Other Rock Radio Groups/Blogs

[Steve]

Dear Adam

How dare you!! Me, read the Grauniad??? I'll hef yow now, ets nat
troo. I wall bay in tach wuth mi silositeer. ;-))

Birst woshes
Steff [Tinoige Cacks]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "vinpinman" <vinpinman@...> wrote:
>
> A lot of Peel bloggers are English teachers living abroad who read 
> the Guardian online.
> 
> --- 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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