The Sunday Sessions - A Wisp In The Night

 
Nina Hagen
Steel Pulse
The Specials
Hot Chip
The Bees
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Clash
Haara
Bob Marley~Bill Laswell

Sunday726

"boom-shakalaka-boom"

RFW

Transmission 2126 - No Stagecoach Speed Limit

 Sonic Youth

Robert Fripp

Faust

Pink Floyd

The Human League

Fontaines D.C.

Sticky Fingers

David Bowie

Phil Manzanera

Roxy Music

Brian Eno

Owen Charles

T2126

"hi-ho"

RFW

The Cheap Seats - Stub#12 - Sylvian/Fripp

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp

The Road To Graceland Tour

December, 1993 

Stub #12

"As the river runs, tumbles and turns

You know you shouldn't stay

Or play the game again

But it could be different this time

You may win"

*I saw this amazing show on October 28, 1993 at the beautiful

Zellerbach Hall on the campus of UC Berkeley, and it remains a highlight memory.

Below, David gives us a little background on the project and within,

the band delivers a sonic document of the short-lived tour.

Enjoy loudly.

"Robert approached me in late 1991 about whether I wanted to 

join a new King Crimson he was forming. Though very flattered,

I decided that I didn’t feel equipped to take on the whole baggage and history

 that comes with being a member of King Crimson.

So instead we took the offer of the tour as an opportunity to

write material for an album. It was a way of combining Robert’s

and my approach to recording music,

and a challenge that I enjoyed."

RFW

The Sunday Sessions - Led By Candlelight

Brewer & Shipley

Rod Stewart

XTC

Laurie Anderson

Peter Gabriel

Big Star

Mark Naudeef~Jack Bruce

Led Zeppelin

James Gang

Curtis Mayfield

David Sylvian

Sunday626

"Won't you tell your dad get off my back?

Tell him what we said 'bout "Paint It Black"

Rock and roll is here to stay, come inside, well, it's okay"

RFW

Transmission 2026 - The Thing

 
The Monkees
Lyres
Lou Reed
Alex Chilton
Muddy Waters
NRBQ
The Move
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Lounge Lizards
Frank Zappa & The Mothers
Isaac Hayes
The Pixies

2026

"you make everything groovy"

RFW

THE RFW Spotlight - Bill Frisell

 Bill Frisell

Don't be alarmed, he is alive and well

and is celebrating his 75th birthday tonight.

Spotlight 1

“It's kind of surreal somehow,
because I really feel like I haven't even started yet.
I'm not sure if I feel 75. I don't even know what that means.
I hope I can just keep going for a while longer because
I feel like I haven't even scratched the surface yet.
“I've been so lucky to get to do so much of what I wanted to do,
but it still doesn't I feel like I’m close to done. I don't have a goal other 
than just to try to keep going and try to keep figuring it out.”

Bill remains one of the best guitarists I have ever seen 

and his music makes a perfect start to our new feature

The RFW Spotlight.

Enjoy!

RFW

Transmission 1926 - Sympathy For She

 
Philipp Münch
Grinderman
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Robert Plant
The Beatles
Starcrawler
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Peter Tosh
Parquet Courts
Bryan Ferry
Donovan
Steve Hillage

T1926

"and She's making me feel like I've never been born"

RFW

Transmission 1826 - A Different Disco Dilemma

 Xiu Xiu

Lou Reed

Warmduscher

Public Image Ltd.

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Was (not was)

The Tubes

LCD Soundsystem

Mother Gong

James Chance

Davi dBowie

Moster!

T1826

"Bring me the Disco King"

*Dedicated to the disco-denizens of the fabled Boston nightclub Spit 

and your local palace of 70's musical rebirth.

The music is still on.

RFW

Transmission 1726 - Volume Encouraged

 Outrageous Cherry

Death From Above 1979

Beastie Boys

Yungblud

Aerosmith

Joe Perry

Jeff Beck

Faces

Metallica

Grand Funk Railroad

Black Sabbath

T1726

"Beating the demigod, I'm fading away

I’m going backward, but I’m in control"

*Encouragement and new-talent scouting courtesy of Tracy.
Louder!

RFW

Deep Listening Music - That Voice In Your Head

 
The Sex Pistols~Ten Pole Tudor
Crack The Sky
Frank Zappa &The Mothers Of Invention~Ms. Creamcheese
The Bees
Franck Vigroux & Mathew Bourne
Cabaret Voltaire
Holger Czukay
Laurie Anderson
Rage Against The Machine
Michael Pisaro-Liu
Pere Ubu
The Mars Volta
Steve Hackett
Ulver
The Residents
Brian Eno
Daevid Allen
The Alan Parsons Project
Jean Michèle Jarre

DLM526

"Who Killed Bambi?"

* That Voice In Your Head is You.
Your brain creates "Inner Monologue" in your mental landscape without utilizing speech.
It's natural and intricate to problem-solving, memory and other self-support activity.
It's the unwanted wanted voices that some experience, that when untreated,
could lead to deep depression, other mental illnesses or harmful actions.
Please reach out to someone if this is happening to You, because We care.

RFW

The Sunday Sessions - When Two Is Three Blues

 

Nilsson

Roy Buchanan

David Torn

Ronald Shannon Jackson
Miles Davis~Bill Laswell

Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo

John Zorn

Sunday626

"It's early in the morning and

I ain't got nothing but the blues"

*In an attempt to save daylight, They tried to steal away 2am.

In retaliation, HAL turned off all internal and external clocks and

we welcomed the Blues into the hour in hiding.

Enjoy!

RFW

Transmission 1626 - Space Captain Audio Log 0306

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Mushroom & Eddie Floyd

The Jam

XTC

The Psychedelic Furs

Electric Orange

Z-Rock Hawaii

NIGO

Wu-Tang Clan

Bim Sherman

USA Out Of Vietnam
Electric Sandwich

T1626

"Once I was traveling across the sky

This lovely planet caught my eye"

RFW

The Cheap Seats - Stub#11 - Ween

 Ween

November, 2003

The Vic Theatre, Chicago

Stub#11

"You drive me crazy with that
boogie, boogie, boogie"

RFW

Deep Listening Music - Good Evening Tehran

 
Jon Butcher
Tuxedmoon
Luke Haines
Shockabilly
The Stranglers
Bongwater
Muslimgauze
The Monkees
Buthole Surfers
Les Baxter & His Orchestra
X-Legged Sally
Hi-Post
Tehransmission
The Residents
Hosseingholi Tatyy
Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Titibitis

DLM426

"Heroes die and then come more
There's always more"

*We beam down into the city of Tehran and our musical correspondents
report from around the country of Iran.
This is not a Holy War. This is a sad war.
The US has now continued the work of the elite groups of the past
who have invaded and killed for a god, money or, as seems to be in this case,
 a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
Wag The Dog Donny will see his day, until then I pray.

RFW

Transmission 1526 - Hall War Animals

 

Stonehenge

Hawkwind

Hall & Oates

Kraftwerk

Grand Funk Railroad

Angels and Airwaves

Fracture

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Pixies

The Residents & Renaldo & The Loaf

Yin Yin

Baker Gurvitz Army

Gorillaz

Col. Claypool's Frog Brigade

T1526

"He made up the person he wanted to be

And changed into a new personality

Even the greatest stars

Change themselves in the looking glass"

*This "prophetic" RFW Transmission was produced Friday night between 9 and 11p.
One of the idea notes I wrote was "Good Morning Iran".
I woke up the next morning and saw that the US had attacked Iran a few hours later. 

Fact is stranger than fiction. Enjoy this nascent musical premonition .

RFW

Transmission 1426 - The State Of King Metamucillini's MInd

 David Bowie

Fad Gadget

New Order
Thievery Corporation

Joe Gibbons & The Professional

10ft. Ganja Plant

The Wildhearts

Nazareth

Stiff Little Fingers

Radio 4

The Gaslight Anthem

Death Ride 69

Yes
Metalica

T1426

"I'm deranged"

*If for whatever reason you are going to endure tonight's State Of The Union ,
I highly suggest that you turn down the TV and
start this Transmission when King M is introduced. 
Enjoy!

RFW

Transmission 1326 - No Experience Necessary

 
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Elephant Tree
P.M. Dawn
Bill Laswell~Axiom Funk
Nguyen Le
Gozu
Jon Butcher
King Buffalo
Patti Smith
Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Defunkt
Band Of Gypsies

T1326

"My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact, I'm tryin' to say it's frightened like me
And all of these emotions of mine keeps holdin' me from
Givin' my life to a rainbow like you"

RFW

The Cheap Seats - Stub#10 - Pete Townshend

 Pete Townshend's Deep End

November, 1985

Brixton Academy, London

Stub#10

"For I know that the hypnotized never lie"

RFW

The Sunday Sessions - King Anne X

 Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders

Lyres

Faith No More

Human Sexual Response

Xiu Xiu

Wand

Xixa

Xan

Xcranium

David Cross

Greg Lake

King Crimson

Sunday526

"We sit at the table with all that we love"

*Photos courtesy of The Wildlife Table of Love in Paternoster Square website.

RFW

Transmission 1226 - The RFW All-Night Love Clinic

 The Mindbenders

People

Buffalo Springfield

Flamin' Groovies

Chris Spedding

David Gilmour

Queen

David Werner

Defunkt

Grace Jones

Godley & Creme

John Lennon Plastic Ono Band

Echo & The Bunneymen

Brian Wilson

Utopia

Julian Priester

Yellow Magic Orchestra~William Burroughs

T1226

"Love is a virus"

RFW

Transmission 1126 - Hash And Soul-Eggs

 Can

Haruomi Hosono

Afrika Bombaataa

The Rolling Stones

THe Soul Survivors

The Dave Pike Set

Martin Mull

The Nightcrawlers

Jack White

Humble Pie

Jethro Tull

Donovan

T. Rex

Bob Dylan

Faces

Alice Cooper

Leslie West

Nick Lowe

Wings

T1126

"I got a mind to ramble and

I goi an egg to scramble"

RFW

Deep Listening Music - We Of A Cloudy Mind

 
Bill Laswell
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Nguyen Le
Peter Gabriel
Collin Walcott
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Cloudland Canyon
Thomas Dolby
Pere Ubu
The Upsetters
Lotus
David Torn

DLM326

"The prison is made of ice
And it melts in the spring
The castle is made of clay
And it will crumble in time"

RFW

The Sunday Sessions - A Higher Calling

The Who

The Beatles

Wings

The Shazam

Jellyfish

Robert Plant

Jean Jacques Perrey

Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

Tony Joe White

Ten Years After

J.J. Cale

King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard

The Gun Club

Bad Brains

Foo Fighters~Lee Ving

Lydia Lunch & Big Sexy Noise

LCD Soundsystem

Martin Mull

 Sunday426

"Let's give Jesus Christ the football

Let Him even up the score"

* Go Patriots!

RFW

Th Cheap Seats - Stub#9 - Procol Harum/Robin Trower

Procol Harum

WPLJ, New York

4-12-1971

Robin Trower

The Record Plant, Sausalito

5-29-1974

Stub#9

"Shine On"

RFW

Transmission 1026 - RFW MD

 
The Dream Syndicate
New York Dolls
Ian Hunter & Mark Ronson
Pearl Jam
The Psychotic Monks
Primal Scream
Foo Fighters
Spiritualized
Anthrax
Gary Numan
John Cale & Terry Riley
Ray Charles

T1026

"Now the doctor say I need rest 
Before I need her tenderness
Put me on the critical list 
When all I need is her sweet kiss
He gave me a medicated lotion
But it didn't soothe my emotion"

RFW

Transmission 926 - Don't Fuck With America

 
Camper Van Beethoven
Boots
Haruomi Hosono
Hot Chip
Curtis Mayfield
Ulver
David Bowie
Green Day
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Frank Zappa

T926

"Don't wanna be an American Idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America"

RFW

Transmission 826 - Covering All Bases

 
Xiu Xiu
Death From Above 1999
The Sex Pistols
Ulver
The Jam
Spooky Tooth
Devo
The Flashcubes
Annie Lennox
The Clash
Mushroom & Eddie Floyd
Nine Inch Nails
Lou Reed

T826

''All you protest kids, you can hear Jack say ..."

*Infamous Bay Area KOME DJ Scott "Loose" Lewis gifted me this great volume of lp covers.
Both he and it are treasures!?!
Enjoy.

RFW

Transmission 726 - Mississippi

 
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Jimi Hendrix
John Lee Hooker
Muddy Waters
Willie DeVille
Joe Bonamassa
Mountain
Eric Bibb
The Cactus Blossoms
Grateful Dead
Sparks
The Strangeloves
North Mississippi Allstars
Robert Johnson

T726

"I spell M
A, child
N"

RFW

Deep Listening Music - Analogue VS Digital

Fracture

Flanger

Pluramon

Atom Heart
Schneider TM

Brian Eno

Lemon Jelly

Stereolab

Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog

DLM226

"That's the Spirit Of The Age"

* Many thanks to Wendy Carlos for her expert technical analysis.

RFW

The Sunday Sessions - Breakout

 Chris Spedding

Phil Manzanera

Ryuichi Sakamoto

John Foxx

Annabell Lamb

Janis Joplin

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Muddy Waters

Garland Jeffreys

Generation X

Alice Cooper

The Who

Sunday3

"Where you gonna go and who you gonna' know"

RFW

Transmission 626 - For Art

 Luke Haines

The Jam

Bob Mould

Thee Headcoats

The Thing

P.M. Dawn

Grace Jones

Cheer-Accident

Broken Social Scene

Ray Davies

Lambchop

Bill Nelson

Godley & Creme

Vessels

McGough & McGear

Japan

T626

"I want one of them Art Deco Halos

that makes everybody hate how

far they are from you"

RFW

The Cheap Seats - Stub #8 - The Residents

 The Residents Mole Show

The Music Center, Utrecht,The Netherlands

June 4,1983

Stub#8

"Get the fuck off me.
This is a fucking rip off!"

RFW

The Sunday Sessions - The Lock Up

Pere Ubu

Was (Not Was)

Johnny Cash~Knownwolf

Jimmy Page

The Clash

Death

Jeff Beck 

Wanda Jackson

Black Uhuru

Radio Birdman

The Weirdos

The Soggy Bottom Boys

Tool

Grand Funk Railroad

Sunday226

"Hello, Dad? I'm In Jail!"

RFW

Transmission 526 - Everything For Cash

 
The Troggs
Ulver
The Pink Fairies
Brian Eno
Jeff Beck & Seal
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Adam & The Ants
Jack White
Wilco
The Mothers Of Invention

T526

"Who cares if you're so poor you can't afford to buy
a pair of mod-a-go-go stretch elastic pants?
There will come a time when you can even 
take your clothes off when you dance!"

RFW

Transmission 426 - Street Heat

 
Lou Reed
Roxy Music
The Stooges
Pat Travers
Rage Against The Machine
Adrian Belew
Elvis Costello & Brian Eno
Prince
Betty Davis
Sly & The Family Stone
Millie Jackson
The Slits

T426

"I'm not being smart
Or trying to be cold on my part
And I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve"

RFW

Transmission 326 - No Reservation Needed

 

Paul Revere & The Raiders

Jim Pepper

Lord Sitar

The Beatles
Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll

Jef Lee Johnson
The Band
The Bees

Faces

Jethro Tull

Traffic

T326

"Witchi-tie-to, gimee rah

Whoa rah neeko, whoa rah neeko

Hey ney, hey ney, no way"

RFW

Deep Listening Music - Master Maggot & The Minions

 
Funkadelic
The Residents
John Dwyer
Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
Seaford Mods
Mouse On Mars
Bardo Pond

DLM126

"I have seen the maggots in the minds of the universe"

RFW

Transmission 226 - Remember The Future?

 
Can
The Steve Miller Band
Motorpsycho
Curtis Mayfields
Tropical Fuck Storm
Mouse On Mars
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Guided By Voices
Penetration
Nina Hagen
Hot Chip
The Vines
Hawkwind
Leonard Cohen
Nektar
Journey

226

"It's a Future Shock"

RFW

Transmission 126 - Unleded

Kiyoshi Sugamato

Nguyên Lê

Bonerama

Electric Eye

The Yardbirds

John Paul Jones

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Joe Bonamassa

Mastadon

T126

"At last the sun is shinning

The clouds of blue roll by

And with flames from the dragon of darkness

The sunlight blinds his eyes"

RFW

The Sunday Sessions - The RFW Caribbean Invasion Beach Party A-Go-Go

 

Sunday1

"Do you wanna' go?"

RFW