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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.

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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 Saturday, April 26, 2025 – on air 8-10 am ET So Old It’s New three-album play, a singer-songwriter set featuring three classic, seminal albums: Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water from 1970, Carole King’s Tapestry from 1971 and John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan, released in 1967. My thoughts on each album appear under that record’s song list. Audio log will be posted after … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, April 26, 2025 – on air 8-10 am ET
So Old It’s New set for Monday, April 21, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-21T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-21T21:00:27.mp3 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New show archive Facebook page 1. AC/DC, Let There Be Rock 2. AC/DC, Demon Fire 3. Black Sabbath, Into The Void 4. Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Sledgehammer 5. Blackfoot, Gimme Gimme Gimme 6. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Devil In The Bottle 7. Jimi Hendrix, Bold As Love … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, April 21, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, April 19, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-19T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-19T09:00:27.mp3 A mishmash ‘throw stuff at the wall see what sticks’ set, including some leftovers I couldn’t fit into previous shows. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New show archive Facebook page 1. Muddy Waters, All Aboard 2. Buddy Holly, Early In The Morning 3. Mott The Hoople, All The … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, April 19, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, April 14, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-14T20:00:28.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-14T21:00:27.mp3 A blues rock set, albeit alas limited within the confines of my two-hour slot, to just some of the myriad masters of the genre and only scratching the surface of artists they inspired. The set wound up, as it often does, going in different directions once into it by just letting it flow, … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, April 14, 2025
A prime Pete (Townshend) So Old It’s New set for Saturday, April 11/25 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-12T08:00:28.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-12T09:00:27.mp3 A three-Pete performance of my favorite Townshend albums, including a nice collaboration with Ronnie Lane of Faces fame. The show features Rough Mix (1977), Empty Glass (1980) and All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982). It was inspired by me having recently read various biographies of Who members but also thanks to … Continue reading A prime Pete (Townshend) So Old It’s New set for Saturday, April 11/25
So Old It’s New set for Monday, April 7, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-07T20:00:28.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-04-07T21:00:27.mp3 “We all came out to . . . make records with a mobile”, to quote Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water lyric as a description of this set made up of tunes by various artists recorded using The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio aka the mobile ‘unit’ or ‘the Rolling truck Stones thing’ as … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, April 7, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, April 5, 2025 A three-headed monster mash featuring 1980 albums by Teenage Head and Talking Heads plus Headstones’ 2022 release Flight Risk. To quote the opening line from Teenage Head’s Disgusteen: Nice day for a party, isn’t it? Which I did a fair bit of with Frantic City by Teenage Head and Talking Heads’ Remain In Light as … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, April 5, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 31, 2025 A program split between ‘fool’ songs, including several from the Deep Purple family, in advance of April Fool’s Day tomorrow, and some random fare. Some of the ‘fool’ songs are repeats from a Saturday morning show I did on April 1, 2023. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New show archive … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 31, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 29, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-29T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-29T09:00:28.mp3 So Old It’s New show archive Facebook page A soul/funk/R & B album set, something of a progression within those genres starting with a classic James Brown live album followed by Otis Redding and ending with, via the Funkadelic album Maggot Brain and the amazing guitar of the late great Eddie Hazel, an … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, March 29, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 24, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-24T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-03-24T21:00:27.mp3 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New Archive Facebook page 1. Rush, The Main Monkey Business 2. Rush, The Seeker 3. The Rolling Stones, Stop Breaking Down 4. The Rolling Stones, No Spare Parts 5. Deep Purple, Anthem 6. Chicago, Prelude To Aire/Aire 7. The Moody Blues, The Actor … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, March 24, 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.