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Roger LaMay
General Manager
Sam Cooke - "Bring It on Home"
Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"
Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up in Blue"
Bob Marley - "No Woman No Cry"
Patsy Cline - "Crazy"
Willie Nelson - "Pancho & Lefty"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On"
Jimi Hendrix - "All Along the Watchtower"
Rolling Stones - "Dead Flowers"
Grateful Dead - "Eyes of the World"
Wes Bower
Corporate Business Support
Representative
Beatles - "Here, There, and Everywhere"
Bob Dylan - "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall"
Johnny Cash - "I Walk the Line"
Lucinda Williams - "Side of the Road"
Richard and Linda Thompson
- "Wall of Death"
Steve Forbert - "Hope, Faith, and Love"
John Prine - "Far From Me"
Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road"
Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Pearl Jam - "Last Kiss"
Tess-a-phonic-Tess Coffey
Assistant to the GM
Pearl Jam - "Alive" (
Ten
)
Public Image Ltd. - "Rise"
(
World Shut Your Mouth
)
Rolling Stones - "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" (
Sticky Fingers
)
Grateful Dead - "China Cat Sunflower (Intro)/I Know You Rider" (
Europe '72
)
Simon & Garfunkel -
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
(
Bridge Over Troubled Water
)
Paul Simon - "Senorita with a Necklace of Tears" (
You're the One
)
Stevie Wonder - "As"
(
Songs in the Key of Life
)
The Allman Brothers Band - "Blue Sky"
(
Eat A Peach
)
The Beatles - "Good Day Sunshine"
(
Revolver
)
Ludwig van Beethoven - "Ode to Joy"
(
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
)
Mike Daly
Director,
Corporate Business Support
The Beach Boys - "Surf's Up"
Bob Marley - "Waiting in Vain"
Van Morrison - "Stranded"
Patty Griffin - "Useless Desires"
Guster - "Come Downstairs and Say Hello"
The Doors - "Roadhouse Blues"
J Geils Band - "Whammer Jammer"
Van Morrison - "Philosopher's Stone"
Modern English - "Melt with You"
Eminem - "Lose Yourself"
Andrew Davis
Broadcast Engineer
My Morning Jacket – "Anytime"
Jackie Wilson – "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"
The Band – "Up On Cripple Creek"
The Beach Boys – "Caroline No"
Bob Dylan – "The Man In Me"
Derek & The Dominoes – "Layla"
The Isley Brothers – "That Lady (Pt. 1&2)"
Prince – "Let's Go Crazy"
Flaming Lips – "Fight Test"
The Beatles – "I've Got A Feeling"
Brian Divver
Web Content Developer
Slayer - "Angel Of Death"
Pantera – "F*cking Hostile"
The Black Crowes - "Wiser Time"
Black Sabbath - "Megolmania"
Pink Floyd - "Fearless"
The Quintet - "Salt Peanuts"
Frank Zappa - "Village of the Sun"
Frank Zappa - "Peaches En Regalia"
The Beatles - "In My Life"
Rush - "The Necromancer"
Mandy Dollar
Traffic Coordinator /
Corporate Business Support
Assistant
The Band - "Ophelia"
Arcade Fire - "Wake Up"
Jon Brion - "Here We Go"
Hall & Oates - "Rich Girl"
Jeff Buckley - "Lover, You Should've
Come Over"
Aretha Franklin - "Share Your Love With Me"
Dolly Parton - "9 to 5"
Joe Cocker - "The Letter"
Toto - "Africa"
Ghostland Observatory - "Sad Sad City"
Lyn Finnerty
Corporate Business Support
Representative
Jeff Buckley - "Lover You Should Have
Come Over"
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Black Crowes - "She Talks to Angels"
Rod Stewart - "Maggie May"
John Lennon - "Imagine"
Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"
Dead Can Dance - "Ariadne"
King Crimson - "Matte Kudesai"
Peter Gabriel - "Blood of Eden"
Bob Marley - "Waiting in Vain"
Cathy Heard
Web Content Developer
Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"
David Bowie - "Life on Mars"
Prince - "Let's Go Crazy"
Michael McDonald - "What a Fool Believes"
New Edition - "Candy Girl"
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"
The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb"
Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Baby I Got Your Money"
Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
Pretenders - "Mystery Achievement"
Michael Jackson - "Rock with You"
Dio - "Holy Diver"
Sarah James
Member Benefits
Coordinator
Bob Marley - "Three Little Birds"
Neko Case - "Middle Cyclone"
Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"
Michael Franti & Spearhead - "Say Hey
(I Love You)"
Buddy Holly - "Everyday"
Ben Folds - "Luckiest"
Velvet Underground - "Sunday Morning"
Bonnie Raitt - "Angel from Montgomery"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Summertime"
Janis Martin-Hughes
Corporate Business Support
Representative
Clarence Carter – "Slip Away"
Los Lobos – "Saint behind the Glass"
Ibrahim Ferrer – "Dos Gardenias"
The Pretenders - "Night in My Veins"
Rolling Stones – "Wild Horses"
Van Morrison – "Have I Told You Lately"
Raul Malo – "Besame Mucho"
Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues – "Fairytale of New York"
Bob Dylan – "Idiot Wind"
Texas Tornados – "She Never Spoke Spanish to Me"
Ellen Oplinger
World Cafe
Administrative Coordinator
The Chords - "Sh-Boom"
Joe Cocker - "Bye Bye Blackbird"
Sinéad O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
White Stripes - "Icky Thump"
Etta James - "At Last"
Fat Joe - "What's Luv"
Randy Newman - "Political Science"
Otis Redding - "Try A Little Tenderness"
Benny Goodman Orchestra -
"Sing, Sing, Sing"
Santo & Johnny - "Sleepwalk"
Larry Rayborn
Corporate Business Support
Representative
The Pogues - "If I Should Fall from Grace with God"
Bob Marley - "three little birds"
The Replacements - "I Will Dare"
Vince Guaraldi - "Christmas Time Is Here"
Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song"
Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains"
The Tallest Man on Earth -
"I Won't be Found"
Beethoven - "Für Elise"
Miles Davis - "Blue in Green"
The Wedding Present - "Brassneck"
Lauren Roccia
Line Producer,
World Cafe
Elton John - "Your Song"
Jeff Buckley - "Lover, You Should've
Come Over"
Ours - "Red Colored Stars"
Phantom Planet - "By The Bed"
Silverchair - "Miss You Love"
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - "Skeleton Key"
Matt Nathanson - "Lucky Boy"
The Weakerthans - "Plea From a Cat
Named Virtue"
Say Anything - "Slowly, Through a Vector"
Laura Marling - "Ghosts"
Paula Rogers
Finance and Development Coordinator
In no particular order...
Van Morrison - "The Mystery"
Van Morrison - "Someone Like You"
Led Zeppelin - "Custard Pie"
Led Zeppeliln - "Ramble On"
Black Sabbath - "The Wizard"
Black Sabbath - "War Pigs"
George Harrison - "Something"
Eric Clapton - "Bell Bottom Blues"
(live version)
BB King - "There Is Always One More Time"
Ken Sambucci
Financial Analyst
Pearl Jam - "Porch"
Pearl Jam - "Alive"
Weezer - "Island in the Sun"
Bob Marley - "Trenchtown Rock"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Can't Stop"
Beastie Boys - "Paul Revere"
The Doors - "Riders on the Storm"
Jimi Hendrix - "Castles Made of Sand"
Pink Floyd - "Welcome to the Machine"
Bruce Springsteen - "10th Avenue
Freeze Out"
Liz Scott
Member Services
Indigo Girls – "Galileo"
Rolling Stones – "Beast of Burden"
Jane's Addiction – "Jane Says"
Old Crow Medicine Show – "Wagon Wheel"
Phish – "Wading in the Velvet Sea"
Sublime – "Doin' Time"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
"Even the Losers"
Grateful Dead – "Eyes of the World"
Led Zeppelin – "Communication Breakdown"
Neil Young and Crazy Horse -
"Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"
Paul Severin
XPN Events Producer
Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Acoustic Medley"
Don Caballero - "The Peter Criss Jazz"
Elliott Smith - "Baby Britain"
Jeff Buckley - "What Would You Say?"
Lungfish - "8.14.2116"
The Mars Volta - "Goliath"
Minus The Bear - "Pachuca Sunrise"
Modest Mouse - "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine"
Public Enemy - "Fight The Power"
Rodan - "The Everyday World Of Bodies"
Patti Singer
Corporate Business Support
Representative
The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out of
This Place"
Simon & Garfunkel - "I Am a Rock"
Jefferson Airplane - "Wooden Ships"
Jessie Colin Young - "Sunlight"
Sandy Denny - "Who Knows Where the Time Goes"
Mark Knopfler - "Sailing to Philadelphia"
Coldplay - "Parachutes"
Lyle Lovett - "If I Had a Boat"
Stephen Stills - "Helplessly Hoping"
R.E.M. - "Shiny Happy People"
Beth Warshaw-Duncan
Line Producer
Nina Simone – "Who Knows Where the Time Goes"
The Ramones – "Do You Want To Dance"
Sleater-Kinney – "Words & Guitar"
The Thermals – "No Culture Icons"
Sly & The Family Stone – "Trip To
Your Heart"
Sam Cooke – "A Change Is Gonna Come"
Al Green – "I'm Glad You're Mine"
The Aislers Set – "Last Match"
Jacques Dutronc – "Le Responsable"
Tim Hardin – "Reason To Believe"
Erica Zito
Traffic Manager,
Corporate Business Support
Ani Difranco - "Letting the Telephone Ring"
Bjork - "I Miss You"
Damien Rice - "Coconut Skins"
Incubus - "I Miss You"
Eminem - "We As Americans"
Dave Matthews Band - "When the World Ends"
Radiohead - "National Anthem"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Obscured"
Tegan & Sara - "The Con"
TV on the Radio - "Love Dog"
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