Comments on: RIP, Thomas Peake

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:14:08 +0000

I’m sorry for your loss, DS.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:47:30 +0000

Your thoughts are incredible and I believe do sum everyone’s feelings. I had the pleasure of not only being friends but also working together the past few years. He would always tell me exactly what I was up against in a playful manner which would continually make me laugh. We were to meet the day after he returned to continue on a project for me. That will be a very quiet day. I feel very honored to have had Thomas in my life for as long as I did.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:22:52 +0000

Thomas was the type of person I aspired to be. Its hard to imagine he’s gone. I thought he would always be there, improving the world, helping people, making life fun and interesting for everyone around him. His impact will be felt in a thousand ways. For me, he will always be the guy who made WREK brilliant, who made North Avenue Review happen, the guy who made Georgia Tech a creative and experimental place to be. And the guy who brought a smile to the face of everyone who met him.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:44:46 +0000

Thomas kicked me off the air one afternoon for being a whiny bitch. I completely deserved it… was on-air bemoaning the fact that I had to play a certain percentage of reggae and bluegrass.

Afterwards he didn’t hate, but was completely supportive when I took over Pete Rentz’s funk show. I was so proud that he put the name of my show on the back of the 25 years of WREK shirt he designed. I wore that damn shirt until it disintegrated – same with the brilliant “91.1 is a joke” shirt. He was everything that was great about WREK as I was growing to love it in the early 90s. So inspirational – unpretentious… dude had a clip out of Bobby Cremmins on his bathroom wall celebrating an abundance of TP.

He was someone who you would fall out of touch with, but then immediately be back into step within minutes. What a sweet, sweet, selfless guy. I can’t wait to catch up with him and sort through the big dusty record library in the sky.

I will still remember looking for the “THOM” signatures next to all the songs that he played. Those were the best tracks! I miss the abundance of you, Mr. TP, even from afar. Please rest in peace – You were quality, a genre of your own. Thanks for everything.

By: Georg

Georg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:02:55 +0000

Thomas, you deserved so many more years to help our world be a better place.

i lived with you in that house in Home Park having those house parties and deeply enjoying the discussions with you and your brother and Ray.

Your smile will be missed, for it lit up entire sections of our world with ease.

I am humbled to my core and feel like the world got cheated with you gone and me still in it.

By: Ellen McGrail

Ellen McGrail — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:33:28 +0000

I was at WREK last night, doing Destroy all Music, and had just finished an excellent book (What is the What by Dave Eggars), in which a sentence hit me hard: “I will live as a good child of God, and will forgive him each time he claims another of the people I love.” Within half an hour, Jon Kincaid told me about Thomas. Everyone who was fortunate enough to know Thomas loved him, I’m sure. How could you not? I too am very, very sad today.

By: Ben Davis

Ben Davis — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:45:32 +0000

I met Thomas through my brother Arthur when I was in high school in rural north Georgia, and I would visit Atlanta and hang out at WREK. Arthur basically pointed me to THomas and said “look at what this guy is doing. Come to Atlanta and add to the mix.” and Thomas has been a hero of mine ever since…well into oldmanhood. God what a loss.

By: Thom Osburn

Thom Osburn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:45:55 +0000

Tom brought some nice (obscure, noisy) records by my store FEED YOUR HEAD MUSIC as housewarming gifts. I’ve know him for 24 years, back when he was just a skinny high schooler working at Turtles in Chamblee with me.

He and dena were here in the store just a couple weeks back to see how I’d recovered from my July 26 robbery/asaault. He was a class act all the way, a brilliant and funny man. I wish they’d had six kids – not enough Tom Peakes in this world before and now there isn’t one at all except a memory. I’m very, very sad today.

By: Ashley Raiteri

Ashley Raiteri — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:53:16 +0000

Thomas’ reflexive “let’s do something, let’s make something” approach to life

This is him in a nutshell…what an incredible source of motivation he was…

By: dave

dave — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:53:19 +0000

I am too, and that is a crappy lens. A huge chunk of my podcaster/maker aesthetic comes from Thomas’ reflexive “let’s do something, let’s make something” approach to life. He was my hero and will be my hero until my last breath.

By: Chris C

Chris C — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:33:54 +0000

Well said, man.

Today I’m seeing everything through the lens of “this is a world that doesn’t have Thomas Peake in it”.