Show #341
Time: Saturday 01 May 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: El Goodo, *Coyote* (2009) . . . It was fellow SpiritPlants Radio DJ Catfishrivers who hooked me into this deeply addictive Welsh band, one that plays vintage 60s music on vintage instruments . . . sounding like the last four decades or so were just someone's bad joke or a creepy dream that has gone on too long, El Goodo rocks it out, every great song leading to the next great song, and the conclusion leading to the necessity of flipping the platter over and starting again . . .
Classic Rock Album: Rush, *Counterparts* (1993) . . . this program is a long-time fan of this Canadian trio (this is their fifth album to be broadcast) . . . this album came out during a time of ever-rising popularity, but they play it out their way as always, existential lyrics wrapped within music both tight & expansive . . . there is no other band in the world quite like Rush, & glad they keep making their magic their way . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Four of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Doors & cuts from their 1971 album *Other Voices*, released just months after lead singer Jim Morrison's demise . . . back after two weekends off, part of it spent re-connecting to old & deep roots in New England . . . soon time to return & build, continue, contrive new among the fresh & the remembered . . .
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Show #342
Time: Saturday 08 May 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, *The Pains of Being Pure at Heart* (2009) . . . The lighter, prettier charms of this New York band are weighed to a heavy electric sound . . . music that drops deeper into the ears & mind with each listen . . . I didn't think so, then was unsure, then yah & yah & yah!
Classic Rock Album: The Beacon Street Union, *The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union* (1967) . . . Part of the "Bosstown Sound" (as opposed the "Haight-Ashbury Sound") that also featured bands like Ultimate Spinach & Orpheus . . . marketing ploys aside, this album lets it all out, mostly melodic acid rock but with a few oddities thrown in too . . . serious shit, but with a light moment's touch here & there . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Grateful Dead, some live cuts from the early '70s, my mind remembering high Hartlee nights a decade ago when just about all that made sense some nights were these songs . . . the sunny days take a longer nibble on the skin, & change is all, & the bravest, simplest view is that change is good . . .
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Show #343
Time: Saturday 15 May 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Great Lake Swimmers *Lost Channels* (2009) This Canadian band has several previous releases but this is the first one where their melodies & their melancholy marry perfectly in a luscious folk-rock atmosphere . . . this album realizes their potential . . .
Classic Rock Album: The Plastic Cloud, *The Plastic Cloud* (1968) . . . Another Canadian band this week, this one from around four decades ago . . . beautiful harmonies, ringing acid rock, visionary lyrics . . . one critic said they would have hit it big had they been in San Francisco of that day . . . what they have left nonetheless is a compelling, beautiful work . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Five of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Jayhawks, a band I loved on high starry nights in Boston many trips ago, & plan to love again when returned there soon . . . been a year since I hit the bricks, scrounging for work in hard times, but soon the bricks will be far more familiar, & I think my hopes will rise . . .
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Show #344
Time: Saturday 22 May 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: The Black Keys, *Brothers* (2010) . . . this Ohio duo is a big discovery for me, though they have been around for nearly a decade (again confirming my faith that not only is there good current rock music, but that there is a LOT of it!) . . . their new album is nearly an hour in length, usually a red flag in my book as most bands releasing albums that long could use someone to help them cut their work down to about 45 minutes, gaining tightness over indulgence . . . but this album works over a lot of territory and justifies its length . . . their music is often called blues-rock, which fits well enough but not comprehensively . . . there are quite a few blues numbers but the band moves restlessly and fluidly into soul, hard rock, psychedelic rock, and does not shy from ballad-y or funny moments either . . . this album is a major achievement . . .
Classic Rock Album: Ultimate Spinach, *Behold and See* (1968) . . . Continuing this show's recent review of the late '60s "Bosstown Sound" out of Boston, the Spinach made some very pretty, trippy music for a couple of years running, some shorter acoustic pieces and longer electric jams . . . worth recovering from their obscurity (oddly, it is said that a band with this name, but no original members, and little musical relation to the original band, has toured around Oregon since 1970). . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Five of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Wilco, and music from their seveal albums up to their 2001 release *Yankee Hotel Foxtrot* . . . this week's broadcast marks the last one to come from Portland, and also the last one from the West Coast, where I have been situated since 2004 . . . soon, the first broadcast from the East Coast since 2004, and the first from Boston since 2002! Thank you, Portland, Seattle, West Coast . . . I return East more of a fully realized person for having lived out here . . .
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