It’s “Girls, Girls, Girls” today on The List. Rock and Roll Girls, Fantasy Girls and even exotic Island Girls will be dropping in…bring your cameras dudes!
Rock and Roll dreams come true today on The List. Join Dan for 5 songs about making it to the top of the rock and roll ladder. Among the rockers is the legend Dan believes is the true “King of Rock and Roll.”
It’s a celebration of Rockers and their April birthdays today on The List. Among others, you’ll hear from the two least famous members of CCR, who celebrate birthdays one day apart. Find out why the CCR reunion failed to materialize last year.
Magic Carpet Ride-Steppenwolf-John Kay (April 12)
Since You’ve Been Gone-Rainbow-Richie Blackmore (April 14)
Born on the Bayou-CCR-Doug Clifford 4/24 and Stu Cook 4/25
When You Close Your Eyes-Night Ranger-Jack Blades (April 24th)
Class is in session today on The List. Dan explores the inspiration and implementation of some rock classics. One tune was inspired by an appliance salesman…another started out as a song about Reagan, but following a visit to a civil rights museum it was changed. It’s song anatomy 101 today at 4 on The List.
How many guys named George do you know? Well there are not a whole lot of them in Rock and Roll. Today on The List Dan will feature the only 5 he could find…and that’s stretchin’ it!
What is Life-George Harrison
Dixie Chicken-Little Feat (Lowell George)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer-George Thorogood
Blue Money—George Ivan (Van) Morrison
Pleasant Valley Sunday-Monkees-George Michael (Mickey) Dolenz
How do you like your Joe? Today at 4 on The List it’s Joe’s of all shapes and sizes. Joes on guitars, Joes with Colorado ties and one Joe who’s the frontman for the best Pop/Metal band of the 80’s.
Levon Helm, the singer and drummer with The Band, is dead of cancer at age 71.
Mark Levon Helm was born in Elaine, Arkansas in 1940 and grew up listening to country and Delta Blues.
He joined Ronnie Hawkins in The Hawks in 1957.
The Band backed Bob Dylan before striking out on their own in 1968 with Music From Big Pink.
Helm starred in such movies as Coal Miner's Daughter and The Right Stuff.
Cancer treatments kept him from performing between 1996 and 2004, but since that time he'd experienced a career renaissance and even won three Grammys since 2008.
He leaves behind wife Sandy and daughter Amy.
On Tuesday, Helm's daughter Amy and wife Sandy posted the following on his website: "Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration... He has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage... We appreciate all the love and support and concern." Helm, the voice of such Band classics as "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," has had numerous health issues since being diagnosed with throat cancer in 1996.
The only American member of The Band -- the other four were Canadian -- Mark Levon Helm was born in Elaine, Arkansas on May 26th, 1940 and grew up to the sounds of the Grand Ole Opry and Sonny Boy Williamson and His King Biscuit Entertainers on the radio. Steeped in the Delta Blues, Levon got his first guitar at age nine and took up the drums at 14. When he was 12, he and his sister Linda would perform as Levon and Linda, winning numerous talent contests along the Arkansas 4-H Club circuit.
In 1957 Levon met Ronnie Hawkins and joined his band, The Hawks, as its drummer. Hawkins eventually recruited Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko, laying the foundation for one of the era's best groups. In the mid-'60s The Hawks left Hawkins and hooked up with Bob Dylan to become his first electric band, but Levon couldn't take the booing from the folk purists who objected to Dylan going electric. and he left shortly there afterwards.
The Band, as they would come to be known, eventually joined Dylan in Woodstock, New York, and Levon made the trip there in 1967. In 1968 they recorded and released their debut album, Music From Big Pink, and followed that up with six studio albums before calling it quits in 1976 with an all-star concert in San Francisco that was dubbed The Last Waltz.
Following the demise of The Band, Levon formed his own group, The RCO All-Stars, in 1977; played with other artists; and went into acting, picking up roles in such notable films as Coal Miner's Daughter and The Right Stuff before re-forming The Band, minus Robertson, in 1983. Richard Manuel took his own life on the road in 1986, but The Band soldiered on and off until the death of Rick Danko in 1999. Levon was also in Ringo Starr's first All-Starr Band in 1989 along with Danko.
In 1996 Levon was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent 28 radiation treatments before being able to sing again in 2004. Since that time he'd had a renaissance -- performing with his daughter Amy, staging his Midnight Ramble shows at his home studio in Woodstock, New York, narrating TV shows and movies, and winning three Grammy Awards since 2008.
Today on The List-The British are coming…again! Dan has chosen 5 of the most impressive early 80’s “synth-pop” bands. It was a new decade and English acts were once again having their way with us. Now, the top band rises above the rest. They have sold over 100 million records and were dubbed “The prettiest boys in rock.”
Anatomical Rock is back today on The List - But this time, it’s the bands, not the songs which speak to the human form. Talking Heads, Naughty Fingers and Little Feat will represent. But it’s The Faces that light up the room...
Little Feat-Dixie Chicken
Badfinger-No Matter What
Talking Heads-This Must Be the Place
Heart-Who Will You Run To
Faces-Stay With Me
Cover Me by Dan Mitchell,posted Apr 16 2012 4:43PM
It's Undercover Rock tonight on the List. Clapton does Cale, The Who cover Eddie Cochran...But who was brave enough to take on Gladys Knight and the mighty Pips?
It’s back through the sands of time to the 60’s today on The List-Dan is counting down the top five bands of the British Invasion. The Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who are in. Two more must be chosen from bands like The Kinks, The Animals and The Yardbirds…decisions, decisions!
Today at 4, Dan goes “live” with The List. Join him as features five songs that sound a whole lot better live than they do as studio recordings. Two of them were recorded in Japan…must have been something in the water!
Today at 4 on the list…You can take it on the run, you can take it to the limit…but you’re gonna have to take it. Unless of course you’re Twisted Sister!
They are the best 2nd albums in Rock History according to Dan-Today on The List He’ll count em down from 5 to one and Dan’s top choice will be controversial. Because technically it wasn’t this bands second album, it was their 12th…But Dan insists it was their 2nd…and it tops the list of best 2nd albums.
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream - Disraeli Gears
Daughter - Pearl Jam - VS
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin II
Take Me To the Pilot - Elton John
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac -Rumours
It’s the Life of Brian today on The List-Dan Counts Down the top 5 dudes named Brian in classic rock. By the way, the number one Brian of all time is not only a rocker; he’s also a school chancellor and an astro-physicist!
Brian Eno (Producer) - U2 -I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Rock and Roll dreams come true today on The List. Join Dan for 5 songs about making it to the top of the rock and roll ladder. Among the rockers is the legend Dan believes is the true “King of Rock and Roll.”
It’s a celebration of Rockers and their April birthdays today on The List. Among others, you’ll hear from the two least famous members of CCR, who celebrate birthdays one day apart. Find out why the CCR reunion failed to materialize last year.
Class is in session today on The List. Dan explores the inspiration and implementation of some rock classics. One tune was inspired by an appliance salesman…another started out as a song about Reagan, but following a visit to a civil rights museum it was changed. It’s song anatomy 101 today at 4 on The List.
How many guys named George do you know? Well there are not a whole lot of them in Rock and Roll. Today on The List Dan will feature the only 5 he could find…and that’s stretchin’ it!
Today on The List: its songs inspired by Colorado. State Troopers, winter storms and Aspen are all part of the story line.
