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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, June 16, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-16T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-16T21:00:27.mp3 I go from mostly short and sweet with my Brian Wilson/Beach Boys tribute set last Saturday – 42 songs including the 13 from Wilson’s masterpiece album Pet Sounds – to just nine total songs this week: Lengthy progressive rock pieces bracketing a few shorter psychedelic soul funk rock cuts from Sly And The … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, June 16, 2025
So Old It’s New Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) tribute set for Saturday, June 14/25 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-14T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-14T09:00:27.mp3 A tribute to Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, who died on Wednesday. I’m playing his magnum opus, the 1966 album Pet Sounds followed by some deeper Beach Boys tracks from their post-surfer hits days, then closing with a mixture of well-known hits and album tracks. Many of those, picked by Wilson himself, … Continue reading So Old It’s New Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) tribute set for Saturday, June 14/25
So Old It’s New set for Monday, June 9, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-09T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-09T21:00:27.mp3 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New archive Facebook page 1. The Rolling Stones, Out Of Control (live, from No Security) 2. The Stooges, No Fun 3. Jethro Tull, Hymn 43 4. Deep Purple, Lady Double Dealer 5. Black Sabbath, Turn Up The Night 6. Fight, Into The Pit … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, June 9, 2025
So Old It’s New ’27 Club’ set for Saturday, June 7, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-07T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-07T09:00:27.mp3 A ‘27 Club‘ album set featuring artists from the so-called 27 Club of those who died at age 27: Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Jim Morrison of The Doors. On the menu: Hendrix’s incendiary performance at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, Nirvana’s 1991 grunge breakthrough Nevermind and The Doors’ Strange … Continue reading So Old It’s New ’27 Club’ set for Saturday, June 7, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, June 2, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-02T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-06-02T21:00:27.mp3 My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New show archive Facebook page 1. Triumph, Blinding Light Show/Moonchild 2. Argent, The Coming Of Kohoutek/Once Around The Sun/Infinite Wanderer 3. Supertramp, A Soapbox Opera 4. Ian Hunter, Noises 5. Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure (live, from 2003 reunion tour) 6. U2, God … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, June 2, 2025
So Old It’s New Beatles solo album set for Saturday, May 31, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-31T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-31T09:00:27.mp3 A solo Beatles triple play: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band from 1970 which featured drummer Ringo Starr on seven of the 11 original release tracks followed by George Harrison’s 33 & 1/3 from 1976 and Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1973 blockbuster Band On The Run. My thoughts on each album follow the track listings. … Continue reading So Old It’s New Beatles solo album set for Saturday, May 31, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, May 26, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-26T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-26T21:00:27.mp3 So Old It’s New show archive Facebook page My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. 1. Deep Purple, ‘A’ 200 2. Deep Purple, Child In Time (live, from Made In Japan) 3. It’s A Beautiful Day, Bombay Calling 4. Black Sabbath, E5150 5. Black Sabbath, Master Of Insanity 6. UFO, Love To Love … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, May 26, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, May 24, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-24T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-24T09:00:27.mp3 Two perhaps tied together forever 1967 albums – The Beatles’ groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Rolling Stones’ supposed attempted copy of it, Their Satanic Majesties Request. And, to fill in the 2-hour primarily psychedelic playlist, the live side of Pink Floyd’s 1969 studio/live album Ummagumma. My thoughts on the … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, May 24, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Monday, May 19, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-19T20:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-19T21:00:27.mp3 Victoria Day in Canada set. All songs involve queens, kings, royalty, whether by band, song title or mention in lyrics. My track-by-track tales follow the bare-bones list. So Old It’s New show archive Facebook page 1. The Beatles, Her Majesty 2. The Kinks, Victoria 3. Sex Pistols, God Save The Queen 4. The … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Monday, May 19, 2025
So Old It’s New set for Saturday, May 17, 2025 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-17T08:00:27.mp3 https://txer.radiowaterloo.ca:18443/audiologs/audiolog-start-2025-05-17T09:00:27.mp3 A two-album play, second of two such Saturday shows after last week playing The Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels and Neil Young’s Freedom, highlighting ‘comeback’ albums released in 1989 by major artists who had relatively spotty results earlier in the decade. This week, Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy and Eric Clapton’s Journeyman. My thoughts on … Continue reading So Old It’s New set for Saturday, May 17, 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.