Transmission 3216 - Even Oceans Breakup

Light from the sun /Slowly splits the sea

Electric Light Orchestra

The Monkees

Bjork

Joy Division

King Crimson

David Bowie

Pink Floyd

Schneider TM

Magazine

Genesis

T3216

"this chaos is killing me"

RFW

Transmission 3116 - The Dance Of The Freaks

Step right up

Enter the main side show

See real humans gyrate to mutant beats!

Grab a partner and join the chorus line 

If you have two left feet

all the better!

Freaks Of Nature

Bill Laswell's Axiom Funk

Prince

Was (Not Was)

Leon Haywood

Beck 

Macy Grey

Freaky Chakra

Tranquility Bass

Motorpsycho

Big Daddy

T3116

"freaky deaky - not the kind of freaks you wanna' be freakin'-out with"

RFW

*Today's image was taken at a freak show in Rutland, Vermont in 1941.

Transmission 3016 - Throwing Shit Against The Wall

Together, we walk thru the archives in search of the real sticky crap.

Jimi Hendrix

Gary Clark Jr.

James Gang

Faces

Jef Lee Johnson

Bob Dylan

Lou Reed

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Alejandro Escovedo

The Rolling Stones

Bryan Ferry

Siouxsie & The Banshees

Roxy Music

T3016

"seem like every time you stop and turn around,

something else just hit the ground"

RFW

Transmission 2916 - Let's Go Get Stoned

Pass it to the right!

The Rolling Stones

The Chesterfield Kings

The Anderson Council

Eric Burdon & The Animals

Sturgil Simpson

10cc

The Who

Arnold Corns

David Bowie

David Gimour

Sly & The Family Stone

Boris Gardner

Patti Smith Group 

T2916

"we're setting off with soft explosion"

RFW

Transmission 2816 - Electric Tears Fall From A Fickle Sun

A RFW suite in respectful remembrance of

Isao Tomita

including

Brian Eno

Jean-Michel Jarre

Pete Townshend

Wendy Carlos

T2816

"And now I'm set free

I'm set free

I'm set free to find a new illusion"

RFW

Transmission 2716 - RFW On The Rocks Wroks

Two Fingers
2 Cubes
&
You
(You)

Ultravox!

The Vibrators

Stiff Little Fingers

Wire

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Primal Scream

Robert Plant

Grace Jones

The Stooges

The Tubes

Booker T and The MGs

Bonnie Raitt

Lee Dorsey

Robert Palmer

T2716

"through it all there's you (you)"

RFW

Transmission 2616 - GBU

Three distinct types or each a part of all?

Theme Music  - John Zorn does Ennio Morricone.

The Good

Ten Years After

Little Richard

Good Time Charley

Stevie Salas

The Bad

Keith Mlevhu

Sammy Hagar

Joe Satriani

Bad Company

The Ugly

Soundgarden

Faith No More

The Stranglers

Love & Rockets

"the Good will exist, but the Bad will die"

"it seems to me that Ugly people don't have a chance"

RFW

Transmission 2516 - Loco Cinco

Foiled, bleeding, breathless, furious to the last,         

  Full in the centre stands the bull at bay, 

  Mid wounds, and clinging darts, and lances brast, 

  And foes disabled in the brutal fray: 

  And now the matadores around him play, 

  Shake the red cloak, and poise the ready brand:         

  Once more through all he bursts his thundering way, 

  Vain rage! the mantle quits the conynge hand, 

Wraps his fierce eye,—’t is past,—he sinks upon the sand!

The Bull

 loves

The Matador

(but The Senorita loves only the victor!)

Esquivel!

Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass

Flo & Eddie

Raymond Scott

Elvis Presley
The Paladins
Garland Jeffries

Billy Cobham

Faith No More

Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi

Rage Against The Machine

Sonic Youth

Lee Fields & The Devil's personal Band

Wilco

Joe Bonamassa

T2516

"His suit of light

He wears to fight

It's not too tight

It fits just right

He prays tonight

For he must fight

He must fight

De bull"

RFW

* The poetic excerpt is from The Bull Fight by Lord Byron (1788–1824)

Bugs Bunny- Bully For Bugs (1953) by TheCryptoCrew

Transmission 2416 - Don't Bogart That Matzah, My Friend, Pass It Over to Me

Special order the kreplach!

Desmond Decker & The Aces

John Zorn's Masada & Electric Masada

T2416

"The Israelites"

RFW

*Kreplach are small dumplings filled with ground meat, mashed potatoes or another filling, usually boiled and served in chicken soup, though they may also be served fried.

**Masada (מצד) is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 12 miles east of Arad.

Herod the Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War ended in the mass suicide of 960 people – the Sicarii rebels and their families hiding there.

Transmission 2316 - A Royal-Purple Badass-Mutherfucker Tribute

Dearly beloved

We are gathered here today

2 get through this thing called life

Electric word life

It means forever and that's a mighty long time

But I'm here 2 tell u

There's something else

The afterworld

A world of never ending happiness

U can always see the sun, day or night

So when u call up that shrink in Beverly Hills

U know the one - Dr everything'll be alright

Instead of asking him how much of your time is left

Ask him how much of your mind, baby

cuz in this life

Things are much harder than in the afterworld

In this life

You're on your own

And if de-elevator tries 2 bring u down

Go crazy - punch a higher floor

If u dont like the world you're living in

Take a look around u

At least u got friends

U see I called my old lady

4 a friendly word

She picked up the phone

Dropped it on the floor

(sex, sex) is all I heard

Are we gonna let de-elevator

Bring us down

Oh, no lets go!

Lets go crazy

Lets get nuts

Lets look 4 the purple banana

til they put us in the truck, lets go!

Were all excited

But we don't know why

Maybe its cuz

Were all gonna die

And when we do (when we do)

Whats it all 4 (whats it all 4)

U better live now

Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door

Tell me, are we gonna let de-elevator bring us down

Oh, no lets go!

Lets go crazy

Lets get nuts

Look 4 the purple banana

til they put us in the truck, lets go!

Prince Rogers Nelson

T2316 

"The funkier I be

The funkier I get, oh shit

Lickety split on the lyric

A new jack in the pulpit

Watch it deacon, your track is leakin'

What is this you're seekin'?

The syncopated rhymes are at their peak

When you jumped on my D.I.C.K

That's the one thing that I don't play

The jock strap was to big for u anyway

You're just a simpleton

I'll bust you like a pimple, son

My star is too bright

Boy, I'll sink you like the ship Poseidon 

You're bumpin' dentures to be cocksure

There must be more coming from

Your mouth than manure

So with a flow and a spray, I say hey

You must become a prince before you're king anyway"

RFW

*The amazing picture above was taken by an old friend and usual suspect, Steven Stone, at one of the best concerts I saw at the long-defunct Metro nightclub on Lansdowne Street in Boston. Prince was on tour in 1981with his new album and we were playing "Dirty Mind" and "Head" on WBCN.

 Steven sets up the shot:

"When Prince came to Boston’s Metro club I was the house photographer. And being the house photographer had certain perks, including having installed a radio-remote controlled strobe system in the lighting bridge of the club. All I had to do to be ready to shoot photographs of the stage from anywhere in the club was to plug in the strobe system.

Since I was the house photographer the stage technicians and I worked together often under adverse conditions. One of the standard set-up at Metro was to place the large shipping containers that contained the band’s into a wall of boxes, behind which the techs could hang out and take care of any problems on stage. I used to work from behind this wall, protected from the rest of the room.

Prince had an absolutely no photographs policy. No audience member could even enter with any kind of camera. I knew this so I made myself scarce during the soundcheck (when I usually made Polaroids to check the lighting). I had a trusted tech (or it could have been Carmine) plug in my strobes and then I waited for the show to start.

Halfway through the first song I made my first exposure, and the strobes worked as they always did, with a big ‘ol FLASH! Which due to all the other lighting effects generally went unnoticed, but not this time – Prince’s head jerked up and he scanned the room – he knew they were strobes that were not part of his lighting design. I continued to shoot from the back of the room with my long lenses, hunkered down like a sniper. His roadies, who were looking, never spotted me and I slipped out halfway through his encore."

**Prince was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 along with Beatle George.

 That night, Mr. Harrison was smiling.

Today, they are both lead guitarists in The All-Star Dead Band.

Doves Gently Weep!