RSD Drops came about as a safety net for titles that were part of the Record Store Day celebration in April but didn ’ t make it because of delays in pressing and shipping . The List includes some great titles that can be viewed at both illinoisentertainer . com and recordstoreday . com , plus our picks below for favorite titles released on June 18 .
DAUGHTRY Dearly Beloved • ( Dog Tree )
Limited run teal / purple-colored deluxe hand-pressed vinyl of Dearly Beloved ( sixth album released September 2021 ), which fans and critics agreed was a return to form , with big heavy guitars and Daughtry ’ s melodic and now fine-tuned vocals . Includes two bonus tracks .
DIO Double Dose of Donington • ( BMG )
12 ” picture disc celebrating two legendary appearances at the Donington Festival ! It features “ Stand Up And Shout ” from ’ 83 , and the classic “ Rock And Roll Children ” from 1987 ’ s Dream Evil tour .
PETER GABRIEL Live Blood • ( Real World )
Recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo , London , 23 & 24 March 2011 and originally released the following year , Live Blood is exactly what its name suggests – the live incarnation of Peter Gabriel ’ s New Blood project where he reworked a chunk of his back catalog for a 46-piece orchestra .
The album has been Half-Speed Remastered and cut to lacquers at 33RPM , across 3x heavyweight LPs , pressed on blood red vinyl . Vinyl cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis Mastering and overseen by Peter ’ s main sound engineer Richard Chappell . The album comes in a gatefold sleeve with a full color printed inner bags and a download card with a choice of digital downloads ( Hi-Res 24bit or 16bit ).
STEVE HACKETT
The Tokyo Tapes • ( Esoteric Antenna ) A new limited edition re-mastered 3LP
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RSD Drops Edition set exclusive to RSD Drops 2022 brings Steve Hackett ’ s legendary Tokyo Tapes album . What would happen if occasional members of Genesis , King Crimson , Asia , Yes , Frank Zappa & Weather Report all got together to form a unique team for just one night ? Yep , an event did take place in December 1996 in Tokyo , when Steve Hackett joined forces with John Wetton ( King Crimson ), Chester Thompson ( Genesis , Frank Zappa ), and Ian McDonald ( King Crimson ) & Julian Clock .
Thankfully , it was recorded live for posterity in Tokyo in 1996 . It has three additional studio tracks . It was cut at famed Abbey Road Studios and pressed white vinyl with printed inner bags .
THE KINKS Waterloo Sunset EP • ( BMG )
55th-anniversary release of the classic Kinks single . Artwork from the original 1967 French release . “ Waterloo Sunset ” was ranked number 14 on Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . “ Originally I wanted to call it Liverpool Sunset ,” Davies revealed to Classic Rock . “ I loved Liverpool and Merseybeat . But you know what they say as advice for writers – write about what you know . I knew London better than I knew Liverpool . So I changed it .” We ’ re glad he did . All tracks on this yellow vinyl single are mono and remastered .
THE WHO It ’ s Hard ( 40th Anniversary Edition ) ( Polydor )
The Who ’ s sometimes maligned album It ’ s Hard celebrates its 40th anniversary with this expanded 2 LP set . Disc One ( Orange Vinyl ) contains a half-speed remaster of the album , while Disc Two ( Yellow Vinyl ) continues the rest of the album with additional rare and unreleased material . This edition , with art by Richard Evans , also comes with a poster from the era . There ’ s still lots of classic Townshend music here including the big AOR radio hits “ Athena ,” and “ Eminence Front .”
J
anda Lane ’ s journey to becoming the afternoon co-host at the Drive ( WDRV-Chicago ) has taken her from North Carolina ( her home state ) to Charleston , South Carolina , to Seattle , and through Los Angeles since the radio bug bit her in high school .
And Janda polished her rock and roll credentials along the way . For instance , her experience in Seattle was one for the ages . “ I was working at Sub Pop Records , in addition to the radio station ,” she explains . “ Jonathan Poneman , who founded Sub Pop records ( Nirvana ’ s original label ), was moving the company to a different building . Upstairs in the original building was the tiny little office Poneman and Bruce Pavitt , his partner , shared . That was their first office . On the wall , Kurt Cobain had written his name ( Kurt was spelled Kurdt ) and address in Olympia , Washington . They kept that on the wall since he scribbled it there all those years
before . So , when they were moving to a new building , Poneman asked me to help remove it from the wall to bring along . We went up there , and he got an Exacto knife , and we cut around it and peeled the plaster off the wall , and he framed it . For some reason , he asked me to help him , and that whole day I thought , what a piece of music history . That was a moment I couldn ’ t have asked for . You never know what ’ s going to happen in the world of rock and roll .”
There were also some pretty heady experiences in LA . “ In 1999 , I got a call from Mark Goodman , the old MTV VJ , and he was putting together a new internet project in LA called Soundbreak . com , and he wanted me to come down to LA and do the midday slot , so I did . That was a great experience . It was an on-camera radio station , but it was in the early days of broadband , so the audience was limited . But we knew we were pioneers . We were proud to be Soundbreakers .”
That project led to other memorable opportunities for Janda . “ I ended up working for John Silva , who was the manager for Foo Fighters , Beck , the Beastie Boys ( at the time ), and Sonic Youth . He was Nirvana ’ s manager . I worked for him for three years while I [ also ] worked at the flagship NPR station in LA . I did a show called Broadband . This was
By Rick Kaempfer
JANDA ’ S JOURNEY TO THE DRIVE
Janda Lane something I had never experienced . It was wide open and not formatted . You picked your records , and you played them . That ’ s how KCRW is still run today . It ’ s an amazing station .”
But before coming to Chicago , her radio career also took a little detour into the video world . “ I was working at Fender Guitars doing video production ,” she explains . “ I had stepped away from radio , but I was recommended for this job at the Drive , and I wanted to come to Chicago . My husband Christian is from here . He had been in a Chicago band called Loud Lucy , and they had been signed to a record contract in LA , but we came back to Chicago all the time to visit his family . Every time I was here , I listened to the Drive , so I knew immediately that I wanted to work here .
Luckily , it all worked out , and we packed up and moved .” In another stroke of luck , Janda developed immediate chemistry with her new cohost . “ I absolutely love Ste ve Seaver . You meet people sometimes and think , ‘ well , I suppose this person will grow on me ,’ but that didn ’ t happen at all with Seaver . I just seemed to get him right away , and I feel like he gets me too . We are opposites in a lot of ways . I ’ m pretty persnickety , and he ’ s not like that at all , but there ’ s definitely a kinship there . I personally get a huge kick out of Seaver , and I love to wind him up . He has great radio chops . Plus , when I have a quirky or odd idea , he ’ s always up for it . He loves the eccentric too . I just love to listen to him on the radio . No one is better .”
Shortly after arriving at the Drive , Janda also created a podcast called Behind the Song . “ The podcast infrastructure at Hubbard is great , so that was there already . I wanted to do a podcast , and I had this thought of doing something with music . But it ’ s difficult to do a music podcast because you can ’ t use the music without getting the rights . My secret weapon is my husband , Christian . He ’ s a musical genius and can reproduce any song he hears . It ’ s not 100 % like the song , but it has the right sound or feel . As for the subject of the podcast , every song tells a story — especially through its lyrics . So , that ’ s the basis of this podcast . Telling the stories of timeless and impactful classic rock songs . My goal is to entertain for ten or fifteen minutes , but also to do service to the song and the songwriter because I ’ m truly a fan , and I ’ m in awe of every single song I tackle .”
With her background , knowledge , and track record , it ’ s little wonder that Behind the Song has proven to be a popular podcast destination .
Listen to Janda weekday afternoons on WDRV , 97.1 FM . The podcast is available on various outlets and can be viewed on YouTube .