The maturity shown on Monkey Island is missing. It doesn’t get there, even with Houston and Vandross again among the backup singers and the horn section featuring Lou Marini, Alan Rubin and Tom Malone from the Blues Brothers band. Art Tours, Historical Tours, Walking Tours. Chorus Shes a flame, flamethrower Shes a flamethrower at night Shes a flame, a red-hot glower She. This was right around the weekend where Prince celebrated his birthday by playing Cobo Arena in Detroit. Geils Band’s last hurrah, an attempt to get back to the rich sound of Monkey Island. June 7, 1986: Prince had a long on-air chat with Mojo on WJLB. Geils Band Flamethrower (Lanzallamas) 5:00 Flamethrower (Remastered/2006) 5:02 J. Geils Band, thanking him for playing "Flamethrower." Had the B-52's on the air for an interview and an impromptu, off-tempo rendition of "Mesopotamia." Get track information, read reviews, listen to it streaming, and more at AllMusic.Young The People's Mayor," and one called "Great Black Classical Composers" that is still a work in progress. There is a book slated for a 2000 release about former Detroit mayor Coleman A. In 1998 he began webcasting his show on WCHB (105.9), accessible at the time at The site generated sizable traffic and pulled in listeners from all over the globe, but it came down soon after Mojo left WCHB later that year.įor the moment, Mojo has put radio to the side in order to focus on writing and, as he says, "observing." In 1995, Mojo published a 539-page opus, The Mental Machine, a compilation of poems and essays, self-published on his J-Stone Audio Books imprint. This tenacious eclecticism is why he moved from station to station (six in total) and at one point even dished up music on the toll-based telephone number 1-976-MOJO. Geils Band, Cybotron, film scores and even classical music have found their way into his playlists. Mojo played a wide range of music, especially considering the increased pressure to stick to the "format" of Detroit's urban contemporary stations. Put more succinctly, Mojo may not have influenced the development of techno as a form of music per se, but he did help prime a generation of listeners for unusual sounds. Geils Band - Freeze Frame - EMI America - Cass, Album - 1A 264 400064, includes Freeze-Frame, Rage In The Cage, Centerfold, Do You Remember When, Insane, Insane Again, Flamethrower, River Blindness, Angel In Blue, Piss On The Wall The J. Was looking on one of the old external hard drives from the Pro Tools days and came across. Italo-disco), but Mojo is a part of our consciousness - thousands of kids literally grew up listening to his show. Flamethrower (Extended Edit) - J Geils Band - YouTube Not to be confused with the Prime Cuts remix. Charles Johnson, was an eclectic and influential Detroit radio DJ during the '80s and '90s.ĭJs playing in clubs and at private parties around Detroit had some great playlists and spun music more closely associated with what we know think of as techno (e.g. Hailing from Little Rock, Arkansas, "The Electrifying Mojo," a.k.a.
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