Stonehenge Playlist 08-20-10

This weeks classic rock album began the show in fine style: The Yardbirds -- Roger the Engineer. We played the US reissue on Epic from 1983, as it neatly compiles all of the different tracks from the US and UK releases from the Summer of 1966. '66? Yes, these boys were way ahead of their time. The Reissue also throws in the single 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' and it's B-Side 'Psycho Daisies', which are notable for being one of the earliest (some would say the first) psychedelic singles, and featuring Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in twin guitar mode! Phew!

Here's some rare footage of the group with Page and Beck (hilariously, Page is playing bass here) from a show in France in 1966 before Beck jumped ship, leading eventually to the spawning of the beast we call Led Zeppelin.

Artist - Album - Song

• Smile - Ghost of a Smile -- Doin' Alright
• Grodeck Whipperjenny - Grodeck Whipperjenny -- Inside or Outside / Evidence for the Existence of the Unconcious
• McKendree Spring - McKendree Spring -- If the Sun Should Rise
• Backstreet Crawler - Koss -- The Band Plays On / It's a Long Way to the Top
• Earth and Fire - Song of the Marching Children -- Storm and Thunder
• Spirit - Spirit -- Mechanical World
• The Third Power - Believe -- Persecution
• Julian's Treatment - A Time Before This -- Phantom City
• Jethro Tull - Benefit -- To Cry You a Song
• Nektar - Down to Earth -- Oh Willy
• Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley -- My Way of Giving
• Affinity - Affinity -- I am and So are You
• Randy California - Kapt. Kopter and the Fabulous Twirly Birds -- Things Yet to Come
• Electric Light Orchestra - On the Third Day -- Ma Ma Ma Belle / Dreaming of 4000
• The J. Geils Band - The Morning After -- I Don't Need You No More
• Byrds - Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde -- This Wheels on Fire
• Yes - Yessongs -- Mood for a Day
• King Crimson - Red -- One More Red Nightmare
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- Tank
• Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster -- S.L.Y.
• The Power of Zeus - The Gospel According to Zeus -- The Death Trip
• Electric Prunes - B Side to Dr. Do Good -- Hideaway
• Peter Banks - Two Sides Of -- Battles / Knights / Last Eclipse
• Al Stewart - Past, Present, and Future -- Nostradamus
• Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By -- Flight / As Your Mind Flies By / Vacuum / New York / Central Park
• Ice Cross - Ice Cross -- Jesus Freaks
• Focus - Live at the Rainbow -- Hocus Pocus

Stonehenge Playlist 08-13-10

This week's Classic Rock LP was a freshly purchased excellent copy of 'L', the second solo LP from Gong alumnus Steve Hillage, produced by Todd Rundgren featuring Utopia, recorded in New York and released in 1976. A year later in Germany, here's Steve and his band getting Hurdy and Gurdy.

Artist - Album - Song

• Skid Row - 34 Hours -- Go, I'm Never Gonna Let You
• Arcadium - Breath Awhile -- It Takes a Woman
• Vanilla Fudge - Rock & Roll -- Need Love
• Euclid - Up All Night (20 Heavy Nuggets from the Golden Age of Hard Rock) -- Gimme Some Lovin'
• One in a Million - Double Sight -- Fredereek Hernando
• Pavlov's Dog - Pampered Menial -- Them From Subway Sue
• Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man -- I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
• Byrds - Never Before -- She Has a Way
• Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man -- I Knew I'd Want You
• Byrds - Fifth Dimension -- 8 Miles High
• Gene Clark - With the Gosdin Brothers -- Elevator
• Gene Clark - Gene Clark -- Tears of Rage
• Little Feat - Dixie Chicken -- Fat Man in the Bathtub
• Brainticket - Cotton Wood Hill -- Brainticket pt one Conclusion
• Can - Soundtracks -- Mother Sky
• The Doors - The Doors -- Twentieth Century Fox
• The Band - Music from the Big Pink -- Chest Fever
• The Climax Chicago Blues Band - The Climax Chicago Blues Band -- And Lonely
• Savoy Brown - Raw Sienna -- A Hard Way to Go
• Vinegar Joe - Vinegar Joe -- See the World
• Golden Earring - Moontan -- Are You Receiving Me
• Trapeze - Medusa -- Black Cloud
• Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time -- Spiral Galaxy 28948
• Genesis - Foxtrot -- Can-Utility and the Coastliners
• Nazareth - Loud and Proud -- The Ballad of Hollis Brown
• 13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds of -- Kingdom of Heaven
• Agnes Strange - Strange Flavour -- Children of the Absurd
• Go - Go -- Solitude / Nature / Airover / Crossing the line / Man of Leo / Stellar / Space Theme
• Focus - In and Out of Focus -- Focus

Stonehenge Playlist 08-06-10

Terry Reid passed up the chance to be lead singer in Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. However, he shouldn't feel like he made the wrong choices in his career, as he received the ultimate accolade this year: 40 years after its release, we played his second LP as a Classic Rock Album on Stonehenge!

Check out this wunderbar live version of 'Rich Kid's Blues' recorded for German TV in '69. It's easily the equal of the LP version.

Artist - Album - Song

• Small Faces - Autumn Stone -- Wham, Bam, Thank You Mam
• The Greatest Show on Earth - The Going's Easy -- Borderline
• Ten Years After - A Space in Time -- One of These Days
• Love Sculpture - Forms and Feelings -- You Can't Catch Me
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland -- 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
• Kaleidoscope - Faintly Blowing -- Faintly Blowing
• Crosby, Still and Nash - Crosby, Still and Nash -- Helplessly Hoping
• Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead -- Uncle John's Band
• McGuinness Flint - McGuinness Flint -- Brother Psyche
• Brinsley Schwartz - Brinsley Schwartz -- Lady Constant
• Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children -- Higher and Higher
• Paice, Ashton, Lord - Malice in Wonderland -- Malice in Wonderland
• Deep Purple - In Rock -- Into the Fire
• Rabbitt - Boys will be Boys -- Locomotive Breath
• T-Rex - Slider -- Rabbit Fighter
• Captain Beefheart - Lick my Decals Off, Baby -- The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or the Big Dig)
• Jeff Simmons - Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up -- I'm in the Music Business
• Ultimate Spinach - Ultimate Spinach -- Ego Trip / Sacrifice of the Moon
• Traffic - Shoot out at the Fantasy Factory -- Shoot out at the Fantasy Factory
• Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Is Spreading -- The Market Place
• Paul Kantner and Grace Slick - Sunfighter -- Sunfighter
• Roger Daltry - One of the Boys -- Avenging Annie
• Gong - The Big Deal -- Hip Hipnotise You
• Peter Hamill - Nadir's Big Chance -- Open Your Eyes
• Blue Effect - Modry Efekt & Radim Hladik -- Boty
• Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers -- Tribal Gathering
• Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost -- God If I Saw Her Now
• Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby -- Ooohhh Baby
• McDonald and Giles - McDonald Giles -- Flight of the Ibis
• King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon -- Cadence and Cascade
• Seatrain - Seatrain -- Pudding Street
• The Nice - The Nice -- For Example

Stonehenge Playlist 07-30-10

This show was pre-recorded, in case you were wondering why we weren't answering the phone...

The Classic Album of the Week was the amazing self-titled debut LP from Hawkwind (1970). This LP demonstrates that Dave Brock and his crew were already nearly fully formed as songwriters and psychedelic warriors at the turn of the decade. It's a white hot LP full of para-noise and smoking guitar from Huw Lloyd-Langton, recorded live in the studio and produced by Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor.

Artist - Album - Song

• Cream - Wheels of Fire -- Anyone for Tennis
• Sam Gopal - Escalator -- Cold Embrace
• Amon Duul II -- Tanz der Lemminge -- Paralysed Paradise
• High Tide - Sea Shanties -- Futilist's Lament
• Gong - Flying Teapot -- Pot Head Pixies
• The Sopwith Camel - The Sopwith Camel -- Frantic Desolation
• Ars Nova - Ars Nova -- I Was Once
• John Lennon Plastic Ono Band - Imagine -- Give Me Some Truth
• Nicky Hopkins - The Tin Man Was a Dreamer -- Speed On
• George Harrison - Living in the Material World -- Don't Let Me Wait too Long
• Gary Wright - Extractions -- I Know a Place
• Sweet - Desolation Boulevard -- Sweet FA
• Sparks - Kimono My Home -- Amateur Hour
• Frumpy - All Will Be Changed -- Indian Rope Man
• Procol Harum - Home -- Whaling Stories
• Uriel - Arzachel -- Queen St. Gang
• Bulldog Breed - Made in England -- Silver

Our Classic Rock Albums Playlist, Expanded!

A dedicated listener of the show, Mr. Ted Cogswell, has kindly taken our running list of the weekly Classic Rock Albums featured on the Show and has converted it to a list on rateyourmusic.com, which means you can now view the full list, album art, track-listings and release details. Thanks Ted!

View the full list here.

Our own humble google document is definitely less pretty, but will be updated every Friday, if you want to know what's playing as it happens.

Stonehenge Playlist 07-23-10

This weeks classic rock album came courtesy of Scotland's own Alex Harvey and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band with 'Next' (1973). This was Alex Harvey's 9th Studio Album, and his second with the Sensational Band. Let's enjoy their performance of the title track on the Old Grey Whistle Test (courtesy of Auntie Beeb).

Artist - Album -- Song

• Savage Resurrection - Savage Resurrection -- Thing in E
• The Illusion - If It's So -- Man
• The Electric Flag - The Trip (Original Soundtrack) -- Peter's Trip
• Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown -- Come and Buy
• Chocolate Watch Band - No Way Out -- Gone and Passes By
• Wishbone Ash - Argus -- Blowin Free
• Deep Purple - Made in Japan -- Highway Star
• Uriah Heep - Salisbury -- Bird of Prey
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Trilogy -- Trilogy
• Harmonia - Deluxe -- Monza (Rauf Und Runter)
• Hawkwind - Hawkwind -- Hurry on Sundown
• Mark / Almond -- Mark / Almond -- The City
• Buddy Miles - A Message to the People -- Don't Keep Me Wondering / Midnight Rider
• Sly and The Family Stone - Stand -- Sex Machine
• Mott the Hoople - Wild Life -- Laydown
• Spirit - 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus -- Mr. Skin
• Freedom - Is More Than a Word -- Going Down
• Terry Reid - Terry Reid -- Silver White Light
• Led Zeppelin - IV -- The Battle of Evermore
• Audience - Friends, Friends Friend -- Right on their Side
• Rare Earth - Ecology -- #1 Man
• Zior - Every Inch a Man -- Strange Kind of Magic
• Slade - Play It Loud -- Shapes of Things to Come
• Culpeppers Orchard - Culpeppers Orchard -- Your Song and Mine
• Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two -- Evil Woman
• Montrose - Montrose -- I Don't Want It
• Atila - Reviure -- Atila
• Nektar - Remember the Future -- Recognition / Let it Grow
• Pink Floyd - Meddle -- A Pillow of Winds
• Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs -- Bridge of Sighs
• Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow -- Today