John Peel is a pretty big name it's a great sorrow to see him pass, he definitely loomed large in my musical upbringing since I have been into underground British music as long as I have been into to music. I don't want to have this become only a blog for bad news, but this sort of thing seems to happen in bunches.
From the NYTimes.com:
John Peel, BBC Radio Disk Jockey, Dies at 65
By BEN SISARIO
Published: October 26, 2004
John Peel, the BBC radio disc jockey who was a champion of innovative and independent music for nearly four decades, died on Monday night in Cuzco, Peru. He was 65 and was a longtime resident of Great Finborough, a village in Suffolk.
The BBC reported that he suffered a heart attack while on holiday with his wife, Sheila.
A broadcasting icon in Britain and perhaps the only British D.J. known by name to American rock fans, Mr. Peel had been on the BBC's Radio 1 since its inception in 1967 and had a reputation for playing cutting-edge
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This seems like a good way to go about doing things, if people bootleg your shows, put out your own of better quality and make it an non-issue. This is taken from Gary Numan's website Nuworld.co.uk
While I have no wish to stir up that bootleg debate again I do need to tell you about our plan to film all future Numan gigs. As some of you may have seen recently an investigation has revealed that many of the more serious bootleggers are highly successful businesses turning over multi millions in revenue each year from illegal recordings, DVD becoming a major part of that business. So, our attempts to thwart such endeavours but still give the fans what they want is to film all future Numan shows ourselves and make them availale to fans, primarily via the web site. These DVD 'bootleg' releases will be completely legal and will have all the required clearances and licences to press that are necessary. They will, however, be filmed with a minimum of three cameras, sometim