See you on the pledge drive Wednesday nite

I will be "helping" Richard Wednesday night from 6 pm to 9 pm on the Alt. Farm Rock show. Not only because he's a big pain but also because I want the station to succeed in reaching its goal. Please call and pledge.
Thanks
Rich

It was 30 years ago today -- Playlist no. 1

It can't be true but I cannot tell a lie -- my first radio show on 91.7 FM in Milwaukee was 30 years ago this week. May 14, 1980 to be exact. It was on a Wednesday night from about 6:15 pm to 8 pm (seems I had a problem getting the transmitter started). The station was then known as WSOE and it was supposedly just an MSOE campus station but the signal carried a few miles beyond that. The DJ who was on after me was -- Jules! She started there in 1977 as an actual MSOE student DJ.
In honor (and horror) of my very first show, I listened to the tape and logged the playlist. It is eclectic, as they say. Oldies (they weren't on the radio at the time, so it was sort of cool), FM rock stuff (more like the late lamented WZMF than market leaders at the time WLPX and WQFM) -- oh, and some of the acts that 'MSE made famous in Milwaukee like the Jam, the Clash and Jonathan Richman. Here goes....

Rodney Crowell -- Here Come the '80s
Buffalo Springfield -- For What It's Worth
Bob Dylan -- The Times They Are a Changin
Bob Dylan -- Slow Train
Allman Brothers -- Can't Take it With You
Neil Young -- Powderfinger
Warren Zevon -- Jungle Work
The Jam -- Eton Rifles
The Clash -- Guns of Brixton
The Clash -- Death or Glory (unedited!)
Grin -- Moon Tears
Moon Martin -- Bad Case of Loving You
John Hiatt -- Madonna Road
Joe Jackson -- Sunday Papers
The Undertones -- Under the Boardwalk
Warren Zevon (request) -- Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Felix Cavaliere (solo) -- People Got To Be Free
The Animals -- It's My Life
The Turtles -- Elenore
Rolling Stones -- Under My Thumb
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes -- Baby's Gone for Good
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers -- Important in Your Life
Lou Reed -- Vicious Circle
The Tourists -- All Life's Tragedies
Loudon Wainwright III -- Drinks Before Dinner
Squeeze -- Slightly Drunk
Bonnie Raitt -- Runaway (live)
Jo Jo Gunne -- Run Run Run

Monday morning showgram (new) playlist

New tracks I played Monday morning May 3 on WMSE/ 91.7

6 am hour
Hope Sandoval -- For the Rest of Your Life
Miss Li -- Polythene Queen
Juniper Tar -- Inner States
Living Sisters -- Don't Let the Sun Go Down
Graham Parker -- More Questions Than Answers
Josh Rouse -- I Will Live on Islands
Mose Allison -- I'm Alright
Johnny Cash -- Aloha Oe

7 am hour
Roky Erickson w/ Okkervill River -- Bring Back the Past
Morning Benders -- Cold War
OK Go -- This Too Shall Pass
Adam Green -- Lockout
Robyn Hitchcock -- The Afterlight
Apples in Stereo -- Next Year At About the Same Time
Galactic w/ Irma Thomas -- Heart of Steel
Everybody Was In the French Resistance ... Now! -- GIRLFREN

8 am hour
Drive By Truckers -- Drag the Lake Charlie
Local Natives -- Camera Talk
Murder By Death -- You Don't Miss Twice (When Your'e Shavin with a Knife)
Frightened Rabbit -- Nothing Like You
Field Music -- Let's Write a Book
Jonsi -- Koinidur
Balkan Beat Box -- Look Them Act

'80s tracks
Dukes of the Stratosphear -- You're My Drug
Psychedelic Furs -- Run Run Run
Specials -- Hey Little Rich Girl

Monday morning showgram: May 3!

I will be filling in for Grant and Pat this Monday morning, May 3 from 6 am to 9 am. on MSE/91.7/ wmse.org. It's gonna be (sort of) a hootenany good time.
Rich

Late April reality check track listing

So the weather sucked ever since I proclaimed an early summer a couple weeks ago. Looks like it's improving the next few days. Here is this week's new track list and '80s list.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Drive By Truckers -- Get Downtown
Drive By Truckers -- Drag the Lake Charlie
The Apples in Stereo -- Next Year At About the Same Time
Galactic -- Dark Water
Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt -- Tokyo Drift
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Bad Blood
Anders Osborne -- Killing Each Other
Adam Green -- What Makes Him Act So Bad

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Fiery Furnaces -- Staring at the Steeple
Dinosaur Jr. -- Over It

7 pm hour

Goodnight Loving -- Scary Bad
Gil Scott-Heron -- Your Soul and Mine
The Soft Pack -- Answer to Yourself
Robyn Hitchcock -- Sickie Boy
Balkan Beat Box -- Lijepa Mare
Caribou -- Odessa
Dum Dum Girls -- It Only Takes One Night

8 pm hour

Rotary Downs -- Conniption
Quasi -- Rockabilly Party
Everybody Was In The French Resistance Now -- GIRLFREN (You Know I've Got A)
Let's Wrestle -- I Won't Lie To You
You Say Party We Say Die -- track 4 (title damn near impossible to find)

The 80s at 8:30

Alan Vega -- Raver
The Drongos -- Ghost Ship
Trio -- Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone
Drivin N Cryin -- Scarred But Smarter
Fleshtones -- Return of the Leather Kings
Screaming Blue Messiahs -- Wild Blue Yonder
Bush Tetras -- Too Many Creeps
Public Image Ltd. -- Four Enclosed Walls

Second showgram of summer!

Another summery night for a showgram. Special thanks to my unannounced guest Robb B. and Bunnyman, who contributed to the 80s at 8:30. Bunnyman drives to the station in his '60 Olds Rocket 88 when it's nice out. It's got plenty of room for hot wax.

New trax

6 pm hour

Quasi -- Rockabilly Party
Rotary Downs -- yep, I played something new by them
Everybody Was in the French Resistance Now! -- (I'm So) Waldo P. Emerson Jones
You Say Party We Say Die -- see Rotary Downs notation
Gorillaz with Lou Reed -- Some Kind of Nature
Rocky Erickson w/ Okkervill River -- Bring Back the Past
Let's Wrestle -- We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

The xx -- Heart Skipped a Beat

7 pm hour

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- River Styx
Galactic -- Wild Man
Pere Ubu -- Song of the Grocery
Titus Andronicus -- And Ever
Adam Green -- Lockout
Gil Scott-Heron -- Running
Yeasayer -- Rome

8 pm hour

These New Puritans -- Three Thousand
Apples in Stereo -- CPU
The Terror Pigeon -- Tokyo Drift

The 80s at 8:30

King Sunny Ade -- Maajo
Howard Devoto -- Way out of Shape
Einstein's Riceboys -- Massacre of Love
Simple Minds -- Up on the Catwalk
The Fall -- L.A.
Basement 5 -- Heavy Traffic

Playlist -- first show of summer!

From the 'MSE weather deck, it looks like a three-day summer break then back to April in Wisconsin. So I was in a semi-sunny disposition for this week's showgram.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Gil Scott Heron -- New York is Killing Me
The Morning Benders -- Cold War
Dum Dum Girls -- Bhang Bhang I'm a Burnout
Titus Andronicus -- ... And Ever
Juniper Tar -- Strings
Galactic -- Friends of Science/ Boe Money
These New Puritans -- Fire Power

7 pm hour

The Apples in Stereo -- C.P.U.
Magnetic Fields -- You Must Be Out of Your Mind
Quasi -- Rockabilly Party
Yeasayer -- Strange Reunions
Everybody Was in the French Resistance ... Now -- (I'm So) Waldo P. Emerson Jones
Gorillaz with Mark E. Smith -- Glitter Freeze
Phantogram -- Futuristic Casket

8 pm hour

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (new live) -- Spread Your Love
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (new studio) -- Beat the Devil's Tattoo
Adam Green -- Lockout
Miles Kurosky -- Pink Lips, Black Lungs

The '80s at 8:30 -- special tribute to Alex Chilton

No these aren't all from the '80s, but it's the late great man from Memphis so I made an exception.

Big Star -- Don't Lie To Me
Big Star -- live radio interview with Al
Big Star -- You Get What You Deserve
Alex Chilton -- Free Again (version 2)
Alex Chilton -- Jesus Christ
Alex Chilton -- Lost My Job
Alex Chilton -- Volare (request)
Alex Chilton -- Thing for You
Alex Chilton -- Don't Stop