Transmission 4320 - The Real Pandemic

Won't You Please Help?

Suicidal Tendencies

Funkadelic

Dirtbombs

Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

XTC

Black Bananas 

Loose Fur

Neil Young

Lou Reed

Phogg

The Specials

Z Z Top

The Police

The Flys

The Futureheads

The Sniveling Shits

The Detroit Cobras

Connie Francis

Sparks

Frank & Nancy Sinatra

T4320

"I'm feeling dumber than before""

*I'm astounded by the parade of stupidity on display during this time of an incredibly serious and fact-based global-health pandemic, a loose-cannon idiotic President, more killer cops and race-relation riots circa 1968. 

Without insulting you or your beliefs - if you are reading this and still do not understand the enormous results of all this haphazard behavior - WTF are you thinking? 

Your family and friends are the people most apt to be harmed by a refusal to follow 

the basic laws, rules, morals and precautions. Anything other than basic care and civility is both 

selfish and inhumane.

Most of us are outraged for a myriad of reasons, but violence, racism in all it's forms

and/or ignorance of the offensiveness your words, messages and actions is not an answer or excuse!

 We might come out of this with great sadness, 

yet increased empathy, if we could all just 

smarten the fuck up.

RFW

Transmission 4220 - Teenage Terrors

Why must I be a ...

Big Star

David Bowie

Sonic Youth

Alice Cooper

The Amplifier Heads

Nazareth

Little Feet

Pink Floyd

Hawkwind

XTC

sgt.

T4220 

"all I want to do is rock, rock, rock"

* I mentioned Sal Baglio in the first set and originally listed him as The Boy With The Amplifier Head. Although both references are correct, the extensive Teenage Damage was caused by the boy in question off The Amplifier Heads 2019 release Loudah! Get it and ruin your hearing for life!

RFW

Transmission 4120 - Lucid Tales & Tunes

Static crackles burst from the netherworld!

Leon Bridges

Khruangbin

Yellow Magic Orchestra

The Mothers Of Invention

Devo

Ian Dury & The Blockheads

The Davey & Goliath Suite

featuring

Woodkid

Dr. Israel

The Mars Volta

Status Quo

Sopwith Camel

Tommy James & The Shondells

T4120

"We got hosed!"

"Oh, Davey"

* Rare photo (above) of 60s TV child-star Davey Hansen erupting in a violent
rage on the set resulting in his eventual entry into the where is he now club(?).

Could it have been the wicked world of
 drugs = drink,
the devil's music
and unprotected animation puppet sex?

Meanwhile, the whereabouts of Goliath remain
a mystery and amongst the most famously-unsolved canine cases. 

???

RFW

Deep Listening Music: Volume 5

Sound Spores

Ken Ishi

Tame Impala

Thomas Dolby

Dumama + Kechou

The Rolling Stones

David Bowie

Moby
FFWD

Phil Manzanera

DLMV5

"I know it's happened to you"

*Headphones/buds are highly recommended ,
as is .....

RFW

Transmission 4020 - The Sunday Shuffle

...and then They played music!

Pretty Things

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

Eric Burdon &War

Tim Buckley

Joe Walsh

Eagles

James Gang

Fire!

Sly & Robbie

The Meters

Grateful Dead

T4020

"The sunlight of his days

Was spent in the grey of his mind

As he stole love with a tongue of lies

The world is shrinking in size"

*Phil May was the lead singer and original member of the UK English Invasion band Pretty Things that never reached their deserved  success here in the States. The early singles, lps like S.F. Sorrow and Parachute and the mid-seventies Swan Song releases are all must-have in your collection.

RFW

Transmission 3920 - Dance Or Die

I Hear You Knocking!

Was (Not Was)

Little Richard

Roxy Music

Eno

Magazine

Jimi Hendrix

Sting & Gil Evans

Jeff Beck & Seal

Blind Faith

Jeff Parker

The Who

Sweet Pea Atkinson

Theophilus London

Marvin Gaye

Japan

Mott The Hoople

T3920

"It's Saturday night and i just got paid"

RFW

* Losing Little Richard and Sweet Pea Atkinson in the same week is a real 1-2 punch. 

The only thing left to do is 

Dance Or Die!

Deep Listening Music: Volume 4

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidada

Tortoise

Jazz Is Dead

Jazzrausch Bigband

Karlheinze Stockhausen

Hardy Fox

The Residents
David Lynch & John Neff

The Orb

DLMV4

"The Band Plays On"

RFW

Transmission 3820 - A Model Of Modern Man/Machine Music

A Great Loss To Both

Kling & Klang

Kraftwerk

David Bowie

T3820

"I don't want to be your Sex Object

I've had enough and that's a fact"

Florian Schneider

1974-2020

*The number and names of the artists and bands that were influenced

by the musical mind of this man-machine are as infinite as is his art.

** The amazing live set is the original Kraftwerk line-up
recorded in Bremen, Germany in 1971 featuring:
Florian 
Ralf Hütter
Michael Rother
Klaus Dinger

 RFW

Deep Listening Music: Volume 3

As Far As The Ear Can Hear

Bob Dylan

Van Morrison

Jaimie Brockett

The Beach Boys

Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Whitebellyrats

Automaton

DLMV3

"Ohhh, this just brings us up to what's happenin' again folks. The Titanic she's sailin' around in between the icebergs. Everybody else is havin' parties. The Jewish people they jumpin' up n' down they tradin' wives n' Cadillacs n' diamonds n' drinkin' booze. Everybody else is hoistin' up land lubbers, battenin' down hatches n' doin' sail things. The First Mate's hangin' over there on the rail havin' himself a little smoke n' diggin' icebergs. And the Captain's out cold on the wheelhouse floor"

*The inspiration that fuels the Deep Listening sessions at RFW
is the lost art of immersing oneself into music without distraction or interruption,
as opposed to it being relegated to background or ambient sounds
(which have a place - just not hear now)!

RFW

Transmission 3720 - The New Normal

A Party Of 1 +

The Normal
Love & Rockets
Sonic Youth
B.T. Express
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
The Firm
The Fleshtones
Hustler
Grace Jones
Bill Withers
Me'Shell NdegéOcello
YĪN YĪN
LCD Soundsystem
Amorphous Androgynous
Tony Allen

T3720

"Everybody knows what they'd like to do"

*Respect and admiration goes out to my fellow blogging brothers Patrick at Down Underground and Zen Archer at Cun Cun Revival for song-on-demand immediate gratification. Their daily-updated links are on the RFW Blog Roll in the left sidebar and are highly recommended.
Thanks gents!

RFW