Albert on WFKU

Albert: "Tonight's ORIGINS show will be a sneak peek at what next week's Most Cowbell!!! will be about. Suffice to say it will be BOC heavy."

Brain Surgeons: "Cities on Flame" -->
American Dog: "Summer of Love"

"This month I'm going to give you a peek at what my next Most Cowbell vlog will be about - Rockin UK with BOC..."

"I went to London and played AOF with BOC... This could be the soundtrack to that..."

"This is my demo before we played it at BB Kings:"
Albert Bouchard: "Dance the Night Away" -->
The Goo Goo Dolls: "Don't Fear the Reaper" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" -->
Brain Surgeons: "Vera Gemini"

"... and so ends side 1 - here's side 2..."
Helen Wheels: "Tattoo Vampire" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Morning Final"

"Oh crap - I skipped "Sinful Love"...

"They originally wanted me just to come out and do "Vera Gemini" and "Sinful Love", go offstage, and then come back for "Debbie Denise", and I said I'd rather stay out there and support you guys..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "Tenderloin"

"That song has a cowbell in it, but I wasn't responsible for it... it was probably EB or David Lucas..."

At this point, Albert takes a phone call from his son Jacob - you can tell it's live!! :-)

"Continuing on our AOF journey - this is the only version I could find of this - I should do my own version someday..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "Debbie Denise" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "5 Guitars (Detroit)" -->
Joey Skidmore: "This Ain't the Summer of Love" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Dance the Night Away" -->
Pierce the Veil: "(Don't Fear) the Reaper"

"I really like Pierce the Veil - their videos are crazy... anyway - back to our show..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "E.T.I." (live)-->
Blue Oyster Cult: "The Revenge Of Vera Gemini"

"That was the end of the 2nd version of side 1, now onto side 2 - given to me by Patti on my birthday on 24 May at a party for release of T&M... "
Blue Oyster Cult: "Sinful Love" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Tattoo Vampire" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Fire Of Unknown Origin [Original Version]" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Sally [Demo Version]"

"That was the original version of "Fire Of Unknown Origin" that I did way back in 74, and I was surprised it wasn't on the record, maybe they thought I was singing too many songs, but I think it was better than Debbie Denise..."

"I was working on Sally, and I got a phone call from Don and he told me he was working on a riff, and he played me the Reaper riff, and that was the first time I heard that, and the 1st time he heard Sally - but we never recorded it - too many Albert vocals, but whatever, the record did fine without it..."
Vitamin String Quartet: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Born To Be Wild" (Detroit) -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Cities On Flame" (live) -->
3 Inches of Blood: "Cities On Flame"

"Here's some more stuff I played in the UK with BOC when I was there..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "In Thee" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" [Demo Version]

The show was originally scheduled for Tue 15 May 2018, but the Bouchard Brothers had a special Clayton gig that night, so the show was postponed until Thu 17 May 2018.

All Albert said was that "the theme will be related to tomorrow's Most Cowbell!!! vlog which will air a half hour before my show. See you then!"

When the show started, Albert revealed: "This show is all about my favourite songs about teaching... "

Alice Cooper: "School's Out" -->
The Coasters: "Charlie Brown" -->
Chuck Berry: "Sweet Little Sixteen"

Albert told about how he and Joe were up in Clayton on Monday, Tuesday to be inducted into the 1000 Islands Hall of Fame - this was the 5th year of doing it...
The Original Broadway Cast of School of Rock: "School of Rock (Teacher's Pet)" -->
The Ramones: "Rock 'N' Roll High School" (Ed Stasium Mix)-->
Freddy Cannon: "Abigail Beecher"

Albert told about how he loved Freddy Cannon's "Palisades Park" - said ETI used to be called "Punishment Park" about "Palisades Park" for S&M...

Albert said how he loved the Coasters - and "Yakety Yak" etc - and told again how he met sax player King Curtis (who worked with them) back in Clarkson...
The Police: "Don't Stand So Close To Me" -->
The Yardbirds: "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" -->
Stevie Nicks: "Edge of Seventeen"

Albert told about how he feels so old and the kids he teaches are so young...
Freddy Cannon: "June, July and August" -->
MC5: "High School" -->
Chuck Berry: "School Days"

Albert mentioned that he thought school holidays seem to have have got shorter in recent times...
AC-DC: "School Days" (St. Albans High School, Australia March 1976)-->
Lauren Alaina: "The Climb" (American Idol Performance) -->
Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode" (Takes 2 and 3)

Every year at his June graduation, Albert ends every ceremony with "Johnny B. Goode" - often playing with other teachers...

..."Now here are some songs about teaching I never heard for - I just did a google search... check this out":
Rufus Wainwright: "The Art Teacher" -->
Van Halen: "Hot for Teacher" -->
Paul Simon: "The Teacher"

Albert said something about the Van Halen track drums being based on Buck's Boogie...
Aerosmith: "Walk This Way"

Albert said there as a cowbell in there - said how he used to jam with Aerosmith when on tour with them up in the hotel room etc...

"This next track is 11 mins long so I'm going to go and smoke a Doobie, OK - just like the DJs in the old days..."
Morrissey: "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" -->
Primus "Mrs. Blaileen"

"Well, that shows the other side of the gig - more so the Morrissey song..."
Sly and the Family Stone: "Hot Fun In the Summertime"

The originally scheduled show for Tue 20 Mar 2018 didn't happen - no reason given other than Albert said "Honestly with the start of season 2 of Most Cowbell!!! I've been a little pressed for time. I got some extra sleep on my night off."

As the date for the April show loomed nearer, Albert broke the good news: "Looks like my Origins show is back on the air. Look for the Protest Song show (no more than 2 Dylan recordings - I promise) this coming Tuesday April 17, 2018, tax day - and there will be SWU/SF tracks Tuesday..."

Albert Bouchard: "The Times they are a Changin"

Albert said it was tax day - "your taxes going to support this government" - and spoke about the kids in his school had a walk out in protest on 14 March and it was a student-driven thing and it was "awesome to behold"...
The Byrds: "Mr. Tambourine Man"

Albert then tried to play Stalk Forrest doing "Ohio" but nothing happened:

"Oh crap - I'm having a technical issue - I had this Stalk Forrest thing ready to play and it won't play - I'll remove that..." :-(
Bob Dylan: "Hurricane"

"Let's have another try..."
Stalk Forrest Group: "Ohio" -->
Champion Jack Dupree: "Chain Gang Blues" -->
Steve Earle: "The Devil's Right Hand"

Albert said Blue Coupe opened a show for Steve Earle - he said country singers write the best country songs - "I have a confession, I used to be a gun lover, I had a whole bunch of them, and after a while got turned off by the whole thing and now they make me sick... the NRA is fuckin up our country, and need to be bitch-slapped... it has to end now - the kids are right - these congressmen need to do something, otherwise they're going to get their asses handed to them..."
Dixie Chicks: "Not Ready To Make Nice" -->
Country Joe and The Fish: "Super Bird" -->
The Coasters: "D.W. Washburn" -->
Curtis Mayfield: "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" -->
Steve Noonan: "She's a Flying Thing" -->
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles: "Abraham, Martin And John" (1969)

"I tried to go out of way to get protest songs that weren't typical acoustic, Bob Dylan stuff, and that Smokey one was one..."

"Here's one from a group that you wouldn't have thought would do a protest song..."
Sly and the Family Stone: "Stand!" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Hands That Built America" -->
Scott Kempner: "Chimes of Freedom"

"That was one of Helen's favourite songs... and now continuing on with more protest songs... you might have heard this, but you won't have heard this version"...
Stalk Forrest Group: "Jumpin Jack Flash""Oh crap that was mislabelled - that was supposed to be "Street Fightin Man"... Oh well, onward and upward..."
Simon and Garfunkel: "America" -->
Tracy Chapman: "Material World"

"I did a DNA thing with Ancestry.com - I thought I'd be mostly Irish with some French, and it turns out I was 80% British and 13% Spanish..."

"What's a poor boy to do...?"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Street Fightin Man" -->
The Byrds: "Draft Morning" -->
Bob Dylan: "Ballad of Hollis Brown"

"Street Fightin Man" - "that was from one of the later Conrys tapes - it was a better performance than the earlier ones (I think we'd played it a few times by then) - there is one with better sound quality, but not a better performance..."
Albert Bouchard: "Prayer Light the Dark" -->
Tim Hardin: "You Upset The Grace Of Living When You Lie" -->
Tom Paxton: "Bishop Cody's Last Request"

"That was my first official release as a drummer that anybody ever heard outside of up-state NY..."

"He gave me a chance to show my stuff - I thought he'd have me on other cuts but there was no other tracks that featured drums..."
Charlie Patton: "Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues" -->
Crystal Waters: "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" -->
Curtis Mayfield: "Move On Up" -->
The Offspring: "The Kids Aren't Alright" -->
Arthur Lee and Love: "Somebody's Watchin' You"

"I just thought of a whole ton of stuff I should have played - and I'll have to do another show..."

"This is one of Sandy Pearlman's favourite songs, and when I visited him in hospital, I sang it for him in his hospital bed, I had the lyrics on my phone, and he cried:"
The Byrds: "Goin' Back"

"Tomorrow night's Origins show is coming live from Las Vegas so that's going to be the theme more or less. Eclectic as usual I'll be featuring some music nobody's ever heard before as well as songs everybody's heard..."

Albert and the Sleigh Riders: ""Las Vegas Christmas" (feat. Meli)" -->
Suicide: "Las Vegas Man (Live at CBGB's)" -->
Buck Owens: "Big in Vegas"

"This'll be some stuff you won't have heard before - the first part will be about Las Vegas..."
Brad Paisley: "Famous People"

AB said he was a big Brad Paisley fan - and Buck Owens - that's where Buck Dharma got his name from...
Imagine Dragons: "Radioactive" -->
The Last Vegas: "Loose Lips"

Albert said his "Tractor" software wasn't working, so he didn't know what songs he'd already played... "Please bear with me..."
Peter Gabriel: "Big Time" -->
The Rolling Stones: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Albert said he'd figured out what was wrong but he couldn't fix it - said he was going out soon to see the "Zombie Apocalypse" burlesque...

So he was going to have to abandon the LV songs he was going to do as he couldn't access them - he'd have to disconnect first and he didn't want to do that in case he couldn't reconnect, but he had some other songs to play...

Albert said he'd watched a load of Shaft/Blacksploitation movies to get inspiration for the video of "Vast Dark Night" with his son Ace...
Curtis Mayfield: "Pusherman" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Vast Dark Night" -->
Curtis Mayfield: "Superfly" (Recorded Live by WTTW-TV Chicago)

Albert said he was going to try and put together some sets of 3 song mini-sets - if "Tractor" would let him...

Albert said he played in Smithtown subbing for Bobby Rondinelli - played covers - here's some of the songs they played that night at Katy's...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Fire" -->
Neil Young: "Rockin' in the Free World" -->
SFG: "Cinnamon Girl" - but we only got 15 secs worth!!

The SFG track (labelled "Cinamon.aiff.4") came in about 15 seconds from the end - Albert apologised and said he had a longer and better quality one, but not with him in Las Vegas...

Here are some "road songs" I prepared for my son Jacob last year...
The Doors: "Roadhouse Blues (Live)" -->
Metallica: "Turn The Page" -->
Janis Joplin: "Me And Bobby McGee"

"These are the songs that were on my playlist for previous shows that I didn't get to..."

"I save all my guilty please songs to the end - I really like them but make me feel guilty - here are some songs that were planned to be on previous shows but I ran out of time - try and guess what shows they're from.."
Coldplay: "Clocks" -->
Elton John: "Rocket Man" (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)-->
Nickelback: "Rockstar" -->

"Here's a Blue Coupe song that has never come out" - he said "we're working on a new record..."
Blue Coupe: "Brother Don't Tell Me" -->
Brain Surgeons: "Vera Gemini" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Imaginos"

"That was the Francis Dvorkian mix - taken from what was called 'The Albert Demos'..."

"Thanks for being patient with me - now you see how I roll when my plans fall apart - I was glad I was able to put a show together from the mere 800 songs on my laptop as opposed to the 8000 I have at home... I'm going to close with a song I don't think I've played before from Conry's:
SFG: "Arthur Comics"

Unfortunately, this version had some wow and flutter, so it was clearly from an uncorrected version - full of wild jamming, but sadly, the end was cut off, both from the broadcast version and the uploaded podcast version - links to download the Origins podcasts are available on the Origins podcasts page as I thought that'd be the best place to put them :-)

This show was initially scheduled for 17 Jan 2018 - here's how Albert described his plans for the show: "In honor of the imminent release of An Alien Heat, the record I made with Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock, the theme for tomorrow's ORIGINS show on www.wfku.org is going to be space rock. Expect some Hawkwind, Deep Fix and other seminal space rock works..."

However, when showtime rolled around, and after a quarter of an hour there was still no Albert, he posted this: "I am having computer problems at the moment. Franticly working on it."

Then: "I won't go into the problem we're having but it won't be solved anytime in the next 2 hours. Hopefully everything will be functioning properly in the next few days. Unfortunately my next free evening isn't until the 31st so that's when it will be."

In the end, it turned out to be 30 Jan: "Second attempt a launching my space rock Origins show into infinite space on www.wfku.org tonight, except the website doesn't seem to be working. I keep getting error 522. However, if you go to apple iTunes and look in the internet radio tab in your library and in the Alternative Rock stream you can find WFKU.7-9PM..."

However, there were initial problems again, and we got over 10 minutes of filler Goth songs before Albert was finally able to start his show...

Pink Floyd: "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" -->
Hawkwind: "Silver Machine" (live) -->
David Bowie: "Space Oddity"

Albert said Sandy Pearlman was a big fan of Bowie...

"Here's a modern take on "Space Rock" - check this one out:"
Muse: "Supermassive Black Hole" -->
The Deep Fix: "Starcruiser" -->
Ozric Tentacles: "Dance of the Loomi"

"The Deep Fix was Michael Moorcock's group, doing their thing..."
Hawkwind: "Sonic Attack" -->
David Bowie: "Life On Mars?" -->
Pink Floyd: "A Saucerful of Secrets"

Albert said the end of "A Saucerful of Secrets" reminded him of the ending off "Frankenstein" (Imaginos)

AB also said BOC opened a bunch of shows with Hawkwind, and that was news to me...

He talked of how the people on the Hawkwind/BOC BOC-L newsgroup talked him back into music in the mid-90s...

Then he talked about the new "Spirits Burning" thing he's doing with various people...
Monster Magnet: "Look To Your Orb For The Warning" -->
Hawkwind: "Kings of Speed" -->
David Bowie: "Ziggy Stardust (Demo)"

Albert said the Hawkwind song was very like tBS's "Needlegun" - the chord progression...

Albert said BOC were a "sort" of space rock group, with the content of their songs - but not really....
Neil Young: "After the Gold Rush" -->
The Flaming Lips: "Fight Test" -->
Nektar: "Warp Oversight"

Running out of time, mightn't have time to play these 5 songs, but here goes anyway...

Albert said next show would be in 3 weeks...
David Bowie: "Moonage Daydream" (Arnold Corns Version) -->
Muse: "Starlight" -->
Gong: "A Sprinkling of Clouds" -->
Sun Kil Moon: "Space Travel Is Boring" -->
Alice Cooper: "Fireball" -->

Show 67 was originally scheduled for Tue 21 Nov 2017 - here's what was originally scheduled:

"I'm trying to decide on the theme for this Month's Origins show on www.wfku.org show. I have 2 ideas: 1. the Pitchfork history of Goth or 2. Demo versions of songs I have released in the last 10 years. My question to you, my listeners, is this, which one, Goth or Demos?

On being asked could the demos show include "Rain is Falling", Albert replied: "Ha! I still dont have a copy of that and as my LI studio is freezing the tapes will not play until it gets a lot warmer. Demos from the past 20 years, no older.

Then we got this news on the day of the show: "So much for the Demos Origins show... I'm cooking for a Thanksgiving party tonight and I think I need more time to plan such a show. Instead I'm going with my original idea of Pitchfork.com most influential Goth songs. It may be a 3 part show because I have 3 hours of music. I'll need another hour, however, to fill a whole show. Anyway, tonight's show will be all Goth from the beginning to the middle (may even include a Conry's song)."

Then this: "Actually I'm having a problem logging into the server so it looks like tonight's show will have to be postponed. Watch this space to find out when it will be rescheduled for."

That date never actually came, so to make up for it, Albert presented a four-hour special the following month:

"Last month I had to postpone my show so this month I am doing a 4 hour goth Christmas special. The show starts at 5 EST and ends at 9."

Screamin' Jay Hawkins: "I Put a Spell On You" -->
The Velvet Underground: "All Tomorrow's Parties" -->
The Doors: "The End"
Stalk Forrest Group: "SirenSingAlong" -->
Brian Eno: "Third Uncle" -->
Suicide: "Frankie Teardrop"
Bauhaus: "Bela Lugosi's Dead" -->
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks: "Orphans" (Live at Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, May 17, 1978) -->
The Cramps: "Human Fly"

"Here are some more Goth songs in the chronological order of how it developed..."
Joy Division: "Love Will Tear Us Apart" -->
Type O Negative: "Love You to Death" -->
My Chemical Romance: "Helena (So Long and Goodnight)"

Albert admitted to copping "Love Will Tear Us Apart" lyric in his "1000 Years" by accident...
Nine Inch Nails: "Head Like a Hole" -->
Depeche Mode: "Personal Jesus" -->
Diamanda Galas: "Let My People Go"

Albert said he got this Goth songlist from "pitchfork.com", who he thinks are a bit snooty...
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: "The Mercy Seat (2010 Remastered Version)" -->
Killing Joke: "Love Like Blood" -->
The Misfits: "Die, Die My Darling"
Dead Can Dance: "The Host of Seraphim" -->
This Mortal Coil: "Song to the Siren" -->
Coil: "The Anal Staircase"

"Anyway, continuing on with stuff I've never heard before - hope these aren't as trancy - if you hear dead air, you know I've fallen asleep..."
Jarboe: "Lavender Girl" --> - has a (dead air) break near the start - their end, not mine...
Clan of Xymox: "A Day" -->
The Sisters of Mercy: "Temple of Love" (1992)

"Now we have a bunch of groups I'm more familiar with..."
Swans: "Failure" -->
Cocteau Twins: "Blood Bitch" -->
Soft Cell: "Tainted Love"

"This is all stuff - new wave stuff - that I used to like..."
Siouxsie and The Banshees: "Spellbound" -->
The Birthday Party: "Release the Bats" -->
Fever Ray: "If I Had a Heart"

"The Birthday Party: Vampires, Bats and Sex - kind of sums up Goth, right?..."
The Cure: "A Forest" -->
Salem: "King Night" -->
Zola Jesus: "Night"
Jenny Hval: "Female Vampire" -->
Nox Arcana: "Coventry Carol" --> - had a short (dead air) break in the middle - WFKU's end, not mine...
London After Midnight: "The Christmas Song"

"Now we're officially into the Christmas part of the show - here's some 'they might be Christmas or they might be Goth'..."
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Harlem Community Choir and The Plastic Ono Band: "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" -->
The Kinks: "Father Christmas" -->
Bay City Rollers: "Yesterday's Hero" (Live)

"Here's a special event, the brand new revisited Albert & The Sleigh Riders with Dennis Dunaway..."
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Rock 'n Roll Scrooge" (feat. Dennis Dunaway) -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Las Vegas Christmas" (feat. Meli) -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Christmas on the Road" (feat. Joe Cerisano)
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Christmas Yearning" (feat. Christine Ohlman) -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Manic Panic Teknikolor Christmas" (feat. Keith Roth) -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Sweet Chrystmas Tyme" -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Festivus" (feat. Andy Shernoff) -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Haunted Hollyday" (feat. Mickey Leigh) -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Another Christmas Song" -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "My Christmas Baby"(feat. Joe Bouchard) -->
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "You Always Hated Christmas" (feat. Joe Hurley) -->

"For this month, in honor of the HallowHellRaiser, I am going to find the scariest music I can on my Origins show Tuesday from 7 to 9 EST on WFKU.ORG...."

On Albert's FB page, I said: "I find Club Ninja, as a whole, rather scary..."

Albert: Not that kind of scary...

Stalk Forrest Group: "Donovan's Monkey" -->
Alice Cooper: "I Love the Dead" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Teen Archer"

Talked about his first marriage to Denise and that her daughter Desirae thought T&M was a scary record...

Albert said this show is based on T&M... recorded entire record over course of 2 days - most of tracks were one take... DR doesn't like to play "Teen Archer" cos it's in the key of G as it's too high...

He mentioned "Vinyl" - some accurate and some crazy stuff in that...
Blue Oyster Cult: "Monsters" -->

I asked Albert in the chat: "What was "Monsters" like to play live? Sam says you played it at least once..."

Albert: Hearing it now, it doesn't seem well thought out as far as an effective live song. The jazz segments, while interesting probably didn't go over so well live.

I was trying to create an epic but fell short somehow. Black Blade was much better realized.
Alice Cooper: "Feed My Frankenstein" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Wings Wetted Down"

Albert said Monsters fitted in with the T&M theme apart from the jazzy bit which he was sorry he put in now...

"Wings Wetted Down" - said EB's guitar dominates the first half of the track - that's EB's stun guitar and the King Crimson drums and Joe's John Wetton...

"I recall those sessions were stressful - we did the first LP in DL's 8-track Warehouse studio and DL was a genius at squeezing tracks together but for T&M, they didn't want to use DL - just Sandy and Murray - they had a 12 track recorder - but we didn't have enough tracks..."

AB made a big mistake in HRTH and had to redo just the drums - but had no click tracks and the tempos are all over the place...
Korn: "Get Up!" (feat. Skrillex) -->
Alice Cooper: "Killer" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)" -->

I asked Albert in the chat: "You mentioned David Lucas's Warehouse - you'd just signed to Columbia, so why did they send you to an 8-track "jingle studio" to cut your first LP - why wasn't it done "in-house"? That's always seemed strange to me..."

Albert: "They loved the sound of our demo which included that version of Last Days which was not remixed for the first album. Pearlman and Krugman wanted to take Lucas out of the production team so they had to do what Columbia wanted."

"Quicklime Girl was a very quirky song - quintessential BOC - about a serial killer, c'mon... "

It might have been more than 2 days in Columbia Studios for T&M, but not a whole lot more... Might have spent 2 weeks maybe 3 on Secret Treaties...

We went in EB's chevy van to see Alice play the Passaic in Jan 72 or whatever - listening to WABC AM radio and they played CoF...
Skinny Puppy: "Love In Vein" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Tattoo Vampire" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Career of Evil"

"COE had a little bit to do with Baudelaire's "Flower of Evil" book - I used to have it but lost it in the divorce..."
Rob Zombie: "Superbeast" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "7 Screaming Diz-Busters" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "I Am The One You Warned Me Of"

"7SD was a song we played for quite a while - went down well some places but not out in the sticks, the place would empty - that was a polarising song... "

"Here's a track I saw BOC did live about three years ago..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "I Love the Night" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Ghosts" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Nosferatu" -->

"Nosferatu and GTTM were engineered by John Jansen - we were using 2 studios at once in the Recd Plant - Shelley mixed most of it but JJ did Nosferatu and GTTM..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "The Siege And Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle At Weisseria" -->
Blue Coupe: "Hallows Grave"

"This month the theme is the music I used to listen to in the late 80's to early 90's during a time when I had semi-retired from making music. "

"Expect to hear Collective Soul, Raging Slab and the Rattlers and a whole lot more."

Collective Soul: "New Vibration"
Bad Brains: "With The Quickness" -->
Sade: "Like A Tattoo"
Betty Boo: "Where Are You Baby?" -->
Nine Inch Nails: "Wish" -->
Deeelite: "Grove Is In The Heart" (Should be "Groove", obv)
Everything But The Girl: "Missing" -->
Superchunk: "Driveway to Driveway" -->
Tom Petty: "Free Fallin'"
Simple Minds: "Alive And Kicking" -->
Radiohead: "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" -->
Shania Twain: "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!"

Albert reckoned that Muse might have copied Radiohead...

In the chat, I asked Al if he ever got into Nirvana, grunge much...

Albert: Yes but I didn't like Nirvana right away. I like AIC and Soudgarden better, still do.
Hot Chocolate: "So You Win Again" -->
Monster Magnet: "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" -->
The Bangles: "Manic Monday"
UB40: "Kingston Town" -->
Veruca Salt: "Seether" -->
The Lemonheads: "Mrs Robinson"
Liz Phair: "Somebody's Miracle" -->
The Rattlers: "What Keeps Your Heart Beatin'?" -->
The Black Crowes: "She Talks to Angels"
Raging Slab: "Don't Dog Me"

Albert said he answered an ad for a drummer with Raging Slab...
Alice In Chains: "Sickman" -->
Big L: "Put It On"

Albert said Big L was one of his students, who unfortunately got murdered...
The Budgies: "Crash Course In Brain Surgery" -->
The Smiths: "What Difference Does It Make?" -->
The Darkness: "Dinner Lady Arms"

"Today's Origins show is coming to you live from Las Vegas. It seems natural to make the theme about songs taking place in the desert. "

"Today is the first day with a high under 100 in almost 65 days"...

Albert Bouchard: "Soy Extranjero"

Albert explained he was in LV for 2 weeks helping his gf do up her mum's house and scouting for venues for Blue Coupe to play...
Johnny Cash: "I've Been Everywhere" -->

- gap for 2-3 minutes (break in transmission...) -
Alice Cooper: "Desperado" -->
Blue Coupe: "Devil's Highway"
Albert Bouchard: "Weird Weird West" -->
Blue Coupe: "Angel's Well" -->
Audioslave: "Cochise"
Imagine Dragons: "Radioactive" -->
ZZ Top: "Asleep In the Desert" --> [inc another small few seconds gap]
Miles Davis: "Spanish Key (Single Version)"
James Taylor: "Mexico" -->
Dimaa: "Desert Nightwish"

Albert explained Dimaa were Icelandic friends of Dennis and he's playing bass on that track...
Mumford a Sons: "Dust Bowl Dance" --> [inc another small few seconds gap]
Marty Robbins: "Big Iron" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Gil Blanco County" (Imaginos version)

Albert demo'd his new guitar he'd bought...
Albert Bouchard: "Imaginos" --> [wrong speeds and LOTS of breaks]

Chaos from 01:15 onwards to 01:24
Flying Burrito Brothers: "Hot Burrito #1"
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes: "Desert Song"

Albert told of Joan Shapiro trip to Mexico and got sick, and SP went to Mexico to save her, and brought her back...

Albert told of Sandy song he wrote called Land of Our Own...
Albert Bouchard: "Death Valley Nights" -->
The X Brothers: "Run for the Sun" -- [more breaks and weird songs coming in etc]
Bobby Fuller Four: "I Fought The Law And The Law Won" --> [more gaps]
Jerry Reed: "When You're Hot, You're Hot"
Buck Dharma: "Elle Sol"
America: "A Horse With No Name"

Albert Bouchard: "Voyeur (Pt.II)"
Albert Bouchard: "Hands That Built America"
Helen Wheels: "Brotherhood of Outlaws"
Albert Bouchard: "2 Wheels" (American Roadtrip) -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Transmaniacon MC" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Adventure" (American Roadtrip) -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Feel the Thunder"
Albert Bouchard: "50 years" (American Roadtrip) -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Born to Be Wild"
Albert Bouchard: "AfterWe'veLeft" (American Roadtrip) -->
Blue Coupe: "Devil's Highway"
Albert Bouchard: "51st State" (American Roadtrip) -->
Blue Coupe: "Used Car" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Anything" (American Roadtrip) -->
American Dog: "Movin' On" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Saddle" (American Roadtrip) -->
Blind Faith: "Can't Find My Way Home" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Wheels" (American Roadtrip) -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Aimless Lady"
Albert Bouchard: "Apocalypse" (American Roadtrip) -->
Metallica: "Turn The Page" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Butt" (American Roadtrip) -->
Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra: "Route 66 Theme" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Out The Window" (American Roadtrip) -->
Prince: "Little Red Corvette" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Guardian Angel" (American Roadtrip) -->
The X Brothers: "The Van Song" -->
David Roter Method: "Lesbian Midget Motorcycle Gang" -->
Helen Wheels: "Get out of Town" -->
Helen Wheels: "Destination Unknown" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Eyes Open" (American Roadtrip) -->
Albert Bouchard: "Galileo Galilei"
Albert Bouchard: "I Go To Her" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Good-Bad" (American Roadtrip) -->
Albert Bouchard: "Right Thing To Do"
Albert Bouchard: "Intangible" (American Roadtrip) -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Highway Song" -->
Ray Charles: "Hit the Road Jack"
Albert Bouchard: "Lightning" (American Roadtrip) -->
Pink: "Gone To California"

"Tonight's ORIGINS show will feature songs by Helen Wheels, Chuck Berry and Logic among others"...

BTW: this show was plagued by technical problems, gaps and dead air...

Handsom Dick Manitoba: "Helen Wheels"

Albert said this was the HW show - the signal then broke for 5 minutes - kept disconnecting
Logic: "Everybody" -->
Helen Wheels: "Katherine"

There was a gap - then next one came in already started:
Judas Priest: "Hell Bent for Leather" -->
Blue Coupe: "Hellfire Hurry"

AB apologised for technical difficulties...
Helen Wheels: "Break The Chains" -->
Louis Armstrong: "Hellzapoppin'"

Albert said was having more problems...
Mike Watt: "Hell-Building-Man" -->
Twisted Sister: "Burn In Hell" -->
: "Double Tongue"
Chuck Berry: "Lady B. Goode" -->
Robert Johnson: "Hell Hound On My Trail"
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band: "Crazy Little Thing" -->
PJ Harvey: "Oh My Lover" -->
The Velvet Underground: "Venus In Furs"
Veruca Salt: "Seether" -->
Robert Johnson: "Stones In My Passway" -->
Television: "Call Mr. Lee"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Sinful Love" -->
The Patti Smith Group: "Rock N Roll Nigger" -->
The Modern Lovers: "Girlfriend"
Superchunk: "In a Stage Whisper" -->
Sly and the Family Stone: "Stand!" -->
Chuck Berry: "Eyes of Man"

"Tune in tomorrow to www.wfku.org at 7PM EST for some more sneaky peeks at developments in Al's (that's me) music universe..."

Albert Bouchard: "1000 Years" -->
Crowded House: "Don't Dream It's Over" -->
Todd Rundgren: "Let's Do This" (feat. Moe Berg)

"1000 Years" from AB's new solo album due out soon (maybe called "Serialist"...)

"This next song is the song I put on first thing on the morning to jack me up and get me ready to face the world..."
Kendrick Lamar: "HUMBLE." -->
Metallica: "Leper Messiah" -->
Blue Coupe: "Ain't Dead"

"Blue Coupe is about due for a new record but nobody's asking me, so I'm putting put my solo record..."

"I'm going to see Metallica in LI tomorrow and I'm super excited..."
Brain Surgeons NYC: "Change the World Henry" -->
Todd Rundgren: "Sleep" (feat. Joe Walsh) -->
Youngster Named Logic: "Killing Spree" (feat. Ansel Elgort)

Albert said he and his friend Mark Barkan were going to put out a record called "Faithful Unto Death" - here's a track from that...
Al and Mark: "Jimmy Won't Be Coming" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Magna of Illusion Reprise" -->
Jack Secret: "Will to Survive"

"That was me on harmonica, and maybe David Hirshberg on bass..."

"I haven't heard that "Magna of Illusion Reprise" in years - I don't listen to Imaginos much... still in mourning, I guess... ha ha..."

I asked on the chat: What's Henry Smalls doing now..?

Albert: "Henry is a radio personality in the Pacific Northwest..."
Buck Dharma: "Elle Sol" -->
Infectious Grooves: "Immigrant Song" -->
Metallica: "Carpe Diem Baby"

Albert said he hopes he gets to meet Robert Trujillo - always been a big fan of his - esp liked his work in "Infectious Grooves" and what they did to the "Immigrant Song"...
Albert Bouchard: "Voyeur (Part II)" -->
Al and Mark: "Another Blue Day" -->
Dada Greentree: "Let's Have Fun"

"That last one was me and Mark - our reggae/ska band..."

"Here's the first song I wrote with Cathy Vargas - with Vincent Debursio on bass..."
Albert Bouchard: "Soy Extranjero" -->
Infectious Grooves: "Borracho" -->
Migos: "Fight Night"
Metallica: "Ain't My Bitch" -->
Kendrick Lamar: "XXX." (FEAT. U2.)-->
Albert Bouchard: "Gil Blanco County"
Logic: "AfricAryaN" (feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Albert ended by saying they might release the alternative Imaginos tracks etc as well as the new BOC record

I said on the chat: "I'll believe it when I don't see it..."

Albert: That's what I said too but now I've got some inside information... There seems to be a lot happening for me lately. It's gonna be a good year I think.

"So for my Origins Radio Show on www.wfku.org tomorrow night (7PM-9PM EST) the theme will be songs with drum solos and some of my favorite drummers and their solos.

Also I will be videoing parts of it for a future Most Cowbell!!! vlog episode."

The Ventures: "Walk, Don't Run"
The Regal Tones: "Walk, Don't Run"

Albert did an overlay between the two above tracks and they started off in sync ands then went wildly out...
Lionel Hampton and Oscar Peterson: "C Jam Blues" (Excerpt) -->
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five" -->
Cozy Cole: "Topsy Part 1" (Original HIT))

Albert said that when he was coming up everybody had to play these three songs:
Sandy Nelson: "Let There Be Drums" -->
The Surfaris: "Wipe Out" -->
Preston Epps: "Bongo Rock"

"These songs were like the rite of passage for drummers back in the day..."

Next - the Latin component:
Babatunde Olatunji: "Sango (God of Thunder and Lightning)" -->
Tito Puente: "Oye Como Va" (Live) -->
Santana: "Soul Sacrifice"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Bad Boy" (Conry's) --> [Blue A#yster Cult - Bad Boy.aiff.29]
Led Zeppelin: "Moby Dick" (drum solo aborted) -->
Pink Floyd: "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 2: Entertainment"

Albert said he was a bit disappointed in how they were sounding so far - said he wasn't doing it for you guys, it was for him because he loved the drums

"We're turning a page - a black page""
Frank Zappa: "The Black Page Drum Solo" The Black Page #1 (Live)-->
The Edgar Winter Group: "Frankenstein" -->
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: "Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Pt. I" (2014 - Remaster)
Rush: "YYZ (Live)" -->
Screaming Headless Torsos: "Smile in a Wave" -->
Slayer: "Show No Mercy"

Albert: "How come all these drum solo songs are so long?"
Nine Inch Nails: "You Know What You Are?" -->
Cozy Cole: "Topsy Part 2" (Original HIT)

"I'll take you out with my favourite drummer, Gene Krupa"
Benny Goodman: "Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing)" (Live) -->

Thinking about the theme for this month's ORIGINS show on www.wfku.org this Tuesday 7-9PM EST. Chuck Berry is a very worthy subject and maybe I can share some part of the story that I haven't spoke of before. One for the Chuckster!"

Chuck Berry: "Roll Over Beethoven" -->
Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode (Takes 2 & 3)"
Peter Tosh: "Johnny B Goode" -->
Chuck Berry: "It Don't Take But a Few Minutes" -->
Dion: "Johnny B Goode"
Chuck Berry: "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" -->
Buck Owens: "Johnny B. Goode" -->
Chuck Berry: "Down Bound Train" -->
The Beatles: "Johnny B. Goode" (Live at the BBC For "Saturday Club" 15th February, 1964) -->
Chuck Berry: "Sweet Little Sixteen" (Original Demo) -->
Regaltones: "Surfin USA"

Read from Les Braunstein's book about the Generation gigs...
Chuck Berry: "Time Was" (Fast Version) -->
Grateful Dead: "Johnny B. Goode" -->
Chuck Berry: "Let It Rock"

More from Les Braunstein's book...
Chuck Berry: "Reelin' and Rockin'" (Takes 7 and 8) -->
Guadalcanal Diary: "Johnny B. Goode" (Live Version)
Chuck Berry: "Rock and Roll Music" -->
Chuck Berry: "Too Much Monkey Business" -->
Judas Priest: "Johnny B. Goode" -->
Chuck Berry: "Memphis, Tennessee" -->
Johnny Rivers: "Memphis" -->
Lonnie Mack: "Memphis" -->
Chuck Berry: "Around and Around" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Around and Around" -->
David Bowie: "Round and Round" (AKA Around and Around)
Blue Oyster Cult: "Tattoo Vampire"

"Tomorrow's ORIGINS show will feature the work of my latest songwriting partner, sci-fi legend, Michael Moorcock. There may even be a preview of some of the songs we've been working on..."

Hawkwind: "Silver Machine"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Great Sun Jester" -->
The Deep Fix: "In the Name of Rock and Roll" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Dark Dominion"

Albert told about Spirits Burning, his new collaboration. Mentioned "An Alien Heat"...
Spirits Burning & Clearlight: "Coffee For Coltrane" -->
Spirits Burning: "Internal Detective"

Albert said he co-wrote part of "Internal Detective" and played on it etc...
Blue Oyster Cult: "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" (from ETL) -->
Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix: "Kings of Speed" (Previously Unreleased)-->
Hawkwind: "Kings of Speed" (inc mid-song blip)
Voivod: "Silver Machine" -->
William Shatner: "Silver Machine" (feat. Wayne Kramer and Carmine Appice) -->
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: "Silver Machine"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Black Blade" (KSAN Broadcast) -->
Hawkwind: "Standing at the Edge" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Virtue / Mrs. Amelia Underwood"

Albert said Virtue was another song written for "An Alien Heat"...
Hawkwind: "Coded Language" -->
Motorhead: "Motorhead" -->
Hawkwind: "Sonic Attack"
The Deep Fix: "Sixteen Year Old Doom" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" -->

"Tonight's ORIGINS show will feature music from 20s and 30s..."

Clarence William's Blues Five: "Wild Cat Blues" -->
Clarence William's Blues Five: "Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home)"
Al Jolson: "I`ve Got My Captain Working For Me Now" -->
Mildred Bailey and Red Norvo: "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" -->
Ben Selvin and His Orchestra: "Dardanella"
Paul Whiteman: "There Ain't No Sweet Man (Worth The Salt Of My Tears)" -->
Billie Holiday: "God Bless The Child" -->
Duke Ellington: "St. Louis Blues"
Mamie Smith: "Crazy Blues" -->
Duke Ellington: "Black Beauty" -->
Chick Webb: "Harlem Congo"
Thelonious Monk: "Dinah" -->
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra: "Whispering" -->
Chick Webb And His Orchestra: "A-Tisket A-Tasket"
Rudy Vallee: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" -->
Dave Brubeck: "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" -->
Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: "All of Me"
Ann Moore: "Jivin' Joe Jackson" -->
Charlie Patton: "Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues" -->
Count Basie: "Jumpin' At The Woodside"
Artie Shaw: "The Same Old Line" -->
Benny Goodman: "Perfidia" -->
Count Basie: "Lester Leaps In"
Billie Holiday: "Stormy Blues" -->
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra: "Well, Git It!" -->
Artie Shaw a His Orchestra: "Begin The Beguine"
Duke Ellington: "Women'll Get You"

Getting ready for my final ORIGINS show of the year - it better be a good one..."

Duke Ellington: "Echoes Of Harlem" -->
Chuck Berry: "Run Run Rudolph" -->
Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)"

Albert mentioned he had released his Xmas album yesterday - he'd been working on it for almost 4 years...
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "Sweet Crystmas Tyme" -->
Count Basie: "Jumpin' At The Woodside" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "The Siege And Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle At Weisseria"

"Fun fact - they halved the song and took the second half and made a new song..."
Albert Bouchard: "Girl That Love Made Blind"

Albert said he'd love to have the original tracks to do a proper mix one day....
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "You Always Hated Christmas" -->
Chick Webb: "Harlem Congo"
Miles Davis: "Spanish Key" (Single Version)-->
The Peaceniks: "Why Does Everyone Wait Until Christmas" -->
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five"
Albert Bouchard: "Solstice" ("12_31_15")-->
Miles Davis Sextet: "So What" -->
Albert Bouchard: "December Lullaby"
Albert and the Sleigh Riders: "My Christmas Baby" -->
The Beach Boys: "Little Saint Nick" -->
Music-Themes: "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"
Duke Ellington: "Black Beauty" -->
Michael Buble: "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
Duke Ellington: "Mood Indigo"
Mildred Bailey and Red Norvo: "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" -->
Billie Holiday: "God Bless The Child" -->
Duke Ellington: "Diga Diga Do"
Chick Webb And His Orchestra: "A-Tisket A-Tasket"

"This week's ORIGINS show is a twofer Tuesday. A combination of the very latest releases and stuff from years all the while commenting on the current situation. "

A Tribe Called Quest: "Movin Backwards" -->
A Tribe Called Quest: "We the People..."
The Byrds: "Wasn't Born to Follow" -->
The Byrds: "Get to You"
Vanilla Fudge: "For What It's Worth" -->
Vanilla Fudge: "I Can See for Miles" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Sympathy For The Devil" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heart Breaker)"
Bob Dylan: "Gotta Serve Somebody" -->
Bob Dylan: "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" (Single Version)
U2: "Vertigo" -->
U2: "The Hands That Built America" (Theme from "Gangs of New York")

Albert said Blue Coupe did Vertigo at the Joe Hurley irish event.

AB talked about the American election of Trump said he felt disappointed at the US people that they fell for this conman...

Albert said the Democrats were too arrogant.. maybe he'll move to Ireland - he revealed he was a dual citizen of Ireland... had relatives in Cork...
Tenacious D: "The Government Totally Sucks" -->
Tenacious D: "Master Exploder"
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band: "The Dust Blows Forward 'n The Dust Blows Back" -->
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band: "Dachau Blues"
Buck Owens: "You Ain't Gonna Have Ol' Buck to Kick Around No More" -->
Buck Owens: "Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)"
Albert Bouchard: "Death Valley Nights" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Prayer _Light the Dark" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (live at Conry's) -->
Stalk Forrest Group: ""Me and My Monkey"" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Honky Tonk Women"

These 3 SFG tracks have been played before on show 35 - maybe the quality's better this time...?
David Roter Method: "Pussy and Money" -->
David Roter Method: "Gloria (The Midget)"
Thrift Shop: "Personality" -->
Thrift Shop: "Video Games" -->

Last 2 songs were by AB's students in 2006...

"Tomorrow I will be hosting a special Halloween edition of the Origins iRadio/podcast"...

Blue Oyster Cult: "Godzilla" (live SEE) -->
Alice Cooper: "Teenage Frankenstein" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "I Love the Night"

Albert described ILTN as "The Diary of a Mad Vampire"....
David Roter Method: "Caught The Monster" -->
Black Sabbath: "Iron Man" -->
Queen: "Ogre Battle"

"There you have a bunch of classic rock scary type things" - said David Roter's "Monster" will be available next week...
Dennis Dunaway: "Skeleton Barn Dance" (Demo) -->
Blue Coupe: "Hallows Grave" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Nosferatu"

Dennis Dunaway sent his midi demo to AB a few years ago, but he couldn't figure out any way to use it...
Harry Nilsson: "Daybreak" [From Son of Dracula] -->
The Ramones: "Pinhead" -->
Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield: "Season of the Witch" -->

Albert said Harry Nilsson "was important in the history of BOC..."
Bone Crusher: "Never Scared (Radio Mix)" -->
Bon Jovi: "Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars" -->
Black Sabbath: "The Wizard"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Monsters" -->
Brain Surgeons: "Name Your Monster" -->
Buck Owens: "It's a Monster's Holiday"

"That was a little Monster set - Monsters was a fun little tune - I kinda liked how that turned out...""I just had to get me some Buck Owens in the set... you don't hear that everyday..."
The Byrds: "Space Odyssey" -->
Massive Attack: "Teardrop" -->
Brain Surgeons: "Brain For Terra Incognita"

"Brain For Terra Incognita" was a Richard Meltzer tune...
Rolfe Kent: "Dexter Main Title" -->
Bella's Lullaby Romantic Piano Music: "Bella's Lullaby" (from "Twilight") -->
Joe Bouchard: "Haunted Dance Floor" -->
Scary Sounds: "Michael Myers" (from "Halloween")

"Some instrumental Halloweeny type stuff... Here's another song about Halloween:"
Sonic Youth: "Halloween" -->
Bouchard Dunaway and Smith: "Vampire Night"

"This month's Origins show will have as it's theme, my first year in the New York City area. "

I now realize it was a major turning point in my life so I'm going to play the music of the artists I met during that first year in chronological order."

Also I will be doing a special Halloween Fundraising broadcast on Thursday October 27th with as many monster songs as I can muster. Same time and place.

: "Lucille"

Albert told about meeting Little Richard in Chicago - wouldn't go up to his room to smoke some Acapulco Gold though...
Little Richard: "Tutti Frutti" -->
Little Richard: "Hey Hey Hey Hey"

He then told how backed John Weisenthal's mate - "here's a song we played with him":
Steve Noonan: "She's a Flying Thing"

"Shortly after, Sandy Pearlman got us a gig opening the show at The Cafe au Go Go for James Cotton, Muddy Waters and Richie Havens" - AB and Richie Havens became friends after this (he gave AB his phone number)..
Richie Havens: "Here Comes the Sun" -->
James Cotton: "Juke (Live)" -->
Muddy Waters: "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"

Albert said how Francis Clay intro'd him to Muddy Waters as his "son"... said he saw Francis again when they played Generation a few months later...

Albert told about meeting The Doors in a car with Sandy Pearlman:
The Doors: "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)"

Albert told about Jackson Browne coming round... "our paths crossed for a moment and he almost stole my gf for a night or two but luckily I was able to keep her from his bed..."
Jackson Browne: "Tender Is The Night"

We didn't have many songs - I wrote 2 or 3 songs and one with Allen - I haven't digitised it yet...
Country Joe and The Fish: "Section 43"
Jim Kweskin: "Jug Band Music" -->
The Fugs: "Nova Slum Goddess"

Albert told how he went with Helen Robbins to the Yippee meetings with Ed Sanders, Paul Krasner, Abi Hoffman, etc

Years later, went to a spoken word thing - David Johansen, Handsome Dick etc was there and the guy didn't remember him...

Albert told about the Generation gig:
Chuck Berry: "Roll Over Beethoven"

"He had the strongest voice ever - then after him, this guy played:"
B.B. King: "You Upset Me Baby"

Albert said he had a tape of Jimi and Paul Butterfield and BB King from that night, but I don't think it was that night - the internet says that was 15 April whilst SWU were 16-17 April...
Blood, Sweat and Tears: "I Can't Quit Her"

Albert told how he sold Crawdaddy outside the Fillmore - sold one to Jimmy Page...
Led Zeppelin: "Good Times Bad Times"

"Took some LSD and took subway to Central Park saw Grateful Dead play"
Grateful Dead: "That's It for the Other One-I. Cryptical Envelopment-II. Quadlibet for Tender Feet-III. The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get-IV. We Leave the Castle"
Cream: "White Room"
Jefferson Airplane: "Somebody to Love"
The Wind In The Willows: "Djini Judy"
Ten Years After: "I'm Going Home (Live)" -->

"It's been a busy summer for me. So busy, in fact, that I had to bail on my August Origins Show. "

"So my theme for my September show is going to be all the great things I did. You too can know what I did last summer. "

"I will be telling stories and playing music from all the great artists I worked with over the past 2 months. "

Albert then told of his Classic Rock gig earlier in the summer - with The Association and Ambrosia etc

Iron Butterfly: "Butterfly Bleu"

Albert told story of how EB hung out at Hobart and worked there

Then he talked a lot about playing with The All Stars - said was going to be on RC's Band Geek (Nov 11 Tuesday?)
Vanilla Fudge: "Shotgun" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Burnin' For You"

Albert said the Fudge was more democratic

"Burnin' For You was me, Don and Joe..."

"Here's a song I played a lot last summer and it's a song I never get tired of":
Blue Oyster Cult: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (SEE) - said that was in a different key from the original - B

Albert said the AOF shows went back to the original key for DFTR, and a bit slower than SEE version... said he thought it was better maybe...

Albert said "here's a song we played in BOC for many years and then I got to play it with the real guys..."
Paul Revere and The Raiders: "Kicks" (Single Version)-->
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Fire"

Albert said BOC played "Kick:" just to be ironic

Albert said he stood in for Bobby Rondinelli at Smithtown played lots of covers of other people (no BOC) - said he played "Fire"...

He also said the following song was a big hit when AB moved to NYC in 1967:
Vanilla Fudge: "Take Me for a Little While" -->
Dave Edmunds: "Take Me for a Little While" -->
Dusty Springfield: "Take Me for a Little While" -->
Jackie Ross: "Take Me for a Little While"
Iron Butterfly: "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Godzilla" (SEE) -->
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Foxy Lady" -->

Albert said he also played this with Mark Stein:
Deep Purple: "Smoke On the Water"
Vanilla Fudge: "Let's Pray for Peace" -->
Vanilla Fudge: "Break On Through (To the Other Side)"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Born To Be Wild (Detroit)"

Tonight's ORIGINS show on www.wfku.org is going to be about what I've been doing for the past week, "Camping on the Beach". Coming from the South Shore of Long Island...

The Lovin' Spoonful: "Summer In the City" -->
Kevin Rudolf and Lil Wayne: "Let It Rock"

Albert said he'd spent week camping out on Mastic Beach (?) - said had finished mixing the new Roter record...

I asked about the "Rain's Falling" demo - he said he'd found it "in storage"... I also asked was there ANY sort of date for when they might have recorded "Rain's Falling" - and what other demos did he come across in "storage"...? But answer there was none... :-(
Blue Oyster Cult: "Moon Crazy" -->
Jerry Reed: "When You're Hot, You're Hot" -->
The Beach Boys: "I Get Around"
Buffalo Springfield: "Expecting to Fly" -->
David Bowie: "Girl Loves Me" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Astronomy Wild Mix"
Various Artists: "Surfside 6" -->
C-Pen: "Silver Surfer" -->
Dick Dale and the del-Tones: "Tidal Wave"
The Beach Boys: "Catch a Wave" -->
Wilson Phillips: "Hold On" -->
Sly and the Family Stone: "Hot Fun In the Summertime"
Bob Marley And The Wailers: "Easy Skanking (Bonus Track)" -->
Caribbean Steel Orchestra: "Cuonga Ana" -->
Widespread Panic: "Fishing"
Weird Al Yankovic: "My Bologna" -->
Dick Dale and the del-Tones: "Surf Beat" -->
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Third Stone from the Sun"

I asked if he had any idea of a year for when Ambrosia might have opened for BOC in San Diego...?

Albert: I was just about to ask you Ralph.

If you're talking about Ambrosia, I don't have anything listed for them, unfortunately...

Albert: Alan Parsons Project?
Captain Beyond: "As the Moon Speaks (To the Waves of the Sea)" -->
Camper Van Beethoven: "She Divines Water" -->
Bikini Kill: "Star Fish"
Samuel E. Wright: "Hot, Hot, Hot" -->
Captain Beefheart: "Sun Zoom Spark" -->
Musical Youth: "Pass the Dutchie (On the Left Hand Side)"
The Beauty Way: "Where I Came In"

"Topic for this month's Tribute Origins show: All My Friends, And They Died"...

Jim Carroll: "Some People Who Died"

Talked about the BB Kings show a few nights ago... said they didn't have time to learn all the Allen Lanier songs they'd liked to have played...

Albert said BB Kings and BOC gave their profits from the gig to the American Lung Association...
Blue Oyster Cult: "Please Hold" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "John L. Sullivan" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "What Is Quicksand (Demo)" (Previously Unreleased)

"Just a sampling of weird songs that Allen would write for us... so different to anything I could come up with..."
Handsome Dick Manitoba: "Helen Wheels" -->
Helen Wheels: "Break The Chains" -->
Brain Surgeons NYC: "Dark Secrets" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Sinful Love"

I asked Albert: "When SWU did John L. Sullivan with Les, was it slower than this?"

"John L Sullivan was always warp speed."
David Roter Method: "My Other Brother" Rough -->
David Roter Method: "Pussy and Money" -->
Dictators: "Pussy And Money"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Joan Crawford" -->
Brain Surgeons: "St Vitus" -->
Helen Wheels: "Destination Unknown" -->

On the chat, I asked Albert "How may takes were required for that Joan Crawford intro, I wonder...?"

"I think it was just one. There might have been a false start but then Allen just did it like that. It was recorded separately from the track however."
Blue Oyster Cult: "Dance the Night Away" [Demo] -->
Albert Bouchard: "Dance the Night Away" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Mes Dames Sarat"
Brain Surgeons: "(666) Devil Got Your Mother" -->
David Roter Method: "I Think I Slept With Jackie Kennedy" -->
David Roter Method: "Life With the Roaches"
Brain Surgeons: "Competition" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Harvester Of Eyes" -->
The Jim Carroll Band: "Day and Night" -->

Albert says he has some Secret Treaties notes and he knows that Allen wrote a bunch of "Harvester" but didn't get a credit...

"D&S" - everybody wrote a part of that...
Brain Surgeons and Friends: "Niagara Falls" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "In Thee" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "5 Guitars" (Detroit)

"1st song I ever wrote with Allen was Rain is Falling"...

"Today's Origin show will be a revisitation of the punk show of last year... except it will be live and I will be playing mostly different songs."

Bobby Fuller Four: "I Fought The Law"
Billy Idol: "Rebel Yell" (Remastered) --> - Paused in middle for an ad break!!
Alice Cooper: "I'm Eighteen" -->
Bo Diddley: "Bo Diddley" -->
The Beatles: "I Wanna Be Your Man" (live, BBC) -->
Chuck Berry: "Roll Over Beethoven"

AB talked of upcoming trip to London...
The Clash: "Rock The Casbah" -->
The Patti Smith Group: "Babelogue" -->
Mike Watt: "Black Gang Coffee"

Talked of doing the upcoming Joey Ramone's Birthday Bash benefit in 2 days... said he was the only BOC member to like the Ramones and went to their dressing room after they supported them...
The Offspring: "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" -->
The Patti Smith Group: "25th Floor" -->
The Velvet Underground: "Venus In Furs"
Dictators: "Avenue A" -->
Ramones: "Listen to My Heart" -->
Brain Surgeons: "Saint Vitus Dance"

Talked of playing CBGBs with lots of different punk bands back in the 80s...
Curtis Mayfield: "Freddie's Dead (Theme from 'Superfly')" -->
Fabienne Shine: "My Girls, My Heroes" -->
Dictators: "Channel Surfing"

Albert said he and Joe played on the Fabienne Shine track...
She Wants Revenge: "Tear You Apart" -->
The Morning Benders: "Boarded Doors" -->
Mike Watt: "arrow-pierced-egg-man"
The Master Plan: "I Wanna Feel Something Now" -->
The Seeds: "A Thousand Shadows (New Mix)" -->
Peter Haviland: "Do the the Yellow Jacket" -->

Talked about Peter Haviland and his history with him... (apparently, Pete passed on a few years ago...)
Minutemen: The Red And The Black"" -->
Sonic Youth: "Swimsuit Issue" -->
The Strokes: "Someday"

Talked about the trip to the White House etc...

Tonight's show was originally scheduled for Tuesday 19 Apr 2016, but Albert told us in advance:

"I just found out that I will not be able to my Origins show live at the regular time this month because I will be on a plane flying back from LA on Tuesday when my show is supposed to happen.

"I'm pretty sure I will not be able to do it on the plane either, although that really would be interesting, jet noise notwithstanding. We haven't figured if I will pre-record it or change the time or date or just air the show from last year.

Once we make a decision I will post it but I really would like to do a new show because of all that has happened in the last week. In case you didn't know, I joined up with BOC this week for a show at BB Kings in NYC and we performed Agents of Fortune in its entirety. It involved many days of rehearsal and collaboration with my old mates and was very satisfying. More to come I'm sure."

A few days later, Albert said:

"This month's ORIGINS show on www.wfku.org has been moved to Friday April 22. It is earth day so I will try to have a theme loosely based around that."

Finally, the show was broadcast on Friday 22 Apr 2016 with this info:

Tonight's show is going to be my random access thought process. Next month we will go back to our usual time.

Prince: "Little Red Corvette" -->
Metallica: "For Whom The Bell Tolls"

Albert said "The Reaper's been busy this year, but what you gonna do? It's the way it goes - Time marches on..."
Alice In Chains: " Down In A Hole" -->

In the online chat, Albert was being asked about various possibilities regarding DVD releases of the AOF LA TV show recordings, etc and he remarked "Almost anything is possible except BOC getting into the R&R Hall of Sham..."
Sonic Youth: "Swimsuit Issue" -->
U2: "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)"
Hank Williams, Sr.: "Hey Good Lookin'" -->
Buck Owens: "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms" -->
Lil Wayne: "How to Love"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Tenderloin" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Sally [Demo Version]" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Lucille Jam" [Conry's]
American Dog: "Summer of Love" -->
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band: "Bo Diddley" -->
John Lennon: "Cold Turkey"
King Crimson: "Epitaph" -->
Alice Cooper: "Levity Ball (Studio Version)" -->
Badfinger: "Get Away"
The X Brothers: "Run For The Sun" -->
Romeo Santos: "Odio (feat. Drake)"

Albert Bouchard: "The is a new ORIGINS show tonight. I will be announcing the digital re-release of two long out of print David Roter albums, Bambo and Beauty of the Island. Beauty of the Bambo."

David Roter Method: "El Duce" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Unknown Tongue" -->
Dictators: "Pussy And Money"

AB talked about getting the two Roter records, Bambo and Beauty of the Island, re-released digitally and calling it Beauty of the Bambo.
Neil Young: "After the Garden" -->
Jason Derulo (feat. Snoop Dogg): "Wiggle" -->
David Bowie: "Round and Round (AKA Around and Around)"
David Roter Method: "Run M.F. Run" -->
Dictators: "Avenue A" -->
David Roter Method: "Marlena"

Marlena was David Roter and half the Imaginos band (around 1984/1985) - inc AB on drums...
Little Richard: "Tutti Frutti" -->
Weird Al Yankovic: "White and Nerdy" -->
T. Rex: "Telegram Sam"

Albert said we'd lost a "stunning" number of rock'n'rollers - here's a song on honour of Budgie's recently dead guitarist, John Thomas:
Budgie: "Crash Course In Brain Surgery" -->
B.B. King: "You Upset Me Baby" -->
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: "Red Right Hand"

Albert said he loved Nick Cave and would join them in a shot... said Lars Ulrich gave him a Budgie tape and said that AB should do some Budgie songs in the Brain Surgeons... Albert said he thinks he did play one - but couldn't remember what one....
David Roter Method: "Find Something Beautiful" -->
Professor Longhair: "Tipitina" -->
Metallica: "For Whom The Bells Tolls"

Albert said it was shocking that Keith Emerson killed himself this week - here's a song from the "Tarkus" record:
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: "Aquatarkus" -->
Porno For Pyros: "Dogs Rule The Night" -->
Primus: "The Toys Go Winding Down"

Albert said he played these because all these artists remind him of DR...

"Now I'm going off into a strange land of disparate influences that remind me of DR and I might stop a track and play some guitar..."
Right Said Fred: "I'm Too Sexy" -->
Jackson Browne: "Tender Is The Night" -->
Motorhead: "Bomber"

AB gave the order of SWU singers - first there was David Roter, then when he left, it was AB, then Jackson Browne, then Jeff Richards, then Les Braunstein...

Albert said he only briefly met Roter, and jammed with him a bit but then he left for CA...
Albert Bouchard: "Mrs. Amelia Underwood -->
The Darkness: "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"

Albert said they were this century's version of the Sweet - said he remembered playing with the Sweet once.... [The Sweet opened for BOC on 21 June 1979 in Mobile AL]
Nickelback: "Rockstar"

Gumball: "She's As Beautiful as a Foot"
Vitamin String Quartet: "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
Sonic Youth: "Is It My Body"
King Django and The Scrucialists: "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Siren Sing Along"
Phil Collen: "Under My Wheels"
Lime Spiders: "Career of Evil"
Iced Earth: "Dead Babies"
Pierce the Veil "(Don't Fear) the Reaper"
Minutemen: "The Red And The Black"
A*Teens: "School's Out"
Widespread Panic: "Godzilla"
Steve Jones and Duff McKagan: "Elected"
3 Inches of Blood: "Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll"
The Goo Goo Dolls: "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Metallica: "Astronomy"
Laughing Hyenas: "Public Animal #9"
Mike Watt: "Burnin' for You"
Demons: "Luney Tune"
Boxcar Satan: "Dominance and Submission"
Anthrax: "I'm Eighteen"
Burnin Vernon: "City's on Flame"
Megadeth: "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
The Alice Band: "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Jello Biafra: "Halo of Flies"

Mott The Hoople: "All the Young Dudes"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Stairway to the Stars"
David Bowie: "Blackstar"
Brain Surgeons: "Cities on Flame"
David Bowie: "Lets Spend the Night Together"
Roxy Music: "More Than This"
Tina Turner: "Tonight"
The Rolling Stones: "Paint It Black"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Siren Sing Along"
Wilco: "Bull Black Nova"
David Bowie: "Panic In Detroit"
Brain Surgeons and Friends: "Elle Sol"
Nirvana: "The Man Who Sold The World"
Amy Winehouse: "Back To Black"
AC/DC: "Back in Black"
Brain Surgeons: "Brain For Terra Incognita"
David Roter Method: "Bug Girl (Mix-04)"
Bouchard Dunaway & Smith: "Fallen Angel"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Gil Blanco County"
David Roter Method: "El Duce"
Brain Surgeons: "Krakatoa"
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: "Ant Man Bee"
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Mackerras: "Lohengrin: Prelude to Act3 (Wagner)"

Blue Oyster Cult: "Career of Evil"
Albert Bouchard: "Career of Evil"
Albert Bouchard: "I Am The One You Warned Me Of"
Al Bouchard: "Hit and Run"
Bouchard Brothers and Bellomo Sisters: "Manic Panic Technicolor Christmas"
Bouchard Brothers and Bellomo Sisters: "Christmas on the Road" (v2 rough)
Bouchard Brothers and Bellomo Sisters: "Christmas Yearning"
Dada Greentree: "My Philosophy"
Al and Mark: "Cop On the Beat"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Fireworks"
David Roter Method: "The Roter Curse"
David Roter Method: "Monster (Rough mix-02)"
David Roter Method: "Luckiest Man (mix-0)"
Albert Bouchard: "Big Sounding Shuffle" (iPhone)
Al Bouchard: "Tree of Hate"
Al Bouchard: "Sky"
Albert Bouchard: "Ghosts"
Brain Surgeons: "The Red And The Black"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Cities On Flame"
Blue Coupe: "Brother Don't Tell Me (Prime mix5)"
Brain Surgeons NYC: "Constantine's Sword"
Blue Coupe: "Ain't Dead"

Tonight's show was a "badass murder ballad special"... unfortunately, show was plagued a bit with problems - glitches, repeating loops and dead air etc - at the start...

Albert Bouchard: "Career of Evil"
Alice Cooper: "Killer"
Nat King Cole: "Miss Otis Regrets"
David Roter Method: "Legends Of New York"
Johnny Cash: "Folsom Prison Blues"
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: "Where The Wild Roses Grow"
Eric Clapton: "I Shot The Sheriff [Live]"
Bob Dylan: "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe"
Johnny Cash: "The Long Black Veil - Give My Love To Rose"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Career of Evil"
Neil Young: "Down By the River"
The Kingston Trio: "Tom Dooley"
Tom Jones: "Delilah"
The Raconteurs: "Carolina Drama"
Pete Seeger: "Frankie and Johnny"
David Grisman, Jerry Garcia and Tony Rice: "Little Sadie"
The Byrds: "Pretty Polly"
Reba McEntire: "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
Nirvana: "Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Live)"
Tom Waits: "Two Sisters"

Regaltones: "Walk Don't Run"
The Ventures: "Walk, Don't Run"
Chet Atkins: "Walk, Don't Run (Remastered)"
Rebel Rousers: "Walk, Don't Run"
Johnny Smith: "Walk, Don't Run"
Gary Hoey: "Walk, Don't Run"
Surf Guitar Classics: "Walk, Don't Run"
Los Straitjackets: "Walk, Don't Run"
California Guitar Trio: "Walk, Don't Run"
Sha Na Na: "Walk, Don't Run"
The String-A-Longs: "Walk, Don't Run"
Mike Auldridge: "Walk, Don't Run"
Glen Campbell: "Walk, Don't Run"
Billy Strange: "Walk, Don't Run '64"
The Ventures: "Walk Don't Run (Live)"
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass: "Walk, Don't Run"
Count Basie: "Walk, Don't Run"
Johnny A.: "Walk, Don't Run"
Nokie Edwards & The Light Crust Doughboys: "Walk, Don't Run"
The John Barry Seven: "Walk, Don't Run"
Os Espaciais: "Walk Don't Run '64"
The Retroliners: "Walk, Don't Run"
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: "Walk, Don't Run"
The Waves: "Walk, Don't Run"
The Shervingtons: "Walk, Don't Run"
Those Darn Accordions!: "Walk, Don't Run"
The Looney Tunes: "Walk, Don't Run"
The Wipe Outs: "Walk, Don't Run"
Terrafolk: "Music For Found Harmonium/Walk, Don't Run"

The Byrds: "Mr. Spaceman"
Sheb Wooley: "Purple People Eater (Digitally Remastered)"
Parliament: "Unfunky UFO"
Velvet Revolver: "Loving the Alien"
David Bowie: "Starman"
Graham Parker: "Waiting for the UFOs"
Parliament: "Unfunky UFO"
Harry Nilsson: "Spaceman"
4 Non Blondes: "Spaceman"
MC 900 ft. Jesus: "Spaceman"
Journey: "Spaceman"
Béla Fleck: "UFO Tofu"
Joe Satriani: "Surfing with the Alien"
Skrillex: "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"
Albert Bouchard: "Astronomy 88"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Take Me Away"
Albert Bouchard: "In the Presence of Another World"
Yes: "Arriving UFO"
Genesis: "Alien Afternoon"
John Lennon: "Nobody Told Me"
Ufo: "Lights Out"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Monsters"
Richard Belzer: "UFOs"

Regaltones: "Walk Don't Run"
Jerry Reed: "When You're Hot, You're Hot"
Johnny Rivers: "Walkin' The Dog"
Master Plan: "14th Street"
The Lizardz: "Eyeblinder"
Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne: "Let It Rock"
Led Zeppelin: "Immigrant Song"
Joe Bouchard: "Kickin' A Can"
James Gang: "Funk #49"
Iggy & The Stooges: "I Wanna Be Your Dog (Extended Psych Version)"
Jack Secret: "Room To Rage"
Hugh Masekela: "Grazin' in the Grass"
Harry Nilsson: "Coconut"
The Lovin' Spoonful: "Summer In the City"
Felice Rosser: "Lovers Loan"
Fleetwood Mac: "Albatross (Chris Coco Featuring Peter Green)"
Emeli Sandé: "Next to Me"
Dusty Springfield: "I'll Try Anything (Single)"
Buck Dharma: "Elle Sol"
Dixie Chicks: "Wide Open Spaces"
Dimaa: "Desert Nightwish"
Dictators: "Avenue A"
David Roter Method: "Norma Jean"
David Lee Roth: "California Girls"
David Bowie: "Starman"
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: "When Big Joan Sets Up"

Blue Coupe: "Hellfire Hurry"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Hot Rails To Hell (Live)"
Robert Johnson: "Hell Hound On My Trail"
Albert Bouchard: "Traffic"
The Sweet: "Hell Raiser"
James Brown: "Hell"
Louis Armstrong: "Hellzapoppin'"
MOtley Crue: "Hell On High Heels"
Judas Priest: "Hell Bent for Leather"
Iggy & the Stooges: "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell"
Albert Bouchard: "Boots"
John Lee Hooker: "Burning Hell"
Pink Floyd: "Run Like Hell"
Spinal Tap: "Hell Hole"
Albert Bouchard: "Butt"
Mike Watt: "hell-building-man"
Cheap Trick: "Gonna Raise Hell"
The X Brothers: "Hot Time In Hell"
Albert Bouchard: "Out The Window"
Slayer: "Hell Awaits"
Pantera: "Cowboys from Hell"
Cradle of Filth: "Better to Reign in Hell"
Hank Williams, Jr.: "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound"
Fleetwood Mac: "Hellhound On My Trail"
Savoy Brown: "Hellbound Train"

Albert said: "This month's ORIGINS show is another sneak peek of my 24/7/365 radio channel, 'Albert Bouchard's American Road Trip' which will debut later in the summer."

He also said "Trying out a new app tonight. Here goes nothing!"

Well, whatever app it was, unfortunately, it had problems - we started with almost 20 minutes of dead air and even when the boradcast did kick in, there were intermittent sound glitches and problems all night...

Mike Pinera: "Ride Captain Ride Suite"
Steppenwolf: "Magic Carpet Ride"
Steppenwolf: "Born To Be Wild"
Blue Coupe: "Ride With Me"
Blue Coupe: "Devil's Highway"
Blue Coupe: "Used Car"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Transmaniacon MC"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Highway Song"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Born To Be Wild"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Feel the Thunder"
Bo Diddley: "Roadrunnercar"
Keith Urban: "Faster"
Pink: "Gone To California"
Alice Cooper: "Under My Wheels"
American Dog: "Movin' On"
Blind Faith: "Can't Find My Way Home"
Metallica: "Turn the Page"
Motorhead: "Built For Speed"
Norah Jones: "Come Away With Me"
Patti Rothberg: "PT Cruser"
Peter Gabriel: "Steam"
Prince: "Little Red Corvette"
Ray Charles: "Hit The Road Jack"
Nelson Riddle: "Route 66 Theme"
The X Brothers: "The Van Song"

The Ramones: "Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio"

Albert explained it was a pre-recorded show because - at the time of broadcast - he would be down at the Joey Ramones birthday bash at Webster Hall, NYC where Blue Coupe were playing at 9pm...

"So in honour of that occasion I'm doing an all punk rock show... I dunno, 'Punk' is such a big word, but what does it really mean...?" Albert then offered the following Joey Ramone quote: "To me, punk is all about being an individual, going against the grain, and standing up and saying, this is who I am"...
The Dead Boys: "Sonic Reducer"

Albert told us what what he thought the term "punk rock" meant: "to me, punk rock meant the freedom to create, the freedom to be successful, the freedom to not be successful, the freedom to be who you are - it's freedom... Patti Smith:
Patti Smith: "My Generation (Live)"

Next Albert played the following bunch of songs and preceded each individually with various quotes from assorted punk-related illuminati (including - bizarrely - Billy Bragg) eg "All punk is attitude - that's what makes it punk...", and so on and so forth:
The Dictators: "Avenue A"
The Ramones: "We're a Happy Family"
Sex Pistols: "Anarchy in the UK"
The Offspring: "The Kids Aren't Alright"
The Clash: "Train in Vain"
Romeo Void: "Never Say Never"
Iggy & The Stooges: "Search & Destroy"
The Ramones: "Rock'n'Roll High School"
Joan Jett: "I Love Rock'n'Roll"
Talking Heads: "No Compassion"

"The Talking Heads were one of the more unusual CBGBs acts - reminds me of the SWU when Les was the singer" - says he's using a lot of quotes in tonight's show because he likes the scripted "Little Steven" radio show...
The Dictators: "I am Right"
The Del Lords: "When The Drugs Kick In"

Albert talked about the UK punk movement growing out of pub rock, and being the antithesis to the arena bands like BOC, but Albert didn't see that - to Albert, punk rock was all about John Holstrom/Legs McNeill's "Punk magazine"... they glorified the punk aesthetic, they glorified CBGBs and all the bands that played there, Dictators, Blondie, Talking Heads and of course the Ramones were a big part of the magazine and punk rock in general...

Actually, I used to get that magazine myself (bit pricey as it was imported) and I seem to remember BOC featuring quite heavily in that publication also...
The Ramones: "Pet Cemetery"
The Clash: "Washington Bullets"
Sex Pistols: "No Feelings"
Superchunk: "The First Part"
Patti Smith: "Easter Sunday"
Modest Mouse: "Float On"
Nancy Sinatra: "These Boots are Made For Walking"
Blue Oyster Cult: "The Revenge of Vera Gemini"
Alice Cooper: "I'm 18"
Bo Diddley: "Bo Diddley"
Chuck Berry: "Johnny B Goode"
The Dixie Chicks: "Not Ready to Make Nice"

The theme of tonight's show was "prog rock"...

Certain parts of the show were unlistenable - there have been technical difficulties in the past, but this episode was landmark - this episode set the benchmark by which all future cock-ups will be judged...

Albert started the show by highlighting the influences behind the writing of "Cities On Flame":

Blue Oyster Cult: "Cities On Flame" -->
MC5: "Motor City is Burning"

"We got part of the melody from this - but not enough to be sued":
Traffic: "Dear Mr. Fantasy (Stereo Version)"

"I showed the following to Donald and he 'modified' it"...
Black Sabbath: "The Wizard"

"We get to the prog rock section now - the last piece of the puzzle - combined this song with the Sabbath riff and we knew we had something unique:"
King Crimson: "21st Century Schizoid Man"

AB talked about his "other" career as a teacher and the new common core curriculum - AB then read part of his lesson on "prog rock" and followed it with:
Yes: "Starship Trooper: Life Seeker-Disillusion-Wurm" -->
Genesis: "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"

Albert told a tale of BOC playing a festival in the mid-west with Focus and Horslips, and a member of Horslips shouting through BOC's dressing room wall at Peter Banks in the Focus dressing room (for some reason) - I don't have a date for such a pairing and therefore suspect he's mixed up two different bands..
Focus: "Hocus Pocus"

"I'm going to make a case for BOC being a US prog rock band - and I'm going to do it by playing an SFG track from Conry's (apologies to EB as his vocals are low on this one)":
Stalk Forrest Group: "A Fact about Sneakers"

"Long on the counterculture, short on the discipline - anyway, to further make my case, we kept doing that sort of stuff:"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Black Blade" -->
Underbelly "Astronomy"

Albert said "Cultosaurus" was an attempt to NOT have a hit...
Grateful Dead: "That's It for the Other One -->
Moody Blues: "Forever Afternoon - Time to Get Away"

"Finally, here's the record that stated off the whole prog rock thing - thanks for listening..."
The Beatles: "A Day In the Life" -->

Stalk Forrest Group: "Better Bird" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Under My Thumb"
The Beatles: "Can't Buy Me Love" -->
The Rolling Stones: "That's How Strong My Love Is"
The Beatles: "I Wanna Be Your Man" -->
The Rolling Stones: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
The Beatles: "Slow Down" -->
The Rolling Stones: "In Another Land"
John Lennon: "Imagine" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Parachute Woman"
John Lennon: "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Salt Of The Earth"
The Rolling Stones: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" -->
John Lennon: "Cold Turkey"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Me and My Monkey" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Honky Tonk Women"
The Beatles: "Good Morning Good Morning" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Live with Me"
Stalk Forrest Group: "I've Got a Feeling" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Under My Thumb"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Hey Bulldog" -->
John Lennon: "New York City"
Muddy Waters: "Rollin' Stone"

The Beatles: "Baby's in Black" -->
Willie Nelson: "One After 909" -->
The Beatles: "Free A a Bird"

AB talked of the Beatles and the trauma they suffered in childhood being bombed and then going to seek their fortune in Hamburg, which might have sent the bombers...
Richie Havens: "Here Comes The Sun" -->
David Ball: "I'll Follow The Sun" -->
Johnny Cash: "In my Life"

AB talked of the hysteria surrounding the Beatles - "they became the soundtrack to our lives..." However, Albert didn't like them when he first heard them...
Beatallica: "A Garage Dayz Night" -->
Aerosmith: "Helter Skelter" -->
Type O Negative: "Daytripper - If I Needed Someone - She's So Heavy (I Want You)"

Albert sped up the last track and cut it short... He apologised for not playing BOC's version "She's So Heavy" - his CD drive didn't work and couldn't buy that track on iTunes...("the bastards")...

In the chat room, Albert was asked how much preparation they'd had before doing "She's So Heavy" live: "We never played it before. We practiced it once before we went out on that swing then went over it again in the dressing room."
Chuck Berry: "Roll Over Beethoven" -->
The Beatles: "Kansas City - Hey-Hey-Hey!" -->
Little Richard: "Hey Hey Hey Hey"
The Beatles: "Drive My Car" -->
SFG: "Bulldog" -->
Aretha Franklin: "Long & Winding Road"
The Regal Tones: "Things We said Today (2006 Reunion Concert)" -->
Deep Purple: "Help" -->
The Beatles: "Help"

Albert talked about The Regal Tones reunions - but that Steve and Eddie weren't into the idea of doing any more Reunions...
Badfinger: "Come and Get It" -->
Aerosmith: "Come Together" -->
Michael Jackson: "Come Together" -->
Black Label Society: "Come Together" -->
Michael Hedges: "Come Together"
The Breeders: "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" -->
Tori Amos: "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (curtailed because it's too long) -->
U2: "Happiness Is a Warm Gun (The Gun Mix)"

Albert talked about how each artist de-constructed the song...
The Beatles: "Savoy Truffle" -->
The Beatles: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" -->
Phish: "A Day in the Life" to fade out

Reggae Special...

Jimmy Cliff: "Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers" -->
Millie Small: "My Boy Lollipop" -->
Desmond Dekker: "Israelites"
Musical Youth: "Pass The Dutchie" -->
Peter Tosh: "Legalize It" -->
Eddy Grant: "Electric Avenue" (Ringbang Remix)
Bob Marley & The Wailers: "Easy Skanking" -->
UB40: "Red, Red Wine" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Showtime"

"That last song doesn't sound very reggae but when Eric originally wrote in 1979-80, it was written as a reggae song - we had a guy called Albert Anderson from NJ (out of Bob Marley's group) who came down to our rehearsal studio and played guitar on that song and Steppin Razor..."

"I can't find the recordings now of that now (maybe George Geranios recorded it) - Anyway, BOC dragged that song out and gave it more of a rock edge, I guess..."

"Martin Birch didn't want to put it on any records he did, it was out of his comfort zone..."
Chaka Demus & Pliers: "Murder She Wrote" -->
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: "Old War Chant" -->
Burning Spear: "The Ghost (Marcus Garvey)"

Break - burst of static followed by 30 secs of an old show - indicating a break in transmission - luckily, normal service was quickly resumed...
The Paragons: "The Tide Is High" -->
The Pioneers: "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah" -->
Dave Smith & The Astronauts: "Lover Like You"
The Invaders: "Limbo Girl" -->
Billy: "Ma Bloopie" -->
Dada Greentree: "Let's Have Fun"
Bob Marley & The Wailers: "Buffalo Soldier" -->
Johnny Nash: "Stir It Up" -->
Steel Pulse: "No Justice No Peace"
Peter Tosh: "Steppin Razor" -->
The Specials: "Message To You Rudy" -->
Dada Greentree: "Quicksand3"
Toots & The Maytals: "Funky Kingston" -->
Madness: "One Step Beyond" -->
Desmond Dekker: "007 (Shanty Town)"

On being informed in the chatroom that The Specials and Madness were examples of "ska" (2 Tone), Albert spends some time asking Suri on his mobile phone "what's the difference between ska and reggae?", but without success...
Sean Paul: "Gimme The Light"
Jimmy Cliff: "Many Rivers To Cross"

This is the Christmas 2014 edition of Origins...

The Ventures: "Sleigh Ride" -->
The Brian Setzer Orchestra: "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" -->
Elvis Presley: "Santa Claus is Back in Town" -->
The Ronettes: "Frosty the Snowman"
Stan Freberg: "Christmas Dragnet (Part 1)" -->
Buchanan & Goodman: "Santa and The Satellite (Part 1)" -->
Spike Jones: "Santa Claus' Son"

"I thought that'd be funnier - anyway, I'm going to continue with the novelty records..."
They Might Be Giants: "Santa's Beard" -->
The Beach Boys: "Santa's Beard" -->
Bob Rivers: "Santa Claus is Foolin' Around" -->
Larry the Cable Guy: "Redneck Santa Claus"

"Here are some Christmas songs of the 50s and 60s..."
The Sonics (1965): "Santa Claus" -->
Oscar McLollie (1954): "Dig That Crazy Santa Claus" -->
Patsy Raye (1959): "Beatnik's Wish"
The Trashmen: "Dancin' with Santa" -->
Ray Stevens (1962): "Santa Claus is Watching You" -->
The Martels (1959): "Rockin' Santa Claus"
Louis Armstrong: "Zat You, Santa Claus?" -->
Sheila E: "Santa Baby" -->
Kylie Minogue: "Santa Baby"

"Here's some bluesy Santa songs..."
BB King: "Merry Christmas, Baby" -->
Louis Jordan: "Santa Claus, Santa Claus" -->
Sonny Boy Williamson: "Santa Claus"

"That was a dose of the Christmas blues..."
The Jackson Five: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" -->
Capitol Steps: "Why's Madonna Kissing Santa Claus" -->
Alvin & The Chipmunks: "Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" -->
Untamed Youth (1989): "Santa's Gonna Shut 'Em Down"
Chris Isaac: "Hey Santa!" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Girl That Love Made Blind" -->
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: "Happy Xmas (War is Over)"

"Helen Wheels sings some of the background vocals on "Girl That Love Made Blind" - too bad they didn't put that on the boxset - Steve Schenck said we'd have to remix it..."

"Too bad they didn't remaster Imaginos - but I guarantee this will be corrected - I'll do it myself if I have to..."

"I mentioned a Xmas record a while back - I've written 10 songs of differing types - but I can't talk Dennis into doing it..."
Garth Brooks: "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" -->
Dwight Yoakam: "Run Run Rudolph" -->
Alan Jackson: "If You Don't Want to See Santa Claus Cry"
Luciano Pavarotti: "Adeste Fideles" -->
Band Aid: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" -->
Stevie Wonder: "What Christmas Means to Me"

"I'm going to leave you with something funny..."
Jingle Cats: "Silent Night"

I'm previewing an idea for a new radio show that may go beyond the regular wfku internet broadcast, a broader cast, if you will.

The theme this month is all about travel - a million miles more...

Steppenwolf: "Born to be Wild" -->
Stray Cats: "Built for Speed" -->
Tracy Chapman: "Fast Car"

"Only classics this month - no BOC rarities or AB demos - nothing like that today..."

Albert said he'd done a lot of travelling in the past year, hence this month's theme...
AC/DC: "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" -->
ZZ Top: "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" -->
BB King: "When Love Comes to Town" (with U2)

Albert said he didn't love travelling all that much - doesn't mind planes because he can sleep but cars not so much as he likes to be the driver - if somebody's going to f*ck up, he'd rather it was him....
Ace Frehley: "New York Groove" -->
The Doors: "Roadhouse Blues" (live) -->
Wilson Pickett: "Mustang Sally"

"KISS - they're just jerks, but Ace is a nice guy and that's a great song - I sing that every time I came back to NYC"
Willie Nelson: "On the Road Again" -->
Bachman-Turner Overdrive: "Roll On Down The Highway" -->
Temptations: "Keep On Truckin'"

Albert said he always tells his students if you're going to form a band, make sure it's with your friends - you're going to spend a lot of time travelling with those guys and friendship's more important than musicianship...
Van Morrison and Them: "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" -->
Annie Lennox: "Train in Vain" -->
Aerosmith: "Milk Cow Blues"
The Who: "Magic Bus" (Live at Leeds) -->
The Shangri-Las: "Leader of the Pack" -->
Bad Company: "Movin' On"

"Simon Kirke - a nice guy - I played with him a couple of weeks ago at May Pang's Birthday Party..."
Black Sabbath: "Wicked World" -->
Billy Idol: "Rebel Yell" -->
Alice in Chains: "Them Bones";

"Wicked World... There was Tony doing his thing - I have to say - I love Black Sabbath - but Tony doesn't like me - we had some words at one point..."
Tom Petty: "Runnin' Down a Dream" -->
AC/DC: "Highway to Hell" -->
The Doors: "Riders on the Storm"

The theme was "all punk - well, a lot of punk"...

Iggy & The Stooges: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (Extended Psych Version) -->
MC5: "The American Ruse" -->
David Bowie: "Alabama Song"

Albert said the MC5 were SWU label-mates - played with Stooges but not with MC5 - gig was cancelled cos of Hells Angels trouble at the Fillmore...
Velvet Underground: "All Tomorrow's Parties" (2002 Reunion) -->
Television: "Call Mr Lee" -->
Patti Smith: "Easter"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: "Do You Love Me?" -->
Bryan Ferry: "In the Midnight Hour" -->
The Ramones: "The KKK Took My Baby Away"

Albert said maybe his punkometer is broken - punk to him was an attitude...
Tori Amos: "Angie" -->
Bad Brains: "With The Quickness" -->
Superchunk: "The First Part"

Albert described these as post-punk punk...
Sonic Youth: "Swimsuit Issue" -->
The Offspring: "Come Out and Play" -->
Pearl Jam: "Severed Hand"
Smashing Pumpkins: "Bury Me" -->
Minutemen: "The Red & The Black" -->
Tesco Vee & White Flag: "Hot Rails to Hell"
Aria Soboutti: "Piangere" -->
Blue Coupe: "Hallows Grave" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Ravens"

"These are all currently grammy-nominated - nothing to do with punk..."

Ricky's - AB solo gig, with Adny Shernoff... next Friday, Halloween...
Sonic Youth: "Halloween" -->
Midnight Oil: "Back on the Borderline" -->
Porno For Pyros: "Dogs Rule The Night"
Linkin Park: "A Place For My Head"

Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode"
Grateful Dead: "Johnny B. Goode"
Buck Owens: "Johnny B. Goode"
Howlin' Wolf: "Smokestack Lightning"
Little Richard: "Tutti Frutti"
Jerry Lee Lewis: "Great Balls of Fire"
The Seeds: "Great Balls of Fire"
The Beatles: "A Day In the Life"
The Flamingos: "Would I Be Crying"
Led Zeppelin: "Communication Breakdown"
Patti Page: "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming"
Lesley Gore: "You Don't Own Me (Single)"
Nas: "Bridging the Gap (feat. Olu Dara)]"
Bessie Smith: "Homeless Blues"
Charlie Patton: "Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues"
Son House: "Death Letter Blues"
Lightnin' Hopkins: "Cotton"

Tonght's theme was a Mixed bag...

John Lee Hooker : "Boom Boom" -->
Fats Waller: "The Joint Is Jumpin'" -->
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: "Born in Chicago"
Van Morrison: "Domino" -->
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra: "Reefer Man" -->
Louis Prima: "Sing, Sing, Sing"
Chuck Berry: "Too Much Monkey Business" -->
Bo Diddley: "Diddy Wah Diddy" -->
Captain Beefheart: "The Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back"
Fleetwood Mac: "Hi Ho Silver" -->
Etta James: "I'd Rather Go Blind" -->
Count Basie: "One O'Clock Jump"

Techo hiatus
Joe Bouchard: "Kickin' A Can" -->
David Roter Method: "Congratulations Mr Roter" -->
David Roter Method: "Pretty Baby"

Techo hiatus
Albert Bouchard: "Trinity"

Techo hiatus
Albert Bouchard: "Christmas in Las Vegas" (Demo) -->
Harry Nilsson: "Coconut" -->
Roger Miller: "One Dyin' and a Buryin'"

The last song - a "suicide song" - was included because of the recent death of Robin Williams...

Harry Nilsson was there when BOC aud'd for Clive Davis, Patti Smith, and Bobby Columbi.
Miami Sound Machine (Gloria Estefan): "Conga"

Albert talked about Gloria Estefan
Savoy Brown: "Wang Dang Doodle"

Albert talked about Kym Simmonds at the recent Brian's BBQ
Dennis Dunaway Project: "Me and My Boys"

Albert talked about him sitting in on a Dennis Dunaway Project gig where the drummer couldn't make it - a Save CBGBs Benefit...
The Music Machine: "Talk Talk"

Albert said this was a song The Travesty played in college...

Ran Out of time.....

The theme of tonight's show is "Americana" and there was a special guest: Jim Bouchard...

Regaltones: "Walk Don't Run"
The Beauty Way: "Beauty Way" -->
Van Morrison: "Sweet Thing" -->
Arthur Lee & Love: "Somebody's Watching You"
Bill Haley: "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" -->
Buck Owens: "Under Your Spell Again" -->
Robert Gordon: "Under Your Spell Again"
Bob Dylan: "Jokerman" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Showtime"
Albert Bouchard: "Cry 3x" (from AB's new LP "Incantation")

Showtime - supposed to be a reggae-type track from time of CE or FOUO, EB brought it in - didn't fit in

"Cry Cry Cry" was first song I wrote with Robert Gordon - my new record is finished and is being duplicated right now... available by the end of the month...
Jackson Browne: "Tender is the Night" -->
Brad Paisley: "Two Feet Of Topsoil" -->
The Beauty Way: "I Was So Wrong"

Talked about Jackson Browne

JW got Jackson Browne to NYC - SP arranged some shows downstairs in the Dom (Velvets were upstairs)

Jackson Browne came to the house on the hill (with JW and Murray krugman) a week before the SB gym show to rehearse, but in the end, did it alone...
Mumford & Sons: "After the Storm" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Trinity" --> (some blips)
Aria Soboutti: "Pienjara"??
Joe Bouchard: "Love Takes Heart" -->
Robert Gordon: "Walk Hard" -->
The Beauty Way: "Where I Came In"
Shakin Street: "Got A Date With My Man" -->
Chuck Berry: "Run Run Rudolph"
Unknown: "No Escape"

This last song wasn't heard in the broadcast - it can only be heard in the podcast download - it was "No Escape" - but it didn't sound like The Seeds - dunno who it was...

Regaltones: "Do You Wanna Dance"
The Beach Boys: "Surfin' Is The Only Life For Me"
Jan & Dean: "Surf City"
Dick Dale and His Del Tones: "Miserlou": "aborted
The Rip Chords: "Hey Little Cobra (only end)
The Beach Boys: "409
Ronny and The Daytonas: "GTO
Jan & Dean: Little Old Lady From Pasadena
The Motels: "Tragic Surf : "was this played?
The Cramps: "Surfin' Dead
Midnight Oil: "Surf's Up Tonight
The Chantays: "Pipeline
Dick Dale: "Let's Go Trippin'
Sandy Nelson: "Let There Be Drums
Vince Guaraldi Trio: "Surfin' Snoopy
The Beach Boys: "California Girls (Vox only)
David Lee Roth: "California Girls
Regaltones: "I Get Around (2007 40th Reunion)
Jan & Dean: "Honolulu Lulu
Elvis Hitler: "Teenage Surf Slave
The Beach Boys: "Surfin' Safari
Shangri-Las: "Remember (Walkin in the Sand)
Jan & Dean: "Dead Man's Curve (Single Version)
The Beach Boys: "Help Me, Rhonda (Alternate Single Version)
The Turtles: "Surfer Dan
Jan & Dean: "Sidewalk Surfin'

Thelonious Monk: "Blue Monk"
Nat King Cole: "Mr. Cole Won't Rock And Roll"
Joey DeFrancisco (featuring Joe Doggs): "All or Nothing at All"
Artie Shaw: "Love and Learn"
Django Reinhardt: "Improvisation No 2"
Benny Goodman: "Sing Sing Sing" (live at Carnegie Hall)
Duke Ellington: "Solitude"
Susana Baca: "Resbalosas"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Sun Comes Up"
The Dorsey Brothers: "Annie's Cousin Fannie"
Dexter Gordon: "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry"
Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Nomad"
Champion Jack Dupree: "Weed Head Woman"
Weather Report: "Teen Town"
Steely Dan: "Deacon Blues"
Charles Mingus: "Things ain't what they supposed to be"
Olatunjo: "Sango (God of Thunder)"
Billie Holiday: "Good Morning Heartache"
Leo Kottke: "Wonderland By Night"
Django Reinhardt: "Nuages"
Led Zeppelin: "Boogie With Stu"

This show was loosely based on those songs that Albert either remembered as being played on the Conry's jukebox or else were probably might have been on the jukebox...

After last month's technical meltdown, Albert explained at the start that this show had been "pre-recorded to try to minimise any glitches"...

Just a note to mention that the show was preceded by an advert for a "Goth Cruise" - the voice of the strange Jamaican/Romanian/West Country pirate was clearly provided by one Albert Bouchard... ooh arr...

Led Zep: "Communication Breakdown" -->
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones: "Misirlou" -->
Gordon Lightfoot: "If You Could Read My Mind"

Albert said it was Kenny Aaronson's birthday today - and tax day!! He informed us he had digitised all the Conry's tapes and for this show he was going to play songs off the Conry's jukebox - the song he recalls most from Conry's was "I Never Promised you a Rose Garden"...
Grand Funk Railroad: "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" -->
Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode" -->
Martina McBride: "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden"

On the chatlogs, Albert said he had gotten sick of hearing that GFR song by the last time they'd played Conry's!

He also said that "Allen played bass on a bunch of songs, Rock and Roll Star, Domino. He added a lot to the band."
BB King: "Everyday I have the Blues" -->
The Box Tops: "Cry Like a Baby" -->
Statler Brothers: "Flowers On The Wall"

Albert said he remembered that SFG once supported The Box Tops - he initially thought it was at Serge's Cabaret (Wilksbury PA) AFTER Conry's - he recalled they drove back over night to NYC and auditioned for Columbia - the penultimate audition - where they played the songs they'd be playing at Serge's - their own songs - plus Bad Boy. He later corrected this upon further reflection - he said he thought it was probably at a "nicer club (don't remember the name) in Scranton".
The Outsiders: "Time Won't Let Me" -->
Sly & The Family Stone: "Everyday People" -->
Tommy James & The Shondells: "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

Albert told of how the Elektra kit was crap so he went back to using his old kit - Serge's was so rough that there was a fight and a guy was punching another guy in his open-fronted bass drum...
Stalk Forrest Group: "Bark in the Sun" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Prayer" (demo) -->
John Lennon: "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)"

In the chatlogs, Albert revealed: "I recycled Bark in the Sun into Cagey Cretins" and Cagey's lyrics came from "Richard Meltzer's house sitting stay in Shirley NY, not far from where I am right now."

"... Back to some songs that might have been on the jukebox..."
Sugarloaf: "Green Eyed Lady" -->
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: "Woodstock" -->
The Kinks: "Lola" -->
Mountain: "Mississippi Queen" --> (stole drums from this for RUR2R)
Spencer Davis Group: "Gimme Some Lovin'" -->
Tyrone Davis: "Turn Back The Hands Of Time"

Albert: "Hands of Time, I forgot we did this at Conry's (we have at least one version of "Turn Back The Hands Of Time" on the tapes). We also did a wicked version of Woodstock, Lola and Gimme Some Lovin. On a later tape we also played Domino (Van Morrison)..."
Edwin Starr: "War (What Is It Good For?)" -->
Clarence Carter: "Patches" -->
The Carpenters: "Close To You"

The Carpenters were a particular favourite of "the guy who booked us - Phil King - he came us via Richard Dostel via a party where we first met David Lucas...""He booked us at a club in Long Island - the 1815 Club or someplace - we didn't do well, but he liked us and booked Conry's, and Serge's and the Box Tops gig etc"
The Ides of March: "Vehicle"

This edition was all set up to try and replicate one of the typical Stalk Forrest Group sets such as that as played at Conry's Bar Dec 1970/Jan 1971. However, it was plagued by severe glitches and a general technological meltdown and many people missed various portions of it. These problems meant that the show wasn't repeated as they'd not been able to record it...

The Who: "Substitute"

Albert explained that "Bark in the Sun" should have followed at this point, but he didn't have a version to hand...
Stalk Forrest Group: "Four-Door Blues" (Live at Conry's dec 30 - 1970) -->
The Rolling Stones: "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Neil Young: "Cinnamon Girl" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Under My Thumb" -->
The Byrds: "So You Wanna Be A Rock'n'Roll Star" (Crashed and Restarted) -->
The Beatles: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Honky Tonk Women"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Siren Singalong" -->
The Grateful Dead: "Casey Jones" (Crashed and Restarted) -->
Grand Funk Railroad: "Aimless Lady"

After Casey Jones crashed, Albert typed the following on the chatroll by way of explanation: "fuck AHHHRRRGG! Fuck"...
Free: "Alright Now"
Blue Oyster Cult: "LDOM" -->
The Beatles: "Bad Boy" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Highway Song" (EB song)

"Here's an Allen song:"
Stalk Forrest Group: "What a Lovely Face" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Sneakers" -->

During the playing of the above, Albert was asked if there was any news on his solo LP - he had hinted at a birthday release...

"I'm not sure I'll make that date. I've been re-recording a lot of stuff. It is getting there though. It will be done when it's done. I don't have any incentives to fill. Joe and I may do a song together for it."

"We're also working on a Christmas album with Tish and Snooky."
Led Zeppelin: "Good Times Bad Times" -->
Led Zeppelin: "Whole Lotta Love" -->
Led Zeppelin: "Immigrant Song"

"Here's some Beatles and Stones:"
The Beatles: "Getting Better" -->
The Beatles: "And Your Bird Can Sing" -->
The Rolling Stones: "Live With Me" -->
The Beatles: "Hey Bulldog"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Stairway to the Stars" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "I'm on the Sheep" -->
Cream: "Badge"

"Sorry for all the technical glitches today folks. Next month I will probably be broadcasting from the WFKU studios so it should be a bit better. All the time."

Valentine's Week Special - this month all the songs contained the word "Love"

The Darkness: "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" -->
The Troggs: "Love is All Around" -->
The Smashing Pumpkins: "Stand Inside Your Love"

This show started off like last month - with dead air!! Only this time, it was only just over a minute or so - "oh crap, I forgot to press the "Talk" button - I gotta say all that again?"

Billy Corgan - nice guy - Smashing Pumpkins did a stand-up version of Godzilla at one time... The Troggs and Reg Pressley - RIP Reg... and The Darkness - whatever to them...?

"Anyway, continuing on with this 'Valentine's Week Special:"
The White Stripes: "Fell in Love with a Girl" -->
Peter Gabriel: "Modern Love" -->
Pantera: "Latest Lover" -->
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: "Love Letter"

"Pantera - a great metal group from Texas..." Albert also told us he'd been watching the Olympics and then said:

"I'm happy to be playing these songs for you guys in this Valentines week... it's not something I usually do, but I'm in the mood as I had a very nice Valentines weekend..."
Metallica: "Loverman" -->
Loverboy: "Love Will Rise Again" -->
Ministry: "The Nature of Love"

"Loverboy? I dunno... I guess they're a guilty pleasure for me - 'Working for the Weekend' and all that stuff... we did tour with them in Canada and they were a lot of fun - cool guys... Anyway, I like 'em, so what the hell..."
Love Me Two Times: "The Doors" -->
Bad Company: "Feel Like Makin' Love" -->
Golden Earring: "Radar Love"

"Golden Earring are still active - they tour year round in Europe - they play accoustic gigs in the winter and they play the big sheds in the Summer..."

"Before that was Bad Company with Mick Ralph's "Feel Like Makin' Love", first recorded by Mott the Hoople, and we toured extensively with those guys and I clearly remember right before Mick left the band Ian Hunter singing "Feel Like Makin' Love" and Mick off to the side of the stage giving him a really dirty look like he didn't like how Ian was camping it up, but he just couldn't help himself..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "Sinful Love" -->
Blue Coupe: "Supernatural Love" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Ravens"

"Ravens is a song I'm going to do on my new record - that was the first demo - it's mainly about Allen Lanier and missing him and how I felt I needed to do something about it - I played it to his wife, Dory, and she was really very moved, so I have a really good feeling about that song, it made me feel a lot better after I wrote it..."

"I tried to capture the vibe from Dance The Night Away - the music of it - and the Ravens is a sort of metaphor for life and stuff....I was thinking today as I was putting 37 of my demos onto disks that this is probably most honest material I've ever come up with, so I think doing so many in such a short time, I didn't really have time to think about did I use this idea before, or am I repeating myself or any of that, it was just about trying to make each song work, to be some kind of complete artistic statement, so I'm pretty happy with it..."

"Supernatural Love" I wrote with Andy Shernoff - when we started writing the song, we didn't know what it was going to be about... the "Supernatural Love" idea was Andy's but he was saying what does that mean? What could it be about? And then we decided to make it about Helen, who we loved very much and who had passed away..."

"Sinful Love was Helen's first song recorded by anybody and that was a song she wrote about Patti Smith - it was about how she didn't want to emulate Patti and have her own voice overshadowed by Patti's voice or imitate Patti too much because she loved her so much - it's an interesting song - Whiskey says I sound like I'm drunk when I'm singing that - I don't think I was but I know I was drunk when I wrote it... Helen had come over to the appartment and we just sort of bashed through it, and drank a bottle of wine - maybe two - and wrote that song which was the first one BOC recorded...and, of course, after that we did Tattoo Vampire, which was a song Helen and I had written probably a few weeks earlier..."
Pretenders: "Tattooed Love Boys" -->
UFO: "Love to Love" -->
Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Love or Confusion"

"How great was Hendrix man, and I got a meet him, pretty cool..."

"UFO - we did a lot of gigs with those guys... they were awesome - really fun guys..."
The Rolling Stones: "Love in Vain" -->
New Order: "Love Vigilantes" -->
The Beatles: "She Loves You"

Albert talked about the recent Beatles Special that was shown on US TV...

New Order started a new trend from the 'Sad Goth' to the 'Perky Goth' and a new kind of music... Joy Division was a great group, they had a great drummer and great rhythms and was an interesting group - New Order didn't quite get the same recognition as Joy Division but still they were a great group indicating a new direction that music was going to take...
The Velvet Underground: "Some Kinda Love" -->
Bob Dylan: "Love Minus Zero - No Limit" -->
The Cult: "Love"

Albert introduced this edition as a folk music special - "plus a sneak peak at some of the tunes for my solo record" - and he reckoned it was show #20 (it's actually 21)... the original broadcast show then started with nearly 5 minutes of silence. During the hiatus, via the chat, I asked him was he doing the show from home again?

"I am doing it from another location. Sorry about that glitch. Oh crap, another one. Hopefully we'll get it ironed out soon."

Eventually, the show re-started again, with the same intro as before and no mention of the technical problems, which sounded strange...

Pete Seeger: "Los Cuatro Generales" -->
James Taylor: "Mexico" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "In Thee"

"In Thee was BOC's folk song... I have a demo where I came up with that guitar part - pretty much the way the arrangement is now so that's how we came to do it with BOC..."
Joan Osborne: "St Teresa" -->
Paul Simon: "Homeless" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Light the Dark"

"That last one was a tune I wrote a week ago with Kathy Vargas for my new solo record - I've written about nine songs with her - (I played another - "Soy Extranjero" - on my last show)"
Steve Earle: "Copperhead Road" -->
Peter Paul and Mary: "If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down" -->
Leo Kottke: "Wonderland By Night"
Emmylou Harris: "Big Black Dog" -->
Tim Hardin: "How Can We Hang On To A Dream" -->
Albert Bouchard: "All Dreaming"

"That was a new demo I wrote a couple of days ago - dunno if it's going to be on the record - the chorus of the song is stolen word for word from "Frieze", a magical realist book by Cecille Pineda...

I'm not doing a solo record just cos Joe did one... I have songs that won't fit on a Blue Coupe record...
Bob Dylan: "Gotta Serve Somebody" -->
Muddy Waters: "Last Time I Fool Around With You" -->
Keith Urban: "Used To The Pain"

Whilst the above songs were playing, Albert mentioned in the chatroom that he liked Weavil's "Eyeblinder" CD:

Yes I got Eyeblinder a lot. Jeff is awesome, a star. It's a good band with great songs but I think Jeff should sing every one. He's got a voice you want to cuddle up to, uh... no homo.

If he lived in NYC my solo album would be a duo with him singing every song and I'd do the harmonies. I'm pretty good at that. I wish I was a better singer but I don't wish I wrote better songs.

If you get my new album you will not be disappointed in the songs. I've been on a good roll in the past month.

I haven't finished it yet. I'm planning a May release. I'd love to have it available on my birthday, May 24. No kickstarter for it though - I don't need the money and I don't want to wait for a star mixer to have time to do it, so I'm recording "econo" - we're talking about 8 tracks maximum. I can mix it. Maybe I'll do a kickstarter for the video but I'm releasing the record solo.
Tracy Chapman: "Talkin' Bout A Revolution" -->
Steve Earle: "The Revolution Starts Now" -->
Johnny Cash: "Ghostriders in the Sky"

"Here's some jail songs:"
Johnny Cash: "San Quentin" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Galileo Galilei"

"You might think "Galileo Galilei" sounds a little like Astronomy and you'd be right - I saw it as a prequel to Astronomy..."

"The focus with the solo record is something I can go out and perform live by myself..."
Mumford and Sons: "Roll Away Your Stone" -->
Buddy Holly: "It's Raining in my Heart"

During the tracks, Al was asked if there was any news on the Conrys Bar project:

"It's gonna have to wait. Maybe this spring I'll start a kickstarter to fund it. But once I do I know I have to follow through. So when I'm sure I can do that I will do it."
Dixie Chicks: "I'm Not Ready To Make Nice" -->
Del Lords: "Silverlake" -->
Scott Kempner & The Brain Surgeons: "Chimes of Freedom"

"Scott doing his Dylan thing - Scott's a very talented cat and one of my good good friends..."

"Here we go with some other weirdo stuff here:"

At this stage, the original broadcast cut out due to lack of time after the technical difficulties at the start. Albert said in the chat:

"Crap - the last 10 minutes are cut off. Hopefully it will be included in the rebroadcast."

This was interesting - this suggested that Albert had pre-recorded the show, something I've been advocating for a while now. Doing this doesn't mean that you still won't get technical problems, but it should mean that if you do, you should still be able to get the full show when it gets it Sunday repeat showings.

Sure enough, the following Sunday, we got the end of the show, which was:
Alice Cooper: "Sun Arise" -->
Andy Shernoff: "Don't Fade Away"

Regal Tones: "Walk Don't Run" - opened last month's show also
Bo Diddley: "You Can't Judge a Book" -->
Muddy Waters: "Stuff You Gotta Watch" -->
Sly and the Family Stone: "Stand!" (breaks and gaps)

Apologised for the audio problems -said it was probably due to "latency" - he's not used to the equipment... "sounds lame, I know"...

"I played because Bo Diddley because when I passed the SWU audition, that was one of the songs we played - I was the lead singer, that was my job (and drums too of course) - the others didn't want to sing..."

"Stuff You Gotta Watch" is one of my favourite Muddy Waters tracks... when I was at Clarkson, DR and I used to drive down to NYC to the Cafe au Go Go and we wanted to do jam session with Muddy Waters afterwards but we had to leave before we could do so, as the sun was coming up... we were too light-weight for these blues guys..."

"A year or so later we opened the show for Muddy Waters and Richie Havens..." Albert told the story again of meeting Francis Clay and Muddy Waters...

"Sly - in 1968, we did a residency at Steve Paul's Scene - that was the week I met Ringo - we played there twice that year, about a month apart for 5 nights on a row, and at one of those Sly and the Family Stone were in town and came into the club and listened to us play... "but I was too shy so I did not say hi" - then when we were BOC, we opened for Sly and he didn't turn up..."

Quick note: click here's a link to Joe's account of this gig and he reckons Sly was late but did turn up: 09 September 1973: Hampton Roads VA

"Here's some more guys I met in my early days:"
Band of Gypsies: "Them Changes" -->
Allman Brothers: "One Way Out" (gaps and abandoned)-->
Arthur Lee: "Somebody's Watching You"

"Oh man! My program crashed. I hope it doesn't happen again."

"Buddy Miles who I met when I first went to Cal, and Jimi Hendrix of course, and they did Tribe of Gypsies together, then we had the Allman's - we played a couple of gigs with them in FL, one at Jai Alai and one at a race track - they had several dressing rooms, and had one for the motorcycles, and we had a teeny one... "

BOC opened for Derek Trucks at Tracks, and I saw the show...
Black-Eyed Peas: "My Humps" -->
The Sugarhill Gang: "Rapper's Delight" -->
Curtis Mayfield: "Freddie's Dead (Theme From Superfly)"

Albert said he was broadcasting from an illegal sublet appartment in Harlem and he didn't have the right gear, so that might be the reason for all the glitches...

Albert said he thought rap was fantastic and it reminded him of early metal, but now it's gone the way of RnR. "I actually DID play drums for the Sugarhill Gang at Times Square one time..."

"Anyway, I said I'd play some new stuff - here's a demo I wrote about a Mexican immigrant coming into the country to make a better life - I've been working on it for a couple of weeks..."
Albert Bouchard: "Soy Extranjero" (billed as "Old Dirty Al"-->
Bob Seger: "Nutbush City Limits" -->
Corinne Bailey Rae: "Put your Records On"

Albert said he's thinking of putting "Soy Extranjero" on his solo record which he's mentioned before - said he's been experimenting with different songs for it...

I asked in the WFKU chat-box why was the record billed as being by "Old Dirty Al"??? Al replied: "That's my stage name at school"....

Albert said spent previous weekend 26 hours in the snow making a video for "Everybody Goes Insane" - so he hopes everyone appreciates what they suffered...
Hugh Masekela: "Grazing in the Grass" -->
Jimi Hendrix: "Purple Haze" -->
Emeli Sandé: "Next to Me" -->
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"

"Yeah... another swinging set of groovy toons..."

Albert went onto talk about the possibility of legalisation of marijuana in NY...
James Brown: "I Got You" -->
Gnarls Barkley: "Crazy" -->
Muddy Waters: "I Can't Be Satisfied" -->
Chuck Berry: "Run Rudolph Run"

AB wished everyone a happy xmas...
Regal Tones: "Walk Don't Run" to fade out...

"Welcome to the Origins Thanksgiving Special - well, they're all special, aren't they..."

Regal Tones: "Walk Don't Run" -->
The Seatbelts: "Joyride" -->
The Del-Lords: "When The Drugs Kick In"

Albert said The Seatbelts opened for Blue Coupe in Detroit in 2012 - they'd love to go back in 2014...

Albert introduced the next artists as a band who opened for Blue Coupe at Peymenade at the 2012 Tribal Festival...
Bloody Mary: "Hollywood" -->
American Dog: "Bomber" -->
Kryr: "Where Do We Go From Here?"

Apparently Kryr opened for Blue Coupe also at some festival... Albert said he was going to play some of the CDs he'd got off various bands they'd played with...

"Now for some self-promotion, here's the new X Brothers record - it's all covers, it's quite good..."
The X Brothers: "Black Leather Jacket" -->
The Master Plan: "BBQ" (Andy Shernoff) -->
Teenage Head: "Teenage Beer Drinkin' Party"
Patti Rothberg: "Double Standards" -->
The Peaceniks: "Why Does Everyone Wait Until Christmas" -->
Spielgusher (Mike Watt/Richard Meltzer): "Fuck Awareness Week"

Albert said Patti Rothberg was a local celebrity he'd played with a few times...
Peter Haviland "Yellow Jacket" (Demo) -->
Dennis Dunaway Project: "Red Room" -->
Joe Bouchard: "Travelling Freakshow"

Albert spoke about the Blue Coupe Queen tribute show coming up on 1st Dec and about being in a summer band with Pete Haviland (The Clansmen) and The Lost & Found (from Hobart) and how they met EB at Sam Ash. He said Pete Haviland had now passed on also...
Dimma: "Desert Nightwish" -->
Jetsetter: "The Other Side Of The World" --> (Renee Dunaway - multi-talened daughter of Dennis Dunaway - and Tyler Finck)
Bea Wain and Larry Clinton Orchestra : "Heart and Soul" - the no 1 record in 1938

Albert said he'd played Heart and Soul a million times - written by Hoagy Carmichael
Murray Weinstock: "Bad Dog" -->
The Lizardz: "Make It Happen" -->
Goose Creek Symphony: "Hot Dog Daddy"

"Here's a song I produced":
David Roter Method: "Shenequa's Having A Baby" -->
Bill Dant: "Godzilla" -->
Toxin: "Nasty, But I Like It"

Albert said Toxin had played with them someplace...
Buck Owens: "Hello Trouble" -->

Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers: "Monster Mash" -->
Skrillex: "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" -->
Michael Myers: "Scary Sounds"

With Halloween approaching, Al said "this show will about Monsters and scary stuff - with Blue Oyster Cult known for being interested in that genre, vampires and stuff..."Vampires have gotten extremely popular over the past few years and one of the reasons is because of the movie "Twilight" and here's it's theme:
The Starlite Orchestra: "Bella's Lullaby (Twilight Theme)" -->
Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield: "Season Of The Witch" (Super session live at the Fillmore)

"Here's some more scary stuff:"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Monsters" -->
Black Sabbath: "Iron Man"

I asked Albert did he remember playing "Monsters" live (Sam Judd confirms it was definitely played at least once). Albert replied "I don't ever remember playing it but I don't remember "Morning Final" live either, and it's in the box set."
Remy Zero: "Save Me" --> (Al said it was "Smallville", by "Superboy"!!)
Alicia Keys: "Superwoman"

"Now some of my favourite stuff by my brother Joe":
Hot Time in Hell: "The X Brothers" -->
Haunted Dance Floor: "Joe Bouchard"

Albert said "Hot Time in Hell" was his favourite X Brothers tune... "Now, continuing with the horror theme":
Blue Coupe: "Hallows Grave" -->
Alice Cooper: "Halo of Flies"

Albert told how Blue Coupe were originally only going to have Alice Cooper do harmonica on "Hallows Grave" and Alice asked "would you mind if I did a vocal?" - they didn't...

Albert told us he was actually broadcasting tonight's show from his new studio in his house...
Blue Oyster Cult: "Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein" -->
Dunno: "Dunno" - aborted after 50 seconds

"Sorry about that - that was the wrong mix - it was supposed to be a surprise - that's the problem with having about a million mixes of this stuff"... then Albert gave a rundown of the musicians involved on "Siege"...

I asked about that aborted demo, but he didn't give any more details on just what that "wrong mix" actually was supposed to be, only that it "didn't contain any vocals"... it was just a drum and keyboard thing that gradually got slower and slower, but I couldn't work out what it was supposed to be...

I should mention that the playlist that appears on the WFKU homepage is supposed to highlight the name of the current track (together with links to buy etc) and whilst this particular demo track was playing, the title came up as "Mothra" - but said the artist was "Anvil"... strange...

Albert said this was the first time in his studio and he has all his tapes lined up - said he'd found the follow up demos for the next unreleased Imaginos record, including "Half Life Time" and he'd play some of them on the next show...
The Kongsmen: "The Gorilla" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Godzilla"

Albert said The Travesty played "The Gorilla"... "was "Godzilla" a coincidence? I think not..."
Sheb Wooley: "Purple People Eater" -->
"Weird Al" Yankovic: "Slime Creatures from Outer Space"

Albert told us "Purple People Eater" was his fave song as a lad...
Blue Oyster Cult: "I Love the Night" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Nosferatu"

Albert said "I Love the Night" was inspired by the book "Interview with a Vampire", whilst Nosferatu was obviously inspired by the Murnau film...
The Seeds: "Great Balls of Fire" -->
Fleetwood Mac: "The Green Manalishi"

In the chatbox, Albert said: "The Green Manalishi" is probably my fave FMac song - reminds me Dante's Inferno"...
Type O Negative: "Black Sabbath" (to fade out and station ID...)

Blue Oyster Cult: "True Confessions" -->
Mike Watt: "Arrow-Pierced Eggman" -->
Spielgusher (Mike Watt/Richard Meltzer): "Minus Five and Counting"

As Albert was recapping his playlist, his phone went and he said "I've got to take this call - I might have some news for you guys..."
The Replacements: "Merry Go Round"

"Sorry - had to take a very impt call concerning an Allen memorial... nothing definite yet..."Albert then told about how he got stopped from getting backstage to join up with Mike Watt at a recent Iggy show...
Patti Smith: "Gloria" -->
Iggy & The Stooges: "Gimme Danger" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Sally"

Albert told the Don Gallucci story again - with Don G playing Gil Blanco County on bass...

AB then told about DR and EB doing a three drum attack on "It's Not Easy" back in the time of the tour with Alice Cooper inspired by "Fingertips" - then after that, EB would go on drums and AB would come out front and do some harmonica before going back to his drums...
Little Stevie Wonder: "Fingertips (Pt1 and Pt2)" (Live) -->
Temptations: "My Girl" -->
Dionne Warwick: "Walk on By"

Albert said early dream was to be Dionne Warwick's drummer playing those complicated Burt Bacharach and to hear his songs on the radio...
Peter Tosh: "Steppin' Razor" -->
Bill Haley: "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Don't Turn Your Back"

"Another great AL song (written by Buck Allen and myself... We originally wrote if for the taxi driver scene in Heavy Metal movie, but for some reason they didn't use it...)"...
Ravi Shankar: "Gat II"

Whilst Ravi Shankar was playing, Albert gave a brief recap of the genesis of SWU:

"In 1967 I was living in Chicago and playing in a band out there whom I knew from paying in Travesty - but after a couple of weeks the band folded and I was left bouncing around and doing odd jobs such as delivering underground newspapers to headshops and stuff like that and hanging out with my friend Roger Maltz... anyway, I ended up coming back to Long Island with Donald - he and our college friend Steve Sauter had come out to see me in Chicago and I came back with these guys and we started the band in Stony Brook."

"We actually had a band house that was off-campus in Stony Brook, then I moved in with a bunch of Stony Brook students, and we used that as the band house for a while and finally we got a house in St James and that became our official band house and that's where we played with Jackson Browne..."

"But I remember one time I went to a concert at Stony Brook - they had all the hot acts at the time - and one of the acts they had at the time was Ravi Shankar - and I went to see him and after the concert I saw this girl and she had the most beautiful smile and I went up to her and I said "Hi - did you enjoy the show?" and she said "Oh, it was fantastic" and I said he was great and that I was a musician and she said "well I'm a poet - I'm a student here" and I said "well I'm not, I'm just hanging out here but I know some people who are"... anyway - it turns out that was Helen Wheels and that was the day I met her..."

[ Since I found out that the Ravi gig took place in the Stony Brook Gym on Friday 17 November 1967, I can now pin a date on Albert's first meeting with Helen... ]

"I saw a lot of great acts at Stony Brook including John Cage, the contemporary composer - his concert, I can't even describe it - it started out with jet engines full blast for about 5 minutes and then he turned them off and played a single note on the piano - that was his first piece... and I also saw Charles Lloyd and a lot of other great musicians, including these guys:"
Jefferson Airplane: "Volunteers" -->
Grateful Dead: "Born Cross-Eyed" -->
Quicksilver Messenger Service: "What About Me?" -->
Moby Grape: "It's A Beautiful Day Today"

"All those bands I got to see at Stony Brook - all the SWU band went to all those shows and hearing all those psychedelic SF groups really affected us - we kind of emulated that for a while..."

I asked Al did he remember supporting the Airplane on Stony Brook playing fields and he replied "The Jefferson Airplane show was in the gym. I'm sure." This was at odds with what I'd previously researched - clearly, more research is needed...

"By the way - that story of how I met Helen Robbins - that was before Handsome Dick christened her Helen Wheels and that was before the Paul McCartney song - that was just an expression in those days - that Helen, she's hell on wheels..."

"Anyway - back to my summer adventure and here's another group who played at the Riot Fest:"
Dinosaur Jr: "I Don't Think So" -->
Rollins Band: "Hello" -->
Talking Heads: "Sax And Violins"

"Here's some more Roots music:"
Bobby Fuller Four: "I Fought The Law" -->
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: "Stagger Lee" -->
Alice Cooper: "Killer" -->

"OK, I'll just lighten things up a bit - here are some more upbeat songs:"
AFI: "Silver and Cold" -->
Tenacious D: "Tribute (Greatest Song in the World)"

This was the first show following the very sad passing of Allen Lanier, and we were wondering if Albert would actually be doing a show at all - but if he did, it would probably be a bit of an Allen celebration/commemoration so would be definitely worth hearing.

Come the kick-off time, first of all there was a period of silence and then, when it finally did get started, it was a re-broadcast of show 15. So... it looked like Al wasn't doing the show after all, and most people seemed to turn off at this point.

However, I saw this appear in the chat-box, 16 minutes into the show: "I just got to my destination so I started late. This is my first remote broadcast. It should be interesting."

This was odd - we were still hearing show#15. I contacted him to ask when was he starting?

He replied: "I have started. Playing some Allen related stuff right now." I told him that no, he wasn't and that we were currently hearing an old episode.

It took a further 15 minutes to sort the problem out and the show came in mid-way through Joan Crawford, so we missed about 34 minutes in all...

Albert explained: "Some glitches happened. Whiskey is in Las Vegas and my other son Ace is manning the station so we had to figure out all the little switches that needed to be changed for me to log in remotely."

Blue Oyster Cult: "Joan Crawford" -->
Albert Bouchard: "Gil Blanco County" Demo - "that's Buck Dharma on acoustic"

Albert explained he was coming live from the "Lyric Coffee House & Bistro (James St, Clayton, NY) - it used to be Bertrand's Theater where I saw "Help" by the Beatles - by the pharmacy where I worked for several years on the soda fountain..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "Mes Dames Sarat" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Blue Oyster Cult" (Imaginos) - "the last time I recorded with Allen" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "John L Sullivan"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Please Hold" - "Joe's got a great version of this, but I don't have it with me" -->
Bo Diddley: "Bo Diddley" ("Moving onto music Al liked - well I THINK he liked it - who DOESN'T like Bo Diddley") -->
Django Reinhardt: "Montmartre"
Talking Heads: "Burning Down the House" -->
Tangerine Dream: "Love on A Real Train" -->
The Doors: "Alabama Song" - "for Alabama boy, Allen Lanier"

Here's the original of what was an early staple for BOC:
The Rolling Stones: "Street Fighting Man" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "Street Fighting Man" (Live at Conrys) (distorted with wow and flutter) -->
Muddy Waters: "Mannish Boy"

I asked Al who was singing on the Conrys track as I wasn't sure and Albert said "That was Eric on SFM lead vocals but we were all singing on it at some point"...

"Allen was a big blues fan, so I'll play some blues for Allen":
Fleetwood Mac: "Shake Your Moneymaker" -->
J Geils Band: "Whammer Jammer" -->
Allman Brothers Band: "One Way Out"

Albert mentioned in the chatbox that he remembered supporting the Allmans in 1972: "They had a dressing room for their motorcycles. They were great though."

At this point there were a few more gremlins, with a rather large silence, and then we got:
Albert Bouchard: "Weird Weird West2" -->
Brad Paisley: "Spaghetti Western Swing"
Alice Cooper: "Halo of Flies" (Live in St Louis) to fade out...

I asked Al on the chat how many songs did he play prior to Joan Crawford that didn't get broadcast?

"About 6 but I played them again because I wasn't broadcasting to the public (just myself) :-( "

My conclusion is that - in future - maybe Al should consider recording his show in advance so that we can lose the gremlins - we only get him for two hours a month, and this show lost over 35-40 minutes of actual broadcast time...

Blue Coupe: "Ain't Dead" -->
American Dog: "Bomber" -->
Mastodon: "Oblivion"
The Ramones: "Rock 'n Roll High School" -->
Alice Cooper: "School's Out" -->
Nick Lowe: "I Knew the Bride When She Used To Rock and Roll"

Talked about Phil Spector in jail and that he's losing weight - said Spector was found guilty of murder but George Zimmerman was acquitted - Albert suggested maybe Spector "should have shot her in Florida!!" (in reference to the recent trial into the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin)...

AB also talked about Columbine and Schools Out (forever) - and said what student has never thought about blowing up your teacher? He said he overdid school when he came back to it - like a lot of things in his life...
Fleetwood Mac: "Shake Your Moneymaker" - said that was Fleetwood Mac from when they were good with Peter Green -->
Junior Parker: "The Things I Used to Do" -->
Allman Brothers: "Statesboro Blues"

Albert said he spent a lot of time devising his playlist for this show, but now that he looks at it, it looks all over the place...
KT Tunstall: "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree" -->
U2: "Vertigo" -->
The Raconteurs: "Level"

"The ridiculously talented and over-exposed U2 - Vertigo is rocky and heavy with a great bass line" - Albert said he saw them (at the insistence of Sandy Pearlman) on the first tour at Webster Hall in NYC when their single was I Will Follow - said they were good but they weren't amazing... they were as good as Helen Wheels...
Steppenwolf: "Hey Laudy Mamma" -->
The Seeds: "Great Balls of Fire" -->
Ultimate Spinach: "Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess"

Albert said he only heard the Seeds' version of "Great Balls of Fire" a couple of years ago but it's the ultimate version - it's like "holy crap"...

Albert also spoke of Goldy McJohn from Steppenwolf who plays with him in the Classic Rock Allstars but that they've been threatened with legal action by a band with a similar name so they've changed their name but he couldn't remember what to!! They were the "New Classic Rock Allstars" but that was too many words...
Black Sabbath: "Wicked World" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Night Flyer" -->
Blind Faith: "Had to Cry Today"

"Night Flyer" was almost heartbreaking
Mexican Institute of Sound: "Hidera Venenosa"
Sacha Nairobi: "Princesa"
Amr Diab: "Amarain"

I hope nobody was offended by that - I like Arabic music...
The Kingsmen: "Louie Louie" (had some breaks in the playback)
Pretty Woman: "Roy Orbison"
Barbershop Quartet: "Goodnight Sweetheart"

Albert said "Louie Louie" was a song he played with his high school band - "my cousin Teddy played the drums so I got to sing"...
Albert Bouchard: "Weird Weird West"

Muddy Waters: "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Albert talked about playing with Muddy Waters and Richie Havens at the Cafe A Go Go in November 1967) -->
The Yardbirds: "I Ain't Got You"
David Roter: "Items Only" (off new CD to come out) -->
MC5: "Teenage Lust" -->
The Commodores: "Brick House"
Duke Ellington: "Black Beauty" (1919) -->
Old News report on B25 plane crash into Empire State Building from 1945 -->
Doors: "Riders on the Storm" -->
Marlene Villafane: "Can't Find the Rainbow" (with Albert on drums)
Zap Mama: "Adventures in Afropea 1" (band from Belgium) -->
Beach Boys: "California Girls" vocals with no instruments
Cameo: "Word Up" -->
Blue Coupe: "Man Up" (w/ Robbie Krieger on guitar) -->
O'Jays: "Back Stabbers"
Underbelly: "Astronomy" -->
Peter Gabriel: "Digging In The Dirt" -->
KD Lang: "Golden Slumbers"

Talked about Les Braunstein - said that he'd maybe squandered his talent... Albert also said Blue Coupe had prepared 40 songs for their latest CD...
Blue Coupe: "Hit & Run" (demo written by John Elwood Cook and sung by AB that didn't make the CD) -->
David Roter: "Legends of New York" (had some playback problems) -->
Andy Shernoff: "Let's Get The Band Back Together"
The Police: "King Of Pain" -->
Mumford & Sons: "Little Lion Man" -->
X Brothers: "Loves a Killer"
PJ Harvey: "Sheela-Na-Gig" -->
Ramones: "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" -->
Apollo 440: "Can't Stop The Rock" (and can't stop the similarities between this and "Modern Love"...)

"First Anniversary Show"

In point of fact, the actual anniversary was last month, but what the hell...

Doors: "Alabama Song" -->
Blue Coupe: "Rehearsal Demo" - "sneak peak" rehearsal demo of a Robbie Krieger song that didn't make the CD (didn't make "Tornado", either) as it's not quite ready yet for recording but they'll nail it one day...

Al also talked about the death of Ray Mazarek and what it meant to him...
Blue Oyster Cult: "Morning Final" (live from KBFH 76) Joe played piano on the LP with Allen on bass, but that was switched for the live version... -->
David Roter: "Beauty of the Island" - Al said it was coming out soon on iTunes...
Helen Wheels (and The X Brothers): "Tattoo Vampire" -->
Ingrid & the Defectors: "Are you thinking What I'm Thinking" - a band I've played with a few times from NYC
Doors: "Break on Thru To The Other Side" -->
Patti Smith: "Rock'n'Roll Nigger" - "Patti was NY's answer to the Sex Pistols - outside of society - cool"
Left on Red: "High Heel Blues" - a group I played with a couple of years ago - but this isn't me on the record - wish it was though..." -->
Left on Red: "Shine" - that's me playing drums on that
Ronnettes: "Be My Baby" - "I just saw the movie - he was a crazy guy, man... he pulled a gun on the Ramones!!!..." -->
Doors: "Touch Me"
Bouchard Dunaway & Smith: "Fallen Angel" - "another Helen Wheels song - they definitely nailed it better than BOC - I felt that BOC often did not do justice to Helen's songs because of a certain kind of syncopation and abandon that the guys just did not possess - we were better at doing that Germanic kind of martial thing - and it didn't really fit for the punk rock vibe which Helen possessed in spades..."" -->
Helen Wheels: "Room to Rage" -->
Helen Wheels: "Break The Chains"
Brain Surgeons & Friends: "Elle Sol" (from "To Helen With Love") - Buck Dharma on rhythm, Albert on slide guitar, JB on bass, Albert on drums, Tommy Mandel on keys - introduced by Handsome Dick Manitoba -->
Brain Surgeons & Friends: "Lover's Loan" (also from "To Helen With Love") - Felice Rosser (from the band Faith), Crispin Cioe, Buck and Albert
Blue Oyster Cult: "Summer of Love" (Live) KBFH 5 guitars -->
David Roter: "The Bug Girl" (unreleased) - this was a song he was playing at the time we were considering him as the singer for Stalk Forrest Group or whatever we were called then...
Nels Cline Trio: "Instrumental" Albert forgot to give the bloody title -->
Captain Beefheart: "The Dust Blows Forward"
Brain Surgeons: "Get Me The Hell out of Hell" (Demo) written by Albert and Roger Maltz from Chicago for "Denial of Death" - "The Family Dog" was his rival band back on campus (we were The Travesty)... I wrote another song with Roger that did make "Denial of Death" (that became "Swansong")... - but this demo is a semi-rap kind of deal so maybe that's why it didn't make the record..."
Marlene Villafane: "What Would You Do" - "a record I co-produced with Mark Barkan"

Albert Anniversary Special

The leadup to the revised start time of 20 minutes earlier "to fit it all in" was plagued by server meltdown but it got fixed just in time...

Anyways... Albert introduced this special one-year anniversary show thusly: "Today's show is all about me - all me, all the time..."

Albert Bouchard: "Dominance & Submission" 2008 Gothic Industial version...

Albert said he did about 6 BOC tracks to "fit in" on his son's radio station - this was the best one - when he does his solo record, that might be on it... WFKU Joe had two solo LPs so it was about time he bloody did one (or words to that effect)...
Albert Bouchard: "Do You Believe In Me" (acoustic David Roter cover off "Beauty of the Island" - Albert [plays bass drum)
Albert Bouchard: "Death Valley Nights" (acoustic - "done more how I originally envisioned it - the definitive version of that is yet to be done, maybe I can be the one to do that...")
Albert Bouchard: "Cry Cry Cry" - "the first song I wrote with Robert Gordon" - AB also talked of a new Robert Gordon record
Albert Bouchard: "Katrina (Jesus the Fixer of Broken Hearts)" (by John Elwood Cook but off Joe Bouchard's "Tales From The Island"!!)
The Brain Surgeons: "The Red & The Black" (on his Tacoma mandolin which got sold by "somebody"... Hmm... )
Albert Bouchard: "Christmas in Las Vegas" ("my latest composition about my trip to LV last Christmas to hang out with my gf Lisa and her family..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "Fireworks" - the song Bruce Sprinsteen said release it as it was definitely a hit, but we didn't do it, we released Godzilla and I Love The Night and they weren't hits - maybe we should have released this - probably would have been a hit if Bruce Springsteen said so...
Albert Bouchard: "WFKU" (2008 Gothic Techno toon written for the radio station)
Albert Bouchard: "Deep End" - the original demo - a slightly slower, bit different version...
The Brain Surgeons: "1864" - "I wrote hardly any lyrics for the songs I did with BOC - Fireworks was one of the few I did myself, but I did write some in the Brain Surgeons - this song, I got this story out of a newspaper from 1913 and it's about my great great grandfather telling how he got the Congressional Medal of Honour - Joseph Longsway (sp?) - for doing a brave deed in the Civil War..."
Blue Oyster Cult: "This Ain't The Summer of Love"
The Brain Surgeons: "Brain from Terra Incognita"
Albert Bouchard: "Career of Evil" (acoustic - I don't know how appropriate this song is - disturbing, as it should be...
The Brain Surgeons: "Krakatoa" (written by Joe and Richard Meltzer - the line about imploding TV sets was from a real incident involving a brick and an exploding TV screen in Great Neck with SWU...)
David Roter Method: "My Ex-Wife" (off "Bambo" - that was before I got divorced - he was really writing it about me but none of my ex-wives were like that
David Roter Method: "Adopt Me" (also off "Bambo" - "a song I wrote with Richard Meltzer" - "features David Roter on vocals, myself on drums, Jack Rigg on guitar, Tommy Mandel on synth, and Kenny Aaronson I think - I had these guys around in 1988 or so after I lost control of the project")
David Roter Method: "Norma Jean" (off "They Made Me" - ("featured David, myself and Jack Rigg, plus Andy Shernoff on bass, my brother Joe on piano and Susie Tyrell on vocals and violin")
David Roter Method: "Shenequa's Having A Baby" (also off "They Made Me" - "This also featured Crispin Cioe of The Uptown Horns on sax")
The Regal Tones: "Walk, Don't Run" - ("I heard the Venture's original version in an auditorium in elementary school and it made me want to play the drums")
Albert Bouchard: "Left Behind" - instrumental - Albert on his own on acoustic, bass, cymbal and djembe
Albert Bouchard: "The Blue Oyster Cult Reprise" ("which wasn't on the original record, of course, mixed By Francois Kevorkian who went on to work with Depeche Mode..."
Albert Bouchard: "Dolphin Six" - instrumental - "My friend John Anderson (the photographer who took the Blue Coupe promo photos on the beach etc) is working on a dolphin film - he asked me for some music for it... so I did this"...
Albert Bouchard: "The Blue Oyster Cult" - Imaginos demo - "this was supposed to be on the record but got replaced by Donald and Eric..."
Albert Bouchard: "Dunno" - instrumental - No title given - Another dolphin song inspired by Massive Attack
The Regal Tones: "Do You Wanna Dance?"
The Regal Tones: "Lucille"
The Regal Tones: "I Get Around"
The Regal Tones: "Surfin' USA"
The Regal Tones: "Bony Moronie"
The Regal Tones: "Peppermint Twist"
The Regal Tones: "Sleep Walk"
The Regal Tones: "Help" (we didn't get the start due to a strange gremlin in the works - great backing vocals though...)
The Regal Tones: "Goodnight Sweetheart"

Jazz Special

This show was beset by a technical meltdown at the start, with long silences, occasional weird noises and bits of jazz tracks fading in and out - all in all, maybe 20-25 minutes were lost.

The first track listed here - "Hackensack" - was the first one to be heard as the sound gradually stabilised...

Thelonius Monk: "Hackensack" -->
Joey DeFrancesco featuring Joe Doggs: "????" (AB didn't give a title)
Dexter Gordon: "Love For Sale" (he was "Lars Ulrich's godfather") -->
Artie Shaw: "That Same Old Line"

Talked about (Elektra) Joe Smith's book and the "bitch success" of DFTR
Original Dixieland Jass Band: "Livery Stable Blues" -->
Etta James: "Seven Day Fool" (Etta was the "alleged daughter of Minnesota Fats")
Nina Simone: "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" - Albert said he played it with the Animals in Clitheroe -->
Susana Baca: "Caras Lindas"
The Underbelly: "Back at the Funny Farm" (again)-->
Wynton Marsalis: "Soon All Will Know"
Nat King Cole: "Miss Otis Regrets" (live at Sands Casino, Las Vegas) -->
Billie Holiday: "I Cried For You"
Miles Davis: "So Near, So Far" -->
Tom Waits: "It's Alright with Me"

Albert talked about Secret Teaties and the band being disappointed by the mix... so they chose Jack Douglas for their next release - Albert said "OYFOOYK" was considered to be the best sounding BOC record of all time by all 5 original members...

He said SWU went to A&R to record first record in Manhattan and Shelley Yakus was the clean-up guy there...
U2: "Night & Day" -->
????: "????" (AB didn't give a title again)

Albert ended by saying that there were lots of stuff he didn't have to play due to the technical difficulties...

There were a smaller number of tracks played than usual - this was largely due not only to the time lost as a result of those technical difficulties but also due to the fact that most were pretty long.

To be honest, this was my least favourite show to date - I don't get jazz - I never have and probably never will. For people like me, it might have been better to pick out just a few jazz tracks and intersperse them with other stuff to make it more bearable.

But two whole hours of jazz...? Wasn't that tried at Guantanamo and the UN made them stop...?

:-)

Modest Mouse: "Float On" -->
Wilson Pickett: "Knock on Wood" -->
The Animals: "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

AB talked about his recent Blue Coupe tour where he played with Steve Cropper and The Animals in Clitheroe...

Albert said his music class from school had rehearsed the Modest Mouse song whilst he was away and they played it at their show.

Albert then introduced the next song as being about "The Group" from Potsdam NY back in mid-to late 60s - apparently they did Animals covers...
The Brain Surgeons: "Change The World Henry" -->
Cream: "I Feel Free" -->
Fuel: "Haemmorhage (In My Hands)"

Talked about the new Blue Coupe LP - they're still working on it - and that Ross and Buck are playing lead amongst others... said hadn't heard the BOC boxset yet...

Albert said one of his graduation classes had played the Fuel track in the 90s.
Barenaked Ladies: "Bank Job" -->
Annie Lennox: "Take Me To The River" -->
Bella Fleck: "Spanish Point"

Albert said the next song re-united me with Les Braunstein - we were asked to contribute a song to a Motorhead record so we did it in the style of Django Rheinhart
The Underbelly: "Funny Farm" (aborted due to a corrupted file) -->
Albert King: "Born Under a Bad Sign" -->
BB King: "Everyday I Have The Blues"

Albert apologised for the gremlins - said a lot of what he wanted to play tonight was "unavailable"..
Big Joe Turner: "Lucille" -->
Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Live at Carnegie Hall 1938)

"Without any further ado - here's some more stuff that I like..."
Bob Dylan: "Subterranean Homesick Blues" -->
The Clash: "Train in Vain" -->

Cock-up - false start of an Alicia Keys song - AB interupted said it should have been "I Shot The Sheriff"... then played -->
Bob Marley: "Iron Lion Zion" (which noticibly slowed down in the middle and then sped up again after another verse)
Charles Brown: "Bad, Bad Whiskey" -->
Otis Redding: "(Sittin' On The) Dock Of The Bay" -->
Bob Dylan: "Masters Of War"

"Now we're gonna get wild and crazy and play some odd stuff"
Bomshel: "Country Music Love Song" -->
Bass Sultan Hengzt: "Millionär" -->
Bob Marley: "Crazy Baldheads"

The Bass Sultan Hengzt song appears to have been a mistake - Albert said he didn't know what it was - he'd just found it on his drive...

"Next - here's some crazy rebellious music that I like:"
The Animals: "It's my Life" -->
Billy Idol: "Rebel Yell"

"That was Thommy Price using my snare drum - he borrowed it - I use it on the new Blue Coupe and it's still sounds great 20 years later..."

Albert said there was one more song for Valentines Day for Leesa - "it's a great rebellious female-orientated song"...
The Black Eyed Peas: "My Humps"

I only know that this is the song Albert intended to play as a result of getting the podcast download of the show - when it was broadcast live, the WFKU BelfryBats station ID came in straightaway and there was no time to hear the track!!

Mike Watt: "Burnin For You" -->
Bob Marley: "Burnin And Looting Tonight" -->
Bob Dylan: "One More Cup Of Coffee (Live at Budokan)"

AB then revealed that tonight's show was themed around "the two Bobs - Bob Marley and Bob Dylan"...
The Raconteurs: "Steady As She Goes" -->
Bob Dylan: "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" -->
Bob Dylan: "House of the Rising Sun" -->
Jimmy Cliff: "The Harder They Come"
Sonic Youth: "Teenage Riot" -->
Bob Marley: "Buffalo Soldier" -->
Bob Dylan: "Love Sick"
Bob Dylan & The Band: "This Wheel's On Fire" -->
Blue Coupe: "Untamed Youth" -->
Bob Marley: "Lively Up Yourself"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Title" -->
The Ham Touchers (Bloom & Richie): "Kiss My Axe" -->
Tenacious D: "Tribute (Greatest Song in the World)" -->
Bob Marley: "One Love"
The Coasters: "Yakety Yak" -->
Fleetwood Mac: "Rattleshake Shake" -->
Rolling Stones: "The Spider and the Fly"
Bob Marley: "I Want You" -->
Goo Goo Dolls: "Iris" (Live)" -->
Evanescence: "My Immortal"
The Shadows: "Foot Tapper" -->
The Coasters: "Young Blood" - (Albert said he and Buck did this song in The Disciples in college (before they became a Blues Project tribute band in their 2nd year)

Blue Coupe: "More Cowbell" -->
Beatles: "You Can't Do That" -->
Rolling Stones: "Honky Tonk Women"

Albert revealed that "this is our all-cowbell song - or should have had a cowbell in it - Christmas special...
Jerry Reid: "When You're Hot You're Hot" -->
Bob Dylan: "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" -->
Aretha Franklin: "Rock Steady"
Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Down On The Corner" -->
The Spencer Davis Group: "Gimme Some Lovin'" -->
Mountain: "Mississippi Queen"
Jimi Hendrix: "Stone Free" -->
Black Sabath: "The Wizard" -->
Hugh Masekela: "Grazing in the Grass"
B52s: "Love Shack" -->
Billy Idol: "White Wedding" -->
Beatles: "You can drive my car"
AC/DC: "Hells Bells" -->
Labelle: "Lady Marmalade" -->
Curtis Mayfield: "Freddie's Dead"
Beatles: "Me and my monkey" -->
Blind Faith: "Well All Right" -->
Free: "Alright Now"
Cheech & Chong: "Earache My Eye" -->
Fleetwood Mac: "Oh Well" -->
James Gang: "Funk #49" (sounding suspiciously like "Footloose")
War: "Cisco Kid was a Friend of Mine" -->
Bon Jovi: "It's My Life" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Don't Fear The Reaper"

Albert Bouchard: "WFKU" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "I Want You - She's So Heavy"

Albert recapped his month - the hurricane and the reunion - said how much he'd enjoyed it - the reunion, not the hurricane.
Alice Cooper: "Desperado" -->
Alice In Chains: "Rooster" -->
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"

Albert said the ACG wrote Desperado for Jim Morrison but the Doors wouldn't play it so Alice did it...
He also talked about the Hamilton awards and Blue Coupe's gig there the other night...
Albert Bouchard: "The Girl That Love Made Blind" -->
Ibrahim Ferrer: "Dos Gardenias (Buena Vista Social Club)" -->
Pink & The Indigo Girls: "Dear Mr. President"

Albert told about Imaginos and why he didn't want to play drums on Imaginos - Tommy Price did and he was with BOC on CN, but he's better than that.
Explained he smoked back then and had no breath control - that's why he didn't sing Dominance & Submission
Talked about EB on cowbell on "Me and My Monkey" and said Eric WOULD have been the right person to do the DFTR cowbell but wasn't in the room at the time so AB did it - he said both he and Joe remember it... there was a spare track, he wanted to do a triangle but Lucas said to use the cowbell...
The Coasters: "Yakety Yak" ("the original punks") -->
The Untouchables: "Nic Fit" -->
Amy Winehouse: "Rehab"

"More songs that I love - I have tons of them..."
"Punk is not what it used to be - punk is nostalgia now..."
Kevin Rudolf (featuring Lil Wayne): "Let It Rock"
Apollo 440: "Stop The Rock"
Christina Aguilera: "Ain't No Other Man"

"A lot of people my age don't listen to new music"
Albert said he was in a rebel mood...
Captain Beefheart: "Orange Claw Hammer" -->
The Ramones: "Blitzreig Bop" ("the original punks - sorry UK fans") -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Substitute" (Live)

"The Who played a lot of socially interesting songs that didn't fit into the standard boy-girl subject matter"
Queen: "Radio Gaga" -->
Jeff Beck: "Hi Ho Silver Lining" (CD skipped) -->
The Spencer Davis Group: "Keep on Running"
Stalk Forest Group: "Ragamuffin Dumpling" (live extended with jam)
Stalk Forest Group: "Gil Blanco County" (live)

Halloween Monster Special

Show eventually started an hour late at 8pm - no explanation given

Blue Oyster Cult: "Wings Wetted Down"
AB apologised "for the slight delay" - slight?? He was an hour late!!! :-)
Sheb Wooley: "Purple People Eater" -->
The Kongsmen: "The Gorilla" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Godzilla" (off Spectres)

"Purple People Eater" was the first song I was crazy about as a kid - The Disciples played The Gorilla and put in drum solo... I think Godzilla was inspired by The Gorilla..."
"This next one is one of the scariest songs I've heard:"
Black Sabbath: "Black Sabbath" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Seven Screaming Dizbusters" (Live in West) -->
Brain Surgeons NYC: "Tomb of the Unknown Monster"
Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield: "Season Of The Witch" (Live/Super Sessions) -->
Warren Zevon: "Werewolves of London" -->
Michael Jackson: "Thriller"
Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & the Cryptkickers: "Monster Mash" -->
Brain Surgeons: "(666) Devil Got Your Mother" -->
Bob Newhart: "Modern Witch Doctor" -->
Joanie Bartels: "The Witch Doctor"
Scary Tales: "The Mummy" -->
Blue Oyster Cult: "Monsters" -->
David Roter: "The Monster" (unreleased)

Albert said this is an unreleased track from Roter's last record which still hasn't come out ("I haven't had the heart to finish it") - it's David Roter singing about his cancer, but AB didn't realise it at the time - on the track, it's David Roter (vocals), AB on drums, Jack Rigg on guitar, Tommy Mandell on Keys, and either Andy Shernoff or Pendleton Roach on bass...
Nina Simone: "I Put a Spell on You" -->
Jimi Hendrix: "Voodoo Chile" -->
Brain Surgeons: "Medusa"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Nosferatu" -->
Unknown - something about a "Ghost Ship Tonight" ?? -->
Bouchard Dunaway Smith: "Vampire Night" (Live) -->
Blue Coupe: "You Like Vampires"
Unknown by Unknown

Albert said it was up for a Grammy last year and didn't win ("but then, neither did we...")
He ended the show with a plea to "vote for the black guy" at the upcoming elections - "believe me it's better for everybody - especially us teachers - yay - go teachers..."
Plus he also said "I'm gonna be working on my DJ voice so I'll sound better on the radio"...

Blue Oyster Cult: "Stairway to the Stars" (Live at Commack '75 with Sam Judd intro)

Lots of cool new stuff for you this week. The theme tonight is going to be bands that Blue Oyster Cult played with, influenced by, some of our collaborators that kind of thing, so this is one of the first bands that was our big rival before we were signed - they played upstate NY, and they would get all the gigs that we wanted to get - they'd get all the frat gigs at the colleges, and we always wanted to try and be better than them and so they were a very big inspiration in the beginning... this is the first song I heard on the radio of theirs:
J Geils Band: "Looking for Love" -->
Alice Cooper: "You Drive Me Nervous"
Steppenwolf: "Rock Me" -->
Sly & The Family Stone: "Stand"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Jesus Is Just Alright" (modified with crowd noise added at end) [Doobie Brothers] -->
Harry Nilsson: "Jump Into The Fire"
David Roter Method: "Pimp Without Money" -->
David Roter Method: "My Man Won't Stand"
Buck Dharma: "Elle Sol" (To Helen With Love) -->
Felice Rosser: "Lovers Loan" (To Helen With Love)
Patti Smith: "Ghost Dance" -->
Bo Diddley: "Bring It To Jerome"
ZZ Top: "El Diablo" -->
Blue Coupe: "Untamed Youth"
Bert Kaempfert: "Wonderland By Night" -->
Thelonius Monk: "Rhythm-A-Ning"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Lucille Jam" -->
Stalk Forrest Group: "You Make Me Feel" (What A Lovely Face)

I asked in the chat for more info on this track, and Albert said "I think we did it with David Lucas when we made our demos for Columbia where we also recorded Last Days"...
I said that I thought I'd read that BOC did at least two sets of demos there - Albert replied: "We only did 4 songs with David and of those on Last Days has ever been released. Maybe they'll dig them up. Hope so..."
This one set of demos concept definitely did not jive with what I'd previously heard, so I left that hanging...
David Bowie: "Moonage Daydream" -->
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band: "Ant Man Bee"
Bad Company: "Can't Get Enough of your Love" -->
Run-DMC with Tyler & Perry: "Walk This Way" -->
The Women in Love: "Blacker Than That"
Blind Faith: "Can't Find My Way Home"

This show was originally scheduled for Tuesday 07 Aug, but had to be postponed.

Albert was late in again - apparently it was raining in Queens... When Albert entered, he said he'd had criticism that last time he put the SFG tracks at the end, so this time he was going to start with one!!:

Stalk Forrest Group: "Aimless Lady" (GFR) - Albert said "this was a song SFG were required to play 4 times a night - there were 4 sets a night, so once per set - each set was about 40 mins (sometimes 45 mins)..." - this track was BLOODY GOOD!!
Alice Cooper: "Halo of Flies" - (AB reminds me of the Radio Caroline DJs, who'd stick a masive album track on and then wander off for a smoke...) -->
BDS: "Fallen Angel"

After this there's 10 secs of silence while AB tried to recall who preceded this track)... Then Albert said he was going to get "jazzy" for a bit:
Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Blue Rondo a la Turk" -->
Django Reinhardt: "Improvisation No 2" -->
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: "When Big Joan Sets Up" (from "Trout Mask Replica")
Stalk Forrest Group: "Memphis Slim Harmonica Jam" - (only known recording of Pearlman on harmonica) - Allen on drums, JB on piano and either EB or Donald is on bass, (maybe EB on gtr) and AB on lead guitar... At the end, a lone voice says "that was ridiculous!!"... -->
Talking Heads: "Burning Down the House" -->
Paul McCartney: "How Kind Of You"
David Roter: "Shenequa's Having A Baby" -->
J Geils: "Back to Get Ya" -->
The Dictators: "What's up with that?"

Albert said next up was "ladies choice"...
Buddy Holly: "Raining In My Heart" -->
John Lennon: "#9 Dream" -->
The Raconteurs: "Steady As She Goes" - AB couldn't remember he'd played the Buddy Holly track for a few seconds... he needs to write this stuff down!! :-)
Stalk Forrest Group: "Honky Tonk Woman" - (said it'd been recorded on slowed down tape machine and badly-stored over the years) -->
Black Sabbath: "Snowblind" -->
King Crimson: "The Court Of The Crimson King" - during his recap, he forgot again what he'd played!! :-)
Fleetwood Mac: "The Green Manalishi"

Just before that last song, Albert mentioned the Conry's tape was vari-speeded a bit but maybe the other tapes he hasn't digitised yet might be better?
He hinted that maybe he could be looking for some financial help to digitise the remaining four tapes which have never been heard yet - later he confirmed this in the chat, and mentioned that he's thinking of starting a Kickstarter project to fund it.

The show didn't start until nearly half past midnight!! Apparently, Albert couldn't find a parking spot...

Alice Cooper: "Ballad of Dwight Frye"

"Tonight's theme is going to be bands that influenced Blue Oyster Cult (my previous band) and also other bands that those bands influenced - that was Alice Cooper and the fantastic "Ballad of Dwight Frye" - a mindblower - it's my contention that Alice Cooper influenced not only of course the glam movement but also Heavy Metal and a lot of other stuff... and here's a group I think they influenced a lot - a very contemporary group so this is the next song:"
Muse: "Hysteria" -->
Edgar Winter: "Keep Playing that Rock'n'Roll"

"That was the Edgar Winter Group a big influence on Blue Oyster Cult and before that Muse with "Hysteria" who's a group if you've seen them live and if you've seen Alice Cooper you'll know what I'm talking about."
"Their new record, which I do not have a copy of, is the song for the Olympics and it sounds a lot like another Alice Cooper song. But anyway - Alice Cooper probably influence the Goth movement as well, with their outfits and some of their more gloomier kind of things and here's another group that ws probably influenced by the Alice Cooper group..."
Marilyn Manson: "The Beautiful People" -->
David Bowie: "Suffragette City" -->
UFO: "Rock Bottom"

"Yeah ! U.F. freakin O!! So that was UFO and "Rock Bottom", a song we ripped off for er one of our songs - you probably know what it is... and before that was David Bowie and "Suffragette City", a song we ripped off for ME262 or something..."
SlipKnot: "Before I Forget" ("influenced by Alice Cooper")
Mothers Finest: "Just Like A Negro"
Living Color: "History Lesson"
Motorhead: "Bomber" - ("sounding a lot like Me262 - we stole it from David Bowie and Motorhead stole it from us")
Metallica: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Helmet: "In the Meantime"
Sonic Youth: "Teenage Riot"
Velvet Underground & Nico: "Femme Fatale" ("Velvets were a big Blue Oyster Cult influence")
Jackson Browne: "Fountain Of Sorrow" ("Blue Oyster Cult's first lead singer") - Albert told the John Wiesenthal on rhythm guitar/Jackson Browne "guitar student" story...
Iggy & The Stooges: "Search & Destroy" ("They influenced us and we influenced them") Albert told the Don & The Goodtimes story and the Elektra deal...
Ramones: "We're A Happy Family" (a direct rip off of " Dominance & Submission" which was a couple of years earlier...)
Blue Oyster Cult: "Dominance & Submission" ("Secret Treaties" version)
Ice-T and Body Count: "Hey Joe"
Jimi Hendrix: "Live at Generation Club - Hendrix playing through Chuck Berry's amp (Albert mentioned the breaking of SWU gear at the Generation)
Deep Purple: "Lazy"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Stairway to the Stars" - same version as he played in Show #2!!
Stalk Forrest Group: "Last Days of May" (with a chunk missing out of the middle - I asked later for the reason for this and Albert said the "missing LDOM was due to tape flip. I must have another version on one of the other tapes."

Albert said he'd got 40 more Stalk Forrest Group songs...
The problem with putting both the SFG tracks at the very end of the show was that having started 30 minutes late, when they repeated the show, it faded out before the tracks even started, so anybody just listening to the re-broadcasts never got to hear them...

Show 2 was more about the music and bands that influenced Blu Oyster Cult...

King Crimson: "21st Century Schizoid Man"
Traffic: "Dear Mr.Fantasy"

"Anyone who heard the show last month, it was kind of the Origins of me as a musician and stuff that I listened to as a kid and influenced me and tonight's show is going to be more about how BOC came into existance..."
"So originally we were a band called Soft White Underbelly and then over a period of time we played a bad show and had to change our name so we called ourselves Stalk Forrest-Group and we performed with various musicians as Stalk Forrest Group and the last to join was my brother Joe and I just happen to have a tape from January of 1971 of the Stalk Forrest Group with Joe on the bass and this was a song that was influenced by "Dear Mr. Fantasy" see if you recognise it:"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Siren Singalong"

"A smattering of applause - that was from a live show at a club on Hempstead Turnpike in Amityville - the Amityville horror before there was a horror... and I got to apologise for the quality of the recording cos it was a little stereo recorder that ran at 1 and a half inches per second because we were so poor we couldn't afford tape so had to make these 6 reels of tape last for 30 hours - yes folks - I have 30 hours of this stuff...
Anyway "Siren Singalong" was a song we were performing for a while, influenced heavily by "Dear Mr.Fantasy" and then of course about a year or two after that, we heard that first song, "21st Century Schizoid Man", and then around the same time we heard this song:"
Black Sabbath: "The Wizard"

"That was of Black Sabbath with "The Wizard", freely acknowledged as one of the big influences on the song "Cities on Flame" which is what, of course, "Siren Singalong" turned into... and - y'know, is it just me - or isn't Bill Ward just an amazing drummer? I listened to that Wizard drumming part and it's like Holy Crap - that's really cool and I can't believe that these guys are trying to screw him out of the money for the Black Sabbath reunion but anyway - that's just my personal soap-box here and I'll get off it right now..."

"Here's another guy that influenced me a lot and I had the pleasure to meet him so here it is - and I have some special stuff concerning this next cut:"
Jimi Hendrix: "Hey Joe"

"Yeah that's my brother, my buddy Jimi and "Hey Joe" - I'm told that he was signed to his record label on the strength of that song but that influenced me a lot and you can actually hear the influence of that song in the next song, which is another recordng from Conry's Bar on Hempstead Turnpike in Amityville in Jan 1971 - it's called "I'm on the lamb but I ain't no Sheep":
Stalk Forrest Group: "I'm on the lam(b) but I ain't no Sheep"

[Chuckles] "Yeah, so there's that applause... anyway erm... erm... talking about the ski-trip... alright, erm so anyway that song was influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Hey Joe in particular but if anybody saw - I did a podcast on a drummer blog called "Hit That" about a month ago, and we started off talking about how the Soft White Underbelly - which is the group preceding Stalk Forrest Group - how the Soft White Underbelly backed up Chuck Berry for two gigs - originally it as supposed to be for a week but we got fired and it boiled down to that Jimi Hendrix had come to the show and he wanted to jam on our equipment after we had done our set with Chuck Berry and BB King had played his set, so Jimi Hendrix came up and wanted to play, and so we said sure and we came back the next day and a whole bunch of our equipment was broken, so we were a little upset and we told the club owner we were upset and we wanted him to pay for the equipment, but he wouldn't, he refused..."
"Anyway - the next night we were supposed to let somebody else use our equipment, and we actually DID let them use it but we give them a little bit of a hard time... and then we got fired.. so anyway, I talked about this and then I played a show about 2 weeks ago (or 1 and a half weeks) in Omaha NB and a fan came up to me and said I listened to your "Hit That blog podcast and I just wondered if you ever heard this and he handed me a recording of JH at the club the night that our equipment got broken so without any further ado, here's Jimi once again:"
Jimi Hendrix: "Like a Rolling Stone" (at the Generation)

"April 15, 1968, and that club called Generation which Jimi Hendrix later purchased the building and created a recording studiocalled The Electric Ladyland and anyway so Jimi was playing through Chuck Berry's amp which was a Fender Dual Showman and also the other personnel on the track which you just heard was BB King, playing guitar and also singing - I can't really hear his voice in there - and he was playing through one of the SWU amps."
"The other guitar player was Elvin Bishop who was playing through another SWU amp. The bass player was Buzzy Fenton who was playing through SWU's bass amp. Paul Butterfield (he was not on that song, but he was on some other songs that night) played harmonica. Al Koper who payed on the original "Like a Rolling Stone" was playing the organ and Phillip Wilson, the guy who unfortunately broke my hi-hat, was playing my drums..."
"There was another guy Don Martin on guitar... I don't remember who... I don't remember him at all, and "Stewart on piano... this is all it says on the CD I got a week and a half ago in Omaha... and I wish I could remember the gentleman's name - I asked him and he said "Oh it's not important" - and he told me and I forgot it, of course, like I usually do, but anyway, BB King was the headliner that night and here we got a great BB King song that he recorded shortly after this show with my good friend Francis Clay on the drums:"
BB King: "The Thrill Is Gone"

"Not to take anything away from Phillip Wilson but wow! - Francis Clay is just amazing on that cut and what a great drummer - so anyway, as a drummer, I tend to like songs with a great drummer so here's another really great drummer who influenced me for years and still influences me:"
Little Richard: "Lucille"

"And that was of course the great Earl Palmer on that cut with Little Richard..."
"Anyway, someone in the chatroom just mentioned about lending people gear, and stuff doesn't come back etc - I always feel that you can't get that hung up about it - I mean it's a good story that Phillip Wilson... it would've been great - I just found out who he was - I would've liked to - he lived in the East Village, and I would've liked to have gone over to his house and say hey man you owe me $35, just as a joke but to me it's like a donation to a good story - and I got a new hi-hat for 35 whole dollars, man that was expensive..."
"But anyway, here's a cut we were did at Conry's as Stalk Forrest Group and this is a song we did a lot and actually it got us signed to Columbia Records when we changed our name to BOC and they were extremely disappointed that this song was not on the first BOC record but that record did not have any covers and of course this was a cover of the Beatles covering Larry Williams, so you might recognise this song:"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Bad Boy" - Stalk Forrest Group -->
The Beatles: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"

"So, back in those days, the Stalk Forrest Group was mainly a cover group, we played a lot of songs that people had heard before but we considered ourselves to be different from other cover groups because we did not do any "Chicago" songs or "Carpenters" or anything fun like that - we only did weird stuff like... Beatles - but not the regular Beatles - the weird Beatles, like that one and this one:"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" -->
Free: "Allright Now"

"So in 1971, that was a big hit and we had to keep current, so we played it - and I'm going to play that in just a second - but I want you to pay attention to Buck Dharma - well, he wasn't Buck Dharma then he was just Don Roeser, but listen to Don's playing on this when it comes to the lead - he does some signature riffs and it sounds pretty cool, so here's Stalk Forrest with Eric Bloom manning the cowbell once again, second song in a row, and it's our version:"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Allright Now"

"So anyway - that was another cut from Live at Conry's, I think the first week in January - I don't remember which day specifically this was, but we recorded every single day and I have about 30 hours as I say...
So that was just a typical cover tune that we did for the dancers to get everyboy out on the floor but anyway - this programme is kind of about the people who influenced BOC developing the material that we did... and I came across something - and this is a song I don't know where it came from - we sort of put it together from a bunch of different riffs we each came up with, Donald and myself and we called it "Buck's Boogie" because we liked "Beck's Bolero", which it turns out wrote most of that, but anyway, they called it "Beck's Bolero", so we called Donald's and my song "Buck's Boogie", so here it is and I'm going to play another song right after it and see if you can see the similarity:"
Blue Oyster Cult: "Buck's Boogie" -->
Jeff Beck: "Space Boogie"

"So that was the Jeff Beck playing "Space Boogie" - not "Jeff's Boogie" or "Beck's Boogie" - it was "Space Boogie" but it sounds a lot like "Buck's Boogie" which of course we played every time we played with Jeff Beck, which we did many times, and I have to say he's my favourite guitar player of all time, but anyway - this sounds like he's stealing our thing but I mean "Buck's Boogie" was of course co-opted by the Brothers Johnson in the song "Strawberry Letter #23" and if I had that song I'd play it and you could hear how they copied us but I don't have it... but it's a good song though..."
"Here's another song from the Conry's sessions and we just didn't play covers, we would sprinkle liberally with our originals, and here's an original that made it to the first record - check this out:"
Stalk Forrest Group: "Stairway to the Stars" -->
Little Walter: "Juke" -->
J Geils Band: "Whammer Jammer"

"OK - the first song was Little Walter and his first hit called "Juke", and then you had the amazing Magic Dick with the J Geils Band playing "Whammer Jammer", so you see how things are influenced."
"Now I have another couple of things - hopefully you'll find this amusing - the first song is by Nazareth called "Hair of the Dog"..."
Nazareth: "Hair of the Dog" -->
Bauhaus: "Hair of the Dog"

"And of course that was another version of "Hair of the Dog", different song by a much different band - a band called Bauhaus - I think I like Nazareth's version better... but the Bauhaus, their song sounds like a combination of Peter Gunn on the guitar and the vocals remind me of Mr Soul by the Buffalo Springfield..."
"Anyway I wanted to play this song tonight because a good friend of mine passed away since my last show, a guy named Ronnie Montrose and he was a great guy and I just wanto tplay this song because it sounds freakin amazing - OK here it is:"
Montrose: "Rock Candy"

"And of course that was Sammy Hagar doing his cock-rock thing on vocals - and now I have another song from another friend of mine who passed away, Bob Welch from Fleetwood Mac, the forgotten front man and here's his only hit that he had with the group of course those guys have got way too many hits for us to remember, but this is one of them:"
Fleetwood Mac: "Sentimental Lady"

"So... "Sentimental Lady" by Bob Welch... so I was driving back from Newark airport after coming back from Omaha and listening to my Sirius XM radio in my car because I can't get WFKU in my car unfortunately because I don't have the proper technology to do that at this point because I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we get internet radio in our car but it's not happening for me and my car - my 2000 Mercedes but anyway there was an interview with Nick Lowe on there and he was talking about his new record - he's still putting out records - and Nick Lowe is a fantastic guy - a great guy - and I'd consider him a friend of mine - met him a bunch of times and hung out and got drunk together and he's got this great song that I think is appropriate and I want to dedicate this song to my girlfriend Leesa and here it is, and you might recognise it:"
Nick Lowe: "(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass"

The first show dealt with the music that shaped Albert growing up... It was basically a lot of records and not an awful lot of chat...

Chick Webb: "I Found My Yellow Basket" ("the fantastic midget drummer and his discovery, a teenage Ella Fitzgerald"...)

"I know this about Rockabilly, it all started with swing and then from swing it segued into Be-Bop..."
Dizzy Gillespie: "Salt Peanuts" (with Charlie Parker) -->
The Marcels: "Blue Moon"

"That was doo-wop style, of course Rockabilly was a combination of that and it was also about the guitar..."
Duane Eddy: "Rebel Rouser" -->
Eddie Cochrane: "Three Steps to Heaven" ("This is a classic") -->
Everly Brothers: "Wake Up Little Suzie"

"That was the Everly Brothers - they inspired my brother Joe and me to start a band..."
The Tremiers: "She Ain't Got No Hair" -->
Major Lance: "Monkey Time"

"Out of the Do-Wop era now:"
Dion & The Belmonts: "Ruby Baby" -->
The Ventures: "Honky Tonk"
Waylon Jennings: "Folsom Prison Blues" -->
Scotty Moore Trio: "Have Guitar, Will Travel"

"After Elvis gave him the sack, he came out with this and it was a big hit - so there, Elvis Ha ha!.... Here's some real bad girls:"
The Shangrilas: "Leader of the Pack" ("just brilliant")
Jerry Lee Lewis: "Before The Night Is Over" (with B.B. King) ("it wouldn't be a Rockabilly show without this guy")
Everly Brothers: "Problems"
The Tornados: "Telstar"

"...Produced by the fantastic crazy genius Joe Meek - invented a lot of the audio processors that people still use for their recording now... That's a nice segue into another English group who use Joe Meek products"
The Beatles: "Honey Don't" - (live on BBC radio)

Meanwhile, back in America..."
The Temptations: "My Girl" - "Motown - simultaneous to the Beatles... sound pretty slick, don't they?"
Charles Brown: "Love you yes I Do" ?? -->
The Tremiers: "Go Go Go" --> ("this is the song from The Tremiers that I wanted to play instead of "Bald Headed Woman" but I picked the wrong one - oh well..." -->
Robbie Fulks: "Cry, Cry, Cry"
Johnny Cash: "Peace in the Valley" -->
Mulehead: "Frankie Lee"
Knife in the Water: "The Man Comes Around" -->
Johnny Cash: "One" - ("What a great version")
The Shangrilas: "Dressed in Black" ("Dressed in Black" just like Johnny Cash...")
Jerry Lee Lewis: "You Don't Have To Go" (featuring Neil Young) -->
Johnny Cash: "Ring of Fire" -->
The Beatles: "Matchbox" ("Sing it Ringo - Live on the BBC...")
The B-52s: "Party Out Of Bounds"

"Oh my God, the B-52s are so silly... I don't know what this has to do with Rockabilly... Here's more Shangrilas..."
The Shangrilas: "What's a Girl Supposed to Do?"
Béla Fleck: "Unknown"...

"OK - in the interests of disclosure - this is a song I produced - it's the David Roter Method - it's like a drum and bass version of a rockabilly style song:"
David Roter Method: "Norma Jean"
Robert Gordon: "Animal Love" ("it's a song I produced - it's a demo that I did of a song that I wrote with Robert Gordon called "Animal Love") -->
The Beatles: "Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)" - ("sounds like Paul's singing... yes, that's Paul - Sir Paul, as he is now...)
Teen Idols: "Get up and Go" (followed by 10 seconds of silence)
Unknown: - whatever it was, it only lasted 40 secs -->
The B-52s: "Rock Lobster" -->
Jerry Lee Lewis: "Evening Gown" (with Mick Jagger and Ron Wood) -->
Unknown: - only lasted 30 secs -->
Johnny Cash: "I Don't Know Where I'm Bound" (followed by 2 minutes of Johnny cash onstage rambling and tuning up...)

"The amazing Johnny Cash, folks... anyway we're gonna take you out with the Minuteman version of one of my tunes..."
The Minutemen: "The Red & The Black"