Thursday, March 31, 2016

Rock And Roll Can Cure Dogs!


1976 was an incredible year for me. I was a 20 year old local working as the manager of the original Strawberries Records at Boylston and Exeter in Boston, had my first radio show at (then) WTBS, 88.1, Cambridge and spent afternoons on the 50th floor of the Prudential in the WBCN air-studio with Maxanne Sartori (arguably the most musically influential person in Boston Airwave history). On January 9th, all those worlds collided when I played Gloria on WTBS from the newly released Patti Smith Group debut Horses, hosted Patti at Strawberries for an in-store autograph session and watched Max emcee the PSG at a historic appearance at the fabled Jazz Workshop that was broadcast live on WBCN!

What a day!

Picture

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Just What Do You Think You Are Doing, Dave?


HAL 1, the computer brain of RFW began to have a mind of it's own 
and needed to be deactivated for examination and evaluation.

Until the diagnosed repairs have been completed, 
you can catch up on a few of the past Transmissions
you might have missed and look forward to
regular exceptional audio and video treats!

Daisy, Daisy .......

Friday, March 25, 2016

Transmission 2016 - SHE


She Has Everything!

S

Jules Shear
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Beach Boys
The Monkees
The Left Banke
Chester French
Hot Chip
Jellyfish
Queen
Van Morrison
Joe Cocker
The Pretty Things with Dave Gilmour
Leon Russell
Procol Harum
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Garland Jeffreys

H

William Shatner
The B-52s
Donna Summer
Can
The Flaming Lips
The Pop Group
David Lynch
The Cult
Roxy Music
David Werner
Alejandro Escovedo
Jefferson Airplane
The Chocolate Watchband
The Lovin' Spoonful

E

The db'S
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
Lyle Lovett
Kiss
Billy Squire
Jet
Tampa Red
Muddy Waters
Otis Spann
Robert Plant
The Cramps
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Motorpsycho

S-H-E

"If she knew what she wants
If she knew what she wants
If she knew what she wants
If she knew what she wants
I'd be giving it to her
Giving it to her

But she wants everything
Or there's nothing she wants
I'm crazy for this girl
If she knew what she wants
I'd be giving it to her
Giving it to her

I'd say her values are corrupted
And she's open to change
But one day she's satisfied
And the next I'll find her crying
And it's nothing she can explain

No sense thinking I could rehabilitate her
When she's fine, fine, fine
She's got so many ideas traveling around in her head
She doesn't need nothing from mine

Some have a style
That they work hard to refine
So they walk a crooked line
She would not understand
Why anyone would have to try
To walk a line when they could fly

If she knew what she wants
If she knew what she needs
If she knew what she wants
I'd be giving it to her
Giving it to her

But she wants everything
I can't give her everything
If she knew what she wants
If she knew what she wants
I'd be giving it to her
Giving it to her

Giving it to her, now"

RFW

*Dedicated to the Birthday SHE 
 ~TLC~




Saturday, March 19, 2016

Transmission 1916 - Bite It



Ultimately, it's not the gun or the person shooting it that does the damage!

Leo Schifrin
Supergrass
Butch Walker
Stevie Salas
Grace Jones
Sade
Radiohead
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Waits
Blitzen Trapper
Chris Spedding
Wire
Rage Against The Machine
The Clash
Greg Allman
U2
The Smashing Pumpkins
10cc


"load up. load up, load up"

RFW



One of the all-time great movie car chases!
What is cooler than Steve McQueen in a '68 Mustang?




"Neither right wing or left wing, I'm the middle of the bird"


Pat Paulson talked about ammo during his first comedic run for the 
US Presidency on The Smothers Brothers Show, but....

Chris Rock updated the same logical conclusion.
 Let everybody keep their guns - control the BULLETS!



A 1971 A-Side from the band Bullet on Deep Purple's Purple Records...



....who were forced to change their name (to Hard Stuff) because of the US band
Bullet who had a hit with this one from the Winter of 1971!





Friday, March 18, 2016

Transmission 1816 - Sometimes Remembrance Pulls Us Under


Looking back can take you off the path to your future. 
But forgetting could lead you forward into your past.

Perhaps Live And Learn is the key of life!

Yellow Magic Orchestra
David Sylvian
Roxy Music
Wire
Joy Division
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
DMZ
Death In Vegas
The Open Mind
Hawkwind
Secret Machines
Les Rhinoceros


"I'm drowning in my Nostalgia"

RFW



Thursday, March 17, 2016

Transmission 1716 - Shake Your Shillelagh


In honor of Saint Patrick
Everyone is Irish tonight!
  
The Chieftans
Dropkick Murphys
Camel
Patty Griffen
Nils Lofgren
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Van Morrison
Frank Zappa
Ian McLagen & The Bump Band
John Winston & Yoko Ono Lennon
Wings
Music from The Titanic OST
The Band & Friends


"you want to go to a real party?"

RFW




Sunday, March 13, 2016

The RFW Lost Hour Theater Special



These celluloid heroes were scheduled to appear on on March 13th at 1 am.

That also is the date and time of the shift to Daylight Savings Time
when 1 am immediately becomes 2 am.

So your not really here - but grab a seat anyway!

Are your ears and eyes ready?

These bands are live and in the moment 

 They need to be seen as well as heard to experience the energy and groovy-ness of it all.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band



Can with Damo Sazuki



The Mothers Of Invention


Sylvian Fripp Band


Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Transmission 1616 - You Were Meant To Be Here


I liked him from the beginning. 

Missing The Nice live, attendance was mandatory at an early Emerson, Lake & Palmer show in September, 1971 at the Hatch Shell on The Esplanade of Boston's Charles River.
That night is forever etched on my fragile egg-shell mind and the 
Keith Emerson Band featuring Mark Bonilla on guitar 
was a great return to form. 

The All Star Dead Band has a new player

It's a RFW 88 key salute to 

Keith Emerson


"welcome back my friends to the show that never ends"

RFW



Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An... by MOCS29

Friday, March 11, 2016

Transmission 1516 - This Ain't No Party?


Stu knew - did you?

Gross Me Out

Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Alfred E. Neuman
Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band

Obligatory Click Track Set

Giorgio Moroder
Daft Punk
Japan
Shooter Jennings featuring Marilyn Manson

Stuff This In Your Pipe And Smoke It

Peter Ivers Band
Tobacco
Edgar Winter's White Trash


"I knew that could be a sound of the future, 
but I didn't realize how much the impact would be"

RFW


*In my youth, I had a very strange relationship with Disco. My very Italian East Boston friends and I were most definitely rockers, but starting in 1975 there was a very simple equation:
Disco = Women.

 So it was down to the Combat Zone to flagg Bros. for a pair of prerequisite platform shoes and then off to Lucifer's in Kenmore Square where a never ending supply of new college girls arrived every September from Springfield, USA to dance us into a
Saturday Night (hormonal) Fever.

It was then that I was forced to admit that
not only did Disco not suck -
Disco Ruled!



Thursday, March 10, 2016

Transmission 1416 - Head Quill Pig Sapling Soars Solo


Enjoy a live hour of

Steven Wilson

with and without

Porcupine Tree


"It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares"



I would be the first to admit that I am jaded and biased. 
The best shows in my concert career are all in the rear-view mirror - Right?
Wrong! 

Steven Wilson and his amazing band proved that excitingly progressive music is alive and well in 2016. I had not been in the storied Orpheum Theatre in Boston for over 30 years, but nostalgia stopped there. The over two and a half hour show was filled with the stuff of legend; compelling songs, great sound, intricate interplay and astounding visuals - wow!

The players including David Kilminster on guitar, Craig Blundell on drums, Nick Beggs on bass and an array of other instruments and Adam Holzman on keyboards were impressive to say the least - and they all sang like birds!

The entire first half was dedicated to the melodic melancholy of Wilson's most recent release Hand. Cannot. Erase. The concept based in misery proved to inspire anything but, as the sad story was transformed into a brilliant tale that soared majestically.

The return from a brief intermission brought with it favorites from Steven's legendary former outfit, Porcupine Tree and solo favorites! 

The encore of The Sound Of Muzak planted the refrain in my mind for the past week:
"It's one of the wonders of the world, going down".

If Mr. Wilson's show is going down in your town soon, don't let it go down without you!

RFW

Saturday, March 05, 2016

Transmission 1316 - That's Really Super


Born of the RFW Archives Of Nouveau-Solitude
But Super nonetheless!

Funkadelic
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Four Tet featuring Terry D.
Super 400
Superchunk
Supergrass
Super Cat
Super Jay
Super Mama Djombo
Super Soul Movement
Superpitcher
Supersaempfft
Super Numeri 

T1316

"Be A Superman"

RFW