doctor-b's Podcast

In additional to the usual goodies, this podcast contains an interview from across the pond with Jim McCarty, drummer for the Yardbirds from 1963-68 and from their regrouping in 1992 to the present day. They're actually touring now (and they'll even be playing around here!). We talk about the old days, the new band and his solo projects. Afterward, I spin some of their best-known and unknown tracks.

If you'd like to cut to the chase and hear the interview by itself, go to bartlespeaks.com.

Feeling kind of jazzy today. Perhaps it had something to do with my cold! I started with John Cale & Terry Riley's landmark 1971 album, Church of Anthrax. Played some live Soft Machine from 1970 by request, tossed some Czechoslovakian funk from the seventies into the mix as well as an ample serving of funkiness by Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger (whom I interviewed not long ago). Merry Clayton, the American soul singer the Rolling Stones chose to be the female vocalist in their 1969 album hit, Gimme Shelter makes an appearance, as does Marc Bolan and T. Rex. Sloppy Seconds warns about The Thing From Uranus. Pegi Young, Neil Young's wife of many years, closes my show with a track from her new album.

Strolling through the canyons of your mind, I mix old tracks by Zeppelin, Eric Andersen and the Bonzo Dog Band to name but a few along with new material by Pegi Young (Neil's wife, who's got quite a lot of talent herself), an Iggy Pop tune by Half Japanese and a poem by King Missile front man John S. Hall. I finish with an Italian pop single from long, long ago which actually cracked the American pop charts. Return of the Son of Volare?

Happy New Year to all my listeners! I hereby resolve to get all future podcasts and playlists up within 48 hours of my last show. Cross my heart!

I begin with seventies and eighties punkwave. I progress to sample-driven electronic dancespace and a little Marshall McLuhan, ending with hot experimental jazz, and closing the show with a Robert Burns poem sung by Jean Redpath.

While I don't do many shout-outs, this entire program is dedicated to Laura (1942-2011), a friend, fan and one hell of a sweet person.