The HiFi Hobbyist Podcast25 Heinä 2025

Professor Peter Smith RIP in memory of a wonderful man and a life time of gigs

This is the first of our one-off special edition podcasts.

Professor Peter Smith was a remarkable academic and teacher, a wonderful human being, and the most remarkable live music fan, a passion he recorded faithfully on his blog at myvintagerock.com. Peter died after a short illness on 27th May 2025. I am proud to have been his friend for thirty-five years. He lived his entire life in Sunderland but was loved all over the world by his former students and colleagues. His daughter posted a wonderful tribute on myvintagerock.com.

Back in the early days of the hifihobbyist.net, I published a conversation with Peter about his life of attending gigs and his meticulous record of each one. We reproduce that interview here and encourage you to read more about the man and his music at m myvintagerock.com .

This podcast, aimed at music lovers and audio enthusiasts, has developed from the hifihobbyist.net website where you can view videocasts, read blogs and, prior to the launch of this podcast, listen to generated discussions about the material. Because they are aimed at music lovers, the podcasts feature an eclectic range of music to accompany the words. The choice of music is like the Scottish weather: if you don't like it currently, there'll a be different choice along shortly (in the next episode). All our music choices are licensed appropriately and specific choices are designed to complement that weeks topic. This week we have chosen loud punk style music for our friend Peter Smith!

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