"The Passenger" by Iggy Pop. Frequencies of Fading Light Sat Jul 19 with DJ Bohr on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

hey PRB people

hey gang. im aware that we have funky drummer of doom again.... im working on getting it resolved now!

Funky drummer is gone rn

suh weet

(but mostly I am listening to local all-news radio b/c of the storms and flooding in my area)

best of luck dealing with the storms....

rob do you get FM signal or just online streaming?

Online streaming! We're almost in DC!!

and thanks DJ Bohr. The rainfall rate has diminished substantially but streams are still rising and roads are still flooding

ahh, well hopefully the worst has passed you by and its smooth sailing from here

how did you come to hear about/find WPRB??

Iggy!!

Hey, DJ Bohr 👋

hey there!

Fripp's guitar playing on Heroes is so evocative

agreed!

DJ Bohr, I (re)learned about WPRB from an indiepop email list in the mid 90s. A couple of years later my partner and I were driving from the DC area to New England a few times a year for a few years. So I made sure that we got WPRB in southern Jersey as soon as it was possible in our car, and listened to it until we got into WFMU territory

thats so sick! what an awesome story

@Rob, This is the way!

That said, I was driving back from Maine in 1978, after sundown in March. I was twirling the dial in my car and came across an FM station playing David Bowie's "Heroes", with the successive verses in English French and German. I later realized that I could have been listening to WPRB ...

feels like a PRB esque way to play music

WPRB rules!

Speaking of Yes, they had some semi-EDM remixes of their songs in the lare 2000s. I have the idea that Steve Howe's son did the remixing, but that could be looked up

*late

oh really? ill need to look into that... i always appreciate a funky EDM song

y0y0 folks

hey MG!

Kurt Vile is almost my neighbor! (Well, I live in the next neighborhood over from him...)

that's basically neighbors

To the best of my recollection, the person on the indiepop list posting in the mid 90s about WPRB and how wonderful it was, lived in Philadelphia and wrote something like 'if I orient my stereo antenna just so I can pick up WPRB'.

Tim Buckley + Kurt Vile together = reminds me of Richard Dawkins a bit

thats an awesome story... i love all of the tales and stories PRB has generated and created over the decades....

ill check dawkins out @chris

Rob, I can get WPRB most places in Philly from my car, but my house is in a dead zone for the terrestrial signal, alas

I remember their name being River. Imagine my surprise when, years later, I started streaming WPRB and other stations on my laptop in early 2011, to find a dj named River with a show on WPRB. To the best of my recollection Ishe said that she had a Philly connection, so it could have been the very same person from 15+ years before

Dana K said she saw him on his last US tour (last year?) and he was great

wow thats sick rob, what a crazy coincidence....

and yeah i need to branch out a bit more in terms of seeing live bands.....

Chris, bummer about your house being a dead zone. In two places I lived in during the 80s & 90s, I had to orient my stereo antenna exactly right in order to pick up the local college radio station WMUC

i tend to only see bands I already know i like....

@DJ Bohr, that's what I remember, hopefully it was accurate

yeah still really really cool... i think my favorite PRB story involved a noob show introduction, one of the noobs played a song, and one of the guys in the band popped into the chat to say that we had played his bands song while he was driving home from work

@DJ Bohr, that is an amusing story! (and I am 125% sure that my David Bowie Heroes story is accurate)

@DJ Bohr, let's hear it for community-supported, independent radio!

woot woot

i love PRB!

@rob did you ever see bowie in concert??

I like Dire Straits AND they were overplayed in my Youth.... Mark Knopfler's soundtrack for the movie "Local Hero" and his album of duets with Emmylou Harris remain faves for me, in any case

ill need to check 'em out.... i always hesitate to play bands of dire straits ilk, because in my mind they are overplayed (but maybe not anymore??)

@DJ Bohr, I did see Bowie, 3 times, all at the Capital Centre in Largo Maryland. In 1976 (home from college) with my sister, in 1978 driving from the Richmond VA area *and back* with a college friend (no booze, only coffee), and in 1983 with local friends. I was over Bowie by 1983 (it was the Let's Dance tour, and I was getting into hardcore punk).

right on.... im so jealous!

Dire Straits is not as overplayed as they used to be, that's for sure

While my favorite Bowie was 1970s Bowie, I was quite disconsolate when he died in 2016. Fortunately KEXP radio in Seattle devoted that day to Bowie and his legacy. That helped a lot.

i think 70s bowie is likely my favorite too

the rise and fall of ziggy stardust is in my top 5 albums of all time

@ DJ Bohr (host) I'm greatly enjoying your show (as always). Thanks so very much for including outstanding ~ but woefully underplayed ~ tracks by Zeppelin, America, Dire Straits and especially the marvelous Tim Buckley.

My fave Bowie albums are Low and Heroes. Ziggy Stardust is great too

@RoRH glad to hear it! always happy to lend some airtime to some underappreciated tracks!

@rob yes, those are great as well! i actually wrote a paper about the rise and fall of ziggy stardust so im a bit biased in that regard

@DJ Bohr, how cool!

LOVE THIS SONG!

This has been a great show, DJ Bohr (what I caught of it). Hopefully there won't be any horrid weather the next time I listen!

cheers! thanks for tuning in all!!

Final weather update: the rain stopped maybe 15 minutes ago and there is blue sky

yay!

5:57 PM		ALIA deep in a wave
6:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:01 PM		The Orielles Sunflower Seeds The Orielles Silver Dollar Moment Heavenly Recordings 2018
6:10 PM		Lael Neale All Good Things Will Come to Pass Lael Neale Altogether Stranger Sub Pop Records 2025
6:13 PM		Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark Maid of Orleans Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark Architecture & Morality EMI Marketing 1981
6:17 PM		Small Black Despicable Dogs Small Black Small Black Jagjaguwar 2023
6:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:22 PM		berlioz deep in it berlioz deep in it - Single berlioz 2023
6:24 PM		Caleb Arredondo Echo Sax No.4 Caleb Arredondo Echo Sax College Music Records 2023
6:26 PM		Lee Morgan Since I Fell For You Lee Morgan The Best of Lee Morgan Blue Note Records 1988
6:32 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:33 PM		Yes Starship Trooper: A. Life Seeker, B. Disillusion, C. Würm The Yes Album Rhino Atlantic 1971
6:43 PM		Dead Ghosts Roky Said Dead Ghosts Can't Get No Independent 2013
6:46 PM		Iggy Pop The Passenger Iggy Pop Lust For Life Virgin Catalog 1977
6:50 PM		David Bowie "Heroes" (2017 Remaster) David Bowie "Heroes" (2017 Remaster) Parlophone UK 1977
6:57 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:59 PM		Kazyak Talking to a Stranger Kazyak Reflection Kazyak 2018
7:04 PM		The Velvet Sundown Velvet Fireline Paper Sun Rebellion
7:07 PM		The Miracle Seeds What You Know Nuclear Watermelon 2025
7:11 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:13 PM		Cut Worms Ballad of the Texas King Cut Worms Cut Worms Jagjaguwar 2023
7:17 PM		Tim Buckley Once I Was Tim Buckley Goodbye and Hello Rhino/Elektra 1966
7:19 PM		Kurt Vile My Sympathy Kurt Vile God Is Saying This to You… Mexican Summer 2009
7:23 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:23 PM		America Riverside America America Warner Records 1971
7:26 PM		Wilco Impossible Germany Wilco Sky Blue Sky Nonesuch 2007
7:33 PM		Dire Straits Six Blade Knife Dire Straits Dire Straits Warner Records 1978
7:37 PM		Snowy White How Was It for You Snowy White Released Snowy White 2016
7:39 PM		The Jeremy Spencer Band Cool Breeze The Jeremy Spencer Band Flee Rhino Atlantic 1978
7:43 PM		Led Zeppelin Tangerine Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III (Remastered) Rhino Atlantic 1970
7:46 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:48 PM		Gerry Mulligan Sextet Night Lights (1965 Version) Night Lights (Expanded Edition) Verve Reissues 1963
7:52 PM		Hugh Masekela Riot 20th Century Masters: The Best of Hugh Masekela Hip-O 2006
7:55 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:58 PM		Daft Punk Veridis Quo Daft Punk Discovery Daft Life Ltd./ADA France 2001

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