[peel] John Peel's first show on VPRO

[thebarguest@...]

I went to the Deeply Vale festival in 79 to see the Ruts. Yes, by all accounts (see the dvd / tv docu) the punks and new-wavers (inc the Fall) got along famously with the hippies, partly because a lot of the new-wavers were long-hairs only a few years before (eg Malcolm Owen of the Ruts) ; they also shared an enthusiasm for getting high and making music. The more open-minded hippies could see (hear) elements of Beefheart and Can in the newcomers !
 The other hippies hated it - "bloody hell, they can't even play or sing" etc. !!
 

 

 >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.