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| - Such a release found its way into Peel's hands and he called King one morning to arrange a session and to discuss the Fall. It debuted over the so-called 'Woodstock weekend' in August 1994, and the band used their studio time to record cover versions of songs made popular by groups who appeared at that festival in 1969 (namely, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joe Cocker, Sly & The Family Stone, Joan Baez and a 'Woodstock medley'). At the time, Peel reported that they were in the (slow) process of recording an entire LP of such songs, to be released on the Planet label. It would seem that this project never came to fruition: thus, their (still unreleased and never repeated) session, recorded in their own studio stands as the chief proof of their endeavours. The songs use extracts from the original c
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| - Such a release found its way into Peel's hands and he called King one morning to arrange a session and to discuss the Fall. It debuted over the so-called 'Woodstock weekend' in August 1994, and the band used their studio time to record cover versions of songs made popular by groups who appeared at that festival in 1969 (namely, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joe Cocker, Sly & The Family Stone, Joan Baez and a 'Woodstock medley'). At the time, Peel reported that they were in the (slow) process of recording an entire LP of such songs, to be released on the Planet label. It would seem that this project never came to fruition: thus, their (still unreleased and never repeated) session, recorded in their own studio stands as the chief proof of their endeavours. The songs use extracts from the original concert recordings, but are presented in a low-fi screeching manner with distorted vocals. (The final medley eschews any performance by the group in favour of a sound collage.) King relates that he was too nervous to listen to the show live, but a friend recorded it for him and passed the tape to Revolver. This seems to have been the sum total of the band's fifteen minutes of fame. Peel claimed the following year, after meeting the band at Bristol Sound City, that the Woodstock project was finished [2], but the only recorded evidence was an album of excerpts released jointly with Fat Paul on Swarffinger Records in 1996.
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