Other Rock Radio Groups/Blogs

[thebarguest]

> I've a feeling it's largely to do with the music.

Yeah, but you can bet your sweet one that fans of Yes, ELP,
Black Sabbath, Al Stewart, Tull, BJH etc would say that they
love their music more than life itself ........




--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "theallnewadventuresofspp" 
<theallnewadventuresofspp@...> wrote:
>
> I've a feeling it's largely to do with the music. In a similar vein 
> I'm sure there may be some amongst us (or I may be the only one 
> confessing this...) to 
> religiously taping the Indie chart rundowns on the chart show, and 
> whilst there's a large number of these circulating on Youtube 
> nowadays, there doesn't appear to be the same devotion from the 
> Dance or Rock Chart fans...
> ...just a thought!
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Eddie Duffy <eddie.duffy@> wrote:
> >
> > Yes mate, I've occasionally wondered that myself. I know that 
> there are 
> > various 'aircheck' collections out there, and tape trading of 
> other 
> > radio shows does take place. And every trader will naturally have 
> his 
> > own favourite DJs. But it seems that, in the UK at least, more 
> people 
> > taped Peel, and kept the tapes, than for just about any other DJ. 
> I 
> > seriously think that there's a thesis waiting to be written on 
> this 
> > subject (a good one for one of Ken's students, perhaps), because 
I 
> don't 
> > think there's an easy answer. Maybe something about Peel's search 
> for 
> > the different, elusive and wonderful new sounds tended to attract 
> the 
> > type of obsessive personalities (99.9% male) who would be just 
the 
> sort 
> > to squirrel away their own recordings of the man's work. Maybe 
his 
> shy, 
> > blokey decency hit a chord with disaffected bookish youth that 
> continued 
> > to resonate with many of them through adulthood. But maybe 
there's 
> 1001 
> > equally plausible theories.
> > 
> > The only comparable UK DJ I can think of (as regards collectors) 
> is 
> > probably Everett, but I'd hazard a guess that there are probably 
> quite a 
> > few Alan Freed and Wolfman Jack collectors across the Pond.
> > 
> > Eddie.
> > 
> > thebarguest wrote:
> > >
> > > Itsmeagain (whatevershebringswesing) !
> > >
> > > I was just thinking, why there don't seem to be any groups
> > > like this (or blogs) discussing and sharing old rock radio
> > > from the likes of Vance and Freeman .......
> > >
> > > Maybe its because 'generally' Peel is mainly associated with
> > > new-wave/indie music and those followers were/are 'generally' 
> more
> > > middle-class (and better educated) and therefore more likely to
> > > make blogs etc. than your average Status Quo or Deep Purple 
> fan...
> > >
> > > ps just listening to this 400Box show imagining I'm lying in a
> > > tent in the Lake Distict, unable to get FM on my radio, high on
> > > several pints of real ale and perhaps a toke or 5 ! Try it ....
> > >
> > > 
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