Here we come with another awesome installment of the John Peel Show. This time, our Broadcast recording is from the 10th of December, 1976. Hope you Enjoy.
Tracks
- Damned: So Messed Up (session)
- Seeds: Pushin’ Too Hard (LP – Nuggets)
- Iggy & The Stooges: Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell (LP – Raw Power)
- Eddie & The Hotrods: Horseplay (Weary Of The Schmaltz) (single)
- Damned: Neat Neat Neat (session)
- Richard Hell & The Voidoids: Blank Generation (EP)
- Television: Little Johnny Jewel Part 1 (single)
- Tuff Darts: Slash (LP – Live At CBGB’s)
- Pere Ubu: Final Solution (v/a LP – Max’s Kansas City 1976)
- Damned: New Rose (session)
- Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK (single)
- Fast: Boys Will Be Boys (v/a LP – Max’s Kansas City 1976)
- New York Dolls: Personality Crisis (LP – New York Dolls)
- Saints: (I’m) Stranded (single)
- Damned: Stab Your Back (session)
- Shadows Of Knight: Light Bulb Blues (7 inch)
- Ramones: California Sun (7 inch-B side of I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend)
- Ramones: I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You (7 inch-B side of I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend)
The John Peel show
The John Peel show was a Radio Show on BBC Radio 2 which ran for years up til the DJs death in 2004. He was one of the first broadcasters to play Psychedelic Rock and Progressive Rock records on British Radio. He was most famous for his promotion of small, obscure Bands that wee unheard of and promoted them. Way back before the days of the Internet, if you had a band, you sent your demo tape into John Peel and hope it got heard by him and played.
However, he got thousands of Demo tapes sent into him. I once saw a documentary where he’d enter his office of a normal day and his door would have a massive pile of mail lying piled up behind it. He’d have to shoulder the door to get in. So you can imagine the backload of tracks he had to play. But when he died, the barn that he owned was stacked full of stuff that he still hadn’t had a chance to listen to yet.
Respect for the Tunes
But I think the thing I loved most about John Peel as a D.J was the fact that he let each single play fully right to the end before he said a word. Most DJs rabbit on over the music. Disturbing it. So annoying. Again, Back in the pre internet days before MP3 Downloads that take a few seconds, we used to tape things from the radio.
This required putting a cassette tape in the player and pressing record n play to capture songs we liked on the Radio. Since Peeli was an ex pirate ship radio D.J from the Radio Caroline days, he was onboard with this. So he always made sure he let the track play right to the end before talking. He also liked to be constructive when he did talk. As far as John Peel was concerned, he was there to play music.
However, broadcasting rules required DJs to have a certain amount of taking in the 2 hour slot he’d gave on a Tuesday and Thursday nights between 8pm and 10pm. So instead of just babbling Luke most D JJ s seemed to do for the same of it, he’d use the time wisely. Between every second song he would tell you the song that had just played and introduced the next track. But every half hour or so, hed spend about Five minutes telling all about a group or a new release, etc
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