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Psychedelic Supper

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I'm Richard Rory, your host for Psychedelic Supper on Citrusville's one and only Rock FM! Quicksilver Messenger Service, from San Fransisco...that one goes out for Jammin' Jamison on the opening course for Psychedelic Supper. Here's one from Theivery Incorporated. Shout out to Dr. Laurie, with her Saturday morning positive thinking chats on our sister station in Rome, GA! Shouts due our sponsor, Dave and Amy down at Omegaville Hardware & Supply! Seed and feed needs? Indeed! Coming up on the show: Blue Oyster Cult spotlight, part two, next! Here's part two of our Psyche Supper Spotlight on Blue Oyster Cult. So, what was biker boogie? It's the speed-fueled darkened twin of the psychedelic music movement. Steppenwolf embodied it perhaps better than any other band that comes to mind. Here is Blue Oyster Cult, from their eponymous first album, debuted in 1972. BOC, as they are known often by their fans, were created as an answer to Britain's Black Sa...

Monday, Monday, WNRV, Citrusville

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Listen, I'm about to have an exciting announcement on integr8dsoul.com, which is going to be a really deluxe space for you to groove before we're through. Meanwhile, as we get it all together behind the scenes, let's do some jams this Monday! Pick your style, try something new, but don't let Monday get you down, it's just the start of better things, believe it. This is Richard Rory, rolling into the week with you on Citrusville's Rock FM!!! with that said, here's a request from our early morning listener Vita, some new rock to start off your week, from the Brian Jonestown Massacre: Nice textures in those guitars, freaky vocal...all right! So how about we continue our role with some Grohl? Acoustic Foo Fighters, going out to Hugh, our energy's with ya, buddy...Citrusville Rock FM... That's the Lovebugs, with the Key...gotta get up, y'all! Rise and shine, as we watch the sun come up on a Florida morning that looks to be cloudy, with clearing ...

Why heroes?

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I enjoyed a discussion, following along afterwards, about the legacy of darker visions of heroes, often spun out of inspiration for Alan Moore's Watchmen. Watchmen is indeed written with the quality of a serious book, but its treatment of heroes takes them further away from certainities of even the squabbling, emotional Lee/Kirby/Ditko superheroes popularized by Marvel in the mid 1960s. Super-Dickery examples abound, but DC comics heroes, which outsold everything but Archie in the same time period, were written specifically to save the day. To this day, the older generation remembers comics as they were frozen in this time. It's the rare superhero book, like FX, listed in this month's blogs on the side bar, that dares to evoke the fresh faces of those by-gone adventures. http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2011/03/much-more-than-bird-or-plane-fx-by.html Has Moore, then, developed a sad legacy? Is it indeed fair to say, as my friends concur, that Moore just didn't understa...