Transmission 2510

If you have children - Happy Fathers Day to you - but this show is for your Daddy! Make room for The Killers, Ming Tea, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Drive By Truckers, Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, The John Dummer Blues Band, Howlin' Wolf/Muddy Waters & Bo Diddley, Swamp Dogg, Dillinger, Hal Kemp featuring Harry Slagle, Eddie Duchin & His Orchestra featuring Mary Martin, Tiny Tim, The Monkees, Omnibus, Mink DeVille, Julian Cope and Dangermouse & Sparklehorse featuring Nina Persson! Who is your Daddy?

T2510 is a 57.1mb 128 mp3 1:02:28 in length made loud to be played loud!

"I'm Your Daddy"

RFW

Transmission 2410

This act of guitarrorism is literally a mind blowing experience. Prepare yourself for a six-string attack from King Crimson, Stevie Salas, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Grails, Kazumi Watanabe/Eugene Pao & Jack Lee, Kazuhito Yamashita and Davis Redford Triad.

T2410 is a 59.2mb 128k mp3 1:04:39 in length made loud to be played loud!

"and the band played on"

RFW

*Our final selection is Hymn Of The Virgin Sun Queen from The Mystical Path Of The Number 86 by Davis Redford Triad which features the guitar prowess of Steven Wray Lodbell.

Transmission 2310

Atomic batteries to power...turbines to speed...ready to move out! We shine the light of the Bat-Signal on The Dynamic Duo and friends including Neil Hefti, Adam West, Nelson Riddle, Sun Ra & The Blues Project as The Sensational Guitars of Don & Dale, Burt Ward & The Mothers of Invention, Lavern Baker, Combo Kings, Naked City, Burgess Meredith, The Standells, Frank Gorshin, Anne Baxter & Jack Kruschen, Sheena & The Rockets, George Sanders, Davie Allen & The Arrows, Jan & Dean, Jim Steinman and Prince with Jack Nicholson!

T2310 is a 56.1mb 12k mp3 1:01:19 in length made loud to be played loud!

"only a bat-record brings you all this"

RFW

And now an important bat-message!

Transmission 2210

We go under the covers with a thread of continuity and salvo sounds from The Hot Rats, Beastie Boys, Jimmy Smith, Slim Harpo, The Architectural Abdabs, Bob Francis and Three To One, Jimi Hendrix, Todd Rundgren, Don Dixon, The Moody Blues, The Doughboys, Bettye Lavette, Mushroom, Cornershop and Joe Cocker!

T2210 is a 62.8mb 128k mp3 1:08:37 in length made loud to be played loud!

" that's the funky shit"

RFW

*For a Memorial Day RFW Rewind check out T10607.

Transmission 2110

Virtual Music - performed by cartoons, cartoon bands, puppets and people dressed in funny costumes (and their theme songs) - has been around for nearly as long as animation itself. From the first Song Car-Tunes released by Fleischer Studios in 1924 to present day animated TV series, movies and musicians - reality has been blurred by these characters and the sounds forever burned into our collective conciseness.

Get drawn in by the ani-music of The Archies, The Bannana Splits, The Wombles, The Sugar Bears, Puffy Ami Yumi, Devo, The Ramones, Michael Kohler & Superfriends, Gorillaz, Dethlok, Homer Simpson, Fred Flintstone as Hi Fye, Jet Screamer featuring George Jetson, Tom (of Tom & Jerry fame), Jessica Rabbit, Butthead & Cher (with assistance from Beavis), Cartman with Kyle, Ren (one half of the the famous duo Ren & Stimpy), Bender/Fry/Leela & Robot Devil and Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd!

T2110 is a 58.3mb 128k mp3 1:03:46 in length made loud to be played loud!

"kill the wabbit"

RFW

Here's a favorite from The Powerpuff Girls by The Apples In Stereo!

Transmission 2010

Spit* was the inspired name of a nightclub that opened in 1980 on Lansdowne Street (the location of Fenway Park, the second site of the legendary Boston Tea Party and my broadcasting school**) in my hometown of Boston. The decor was chain link on mirror on black leather. The music was punk du jour and all of it's inspirations, tributaries and offshoots. The Music Director of the club was my oldest radio brother Oedipus*** and the Saturday night DJ was one of my best friends (still) Tony V! My alter ego Wave Dohlman, would occasionally spin at Spit and his angle was to get people to dance to music that they normally would not associate with the club or with dancing (there was nothing like watching a bunch of punks pogo to Shaun Cassidy!). Which leads us to this collection of non-standard dance ditties, which is not necessarily from the Spit era, but inspired by Wave's modus operandi and the memories of a nightclub like no other!

Cut a rug with Talking Heads, Nikengas, Axiom Funk, Funkadelic, Hawaiian Pups, Jean Pierre Massiera's Hercule, Primal Scream, Soft Cell and Haruomi Hosono!

T2010 is a 57.2mb 128k mp3 1:02:31 in length made loud to play loud!

"keychains of snow storms"

RFW

* A Spit 3oth Anniversary Reunion was held in Boston on May 3rd (another great one that I missed) and I hear that there was an amazing turnout. Congrats to Patrick Lyons and all of the Spit staff and regulars. See the pictures here!

** I went to broadcasting school at Career Academy School of Broadcasting in the Fenway section of Boston from 1973 to 1974. I was very lucky to have the inspirational Tony Cennamo as a teacher, mentor and friend. I havn't thought of Tony for many years and today found that he is now 75 and living in a nursing home in Boston. Check him out - he is one the coolest people to ever get behind a mic!

*** Oedipus, who I worked with at WTBS/WMBR, Cambridge and at the late WBCN, Boston (where he was the PD for many years) has hosted seminal radio shows including the Demi Monde and Nocturnal Emissions - he is now online with The Oedipus Project - listen today - this is the real deal!