Transmission 2308
The Yardbirds performing live at The Marquee Club is one of the highlights of today's session that follows a thread of continuity with Blue Oyster Cult, Radio Birdman, 13th Floor Elevators, Tony McPhee, The Tubes, The Pretenders, Wolfgang Dauner Quintet, The Beatles, Spooky Tooth, Mike Harrison and The Isley Brothers.
T2308 is a 60MB 128k mp3 1:05:36 in length made loud to be played loud!
"expert texpert, choking smokers, don't you think the joker laughs at you?"
RFW
Transmission 2208
This is a party - this is a disco! Get down on the floor and show your best moves with Simian Mobile Disco, Calvin Harris, The Traamps, Ladytron, The Ponys, Subsonica, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Future Sound of London, Space Cadets, The Meters and David Bowie! It's the thing today!
T2208 is a 57.8MB 128k mp3 1:03:10 in length made loud to be played loud!
"Burn, baby, burn"
RFW
Transmission 2108
Speed is the subject of our highly accelerated hour featuring Murphy Blend, Spontaneous Combustion, The Helicopters, Union Carbide Productions, Heavy Load, Kiss, Hawkwind, Mercury Rev, Julian Cope, David Bowie, Plat De Jour, A3 and Private Lightning. Go!
T2108 is a 55.6MB 128k mp3 1:00:45 in length made loud to be played loud!
"Physical Speed is just what I need"
RFW
Transmission 2008
Buy? Sell? Long? Short? All the questions and confusion of the stock market are reflected in our opening set by Joey Ramone, 10cc and Procol Harum! We then go live with Deep Purple, Neil Young and Gov't Mule and end with Babyshambles, Bauhaus, Dust and Love Live Life + One. What a dividend!
T2008 is a 55.5MB 128k mp3 1:00:40 in length made loud to be played loud!
"you lost your money and your shoes"
RFW
Transmission 1908
We think outside the box by getting inside box set-selections from The Hour Glass, Derek & The Dominoes, Can, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Hawkwind!
T1908 is a 56.9MB 128k mp3 1:02:09 in length made loud to be played loud!
"I wish you'd hurry up and rescue me, so I can be on my miserable way"
RFW
Transmission 1808
Reoccurring thoughts of Alice from the Brady Bunch triggered an entire show of Alice-mania! Step through the mirror and visit Elton John, Alice Cooper, The Move, Mott The Hoople, Captain Beefheart, Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana, King George Discovery, Spaceways Associated and Amorphous Androgynous. Go ask her!
T1808 is a 56.1MB 128k mp3 1:01:17 in length made loud to be played loud!
"Alice, it's my turn today"
RFW
The role of Alice on The Brady Bunch was played by Ann B. Davis. Check out more info here!
Transmission 1708
Crime does pay off musically with a big score from Humble Pie, Bob Dylan, The Band, Drive By Truckers, Flanger, Jean Michelle Jarre, Barry Adamson, 999, Jacob Miller, Augustus Pablo, Funky Brown, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Apples In Stereo and Nick Lowe!
T1708 is a 56.2MB 128k mp3 1:01:29 in length made loud to be played loud!
"I have had my ups and downs and all around"
RFW
Transmission 1608
A clear case of bamboo envy is at the center of our big and uncut show that features Cult Hero, The Cure, The Dictators, Chocolate Milk, Syl Johnson, The Pioneers, Lord Creator, The Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, Black Mountain, Big Linda and Thomas Dolby! I dig it!
T1608 is a 58.4MB 12k mp3 1:03:50 in length made loud to be played loud!
"she liked the flavor, but not the size"
RFW
Transmission 1508
One of the definitions of quirky is strikingly unconventional. Today's outing revels in it's quirkiness with magic from Derrick Morgan, Dennis AlCapone, Black Sounds Uhro, Dub Syndicate, The Mothers Of Invention, Freak Out, The Persuasions, Ed Palermo Big Band, The Kinks, Bruce Haack & Ed Harvey, Moog Cookbook, Cornelius, Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Knight Brothers and Sylvester. Somewhat out of the ordinary.
T1508 is a 61.6MB 128k mp3 1:07:21 in length made loud to be played loud!
"it's wonderful to feel that I'm doing something for the kids, because I know that the kids and their music are where it's at"
RFW
* The picture above is the hilarious Sgt. Peppers cover parody inner gate-fold of The Mothers' 1968 masterpiece We're Only In It For The Money.
Transmission 1408
Everything is hot, loud and in the red during this overmodulated soundfest. Enjoy the melodic distortion of New York Dolls, Michael Fennelly, Brain Donor, Iggy Popp, The Sex Pistols, Patti Smith Group, Marilyn Manson, Young Heart Attack, The Dead Boys, Lapeste, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth and Jim Carroll Band. My heart is still pumping!
T1408 is a 58.9MB 128k mp3 1:04:22 in length made loud to be played loud!
"I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well"
RFW
Transmission 1308
And we'll have fun times three with the speakers blaring Living Colour, Defunkt, Vernon Reid, The Rolling Stones, Mick Taylor, Ronnie Wood, Faces, Amon Duul 2, The Beach Boys, 1990's, The Field and Buddy Miles Express! Beep beep!
T1308 is a 57.5MB 128k mp3 1:02:53 in length made loud to be played loud!
"till her daddy takes the T-bird away"
RFW
Transmission 1208
A Mic Check with Cornelius, Rage Against The Machine and Tiger, beats from Strange Parcels and Air and a Henry Kaiser/Grateful Dead tag team session are all here for your consumption!
T1208 is a 59.7MB 128k mp3 1:05:16 in length made loud to be played loud!
"under eternity blue, birds of paradise fly, Blues For Allah"
RFW
Transmission 1108
A tribute to the wonderful Rainer Ptacek, live tunes from The Jam and Queen and solo Beatles are but a part of waits for you within. There is nothing rude about Mecki Mark Men, Tool, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Babyshambles, The Kinks, Television, The Mars Volta and the aforementioned session with Paul, John, George and Ringo!
T1108 is a 63.4MB 128k mp3 1:09:17 in length made loud to be played loud!* Tuscon, Arizona based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Rainer Ptacek (pictured above) unfortunately passed away in 1997. His song Rude World, here performed by Plant & Page from the tribute Inner Flame, can be originally found on Rainer's Apaca Lips release. For more info check this out!
Transmission 1008
Ultimate Spinach recorded live in 1967 gives today's ending a green-leaf tinged psychedelic- edge that is only heightened in intensity by a new epic from Black Mountain! Also included in our trip are Danny Peck, Ann Peebles, The Coral, The Upsetters & U Roy, The Clash and The Chemical Brothers. Well blow me down!
T1008 is a 56.4MB 128k mp3 1:01:36 in length made loud to be played loud!
"funkpower over and out"
RFW
Transmission 908
A rousing rendition of Henry Mancini's A Shot In The Dark performed by Naked City leads us into the dark streets on a Friday night with a soundtrack provided by Medeski, Martin & Wood, Uncle Moe's Space Ranch, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Dave & Ansel Collins, Last Exit, Andy Pratt and Jules Shear. Versatile!
T908 is a 57.9MB 128k mp3 1:03:16 in length made loud to be played loud!
"I am the magnificent, I'm backed by the shack of a soul boss most turnin' stormin' sound o'soul, I am double u o o o and I'm still up here again"
RFW
Transmission 808
Ghost Rider would certainly approve of today's rambunctious outing with select pieces from Magazine, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Public Image Limited, Cream, Humble Pie, Steppenwolf, The Orb, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Suicide! Rev me up!
T808 is a 55.7MB 128k mp3 1:00:55 in length made loud to be played loud!
"he's riding through your town with his head on fire"
RFW
Transmission 708
Caverns have always had a great place in the world of psychedelia. We descend quickly and deeply to the inner regions of The Archives with echoing sounds from Velvett Fog, Speed, Glue & Shinki, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, Missus Beastly, Lift and Dave Douglas! Far in!
T708 is a 56.5MB 128k mp3 1:01:44 in length made loud to be played loud!
"Yellow Cave Woman"
RFW
*The incredible picture above of Florida Caverns State Park is by Mary Ann Roth. For more info check this out!
Transmission 608
An emergency appendectomy for HAL, our RFW computer brain, put the pressure into the danger-zone. Sweat it out with Oku Onuoro, Toots & The Maytals, Keith Richards, Panda Bear, The Beach Boys, Frank Zappa & The Mothers, Projekt 2 and Heldon! Will it drop?
T608 is a 57.1MB 128k mp3 1:02:27 in length made loud to be played loud!
"I say when it drops, oh you gonna feel it, know that you were doing wrong"
RFW
Transmission 508
Musical tips of the hat to Kojak, Steve McQueen and bassist Paul D'Amour are all included in today's action packed show. Prepare for Irmin Schmidt, Lusk, Ben Folds 5, The Clash, Lee Perry & The Upsetters, Drive By Truckers, Prefab Sprout, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, Muddy Waters and B. B. King! Who loves ya, baby?
T508 is a 56.8MB 128k mp3 1:01:33 in length made loud to be played loud!
"Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen, the coolest goddamn mothefucker on the silver screen"
RFW
Transmission 408
To quote Graham Parker, "Passion Is No Ordinary Word". Which makes this no ordinary show. A combination of Jethro Tull, Motorpsycho & Jaga Jazzist Horns and Montain to inspire Pride, Passion and Play!
T408 is a 59MB 128k mp3 1:04:28 in length made loud to be played loud!
"the lost spectacles were his own affair, and after all, Hare did have a spare pair"
RFW
Transmission 308
Leon Russell asked an African friend how to say Lost In The Woods in Zulu. He replied that you can't say it because Zulu people do not get lost in the woods! We indeed go out with Leon and for company we bring along LCD Soundsystem, Praxis, Dillinger, David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez!
T308 is a 56MB 128k mp3 1:01:11 in length made loud to be played loud!
"the vultures around me, come and take me home, can't tell the bad from the good, I'm Out In The Woods, then I'm lost in the woods"
RFW
Transmission 208
The percussive talents of Nick Mason, Christian Burchard, Patrick O'Hearn and Bobby Previte provide the backbeat for our show which features Pink Floyd, Embryo, Mushroom & Eddie Gale and Groundtruther with DJ Logic.
T208 is a 57.2MB 128k mp3 1:02:28 in length made loud to be played loud!
"and if you hear as the warm night falls, the silver sound from a time so strange, sing to me, sing to me"
RFW
Transmission 108
Your Mouth, Stardust and Meetings Along The Edge are just a few musical subjects we touch on during the first show of 2008! Turn it up and get into the groove with Aretha Franklin, Faces, John Zorn's Electric Masada, Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon, Lou Reed, David Essex, Bob Dylan, Devo and Phillip Glass & Ravi Shankar. Happy New Year!
T108 is a 57.1MB 128k mp3 1:02:24 in length made loud to be played loud!
"I'm tired of the soup du jour"
RFW
