Lorenzo Mameli

September 25 Playlist: George GrantSeptember 25 Playlist: George Grant

September 25, 2021|

If you missed any or all of Saturday’s show with special guest George Grant, the link and playlist are below. We focused on his current band, Black Rose Burning, while also doing a bit of a career retrospective. Ignore the frozen video, and enjoy the music here!

ROCKS by Primal Scream
BUDOS RISING by The Budos Band
UNDER TWIN SUNS by Black Rose Burning
EVERY SINGLE TIME by Black Rose Burning
SHOUT by Black Rose Burning
LEAVING NOT BELIEVING by George Grant & The Mighty Templars
SOLAR ANGELS by Black Rose Burning
WHEN WE DANCE by Black Rose Burning
HUNGER by Monster Zero
NEW YORK GROOVE by George Grant & The Mighty Templars
BLACK SUN SATURDAY by Black Rose Burning
UNBELIEVABLE by The Serpenteens
GIMME GAUGE by Vainglorious
RAINMAKER by The Final Sound
OUTGUNNED by Black Rose Burning
ZIGGY STARDUST by Bauhaus
A PASSAGE TO BANGKOK by Rush
MASSACRE by Iron Maiden
GOT TO GET MY MIND RIGHT by George Grant & The Mighty Templars

September 11 PlaylistSeptember 11 Playlist

September 11, 2021|

Today’s edition of The Rocker offered a degree of catharsis from the solemn events of this morning. Plenty of bad dancing for the eyes but lots of good music for the ears. The link to the show is here.

LOS LOBOS Love Special Delivery
BOBBY LEE COMBO And Then There Were Drums
THE FOUR TOPS Back to School Again
CHUCK BERRY School Days
THE YARDBIRDS Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
PAUL SIMON Me and Julio Down by The Schoolyard
JET Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
BIFFY CLYRO Tiny Indoor Fireworks
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Look at Little Sister
ROLLING STONES Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH Smiling Faces
THE IMPRESSIONS Choice of Colors
URIAH HEEP Lady in Black
GREEN DAY Still Breathing
PERRY SERPA I Got a Fever
BLACK ROSE BURNING Soul Is On Fire
BON JOVI Older
THE PRETTY RECKLESS Take Me Down
SALIVA Bleed for Me
TWISTED SISTER with ALICE COOPER Be Chrool to Your Scuel
ADAM SANDLER The Lonesome Kicker
DADDY DEWDROP Chick-a-Boom
CAVIAR Tangerine Speedo
SAXON Ride Like the Wind
JUNIOR WALKER Shotgun
AL WILSON Show and Tell
MARVIN GAYE Inner City Blues
CALEXICO Falling from the Sky
MACHINE GUN KELLY featuring BLACKBEAR My Ex’s Best Friend
REBECCA LOU Bad Heart
PETULA CLARK Downtown
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Rising

Songs of Loss Remembrance and Hope: 9/11 TributeSongs of Loss Remembrance and Hope: 9/11 Tribute

September 11, 2021|

Here is the playlist and link to our September 11 tribute show, hosted by my daughter Nancy (her segments were pre-recorded.) Listen here.

Sky Blue and Black – Jackson Browne
Concerto in D minor – Ian Freebairn-Smith & the MGM Studio Orchestra
I Can’t See New York – Tori Amos
Friend of Mine – John Hiatt
Cavatina – John Williams
One More Light – Linkin Park
Empty Chairs – Don McLean
You’re Missing – Bruce Springsteen
Theme from “Missing” – Vangelis
The House Where Nobody Lives – Tom Waits
Summer’s End – John Prine
Angel – Sarah McLachlan
Saturn – Sleeping At Last
My Father – This Mortal Coil
Forse Ancora Poesia – I Pooh
We Remember Them – Sylvan Kamens and Jack Reimer
I Will Remember You – Sarah McLachlan
We All Need Saving – John McLaughlin
Song For Someone – U2
The Maker – Daniel Lanois
Lazarus – Porcupine Tree
In Loving Memory – Alter Bridge
My City of Ruins – Bruce Springsteen
Rise Up – Audra Day
Apache Grief Poem – Nancy Mameli
Finale from “Last Exit to Brooklyn” – Mark Knopfler

August 28 Playlist: 4-Hour ExtravaganzaAugust 28 Playlist: 4-Hour Extravaganza

August 28, 2021|

Lots of Stones on today’s show – in tribute to the late Charlie Watts – and lots of other great stuff in our first four-hour long extravaganza! Here’s the playlist and link:

THE ROLLING STONES Street Fighting Man
SOULIVE Crosstown Traffic
THE CULT In the Clouds
SNOW PATROL You’re All I Have
LINKIN PARK Waiting for the End
ROLLING STONES 2120 South Michigan Avenue
PRINCE Hot Summer
THE UNTOUCHABLES What’s Gone Wrong
PRICE-SULTON Oh No
THE ROLLING STONES Monkey Man
ALAN MORRISSEY Re-tox
KISS Tomorrow
MORRISSEY Tomorrow
PERRY SERPA I Got a Fever
NEW ORDER Avalanche
THE ROLLING STONES Paint It, Black
TV ON THE RADIO Trouble
ROBERT PLANT Last Time I Saw Her
BEN HARPER Rock and Roll Is Free
BOOKER T & THE MGs Green Onions
JOHN LENNON Beautiful Boy
TOBY KEITH Hit It
ALABAMA SHAKES Hang Loose
THE ROLLING STONES Honky Tonk Women
JOE JACKSON Is She Really Going Out With Him?
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE No One Knows
THE KINKS Low Budget
SLEATER-KINNEY You’re No Rock and Roll Fun
ERIC LINDEN Chasing You
STEELY DAN Reeling in the Years
THE ROLLING STONES Gimme Shelter
YAZ Don’t Go
VOLBEAT Heaven nor Hell
THE AUTUMN KILLERS One of Five
THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES Have You Seen my Baby
HANNI EL KHATIB You Rascal You
GARY CLARK JR. Grinder
ERIC CLAPTON Wonderful Tonight
RANDY NEWMAN She Chose Me
ELLEN FOLEY We Belong to the Night
THE ROLLING STONES Just Your Fool
ALL-TIME LOW Wake Up Sunshine
BLINK-182 Bored to Death
REBECCA LOU Bad Heart
THE ROLLING STONES Tumbling Dice
THE MOONDOGZ Don’t Speak at All
KYOJI YAMAMOTO Just Can’t Take it
KEITH DiBUDUO with BILL HICKS, CHARMEL ROGERS & MIKE ROBERTO Better Days
MOTLEY CRUE Public Enemy #1
CHEAP TRICK I Can’t Take It
ENUF Z’NUF Baby Loves You
THE ROLLING STONES Like a Rolling Stone
THE ATARIS I Won’t Spend Another Night Alone
EVERLAST Only Love Can Break Your Heart
IN HEAVEN Bitter Town
ASHES FALLEN Forever
MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Broken Record
THE ROLLING STONES I Know It’s Only Rock and Roll

August 14 PlaylistAugust 14 Playlist

August 14, 2021|

Listen to our latest show here!

TUFF DARTS All For the Love of Rock and Roll
HOLLY & THE ITALIANS Tell That Girl To Shut Up
QUEEN Need Your Loving Tonight
HARVEY DANGER Flagpole Sitta
THE RUNAWAYS Cherry Bomb
JOHN FOGERTY Rock and Roll Girls
THE FRATELLIS Chelsea Dagger
MAROON 5 I Don’t Wanna Know
SUGAR RAY It’s So Easy
CRACKER Get Off This
SCORPIONS Blackout
THE DAMNED Wait for the Blackout
THE POWER STATION Some Like it Hot
REEL BIG FISH Take On Me
LESS THAN JAKE The Rest of My Life
MILLIE MANDERS AND THE SHUTUP Broken Record
MYLES PARRISH Cut A Rug
JOHNNY CLEGG & SAVUKA Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
JOSS STONE The Answer
THE KILLERS Mr. Brightside
BLACK ROSE BURNING Outgunned
THE CARS Candy O
RUSH The Spirit of Radio
PRINCE Hot Summer
THEME PARK Jamaica
GODSMACK Time
SHINEDOWN How Did You Love
LITTLE GREEN CARS My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me
NEIL DIAMOND Desiree
ALICE COOPER Grand Finale

July 26 PlaylistJuly 26 Playlist

July 26, 2021|

Listen to last night’s show, replete with the glitches and gremlins.

SMASHING PUMPKINS Tonight, Tonight
THE VENTURES Perfidia
THE MONROES What Do All The People Know?
THE VINES Ride
THE MOTORS Love and Loneliness
AUDIOSLAVE Cochise
STYX Blue Collar Man
ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Dirty Little Secret
NEIL YOUNG Touch The Night
OASIS Wonderwall
SEETHER Rise Above This
EVERCLEAR Heartspark Dollarsign
LOWER THAN ATLANTIS Something Better Came Along
INXS New Sensation
ALBERT HAMMOND It Never Rains in Southern California
THE NEGATRONS No Place I’d Rather Be
AVRIL LAVIGNE Complicated
SARA BAREILLES How Am I Gonna Get Over You
3 DOORS DOWN Kryptonite
MICHAEL FRANTI Enjoy Every Second
URBAN BLIGHT Three More Roses
BUCK OWENS & DWIGHT YOAKAM Streets of Bakersfield
RANCID Time Bomb
APACHE RELAY Katie Queen of Tennessee
THE WHO My Generation
VARIOUS CRUELTIES If It Wasn’t for You
DURAN DURAN None of the Above
ROLLING STONES Streets of Love
PROCOL HARUM A Whiter Shade of Pale
STEVE WINWOOD What the Night Can Do
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Fire On High

July 17 PlaylistJuly 17 Playlist

July 17, 2021|

Just hours before Staten Islanders were told to take cover due to a possible tornado, we had our own twister of a show. The link and playlist ar e right here:

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Rock and Roll
THE BOBBY LEE COMBO Moon Dawg
DAVE EDMUNDS Almost Saturday Night
THE BOBBY LEE COMBO Let’s Dance
DANNY GATTON Thirteen Women
PAUL STANLEY’S SOUL STATION Lorelei
THE SUFRAJETTES Toxic
311 Sunset in July
DAVID LEE ROTH Goin’ Crazy
ELI “PAPERBOY” REED A New Song
THE REGRETTES Hey Now
LITTLE BIG TOWN Wine Beer Whiskey
MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS Heat Wave
DAVE KEENER Girls and Guitars
RUN DMC Can You Rock It Like This
BLACK ROSE BURNING Shout
THE ATLICIC Shackled
AC/DC Thunderstruck
GAMMA Skin and Bone
VIOLENT FEMMES American Music
PERRY SERPA This Song Kills Fascists
HALESTORM Gold Dust Woman
EMMA & THE IDLES Here Come the Tigers
THE MOONDOGZ Trauma
GARLAND JEFFREYS Wild in the Streets
‘TIL TUESDAY Coming Up Close
HALEY REINHART Free
WRECKLESS ERIC Whole Wide World
ALAN MORRISSEY Fresh Kills

July 3 PlaylistJuly 3 Playlist

July 3, 2021|

How to have a safe, happy and ROCKING holiday weekend? Click on the link below and turn the volume way up, then commence grilling and chilling. Listen here!

JOHN MELLENCAMP R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.
DAVE ALVIN 4th of July
JOHN MELLENCAMP Our Country
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-TONE HORNS This Land is Your Land
CHUCK BERRY Back in The U.S.A.
BEACH BOYS Surfin’ U.S.A.
TOM PETTY American Girl
COUNTING CROWS American Girls
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN American Land
JOHN MELLENCAMP Pink Houses
DAVID BOWIE Young Americans
NEIL YOUNG Rockin’ in the Free World
JAMES BROWN Living in America
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD We’re an American Band
KISS All-American Man
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Fortunate Son
ELTON JOHN Philadelphia Freedom
KIM WILDE Kids in America
DON McCLEAN American Pie
STANLEY CLARKE BAND Born in The U.S.A.
STEVE MILLER BAND Living in The U.S.A.
LENNY KRAVITZ American Woman
SANTANA featuring P.O.D. America
U2 The Hands That Built America

June 16 PlaylistJune 16 Playlist

June 16, 2021|

Juneteenth! Father’s Day! Summer Solstice! Pride Month! We celebrated them all on our latest show! Listen to the full show here.

THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Summer in the City
LOS STRAITJACKETS Sardinian Holiday
WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING Father’s Day
MAMMOTH WVH Distance
THE VAUGHAN BROTHERS Hard to Be
HUEVOS RANCHEROS Gutbomb
IRON MAIDEN Running Free
BLACK SABBATH Tomorrow’s Dream
GHOST It’s a Sin
THE TEMPTATIONS Papa was a Rolling Stone
ERIC CLAPTON My Father’s Eyes
WAR Summer
ERASURE A Little Respect
BRONSKI BEAT Smalltown Boy
THE ALARM Rain in the Summertime
BILLY STEWART Summertime
JOHNATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS
That Summer Feeling
DAVE KEENER Someone
DEMOLITION BRASS BAND Soul Vaccination
WEEZER Buddy Holly
TWENTY-ONE PILOTS Addict with a Pen
ANTHONY HAMILTON & ELAYNA BOYNTON Freedom
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Welcome to The Black Parade
THE JAZZTRONAUTS Checked Out

June 5 Playlist: Cars and GuitarsJune 5 Playlist: Cars and Guitars

June 6, 2021|

The “Cars and Guitars” show was just so much fun to do and – from what I’ve been told – even more fun to listen to. Click the link here and decide for yourself.

JOAN JETT Roadrunner (1986 version)
THE RIP CHORDS ’40 Ford Time
THE BEACH BOYS Fun, Fun, Fun
RONNY & THE DAYTONAS G.T.O.
WILSON PICKETT Mustang Sally
“Expert Witness” from My Cousin Vinny
THE BEATLES Drive My Car
DAVID LINDLEY Mercury Blues
RUFUS THOMAS Rocket 88
DEEP PURPLE Highway Star
Theme from “Speed Racer” (1967)
THE BEACH BOYS 409
THE RIP CHORDS Hey Little Cobra
“The New Bluesmobile?” from The Blues Brothers
THE HOOTERS Great Big American Car
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Ramrod
PRINCE Little Red Corvette
THE STRAY CATS Built for Speed
CHUCK BERRY No Particular Place To Go
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Cadillac Ranch
THE STRAY CATS Look at That Cadillac
“A time machine…in a Delorean?” from Back to the Future
SAMMY HAGAR I Can’t Drive 55
KISS Detroit Rock City
KISS Baby Driver
GARY NUMAN Cars
“Have you seen my car?” from Dude! Where’s My Car?
ZZ TOP She Loves My Automobile
EDDIE MONEY Shakin’
MIKE CURB Theme from “Hot Wheels”
“My a-hole brother” from Christine
QUEEN I’m in Love with My Car
RIHANNA Shut Up and Drive
“Car or Debbie?” from Bachelor Party
ACE FREHLEY Speedin’ Back to my Baby
PAJAMA SLAVE DANCERS Fast Cars, Girls in Bikinis
SNIFF N’ THE TEARS Driver’s Seat
“The Ferrari” From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
AC/DC Highway to Hell
JUDAS PRIEST Heading Out to the Highway
ZZ TOP Arrested for Driving While Blind
APOLLO SMILE Dune Buggy