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Welcome to Radio Free D’ni!
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…
AlanDJ
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 |
A list of all our shows
Follow the hyperlink on each show name to see the playlist and comments for that show.
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
90 Rarities and What-If’s 7
Preshow
| Title | Artist | Album | Year |
| For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) | AC/DC | AC/DC Live | 1992 |
| New York Groove | Ace Frehley | Ace Frehley | 1978 |
| Fractured Mirror | Ace Frehley | Ace Frehley | 1978 |
| I Wanna Know Why | Aerosmith | Draw The Line | 1977 |
| Dream On | Aerosmith | Pandora’s Toys | 1994 |
| Come Together | Aerosmith | Best Of Aerosmith |
The Show
| Penny Lane | The Beatles | Single | 1966 |
| Estranged | Guns N’ Roses | Use Your Illusion II | 1991 |
| Perfect Imperfection | Little Feat | Down on the Farm | 1979 |
| Only The Lonely | Roy Orbison | Single | 1960 |
| Sensible Shoes | David Lee Roth | A Little Ain’t Enough | 1991 |
| The Shape You’re In | Eric Clapton | Money and Cigarettes | 1983 |
| Heartache In Blue | ZZ Top | La Futura | 2012 |
| Get Yourself A Second Passport | Passport | Second Passport | 1972 |
| A Hundred And Ten In The Shade | John Fogerty | Blue Moon Swamp | 1997 |
| It’s About Time | The Beach Boys | Sunflower | 1970 |
| C’mon (Live in London 1976) | Man | All’s Well That Ends Well | 2014 |
| Beggars & Hangers-On | Slash’s Snakepit | It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere | 1995 |
| Tell the Truth | Link Wray | Live at the Paradiso | 1979 |
| One Slip | Pink Floyd | A Momentary Lapse Of Reason | 1987 |
| Cold Heart | Martin Barre | A Trick Of Memory | 1994 |
| Strawberry Fields Forever | The Beatles | Single | 1966 |
| Brave Enough | Clannad | Nádúr | 2013 |
| Smoke On The Water | Deep Purple | Deepest Purple | 1980 |
| Tweeter And The Monkey Man | Traveling Wilburys | Traveling Wilburys | 1990 |
| Cannonball | Supertramp | Brother Where You Bound | 1985 |
Postshow
| Step By Step | The Alan Parsons Project | Eye In The Sky | 1981 |
| Once Upon a Dream | Anael | Once Upon a Dream | 2005 |
| If Life Were But a Fairytale | Anael | Once Upon a Dream | 2005 |
| Bats In The Belfry | Annihilator | Set the World on Fire | 1993 |
| Phoenix Rising | Annihilator | Set the World on Fire | 1993 |
| Respect | Aretha Franklin | I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You | 1967 |
| Here She Comes | The Beach Boys | Carl & The Passions – So Tough | 1972 |
Rarities and What-Ifs, part 7
On Sunday, we will delve one more time into the world of rare tracks, and songs with a bit of a story to them.
See you in the Cavern!
Malaclypse
89 Cat Stevens
Broadcast on April 1st, which also happened to be Easter Sunday, our audience was smaller than usual, which we should have expected if we’d noticed the significance of the date in time.
Preshow contained two Pentangle tracks, one long one to start with so that people had plenty of opportunity to get the channel connected.
The postshow started with a live version of Peace Train, a song which he continues to sing to this day, and one of his most well known.
As promised, I’ve linked to a fansite page with the translation of the Latin lyrics of O Caritas, and include the Greek text, a translation and a transliteration for the Greek verse of Rubylove. Though Cat Stevens has Greek ancestry, he is a Londoner born and bred and lead a cosmopolitan life, He no doubt picked up some Greek from his father, and may have attended Greek Orthodox church with him.
Latin lyrics and translation by Michael R Valenzuela for O Caritas here, along with some notes
Rubylove lyrics in Greek, with a transliteration for those who don’t read Greek text (like me) and an English translation
Ruby γλυκιά
Έλα ξανά,
Έλα ξανά κοντά μου
Έλα πρωί, με την αυγή
Χρυσή σαν ηλιαχτίδα
Ruby μου μικρή
Ruby glikya
Ela xana,
Ela xana konta mou
Ela proi, me tin avgy
Xrisi san iliaktida
Ruby mou mikri
Sweet Ruby
Come by once more
Come once more close to me
Come by at dawn
Golden like a ray of sun
My little Ruby
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| Jack Orion | The Pentangle | Cruel Sister | 1970 |
| Train Song | The Pentangle | Basket of Light | 1988 |
| When I Speak to the Flowers | Cat Stevens | Matthew & Son | 1967 |
| Morning Has Broken | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
The Show
| Matthew & Son | Cat Stevens | Matthew & Son | 1967 |
| I Love My Dog | Cat Stevens | Matthew & Son | 1967 |
| The Laughing Apple | Cat Stevens | New Masters | 1967 |
| The First Cut Is the Deepest | Cat Stevens | New Masters | 1967 |
| Lady D’arbanville | Cat Stevens | Mona Bone Jakon | 1970 |
| Katmandu | Cat Stevens | Mona Bone Jakon | 1970 |
| Wild World | Cat Stevens | Tea For The Tillerman | 1970 |
| Father and Son | Cat Stevens | Tea For The Tillerman | 1970 |
| Rubylove | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
| How Can I Tell You | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
| Moonshadow | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
| O Caritas | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
| Angelsea | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
| Sweet Scarlet | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
| Later | Cat Stevens | Foreigner | 1973 |
| Music | Cat Stevens | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | 1974 |
| Ready | Cat Stevens | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | 1974 |
| Another Saturday Night | Cat Stevens | Saturnight | 1974 |
| Drywood | Cat Stevens | Numbers | 1975 |
| Old Schoolyard | Cat Stevens | Izitso | 1977 |
| Was Dog a Doughnut ? | Cat Stevens | Izitso | 1977 |
| Last Love Song | Cat Stevens | Back to Earth | 1978 |
| I’ve Got A Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old | Cat Stevens | Box Set – Cd2 – The Search | 2001 |
| Heaven Where True Love Goes | Yusuf [Cat Stevens] | An Other Cup | 2006 |
| Shamsia | Yusuf Islam | Roadsinger | 2009 |
| Editing Floor Blues | Yusuf | Tell ‘Em I’m Gone | 2014 |
| See What Love Did to Me | Yusuf / Cat Stevens | The Laughing Apple | 2017 |
| (I never wanted) to be a star | Cat Stevens | Izitso | 1977 |
Postshow
| Peace Train | Cat Stevens | Majikat: Earth Tour 1976 | 1976 |
| Sitting | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
| The Hurt | Cat Stevens | Foreigner | 1973 |
| Oh Very Young | Cat Stevens | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | 1974 |
| Majik Of Majiks | Cat Stevens | Numbers | 1975 |
| Gold Digger | Yusuf | Tell ‘Em I’m Gone | 2014 |
| The Laughing Apple | Yusuf / Cat Stevens | The Laughing Apple | 2017 |
| Grandsons | Yusuf / Cat Stevens | The Laughing Apple | 2017 |
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