~Both Doors Lead Somewhere~

Transmission 615

A bit of both featuring:

The In-Sounds of Bryan Ferry, Jesus & Mary Chain, Ben Harper & Charlie Musslewhite, The Animals, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Union Carbide Productions, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Led Zeppelin, Ray Charles, Dyan Diamond, Don Covay, Danny Gatton, The Beach Boys and Bauhaus.

The never Out-Of-Date tunes of Roxy Music, The Ventures, The Who, The Doughboys, DMZ, The Rolling Stones, Paul Revere & The Raiders, 999, The Seeds, Donald Fagen, Was (Not Was), U2, Blur and PIL!

T615 is a 2-Part 320k mp3 made loud to be played louder! 

Part 1 (In) is 58:36 and 137mb.

Part 2 (Out) is 58:52 and 137mb.

"I'm In With The In-Crowd"

"then Out Of The Blue, love came rushing in"

RFW

~Take My Hand~

Transmission 515

An ass-shaking, super-groovy session in the Archives includes Jah Wobble, Lival Thompson, Vernon Reid & Masque, Hot Chip, The Chemical Brothers, Funkadelic, Mick Jagger, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, The Doors and Iron Butterfly!

T515 is a 1:01:38 141mb 320k mp3 made loud to be played louder!

"don't you know that I love you?" 

RFW

~An Essential Introduction~

Alvy Singer: [addressing the camera] There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The... the other important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um, "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women.

Transmission 415

Expanding on the sentiment of Woody Allen's Alvy Singer in Annie Hall, by way of Groucho Marx and Sigmund Freud (what a great dinner party guest list that would be), if you can't get past the infamous "Walkie Talkie Sunrise" intro by Yin and Yan you can't get into Radio Free Wohlman!.

RFW is by design not a Greatest Hits affair, but it could be if I desire. What you hear after the opening cacophony of sound is not a musically safe environment, cooked for mass consumption or designed to shift units. I do not wish to demand that you listen, define how you listen, or desire you to like the contents of every transmission as you listen. But I do want you to listen.

The kitchen-sink mentality is purposely in place to eschew preconceived format conceptions, juxtaposition unlikely partners and expose the RFW Family (you) to artists and music that it might never willingly expose itself to next to toe tapping faves.

Therefore, the Yin & Yan intro will remain in place as a both a gate-keeping barrier of guests that would more than likely not enjoy the members of our illustrious club and to serve as a warning that this is not your standard fare - this is Radio Free Wohlman!

Get past the gate-keepers with OST music from The Trip, Hal Blaine, Emil Richards, The Zodiac-Cosmic Sounds and Paul Beaver & Bernie Krause!

T415 is a 146mb 320k mp3 1:03:53 made loud to be played louder! 

"Good Morning"

RFW

*For a very enjoyable and informational essay on the music featured above, check out The Beaver & KrauserockSampler by The Seth Man as found on Julian Cope's excellent site, Head Heritage.

** Learn more about Yin & Yan here!

~Where, Why And How Long?~

Transmission 315

Not here, there, a house or city - and certainly not in the grey, which is nowhere at all. It's not  a request or a command, a plea or choice, a question or answer. It's what you do when you are honest, rich with self-worth and value integrity.  No one should be where they do not want to be, for then each precious day is wasted; where they are unhappy, which makes their wounds self-inflicted; or where they are demanded to be by others, which reduces them to being a voluntary prisoner. A desired place in life does not not negate responsibilities, dedication or devotion - it increases the ability to fulfill them. One belongs not where you were before, but where you say you want to be to yourself and those that you ask to Believe in you now and in the future. Most importantly, you do it so your soul is able to escape complacency and rise towards ultimate potential and unrealized dreams  - which I believe is the supreme challenge and goal in life! 

Stay with Jellyfish, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, Son Lux, David Bowie, Al Green, Funkadelic, Sly & The Family Stone, American Blues, Eddie Boyd, The Clash, Babyshambles, Talking Heads, Bill Nelson's Red Noise, Chris Spedding, Love, Nirvana and The Meters!

T315 is a 148mb 320k mp3 1:05:03 in length made loud to be played louder! 

"loving you whether life is good or bad or happy or sad"

RFW

~It Burns You When It's Hot (Like A Rocket)~

Transmission 215

First we shine the RFW Spotlight on Love And Rockets including the intertwined sounds of Bauhaus and Tones On Tail!

Then it's a tip of the hat directed to one of the 2014 recipients of The Kennedy Center Honors, Sting!

T215 consists of two 320k mp3s made loud to be played louder!

Part 1 is 129mb and 56:43 in length!

Part 2 is 151mb and 1:06:10 in length!

"I could be lost inside their lies without a trace, but every time I close my eyes I see your face"

RFW

*Love And Rockets consisted of Daniel Ash, David J. and Kevin Haskins. All three were members of Bauhaus with Peter Murphy. And Ash and Haskins added Glen Campling on drums for their project Tones On Tail!

**Along with Gordon Mathew Thomas Sumner, the other honorees bestowed this years recognition were the right Reverend Al Green (worthy of a full future RFW Transmission), everyone's bosom buddy Tom Hanks, the ever-graceful Patricia McBride and the consistently wonderful Lily Tomlin - and that's the truth (raspberry)!

~Sounds From The Vinyl Jungle~

Transmission 115

If I had the money, the space and the time to devote to it, the RFW collection would look something like this. Unfortunately, I don't, but since we spend so much time together, I thought I would give you a dream visual to imagine the setting of our regular sessions. We start 2015 with a walk into the Archives including tracks on wax from Bee Gees, Buddy Holly, The Dave Clark Five, The Beatles, Badfinger, The Bees, The Beach Boys, Patti Smith Group, Wire, Joy Division, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Faust, Yellow Magic Orchestra and King Crimson - Happy New Year!

T115 is a mb 320k mp3 1:10:00 in length made loud to be played louder! 

"let's start a brand new story, now my love"

RFW

*The amazing record collection above belongs to Brad Miocevich of Perth, Australia. Read more about it here!