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Jimi Hendrix, The Alan Price Set, The Move, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, The Kinks – Top Of The Pops – December 29, 1967 – BBC Transcription Service – Ending up the week with a completely classic show for a lot of reasons, not the least being Jimi Hendrix and what...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Transcription Service – Top Of The Pops – September 1, 1967 – BBC Radio One of the things that’s often overlooked, when it comes to the History of Rock n’ Roll is how some musical genres, though highly influential, didn’t...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Dando Shaft in session on Top Of The Pops – circa August, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 Admittedly, Dando Shaft were a band most people on this side of the Atlantic have never heard of, and a band only together for...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – B.B. Blunder in Session for Top Of The Pops – 1970 – BBC Radio 1 As promised a few days ago after running Blossom Toes, here is the next logical step – B.B. Blunder came about as Blossom Toes ceased to...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Temples – Prisms Temples have been getting an amazing amount of good word-of-mouth the past few months. They are eagerly anticipated during the batch of upcoming Festivals this Spring and Summer. They have already been pegged by several blogs, newspapers and The...
A Little goes a long way: Become a Patron! Continuing the perennial favorites tonight with a session recorded by The Kinks for the BBC’s Top Of The Pops program in December, 1964. Always one of the more adventuresome and original of the initial British Invasion bands of the early 60s,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 1968-September – Family You absolutely could never mistake the voice of Family’s Roger Chapman for anyone else. No other singer sounded anything like him. The American press wasn’t all that keen on this distinctive vocal-chord adventure. Reviews were sometimes unkind. But the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: T. Rex In Session – 1970 Probably one of the more eclectic entries in the Encyclopedia of Glam, Marc Bolan and T. Rex. Begun in the late 1960’s as a quasi-hippie/folk duo known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, they morphed into T. Rex in...
