Transmission 4024 - ... and then she said ...

Billy F. Gibbons

The Baby Seals

Chris & The Vibrators

Terrence D'Arby

Prince

Living Colour

Stevie Salas 

Small Faces

Todd Rundgren

The Yardbirds

Nguyen Le

Julian Cope

Starcrawler

Overwhelming Colorfast

Popa Chubby
Eddie Hazel

T4024

"I said, no, no, no, you're wrong"

RFW

Transmission 3924 - Fuck Beantown - This Is Boston!

 

The Modern Lovers
LaPeste
Nervous Eaters
Unatural Axe
Pastiche
The Neighborhoods
the real kids
Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band
The Rentals
Lou Miami & The Kozmetics
Mission Of Burma
The Freeze
Gound Zero
Young Snakes
Someone & The Somebodys
Suede Cowboys
The Del Fuegos
DMZ
Lyres
City Thrills
The Cars
The Stompers
Human Sexual Response
Private Lightning

T3924

"I'm in love with modern moonlight
128 when it's dark outside
I'm in love with Massachusetts
I'm in love with the radio on"

 *The music featured was created by friends and family during the fertile years of 1975 - 1985. When  curating the selections, all I had to do was close my eyes and remember that period in my hometown: WTBS/WMBR, Late Risers Club/Friday Night Live/TVOD, WBCN, The Rat, Spit, The Paradise, driving past the Stop 'n' Shop when it's dark outside like a Roadrunner. 

Many of these artists went on to stardom, others got "real" jobs and some have left us - 

all were integral to the beat of the city then and now!

Enjoy a snapshot of one of the most amazing scenes in any city at any point in time.

These bands were music - I was radio - some things never change.

Turn this up wicked loud - Fuck Beantown - This is Boston!

RFW

Transmission 3824 - The Red, The Black and The Foxy Blues

 

P.M. Dawn

Sammy Hagar

Mission Of Burma

Blue Oyster Cult

Vernon Reid & Michael Hill

The Reverend Shawn Amos

Syl Johnson
Samsara Blues Experiment

Neil Young

Hank Williams

The Isley Brothers
Bootsy Collins & Axiom Funk

Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Cure

Kid Loco

General Echo

Mushroom

Gary Clark Jr.

Nguyen Le

T3824

"My Red is so confident he flashes trophies of war and ribbons of euphoria"

RFW

Deep Listening Music - NGOOTB

May 15th, 1970

Ray Davies
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Blinz with Touliver
USA Out Of Vietnam
The Wildhearts
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Psynkopat
Shockabilly
The Black Angels
Alex Chilton
Steve Vai
Mick Harvey
Lynn Coleman and Bob Moore's Temptations
Protesters - Democratic Convention, Chicago, IL

Technical Composers Space Crew ~ Aloof

NGOOTB

"Never get out of the boat.
Absolutely goddamn right.
Unless you're going all the way"

*54 years ago on May 15, 1970, less than two weeks after the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces and less than a month after the Khmer Rouge captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, Cambodian Communist troops forcibly seized an American merchant ship, the SS Mayaguez, in the Gulf of Thailand. In so doing, the Khmer Rouge began what some argue was the “last battle” of the Vietnam War. In an attempt to recover the ship and rescue its 39 civilian crew members, President Gerald Ford ordered a force of 175 Marines to make an amphibious assault on the island of Koh Tang, where U.S. intelligence believed the crew was being held. The entire crew was eventually rescued, but the effort led to the deaths of 41 American servicemen. All those killed in the operation to rescue the crew of the Mayaguez, including the 23 Air Force Airmen killed in the training accident on May 13, are memorialized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., on Panel 1W, Lines 124–132.

(Courtesy of The 50th Anniversary Of The Vietnam War)

I ask that you suppose that this DLM session was the
 "RFW Good Morning Vietnam" broadcast
that was listened to by the soldiers preparing for the not-so surprise attack. 

May your god bless Our Troops and The United States Of America.

RFW

 

Sunday AM - Your Mother's Baby

 
Aretha Franklin
The Shirells
Smokey Robinson
Nathanial Walcott
Kiss
Simon & Garfunkel
Johnny Cash
Wilco
Exuma
Seatrain
Chuck Berry
Danny Gatton
Alejandro Escovedo
Air
The Rolling Stones
Patty Griffin
The Move

SAM1724

"Oh where is my daughter that I carried
Gone to where the fears of men obey
While mother moon hangs silently but is waiting
Two hundred fifty thousand miles away"

RFW

Transmission 3724 - Turn Down That Noise!

Hijss

Ulver

Elephant9
Motorpsycho

King Crimson

Tool

Axiom Funk

Black Sabbath

T3724

"shut up, shut up, shut up"

RFW

Deep Listening Music - Operatic Ambitions

 

The Residents
Olivia Tremor Control
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Julian Cope
Black Sabbath
The Bad Plus
Grand Funk Railroad
Brad Mehldau
Radiohead
Massive Attack
Justin Timberlake
Mel Blanc ~ Bugs & Elmer

DLM824

"You were born to rock
You'll never be an opera star"

RFW

Sunday AM - An Affair Of Dishonour

The Lofty Pillars
Elvis Costello
Elvis Presley
Ray Vernon
Ramones
The Saints
Stonewall Noise Orchestra
ZZ Top
John Lee Hooker
Howlin' Wolf
Tindersticks
The O'Jays
Sly Stone
Parliament
Dillinger

Keleketla!

SAM1724

"You can't leave 'cause your heart is there

And you, you can't stay 'cause you been somewhere else

You can't cry 'cause you'll look broke down

But you're cryin' anyway 'cause you're all broke down"

*An Affair of Dishonour is a novel written by William De Morgan originally published in 1910. Well known for experimenting with stained glass, he ventured into pottery in 1863 and by 1872 had shifted his interest wholly to ceramics. De Morgan eventually turned his hand to writing novels, and ultimately became better known for the latter. The 1st Edition pictured sits in the collection of Charles Bartlett in The Bonnet House and Museum located in Fort Lauderdale.

RFW

 

Transmission 3624 - Wave Cow-men and Cow-women With Guns

 
A Flock Of Seagulls
Soft Cell
Duran Duran
The Power Station
Bauhaus
T. Rex
Soul Coughing
Johnny Cash
Johnathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Tennessee Ernie Ford
John Mellencamp
Spooky Tooth
Elton John
Red Guitars
The Dream Syndicate
John Cale

T3624

 "I owe my soul to the company store"

RFW

 

Difficult Deep Listening Music

 

Laurie Anderson
Dr. Octagon
The Residents
Wolfgang Dauner
Faust
Frank Zappa ~ Los Angeles Philharmonic &
Los Angeles Master Chorale

DLM724

"I came home today, and I opened the door with my bare hands and I said:
Hey! Who tore up all my wallpaper samples?

Who ate all the grapes--the ones I was saving?

And this guy was sitting there, and I said:

Hey, Pal! What's going on here?

*The perfecto photos of the collection selections courtesy of the eye of 
Tracy Cassidy!

RFW