November 1, 6pm
Well, the Giants did it!!! How awesome is that? As I sit in the Radio Valencia studios I can hear the people celebrating in the Mission, cars honking, helicopters flying and the riot police batoning. How lovely.
Time for A Season in Hell, with John Hell. Tonight I’m pleased to have singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mark Growden on with me. Mark’s been touring under his 9th release, and most prolific to date, Saint Judas. It’s a rare occasion that’s he graces SF with his presence, and I nabbed him.
Enjoy the show.
Hour One:
Roustabout: Elvis Presley
Deceptacon: Le Tigre
Faith in my Pocket: Mark Growden
Interview with Mark Growden
Saint Judas: Mark Growden
Interview with Mark Growden
You Ain’t Never Been Loved: Mark Growden
Interview with Mark Growden
Settle in a Little While: Mark Growden
Bones (for Mable): Mark Growden
Interview with Mark Growden
Star Spangled Benz/Molly Rose Waltz: Mark Growden
Hour Two:
No Place to Fall: Isobel Campbell and Willy Mason (10-26-10)
Stop That Train: Bob Marley (07-11-73)
Codine: Quicksilver Messenger Service (09/1966)
I Want to Take you Higher: Sly and the Family Stone (10-09-70)
Honky Tonk Women: Rolling Stones (03-13-71)
Say Hey (I Love You): Michael Franti and Spearhead (Tribute to Giants)
Scarlet->Fire: Grateful Dead (05-13-77)
So Long Baby, Goodbye: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Eight (12-06-03)
October 25, 6pm
Here on the eve of a Giants World Series, and a congressional and gubernatorial election, we have Ken Tray of United Educators of San Francisco in the studio, talking about SF ballot measures, Brown vs. Whitman, and Waiting for Superman.
But first, a check in from our “man on the scene” in Haiti, Kevin Pina. Kevin discusses the latest cholera outbreak in Haiti, and how the government is dealing with the latest crises to hit this nation, savaged by an earthquake and corruption.
A too-brief retrospective of Gregory Isaacs, who passed away at the too-early age of 59, today.
Great live music in the second hour. See the play list below, and download the podcast too.
Enjoy.
jh
Hour One:
Village Of The Under Privileged: Gregory Isaacs
Jailer: Gregory Isaacs
Phone interview with Kevin Pina
Double Attack: Gregory Isaacs
Interview Ken Tray of UESF
Come Undone: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Interview Ken Tray of UESF
Ride A White Swan: T Rex
Interview Ken Tray of UESF
Hour Two:
In and Out of Grace: Mudhoney (09-03-10)
Search and Destroy: Iggy and the Stooges (09-03-10)
Dance to the Music: Sly and the Family Stone (10-09-70)
Fighting in the Street: Rolling Stones (03-13-71)
Who do you Love: Quicksilver Messenger Service (09-66)
Running Away + Crazy Baldhead: Bob Marley (04-27-79)
Shelter From The Storm: Bob Dylan (10-19-94)
Highway 61 Revisited (Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen on guitars): Bob Dylan (10-19-94)
October 18, 7pm
Hour One:
Roustabout: Elvis Presley
Mystifying Mama: Marva Broome
Truth: Alexander
Concert Outlook (music by T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou)
Heedless: No Joy
Never Come Around: La Sera
Harder Than It’s Ever Been: Fergus & Geronimo
Kissing Clouds: Sweet Bulbs
Loved-Up: Korallreven
Red Lights: Holy Fuck
Working Class Hero (John Lennon cover): Richie Havens
Dada Brown: Lil Daggers
The Song of the Mouth Organ: Burgess Meredith
Jackson: Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood
Hour Two:
In Every Direction: Junip
Voodoo Chile: Jimi Hendrix (May 3, 1968)
I’m A Man: Chicago Transit Authority (09-13-69)
Long May You Run: CSNY (??-1974)
Right Place Wrong Time: Dr. John (02-08-75)
Trouble Bound: Blasters (06-30-86)
For What It’s Worth->Ripple: Sex Mob (02-07-02)
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling: Mingus (04-13-64)
Horror Business > Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight?: Misfits (04-13-82)
October 11, 7pm
Hour one:
Roustabout: Elvis Presley
Mr. Bojangles: Sammy Davis Jr.
(RIP Soloman Burke)
These Arms of Mine: Solomon Burke
Proud Mary: Solomon Burke
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love: Wilson Pickett
(Happy 70th Birthday John Lennon)
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey): Fats Domino
Working Class Hero: John Lennon
Tomorrow Never Knows: Junior Parker
To Love Somebody: Nina Simone
Vara Snabb: Dungen
I Hate The 80’s: The Vaselines
Into The Sun: Lord Huron
Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan Cover): The Morning Benders
Hour two:
John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Live on WPLJ-FM, New York (June 8, 1971)
A recording of a scan around the NYC radio dial on December 8th 1980, the night John Lennon died, courtesy of WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
Fortunes has its cookies to give out: Tom Waits (10-02-10)
Wallace Berman ALEPH: John Zorn Aleph trio (04-01-10)
Gallows Pole: Led Zeppelin (05-03-71)
October 4, 8pm
Tonight on the program I am so proud to have a former student of mine, and all-around credit to his species, Andrew Vai. He’s a Pacific Islander, who has smashed all stereotypes, by becoming a force in the spoken-word world. He’s appeared on HBO, been involved in with the writing program ROOTS and Youth Speaks. The first hour of the show features Dru. The second hour features some amazing live music. See the play list below.
Hour One:
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up In Smoke: Cheech & Chong
Roustabout: Elvis Presley
Interview: Andrew Vai
Hell Nation Army: Kid.W.I.K.
Interview: Andrew Vai
Jazz Is The Teacher (Funk Is The Preacher): James Blood Ulmer
Interview: Andrew Vai
Hour Two:
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise: Eric Dolphy (12-01-61)
Powderfinger: Neil Young (02-07-84)
Once in a Lifetime: Talking Heads (From “Stop Making Sense”) by request
Green Is The Colour/Careful With That Axe, Eugene: Pink Floyd (02-25-71) by request
All Night Long/Derek’s Boogie: Derek and the Dominoes (11-20-70)
September 29, 10pm
Here on the moment that I enter the fourth decade of my life I find that it’s music that has always been by my side. And not just any music either. Too many people rely on the commercial classic rock, R&B, jazz, whatever-crap-they’re-force-feeding-your-brain FM/AM radio drivel, and they don’t take a chance on true quality music from any genre. I love all genres, but I’ve been schooled in the finer arts of non-commercial radio, which means that I will not settle for what the commercial stations and major labels tell me is quality.
I just found this fabulous 1976 Gospel/Funk gem tonight. I searched and found it for sale online for almost $80 US dollars, used. On this, the minutes before I turn 40, I offer it as a gift to you, my friends. Enjoy.
September 27, 7pm
I don’t know about you, but when I’m in the groove, it’s hard to get me out of it. It used to be the radio shows I would record would never be the best one’s. Well, no that they’re all automatically recorded, I don’t even have to think about it. The shows I’ve been doing since Radio Valencia began last August have been a lot of fun. Lots of great new music, and as always, live music that will make you feel like you’re front row center.
Here’s the tonight’s show. The play list is below. The links are one hour each.
Hour One:
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up in Smoke: Cheech and Chong
Roustabout: Elvis Presley
We Went Wild: Lord Huron
Winterlong: Pixies
Anxiety Block: Titus Andronicus
In My Time of Dying: Be Good Tanyas
Roscoe (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Remix): Midlake
Rope And Summit: Junip
Radio Valencia: Tango #9 and Zoli
Spies: Crushed Stars
Caesar: Ty Segall
Whole Lotta Sabbath (Zeppelin and Sabbath): Wax Audio
Hour Two:
In My Time of Dying: Led Zeppelin (05-26-77)
Concert Outlook (Music by Naked City)
Feeling Alright: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Rehearsals)
Superstition: Stevie Wonder w/Buddy Miles (03-04-73)
High Roller: Cheap Trick (03-28-97)
Bridge Over Troubled Water: Aretha Franklin (06-12-71)
Ain’t No Sunshine: Bill Withers (BBC 1973)
An American Trilogy: Elvis Presley
September 20, 6pm
Check out the latest Project Censored 2009/2010 book. If you care at all for fair and balanced reporting, and not in the big corporate machine, that likes to hide the important information, just to keep us following like sheep being led to the slaughter, then you’ll appreciate what Project Censored has to offer.
Here’s the link to the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s annual story on the book.
Whew.
As always, hour one is new music, hour two is live music. Enjoy.
Here’s the link to hour one:
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up in Smoke: Cheech and Chong
I Love Livin’ in the City: FEAR
Roustabout: Elvis Presley
Högdalstoppen: Dungen
Alone Again Or: Calexico
You Rascal You: Hanni El Khatib
Waterfall: Fresh and Onlys
Service Bell: Grizzly Bear & Feist
Mind Ride: JEFF the Brotherhood
The new improved hypocrisy: The Radio Dept.
Zombie: Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
…and here’s the link to hour two:
It’s a Man’s World: James Brown (07-16-78)
Concert Outlook: Footprints : Miles Davis (04-12-70)
Creole Love Call: Roland Kirk (10-14-67)
Jackson: Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash (10-02-76)
Sheena is a Punk Rocker->
Havana Affair->
Commando: The Ramones (01-31-78)
There Ain’t Shit on T.V. Tonight->
Don’t Look Now->
Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth: Minutemen (05-12-84)
Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White): Meat Puppets (09-21-84)
An American Trilogy: Elvis Presley
September 13, 7pm
Lot’s of new, fine music to rock your groove to. Also, some fine extended, live jams in the second hour.
Here’s the link to the first hour.
Here’s the link to the second hour.
Hour one:
The Finkelstein Shit Kid – Mr. Stoner->Up in Smoke: Cheech and Chong
I Love Livin’ in the City: Fear
Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury: Rachel Bloom
Bugalu: Garotas Suecas
Music Is My Girlfriend: Let’s Wrestle
Hey, Hey We’re The Gories: The Gories
Night Jogger: Those Darlins
Good Friday (feat. Common, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Big Sean & Charlie Wilson): Kanye West
Mighty Mike: Imagine a Jump (John Lennon vs. Van Halen)
Post Acid: Wavves
Dirty: Woozy Viper
Funeral Song: Minks
Clawing Out At The Walls: Dominant Legs
Concert Outlook: Music by Jim Harris (FLOL)
Happy Animals: Futurebirds
Home: Glasser
Hour two:
Come Undone: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (BBC 2010)
Run Like Hell: Primus (05-03-89 – KZSU)
If you Go: Syd Barrett (Last Recording 08-12-74)
All is Loneliness: Janis Joplin (1967)
Sirena: Dirty Three (06-07-98)
Scarlet Begonias->Fire on the Mountain: Grateful Dead (12-13-80)
September 12, 9pm
Wow, I’ve owned my Rockhopper for about 10 years, maybe more, but today Catherine and I went on the best, and most tiring ride of my life. She lives in the Haight, so we took off from there, through the Panhandle, up Arguello, into the Presidio, to Lincoln, to Baker Beach, where we took a bit of a break. Then down the hill, through Sea Cliff (past Robin Williams’ house), past the Palace of the Legion of Honor, past the Cliff House, and down to the Park Chalet for a well-deserved burger. After that it was through Golden Gate Park on back to the homestead.
Damn if my body didn’t earn this rest. That was awesome. I took some hills well, took a few more breaks than expected, but overall happily surprised myself.
Just one more reason I love this women. We keep pushing each other to do the best things life has to offer. Thanks baby.
