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It is hard to explain how brilliant it was for me, but even harder to explain why. It was more than just nostalgia, it really hit me in a good way for a variety of reasons.
I really think there was a song that I heard for only the second time ever and I recalled it straight away from that one and only listen almost 40 years ago.
If anyone knows about the Devon based band Severed Head I’d love to know. I listened to their session on one of the episodes and never heard from them again apart from one single they had out.
This one?
Heavy Metal
Killing The Kidz
God Of My Father
Two Wheel Mistress.
www.radiorewind.co.uk/sounds/vancecd_tv_playthat_rock&roll.mp3
The Friday Rock Show had the privilege of switching Radio 1 to FM stereo, that only happened late on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons - it was like a beath of fresh air after listening to medium wave radio,
The thing that impressed me was the amount of background information that Tommy Vance included in his programme - a proper musical education.
SRV 83 live at Reading
Marillion session (before they had a record deal)
An interview with the 'new' supergroup ASIA. This was a great fun interview actually, they clearly enjoyed working together. It was interspersed with songs from the as yet unreleased debut album.
Boy do I miss that show ....
I feel old now -but happy!
Ah yes, the Friday Night Connection. Spotty gits in a bedroom working out something like a 3d crossword puzzle to flummox other spotty gits in bedrooms.
And the Rock War. For some reason, known only to my mind and the curious memory therein, I always remember when Tommy gave it the big build up he had- with the sound of helicopter blades and all sorts- and gravely intoned "The Rock Whore"...
Great great show. It does prove to my mind that you can't beat a specialist music show presented by a top DJ who really knows his or her music. Peel was totally different- he'd play anything so long as it was 'new' and often 'different'. But TV epitomised that whole approach of give a DJ a bug chunk of time to play a mixture of tracks within a certain genre. Tony Blackburn gets a lot fo stick, but give him his due, he knows his soul and he does exactly the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5SMCcKXhmM
Great memories of that show.
Looking back, for a lot of NWOBHM bands, their FRS session was the best sound they ever got.
Did you listen to the radio, every Friday night?
There are still some decent little specialist shows on BBC local radio. Also some of the digital stations- Jazz FM comes to mind which I commented on in a different thread- produce some great specialist shows along the 'DJ who knows his/her stuff' lines.
I know Radio 2 still have hour long weekly shows devoted to certain styles but that feels a bit like going through the motions. For me, I just prefer a long form show which sticks to one genre (or related genres) and plays classics, new stuff and current favourite tracks. That was part of the DNA of TV and TFRS, and I think there's lots of life in that format yet for mainstream radio.
On Friday nights I used to sit right by the speakers with the volume down low - I don't think my parents disapproved of me listening to it, but my brother would be asleep in the same room.
And before that Nicky Horne's "Your Mother Wouldn't Like It". I learned a lot from his A-Z of Rock.