Is this just an atomic trip?

This week on the TA, agitation preparation for the upcoming holiday weekend. Songs about social change, the perception of freedom, war, and chicks, man. American girls.

It's impossible to talk about the 60's and American garage bands without talking about the Vietnam War. Out of the era's agitated social and hormonal landscape came poetic and wrenching protest songs. What gets me is what happened to so many of the kids writing and playing those songs. There were high school kids chugging along, playing music with their friends and having a good time, maybe about to get noticed or just been signed when somebody in the band got the call-up. And even if your singer, guitarist, bass player, drummer, fuzzy Farfisa man did make it home from Southeast Asia, nothing was ever the same.

Aaah, this show's not all sober and serious. Kit & The Outlaws get feisty; The Move brings electoral swagger; and Robby John & The Seven-Teens are downright head-scratchingly silly. Jerry Howard brings a little pop cheese to close out the hour.

Alas, none of the usual dazzling audio commentary for this show. Oh the irony of doing radio and being unable to talk! Not an illustration about the muzzling of our civil liberties. Mostly laryngitis.

After the jump, your link to the music and playlist.

Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty

[... and - we're back!]

Hello, my chickens! The TA is back in bid'ness as of last Monday!

Pretend this next bit is flashing atcha:

MONDAYS 5-6 PM 

90.3 WZBC-FM 'n' STREAMING AT WZBC.ORG

Best thing about an hour show? It so much easier for me not to putz out on posting the audio. Just a beginning and end to trim and -- here you go!

It's ALIVE!!

The Tangerine Amphetamine will roar back to life in the middle of June, once again on The Z! Hurray!
Mondays, 5-6pm. Drive Time, baby. And in exchange for the groovy time slot, only an hour.

Which gives me the idea to focus each show. Some kinda theme, and you don't have to dress up for it. But, yesh, some kinda theme every week - broken hearts, summer, bands from New England, etc..

Still gotta get in that Northern Soul and French Ye-Ye/British Pop in at the end of the hour, too.

Can you smell the excitement?

90.3FM over the air in Boston and streaming at wzbc.org. Soon come, my chickens. Soon come.