June 27, 7pm
A couple of Sundays ago I had the extreme pleasure of attending Songwriters Unplugged over at Yoshi’s SF. Songwriters Unplugged is a weekly show, that features a set from three local singer/songwriters. It’s a great way for a great venue to support local talent. Radio Valencia then plays the recorded performance on the following Saturday, 4-6pm. Tune in, you’ll be glad you did.
Tonight on A Season in Hell, guitarist Jason Cole of Utah Girl came by. I got to see him and his partner Amy MacClain at the Yoshi’s show and was thoroughly impressed.
They have a six song EP CD out right now. They’re completing their first full length, but need your help. Head on over to Kickstarter to donate to the production-cost-cause.
I play three Utah Girl songs tonight. Check out “Percents”.
Here’s the link to the archived show.
Enjoy the show.
Do It: Rollins Band
Back to Love: Utah Girl
Interview with Jason Cole of Utah Girl
Percents: Utah Girl
Interview with Jason Cole of Utah Girl
Every Little Thing: Utah Girl
I Heard it on the X: ZZ Top
Running with a Fork in my Mouth: The New Duncan Imperials
Josef of Nazareth Blues: Titus Andronicus
Chartreuse: Ken Nordine
Bottle Up & Go: The Monkeywrench
Don’t Want No Foo Foo Haircut On My Head: Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
Hope: Boris
Streets of Bakersfield: Buck Owens (01-15-89)
Life During Wartime: Talking Heads (08-23-80)
Careful with the Axe, Eugene: Pink Floyd (04-29-70)
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Dark Star: Acid Mother’s Temple (03-14-08)
I Say A Little Prayer for You: Aretha Franklin (06-12-71)
June 22, 11am
AIDS Walker Mici Monster is hosting “Bowtie to Benefit AIDS Walk” this Saturday night, June 25th, 5-10pm, at The Dovre Club, 1498 Valencia St in SF.
Radio Valencia’s John Hell is the MC.
Lot’s of entertainment and items for auction, including two one-hour guest DJ spots on A Season in Hell with John Hell, on Radio Valencia. Yes, you to can be a DJ. You just gotta throw down for it. It’s for a worthy cause.
All proceeds go to AIDS Walk SF.
Entertainment
MC & auctioneer John Hell of Radio Valencia 87.9 fm
Pinky the Singing Cowboy
Sister Mable Syrup photo ops & spanks
Sinister Storytime with Dr. Hal from the Church of the SubGenius
Ms. Momo Songbird vocals
Allison Lovejoy accordion cabaret & vocals
Ripping Jarico Reece of Cyclecide will perform spinal tap-like comedy
Sean Kelly will shock with his balloon striptease
AUCTION ITEMS (generously provided by)
Caffeinated Comics – $25 gift certificate (http://www.caffcom.com/)
Trufflove – 2 individual packs of 8 organic, natural truffles
Radio Valencia – 2 individual tickets x an hour in purgatory with John Hell (http://www.hellkatt.blogspot.com)
John Law’s Doggy Diner Heads – An Doggy Diner Head appearance at any local event
Songbird Festival – 2 tickets to a Songbird Festival music event (http://www.songbirdfestival.org/)
Cafe 78 – $20 gift certificate (no website but: http://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-seventy8-san-francisco)
The Darkroom – 2 tickets for 2 to July Twilight Zone Live shows (http://www.darkroomsf.com/)
Princess Animal – A rock’n’roll craft store gift bag of “Get Crafty & Be Sweet Yarn Kit” (http://www.princessanimal.com/)
Serendipity – Gift Certificate (http://serendipitysanfrancisco.com/)
Cyclecide – T-shirts, patches & stickers (http://www.cyclecide.com/)
Lifesize Mousetrap – T-shirts, patch, stickers, and DVD packet (http://www.lifesizemousetrap.org/)
Laura Dean Bodyworks – 2 gift certificates of 1 hour massages each (http://lauradean.net/)
Mici Monster Cupcakes – fancy fondant cupcakes
Silent auction is from 5-9.
June 20, 7pm
I co-created Radio Valencia to support local people doing great things for the community. Tonight on the show I interviewed two people who are indeed doing something great, relevant, and desperately needed in our great city by the bay. Shawn O’Shey and Olivia Heart joined me tonight to talk about the Castro Country Club. The CCC is a clean & sober gathering place for all people and a home for the queer recovery community.
They endeavor to be a space where all can seek wisdom, serenity, courage and joy.
Since April 1983, the Castro Country Club has been a safe haven for LGBT people in recovery from drugs and alcohol. Now, the building that has been home to the Castro Country Club for nearly three decades is being sold.
GO TO THIS SHOW!
Writing Man Productions and The Castro Country Club are co-producing the June, 2011 Laybelline show, Queens Are Made: They Are Not Born! At The Dark Room Theater on Thursday, June 23. The show is going to be a benefit for the CCC’s Keep the Steps in the Castro campaign.
This promises to be a drag show of EPIC PROPORTIONS!!!
Buy your tickets http://www.darkroomsf.com
To contact Shawn write to him at producer@writingmanproductions.com
Visit the CCC website here: http://www.castrocountryclub.org
Now, on to my show.
Enjoy.
Hour one:
Do It: Rollins Band
In Silver Rain With a Paper Key: Thurston Moore
Shawn O’Shea and Olivia Heart
Rose’s Turn: Tyne Daly
Shawn O’Shea and Olivia Heart
Sun Medallion: Al Lover
Neon Kids: Cosmonauts
Theme From An Imaginary Western: D.C. 3
For Yasgur’s Farm: Mountain
Bing Bong: Three Day Stubble
Zombie: Fela Kuti
Hour Two:
Rosalita: Bruce Springsteen (08-09-78)
Dupree’s Diamond Blues: Grateful Dead (02-27-69)
Mountains of the Moon: Grateful Dead (02-27-69)
My Favorite Things: John Coltrane (07-01-61)
Spanish Key: Miles Davis (04-12-70)
Led Zeppelin: Beat Farmers (12-07-85)
June 19, 9pm
8-10pm Monday night on A Season in Hell with John Hell, Ivy Drip and Shawn O’Shea will be on promoting their upcoming show Queens Are Made: They Are Not Born!
Writing Man Productions and The Castro Country Club are co-producing the June, 2011 Laybelline show, Queens Are Made: They Are Not Born! At The Dark Room Theater on Thursday, June 23. The show is going to be a benefit for the CCC’s Keep the Steps in the Castro campaign.
The Castro Country Club is a clean & sober gathering place for all people and a home for the queer recovery community.
They endeavor to be a space where all can seek wisdom, serenity, courage and joy.
Since April 1983, the Castro Country Club has been a safe haven for LGBT people in recovery from drugs and alcohol. Now, the building that has been home to the Castro Country Club for nearly three decades is being sold.
That’s where Keep the Steps in the Castro comes in.
The goal of the campaign is to raise the funds for a down-payment to buy the building or to secure a new home in the Castro neighborhood. All funds raised will be used to purchase, secure a long-term lease, and/or modify space to suit the needs of the Club.
Please consider joining the Keep the Steps in the Castro campaign as a dues-paying member to ensure the future of the Castro Country Club. Several levels of membership are available to fit any budget. For more information or to become a CCC member now, click the “Donate Now” button to the right.
Or send a check to the Castro Country Club at the address listed to the left.
Please make checks payable to Castro Country Club and note “Keep Steps in the Castro” on memo line.
Writing Man Productions was founded in Philadelphia in 2007 by Shawn O’Shea. They made moved to San Francisco and made their West Coast debut in August, 2010 with Sigh-Fi; An Evening of Science Fiction Themed Comedic Shorts at The Dark Room Theater which they have come to consider their unofficial home!
The Laybelline Show is a monthly drag show normally held one Saturday each month at the Castro Country Club. It is always a fundraiser for the Keep the Steps in the Castro Campaign.
The Dark Room Theater – actually, I’m sure you know more about it than I do.
June 13, 4pm
Once again it’s the night that I show little Rotten Ronnie Donovan of Firehouse Kustom Posters who the real Rock Star is. Me!
Rock Fight 6 runs twice a year: December and June. For four hours Ron and I bombast each other with glorious live bootleg material, both of are avid collectors of. We’re a bit obsessed.
I’ve destroyed Ron the last five times. The show starts at 6, and at the moment it’s 5:55 and he’s not even here yet. He’s been late before; up to an hour, once. It’s a sure bet that Ron won’t be in his groove until the third hour. Unless of course, if he’s drunk, which is what happened in Rock Fight 5. You can hear Rock Fight 5 by going here. Listen to the second half of the show the get an idea of what I mean.
Ok, he showed up at 6:04. Let’s get it on!
The plan for tonight is for each of us to play a live cut, one after the other. We try to one-up the other. We’re also going to do “Rock Blocks”, which will consist of each co-host to do a 20 minute block of music of his choice. We do two blocks each.
To know who played what, note the JH (John Hell) or RD (Ron Donovan) at the end of each track. Also, not only are the tracks and artists listed, but the date of each performance. If you would like more info on the shows we played, please visit http://db.etree.org.
Update: Ron did not get drunk tonight. I have to admit, he may have actually tied me tonight. I’m 5-0-1 after 6 Rock Fights.
You can see playlists of all Rock Fight’s on this blog. Scroll back.
Visit my Radio Valencia archive page to download or stream this show. Go there now!
Or, you can download the first two hours here.
And the second two hours here.
Hour one:
Rock Fight: Cheech & Chong
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers: ZZ Top (04-19-80) JH
Feeling Alright: Joe Cocker and the Grease Band (10-19-69) JH
Stuck in the Middle with You: Gerry Rafferty (02-12-93) RD
War Pigs: Black Sabbath (Ozzy and RJD mash-up) RD
Snowblind: Black Sabbath (06-19-78) JH
A little Bit of Sympathy: Robin Trower (08-06-73) JH
Driving Wheel: Foghat (07-18-80) RD
Stay with Me: The Faces (04-05-73) JH
Cat Scratch Fever: Ted Nugent (01-11-77)
Hour two: Rock Block #1 JH
Say it Loud: James Brown (08-26-68)
Dance to the Music: Sly and the Family Stone (10-09-70)
River Deep, Mountain High: Ike and Tina Turner (01-19-75)
Pusherman: Curtis Mayfield (06-06-72)
Rock block #2 RD
Dance Music Sex Romance: Prince (05-13-11)
Erotic City: Prince (06-07-84)
Little Red Corvette: Prince (05-05-11)
Interactive: Prince (05-04-94)
King of the Nighttime World: Kiss (09-03-76) JH
Running with the Devil: Van Halen (06-01-78) RD
Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak (09-25-80)
Hour three:
Sick Again: Led Zeppelin (06-23-77) RD
Whole Lotta Love: Led Zeppelin (03-17-75) JH
Rock Block #3 RD
Voodoo Child: Jimi Hendrix (10-12-68)
Super Freak: Rick James (11-27-82)
Outta Space: Rolling Stones (Billy Preston solo) (06-09-76)
Jumping Jack Flash: Rolling Stones (06-09-76)
Voyager: Gamma (11-23-80)
Rock Block #4 JH
54-46 Was My Number: Toots and the Maytals (04-22-78)
Running Away->Crazy Baldheads: Bob Marley (04-27-79)
Vicious: Lou Reed (12-26-72)
Harold of the Rocks: Primus (11-21-90)
Shake It: Limbomaniacs (01-02-10) RD
Lizzy: The Melvins (05-16-11) JH
Ralphael Hollins of Hood$k8$ Board Company
Ralphael took the pics you see at the top.
Poppy: Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush (01-26-83) RD
40,000 Headmen: Traffic (02-01-72) JH
June 9, 10pm
It’s that time of year once again: the time to get out your #2 pencils and vote for your favorites in the 37th annual San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay.
It’s the issue we all love. It’s the issue we hold onto the longest. It’s the one that we get angry at our six year old’s for using as liner for their hamster cages.
This year I want you to do something very, VERY important. I want you to vote Radio Valencia as the Best Radio Station in the Bay Area. Truth be told, we are the best radio station in the bay area. Don’t believe me? Have you even taken a listen to us yet? We are without a doubt, the BEST RADIO STATION IN THE BAY AREA!
I’ve been doing non-commercial (and a small amount of commercial) radio in the Bay Area since 1988. The best radio is radio that takes chances. Radio Valencia takes chances when it comes to content and programming. We have the best, most eclectic and relevant music programming, and the most interesting interviews.
You can also vote for your favorite DJ. I’ll leave that one up to you. Though I’m tempted to ask you to vote for me (as I have endlessly sent Tweets out asking for you do so), I’m going to refrain here. Do listen to Radio Valencia, and do vote for us. As for your favorite DJ, go with what your conscience is telling you.
June 7, 1pm
We’ve got a new home for all of the archived shows at Radio Valencia.
Go here to check out all of our fine DJs. And let me tell you, there are some amazing shows happening at RV!
Go here to check out all of my shows. Playlists are included.
You can also subscribe via RSS, and soon from iTunes as well.
Enjoy.
June 6, 6pm
Two new and incredible releases from Japanese stalwarts Boris! I’ll play something from each release tonight. Also, lots of new music in the first hour.
Roustabout: Elvis Presley
Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran): Deer Tick
Bitch, I Love You (Baby Bollox Master Remix) : Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Sisséxa: Antena
What a Way to Die: Shop Assistants
Drug: White Denim
Jewel Thief: The Kills
Broken Yet Forgiven: Cloudsplitter
Skull Mask: Freaky Mountain
The Whip [Demo]: The Fuse!
Chinese Weed : FIDLAR
Move To California: Times New Viking
Aileron: Boris
Les Paul Custom ’86: Boris
Hour two:
Missing Pieces: Boris
Tekufah: Electric Masada (06-29-07)
Firebird Suite->Siberian Khatru: Yes (08-25-02)
I Saw a Dragon Fly: Heartless Bastards (05-04-10)
Feeling Alright: Joe Cocker (04-26-70)
Pasties and a G-String: Tom Waits (1976)
May 30, 6pm
Summer is almost here, so it’s time to get wet. I’m thinking surf/luau music to start off the night. Get your tiki fired up, and wax that board.
Also a fond farewell to Gil Scott-Heron, with a live cut from 78. A great live hour, with some gems from the Grateful Dead, a deep album cut from the Stones, and ended it with a very rare live gem from Pink Floyd from 1970.
Listen to the show by going here.
Enjoy.
Hour One:
Paradise Hawaiian Style: Elvis Presley
Riders In The Sky: Dick Dale
Surf War: The Centurians
Exotica: Dave Myers & The Surftones
Surf and Destroy: The Immortals
My Black Bag: The Mermen
Hydrogen Highway: Voodoo Court
Bone Cruncher: The Eliminators “Woodies On The Wharf”
Concert Outlook
Hava Nagila: Chachi, Boba Fett, and the Wookiee
Miserlou: Slacktone
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky: The Cadillac Angels
Crawdad Song: Harry Belefonte
Stop Draggin; Me Down: Mono Men
Bullet->I’m Mad: Reverend Horton Heat
Bonzai Pipeline: The Boardwalkers
Welfare City: Eugene McDaniels
Hour Two:
We Almost Lost Detroit: Gil Scott-Heron (01-16-78 RIP)
I Need A Miracle->Shakedown Street: Grateful Dead (01-15-79)
Stray Cat Blues: Rolling Stones (03-13-71) – Request***
Armageddon Time: The Clash (08-17-82)
USA: The Pogues (06-15-89)
Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Pink Floyd (04-29-70)
May 23, 7pm
Happy 70th Birthday Bob Dylan. Tonight I play an hour+ of Live and alternative tracks from Bob Dylan. Also a few fine folks covering the master. I end the show with four live tracks from The Melvins, last week at Great American Music Hall.
Here’s the link to this great show.
Enjoy.
San Francisco Bay: Bob Dylan
Death Of Emmett Till: Bob Dylan (03-11-62 Cynthia Gooding Radio Show)
Talkin’ New York->Bob Talks: Bob Dylan (03-28-63 Bob Fass Radio Show)
Gates of Eden: Bob Dylan (05-07-65)
It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding: Bob Dylan (05-07-65)
Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues: Bob Dylan (07-05-65)
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry->Crowd->Baby Blue: Bob Dylan (07-25-65)
Don’t Ya Tell Henry: Bob Dylan (Complete Basement Tapes)
You Ain’t Goin Nowhere: Bob Dylan (Complete Basement Tapes)
I Shall Be Released: Bob Dylan (Complete Basement Tapes)
Idiot Wind: Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks – New York Recording 1974)
I’m Not There: Sonic Youth
Tombstone Blues: Richie Havens
Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power): Willie Nelson & Calexico
Pressing On: John Doe
Lizzy: Melvins (05-16-11)
Revolve: Melvins (05-17-11)
It Shoved: Melvins (05-17-11)
Anaconda: Melvins (05-17-11)
A couple of Sundays ago I had the extreme pleasure of attending Songwriters Unplugged over at Yoshi’s SF. Songwriters Unplugged is a weekly show, that features a set from three local singer/songwriters. It’s a great way for a great venue to support local talent. Radio Valencia then plays the recorded performance on the following Saturday, 4-6pm. Tune in, you’ll be glad you did.
