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

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

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

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

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