Punk New York Radio

Punk New York Radio The old saw is that punk music first exploded onto the scene in London, England, but this station holds to the underground "you-had-to-be-there" common-sense that points to Richard Hell's debut album and its New York-based derivatives as the genesis of punk fashion. NYC bands like the Ramones, Television, Blondie and the Talking Heads were the original artist seeds I started with when I created this station in 2007. In retrospect, it appears to me that this station's primary focus is on early punk music, which was a little before my time. In 2009 I decided that adding the Sex Pistols and the Clash would give this station a more comprehensive and definitive feel. This station evolved, much the same way that punk music evolved into a kind of soundtrack for the quarter-acre high ranch homes of Rockland County, NY a decade or two later. In a way this station is dedicated to the punk music that I did not listen to in my youth; for the punk music I did actually listen to in my adolescence, please see my "Teenage Punk" station (November 28, 2016). https://www.pandora.com/station/225270626673797294

Others Ones Radio

The Grateful Dead are my favorite band of all time; every four weeks I listen to their music thru iTunes on my laptop from 8 PM to 12 AM, and I play the music randomly, but I make careful notations as to which albums are played all night long. I have about 150 CDs loaded onto my computer and about another hundred stored away (I plan to open my green storage trunk at the foot of my bed next summer 2017. I am dying to hear the Closing of Winterland again !) I have divided my Grateful Dead listening experiences according to three customized playlists on iTunes: Studio Discography/Miscellaneous Live shows/and Dick's Picks, of which I have about 20 volumes. In addition, the Grateful Dead appear among my Pandora stations as the most frequently cited artist: Bill Graham radio has the band itself, Dead Fan has a number of Dead song seeds, Goodbye Jerry has Jerry Garcia music and Other Ones Radio has the the individual members of the Dead's rocking combo in their various music permutations: Phil Lesh and Friends, Bob Weir and Ratdog, and Mickey Hart's drum music. I don't think Bill Kreutzman, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Pigpen and Brent Mydland are available. I decided to spice things up a bit, adding Giacomo Puccini's operatic airs in 2012 and the bluegrass music of Bill Monroe in 2014. This station is the contemporary way to get your Deadhead streaming "fix" and, contemporaneously, satisfy your sadistic libidinal impulses in a socially positive manner (November 3, 2016). https://www.pandora.com/station/11723328003287214