Radio Free D'ni

For this show, Hugh drew on his extensive knowledge and stash of Cream recordings and produced a wonderful show bringing us the best of the group and its history.

The preshow consisted of a couple of post-Cream groups, Blind Faith and BBM – Bruce Baker Moore, with Gary Moore filling the guitar shoes.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Sleeping in the Ground	Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969
Can’t Find My Way Home	Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969
Time Winds	Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969
Waiting in the Wings	BBM	Around the Next Dream	1994
City of Gold	BBM	Around the Next Dream	1994
Why Does Love (Have to Go Wrong?)	BBM	Around the Next Dream	1994

The Show

Singles and album tracks taken from either Those Were The Days, a 1997 box set, or I Feel Free: Ultimate Cream, a collection from 2005.

Sunshine of Your Love [Live]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 4	1997
Sleepy Time Time [Live]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 3	1997
Rollin’ and Tumblin’ [Live]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 3	1997
Wrapping Paper	Cream	single	1966
I Feel Free	Cream	single	1966
N.S.U.	Cream	Fresh Cream	1966
Sweet Wine	Cream	Fresh Cream	1966
Swlabr	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967
Tales of Brave Ulysses	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967
Strange Brew	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967
White Room	Cream	Wheels of Fire (studio)	1968
Politician	Cream	Wheels of Fire (studio)	1968
Passing the Time	Cream	Wheels of Fire (studio)	1968
Born Under a Bad Sign	Cream	Wheels of Fire (studio)	1968
Traintime [Live]	Cream	Wheels of Fire (live)	1968
Crossroads [Live]	Cream	Wheels of Fire (live)	1968
Anyone for Tennis	Cream	single	1968
Pressed Rat and Warthog	Cream	single	1968
I’m So Glad [Live]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 4	1997
Sittin’ On Top Of The World (live)	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 4	1997
Badge	Cream	Goodbye	1968
Doing That Scrapyard Thing	Cream	Goodbye	1968
What a Bringdown	Cream	Goodbye	1968

Postshow

The Coffee Song	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
Lawdy Mama [Version 2]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
You Make Me Feel [Demo Version]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
We’re Going Wrong [Demo Version]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
Hey Now Princess [Demo Version]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
Swlabr [Demo Version]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
Weird of Hermiston [Demo Version]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
The Clearout [Demo Version]	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997
Falstaff Beer Commercial	Cream	Those Were the Days Disc 2	1997

Part 2 of the Bruford show saw us concentrating on his later and more jazzy, not to say experimental, work.  That was seasoned with several tracks from he earlier work as a guest musician or session man on albums lead by other people.  Something for everyone.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Sleepless	King Crimson	Three of a Perfect Pair	1984
Turbulence	Steve Howe	Turbulence	1991
Thistledown	Bill Bruford With Ralph Towner And Eddie Gomez	If Summer Had Its Ghosts	1997
Cracking the Midnight Glass	Bruford Levin Upper Extremities	Bruford Levin Upper Extremities	1998
No Truce with the Furies	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	A Part, And Yet Apart	1999
Go Between	The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam	Go Between	1987

The Show

Anne Boleyn	Rick Wakeman	The Six Wives of Henry VIII	1973
Lucky Seven	Chris Squire	Fish Out Of Water	1975
Break Away From It All	Steve Howe	Beginnings	1975
The Game, Parts. 1-5	Roy Harper	HQ	1975
Impromptu, Too !	Patrick Moraz &  Bill Bruford	Flags	1985
Stromboli Kicks	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	Dig?	1989
Themes	Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe	Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe	1989
Evensong	Yes	Union	1991
Nerve	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	All Heaven Broke Loose	1991
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream	King Crimson	THRAK	1995
If Summer Had Its Ghosts	Bill Bruford With Ralph Towner And Eddie Gomez	If Summer Had Its Ghosts	1997
Original Sin	Bruford Levin Upper Extremities	Bruford Levin Upper Extremities	1998
Footloose and Fancy Free	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	A Part, And Yet Apart	1999
Triplicity	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	The Sound Of Surprise	2001
Bemsha Swing	Bill Bruford & Michiel Borstlap	Every Step A Dance, Every Word A Song	2004
Up North	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	Earthworks Underground Orchestra	2006
All Blues	Bill Bruford & Michiel Borstlap	In Two Minds	2007

Postshow

Revel Without A Pause	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	The Sound Of Surprise	2001
Speaking With Wooden Tongues	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	Random Acts Of Happiness	2004
Bajo Del Sol	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	Random Acts Of Happiness	2004
Thud	Bill Bruford’s Earthworks	Earthworks Underground Orchestra	2006
From the Source, We Tumble Headlong	Bill Bruford & Michiel Borstlap	In Two Minds	2007

On the second day of the 25th Anniversary celebrations, Radio Free D’ni broadcast for an hour, just before the NULP Dancers went on.  This time we told of our reminiscences of Myst, and played some game-related music.

 

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Myst linking sound	Robyn Miller		2000
Myst Theme	Robyn Miller	Myst – Soundtrack	1998
Spaceship Disco	Pierre Moerlen’s Gong	Breakthrough	1986
Pipeline	The Alan Parson Project	Ammonia Avenue	1983
Windmill	Lee Ritenour	Portrait	1987
Dreams by the Sea	John Martyn	Solid Air	1973
Dodgy Boat	Allan Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower	1992
Fissure	Soundtrack	Riven	1997
Take the ‘A’ Train	Duke Ellington	Ain’t Misbehavin’	2000
Abandoned Hall	Iain Ballamy	MirrorMask	2005
Kveer	Tim Larkin	Uru Soundtrack	2003
Myst – Finale	Robyn Miller	Myst – Soundtrack	1998
Badlands	Tim Larkin	Uru – Ages Beyond Myst OST	2003
Curse Of The Traveller	Chris Rea	Dancing With Strangers	1987

To start off the weekend of Myst’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, I did a show on my own, as neither Mal nor Ed was able to host.  As I was the first one to start, I was able to fit in a long-ish preshow too 🙂

The Myst memories included the start of my involvement with computer gaming, which was Adventure, later known as Colossal Cave, on a Data General Nova.   Several tracks were also from the year of Myst’s first release, 1993.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Bonde	Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder	Talking Timbuktu	1994
Keeper Of The Light	Wishbone Ash	Here To Hear	1989
Domine Ad Adjuvandum {from Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers}	Walter Carlos	The Well-Tempered Synthesizer	1969
Lost Forest	Jean-Luc Ponty	Aurora	1975
Sample The Dog	Timbuk 3	Espace Ornano	1993
Jig	Jean-luc Ponty	Mystical Adventures	1982
Standing in the Light	Level 42	Standing in the Light	1982
Dark Star	Crosby, Stills & Nash	CSN	1977
Revelation	Robben Ford	Talk To Your Daughter	1988
Places to Go	Tony Levin	Resonator	2006

The Show

Myst linking sound	Robyn Miller		2000
Myst Theme	Robyn Miller	Myst – Soundtrack	1998
I Gotta Try	Kenny Loggins	High Adventure	1982
Journey of the Sorcerer	The Eagles	One Of These Nights	1975
What A Time	Bruce Hornsby	Harbor Lights	1993
Bumbershoot	Bela Fleck & The Flecktones	Three Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest	1993
Busted Up	Robben Ford & The Blue Line	Mystic Mile	1993
Shaking The Tree	Peter Gabriel/Paula Cole	Secret World Live	1994
One of These Days I’ll Get an Early Night	Camel	Rain Dances	1977
Trans-Island Skyway	Donald Fagen	Kamakiriad	1993

A very satisfying show, with more than 20 listeners all the way through, and a maximum of 27. A lot of old favourites in the set list, which no doubt helped. Hugh was able to join us on the stream too.
Preshow and postshow tracks were the ones that didn’t quite make the show cut, again, and all had Bruford on drums.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Astral Traveller	Yes	Time And A Word	1970
Starship Trooper	Yes	The Yes Album	1971
South Side of the Sky	Yes	Fragile	1971
The Great Deceiver	King Crimson	Starless & Bible Black	1974
Elephant Talk	King Crimson	Discipline	1974

The Show

Roundabout	Yes	Fragile	1971
Five per Cent for Nothing	Yes	Fragile	1971
Then	Yes	Time And A Word	1970
I See You	Yes	Yes	1969
Siberian Khatru	Yes	Close To The Edge	1972
Perpetual Change	Yes	YesSongs	1973
Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Part Two	King Crimson	Larks’ Tongues In Aspic	1973
Lament	King Crimson	Starless & Bible Black	1974
One More Red Nightmare	King Crimson	Red	1974
Sample And Hold	Bill Bruford	Feels Good To Me	1977
Time To Kill	UK	UK	1978
Hell’s Bells	Bill Bruford	One of a Kind	1979
Land’s End	Bill Bruford	Gradually Going Tornado	1980
Discipline	King Crimson	Discipline	1974
Waiting Man	King Crimson	Beat	1982
Three of a Perfect Pair	King Crimson	Three of a Perfect Pair	1984
The Drum Also Waltzes	Bill Bruford	Master Strokes 1978 – 1985	1986

Postshow

Starless	King Crimson	Red	1974
Beelzebub	Bill Bruford	Feels Good To Me	1977
Five G	Bill Bruford	One of a Kind	1979
Plans for J.D.	Bill Bruford	Gradually Going Tornado	1980
Neal and Jack and Me	King Crimson	Beat	1982

100 shows 😮

We never thought we’d get this far, but to be fair we don’t think too much ahead, the next few shows, perhaps regular events such as cavern anniversaries, and more recently the new year review of artists we’ve said goodbye to over the previous year.  Yet, here we are, our first century completed, and still not short of ideas.

Our theme was No.1 hits, but that was to a certain extent a reason to have familiar songs on the show so we could leave the mic open.  Which we did, and you were able to hear all of the thrashing around that goes on behind the scenes.  Including my late arrival, forced on me by an unexpected mandatory update to the Teamspeak client.  Which failed, so it was -reinstall from scratch- time.

All of the tracks had been No.1 somewhere, at some time, including the pre and postshow tracks.  It was Hugh’a birthday, so he had prior engagements, and could not join us.  Selections came from four of us (Mal, Ed, Hugh and I) and we had an audience of more than 30 listeners, something we have not managed for some time.  Do come again 🙂

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Joy To The World	Three Dog Night	Naturally	1970
Another Brick In The Wall	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Moonlight Shadow	Mike Oldfield	Crises	1983
Baker Street	Gerry Rafferty	Baker Street	1997
Jump	Van Halen	1984	1984
Broken Heart	White Lion	Mane Attraction	1991
The Final Countdown	Europe	single	1986

The Show

Celebration	Kool & The Gang	Celebrate!	1980
9 To 5	Dolly Parton	Favourites	1980
Last Train to Clarksville	The Monkees	The Monkees	1966
Down Under	Men At Work	Men at Work	1980
Get Away	Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames	single	1966
The Joker	Steve Miller Band	The Joker	1973
Layla	Derek & The Dominos	Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs	1970
Angie	The Rolling Stones	Goats Head Soup	1973
I Want A New Drug	Huey Lewis & The News	Sports	1983
You Really Got Me	The Kinks	Kinks	1964
I Hear You Knocking	Dave Edmunds	single	1970
Down Down	Status Quo	single	1974
I Was Made for Lovin’ You	KISS	Dynasty	1979
I’m Not In Love	10cc	The Original Soundtrack	1975
Kokomo	The Beach Boys	Still Cruisin’	1987
Money for Nothing	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms	1985
Reet Petite	Jackie Wilson	single	1957
Spirit In The Sky	Norman Greenbaum	single	1970
Waterloo	ABBA	Waterloo	1974
Heat of the Moment	Asia	Asia	1982
The Land of Make Believe	Bucks Fizz	Are You Ready	1982
You Belong to Me	Jo Stafford	Let Him Have It	1992
The Fly	U2	Achtung Baby	1991
A Day In The Life	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967
Good Vibrations	The Beach Boys	Smiley Smile	1967

Postshow

Rock ‘N Roll Train	AC/DC	Black Ice	2008
Every Breath You Take	The Police	Synchronicity	1983
Right Down The Line	Gerry Rafferty	Baker Street	1997
Walk Like An Egyptian	The Bangles	Different Light	1986
You Can Call Me Al	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986
White Room	Cream	Wheels of Fire (Remastered)	1998
One Of These Nights	Eagles	One Of These Nights	1975