RIP Tommy Vance

[dave hall]

Tommy Vance you will be missed!! A hole was left in Radio 1 when he
went.....a confirmed Hawkwind fan - went out of his way to support Hawkwind
s musicians when he played a set of theirs. Brian Tawn dedicated an edition
of Hawkfan to him. I remember writing to him afte he featured Brainbox
Pollution on the Friday Connection - and mistakenly called it Urban G. He
never owned up to it.
Thanks TV (on the radio!!)
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Medford <nickmedford at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Date: 08 March 2005 00:29
Subject: Re: RIP Tommy Vance


>On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:55:49 EST, GutterCat at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>In a message dated 07/03/05 18:06:46 GMT Standard Time,
>>hawkfan at RATSAUCE.CO.UK writes:
>>
>>>
>>> There must be loads of us ex spotty youths who remember the Friday Rock
>>> Show.
>>
>>Oh yes indeed!
>
>Another one here. And I never even really liked Metal. But TV's show was
the
>only place you would *ever* hear the music I did like in my teens-
Hawkwind,
>Zep*, Sabbath, even Jimi Hendrix on occasion, and, to his immense credit,
he
>was the only DJ who dared play any prog-rock in the 80s, when the music
>press at large had decreed that any music pre-1976 was worthy only of
>derision (and that it certainly wasn't necessary to actually listen to it
>before coming to that judgement). I remember hearing a show where he played
>the all-time top 10 tracks as voted by the listeners- and it took the full
>two hours to play the 10 songs,as most of them were epics like "Awaken" and
>"Supper's Ready". Who else had the bottle- or the simple
>don't-give-a-monkeys philosophy- to play Yes or early Genesis on national
>radio then?
>
>A sad day. He definitely played a part in my coming to know and love the
>music of HW.
>
>Nick
>
>*Listers in the US would be amazed at the rarity with which Led Zeppelin
are
>played on British radio. In the States, as far as I can tell, it's federal
>law that at least one radio station in any tri-state area must be playing
>Zep at any given time.
>