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Post by transbot on Oct 26, 2004 18:28:26 GMT
A friend texted me earlier today - John Peel has died.
As the guy who's had a hand in introducing me to so much life-changing music since adolescence - including some of my now-favourite bands - I think it's only right that I use this oppurtunity to give him nuff respec'.
I remember us listening to his show on high school nights, out of our heads, hearing loads of brilliant obscure underground sounds, as well as my first teenage experience of Joy Division, Pixies, Radiohead, Velvet Underground and Lou Reed, Stooges, My Bloody Valentine, Kraftwerk, Sonic Youth... the list really is endless - and that's just the more famous groups! So many great demos debuted, so many unsigned acts given a stage...
I haven't tuned in for a while now, but I will tonight.
Radio 1, FM: 97.6 - 99.8 MHz, 11pm GMT
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Post by anagrama on Oct 26, 2004 22:08:12 GMT
Truly, truly gutted. All the soulless fucking chancers in this world, and the former Greatest Living Englishman is cut short at 65. I was literally stunned when I heard this afternoon, and there's tears in my eyes again typing this now. He had a simply unparalled influence on music, those who made it and those who listened over the last 40 years and his passing leaves a hole that simply cannot ever be filled. The final bastion of anything truly 'alternative' on mainstream radio is gone, leaving only the segregated, compartmentalised and easily packaged & digested pap that pervades everywhere else. I paid my respects listening to 'Atmosphere' (*) this evening and cursing at the injustice of the world. It's a black day.
I bet Bruno fucking Brooks makes it to 103. Bastards.
*Festive Fifty #1 every year from 1979 until 1984 [when they changed the rules so that only songs from the last year could count]
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Post by transbot on Oct 27, 2004 1:38:23 GMT
You know, I've been slowly pacing up and down this lonely room that I live in, with all these familiar Sessions coming through the radio, a glass or eight of whisky, and I've been thinking about my time. When we were 16, one of the things that was just going to happen was that after submitting our Ground-Breaking Demo, we'd meet him and do the Greatest Peel Session Of All Time - us three. Since that time, relationships have strained to breaking, people have moved on and far away - and now the man central to a fantasy we deemed entirely possible, is gone. Beyond the (deserved) mass tributes, on a very personal level, it is the official end of a dream. Yeah, I feel gutted - gutted like a fish. I fear a week of The Smiths' deepest & darkest now lies ahead for me. Without Peel's Festive Fifty this year (an annual tradition of mine, too ), and for a lot of other reasons, this Christmas is gona be sad as fu ck. Thanks for sharing your thoughts ana, and thanks also to BBC Radio 1 for a really excellent and moving tribute.
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Post by Stan on Oct 27, 2004 15:33:16 GMT
Kraftwerk. Must listen to Autobahn all day. Metal on Metal. Need it.
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Post by retro slippy on Nov 6, 2004 16:34:29 GMT
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Post by pineapplehead4510 on Nov 18, 2004 2:34:29 GMT
I don't know if i have heard of this guy, maybe a picture will refresh my memory, or when I get home I will try Google.
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Post by Insomniac86 on Nov 20, 2004 4:59:35 GMT
I like the work he did with Nirvana. They recorded a bunch of covers.
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Post by transbot on Nov 21, 2004 12:51:44 GMT
aha yeah, Immigrant Song - classic. Hope the sessions live on somehow, in the same spirit.
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