Monday 28 August 2017

KSHE Klassics, August 27, 2017

Quotation du jour: Brian Eno (in 1982) ~ I was talking to Lou Reed the other day, and he said that the first Velvet Underground record sold only 30,000 copies in its first five years. Yet, that was an enormously important record for so many people. I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band!

It was another case of, “whoa, where did four hours go?” again this morning, and it was a pretty painless listening experience, too. The music was excellent, of course and when i say “painless,” i mean in terms of my occasionally crappy Internet connection. It did, in fact, die once, for a couple of minutes, but that meant that i missed most of the REO Speedwagon song, so i wasn't devastated.

(I know that REO Speedwagon is revered by rock radio in the U.S., and reviled by rock radio in Canada -- not that i listen to Canadian radio any more -- and, although i've tried to appreciate 'em for the sake of my American brothers & sisters, i really, really, think that they -- to use a technical term -- suck.)



Santana -- Dance Sister Dance
Cheryl Dilcher -- Who's The Captain (Of Rock And Roll)
The Outlaws -- There Goes Another Love Song
Status Quo -- Is There A Better Way
Elton John -- Funeral For A Friend
Bruce Cockburn -- If I Had A Rocket Launcher
The Little River Band -- Help Is On Its Way
Jethro Tull -- Bourée
The Jeff Beck Group -- Rice Pudding
Charlie Daniels Band -- Birmingham Blues
Roxy Music -- Love Is The Drug
Shooting Star -- Hollywood
707 -- I Could Be Good For You
John Mellencamp -- Ain't Even Done With The Night
UFO -- Only You Can Rock Me
Buffalo Springfield -- Rock And Roll Woman
David & David -- Welcome To The Boomtown
Yes -- Starship Trooper
The Babys -- Turn And Walk Away
Justin Hayward -- Forever Autumn
Ambrosia -- Life Beyond L.A.
Graham Nash -- Chicago / We Can Change The World
Loverboy -- Lucky Ones
REO Speedwagon -- Music Man
Dave Mason -- Let It Go, Let It Flow
George Harrison -- What Is Life
Russ Ballard -- Rene Didn't Do It
Traffic -- Dear Mr Fantasy
Touch -- Black Star
Todd Rundgren -- We Gotta Get You A Woman
Trapeze -- Midnight Flyer
David Bowie -- Young Americans
Zebra -- Tell Me What You Want
Jackson Browne -- Rock Me On The Water
Brownsville Station -- Lady (Put The Light On Me)
The Animals -- House Of The Rising Sun

And here's what's been under the laser at Spriggs Towers this week:

Lynyrd Skynyrd – The Millennium Collection
Poco – Crazy Loving
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Broadcasting From Home
Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Steve Reich – Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience
Colin James – Bad Habits
Chicago – Chicago VII
Sting – The Soul Cages
Dan Fogelberg – The Innocent Age
Melissa Etheridge – Never Enough
Detty Kurnia – Coyor Panon
Various Artists – The Earth Greets The Sun
Paula Cole – Ballads
Five Hand Reel – Five Hand Reel
Peter Hammill – The Love Songs
The Beatles – Help!
Steve Earle – El Corazón
Dire Straits – Money For Nothing
Arleen Auger – Chants d' Auvergne
Peter Gabriel – Us
Genesis – Live: The Way We Walk, Vol. 2 – The Longs
Fish – A Feast Of Consequences
Yes – Tormato
Albion Country Band – The Battle Of The Field
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg – No Resemblance Whatsoever
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy
Various Artists – Passion Sources
Alan Stivell – Live In Dublin
Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunhillow
Quicksilver Messenger Service -- Happy Trails

Monday 21 August 2017

KSHE Klassics, August 20, 2017

Quotation du jour: Mark Twain ~ Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

You may recall that, last week, i was a little under the weather. In fact, for nearly two weeks, i felt like i'd been hit by a fucking bus. It wasn't until this past Friday that i felt back to being 100% and, amazingly, i was also in a good mood: very rare for me. It may have been simple relief at not feeling like something the cat threw up, but it has remained. I feel excellent.

This week's mostly excellent Klassics Show didn't hurt, either!



Thin Lizzy – Showdown
Journey – The Girl Can't Help It
Jackson Browne – That Girl Could Sing
Bob Dylan – Maggie's Farm
Molly Hatchet – Gator Country
David Bowie – Golden Years
The Nazz – Open My Eyes
Queen – Tie Your Mother Down
Touch – When The Spirit Moves You
Strawbs – Heartbreaker
The Clash – Train In Vain
The Police – Driven To Tears
Trapeze – Black Clouds
Rod Stewart – Hot Legs
Bob Welch – Sentimental Lady
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Poco – Rose Of Cimarron
City Boy – Cigarettes
Crabby Appleton – Go Back
Dave Mason – So High (Rock Me Baby And Roll Me Away
Taxxi – I'm Leaving
Billy Joel – Root Beer Rag
Firefall – Mexico
Boz Scaggs – Loan Me A Dime
Climax Blues Band – I Am Constant
Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Man
The Babys – Every Time I Think Of You
Todd Rundgren – Love Of The Common Man
Grinderswitch – Higher Ground
Joe Cocker – She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Pavlov's Dog – Julia
Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne
Eric Clapton – Let It Rain
Prism – Armageddon
Starz – (She's Just A) Fallen Angel
Pete Townshend – Pure And Easy
J. Geils – Whammer Jammer

And our own personal playlist for the week:

Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
Lisa Gerrard – A Thousand Roads
Marvin Gaye – 15 Greatest Hits
Marillion – F.E.A.R.
Peter Hammill – In Camera
Ofra Haza – Fifty Gates Of Wisdom
Kate Bush – Director's Cut
Focus – At The Rainbow
The Beatles – Past Masters Volume One
Dan Fogelberg – Full Circle
Joni Mitchell – Night Ride Home
Ashley Hutchings – Rattlebone & Ploughjack
Mark Knopfler – Sailing To Philadephia
James Taylor – October Road
Squeeze – The Millennium Collection
Richard Thompson – Mirror Blue
Home – The Alchemist
Soft Machine – Third
Rod Stewart – A Night On The Town
Tori Amos – From The Choirgirl Hotel
Phil Manzanera – Listen Now
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady
Jonathan Edwards – Jonathan Edwards
Dan Fogelberg – River Of Souls
The Albion Band – Acousticity
Ian Anderson – Homo Erraticus
The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir – Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares
Keane – Perfect Symmetry
Keith Emerson – Off The Shelf
Matchbox Twenty – More Than You Think You Are
John Lennon – Wonsaponatime
Propaganda – A Secret Wish
Saga – 20/20
Five Hand Reel – For A' That
Focus – Ship Of Memories
Survivor – Vital Signs











Monday 14 August 2017

KSHE Klassics, Aug. 13, 2017

Quotation du jour: Peter Hammill ~ I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than
homogeneity.

Today's post almost didn't get written.

I was feeling a bit under the weather all week – nothing too serious, aching muscles, headaches, stomach and back pain and an overwhelming feeling of lethargy. My best friend all week was a jar of stewed prunes, and they finally started working their magic on Friday.

Sunday morning i was pretty close to being 100% except for a lingering sense of (to use a medical term) the blahs, and so, when i couldn't connect to KSHE's audio stream, i almost said, to heck with it and went back to bed. (What happened when i tried to connect was, i would get two seconds of garbled nonsense followed by a minute of nothing followed by two second of garbled nonsense etc., etc.).

I persevered, though, figuring after the crummy week i'd had, i needed this four hours of musical uplift, and so i tried to connect using a different browser and gloriosky, i connected to the stream much more quickly than usual. Wow! I think that my path for Sunday mornings in the future has been set before me.












Supertramp – School
Nazareth – This Flight Tonight
Off Broadway – Stay In Time
Roger Daltrey – One Man Band
Jon & Vangelis – The Friends Of Mr Cairo
Styx – Snowblind
Michael Schenker Group – Cry For The Nations
Heart – Dog And Butterfly
Stanley Clarke – School Days
The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Starz – Cherry Baby
Thin Lizzy – Cowboy Song
Sugarloaf – Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
Little Feat – All That You Dream
Frank Marino – Strange Dreams
Rush – Test For Echo
Todd Rundgren – Real Man
Traffic – Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
April Wine – All Over Town
Stillwater – Mindbender
Fleetwood Mac – Emerald Eyes
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Panama Red
Billy Joel – New York State Of Mind
Chilliwack – Fly At Night
Cream – Tales Of Brave Ulysses
Lou Gramm – Midnight Blue
Robin Trower – Bridge Of Sighs
Journey – Look Into The Future
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
The Tarney / Spencer Band – No Time To Lose
Elton John -- All The Girls Love Alice
Grinderswitch – Kill The Pain
Strawbs – Keep On Trying
Rod Stewart – True Blue
Santana -- Everybody's Everything

And our own personal playlist for the week:

Sixpence None The Richer – Sixpence None The Richer
Ten Years After – Undead
Thunder – Laughing On Judgement Day
Seether – Holding On To Strings Better Left To Fray
The White Stripes – Icky Thump
Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel
Focus – Mother Focus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy
Paula Cole – Ballads
Five Hand Reel – Five Hand Reel
Sheryl Crow – Be Myself
Roger McGuinn – Roger McGuinn
The Albion Band – Natural And Wild
Jeff Beck – There And Back
Camel – Breathless
Dead Can Dance – Spleen And Ideal
Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells A Story
Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn
Tyrannosaurus Rex – A Beard Of Stars
Brian Eno & David Byrne – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Peter Gabriel – Passion
Van Morrison – A Night In San Francisco
Don Henley – The End Of The Innocence
Focus – Hamburger Concerto
Ray Davies – Americana

Van der Graaf Generator – Do Not Disturb

Monday 7 August 2017

KSHE Klassics, August 6, 2017

Quotation du jour ~ Les Dawson: Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'

It was a pretty miserable listening experience this morning, folks. Not because of the music itself, which was mostly as good as ever. No, it was my Internet connection playing silly buggers again: frequent drop-outs and i know i missed at least two songs.

It was a fairly frustrating morning altogether, cyberspatially. A couple of fairly large downloads (the usual music & porn) kept failing, as did several uploads, and even remote content in emails wasn't loading. If i ever move to St Louis, which i fully intend to do when i win a few millions in a lottery (which is unlikely to happen as i never buy tickets), one reason will be that i'll be able to listen to this show without a DSL connection.

Also, it never fails to stagger me that, after years of writing this blog, mt typing skills aren;t omproving .... Anywat, her's today's platlist:




Crosby, Stills & Nash -- Marrakesh Express
Kansas -- Play The Game Tonight
The Bliss Band -- Doctor
Bruce Springsteen -- Hungry Heart
Jimi Hendrix -- Little Wing
Tommy Bolin -- Post Toastee
Alice Cooper -- Hello Hurray
David Bowie -- Space Oddity
Eric Clapton -- I've Got A Rock 'n' Roll Heart
Jackson Browne -- Redneck Friend
Elton John -- Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Bob Seger -- Nutbush City Limits
Eagles -- Ol' 55
Steely Dan -- Black Friday
Bachman-Turner Overdrive -- Blue Collar
Jim Capaldi -- Living On The Edge
Dave Mason -- Mystic Traveller
Headboys -- The Shape Of Things To Come
Arthur Brown -- Fire
Symphonic Slam -- Modane Train
Atlanta Rhythm Section -- Georgia Rhythm
The Band -- Up On Cripple Creek
April Wine -- Just Between You And Me
Climax Blues Band -- Couldn't Get It Right
UFO -- Shoot Shoot
Triumvirat -- Spartacus
Foghat -- Rock And Roll Outlaw
Pete Townshend -- Rough Boys
Chicago -- Dialogue (Parts 1 & 2)
Nils Lofgren -- No Mercy
Todd Rundgren -- Just One Victory
Ian Gomm -- Hold On
Gypsy -- Don't Get Mad (Get Even)
America -- Sandman
Kenny Loggins -- Easy Driver
Genesis -- A Trick Of The Tail
Badfinger -- Baby Blue
Chilliwack -- Something Better
J. Geils -- First I Look At The Purse
Rainbow -- Man On The Silver Mountain
Creedence Clearwater Revival -- The Midnight Special

And here's what we played at the world headquarters of the Jim Spriggs Society this week:

Heart – Heart
Bob Dylan – Another Side Of Bob Dylan
Kate Bush – Aerial
The Tea Party – Seven Circles
Rush – Feedback
Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour '74
Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
Curved Air – Air Conditioning
John Fogerty – The Long Road Home
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound
Florence + The Machine – Lungs
Chicago – Chicago VI
Maddy Priot & June Tabor – No More To The Dance
Pyewackett – The Man In The Moon Drinks Claret
Various Artists – The Roots Of The Rolling Stones
Five Hand Reel – For A' That
Rob Hyman – Largo
Focus – In And Out Of Focus
The Beatles – Beatles For Sale
Gregson & Collister – The Last Word
Peter Gabriel – OVO
Focus – At The Rainbow
Marillion – F.E.A.R.
Caro Emerald – The Shocking Miss Emerald
Runrig – The Cutter And The Clan
Mike Heron – Smiling Men With Bad Reputations
Colin James – Sudden Stop
Robin Trower – Day Of The Eagle
Afro-Celt Sound System – Anatomic
Ray Davies – Americana
Paul Simon – The Rhythm Of The Saints
Cassandra Wilson – Silver Pony
Alan Stivell – Olympia Concert

Jonathan Edwards -- Jonathan Edwards

Tuesday 1 August 2017

KSHE Klassics, July 30, 2017

Quotation du jour ~ Trent Reznor: It's tough, because the president of the United States is a complete fucking moron. That's what gets me the most, that he's this vulgar, grotesque dope, everything I hate in people.

It wasn't an exceptional Klassics Show this week, although the inclusion of Rory Gallagher made it brilliant. But, hey, you find a radio station you like, you listen because they play schtuff you love and lots of it, they're bound to play shit you can't stand occasionally (Styx, REO Speedwagon, i'm talking to you) but the brilliant outweighs the banal. It's the best show on the wireless.














Captain Beyond -- Sufficiently Breathless
Bachman-Turner Overdrive -- Hey You
Humble Pie -- Thirty Days In The Hole
John Mellencamp -- Small Paradise
Styx -- Father O.S.A.
Alice Cooper -- Under My Wheels
Prism -- Spaceship Superstar
Cream -- I'm So Glad
Chris Rea -- Working On It
REO Speedwagon -- Son Of A Poor Man
Marshall Tucker -- Take The Highway
Eric Clapton -- She's Waiting
Soul Asylum -- Black Gold
Foghat -- Drivin' Wheel
Sammy Hagar -- The Ice Man
Jackson Browne -- In The Shape Of A Heart
Gary Wright -- Love Is Alive
The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- The Wind Cries Mary
Thin Lizzy -- Romeo And The Lonely Girl
Survivor -- Poor Man\s Son
Blind Faith -- Can't Find My Way Home
Kansas -- It Takes A Woman's Love (To Make A Man)
UFO -- Cherry
J. Geils Band -- Musta Got Lost
Jethro Tull -- Living In The Past
Rory Gallagher -- Country Mile
Aerosmith -- Big Ten Inch Record
Traffic -- The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
Blue Oyster Cult -- Godzilla
Pink Floyd -- San Tropez
The Electric Light Orchestra -- Poker
Head East -- City Of Gold / Fly By Night Lady
The Grateful Dead -- Alabama Getaway
The Who -- Athena
Robin Trower -- My Love (Burning Love)
Honeymoon Suite -- New Girl Now
Steely Dan -- Don't Take Me Alive
Stu Nunnery -- Isle Of Debris
The Little River Band -- It's Not A Wonder
The Rolling Stones -- Wild Horses

And here's what we played at Spriggs Towers this week:

Dan Fogelberg – The Wild Places
Paul Simon – Stranger To Stranger
Mama's Pride – Mama's Pride
Van der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts
Genesis – ...And Then There Were Three...
Peter Hammill – None Of The Above
The Fray – How To Save A Life
Five Hand Reel – For A' That
Sharon Shannon – Each Little Thing
The Trews – Hope And Ruin
Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn
Blodwyn Pig – Ahead Rings Out
Steeleye Span – Live At Last!
Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour
Great Big Sea – Fortune's Favour
Journey – Journey's Greatest Hits
Colin James – National Steel
Marillion – Sounds That Can't Be Made
Mike Oldfield – Voyager
Focus – Moving Waves
John Kirkpatrick – Going Spare
Terje Rypdal – Descendre
Max Webster – High Class In Borrowed Shoes
Pink Floyd – Animals
Alanis Morissette – Under Rug Swept
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Dancer With Bruised Knees
Pink Floyd – The Endless River
Sandy Denny – Rendezvous
King Crimson – Beat
Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
Various Artists -- Passion Sources