Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Stonehenge Playlist 02-15-13

The Classic Album of the Week, played from beginning to end, was the self-titled LP by Spirit, from (1968).



Artist - Album -- Song
  • Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces -- Tin Soldier
  • Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off -- Blues from an Airplane
  • The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Is Spreading -- The Market Place
  • The Byrds - The Fifth Dimension -- Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go)
  • The Byrds - The Fifth Dimension -- Captain Soul
  • Love - False Start -- Stand Out
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? -- Red House
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced -- Can You See Me
  • Randy California - Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds -- Things Yet to Come
  • Seatrain - Sea Train -- Sea Train
  • Moby Grape - Moby Grape -- 8:05
  • The Guess Who - American Woman -- 8:15
  • Mike Harrison - Smokestack Lightning -- Smokestack Lightning
  • Deep Purple - In Rock -- Speed King
  • The Doors - L.A. Woman -- The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
  • The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money -- Are You Hung Up
  • The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money -- Who Needs The Peace Corps
  • The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money -- Concentration Moon
  • Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Mirror Man -- Kandy Korn
  • The Flock - The Flock -- Store Bought - Store Thought
  • Benninghoff's Bad Rock Blues Band - Beethoven Bittersweet -- The Boggy Bayou Revival (Adapted from Beethoven's Sixth)
  • The Allman Brothers Band - The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies - Isle Of Wight/Atlanta Pop Festival -- Whipping Post
  • Mountain - The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies - Isle Of Wight/Atlanta Pop Festival -- Stormy Monday
  • Amon Düül II - Carnival In Babylon -- Shimmering Sand
  • Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Eno and Nico - June 1, 1974 -- Shouting in a Bucket Blues
  • Premiata Forneria Marconi - Chocolate Kings -- Harlequin
  • Gypsy - Gypsy -- Gypsy Queen - Part One
  • Gypsy - Gypsy -- Gypsy Queen - Part Two
  • Yes - Time and a Word -- Time and a Word
  • Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf 7 -- Renegade
  • The Flying Burrito Brothers - Last of the Red Hot Burritos -- Ain't That a Lot of Love
  • Andy Pratt - Andy Pratt -- Avenging Annie
  • Taste - Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 -- Sinner Boy
  • Bo Hansson - Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings -- Fog on the Barrow-Downs

Stonehenge Playlist 02-08-13

No Classic Rock Album this week as we had a truncated show.  We found time to celebrate the recently departed Reg Presley: a legend amongst men!



Artist - Album -- Song
  • The Troggs - Wild Thing -- From Home
  • The Troggs - Wild Thing -- I Just Sing
  • NRBQ - Scraps -- Get a Grip
  • Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter -- I'm Yours and I'm Hers
  • Steve Miller Band - The Joker -- Sugar Babe
  • Hot Tuna - Double Dose -- Funky #7
  • Mike Harrison - Mike Harrison -- Hard Headed Woman 
  • Fleetwood Mac - English Rose -- Albatross
  • The Undisputed Truth - The Undisputed Truth -- Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
  • Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother -- Summer '68
  • Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf -- The Pusher
  • The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer -- Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
  • The Byrds - The Fifth Dimension -- Eight Miles High
  • Tomorrow - Psychedelia At Abbey Road - 1965 To 1969 -- Why
  • Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico -- Generale

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Stonehenge Playlist 02-01-13

This week's Clasic Rock Album, played from beginning to end, was The Move's 'Split Ends', a 1972 US release of tracks from 'Message from the Country' and some UK single releases not before available to the US.  A great collection, featuring the original release of 'Do Ya', later of course a blockbuster success for ELO.  Here's a cool rough version from the expanded reissue of 'Message from the Country':



Artist - Album -- Song
  • The Counts - 2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage & Psychedelia From U.S.A. And Destination Records -- Stop Cheating on Me
  • Lowell George & The Factory - Lightning-Rod Man -- Candy Cane Madness
  • The Buckinghams - 2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage & Psychedelia From U.S.A. And Destination Records -- I'm a Man
  • The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me -- Time Won't Let Me
  • The Grass Roots - Feelings -- Feelings
  • Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers - Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers -- Elevator Operator
  • David Bowie - David Live -- 1984
  • David Bowie - David Live -- Rebel Rebel
  • David Bowie - David Live -- Moonage Daydream
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico -- Heroin
  • Mott the Hoople - Live -- Rest In Peace
  • Mott the Hoople - Live -- All the Young Dudes
  • Mott the Hoople - Live -- Walking with a Mountain
  • Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor -- Theme for an Imaginary Western
  • Mountain - Climbing! -- Never in My Life
  • Colosseum - Daughter of Time -- Take Me Back to Doomsday
  • Dick Heckstall-Smith - A Story Ended -- The Pirate's Dream
  • Grand Funk - Caught In The Act -- Foot Stompin' Music
  • Vinegar Joe - Six Star General -- Let Me Down Easy
  • Stray Dog - While You're Down There -- I Would
  • The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock & Roll -- Fingerprint File
  • Humble Pie - Smokin' -- Sweet Peace and Time
  • Ginger Baker - Stratavarious -- Juju
  • King Crimson - Lizard -- Prince Rupert Awakes
  • McDonald & Giles - McDonald & Giles -- Suite In C (incl. Turnham Green, Here I Am And Others)
  • Man - Back Into the Future -- C'mon
  • Faces - A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse -- Debris
  • Splinter - The Place I Love -- Somebody's City
  • The Who - Magic Bus -- Doctor, Doctor
  • The Hollies - Stop! Stop! Stop! -- Stop! Stop! Stop!

Stonehenge Playlist 01-04-13

This week's Classic Rock Album was the bar-raising self-titled 1969 LP debut from Yes.



Artist - Album -- Song
  • The Beefeaters - Garden of Delights -- Please Let Me Love You
  • The Byrds - (untitled) -- Hungry Planet
  • Rhinoceros - Rhinoceros -- Apricot Brandy
  • Jon Entwistle - Whistle Rymes -- Ten Little Friends
  • The Who - Live at Leeds -- Young Man Blues
  • The Stooges - Fun House -- Down On The Street
  • Siren - Strange Locomotion -- Stride
  • Audience - The House on the Hill -- You're Not Smilin'
  • Lindisfarne - Nicely Out of Tune -- Lady Eleanor
  • Family - Fearless -- Take Your Partners
  • Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You -- Nobody Else
  • T. Rex - T. Rex -- Jewel
  • Renaissance - Renaissance -- Island
  • The Steve Miller Band - Recall The Beginning... A Journey From Eden -- Fandango
  • Grin - Gone Crazy -- Beggar's Day (Eulogy To Danny Whitten)
  • Robin Trower - Robin Trower Live! -- Too Rolling Stoned
  • Julius Brockington - The Doors of Perception -- Rock Steady
  • Mandrill - Mandrilland -- After the Race
  • Tower of Power - Urban Renewal -- Walkin' Up Hip Street
  • Lee Michaels - Carnival of Life -- Carnival of Life
  • Ethos - Ardour -- Intrepid Traveller
  • Klaatu - Klaatu -- Little Neutrino
  • Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory -- Playing the Game
  • Kansas - Kansas -- Belexes
  • King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon -- In The Wake Of Poseidon
  • (Including Libra's Theme)
  • Pete Sinfield - Still -- Under the Sky
  • The Doors - Alive, She Cried -- Gloria
  • Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida -- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
  • Shinki Chen - Shinki Chen & His Friends -- Freedom Of A Mad Paper Lantern
  • Jericho Jones - Junkies, Monkeys and Donkies -- So Come On
  • Badfinger - Magic Christian Music -- Rock of Ages
  • Screaming Lord Sutch - Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends -- Flashing Lights
  • James Gang - Thirds -- Midnight Man
  • Flower Travellin' Band - Made in Japan -- Kamikaze

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Stonehenge Playlist 01-25-13

No Classic Rock Album this week, due to time constraints, but a lot of the finest music of the 20th century!  Here's a great video of Crabby Appleton arriving by boat and jamming on the beach.  Got milk?



Artist - Album -- Song
  • Crabby Appleton - Crabby Appleton -- Go Back
  • Michael Fennelly - Lane Changer -- Won't You Please Do That
  • Crabby Appleton - Rotten to the Core -- Lucy
  • Mike Fennelly - Lane Changer -- Dark Night
  • Crabby Appleton - Crabby Appleton -- Hunger for Love
  • Mike Fennelly - Lane Changer -- Watch Yerself
  • Neil Innes & the World - Lucky Planet -- 9-5 Pollution Blues
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland -- 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
  • Frank Zappa - Hot Rats -- Peaches En Regalia
  • David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name -- What Are Their Names
  • Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire -- A Child Is Coming
  • Spirit - Clear -- Dark Eyed Woman
  • Pig Iron - Pig Iron -- I Put a Spell On You
  • Bodacious DF - Bodacious DF -- Twixt Two Worlds
  • Buzzy Linhart - Buzzy -- Sing Joy/Tutti Frutti
  • Michael Stanley - Michael Stanley -- Rock and Roll Man
  • Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get -- Days Gone By
  • Deep Purple - Deep Purple -- Why Didn't Rosemary?
  • The Nice - Ars Longa Vita Brevis -- America
  • The Nice - Elegy -- My Back Pages
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery -- Jerusalem
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery -- Toccata
  • Genesis - Trespass -- The Knife
  • Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless -- Sufficiently Breathless
  • Stealers Wheel - Stealers Wheel -- Outside Looking In
  • Roy Buchanan - Roy Buchanan -- Pete's Blues

Stonehenge Playlist 01-18-13


For this week's Classic Rock Album, we chose David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', originally released in 1969 as 'Man of Words / Man of Music'.  On a related note, here is an alternate version of one of the tracks from this LP.  This version was rerecorded in 1970 for a single release, and was Bowie's first collaboration with Mick Ronson, who is wailing in his familiar style here:


Artist - Album -- Song
  • Deep Purple - Stormbringer -- Stormbringer
  • Trapeze - You Are the Music... We're Just the Band -- Keepin' Time
  • Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow -- Man on the Silver Mountain
  • Humble Pie - Humble Pie -- Live With Me
  • Scorpions - Lonesome Crow -- Lonesome Crow
  • Jethro Tull - Benefit -- Teacher
  • Jethro Tull - Stand Up -- A New Day Yesterday
  • Chicken Shack - Accept Chicken Shack -- Telling Your Fortune
  • Hot Tuna - America's Choice -- Invitation
  • John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bare Wires -- Hartley Quits
  • Canned Heat - Future Blues -- So Sad (The World's in a Tangle)
  • Grand Funk - Grand Funk -- Paranoid
  • Keef Hartley - Overdog -- Overdog
  • Heads Hands & Feet - Heads Hands & Feet -- The More You Get, the More You Want
  • The American Dream - The American Dream -- Big Brother
  • Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage -- Vas Dis
  • The Velvet Underground - VU -- Ocean
  • The Pink Mice - In Synthesizer Sound -- Overtuere "Dichter und Bauer"
  • Lucifer's Friend - Banquet -- Spanish Galleon
  • Camel - Camel -- Slow Yourself Down
  • The Deviants - The Deviants 3 -- Rambling B(l)ack Transit Blues
  • The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band -- Don't Want You No More
  • The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band -- It's Not My Cross to Bear
  • Tommy James & the Shondells - Cellophane Symphony -- Cellophane Symphony
  • Black Sabbath - Paranoid -- Caravan
  • Pete Brown and Piblokto! - Thousands on a Raft -- Aeroplane Head Woman
  • The Edgar Broughton Band - Edgar Broughton Band -- The Birth
  • Beck, Bogert and Appice - Beck, Bogert and Appice -- Superstition
  • The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down -- Lost Woman
  • Cactus - Restrictions -- Guiltless Glider

Stonehenge Playlist 01-11-13

This week's classic album of the week was Steppenwolf - The Second (1968).  Here's one of the deeper cuts from the excellent second side:



Artist - Album -- Song
  • The Great Society with Grace Slick - Conspicuous Only In Its Absence -- White Rabbit
  • Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers -- Volunteers
  • The Zombies - I Love You (Single) -- I Love You 
  • Argent - Argent -- Freefall
  • James Gang - Yer' Album -- Bluebird
  • James Gang - Yer' Album -- Lost Woman
  • The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down -- The Nazz Are Blue
  • The Five Day Week Straw People - The Five Day Week Straw People -- Five Day Week Straw People
  • Autosalvage - Autosalvage -- Auto Salvage
  • Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man -- Hurdy Gurdy Man
  • The Fallen Angels - It's a Long Way Down -- Look at the Wind
  • The Monkees - The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees -- Writing Wrongs
  • Rare Earth - Get Ready -- Train to Nowhere
  • Alvin Lee & Mylon Le Fevre - On the Road to Freedom -- Fallen Angel
  • John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road -- The Super-natural
  • Quicksilver Messenger Service - Just for Love -- Fresh Air
  • It's a Beautiful Day - It's a Beautiful Day -- Bombay Calling
  • Flash - Flash -- Small Beginnings
  • Cowboy - 5'll Getcha Ten -- Seven Four Tune
  • Outlaws - Outlaws -- Green Grass & High Tides
  • Status Quo - On the Level -- Broken Man
  • Slade - Slade Alive! -- Hear Me Calling
  • Blue Öyster Cult - On Your Feet Or On Your Knees -- I Ain't Got You
  • Alice Cooper - Killer -- You Drive Me Nervous
  • Blue Goose - Blue Goose -- Inside Yourself
  • Osibisa - Woyaya -- Y Sharp
  • Santana - Abraxas -- Mother's Daughter
  • Santana - Abraxas -- Samba Pa Ti
  • Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die -- Glad
  • Love - Forever Changes -- A House Is Not a Motel
  • Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Safe as Milk -- Grown So Ugly
  • Kak - Kak-ola -- Rain
  • Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge -- Ticket to Ride
  • Tempest - Living in Fear -- Paperback Writer
  • Banchee - Banchee -- As Me Thinks