Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - one of the musical geniuses of all time, and the only person to write opera I like ;)  Died at age 34, having completed 600 compositions including works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music.  Talk about 'the light which shines twice as brightly burns half as long'...
    Here's his Serenade #13 In G, K 525, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"


Yes - probably my all-time favorite band (Return to Forever is a close second).  Progressive Rock since 1969
    Here's a snippet (not complete) of a rare demo of"Endless Dream"
   "Soundchaser" - from the Relayer album
    and of course, the live version of "The Gates Of Delirium" recorded in Detroit, MI in 1978
    Remember and be werry werry afraiid because, it's"Dangerous".  8 Yesmen from the Union album.
    a rare 45 from Mike Oldfield, Steve Howe and Jon Anderson is called "Shine"
    You like Pink Floyd?  Here's Rick Wakeman playing their "Great Gig In The Sky"

Rick Wakeman (aka The English Sawtooth Massacre)
    His solos are very short - probably why he has "Six Wives"
    Mmmmmmmm twin Mini Moogs on "The Revealing Science Of God"

Patrick Moraz - keys for Yes and The Moody Blues, amongst others
    On average, we each have "22,000 Days".  Live in Chicago 1981

Genesis
    Hey America, you're "Dancing on a Volcano" and you'd better start doing it right...
    I don't who made the laws of the USA... but according to some very fine British musicians, you've "Got To Get In To Get Out"

The Beatles - an obscure, underestimated band from the 60's ;)  Made people stop their conversations and say "what the F is that on the radio??"  Just what America needed in the Spring of 1964 after the Kennedy Assassination.
    Paul McCartney wants everybody to"Dance Around".  How very "Yellow Submarine" of you guys.  Excellent tune in the Beatles tradition for a new generation.  Kudos...
    Be careful when you violate the Bill Of Rights, or you might find yourselves "Back In The U.S.S.R." ;-)
    Paul McCartney will "Fight For Freedom"
    Well, it's just another "Day In The Life'
    Feeling depressed?  Don't take the latest pill they're selling on TV.  Listen to the Beatles and cry "Help!"
    "Hey Jude"take a sad song and make it better :-)

Leonard Cohen - Hey, it's no great secret... "Everybody Knows"
    Well maybe, except for "Suzanne" ;)

Todd Rundgren - one of the most musically creative people I can think of.  His one-man band multitrack albums are classic pop/rock music.  Also one of the founders of the band Utopia
    For Grand Funk Railroad, he produced the song "We're An American Band"

The Strawbs - Please bow for the invocation... The Strawbs' "Benedictus"


Emerson, Lake and Palmer
    Ladies and gentlemen, it's the "Theme From Peter Gunn"
    And a very nice recent rendition of "Lucky Man", performed at the Royal Albert Hall
    America abolished slavery in 1864.  Ummmm, what are you doing with Mexicans and Chinese?  You're running with the Devil, it's "Touch and Go"

Jan Hammer - keyboard player for the Mahavishnu Orchestra.  One of the people who brough the MiniMoog into the spotlight.
    He wants to tell his ladyfriend that they should be "One To One"
    And if you hear some barking in the background, it's his "Magical Dog"

Blackmore's Night - from the former guitar player for Deep Purple, a more folk-rock oriented band
    It's easy to see that "The Times They Are A Changin'"
    If you listen closely, you can hear "The Wind In The Willows"

Marillion - a very fine progressive rock band not well-known in America
    A more 'pop song' effort is called "Kayleigh"
    Another of my favorites of theirs is "Easter"
    And after all, "This Is The 21st Century"

Tiny Tim - Let's "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" togerther, shall we?
    Not brack belt?  werry interesting...  also not Engrish :)


Howard Jones - love his synth work and his knack for a pop music groove

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes - New Jersey doeth verily rock.
    They're "So Anxious"
    Hey, they don't ask much, they say, "All I Want Is Everything"

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
    There's "Something In The Air"
    She's a good girl, but I'm "Free Fallin'"

Alan Parsons - your gateway to mystery and imagination
    Just remember, when you desecrate the Constitution there"May Be A Price To Pay"
    One if bye DeLand, thoo if bye see -"Turn It Up!"

Al Stewart
    - Roads to Moscow
    - Terminal Eyes
    - Time Passages

Jeff Cannata aka Arc Angel Cannata
    The "Kings Of Nations" are ready to fight - from the Tamarok album
    Do you feel like a "Prisoner In the Holy Land"?

The Moody Blues - one of the earliest bands to combine rock music with orchestra.  My favorites are too numerous to list, but try "Is This Heaven" from their Keys Of The Kingdon album. Whilest I cannot say positively that Sir Paul McCartney was involved with the album, I for one hear many of his influences.  This is especially true of the premier track "Say It With Love".  Could easily have been written by Lennon/McCartney...
    You may be lost, but Patrick Moraz and the Moodies "Know You're Out There Somewhere"


Narada Michael Walden - one of America's better drummers.  Like Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, a student of
Sri Chinmoy
Wouldn't we all like to live in the "Garden Of Love Light"?
    Here is is playing on the Mahavishnu Orchestra song "Gita", with McLaughlin on guitar synthesizer


Donnie Osmond - I doubt that I'd get along with the Osmond Family (Mormons don't exactly share my lifestyle ;), but I did get a chance to meet them when I was working at a concert hall back in the early 80's.  They seemed like very 'good folks'.  Donnie does really good pop music.  Did serious justice to George Benson's "Lady Love Me".  Met Donnie on stage during soundcheck and we talked a bit about his MemoryMoog (I want one ;).
    Donnie wants you to know that he's a "Soldier of Love", and that he holds your love as a "Sacred Emotion"

Michael Jackson - the stories about his private life are more than a bit weird, but he's made some great music.
    If you want to be his brother, it don't matter if you're "Black Or White"

CNI Radio's Jukebox  - Independent music friends of CNI - the best aren't necessarily on commercial radio, folks ;-)



Jackson "give me analog or give me death" Browne  - One of America's greatest songwriters

Warren Zevon - He's just an "Excitable Boy"
    and thinks (with Linda Ronstadt) that you have an "Empty Handed Heart"



Gary Wright  - saw Wright, Frampton and Yes (in that order, with Pat Moraz on boards for Yes) at RFK stadium in 1975 - they say Prof Jean Ristori (Geneva) was mixing...  won't ever forget it


Kathy Mattea  - She's "Walking Away A Winner"

Carrie Newcomer - Violence for violence, time after time...  putting those Things, right out of your mind...
    It's "The Madness You Get Used To"
    after all, she's "Crazy In Love"

Shawn Colvin (Austin, TX) - thinks, like Poco, that the "Day's Gone Bye" because "Sonny Came Home" with a vengance


Charlotte Church  - With the exception of Mozart, I'm not a fan of opera.  This young lady however truly has "The Voice Of An Angel".  She also apparently makes really funny photographs :-)
She should never of course consider the Wakeman family.  Stay very far away....  Queens's seal, never meet a Wakeman
"Turn of the Century"  - Annie Haslam (lead singer for the band Renissance) with Yes
The Strawbs call a song "Benedictus".  I can only hear Wakeman and Church having good fun and good respect :-)


Jimmy Buffett - Hey c'mon folks.  Don't take life so hard.  We're all really just a bunch of"Fruitcakes" ;-)

Steve Winwood  - He says,"Wake Me Up on Judgement Day" - They say he was offered 4th member of The Band Of Gypsies (wish he'd taken the gig ;-)

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes - all they want is "Everything"

Falco - He says"Rock Me, Amadeus" :=))

Richard Marx  - He's"Playing With Fire"

Led Zeppelin  - Hey, we've all had "Good Times, Bad Times"

Please, whatever God you worship don't use nukes because of "Kashmir" Nobody wants to see Delhi and Karachi in flames with radiation.  It's just not worth it people...

Todd Rundgren and Utopia - Great American pop music using lots of electronics
    Listen to a live version of Utopia's"Hiroshima". Roger Powell on Moog synthesizers and Rundgren on guitar.

The Doors  -"Radio Station WASP"- The Texas radio station with Wrought Iron Soul

Stevie Ray Vaughn  - the great Austin, Texas bluesman who, sadly, was lost in a helicopter crash - listen to Crossfire- one of his best

Jimi Hendrix - He had the "Power Of Soul"

Tommy Bolin - He's "Bustin' Out For Rosie"

MC Hammer - You may think you're pretty good, but "U Can't Touch This"

The Eagles - some folks have a very "Frail Grasp On The Big Picture"

Don Henley - drummer for The Eagles
    - he reminds us that you don't have to get down on your knees for a "Little Tin God"

The Doobie Brothers - I wake up in the middle of the night?  Must have been "Something You Said"...

Bruce Hornsby - One of my favorite American keys.  Not bad at singing and songwriting either ;)
    Everybody knows, good seeds don't grow on a "Barren Ground"...  Jerry Garcia on electric guitar

Mark Knopfler and James Taylor are "Sailing To Philadelphia"
   


Woody Guthrie - the extrodinary American songwriter who's politically-themed music has been an inspiration to generations

Stephen Stills and Manassas - Saw them twice live in the early 70's in Mary's Land. Beyond excellent :-)  I've heard a rumor that Stills taught Hendrix acoustic guitar.  Judging from Stills' electric guitar playing, I'm inclined to believe it ;-)
    Here's a YouTube video of them performing "It Doesn't Matter"
    Stills' classic "Buyin' Time" for the Illegal Stills album.  Thought the original was a bit thin so I've taken the liberty of adding some EQ processing.
    You'll do anything you have to do to live in "Johnny's Garden"
   Isn't About Time - Manassas at it's best
    Mr. Stills thinks we should "Feed The People"
    
<<Daylight Again>>
Mr. Stills and friends would like to think of sailing on Crosby's sail boat.  It's called. "The Southern Cross"

The Desert Rose Band
    You can chase her all you want, but "She Don't Love Nobody"

Flaco Jimenez - the definition of Mexican Accordian.  Enough said...
    from Flaco's "Partner's" album.  Stills on vocals his classic "Change Partners"

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    They've "Been Lookin'" for a love...

Dan Seals - the artist formerly know as England Dan (remember him and John Ford Coley?)
    A lot of people think that the US Constitution should sit down and shut up.  I believe he thinks it should "Rage On"
    He wants to live his life on the center line and watch those "Big Wheels In The Moonlight"
    Billy Joel's "Allentown" is quite the anthem about what is benignly called 'outsourcing'.  Dan Seals' take on the matter is called "Factory Town"
    He's got a "Twenty-Four Hour Love" for his ladyfriend

James McMurtry  - an Austin singer/songwriter with some incredibly good commentary on life in the second millenium.  I don't think it's going too far to compare his lyrics and sentiments with the likes of Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan
    "We Can't Make It Here Anymore"  - Don't be angry at the people who took your jobs, be angry with the people who sent them away...  (hmmmm - methinks Mr. Mellencamp had something to do with this :-)

Alabama - Excellent 'pop country'
    They're "In A Hurry To Get Things Done"

George Strait - "All His Xs Live in TX"

Vince Gill - one smooth Country crooner
    A bit of Chicago-style production for a Country tune is, "When Loves Finds You"

John Hiatt - he's got a "Real Fine Love"
   
Hal Ketchum - people get a little crazy on a "Small Town Saturday Night"

Mary Chapin Carpenter  - All you need is some beer and a bushel "Down In Mary's Land"
    They're playing some Cajun music down at "The Twist And Shout"
   

Mason Proffit Band - Listen to their classic"Two Hangmen" hangin' from a tree, that don't bother me, at all...

Rosanne Cash - One of Johnny Cash's kids
    She wants to tell you about her beau's "Seven Year Ache".  Emory Gordy on steel guitar (keyboards? we don't need no steenking keyboards... ;-)

Ronnie Milsap - his ladyfriend "Keeps The Homefires Burning"
    and finds there's a "Stranger In My House"
    but then again, it's probably be cause she "Loves His Car"
    You think this is wealth?  Isolation? Mr. Milsap says you're living in "Suburbia"

Tanya Tucker - TX girl
    If you're interested in a future for this world, you must be "Strong Enough To Bend"

George Jones - another favorite son of Texas
    Don't know where you're going?  Well, "You Can't Get The Hell Out Of Texas"
    and don't forget the Rhythm & Blues side of Country Music.  This is "Patches" from the "Rhythm, Country and Blues" album.

Juice Newton - Country Rock (say, no, more.......) - here's her "Queen of Hearts" video

Deborah Allen - You're looking at "The Wrong Side Of Love"

Poco -  Country Rock par excellence.  It was formed byRichie Furay andJim Messina following the demise of their bandBuffalo Springfield in 1968.