A Lethal Dose

Ms Donna Lethal has graciously contributed this entertaining podcast for your listening pleasure. Please enjoy it responsibly...



Inspiration: Cesar Romero's "Thought for Today." I try and listen to
this every morning.
She Loves You: Peter Sellers + Nazi + Beatles
Transfusion: Nervous Norvus (from my "cars and accidents" playlist)
Girl on Death Row: Duane Eddy
That Makes It!: Jayne Mansfield ("so kinky!")
Blacula - radio spot
Apples and Oranges - Richard Dawson (yes)
Brown Sugar - alternate version
Sugar Sugar - Tom Jones
Yummy Yummy - Julie London
Yum Yum Girls - radio spot
Big Rock Candy Mountain - can I go here when I die? (Harry McClintock)
Rubber Room - Porter Wagoner (where I am now)
Buzzsaw Twist - it's the only way to go (The Gee-Cees)
If Jesus Came to Your House (it ain't the avon lady)
Here Comes the Judge - Pigmeat Markham
Caged Heat - radio spot
Dancing the Night Away - Motors
Zap! Pow! Do the Batman
Hong Kong Blues - Hoagy Carmichael
Mr. Ghost Goes to Town - John Buzon Trio
City of the Dead - Clash (the first Clash record I could find was this
10-inch and it changed my life. This song hit home - Lowell, MA in
1980 was pretty grim.)
Girl Can't Dance - Bunker Hill
Velvet Sugar - Velvets vs Archies (Mark Vidler's masterpiece)
Angels' Wild Women - radio spot
Spanish Stroll - Mink DeVille
Love Out of Time - Mr. Lethal!
Death Race 2000 - radio spot
Nut Sundae - I miss New England ice cream as Tontileo knows.
Another Girl, Another Planet - Only Ones
Edge of Reality - The KING!

Come To The Show

I Got One...You Got One...

Seeing as the red tide has abated, I felt safe in digging out my old clamshell mac to see what I had in iTunes there. With happy nostalgia the old operating system came right back to me with all its cute old fashioned icons and ways. There was quite a bit to sift through and I came up with a playlist for y'all. It is a little long but I could only leave out so much, so give me a break this time. Please. Here it is, I hope you enjoy it. Can you tell I like to wear my radio heart on my sleeve?

They Removed His Head...

Wax Hitler Decapitated


I am very afraid. We already have it on the highest authority that they saved Hitler's brain. But we don't know the whereabouts of that godawful, unholy joyriding glass jar. Could this be the beginning of the end? Or is Adolph just preparing to attend the three night festival of Unnatural Axe 30th anniversary Celebration/Tribute shows in August?

Best vids ever!

I am thoroughly ashamed of myself for taking so damn long to point out Dr Kruell's site to you. The undisputed best collection of video in the 'verse. It is a treasure chest of some of the best Boston bands ever with some Clash, Jam, Cure, Stiff Little Fingers, Damned, Buzzcocks...I think you get the idea. Lou Miami is there, Human Sexual Response, Neighborhoods. Just go look. Now! You'll love it.

La Peste - "Better Off Dead"

oooooh...a press release from Willie

Willie Alexander- Basement Video #1



PRESS RELEASE FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION

ROCKIN’ THE MEETINGHOUSE!

Rock’n’roll legend Willie Alexander with the Persistence of Memory Orchestra consisting of drums, keyboards, saxophone, and clarinet will be performing at the Gloucester Unitarian-Universalist Church on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 7:30 PM. Tickets at the door: $15 General Admission; $10 Seniors (over 65) and Students (with ID). The grand 1806 Meetinghouse is located at the corner of Middle & Church Streets in Gloucester’s Historic District. See www.gloucesteruu.org. for more information.

Willie “Loco” Alexander is a multi-talented musician, whose career has traced the history of Rock for thirty-five years. From the Lost, a 60s garage-band that made a couple of records for Capitol, to the psychedelic late 60s Bagatelle, to a brief stint in the post-Lou Reed Velvet Underground, the Boom Boom Band in the punk 70s, which recorded for MCA, to an introspective take on the 80s recording for the French label New Rose, and renewed band energy in the 90s with the Persistence of Memory Orchestra, Willie has maintained a consistently high level of emotional and artistic integrity.

Willie was recently featured on the cover of “The Sound of Our Town” by Brett Milano, a history of Boston Rock’n’roll. In recent years Willie has performed with local bands The Megawatt Blues Crushers and Alek Razdan’s A-Train.

The Persistence of Memory Orchestra will accompany Willie’s vocals and keyboards at the upcoming Gloucester UU Concert, featuring Russ Gershon (leader of the internationally acclaimed Either/Orchestra) on tenor sax, Mark Chenevert (Chandler Travis Philharmonic) on tenor sax & clarinet, and Jim Doherty (Ibrahima’s World Beat and the Well Babies) on drums with surprise guests.

POMO will play material from their two self-titled albums on Accurate Records as well as from Willie’s new CD “The Fisheye Brothers,” a collaboration with Jim Doherty, inspired by Gloucester heroes and places. Persistence of Memory Orchestra’s second album “The East Main Street Suite,” has been described as “…a rich stew with a base of Rock’n’roll and elements of Jazz, Beat poetry, klezmer, samba and electronica mixed in. To say it defies category hardly does justice to the originality and uniqueness of this music.”

SUMMARY FOR LISTING:
EVENT: Willie Alexander & the Persistence of Memory Orchestra
DATE: Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 7:30PM
LOCATION: Gloucester Unitarian-Universalist Church, corner of Middle & Church Streets in the Historic District
TICKETS: $15 General; $10 Senior (over 65) & Student (with ID) at the door, Special Needs community Free of charge.
INFORMATION: www.gloucesteruu.org

Sammy Davis Jr trousers

Jim "Howling Wolfchild" Keough presented by Daang! Radio

I am so frikkin' proud to present The Great Broad Street Riot's first podcast sponsored by Daang! Radio. When you get sick of the same old radio, we give a Daang! I searched high and low, I got myself in a Stranglehold and was lucky enough to get out of it with a podcast fashioned by Jim "Howling Wolfchild" Keough who has excellent taste in both music and the bands he fronts. And Queens who have blogs about Broad Street. And lots of other stuff I won't mention here. Thanks Dude, you killed it.

I'll be needing a lot more of these. Don't act surprised when I come around and hound you for one, so you might as well just start volunteering now. All you have to do is pick some songs you like, burn them to a disc and send them in. I'll take care of the rest.

Enjoy!



I must apologize for adding in some videos to finish up the list as I had a few technical problems along the way. Hopefully, I will have secured some seasoned and competent roadies to help me with the gear for the next podcast. Competent roadies, yeah right.

Mission of Burma - That's how I...


Paul Weller "Come On Let's Go"


T. Rex - Dandy In the Underworld


rich kids - ghosts of princes in towers