Playlists
240 Lost in 2023
Our annual season-opener, looking at musicians who’ve gone to their reward in the year gone by. Lots of big names this time, making it difficult to choose the playlist. Hope we did well enough for you.
As promised, a link to the Rick Beato podcast on Jeff Beck is below.
112R Jon Hiseman
Our first show of the new year, and a look at the career of drummer Jon Hiseman, covering the two Colosseum groups, Tempest, The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble, JCM and more.
17 listeners at one point, a good start to the year.
239 A Brush With The Blues
A show assembled by Hugh with pre and postshow content from Malaclypse, both of them fans of the Blues. Preshow was vintage Blues recordings, and the main show took us through some modern blues performances, from a wide variety of backgrounds, indicating how pervasive the Blues is.
110R Jack Bruce In Performance
Another one curated by Hugh for us, bassist, singer and songwriter Jack Bruce in live performances after the dissolution of Cream, the supergroup that made him famous.
Some problems with links to the broadcast server meant that connections were difficult for our listeners. It should be fixed by next week.
238 Frank Zappa: 30th Anniversary show – some instrumentals.
Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Frank Zappa’s death, Hugh put together a show of Zappa instrumental tracks, mostly from the post-Mothers period. Zappa’s jazz side was on full display. Peaking at 20 listeners, a respectable number for a late year show.
053R Rarities and What-if’s 6
A varied selection of tracks for a show that ended up on Thanksgiving weekend, but still managed 15 listeners. Slighlty more “novelty” records than usual, but they do fall into the Rarities section rather well.
237 Stevie Wonder in the Seventies.
A fine selection of tracks from Stevie Wonder’s most successful decade, sampling some of the timeless hits and some of the less well-known tracks. Assembled by Hugh, who gave us a great show as usual.
109R Pat Metheny
Lots of people on the plaza for this one, several new names too, and a peak of 21 connections, which is a good number for us these days. Some fans in the audience as well, which was nice.
Links, as promised during the show:
Manzer Pikasso guitar
Seeburg Style H Orchestrion
Philips Paganini Orchestrion
Pat Metheny Introduces “Orchestrion”
236 Fire!
A show for broadcast on November 5th, which is Bonfire Night in the UK, when bonfires and fireworks are indulged in. Having a theme of fire produced a very large number of candidate tracks, and they were reduced to one two-hour show with enough left over for another, so we’ll do this again.
Complete with exposition and explanation of the whole Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes thing including burning figures in effigy – no longer the Pope, we are relieved to say.
105R The Who, part 2
The second and final part of our look at The Who, covering the years after Keith Moon’s death and solo work from the remaining band members.