Hell's Kitchen Radio #419: We Finally Made It To The End And All I Got Was This Lousy Virus

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The end is nigh. And what are your plans? Are you going to head out and revel with your friends, sans mask, giving hugs, kisses, high fives and COVID to each other, and your beloved Nana upon returning home? Good for you for removing yourself from the gene pool. Unfortunately, you're also risking others just to play around on amateur night. 

Stay home, watch a movie, drink a glass of bubbly (alcoholic or non), and head off to bed without anything to regret. We have next year, and all of our loved ones to consider.

Thanks in advance. 

This here is my year-end show. There's a bunch of my faves from 2020, but this isn't a "Best of..." show in the least. There's a bunch of other tunes tossed in from across the ages. In retrospect I really should have played "I Want To Be Sedated". Hmmmmm, just pretend I did, and click on the video link at the bottom.

Let's all just agree that 2020 was relatively bad for everyone around the world, and move on, shall we? I mean really now, a pandemic puts everything else into perspective. You had a bad year? Oh, I am so sorry. WE ALL HAD A BAD YEAR. Your year sucked extra special bad? WOW! You must really want to win some award. This show is for you then. And only you. 

Enjoy.

jh

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Little Drummer Boy: Lou Rawls
I Want To Be Evil: Eartha Kitt
Desolation Row (alternate take): Bob Dylan

Gate Crasher: Alice Bag
The Sun and its Horizon: Bill Orcutt
Laugh, Love, Fuck: The Coup

I'm Glad I Could Help Out: King Buzzo and Trevor Dunn
Tougher: Dale Crover
In The Pines: Fantastic Negrito
Abre Camino: Death Valley Girls

Badder Than Bullets: Tommy Guerrero
Wing Ruin: Oh Sees
Lock and Key: KnightressM1
Pull Up The People: MIA
Slavery Days: Burning Spear

Are You Glad To Be In America: James Blood Ulmer
Melvana: East New York Ensemble de Music
Cymbaline: Pink Floyd

Silver Machine: Hawkwind
Ride Your Pony: The Meters
Mr. Tamborine Man: William Shatner
The Hipster Be Bop Junkie: William S Burroughs

Auld Lange Syne: Bob Johnson and the Lonesome Travelers
I Bid You Goodnight: Joseph Spence & The Pinder Family

***Happy New Year to you and yours. Stay safe.***

John Hell's Live Bootleg Bonanza - Monday, December 28, 2020 - 6-8PM - The Clash!!!

 

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In celebration of the late, great Joe Strummer, I'm going to play this amazing show from The Clash, August 17, 1982, just a few months after the release of "Combat Rock". Drummer Topper Headon had been fired before this show, so it features Terry Chimes on drums. It's a lively show, with the band at their peak, but not for long. Mick Jones would leave within a year, and by then the band we knew to grow and love would be on their last legs. It's Joe Stummer who really drives the assault throughout this show, and his passing in 2002 left a gaping hole in the rock and punk genre, as well as the hearts of millions, myself included. 

Following this 90 minute show I have a leftover Christmas treat from a band who really liked Christmas (or faked it for the sake of the label). You'll be sure to want to stick around for this.

Then my weekly music mix, Hell's Kitchen Radio, takes over 8-10pm tonight. 

This is really just too much music for one person to enjoy. Share this link with your friends and I'll see you at 6pm Monday night, Pacific.

Enjoy.

jh

Hell's Kitchen Radio #418: Trim That Tree

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And we've made it to Christmas Day!!! How the Hell did that happen so quickly? Seriously though, with all of this staying at home crap since March, one would think this year would have crawled by? Time always seemed to flow when I had to commute most days, pay the bills, do the dishes, and repeat. I've been home since mid-March, and December came in like a limping, gasping, clawing gazelle, after having been chewed on and spit out for the rancid meat that COVID and Trump's allies turned 2020 into. 

What kind of fresh Hell is this?

So let's stick with this musical lane for the next two hours shall we?

As you will see below the first hour contains a fistful of holiday music that is as off-kilter as yours truly. And isn't that why you tune in in the fist place? The second hour is something else entirely. I really enjoyed the entire show, but the two hours are as different as Christmas is to Hanukkah. Take that for whatever you think it means.

If you live in the Bay Area of California, you really owe it to yourself to take a drive to either Christmas Tree Lane (Thompson Lane) in Alameda, or Chestnut Lights (Woodside Court) in South San Francisco. Regardless of your religious beliefs, the creativity that went into these houses is worth the trip. There are a number of other locations to go check out. Here's the link for a bunch of them. Take a ride!

Go ho, ho, ho yourself, and I'll see you all next Monday night to get you good and ready to say so long and fuck you to 2020. 

If you haven't tuned into my Live Bootleg Bonanza show, tune in Monday's 6-8PM, before my regular Hell's Kitchen show, to check out shows from my vast live vault (it's really just TBs of live shows) of thousands of shows from hundreds of bands. Most are soundboard quality, of varying genres. I played two Frank Zappa shows last week to celebrate what would have been his 80th birthday. 

Enjoy.

jh

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The Central Scrutinizer: Frank Zappa
Xmas Message from T-Rex
Merry Christmas From The Family: Robert Earl Keen
Fuck Christmas: Fear
Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas: Alan Jackson

The Twelve Gifts of Christmas: Alan Sherman
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Bob and Doug McKenzie
Merry Christmas, Baby: Otis Redding
Trim Your Tree: Jimmy Butler

Back Door Santa: Clarence Carter
Un Flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle: Phat Man Dee
Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis: Tom Waits
Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin': Albert King

I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus: Kip Addotta
Scrutinizer Postlude: Frank Zappa
Fairytale of New York: The Pogues
Sloppy Drunk Blues: Big Joe Williams

Soulful Strut: Young-Holt Unlimited
Little Games: Yardbirds
Your Mind Has Left Your Body: Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, David Freiberg
What Is Man: Johnny Cash

God Made Me Funky: The Headhunters
Get Down, Moses: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

J'al Mal Aux Dents (Faust cover): Oh Sees
Cha Cha: Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics

Media Control: The Nuns
I Bid You Goodnight: Joseph Spencer & The Pinder Family

John Hell's Live Bootleg Bonanza - Monday, December 14, 2020

Are you ready to ROCK? How about are you ready to AMERICANA?!?!?!?!?

Monday night starting at 6pm.

I have a great soundboard from the Godfather's of the alt-Americana from Illinois, Uncle Tupelo. If you're not aware of this fabulous band, and where the hell have you been(???), this is Jeff Tweedy's pre-Wilco and Jay Farrar's pre-Son Volt band, that IMHO is a thousand times better than anything they've done since!!! There, I said it. Too bad Farrar and Farrar stopped getting along. I like to think in an alternate universe their music took over the world like Bill and Ted's.

This show is from August 25, 1989, Cicero's Basement Bar in St. Louis, MO, a regular stop for these boys. They always threw a number of covers into their sets, so if you're not familiar with their originals, which you're sure to enjoy, you'll be certain to get off on the covers.

This show is only 90 minutes. How will I fill the remaining 30 minutes? You'll just need to tune in and find out!

Enjoy.

jh

Hell's Kitchen Radio #417: Never Draw Attention To The Mistakes

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I'm so pleased that I have this outlet available to me, that on my honor I promise never to phone it in. I gave up my AOL dial up many moons ago.

This show has a lot of date-oriented music associated with it. I won't give away the easter eggs; I just know you want to find them on your own. Feel free to leave a comment. 

I'm not certain how Angelisxvi showed up in this set. I have a folder for music I want to play on this show, and somehow it made its way in there. I'm guessing there's a story I have chosen to forget. Or perhaps Little Lauson Hell (who made a brief appearance during this show) snuck it in there? 

There are a few artists who are making their debut on Hell's Kitchen Radio: Bad Livers, Timothy Leary, Koko Taylor, Clairo, and yes, Angelisxvi. Why, oh why has it taken me this long to share Bad Livers?!?!?!?! And it's FDR's first appearance as well I believe. 

Never forget Pearl Harbor...or The Maine. Though I think it's safe to say 122 years after, The Maine probably was an accident the US Navy used as an excuse to go to war with Spain, the weakest of all the world powers by 1898. Don't get me started.

I think my vote for BEST SET has to go near the end with the set that starts with Electric Masada and ends with James Brown. That was about 20 minutes that will kick you in the groove thang.

You're welcome.

Monday's 6-8pm I've taken over to feature my live bootleg collection. If you tuned in you caught an hour of Mudhoney from 1990 in Australia, followed by an hour from the birthday boy, Tom Waits (71 years young) from 1999. I plan on doing this every Monday until we have a new show in place. Considering I download an average of five shows (from five different artists) a day, not including the Grateful Dead (5+ shows a day from them, alone), it's a toss up what I'm going to share. I like playing more than one artist during that slot, unless it's a tribute. Tune in Monday at 6pm (Pacific) to hear what I have in store. Then stay from 8-10 for my weekly mix.

Thanks for all of your continued support. 

I started hosting Monday's 8pm back in 2000 when I joined San Francisco Liberation Radio, moved over to Pirate Cat Radio in July 2007, then to FCCFree Radio (co-founder) in 2008, and then Radio Valencia (co-founder) in 2010. Other than a few short breaks between stations, it's been 20 years in the same slot. That in combination with my nine wonderful years at KFJC (88-97), and this has been a very fulfilling radio dream come true for me. I may need to write more about this later. 

Enjoy.

jh

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FDR Speech - December 7, 1941
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love: Minutemen
You Can't Put An Arm Around A Memory: Giant Sand
Love Songs Suck: Bad Livers

People Have the Power: Patti and Fred "Sonic" Smith (March 16, 1990)
Sofia: Clairo
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: Timothy Leary
Insane Asylum: Koko Taylor and Willie Dixon
Take Me: Angelisxvi

Boy Blue: ELO
I'm Herpes, Yes I Am: Gerogerigegege
TV Song: Glenn Branca

Caught In My Eye: Germs
Bohemian Rhapsody: Donald Trump
Knocking 'em Down: Iggy Pop
Killer of Killers: Zig Zags

Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow: Funkadelic
The Pusher: Nina Simone

Kisofim: Electric Masada
Pressure Drop: Toots and the Maytals
Tha Shiznit: Snoop Dogg
The Boss: James Brown

Isolation: John Lennon
My Little Red Book: Love
Diamond In Your Mind: Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet

John Hell's Live Bootleg Bonanza - Monday - December 7, 2020 6-8pm

While we're waiting for a new show to take over the Monday 6-8pm (Pacific) slot, I'm sharing music from my overburdened live bootleg closet.

Tonight I have two shows to share with you:

Mudhoney - December 14, 1990 - Melbourne, Australia

And

Tom Waits - July 1999 - Florence, Italy

Both are amazing soundboard quality shows, featuring great performances.

And then starting at 8 is my weekly show, Hell's Kitchen Radio with John Hell. That's me!

I hope you tune in.

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Hell's Kitchen Radio #416: The Perennial Annual Annual - 1980

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Each November I choose a year that I want to showcase for two hours. It's a random selection. For my tenth annual Annual Annual I have chosen 1980. I turned 10 that year, and was already enjoying a growing record collection I could call my own. We owned a jukebox stocked with 45s from the 60s and 70s, and my dad always enjoyed having music playing throughout the house. My two older sisters (6 and 8 years older) often had the rock hits of the day playing in their rooms or on our family room stereo. 

1980 was a strange year for music. So many subgenres had crept into the aural vernacular by this time. It was no longer just a Jazz, Rock, Soul world. By 1980 Heavy Metal, Funk, Punk, and New Wave had infiltrated the discussion, and there's nothing wrong with that, except commercial radio stations continued to divide us based on their perceived belief that we wanted stations that specialized in one particular genre, and that led to the continuing watering down of quality radio programming. 

Thank Yahweh for college radio!

The former and extremely boring KFOG used to have their daily "10 At 10" show that focused on one year at a time, but rarely, if ever, would they take a chance on some of the artist and genres that I feature on this annual special you see before you.

1980 had a lot of tasty bites to offer however. This show showcases a few commercial tunes (yes, I play the #3 most popular song based on Billboard charts. Sue me), as well as some underground morsels I'm sure you'll enjoy chewing on. 

If you dig this Annual Annual and you want to check out my previous specials take a look at the link below and have at it. 

Enjoy.

jh

Check out previous Annual Annual specials here:

ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1971
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1972
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1973
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1974
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1975
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 2006
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1992
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1983
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1969

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Rapture: Blondie
This Is A Mans Mans Mans World: The Residents
Clouds: Chaka Khan

Neon Knights: Black Sabbath
Everybody Wants Some: Van Halen
Tattooed Love Boys: The Pretenders
Chinese Rock: The Ramones

Private Idaho: B-52s
Joe McCarthy's Ghost: Minutemen
Let's Lynch The Landlord: Dead Kennedys
Video Killed The Radio Star: The Buggles

Teenage Wildlife: David Bowie
Magic: Olivia Newton John
Planet Earth: Devo

Authority Stealing: Fela Kuti
Atrocity Exhibition: Joy Division

Jack-A-Roe: Grateful Dead
Little Wing: Neil Young
Generals and Majors: XTC

Hell's Kitchen Radio #415: Good For What Ails Ya

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A two hour radio show is like foreplay without the deep thrusting you're all hungry for. That being said, I'm going to give it to you in a variety of ways throughout this show, even if we don't have all the time in the world to enjoy one another's company. It'll just have to do. 

Is it hot in here, or is it just this laptop sitting on my legs for too many months?

Enjoy.

jh

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Pirate Radio: Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

Freddie's Dead: Fishbone

Gutter Cat vs. The Jets: Alice Cooper

Come On Over (Turn Me On): Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

Not A Crime: Gogol Bordello

She Cried: Jay and the Americans

I'm A Liar: The Gorillas

Cry Baby Cry (Acoustic Demo): The Beatles

Crystal Frontier: Calexico

They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore: Kinky Friedman

Jesus Was Way Cool: King Missile

She Loves Me: Elvis Presley and Ann Margaret

Señor: Willie Nelson and Calexico

Orange Was The Color of Her Dress, Then Blue: Charles Mingus (April 10, 1964, Amsterdam, DK)

Deep Fried Frenz: MF Doom

Señorita: Ovarian Trolley

Bang Bang: Kelly Willis

Masikulu: Konono No1

The Leibniz Language: Le Butcherettes

Rumble: Link Wray

Voice of Chunk: The Lounge Lizards

Filipino Box-Spring Hog: Tom Waits

Hell's Kitchen Radio #414: Dancin' In The Streets

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I never enjoy missing my show, and last week was going to two hours of some serious celebrating, but family first, last, and always. So there ya go. I saved it all up for this show...kinda. I mean, the polish has sort of worn off, since el douche bag (I won't even capitalize that) won't concede. What a little prince he is.

I admit, the slow burn is fun to watch, but not at the cost of our democracy, which this fool doesn't care a lick for. It's all about the ratings, and possibly because he knows that he's about to have a few indictments handed down within the next year. So long, Donnie. I would really love to see him taken out of the White House in handcuffs, but that's not going to happen, and it really shouldn't end that way for this guy. Not that he doesn't deserve it. It's just not good for the country. The world isn't exactly laughing at us right now as much as looking on with eyes wide and mouth agape. 

So I do what I always do when the adulting gets too much, I listen to music. And just take a gander of what I have in store for your next two hours. I want to thank my dear friend, singer/songwriter and all around fabulous human, Adam MacKinstosh for throwing a bunch of recommendations my way tonight. Some days I get so overwhelmed with my music library that it helps to have someone else's ears around to lend a hand. Thank you Adam. 

New music from FUZZ, Neil Young, and local power trio KnightressM1. There's also a celebration for the 45th anniversary release of Patti Smith's "Horses", and much much more to satisfy even the pickiest listener, including a 16 minute funky/acid-drenched Grateful Dead "Dancin' in the Streets", that's sure to get you shakin' your groove thang until the orange cheeto vacates 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In the meantime, enjoy.

jh

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Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family

Crow Black Crow: Adam McKintosh

Simple Life: Louise Goffin

Working Poor: Fantastic Negrito

Making Plans for Nigel: Primus

End Returning: FUZZ

Evil New War God: Melvins

Lookin' for a Leader 2020: Neil Young

Birdland: Patti Smith

Working For A Dead Man: Eric McFadden

Bleeding Heart: Two Ton Boa

Grandma Song: People Like Us

Living Proof: Cat Power

Licking Stick Licking Stick: James Brown

I Wanna Be Your Dog: The Stooges

Friction (Alternative version): Television

Big Boss Man: Mercury Rev ft. Hope Sandoval

500 Mujeres: Guadalupe Plata

Black Mountain: Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

Fountains on Fire: Elysian Fields

Zero Point: KnightressM1

Dancing in the Street: Grateful Dead (May 2, 1970 Harpur College - Binghamton, NY, State University Of New York)

What A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong

Hell's Kitchen Radio #413: So It's Come To This

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So here we are, four years later, and another election where we tell ourselves "this is the most important election of our lives". And yet I think it is. Let's go into Tuesday with our hopes held high, regardless of the outcome. No matter who wins we have a lot of work to do. Get involved in this great American experiment. Get to have a working knowledge of the US Constitution, as well as your state Constitution. Know who your elected representatives are and hold them accountable, regularly. 

If you're going to be watching the results tonight, please be wary of the "blue mirage". Most mail-in ballots are from Democrats, so it's going to look like Biden is in the lead and will win the state, just to have much of that lead disappear once the election day-cast ballots are counted. 

Take a deep breath, it's going to be a long night.

I'm going to be watching North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin. These are the states that can throw the election from one candidate to the other.

There's more I could say about this (and I have to my students), but you're an adult, and you know we have to be patient. 

Enjoy the ride.

jh

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I'm So Bored With The USA: The Clash
Blowfly for President: Blowfly
South Park Vote Song
Eric B Is President: Eric B and Rakim

Message From Our Sponsor: Jello Biafra
Nazi Punks Fuck Off: Dead Kennedys
This Is Not Normal: Negativland
Funky President: James Brown

Don't Worry (If There's A Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go): Curtis Mayfield
C'Mon Man (Joe Biden remix): WTFBRAHH
When The Revolution Comes: The Last Poets
The Way of the World: Flipper

Deep in the Heart of a Racist Nation: MDC
Freedom of Choice: Devo
Vote or Die: South Park
I'm A Conservative: Iggy Pop
White Minority: Black Flag

Absolute Dissent: Killing Joke
It Is What It Is (Donald Trump remix): WTFBRAHH
Science: Flat Earthers
Alright: Kendrick Lamar

Masters of War: Bob Dylan
Politician: Cream
Fortunate Son: Creedence Clearwater Revival

All The Madmen: David Bowie
What A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong

Hell's Kitchen Radio #412: More Trick, Less Treat

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We have two more days until...? I would hate to think back to this day and think it was better then. Ugh. I know how you're feeling; this sucks. And sitting here right now I know that it feels that it's going to get worse if he wins again. And there are ways that it just might.

But it can also be an awakening. More people are voting in this election than in any previous election. Think about that. More votes on local and state propositions. More votes for local and state candidates. And if he wins, there's the possibility that he'll lose the Senate. He'll be more of a lame duck than ever. 

Get your ballot in, or yourself to the polls on November 3rd, and be prepared to wait as long as it takes to get your vote in. 

Are you a geek for polls? 2016 was a horrible election cycle for polling, but the pollsters swear they learned their lesson. We'll find out, won't we? 

Check out 270toWin for a fun little interactive electoral college mapping along with recent polling. 

If you want to check in with master polling guru Nate Silver, check out his site FiveThirtyEight right here.

And take every poll with a HUGE grain of salt. And then vote. Vote. Oh yeah, vote. Vote even if you cannot stand Joe Biden, vote for him if you care even an smidge for democracy. 

OK, time for music. You need this show in your life. Make the next two hours special.

Enjoy.

jh

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Trouble at the Cup: Black Randy and the Metrosquad
Loner with a Boner: Black Randy and the Metrosquad
Mon Menage A Moi: Edith Piaf
Gallows Pole: Willie Watson

Call For All Demons: Sun Ra
Maya: John McLaughlin

Les Amour Perdues: The Elysian Fields
Chariot Choogle: Fantomas with Mike Patton
Season of the Witch: Donovan
Maggie's Farm: Solomon Burke

Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?: Frank Zappa
Nothing Compares 2U: Donald Trump Deep Fake
Come On, Come Over: Jaco Pastorius

Canopnr '74: Oh Sees
Tear the Fascists Down: Woody Guthrie
Handle with Care: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Saint Judas: Mark Growden

Everything I Say Just Goes Right Through Her Heart: Peter Laughner
I Can See For Miles: Petra Haden
Tattoo: The Who
Mon Amour: Dungen

Milk Bird Flyer: Ty Segall and Cory Hansen
Starship Narrator: Boris
Telephone Girl: Assagai

Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath: Brown Sabbath

Hell's Kitchen Radio #411: Too Much Of The Good Stuff

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This is a quirky show. Just take a look at the play list. I'm all over the place! But that's why you tune in. You just can't put Hellboy in a corner.

You're voting, right? Seriously, I don't care if you have to break out of jail, VOTE! And tell everyone you know to vote. Our democracy is slipping away. You don't want this orange buffoon in charge anymore. He doesn't know and isn't interested in how our institutions work. It would be one thing if he did, and he systematically tore them down, as Republicans will do. This idiot doesn't even know what the Constitution says, and he's proud of it. 

Toss him out, November 3rd (well actually January 20th, but I'm not going to split any hairs here).

Take a deep breath and listen to some music.

Brand new music from KnightressM1, Glitter Wizard, Oh Sees, and FUZZ!!!!!

Enjoy.

jh

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Fairies Wear Boots: Glitter Wizard
Gong of Catastrophe: Oh Sees

Time Collapse: FUZZ
Then Again: Psychic Temple (ft. Dream Syndicate)
Candyman (alternate take): Grateful Dead

Ice Cream Man: Van Halen
Ice Cream Man: Tom Waits
Drown In My Own Tears: Ray Charles
My Son Jim: People Like Us

Round and Round: OP8
Let's Go Away For A While: Beach Boys

How To Speak Hip: John Close and John Brent
We Free Kings: Roland Kirk

The High Road: Broken Bells
Wake Up The Sun: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Dream a Little Dream of Me: Zee Avi

Lock and Key: KnightressM1
Morro Morro Land: Lightning Bolt
Barbarian: Electric Wizard

The Talking Horse: Melvins (October 19, 2006, Black Cat, Washington, DC)
Ice Cream Man: John Brim

Hell's Kitchen Radio #410: You Really Get Me

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Sometimes taking a week off is great for recharging my creative juices. Radio is an artform. You think you could do this? Well, actually you probably could. It's not brain surgery. If you tune in regularly, then you know that I like mixing up genres, and tonight is a perfect example. Garage, grunge, proto-punk, LA punk, Americana, Experimental, and too many more for my brain to consider right now.

I add some tasty live treats in there for the special sauce, and you get two hours of the finest audio stew your earbuds can handle. 

I sprinkle in my share of covers and some local Bay Area faves too! My goodness there's something here for everybody, including your retched GOP uncle. You should really kick him in the head when you get a chance. 

Speaking of the election, you are registered aren't you? Get registered, get your ballot, fill it out, and get it in ASAP!!! And sign that damn thing!!!

VOTE!!!!

jh

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What Happened to the Waltz: Link Wray
I'm Spun: Mudhoney
Vicious: Lou Reed

Human Touch: Feist
We The Ones: Big Boi and Sleepy Brown
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Yola

Southern Girls: Old 97s
Callaloo: Jenny Lewis
TV Party: Black Flag
Fascist: Minutemen
Fuck Authority: Wasted Youth

La Juventud: La Plebe
Fiesta: The Pogues
The Frisko Freeze: The Mummies
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore: John Prine

Talkin' Karate Blues: Townes Van Zandt
When I Paint My Masterpiece: Jerry Garcia and John Kahn (January 27, 1986)
Impressions: John Coltrane Quartet (November 19, 1962 Stockholm, Sweden)

Cross the Breeze: Sonic Youth (March 30, 1989 Theaterfabrik Unterfˆhring, Munich)
The Companions: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Spongiform Encephalopathy: Rube Waddell
Ghetto Woman: B.B. King (1972-01-10 United Recorders (Sunset Sound Recorders), Hollywood, CA)
Hound Dog: Big Mama Thornton (1970 Berkeley, CA)

Ball and Chain: Big Brother and the Holding Company (May 4, 1968 Shrine Expo Center, L.A., CA)

Hell's Kitchen Radio #409: September Haze

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So it's the middle of September, what do you have to show about it? Will another month go by before you get your ass up and finish all those projects you said months ago you would get to? What's your deal?!?!?

September is supposed to feel crisp; the smell of fall in the air. I think it's getting warmer? I also have to remember that I live in the Bay Area and our summer doesn't arrive until now anyway. Here come the warm jets! Let's hope they leave the orange sky out of it.

I celebrate my birthday month during the first hour with songs of September. Some are even hits!!! Don't tell my boss or they'll take my cool underground radio card away. Check out the live cuts in the first hour: Buster Poindexter??? Big Star???

The second hour is all about the late, great Jimi Hendrix, who passed away 50 years ago on September 18th. I was to pop out of my momma 12 days later on the 30th. That's right, I'm about to hit the big 5-0!!!

It's all good. I'm having too much fun to stop now.

Check out the all-live Jimi Hendrix hour. Sheeeeeeeeeit, you have never heard this stuff, is my guess. I have dozens of amazing Jimi bootlegs. I didn't even scratch the surface. But you knew that already.

Get your guitar God headphones on and enjoy this second hour.

Tomorrow, September 22, is my wedding anniversary. Saucy Hell and I have hit the magical seventh year of matrimony. Where has the time gone. I performed "Kathy's Song" on acoustic guitar, at my wedding reception (making certain not be nervous in front of all the amazing musicians in the room like Eric McFadden and Mark Growden). What a wonderful day and long night that was. I share a story about that night during my show. Be sure to take a listen.

Keep music in your life, it'll help see us through.

Enjoy.

jh

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Mondays 8-10PM
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Good Morning, Judge: Buster Poindexter and his Banshees of Blue (1985.11.06 Bottom Line, NYC)
September Song: Frank Sinatra
One September Day: Nina Simone

September: Earth, Wind and Fire
Papa Was A Rolling Stone: The Temptations
Maggie May: Rod Stewart

September Gurls: Big Star (1996-11-16 Tramps, NYC)
What Keeps Mankind Alive: William S. Burroughs
September Song: Lou Reed
Groupie (Superstar): Delaney and Bonnie

Kathy's Song: Simon and Garfunkel
Speedy Gonzales: David Dante

Jimi Hendrix Tribute Hour

Intro/Killing Floor: Jimi Hendrix Experience (1969-01-09 Stockholm, Sweden)
Purple Haze (Studio Demo): Jimi Hendrix Experience
Intro/Foxy Lady (1967-03-18 Studio 1 / NDR Radiohouse, Hamburg)

Morrison's Lament: Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison (drunk) Johnny Winter (maybe), Randy Hobbs, Randy Z (1968-03-07 The Scene Club, NYC)
Here My Train A'Comin': Jimi Hendrix and All-star cast (69-06-22 San Fernando Valley State College, Devonshire Downs)
Red House: Jimi Hendrix Experience (69-02-24 Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London)

Machine Gun: Band of Gypsies (70-01-01 Fillmore East, NYC)
News Of Hendrix's Death - Veronica Dutch Radio (70-09-18)

Dig Jimi at the Newport Pop Festival, June 22, 1969