August 8 Playlist: Santana Special

This edition of the program featured excerpts from an interview I conducted with Randy & Tal Bachman, the Father and Son tandem currently at the helm of the legendary Bachman-Turner Overdrive. They provided insights into their music as well as observations about rock ‘n’ roll that make this episode essential listening. Click here to check it out!

• JACK BLACK & THE SCHOOL OF ROCK Zach’s Song
• FREDDY DeBOE Remember the Good Times
• THE ROLLING STONES Like A Rolling Stone
• NEW RADICALS You Get What You Give
• URIAH HEEP That’s The Way That It Is
• YES Owner of a Lonely Heart
• RANDY BACHMAN INTERVIEW The Origins of “American Woman”
• THE GUESS WHO American Woman
• TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS American Girl
• OASIS Wonderwall
• GIFTSHOP Stylish Junkie
• EDEN JAMES Stranger
• JET She’s a Genius
• TAL BACHMAN INTERVIEW The Inspiration for “She’s So High”
• TAL BACHMAN She’s So High
• SHERYL CROW If It Makes You Happy
• CANCION FRANKLIN My My My
• BROTHER DYNAMITE The Girl’s In Love
• RANDY & TAL BACHMAN INTERVIEW What do the Bachmans listen to?
• BUDDY HOLLY Rave On
• TOMMY EDWARDS It’s All In the Game
• THE DEL-VIKINGS Come Go with Me
• LEE FIELDS Save Your Tears for Someone New
• THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH Smiling Faces
• RANDY & TAL BACHMAN INTERVIEW Why bands should play their hits
• ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Sweet Talkin’ Woman
• DEEP PURPLE Woman from Tokyo
• ELTON JOHN Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
• MIDDLE AGES Silver Lining
• FONTAINES D.C. Here’s the Thing
• KING LIKE MOM Die Cry Hate
• RANDY BACHMAN INTERVIEW What is the signature B.T.O. song – and why
• BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE Takin’ Care of Business
• OUR OWN YOKOS Carry On

It was beer for breakfast as the brewer of Mad Love Beer, Ricky Boyance, stopped by the studio. We did some early day drinking, talked about how he came to be a brewer, and his time as a member of one of my favorite bands, The Atlicic. Pour yourself a cold one and check it out here

• THE DOORS Roadhouse Blues
• T. REX 20th Century Boy
• SEETHER Rise Above This
• TALK TALK Talk Talk
• BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
• DIVINYLS Pleasure and Pain
• FIGHTMILK That Thing You Do
• FUEL Fall on Me
• MIDDLE AGES Never Mind Blues
• CANCION FRANKLIN Better Not Let Me Knock
• SLASH with CHRIS STAPLETON Oh Well
• THE ATLICIC Shackled
• KING LIKE MOM Die Cry Hate
• GRANDMA DRINKS Laundry Day
• YES Long Distance Runaround
• JON ANDERSON & THE BAND GEEKS Shine On
• SNACKTIME The High Life
• LEE FIELDS Forever
• THE REPLACEMENTS Beer for Breakfast
• REEL BIG FISH Beer
• ZZ TOP Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
• THE PEAWEES The Wolf
• THE ALARM 68 Guns
• THE CALAMATIX Still Rudy
• JIMMY EAT WORLD If You Don’t, You Don’t
• KILL THE ROBOT Another Round
• MODERN DAY MACHINES Vox Populi
• LINKIN PARK The Emptiness Machine
• THE ZOMBIES Tell Her No
• THE GUESS WHO No Time
• OUR OWN YOKOS Deriving Dariya
• THE SUBWAYS Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• THE OFFSPRING Make It All Right
• BLINK-182 Every Other Weekend
• STARCRAWLER She Said
• EARTH, WIND AND FIRE September

I was joined by my colleagues Geoff Mosher and Terrence Smith of Dirtbag Paradise on our latest show for a trip back to the hard rockin’ part of 70s and 80s. This might have been our loudest show yet! How loud? So loud that there were moments that you couldn’t hear any of us over the music! But our banter paled in comparison to this playlist. Check it out at this link.

• Rat Salad by Black Sabbath
• Let There Be Rock by AC/DC
• Planet Caravan by Black Sabbath
• Armed and Ready by Michael Schenker Group
• The Green Manalishi with the Two-Pronged Crown by Judas Priest
• Just Got Lucky by Dokken
• Hell Hole by Spinal Tap
• Hordes of Locusts by Joe Satriani
• Citadel by Tanith
• Heart Can’t Feel by Castle Black
• Over the Mountain by Ozzy Osbourne
• Round and Round by Ratt
• All Men Play on Ten by Manowar
• Heroes by Motorhead
• Sirens by Savatage
• Easy Livin’ by Uriah Heep
• Wasted by Def Leppard
• Better Than Before by The Chris Vandalay Project
• Raging River of Fear by Captain Beyond
• Tomorrow’s Dream by Black Sabbath
• The Mob Rules by Black Sabbath
• Rainbow in the Dark by Dio
• Mississippi Queen by Mountain
• Live Wire by Motley Crue
• We’re An American Band by Grand Funk
• Action by Sweet
• Long Way to Go by Alice Cooper
• Be My Lover by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
• Mr. Speed by Kiss
• Since You’ve Been Gone by Rainbow
• Hijinx by Heart
• Waiting For an Alibi by Thin Lizzy
• Too Hot to Handle by UFO
• Forever by Y&T