Setlist from last night (01 January)

Happy New Year, everyone! Here's a memorial show for some of the great rock 'n' roll artists we had to say farewell to in 2020.

"King of the Mountain" – Midnight Oil (Bones Hillman, bass, d. 11/7/20, age 62)
"Circles" – Les Fleur Des Lys (Gordon Haskell, bass/vocals, Les Fleur des Lys/King Crimson, d. 10/16/20, age 74)
"Trampoline" – The Spencer Davis Group (Spencer Davis, 10/19/20, age 81)
"Say It Isn't So" – The Outfield (Tony Lewis, bass/vocals, d. 10/19/20, age 62)

"In This House That I Call Home" – X (Bob Biggs, founder, Slash Records, d. 10/16/20, age 74)
"Easy Livin'" – Uriah Heep (Lee Kerslake, drums, Ozzy/Uriah Heep, d. 9/19/20, cancer, age 73)
"When the Rain Comes" – The Jacobites (Dave Kusworth, guitar, Jacobites, d. 9/19/20, age 60)
"Smartarse Songwriters" – Skyhooks (Peter Starkie, guitar, d. 9/14/20, age 72)

"Mean Street" – Van Halen (Eddie Van Halen, d. 10/6/20, cancer, age 65)
"Walk In Cold" – Naked Raygun (Pierre Kezdy, bass, d. 10/9/2020, cancer, age 58)
"Monkey Man" – The Specials (Toots Hibbert, songwriter, d. 9/11/20, age 77)
"Chinese Rocks" – Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers (Walter Lure, guitar, d. 8/21/20, cancer, age 71)

"Let It Roll" – UFO (Pete Way, bass, d. 8/14/20, age 69 AND Paul Chapman, guitar, d. 6/9/20, age 66)
"Computer Games" – Mi-Sex (Don Martin, bass, d. 8/10/20)
"Live" – The Merry-Go-Round (Emmit Rhodes, keyboards, d. 7/19/20, age 70)
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/Hang 'Em High" [live] – Wall of Voodoo (Ennio Morricone, d. 7/6/20, age 91)

"Rattlesnake Shake" – Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green, d. 7/25/90, age 73)
"Fox on the Run" – Sweet (Steve Priest, bass, d. 5/28/20, age 70)
"Move On" – Paul Stanley (Bob Kulick, session guitarist, d. 5/28/20, age 70)
"Bad Case of Loving You" – Moon Martin (d. 5/11/20, age 70)

"Rosalyn" – David Bowie (Phil May, songwriter, d. 5/11/20, age 76)
"She's Got It" – Little Richard (d. 5/11/20, age 87)
"The Model" [live] – Kraftwerk (Florian Schneider, d. 5/6/20, age 73)
"No More Heroes" – The Stranglers (Dave Greenfield, keyboards, d. 5/3/20, age 71)

"Radio Bar" – Fountains of Wayne (Adam Schlesinger, bass, d. 4/1/20, age 52)
"I Look Around" – Rain Parade (David Roback, guitar, d. 2/25/2020, age 61)
"Desperate Guys" – The Faint (Jacob Thiele, keyboards, d. 2/13/20, age 40)
"Ask the Angels" – Patti Smith (Ivan Kral, bass, d. 2/2/20, age 71)

"Super Stupid" – Funkadelic (Harold Beane, guitar, d. 2/1/20, age 73)
"I Found That Essence Rare" – Gang of Four (Andy Gill, guitar, d. 2/1/20, age 64)
"Desiree" – The Left Banke (Steve Martin Caro, drums, d. 1/14/20, age 71)
"Superconductor" – Rush (Neil Peart, d. 1/7/20, age 67 AND Rupert Hine, producer, d. 6/5/20, age 72)

Great show Delvin,

Unfortunately, there were a few names on your list whose passing I had not been aware of (Moon Martin, Andy Gill, Florian Schneider, Ivan Kral). Just adds to the general awfulness of the year 2020.

Man, what a list. And if your setlist included country music you would have had a long list of other luminaries to mourn too.

> Unfortunately, there were a few names on your list whose passing I had not been aware of ...

Yeah, that goes for me too. A second member of Uriah Heep died in 2020, who should've gotten a mention along with Lee Kerslake.

> And if your setlist included country music you would have had a long list of other luminaries to mourn too.

True. Quite a few listeners contacted me, saying I really should've included John Prine, because, darn it, he was such an important artist. No argument about that, but his music wouldn't have fit into my set.

A couple of listeners said I should've included Leslie West, but I already had completed & uploaded my pre-recorded show by the time his passing was announced. (Plus, I went back to listen to his stuff, both solo and with Mountain, and frankly, I didn't hear anything I liked.)

Prine is definitely one of those Americana/folk/whatever guys who has a lost of appeal to the alt.rock crowd, as is the great Billy Joe Shaver, who also passed, and Steve Earle's son Justin Townes Earle. They'd've made a good set together, but you're right - Prine wouldn't have fit into any of the sets you had already planned.

I'm guessing you just missed word of MF DOOM's passing.

Yeah, I found out about MF Doom's passing after I got back from the holidays. (I had to get my Christmas show and my end-of-year requiem show done about the same time, so I could upload them to the station and then leave for the holidays.)

Thank you for the memorial show, Delvin. The perfect cap to an otherwise soul crushing year.

As sad as all these passings were, I found comfort in the realization their art lives on for all to hear...