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251 Santana part 3: The Road to Supernatural
Hugh’s examination of the recording career of the band Santana took us through a lesser-known part of his hisotory, with quite a few changes in style, culminating in the hugely successful album Supernatural.
On the Road to Supernatural
This week’s topic shines a light at Santana’s way from the doldrums to the blockbuster album, Supernatural. The band had been around the block a few times before they busted it, and dropped a goodly number of hidden gems along the road.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
122R John Wetton part 2
The second part of the history of John Wetton got off to a slow start with some long tracks and a lower than usual audience, but did pick up more and more listeners as we went along. Root Beer’s voice was suffering and we helped her out with announcements later in the show.
Lots of good prog, and later pop rock stuff to finish off the set of shows about the four members of the band UK.
John Wetton, part 2
Our second half of our look at the career of John Wetton will pick up where we left him in the first part: in the UK. The band, not the place. Well, also the place, but you get the drift. We will also see some solo work and his time in Wishbone Ash as well as Asia.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
250 The Ones That Got Away
For our 250th show we hit on the idea of selecting tracks that had been shortlisted for previous shows but left out for reasons that now seem poor, and that really were good enough to play to you.
Also, being a celebration of sorts – 250 shows over nearly ten years is a fair achievement after all – we extended the show to 2½ hours, and even then could not fit in all the tracks we’d shortlisted for this show.
For whatever reason the audience was slower than usual to assemble – I’m sure it being late Spring had something to do with it – but we were rewarded with 21 listener connections in the end, a good number in recent terms.
At this point there’s no reason to doubt that we can go on for another 250, although some of us may have to hand the torch over to new people eventually. Before that, in ten weeks time, show 255 will be our Tenth Anniversary show. More on that later.
The Ones that Got Away
For our 250th show (our 250th show!!!), we have selected a selection of selections that in the end did not get selected due to various reasons, i.e., some of the best tracks that had been on our shortlists, but in the end did not make it into one of our shows. Things such as a track being too similar to others already firmly in the playlist, not being similar enough, or simply there not being enough time in a show can be the reasons. Well, here some of them finally are.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
Update
EdisonRex, who is doing the hosting this week, has given a thumbs-up for going overtime, so we’ll have an extra twenty minutes or so of music for you!
-mal
121R Scott Walker 2
Hugh, who wrote this show, joined us for the Remastered version, and we found that Scott Walker, solo and wierd, was a hit with our audience. We love you, but you’re wierd, a bit like us 🙂 Sixteen connections, good for a holiday weekend. The Jacques Brel songs were especially noted.
Scott Walker 2
Our second look at the work of Scott Walker shows what he did after no longer being a Walker Brother, including the good, the bad and the abysmal.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
249 Let There Be Drums
An idea that surfaced after listening to Joni Mitchell’s “The Jungle Line”, Malaclypse took it and wrote a theme to it and between us we put together a great set of tracks. Lots of dancing in the cavern, but fortunately no roof collapses.
The video link for the original drum track, recorded by the Ocora label, a branch of Radio France, in Burundi by recording engineer Michel Vuylsteke, is below.
Let There Be Drums!
This week, we will take a look at the development of the drums’ role in Rock music from the late 1950s to the present day, through various genres and styles.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
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