Hi there - thanks for calling by.
If you've found Zenith Classic Rock and stayed listening then obviously you kinda like what you're hearing - which is a Good Thing.
But there must be stuff we're not playing that you think we should, and maybe there's stuff on our playlist that you think is pants - whichever way around, please let us know.
We've got about 2,000 songs on the playlist right now and have access to practically anything in the Classic Rock genre you can think of. We're only human, we can't think of everything!
Cya!
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Welcome!
"The station that makes another rock station sound like they bought a 'NOW' CD!"
- Someone said that. Really, they did.
Welcome to the Zenith Classic Rock Blog! Please feel free to contribute, discuss, suggest, criticise, praise, worship, give thanks etc!
We think we know what makes a good Classic Rock station, so hopefully here we're showing the others how to do it. But if you think we're misguided, please let us know!
Zenith Classic Rock is run by true CR enthusiasts. Boring Old Farts. Whatever. We love the music on an artistic level and we're really proud of the webstream's quality.
Alright, the format isn't purely 'Classic Rock', its more a fusion, a hybrid, a mish-mash (a carefully constructed one) of Classic Rock tracks, album tracks, songs that mean something to people of a certain age that listened to Radio Caroline, some of the Irish 80s pirates and maybe 70s American FM radio. So sue us.
If here's some technical stuff some of you might be interested in - just ask!
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Oh - and if you've just chanced upon this blog, you hear this great station by clicking on:
Here for MP3 64k, which works well with WiFi radios,
or:
Here for AACplus 32k, which is great on your PC or portable, new-fangled, don't-understand-how-they-work PDA.
ENJOY!
Andy.
(Oh, and our "parents" website is here.)
- Someone said that. Really, they did.
Welcome to the Zenith Classic Rock Blog! Please feel free to contribute, discuss, suggest, criticise, praise, worship, give thanks etc!
We think we know what makes a good Classic Rock station, so hopefully here we're showing the others how to do it. But if you think we're misguided, please let us know!
Zenith Classic Rock is run by true CR enthusiasts. Boring Old Farts. Whatever. We love the music on an artistic level and we're really proud of the webstream's quality.
Alright, the format isn't purely 'Classic Rock', its more a fusion, a hybrid, a mish-mash (a carefully constructed one) of Classic Rock tracks, album tracks, songs that mean something to people of a certain age that listened to Radio Caroline, some of the Irish 80s pirates and maybe 70s American FM radio. So sue us.
If here's some technical stuff some of you might be interested in - just ask!
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Oh - and if you've just chanced upon this blog, you hear this great station by clicking on:
Here for MP3 64k, which works well with WiFi radios,
or:
Here for AACplus 32k, which is great on your PC or portable, new-fangled, don't-understand-how-they-work PDA.
ENJOY!
Andy.
(Oh, and our "parents" website is here.)
50 comments:
Exellent station and stream quailty.
A few broad suggestions regarding music - more loud stuff! I have in mind Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, Deep Purple (and extended family).
Also some 60s "West Coast" - Love, Spirit, Doors etc.
Hi Mike, thanks for the comment. We have I think two 'Love' tracks on, both from the excellent 'Forever Changes' album.
There are about 4 BOC tracks, maybe 5 Rush, and a few DPs.
And I think just one Spirit track!
You're right, I'll get some more of those on soon.
Cheers!
Well impressed.
We second the motion for more Love, and suggest it be accompanied by copious amounts of Creedence.
About 20 extra tracks added today, incl. some more Rush!
A.
Oh My God I'd forgotten about Vanilla Queen by Golden Earring, havn't heard that in years! One of the most amazing tracks ever, up there with Inna Gadda Da Vida!
Where else would you hear that?
D.
Andy and Andy,
Sounding great! Any chance of some Focus or even some Spirit?
Hey Brian!
They're both on, not much by Spirit tho, can you suggest some tracks?
I'll suggest the following Spirit
From "12 Dreams..." - Nothing to Hide , Natures Way and Mr Skin.
From "Spirit" - Fresh Garbage, Topanga Windows.
From "The Family that Plays Together" - I Got a Line on You, Its All the Same
Hope that helps
A load of new tracks added today!
A.
That sounds shite... get yourself an Omnia 6....
:p
A Few Suggestions.
Spirit - I got a line on you.
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken.
Jeff Beck - Becks Bolero
Ambrosia- Biggest part of me.
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker.
Rush - Tom Sawyer.
David Bowie - Suffragette City.
Dan Fogelberg - Tucson, Arizona (Gazette) .
Rgds.
Andrew
Wow this takes me back...well done Andys....or is it "Andies"???...
Anyway...Sounds great....really enjoyed the Abc memories this afternoon...fantastic to hear from Tony Murell...and of course Clive and Kerry And of course Dave Hunt + Andy Ellis...who made a comeback that Butch Cassidy + The sundance kid would be proud of...keep it up..this is the kinda of radio I would listen to 24/7..
PS. any chance of "Dream Weaver"?
Seamus Foley(Shay Searson)
Not Dreamweaver please ;)
Heard bits of todays radio broadcast (noises off!) I missed "old gits remember the old days" stuff unfortunatly. Maybe a repeat could be arranged.
Well you might hear Dreamweaver I'm afraid, plus a few other Gary Wright tracks.
Glad you enjoyed today - especially good to hear from Shay, as an ex-ABC presenter!
Andy.
Resetting up my stereo and auto tuning stations here outside enniscorthy. Came across you. Great service. Great to hear classic rock.
Just found your station yesterday and really excellent best I have heard since living in Portugal - keep up the good work - llave :)
love the station playlists; the choices just roll me away...
spin some nils loughran, denny laine , or heart.
Thanks for great enjoyment
rebel jim
hello from dublin is any body on here
stan ridgway is playin at the mo
enjoyed the weekend music, keep up de good music, album tracks ... enjoy listening to renaisance and foreigner
hi guys great station picked ye up on fm on 3 or 4 days ago had the van radio tuned in since got in this morning no station disapointed so said i'd check out what was happening this evening pity the stations only on at the weekend's but keep up the great work look forward to hearing more classic rock
Dear Andy(s),
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Congratulations with this project.
Let me see if there are possibilities to receive your signal in Holland.
Your OPTIMOD friend Peter ;-)
Hi guys,
Heard about this a few weeks ago but forgot and now I've been reminded via the Radiowaves site I'll tune in this weekend, hopefully it's fully receivable in Wexford town.
Best of luck and hopefully a permanent licence may be in the offing.
Makes a change from Classic Rock on the satellite.
Hi all, glad you're enjoying the sounds!
If you're listening maybe you'd txt the guys - they love a bit of feedback. 085 722 02 77
Also maybe you'd like to email us your favourite 20 Classic Rock tracks and we'll play them in a Rock Block on Sundays.
Thanks all!
Hi
Just discovered your station yesterday,will text on my top 20 rock classics,will you go 7 days soon?
Love to, but our licence is just weekends until the 22nd Feb.
but We'll be looking for a permananent licence after that.
Send in your Rock Block then please!
A.
Ah jasus, are we that old already, I remember a lot of the music from first time around, this is real radio, music from the heart, well done andy and best of luck. (paulwdower@hotmail.com).
More Costello, Nick Lowe, Andrew Gold, Jerry lee.......
only listening for a short while but like what i hear so far. i see somebody else has suggested lttle feat - dixie chicken. as a big fan of theirs could i also suggest long distance love, all that you dream, rock and roll doctor, and lots more. what about david and david, and horslips? or burlesque by family? i could go on ad infinitum but won't. shugie otis? promise i will stop now. the outlaws - green grassand high tides? i'll get my coat. :-)
turn on and first thing i hear is 'burlesque'!! excellent. thank you jimmy levey for pointing me towards this fine station.
what happens after Feb hope you intend to keep going
Brilliant to hear from you Andy and Andy and Clive... Took me a while to comment, but have been enjoying the station both at home on my wifi radio and in the car via 3G mobile phone and FM TX ! Listening this morning on my way home from my breakfast shift on Radio Jackie!
All the best, and much more hopefully.
Geoff Rogers (ex SR/SES and very occasional ABC presenter)
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, UK
Why hasn't anyone told me about this station sooner? Its frikkin awesome! Feels like i'm back in the states again, where the radio stations play real music and real variety NOT the same 10 "classic" rock tunes torn from a rock compilation from 1990! What the hell am i supposed to do the rest of the week by the way???
[quote]What the hell am i supposed to do the rest of the week by the way???[/quote]
Check this page for streaming urls round the clock
http://totalbroadcast.net/zenith/
Just to let you guys know, picked up 1584 under the sky wave at midnight last night and on the ground wave - weak but just discernable at 10.30am today in Bodmin, Cornwall (at around that time you were playing a classic Peter Frampton song!). Can I have a QSL please? (only joking!)
Keep up the good work, listening on the net when I can.
Geoff Rogers - now back in Walton-on-Thames (having returned from holiday in Cornwall this afternoon!)
Listening on the web in Lucan Co.Dublin - well done guys great to hear "proper" music on the radio for once
hi guys well done to everyone,great to hear the former ABC guys live on radio once again. how about lynyard skynyrd, "Free Bird"John Fogarty,and 10 years after,to name a few. hope it continues guys.
You probably know this but the 64k stream appears to not be working and hasn't for several days.
AAC sounds good still though - enjoying the music on Sat afternoon on wifi radio in Walton, Surrey, UK
Hey guys, its funny- you ask for particular tracks and we play them BEFORE we read the posts! We must be telepathic!
Little Feat, Family, Lynyrd - you'll hear 'em all next weekend on our last broadcasts.
Great to hear from you all, especially those we haven't spoken to in years, Geoff for example.
Webstreams continue, hopefully we'll be back on air sometime.
A nice polite letter to the BCI might help our cause guys!
Cheers
Very good, nice to hear something different on the radio in this region
if you get a full license you may consider some genre shows that are not being considered elsewhere alt rock, jazz, world, etc. I know you want classic rock but to survive you'll need more then classic rock fans support
Hi Guys,
Great to hear all the old classics again, some of those tracks reminds me of a miss spent youth hanging around the jukebox in an amusement arcade in Tramore ;)
..best of luck for the future!!
Hiya all...got ur web site from a friend in sunny South Shields tyne wear England
...sounds gud...like sum of ur music
gud luck for the future...will pop in from time to time...
xxxx
Hello Guys. Enjoying 'Dave Hunt' and 'Andy Ellis' playing some fine music, which continues to take me back to the days of 'Southern Radio' and the summer of '85 when I was lucky enough to 'play along' for a few shows in Waterford with you guys. Please keep the webstreams going, they sound fab in the car via the mobile and at home on the wifi radio - and it'd be great to have some occasional live shows here even when you're not onf FM and AM, as it's such an emerging medium.
My very best regards to you, your other halves and to Bruce Wayne as well.
From Geoff and Lin in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, UK.
I only stumbled across your radio broadcast when I was on my way up to Dublin, only to hear that the next day would be your last time on the air.
You guys have a fantastic station, I enjoyed listening to you driving home on Sunday, receiving you loud and clear in Waterford. I was just listening to your final moments on the air, I would hope you guys could keep 'broadcasting' on the web streams, you have earned yourself another listener.
I plan to write to the BCI, hopefully they will come to their senses and issue a well needed licence for the South East. We need a station like yours.
Again thanks for nice comments folks. It was a bit emotional doing the last show!
Thanks also to anyone who writes to or emails the BCI on our behalf;
Could you do me a favour please and send me copies of any replies you get?
Either by email or by post? It'll help us keep track, and might be able to use the correspondance as part of our case to get a licence.
We're gonna try get some old shows replayed on the web, plus the Top 50 in its entirety will appear on the webstreams soon.
Bye for now!
moving to waterford from dublin it was a mindblast delivering around waterford about 8am i scanned radio and found zenith was sorry to leave south east that day have emailed bci and also wrote dont forget spooky tooth
Guys we've started a facebook group, search for Zenith Classic Rock.
Let's keep the idea alive and push for Zenith to be given another licence!
This is a long shot
at about 22.45 on Saturday 7th a track which might have been called Lifeline was played, who's it by? I taped it off Caroline years back but never caugh the name - and its been driving me a bit mad ever since!
Lifeline is by Rabbit - a group including Trevor Rabin.
Great track!
Andy
great sounds for driving home in fact I drove the long way home on purpose last sunday so I could continue listening how about a bit of old hawkwind,captain lockheed and the star fighters
How sad Ireland is without decent music on the airwaves. What are the BCI scared of?
Is it true that the BCI is run by the other radio stations with licences ? I dont believe the argument that there are no available frequencies .
Something smells rotten.
Aloha !
I found Your Website here (on Chromium )
Just a Quick question ©irca ~2013 :
How do I view a "Playlist of Songs" for Zenith Classic Rock
' - Various Locations ' ?
Great music - Early Fan ! +1 Also, Where do I send a cheque in terms of postal address , & keep-intouch to show my support of @ZenithCR radio ??
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