NO , I THINK IT'S FUNNY. Don't feel you're being mean. I still don't know who the Hell she is.
 
Jane Dear said:

Ha! I think she was still incubating when Urge Overkill got together. I feel kinda mean making fun because it just goes without saying.

No , no , no. You're thinking of Neko Case. Nash Kato was The Green Hornet's sidekick.
 
Andy Climax said:

Wasn't Nash Kato, Inspector Clouseau's assistant in dem Panther movies??? haha

Yeah , that was a joke. I , unfortunately, live in Urge Overkill , Liz Phair , Smashing Pumpkins , Ministry , etc. etc.'s home town , so , I always had to hear how great all that stuff was , but , I'm still not feelin' it . A former friend told me Urge Overkill was up shit creek because their record had only sold 100, 000 , which , in Punk Rock terms , is a Gold Record.
 
Johnny Lurg said:

No, that was Nash Kato.

John Battles said:

Oh , GOD , IT BOTHERS ME , TOO. KATE NASH. WAS'NT SHE IN URGE OVERKILL?

Wasn't Nash Kato, Inspector Clouseau's assistant in dem Panther movies??? haha

Ha! I think she was still incubating when Urge Overkill got together. I feel kinda mean making fun because it just goes without saying.

No, that was Nash Kato.

John Battles said:

Oh , GOD , IT BOTHERS ME , TOO. KATE NASH. WAS'NT SHE IN URGE OVERKILL?

Oh , GOD , IT BOTHERS ME , TOO. KATE NASH. WAS'NT SHE IN URGE OVERKILL?

I hope this is relevant because it bothers me.

Hola , amigos. Sorry I have'nt been around and stuff , but , The Ford Fiesta fuckin' died on me , just when I was gonna hire this artist to paint that Nazareth album cover on the hood. You know , I think it's the one with that song "Now you're messin' with a SON OF A BEEYOTCH !!!". Fuckin' 8 Track died on me too , man , right between track one and track two of REO SPEEDWAGON, where the dude goes "DOO DOO DOOOOOOOOO DOODLE DEE DOOO , DOOT DOOT DOODLE DEE DOOODLE DEE DOO DOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!'' BAD ASS , MAN.

OK , the lamest version of a Garage Rock classic (Envelope , please) THE SANDPIPERS doing "LOUIE , LOUIE ! " !!!!!!!!!!! GOD , i WORKED IN A DAY CARE CENTER , AND THAT'S THE STUFF THEY'D PLAY TO MAKE THE CHILDREN FALL ASLEEP AT NAP TIME.

Some asswipe troll on You Tube tried to tell me a Black man (Richard Berry) did'nt write "Louie , Louie". Maybe he heard this version , first , and decided there's no way it could have been (Overstating the obvious , I know.)what it is ,  an R'n'B song. Or , maybe it's because he's a douche.

Radio What Wave Playlist May 16/2013

1. King Beez....Showdown...from a CD called Singles 2008-2009

2. Deniz Tek...Always Out Of Reach...from the Glass Eye World CD on Career Records. Deniz Tek was in Hamilton at This Ain't Hollywood the night after this show.

3. Radio Birdman...Do The Pop... from Radios Appear from 1978.

4. Radio Birdman...Aloha Steve And Danno...as above.

5. catl...Untitled...from a TV broadcast from Louisville Kentucky as catl are on a Southern states tour.

6. Panther Burns...Shade Tree Mechanic...from the Shake Rag EP on New Rose 1986. Tav Falco and The Unapproachable Panther Burns are coming to This Ain't Hollywood 6/19, a rare chance to see a living legend in action. This song goes out to Pam H who was having car problems...Tav can get any car purring like a kitten.

7. The Reply...I Must Stop...from the Downtown Soul EP.

8. The Marvelous Beauhunks...Don't Mind Doin'...from the Who Said The Kids Are Alright CD.

9. The 905s...Under A Spell/Stay Inside....This is Part 3 of The Radio WW Sessions. It's a live studio recording, done exclusively for Radio WW. The Sessions are by invite only, ensuring that only the best bands out there are involved in the Sessions. This time, it was The 905s who are from the Greater Toronto area and play fairly often in that area. They've played London only 3 times, yet each time they come here, everyone is asking when are they coming back? Dunno when they are coming back, but hopefully it's real soon! Big thanx to The 905s for doing this for us!

10. The 905s...Running Full Speed...as above.

11. The 905s...Celebrity...as above.

12. The 905s...NYC...as above.

13. Weirdonia...I Like Rumble Fish...from a demo. 2 piece of which one half lives in London, the other Windsor. They are playing in London on saturday night at The Richmond.

14. Gatgas...Back To The Assylum...from a recent demo. Local punk combo.

15. Drivin' Beats...Nothing Really Matters....demo...US based surf/garage/fun combo.

16. BB Guns...I Killed My Baby...from a demo, they have just released a 7" with this song on it.

17. Legend Killers...Strychnine...from Slippery's Club Hits, the cassette that comes with WW #24, out now in stores.

18. Legend Killers...Gonna Snap...from We're Working' On It CD. The Legend Killers music is going to be featured in a play at the Fringe Festival next month. Once more details are known, we'll let you know.

19. Frankenstein 5...It's A Cryin' Shame...from Dig Deeper, a CHRW CD compilation from the early 90's.

20. B5 Blue...Ramblin' Rose...live recording from Mortz's, early 90's.

21. Evil Hoodoos...It's My Pride...demo from 5/93, shit, that's 20 years ago!!

22. Royal Hangmen...Get Out Of My Way...from their self titled debut LP on Screaming Apple Records.

23. The Flesheaters...Pray Till You Sweat...from Prehistoric Hits, Volume 2 on SST Records. This is Chris D's combo from the early 80's featuring DJ Bonebrake on the marimbas.

24. Sons Of Hercules...Tight Fit...from a 7" on Unclean Records. Austin combo featuring Frank Pugliese, who played in one of the bands that opened for the Sex Pistols at The Longhorn Ballroom Jan 10/1978.

25. Sons Of Hercules...Once I Was...as above.

Huge thanx to The 905s for participating in the Radio WW Sessions. Get out and see this band if they are ever playing near you, tell them Radio WW sent you.

Thanx for all the call-ins, emails, facebook messages etc.

Back again with more noise to annoy next week.

And here's a link to the podcast:

http://chrwradio.ca/content/radio-what-wave#prev-shows

Playlist 05/18/13

I will be playing garagepunk tunes on the air and the web on Saturday May 18th from 1:00-3:00PM EST. You can listen at 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu

YEAH , EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT THE MOVIE. MY DOCTOR EVEN ASKED IF I'D SEEN IT. I DON'T KNOCK IT , I'M JUST NOT ON THE BANDWAGON. I'VE CERTAINLY READ PLENTY ABOUT RODRIGUEZ , AND COULD HAVE SEEN HIM FOR FREE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO , BUT , MY FRIEND WHO WAS PLAYING WITH HIM INVITED ME WITH ABOUT AN HOUR TO SPARE , AND AN HOUR WAS'NT EVEN REALLY ENOUGH TIME TO GET THERE.
 
swt said:

I just saw Searching for Sugarman about a month ago. Not a single Mongolian Nazi in the whole thing.

Actually I loved the movie. Not really crazy about the music, but a great story and a fascinating character.

Boy , if this had been available for (Ugh) viewing and (UGH!!!) listening in the 40's , The Axis powers would have imploded much faster , and The Allies would have won WWII without dropping the H- Bomb. 
 
swt said:

This just in from Dangerous Minds blog:

 

I just saw Searching for Sugarman about a month ago. Not a single Mongolian Nazi in the whole thing.

Actually I loved the movie. Not really crazy about the music, but a great story and a fascinating character.

Would you believe...I still have'nt heard Rodriguez ?

This just in from Dangerous Minds blog:

Cheap Trick WERE yesterday's news by 1982 , unless you lived in Chicagoland or Rockford , I guess. They still sold records , just not as many , and they played smaller halls , I guess , than before. But , bands were forgotten a lot quicker, in those days. Who knew or cared where Kiss or Aerosmith were in 1982? They were around , Ted Nugent was around , but , it'd be years before their megabucks comebacks.     Sorry....to answer your question....I remember "Pink Lady and Jeff".I watched all those Summer Replacement , or planned obsolescence TV shows , back then. The show was criticized for excessive Asian jokes. I don't remember , but , I think a friend gave me a tape with one or two episodes on it , but I only ever watched the Lancelot Link reruns on the same tape , more than once. Pink Lady had an album out on the US market. After the show tanked ,  I think they went back to Japan , and did well , there , for a few years. Jeff was the White guy. He stayed here.

Yeah , whatshisname in "Fast Times ". What a TOOL , but , capable of getting your trust. We all knew guys like that. I never saw him in anything else again. It's too bad , he was actually pretty good.

Does anyone here remember a short lived TV variety show called "Pink Lady and Jeff"? I just remembered that Cheap Trick appeared on that show via their video for "Dream Police."

Another Cheap Trick memory that stands out for me was the scene in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" in which the ticket scalping character was trying to sell Cheap Trick tickets to a girl, and he sang a couple of the band's songs to get her interested. I find that scene amusing, because that movie was released in 1982, during a time when a lot of people thought Cheap Trick was yesterday's news.

I can also remember when Cheap Trick made something of a comeback in the late 80s with their power ballad "The Flame," along with their cover of "Don't Be Cruel." I especially remember the video for the latter because of the cute female back-up singers.

Anyway, those are my Cheap Trick memories.

Congratulations - you are about to see one of the best live bands around. I first saw them opening for the Kinks on the Sleepwalker tour. The were not listed and the only way we knew the band name was reading it from the bass drum head with binoculars. I was intrigued. When 'In Color' came out I thought, "This band should be great live." I next saw them opening for Be Bop Deluxe, but they never lived up to the potential I heard on the album. Rumor has it their sound was sabotaged by the headliners. I saw their first headlining tour and, once again, not up to their potential. The next time was an arena show after 'Budokan' and was the band playing to the crowd, not playing music. Their career kind of backslid after that, and that's when their concerts started getting really good. I saw them in small halls & clubs, for free compliments of Marlboro cigarettes, and outdoors sponsored by a local radio station. The last time I saw them was at a casino with Blondie. Blondie is (was) a great band with great material, but they paled next to Cheap Trick. I really wish I had seen their Las Vegas shows, when they did 'Sgt. Pepper's' and 'Magical Mystery Tour'.

Well , the connection is , I think Brad Elvis is friends with the members of Cheap Trick. hE MUST BE.  He never really made it on his own (The Elvis Brothers  almost broke big , but , not quite.) , but , he's worked with a lot of big name people . He also subbed for Clem Burke in The Little Steven - backed Romantics , one of the most underrated comeback attempts in recent memory. One friend said that they were a Bar Band. I said , "Show me a bar where the band nails some Kinks , MC5 and Pretty Things covers , and I'll take up drinking.".
 
melissa scott said:

Yep, Rockford was a thriving industrial city on a river -- second-largest city in Illinois at one time -- manufacturing. Look at your old school furniture and it will probably say, made in Rockford. Anyway, wood was their game. It's all GONE now...

The weather is diabolical, they'd get flooding... and now... can't think of what the job base would be like their. From memory, we used to go up there to hear music sometimes and go to Nielsen's Music -- yeah, family business. I noticed the Handcuffs have played a few shows up there -- perhaps there's some connection to a member of their band or something.

I guess Rockford would be a lot like Allentown -- there's a small downtown district that is trying to come back, but... it doesn't have the proximity to NYC like Allentown, so nothing to develop there.

Yes, I read about the exhibit too -- Nielsen's guitar collection was featured. :D

If someone wanted to shout me a ticket now I'd still go see 'em -- at least that band knows how to generate some FUN in their rock 'n roll.

dave: that's so cool! Wonder if anyone still has one of those shirts stored away? :D

dave said:

Cheap Trick was the 1st concert I ever went to, in a freakin' basketball stadium, which made everything echo-y (not that I cared). They were promoting One On One, which I think is their best LP. It was fantastic!

The next day, half of the kids in my classes came back w/  1.Tinnitus (which we bragged about) and 2. Those baseball tour jerseys with that 6-necked Hamer on it. Good times.

Yep, Rockford was a thriving industrial city on a river -- second-largest city in Illinois at one time -- manufacturing. Look at your old school furniture and it will probably say, made in Rockford. Anyway, wood was their game. It's all GONE now...

The weather is diabolical, they'd get flooding... and now... can't think of what the job base would be like their. From memory, we used to go up there to hear music sometimes and go to Nielsen's Music -- yeah, family business. I noticed the Handcuffs have played a few shows up there -- perhaps there's some connection to a member of their band or something.

I guess Rockford would be a lot like Allentown -- there's a small downtown district that is trying to come back, but... it doesn't have the proximity to NYC like Allentown, so nothing to develop there.

Yes, I read about the exhibit too -- Nielsen's guitar collection was featured. :D

If someone wanted to shout me a ticket now I'd still go see 'em -- at least that band knows how to generate some FUN in their rock 'n roll.

I've only been there once. Don't know it's back - history. It's just a depressed rural - in - appearance town in the middle of nowhere. But , a lot of small towns in Illinois are much the same. Cheap Trick put 'em on the map , sorta. But , that changes nothing for the people who have to live there....My friend told me they just had a Cheap Trick museum exhibit , there , I'm like , ohhhhkay. Nuthin' personal , I could'nt even see my favorite bands getting a museum exhibit ,maybe a corner in the "Hall of Fame" or The Museum of Contemporary Art  , when they did their Rock/Art EXHIBIT......I think Nielson still has a house in Rockford , but , he probably has a few houses.
  MikeL said:

Is Rockford another one of those towns that has lost much of its industrial base, leaving behind rusting factories and poverty? Can't be any worse than a whole lot of other places.

John Battles said:

 I was never a Cheap Trick fan ( Which is heresy for a White , male Chicagoan, I know) , Mike , but , I always enjoy your threads. I JUST BOUGHT A SWEET -ASS 8 TRACK PLAYER WITH A BUILT - IN AMP , SPEAKERS , AND TWO CASES OF TAPES......INCLUDING CHEAP TRICKS' DEBUT , which I sort of like . It's very Roy Wood and Gary Glitter influenced , at a time when it'd still be years 'til Glam Rock would be co - opted by American acts like Joan Jett and (UGH) Quiet Riot (Or are they British? Who cares.) and even Krokus (YEESH) from Switzerland , to say nothing of bands people mistook for Glam like Poison and Motley Crue. All the while ,Tommy James had already glommed on to the previously - ignored Glam bandwagon , with "In Touch" around the time "Cheap Trick " came out. Cheap Trick , at least , get bonus points for  doing "California Man" by Wizzard.                     Anyway , enjoy the show. Don't go to Rockford , Illinois , the band's original home. It's DEPRESSING !