OT: John Peel tributes

[mathis]

I just found the BBCs website where one can listen to several tribute shows via internet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/index.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/index.shtml

Although I didn´t grow up with him and have no special personal stories with him and his shows I experience his passing away as a loss. A loss for radio and music culture.

[mathis]

Well, it´s not entirely true what I just wrote, that I have no personal story. I actually got to know him only some months ago reading a long interview with him. My thoughts after reading it was: "Darn, I´m still not curious enough by far!"

[Nigel Watson]

Nice that you posted that. Peel was a one-of-a-kind. I first heard his show as a 15-year old in the flower power era....later on I was in a band which he did a lot to promote, though I never met him....so in a way he shaped my career as a musician.

He was an astoundlingly broad-minded man. And he always listened personally to every single demo tape! Can you imagine......thousands and thousands of them.

That type of eclectisism and dedication is a precious thing, sadly missing now...... John Peel had the good sense or the good fortune to ride the wave of progressivism which, as far as radio is concerned, now splashes feebly on the shore of marketing-driven conformity.

But he had a long and fine career, God bless him.