HOMEGROWN ROCKER 10/9/11 (MYSTERYTRAIN)

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the October 9 edition of Rocky 104.9 and Rocky 99's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 9 to 11 PM during Steelers football season on WRKY-FM (www.rocky1049.com) and WRKW-FM (www.rocky99.com).

Thanks to our guest, Mysterytrain singer, guitarist and “conductor” Dan Klock (www.mysterytrainlive.net). Dan updated us on the latest Mysterytrain happenings and recapped the group’s just completed summer festival season. And he shared some new recent live performance footage of Mysterytrain, recorded at various events over the past few months. Along the way, we debuted new tracks from Chris Vipond & the Stanley Street Band and Ron Gallucci. We also updated “Local Music News,” dug a 1994 song by Strawberry Jam from the archive for a “Local Music Flashback,” and reviewed Dick and the Deer Gutter’s Luv Hickey CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner.”

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

NICK MILLER – “Smoke and Mirrors”
CHRIS VIPOND & THE STANLEY STREET BAND – “Escape”
MYSTERYTRAIN – “Sea of Blue” (performed live April 2011)
RON GALLUCCI – “Something About You”
MYSTERYTRAIN – “Busted for Nothing” (performed live June 2011)
BLACK COFFEE – “Bottom of the Barrel”

HOUR TWO:

ATLAS SOUNDTRACK – “Water”
MYSTERYTRAIN – “Send Me a Smile” (performed live July 2011)
DICK AND THE DEER GUTTERS – “Moonshine”
MYSTERYTRAIN – “Aries” (performed live at Chuck’s Farm Sept. 2011)
STRAWBERRY JAM – “Feelin’ Happy” (1994, Local Music Flashback)
MYSTERYTRAIN – (instrumental jam) (performed live at Chuck’s Farm Sept. 2011)

On our next show, our guests will be the new mach edition of area hard rockers Lies, Inc. We’ll meet the current edition of the band and learn their story, and hear some newly recorded tracks from them! We’ll also update “Local Music News,” dig into the archive for another “Local Music Flashback,” and review The Black Saxons’ Disaster CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!” Lies, Inc. visits the “Homegrown Rocker,” next Sunday night!

Upcoming guests and specials include:

OCT. 23 – ZUPE & NICHOLS
OCT. 30 – HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
NOV. 6 – (NO SHOW DUE TO STEELERS SUNDAY NIGHT GAME)
NOV. 13 – CHUCK MASON & BLUE REALITY
NOV. 20 – JUSTIN HALE
NOV. 27 – (NO SHOW DUE TO STEELERS SUNDAY NIGHT GAME)
DEC. 4 – THE EMBALMED
DEC. 25 – CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
JAN. 1 – 2011 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL PT. I
JAN. 8 – 2011 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL PT. 2

For regular updates on what is happening on the area music scene, pay a visit to Rockpage (www.rockpage.net). Rockpage features band links, a message board, "Homegrown Rocker" updates, live show and CD reviews in “JP’s Corner," and other local music scene information.

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on "The Homegrown Rocker" are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: WRKY Radio, One Forever Drive, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648; ATTN: Jim Price. Or drop the recordings off at the station during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 9 AM - 5 PM. You can also email me with inquiries about the show at profjp@rocky1049.com.

Jim Price

In Local Music News…

State College modern rockers Represent The Lie are set to release their debut EP. The recording, On the Inside, will be issued with a special CD-release show and Halloween party on Friday, October 28 at the Castle Pub in Ebensburg. Represent The Lie will be guests on the “Homegrown Rocker” in December.

As Halloween season again approaches, several different productions of the popular Rocky Horror Show are coming together on area stages. (Un)apologetic Productions will stage Rocky Horror at ArtWorks in Johnstown from October 20-29, with nightly presentations at 8 p.m. and a midnight showing on October 29. Advance tickets are $15, and can be purchased at Stevie B’s Guitars or Cambria City Flowers, or at the ArtWorks box office one hour before the show.

Meanwhile, Love and Light Productions will present their annual production of Rocky Horror at The Arena in State College. The shows happen on Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29, with showings at 8 and 11 p.m. each night.

And Aldo’s in Altoona will present a special Rocky Horror night on Friday, October 28. The night will feature a showing of the Rocky Horror movie, with the bands Lies, Inc. and Rain Must Fall performing songs from the soundtrack.