Radio Free D'ni

The preshow included Santana’s Samba Pa Ti from Abraxas, Jethro Tull’s Broadsword (I always think of it as one of his Scottish Songs), Status Quo’s elderly but still hale Caroline and Supertramp and It’s A Long Road.

We overran for a change, and Martin Barre’s ‘A Blues For All Reasons’ got bumped into the postshow.  What we might have said about it is

“He was a late starter, but it seems he needed an outlet for the creativity that was curbed in by being a member of Jethro Tull. His first three solo albums spaced out over a full decade, Barre has come back in force after Anderson declared J-Tull to be a thing of the past: he has put out three new albums in as many years since 2013.”

As is often the case, I went on for a bit after the post-show and we all had some fun dancing when I didn’t get in the way with chat.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Samba Pa Ti	Santana	Abraxas	1970
Broadsword	Jethro Tull	The Broadsword And The Beast	1982
Why Why Why	The Kelly Family	Over The Hump	1994
Stealing Hearts	Matchbox	Going Down Town	1985
Caroline	Status Quo	Hello!	1973
Saint and Sinner	Kiss	Creatures of the Night	1982
The Wall	John Fogerty	John Fogerty	1975
Last Man On Earth	Loudon Wainwright III	Last Man On Earth	2001
It’s a Long Road	Supertramp	Supertramp	1970

The Show

2120 South Michigan Avenue	The Rolling Stones	Around and Around	1964
Real Man	Todd Rundgren	Initiation	1975
Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me	Slade	Sladest	1973
Side o’the Road	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Willy and the Poor Boys	1970
Video Killed the Radio Star	The Buggles	The Age of Plastic	1980
The Point	Klaus Doldinger	Constellation	1984
Rumble (LP Version)	Link Wray	Jack The Ripper	1963
Try again	Supertramp	Supertramp	1970
The Lone Ranger	Quantum Jump	Quantum Jump	1976
Zabadak!	Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich	single	1967
Muleskinner Blues	The Fendermen	Muleskinner Blues	1960
Toast	Streetband	Streetband	1978
That’s the Kind of Sugar Papa Likes	Peter Criss	Peter Criss	1978
Rumble	Link Wray	Live at the Paradiso	1979
Spirit In The Sky	Norman Greenbaum	Spirit In The Sky	1969
Street Mama	Dion	Fire in the Night	1979
Thick As A Brick [Live 1978]	Jethro Tull	Thick As A Brick [Extra Tracks]	1978
Talking New Bob Dylan	Loudon Wainwright III	History	1992
Eileen	Sleepy LaBeef	Electricity	1982
You Little Trustmaker	The Tymes	Trustmaker	1974
Play that Fast Thing (One More Time)	Rockpile	Seconds of Pleasure	1980
Change In The Weather	John Fogerty	Eye Of The Zombie	1986
Roll Over Beethoven	Charlie Feathers	New Jungle Fever	1987

Postshow

A Blues For All Reasons	Martin Barre	A Trick Of Memory	1994
Pet You and Hold You	Rockpile	Seconds of Pleasure	1980
Don’t Believe Her	Scorpions	Crazy World	1990
Scotted Dick	Matchbox	Midnight Dynamos	1980
Rolling Home	Rednex	Sex & Violins	1995
We’ll Take The Night	Roy Orbison	King Of Hearts	1992

Post Postshow

I Hear You Knocking	Dave Edmunds	Rockpile [Bonus Tracks]	1972
Boogie Wonderland	Earth Wind And Fire	I Am	1979
Superstition	Stevie Wonder	Talking Book	1972
Lets See Action	The Who	single	1972
Smoke On The Water	Deep Purple	Machine Head	1972
Girls On Film	Duran Duran	Duran Duran	1980
Standing in the Road	Blackfoot Sue	Nothing to Hide	1973
Golden Years	David Bowie	Station to Station	1976
Tiger Feet	Mud	single	1974
Another One Bites the Dust	Queen	The Game	1980
2-4-6-8 Motorway	Tom Robinson Band	single	1973
Long Train Runnin’	The Doobie Brothers	The Captain and Me	1973
Tap Turns on the Water	CCS	A’s, B’s & Rarities	2005
I Love To Boogie	T.Rex	Dandy in the Underworld	1976
Born To Be Wild	Steppenwolf	Steppenwolf	1968
Galo Galan	Xosé Manuel Budiño	Zume de Terra	2004
I’ll Be Creepin’	Free	Free	1969
Old Man Hank	Jellybread	Sixty-Five Parkway	1970
Without You	The Doobie Brothers	The Captain and Me	1973
Dancing	Decameron	Tomorrow’s Pantomime	1976
Westway	Sky	Sky	1979
One More River	The Alan Parsons Project	Pyramid	1978
Destination Anywhere	The Commitments	The Commitments – Soundtrack	1991

 

 

On The Road Again: In the preshow we visited my stash again for some more D’s – Dave Swarbrick, the effervescent fiddler who is most famous for his time with Fairport Convention, Dave Pegg, the tricksy bassist from both Fairport and Jethro Tull, Dave Mason, formerly of Traffic and with a long solo career and Dave Greenslade, who was a long-time member of Colosseum before branching out with his own group and also on solo projects.  Then some Road Songs to prepare you – Gary Numan’s electronic Cars, Tom Paxton’s very acoustic Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound, Donald Fagan’s Tomorrow’s Girls, a favourite from his album Kamakiriad, which is all about a futuristic road trip and The Who, I Can See For Miles – the sort of view you get On The Road.

We started with fewer listeners than usual (probably because I’d not let you know soon enough) but picked up very well as we went on and we ended up with a peak of more than 20, I think – which was, as always, very pleasing.

Playlist is below:  Ed padded out the postshow set but I don’t have exactly what he played – I do know Autobahn was one of them.

Preshow

a. Wat Ye Wha I Met The Streen; b. The Ribbons Of The Redheaded Girl; c. Ril Gan Ainm	Dave Swarbrick	Smiddyburn; Flittin	1996
Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow	Dave Pegg	The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone…	1984
Here We Go Again	Dave Mason	Headkeeper	1972
Mischief	Dave Greenslade	The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony	1979
Cars	Gary Numan	The Pleasure Principal	1979
I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound	Tom Paxton	Ramblin’ Boy	1964
Tomorrow’s Girls	Donald Fagen	Kamakiriad	1993
I Can See For Miles	The Who	The Who Sell Out	1967

The Show

On the Road Again	Canned Heat	Boogie With Canned Heat	1968
On The Road Again	The Lovin’ Spoonful	Do You Believe in Magic	1965
On The Road Again	Willie Nelson	single	1979
Taxi	Rosie Vela	ZAZU	1986
Taxi Driver	The Hamsters	Open All Hours	2004
Big Yellow Taxi	Joni Mitchell	Miles of Aisles	1974
Mustang Sally	Wilson Pickett	single	1966
Drive Me	Blodwyn Pig	Getting To This	1970
Davy’s On The Road Again	Manfred Mann’s Earth Band	Watch	1978
Drive	The Cars	Heartbeat City	1984
Fun, Fun, Fun (Single Version)	The Beach Boys	Singles	1964
Highway Star	Deep Purple	Machine Head	1972
Joy Ride	Lee Ritenour	Joyride	1991
Texas Twister	Little Feat	Representing the Mambo	1990
Life in the Fast Lane	Eagles	Hotel California	1976
Ridin’ Thumb	Three Dog Night	Cyan	1973
I’m Gonna Be	The Proclaimers	Sunshine On Leith	1988
Midnite Cruiser	Steely Dan	Can’t Buy A Thrill	1972
Nobody’s Car	Jethro Tull	Under Wraps	1984
Gridlock	Warren Zevon	Transverse City	1989
Outward Bound	Wishbone Ash	New England	1976
The Road Less Traveled	Joe Sample	Ashes to Ashes	1990
L.A. Woman	The Doors	LA Woman	1971
The Long And Winding Road	The Beatles	Let It Be	1970
Don’t Stop	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977
Riders On The Storm	The Doors	L.A. Woman	1971

Postshow

Angela (Theme from “Taxi”)	Bob James	Touchdown	1978
Rockin’ Down the Highway	The Doobie Brothers	Toulouse Street	1972

A good time was had by all at the Electric Folk show on Sunday, including several who attended in Second Life. We are slowly building an audience there thanks to Ainia’s hosting in TJ’s Dance hall.

Perhaps this is a good point to say that although we are called Radio Free D’ni, our content is not specific to Myst Online or any particular environment. The shows stand on their own merits as straightforward entertainment, or at least that is our intention when preparing them. So please don’t be worried by the channel’s title – our shows are for everyone.

We had up to 23 listeners, with 16 for most of the time, which was very pleasing for a show that was not mainstream by any measure.

Playlists are below. As is becoming usual, there were requests from the audience for us to continue after the postshow, so another set was played – as listed.

In two weeks time, the next show will be another Road Songs set – the last one went down well and we have a lot of tracks we could not ft in to that show. See you there.

Preshow

	Title	Artists	Album	Year
101	Ordinary Man	Christy Moore	Ordinary Man	1989
102	Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)	Richard & Linda Thompson	Hokey Pokey	1974
103	Late on Lady Day	Decameron	Mammoth Special	1974
104	Benedictus	Strawbs	Grave New World	1972
105	The Cocktail Cowboy	Dave Pegg	The Cocktail Cowboy Goes it Alone	1984
106	Broomfield Hill	The Albion Band	Stella Maris	1987
107	The Big Wheel	Runrig	The Big Wheel	1991

The Show

201	Barkbrödslåten	Kebnekajse	Kebnekajse II	1973
202	Gallows Pole	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin III	1970
203	Rock Harp	Alan Stivell	Back to Breizh	2000
204	McConnell’s Rant	Shooglenifty	Troots	2007
205	Bourrée	Malicorne	Colin	1974
206	Ceth’s Dance	Bleizi Ruz	Musiques Et Danses De Bretagne	1973
207	Pinch Of Snuff	Five Hand Reel	For A’that	1977
208	Kickdancer	Donal Lunny	Coolfin	1998
209	Kalyope Driver	Dando Shaft	Reaping the Harvest	1990
210	Galo Galan	Xosé M Budiño	Zume de Terra	2004
211	Moyasta Junction	Davy Spillane	Shadow Hunter	1990
212	Hoch Geiht De See	De Drangdüwels	Hold Fast	2003
213	Hamborger Veermaster	De Drangdüwels	Ahoi	2010
214	De Duun Matros	De Drangdüwels	Hold Fast	2003
215	Fährmann (Ferryman)	Godewind	Moin Moin	1980
216	Made In Freesland	Godewind	Made in Freesland	1986
217	Achter Dünen und Diek	Godewind	Achter Dünen und Diek	1991
218	Buachaill an Éirne	Clannad	Macalla	1985
219	Tobar an t-Saoil	Clannad	Nádúr	2013
220	Turning Tide	Clannad	Sirius	1987
221	Rollo, der Wikinger	Torfrock	…dat matscht so schön	1977
222	Omas Ludvig	Hedningarna	fiRe	1996
223	The Cuckoo	Hedgehog Pie	Just Act Normal	1978
224	The Knife Edge	Richard Thompson	Strict Tempo!	1981
225	Hanging Off The Edge	Whapweasel	Pack Of Jokers	2005
226	The Crowded River	Runrig	The Big Wheel	1991
227	The Road To Venezuela	Stackridge	Pinafore Days	1974
228	Tobermory	Capercaillie	Dusk Till Dawn, The Best Of Capercallie	2000

Postshow

301	Dancing	Decameron	Third Light	1975
302	Bjork’s Chauffeur	Shooglenifty	Solar Shears	2001
303	Goal Song	The Oyster Band	Step Outside	1986
304	Hero and Heroine	Strawbs	Hero and Heroine	1973
305	Hal-an-Tow	The Oyster Band	Step Outside	1986
306	Rock And Roll Away	Decameron	Third Light	1975
307	Level Pegging	Dave Pegg	The Cocktail Cowboy Goes it Alone	1984
308	An Dro Nevez	Alan Stivell	Chemins de terre	1974

Post-postshow-show

401	Roll Over Vaughn Williams	Richard Thompson	Starring As Henry The Human Fly!	1972
402	Excess Baggage	Shooglenifty	Troots	2007
403	The Swirling Pit	Dave Pegg	The Cocktail Cowboy Goes it Alone	1984
404	Down The Dog	Gryphon	Raindance	1975
405	A United Earth I	Alan Stivell With Youssou N’dour	Dublin To Dakar – A Celtic Odyssey	1999
406	The New St. George	Richard Thompson	Starring As Henry The Human Fly!	1972
407	Horgalåten	Kebnekajse	Kebnekajse II	1973
408	The Battle Of Evermore	Led Zeppelin	IV (Zoso)	1971
409	The Ploughboy’s Dream	Gryphon	Midnight Mushrumps	1974
410	Gorrlaus/The Steed	Hedningarna	fiRe	1996
411	Branle La Peronelle	Malicorne	Le mariage Anglais	1975
412	The Road to Ballyalla	Davy Spillane Band	Out of the Air	1988
413	Man With the Money	The Who	A Quick One	1966
414	Money for Nothing	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms	1985
415	Take The Money And Run	Steve Miller Band	Fly Like An Eagle	1976
416	A Fool And His Money	Wang Chung	Mosaic	1986
417	Into Money	Robin Trower	Essential Robin Trower	1991
418	The Big Money	Rush	A Show Of Hands	1989
419	Firefly – Main Title	Greg Edmonson	Firefly	2005
420	It’s Only Just Begun	Solution	The Best of Solution Live	1991
421	Tap Turns on the Water	CCS	A’s, B’s & Rarities	2005
422	Suddenly I See	KT Tunstall	Eye To The Telescope	2004
423	Radar Love	Golden Earring	Moontan	1973
424	Hyperactive!	Thomas Dolby	The Flat Earth	1984
425	Get It On	T.Rex	The Very Best Of T-Rex	2003
426	Chris Rea – Let’s Dance	Chris Rea	New Light Through Old Windows	1988
427	Lido Shuffle	Boz Scaggs	Silk Degrees (Bonus Tracks)	2007

We had a great 50th show, with a Golden theme that produced a lot of favourites, both ours and yours. I managed to get the notes finished just in time, and the show was a hit, with 19 listeners for most of the time and a peak of 25. We’re working on improving that, not sure if sending out scantily-clad tempters (of all sexes – we are an equal-opportunity team) or waiting in dark alleys to, ahem, persuade passers-by will work best.

Our thanks to Ainia who rebroadcast the show for us in real time in TJ’s Dance Hall in Second Life.  I have plans afoot to include Ainia in our commentary team, and she is also hoping to widen the scope of our advertising in SL.  Never a dull moment here on RFD.

We are still coming up with ideas that interest us, and I think will interest you as well. Next time we have picked Electric Folk as a theme, but will eschew the best known (who we’ve already featured quite heavily) to concentrate on some of the lesser-known champions of the genre. And believe me, there are a lot to choose from.

The Golden playlist is below, and we will be back in two weeks with some killer Electric Folk. See you then.

Preshow

101	When Blue Turns Gold	Mahavishnu Orchestra	Mahavishnu	1984
102	Golden Dilemma	Gong	Expresso II	1978
103	A Golden Age	Rupert Hine	The Wildest Wish To Fly	1983
104	Golden Birdies	Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band	Clear Spot	1972
105	Fool’s Gold	Procol Harum	Ninth	1975
106	Fools Gold	Blondel	The Amazing Elsie Emerald	2010
107	Golden Rings	Godley – Creme	Goodbye Blue Sky	1988
108	Greenfields, Golden Sands	Yusuf [Cat Stevens]	An Other Cup	2006

The Show

201	The Gold Bug	The Alan Parsons Project	The Tun of a Friendly Card	1979
202	The Gold It’s In The . . .	Pink Floyd	Obscured by Clouds	1972
203	Goldrush	Supertramp	Slow Motion	2002
204	Burnin’ (Molten Gold) (Alternative Take)	Free	Free at Last (reissue)	2002
205	Fools Gold	Poco	Crazy Eyes	1973
206	Golden Notebooks	Gerry Mulligan	The Age Of Steam	1971
207	Golden Strings	Link Wray	Link Wray & The Raymen	1960
208	Book Of Golden Stories	Runrig	The Stamping Ground	2001
209	City Of Gold	BBM	Around The Next Dream	1994
210	Cold Gold	Larry Carlton	With Special Guest Robben Ford – Live In Tokyo	2007
211	Gold Dust Woman	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977
212	Golden Earth Girl	Paul McCartney	Off The Ground	1993
213	Golden Brown	Stranglers	La Folie	1981
214	GoldenEye	Wise Guys	LIVE	1999
215	Blood and Gold/Mohacs	Maddy Prior/June Tabor	No More to the Dance	1988
216	Love Over Gold	Dire Straits	Love Over Gold	1982
217	Golden Years	David Bowie	Changes	1990
218	Heart of Gold	Neil Young	Harvest	1972
219	Pocketful Of Golden	Robert Plant	Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar	2014
220	Your Gold Teeth	Steely Dan	Countdown To Ecstasy	1973
221	14 Karat Gold	Gordon Lightfoot	Shadows	1982
222	Golden Slumbers	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
223	Golden Slumbers	The  Jazz Crusaders	Old Socks, New Shoes…New Socks, Old Shoes	1970

Postshow

301	Gold-Tipped Boots, Black Jacket And Tie	Jethro Tull	Catfish Rising	1991
302	A Golden Handshake For Every Daughter	China Crisis	Diary – A Collection	1992
303	Band of Gold	Freda Payne	single	1970

Ed’s ISP suffered a catastrophic failure, and he dropped out after just three of the postshow tracks. We breathed a collective sigh of relief that it had not happened earlier.  I took over, and about 16 listeners stayed with me as we went through a great dance set, and also managed to incorportate the missing bits of the postshow, later on.  From the Mixxx logs, I can give you a rundown.

1	Lawyers, Guns and Money	Warren Zevon	Stand in the Fire	1980
2	Put The Money Down	The Who	Odds And Sods	1974
3	All Right Now	Free	The Free Story	1989
4	Big Money	Rush	Power Windows	1985
5	Billie Jean	Michael Jackson	single, from Thriller	1983
6	Black Horse And The Cherry Tree	K.T. Tunstall	Eye To The Telescope	2004
7	Breadfan	Budgie	Never Turn Your Back on a Friend	1973
8	Can’t Get Enough	Bad Company	Bad Company	1974
9	Cherry Pie	Sade	Lovers Live	2002
10	Dancing	Decameron	Tomorrow’s Pantomime	1976
11	Let’s Dance	Chris Rea	Dancing With Strangers	1987
12	Money, Money, Money	ABBA	single, from Arrival	1976
13	Nutbush City Limits	Ike & Tina Turner	single	1973
14	Put It Where You Want It	The Crusaders	The Best Of The Crusaders	1976
15	Spirit In The Sky	Norman Greenbaum	single	1969
16	Take Me to the River	Andrew Strong	The Commitments	1991
17	The Ability To Swing	Thomas Dolby	Aliens Ate My Buick	1988
18	Three Button Hand Me Down	Faces	First Step	1970
19	Whatever You Want	Status Quo	Whatever You Want	1979
20	You Never Give Me Your Money	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
21	Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash	Steve Miller Band	The Joker	1973
22	Golden Hours	Brian Eno	Another Green World	1975
23	Red And Gold	Fairport Convention	Red & Gold
24	Rhythm in Gold	Jethro Tull	20 Years of Jethro Tull (Disc 2) – Flawed gems and the other sides of Tull	1988
25	Silver Threads And Golden Needles	Fotheringay	Wild Mountain Thyme	1970
26	The Golden Glove	Fairport Convention	Wishfulness Waltz	2000
27	Golden Mile	Caravan	The Album	1980
28	Solid Gold Easy Action	T.Rex	single	1972
29	Your Gold Teeth II	Steely Dan	Katy Lied	1975
30	Moonlight And Gold	Gerry Rafferty	One More Dream	1995
31	Life In The Air Age	Be Bop Deluxe	Tremulous Antenna
32	Natural Thing	The Doobie Brothers	The Captain and Me
33	Walk Like An Egyptian	The Bangles	The Best Of 1980-1990 Vol. 4	2004
34	The Girl From Ipanema	Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto	1964

About three hours of good golden dance tracks and other nice music – well I think so, and I hope you liked it too.

Reviewing this, I’ve been reminded of just how influential Jobim’s ‘Girl from Ipanema’ was – I wonder if we can put together a set of ‘influential songs’.  It would be pretty impressive listening, I think.  What do you think?  Let us know by commenting below.