Bay Area Beat 1965-68

Mal Thursday takes a trip in time and space to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. The emphasis is on rocking, rather than nodding and noodling. All the usual suspects, plus a bevy of boss beat groups that preceded psychedelia. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 11 December 2025. 

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Playlist:
The Beau Brummels: Don't Talk to Strangers/The Jerk/Laugh Laugh (alt take)
We Five: You Were on My Mind
The Charlatans: Codine
The Warlocks: Can't Come Down
The Grateful Dead: Standing on the Corner (live 1966)
The Chocolate Watchband: Misty Lane/Are You Gonna Be There (at the Love-in)
The Other Side: Streetcar
The Answer: I'll Be in
The Golliwogs: Instrumental #1 (bed)/Brown-Eyed Girl
The Syndicate of Sound: Little Girl
The Front Line: Got Love
Denise: Boy, What'll You Do Then
The Vejtables: Feel the Music
The Count Five: Psychotic Reaction
The Mojo Men: She's My Baby
The Other Half: Mr. Pharmacist/Feathered Fish
The Donnybrookes: You're Gonna Cry
The Oxford Circle: Mind Destruction (bed)
The Grass Roots: Let's Live for Today/Things I Should Have Said
Peter Wheat & The Breadmen: Baby What's New
The Harbinger Complex: I Think I'm Down
Teddy & His Patches: Suzy Creamcheese
The Great Society: Somebody to Love
Jefferson Airplane: High Flying Bird/She Has Funny Cars
The Grateful Dead: Death Don't Have No Mercy (bed)
Moby Grape: Hey Grandma (mono)/Fall on You
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Pride of Man
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Combination of the Two/Down on Me
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Suzie Q
Flamin' Groovies: Comin' After Me
Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues
Teddy & His Patches: Haight Ashbury
 

Get

The Word of the Week is Get on this acquisitive episode of The Mal Thursday Show. All songs with Get in the title. Expanded. remixed, and remastered from an online-only 2021 episode. Featuring 35 minutes of exclusive bonus tracks. Presented in Living Monophonic and Ultrasonic Stereophonic Sound. 

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Playlist:
The Pretty Things: Get the Picture/Get a Buzz
The Fairies: Get Yourself Home
The Hollies: I Can’t Get Nowhere with You
Lulu & the Luvvers: Can I Get a Witness
The Rolling Stones: Gotta Get Away/Get Off My Cloud (live 1966)
The Spencer Davis Group: I Can't Get Enough of It (BBC)
The Animals: We Gotta Get Outta This Place (live 1965)
The Zombies: Gotta Get Ahold of Myself
The Move: Stop and Get Ahold of Myself (BBC)
The Double Feature: Baby Get Your Head Screwed on
The Small Faces: Things Are Going to Get Better
The Jam: Get Yourself Together
The Ventures: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (bed)
The Game: Gonna Get Me Someone
The Northwest Company: Get Away from It All
The Girl Getters: The Girl Getters
The Soul Vendors: Get Out of My Eye
The Electric Prunes: Get Me to the World on Time
The Dantes: Can't Get Enough of Your Love
The Uncalled For: Get Out of the Way
Thee Sixpence: Gotta Get the First Plane Home
The Allman Joys: Gotta Get Away
The Ventures: Get Smart Theme (bed)
The Tiffany System: Get Together
Suzi Jane Hokom: Need All the Help I Can Get
The Standells: Get Away from Here
The Interns: Hard to Get
The Chosen Few (From St. Michaels): Get It on Life
Chocolate Ballon Company: Gotta Get This…
The Blues Magoos: Gotta Get Away (mono single version)
The Unbelievable Uglies: Get Straight
The Barracudas: Baby Get Lost
Little Willie & The Adolescents: Get Out of My Life
The Razor’s Edge: Get Yourself Together
Booker T & The MGs: Get Ready (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: Let's Get Together for a Coke Again
Sir Douglas Quintet: You Never Get Too Big and You Sure Don't Get Too Heavy, That You Don't Have to Stop and Pay Some Dues Sometimes
The Reddlemen: I'm Gonna Get in That Girl's Mind
Roy Head & The Traits: Get Back
The Triumphs: Better Come Get Her
Mal Thursday & The Cheetahs: Get Outta Dallas!

T. Rex: Get It on (BBC)
The Heartbreakers: Get off the Phone (live 1977)
Ramones: I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind
Lyres: Gettin' Plenty Lovin' (live 1985)
Jerry Lewis: Get Happy

Bonus Tracks:
The Beatles: When I Get Home (mono)/I'll Get You (BBC)
Clarence Reid: Get Back
The Rolling Stones: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (BBC)
The Mindbenders: It's Getting Harder All the Time
The Peeps: Gotta Get a Move on
Majority One: Get Back Home
The L.A. Teens: I'm Gonna Get You
The Kinks: Get Back in the Line (live 1977)
The Swing Set: Trying to Get You Out of My Mind
The Jackets: Get Back with You
Mal Thursday Quintet: Get Out of My Eye

For the Birds

In this avian-themed outing, Mal gives you the Bird: the Word, the Dance, and the Species. Shake a tail feather and get with this Bird-a-thon, and stay tuned for an extra 37 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted in two-hour broadcast format, 8 May 2020.

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Playlist:
The Rivingtons: The Bird's the Word
Baby Ray & The Ferns: How's Your Bird?
The Mojo Men: Free as a Bird
Rocky Roberts & The Airedales: The Bird Is the Word
Country Joe & The Fish: Super Bird
The Barbarians: Hey Little Bird
The Beatles: And Your Bird Can Sing
The Galileo 7: Cruel Bird
The Hour Glass: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Judy Henske: High-Flying Bird
The Moody Blues: Bye Bye Bird
The Bee Gees: Birdie Told Me
The Everly Brothers: Bird Dog
The Del Counts: Bird Dog
Gene Vincent: Bird Doggin'
The Mystery Action: The Bird Rockers
Inez & Charlie Foxx: Mockingbird
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood: Lady Bird
The Buffalo Springfield: Blue Bird
Jerry Garcia: Bird Song
Eddie Floyd: Big Bird
Daddy Cool: Eagle Rock
The Music Machine: The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly
The Electric Banana (The Pretty Things): Eagle's Son
Jimmy Rivers Combo: The Blue Eagle Pt. 1
King Khan & The Shrines: 40 Birds
The Best Things: Chicks are for Kids
The Ventures: Yellow Bird
Thee  Sixpence: Birdman of Alkatrash
The Wylde Mammoths: All the Birds are Gone
The Yo Yos: The Raven
The Ramones: Surfin' Bird
The Motivations: The Birds

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine
The Chevelle V: Come Back Bird
Johnny Winter: Birds Can't Row Boats
Mouse & The Traps: I Wonder Where the Birds Fly
The Five Americans: Sweet Bird of Youth
Willie Nelson: Bird on a Wire

Ann-Margret: Bye Bye Birdie

Bonus Tracks:
The Sevens: Love of a Bird
Gene Vincent: Love Is a Bird
Marianne Faithfull: This Little Bird
The Plague: High-Flyin' Bird
Bob Dylan: Black Crow Blues
Q65: World of Birds
Charlie Parker: Yardbird Suite
The Hooterville Trolley: No Silver Bird
The Left Banke: Sing Little Bird Sing
Joe Cocker: Bye Bye Blackbird
The Monks: Cuckoo
The Trashmen: Surfin' Bird
Lester Bangs & The Delinquents: Legless Bird

Lyres: On Fyre at the Rusty Nail 1985

 CD/digital available at lyres.bandcamp.com

LP/digital available at https://teensoundrecords.bandcamp.com

This year, Mal Thursday decided to embark on a labor of love, and bring the finest live recording of one of his favorite bands, Boston's legendary Lyres, to the world. Mal decided to partner with Massimo del Pozzo of Teen Sound Records/Misty Lane Music in Rome, Italy, to release this vital document of American rock 'n' roll, now available to stream and download, with the physical releases out by Christmas.

Mal's hyperbolic liner notes: 

The Rusty Nail was a throwback to an earlier time, a wayward roadhouse/live music venue in the wilds of Western Massachusetts, located 15 minutes up the road from the University of Massachusetts, in the woodsy hill town of Sunderland, population 3400. The wood-hewn hole in the wall featured an eclectic variety of touring acts, who would bypass the bigger college towns in favor of playing at the Nail. I saw James Brown and the Buzzcocks there, to name a couple. However, for my money, the greatest show ever staged at the Rusty Nail was Lyres’ performance on March 29, 1985.

The band was road-tested and on top of their game, having toured the US and Europe relentlesslyin the months prior, in support of their 1984 album On Fyre. They tore through a fast and furious set, an hour and change of non-stop rock 'n' roll, pausing only for Jeff "Monoman" Conolly to tell the audience, "This is a one o'clock club, which means you have to drink twice as fast."
 

As Lyres closed the show with "What a Girl Can't Do," the audience was left awestruck, buzzing, and sweaty. Exactly four months after this show was recorded, the Rusty Nail burned to the ground.

Some said the fire was caused by faulty wiring, while others alleged an insurance bust-out scheme. My favorite theory is that it was burned down by local residents who were sick and tired of Rusty Nail patrons parking, pissing, and/or puking on their lawns. 

I consider this album to be the finest Lyres live recording in existence. It has been pitch-corrected, remixed, and remastered from the original two track soundboard recording. On Fyre at the Rusty Nail 1985 is a testament to Lyres as not just one of the greatest bands from Boston, but one of the greatest bands from anywhere. 
 

Personnel: 

Jeff Conolly: Vocals, Organ
Rick Coraccio: Bass, Vocals
Danny McCormack: Guitar
Paul Murphy: Drums

Executive production, graphics & layout:
Massimo del Pozzo & Mal Thursday
Recordings duly licensed to Misty Lane Music / Teen Sound Records. Licensed from Chunk Archives Recordings
Recorded 29 March 1985 at the Rusty Nail, Sunderland, Massachusetts by Chris Dixon
Pitch correction and mixdown by Matt Parmenter at Ice Cream Factory Studio, Austin, Texas
Mastered by Pete Weiss at Panoramic House, West Marin County, California 

Back photo by Paul Shoul   

In My House

Mal Thursday rocks your hearth and home with an episode where the Word of the Week is House, all songs with House, Walls, Windows, Doors, or Roofs in the title. Presented in Ultrasonic Stereophonic and Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 20 November 2025.

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Playlist:
The Baytovens: My House
The Wailers: Wailers House Party (bed)
The Golden Earrings: In My House
The Bluebeards: Come on a My House
The Astronauts: Baby Let's Play House
The Moody Blues: This Is My House (But Nobody Calls)
The Pretty Things: House in the Country
The X-Cellents: Little Wooden House
The Epics: White Collar House
The Blue Things: Doll House
The Animals: House of the Rising Sun (BBC)
Oscar & The Majestics: Haunted House (bed)
Love: A House Is Not a Motel (single version)
The Flies: House of Love
The Association: House of Stone
The Turtles: House of Pain (mono)
Denny Seyton & The Sabres: House of Bamboo
The Glass Family: House of Glass
The Attack: Strange House
The Showstoppers: Ain't Nothin' But a House Party
Flamin' Groovies: Roadhouse
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Red House
The Pearlescents: Ronnie's Night House (bed)

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Roy Orbison: Rock House
The 13th Floor Elevators: Slip Inside This House (single version)
Kenny & The Kasuals: Who Stole My House?
The Five Canadians: Writting on the Wall
Lavender Hill Express: Outside My Window

The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall (live)
The E-Types: Put the Clock Back on the Wall
The Guess Who: Clock on the Wall
The Hollies: Look Through Any Window (BBC)
Bob Dylan: Can You Please Crawl Out You Window?
The Messengers: Window Shopping
The Green Beans: Knock on My Door (Tap on My Window)
The Attack: The 'Rock Door (bed)
Richard & The Young Lions: Open Up Your Door
The Primates: Knock on My Door
The Blues Project: Back Door Man (live)
The Lost: Back Door Blues
The Missing Linx: Behind Locked Doors
The 49th Parallel: Close the Barn Door
Duane Eddy: House of the Rising Sun (bed)
The Blue Things: The Orange Rooftop of Your Mind

Bonus Tracks:
The Bourbons: Bourbons House Party
The Kinks: House in the Country (mono)
Oscar & The Majestics: House of the Rising Sun
Jefferson Airplane: House at Pooneil Corners
Jimi Hendrix Experience: House Burning Down
The Fleshtones: This House Is Empty
The What Fours: Basement Walls
The Action: Climbing Up the Wall
Joe Cocker: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Teddy & The Pandas: (Bye Bye) Out the Window
The Thanes: Don't Let Her Dark Your Door
The Tigermen: Close That Door
Jerry & The Landslides: Get Off of My Roof

Mal at the Beeb Vol. 3

Mal Thursday winds up a three-part journey into the BBC vaults with another star-studded episode heavy on the British Beat. Featuring 30 minutes of bonus tracks. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound. Originally broadcast 13 November 2025. Thumbnail by UnitedWorldMedia. 

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Playlist:
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Shakin' All Over
The Hollies: Nitty Gritty/Something's Got a Hold on Me
Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages: Good Golly Miss Molly
The Animals: Jailhouse Rock
The Beatles: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You/The Hippy Hippy Shake
The Rolling Stones: Come on/Cops and Robbers
Lulu & The Luvvers: Surprise Surprise
The Pretty Things: Roadrunner
The Yardbirds: I Wish You Would/Jeff's Boogie (bed)
The Troggs: Wild Thing/From Home
Manfred Mann: The One in the Middle
Dusty Springfield: Little by Little
The Small Faces: Lazy Sunday/All or Nothing
The Mindbenders: All Night Worker
Spencer Davis Group: It's Gonna Work Out Fine
The Who: My Generation/The Good's Gone
Manfred Mann: My Generation (bed)
The Zombies: Just Out of Reach/Tell Her No
The Moody Blues: And My Baby's Gone/Stop
Peter & Gordon: Wrong from the Start 
The Kinks: See My Friends/Waterloo Sunset
Jeff Beck: Tallyman
The Move: Night of Fear/So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
The Marmalade: Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
The Artwoods: Steady Gettin' It (bed)
The Yardbirds: Think About It
The Troggs: Night of the Long Grass
Pink Floyd: Jugband Blues
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Love or Confusion
Procol Harum: Kaleidoscope
Led Zeppelin: Communication Breakdown
David Bowie: Memory of a Free Festival Pt. 2
The Moody Blues: Go Now

Bonus Tracks:
Faces: Maybe I'm Amazed
Free: All Right Now
Tyrannosaurus Rex: By the Light of a Magical Moon
Mott the Hoople: The Moon Upstairs
Thin Lizzy: Whiskey in the Jar
Jethro Tull: Living in the Past

Mal at the Beeb Vol. 2

Mal Thursday is back in the BBC archives, digging out more magnificent mono masters from the vaults. Featuring alternate performances of four dozen classics from a who's who of British beat groups. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound. Originally transmitted 6 November 2025.

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Playlist:
The Rolling Stones: Roll Over Beethoven/Route 66
The Beatles: I Just Don't Understand/Baby It's You
The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night/Where Have All the Good Times Gone
The Zombies: She's Not There/Just Out of Reach
The Yardbirds: I'm a Man/Train Kept a-Rollin'
The Pretty Things: L.S.D./Midnight to Six Man
Them: All for Myself/Here Comes the Night
Spencer Davis Group: Keep on Running/Gimme Some Lovin'
The Hollies: Nobody/Bus Stop
The Small Faces: You Need Loving/One Night Stand
The Animals: It's My Life/Bring It on Home to Me
Manfred Mann: Watch Your Step/Pretty Flamingo
The Small Faces: Coming Home (bed)
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders: The Game of Love
Tony Jackson Group: Never Leave Your Baby's Side
Marianne Faithfull: Come and Stay with Me
Herman's Hermits: Tallyman
Status Quo: Gloria
The Easybeats: Sorry
The Bee Gees: To Love Somebody
The Attack: Come on Up
Deep Purple: Hey Joe
Paul Jones: I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy
Manfred Mann: Sweet Pea (bed)
The Who: Pictures of Lily/Substitute
The Move: Useless Information/Stop and Get a Hold of Myself
Lulu: Shout/To Sir With Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Manic Depression/Radio One
Cream: I Feel Free/Tales of Brave Ulysses
Jeff Beck: Hi Ho Silver Lining

Brian Matthew with The Beatles, 1965