zuggog
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 26, 2004, 21:00
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A sad day indeed. His services to "proper"music are immeasureable. The Doyen of Djs,this man retained his sense of self throughout his long career, and never succumbed to the snobbery that pervades large parts of the music industry . So many people and bands have benefitted from John Peels uniqueness. This is a major loss.
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Shrimp
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John Ravenscroft
Oct 26, 2004, 21:04
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john pig and family lived in suffolk for a number of years just a few miles down the road from me
john contributed greatly to many charitable concerns and was one of those few characters who became over the years a cherished national institution
i met him in the street in the pub the supermarket at gigs on numerous occasions and he was no different to the john peel we loved never claiming fame always thoughtful always championing just john
a sad sad loss
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Seb
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 26, 2004, 23:17
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Fuck.
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Earl Mallard
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 26, 2004, 23:25
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Steve Lamacq is presenting a tribute in the slot that would have been tonights Peel show.
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Beebon
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 26, 2004, 23:29
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FUCK! indeed......
Got an email from my grilfriend today at about 2pm which simply read "John peel is dead :("
I felt as if it was news about someone i knew... despite the fact i've never listened to many of his shows.... he was just such a dam cool guy and i will really miss him. Home Truths was cool too!
Condolences to his family.
He'll always be remembered!!!!!!!
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Riddley Walker
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 26, 2004, 23:54
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A sad loss, and the only time I've felt genuinely moved -to the verge of tears- by the death someone I've never even met.
I hope John realised how much he was loved and respected for all he had done for music.
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keith a
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 27, 2004, 01:19
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I can think of loads of memories - listening to his show the day Bolan died (probably the first time I heard his show in it's entirity), hearing The Seeds for the first time, The Only Ones first session, the first 3 tracks of Chairs Missing straight after each other, hearing the Teardrops the 1st time (Camera Camera), his 40th birthday show in 1979 and thinking it was cool that someone THAT OLD could like such mad music (and also being pleasantly surprised that he played Band of Gold!), the first Cope session with the drum machine version of Head Hang Low, him playing How Soon Is Now and not mentioning who it was by and thinking it sounds like Moz but it doesn't sound like The Smiths, reading a letter I wrote about how good a Loop
session was, those thrash tracks that lasted less time than it took him to announce the title, hearing lots of great one-off 45's like Road Pizza - Spit (which I never managed to buy), My Pal - God and Heavy Black Noise by Sacred Miracle Cave, all the way through to that last Wire session a couple of years back. And so on...
I listened to Radio 1 as I was driving to Chester this evening, and they were talking about him and playing lots of records he supposedly liked. OK
singles like Teenage Kicks and Ever Fallen In Love sort of sum him up (the latter track was on my very first Peel tape so it made perfect sense to me),
but as much as I like things like Song 2 or Smells Like Teen Spirit, they don't really seem Peel records to me.
I know this was pretty spontaneous, just a few hours after his death was announced, but I just wish that - TK and Ever Fallen apart - it had been
less safe. I wanted them to give him a real tribute - some Beefheart, The Fall, some less obvious hits like Public Image or Rock Lobster, a spot of dub and lots of obscure bands that would never normally be heard at that time of day like that Monkey Power Trio he was raving about last year. And that Temple City Orchestra version of Staying Alive he used to play circa '78/79 that used to crease me up every time I heard it. But then again, he's gonna mean something different to us all.
Keith
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keith a
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Re: John Peel Dead
Oct 27, 2004, 01:26
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Read Paul Morley's tribute.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3956343.stm
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Billy Milk
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Re: plus.....
Oct 27, 2004, 01:27
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it's only just starting to sink in, anybody listening to steve lamaqu?
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keith a
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Re: plus.....
Oct 27, 2004, 01:32
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unusually i'm not listening to anything
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