Hell's Kitchen Radio #627: On The Road To Truth And Consequences

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When you know you know. You know? And I know that knowing creative people is like touching God. I'm not a religious man. My name is Hell. John Hell. But I do know that when I say God, I am talking about the road to perfection. The road to Truth. 

It's all about the road.

Gandhi know this. So did Socrates, King and Thoreau. 

This isn't about a light that burns twice as bright burns twice as fast. This is about sharing space with creatives who strive to share space with all; strive to thrive on collaboration and community. Grow their own worlds by merging with the world of other creatives.

This is what Radio Valencia is all about.

I keep the door open as way to show that we are open to all your creative forces. Let them come, one and all. How lucky are we to have this space to share? 

On this night, DJ Copper Stripper and I celebrated the life of Cheetah Chrome of Dead Boys who passed away this past week. 

The most exciting part of this show is when Muhammad and the band Madrona hung out studying, with a highlighter, for his class at UC Berkeley, and talking up his band's upcoming show at 924 Gilman Street. We dubbed him a name I will never be able to announce ever again, but I really hope he keeps.

DJ Comuhammanard!!! That's it!

Guitarist, friend and fellow creative Eric McFadden stopped in. He's living in the hood, close to the station, so he figures he can just do what he wants. And you know what? He can. We're all better for this.

We also have new music from San Francisco punks Surprise Privilege, new issue of early Cramps, dance punk from Snooper, and brand new Butthole Surfers. Have you seen the new documentary about them? I cried. Go see it. Now. Seriously. Ignore this show and go find it. Bootleg the damn thing. Just see it.

Then celebrate the fact that you are alive at a time where so many creative people are coming together like transformers when the all merge into one giant vehicle to shoot oil all over the face of fascists everywhere.

I have no idea where that came from. Just go with it.

The image above is from the ice cream field trip the Common Sense Advisory Committee took last weekend. That's lighting/soundman Christopher, myself, and Eric McFadden outside a gelato place in North Beach. Not pictured is Katrina, Daniel and the man-of-the-hour Ignacio. We know how to party. Party all the time.

Enjoy and please share.

jh

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In Frisco: Pop-O-Pies (7" - 1982)
Darkest Light: Lafayette Afro Rock Band (Malik - 1976)

Back To New Orleans: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (Back To New Orleans - 1959)
Heroes: David Bowie ("Heroes" - 1977)
Wasps From Samoa: Surprise Privilege (Hard Listen - 2026)

So Cold: Rocket From The Tombs (The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs - 2015) 
Ain't It Fun: Rocket From The Tombs (Peter Laughner Box Set - 2019)
Sonic Reducer: Dead Boys (Young, Loud and Snotty - 1977)
Too Much To Dream: Stiv Bators (Disconnected - 1980)
Leave Me Alone: Johnny Thunders (So Alone - 1978)

The Native's Are Restless: The Cramps (Gravest Gravy - 2026)
Flight Taken: Debris (Static Disposal - 1976)
Seven and Seven Is: Love (Da Capo - 1966)
Fire in the Western World: Dead Moon (Strange Pray Tell - 2012)

Hologram: Snooper (Worldwide - 2025)
Communist Eyes: Germs (Gi - 1979)
I Don't Want To Be Happy: The Contortions (Buy The Contortions - 1979)
The Sombrero: Neil Hamburger (Sick Spelled Backwards - 2025)
Babylonian Gorgon: The Bags (7" - 1978)
Babylonian: The Officials (7" - 1974)

Venus: Butthole Surfers (After the Astronaut - 2026)
I Came From The Mountain: Thee Oh Sees (Live in San Francisco - 2015)
On The Road: Divorce Bug (7" - 1978)
Mr. Big: The Dils (Dils Dils Dils  - 2001)

Johnny Hit and Run Pauline: X (Los Angeles - 1980)

Hell's Kitchen Radio #386: Doin' The Pandemic Pokey

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Hey radio lovers, it's my first official show since December 2019. What I miss?

In all seriousness though, this is a remarkable time. How are you spending your days and nights? Reading those books that have been sitting on the shelf, that you swore you would read if only you had the time to do so? Watching those French Noir films that you once loved in college and realize they haven't aged all that well? Pulling out those dusty puzzle boxes sent to you by grandma when you were 20 (even though you stopped doing puzzles when you were 12)? I actually love a good landscape jigsaw puzzle. How about finally listening to that John Coltrane 45 minute Ascension and the five alternate takes, each 45 minutes to one hour in length? No time like the present.

And the present is all we've got! What would Eckhart Tolle say?

How are tight knit families doing? How is the single-set doing? How are people with horrible roommates doing? How well are you practicing social distancing? FLATTEN THE CURVE OR DIE!

I'm mostly concerned about Tinder. How ever will they survive? Did they get a piece of the stimulus package too? HA! Get it? Tinder? Stimulus? I crack myself up.

On Monday afternoon I put out a call on ye ol' Facebook asking for songs I should play for my triumphant return to Radio Valencia in the pandemic age. The list still hasn't ended. All songs except two are from that list. Thanks a ton!

On a side note, Radio Valencia lost its space last January, after we were told (along with all other tenants) that our landlord had failed to keep up rent payments to the owner. We all were given 48 hours to move out. After a couple of months searching SF for a new space, we finally landed what we believe to be our most ideal studio location yet! And then COVID-19 struck, which is keeping us from setting up the new space. I cannot wait to share details about our new home. It's sooooo exciting.

I have never hosted a show remotely from my home before, so you have heard a lot of reruns from me over the past few months, until Monday night! I'd like to say the show went off without a hitch, but you'll notice the first three minutes is a lot of noise while I scrambled to pay for the Audio Hijack I was using. And later in the show I introduced a Johnny Cash song ("Solitary Man"), which was playing on my laptop, but not on my show. There's a learning curve here, folks. Thanks for sticking with ol' Johnny Hell through all of this.

I would like to thank my brother-from-another-mother Adam McKintosh for donating the Blue Yeti microphone to the cause. Some heroes don't wear capes.

Also, not all songs are from the FB request list. Local violinist, vocalist, and all-around exceptional musician Emily Palen sent me a couple of new tracks from her trio: KnightressM1. I was thrilled to pieces to play "SALT", from their upcoming release, TBA. Check them out live, whenever and wherever that happens in the (hopefully) near future. I love getting turned on...to good new music, and this group really sent me into the stratosphere. I hope you enjoy the track as much as I do. And dig the "lyrics". Perfect timing indeed. It really fit with the show's theme.

OK, enough of me. Take a look at the set list below. There are more hits in this one than I have ever played on my shows before, but fuck it, it's my show, and we're all bored.

Enjoy. Stay inside!!! Go masturbate again.

jh

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Don't Touch Me There x2: The Tubes
Touch Me I'm Sick: Mudhoney
Epidemic: Slayer

Why Can't I Touch It?: Buzzcocks
Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down): Ween
You Be Illin: Run DMC
I Just Want To Have Something To Do: The Ramones

People Who Died: Jim Carroll (July 15, 1979 Old Waldorf, SF, CA)
You Can't Touch This: MC Hammer
Soul Vaccination: Tower of Power

Hellbound Train: Savoy Brown
Nature's Way: Spirit
People: Barbara Streisand
Dying: XTC

So Alone: Johnny Thunders

Salt: KnightressM1
Run To The Hills: Iron Maiden
Gates of Steel: Devo
Leave Me Alone: Helen Reddy

The Wait: Killing Joke
One: Three Dog Night
Nobody Told Me: John Lennon

Knockin' On Heavens Door: Bob Dylan (November 1975, Montreal, Canada)
What A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong

Finally, my step-brother Adam Pava sent this suggestion, but I couldn't locate an audio only track to play last night. So here ya go. Thanks Adam!