Transmission 3207

Have you ever been up in a helicopter? It is a really exciting experience that translates into a rocking set from Ax Genrich, XTC and The Helicopters singing about Paul Stanley! Also included in our vertical lift-off is Paul's band Kiss, Second Hand and Seventh Wave. We are are a collective fly on the studio wall with Neil Young and as an old west finale, we ride into the sunset cowboy style with The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Rolling Stones and Thin Lizzy. Yeehaaw!

T3207 is a 59.5MB 128k mp3 1:05:04 in length made loud to be played loud.

"on the 31st floor, a gold plated door, won't keep out the Lord's burning rain"

RFW

Transmission 3107

39 years after it was recorded, I am still amazed at the music of Can and in particular the vocals of Malcolm Mooney (I made him Irish in my mispronunciation of his name in the show! - sorry Malcolm). As the original front-man for the band, he brought an element that was never quite recaptured after his early departure and subsequent replacement by Damo Suzuki. The following years and all the changes that occurred after his departure produced equally stellar music and a fascinating story, but for today - focus in on Malcolm's way with a phrase on this rare alternative take of Little Star Of Bethlehem.

We also rip it up with Hawkwind and Motorhead and go Out On A Limb with Johnny Winter And, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation and Gravy Train. Then we Form A Band with Art Brut, The Sights and The Bees and get Flooded with Motorpsycho and Bruce Springsteen live in England in 1975!

T3107 is a 56.1MB 128k mp3 1:01:21 in length made loud to be played loud!

"correction - the coat hanger should be upside down"

RFW

RFW FLASHBACK

THE ASYLUM PARTS 1 & 2

The occasional RFW Flashback draws from hundreds of hours of old radio shows, comedy bits, interviews, promos and commercials from my long strange trip in radio. Each Flashback has a unique story and place in my memory and heart. I'm really surprised (but then again I'm not) how the music from the early shows has stood up against the test of time. I also find great amusement in my thick Boston accent and boundless enthusiasm.

WTBS/WMBR 88.1 FM, Cambridge was a dream come true. A place where I and others like me went to put the sounds and songs and words that we had in our heads on the air. Some of those people are still close to me, the others remain in my mind like a frozen snap-shot of the way we looked and sounded like then - so many years ago. Needless to say, they were very special times!

The Asylum was a show that ran on WMBR every Saturday night/Sunday morning from 12 midnight to 4 am. Everyone who did their own show at the station was expected to do an Asylum show. My partner (and still good friend) for this bizarre outing was the infamous Tony V, who reads from an imaginary program guide early on and describes what we were about to do as - "The Asylum - insanity". The official basis for the show was to take your regular show, persona, deepest fetish-fear-guilty pleasure and check into The Asylum for the night.

On January 5, 1980, Tony and I were the new inmates and after rather lengthy and intense "pre-show preparations" we performed this legendary piece of Boston Radio History. It is very interesting to hear the show in retrospect with it's elements of theatre, improvisation, avant-guarde, musique-concrete, sound collage, mashing, sampling, tape manipulations, loose but intact story line and eclectic musical selections. This was a time before many of these terms and techniques were even in use!

It is as close to a live audio "trip" as has ever been committed to the airwaves, tape or an institution. In all it's warped glory - I am very proud of THE ASYLUM!

THE ASYLUM is a 5 Part 128k mp3 made * to be played loud!

Part 1 is MB and 46:46 in length.

Part 2 is MB and 47:16 in length.

"It's still ahead of it's time" - Tony V

RFW

These files are blog specials only-no podcast!

THE ASYLUM PARTS 3 & 4 will be posted next Sunday, 2/18/2007.

*The Asylum has been recorded at a lower level than usual to reduce distortion and tape noise during the 28 year old cassette transfer. Use your volume and let it rock!

HAL22 - A BUFFET OF SOUNDS

We serve up a veritable schmorgashboard of tunes during today's Radio Free Wohlman musical meal. Help yourself to second helpings of psychedelic Tommy James & The Shondells, appropriately colored Led Zep, early Tangerine Dream, Ronnie Lane with and without Faces, a practising Bob Dylan, a funky Bo Diddley, hospitalized New York Dolls, Otis Redding, Randy Holden, Willie Dixon and Frigid Pink all suffering from a Pain In the Heart, Axiom Funk, Sly & The Family Stone, Primal Scream, Canned Heat, live Tom Waits from the 2006 tour, Galaxie 500, Bochum Welt, Dexter Wansel, Sketch Show with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi and live King Crimson at The Fillmore West in December of 1969.

HAL22 is a 2 part 128k mp3 made loud to be played loud!

Part 1 is 59.6MB and 1:05:06 in length.

Part 2 is 56.2MB and 1:01:27 in length.

"It's a well known old secret - go and Tell Everyone"

RFW

Transmission 3007

Back in the old days, you remixed a song using a razor blade (muti-functional), tape and a splicing block. It's a lost art that has been swallowed whole by technology running rampant. Today's remixer's have the luxury of tools that were not even within our wildest drug fueled imaginations! Computers, samplers, digital files and a wide array of gadgets and gizmos have taken the remix out of the studio and put it into the bedrooms and basements of music enthusiasts everywhere. The remix is now an established and permanent part of our musical vocabulary. The remixer is considered as much a musician as the the artist themselves. The editors featured today get the RFW Gold Razor Blade Award for pushing the envelope and putting a distinct personal stamp on each project.

We hear Danny Krivit vs Aretha Franklin, DJ Spinna vs Eddie Kendrix, Cornelius vs Sting, Burt Friedman vs David Sylvian, Venetian Snares vs Isis, Kyle Statham, Anne & Nathalie vs Mushroom, Spacetime Continuum vs NIN, PIL vs PIL, Mogwai vs Schneider TM and Takemura vs Tortoise.

T3007 is a 59.6MB 128k mp3 1:05:09 in length made loud to be played loud!

"See it through my eyes"

RFW

Transmission 2907

Djam Karet, 65 Days Of Static, Et Cetera, Terje Rypdal, Medeski, Martin & Wood & Richard Devine /Ryuichi Sakamoto.

T2907 is a 60.3MB 128K mp3 1:05:55 in length made loud to be played loud!

"SSSHHH!"

RFW