Playlist for July 12, 2006

R.I.P. Syd Barrett

I first heard of Pink Floyd when the movie Zabriskie Point came to Binghamton (they did several pieces for the soundtrack). I thought to myself, "Gee, that's an awfully weird name for a rock band".

In fact, they'd named themselves for two American bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Oh yes, when Hurricane Floyd hit the eastern seaboard a few years ago, USA Today showed a satellite image of the storm. It was rendered in computer-generated false color as with storm systems on other weather maps. The dominant color was of course, pink.

Floyd fans or not, we owe Syd a lot. Just ask Robyn Hitchcock, Tangerine Dream, and any number of other prog-rock, space-rock and "Kraut-rock" acts.

Bootleg of the Week Number 1

John Fahey - Teatro Cristallo, Milano, Italy, March 6th 1982, from master.

Set One.

1. Intro > Tuning
2. On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
3. Spanish Two-Step > Spanish Fandango
4. The First Noel
5. Lion
6. Steamboat Gwine Round Da Bend
7. Silent Night
8. The Approaching of the Disco Void

Disc Two :

Set Two.

1. Gaucho > Guitar Lamento > In Christ There is No East or West
2. Melody McBad > The Grand Finale

Encore :

3. Life & Death in L.A. Motels (with Maurizio Angeletti)

Excellent audience recording from master.

Bootleg of the Week #2

IAN DURY and the BLOCKHEADS playing the Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on March 3. 1978

Recorded by VPRO Radio and broadcast on May 19. 1978

source : FM > Cassette > Audacity > CD Wave Editor > FLAC

Line up :

Ian Dury vocals
Norman Watt-Roy bass
Charley Charles drums
Davey Payne saxophone
Chaz Jankel guitar
John Turnbull guitar
Mickey Gallagher piano


Setlist :

01 Sex and drugs and rock and roll
02 Upminster Kid
03 I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra
04 Wake up and make love with me
05 Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself Around London)
06 If I was with a woman
07 Billericay Dickie
08 Sweet Gene Vincent
09 What A Waste
10 Blockheads
11 England's Glory

Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive - Piper at the Gates of Dawn (EMI)
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne - Relics (EMI)
Syd Barrett - Terrapin - The Radio One Sessions (Strange Fruit)
Robyn Hitchcock - Vegetable Man - Underwater Moonlight (2 CD reissue - Ryko)
David Bowie - See Emily Play - Pinups (Ryko)
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine - Piper at the Gates of Dawn (EMI)
Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant - The Radio One Sessions (Strange Fruit)
Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother - The Best of the Pink Floyd (EMI)

Playlist for July 5, 2006

Technical difficulties with Blogger
delayed the posting of my playlist
until now.

Hope all of you came through the recent flooding OK. Piss on FEMA for screwing Tioga County and other localities.

Boot of the Week #1
Michael Hurley, Bop Shop, Rochester, NY May 19, 2006
Audience recording, direct to CD. (Sorry, no set list)

Boot of the Week #2
Robin Trower, Record Plant,Sausalito, CA Aug.11,1973

1-The Fool and Me
2-Twice Removed from Yesterday
3-Lady Love
4-Daydream
5-Day of the Eagle
6-I Can't Wait Much Longer
7-Man of the World
8-Sinner's Song
9-Little Bit of Sympathy

KSAN Pre-fm Master Reel (2nd generation)

Some of you may know that Robin Trower was a member of Procol Harum.

Negativland - Our National Anthem - Free (www.negativland.com)
Pussy Galore - Sweet Little Hi Fi - Sugarshit Sharp (Matador)
Sonic Youth - Rats - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
Chris Bell - Got Kinda Lost - I Am The Cosmos (Ryko)
Monkees - A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - Forever Diamond (Shout Factory)
Elvis Costello - Green Shirt - This Year's Model (Ryko)
Johnny Cash - Delia's Gone - American Recordings (American)
Horseflies - Sugar Babe - 2 Traditions (www.ancienthand.com)
Fat Boy Slim/Cornershop - Brim Full of Asha - Why Try Harder (Astralwerks)
Shel Silverstein - Squishy Touch - A Light in the Attic (Columbia)
MX80 - It's Not My Fault - Out of Control (Atavistic)
George Clinton - Martial Law - Hey man, Smell My Finger (Paisley Park/WB)

Frank Zappa - Purple Haze/Sunshine of your Love - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (Ryko)
Spamalot original cast - He's Not Dead Yet - Spamalot (Decca)
Matmos - Solo Button (for Joe Meek) - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (Matador)
Holger Czukay - Atlantis - Good Morning Story (www.neverrecords.com)
Rhys Chatham - Intro - An Angel Moves Too Fast to See (Table of the Elements)

Byron MacGregor - The Americans - 7", 1973 (Westbound Records)

BARTLEMANIA SHOW CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER EMERGENCY

A STATE OF EMERGENCY EXISTS IN THE WHRW LISTENING AREA.

Since I cannot get to the station due to the emergency, there will be no program today. - Doctor B.

ACCORDING TO pressconnects.com:

"At 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, Broome County officials issued a state of emergency that closed roads in the county to all traffic except essential and emergency vehicles. States of emergency were also issued in Kirkwood, Maine, Windsor, Union and Vestal. All residents along the Susquehanna River in Windsor were ordered to evacuate. Similar states of emergency, banning non- emergency travel, also were issued Tuesday in Delaware and Tioga counties."

MORE INFORMATION ON THE WEATHER EMERGENCY CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://tinyurl.com/jbkvw (National Weather Service)
http://tinyurl.com/l25z3(the Press and Sun-Bulletin flood coverage)

Playlist for June 21, 2006

Happy First Day of Summer!

Procol Harum Live on WPLJ, NY April 12,1971.
Gary Brooker
Chris Copping
BJ Wilson
Robin Trower

1. Intro/Memorial Drive
2. Still There'll be more
3. Nothing that I didn't know
4. Simple Sister
5. Luskus Delph
6. Shine on Brightly
7. Whaling Stories
8. Broken Barricades
9. Juicy John Pink
10. A Salty Dog
11. Whiskey Train
12. Power Failure


Elvis Costello Live in St. Louis, MO,
Riverdayze Club January 31, 1978 KADI-FM

01. Welcome To The Working Week (00:50)
02. Red Shoes (02:25)
03. Waiting For The End Of The World (03:38)
04. No Action (02:11)
05. The Beat (03:40)
06. Less Than Zero (03:03)
07. Lip Service (02:29)
08. Stranger In The House (03:16)
09. Radio, Radio (02:34)
10. You Belong To Me (02:31) 11. Miracle Man (03:24)
12. Lipstick Vogue (04:13)
13. Watching The Detectives (04:37)
14. Pump It Up (02:59) w./The Attractions

Bruce Thomas Pete Thomas Steve Nieve Elvis' backing band from late 1977 through the ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY tour, with a few breaks in there. Played on all LPs between THIS YEAR’S MODEL and Brutal Youth except Spike, Kojak, most of King of America, MLAR, and Juliet Letters.


Space Mix Ingredients:

VDGG - La Rossa - Still Life (Caroline)
Insomnia - When Evening Falls (excerpt) (private pressing)
The Mad Monk - God's Been Dead These Fifty Years (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/vintage_beatnik.html)
Kleptones - Psyche Haze - 24 Hours (kleptones .com)
Kammarheit - For The Innermost - Asleep & Well Hidden (cycliclaw.com)
Brian Eno & Chas Amirkhanian - Ode To Gravity 2-2-80 (excerpt) (archive.org)
CAN - Soup - Ege Bamyasi (Spoon)
Akaten - Suite_ USA - Record Company (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/11/record_related_.html)
Tangerine Dream - Cold Smoke - Electronic Meditation (Relativity)
Quiet Sun - Mummy was an Asteroid - Main Stream (Virgin)

Puffy Amiyumi - Tokyo I’m On My Way - Splurge (Tofu Records)
Fat Boy Slim - Don’t Let The Man Get You Down - Why Try Harder (Astralwerks)
Roky Erickson - We Sell Soul - I Have Always Been Here Before (Shout Factory)

Playlist for June 14, 2006

Boot of the Week #1

The Fall
Knitting Factory
New York, New York
June 1, 2006

source: audience DAT: Core Sound Binaurals (battery box) > Sony D8 (ca. 20 feet from center stage)

conversion: Sony PCM300 > optical > Tascam CDRW700 (standalone burner)
> CD > xACT > wav > xACT > flac (level 8)

recorded and uploaded by Stefan

01. Coming Down
02. Pacifying Joint
03. Assume / Theme from Sparta FC
04. Reformation
05. Mountain Energei
06. Wrong Place, Right Time
07. What About Us
08. I Can Hear the Grass Grow
09. Bo Demmick
10. Midnight in Aspen
11. Blindness
12. Mr. Pharmacist
13. Systematic Abuse
14. crowd
encore:
15. Youwanner

Boot of the Week #2

Frank Zappa
and the Mothers of Invention
Fillmore East
New York, NY
11/14/70 Early Show

This show is from Frank’s “200 Motels” tour. It sounds a lot like the “Freaks and Motherf**ers” bootleg, but with greatly-improved sound quality. Track 1 features Jefferson Airplane front woman Grace Slick, even though the Jefferson Airplane apparently was not on the bill that evening.

Tracks outlined in pink were deleted from the set due to FCC issues.

Source: SBD>10"MR>7"Reel>RevoxB77 playback>AlesisMasterlink>CD
and
SBD>10"MR>Revox B77 playback>Alesis Masterlink>CD - Wino Man>>>End

01. Jam to get Grace Slick onstage
02. Sanzini Brothers
03. Little House I Used To Live In
04. Penis Dimension/Little House*
05. Mudshark
06. Holiday In Berlin (Including Inca Roads and Easy Meat Themes)
07. Cruising For Burgers
08. Sanzini BrothersÆ Pyramid Trick
09. What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?*
10. What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are
11. Bwana Dik*
12. Latex Solar Beef
13. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
14. Do You Like My New Car?*
15. Happy Together
16. Wino Man (Dr. John Routine)
17. Concentration Moon
18. Sanzini BrothersÆ School Of Broadcast
19. Jeff Simmons' Bass Solo
20. Concentration Moon (cont'd)
21. Mom And Dad
22. Encore Jam//

Mastered by D.Winters - 03/07/05.

William Shatner - Spleen/Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Transformed Man (Geffen)
Leaonard Nimoy - If I Had a Hammer - Golden Throats (Rhino)
Sam Church - Black Gold - http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/05/songs_of_bygone.html
Urinetown Original Cast - It’s a Privlege to Pee - Urinetown (RCA)
Spamalot original cast - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Spamalot (Decca)
Frank Zappa - Crew Slut - Joe’s Garage Vol. 1-3 (Ryko)
Shel Silverstein - Rock & Roll Band - Light in the Attic (Columbia)

Los Finsteros - Reid Fleming - L.F.M.S.T. (http://www.losfinsteros.com/)
Rhys Chatham - Murder on MacDougal Street - Die Donnergotter (Table of the Elements)
Rosem & Shontz - Tickle Man - Rosenshontz (RS Records)

Playlist for June 7, 2006

TheWHRW home page
AND our MP3 stream are both down.

I'll keep you posted as to when I expect them to come back up.

In the meantime, my sincerest apologies to my out-of-town and at-work listeners who depend upon our web stream.

This sucks, in a very, very serious way.

Today’s Boot of the Week isn’t a boot per se. It’s an out-of-print limited edition cassette boxed set of mostly classic film-noir themes performed on electronic instruments. It comes to you courtesy of WFMU’s “Beware of the Blog”.

To see what I’ve played, and to download a copy for your own perusal and enjoyment, follow this link:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/06/synth_noir.html

PLAYLIST POSTING DELAYED DUE TO
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
WITH BLOGGER.COM

Specials - A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - Today’s Specials (Virgin)
Urge Overkill - Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon - Forever Diamond (Shout Factory)
William Shatner - The Transformed Man - The Transformed Man (Geffen)
William Shatner - Common People - Has-Been (Shout Factory)
Bobby “Boris” Pickett - Star Drek - Demento Royale (Rhino)

Dressy Bessy - I Saw Cinnamon - Sound Go Round (Kindercore)
Negativland - I Believe It’s L - Dispepsi (www.negativland.com)
The Slits - Shoplifting - Peel Sessions (Dutch East)
The Flying Lizards - Sex Machine - 12" (Statik)
MX-80 - Fender Bender - Out Of Control (Atavistic)
Volvox - Quagmire - live at a gig in Ithaca, NY
Gone - Meet Me In The Van - All The Dirt that’s Fit to Print (SST)
Larry Wallis - Police Car - 7" (Stiff)

Billy Preston, R.I.P.:

Space Race - Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music (A&M)
Happy - A Whole New Thing (A&M)
You Don’t Have to Pretend - Encouraging Words (Apple)
(Billy Preston with) Ringo Starr - Only You - Goodnight Vienna (Capitol)
Nothin’ From Nothin ‘ - The Kids and Me (A&M)

Playlist for May 31, 2006

The WHRW Homepage is still down.
But you can (hopefully) still listen on-line
by following this link:
http://whrwfm.org/whrw.m3u

Boot of the Week #1
Los Straitjackets
Recorded live at the Dinosaur Barbecue
Syracuse, NY
on the Bartlemuzik Ltd. Mobile Unit
(sorry, no set list available.
If you were there and know what they played,
please let me know).

Boot of the Week #2
OREGON
September 29, 1974
Second show
The Social Room
SUNY-Binghamton
Binghamton, NY

Recorded from the board onto reel-to-reel
by an unknown WHRW staffer. Digitally
re-tweezed by Doctor B.

Frank Zappa - The Illinois Enema Bandit - Lather (Ryko)
Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach For My Revolver - Signals, Calls and Marches (Ryko)
Rachid Taha - Rock the Casbah - Rock the Casbah EP (Barclay)
Sahnas - And I Love Her - Romanza (http://www.sahnasmusic.com)
Bouncing Souls - Mom, can I go out and kill tonight - Violent World (Caroline)

Catherine Russell - New Speedway Boogie - Cat (World Village)
Yoshida Brothers - Erglen Diado - Yoshida Bros. III (www.domo.com)
Mighty, Mighty Bosstones - Hope I Never Lose My Wallet - Live From the Middle East (Mercury)