Got the Kinks Out … Tonight, It’s War
Well, a 2-hour radio show liberally peppered with Kinks’ tunes … can’t be bad. Hope some of you were able to tune (WNRB-LP. 93.3 fm, Wausau) for Roundtrip last night. Here’s what happened:
Kinks, You Really Got Me … their first hit (’64)
Taste, Blister on the Moon … Rory Gallagher’s big “hello” to the rock world
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Little Wing
Velvet Underground, Run Run Run … from the album with the Warhol banana peel cover
Thee Shams, Please Yourself … Midwest rockers in the Iggy/Stones school of rock
Kinks, Powerman … featured on soundtrack for last year’s The Darjeeling Limited
Kinks, Sunny Afternoon … one of the all-time best tunes
Ry Cooder, The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
Son Volt, Streets That Time Walks
Mahavishnu Orchestra, You Know You Know … a sublime jazz interlude in an otherwise rockish show
Kate Bush, Aerial … laughing with birds
Kinks, Waterloo Sunset … released a couple weeks before Sgt. Pepper
Kinks, Picture Book … one of their billion songs adopted for TV commercials
Nazz, Meridian Leeward … “you look like a person, but you know you’re a pig” Todd Rundgren’s boyhood band
Counting Crows, Hanging Tree
Ray Davies, The Tourist … Kinks’ front man from his album released a couple years ago
Kinks, Have a Cuppa Tea … very British
Paul McCartney, Mr. Bellamy
John Lennon, Remember
George Harrison, Party Seacombe … from his obscure Wonderwall Music album
Kinks, Tired of Waiting for You
Savoy Brown, Stay While the Night is Young
Grateful Dead, Morning Dew
James Gang, Thanks
Kinks, Mister Pleasant … “how is Mrs. Pleasant?”
Check out the Battle of the Bands at Coral Lanes tonight and make big noise for Freedown!