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clueless · Post by **clueless** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:57 pm

nuffink wrote:
Doug Nelson wrote:No disrespect, but I've never heard of him.
Another DJ (Andy Kershaw) tonight said that Peel was the most important figure ever in British popular music. He explicitly included Lennon and Macca in this.
It's a bold statement, but probably true.

It's interesting you should say that.

Because I've been comparing today to the night I heard Lennon had been shot, when I was 9 - and I'd loved the Beatles since I'd first been conscious of music - but this has affected me more. I suppose because Lennon was a popstar "thing" whereas Peely was, as well as everything else, just an exemplary bloke.

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:58 pm

What is going to happen to the playing of music on the radio?

Are we going to end up with pseudo-cool know-nothings like Zane Lowe and Steve Lamaque thinking that they are his natuaral heirs?

The guy was music incarnate, and taught me that genres mean nothing and that there is no such thing as "cool" music only music that you like.

Just as Alan Freed exposed Rock n Roll to the world Peel showed that there was more to pop music that the rubbish in the charts, and that it can be a great tune even if it sells only two copies.

music wont be the same again

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:13 pm

I've been thinking about this since I heard the news.

I nominate Andy Kershaw - god help us if Lamacque or Lowe get anywhere near the job

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:26 pm

give mark and lard their late slot back ...

... they WERE close ...

slainte

rob

Barbed Wire Kiss · Post by **Barbed Wire Kiss** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:28 pm

I don't think he can be replaced, because he was just being, well, him.

Ok, I have to stop now, before I start crying again.

steveholt · Post by **steveholt** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:29 pm

I have rewritten this post many times now and I still can't find the right words. It's like losing a best friend who I never met.

Steve

sid · Post by **sid** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:29 pm

nobody comes close.

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:33 pm

sid wrote:nobody comes close.

no ... but SOMEONE needs to keep pushing GOOD new music ...

slainte

rob

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:38 pm

pHz wrote:give mark and lard their late slot back ...

... they WERE close ...

slainte rob

True, and funny as well.

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:41 pm

pHz wrote:give mark and lard their late slot back ...

... they WERE close ...

slainte rob

I think that's as close as you'll get actually

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:43 pm

bloody hell ...

... did i say something sensible ?!?

slainte

rob

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:46 pm

Yeah, Andy Kershaws good but he's almost exclusively country and guitar influenced.
Peel played that and much more besides.

Mark and Lard were ruined by moving them to daytime imo.
Closer than Kershaw in musical diversity anyway.

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:49 pm

pHz wrote:
sid wrote:nobody comes close.
no ... but SOMEONE needs to keep pushing GOOD new music ...

slainte rob

Somebody HAS to push good music onto the public.

I don't want alternative music to be turned into corporate chart fodder

Gargoyle · Post by **Gargoyle** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:59 pm

I think the best compliment you can give Peely is that I don't think many people switched stations or switched off when they heard music on his show that they didn't immediately like. You always wanted to keep listening. For the stories, for the interludes, the intelligent commentary and that very dry humour.

I must have sat through many many Bhundu Boys and similar songs in the 80s and early 90s that I really didn't connect with at all. But, I didn't give a monkeys. I also was treated to Joy Division, The Chameleons, Siouxsie, The Fall, The Smiths, Head of David, God Flesh, Napalm Death, and so many others. And you stayed tuned for the pearls of music that touched you and for his pearls of wisdom or humour.

He knew that for every person that raised their eyebrows in bewilderment at a track he was playing, there'd be someone else really liking it and intending to go out and find out more.

John Peel was the person you wished you'd bump into sometime in a pub or in the street. The person you really wished you had nearby to you, to chat with about life and music.

Thanks for the tunes, the wit and the integrity, Peely

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:04 pm

Now you feel it.
Now you feel it.

11pm and - I'm - not listening to John Peel.

But they are playing his original theme tune!

1st track in the tribute programme?
The Fall of course!

Fuckin weird this is, though.

John Peel RIP.