Quotation du jour ~
Jerry Garcia: You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of
those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and
bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives,
and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
[As you may or may
not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream
their audio to here and i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a
non-Canadian address. This week, according to
https://whatismyipaddress.com/
i was listening from San Francisco for the second
week running. I must like it there.]
This
program has changed a bit over the past couple of months, in that the
host,
John
Ulett (a.k.a. Uman) once seldom spoke but now introduces nearly every
other song and often provides background info about the music and/or
the performer. It's all right – he has a friendly voice (and is a
nice guy – i met him when i was in St Louis) and the details are
usually interesting, but i can't help thinking that i'd prefer less
rabbit and more music.
Ah,
well, it's still the best radio show i know of and still the
highlight of my week, and today's scores an A+ (or seven stars out of
five) (off the scale on the Spriggs-o-meter!) for the inclusion of
both Dan Fogelberg and Rory Gallagher – back-to-back, no less! But
it would have scored almost an A+ even without them, it was that
good.
I
have tried and tried to understand the popularity of REO Speedwagon
in St Louis, but i simply can't. I am, after all, an honorary citizen
of the place so i think i should be able to comprehend schtuff like
this, but it baffles me. They're pretty much disdained in Canada and
i did, once, kinda half-heartedly try to defend them to a Canajun
friend, out of “civic pride,” but i couldn't. They (to use the
technical term) suck. Theirs was definitely the worst selection
today.
So
much great music, though: and so much that i hadn't heard in a long
time. The show ended far too early.
Jackson
Browne – The Pretender
Fleetwood
Mac – Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
Neil
Young & Crazy Horse – Hey Hey, My My (Out Of The Blue, Into The
Black)
Supertramp
– Rudy
Shooting
Star – Last Chance
The
Who – The Kids Are Alright
The
Marshall Tucker Band – Searchin' For A Rainbow
Steely
Dan – The Fez
Alice
Cooper – Hello Hooray
REO
Speedwagon – Easy Money
Uriah
Heep – The Wizard
Head
East – City Of Gold / Fly By Night
The
Doobie Brothers – Ukiah / The Captain And Me
It's
A Beautiful Day – A Hot Summer Day
Jethro
Tull – Cross-Eyed Mary
Dan
Fogelberg – Aspen / These Days
Rory
Gallagher – Country Mile
Stingray
– The Man In My Shoes
Crosby,
Stills & Nash – Just A Song Before I Go
String
Driven Thing – Circus
Camel
– Lady Fantasy
John
Mellencamp – Justice And Independence '85
Genesis
– Man On The Corner
Planet
P Project – Why Me
The
Grateful Dead – Touch Of Grey
Bruce
Springsteen – The Promised Land
Brian
Protheroe – Pinball
Paul
McCartney – Another Day
Good
Rats – Back To My Music
Yes
– Tempus Fugit
The
Charlie Daniels Band – Saddle Tramp
UFO
– Mystery Train
Joe
Walsh – A Life Of Illusion
The
Cars – It's All I Can Do
The
Tubes – Sushi Girl
Rod
Stewart – You Wear It Well
This week, i promised
myself that i would re-listen to some albums i had never, for one
reason or another, become overly familiar with. It didn't work out
all that well. Here's the list of what i annoyed the neighbours with:
Johnny Hodges – Jazz
Masters 35
Afro-Celt Sound System
– Flight
Jethro Tull –
Stormwatch
Mike Batt – Tarot
Suite
The Kinks – The Kinks
Are The Village Green Preservation Society
George Harrison –
Brainwashed
Dixie Chicks – Fly
Van Morrison –
Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart
Bill Bruford's
Earthworks – Stomping Ground
Billy Joel –
Turnstiles
Joan Osborne – Little
Wild One
Yehudi Menuhin (w.
The English Chamber Orchestra) – Yehudi Menuhin Conducts Vaughan
Williams
June Tabor, Iain
Bellamy & Huw Warren – Quercus
Kim Mitchell –
Rockland
Various Artists – Son
Of “Morris On”
Portishead – Third
Mike Oldfield – QE 2
Patty Loveless – The
Trouble With The Truth
Various Artists –
Compil Folk 38
Dixie Chicks – Wide
Open Spaces
Boys Of The Lough –
To Welcome Paddy Home
Chicago – Chicago VI
Toto – Past To
Present 1977-1990
Siouxsie & The
Banshees – Superstition
Rod Stewart – Human
Mekons & Kathy
Acker – Pussy, King Of The Pirates
The Kinks – Muswell
Hillbillies
Eleftheria
Arvanitaki -- Ta Kormia Ke Ta Maheria
Jeff
Beck – Who Else!
Led
Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
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