The Gospel According to Banjo...

Tuesday

Inaugural Rock Out

The Gospel According to Banjo held it's own version of the Presidential Inauguration '09!

Jimi Hendrix
Star Spangled Banner
Woodstock

Marilyn Monroe
Happy Birthday

Neil Young
Let's Impeach the President
Living With War

Tom Waits
Road to Peace
Orphans

Black Sabbath
War Pigs
Paranoid

Gang of Four
The Republic
Solid Gold

You're the Best Around
Karate Kid Soundtrack

The Doors
Peace Frog
Morrison Hotel

Heart
Magic Man
Best Of

Ike and Tine Turner
He's the One
Mojo Music Soul Sampler

Colourmusic
Yes!
Colourmusic

Beastie Boys
Right Right Now Now
To the 5 Boroughs

Flaming Lips
The WAND
At War with the Mystics

Rage Against the Machine
Take the Power Back
R.A.T.M.

Brights Eyes
When the President Talks to God
...

Fleetwood Mac
Oh Well
"7

Secret Machines
Sad and Lonely
Now Here is Nowhere

Bon Jovi
Blaze of Glory
Croass Road

Charlie Daniels
In America
Greatest Hits

Elbow
Independent Women
BBC

Loretta Lynne
High On a Mountain Top
Van Lear Rose

Aretha Franklin
Rock Steady
Formula 45

Datarock
Sex Me Up
Datarock Datarock

Talking Heads
Life During Wartime
Stop Making Sense

Quintron
Underwater Dance Club
Are You Ready For an Organ Solo?

Spiritualized
Oh Happy Day
Royal Albert Hall

Sam Cooke
A Change is Gonna Come
Portrait

Gospel of the Rock Feud

AC/DC
Spoilin' For a Fight
Black Ice

the Greenhornes
Lies
the Greenhornes

Gomez
Shot Shot
In Our Gun

David Allan Coe
Longhaired Redneck
Greatest Hits

Cheap Trick
You're All Talk
In Color

Kinski
Punching Goodbye Out Front
Down Below

Bloodie Hollies
Raised By Wolves
Peel Sessions

the Kinks
Brainwashed
Arthur

Oasis
Rock and Roll Star
Definitely Maybe

Blur
Globe Alone
The Great Escape

CCR
Commotion
Chronicle

Ramones
Beat on the Brat
Ramones

King Kahn & BBQ Show
Fish Fight
King Kahn & BBQ Show

Nirvana
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
In Utero

Pearl Jam
I Got Id
Merkel Ball

Motley Crue
Kickstart My Heart
Dr. Feelgood

Bad Brains
Big Takeover
Rock For Light

Arctic Monkeys
D Is For Dangerous
Favorite Worst Nightmare

Von Bondies
No Regrets
Pawn Shoppe Heart

White Stripes
Expecting
White Blood Cells

Weezer
Troublemaker
Weezer

Mr. Airplane Man
Commit A Crime
Moanin'

Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Constipation Blues
Feast of Mau Mau

Robert Johnson
Preaching Blue
Complete Robert Johnson

Paul McCartney
Too Many People
Ram

John Lennon
How Do You Sleep?
Imagine

Pink Floyd
Biding My Time
Relics

the January 12th radio broadcast was all about great rock and roll feuds, can you pick 'em out of the line up?

Monday

Radio3

Frank Zappa
Central Scrutinizer
Joe's Garage

Primal Scream
Kill All Hippies
XTRMNTR

Guitar Wolf
Jet Generation
Jet Generation

SFA
The Man Don't Give A Fuck
The Man Don't Give A Fuck 7"

Radiohead
2+2=5
Hail to the Thief

Beatles
Taxman
Revolver

The Clash
Know Your Rights
Combat Rock

Rage Against The Machine
Testify
Battle of L.A.

Queens of the Stoneage
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
R

Dirtbombs
Chains of Love
Ultraglide in Black

The Go
Meet Me at the Movies
What'cha Doing?

Soledad Brothers
Cage That Tiger
Voice of Treason

Enon
Mirror On You
Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds

Jaguar Love
Highways of Gold
Take Me to the Sea

Tom Waits
Big in Japan
Mule Variations

Soda and His Million Piece Band
You Cheat
Self Titled

Elmo Williams
Mother's Dead
Takes One to Know One

Captain Beefheart
Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do
Safe As Milk

The Kinks
20th Century Man
Muswell Hillbillies

Blur
Beetlebum
Blur

Firewater
The Beat Goes On
Songs We Should Have Written

David Bowie
Rosalyn
Pinups

T. Rex
Metal Guru
The Slider

Goldfrapp
Ooh La La
Supernature

Os Mutantes
Top Top
Jardim Eltrico

L'Orchidee D'Hawai
Smierc Ministra
Nobody Beats Me

Led Zeppelin
Custard Pie
Physical Graffiti

Heavy Trash
Park H'aird Rider
Heavy Trash

White Stripes
Let's Shake Hands
Live

Neil Young
Hey Hey My My
Weld

Holiday Demon Rock

Not only was there a celebration of Holiday jams on Monday's broadcast, we also busted a move to Banjo's favorite albums and artists of 2008. But rather than play all those boring and stale and generic holiday rock songs, we decided to go a different direction and embrace something that's slightly more in tune with rock and roll...the devil. So we offered up SIX artists that rocked out for the Prince of Darkness...can you guess who they are? And for the favorites of 2008 we decided to tie-in the Mr. Satan as well by playing at least one cut from Banjo's top 18 albums of the year...why 18 you ask? Well because SIX plus SIX plus SIX equals 18. And of those 18, SIX of them are Banjo's absolute favorites of the year and are lucky enough to have TWO songs each be played, because TWO is that magic number given to Lucifer by indie rock's favorite heathen, Prometheus. And of course, Banjo's favorite album and artist of the year got a special THIRD track played! Hot damn.

Here's the setlist...

ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM

Spinal Tap
Christmas With the Devil
This is Spinal Tap

White Denim
Darksided Computer Mouth
Workout Holiday

Cut In The Hill Gang
Soul To Waste
Single

Marnie Stern
Transformer
This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

No Age
Here Should Be My Home
Nouns

My Morning Jacket
Remnants
Evil Urges

Electric Six
Electric Demoms in Love
Fire

The Kills
Sour Cherry
Midnight Boom

Man Man
Top Drawer
Rabbit Habbits

Black Mountain
Stormy High
In The Future

Iron Maiden
Run to the Hills
Number of the Beast

Black Keys
I Got Mine
Attack and Release

Wavves
The Boys Will Love Us
Wavves

The Kills
Getting Down
Midnight Boom

Deerhunter
Nothing Ever Happened
Microcastle

TV on the Radio
Red Dress
Dear Science

Beck
Vampire Voltage No. 6
Chemtrails 7"*

White Denim
All You Really Have to Do
Exposion

Hellacopters
The Devil Stole the Beat From the Lord
Grande Rock*

L'Orchidee d'Hawai
Kosaka
Nobody Beats Me

Rolling Stones
Dancing With Mr. D.
Goats Head Soup

Black Mountain
Evil Ways
In The Future*

Pearl Jam
Satan's Bed
Vitalogy*

Colourmusic
Put In a Little Gas
Colourmusic*

Man Man
Big Trouble
Rabbit Habbits*

Black Keys
Psychotic Girl
Attack and Release*

Seasick Steve
St. Louis Slim
I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Got Most of it Left*

Bob Dylan
High Water (For Charlie Patton)
Tell Tale Signs

White Denim
Shake Shake Shake
Workout Holiday

Marnie Stern
Clone Cycle
This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

The Raconteurs
Rich Kid Blues
Consolers of the Lonely

Songs denoted with a * were not played due to a massive power outage in the middle of the show thanks to all the kickass Rock and Roll being played...or something...and by the time the server was back up and running time was not on Banjo's side...perhaps we should have offered up a second virginal sacrifice...

Thursday

Monday's Rock Rapture

The Set List from Monday's "The Gospel According to Banjo" Rock 'n' Roll Radio Broadcast...

Artist
Track
Album

AC/DC
Let There Be Rock
Let There Be Rock

The Black Keys
Remember When (Side B)
Attack & Release

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Wail
Now I Got Worry

White Denim
Mess Your Hair Up
Workout Holiday

Art Brut
My Little Brother
Bang Bang Rock & Roll

Iggy and the Stooges
Shake Appeal
Raw Power

the White Stripes
Baby Brother
Icky Thump 7" Single

Radio Birdman
I-94
Essential Radiobirdman

Spoon
I Didn't Come Here to Die
Love Ways EP

John Lennon
Well Well Well
Plastic Ono Band

Heartless Bastards
Done Got Old
Sunday Nights: the Songs of Junior Kimbrough

The Thermals
Here's Your Future
The Body, The Blood, The Machine

My Morning Jacket
Highly Suspicious
Evil Urges

Quintron
The Beach
Are You Ready for an Organ Solo?

Simple Kid
Mommy 'n' Daddy
SK2

The Kills
Night Train
Midnight Boom (UK) Release

Black Mountain
Modern Music
Black Mountain

Andre Williams
Can You Deal With It?
Can You Deal With It?

Muddy Waters
The Blues Had A Baby and The Named it Rock and Roll
King of the Electric Blues

R.L. Burnside
Shake, Little Baby
Sound Machine Groove

Seasick Steve
Thunderbird
I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Got Most of it Left

Boogaloosa Prayer
Louise
N/A

Soledad Brothers
Rock Me Slow
Soledad Brothers

Eagles of Death Metal
Flames Go Higher
Peace Love Death Metal

Black-Eyed Snakes
Hillside Stomp
Rise Up

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Come on Down to My House
Playback

The Undertones
Teenage Kicks
The Best of...

the Von Bondies
Shallow Grave
Lack of Communication

Two Gallants
Fail Hard to Regain
The Throes

the MC5
Kick out the Jams
Kick Out the Jams

Rock 'n' Roll Radio Resurrection!

And so said Bon Scott and Angus Young of AC/DC, "...Let there be sound! and there was sound. Let there be light! and there was light. Let there be Drums! and there were drums. Let there be GUITAR! there was guitar. OOOOHHH LET THERE BE ROCK!" And there was indeed MUCH rock.

And then someone different said, "Let's give Banjo a radio show, 'cause he knows how to Rock some motherfuckers too!" And rocking commenced once more.

"Wait.
Wait!
Did you say...?
Did I hear...?"

Yes! You heard correct, true believer! Now every Monday from 2pm to 4pm PST you can log-on to PRARADIO.ORG!, download the little 'MP3 stream' thingy located at the bottom of their rudimentary webpage, and listen to 'The Gospel According to Banjo' live, via the modern marvel that is internet radio! Adjust your clocks accordingly if you live in the US and outside the Portland time zone...same goes for all you people 'living' outside the USA in places that may or may not exist...like Italy or Afghanistan or minuscule islands off the coast of South Korea with lots of funny letters in the name...

So dear hearts, if you're at home stalking around on myspace/facebook, or telling the goldfish your deepest, darkest, Battlestar Galactica Live Action Role Play sex secrets, or at work trying not to murder your coworkers or customers for not respecting you as a 'real live artist goddamnit', or doing 180's in the rental car whilst pounding a forty of colt 45, or chillin' in the park with that special someone/thing, or if you're simply tired of all the pussy, whiny, diet, sleepy excuses for rad rock n roll on regular radio then come on down to 'The Gospel According to Banjo' and rejoice by settin' your soul on fire with Portland's newest and most questionable DJ.
It's time, friends.
The era of hip shakin', ass wigglin', foot stompin', fist pumpin', back porch style gettin' down boogiemutherfuckinwoogie is here!
UH! UH! DO IT!
We gonna groove!
We gonna GROOVE!
We gonna love, love, love...till the break of dusk!
So come on you Rock n Roll philistines and join Banjo in a most awesome display of sounds and noise and get ready to be delivered UP like a rocketship bound for the Sun...or that bad Chinese food you ate last night and then topped off with a fifth of Jack!
UP! UP! AND AWAY!

Your soul demands it...

Podcasts will be available soon for all those that can't be turned on in real time...

Hot Comics!

New printings of Darnell! These sweet little bastards are so hot off the presses you can see the toner steaming! AWESOME! Now with NEW cover colors! So if you missed out the first time around, now is your big fucking chance...

More printings of Tape Song. A real humdinger of a comic. A 24 HOUR comic to be exact! This thing is so fucking rad/weird that it'll make your face explode...or confuse the piss out of ya...either way, it's a neat time! For more info on 24 hour comics and stuff, see the specific post below about this thing...

As always these boner-inducing funny books will come packaged in colorful/artsy/craftsy/eye-catching little envelopes that will surely make the mailman jealous and/or angry when you order by mail. Shipping included of course. Get 'em now! They also make fantastic gifts...for X-Mas, Kwanzaa, that one the Jew's celebrate, birthdays, anniversaries, awkward circumstances: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to call you a sloppy cunt, here's a cool comic," or "I didn't see the cat, he musta just jumped under the wheel, have a comic instead," and certainly "If you disconnect my nuts from that car battery I'll give you a Banjo comic"...really, they're good for any occasion...

A Gift from Above...

Banjo has this wacky-ass cousin that lives due North of Portland. He recently captured Banjo for a road trip to San Francisco, Banjo's old stomping grounds, where much turkey, gin, uber-posh and trendy broads, and familial love was consumed in mass quantities. Before the road trip commenced Banjo was given a gift. A gift of awesome proportions. Hand-made by said cousin. It looks something like this...

Highly recommended. If you pay him lots and lots of money or sex or candy or something you might be able to get one too. Either way, you should bother him here!

Monday

New Mini Comic...'Tape Song'

Last week Banjo participated in the 24 Hour Comic Day. This event takes place once a year and is held at various locations, usually comic shops, around the country. Hordes of sweaty, socially inept, basement dwelling, chronic masturbators gather together and spend 24 hours solid in a room writing and drawing a full 24 page comic in said 24 hour period. If you'd like to eat, sleep, piss, shit, fuck, or do anything other than draw a comic, you are more than welcome but you still have only the allotted time to make your little funny book.
It's a fairly absurd sort of event. By the seventeenth hour, the eighth cup of coffee in the past three hours, the ninth slice of pizza (fuck it, you've eaten a whole pie by now, a large one, don't kid yourself), the third conversation about She-Hulk and her green 'boner-licious' breasts, countless doughnuts, lack of sunlight, no sleep, and a shortage of real human interaction you really have no clue as to what the fuck is happening...and you've still got seven hours to go...and your fellow nerds are no longer talking with each other, but AT each other, all at once, rapidlyrapidlyrapidly, about nothing, nothing at all...don't forget that holding a pencil or pen at this point is a bit like trying to catch a greased-up pot-belly pig...
Thankfully, Banjo was given a small bottle of Absinthe a while back and decided this was a good enough time as any to down it...he made some new friends on that outing that helped him along his way to comic book completion...imaginary friends...
Anyways...Banjo completed a tale of ridiculous and fantastical proportions and later scribbled a cover and printed a run in Mini Comic fashion...
They look something like this...

The thing mainly stars this guy...

They're five bucks a pop and toally worth it...get one now!

Like a Graveyard Hound...

...I Say...Make me howl and moan!

Banjo decided not a bring a guitar or some OTHER such instrument with him when moving way up to the Pacific Northwest, thinking it would be a big pain the ass to travel and move around with, not to mention the preposterous amount of cash the airlines want out of your ass for taking it on the plane. And don't get Banjo started on those chumps at the post office...
Anyways, not bringing a geetar proved to be a most boneheaded idea, as Banjo quickly began longing for something to turn the back porch into a rock-rollin', foot stompin', ho-downin' of a good time. And being the cheap bastard that he is, Banjo didn't particularly want to give up a shoe-box full of clams for said good-fun-time-making-instrument.

And so, for the first time ever, Banjo built one. A four string dealio. Out of a cigar box and a plank. And some other nicknacks. It looks like this...