[peel] John Peel's first show on VPRO

[Rocker]

Never saw Gong, but I saw Here & Now a few times in 1978 - 1980 - It was great to see a bunch of hippies that were open minded enough to take in the exciting new world of punk, they were somewhere between Gong, Hawkwind, Pere Ubu and the UK Subs.

I don't think Peel ever played much of their stuff after Allen / Hillage left - I guess he thought of them a kind of 'last year's thing' - or maybe they just never sent him their stuff, living as they were in caravans and beanfields. Although he did continue to play Hillage's solo stuff, which I couldn't stand until a lot later when he forsook his hippy guitar noodlings for a sequencer.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Kimura-Macke numbernine@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com>
To: peel <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Mar 22, 2015 1:34 am
Subject: Re: [peel] John Peel's first show on VPRO


    
   
    
     
I ordered Floating Anarchy from Amazon a few weeks ago. I had been 
 listening to one of the John Peel programmes that featured the Here 
 And Now and liking them because of the Hillage like guitar. I did an 
 Amazon search and ordered a couple of their CDs and Floating Anarchy 
 was a recommendation. I didn't previously know it, so it got ordered 
 too as well as the most recent I See You from last year. I heard 
 Gong on John's programmes back in 1975 and bought the Planet Gong LPs 
 and eventually Shamal, Hillage's solo stuff etc. back then. My recent 
 purchases show that the Peel Wiki generates sales! I remember John 
 playing Stanley Clarke back then too and I bought LPs by him too but 
 none of those programmes have turned up yet it seems.
 
 Meanwhile Daevid Allen's ashes have been taken into the Pacific at 
 Byron Bay NSW by his four sons paddling surf boards earlier today.