Rock And Roll Can Cure Dogs!

1976 was an incredible year for me. I was a 20 year old local working as the manager of the original Strawberries Records at Boylston and Exeter in Boston, had my first radio show at (then) WTBS, 88.1, Cambridge and spent afternoons on the 50th floor of the Prudential in the WBCN air-studio with Maxanne Sartori (arguably the most musically influential person in Boston Airwave history). On January 9th, all those worlds collided when I played Gloria on WTBS from the newly released Patti Smith Group debut Horses, hosted Patti at Strawberries for an in-store autograph session and watched Max emcee the PSG at a historic appearance at the fabled Jazz Workshop that was broadcast live on WBCN!

What a day!

Click the pic for another taste!

Happy Birthday, Eric!

The Cream
of the crop
rises to the
top!

Slowhand turns 71!

Just What Do You Think You Are Doing, Dave?

HAL 1, the computer brain of RFW began to have a mind of it's own 

and needed to be deactivated for examination and evaluation.

Until the diagnosed repairs have been completed, 

you can catch up on a few of the past Transmissions
you might have missed and look forward to
regular exceptional audio and video treats!

Daisy, Daisy .......

Transmission 2016 - SHE

She Has Everything!

S

Jules Shear

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

The Beach Boys

The Monkees

The Left Banke

Chester French

Hot Chip

Jellyfish

Queen

Van Morrison

Joe Cocker

The Pretty Things with Dave Gilmour

Leon Russell

Procol Harum

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Garland Jeffreys

H

William Shatner

The B-52s

Donna Summer

Can

The Flaming Lips

The Pop Group

David Lynch

The Cult

Roxy Music

David Werner

Alejandro Escovedo

Jefferson Airplane

The Chocolate Watchband

The Lovin' Spoonful

E

The db'S

Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey

Lyle Lovett

Kiss

Billy Squire

Jet

Tampa Red

Muddy Waters

Otis Spann

Robert Plant

The Cramps

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Motorpsycho

S-H-E

"If she knew what she wants

If she knew what she wants

If she knew what she wants

If she knew what she wants

I'd be giving it to her

Giving it to her

But she wants everything

Or there's nothing she wants

I'm crazy for this girl

If she knew what she wants

I'd be giving it to her

Giving it to her

I'd say her values are corrupted

And she's open to change

But one day she's satisfied

And the next I'll find her crying

And it's nothing she can explain

No sense thinking I could rehabilitate her

When she's fine, fine, fine

She's got so many ideas traveling around in her head

She doesn't need nothing from mine

Some have a style

That they work hard to refine

So they walk a crooked line

She would not understand

Why anyone would have to try

To walk a line when they could fly

If she knew what she wants

If she knew what she needs

If she knew what she wants

I'd be giving it to her

Giving it to her

But she wants everything

I can't give her everything

If she knew what she wants

If she knew what she wants

I'd be giving it to her

Giving it to her

Giving it to her, now"

RFW

*Dedicated to the Birthday SHE 

 ~TLC~

Transmission 1916 - Bite It

Ultimately, it's not the gun or the person shooting it that does the damage!

Leo Schifrin

Supergrass

Butch Walker

Stevie Salas

Grace Jones

Sade

Radiohead

Bruce Springsteen

Tom Waits

Blitzen Trapper

Chris Spedding

Wire

Rage Against The Machine

The Clash

Greg Allman

U2

The Smashing Pumpkins

10cc

T1916

"load up. load up, load up"

RFW

One of the all-time great movie car chases!

What is cooler than Steve McQueen in a '68 Mustang?

"Neither right wing or left wing, I'm the middle of the bird"

Pat Paulson talked about ammo during his first comedic run for the 

US Presidency on The Smothers Brothers Show, but....

Chris Rock updated the same logical conclusion.

 Let everybody keep their guns - control the BULLETS!

A 1971 A-Side from the band Bullet on Deep Purple's Purple Records...

....who were forced to change their name (to Hard Stuff) because of the US band
Bullet who had a hit with this one from the Winter of 1971!

Transmission 1816 - Sometimes Remembrance Pulls Us Under

Looking back can take you off the path to your future. 

But forgetting could lead you forward into your past.

Perhaps Live And Learn is the key of life!

Yellow Magic Orchestra

David Sylvian

Roxy Music

Wire

Joy Division

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives

DMZ

Death In Vegas

The Open Mind

Hawkwind

Secret Machines

Les Rhinoceros

T1816 

"I'm drowning in my Nostalgia"

RFW

Transmission 1716 - Shake Your Shillelagh

In honor of Saint Patrick

Everyone is Irish tonight!

  

The Chieftans

Dropkick Murphys

Camel

Patty Griffen

Nils Lofgren

The Mahavishnu Orchestra

Van Morrison

Frank Zappa

Ian McLagen & The Bump Band

John Winston & Yoko Ono Lennon

Wings

Music from The Titanic OST

The Band & Friends

T1716 

"you want to go to a real party?"

RFW

The RFW Lost Hour Theater Special

These celluloid heroes were scheduled to appear on on March 13th at 1 am.

That also is the date and time of the shift to Daylight Savings Time
when 1 am immediately becomes 2 am.

So your not really here - but grab a seat anyway!

Are your ears and eyes ready?

These bands are live and in the moment 

 They need to be seen as well as heard to experience the energy and groovy-ness of it all.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Can with Damo Sazuki

The Mothers Of Invention

Sylvian Fripp Band

Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters

Transmission 1616 - You Were Meant To Be Here

I liked him from the beginning. 

Missing The Nice live, attendance was mandatory at an early Emerson, Lake & Palmer show in September, 1971 at the Hatch Shell on The Esplanade of Boston's Charles River.

That night is forever etched on my fragile egg-shell mind and the 

Keith Emerson Band featuring Mark Bonilla on guitar 

was a great return to form. 

The All Star Dead Band has a new player

It's a RFW 88 key salute to 

Keith Emerson

T1616

"welcome back my friends to the show that never ends"

RFW

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An... by MOCS29

Transmission 1516 - This Ain't No Party?

Stu knew - did you?

Gross Me Out

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Alfred E. Neuman

Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band

Obligatory Click Track Set

Giorgio Moroder

Daft Punk

Japan

Shooter Jennings featuring Marilyn Manson

Stuff This In Your Pipe And Smoke It

Peter Ivers Band

Tobacco

Edgar Winter's White Trash

T1516

"I knew that could be a sound of the future, 

but I didn't realize how much the impact would be"

RFW

*In my youth, I had a very strange relationship with Disco. My very Italian East Boston friends and I were most definitely rockers, but starting in 1975 there was a very simple equation:
Disco = Women.

 So it was down to the Combat Zone to flagg Bros. for a pair of prerequisite platform shoes and then off to Lucifer's in Kenmore Square where a never ending supply of new college girls arrived every September from Springfield, USA to dance us into a
Saturday Night (hormonal) Fever.

It was then that I was forced to admit that
not only did Disco not suck -

Disco Ruled!

Transmission 1416 - Head Quill Pig Sapling Soars Solo

Enjoy a live hour of

Steven Wilson

with and without

Porcupine Tree

T1416

"It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares"

I would be the first to admit that I am jaded and biased. 

The best shows in my concert career are all in the rear-view mirror - Right?

Wrong! 

Steven Wilson and his amazing band proved that excitingly progressive music is alive and well in 2016. I had not been in the storied Orpheum Theatre in Boston for over 30 years, but nostalgia stopped there. The over two and a half hour show was filled with the stuff of legend; compelling songs, great sound, intricate interplay and astounding visuals - wow!

The players including David Kilminster on guitar, Craig Blundell on drums, Nick Beggs on bass and an array of other instruments and Adam Holzman on keyboards were impressive to say the least - and they all sang like birds!

The entire first half was dedicated to the melodic melancholy of Wilson's most recent release Hand. Cannot. Erase. The concept based in misery proved to inspire anything but, as the sad story was transformed into a brilliant tale that soared majestically.

The return from a brief intermission brought with it favorites from Steven's legendary former outfit, Porcupine Tree and solo favorites! 

The encore of The Sound Of Muzak planted the refrain in my mind for the past week:

"It's one of the wonders of the world, going down".

If Mr. Wilson's show is going down in your town soon, don't let it go down without you!

RFW

Transmission 1316 - That's Really Super

Born of the RFW Archives Of Nouveau-Solitude

But Super nonetheless!

Funkadelic

Yellow Magic Orchestra
Four Tet featuring Terry D.

Super 400

Superchunk

Supergrass

Super Cat

Super Jay

Super Mama Djombo

Super Soul Movement
Superpitcher
Supersaempfft

Super Numeri 

T1316

"Be A Superman"

RFW