Rock Talk - Ronnie Platt, Kansas

Only a fool would choose to listen to pale imitations, find a station at dominicforbes.org or http://dominicforbes1969.moonfruit.com/ or http://www.dominicforbes.co.nr/ Part 1 1. Kansas - Carry on my wayward son 2. Kansas - With this heart 3. Kansas - Point of know return 4. Kansas - Play the game tonight 5. Kansas - Nobody's home Part 2 1. Kansas - People of the south wind 2. Kansas - The unsung heroes 3. Kansas - Dust in the wind 4. Kansas - Fight fire with fire 5. Kansas - Portrait he knew 6. Kansas - Musicatto

Timesweep 1st October

Only a fool would choose to listen to pale imitations, find a station at dominicforbes.org or http://dominicforbes1969.moonfruit.com/ or http://www.dominicforbes.co.nr/ Part 1 Back to 1990 1. ACDC - Thunderstruck 2. Jeff Lynne - Every little thing 3. Gary Moore - Walkin' by myself 4. Extreme - Hole hearted 5. Billy Idol - Cradle of love 6. Faith No More - From out of nowhere Part 2 1. Fish - State of mind 2. Aerosmith - Janie's got a gun 3. The Quireboys - Hey you 4. Black Crowes - Hard to handle 5. Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet child of mine Part 3 This week in history 1. The Who - My generation 2. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 3. Led Zeppelin - Dazed and confused Part 4 1. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate son 2. Run DMC & Aerosmith - Walk this way 3. Huey Lewis And The News - Jacob's ladder 4. Pink Floyd - See Emily play Part 5 This week's birthdays 1. Sammy Hagar - I can't drive 55 2. Moody Blues - Question 3. Bachman Turner Overdrive - You ain't seen nothing yet 4. Chuck Berry - Come on Part 6 Country rock 1. Poco - Call it lopve 2. Charlie Daniels Band - The devil went down to Georgia 3. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet home Alabama 4. The Eagles - Take it easy Part 7 A quick look back to 1988 1. U2 - Desire 2. REM - Orange crush 3. Robert Plant - Heaven knows Part 8 The telephone and all related communication matters 1. Blondie - Call me 2. Foreigner - Love on the telephone 3. Steely Dan - Rikki don't lose that number 4. Dr Hook - Sylvia's mother Part 9 Time to put on your dancing shoes 1. The Sweet - Ballroom blitz 2. Led Zeppelin - Dancing days 3. Genesis - I can't dance 4. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the dark Part 10 1. Van Halen - Dance the night away 2. David Bowie - John I'm only dancing 3. Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the moonlight 4. Billy Idol - Dancing with myself 5. Poison - Your mama don't dance Part 11 1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's dance 2. Aerosmith - Shut up and dance 3. The Kinks - Don't forget to dance 4. Love Sculpture - Sabre dance

Brit Rock 8th October

Only a fool would choose to listen to pale imitations, find a station at dominicforbes.org or http://dominicforbes1969.moonfruit.com/ or http://www.dominicforbes.co.nr/ 1. The Rolling Stones - Paint it black 2. Cream - I feel free 3. Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth 4. Simon & Garfunkel - The sound of silence 5. ? & The Mysterons - 96 tears 6. Bob Dylan - I want you 7. Kee Marcello - Don't miss you much 8. Europe - The final countdown 9. Twister - Monroe 10. Queen - Save me 11. Gary Moore - Still got the blues 12. Sting - I can't stop thinking about you 13. The Police - Synchronicity 2 It's a look at the new album from Led Zeppelin, BBC sessions 14. Led Zeppelin - Communication breakdown 15. Led Zeppelin - Something else 16. Led Zeppelin - Black dog 17. Led Zeppelin - Sunshine woman 18. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant song 19. Led Zeppelin - Travelling riverside blues 20. Led Zeppelin - The girl I love got long, black, wavey hair 21. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven 22. Peter Gabriel - Games without frontiers Hour three and we say yeehaw with an hour of country rock 1. The Eagles - Take it easy 2. America - Horse with no name 3. Steve Earle - Copperhead Road 4. Johnny Cash - Ring of fire 5. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown 6. The Byrds - Chestnut mare 7. The Band - Rag mama rag 8. Charlie Daniels Band - The devil went down to Georgia 9. Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe 10. The Monkees - Listen to the band 11. Poco - Rose of Cimmaron 12. Alison Moorer - Send down an angel 13. Chely Wright - Shut up and drive 14. Kings Of Leon - Beautiful war

Today in rock history 5th October

1943 – Steve Miller is born in Milwaukee. 1947 – ACDC singer Brian Johnson is born 1949 – Brian Connolly, vocalist with Sweet is born in Hamilton, Scotland. 1954 – Bob Geldof is born in Dublin, Ireland. 1962 – In the U.K., the Beatles release their first single, “Love Me Do.” 1963 – On today’s edition of BBC Radio’s Saturday Club, Bo Diddley performs backed by Stones Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts. 1966 - Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding played together for the first time. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed shortly thereafter. 1969 – Tonight on The Ed Sullivan Show, you watch the Who doing their best to behave themselves. 1970 – Violinist Papa John Creach joins Jefferson Airplane 1970 – Prince Rupert Lowenstein is made the Rolling Stones’ financial adviser 1988 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Love Bites,” Def Leppard. 1991 – Two albums by the group Guns N’ Roses debut in the top positions on Chart Toppers’s album chart. “Use Your Illusion II” debuts at No. 1, followed by “Use Your Illusion I.” 1999 – Paul McCartney releases Run Devil Run. The collection of rock ‘n’ roll covers originally recorded by artists like Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley is his first album since the death of his wife, Linda, in 1998. 2003 – Ted Nugent becomes the star of his own reality show, Surviving Nugent, which airs on VH1. On the programme, the Nuge introduces a bunch of cossetted city slickers to his blood ‘n’ thunder backwoods lifestyle.

Today in rock history 4th October

1947 - Jim Fielder-bassist for Blood, Sweat & Tears is born 1961 – Bob Dylan makes his concert hall debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall, earning $20 for the night. Of the 53 people that attended, most were friends. 1963 – Eric Clapton replaces Anthony Topham in the Yardbirds. 1963 – The Beatles make their first appearance on the UK rock and roll TV show Ready Steady Go!, where they are interviewed by fellow performer, Dusty Springfield. 1968 – One of the original super groups, Cream, a trio consisting of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, set out on their farewell tour. 1969 – “Abbey Road”, the last album recorded by The Beatles, enters the UK charts at number one. 1969 – Creedence Clearwater Revival started a four week run at the top of the US album chart with “Green River”, the group’s first number one album. 1970 – Janis Joplin is found dead in a room at the Landmark Motel in Hollywood from an accidental heroin overdose. 1974 – Irish rockers Thin Lizzy play their first date with the twin-guitar line-up of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson in Aberystwyth, Wales. 1975 – Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” LP hits #1 on the US album chart 1980 – Queen had their second US number 1 song when “Another One Bites the Dust” hit the top of the Billboard chart. 1980 – Fleetwood Mac members Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood present the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band with a platinum record for their contribution to the album “Tusk”. 1988 – Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Bach fly to Tucson, Arizona to enter an alcohol abuse program. Over six weeks later, they complete the program and return to England. 1990 – Two separate lawsuits are combined on appeal against CBS Records and Ozzy Osbourne by the parents of 17 year old Harold Hamilton and 16 year old Michael Waller, both of whom are alleged to have committed suicide after listening to Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution”. The Supreme Court would refuse to reinstate the case. 1996 - Van Halen announced that former Extreme singer Gary Cherone would be replacing Sammy Hagar. 1999 - Ozzy Osbourne issued a press release asking the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to remove Black Sabbath from the ballot. Black Sabbath was later inducted in 2006. 2005 – Michael Gibbins, drummer for Badfinger on their hits “Come And Get It”, “Day After Day” and “No Matter What”, died in his sleep at the age of 56. 2010- Joe Satriani releases 14th Studio Album ‘Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards

Today in rock history 3rd October

1938 – Rock ‘n’ roll teen Eddie Cochran is born in Oklahoma City. 1949 – Fleetwood Mac songwriter Lindsey Buckingham is born in Palo Alto, Calif. 1954 – Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, widely ranked up there with Hendrix, is born in Dallas. 1962 - Tommy Lee-drummer for Motley Crue is born 1967 – Folk legend Woody Guthrie passed away of Huntington’s chorea in a hospital where he had spent the last ten years 1967 – Keith Richards gets a local priest to bless his guard dogs 1969 – John Lennon records “Don’t Worry Kyoko” with the Plastic Ono Band at Lansdowne Recording Studios in Britain. The song later appears on Lennon and Ono’s Wedding Album. 1970 – Janis Joplin listens to a playback of the instrumental “Buried Alive in the Blues,” for which she intends to cut a vocal for her album Pearl. She dies the next day. 1970 – Cream’s Jack Bruce teams up with John McLaughlin, Larry Young, and Tony Williams to form the fusion group Lifetime. 1972 – Led Zeppelin play their second night at Tokyo’s Budokan Hall during a tour of Japan. 1978 – The members of Aerosmith bailed thirty fans out of jail after they had been arrested for smoking pot during an Aerosmith concert at the Fort Wayne Coliseum. 1982 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Jack & Diane,” John Cougar. 1992 – Sinead O’Connor did her career some major damage when she appeared on US TV’s Saturday Night Live and held up an 8″ x 10″ color photo of Pope John Paul II, ripped it into pieces and said, “Fight the real enemy.” 2000 – 45-year-old Mark David Chapman, the man who twenty years earlier fired five shots into John Lennon’s back, faces the parole board. Parole for John Lennon’s murderer is denied. 2000 – Benjamin Orr, former bassist and singer of the Cars, dies at his home in Atlanta from pancreatic cancer. He is 53. 2003 – School of Rock, starring Tenacious D’s Jack Black, opens in theatres around the country. 2006 – The U.S. Supreme Court throws out a lawsuit by Vinnie Vincent against his former bandmates in KISS. Vincent alleged he was owed royalties from the 1983 album Lick It Up. 2007 – The Rolling Stones set a new record for the top grossing tour of all time when their A Bigger Bang tour, which ran from the Fall of 2005 to August 26, 2007, earned the band a staggering $558,255,524.

Today in rock history 2nd October

1945 – Don McLean is born in New Rochelle, N.Y. 1950 – Guitarist Mike Rutherford is born this day 1951 – Sting (Gordon Sumner) is born in Wallsend, 1964 – At London’s Granville Theatre the Beatles rehearse for a taping of the American pop show Shindig! 1965 – Tonight’s episode of Shindig! is America’s first chance to see the Who, performing “I Can’t Explain.” 1965 – Manfred Mann are allowed into the Soviet Union and become the first Western rock band to tour there. 1967 – Police raid the Grateful Dead’s house at 710 Ashbury St. in San Francisco and bust the band’s members on charges of marijuana possession. They are released on bail after six hours in jail and later cleared of charges, as the police had failed to obtain a search warrant. 1969 – John Lennon disses his own company in an interview, saying that Apple is like a black hole that sucks up his earnings as an artist. 1971 – Rod Stewart enjoyed a two sided, US number one record with “Maggie May / “Reason To Believe”. 1976 – Joe Cocker is the musical guest on tonight’s Saturday Night Live. During his rendition of “Feelin’ Alright,” Cocker impressionist John Belushi comes out and duets with him. 1977 – The Electric Circus, a well-known punk club in Manchester closes. 1977 – Gene Simmons picks up a platinum record for his self-titled solo debut 1982 – Peter Gabriel performs with Genesis for the first time since leaving the band in 1975. Phil Collins and the gang join him at a concert to benefit WOMAD. The concert saves Gabriel’s ailing world music organization. 1985 – Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” tour ends with the last of four shows at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. 1993 – Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell” enters the Billboard LP chart, where it will go on to reach number one. 1995 – Journey announce that they’ve decided to re-form 1998 – Cheap Trick are inducted into the Hollywood Rockwalk 1999 – John Paul Jones, former bass player with Led Zeppelin, plays his first solo concert in Galway, Ireland. 2003 – Radiohead makes it a hat-trick of wins when it wins the “best act in the world today” award for the third-year running at the Q Awards in London. 2003 – The Offspring announce Rocket from the Crypt drummer Atom Willard will fill the stool vacated by Ron Welty earlier in the year. 2003 – Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx sues sneaker maker Vans, alleging they used his image in an ad without permission. 2004 – Billy Joel marries for the third time. The lucky bride is Kate Lee 2004: During a Pearl Jam concert in Toledo, OH as part of the Vote for Change tour, Neil Young & Peter Frampton made surprise appearances to perform “All Along the Watchtower”, “Act Of Love”, “Cortez The Killer”, & “Rockin’ in the Free World” with Pearl Jam.