Fri, 20 April 2007  Hope everything is going well in your respective neck o' the woods. How is that local sports team? How's the weather? Now that we have dispensed with the pleasantries, it's time to get on to the music. I have some fun stuff queued up including a nice long How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin. Not only were they a great hard rock band but they can also be classified loosely as psychedelic and therefore are loosely eligible to be placed on this loosely listened to podcast. This podcast is going to be a lot of fun. I have some very obscure live Buffalo Springfield, some live Syd Barrett, and one of my favorite Doors tunes, The Soft Parade, again live. Enjoy it and I'll be putting together a Gong and Gong related podcast for next time. Some fun news to announce is that my old musical ball and chain Syd Satellite are moving forward with a reunion of sorts. We'll be playing some songs on an upcoming Syd Barrett tribute album, if we can get all the legal wrangling out of the way. Some goons have been sent to Los Angeles to fight with corporate goons over the particulars. Unfortunately, their goons were better and ours have returned all bloody and bruised. So, we'll have to go the non violent route, I suppose. Still, it was an exciting tidbit to learn that our old drummer will be tossing his kid into the trunk and making his way down to Birmingham to join in the fun. But, the question remains ... where will a group of guys our age be able to find mass amounts of hardcore narcotics?? Title: Come Celebrate Your Arrival Tracks: Pink Floyd - One of These Days (live) Comments[8] |
Tue, 27 March 2007  So, I decided to do a Floyd podcast this time to pay tribute to my greatest influence. Of course, I never want anyone to forget that the definitive Pink Floyd podcast can be found here. This is the man that got me started on this whole podcast train so I always have to thank The Doctor. Now, there is a very specific reason why I chose to do Atom Heart Mother. Apart from The Wall, Atom Heart Mother was the first Pink Floyd album I was ever exposed to. Me and my friends listened to this album (I only had tapes in those days being post record/8-track and pre compact disc) hundreds of times. It was in my tape player for at least three months or the entire Summer of '92. I loved the title track and it was my first introduction to a rock outfit using classical instrumentation. I was impressed with how Pink Floyd could use horns and choirs to create this great sound that almost sounded like something you would hear in ancient Rome. I also loved how they managed to create a song that was over 20 minutes long, complete with mellow parts and exciting harmonies and guitar. Of course, my amazement would only grow as I began to listen to additional Pink Floyd albums, culminating in exposure to Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which would cause me to collaborate with my friend to form Syd Satellite. So, I have very fond memories of this album as it takes me back to high school and the times when I would start to really appreciate and enjoy music. I was young, had no responsibilities, was about to start my senior year, and had just inherited my dad's old Mercedes. If you combine that with Summer '68, you can't go wrong. Whenever I listen to this album, and this is the only album that really does this, I am taken back to that time and always have a strong sense of nostalgia and inner peace. This show is from 1970 and 1971 at the Paris Theatre in London. Unfortunately, and I even checked setlists on the web, I can't find a live instance of Summer '68 and they must not have played it live very often. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast was taken from another show and is part of a separate collection (aptly titled Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast). This is a good one to sit back, relax, listen to, and reminisce on those days when you were younger and didn't have the hassles of life, work, and kids beating down your door every moment. Enjoy a live show from the greatest live band that ever breathed Earth's air, I don't care what the Deadheads and Syd Satellite fanatics may say!! Title: Atom Heart Mother On The Road Tracks: Embryo (live) Comments[5] |
Mon, 12 March 2007  Howdy there little mushrooms. I recently received a comment on an older post requesting some songs by The Move and Idle Race. Well, if you like those two bands, then this will be the podcast for you. I have also included some live Great Society and some live Electric Prunes. Links of interest to the various bands are listed below so enjoy. Once again Jeff Lynne makes another appearance in this podcast, who is a member of Rock n' Roll royalty in my opinion, having been a member of The Move, The Idle Race, ELO, and Traveling Wilbury's. Damn. My apologies for the poor sound quality on the voice and the poor editing in some spots. I recently upgraded my recording software and am still ironing out the particulars of the volume and the editing portions. I hope to have those perfected by the next podcast. I'm thinking the next podcast will feature Pink Floyd so hang on for that. Anyone in the mood for a little live Atom Heart Mother? No? Well, you're getting it anyway!! Links:Rock n' Roll Family Tree: Ace Kefford (this is one disturbed and stylin' bass player). This site has a very cool and interesting bio that you should read. Title: Yeah, But I Like The Move Tracks: The Move: Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree Comments[60] |
Thu, 22 February 2007  And so, the Lord Hawkwind said that all things must come to an end, and so must Syd Satellite. In about 1997, we broke up for good but only after playing a great show at a Lake Jordan lake house to a bunch of nutty friends on July 4th, 1997. It was a great show and I'm so glad that I got in on tape. I have transferred it to CD and will play it in it's entirety here on this podcast, part 3/3 of a special Syd Satellite edition of the podcast. Memory fails me as to how complete this show is. Certain songs get cut so there is more to the show that is forever lost. This show was one of our last and for a long time I had thought it was our last show until Greg refreshed my memory that we did play one final show where Bradley would, in true David Bowie form, announce it would be our last. No one was more surprised than Greg or myself. We formed the band and only we could tear it asunder. I guess we were wrong about that because it's hard to play psychedelic music without a drummer! True to the 60's psychedelic movement, though, we were around and "on top" for about three years. In that time, we played many shows, recorded three albums, won the 1997 Battle of the Bands in Auburn, had a guru, played live on WEGL's Cosmic Kitchen, and had more people in the lineup than the Brian Jonestown Massacre or Hawkwind combined. We influenced people's nights and made many friends. Stories will circulate and there will always be someone out there who remembers at least one show we played. I'm glad for all of it and had a blast. And who knows. Maybe when we're all 40 years old, we'll have a good old fashioned reunion. This lineup included Greg, Bradley, Alex, and myself. An old friend named Jason did the mix and even played some guitar, although I don't know if that made it on the tape or not. It's a little hard to tell. I always wonder what ever happened to Mr. Jason. Did you cut your hair? Are you still playing music? I'll be back to normal next podcast with a special war protest edition. War conservative freaks need not apply. Rants will fly. Special thanks go to Greg, Bradley, and Alex, for whom none of this would have ever happened. Thanks to Greg for coming in and giving a rare interview. Title: The Crazy Men Play Live Who Do You Love Comments[2] |
Tue, 6 February 2007  I apologize for the length of time it took to get this together but I needed to get Greg into the studio to get some of his comments. With all the lawsuits we both are involved in, it's hard to coordinate these things. We ended up just doing the entire show ourselves, which was really nice. I also decided to break this up and add a third podcast since this podcast in its original form would have gone on too long. So, this show will contain the remainder of our studio recordings and the next show will contain one of the final live concerts that we did. Two of the song intros are incorrect. I mention that I'll be playing "Hello" and "Sam the Octopus" but when I tried to play them I noticed they had too much bass and peaked out the speakers. So, the song list below is the actual list of the show and you can't trust a damned thing I say on the actual podcast. Also, I was pretty drunk recording "Through" so apologies for the lazy vocals. This era finds us not only influenced by Pink Floyd, but also by a man who would eventually become our guru. He exposed us to a lot of music and ideas we otherwise never would have encountered. He had a weekly psychedelic radio show, The Cosmic Kitchen that we listened to religiously each week. Special thanks goes out to Hawkwind Mike, wherever you are today. Two great songs to look out for on this podcast are "Don't Be A Stranger, Cleophus" and "Sunlight Flows Softly", which were two of our flagship songs. The first song, Nine Shades of Grey, is also a good one. This show encompasses the years from 1995 to 2001 and it was great getting Greg in the studio for a nice little stroll down amnesia lane. I also wanted to post a couple of relevant links, which I will do here: Alex Yaker's Band Sites - Alex Yaker was the fourth Satellite and an amazing keyboard player and person. He still plays music today and this is a link to his site on MySpace Through the Sparks - Greg is also in a band today (the unfaithful bastard) and they can be seen on many nights at Bottletree. Piper no longer has an official web site but if you are feeling masochistic, you can start your pursuit here (theoretically). Just email the writer/producer. Or, you can email me and get a copy. I still have three or four being used as paper weights somewhere. As always, special thanks go out to Greg and Bradley, without whom this entire journey would never have been possible. Title: A Crazy Man Goes Silent Tracks: From Light Side Night Side (1995/6/7): From The Piper Soundtrack (2001): Not On An Album (2001): Comments[5] |
Wed, 10 January 2007  After 15 podcasts, I realized it was time. I decided to do a podcast of all original material (more or less) from my college band Syd Satellite, not only to expose people to the music but also to have a mini-rockumentary of some of the music to pass down to all the generations who might be interested and for my own archives. I am living proof that there will always be someone interested in that which is old and discarded so I do this for the poor saps like me. This will be in two parts. Part one will be all the early material recorded prior to us really playing live or perfecting our sound and the second part will be after I got to Auburn and we got down to business and started playing some crazy live shows. And let me tell you, there were some crazy live shows. This first podcast encompasses the years from 1994 to 1995. The next show will be material from 1996 to 1997 culminating in our final live show which was July 4th, 1997. The band was heavily influenced by Pink Floyd (we had just discovered and become obsessed with Piper at the Gates of Dawn) and looking back on it I must have started listening to The Doors because there was a lot of spoken word in the earlier albums. Now that I think about it I listened to a lot of Doors in high school so that must have been it. My favorite album from this time was A Crazy Man Once Told Me, which was a concept album we did. I have since written more of it and made it more coherent so I'll post that as a text blog entry at some point. So, enjoy some of my music and your comments are always welcome. Even though it was recorded in the mid 90's it still has a timeless quality about it, which is good. Also, listen for the eunuch-like scream on the last song of the Crazy Man album. I'm still proud of that one, sort of. The recording quality of this varies from good to bad to terrible so I apologize for that as well. Keep in mind these were our first recordings so we were still perfecting sounds and techniques and talents. Special thanks go out to Greg, without whom none of this would have been possible. Title: A Crazy Man Speaks Tracks: From A Crazy Man Once Told Me (1994): From Another Roll (1994): From Live at The Rockin' Horse (1995) Comments[4] |
Fri, 15 December 2006  This is the final podcast of the New Year. I have something special planned for the next two podcasts so stay tuned. There's some good stuff in this show including a great Doors song that I know you'll really love. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this one and everyone have a happy holiday and a great New Years Eve. Drink, drink, and drink some more. Just stay away from the cheap beer. Make sure to put some good 60's music in your ipod and bring in the New Year right. Title: Lost in a Lost World Tracks: The Doors - Celebration of the Lizard (live) Comments[5] |
Sun, 26 November 2006  Podcast number 14 brings us some gems from the underground and some good long jams towards the end so you can settle in and relax. We feature a nice live Ozric Tentacles song as well as a 13 minute journey into Light My Fire by The Doors. No fancy lights or colors in this one, just some good music. Comments and requests are always welcome although I was unable to fill the last request unfortunately. I'll keep my eyes out for the sounds of Earthlings and Goatsnake. Title: A Lake With No Water Tracks: Comments[3] |
Sun, 12 November 2006  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's a brave new world. I wanted to wait until after the election before I made this podcast to better guage the mood of the country. Well, the country has spoken. We're a democracy again. As fun as it was living under a dictatorship, I'm happy to go back to the way things used to be. Modern "Jam Band" music, in my mind, came from an old source, psychedelia. The Grateful Dead, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Moby Grape, Iron Butterfly, Country Joe, etc. all liked to have long jamming songs in both their albums and their live play. Modern jam bands have taken this talisman and run with it all the way to the bank. To honor that, today's show will feature the first Phish show ever recorded according to hippie Phish lore. Below are the stats: Title: It's A Brave New World Tracks: Scarlet Begonias > Fire > Fire on the Mountain, Makisupa Policeman, Slave to the Traffic Light, Spanish Flea*, Don't Want You No More, Cities, Skippy the Wondermouse**, Fluffhead** E: Eyes of the World First gig at Nectar's and earliest circulating tape (May be the first taped gig). With Marc Daubert (who was a member of the band at the time, though only briefly so). *Includes band introduction. **With the Dude of Life on vocals. Comments[5] |
Mon, 23 October 2006  Wow, who could believe it? I've made it 12 podcasts and so far no government meddling or any other meddling for that matter. It's been great and I look forward to bringing you much more psychedelic music that you not only need but also deserve. I've got some obscure psychedlia today including something by The Soft Machine, whose main dude later went on to form Gong, a band I've played on here a couple of times. If there's anything in particular that you want to hear, you can send me an email and I'll do my best (no more requests for Justin Timberlake, thank you very much Greg). Here's the lineup: Title: The Psychedelic Academy Presents Tracks: Ravi Shankar - Friar Park Comments[5] |
Mon, 9 October 2006  Ladies and Gentlemen, a long time ago, I used to have a web site back when web sites consisted simply of a grey background and various images you'd found on the web. A lot has changed since then, but the title of this podcast is the same title as my original web site. We have some fun music here, including some Floyd, The Nice, Idle Race (of Jeff Lynne fame) and Gong. Enjoy and comments are always welcome. Title: The Man Behind the Golden Dome Tracks: Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (live) Comments[9] |
Sun, 17 September 2006  Ok ... I am pretty excited about this one. I have thrown in some fun psychedelia, including the ultimate psychedelic group Hawkwind, with an obscure live version of Golden Void and Hassan I Sahba. Flo and Eddie of ex-Frank Zappa fame also make an appearance from back in the days when they were slaves to the man playing with The Turtles. We finish with our feature, which is a lengthy Country Joe song from their last ever show, containing some guest musicians including a one Jerry Garcia. Enjoy. Title: The Golden Void It Speaks To Me Tracks: Comments[3] |
Sat, 2 September 2006  Short and sweet this time. It's the continuation and conclusion of what has been a month long Yesgasm. This is the 2nd set from the Lugano Jazz Festival in Lugano Switzerland in 2004. Enjoy the show and here are the stats: Title: The Yesgasm Continues Tracks: Comments[4] |
Thu, 10 August 2006  It's well known that one of my all time favorite bands is Pink Floyd. However, since the Pink Floyd train already rolls, I don't play much of their music on my podcasts. One of my second favorite bands is Yes, a progressive rock band that made it from 1968 all the way to today. Although they don't currently tour, it wouldn't surprise me if we see them again one last time. I had an opportunity to see them in Atlanta and it is one of my largest regrets that I passed on that chance. But, I got the next best thing. I have a show from that same tour and this is a show that I would like to share with my listeners. This show comes from the Lugano Jazz Festival in Lugano, Switzerland, in 2004. This podcast features the first set and next podcast will feature the second set. This lineup is not quite the original power lineup who recorded Fragile and were only around for a year, but it's pretty damned close, missing only the drummer Bill Bruford. Reading the names of the members almost reads as a progressive rock supergroup, such is the talent of the individuals of Yes. Even the name speaks eternal positivity. It's a well known story that John Lennon was intrigued by Yoko Ono's artwork during one of their first meetings in that she had a ladder you would climb to read a small word on the ceiling. John Lennon liked the positive vibe of this word at a time when things in the world seemed to be overly negative. That word was 'Yes'. Title: It's a Yesgasm!! Tracks: Comments[7] |
Thu, 27 July 2006  You know, my idea of forsaking and having little interest in the Christian religion has only one flaw. What if I'm wrong? What if I die, go to the gates, and am cast down to the pits of hell as a non believing infidel? Well, yes, it would suck. But, there have to be some advantages and I started tying to figure out what those advantages might be. The major one I could come up with (other than hell being full of strippers and porn stars) was that I would be able to see some of the best musicians jam all night long (because it's always night time in hell, right?). So, I started to come up with the lineup for Satan's Purple Psychedelic Mushroom Experience, which consisted of some of the greatest dead musicians of our age. It was tough to decide who was lead and who was rhythm but I figured these greats would work it all out on their own on stage and would fade in and out of their roles. For this reason, I was vague and just said guitar, vocals, etc. So, for this podcast, I give you Satan's Purple Psychedelic Mushroom Experience!! I am basically going to play a song from each of these artists, or at least the band they were mainly affiliated with. Enjoy!! Satan's Purple Psychedelic Mushroom Experience (members): Moderator - Ken Kesey (Excerpt from the Merry Pranksters Acid Reels) **Yes, I know I say it's Chunga's Revenge in the show but that song had some problems and I had to change it last minute. Comments[8] |
Wed, 12 July 2006  You know, the recent death of Syd is a sad occasion. Even if he has not really contributed to mass society in recent decades his mere presence was a reminder of what used to be and of a time when music was truly great. This is a psychedelic podcast and it celebrates the music and the culture of the good ol' days when musicians had no problem grabbing their 4-tracks and recording under a waterfall just to see how it would sound. My old band used to play a lot of Pink Floyd from the Syd era and although we didn't necessarily share his love of the paper products, we shared his love of the music that made the paper products popular (or was it the other way around?). Syd had a large influence on myself and my partner (musical partner) and without Syd who knows whether or not Floyd would have existed and without Floyd, what would the world have been like? Although no one remembers it now, the world owes him a large amount of gratitude and praise for what he accomplished and for what he unleashed upon society. So, praise him, you fools. Praise him!! As his death has been blogged ... well, to death, I'll simply link to a couple of articles here that will do a better job of explaining what happened. This podcast is a tribute to you, Syd, and if the rest of Pink Floyd are out there, I think it would be a nice gesture for you to reunite and play a 120 minute version of Interstellar Overdrive right here in my home town of Birmingham, Alabama. You can even set up in my basement if need be. Shine On!! The Independant's Story Title: The Madcap Laughs No More From "Stoned Alone" - Live in Copenhagen at the Star Club - Sept. 13, 1967: Mixed Bag: Comments[4] |
Thu, 29 June 2006  To be fair, I just threw this one together in an afternoon. The editing might not be completely top notch but that's not really what's important now is it? The main thing is that I eventually get to the music.I'm not going to give you any hints on what this is. You just have to give it a listen. P.S. Watch the movie Comments[8] |
Sun, 11 June 2006  I am back from vacation and also back on the podcastin' wagon (or is it off the wagon)?? Germany was great with the highlight being a free beer festival in Munich. Six of the top breweries were celebrating the graduation of their new brewmasters and were giving away free beer. The likes of Hofbrauhaus, Paulaner, and Spatenbrau were all represented. I then went to the south of France and drove down the Route de Vins, which goes through several wining towns. I went to about 10 different wineries and bought wine to bring back to the US. I also went to the Swarovski museum's Kristallwelten, complete with psychedelic type art and rooms in their art gallery. Lot"s of usage of crystals and lights. It's something that needs to be seen more than described, but it includes a Brian Eno meditation room and also a large room filled with small mirrors, lights, and ambient music. Hey, I even saw a hippie lying down on the floor spacing out in that room. Someone needs to tell him it's 2006 and he needs a haircut!! Today's show is another mixed bag o' goodies for you to enjoy. No features here but a bit of self horn honking with one of my favorite Syd Satellite numbers. I also managed to find the first CD I ever acquired which is a rare and weird Beatles album called Beatlegs. Enjoy the Beatles promoting their usage of illegal substances, something they really weren't allowed to do at that time. Even when simply goofing off, they can still write better than most. Last time I played Embryo and this time I will play another song from the same show, which is Echoes and I will follow that with The End by The Doors. Settle in for those two in your psychedelic sleeping pod: Title: Don't Wake the Sleeping Giant The Three Suns - Petite Fleur Comments[2] |
Fri, 12 May 2006  Mixed bag day. No full shows on this one but just random good psychedelic stuff. Here is the lineup, folks: Title: Random Selections from the Strawberry Patch Gong? What can you say about Gong? Well, I've been listening to them now for about 6 years and I like them a lot. They are pretty much defunct now but had a good run during the 70s and 80s and various reunions and such in the 90's up to today. They are sort of a mix of jazz fusion with psychedelic tendencies. Now, I'm sure that tells you nothing so you just have to go out and get some of their albums. Gong was started by ex Soft Machine's Daevid Allen who partnered with his wife, a woman with a hauntingly beautiful voice, which will be evident in one of the songs on today's show. Gong sounds a lot like a more mellow Soft Machine, as you'd expect. They had a great run of concept albums talking about Planet Gong and its inhabitants, the Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and the Octave Doctors. The idea being that a space traveler, Zero the Hero, gets lost while traveling in space, finds the planet, learns things from the inhabitants, and then goes back to Earth to speak of his findings. That should easily create 3 albums worth of material, right? I'll be featuring them over time, eventually playing the entire September 2000 show and also a spin-off band called Gongzilla, where I'll be playing a show of theirs that I have. Also, here is where they fit on the old music map. Enjoy the show my friends. Comments[4] |
Fri, 21 April 2006  In 1971, with the help of several guest musicians, David Crosby created a solo album called 'If I Could Only Remember My Name'. It included members of the Grateful Dead (Garcia, Lesh, Hart, and Kreutzman), Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and others Prior to the release of this album, David Crosby played a couple of shows with some of the pioneers of the psychedelic movement; Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart (known in some cirlces as David and the Dorks) at the Matrix in San Francisco. Tonight"s podcast will feature one of those shows. The exact date of the show is in dispute but from my research it was performed on 12/20/1970. The sound quality is decent and listenable given the times and the occasion and has some interesting versions of some Grateful Dead songs that are heavily influenced by Crosby's rhythm guitar, which to me provides a nice twist. Back at this time, the Grateful Dead had some CSN influences. Harmonies in Workingman"s Dead were inspired by the super-group who had some of the greatest harmonies of any band to date. Crosby spent time with The Grateful Dead in the early 70's and this show is a result of that relationship. You can even hear some slight influences from The Byrds (Crosby"s initial band) if you listen close enough. Unofficial site is www.davidcrosby.com Title: David and the Dorks Play The Matrix Tracks: From the rehearsal for the show: 09 Eight Miles High What's Dave been up to? Well, after getting arrested for weed and guns, he has not only recently recorded backing vocals for Gilmour's new album, 'On an Island' but he also recently, along with Graham Nash, sang some backing vocals at Gilmour's show in New York (excellent podcast link to it here). Ethridge is having twins but he had nothing to do with that one. Comments[3] |
Fri, 7 April 2006  Well, it's a new day and a new format. Gone is the blog of old and arriving is the podcast. I have decided to start doing podcasts twice a month of my favorite bootlegged and "legal to play" psychedelic material. This week, we have one of my favorite Pink Floyd bootlegs called Man and Journey, dedicated to the man behind the podcast on this page. Chances are you won't recognize many of the song names but you will recognize most of the songs when you hear them. This dates shortly before the release of UmmaGumma, which was released in October of 1969. Hope you enjoy it. All comments and suggestions are welcome. Space out. Title: Man and Journey 1. Daybreak 2. Work/Afternoon 3. Doing It 4. Sleep 5. Nightmare 6. The Beginning 7. Beset By The Creatures Of The Deep 8. The Narrow Way/Part Three 9. The Pink Jungle 10. The Labyrinths Of Auximenes 11. Behold The Temple Of Light 12. The End Of The Beginning
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