There are several things you can find in the Balcony Radio studio. Mics, shitty board, computers, two chairs (one swivel, one wood and needing to be replaced), lots of stolen office supplies, a rug and four thousand vinyl records. Some of these we put to good use . . . in this episode we pull some albums down and put them on the turntable. We call it the “Off the Wall” show. Pun. Dig: it.
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We at the Balcony don’t mind sweating a little . . . or fried food . . . or kick ass music. So, we went to New Orleans. And found all that. Especially the fried food and sweat. (They might have sweaty fried food there, it’s that humid.) In Lesson 49 of the 101 Series, we head down to the delta and pick up some New Orleans tunes for you. We had a good time down there, trying not to get thrown up on in the French Quarter (or make eyes with any sad teen strippers in doorways) . . . and came back with a gumbo of music for you to feast on. (One food joke is required when talking about New Orleans. It’s the law. We went with gumbo instead of jambalaya.)
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We here at the Balcony are pretty patient . . . we will let you go on. And on. (Just don’t push it . . . we’re looking right at you, Grateful Dead.) Here is episode four of our tribute to songs that you wait to take a bathroom break and/or beer run for: Long Song Silver. In this episode we play nothin’ but tunes ten minutes plus. So, yeah, we got stamina. And determination.
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Out of the bushy wilds of Mulholland Drive and salty air of the Pacific Coast Highway, came slithering a band that set L.A. and then the fucking world on fire. In Lesson 48 of the 101 Series, we put on our leather pants and nicest feather headdress and dance around like shamans . . . because we’re playing The Doors. The fucking Doors. Get ready for a ten minute organ solo while Jim does . . . a ten minute organ solo.
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Once upon a time singers on rock records needed to know how to sing before stepping in front of a microphone. Once upon a time there was no fancy software to correct off-key notes or errant instrumental passages or add echo and warmth because musicians and engineers needed help to make a record. No one knew what auto-tune was, or ever heard of a Beiber. Once upon a time . . . With episode 4 of our oldies show I Remember That, we listen to Doo-Wop – great music, sung and recorded with perfection, that could slowly sway or rock the bobby sox on the dance floor. It was before The Beatles when your grandma and grandpa used to go out together and drink Cokes from the soda fountain at the Rexall.
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Every once in a while we at the Balcony get in a boat with no sail and drift off toward Trenchtown, somewhere near Kingston (we’ll find it). On this trip to the islands we meet a group of friends called Toots and The Maytals. Jamaica doesn’t have garage bands, but they got tin roof bands . . . in Lesson 47 of the 101 Series we pull up a spliff and vibe out to the best band the islands ever produced.
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He wrote all the silly pop songs with The Beatles and the silly love songs after The Beatles. So, with episode 4 of High Tea with The Beatles, we give you simply “The Paul Show.” In this episode we spin some deep and possibly forgotten tracks by Paul McCartney, solo and with some band with the dumb name of Wings (his Yoko, Linda, provides much tambourine). Well, it seemed to work and we cover Paul’s years from the self-named album to the backyard thing. Knighthoods aside, the cute one still rocks.
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Oh, no . . . it’s the 70s. Again. Hey everyone, come and get happy with us at the Balcony as we sit down for part two of our tribute to the tunes–groovy and not–of the 1970s. It’s the 101 Series, and Lesson 46 has a chest hair, a leisure suit only buttoned to nipple-height, Burt Reynolds’ mustache, a pack of Kools, and half a tank of gas in the Camaro. Throw your keys in the bowl, you’re coming home with us.
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Fifty years is a long time to rock. And with that time comes a lot of great live shows. With episode 4 of Have The Rolling Stones Killed we take it to the stages of the world with the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band of all time. It’s all live tracks, now sit down before a Hell’s Angel stabs you. All cylinders are burnin’ and the throttle is wide open and the world will never been the same again. The Stones never fail to kill it. And all guitarists show up for the gig – Jones, Taylor, Wood, and some guy called Richards.
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When The Beatles broke up everything went to hell . . . one hit wonders, inflation, gas shortage, Nixon. The 70s. In Lesson 46 of the 101 Series we sit down on the shag carpeting and play all the day glo a.m. jams you remember. Join us for the first of two episodes (no disco!) celebrating the decade that gave us spandex, pubic hair and Three Mile Island. Next week: Return of the 70’s!
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