(Pix credits W-T-O/Ai @ UR forum)
We formally enter the New Year having at on Wednesday and watched the New Years Day concert from Vienna which is usually a very Strauss driven but fun affair that I always did from my earliest days.
Indeed I used to record it on reels of tape and when I had a Hifi VHS video recorder on that too in full blown stereo as at the time that machine was wired into my hifi for classical and pop commercial video replay apart from anything I recorded usually on TDK HS tape.
I'd of loved to have gone for a pleasant walk but it is raining cats and dogs here as I type having got a bot damp dealing with the rubbish earlier on.
(Pix credits: BBC)
It was announced on Tuesday, the BBC DJ Johnny Walker had died after leaving Radio 2 in October last year, aged 79.
Like many of that generation he came from the "Pirate" stations that challenged the BBC's lack of broadcast pop music especially hit records in the 60's with only the odd show broadcast and that lead to the founding of Radio 1 in 1967 and he joined that.
As a young boy he was one of the DJ's I listened to a lot although his passion for music was such he was known not to care for much of the music of the early to mid 1970's we liked and did get in trouble at times for refusing to follow the "playlist"which was mainly the chart hits where he'd sooner play album tracks and the like.
He came back the BBC in the 80's doing the Saturday afternoon show playing what we call today "classic rock" much of which was being issued on the Compact Disc that lead to resergence in interest of some of these artists before going on to present retrospective chart countdown shows of the short I do enjoy to hear as they bring back associated memories.
These days I mainly listen to Boom Radio but he is missed by many of us.
