So Old It’s New

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…

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So Old It’s New set for Monday, October 14, 2024 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Cold Turkey 2. The Marshall Tucker Band, Ramblin’ 3. Nazareth, Kentucky Fried Blues 4. The Monks Bad Habits 5. The Monkees No Time 6. Warren Zevon, Boom Boom Mancini 7. The Rolling Stones, Long Long While 8. Neil Young, Birds 9. AC/DC, Let’s … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, October 12, 2024 A 3-album replay: The Doors’ 1971 record L.A. Woman, Bad Company’s Desolation Angels from 1979 and The Beatles’ 1964 album A Hard Day’s Night (UK version). My album commentaries are below each record’s track list. The Doors – L.A. Woman 1. The Changeling 2. Love Her Madly 3. Been Down So Long 4. Cars Hiss … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, October 7, 2024 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list that includes a mini-Kris Kristofferson set in tribute to the singer-songwriter who died last week at age 88. 1. Cream, Those Were The Days 2. Blind Faith, Sea Of Joy 3. Led Zeppelin, The Ocean 4. Marianne Faithfull, House Of The Rising Sun 5. The Rolling Stones, Get … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, October 5, 2024 A two-album show starting with the amazing journey, to quote one of the song titles, that is the rock opera Tommy, released by The Who in 1969, followed by Between The Buttons (UK version), released by The Rolling Stones in 1967. In between, a one-song bridge, Blame It On The Stones, leading into the Stones … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 I had my show set up before I learned of the passing of singer/songwriter/actor Kris Kristofferson, so I’ll pay tribute to him either on my Saturday morning show Oct. 5 and/or next Monday night, Oct. 7/24. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. Frank Zappa, The Torture Never Stops 2. Genesis, Squonk 3. Yes, … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 Three albums from what at the time was often described as a group of angry young men – that being Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson and Graham Parker in their early, breakthrough years of the late 1970s when new wave and punk rock broke big. First up is Elvis Costello’s debut My Aim Is True from … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 A tribute to the songs of JD Souther, the songwriter well known particularly for his collaborations with the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. Souther died at age 78 on Sept. 17. So, a lot of Eagles/Don Henley and Ronstadt tracks, one by Warren Zevon, another by Bonnie Raitt and some stuff performed by Souther himself. Included … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024 I’m leading off with three ‘morning’ songs, for my morning show, by Bad Company, early Chicago and The Beatles. I conclude with a couple songs, by the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, written or co-written by JD (John David) Souther, who died at age 78 this past week. It’s a teaser to a set featuring his … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 About half the set is material I couldn’t squeeze into my recent Labour Day work-oriented show from Sept.2. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. Fu Manchu, Neptune’s Convoy 2. Flash and The Pan, Media Man 3. The Godfathers, Birth, School, Work, Death 4. The Police, Dead End Job 5. Devo, Working In The … Continue reading →

So Old It’s New set for Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024 On the menu for Saturday morning: British hard rock/progressive band Wishbone Ash’s 1972 classic album Argus, then Moontan from the Dutch group Golden Earring, the 1973 record famous for its hit single Radar Love, just one of the consistently satisfying songs on a terrific front-to-back album of hard rock with a sometimes progressive edge. I … Continue reading →

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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.

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