[peel] Re: Ebay Tapes

[RobF]

I think history tries to paint some great dividing moment and that Peel
"went full punk" and never looked back, but in actual fact it was as much
to do with the Friday Rock Show starting in 1978 and therefore he didn't
have to cover the classic rock end of the spectrum any more. For the first
year or so of the FRS they were repeating rock Peel sessions from the
archives. The BBC obviously felt that there was enough material and room in
the schedules to have two shows covering two styles. I don't know how much
Peel had to do with that decision, but probably not a lot!

On 12 February 2018 at 21:58, thebarguest@... [peel] <
peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Many thanks, Tim. I've just heard the Sept 1977 show and it's great ! Very
> good audio quality as well, which is a real plus. Funny how Peely refuses
> to play the Heart song but later plays the Cate Brothers which seems to be
> very similar musically (maybe worse, Heart weren't that bad - check out
> "Barracuda"). Nice that he plays Sad Café (Tony Wilson was a huge fan
> apparently). I like the mix of new and old wave, with a few "inbetweenies"
> like Motorhead, the Motors and possibly Thin Lizzy. Three years later, the
> show would be totally devoid of any "old school" rock unless listed in the
> NME list of new-wave-friendly acts eg Iggy Pop. I certainly don't think
> he'd have played the Cates in 1980 ! I'm sure Peely played a tribute to
> Lowell George in 1979 and said how good he was, even though Little Feat
> were surely the epitome of the sort of music that caused Punk rock to
> happen. Funny old world, Saint....
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