“In fact I’ll go out on a limb and say it’s not really about the music. The music is a conduit for something else, something quite intangible which I think comes down to that fucked up sense of juxtaposition he imposed on us. He made having an open mind cool, which is saying something when you think about it. Once you’d accepted that you could listen to every form of every form of music and appreciate it on its own merits then you could apply this to everything else in life. Any form of creative endeavour is worthwhile. The fact that someone, anyone, is doing something different and interesting becomes vital.”
Thanks. That link means a lot.
(when it rolls of my front page you can find it here: http://peteashton.com/04/10/26/peely.html )
Tsk, sloppy of me. Now amended to permalink. (Thanks for pointing it out.)
My only defence: I’m listening to a C-120 tape of an entire John Peel show from 11 August 1983 and feeling way too nostalgic for concentration.
Listen to last night’s edition of Front Row (if you haven’t already) – really good discussions about Peel: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/frontrow_20041026.shtml
Still not getting over it. Sniff.