Comments on: He Carried the Holiday in His Eye http://www.zoilus.com/documents/general/2004/000255.php Carl Wilson on music, arts and culture Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Carl Z. http://www.zoilus.com/documents/general/2004/000255.php/comment-page-1#comment-229 Carl Z. Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:41:30 +0000 http://www.zoilus.com/new/1/2004/000255.php#comment-229 He mattered to me less as a DJ - since I could never listen to his BBC programs until lately, when the Internet made it possible - than as a literal icon, the embodiment and symbol of what an engaged, never-stiff, never-calcified listener to music and appreciator of culture could be and could do, with never a sniff of snobbery. A better FCC would make the above a prerequisite for getting a broadcast permit. Peel is the gold standard for radio as gateway to new music. Everyone reading this site is indebted to him. He mattered to me less as a DJ - since I could never listen to his BBC programs until lately, when the Internet made it possible - than as a literal icon, the embodiment and symbol of what an engaged, never-stiff, never-calcified listener to music and appreciator of culture could be and could do, with never a sniff of snobbery.

A better FCC would make the above a prerequisite for getting a broadcast permit. Peel is the gold standard for radio as gateway to new music. Everyone reading this site is indebted to him.

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