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 #620: Lauson Loves Amy

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What an honor it was to have in my darling daughter, Lauson, who wanted to host a tribute to her fallen hero: Amy Winehouse, who passed away 15 years ago this week. Lauson has really come into her own as a show host. All these sets up to the L7 set are hers. For as long as I can remember, Lauson's favorite artist is Amy Winehouse. She has been inspired by her since she was a youngster, and I know a lot of the music she listens to has either inspired Winehouse or was inspired by her. I hope you're as impressed by these sets as I am.

Lauson is a natural on mic, having started with me 14 years ago when she was just a wee seven year old. Listen to her now! And stick around for her new airname!!!

Daniel, aka: DJ Charlie Daniels Hologram, was in the house, and contributed many a fine vocabulary term. 

We also take the last 30 minutes or so to remember Jennifer Finch of L7, who passed from brain cancer last Saturday.

Fuck cancer!

Next Monday night I have live concert photographer Rob Coons in the studio. You really must check out his photos. I know he's going to have a lot to talk about when he joins me in Hell's Kitchen. Tune in.

Check out all the many fine shows Lauson has co-hosted going back to when she was only 7 years old.

First show in 2012
Second show in 2014
Third show also in 2014
Fourth show in spring of 2015
Fifth show in the summer of 2015
Sixth show in summer 2016 along with Saucy!
Seventh show was also during summer 2016
Eight show was December 2016
Ninth show was July 2017
Tenth show was in August 2017
Eleventh show was July 2018
Twelfth show was April 2019
Lucky Thirteen was April 2020

Fourteenth Show from July 2021

Fifteenth show from January 2022

Sixeenth Show from December 2023

Seventeen show from January 2025

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jh

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Tears Dry On Their Own: Amy Winehouse

That's Life: Frank Sinatra

Remember (Walking in the Sand): The Shangri-Las

'round Midnight: Thelonious Monk

In My Bed: Amy Winehouse
It Don't Mean A Thing: Sarah Vaughn

Unchain My Heart: Ray Charles

I Used to Love Him: Lauren Hill

Made You Look: Nas

Body and Soul: Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett

All of Me: Ella Fitzgerald

Monkey Man: The Specials

Girl From Ipanema: Amy Winehouse

You Got Me: The Roots ft. Erykah Badu

What Is It About Men: Amy Winehouse

Right As Rain: Adele

Mercy: Duffy

Get Free: Lana Del Rey

You Sent Me Flying: Amy Winehouse

Pretend Your Dead: L7

Shitlist: L7

Wargasm: L7

Shirley: L7

Hell's Kitchen Radio #596: So Long, Ace

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Damn. 

I knew when I was in my early 20s that eventually they would all be gone. That's a thought we all probably have about our favorite artist: one day they'll be gone. For the most part we note it and move on. But what about when that band is our calling? The go-to band. The band that you have invested so much of your musical life to? 

They're still going to go.

Brent went in 1990. Jerry went in 1995. Phil in 2024. Donna in 2025. The way Bobby, the youngest, worked out, daily, I think we all expected him to be the last to go. When we heard of his passing it was a shock. I'm not on social media I don't know if there were stories of him having a cancer scare last summer, which the family said he was able to get past; lung issues eventually did him in. 

Bobby was known to spit out the lyrics, and I mean literally. If you stood in the crowd in front of him there were chances you would get a shower. He was such a crooner in the 90s, really playing to the crowd. 

I've written a lot about my time seeing the Grateful Dead over the years. The 40th anniversary of my first show just passed: December 30, 1985. Post-Dead I saw a few of the incarnations. I saw Phil a few times, went to the two days of Fare Thee Well in 2015 in Santa Clara, saw Dead and Co twice a decade or so ago. I'm happy the music continued to bring so much joy to so many people, and brought in a lot more fans. 

Bobby postulated about the music lasting 300 years. I'd have to imagine that's possible. There are so many people who have been inspired by the music created by Jerry and the boys, that it is conceivable it will grow and morph into the band that be "most triumphant and unite the world". And here you thought it would be Wyld Stallyns.

So here we are, closer than ever to being the orphans we knew we would one day be. Has anyone checked in on Billy, Mickey, TC, Ned and Bruce? If you know, you know.

As for this here tribute, I think Bobby would appreciate what he sees. I start out with an acoustic set, with a few special guests. I then move on to a proper first set, with those first set songs you've come to know and love, before moving onto the second set jams we all live for. 

There is minimal set breaks throughout the show. I marked each track with the date of the performance. There were two shows in 1978, when Jerry had laryngitis, that each song was a Bobby songs. These are all Bobby songs, with only four cover songs. I've also linked all the shows to Archive so you can listen to them all the way through. And you want to do that. All the links are soundboard or matrix (mix of soundboard and audience. I grew up thinking I only wanted to listen to pristine soundboards, but once I started to give audience recordings a listen that what I listen to almost exclusively. The sound of the crowd interacting with the music is a real treat.

What else is there to say? Thanks Ace, it's been a true pleasure. Oh, I always wanted to ask how the hell you grew to look so damn old all of a sudden? And why the beard? You went from being so young a fit, to someone's grandfather over night.

You still rocked like a young man. See you on the other side; wherever that is

Enjoy and please share.

jh

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Green, Green Grass of Home - May 31, 1969
Dark Hollow - September 20, 1970 with Dave Grisman
Wake Up Little Susie - June 4, 1970 with David Nelson and John "Marmaduke" Dawson
Monkey and the Engineer - October 11, 1980
Cassidy - October 14, 1980

Jack Straw - January 22, 1978
Beat It On Down The Line - April 26, 1971 with Duane Allman
Yellow Dog Story - May 24, 1969
Mexicali Blues - August 27, 1972
New New Minglewood Blues - March 9, 1981

Greatest Story Ever Told - September 28, 1972 (with St. Stephen jam)
The Music Never Stopped - May 9, 1977

Estimated Prophet - December 26, 1979
Take a Step Back - May 8, 1977
Playin' In The Band - February 18, 1971 (the first one)
New Potato Caboose - February 14, 1968

Throwing Stones - October 09, 1989
Sugar Magnolia - November 11, 1973

Hell's Kitchen Radio #587: From Hell To Eternity

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I just got back from New Orleans with my daughter, Spawn of Hell. We were there celebrating her 21st birthday, and I could not think of a better place to take her. I love this town! So much great music and food. The weather wasn't too hot or humid, the beignets were powdery and fluffy, the cocktails were flowing, the gumbo was steamy and the crawfish étouffée was delightful.

NOLA is a walking town, and we put that to the test. We walked 10
miles on Saturday and another 7 on Sunday. Most of our walking was through the French Quarter, as well as up and down Frenchmen Street hitting up as many of the clubs as we could.

I think my finest memory will always be us walking towards Frenchmen Street and she says she hears a band that sounds familiar in the distance. We walk towards the music and it turns out to be one of her favorite bands of the past couple years: Dirty Rotten Vipers. She was over the moon! They were playing on the street and the crowd was very enthusiastic. We also made our way over to the Blue Nile, a club I like to visit when I'm in town. This is the same club I met my brother-from-another-mother, and brilliant singer/songwriter Adam Mackintosh. I shared that story here and it's worth your time.  

I digress.

The band was a funk/jazz ensemble that featured a drummer that was getting pretty lit, but never dropped
the beat. The main cat, who played trombone and sang, asked for anyone celebrating a birthday to get on stage, so Spawn and four other women made their way up while the band celebrated them all. Just look at that smile on her face!

We spent some time in Algiers Point, where Memphis Minnie lived and wrote "When the Levee Breaks", which I open the show with.

Did you know the first pharmacy in the United States was in New Orleans? I didn't know this either. They have a museum in its place now. We took the tour. We also toured the Museum of Death. If you like serial killers this place is for you! We were hoping for a bit more science-related information around death, but alas, sensationalism ruled the day. We also went to an excellent haunted house inside a former mortuary. I give it four stars. If I was a teenager that hadn't seen as many horror films as I have, I would have been scared out of my wits. All that said, we were spooked good. Spawn insisted that she go in front during the three floor tour, knowing that a jump scare was expected around every corner. They were good for that.

I've been wanting to take my daughter to NOLA for her 21st birthday since she was 12, and we're both so happy we went. Excellent people, food, music, drink and views. It's a beautiful city. Get there. Have fun. You're welcome. More pictures at the bottom of this post.

My first hour was inspired by our trip, but is in no way NOAL-exclusive. Lots of roots, blues, soul, jazz, hiphop and funk, before I segue to some singer/songwriter, Americana/Punk, lo-fi, and a tribute to Donna Jean Godchaux, the former singer from the Grateful Dead (1972-1979) who passed away last week. I got to meet her when Jerry died. Her son Zion used to date a dear friend of mine, and when Jerry died, Donna came for the memorial in Golden Gate Park and we all went together. I write about it here.

Go on and enjoy the music. That's really all what it get to: the music.

jh

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When The Levee Breaks: Memphis Minnie (Blues Classics By Memphis Minnie - Arhoolie Records)
Left Me A Mule To Ride: Big Joe Williams (Tough Times - 1959)
Frankie and Albert: Taj Mahal (Ooh, So Good 'n Blues - 1973)

Black Is: Last Poets (MOJO: Revolution Blues - 2018)
Munaye: Mulatu Astatke (Mulatu of Ethiopia - 1972)

Redebe: Johnny Dyani (Witchdoctor's Son - 1978)
Flute Loop: Beastie Boys (Ill Communication - 1994)
Kon Karne: MF Doom (Mmm Food - 2007)
Anti Love Song: Betty Davis (S/T - 1973)

Jesus Christ: Bob Dylan (Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 - 2025)
Corrina, Corrina: Bob Dylan (Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 - 2025)

Every Grain of Sand: Giant Sand (Swerve - 1990)
A Change Is Gonna Come: The Gits (Enter: The Conquering Chicken - 1993)
From Her to Eternity: Nick Cave (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 1984)

Sway: Chrissie Hynde and Lucinda Williams (Duets Special - 2025)
The Girls Are Naked: The Creation (Action Painting - 2017)
Keep Your Big Mouth Shut: Thee Headcoatees (Here Comes Cessation - 1997)

Sunrise: Grateful Dead (In tribute to Donna Jean - May 26, 1977)
The Music Never Stopped: Grateful Dead - April 24, 1978)

Salsa Verde: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (Pogo Rodeo - 2025)
Spanish Fly: Boss Hog (Drinkin' Lechin' and Lyin' - 1989)

Respect: Aretha Franklin (Live At The Fillmore East - 1971) 

    

John Hell's Live Bootleg Bonanza - Tuesdays 8-10PM Pacific - Celebrating Jerry Garcia

 

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Jerry Garcia passed away 30 years ago on August 9, 1995. I was in bed when my alarm went off, turning on the clock/radio. I quickly hit the snooze button, but within the scant seconds between it turning on and my hand slapping the button, I heard my friend Nina "Ann Arbor" Price make a comment on her morning show on KFJC, that made me quickly turn the radio back on. Sure enough she had announced that Jerry had died. 

My heart sank in a way I did not anticipate. I knew that I would outlive my favorite band. I also knew the last Dead show I attended, in September 1994 was so disappointing that I couldn't see myself going to another, but I had not expected his passing.

I have written a lot of My Life with the Grateful Dead on this blog, so I won't regurgitate any of that here. 

Instead, I have for you two hours of live Grateful Dead, consisting of two songs. HA! I joke, I joke. There's ten songs on here to enjoy, spanning from late 1960s until 1980, all shining a light on the stellar guitar playing of one Jerome Jerry Garcia.

A lot of you know that I teach high school. Did you know I teach at Jerry's old school in San Francisco? What a treat! And the city just renamed the block of Harrington Street, blocks from where I teach, to Jerry Garcia Street. I get giddy just thinking of all the Heads who will make the pilgrimage here. I'm sure the neighbors won't be as excited, but here we are.

In the meantime, take a look at the playlist below, click on the link above and groove out to some good ol' Grateful Dead, in memory of the late, great Jerry Garcia.

Enjoy and please share.

jh

01 Dark Star > (Dick's Picks 36)

02 Morning Dew (Dick's Picks 36)

03 Scarlet Begonias > (Dick's Picks 18)

04 Fire on the Mountain (Dick's Picks 18)

05 Brown Eyed Women (Europe 72, 2001 remaster)

06 Cream Puff War - demo (Rare Cuts and Oddities)

07 Wharf Rat (Crimson, White and Indigo)

08 Friend of the Devil (Dead Set)

09 Bird Song (Reckoning)

10 Ripple (Reckoning)

John Hell's Live Bootleg Bonanza - Tuesdays 8-10PM Pacific - Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin

 

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OK, so Ozzy died. Is this a shock? I can't imagine it is. He had Parkinson's for for the last decade or so, and this was brought on by all of his drug use. Hate to see him go though. What a powerhouse he was. I never got to see Black Sabbath or Ozzy live, unfortunately, but Black Sabbath was an early influence on me, starting around 17 when I got the Paranoid album. I wore that thing out.

I tell a story at the beginning of this show about driving around late a night listening to Black Sabbath and how it truly fucked with me. 

In celebration of the man, I have what I feel is Black Sabbath and their prime, live from Asbury Park, New Jersey, August 05, 1975. Live, there was no band coming anywhere near them. They were scary and raw. This show is a testament to the power and the glory that is the original lineup before Ozzy left to lead his successful solo career. 

Lineage: Soundboard **Remastered** by thir13en

The Black Sabbath show runs 1 hour 40 minutes, so to fill the remainder of the time I'll throw you what may have been Sabbath's biggest rock competitor of the day: Led Zeppelin. Instead of giving you something from their legendary 1975 tour, let's go back to a great BBC broadcast from 1971. Led Zeppelin III had recently been released and the band wads looking to get the word out. I may have to play this entire show on my Bootleg Bonanza in the near future. 

Lineage: BBC Radio 1 Original AM Broadcast -> MP3

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Enjoy and pay it forward.

jh

Hell's Kitchen Radio #572: Bringing A Rubber Duck To A Knife Fight

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I was talking with a friend of mine earlier today about what makes a good radio show and about how I prepare, week to week? 

I think a good radio show, focused on music, comes from a host that listens to a lot of music a lot of the time, and is excited to curate a show that features tunes in sets that flow from one song to the next, regardless of genre. As a matter of fact I really love pulling off cross-genre sets.

As for how I prepare for my shows? I listen to a lot of music throughout the week, and it's inevitable that I'm going to hear a few tunes that I'm itching to play for you all, so I make a note of that.

Then I literally go through my record shelves and pull music that's calling to me. I also have a strong desire to play new music each week. I prefer to start a set with something new, or something that's relevant and timely. 

I purchase music almost weekly, so there's always something new on my show. And if there's a tribute to a fallen artist or one with a birthday that I just have to call out, or a show I've been to, or one upcoming, then something is going to end up in a set.

And then in the studio I have a stack sitting in front of me that I pull from based on the song that is currently playing. Honestly, there's not much more to it than that. More often that not I pull it off. I never phone it in. 

As for tonight's show, I noticed as I was pulling music that almost every artist tonight is American. I started out the show with some rural blues, moved onto to be-bop and post-bop jazz. Then onto some soul and funk. I made my way to some west coast country and psychobilly, before getting a bit darker in the goth/post-punk vein. Then came the garage/shoegaze/psych, followed by some new dissonance post-post-punk, 60s prog-psych, new Melvins (a genre all their own), more post-post-punk, punk/metal, and finally a tribute to Brian Wilson to close it all out.

And hot damn if this show doesn't flow. Check out me trying to tie it all together!

So as for how do I prepare for my show, after being in radio for 35+ years, and a whole hell of a lot of listening? A lot of this is second nature. But I can assure you I will never rest when it comes to preparing the best in quality non-commercial radio for you, dear listener. 

You have the John Hell Seal of Approval!

Enjoy and please share.

jh

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Frankie and Albert: Taj Mahal

Meet Me In The Bottom: Pink Anderson

Just Knock On My Door: Art Blakey

Jakey: Big John Patton

Sticks and Stones: Joe Jones

Good To Me As I Am To You: Aretha Franklin

I Want You (She's So Heavy): Eddie Hazel

Walkin' The Streets of Love Alone: Mitch Polzak

Psychobilly Freakout: Reverend Horton Heat

Flyin' High: Jenny Don't and the Spurs

Boom Boom: Rube Waddell

Stagger Lee: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Killer of Peace: Crow Jane

Kill My Baby Tonight: LA Witch
Sanitarium Blues: Death Valley Girls

Bye Bye 25!: Kim Gordon

Child in Time: Deep Purple

Vomit of Clarity: Melvins 1983

Secret Agent Rat: Crystal Fairy

Smoke Ring: Chime Oblivion

Take Me To Your Leader: Zig Zags

Heroes and Villains: Beach Boys
God Only Knows: Beach Boys

Who Listens To Radio: Sarah Vaughn

Hell's Kitchen Radio #571: Que Sera SerHell

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Walking into the studio tonight I was met with at least three blocks of protesters, out in the street making their voices heard in opposition of ICE policies happening right now across the state and across the nation. As of this writing 47 is actively having National Guard and Marines(!!!!) in the streets of Los Angeles putting down peaceful demonstrations, and calling the protestors insurrectionists,  justifying his use of the posse comitatus act, which forbids the president of using active duty military in the streets of our nation.

There goes our democracy.

But you knew that already. 

The hardest part is separating the "truth" from the propaganda. I have a degree in media literacy, and I can tell you this shit is really exhausting to digest. This is one of the main reasons I quit social media. I dropped Facebook in 2020, and Instagram on Inauguration Day 2025. I just can't.

Even listening to NPR (leans left) or reading the NY Times (leans left and omits far too much) is getting unbearable. I often have to read the Guardian UK and al Jazeera to get a better idea of what is happening in our own country.

That being said, I have a platform all my own with Radio Valencia.

We have told our staff that we aren't going to censor their voices, but Radio Valencia doesn't take any political stance as a radio station. Therefore, our hosts need to state their opinions are their own, and not the stance of the station. 

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

I'm hosting former San Francisco Board of Supervisors member John Avalos on my show Monday, June 23rd to talk about the current state of affairs. John always brings good conversation. Tune in.

For tonights show I was training a new RV staffer: Max! Great guy. He's going to be hosting a Black Metal show on Mondays 4-6pm soon. I got him playing some music he brought along (marked below "- Max") and talking with me about music and his own radio history. 

I also went record shopping last week (of course I did), so there's that to look forward to. New music from Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Zig Zags, Chime Oblivion (John Dwyer of OCS side project), Teri Gender Bender (of Le Butcherettes) and too much more jazz, punk, blues, and a tribute to Sly Stone who passed at age 82 Monday morning.

Enjoy and know your rights.

jh

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Hate the Police: The Dicks
Goat Cheese: Mudhoney

Fucksake: Frankie and the Witch Fingers
There is the Bomb: Don Cherry

Kiss Her Or Be Her: Chime Oblivion
Fallout: Moon Duo
Beer Drinkin' Woman: Memphis Slim
Hey Hey My My (Into the Black): Neil Young and DEVO

21:32: Cluster
Outsider: Teri Gender Bender
Liquified Organs: Rawhead - Max
Cinnamon Girl (Extended Depression Mix): Type O Negative - Max
Watcher of the Skies: Genesis - Max
In Torment in Hell: Deiside - Max

Crying for Death: Morbid Saint - Max
Laid to Rest: Rotting - Max

At War With Hell: Zig Zags
Killer: Alice Cooper

Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey: Sly and the Family Stone
Runnin' Away: Sly and the Family Stone

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Self Again): Sly and the Family Stone
Que Sera Sera: Sly and the Family Stone

Hell's Kitchen Radio #567: Lust for Life: The Solo Adventures of Iggy Pop - Part 2

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So nice I had to do it twice! 

Welcome to part 2 of my Iggy Pop birthday celebration. This week I focus on his incredible solo career. Across 19 solo records since the implosion of The Stooges, James "Iggy Pop" Westerberg continued to reinvent himself and (almost) always stay ahead of the pack. 

I broke this show up into five sets that you can check out below; hitting on all 19 of his solo efforts. A few of these tunes you may have heard before, but I can bet there are a few you haven't and a those will knock you out of your shoes. 

I honestly feel that Iggy is still hitting in all the right ways. Though I love his punk cred, I also love the risks he's taken with his art as he shares other influences, all the while influencing others to take a leap of faith in their own music merriment. 

Check out week one, where it's all Stooges and Stooges-influenced tunes, here.

There's a lot to take in here, so enjoy and please share.

jh

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Set 1: Rebirth (1977)
"Sister Midnight" (The Idiot, 1977)
"China Girl" (The Idiot, 1977)
"Lust for Life" (Lust for Life, 1977)
"The Passenger" (Lust for Life, 1977)

Set 2: Chaos and Experimentation (1979–1982)
"Five Foot One" (New Values, 1979)
"I'm Bored" (New Values, 1979)
"I'm A Conservative" (Soldier, 1980)
"Bang Bang" (Party, 1981 — co-written with Ivan Kral)
"Run Like a Villain" (Zombie Birdhouse, 1982)

Set 3: Comeback King (1986–1990)
"Real Wild Child (Wild One)" (Blah-Blah-Blah, 1986)
"Cry for Love" (Blah-Blah-Blah, 1986 — produced with Bowie)
"Cold Metal" (Instinct, 1988)
"Candy" feat. Kate Pierson (Brick by Brick, 1990)

Set 4: The Raw and the Refined (1993–1996)
"Home" (Brick by Brick, 1990)
"Wild America" (American Caesar, 1993)
"Louie Louie" (American Caesar, 1993)
"Look Away" (Naughty Little Doggie, 1996)

Set 4.5: The Raw and the Refined (1999–2003)
"Corruption" (Avenue B, 1999 — a somber, introspective album)
"Mask" (Beat 'em Up, 2001)
"Little Electric Chair" feat. The Stooges (Skull Ring, 2003)

Set 5: The Elder Statesman (2009–Present)
"King of the Dogs" (Préliminaires, 2009 — jazzy and French-tinged)
"Ready to Die" (Ready to Die, 2013 — partial Stooges reunion but marketed solo)
"Gardenia" (Post Pop Depression, 2016 — produced with Josh Homme)
"Frenzy" (Every Loser, 2023 — hard, fast, and furious)

Closing out
"Don't Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (Free, 2019)

Hell's Kitchen Radio #566: Birthday of the Punk Godfather - Part One

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I live for a good tribute show. And I could not think of a better person to pay tribute to then gool ol' James "Iggy Pop" Osterberg, who turned 78 on Monday night. 

Hot damn, this was a fun one to put together. Iggy's much more intelligent than you think. He ran that band. He's run all of his bands. He's the lyricist, the one who eggs on the audience to a frenzy. He's the one who makes sure you're never going to forget what you witnessed that night, and clamor for more...always more.

I recently read "Total Chaos" by Jeff Gold, who sat with Iggy for a few days, showing him old pictures and realia from days gone by, hoping for a few words in remembrance. What he got blew him (and every fan) away. I cannot recommend this book enough if you're a fan of Iggy and the Stooges, and that period of time. 

Much of that book he speaks about the music that influenced his songwriting. Therefore, I just had to
include many of those songs in this show. You'll note a tune from an artist followed by a Stooges song. I think you understand the implication.

I work my way through the first three Stooges LPs on this show, along with talking about the history of Iggy and the band.

I'll be hosting part two next Monday, April 28th, where I'll focus on Iggy's solo career, as well as the Stooges reunion.

There's too much to share. I just may need to host a part three!

Enjoy and please share.

jh

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Highway Child: Jimi Hendrix
I Wanna Be You Dog: The Stooges
Tribal Gathering: The Byrds

1969: The Stooges
I Walk The Line: Johnny Cash
No Fun: The Stooges

Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt: Pharoah Sanders
Little Doll: The Stooges

Happening Ten Years Time Ago: Yardbirds
I'm Sick of You: The Stooges

Loose (Demo): The Stooges
Loose: The Stooges
Down in the Street (Single mix): The Stooges

TV Eye: The Stooges
Dirt: The Stooges

1970: The Stooges
Search and Destroy: Iggy and the Stooges
Gimme Danger: Iggy and the Stooges

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell: Iggy and the Stooges