Ad-Vance
Posted: Tue 8 March, 2005 Filed under: News, Thoughts 1 Comment »I must admit that – despite some people’s thoughts – I find myself quite unmoved by the death of Tommy Vance. Yeah, sure, I know who he was, but I rarely listened to his show.
Pix mentions that his show got her into a lot of rock music, and fair play, it’s as good a way as any to get introduced to it. I think I used to read Kerrang! or somesuch (in the days when it was actually quite good) along with the much-missed Melody Maker and NME. I still read NME fairly regularly, although I’m not quite as influenced by it as I used to be. But for the most part I was into the music anyway, and stayed in touch through a variety of methods.
So no, for me he’s not one of those life-altering people who’ll be missed.
In the meantime, I’ve got a delivery from Amazon of the Go! team‘s album, along with Green Day’s “American Idiot“, so I’m sorted musically for the day’s work.
The Go! Team album is great, had it for ages!
As for Tommy. I probably listened more to him than I did to John Peel. So I think I can now understand all the flowing tributes to Peel as I think Tommy deserves the same – just because John had a wider scope of music doesn’t make him a better DJ.