Today on The VE Love to hear percussion? We'll turn the beat around and feature some great vinyl records that push the drums way up front...and we'll note the annual celebration this week of the rock drummer who became a pop superstar...plus some cool relics spun from 45's and even a drum-centric 78. I'm PC and this is the VE Peter Gabriel: Rhythn Of The Heat Joni Mitchell: The Jungle Line The VE with powerful drumming at the heart of Joni Mitchell's "The Jungle Line" from The Hissing Of Summer ...
Jul 26, 2019•58 min•Ep. 158
"VE 279 Moon Songs Pink Floyd: Brain Damage/Eclipse Frank Sinatra: Oh You Crazy Moon David Bowie: Moonage Daydream The Band: The Moon Struck One Cat Stevens: Moonshadow Rolling Stones: Moonlight Mile Artie Shaw Orchestra: Moonglow Joni Mitchell: Moon At The Window King Crimson: Moonchild Nat Cole: Moon Love Tom Waits: Drunk On The Moon Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune "
Jul 19, 2019•58 min•Ep. 157
VE 181 7/5/13 7 Great American Stories Van Morrison: Almost Independence Day The Doors: LA Woman Tom Waits: Burma Shave Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) Bob Dylan: Joey Bruce Springsteen : 4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy) The Band: Acadian Driftwood
Jul 05, 2019•55 min•Ep. 156
VE 126 Apples and Oranges Richard Dawson: Apples And Oranges Pink Floyd: Apples And Oranges Pink Floyd: If Bread: If Roberta Flack: Feel Like Making Love Bad Company: Feel Like Making Love Bon Jovi: Runaway Del Shannon: Runaway Jefferson Starship: Runaway Ringo Starr: Photograph Def Leppard: Photograph Cars Bye Bye Love Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love Radiohead: High And Dry Rolling Stones: High And Dry Five Satins: In The Still Of The Night Frank Sinatra: In the Still Of The Night Today on the VE...
Jun 28, 2019•58 min•Ep. 155
VE 179 Summer Solstice Miles Davis: Summertime The Band: Time To Kill XTC: Season Cycle Ray La Montagne: For The Summer B52s: June Bug The Kinks: Wonderboy Love: The Good Humor Man Lovin Spoonful: Rain On the Roof Small Faces: Itchycoo Park Tony Bennett: Lazy Afternoon Pink Floyd: Grantchester Meadows Wilco: Sky Blue Sky Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town Today on the VE--celebrating the summer solstice with songs to roll out the season. I'm PC and this is the ...
Jun 24, 2019•57 min•Ep. 154
Revolution Rocks Against Me! I Was A Teenage Anarchist (band version) Pete Seeger: This Land Is Your Land Peter Paul & Mary If I Had A Hammer Jefferson Airplane: We Can Be Together Bob Marley: Chant Down Babylon The Beatles: Revolution Phil Ochs: Love Me I'm A Liberal Bob Dylan: Maggie's Farm Taj Mahal: Bourgeois Blues Odetta: No More Auction Block Siouxsee & The Banshees: Strange Fruit The Weavers: Woke Up This Morning Dire Straits: Industrial Disease Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers CSNY...
May 17, 2019•52 min•Ep. 153
May 10, 2019•56 min•Ep. 152
Pete Seeger: Where Have All The Flowers Gone Pete Seeger with Sweet Honey In The Rock: This Land Is Your Land The Weavers (live): Wimoweh Solomon Linda: Mbube (Evening Birds) The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins Orchestra: Wimoweh The Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight Peter Paul & Mary: If I Had A Hammer The Village Stompers: If I Had A Hammer The Byrds: Turn Turn Turn Mahalia Jackson: We Shall Overcome The Weavers: The Banks Of Marble Pete Seeger: John Henry Pete Seeger: Follow The Drinkin' Gourd ...
May 03, 2019•56 min•Ep. 151
Jonathan Richman: Hey There Little Insect Adam Ant: Ant Music Dave Matthews Ants Marching Rolling Stones: Spider and The Fly The Who: Boris The Spider Brain Eno: Spider and I Depeche Mode: Fly On The Windscreen B Bumble & The Stingers: Flight Of The Bumblebee The Mills Broters: Glow Worm Singing Science Records: Metamorphosis Belle & Sebastian: Mayfly Bob Dylan: Day Of The Locust The Cure: Caterrpillar Big Brother & the Holding Company: Caterpillar Paul Weller: Amongst Butterflies Ca...
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 150
VE 120 Spring In The Air Gabor Szabo: Spring Song Simon & Garfunkel: April Come She Will Talk Talk: April 5th Rickie Lee Jones: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most Butthole Surfers: Lonesome Bulldog The Pogues; Dirty Old Town The Jayhawks: See Him On the Street Ritchie Havens Here Comes The Sun The Yardbirds: Shapes Of Things Rolling Stones: Dandellion Stevie Wonder: I Was Made To Love Her Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia Van Morrison: Starting A New Life Foo Fighters: This Will Be Our Year ...
Apr 12, 2019•58 min•Ep. 149
Nirvana: Lake Of Fire Nirvana: Jesus Don't Want me For A Sunbeam Nirvana: The Man Who Sold The World Polyphonic Spree: Lithium Vitamin String Quartet: In Bloom Butch Walker & The Black Widows: In Bloom Steve Earle: Breed Charlie Hunter Trio: Come As You Are Caetano Veloso: Come As You Are Paul Anka: Smells Like Teen Spirit Tori Amos: Smells Like Teen Spirit Todd Snider: Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues Weezer: Heart Songs...
Apr 05, 2019•57 min•Ep. 148
Aretha Franklin: Chain Of Fools Beatles: Fool On The Hill Billie Holiday: I'm A Fool To Want YouDef Leppard: Foolin' Doors: Ship Of Fools Elvin Bishop: Fooled Around And Fell In Love Elvs Presley: (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I Foghat: Fool For The City Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Loving You Is Making A Fool Of Me Labelle: Won't Get Fooled Again Led Zeppelin: Fool In The Rain Los Lobos: River Of Fools Rolling Stones: Fool To Cry Bil Evans Trio: My Foolish Heart
Mar 29, 2019•53 min•Ep. 147
Taj Mahal: Take A Giant Step Monkees: Last Train To Clarksville ( live) Cassandra Wilson: Last Train To Clarksville Butterfield Blues Band: Mary Mary Run DMC: Mary Mary Sex Pistols: Stepping Stone Shadows Of Knight: Tommorow's Going To be Another Day Continental Drifters Some Of Shelly's Blues The Church: Porpoise Song Nobody featuring Chris Gunst and Ikey Owens: Porpoise Song The King Of Luxembourg: Valleri Apologetix: Armegeddon Valley Someday Specials: A Little Bit Me (96) Smash Mouth : I'm A...
Mar 08, 2019•56 min•Ep. 146
177 Queen with David Bowie: Under Pressure Queen: Message Of Love David Bowie: Cat People Kinks: Living On A Thin Line John Wesley Harding: Like A Prayer Jefferson Airplane: Pretty As You Feel Grateful Dead: Eyes of the World Marvin Gaye: Come Get To This Michael Franks: Eggplant Elton John: Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Bob Dylan: Visions Of Johanna Nat Cole: Mona Lisa
Feb 22, 2019•56 min•Ep. 145
VE 131 Prehistoric Rock: Roll 'Em Pete Big Joe Turner 1938 House of Blue Lights Freddie Slack (co-writer with Don Ray) and Ella Mae Morse 1946 Down the Road Apiece: Will Bradley Trio 1940 Good Rockin' Tonight: Wynonie Harris: 1948 Joe Liggins: The Honeydripper Bull Moose Jackson: Big Ten Inch Amos Milburn: One Bourbon, One Scotch One Beer Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Rock Daniel 1941 The Fat Man: Fats Domino: Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 : Ain't That Just Like a Woman Julia Lee and her Boyfriends ...
Feb 15, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 144
VE 148 The Knack: Frustrated The Everly Brothers: Problems Graham Parker: Stupefaction Animal Collective: Mercury Man Pretenders: Time The Avenger Aretha Franklin: Satisfaction Pete Townshend: Let's See Action Buddy Miles: Dreams (I'll Never See) George Harrison: Wah Wah Mountain Goats: Cry For Judas Green Day: Welcome To Paradise Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is Today on the VE.... With holiday season approaching, the most stressful time of the year is upon...
Feb 08, 2019•55 min•Ep. 143
VE 355 El Jarocho: La Bamba Los Lobos: La Bamba The Blood Teds: Ooh My Head Ramones (with The Paley Brothers): C’Mon Let’s Go Ritchie Valens: Fast Freight Ritchie Valens: Framed Ritchie Valens: We Belong Together Marty Wilde: Donna Clem Snide: Donna The Big Bopper: Chantilly Lace George Jones: White Lightning Johnny Preston: Running Bear The Big Bopper: The Big Bopper’s Wedding Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue Got Married Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue Blind Faith: Well All Right Rolling Stones: Not Fade Away Bea...
Feb 01, 2019•56 min•Ep. 142
VE 158 Rod Stewart Mandolin Wind Steve Miller Band: Winter Time Avett Brothers: January Wedding The Band: Acadian Driftwood Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash: Girl From The North Country Jayhawks: Blue Joni Mitchell: The Last Time I Saw Richard Mumford & Sons: Winter Winds Fleetwood Mac: Bare Trees Elvin Bishop Group: Fooled Around And Fell In Love Box Tops: Neon Rainbow Decemberists: January Hymn U2: White As Snow...
Jan 25, 2019•57 min•Ep. 141
VE 105 Politics PRN: Bob Dylan: Political World Little Feat A Apolitical Blues CSNY American Dream Cream: Politician Edward Broughton Band: Up Yours Tom Robinson Band: Bully For You The Beat: Stand Down Margaret Sex Pistols: God Save The Queen Against Me: I Was Teenage Anarchist Rise Against: Architects Rage Against The Machine: Killing In The Name Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello; The Ghost Of Tom Joad Pearl Jam with Bono: Rockin' In The Free World Green Day: American Idiot...
Jan 18, 2019•59 min•Ep. 140
VE 202 Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra: Snowfall Elliot Smith: Angel In The Snow Fleetwood Mac: Bare Trees Alice In Chains: Heaven Beside You Steve Miller Band: Winter Time June Christy: Midnight Sun Coldplay: Shiver Cage The Elephant: Shiver Steppenwolf: Snowblind Friend Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer The Band: When You Awake Mumford & Sons: Winter Winds Rolling Stones: Moonlight Mile Anne Murray: Snowbird...
Jan 11, 2019•57 min•Ep. 139
