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On the next episode of the Behavioral Corner, Steve Martorano dives deep into the harmonious world of music and its profound impact on our behavioral health. Guest, Kenn Kweder, a veteran troubadour from Philadelphia with over four decades in the music industry, takes us through his compelling journey from folk singer to rock and roll artist.-------------------------------The Behavioral Corner is produced in partnership with Retreat Behavioral Health -- where healing happens.
So much has changed since David Uosikkinen & Kenny Aaronson were guests on the podcast, separately back in 2019! Their musical friendship has grown, even during the pandemic. We talk about each of their own activities (The Hooters for David, and The Yardbirds for Kenny), and, no spoilers, but Ken uncorks a fun surprise, amidst his stories.We get an update on In The Pocket, Dave's Philly-centric collective, with the latest news on that project. Plus, they both discuss their involvement in the Lest We Forget recorded tribute organization, and their part in honoring Charlie Watts!But the episode starts with, and centers around, the recent passing of Robert Gordon, and what he meant to both of them. If you're a fan, it can help serve as a bit of grieving. Just remember, they knew him well...So, get set for a fun, high-paced listen with 4 friends "in the quad!"Episode Links:"Lest We Forget""In The Pocket"Tickets link for New Year's Eve in Lititz, PA with the guys and Annabella from Bow Wow Wow!!! We love our sponsors!!! Please visit their web sites, and support them because they make this crazy show go:Boldfoot Socks https://boldfoot.comCrooked Eye Brewery https://crookedeyebrewery.com/Don't forget that you can find all of our episodes, on-demand, for free right here on our web site: https://imbalancedhistory.com/
Singer-songwriter/raconteur Kenn Kweder has been playing Philly clubs since the early 1970s — often to the tune of 300 gigs a year. On this special epsiode, join us live from The Pen & Pencil Club as we grill Kweder about his slice of musical history, that time he and some buddies wheatpasted the city with 10,000 posters, and how he's lived to tell the tale. (By the way, if you want to check out the Pen & Pencil *and* Kweder, he's playing there at happy hour on September 7th. Pop by - tell 'em Philebrity sent ya.) For more, check out Philebrity.com.
Singer-songwriter/raconteur Kenn Kweder has been playing Philly clubs since the early 1970s — often to the tune of 300 gigs a year. On this special epsiode, join us live from The Pen & Pencil Club as we grill Kweder about his slice of musical history, that time he and some buddies wheatpasted the city with 10,000 posters, and how he's lived to tell the tale. (By the way, if you want to check out the Pen & Pencil *and* Kweder, he's playing there at happy hour on September 7th. Pop by - tell 'em Philebrity sent ya.) For more, check out Philebrity.com.
Billy goes back home, in more ways than one. The charity we are raising money for, until August 5th: https://stuetzende-haende.de/ Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.
Billy tells the story of how, when he was still just a kid, he got hooked on heroin. Background information on the American opioid epidemic: Science VS podcast episode How America Got Hooked: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KhVSxUoPVCrU3G4CvYP6Y?si=0J3QAp6dRyGLa20Q8aT7ZQ Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o Dopesick tv series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzrLrUG2QVk Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.
How did a junkie who lived his entire life in the US end up being deported to Germany, and how did he die less than ten years later? Subscribe to the Don't Show My Face podcast here: https://anchor.fm/dont-show-my-face/subscribe Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.
Meet Billy, an American junkie in Frankfurt, Germany. Lexicon of drug-related (and German) words: "H" - heroin, "speedball" - mix of heroin and cocaine, "Stein" - literally the word 'stone' which is street slang for crack, "Pfandflasche" - recycling bottles that can be returned for money, "Hauptbahnhof" - central train station. Follow DSMF on Instagram and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/dontshowmyfacepodcast/ https://mobile.twitter.com/dsmfpodcast Original music for this episode by Kenn Kweder: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOPFsOQWmZJJznM2O8JyI?si=f153f9b3d80e4d64 Kenn Kweder's website: http://kennkweder.com/ Our artwork is by a Ukrainian artist, Anna Moskalets: https://moskaletsanna234.wixsite.com/my-site This episode was produced by James Reed. Don't Show My Face is a production of Invisible Pictures Germany, 2022.
Philadelphia legend Kenn Kweder stops by to discuss his fifty-year career in music. He talks about getting fired by Tom Waits, telling Clive Davis to go to hell, playing with Cheap Trick and AC/DC, and reveals the most hilarious inspiration behind writing a song we've ever heard.
Ben Vaughn, rock and roll star and DJ.. known throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware Tri-state area and parts of New York. A fixture around these parts for a very long time. Listeners of NPR radio stations across the country can listen to his show, The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn” Musical influences include Kenn Kweder and Jerry Blavat aka The Geeter with the Heater, the Big Boss with the Hot Sauce.
Kenn Kweder is a musical legend in Philadelphia. He has been playing music around town since the late sixties and has some amazing stories to tell. He talks about a postering campaign in the 70's based around Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Carnation instant milk. Kweder talks about wanting to play in the NBA as a teenager and then picking up a guitar in order to impress the girls. He talks about writing new songs and where the inspiration comes from. So many interesting topics. Definitely check out the documentary Adventures of a Secret Kidd: The Mass Hallucination of Kenn Kweder Website: http://kennkweder.com/ ------ For the full description of this podcast, check out: www.rolliepeterkin.com/kenn-kweder Follow me on social media for more updates: IG/Twitter: @rolliepeterkin Feel free to reach out any time!
COVID-19 and social-distancing has changed our collective worlds for the near future. To help us all get by, we've decided to do some live Philly Blunt “podcasts” via Zoom, which we are calling BLUNTCASTS. It's pretty much Philly's only live, prime-time late-night television show during these unique times as we have decided to go live... The post Kenn Kweder – Philly's Local Rock Star appeared first on The Philly Blunt.
Best excerpts from Tales of the Road Warriors podcast episodes from January through December of 2019. Guests include: Chad Watson, James Lee Stanley, Chad Watson, Liz Miller, Kenn Kweder, Jon Michaels, Jay David, Dan May, Lee Totten and Laura Cheadle,
David and Andy celebrate the podcast's one-year anniversary with a look back at some of the show's highlights.
During the late seventies, while I was working as a singing waiter in Los Angeles and cutting my own teeth as a performer, I was missing a phenomenon in my own home town of Philadelphia… a guy by the name of Kenn Kweder. While I was bartending, bussing, waiting, and singing Beatles songs tableside to my customers, Kenn Kweder and the Secret Kids was taking Philly by storm on every stage in town. Now here we are in 2019 and, Kenn Kweder, like me, is still actively gigging all over the tri-state area. He sometimes performs solo, sometimes accompanied by a friend or two, and occasionally with his full band, the Men From Wawa. Read more...
Tweet Philly music lifer Kenn Kweder talks about his outrageous early days with the Secret Kidds and performs covers by Billy Paul, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Taylor Swift on the latest “David Uossikinen In the Pocket” podcast. The post In The Pocket – Episode 26 – Kenn Kweder appeared first on Wildfire Radio.
Episode 7 of the Richards Guitar Studio Podcast (Note - Hemispheres found a bass player! Soon after recording this podcast coincidentally) 0:00 – Introduction and band members’ history in Richards Rock Academy 3:29 – Building a set list that appeals to audiences and to band members 5:27 – Band parents and history of influences, the joy of childhood piano lessons, getting to play with Kenn Kweder, learning an appreciation of alternative rock through playing xylophone at school, gaining an appreciate of Rush through RRA alumnus Emilio Biggs, and reconciling folk guitar lessons as a kid with your father is Disturbed and Godsmack, and finding the dual guitars of Night Ranger 14:02 – Discovering music in earnest from your older cousin – particularly the Killers, takeaways from your early music lessons, the importance of reading music and learning to play different instruments growing up when it comes to playing in a rock band 22:20 – Taking on Rush songs, informing your guitar playing from listening to Neil Peart, and how the drums are the train track, how you may “get lost on the Rush train,” what it’s like losing the “bass wizard,” and a passing mention of Colin’s ancestors coming from the same hometown of Sabbath and Priest 29:12 – Keeping the band going amongst graduation forcing lineup changes, and looking to the future of RRA members stepping up and coming in, being in a band forcing you to play, the virtue of the “triple ax attack,” and the challenge of asking 13-year-olds to learn prog rock tunes to join the band 34:52 – Future of the band, and R.I.P. to 103.9 WDRE, Philadelphia’s Cutting Edge of Modern Rock
F2K Episode 44: The enduring musician, Kenn Kweder It's the show's proud third appearance from our most popular guest, musician Kenn Kweder. Kweder (who appeared previously in Ep. Six, Ep. Seven, and Ep. 30 of the FUN 2 KNOW podcast) has been a beloved fixture of the Philadelphia music scene since rising up from the Philly streets in the mid-seventies with his band, The Secret Kidds. In his first interview here we talked about his near-brush with national attention and its comedown but Kenn's real triumph is his unwavering dedication to live performance, playing a hundred-plus gigs every year for decades and being one of the free-est souls you'll ever meet. On this latest show we talk about Ken's influences and legends like Capt. Beefheart, The Stones and Bob Dylan whose performances he has witnessed over the decades. We also talk about what still drives him at sixty-five, hear near-unbelievable stories from a lifetime spent singing in bars, pay tribute to the drug Propofol, discuss the era of Trump, the MeToo movement, modern audiences and the glory of dying while on-stage. The ridiculously entertaining conversation with Kenn began as I was still setting up the mics, and Kweder went into the story of opening up for Patti Smith in 1975...
Kenn Kweder talks about his 1975 gig with Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at Glassboro State College in New Jersey. From the soon forthcoming episode 44 of The Fun 2 Know podcast...
It's the return F2K's most popular guest, musician and songwriter Kenn Kweder. Our two-part episodes 6 & 7 squeezed in a lot of Kweder's story, growing up in Philly and playing hundreds of gigs a year for decades on stages between New York and Baltimore but mainly in and around Philly, where Kweder is nearly a household name. In the year and a half since he has been on the show Kenn has been the subject of a feature-length documentary, ADVENTURES OF A SECRET KID: THE MASS HALLUCINATION OF KENN KWEDER. Directed by John Hutelmyer, the feature has screened locally and is currently playing the festival circuit. We discuss the film and as you'd guess, a lot more in a slightly melancholy conversation in which Kenn recounts a number of friends who have passed away over the years, but also touches on Pokemon, Miley Cyrus, maintaining friendships in the world of social media, playing prisons and casinos, the secrets of Lithuania, Philly free form radio pioneers, the secret accelerator of the cocaine epidemic, and the proper way to handle yourself in a crack house. We'll hear some excerpts from The Leaves, the mysterious Nikki Jaine and performance poet pioneer Marty Watt. Kenn also brings his guitar and we'll hear a trio of tunes before the episode runs its course.
Ep. 7: KENN KWEDER Pt. 2 The second and final part of our conversation with Kenn Kweder. Kenn survives beyond the record industry's cold reach to deliver a series of riveting indie releases straight from the heart of Kweder. A true troubadour, Kweder plays a near 300 gigs a year that gives him perch to observe the endless mating ritual of the young. Kweder shares all he has observed in this raucous talk, sharing his philosophies on the modern world, people's changing relationship to music, and the wisdom of “The Sandwich Trick.” Plus, Kweder meets Dylan! All music from Kenn Kweder – KWEDEROLOGY Vols. 1&2
Songwriter and Rock Star Kenn Kweder sits down to tell his epic story. First climbing to local Philly fame in the late 70s with his band the Secret Kids, a great batch of songs and the charisma of their frontman led Kweder and the band to be branded, “This Next Big Thing” from out of Philly. Whether it was a record company recession or Kweder's reputation for drunken recklessness that foiled this big break is uncertain but Kweder's commitment to music never waned. Still playing a near 300 gigs a year, the troubadour has soldiered on, his passion for life and music intact. In the first of two shows, Kweder discusses his working class roots and his rise to local legendhood.