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So Old It’s New

This is Bald Boy. I host a classic rock album cuts show — So Old It’s New — on 102.7 Sound FM Radio, airing 8-10 pm Mondays. 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.

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On Saturdays from 7:00am to 9:00am 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 on hiatus, back June 24 No shows for a bit, I’m taking a break. Aiming to be back on my regular Saturday 7-9 am, Monday 8-10 pm schedule on Saturday, June 24.  There will be programmed music in those time slots while I’m off.
So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 22, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET What started with my usual Victoria Day opener, this time a live version of Victoria by The Kinks, soon became a hard rock/metal show, as the muse morphed . . . The Kinks, Victoria (live, from One For The Road) Mott The Hoople, Rock And Roll Queen The Who, The Acid Queen Stampeders, Then Came … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 22, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET
So Old It’s New set list for Saturday, May 20, 2023 – on air 7-9 am ET My track-by-track tales follow this bare-bones list. The Rolling Stones, Too Tough Ten Years After, 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain Hawkwind, Brainstorm Pete Townshend, Communication Faces, Bad ‘N’ Ruin Jimi Hendrix, Like A Rolling Stone (from Live At Monterey) Neil Young, Albuquerque The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Arroyo The Beatles, Doctor Robert Grateful Dead, Friend Of … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Saturday, May 20, 2023 – on air 7-9 am ET
So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 15, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET My track-by-track tales follow this bare-bones list. Joe Jackson, 1-2-3 Go (This Town’s A Fairground) Tim Curry, I Do The Rock Stray Cats, Rev It Up And Go Madness, One Step Beyond . . . Creedence Clearwater Revival, Born To Move Lighthouse, Broken Guitar Blues Traveling Wilburys, Dirty World Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Goon … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 15, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET
So Old It’s New set list for Saturday, May 13, 2023 – on air 7-9 am ET I was originally going to do a ‘blues masters’ show. It’s something I’ve done on occasion but as things developed I took a slightly different path and wound up also featuring a healthy dose of tracks, mostly slow which is the type of blues I most enjoy, from artists like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Saturday, May 13, 2023 – on air 7-9 am ET
So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 8, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET My track-by-track tales follow this bare-bones list. Emerson, Lake and Powell, Mars, The Bringer Of War Alannah Myles, Our World Our Times The Rolling Stones, Continental Drift Sniff ‘N’ The Tears, Rodeo Drive James Gang, Driftin’ Dreamer The Flying Burrito Brothers, Lazy Days Blue Rodeo, Girl In Green (live, from Just Like A Vacation) Roxy … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 8, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET
So Old It’s New Gordon Lightfoot (RIP) tribute set list for Saturday, May 6, 2023- on air 7-9 am ET So Old It’s New set list in tribute to Canadian icon Gordon Lightfoot, who died this past week at age 84. Obviously a pillar of Canadian music and beyond our borders, what is amazingly satisfying and interesting to me has been the ongoing outpouring from people, not just in Canada but everywhere, sharing songs, stories, … Continue reading So Old It’s New Gordon Lightfoot (RIP) tribute set list for Saturday, May 6, 2023- on air 7-9 am ET
So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 1, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET My track-by-track tales follow this bare-bones list. The Rolling Stones, Hey Negrita Kris Kristofferson, Blame It On The Stones Humble Pie, Hot ‘N’ Nasty AC/DC, Stormy May Day Led Zeppelin, In My Time Of Dying Blue Oyster Cult, Shooting Shark Curtis Mayfield, Pusherman Trooper, The Boys In The Bright White Sports Car The Beatles, Lovely … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Monday, May 1, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET
So Old It’s New set list for Saturday, April 29, 2023 – on air 7-9 am ET My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. Jethro Tull, Wolf Unchained Little Feat, Juliette Zuffalo, Flowering Rush Grateful Dead, Unbroken Chain The Allman Brothers Band, High Cost Of Low Living J.J. Cale, Artificial Paradise Harry Chapin, Sunday Morning Sunshine Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lodi Thin Lizzy, Slow Blues Ten Years After, Slow Blues In ‘C’ (from … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Saturday, April 29, 2023 – on air 7-9 am ET
So Old It’s New set list for Monday, April 24, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET I’ve divided tonight’s show into segments: progressive rock followed by metal/hard rock, then singer/songwriters, then some new wave from my college days before finishing up with The Doors, a different version of Bad Company featuring Paul Rodgers soundalike vocalist Robert Hart, The Rolling Stones and a Mark Knopfler project, The Notting Hillbillies. My track-by-track tales … Continue reading So Old It’s New set list for Monday, April 24, 2023 – on air 8-10 pm ET

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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.