaints about being bigheaded when he said at the end of the previous week's show that he would be met by hordes of girls on his way out of the studio, by listeners who did not get his "joke" –“One thing you learn is that whatever you say on these programmes, somebody somewhere is going to take it very seriously, so you have to be very careful about what you do say…”. 
*Southern Comfort: Cosmic Jig (session)
*Albert Collins: There's Gotta Be A Change (LP - There's Gotta Be A Change) Tumbleweed
*Egg: Germ Patrol (session)
*Morin And Wilson: Save The Country (7" promo) Sovereign SOV 102 (Only release by this acoustic duo. Produced by John Pearse, best known for his series of folk guitar lessons, “Hold Down A Chord”, first broadcast on BBC TV in the 1960s.)
*Chris Spedding: Listen While I Sing My Song (LP - The Only Lick I Know) Harvest
*Danta: Freeway (session) (JP: “that’s what the Liverpool team found through the Everton defence last Saturday….” Final score was 4-0)
*Ry Cooder: Denomination Blues (LP - Into The Purple Valley) Reprise
*Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Grow Fins (LP - The Spotlight Kid) Reprise
*tape flip during above track
*Southern Comfort: Old Rudd (session)
*Egg: Wring Out The Ground Loosely Now (session)
*Brinsley Schwarz: Egypt (LP - Silver Pistol) United Artists
*Says that last week he “deserted the Boot Boys and the people at East Sheen” to go up to Sunderland and see the Faces live 
*Faces: Had Me A Real Good Time (single) Warner Brothers
*news
*Little Sister: Stanga (single) Stone Flower
*Danta: Stormsong (session)
*"Derek Taylor and I were talking about the Night Assemblies Bill this afternoon..."
*Woods Band: Over The Bar (LP - The Woods Band) Greenwich Gramophone Company
*Medicine Head: In Your Eyes (LP - Dark Side Of The Moon) Dandelion
*Southern Comfort: Lilly Brown (session)
*Humble Pie: The Fixer (LP - Smokin') A&M
*Egg: Enneagram (session)
*Donovan: Guinevere (LP - Sunshine Superman) Pye (JP: "And if you were listening to that on VHF it may have sounded like a much-played record…”)
*Danta: Mau Mau (session)
*Southern Comfort: Harlem Girl (session)
*Led Zeppelin: Hey, Hey, What Can I Do (Compilation LP - The New Age Of Atlantic) Atlantic (previously nreleased in UK; was  B-side of American single “Immigrant Song”)
*Show ends with plugs from Peel for other Sounds Of The 70s shows; Bob Harris and Alan Black’s review programme tomorrow, Pete Drummond on Thursday and Friday Night Is Boogie Night
*Midnight news; full bulletin with Ray Moore. Then, “This is Tuesday Night Ride. Think of it as a soporific” says presenter Peter Latham in his intro. Tape ends with opening bars of "Just One Of Those Things"
== File ==
;Name
*J P Top Gear 07 March 1972 complete.mp3
;Length
*2:03:38
;Other
*Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation
;Available
*Mooo
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