Just tune in to Beyond Beyond is Beyond on Thursday at noon eastern to find out how to enter!
Here’s the Time Out show preview
On this Thursday’s Beyond Beyond is Beyond show, I have no guests lined up, but I will be playing AND giving away all kinds of jams throughout the show.
GIVEAWAYS THIS WEEK!
First of all, thanks to our friends at Bella Union, I’ll be giving away a copy of the album I was raving about on last week’s show…Queen of Denmark by John Grant! God, it’s good.
Secondly, I’ll be announcing the winner of last week’s Rock Trivia question contest. The question was to name the Vanilla Fudge drummer that went on to form Cactus after Vanilla Fudge dissolved…or melted. Several listeners emailed with the correct name…Carmine Appice. The surprise is a killer surprise box set of music that I will announce on the show Thursday, along with the winner’s name.
And for good measure, I will also be giving away a Doors-related item in this week’s Rock Trivia contest!
And I might decide to throw in one more giveaway too…because it’s just that kind of week.
So, for your chance to win many rockular things and to be pleasantly stimulated for 2 hours, tune in to East Village Radio on Thursday, noon eastern…and we’ll venture BEYOND-OND-OND-ond-nd-d
(Dig this amazing John Grant illustration that Bill McConkey did for MOJO…)
I’m a music lover and I’ve always stolen music. I’ve always bought music too, but when you crave music the way that I do, you’ve got to do some stealing. It’s a balance.
Well, I guess the earliest form of stealing came from holding the tape recorder up to the radio to record songs. Then it moved on to recording albums onto cassette from either records or factory cassettes. Then on to actually stealing cassettes from fine retailers, such as Sears. Then on to CD burning, then on to file-sharing and downloading full albums via the internet. One could even argue that buying used vinyl is a glorified way of stealing. Hey, the record company doesn’t get paid when I buy an album for $1 at a street fair or in a shop.
Anyway, the point is…the balance. The good and the bad. The evil and divine. The heaven and hell. The dualities of which Ronnie James Dio always sang.
One of the cassettes that I stole from Sears when I was a 12-year old newbie rocker was a classic duality. It contained the full Ozzy-led Paranoid album on one side and on the other side, the full Dio-led Heaven and Hell album. Well, Paranoid is the obvious classic there, but it was the then-surprise other side that knocked me out…and that I played over and over. It was a time when I was just learning about Dio. Shit, I was just learning about everybody! But I was just putting the pieces together that this guy who I knew was currently in a killer band called Dio was named Ronnie James Dio and actually took over for Ozzy in Black Sabbath! So that’s what this is! Whoa!
Fucking mind-blowing.
Well, the stealing of cassettes didn’t last too long, as a friend and I were busted at Sears the first time that the friend tried to make off with some jams. Our first lesson in crime and punishment. But not before I put some classic music in my library and my soul.
And Ronnie has now completed life’s biggest duality. Death. But not before putting some classic music in all of our souls. If anyone can make peace with the afterlife, it’s got to be Ronnie. And his music will always go on to be cherished by lovers of the best duality in the world…rock & roll! …Or is that just a hendiadys? Well, it’s close enough for rock & roll!
Cheers to you, Ronnie, may you rest in peace. Thanks for all the great music and magic that you put into the world. You rock! And, more importantly, WE ROCK!
Come on out on May 15th and we shall rock…
Tim Bluhm of The Mother Hips is gonna be on Beyond Beyond is Beyond for the second time this Thursday! ‘Member his visit from exactly one year ago on 5/14/09? Here’s a reminder…
Tim Bluhm: Time-Sick Son – Live at EVR
*photo by Mike Newman live at EVR 5/14/09
The Hips will be rockin’ the Bowery Ballroom on Friday, May 14th…and they are at their absolute best onstage. And if you haven’t checked out their most recent Pacific Dust album, you should. I even chose it as one of the best of 2009.
So tune in to Beyond Beyond is Beyond on East Village Radio at noon eastern on Thursday and we’ll chat with Tim Bluhm and he’ll rock a tune or two for us. And as usual, there will be tons of other jams without boundaries throughout the show!
And get your tix for the Bowery Hips show here.
Hey dudes, dig this new Sleepy Sun single from their new album, Fever, out June 1st on ATP records. You must witness this band live too…love ‘em!
Sleepy Sun – Open Eyes
*pics by Mike Newman at ATP NY 2009
I got the great opportunity to host excellent record label, Mexican Summer’s Spring podcast. Check it on out. It’s chock full of great tunagio! And there shall be another one coming up in the summer. Dig…
Thought this was interesting (in the new Rolling Stone ‘From the Vaults May 8, 1975′)
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be interviewing Exmagma’s Andy Goldner on the next Beyond Beyond is Beyond show! I’ve been diggin’ Exmagma since I stumbled on their first and second albums from ’73 and ’74 a few years ago. And then my mind completely blew when I heard Exmagma 3, which was done in ’75 and never released until 2006!!! Then the pieces of my blown mind got together to form another human being who now lives inside my head, when I heard Andy Goldner’s 1978 solo album, Infinity.
If you don’t know Exmagma, get acquainted with this one… Exmagma-Box 25
And check out this amazing Andy Goldner promo video from ’78!
And you can find all the Exmagma and Goldner albums at Anthology Recordings
