"Guns or Roses"

“Guns, or Roses?” (broadcast 3/22/13)

The Cramps: Peter Gunn 
Iggy Pop: La Vie En Rose 
Junior Walker & The All Stars: Shotgun 
Billy Ward & The Dominoes: St. Therese Of The Roses 
Camille: Guns Of Brixton 
My Darling Clementine: I Bought Some Roses 
Johnny Cash: Don't Take Your Guns To Town 
Patsy Cline: A Poor Man's Roses (Or A Rich Man's Gold) 
Wanda Jackson: This Gun Don't Care 
Earl Johnson: When the Roses Bloom Again for the Bootlegger 
The Felice Brothers: Frankie's Gun! 
George Jones: A Good Year for the Roses 
The Yayhoos: Monkey With A Gun 
Jason & the Scorchers: Days of Wine and Roses 
John Fogerty: Gunslinger 
Poco: Rose of Cimarron 
Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites: Guns of Navarone
Danny & The Fat Boys: Honeysuckle Rose 
No Gunshot PSA 
Worl-A-Girl: No Gunshot 
Hortense Ellis: Bed Of Roses 
Aswad: Finger Gun Style 
June Tabor & Oysterband: Bonny Bunch of Roses 
Roy C: Shotgun Wedding 
Nick Cave w/Kylie Minogue: Where The Wild Roses Grow 
10,000 Maniacs: Gun Shy 
Mott The Hoople: Rose 
Lou Reed: The Gun 
Geraint Watkins: Only A Rose 
Dub Pistols: Gunshot (feat. Darrison & Rodney P) 
Jerry Lee Lewis: Mexicali Rose 
Prince Fatty: Blondes Have More Guns 
Ted Taylor: Ramblin' Rose 
Gang of Four: Armalite Rifle 
The Damned: New Rose 
The Clash: Tommy Gun 
Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Bed O' Roses No. 9 
Angel Corpus Christi: Me & My Beretta 
? & the Mysterians: Sally Go Round The Roses 
Squeeze: Annie Get Your Gun 
Paul Thorn: Weeds In My Roses 
Duane Eddy: Peter Gunn

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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