Stonehenge Playlist 07-31-09

Our mission to shine a light in the dark and often-ignored nooks and crannies of classic rock led us to play the 4th LP from Love, from 1969, 'Four Sail' by Love. Were we to tow the line usually maintained by lazy music critics, we'd all accept that Love essentially ceased to be of interest following the majestic 'Forever Changes', but Arthur Lee was far from finished. He was still in fine form on this LP, which featured an entirely new band backing him. Apparently, this new group recorded 3 albums worth of new Arthur Lee material, and this LP featured Elektra records' favorites from the bunch.

Here's one of my favorite tunes from this excellent album, 'I'm with You':



Artist - Album - Song

• Walrus - Walrus -- Who Can I Trust
• Dancer - Tales of the Riverbank -- Mac's Cafe
• Pisces - A Lovely Sight -- Circle of Time
• Stalk Forrest Group - The Elektra Recordings -- I'm on the Lamb
• Truth - Of Them & Other Tales -- Castles in the Sand
• Velvet Fogg - Velvet Fogg -- Yellow Cave Woman
• Crow - Crow Music -- Evil Woman
• Bubble Puppy - A Gathering of Promises -- Lonely
• Woody's Truck Stop - Woody's Truck Stop -- People Been Talkin'
• Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs -- The Fool and Me
• Who - Odds and Sods -- Naked Eye
• Rare Earth - Ecology -- Satisfaction Guaranteed
• Blodwyn Pig - Ahead Rings Out -- See My Way
• Leviathan - Leviathan -- Arabesque
• Roxy Music - Country Life -- Out of the Blue
• Pretty Things - Philippe Debarge -- You're Running You and Me
• Gravy Train - Staircase to the Day -- Staircase to the Day
• After Tea - Jointhouse Blues -- You've Got to Move Me
• FM - Black Noise -- Phasers on Stun
• The Illusion - If it's so -- Let's Make Each Other Happy
• Ultimate Spinach - Behold and See -- Mind Flowers
• Donovan - Barabajagal -- Barabajagal
• Raven - Raven -- Let's Eat
• Canned Heat - Future Blues -- London Blues
• Procol Harum - Exotic Birds and Fruit -- Nothing but the Truth
• Strawbs - From the Witchwood -- Sheep
• Joe Walsh and Barnstorm - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get -- Book Ends
• Focus - Hamburger Concerto -- Hamburger Concerto
• Jeff Beck Group - Jeff Beck Group -- I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel For You
• Johnny Winter - The Woodstock Experience -- Mama Talk to Your Daughter
• Edgar Winter -Edgar Winter's White Trash -- Give it Everything You Got
• J. Geils Band - The Morning After -- Whammer Jammer
• CCR - Bayou Country -- Keep on Chooglin'
• Savoy Brown - Street Corner Talking -- Tell Mama

Stonehenge Playlist 07-24-09

The 40th anniversary of the eponymous debut album from Yes was celebrated this week. Yes is a group that must surely have had many other 'combos' of the time quivering in their desert boots: their skills were so far beyond the majority of their peers, and they were already a 'supergroup' of sorts, with so many members already been in notable UK groups of the time.

Here's some superb footage of the original Yes line-up live in 1969 in France being introduced by some psychedelic air stewardesses?:



Artist - Album - Song

• Scorpions - Lonesome Crow -- It all Depends
• Camel - Mirage -- Supertwister
• Colosseum - The Grass is Greener -- Jumping off the Sun
• Groundhogs - Blues Obituary -- Times
• Savoy Brown - Looking In -- Looking In
• Head Machine - Orgasm -- The First Time
• Ian Gillian Band - Child in Time -- Lay Me Down
• Night Sun - Mournin -- Slush Pan Man
• The Legends - High Towers -- Fever Games
• Affinity - Affinity -- All Along the Watchtower
• Hot Tuna - Burgers -- The Water Song
• Ten Wheel Drive - Construction #1 -- I am a Want Ad
• Audience - The House on the Hill -- The House on the Hill
• Gryphon - Treason -- The Spring Song
• Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy -- The Rain Song
• Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance -- The Sky Cried / When I was a Boy
• Brian Auger and the Trinity - Befour -- No Time to Live
• Badfinger - Magic Christian Music -- Rock of all Ages
• Black Merda - Black Merda -- Windsong
• Hampton Grease Band - Music to Eat -- Evans a) Egyptian Beaver 2) Evans
• Nucleus - We'll talk about it later -- Song for the Bearded Lady
• Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland -- 1983 A Mermaid I should Turn to Be
• Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame -- Meetings of the Spirit
• Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North -- Giant Crab in Land Takeover Bid
• Cactus - Cactus -- Parchman Farm
• Hard Stuff - Bolex Dementia -- Spider Web
• UFO - 1 -- Timothy
• Nazareth - Razamanazz -- Razamanazz
• Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion -- Raceway
• Virus - Revelation -- Burning Candle
• Deviants - Ptoof! -- Nothing Man

Stonehenge Playlist 07-17-09

This week's Classic Rock Album (played from beginning to end at 8pm every Friday in case you didn't already know...) continued our work to celebrate the weekly 40th anniversary of a great album from 1969. This week it was the turn of Pink Floyd and their 'Soundtrack from the Film More', an artsy French film directed by Barbet Schroeder. It was the Floyd's third LP, and their first without any trace of Syd.

Here's an oh-so sixties clip from that movie, featuring the Floyd in a gentle mood. Note the 'Blood Sweat and Tears' LP (a C.R.A. from 2005) being put to good use:



Artist - Album - Song

• Amon Duul - Wolf City -- Deutch Nepal
• Black Widow - Return to the Sabbat -- Come to the Sabbat
• Arzachel (Uriel) - Arzachel -- Leg
• Comus - First Utterance -- Song for Comus
• Bulldog Breed - Made in England -- Austin Osman Spare
• Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath -- The Wizard
• Jason Crest - Collected Works of Jason Crest -- Black Mass
• Iron Butterfly - Heavy -- Iron Butterfly Theme
• Alice Cooper - Killer -- You Drive me Nervous
• Frijid Pink - Frijid Pink -- End of the Line
• Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallaher -- Laundromat
• Grateful Dead - Birth of the Dead -- Keep Rolling By
• Montrose - Montrose -- Space Station #5
• Hawkwind - PRX5 -- Uncle Sam's on Mars
• Picchio Dal Rozzo - Picchio Dal Rozzo -- Seppia
• Randy California - Kapt Kopter and the Fabulous Twirly Birds -- Things Yet to Come
• Ten Years After - Ssssh -- If You Should Love Me
• Mick Ronson - Play Don't Worry -- Angel #9
• Caravan - Caravan and the New Symphonia -- The Love in Your Eye
• Strawbs - Ghost -- Ghost
• Jethro Tull - Living in the Past -- Dr. Bogenbroom
• Emerson Lake and Palmer - Emerson Lake and Palmer -- Barbarian
• Guru Guru - Hinten -- The Meaning of Meaning
• Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures -- Black Napkins
• Can - Soundtracks -- Tango Whiskyman
• Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn -- Interstellar Overdrive
• Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond -- Dancing Madly Backwards (On a Sea of Air)
• The Who - Direct Hits -- Call Me Lighting
• Rare Bird - As your Mind Flies by -- Central Park

Stonehenge Playlist 07-10-09

This week's Classic Rock Album was Leslie West's 'Mountain', and saw Leslie and the Stonehenge team celebrating the 40th anniversary of his debut LP (and the birth of 'Mountain', who formed as a result of Felix Pappalardi producing the album).

Here's Mountain's version of 'Long Red', from this particular album, live at a little known concert called Woodstock in 1969:



Artist - Album - Song

• Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of -- Head in the Clouds
• Warhorse - Red Sea -- Back in Time
• Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself -- Shadows of Grief
• West, Bruce and Lang - Why Dontcha -- Pleasure
• Art - Supernatural Fairy Tale -- I think I'm Going Weird
• Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean -- A Tab in the Ocean
• Spirit - Clear -- So Little Time to Fly
• Genesis - Foxtrot -- Can Utility and the Coastliners
• Van Der Graaf Generator - World Record -- Meurglys III (the Songwriters Guild)
• Steve Hillage - L -- Electric Gypsy
• The Seeds - The Seeds -- Evil Hoodoo
• Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation -- Bad Reputation
• UFO - Force It -- Too Much of Nothing
• Bob Seger System - Ramblin Gamblin Man -- Ivory
• Pink Floyd - Relics -- Arnold Layne
• Strawbs - Hero and Heroine -- Round and Round
• Ipsissimus - Insane Times -- Hold On
• Rare Earth - Ecology -- No. 1 Man
• Dr. Feelgood - Malpractice -- Because you're mine
• Mike Harrison - Mike Harrison -- Pain
• Buddy Miles Express - Expressway to your Skull -- Wrap it Up
• The Pink Fairies - Never Never Land -- The Snake
• Armageddon - Armageddon -- Basking in the White of the Midnight Sun
• East of Eden - Jig-A-Jig -- Jig-A-Jig
• Highway Robbery - For Love or Money -- Fifteen
• Mott the Hoople - Brain Capers -- Death may be your Santa Claus
• King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King -- In the Court of the Crimson King
• Nice - Elegy -- My Back Pages

Stonehenge Playlist 07-03-09

YES, I am finally updating the blog! Who knew that we'd take a 6 month blogging haitus... If you have been returning to this site to get our playlists from recent weeks, we can only apologise, and promise you we'll be catching up this month to be back on the right track and posting up-to-date weekly tracklistings by February, all being well.

So, come with me back in time to Independence Day 2009... I was actually out for this Show, as I was doing a 2-night stand with Judi Chicago and Noot d' Noot at Smith's Olde Bar in honour of the holiday. However, the Dr. was in (with TVS), and treated us to a 'Monster' Set of the finest rock music.

The classic rock album of the week was Steppenwolf's 'Monster', so here's some period footage of the band in action with 'Monster' (apparently at the Playboy Mansion?!?!).



Here's the rest of the Show (pens and paper at the ready...)

Artist - Album - Song

• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Stars and Stripes Forever -- Stars and Stripes Forever
• Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers -- Volunteers
• United States of America - United States of America -- The American Metaphysical Circus
• The Nice - Elegy -- America
• Yes - Yesterdays -- America
• Lighting - Lighting -- Prelude to Opus IV
• Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk -- Please Don't Worry
• Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment -- Mean Town Blues
• Canned Heat - Boogie with Canned Heat -- Fried Hockey Boogie
• Stone the Crows - Stone the Crows -- I Saw America
• Neil Young - Harvest -- Alabama
• Chris Farlowe - single -- Paint it Black
• It's a Beautiful Day - Live @ Carnegie Hall -- White Bird
• Mott the Hoople - Mad Shadows -- Thunderbuck Ram
• Oda - The Black Album -- Wasn't very long
• McPhee - McPhee -- The Wrong Time
• Goodthunder - Goodthunder -- Barking at the Ants
• The James Gang - Rides Again -- The Bomber: Closet Queen / Bolero / Cast your Fate to the Wind
• Jack Bruce - Harmony Row -- Your Burned the Tables on Me
• Stephen Stills - Live -- Crossroads / You Can't Catch Me
• Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley -- Cut Across Shorty
• Steppenwolf - At Your Birthday Party -- Chicken Wolf
• Three Man Army - Two -- Irving
• David Bowie - Live -- Jean Genie
• Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets -- Let There be more Light
• Deep Purple - Machine Head -- Lazy
• Jethro Tull - Benefit -- A Time for Everything
• Excalibur - The First Album -- Feelin's
• Genesis - Nursery Cryme -- The Musical Box
• West Bruce and Lang - Why Dontcha -- Love is Worth the Blues
• The Standells - Dirty Water -- Dirty Water