[peel] Re: The sort-of-pointless Marlon Brando search...

[Roger Carruthers]

Can¹t remember my first listen, but think it was probably around Œ75, and I
definitely did the listening under the bed clothes thing at school.
I do know the first shows I taped; it was a series of pre-recorded shows
that Peel made to broadcast whilst he was away on holiday,  each of which
showcased the work of a particular band and it¹s offshoots.
There was Cream, the Stones, Roxy Music and Soft Machine that I can remember
and  I recorded them all onto those ghastly green Boots C120¹s that
invariably snapped after a few plays. The Roxy tape survived the longest, a
good 20 years, though it sounded pretty awful. Sadly I have none of them
now.  
 I also remember recording my first Festive Fifty with my entire family
present, post Christmas dinner, them watching the telly, and me listening to
Peel via headphones. At some point I accidentally nudged the dial and lost
the signal, causing me to let loose a torrent of oaths, before suddenly
remembering where I was! My sisters were more amused than my parents...
Cheers
Roger


On 20/08/2010 03:25, "So It Goes 2512" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:

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> For me, in 1977 hearing him play a shouty punk track in Dutch called 'Half
> Twee' (can anybody remember who this was by?) and saying that it got slagged
> off in the music press, but that he considered it (not surprisingly)
> excellent.
> And then the Wasps live at the Vortex.
> And then the first play of Jilted John on Rabid Records.
> Happy days...
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com <mailto:peel%40yahoogroups.com> , "mr_maudlin"
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>> > Since I discovered the Peel Wiki site last year I've been going through the
>> available shows from 1979-80 hoping that I could pinpoint the time I first
>> started listening to Peel. The compilation tapes I have start in August 1980
>> but I know I was listening before then, albeit intermittently.
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>> > My first recollection of Peel is tuning in as a 15 year old on the
>> recommendation of a school friend and hearing him back announce a track with
>> the words "well that one certainly mentions Marlon Brando..."
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>> > I have to say I was a little confused (and intimidated) by what was going
>> on. Here was this DJ who sounded like no other DJ I'd ever heard, playing an
>> extremely strange selection of tracks, moving from  the UK Subs to Prince Far
>> I to Little Feat without any comment on the seeming (to me) incongruity of
>> playing this stuff side by side.
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>> > I have to admit that I don't think I tuned again for a good few months and
>> have always been a bit embarrassed by the fact.
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>> > Anyway, back to the sort-of-pointless search; by last night I had got to
>> the track listing for 28 June 1979 and low and behold someone had taken the
>> trouble to make a note that JP does an impression of Marlon Brando during the
>> show. Sure enough, after playing Neil Young's Pocahontas , Peely states
>> "surely the only mention in popular song of Marlon Brando...".  I assume what
>> then happened is that listeners wrote in with examples to prove him wrong and
>> these were then played in subsequent programmes; when I first tuned in I must
>> have caught the end of one of those tracks.
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>> > Well, it was a eureka moment for me and I spent the rest of the evening in
>> the warm glow of nostalgia.
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>> > Many thanks to the original recorder, the ripper (that can't be right can
>> it?) and the wiki editor.
>> > Cheers, Mark.
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