Wednesday afternoon The AIR brings you brand-new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call! You can tune in at the website, or if you’re on a laptop or desktop, you could just stay on this page, and listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking over in the right-hand column of this blog.
At 2 PM, we serve up a mixtape edition of Beatles Blast that I have to admit, I’m not terribly proud of. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great show, loaded with fantastic music, but the theme is a little crass. This is an imaginary album made up of songs written and performed by the children of The Beatles. I’m well aware that the pressure of growing up as the son of one of the members of the most famous and important musical group in history has to be severe enough, but the barrage of fans of their parents wanting them all to get together and perform, when they may barely know each other, can’t help any.
Still, the Beatle nerd inside my head forced me to splice together tracks from Julian Lennon, Dhani Harrison, James McCartney, Sean Lennon, Thenewno2 and The Claypoll-Lennon Delirium into an attempt at Beatles-related mixtape. I feel so bad about it that I’m not even posting a playlist. I hope they forgive me, if they ever find out that I exist.
Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM, and Saturday afternoon.
At 3 PM on Curtain Call, Mel Larch presents an hour of highlights of Fiddler On The Roof, assembled from the original cast album, the movie soundtrack, one of the revivals, the Yiddish production and a recent Danish production. The musical is about Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka, who attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions in the face of persecution from Imperial Russia.
Anatevka, a typical shtetl, under the thumb of Imperial Russia is a fictional village located in what is now known as Ukraine.
As Mel says in her introduction to the show, we are presenting the music from Fiddler On The Roof “for obvious reasons.”
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.
Once again we have come to Tuesday on The AIR and we have new editions of Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift this week. That’s four hours of particularly nifty and new internet radio! You simply have to take your cursor over and point it at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and listen to the cool embedded player over at the top of the right column (If you’re reading PopCult on a desktop, that is. Phone readers have to go to the website).
We have anoher hybrid episode Radio Free Charleston at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday. This week we open with a full hour of mostly new music, both local and not, and then we re-present two all-local hours of Radio Free Charleston Volume 4, from just over six years ago.
Our new hour opens with a great new electronic/industrial duo, Bane Star, which includes Jett Bailes from Red Audio as half of the band. Then we have a real treat from back in the original RFC days. Brian Diller (who has recently been posting new music to Bandcamp) went back and digitized his big local hit with The Ride, “Don’t Stop at Anything.” This was one of Mel Larch’s favorite tunes back when we first started dating, and it’s cool to have a fresh, crisp copy to play.
If you weren’t around back then, Brian Diller and the Ride ruled Charleston. The Ride were Steve Burgess (Bass Guitar,) Brian Diller (Vocals and Guitar,) Dave Pearcy (Keyboards,) Greg Wegmann (Lead Guitar,) Jeff Wooley (Drums.) “Don’t Stop At Anything” was produced by Jim Kranz and Michael Lipton, and the song was not only a mainstay of RFC, but was also played by FM 105 (who actually had somebody on the payroll listen to what I was playing so they could copy it back then).
Later in the show we have a tun by Drawing Hands, who are better known as Frenchy and The Punk, and they have launched a Kickstarter campaign for the next F&P album. Go check it out. The first hour is filled out with new tracks from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guided by Voices, Rosalie Cunningham, Paul Calicoat, The Paranoid Style and more, plus we have a few archival gems in the mix.
Hours two and three bring back the fifth episode of RFC Volume 4, from February, 2016. It’s loaded with great local tunes, and its been offline for over five years.
Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store (live links will take you to the local and independent artist’s pages for the first hour)…
RFC V5 082
hour one Bane Star “A Place Made of Decay” Brian Diller and the Ride “Don’t Stop At Anything”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Poster Child” The Paranoid Style “Exit Interview With P.G. Wodehouse”
Sterophonics “Right Place, Right Time” Paul Calicoat “Falling Dark”
Under The Radar “All Along The Watchtower” Drawing Hands “Take Me Home”
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs “External Combustion”
Rosalie Cunningham “Duet”
Mark Beckner Group “Winter In Kashmir” Joseph Hale “Rocket Car”
Linnfinity “Miles”
Guided By Voices “Eyes of Your Doctor”
hour two
Ona “Rocks In The Basement”
The Smoky Room “Finish Me”
Jack Griffith “Child of Light”
The Company Stores “Unwelcomed Guest”
J Marinelli “Kendrick’s Ghost”
Miniature Giant “Too Soon”
John Radcliff “Naked Souls”
Joe Vallina “Year of the Wicked”
The Nanker Phelge “Baby”
Under Surveillance “Crisis”
Stone Ka Tet “Ronin”
John Lancaster “Long Gone”
Byzantine “Purity”
David White “Zwak”
Superfetch “West Side Story”
hour three
The Big Bad “Lost In The Night”
The Silvers “Nothing Really Matters”
Billy Matheny “I Hope I Don’t See You Today” with Kim Monday
Jeff Ellis “On Top Again”
Mad Scientist Club “Incident”
Under The Radar “If Ever There’s A Star”
Paul Calicoat “Midnight Stroll”
Ann Magnuson “Waterbeds of Hollywood”
Sheldon Vance “To Spite The Pain”
Frank Panucci “Captain Rubber Spaceman”
Jordan Andrew Jefferson “It Is What It Is”
The Renfields “Haddonfield”
The Renfields “Invisible Man”
You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Thursday at 3 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 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 for posterity, so you can listen on demand.
After RFC, stick around for an encore of MIRRORBALL at 1 PM, and a classic Ska Madness at 2 PM.
At 3 PM we have a special new mixtape edition of The Swing Shift that brings you an hour tunes from 1935. That was a pivotal year in Swing, as Dixieland, Blues, Honky Tonk Piano, Big Bands and danceband music all coalesced into something special and captured the attention and imagination of the public.
You will hear early hits by the legends of Big Band Music, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, The Dorsey Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Chick Webb and Charlie Barnett, and you’ll also get a collection of great Swing tunes from some of the less-than-immortal denizens of the Swing era.
It’s a really cool time capsule of right when Swing was entering the mainstream.
Check out this playlist:
The Swing Shift 127
1935
Fats Waller and His Rhythm “Baby Brown”
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra “Throwin’ Stones At The Sun”
The Boswell Sisters “St. Louis Blues”
Freddy Taylor and His Swing Men From Harlem “Viper’s Dream”
Ted FioRita and His Orchestra “Here Comes Cookie”
Isham Jones and His Orchestra “Dadanella”
Mills Brothers “Don’t Be Afraid To Tell Your Mother”
Bob Howard and His Orchestra “Pardon My Love”
Glenn Miller “In A Little Spanish Town”
Mound City Blue Blowers “She’s A Latin From Manhattan”
Lew Stone and His Band “Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie”
Dorsey Brothers Orchestra “Weary Blues”
Louis Armstrong “I’m Shooting High”
Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra “On A Holiday”
Willie Smith (The Lion) and His Cubs “Harlem Joys”
Jones’ Jazz Wizards “Blue Reefer Blues”
Duke Ellington “Tough Truckin'”
Frank Foreba and His Swing Band “There’ll Be A Great Day In The Morning”
Jess Stacy “Barrelhouse”
Chick Webb and His Orchestra “Rhythm and Romance”
You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesdays at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 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.
I decided to go monochromatic this week with a mixed media piece based on several photos taken in Chicago’s River North district on my many trips to the Windy City. I decided to just do a fragment of the skyline, as a possible first entry in a series, or maybe not.
This is done in Blackwing Palamino pencil, oil pastel, ink wash and wax pencil on thick board, and it’s a smallish study that I might blow up for a full-sized canvas at some point.
I used some of the lighting lessons I learned with my Hopper homages, but decided to go with shades of gray instead of color. I’m not sure if it works without color, but it’s good enough for a Monday Morning Art entry.
If you want to see this painting/drawing larger, just click on it.
Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a recent episode of Psychedelic Shack, followed at 3 PM by 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 at the top of the right-hand column of this blog.
PsychedelicShack 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. Classic episodes can be heard Sunday at 9 AM as part of our Sunday Haversham Recording Institute collection.
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.
Tonight at 8 PM you can hear an hour of stand-up from Brian Poesehn on The Comedy Vault. Wednesday evening at 10 PM, we’ll have another new episode of The Comedy Vault, featuring the raunchy stand-up of Redd Foxx.
Then, at 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon of Prognosis, providing you with five classic early episodes of our Progressive Rock extravaganza, presented by Herman Linte and The Haversham Recording Institute.
Last Friday, word came via social media that Mark Scarpelli, a Charleston composer, bandleader, music educator and a friend of mine, was receiving Hospice care at home after a 17-year-long, on and off, battle with cancer. I was privileged to know Mark as a friend, and also as a collaborator on several video projects and most recently as co-writers of the introductions read by Larry Groce at the legendary Rubber Soul Beatles Marathon in February, 2018.
Many people have come to know and love Mark from his stints in several area bands, like the Beatles tribute group Rubber Soul, and from his orginal compositions for the stage, with his frequent collaborator Dan Kehde for CYAC as well as other local theatre talents. Like everyone who knows Mark, I’m terribly saddened by this news.
Tonight I wanted to re-present one of the video projects I did that involved Mark. From late September, 2011, this special episode of Radio Free Charleston was a major departure from our normal format. This show is a documentary following the 2011 revival of the Dan Kehde/Mark Scarpelli musical, Jack The Ripper. Produced by The Contemporary Youth Arts Company, this daring and complex piece of musical theater was pulled together in less than six weeks. Included in the show are interviews with Dan and Mark, intercut with “fly-on-the-wall” footage from the rehearsals leading up to opening night.
We also dug into our archives and included footage of the original production from 2008, starring Ryan Hardiman. This is rare video that had never been seen by the general public before.
In this episode of RFC you will see the newer incarnation of the show come together from on-book readings at local churches to the building of the set to the final blocking and staging during tech week. It’s a look inside the creation of a unique original work in the Charleston, WV theater scene. Some of this show was recorded as late as one day before it was originally posted online. We managed to get this show finished and online in time to promote the opening of the show later in the week.
I spent several weeks attending rehearsals with my camera, shooting loads of Cinéma vérité footage of the cast and crew preparing for their big night. Any time spent with Mark was special, but this project was truly remarkable. Presented with love and peace to Mark and Bev and his family, from Rudy and Mel.
This week we head back to December, 2009 for an episode of Radio Free Charleston hosted from Taylor Books, with music from The Riff Raff Players, and Flare Baroshi. We also have Eamon Hardiman’s trailer for Porkchops, and DEVO Energy Dome animation from Frank Panucci.
The RiffRaff Players feature vocals by Lori McKinney, Kathleen Coffee, Albert Perrone, Douglas Imbrogno and Melissa and Kayla McKinney, with eclectic acoustic and electronic instrumentation by The Captain Lazerblast Band and soundsmithing by Robert Blankenship. This video was created by Douglas Imbrogno to promote “Christmas with The Riff Raff,” which happened in Princeton, WV.
Flare Baroshi is featured in the “Black and White” alternate edit of her song, “Vampire Mafia,” which impressed many on that year’s Halloween special. While this is a cool take on a great song, I think it was included here because I wanted to plug the Riff Raff show and the Porkchops premiere before they happened, and this was the best finished video I had laying around to fill up the remainder of the show.
There is a lot going on in the world of pop culture this week: AEW Wrestling bought Ring of Honor; AMC Networks announced a new comic book line with celebrity creators; The company that owns Fortnite bought Bandcamp; loads of toy companies announced new action figure lines…it’s an amazing time to be covering cool stuff!
Or at least it would be if I had time to address all those topics. Your humble blogger is buried under what those in the industry call “paying work” and only has time today to tell you about an exciting new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, debuting on The AIR Friday afternoon.
Sydney Fileen gives us a time capsule of New Wave Music from the pivotal year of 1979 on Sydney’s Big Electric Cat Friday afternoon on The AIR. You can hear this show on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player at the top right column of this blog if you’re reading on a desktop.
At 3 PM, Sydney Fileen treats us to another mixtape look at a specific year of the New Wave era. This time it’s 1978. This was the year that saw important releases and iconic New Wave hits by The Police, DEVO, M, The Buggles, Toyah, Lene Lovich, The Clash and more.
1979 was the year when New Wave music hit the mainstream and began six years as the dominant force in music. This special mixtape show demonstrates that with a powerhouse collection of some of the most definitive New Wave artists and songs.
Check out the playlist here…
BEC 087 “1979”
Ian Dury & The Blockheads “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”
Blondie “One Way Or Another”
Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk”
M “Pop Muzik”
The Buggles “Video Killed The Radio Star”
Madness “One Step Beyond”
The Clash “London Calling”
The Knack “My Sharona”
The Boomtown Rats “I Don’t Like Mondays”
The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry”
Lene Lovich “Lucky Number”
Squeeze “Up The Junction”
Racey “Some Girls”
The Police “Message In A Bottle”
The Flying Lizards “Money”
The Numbers “Hello”
Elvis Costello “Accidents Will Happen”
Talking Heads “Mind”
The Cars “Lust For Kicks”
DEVO “Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA”
The B 52s “Rock Lobster”
Split Enz “I See Red”
The Dickies “Banana Splits Theme”
The Stranglers “The Raven”
Toyah “Danced”
Joe Jackson “Look Sharp”
Joy Division “She’s Lost Control”
Ellen Foley “Night Out”
Stiff Little Fingers “No More Of That”
After The Fire “Laser Love”
XTC “Life Begins At The Hop”
Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.
And that is it for this week’s PopCulteer. Your frazzled PopCulteer is nearly wiped out, but we’re still going to give you at least one fresh post every day, because that’s the kind of people we are!
For the third year in a row, The International Toy Fair in New York did not happen. I usually try to seek out new companies to cover each year in PopCult, but with no Toy Fair, I’ve had to go digging on my own. Luckily, I’ve turned up a bit of a gem in the overlooked catagory (by collectors, anyway) of STEAM toys.
Back before we had that term, this was the cool stuff like chemistry sets, microscopes and other toys that were loads of fun and had high educational value. STEAM toys are curriculum-based products to help prepare children for the study of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. They can also be a lot of fun, while inspring kids to consider working in those fields later in life.
Brown Toy Box was iInitially developed as a classroom resource for children in lower socio-economic communities. The company launched commercially in 2021 at Target and independent specialty toy stores nationwide.
This endeavor is the brainchild of Terri-Nichelle Bradley (left), who is active in the Atlanta education and business community as an equity advocate in the Learn4Life Network, a member of the Junior League of Atlanta, and serves as the Atlanta chapter chair of Women in Toys.
Bradley is also a recipient of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Leaders in Corporate Citizenship- Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Prior to starting Brown Toy Box, Bradley led a communications consultancy working with Fortune 500 companies in campaigns designed to connect with the African American community and served as the VP of Corporate, Crisis, and Public Affairs for the world’s largest global PR agency.
Brown Box Toys offers a wide range of educational playsets, games and puzzles that cover evertyhing from Coding, to Marine Biology to Robotics, Chemistry, Museum Arts and more. Designed to inspire Black and Brown children to pursue STEAM career pathways, the playsets are conceived to be fun and educational for all kids. You can find their products at Target, on their own website and in independent toy stores across the country.
While the key purpose of Brown Box Toys is to foster an interest in STEAM in young children of color, the sets are very well-made and would be great for non-minority kids who might benefit from an extra lesson in inclusivity.
After participating in the ESEA conference this month, Brown Toy Box announced a new partnership with education nonprofit DonorsChoose. Brown Toy Box also announced that the company plans to expand its in-school educational offering with the goal of reaching 100,000 students in 2022.
Starting with Title 1 schools serving communities in high-poverty neighborhoods, Brown Toy Box collaborated to provide its multifaceted toy collection to educators and students, offering early exposure to STEAM focused engaging toys and educational content showcasing Black and Brown characters. Early exposure is the key to workforce development across diverse communities and representation in toys has shown to inspire children that they can reach their dreams. Ms. Bradley’s mission is to create a world where Black children are positively represented, equipped and educated to achieve greatness.
By creating innovative STEAM focused toys, as well as her ‘Dadisi Academy Crew’ which is composed of positive, smart, characters, each with an interest in a STEAM subject, Brown Toy Box seeks to normalize Black excellence and cultivate curiosity.
“What we confirmed last week at the ESEA Network conference in New Orleans is that there is an incredible hunger from schools and educators for culturally affirming products and content for their scholars. We are creating change and it feels amazing,” said Brown Toy Box creator, Terri-Nichelle Bradley. “We are on a mission to disrupt generational poverty with Brown Toy Box STEAM Kits and inspire a new generation of underserved kids to unlock their potential. Google and other corporate brands like Cox Media are helping make this happen.”
Encouraging inspiration through purposeful play, the line includes interactive STEAM kits, puzzles, journals, memory games, window clings, activity books, story dice, and more. And unlike typical STEAM kits which focus on one specific activity or project, Brown Toy Box kits are each based on a particular theme such as astronomy, marine biology, chemistry, art, coding, and robotics. Each kit also includes a DIY activity cut-out playable character figure and story board background, activity book, games, puzzles, and coloring pages for hours of engagement.
Brown Toy Box STEAM kits and toys are available at Target.com, specialty retailers, and at Brown Toy Box. Full-time public school teachers can request these kits through DonorsChoose.
West Virginia’s pandemic map is no longer completely red, so even though I’m not ready to go out to shows yet, that doesn’t mean you can’t. In fact, this week we are just going to shine the spotlight on two shows that I would definitely go see, if I weren’t still being cautious due to my auto-immune disorder.
On Friday night friends of Walter DeBarr, who passed away a few weeks ago, will gather to pay tribute to the man. A $7 donation will go toward family/funeral expenses. The show will feature Aaron Fisher, Greg McGowan, Ken Starcher and Bad Keys of The Montain. I never had the chance to meet Walter, but I will be playing some of his music on next week’s RFC.
Saturday night a list of too many friends of Charlie T to mention will gather at The Alban Arts Center in Saint Albans to pay tribute to Charleson beloved musical icon, who we lost just before Christmas last year. Organized by Charlie’s bandmate in The Carpenter Ants, Michael Lipton, this show is loaded with legends of Charleston’s music scene. Admission is free, but donations are welcome (and encouraged by your PopCulteer), with any proceeds being split between The Alban Arts Center, The WV Music Hall of Fame and Charlie’s widow, Lynn Rosseau.
It’s another week of “best laid plans” Tuesday on The AIR your blogger and radio show host had grand ideas about doing a new full-length Radio Free Charleston plus a special episode of The Swing Shift that is already assembled and awaiting my voice over, but real world intrusions forced me to dig into the archives for two hours of RFC, and put off finishing The Swing Shift until next week.
Fear not, though, because we do have one hour of great local, new and independent music, plus we fill out the show with an RFC International from almost six years ago. To hear all this cool music you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and listen to the cool embedded player over at the top of the right column.
At 10 AM and 10 PM you can hear one new hour, and two classic hours of cool music.
The first hour of RFC is all-new, and we open with a real treat. Brian Diller, who ruled the local music scene in the 1980s, is making new music again, and we have a bright, shiny new song from him to open our show. Speaking of bright and shiny, our second track this week is the debut single from Huntington’s Gasser, a cool grunge/punk band I hope to be featuring on the show a lot in the future.
The rest of our first hour is our usual eclectic mix of local artists, indie bands and establishe acts like Tears For Fears and Soft Cell, who close out the hour with brand-new music.
Our second and third hours re-present an episode of Radio Free Charleston International from April, 2016. This show has been offline for five years, so most of our new listeners haven’t heard it yet. This was the week after Prince died, and I play a couple of his tunes in tribute, but I also play my role as the musical non-sequitor and mix in music by Hawkwind, Reginia Spektor, Cheap Trick, Bridgette Bardot, The Tubes and more. Thi is free format radio taken to the extreme.
hour two
Prince “Housequake”
Hawkwind “The Machine”
Focus “Hocus Pocus”
U2 “Lucifer’s Hands”
Regina Spektor “Machine”
Cheap Trick “Reach Out”
Status Quo “Let It Fly”
The Zombies ‘Play It For Real”
Bruce Dickinson “1,000 Points of Light”
Plastic Flowers “Heavenly”
Dan Random “I’m Only Sleeping”
The Turtles “She’s My Girl”
Bridgette Bardot “Ne Me Laisse Pas L’amimer”
Klaatu “Hope”
hour three
Prince ‘Paisley Park”
Deftones “Phantom Bride”
Wire “Pilgrim Trade”
Vera Vinter “Monsterland”
Flaming Lips “Lightning Strikes The Postman”
Mel C “Here It Comes Again”
Tubes “What Do You Want From Life”
The Communards “Don’t Leave Me This Way”
Reverand Horton Heat “Jonny Quest/Stop That Pigeon”
Sparkle Moore “Skull and Crossbones”
Fleur “Endless Groove”
John Foxx “Touch and Go”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “Shake Your Love Maker”
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 3 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 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 MIRRORBALL at 1 PM, and Ska Madness at 2 PM. At 3 PM we have two recent episodes of The Swing Shift. Next week, I promise, we’ll have a new episode of The Swing Shift, saluting the music of Sy Oliver, who deserves to be in the spotlight.
This week I decided to revert back, just a little, to the style I was using in January as an homage to the work of Edward Hopper. However, this was mainly copying technique and execution. The composition and color balance show more of an influence of another of my artistic heroes, René Magritte. The brightly-attired jogger adds just a hint of surrealism and takes the focus off the stately building (based on Matthew Laflin Memorial Building in Chicago, of which I had a few blurry reference photos, taken from a taxi), which would appear at first glance to be the point of the painting.
I just wanted to have a really impressive building to paint, only to have it upstaged by the colorful little jogger dude.
It was a bit of a visual joke.
This is another small-scale study-acrylic on illustration board, perhaps to be blown-up and painted on real canvas someday. If I ever get around to doing that.
If you want to see this one a bit bigger, just click on it.
Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack, followed at 3 PM by a 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 at the top of the right-hand column of this blog.
Nigel Pye has scooped up another collection of amazing psychedelic rock, expanding your minds and your hearts with everything from The Turtles to Sean Lennon.
Check out the playlist for all the peace and love…
Psychedelic Shack 059
The Turtles “She’s My Girl”
Donovan “Atlantis”
TNT “Love Of My Life”
Smash “Fail Safe”
The Petards “Flame Missing Light”
The Trip “Caronte (Part 1)”
Plum Nelly “The Demon”
Space Rock “Going Down The Road”
Tourists “I Need My Music”
Redd Kross “Pseudo-Intellectual”
Neil “Cosmic Jam”
Sean Lennon “Parachute”
PsychedelicShack 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. Classic episodes can be heard Sunday at 9 AM as part of our Sunday Haversham Recording Institute collection.
Following that hour of Psychedelic joy, Herman Linte’s Prognosis will bring us a two-hour dream concert, assembled from existing live recordings, where the giants of prog-rock perform their epic hits in one continuous fantasy jam session. You can pretend you’re present at an imaginary super bill of Progressive Rock legends.
Check out the playlist…
Prognosis 087 Live Epics
Emerson Lake & Palmer “Karn Evil 9”
Genesis “Supper’s Ready”
King Crimson “Starless”
YES “Close To The Edge”
Jethro Tull “Aqualung”
Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb”
ASIA “The Heat Goes On”
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.
At 8 PM, we have tinkered somewhat with our schedule, shortening the Monday Marathon by an hour to make life easier for ourselves when it comes to putting together the weekly line-up. Now, every Monday at 8 PM we will bring you an episode of The Comedy Vault. I forgot to mention this, but we’ve been running new episodes of our comedy showcase for the last month, after only doing one new show in the previous four years.
Sorry about that.
Tonight at 8 PM you can hear an hour of classic tracks from the little-heard, latter-day National Lampoon comedy albums. Wednesday evening at 10 PM, we’ll have another new episode, featuring the stand-up comedy of Jim Jeffries.
Then, at 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, providing you with five classic early episodes of our New Wave extravaganza, presented by Sydney Fileen and The Haversham Recording Institute.
Wednesday afternoon The AIR brings you brand-new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call! You can tune in at the website, or if you’re on a laptop or desktop, you could just stay on this page, and listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking over in the right-hand column of this blog.
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