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Renny's Riot
Wednesday August 14th, 2024 with Reflective Renny
A radio show as weird as this summer was. Acoustic instrumentals, bittersweet ballads, post-punk & finishing with fiddles. WARNING: This "sensitive & sappy" Riot could be the sign of the end times

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Renny's Riot
The Scarlet Drops - The Scarlet Drops 1984-1992 - 1989 What Wave/2021 Harriet Records/Bandcamp Canadian
Shebeg And She More
Tom Gilfellon - Flatpicking Guitar Festival - 1976 Kicking Mule Records
Heart Full Of Leaves
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains - 1984 Midnight Music
Valse
Al Perry - Valse single - 2018 unreleased
In "D"
The Durutti Column - The Return of The Durutti Column - 1980 Factory
Song To The Siren (Tim Buckley)
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears - 1984 4AD
I'm In Love With a German Film Star
The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China - 1981 Polydor
China's Eternal
The Tights - Business Unusual (The Other Record Collection) - 1978 Cherry Red Records/ZigZag Magazine
Free Will And Testament
Robert Wyatt - Come On Let's Go!: A Modern Jukebox - 2012 Mojo Magazine
I Couldn't Help It If I Tried
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - 1980 Parlophone
Hotel California
The Gipsy Kings - Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary - 1990 Elektra
Boogie De Beethoven
Los Trincas - Los Trincas 78 - 1949 Peerless
Marihuana Boogie
Lalo Guerrero Y Sus Cinco Lobos - Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' - 1949 Imperial/1997 Capitol Records
Walk Don't Run
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra - 1981 Editions EG
Walk Don't Run
The Ventures - Walk - Don't Run: The Best of the Ventures - 1960 Dolton Records/1990 EMI USA
Let's Go Trippin'
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale And His Del-Tones - 1961 Deltone Records/1989 Rhino Records
Miserlou (Dick Dale)
The Atomic Tempunauts - Live At Barnstorm 2023 - 202024 Self-released/Bandcamp Canadian
Dale's Dick
Sin Alley - Headin' For Vegas - 1994 Count Orlok Music
Link's Lung
Southern Culture On The Skids - For Lovers Only - 1992 Safe House
You Hurt Me So
Link Wray & The Raymen - Mr. Guitar - 1965 Swan Records, unissued/1995 Norton Records
All The Dark Rags
The Jacobites - Robespierre's Velvet Basement - 1985 Glass Records
Here Comes A Regular
The Replacements - Tim - 1985 Sire Records
All For Nothing
The Muffs - The Muffs - 1993 Warner Bros. Records
It's Not Nice Without You
Jean Caffeine - Sadie Saturday Nite - 2017 Joe Records/Bandcamp
You're Killing Me
Leather Catsuit - Leather Catsuit EP - 2023 Rum Bar Records
Revolution Blues (Neil Young)
Waco Brothers - Resist! - 2020 Bloodshot Records Canadian
Black Lace Shoulder
Metro - Metro - 1977 Sire Records
Walkin' With The Scary Hillbilly Monsters
Dexter Romweber - Chased By Martians - 2001 Manifesto Records
Love Is In The Grave
Ken Fox & Knock Yourself Out - Ken Fox & Knock Yourself Out - 2019 Rum Bar Records Canadian
Just Before Dawn
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Boogie Uproar – The Complete Aladdin/Peacock Singles As & Bs 1947-1961 - 1959 Peacock Records/2016 Jasmine Records
Directly from My Heart to You (Little Richard)
The Mothers of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh - 1970 Reprise
Pink Champagne
Don & Dewey - Jungle Hop - recorded 1960, released 1970/1991 Specialty Records/
Coco D'Oeil Dans Le Fond Du Puit
The Vanier Playboys - Vanier Playboys - 2018 self released Canadian
My Baby Cried All Night Long
John Schooley & His One Man Band - One Man Against The World - 2007 Voodoo Rhythm Records
Interactive CKCU
Renny G (host)
Greetings Rioteers. Thanks for listening in. Feel free to leave comments below, I will respond.

1:33 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
Ah yes, the start of the only 2 hours I really enjoy out of my 37.5 hour work week.

1:34 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Hey Frankie. I am always so glad when you tune in.

1:44 PM, August 14th, 2024
Neil & DL
For the record, Renny. I love everything you play.....fast, slow, raucus, reflective......or even backwards!!!! And I am looking forward to some Dexys Midnight Runners (all time fave) Gypsy Kings, and who doesn't love some Ventures, especially "Wolk Don't Run" A very hot, hot playlist, my friend!!!! Viva The Riot !!

2:02 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
interesting opening set, one of the few that I knew most of the bands/artists.

2:05 PM, August 14th, 2024
Dave A
This Mortal Coil on RR? Sign of END times indeed lol :D "Different" is never bad, sounding good to me. Bracing for Eagles cover though haha!

2:06 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Well hello, very kind of you to say Dancing Labrador. Please thank your owner Neil (the ape with the opposable thumbs), for tuning in the show today.

2:07 PM, August 14th, 2024
N & DL
Brilliant, brilliant cover by Gypsy Kings. These guys can never do no wrong. Bought every vinyl and cd I could find by these guys. One of those bands you put on when in doubt or whatever the mood! Viva viva, amigo!!

2:08 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
Ha, Renny you're like the Dude in 'the Big Lebowski " who also hated the Eagles, but loved CCR. By the way this Gypsy King's version is on the "Big Lebowski 'soundtrack. (sky?)

2:11 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
Ha, Renny you're like the Dude in 'the Big Lebowski " who also hated the Eagles, but loved CCR. By the way this Gypsy King's version is on the "Big Lebowski 'soundtrack. (sky?)

2:11 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Hey Dave A. I plan on making up for the sin of playing an Eagles song by playing "Bye, Bye, Glenn Frey" by Nine Pound Hammer on the next show.

2:14 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
I do love Creedence even though some of their songs have been played to death.

2:14 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
But that laid back California country rock of the Seventies is one of the reasons I turned to punk. Can't stand that crap. Cocaine cowboys fuck off!

2:15 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
Renny, I have to confess I quite liked most of the Eagles early stuff. (first 2 albums?) By the time Hotel California comes out the music seems somewhat jaded. However, I did get chills listening the acoustic intro from the Gypsy Kings"

2:25 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
The version of the Gypsy Kings version of Hotel California comes from the Electra 40th Anniversary collection. It had current (1990) bands on the label covering bands that had been on the label in the past. The collection is stellar and is worth the price of admission for John Zorn's cover of The Stooges.

2:25 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary

2:25 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
Referencing the fact that Link Wray only had one lung. I jumped ahead in the song list.

2:33 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
The question is how did Link lose a lung? I think he had TB as a child.

2:35 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
This is Link using a talk box ten years before Peter Frampton.

2:39 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
I think he came down with TB in the army. That's where it was diagnosed if my memory serves me correctly.....That's a big IF at my age.

2:46 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
Cocaine cowboys fuck off!, now that's funny. I don't think I've ever seen one. Only the Eagles on tv.

2:48 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
The A-Side of that single was Link covering Dylan's song, "Girl From The North Country", I prefer Link's song, the B-Side.

2:50 PM, August 14th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Long live the apocalypse !

2:52 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
You're right Renny, he served 2 years in Korea. You see Wiki is good for some things. Renny ,this must be quite a rare Link single.

2:52 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
For all you listeners who are looking to expand your horizons this weekend why don't you check out Ian Jeans' Art Opening this Sunday afternoon between 2 and 4 at Citizen, 207 Gilmour just west of Elgin Street. You can meet the Sonic Sensei and the Fine Artiste and become a patron of the arts at the same time.

2:56 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
The other thing about Link that I love was his D.I.Y. spirit. He and his brothers built a studio on their property, the 4 Track Shack.

2:58 PM, August 14th, 2024
Daragh
Tuning in late - enjoying what I am hearing! The only mainstream music my friends knew I liked was the Eagles - I was given 3 copies of their Greatest Hits album for my 16th birthday! I did like. a lot of that music an Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" is still my favourite summertime car song!

2:59 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
I know Bobby, perhaps it's the sign of the End Times. Renny playing mellow music on the Riot. What the Hell? What's next?

3:00 PM, August 14th, 2024
PeterB and Opposible Thumbs
Just joined the fun and impending doom a while ago, looking at the tapping... "John Zorn's cover of The Stooges" COOL!!! THAT'S an attention getter for me right there. i smell a rabbit hole in my near future. And yeah, so many otherwise marginally acceptable tunes absolutely played TO DEATH, to this day on that evil commercial radio and their robots from hell. "Cocaine cowboys fuck off!" Yup. Gave me LOL

3:00 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
You had it covered.

3:01 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Damn it Daragh, You missed my introspective acoustic instrumentals, Renny's got a brand new bag. You must go back and click the listen now button to listen to the WHOLE show. As for Don Henley.......I'd rather drink polluted water, sleep in a hollow log, shave my head with a cheese grater and swim in a lake of iodine than listen to that insufferable twat, Don Henley!

3:03 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
The musical pendulum continues to swing. W e enjoy it all.

3:06 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
HA ha, that's harsh on Henley. We use to call him 'Down Henley'.

3:10 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Bye the bye boys, the man playing fiddle and singing with the Mother's of Invention cover of Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart To You" is none other than Don "Sugarcane" Harris. The Don of Don & Dewey, the fabulous Fifties duo who had huge hits with "Farmer John (I'm In Love With Your Daughter", "Justine" & more.

3:16 PM, August 14th, 2024
That's OpossAble Thumbs, or maybe Impossible Thums PB
But, tell us your *real* opinions! ;^)

3:17 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
Ha! Ha! I can't. I'd get into so much trouble. That's why tic can't have me as a guest on Tic Talk, the Wednesday Special Blend. There have been shock jocks but I'm more of a mock jock.

3:19 PM, August 14th, 2024
Frankie
Thanks Renny.

3:29 PM, August 14th, 2024
Renny G (host)
No, I thank you Frankie, and Neil & The Dancing Labrador, and Bobby Calzone and even those missing Rioteers. Thanks for listening folks and remember there is always on demand. Pass it on.......

3:33 PM, August 14th, 2024
Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Sensational show today in celebration of Ian's art show. Well Done!! You even fit in some FZ & The Mothers of Invention for me. You most def..... Be Da Man!! Have a great week, Renny!

3:33 PM, August 14th, 2024
Benoît
Demanding Benoît

1:31 PM, August 16th, 2024
Johnny Loan
omg I fucking haaaaaaaaate the Eagles too!!!! I don't know how many times I've said that Hotel California is my most hated song of all time!

3:55 PM, August 22nd, 2024