THE SIGNAL
w/ David Katznelson
David Katznelson is—in his own words—a “pathetic record collector” who was a dj on college radio starting in high school (KUSF), through college (KALX) and then much later on KXSF.
But it has been years since anyone has dared to let him back on a mic.
He has been in the music industry for 40 years (damn!) including stints at Warner Brothers and with his own amazing label Birdman Records (Boredoms, Howlin’ Rain, Otha Turner, et al). He is a grammy nominated producer, the CEO of Reboot and Reboot Studios, and the writer of the newsletter The Signal from David Katznelson.
He lives deep in the hills of San Anselmo, CA with his family.
Latest episodes
Episode 14 Track List
| 1. | The Odyssey Cult | Back To The Cave |
| 2. | Hijokaidan | Silver Machine |
| 3. | Joe Tex | Anything You Wanna Know |
| 4. | Jack Hirschman | One Day |
| 5. | Roscoe Mitchell Sextet | Ornette |
| 6. | Barry Brown | Ketch a Fire |
| 7. | Terry Reid | Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace |
| 8. | The Clash | Hitsville, UK |
| 9. | Ölüm | Yilan Kadin |
| 10. | Sonny Hood and the Kings of Melody | Wait |
| 11. | Brendan Jenkinson | Paris Blues |
| 12. | Faust | Party |
| 13. | Irena & Vojtech Havlovi | Velvet Wings of Serenity |
| 14. | Paul Bowles | Up Above The World |
| 15. | Andy & Joey | You’re Wondering Now |
| 16. | Howling Hex | Catalytic Convert |
| 17. | Twisted Teens | Give Me a Cigarette |
| 18. | Pete Miller (Big Boy Pete) | Baby I Got News For You |
| 19. | The David | Time M |
| 20. | The Yardbirds | Dazed and Confused |
| 21. | Kansas City Joe & Memphis Minnie | When The Levee Breaks |
| 22. | Soft Cell & JG Thirlwell | Ghost Rider |
| 23. | Suicide | Dream Baby Dream |
| 24. | Carla Thomas | When Tomorrow Comes |
| 25. | Cookie and the Cupcakes | Got You On My Mind |
| 26. | Doug Sahm | Beautiful Texas Sunshine |
| 27. | DMZ | Busy Man |
| 28. | Deep Purple | The Mule |
Episode 13 Track List
| 1. | Gun | Sunshine |
| 2. | Mudhoney | If I Think |
| 3. | Captain Beefheart | Safe As Milk |
| 4. | Bo Diddley | You Can’t Judge A Book By Looking At It’s Cover |
| 5. | Don Shirley Trio | Water Boy |
| 6. | John Coltrane | Peace On Earth |
| 7. | Sarah Davachi | Songs of the Smile’s Fig III Follies |
| 8. | Julie Beth Napolin | Fire In The City |
| 9. | The Cramps | TV Set |
| 10. | The Cheater Slicks | Ghost |
| 11. | Velvet Monkeys | See You Again |
| 12. | Robert Ward and The Ohio Untouchables | I’m Tired |
| 13. | Tommie Bradley | Nobody’s Business If I Do |
| 14. | Guided By Voices | We Outlast Them All |
| 15. | Hawkwind | Hawkwind |
| 16. | Kevin Ayers | Shouting In a Bucket Of Blues |
| 17. | Public Nuisance | Magical Music Box |
| 18. | The Soft Boys | Queen of Eyes |
| 19. | Jonathan Richman | The Heart Of Saturday Night |
| 20. | Jimmy Cliff | Sooner or Later |
| 21. | Curtis Knight with Zeus | The Devil Made Me Do It |
| 22. | Afghan Whigs | Jungle Roux |
| 23. | The Twilight Singers | The Killer |
| 24. | Badly Drawn Boy | One Last Dance |
| 25. | Don Bikoff | Amy In Quebec |
| 26. | Sylvie Simmons | The Ghosts On The Highway |
| 27. | Roxy Music | Grey Lagoons |
Episode 12 Track List
| 1. | Merzbow | Untitled |
| 2. | The Spacemen 3 | Revolution (live) |
| 3. | The Germs | Land Of Treason |
| 4. | The Adverts | We Who Wait |
| 5. | The Who | So Sad About Us |
| 6. | The Who | Pictures of Lily |
| 7. | The Who | Rael (Pt. 1 & Pt. 2) |
| 8. | Pharmakon | Bang Bang |
| 9. | Bauhaus | In The Flat Field |
| 10. | Jóhann Jóhannsson | The Low Drone of Circulating |
| 11. | Captain Beefheart | Tulip |
| 12. | Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon | Insane Asylum |
| 13. | James Carr | Dark End of the Street |
| 14. | Swell Maps | Gunboats |
| 15. | Irmin Schmidt | Requiem (excerpt) |
| 16. | Kraftwerk | Mitternacht |
| 17. | Moondog | All Is Loneliness To Me |
| 18. | Nick Cave & Current 93 | All The Pretty Horses |
| 19. | Mamer | Xermawek (Trailing Plant) |
| 20. | Six Cylinder Smith | Oh Oh Lonesome Blues |
| 21. | The Antlers | Prologue |
| 22. | Lifeguard | Appetite |
| 23. | Orcutt Shelley Miller with David Yow | Hot Head |
| 24. | Heron Oblivion | Sudden Lament |
| 25. | Soft Machine | Why Are We Sleeping |
| 26. | Funkadelic | Back In Our Minds |
| 27. | Aphex Twin | Nannou |
| 28. | Sharp Pins | Popafangout |
| 29. | Hector Penelosa | Scheming |
| 30. | The Jam | Smithers Jones |
| 31. | Scotty & Lorna | Skank In Bed |
| 32. | Violent Femmes | Country Death Song |
| 33. | Wire | Outdoor Miner |
| 34. | The Monkees | What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round |
Episode 11 Track List
| 1. | Country Joe and the Fish | Death Sound |
| 2. | Traffic Sound | Meshkalina |
| 3. | Tindersticks | Kathleen |
| 4. | Ölüm | Kara Dünya |
| 5. | Murung | Piece for Plunge Orchestra (excerpt) |
| 6. | Howlin’ Wolf | Spoonful |
| 7. | Gwendolyn Brooks | We Real Cool |
| 8. | Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee | Hole in the Wall |
| 9. | Thelonious Monk | Epistrophy |
| 10. | Throbbing Gristle | Walkabout |
| 11. | Setting | Heard a Bubble |
| 12. | The Soul Survivors | Expressway to Your Heart |
| 13. | Otis Redding | Respect |
| 14. | Sir Douglas Quintet | She’s About A Mover |
| 15. | Sir Douglas Quintet | The Rains Came |
| 16. | Sir Douglas Quintet | At The Crossroads |
| 17. | The Texas Tornados | Rosalita |
| 18. | The Texas Tornados | (Hey Baby) Que Paso |
| 19. | Augie Meyers | High Texas Rider |
| 20. | Tom Waits | Raised Right Men |
| 21. | Bob Dylan | Lonesome Day Blues |
| 22. | Rolling Stones | 2000 Man |
| 23. | The Damned | Citadel |
| 24. | The Polyphonic Spree | She’s A Rainbow |
| 25. | Robert Frost | The Pasture |
| 26. | The Giuseppi Logan Quartet | Dance of Satan |
| 27. | The Afghan Whigs | The House of I |
Episode 10 Track List
| 1. | Keith Hudson | Darkest Night |
| 2. | Jesus & Mary Chain | 331/3 |
| 3. | Denny Doherty | Gathering The Words |
| 4. | Spacemen 3 | Amen |
| 5. | Greg Ashley | Mona Rider |
| 6. | Staples Singers | God’s Wonderful Love |
| 7. | Aphrodite’s Child | The Four Horsemen |
| 8. | BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa | Heiler, Thorn Eirs Hlyddu (excerpt) |
| 9. | Cleo & Howard Williams | I Know Jesus Has Never Left Me Alone |
| 10. | Ekin Fil | Beni Yok Saysan Da |
| 11. | Dion and the Belmonts | Baby You’ve Been On My Mind |
| 12. | Badfinger | Baby Blue |
| 13. | Ahmed Ag Kaedy & Will Guthrie | Ténéré |
| 14. | Abeti Et Les Redoutables | Musique Tshiluba |
| 15. | Gene Pitney & Melba Montgomery | Being Together |
| 16. | Flaming Lips | She Is Death |
| 17. | J.K. & Co. | Fly |
| 18. | Sonic Youth | Theresa’s Sound-World |
| 19. | Hawkwind | You Know I’m Only Dreaming |
| 20. | Jason Crest | A Place In The Sun |
| 21. | Brian Eno | Reverse Harmonic Bells |
| 22. | Ink Spots | Street of Dreams |
| 23. | Geeshie Wiley | Last Kind Words |
| 24. | Ornette Coleman | All My Life |
| 25. | John Coltrane | Alabama |
| 26. | Sir Douglas Quintet | Give Back The Key To My Heart |
| 27. | CJ Chenier & Sonny Landreth | I’m Coming Home |
| 28. | Joe King Carrasco y El Molino | Tell Me |
| 29. | Fats Waller | A Birdie’s Lament |
Episode 9 Track List
| 1. | Damon Locks | Holding The Dawn In Place (Beyond Pt. 2) |
| 2. | The Silver Apples | A Pox On You |
| 3. | Romance | Too Much Love |
| 4. | Eliana Glass | On The Way Down |
| 5. | Convoy | Here’s Looking At You |
| 6. | James and the Giants | Don’t Let Love Make A Liar Out Of You |
| 7. | One Eleven Heavy | Geneva |
| 8. | The Byrds | He Was A Friend Of Mine |
| 9. | The Byrds | Change Is Now |
| 10. | John Kay | Many A Mile |
| 11. | Barry McGuire And The Doctor | South Of The Border |
| 12. | Tom Recchion | Narcotic |
| 13. | Cab Calloway | Utt Ta Zay |
| 14. | Mamie Perry | Lament |
| 15. | Led Bib | Iron Ore |
| 16. | Cymande | Getting It Back |
| 17. | Abyssinians | Satta Massagana |
| 18. | Dylan Thomas | Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night |
| 19. | Daniel Blumberg | Steel |
| 20. | Boredoms | (heart) |
| 21. | Bootlegger Customer | Cummings Prison Farm |
| 22. | Isham Bracey | Trouble Hearted Blues |
| 23. | Rube Lacey | Ham Hound Crave |
| 24. | Isham Bracey | Woman Woman Blues |
| 25. | Rube Lacey | MIssissippi Jail House Groan |
| 26. | Isham Bracey | The Four Day Blues |
| 27. | Translator | Everywhere That I’m Not |
| 28. | Red Rockers | China |
| 29. | Romeo Void | Never Say Never |
| 30. | Roky Erickson | Bloody Hammer |
Episode 8 Track List
| 1. | The Bassholes | I Saw Beauty |
| 2. | Bachdenkel | Appointment With The Master |
| 3. | The Damned | History Of The World |
| 4. | Jo Jo and the Fugitives | Fugitive Song |
| 5. | Vanilla Fudge | Thoughts |
| 6. | Benjamin Britten | Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66: Sanctus (Rehearsal) (2 excerpts) |
| 7. | The Gris Gris | For The Season |
| 8. | Roosevelt Holts | She Put Me Outdoors |
| 9. | Bukka White | Bald Eagle Train |
| 10. | Unknown | Titanic |
| 11. | Victoria Spivey | Organ Grinder Blues |
| 12. | Blind Willie Johnson | Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground |
| 13. | Jimmy Smith | Elegy For A Duck |
| 14. | Calvin “Hound Dog” Ruffin | Hurry, Hurry |
| 15. | Little Ann | One Way Street |
| 16. | Tony Joe White | Don’t Steal My Love |
| 17. | The Wailers | Rastaman Chant |
| 18. | The Twilight Singers | Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair |
| 19. | Cat Power | Lord Help The Poor and the Needy |
| 20. | The Belleville A Cappella Choir | The Gospel Train |
| 21. | Lucifer | Hypnosis |
| 22. | Maitreya Kali | Color Fantasy |
| 23. | Hawkwind | Neutron Stars (Pulsating Light) |
| 24. | The Dead Kennedys | A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch |
| 25. | The Clash | Tommy Gun |
| 26. | Betty Davis | They Say I’m Different |
| 27. | Ike and Tina Turner | Nutbush City Limits |
| 28. | Mississippi Fred McDowell | Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed |
Episode 7 Track List
| 1. | Wilson Picket | In The Midnight Hour |
| 2. | Moby Grape | Murder In My Heart For The Judge |
| 3. | Next Five | Talk To Me Girl |
| 4. | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose | Treat Her Like A Lady |
| 5. | De Frank Kakra | The World Is One |
| 6. | Kraftwerk | Numbers |
| 7. | New Tutenkhamen | Amai A Kwatu |
| 8. | Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Salvation & Reminiscing |
| 9. | Maisy Owen | My Youth Is All For You |
| 10. | Townes Van Zant | At My Window |
| 11. | Brendan Jenkinson | Paris Blues |
| 12. | The Sons of Negus | Holy Mount Zion |
| 13. | The Groundhogs | Soldier |
| 14. | Orcutt Shelley Miller | Unsafe At Any Speed |
| 15. | The Fall | Cowboy George |
| 16. | Q65 | Ridin’ On A Slow Train |
| 17. | Captain Beefheart | Call On Me |
| 18. | The Reigning Sound | The Bells |
| 19. | Diamond Head | Am I Evil? |
| 20. | The Stooges | I’m Sick Of You |
| 21. | The Saints ’73-’78 | Nights In Venice |
| 22. | The Saints | Know Your Product |
| 23. | Ethan Daniel Davidson | Stop Breaking Down |
| 24. | Luther Dickinson | Death Comes On The Wings Of A Crepe |
| 25. | Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers | You Better Mind |
| 26. | Tyrannosaurus Rex | Cat Black (The Wizard’s Hat) |
Episode 6 (Halloween) Track List
| 1. | Goblin | Profundo Russo |
| 2. | John Williams | The Jaws Theme and The First Victim |
| 3. | Ennio Morricone | Sul Filo |
| 4. | Ennio Morricone | Theme From Lenore |
| 5. | Al De Leroy | Excerpts from The Devil’s Rain |
| 6. | Charles Fox | Excerpt from Bug |
| 7. | Riichirō Manabe | The Evil of Dracula theme |
| 8. | Jun Fukamachi | Excerpt from Wolf Guy |
| 9. | Phillan Bishop | Excerpt from Kiss of the Tarantula |
| 10. | Raúl Lavista | Darker The Night Theme |
| 11. | Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell | Texas Chainsaw Massacre Theme |
| 12. | Eugene Cines | Rooms in a Museum |
| 13. | Hiroshi Baba (Jun Fukamachi) | Toei Mark |
| 14. | Giuliano Sorgini | Risonanza No.3 |
| 15. | Giuliano Sorgini | Risonanza No.4 |
| 16. | Giuliano Sorgini | Angeli Neri |
| 17. | William Kraft | Psychic Killer Theme |
| 18. | Richard O’Brien | Science Fiction/Double Feature |
| 19. | John Carpenter | Ghost Story |
| 20. | John Carpenter | Shape Escapes |
| 21. | Mark Korven | The Goat & The Mayhem |
| 22. | Krzysztof Komeda | Dream |
| 23. | MMMD | Hagazussa Madichon |
| 24. | Popol Vuh | Brüder Des Schattens |
| 25. | Kenji Kawai | Gene |
| 26. | Shiro Sato | The Black Shadow |
| 27. | Shiro Sato | The Wriggling |
| 28. | Christopher Young | The Horror In The Canisters |
| 29. | Christopher Young | Cenobites |
| 30. | Delia Derbyshire | Drive To The House |
| 31. | Gil Mellé | A Cold Night’s Death Theme |
| 32. | Bernard Herrman | The Murder |
| 33. | Humphrey Searle | The Haunting Opening |
| 34. | Herschell Gordon Lewis | Tragic Kettledrums/Eyes Gouged Out/Legs Cut Off!! |
Episode 5 Track List
| 1. | Louis Armstrong | Saint James Infirmary |
| 2. | Max Roach | Driva’man |
| 3. | Duke Ellington | Thanks For The Beautiful Land On The Delta |
| 4. | Theodore Roethke | The Waking |
| 5. | Albert Ayler | Ghosts, Variation One |
| 6. | Cranium Pie | The Geometry of Thistles |
| 7. | Pink Floyd | Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun |
| 8. | Lavender Flu | Within |
| 9. | Night Kings | Death |
| 10. | The Jam | Time For Truth (demo) |
| 11. | The Who | Magic Bus (Take 6) |
| 12. | The Who | So Sad About Us |
| 13. | The Steinways | You’ve Been Leading Me On |
| 14. | The Sweethearts | Beauty Is Just Skin Deep |
| 15. | Vernon Garrett | If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time |
| 16. | Willie Gauff & The Love Brothers | I Know She’s Gonna Leave |
| 17. | Dr. John | Black Widow Spider |
| 18. | Texas Alexander | Levee Camp Moan Blues |
| 19. | Texas Alexander | Seen Better Days |
| 20. | Texas Alexander | Frisco Train Blues |
| 21. | Lightnin’ Hopkins | Buddy Brown’s Blues (98 Degrees Blues) |
| 22. | The Bassholes | 98 Degrees In The Shade |
| 23. | The Gun Club | For The Love of Ivy |
| 24. | Mudhoney | Revolution |
| 25. | Spacemen 3 | When Tomorrow Hits |
| 26. | Spectrum | Forever Alien |
| 27. | Ekin Fil | Nocturnal Arc |
| 28. | King Oliver | Riverside Blues |
Episode 4 Track List
| 1. | Willie Hutch | You Can’t Miss Something That You Never Had |
| 2. | Otis Clay | Trying To Live My Life Without You Babe |
| 3. | Clydie King | Long Road Ahead |
| 4. | Jim Ford | Harlan County |
| 5. | Delaney and Bonnie | Coming Home |
| 6. | Kak | Disbelievin’ |
| 7. | RL Boyce | Jumper on the Line |
| 8. | The Ophelias | Apron Strings |
| 9. | Mandrake Paddle Steamer | Pandemonium Shadow Show |
| 10. | The Fox | Second Hand Love |
| 11. | Link Wray | The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Stokes |
| 12. | Portishead | The Rip |
| 13. | Nick Drake | Blues Run The Game |
| 14. | Ennio Morricone | Sundown |
| 15. | Ennio Morricone | Ecstacy of Gold |
| 16. | Tarnation | The Hand |
| 17. | Tarnation | Halfway to Madness |
| 18. | Tarnation | The Well |
| 19. | Paula Frazer | Game of Broken Hearts |
| 20. | Big Star | Kanga Roo |
| 21. | Jim Dickinson | The Strength of Love |
| 22. | Aretha Franklin | Spirit in the Dark |
| 23. | Flamin’ Groovies | Have You Seen My Baby |
| 24. | Lawson and Four More | Back for More |
| 25. | Jim Dickinson | The Congo (excerpt) |
| 26. | Sid Selvidge | Judge Bouche |
Episode 3 Track List
| 1 | Intersystems | Changing Color |
| 2 | Die Wilde Jagd, Metropole Orchestra, Simon Dobson | Interlude “Lux” |
| 3 | The Fall | A Figure Walks |
| 4 | Patrick Kadyk | A School Was Burned |
| 5 | L’Orchestre National A De La République Du Mali | Duga |
| 6 | The Velvet Underground | Heroin |
| 7 | Battle Elf | Stops Pretty Places |
| 8 | Sun Ra | Angels and Demons At Play |
| 9 | Alice Coltrane | Journey In Satchidananda |
| 10 | James Blackshaw | Why Keep Still? |
| 11 | Robert Wilkins | That’s No Way To Get Along |
| 12 | Billie Holiday | Yesterdays |
| 13 | Son House | Death Letter |
| 14 | Blind Willie McTell | Dying Crapshooter’s Blues |
| 15 | The Common People | Those Who Love |
| 16 | Gene Clark | From A Silver Phial |
| 17 | Bobak, Jons, Malone | On a Meadow Lea |
| 18 | Maypole | In The Beginning |
| 19 | Earl King | Trick Bag |
| 20 | Q65 | Cry In The Night |
| 21 | Del Shannon | Silver Birch |
| 22 | Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe | The Last To Know |
| 23 | György Ligeti | Requiem (part) |
| 24 | Boredoms | Acid Police |
| 25 | Lambert And Nuttycombe | Time |
Episode 2 Track List
| 1 | Gino Washington | Puppet on a String |
| 2 | The Isley Brothers | Sweet Season/Keep Walking |
| 3 | Howlin’ Rain | Calling Lightning With a Scythe |
| 4 | Heron Oblivion | Crossroads |
| 5 | Lynard Skynard | The Seasons |
| 6 | Mudhoney | Into Yr Schtick |
| 7 | Cheater Sllicks | In The Town |
| 8 | Thee Headcoats | She’s Got a Strange Attractor |
| 9 | The Miracle Workers | When a Woman Calls My Name |
| 10 | Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch | Death Valley 69 |
| 11 | Josh White | You Know Baby |
| 12 | Taj Mahal | Fishin’ Blues |
| 13 | Gwenifer Raymond | Jack Parson’s Blues |
| 14 | Ashley Thompson | Sweet Peace |
| 15 | Flaco Jimenez | Un Mojado Sin Licencia |
| 16 | Flaco Jimenez | Ay te Dejo en San Antonio! |
| 17 | Ry Cooder | He’ll Have to Go |
| 18 | Doug Sahm | Poison Love |
| 19 | Texas Tornados | Amor di Mi Vida |
| 20 | The Rolling Stones | Sweethearts Together |
| 21 | Texas Tornados | Who Were You Thinking Of? |
| 22 | Texas Tornados | My Cruel Pain |
| 23 | Los Super Seven | Margarita |
| 24 | Terry Callier | You’re Goin’ Miss Your Candyman |
| 25 | Boa Constrictor & A Natural Vine | Pig-Quick Finger |
Episode 1 Track List
| 1 | Electric Prunes | Shadows |
| 2 | Electric Prunes | I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night |
| 3 | Electric Prunes | Try Me On For Size (Live) |
| 4 | Jesus Mind Glaze | Space Poetry |
| 5 | Alan Watts & David Starfire | The Meaning of Life |
| 6 | Lee Morgan | Search For The New Land |
| 7 | Malombo Jazz Makers | Bahula Dithabeng |
| 8 | Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of the Rastafari | Way Back Home |
| 9 | Greg Dulli | A Ghost |
| 10 | Paula Frazer | That You Know |
| 11 | The Harlem Hamfats | Weed Smokers Dream |
| 12 | Babe Stovall | Boll Weevil |
| 13 | Reverend Gary Davis | Whistling Blues |
| 14 | William Basinski | September 23rd (Excerpt 5) |
| 15 | Jacob Kirkegaard | Astray |
| 16 | Flaming Lips | Try To Explain |
| 17 | Slim Smith & The Uniques | People Get Ready |
| 18 | Slim Smith | The Time Has Come |
| 19 | Burning Spear | Marcus Garvey |
| 20 | The Heptones | Sweet Talkin’ |
| 21 | Bonny Light Horseman | I Know You Know (Yttling Jazz Remix) |
| 22 | Etta James | Almost Persuaded |
| 23 | Ethan Daniel Davidson | Someone’s Asking For You |
| 24 | Telegraph Avenue | Something Going |