View Full Version : Tony Blackburn kicks John Peel's corpse
I am quite disgusted by this:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/18920/Blackburn-pens-attack-on-Peel
Blackburn: Alive, and getting paid money for spouting this evil-minded, moronic tripe.
Peel: Dead.
There's something very wrong in this world of ours. :(
Kirs-tea
17-09-2007, 11:45
I can't even read that article. I can't believe he can get away with it either! Tony Blackburn - one of the worst DJs ever!
sideshowbob
17-09-2007, 11:46
Tony likes pop.
He's hardly kicking John Peel's corpse.
DeadYankee
17-09-2007, 11:47
1 - Tony Blackburn
2 - Daily Express
Who cares what they say really? :shrug:
OP makes mountain out of molehill!
mikegray
17-09-2007, 11:50
This is much like Beth Ditto saying she doesn't care for the Led Zepplin reunion. Not exactly qualified to comment.
Just because somebody is dead shouldn't exclude them from critique! However, Tony Blackburn could only dream of Peels influence and success, it reeks of jealousy..
I don't see the problem :shrug:
He's entitled to his opinion. Peel promoted a lot of new bands (many who went on to nothing) while Blackburn played the popular hits, so what?
This is much like Beth Ditto saying she doesn't care for the Led Zepplin reunion. Not exactly qualified to comment.
For a lot of people Zeppelin don't mean a thing, doesn't mean they are wrong.
Johnny Vodka
17-09-2007, 12:16
For a lot of people Zeppelin don't mean a thing, doesn't mean they are wrong.
Indeed, they're right. ;)
Ooops, I just agreed with TB, but they're a band for my dad, not me. :p:
wobbly Jelly
17-09-2007, 12:17
are you saying 'spot / Arnold the dog' is not as important the Peel stable (//someone please invent a sarcasm font//).
They didn't get on - what a surprise - the power of music versus the daytime DJ ego etc etc...
LouBarlow
17-09-2007, 12:21
He has a point though - for every Mclusky Peel played, there was some speccy **** with a glokenspiel and a dictaphone.
They both played their fair share of tripe.
yep, it's hard to be that eclectic though and not play something you'll totally hate. I couldn't stand all the African roots stuff he used to play!
MaxNutter
17-09-2007, 12:59
pop-a-doodle-doo ...
I'm more confused by this quote: The music John Peel tended to play was almost without exception completely awful. I mean, ELP?
Except wasn't Peel quoted as saying ELP were a waste of talent and electricity and hated them?
I don't really remember what the comments on Blackburn were in his autobiography/biography now.
He has a point though - for every Mclusky Peel played, there was some speccy **** with a glokenspiel and a dictaphone.
They both played their fair share of tripe.
I'd take a piece of Peel 'tripe' over a Tony Blackburn one any day... :p
LouBarlow
17-09-2007, 13:22
Tripe is tripe Theo.
DeadYankee
17-09-2007, 13:27
Tripe is tripe .
La, la , lala, la
LouBarlow
17-09-2007, 13:29
Bo shacka-lacka
kohoutec
17-09-2007, 13:29
Blackburn adds in his book Poptastic: My Life In Radio: “I sincerely believed in Radio 1 as the nation’s jukebox and yet there was Peel every night playing the most ungodly racket imaginable by the oddest characters he could find.”
I expect hearing that would've pleased Peely no end
Blackburn has spent the majority of his career playing along with the general concensus that he's ***** and a complete joke. He's made a career out of taking the **** out of himself, why would anyone listen to what he says now?
I don't really remember what the comments on Blackburn were in his autobiography/biography now.
"John and Kenny (Everett) used to regard Tony as the Antichrist and would do whatever they could to disrupt his show"
:lol::lol::lol: I don't think he liked him. Actually reading between the lines I think they made their peace in later years, they represented polar opposites of the music spectrum and railed against each other as much to show their beliefs as to belittle the others.
And I loved Peel to bits, but christ he played some utterly awful music.
mullethead
17-09-2007, 20:16
I couldn't stand all the African roots stuff he used to play!
Indeed, I remember driving home from gigs at 11/12 at night, switching old Peely on hoping to hear one of his renowned Peel Sessions, but 9 times out of 10 he'd be playing some African Bongo music produced by some speccy **** with a glokenspiel and a dictaphone :doh: ;)
But that was the beauty of it, you never knew what you were going to get, and is what made it such essential listening.
S1LVERBACK
17-09-2007, 20:47
I am quite disgusted by this:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/18920/Blackburn-pens-attack-on-Peel
Blackburn: Alive, and getting paid money for spouting this evil-minded, moronic tripe.
Peel: Dead.
There's something very wrong in this world of ours. :(
:lol: calm down dear.
Indeed, I remember driving home from gigs at 11/12 at night, switching old Peely on hoping to hear one of his renowned Peel Sessions, but 9 times out of 10 he'd be playing some African Bongo music produced by some speccy **** with a glokenspiel and a dictaphone :doh: ;)
But that was the beauty of it, you never knew what you were going to get, and is what made it such essential listening.
Sometimes it was really like he was challenging people to tune out!
I remember times when he'd put on 10 minutes of clicking noises and then follow it with something amazing by The Jesus and Mary Chain that would make it all worth suffering through!
It wouldn't have felt like such a tight little club if anyone could get through a whole show :D
douglasb
19-09-2007, 13:37
I think if John was still here he'd be wanting to give Andy Kershaw a hug and talk about the TT. He doesn't sound too great at the mo'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/19/nkershaw119.xml
Robin Davies
19-09-2007, 19:25
"John and Kenny (Everett) used to regard Tony as the Antichrist and would do whatever they could to disrupt his show"
:lol::lol::lol: I don't think he liked him. Actually reading between the lines I think they made their peace in later years, they represented polar opposites of the music spectrum and railed against each other as much to show their beliefs as to belittle the others.
I saw Blackburn and Peel together on WOGAN and Peel said that him and Kenny Everett used to regard Blackburn as the Antichrist but he thought that now him and Blackburn got on OK and regarded Kenny Everett as the Antichrist!
It's a shame that Blackburn has decided to be so rude about Peel now. His comments are the traditional rant of the philistine - "If I don't like something it's completely worthless and nobody else can possibly like it." Surely a radio station needs a whole range of music, both mainstream pop and the weird stuff.
derek cassidy
19-09-2007, 19:45
Blackburn is a reactionary who knows nothing about music.
How ironic that he quoted ELP as one of the "codswallop" bands played by Peel when Peel couldn't stand them, famously describing them as "a waste of electricity" (he was very fond of Emerson's previous band The Nice).
Anyone who goes through life pretending that they aren't wearing a hair piece is not to be taken seriously.
Blackburn is a laughable figure who has done precisely NOTHING for music other than make a comfortably parasitic living off others talent. Peel's contribution to music was enormous...discovering, encouraging & promoting bands and introducing scores of people (including myself) to music that mainstream radio will not play. Blackburn suggested that Peel should "work for radio 3", effectively ghettoising music like Blackburn suggests robs bands of airplay (& a living) and prevents others from hearing them......a kind of musical apartheid is what Blackburn promoted, not that he would recognise it as such, being about as insightful as a radio 1 jingle.
Who exactly is going to buy Tony Blackburn's autobiography?:?:
"Talked all over insipid pop records & spouted drivel for 30 yrs on radio, knobbed Tessa Wyatt, went on reality tv show".
Btw, he was on "The Alan Titchmarsh Show" the other day & said he sent an email to Peel "a couple of years ago" offering to "bury the hatchet" & said "I got no reply".
I think if John was still here he'd be wanting to give Andy Kershaw a hug and talk about the TT. He doesn't sound too great at the mo'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/19/nkershaw119.xml
Poor sod :(
SqueakyG
20-09-2007, 11:31
"Needless to say, I had the last laugh."
Actually, I must say I agree about the music Peel played. I remember tuning into Radio 1 sometimes at night, hoping to hear something new or interesting. But he usually just played insane noise. They say he gave some important bands their big break... but most of the time it was unsigned student bands making crazy unbearable noise. Peel was a very likeable personality on the radio though.
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