Going Hard and Going Deep

April 24th brought what might be the most diverse grouping of songs yet to hit 889 The Bridge's studios and listeners. Featuring reggae, 70s pop, and EDM, Gill and Dylan get a groove going and break context for song picks on this show. 

It's April and the boys have finally reunited after Claude's independent field research concluded. What he found you ask? Two songs to get you grooving and feeling it as we head towards warmer weather and better times, "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Pieces of a man". Gill Claude and Dylan also discuss the influence both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had on music culture and give their takes on who they enjoy more. 

The crew finally gets back together and in honor of Mr. Cobbs' return, the show features all Grateful Dead songs. "Stella Blue" and "Fire on the Mountain" were the two songs chosen from the band that forever shaped American music culture from the late twentieth century to present day. Other notable moments of the show include the crew's discussion on how music transforms relationships and even literally creates lives and where they've seen this in their lives. 

Gill and Dylan get the slow Monday morning going with two songs about days of the week. The show warms up with "Monday, Monday" by The Mamas and The Papas, then rolls into Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning", and finishes with a different tone of "Just Another Honky" by Faces. 

Civil Rights, Perseverance, and Love are the topics covered on Going Hard and Going Deep's March 6th live show. Gill and Dylan conn the 889 The Bridge main control room while Claude was on in-depth field research leave. Gill and Dylan pick a diverse trio for music on this show starting with Alt Rock, then moving to 50's pop/blues, and finishing with a funky folk rock tune.  

Claude makes his return to GHGD after a two episode hiatus and picks David Bowie's masterpiece "Heroes." The guy's dive deep into both the context of Bowie's inspiration for the song and how the song's meaning is an example of how music applies to everyone's life. 

Gill and Dylan bring a diverse set of tunes on for episode eleven of GHGD with Glenn Miller, Fidlar, and Kodak Black. Gill and Dylan also admit their wrong doings after setting a world class example of what not to do when they try to make an on-the-fly adjustment to get headphones working by sending 889 The Bridge off the air for a minute. 

The band is finally back to together on a Thursday for GHGD and technically difficulties fortunately brings you "Here Comes Your Man" by not The Pixies, but Claude and Dylan. 

It was Monday February 13th, the day before before Valentine's Day of 2023 and GHGD delivered heartwarming tunes on 889 The Bridge. Gill chooses Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr's infamous collaboration on "Just The Two Of Us" and Dylan picks two serenading seventies hits—Todd Rundgren's "Hello It's Me" and "If Not For You" by George Harrison—that interestingly mirror in meaning. The episode doesn't just go "sonic", but Gill and Dylan converse and tackle the tendencies of relationships and interpret meaning from the songs of the show.