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Welcome to the homepage of Radio Free D’ni. You will find here both our current announcements and our past playlists. Our links to the music stream are at the top, just above this post.
Generally speaking, we present a show every other week, at 1300 KI time. We have pre-show music usually starting 40 minutes earlier (so getting on the stream at 12:20 KI time might be a good idea), and also a good bit of music after the show proper.
See you in the Cavern
Malaclypse
13:00 KI is 8 pm in the UK, 9 pm in CET. KI time is Mountain Time in the US, and it follows DST… I can only assume that when Victor Laxman got the KI’s working again he synch’d them to surface time in New Mexico…
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96 Allan Holdsworth – Part 1
The first of a two-part appreciation of Allan Holdsworth, a favourite of both Hugh Lynch and myself. Edison Rex suffering from his piece of BT Internet wet string drying out, and with a very poor and intermittent connection, could not host the show. This accounts for why mine was the only voice from the team that you heard – apart from the jingle, that is.
Preshow began with a Tony Williams Lifetime track, from one of Allan’s happiest collaborations, then a track from one of his albums as a sideman with French electric violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, before playing the title track from what must be the only studio bootleg album, Velvet Darkness. Holdsworth and bandmates performed some warm-ups and run-throughs, and were just ready to record the album when the producer said “Right, we’ve got enough tracks for the album now, thank you and goodnight”! We finished with some of Allan Holdsworth’s earliest recorded work, with his band of Yorkshire mates ‘Igginbottom (covering the Beach Boys, of all things) and with jazz fusion trumpeter Ian Carr’s Nucleus.
The last track in the postshow is a relatively rare example of Holdsworth’s work on accoustic guitar.
Preshow
| Million Dollar Legs | Tony Williams Lifetime | Million Dollar Legs | 1976 |
| Enigmatic Ocean | Jean-Luc Ponty | Enigmatic Ocean | 1977 |
| Velvet Darkness | Allan Holdsworth | Velvet Darkness | 1977 |
| California Dreamin’ | ‘Igginbottom | ‘Igginbottom’s Wrench | 1969 |
| Sweet Dry Biscuits | ‘Igginbottom | ‘Igginbottom’s Wrench | 1969 |
| Hector’s House | Ian Carr With Nucleus | Belladonna | 1972 |
The Show
| Hazard Profile Part 1 | Soft Machine | Bundles | 1975 |
| Wildlife | Tony Williams Lifetime | Believe It | 1975 |
| Joy Filled Summer | Tony Williams Lifetime | Million Dollar Legs | 1976 |
| What You Do to Me | Tony Williams Lifetime | Million Dollar Legs | 1976 |
| Expresso | Gong | Gazeuse! | 1976 |
| Night Illusion | Gong | Gazeuse! | 1976 |
| Esnuria | Gong | Gazeuse! | 1976 |
| Soli | Gong | Expresso II | 1978 |
| Nostalgic Lady | Jean-Luc Ponty | Enigmatic Ocean | 1977 |
| Sample And Hold | Bill Bruford | Feels Good To Me | 1977 |
| Hell’s Bells | Bill Bruford | One of a Kind | 1979 |
| The Abingdon Chasp | Bill Bruford | One of a Kind | 1979 |
| In The Dead Of Night | UK | UK | 1978 |
| Second Summer | Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck | Sunbird | 1979 |
| The Things You See (When You Haven’t Got Your Gun) | Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck | The Things You See | 1980 |
| Arabesque | Pierre Moerlen’s Gong | Time Is The Key | 1979 |
| Sly Monkey | Soft Machine | Land Of Cockayne | 1981 |
Postshow
| Shadows Of | Gong | Gazeuse! | 1976 |
| Sleepy | Gong | Expresso II | 1978 |
| Five G | Bill Bruford | One of a Kind | 1979 |
| Forever Until Sunday | Bill Bruford | One of a Kind | 1979 |
| Diminished Responsability | Allan Holdsworth and Gordon Beck | The Things You See | 1979 |
A list of all our shows
Follow the hyperlink on each show name to see the playlist and comments for that show. At the bottom of the list you will see planned future shows.
Allan Holdsworth in two parts
On July 8th and 22nd, we will present a retrospective of the late Allan Holdsworth’s career, which spanned notable acts such as Soft Machine and Gong as well as many high-profile collaborations. Most settled in Jazz, Holdsworth had a very distinctive guitar style remeniscent more of a saxophone player than a guitarist. And if you wonder what that would sound like, tune in!
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
95 Todd Rundgren
A show containing some fine examples of both Todd Rundgren solo work and with his band Utopia. Preshow consisted of songs produced by Todd and postshow had notable covers of Todd songs. This show was put together by Hugh Lynch, and Hugh was with us in the show too.
Some technical issues hit us on this show, with Ed losing his internet connection shortly after the start. I took over with the show (having all the music files on my machine as a backup) and the audience kept with us, coming back by restarting their music players or refreshing the web page – thanks to everyone for keeping with us. Finally Ed got his connection back and we were able to swap back over, this time with a bit of verbal warning first, so you all knew what was happening this time. Again, about half the listeners lost the connection but you all came back, and we had 16 listeners by the end of the show.
We’ve got another Todd Rundgren show in the works, but do let us know if you want more, or less come to that.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| Can’t Stop the Music (He Played It Much Too Long) | Hall & Oates | War Babies | 1974 |
| I’m an Adult Now | The Pursuit of Happiness | Love Junk | 1988 |
| Love My Way | The Psychedelic Furs | Forever Now | 1982 |
| Day After Day | Badfinger | Straight Up | 1971 |
| Jet Boy | New York Dolls | New York Dolls | 1973 |
| Stage Fright | The Band | Stage Fright | 1970 |
| I Don’t Mind At All | Bourgeois Tagg | Yo Yo | 1988 |
| Prime Time | The Tubes | Remote Control | 1979 |
| Dear God | XTC | Skylarking | 1986 |
The Show
| All The Children Sing | Todd Rundgren | Hermit Of Mink Hollow | 1978 |
| Caravan | Utopia | Adventures In Utopia | 1980 |
| Rock Love | Utopia | Adventures In Utopia | 1980 |
| The Want Of A Nail | Todd Rundgren | Nearly Human | 1989 |
| Parallel Lines | Todd Rundgren | Nearly Human | 1989 |
| Lysistrata | Utopia | Swing To The Right | 1982 |
| I’m Looking At You But Talking To Myself | Utopia | Utopia | 1982 |
| Compassion | Todd Rundgren | Healing | 1981 |
| Something to Fall Back On | Todd Rundgren | Re-Mixes | 2003 |
| The Ikon | Utopia | Redux ’92: Live In Japan | 1993 |
| Hiroshima | Utopia | Redux ’92: Live In Japan | 1993 |
| Love Of The Common Man | Utopia | KSAN 95FM Live ’79 | 1979 |
| Black And White | Todd Rundgren | Faithful | 1976 |
| Happenings Ten Years Time Ago | Todd Rundgren | Faithful | 1976 |
| I Just Want to Touch You | Utopia | Deface The Music | 1980 |
| That’s not Right | Utopia | Deface The Music | 1980 |
| Take It Home | Utopia | Deface The Music | 1980 |
| Mad | Todd Rundgren | Arena | 2008 |
| Courage | Todd Rundgren | Arena | 2008 |
| Wailing Wall | Todd Rundgren | Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren | 1971 |
| Mated | Utopia | POV | 1985 |
| Flesh & Blood | Todd Rundgren | Global | 2015 |
| One World | Utopia | Swing To The Right | 1982 |
| Just One Victory | Todd Rundgren | A Wizard, A True Star | 1973 |
Postshow
| Love Is The Answer | England Dan & John Ford Coley | Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive | 1979 |
| Real Man | Mathilde Santing | Carried Away | 1991 |
| It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference | Alison Krauss | Forget About It | 1999 |
| Can We Still Be Friends? | Robert Palmer | Secrets | 1979 |
| I Saw the Light | Hal Ketchum | I Saw the Light | 1998 |
| Be Nice to Me | Rumer | Boy’s Don’t Cry | 2012 |
| Hello It’s Me | Paul Giamatti | Duets [Original Soundtrack] | 2000 |
| Honest Work | Maddy Prior | Flesh & Blood | 1997 |
94 Steely Dan part 2
Part 2 of the Steely Dan set. More diversity here, dealing with the peregrinations of Becker and Fagen after the split of Steely Dan and their eventual revival. Album production work and collaborations with other artists let us expand the coverage even wider.
A great show,not drawing a big audience to begin with but one that grew to 19 at one point. Several compliments received on social media and in the cavern afterwards, so I’m feeling a little better.
Preshow had some extras from China Crisis and Rosie Vela, who are both unfairly overlooked.
Postshow included the title track from Two Against Nature, which incorporates all the disturbing bits of voodoo, and Walter Becker’s This Moody Bastard, which is about as autobiographical as he ever got.
Preshow
| Title | Artist | Album | Year |
| Gaucho | Steely Dan | Gaucho | 1980 |
| The Nightfly | Donald Fagen | The Nightfly | 1982 |
| Black Man Ray | China Crisis | Flaunt The Imperfection | 1985 |
| King In A Catholic Style | China Crisis | Flaunt The Imperfection | 1985 |
| Tonto | Rosie Vela | Zazu | 1986 |
| Zazu | Rosie Vela | Zazu | 1986 |
The Show
| Babylon Sisters | Steely Dan | Gaucho | 1980 |
| Time Out of Mind | Steely Dan | Gaucho | 1980 |
| I.G.Y. | Donald Fagen | The Nightfly | 1982 |
| New Frontier | Donald Fagen | The Nightfly | 1982 |
| Reflections | Steve Khan and Donald Fagen | That’s The Way I Feel Now – A Tribute To Thelonious Monk | 1984 |
| The Highest High | China Crisis | Flaunt The Imperfection | 1985 |
| Magic Smile | Rosie Vela | Zazu | 1986 |
| Angel | Fra Lippo Lippi | Light and Shade | 1987 |
| The Horses | Rickie Lee Jones | Flying Cowboys | 1989 |
| Trans-Island Skyway | Donald Fagen | Kamakiriad | 1993 |
| Tomorrow’s Girls | Donald Fagen | Kamakiriad | 1993 |
| Girlfriend | Walter Becker | 11 Tracks Of Whack | 1994 |
| Cousin Dupree | Steely Dan | Two Against Nature | 2000 |
| Gaslighting Abbie | Steely Dan | Two Against Nature | 2000 |
| Godwhacker | Steely Dan | Everything Must Go | 2003 |
| Pixeleen | Steely Dan | Everything Must Go | 2003 |
| Brite Nitegown | Donald Fagen | Morph The Cat | 2006 |
| Upside Looking Down | Walter Becker | Circus Money | 2008 |
| Weather In My Head | Donald Fagen | Sunken Condos | 2012 |
| Tin Foil Hat (featuring Donald Fagen) | Todd Rundgren | White Knight | 2017 |
Postshow
| You Did Cut Me | China Crisis | Flaunt The Imperfection | 1985 |
| Teahouse On The Tracks | Donald Fagen | Kamakiriad | 1993 |
| This Moody Bastard | Walter Becker | 11 Tracks Of Whack | 1994 |
| Two Against Nature | Steely Dan | Two Against Nature | 2000 |
| God’s Eye View | Walter Becker | Circus Money | 2008 |
| Miss Marlene | Donald Fagen | Sunken Condos | 2012 |
93 Frank Zappa
An excellent set of tracks and someone we’ve never covered before. And despite it being the Memorial Day weekend in the US (oh, why can’t se coordinate public holidays better), we had 22 listeners for most of the show.
Pre and post-show music were by artists that Zappa admired, a category with very few entries.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| ‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers | Jeff Beck | Performing This Week… Live at Ronnie Scott’s | 2008 |
| Led Boots | Jeff Beck | Performing This Week… Live at Ronnie Scott’s | 2008 |
| School Days | Stanley Clarke | School Days | 1976 |
| Big Neighborhood | Mike Stern | Big Neighborhood | 2009 |
| Big Nick | Ellington & Coltrane | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | 1962 |
The Show
| Theme from ‘Lumpy Gravy’ | The Persuasions | Frankly a Cappella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa | 2000 |
| It Can’t Happen Here | Frank Zappa | Mothermania | 1969 |
| King Kong | Jean-Luc Ponty | King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa | 1970 |
| Son Of Mr. Green Genes | Frank Zappa | Hot Rats {2012 Remaster} | 1969 |
| Inca Roads | Frank Zappa | One Size Fits All {2012 Remaster} | 1975 |
| Moonlight On Vermont | Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | Trout Mask Replica | 1969 |
| The Torture Never Stops [Original Version] | Frank Zappa | Cheap Thrills | 1998 |
| Plastic Factory | The Muffin Men | Live at the Cavern 2002 | 2004 |
| RDNZL | Frank Zappa | Studio Tan {2012 Remaster} | 1978 |
| Baby Snakes | Frank Zappa | Sheik Yerbouti {2012 Remaster} | 1979 |
| Pachuco Gavotte | Frank Zappa | Dance Me This | 2015 |
| Filthy Habits | Banned From Utopia | So Yuh Don’t Like Modern Art | 2002 |
| Sleep Dirt | Ed Palermo Big Band | Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance | 2006 |
| The Grand Wazoo | Bobby Sanabria | Big Band Urban Folktales | 2007 |
| Peaches en Regalia | Ensemble Moderne | Greggery Peccary and Other Persuasions: The Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa | 2004 |
| The Big Medley | The Muffin Men and 10/10 Ensemble | When Worlds Collide | 1994 |
| Blessed Relief | Frank Zappa | The Grand Wazoo {2012 Remaster} | 1972 |
Postshow
| Behind The Veil | Jeff Beck | Performing This Week… Live at Ronnie Scott’s | 2008 |
| I Love You | Mike Stern | Give And Take | 1997 |
| Moroccan Roll | Mike Stern | Big Neighborhood | 2009 |
| Metal Fatigue | Allan Holdsworth Band | Metal Fatigue | 1985 |
| Velvet Darkness | Allan Holdsworth Band | Velvet Darkness | 1976 |
92 Steely Dan – Part 1 of 2.
We had failed to notice that it was Mother’s Day in the US and so our audience was less than expected. Undaunted, a comprehensive show was presented covering Steely Dan from first steps to greatest triumph, the album Aja.
Preshow was mainly early demos, with the addition of a track from Jay and the Americans on which Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were in the group, and Kid Charlemagne, a taster for what’s to come, with a superb lead guitar track from Larry Carlton.
Postshow contained fallers, tracks from the albums that didn’t quite make it to the show (only for lack of time, or I’d have put them all in), plus Larry Carlton’s room 335, which was written after being beaten to the solo spot in Peg by Jay Graydon, and uses the same chords. A great show.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| Brain Tap Shuffle | Becker – Fagen | The Origins of Steely Dan | 1991 |
| Come Back Baby | Becker – Fagen | The Origins of Steely Dan | 1991 |
| Mock Turtle Song | Becker – Fagen | The Origins of Steely Dan | 1991 |
| Android Warehouse | Steely Dan | Android Warehouse (CD2) | 1998 |
| Brooklyn (Owes the charmer under me) | Becker – Fagen | The Origins of Steely Dan | 1991 |
| Roaring of the Lamb | Steely Dan | Android Warehouse (CD1) | 1998 |
| Caves of Altamira | Steely Dan | Android Warehouse (CD1) | 1998 |
| Walkin in the Rain | Jay and the Americans | Wax Museum | 1970 |
| Kid Charlemagne | Steely Dan | The Royal Scam | 1976 |
The Show
| Dog Eat Dog | Becker& Fagen, Dias | You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It | 1971 |
| You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It | Becker& Fagen, Dias | You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It | 1971 |
| Do it Again | Steely Dan | Can’t Buy A Thrill | 1972 |
| Reelin’ in the Years | Steely Dan | Can’t Buy A Thrill | 1972 |
| Bodhisattva | Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy | 1973 |
| Show Biz Kids | Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy | 1973 |
| My Old School | Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy | 1973 |
| King Of The World | Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy | 1973 |
| Rikki Don’t Lose That Number | Steely Dan | Pretzel Logic | 1974 |
| Barrytown | Steely Dan | Pretzel Logic | 1974 |
| Parker’s Band | Steely Dan | Pretzel Logic | 1974 |
| Pretzel Logic | Steely Dan | Pretzel Logic | 1974 |
| Black Friday | Steely Dan | Katy Lied | 1975 |
| Bad Sneakers | Steely Dan | Katy Lied | 1975 |
| The Caves of Altamira | Steely Dan | The Royal Scam | 1976 |
| Don’t Take Me Alive | Steely Dan | The Royal Scam | 1976 |
| The Royal Scam | Steely Dan | The Royal Scam | 1976 |
| Aja | Steely Dan | Aja | 1977 |
| Deacon Blues | Steely Dan | Aja | 1977 |
| Peg | Steely Dan | Aja | 1977 |
| Josie | Steely Dan | Aja | 1977 |
| FM | Steely Dan | A Decade of Steely Dan | 1985 |
Postshow
| Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) | Steely Dan | Can’t Buy A Thrill | 1972 |
| Dirty Work | Steely Dan | Can’t Buy A Thrill | 1972 |
| The Boston Rag | Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy | 1973 |
| Pearl Of The Quarter | Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy | 1973 |
| East St. Louis Toodle-Oo | Steely Dan | Pretzel Logic | 1974 |
| Green Earrings | Steely Dan | The Royal Scam | 1976 |
| Home At Last | Steely Dan | Aja | 1977 |
| Room 335 | Larry Carlton | Larry Carlton | 1978 |
92 Steely Dan
The next show, on Sunday 13th, will be about Steely Dan, who blended jazz and rock into a seamless whole, and who happen to be one of my favourite groups. This will be Part 1 of a history of the band, and will take us from their beginnings to their finest album, Aja. Join us and groove again 🙂
91 Earth Day 2018
Our Earth day show was appreciated by all those attending, which included some new faces. I managed to write some rather convoluted prose, but Ed, Mal and Root Beer coped admirably. Audience numbers peaked at 24, a welcome recovery from the spring break lows.
Since we started with Messages From Earth, from the Babylon 5 soundtrack, we decided to finish with something else in the SF genre, and I found the extended version of the Firefly theme to go out with. All the other pre and postshow tracks were from the Earth Day playlist.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| Messages from Earth | Christopher Franke | Babylon 5; Volume 2; Messages | 1999 |
| The Memory of Trees | Enya | The Memory Of Trees | 1995 |
| Sky Blue | Passport | Ataraxia | 1978 |
| River Song | Dennis Wilson | Pacific Ocean Blue | 1977 |
| Palm tree song | Passport | Earthborn | 1982 |
The Show
| Everything’s Made In China | Dave Pegg & PJ Wright | Galileo’s Apology | 2007 |
| TV Dinners | ZZ Top | Eliminator | 1983 |
| Plastic Man | The Temptations | Masterpiece | 1973 |
| Polythene Pam + She Came In Through The Bathroom Window | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 |
| Mother Nature’s Son | The Beatles | The Beatles [White Album] (2 of 2) | 1968 |
| Green Lagoon | Passport | Passport To Paradise | 1996 |
| Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) | Enya | Watermark | 1988 |
| Rhythm of the Tides | Gandalf | Colors of a New Dawn | 2004 |
| Ode to Big Blue | Gordon Lightfoot | Don Quixote | 1972 |
| Red Sky At Night | David Gilmour | On An Island | 2006 |
| King Of Trees | Cat Stevens | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | 1974 |
| Secret Garden | CIALYN | E.P. “The Dew Garden” | 2015 |
| Whose Garden was This | Tom Paxton | Six | 1970 |
| Where Do the Children Play | Cat Stevens | Tea For The Tillerman | 1970 |
| Big Yellow Taxi | Joni Mitchell | Ladies of The Canyon | 1970 |
| Apeman | Kinks | Lola vs Powerman And The Moneygoround | 1970 |
| The Last Resort | Eagles | Hotel California | 1976 |
| Earthborn | Passport | Earthborn | 1982 |
| Rapa Bestas | Xosé Manuel Budiño | Paralaia | 1998 |
| A United Earth I | Alan Stivell With Youssou N’dour | Dublin To Dakar – A Celtic Odyssey | 1999 |
| Catching the Sun | Spyro Gyra | Catching the Sun | 1980 |
| Dark Sky Island | Enya | Dark Sky Island | 2015 |
| Nothern Lights | Renaissance | A Song for All Seasons | 1978 |
| Albedo 0.39 | Vangelis | Albedo 0.39 | 1976 |
Postshow
| Earth Run | Lee Ritenour | Earth Run | 1986 |
| Earthrise | Pierre Moerlen’s Gong | Time Is The Key | 1979 |
| Fume de Lume | Xosé Manuel Budiño | Arredor | 2000 |
| Sunrise | Larry Carlton | Firewire | 2005 |
| The Green Country (New England Mood) | Jimmy Giuffre | The Jimmy Giuffre 3 | 1957 |
| The Storm | Davy Spillane Band | Out of the Air | 1988 |
| The Ballad of Serenity | Sonny Rhodes | Firefly |
Earth Day 2018
Today from 1300 KI time, we will present a–belated–celebration of Earth Day. Lots to enjoy in there, and we dug up a few rare bits, too.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
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