Turn Me On, Dead Man

Turn Me On, Dead Man Radio on Live365.com plays garage rock, punk and psychedelia from the last four decades. In addition to the regular rotation, which runs 24 hours a day, you can also hear a variety of special programs throughout the week:

The Radio Dream
Wednesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
Holy Fuzz! A new episode of Bob Felberg’s entertaining The Radio Dream.

Generation Y
Thursday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
Music old and new from Jeremy Edwards.  Check out Generation Y.

Cold War Sci-Fi Theater
Saturday at 1:00 AM EDT (-4GMT)
Science Fiction radio shows from another time, another world on Turn Me On, Dead Man, with paranoid visions of alien invasions and mushroom clouds. This week’s show is “Mars Is Heaven” from 1950.

The Scene of the Dead Man
Sunday at 10:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
“There Is Still a Light That Shines on Me” Strange and wonderful cover versions of the Beatles’ “Let It Be.” You can hear it all on The Scene of the Dead Man with Todd Gardner.

Nick Warburton’s Sixties Rock Machine
Tuesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
A rebroadcast of one of Nick’s early shows featuring hard-to-find music from the 1960s.

Tune in to hear these shows and plenty of great garage rock, psychedelia and punk on “Turn Me On, Dead Man” on Live365 at http://www.live365.com/stations/turnmeondeadman.

Make a contribution to Turn Me On, Dead Man and receive a CD!

Those generous enough to contribute to Turn Me On, Dead Man will have their choice of either

Where Are They Now? a CD by the 1960s garage band the Brymers, which also comes with a poster, or

Can’t Keep from Crying, a CD collection of blues paying tribute to President John F. Kennedy

Supplies are limited so act now to help out Turn Me On, Dead Man!

Turn Me On, Dead Man Radio on Live365.com plays garage rock, punk and psychedelia from the last four decades. In addition to the regular rotation, which runs 24 hours a day, you can also hear a variety of special programs throughout the week:

Generation Y
Thursday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Keep your ears perked and your eyes peeled for common ground in unlikely places, be it lyrical, musical, nominal, emotional or thematic.

“Voyage Du Homage” from Trip Inside This House
Friday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

A rebroadcast of valis’s recent psychedelic trip. This week’s show is “Voyage Du Homage.” Play spot the influence as psych artists pay homage to the greats of psychedelia past.

Cold War Sci-Fi Theater
Saturday at 1:00 AM EDT (-4GMT)
Turn Me On, Dead Man goes boldly into the future–or at least a vision of the future from the past–through the wonder of science fiction radio. This week’s show is “Mar Is Heaven” from 1950.

The Scene of the Dead Man
Sunday at 10:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
A rebroadcast of “Around the World,” cover versions of sixties songs that originated in English speaking countries but were recorded by artists from non-English speaking areas. You can hear it all on The Scene of the Dead Man with Todd Gardner.

Nick Warburton’s Sixties Rock Machine
Tuesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
A rebroadcast of one of Nick’s early shows featuring hard-to-find music from the 1960s.

Tune in to hear these shows and plenty of great garage rock, psychedelia and punk on “Turn Me On, Dead Man” on Live365 at http://www.live365.com/stations/turnmeondeadman.

Turn Me On, Dead Man Radio on Live365.com plays garage rock, punk and psychedelia from the last four decades. In addition to the regular rotation, which runs 24 hours a day, you can also hear a variety of special programs throughout the week:

Nick Warburton’s Sixties Rock Machine
Tuesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
A rebroadcast of Nick’s most recent show. You may ask what links Australian ’60s beat group, The Easybeats with ’70s heavy rock pioneers AC/DC and British ’60s pop harmony group Grapefruit, the first band signed to the Beatles’ Apple label? The answer is the multi-talented Young family from Glasgow. Eldest brother Alex Young a.k.a. George Alexander was the only family member not to emigrate to Australia in 1964 and worked with Bobby Patrick & The Big Six and then Tony Sheridan & The Big Six in Germany before forming Grapefruit. His younger brother George Young became half of the song-writing partnership Vanda/Young with Dutchman Harry Vanda in The Easybeats in Sydney. They were arguably one of the most underrated songwriting partnerships from the 1960s, hence the dedication of this show to that band. When Grapefruit and the Easybeats broke up in London in 1969, George Alexander got together with Vanda and Young and recorded under various alias, most notably Paintbox and Tramp. Of course younger brothers Angus and Malcolm Young ended up leading AC/DC. This show highlights the family connections and Vanda/Young partnership.

Generation Y
Thursday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Make it rough. Nah, make it smooth. How about a bit of both? Let Speck Mountain’s languid guitar lines wash you away. Then, when you’ve had enough surf, meet the turf, and the full-throated howlers who call it home.  Check out this week’s Generation Y with Jeremy Edwards.

Voyage Du Homage from Trip Inside This House
Friday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

A new psychedelic excursion from valis.  This week’s show is “Voyage Du Homage.”  Play spot the influence as psych artists pay homage to the greats of psychedelia past.

Cold War Sci-Fi Theater
Saturday at 1:00 AM EDT (-4GMT)
Turn Me On, Dead Man goes boldly into the future–or at least a vision of the future from the past–through the wonder of science fiction radio. This week’s show is “Operation Tomorrow.”

The Scene of the Dead Man
Sunday at 10:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
This week’s show: “Around the World,” cover versions of sixties songs that originated in English speaking countries but were recorded by artists from non-English speaking areas.  You can hear it all on The Scene of the Dead Man with Todd Gardner.

Tune in to hear these shows and plenty of great garage rock, psychedelia and punk on “Turn Me On, Dead Man” on Live365 at http://www.live365.com/stations/turnmeondeadman.

Turn Me On, Dead Man Radio on Live365.com plays garage rock, punk and psychedelia from the last four decades. In addition to the regular rotation, which runs 24 hours a day, you can also hear a variety of special programs throughout the week:

Nick Warburton’s Sixties Rock Machine
Tuesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
A new show from Nick Warburton.  You may ask what links Australian ’60s beat group, The Easybeats with ’70s heavy rock pioneers AC/DC and British ’60s pop harmony group Grapefruit, the first band signed to the Beatles’ Apple label? The answer is the multi-talented Young family from Glasgow. Eldest brother Alex Young a.k.a. George Alexander was the only family member not to emigrate to Australia in 1964 and worked with Bobby Patrick & The Big Six and then Tony Sheridan & The Big Six in Germany before forming Grapefruit. His younger brother George Young became half of the song-writing partnership Vanda/Young with Dutchman Harry Vanda in The Easybeats in Sydney. They were arguably one of the most underrated songwriting partnerships from the 1960s, hence the dedication of this show to that band. When Grapefruit and the Easybeats broke up in London in 1969, George Alexander got together with Vanda and Young and recorded under various alias, most notably Paintbox and Tramp. Of course younger brothers Angus and Malcolm Young ended up leading AC/DC. This show highlights the family connections and Vanda/Young partnership.

The Radio Dream
Wednesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
An entertaining weekly show by Bob Felberg.

Generation Y
Thursday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
The guitar has long been anointed the symbol of rock music, but sometimes the guitar alone doesn’t cut it. There’s a spot it can’t satisfy, like an itch you can’t quite reach.  You need songs with really killer bass.  Check out this week’s Generation Y with Jeremy Edwards.

Cold War Sci-Fi Theater
Saturday at 1:00 AM EDT (-4GMT)
Turn Me On, Dead Man goes boldly into the world of science fiction radio. This week’s show is “The Trouble with Robots.”

The Scene of the Dead Man
Sunday at 10:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
This week’s show: “Revolution.”  The revolution may not be televised but it will be on The Scene of the Dead Man with Todd Gardner.

Tune in to hear these shows and plenty of great garage rock, psychedelia and punk on “Turn Me On, Dead Man” on Live365 at http://www.live365.com/stations/turnmeondeadman.

Turn Me On, Dead Man is now being broadcast in 128K audio, a substantial improvement over the 64K MP3Pro audio I had been using.  Live365 offered a new range of broadcast packages recently with more music library storage space and a broader range of audio quality to choose from.  Currently 128K is the highest sample rate available and I decided to move up to that level.  Your ears will definitely notice a difference.

One of the most interesting garage/psych compilations is called Simla Beat 70/71. I received this email recently from someone who identified himself as “Web Surf”:

I was a kid of 8 years when my parents took me to see the Simla Beat Contests 70/71. If I remember correctly, they were held in SHANMUKHANANDA HALL, a famous place for dramas, concerts, recitals at that time. In those days, India was starved for music. It was very hard to get Passports or USD for travel. There was only one show on the radio playing English music for an hour a week, and that was mostly pathetic pop (Carpenters, Anka, Denver for example). Most music trickled down into India via Cassettes smuggled in by “My friends’s girlfriend who is an airhostess with AIR INDIA” Hence a chance to hear Psych, Rock was a Godsend. This was my first exposure to the likes of CCR, Cream though I didnt know those names then and only realised 10 years later that Bayou was originally sung by CCR. My dad got hold of the LPs of Simla Beat Contest and we recorded them on our spool player. I remember listening to them very often ( Along with our recording of Woodstock) Recently, there was a tune playing over and over in my head and I realised I first heard it on the Simla Beat Contest LPs. I obtained the recording and I was immediately transported into my childhood. There it was, a raw recording of young kids, with their very live feeling, you can make out that the recording is not the greatest ( Its noisy and not well balanced) , the singing is slightly out of tune sometimes, but its pure raw live music. You can feel you are right there with the band in a practice session In many ways, Simla Beat contest was one of the reasons why I purchased a Guitar when I was 15 and have spend the last 30 years trying to play it !!!!

In my reply I asked him which tracks had stuck in his mind, and he replied “Proper Stranger” by the Genuine Spares and “Zorba’s Dance” by Innerlite. What’s interesting is that the Indian bands who played in this festival were trying to sound western. My favorite track off this compilation, “Simla Beat Theme,” has an eastern flavor to it, unlike most of the straight-ahead rock tracks on this compilation. The irony of “Simla Beat Theme” is that it sounds like an American garage band trying to sound Indian. But where western bands were trying to sound eastern by using a sitar, the Fentones achieved their Indian sound with guitar-bass-drums.

Turn Me On, Dead Man Radio on Live365.com plays garage rock, punk and psychedelia from the last four decades. In addition to the regular rotation, which runs 24 hours a day, you can also hear a variety of special programs throughout the week:

Nick Warburton’s Sixties Rock Machine
Tuesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
Hard-to-find gems from the sixties, presented by Nick Warburton.

The Radio Dream
Wednesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
An entertaining weekly show by Bob Felberg.

Generation Y
Thursday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
Tune in to find out what the kids are all talking about, Generation Y with Jeremy Edwards.

Cold War Sci-Fi Theater
Saturday at 1:00 AM EDT (-4GMT)
Turn Me On, Dead Man goes boldly into the world of science fiction radio. This week’s show is an episode of Dimension X from 1951 called “The Martian Death March,” where humans have colonized Mars and force the indigenous spiders to relocate. Could this have been the inspiration for Ziggy Stardust?

The Scene of the Dead Man
Sunday at 10:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
“Standing at the Crossroads,” an all-blues show built loosely around “Big Road Blues” this week on The Scene of the Dead Man with Todd Gardner.

Tune in to hear these shows and plenty of great garage rock, psychedelia and punk on “Turn Me On, Dead Man” on Live365 at http://www.live365.com/stations/turnmeondeadman.

In the past few months Turn Me On, Dead Man has introduced a number of new programs contributed by people who have great record collections, some of which have become regular weekly shows. I have also begun my own weekly show (Sunday nights at 10:00 eastern time) where I take a theme and run with it. Check out the list of all the new programming on Turn Me On, Dead Man at

http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/Radio/Schedule.php

Tonight (technically, early tomorrow morning) at 1:00 AM eastern time begins a new program that stretches the boundaries even further: Cold War Sci-Fi Theater. Anyone who has listened to Turn Me On, Dead Man for any length of time will recognize that the station IDs are taken from 1950 science fiction movies. Cold War Sci-Fi Theater takes this to a new level by airing science fiction radio shows from the 1950s and after. The debut of Cold War Sci-Fi Theater is a 1953 radio play of The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Michael Rennie, who also starred in the 1951 movie version of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Each week Turn Me On, Dead Man will present radio shows about alien invasions, nuclear annihilation and cold war paranoia, so join the fun Saturdays at 1:00 AM eastern time.

Cold War Sci-Fi Theater
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Saturdays 1:00 AM (EDT)(-4 GMT)
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Turn Me On, Dead Man Radio on Live365.com plays garage rock, punk and psychedelia from the last four decades.  In addition to the regular rotation, which runs 24 hours a day, you can also hear a variety of special programs throughout the week:

Nick Warburton’s Sixties Rock Machine
Tuesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
Encore broadcast of the sixth installment of Nick’s always-entertaining show.

The Radio Dream
Wednesday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
This week begins the regular weekly broadcast of the Radio Dream with Bob Felberg.

Generation Y
Thursday at 3:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
This week also begins the regular weekly broadcast of Generation Y with Jeremy Edwards.

Cold War Sci-Fi Theater
Saturday at 1:00 AM EDT (-4GMT)
Turn Me On, Dead Man goes boldly into the world of science fiction radio.  Starting off this new feature is a 1953 radio production of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”  Klaatu Barada Nikto.

The Scene of the Dead Man
Sunday at 10:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
The Dead Man in the Purple Haze (and Hazes of a Different Color).  This hour brings you a number of strange cover versions of the Jimi Hendrix class “Purple Haze” as well as other hazy tunes.

Tune in to hear these shows and plenty of great garage rock, psychedelia and punk on “Turn Me On, Dead Man” on Live365 at http://www.live365.com/stations/turnmeondeadman.