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    • January 11, 2013 6:21 PM CST
    • Radio What Wave Playlist Jan 10/2013

      1. Andy Butler (no known as The 905's...Hamilton Head...from the New Test Sounds CD from 2007. Played this for a few reasons; The 905's are playing at Mitzi's in Toronto on Jan 19th, Hamilton is the place to be on Jan 25th as we have our first ever garage night at This Ain't Hollywood AND this is a fucking great song!!!

      2. Ronald Regan Story ...Colorado Drifter....demo from a Windsor Ontario band from 1982 that played here in London at The Cedar Lounge.

      3. Elad's Guitar Army...Drop The Gloves...from the Rock'n'Roll Circus CD from 1997. Elad, which is Dale spelled backwards, was in The Spys and The Nelsons, both Windsor Ontario bands and both played at The Cedar Lounge here in London Ontario in the late 70's/early 80's. And members of this band were also involved with Ronald Reagan Story. Make sense?

      4. The Hot Nasties...Secret Of Immortality...from a recent re-ish on Ugly Pop Records. Calgary band that originally released this single back in 1980. Liberal party bigwig/Sun Media opinion monger Warren Kinsella was in this band.

      5. The Diodes...Catwalker...from the Action/Reaction CD that was re-issued by Bongo Beat Records in 2012.

      6. The Black Frame Spectacle....Patient Zero...from the Grady Sessions II CD that came out in 2012. 2 piece combo from the village of Dorchester Ontario, just east of London.

      7. The Skirt Chasers...Train Riding...from a demo CD this 2 piece released about 2 years ago.

      8. catl...Hey Hey....from their first LP. catl is packing it in, last show is Jan 19th at the Horseshoe in Toronto. We'll be doing a special on catl during next week's show.

      9. Dynamite Pussy Club...Testify...from the Church Of Yeah! CD. Bath UK's finest export!!

      10. Johnny Terrien and the Bad Lieutenants...Back To The Beach...recorded live at Call The Office 7/27/12. JT are playing this saturday at Call The Office here in London Ontario.

      11. Johnny Terrien and the Bad Lieutenants...Eyes...from their latest 7".

      12. Johnny Terrien and the Bad Lieutenants...Happy Wanderer...again, live at Call The Office 7/27/12.

      13. The Reply...Give What You Can...from their brand new CD, Downtown Soul. Toronto soul/mod/R&B/garage band that put on killer live shows.

      14. The Ballantynes...Misery...from their latest 7" on La Ti Da Records outta Vancouver.

      15. The Hook Up...The Raw Blues...from their Call Up The Devil CD.

      16. Bloody Diamonds...Lady Of The Night...from the They've Got Secrets CD. Halifax combo that we had playing live to air on Radio WW last fall.

      17. New York Dolls...Trash...From Paris With Love double LP on SFTRI. This, and the next 2 songs go out to Jesse who now has a radio show called It's Trash, heard some fridays on CHRW between 6 and 8 PM.

      18. Deja Voodoo...Take Out The Trash...from the Too Cool To Live, Too Smart To Die LP on Midnight Records from 1985.

      19. Gus Cordovox Quartet...Trashpickin'...from the compilation LP You're Soaking In It  on Apex Records from the late 80's. This is a Philadelphia compilation from the late 80's and this particular track probably featured Ben Vaughn on guitar.

      20. The Scenics...Dark Cave...from the Dead Man Walks Down Bayview CD.The Scenics were a late 70's/early 80's combo outta Toronto and they've just released their first newly recorded material in 30 years!

      21. The Oily Birds...Born To Lose...recorded live in Guelph 4/28/12. Local combo that always put on a fun show.

      22. Boy From Nowhere...Train Kept A Rollin'...from the cassette that came with What Wave 24, Slippery's Club Hits. The singer from this band is now the singer in The Oily Birds.

      23. The Searchers...When You Walk In The Room...from a Greatest Hits LP. Local combo Psycho Daisies usually play this and they are playing saturday night at The St Regis here in London.

      24. Wilko Johnson...Messin' With The Kid...from the Pull The Cover LP from 1984. Wilko has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer....a truly innovative guitarist that we're going to miss!

      25. Dr. Feelgood...Sneakin' Suspicion....from the 1978  LP of the same name. Wilko Johnson on guitars.

      26. Dr. Feelgood...Going Back Home...from the live LP, Stupidity, that came out in 1976.

      And that's a wrap. Thanx for all the phone-ins this week....there were a LOT of call-ins and many requests for upcoming shows that we'll be playing.

      Watch out for the first monthly garage night happening at This Ain't Hollywood on Friday January 25th. It's called Kissin' The Carpet and we're proud to be one of the many sponsors! We'll be doing an all garage show on Jan 24th, playing only Canadian garagepunk from the 80's to the present and Ryan In The Red will continue with Canadian 60's garagepunk right after we get off the air, on his show, The Freakout. So that'll be 2.5 hours of Canadian garagepunk starting at 6PM on Jan 24th, going all the way to 8:30PM!!

      Here's a link to the podcast:

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

    • January 11, 2013 12:21 PM CST
    • Its a travesty. Wilco Johnson. Often copied, never bettered. Alot if not most British punk rock bands of the 70's til present day owe a great debt of gratitide to this great man. His attack and humility sets a great example. Very sad news.

    • January 11, 2013 7:46 AM CST
    • Plate of shrimp...Wilko popped into my frame of consciousness a couple of times in the past couple of weeks.  The first was watching the same Top of the Pops rebroadcast posted here with some friends and later when reading an Ian Dury biography.

      Wilko is being very inspirational for both his talent and fortitude. 

       

    • January 11, 2013 3:23 PM CST
    • I had to go to a cinema located in a mall that's pretty out of the way for me, and I went during its opening weekend because I was afraid it wouldn't be playing there the following weekend. Now that I did that, it will probably show up at the Oaks Theatre, which is really close to where I live.

      John Battles said:

      Seems like it already came and went , here. We have ONE second - run theatre that I know of . Maybe they'll show it.

    • January 11, 2013 2:43 PM CST
    • Show #405: "R.I.P. 2012, Part 1 of 4"

      This week (and the following 3 weeks) is my annual "R.I.P." show, where I pay tribute to all the musicians/artists/singers who died in the past year. I will play a track and give a brief bio on each artist featured as a tribute. This is PART ONE of FOUR shows. I'll be covering 130 total artists of the 50's, 60's and 70's who died in the year 2012, in a four part show. I will be playing music chronologically by the artist's death and tonight's show covers January through March of 2012. So, tune in tonight and learn about the musicians and singers who died in the first 3 months of 2012, hear their story, and hear their music. Tonight you can hear music by: Dion & The Belmonts, Captain Beyond, Ashkan, Jimmy Castor, The Johnny Otis Show, The Originals, The Techniques, Etta James, Afterglow, Maxayn, Family, Almendra, Dory Previn, Sherbert, MC5, Billy Strange Orchestra, The Monkees, Montrose, and many others!!

      ***To stream The Metaphysical Circus live via the web click this link: http://portsmouthcommunityradio.org/listen ... to listen to past shows, view playlists and more, fan the show on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Metap ... 50?sk=wall … or check out my website (to be updated someday): http://eggmanrulez.com/
      Live every Friday night at 10pm to 1am EST on WSCA-LP 106.1 FM, Portsmouth Community Radio!

      Watch my playlist unravel before your eyes LIVE here: http://wscafm.radioactivity.fm/

      Egg

    • January 11, 2013 2:37 PM CST
    • Only at Harristock JB. What happens at Harristock stays at Harristock!

      John Battles said:

      You're a bad man , Mr. Harrison.
       
      Mark George Harrison said:

      The one in my living room every weekend when the missus is out and the kids are in bed!

      Now send me some stuff please!!;)

    • January 11, 2013 1:48 PM CST
    • Not sure where this came from, but I spotted it on their Facebook page this morning. Doesn't look like it's been shared here yet, so:

    • January 11, 2013 12:47 PM CST
    • It's not exactly a band in a cartoon but I'm still struggling to believe I saw Henry Rollins as a Rainicorn in Adventure Time. That is a very weird cartoon.

    • January 11, 2013 4:05 AM CST
    • Ok, it's not a cartoon, but here's a clip of Cliff Richard and the Shadows from a dream sequence in 'Thunderbirds Are Go', a Thunderbirds movie made in 1966. For the uninitiated, the fact that they're all puppets has nothing to do with it being a dream sequence, that's just how they did things back then.

    • January 11, 2013 12:34 PM CST
    • {The Fall- Bury Pts. 1 + 3 } Nice and noisy, pretty garage-y for The Fall.

    • January 11, 2013 9:46 AM CST
    • found these guys. I love'em

    • January 11, 2013 12:19 AM CST
    • Yeah , the DVD odf "Transatlantic Feedback" is a must because it has CLEAN copies of All the monks' Beat ! Beat ! Beat! performances . I met the Director at a screening here. Actually , I met him before at the monks' first American concert. He was asking fans what they thought of this incredibly unlikely prospect , on film . I told him "Y2K IST MONK TIME!". HE EVEN REMEMBERED ME SAYING THAT , AND , YET , HE DID'NT USE IT !
       
      Tersicore said:

      Here is still called this way i believe. (but i´ve seen some wrong titles on YT-vids)
      I´ve found two version of this song: one running for 1:26 (was a single?-not sure) while on Black Monk Time rec. it runs for over 3 min. But still in this album they have the Drunken Maria (what a beautiful title name;) with 1:48.

      Well, i guess Elvis was earlier and for a shorter time in Germany and being all the time in the Army had much less contact to Germans as the Monks did. The Monks remained there after the dismissal from Army, Elvis went back. As well i suppose the Germans in mid 60s were a little drop different than those on late 50s, for the War being a further bit remote.

      But definitely, as you correctly said, they have been strong influenced (if not even formed, as it looks to be) by their managers Karl Remy and Walther Niemann, which were into Art. Even Monks themself admit to have been a "Project" of both.
      On the other hand, of course, they were great Subjects!! :)
      I guess you have seen "Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback"? Fantastic Docu.!!! Love it!

      John Battles said:

      OH , YEAH. IN GERMANY , IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED "BOYS ARE BOYS AND GIRLS are Choice".....Seems they changed it to "Girls are Joys" ! Now why did'nt Elvis experience such a culture clash when he was in Germany? Maybe because he was'nt exposed to Dada , Expressionism , and his Manager was'nt a hip German conceptualist ! Dave Day was The ELVIS OF tHE group  , the one who loved to "Mach Shau !" .
       
      Tersicore said:

      WoW, very cool Bees´s buzz!!

      I guess you´ll like this one, John! :)         (on record < 1:30)



      John Battles said:

      The Bees - Voices Green and Purple.    The new , authorized , 45 reissue is available in the new Ugly Things. One of the great , early "Bad Trip" songs. 

    • January 11, 2013 3:39 AM CST
    • Pls pass this msg on to Dick if anyone here can.....GET WELL SOON....SURF'S ALWAYS UP with DD:):)

       

      Rob

    • January 11, 2013 12:33 AM CST
    •   Reportedly , he's doing much better , he is touring......When I interviewed him , almost 20 years ago , he spoke candidly of having had Rectal Cancer in The 60's. He said his chances were slim , as they knew so little about it then , but , they asked if he'd consent to experimental laser surgery, and he said "Bring it on". He claims Hendrix's comment , "You'll Never Hear Surf Music Again" was'nt a put - down ( I did'nt take it as one , and I'm light years past caring about post - Chitlin Circuit Jimi Hendrix.) , but , rather , his reaction to hearing of Dale's Cancer , and thinking he was going to die.

      Arthur Lee , on being told he was going to be playing the same weekend at the same venue as Dick Dale , IN 1993 : "Dick Dale? ! I used to go see him in The 60's. That man's got to be  EIGHTY YEARS OLD !"

    • January 11, 2013 2:27 AM CST
    • Really good 'Love Me' version but I thought this topic was about covers of Cramps songs, not covers of songs the Cramps covered. But well, as the music to many of their own songs was stolen from other songs anyway, maybe it doesn't matter ;-)

    • January 11, 2013 1:42 AM CST
    •  I thought Mick Ronson's non - solo on "Jack and Diane" was sad.  This hideously awful two note intro that goes from electric to acoustic Guitar. When I first heard it , I thought the acoustic part was going to go somewhere. It does'nt. When I learned , after his death , that that was Mick Ronson , I was deeply saddened that that would go on to be one of his most famous musical moments, when "Width of a Circle" pours napalm all over that unfortunate mess.

    • January 11, 2013 1:37 AM CST
    • Don't feel bad ,I still don't know how to put my own videos up , and lack the software. This is a cool video. Not my favorite song of theirs , but , who cares? I saw The Weirdos in 2004. They were great , not as thrashin' as this , and , yet the whole venue became this huge , swirling mosh pit , with people dropping half empty Foster's cans from the balcony ,  landing on people's heads. Even the band did'nt know what the fuck was going on or why. Their set got cut short , so I DID'NT HEAR THEIR HANK MIZELL AND LINK WRAY COVERS. I WAS PISSED ABOUT THAT. I know , the ones fucking shit up , they were PUNKS AND I WAS NOT , just because I was alive when Punk was actually happening........

    • January 11, 2013 1:18 AM CST
    • OK , to be fair , I never liked  Disco , but , it was more because that's what the popular kids liked than a backlash in my mind against Blacks or Gays. I also did'nt like , or sometimes merely tolerated, what passed for Country , Pop and Rock , also . Some of the early Disco stuff was not that far removed from Soul , so I did'nt mind it so much. But , overall , it smacked of elitism. Go to a dance , ask a girl to dance , ANY girl , get turned down . I know , boo hoo hoo.  They still played Rock music at our school dances , even had live bands , but Disco was for the well - adjusted , good looking , self - satisfied crowd. I did'nt relate to it. I visited Chicago in the summer of '79 , right after The Disco Demolition (Please see Kopper's photo of annoying Talk Radio Jock , Steve Dahl.). It was an exciting time . People were pissed , wanting to reclaim Rock'n'Roll , even though The Loop , the station that sponsored the Disco Demolition , was fair to middlin'at best.....I met a kid who told me he bought $10 worth of Disco records , just to run them over with his bicycle. Sure , I said some things I should'nt have , regarding the likes of The Bee Gees and The Village People. On the other hand , their fans said the same about The Stones.......Movies usually get that tension all  wrong . Especially the Studio 54 schlong - bulgin' white slacks and chains crowd coming up against the CBGB Punk Rockers in Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam". I guess the macho , macho men looked authentic enuff , but the Punk Rockers had 7" high green GBH mohawks. IN 1977 !!!! IN NEW YORK !!!!!

      I asked my Sister - in - law , who went to CB's , Max's , Mudd Clubb , Hurrah (And also Studio 54.), if anyone even had a mohawk in New York , in 1977. She said Richie Stotts from The Plasmatics MIGHT have been working his first Travis Bickle job , a flat , military mo' , but , otherwise , HELL, no. My friends and I would go to the skating rink , and they'd play enough Rock to keep us at bay , but , you were guaranteed a LOT of Disco , and WE'D SIT THOSE NUMBERS OUT. I REALIZED THEY WERE TRYING TOO PLEASE EVERYBODY. The music got on my nerves , tho' I KNEW A LOT OF MUSIC I LIKED , AND STILL DO , GOT ON A LOT OF PEOPLE'S NERVES. Disco was getting more minimal , so was Funk , both morphing into Rap , and , by then , there were barely any instruments involved. I tried , I just could'nt dig it.....Early Grandmaster Flash and Whodini , some of that , I thought was OK , BRIEFLY.

      i COULD'NT DANCE TO NON - BEATS. that's just me , though. When I found out about Punk (Not that I had'nt read and heard about it.),I FOUND SOMETHING i COULD DANCE TO , MY OWN WAY , WITHOUT TAKING LESSONS. and , generally , people used to be more friendly. If I asked a girl to dance , I was almost never turned down. It was'nt about violence or exclusion , it was about having fun , something I could'nt find in Disco , not even on a "Camp" level. But , for me , it was'nt about persecuting other groups. Anyone could participate (See "Black Punk Time" at www.roctober.com  ) . Did Disco ever go away ? To me , it became Rap , Hip Hop , House Music , Industrial Dance music ......Not all the same thing , but bound by superficiality. But , If I dared to say anything contrary about that stuff, people would call me "Closed minded". I don't make people listen to music I like , but , as I've said , I've gotta hear Rap and Hip Hop every day.  Tim Warren said , the squares have heard about 10% of my world , and I've heard 90% of theirs. It's so true. Disco , I went thru it , I have no desire to go back. I guess it does'nt bug me , now , as much as it did , then. For me , it's over. If other people like it , I'm not out to convert them or put them down. We all have our choices to go to or not go to certain vnues. We have no control over people blasting their SHIT music in public.

    • January 11, 2013 12:39 AM CST
    • Unfortunately , when he blew up all those Disco Records , all he could think of to say was "PARRRRRRRRR - TEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!".
       
      kopper said:

    • January 10, 2013 11:17 PM CST


    • Andy Climax said:

      Yeah. Dead Meadow are great. Brilliant live. never always came across in their albums, but raw as fk. Have you all heard or heard of Black Mountain???

      The time I saw Dead Meadow, Boris had played the previous night so I didn't enjoy them as much as I could have as it was hard to compare to Boris.

    • January 10, 2013 10:07 PM CST
    • I am the bass player for Thee Swank Bastards and DJ Beelzebozo Partridge. I would ratheranswer questions than volunteer information.  What do you want to know?

    • January 10, 2013 9:57 PM CST
    • Well, to give an answer for an album from 2012, I really enjoyed the sweet ode to La La Land that is the single, "The Only Place" from Best Coast, only to be completely disappointed by the album that shares its title.