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

Stuart Mchugh stuart@...
Tue Oct 28 20:49:10 CET 2008


>

All rush in and correct me if I'm wrong, but did Peel not play a fair  
bit from Nebraska (Springsteen's more acoustic/less bombastic album?)


> 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'.
>>

Stuart Mchugh
stuart@...





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