[peel] Re: This Sad Day

[Nigel U]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "troche2255" <troche@...>
To: <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:25 AM
Subject: [peel] Re: This Sad Day


>
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Strong" <robstrong@b...>
> wrote:
>> From: "troche2255" <troche@m...>
>>
>> > Now we are on our own.
>>
>> Tom,
>> I've picked one brief comment from your post, because it was
> the only thing
>> that jarred with me.
>>
> I
>> really don't think we're on our own at all.
>>
>> Rob
>
>
> Thank you Rob. What I mean, and meant, is that we have had
> this fantastic amazing luxury of having a person listen to all the
> great music AND all the dreck that comes out each week. Then
> he'd make wonderfully knowledgeable and wise choices for us,
> and present it in a tight two hour package. Week after week, year
> after year.
>
> I saw him put these shows together. There was so much of
> lame stuff to wade through and discard - so many copy-cat
> releases of some sound/trend sound from four months back that
> sounded fine to me but he had already moved on in search of
> something new.
>
> He could spend a six hour listening session putting together 2
> hours of killer stuff. Who else bothered? Who else will bother
> tomorrow?
>
> I have lived through enough eras to know that there will always
> be those who grow older and "act their age" and announce that
> all the music that is out right now is crap. Well bullocks to that.
> What we all know here is that there ALWAYS was (and is) good
> music out there.... but that it is rarely handed to you; you have to
> go out and find it.
>
> For 35 years, show after show, John was among the very few
> who generously handed it to us as if to say, "Here, my gift, I
> sorted all this out and I hope you like it."
>
> Or to quote his exact intro on his very best new discoveries "I
> think you're going to like this..." and that's when you knew hoo
> boy here comes something great.
>
> And now that is over. We are not completely on our own now,
> right. But the next new obscure gem of a new band just became
> a lot harder to come by without digging it up ourselves.
>
>
>
>
> tom
>
>
>


We still have the Radcliffes and Lamacqs of this world, but they walk in the 
shadow of the master. The joy of Peelie was that he'd turn up so many songs 
that you didn't know you'd like.


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