S9E452 - Chuck Berry 'The Great Twenty-Eight' with Smitti Supab
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Release Date: 03/07/2026
S9E478 - Bill Nelson 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam' with Kevin Chanel
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This week's guest, record/hot sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl, El Enojado Hot Sauce), brings us singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) and his 1981 solo release 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam'. Originally recorded in 1979 as an intended follow up album to his 'Bill Nelson's Red Noise' project, EMI declined to release the recordings and the material remained unreleased until Bill licensed the original stereo mixes of the album to Mercury Records, who issued the album in the Spring of...
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S9E477 - Wovenhand 'Silver Sash' with Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto
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This week, returning guests Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto (hackedepicciotto) join us to discuss musician David Eugene Edwards' (16 Horsepower) offshoot project Wovenhand, and the stunning 2022 release 'Silver Sash' Songs discussed in this episode: Ain't No Sunshine - Wovenhand; Einig, Lichtung - hackedepicciotto; Domina - Crime & the City Solution; Long Horn - Wovenhand; Black Soul Choir, Low Estate - 16 Horsepower; Tempel Timber - Wovenhand; Destroy The Nations - Nihilist Spasm Band; Acacia, Duat Hawk - Wovenhand; All In The Palm - David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke;...
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S9E476 - Moving Targets 'Burning In Water' with Tim Hinely
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This week we set the way-back machine to North Shore, Massachusetts 1986, as returning guest Tim Hinely (Dagger Zine, Where The Wild Gigs Were) brings us Moving Targets and their blistering debut album 'Burning In Water'. It's wicked good!! Songs discussed in this episode: Bad Blood - Kenny Chambers; Little Tiny Pieces - Bullet LaVolta; Nothing Changes, The Other Side - Moving Targets; I Apologize - Hüsker Dü; Faith - Moving Targets; That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission Of Burma; Let Me Know Why - Moving Targets; One More Step - Sorry; All Going Out Together - Big Dipper;...
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S9E475 - 'That ENDING Of That Song Got Me High' Patron-curated Episode
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For this special BONUS episode, we asked our Patrons to send in some of their favorite ENDINGS (Outros, Codas...etc) of songs that - you know - got them high! Songs discussed in this episode: The Chain - Fleetwood Mac; Layla - Derek and the Dominos; Celebrated Summer - Hüsker Dü; Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin; Purple Rain - Prince; A Day In The Life - The Beatles; Country Pie - Bob Dylan; Therapy - The Damned; Kicked It In The Sun - Built To Spill; Only In Dreams - Weezer; Get Me - Dinosaur Jr; The Most Exalted Potentate Of Love - The Cramps; Lip Gloss - Pulp; I'm A Man - The...
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S9E474 - Al Kooper 'You Never Know Who Your Friends Are' with Glenn Morrow
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Alan Peter Kuperschmidt - better known as Al Kooper - is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician who throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s was a prolific studio musician, playing organ on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn and piano on the Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and lead guitar on Rita Coolidge's "The Lady's Not for Sale". He also formed and named Blood, Sweat & Tears, produced a number of one-off collaboration albums such as the Super Session album with guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, and was a successful...
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S9E473 - Queen 'A Night At The Opera' with Oscar Herrera
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Like many music lovers who came of age in the mid-70s, returning guest Oscar Herrera (The Sleep Of Reason, Halo, El Duende, Black Tape For A Blue Girl) first encountered Queen upon hearing their unlikely smash-hit single Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio. That song - and the album it came from, 1975s 'A Night At The Opera' - got him - and countless others - high. Including the host of this podcast. "Nothing really matters, anyone can see..." Songs discussed in this episode: Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen Cover) - We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It/Flaming Lips/Pink/Weasel Walter/Panic! At The...
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S9E472 - Hal Blaine - Psychedelic Percussion with Bob Bert
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A member of the world-famous Wrecking Crew studio band, drummer Hal Blaine was thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions, 6,000 singles,and 150 US top 10 hits - 40 of which went to number one! This week's guest, drummer Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus), brings us Hal's bonkers 1967 release, 'Psychedelic Percussion'. Dig it! Songs discussed in this episode: Be My Baby - The Ronettes; A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley; Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds; Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys; Let The...
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S9E471 - Elvis Costello 'This Year's Model' with Don Cento
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This week, Austin-based guitarist, singer-songwriter, composer, and recording producer Don Cento (Cento Threeo) brings us Elvis Costello's second studio album - and the first with his crack new band the Attractions - 1978's 'This Year's Model' Always a singer-songwriter in spirit but a punk in attitude, this collection of songs proved Costello's stunning debut 'My Aim Is True' was no fluke. Songs discussed in this episode: No Action (Elvis Costello cover) - The Muffs; The Judy Valve, Halfway To Mellowtown, Filibuster in E Minor - Cento Threeo; Kids In Japan - El Cento; Alison, The Other End Of...
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S9E470 - Hoodoo Gurus 'Stoneage Romeos' with Steve Kirsch
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As far as debut albums go, there's some that seem to appear out of nowhere as a fully-formed, perfectly realized statement-of-purpose. New Jersey-based drummer, blogger, and lawyer Steve Kirsch makes the case that Hoodoo Gurus 1984 debut 'Stoneage Romeos' is just such a record. Chock full of pop culture references AND hooks for days, these Australian pop/garage gurus came out of the gate swinging with a stone cold classic. Songs discussed in this episode: I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement (Ramones cover - Live Australia, 1997) - Hoodoo Gurus; Nothing Can Bring Me Down - Mondo Topless; Do...
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S9E469 - Flipper 'Album - Generic Flipper' with Dan Cuddy
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While other punk/hardcore bands of their time seemed to be in a race to be the heaviest AND fastest, San Francisco's Flipper slowed things down to a crawl, and imbued their brand of existential nihilism with a healthy dose of detached irony. Hoboken New Jersey musician Dan Cuddy (Hypnolovewheel, The Special Pillow) brings us their landmark debut, 1982's 'Album - Generic Flipper', in all its ragged glory. Strap in! Songs discussed in this episode: Problem Child (AC/DC cover) - Flipper; Secret Star (Demo), I Dream Of Jeannie - Hypnolovewheel; Love Canal, Sex Bomb (7" version) - Flipper;...
info_outlineHis songs have been covered by HUNDREDS of bands over the years, and he's rightly been nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll". John Lennon may have said it best, "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
This week's guest, New Orleans musician Smitti Supab (Captain Buckles), brings us 'The Great Twenty-Eight' by the late, great Chuck Berry.
"Hail, hail rock and roll!"
Songs discussed in this episode: School Days - The Beach Boys (Live, Knebworth 1980), Iron City House Rockers, Bobby Vee, Jan and Dean, AC/DC; Cringe, Hurry Up, Bus Station Blues - Captain Buckles; Johnny Be Goode, Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry; Roll Over Beethoven - The Beatles; Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry; Too Much Monkey Business - The Kinks; Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan; Havana Moon, School Days, Rock and Roll Music - Chuck Berry; Rock and Roll Music - The Beatles; Reelin' and Rockin', Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry; Surfin' U.S.A. - The Beach Boys; Beautiful Delilah - Chuck Berry; Beautiful Delilah - The Kinks; Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry; Memphis Tennessee - John Lennon and Chuck Berry with Yoko Ono; Nadine, Maybellene, No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry; Raindrops on Mardi Gras - Captain Buckles