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Classic Rock Deep Cuts with DJ Bald Boy.

So Old It’s New

(B&W photo of Karlo Berkovich)This is Bald Boy. I host a classic rock album cuts show — So Old It’s New. The show’s premise: Old bands, old tracks, old bands, their new tracks if they’re still releasing music. Mostly 1960s and 70s stuff, the era in which I grew up. But I’ll go with 80s, 90s, 2000s as well – Guns ‘N Roses, The Cult, Wolfmother, REM, you name it.  Prog and (70s) punk, too. Or whatever else strikes my fancy.

And I’ll play the occasional single you likely have not heard on commercial rock radio in many a moon, which is what prompted this show – my frustration with commercial rock radio not going beyond the same repetitive fare from the Stones, Zep, Purple and the like.

So with me, you’ll get the Stones’ Fingerprint File, not Start Me Up. You’ll get Zep’s Achilles Last Stand, not Stairway To Heaven.  I publish all my set lists here and also on Facebook (search for Bald Boy) and Twitter (Karlo Berkovich), including song clips.

So Old It’s New airs Mondays from 8:00pm to 10:00pm with a replay on Saturday from 8:00am to 10:00am.

So Old It’s New #2

On Saturdays from 8:00am to 10:00am Bald Boy plays the music that didn’t fit in the Monday timeslot! Full album plays, metal and hard rock, or going full bore with a reggae show, or a punk rock/new wave show…

Recent Episodes

So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 17, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-17T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-17T21:00:27.mp3 So Old It’s New archive Facebook page A St. Patrick’s Day set featuring Irish bands/artists and/or songs about Ireland. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. The Boomtown Rats, Up All Night 2. Taste, On The Boards 3. Rory Gallagher, Walk On Hot Coals (from Check Shirt Wizard Live In ’77) 4. … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 17, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 15, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-15T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-15T09:00:27.mp3 So Old It’s New archive Facebook page A folk rock-oriented set from Canadian-born artists Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Bruce Cockburn. I’m playing Young’s 1978 album Comes A Time, Mitchell’s Blue from 1971 and Cockburn’s Humans, released in 1980. My individual album thoughts appear under each record’s song list. Neil Young – Comes … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 15, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 10, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-10T20:00:28.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-10T21:00:28.mp3 So Old It’s New archive Facebook page My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. The Rolling Stones, Look What The Cat Dragged In 2. The Monkees, Take A Giant Step 3. The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows 4. John Lennon, Meat City 5. Paul McCartney/Wings, Rockestra Theme 6. Paul McCartney/Wings, Old Siam, Sir … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 10, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 8, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-08T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-08T09:00:27.mp3 A progressive rock show – ending with a Gov’t Mule blues/rock/jam band twist given the Mule’s take on a King Crimson song. Nothing to do with music, perhaps, but March 8 also happens to be the 54th anniversary of the so-called Fight Of The Century, the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier boxing match between … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 8, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 3, 2025 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New show archive My Facebook page 1. Spirit, Fresh Garbage 2. Led Zeppelin, In My Time Of Dying 3. Bob Dylan, Ain’t Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (previously unreleased track recorded live in 1980 in Montreal, taken from The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 Trouble … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 3, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 1, 2025 I’m featuring The Concert For Bangladesh from George Harrison and musical friends released in December 1971 after the actual concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on August 1 of that year. The show was a triumph for Harrison – whose 82nd birthday would have been this past Tuesday, February 25 – and set a … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 1, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, February 24, 2025 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list and are also on my Facebook page. So Old It’s New archive 1. Elton John, Have Mercy On The Criminal 2. Black Sabbath, Falling Off The Edge Of The World 3. Steppenwolf, Renegade 4. Bad Company, Painted Face 5. Warren Zevon, Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (live, from … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, February 24, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, February 22, 2025 So Old It’s New archive Three albums released in 1976 on the menu: The Rolling Stones’ Black And Blue, Rod Stewart’s A Night On The Town and The Royal Scam, by Steely Dan. My album commentaries follow each record’s track list. The Rolling Stones – Black And Blue 1. Hot Stuff 2. Hand Of Fate … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, February 22, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, February 17, 2025 A show loosely tied – via song titles, band names and a couple compilations I’ve drawn from – to the Family Day holiday in most Canadian provinces. Also, a ‘winter’ portion as a nod to the relentless snow we’ve been getting in southern Ontario and much of Canada of late. In between, a week late, … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, February 17, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, February 15, 2025 Two classic albums. One of them – Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience – is widely celebrated with at least three songs on it – Crosstown Traffic, All Along The Watchtower and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – known by even casual rock music fans. The other – Love’s Forever Changes – is arguably relatively … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, February 15, 2025

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So Old It’s New

Classic rock album tracks (mostly 60s and 70s stuff-Beatles, Stones, Tull, Purple, Who, Zep, Cream, Pink Floyd, etc. etc.). Show theme: Old bands, old tracks, old bands, new tracks if they’re still releasing music. If you want to hear, say, Jumping Jack Flash by the Stones, you won’t. But if you want to hear something like Jigsaw Puzzle or Shine a Light by the Stones, this is the place to be. That’s what got me doing the show in the first place – my annoyance with hearing the same (albeit great) old tracks by these bands on commercial rock radio playlists when there is so much more to their respective catalogues. So I dig deeper into the grooves of the albums those of us who grew up on 60s and 70s rock grew up on. I throw in some blues on occasion and late 70s early 80s punk/new wave (early Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Graham Parker, Clash (generally London Calling to Combat Rock period), heck, Flash and the Pan, etc.). And I’m not averse to throwing in heavier fare like AC/DC, Judas Priest etc. But the foundation of the show is the blues-based rock of the 60s and 70s.

So Old It’s New airs on CKMS-FM on Mondays from 8:00pm to 10:00pm with a #Replay on Satuday from 8:00am to 10:00am.