Re: Submission for rec-music-gaffa

[hal%garth%sri-unix%husc6%harvard%ames.uucp@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Hal Broome)]

Hi.  That BBC special album of Pink Floyd could have been commissioned
for John Peel, the BBC1 dj who has been around since the sixties . . .
he brings in groups that he thinks have a chance of making it--darn
near shoots a 100% there; in fact, he sometimes goes out of his way
for groups that won't but should--and turns them loose in the
well-stocked studios of the Beeb.  Amazing that Peel's favorite sounds
have remained nearly the same over the years; he was popular during
the psychedelic era and is currently popular with the post-new wave
crowd.  Nowadays, however, he wouldn't be caught dead playing PF, at
least the newer stuff.  His secret is to find out about a group over
the grapevine and commission them before they turn famous and charge
an arm and a leg or refuse because they don't need the publicity.
I've heard there are a lot of Syd Barrett sessions around as well,
taken in his solo days before his mental collapse.

hal