LORETTA SWIT M*A*S*H ICON RELEASES BOOK OF ART THAT WILL HELP BENEFIT AND PROTECT THE ANIMALS ON OUR PLANET

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M*A*S*H  ICON

 (MAJOR MARGARET 

"HOT LIPS" HOULIHAN)

CHAMPION OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

SWITHEART ANIMAL ALLIANCE
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Hello once again everyone I’m your host Ray Shasho and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends on BBS Radio. This a very special episode today. It’s our very first show since Doug and Don Newsom, the owners of BBS radio endured the horrific event that destroyed their radio station, their home, and all their belongings. The entire town of Paradise California was basically wiped off the map by deadly wildfires.  At least 88 people were killed 15,573 structures destroyed (11,713 residences, 472 commercial and 3,388 other buildings).

Doug and Don have maxed out credit cards to order the necessary equipment to get BBS radio running again. Miraculously the station is up and running again at a remote location. Unfortunately, I lost 5 interviews because they were not yet aired. The last interview I did was with M*A*S*H icon Loretta Swit. Loretta was so very gracious to redo the interview that was lost because of the fire.

And so today I would like to welcome again to Interviewing the Legends on BBS Radio … A true champion of the animal kingdom, and award-winning actress, known for her iconic starring role on TV's most honored series, M*A*S*H, and her portrayal of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan for which she won two EMMY’s and worldwide acclaim.  The beautiful, talented and compassionate … LORETTA SWIT

Welcome back Loretta! Thank you again for agreeing to redo our interview.

PURCHASE SWITHEART:

The Watercolour Artistry & Animal Activism of Loretta Swit

By Loretta Swit
Published by Ultimate Symbol / Publication Date: June, 2018
Hardcover Price: $49.95 / Pages: 128 / 65 Color images

available at amazon.com

SwitHeart chronicles the artwork of TV icon Loretta Swit, a true champion of the animal kingdom. Watercolorist, award-winning animal activist and actress, Ms. Swit is renowned for her starring role on TV s most honored series, M*A*S*H, for which she won two EMMYs and worldwide acclaim.

What many fans may not know about the multi-talented thespian is that Ms. Swit has been an artist from age six. SwitHeart documents her animal portraits along with descriptive anecdotes about each and her extensive philanthropic work. Ms. Swit said, "I am thrilled to see my passion for animals and my passion for art merge in a book that will help benefit and protect the animals on our planet."

SwitHeart includes 65 full-color paintings and drawings, as well as 22 photographs. Proceeds from the book will be donated to charities and programs that are as dedicated, as Ms. Swit is, to ending animal suffering and cruelty.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT LORETTA SWIT VISIT

https://ultimatesymbol.com/switheart/

https://www.facebook.com/RealLorettaSwit/

L O R E T T A   S W I T 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

WITH RAY SHASHO

BBS RADIO

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ANNIE HASLAM THE LEGENDARY VOICE OF PROG ROCK'S RENAISSANCE ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS W/RAY SHASHO-BBS RADIO

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'PROG ROCK QUEEN'

LEGENDARY VOICE 

with

R  E  N  A  I  S  S  A  N  C  E

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Renaissance has had a long history spanning close to 50 years since its formation in 1969. With several personnel changes in the beginning years, the sound of the group eventually matured into a unique blending of folk, rock, and classical music including the integration of a full symphonic orchestra. Crowning all of this was the sound of the equally unique five-octave voice of Annie Haslam. During their great success in the 70’s the band toured extensively throughout the world in support of their numerous album releases. Highlights of this era included three sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall with The New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a sold-out concert at The Royal Albert Hall with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Chorale Society, all of which were recorded and released as ‘Live’ albums.

The woman whose crystal clear, high-flying soprano vocals earned her worldwide attention as the lead singer of the English classical rock band ‘Renaissance’ has recently achieved an entirely new level of appreciation as an ‘Intuitive’ painter. Annie is able to ‘tune’ into people, animals, situations, feelings and places, and portray them in her own unique style.

On canvas, Annie Haslam’s unmistakable world of sound is taken into unique vistas of color and vibration, not unlike the flow of her five-octave voice. Transporting the viewer to other worlds and through inner boundaries is her goal, bringing healing, serenity and peace through her work. 

With their musical virtuosity, five strong lead voices, newest technological instrumentation and love for the music, they have created a new sound taking them into a new age and performing the repertoire with powerful precision across the world. This incarnation of Renaissance is new and different and is nothing short of amazing!

Annie Haslam & Renaissance recently released their new DVD entitled ‘A Symphonic Journey’ and are currently embarked on their Day of the Dreamer Tour –in support of their new DVD/2CD set while performing selected US dates this Fall. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BAND VISIT:
www.renaissancetouring.com

facebook.com/renaissancetouring

www.anniehaslam.com

facebook.com/anniehaslamart

Purchase the brand-new DVD/CD set from Renaissance entitled ‘A Symphonic Journey’ at amazon.com

The DVD was filmed in October of 2017 and included for the first time the addition of The Renaissance Chamber Orchestra, a hand-picked group of 10 musicians, including strings, woodwind, brass and percussion. 

For this new DVD the band returned to the Keswick Theatre, this time employing the use of track and boom mounted cameras to create more up close and personal shots of the band and orchestra. The concert also featured large screen projections of original paintings by Annie Haslam, with corresponding titles to each song performed throughout the concert.

The DVD/2CD set will be available from Amazon USA, Europe, and Japan. 

Also, ‘Annie Haslam’ signed copies will be available through the band’s website: http://www.renaissancetouring.com

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H  A  S  L  A  M

THE LEGENDARY VOICE OF

R E N A I S S A N C E 

SPECIAL GUEST ON

INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS 

W/RAY SHASHO

BBS RADIO

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COMING SOON

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SONJA KRISTINA PROGRESSIVE ROCK PRINCESS W/ THE LEGENDARY CURVED AIR-EXCLUSIVE ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS-BBS RADIO

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THE SEDUCTIVE PROGRESSIVE ROCK VOICE

OF THE LEGENDARY

C  U  R  V  E  D   A  I  R

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 

INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

BBS RADIO

At 15 Sonja Kristina was studying drama whilst sharing billing with such luminaries as Sandy Denny, Al Stewart and Buffy Saint Marie.

Sonja, a barefoot hippie wild-child whose friends in the late ‘60s were radical revolutionaries, Hells Angels, writers and poets, and celebrated musicians, played Chrissie in the Original London Cast of Hair in 1968. In 1970 Sonja Kristina became the voice of Curved Air.

Curved Air soon became renowned for their virtuosity and thrilling shows. Their albums were top 20 best sellers, as was the hit single Back Street Luv. The influential original members were electric violinist Darryl Way, electronica pioneer and guitarist/ keyboard player, Francis Monkman and drummer Florian Pilkington- Miksa. From 1970 to the present-day Sonja Kristina has been the one constant member of Curved Air.

In 1973, 17-year-old Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music / UK/ Frank Zappa) replaced both Monkman and Way during the ‘Air Cut’ era. In 1974 -76 Stewart Copeland came straight from college to critical acclaim as Curved Air’s drummer. At the end of ’76 Curved Air broke up and Sonja had a ringside seat at the birth of Punk and the astronomic rise of Stewart’s band ‘The Police’, during Sonja and Stewart’s 16-year relationship.

By1989 Sonja Kristina re-invented folk rock with a fiery brand of music she dubbed Acid Folk. Curved Air’s violinist Paul Sax and Keyboard player Robert Norton toured with Sonja Kristina’s Acid Folk Band until 1996, playing Glastonbury and other festivals year after year.

Since 2000 Sonja has been working with Composer/Producer/ Cellist/Violinist Marvin Ayres, known for his unique manipulation of sound textures and audio-visual installations. They have two releases as MASK. “Heavy Petal, the Tene-brous Odyssey of Jack and Virginia’ and ‘Technopia’.

Marvin Ayres produced the 2012 Curved Air ‘Live Atmosphere’ CD.

The constant flame leading Curved Air through the decades, Sonja Kristina's hypnotic attraction endures today, "vibrant and edgy as ever, Sonja, the original prog diva gives a charismatic and highly visual performance. Looking like a glamorous gipsy queen with her flowing red hair and dressed in sparkly black, that signature voice is still smoky and seductive as she spins around the stage around the excellent musicians who are Curved Air". (Music Street Journal)

For more information about Curved Air visit www.curvedair.com or

www.facebook.com/CurvedAir  or visit www.sonjakristina.com

Purchase

Second Album
available at amazon.com

2 DISC EXPANDED EDITION
ESOTERIC RECORDINGS

NEW EXPANDED 2 DISC (CD / DVD) EDITION OF THE CLASSIC 1971 ALBUM BY CURVED AIR

WITH FIVE BONUS TRACKS (FOUR PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED) & A DVD (NTSC / REGION FREE) OF
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PROMOTIONAL FILMS AND TELEVISION PERFORMANCES FROM THE
UK, FRANCE & GERMANY IN 1971

RESTORES THE ORIGINAL ALBUM ARTWORK & BOOK, ALONG WITH A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED
BOOKLET WITH ESSAY & EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

SONJA KRISTINA

LEGENDARY SINGER 

CURVED AIR

EXCLUSIVE ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

W/RAY SHASHO

BBS RADIO

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BRUCE SOORD FRONTMAN FOR PROG ROCK'S THE PINEAPPLE THIEF EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW-BBS RADIO

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SINGER-SONGWRITER-GUITARIST

 PROGRESSIVE ROCK SENSATION'S

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

SPECIAL GUEST ON

INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

  BBS RADIO

The Pineapple Thief have launched their brand new video for “Try As I Might”, the new single from their forthcoming new studio album Dissolution. The highly anticipated follow up to 2015’s Your Wilderness, is the band’s second album to feature King Crimson and Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison.

Vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Bruce Soord explains his dystopian view “The video follows the theme of the song and the album – if you sign up to this hyper connected world we live in, then you have to live with the consequences. Try as you might to get out of it.”

The futuristic clip was created by Blacktide Phonic/Visual (www.black-tide.co.uk) director George Laycock, who expands on how he created the film “When The Pineapple Thief came to me with their track ‘Try as I might’, they had a broad basis for an idea for a music video that dealt with a social media obsessed ‘connected’ world.

This had nods to previous films and television like ‘The Truman Show’, ‘Black Mirror’, the ‘Big Brother’ landscape and its preceding shows, so it was about creating a storyline using these broad influences and encapsulating into an obscure 3-minute film on a budget.

I was interested in the concept of ‘in eye cameras’, scary technology and I am sure isn’t too far away from us. We decided to go down the optical medical route and follow our character on a journey from first pre-operation, to surgery, recovery and then trying to battle the decision he has made, whilst battling with the corporation he has signed up too. The film hopefully leaves the viewer to create their own conceptions on his outcome.

We filmed it all on the Dorset/Devon coastline around where I live and were fortunate to be able to secure great locations to shoot in with a few favours, including a remote seaside post-modern house, a private beach and a real working hospital and opticians.

To keep the cast down to a minimum we decided that the camera that is watching Bruce would become the main supporting actor and his nemesis, appearing in scenes without anyone operating it. This allowed us to see the cameras point of view and tell the story to the fictional viewer. This old broadcast camera weighed an absolute ton, and carrying through remote woods, down a mile-long steep cliff path to a beach was a challenge on some of the hottest days of the year. Filming in the water at the end was a welcome refreshment. 

The Pineapple Thief have grown to become one of the leading lights of Europe’s experimental rock domain, Your Wilderness produced 4m+ album streams, a #7 in the UK Independent Charts and two extensive headline European tours culminating at London’s Islington Assembly Hall where the concert was recorded for the live release Where We Stood, and their new album Dissolution promises to propel the band to even greater heights.

The Pineapple Thief is a progressive rock band, started by Bruce Soord in 1999 in Somerset, England. The band has released eleven studio albums.

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF IS

Bruce Soord – vocals, guitars (1999–present)

Jon Sykes – bass (2002–present)

Steve Kitch – keyboards (2005–present)

Gavin Harrison - drums (2016–present)  played with British progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree and King Crimson.

Visit these links for more information about 
The Pineapple Thief

The Pineapple Thief online:
Website: www.thepineapplethief.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thepineapplethief
Twitter: www.twitter.com/pineapplethief
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thepineapplethief
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/artist/4lrBMUSk8PiNnCEZfsmPAk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6401DB011BD837E
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/the-pineapple-thief/id278648772

dissolution

by

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

available at amazon.com

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THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

on INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

W/RAY SHASHO

BBS RADIO 1

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JOHN LODGE MOODY BLUES LEGEND SPECIAL GUEST ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS W/RAY SHASHO -BBS RADIO

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THE MOODY BLUES

LEGENDARY BASSIST-SINGER-SONGWRITER

CHATS ABOUT LATEST ALBUM AND TOUR

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

EXCLUSIVE 

John Lodge is the bass guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the iconic rock band, The Moody Blues. Songwriter of such mega Moody Blues hits “Ride My See-Saw”, “I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock and Roll Band)”, “Isn’t Life Strange?” and many more.  Lodge has been performing and recording with The Moody Blues for more than five decades, selling more than 70 million albums. 

Lodge has been voted one of the “10 most influential bass players on the planet,” and has been the recipient of many awards, including ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers), and Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, to name just a few. The Moody Blues have released 15 studio albums and countless compilations, and John has also released three solo albums; NATURAL AVENUE in 1977, 10,000 LIGHT YEARS AGO in 2015, and his current LIVE FROM BIRMINGHAM, THE 10,000 LIGHT YEARS TOUR.  He also released the duo album BLUE JAYS in 1975 with Justin Hayward, and they were voted the Top Duo for that year.

2017 saw the 50^th Anniversary of the Moody Blues album DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED, and to celebrate, John and the Moody Blues embarked on a very special tour that included a complete performance of this iconic and groundbreaking album, the tour continued in January 2018 with the fourth Moody Blues Cruise, dates in the USA and finishing with a residence at the Wynn, Las Vegas.  This celebratory concert ‘Days of Future Passed, Live’ was filmed in Toronto and is also currently being shown on PBS as part of their GREAT PERFORMANCES programme, and has now been released as a DVD, reaching the top of the US DVD charts.

On April 14^th, 2019 the Moody Blues were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the ‘Class of 2018’.

Purchase 10,000 Light Years Ago

By JOHN LODGE

at amazon.com

For more information go to johnlodge.com

For more information about The Moody Blues visit …

www.moodybluestoday.com

J O H N   L O D G E

LIVE

 FROM BIRMINGHAM

THE 10,000 LIGHT YEARS TOUR

AVAILABLE AT

AMAZON.COM

TOUR DATES!

John Lodge @ City Winery

Friday, October 12 @ 7:00PMFri, Oct 12 @ 7:00PM

City Winery, Nashville, TN

Oct14

John Lodge @ City Winery

Sunday, October 14 @ 7:00PMSun, Oct 14 @ 7:00PM

City Winery, Washington, DC

Oct15

John Lodge @ Sellersville Theater

Monday, October 15 @ 7:00PMMon, Oct 15 @ 7:00PM

Sellersville Theater, Sellersville, PA

Oct17

John Lodge @ City Winery

Wednesday, October 17 @ 8:00PMWed, Oct 17 @ 8:00PM

City Winery, New York, NY

Oct19

John Lodge @ The Flying Monkey

Friday, October 19 @ 7:00PMFri, Oct 19 @ 7:00PM

The Flying Monkey, Plymouth, NH

Oct20

John Lodge @ Infinity Music Hall and Bistro

Saturday, October 20 @ 8:00PMSat, Oct 20 @ 8:00PM

Infinity Music Hall and Bistro, Norfolk, CT

Oct21

John Lodge @ Greenwich Odeum, Greenwich, RI

Sunday, October 21 @ 7:00PMSun, Oct 21 @ 7:00PM

Greenwich Odeum, Greenwich, RI, East Greenwich, RI

Oct23

John Lodge @ Regent Theatre

Tuesday, October 23 @ 7:00PMTue, Oct 23 @ 7:00PM

Regent Theatre, Arlington, MA

THE MOODY BLUES 

Upcoming Dates

Wed, SEP 19- Sat, OCT 06

Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas

CRUISE TO THE EDGE Feb 4-9, 2019   www.cruisetotheedge.com Tampa-Key west-Cozumel  

Starring YES/STEVE HACKETT/The 10,000 Light Years Band w/John Lodge

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

BBS RADIO

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Have a great week everybody