DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS
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DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS
My Fellow Americans, Life is actually just a microscopic, deluded moment in time, so let's cut to the freakin' chase. One look at our impending election debacle can solidify my case. It has been my contention since birth, that the answer to every difficulty we encounter on this sacred yet demented S...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS OFFER YOU A QUADRUPLE SCOOP OF SUNSHINE: FOUR CLASSIC EPISODES FROM THE SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET, WITH JACK TEAGARDEN, HENRY MANCINI, JOHNNY MERCER, AND HORTON THE ELEPHANT.
To counteract whatever "derangement syndrome" you might be experiencing at the moment, Bill Mesnik of the Splendid Bohemians offers an antidote to you...
Hotel Bohemia Rewind:The Rat Pack Edition- The Infamous 1962, 4AM Show Live From The 500 Club In Atlantic City- Only 250 Vinyl Copies Were Pressed For Special Guests- Frank, Dino and Sammy Request Your Presence!
DINO, AND SAMMY, AND FRANK - O MY!
What tomfoolery! It’s 4 o’clock in the morning, and these bad boys are just getting started. This recording i...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - GETTING LOST IN A MYSTICAL MIST WITH ERROLL GARNER AND BIX BEIDERBECKE - TWO TITANS OF JAZZ TRANSPORT US TO REALMS OF MYSTERY. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Today we present two piano instrumentals that explore the mysteries of Mist. Strictly speaking, a “mist” can be defined by some water vapor that obsc...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - CAR CULTURE: AMERICA'S OBSESSION WITH THE BIG AUTOMOBILE, WITH THE BEACH BOYS AND SHANIA TWAIN. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Given that we lost Brian Wilson recently, and there’s been a lot of talk about the elimination of the affordable subcompact, I thought we could reflec...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT A CLASSIC CAPTAIN BILLY'S MAGIC 8 BALL REWIND: NEIL DIAMOND SOARS WITH HIS SPIRIT ANIMAL, JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL.
SPIRIT ANIMAL
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL by Neil Diamond (Columbia, 1973)
There were alot of self-help manuals popularized in the 70’s; I...
THE SPLENDID BOHO GOES TO: TRAIN DREAMS! BILL AND RICH NOMINATE THIS METAPHYSICAL MASTERPIECE FOR FILM OF THE YEAR, WITH BACKING BY NICK CAVE, JACKSON BROWNE, TOM RUSH, GREGG ALLMAN, AND TOM WAITS. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
There have been a lot of good to great films released this year - serious films, films with urgent political underpinnings, films that mix satire, pat...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS OFFER A TRIPLE-PLAY DEVOTIONAL PROGRAM DELIVERED BY JAN AND DEAN, TOM JONES, AND EVIL WIENER.
“You gotta have faith,” George Michael sang a long time ago. Given the unfortunate fate that befell that conflicted artist, it’s worth taking a moment...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT A "DOUBLE TROUBLE" CHRISTMAS CRACKER! TWO HOLIDAY DELICACIES TO GET THE FESTIVITIES STARTED - WITH HARVEY KEITEL AND THE TURTLES. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Today, we feature a Christmas cracker that offers some new perspectives on one of our most treasured holiday traditions - The Xmas Song: First, The Tu...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS EXTEND AN INVITATION TO PARTAKE IN SOME INSTRUMENTAL INSPIRATIONS! ANOTHER TWO-FER OF CLASSIC "STACK OF 45s" EPISODES WITH THE VENTURES AND JOE MEEK'S TORNADOS. ENJOY!!
Rich and I are having a ball, reliving our memorable episodes and sharing the cream with you. Today we feature two dynamic instrumental tracks that wa...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - IN PRAISE OF A PRODUCER: CELEBRATING THE ARTISTRY OF JEFF LYNNE. DOUBLE DOWN!!
I hear Jeff Lynne has recently been sidelined by a mysterious infection, and had to cancel some performances. We wish the revered music producer and f...
ON THIS THANKSGIVING, THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOU! HERE IS A GENEROUS HELPING OF SOME HOLIDAY TRADITION: ALICE'S RESTAURANT BY ARLO GUTHRIE.
Reflecting upon this landmark recording made me realize how much Arlo and his song had been fundamental to my life-long, anti-authoritarian world view...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - PRETTY PUNKS WITH X-RAY SPEX AND THE PRETENDERS. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Love comes in many forms - sometimes confrontational. Today’s episode is a paean to a couple of dominating dames that lit up the punk scene in the lat...
BILL AND RICH, THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS ARE THRILLED TO OPEN THEIR TREASURE CHEST OF NEW ORLEANS JEWELS FOR YOUR DELIGHT: TWO ARCHIVAL STACK O’ 45s THAT GLITTER AND SHINE, WITH IRMA THOMAS AND ERNIE K. DOE!
We’re so glad you’re enjoying our meanderings down memory lane to rediscover these classic Stack o’ 45s episodes you might have missed. We’re having a...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - NO REGRETS: WITH JACKSON BROWNE, LUZ CASAL, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT & SARA BAREILLES. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Edit Piaf once famously sang “Je Regrette Rien” (I Regret Nothing), and listening to the following heart wrenching live performances, I’m reminded tha...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - TO BE OR NOT TO BE? A QUESTION FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON, POSED BY NICK DRAKE AND WILL OLDHAM. DOUBLE DOWN!!
As the holidays roll around, and daylight retracts, the thoughts also cloud over to infuse the mind with a grayish motif. We’re encouraged to gather o...
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! ANOTHER STACK O 45s TWO-FER FROM BILL AND RICH, THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS - TWO ESTIMABLE SIRENS WHO’VE SPANNED THE SPECTRUM OF POP - PEGGY LEE (1920-2002), AND LESLIE GORE (1946-2015).
You asked, and we answered. Since you enjoyed the Bobbie Gentry vs. Joey Heatherton marathon smackdown so much, we've resurrected two more tantalizing...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT A BRILL BUILDING TRIPLE PLAY: ONE-HIT WONDERWOMEN WHO ROCKED THE MAN'S WORLD, WITH CATHY CARROLL, EARL-JEAN MCCRAE, AND TRACEY DEY.
There is an interesting theme coursing through these are three dynamic pop hits of the Brill Building era, all by one hit wonders, sung by extraordina...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIAN'S BATTLE OF THE TEENAGE CRUSHES: JOEY HEATHERTON VS BOBBIE GENTRY. RICH AND BILL GO HEAD TO HEAD ON TWO STACK OF 45'S. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Was it really a simpler time, way back when?
As teenagers, Rich and I pined for those older women who seemed to embody the tidal pulse of desir...
THE WORLD SERIES HEATS UP AND THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS CELEBRATE THE BUOYS OF SUMMER WITH OUR MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO BASEBALL! WITH WARREN ZEVON, BOB DYLAN, STEVE GOODMAN, AND THE JITTER BUGGING ODE TO JOE DIMAGGIO BY TEDDY POWELL AND PEGGY MANN. BATTER UP!!
In the mood for some baseball?
Of course you are; it’s still our national pastime, after all, despite the threat of encroachment by football, s...
SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE - THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS OFFER A REVIEW OF THE FILM ALONG WITH TUNES THAT ACKNOWLEDGE THE BOSS'S INFLUENCE AND INFLUENCES, WITH PETE SEEGER AND RYAN ADAMS.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is one of the best depictions of the creative process that I’ve ever seen, exploring where an artist’s ideas come...
THEY'RE BACK!!! A DIG THIS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL- "IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS"- THE ROKY ERICKSON ICING ON YOUR HALLOWED CUPCAKE OF TERROR! FEAR, FUN AND ROCKIN' ANCIENT HISTORY FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY FEATURING BILL "THE MIGHTY MEZ" MESNIK AND HIS GHASTLY JOY MACHINE
IT IS TIME TO WALK WITH THE ZOMBIES! '
WELCOME TO THE PORTAL NO ONE LEAVES ALIVE.
HALLOWEEN IS UPON US, AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE T...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE"- CULTURAL APPROPRIATION WITH PETER LA FARGE AND JOHNNY CASH. DOUBLE DOWN!!
This nation’s troubled history with Manifest Destiny will continue to haunt us for some time. Throughout the decades some Native voices have emerged a...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - ICE QUEENS WITH LANA DEL REY AND NICO. DOUBLE DOWN!!
What is the fascination that we have with seductive avatars of oblivion? Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams indoctrinated the adolescent me to the possi...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - ACES OF BASS WITH TAL WILKENFELD AND ESPERANZA SPALDING. DOUBLE DOWN!!
At risk of seeming sexist, it must be noted that the two prodigies of the bass featured here are female, and perhaps that, in some sense, informs thei...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - STRING THEORY WITH KALEIDOSCOPE AND TELEVISION. DOUBLE DOWN!!
DT: STRING THEORY / TELEVISION AND KALEIDOSCOPE
The guitar as we know it has had an illustrious evolution, starting its journey in ancient Mesop...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - STAYING HYDRATED WITH MARTY ROBBINS AND THE REVEREND AL GREEN. DOUBLE DOWN!!
DT: STAYING HYDRATED WITH MARTY ROBBINS AND REV. AL GREEN
H2O - we can’t live without it. As the temperatures rise, physically and spiritually,...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT BILL MESNIK'S "CALL ME UP IN DREAMLAND," THE PLACE WHERE DREAMS AND MEMORIES INTERSECT. EPISODE 8: ANCHORS AWEIGH!
ANCHORS AWEIGH!
This episode comes from diary entries written from March to August, 2018 - and, involve labyrinthian efforts to get my nephew in...
HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS " OF TURTLES, LIOTTA AND PRIZEFIGHTS "- RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF MARK VOLMAN, THE INTENSITY OF RAY LIOTTA AND PREVIEW THE HISTORIC CANELO / CRAWFORD SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT CONTEST - DIG IT!!!
The story of one of the sunniest and funniest personalities to emerge in the world of rock, the Turtles‘ Mark Volman, is being told in a book whose t...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? WITH THE MC5 AND GIL SCOTT-HERON. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Long ago and far away, around 1970, there was a smoldering rage that permeated through every strata of American society. Following a flurry of assassi...
HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "LABORS OF LOVE "- RICH BUCKLAND AND BILL MESNIK CELEBRATE THE UNION OF JOE HILL, THE JERRY LEWIS LABOR DAY TELETHON & MOTHERHOOD- PLUS EMINEM SHOWS NO FEAR AS THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS TELL IT LIKE IT IS- A FEAST OF LOVE!
A songwriter, itinerant laborer, and union organizer, Joe Hill became famous around the world after a Utah court convicted him of murder. Even before...
BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: LOW YO YO STUFF BY CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (WB, 1972)
SUNNY SONGS: LOW YO YO STUFF by Captain Beefheart (WB, 1972)
We do what we gotta do to survive. We’ve got to activate our low yo yo stuff. Don V...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - GIVING LOVE ONE MORE CHANCE - WITH TRACY CHAPMAN AND SIPPIE WALLACE. DOUBLE DOWN!
Today we feature two black female vocalists, born 66 years apart, both renown for their independent spirit, singing songs about trying to make love wo...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - DISHING THE DIRT WITH HOWLIN' WOLF AND GENE PITNEY. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Gossip, Tittle Tattle, rumors, hearsay, dishing the dirt, idle talk, back stabbing…. It’s not one of the seven deadly sins, but maybe it should be. Ho...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT BILL MESNIK'S "CALL ME UP IN DREAMLAND," THE PLACE WHERE DREAMS AND MEMORIES INTERSECT. EPISODE #7 - NORTH TO ALASKA!
In the summer of 2019, in the halcyon days before the Pandemic, Chemayne and I got to share a 25th anniversary celebration experience that we had put...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - APOCALYPSE NOW! WITH JACKSON BROWNE AND CHUMBAWAMBA - DOUBLE DOWN!!
APOCALYPSE NOW!
JACKSON BROWNE AND CHUMBAWAMBA
Have T***p derangement syndrome? Don’t worry; be happy! Go with the flow. Things can alway...
BILL ("THE MIGHTY MEZ") MESNIK PRESENTS A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: IT'S A CHOICE TO BE HAPPY!
IT’S A CHOICE TO BE HAPPY
(Music and lyrics by Bill Mesnik)
What makes me happy?
Cause when I feel happy
I feel...
"CAPTAIN BILLY'S MAGIC 8 BALL" PRESENTS A SPECIAL GOLDEN OLDIE ARCHIVAL EPISODE WITH PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS GREATEST HITS! (COLUMBIA, 1967).
ONE IF BY LAND, TWO IF BY SEA
PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS GREATEST HITS by Paul Revere and the Raiders (Columbia, 1967)
This group, this r...
"CAPTAIN BILLY'S MAGIC 8-BALL" RIDES AGAIN WITH HANK WILLIAMS, JR. - WHISKEY BENT AND HELL BOUND - (ELEKTRA, 1979) , IN HIGH DEFINITION - THE ENTIRE ALBUM WITH THE CAPTAIN'S MAGNETIC NARRATIVE -THE CAPTAIN EXPLORES HIS COVE OF 8 TRACK TREASURES!
HANK WILLIAMS, JR. / WHISKEY BENT AND HELL BOUND / ELEKTRA, 1979
I have a good story about Hank Williams, Jr., aka “Bocephus:”
My late wi...
THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - SOCIAL CRITICISM, OR I HATE PEOPLE, WITH FRANK ZAPPA AND WARREN ZEVON. DOUBLE DOWN!!
We got a couple of world-class curmudgeons here - who share more than might meet the ear initially: two native Californians renown for their curdled o...
"CAPTAIN BILLY'S MAGIC 8-BALL" RETURNS WITH ALBERT KING - LIVE WIRE/BLUES POWER! (STAX, 1968) IN HIGH DEFINITION - THE ENTIRE ALBUM WITH THE CAPTAIN'S MAGNETIC NARRATIVE -THE CAPTAIN EXPLORES HIS COVE OF 8 TRACK TREASURES!
CAPTAIN BILLY’S MAGIC EIGHT BALL:
ALBERT KING LIVE WIRE/BLUES POWER
So, there were three “Kings” of the blues: B.B., Freddie, and Albert....