Hawk Logs Master Series?

[Doug Pearson]

On Fri, 18 May 2001 21:21:54 +0100, Colin Allen
<Colin at CALLEN18.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote:
>The Mid80s BBC stuff has not been released because the BBC does not tend to
>release material:(.

The BBC THEMSELVES, yes, do not release material (to the public - I'm not
counting transcription/syndication discs).  But for the last 10-15 years,
they've LICENSED lots and lots of it for release by other labels.  These
days, there's BBC albums by EVERYONE - Beatles, Hendrix, Zeppelin, the Who,
the Kinks (and numerous lesser bands ... I have been enjoying one by the
Move quite a bit recently), all the Radio 1 In Concerts that came out on
Windsong (including Hawkwind), the tons of Peel Session albums/EPs on
Strange Fruit.

>Only a very small percentage of the material recorded
>by the BBC has ever been released and I have been told that much of it no
>longer exists.

Again, it's well-known that the BBC didn't take care of their archives in
the 60's (I recently picked up the Kinks BBC sessions double-CD, which
mentions that most of the surviving 60's material comes from shows that
were syndicated abroad), but by the 80's, they had realized the potential
future values of their archives, and have since then done (AFAIK) a pretty
good job of saving things.  And even in the 60's, stuff was being
preserved.  I remember seeing bootleg sets in the early-80's with something
like 10 or 12 LP's worth of Beatles sessions, which would have ALL come
from the early 60's.

Between 'Text of Festival' and 'Spacerock from London'/'Radio 1 In
Concert', almost all of Hawkwind's (surviving?) 70's BBC sessions have been
released, correct?  And all of the 80's sessions are certainly in the hands
of tape collectors (although some of those may not actually be "BBC"
sessions?).

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com