Excuse me for intruding, but I figure if you are on the Chemical Brothers message board, you are one of the good ones.



I would greatly appreciate dialog concerning the following......



I have aweekly column posted every Wednesday on http://www.richmond.com

A weekly radio show on WVNZ 1320 AM Richmond, Virginia airing

Thursdays 2-5PM

Fridays 4-6 PM



RADIO

The Bopst Show

Goodbye, Joe Strummer

Richmond.com

Wednesday January 1, 2003

I was getting ready for what I hoped was going to be a stress-free holiday season when I found out that Joe Strummer had died. My mother appeared at my house full of Christmas cheer about 10 minutes after the news took root in my head, and I feebly tried to reciprocate her jolliness but to no avail. ?You?re not going to ruin Christmas because of some dead rock star, are you?? she said, not knowing that was conceivably the worst thing she could have said to me at that moment. ?No,? I replied, lying through my teeth, hoping against hope that the man who has meant so much to me over the years hadn?t left this plane of existence, ?Merry Christmas.?



I still can?t believe he is dead. The man always seemed to be overflowing with life, burning with a sense of purpose and optimism more fitting for a man half his age. I saw Joe Strummer and his new band, the Mescaleros, at the 9:30 club last year, and it was the best musical performance I had seen in many a moon. And I say that without any phony Clash mania clouding my thinking. I staked out the upper left corner on the balcony by the stage to take it all in and Strummer unleashed a solid fury of deep-seeded humanity for almost two hours before calling it the night. Having never seen the man perform live before, I was amazed by his tenacity and his ability to make wildly different musical forms his own. The band gave him solid backing on the few Clash numbers they played, but they really drove the point home with Strummer?s newest material which is some of the best music he has ever written as far as I?m concerned. It would have been easy for him to bang out all the old favorites, but he never let the past ever be more than a stepping-stone toward the future. After 10 years of virtual non-existence, he was back with a vengeance with a band worthy of him and he played, as I imagined he always did, as if his life depended on it.



I started my radio show because of Joe Strummer. He instilled in me a righteous fury to weed out all the despicable evil in this world and to never bow to anyone else?s thinking other than my own. Strummer was my John Lennon who wore his heart on his sleeve proudly without any cheap sentimentality or corporate hype. He made records that changed my life for the better. Because of Joe Strummer, I opened my once-closed adolescent punk rock mind to all forms of audio expression and I actively began reading everything I could get my hands on from The Communist Manifesto to J.G. Ballard to The People?s History of the United States and beyond. His unrepentant defiant lyrics and his gravel-throated delivery of his songs move me to the core of my being and after all these years, I still am in awe of the redemptive force found in his music. He wasn?t some corporate shill pushing the latest in idiot rebellion as seems to be the case in today?s music scene; he was the real McCoy. Joe Strummer, with The Clash and The Mescaleros, played countless benefit gigs for worthy causes, charged ridiculously low prices for his recordings and shows and he never lost his wide-eyed enthusiasm for the world at large. He was not your typical rock and roll star bloated with the excesses of monetary success. He was Martin Luther King with a guitar fighting the good fight with his last gig being a benefit concert for the families of striking firefighters in England. He was one the greats, my friends, and if you don?t know any of his music, I strongly suggest immersing yourself in anyone of his recordings (except the failure of The Clash?s Cut The Crap) to find out what real rock and roll is all about. Goodbye Joe, I?ll miss you.



To find out more on Joe Strummer, go to

http://www.strummersite.com/



When I found out about Joe Strummer?s death for some reason I turned on my radio thinking that one of our pathetic excuses of rock and roll stations would play some of the man?s music, but I should have known better. Those pre-programmed, 30-song play list big business scum balls couldn?t be bothered to play even one song by The Clash and in two pain inducing hours of listening to their trite garbage I didn?t hear word one about Joe Strummer?s untimely passing. The exercises in monotony I?m talking about are Y101, the X102 and 96.5 the Planet. Those pompous Satan spawns are laughably clueless as we all know, but I thought they would at least mention that the singer for what was referred to, as the only band that mattered was no longer with us at least once in their broadcasts. For that matter, they never

even mentioned the passing of the great Joey Ramone, whose music not only means a great deal to rock and roll fans, but also is a direct influence on the trite bile they are pushing with mind numbing frequency as if being a tribute to banality is all a radio station should aspire to. Is that what rock and roll is all about? I think not.



Y101 Responds

Dear Editor, Richmond.com

Chris Bopst's recent article was full of factual inaccuracies that I would like to point out.

1.) He said that the Y101 DJ's never mentioned the death of Joe Strummer. That is wrong. Our morning show host, Charlie, announced the death early in the morning and continued to bring it up throughout his show. Chris Centore, who was doing afternoons that day, also brought up his death and his influence on music. Ed, who was doing nights, also discussed the importance of Strummer on the punk rock and new rock scene.

2) Bopst said we didn't play one Clash song that day. Also wrong. Charlie played "Should I Stay or Should I Go" at 8:05 a.m. He played "Train in Vain" before he signed off at 9:49 a.m. Mike Murphy played Rock the Casbah at noon. At 10 p.m. we do a special feature where we play a song by an artist and take calls on the song. On that night we played "London Calling."

3) Bopst said we never mentioned the passing of Joey Ramone. This was due to the fact that Y101 wasn't on the air at the time. "I Wanna Be Sedated" was our number 2 new rock song of all time during our Memorial Day 500 Countdown.

So, XL102 and the Planet may have ignored Strummer's death, but at Y101 we realize the importance and the influence of the Clash. And please tell Bopst to double check his facts before calling us "pompous Satan spawns."

Thank you very much.

Keith Dakin

Music Director

WDYL-FM



Check out the web sites . . .

Y101 http://y101rocks.com/

102.1 http://www.wrxl.com/

96.5 http://965theplanet.com/



All three of these stations are completely clueless as we all are well aware of, but take the time to marvel at the audacity of their claims to be Richmond?s number one station. Hell, 101 and 102 are running essentially the exact same play lists! How?s that for being rebellious. Many times at work my co-workers and I have tuned into both of those stations and have heard the same songs playing at the same time. These stations are priceless examples of mindless conformity and show such a lack of creative programming that one might mistake their stations as some horrible inside joke. Mark my words, one of the two of them, if not both, will be gone by this time next year. Until then, laugh a merry gut laugh at their awful, inexcusable broadcasts and cheer the coming day they will be cut out like the cancerous audio sores they are.

If you want to hear music not heard elsewhere on your radio dial, I hope you can find the time to give my show a listen on Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Unforgettable 1320 AM. Every show I have done and will ever do prove, without a doubt, what a horrible waste of air space any of the above mentioned stations are.



Until next time,

Stay clean





Bopst Show Set List from Thursday, Dec. 26, 2-5 p.m.

1. Johnny Appleseed: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

2. Linus & Lucy: The Vince Guaraldi Trio (The Bopst Show Theme)

3. Babylon?s Falling: The Trumpeteers

4. Budo: Miles Davis

5. Police And Thieves: Junior Murvin

6. Holiday Pickin?: The Stanley Brothers

7. I Clowns: Nino Rota

8. Aggravatin? Papa: Bessie Smith

9. In Search of a Well: Rabih Abou-Khalil

10. Straight to Hell: The Clash

11. Nobody?s Dirty Business: Mississippi John Hurt

12. It is to Laugh: The Beau Hunks

13. Pop-Eye Stroll: The Mar-Keys

14. Sally?s Got a Wooden Leg: The Sons of the West

15. Dancing Mood: Delroy Wilson

16. Little Janey?s Gone: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

17. Big City Blues: Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra

18. Undemocratic Rhodesia: Sampson The Lark

19. IZ-US: Aphex Twin

20. Hungarian Dance No. 5: The Brahms Symphony Orchestra

21. Strange Things Happen Every Day: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

22. Consejitos: Bio Ritmo

23. The Witch Captures Dorthy: The Wizard of Oz

24. After The Sunrise: The Chuck Wagon Gang

25. Driving Drums: Eric Delaney

26. WDPK 83.7 FM: Daft Punk

27. Make Yourself Comfortable: Sarah Vaughan

28. Jarabe Tapatio: Xavier Cugat

29. Tighten Up: The Untouchables

30. Miracle of Miracles: Stern & Williams

31. Tango Til They?re Sore: Tom Waits

32. Tune from Rangoon: Martin Denny

33. If You?re a Viper: Bob Howard & His Boys

34. Never Talking to You Again: Husker Du

35. Ma Jaiye Oni: King Sunny Ade

36. Rock My Soul: The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet

37. Ain?t no Sunshine (Live): Bill Withers

38. The Way I Love You (Live): Nina Simone

39. Island Hopping: Joe Strummer

40. Mama Tried: Merle Haggard

41. Plenty More: The Squirrel Nut Zippers

42. The Harder They Come: Jimmy Cliff

43. I Remember it Well: Maurice Chevalier & Hermone Gingold

44. Gypsy?s Chorus: Guiseppe Verdi

45. Washington Bullets: The Clash

46. White Riot: The Clash



Bopst Show Set List from Friday, Dec. 27, 4-6 p.m.

1. Sean Flynn: The Clash

2. Linus & Lucy: The Vince Guaraldi Trio (The Bopst Show Theme)

3. History Lesson Part 2: The Minutemen

4. Funky Kinston: Toots & The Maytals

5. When Your Love Has Gone: Charles Mingus

6. God?s Gonna Cut ?em Down: The Golden Gate Quartet

7. Keep on the Sunny Side: Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch

8. Mambo Beat: Tito Puente

9. You?re Gonna Miss Me: The 13th Floor Elevators

10. Sugar Blues: Clyde McCoy

11. Get Off With Me: Coot Grant & Kid Westley Wilson

12. Whatever Happened to Billy the Comedian?: The Spaceheads

13. Jaman Mozo: Afel Bocoum

14. Break Down The Walls: Mikey Dread

15. Charlie Don?t Surf: The Clash

16. School House Rock Theme: School House Rock

17. Lose Your Blues & Laugh at Life: Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys

18. Radio Station: Run DMC

19. Wind-Up Doll: Carl Stalling

20. (If I Love Ya, Then I need Ya) I Wantcha Around: Eartha Kitt

21. Pledging My Time: Bob Dylan

22. Anyhow: The Five Blind Boys of Alabama

23. Something Tropical: Typsy

24. Six Feet Under Theme: Thomas Newman

25. My Rules: Void

26. Gentle Lady: Peggy Seeger

27. Police & Thieves: The Clash

28. Different Strokes Theme

29. Mega Bottle Ride: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

30. Corner Soul: The Clash



RADIO

The Bopst Show

Some quotations that live



Chris Bopst

Wednesday January 8, 2003



Certain quotations will live in your head for the entirety of your days. They creep into your consciousness and affect every aspect of your life, from the profound to the mundane. Similar to pieces of music or visual images, quotations can resonate with a deep seeded truth that in-depth analysis or heavy contemplation can sometimes muddle in the translation. They cut to the chase in stunning simplicity summing up complex issues, ideas or philosophies into little, easily digestible packages. This week I?d like to share some quotations with you, the valued Internet user, that live comfortably in my head and affect just about everything I do.



* They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin



* Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Bertolt Brecht



* A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey



* He who allows oppression, shares in the crime.

Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin)



* When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority is wrong.

Eugene V. Debs



* Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong, which will be imposed upon them.

Frederick Douglass



* Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H.L. Mencken



* Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.

Ignazio Silone



* In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Jesse Jackson



* Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy



* The more corrupt the state, the numerous the laws.

Tacitus



* Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

Thomas A. Edison



* What you do is of little significance, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi



* Not our location is important, but the direction in which we move.

Lev Tolstoy



* The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker



* Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

Bulent Ecevit



* How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau



* The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein



* Integrity has no need of rules.

Albert Camus



* Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.

Frederick Douglass



* Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy



These quotations are the underlying themes that I try to incorporate into my radio show. I feel it is of utmost importance to present my weekly programs against the tyranny of corporate conglomerates that rule our nation?s airwaves. A man who has spent the better part of 50 years in the radio business told me that within 10 years most of radio will be owned by one of three companies, and that I should just accept the inevitability of it. "Your type of program has no future," he said matter of factly, suggesting that if I want a future in the radio industry I should play by the established rules of genre-specific formatting and traditional industry standards.



What he failed to understand was that I have no desire to be a DJ in the traditional sense of the word. Being the mouthpiece for one of those soulless stations pushing the latest preordained hit ad nauseam has no appeal to me whatsoever. I don't want to be part of the disease. I want to be part of the cure.



To Keith Dakin, music director of Y101, I say this . . . I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.



Well that does it for this week. I hope that you can find the time to give my show a listen on Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Unforgettable WVNZ 1320 AM.



Until next time,

Stay clean





Bopst Show Set List from Thursday, Jan. 2, 2 p.m.-5 p.m.

1. Happy-Go-Lucky-Me: Paul Evans

2. Linus & Lucy: The Vince Guaraldi Trio (The Bopst Show Theme)

3. The Twilight Zone Theme

4. Wig Wise: Duke Ellington

5. Maga Dog: Peter Tosh

6. Longa Farahfaza: Simon Shaheen

7. Boyd?s Blues: Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers

8. Them There Eyes: Billie Holiday

9. Like a Rolling Stone: Sebastian Cabot

10. Fragile: Wire

11. La Valse Chinoise: Les Primitifs Du Futur

12. White Heat: Max Steiner

13. Cat O? Nine Tails: Lord Invader & His Calypso Group

14. The Model: Kraftwerk

15. Lead Me to the Rock: The Heavenly Gospel Singers

16. Give Them the Ride: Sizzla

17. Cherokee: Charlie Barnet

18. Cadillac: Combustible Edison

19. Sam Hall: Johnny Cash

20. El Jilguerillo: Nati Cano?s Mariachi Los Camperos

21. Overture No. 1 Passepied: Johann Sebastian Bach

22. Kalumba: Sofia Rosa

23. That?s When I Reach for My Revolver: Mission of Burma

24. Fancy This: The Beau Hunks & The Metropole Orchestra

25. Git Them Pretty Girls: The Bad Livers

26. Rollie Pollie: Roland Alphonso

27. Second Song of the Elima: Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest

28. Twenty Five Miles: Lonnie Smith

29. The Barney Miller Theme: Jack Elliott & Allyn Fergurson

30. Romance without Finance: Tiny Grimes with Charlie Parker

31. Opera Montage (From Citizen Kane): Bernard Herrmann

32. Jumping Master: Mikey Dread

33. Lightening Strikes (Not Once But Twice): The Clash

34. Let?s Dance: Benny Goodman

35. Quiet Please: Negativland

36. Manhattan Minuet: Raymond Scott

37. Make it Good to Yourself: James Brown

38. Mi Guajira: Noro Morales

39. Jolie Blonde: The Hackberry Ramblers

40. Lenny Bruce: Nat Hentoff

41. Conjunction Junction: School House Rock

42. Get Away Jordon: Mahalia Jackson

43. Hang on St. Christopher: Tom Waits

44. Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix): A3

45. My Honey?s Lovin? Arms: Ray Miller & His Orchestra

46. Movie Star: Stereo Total

47. Get Yo? Feet Back on the Ground: Tower of Power

48. War Pigs: Bud E. Love

49. I Shall Be Released: Nina Simone



Bopst Show Set List from Friday, Jan. 3, 2 p.m.-5 p.m.

1. We Got Your Money: The Big Boys

2. Linus & Lucy: The Vince Guaraldi Trio (The Bopst Show Theme)

3. Holy Ghost: Tommy Ellison & The Swinging Stars

4. Tic Tac Do Meu Caracao: Carmen Miranda

5. Pesa #1: Public Enemy

6. Dem a Laugh and a Kiki: The Soulmates

7. Snopper & Blabber Theme: Hoyt Curtin

8. Deanna: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

9. Barefoot Nellie: Reno & Smiley

10. Tight Times: Jimmy McGriff

11. Stackolee: Woody Guthrie

12. Murder Beat: The Gert Wilden Orchestra

13. The Valet: Nora Dean

14. You Got Me Hummin?: Sam & Dave

15. Tarragon: Vic Chestnut

16. Rock Steady: The Marvels

17. How Do They Do it That Way: Victoria Spivey & Red Arlen?s Orchestra

18. Smedley?s Melody: Squarepusher

19. Golf Cue: Carl Stalling

20. All Tomorrow?s Parties: The Velvet Underground

21. Peter Piper: Run DMC

22. Global a Go-Go: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

23. Sweet Jamaica: Lord Kitchener

24. Big Fat Mama & Skinny Pa: Louis Armstrong & The Hot Fives

25. Pine State Honky Tonk: Claude Casey & His Pine State Boys

26. I Love The Life I Live; I Live he Life I Love: Muddy Waters

27. The Adams Family Theme: Vic Mizzy

28. Keys to Your Heart: The 101er?s

29. The Good Egg: Carl Stalling

30. In The Mood: The Henhouse Five Plus Too

31. Ticket Agent, Ease Down Your Window: Bessie Smith

32. Career Opportunities: The Clash

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It is a bit excessive, but I figured I'd post it anyway. I'm blowing my own horn, I guess, but I feel it is important enough considering the current putrid state of radio, not only here in Richmond Virginia, but the whole United States. There are some pockets of the good stuff here and there though most of radio is an exercise in audio monotony. I mean, you can't even hear the Chemical Brothers on most stations, and if you do, you feel like it must be a mistake of some sort. It is my goal in my small neck of the woods to fix the problem. How's radio in your part of the world?

bopst Escribi�:

How's radio in your part of the world?

Quite like you described. They are more about money rather than music. }:-@

It is sad that radio is commonly acknowledged as a form of torture. Here are the three corporate conglomerates that are to blame .Between these three, they own more than 70 percent of all radio stations in the United States.



http://www.cox.com/

http://www.clearchannel.com/

http://www.viacom.com/



The last place you are to find out about any type of music, new or old, is on the radio because of these corporations. They would rather have one Michael Jackson than a 100 artists selling as much. These people also want to destroy the Internet. Internet radio exposes their greed in wanting full control of the marketplace and they will do whatever it takes to screw the little guy broadcasting music from his computer. I feel it is important to expose these people as the fascists they are though, I believe, if you are here, you are well aware of their dominance in radio.



I just want to combat them here in my flunky Southern outpost.

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This is just a personal experience, but if you want to listen to good music, you got to visit places that don't play their music to sell it.



We are at a caf� quite regularly, and they use to play all kinds of music there. Still quite charts oriented, but they tend to play whole CDs rather than just the singles. Made me buy the Kosheen album for example - something you would never hear on normal radio here. 8O



Some weeks ago, we were at a birthday party, and the band played some jazz and blues. It was something completely different, and everyone loved it. You won't hear this stuff on the radio in Germany...





The same reason made me watch less TV during the last years. All I watch now are the Simpsons and Futurama. ;-)

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Yeah, Hungry made me buy it at the end. Got the single here as well, and I really love the "martin eyerer" and "bent" mix.

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Depends... you can buy anything that is either in the top 100 or has a large fan base. But it is almost impossible to find



a) vinyl singles in a normal shop other than a second hand store (but unused of course)... they got it in the smaller shops because they know that people are looking for it.



b) find both CDs of a 2CD set... last exceptions I ever experienced where Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys.

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Here's my column this week posted every Wednesday on

htto://www.richmond.com

Check out these bands as they are worthy of your attention...



RADIO

The Bopst Show

It sure ain't easy being an instrumental band



Chris Bopst

Richmond.com

Wednesday January 15, 2003



The plight of instrumental bands is a hard road. In the marketplace, they are resoundingly ignored as "too arty" or "too abstract" for mainstream tastes that demand a vocal compliment to be considered for serious airplay consideration. There have been exceptions such as, "Sidewinder" by Lee Morgan, "Green Onions" by Booker T. & The MG's and the last instrumental single to go to No. 1 on the singles chart, "Feels So Good" by flugelhornist Chuck Mangione in 1979, but for the most part, instrumental music is locked out of public consciousness.



Consider that it has been over 20-some years since an instrumental song has even reached the lower recesses of the pop charts. If a group of musicians decides to take the road less traveled and express themselves outside the constraints of language, they are well aware of the struggle it will be to expose their music to the masses. They understand that they will be relegated to outsider status by the music industry and are most likely to be described as "jazz" regardless if the term applies or not.



Despite this commercial hindrance, instrumental music continues to thrive and prosper under the radar. It explores the realms of sound purely and proves that there is a myriad of ways to communicate other than employing the use of words. For those who don't need oral expression in their music, these three recordings should be brought to your attention if you aren't aware of them already.



�Big Lazy: New Everything (Tasankee Records)



Released in May 2002, Big Lazy's, "New Everything" combines the slinkiness of Tom Waits' junkyard beats, surf music's sense of timing and melody and Charles Mingus' compositional under currents into an original gumbo of sound. Genres of music are embraced and discarded from track to track with the melodiousness of the group's arrangements taking center stage regardless of the chosen avenue they uniquely chose to travel.



Each of these tracks has a subtle beauty lurking within the space of the notes and the group's virtuosity is evident in the measure of restraint they apply to their interplay on each of the CD's 11 tracks. By incorporating the many different audio stimuli to be found in their hometown of New York, Big Lazy create a soundtrack of rich diversity grounded in the root of guitar, bass and drums. Their music has the ability to invoke visual images as it rolls effortlessly from the speaker slowly drawing the listener in with each repeated listen. From the slow dirge of, "Go Go Prison" to the Latin-tinged, "Gone", Big Lazy's cunning grandeur cannot be denied.



For More information on Big Lazy, go to http://www.biglazymusic.com.



Big Lazy

With Tulsa Drone

Thursday, Jan. 16

Alley Katz



�Cigarbox Planetarium: Self Titled Debut CD (Oh!Tonito Records)

Hailing from our nation's capital, the Cigarbox Planetarium reinvents the bubbles in the wine of Lawrence Welk, as few would dare, let alone pull off with such dazzling grace. The group lovingly explores the depths of all that can be considered lounge music without falling into the trap of its deplorable cutesy excesses. The clean-picked, distortion-free guitar mastery of Andy Charneco takes center stage on the group's debut recording. Supported by the nimble keyboard styling of Deanna Pineda and drum machine, Andy's guitar is a pleasure to behold as he gives the songs their shape and melodic depth. The tunes are crafted in the vein once mined by England's late great Shadows with nods to Fellini's seminal soundtrack composer, Nino Rota, and the Little Rascals' criminally neglected composer, Leroy Shield.



There is a devious wit to all these compositions that invoke unabashed joviality free of irony. The Cigarbox Planetarium are the perfect complement to all your future cocktail parties and that, my friends, is a trick that is mighty hard to pull off. This is one thoroughly enjoyable recording.



To find out more about the Cigarbox Planetarium, go to http://www.cigarboxplanetarium.com.



The Cigarbox Planetarium

With Dark Little Rooms and DJ Marty Violence

Friday, Jan. 24

Alley Katz



�Loincloth: Demo



This four-song demo by Loincloth is as great as anything remotely metal ever gets. I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen: Loincloth is a balls out, extensively crafted piece of defiant metal that expands the parameters of the genre by exploring its infinite potential as a means of sonic expression. Riffs fly by at a blinding rate held impossibly together by the ambidextrous percussive assault of drummer Steve Shelton. Over the 12 minutes it takes to listen to this demo, his brilliance behind the drum kit is beyond compare. Richmond guitar anti-heroes Pen Rollings and Tannon Penland lead the group into battle with a fret board dexterity so pronounced, you wonder if it is even remotely possible that human beings could play with such obstinacy. Despite its musicianship, Loincloth rock in a way any layman can appreciate and whatever your preference in music may be, the group's frightening ability to twist and deconstruct music is simply breathtaking. I hope the group will grace us with a live performance in the not-so-distant future, but until then, get your hands on one of these four-song demos to hear what the future of heavy metal is today.



To find out more about Loincloth, go to http://members.aol.c...fmetal/home.htm



Loincloth: Demo is available at Plan 9 Records



Well, that does it for this week. I hope you can find the time to give my show a listen on Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Fridays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Unforgettable WVNZ 1320 AM.

Until next time,

Stay clean



Set list from Thursday Jan.9th Bopst Show



1. Ring the Alarm: Tenor Saw

2. Linus & Lucy: The Vince Guaraldi Trio (The Bopst Show Theme)

3. La Vie, L'Amour: Edith Piaf

4. Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb: The Soul Stirrers

5. We Thought We Were OK: Dialog from 110th Street Soundtrack

6. We Walk: R.E.M.

7. Loudmouth: The Modern Mountaineers

8. M'Lady: Sly & The Family Stone

9. Misterioso: Thelonious Monk

10. Diamond Head: The Ventures

11. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You: Tommy Dorsey

12. Career Opportunities (Sandinista! Version): The Clash

13. Guns of Navarone: The Ska-talites

14. Thunder & Lightning Polka: The Strauss Orchestra of Vienna

15. Knockin' Myself Out: Lil Green

16. Cool Stuff: Pete Thomas

17. Tradition: The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars

18. Readymade: Beck

19. Stupid Cupid: Patsy Cline

20. Margus Garvey: Big Youth

21. Later: Richard "Groove" Holmes

22. Big Yellow Taxi: Joni Mitchell

23. Blazing Arrow: Blackalicious

24. Powerhouse: The Bobby Hammack Quartet

25. One of These Old Days: The Caravans

26. The What's Happening Theme: Henry Mancini

27. Lee Highway Blues: The Kentucky Colonels

28. Skillamy: Aston & Yen

29. Domingo a Noite: Luiz Bonfa

30. At Sun Two Dogs: The Cigarbox Planetarium

31. Colder Before it's Warmer: Dark Little Rooms

32. Well All Right! (Tonight's the Night): Ella Fitzgerald

33. The Oily Machine: Dave Vorhaus

34. Let's Lynch The Landlord: The Dead Kennedys

35. More Music, Please: Consolidated

36. Freedom Street: Ken Boothe

37. Feudin' Banjos: Arthur Smith & Don Reno

38. Jakey: John Patton

39. The Racket Theme: Paul Sawtell & Roy Webb

40. Fly By Night: Roger Webb

41. The Titanic: Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & The Georgia Sea Island Singers

42. And Your Bird Can Sing: The Beatles

43. Go Go Prison: Big Lazy

44. Oh You Pretty Woman: Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies

45. Down For Double: Mel Torme

46. The Battle For Brisbane: The Pogues

47. Merry Go Round: Jackie Mittoo

48. Hum & Strum: "Doc" Cook & His 14 Doctors of Syncopation

49. Don't Believe the Hype: Public Enemy

50. Long Gone Lonesome Blues: Hank Williams

51. Heavy Manners: Prince Far I



Bopst Show Set List from Friday, Jan. 10, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.



1. Caravan: Van Morrison with The Band

2. Linus & Lucy: The Vince Guaraldi Trio (The Bopst Show Theme)

3. Runaway Girl: U-Roy

4. Yakky Doodle Theme: Hoyt Curtin

5. I Felt Like a Gringo: The Minutemen

6. Cotton Tail: Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

7. Come in Stranger: Johnny Cash

8. Sex Pistols Medley: The Black Arabs

9. Tango!: Dave Tarras & The Musiker Brothers

10. Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

11. La Tarara: Radio Tarifa

12. Mame: Louis Armstrong

13. Doley: The Gourds

14. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds: William Shatner

15. My Daddy Rocks Me with One Steady Roll: Tampa Rad's Hokum Jazz Band with Half Pint Jaxon

16. Concentration: Dennis Brown

17. Radio, Radio: Elvis Costello & The Attractions

18. Jeannie: Hugo Montenegro

19. Gone: Big Lazy

20. Back at the Chick Shack: Jimmy Smith

21. If You're Not White, You're Black: Lord Kitchener

22. Bob Dylan Blues: Syd Barret

23. The Best Things in Life Are Free: Lou Donaldson

24. Chere Te Mon: Nathan Abshire

25. Space Golf: Typsy

26. Done Got Old: Junior Kimbrough

27. Fascinating Rhythm: Benny Goodman

28. Red Angel Dragnet: The Clash

29. Lonesome Billy: Ennio Morricone

30. Real, Real: Nina Simone

31. In The Coliseum: Tom Waits

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Seriously who the fack is gonna read all that. Also i don't think it has anything to did with CB

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No, probably not. I'm just taking up space for no reason. Pitiful of me, I realize, but I just can't help it. Too many chemicals, I guess....diluting the mind.

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But make sure you got the right ones... 8)

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