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Thanks: Indie 103.1 FM, Dawn Girocco, Steve Jones, Mark Sovel, TK, Chuck Dead Air, Richard Bishop, Joel Freibank, Andrew the Canadian Fanatic, Ian MacKaye, Martin Atkins, Heidi The Racket May, Rat Scabies, Ed Sawyer for the Black Flag flyer scans, Steve Diggle for his great song and the title of this show, Mitch Bury of Adams Mass.
Thanks: To all the Fanatics who tune in every week from all over.
A Special thanks to Carol Bua who somehow endured the misery of helping me with this manuscript, fraught with every possible mistake.
In great reverence to The Man, The Mullah, my brother in Sonic Jihad: Engineer X
For Deirdre ODonoghue:
You were pure radio. You are without peer. You are missed.
JOE COLE 04.10.61 - 12.19.91
FOREWORD
Hello and welcome to another volume of Fanatic! . If you have tuned into even one of the broadcasts of this weekly show, the great amount of enthusiasm I have for being on the air and doing this show is clear. Its true. When I am not on the road, Tuesday night is my favorite one of the week because I know I will be heading to the station, meeting up with Engineer X, my brother in Sonic Jihad and putting two solid hours of great music onto the airwaves.
I perhaps put too much time into the show, the hours spent scouring the internet, looking for rare and interesting music and writing up these incredibly self-indulgent notes is probably a bit much. From the letters I get, there are some people who really enjoy the show and thats really what this is all about. Without listeners, its a waste of time. I also think that without care and consideration as to what actually gets played, its nothing more than content being hurled out into the world and theres enough of that on radio already, so I am trying to do something different.
When Indie 103 asked me if I was interested in doing a show I told them I was but that I couldnt possibly do it if at any time, I was going to be told what I could or could not play. I said if I could be guaranteed total control in the programming of the show, I was in. Its not my station and if they had rules, fair enough, I just didnt want to go in thinking it was going to be one thing and then finding out it was another. The folks at Indie assured me that they would never tell me what to play and never once have they done so. So far, theyve been great and what you hear on the show is what I want to play for you.
I dont know how long the show will last. Things change and people come and go. Thats how show biz is. One day youre in and the next day, youre no longer in. Stability is really not a part of this business. So, one must enjoy it while one has it and I really enjoy doing this show. I like the enthusiastic e-mails I get from all over the world and when people come up to me and tell me how much they like the show. Thats what its all about.
And the point of this book is? Now thats a good question. It could be nothing more than two inches of space taken up on the already crowded shelf of books about the music that the authors had neither the talent or artistic vision to create but duly awed, could merely write about. Noted.
Good music is the music you like. More please. Thanks for listening.
Henry
PS: STAY FANATIC!!!
BROADCAST #01
AIR DATE: 12-27-05
Hello Fanatics! Its great to be back. Its great to be working on my play lists again and gearing up for the broadcasts. I really missed this show.
One thing I wanted to mention at the outset, I will be gone for a few broadcasts in January, February and March. I dont know what well do. Perhaps Engineer X and I will have time to tape some shows for when I am away. I will be out of the country on some of those Tuesdays: Australia, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Ireland to be exact. So, for the first few months, I will be around about half the time. I have a crazy schedule. I will post the days Ill be out of town and what will be done in my absence. I know its not breaking your heart or anything but I dont want you to forget me! I want to play a lot of good music and have been missing this DJ thing since I had to sign off last year due to touring schedules.
There were a lot of shows this year, 119 in all: USA, Russia, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, Belgium, Holland, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Canada and England. Im looking forward to getting back out there in 2006.
For those of you who are new to this show: We play a lot of different stuff here, so please listen with an open ear. For the most part, we avoid the regular Indie 103.1 programming as best we can. No disrespect to said bands but they certainly dont need my show to get their music played and since theyre so obviously well supported, well take some roads less traveled lest they dont get traveled at all! Please dont change the channel if a song goes a little longer than a few minutes, features a horn in it or is sung in a language you dont understand.
OK, so onto the real reason were all hereTHE MUSIC. Heres what we listened to tonight. Please tune in next week and again, its great to be back on the air! Lets do it Fanatics!!!Henry
The Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head: The name of the show is taken from this very great Buzzcocks song. In keeping with tradition, we start the first broadcast of 2005 with this classic song. To make things a little different than last year, were going to listen to a live version from the Small Songs With Big Hearts album recorded 11-09-79 at the Rainbow Theater in London. This album is one of a 2CD set called Beating Hearts / Small Songs With Big Hearts . The Beating Hearts disc is from 10-27-78 at the Manchester Apollo. This is one great set. I warn you right now, we will be listening to the Buzzcocks often on this show! Apollo 81 Dept.: Black Flag opened for The Exploited at the Rainbow in December 1981. This is also where the Ramones classic live album Its Alive was recorded 12-31-77.
Penetrators - Teenage Lifestyle: From the killer Basement Anthology: 1976-84 CD on Swami. I wish I could take the credit for finding this one on my own but it was Ian MacKaye who played me this one months ago. The Penetrators were from Syracuse NY. You can go to the Swami Records site and can get more Penetrators info. This is great Rock and Roll. This song has some of the best backing vocals I have ever heard. This band is not to be confused with the Washington DC area band of the same name.
Jimi Hendrix - Radio One: I used to have this on a bootleg I got many years ago in Columbus OH. At one point, Rykodisc released a collection of the Hendrix BBC recordings but for some reason left off the great cover of Dylans Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Now the Hendrix BBC sessions are available in a 2CD version called The Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions . Worth it? As sure as youre reading this, dear Fanatic. The track Radio One is Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding cutting loose a little with a written-on-the-spot jingle for Radio One. The BBC recordings of Hendrix are so straight ahead and I am always amazed at how a three piece could make such a racket. Well be checking in with Mr. Hendrix a lot as we go.
