Stonehenge Playlist 09-25-09

Stupid sports continues to stand in the way of ART this week, but we fought back hard with a thick slab of hairy music. Here's some Wishbone Ash, live on the Old Grey Whistle Test for the Beeb in 1973!



Artist - Album - Song

• Stepson - Stepson -- Rule in the Book
• Small Faces - The Autumn Stone -- Wham Bam Thank You Mam
• Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage -- Jail Bait
• Fat - Fat -- Country Girl
• The Sacred Mushrooms - The Sacred Mushrooms -- I Don't Like You
• Wild Turkey - Turkey -- See You Next Tuesday
• Cream - Wheels of Fire -- Deserted Cities of the Heart
• Bob Dylan - Before the Flood -- Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35
• Randy Newman - Good Ole Boys -- Louisiana 1927
• Chris Squire - Fish out of Water -- Hold on to Your Hand
• Crosby Nash - Another Stoney Evening -- Traction in the Rain
• Guess Who - So Long Bannatyne - Rain Dance
• The Illinois Speed Press - The Illinois Speed Press -- Get in the Wind
• J. Geils Band - Blow Your Face Out (live) -- Wait
• J. Geils Band - Full House -- Hard Drivin Man
• Jethro Tull - Stand Up -- Reasons for Waiting
• The Sky - Don't Hold Back -- Feels Like 1,000 Yrs.
• Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 -- As the Crow Flies
• Leafhound - Growers of Mushrooms - Growers of Mushrooms
• Pretty Things - Parachute -- Sickle Clowns
• The Who - Sell Out -- Relax
• David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World -- The Man Who Sold the World
• Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time -- Assault and Battery
• Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time -- The Golden Void (pt 2)
• Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure -- Do the Strand
• Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Filmore East -- Whipping Post
• Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor -- Rope Ladder to the Moon
• Jackie Lomax - Is This What You Want -- Sour Milk Sea

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Stonehenge Playlist 09-18-09

This weeks CRA (Classic Rock Album, if you didn't already know by now) was the self-titled debut album from Santana, released hot on the heels of their blistering Woodstock performance 40 years ago.

Everyone has seen that performance from the Woodstock movie, so let's just take in the lovely illustration from the cover instead, shall we?

Artist - Album - Song

• Goodthunder - Goodthunder -- I Can't Get Thru to You
• Leigh Stephens - Red Weather -- Another Dose of Life
• Ferris - 1971 -- Mama
• Mighty Baby - Mighty Baby -- Trials of a City
• Stalk Forrest Group - The Elektra Recordings -- Donovan's Monkey
• Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation -- 7 Screaming Diz-Busters
• James Gang - Rides Again -- Funk #49
• Buddy Miles Express - Electric Church -- 69 Freedom Special
• Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two -- Lost in My Dream
• Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment -- Rollin and Tumblin'
• The Great Society - Conspicious Only in it's Absence -- Sally Go Round The Roses
• Climax Blues Band - Play On -- Flight
• The Electric Prunes - Underground -- The Great Banana Hoax
• Spring - Spring Two -- Jack & Jim
• Pussy - Pussy Plays -- Come Back June
• Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye -- Astronauts Nightmare
• Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond -- Mesmerization Eclipse
• Toad - Tomorrow Blue -- Thoughts
• Free - Fire and Water -- Fire and Water
• Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster -- Friday the Thirteenth
• Rufus Zuphall - Phallobst -- Makrojel
• Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother -- Fat Old Sun
• Deep Purple - Fireball -- Fools
• Message - The Dawn Anew is Coming -- When I'm Home
• Epitaph - Epitaph -- Moving to the Country
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Tarkus -- Eruption / Stones of Years / Iconoclast / Mass / Manticore / Battlefield / Aquatarkus
• Procol Harum - Salty Dog -- Still There'll be More
• Tomorrow - Tomorrow -- My White Bicycle

Stonehenge Playlist 09-11-09

More sports unfortunately stopped us from enjoying our usual weekly Classic Rock LP (played from beginning to end each week from 8pm EST).

However, we had plenty of time to dig into our vault of some of the best music of the 20th Century! Played for the first time on the Show this week was the excellent group Thunder and Roses from Philadelphia. Their excellent 1969 LP 'King Of The Black Sunrise' is well worth a listen if you like your fuzzy psychedelia served with a generous amount of 'Cream':



Artist - Album -- Song

• Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak -- Warriors
• Thunder and Roses - Kings of the Black Sunrise -- White Lace and Strange
• Nazareth - Loud and Proud -- Go Down Fighting
• Brainbox - Brainbox -- Amsterdam, the First Days
• Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls -- Dignitaries of Hell
• Flower Travellin' Band - Satori -- Satori Pt. 2
• Horselips - The Train -- Dearg Doom
• Tomorrow - Tomorrow -- Revolution
• Doors - Doors -- Break on Thorough
• Groundhogs - Hogwash -- 3744 James Road
• Mountain - Climbing -- Sittin on a Rainbow
• Yes - Time and a Word -- The Prophet
• Stray Dogs - While You're Down There -- Worldwinds
• Boomerang - Boomerang -- Juke It
• Gong - Angel's Egg -- Sold to the Highest Buddha
• Beacon Street Union - The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union -- My Love Is
• Bob Seger and the Last Heard - Michigan Nuggets -- Heavy Music Pt. 2
• Mick Farren - Mona, the Carniverous Circus -- Mona (The Whole Trip)
• Barclay James Harvest - Barclay James Harvest -- Taking Some Time On
• Ten Years After - Rock 'N' Roll to the World -- Standing at the Station
• Tempest - Living in Fear -- Funeral Empire
• UFO - Flying -- Silver Bird
• Fever Tree - Another Time Another Place -- Don't Come Crying to me Girl
• Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Second Wind -- Truth
• Genesis - Foxtrot -- Horizons/ Supper's Ready
• Slade - Slayed? -- Mamma Were All Crazee Now

Stonehenge Playlist 09-04-09

This week I had the very great pleasure of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Can's debut LP, Monster Movie (1969, of course), featuring the singular vocal contributions of America's Malcolm Mooney laid over the metronomic funky cosmic oomph! of one of Germany's finest ever groups.

Here's a strange 1968 clip from a German movie which features 'The Inner Space' (the band which later that year became Can) in full lounge mode!



Artist - Album -- Song

• UFO - Phenomenon -- Rock Bottom
• Bang - Bang -- Questions
• Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond -- Frozen Over
• Buffalo - Dead Forever -- Dead Forever
• Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride -- Don't Look Around
• Moby Grape - Moby Grape -- Omaha
• Stone The Crows - Stone The Crows -- Raining in Your Heart
• Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 -- Cradle Rock
• Hydra - Hydra -- Going Down
• Blues Image - Blues Image -- Reality Does Not Inspire
• Sugarloaf - Spaceship Earth -- Tongue in Cheek
• Colosseum - The Grass is Greener -- Elegy / Bolero
• Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs -- Too Rolling Stone
• Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend -- Baby, You're a Liar
• Kraan - Andy Nogger -- Holiday am Materhorn
• The Next Morning - The Next Morning -- The Next Morning
• Country Joe and The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body -- Superbird
• Flamin' Groovies - Sneakers -- I'm Drowning
• Salvation - Salvation -- Think Twice
• It's a Beautiful Day - It's a Beautiful Day -- Bombay Calling
• Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum -- Summertime Blues
• J. Geils Band - Nightmares -- Getting Out
• Funkadelic - Maggot Brain -- Maggot Brain
• Hawkwind - In Search of Space -- You're Only Dreaming
• Pink Fairies - Never Never Land -- Do It
• Pretty Things - Singles -- See Emily Play
• The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request -- Light Years From Home
• Tintern Abbey - Beeside -- Beeside
• Aphrodities Child - 666 -- Side B Aegian Sea / Seven Bowls / The Wakening Beast / Lament / The Marching Beast The Battle of the Locusts / Do It / Tribulation / The Beast / Ofis
• West Bruce and Lang - Why Dontcha - Why Dontcha

Stonehenge Playlist 08-28-09

Dr Rock was out-and-about this week, so we drafted in Atlanta's James Joyce to bring his dulcet tones and a big crate of records to the studio for the evening. Check out James' excellent blog on the Atlanta music scene at http://beyondfailure.blogspot.com/

No Classic Rock Album, due to sports, but plenty of the finest music in the galaxy...

• Moby Grape - Moby Grape - Hey Grandma
• Mott the Hoople - Mott the Hoople -- Rock and Roll Queen
• Groundhogs - Split -- Cherry Red
• Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You -- Gershatzer!
• Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido -- Space is Deep
• Brian Eno - Here Comes the Warm Jets -- Baby's on Fire
• Montrose - Montrose -- Rock the Nation
• AC/DC - Jailbreak -- Baby Please Don't Go
• Budgie - Budgie -- Rape of the Locks
• Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Sonic's Rendezvous Band -- Dangerous
• Stooges - Raw Power -- Penetration
• Curly Curve - Krautrock; Music for Your Brain -- Queen of Spades
• Birth Control - Krautrock; Music for Your Brain -- Gamma Ray
• Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself -- Look At Yourself
• Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath -- Warning
• Deep Purple - In Rock -- Livin' Wreck
• Blue Cheer - Outside Inside -- The Hunter
• Trapeze - Medusa -- Jury
• High Tide - Sea Shanties -- Death Warmed Up
• Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two -- Better By You Better Than Me
• Pink Fairies - Never Never Land -- Uncle Harry's Last Freakout
• Eiliff - Girlrls ! -- Kings of the Frogs
• Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 -- Walk on Hot Coals

Stonehenge Playlist 08-21-09

August 1969 saw Grand Funk Railroad release their debut LP 'On Time'. 40 years later, we honor this classic rock LP! It's a great no-messing rock and roll slab of wax from this fine bottom-heavy band (bass, that is).

Here's a great rare video of the band in action that year and the very same month at the Texas International Pop Festival (August 30 to September 1, 1969):



Artist - Album -- Song

• Mc5 - High Time -- Baby Won't Cha
• Ten Years After - SSSSH -- Bad Scene
• Parliament - Osmium -- Red Hot Mama
• Yardbirds - Little Games -- Rollin and Tumblin
• Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails -- Mona
• The Deviants - Ptooff ! -- I'm Coming Home
• Pacific Gas and Electric - Get It On -- The Hunter
• Climax Blues Band - FM/Live -- Seventh Son
• Osybisa - Osybisa -- The Dawn
• Nice - The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack -- Passing the Time
• Humble Pie - Smokin -- 30 Days in the Hole
• Black Sabbath - Paranoid -- Electric Funeral
• Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla -- One For the Road
• Montrose - Warner Brothers Presents... -- Matriarch
• Nazareth - Hair of the Dog -- Hair of the Dog
• Thin Lizzy - BBC Sessions -- Emerald
• Rainbow - Rising -- Stargazer
• Steppenwolf - Live -- Hey Lawdy Mama / Magic Carpet Ride
• Journey - Next -- On a Saturday Night
• Mike Quatro Jam Band - Paintings -- Court of the Crimson King
• Gypsy - Gypsy -- Gypsy Queen Pt 1
• Nektar - Tab in the Ocean -- Cryin in the Dark / King of Twilight
• Steve Hillage - L -- 8 Miles High
• Budgie - In For the Kill -- Crash Course in Brain Surgery
• Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music -- Steppenwolf
• Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Impossible Dream -- Long Hair Music
• The Who - Sell Out -- I Can't Reach You
• Peanut Butter Conspiracy - The Great Conspiracy -- Living Loving Life
• Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger Trinity - Streetnoise -- Flesh Failures
• Paul McCartney - Ram -- Too Many People
• The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street -- Rip This Joint

Stonehenge Playlist 08-14-09

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of some festival or other, we began the evening with 'Woodstock - Original Soundtrack'. Judging from this photo, it was a real sausage fest.

Artist - Album -- Song

• Sweetwater - Sweetwater -- What's Wrong
• Quill - Quill -- BBY
• Jefferson Airplane - The Woodstock Experience/Live -- 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
• Johnny Winter - The Woodstock Experience/Live -- Mean Town Blues
• Janis Joplin - The Woodstock Experience/Live -- Piece of My Heart
• Keef Hartley Band - The Battle of North West Six -- Believe in You
• Jeff Beck - Beck Ola -- Plinth
• Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead -- The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)
• Pink Floyd - Ummagumma -- Careful With that Axe Eugene
• Iron Knowledge - Chains and Black Exhaust -- Showstopper
• The Gods - Genesis -- Hey Bulldog
• Iron Butterfly - Ball -- It Must Be Love
• Santana - The Woodstock Experience/Live -- You Just Don't Care
• Mountain - Woodstock 2 -- Theme for an Imaginary Western
• Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On -- Rattlesnake Shake
• Black Bonzo - Lady of the Light -- Lady of the Light
• King Crimson - Red -- One More Red Nightmare
• Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach -- One Way Out
• Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond -- Dancing Madly Backwards
• Jethro Tull - This Was -- Cats Squirrel

Stonehenge Playlist 08-07-09

Yet more 1969 flavoured Classic Rock Album action this week, as we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the release of the ill-fated super-group's sole LP - Blind Faith! This was a group which never really got a chance to grow, suffocated by Cream-related hysteria, but it's a cool album with (unsurprisingly) great musicianship on display throughout.

Here's a nice mellow video from their performance in Hyde Park with King Crimson and the Rolling Stones. Appropriately covering 'Under My Thumb':



Artist - Album - Song

• Eric Clapton and Powerhouse - The Finer Things (Steve Winwood Box Set) -- Crossroads
• Ten Years After - Ten Years After -- I Want to Know
• Cream - Live Cream Vol II -- Steppin Out
• Ginger Bakers Air Force - Ginger Bakers Air Force -- Da Da Man
• Family - Entertainment -- Second Generation Woman
• Brainbox - Brainbox -- Amsterdam, the First Days
• Khan - Space Shanty -- Mixed up Man of the Mountains
• Matching Mole - Matching Mole -- Instant Pussy
• Caravan - Land of Grey and Pink -- Winter Wine
• Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets -- A Saucerful of Secrets
• Curved Air - Air Cut -- U.H.F.
• Grand Funk Railroad - On Time -- High on a Horse
• Clear Light - Clear Light -- The Ballad of Freddie and Larry
• Baker Gurvitz Army - Elysian Encounter -- Remember
• Free - Tons of Sobs -- Sweet Tooth
• The Band - Music from the Big Pink -- Chest Fever
• Thin Lizzy - Fighting -- King's Vengeance
• Rush - Fly by Night -- By-Tor and the Snow Dog
• Grobschnitt - Ballerman -- Solar Music Pt. 1
• Fleetwood Mac - English Rose -- Black Magic Woman
• Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult -- Transmaniacon MC
• James Gang - Rides Again -- Asshtonpark / Woman
• Justin Haywood John Lodge - Blue Jays -- This Morning
• Argent - Argent -- Dance in the Smoke
• Electric Light Orchestra - 2 -- Kuiama
• Tintern Abbey - Vacuum Cleaner -- Beeside
• Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other -- Refugees
• Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlane -- Breakin' in my Heart
• Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground -- Foggy Notion
• Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon -- Woodstock

Remember folks: if you have requests, you can email us all week at stonehenge@wrek.org

Also, you can catch the show on 91.1 fm in Metro Atlanta 8pm - 12am Friday nights, or stream the show live or in the archives over the following week by going to http://www.wrek.org/

-The Stonehenge Team