As an author, Billy James has written several critically
acclaimed and best selling books, with various reprints and
versions in different languages including No More Mr. Nice Guy -
The Inside Story Of The Alice Cooper Group (with Michael Bruce)
and Lunar Notes - Zoot Horn Rollo's Capt. Beefheart Experience
(with Bill Harkleroad). He is currently completing vol.2 of his
Todd Rundgren biography.
As a musical artist, James records under the guise of ANT-BEE
and has several albums out featuring the likes of the former
Mothers members, original Alice Cooper Group members and Daevid
Allen (Gong).
Billy James also runs Glass Onyon PR, a full line publicity
company. Some of his clients are Kevin Godley and Graham
Gouldman (10cc), Wishbone Ash, Mark Volman (Turtles, Flo&Eddie),
Vanilla Fudge, The Grand Mothers, The Lizards (ex-BOC/Rainbow),
Don Preston and many more.
Sundays 17:00 (First Sunday of the month)
Next show: Sunday February 7
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Contact Billy
www.ant-bee.com
www.ant-bee.com/glassonyonpr.htm
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April 5: Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #1
1. Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID - Place In Space interlude
- Daevid Allen/ANT-BEE
2. Don't You Ever Learn? - ANT-BEE - Electronic Church Muzik
2009 (feat. Napoleon Murphy Brock.
3. The Language of The Body - ANT-BEE - Electronic Church Muzik
2009 (feat. Daevid Allen & Don Preston.
4. Place In Space sequence - Daevid Allen/ANT-BEE
5. Have You Seen My Friend? - Daevid Allen - Good Morning -
Virgin Records 1976
6. Return of the Knick-Knack People interlude - ANT-BEE
7. Barry's Shoe's - GG06 (Godley & Gouldman. - 2008 - download
only at
www.gg06.co.uk
8. Udu Wudu - Magma - Udu Wudu - Seventh Records 1976
9. Return of the Knick-Knack People interlude - ANT-BEE
10. She Was Naked - Supersister - Superstarshine - EMI 1970/1972
11. Se io Lavoro - Le Orme - Polydor 1977
12. Adrenalin - Ragnarok - Fjarilar i Magen 1979
13. Melotron Experiments - The Beatles - 1967
14. Death Of Rock - Daevid Allen - The Death Of Rock And Even
More Entrances - Shanghai Records 1982
15. I Lost My Heart At The Drive-in Movie - Flo & Eddie - New
York Times - Manifesto Records 2009
16. The Taster - Wildman Fisher - An Evening With Wildman Fisher
- Straight/Bizarre Records 1969
17. Return of the Knick-Knack People interlude - ANT-BEE
18. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica. - Capt. Beefheart & the Magic
Band - Trout Mask Replica - Straight/Bizarre Records 1969
19. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance - Frank Zappa - Lumpy
Gravy - MGM/Verve 1968
20. Archy The Robot - Amon Duul 2 - Hijack - 1974
21. I've Got My Car And My TV - Faust - So Far 1972
22. Place In Space interlude - Daevid Allen/ANT-BEE
23. Glass Onyon ID fade-out
24. Ending credit/Melotron Experiments - The Beatles 1967
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May 3: Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #2
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID - Place In Space interlude
- Daevid Allen/ANT-BEE
2) Heaven's Gate - Gong - Shapeshifter - Viceroy Music 1997
3) Beautiful Flyaway - Alice Cooper (Michael Bruce lead voc) -
Easy Action - Straight/Bizarre 1970
4) ANT-BEE's Sunday Supper - ANT-BEE (feat. Michael Bruce) -
Electronic Church Muzik - 2009
5) Flutter-Bye Butter-Flye - ANT-BEE (feat. Michael Bruce) -
Electronic Church Muzik - 2009
6) Poem Electronique (excerpt) - Edgar Varese - The Varese Album
- Sony/BMG 1972
7) Bogeyman - Drumbo - City of Refuge - Proper Records 2008
8) Apes-Ma - Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band - Shiny Beast -
Virgin Records 1979
9) Idiot Bastard Son - The Grande Mothers - unreleased live in
Charlotte, NC -June 2006
10) Pie Jesu (excerpt) - Robert Fripp - The Gates of Paradise -
DGM 1997
11) You Never Existed At All - Daevid Allen - The Death of Rock
and Even More Entrances - Shanghai Records 1982
12) Quest For The Harvest Of The Stars - Be-Bop Deluxe - The
Best and the Rest - EMI 1978
13) Astral Man - Nektar - Down To Earth - Bacillus Records 1974
14) Us and Them - Rick Wright/Pink Floyd - unreleased Zabriske
Point outtake 1970
15) Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In
A Cave and Grooving With A Pict - Pink Floyd - Ummagumma - 1968
EMI Records
16) Heaps of Sheeps - Robert Wyatt - Shleep - Hannibal Records
1997
17) The German Lesson - Soft Machine - Soft Machine Seven - Sony
Music 1973
18) Dog Breath - Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Uncle
Meat - Straight/Bizarre Records 1969
19) Dwarf Nebula - Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh -
Straight/Bizarre Records 1969
20) Place In Space interlude - Daevid Allen/ANT-BEE
21) Glass Onyon ID fade-out
22) Ending credit/Unreleased Piano Piece - Rick Wright/Pink
Floyd - Zabriske Point outtake 1970
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June 7: Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #3
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID - Place In Space interlude
- Daevid Allen/ANT-BEE
2) Voyage of the Trieste - Chocolate Watchband - Inner Mystique
- Tower 1968
3) Party Seacombe - George Harrison - Wonderwall - Apple Records
1968
4) Porpoise Song - The Monkees - Head OST - Arista 1969
5) Wonderful - The Beach Boys - Smile - 1966
6) Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones - Capt. Beefheart and the
Magic Band - Strictly Personal - Liberty Records 1968
7) Why Don't You Do Me Right - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of
Invention - B-side of "Big Leg Emma" - MGM 1967
8) Good Duck - Flo & Eddie - The History of Flo & Eddie and The
Turtles - Rhino 1983
9) Robert Fripp live on Montreal radio 9/18/79 (excerpt)
10) Electrical Language - Be-Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic - EMI
1978
11) The Age of Distortion - Peter Banks - Reduction - HTD
Records 1997
12) Hooligan Crane - GG06 (Kevin Godley & Graham Gouldman) -
internet only track from 2006: www.gg06.co.uk
13) Morgen Gruss - Popol Vuh - Aguirre OST - 1973
14) Prologue (Don't Know) - Earth & Fire - Atlantis - Polydor
1973
15) The Fairy Dance - Ash Ra Temple - Starring Rosi - 1973
16) On Horseback - Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - Virgin 1975
17) Face In The Rain - Be-Bop Deluxe - The Best and the Rest -
EMI 1979
18) Robert Fripp live on Montreal radio 9/18/79 (excerpt)
19) Place In Space interlude - Daevid Allen/ANT-BEE
20) Glass Onyon ID fade-out
21) Ending credit/ Lacrimae Di Lei - Popol Vuh - Aguirre OST -
1973
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(c) 2009
July 5: Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist
Special Edition - Gregg Rolie - Music and Interview
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Everybody's Everything - Santana - Santana 3rd LP - CBS 1971
3) Taboo - Santana - Santana - 3rd LP - CBS 1971
4) Just In Time To See The Sun - Santana - Caravansarai - CBS
1972
5) Across The Water - Gregg Rolie Band - Live 2007 limited
collectors CD
6) Gregg Rolie Interview segment
7) Going Home - Gregg Rolie Band - Live 2007 limited collectors
CD
8) Gregg Rolie Interview segment
9) As The Years Go Passing By - Gregg Rolie Band - Live 2007
limited collectors CD
10) Gregg Rolie Interview segment
11) Gypsy Queen - Gregg Rolie Band - Live 2007 limited
collectors CD
12) Gregg Rolie Interview segment
13) Can You Hear Me? - Journey - 1976 unreleased demo
14) Look Into The Future - Journey - Look Into The Future - CBS
1976
15) Glass Onyon ID - closing credits
16) Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation - Santana - Caravansarai -
1972
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(c) 2009
August 2 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist
Special Edition - 'The Gong Show' - featuring music from Gong,
Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage and ANT-BEE.
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) When - Daevid Allen - Divided Alien Playbax 80 - Charly
International 1984
3) I Am A Fool - Gilli Smyth - Mother - Charly International
1978
4) Selene - Gong - Angel's Egg - Virgin 1973
5) The Glorious Om Riff - Steve Hillage - Virgin 1978
6) The Guff (feat. Gilli Smyth & Peter Banks) - ANT-BEE -
Electronic Church Muzik 2009
7) Expresso - Gong - Expresso - Virgin 1978
8) Deya Goddess - Daevid Allen - Now Is The Happiest Time Of
Your Life - Charly Int. 1977
9) Hymnalayas - Gong - Shapeshifter - Pangea Music 1994
10) Laylines To Glassdom / Crystal City / Activation Meditation
- Steve Hillage - Green - Virgin 1978
11) C'est La Maison - Daevid Allen & Kramer - s/t - Shimmy Disc
1992
12) Dear Friends - Daevid Allen - Dreamin A Dream - Gas Records
1995
13) Glass Onyon ID - closing credits
14) You Never Blow Your Trip Forever - Gong - You - Virgin 1974
Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
(c) 2009
A special edition of
'Listening Through A Glass Onyon' radio show will air Sunday,
Sept. 6, 2009 at 12:00 pm Noon EST (17:00 GMT). The show is a
tribute to the 10 year anniversary of the release of Bruce
Cameron's 'Midnight Daydream' CD, which was originally released
in Sept. 1999.
Billy James was the project coordinator and also performed on
the CD alongside legendary music artists Mitch Mitchell, Buddy
Miles, Billy Cox, Jack Bruce, Ken Hensley, Michael Bruce, Neal
Smith and Harvey Dalton Arnold.
Bruce Cameron was a gifted songwriter and guitarist whose life
ended much too soon - he is sadly missed. The program will
showcase songs from the CD (which is currently out of print) and
will also air a rare radio commercial spot by Mitch Mitchell,
Billy Cox discussing the project and Bruce Cameron and ANT-BEE
radio interview snippet.
6 September Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist
Special Edition - Bruce Cameron - 'Midnight Daydream' 10th
Anniversary Tribute
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Mitch Mitchell radio spot
3) Midnight Daydream (feat. Buddy Miles, Billy Cox and Bruce
Cameron)
4) Doctor Please (feat. Jack Bruce, ANT-BEE and Bruce Cameron)
5) Mind Gardens (feat. Ken Hensley, Neal Smith, Harvey Dalton
Arnold, ANT-BEE and Bruce Cameron)
6) Miles Away (feat. Mitch Mitchell, Harvey Dalton Arnold and
Bruce Cameron)
7) Billy Cox interview segment discussing Bruce Cameron's
'Midnight Daydream' project
8) Born To Lose (feat. Buddy Miles, Billy Cox and Bruce Cameron)
9) Forever Rebel Girls (feat. Harvey Dalton Arnold, ANT-BEE and
Bruce Cameron)
10) ANT-BEE and Bruce Cameron radio interview excerpt
11) Just Like A Spaceman (feat. Ken Hensley, Neal Smith, Harvey
Dalton Arnold, ANT-BEE and Bruce Cameron)
12) A Thousand Moons (feat. Buddy Miles, Billy Cox and Bruce
Cameron)
13) Jack Bruce in the studio during the 'Midnight Daydream'
sessions
14) Raining The Blues (feat. Jack Bruce, Mitch Mitchell and
Bruce Cameron)
15) Falling Up A Mountain (feat. Michael Bruce, Neal Smith and
Bruce Cameron)
16) Day After Yesterday / ending credits
17) She's So Gone (feat. Ken Hensley, Neal Smith, Harvey Dalton
Arnold and Bruce Cameron)
Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
(c) 2009
Bruce Cameron - Midnight Daydream - Brain Cell Records -
First released Sept. 1999
Tribute To Legendary 10cc Alumnus Kevin Godley
Billy James, will be paying tribute to legendary music
artist and video producer extraordinaire Kevin Godley. The
program will showcase music from various points in Godley's
career - from Hotlegs to 10cc to Godley & Creme to his most
recent celebrated collaboration with former 10cc partner Graham
Gouldman, under the guise GG06.
Kevin Godley, former half of the pioneering duo Godley and Creme,
has directed and produced some of the most successful music
videos in rock and roll for such artists as Duran Duran, U2,
Peter Gabriel, Herbie Hancock, Rod Stewart, Keane and The Police
to name just a few. The six new GG06 tracks are graced with his
tremendous voice - Kevin is arguably one of the great vocalists
in music today. "I always figured Kevin had the best voice in
the band," complements Graham Gouldman, "ironic that he never
sang lead on a 10cc single… Even I managed that. Now justice has
been done. Kevin's voice and razor sharp lyrics take us places
we haven't visited before… Always a good place to start!"
Godley and Gouldman's recent collaboration GG06 has been
receiving rave reviews worldwide. "Now with Gouldman being a
legendary songwriter in the sixties, this was likely to be a
melodic treat." says Stuart Hamilton of Zeitgeist. "And it is.
Despite the years, he and Godley seem to bring out the best in
each other, with Godley adding a bit of an edge and Gouldman
smoothing the rougher edges away. But it's a much bleaker world
they inhabit nowadays with tales of workplace ennui, rape, lost
youth and bullying. Not a cheery place. But, despite the passing
of time, Godley and Gouldman haven't forgotten how to write a
hook, and it's to their credit that you still feel drawn to the
material, regardless of the subject matter.”
The new GG06 tracks are currently only available for download
from the duo's website:
www.gg06.co.uk
October 4 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist
Special Edition - Kevin Godley Tribute
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Son Of Man - GG06 (Kevin Godley & Graham Gouldman) - 2006
(www.gg06.co.uk)
3) Neanderthal Man - Hotlegs - Thinks: School Stinks - 1971
4) Fresh Air For Mama - 10cc - s/t - UK Records - 1972
5) Old Wild Men - 10cc - Sheet Music - UK Records - 1974
6) Brand New Day - 10cc - Original Soundtrack - Mercury - 1975
7) Don't Hang Up - 10cc - How Dare You - Mercury - 1976
8) Art School Canteen - Godley & Creme - L - Mercury - 1977
9) Wedding Bells - Godley & Creme - Isimism - Phonogram - 1981
10) The Worm Or The Rattlesnake - Godley & Creme - Birds Of Prey
- Phonogram - 1983
11) The Same Road - GG06 - 2006
12) Beautifulloser.com - GG06 - 2006
13) Hooligan Crane - GG06 - 2006
14) Cry - Godley & Creme - History Mix vol. 1 - Mercury - 1985
15) Glass Onyon ID and Ending Credits
Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
(c) 2009
Random Touch
On Thursday Oct. 22, Listening Through A Glass Onyon will pay
tribute to US experimental outfit Random Touch, who are
celebrating their 12th release 'A Way From The Heard'. Random
Touch's Scott Hamill (guitars), James Day (keyboards) and
Christopher Brown (drums/vocals) first collaborated in the
1970's. Pure improvisation was one among many sound experiments.
Over time it became the preferred mode for music making.
With the music of 'A Way From the Heard' (Token Boy Records,
2009) Random Touch has arrived at a new level of expression.
Rock and symphonic music are more fully merged on much of the
album, and their long developed technique of abandon is
exercised with deft maturity. The result is an unbridled
expression of sound as emotion. The colors are more vivid, the
gestures wider; very little remains in the shadows. The music
seems to sense that it's time has ripened.
The trio came of age musically when Mozart's legendary
improvisations were all but forgotten and when only jazz
musicians and a handful of rock bands played with improvisation.
Those that did so operated within the strict confines of a song.
The trio's bliss, however, lay in the direction of pure
improvisation. Over time they have come to rely on the tools of
abandon and serendipity to activate their vision. The ripened
fruit of their creative energies is the CD A Way From the Heard,
their twelfth release.
October 22 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist
Special Edition - Random Touch Tribute
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Seeing Through - A Way From The Heard - Token Boy - 2009
3) All That Happened Was - A Way From The Heard - Token Boy -
2009
4) Finding The Sun Rise - Turbulent Flesh (vinyl only release) -
Token Boy - 2009
5) Dancing In Moonlight - A Box And A Word - Token Boy - 2008
6) On The Way - A Box And A Word - Token Boy - 2008
7) Chit Chat - Duologue - Token Boy - 2008
8) After - Duologue - Token Boy - 2008
9) A Slow March Becomes A Flight - A True Conductor Wears A Man
- Token Boy - 2007
10) Plainsclothesman Tuesday - A True Conductor Wears A Man -
Token Boy - 2007
11) A True Conductor Wears A Man - A True Conductor Wears A Man
- Token Boy - 2007
12) Cyborgs Of Unlimited Dimentia - Alchemy - Token Boy - 2007
13) As Above, So Below - Alchemy - Token Boy - 2007
14) Bound For Escape - Alchemy - Token Boy 2007
15) Hint Of Dawn - A Way From The Heard - Token Boy - 2009
16) From Beverly Hills - A Way From The Heard - Token Boy - 2009
17) Into The Crevice - A Way From The Heard - Token Boy - 2009
18) Glass Onyon ID and Ending Credits
Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
(c) 2009
Nov 1 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist
Special Edition - Be-Bop Deluxe
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Life In The Air Age - Sunburst Finish - EMI 1976
3) Crying To The Sky - Sunburst Finish - EMI 1976
4) Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus - Axe Victim - EMI 1973
5) Teenage Archangel - rare B-Side - EMI 1973
6) Jean Cocteau - Futurama - EMI 1974
7) Quest For The Harvest of the Stars - Best and the Rest of -
EMI 1978
8) Electrical Language - Drastic Plastic - EMI 1978
9) Adventures in the Yorkshire Landscape - live in Cleveland
(radio) - KBFH 1976
10) Make The Music Magic - Modern Music - EMI 1977
11) Islands of the Dead - Drastic Plastic - EMI 1978
12) Face in the Rain - Best and the Rest of - EMI 1978
13) Japan - single - EMI 1978
14) 15th of July (invisibles) - BBC 5/9/1974
15) Night Creatures - Axe Victim - EMI 1973
16) The Gold at the End of the Rainbow - Modern Music - EMI 1977
17) Visions of Endless Hopes - Drastic Plastic - EMI 1978
18) Glass Onyon ID
Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
(c) 2009
Dec 6 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist
Special Edition - Magma
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Emehntehtt-Re II - Emehntehtt-Re - Seventh Records 2009
3) Kobaia is de Hundin - Mekanik Distruktiw Kommandoh - Seventh
Records 1973
4) Klaus Kombalad - B-side of Mekanik Kommandoh single 1973 -
Simples - Seventh Records 1998
5) Solell d' Ork (Ork Sun) - Udu Wudu - Seventh Records 1976
6) The Last Seven Minutes (1970-1971, Phase II) - Attahk -
Seventh Records 1976
7) Lirik Necronomicus Krant - same as #6
8) "La" Dawotsin - Retrospektiw III - Seventh Records 1995
9) Rinde (Eastern Song) - same as #6
10) Emehntehtt-Re I - same as #1
11) Glass Onyon ID
Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
(c) 2009
Jan 3 2010 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #11
Special Edition - Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Duodenum (Theme From Lumpy Gravy) - Lumpy Gravy - MGM 1968
3) Dog Breath - Uncle Meat - Bizarre 1968
4) My Guitar - Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Bizarre 1970
5) Holiday In Berlin Full Blown - Burnt Weeny Sandwich - Bizarre
1969
6) Aybe Sea - same as #5
7) Let's Make The Water Turn Black - We're Only In It For The
Money - MGM 1967
8) Run Home Slow: The Main Title Theme - live 1969 - You Can't
Do That On Stage vol. 5
9) The Little March - same as #8
10) Electric Aunt Jemima - same as #3
11) Son of Suzy Creamcheese - Absolutely Free - MGM 1967
12) The Uncle Meat Variations - same as #3
13) Stuff Up The Cracks - Cruising With Ruben and the Jets - MGM
1968
14) Idiot Bastard Son - Mothermania - MGM 1969
15) Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich - same as #5
16) Lonely Little Girl - single - MGM 1967
17) The Dog Breath Variations - same as #3
18) Help I'm A Rock - live at Festival Hall, UK 1968 - Ahead Of
Their Time - Zappa 1993
19) Transylvania Boogie - same as #18
20) Oh No - same as #4
21) The Orange County Lumber Truck - same as #4
22) Dwarf Nebula Processional March - same as #4
23) Glass Onyon ID
Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
(c) 2009
