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We have to dig into the archives today on The AIR.  We have a new episode of  Radio Free Charleston, but it’s a compilation of three episodes of RFC Volume 4 from five years ago.  To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with tons of replays throughout the week.

Normally I record Radio Free Charleston on Mondays.  However,  yesterday my electricity decided to take intermittent naps. The power would flicker off just long enough to shut down the computer and make me have to reboot everything.  That can take as much as fifteen minutes.

Naturally, this disrupted my normal routine.  After the fourth forced reboot in 90 minutes, I threw in the towel and found three episodes of RFC Volume 4, back when the show was all local and only lasted an hour, and put these together with a short new intro.

Because the power is still browning out and threatening to go out completely,  there are no links to the artist’s websites this week. If you get really curious, remember, Google is your friend.

The shows themselves are loaded with primo local music that goes back more than thirty years. There’s a healthy dose of stuff from the Charleston Playhouse days (including at least one track recorded there) and a lot of stuff that was new five years ago. We also have a lot of exclusive RFC video show tracks.

And the middle hour is a mixtape, so you don’t have to listen to my voice (that’s a deterrent for some folks). Keep your fingers crossed that we can get back to whatever passes for normal around here next week.

Check out the playlist.

RFC V5 170

hour one
The Big Bad “After Dark”
Speedsuit “So Did I”
Karen Allen “This War”
Bad Keys of the Mountain “Nothing Is Easy”
Todd Burge “Elvis From Hell”
Mother Nang “Knee Deep In Wine”
Amazing Delores “Love Magic”
Time And Distance “War”
Ghosts of Now “Deathburn”
Whitechapel District “How Heavy Is Thy Crown”
Marcie Bullock “Maybe Just Crazy”
Paul Calicoat “Trampled Flowers”
Stephanie Deskins “Godless”
Brian Diller & The Ride “Don’t Stop At Anything”
Mad Scientist Club “Thunder and Lightning”
Alan Griffith “Blowin’ In The Wind”

hour two
Three Bodies “Gardens of Hope”
600 Lbs of Sin “TJ’s Song”
Andy Park and the Kountry Katz “Attention”
Sahsa Colette and The Magnolias “Sweet”
Go Van Gogh “Planet of Psychotic Women”
John Radcliff “Somethings Got To Give”
Under The Radar “Krakatoa”
The Pistol Whippers “Lucky Boy”
The Carptenter Ants “Blessing”
Saprogen “Jam/Total Damnation”
Punk Jazz “Little Star”
Highway Jones “Shimmer”
Ovada “The Electric God”
Rudy Panucci “Jazz Sketch”
Hasil Adkins “Maybelline”

hour three
Kevin Scarbrough “End of The Day”
Beggars Clan “Glass of Water”
Fletcher’s Grove “Ride”
Mother’s Nature “Stand Back”
Mojomatic “That’s what The Blues Is All About”
Todd Burge “Back To The Races (Burlap)”
Holly And The Guy “Since I Met You”
Jay Parade “How This Ends”
John Lancaster “Phantom Moon”
Poor Man’s Gravy “That Which Should Never Be Played”
Feast of Stephen “Gomec”
Holden Caulfield “The Fields Still Burn”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM we give you an encore of two recent episodes of The Swing Shift, because I couldn’t record a new one of these on Monday, either.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

So, I had this Hopperesque piece I was working on with acrylics on paper for pens, and I sort of lost interest and felt it needed something.  I’d taken several photos out of the window of The Amtrak Cardinal on the way back from NYC a few months ago, and took inspiration from those of those to try another Edward Hopper pastiche.  But it just wasn’t working for me.

Then I decided to add something.  That makes it work for today, anyway.

This was done the way I do most studies for possible canvas paintings, but if I planned to take it further I probably would’ve worked more on the atmospheric perspective.

Usually when I give up and insert Big Boy into a random painting, you folks don’t get to see it.  So consider this one a treat.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you encores of a recent episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a recent edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM. All times listed are Eastern, so if you’re in another timezone, adjust accordingly.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of funny songs by Barnes and Barnes on a recent episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon the April Fool’s Day laughs continue as we bring you ten more hours of The Comedy Vault.

Four in a row makes it a tradition, right?

As I may have mentioned three previous times in this space, hardly anybody is going to read the blog today due to it being Easter. So I’m just going to drop a fifty-plus-year-old Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated special here for you. “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” is based on a song that was written by Keyser native, and WVMHOF Class of 2011 indutee, Jack Rollins.  This is the fourth year in a row that I’m doing this. Traditionally Easter Sunday is the least-viewed day of this blog, and has been for a long time. It’s like people think they have more important things to do or something. So if you did come here today, thanks.

Enjoy, and Happy Easter!

Radio Free Charleston’s seventy-fourth episode, “RFC Trax shirt” is from June, 2009. This show featured music from former Morgantonians, J Marinelli and Slate Dump, plus special announcements from Mad Man Pondo and Tofujitsu, as well as a Plant Ro Duction Mini Movie.

We also continued the First Great Guitar Giveaway with Route 60 Music, which has now been over for quite some time. Don’t bother trying to enter. But please do visit Route 60 Music and tell them you heard about it on RFC.

Host segments and our end credit bed were shot during FestivALL 2009 in Davis Park, during the “Art On A Stick” sale and open stage. You’ll hear RFC’s old and much-missed buddy, Jerry Fugate, singing and playing Mandolin as we show you some of the sights of the day.

This show makes many references to our big third-anniversary show, which was posted the following week. You’ll get to see it in this space next week.  You can read the original production notes for this show HERE.

Pella Felton

The PopCulteer
March 29, 2024

Easter Sunday is also Trans Visibility Day this year, and in advance of that (because hardly anybody reads this blog on Easter), I decided to remind you of that fact today.

I haven’t addressed much in the way of Trans issues here in PopCult because…well…this is not a political blog, and I haven’t really explored the pop culture aspects of Trans culture, at least not yet.

Not being a Trans person, I’m hardly an expert on the issue. All I know is that I have several friends who have, or are, transitioning, and since I love my friends and want them to be happy and healthy, I want to do whatever’s in my power to support them.  I am horrified that the far-right have politicized what is a very serious and delicate personal issue. I am disgusted by the people who, in a most un-Christian manner, attack and villify people who are already vulnerable and in need of sympathy and understanding.

One way I can support my friends is to help boost their visibility on their designated day, and the best way to do that, rather than attempt to be an expert on the subject, is to turn the blog over to someone who is. Below you will read a brief introduction and see a Ted Talk by my friend, Pella Felton, who is a Transwoman, and who coined the term you see at the head of this post:

From Pella Felton

Hi. Many of you reading this post remember me from my days as Patrick Felton, the irrepressible gadfly which haunted Charleston for years with his perverse and often baffling performances and art projects including the podcast “That Conversation” My 1997 performance as Templeton the Rat in “Charlotte’s Web” and various Stand-up Comedy, Film Exhibition, and Theatre events. About 5 years ago, I discovered that I didn’t want to live under the identity I was assigned when I lived in the Kanawha Valley. I discovered that a lot of the things I thought I was and thought I wanted weren’t at all who I was or who I wanted to be. Earlier today, I signed documents to legally change my name to Pella Felton. Pella comes from the Italian “Pellagrina” meaning “pilgrim,” because I’m on a journey.

Because I want to bring as many people on my journey with me as I can, I’m sharing this video of my 2023 TEDx Talk at Bowling Green State University to honor National Week of Trans Visibility and Action. To be visibly trans in 2024 is to be objected and slandered online by people who will never know and understand me. Visibility represents being disowned by humans I used to break bread with on Sunday mornings. However, Visibility is also hope. Visibility is looking in the mirror and recognizing myself. It’s finally feeling in control of my body in a way that I never knew before. This is why I have created Transphilogyny as a term to express my hopes and fears for myself. Cheers. Pella (She/They)

Sunday, please try to see the Trans men and women in your life, and see them as fellow humans, deserving of love and mercy and dignity and respect.

Friday Afternoon On The AIR

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, Mel Larch devotes her hour of Disco to more club hits of the late 1970s, as MIRRORBALL shines its multicolored spotlight on the songs that were moving butts on the dancefloor and creating a huge club scene.

It’s a short list of long songs designed to make you want to sweat and groove. You’ll get everything from slow, sexy grooves to explosive dancefloor beatfests. Nearly four years in, Mel still finds fresh music from the classic Disco era.

Take an hour and dance like nobody’s looking.

And maybe hope that’s really the case.

Check out the playlist…

MIRRORBALL 096

The Silver Convention “Fly Robin Fly”
B.T. Express “Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)”
Cerrone “Love In C Minor”
Sylvia “Pillow Talk”
Barry White “Love Serenade”
King Floyd “Groove Me”
Doris Troy “It’s All In The Game”
The Brothers Johnson “Welcome To The Club”
The Meters “Disco Is The Thing Today”
The Players Association “Turn The Music Up”
Leon Haywood “I Want’a Do Something Freaky To You”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM and a mini-marathon Saturday nights at 9 PM

At 3 PM we bring you a two-hour salute to the pioneering New Wave band, Ultravox.  In this edition of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, Sydney presents a mixtape retrospective of Ultravox, in both of their best-known incarnations.

With an exclamation point at the end of their name, the original line-up of Ultravox was John Foxx, Stevie Shears, Chris Cross, Billie Curie and Warren Cann. After three albums that failed to chart  with roughly this line up, front man John Foxx exited for a solo career. Instead of disbanding, as was expected, the group recruited Midge Ure and went on to find commercial success in the 1980s.

While the original version of the band did not figure out how to sell records, they remain one of the most influential bands in New Wave, having blended Krautrock with punk and somehow making it all work. With the addition of Ure in 1980, they became a record-selling behemoth for a short time.

This week Sydney will present music from both incarnations of the band, with the first 45 minutes of the show devoted to the John Foxx lineup, and the remainder bringing you highlights of the band’s output from 1980 to 1984 featuring Midge Ure.

Check out the playlist…

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Ultravox

“Dangerous Rhythm”
“Saturday Night In The City of the Dead”
“Wide Boys”
“The Wild, The Beautiful and The Damned”
“Rockwrok”
“Fear In The Western World”
“Hiroshima Mon Amour”
“I Can’t Stay Long”
“Blue Light”
“Some of Them”
“Maximum Accelration”
“Vienna”
“Astrodyne”
“Mr. X”
“Sleepwalk”
“The Voice”
“Rage In Eden”
“The Ascent”
“The Thin Wall”
“Reap The Wild Wind”
“Hymn”
“Visions In Blue”
“When The Scream Subsides”
“White China”
“One Small Day”
“Dancing With Tears In My Eyes”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Classic episodes can be heard Sunday morning at 10 AM.

That’s what’s new on The AIR Friday, and that is this week’s PopCulteer. Check back for our regular features every day.

This weekend there’s tons of Easter events for you to get into. Kids can go to egg hunts. Adults have a couple of those, too. In fact, there’s way too many of those to list here, but…they’re out there if egg hunts are your thing.  Besides that, there’s plenty of other STUFF TO DO in Charleston and all over the Mountain State as we celebrate the third three-day weekend of the year.

As I have been copying and pasting of late, this a good time to remind you that THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS.  It’s just a starting point, so don’t expect anything comprehensive, and if you feel strongly about me leaving anything out, feel free to mention it in the comments.

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM. As in the last few of weeks, they ain’t saying who’s playing.

The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe has some great stuff this week  to tell you about. Thursday at 5:30 PM the Helping Hour with Swingstein & Robin makes the world a better place with music.   Friday, Tim Courts plays during happy hour.  Friday night at 10 PM, Space Freq returns to the Glass.  Sunday at 9 PM South Carolina’s Kenny George Band pulls into town and plays at the Empty Glass. You can check below for the graphics for other cool weekend shows at The Empty Glass.

Please remember that the pandemic is still not entirely over yet. It’s a going concern with the ‘rona surging again. And now there are seasonal allergies, the flu, giant anthropomorphic rabbits, magnets, con men selling Bibles and other damned good reasons to be careful. Many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out.

Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

If you’re up for going out, here are a few suggestions for the weekend, roughly in order…

We take a trip into rare Beatles songwriting credits Wednesday as The AIR brings you another very special episode of Beatles Blast.  You can tune in at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM (EST) Beatles Blast brings you an hour of music that A) was composed by one or more of The Beatles and B) was released on the band’s own Apple Records.

It’s a mixtape show that includes tracks by Badfinger, Jackie Lomax, Billy Preston, Ronnie Spector and many more, plus I’ve tossed in a few rarely-heard B-sides by the solo Beatles.

Many of these are songs that the members of the band wrote to jump-start the careers of their fellow Apple artists.  Paul wrote songs for Badfinger and Mary Hopkin. George wrote or produced tunes for Lomax, Spector and Doris Troy.  John created a benefit single for OZ Magazine that’s included here.  There are also covers of Beatles and solo tunes by other artists, like Hot Chocolate Band, who were a Reggae band before dropping “band” and becoming a Disco powerhouse.  Trash, who never acheived fame, released their version of “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight” a week before The Beatles put out their Abbey Road album. Likewise, Billy Preston’s version of “My Sweet Lord” was released two month’s before George’s mega-hit recording.

It’s a nice slice of Beatles obscurities.

Here’s the playlist…

Beatles Blast 107

Badfinger “Come And Get It”
Jackie Lomax “Sour Milk Sea”
Black Dyke Mills Band “Yellow Submarine”
Mary Hopkin “Goodbye”
Trash “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight”
Hot Chocolate Band “Give Peace A Chance”
Doris Troy “Get Back”
Ronnie Spector “Try Some, Buy Some”
Bill Elliott & The Elastic Oz Band “God Save Us”
Billy Preston “My Sweet Lord”
Black Dyke Mills Band “Thingumybob”
Elastic Oz Band “Do The Oz”
Ronnie Spector “Tandoori Chicken”
Ringo Starr “Blindman”
George Harrison “Deep Blue”
Wings “Little Woman Love”
John Lennon “Move Over Ms. L”
Paul McCartney & Wings “Zoo Gang”
George Harrison “I Don’t Care Anymore”

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM (EST) on Curtain Call, Mel Larch brings you two encore episode from just a few months ago.  Curtain Call will return with a new episode next week.

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Also on The AIR, Wednesday at 11 PM,  The Comedy Vault brings you the wacky-assed music of Barnes & Barnes.

Tuesday is still “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have new episodes of  Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift for you. To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

Our first hour is our usual collection of cool local, independent and brand-new music. We open with brand new music from Sierra Ferrell. It’s a track off of her new album, Trial By Flowers, which was just released (to much acclaim) a few days ago.

The rest of our new first hour is loaded with new goodies from Mediogres, Unmanned, Wild Pink, Novelty Island and more.

We also bring you a tune, via our Chicago pipeline, by Mark Lofgren, who will be releasing this as a single on April 12, with the album, Black Moon Book 3, due out on Friday, May 3.

Mark Lofgren, is a founding member of the bands The Luck of Eden Hall and The Thin Cherries, and he recorded this new album in his home studio and then enlisted Mike Hagler at Chicago’s Kingsize SoundLabs for the mastering. Most of the songs on Black Moon Book 3 are built around acoustic guitars and vocals. The first single, “Ne’er Do Wells,” is about the ups and downs of living in a big city.

For our second and third hours, we go back to an episode of Radio Free Charleston International from 2017.  This one hasn’t been heard for nearly seven years, so it’ll be new to most of you.  It’s loaded with a collection of then-new, plus classic tracks by national and international artists.  On paper, the lineup doesn’t seem to make any sense, but when you listen, it really flows.

At least I think it does.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages where you can learn more about each artist and buy their music or find out where to see them (where available)…

RFC V5 169

hour one
Sierra Ferrell “Dollar Bill Bar”
Mark Lofgren “Ne’er Do Wells”
Mediogres “Outta Town”
Unmanned “Arrested”
Wild Pink “Air Drumming For You”
Novelty Island “Heaton”
Velez Manifesto “Baby Goes To The Zoo”
The Settlement “Linger (Live at Sam’s Uptown Cafe)”
The Paranoid Style “Print The Legend”

hour two
Ray Davies “The Deal”
Triumvirat “Spartacus”
Magenta “Colours”
Epica “Tear Down Your Walls”
All That Remains “River City”
Blink 182 “68”
Rancid “Ghost of a Chance”
Willie Nelson “Still Not Dead”
Reverand Peyton’s Big Damn Band “Clap Your Hands”
Feist “I’m Not Running Away”
The Cranberries “Linger” (acoustic)

hour three
Trombone Shorty “Here Come The Girls”
Fallout Boy “Young and Menace”
Mew “The Wake of Your Life”
Sheryl Crow “Long Way Back”
Julian Cope “Drink Me Under The Table”
New Found Glory “Your Jokes Aren’t Funny”
Styx “Gone, Gone, Gone”
Big Big Train “Experimental Gentlemen”
Dubioza Kolectiv “Balkan Funk”
Alphaville “Enigma”
The Meters “Thinking”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM we offer up the concluding part fourof our Boogie Woogie primer on The Swing Shift.  This is the grand finale of what has been expanded to become a four-week dive into Boogie Woogie and its essential contribution to the success of Swing Music.  This week, as we did last week,  I do all the proper back-announcing and talk just a little about the importance of Boogie Woogie, which sprung out of The Blues and became the backbone of Swing, and the launching pad for Rock and Roll.

Note that, due to a timing error on my part, I had to fade Keely Smith’s tune out partway through. I will correct this by including the full song in the next new episode of The Swing Shift.

It’s the kind of music that just makes you want to move.  Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 157

The Rosenberg Trio “Guitar Boogie” (Arthur Smith)
Mabel Scott “Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train”
Duke Henderson “Leona’s Boogie”
Clarence Samuels “Boogie Woogie Blues”
Billy Wright “Billy’s Boogie Blues”
Steve Gibson & The Red Caps “Boogie Woogie on a Saturday Night”
Sax Man Brown “Sax-Only Boogie”
The Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
Tommy Dorsey “Boogie Woogie”
Count Basie “Red Bank Boogie”
Louis Prima “Brooklyn Boogie”
Lionel Hampton “Hamp’s Walking Boogie”
Earl Hines Orchestra “Boogie Woogie On St Louis Blues”
Indigo Swing “Blue Suit Boogie”
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “The Boogie Bumper”
The Jive Aces “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie”
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers -“Roll the Boogie”
Brian Setzer Orechestra “The Dirty Boogie”
Swing ‘N’ Jive “Step Stomp ‘N’ Boogie”
Keely Smith “Keely’s Boogie”

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

This week’s art is a very rough study for an imaginary city scene I saw in a dream. I knocked this out a few months ago while the image was clear in my head, but I didn’t try to capture the exact colors or anything. It was early in the morning and I was in too big a hurry to mix paint or anything.

In my dream I was sort of floating above a building, looking down a street. The street had vibrant green spaces, but not as green as they are in this rough. I knocked this out with pastel crayons and acrylic paint just to get an inkling of the composition and color on paper before I forgot it. As I mentioned, this was first thing in the morning, and I could barely hold a crayon or brush thanks to my MG.

Once I had it on paper, I put it away and promptly forgot all the fine details I’d intended to fill in later. When I pulled it out of the pile last week, aside from the vibrant and somewhat hideously overbearing green, I liked what I had, even though I couldn’t remember exactly what was missing. It sort of works better as an abstract, with tiny bits of detail peeking through.

This was scanned, had minor color correction, and was cropped for this blog.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday at 2 PM and 3 PM on The AIR, we bring you brand-new episodes of both Psychedelic Shack  Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Unfortunately, as I write this, I have not received the playlist info for the programs, or the programs themselves. Herman tells me that Prognosis is a compilation of the music of Frank Zappa, while Nigel Pye says that Psychedelic Shack opens with Apple Recording artist, Jackie Lomax, and then continues with “really groovy mind-smacking music.”

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM. All times listed are Eastern, so if you’re in another timezone, adjust accordingly.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of bawdy songs by Rusty Warren on a recent episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM the Monday Marathon it’s time to boogie all night with ten hours of recent episodes of Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL.

This week we are going to revisit a Sunday Evening Video entry from almost exactly ten years ago because so many of the videos originally included here are “no longer available.”  So let’s clean this mess up a little.

It may be hard to believe now, but back in the 1960s and 70s the scary and subversive counter-culture had so permeated the mainstream that advertisers hoping to reach the “youth market” jumped at the chance to incorporate drug-influenced graphics, swiped from underground comics and cutting-edge designers like Milton Glazer and Heinz Edelmann.

The end result now seems quaint, but it’s pretty to look at, so here’s an assortment of animated commercials from the era. It’s pretty hilarious when you consider how subversive this imagery was considered at the time. You can probably blame the success of The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” for most of these. Still, there’s nothing wrong with trying to peddle your wares to those damn dirty hippies.

There’s more mind-expanding commercialism after the jump. Tune in, turn on and follow the link…

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