Radio What Wave Playlist May 26/2016 Denim Delinquent Special
This episode featured an interview with Jim Parrett, editor/publisher/chief spender of Denim Delinquent fanzine. DD was started in Ottawa Ontario way back in 1971, long before the punk zines, and lasted 7 issues. All the issues have been reprinted in book form by Hozac Records and just recently released.
All songs/bands played on this show were highly recommended in Denim Delinquent or the bands were interviewed or live shows favourably reviewed. In other words, all DD certified cool combos!!
1. Crowbar....Oh What A Feeling....from the Bad Manors LP 1971 and out of Hamilton Ontario. Legends in Hamilton and faves of Tom Wilson, this song was actually a minor hit on AM radio way back when.
2. The Seeds....Nobody Spoil My Fun...from The Seeds first LP. This song was DD's motto! In the DD book, there's a full colour pic of Iggy Pop sporting a Seeds Tee and looking mighty cool!
3. Blue Oyster Cult....Stairway To The Stars....from their first LP from 1971. There's a couple of lyric lines quoted in DD....you gotta listen to the song and then read DD to find out what they are.
4. The Stooges....Search And Destroy....from the Rough Power CD on Bomp Records. Bomp head honcho Greg Shaw is mentioned more than once in DD, and again in the interview with Jim. One of the most influential people in music i nour lifetimes. Played this as there's an interview with Stooge Ron Asheton saying how much he hated the Bowie mix of Raw Power, so we played a different mix of Search and Destroy!
5. Thundermug.....Africa.....a hit single from 1972 from this London Ontario based combo!! DD really dug Thundermug and I remember digging this when it was played on AM radio back in the day! At the time, I thought it was common for hometown bands to have their songs played regularly on the radio. I'd lived in Toronto prior to coming to London and heard countless Toronto bands on both AM and the FM division of CHUM. But looking back, this was HUGE to have a London based combo that I actually liked to be played on local AM radio. This has only been repeated once since in my lifetime, that being Uranus hitting the top 10 in 1980 with You're So Square!
6. It's All Meat....Feel It....there first single from 1969 and a real killer single it is!!! When it was written about in DD, they were searching for this single as it was highly recommended. Thanks to sources like Pebbles (again, Greg Shaw released) this one became known in the late 70's.
Right about here, we had a 30m interview with Jim Parrett, covering Denim Delinquent from beginning to end. We talked about some of the bands and people Jim met over the run of the zine. We also talk about what it was like to do a zine, long before they were an understood commodity. DD was one of the first, if not the first music zine to come out of Canada and laid the groundwork for many of us to follow.
7. It's All Meat....You Don't Notice the Time You Waste...from their self titled debut LP from 1970. Toronto based combo and it's been re-ished on CD.
8. The Wackers....Hey Lawdy Lawdy....from the Shredder LP from about 1970. Features Bob Segarini on guitar/vocals who went on to release 4 powerpop albums in the late 70's/early 80's then went on to produce some of the early punk/new wave bands from Toronto. Later he became a DJ known as The Iceman on a Toronto FM station.
9. MC5....Ramblin' Rose.....from a Greatest Hits CD on Rhino Records.
10. Pagliaro.....Some Sing Some Dance....from a self titled LP from the early 70's. Another song that was a hit on AM radio here in Canada. I remember hearing this on the radio many times and it was like a breath of fresh air after some of the other stuff that aired on the radio. Michel Pagliaro was a big fave of DD and he came from Quebec where he is still a huge star.
11. Mott The Hoople....Drivin' Sister....from the self titled LP from 1973. DD talks about seeing Mott recording a live LP in the UK in the early 70's.
12. NYDolls....Trash.....from Rock'n'Roll, a CD with some unreleased tracks on it.
13. The Kinks....I'm Not Like Everybody Else....from the recent Anthology 1964-1971 Box set of CD's. This one sums up just about everything about DD and this radio show!!
Huge Thanx to Jim Parrott for taking the time to talk to us here at Radio What Wave!! If you have a chance, the Denim Deliquent book is well worth picking up as it will transport you to a time before the internet and when you still had to search through record stores to find cool tunes!
Thanx for all the phone calls, emails, facebook messages and Heys!!! Back again next week with more noise to annoy.
Here's a link to the archived show: