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Post by innocentbystander on Jan 25, 2024 22:00:26 GMT
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Post by atillathehoneybee on Jan 25, 2024 22:41:12 GMT
All Right Mate...Not arf.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 25, 2024 23:59:16 GMT
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Post by marylandstoke on Jan 26, 2024 16:44:16 GMT
I always get mixed up.
Was he Smashy or Nicey?
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 26, 2024 17:24:06 GMT
I used to listen to his Rock show, late night on Saturday in the late 1980s. Introduced me to a load of great sounds, and he was smart enough to play the broad spectrum of rock and not just pigeon hole it into a heavy metal show. Late on into the early 90s I’d have pick of the pops on Saturday as I prepared my motorcycle for Sunday trips, lovely memories. He was a proper professor of pop with extremely eclectic tastes. I was sorry to see Paul Gambaccini lose the POTP’s gig as he was cut from the same cloth. It’s a shame that we don’t seem to have these idiosyncratic radio broadcasters anymore. |
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Post by innocentbystander on Jan 26, 2024 17:57:26 GMT
As a sixth former I had an unsupervised Saturday afternoon job at a petrol station, mates would congregate and we'd play Fluff's bombastic rock show at top volume, usually going on to see a couple of those same bands somewhere in the evening.
Those bands became part of my life still as they were always on tour:
Budgie, Groundhogs, Pink Fairies, Edgar Broughton, Greenslade, Strife, all the Krautrock bands, Stray, Family, Man, Mott, Spooky Tooth etc etc.
Fluff and the great John Peel must have made millions for this country by fostering these bands, promoting their careers , spreading progressive British rock around the globe.
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