Led Zeppelin re-unites for one gig

Led Zeppelin will reform for a tribute concert to the Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun.
BBC reports that Led Zeppelin confirmes the idea of taking part in the tribute concert at the O2 arena in London on November 26.
Tickets?
Promoter Harvey Goldsmith tells BBC that tickets will only be available to those who registered on a dedicated website - and that there is a limit of two applications per household.

Joe Zawinul dies

Left to right: Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine and Jaco Pastorius.

Keyboard player Joe Zawinul, father of the jazz-rock group Weather Report, died on September 11.
Zawinul was born in Austria in 1932.
He emigrated to the US in 1959, where he played with stars as Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis.
In the 70's he formed Weather Report, a ground breaking group that came to include musicians as Wayne Shorter and Jaco Pastorius.
Zawinul suffered from skin cancer.

You can hear a couple of tracks from his performance at this summer's North Sea Jazz Festival as well as an interview from 2002 on this page thanks to Dutch radio. Click the audio/video link.
And our thanks to Gina over on Mizar 5 who found those links.

The classic Birdland:

And here's a number from July 2007 and a show celebrating Joe's 75 birthday:

Weekly Top 10 - September 9

1. Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Be-bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church) - Roxy & Elsewhere
2. Robert Plant - Let's Have A Party - The Last Temptation Of Elvis
=. Peter Gabriel - Down The Dolce Vita - Peter Gabriel (1)
=. King Crimson - Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream - Thrak
=. John Fogerty - Summer Of Love - Revival
=. Frank Zappa - Black Napkins - Make A Jazz Noise Here
=. David Bowie - It Ain't Easy - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
8. The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes - 35 Soulklassiker
=. The Rolling Stones - I Wanna Be Your Man - Singles Collection - The London Years
=. Frank Zappa - Pick Me, I'm Clean - Tinseltown Rebellion
=. David Bowie - Bombers (bonus track) - Hunky Dory
=. David Bowie - Suffragette City - Bowie At The Beeb

Zappa on top another week. This time with a little number from Roxy & Elsewhere. There's a bunch sharing second and eight position. We just couldn't separate them. But where ae the women??? It's not a male-only playlist on Radio Dupree, but by looking at the charts you could almost be fooled into believing that all you hear are men, men and more men.

The only "new" recording on the Top 10 this week is Summer Of Love from 62 year old John Fogerty and his upcoming album Revival. And with the rumoured news of a Led Zeppelin reunion being unveiled at a press junket this coming Wednesday it is somewhat fitting to have Robert Plant near the top this week.

Finally; if you wonder what strangely titled album that Undisputed Truth track is from, it's a Swedish compilation of 35 soul classics by various artists.

Weekend sounds: Zappa 1960's interview

Since we are playing the entire 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly album this month we thought that we could also pick an interview with Frank from one of his visits in Sweden in the 60's.
The album was recorded 1967 during Zappa's first tour in Sweden. The interview is "labeled" to be from 1967 but it's more possible that it was done in '68 since it includes songs from the We're Only In It For The Money which was released in 1968.
Frank tells his view on politics and religion and how they came up with the name The Mothers.
We have divided the interview in two parts (2:37 and 3:43) and we will play it on Saturday and Sunday just inbetween the other stuff. Please, let us know if you would like more stuff like this...or if you prefer "music only". Use the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" buttons.

Steely Dan goes down under.

The Steely Dan Heavy Rollers 2007 tour has left Japan and will hit Australia and New Zealand next, starting at the Sandalford Winery in Swan Valley, Perth, Australia Saturday September 8:



With this being the very first time Steely Dan tours either Australia and New Zealand, Radio Dupree hopes that the fans have their tickets and have a really great time over the next couple of weeks and nine shows!

Weekly Top 10 - September 2

Hey! We've just entered a new month and that means a new Album of the month. We added a couple of songs from it yesterday and what a quick and positive reaction we got! One of the songs from our Album of the month is on this weeks weekly Top 10. That actually is a Top 11 thanks to a shared 10 position.

Learn more about the Album of the month on our homepage as soon as we update it. And yes, in a perfect world it would be updated on the 1st of every month, but we're happy to be around to update it at all. So it's business as usual and expect it to morph into its September guise in another day or three. But feel free to check it out as it looks right now. OK. Here's the weekly chart as determined by our listeners:

1. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - It Can't Happen Here - 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly (Beat The Boots 1)
=. Frank Zappa - Dog Meat - The Dub Room Special (DVD)
=. Frank Zappa - Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk - Broadway The Hard Way
4. The Rolling Stones - Stoned - Singles Collection - The London Years
=. Genesis - That's Me (bonus track) - From Genesis To Revelation
6. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Guitar Man - The Last Temptation Of Elvis
=. David Bowie - The London Boys - Another Face
=. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Sun Zoom Spark - Clear Spot
=. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Birthright - Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
10. Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth - Countdown To Ecstasy
=. Juicy Lucy - Willie The Pimp - Lie Back And Enjoy It

And here's a bonus: The view from one of the windows this chilly Sunday afternoon. Had to get the mobile/cellphone camera out just to catch the final rays of the sun as they bounce off the trunks and leaves. A sight that will become rare as the autumn and winter takes over here in Radio Dupree-land.

Download new Springsteen single for free

If you live in the US you go to the iTunes Store. In Europe and elsewhere it's The Guardian that has the new song Radio Nowhere as a free download for a week.

A third download site is radionowheredownload
You have to sign up with name/e-mail, but get a better sounding file than The Guardian one. 192 kbps instead of 128.

A short rocker with the E-Street Band and lyrics that can be seen as a critique of the bland music mix on commercial radio these days. Springsteen fans will like it, casual fans might say it sounds like Bruce but...
Go listen and see what you think!

The full album titled Magic will be out October 1.

Weekend music: NMKY

Yes, it's been around on YouTube for 2,5 months now, but we just found it. And since it's from our next-door neighbours in Finland and also has a thin but still connection to Frank Zappa, we decided to link it here as our Weekend Music. We're sure others - like us - has missed it and it is fun.

The Zappa connection? According to the site Killuglyradio the bass player is none other than Pekka Pohjola, who's played with Finnish prog band Wigwam and Mike Oldfield just to name two. Zappa had met Pekka in Finland and planned to record something with him. Plans that never was realised.

Go Finland!

Lyn Leon

August up and went. September's here. Dark outside and the temperature is fighting to stay above 0 these days...

In the mood for some music to fit that weather and this time of year where we are situated. Cue the song Never by Swiss percussion group Lyn Leon featuring Steely Dan vocalist Carolyn Leonhart:



More on Lyn Leon:
Official homepage
MySpace page

BBC Steely Dan interview

Steely Dan interviewed on BBC today. The listen again page is here:

Johnnie and the Dan

The shows are usually up for seven days after they originally aired, so this link will probably stop working September 3.

P.S.: If you should happen to find this link after it has expired please feel free to write radiodupree@yahoo.se and we might be able to help you out.

Top 10 - August 26

l. Frank Zappa - Pick Me, I'm Clean - Tinseltown Rebellion
2. Steely Dan - Android Warehouse - Catalyst (The Original Recordings 1968 - 71)
= Frank Zappa - Stink-Foot - FZ:OZ
4. Marillion - Fugazi - Fugazi
=. Magma - La Dawotsin - Retrospective Vol. 3
6. Stevie Wonder - You've Got It Bad Girl - Talking Book
=. Rod Stewart - (I Know) I'm Losing You - Every Picture Tells A Story
8. Robert Plant - Let's Have A Party - The Last Temptation Of Elvis
=. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze/Wild Thing - More Experience
=. Frank Zappa - Friendly Little Finger - Zoot Allures

The past weeks favourites as voted by our listeners by pressing those thumbs up/down and buy/wish-buttons. = of course means that the song shares the position. This week we have two at 2, two at 4, two at 6 and three at 8.

Steely Dan interview on BBC Radio August 27

The smiling man is veteran radio DJ Johnnie Walker currently working for BBC Radio 2.
And it's on that very same channel you can hear Johnnie and the Dan this Monday (August 27) at 3 p.m.

"Celebrating the music of Steely Dan, Johnnie Walker talks exclusively to Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the song-writing and musical partnership at the heart of the Grammy Award-winning group."

Sounds like there will be a new interview. And whatever is said we're sure it'll be a fun hour if you're a fan of Steely Dan. You can listen live using the BBC player here. Just click on the listen-button in the upper right corner. The show will also be available for seven days for all that can't tune in live.

And here's the time to tune in Monday:
3 p.m. in London = 4 p.m. central Europe = 7 a.m. in Los Angeles = 10 a.m. in New York = 11 p.m. in Tokyo. Feel free to use this Time Zone Converter.

Aja cover model dies

It's 30 years ago this year since Steely Dan released the album Aja. Right now Steely Dan is in Japan on the 2007 Heavy Rollers tour.
And we've just learned that the woman on the cover of the Aja album; Sayoko Yamaguchi, has died 57 years old.

She was born in Yokohama and became a succesful model in the 70's. Sayoko modeled for major designers such as Kenzo Takada, Issei Miyake and Kansai Yamamoto, and i 1977 Newsweek magazine named Yamaguchi one of the top six models in the world.
She died from acute pneumonia August 14.

(Pic to the right: Sayoko in 2002)

(Pic below: She was also on the Japan-only Steely Dan album Greatest Hits released in 1978)

Steely Dan: Japan and surprise cover

OK. It's not like Stely Dan playing a surprise cover during the first night of shows i Japan. It's two different Steely Dan news items:

1) We've got quite a few covers of Steely Dan songs. But it's ususally the familiar ones that get covered. But that's not what happens when Brazilian singer Luciana Souza's album The New Bossa Nova is released August 21.
It features Where You Blind That Day. That's the alternative lyrics version of Third World Man from Steely Dan's Gaucho album.
Luciana's version the first official release of that song with those lyrics.
Where You Blind That Day has previously circulated in a set of demos for the Gaucho album.

You can hear 30 seconds of Luciana's version here.

Another song on the album; Love Is For Strangers, is written by the producer of the album; Larry Klein together with Walter Becker.

SPOILER! SETLIST! SPOILER! SETLIST! SPOILER!

2) The long Heavy Rollers 2007 tour has hit Japan. Steely Dan do two shorter shows per evening, and reports over on dandom.com/guestbook says that the following songs were played during the first night's two shows in Tokyo:

Time Out Of Mind
Godwhacker
Hey Nineteen
Peg
Babyron Sisters
Aja
Josie
Dirty Work
Kid Charlemagne
My Old School
Time Out Of Mind
Bad Sneakers
Hey Nineteen
Haitian Divorce
Green Earrings
Dirty Work
Josie
Chain Lightning
Pretzel Logic
Black Cow
Peg

Basically the same set of songs as they played i the US and Europe with a couple of additions. And talking of Europe: There's a few new pics from the road up on steelydan.com.

A very special day...

And we're not talking about this August 16 marking 30 years to the day that Elvis Presley passed away. He would've been 72 had he still been alive!
To mark the anniversary there's an avalanche of repackaged music released on CD, online and whathaveya.
And tomorrow on spinner.com you can catch a special duet between Elvis and his daughter Lisa Marie using his 1969 version of In The Ghetto to which Lisa Marie has added her vocals.

So if it's not Elvis, why do we call this day special. Because it's the 2007 premiere for that northern Sweden speciality Surströmming!
Sweet-smellin', sweet-tastin' fermented fish that we love all year round, but expecially the very day and date the yearly vintage is put on sale. And this year it's August 16.

Yummy!

Read more about Surströmming here.