Comments for Peakecast: Thomas Peake Memorial Podcast

Comment on The Thomas Peake cassette collection by Chris C.

Chris C. — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:23:38 +0000

Note to self: Claire Newburn sent me a message on Facebook, on Sept 25th, asking for some of the cassettes. When I do get to processing these requests I won’t think to look there, so I’m noting it here to remind me …

This is still on my to-do list, but I’m still buried in other work …

Comment on The Thomas Peake cassette collection by chrisc

chrisc — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:25:48 +0000

And FYI, I’ll be out of town (and mostly off the net) from Sept 18th to Oct 1st. I’ll catch up when I get back!

Comment on Peakecast Episode Seven by chrisc

chrisc — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:56:16 +0000

It’s the 4th movement I had a question mark there because I couldn’t find anything about it. Turns out his name is Tomita, not Tamita. Well, it’s Japanese so maybe it translates both ways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition#No._4_.22Byd.C5.82o.22

Comment on Peakecast Episode Seven by Richard Wallace

Richard Wallace — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:25:55 +0000

Cool how Thomas worked in both Felt and DCD. Tamita did Pictures at an Exhibition, but not sure what Bydlo is.

Comment on Peakecast Episode Six by Burnes

Burnes — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:36:47 +0000

The first record Thomas introduced me to in ’91 was one of Loren’s Guitar Roberts LPs with the photo glued to the white sleeve. I’ve been one of Loren and Suzanne’s biggest fans ever since. Next month we (Haunted House, a band which consists of Loren, Suzanne, myself, and Neel Murgai, a longtime WREK op) have another record coming out on Northern Spy called “Blue Ghost Blues”. I listened to this Sunday Special live in the studio and I never could have believed that it would have led to such a long collaboration and such friendships. Thomas is inside every note that Haunted House ever played or will play.

Comment on Peakecast Episode Five by Chris C.

Chris C. — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:35:06 +0000

I’m halfway through this now — maaaan Thomas was the master at the Sunday Special. Covers, demos, live performances … And nice intro, Dave.

Comment on Peakecast Episode Four by Scott Ferguson

Scott Ferguson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:14:37 +0000

kool. Thanks for putting this up. Really nice to hear Thomas’ voice again.

Comment on Peakecast Episode Three by Arthur Davis

Arthur Davis — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:05:58 +0000

My buddy Guy Phillips, who spent about a year at Tech before tranferring out, wrote this:

What I loved about the tape was that it made me listen to things I wouldn’t have otherwise listened to. That’s what I love about independent radio. I was familiar with the names of some of the bands, but for whatever reason never took to them. It was radio at its best.

Comment on Peakecast Episode Three by Arthur Davis

Arthur Davis — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:05:35 +0000

I’m totally blown away that you guys got this stuff up here. In addition to Thomas, WREK and myselft, Julie Wolffe contributed several of the albums we played that night. Thematically, it was about the vibe more than the actual lyrics or even the musical style, hence Conway Twitty as the opener. As usual with Thomas, everything about doing the show together was easy, low conflict and fun–and you got to share something good at the end of the day (or evening, in this case).

Comment on Peakecast Episode Three by chrisc

chrisc — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:21:04 +0000

Those playlist sheet scans turned out great! Considering how tiny they were since Thomas photoreduced them to fit into the cassette case.

As I recall, Personality Crisis used to run until 11:30, 90 minutes in length. For a while Jon followed it with a half hour syndicated program called “Music View”, hosted by John Fox, but otherwise he just went into evening/overnight programming. Of course Personality Crisis runs a full two hours now, and we’re all the better for it.

It’s not on the tape, but from the playlist you can see that Thomas and Arthur basically kept doing their thing until midnight anyway!