Tomorrow - BBC Sessions 1967-1968 [A Prof. Stoned Comp 2021/24]
16bit/44.1khz (CD Quality)
01. Revolution
02. Three Jolly Little Dwarfs
03. Colonel Brown
04. 'Pete Drummond & John Peel'
05. Real Life Permanent Dream
06. My White Bicycle
07. Shy Boy
Recording: Maida Vale, Studio 4, London UK; Thursday 21 September 1967 (except Tr 06, see note below)
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 'Top Gear'; Sunday 01 October 1967
Producer: Bev Phillips
Engineer: Pete Ritzema
Note: A pre-FM tape of this first 'Top Gear' episode still exists but does not circulate. There is a MP3 (at 192 kbps) out there that comes from a 90m cassette tape which the late Bernie Andrews copied from his masterreel of the complete aircheck. This source is in pretty good quality but it is incomplete. Tr. 01-02 are from a high quality transfer of 'Top of the tops' transcription disc #152. The piano intro on Tr. 02 is from an off-air source. Tr. 03-05 have been officially released on Shapes & Sounds (Orange & Red Beams From The BBC Archives, 1967-1969) [Top Sounds Records 2011], sourced from the MP3 and horribly mastered. The tracks on this comp were mastered straight from the Andrews MP3 (it's all we have!) with a much better result. Tr 06 appears in excellent quality on Radio Tymes [Top Sounds Records 2011] but is incomplete and also lossy (on the CD itself, yes) with barely any info above 14kHz. I have patched it together with an off-air source so that the song can at least be heard in its entirely. Tr 07 was aired on the initial broadcasts but it appears not to be a unique BBC recording, rather the album version in a mix that seemingly does not differ from the mono version (or am I wrong?). For that reason it isn't listed on the BBC session log. The source here has been established to originate from its second aircheck on 12 November 1967, which was 4 months before the album came out...
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01. Blow-Up
02. 'John Peel'
03. Strawberry Fields Forever
04. 'John Peel'
05. Now Your Time Has Come
06. 'John Peel'
07. The Incredible Journey Of Timothy Chase
08. 'John Peel'
Recording: Maida Vale, Studio 4, London UK; Wednesday 31 January 1968
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 'Top Gear'; Sunday 04 February 1968
Producer: Bev Phillips
Engineer: Pete Ritzema
Note: This session is not in the BBC archives anymore. It has survived only on two fairly lo-fi off-air recordings. 'Blow-Up' stems from the band's earlier days when they were called 'The In-Crowd' and was intended for the 1966 film. It's the only track from this session that has been released officially on 'Shapes & Sounds (Orange & Red Beams From The BBC Archives, 1967-1969)' [Top Sounds Records 2011]. I was offered a slightly better new source in 2024 which comes from the Yes-related bootleg "Sons of Olias" (as does 'Shy Boy' from the other session), and where necessary I patched it together with the old one, which has all the Peel dialogue intact. This new remaster has better clarity and also runs closer to accurate speed now (I made an error of judgement with the old master). However, it still is no substitute for a genuine pre-fm source.
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Total time: 32m24s
All tracks are Mono
Research for this Comp: Prof Stoned/Hallucalation
Mastering: Prof Stoned
Special thanks: Syd & Jacopo (for the upgrades).
v1.0: 12-09-2021
v1.1: 13-09-2021 ('Colonel Brown' & 'Real Life Permanent Dream' replaced with better quality sources)
v1.2: 06-10-2021 ('Revolution' & 'Three Jolly Little Dwarfs' replaced with better quality sources, rest of 1st session newly remastered for better overall coherence)
v2.0: 20-05-2024 (everything newly remastered, 'Shy Boy' added, '68 session mostly from new source)
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