 Continuing the tradition of free-form radio through the miracle of podcasting, Old Leadfoot plays music of various genres. Many (but not all) selections are often 30 - 50 years old and are rarely, if ever, heard on commercial stations. Live concert and/or unreleased material are regular featuresPrimary Format :
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Radio Circus Goes Down Swinging - pod#108 - fini After 4 years and 4 months, we thank all fans of Radio Circus for your help and support. The pleasure has surely been ours. Please join us in our next incarnation at www.RadioCircus.net Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The next to last Radio Circus...?"Time keeps tick-tocking away....close your eyes, there goes another day"
~ Fred Engleberg
Old Leadfoot plays music for geezers of various ages. The shows may not be getting any better, but they're sure getting longer.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Inner Space to the Great BeyondOld Leadfoot sets out to explore inner space, but the death of a close friend requires personal reflection be included in the mix.
Celebrating and mourning the life of a great lover of music....the world of
"bootleg" tapers knew him as Bigfoot, but his friends called him The Sandman. And good LORD he'll be missed by many.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cirque Par Radio #105: The All-American PodcastSometimes the music picks itself. The only commonality I see here is the all American origin of the artists involved.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Concerning Events of April 16thIn a long standing Radio Circus tradition, the events of April 16th 1943 and 2002 serve as inspiration for our setlist Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boogie @ MidnightOld Leadfoot boogies at midnight to begin year #5, plus a special announcement to Radio Circus fans of all ages!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4 More Years!Radio Circus completes it's first term of office with Episode #102, comprised almost entirely of classic live recordings.
Special thanks to Mark of Sonoma County CA for the great ZPZ photos!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Circus 101Every Sunday night at midnight (east coast time)Randy Bone takes the airwaves of WFHB on a trip to the early morning hours. This episode of Radio Circus is a slightly edited aircheck from February 9, 2009, which became a 5 hour extravaganza. The latest Randy Bone Show can usually be found here. We urge you to listen - either live or archived. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Radio Circus Inaugural BallThe moment we've been waiting for has FINALLY arrived! You're all cordially invited to join Old Leadfoot in celebration at the Radio Circus Inaugural Ball. America is back, mofo! Thanks for being patient, world.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giving Bush The BootWe take this opportunity to throw one last shoe at the lamest President ever to duck. Presented in VBR format for increased sound quality.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting All Folked-UpThe last Radio Circus episode of the year is a collection of some of Old Leadfoot's favorite folk artists
Seasons greetings and our best wishes for a happy & healthy 2009
The psychedelic secrets of Santa ClausListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cry UncleAmong other things, we bid a fond adieu to Alaska's most famous felon and soon to be former senator, "Uncle" Ted Stevens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hey, he was right...I guess we COULD!Old Leadfoot enlists the help of Randy Bone and Uncle Charlie in a grand celebration to commemorate the election of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the
true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal."......This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will
be able to sing with new meaning "My country 'tis of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Divi Nation!Divination: the methods or practice of attempting to foretell the future or discovering the unknown through omens, oracles, or supernatural powers. A reflection on the election.
My friends...a groundswell is forming for a new candidate of the people!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dancing The Night AwayOf course, dancing with Old Leadfoot contains a certain degree of riskListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smiling On A Cloudy DayEarly August and it's time for our annual tribute to Jerry Garcia. This year Jerry shares the spotlight with two recently departed musicians - Hiram Bullock and Artie Traum.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Can Hear Them Hippies Singing Soft and LowJuly 4th weekend required THREE celebratory gatherings by three seperate circles of friends. Some of those friends hadn't traveled this way for many years. The entire month has been an occasion for friends, new or old, to connect. In fact, we're waiting for a crew to arrive right now.
So, episode #91 of Radio Circus... TO ALL MY FRIENDS...!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from California Artists (circa 1963 - 83)All-live content returns for the summer with selections performed by artists who are closely associated with the "Cali culture" popular in the 1960s.
Dedicated to the memory of George Carlin: (May 12, 1937–June 22, 2008)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exit Hillary"...I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar ..."
~ KVRE from Austin, Texas was incorrectly identified as being from San Antonio. We apologize for this oversight (it was 2:30 A.M.)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do you like roses on your piano...?Or perhaps you prefer tulips on your organ. Either way, episode #88 of Radio Circus celebrates the person on the keyboards.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ~ Thanks for the Memories ~ Dr. Albert Hofmann ~ 1/11/06 - 4/29/08
Dr Albert Hofmann was an anonymous Swiss chemist - then he inadvertently created the mind-altering psychedelic drug that would shape popular culture for generations. It all began with a "peculiar" accident on a spring day in 1943 that reconnected Hofmann with the "deeply euphoric" visionary encounters he had experienced in nature as a boy. About death, Hofmann said, "I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dog Is My Co-pilot - April 16th, a day for Radio Circus to rejoice!Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to stop my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and to go home, as I was seized by a peculiar restlessness associated with a sensation of mild dizziness. On arriving home, I lay down and sank into a kind of drunkenness which was not unpleasant and which was characterized by extreme activity of imagination. As I lay in a dazed condition with my eyes closed (I experienced daylight as disagreeably bright) there surged upon me an uninte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ~*~3rd Anniversary Celebratory Podcast~*~Radio Circus: The original technicolor podcast
All live content is provided in celebration of three consecutive years of music, mayhem and mishagos with Old Leadfoot. Much thanks to all...!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Political CircusAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The combination in a single work of elements from different historical styles. eclectic: 1. varied: made up of parts from various sources
> an eclectic collection of paintings
2. choosing from various sources: choosing what is best or preferred from a variety of sources or styles
> an eclectic taste in music
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some February ThingsOld Leadfoot reflects upon some February occurrences while keeping the brew in February
RadioCircus@hotmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doctor Albert's 102nd Birthday Celebration (January 11th, 2008)Happy 102nd Birthday, Dr. Albert Hofmann...! Congratulations and thank you for your life's work and contribution to society that set off a world-wide chain reaction of inspiration.
~From the many disciples of your problem childListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The OdysseyOld Leadfoot, Radio Lois and Maximo return from a pilgrimage to Brooklyn New York that included a 7000 mile expedition through rural America.
Originally prepared to be posted on December 23, 2007Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can't Think of a Good Title.This podcast is presented in Variable Bitrate format for increased sound quality.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life is a series of surprisesIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Of Love 40th Anniversary SpecialIncludes highlights from the free concert held in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco on September 2, 2007 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the "Summer Of Love". It was a beautiful thing.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's a Right-Wing Round-up! "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
~James Madison
"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.”
~Voltaire
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
~Plato
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Other PeopleOld Leadfoot serves up a selection of songs that for one reason or another remind him of Summer.
June is just waiting, July is the beginning of the end. Where is a unperturbed, lasting summer? Nowhere else but in our thoughts during the winter. - Kersti Bergroth, Finnish writer
Contact:Leadfoot@RadioCircus.net Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Live Part4 ~ In Memory of Jerry Garcia ~ Aug 1 1942 - Aug 9 1995It's been 10 years since he left us... but instead of remembering his death we choose to commemorate his life on this, his birthday. Fortunately he left us a tremendous legacy of live recordings to enjoy and we celebrate his being by sharing the entire 1st set from a great night during the Grateful Dead's prime.
From the Fillmore West on March 3rd, 1969...
The Grateful Dead
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Live Content - Part 3Once again, guitar work is prominently featured in this 3rd edition of the Radio Circus summer celebration of all-live content. Featuring such luminaries as Doc Watson, Michael Kang, Jerry Garcia, Dicky Betts, Frank Zappa...and of course, Mike Bloomfield.
www.RadioCircus.netListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Memory of Jerry Garcia August 1, 1942 ~ August 9, 1995A dozen years since his passing... he would have been 65 years old now. Our third annual celebration of the life and times of Jerry Garcia, co-hosted by the lovely Ophelia Nutsack.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ~ All Live Content ~ Radio Circus pod # 74Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night (or oral surgery) stays Radio Circus from the eventual completion of its appointed rounds.
The assistance of virtual friends from around the globe was required in the production of this podcast of all live content. Special thanks to Sir Hugo Plotz for assembling our all-star cast.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Summertime ThingIn summer, the song sings itself.
~William Carlos Williams
Welcome to summertime aficionados of the "wake and bake" lifestyle.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A latenight trip w/Old LeadfootDedicated to the memory of Laura Ellen Hopper 1950-2007
Ms. Hopper founded or co-founded two legendary independant radio stations in central California, KFAT & KPIG, and was an intrepid fighter for the ability to keep free-form radio alive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In celebration of the 71st birthday of Wavy Gravy"Wavy Gravy is the illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother Teresa."- Paul KrassnerYou can help Wavy celebrate his birthday by attending his annual benefit concert in San Francisco @ The Grand Ballroom on May 18, 2007...or, you can make a donation that will help save the sight of thousands every year.PLEASE HELP!(Tell'em Old Leadfoot sent ya...!)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If I can't dance....you can KEEP your revolution...! ~sentiments of Emma Goldman(Her) belief in personal freedom is highlighted in the story where Goldman was taken aside at a dance by a young revolutionary and told it did not become an agitator to dance. Emma Goldman wrote;"I insisted that our cause could not expect me to behave as a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.I want freedom, the right to self expression,everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things."Emma Goldman biographyListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's Bicycle Day!Unbeknownst to many, April 19, 1943 became a pivotal moment in history that helped change the course of humanity
Dr. Albert HofmannListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ~2Yrs~*~Radio Circus~*~2Yrs~Radio Circus begins a third year of free-form podcasts with all the accoutrements you've become accustomed to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mellow Down Easy W/ Old LeadfootOld Leadfoot spares us the history lesson this week and just spins some tunes, as he readys himself for a long weekend in Yosemite with Mrs. Leadfoot and a group of wild bluegrassers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Collector's Edition...!Includes unreleased practice material...as well as a message of warning from then Gov. Ronald Reagan...an excerpt from Bob Dylan's first-ever radio interview....and every listener receives a free guitar lesson from Jerry Garcia!
RadioCircus@hotmail.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Way Back in the 1960s (through the present)The early-era Jerry Garcia guitar work on the 2nd selection serves as inspiration for Old Leadfoot to serve up a heaping helping of his hospitality. A special Passover surprise is included....and the finale will tear the roof off of your computer.
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radiocircus@hotmail.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Songs that were rarely (if ever) heard on the radioPhil Ochs begins a program of music that includes old tunes...but they may be new to you.
For more information about any of the artists heard here, or to make a request (of any kind) please contact Old Leadfoot directly:
radiocircus@hotmail.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A collection of rare recordings and/or live concert excerpts~*~*~RadioCircus@hotmail.com~*~*~
Our heartfelt thanks to Jeff the Bookmiester General, PestilentSpawnOfCthulhu, Bigfoot, Bongo Johnny and Randy Bone for their many contributions to the Radio Circus library, without which these podcasts would be impossible. Or at least a lot different.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ol' Leadfoot's initial broadcast as the voice of the Brahma's World internet networkThis maiden voyage of Radio Circus is essentially a shakedown cruise. Featured artists for this edition are Buck Owens, Charlie Hunter, Rita Marley and Frank Zappa.
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