Tag: prog
Mystery Roach Celebrates Two Years
by La Barba Rossa on Nov.13, 2009, under Specialty
On Saturday, November 14, Mystery Roach will celebrate its second birthday.
I will be using the playlist from the first show. (With a couple of exceptions.) Check it out. Call in, email , or reply to this post with your comments.
See below for the playlist from November 17, 2007, the maiden voyage of Mystery Roach, WKNC’s 2-hour study of Prog, Fusion, Psychedelic, Garage and noise on Saturday mornings.
Talk to you Saturday morning.
| Frank Zappa | Mystery Roach |
| Frank Zappa | Apostrophe |
| The Kinks | Victoria |
| Moby Grape | Motorcycle Irene |
| Tom Waits | Step Right Up |
| The Fugs | Frenzy |
| Elvis Costello | Miracle Man |
| Joe Jackson | Sunday Papers |
| HP Lovecraft | Wayfaring Stranger |
| The Doors | Peace Frog |
| The Beach Boys | Don’t Talk |
| Country Joe & The Fish | Superbird |
| Velvet Underground | Run Run Run |
| The Clash | Julies In The Drug Squad |
| The Beatles | Birthday |
| The Soft Boys | I Wanna Destroy You |
| The Troggs | A Girl Like You |
| Gong | Master Builder |
| ? And The Mysterians | 10 O’clock |
| Barry And The Remains | I’m Talking About You |
| Chicago | A Hit By Varese |
| Curtis Mayfield | Junkie Chase |
| Jethro Tull | Fat Man |
| Iron Butterfly | Are You Happy? |
| David Bowie | 1984 |
| Bob Dylan | I Shall Be Free |
| CSNY | Wooden Ships |
| Os Mutantes | A Minha Menina |
An Intrusion of Roaches
by La Barba Rossa on Dec.29, 2008, under Specialty
Deep in the realm of interesting but somewhat useless information is a list of the correct names for groups of animals. Google it some time. The images these names bring to the mind’s eye makes the time wasted well worth it. A group of barracudas is a battery, a group of ferrets a business, and a group of weasels a gang. Most important to us is a group of roaches: an intrusion.
An intrusion. Perfect. For decades, these songs have been lurking behind pop rock’s radio facade, out of sight and out of mind. Now, on Saturday mornings, the Mystery Roaches intrude. They crawl up your walls. They sample your scraps. These songs hide under your wall hangings and swing on your nose hairs while you sleep. There might be one sucking on your toothbrush at this very moment.
This entry marks the first of what will be a weekly post about Mystery Roach, WKNC’s weekly look at progressive, fusion, psychedelic, and garage rock from the 1960s and 1970s. Posts will be short, and they won’t follow any particular format; they might contain thoughts on a song, album or artist I found or became obsessed with that week. They might contain the text with comments of a call or email from a listener that week. They might contain a story of how I almost spilled split pea soup on my computer as I was putting the show together (which just happened as I was typing this, a cautionary tale to anyone who tries to be thrifty with a ham bone).
You just never know.
Listen to Mystery Roach Saturday mornings from 8:00 to 10:00 am, and check the WKNC blog weekly for posts about the show.
Cheers.
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