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UMRA Music Club: Bob Pegg
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From: "Steve Hague" <steve.hag...@virgin.net>
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Subject: Re: UMRA Music Club: Bob Pegg
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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:42:24 GMT
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"Stephen" <stephenbow...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Bob Pegg is a very good storyteller who now lives in Aberdeenshire,
> but whose roots are in the folk rock/acid folk music of the early
> 1970s. Some of his stuff is available on his MySpace page
> <http://www.myspace.com/catsback> and there are a few early tracks on
> YouTube, but very little from his best works.
>
> Anyway, Bob Pegg started out with his wife Carole in a Band called Mr
> Fox, who released two albums, one eponymous(1970), the second called
> The Gipsy (1971). These are available as a two album CD called "Join
> us in our Game". From the first album YouTube can supply "The Hanged
> Man" <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS_0I90YayY> and "The Gay
> Goshawk" <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0pMHn4a5Oc&>. The most
> striking track is "Mendle" from the second album (and available on the
> compilation Early Morning Hush, which is worth £2.98 of anybody's
> money for Mellow Candle's "Sheep Season"** and Keith Christmas's
> "Forest and the Shore"***). "Mendle" is a somewhat over-produced epic
> about a cursed "zodiac ring" with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. No video
> available, but there is one for "The House Carpenter", which shows
> them in Acid Folk mood <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eQWPDW5QI0>.
> The other video available from this album is the rather twee "Elvira
> Madigan" <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9LVTRymXm8>
>
> After Mr Fox broke up, and Pegg had recorded a rather forgettable
> album with just Bob and Carole called He Came from the Mountains
> (1971), the really good stuff started to appear.
>
> Pegg teamed up with Nick Strutt to record Bob Pegg & Nick Strutt (1973
> - includes "King Dog", on the MySpace page, and "Kirkstall Forge",
> covered by Baillie), and The Shipbuilder (1974). He then went solo
> with Ancient Maps (1975) and then Bones, recorded in about 1978 but
> not released until 2006. At the same time as he recorded Bones, he
> recorded "Mr Fox the Ripper" (on the MySpace page), which coincided
> with Pegg being visited by the West Yorkshire Police who were in
> search of the Yorkshire Ripper.
>
> Then Pegg moved to Scotland and his most recent album was The Last
> Wolf, from 1996 (several tracks on MySpace).
>
>
>
> * Bruce Michael Baillie singing "Kirkstall Forge"
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlIaqjJkH6s>
>
> ** Mellow Candle, "Sheep Season"
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2S51PUcb6Y>
>
> *** Keith Christmas, "Forest and the Shore"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGeplZiNNwo
> --
> Stephen
>
> Blancmange is a dish best served cold.
Thanks for that. We had the two Mr Fox albums, but lost track of Bob Pegg
after them.
Steve Hague
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