Karlheinz Stockhausen R.I.P.

Now whenever I hear radio static, I'm going to wonder if it isn't Karl composing something new.

Aircheck - Reverend Dan on KXLU, December 6, 2007

Ever wonder what Music For Nimrods would sound like if it was on during the daytime? Well wonder no more! Here is a Four-Hour block of Rockaroll from December 6th, 2007 when I did a 10:00am - 2:00pm shift at KXLU! The file is hosted at Megaupload, so lemme know if all goes well when you try to download this 194mb file! Click on my heavily backlit face, then on the new page type in the 3-digit code and hit enter! On the next page that appears, find the column headed "free". At the bottom of that column, you should see a countdown, usually starting around 45 or so. When that gets to zero, a new download button should appear. Hit that button and it should start the download. Enjoy The Show!

Here is the lineup for this show:

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
The Runaways - "Rock And Roll"
Les Terribles - "Chante"
The Morlocks - "Dirty Red"
The Detroit Cobras - "Just Can't Please You"
The Shakes - "Mugged"
Sparks - "Talent Is An Asset"
Magazine - "Because You're Frightened"
Meat Puppets - "Lost"
X - "The Unheard Music"
The Guilty Hearts - "Turn It Off"
Santa Claus - "The Story Of Santa Claus"
Redd Kross - "Super Sunny Christmas"
The Mo-Dettes - "Paint It Black"
T. Rex - "Mambo Sun"
Sonny Vincent with Clem Burke and Arthur Kane - "Carol"

11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
Gefilte Joe & The Fish - "Hanukkah Rocks"
The Hangmen - "I Wanna Be Loved"
David Bowie - "V2 Schneider"
The Lords Of Altamont - "Come On Up"
Davie Allan & The Arrows - "Blues Theme"
Wreckless Eric - "Take The K.A.S.H."
Ministry - "Death And Destruction"
Bob Dylan - "Masters Of War"
Schoolhouse Rock - "The Preamble"
Patti Smith - "Declaration"
The Bellrays - "Revolution Get Down"
Messerschmitt - "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Mohammed Rafi - "Jann Pechehan Ho"
Boink! - "Walk Of Fame"
The Dictators - "Stay With Me"

12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM
Dead Boys - "Sonic Reducer"
Jack Nietzsche - "The Last Race"
Holly & The Italians - "I Wanna Go Home"
Nick Lowe - "They Called It Rock"
The Hexxers - "Strangled"
Piero Umilani - "Mah Na Mah Na"
Ace Frehley - "Speeding Back To My Baby"
Allan Sherman - "12 Days Of Christmas"
El Vez - "Feliz Navi-Nada"
The Headcoats - "Round Every Corner"
The Clash - "Police On My Back"
Huell Howser - "Interviewing The Clash"
The Clash - "Janie Jones"
The Love Me Nots - "Mine"
The Launderettes - "My Replica"
The English Beat - "Two Swords"
The Peanuts - "Mothra Song"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sweet - "Action"
Sly & The Family Stone - "Dance To The Music"
The Undertones - "More Songs About Chocolate And Girls"
Reverend Beat-Man - "Jesus Christ Twist"
Brian Eno - "Needles In The Camel's Eye"
Spanky Wilson - "Sunshine Of Your Love"
Blondie - "Sunday Girl" (French Version)
Chris Spedding - "Motorbikin'"
The Zombies - "It's Alright With Me"
Nina Hagen - "Smack Jack"
Los Creepers - "Drive Me Wild"
Youth Gone Mad - "Oki Dog"
The Normal - "Warm Leatherette"
The Teddybears with Iggy Pop - "Punkrocker"
Ramones - "Durango 95/Wart Hog"
The Sonics - "Don't Believe In Christmas"
Rhino 39 - "Xerox/No Compromise"
Wau y Los Arrrghs! - "Momia Twist"

Aircheck - The December 1, 2007 Edition of Reverend Dan's Music For Nimrods

December is here, and this time on KXLU, I pay tribute to a great American Wacko: Evel Knievel! Crazy idiots jumping motorcycles over things is common today, but it used to be that there was only ONE crackpot flying over stuff, and that's why I honor Evel, one of the patron saints of the Nimrods. Also in this show, you'll hear John Waters talking about the making of the movie Pink Flamingos! The file is hosted at Megaupload, so lemme know if all goes well when you try to download this 140mb file! Click on Nosfera..er..make that Evel this week, then on the new page type in the 3-digit code and hit enter! On the next page that appears, find the column headed "free". At the bottom of that column, you should see a countdown, usually starting around 45 or so. When that gets to zero, a new download button should appear. Hit that button and it should start the download. That's how it's supposed to work!

Here is the lineup for this show:

3:00 AM - 3:40 AM
Rank And File - "Rank And File"
Grand Canyon - "Evil Boll Weevil"
45 Grave - "Evil"
Motochrist - "Evel"
Chris Spedding - "Motorbikin'"
Evil Canevil - "Snake River Canyon"
Davie Allan - "Blues Theme"
Jim McKay - "Theme To ABC Wide World Of Sports"
Resident Clinton - "Nine Minute Audio Version of 'Viva Knievel'"

3:40 AM - 4:00 AM
Nick Lowe - "Heart Of The City"
Wreckless Eric - "Whole Wide World"
The Love Me Nots - "Mine"
Ramones - "I Don't Want You"
Hound Dog Taylor - "Gonna Send You Back To Georgia"
The Lords Of Altamont - "Born To Lose"

4:00 AM - 4:30 AM
John Waters - "The Filthiest People Alive"
Edith Massey - "Punks Get Off The Grass"
Link Wray - "The Swag"
Iggy & The Stooges - "Search And Destroy"
The Queers - "Girl About Town"

4:30 AM - 5:00 AM
The Headcoats - "Round Every Corner"
Dead Boys - "Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth"
Fleetwood Mac - "Oh Well"
Iggy & The Stooges - "I Got A Right"
Pylon - "Driving School"
Kasenatz-Katz Super Circus - "Quick Joey Small"
Ray Charles - "What'd I Say"

5:00 AM - 5: 40 AM
NIMROD NEWS with Reverend Dan
Flamin' Groovies - "In The USA"
James Brown - "America Is My Home"
N.R.B.Q. - "Here Comes Terry"
Buzzcocks - "Somethings Gone Wrong Again"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Ramble Tamble"

5:40 AM - 6:00 AM
The Cramps "I Was A Teenage Werewolf/Sunglasses After Dark"
Black Sabbath - "Never Say Die"
Modern Lovers - "She Cracked"
Southern Culture On The Skids - "Love-A-Rama"
The Jaguars - "Jaguar"
John Hartford - "Turn Your Radio On"

December Edition of Reverend Dan's Videos For Nimrods

CURRENT PROGRAMMING
Learn a New Dance
Fun at Jiffy Lube
The Love Me Nots: Move In Tight
Crusader Rabbit: Episode 5
Fox News Porn
Naomi Wolf on Democracy Now!
Cartoon: Miss Glory
George McKelvey: My Teenage Fallout Queen
Lou Reed: Sweet Jane
Ian Hunter: Once Bitten Twice Shy
Cartoon: Peace On Earth

The Campbell Brothers Will Possess Your Soul

EVERYTHING in this this clip of the Campbell Brothers performing in a House of God Church completely and utterly kicks so ass*: The Preacher testifying at the beginning. The Campbell Brothers themselves wailing on truly rocking bit of Praise Music. The people in the congregation who SERIOUSLY know how to clap, dance and celebrate. The guy yelling "HEY!" This stuff is so good that you can't even believe that stuff this good exists.

I told you so.

* "Kicks So Ass" is a new catch phrase that Don Bolles, Dave Arnson and I are trying to popularize. Spread the word!

The Man With The Golden Bass

Sonic Cool. After a quick clip of teenagers dancing to the Hawaiian War Chant (???), dig Jet Harris (original bass player for The Shadows) playing his version of the theme to "The Man With The Golden Arm".


How could you not want to play bass guitar after seeing this! Thanks to Insect Surfer guitarist Dave Arnson for passing this along.

The Jukebox

I love jukeboxes. Always have. The reason is simple. It is one of the few opportunities in life to inflict ones personal musical taste over the general public. Recording mix tapes is one thing, but jukeboxes = a young disc jockey hopeful's first public performances. At least the jukebox was to me. And I would take my selections seriously. After all, you only got three songs for that quarter, and I was going to pick the three BEST songs! Now that I am a geezer, I have become one of those bastards that likes to fill a jukebox with $20 worth of tunes so that it plays only my songs for the next few hours. I love looking over the glowing selections, trying to get a read on a bar based on what's inside the jukebox. Back in high school, I would hang out at the Ram Shack, an after-school hangout at the El Dorado Park Recreation Center. In addition to girls, bumper pool and ping-pong, the Ram Shack had a jukebox that played for free! So I would always try to program the afternoon's tunes. Usually, the memory was so packed that I seldom heard anything I wanted. Here, let me slog through the top singles of 1977, and see what I played for the gang on those rare occasions when the memory on the box would be reset and I was there when it happened. Remember, while punk rock did exist, it did not exist inside the jukebox at the Ram Shack. This sadly, would be a best-case situation:

Heart - "Barracuda"
Ram Jam - "Black Betty"
Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Do Ya"
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me"
The Kinks - Juke Box Music
Boston - "More Than a Feeling"
Bob Seger - "Rock & Roll Never Forgets"
Queen - "Tie Your Mother Down"

Not gawdawful, but remember, a best-case situation.

Thankfully, here in the future, there are still jukeboxes, and at least here in Hollywood, there are plenty of good ones with some extremely cool selections available. I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. Back in 1977, if you had told me that when I was 47 I would walk into a bar and hear Suicide on the jukebox, I would only be able to laugh about the idea. Now I laugh when it happens.

That Happy Feeling

T'was a time when we only had seven television channels in the Los Angeles area. SEVEN! I also had to walk a mile to school barefoot in the snow during a blizzard and a solar eclipse, but that's a tale for another time. This time, I'm talking about UHF television, and a song that has been burned into my brain. After-School television in the seventies was a pretty healthy scene, even with only seven channels. Starting at 3:00pm every weekday afternoon, channels 5, 9, 11 and 13 would each attempt to woo the young viewer by showing a bounty of cartoons and 60's reruns. And for a while, it was enough. But then dad came home after a trip to Japan, with a portable television with a 7" screen. Unheard of at the time! We could carry it from room to room! And in addition to picking up the seven channels of Very High Frequency, it also picked up something called ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY! UHF! Back then, there wasn't a whole lot on UHF. There were endless stock market reports on channel 22, and channel 28 was where we could see the PBS programs. After that, you had to dial all the way up to channel 52 to get something else to see. And it was a goldmine.

Channel 52 was KBSC, and they only operated for half the day, starting around 3:00pm in the afternoon. They played all the stuff the other channels had passed on. Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, Felix The Cat, Speed Racer, Kimba The White Lion...stuff like that. So not only did they play all these cool shows, they did it on this weird UHF channel that only a few people knew about. The station went through a ritual every broadcast day. At around 2:00pm the station would put up the station logo which looked sorta like the illustration. Just a big number 52 with with call letters and cities of operation. For an entire hour, the station would show that logo card and play one song over and over and over again. We didn't know the name of the song, we just knew it as the "Waiting for channel 52 to start" music. And often is the time we would sit there and listen to the song over and over, waiting. I mean, who needs to see Magilla Gorilla and Squidly Diddly again when soon there would be Speed Racer with all those wonderful crashes and explosions and gasping! And the song was really kind of...happy. Later on, during one of our teenage "KRUD" radio sessions when we were looking for music for commercials, Dana found an album in his parents collection. The Best Of Bert Kaempfert. Playing it, we recognized a few of the tunes. "Hey, that's the song to the old Match Game!" "Yeah!" Then we listened to a song called "That Happy Feeling" and the world stopped. "CHANNEL 52!!!" we screamed! The mystery had been solved, and we weren't even trying to solve one! The composer and performer of the "Waiting for channel 52 to start" was Bert Kaempfert and the song was really called "That Happy Feeling", and from that day on, I've been a fan. And because of the channel 52 connection, I've found quite a few people who feel the same way. I've also met those who despise the music of Bert Kaempfert, for example Stella's boyfriend, the King of Hair. Instead of associating the music of Bert with an afternoon of great television entertainment, the Buffalo, N.Y. born King of Hair associates his music with getting up for school with an icy wind blowing across a freezing Lake Erie and hearing Bert's beautiful music behind the local weather reports.


Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra kick out the jams on a live version of "That Happy Feeling".

Aircheck - The November 17, 2007 Edition of Reverend Dan's Music For Nimrods

I'm on the ball today, you betcha! My KXLU show posted on the same day it was broadcast. I am a "Human Dynamo"! During this show I take a ride in what Stella calls "The Punk Rocking Chair". The file is hosted at Megaupload, so lemme know if all goes well when you try to download this 161mb file! Click on Nosferatu, then on the new page type in the 3-digit code and hit enter! On the next page that appears, find the column headed "free". At the bottom of that column, you should see a countdown, usually starting around 45 or so. When that gets to zero, a new download button should appear. Hit that button and it should start the download. That's what they say!

During the 4 o'clock hour of today's program, I play the Sex Pistols "Some Product Carri On" album in its entirety. 2007 does mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols", and it got me to thinking about my own punk timeline. Here's a quick look back:

April 1976 - First Ramones record released.

August 1976 - Received first Ramones record as present for 16th birthday. Gift was from older brother Steve. Rodney Bingenheimer begins broadcasting "Rodney On The Roq" every Sunday night on KROQ AM & FM, playing the best rock & roll. I listen religiously.

September 1976 - I start junior year at Millikan high school in Long Beach

November 1976 - Sex Pistols release first single "Anarchy In The UK"

February 1977 - Sid Vicious Joins Sex Pistols

May 1977 - Sex Pistols release second single "God Save The Queen"

Summer 1977 - Young Reverend Dan's "Summer Of Punk" fueled by an entire year listening to Rodney's incredible radio show and finally getting a driver's license. Senior year of high school begins.

October 1977 - Sex Pistols release Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

November 1977 - I attend my first Punk Rock show, seeing the Dead Boys and the Mumps at the Starwood in Hollywood. Tickets won from 10 watt radio station KSUL, located on the campus of California State University at Long Beach.

January 1978 - Sex Pistols tour America. Johnny Rotten quits band.

July 1978 - I graduate high school.

February 1979 - Sid dies.

July 1979 - Sex Pistols Some Product Carri On album released.

There you have Three Years and Three Months. From the time of the first Ramones album to the release of Some Product Carri On was only three years and three months. The time that Sid joined the Sex Pistols til the day he died was only two years. Time flies.

Here is the lineup for this show:

3:00 AM - 3:40 AM
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - "Smokin' Billy"
The Morlocks - "Dirty Red"
Wau y Los Arrrghs - "Mumia Twist"
Reverend Beat-Man - "Jesus Christ Twist"
The Joneses - "Pillbox"
Iggy & The Stooges - "I Got a Right"
The Gears - "I Smoke Dope"
Fear - "I Love Living In The City"
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - "C.C. Rider/Jenny Take a Ride"
The Celibate Rifles - "Johnny"
Agent Orange - "Bloodstains"

3:40 AM - 4:00 AM
The Hard Ons - "Just Being With You"
The Yardbirds - "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
Cosmic Psychos - "Lost Cause"
Ministry - "Let's Go"
Sex Pistols - "Johnny B. Goode/Roadrunner"

4:00 AM - 5:00 AM
Sex Pistols
Some Product Carri On
"The Very Name Sex Pistols"
"From Beyond The Grave"
"Big Tits Across America"
"The Complex World Of Johnny Rotten"
"Sex Pistols Will Play"
"Is The Queen a Moron?"
"The Fucking Rotter"

Sex Pistols - "Substitute"
Sex Pistols - "Problems"
Sex Pistols - "Steppin' Stone"

5:00 AM - 5: 40 AM
NIMROD NEWS with Reverend Dan
Neil Young - "Let's Impeach The President"
The Gun Club - "Sex Beat"
Mink Deville - "Lipstick Traces"
The Lords Of Altamont - "The Split"
L7 - "Shitlist"
The Mothers of Invention - "Plastic People"

5:40 AM - 6:00 AM
The Lunachicks - "The Passenger"
The Superbees - "Girl From K.C."
Nick Lowe - "Shake That Rat"
Ian Whitcomb - "My Girl's Pussy"
Muddy Waters - "Mannish Boy" (Soul Version)
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - "Candy House"

Video: Thee Michelle Gun Elephant Live!

One of the things I really enjoy about becoming geezer is that it's still possible to find out about some great band I had never heard about. For example, I finally got around to listening to Howlin' Wolf at the age of 45, which means all his stuff is NEW TO ME!!! Another cool band I've recently (within the past five years) heard about is Thee Michelle Gun Elephant. Named after a wonderful mispronouncement of The Damned's "Machine Gun Etiquette", I wish I had heard about these guys when I had a chance to see them. I might never had heard about them at all were it not for my friends Shirley and the Late David Arnoff (he ain't dead, he's just late). Here they are in Japan back in 1998 playing "Smokin' Billy".

Four guys making one hell of a racket!

Aircheck - The November 3, 2007 Edition of Reverend Dan's Music For Nimrods

Time to bring the Music For Nimrods Archives to the Music For Nimrods Blog! Lotsa old vinyl in this November 3, 2007 edition of the KXLU broadcast, plus a tribute to the late Girlschool lead guitarist Kelly Johnson. The file is hosted at Megaupload, so lemme know if all goes well when you try to download this 164mb file! Click on Nosferatu, then on the new page type in the 3-digit code and hit enter! On the next page that appears, find the column headed "free". At the bottom of that column, you should see a countdown, usually starting around 45 or so. When that gets to zero, a new download button should appear. Hit that button and it should start the download. No, Really! Here's the lineup:

3:00 AM - 3:40 AM
ROLLING STONES - "Jumping Jack Flash" (Apple Acetate)
DAVE EDMUNDS - "Readers Wives"
THE TUBES - "White Punks On Dope"
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT - "The Red & The Black" (Live)
HARRY NILSSON - "You're Breaking My Heart"
MONTY PYTHON - "Selections From Monty Python's Previous Record"
JOE "KING" CARRASCO - "One More Time"

3:40 AM - 4:00 AM
RAMONES - "Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio" (Demo)
JAN & DEAN - "Sidewalk Surfing"
THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND - "Midnight Moses"
ROBERT PALMER - "Sneaking Sally Through The Alley"
WRECKLESS ERIC - "Veronica"
JOHNNY WRIGHT - "Hello Vietnam"

4:00 AM - 4:40 AM
LINK WRAY - "Rumble"
DWIGHT TWILLEY - "Runaway"
HEATHEN DAN - "I Like"
THE PALEY BROTHERS - "Down The Line"
BOB DYLAN - "Highway 61 Revisited"
LITTLE BOY BLUES - "I Can Only Give You Everything"
L7 - "The Bomb"
PYLON - "Feast On My Heart"
DEAD KENNEDYS - "Holiday In Cambodia"
THE HARMONICATS - "Sabre Danse"
HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & THE CLOWNS - "Don't You Just Know It"
"Mighty Mouse Theme Song"

4:40 AM - 5:00 AM
GIRLSCHOOL - "Kick It Out"
GIRLSCHOOL - "Yeah Right"
GIRLSCHOOL - "C'mon Let's Go"
GIRLSCHOOL - "Watch Your Step"
GIRLSCHOOL - "Hit And Run"
GIRLSCHOOL & MOTORHEAD - "Please Don't Touch"
GIRLSCHOOL - "Tush"

5:00 AM - 5:40 AM
NIMROD NEWS with REVEREND DAN
GIL SCOTT-HERON - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
THE BELLRAYS - "Revolution Get Down"
NEIL YOUNG - "Let's Impeach The President"
NICHELLE NICHOLS - "Star Trek"
ALFRED E. NEUMAN - "It's A Gas"
HUDSON & LANDRY - "Obscene Phone Bust"

5:40 AM - 6:00 AM
THE YARDBIRDS - "I Ain't Done Wrong"
THE RAMONAS - "Here Comes My Baby"
TEX RITTER - "Blood On The Saddle"
TEMPLE CITY KAZOO ORCHESTRA - "2001 Sprach Kazoostra"
ENO & THE WINKIES - "Fever"
THE LORDS OF ALTAMONT - "Born To Lose"