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Jul 25, 2024, 06:28AM

It's the Title of an Old English Folk Song

A 2003 Index Magazine interview with radio DJ John Peel vs. a 1990 Grand Royal Magazine interview with musician Wendy Carlos.

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John Peel: You could see it as selfless dedication to the cause of public-service broadcasting or a shocking lack of ambition.

Wendy Carlos: To me, the project had a smile around the corners of the mouth.

Peel: Unfortunately it's in a field on the other side of the road.

Carlos: That's just how I feel.

Peel: It's been kind of both, really.

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Carlos: Sure. Sell your stock and get out of there.

Peel: The most obnoxious people I've ever met in my life.

Carlos: I want a tool that's bigger and better and capable, like a hammer you can build a house from it, you could even commit murder with it, or you could let it rust in the garage but anywhere within those extremes, there is a range of practical use, and that's the best kind of tools.

Peel: You were absolutely engulfed by them.

Carlos: Everybody predicts that we'll have HAL 9000.

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Peel: I became friends with the Australian engineers, and we'd sit up in the crow's nest and smoke dope.

Carlos: They considered me a real weird, crackpot.

Peel: [laughs] You feel mildly offended, but life's too short.

Carlos: Yes, of course. All that stuff.

Peel: It's the title of an old English folk song.

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