Transmission 2209

Legs, thighs, breasts, white/dark meat, whipped potatoes, stuffing - the whole turkey dinner experience is a finger-licking sensual trip into culinary engorgement. As you're busy trussing Tom or prior to your post-feast couch coma, enjoy these Thanksgiving toe-tappers from William Burroughs, The Soft Boy, The Raiders, Ohio Players, The Bagatelle, Calypso King & The Soul Investigators, The Kinks, Norman Greenbaum, Tony Joe White, Panda Bear and Faust!

T2209 is 57.1mb 128k mp3 1:02:25 in length made loud to be played loud!

"I am The Turkey"

RFW

Transmission 2109

Politics aside - War is, has been and will continue to be the basis for countless works of art, books, poems, movies and songs! The ammunition for this musical war on war is provided by Crazy Horse, Colonel Bagshot, Ramses, Lightnin' Hopkins, The Black Angels, A Darker Shade Of Black, Earl China Smith, Dillinger, Bob Dylan, Krokodil, Blitzen Trapper, Buffalo Killers, Killing Joke, The Vibrators and Blue Oyster Cult.

T2109 is a 54.8mb 128k mp3 59:55 in length made loud to be played loud!

"War Is Not The Answer"

RFW

* The featured poster is "Make Art Not War" by Shepard Fairey. Visit his website at obeygiant.com .

Transmission 2009

Sgt. Monkees Only Chart Flub Land

Mickey, Mike, Davey and Peter - maybe not as instantaneously recognizable as John, Paul, George and Ringo or Mark, Don and Mel or even Dino, Desi and Billy - but The Monkees have passed the test of time better than many of their 60s contemporaries. They have been in and out of vogue since their conception, but never wiped from our collective memory. Can you sing the first few lines of their theme song - of course you can! Do you remember Mike's hat of choice - without a doubt. Double breasted shirts, liquid paper and Head - all part of the the Monkees legacy! Pre-fab or not, this band deserves more than just a footnote in the great Rock and Roll History Book! Hey Hey - It's The Monkees!

T2009 is a 59.4mb 128k mp3 1:04:51 in length made loud to be played loud!

"we're the young generation and we've got something to say"

RFW

* Check out Frank Zappa and Monkee Mike on Episode 57 of The Monkees, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds", originally aired on March 11, 1968.

** For an incredible treasure-trove of all things Monkees, you should visit the outstanding Dartman's World Of Wonder blog and his Month Of Monkees posts. It's like finding money, end of school and Christmas rolled into one!

Transmission 1909

"Tonight is the night when pumpkins stare,

Through sheaves and leaves everywhere.

When ghouls and ghost and goblin host,

Dance round their Queen.

It's Hallowe'en!"

Halloween is not a safe night for "wirgins", but knowing the extended RFW family, I don't think we'll have to worry about that - so spark up the candle in the old jack-o-lantern, turn out the lights and and dig this monstrous set of tunes from Dead Kennedys, The Turtles, Bo Diddley, Vic Mizzy, Ted Cassidy, The Crystals, Rick Derringer, Brain Donor, The Vulcans, Woggles, Roky Erickson, The Moontrekkers, Arctic Monkeys and Wendy Carlos. Fang-tastic!

T1909 is a 59.4mb 128k mp3 1:04:53 in length made loud to be played loud!

"cause all you people are vampires""

RFW

* The opening rhyme is an excerpt from the poem "Hallowe'en" by Harry Behn.

** Our Halloween picture is Udo Kier from "Blood For Dracula", the 1974 film directed by Paul Morrison and produced by Andy Warhol and Andrew Braunsbergg. Enjoy a few favorite scenes!

** Ted Cassidy played Lurch, the family butler on The Addams Family TV series. His dance craze "The Lurch" was sweeping the country in 1965 (not so fast...he hasn't swept the kitchen yet) - here's Ted on Shiveree!

***One of the funniest episodes of The Addams Family was "Lurch, The Teenage Idol"!

Transmission 1809

Dedicated to Timothy Leary
"Like every great religion of the past, we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God. These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present — turn on, tune in, drop out."

Come along if you can, take a trip to the land inside of your mind - through the doors of perception and into an altered state of swirling colors, heightened senses and throbbing sounds from British Sea Power, Haymarket Riot, Johnny Walker, Curtis Mayfield, Sonic Youth, T.I.M.E., Kim Fowley, Fifty Foot Hose, Harry Nilsson, The Beatles, The Purple Gang, The Moody Blues and Kasabian!

T1809 is a 57.9mb 128k mp3 1:03:20 in length made loud to be played loud!

"take you trips around the bay, bring you back the same day"

RFW

* The spoken word interludes were taken from the 1966 Capitol records release LSD, A Documentary Report. Visit the incredible Redtelephone 66 blog for more information.

** I got a question about our selection from T.I.M.E. (Trust In Men Everywhere).They formed in 1968 in LA and released two albums on Liberty, T.I.M.E. (1969) and Smooth Ball (1970). I played Tripping Into Sunshine which is the first cut on their debut.

*** Today's picture is Benjy Carver (played by Michael Burns), the infamous Blue Boy from The LSD Story episode of the Dragnet that appeared on the NBC network on January 22, 1977. It was produced and directed by Jack Webb, who also starred as Joe Friday. If you have never had the pleasure of seeing this classic check it out below!