Transmission 0217 - Can It?

Let's not be naive.

Yes, It Can - It Is!

But resistance is never futile...

The Kinks

George Michael

Prince 

David Bowie

Air 

Electric Light Orchestra

The Wildhearts

Cheap Trick

The Byrds

The Hollies

Buffalo Springfield

Neil Young

David Gilmour

Alice Cooper

Elton John

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention

T0217

"I demand a better future"

RFW

"It Can't Happen Here" is a 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, and a 1936 play adapted from the novel by Lewis and John C. Moffitt. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a US Senator who is elected to the presidency after creating rabid devotion and  fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes a plutocratic/totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of Adolf Hitler and the SS. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion. The parallels to our unfortunate president-elect and a palatable wide-spread fear are both uncanny and  disturbingly prophetic.

Read it!

Transmission 0117 - Reflective Beginnings

"Should old acquaintance be forgot,

and never brought to mind?

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

and old lang syne?

For Auld Lang Syne, my dear,

for auld lang syne,

we'll take a cup of kindness yet,

for auld lang syne"

There is a definite difference between the act of remembering VS dwelling

as there are both benefit and detriment in gazing into a mirror.

Memories are behind us - to be cherished and learned from - they cannot be changed.

The present is the sum of all that preceded it but it becomes the past as soon as it occurs.

Only the future is ours to create and shape to our desire.

Reflect with care and love.

Kraftwerk

Brian Eno

T0117

"The young man stepped into the hall of mirrors

Where he discovered a reflection of himself

Even the greatest stars discover themselves in the looking glass

Sometimes he saw his real face

And sometimes a stranger at his place

Even the greatest stars find themselves in the looking glass

He fell in love with the image of himself

And suddenly the picture was distorted

Even the greatest stars dislike themselves in the looking glass

He made up the person he wanted to be

And changed into a new personality

Even the greatest stars change themselves in the looking glass

The artist is living in the mirror

With the echoes of himself

Even the greatest stars live their lives in the looking glass"

RFW

"Auld Lang Syne" (which roughly translates to for ((the sake of)) old times), derives from a 1788 Scots poem by Robert Burns. The original poem was sent to the Scots Musical Museum with a note, "The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man."

Transmission 8116 - Is It Loud Enough?

Live music to bring in the New Year!

Jimi Hendrix 

Chicago

Black Sabbath

Cream

Todd Rundgren's Utopia

Funkadelic

David Werner

Mark Doyle

T8116

"sitting cross-legged on the floor"

RFW

* Our photo by Mary Ann Mayer is The Wall Of Sound at Boston's Music Hall
 as erected by The Grateful Dead!

Transmission 8016 - The CSA

A reality show host as President-Elect.

Billionaire Club alumni as nominees for the Cabinet.

An oil company CEO as Secretary Of State.

Product placement permeating people's proper perception.

This is not a bad movie or nightmare 

it's just business as usual.

Welcome to the new and improved 

Corporate State Of America!

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Jeff Beck

Jeff Simmons

George Harrison

Otis Span

Tampa Red

Bonnie Raitt

Chuck Berry

Living Colour

Kaiser Chiefs

The Hold Steady

Femi Kuti

David Byrne

Richard Thompson

Tom Waits

Fish

T8016

"God's Away On Business"

RFW

Transmission 7916 - A Random Burst

Motivation - Energization - Stimulation

Cream

Ginger Baker - Jack Bruce - Eric Clapton

Grand Funk Railroad

Don Brewer - Mel - Mark Farner

Nigel Olsson - Dee Murray - Elton John 

The Yardbirds

Jim McCarty - Chris Dreja - Keith Relf - Jimmy Page 

James Gang

Jim Foxx - Tom Kriss - Joe Walsh 

Ash Ra Temple

Klaus Schulze - Hartmut Enke - Manuel Göttsching 

T7916

"Think About It"

RFW

Transmission 7816 - Any Given (Christmas) Sunday

Music to watch the big game by!

Martin Mull

Yoshie Fruchter

Human Sexual Response

Magazine

Trentmoller

Spirit

Pink Floyd

Ken Nordine

World Service Project

Julian Priester

T7816

"let's give Jesus Christ the football"

RFW