Two PM Thursday. 100.1. Twenty-nine songs about love in all of its various forms. Songs from the radio from some time many years ago when the 'single' was an art form. Songs that "Entertainment Weekly' thinks they can make money on. Songs that couldn't be much more from the heart. I know that people gonna talk, they way they do sometimes, but don't let them change your mind. Check in with The G Man this week and get your dose of reality beaming in from the studios at 405 N Main. There may not be a lot to see in a small town, but what you hear sure makes up for it.

One time back in the eighties I was a card carrying member of the Jefferson Starship Fan Club. Got a great poster of my son Sam and I on the flight deck of the starship. You know, the one headed for Andromeda with the 7000 gypsies... Anyway, also got two sound board CD's in a box one time and the music was awesome. All it said was Paul Kantner and David Crosby had laid down some basic tracks with 'some friends'. Hah! Like Jerry Garcia, Jorma Kaukonen, Grace Slick, Papa John Creach, and the usual cast in the San Francisco area. So this was dubbed 'The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra' project. 11 tracks on CD One this week, and CD two next week. Later shows will have the expanded versions of these sessions, 4 CD set, and lots of great jamming included. I 'Voodoo'd Up' the second hour with great music by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, The Prodogy, and others. Cool Breeze

Is it perjorative to use the phrase 'white boy' to describe non-black blues players? Do not ask Joe: He has the blues, y'all. So does Tinsley Ellis, John Mooney, Chris Isaak, Neil Young, John Paul Jones, and Ben Vaughn, to name a few of our guest artists this week. It is pretty common for rock and rollers to steal any sound they can copy and use to make the music they want to make. The great thing about bands, as opposed to politicians, is that they can do what they want   when they want   how they want   and if you make a misteake, you just play it a different way next time. So tune in for some great off the cuff music from the likes of Iowa natives The Janeys, and a host of others including U2, Uriah Heep, Dead Moon, The Beatles, 20 Miles, and The Blues Magoos. No talking heads will analyze your listening pleasure during or after this show! The G Man

The star attraction for the next Rainbow Rider is the album by The Asteroid No. 4. The third song on the album carries the title of the album, so they will explain from where that comes. This band is making some wonderful psychedelic music these days, in the classic style of the late sixties American bands. I have played individual songs from this album many times on Centripetal Sounds. We will also hear The Byrds doing a live version of 'Eight Miles High', and a great cover version of 'By The Time I Get to Phoenix' by Isaac Hayes from an old old album 'Hot Buttered Soul'. Cool Breeze

...I had to get myself close to you. You know what I mean? I was thinking that the music this week was overlooked, and seriously wonderful. If you have ever heard any of the songs on this weeks show, I apologize. I have a two song mini-set by the five following bands: Trip Shakespear, That Petrol Emotion, Jake Orvis & The Broken Band, Personal Effects, and Relatively Clean Rivers. Everything else is pretty much songs I have been playing over and over and over again lately. Check out my CD of the month on my blog page. Consider the full albums being played on the Saturday morning edition of the show. Enjoy. The G Man

Death By Misadventure, that is....The brand new release by the best band in Seattle, The Green Pajamas. This is a song cycle album with plenty of provacative lyrics and some stellar melodic lines. Hey, it isn't like I don't have any albums by them, I know, but this is a great addition to their catalogue. This is their thirtieth release. As the press release states: 'The album is built around the ultimate death of the Queen and her court by decadent misadventure...This is, of course, a fictional work, and any resemblence to real people living, dead, or otherwise is completely true.' In the second hour, after intermission, is the album 'Living With The Animals' by the Mother Earth Band. A 2004 re-release of a vinyl record from 1968. Some nice bluesy folk music with some entertaining lyrics on songs like the title track, and 'The Kingdom of Heaven (is within you).' If this is a KRUU show you have missed up to this point, this morning is a good time to tune in..... Cool Breeze

I have been neglecting my CD collection that is on a different shelf in my room. My boxed sets. They are so big you need a separate area to hold them. Well, I am going to play some songs off of eleven of the ones I currently have around. It is a genre thing, rather than a band thing, even though I will be playing very famous people during the show. Basically I go from pop to progressive to psychedelic to pop to folk to blues and finally to more psych. Just a lot of cherry picked songs from some tremendous compilations. Here we go... The G Man

'Big White Circle' is the name of a new release on vinyl by The Sudden Lovelys, a band from Minneapolis I met at a concert this summer in Ankeny, IA. You will get the full treatment. In a similar vein, I will be playing side two of 'Albion Doo-Wah' by Cat Mother & The All-Night Newsboys. Whenever I am in Albion, Iowa, you know what I do? I do the doo-wah. I think its time you do the doo, too. I have a cut from a rare disc by Jeff Kelly, and I threw in some ZZ Top and The Beatles just to balance out the obscurities. I stay in the folk arena with Blodwyn Pig, Bap Kennedy, The Byrds, and Cracker. You'll be awake and probably hunting for some chow after a wild night at the Art Walk so listen as you are grazing in the kitchen. Cool Breeze

yOu aRE eXpeRieNCinG ExTreMe HEAT. yOu neeD tO cHiLL oUt. CooLnEss iS oN tHe wAy, iN tHe fOrM oF sWeeT tUnAge. Tame Impala leads off with an 'Innerspeaker' cut, The Bold Arrow of Time. And I have a song from the 2000 release by Rumah Sakit, 'bring on the cobras'. California band that plays great dream pop with mathematical precision. Check out their album cover online, it is some wonderful art work. Album art is a whole world in itself. Two songs by DJ Shadow from 'The Less You Know, The Better'. That says it all. I have Explosions In The Sky and Planetarium Music contributing sick tracks. and I have a three-song misni-set by Psychic Ills, after a nineteen minute long song by George Harrison. Is this a great country, or what? Help on the way, 'cause I love what I love, and I want it that way... The G Man

...you would be keeping an eye out for interesting tunes like the Rainbow Rider #77 upcoming. That is Swedish, above, and it is one of the song titles from the album 'Ta Det Lugnt' by Dungen, which we will hear in it's entirety Saturday morning about 2:42 AM. How is that for specifics? I have no idea what the lyrics mean, but the music is so good it doesn't really matter. The songs have parts that sort of fit together like Black Sabbath did on their first two albums. I will also be playing some wild stuff by Hash Jar Tempo, a long medley by Lee Michaels, and a cover of 'Rainy Day, Dream Away', the great Hendrix tune, by the band Rainy Day. Guitar by David Roback, one of my favorite axemen. I even have time to sneak in 3 rockin' tunes. Check my blog for upcoming albums spinning your way... Cool Breeze