Geezer Rock Radio

11/14/2025

The last Geezer Rock episode aired two weeks ago, and it's not even available to listen to on the Central Vermont Community Radio archives any more. So Geezer Rock is well and truly gone. Thanks to those who listened and to the bands who made the music. I'll be taking down this page in a few days, so if any one has any final comments, please make them now. Thanks, Jeff Lindholm

11/01/2025

The last episode of Geezer Rock has come and gone from the FM airwaves, but you can still listen to it on the Central Vermont Community Radio website (WGDR.org) for two weeks, through November 14th. Then and only then will it be well and truly gone for good.

10/31/2025

LAST EPISODE OF GEEZER ROCK!!!!!

Today, Halloween, 5 to 7 p.m. Vermont time, at 91.1 or 91.7 FM in central Vermont or worldwide at WGDR.org.

It's been (to steal a phrase) a long strange trip, 17-plus years of playing "new, 21st-century music by geezers who still rock" most every Friday afternoon since 2008!!!! On WGDR/WGDH, formerly Goddard College Radio, now Central Vermont Community Radio. But the time has come today to take the needle off the turntable for good. I've had a blast finding new songs by "old faves" like Foghat, Randy Bachman, Joan Jett, Patti Smith, Kansas, the Doobie Brothers, the various members of the Dead family, and so many others, as well as folks who are geezer-age (50-plus, eligible for AARP membership) who aren't quite so famous but still rock like crazy, like Barrence Whitfield, Susan Surftone, the Forty-Nineteens, Endless Boogie, and on and on.

So please join me one last time for a Halloween thrill ride that'll include songs about werewolves, vampires, rats, and Frankenstein's monster (some from this new album by Big Stir Records, as well as another sung in Italian)!

Thanks for listening. I hope you dug the show a lot!

10/24/2025

The penultimate, the next-to-the last, Geezer Rock episode is on the air right now, 5 to 7 p.m. Vermont Eastern Time. You can listen in if you're in central Vermont at 91.1 or 91.7 FM or anywhere else at WGDR.org online. I'm playing two hours of geezer rockers doing their favorite covers of songs by other bands from the past. I hope you can listen in.
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10/14/2025

GEEZER ROCK ENDING SOON: LAST SHOW ON HALLOWEEN.

As you can probably see, I haven't been posting here for a long time, although I've continued to do the show on Central Vermont Community Radio every Friday afternoon. However, the time has come for me to end the show, which I've been doing every Friday since 2008. I'm spending more time in my "old age" (at 70) relearning to play the saxophone and want to do that more and more. So I'm stepping away from radio, no longer bringing you folks "new 21st-century music by geezers who rock." Thanks to all of you who have listened over the years, and I hope we all ROCK ON!

10/31/2024

To mark the recent passing of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, the first hour of this week's Geezer Rock show, on Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. Vermont time, will be given over to an hour of Phil's music recorded in the 21st century, featuring his co-written songs performed with the bands Further, the Grateful Dead, and Phil and Friends, plus a jazz saxophone interpretation of Lesh's song "The Eleven." And as a post-Halloween commemoration, the Featured Geezers will be the Fleshtones, with three songs from their new album "It's Getting Late (and More Songs about Werewolves)"! Plus a few songs from Ringo, Stevie Wonder, and Patti Smith to encourage everyone in the United States to vote on Tuesday. And more!

If you missed the show, you can still listen to it on the WGDR show archive, until Thursday, Nov. 14th, at WGDR.org!

10/25/2024

This week's Geezer Rock is a reminder that listening to blues music helps chase the real blues away. It's a pick-me-up, for sure. So the featured geezers will be the local blues-band Rye Dog, with three songs from their Vermont-centric album "Blues in the 802." Nearby to home, the Tas Cru Band, from Syracuse, New York, chews on some "Grizzle n' Bone," Mick Fleetwood pounds out a heavy riff behind some Hawaiian blues ukulele, and Foghat sings about tonsils and sneakers. And on a forward-thinking note, Stevie Wonder once again wonders if we can fix our nation's broken heart. Tune in and see and hear, today on Geezer Rock!

Listen live, 4-6 p.m. Vermont time, at 91.1 and 91.7 FM in central Vermont or streaming on the 'net at WGDR.org!

09/27/2024

This week's Featured Geezer on Geezer Rock is Steve Cropper, previously with Booker T. and the MGs. He's recently put together a new band, Steve Cropper and the Midnight Hour, featuring ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on guitar. You can hear three songs from their new album in the second hour of the show, and the first hour is all Billy Gibbons, showcasing all of the other bands he's played with in just the past few years. You can listen to the show from now until Thursday, October 10th, at the archive online at WGDR.org.

09/17/2024

On this week's Geezer Rock radio show, I played songs by some of the geezer-age artists who took part in the Musicians for Kamala concert (see poster below). And the Featured Geezer in the 5 o'clock hour was the venerable Sixties folkie Tom Rush, who now lives practically next door to me, yonder in New Hampshire. Tom shared his hard-earned musical wisdom that "It All Comes Down to Love" and much more--all on Geezer Rock! You missed the live show, but you can still access it on the archive at WGDR.org until Thursday, October. 3rd. Don't miss out!

09/12/2024

Next Tuesday, September 17th, is National Voter Registration Day. If you aren't, I'd personally recommend that you do. Candidate-specific info below, but I think everyone should be registered to vote and take part in our system of government in this way and in any other ways that they can, no matter who they support. I trust and hope that the "good" side will win. Geezer-specific participants include Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips and Bootsy Collins!

On Sept. 17, “Musicians for Kamala” will unite a stacked lineup of artists, elected representatives, music industry figureheads and passionate fans in a

09/09/2024

The Featured Geezer this week on Geezer Rock is Nick Lowe. The British punk rocker who turned a witty sense of humor and a sharp sense of melody into power pop, Lowe's lately teamed up with the Mexican-wrestling-masked surf-rock band from Memphis--Los Straitjackets. Hear what their cross-Atlantic collaboration turned up--and much more new music by other geezers who rock--this week on Geezer Rock.

You can groove in the grooves until Thursday, September 19th, from the archive at WGDR.org!!!!!!!!!

09/06/2024

Best wishes and good health to Brian May!

The legendary guitarist and songwriter suffered "a small heart attack" four years earlier in 2020