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Ace Frehley  Back In The New York Groove   Favoriting
Travis Wammack  Find Another Man   Favoriting
Patsy Cline  Gotta Lot Of Rhythm In My Soul   Favoriting
Danny White  Cracked Up Over You   Favoriting
Horace Faith  Black Pearl   Favoriting
Above, The  Holding Back   Favoriting
Crossfires, The  Stay Around   Favoriting
Freddie Hart  Let Me Be There   Favoriting
Brenda Jones  Let's Go Back To School   Favoriting
Sugar  If I Can't Change Your Mind   Favoriting
Hal Blaine And The Young Cougars  Dance With The Surfin' Band   Favoriting
Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis  Wild Wild Wild   Favoriting
Ted Taylor  Help The Bear   Favoriting
Freedy Johnston  On The Way Out   Favoriting
New Juggler Sound  Trouble Child   Favoriting
Hi-Risers, The  Silver Saddle Motel   Favoriting
Esther Phillips  Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You   Favoriting
Tito Rodríguez  Latin Twist   Favoriting
Pernice Brothers, The  Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)   Favoriting
Johnny Tillotson  Make This Train   Favoriting
Miss Georgia Peach  Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)   Favoriting
Little Miss Jesse  My Baby Has Gone   Favoriting
Scruffy The Cat  Kissing Galaxy   Favoriting
Jay Gonzalez  (I Wanna) Hold You   Favoriting
New Piccadillys, The  All Through The City   Favoriting
Freedy Johnston  The Lucky One   Favoriting
Freedy Johnston  Interview   Favoriting
Freedy Johnston  Bad Reputation   Favoriting

CLICK HERE to help Paul find his bass

CLICK HERE for an assortment of Wrecking Crew AFM union contracts

CLICK HERE for 20+ gigabytes of sound effects from the USC Sound Effects Library

CLICK HERE for Armstrong's 1954 catalog, featuring spectacular mid-century linoleum, rug, and wall tile designs

CLICK HERE for The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HERE for the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HERE for "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version


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Listener Baby:

Baby. I spoke with the gang. We all wanted to let you know that we are ready. So come the time, you just go ahead and start. And good morning!
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ok then.

hey HEY hey now.

Listening on phone with bluetooth. Posting might be sparse becuase the home intahnet heah is intahmittent lately.
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Joey!:

Hey Mike!!!!
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clarke:

hey now - it sounds so silly.
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Spaceman? 4th cover version?
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sounds like Baby is Maine-ly in the plane.
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Greetings fellow nerds...BREAKING NEWS!!
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Faux Jean:

Good morning from America’s Finest city.
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ nycmusicnerd @11:05
The Hi-Risers are playing in Washington, NJ Saturday, 9/16 (one week from today). It's a FREE outdoor show, and they NEVER tour, so this is not to be missed.
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prof.fuzz:

morning y'all
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ nycmusicnerd @11:06
On a related note...I am a DESPERATE woman. The only bus that runs in Washington is weekdays only. The nearest train stops in Hackettstown. Not walkable, but definitely driveable.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Song: "Find Another Man" by "Travis Wammack"
an homage to all of the guys who broke out of prisons this week...
  11:07am
clarke:

FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Chris Hiatt:

Morning, folks. Michael Shelley, hope you had a good week off.
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prof.fuzz:

ClarkEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
  11:09am
clarke:

the F train - is full of .. FuZZZ
  11:09am
rx "rexy" scabin:

Wait. Are they number one hits or number one "style" music?
  11:10am
rx "rexy" scabin:

I mean hits.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ nycmusicnerd @11:06
can you please post a link?
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:10
Working on it. I've got crappy DSL here at home.
  11:11am
ScottinDenver:

Headed to my 40th high school reunion with tunes from Michael Shelley. All 12 of us. It used to be 13.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Gotta Lot Of Rhythm In My Soul" by "Patsy Cline"
⦿Sun in ♍Virgo, Year of Water 🐒Monkey
' Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley)
September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:10
Here you go:

www.washingtonbid.org...
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ nycmusicnerd @11:12
Also: If you're on Facebook, Greg Townson posted something on his FB page last night. That's how I found out.
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Cracked Up Over You" by "Danny White"
G.
G.
Y.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Morning all
  11:13am
clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:11
not sure if she was born there, but patsy lived in Frederick, MD for a while.
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Don Gorden:

Yo Mike , good morning all
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listener phat in Lincoln:

#1 hits!
  11:13am
clarke:

howdy ya'll!!
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nycmusicnerd:

Gonna throw a Hail Mary here. If anybody lives near a NJ train station (ANY station) & you're willing to drive to Washington, I can take a train to your station & meet up with you there. Willing to chip in $$ for gas.
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Don Gorden:

saw a special on Patsy's life and death , and the plane crash site, crazy details omn her death.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The"
How good - I ask you.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Don Gorden @11:16
Spooky. They say she knew when she'd die.
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Frank In Queens:

Thanks Michael
  11:21am
clarke:

↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The"
niiice.!
  11:24am
clarke:

the seven-dollar-muffin - toddspeak.
  11:25am
Jeff formerly from Rahway:

Montauk is beautiful! I’m listening along the Barnegat Bay at the Jersey Shore rn. I enjoyed a $14 cheesesteak and it was magnificent.
  11:25am
georgia:

Michael, the baglels are cheaper at the bagel shop!
  11:26am
clarke:

hi GA!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Let Me Be There" by "Freddie Hart"
I live for the male bass part.
  11:26am
clarke:

↳ Song: "Let Me Be There" by "Freddie Hart"
toucan cher.
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Frank In Queens:

Barbiturate poisoning...that's an interesting way to put it.
  11:28am
Gregory Lopez:

Hello everybody.
  11:28am
rx "rexy" scabin:

Goodbye, Michael and Everyone. I am taking the truck to the winery to pick up some cases of wine. We like wine.
  11:29am
tonyb:

Bodega @ 110th & 5th. Best Manhattan muffin bargain I’ve found. $2.50 & you can actually taste the blueberries.
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Frank In Queens:

Oh that was beautiful! 10/10!!!
  11:30am
clarke:

↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:28
8/10
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Moammar:

Bongo feet!
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Let's Go Back To School" by "Brenda Jones"
I was going to say "perfect bongo feet" after that first fill. But was it? Maybe not.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:30
8????!!!!!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Let's Go Back To School" by "Brenda Jones"
ooo... I like that Hanna Barbera "running" drum fill
  11:30am
clarke:

10/10 for shelley
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Gotta Lot Of Rhythm In My Soul" by "Patsy Cline"
Tomorrow in Manasquan:
algonquinarts.org...
  11:32am
clarke:

RX - does dad know you are taking the truck?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "If I Can't Change Your Mind" by "Sugar"
Is the hookiest of all hook-laden Bob Mould songs? I believe so.
  11:33am
clarke:

howdy, son!
  11:33am
Eli:

What was the date of that Mould show?
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Greg from ZONE 5:

↳ Song: "If I Can't Change Your Mind" by "Sugar"
#1!
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Lizardner Dave !:

I take a cab from whatever app is cheapest at the moment to get to WEH. Never even tried to park.
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Hughie Considine:

Hey ho! Greetings from ominously dark Chapel Hill!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Eli @11:33
Tomorrow
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Good Lord almighty on high Sugar were a great goddamn band.
  11:34am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:34
are the streetlights on??
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:34
Sorry, 10/8
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Lizardner Dave !:

And I already have tickets for this. Get there early, Jason Narducy is opening. (Split Single, Verbow, Superchunk, Bob Mould band..)
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Lizardner Dave !:

↳ Eli @11:33
Sunday 10/8.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:34
Can't tell, but our path lights most certainly are.
  11:36am
Eli:

@Lizardner Dave ! Ah...I thought he said Aug 8.
  11:36am
SeanG:

just started getting into Jerry Jeff Walker this past week--he's the best
  11:36am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:35
path lights are the gateway lights.
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prof.fuzz:

Happy Happy Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon Landing Denier Day!*

*to those who celebrate.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "If I Can't Change Your Mind" by "Sugar"
Michael, I can actually think of a female vocalist you might be familiar with who could cover that Sugar song.
  11:37am
clarke:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:36
he's got a good left.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:36
I love 'em. A true suburban luxury.
  11:38am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:37
next thing you know - streetlights pop on.
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McGroovey:

↳ nycmusicnerd @11:12
I'm thinking of going, but I haven't committed myself yet. It's a busy time for me now, spending party of my week in NJ and part of Rochester.

I'm going back to Rochester tomorrow, coming back to NJ on Thursday for Dad Damen, band rehearsal Friday night, back to Rochester again next Sunday.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Dance With The Surfin' Band" by "Hal Blaine And T...
Thx to Dennis Diken for informing that KeithMoon was a HalBlaine enthusiast. You can hear it !
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drr:

↳ McGroovey @11:38
Dad Damen is probably pretty apt. I expect that moniker will stick.
  11:39am
clarke:

↳ McGroovey @11:38
that's a lot of drivin'.
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @11:38
Should I go see the Hi-Risers Saturday night? Or should I've evening at home with Mrs McG?
  11:40am
clarke:

↳ drr @11:39
mcg has the best typos
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...und 7 Euros for das Ramen ...ach !...
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @11:40
*should I spend one evening with...
  11:40am
Eli:

@Frank In Queens Thanks!
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McGroovey:

↳ drr @11:39
[insert laughing guy emoji]
  11:41am
Cooh John:

Hello Michael and #1ers. From the New York groove to being wild!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @11:25
Nice. I know it's Barnegat Bay, but is 14 bucks generally the going rate these days?
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David Shortell:

↳ prof.fuzz @11:36
I was going to point out it's Otis Redding's 82nd birthday but perhaps that's greater cause for celebration.
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joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "Dance With The Surfin' Band" by "Hal Blaine And T...
Surf is weak tomorrow and Sunday but will be building all next week because of hurricane Lee; will be 5 to 7 feet by Friday!
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prof.fuzz:

↳ David Shortell @11:42
"sittin' on the dock of the lunar module wasting time..."
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Don Gorden:

I love old B&W movies'
  11:44am
Cooh John:

Take the missus, McGroovey. Tell Greg I said "hi". I saw him last Friday with LSJ.
  11:45am
bd:

death in yellowstone is a great book. we read it around the fire every night on our trip there!
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Don Gorden:

The Philadelphia story , is a good B&W comedy
  11:45am
clarke:

ted sounds like a badass.
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ Cooh John @11:44
I'm Cheryl the Music Nerd, and I approve this message.
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Dano59:

↳ McGroovey @11:38
Rochester is hoppin' these days
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Don Gorden:

I like HI powered voices like hers
  11:48am
Crei6hton:

Morning WFMU
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Dano59:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:37
Decemberists did a great AV Club Undercover performance with 5 acoustic guitars - including Sara Watkins.
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Frank In Queens:

Yes, once. I think I was 3 or 4 years old. Otherwise no....I've never been caught! 😜
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drr:

....this isn't Jane's Addiction...?
  11:49am
clarke:

i changed the price in a textbook, because i was broke, and my geology book got stolen. got caught.
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Don Gorden:

now this is a #1 hit for sure
  11:49am
Ed From Jersey City:

What record was ot?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Dano59 @11:48
Intriguing. Somebody had to have covered it. I was cheekily suggesting to Michael that it'd be neat if Juniper covered it.
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myron feld:

i got caught at Woolworth's boosting (or trying to) a Joe Cocker cassette. No charges were filed.
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joe mulligan:

Classic young Michael Shelley! Do you remember what the import was? Did you live in LA as a teen or was it vaca?
  11:50am
clarke:

↳ myron feld @11:49
and hear we are today!
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JohnEBGood:

Hi Michael. Caught shoplifting at Two Guys Rte 440 JC. How is Juniper ? Is she a freshmen??
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Chris Hiatt:

Caught at 11 or 12 at the local indy c-store. I ended working for the guy who caught me for 6 years later on.
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myron feld:

↳ clarke @11:50
I'm a changed man. Now there are no cassettes to steal.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ myron feld @11:49
You got by with a little help from your friends...
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Eli @11:33
10/8
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Montmaster J:

↳ myron feld @11:52
Good thing your're way past the statute of limitations!
  11:53am
clarke:

↳ myron feld @11:52
they sent a Letter to your parents.
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myron feld:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:52
They ran like hell. Only my girlfriend stuck around for me.
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Hughie Considine:

Got caught with a bag of Fritos corn chips in the local Garden State Farms in Tenafly by a lady named Mrs. Gizzi, who had a towering black bouffant. I changed my ways after that.
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myron feld:

↳ Montmaster J @11:53
Ah, put me in front of a fabled Bronx jury and I woulda walked!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ myron feld @11:53
Ouch! No honor among thieves...
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Dano59:

↳ Song: "Trouble Child" by "New Juggler Sound"
I kinda love this journeyman rocking out
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Bob Barth:

I got ya beat Michael. Put this in the category of old enough to know better. I'm 16 in the CVS at the Rockaway Mall. Had cash for Memorex tapes (2pack) had never stolen ANYTHING before and wanted to see if I could get away with it... I could not. Brought into a back room where my parents were called oh... and my buddy & I had girls with us. Not a proud momement but I can say that my life of crime both started and ended that evening.
  11:54am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:54
aren't you writing from leavenworth, now??
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:54
...so *you're* the Frito Bandito...
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nycmusicnerd:

Just checked the Hackettstown train schedule. There are NO TRAINS running to Hackettstown on the weekends. FML
  11:54am
John in Phoenixville:

Do You Believe in Magic Psychotic Reactions?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:54
Ai yi yi yi...
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myron feld:

Here's a clearer schedule for the Hi-Risers show: www.phillyfunk.com...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ John in Phoenixville @11:54
...I do now...
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Frank In Queens:

↳ nycmusicnerd @11:54
I'm right there with you. There's no way i'm getting out there next week, but i'd love to go.
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nycmusicnerd:

Michael: Washington is in Warren county. That's NORTH Jersey, along the PA border.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:54
I'm under house arrest and wear an ankle bracelet.
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Montmaster J:

↳ myron feld @11:54
Haha!
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McGroovey:

↳ Cooh John @11:44
I'll try to talk her into that version!
  11:57am
Jeff formerly from Rahway:

Washington in Warren County NJ?
  11:57am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:57
and the path lights show you the way out.
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nycmusicnerd:

↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @11:57
Yes
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nycmusicnerd:

The closest I can get to Hackettstown is Dover.
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Dano59:

↳ Bob Barth @11:54
Glad you saw the error of your ways - my getting-caught moment came at 14. Stole a bottle of vanilla extract (used in making fishing bait) from a Convenient. The real humiliation was a rent-a-cop answering the call, not a real cop
  11:59am
clarke:

↳ Dano59 @11:58
he was convenient. but.. not Handy!
  11:59am
John in Phoenixville:

Me too, Revolution Rabbit!
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Hughie Considine:

Is there anyone on the chat board who was actually good at petty larceny?
  12:00pm
SSS:

There's a dial?
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Bob Barth:

↳ Dano59 @11:58
Yeah if I recall it was Mall security that asked to look in my bag and I immediatly folded.
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Squints:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:00
Nah. Those people get called up to The Show.
  12:00pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:00
my college roomate got away with it ALL the time.
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JohnEBGood:

There is a Washington Township in South Jersey also known as Turnersville. Home to great boxer Mike Rossman. The Hit Man!!
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Silver Saddle Motel" by "Hi-Risers, The"
The Hi-Risers were the last show I saw at Long Branch's Whitechapel Projects (November 14, 2019).
The management was hostile to musicians so no bands play there anymore.
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Dano59:

I never had a record or anything - until I got a driver's license, anyway
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Hughie Considine:

It's a definite skill that depends on a certain attitude I think.
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Corey:

↳ Song: "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" by "Esther...
Sweet version!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:00
A. bunch of us formed a one off Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover band called Petty Larceny. We were pretty good at it.
  12:03pm
gf2002:

Had a friend who worked at Tower Records, Newbury and Mass Ave. They would put anti-theft strips in the videos when they still did rentals. So I somehow got her to get a VHS magnetic strip that wasn't deactivated. I hid it in a friends wallet (college dorm) and said let's go to Tower. One of us stood at the video counter, the other in the book section next to it. Of course the alarm went off when he walked through the video entry. They didn't do anything. One of us called the friend over to check out a book. The alarm went off again as he walked through. They looked at him, but did nothing. Then we called him back to the video section, and the alarm went off. Security came out and were going to take him back in an office to search him, I had to step in and explain before they did that. Had a big laugh that day. His expression was priceless when they were going to haul him into the office. Ahh to be young again and have VHS rentals at Tower.
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Bob Barth:

Michael you & I must be apart of the LA - NJ exchange program. I grew up in NJ and now live out here. You gotta keep the balance.
  12:04pm
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:03
i had a day=job across the corner from that tower. mid-90s
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Dano59:

↳ gf2002 @12:03
I miss Tower.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Dano59 @12:04
me too!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:03
I tip my hat to you. That is pure mathematical genius. Stan Lynch was the first rock star I ever spoke to so my love for them runs deep.
  12:05pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" by "Pernice Brot...
yes. oh yes.
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Dano59:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:05
Visited the stores in Manhattan, Toronto, Boston and Seattle. Always found cool zines, imports, and cutouts.
  12:06pm
gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:04
Nice! This would have been 94-95, I miss that Tower. And Newbury Comics right down the block, dropped a lot of cash at those places in the 90's.
  12:06pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:05
youtube has two great in-depth interviews with stanley in his studio.
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Don Gorden:

I like working girls
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" by "Pernice Brot...
I should put this in the car for the drive to Rochester tomorrow
  12:07pm
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:06
yeah, i worked at a dub-house above that Urban Outfitters.
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Dano59:

↳ Song: "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)" by "Pernice Brot...
what year/album is this from? Loved these guys since the '90s
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Dano59:

↳ Dano59 @12:06
oh, and London, too
  12:09pm
clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:07
not that this will help your drive, but i think the album just came out on vinyl re-issue.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:06
will totally seek them out. danke!
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joe mulligan:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:03
There’s a band called Petty Theft here in Marin
  12:09pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:09
i think it might be by a guy called The Drum Guy?? something like dat.
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Bob Barth:

He's working for the NY Stock Exchange.
  12:10pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:09
btw, i'm sure you know that stanley has GREAT stories and knows how to tell them!!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:05
It was obliviously fun to play those songs, so good. Steve Ferrone was certainly no slouch but Stan was the OG goodness!
  12:11pm
clarke:

FuZZZZZZZZZ
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Yeah, I'm going to all of that. SO psyched Monty Hall is back in business.
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Hubig Pie:

I stole from the US government when I was a cook on a boat in the Coast Guard. Had the local neighborhood grocery make up a phony invoice for luncheon loaf that was actually used to buy a $100 magnum of Moet champagne for my brother in laws wedding.The bottle wound up sitting in the back of my fridge for over a year, cork shrank and the fizzies died. Dumped it down the sink. A cautionary tale.
  12:12pm
gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:07
Very cool! Did you visit TC's Lounge? Dropped a lot of money there too, for no rational reason haha. There was a place right near there called The Tape Complex or something where we'd buy Ampex reels and DAT's and all that stuff pre-ProTools
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:10
I find Steve very stiff
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Creature Boy:

↳ Song: "Make This Train" by "Johnny Tillotson"
Found this album in mono not long ago . LOTs of good cuts
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Song: "Make This Train" by "Johnny Tillotson"
Interesting tune. Like a cross of Last Train To Clarksville, Star Collector, and Memphis, TN.
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Hoboken Jack:

Hello Michael, McGroove, Jeff, Prof, Frank, Clarke, NYCMnerd, is that actually you Baby, David, Greg, everybody!
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:13
yo! jack!
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clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:12
yes, had to pick up stuff at the tape complex from time to time. also, the building that Syncro Sound was in was just up the street, there, across from Newbury Comics.
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David Shortell:

I remember when Das Damen played at the Court Tavern in 1989. Much of the crowd had left after Mudhoney's set though.
Later, I'd see them back up Arthur Lee.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:10
I know Stan is quite a raconteur as well as a first-class drummer. I think his feel was crucial to that first bunch of LPs.
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clarke:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:13
hellooooo suh.
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gf2002:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:11
That is a classic! Did the skipper ever question what happened to all that luncheon loaf on board, like Bogart with the strawberries in Caine Mutiny?
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:13
Hey Jack! Best listener ever!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:10
couldn't agree more ... kind of like replacing Keith Moon with Kenny Jones...
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David Shortell:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:13
Are you going to Bomd Street today, Jack?
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Song: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your M...
See, I usually come home lovin' with drinkin' on my mind!
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:15
apparently, he is quite the engineer/producer, nowdays, too..
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Dano59:

↳ Song: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your M...
Saw a great honkytonk band last night / Loretta songs on the setlist. Classic country's where my head is at today
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McGroovey:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:13
Greetings, Jack-o
  12:17pm
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:16
but, by stan's own admission he was being a stupid jerk.
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Squints:

↳ gf2002 @12:15
Wouldn't he have been asking instead, "Where's the luncheon loaf? I thought we'd ordered a bunch."
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Hoboken Jack:

↳ David Shortell @12:16
I was toying with it, but had kind of mentally committed to seeing The Natvral at Princeton Record Exchange.
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Michael Shelley @12:12
Heard that and I concur. Definitely more of a studio ringer vibe. Stan was more open.
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clarke:

Hubig later cached away some caviar from the russian navy.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:17
Yup, he was completely open and honest in the Bogdanovich doc. Unlike, uh..Tom...
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Dano59:

Scruffy ... Charlie Chesterman!
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McGroovey:

I loved Scruffy the Cat! Never got to see them live, though.
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myron feld:

10k Maniacs: "My name is Natalie -- with a T!"
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clarke:

Charlie was the absolute BEST.
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drr:

Bogdanovich made a Tom Petty documentary?
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Rahne:

💜💜💜scruffy
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Hughie Considine:

↳ drr @12:20
Yup, "Runnin' Down a Dream"
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Hubig Pie:

↳ gf2002 @12:15
It all went unnoticed. But like Bogart, that captain was later relieved of his command, but that's a whole 'nother long story.
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Scott from Boston:

Scruffy!!! 🐈‍⬛
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McGroovey:

My favorite Scruffy the Cat song is "You Dirty Rat"
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Jeff formerly from Rahway:

Scruffy The Cat played on my college campus in 1988 w/Green.
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:21
good one!!
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gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:14
Funny you mention Synchro Sound, I just watched a documentary on YouTube yesterday called "Elliot Easton, Cars, and Guitars" or something like that and much of it was filmed at Synchro just after the Cars bought it. Neat documentary, I think it may have been on 'GBH originally. Lisa Karlin was the host. That whole area has changed so much, I'd probably get lost walking around. And I also miss Supremes and Little Stevies for pizza and sandwiches late night
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @12:21
I love how the chorus of You Dirty Rat doesn't happen after the first verse, so when it comes later, it's like an orgasmic pay-off
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Hughie Considine:

I just saw that Bill Janovitz's next book is about the Cars.
  12:22pm
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:22
i've seen that interview - it's great. they go to his house out in.. suburb.
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egould:

↳ Song: "Kissing Galaxy" by "Scruffy The Cat"
Love Scruffy the Cat. And yeah they made some number one hits along the way.
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McGroovey:

Charlie Chesterman's solo records are great also.
  12:24pm
gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:22
Yep, that's the one. And he shows off his guitar collection. Very cool documentary, I found it by accident and am glad I did! Shots of the old Rat in there too.
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David Shortell:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:17
After that 4 pm Princeton show, you can easily catch the Anderson Council and Palmyra Delran at Randy Now's Man Cave in nearby Hightstown--if there's any room left!
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clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:24
that, too, is on the youtube - or was.
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Dano59:

Appreciating all the Boston vibes today.
  12:26pm
clarke:

↳ Dano59 @12:25
Syncro was another studio prior to that, and Modern Lovers did some overnite sessions at that one. early 70's
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McGroovey:

You left (I Wanna) Hold You off the playlist. I had to Shazam it!
  12:27pm
clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:26
and...??
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drr:

↳ gf2002 @12:22
My North End address (Causeway Street) absolutely doesn't exist anymore. I saw it on Google Maps, it looked like a Star Trek planet, devoid of people (and the darkness I associate with that area that time (1987).
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Dano59:

↳ clarke @12:26
right! the name was familiar.
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @12:27
Jay Gonzales!
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clarke:

↳ drr @12:28
yeah that whole garden area is different.
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:29
see that, now. thnx!
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Peter Horvath:

Happy Saturday to Michael and all the #1’ers
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @12:29
Phshew!
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DG:

I think hearing "Mybabyshe'sallright" was my intro to Scruffy, sought out their stuff after that. They write great stuff & it's ridiculous they're not better known; they didn't even have a Wiki. page until a few years ago! Have "Tiny Days" & 1 EP but should get more, sorry I never saw them live. Also have this C. Chesterman EP that the They Might Be Giants guys put out.
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clarke:

when i lived there, in Allston Rock City the amount of bands/musicians in my immediate 'hood was mind-boggling.
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Dano59:

Freedy deserves a medal for making a Marshall Crenshaw B-side an enduring No. 1
  12:31pm
clarke:

↳ DG @12:30
Charlie's later band The Motorbikes was really great, too!!
  12:32pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Freedy Johnston"
quite enjoyed Freedy's appearance in the Embarrassment doc!!
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Dano59:

↳ clarke @12:31
(and The Firecrackers ... can't recall if that was just a one-off)
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clarke:

↳ Dano59 @12:35
YES!! AWESOME.
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @12:31
Hey, I wonder if you knew my friend Jon Johnson? He played doghouse bass in the Boston band... now I can't remember the name of the band... kinda rockabillyish...

He and I used to trade tapes and letters (remember letters?). He died at age 39 (~20 years ago) of a stroke or a heart attack, and he was apparently a healthy guy. Life is unpredictable!
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gf2002:

↳ clarke @12:31
Allston, definitely! Used to visit musician friends there often. Also remember a rehearsal studio we had, was it "The Music Complex" (?) in Somerville. Big warehouse that was either near or over a bakery that made donuts, and you could smell the donuts coming up through the floor boards. My drummer friend lived in one of the rooms for a time when he lost his pad, they had showers and all that.
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:36
i don't think i knew him - obviously would remember the doghouse
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clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:36
while i spent time in ALL those rehearsal halls, i had my own space just across and down the street in lower allston was the best. just the bands there, were mind-blowing.
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clarke:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Freedy Johnston"
wow = great stuff!!
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tonyb:

What helped more? Getting an A+ from Christgau or being on the film soundtrack (Pin-heads?)
  12:42pm
clarke:

great interview!! as usual.
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gf2002:

↳ McGroovey @12:36
Bourbonaires? I think I caught them on the same bill with a friend's band in the later 90's, but I'm not sure. Rockabilly combo with standup bass. I remember it being a loud show but can't remember exactly if it was The Bourbonaires
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Dano59 @12:31
What's that cut? I want to check it out.
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Dano59:

let's hear it for The Unassailables!
  12:43pm
clarke:

↳ gf2002 @12:42
i never got to see them.
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Dano59:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:43
'(You're My) Favorite Waste of Time'
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @12:37
The Bourbonaires!
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @12:44
He sent me tapes, but I never saw them live
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:44
i knew they existed but never got to a show of theirs, sadly.
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DG:

↳ Dano59 @12:31
That Crenshaw song ("...Favorite Waste of Time") was covered by a few other people, inc. Bette Midler, a year or 2 after it came out (I still have the b-side).
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egould:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Freedy Johnston"
“It’s boring!”
I should be so bored…
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Dano59 @12:44
Thanks!
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Dano59:

↳ DG @12:45
and later on: Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs; Jeffrey Foskett, et al.
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gf2002:

If the guitarist played a Scotty Moore-style gold ES-295, then I saw them. I don't know of too many other bands who had a 295 in Boston on stage but I could be wrong. I remember the guitar but can't confirm it was The Bourbonaires. Lot of beer was flowing that night.
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McGroovey:

↳ DG @12:45
Ooh, that's probably my favorite MC song. I didn't know about the Bette Midler covering it. Good for Marshall!
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Dan S:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Freedy Johnston"
Enjoying this interview. I became a Freedy Johnston fan back in the 1990s with "This Perfect World" "Blue Days Black Nights" etc. The ironic titles and somewhat downer lyrics struck a chord with me.
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Harry Corvair:

Unfamiliar with Freedy Johnston, really enjoying this interview.
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joe mulligan:

↳ Dan S @12:49
good stuff. he got a lot of airplay then on WXPN Philadelphia as well
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clarke:

i lived in a motel in ann arbor for over a month, in between legs of a tour, and Freedy's album Never Home got me through that month.
  12:55pm
clarke:

it came off WELL!! thanks MS!!
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morphe':

Thanks mikey and freedy and all !!
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Dano59:

Great interview! Always nice when musos share some wisdom
  12:56pm
clarke:

all #1's!!
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joe mulligan:

great interview Michael Shelley!
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Bad Reputation" by "Freedy Johnston"
This whole disc is great. But this one is the banger.
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Hoboken Jack:

I had a lot of fun interviewing Freedy a handful of years ago (during the first attempt at recording the current album) and I'm looking forward to this Outpost show!
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Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Bad Reputation" by "Freedy Johnston"
Great interview This song puts me back.
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joe mulligan:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:56
makes me miss living in Bloomfield/right near Montclair
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clarke:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:56
where's that interview, jack??
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Frank In Queens:

Great show Michael!
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Dan S:

↳ clarke @12:53
"Never Home" was another 1990s FJ album I played a lot.
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Hoboken Jack:

↳ clarke @12:57
hmag.com...
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Hoboken Jack:

Thank you Michael! Great interview and show! In fact, best show ever!
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Dano59:

Freedy contributed a few songs to Nick Hill's Radio Free Song Club - www.youtube.com...
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clarke:

↳ Hoboken Jack @12:58
thanks - you deliver.
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clarke:

good gosh time flies... good nite.
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nycmusicnerd:

Thanks Michael!

And...if anyone is thinking about the Hi-Risers show, please feel free to msg me. Thanks!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ MS ~
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Hoboken Jack:

↳ Dano59 @12:59
I loved that show!
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