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Tuesday April 5, 2005 6:00-8:00pm (BBC Session 2)

Rollin' And Tumblin' - Cream [recorded for BBC 11/8/66]
For Your Love - The Yardbirds [recorded for BBC 3/20/65]
Radio One - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 12/15/67]
Wait Until Tomorrow - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 12/15/67]
Day Tripper - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 12/15/67]
Spanish Castle Magic - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 12/15/67]
Jammin' - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 10/6/67]
I Was Made To Love Her - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 10/6/67]
Rattlesnake Shake - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 4/19/70]
Sandy Mary - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 5/23/70]
Believe My Time Ain't Long - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 11/12/67]
I Feel Free - Cream [recorded for BBC 1/10/67]
Dust My Broom - The Yardbirds [recorded for BBC 2/??/66]
The Sun Is Shining - The Yardbirds [recorded for BBC 5/6/66]
Sweet Home Chicago - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 11/26/68]
Baby Please Set A Date - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 11/12/67]
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 10/17/67]
Hoochie Coochie Man - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 10/17/67]
Drivin' South - Jimi Hendrix Experience [recorded for BBC 10/17/67]
Strange Brew - Cream [recorded for BBC 5/30/67]
Tales Of Brave Ullyses - Cream [recorded for BBC 5/30/67]
Oh Well - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 10/12/69]
Man of the World - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 6/15/69]
Evil Hearted You - The Yardbirds [recorded for BBC 8/??/65]
Still I'm Sad - The Yardbirds [recorded for BBC 8/??/65]
Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream [recorded for BBC 10/24/67]
Outside Woman Blues - Cream [recorded for BBC 10/24/67]
Tallahassee Lassie - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 5/11/69]
Hang On To A Dream - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 11/5/68]
Linda - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [broadcast on BBC 6/15/69]
Baby, Scratch My Back - The Yardbirds [recorded for BBC 5/6/66]
Over Under Sideways Down - The Yardbirds [recorded for BBC 5/6/66]
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream [recorded for BBC 10/24/67]


Notes: The continuation and conclusion of my BBC Sessions theme. I actually had some tracks left over after the end of this show that I had wanted to play - there was just that much excellent material on those BBC Sessions recordings. I wanted to finish with Jimi Hendrix on the Lulu show, where the band refuses to play Hey Joe and instead switches over and starts playing Sunshine Of Your Love in tribute to Cream, but gets cut off a minute or so into the song (it seemed like a fitting place to end the show), but I didn't get that far, so I ended up having to finish on "let the Cream bring a little sunshine into your life". Oh well. Gotta thank the BBC for some fresh rock recordings, even if the conditions were forced by pirate-related retaliation. I did a little research on the history of the BBC and specifically, Radio One, and offered up my findings to give this episode of my show a little history. All in all, I think it turned out great.

I remember mentioning about why the BBC would get bands to record live tracks to be played on air. The reasoning is: they believed that playing records on the radio would discourage people from buying the records (why buy it when you can listen to it for free on the radio?), and so the artists' guild restricted the amount of time per day or week or whatever that a station could play records (they called it 'needle time'). In order to get around this restriction, and to keep up with the pirate stations that were broadcasting off the shore in international waters, the BBC hired the artists to come in and record songs specifically to be played on air, so they wouldn't need to play the record and kill precious needle time. So you had bands comin' in and recording for BBC, and this offered a very interesting opportunity for bands to maybe pursue a new direction in a song, or try a new technique, or even jam with other artists that were around the studio at the time. It was really a very casual atmosphere, and it promoted some really great recordings from some really great bands, and that's what this show was all about.

I remember saving the more bluesy tracks by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac for my blues show that was scheduled for the following week.