Transmission 712

Conceived as a single show, today's Transmission pulled a music mitosis and transformed into two perfectly mismatched halves. The first comes out rockin' with Def Leppard, Mott The Hoople, Chris Spedding, The Len Price Three, Sonic Youth, The Cure and Jethro Tull. The second goes all strange influenced by the likes of David Lynch, Jamie Saft, The Residents, Monkey and The Flaming Lips with the Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band!

T712 is a 59.1mb 128k mp3 1:04:39 in length made loud to be played louder!

"I don't want to live my life like evrybody else, cause, I'm Not Like Everbody Else"

RFW

*The use of today's photo by Harold Lloyd was inspired by the title of Jamie Saft's album "Breadcrumb Sins" - which is also a part of some of my favorite Bob Dylan lyrics - from "Gates Of Eden":

"The motorcycle black madonna

Two-wheeled gypsy queen

And her silver-studded phantom cause

The gray flannel dwarf to scream

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey

Who pick up on his bread crumb sins

And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden"

 

Transmission 612

As the self-appointed high priest of RFW, I welcome you to The Church Of Rock And Roll with a holy dose of Foxy Shazam, The Shazam, The Move, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Hazmat Modine, Cicada, Junior Kimbrough, Climax Blues Band, The Black Crowes, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Primal Scream and Sly & The Family Stone!

T612 is a 53.9mb 128k mp3 58:54 in length made loud to be played louder!

"she's a Star Fruit Surf Rider flower groove"

RFW

Transmission 512

It's a musical case of backward progression with Nektar, Yes, Genesis, Spirit, Emerson/Lake & Palmer, King Crimson and Pink Floyd featuring Stephane Grapelli!

T512 is a 56.9mb 128k mp3 1:02:10 in length made loud to be played louder!

"did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?"

RFW

Transmission 412

If men are from Mars, then Big Eyed Beans must be from Venus - right? Listening will not get you what you want from your relationship - but you'll enjoy Urban Verbs, Metallica, Gang Of Four, Adam & The Ants, Ultravox, David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, Senor Coconut & His Orchestra, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, Shocking Blue, Television, Mink DeVille, The Velvet Underground and John Coltrane!

T412 is a 56.6mb 128k mp3 1:01:54 in length made loud to be played louder!

"don't let anything get in between us"

RFW

Transmission 312

OK - now that I have your attention, let the good times begin with motivation by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross featuring Karen O, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Howlin' Wolf with Hubert Sumlin, Motorpsycho, David Bowie, Faces, The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Frank Zappa, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton and The Dream Syndicate.

T312 is a 57.1mb 128k mp3 1:02:25 in length made loud to be played louder!

"he opened her up like a love letter"

RFW

* "Wonderful Wino" by Frank Zappa originally appeared on fellow Mother Jeff Simmons' 1970 solo lp "Lucille Messed Up My Mind" - seek it out!

Transmission 212

This sucker is of the all-day variety - take a lick of Djam Karet, Ozzy Osbourne, Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Teddybears STHLM, Wire, The Rolling Stones, Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, Atsushi Tsuyama, Mark Ronson, DJ Cam, Fujiya & Miyagi, Butch Walker, Stevie Wonder, The Doughboys and Super Furry Animals!

T212 is a 61mb 128k mp3 1:06:41 in length made loud to be played louder!

"I'm an all day sucker, coming to give something to get nothin'"

RFW

Transmission 112

We celebrate the start of 2012 with new music that is not necessarily new from Electric Light Orchestra, Spirit, Joe Bonamassa, The Damned, Radio Birdman, Patti Smith, The Shazam, Field Music, John Foxx, Tobacco, Wolfmother, David Bowie, Ramones, Tom Verlain, Marc Ribot & Joy Division.

T112 is a 59.6mb 128k mp3 1:05:11 in length made loud to be played louder!

"he was a new kind of man"

RFW