[peel] Re: Most surprising records played

[steve lippert]

LOL. I'm guessing John played Xerox, Car Trouble etc too? Am I right in thinking 
there was even an Adam and the Antz peel session?



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From: steve <saipanda@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 6 September, 2010 19:16:12
Subject: [peel] Re: Most surprising records played

  
PS. Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@...> wrote:
>
> Good one, Steve. Wiki pages on Patti Smith and Bruce S (a FF entrant in 1976?) 
>would be most excellent.
> 
> On the subject of Adam & The Ants, there's a quote of Peel from Peeling Back 
>The Years (show 4) that I can't help a strong twinge of sympathy with 
>(http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Peeling_Back_The_Years_4_%28Transcript%29):
> 
> "I liked the diddlee-qua-qua. I was always very keen on that."
> 
> (Stands back for volley of shoes and eggs....)
> 
> SW 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "So It Goes 2512" <so_it_goes_2512@> wrote:
> >
> > No Steve, your memory is not at fault:
> > 
> > http://johnpeeldotnet.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/no-did-he-really/
> > 
> > from the time when I had a go at writing a couple of pieces for 
johnpeel.net.
> > Nice idea for a thread, Stuart, and thanks for your appreciation of the 
>uploads and my piece about Tom Waits. You've actually second-guessed me, as I 
>was mulling over writing pieces about Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen. Funnily 
>enough, Springsteen did get a bit of airplay, despite John's immortal remark 
>about him being "not so much the future of rock'n'roll as a summary of its 
>past", as JP played tracks from Darkness On The Edge of Town in June 1978.
> > 
> > Best wishes
> > Steve [TK]
> > 
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <saipanda@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good call by Thomas. It was by Nora O'Connor on the Bloodshot compilation 
>"Down To The Promised Land".
> > > 
> > > Wiki search finds three plays:
> > > http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/13_June_2001
> > > http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/16_May_2001
> > > http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/14_August_2001
> > > 
> > > Remember the comments on Waits too, but not sure which of these it was on.
> > > 
> > > In a similar vein, thought I remembered Steve writing a blog on unexpected 
>plays at Teenage Kicks. Can't seem to find it now (maybe it was somewhere else), 
>but seem to recall such names as Wham and Duran Duran cropping up.
> > > 
> > > My own favourite was him playing Barbara Cartland - twice - on late 
>70s/early 80s shows that turned up in the 400 Box.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > SW
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Blatchford <tabdrinkink74@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > i do remember him playing a cover of 'It Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek 
>Again' 
>
> > > > sometime (within the last five years of shows) and back-announcing it by 
>saying 
>
> > > > that he never liked Tom Waits at all but maybe after hearing that song he 
>should 
>
> > > > give him another try. Not sure if it ever happened.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: David Quantick <davidquantick@>
> > > > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Sent: Mon, 6 September, 2010 9:18:56
> > > > Subject: Re: [peel] Most surprising records played
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > and when he sat in for Anne Nightingale, he would play Randy Van Warmer 
>(whose 
>
> > > > name was a favourite with him, clearly) and once back announced a record 
>by 
>
> > > > saying, "And that was a load of Ships from Ian Hunter."
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to see a list of Peel's Dislikes - most were canny and more 
>obvious, 
>
> > > > like U2, but if he didn't play Tom Waits, he probably saw him, as some 
>people 
>
> > > > do, as a bit of a put-on. Who knows?
> > > >
> > >
> >
>