Sat 12/28 @ 11AM-1PM
Dave Swanson has been all over Cleveland’s rock scene for three decades.
This rock and roll obsessive has been a record store manager, a music writer, a collector, and a musician. He’s played bass, drums and guitar in bands like Death of Samantha, Cobra Verde, and New Salem Witch Hunters. His own band, Rainy Day Saints, has released four albums since Saturday’s Haze in 2003. It’s hard to think of anyone locally who has deeper roots and a more knowledgable background in rock & roll.
So his new radio show, Vive Le Rock, which debuts this week on John Carroll University’s WJCU 88.7 (the real “Cleveland Sound), should become a must-hear for other rock obsessives every Saturday morning. It’s occupying roughly the same time slot held for many years by riff obsessive Mitch Capka’s still-missed Kick Out the Jams, which went off the air three years ago.
Swanson says of the new show, “The goal is to present a variety of rock and roll in its various disguises over the past 50 odd years of pop, psychedelia, garage, folk, punk, hard rock, prog, bubblegum and so on.”
Move over, Little Steven!
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