Album Rock WXYG

10/08/2025

Al, st the “ArTess Experience” studio with Olga, Jim and Tess.

10/08/2025

Returning GGDJs Jim Litz and Rick Sather with Wxygie the Wonder GOAT

10/08/2025

The latest issue of Rock Candy Magazine featuring the one and only BAD COMPANY.
Read the full interview with Paul and Simon.

For Those Who Were Raised On Rock - Magazine PLUS FREE Digital Download!

10/08/2025

WANT TO BE A GOAT GUEST DJ?
HERE'S HOW...
Remember, THIS could be you. Simply, Get a piece of paper. Tell us a little about yourself and why you want to be a GOAT Guest DJ.
Don’t forget to include your phone number and email address, so Al can get in touch with you.
Then give us a list of about 25 songs you might want to play. Send your letter and list to :

GOAT GUEST DJ
TRI-COUNTY BROADCASTING
1010 2nd St. N,
Sauk Rapids MN 56379

Don't forget to listen Every Saturday Afternoon at Noon, or better yet, come be the WXYG, GOAT GUEST DJ.

10/06/2025

Tune In this week for "INTO THE MUSIC" with Al Neff,
Monday through Saturday at 8:00 PM,
Exclusively on ALBUM ROCK WXYG The GOAT.
Monday & Tuesday : Janis Joplin
Wednesday : Buffalo Springfield
Thursday & Friday : The Kinks
Saturday : Foreigner 4 Anniversary Special w/ Dan Neer
We look forward to being your source for in-depth, carefully researched and professionally produced Audio Documentaries each week ONLY on WXYG, The GOAT! Listen Live or Stream it! You can also catch deep tracks and the very best of Album Rock from “Golden Age of Progressive Rock Radio”.
http://www.thegoatwxyg.com/

10/06/2025

Please take just one.
Thank you.

10/06/2025

Drummer Anika Nilles, who previously played with Jeff Beck, will join Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson for a 50th anniversary tour dedicated to the memory of the late Neil Peart.

Drummer Anika Nilles will join Lee and Lifeson for a 50th anniversary tour dedicated to the memory of the late Neil Peart

10/06/2025

This year, Every Sunday Evening, Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT will feature a full album at 8:00 PM from the halcyon musical days of 1975. 1975 was one of the top Years in Album Rock history. Another year of tough choices every week. So many great ones to choose from.
We hope you’ll tune in at 8:00 PM, Sunday, October 12th for “Four Wheel Drive”, the fourth studio album by Bachman–Turner Overdrive, released in 1975.
The album produced one of B.T.O.'s biggest hits in "Hey You." The rest of the album is made up of the band's lunch-pail rock & roll sound, combining ample amounts of factory-made blues to street-dirty guitar rock. This album is filled with a large amount of top-drawer ALBUM ROCK to hold Four Wheel Drive up. "Hey You" gave B.T.O. their second last Top 40 hit, and tracks like "Flat Broke Love," "She's Keeping Time," and "Don't Let the Blues Get You Down" are attractive arena rock efforts with both Bachman's Randy and Robbie sounding like they're still involved wholeheartedly. On a grand scale, Four Wheel Drive became the last solid endeavor by the group. Tim Bachman left after Bachman-Turner Overdrive II to try his luck at producing, and, in 1977, Randy Bachman went off to do some solo work, leading up to his formation of the band Ironhorse. Happily, Four Wheel Drive doesn't offer up any changes or surprises. It delivers eight tracks of guitar-based rock that is truly what their fans were looking for.
B.T.O. BIG AND HARD DRIVING IS WHAT YOU GET!!!
Tune In and Turn On Sunday, October 12th, and every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM for The GOAT'S "The Long Play with Al Neff”.

10/05/2025

Starting in 1996, Guitar World was honored to publish a handful of lesson columns authored by Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. The following is one of these columns. It has been edited in certain instances for use online.

“This month, I'd like to talk about technique, specifically right-hand articulation.
I've heard a lot of bassists fuss over their right-hand technique over the years, many of them claiming to have settled on a one-size-fits-all method of articulation that's ideal for any musical circumstance. I've always preferred to take a more pragmatic approach and use whichever right-hand technique sounds best and feels the most natural for any given situation.
For instance, sometimes I find using a plectrum or my thumb to be more effective than playing fingerstyle, or vice versa.
For “galloping” rhythms, like the main part to Achilles Last Stand, or the intro riff to Immigrant Song, which we looked at last month, I prefer to use a pick so I can get that growly, “clangy” sound.
Back in the Sixties, when I was doing a lot of freelance session work on bass guitar, I would often be called upon to play with a pick – “More ‘click,’ please...”
When playing fingerstyle, I usually use my index and middle fingers to pluck the strings, mostly in a strictly alternating fashion, but not always – sometimes it feels awkward to do that.”

Using just the index finger may not seem like the most “efficient” way to play, the low-end legend wrote in his GW column, but he loved the consistent attack and dynamic control that he got from using one finger

10/05/2025

It is amazing to think that we’ve had over 350 GOAT Guest DJs over the last six years since debuting this weekly adventure. Everyone from iron workers to local band members, to Mayors, College Presidents, Hardware Store experts, to Rock Stars, Managers, and Promotors.
Who would have imagined we’d still be doing this now and into the future as one of our very favorite specialty shows. The diversity of music, stories and personalities, hosted by our very own Professor of Album Rock, Al Neff, never fails to be special.
Today, belonged to all of them, as we celebrated the ANNUAL GOAT GUEST DJ REUNION. TEN HOURS OF RETURNING ALUMNI TAKING A BOW AND PLAYING SOME OF THEIR FAVORITE SONGS.
How cool was that? Whether you listened on your radio, or attended in person at the Lost Times Tavern, this was a marathon of music, love and fun.
We hope you enjoyed the “GOAT GUEST DJ REUNION MARATHON”.
Thanks to Al and Tess and Tim and Rick and Gary and all the GOAT GUEST DJs AND ALL THE AMAZING MEMBERS OF THE GOAT HERD. You Guys and Gals mean the world to us.
NEXT YEAR? SAME GOAT-TIME. SAME GOAT-CHANNEL.
Can't Wait.

10/05/2025

A very Special THANK YOU to Rick Jacobs.
Our GOAT Photohistorian, GGDJ, Al’s Righthand man and resident good pal.
You’re the Best.