Did Peel ever play Tom Waits?

saipanda saipanda@...
Mon Nov 24 15:59:17 CET 2008


There's some Mothers of Invention ones on the Wiki as well from the Perfumed Garden 
days. Guess Peel went off him a bit after that.

Cheers,

Steve W

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Jimmy Stepek <jimmystep@...> wrote:
>
> From the wiki;
> 
> 14 February 1979
> *A relatively rare play for Frank Zappa. Peel describes the track as "a bit dreary". *[[Frank 
Zappa]]: 'Rat Tomago (LP-Sheik Yerbouti)' (CBS) 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 21/11/08, lorcan58 <lorcan58@...> wrote:
> 
> > From: lorcan58 <lorcan58@...>
> > Subject: [peel] Re: Did Peel ever play Tom Waits?
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Friday, 21 November, 2008, 9:16 PM
> > A Google search using this search string:
> > 
> > zappa site:avistic.demon.co.uk
> > 
> > reveals two Zappa plays on 30 September 1998. Springsteen
> > and Waits 
> > are harder to spot using this technique because
> > Kershaw's playlists 
> > are mixed in and AK was a well-documented fan of both.
> > 
> > Lorcan
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Roger Carruthers
> > <roger.carruthers@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Ditto Frank Zappa ?
> > > I think I posted the question here once before, but
> > apart from some 
> > early
> > > Mothers, eg. in the final Perfumed Garden, I don¹t
> > recall ever 
> > hearing any
> > > Zappa on Peel, which considering his prodigious
> > output, would seem a
> > > deliberate omission ­ possibly because John was fond
> > of Beefheart, 
> > who fell
> > > out with Zappa, or perhaps he couldn¹t quite stomach
> > Zappa¹s 
> > famously
> > > cynical world view?
> > > Can¹t see why he would dislike Tom Waits though, who
> > seems a pretty 
> > genial
> > > sort of fellow from what I¹ve read...
> > > Cheers
> > > Roger
> > 
> > 
> > 
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