Gregg Foreman’s radio program The Pharmacy is a music / talk show playing heavy soul, raw funk, 60′s psych, girl groups, Krautrock. French yé-yé, Hammond organ rituals, post-punk transmissions and “ghost on the highway” testimonials and interviews with the most interesting artists and music makers of our times…

This week’s guest is Sonic Boom aka Peter Kember of Spacemen 3, Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research (E.A.R.) along with Simone Butler of Primal Scream helping with musical selections and musicology in general… (She has a new radio show called Naked Lunch @SohoRadioLondon)

Topics include:

• How the band began and the importance of Suicide, The Velvet Underground and The Stooges ...
• Why the name Spacemen 3?
• The role drugs played their part in the “Sound of Confusion.”
• How Spacemen 3 consciously tried to alienate their early audiences.
• How the music scene was more tribal and “argumentative” in Spacemen 3’s time.
• Sonic’s opinion on people trying to tell him how to do things.

 
Mr. Pharmacy is a musician and DJ who has played for the likes of Pink Mountaintops, The Delta 72, The Black Ryder, The Meek and more. Since 2012 Gregg Foreman has been the musical director of Cat Power’s band. He started dj’ing 60s Soul and Mod 45’s in 1995 and has spun around the world. Gregg currently lives in Los Angeles, CA and divides his time between playing live music, producing records and dj’ing various clubs and parties from LA to Australia.

Set List

Intro
Penetration - The Stooges
Gimme Shelter - Merry Clayton
Losing Touch with My Mind - Spacemen 3
INTRO 1/RX - EXPERIMENTAL ORGAN/RX
Sonic Boom conversation Pt 1
Bang Bang Bang Bang - John Lee Hooker
Afro - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Try To Understand - The Seeds
We’re Pretty Quick - The Chob
The Hawg - Eddie Kirk
You Gotta Move - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
New Face In Hell - The Fall
INTRO 2/RX - Grits and Cornbread/ Soul Runners
Sonic Boom conversation Pt 2
Take Me To The Other Side - Spacemen 3
Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
No More Hot Dogs - Hasil Adkins
Fears of Gun - The Birthday Party
Sonic Boom conversation Pt 3
I Love You - Spacemen 3
I Can’t Stand it - The Velvet Underground
Pharmacy Intros - BJM/CAN/Question Mark ? & the Mysterians .
INTRO 3/RX - Do You Feel It/Question Mark ? & the Mysterians
Sonic Boom conversation Pt 4
How You Satisfy Me - Spectrum
I Can’t Let Go - Evie Sands
INTRO 4/RX - Home Grown/Booker T and The MG’s
Rocket USA (Autobahn Father Rising Rx US Mix w SUN RA) Suicide/Rx/ etc ...
Outro
 

 
You can download the entire show here.