[peel] Re: Reconstructionism

[rockerq@...]

> <<The playground chat at my school (I was 11 in 1972) was very much centred 
> around the bands on TOTP. The Bowie/Roxy/Sparks/Mott/Cockney Rebel art 
> school glam pop stuff was a genuine alternative to prog longhairs and their drum 
> solos, as well as being a way ahead when glam veered into self-parody>>
> 

I can concur with this - I was 12 in 1972 - the first LP I bought was 
"Electric Warrior" in 1971, and along with T-Rex the above 5 bands were pretty much 
my favourites - also liked "classic" rock like Deep Purple (Made In Japan), 
Pink Floyd (Dark Side), Hawkwind (Space Ritual) - and some 60s stuff like The 
Doors, Stones, ? Mark & The Mysterions - had never heard a record by The Velvet 
Underground, The Stooges, or even Black Sabbath apart from "Paranoid" - But 
knew I hated the boring pretentious crap my elders and betters would tell me was 
"Real" music - ELP; Genesis; Wishbone Ash; Yes; Rush; The Enid; Anything with 
a sleeve by Roger Dean; and even Led Zeppelin - I had the piss taken out of me 
for years after I fell asleep during a showing of "The song remains the same" 
at my local fleapit.

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the punk revolution to (some) 
kids of my age - something of a niche market, maybe - but 1976 was our 1967 - 
hearing the first records by Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Ramones - and finally 
a UK punk band - The Damned - on Peel's show, was literally the most important 
thing that ever happened to us - which is why hearing these 1978 shows from 
400 box has been like golddust - any shows from 1976 / 1977 are for me at least 
the holy grail right now! Not so much bothered by the Festive 50s, as those 
records are already familiar, but hearing, say, the first time the spiral 
scratch, or the Desperate Bicycles was played, would be to re-live the golden age!

Cheers!

Rocker

PS just a reminder that of course for the rest of january you can still hear 
the 2008 Festive 50 at least once a day on www.dandelionradio.com - but we 
play new music most of the time!
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