Session Notes: Pete Atkin -
A King At Nightfall

All sessions at Morgan Studios, High Road, Willesden, London NW10
Producer Don Paul for One Way Productions
Engineer Roger Quested
Arranged and conducted by Pete Atkin
15 May 1972, 1400-1800
PA (ac gtr, voc); Chris Spedding (el gtr); Mike Moran (kbds); Herbie Flowers (bs gtr);
Barry Morgan (dms); Ray Cooper (perc)
        BETWEEN US THERE IS NOTHING
        THE WRISTWATCH FOR A DRUMMER
        ALL THE DEAD WERE STRANGERS
16 May 1972, 1400-1800
PA (ac gtr, voc); Chris Spedding (el gtr); Mike Moran (kbds); Herbie Flowers (bs gtr);
Barry Morgan (dms); Ray Cooper (perc)
        SCREEN-FREAK
        APPARITION IN LAS VEGAS
        THE DOUBLE AGENT
18 May 1972, 1400-1700 (see also Session photos by Sophie Baker)
PA (ac gtr, voc); Chris Spedding (el gtr); Mike Moran (kbds); Herbie Flowers (bs gtr);
Barry Morgan (dms); Ray Cooper (perc)
        CARNATIONS ON THE ROOF
        A KING AT NIGHTFALL
        THE LAST HILL THAT SHOWS YOU ALL THE VALLEY
19 May 1972, 1400-1800
PA (ac gtr, pno, voc); Chris Spedding (el gtr); Herbie Flowers (bs gtr);
Barry Morgan (dms); Ray Cooper (perc)
        THE HYPERTENSION KID
        THIRTY YEAR MAN
12 July 1972, 1400-1800
o/d strings (4 vlns (incl Howard Ball), 2 cellos (incl Len Stein))
        SCREEN-FREAK
        CARNATIONS ON THE ROOF
o/d PA (ac gtr)
        CARNATIONS ON THE ROOF
        THE DOUBLE AGENT
        BETWEEN US THERE IS NOTHING
14 July 1972, 1400-1800
o/d horns: 
Clive Baker (tpt, flglhn) 1,2,3,4,6
Ralph Izen (tpt) 1,2,3,4
Nat Peck (tbn) 1,2,3
Bill Geldard (bs tbn) 1,2,3 (?)
Dick Hart (tuba) 1,5
Alan Wakeman (ten sax, fl) 1,2,3,4,5
Bob Sydor (ten sax, clar) 1,2,3,4,5
Mick Page (bar sax, clar) 1,2,3,4,5
        A KING AT NIGHTFALL (1)
        THE LAST HILL THAT SHOWS YOU ALL THE VALLEY (2)
        APPARITION IN LAS VEGAS (3)
        THE WRISTWATCH FOR A DRUMMER (4)
        SCREEN-FREAK (5)
        THE DOUBLE AGENT (6)
19 July 1972
o/d PA (ac gtr)
        THE WRISTWATCH FOR A DRUMMER
        ALL THE DEAD WERE STRANGERS
        APPARITION IN LAS VEGAS
o/d PA (vocs)
        CARNATIONS ON THE ROOF (harmony)
        A KING AT NIGHTFALL
        THE LAST HILL THAT SHOWS YOU ALL THE VALLEY
21 July 1972
o/d PA (vocs)
        THE LAST HILL THAT SHOWS YOU ALL THE VALLEY (harmony)
        THE HYPERTENSION KID (not used)
        BETWEEN US THERE IS NOTHING
        THE WRISTWATCH FOR A DRUMMER (end)
        ALL THE DEAD WERE STRANGERS
o/d PA (ac gtr)
        SCREEN-FREAK
26 July 1972
mix
        BETWEEN US THERE IS NOTHING
        CARNATIONS ON THE ROOF
1 Aug 1972, 1000-1300, 1400-1700
mix
        ALL THE DEAD WERE STRANGERS
        THE WRISTWATCH FOR A DRUMMER
8 Aug 1972, 1000-1300, 1400-1700
mix
        THE LAST HILL THAT SHOWS YOU ALL THE VALLEY
        THE DOUBLE AGENT
        THE HYPERTENSION KID
o/d PA (vocs)
        SCREEN-FREAK
        APPARITION IN LAS VEGAS
mix
        BETWEEN US THERE IS NOTHING
10 Aug 1972, 1400-1700
o/d PA (vocs)
        SCREEN-FREAK (harmony)
mix
        SCREEN-FREAK
        APPARITION IN LAS VEGAS
        THIRTY YEAR MAN
final mix

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