Monday, 16 July 2018

KSHE Klassics Show, July 15th, 2018


Quotation du jour: Benjamin Franklin ~ Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here. I have to connect to a VPN to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/, i was listening from Pudokkottai, in the Tamil Nadu region of India!] [As long as i'm here, i may as well visit Thirugokarnam Temple.... That's a photo of it down there.]

Now that's more like it! Any edition of the Klassics Show that includes Rory Gallagher – as this week's did – is automatically graded an A++ and this week it was fully deserved, unlike last Sunday's slightly disappointing instalment (which received that grade solely for playing both Rory and Dan Fogelberg). In fact, i would have rated today's an A++ even without Rory. (OK, i know, my prejudice[s] show through, but Rory was such a huge star in the 70s and 80s as well as being the best blues-rock guitarist ever, it's a sin he's now practically forgotten. KSHE is helping to keep him alive but the only other radio stations i know of that play him even occasionally are KOCI from Newport Beach, California, and St Louis Classic Rock [dot] Com. I'm sure there are others, and if my regular reader knows of any, i'd be delighted to know about them.)

Just look at that playlist, though. So many performers i love, so many songs i love, and absolutely nothing that made me want to take a sledgehammer to my speakers. I don't particularly like the music of Styx but theirs was a song that hasn't been played to death and it was all right. I even liked the Eric Clapton song, and most of his output from the seventies bores me senseless.



Santana – Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic
Marc Tanner Band – Hot And Cold
Joe Satriani – Always With Me, Always With You
George Harrison – Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
Bob Dylan – Mr Tamborine Man
Max Webster – Battle Scar
Neil Young – Don't Let It Bring You Down
Jim Capaldi – Living On The Edge
Genesis – Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
Rod Stewart – (I Know I'm Losing You)
Wiggy Bits – Oh Captain
Rare Earth – Born To Wander
Thin Lizzy – Don't Believe A Word
The Band – Ophelia
Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning
Rory Gallagher – I What I Want
April Wine – All Over Town
Firefall – Strange Way
The Little River Band – Emma
Saga – On The Loose
Eric Clapton – Let It Grow
Fleetwood Mac – She's Changing Me
The Police – Can't Stand Losing You
Toto – Ninety Nine
The Animals – Sky Pilot
Poco – Indian Summer
Honeymoon Suite – New Girl Now
The Grateful Dead – Estimated Prophet
Wings – 1985
Ambrosia – Livin' On My Own
Brave Belt – Another Way Out
Michael Stanley – All I Ever Wanted
Russ Ballard – Voices
Supertramp – Ain't Nobody But Me
Nazareth – Miss Misery
Styx – This Old Man
Symphonic Slam – Modane Train
Jesse Colin Young – Ridgetop
Off Broadway – Full Moon Turn Your Head Around
Journey – On A Saturday Night

And here's what we've been pumping out on the home stereo this week, to annoy the people in the bowling alley upstairs:

Davy Spillane – Atlantic Bridge
Ray Davies – Our Country: Americana Act ii
Tori Amos – American Doll Posse
Judy Collins – Fires Of Eden
Howard Skempton – Lento
Alan Stivell – Olympia Concert
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
Martin Carthy – Crown Of Horn
Dick Gaughan – Gaughan
Art – Supernatural Fairy Tales
Rob Thomas – … Something To Be
Kula Shaker – Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
Jon & Vangelis – Page Of Life
Idjah Hadidjah – Tonggeret
Pyewackett – The Man In The Moon Drinks Claret
Squeeze – The Best Of Squeeze
Genesis – Duke
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady
Jeff Beck – Jeff
Stan Rogers – Fogarty's Cove
Focus – Hamburger Concerto
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Black Moon
Martin & Eliza Carthy – The Moral Of The Elephant
Robert Plant – Dreamland
Marillion – Sounds That Can't Be Made
10 c.c. – The Best Of 10 c.c.
Bruce Cockburn – In The Falling Dark
Camel – Lunar Sea: An Anthology 1973-1985
Buffalo Springfield – Again
Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses

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