Saturday, December 31, 2022

Transmission 10622 - Oh Shit!

 !!!
Pharcyde
Pharrell
DJ Cam
The Jon Spenser Blues Explosion
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Buzzcocks
L7
Wet Leg
Prince Rama
Nine Inch Nails
Pig
The Stranglers
Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa '70


"Gimme Shit ~ I Give You Shit"

*Hal and I are proud that you are celebrating the arrival of the New Year here in The Archives
and glad to both share our shit and enjoy yours.

Let's do this regularly in '23!

RFW

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Transmission 10522 - A Psymphony Of Psychotic Behavior

 
Bill Frisell
Bobby Hendricks
Eddie Noack
Wet Leg
Pastiche
The Sonics
Black Sabbath
Jah Wobble
The Fall
The Yardbirds
Jeff Beck
Ramones
The Meteors
Naked City
The Jesus and Mary Chain
McGuiness Flint
Barry Adamson

T10522


"We all go a little mad sometimes.
Haven't  you?"

RFW

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Transmission 10422 - Too Dark To Not See

Arthur Brown
Black Midi
Bootstrappers
Material
Grant Phabao ~ Racecar
El Michaels Affair
Wu-Tang Clan
Bugzy Malone
Peter Tosh
Santana
William Onyeabor Vs. Hot Chip
Pussy Riot
David Bowie
The Psychedelic Furs
Paul Jones


"Let all the people in.
Listen to your women.
Stop killing black children.
Make America Great Again."



RFW

Sunday, December 25, 2022

SAMXMASS 22

Blind Willie McTell
Joe Bonamassa
Jim Carroll Band
Paris
Ten Years After
The Electric Prunes
Jethro Tull
James MacMillan & The London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir


"He's not the kind you have to Wind-Up on Sunday"

*According to the still valid (?) Baltimore Catechism record review section - the blasphemous version of the Roman Catholic Mass performed in Latin and heard here this morning was actually written to be performed in FU Major!

Unfortunately, much about JC's past suffers from bad translation. For example one on-line search finds him listed as the son of a highly-ranked Executive and a well-compensated spokes-god for the Vatican, another reports that his Hollier-than-thou rep is at stake as allegations of illegal uses of bodies and blood may be used to strip him of his super-powers. 

Jesus continues to weep.

RFW 

Friday, December 23, 2022

Transmission 10322 - The Night Before The Day Before

 

Corporal Blossom
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Eric Gales
The Arc Angels
Defunkt
The Cars
Led Zeppelin
Lou Reed
Faces
Hoodoo Gurus
The Five Americans
The Monkees
Harry Nilsson
Donovan
Eric Burdon & The Animals
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
The Kinks
Alejandro Escovedo
Escape Mechanism


"the skinny girl made it clear
that she only came here for the beer (and that's a fact)"


RFW

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Transmission 10222 - 'Twas?

The Mono Men
Oasis
Silverhead
Julian Cope
Mouth & McNeil
Frank Zappa
Paris
Pat Travers Band
Thomas Dolby
Jeff Beck Group
Dave Mason
Traffic
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Chicago


"Tell me about your childhood(?)"

RFW

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Deep Listening Music - Fall Sleeps as Winter Awakens

Billy West & Tom Sandman*
Balmorhea
Nils Frahm
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Wendy Carlos


"Santa Claus forgot that there is no legal parking spot"

*Christmas In Kenmore Square was written, performed and produced by Tom Sandman & Billy West under the employ and encouragement of WBCN, Boston. I was the third member of this production trio in the early Eighties and it was a Masters Course in creativity, ability and friendship, not to mention non-stop fun every day.. Tommy just wrote to me and reverentially referenced the piece as "Billy's Masterpiece" (he's amazing)  - but the equal stars are Tommy's everything-else, the incredible radio station that was at 104.1 FM for decades and the storied crossroads in one of the great cites in the world.

Welcome Winter!


RFW

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Sunday AM - No End To Childhood

 

Pink Floyd
Ulver
The Byrds
Traffic
Chicago
The Electric Prunes
Jefferson Airplane
Steppenwolf
Slade
Felix Cavaliere ~ John Sebastian ~ NRBQ


"I've been lonely too long"


RFW

Saturday, December 17, 2022

The 2022 RFW Holiday Songfest



Open With Care

The Monkees
Dies Irae
Grandaddy
Keith Emerson
Chris Squire
Esquivel
Slade
Fat Daddy
The dbs
Elephant Stone
Khruangbin
Bill West & Eddie G
The Wisemen
Tuxedomoon
The Residents
Cristina
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Winston Tong


"Good Morning Midnight, It's Christmas"


RFW

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Deep Listening Music - possibilities, probabilities, inevitabilities (and impossibilities)

 

Jordon Reyes
Desensitize
A Silver Mt. Zion
Hedvig Molsted
Jim O'Rourke
Tangerine Dream
The Residents

*The image of the chair in the sweet spot was caught by the amazing Donna Kossy!


"Everything Is Always"

RFW

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Transmission 10122 - Passion Crushes

 

Brenton Wood
The Mothers Of Invention
Roy Wood's Wizzard
The Clash
R.E.M.
Velvet Crush
The Cure
Graham Parker & The Rumour
Rod Stewart
Me'Shell NdegeOcello
Motorpsycho & Jaga Jazzist Horns
The Chocolate Watchband
Syndicate Of Sound
Blackalicious featuring Rakaa & Babu


"I want to get serious right away"


RFW

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Sunday AM - Autumn Sun Replaced With Blinking Lights

Kenny Burrell
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
 Epitaph
King Crimson
Dwight Twilley & Band 
The B-52s
Lydia Lunch
Pretenders

SAM 4322

"Someday soon we all will be together
If the fates allow
Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow"


RFW

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Transmission 10022 - World Disco Domination

Matmos
Vibrators
Brick
DJ Me: DJ You
LCD Soundsystem
The Tubes
The Meters 
Lou Reed
Luke Haines
Public Image Ltd.
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
David Bowie

*Tonight's Guest Disco Mystic Wave Dohlman arrived uninvited and left unpaid.
Is there a method and/or moral to this danceable madness?


"Bring Me the Disco King"



RFW

Thursday, December 08, 2022

Transmission 9922 - I Was The Walrus

The Plastic Ono Band featuring Eric Clapton
Elephant's Memory
Frank Zappa & The Plastic Ono Mothers
The Beatles
John Lennon


"The dream is over"

RFW

Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Deep Listening Music - Swoon And Sway

 

D'Swooners
Fujiya & Miyagi
Russel Mills
Beach Weather
The Chemical Brothers
Bill Nelson
Dean Martin
The Rolling Stones
Ocean Colour Scene
The Kooks
Spiritualized


*Check out the wonderful work of classically trained visual artist and printmaker Caledonia Curry, who exhibits her artwork under the name SWOON.

"It's just that demon life has got you in its Sway"

RFW

Sunday, December 04, 2022

Sunday AM - Mail's In

 

The Beach Boys
Paul McCartney
Neil Young
Ryuichi Sakamoto~Electric Youth/Hildur Guonadotir/404.0
Jimi Hendrix Experience


"Alright"


RFW

Saturday, December 03, 2022

Transmission 9822 - A Saturday Matinee


Muse
Brendan Benson
Squeeze
Roots Raid
Dennis Bovell
Michael Rose
Moody Mann
Aerosmith
Jack White
The Jon Spenser Blues Explosion
Bob Seeger & The Last Heard
Sly & The Family Stone
Funkadelic
Eric Burdon & War


"They can't take away our music"

RFW

Friday, December 02, 2022

Transmission 9722 - Your Revolution

R.E.M.
Cindi & Bert
Uriah Heep
Spoon
Prefab Sprout
David Bowie
Slade
T. Rex
The Black Crowes
Art Lindsay & Marc Ribot
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Phil Manzanera
Little Steven
The Shazam

T9722

"The future never happened"

RFW

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Transmission 9622(a) - Innere Zeit

 


A.R. & Machines
Essential Logic
Walt Disco
Sparks
Rammstein
Tangerine Dream
Andrea Marino


"We're the future and the past.
We're the only way you're gonna last!"

RFW

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Sunday AM - Unwanted Friendship Advice

 
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Wings
Faces
Ronnie Lane
The Cult Of Dom Keller
Nguyen Le
Stone Temple Pilots

SAM4122

"So anytime somebody needs you
Don't let them down, although it grieves you
Some day you'll need someone like they do
Looking for what you knew"

RFW


Saturday, November 26, 2022

Transmission 9522 - Talking About

 

Patti Smith Group
David Bowie
Muse
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers


"I don't need no fucking shit"


RFW

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Turkeymission 9422 - Creature Comfort Food, Family and Friends


 Words and Music by

Tim Hardin
Joni Mitchell

"And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the Circle Game"

*As are most situations, I have come to learn (the hard way) that a successful Thanksgiving celebration is all about achieving a balance of indulgence / moderation, participation / observation and guestlist negotiation / enforcement (Uncle Ernie is still up for debate).  
Equally important, it's a time to reflect on the reality that all in attendance are as stuck with you today, as you are with them - so enjoy everyone as we go 'round and 'round.

I truly thank You for being a part of this on-going Family Affair (past-present-future).

Please carve responsibly!

RFW

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Transmission 9322 - The Drugs Not Working


 Maxfield Parrish
Susto
Wilco
The Verve
Tom Waits
Anton Barbeau
Talking Heads
Julian Cope
The Music
Simpletons
Marilyn Manson
Danko Jones
The Wildhearts
Ryan Adams
Keith Emerson

T9322

"Take the reds, man"


RFW

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Sunday AM - Love-In Banana Waffling


 Sheb Wooley
The Chocolate Watchband
The Banana Splits
A Song
Gorillaz
Jah Wobble
Deep Purple
Noha's Ark
The Morning Glorys
Charles Lloyd Quartet
The Electric Banana
Kevin Ayres
Daevid Allen

SAM4022

"are you gonna' be there?"


RFW

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Transmission 9222 - Saturday Night Fever-Dreams

 

Fever Feel
Dee Gees
Sheep On Drugs
Grant Phabao & The Lone Ranger
Steven Wilson
Thomas Dybdahi
Motorhead
Chris Stamey
Humble Pie
Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa '70

T9222

"Who Are You?"

RFW


Friday, November 18, 2022

Deep Listening Music - Canned Audience

 

Public Image Limited
Can
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Sonic Youth
Neil Young & Crazy Horse


"Well, late at night when the people were gone
He used to pick up my guitar
And sing a song in a shaky voice
That was real as the day was long"


RFW

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Transmission 9722(a) - No Fear


Paper Bubble
Spirit
Procol Harum
Bakerloo
Led Zepppelin
Ben Folds
Anton Barbeau
Sault
Talking Heads
Eric Gales
Tool
Nervous Eaters
Sal Baglio
Paul McCartney
Elvis Costello & Brian Eno

"I'm kinda ugly
You're gonna look"


RFW 

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Sunday AM - Word EFX


 Don Covay
The Creation
Squeeze
Sonny & Cher
Beastie Boys
Freddy Scott
LCD Soundsystem
Solo
Sister Nancy
The Sonics
Small Faces
Ann Peebles
!!!
The El Dorados
Black Uhuru
The Specials

SAM3922

" Boomshakalaka Boom"

RFW

Friday, November 11, 2022

Transmission 9622 - We Is The P

 Horndogz
Morphine
Michael Jackson
Teddybears
Neneh Cherry & The Circuit
Robyn
Dambo & Paulino Nunes
Os Mutantes
The Bees
Carlos Santana~John McLaughlin~Bill Laswell| 


" P Is The People"

RFW

Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Transmission 9522 - A Bitter Sweetener


 Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass
Roxy Music
Hoodoo Gurus
Me'Shell NdegeOcello
Galactic
The Undertones
The Verve
Graham Nash & David Crosby
Graham Coxon
The Murlocs
R.E.M
Marillion


"It's always Bittersweet"

RFW

Sunday, November 06, 2022

Sunday AM - Revolving

Meire Pavao
The Beatles
Mission Of Burma
Thea Gilmore
Revolver
Mr. Albert Show
Nixon Now
David Fiucznski
Rage Against The Machine
Velvet Revolver
The Handsome Family with The Rivet Gang
Basement Revolver
Overwhelming Colourfast


"She said, You don't understand what I said.
I said, No, No, No you're wrong."


RFW

Saturday, November 05, 2022

Transmission 9422 - Coping With The De-evolution Jam


The Jam
Devo
Julian Cope

T9422

 
"put your head back in the clouds and shut your mouth"

RFW

Friday, November 04, 2022

Deep Listening Music - The Voices Of RFW

 Trondheim Voices
Roger Eno
Schwalm & Eno
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Robert Calvert
White Noise
Vangelis
Dr. John
The Police
Donny Hathaway
The Residents
Laurie Anderson
The Loud Family
Jean-Michel Jarre


"I hear voices of many people"

RFW