Magic Mushroom Hour with Omega
Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega On North Carolina Public Radio
You are stepping beyond the Dial, buckle up, the trip starts now!
This isn’t background music.
This isn’t safe rotation.
This is Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Three hours of deep-cut Classic Rock and Progressive Rock — stretched out, remastered, and set free from the algorithm.
We step into epic, long-form prog. We let the blues breathe. We honor the weird. We celebrate the forgotten.
No radio edits.
No corporate fingerprints.
No playlists built by committee.
Just flow.
Omega guides the journey — sometimes mellow, sometimes heavy, sometimes beautifully strange — moving through extended prog explorations, blues-drenched grooves, Southern soul, cosmic rock, and the kind of tracks FM radio used to take chances on.
Every song is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. The quiet parts stay quiet. The loud parts hit hard. Headphones recommended. Car systems encouraged.
If you miss when albums were experiences…
If you like songs that stretch past seven minutes…
If you believe radio should still surprise you…
Welcome to Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Turn it up. Let it breathe. Take the trip.
Podcast Description
Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega On North Carolina Public Radio
You are stepping beyond the Dial, buckle up, the trip starts now!
This isn’t background music.
This isn’t safe rotation.
This is Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Three hours of deep-cut Classic Rock and Progressive Rock — stretched out, remastered, and set free from the algorithm.
We step into epic, long-form prog. We let the blues breathe. We honor the weird. We celebrate the forgotten.
No radio edits.
No corporate fingerprints.
No playlists built by committee.
Just flow.
Omega guides the journey — sometimes mellow, sometimes heavy, sometimes beautifully strange — moving through extended prog explorations, blues-drenched grooves, Southern soul, cosmic rock, and the kind of tracks FM radio used to take chances on.
Every song is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. The quiet parts stay quiet. The loud parts hit hard. Headphones recommended. Car systems encouraged.
If you miss when albums were experiences…
If you like songs that stretch past seven minutes…
If you believe radio should still surprise you…
Welcome to Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Turn it up. Let it breathe. Take the trip.
Episodes

May 25, 2025
May 25, 2025
3hr 23 min
WOW is the word! Remember these albums and what you were doing!
Alvin Lee, Grateful Dead, Charlie Daniels, Dicky Betts, Steven Stills, Don Felder, Garcia, Floyd, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Bowie, Clapton, Greg Lake.
I don’t know about you, but my files were rolling listening to these cuts. That’s some music. Some on reel, some on ESS, Some on Magna Planers, And Those were some days for audiophiles. Today everyone listens in one dimension, and we used to listen in four.
Put on your headphones, sing along if you must, but close your eyes and open your memory banks. It's great music and needs to be heard!
This is where it all started in the 60’s and 70’s. The Magic Mushroom Hour has been blessed with access to the North Carolina Public Radio System for over a decade. Giving me the opportunity share and to spread the best music ever recorded.
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 3 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025
3hr 37 min
Switching Gears tonight! Playing a whole lot of sweet tunes I don’t usually highlight~ Tower of Power, Buddy Guy, David Castro, Tracy Chapman, James Taylor, early Billy and ZZ Top, Petty, Los Lonely Boys, Elton, Loggins and Messina, David Crosby, Stevie Ray, John Kay, John Lennon and the Boys from Liverpool, Burton Cummings, War, Jeff Healey, Bowie, Mott, and Rare Earth. With some goldies from the past sprinkled throughout the show.
It's great music and needs to be heard!
This is where it all started in the 60’s and 70’s. The Magic Mushroom Hour has been Blessed with access to the North Carolina Public Radio System for over a decade. Giving me the opportunity to spread the best music ever recorded.
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 3 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025
3hr 16 min
If you don’t like tonight’s show, you don’t like Classic Rock! Three Hours of nonstop fun and games with some outstanding sets. Sugar Loaf, Ozzy, Joe Walsh, Hookfoot, Thin Lizzy, Moody Blues, Sound Garden, Appalachian White Lightning, Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, Mule, Warren Haynes, Jeff Beck/ Johnny Depp, Kurt Cobain, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Zombies, Gary Moore, Doobie Brothers, Marmalade, Harry Nielsen, Norman Greenbaum, Green Tambourine.
This is where it all started in the 60’s and 70’s. The Magic Mushroom Hour has been Blessed with access to the North Carolina Public Radio System for over a decade. Giving me the opportunity to spread the best music ever recorded.
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 3 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Mar 23, 2025
Mar 23, 2025
3hr 16 min
Classic Rock at its Finest!

Feb 26, 2025
Feb 26, 2025
3hr 22 min
Dust off those Headphones jump into another reality of Classic Music. Remastered for your ultimate listening pleasure and experience! Come on in!
This is where it all started in the 60’s and 70’s. The Magic Mushroom Hour has been Blessed with access to the North Carolina Public Radio System for over a decade. Giving me the opportunity to spread the best music ever recorded.
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 3 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Feb 8, 2025
Feb 8, 2025
3hr 25 min
Dust off those Headphones jump into another reality of Classic Music. Remastered for your ultimate listening pleasure and experience! Come on in!
Blasting off with Greg Lake’s ELP( Lucky Man), Ian Anderson’s Tull ( We Used to Know), One of my favorite songs and albums, Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina ( Angry Eyes Live), Back to Tull( Long Version of Wondering Aloud ), nest Don Henley & the Eagles ( Bitter Creek ) Jackson Browne ( Next Voice You Hear ), Eagles ( Train Leaves Here This Morning ), Sir Robert Plant & Sir Jimmy Page ( Acoustic Version of Rain Song), On to some cuts from Bob Seger( Travelin Man/ Against the Wind) Jackson Browne ( Here Comes those Tears Again ), Eagles with Don Henley at his best ( Wasted Time), Susan Tedeschi ( Loving You is Sweet All Over ), Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt ( Poor Poor Poor Pitiful Me ) , Train ( Meet Virginia ), Red Clay Strays ( Wondering Why), Jackson Browne ( Shape of a Heart ), Back to Bob Seger ( Beautiful Loser/ Turn the Page), More Tull ( GOD/ Crossed Eyed Mary/ Mother Goose), Greg Lake ( Sage ), Don Henley ( End of the Innocence ), Tull ( Wind Up! ), Greg Lake ( Endless Enigma ), Eagles ( Victim of Love ), Plant & Page ( Your Time is going to Come), John Popper & Blues Traveler , Bob Seger ( Katmandu), Smithereens , Kurt Cobain ( About a Girl ), Queensryche ( Silent Lucidity ) Jackson Browne ( Tender is the Night/ These Days ), Peter & Gordon with a McCartney song ( World Without Love), Don Henley ( Heart of the Matter ), Moody Blues ( Never Comes the Day), Jackson Browne ( Rock Me On the Water) ? Whets not to like about this set? Come on, Kick Back and Join us for a couple of Hours.
This is where it all started in the 60’s and 70’s. The Magic Mushroom Hour has been Blessed with access to the North Carolina Public Radio System for over a decade. Giving me the opportunity to spread the best music ever recorded.
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 3 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Jan 25, 2025
Jan 25, 2025
3hr 28 min
Back to the origins of Country and Folk Rock.
The Artists names are a history of Rock!
Neil Young, David Crosby, Ritchie Furry, Randy Meisner, Jim Messina, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Graham Parsons, Steven Stills, Timothy B. Schmidt. Bands like Buffalo Springfield, Poco, the Birds, Pure Prairie League, Eagles, the Dead, Mathews Southern Comfort, Manassas; This is where it all started in the 60’s and 70’s.
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 3 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Jan 10, 2025
Jan 10, 2025
3hr 15 min
Digging Deep for the Classic 70’s Sound beginning with Uriah Heap(Magician & Left me here to cry),,Carlos Santana ( Singing Winds/Crying Beasts, Black Magic Woman) Greg Lake( From the Beginning) Yes ( Yours is no Disgrace), This Lizzy(Jailbreak),Jim Morrison( Whiskey Bar, Moonlight Drive), Fogerty( Suzie Q), Iron Butterfly(Soldier in Town), Zeppelin( Babe I’m going to leave you), More Morrison( Texas Radio), Lennon(Everyone’s got something to hide except me and my monkey), Beck( Think I am in love), Robinson Brothers ( Sweet Nuthin), Iron Butterfly( Butterfly Beau), Van Morrison( St. Dominic’s Review), Some Classic Petty highlighting Mike Campbell),Don Henley( Lost Resort), Some Wallflowers, Stone Temple Pilots( Dancin Days),
Last Hour, Orange Wedge, Blues Image, 3 Man Army, Orange Bicycle, More Petty Classics, Chris Robinson & Blackberry Smoke, Train(Drops of Jupiter, Eagles, Eric Burton and the Animals, Finishing with a little Freddie Fender.
Magic Mushroom Hour is a mission. Music from the 60's & 70's encompassed the Golden Age of Progressive Rock! Better focus, production, and artistry. Help keep it alive for all! Not saying that there are not good musicians outside this time period, but the proof is in the pudding. Let’s get it on the airwaves.
Excellent night of Classic Rock! Kick Back and enjoy!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock from North Carolina Public FM Radio! If you like long form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 3 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!
Thank you for Joining our Cause!
Greg S. Held







