The Fusion Reactor #156 - Dedicated To You

At some point in their carrers, most every artist has written a song for someone or dedicated a song to them. Here's a show full of that type of song, heavy on the fusion-type songs.

Anthem For Andrea	Coalition Of The Willing, The	6:09
Tune for Derrol	Legg, Adrian	3:58
Song for Lynette	Johnson, Eric	4:54
Blues For Miles	Chick Corea Elektric Band	15:10
Slow Blues for Fuzy's Mama	Fiuczynski, David & John Medeski	6:50
Song For Josiah	Green, Keith	6:21
Waltz For Bill	Kobayashi, Ron	4:56
Square For Maud	National Health	11:50
Song For Devadip	Santana, Carlos	4:55
Song for the Rainforest	Zil	5:13
One for Newk	Adderley, Cannonball	5:16
Blues for Gordon	Fleck, Béla & the Flecktones	5:18
Lullaby for Joey	Goodman, Jerry	5:41
One For Eric	DeJohnette, Jack	9:43
Calypso For Grandpa	Hunter, Charlie	3:42
Tones For Elvin Jones	McLaughlin, John	6:36
(a) Island Of Rhodes; (b) Paper Boat - for Doris; (c) As If Your Eyes Were Open	Gilgamesh	6:42
Tunic (Song For Karen)	Sonic Youth	6:23

The Fusion Reactor #155 - In Memoriam, Ryan Reott

The Moody Blues - Isn't Life Strange (5:59)
It's indeed strange when a 30-year old in great health just keels over dead of an aneurysm, leaving behind a wife, a stepdaughter and a 9-month-old son. We look and look for an explanation, but there just isn't one. Not in this life, anyhow.

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Smile of the Beyond (8:05)
Ryan was always wearing a smile. He never went anywhere without it. That's one of the things that everybody remembers about Ryan. I'm sure he took that smile with him to the Beyond.

Ian Parry - Smiley People (4:05)
Like I said, Ryan was one of those Smiley People. At least I didn't play R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People, huh?

Genesis - The Battle Of Epping Forest (11:49)
Ryan did not fight in this battle. However, it has that line about the Civil War, and Ryan was quite the Civil War enthusiast. He did the reenactments and everything. I think he might have picked that up from my dad. The enthusiasm, not the reenactments. I'm thinking Genesis might have been talking about a different Civil War, but I'm referring to the American one.

Gong - Aeroplane (2:42)
National Health - Towplane and The Glider (5:12)
Random Touch - Moonrise With Plane (2:04)
Toy Matinee - Last Plane Out (5:13)
Big Big Train - Fighter Command (10:44)
Ryan's hobby might have been the Civil War, but his passion was for airplanes. Really, any sort of flying machines. He even worked with planes, doing maintenance and deicing for them. It's odd then, that he never went for his license to fly a plane. I guess he just preferred to work on them.

Alan Parsons - Brother Up In Heaven (4:02)
This is from Alan's "On Air" album, which is all about flight. I like the double meaning when applied to this situation though.

Ahleuchatistas - You Know My Family (6:12)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - All In The Family (6:02)
Mike Keneally and Beer For Dolphins - Friends And Family (3:56)
King Crimson - Happy Family (4:22)
Lusk - Hotel Family Affair/Black Sea Me (4:28)
Peter Gabriel - The Family And The Fishing Net (7:04)
Ryan left behind a family, as I've mentioned. He was a dedicated family man, and naturally this has been rather tough on all of them.

Jethro Tull - Hunt By Numbers (4:02)
Radiohead - Hunting Bears (2:01)
Primus - John The Fisherman (3:37)
Primus - Fish On (Fisherman Chronicles, Chapter II) (7:45)
Phish - Fish Bass (1:11)
Goodman, Smith, Levy & Burbridge - Sufferin' Catfish (7:16)
Ryan loved the outdoors. It's no wonder he got his Eagle Scout award, worked with me at Boy Scout camp, and liked to hunt and fish. He will be missed, and the world will not be quite as bright a place without him.

R.I.P. Ryan Reott 5/31/1977 - 8/14/2007

The Fusion Reactor #154 - Different Takes On A Theme

I remember once reading a bunch of different authors' short stories all based on the same photograph. The stories were all very different but had a few things that sort of tied them together because of the same starting point. So I was thinking... What about songs? I don't know that artists write songs based on a picture or anything like that, but how about song titles? This show has a bunch of songs with the same titles but the songs are very different.

Artist	Title	Duration
Morse, Steve	Oz	03:20
Machine and the Synergetic Nuts	Oz	05:52
Cryptic Vision	Point of View	04:50
Fates Warning	Point Of View	05:07
Overhead	Point Of View	05:17
Mindflow	Another Point Of View	03:58
King Crimson	Red	06:17
Stratospheerius	Red	08:23
Sudakow, James	Red	10:15
Canvas	Smile	04:42
Sun Ra	Smile	04:25
Tangerine Dream	Smile (instrumental)	06:53
Cairo	Underground	08:08
Hammer, Jan	Underground	04:17
Iona	Revelation	07:01
Spock's Beard	Revelation	06:06
Amaran's Plight	Revelation	13:10
Revelation Project	Revelation	04:23
America Gomorrah	Revelation	05:00

The Fusion Reactor #153 - Houses

I bought a house, so here's my way of celebrating.

Oh Lord, Please Bless This Rocket House and All Those Who Live Inside the Rocket House	Forever Einstein	4:25
A Sea Change (i. The Lighthouse ii. The Running Tide iii. In Deep iv. Slide and Sway v. In Deep - Reprise)	Mermaid Kiss	7:20
House On Fire	Kansas	4:42
House of Four Doors/Legend of a Mind/House of Four Doors part 2	Moody Blues	12:37
Madhouse Jam	Passport	5:44
I Can See Your House From Here	Scofield, John & Pat Metheny	7:47
House	Marillion	10:15
Get Out Of My House	Bush, Kate	5:31
Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord	Santana, Carlos & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin	15:45
Bubblehouse	Medeski Martin & Wood	4:31
Lighthouse	Keaggy, Phil	3:48
House of Mirrors	Holdsworth, Allan	7:47
Life In A Glasshouse	Radiohead	4:35
Houses	Fire Theft, The	3:15
This House	Edison Glass	4:15
No Thugs In Our House	XTC	5:10
Seahouses	Bainbridge, Dave	3:07
Madhouse	Eloy	5:20