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The Connections
The line of connections from the show:
The Rolling Stones → Ronnie Wood (member) → The Faces → Rod Steward (member) → The Jeff Beck Group (Wood and Steward both members) → Jeff Beck → Yardbirds (Jeff Beck member) → Yardbirds (Eric Clapton member) → The Beatles (Eric Clapton playing on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”) → Billy Preston (played with the Beatles on final album) → The Rolling Stones (Preston member 1970-1977).
Eric Clapton → Blind Faith (Clapton member) → Steve Winwood (member) → David Gilmour (Winwood played on solo album) → Supertramp (Gilmour guitar solos on “Brother Where You Bound”) → Thin Lizzy/Pink Floyd: Scott Gorham (guitar on “BWYB”) and Scott Page (Flute on “BWYB” and sax on “The Dogs of War”) → Jeff Porcaro (drums on “Mother”) → Toto (Porcaro member) → Jim Horn (woodwinds on album Toto IV) → Canned Heat (Horn on flute)/The Beach Boys (Horn on baritone sax) → Ringo Starr (drums on “California Calling”) → Paul McCartney (Starr drums on album Give My Regards to Broad Street) → Dave Edmunds (guitars on GMRtBS and playing with McCartney on the tour). And we’ll pick up with Edmunds for the next Connections show.
There are quite a few side notes there, too: Clapton left Yardbirds to join John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, was replaced by Jeff Beck, who was joined in Yardbirds by Jimmy Page. After Beck left, the Yardbirds name could no longer be used (legal reasons) and Page and Plant wanted to go Hard Rock anyway, so renamed the leftovers of the Group Led Zeppelin.
Clapton left Bluesbreakers to form Cream, and was replaced with Peter Green, who went on to form Fleetwood Mac.
Cream broke up, and Clapton formed Blind Faith with Peter Baker. Clapton left Blind Faith to play with Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, who ended up playing on Clapton’s first solo album as the band before breaking up, leaving Clapton to pursue his solo career.
Jim Horn is a bit of a deus ex machina: Having been part of the group of L.A. session musicians who were informally called “The Wrecking Crew” in the mid-1960s, he has played on just about everything and with just about every group that anybody can remember. So… that’s a bunch of connections I may come back to in case I run into a dead end during research.
Also, on McCartney’s album “Give My Regards to Broad Street,” we can hear Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) and Steve Lukather (Toto) as well as Chris Spedding on guitars alongside Dave Edmunds and McCartney himself.
There are a lot more connections going sideways from the ones we explored in this show, but there is only so much one can cover in two hours of air time, and I believe what we did cover was already convoluted enough.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
48 Connections 1 – The Clapton Complex
A new idea here, to explore by means of songs the connections between various artists and albums. At the center of this first collection is Eric Clapton, but the connections are sometimes not obvious. Mal has now posted a little bit more of his research findings…
Preshow and postshow continue the theme with more related tracks.
16 listeners for the majority of the show with a peak of 25 and 23 at the end. I think lots of people were enjoying the holidays and only joined us later – but that’s fine, as long as you were entertained.
As there were several folks wanting more, I carried on with some stuff from my stash in a post-postshow show. I managed a peak of 14 listeners with 9 for most of the time, despite you having to restart your music player and re-find the stream. Some people reported that if they used the Urutunes link, they got a repeat of the just-broadcast show, whereas if they used the link from the radiofreedni.org site (this site) they got the new stream. We must investigate.
| Title | Artists | Album | Year | |
| 101 | Had to Cry Today | Blind Faith | Blind Faith | 1969 |
| 102 | Itchycoo Park | The Small Faces | single | 1967 |
| 103 | Slunky | Eric Clapton | Eric Clapton | 1970 |
| 104 | All Lovers Are Deranged | David Gilmour | About Face | 1984 |
| 105 | I Ain’t Superstitious | Jeff Beck | Truth | 1968 |
| 106 | Tenth Avenue Breakdown | Supertramp | Slow Motion | 2002 |
| 107 | High | Eric Clapton | There’s One in Every Crowd | 1975 |
| 108 | Ballroom Dancing | Paul McCartney | Tug Of War | 1982 |
The Show
| 201 | You Got Me Rocking | The Rolling Stones | Forty Licks | 1994 |
| 202 | Stay With Me | The Faces | A Nod’s As Good As A Wink… to a Blind Horse | 1971 |
| 203 | It’s All Over Now | Rod Stewart | Gasoline Alley | 1970 |
| 204 | Rice Pudding | The Jeff Beck Group | Beck-Ola | 1969 |
| 205 | Shapes Of Things | Yardbirds | single | 1966 |
| 206 | Five Long Years | Yardbirds | Five Live Yardbirds | 1963 |
| 207 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | The Beatles | The Beatles [White Album] (Disc 1) | 1968 |
| 208 | Get Back | The Beatles | Let It Be | 1970 |
| 209 | Do What You Like | Blind Faith | Blind Faith | 1969 |
| 210 | Blue Light | David Gilmour | About Face | 1984 |
| 211 | Brother Where You Bound | Supertramp | Brother Where You Bound | 1985 |
| 212 | The Rocker | Thin Lizzy | Live and Dangerous | 1983 |
| 213 | The Dogs Of War | Pink Floyd | A Momentary Lapse Of Reason | 1987 |
| 214 | Hold The Line | Toto | Toto | 1978 |
| 215 | Mother | Pink Floyd | The Wall | 1979 |
| 216 | Going Up The Country | Canned Heat | Living the Blues | 1968 |
| 217 | Pet Sounds | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds | 1966 |
| 218 | California Calling | The Beach Boys | The Beach Boys | 1985 |
| 219 | No More Lonely Nights (Ballad) | Paul McCartney | Give My Regards to Broad Street | 1984 |
| 220 | Steel Claw | Dave Edmunds | Riff Raff | 1984 |
Postshow
| 301 | Shapes Of Things | Jeff Beck | Truth | 1968 |
| 302 | Mainline Florida | Eric Clapton | 461 Ocean Boulevard | 1974 |
| 303 | You Win, I Lose | Supertramp | Some Things Never Change | 1997 |
| 304 | If You Wanna | Paul McCartney | Flaming Pie | 1997 |
| 305 | After Midnight | Eric Clapton | Eric Clapton | 1970 |
Connections I: The Clapton Complex
Our next show will be “Connections,” taking a look at how musicians, producers, songwriters etc. are interconnected behind the scenes and across the decades, with probably quite a few surprises in there. As a friend and former singer for one of my bands put it, “it’s all one cantankerous family…”
Update July 22, 2016: the playlist and notes are done, earlier than I expected, but what a trip through the history of Rock, and we got diverted into a few unexpected directions. I predict this is going to be a very interesting show!
-malaclypse
47 Road Songs
Broadcast 10th July 2016.
The theme here was cars, road transport, road trips and the people you might meet. 20 listeners for most of the show with a peak of 23. We have lots more tracks in the same vein, and could well put another show like this together shortly.
Preshow
| Index | Length | Title | Artist | Album | Year |
| 101 | 06:30 | Chanson Sans Paroles | Darryl Way’s Wolf | Canis Lupus | 1973 |
| 102 | 06:47 | Saturation Point | Darryl Way’s Wolf | Saturation Point | 1973 |
| 103 | 07:30 | Take The ‘A’ Train | Dave Brubeck Quartet | These Foolish Things | 1995 |
| 104 | 04:25 | Everybody’s Jumpin’ | Dave Brubeck Quartet | Time Out | 1959 |
| 105 | 03:38 | Westway | Sky | Sky | 1979 |
The Show
| 1: On The Bus | |||||
| 201 | 02:54 | Magical Mystery Tour | The Beatles | Magical Mystery Tour | 1967 |
| 202 | 03:17 | Magic Bus | The Who | single | 1968 |
| 2: The Car | |||||
| 203 | 02:30 | Drive My Car | The Beatles | Rubber Soul | 1965 |
| 204 | 03:14 | Low Rider | War | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 1975 |
| 205 | 06:08 | Red Barchetta | Rush | Moving Pictures | 1981 |
| 206 | 04:41 | The Key To Her Ferrari | Thomas Dolby | Aliens Ate My Buick | 1988 |
| 207 | 04:01 | Mustang Sally | Andrew Strong | The Commitments | 1991 |
| 3: Start Your Engines | |||||
| 208 | 07:19 | Auberge | Chris Rea | Auberge | 1991 |
| 209 | 03:27 | Drive | Bobby McFerrin | live performance, Later | 2012 |
| 4: The Open Road | |||||
| 210 | 02:50 | Motorhead | Motörhead | On Parole | 1976 |
| 211 | 06:27 | Radar Love | Golden Earring | Moontan | 1973 |
| 212 | 04:56 | Coyote | Joni Mitchell | Shadows And Light | 1979 |
| 213 | 05:04 | Dangerous | The Doobie Brothers | Brotherhood | 1991 |
| 214 | 05:02 | Autobahn | Kraftwerk | Autobahn | 1974 |
| 5: In Car Entertainment | |||||
| 215 | 04:47 | Sweet Home Alabama | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Second Helping | 1973 |
| 216 | 03:59 | Gimme All Your Lovin’ | ZZ Top | Eliminator | 1983 |
| 217 | 06:28 | Sympathy For The Devil | Rolling Stones | Beggar’s Banquet | 1968 |
| 6: People You Meet | |||||
| 218 | 04:39 | Rainbow’s Cadillac | Bruce Hornsby | Harbor Lights | 1993 |
| 219 | 03:59 | Highway To Hell | AC/DC | AC/DC Live | 1992 |
| 220 | 05:02 | Those Feat’ll Steer Ya Wrong Sometimes | Little Feat | Representing the Mambo | 1990 |
| 221 | 04:20 | The Last Open Road | Chris Rea | Santo Spirito | 2011 |
| 7: End of the Road? | |||||
| 222 | 07:09 | Riders On The Storm | The Doors | L.A. Woman | 1971 |
Postshow
| 301 | 04:31 | Highways of the Sun | Camel | Rain Dances | 1977 |
| 302 | 06:02 | Life In The Fast Lane | Eagles | Hell Freezes Over | 1994 |
| 303 | 06:46 | Reckless Driver | Timbuk 3 | Espace Ornano | 1993 |
| 304 | 04:15 | Road Games | Allan Holdsworth | Road Games | 1983 |
| 305 | 03:42 | Standing in the Road | Blackfoot Sue | Nothing to Hide | 1973 |
| 306 | 03:44 | 4.W.D. (Low Ratio) | Jethro Tull | A | 1980 |
| 307 | 03:18 | Baby Driver | Simon & Garfunkel | Bridge Over Troubled Water | 1970 |
Actually the postshow went on much longer but I haven’t got a record of everything we played. Yet…
Road Songs
Our next show will be Road Songs–songs about the road, the drive, the car, the way… there might be some surprises in there, and some expected bits. Join us in the Plaza as usual 🙂
46 The History of Pink Floyd, pt. II
The playlist for the show on June 26th:
Part 2 of the History of Pink Floyd takes us from ‘Atom Heart Mother’ to ‘Wish You Were Here’. There will be a part 3 and maybe part 4.
| Title | Time | Album | Year | |
| Pre-show | ||||
| 1 | Echoes | 23:29 | Meddle | 1971 |
| 2 | Mudmen | 04:18 | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 |
| 3 | Fat Old Sun | 05:22 | Atom Heart Mother | 1970 |
| 4 | Wot’s . . . Uh The Deal | 05:09 | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 |
| Show | ||||
| 1 | Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast | 13:00 | Atom Heart Mother | 1970 |
| 2 | Summer ’68 | 05:29 | Atom Heart Mother | 1970 |
| 3 | One of These Days | 06:00 | Meddle | 1971 |
| 4 | Seamus | 02:17 | Meddle | 1971 |
| 5 | Fearless | 06:10 | Meddle | 1971 |
| 6 | Echoes, Part 1 | 11:26 | Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 1972 |
| 7 | Echoes, Part 2 | 12:41 | Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 1972 |
| 8 | Careful With that Axe, Eugene | 06:20 | Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 1972 |
| 9 | When You’re In | 02:31 | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 |
| 10 | Childhood’s End | 04:34 | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 |
| 11 | The Great Gig In The Sky | 04:47 | Dark Side Of The Moon | 1973 |
| 12 | Any Colour You Like | 03:26 | Dark Side Of The Moon | 1973 |
| 13 | Eclipse | 02:01 | Dark Side Of The Moon | 1973 |
| 14 | Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) | 13:31 | Wish You Were Here | 1975 |
| 15 | Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) | 12:23 | Wish You Were Here | 1975 |
| Post-show | ||||
| 1 | If | 04:30 | Atom Heart Mother | 1970 |
| 2 | One of These Days | 05:31 | Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 1972 |
| 3 | Free Four | 04:17 | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 |
| 4 | Mademoiselle Nobs | 01:47 | Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 1972 |
| 5 | Stay | 04:08 | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 |
We topped out at 20 listeners, and it seems got a few new people interested 🙂
The History of Pink Floyd, Part II
The History of Pink Floyd, Part II, is currently expected to be broadcast as our next show, on June 26th. As of now, this will include the development from Atom Heart Mother (1970) up to Wish You Were Here (1975), with some audio footage from the Live at Pompeii show, which was recorded live at Pompeii (d’oh!) in 1971, for French and German television, without a live audience.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
45 Themes 2
Broadcast 12th June, 2016
A second show of TV themes (mostly) because I found I’d missed one really important one out (the BBC Film night one, from Billy Taylor).
I have added links to sites for each of the shows, and also for the lyrics to the two songs sung in Geordie which confounded the audience a little. Sorry about that – it would be my native accent if I retained one.
A peak of 24 listeners – very pleasing.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year | |
| 101 | Lucky Seven | Chris Squire | Fish Out Of Water | 1975 |
| 102 | Ordinary Man | Christy Moore | Ordinary Man | 1985 |
| 103 | Suite: Judy Blue Eyes | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Crosby, Stills & Nash | 1969 |
| 104 | Turn Your Back On Love | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Daylight Again | 2006 |
| 105 | It Happened Today | Curved Air | Live | 1975 |
| 106 | Big Dipper | Dada | Dada | 2000 |
The Show
| Index | Title | Artist | Album | Year | Show |
| 201 | (Theme From) The Monkees | The Monkees | The Monkees | 1967 | The Monkees |
| 202 | Theme from Shaft | Isaac Hayes | Shaft | 1971 | Shaft |
| 203 | News Of The World | The Jam | single | 1978 | Mock The Week |
| 204 | Living in the Past | Jethro Tull | Living in the Past | 1972 | Living In The Past |
| 205 | Jessica | The Allman Brothers | Brothers and Sisters | 1973 | Top Gear |
| 206 | Suicide Is Painless | Bill Evans Trio | You Must Believe in Spring | 1980 | M*A*S*H |
| 207 | I Can See For Miles | The Who | The Who Sell Out | 1967 | CSI |
| 208 | Who Are You | The Who | Who Are You | 1978 | CSI:NY |
| 209 | Baba O’Riley | The Who | Who’s Next | 1971 | CSI Cyber |
| 210 | Miami Vice Theme | Jan Hammer | Miami Vice Soundtrack | 1984 | Miami Vice |
| 211 | Theme from Cosmos | Vangelis | Best in Space | 1994 | Cosmos |
| 212 | I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free | Billy Taylor | Right Here, Right Now | 1963 | Film Night |
| 213 | Close the Coalhouse Door | Alex Glasgow | Hi,Canny Man!’ | 2002 | Close the Coalhouse Door |
| 214 | When The Boat Comes In | Alex Glasgow | 1976 | When The Boat Comes In | |
| 215 | Over The Hills And Far Away | John Tams | The Music of Sharpe | 1996 | Sharpe |
| 216 | Also Sprach Zarathustra | Richard Strauss: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Jonathan Nott | BBC Prom 2009 | 2009 | “2001” |
| 217 | Star Wars main theme | John Williams: BBC Concert Orchestra, John Lockwood | BBC Proms 2013 | 2013 | Star Wars |
| 218 | Imperial March | John Williams: BBC Concert Orchestra, John Lockwood | BBC Proms 2013 | 2013 | Star Wars |
| 219 | Superman theme | Grimethorpe Colliery Band | Movie Brass | 2001 | Superman |
| 220 | Indiana Jones theme | John Williams | Indiana Jones |
Postshow
| 301 | Closed Door Jam | Larry Carlton & Lee Ritenour | Larry & Lee | 1995 |
| 302 | Stomp And Buck Dance | The Crusaders | The Best Of The Crusaders | 1976 |
| 303 | Blue Rondo a la Turk | Dave Brubeck Quartet | Time Out | 1959 |
| 304 | Captain Willie | Solution | The best of Solution Live | 1991 |
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. And there’s a stream player right here (mind you, it’ll only play anything when the stream is on).
Generally speaking, we present a new show every other week, at 1300 KI time, with remastered versions of our shows from five years ago in the intermediate weeks. We have pre-show music usually starting 30 minutes earlier (so getting on the stream at 12:30 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
44 Rarities and What-Ifs, Part V
Broadcast 29th May, 2016
The pre-show and post-show selections were put together from earlier shows on Radio Free D’ni. As usual with our Rarities and What-If bits, the music presented was quite diverse.
| Name | Artist | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2112 | Rush | 2112 | 1976 |
| Rock Steady Woman | Mark Knopfler & Dave Edmunds | Rock Masters: Roller Coaster | 2005 |
| A Horse with No Name | America | (single) | 1972 |
| Timewhys | Tonto’s Expanding Head Band | Zero Time | 1971 |
| Rock And Roll | Jerry Lee Lewis | Last Man Standing | 2006 |
| Indian Child | Link Wray | Indian Child | 1993 |
| Are ‘Friends’ Electric | Tubeway Army | Replicas | 1979 |
| The Runaway | Gentle Giant | In a Glass House | 1973 |
| On Parole | Motörhead | On Parole | 1979 |
| Slipping Away | Dave Edmunds | I Hear You Rocking | 1993 |
| Paranoimia | The Art of Noise | (single) | 1986 |
| Chuck E’s in Love | Rickie Lee Jones | Rickie Lee Jones | 1979 |
| 5.06 AM (Every Strangers Eyes) | Roger Waters | The Pros And Cons Of HitchHiking | 1983 |
| Let’s Go Away For Awhile | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds | 1966 |
| Jig-A-Jig | East of Eden | Snafu | 1970 |
| Breaking Through | The Hellecasters | Hell III: New Axes to Grind | 1997 |
| Jeff’s Blues | Yardbirds | (single) | 1965 |
| Soup Of The Day | Chris Rea | Espresso Logic | 1993 |
| Rag Mama Rag | The Band | The Band | 1969 |
| Rubber Monkey | Santa Barbara Machine Head | Blues Anytime Vol. 3 | 1968 |
| Sweet Transvestite | The Cast | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1975 |
| Holy Smoke | Iron Maiden | No Prayer for the Dying | 1990 |
Despite this having been broadcast on a U.S. national holiday, we got a pretty good attendance.
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