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Brett McKenzie  If You Wanna Go   Favoriting This lp, on colored vinyl is our first prize of the show! CLICK HERE for the full track listing & info 
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NRBQ  It Feels Good   Favoriting This FIVE CD BOX SET is our grand prize! CLICK HERE for the full track listing 
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Pledge Now  It's As Easy As Pie   Favoriting Call 1-800-989-9368 
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Chris Clark  Head To Toe   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Gary Lewis And The Playboys  Barefootin'   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Deke Dickerson  What's So Funny, 'Bout (Peace, Love and Understanding)   Favoriting CLICK HERE for the great video for this song 
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Get A Pair  Of Socks   Favoriting CLICK HERE to take a look at ALL of this year's swag 
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Ken Lazarus  Come And Get It   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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NRBQ  The Moon And Other Things   Favoriting From our current prize, the album "Dragnet," on cd! ! CLICK HERE for the full track listing 
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Del Shannon  From Me To You   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Nite Sobs  Victoria   Favoriting wont you let us take you on a 
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Cousins, The  Little Honda   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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NRBQ  I Want You Bad   Favoriting The FIVE CD BOX SET "High Noon" is our grand prize! CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers  This Kind Of Music   Favoriting From one of our current prizes "Jonathan Sings." CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Ann Peebles  It's Your Thing   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Fools Face  Won't Make It Hard For You   Favoriting CLICK HERE for info on Springfield, Mo. '80s band Fools Face 
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Marianne Faithfull  Can't You Hear My Heartbeat   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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NRBQ  Can't Wait To Kiss You   Favoriting The FIVE CD BOX SET "High Noon" is our grand prize! CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Bob Dorough  Don't Think Twice, It's All Right   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers  Lydia   Favoriting For one of our current prizes "Back In Your Life." CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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Al Green  I Want To Hold Your Hand   Favoriting From this years TWO CD premium "Four Ears To Hear You" CLICK HERE for the full track listing & more info 
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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 check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

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 check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

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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hey now. i'm caught up with the wrong crowd.
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Sweet relief, finally. Good morning!
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DennisK:

Aloha and happy Saturday PLEDGE DRIVE DAY
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Matt Clarke:

Go Michael n Spazz!
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Frank In Queens:

HeeEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy NOW!
  11:02am
clarke:

good day, Queens!
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dreamyandseedy:

good morning michael and dave! happy marathon!
  11:02am
rx scabin:

Good morning, Michael, Co-host, and Everyone.
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nnaavvaall:

My shoes are off. Hi Michael and Dave!
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Corey:

Good morning Michael and listeners! Happy marathoning!
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Christina Ginger:

Goooood morning!
  11:03am
clarke:

ms. Queens!!
  11:04am
ledzeppelinsucks:

National Fanny Pack Day. Sucks.
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "If You Wanna Go" by "Brett McKenzie"
#1
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Christina Ginger:

↳ clarke @11:03
Indeed , it’s me 👸🏻.
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drr:

not as much as World Fanny Pack Day.
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Listener Baby:

You are correct, Baby. It does feel good!
  11:04am
clarke:

↳ Song: "It Feels Good" by "NRBQ"
The Voice!!!
  11:04am
Fred And Alan:

Good morning everyone
  11:05am
Bob:

I hope you aren't feeding Spazz any coffee!
  11:05am
Peter Horvath:

Ahoy Michael and the #1’ers
  11:05am
clarke:

↳ drr @11:04
very confusing for bomb detection!
  11:06am
clarke:

↳ Bob @11:05
how's it there in Ypsi country?
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drr:

Actually, I received a fanny pack as a gift recently, and I like it and I use it a lot. I'm a fanny pack guy now.
  11:08am
Bob:

↳ clarke @11:06
Rough week of weather but my son is fixed on going to the skatepark today. Sun is out anyhoo
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Dano59:

Michael the Amazing Mentalist: I was thinking at 10:59 how "nice" it would be to hear you play NRBQ.
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herb.nyc:

im about to pledge to the show. but i'm a little disturbed how HELL is in michael's last name.
  11:08am
rx scabin:

@drr one never knows where Life will take us.
  11:09am
clarke:

↳ Bob @11:08
the skatepark in AA>? pure michigan!!
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Frank In Queens:

The weather is Queens today is perfect for staying in and listening to the radio all day.
  11:09am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:09
sleet?? snow?? we got shorts on down in nola.
  11:10am
Bob:

Yep. The skate rats shoveled the show
  11:10am
Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning Michael & Spazz!
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nnaavvaall:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:09
Same here across the river. Gonna listen and do laundry.
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Bob:

↳ Bob @11:10
snow. jeez
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:09
Just wet. Some sort of bizarre mix of precipitation.
  11:11am
clarke:

gotcha! spring has sprung, already - for weeks now, really.
  11:12am
clarke:

i was just in MS (mississippi) for two weeks, and even there there's blue jays a'chirpin'!
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DennisK:

Just threw down for NUMBER ONE HITS! BOOYAH!!!
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Frank In Queens:

↳ clarke @11:12
Send some our way. I'm about done with the cold.
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Christina Ginger:

That’s a beautiful pie! Crack Pie is a recipe from Milk Bar. Supposedly lives up to its name, as Michael just proved.
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Dano59:

my favorite band that's not the x or the x, that still exists, "that's not the Marty Stuart band" -- lol! now that's whatyacall a 'codicil' (among some Fabulous Superlatives!)
  11:13am
clarke:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:13
of course, this is the point where you can snicker in september as we sweat.
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Handy Haversack:

Hey now! Michael! Spazz! clarke! Frank! Christina! All!
  11:15am
clarke:

HANDY!!
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clarke:

i bet you don't feel tardy!!
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Christina Ginger:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:14
Hey Handy!
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Frank In Queens:

Hey Handy
  11:16am
clarke:

ok, how'd THAT photo happen?!?
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drr:

It's awful nice here, but if you want to pollinate any oaks, why, just come run your finger over any old parked car, that should do the trick. (Side note: "Flonase" works!)
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dale:

marty stuart and the fabulous superlatives are - fabulous!! only just discovered them.
  11:17am
clarke:

↳ drr @11:16
oak pollen is not bad for me, but pine-pollen? makes me ill, and i just came from just the edge of the pine-belt. thanks Allegra!!!
  11:18am
rx scabin:

@Christina Ginger hot take: overated.
  11:19am
clarke:

@handy - you aren't at the station now, are ya??
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phat in lincoln:

Morning all!
  11:19am
Glistener MW:

Ahh, yes, this incredible Deke Dickerson EC cover! <3 Deke, please put it on a record sometime, so I can give you $ for it!
  11:20am
clarke:

↳ phat in lincoln @11:19
good day sir!
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StuartR:

A #1 hit cover by Deke
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myron feld:

Michael Shelley, the track listing for that premium is (channeling Jerry Carroll) IN-SANE! Cannot wait to receive it as part of the Swag 4 Life premiums. Everyone, if you can, I strongly urge Swag 4 Life membership.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:19
Not today, clarke! We'll be in tomorrow afternoon.
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clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:21
pure!!
  11:22am
ledzeppelinsucks:

What is Frost Heave? Frost Heave signs have been staked in plow berms around ME 11 near Fort Kent and Allagash. Roads are crumbling and flooding from melting plow chum.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:21
Our man Pure Tim will be in NJ and at the station tomorrow!
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Christina Ginger:

↳ rx scabin @11:18
I’ve never had it, as it’s far from vegan, but I‘ve never even had the desire to veganize it because it just doesn’t seem like something that fits into my dessert preferences (unlike my veeg Basque cheesecake, hot damn, so good!). Glad to see I’m not alone in that sentiment.
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ChukAmok:

Michael Shelley back at it!
  11:23am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:22
oh yeah!! that's right - and Tim has another Pure Drop-In, right?
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phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:20
Good morning!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ ledzeppelinsucks @11:22
It where the roads freeze and thaw, freeze and thaw, and form big bumps from it.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:23
I think in May.
  11:24am
clarke:

↳ phat in Lincoln @11:23
do you have phrost heaves?
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Chris Hiatt:

Hey Dave the Spazz and Michael Shelley, folks.
  11:26am
ledzeppelinsucks:

Yesterday this Frost Heave was accelerating as I drove the same roads for cell audit. Mud, holes and asphalt chunks developing every 20 minutes.
  11:26am
clarke:

ah ha ha!! ever get the feeling you been cheated?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:24
I certainly hope so!
  11:28am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:26
how goes the band rehearsals?
  11:29am
Glistener MW:

“Come And Get It” will always remind me of the incredible (and incredibly bonkers) Peter Sellers / Ringo Starr movie “The Magic Christian”. (Was it written for that film? It certainly pops-up in it as frequently as one would expect an original-song to!)
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:28
Slowly. But I'ma do some solo, decidedly un-pop, guitar garbage later. I've spent a lot of time actually practicing for a change, lately.
  11:29am
ledzeppelinsucks:

ME roads are pieces of excrement.
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clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:29
cool! gotta name for the combo, yet?
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clarke:

↳ ledzeppelinsucks @11:29
you've obviously never been to new orleans!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ~
  11:31am
clarke:

nipsey russel ref - kudo!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:30
Vector 23. It's a drone improv unit. I actually need a pop band.
  11:32am
Glistener MW:

“Rolodex of the Dead” would be a great name/theme for a DJ Premium.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:30
Or NYC. I've driven around in rural Maine a lot. Will happily take it over the three-inch steel plates tossed down over sink holes that we get around here.
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Dano59:

↳ Glistener MW @11:29
oh yes! Paul McCartney-wrote it for the movie and produced the Iveys session for their first release as Badfinger.
  11:33am
clarke:

i'll take ME anyday any way!
  11:34am
ledzeppelinsucks:

I have been to Monroe, Vinton, Sulpher Springs, Lake Charles, Texarkana, Denham Springs, Metairie and other lousy LA towns.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:33
For reals. I think we're not going to make it there this summer. Gotta do some West Coast stuff.
  11:35am
clarke:

ha ha, well, i believe third world countries have better streets than nola.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:31
How's your continued recording going these days?
  11:35am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:35
keep me in loop for that west coast action!! (me, too!)
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James in ATL:

Always great to hear NRBQ! Thank you Michael!
  11:35am
ledzeppelinsucks:

ME is loaded with pill popping video gamers and alcoholics. Probation is an industry here.
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myron feld:

↳ Song: "The Moon And Other Things" by "NRBQ"
Hey, Dave the Spazz's 2022 premium was Dragnet Rock'n'Roll. Kismet!
  11:36am
Bob:

Mulling a 3.5 hour drive to Cincinatti next Saturday for NRBQ. Probably have to drive straight back though.
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Handy Haversack:

Ceçi n'est pas une drille.
  11:36am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:35
if you meant me, i just got back from two weeks tracking drums in MS - went great after a rough start!
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Handy Haversack:

↳ clarke @11:35
Will do! Probably first two weeks of September.
  11:37am
ledzeppelinsucks:

I am in Fort Kent, Cajuns are from here.
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James in ATL:

↳ Bob @11:36
Do it, Bob! If they ever get within a few hours of Atlanta, I am going!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

On my way back from the airport in Omaha a few weeks ago I hit a pothole so bad it popped the door handle mechanism on my car.
  11:38am
clarke:

↳ ledzeppelinsucks @11:37
well, from nova scotia then maybe fort kent!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:36
I did mean you. Great. Is this at the barn? Was that MS?
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Dano59:

↳ Bob @11:36
I've driven that far - to Albany - for the Q, but maybe not now; not at my age or in this weather.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "From Me To You" by "Del Shannon"
Del was on it here before Beatles hit or arrived in the USA iirc.
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Dano59:

Michael's Visual Team is ON IT today.
  11:39am
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:38
yeah, that barn sounds great - it is really a converted guest room, but the ceilings are barn inclined so no square corners. good sounds!!
  11:39am
rx scabin:

Thank you, Michael and Dave. I must go clean off the car and shovel the 8 inches of snow we got yesterday.
  11:39am
ledzeppelinsucks:

The USA is rural addicts, shit infastructure and probation scams.
  11:40am
Bob:

↳ James in ATL @11:37
Yeah, I've done this one there and back before. Even Chicago and back. Also not as young anymore
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drr:

ledzeppelinsucks: I live in Louisiana, it's my adopted home and I like it but you're right about Vinton. Weirdly unfriendly, even threatening, and all they have for road food is an Arby's.
  11:40am
rx scabin:

@ledzeppelinsucks sounds like my town.
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Hubig Pie:

Make it a small double vodka....
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Hubig Pie @11:41
I'm having a Lunkhead -- the official drink of Saturdays on WFMU!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:39
Want to hear it.
  11:42am
clarke:

me too!
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herb.nyc:

the player's club! i once went to a free event there and when i entered, i saw tony randall about to leave. our eyes met and he smiled at me.
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Dano59:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:31
I'm going the cassette underground route with some diy recordings. Just woodshedding over the winter - mostly acoustic rock & playing electric guitar for a change; just trying to get some songs down in a lo-fi pop vein
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herb.nyc:

david newgarden! on a Best Show podcast, they joked that he now manages yoko ono. but i'm guessing it's fact, not joke.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Dano59 @11:43
Cassette underground sounds like a great idea. And lofi! Maybe I should break out my old Tascam 4 track!
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Frank In Queens:

Not an easy thing to do at all
  11:45am
ledzeppelinsucks:

Some of the probation scam is to place the subject in a category that gets the community funding while saying the person isn't really a criminal to some and saying they are to some other agency to maximize funding and minimize statistics.
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Handy Haversack:

Monday evenings on WFMU are unmissable. Techtonic, It's Complicated, Vocal Fry? Please. That's just heaven.
  11:45am
clarke:

speaking of celeb sightings, i just saw jennifer coolidge when i was running in the 'square'.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:45
And I won a book!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I should pledge another $20 today
  11:47am
clarke:

J & J!!!~
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Handy Haversack:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:46
YEAH! Phat won a book!!
  11:49am
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @11:48
speaking of books...
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Dano59:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:44
I got hooked on bedroom pop about a year ago and realized i wanted to do that. A Tascam, a mic stand, pedals and a little mixer. here's a cool '80s-'90s cassette artists site -- livingarchive.doncampau.com...
  11:50am
morphe':

A listener who worked on one of the East River-Hudson mast ships did a cruise once ...
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Dano59 @11:49
Fantastic!
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Christina Ginger:

Knockdown will be nice and roomy, and has a lovely outdoor milling / selling / eating space if the weather is nice.
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Hubig Pie:

More fun than a hockey monkey !
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @11:49
Too bad I can't read.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Wait...
  11:55am
clarke:

↳ Dano59 @11:49
nice, dano!
  11:55am
clarke:

The Voice!! AGAIN!!!
  11:57am
clarke:

mister ardolino - your pizza has arrived!!
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Dano59:

↳ clarke @11:55
spending half of a stimulus check on a little Vox amp was part of the impetus / what got me motivated.
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James in ATL:

↳ Song: "I Want You Bad" by "NRBQ"
Now THAT is a Number 1 Hit!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I should probably eat. Glad I have leftover pizza
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Pedro in Arlington:

Tie for No. 1 deejays.
  11:58am
clarke:

↳ Dano59 @11:57
hey - it was a stimulus!!
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pp:

which WFMU stream to listen to for NRBQ? on at the same time!
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Dano59:

↳ pp @11:58
take one now and one later
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ledzeppelinsucks:

That was terrific.
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ledzeppelinsucks:

Can't wait to hear it again.
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Dano59:

↳ clarke @11:58
"it's not like it's MY money"! actually the amp was new and $150 cheaper than the Gtr Ctr price
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MO MIZ:

2 DJ's together that live bands were as good as their radio shows. Sea Monkey's at Coney Island High and Michael Shelly at Fez! Nice to hear you both and Cheers to Marathon fun!
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McGroovey:

↳ Dano59 @11:57
I figured out that we must know someone in common, Dom of WRFI, etc. It's possible that we figured this out before, but I've forgotten.

I haven't done any bedroom recordings in a while. My weapon of choice is a little Tascam digital 8-track. I don't usual use all 8.
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Paulo AD:

Hi Dudes, do you need a donation from a very drunk Welshman?
  12:01pm
Bob:

Love hearing some hate for Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I never know how to make sure my in-show pledges get added to my actual annual monthly deal. Lol.
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ledzeppelinsucks:

I was force fed 'Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me' at work many times.
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drr:

Interesting--I got a little Tascam Portastudio yesterday and stayed up most of the night recording with it. Those things are like four times better than they used to be at a fourth of the price.
  12:03pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

'Wait wait don't tell me' sounds boosted with canned applause and laughter.
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Dano59:

↳ drr @12:02
attaboy
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Paulo AD @12:01
Who wouldn't?!
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Dano59:

↳ McGroovey @12:00
yes, I must have mentioned rfi and you put 2+2 together. i even know your first name
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drr:

I listen to Michael Shelley and Wait Wait at the same time, surely I'm not the only one? I can't get enough limericks.
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ledzeppelinsucks:

The food here is crude grease and gravy swill. The grocery store doesn't have vegetarian soup or a plant based section.
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drr:

↳ Dano59 @12:04
Thanks Dano59--nothing to post yet but there will be.
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Dano59:

... you interviewed karina longworth? wow. Love 'you must remember this'.
And you're mentioning all my favorite / seminal records-songs-artists.
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Dano59:

↳ drr @12:06
we should put together a WFMU Chatboard Compilation
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JimB:

LZsucks & drr, if you've never been to Bogalusa, continue not doing so. You're driving through what appears to be ghost town of empty streets, then you roll down a window and find out why. An intense stench like rotting cardboard from the paper mill at one end of town permeates the whole place. The only way to escape it is to leave the windows down and keep the ac on, which is why everybody stays inside. It only stops during shift changes. I've smelled it from as far away as Slidell. Still, I love La.
  12:07pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

Alcoholidays St Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo are always on the same day of the week. There are a few other ways to quickly point what week day a date is throughout the year.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Dano59 @12:07
It would be a 10-LP set!
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ledzeppelinsucks:

I was in Rumford ME last week and the pulp mill has a permanent fart on Waldo St.
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Dano59:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:07
well, you'd have pros like K8 and Prof. Fuzz ... and lots of rank amateurs. Could be fun
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McGroovey:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:07
You've convinced us!
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McGroovey:

↳ Dano59 @12:09
Rank? Oh, I didn't smell that bad.
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Mike Sin:

All of Michael’s interviews are not only a treasure for WFMU, but so valuable, in general, for historical reasons.
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McGroovey:

↳ McGroovey @12:11
*don't
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Mike Sin @12:11
Absolutely
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ledzeppelinsucks:

I like the interview with the Beach Boys manager or producer that said one of the Beach Boys fed a guy acid and took him on a suicidal motorcycle ride and freaked him out. He attacked the guy on an airplane.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Dano59 @12:09
Could be great. I have another thing I want to organize for Marathon next year, but a compilation CD might be a nice perk to give away as well? I'd say it's a project waiting on an organizer!
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Dano59:

↳ ledzeppelinsucks @12:13
my mind went straight to "Dennis" there
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Dano59 @12:09
my amateur rank is level 4, thank you very muck....
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clarke:

FuZZZZZZZZZZ
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prof.fuzz:

ClarkEEEEEEE
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McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Won't Make It Hard For You" by "Fools Face"
Great song. I've heard it before, so I guess you (or maybe EFD) have played it before.
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prof.fuzz:

↳ Song: "Won't Make It Hard For You" by "Fools Face"
i want to hear a female artist cover this song
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Dano59:

↳ McGroovey @12:11
I was speaking for myself ... a rank stranger
I self-identify as "dumbass folkie"
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McGroovey:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:14
Well, thanks for volunteering!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Dano59 @12:17
Rank Strangers were a great band from MN
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Handy Haversack:

Eddy!
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Handy Haversack:

Lolo!
  12:20pm
Lolo in Brooklyn:

Hi Handy!!
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Mailman Tom:

A.K.A. The Constitution State
  12:21pm
clarke:

Eddy!
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McGroovey:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:19
According to the interwebs, they still exist, and they're playing in May...

the plus
eau claire, WI
friday 12 may MMXXIII
with
drunk drivers/skintones
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myron feld:

Once you read the Chuck bio, you'll never think of chewing gum the same way again, even if you've never thought of it before.
  12:23pm
Daybreak, just Daybreak:

I saw BB King when he was upwards of 80+ at PNC of all places in 1998. It was awesome!
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Don Gorden:

Hi to Fernanda Ulibarri, our crazy lives ,.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ McGroovey @12:21
Whoa!
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Christina Ginger:

I have seen a decent amount of our now deceased, but I regret not seeing: Les Paul, Chuck Berry, and…. James Brown and Little Richard (double bill!) at the NYState fair in the late 90’s. I would have had a ride and everything, but I guess I just felt unprepared for it as a young un’.
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HyperDose:

↳ Christina Ginger @12:24
Les Paul died while I was in music school. Could have seen him :'(
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McGroovey:

Chubby Checker is playing at the NY State Fair this summer. I'ma try to get to that.
  12:27pm
DG:

The Monkees track Dave is thinking of is "I Was There (And I'm Told I Had a Good Time)" by Micky & Adam S. (from Fountains of Wayne & many other bands/projects). Lots of famous writers contributed to that album also, inc. Rivers Cuomo, Ben Gibbard, etc.
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Christina Ginger:

↳ McGroovey @12:26
The fair released their list?
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HyperDose:

↳ DG @12:27
Rivers has played on so many random albums you never would have guessed. Dude knows how to stay busy
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Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Christina Ginger @12:27
Seems so - nysfair.ny.gov...
  12:30pm
ChrisB.:

Today is Shemp’s birthday, Spazz.
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Handy Haversack:

"Twenty-oh-one they'll saaaaaaaaay!"
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Handy Haversack:

This was on ... Ken's show? Last year? There was a theme song that Kubrick commissioned. It's terrible!
  12:32pm
DG:

In the '80s/90s I had the same idea, to try to see as many early rock "legends" as I could. Saw Chuck Berry at the Ritz (now Webster Hall) & he was great (this was a little before the show in St. Loius that became the documentary), then saw him a few years later (at the other Ritz) & he was ehhh (& played "My Ding-a-Ling", unfortunately).....Lou Diamond Phillips opened the show. Also saw Little Richard (great, but did the same song like 3 times & got crazier as the night went on), Carl Perkins (wonderful) & Jerry Lee Lewis (in the '90s, he was kind of tired but not awful). Kicking myself that I never got to see Orbison or Bo Diddley though. Also caught James Brown at some free outdoor show downtown (NYC) in front of a inexplicably small crowd.
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myron feld:

There is this great Deke & Straitjackets album of famous instrumentals with the original lyrics: losstraitjackets.bandcamp.com...
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Christina Ginger:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @12:30
Ah, I see. I saw Cheap Trick on the free stage there some years ago, and have also seen ticketed shows. I actually like the state fair, and I am very much a city slicker 😂.
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Erella:

Funny, my car wears a WFMU bumper sticker proudly here in Toronto.
Every once in a while, someone will stop me to tell me how cool they think FMU is too.
It very much is like a secret handshake.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:31
It was from Ken's show. You have been warned: wfmu.org...

As someone said, it seems like it should have been on Music of Mind Control. But it was apparently seriously going to be the theme song! Oh, wow, is it bad.
  12:35pm
DG:

Wow, didn't know Marianne covered this; just heard a new-ish collection of all her singles from the '60s but this wasn't on it. I think she wanted to be a folk singer (& actually released two debut albums at the same time, one of which was folk) but I think was coerced into recording a lot of fluff, covers, etc.
  12:37pm
Euclid Joe:

Is that NRBQ and Dave The Spazz on my imaginary radio???
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ledzeppelinsucks:

Saw Bo Diddley 4 times and Albert Collins.
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:35
And how did I find it? The remarkable WFMU search function -- not even the Google-based one! All for free! All at our disposal!

Pledge for that!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ HyperDose @12:28
Bob Dorough was so amazing.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Of Socks" by "Get A Pair"
This is Michael here this photo ?? :D
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drr:

I only saw Bo Diddley three times (actually four I guess, he did two shows the first time).When he signed my LP with the original band pictured, he told me "Them two guys is dead."
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:39
That's Bucci!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:40
Oh ok ...if you have to ask dept. ...
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I'm with Dave on this about Dylan.
  12:42pm
Bob:

I saw Bo live in the late 80's at an outdoor show and he yelled at us for taking some video
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Dano59:

that is now my favorite Touched by the Hand of Bob story.
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McGroovey:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:14
Theme idea: bedroom recordings of Bob Dylan songs

Hmmm is that actually a good idea? I can't decide.
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ledzeppelinsucks:

Altoona PA is a full time bummer.
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clarke:

i backed up Bo Diddley on two shows in lafayette. he spent the whole time we weren't on stage trying to leave with my date.
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jmd:

I recall Andre Williams pitching his cologne on Dave’s show several years back.
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Hubig Pie:

Nola jazzfest was a feast for catching artists before they passed - Earl King, Fats D. , Little Richard, Chuck Berry, R.L. Burnside, BB King.....sadly no Diddley
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ledzeppelinsucks:

Bo Diddley was a ho. Tell me more.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

This is about how Dylan relates - or not - to Pop... & what are these things anyhow... Leiber & Stoller are not Bob & vice versa. Dylan started a Folkie - was noted as a 'Protest Singer' for a notable stretch - then was the Prophet of Personal Poetry in Rawk presaging Psychedelia.
  12:45pm
clarke:

i backed up Andre Williams on a european tour - he still owes me $800. good luck widdat!
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Dano59:

(have there been any prize drawings yet/)
I'm TRYING to pay attention but there is so much GOING ON with this show
"My ADD" could be a pop song
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @12:45
Whoa
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clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:47
he also owes jack oblivion the same amount.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ clarke @12:45
Would you please pass the $800, please !
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clarke:

no!
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Dano59:

↳ clarke @12:45
best-dressed man in show bidness. Passed him as he was walking into the Horseshoe Tavern in T.O., red velvet pimp suit and hat; beautiful girl on each arm.
  12:49pm
clarke:

the tour was great - good band. so why not pay the good band?!?
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Dano59 @12:48
Wait, are we still talking about clarke?
  12:51pm
clarke:

hah, i wish! i have gnat-bites on each arm, presently!!
  12:52pm
clarke:

the gnat in southern miss are HUGE!!
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Dano59:

↳ ledzeppelinsucks @12:44
maybe that's why it's home to a White Deer rehab center
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Bob:

↳ clarke @12:49
Clarke, one of my favorite shows ever was seeing Andre play at Zingerman's restaurant in Ann Arbor. Their baconfest event. It was a bunch of rich seniors who were there for artisan dining and Andre came straight out with "I'm a Bad MF'r" Classic
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Dano59 @12:48
Apparently he can afford clothes because he doesn't pay his band. Lol.
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Jim the Poet:

I got the feeling
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Dano59:

shut up, Al Green!
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clarke:

totally!! it's like the reverse rip-off from the 50's!
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clarke:

GGY!!!
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Dano59:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53
makes sense
musical artists can be very 'funny' about money
  12:54pm
thesecoronalives:

i feel like the beatles' cultural capital increased incidentally as a result of virtually everyone's hearing "I get high" in these lyrics..
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob @12:52
I lived two blocks from Zingerman's for a year and went there precisely twice. I can't even imagine what the prices must be like now. I think Cantorian transfinite numbers would have to be involved.
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Don F.:

Very cool Rev. Al cvr. Thx for playin', Michael!
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Dano59:

↳ clarke @12:53
I once witnessed jimmy cliff's manager threaten a theatre owner when all the box office receipts weren't there. Someone 'went home' with the cash.
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Bob:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:55
Giant ripoff but also, you can't say it isn't fantastic
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clarke:

↳ Bob @12:52
i still respect his performing, but shant be backing him, no mo'!!
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bobobob Fabtriplasticland I:

I sang with him up in the dressing room Shank hall in Milwaukee he complimented me on my singing..Tried to find a song he didn't know .. Richmans alot better guitarist than he gets credit for
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Hubig Pie:

↳ Song: "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by "Al Green"
I like Al's swingin' cover
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McGroovey:

↳ clarke @12:45
Karen Dewitt owes me $250.

(This only makes sense if you listen to an NPR station in NY State. She's (one of?) the NY public radio Albany reporter(s). She was one of my roommates in college, and she never gave me my deposit back )

(Not as interesting as being owed money by Andrew Williams, I guess)
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I often think the people who don't think the Beatles were any good should pay attention to who covered their songs. Al Green, for example. Like that dude didn't know a good song.
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clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:55
never went to Zingerman's?? what street?
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Bob @12:55
The second time I went it was because a friend really wanted it. We agreed to split a sandwich so we could afford rent that month. We of course got high first. As they're making the sandwich, we're taking in the samples of oil, spreads, etc. that they put out. My friend is 6'6" and was just SHOVELING this stuff down. I'm trying to be a little circumspect bit still am high and there's free food. I move toward a bowl, and there's this dude at it with like head-to-toe goretex and a $3000 dollar bike. "What is it?" I ask. "Oh, a French raspberry preserve with --" and my friend materialized between him and the bowl, scoops up a huge dollop and yells, "HANDY! IT'S SOME KIND OF JELLY!"

Ann Arbor.
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clarke:

↳ McGroovey @12:56
hey, people that welch suck in any situation!!
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Michael, Dave, all! How did it end so fast?! Will pledge next week!
  12:59pm
Bob:

↳ clarke @12:57
the deli is on Detroit in Kerrytown. This was their Roadhouse restaurant on the Westside
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Great show. Thanks guys.
  1:00pm
Bob:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:58
HAHAHA!
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alan the painter:

beu ti filled stage management kids!
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clarke:

thanks guys!!! it was the bestest!!
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