[peel] Re: Did Peel ever play Tom Waits?

[Thomas Blatchford]

i particularly liked when a listener wrote into Radio 1 during the Peel tributes four years ago saying how fond he was of recalling John play a Springsteen track - possibly an exclusive - and Peelie's assessment of it as soon as it finished was to call it "powerfully average".

thomas




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From: Steve <so_it_goes_2512@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2008 3:53:21
Subject: [peel] Re: Did Peel ever play Tom Waits?


Dear Robert

Nice one, don't know about 'sweet'!, but it certainly sounds like
John. JP's dislike of Springsteen is well-documented (his diary refers
to Jon Landau's review stating that Springsteen was the future of
rock'n'roll: after seeing him in concert, Peel concluded that he was
'more a summary of its past'.) And yet...Ken notes that on the 5 and 6
June 1978, he played several tracks from 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town'.

Best wishes
Steve (so.it.goes. 2512)

--- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "ROBERT HALL" <1bob_hall@. ..> wrote:
>
> I seem to remember a girl writing into the show asking Peel's advice
about a boy she liked, who was a Waits and a Springsteen fan. His
answer was short and sweet 'ditch him'.
>