Show 22: Into The Sun...

Grand funkin fine show tonight, even my mum and dad called to say they loved it, gotta say most of the credit would have to go to the awesome artists whose music we are lucky enough to have and play to you all! With of course the mighty Grand Funk Railroad and the send off to the month of radiofestival with the final side of their double vinyl original release from exactly 40years ago 'Grand Funk Live' with the powerfully manic bass driven, guitar violated and precission percussion procession of Into The Sun, one hell of an encore if you ask us.

We also played a hendrix birthday tribute of my fave hendrix track, lots of smaples from various touring artists, a special CD of the week featuring the split talents of Queens of the Stoneage (playing soundwave next year) and the re-formed Beaver ( who will be playing at the festival to end all festivals 'roadburn' in Tilburg Netherlands next april, Tickets on sale this saturday by the way!) and we marked 30 years since the release of the blues brothers adventurus soulfilled romp at cinemas in Australia.

But extra special thanks to our first ever interview and a phone interview at that! Tonka from the Victorian Rollerderby League an awesome chick whoose always up for a Jam gave us a great chat to help spruik this weekends grand finale at the royal mebourne showgrounds! Looking forward to her coming into the studio with calamity mame and some of the other girls to help promote next season and give us a chance to play a couple of other awesome rollerball tracks and maybe even an excuse to have a review of the James Caan classic film ROLLERBALL to fit the theme for the show, mmmmm everything falls into place...

However the house of a thousand 80's VHS review was the magnificent "Leonard part 6", and we gotta say screw all your shitty websites of IMDB and rotten tomatos etc. if you so called 'most award winnig film sites' can not see nor appreciate the amazing humour and wit that the great man bill cosby brings to almost everything in life than i really wont bother refering to you sites for film advice ever again, this film is awesome. Now im a big fan of the vegetarian lifestyle of choice, but you gotta admit its pretty funny to see bill cosby throwing magical uncooked sausegas and beef patties at evil vege henchmen and taking them out, no dead horse even required! So yes check out this film it is fun, funny and features a tank porsche!

But anyway we were pretty excited this week to have got some Kyuss tickets this very morning for a gig that aparently sold out in 14mins,,, aparently. And had the privelige / sorrow to bring you all the news that they swapped venues to announce more ticket sales to at the larger Metro/palace venue around the corner, now how retarded is this!
Cant they just announce a second show so that you know the people around you are all as die hard as yourself and had a heap of screens all open at once clicking like a mad stonerrock hero in the vain hope to at least have a kyuss tickets to help ease their now newly acquired RSI, or they even went to a ticketek outlet to raid the door dead on 9 to get themselves an instant ticket like the old days!

But No.

Now im not saying all fans shouldnt have the chance to get to see this gig of the century, BUT, why should those who worked their arses off to get an original ticket on the first release now suffer in a much larger/shitter venue and be pushed back further where vision of the unfolding riffage being thonged out isn't as easy with so many fanboy goons now filling the joint up.

Cant they just have announced a second show and let that be it so you know you are only around the true bretheren fans of Kyuss, its almost as if they would rather save the cashola on booking two venues and just have the one and save on re-routing to squeeze in this now mythical extra show.

Nah, im just a bit pissed, now i reckon it will be too big a gig to feel like im really there rocking it with these maestros of the music form we love so much. really dissapointed, but hey what the fuck, i'll just get drunk and push my way to the front like usual cracking skulls of the second tier infidels who are in my path, its the way it is and always will be, i hope.

But i am curious how much a beer is at this joint, after being raped by the espy at baroness last week i am a bit wary these days of who really wins when it comes to buying a beer at a venue in melbourne.

So here i am talking about a radio show and honestly doubt much of that above makes very much sense and i'll leave it up to tristanus to edit, but i stand by my coments and start getting prepared for the "50 million year trip downunderside up" this May!


The Sound Carriers - Last Broadcast
To The Bones - Astral Magic
Jimi Hendrix - Stone Free
Leon Russel - Queen Of The Roller Derby
Rollerball - Lowly Sublime
Kyuss - Conan Troutman
Spiderbait - Monty
The Vascoe Era - I Am The Chosen Vessel
Queens Of The Stoneage - The Bronze
Queens Of The Stoneage - These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For
Beaver - Morocco
Beaver - Absence Without Leave
Grand Funk Railroad - Into The Sun
The Blues Brothers - Shake Your Tailfeather
Cookin On 3 Burners - Gravel Rash
The Transatlantics - Tea Legs
Bill Cosby - Uppers & Downers
Bill Cosby & Quincy Jones - Hicky Burrr
Thee Oh Sees - Castiatic Tackle
Jeff The Brotherhood - Heavy Days

Show 21: May Your Blog Go With You

Wow, what a show, we battled through missing cables, broken cables, 1.5 record players, broken tapes, steamed "Fried" rice and no drinks breaks, but we got there in the end.

Some surprise tracks got played this week, thank Chuck we brought a bunch of vinyls! It gave us the chance to re visit some old Brant Bjork stuff so that is a win in our books.

Don't forget to buy your Kyuss Lives tickets next week. here we'll even make it easy for you

Here's the tracks...

Sons Of The Ionian Sea - Pum Shpit Phum Psar
Sons Of The Ionian Sea - Clockwise Orange

---The XD Bracket

Wolf People - Tiny Circle
LAN Party - Random Accusations
Baroness - Son Of Sun
God - My Pal

Brant Bjork & The Operators - My Ghettoblaster
Nebula - Atomic Ritual
Black Mountain - Stormy High
Che - Hydraulicks
Troubled Horse - Brinh My Horses Home
The Osmonds - Crazy Horses
Clutch - Red Horse Rainbow
Kyuss - Thong Song
Kyuss - Allens Wrench
Grand Funk Railroad - Mark Says Alright
Grand Funk Railroad - TNUC

Show 20: Grand Funk Radiothon!!!

Year of the anniversary as we celebrated 30 years since motorheads Ace Of Spades record was released and in followup noticed that this month also marks the 40th anniveraary of our classic album of the months release which is Grand Funk Live. was also mega happy as finally got my hands on one of the hottest releases of the year for me by Jeff the Brotherhood which we will be playing more over the coming weeks leading up to their december tour!

So you all know this week we celebrated radiotho=n and we actually had asubscriber to our show, not just anyone but Les from my local boozeroony the scarab bar. so hopefully he wasnt being full of shit because and not follow through with his pledge because if he does ther'll be trouble! but radiothon was good and fun, the big gig station fundraiser coming up this weekend in fine beautiful emerald town, check out the website for info, and what more can i say other than come along it will be fun and awesome (truth is i forgot to do this weeks description till now, tuesday, so yeah it was fucking awesome and you missed out suckas, and even you tristan, yeah thats right you slack barsted! and im gonna let yuou know about it this week haha).

Also to win our radio festival prizes , of a plethora of soaps and free shit i stole from a hotel, you can still contact us anyway you like to subscribe and win your prize!!!

so yeah where were we?

tapes from the CRYPT, Crypt, crypt was busted out of awesome as we came across some old mixes for purerockcaseys 21st birthday party that came to live in the crypt. and we cooked up a storm with a bed of bacon atopped with hash browns atopped with poached eggs with maximum ooooze factor, balsamic italised mushies, seasonings and horse of choice! i like to call it "remember to breathe" because once you start munching you cant stop baby.

Heres the tracks

Crystal Caravan - Focus
The Red Eyes - Tribulation
Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun, A Dub Symphony In 2 Parts
The Sand Pebbles - Wild Season
Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Can You Picture That
Even - Beverly Drive
Jeff The Brotherhood - Dreamscape
Motorhead - Love Me Like A Reptile
Motorhead - (We Are) The Road Crew
Grand Funk Railroad - In Need
Grand Funk Railroad - Heartbreaker
Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out
Sloan - Money City Maniacs
The Besnard Lakes - I've Got A Feeling
Phosphorescent - Across The Universe

Show 19: Once Upon A Time In The Outer Eastern Suburbs...

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So this week was kickin arse, no preset play list as such, just a great effort of tunes for the moment and the day,

A fine story was had where hawkwind were announced to tour nextyear on my birthday week, which i am now planning on taking a good fortnight off work considering the awesome acts we have gracing our shores in early march with the Soundwave tour and Golden Plains festival is shall be madness!!!!

Pure excitement and rock 'n 'roll were on the inspiration menu as i made something pretty retarded that i cant right now remember but pretty sure it was warm and awesome a lot like other great things in life. we gave the fantastic melbourne based Warped a farewell for a while till chris gets his drummers wander' rocks off and decides to start spanking skins again, but was a pleasure to finally play my fave warped masterpiece figure four leg lock.

it was international saxophone day so started off with a few grand masters all leading to an excuse to play some fatso Jetson, fuck yeah!

and how could i forget ..... november classic album!!!

yes thats right, Grand Funk - Live, my favourite vinyl one last play and send off i think before i re-purchase another form of the record to crank and retire my original press to the archive. anyway a final play for you all thanks to the big Al, here it is!, one side a week for the month is our promise of rock to you all!

The House of a thousand 80's review was done and this week we made it a decade earlier with the sergio leonne classic once upon a time in the west in honour of the birthday of mr monkey man, Charles Bronson. the temptation was there for death wish four for sheer hilarity but i had been waiting for an excuse to enjoy this bad boy lately and it also just goes to show here at house of a thousand 80's VHS reviews we aren't all about the stoopid, although i did stop in at an op-shop today and spotted the hilarious bill cosby in "leonard part 6" a film which won three golden raspberries for worst picture, worst actor and worst screenplay. THEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

so yeah, stay tuned i guess

Tracks for this week...

Maserati - Pyramid Of The Sun
Monobrow - Troubled Apostle In The Chamber
MC5 - Ramblin Rose
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Warped - Figure Four Leg Lock (Live)
Matt Walker & Ashley Davies - Bulk Haulage
Hawkwind - Silver Machine (Live)
The Besnard Lakes - Glass Printer
King Curtis - In A Fun ky Groove
Sonny Rollins - Sonnymoon For Two
Ornette Coleman - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Fatso Jetson - Here Lies Booners
Bob Dylan - Maggies Farm
BB King - Paid The Cost To Be The Boss
Electric Wizard - Venus In Furs
Candlemass - Black Dwarf
Grand Funk Railroad - Are You Ready?
Grand Funk Railroad - Paranoid