Sunday 25 March 2018

KSHE Sunday Klassics Show, March 25, 2018


Quotation du jour ~ Unknown: I told my dad that I wanted to be a musician when I grew up and he said "Son, you can't do both."

I was listening from San Francisco this morning and, although it was a hassle-free listening experience (no connection dropouts or crashes of any kind), it nearly didn't happen thanks to one of my frequent technology nightmares. The details are irrelevant to this post; suffice to say that, with a great deal of time & frustration on Saturday evening, i managed to sort it all out. (I also discovered that the only place in Stratford that sells computer equipment after 6 p.m. on Saturdays is Wal-Mart* – I'll bet that's not the case in San Francisco!)

Since KSHE was bought by Hubbard Radio a month or so ago, i have noticed a major change in the way listenlive.co streams the audio. Back when Emmis Radio owned the station, the local St Louis ads were deleted from the stream to be replaced by public service announcements, ads for national corporations or ads targeted at me wherever my VPN told them i was listening from, and often with a completely inappropriate song included. Now, the insertion of a song is no longer, and i get the local ads. This week: O'Reilly's Auto Parts, One-Eleven Storage, The Goodfeet Store (with a branch in Shiloh, Illinois!), Motor City Auto Sales, Ramjack Of St Louis, Metro Lighting etc. I love listening to these ads – so exotic -- and i positively hated some of the songs so i applaud this change. Thanks, Hubbard!

Here's this week's playlist:



Danny Spanos – Hot Cherie
April Wine – Sign Of The Gypsy Queen
Paul Collins' Beat – Don't Wait Up For Me
John Mellencamp – A Little Night Dancin'
The Allman Brothers Band – Blue Sky
Blue Őyster Cult – Hot Rails To Hell
Firefall – Mexico
Electric Light Orchestra -- Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
Elton John – Where To Now St Peter
The Grateful Dead – U.S. Blues
Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland
Badfinger – Baby Blue
Heartsfield – Shine On
Brownsville Station – Smokin' In The Boys' Room
Pete Townshend – Rough Boys
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Nazareth – Razamanaz
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – From The Beginning
Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick (a very abbreviated radio edit)
Grinderswitch – Higher Ground
The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – Arms Of Mary
Nantucket – Heartbreaker
David Bowie – Golden Years
Hudson-Ford – Take A Little Word
Traffic – Rock & Roll Stew
Flash & The Pan – Down Among The Dead Men
UFO – Cherry
Supertramp – Sister Moonshine
Uriah Heap – The Wizard
Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn
The Dwight Twilley Band – Twilley Don't Mind
Thin Lizzy – Dancing In The Moonlight
George Harrison – This Song
Roger Hodgson – Had A Dream (Sleeping With The Enemy)
Grand Funk Railroad – Footstompin' Music
The Who – Athena
Foghat – Stone Blue
Dave Mason – World In Changes

Back to work after a week off and here's what eased my transition from drinking every day to gettng angry every day:

John Tams – Unity
Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis
Various Artists – Tower Of Song: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Sharon Shannon – Each Little Thing
Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands
Peter Gabriel – Birdy
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
The Beatles – With The Beatles
Tori Amos – Silent All These Years
The Pretenders – Greatest Hits
Mike Oldfield – QE2
Bonnie Raitt – Sweet Forgiveness
Donna Summer – The Ultimate Collection
Dick Gaughan – Definitive Collection
Buddy Guy – Damn Right, I've Got The Blues
Talk Talk – Natural History: The Very Best Of Talk Talk
Garfield – Out There Tonight
Supergrass – In It For The Money
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Soup
Gowan – Strange Animal
Fairport Convention – XXXV
Steve Earle – Essential Steve Earle
Jack Bruce – Harmony Row

*It was my first-ever visit to the local Wal-Mart, which has been open for five or six years. Prior to Saturday, the only Wal-Mart i'd ever set foot in was in Belleville, Illinois....

Sunday 18 March 2018

KSHE Klassics Show, March 18th, 2018



Quotation du jour ~ Igor Stravinsky: I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

OMG, i love this program – just look at that playlist: so much schtuff i love dearly and nothing that made me want to chuck my PC out the window.

Today, i was in Oslo (at least, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/), which is odd to say the least, as i was listening from The Philippines a couple of weeks ago. I wonder where else besides Canada KSHE does not stream their audio to? At least i wasn't hearing targeted ads in Norwegian, though: in fact most of them were for local St Louis outfits: Liberty Fence, Weber Chevrolet, Ted's Motorcycle World, The Wildey Theater, Mojo's Music Store, The Goodfeet Store, The Peabody Opera House, the Ameristar Casino, Metro Lighting, etc., which was great. When my friend Dave first told me about KSHE eight or more years ago and i started listening, the local ads weren't expunged and they were one of the things that piqued my interest in the city itself.

Another odd thing this week – listenlive.co, the outfit that streams the audio, has this disturbing habit of deleting the local ads and replacing them with public service announcements and songs of their own choosing. A small number of songs and they're all wildly inappropriate and usually obnoxious. That didn't happen this week, yay.

Anyway, here you go with the playlist. I hope some of you outside Norway were able to listen!



Starz – Cherry Baby
The Electric Light Orchestra – In The Hall Of The Mountain King
Morning Star – Sad Lady
Head East – Since You've Been Gone
April Wine – Roller
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
The Michael Schenker Group – Cry For The Nations
The Grateful Dead – I Need A Miracle
Eric Clapton – Let It Rain
Eagles – 'Ol 55
Dwight Tilley – I'm On Fire
Buffalo Springfield – Rock & Roll Woman
Novo Combo – Tattoo
Foreigner – Headknocker
Humble Pie – 30 Days In The Hole
America – Don't Cross The River
Elton John – Funeral For A Friend
Rod Stewart – Mandolin Wind
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Janis Joplin – Move Over
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Dark Star
Grand Funk Railroad – Closer To Home / I'm Your Captain
The Who – Magic Bus
Jay Ferguson – Thunder Island
Roger Daltrey – One Man Band
Jerry Garcia – Sugaree
Deep Purple – Space Truckin'
Heartsfield – House Of Living
Glass Moon – Killer at 25
Blue Ȍyster Cult – Godzilla
Judas Priest – The Ripper
Joe Satriana – Always With Me, Always With You
Paul McCartney & Wings – Venus And Mars / Rock Show
The Kinks – Tired Of Waiting For You
Kansas – The Wall
Chicago – Dialogue (Part 1 & 2)
Ronnie Montrose – Town Without Pity

My personal playlist is a lengthy one this time. After the stressful few months i've had at work, I needed a week off, and I had one. Some alcohol was consumed! And a lot of great music was listened to (and in some cases, watched: three concert DVDs by my three favourite guitarists!).

The Musicians Of The Nile – Luxor To Isna
The Albion Band – The BBC Sessions
Katrina & The Waves – Walking On Sunshine: The Greatest Hits Of Katrina & The Waves
Fish – Raingods With Zippos
Brass Monkey – Sound And Rumour
Jethro Tull – Rock Island
The Richard Thompson Band – Live In Providence (DVD)
Kate Bush – The Red Shoes
Judy Collins – Democracy
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Superstition
Martin & Eliza Carthy – The Moral Of The Elephant
John Kirkpatrick – Sheepskins
George Harrison – Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989
Marillion – Brave
Highly Strung – When The Winds Begin To Sing
Ute Lemper – Illusions
K.D. Lang – Ingénue
Dave Edmunds – The Collection
Rory Gallagher – Live In Cork (DVD)
Tori Amos – From The Choirgirl Hotel
Jethro Tull – Roots To Branches
Max Webster – High Class In Borrowed Shoes
Steve Reich – Drumming
Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Nanci Griffith – Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Bee Gees – This Is Where I Came In
Yes – Keystudio
Jefferson Starship – Gold
Jeff Beck – Live At The Hollywood Bowl (DVD)
Santana – Supernatural
Alanis Morissette – Under Rug Swept
Dan Fogelberg – Full Circle
The Beatles – With The Beatles
Curved Air – Air Conditioning
Alanis Morissette – Havoc And Bright Lights
Dick Gaughan – The Definitive Collection
Blue Rodeo – Casino
Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release
Donal Lunny – Coolfin
Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie
America – History: America's Greatest Hits
P.J. Harvey – Let England Shake
Fleetwood Mac – Tribute To The Blues
Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
Peter Hammill – Skin





























Sunday 11 March 2018

KSHE Klassics, March 11th, 2018




According to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Santa Clara, California this morning. Good! Although the Spanish-influenced design of many of the buildings doesn't speak to me, the weather is much nicer there than it is in cold, snow-blanketed Stratford....

It wasn't exactly a classic Klassics Show today, although the first two songs gave me high hopes. A lot of great music, along with a few duds – REO Speedwagon leaps to mind, i can't stand the band, sorry.

At least it was a painless listening experience – apart from all of those damned ads directed to us Santa Clarans! No Internet drop-outs at all, no computer crashes. Life is good.

And i'm sharing this pic of Kate Bush -- who has never been played on KSHE, as far as i know -- simply because i can.



The Who – Love, Reign O'er Me
Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky
Flame – Beg Me
Jefferson Starship – Girl With The Hungry Eyes
Rare Bird – Beautiful Scarlet
Jethro Tull -- Bourée
George Harrison -- What Is Life
Detective -- Recognition
The Moody Blues -- Ride My See-Saw
Climax Blues Band -- Using The Power
Triumvirat -- Spartacus
Shooting Star -- Hollywood
April Wine -- Shotdown
REO Speedwagon  -- Only The Strong Survive
The Firm -- Radioactive
The Police -- Canary In A Coalmine
Chuck Francour -- Under The Boulevard Lights
Leon Russell -- Stranger In A Strange Land
The Grateful Dead  -- Uncle John's Band
The Small Faces -- Itchycoo Park
The James Gang -- Alexis
Billy Joel -- Root Beer Rag
Gamma -- I'm Alive
Couchois -- Do It In Darkness
Iron Butterfly -- Scorching Beauty
Heart -- Dog & Butterfly
The Alan Parsons Project -- I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
Dire Straits -- Lady Writer
Gary Wright -- Silent Fury
Wet Willie -- Baby Fat
Brewer & Shipley -- One Toke Over The Line
Fleetwood Mac -- She's Changing Me
Headboys -- The Shape Of Things To Come
Charlie -- L.A. Dreamer
Eagles -- James Dean
Camel  -- Lady Fantasy
Supertramp -- Poor Boy
Headstone -- Turn Your Head

Although i'm now on holidays for eight days, this past week was an especially stress-filled one at Spriggs Towers. Here's what we used to ease the pain:

Kathryn Tickell – The Gathering
Dan Fogelberg – Windows And Walls
Paula Cole – Ballads
Richard Thompson Band – More Guitar
Siouxsie And The Banshees – The Best Of Siouxsie And The Banshees
The Beatles – Beatles For Sale
Joan Osborne – Relish
Pink Floyd – Works
Marillion – Fugazi
Dead Can Dance – Spleen And Ideal
Oysterband – Diamond On The Water
Bruce Guthro – Guthro
Rory Gallagher – Calling Card
Sarah Fimm – A Perfect Dream
Fairport Convention – Gladys' Leap
Home Service – Alright Jack
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Sandy Denny – The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
Jon And Vangelis – Page Of Life
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Shooting Straight In The Dark
Duke Ellington – It Don't Mean A Thing: Classic Recordings Vol. 21, 1910-1914
Ashley Hutchings – 5
Peter Hammill & Gary Lucas – Other World
Yes – The Yes Album
The Waterboys – Room To Roam
Bjőrk – Volta
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound
The Bothy Band -- Old Hag You Have Killed Me

















































Sunday 4 March 2018

KSHE Klassics, March 4th, 2018



Quotation du jour ~ Dan Fogelberg: Off in the nether lands/I heard a sound/Like the beating of heavenly wings/And deep in my brain/I can hear a refrain/Of my soul as she rises and sings/Anthems to glory and/Anthems to love and/Hymns filled with early delight/Like the songs that the darkness/Composes to worship the light.

Now this is just plain weird. Remember that last week i was listening from Clifton, New Jersey? This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Manila in The Philippines! I thought that KSHE didn't stream their audio to anywhere outside the USA, but obviously not. Maybe just not to Canada? Odd, too, that the targeted ads weren't in Tagalog. They were the usual ones for America-wide corporations: Walgreen's, ABC-TV, The Home Depot, etc.

It was a good show, too, if maybe not absolutely oh-wow-holy-shit amazing as it can be. Well, it kicked off with a Rorysong, and that's always a good sign. (I wonder if it was a nod towards the fact that it would have been Rory's 70th birthday on Friday? I should Tweet to John (Ulett, the host) and ask.

It was also the first Klassics Show since KSHE's new owners, Hubbard Radio, took over. They have promised not to mess with the station's format. So far, i'm happy. Normally i hate corporate radio – corporate everything, really, but Hubbard is a small Minnesota outfit and i can live with that. It was a seamless listening experience, too – no connection failures at all, no system crashes.

Oh, look, there's the birthday boy:


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Rory Gallagher – Country Mile
Molly Hatchet – Dreams I'll Never See
The Moody Blues – I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock 'N' Roll Band)
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
REO Speedwagon – Music Man
Roger Daltrey – It's A Hard Life / Giving It All Away
Ten Years After – I'd Love To Change The World
B.B. King – The Thrill Is Gone
Pousette-Dart Band – Amnesia
Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride
The Spencer Davis Group – I'm A Man
Flash And The Pan – Hey, St Peter
Trooper – Round Round We Go
Trapeze – Black Cloud
The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man
Foghat – Drivin' Wheel
Ambrosia – Time Waits For No One
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah – Lake Shore Drive
Rod Stewart – Handbags And Gladrags
Brownsville Station – The Martian Boogie
Alice Cooper – Hello Hooray
The Band – The Weight
The Animals – It's My Life
Billy Joel – The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
The Atlanta Rhythm Section – I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
David Bowie – The Jean Genie
Budgie – I Ain't No Mountain
The Boomtown Rats – I Don't Like Mondays
Touch – Black Star
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown
Canned Heat – Going Up The Country
Little Feat – Feets Don't Fail Me Now
Blend – The Prize
Jefferson Starship – Stranger
Chilliwack – Fly At Night
Blackfoot – Highway Song
Sammy Hagar – (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

It was a rough week at World Headquarters. Here's what we played to help ease the pain:

The Beatles – Let It Be … Naked
Eliza Carthy – Rough Music
Afrocelt – Volume 3: Further In Time
Poco – Crazy Loving: The Best Of Poco 1975-1982*
The Allman Brothers Band – Brothers And Sisters
Garfield – Out There Tonight
Rory Gallagher – Deuce
John Mayer Trio – Try!
Colin James – Bad Habits
Electric Light Orchestra – Zoom
Jack Bruce – Harmony Row
Steve Earle – Jerusalem
Robin Trower – B.L.T.
Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
Saga – Full Circle
Kate Bush – The Red Shoes
The Tea Party – Seven Circles
Whippersnapper – Tsubo
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg – No Resemblance Whatsoever
Martin & Eliza Carthy – The Moral Of The Elephant
Genesis – Foxtrot
Peter Gabriel – Security
Rory Gallagher – BBC Sessions
T. Rex – The Slider
Talking Heads – Remain In Light
Dick Gaughan – Gaughan

*can't really say i'm a huge fan of Poco's, but I adore their song “Rose Of Cimarron.”