Radio 1190’s underground rock show “Under the Mattress” may be gone, but it is hardly forgotten. Today at 6 pm we’ll be playing an archive recording of their 2007 Halloween show. Conor and Ed in full zombie makeup, with a mattress full of blood, guts, and surf guitar. Today at 6 pm!

Professor Mikey promises a daily double dose of frightening Halloween favorites on both the 8 am and 12 noon editions of Old School starting Monday, Oct. 26! Haunted Week features some obscure as well as beloved tales of witches, ghosts, zombies…even candy! Here’s the lineup:
Date Time Song
Mon 10/26 8 am Halloween Mary-P F Sloan (1966)
Noon The Dead Man’s Dream – Procol Harum (1970)
Tues 10/27 8 am Helter Skelter – The Beatles (1968)
Noon Voodoo Voodo – LaVern Baker (1961)
Weds 10/28 8 am My Girlfriend is a Witch – October Country (1968)
Noon The Ghost – Fleetwood Mac (1972)
Thurs 10/29 8 am I Want Candy – The Strangeloves (1965)
Noon The Witch – The Sonics (1966)
Fri 10/30 8 am Children of the Grave – Black Sabbath (1971)
Noon Monster Mash Party – Bobby “Boris” Pickett (1962)

Allegations surrounding the 1969 death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones continue in the weeks since British cops announced plans to re-examine the case. According to Reuters, the band’s former road manager accused a former chauffer of killing the guitarist.

Sam Cutler claims the band’s now-deceased driver, Tom Keylock, was responsible. Keylock allegedly wheedled a deathbed confession some 16 years ago out of his friend, Frank Thorogood, a builder working at Jones’ house who immediately became a prime suspect in the case.

While there is no hard evidence tying either Keylock or Thorogood to the rocker’s death in his own swimming pool, Cutler claims Keylock behaved suspiciously in the ensuing days, removing or destroying items at Jones’ estate. Cutler also says Keylock was the only suspect in a private investigation that Allen Klein, the Stones’ manager at the time, commissioned because he had little confidence in the local police.

“He investigated Brian’s murder with all the resources he had available to him and Klein thought that Brian had been murdered,” Cutler wrote on his blog. “Tom Keylock was the prime (and only) suspect named in that report.” Keylock and Klein both died this past July, leaving Jones’ passing — officially deemed “Death by misadventure” — a long-standing mystery. When pressed for a statement by Reuters, representatives for Klein’s ABKCO Music label and the Stones declined to comment.

As for Keylock’s motive, Cutler told Reuters in an interview, “My gut feeling is that he was ripping Brian off on some level or another.”

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Source: Spinner.com

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(Note from Professor Mikey: As you may have noticed, the first Beatles digital remasters will be released on 09.09.09…number 9, number 9, number 9…Anyway, I’ve been asking friends and other Beatle fanatics what versions they are looking forward to…mono or stereo? Here’s my friend Fran’s solid argument for mono.  Feel free to log your expectations:)

On 9/9/09, Apple is releasing the mono masters of the Beatles studio albums. A good friend asked me why I intended to buy them instead of the stereo remasters which most people will want. Mono vs. stereo, why indeed?

Most popular albums through roughly the end of 1967, especially in the U.K., were mono mixes. The stereo mixes were an afterthought because stereo systems were still a luxury and not commonplace in most homes. And, of course, there was the AM radio factor. Many UK stereo mixes of that era were horrible things with voices on one side and instruments on the other, very disconcerting to say the least.

U.S. stereo mixes were generally better even when they took a mono mix and tarted it up. The early Beatles albums in the U.S. come most notably to mind. However, beware of any record that says it is “electronically reprocessed for stereo.”

So for every Beatles record up through and including Pepper and other classics like the first Buffalo Springfield album, the mono mix is the one the band was associated with and signed off on. The stereo version was thrown together in an afternoon. Check Mark Lewisohn’s “The Beatles Recording Sessions,” and you’ll see that was the case. I also highly recommend Geoff Emerick’s book, “Here, There and Everywhere,” to get the chief recording engineer’s perspective on the Beatles’ sessions: It’s the first new Beatles book in years that is worth reading – from the only person other than the lads themselves and George Martin who was actually in the room. Not counting Neil and Mal, of course, who weren’t part of the recording process.

Those mono mixes are much richer and feature much more sophisticated instrument placement than many people realize. That said, there were some excellent stereo recordings coming out in the period, especially from the majors like Columbia and RCA. The Byrds and Airplane LPs sound great in stereo to this listener. But the first Spencer Davis album sounds much better in mono. Same goes for the early Animals and Hollies records. The Beach Boys albums through the end of the ’60s should only be listened to in mono, although they’ve done good work on them in recent years. Even a record like the Buckinghams’ first for Columbia with Don’t You Care and Mercy Mercy Mercy is a joyful surprise in mono.

Anyway, yes, there are some major differences between the Beatles stereo and mono mixes. Ringo doesn’t bark, “I got blisters on my fingers” on the mono mix, for example. The mono Pepper sounds noticeably different on several songs in terms of background vocals, extended laughter on Within You Without You, extra drum pattern in the Reprise, stuff a Beatles nut would notice because he/she knows the songs so well. But, that said, the stereo mixes IN THE U.S. were quite well done and are the ones most of us have known for 40 or more years.

So are the mono mixes worth buying? I have most of the early Beatles albums in mono already because I just had a cheap little non-stereo player at that early age, but, of course, I’ve picked up the stereo versions since then, both US and UK. But for me the mono mixes represent the records that the Beatles worked on themselves for release: That’s the way they heard them in final fashion when they walked out of the studio. They’re the first editions, if you will, as released to the British public. So I want them for that reason, if no other. I’m sure the forthcoming stereo remasters a la the Love CD will be spectacular, and I’m sure I’ll ultimately buy them. But for now, closet Luddite that I am, I want to hear the Beatles in glorious EMI / Abbey Road mono.

Even if you were around for Woodstock in 1969, you’ve probably never heard this much of the concert at one time. Starting Monday morning at 10 am, Radio 1190 presents VIRTUAL WOODSTOCK: 8 Hours of Peace and Music.

And the emphasis is really on the music. It’s the underground of the time, bursting through to attract a half a million people to a cow pasture in upstate New York. One generation had just gone to the moon when three weeks later another got down to earth.

Virtual Woodstock will present at least one song from every act that played in the order they played.

Here’s a rough schedule, we are still assembling the 30+ back to back live shows!

10:00 am Richie Havens-Swami Satchidananda -
Sweetwater-Bert Sommer-Tim Hardin-Ravi Shankar,-Melanie
11:00 am Arlo Guthrie-Joan Baez-Quill-Joe McDonald-Santana-John Sebastian
12:00 pm Keef Hartley Band-The Incredible String Band-Canned Heat-Mountain
Grateful Dead-Creedence Clearwater Revival
1:00 pm Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band -Sly & the Family Stone
2:00 pm The Who -Jefferson Airplane
3:00 pm Joe Cocker -Country Joe and the Fish -Ten Years After-The Band
4:00 pm Johnny Winter -Blood, Sweat & Tears -Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
5:00 pm Sha-Na-Na-Jimi Hendrix

An article in today’s edition of the Colorado Daily gave the erroneous impression that Radio 1190 is canceling shows due to a lack of hosts. As a student run organization, we see our share of turnover, but everything is fine. The two current hosts of our News Underground show said their goodbyes last night, but we have two new hosts who will be taking over the show next week. So there is no need to panic. But thanks for the concern!

Listeners, watt owners, underwriters, and everybody else, Radio 1190 is fine.  Tune in next Tuesday evening at 7 pm and here our new hosts as they dig deeper on Radio 1190’s News Underground!

Mike Flanagan, General Manager

The Denver Art Museums current exhibit “The Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters from the San Francisco Bay Area 1965-1971″ is a joy. Where so many museum exhibits offer well honed journeys through the past, this retrospect of the era that kicked the art of the concert poster into the stratosphere still seems fairly futuristic. It’s a contact high to be sure, capturing the spirit and the time that began in the Summer of Love and ran just past Altamont. They’ve been wise to just focus on this slice of Everything That Happened, so don’t expect a precise retrospect of every album that was released, every band that came and went, every little hit of blotter acid. The poster art presents the hippie era at ground zero with not much more of an agenda than that. The ambient music is a limited playlist, but it blends well into the background. When you see the three posters that were designed for light, you’ll wonder why they didn’t do more. And the recreation of the flower child’s living room has just about everything except a bag of herb on the table. Or maybe it was there and somebody copped it. Regardless, see this exhibit before it wears off in mid-July. Also don’t miss the Denver based Family Dog art, the Fillmore Midwest if you will. Turn on, tune in, drop fifteen bucks. An hour later and you’be be demanding to be sent back in time.

Studio wizard Jack Nitzsche

6/8: LA singer songwriter guru of the country rock era J. D. Souther does “Banging My Head Against the Moon.”
6/9: From 1983 Big Daddy does Rick James in the style of the Everly Bros. Super Freak!
6/10: The Texas band everybody thought was from from San Francisco in the Summer of Love, Fever Tree, and the ultra-obscure “I Can Bang Your Drum.”
6/11: From the Jack Nitzche archives, LA’s answer to Chubby Checker, Round Robin, and “Kick That Little Foot Sally Ann.”
6/12: Roy Head from San Marcos TX gets down in ‘67 with “Almost Tough Enough.” Don’t have a video of that one, but check out Roy’d moves on Treat Her Right.  Become hysterical, this is great. Could be why his songs were only a minute and a half…

HOUR ONE: 1) Rockaway Beach THE RAMONES 2) Kill Surf City JESUS & MARY CHAIN 3) California Girls MAGNETIC FIELDS 4) Remember (Walking in the Sand) THE SHANGRI LAS 5) 1930’s Beach House MOVIETONE 6) Surfer Girl THE BEACH BOYS 7) Mr Moto THE BELAIRS Baja THE ASTRONAUTS 9) Summer MODEST MOUSE 10) Sex on the Beach JOHNNY FIVE 11) Summer Here Kids GRANDADDY 12) Hawaii Five-O THE VENTURES 13) Mission Impossible THE KANE TRIPLETS 14) The Creature Stole My Surfboard DEAD ELVI 15) Werewolves on Wheels THE BORN LOSERS 16) Devil’s Martini THE DYNOTONES 17) Surf Zombies THE HELLBILLIES 18) Dream Surf Baby ADVENTURES IN STEREO 19) Daytona Beach HALF JAPANESE
HOUR TWO: 1) Summer Days BOB DYLAN 2) Summer Trippin THE PUSH KINGS 3) Sleep All Summer CROOKED FINGERS 4) Constant Rain SERGIO MENDES AND BRAZIL 66 5) Summertime BILLIE HOLIDAY 6) Live Let Live BRIAN WILSON 7) In the Summertime MUNGO JERRY Beachcomber THE POMEGRANATES 9) This Ain’t a Surf Movie GRIZZLY BEAR 10) Dead Man’s Curve JAN AND DEAN 11) Ride the Wild Surf JAN AND DEAN 12) Ride the Wild Surf THE ZIGGENS 13) Wipeout THE SURFARIS 14) Let’s Go Trippin DICK DALE 15) Miserlou DICK DALE 16) Pipeline THE CHANTAYS 17) Surf’s Up THE BEACH BOYS