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The Glass Onyon

Ant Bee

Billy James

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)
Repeat: First Thursday after broadcast, 00:00

Special (Thursday August 5, 00:00)

ANT-BEE - Electronic Church Muzik

1) Birth - Gilli Smyth (vocals/space whisper), Bunk Gardner (flute), ANT-BEE (glissando guitarre, percussion)
2) Living - Michael Bruce (guitars, bass, sitar), Bunk Gardner (sax), Mod Martian (trumpet), ANT-BEE (vocals, percussion, keyboards)
3) The Language Of The Body - Daevid Allen (vocal), Don Preston (keyboards, moog, electronics, music concrete middle section), Bunk Gardner (saxes), Buzz Gardner (trumpet), ANT-BEE (percussion, tape manipulations), Cymbaline ("now is the happiest time of your life")
4) Eye Of Agomoto - Don Preston (keyboards), Bunk Gardner (sax), Motorhead (snorks), Jimmy Carl Black ("Are you shaaggg!!!"), ANT-BEE (percussion, vibes, cuica, tape manipulations)
5) The Guff (Hall of Souls) - Gilli Smyth (vocal/space whisper), Peter Banks (guitar), ANT-BEE (percussion)
6) Mallard Flies Towards Heaven - Zoot Horn Rollo (guitar), Rockette Morton (bass), ANT-BEE (harp, washboard, percussion)
7) ANT-BEE's Sunday Supper - Michael Bruce (vocal), Chickens (chickens)
8) Flutter-Bye, Butter-Flye - Michael Bruce (guitars, bass, keyboards), Sun Raw (recorder), ANT-BEE (vocals, Mellotron, percussion, violin, butter-flye-flap)
9) Endless Journey - Peter Banks (guitars), ANT-BEE (percussion), Humpback Whale (vocals)
10) The Light - Alessandro Pizzin (keyboards), Cor Gout (vocal), ANT-BEE (tape manipulations, choral reconstructions)
11) Mannah - Jan Akkerman (guitar), ANT-BEE (mellotron, percussion)
12) Psalm 23 - Artemiy Artemiev (keyboards), ANT-BEE (choir)
13) Hallelujah - Peter Frohmader (keyboards, electronics, composition construction), ANT-BEE (percussion, vibes, tape manipulations), Monks (chant)
14) The Wrath - Part One (The Flood) - ANT-BEE (harp, keyboards, vibes, mellotron, choral constructions, tape manipulations), Animals (choir), Donkey (vocal)
15) Secrets Of The Dead - Bruce Cameron (guitars, bass, sitars), ANT-BEE (vocal, percussion, tape manipulations)
16) Pennies From Heaven - Groucho Marx (vocals, and phone call of destiny)
17) The Wrath - Part Two (Baptism Through Fire) - Gilli Smyth ("your destiny"), ANT-BEE (tape manipulations, war machine, bees, choral reconstructions)
18) The Lords Prayer - The Great Computor (leader of prayer)
19) Angels - Angels
20) Don't You Ever Learn? - Napoleon Murphy Brock (lead vocal), Moogy Klingman (keyboards), Don Preston (Moog), Bunk Gardner (sax), Napoleon's niece? (BG vocals), Jack Daughtry (pedal steele), ANT-BEE (percussion, Mellotron, vibes, tape manipulations)
21) Re-Birth - Gilli Smyth (vocal, space whisper), Daevid Allen ("oh"), ANT-BEE (glissando guitarre, vibes, percussion)
22) Final Benediction - Lord We Thank You - Cymbaline (vocal)

Produced, arranged and struggled with by Billy James
(c) 2010 www.ant-bee.com

 

Latest Show, Sunday August 1

Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #18
Special Edition - Frank Zappa & The Mothers - The Flo & Eddie Years

1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Tell Me You Love Me - Chunga's Revenge - Bizarre 1970
3) Magic Fingers - 200 Motels - United Artists - 1970
4) Peaches En Regalia - Fillmore East - June 1971 - Bizarre 1971
5) Tears Began To Fall - same as #3
6) Call Any Vegetable - Just Another Band From L.A. - Bizarre 1972
7) Little House I Used To Live In - same as #4
8) Sharleena - same as #2
9) Daddy, Daddy, Daddy - same as #3
10) Concentration Moon - Playground Psychotics - Barking Pumpkin Records 1992
11) Mom & Dad - same as #10
12) Dog Breath - same as #6
13) She Painted Up Her Face - same as #3
14) Half A Dozen Provacative Squats - same as #3
15) Shove It Right In - same as #3
16) Would You Go All The Way? - same as #2
17) What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning? - same as #3
18) Road Ladies - same as #2
19) Divan - same as #10
20) Happy Together - same as #4
21) Glass Onyon ID
 

Contact Billy

www.ant-bee.com

www.ant-bee.com/glassonyonpr.htm

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Playlists 2010

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

 

Feb 7 2010 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #12
Special Edition - Tribute to Sonja Kristina featuring tracks by Curved Air, MASK and solo.

1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Young Mother - Curved Air - 2nd Album - 1971 / 2000 Collectors Choice
3) Back Street Love- Curved Air - same as #2
4) Sound &Vision - MASK - Technopia - rare 2010
5) Marie Antoinette - Curved Air - Reborn - 2009
6) Melinda More or Less - Sonja Kristina - Songs From The Acid Folk - 1990 / 2001 Market Square
7) Not Quite The Same - Curved Air - Phantasmagoria - 1972 / 2000 Collectors Choice
8) Phantasmagoria - Curved Air - same as #7
9) Undulations - MASK - same as #4
10) Blindman - Sonja Kristina - Harmonics of Love - 1994 / 2009 Market Square
11) Paean - MASK - Heavy Petal - Mandalic 2005
12) Free To Be Me - Sonja Kristina - same as #6
13) You Know - Curved Air - same as #2
14) Jumbo - Curved Air - same as #2
15) Every Dance - Curved Air - same as #2
16) Glass Onyon ID

Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

 

March 7 2010 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #13 (1 Year Anniversary show)
Special Edition - Tribute to Marc Bolan & T. Rex

1) Glass Onyon ID
2) Metal Guru - The Slider - EMI 1972
3) The Slider - same as #2
4) Cadillac - single - EMI 1972
5) Country Honey - Tanx - EMI 1973
6) Sunken Rags - single - EMI 1972
7) Solid Gold EZ Action - single - EMI 1973
8) 20th Century Boy - single - EMI 1973
9) Venus Loon - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tommorow - EMI 1974
10) The Groover - single - EMI 1974
11) Till Dawn - Zip Gun Boogie - EMI 1975
12) Zip Gun Boogie - same as #11
13) Jupiter Liar - Futuristic Dragon - EMI 1976
14) New York City - same as #13
15) Lazer Love - single - EMI 1976
16) Jason B. Sad - Dandy In The Underworld - EMI 1977
17) Soul of My Suit - same as #16
18) Teen Riot Structure - same as #16
19) Celebrate Summer - single - EMI 1977
20) Glass Onyon ID

Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

 

April 4 2010 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #14
Special Edition #2 - Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
"Pigs & Repugnance"

1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) In The Sky - Festival Hall, London, UK 1968
3) Help I'm A Rock / Transylvania Boogie - Festival Hall, UK 1968 - Ahead Of Their Time - Barking Pumpkin Records 1993
4) Charles Ives - Columbia University, NYC 1969 - YCDTOSA #5 - Ryko 1992
5) Wedding Dress Song / The Handsome Cabin Boy - Mystery Disc - Ryko 1998
6) Big Leg Emma - The Arc, Boston, MA 1969
7) Run Home Slow: Main Title Theme / The Little March - same as #4
8) Black Beauty - Thee Image, Miami, FL 1969 - Mystery Disc - Ryko 1998
9) Lets Make The Water Turn Black / Harry You're A Beast / The Orange County Lumber Truck - The Ballroom, Stratford, CT - 1969 - YCDTOSA #1 - Ryko 1988
10) Igor's Boogie - same as #6
11) You Call That Music? - Columbia University, NYC 1969 - YCDTOSA #4 - Ryko 1991
12) Proto-Minimalism - same as #4
13) Meow - Whiskey-A-Go-Go, Hollywood, CA 1968 - YCDTOSA #5 - Ryko 1992
14) Baked-Bean Boogie - same as #6
15) Are You Upset? - Fillmore East, NYC 1969 - YCDTOSA #4 - Ryko 1991
16) No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve - Thee Image, Miami, FL 1969 - YCDTOSA #5 - Ryko 1992
17) Chucha - Mystery Disc - Ryko 1998
18) Glass Onyon ID

Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio
 

 

May 2 2010 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #15
Special Edition - Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band

1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Frying Pan - single - A&M 1966
3) Electricity - Safe As Milk - Buddah Records 1967
4) Beatle Bones 'N Smokin' Stones - Strictly Personal - Blue Thumb 1968
5) Willie The Pimp - with Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - Striaight 1970
6) Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish - Trout Mask Replica - Straight/Reprise 1970
7) Veteran's Day Poppy - same as #5
8) Flash Gordon's Ape - Lick My Decals Off Baby - Straight/Bizarre/Reprise 1970
9) White Jam - The Spotlight Kid - Reprise 1972
10) Alice In Blunderland - same as #8
11) Clear Spot - Clear Spot - Reprise 1972
12) Sun Zoom Spark - same as #10
13) Big Eyed Beans From Venus - Same as #10
14) Golden Birdies - same as #10
15) Peaches - Unconditionally Guaranteed - Mercury/Phonogram 1974
16) Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top - with Frank Zappa - Bongo Fury - Discreet 1975
17) Hard Workin' Man - Blue Collar Soundtrack - MCA 1978
18) Apes-Ma - Shiny Beast - Warner Bros 1978
19) Glass Onyon ID

Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

 

June 6 2010 Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #16
Special Edition - Tribute to Grand Funk Railroad (the early years)

1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Time Machine - On Time - Capitol 1969
3) Anybody's Answer - same as #2
4) Got This Thing On The Move - Grand Funk (Red Album) - Capitol 1969
5) Winter And My Soul - sames as #3
6) Hooked On Love - Closer To Home - Capitol 1970
7) I'm Your Captain - same as #6
8) Country Road - Survival - Capitol 1971
9) I Can Feel Him In The Morning - same as #8
10) Footstompin' Music - E Pluribus Funk - Capitol 1972
11) Loneliness - same as #11
12) Glass Onyon ID

Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

 

Listening Through A Glass Onyon playlist #17
Special Edition - The Beach Boys - Smile (reconstructed)

1) Opening sequence - Glass Onyon ID
2) Our Prayer
3) Heroes and Villains
4) Do You Like Worms?
5) Barnyard
6) Old Master Painter / You Are My Sunshine
7) Cabin Essence
8) Wonderful
9) Child Is Father of The Man
10) Surf's Up
11) Heroes and Villains (section)
12) I'm In Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Workshop
13) Vega-Tables
14) Tones / On A Holiday
15) Wind Chimes
16) Mrs, O'Leary's Cow
17) Cool Cool Water
18) Our Prayer
19) Good Vibrations
20) You're Welcome (b-side to Good Vibrations single)
21) Look (unreleased track from Smile sessions)
22) Glass Onyon ID

Produced by Billy James for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio

 

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