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Favoriting August 28, 2023

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Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Espiritu  Sabios da Vida   Favoriting Crisálida  0:02:39 (Pop-up)
Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate  Perky Pat   Favoriting The Confidence Trick  0:08:47 (Pop-up)
 
A. E. Bizottság  Jégkrémbalett   Favoriting Jégkrémbalett  0:18:27 (Pop-up)
 
Naïf  Un Espejo Azul   Favoriting Atlas  0:23:05 (Pop-up)
 
Big Bernie  Départ   Favoriting Yersey  0:36:07 (Pop-up)
 
Arthur Brown  City Melody   Favoriting Kingdom Come  0:45:21 (Pop-up)
Wizzard  Bend Over Beethoven   Favoriting Wizzard Brew  0:51:28 (Pop-up)
 
Marianne Faithfull  Something Better   Favoriting Spring Blossoms  0:57:25 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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dale:

hey now. ready for the wacky time signatures and bloviated arrangements.
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G:

Ready to get steady.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
StringOFperils:

Release the owls!
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G:

↳ StringOFperils @6:59
Who? Who?
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Troy:

Ready for time signature bingo!
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Handy Haversack:

Hello, Dave and Complications.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
ultradamno:

Dave! Mandlotrons!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
ultradamno:

Owl be damned
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dday:

This is some fun to peruse:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
bleubombersune:

Dave good evening progolites
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
SeaCreature:

Back listening in real time after travel! Hi all
  7:02pm
Jackie G:

Ah yes, much better.
Yes! Oh boy!
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chresti:

Hi complicated show and Dave!
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TDK60:

I have my cape on, and my staff and I decree....nothing, really. Howdy. really.
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dale:

↳ dday @7:01
that's a pandora channel, right there.
  7:02pm
wendy del formaggio:

Waving hello, Dave!
Glad to hear Espiritu tonight.
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HollyRT:

Hello all!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hats off, listeners, It's Complicated!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
common:

good to hear you dave! hello to all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
coelacanth∅:

'evening Dave and all
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Dave Mandl:

Hey everyone. Nice to see you all.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Good evening Dave Mandl and all!!
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Coach32sm:

Prog me up!!!!
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
SeaCreature:

Dave was that you at the Cale show rockin the Wake tee?
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HollyRT:

↳ dday @7:01
Ooo...a Wikipedia rabbit hole...
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Coach32sm:

Nice bass line
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
chresti:

↳ Troy @6:59
Future game in the olde folks home!
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dday:

↳ HollyRT @7:04
Of course all entries are subject to discussion as accurate or not, but I like lists :)
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Dave Mandl:

↳ SeaCreature @7:03
That might have been me! I was at the show, possibly wearing my Wake tee.
  7:05pm
wendy del formaggio:

Also, last week on the highway I saw a blue pickup truck with VT vanity plates that read, “PROGFAN.” I was too focused on driving to see if Dave was behind the wheel. Maybe he lives part-time in VT? It could happen!
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dday:

↳ HollyRT @7:04
Do you like reading about Prog instruments?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
dale:

these guys listened to yes fragile, obviously.
  7:05pm
Jackie G:

The best shows on WFMU start at 7PM. Mostly
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Troy:

↳ chresti @7:04
With edibles as prizes :)
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dday:

↳ dale @7:02
what is pandora?
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Dave Mandl:

↳ wendy del formaggio @7:05
Not me, sadly.
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chresti:

↳ Troy @7:05
I can't wait!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
ultradamno:

↳ Jackie G @7:05
They come at night....mostly.
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
SeaCreature:

This is a great tune, I hadn’t really considered Spanish prog. Eyes and ears opened.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
luka:

ack! i’m late
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
ultradamno:

(even though it's still broad daylight here...for legal purposes, night)
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Dave Mandl:

↳ SeaCreature @7:08
There will be another Spanish one later, if all goes according to plan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
dale:

↳ dday @7:06
pandora is a soulless app that plays music you tell it you like. it adds all sorts of crap you don't like, too. plus commercials. but it's free.
  7:10pm
Jackie G:

↳ ultradamno @7:08
The Aliens? Newt knows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
ultradamno:

Commercials are what's unleashed if you open her box
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
SeaCreature:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:09
Win!
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chresti:

↳ dale @6:54
heh "bloviated"
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dday:

↳ dale @7:09
no wonder I don't know what it is
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
watchpocket:

↳ Song: "Perky Pat" by "Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate"
Hi Dave. Wow, love the synth on this item!
Avatar 7:13pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ watchpocket @7:12
Analog synth! (I think.)
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
SeaCreature:

It’s got that impossibly warm sound
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
watchpocket:

↳ SeaCreature @7:13
Right, that's kind of what I was thinking!
  7:14pm
Jackie G:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:13
They're the best types. Kinda dangerous
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
SeaCreature:

↳ watchpocket @7:14
Yeah dunno if you play but I run up against these brittle cold sounds in the digital domain. But hey it’s all basically free in the digital environment
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
chresti:

Fingers crossed.. for favorable new schedule.
  7:19pm
wolfingham:

I’ve been loving the show Dave! Hope you stay on the schedule.
  7:20pm
lazy pierogi:

🙏🙏🙏
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Deano de los Muertos:

WFMU needs “It’s Complicated!” love the show, Dave
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
SeaCreature:

Killing it, Dave.
  7:21pm
Jackie G:

It's Complicated is voted one of the best shows on WFMU. No way it's not on the schedule.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
watchpocket:

↳ SeaCreature @7:16
I don't play an instrument, but I hear you. One good answer: as Fabio once said to me, "Tubes, man!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
dale:

↳ dday @7:06
this is one of the few shows i mark my calendar to.
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Troy:

🤞
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Dave Mandl:

This is a long track, so: Hello dale, G, SteringOFPerils, Troy, Handy, ultradamno, dday, bleubombersune, SeaCreature, Jackie, chresti, TDK60, Wendy, Miss Holly, W. Henry, common, coelacanth∅, Will, Coach, chersti, luka, watchpocket, wolfingham, pierogi, Deano!
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dday:

↳ dale @7:23
I try to tune in but since i don't sleep well due to my back issues I sometimes crash before or during. Sux but that's reality for me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
dale:

this has some wacky quebecois jazzy vibes about it. pretty cool.
Avatar 7:29pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ dday @7:28
Your back takes priority!
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Un Espejo Azul" by "Naïf"
Playful!
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:29
It follows me everywhere :)
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TDK60:

Seems to me the wizards who arcanely design the schedule are aware that Progg is Back. It's hot pancakes.
Avatar 7:29pm
Dave Mandl:

I love this track.There's like another four minutes of this.
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:29
Very Zappa
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:26
Good to be here, Dave. Gotta get up and get supper moving here in a minute, but the cat's on my legs and I'm not quite done with my drink, and it's real nice just to lie and listen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
ultradamno:

I'd say more Residents than Zappa, which is a positive from me.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Handy Haversack @7:30
Obey the cat, Handy.
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dday:

↳ Handy Haversack @7:30
Time for that Hyperdose link :)
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
chresti:

Almost like a soundtrack to a spy comedy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
dale:

↳ dday @7:28
you can take your prog lying down.
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dday:

↳ dale @7:31
yeah but that's how I nod off :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
ultradamno:

↳ chresti @7:31
Definitely a sneaking in a dark office building atmosphere
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TDK60:

↳ ultradamno @7:31
Hi UltraD. I am imaging a sloppy luncheon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
coelacanth∅:

hadn't thought of Zappa. was enjoying it.
now, a little less!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
ultradamno:

Hiya TKK60!
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SeaCreature:

↳ watchpocket @7:21
Fabio ain’t lying. But digital freed me compositionally to write quickly and get stuff on “tape” fast. As an old school lo-fi musician, getting it on tape is the priority. One person’s opinion,fwiw
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Troy:

↳ Song: "Un Espejo Azul" by "Naïf"
kind of sounds like bed music from an old Avengers episode. I can almost see Emma Peel sneaking around a shop full of giant Papier-mâché heads in her catsuit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:32
TDK, rather...
  7:34pm
picky picnic:

↳ Song: "Perky Pat" by "Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate"
re the olden days: i so wish i had had an automatic detector for certain instrument sounds on albums to avoid: when it comes to music groups that have "perky pat" sound, that feature that kind of keyboard & synth sound. i've burned myself countless times dropping the needle on a prog album that annoys as much as it gives joy. hahaha = really privileged problems !
- Now these Bizottsag & Naif bands are the audio ecstasy i strive for - no joyless ravaged ears w/ these! i'm a dork!
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SeaCreature:

Loved loved loved that song
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
chresti:

↳ Troy @7:33
Yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
coelacanth∅:

very strange that there're no times indicated!
i like that!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ coelacanth∅ @7:36
Yeah, that's really unusual. Kind of cool, but maddening for a DJ.
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Juli:

What a lovely night
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Dave Mandl:

Thanks, Juli. And hello.
  7:39pm
Jackie G:

↳ Song: "Départ" by "Big Bernie"
Yes, please.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
ultradamno:

↳ TDK60 @7:32
...or (bringing it back to Residents) hiding Garrett Morris' body in the cupboard (Census Taker is on ScreenPix, btw)
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:38
at least on vinyl you could estimate the length by song size between breaks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:38
understandable!
...my guess is we're about 2/5 into it
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Juli:

Yes the music adds j the right amount
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Dave Mandl:

Just about halfway.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Aloha !
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Juli:

!!!!

::::}}
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Dave Mandl:

RRN63: Hey!
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dday:

↳ Song: "Départ" by "Big Bernie"
Me likey!
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Dave Mandl:

Also, hello picky picnic. Named after the group?
Avatar 🤯 7:42pm
Troy:

Dave, do we need to bribe Ken with treats or something to keep you on the schedule?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
G:

Show still flowing along nicely…
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
watchpocket:

↳ Song: "Départ" by "Big Bernie"
Whoa, great track!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ dday @7:39
sometimes even that takes a good eye (or 2) - to determine how tight the grooves are
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dday:

FMU friend Hyperdose has fallen on hard times & is lucky to be alive.

goFundMe with the story here:

www.gofundme.com...
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dday:

↳ coelacanth∅ @7:42
That's why i say estimate
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Départ" by "Big Bernie"
Like the band name
  7:44pm
erik (vt):

Hi Dave, have you ever bumped into French band NEF? (circa 1983) refs are R.I.O./ZNR/Pascal Comelade/etc -->its great fun! Just learned its been re-issued 2019!
Discogs webpage on French band NEF:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/886978-Nef
2019 re-issue on Lp:
https://www.discogs.com/release/14124668-Nef-Mais-Alors-Cest-%C3%80-LEnvers
  7:45pm
morphe':

Thanks Dave ..
.....prog I can listen to ...
not ELO or ELP or spinning piano in air on the Midnight Special show while still peaking on Lab Crystal in my bedroom in 1977??
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Coach32sm:

No ELO played
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Dave Mandl:

↳ erik (vt) @7:44
Hey erik. Maybe? But if so it was a while ago. I'll check 'em out, thanks.
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Dave Mandl:

First ELO album (with Roy Wood) is a masterpiece, seriously.
  7:47pm
morphe':

I am writing anti ELO words and you speak the name !!!!
ps this is Tim (A bookClub)(Arnan's Da)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
dale:

i bought annie (haslam) in wonderland. i thought it was a stinker at the time and never listened again. knowing it's basically a roy wood album i need to find it and give it another spin.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ morphe' @7:47
I know who you are, old comrade.
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TDK60:

I agree the 'Kingdom Come' album is rocketh progressive.
  7:48pm
morphe':

↳ Dave Mandl @7:47
Touche' Till soon ...
  7:48pm
bobobob plasticland drums:

It's John Marshall Birthday Today 🎉
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Troy:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:47
Great album indeed!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ bobobob plasticland drums @7:48
The English drummer? Cool.
  7:49pm
Jackie G:

↳ dale @7:47
She sings "it's All over Now Baby Blue" with Steve Howe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Handy Haversack:

OK, must rise and do unto the potatoes as I assume they would do unto us. Thanks, Dave!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...anyway I went to see the dentist
...block that kick ! block that kick !...
  7:51pm
Bobobob plasticland:

yes he was actually Buford's Drum teacher ...He had Jamie Muir for percussion
  7:51pm
erik (vt):

↳ dday @7:01
thank you for the wiki prog-page i can't believe i have never looked at ... ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
dale:

↳ dday @7:42
that's a LOT of crap to have to endure.
  7:52pm
morphe':

Thanks Dave and all !!! ... must deal with the oven...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
watchpocket:

↳ dday @7:42
Wow. What a story. I hope all who can will donate at least some small amount to Hyperdose's fund.
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Dave Mandl:

@morphe': See ya!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
dale:

↳ Jackie G @7:49
i was hoping to hear things like mother russia on this show. but i'm glad dave plays all the hits i don't know.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Bobobob plasticland @7:51
Huh. I had no idea. Thanks. And yeah, he certainly learned a lot from Muir.
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dday:

↳ watchpocket @7:52
We do what we can
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chris in the redwoods:

thanks, Dave! been listening and enjoying while work issues abound.
  7:54pm
Jackie G:

↳ dale @7:53
Maybe next time, on the new schedule.
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dday:

↳ erik (vt) @7:51
Ever see this. Really researched well:

www.progarchives.com...
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Dave Mandl:

Yeah, progarchives is good.
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dday:

↳ dale @7:52
Serious stuff for sure
  7:56pm
erik (vt):

↳ Dave Mandl @7:09
Yes! more "non-Brit" diverse international Prog please! and thank you for your delving, as always.
  7:56pm
Jackie G:

Thanks, Dave. Hoping to see you on the new schedule.
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G:

↳ bobobob plasticland drums @7:48
Marshall’s bday is a holiday at William and Mary, where my dad’s dad got his law degree. My dad was born on JM’d bday, so naturally his first and middle name were John Marshall. I inherited the middle name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Dave. Hope you're on the fall schedule!
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HollyRT:

Fantastic show tonight, Dave!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Dave Mandl!!!
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TDK60:

Gracias Dave.
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Troy:

Thanks Dave & prog people!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Mr. Dave Mandl ~
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Dave Mandl:

Thanks, all. <3. See you on the other side.
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dday:

Re: Hyperdose's situation:

Not everyone is in a position to donate cash of course, & that's OK, but all can help by sharing the link wherever possible.

Also if anyone lives in his area (I kinda wish I did) physical help is always appreciated
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
dale:

thanks dave. another hour gone too quickly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dave!
  8:00pm
bobobob:

This show needs to be two hours
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:55
That link is a page on instruments. Quite detailed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
bleubombersune:

Dave, Thanks
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chresti:

Thanks Dave!
  8:57pm
erik (vt):

↳ bobobob @8:00
i totally & utterly concur & agree !
- it's complicated is just too darn restricted by its 1hr format... It has been established that this is an extremely agreeable & popular-tastic show. & so it goes that a 2or3hour slot would be welcomed. perhaps Dave could migrate to one of the more open slotted streaming services? I don't really know how that gets figured-out...(?!)
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