PURE with Howard Thompson

“PURE Presents Mark Bingham” (broadcast 3/3/23)

Caroline Peyton: Bill Monroe
Screaming Gypsy Bandits: From The Ledge
MX-80 Sound: Afterbirth/Aftermath
Mark Bingham: Hell Bound Train
Social Climbers: Chicken 80
Mark Bingham: Out Of Time (feat Honi Coles)
Yma Sumac: I Wonder
Mark Bingham: Things I'd Like
Mark Bingham: Sam The Banana Man
Mark Bingham: Enemy Uniform
Peter Stampfel: Haunted Heart
Mark Bingham: Heian Enneagram 3
Leigh Harris: Devil Jumped a Rabbit remix
Mark Bingham: The shoes of the chicken head
John Sinclair, Blues Scholars Pea Vine Blues
Dr. John: World I Never Made
Morning 40 Federation: Toodle My Hukill
Illusion Fields: Coney Island Evacuation
Mark Bingham: Leonville Breakdown
Ed Sanders: Marie LeBage And Huey Long
Alex McMurray: The Woman I Love
Mark Bingham: To And From The Afterlife
Mark Bingham: The Earth Cracks
Marianne Faithfull: Love Song
Mark Bingham: I Know Nothing
Mark Bingham: Brahms All Nite
Mark Bingham: For Nothing
Mark Bingham: VAS
Mark Bingham, Marianne Faithfull, Gregory Corso & Hal Wilner: Take Me Gambling !! (4HW)

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