"Thanks, Albert" (Hofmann)

“Thanks, Albert” (broadcast on 1/11/13)

PURE theme – (Danny Gatton: Funky Mama)
Scanner: Red Bruise
Traffic: No Face, No Name, No Number
Happy Mondays: Loose Fix (Perfecto 12" Mix)
The Rolling Stones: 2000 Light Years Fom Home 
Procol Harum: Shine On
Björk: All Is Full Of Love
Fleetwood Mac: Albatross 
The Who: I Can See For Miles 
Pink Floyd: Astronomy Domine 
The Orange Bicycle: Trip On An Orange Bicycle 
David Bowie:  After All
Cream: Dance The Night Away 
Celia Green: In The Extreme
Spiritualized: Broken Heart 
The Idle Race: Skeleton And The Roundabout 
Oasis: Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix) Pts 3, 4 & 5
Bentley Rhythm Ace: This Is Carbootechnoodiscotechnobooto  
Hawkwind: Silver Machine 
The Move: Blackberry Way 
Harvey Bainbridge: The Voyage - In The Wake Of Passing Clouds (excerpt, w/Deborah Evans-Stickland reading the weather)
The Deviants: Deviation Street (excerpt) 
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: I'm The Urban Spaceman
Audience: I Had A Dream
Alabama 3: Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness (radio edit) 
Genesis: The Musical Box 
Egg: They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano...
Van Der Graaf Generator: Darkness (11-11) 
The Beatles: Savoy Truffle 
The Pretty Things: Grass  
Nick Lowe: Love So Fine 
Dion: King Of The New York Streets 
Rockpile: Play That Fast Thing (One More Time) 
The Motors: Love And Loneliness (excerpt)

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President