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DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS

Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik

My Fellow Americans, Life is actually just a microscopic, deluded moment in time, so let"s cut to the freakin" chase. One look at our impending election debacle can solidify my case. It has been my contention since birth, that the answer to every difficulty we encounter on this sacred yet demented Stone, can be revealed with ultimate clarity through the ultra neurotic engagements of Music, Art, Literature, Film, Poetry and a good Pastrami sandwich. Why would any sane human spend so must time on a

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23:11

HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS: "JOHNNY CARSON AND THE...

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2024/12/14

Maybe late-night TV shouldn’t be called “late-night TV” anymore, with so many viewers consuming it in clips the morning after, on their phones. Yet the genre’s hallmarks — the avuncular host, the sidekick, the band, the monologue, the desk, the guests — linger. Most were stamped on America’s consciousness by Johnny Carson.A new biography about an old reliable, Bill Zehme’s “Carson the Magnificent” harks back to an era when doom and scroll were biblical nouns and Carson’s “Tonight Show” was a ...

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4:37

BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SOVAY...

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2024/12/13

You remember that anachronistic Sea Chanty internet meme a couple of years ago? All over the world people were recording themselves singing “The Wellerman”, proving the endurance of the Anglo folk tradition. You can thank Bert Lloyd (1908-1982) in the UK, for being the folklorist and song collector who documented and compiled many of these ancient songs, and for keeping the folk flame alive in the age of modern recording. He started collecting songs when he worked as a sheep herder in Au...

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58:57

HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE GRATEFUL LIVE- ONE BIG...

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2024/12/07

Okay. No one wants to spoil the party.But according to the American Psychological Association, 89% of US adults reported feeling stressed during the 2023 holiday season. It's a good news, bad news situation much like this podcast which is truly a conflicted search for the highway to heaven, if such a utopia indeed exists.At least we make an effort to engage about the comforted and the awkward which is more than I can say for many who only pretend to do so.The holiday season can cause stress f...

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7:36

QUE SERA SERA by Sly and the Family Stone (Epic,...

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2024/12/06

This is a difficult artistic puzzle to sort out: a) Why is this, Doris Day’s signature song, the only cover that Sly ever recorded?; and, b), Is its delivery of “cheerful fatalism” a positive or a negative? The motto, cribbed by song writers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for the Hitchcock film THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, from another film THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, has a rich history of memento mori application going back centuries, and yet, here it appears in a fresh, compelling funk version for t...

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7:11

GUITAR BOY by Sir Victor Uwaifo and his Melody...

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2024/12/02

I miss Amoeba Records in Hollywood. When I was working a few blocks north of there, I’d visit a few times a week during my lunch break. They had a warehouse full of oddities of all mediums and genres, books, films and memorabilia. It was on one of these mid day excursions that I came across an album entitled: “The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa”. This was earmarked and marketed for people just like me. The music contained therein varied quite a bit from my idea of psych, but I love discove...

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21:41

BILL MESNIK OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENTS A...

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2024/11/27

From Bill:Reflecting upon the recent death of Alice Brock, the lady who lived in the bell tower of the abandoned church in Stockbridge, MA, along with her husband, Ray, (and Vacha, the dog) -, and who hosted the now legendary Thanksgiving feast attended by young Arlo Guthrie, that time when he got arrested trying to do his hosts a solid by dumping their excessive garbage - which subsequently soiled his record, making him ineligible for the draft. Well, reflecting upon this landmark recording ...

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37:43

HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "DEVIL IN THE BOTTLE -RICH...

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2024/11/24

The story of a boy, a bottle and the redemption Country Music can deliver.

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6:01

TOTALLY WIRED by The Fall (1982, Rough Trade) BILL...

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2024/11/23

It’s jangly and jarring, but irresistibly hypnotic. Mark E Smith chants this incantation as if he is literally crawling out of his skin. The performance is teeth grinding punk rock in its distilled essence. a portrait of a poet in service to anarchy. And, funny. Deeply biting and ironical, this was DJ champion, John Peel’s favorite group. The lyrics here seem improvised, but he’s a gonzo beat poet extraordinaire - he’s written it all down, and delivers it with his signature repetition i...

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25:08

HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "WE AND MR. JONES -AN...

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2024/11/22

Quincy Jones Receives Posthumous Oscar, and Daughter Gives His SpeechAt the Governors Awards, Rashida Jones spoke on behalf of her father, who died earlier this month at the age of 91.Before his death two weeks ago, the musician and producer Quincy Jones wrote a speech he intended to deliver at the Governors Awards, where he would receive an honorary Oscar at the ceremony created by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.On Sunday night in Hollywood, his actress daughter Rashida Jone...

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5:47

I’M ALWAYS DRUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO by Carmen McRae...

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2024/11/16

I’M ALWAYS DRUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO by Carmen McRae (Atlantic, 1968)Here’s my San Francisco story: In the 1980s, Chemayne and I went there on our honeymoon, spending a week before flying to Hawaii. We stayed at The Red Victorian, a reconverted townhouse in the Haight run by a dedicated, middle aged hippie, Sammy Sun-Child. It was adjacent to the Red Vic movie house, where you lounged on comfortable couches and ate homemade delicacies. The movie that week was Meryl Streep’s Dingo ate my ba...

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Hotel Bohemia And The Splendid Bohemians Present...

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2024/11/14

George Jones’s New YorkBY JAMES BARRON George Jones Live At The Bottom Line- New York City- 19811 Ragged But Right2 The Race Is On3 Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms4 Bartender's Blues5 Grand Tour6 Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong7 You Better Treat Your Man Right8 White Lightning9 Once You've Had the BestAND MORE!Hardly anybody would have looked for an “I ♥ NY” bumper sticker on George Jones’s tour bus. “The story of him and New York was he just didn’t want to come here,” said Jack Grace, a sing...

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24:29

HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS: “REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT"-...

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2024/11/10

"REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT" WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY PHIL OCHS-"IF i CAN DREAM" WRITTEN BY EARL BROWN AND RECORDED BY ELVIS PRESLEY IN HONOR OF THE ONLY ROBERT KENNEDY IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING HIS ASSASSINATION."THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED" DIRECTED BY ROBERT CORMAN AND NARRATED BY CHET HUNTLEY."THE BEST MAN" DIRECTED BY FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER FEATURING HENRY FONDA AND CLIFF ROBERTSON.“There’s something about the guy that I love…” This is what Rich remembered that I had said about DJT. I ...

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ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY by The Bonniwell Music Machine...

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2024/11/06

Any self respecting devotee of fuzz and farfisa will genuflect at the mention of Talk Talk by The Music Machine, the brain busting bombshell that exploded in 1966 at the height of the garage band culture. Along with Psychotic Reaction by The Count V, and 96 Tears by ? And The Mysterians, The Music Machine ruled the airwaves that year. My middle school band, The Full House, could play 96 tears, but Talk Talk was a bronco that was harder to ride. And, the guttural snarl of lead singer Sean Bonn...

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THE BRAMBLE AND THE ROSE by Mary McCaslin and Jim...

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2024/10/30

I’d like to say that this is one of the best love duets ever recorded, but I demur from superlatives generally. However, I can say with certainty that it’s one of my favorites. Maybe it’s the simple, straightforward vocal delivery of these two raw-boned, pioneer types that makes me cry every time they ease into the sinuous harmonies of the chorus. And, the lyrics complement the American Gothic soundscape as they sing: “See how the bramble and the rose intertwine…” It’s a performance for the a...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS A SPECIAL ARCHIVAL EPISODE:...

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2024/10/26

Breaking News!FILM PREMIEREMaureen Gosling'sTHE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE"The amazing story of Barbara Dane, a powerful radical citizen-artist whose magnificent voice and uncompromising dedication to freedom, social justice and global liberation, continues to ring." --Danny Glover, Executive ProducerWATCHTRAILERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdkTz4Lihmwhttps://www.barbaradane.net/DOC 'N ROLL FESTIVALOctober 27th, 2024 @ 5:30pmLONDON - BARBICAN CINEMA 3Director, Maureen Gosling will lead ...

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WILDFLOWERS by The Holy Mackerel (Reprise, 1968) BILL...

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2024/10/22

I discovered this track on a WB compilation set named “My Mind Gets High”, and boy… upon hearing this cut did I ever started experiencing flashbacks. In 1968, The Holy Mackerel was explicitly created as a vehicle for young, up and coming singer-songwriter Paul Williams, whose heavily processed vocal, along with the sitar, places this psychedelic artifact squarely into its late 60s time zone, and although I didn’t start my hallucinogenic experiments until a bit later (around 1970), Wildflowers...

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37:43

"CAPTAIN BILLY’S MAGIC 8 BALL" -SEASON TWO- EPISODE...

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2024/10/19

Last May, my son Jasper and my daughter-in-law Hannah asked me what I would like for my birthday. I said what I always say:“Surprise me.”But then Hannah suggested that they get me an 8 track because she knows I collect them. She wanted to know which genre or artist I like. Also, she didn’t know how, or where to buy one.“Ebay,” I said, and jumped on there to peruse the recent auctions. I like them sealed, or at the very least in a less worn condition. The first delicacy to appear was this...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS “DARTH VADER AND OTHER SWEET...

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2024/10/12

A note from Bill: Rich says I'm too modest about discussing my Acting career - could be. But, today I have a story that I felt compelled to share about my "brush with greatness" with one of the greatest American actors of the 20th century: the titanic James Earl Jones, in a Shakespearean production of the rarely produced Timon of Athens. It's one thing to work with an awesome talent, - and I've stood toe to toe with a bunch of Academy, Tony, and Emmy award winners -, but the heat co...

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LIVE! JOHN FAHEY AT THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL,...

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2024/10/02

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/26/john-fahey-blues-folk-guitar-pioneer#:~:text=For%20the%20uninitiated%2C%20The%20Transfiguration,good%20survey%20of%20his%20style.John Fahey (1939-2001) was a singular folklore musicologist, archivist, and record label entrepreneur who played his instrument like no other person alive.He made weird, earthy, mystical music, and lived a life to match.Bill and Rich are pleased to offer this excerpt from a 1979 Halloween concert given by Mr. Fahey in Sa...

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APE MAN by THE KINKS (1970, Reprise) - BILL MESNIK...

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2024/10/02

Haven’t we all wanted to just get away from the complexities of modern life? Escape the city, quit our jobs, and hit the hammock on some island in the South Pacific? This has been a predominant theme of Ray Davies’ lyrical output. Life today is too stressful; the past was more orderly and harmonious. In this song Ray goes WAY BACK to an imagined eden, a primordial jungle, when there are no jobs, obligations, or need for financial security. Perhaps Ray’s tunes were initially instigated by...

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