Message from discussion UMRA Music Club: Bob Pegg

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From: Stephen <stephenbow...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: UMRA Music Club: Bob Pegg
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:37:26 +0100
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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.