From Outta the West
So, here’s the hit list from last night’s special edition of Roundtrip, my radio program on WNRB-LP (93.3 FM Wausau), featuring tunes from the trip to Wyoming my son Ian and I took last week:
Bob Dylan, On the Road Again … no relation to the Willie hit
The Doors, Break on Through (To the Other Side)
The White Stripes, Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
Velvet Revolver, Big Machine
The Jimmy Rogers All Stars, Gonna Shoot You Right Down (Boom Boom) … Robert Plant vocals, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton guitars (and Page on the Theremin)
Led Zeppelin, Friends
Taste, Blister on the Moon … I think Ian’s band Freedown should do this Rory Gallagher classic!
Queens of the Stone Age, Long Slow Goodbye
Fleetwood Mac, Rattlesnake Shake … in honor of all the “Caution Rattlesnakes” signs we saw on the trip. My favorite was at Devil’s Tower: “Rattlesnakes Stay on Sidewalk” (I’m thinking: if they’re staying on the sidewalk then I’m walking in the tall grass)
Muse, Apocalypse Please … apparently when my daughter Molly heard this last night at home, she was most impressed with her Dad! Good band
Pink Floyd, Lucifer Sam … Syd Barrett paints Buffalo, Wyoming in psychedelic colors
John Lennon, Remember
Oasis, Wonderwall
Weezer, The Angel and the One
David Crosby, Laughing … this was perfect for mountainside cruising!
Small Faces, I Feel Much Better … love the girlie backup singers: “shoop shoop do wahdi wahdi”
The Who, Out in the Street … early stuff featuring one of the best 5-second Townshend guitar solos ever
Audioslave, Doesn’t Remind Me
Queens of the Stone Age, This Lullaby
Peter Gabriel, Intruder
Weezer, I’m the Greatest Man That Ever Lived … this sent Molly totally around the bend last night and I’m becoming a Weezer fan!
Grateful Dead, China Cat Sunflower … you cannot drive out West without listening to the Dead; it’s a law
The Seeds, It’s a Hard Life
Moby Grape, Indifference
By the way, there is no “back way” to walk up to the top of Devil’s Tower like they show in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” … take it from me. And rainbow trout fresh-caught from a mountain lake, fried in a pan, tastes better than any restaurant can offer.
Dino Corvino said:
My favorite Weezer song is “Everyone Get Dangerous”.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:51 am #
Jane Neal said:
And Molly LOVED it. (The show, I mean)
She loves Weezer, too.
August 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am #