Barry Andrews is listed as having still been in the band at the time of this John Peel Session. Sorry if the information is incorrect. Blame the BBC. :)
Wrong. Barry Andrews left after their first US tour in late '78, almost a year before this Peel session was recorded. Any keyboard stuff you hear on any of these tracks was played by Dave Gregory, who most certainly was present for the entire session :P The weird "synth bell" keyboard solos on Ten Feet Tall always seemed like a questionable creative decision, to say the least, but I suppose the song was undergoing some changes at this time, as it sounds like a transitional version, somewhere between the original acoustic version on Drums 'n' Wires (featuring Dave Gregory playing the guitar solos, and yes, it had already been recorded, at the time of this peel session), and the harder, faster version recorded for their debut single in north america (Andy Partridge played the guitar solos on this version) which they went on to use as the blueprint for live performances of the song.
@@andreaprodan5616 I found that in the discography section on Dave's own Guitargonauts site. On TFT he refers to 'guitar solo (2nd half) so I assumed the first half must be Andy!
+Bastardblubber barman That's because it's not. It's Andy Partridge of Xtc impersonating John Peel and introducing the show. It went out 'live' like that.
OHHH! The solo on Real by Reel! God save the XTCs!
what a wonderful version of Scissor Man.
Fckn love scissor man, man.
Agreed. "Bangin'" as they say
yep ...this was drums and wires....sadly no bARRY, BUT happily dave....our dave :-)
Terry’s drumming on “RGTG” are fantastic!
By far the most-underrated band ever, not least cos they never toured again after Partridge had a breakdown on stage and suffer stage fright.
Barry Andrews had left the band and been replaced by Dave Gregory by the time this was recorded, hence the more guitar driven sound.
Barry Andrews is listed as having still been in the band at the time of this John Peel Session. Sorry if the information is incorrect. Blame the BBC. :)
@@rockulabacchus3786 Yep. Barry left in January, right?
Seems like Dave Gregory is absent...at least in Ten Feet Tall!
Just before Barry Andrews left and Dave Gregory joined that's why... ;)
Wrong. Barry Andrews left after their first US tour in late '78, almost a year before this Peel session was recorded. Any keyboard stuff you hear on any of these tracks was played by Dave Gregory, who most certainly was present for the entire session :P
The weird "synth bell" keyboard solos on Ten Feet Tall always seemed like a questionable creative decision, to say the least, but I suppose the song was undergoing some changes at this time, as it sounds like a transitional version, somewhere between the original acoustic version on Drums 'n' Wires (featuring Dave Gregory playing the guitar solos, and yes, it had already been recorded, at the time of this peel session), and the harder, faster version recorded for their debut single in north america (Andy Partridge played the guitar solos on this version) which they went on to use as the blueprint for live performances of the song.
The album version of Ten Feet Tall has the guitar solo split in two, the first half played by Andy, the second by Dave.
@@tigerlight430 thanks! I thought that wss only the case on ' Books are burning'... at the end,
@@andreaprodan5616 I found that in the discography section on Dave's own Guitargonauts site. On TFT he refers to 'guitar solo (2nd half) so I assumed the first half must be Andy!
The speech at the beginning does not sound like John Peel.
+Bastardblubber barman That's because it's not. It's Andy Partridge of Xtc impersonating John Peel and introducing the show. It went out 'live' like that.
@@rockulabacchus3786 The voice was poor, but pronunciation of things like answer were particularly shocking 🤣 The playing, superb!