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 via a VPN in order to spoof an American address. Connecting was an adventure itself this week, though. (For “adventure” read friggin' hassle.) according to whatismyipaddress.com, i was listening from Vienna, Austria. (?!?)
On the day before the show, my VPN started playing silly buggers: it was very slow to connect and then, when it did, the connection kept dropping. So i did what any normal geek would do, uninstalled it and re-downloaded it. That's when the fun began: the new installer wouldn't run. The error message said, make sure all previous versions have been removed and that your anti-virus isn't blocking the application from running, I spent a good part of the afternoon trying to sort this out, but to no avail. Even temporarily disabling anti-virus didn't work. The i remembered that the Opera browser comes with a built-in VPN, so i downloaded and installed it and after playing with it for a bit, set the VPN for the Americas and wound up in Austria! So i haven't completely worked Opera out yet but at least i was able to listen, and that's the main thing. But now i'm seriously considering re-installing Windows altogether....
Quotation Of The Week: Joseph Campbell ~ Computers are like Old Testament Gods: lots of rules and no mercy.
I'm afraid i can't really grade this week's program higher than a B. There was nothing wrong with it – and there was nothing that annoyed me – but there was not much music that i would call great. Without a doubt the highlight of the show for me was the song by Yes – which i didn't know until today was an anti-war (Vietnam?) protest song. Other highlights included Pete Townshend (KSHE's website showed that they were playing Meat Loaf at the time and i am ever so glad they were wrong!), Brave Belt and Heart. As i said, a lot to like but not a lot to love. Here's Vienna, and the playlist:
Santana – Hope You're Feeling Better
April Wine – Shotdown
Bad Company – Holy Water
Dave Mason – Every Woman
Kansas – Two Cents' Worth
Fleetwood Mac – Bare Trees
Supertramp – Oh Darling
Jackson Browne – In The Shape Of A Heart
The Guess Who – Albert Flasher
Pete Townshend – Give Blood
Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
Stephen Stills – Love The One You're With
The Doobie Brothers – South City Midnight Lady
Brave Belt – Another Way Out
Todd Rundgren – A Real Man
Triumvirat – Dimplicity / Last Dance
The Marshall Tucker Band – Windy City Blues
Styx – This Old Man
Triumph – I Live For The Weekend
Yes – Yours Is No Disgrace
Electric Light Orchestra – So Fine / Livin' Thing
Heart – Dreamboat Annie
Rush – Test For Echo
Elton John – Grey Seal
Nazareth – Shanghai'd In Shanghai
Giant – See You In My Dreams
The Grateful Dead – Not Fade Away / Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Everybody I Love You
Journey – Still They Ride
Prism – Julie
Robin Trower – Little Bit Of Sympathy
Wings – Venus And Mars / Rock Show
Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna
Phil Collins – Only You Know And I Know
John Mellencamp – Ain't Even Done With The Night
A very short personal playlist from me this week, I've been busy:
Gregson & Collister – The Last Word
Dick Gaughan – Redwood Cathedral
The Alan Parsons Project – I, Robot
Nanci Griffith – There's A Light Beyond These Woods
Walsyngham Way -- Walsyngham Way
1651 – Cast A Bell
John Hiatt – Walk On
Kathy Mattea – A Collection Of Hits
The Doobie Brothers – Toulouse Street
Curved Air – Second Album
The Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire
Genesis – Foxtrot
Eliza Gilkyson – Lost And Found
The Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach (2 CDs)
Susanna Hoffs – Susanna Hoffs
The Moody Blues – Greatest Hits
God Is An Astronaut – All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Roger Waters – Amused To Death
David Gilmour – About Face
Steve Earle – El Corazón
Rita Coolidge – The Best Of Rita Coolidge
Howard Jones – The 12” Album
Jane Siberry – The Walking
Jeff Beck Group – Jeff Beck Group
Joe Bonamassa – Driving Towards The Daylight
SRC – SRC
Paul Simon – Surprise
Fairport Convention – Nine
