Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Deep Listening Music: Volume 26

 Music From Big Pinks


Wire
The Cribs
Pink Floyd
The Pink Fairies



DLMV26

"And it's high time"



* The amazing Pink Floyd set was recorded live for the BBC in Amsterdam 
on September 17, 1969 during The Man and The Journey tour. 

Long in the back, short on the sides and keep the bangs pink, Floyd!

RFW


Sunday, December 27, 2020

Sunday AM - The Truth ...

... Is A Mean Bitch!

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Chicago
Eric Gales
ZZ Top
Ween
Ben Folds Five
The Rolling Stones
Ramones
Derek & The Dominoes
La Peste
The Grip Weeds
Ian Hunter
A.R. & Machines

SAM22

"and don't forget to give me back my black t-shirt"

RFW


Wednesday, December 23, 2020

The RFW 2020 Holiday Companion

The climax of a very hard year!

Bing Crosby & The Andrew Sisters
Material
Madonna
William Bell
Weezer
Jet
The Kinks
Bee Gees
Old 97's
Pixies
The Spongetones
Fairport Convention
A Day At The Fair
Dalek i
Cornelius
Dead Kennedys
Method Of Defiance
The Sex Pistols
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
Love & Rockets
Aretha Franklin

The RFW 2020 Holiday Companion


"I Love The Holidays"


 *This year's special focuses on the simple fact that Christmas is a holiday. To wish someone Happy Holiday is now frowned on by the PC Christian Sect because of it's generic intent. 
But that's why I love it! 

In this year of reevaluation and vaccination, I have decided it is most important to steal back the phrase and sentiment from the uptight types I don't want to hang with anyway.

Not wanting to add to the onslaught of traditional and overplayed classics (as wonderful as they are), I have decided on music not necessarily about Christmas, Jesus, Santa or even Je'Santa (pictured above).

No matter your musical taste, sexual orientation, gender, color, church of choice, nationality, political preference or total Humbug attitude, you are respected here in the Archives and encouraged to love your family and friends by 
staying safe at home!

 I wish you and yours a 
Happy Holiday!

Dave RF Wohlman

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Sunday AM - Ain't It?

 We can all use a little help!

Electric Light Orchestra
Chris Cornell
Dennis Wilson
Steven Wilson
Guided By Voices
The Move
King Crimson
Anton Barbeau
David Bowie
Mick Ronson
Cat Stevens
Joe Cocker
Eric Clapton & Friends

SAM21

"don't forget the lemon and lime"

RFW


Saturday, December 19, 2020

Transmission 7720 - Mary, Judy & Assorted Dark Flowers

 

You're Driving Me Wild

The Standells
The Shondells
The Who
The Shazam
The Rolling Stones
July
Mark Ronson
featuring Kevin Parker
Them Crooked Vultures
Steve Miller Band
Vampire's Sound Incorporation
Judy Garland
The Dark
The Hawaiian Pups

T7720

" Please, won't you please take me home with you"

RFW

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Deep Listening Music: Volume 25

 Radio Blue/Blue Radio

Kraftwerk
Gong
Steve Hillage
System 7
Et Cetera
Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo
Robert Fripp, Andrew Keeling & David Singleton
Robert Johnson

DLMV25

"So when the media barons program their pollution
Your new transmissions will just neutralize their rays"


RFW

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Sunday AM - Black, White and Red


That's What I Said!

Nguyên Lê
Jefferson Starship
Motorpsycho
The Cult
Tiger B. Smith
YĪN YĪN
Mother Gong
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Muddy Water
King Jammy Meets Dry & Heavy
Rufus Thomas
Fleet Foxes
Eno
John Foxx
Tame Impala
Baker Gurvitz Army

SAM20

"The tiger (as it happens) was a lion"

RFW

*I played the band YĪN YĪN from their excellent 2019 release The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers. Here's a very cool live performance bonus!

Friday, December 11, 2020

Transmission 7620 - Jesus Is

 

All Lou Reed

T7620

"
Hey, baby, come on, let's slip away"


RFW

Wednesday, December 09, 2020

Deep Listening Music: Volume 24

 

Orchestranger Than Usual

Klaus Schulze
King Crimson
Matmos
Aphex Twin
orchestrated by
Phillip Glass
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Bill Laswell
featuring
Iggy Pop and William Burroughs
The Mothers Of Invention
The Amorphous Androgynous 

DLMV24

"In Last Chance, you play for keeps"

RFW

Friday, December 04, 2020

Transmission 7520 - 3x5


 Jonesing For The Live Stuff

King Crimson
Jimi Hendrix
Wilco
Television
The Rolling Stones


"I'm the man who loves you"

RFW

Sunday, November 29, 2020

Sunday AM - It's The Time


Loving Season Is Officially Open

The Bees
World Party
Steely Dan
Oz Noy
The Zombies
The Band
Faces
Jeff Beck
Stevie Wonder
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Steve Miller Band
The Mamas & The Papas
U2
Joe Cocker
Jane


"I really want to know"

RFW

Friday, November 27, 2020

Transmission 7420 - ?


Captain Beyond
Parquet Floors
The Dream Syndicate
The Flys
Babe Ruth
Christina
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
Philip Catherine
Leon Russell
Grimms
The Kinks
Chris Spedding
Peter Gabriel
Renaissance

T7420

"
Please let me have happy days"

RFW

Thursday, November 26, 2020

The RFW 2020 Thanksgiving Special

The Great Turkey Revolt

Little Eva
Ohio Players
The Soft Boys
Ray Davies
The Kinks
Procol Harum
Chris Bell
Alex Chilton
The Box Tops
George Harrison
Eric Clapton
Randy Newman
Harry Nilsson
Badfinger
Paul McCartney
Jellyfish
XTC
Todd Rundgren
Led Zeppelin
Toy & Mr. Sakato

TDAY

"Papa looks over at the small gathering
Remembering days gone by
Smiles at the children as he watches them play
And wishes his wife was still by his side"


RFW

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Sunday AM - A Kitchen Sink Omelette

 Let's break a few eggs!

Jeff Whalen
The Anderson Council
The Hollies
Julian Cope
Magazine
Buzzcocks
The Stranglers
Streetwalkers
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
featuring
John Lee Hooker
Muddy Waters
Jimmy Page
  performing with
The Black Crows
Robert Plant
The Yardbirds

SAM18

"the doctor put you on milk, cream and alcohol"

RFW

Friday, November 20, 2020

Transmission 7320 - Change Into The Void


  The Eternal Bonds Of Friendship and Rock & Roll

Black Sabbath
Drive-By Truckers
Howlin' Rain
The Raconteurs
Faces
Jef Lee Johnson
Bob Dylan & The Band
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Pearl Jam
Motorhead

T7320

"Past the stars in fields of ancient void
Through the shields of darkness where they find
Love upon a land a world unknown
Where the sons of freedom make their home"

*When I think of my East Boston teenage friends, I think of our gang - a co-operative whole comprised of a cast of characters that I affectionately call The Usual Suspects in hundreds of stories I have recalled to you over the years - most of them true! 

I got the call this week that John "Bubba" DiGirolamo passed. I've lost my parents, family members and friends - so I've dealt with the shock of death, but this was different. 

It did not matter that I have not talked to most of them as much as I should - as I much as I could. They are still all a part of who I was and who I became - I love them all. 

If it were a Steven Kingish movie, we all would have shared the same dream or vision
and each would have had a task to accomplish.
In my case - I always get to bring the music.

The Sabbath is for you, Bubba.

RFW

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Deep Listening Music: Volume 23

Aero Synthetic Photography

Friedmann
Thomas Leer
The State Of Bengal
Air
Amorphous Androgynous
The Human League
Yes
Julian Cope
Seventh Wave
The Cinematic Orchestra

DLMV23

"Automatic stations came and sent them all away
And now I'm left alone - I haven't got a word to say
And you're the one who makes the choice
To turn me on or turn me off
But now it really matters"

RFW

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Sunday AM - Who Is The Rude Child?

 

Full Of Grace?

Jethro Tull
Mahogany Rush
The Cult
Biff Bang Pow!
Roger Daltrey
Pussy Riot
The Who
The Specials
Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos
The Rolling Stones
Eric Burdon & War

SAM17

"With hunger at her heel
Freedom in her eyes
She dances on her knees
Pirate prince at her side
Staring into the hollow idol’s eye"


RFW

Friday, November 13, 2020

Transmission 7220 - Don't Just Talk About It

Do It!

Gill Scott-Heron
Mushroom & Gary Floyd
Jeff Beck
The Beatles
The Shazam
Alice Cooper
The Eric Burdon Band
Donovan
Fleetwood Mac
Wilco
Television
Naked City
Electric Masada
John & Yoko & George

T7220

"Don't you know it's gonna be - alright!"

RFW


Sunday, November 08, 2020

Sunday AM - Do It,

Anyway

Azymuth, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge
David Bowie
David Werner
David Sylvian
Heather Trost
Sirens Of Lesbos
The Silence
Joe Bonamassa
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Caravan


"I Didn't Think That She Would Do It"

RFW

Saturday, November 07, 2020

Transmission 7120 - Cool

 

Keep Yours

Robert Plant
The Stooges
The Shazam
David Johansen
John Easdale
Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson
Pylon
Sparks
The Dandy Warhols
Human Sexual Response
Freddie King
Black Heat
Garland Jeffreys
U-Roy Meets King Tubby's
Shaun Cassidy
Squeeze
Holger Czukay
Godley & Creme
The Beach Boys
MGMT

T7120

"we're going to have a real cool time - tonight"

*When planning the session, I pondered  'What would be an appropriately cool theme for this high-anxiety moment in history?'. The answer was obviously hidden in the question.

The sounds continued after-hours as captured on the Two-Cool Mix!

Keep a cool head because cool heads prevail!

Go Joe!

RFW



Tuesday, November 03, 2020

RFW Election Day Special - Vote For Me

 

I'll Set You Free

ELECTION

Alice Cooper
The Replacements
Radiohead
Canned Heat

VOTE

Neil Young
The Kinks
Joe Walsh
Little Steven

MR. PRESIDENT

Crack The Sky
Thenewno2
Marilyn Manson
The Psychedelic Furs

PREDICTION

Steam
Skid Row

Election Day

"I want to be Elected"

*Special thanks to our guest Executive Producer Steve Rosen
for show theme inspiration and blackmail worthy photos!

RFW


Sunday, November 01, 2020

Gone Electioneering


 Today's Sunday Morning AM show was put on-hold as RFW stumped for a Trumpless America 
and continued production of our Election Day Coverage.
Join us Tuesday and please make plan to vote VOTE!

RFW

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

RFW Holiday Special - The F.N.S. Suite


Sounds Inspired by the Mary-Made 
man and his monster.

Underworld
Midnight Movers 
Bill Nelson
Byron Lee
Death From Above 1979
White Noise
Jean-Pierre Massiera's Horrific Child
Daevid Allen
Francis Dhomont


Frankenstein poster 1931.jpg

"Now I know what it feels like to BE God!"

~WARNING~

It's a well-proven fact that only the bravest and most deserving Trick Or Treaters 
will even approach a house playing these un-godly sounds.

In honor of  All-Saints Day past, please reward those that cross your sonic line of no-return 
with a full-size bar of quality candy and not those little one-bite fun-size wannabe bars
(Snickers preferred).

That 18 year old Mary Shelly's 1818  novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is responsible for such indelible and iconic characters as Victor and his unholy creation is itself 
one of the great stories, as is the hilarious homage and cast of 
Mel Brooks' classic Young Frankenstein
~"What hump?"~

CSO Sounds & Stories » Ebert hails the comic genius of Mel Brooks' 'Young  Frankenstein'


Happy Halloween - Stay Safe!

RFW


Sunday, October 25, 2020

Sunday AM - Perhaps It's The Sweetener?


 IT's Driving Me Wild

Len Barry
Harry Nilsson
Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi
Jack White
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Hugo Race & True Spirit
Roxy Music
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
The Moody Blues
Eno
Generation X
X
Los Lobos
Wolfmother
Bob Dylan

SAM15

"I can't see
I can't speak
"


RFW

Friday, October 23, 2020

Transmission 7020 - Inspiration and Impulse


Give Birth To Art

King Salami & The Cumberland Three
Prince
Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts
R.E.M.
Jack White
Led Zeppelin
The Waterboys
New York Dolls
Suede
Roxy Music
Bryan Ferry
Grace Jones

T7020

"We've been running 'round in our present state
hoping help will come from above"

*This Transmission and the pictured Guit-Art by my muse, 
Tracy "Dare To Be Different" Cassidy 
were born during a fun session in our joint-studio on this beautiful afternoon. Each of our projects had no pre-planned starting point and both ultimately arrived at an unexpected groovy destination by following our impulses and inspiration.

Throw away the instructions -
trust your instincts
 - create!

RFW


Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Deep Listening Music: Volume 22

 

Heavier and Louder!

Controlled Bleeding
Pink Floyd
Hawkwind
Robert Calvert
Hawkestrel
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Health
Massive Attack
Nguyen Le
Wire
The Smashing Pumpkins
Motorpsycho
Nik Turner

DLMV22

"
Has the world gone mad or is it me?"


RFW

Sunday, October 18, 2020

Sunday AM - A Taste Of SAM

 

Sweet!

The Beatles
Ulf Wakenius, Lars Danielsson, Magnus Ostrom
Herb Albert
Emergency!
Metz
13th Floor Elevators
Jack White
Rare Earth
The Undisputed Truth
The Temptations
Steppenwolf

SAM14

"You've been telling lies so long
Some believe they're true
So they close their eyes to things
You have no right to do
Just as soon as you are gone
Hope will start to climb
Please don't stay around too long
You're wasting precious time"


 

RFW

Friday, October 16, 2020

Transmission 6920 - Breaking Out The

Todd Rundgren
Brian Cook & The Renderers
Tom Waits
IPA-Boogie
King Somalie
Snoop Lion
Aerosmith
The Stooges
Nazareth
Robert Palmer
Robert Plant
Roger Waters
Mi-Sex
Neil Young
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Fela Ransome-Kuti and Africa '70

T6920

"
Because why o? 
(Because the shit dey smell!)"


RFW

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Deep Listening Music: Volume 21



It's A Plane
No, It's A Frog
No, It's

Laurie Anderson & Peter Gabriel
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Fad Gadget
J.J. Burnell
Bob Callaway
Jefferson Airplane
Prince Fatty featuring Shaniece McMenamin
Pluramon
Robin Trower
Donovan
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
A.P.O.


"Oh, Superman"

RFW

Monday, October 12, 2020

Happy Columbus Day


The Nice
Flip Wilson
Ray Charles

HCD

"Chris is going to discover Ray Charles!"

*Also much respect goes out to all Native Americans on Indigenous People Day

RFW

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Sunday AM - What Becomes A Legend Most?

 
 BlackLlama!

Donovan
Curt Boettcher
David Bowie
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Les Fleur De Lys
Prince
John Zorn
Pink Floyd
African Head Charge
Lee "Scratch Perry & The Upsetters
Johnny Clarke
The Tony Williams Lifetime
Human Sexual Response
We The People
Patti Smith Group
Lou Reed


"Not a heart, that is left empty"

RFW


Saturday, October 10, 2020

Transmission 6820 - I Am The Fly


Fly in the, 
fly in the 
ointment!

Grin
The Cramps
Wire
U2
Depeche Mode
Bruce Springsteen
The Boomtown Rats
Graham Parker & The Rumour
Rod Stewart
Grace Jones
Marvin Gaye
Marianne Faithful
Death In Vegas
Ulver
Midlife
Klaatu

T6820


"
I shake you down to say please
As you accept the next dose of disease"

RFW





Thursday, October 08, 2020

Deep Listening Music: Volume 20

 

A Wolfgang By Any Other Name

The Mothers Of Invention
Wolfgang
The Orb
Wolfgang Dauner Quintet
Wolfgang Lackerschmid
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Coley, Brian Blade
Wolfgang Riechmann
Wolfgang Flur
Wolfgang Bock

DLMV20

"The following program deals with a controversial subject"



RFW

Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Transmission 6720 - Right Now!


What Are You Waiting For?

Van Halen
Van Der Graaf Generator
Robert Fripp with Peter Hammill
Graham Nash
Chicago
Primal Scream
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real
The Mothers Of Invention
 Sammy Hagar with Eddie Van Halen

T6720


"c'mon turn this thing around"

*I got to see VH in early 1978 on their first tour at a WBCN $1.04 night night at the Paradise Theatre, Boston. At that time all the band had released was the advance 12" of Running With The Devil - so we really didn't know what to expect. I was lucky enough to see VH many times afterwards with both Dave and Sammy. It's not that often that I get to really share with you one of my favorite concert moments, but tonight I can. On November 6, 1993, Sammy Hagar was a surprise guest at Neil & Peggy Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert at Bill Graham's Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. As you can see on the video below and the tunes in the Transmission, Sammy "conned" his talented bandmate to join him on guitar and piano for a short set for the kids on stage and
22,000 fans! 

We remember
Edward Van Halen

RFW