Gone Nebulous

This week Friday 30 Dec., 2011 and next Friday, the 6th of January, 2012, I will not be broadcasting live as the changeover from CKLN to Radio Regent takes place.  

Boy and Bear from Australia

A New Look Deep Dive

We Wish You A Merry Christmas and a Machu Picchu

RBTMCHPCCH by Karinisil

Today's chill cheery chummy Christmas show with Smoky Folk unwrapping live at noon and Greg Lawson's Reggae Stocking

We’re back on 13 January 2012 on Radio Regent, same cyber-locale.

Host Paul Corby, guests James McKie, Simon, Matt Elwood 

and Will Meadows of Smoky Folk, and Greg Lawson.

 ( brought to you by The Anti-Gizmo Shop, The Listening Instant and Thank-you Jesus)

11-2 p.m. online and at tunein.ca . Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

11:00  I Spin A Dark Day Light

*Vancouver Chamber Choir – Bolivian Carol  - Milagros de Navidad

Ben + Vesper – Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella – Salvation Is Created

Young Mistro – The Resurrection – The Passion of Christmas

The Big Yard Family feat. Shaggy – All We Need Is Love

11:20  Dark of The Moon , Dark Of The Year

Cyndi Lauper – Blue Christmas

*Lindi Ortega – All I Want For Christmas is a Cowboy

*Chris Cuddy – Christmas on Skid Row

*Heather, Cookie and Raylene Rankin – Do You Hear What I Hear?

Chris Isaacs – The Last Month of the Year

11:40  Alternate Universal Tunings

John Fahey – O Holy Night

*Cara Luft - Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

*Anne Lederman – Tamarack’er Down  -  Fiddlesong

Martin Sexton – Let There Be Peace On Earth – Camp Holiday

12:00  Gizmo vs. Mistletoe

*Meaghan Smith – Christmas Kiss – It Snowed!

*Kathryn Calder – Leave a Light On – Bright and Vivid

The Pretenders – 2000 Miles

12:15   Tied Up With Strings

*Smoky Folk Live – Dark Hollows / Interview / Fisher’s Hornpipe / 

Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? / Rebecca @ Castro’s every Wednesday

12:30  Bluetruth

*Sarah Greene – Toronto Blues @ The Garrison Mon., 26 Dec. & Tues. @ The Local

B.B. King – Blue Decorations

*David Gogo – I Found A Love – Soul-Bender

*Lee Harvey Osmond – Parkland - @Hugh’s Room Thurs., 29 December

12:45  Surprise Package – Greg Lawson’s Gift Selection

Rico – Surprise Package

Tommy Shakespear – Rolling Stone

Al Berry & The Aces

The Royals – Come Let’s Hold Hands

The Ethiopians – You Didn’t Answer

Keith & Tex – Tighten Up Your Gird

Slim Smith – We Must Be In Love / Version

The Wailers – Stir It Up (Rocksteady Cut)

The Termites – Miss Stella

Earl Lowe & The Fugitives – No More Trouble

Begona Bang-Matu – Smile In December

Lord Mouse & The Kalypso Kats – In The Jungle

Toronto Listings over Cyrus Chestnut – Christmas Time Is Here

1:40  Grande Finale & XLNT Omnes

*Keith Mullins & Thom Swift – What Would Life Be Like? – 

The Wood Buffalo Youth Song Project

*Anne Walker – Precious Friends - Labyrinth

Jerry Garcia – The Wheel

The Wheel
(Garcia/Hunter/Kreutzmann)


The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?

Round, round robin run round, got to get back to where you belong,
Little bit harder, just a little bit more,
A little bit further than you gone before.

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

Small wheel turn by the fire and rod,
Big wheel turn by the grace of God,
Every time that wheel turn 'round,
Bound to cover just a little more ground.

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?

Playlist for Show of Friday, 16 Dec., 2011

Host Paul Corby ( brought to you by Silken Thrills, Improvised Apparitions and The Shine Shrine) .

Guests Grainne, Mike Field, Emilyn Stam, John David Williams, Charles James, and Ryan McAllister

11-2 p.m. online Fridays and at tunein.ca . Canadians in UPPERCASE RED.

11:00  Speculative Friction

Jazzanova – Another New Day (Moonstar Remix)

New Deal – Deep Sun – Going Out Of Business Show @ The Opera House Saturday

Andrea Parker – The Unknown

11:20  Finding The Sunshine

Grainne -  Colour of Love / Interview / Not Enough Love @ Cameron House Wed.,12 Dec. for the Daily Bread Food Bank benefit, People Still Gots Ta Eat

11:40  Infield Fly

Mike Field – Ashes / Interview / The Upstanding Translator @ Harlem Saturday

12:00   Rootically Groovesque

The Black Keys  -  Little Black Submarines

New Country Rehab  - The Houses In This Town Are All Falling Down @ The Horseshoe, 5 Jan. 2012

Ox – Silent Night

The Whites – Sandy Land

12:20  Temporary Resonances

The Boxcar Boys – Paco Jr.

Emilyn Stam – Handprints

Emilyn Stam, John David Williams, Charles James – Improvisation / Interview / Smithers Weather

                          ensemble@ Gallery 345 Saturday

12:45  Goodness and Lights

Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors – Downtown

Neon Indian – Heart : Attack

Ryan McAllister – 3 Songs and Interview @ Cameron House Wed.,12 Dec. for the Daily Bread Food Bank benefit, People Still Gots Ta Eat

Kith and Kin – Bright Morning Stars

The Chieftains – The Arrival of The Wren Boys / The Dingle Set

1:20 R.I.P. Philip Fattis Burrell, (producer for Sizzla Kalonji, Luciano, Pinchers, Thriller U, Sanchez

Beres Hammond, Frankie Paul, Gregory Isaacs, Charlie Chaplin, Capelton, Cocoa Tea, Gentleman and Ini Kamoze.)

Luciano – Where There Is Life (There Is Hope)

Toronto Mass Choir – Do You Hear What I Hear?

Roosevelt Sykes – Just Smile

1:40 Portents and Tidings

Jerome Godboo -  Spin Cycle @ The Rex Saturday

The Rizdales – One Year Down @ The Cadillac Lounge Saturday

Toronto Listings over: Ernesto Cervini – On Being Grand / Seven Claps @ The Emmett Ray Bar Mon., 19 Dec.

Vaclav Havel, still a hero for today

                  Vaclav Havel, a hero for today

It was his love of rock and roll as much as his moral outrage at the Communist system that brought him to prominence.

He co-wrote the influential Charter 77 anti-Communist declaration in protest at the arrest of a Czechoslovak rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe.

A perennial contender for the Nobel Peace Prize, Havel never won, but remained active in anti-Communist causes from Cuba to China until his death.

Transcript: Havel talks to CNN in March about unrest in the Arab world

He urged Chinese authorities to release dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose Charter 08 call for greater political freedom in China was inspired by Czechoslovakia's Charter 77.

Havel was a lifelong Zappa fan, particularly the early work with the Mothers of Invention. It's not hard to think of Sixties Czech youth hearing "Trouble Every Day" and finding a kindred spirit therein. "Plastic People" from Absolutely Free was a key track; lyrics like "Watch the Nazis run your town/Then go home/And check yourself" must have struck a chord as a young person in a repressive government. (Never mind that its original inspiration seems to have been the fashion clones the Mothers encountered on the Sunset strip.) In 1990, Havel asked Zappa to be a consultant for his new government on trade, cultural matters and tourism. This was scuttled by the U.S. Administration, who probably had less than fond memories of Zappa's opposition to the PMRC. So he ended up serving as an unofficial cultural attache, and in fact played his last concert in Prague.

In his classic call for everyday citizens to recognize their power to change their world, Havel uses the example of a Soviet-era grocer placing a state-sponsored sign in his store window with the slogan: "Workers of the world, unite!"

"If the greengrocer had been instructed to display the slogan 'I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient;' he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth," Havel wrote.

So why does he do it? "The sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. It hides them behind the facade of something high. And that something is ideology," Havel wrote. "Ideology offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them."

"I would be glad if it was felt that I have done something generally useful," he said. "I don't care much about personal fame or popularity. I would be satisfied with the feeling that I had a chance to help with something in general, something good. That history gave me that chance."