Podcast: SDRNRfm #1

I dabbled in radio a while back, even won an award thank you very much CBAA (Community Broadcasters Association of Australia). I wish I had a cool voice to warrant an intro or back-announce like I was Joe Strummer on Radio Free Europe, or Henry Rollins on KRCW or Wolfman Jack.
Instead, it's a twenty minute sampler of some tunes, some old, some even older, that I've been enjoying and wanted to hear all together. The tracks aren't exactly mixed (though I did try my hand - you be the judge) so it's not a mixtape in what the kids consider them these days. The track choices just works off a simple similar beat that works its way into a Bo-Diddley rhythm.
I will probably try another based on a band theme next for some cohesion. Until then, I hope you hear something new (or old).

Download SDRNRfm #1
1. Intro from "Calvin" - John Spencer Blues Explosion
2. "Cheap and Cheerful" - The Kills
3. "Rocks" - Primal Scream
4. "Kick It" - Peaches & Iggy Pop
5. "Don't Speak (I came to Bang)" - Eagles of Death Metal
6. "Heard It on the X" - ZZ Top
7. "Mumblin' Guitar" - Bo Diddley
8. "Cannonball" - Duane Eddy
9. "Rudie Can't Fail" - The Clash

Video: Eagles of Death Metal rock Amsterdam

I filmed the Eagles of Death Metal show at Paradiso for SPINearth.tv last week. It was a great show but little did I know that I had friends at the gig... turns out they got backstage and partied with Joey 'Sexy Mexy' Costello and Big Hands O'Connor... and drank their rider. Ho-hum, here's my report.
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The Eagles of Death Metal are fucking rad: sweaty-sexy-truck-stop-rock-n-roll-fucking-rad. Tongue firmly in cheek while still paying respect to the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Lynard Skynard, Foghat and all the great swampy southern skids that ever pickled their livers in sour mash, a EoDM is the best dang knees-up since the Devil went down to Georgia.
And so Jesse 'the Devil' Hughes, Darlin' Dave, Big Hands O'Connor and Joey Castillo the Sexy Mexy took the stage – albeit ironically to "Straight Outta Compton" – and it wasn't long before they let us know what they came to do – Bang. Other standouts throughout the set included "Cherry Cola", "I Want You So Hard" and "High Voltage".
But that wasn't enough. All three levels of the sold out Paradiso crowd were spilling over each other cheering and near done blew the roof off the old church as the Devil took the stage for the encore. He was visibly taken back, pacing the stage, soaking it up and that only made the cheer louder. So he mellowed them down with an old country ballad before covering The Ramones' "Beat on The Brat" and the Stones' "Brown Sugar" to which the rest of the band joined him before closing with "Wannabe in LA".
The Devil's revival rolled into Amsterdam that night and possessed the normally placid Dutch crowd, leaving them baptised in beer and rock n roll and exorcised of all the boring and straight in their life… at least until the next day.

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