S9E478 - Bill Nelson 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam' with Kevin Chanel
This week's guest, record/hot sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl, El Enojado Hot Sauce), brings us singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) and his 1981 solo release 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam'. Originally recorded in 1979 as an intended follow up album to his 'Bill Nelson's Red Noise' project, EMI declined to release the recordings and the material remained unreleased until Bill licensed the original stereo mixes of the album to Mercury Records, who issued the album in the Spring of 1981. Already far ahead of the 80s New Wave curve, it's a futuristic, forward-looking art-pop gem of a record!
Songs discussed in this episode: Do You Dream In Colour - Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers (Live at Metropolis Studios, London); Steamboat Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers; Hey Hey - Big Bill Broonzy; Near East - Bill Nelson; Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) - Bill Nelson's Red Noise; Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe; Stay Young - Bill Nelson's Red Noise; Acceleration, Banal - Bill Nelson; Candy-O - The Cars; Maid In Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe; Living In My Limousine, Vertical Games - Bill Nelson; Underpass - John Foxx; Disposable, False Alarms - Bill Nelson; Charade - Skids; Decline And Fall, Life Runs Out Like Sand, A Kind Of Loving, Do You Dream In Colour - Bill Nelson; Do You Dream In Colour - Cate Le Bon ft. Parquet Courts (Live); U.H.F. - Bill Nelson; Elephant Talk - King Crimson; Youth Of Nation On Fire, Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam, Instantly Yours - Bill Nelson; Death Riff U.S.A. - Ghetto Scheist; Lonesome Cowboy Bill (Velvet Underground cover) - Bill Nelson & the Roy Rodgers Rocketeers
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Born in San Diego, CA. Grew up in National City and Chula Vista (neighborhoods of SD).
Turned onto rock (Cooper, Bowie, Sabbath, etc.), then punk rock as it was happening. Started
playing in groups in 1980, urged by a love of The Saints, Ramones, P.i.L.’s “Metal Box”, XTC,
Gang Of Four and other groups.
1982 joined The Front and took on the management of Scheming Intelligentsia Records (with
which we released our 2nd album - 1985’s "Man You Gotta Move"), which I maintained until
1996, having released around 40 titles.
Moved to SF, where I went corporate, got married in 99, and had a kid in 2006. In that time I
recorded two albums with The Lemon-Limes, played bass for The Zeros, then started
ChinMusic! Magazine, a RnR/baseball zine. 2003 started Punk Rock Confidential magazine with
my wife Sunny (Girlyhead Magazine), and Fat Mike of NOFX. After 8 years years, that died. In
2016 we inherited Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl from Sunny's late father Ray Andersen, which we
still run. In 2019 I began El Enojado Hot Sauce. That was fun.
Currently I also play bass for SD bands Ghetto Scheist, an occasionally reunited The Front, and
sing for a Saints tribute band - Kid Galahad And The Eternals.
I also make one hell of a greek salad.