The Fusion Reactor #169 - Something Sometimes

This show is a bit ambiguous as to exactly what and when. However, you'll get the idea pretty soon that the "what" is prog and fusion, and the "when" is when The Fusion Reactor is running!

Something She Said	Fleck, Béla & the Flecktones	3:37
Something Left Unsaid	Mays, Lyle	4:53
Something Spiritual	McLaughlin, John	3:29
Something For Nothing	Rush	4:00
...Or Something	Schleigho	12:58
Of Sounds and Something Else	Sun Ra	2:54
Doin' Something	Soulive	6:46
Something Special	Williams, Tony (Lifetime)	5:43
Something I Should Have Said	Rule, Cyndee Lee	6:04
Something In You	High Wheel	6:12
Sometime Ago-La Fiesta	Return To Forever	23:14
Sometime After Midnight	Mosher, Scott	6:17
Sometimes There's a Buggy	Ahleuchatistas	5:03
Sometimes I See	Metheny, Pat	6:01
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child	Birdsongs of the Mesozoic	4:10
Sometime	Harrison, Gavin & 05Ric	6:55
Sometimes It Is Not as Always	Ozone Player	1:09
Sometimes in the Suburbs	North Star	7:03

The Fusion Reactor #168 - I'm Thankful For Fusion

Here are some fusion bands I'm thankful for. They've impacted my musical life in a positive way.

Casino	DiMeola, Al	9:30
Trickster	Apetrea, Coste	10:01
Downwind	Gong	12:13
Deadly Nightshade	Brand X	10:26
Deep Into the Night	Hiromi	9:02
Elvin	Finnforest	8:36
Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant	Return To Forever	11:27
Pursuance/Psalm	Coltrane, John	17:51
Dream	Mahavishnu Orchestra	11:10
Matrices	Schleigho	20:13
Bing, bing, bing, bing	Hunter, Charlie	7:58
In a Silent Way / It's About That Time	Davis, Miles	19:57
Azzura	Mclaughlin, DiMeola, De Lucia	7:58
Tom Sawyer	Skolnick, Alex	6:35
Shironiji	KBB	13:03

The Fusion Reactor #167 - Epics!

This week I decided it was epic time again. It's always a fun time. Just four songs this week:

The Way Up - Part One	Metheny, Pat	26:27
1st Movement	Hellborg, Jonas	32:19
Yesternow	Davis, Miles	25:35
Kingdom Come	Jeremy	35:24

Fun, fun, fun and fun.

The Fusion Reactor #166 - A Double Puzzle

It was something of a puzzle to put this show together. It was a lot of fun and allowed me a lot more liberty than the usual themes seem to do. What happened was this: I picked a song, then went with a different artist with a similar song title, then a different song by the SAME artist. Then the process repeats based on that last song. If you're confused, you'll get it when you see the playlist.

So in effect, you're getting two songs from each artist I'm playing. One is based on the previous song title, and the other one is merely one I felt you absolutely needed to hear. It was fun to put together, get it to fit in about two hours, and get it to wrap around so that the first and the last match up.

Puzzle	Altizer, Rick	4:36
Puzzle	Cold Fairyland	4:15
Forest Dance	Cold Fairyland	4:52
The Enchanted Forest	Izzizzari, Massimo	5:25
Wordgame	Izzizzari, Massimo	5:05
Game Maker	Return To Forever	6:46
Song to the Pharoah Kings	Return To Forever	14:23
Pharaoh's Dance	Davis, Miles	20:00
Black Comedy	Davis, Miles	7:30
Black Coffee	Wackerman, Chad	5:58
The View	Wackerman, Chad	5:06
Three Views Of A Secret	Jaco Pastorius Tribute	9:12
Punk Jazz	Jaco Pastorius Tribute	6:34
Punk China Doll	Zorn, John	3:06
Lonely Woman	Zorn, John	2:46
Quiet Alley and Lonely Terrain	Volta do Mar	5:24
Another Air Strike Called Love	Volta do Mar	3:28
Holy Love Transmitter	Altizer, Rick	3:35

The Fusion Reactor #165 - The Fire Reactor

There are a lot of "fire songs" out there. I was listening to "Crossfire" by Kansas and remembered that they also have a song called "Fight Fire With Fire" and got the idea to do an incendiary show such as this:

Firepower	Fripp, Robert & David Sylvian	10:27
Spiritual Fire	Ajalon	5:32
Fire and the Wind	Ten Point Ten	6:51
Birds of Fire	Mahavishnu Orchestra	5:48
Fire In the Sun	Kuprij, Vitalij	5:57
Clown On Fire	Darling	4:53
Sky Flying On Fire	Big Big Train	6:05
Pillar of Fire	Levin, Tony	7:00
Crossfire	Kansas	6:33
That, That Is: Togetherness/Crossfire/The Giving Things/That Is/All in All/How Did Heaven Begin...	Yes	19:15
Fire Over Thule	Hermetic Science	10:15
So Close To The Fire (Metanoia Level 3)	Nexus	7:18
In the Fire	Morse, Neal	7:25
Wind, Water & Fire	Iona	13:45