T7621 - Get A Grip On The New Year

 

The Monkees
The Grip Weeds

The Cure

David Bowie

The Moody Blues

The Reds

The Creation

Julian Cope

Paul Revere & The Raiders

Alice Cooper

The Blues Project

Rage Against The Machine

The Marmalade

Ulver

The Rolling Stones
Chico & Buddy

Primal Scream

The Gants

The Beatles

Frosty

The Amboy Dukes

The Nightcrawlers

Chris Spedding

The Squires

The Turtles

Bryan Ferry

The Byrds

Eddie Hazel

T7621

"In this generation

We will make the world shine"

* Officially named RFW Record of the Year, you can thank 
The Grip Weeds  
for our NYE celebration of all things rock and roll.

Originals - Covers -Volume

DIG?!?

RFW

Deep Listening Music - Volume 72

 Follow The Tale

Otomo Yoshihide & Carl Stone

Ryuichi Sakamoto

F.S.K.

Burnt Fiedman & The Nu Dub Players

Grinderman~Nick Zinner

David Torn

Marc Ribot

Can

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jaz Quintet 

DLMV72

"Do you love me?

I love you.

Do you trust me?

I trust you."

RFW

Sunday AM - The Day-After Midnight Dance Party

Jeff Beck

Nile Rodgers

Diana Ross

Chic

Was (not was)

James White & The Blacks

Funkadelic~Anthony Shake Shakir & T Dancer

Haruomi Hosono~James Brown

Air

LCD Soundsystem

Marianne Faithfull

Robert Fripp~David Byrne

SAM68

"I am resplendent in divergence"

RFW

Transmission 7521 - Listening To Records With You Waiting For Christmas

 (Trying Not To Fall)

Otis Redding
Okkervil River
Jellyfish
David Werner
Robbie Robertson
Elvis Costello
Alex Chilton
801
Alejandro Escovedo
Ray Charles
Mose Allison
Eric Clapton

T7521

"just like the ones I used to know"



RFW

The RFW 2021 Christmas Companion

 

Featuring:

Jimmy Jules & The Nuclear Soul System

Dwight Twilley

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

NRBQ

The Peppermint Kicks

Jack Scott

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

Bob Wills & His Texas Cowboys

John Zorn ~ The Dreamers

Fountains Of Wayne

Kris Kristofferson

The Blind Boys Of Alabama & Taj Mahal

Little Cindy

Wilco

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Aiden Moffat & R.M. Hubbert

Esquivel

Joy Unlimited

Jeff Beck

'21 CC

"you know, Christmas just don't seem the way it used to be""

*A holiday spectacular of this size and scope takes a very special cast and crew! Special thanks to my esteemed yule-time side-kick and speed organist Jesse Crawford, our house-band leader Jimmy Jules, the always sacrilegious National Lampoon Radio Hour, all of the carolers who have unwittingly joined together to celebrate and most importantly

You.

Merry Christmas!

RFW

Transmission 7421 - Rainy Brown Bed

 

Michael Fennelly

Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

The Electric Chairs

Popa Chubby
The Police

Alejandro Escovedo

The Insight

The Residents

James Brown

Tony Joe White

Jimi Page & Robert Plant

The Doors

T7421

"The world on you depends"

RFW

A RFW Breaking News Special

Presumed Musically Guilty

Lonnie Johnson

Black Sabbath

Vibrators

The Bronx

Nazareth

Marianne Faithful

The National

Beck

David Wilcox

Black Joe Lewis

Honey Bane

Digital Mystikz

David Prichard

T7421

"All you're ever going to be is entertainment"

RFW

Transmission 7321 - The Mystery Festival Backstage After-Party

? 

T7321

"A million bright ambassadors of morning"

RFW

Transmission 7221 - The Mystery Festival Day 3

 

?

T7221

"don't be late"

RFW

Transmission 7121 - The Mystery Festival - Day 2

?

T7121

"bring me champagne when I'm thirsty and bring the reefer when I want to get high"

RFW

Sunday AM - The Mystery Festival

Day 1

?

SAM67

"A long, long time ago.

*The Nes was for me, one of those musicians who's passing hurt beyond hearing bad news. Like John and David, they were as much the suppliers of happiness, advice and companionship in my life as my friends and family - correction - they we're also my friends and family. In some small way, I think they know that. God Bless You, Monkee Mike.

Enjoy the show!

 RFW

Transmission 6921 - Are You On The List?

Peter Wolf

Iggy Pop

Patti Smith

Joy Division

Bryan Ferry

Haruomi Hosono

Dr. John

Howlin' Wolf

Vernon Reid

Eric Gales

Tony Joe White

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

James Brown

Marvin Gaye

T6921

"You ain't been nowhere till you've been in""

RFW

Transmission 6821 - I Need A Fix

 John Lennon

Joy Division

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Faust

Frank Zappa

Don "Sugarcane" Harris

Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

Plastic Ono Mothers

T6821

"Just a boy and little girl

Trying to change the whole wide world"

*John Lennon is the artist who most connected with me. Spoke to me. Spoke for me.

December 8th, 1980 was hard then and now, and as I sat alone in the darkened studio tonight , I wanted to pay RFW respect to a fallen friend - but not by just playing his hits or again talking about his life/death.

I decided to seriously attempt to spiritually reconnect with my musical muse, starting the show with a telling tune from the still stark and stunning POB lp and then asking John to help guide me to the songs and artists that followed. 

I can't find the words that can describe the loss - so no words were used.

Listen back to the results - I believe it worked.

Imagine that!

 

RFW

Deep Listening Music: Volume 71

 

 In Space, No One Can Hear RFW

Three Man Army

Tierney Malone

Hawkwind

Nektar
Flanger

DLMV71

"one look at her face 

will put you right back in space"

*Our lp du jour was the Bellaphon/Bacillus Records 1971 release Journey To The Center Of The Eye, the debut of the English - German hybrid-band Nektar. The snap and pops of my original teenage vinyl and the production by Dieter Dierks still sends me out there!

RFW

Sunday AM - Bubblegum Donuts

 
Tommy James & The Shondells

Ohio Express

1910 Fruitgum Company

The Chocolate Watchband

The Music Machine

Jeff Beck

Joe Bonamassa

Muddy Waters

Foghat

Patto

Second Hand

Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band

Bonnie Raitt

Roberta Flack

Todd Rundgren

Robin Trower

Stevie Salas

Jimi Hendrix

SAM66

"Yummy"

RFW

Transmission 6721 - Am I Or Am I No

Robot

The Alan Parsons Project

Dennis Bovell meets Dubblestandart
Bruce Haack

Crack The Sky

Datacide

Thundercat with Whizz Khalifa

Dennis Chambers~Jeff Berlin~Dave Fiuczynski~T. Lavitz

Seventh Wave

Radiohead
The Flaming Lips

T6721

"It does not compute"

RFW

Deep Listening Music: Volume 70

Riding The Time Train

 Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

Esquivel!

Lemon Jelly

Kraftwerk

The Human League

Jean-Michele Jarre

Fujiya & Miyagi

Can~Sunroof

Kreidler

Soft Hair

Walter/Wendy Carlos

Jah Wobble

DLMV70

"I couldn't stand this bland sound any more so I walked towards my deck to turn it off

All I could see was the B-side of the disc

which had assumed a doughnut shape with the label on the outside rim

I reached for the arm which was less than one micron long

but weighed more than Saturn

and time stood still

I knew I had to escape but every time I tried to flee,

the record was in front of me"

RFW

Sunday AM - Standing Room Only?

 Yellow Magic Orchestra

James Chance

Lou Reed

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Ann Peebles

Wilco

The Members

Peter Gabriel

Ian Hunter

The Libertines

The Rolling Stones

The La De Da's

DMZ

The Rezillos

The Police

Roger Taylor

Ten Years After

SAM65

"here we go again"

RFW

Transmission 6621 - Sorcery

 

 The Sorcery introduction
was scribed by
Hakim Bey, TAZ

Ronnie Montrose

Power Of Zeus

Hugo Race & True Spirit

The Raiders

John Zorn ~ Similicrum

Jefferson Lee

Julie's Haircut

Gorillaz

The Sorcerers

J.R. Bohannon

Little Steven

T6621

"Let the beautiful flight of my soul begin
Because I'm ready"

*The Sorcerer's Apprentice composed by Paul Dukas and completed in 1897 was subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe", based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of the same name. Its celebrated and memorable use in Walt Disney's 1940 groundbreaking Fantasia continues to enchant to this day.

RFW

The Exotic Roadkill Recipe Thanksgiving Special

 Dal Sasso Big Band

John Coltrane

Govt. Mule

Paul Simon

Yes

Jethro Tull

Joe Bonamassa

The Dream Syndicate

The Stompers

Turkey Day 2021

"I know what you like"

*He's just a singer in a Rock & Roll band.
What a fucking ride. 
Enjoy your final show and thank you

Sal Baglio and The Stompers!

RFW

Transmission 6521 - The Spirits Have Gone Weird

 Norman Greenbaum

Art
The Troggs
Ulver
AC/DC
Elevator To Hell
Nine Inch Nails
Comets On Fire
The Mekons
Bauhaus
Manfred Mann Earth Band
Aretha Franklin
Eric Burdon & War
Hawkwind

T6521

"It felt so right"

RFW

Sunday AM - All Over The World

 Wire

Faces

The Monkees

The Raconteurs

Tommy James & The Shondells

The Doobie Brothers

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

The Doors

Jethro Tull

Roberta Flack

Can

Beck

Sundays & Cybele

Sunday All Over The World

The Hold Steady

Writing On The Wall

SAM64

"Walk away

Talk away

Onward and clockwise

All over the world"

* Inspiration for this morning's theme came from a loud revisiting of 

Kneeling At The Shrine, the 1991 one-off release by
Sunday All Over The World 

featuring Robert Fripp, Toyah Wilcox, Trey Gunn and Paul Beavis.

I highly recommend it for your ears!

RFW

Transmission 6421 - Radio Free Worm, Man

 Alice Cooper
Spirit
Spirits And Worm
Possum
Audioslave
Grinderman
Faith No More
Ohio Players
Gary Lucas
John Zorn
Godley & Creme
Jeff Whalen
Marilyn Manson
Pink Floyd
Jody Grind
Love & Rockets

T6421



"all you need to do is follow the worms"

RFW

Deep Listening Music: Volume 69

 An Exhibition Of Pictures

The Len Price 3

The Who

The Seeds

Status Quo

Hot Chip

Scott Weiland

Kazuhito Yamashita

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Isao Tomita

DLMV69

"And I was wonderin', mister, have you ever seen ..."

*I marvel at Kazuhito Yamashita as he performs
J. S. Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 6 BWV 1012 I. Prélude
on guitar with power, passion and beauty.
Stunning!

RFW

Sunday AM - Live Calls

 
Of  Love

The Plastic Ono Band
Jeff Beck
Marianne Faithful
Wynton Marsalis Septet
Emergency!

SAM63

"When the days are sad and long
I just keep wandering on
To the place I hear a call
Because the one love is there"

RFW

Transmission 6321 - Steady As We Go-Go

 Bad Company
Aretha Franklin
Eric Clapton
Ming Tea
Steetwalkers
Chris Spedding
Wings
The Left Banke
Air
Ray Davies
The Pretenders
Adrian Belew
King Crimson

T6321

"what it is"

RFW

Deep Listening Music: Volume 68

 ॐ शान्तिः

Donovan
T. Rex

Frank Zappa 

Sonic Youth

Julian Cope

Wilco

Dr. John

Richie Havens

Moodymann

Bill Laswell

DLMV68

"but I got the crystal ball"

*Cult participation courtesy of  DTBD!

RFW

Transmission 6321 - So

 Air

Radiohead

David Sylvian

Jellyfish

Steven Wilson

Goat Girl

Sneaker Pimps

The Stranglers

Calvin Harris

LCD Soundsystem

Daft Punk

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Beck

Green Milk From The Planet Orange

T6321

"How Does This Make You Feel?"

RFW

Sunday AM - Sunday Gunday

 

The Beatles

Chris Spedding

Traffic

Richard & Linda Thompson

801

Bryan Ferry

Grace Jones

The Allman Brothers Band

Faces

Eric Clapton

Fleetwood Mac

Steely Dan

SAM63

"I know nobody can do me no harm"

RFW

Transmission 6321 - Are You Ready, Annie?

 

Humble Pie

Muddy Waters

Aretha Franklin

Led Zeppelin

The Bees

Badfinger

Jack White

The Jackson 5

Prince

Annie Anxiety

Human Sexual Response

Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane

T6321

"I am ready for you, I hope you are ready for me"

RFW

Deep Listening Music: Volume 67

 Nash-Stoned-Spice

The Hollies

Graham Nash

C, S, & N

The Residents

Yeti Lane

Keith Richards

Spice

Dubblestandart, David Lynch & Lee "Scratch" Perry

Klaus Schulze

Mouse & The Traps

DLMV67

"she blows my mind"

RFW

Transmission 6221 - Hi-Res Is Due

 

Jeff Beck

Yellow Magic Orchestra

King Crimson

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Yes

Led Zeppelin

The Beatles

Pink Floyd

Faust

T6221 Hi-Res FLAC

"And I do"

*I utilized the most recent remixed hi-resolution FLAC files available from the artists played thru a Firefly DAC and recorded by HAL matching the source with no embellishment. The sound in the RFW studio is stupefying! 

The in-post player is sounding as great as usual,
but for the ultimate listening experience on your end - I suggest safely downloading this show as a Hi-Res FLAC by clicking the red T6221 above and ultimately invest in a DAC if you listen to most of your music from your device. It will vastly improve the sound of even your mp3 collection without breaking the bank!

We followed my self-described tech-nerd-guy and ever-talented WBCN radio Brother Bill Kates down the somewhat confusing path to technical ecstasy. Much love and Hi- Respect is due!

RFW

RFW Halloween '21

 The Cramps

The Vaselines

Tito & Tarantulas

Alice Cooper

Sendelica

Dr. John

Ralph Nielson & The Chancellors

Garland Jeffreys

Pink Floyd
Be Bop Deluxe
Roky Erickson
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real

Bauhaus

Halloween '21

"I'm dead"

RFW