Poor Joyce Coffey of Epping, NH. She was recently arrested four times in 26 hours! Why? She played AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" quote-unquote "too loud!" Ed The Engineer, I, and even dumb-as-shit-in-a-box Scooter know that AC/DC can NEVER be too loud! Even if New Hampshire cops can't figure out that "Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution!" So, this week's episode of "RADIO NAPALM" is dedicated to Ms. Coffey. No, we don't play any AC/DC this week. But we sure do play loads of ALL-NEW punk and garage goodies from DOA, THE STRYPES, THE JIM JONES REVUE, THE OBN IIIs, BITERS, SUPERSUCKERS, CHEETAH CHROME, and more. The Garage is BRIMMING with loudness, this week!
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Friday, January 17, 2014
"RADIO NAPALM's" Everly Brothers Special: Songs Don And Phil Taught Us
The world's a far less melodic and harmonious place without the high-pitched, diatonic thirds of Phil Everly blending with his older brother Don. Phil passed away Jan. 3rd, already tarring a fresh new year. "RADIO NAPALM," of course, must honor the man and his genius by honoring the collective genius of The Everly Brothers. Therefore, regularly scheduled programming from The Garage this week to play Don and Phil's best, both big-selling and not, alongside homages from The Ventures, The Ramonas, Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones, and even Eddie Arnold! "RADIO NAPALM" presents as much The Everly Brothers' songs and stories as we can cram into an hour. Click the link and pass the chicken and listen (as one of their album titles put it):
"RADIO NAPALM" Everly Brothers Special: Songs Don And Phil Taught Us by "Radio Napalm" W/Tim Napalm on Mixcloud
Sunday, September 22, 2013
"RADIO NAPALM" Podcast # 12: In Celebration of Vernette Bader
Study that face. Remember it. Imprint it in your deepest recesses. This is the face of what police in North Charleston, South Carolina, consider a dangerous criminal. But to us Irregulars, she is a heroine.
She is Vernett Bader, and she is the woman taken into custody for the attempted stabbing of her roommate...because the asshole wouldn't stop playing THE EAGLES!
Here at "RADIO NAPALM," we think this is wrong! The roommate should be arrested for cruelly inflicting his shitty taste on the world! Vernett Bader deserves a medal, a book contract, and a tour of daytime talk shows.
Instead, we give her a radio show.
"RADIO NAPALM" was due to feature your requests this week, for the first time. And we still play them. But Vernett's story so moved Ed, Scooter, and I, we knew what we had to do: We had to dedicate this week's show to Vernett.
So yes, the show is pretty much as it always is. But it's all done in Vernett's honor.
Oh, here's the link - click and play:
And here's the playlist:
MAGAZINE - Shot By Both Sides
DAN SARTAIN - Now Now Now (with Jane Wiedlin) (Too Tough To Live, 2012)
THE EQUALS - Police On My Back (1968, Requested by Lonesome Dave Fisher, Austin, TX)
BORN LOOSE - Step Up To The Plate (Be A Runaway) (Larry May, ex-Candy Snatchers, NYC 2012)
THE CLASH - Guns Of Brixton (Sound System remaster 2013, Requested by Jason Martin, Austin, TX)
999 - Emergency (original 45 rip, 1978)
THE COPPER GAMINS - All Hid (Mexico, 2013, Los Ninos De Cobre, Saustex Media)
THE HUMPERS - Steel-Toed Sneakers (Punk-O-Rama, Vol. 3, requested by Alan Villareal, Round Rock)
THE LOVESORES - Flamethrower Chic (2013, Portland, Scott "Deluxe" Drake)
JD MCPHERSON - North Side Gal (Signs & Signifiers, 2012)
JIM JONES REVUE - Collision Boogie (new single out Oct. 14, requested by Walter Daniels, Austin, TX)
PUSSY GALORE - Pig Sweat (Right Now!, 1987)
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION - Boot Cut (Meat & Bone, 2012)
PLOWBOY SPOTLIGHT: BEBE BUELL - I'll Hold You In My Heart (2013, You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold)
EDDIE COCHRAN - Nervous Breakdown (1958)
TOP TUNE OF THE DAY: THE DEVIL DOGS - Radio Beat (requested by Kari Krome)
Friday, September 13, 2013
9/12/13 "RADIO NAPALM: THIS IS RADIO CLASH" Special
Irregulars,
I know I've been lax in posting the radio show here in the blog, of
late. Actually, I've just been lax about the blog,
but that's another story.
BUT...before
I digress too far up my own backside and start reminiscing about
shoveling snow in Denver or some crud, let's put this thing back on
rails.
Yesterday
was my 48th birthday. Among the presents I received (including two
new pairs of hi-tops, which I've been needing, and a new pair of
black skinny chinos) was the new Clash box set out on Sony/Legacy as
of Tuesday the 10th, Sound Syustem.
Mick Jones himself lovingly remastered the back catalog, making it
sound more 3D than it has since the original vinyl records were
issued, then assembled it onto high quality facsimile CDs, alongside
a triple-disc of non-LP 45s, B-sides, early demos and live material
and a DVD of archival footage. Paul Simonon then equally lovingly
assembled a beautiful package to house the disc that's itself
a work of art: He filled a fliptop box based around his old Clash-era
boombox with facsimile tour badges, stickers, dogtags, three issues
of the old Armagideon Times
fanzine (including a specially assembled new edition), even a blank
book for you to fill titled The Future Is
Unwritten (to get quite Joe Strummer about
it).
That
new Clash box was handed to me by my editor at The
Austin Chronicle not only as an early
birthday present, but with the express instruction to write a 300
word review and an expanded blog. You will see those next week. But
this is such musical gold, why not assemble a radio birthday
celebration of one of my favorite bands around Sound
System's treasures?
That
I did, working around the clock after posting another new "RADIO
NAPALM" this past Monday. And I
didn't stop with Sound System:
I assembled a Clash audio collage for 90+ minutes, filling the gaps
out of my own vast archives with vintage interviews with Joe, Mick
and Paul, plus some exciting unreleased live material. This is an
assault of prime
Clashness for your ears.
Enjoy
my birthday gift to you:
"RADIO NAPALM": This Is Radio
Clash, streaming for your punk rock
pleasure at Mixcloud. The link is below, just above the playlist.
Click it, open your speakers wide and everybody
smash up your seats and rock to this brand-new beat! This here music
mash up the nation! This here music cause a sensation! Tell your ma,
tell your pa: Everything gonna be alright....
Capital
Radio One (live, "So It Goes" UK Granada TV, Manchester,
11/15/77)
Janie
Jones (Sound System remaster)
Pressure
Drop (Sound System remaster)
Garageland
(live, "So It Goes" UK Granada TV, Manchester, 11/15/77)
White
Riot (45 version, Sound System remaster)
Complete
Control (Sound System remaster)
White
Man In Hammersmith Palais (Sound System remaster)
Safe
European Home (Sound System remaster)
Tommy
Gun (live UK TV Appearance, 1978)
I
Fought The Law (Sound System remaster)
Groovy
Times (Sound System remaster)
London
Calling (Sound System remaster)
Clampdown
(Sound System remaster)
The
Guns Of Brixton (Sound System remaster)
Train
In Vain (Sound System remaster)
Bankrobber
(Sound System remaster)
Police
On My Back (Sound System remaster)
One
More Time (Sound System remaster)
Know
Your Rights (Sound System remaster)
Straight
To Hell (from "Saturday Night Live")
1977
(live in Cardiff, Wales, 1977)
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Post-"RADIO NAPALM" Depression
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| Captain Beefheart: "Tim, I'm having tea here in the afterlife with John Peel. Can you please un-retire, so I can get a proper radio tribute?" |
Good morning. Just polished off a plate of Texas french toast (so-called because I saw loaves of Texas toast at the 99 Cent Store, which caused me to think, "Hmmm, that would make great french toast....") and sausage links, and I'm working on my 2nd cup of good, strong coffee. (French roast. Am I seeing a theme here?) The coffee was hard-won: The roommate moved out two days ago, taking much of the kitchen supply stash with him, including the coffee maker. Thankfully, The Freecycle Network yielded someone wishing to pass on some plates and cups and a Braun coffee maker that's missing the filter basket. (All of which I collected after a two-hour total journey via Metro Bus in one of Los Angeles' periodic bouts of "Blade Runner"-style weather, which is always rendered more miserable in cold times. But I digress.) This, of course, makes coffee making an adventure until I can locate a filter basket: This morning, I managed to jury rig plopping the filter into a wire mesh strainer basket that was also in the box of dishes and coffee maker, and sitting that assembly atop the carafe, propped up by a paper towel dispenser. Mind you, I only had to mop up a small amount of coffee overflow....
(BTW, in case you're curious about the egg wash for the french toast? Two small eggs, 1/4 cup milk, a pinch of cinnamon and a pinch of sugar. Trust me - it's nirvana on a plate.)
I should thank all of you who tuned in, in such large numbers, to the final-for-now "RADIO NAPALM" netcast the other night. It was (as I hope I'm not overstating) the 2nd Anniversary show, made more special by the presence of Ronn Spencer in a scripting and acting role. He reprised his long-mothballed radio persona of Art Fraud, co-host of '80s Boss-Radio-cum-absurdist-comedy program "The Cool And The Crazy," a one-time staple of Los Angeles-area NPR outlet KCRW's Saturday night lineup. The show was a lot richer for his presence (as well as the cameo from his Cool Show partner Vic Trip, played by Gene Sculatti, who is still Vic every Thursday at 6 PM West Coast time on Luxuria Radio's "Atomic Cocktail"), and for the lively company we had in the Woody Radio chatroom. We had many first-timers in chat, either O.G. Cool Show fans or actual cast members on the show! It was a beautiful night of radio, and I couldn't be more pleased to have left on this note. Thanks to you all.
(Incidentally, for those who missed it or want to listen again, the show is archived for streaming or download at this link right here.)
Ronn, who has grown to be one of my best friends, warned me when we spoke by phone right after we got off the air that I'd experience some "post-partum depression" once the dust settled. He was speaking from experience, having shut down "The Cool And The Crazy" himself after two years, for similar reasons to my own. Boy, was he right! No sooner had Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet died (the very next day!) than I was thinking, "Oh, shit! Fire up the generators! Call Scooter and Ed! We've gotta unshutter The Garage for the good Captain!"
Paying radio tribute to Beefheart will have to wait. I seriously need a long rest from this show, and to figure out a new production methodology to keep the damned thing going. As it is, this fershlugginer program is taking up so space in my life, I would seriously need to start getting paid to do it. Mind you, a life in punk rock has prepped me well in the art of working a shit job and doing your band and your writing and your everything else around (barely) making a living. But in this age of making even more bare of a living than before? The current Napalm Show production methodology is ridiculous.
Despite what a certain dear friend is urging of me, "RADIO NAPALM" is only temporarily gone, so far as I can see. I, at least, need a couple of months away from it, for my sanity's (and pocketbook's) sake. And I'm sure Beefheart will get his proper "RADIO NAPALM" salute upon my return. Meantime, may I suggest this 1980 Lester Bangs profile of the good Captain, originally in The Village Voice and represented online by the L.A. Weekly? I shall also re-present the recently-much-blogged "Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments Of Guitar Playing," a list initially presented last year at the WFMU website.
Thank you for indulging all this jive. I'm now off for cleaning the house and cleaning myself. Enjoy!
Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments Of Guitar Playing
1. Listen to the birds. That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.
2. Your guitar is not really a guitar. Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.
3. Practice in front of a bush. Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen't shake, eat another piece of bread.
4. Walk with the devil. Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
5. If you're guilty of thinking, you're out. If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.
6. Never point your guitar at anyone. Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.
7. Always carry a church key. That's your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He's one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song "I Need a Hundred Dollars" is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he's doing it.
8. Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument. You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.
9. Keep your guitar in a dark place. When you're not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.
10. You gotta have a hood for your engine. Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.
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