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ROCKOLLECTIONS: ANGELS PT.1

This is a Series that should have started last week.

But every time I sat down to do it, I couldn't get it going.

Maybe emotions were involved.…

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Added by Mike Pell on February 18, 2013 at 1:42am — 13 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MARDI GRAS PT.1

This week it is Fat Tuesday, last day of the Mardi Gras, and the last time to party like crazy before Lent begins the…

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Added by Mike Pell on February 10, 2013 at 11:18pm — 5 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REBELS PT.4 CONCLUSION

This is it, the final episode of my musical take on Rebels.

Included, a look at James Dean- a key scene from Rebel Without A Cause interspersed with Music that connects to him.

There will be other songs too, dealing…

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Added by Mike Pell on February 6, 2013 at 3:11am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REBELS PT.3

What does it take to be a True Rebel, and does this guy qualify?

"William H. Bonney (better known as Billy the Kid) was a 19th-century American gunman who became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West.

According to legend, he killed…

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Added by Mike Pell on February 4, 2013 at 12:40am — 9 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REBELS PT.2

This time out in our musical look at Rebels we'll be making our first visit to Rebels In Film.

I would think the two dominant forces in that category would still, after all these years, be between Marlon Brando and James Dean.

Brando came first...and Bikers are…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 30, 2013 at 2:34am — 9 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REBELS PT.1

It is Time!

I've been thinking about doing this for years, and the fact that Elvis Presley's birthday was Jan. 8th and James Dean's is Feb. 8th signaled to me that this was the time.

So this week and next, it's Rebels!…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 27, 2013 at 9:54pm — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MLK AND SONGS OF FREEDOM PT.4 END

We begin our final chapter with another interpretation of the song we ended the last chapter with.

Great songs tend to be covered by other artists, and this one has been done at least by the Chambers Brothers, a weird but thoroughly enjoyable version by the Vanilla Fudge and the one I have chosen.

There is just something about the interplay of guitar and voice that does it for me.

Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 23, 2013 at 12:27am — 15 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MLK AND SONGS OF FREEDOM PT.3

Martin Luther King's Birthday was observed Monday, but we got a jumpstart on it with his real Birthday last week.

And Freedom is of course a year-round endeavor.

This chapter I want to open up with 2 of the greatest British bands of all time, and their songs of freedom.

In our brief history of Dr. King, we note the injustice of those bad old days- doesn't make sense really.

And in light of that, the next two-song…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 21, 2013 at 12:21am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MLK AND SONGS OF FREEDOM PT.2

Continuing on with our presentation of Martin Luther King and Songs Of Freedom.

I am going to open this one up with another version of the song we left off with.

I will have more biography about Martin Luther King, the greatest of the Pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement.

But there were other pioneers too, including those in music, who were putting themselves out there and singing the same message of…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 16, 2013 at 1:40am — 21 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MLK AND SONGS OF FREEDOM PT.1

This will be a two-show Series, and I am doing what I love to do best.

Taking a Theme and running with it- no worries about playlists, genres, decades, etc.

January 15th is the ACTUAL date of Martin Luther King's birthday, which means it falls on the day of the terrestrial broadcast.

So, some history about him and some songs about Martin Luther King and Songs Of Freedom, within the Rock & Roll framework.

These…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 13, 2013 at 10:51pm — 10 Comments

Morphine - Cure for pain (Album Version)

Big Morphine Fan - Here is a great song for Ya's ! Morphine - Cure for pain (Album Version)

Cure For Pain was the second album released by alternative rock band Morphine through Rykodisc in 1993. The tracks "Sheila" and…

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Added by Michael J. Andrade on January 11, 2013 at 5:38pm — 1 Comment

ROCKOLLECTIONS: BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE PT.2 END

After a song to begin this 2nd half which you will surely know, I had a song I wanted to play by BTO mainly for Engineer Ken Stanley.

It was fun back in those days, he and I would be the only ones in that part of the building- everyone else had gone home.

Me in…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 8, 2013 at 11:23pm — 16 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE PT.1

BTO- Bachman Turner Overdrive.

That’s the featured group this outing, and it's a re-run from 2008- back when I was with good old Engineer Ken Stanley.

BTO were from Winnipeg, Canada, and you'll hear me say it's a place that once had an NHL hockey team- they lost it in 1996.

Those people live the game as I do, the city is famous for it’s…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 7, 2013 at 12:51am — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LIFE AND THE NEW YEAR PT.2

Happy New Year!

Doesn't that hungover feeling and that throbbing, alcohol-soaked head make you feel like 2013 is going to be GREAT, LOL?

The most enjoyable surprise for me yesterday was hearing from my old pal Engineer Ken…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 1, 2013 at 10:21am — 9 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LIFE AND THE NEW YEAR PT.1

Well if Christmas Day falls on the day of the show, it goes without saying that New Year's Day will too!

However this time I didn't have Christmas songs to choose from, but the Whole Wide World of Music.

So I was wondering...WHAT will I…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 31, 2012 at 12:26am — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS DAY 2012 PT.2 END

Here it is, the homestretch of this year's Christmas, with the quirk of the calendar having it fall on the day of the show.

And we made it past the Mayan one...I'm not surprised, lol!

I will continue with Music for our Guaranteed White…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 25, 2012 at 3:55am — 8 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS DAY 2012 PT.1

For only the second time ever, Rockollections will be broadcast terrestrially on the actual Christmas Day itself this Tuesday!

And that of course called for Something Special.

So you have the opportunity to hear the show before it goes out on the…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 24, 2012 at 1:13am — 13 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS PARTY 2012 PT.2

Continuing on with our all-inclusive Christmas Party where Everybody is invited, some more of the Traditions associated with the show.

Beginning with the Dreaded Christmas Oldie, which I will thankfully not play in its entirety.

I couldn't subject you to that, lol!

Then a topic that is as much a part of Christmas as anything- we all participate in one form or another- and I hadn't realized it has been so largely ignored in song.

Some other odds…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 19, 2012 at 12:56am — 8 Comments