PURE with Howard Thompson

"PURE Presents Hamell On Trial" (broadcast 4/18/14)

Hamell On Trial: The Meeting
Frank Sinatra: I Get a Kick Out of You
Hamell On Trial: Big As Life
Elvis Presley: Good Rockin Tonight
Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
Hamell On Trial: Choochtown
The Primitives: The Ostrich
Hamell On Trial: Happiest Man in the World (live @WPKN)
Bob Dylan: Like A Rolling Stone
Hamell On Trial: Blood of The Wolf
? & the Mysterians: 96 Tears
Hamell On Trial: Don't Kill
The Animals: Don’t Bring Me Down
Hamell On Trial: The Vines
The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
Hamell On Trial: Open Up The Gates
The Stooges: T.V. Eye
Hamell On Trial: Folsom Prison Blues
George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today
Hamell On Trial: Hail (live @WPKN)
The Replacements: Bastards Of Young
Hamell On Trial: Hoo Hoo Song

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