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ROCKOLLECTIONS: AMBOY DUKES PT.2 & MLK DAY!

Back with some more of the Amboy Dukes, Ted Nugent’s old group- and it WAS Ted’s group.
He had to keep bailing the members out of jail, booked their concerts, took care of the finances, drove their truck, made hotel reservations, etc.- all while fighting with them!
I am going to play you a hippie classic- a terrific song, complete with sitar, with just the right title for that period, Psalm Of Aftermath.
Feeling like a babysitter, Ted left the group and came back with a great solo album.
I have the band doing a great old Chuck Berry chestnut, complete with a series of those false endings groups sometimes do.
Today, Ted Nugent is into so many things I couldn’t list them all.
He even has an internet column I enjoy.
So I thought I’d play something solo by him you might know.
Finally, in honor of Monday being Martin Luther King Jr. Day, that will be duly noted.
Talk about dreams…!

Mike

Tags: Chuck Berry, Martin Luther King Jr., Psalm Of Aftermath, Sitar, Ted Nugent

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REMEMBERING JOHN LENNON PT.1

Last week we did George Harrison, this week it is John Lennon’s turn.
As you should know, he was shot and killed on Dec.8, 1980.
I was looking for a way to open this show, when those “You Are Here” signs occured to me.
Everybody has to be somewhere, so you are here!
I have some rare and unusual Lennon things, in this chapter going back to his Beatle days.
Included is a version of his Norwegian Wood, in which George first unveiled his sitar playing to us.
You’ll hear John and Paul, but George is playing those SITAR chords on GUITAR.
We’ll have some older Beatle things as well.
I’ll tell you about what some of John’s last day was like.
And you’ll hear a very interesting story from George Martin about the animal sound effects on Good Morning Good Morning from Sgt. Pepper, and what the order of succession of them was supposed to represent.
Then I will play you just the isolated animal effects!
Speaking of animals, a Walrus counts, right?
We will close this one out with another isolated bit, this time that radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s King Lear that John used in…well, you know!
Hope you enjoy this one- it was a lot of fun for me to get to play these things for more than just the people who come over to my house.
There will be another episode on Mr. Lennon shortly.

Mike

Tags: Beatles, December 8th 1980, George Harrison, George Martin, Good Morning Good Morning, I Am The Walrus, King Lear, Norwegian Wood, Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper, Shakespeare, Sitar