North of the Sunset

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Welcome to Episode 13 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! It's been a strange week weather and otherwise, so I thought I'd play some jazz and reggae/ska/dub records. I enjoyed peeling into this side of my record collection that I don't listen to often. After having lived in Philadelphia for ten years, there's a lot of Afro-Carribbean music crosscurrenting through that music scene in so many ways, it's almost a civic duty as a Philadelphian to have this stuff in your record collection. It's good medicine for where I live.

Some highlights on the show are Charles Mingus, one of America's greatest composers, as well Linton Kwesi Johnson, the writer, poet, and music activist. I decided to throw something from the first English Beat album, which was very good.

Still no podcast microphone......!

The playlist for today, in order, is: Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, The Lounge Lizards, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson Trio, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Flames (guess who they really are!), The English Beat, LKJ, The Melodians, Harry Belafonte, Pete Fountain, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz Quartet (live).

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Volcano Trash

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Welcome to Episode 12 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! In trying to rotate some new material into the podcast for today, I included some of the "scum punk" and "trash punk" records in my collection, records I don't usually listen to, but have archival value as documents of the underground music scene. For example, I included Fear for this episode, but didn't like them at all in the early 1980s and never went to their shows. All my friends thought they were "sell-outs," and they tended to attract all the jocks and other goons that had just been introduced to punk rock. I felt the same way about Black Flag and other big bands like the Dead Kennedy's. I like those bands, but their shows had too much violence, so I tended to listen to the more musical or political bands in the punk underground.

I included a couple of tracks from some Philly bands, The Dead Milkmen and the Serial Killers. Also, there's a song by Spacemen 3 and my friend Eric LaValle gave me that album, which was on Bomp Records on clear vinyl. I couldn't resist to put on "Strutter" off the Kiss Alive! album, kind of a period piece.

I still don't have a podcast microphone, and probably won't get one anytime soon!

The playlist for today is: M.I.A., Beefeater, Fear, S.N.F.U., Embrace, The FU's, Gray Matter, Die Kreuzen, Turbonegro, Live Skull, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magazine, The Dead Milkmen, Serial Killers, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Unrest, Kiss, Rocket From the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Skull Defekts, The Lemonheads, Husker Du, Fugazi, The Smiths, The High Back Chairs, Slant 6, Lucero, Band of Susans, and Swervedriver.

Thanks for tuning in, and enjoy!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

Me, Willie, My Dog, Thalia, My Cat, and Twangy Guitars

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Welcome to Episode 11 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've missed a couple of weeks lately, mostly just working on my house during the weekends while Tab and Spence are away. It has been a little boring with them away, so I've tried to keep myself busy. A couple of weeks ago, my dad sent me a package with a bunch of Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard 7" 45s, so I put a couple on for today. The show has a lot of twangy guitar music, jangly, distorted, ringing, and just plain "twangy." Maybe it's because I've been talking to my dog and cat for the last 8 weeks, primarily, and need to get out more often.



There's a track by an old Philly band, The Strapping Fieldhands, since I had their old single. There's also a track by my band, Zombie vs. Shark, called "Cold Machine," which will appear on a split single next fall with one of our Norman band friends. It's the final mix, and the masters should be back soon.


The playlist for today is: Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, The Astronauts, Strapping Fieldhands, Come, Baker Street Irregulars, The Detroit Cobras, Volcano Suns, Zombie vs. Shark, Chris Brokaw, Mazzy Star, The Smiths, Fire Party, Scream, Tom Waits, Trouble Funk, Beastie Boys, Q and not U, The Cult, TSOL, Flying Saucer Attack, My Bloody Valentime, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, and Lungfish.


Above is an old photo of Willie playing with my old band, Dona Sonora.

Thanks for tuning in, and see you next week!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy