The Desperate Hour with Alex Podcast

About Me

OK, now's the time to set some guidelines. Several Desperate Hours Podcasts have been posted to GaragePunk.com. Pleaseohpleaseohplease give it a listen before asking to be my friend. You can also take a peek at my musical influences to see if it jives with your art. I'm not the least bit interested in getting thousands of friends, just broadening my base within the genres of music that I'm into which is primarily garage punk, early 60's pop, 50's weirdness, and Blues-based rock. If you had any chance to listen or peruse playlists of my old show, Coffee 'n' Smokes, you'll get what I'm trying to achieve with The Desperate Hour. What I do when putting out my own friend requests is to see if I or my radio colleagues worked with that label, that radio station, or that artist or would I honestly support them if they asked me to be their friend if I haven't worked with them.

For those who aren't in bands, I'd rather have regular people I know face to face or those who regularly download and listen to the podcast and have become fans of The Desperate Hour and of GaragePunk.com. I mean, sexy photos are nice and all but at 50 I've seen lotsa wimmens-some of 'em naked even. I hate to sound like a dick, but it has to be this way.

Love, The Management

Anyway, now that the guidelines have been set I can tell you that most people can't or won't read so fuck it, let me tell you a little about me... I was and occasionally continue to be a radio DJ and I had done a bit of promotion, radio service, advance publicity and booking off & on going all the way back to the early 80's and I no longer do promo or hold a regular radio shift and my blood pressure has gone down considerably as a result. I only have the hankering to get back into the promotion end of it when I see what some fuckin' hacks call promotion. The Desperate Hour Podcast and the occasional gig hosting On The Town at WMFO should take care of any regrets I have about giving up a regular shift in radio.

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My Interests

My wife, my kids, baseball, hockey, thoroughbred racing, candlepin bowling, model railroading, model cars

I'd like to meet:

Jerry Springer. I got to meet most of the others I wanted to meet. And I guess I'll see dead ones in hell. Oh and Hans Gudegast. Now he acts with the stage name Eric Braeden who's on the soap The Young & The Restless but back in the late 60s he was the Rommel-esque dude on The Rat Patrol so yeah that would be cool...

Music:

Billy Childish in all of his incarnations, The Stones, The Animals, The Gories, The Dirtbombs, Oblivians, The Sonics, Lyres, DMZ, The Kinks, New York Dolls, Stooges, Outsiders (from Holland), Pretty Things, Gene Pitney, Helen Shapiro, Leslie Gore, Dead Moon, Connie Francis, Shangri Las, Link Wray, Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon, Eddie Cochran, The Remains, Slim Harpo, Elmore James, James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic, War, Mandrill, Al Green, Andre Williams, Wynonie Harris, Bo Diddley, Stax/Volt, Red Bird, Chess, Crypt, the 60's and 80's Boston scene, anything produced by Joe Meek, any tunes written in the Brill Building.

Movies:

A Touch of Evil, Ace In The Hole, Highway Dragnet, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Last Angry Man, The Narrow Margin, The Caine Mutiny, Sahara (the war movie with Bogart), Go Tell The Spartans, House Of Bamboo, Vanishing Point,Six Bridges to Cross, Pushover, On The Waterfront, Reservoir Dogs, The Killing, The Hustler, Female Jungle, The Girl Can't Help It, Double Indemnity, Mean Streets, Bad Lieutanant, Wild In The Streets, Niagra, Blackboard Jungle, The Wild One, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Rogue Cop, Hell's Half Acre, Cop Land, The Naked City, A Face In The Crowd, Requiem For A Heavyweight, Joe, The Brinks Job, Good Will Hunting, Mystic River,The Misfits, The French Connection, Coogan's Bluff, The Leone/Eastwood Trilogy (The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More), Born To Kill, The Desperate Hours

Television:

Here's some shows that from past & present that I really like. They range from the intelligent to the cheesy and sleazy: Sgt. Bilko, The Three Stooges, Rescue 8, Naked City, Route 66, The Rat Patrol, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Dangerman (a.k.a. Secret Agent Man), The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Avengers, Mission Impossible, Mannix, The Addams Family, The Munsters, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Littlest Hobo, Mr. Magoo, Davey & Goliath, Tom Terrific, Gumby, The Ed Sullivan Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Married With Children, World At War, Victory At Sea, Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, Morton Downey Jr., Homicide: Life On The Street, The Job, Wife Swap, Deal Or No Deal, House, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, The Sopranos.

Books:

Fiction & non-fiction about life, love, murder, and baseball in Postwar Boston: The Brothers Bulger, Black Mass, Legends of Winter Hill, The Boston Strangler, The Summer of '49, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Mystic River, Scollay Square to name a few...

Heroes:

I admire many. I idolize none.