Radio Free D'ni

Another history of a group with a long career and many albums. Pre and post show take the overspill, as usual. Title Album Year 101 Stages Afterburner 1985 102 Gimme All Your Lovin’ Eliminator 1983 103 Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell Rio Grande Mud 1972 104 I’m Bad I’m Nationwide Degüello 1979 105…

The Doobie Brothers formed in California in 1970 by Tom Johnston (gtr, vo writer), Patrick Simmons (gtr, vo, writer) and John Hartman (dms) with Dave Shogren on bass. They worked hard, playing all over California, often in Hells Angels venues, and adopted the biker look. After an unsuccessful first album, Shogren left and was replaced…

For the fifth anniversary of the current incarnation of Myst Online: Uru Live again a grand event was organised by Janeerah, spreading over a whole weekend.  As a part of this, Radio Free D’ni presented an extended broadcast in three sections lasting five hours or so.  The playlists from that are below. The first set…

Rarities and What-Ifs are tracks that are either rare or have a hidden history or story behind them. Title Artists  Album Year 201 The Core Eric Clapton  Slowhand 1977 202 No Way David Gilmour  David Gilmour 2006 203 Fährmann Godewind  20 Johr Platt ‘n Roll 2005 204 One Step Back Dave Edmunds  Plugged In 1994…

A strange group in many ways, The Doors formed in 1965 in LA by Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison, both UCLA Theatre Film School graduates.  Their music is unlike almost any other bands, based in blues and rock with some jazz thrown in and a large dose of performance art.  Morrison was essentially a poet,…

Broadcast December 20, 2014 – yes, a Saturday… We all had other commitments for the Sunday and as it was the start of the holiday and people going away, we decided that Saturday would be a better spot. The preshow has a mixture of tracks that didn’t make the main show, then we start with…

Broadcast December 7, 2014 Vocalese is the setting of lyrics to established jazz orchestral instrumentals. The word was coined by jazz critic Leonard Feather to describe the first Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross album, Sing a Song of Basie. So Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert and Annie Ross can be thought of as the originators of this…

Broadcast November 23, 2014 The second show in the Brit Prog series, this one concentrating on the Canterbury Scene band Caravan.  Caravan have a long and varied history as one of the premier groups of the Canterbury Scene, a noted Brit Prog melting pot that produced Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, National Health and…

Broadcast on November 9, 2014, assembled by Goren. Title Artist Album Year Pre-Show 1 Four Strong Winds Neil Young Comes a Time 1978 2 Who You Are Tears for Fears Everybody Loves a Happy Ending 2004 3 Deacon Blues Steely Dan Aja 1977 4 Statement Indicating Hello Apart from the Projector Lover’s Knot 2004 5…

Broadcast October 26, 2014 Chronicling the career of the phenomenally successful Scottish band formed by the combination of Alex Harvey, former winner of the “Scotland’s Answer to Tommy Steele” competition, ex skiffle musician and five-year resident of the pit band for the musical “Hair” and Tear Gas, a prog band with aggressive up-front musical skills…