MON JUL 19, 2010
Host: Chris Pastras, Derek Rinaldi
E-Mail Address For The Show duneandderekradioshow@gmail.com


Dune's Notes

Welcome Friends, Romans, and Counrtymen, What are two guys who were born in the 70's, stuck in the 80's and were semi famous skateboarders in the 90's doing with a radio show? We're still trying to figure it out ourselves. Each week, we'll do our best to bring you an hour of music along with some in studio and on location filler from skateboarders, musicians and other rogue personalities.
 
This week I kick off the hour with songs based around two things very American....heartache and freedom...Enjoy!

Dune's Picks
A Salty Salute/ Guided By Voices: I remember first hearing this song hanging out in New Brunswick w. a few of my musician buddies. The eldest one, Keith Hartel, who has always been a bit of a local NJ music luminary, gave me the rundown on GBV...the party hungry school teacher was the singer, they recorded on 4-tracks, regular guys from Ohio, I was instantly hooked. They inspired me to make music of my own, the height of which would be the 4-track music in our Stereo skate video called Tincan Folklore.

Heaven/Psychedelic Furs: A very young Dylan Rieder turned me on to this band that I can't say I was ever much of a fan of. What was a 12 year old doing listening to The Psychedelic Furs? Kids always had good style, and cool ass parents too. I tell ya this is one damn good 80's psych-pop song. And if it's one thing I've learned about 80's music, it's that is drives the ladies crazy. We used to frequent a nightclub called 1984 in San Francisco in the mid-90's. Crazy emo music everyone remembers from Jr. High, everybody dancing cause you can't possibly look any stupider dancing to Wham, the vodka was flowing, and everyone went home happy if you know what I mean, wink wink.

Love is Hell/Ryan Adams: Ain't it the freakin’ truth. The ultimate break up song, and I lived it not that long ago. Sing it Ryan...

Stay Free/The Clash: When I started making my playlists for our shows, I kept noticing the theme of freedom in a bunch of my picks. Maybe something to do with the whole breakup deal? Who knows, but freedom is pretty sweet either way. And this is a band I actually listened to in the 80's. The Clash just never gets old.

Sailin' On/Bad Brains: See what I mean, Sailin On? More freedom right? Hey, you can never have too much freedom. Well, maybe you can, for instance if your a baby and your allowed to play with knives, now that's just too much freedom. What can you say about the Bad Brains that hasn't already been said, I think we just listen. Oh wait, I know a story...the Brains played a show at my buddy Clint's warehouse, and HR chose his bedroom as his backstage hangout before the show. So he just sat in my buddies room w. no lights on and smoked weed for like 4 or 5 hours. His room became some sort of HR meditation chamber, he was bummed...but honored.

This Must Be The Place/Talking Heads: This song makes me happy. Someone on Krooked Skateboards used it in a video, which makes sense because I first heard this song through Mark Gonzales. Mark has always had eclectic, yet exquisite musical taste.

Keep the Car Running/Arcade Fire: This song makes me want to either go skate, or rob a bank. I saw The Arcade Fire play The Hollywood Bowl a couple years ago...quite possibly my favorite live show ever. Something about seeing an epic band in that epic open air amphitheater...in fact I suggest you put "see epic show at Hollywood Bowl" on your bucket list, right next to "must have threesome".

Should Have Been in Love/ Wilco: Jeff Tweedy is a bad ass, and the album A.M. has been in heavy rotation with me for the last 10 plus years. If you don't already own it, I highly suggest you buy it. Arguably the best Wilco album from front to back in my opinion. And this song is the ultimate..."how did I get here?" jam. I read it as a tune about a compromise of the heart.

Here Comes My Girl/Tom Petty: This one on the other hand is the ultimate, "how do i GET there!" song. Stay thirsty my friends. Life is short, and is meant to be enjoyed. It's when we compromise and live in fear that we settle for situations we may not completely want. Ride your boner to the top of the Eiffel tower, and get out there after the girl, the job, the session, or the life that makes your heart a pitter patter. Cause when the ticker stops, all we're left with is the memories. Let's make 'em damn good ones. Go get em' tiger.

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Derek's Notes

Well, it's been a crazy week leading up to our first show. Between work and travel, I think we're lucky we were able to get it all done in time...barely. It's 1:00pm here at the Shore Alternative studio in Asbury Park, New Jersey and to say we got done just in time is an understatement. Well, while Dune's group of songs focused on heartache and freedom, I decided to find a bunch of songs that were on my short list of songs I'd want to play first on a radio show. In no pqarticular order, these are the songs I picked. So I don't want to waste too much space here but I want to take time to thank Mike Merrell, Race and Bill O'Brien for giving us the chance to host this show and a special thanks to Pete Lepore for his 11th hour editing. eNJoy!!!


Derek's Picks

Replacements - Left Of The Dial
What I’m about to say will surely get me tossed out of any relevant music conversation from this point forward but, screw it, I never thought I’d be involved in any of them anyway. When I first heard the Replacements, I didn’t like them. I know. I know.

There was a time when I would have thought The Replacements ‘Stink’ was a statement and not an album title and it wasn’t until I heard the over produced ‘Pleased To Meet Me’ did I get reintroduced to them. Once I was dialed in, I was all to happy to rewind through their discography and become reacquainted with what would be music that I really could not live without.

Ramones - Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio
How can you not have this song on any ‘first play’ list. The runner up in my Ramones quandary was ‘We Want The Airwaves’, which would have been equally as suitable but I guess if all works well we’ll have plenty of other shows to included that. Any band that manages to squeeze a mention of Murray The K, Alan Freed and Ed Sullivan in between their three chords is okay in my book. I used the term ‘mentions’ and not ‘shout outs’ so as not to make Joey Ramone to turn in his grave. “We need change/ We need it fast/ Before rock’s just part of the past/ ‘Cause lately it all sounds the same to me”. Amen

Marah - Christian St.
While we’re on the topic of paying homage to legendary disc jockeys, how about Philadelphia’s Hy Lit. Never mind the jokes of DJ’s having faces only a radio listener would love, in 1967 Lit was the in the running for ‘Most Handsome DJ in the world’. I’m not sure if he actually won. I was born two years later and had a lot more on my mind at the time. Hy Lit passed away in 2007 and Marah moved to Brooklyn. Philadelphia misses them both.

Band Of Horses - Laredo
How can a song so new be considered as a song I’ve always wanted to play for my first radio song? Simple, it’s that good. It’s funny to say but as music fans you are constantly waiting to hear your next favorite song. Then once you get it, it goes on heavy rotation in your mind and travels with you everywhere you go. This song does that for me now and I hope it always does.

The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress
I am far from a religious person but Thank God (if there is one) for The Hold Steady. Sometimes, without ever meeting someone, you feel that if you ran into them at a bar, possibly in Ybor City, you’d spend a night shuttling between the jukebox and the bar talking about  growing up with The Replacements, skateboarding being stuck between stations.

I feel that way about Craig Finn and when I walked passed him at an event in New York City I was so surprised he was there I never got a chance to threaten him to accept a drink from me so we could start that conversation. Oh well, there’s always Ybor City.

Elvis Costello - Clubland
We used to spend a lot of time at a place called the Cherry Tavern in New York drinking $5 pitchers of Molson Ale and playing pool on the bar size table while noshing on the cuisine d'-jour - Blue Diamond Smoke house Almonds. This song was on the jukebox and I played it every time I was there.

Van Morrison - Dancing In The Moonlight
If you don’t like this song, than we can’t be friends. “We like to have fun and we never fight/ You can't dance and stay uptight/ It's a supernatural delight/ Everybody was dancin in the moonlight” Perfect.

X- 4th Of July
X was another of those bands that I didn’t totally ‘get’ until I heard their more produced studio stuff. Not sure why that is but, like with The Replacements, once the connection was made, I was instantly hooked on their entire catalog.

I first heard them while skating this perfect little mini ramp in Queens with Jeremy Henderson I guess about 1990. The ramp was in this courtyard surrounded by apartments and covered with huge trees that made summer skating tolerable.  The next day I flew to San Franciso and listened only to the ‘See How We Are’  disc, over and over. Funny how that works. It also doesn’t hurt that it’s this song signifies, among many many things, a 3 day holiday. Happy Belated Birthday America.

 

Well, it's been a crazy week leading up to our first show. Between work and travel, I think we're lucky we were able to get it all done in time...barely.  It's 1:00pm here at the Shore Alternative studio in Asbury Park, New Jersey and to say we got done just in time is an understatement.  Well, while Dune's group of songs focused on heartache and freedom, I decided to find a bunch of songs that were on my short list of songs I'd want to play first on a radio show.  In no pqarticular order, these are the songs I picked.  So I don't want to waste too much space here but I want to take time to thank Mike Merrell, Race and Bill O'Brien for giving us the chance to host this show and a special thanks to Pete Lepore for his 11th hour editing. eNJoy!!!