WFMU: It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from July 24, 2023

Listener comments!
	🤯 6:55pm G: Ready to go… don’t blink or you miss 5%…
	6:57pm dale: hey now.
	6:58pm dale: listened to a bunch of nektar today. enjoyed it a great deal.
	7:00pm ultradamno: Dave! Mandlotrons!
	7:01pm mic_a: Hallooo, Dave and prognoceroses!
	🤯 7:01pm Webhamster Henry: Monorail to 5% is a classic WFMU segue.
	🤯 7:01pm Troy: What's the PROGnosis?
	7:01pm ike-0: Peace - nice to be here live for a change :)
	7:01pm chresti: Hi Dave complicated show!
	7:01pm ultradamno: I like Dave The Spazz for fill in, as my hello post will stay the same.
	🤯 7:01pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Dave Mandl and all!!!
	7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Welcome back, Dave!
	7:01pm Ciggy: Hey Dave Shiela B was superb
	7:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:01 Haha, yes it sure is.
	7:02pm P-90: “MONORAILLLLLL…”
	🤯 7:02pm tim: Hey Dave! Hello Prog ladies and dudes!
	🤯 7:03pm SeaCreature: Yay! Strapping in for the ride on the stereoRail
	🤯 7:03pm tim: It IS getting complicated.
	7:03pm Chris Hiatt: Hallo, all.
	7:03pm bleubombersune: Dave-----Prog is Sizzling Hot 2Nite
	7:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: There is no Dana. Only Zuul.
	7:04pm Dean: So funny! I referred a friend of mine to Das Rad's latest record. He replied that it had elements of Zeuhl. Just two days ago.
	7:04pm Coach32sm: Prog a licious
	7:04pm dday: Liquid Hot Magma www.youtube.com...
	🤯 7:04pm G: Scherzo = joke (musical term). Group name implies “joke zoo”?
	7:05pm Carmichael: Heya Dave, we were talking about Plastic People of the Universe the other day. Just putting a bug in your ear …
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: Evening, friends and neighbors. Nice to be back here.
	7:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PrawgJawk Raydeo ! - sweeps the Ratings Nationwide this Summer...
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Carmichael @7:05 Ah, yes, I'll play the Plastic People at some point. Maybe soon.
	7:06pm drumbone: Hi Dave
	7:06pm sydnius: ↳ Carmichael @7:05 one word.
	7:06pm Dean: This friend created his own language, which gained popularity across the world. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/theres_a_wor_for_that
	7:06pm Dave Mandl: Hey, Mr. drumbone.
	7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Carmichael @7:05 ...Czech's in the mail...
	7:07pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Dave and all. Gotta get some dinner going.
	7:08pm P-90: And Joshua Foer wrote it up? I’ll have to find a way around that paywall and check it out…
	7:08pm Dave Mandl: And a big hello to G, dale, ultreadamno, Henry, Troy, ike-o, chersti, Will, Wendy!, Ciggy, P-90, tim, SeaCreature, Chris, bleubombersune, Dean, Coach, dday, RRN63, sydnius, Handy!
	7:08pm Dave Mandl: Apologies for typing mistakes.
	🤯 7:08pm HollyRT: Hi hi hi
	7:09pm Dave Mandl: Evening, Mlle Holly.
	7:11pm mic_a: There should be Crunchy Fender Rhodes ice cream.
	🤯 7:11pm HollyRT: Re: Plastic People --I knew Vrat'a Brabenec when I lived in Prague (PROG!). He lived in my neighborhood
	7:12pm dday: Had to laugh at this kinda prog-ish moment in a documentary I watched about the late Jay Bennett of Wilco. Seems he was in the studio working on his solo stuff & playing an actual Mellotron when the power transformer started smoking then the instrument burst into flames. He just kept playing, laughing maniacally. Unfortunately there's not actual video of the event rather an animation with a voice over by one of his studio engineers
	🤯 7:12pm HollyRT: (I lived in Prague 2--Vinohrady)
	7:12pm P-90: There’s that de rigeur Hammond organ tone we always talk about
	7:12pm Dean: @P-90: You're paywalled? Damn. It's a good story, with some odd twists and turns. But I spent just about every day from fourth grade into high school with the subject. Foer and my buddy John are good friends now.
	7:12pm coelacanth∅: good evening Dave and all
	7:12pm sydnius: ↳ dday @7:12 circuitbending man!
	7:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PragueRawk, yes.
	7:13pm Dean: Scherzoo also claims Canterbury as an influence. I get the same vibe from Jacques. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Thollot pronounce toe-YOE?
	7:14pm dday: Considering attending this Andy Summers show tomorrow night: www.sugarloafpacny.com
	7:14pm Dean: Or toy-YOE?
	7:14pm sydnius: …we took it apart
	7:15pm dale: nick mason and rick wakeman in a comedy slam?
	7:16pm Dean: Twitter? What's Twitter?
	7:16pm P-90: Personally, I always try to catch an Andy Summers show if possible.
	7:17pm Coach32sm: Insiders will know "he was Masoned"
	7:17pm Dean: I really did not enjoy Live at Pompeii, which I saw on the big screen at a time when I actually watched movies. I particularly didn't think much of Mason.
	7:17pm ultradamno: He means X. And by tweet, x's (seriously that's what they're going to be called once they figure out how to make it say that)
	🤯 7:17pm HollyRT: I believe tweets are called XEETS now, Dave
	7:17pm mic_a: Nice. One of several albums that I consider Carla Bley 'stealth albums.' Hear also, Gary Burton's Genuine Tong Funeral and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra albums.
	7:18pm ultradamno: No, seriously, x's time.com...
	🤯 7:18pm tim: ↳ dday @7:14 I’ve been told that Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets band is a solid live experience.
	🤯 7:18pm HollyRT: Truly the stupidest rebranding in human history
	7:18pm Noel: Sounds like Les Claypool on bass.
	7:19pm ultradamno: It really is so dumb
	7:19pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Noel @7:18 He probably wasn't born yet.
	7:19pm Dean: See, I actually think rebranding from Twitter (huh?!) to X is sensible. But I've always felt it's a dumb name for a band.
	7:20pm Dean: This Mason is quite a bit of fun.
	7:20pm Juli: ↳ HollyRT @7:18 ???? Who what nows
	🤯 7:20pm tim: I really hope the band X gets a lot of money out of this stupid twitter stuff.
	7:20pm mic_a: Steve Swallow on bass. It all Carla's gang, really.
	🤯 7:20pm SeaCreature: Live at Pompei is best experienced on a double bill with ELP’s Rock n Roll Your Eyes Out.
	🤯 7:20pm Troy: ↳ tim @7:18 Couple musician friends saw Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets in Seattle & spoke very highly of the perfomance.
	🤯 7:20pm tim: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:19 Hahaha!
	7:21pm dday: ↳ tim @7:18 dj & old friend over at homegrownradionj.com, Jerry "JB" Balderson recommends them highly
	7:21pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Can't Get My Motor to Start" by "Nick Mason" this is very good. i assume all the "Nick Mason was the luckiest drummer" dipshits never heard it.
	7:21pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:20 dovetails into his race car addiction :)
	7:22pm Juli: Life is grand when we can stretch & sing
	7:22pm Dean: I love Duchesne and Lussier. Victo regulars! I just picked up a terrific record, Lussier with Chadbourne.
	7:22pm mic_a: Of course it was super-cool of Nick to hook up with them.
	7:22pm ultradamno: Sure, paying $44 BILLION for a service with an immediately recognizable brand and making the service not work and remove the brand entirely is an entirely sensible thing to do.
	7:22pm P-90: Almost a Pete Ubu-ish vibe on that Nick Mason track
	🤯 7:22pm tim: ↳ Troy @7:20 Nice! My friend who refuses to acknowledge the existence of Pink Floyd after 1970 saw them and he gave a glowing report.
	7:23pm Dave Mandl: I think Mason is a great drummer. It's not all about technique.
	7:23pm coelacanth∅: ↳ P-90 @7:22 YES!
	7:23pm Marshland: Hot River on that album was such a brilliant pastiche of Pink Floyd
	7:23pm P-90: *PERE UBU! My phone THINKS it knows what I’m trying to write
	7:24pm Dean: Twitter improved for me immediately after Musk acquired it. I have no account but was nevertheless able to read the one roll I wanted to read. Now I'm shut out.
	7:24pm sydnius: ↳ P-90 @7:23 kill the AI with the steeley knives
	7:24pm dday: ↳ tim @7:20 or Brand X
	7:24pm Coach32sm: A little of The Move
	🤯 7:26pm tim: ↳ dday @7:24 Them too! Brand X is delegated to the sidelines of history much too often.
	7:26pm Dean: Brand X: A truly undersung band, despite the Collins connection, and w-a-y better than X.
	7:26pm dday: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:23 He fits The Floyd & that's what matters
	7:26pm ultradamno: X > Brand X I will be entertaining no debate.
	7:27pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:26 I saw Collins several times with early period (Gabriel) Genesis. The man's an incredible drummer.
	7:27pm Erik (VT): I so regret selling off my copy of fictitious sports ! - my youthful taste hadn’t quite caught up with Carla and gang yet. Escalator Over the Hill was awaiting around the corner. As well as Kew Rhône ! Which brought me back to the table.
	7:27pm Dean: Not debating, but when X emerged on the LA scene, I knew we were poised for decline. Collins is/was a drummer for the ages, no question.
	7:28pm sydnius: ↳ ultradamno @7:26 English X > X jr
	7:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:23 Mason was perfect in pink floyd, just as Ringo was, Doug Clifford (ccr) etc... and anyway it's not like the rest of 'floyd was extraordinary instrumentalists - but they all had imagination and discretion. ...and just as with the beatles, the whole was greater than the sum of the parts.
	🤯 7:28pm tim: ↳ Dean @7:26 Hey! Watch it, bub!
	7:28pm Dean: I dig Billy Zoom, and Don Bonebrake was a hoot in The Eyes and, I assume, The Randoms. 'nuff said.
	7:28pm ultradamno: X > Generation X also.
	7:29pm dale: quebecois prog scene was huge then. a lot to explore.
	🤯 7:29pm HollyRT: Dave, I don't think you've played Kew Rhone on here yet, have you?
	7:29pm Dean: I have a soft spot for Generation X.
	🤯 7:30pm tim: Australian X is rad.
	7:30pm sydnius: ↳ Dean @7:29 if you touch it do you see colors?
	7:30pm dday: Here's a bit on Conventum: (excellent prog site BTW): www.progarchives.com...
	7:30pm Cosmo in Seattle: Now that’s complicated!
	7:30pm Dave Mandl: ↳ HollyRT @7:29 Ah, I don't think so. I need to, thanks.
	🤯 7:30pm Troy: ↳ Song: "Diastole (Instrumental Version)" by "Invalids" This is nice!
	7:30pm ultradamno: Australian X is great, LA's is better, but they are very good...so is The Ex
	7:30pm Dean: I'm a synaesthetist. I smell colors, taste sounds.
	7:31pm Dean: Invalids is math-rocky. Fucking Champs Hella Great stuff.
	7:31pm Dave Mandl: ↳ HollyRT @7:29 I mean, I definitely haven't on this show, probably played them some years back.
	7:31pm Dean: Saw the Champs at a house in Oakland. Ggggaaaa!
	7:32pm dday: X, Brand X, Generation X, X Ray Spex....all music...all good by me
	7:32pm Dave Mandl: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:28 Totally agree.
	7:32pm P-90: some of Elon’s fave bands right there
	7:32pm ultradamno: The XX even...
	7:33pm sydnius: ↳ Dean @7:31 those taps are so mathy
	7:33pm Dean: But X for a band name? What were they thinking? "Let's pick a letter from the alphabet." "Oh! I know!"
	7:33pm Tommy in Neversink: I really have been enjoying this show.
	7:33pm ultradamno: ...X_X for that matter
	🤯 7:33pm tim: Heard It On The X isa great ZZ Top jam.
	7:33pm erictheise: "eunoia" is the shortest word in English that contains the five vowels and it's also the title of a book by Oulipian Christian Bök where each chapter is written using one vowel.
	7:33pm ultradamno: ↳ Dean @7:33 Worked for M
	7:34pm Marshland: I created sheet music for the track Kew Rhone, file under very complicated...
	7:34pm dale: THE PILLORY!
	7:34pm Dean: Funny that you mention M, @ultradomo, because my band c.'78 was dubbed M, precisely in protest of X. And then "Pop Music" and fuck that guy.
	7:34pm dale: think that was me.
	7:35pm Dean: Ours is the first record on Flip Side Records. We opened for Levi & the Rockcats, The Crowd, and I believe The Motels, though the fliers don't reflect that last datum.
	7:35pm Dave Mandl: ↳ dale @7:34 Well, thank you! The comments fly by so fast here. But I've gotten many excellent recommendations here and I appreciate it.
	🤯 7:36pm tim: ↳ dale @7:34 Good suggestion, Dale. I dig it already.
	7:36pm dale: kinda sounds like third ear band here.
	7:36pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Marshland @7:34 Wow, I tip my hat to you. What a talented duo (Greaves and Blegvad).
	7:36pm Dean: ^@ultradamno Disrespectful spelling, sorry.
	7:36pm Dave Mandl: ↳ erictheise @7:33 Thanks. Very fun fact.
	🤯 7:37pm G: Eunoia (greek: eu - well, noia - knowledge), has meanings in philosophy, but maybe the intent here is the meaning in rhetoric, namely, goodwill established by an author between the writer ( = him/herself) and the audience/readership.
	7:37pm P-90: (the e at the end of “diastole” is silent, the word rhymes with “buy a toll”)
	7:37pm ultradamno: ↳ Dean @7:36 Not the first time I've gotten that one, no sweat
	7:37pm Dave Mandl: ↳ P-90 @7:37 OK. Pretty sure I've heard it with the "e" pronounced but I can't be sure.
	7:37pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:34 I rewrote the lyrics to that Pop Music song in 78 to coincide with then Pope John Paul's US visit..incorporated the red hat, the PopeMobile..silly fun
	7:39pm Dean: @dday: Have you heard The Prats, "Disco Pope"? Very young Scottish(?) punk band back in the '70s.
	7:39pm dale: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:35 thank you for listening to us dave. i'm sure when a prog show was started we all came out of the woodwork and said 'OOH! OOH! you gotta play.........' must be hard as a deejay to hear so many requests/suggestions.
	7:39pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:39 Nope.Not big on the whole punk scene but I will check it out :)
	7:40pm dday: ↳ dale @7:39 especially in a one hour format
	7:41pm Marshland: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:36 Saw Greaves perform it with Annie Barbazza at Cafe Oto in London a few years back, played absolutely effortlessly, all from memory...
	7:41pm Dean: "Your Prog Minute"
	7:41pm Dave Mandl: ↳ dale @7:39 No, it's helpful. I always note the suggestions down, usually after the show because yeah, it's hard to do during.
	7:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:37 Webster's Collegiate has the "e" voiced and the accent on the second syllable. deye-ASS-tuh-lee.
	7:42pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Handy Haversack @7:41 Thanks, Handy. I usually use M-W because it's pretty much the standard for editors (in the US). m-w.com is an amazing site.
	7:42pm Dean: Sorry, but OED says the British English pronunciation (there is no American English) is: /dʌɪˈastəʊliː/
	7:43pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:39 Heee hee fun stuff that Disco Pope
	7:43pm dale: ↳ dday @7:40 should be a three hour show. but one hour is why i NEVER want to miss it.
	7:43pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:42 I still go to the hard copy. Thumb tabs are pretty much my bribe price. Keep on the shelf with Garner's Modern American Usage and our 45s.
	7:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...eu people who think they noi everything are just eunnoying to those of us who really do...
	7:43pm Dean: Pace Handy up-thread^
	7:43pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Dean @7:42 Well, that's UK, but they have the "e" pronounced at the end.
	7:44pm Wanda the Wonderful: Loving his Battle 3 from Jasun Martz. Powerful stuff!
	7:46pm Erik (VT): I’m a Blegvad geek … I even have his book Leviathan. I’m embarrassed to have failed to pre-buy his RecommendedRecords box set! Greaves’ latter recordings have been much more satisfying than I could have wished for.
	🤯 7:47pm Troy: Love Moving Gelatin Plates!
	7:47pm ultradamno: Spinning gelatin plates would be more impressive than moving them
	7:47pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Astromonster" by "Moving Gelatine Plates" Love this album but it’s got one of the more off-putting covers out there.
	7:47pm dale: astromonster - good band name.
	7:48pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Erik (VT) @7:46 Big Blegvad fan here. I also have the Leviathan book. I saw him live a ton of times back in the '80s.
	7:48pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Astromonster" by "Moving Gelatine Plates" Juh-LA-tin-ee.
	7:48pm Erik (VT): Thanks for featuring CONVENTUM today ! - essential pleasurable listening and couldn’t recommend their albums more highly.
	7:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Good evening, Dave and home improgment projects.
	7:48pm Dean: What's moving? The plates or the gelatin?
	7:48pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Rich in Washington @7:47 True! Not the best cover.
	7:48pm ultradamno: ↳ Rich in Washington @7:47 Is it a piss-take of Trout Mask Replica?
	7:48pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Handy Haversack @7:48 ROFL.
	7:49pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Erik (VT) @7:48 My pleasure.
	🤯 7:49pm Troy: Cow smoking a joint is not the worst album cover
	7:49pm Dave Mandl: Hey Ken, and all the people I haven't had a chance to hi to individually.
	7:49pm dale: never heard of them. but being french i can hear the influence on the quebecois scene.
	7:50pm ultradamno: "Not the plates, not the gelatin, mind is moving."
	7:50pm Dean: Quebec's counterpart would be Moving Poutine Plates.
	🤯 7:51pm HollyRT: I always think of it as "plates" in the sense of "tectonic" vs "dinnerware"
	🤯 7:52pm Troy: Thanks again Dave!
	7:52pm P-90: Didn’t intend to foment controversy. In medical/clinical settings here in America, the e at the end of “diastole” and “systole” are usually silent. You dictionary hounds might check if it’s given that way as the second pronunciation in your word bible of choice? Of course, like everything else, it’s complicated, because in clinical settings those terms are rarely used, it’s almost always the adjectives “diastolic” and “systolic”, used to record blood pressure (pronounced “BP”)
	7:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: To me - 'gelatin plates' implies photography ...or desserts made from the processed hooves of smoking Art cows...
	7:53pm Handy Haversack: Many thanks, Dave. Good stuff, that's for sure.
	7:53pm dday: ↳ Song: "Astromonster" by "Moving Gelatine Plates" In my teenage years I'm I sure saw some chemically induced moving gelatine plates at dinnertime. Of course trying to chase the food around on them was a source of concern for the parental units.
	🤯 7:54pm tim: Thanks Dave! Really great selections tonight!
	7:54pm Dean: I so love Isotope. Gary Boyle, marvelous.
	7:54pm Dean: Hugh Hopper was in the band for a time.
	7:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...larkstongue in aspic...
	7:55pm dale: that is WAY too long to be a joint. a cow's head is huge. i worked in dairy milking parlors -i know.
	🤯 7:55pm tim: Not to split atoms here, but technically shouldn’t Isotope be classified as fusion?
	7:55pm Dave Mandl: Thanks so much, folks. Have a fantastique week and see you next time.
	7:55pm Coach32sm: Nah, ita a thin cigar.
	7:56pm dday: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:54 This book had me cracking up with it's "recipes" www.collectorsweekly.com...
	7:56pm Chris Hiatt: Great radio tonight. Thanks, Dave Mandl and all.
	7:56pm Dean: Boyle has a creditable solo album on the Naim label. Sweet top to bottom.
	7:56pm ultradamno: I'm going with cigar too
	7:56pm Dave Mandl: ↳ tim @7:55 Jazz-rock, sure. But prog-adjacent, I'd say.
	7:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Maybe a heifer requires just such an outsized jazzbomber.
	7:56pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:56 I think he was just fission for a laugh.
	7:57pm bobobob plasticland: You really need a 2 hour show dude
	7:57pm mic_a: Thanks again, Dave. Be well everyone.
	7:57pm Carmichael: Thanks Dave
	🤯 7:57pm tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @7:56 I think that was the Chernobyl of puns, Handy!!!
	7:58pm Erik (VT): Only saw Blegvad once at Maxwells (in your neck o the woods). Perhaps after the over-produced Knights Like This … or more likely Downtime album.
	7:58pm StringOFperils: Thanks, Dave. It's prog eat prog out there. I'd forgotten...
	🤯 7:58pm tim: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:56 I was just being a weisenheimer. ;)
	7:58pm Dave Mandl: ↳ StringOFperils @7:58 Haha.
	🤯 7:59pm HollyRT: Great show tonight, Dave
	7:59pm dale: thanks for the toe tapping tunes dave!
	8:00pm P-90: Merci beaucoup @Davide
	8:00pm bleubombersune: Dave Thanks for prog pills 2nite
	8:00pm Coach32sm: Next time!!!
	8:00pm drumbone: Great show Dave
	8:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...surely a Prawg is some sort of arthropod... ~ TY Always DJ DaveMandl ~
	8:00pm chresti: Thanks Dave!
	8:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Dave!
	🤯 8:04pm Troy: ↳ Song: "Honkey Donkey" by "Isotope" Thanks for getting to my request Dave!
	8:05pm Wanda the Wonderful: ↳ dale @7:34 The Pillory is my favorite Jasun Martz album. A Mellotron masterpieice!

It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from July 24, 2023

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July 24, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Yes	Five Percent for Nothing "Five Percent for Nothing" by "Yes"	Fragile	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Scherzoo	Plastic Lizard "Plastic Lizard" by "Scherzoo"	05	0:04:04 (Pop-up)
Jacques Thollot	Marche "Marche" by "Jacques Thollot"	Quand le Son Devient Aigu, Jeter la Girafe à la Mer	0:10:30 (Pop-up)
Jacques Thollot	A Suivre "A Suivre" by "Jacques Thollot"	Quand le Son Devient Aigu, Jeter la Girafe à la Mer	0:11:43 (Pop-up)

Nick Mason	Can't Get My Motor to Start	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports	0:16:41 (Pop-up)

Conventum	Fondation "Fondation" by "Conventum"	Le Bureau Central des Utopies	0:21:40 (Pop-up)

Invalids	Diastole (Instrumental Version)	Eunoia	0:28:39 (Pop-up)

Jasun Martz	Battle 3 "Battle 3" by "Jasun Martz"	The Pillory/The Battle	0:34:45 (Pop-up)

Moving Gelatine Plates	Astromonster	The World of Genius Hans	0:46:53 (Pop-up)

Isotope	Honkey Donkey "Honkey Donkey" by "Isotope"	Isotope	0:54:06 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🤯 6:55pm G: Ready to go… don’t blink or you miss 5%…
	6:57pm dale: hey now.
	6:58pm dale: listened to a bunch of nektar today. enjoyed it a great deal.
	7:00pm ultradamno: Dave! Mandlotrons!
	7:01pm mic_a: Hallooo, Dave and prognoceroses!
	🤯 7:01pm Webhamster Henry: Monorail to 5% is a classic WFMU segue.
	🤯 7:01pm Troy: What's the PROGnosis?
	7:01pm ike-0: Peace - nice to be here live for a change :)
	7:01pm chresti: Hi Dave complicated show!
	7:01pm ultradamno: I like Dave The Spazz for fill in, as my hello post will stay the same.
	🤯 7:01pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Dave Mandl and all!!!
	7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Welcome back, Dave!
	7:01pm Ciggy: Hey Dave Shiela B was superb
	7:02pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:01 Haha, yes it sure is.
	7:02pm P-90: “MONORAILLLLLL…”
	🤯 7:02pm tim: Hey Dave! Hello Prog ladies and dudes!
	🤯 7:03pm SeaCreature: Yay! Strapping in for the ride on the stereoRail
	🤯 7:03pm tim: It IS getting complicated.
	7:03pm Chris Hiatt: Hallo, all.
	7:03pm bleubombersune: Dave-----Prog is Sizzling Hot 2Nite
	7:03pm Wendy del Formaggio: There is no Dana. Only Zuul.
	7:04pm Dean: So funny! I referred a friend of mine to Das Rad's latest record. He replied that it had elements of Zeuhl. Just two days ago.
	7:04pm Coach32sm: Prog a licious
	7:04pm dday: Liquid Hot Magma www.youtube.com...
	🤯 7:04pm G: Scherzo = joke (musical term). Group name implies “joke zoo”?
	7:05pm Carmichael: Heya Dave, we were talking about Plastic People of the Universe the other day. Just putting a bug in your ear …
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: Evening, friends and neighbors. Nice to be back here.
	7:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PrawgJawk Raydeo ! - sweeps the Ratings Nationwide this Summer...
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Carmichael @7:05 Ah, yes, I'll play the Plastic People at some point. Maybe soon.
	7:06pm drumbone: Hi Dave
	7:06pm sydnius: ↳ Carmichael @7:05 one word.
	7:06pm Dean: This friend created his own language, which gained popularity across the world. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/theres_a_wor_for_that
	7:06pm Dave Mandl: Hey, Mr. drumbone.
	7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Carmichael @7:05 ...Czech's in the mail...
	7:07pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Dave and all. Gotta get some dinner going.
	7:08pm P-90: And Joshua Foer wrote it up? I’ll have to find a way around that paywall and check it out…
	7:08pm Dave Mandl: And a big hello to G, dale, ultreadamno, Henry, Troy, ike-o, chersti, Will, Wendy!, Ciggy, P-90, tim, SeaCreature, Chris, bleubombersune, Dean, Coach, dday, RRN63, sydnius, Handy!
	7:08pm Dave Mandl: Apologies for typing mistakes.
	🤯 7:08pm HollyRT: Hi hi hi
	7:09pm Dave Mandl: Evening, Mlle Holly.
	7:11pm mic_a: There should be Crunchy Fender Rhodes ice cream.
	🤯 7:11pm HollyRT: Re: Plastic People --I knew Vrat'a Brabenec when I lived in Prague (PROG!). He lived in my neighborhood
	7:12pm dday: Had to laugh at this kinda prog-ish moment in a documentary I watched about the late Jay Bennett of Wilco. Seems he was in the studio working on his solo stuff & playing an actual Mellotron when the power transformer started smoking then the instrument burst into flames. He just kept playing, laughing maniacally. Unfortunately there's not actual video of the event rather an animation with a voice over by one of his studio engineers
	🤯 7:12pm HollyRT: (I lived in Prague 2--Vinohrady)
	7:12pm P-90: There’s that de rigeur Hammond organ tone we always talk about
	7:12pm Dean: @P-90: You're paywalled? Damn. It's a good story, with some odd twists and turns. But I spent just about every day from fourth grade into high school with the subject. Foer and my buddy John are good friends now.
	7:12pm coelacanth∅: good evening Dave and all
	7:12pm sydnius: ↳ dday @7:12 circuitbending man!
	7:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PragueRawk, yes.
	7:13pm Dean: Scherzoo also claims Canterbury as an influence. I get the same vibe from Jacques. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Thollot pronounce toe-YOE?
	7:14pm dday: Considering attending this Andy Summers show tomorrow night: www.sugarloafpacny.com
	7:14pm Dean: Or toy-YOE?
	7:14pm sydnius: …we took it apart
	7:15pm dale: nick mason and rick wakeman in a comedy slam?
	7:16pm Dean: Twitter? What's Twitter?
	7:16pm P-90: Personally, I always try to catch an Andy Summers show if possible.
	7:17pm Coach32sm: Insiders will know "he was Masoned"
	7:17pm Dean: I really did not enjoy Live at Pompeii, which I saw on the big screen at a time when I actually watched movies. I particularly didn't think much of Mason.
	7:17pm ultradamno: He means X. And by tweet, x's (seriously that's what they're going to be called once they figure out how to make it say that)
	🤯 7:17pm HollyRT: I believe tweets are called XEETS now, Dave
	7:17pm mic_a: Nice. One of several albums that I consider Carla Bley 'stealth albums.' Hear also, Gary Burton's Genuine Tong Funeral and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra albums.
	7:18pm ultradamno: No, seriously, x's time.com...
	🤯 7:18pm tim: ↳ dday @7:14 I’ve been told that Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets band is a solid live experience.
	🤯 7:18pm HollyRT: Truly the stupidest rebranding in human history
	7:18pm Noel: Sounds like Les Claypool on bass.
	7:19pm ultradamno: It really is so dumb
	7:19pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Noel @7:18 He probably wasn't born yet.
	7:19pm Dean: See, I actually think rebranding from Twitter (huh?!) to X is sensible. But I've always felt it's a dumb name for a band.
	7:20pm Dean: This Mason is quite a bit of fun.
	7:20pm Juli: ↳ HollyRT @7:18 ???? Who what nows
	🤯 7:20pm tim: I really hope the band X gets a lot of money out of this stupid twitter stuff.
	7:20pm mic_a: Steve Swallow on bass. It all Carla's gang, really.
	🤯 7:20pm SeaCreature: Live at Pompei is best experienced on a double bill with ELP’s Rock n Roll Your Eyes Out.
	🤯 7:20pm Troy: ↳ tim @7:18 Couple musician friends saw Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets in Seattle & spoke very highly of the perfomance.
	🤯 7:20pm tim: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:19 Hahaha!
	7:21pm dday: ↳ tim @7:18 dj & old friend over at homegrownradionj.com, Jerry "JB" Balderson recommends them highly
	7:21pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Can't Get My Motor to Start" by "Nick Mason" this is very good. i assume all the "Nick Mason was the luckiest drummer" dipshits never heard it.
	7:21pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:20 dovetails into his race car addiction :)
	7:22pm Juli: Life is grand when we can stretch & sing
	7:22pm Dean: I love Duchesne and Lussier. Victo regulars! I just picked up a terrific record, Lussier with Chadbourne.
	7:22pm mic_a: Of course it was super-cool of Nick to hook up with them.
	7:22pm ultradamno: Sure, paying $44 BILLION for a service with an immediately recognizable brand and making the service not work and remove the brand entirely is an entirely sensible thing to do.
	7:22pm P-90: Almost a Pete Ubu-ish vibe on that Nick Mason track
	🤯 7:22pm tim: ↳ Troy @7:20 Nice! My friend who refuses to acknowledge the existence of Pink Floyd after 1970 saw them and he gave a glowing report.
	7:23pm Dave Mandl: I think Mason is a great drummer. It's not all about technique.
	7:23pm coelacanth∅: ↳ P-90 @7:22 YES!
	7:23pm Marshland: Hot River on that album was such a brilliant pastiche of Pink Floyd
	7:23pm P-90: *PERE UBU! My phone THINKS it knows what I’m trying to write
	7:24pm Dean: Twitter improved for me immediately after Musk acquired it. I have no account but was nevertheless able to read the one roll I wanted to read. Now I'm shut out.
	7:24pm sydnius: ↳ P-90 @7:23 kill the AI with the steeley knives
	7:24pm dday: ↳ tim @7:20 or Brand X
	7:24pm Coach32sm: A little of The Move
	🤯 7:26pm tim: ↳ dday @7:24 Them too! Brand X is delegated to the sidelines of history much too often.
	7:26pm Dean: Brand X: A truly undersung band, despite the Collins connection, and w-a-y better than X.
	7:26pm dday: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:23 He fits The Floyd & that's what matters
	7:26pm ultradamno: X > Brand X I will be entertaining no debate.
	7:27pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:26 I saw Collins several times with early period (Gabriel) Genesis. The man's an incredible drummer.
	7:27pm Erik (VT): I so regret selling off my copy of fictitious sports ! - my youthful taste hadn’t quite caught up with Carla and gang yet. Escalator Over the Hill was awaiting around the corner. As well as Kew Rhône ! Which brought me back to the table.
	7:27pm Dean: Not debating, but when X emerged on the LA scene, I knew we were poised for decline. Collins is/was a drummer for the ages, no question.
	7:28pm sydnius: ↳ ultradamno @7:26 English X > X jr
	7:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:23 Mason was perfect in pink floyd, just as Ringo was, Doug Clifford (ccr) etc... and anyway it's not like the rest of 'floyd was extraordinary instrumentalists - but they all had imagination and discretion. ...and just as with the beatles, the whole was greater than the sum of the parts.
	🤯 7:28pm tim: ↳ Dean @7:26 Hey! Watch it, bub!
	7:28pm Dean: I dig Billy Zoom, and Don Bonebrake was a hoot in The Eyes and, I assume, The Randoms. 'nuff said.
	7:28pm ultradamno: X > Generation X also.
	7:29pm dale: quebecois prog scene was huge then. a lot to explore.
	🤯 7:29pm HollyRT: Dave, I don't think you've played Kew Rhone on here yet, have you?
	7:29pm Dean: I have a soft spot for Generation X.
	🤯 7:30pm tim: Australian X is rad.
	7:30pm sydnius: ↳ Dean @7:29 if you touch it do you see colors?
	7:30pm dday: Here's a bit on Conventum: (excellent prog site BTW): www.progarchives.com...
	7:30pm Cosmo in Seattle: Now that’s complicated!
	7:30pm Dave Mandl: ↳ HollyRT @7:29 Ah, I don't think so. I need to, thanks.
	🤯 7:30pm Troy: ↳ Song: "Diastole (Instrumental Version)" by "Invalids" This is nice!
	7:30pm ultradamno: Australian X is great, LA's is better, but they are very good...so is The Ex
	7:30pm Dean: I'm a synaesthetist. I smell colors, taste sounds.
	7:31pm Dean: Invalids is math-rocky. Fucking Champs Hella Great stuff.
	7:31pm Dave Mandl: ↳ HollyRT @7:29 I mean, I definitely haven't on this show, probably played them some years back.
	7:31pm Dean: Saw the Champs at a house in Oakland. Ggggaaaa!
	7:32pm dday: X, Brand X, Generation X, X Ray Spex....all music...all good by me
	7:32pm Dave Mandl: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:28 Totally agree.
	7:32pm P-90: some of Elon’s fave bands right there
	7:32pm ultradamno: The XX even...
	7:33pm sydnius: ↳ Dean @7:31 those taps are so mathy
	7:33pm Dean: But X for a band name? What were they thinking? "Let's pick a letter from the alphabet." "Oh! I know!"
	7:33pm Tommy in Neversink: I really have been enjoying this show.
	7:33pm ultradamno: ...X_X for that matter
	🤯 7:33pm tim: Heard It On The X isa great ZZ Top jam.
	7:33pm erictheise: "eunoia" is the shortest word in English that contains the five vowels and it's also the title of a book by Oulipian Christian Bök where each chapter is written using one vowel.
	7:33pm ultradamno: ↳ Dean @7:33 Worked for M
	7:34pm Marshland: I created sheet music for the track Kew Rhone, file under very complicated...
	7:34pm dale: THE PILLORY!
	7:34pm Dean: Funny that you mention M, @ultradomo, because my band c.'78 was dubbed M, precisely in protest of X. And then "Pop Music" and fuck that guy.
	7:34pm dale: think that was me.
	7:35pm Dean: Ours is the first record on Flip Side Records. We opened for Levi & the Rockcats, The Crowd, and I believe The Motels, though the fliers don't reflect that last datum.
	7:35pm Dave Mandl: ↳ dale @7:34 Well, thank you! The comments fly by so fast here. But I've gotten many excellent recommendations here and I appreciate it.
	🤯 7:36pm tim: ↳ dale @7:34 Good suggestion, Dale. I dig it already.
	7:36pm dale: kinda sounds like third ear band here.
	7:36pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Marshland @7:34 Wow, I tip my hat to you. What a talented duo (Greaves and Blegvad).
	7:36pm Dean: ^@ultradamno Disrespectful spelling, sorry.
	7:36pm Dave Mandl: ↳ erictheise @7:33 Thanks. Very fun fact.
	🤯 7:37pm G: Eunoia (greek: eu - well, noia - knowledge), has meanings in philosophy, but maybe the intent here is the meaning in rhetoric, namely, goodwill established by an author between the writer ( = him/herself) and the audience/readership.
	7:37pm P-90: (the e at the end of “diastole” is silent, the word rhymes with “buy a toll”)
	7:37pm ultradamno: ↳ Dean @7:36 Not the first time I've gotten that one, no sweat
	7:37pm Dave Mandl: ↳ P-90 @7:37 OK. Pretty sure I've heard it with the "e" pronounced but I can't be sure.
	7:37pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:34 I rewrote the lyrics to that Pop Music song in 78 to coincide with then Pope John Paul's US visit..incorporated the red hat, the PopeMobile..silly fun
	7:39pm Dean: @dday: Have you heard The Prats, "Disco Pope"? Very young Scottish(?) punk band back in the '70s.
	7:39pm dale: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:35 thank you for listening to us dave. i'm sure when a prog show was started we all came out of the woodwork and said 'OOH! OOH! you gotta play.........' must be hard as a deejay to hear so many requests/suggestions.
	7:39pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:39 Nope.Not big on the whole punk scene but I will check it out :)
	7:40pm dday: ↳ dale @7:39 especially in a one hour format
	7:41pm Marshland: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:36 Saw Greaves perform it with Annie Barbazza at Cafe Oto in London a few years back, played absolutely effortlessly, all from memory...
	7:41pm Dean: "Your Prog Minute"
	7:41pm Dave Mandl: ↳ dale @7:39 No, it's helpful. I always note the suggestions down, usually after the show because yeah, it's hard to do during.
	7:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:37 Webster's Collegiate has the "e" voiced and the accent on the second syllable. deye-ASS-tuh-lee.
	7:42pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Handy Haversack @7:41 Thanks, Handy. I usually use M-W because it's pretty much the standard for editors (in the US). m-w.com is an amazing site.
	7:42pm Dean: Sorry, but OED says the British English pronunciation (there is no American English) is: /dʌɪˈastəʊliː/
	7:43pm dday: ↳ Dean @7:39 Heee hee fun stuff that Disco Pope
	7:43pm dale: ↳ dday @7:40 should be a three hour show. but one hour is why i NEVER want to miss it.
	7:43pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:42 I still go to the hard copy. Thumb tabs are pretty much my bribe price. Keep on the shelf with Garner's Modern American Usage and our 45s.
	7:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...eu people who think they noi everything are just eunnoying to those of us who really do...
	7:43pm Dean: Pace Handy up-thread^
	7:43pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Dean @7:42 Well, that's UK, but they have the "e" pronounced at the end.
	7:44pm Wanda the Wonderful: Loving his Battle 3 from Jasun Martz. Powerful stuff!
	7:46pm Erik (VT): I’m a Blegvad geek … I even have his book Leviathan. I’m embarrassed to have failed to pre-buy his RecommendedRecords box set! Greaves’ latter recordings have been much more satisfying than I could have wished for.
	🤯 7:47pm Troy: Love Moving Gelatin Plates!
	7:47pm ultradamno: Spinning gelatin plates would be more impressive than moving them
	7:47pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Astromonster" by "Moving Gelatine Plates" Love this album but it’s got one of the more off-putting covers out there.
	7:47pm dale: astromonster - good band name.
	7:48pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Erik (VT) @7:46 Big Blegvad fan here. I also have the Leviathan book. I saw him live a ton of times back in the '80s.
	7:48pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Astromonster" by "Moving Gelatine Plates" Juh-LA-tin-ee.
	7:48pm Erik (VT): Thanks for featuring CONVENTUM today ! - essential pleasurable listening and couldn’t recommend their albums more highly.
	7:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Good evening, Dave and home improgment projects.
	7:48pm Dean: What's moving? The plates or the gelatin?
	7:48pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Rich in Washington @7:47 True! Not the best cover.
	7:48pm ultradamno: ↳ Rich in Washington @7:47 Is it a piss-take of Trout Mask Replica?
	7:48pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Handy Haversack @7:48 ROFL.
	7:49pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Erik (VT) @7:48 My pleasure.
	🤯 7:49pm Troy: Cow smoking a joint is not the worst album cover
	7:49pm Dave Mandl: Hey Ken, and all the people I haven't had a chance to hi to individually.
	7:49pm dale: never heard of them. but being french i can hear the influence on the quebecois scene.
	7:50pm ultradamno: "Not the plates, not the gelatin, mind is moving."
	7:50pm Dean: Quebec's counterpart would be Moving Poutine Plates.
	🤯 7:51pm HollyRT: I always think of it as "plates" in the sense of "tectonic" vs "dinnerware"
	🤯 7:52pm Troy: Thanks again Dave!
	7:52pm P-90: Didn’t intend to foment controversy. In medical/clinical settings here in America, the e at the end of “diastole” and “systole” are usually silent. You dictionary hounds might check if it’s given that way as the second pronunciation in your word bible of choice? Of course, like everything else, it’s complicated, because in clinical settings those terms are rarely used, it’s almost always the adjectives “diastolic” and “systolic”, used to record blood pressure (pronounced “BP”)
	7:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: To me - 'gelatin plates' implies photography ...or desserts made from the processed hooves of smoking Art cows...
	7:53pm Handy Haversack: Many thanks, Dave. Good stuff, that's for sure.
	7:53pm dday: ↳ Song: "Astromonster" by "Moving Gelatine Plates" In my teenage years I'm I sure saw some chemically induced moving gelatine plates at dinnertime. Of course trying to chase the food around on them was a source of concern for the parental units.
	🤯 7:54pm tim: Thanks Dave! Really great selections tonight!
	7:54pm Dean: I so love Isotope. Gary Boyle, marvelous.
	7:54pm Dean: Hugh Hopper was in the band for a time.
	7:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...larkstongue in aspic...
	7:55pm dale: that is WAY too long to be a joint. a cow's head is huge. i worked in dairy milking parlors -i know.
	🤯 7:55pm tim: Not to split atoms here, but technically shouldn’t Isotope be classified as fusion?
	7:55pm Dave Mandl: Thanks so much, folks. Have a fantastique week and see you next time.
	7:55pm Coach32sm: Nah, ita a thin cigar.
	7:56pm dday: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:54 This book had me cracking up with it's "recipes" www.collectorsweekly.com...
	7:56pm Chris Hiatt: Great radio tonight. Thanks, Dave Mandl and all.
	7:56pm Dean: Boyle has a creditable solo album on the Naim label. Sweet top to bottom.
	7:56pm ultradamno: I'm going with cigar too
	7:56pm Dave Mandl: ↳ tim @7:55 Jazz-rock, sure. But prog-adjacent, I'd say.
	7:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Maybe a heifer requires just such an outsized jazzbomber.
	7:56pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:56 I think he was just fission for a laugh.
	7:57pm bobobob plasticland: You really need a 2 hour show dude
	7:57pm mic_a: Thanks again, Dave. Be well everyone.
	7:57pm Carmichael: Thanks Dave
	🤯 7:57pm tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @7:56 I think that was the Chernobyl of puns, Handy!!!
	7:58pm Erik (VT): Only saw Blegvad once at Maxwells (in your neck o the woods). Perhaps after the over-produced Knights Like This … or more likely Downtime album.
	7:58pm StringOFperils: Thanks, Dave. It's prog eat prog out there. I'd forgotten...
	🤯 7:58pm tim: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:56 I was just being a weisenheimer. ;)
	7:58pm Dave Mandl: ↳ StringOFperils @7:58 Haha.
	🤯 7:59pm HollyRT: Great show tonight, Dave
	7:59pm dale: thanks for the toe tapping tunes dave!
	8:00pm P-90: Merci beaucoup @Davide
	8:00pm bleubombersune: Dave Thanks for prog pills 2nite
	8:00pm Coach32sm: Next time!!!
	8:00pm drumbone: Great show Dave
	8:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...surely a Prawg is some sort of arthropod... ~ TY Always DJ DaveMandl ~
	8:00pm chresti: Thanks Dave!
	8:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Dave!
	🤯 8:04pm Troy: ↳ Song: "Honkey Donkey" by "Isotope" Thanks for getting to my request Dave!
	8:05pm Wanda the Wonderful: ↳ dale @7:34 The Pillory is my favorite Jasun Martz album. A Mellotron masterpieice!

It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from July 24, 2023

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