Now that I am trying to write everything down, it seems like I can never listen to the show!
6:20 PM re-broadcast:
An Elvis impersonator, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT UNTIL YOU LOSE IT
Charlie Sexton, BEAT SO LONELY
Roxy Music
Charlie Sexton was the guest. He’s really cool! I never listened to him much, and, again, Jonesy has turned me on to something new!
They played a cover of The Who’s I’M A BOY
A great cover of HEY YAH, wish I’d heard the artist’s name!
Then he and Sexton did the most awesome cover of Bowie’s version of WHITE LIGHT. They talked about Bowie and Jonesy sounded a little jealous about Sexton hanging out with Bowie. Jonesy mentioned that Bowie is his favourite artist (and all is right with the world!)…
The show ended with a Neil Young song HARVEST MOON? I don’t think Jonesy will ever make me a Neil Young fan.
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
11 AUGUST 2005: BUTCH VIG
About 12:30, Jonesy was talking about how the heat and smog were making him lethargic and how he wanted comfort food like pasta. He is taking his wheatgrass and ginger, though.
A record producer for Nirvana and a member of the band Garbage is the guest. Butch Vig, was his name. Interesting person. If you are a musician that records or you are a big Nirvana fan you really missed a great interview.
12:45
Neil Young, CINNAMON GIRL
Tom Petty, HERE COMES MY GIRL
Red Walls, THANK YOU
He gave away free buttons of “solid tin.” He whistled Clapton’s YOU LOOK WONDERFUL TONIGHT
(I think Jonesy stole today’s playlist from Jim Ladd! “Lord Have Mercy!” I wish Indie would give Ladd some air time! He always talked about politics and drugs and stuff that no one was talking about. He knew all those old seventies rockers and had so many interesting stories. And he had that true deep sexy DJ voice.)
A note here—I live in the Valley, and the show comes in better on my cheap radio than on my stereo system with its expensive antenna.
1:15 PM
A cover of LUST FOR LIFE that he got from Butch, a bluegrass cover that someone said is on TK’s rotation now
An Elvis impersonator singing Nirvana’s COME AS YOU ARE
Fleetwood Mac, ALBATROSS
They were talking about how much Kurt Cobain loved the Sex Pistols and considered them the definitive punk rock group. Jonesy said that KC even named Nevermind because of Never Mind the Bullocks.
DANCE TO THE RADIO, another song that Butch had brought, I missed the artist
Then they sang VIRGINIA PLAIN and it was AWESOME!!!!!!! I wish I had a recording of it!!!! They both whistled and they knew all the lyrics!!!!!
In the UK, all the kids Jonesy’s age love Elvis, and over here, everyone of that age loves The Beatles. That’s what it seems like to me. I guess it’s just the youthful desire to get away from your culture or something?
I always think of punk rock as belonging to four groups who each have a distinct “punk” culture: The Clash (my favourites), The Pistols, The Damned, and The Ramones. The main argument is always for Clash vs. Pistols, but The Damned were really the roots of the –what would eventually be called—Goths. The Ramones really belonged to the American middle class and the punk culture that came up here. The Clash vs. Pistols argument usually comes down to whether it was cultural/behavioural anarchy or political anarchy. That’s my opinion, and loads of people disagree with it. When I was younger and had higher aspirations for myself, I used to think that one day I would write my doctoral thesis on this four band theory. Who knows, maybe I still might do that?
A record producer for Nirvana and a member of the band Garbage is the guest. Butch Vig, was his name. Interesting person. If you are a musician that records or you are a big Nirvana fan you really missed a great interview.
12:45
Neil Young, CINNAMON GIRL
Tom Petty, HERE COMES MY GIRL
Red Walls, THANK YOU
He gave away free buttons of “solid tin.” He whistled Clapton’s YOU LOOK WONDERFUL TONIGHT
(I think Jonesy stole today’s playlist from Jim Ladd! “Lord Have Mercy!” I wish Indie would give Ladd some air time! He always talked about politics and drugs and stuff that no one was talking about. He knew all those old seventies rockers and had so many interesting stories. And he had that true deep sexy DJ voice.)
A note here—I live in the Valley, and the show comes in better on my cheap radio than on my stereo system with its expensive antenna.
1:15 PM
A cover of LUST FOR LIFE that he got from Butch, a bluegrass cover that someone said is on TK’s rotation now
An Elvis impersonator singing Nirvana’s COME AS YOU ARE
Fleetwood Mac, ALBATROSS
They were talking about how much Kurt Cobain loved the Sex Pistols and considered them the definitive punk rock group. Jonesy said that KC even named Nevermind because of Never Mind the Bullocks.
DANCE TO THE RADIO, another song that Butch had brought, I missed the artist
Then they sang VIRGINIA PLAIN and it was AWESOME!!!!!!! I wish I had a recording of it!!!! They both whistled and they knew all the lyrics!!!!!
In the UK, all the kids Jonesy’s age love Elvis, and over here, everyone of that age loves The Beatles. That’s what it seems like to me. I guess it’s just the youthful desire to get away from your culture or something?
I always think of punk rock as belonging to four groups who each have a distinct “punk” culture: The Clash (my favourites), The Pistols, The Damned, and The Ramones. The main argument is always for Clash vs. Pistols, but The Damned were really the roots of the –what would eventually be called—Goths. The Ramones really belonged to the American middle class and the punk culture that came up here. The Clash vs. Pistols argument usually comes down to whether it was cultural/behavioural anarchy or political anarchy. That’s my opinion, and loads of people disagree with it. When I was younger and had higher aspirations for myself, I used to think that one day I would write my doctoral thesis on this four band theory. Who knows, maybe I still might do that?
10 AUGUST 2005
I missed the show and was only able to catch parts of the re-broadcast. As usual, it was brilliant and I was kicking myself for missing it.
6:20 PM
Really great cover of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Made a joke about Nostradamus predictions, and mentioned the Jacobites. (I wonder if a lot of people who aren't English, Scottish, or French know what a Jacobite is?)
Whistled Bowie’s SOUL LOVE
Sorry I didn’t write more down. Then at 6 AM the next day, caught a little bit more of the re-broadcast, but I was in the car driving. (This is the worst Mercury retrograde EVER! All of these plane and shuttle difficulties, all of these car accidents! Too bad all the science types at NASA and the airlines don’t follow astrology! Anyhow, it’s over on Monday night, thank the Gods!)
Several songs by Marcia Griffiths.
There was one song I really liked PILLS VS. FRIENDS (“my friends have been great/the pills have worked better” or some such).
6:20 PM
Really great cover of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Made a joke about Nostradamus predictions, and mentioned the Jacobites. (I wonder if a lot of people who aren't English, Scottish, or French know what a Jacobite is?)
Whistled Bowie’s SOUL LOVE
Sorry I didn’t write more down. Then at 6 AM the next day, caught a little bit more of the re-broadcast, but I was in the car driving. (This is the worst Mercury retrograde EVER! All of these plane and shuttle difficulties, all of these car accidents! Too bad all the science types at NASA and the airlines don’t follow astrology! Anyhow, it’s over on Monday night, thank the Gods!)
Several songs by Marcia Griffiths.
There was one song I really liked PILLS VS. FRIENDS (“my friends have been great/the pills have worked better” or some such).
8 AUGUST 2005: PATTI SMYTHE AND JOHN MCENROE
Patti Smythe and her husband John Mcenroe was on. I think he must be the tennis player. It was an interesting show, but I didn’t really like Smythe or Mcenroe very much. For one thing, both she and Jonesy criticized Patti Smith for being too intellectual. Whatever. Smythe is such a lame artist in my opinion. But I guess she can’t help it. At least she isn’t someone like Spears. At least she is honestly lame.
He and Smythe sang her WARRIOR song together. I was listening to the show but wasn’t able to take down the playlists. You can always tell who doesn’t listen to JJB because they never know who “the Duke” is. The Mcenroe kids did a bunch of JJB ads in fake English accents. Really good fake accents. Mcenroe tried to set up Jonesy with some female fans who might be listening. Mcenroe waxed enthusiastic on marriage and children and domestic bliss.
Toward the end of the show, Jonesey was talking about how “you can have all the money in the world, but if you don’t have your health you don’t have nothing.” He talked about his back injury.
He ended the show with Fleetwood Mac’s SARA.
He and Smythe sang her WARRIOR song together. I was listening to the show but wasn’t able to take down the playlists. You can always tell who doesn’t listen to JJB because they never know who “the Duke” is. The Mcenroe kids did a bunch of JJB ads in fake English accents. Really good fake accents. Mcenroe tried to set up Jonesy with some female fans who might be listening. Mcenroe waxed enthusiastic on marriage and children and domestic bliss.
Toward the end of the show, Jonesey was talking about how “you can have all the money in the world, but if you don’t have your health you don’t have nothing.” He talked about his back injury.
He ended the show with Fleetwood Mac’s SARA.
5 AUGUST 2005
About 12:40 or 12:45 I was able to start listening:
Black Sabbath
Rolling Stones
Slade
David Bowie, VELVET GOLDMINE
Jeff Beck, HI HO
Whistled ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE. Then he played the original. I don’t know who that was by, but it was on the radio a lot in the eighties.
Free, WISHING WELL
SPIRIT
Cockney Rebel, SEBASTIAN
1:50 PM, more whistling. Iggy’s SEARCH AND DESTROY.
Black Sabbath
Rolling Stones
Slade
David Bowie, VELVET GOLDMINE
Jeff Beck, HI HO
Whistled ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE. Then he played the original. I don’t know who that was by, but it was on the radio a lot in the eighties.
Free, WISHING WELL
SPIRIT
Cockney Rebel, SEBASTIAN
1:50 PM, more whistling. Iggy’s SEARCH AND DESTROY.
4 AUGUST 2005
I tuned in when he was whistling. He gave away three buttons (“mined from the finest South African tin mines”). I think the song was WHITER SHADE OF PALE.
Then he played (this was about 1 PM).
David Bowie, LADY STARDUST
A Bolan song
Roxy Music (if it’s a song I know I didn’t use to write them down, then I forget)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, SPELLBOUND
A song I didn’t know and didn’t write down
A guy named Ivan was there changing Jonesy’s strings and filing frets.
Evergreen, SUGAR LUMPS
Thin Lizzy (?) BALLROOM BLITZ
INTERPLANETARY TWIST
Then he played (this was about 1 PM).
David Bowie, LADY STARDUST
A Bolan song
Roxy Music (if it’s a song I know I didn’t use to write them down, then I forget)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, SPELLBOUND
A song I didn’t know and didn’t write down
A guy named Ivan was there changing Jonesy’s strings and filing frets.
Evergreen, SUGAR LUMPS
Thin Lizzy (?) BALLROOM BLITZ
INTERPLANETARY TWIST
2 AUGUST 2005: VIOLENT FEMMES
The Violent Femmes were the guests. They talked about the music industry and about Jerry Lee Lewis. Had Lewis written his own material or just tagged his name on the song writing credits a la Elvis and Arthur Cruddup? In other words, had Lewis added his name for a piano riff? They asked for listeners to call in with info and someone did with some information.
Then Jonesy said something that kind of surprised me, but shouldn’t have, given the state of corporate radio. He apparently asked the White Stripes to come on his show but they are some other station’s pocket. (The crock? The tinsel star? He didn’t say which corporate station.)
Honestly I missed most of this show. No song titles. Sorry.
Then Jonesy said something that kind of surprised me, but shouldn’t have, given the state of corporate radio. He apparently asked the White Stripes to come on his show but they are some other station’s pocket. (The crock? The tinsel star? He didn’t say which corporate station.)
Honestly I missed most of this show. No song titles. Sorry.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
29 JULY 2005
This was a very different show, and very enjoyable! It really reminded me of these old school DJ’s that baby boomer friends talk about. The kind of DJ's that would play some Al Green and then say, “That was so good, I’m gonna play it back to back with itself.” And play the same record again, just ‘cuz it was so good the first time. You see DJ’s like this in the movie DO THE RIGHT THING, and THE WARRIORS. And then there’s WKRP and Venus Flytrap and Johnnie Fever. What a great show that was! (I always wanted to be Loni Anderson’s character.)
Before Indie 103 and Jonesy, there really wasn’t anyone like this left, except maybe for Jim Ladd, and he keeps disappearing. And he only played AOR. God Save Jonesy’s Jukebox!
Isley Brothers
Dolomite
Prince, something from that first album
DUST
Bobby Womack, HAPPY
Bill Withers
…
Isaac Hayes, NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE (This was a great cover I’d never heard before!)
…
Al Green, SHA LA LA
This set made my panties wet, seriously. Jonesy is the sexiest DJ on the radio! TK's come close before, but Jonesy is the only DJ that has ever made me horny, just by playing a set of songs!
There you go, a new advertising slogan "Radio so good it will make your panties wet" or "your dick hard." Go ahead, Indie, it's all yours. (They still haven't taken me up on my idea for JJB thongs, though, so perhaps I am not the marketing genius I think I am???)
Jonesy gave away Queen tickets and whistled something. I missed what.
George “no relation to Bill” Clinton, ATOMIC DOG
He played the DJ snippet from THE WARRIORS, which got me thinking about DJ’s.
…
Some Prince songs, one of which was NOTHING COMPARE 2 U. Have to admit, I prefer the Sinead O’Conner version. Same with Cyndi Lauper cover, what was it called?
Before Indie 103 and Jonesy, there really wasn’t anyone like this left, except maybe for Jim Ladd, and he keeps disappearing. And he only played AOR. God Save Jonesy’s Jukebox!
Isley Brothers
Dolomite
Prince, something from that first album
DUST
Bobby Womack, HAPPY
Bill Withers
…
Isaac Hayes, NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE (This was a great cover I’d never heard before!)
…
Al Green, SHA LA LA
This set made my panties wet, seriously. Jonesy is the sexiest DJ on the radio! TK's come close before, but Jonesy is the only DJ that has ever made me horny, just by playing a set of songs!
There you go, a new advertising slogan "Radio so good it will make your panties wet" or "your dick hard." Go ahead, Indie, it's all yours. (They still haven't taken me up on my idea for JJB thongs, though, so perhaps I am not the marketing genius I think I am???)
Jonesy gave away Queen tickets and whistled something. I missed what.
George “no relation to Bill” Clinton, ATOMIC DOG
He played the DJ snippet from THE WARRIORS, which got me thinking about DJ’s.
…
Some Prince songs, one of which was NOTHING COMPARE 2 U. Have to admit, I prefer the Sinead O’Conner version. Same with Cyndi Lauper cover, what was it called?
27 JULY 2005
Jonesy played a song that I thought nobody but me remembered! I didn’t write down the artist. It is some band from the eighties. I have it on this vinyl collection I got for two bucks in 1983. It had people like Robert Ellis Orrall on it. The record cover had a 50's 3-d audience coloured blue and red.
ANGEL FACE
Then he whistled GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND
I think this was about one o’clock.
CRYING GAME
HEY ROCK AND ROLL
Roxy Music
Screaming Lord Sutch (God rest his soul! I miss his antics! How I wish there were more like him in the world today!), MONSTER IN MY BLACK TIGHTS
David Essex, LAMPLIGHT
Then he said "I can't believe it. After I said that yesterday about listening when I announce the records, I got even more emails asking 'what song is this?' " He seemed really upset by this. Poor Jonesy! Maybe this blog will soothe his soul.
You know, for a band that debuted with a giant banner "Fuck Pink Floyd" or whatever (really, I don't remember exactly what it said, I was still just a sweet young thing), he sure loves his 70's AOR.
ANGEL FACE
Then he whistled GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND
I think this was about one o’clock.
CRYING GAME
HEY ROCK AND ROLL
Roxy Music
Screaming Lord Sutch (God rest his soul! I miss his antics! How I wish there were more like him in the world today!), MONSTER IN MY BLACK TIGHTS
David Essex, LAMPLIGHT
Then he said "I can't believe it. After I said that yesterday about listening when I announce the records, I got even more emails asking 'what song is this?' " He seemed really upset by this. Poor Jonesy! Maybe this blog will soothe his soul.
You know, for a band that debuted with a giant banner "Fuck Pink Floyd" or whatever (really, I don't remember exactly what it said, I was still just a sweet young thing), he sure loves his 70's AOR.
26 JULY 2005
Because I am really into astrology I am not officially launching this fan site until 16 August, but today is the day I decided to do the blog. If it weren’t for Indie 103.1 and Jonesy’s Jukebox I would be stark raving mad…der… Anyhow, he said, “People, you have to listen when I announce the records. I get hundreds of emails every day that say ‘what did you play at 12:34?’ I don’t know. I don’t write it down.” So I decided I would, whenever I could. Sometimes I get the times and stuff, sometimes I don’t.
Bebop Deluxe, ADVENTURES IN A YORKSHIRE LANDSCAPE
After he announced Bebop Deluxe he talked about listening, quoted above. Then he played this set. I think this was about 1:30.
Argent, GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU
Bob Seger System, RAMBLING GAMBLING MAN
Tom Petty, AMERICAN GIRL
Cheap Trick, HEAVEN TONIGHT
David Bowie, HANG ONTO YOURSELF, Live at the Beeb
Bebop Deluxe, ADVENTURES IN A YORKSHIRE LANDSCAPE
After he announced Bebop Deluxe he talked about listening, quoted above. Then he played this set. I think this was about 1:30.
Argent, GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU
Bob Seger System, RAMBLING GAMBLING MAN
Tom Petty, AMERICAN GIRL
Cheap Trick, HEAVEN TONIGHT
David Bowie, HANG ONTO YOURSELF, Live at the Beeb
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