WFMU: JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 28, 2025

Listener comments!
	9:03am Bob Tankenstein: Good morning to all
	♥ 9:03am Mister Dobalina: The Jazz is about to pop off, I can feel it !
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am Handy Haversack: JA. J'All.
	♥ 9:03am G: Here we go!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am common: j a. all.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am luka: (yeah)
	9:03am Montreal Jones: Jazz me up! Voudrais les spiritual!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Mike H: Good morning JA, jazz, everyone
	♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Quick, while the Jazz Police are on a coffee & donut break!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Happy Friday JA’ll
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Handy Haversack: Feels like course has already been set for the heart of the JAZZ.
	♥ 9:06am ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): "It might be cold outside, but it's about to get warm all up in my jazz."
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am Delicate Chester: Jazz all over my face...what is a boy to do
	9:08am Drugthedummer: I just love it when you guys talk on Fridays
	9:08am Audrey from Colombia: Good morning Jazz people
	9:09am Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "the first time ever i saw your face" by "dexter g... Commissioner Goron
	9:09am teenageriot: love jazz and love friday JA conversations
	♥ 9:10am Mister Dobalina: ↳ Song: "the closer i get to you" by "herbie mann" Coming on strong with this one, JA. This track is making my coffee taste better for some reason.
	9:10am Tom from Stirling: ↳ Drugthedummer @9:08 ty
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am Handy Haversack: Clay joins JA for the second Marathon Friday. Much Starcastle will be heard!
	9:11am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, John and Everyone.
	9:12am Gerry from Miami: The PIDGE had to split, John?
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am Bob Tankenstein: I always thought Toots was the only jazz whistler. Shows what I know!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am PaulRobeson1925: Yeah, baby. Now this is Jazz. None of that moth stuff
	♥ 9:13am Mark T: ↳ Song: "the closer i get to you" by "herbie mann" WowI met sat next to hin once on a plane from Philly to Toronto. Never heard of him prior to that. What an amazing musician
	♥ 9:14am audiolab1: Good morning, JA and jazz fans.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am No Big Thing in Chicago: Good morning JA and all
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am PaulRobeson1925: Good Music. Normal music. Stuff you can play in the car. Sitting in traffic music. Being still. Calm normal music, Johnny
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "killing me softly" by "hampton hawes" Could Bob James Feels Like Making Love be in the cards?
	♥ 9:17am Buzzportnoy: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @9:06 True, Duke Silver !
	🎸 ♥ 9:17am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Song: "killing me softly" by "hampton hawes" This is really nice
	♥ 9:18am Mister Dobalina: All the right notes are being played this morning.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am Will thee SG OCNY: Killing me smoothly
	9:18am honest Bernardo from Argentina: Is this soft jazz just a red herring? Are my ears about to be jazzified?
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: JA. Everyone. Didn't Albert Ayler cover a Roberta Flack song or 2?
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "feel like making make" by "bob james" Thank you JAzz. I love this tune
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Strandlund: Jazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
	9:21am Matt-turnip: Feeling the smooth grooves today JA
	9:21am Gerry from Miami: Such a great tune by GIMBEL and FOX in collaboration with LORI LIEBERMAN after she saw "American Pie's" DON McLEAN at LA's Troubador club. Still prefer ROBERTA'S version, though. Thanks, JOHN, for this tribute to Ms. FLACK in the wake of her recent passing.
	♥ 9:22am audiolab1: Has anyone seen the Avishai Cohen Trio in concert? I'm considering grabbing tickets to see them at the Montreal Jazz Festival this summer. Gary Bartz, too.
	9:22am Triple G: Hi JA & all, nice tribute going here
	♥ 9:23am Sean Bikes: ↳ Bob Tankenstein @9:15 Lol Nice one
	9:23am honest Bernardo from Argentina: I know it’s on a different wavelength than this stuff but anybody listen to the new Sam Gendel album from last week? It’s pretty dooooope
	9:23am Art: Morning. I love the storytelling going on here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am Bob Tankenstein: #LETCLAYSING
	9:24am Andres: ↳ Song: "feel like making make" by "bob james" Good morning. Love it. He played keys on the original. RIP Roberta and Bob.
	♥ 9:24am Mister Dobalina: Normal music for normal people, that's how I like it.
	9:24am Coneheads: Have Land Phil sit in next week
	♥ 9:24am Garrity: I thought I heard a Pidge fly by the mike!
	♥ 9:25am Mister Dobalina: ↳ Garrity @9:24 Yeah, I thought I heard cooing.
	9:25am Gerry from Miami: PIDGE, you're still here!! YAY!
	♥ 9:27am BillyLundun: Where's the brawny!
	♥ 9:27am Woo: Get out of there Clay! You gotta stay healthy for the next two weeks.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am Will thee SG OCNY: Laptop, or gear... Maybe an xlr if silver
	♥ 9:28am Mister Dobalina: Did we ever find out JA's shoe size?
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am Handy Haversack: Mal'occhia! The evil eye, Clay.
	♥ 9:28am mdashkin: Malocchio!
	9:29am P-90: “malocchio” The Evil Eye
	9:29am John n Julie Gainesville FL: Loving everything this morn!! I’m a wake n baker usually on a podcast after Clay during work- so glad I stayed w you cuz it’s a morning of chaos at work- you’re keeping it in the chill zone 🤙
	9:29am Gerry from Miami: The Italian word of threat is MALOCCHIO. The "evil eye."
	♥ 9:29am Shelly Lawless: Clay, it's because they know you want it too bad and it's a turnoff lmao and JA set you up, man! He set you up 🤣🤣🤣 Where am I Stength in Faliure?
	♥ 9:29am mrs.bucci: Someone put the malocchio on me this week thats for sure :(
	♥ 9:29am Mister Dobalina: You better know what you're doing if you're hitting the moguls. & be careful through the glades, it can get dangerous out there.
	♥ 9:30am Shelly Lawless: She fell once for herself and once for you, Clay, so you could tell us this love story :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am Marley P. Dogg: Is the antique hat haunted?
	♥ 9:31am Mister Dobalina: At your age...hahahah
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am Handy Haversack: I'm sure Clay's ancient haunted ski cap will have no consequences.
	9:31am Toothgrinder Tom: ‘Better not buy a lot of stuff at your age.’ Oh no he di’ int!
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am Handy Haversack: ↳ Marley P. Dogg @9:30 SEE!?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am common: rubber spider!
	9:31am Jay From NH: That hat is made out of witch's anus. be careful!
	♥ 9:31am Mennlinn Rebarts: This weekend the couch f'er VP is skiing at Sugarbush. Major downgrade in visitors!
	9:31am honest Bernardo from Argentina: Wow don’t stockpile stuff Clay you’re gonna die soon…gees JA 😂 he ain’t that old man!
	♥ 9:31am Shelly Lawless: You bought an antique hat lmao don't buy stuff, you are an antique! JA, Clay, you guys are the fricking best!
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Bobby: What was the jean cut at that show?
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Marley P. Dogg: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:31 It’s gotta be true
	9:32am Mich: Next time Check out Just L in Littleton NH on VT border—mid-century vintage stuff
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am PaulRobeson1925: Tickle them under the big toe
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Marley P. Dogg: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @9:31 Heard they had to switch hotels to avoid protests
	9:32am honest Bernardo from Argentina: How DO you make a Goth laugh 🤣 great question
	♥ 9:33am Woo: Taunt-a-Goth
	♥ 9:34am Mister Dobalina: I thought there was going to be a funny punch line to, 'How do you make a goth laugh'...
	♥ 9:34am chris_in_space: If @JA is 46 that would make him around 6 years old when he saw Deep Purple on the Perfect Strangers tour.
	9:34am PhillyG: Don’t know any better at that age. That age being 46.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Bobby: Was that Clay’s Matt impression?
	♥ 9:34am Shelly Lawless: g=Hahaha! This is great! JA can be the Goth and Clay can the rockstar to this day. Woo! Taunt-A-Goth Day!
	♥ 9:35am PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Woo @9:33 Heh my same thought
	9:35am Lana from Bucksom County: Delicious!
	🎸 ♥ 9:35am PaulRobeson1925: LA woman inner sleeve style cross
	♥ 9:35am Shelly Lawless: Hahaha, how you asparagus heads doing out there? lmao
	9:35am P-90: “the Robert Smith hair”
	♥ 9:35am PigeonsAndRust: I don't usually think of Florida and goth together
	♥ 9:35am Mister Dobalina: Florida, the basement of America.
	9:35am PhillyG: ↳ Mister Dobalina @9:34 Another lyric for their song collab
	9:35am Audrey from Colombia: ↳ P-90 @9:35 And lipstick
	♥ 9:36am Shelly Lawless: Dude, Clay, you should go to California and play a Garlic Fest in the Garlic Capital of the world!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36am Marley P. Dogg: Yes! Saw off Florida! m.youtube.com...
	♥ 9:36am Woo: nice enough
	♥ 9:36am Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ Marley P. Dogg @9:32 That may be so--getting mixed signals on the Reddit thread. Warren is a very small town--surprised they're not going to Stowe or Killington. Disgusted by his presence, regardless.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37am Marley P. Dogg: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @9:36 I’ve been happy to see the organized resistance in VT!
	♥ 9:37am Shelly Lawless: Johnny is really nice and he keeps the conversation going in a very interesting fashion and Clay loves to talk. What a Golden dynamic!
	9:37am Lana from Bucksom County: “Taking him to task”
	♥ 9:38am Garrity: Billy Billy Billy!
	♥ 9:38am Shelly Lawless: Okay, you got me thinking too much :D and I got to move around now. Love you, guys!
	9:39am honest Bernardo from Argentina: OUCH - Pidge is just a lowly corporate drive time DJ
	♥ 9:39am PigeonsAndRust: Liddy's asparagus spears, loyal to the end
	♥ 9:39am Asheville Jon: i'd pledge to the show if the full deep purple story was told.
	9:39am Toothgrinder Tom: Some performers experience mild depression as they ‘come down’ after a show - they think they did a bad job and feel self-critical.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40am Handy Haversack: I have only ever approached Elizabeth, NJ, by water. Which I guess kept me safe from the John Allen Street Sextet!
	♥ 9:41am Asheville Jon: JA: how do you stash a knife in those $180 Lou Reed jeans?
	9:41am Lana from Bucksom County: A Swiss army knife with a toothpick?
	🎸 ♥ 9:41am PaulRobeson1925: If someone has a knife you run away immediately and fast
	♥ 9:42am Woo: flyer said no dead air
	9:42am Lana from Bucksom County: John, can you help me evict the flying squirrels living in my barn?
	♥ 9:42am Asheville Jon: i have 4 swiss army knives within view of me right now, and more in other places around the house
	9:42am rx "rexy" scabin: Make sure you give John a penny if he gives you a knife. Otherwise, the relationship will be severed.
	9:43am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County he evicts them from life.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43am Bobby: I lived in Elizabeth, it smelled like weed before your town smelled like weed
	🎸 ♥ 9:43am PaulRobeson1925: What can you play? Just tell em, Anything! Cut glass chines or silver spurs can make Em ring!!
	♥ 9:44am Asheville Jon: there is a video of Deloris Telescope getting artist of the year
	9:44am Toothgrinder Tom: Elizabeth is kind of like Patterson-by-the-sea.
	9:45am Toothgrinder Tom: Paterson.
	9:45am Lana from Bucksom County: John, will you be singing again this year at theHoofi n mouth?
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am PaulRobeson1925: Cut glass Chimes! Get down high get down low! Get yer, heals in tow. We don’t care what mama don’t allow round’ here anymoree
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:43 Did YOU have a JAZZ quintet watching your back, Mr. Big Man?
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am Handy Haversack: Clay, SUBDIVISIONS
	♥ 9:46am Mister Dobalina: The word of the day, Pigeonizing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am Bobby: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:45 No, I crossed the street or turned around when I saw that other one coming
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @9:45 Heels! If I had the sense to know which things count and which are show i’d hold may fate within my hands instead of all these chains and bands. yes I would!
	♥ 9:48am Micheal: You could also get your shirts Sanforized while your trousers got Martinized. So many options.
	♥ 9:49am PigeonsAndRust: Laundry disasters, coming up next on Geraldo
	9:49am Lana from Bucksom County: One hour Martinizing “This concept was pioneered in New York in 1949 by a chemist named Henry Martin, who had discovered a non-flammable solvent.”
	♥ 9:49am Ken From Hyde Park: A 10k race is kind of like a marathon, just not as long.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am Charles in Chicago: I love when I go out for coffee, come home, and Clay is still on the radio
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am Karl: Hello from the streets of Philadelphia
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: The rest of the show should be a Winger retrospective.
	♥ 9:52am Jack McGuire: The pudgy nerd kid wore the Winger shirt. Because they suck.
	9:52am Theblandest in Atlanta: Stuart wore the Winger shirt
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am Bob Tankenstein: Kip Winger is a composer now too! Saw his first symphony a few years ago and will see his violin concerto later this year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am Charles in Chicago: Goin' Down the Hammer-on Trail - there's a song title for ya
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am The Oscar: ↳ Jack McGuire @9:52 I was just going to say-- IIRC Kip Winger demanded an apology from Mike Judge!
	9:53am lankylad: That guy was…WINGER
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am The Oscar: Yngwie Malmsteen came into the Barnes & Noble I worked in college once. IIRC he bought a Best of Chris Farley SNL DVD, and his name was misspelled on his membership card.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am Handy Haversack: Wait, if JA is forty-six, wouldn't he have been like seven in 1985? Pretty precocious for Malmsteen!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am captain beef fart: ↳ Jack McGuire @9:52 Stewart
	9:55am Lana from Bucksom County: Interesting about Kip Winger, just looked him up
	9:55am Fredericks: I never heard a good Yingvey song.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am PaulRobeson1925: Cow pie
	♥ 9:55am Fishtown Mike: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 Yeah, I did the math in my head too & thought I missed something.
	9:56am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack about six years ago he talked about turning 50. Clouds.
	♥ 9:56am Jack McGuire: Discuss bowel health too!
	♥ 9:56am WoodsOfMaine: I can find nothing about Kip Winger being a ballet dancer. Maybe that information has been banned.
	9:57am Rich from Wading River: When I used to commute to work, if I heard Rolnick it was a bit stressful as I was pretty late.
	9:57am Beep Boop: FMU's AM View
	9:57am Lana from Bucksom County: No shame in being 50+ John. When you’re 50, you can kick! You can split!
	♥ 9:57am mrs.bucci: I want an Unchained Clay show
	9:58am Lana from Bucksom County: Who’s your favorite bass player?
	9:58am katharsis: hellos, what? no dancing?
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am PaulRobeson1925: Ah Ah, Ah, Ah we got the frenZy
	♥ 9:59am Mister Dobalina: JA has gotten really good at the gift of gab with the Pigeon.
	♥ 9:59am Shelly Lawless: I bet Mr. Loaf's mom cared about ALL his records hahaha
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am PaulRobeson1925: Every worldly possession at their feet
	9:59am Fredericks: I heard John laughing. 9:58 am.
	♥ 9:59am WoodsOfMaine: Clay is tuning up for next week.
	9:59am Lana from Bucksom County: Clay, I love how you you able to deflect barbs so deftly. I would like to learn that myself.
	10:01am markinbrooklyn: When will the spider tire the fly?
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Handy Haversack: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @9:56 This makes more sense.
	10:01am clarkie: Clay is trying to play Gary to JA's "Dad"
	♥ 10:01am Mister Dobalina: Haha, don't get Pigeonized.
	♥ 10:02am Shelly Lawless: Clay, STOP being scared! We need you! We love you! We can't get enough of YOU! And we want to pay your SALARY, sir! I think we want to pay ALL THE DEEJAYS salaries, we just don't think we can. We can only do what we think we can do until we do more and realize the possiblities are endless. The Infinite Jest is a long book. I've never read it because I didn't think I would be able to fit it on an airplane! Bet I could of if I really wanted to carry it around 🤣 Anyway, judging by the title on the cover, I'm assuming it's about LIFE. and I got that shit on lock :D
	10:02am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack he also talked about Fabio threatening him with a knife.
	10:02am Lana from Bucksom County: I was wondering if that was staged or real that break up
	10:03am Lana from Bucksom County: Clarkie, good obs
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @9:57 We call it the "fuck-it fifties"
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Marley P. Dogg: Todd takes himself too seriously
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Handy Haversack: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @10:02 Was this in Elizabeth?
	♥ 10:03am Shelly Lawless: Worry has no place at WFMU, it's Freedom reigning at WFMU. Marathon is going to be GOLD. We are going to watch each other shine. Todd!?! Hi, Todd! I'll hear and Yo La Tengo on Saturday and I am looking so forward that I'm going to set an alarm!
	10:03am Hot Rodney: THIS IS RADIO!!
	♥ 10:03am Hughie Considine: Hey Handy. was that REM bio you just read The Name of This Band Is REM?
	10:04am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack probably.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Shelly Lawless @10:02 One of my favorite books, I've read it twice, but it's not as good as Georges Perec's "Life: A User's Manual" which is maybe the best thing I've ever read.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Handy Haversack: ↳ Shelly Lawless @10:02 I've read it six times, mostly carrying it on the subway. Where there's a will, there's a way!
	10:04am P-90: THE PINKENING
	10:04am Lana from Bucksom County: Charles in Chicago, what are the 60s called?
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @10:04 Get back to me next year and I'll tell you
	🎸 ♥ 10:05am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:03 I read two in a row! But yes, that was the first and most recent. Then I read the first edition of It Crawled from the South, which has apparently been updated with a new edition.
	10:05am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County the downhill slide.
	10:06am Trish: Why no music?
	10:06am Lana from Bucksom County: The pigeonizing process is manifested by “pinkening”
	10:07am Dex: The best on mic duo ever
	♥ 10:07am Mister Dobalina: Drats, gotta cheese it now. Great stuff between you two. May it last forever-ish.
	10:07am Lana from Bucksom County: Rexy, yes, I’ve noticed that :/
	♥ 10:07am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:04 Do now we disagree on Can and Infinite Jest. ;-)
	♥ 10:07am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:05 Ah, i see -- just got gifted with that one and am all in. Also, I have two complete mixing board shows, Tyrone's OC from '81 and Stichcraft '83. Let me know if you crave them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:07 We can still be friends!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am common: little dry back then? heee
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am PaulRobeson1925: Clay has practice cleaning up after S.A.M now
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am PaulRobeson1925: The bending and the scooping and the other thing
	10:09am Lana from Bucksom County: Can anyone tell me what to click on to reply to others’ posts? (“In reply to…” I only have an iPad/iPhone
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:07 Ooo, would love them. Just picked up a live record from a radio station in California in 1991 at Euclid Records in NOLA. Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @10:09 Is there a little speech bubble in the comment?
	10:09am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County long press on name/icon.
	♥ 10:09am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:07 Ha! Fabio played some Can yesterday and I had to tough it out.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:09 Keep listening and maybe someday you'll see delight.
	♥ 10:10am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @10:09 If you are on a web browser, you should see speech bubbles. If you're on a Woof Moo app, it might not show them.
	♥ 10:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:09 You'll dig this. Can send to you via the station. I know you'll be there this month.
	10:10am Lana from Bucksom County: Thanks, Rexy tried that but nothing happens
	10:11am Colin & Eddie in Durham, UK: Everyone I know is boycotting American products but I’m proud to help fund WFMU. You’re like a rose growing from a big tub of shit
	♥ 10:11am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:10 I've listened to those live things that came out not long ago and enjoyed them...but that's because of the dearth of horrific vocals.
	10:11am Toothgrinder Tom: @charles in Chicago 10:04 I too heart ‘Life: A User’s Manual’!
	10:11am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County which app are you using?
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:10 Sure. Or I can send my address? I think I have your e-mail.
	10:12am Lana from Bucksom County: Rexie, I’m using the WFMU app which shows the WoofMoo
	10:12am tgravel: Save it for the marathon pidge!
	10:13am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County use the unofficial app.
	♥ 10:13am J-W: oh Clay, man why did you do that? We love John Allen in the early slot.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13am Mike H: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:05 How are those REM books? Love them but have never read one of the bios...
	10:13am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County so am I.
	10:13am Lana from Bucksom County: Thanks,Rexy, I’ll try to find that one!
	🎸 ♥ 10:14am luka: flute juice incoming
	🎸 ♥ 10:14am PaulRobeson1925: We LoVe You
	♥ 10:14am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:12 Sounds good!
	10:15am markinbrooklyn: Hit us with some flute juice!
	♥ 10:15am steveo: Hey everybody. Greetings from the hospital in lovely Grand Junction Colorado!
	10:15am Lana from Bucksom County: Thank you, Clay and John, love you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am Noir Lover: I love you Clay
	10:15am P-90: Now Clay has to be extra careful not to get broadsided by a Studebaker, because John hasn’t said “I love you” yet. See? Some of us are paying attention.
	10:16am ledzeppelinsucks: That was really lame. Please don’t do that again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am Handy Haversack: ↳ steveo @10:15 That seems bad. Did your hiking club get majorly lost? You OK?
	♥ 10:16am Triple G: Thanks for the pinkening segment, gents, as always
	10:17am tak: that seemed like the voice on space ghost's intro
	10:17am Toothgrinder Tom: Love’s not love that alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
	♥ 10:17am Triple G: ↳ steveo @10:15 Damn, hope you're okay all in all, Steve
	10:17am Hi from Holland: ↳ Song: "nickel bag of tears" by "judy stuart" Aloha! If you said this was Nadia Now's aunt I'd believe it...
	🎸 ♥ 10:18am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "nickel bag of tears" by "judy stuart" I dig this buy my cat just left the room
	♥ 10:18am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ steveo @10:15 I hope you're not denied coverage!
	🎸 ♥ 10:19am -жеи: ↳ Song: "nickel bag of tears" by "judy stuart" Is this the Judy Stuart who was the daughter of Jimmy Stuart?!
	♥ 10:19am steveo: Hey handy. Solo hiking in Utah, suffered a long fall, majorly banged up . Somewhat lucky to be alive, etc . At least I have the JAZZ in my heart. Thank you KFHP &GGG
	10:20am Hot Rodney: This is bananas 🍌
	10:20am billylondon: What a fun tune!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am luka: this isn’t flute juice but it’s p good
	10:20am tak: some flutin'
	10:20am luke: damn this judy stuart is crazy for 1969!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am Handy Haversack: ↳ steveo @10:19 Oh, man, steveo! So sorry to hear it! That's so scary! Sending pixie all the way across the country your way. Get well soon, friend!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am Charles in Chicago: ↳ -жеи @10:19 Who's Jimmy Stuart?
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am Gregosaurus: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:18 Kitty's a tough audience, it seems.
	♥ 10:21am steveo: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:20 Much appreciated
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am Mike H: Sorry to hear that steveo, heal up fast!
	♥ 10:21am steveo: ↳ Mike H @10:21 Thanks
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Charles in Chicago: ↳ luke @10:20 1969 was pretty crazy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Gregosaurus @10:21 Kitty came back for Cecil McBee.
	♥ 10:23am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ steveo @10:19 If you have before & after photos to prove the bruises weren't a preexisting condition, you should be in good shape, insurance-wise. Get well soon!
	10:23am Toothgrinder Tom: @steveo I would imagine solo hiking could be kind of scary, especially out West?
	10:24am Toothgrinder Tom: Remembering what happened to Julian Sands.
	♥ 10:24am WoodsOfMaine: By the way, here's the exact sentence that made me toss Infinite Jest aside. It all just seemed like too much work for my tiny brain: Thereafter proceeding first to the Upper Brighton and now to the cooperative Back Bay-edge brownstone she had lived in once with Orin and performed in with his father and then passed on to the Molly Notkin, today's party's guest of honor and hostess in one, as of yesterday enjoying A.B.D. pre-doctoral status in Film & Film-Cartridge theory at M.I.T., having cleared the notorious hurdle of Oral Examinations on that day by offering her examination committee a dramatically rendered and if she did say so herself devastating oral critique of post-millennial Marxists Film-Cartridge Theory from the point of view of Marx himself, Marx as pretend-film-cartridge theorist and scholar.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24am Handy Haversack: I can't be the only one thinking we need a little pre-Marathon Moth Cock to purify us and cleanse the palate for what is about to occur?
	♥ 10:25am steveo: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:23 Was in a national Park, so perhaps a false sense of security
	🎸 ♥ 10:25am Handy Haversack: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:24 Right near there is one of the most beautiful passages in the book about the wet garbage that Joelle Van Dyne (the PGOAT) passes on her way to said party being flat in a way that only wet garbage can be flat. I think about it on Tuesday mornings a lot.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27am Jason from Houston: Heyyyyyyy there.
	♥ 10:27am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:25 I'm honestly glad people enjoy it. It just didn't resonate. I do like his non-fiction stuff. I think I have a book of short fiction? The Girl With Curious Hair?
	10:27am Toothgrinder Tom: Like Zion or Arches? One of the popular ones?
	♥ 10:28am steveo: Arches
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:27 I was at MIT the same time DFW was at Harvard, we probably crossed paths in Allston. I recognize some of the scenes he describes in that book, like the parked van full of snakes in glass cages. I was just gutted when he died.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:28 So was I. Went to the memorial at NYU here with some DFW scholars I know.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30am luka: i missed having DFW as an english professor at Illinois State by like two years
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:30 What's your take on "Pale King"?
	♥ 10:33am WoodsOfMaine: Probably my favorite DFW piece is that essay he did about going on a cruise ship.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:33 Yeah that's the one I recommend to folks who haven't read him
	10:34am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "odessa" by "arthur blythe" Do I hear Blood Ulmer?
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:32 Not a novel. Not meant for publication as such. Release an annotated edition for scholars, sure. But that was a publishing travesty. There was a lot of frankly ghoulish publishing after he died, and his publishers should have been ashamed. That's for-profit for you.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36am Charles in Chicago: I compiled a list of all the mathematical errors in "Infinite Jest" - I was going to send DFW a letter, when I realized he probably did it as a joke, to get people like me.... Pemulis' explanation of the Intermediate Value Theorem in calculus is completely messed up ("This shit works!") and the calculation of the probability of a tie in the Eschaton is off by billions. It had to be deliberate! So I never sent the letter.
	♥ 10:38am WoodsOfMaine: I wonder what DFW would have thought of AI
	10:39am Souleman: JA, my morning is made w/ a vastly under appreciated alto stud - Arthur Blythe. Used to see him regularly at the Tin Palace. Thx man
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:36 We published his philosophy MA, logical philosophy. I had to work my Unicode butt off to get all that to appear in text. You have read Everything and More, I assume?
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am Noir Lover: JA looks like you played something from Damon Locks in 2021. New one is great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:39 Yeah, and I thought it was terrible, TBH
	♥ 10:40am neil quarantino: ↳ Fredericks @10:34 Yep - en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 10:41am J-W: I know it's morning over there. But this set is perfectly for this springlike Friday afternoon! thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:40 He spends pages belaboring very minor points and then glosses over very important things in half a sentence. Here's a great review "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity" by the very literate Michael Harris (who write a terrific book about math called "Mathematics Without Apologies", a nod to G.H. Hardy's classic "A Mathematician's Apology") www.ams.org... Harris says: "It is laced through and through with blunders of every magnitude." This book could have used an editor who was a professional mathematician. I still love DFW though!!!
	10:47am Lana in Bucks County: Thank you Handy, Charles, Woods, etc for your discussion of DFW's works. You've saved me from an impending Infinite Jest quest and steered me toward his non-fiction... I just bought his book of essays, which includes the cruise ship essay.
	♥ 10:47am Ernest (NL): ↳ J-W @10:41 Same here!
	♥ 10:48am Matty Cannabis: Did I just hear "Big Fat Titties"???
	10:48am tak: jest is a funny book
	🎸 ♥ 10:48am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:45 Rudy Rucker's (sci-fi author and mathematican) review "Infinite Confusion" was less charitable www.rudyrucker.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:49am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana in Bucks County @10:47 Sure, start with "A supposedly fun thing", but I do think IJ is worth your time. And if you do read it, use two bookmarks ... one for your current page and one for the footnotes
	🎸 ♥ 10:49am 2/3 of the Perrin Family: ↳ Song: "nyc nostalgia redux" by "joe mcphee" good ol boyz
	♥ 10:49am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:49 It also makes a lovely doorstop.
	10:50am Toothgrinder Tom: I thought Infinite Jest was a parody of a spy thriller that was also a shaggy dog story that went nowhere, sort of like Sterne’s ‘Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy’ (another long and ostensibly tedious novel).
	🎸 ♥ 10:52am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:50 Oh, it went somewhere, you just have to put the pieces together. Something dreadful happened to young Hal ... involving the Cartridge and the drug DMZ ...
	🎸 ♥ 10:52am Jason from Houston: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" Niiiiiiiice...
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am JDub: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" That high pitched squeal is my fix
	♥ 10:54am WoodsOfMaine: I think the thing about Jest that didn't work for me is that, even though I was a software engineer, I'm the oddball who absolutely hates all games and puzzles. It felt like a giant puzzle, one that I was not willing to spend the time on. That's probably why I don't like science fiction either.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55am Jason from Houston: ↳ JDub @10:54 The best 19 minutes of this day.
	10:58am Lana in Bucks County: Wow never heard Gato Barbieri like this.
	10:58am Art: Morning. I love the storytelling going on here.
	♥ 10:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ Lana in Bucks County @10:58 You Gato be kidding me.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:45 Yeah, there was a whole series from that publisher. Seemed like an awkward idea.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:49 It's the magnum opus. The summa. The nonfiction is fine, but it's all very bounded for me by the extremely ... neoliberal context of U.S. magazine publishing. The fiction is where it's at.
	11:04am John Allen: as for DFW books that have been finished, Consider the Lobster
	♥ 11:04am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" This is reminding me of when we saw McPhee and Brotzmann....LOVE the sqeeeelies.
	♥ 11:05am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ John Allen @11:04 Same here.
	11:05am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles I’ll have to revisit it. But my memory was less that it had a coherent ending than it just wheezed to a stop (and the part about the wheelchair-bound Quebec separatist terrorists ended up being a red herring, for all intents and purposes).
	11:07am OMG! I'm Deaf Now: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" Holy moly this is abrasive!!! Love you John A, but wow! I gotta check out for a bit.
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "samba de negro" by "stone alliance" Fantastic
	11:09am tak: carnaval woo
	11:13am TigerSoul: What a brilliant set of music, thx J.A.
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am PaulRobeson1925: OK
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am PaulRobeson1925: Where is Clay
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "45tyh street -at 8th avenue" by "isao suzuki quar... JOHN"S ON A ROLL
	♥ 11:19am suzyhotrod: Hi John! If you see this, I hope you let all your listeners know Minnie is participating in the WFMU Puppy Bowl on Sunday March 9th on my show. 2 weens in the contest this year! Who will be the longest?!
	🎸 ♥ 11:20am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Morning JA, crew! Working away here, digging the tunes. TGIF and all that!
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ suzyhotrod @11:19 Wait wait wait...is this a live event or will it be available on the Interwebs also?
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Stream from desktop just died for me?
	11:22am Montreal Jones: Oops live stream buffering 😟
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am The Oscar: Is the feed down for anyone else?
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Noir Lover: We down
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ The Oscar @11:22 Yup just died
	♥ 11:23am prof.fuzz: mothership stream is down. RNS stream works for me.
	♥ 11:23am Fuzzy: ↳ The Oscar @11:22 Yep.
	♥ 11:23am mndave: ↳ Montreal Jones @11:22 same here - kaput
	♥ 11:23am BillyLundun: Yep mines down
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ The Oscar @11:22 Yes
	11:23am wimpy: Yeah both the app and the pop up stopped working for me
	♥ 11:23am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @11:22 Mine as well.
	♥ 11:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Some egregious technical error hitting my VLC stream. It pops me over the the funky stuff on the Drummer stream.
	♥ 11:24am Fuzzy: "You're 30% there..."
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am Noir Lover: Elon cut the internet
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am maurer: help! need music!
	♥ 11:24am Steve Del Sol: Musk is screwing with us perhaps?
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ Noir Lover @11:24 Luigi to the white courtesy phone...
	11:24am Fredericks: WFMU is not working, but WGXC had me fooled. Vinyl pops and guitar jazz.
	11:25am Cubicle Carl: Yup. Stereo and Mono of the mothership is down.
	♥ 11:25am Roberto: We all knew this day would come eventually. We had a good run!
	♥ 11:25am T GRavel: to the archives!
	11:26am Jay From NH: awww... no more WFMU streaming. Better fix it before Marathon! :)
	11:26am RecessionWretch: The ghost of Boris Spassky is messing with us.
	11:26am TerrDE: Hey the app just suddenly went off. Its saying it can't find the file ?!
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am Bob Tankenstein: Alt streams are working
	11:26am wimpy: The drummer stream stands tall and reigns supreme
	♥ 11:26am WallCharger360: Anyone have a phillips head screwdriver?
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am joe mulligan: App just goes to paused. Need jazz now more than ever
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Noir Lover: Unplug router and plug back in??
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Handy Haversack: 91.1 strong in north Brooklyn.
	11:27am Toothgrinder Tom: Maybe the Puppy Bowl announcement broke the Internet?
	♥ 11:28am paddy in matawan: stream down
	🎸 ♥ 11:29am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: So is the Puppy Bowl a viewable event?
	🎸 ♥ 11:29am JDub: What am I supposed to do now, listen to ambient sound?? Come on, bring me some JAzzes
	11:29am TerrDE: Website doesn't work either
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ Bob Tankenstein @11:26 What are the alt streams?
	11:30am Jay From NH: JA! Help us!!!!!
	11:30am TigerSoul: Sounds even better on my top-notch table radio in the kitchen. Old school terrestrial heaven.
	11:31am Toothgrinder Tom: Hue and cry!
	♥ 11:31am Steve Del Sol: Sheena's Jungle Room is working.
	11:32am John Allen: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @11:30 no one needs to concern themselves with alt streams
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am joe mulligan: It used to be Russia, china, North Korea doing the hacking. Now it’s 19yo big balls but he works for the us govt
	♥ 11:32am Steve Del Sol: I say, the bigger the balls, the bigger the target.
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ John Allen @11:32 Alas I haz no actual physical radio! MUST HAVE MY WFMU
	11:33am John Allen: are we still offline?
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @11:30 Give the Drummer Radio, Sheena's Jungle Room, and Rock and Soul Radio!
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ John Allen @11:33 Yes
	11:34am Jay From NH: Well, it was great what we got to hear this morning. Still can't connect. Thanks JA. Have a great weekend! I'll tune in from London next week, hopefully.
	♥ 11:35am Aunt Sushi: We could start a band in the comments while it's down. My contribution: "skiddle-dee-bap doobeedoo"
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am Bobby: Come back to me, jazz. I can still smell you on my pillow
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am joe mulligan: “ In the TV show "Lost", the most prominent "emergency code" is the sequence of numbers "4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42" which characters are required to input regularly on a computer in the "Swan" station to supposedly maintain stability on the island”
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am Charles in Chicago: HTTP error 404 File Not Found
	♥ 11:38am Steve Del Sol: The thing I remember most from 9th grade Social Studies is Mr. Green impressing upon us that the first thing a dictator does is control communication.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am JDub: "DOGE discovered TRILLIONS of dollars wasted on polluting the airwaves and innocent minds with caterwauling, be-bop, and scratchy vinyl recordings. For that kind of money you'd expect they could afford CDs but instead it's a scheme to funnel $$$ to big-jazz."
	♥ 11:38am Aunt Sushi: It's back up!!! Thanks gang!
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am 12539: It's back!
	11:39am Audrey from Colombia: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
	♥ 11:39am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Aunt Sushi @11:38 Yeah, well, ...its' STILL true, so there.
	11:39am Montreal Jones: He has risen! Er, WFMU that is… it’s back!
	11:40am TerrDE: DODGE . Pronounced Doggie
	🎸 ♥ 11:40am joe mulligan: The emergency code number sequence worked!
	♥ 11:40am Aunt Sushi: ↳ Steve Del Sol @11:39 They'll have to pry these headphones from my cold, dead ears
	♥ 11:41am Mick: Joy throughout the land at the triumphant return of the JA in the AM stream!
	♥ 11:41am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Aunt Sushi @11:40 I know. Me too.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: YES stream is back. Now, on to that Puppy Bowl. Will it be streamed so that we can see the doggos?
	♥ 11:46am Polyus: It was JA who put me on to Bill Fay in the first place, many moons ago.
	11:48am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, John and Everyone.
	🎸 ♥ 11:48am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: FYI PuppyBowl and other Marathon shenanigans here: www.wfmu.org...
	11:49am Toothgrinder Tom: What a meeting of minds!
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am 12539: Thanks, John. Looking forward to you and Irwin jazzing it up.
	11:51am Audrey from Colombia: Thank you JAzz 🎷💙
	11:53am Toothgrinder Tom: Just say ‘ja’ to JA.
	🎸 ♥ 11:53am Handy Haversack: Gotta walk the dog. Thanks, JA! Ready to jump into 'Thon! K8 and I will be with you for Marty's show again this year!
	♥ 11:54am Ken From Hyde Park: I hope the Jazz Police Benevolent Assocation donates generously this year. And thank JAZZ.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, JA. Cheers, good radio friends.
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am listener 126464: Thanks, John.
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am maurer: yay! music is back! thank you! carry on...
	♥ 11:59am WallCharger360: Thanks JA and comment board
	🎸 ♥ 11:59am Bob Tankenstein: Thanks JA! Great show today.
	12:00pm clarkie: Thanks John!
	12:00pm Ajay / Krommenie (NL): Great show. Off to see steve Gunn play tonight
	12:01pm clarkie: arf! arf!
	♥ 12:03pm Mister Dobalina: Is JA still on??
	12:03pm Philip: whoa.
	12:06pm Jay From NH: OVERTIME!
	12:07pm dro: JessicA in the AM

JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 28, 2025

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"I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but I could'nt see where you were going or what you were going for. This early seventies thing did'nt get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Dealney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are. Then you play this long winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves. And that noise without a beat and sounds like someones being pinched. Then you play a reggae song, I think you called it Dub, to what, be cool? You seem to really fetishize the whole folk thing too which is obnoxious to us who don't even care. I liked it when you played that punk song though. I like Joe Belock a lot." (Visit homepage.)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	New	Approx. start time
dirty	theme to DH "theme to DH" by "dirty"					0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
dexter gordon	the first time ever i saw your face					0:02:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
herbie mann	the closer i get to you	sunbelt		1978		0:07:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
hampton hawes	killing me softly "killing me softly" by "hampton hawes"	at the piano		1978		0:12:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
bob james	feel like making make "feel like making make" by "bob james"	one		1974	*	0:18:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
judy stuart	nickel bag of tears "nickel bag of tears" by "judy stuart"					1:14:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
cecil mcbee	truth-a path to peace	flying out	india navigation	1982		1:20:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
arthur blythe	odessa "odessa" by "arthur blythe"					1:27:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
james brandon lewis	remember brooklyn & moki	apple cores		2005		1:37:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
paul motian quintet	gang of five "gang of five" by "paul motian quintet"					1:41:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
joe mcphee	nyc nostalgia redux "nyc nostalgia redux" by "joe mcphee"	i'm just sayin				1:46:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
gato barbieri	in search of the mystery					1:51:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
stone alliance	samba de negro "samba de negro" by "stone alliance"					2:05:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
isao suzuki quartet +1	45tyh street -at 8th avenue	blue city				2:10:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
terumasa hino	little lovers "little lovers" by "terumasa hino"	speak to loneliness	east wind	1975		2:22:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
mike gibbs band	mother of the dead man					2:32:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
bill fay	good night stan / cannon's plain / be not so fearful					2:39:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
paul lovens &	3 minutes "3 minutes" by "paul lovens &"					2:54:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
steve gunn & john truscinski duo	broadstreet bells					2:57:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am Bob Tankenstein: Good morning to all
	♥ 9:03am Mister Dobalina: The Jazz is about to pop off, I can feel it !
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am Handy Haversack: JA. J'All.
	♥ 9:03am G: Here we go!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am common: j a. all.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03am luka: (yeah)
	9:03am Montreal Jones: Jazz me up! Voudrais les spiritual!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Mike H: Good morning JA, jazz, everyone
	♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park: Quick, while the Jazz Police are on a coffee & donut break!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Happy Friday JA’ll
	🎸 ♥ 9:05am Handy Haversack: Feels like course has already been set for the heart of the JAZZ.
	♥ 9:06am ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): "It might be cold outside, but it's about to get warm all up in my jazz."
	🎸 ♥ 9:07am Delicate Chester: Jazz all over my face...what is a boy to do
	9:08am Drugthedummer: I just love it when you guys talk on Fridays
	9:08am Audrey from Colombia: Good morning Jazz people
	9:09am Tom from Stirling: ↳ Song: "the first time ever i saw your face" by "dexter g... Commissioner Goron
	9:09am teenageriot: love jazz and love friday JA conversations
	♥ 9:10am Mister Dobalina: ↳ Song: "the closer i get to you" by "herbie mann" Coming on strong with this one, JA. This track is making my coffee taste better for some reason.
	9:10am Tom from Stirling: ↳ Drugthedummer @9:08 ty
	🎸 ♥ 9:10am Handy Haversack: Clay joins JA for the second Marathon Friday. Much Starcastle will be heard!
	9:11am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, John and Everyone.
	9:12am Gerry from Miami: The PIDGE had to split, John?
	🎸 ♥ 9:12am Bob Tankenstein: I always thought Toots was the only jazz whistler. Shows what I know!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13am PaulRobeson1925: Yeah, baby. Now this is Jazz. None of that moth stuff
	♥ 9:13am Mark T: ↳ Song: "the closer i get to you" by "herbie mann" WowI met sat next to hin once on a plane from Philly to Toronto. Never heard of him prior to that. What an amazing musician
	♥ 9:14am audiolab1: Good morning, JA and jazz fans.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am No Big Thing in Chicago: Good morning JA and all
	🎸 ♥ 9:14am PaulRobeson1925: Good Music. Normal music. Stuff you can play in the car. Sitting in traffic music. Being still. Calm normal music, Johnny
	🎸 ♥ 9:15am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "killing me softly" by "hampton hawes" Could Bob James Feels Like Making Love be in the cards?
	♥ 9:17am Buzzportnoy: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @9:06 True, Duke Silver !
	🎸 ♥ 9:17am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Song: "killing me softly" by "hampton hawes" This is really nice
	♥ 9:18am Mister Dobalina: All the right notes are being played this morning.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18am Will thee SG OCNY: Killing me smoothly
	9:18am honest Bernardo from Argentina: Is this soft jazz just a red herring? Are my ears about to be jazzified?
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: JA. Everyone. Didn't Albert Ayler cover a Roberta Flack song or 2?
	🎸 ♥ 9:20am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "feel like making make" by "bob james" Thank you JAzz. I love this tune
	🎸 ♥ 9:21am Strandlund: Jazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
	9:21am Matt-turnip: Feeling the smooth grooves today JA
	9:21am Gerry from Miami: Such a great tune by GIMBEL and FOX in collaboration with LORI LIEBERMAN after she saw "American Pie's" DON McLEAN at LA's Troubador club. Still prefer ROBERTA'S version, though. Thanks, JOHN, for this tribute to Ms. FLACK in the wake of her recent passing.
	♥ 9:22am audiolab1: Has anyone seen the Avishai Cohen Trio in concert? I'm considering grabbing tickets to see them at the Montreal Jazz Festival this summer. Gary Bartz, too.
	9:22am Triple G: Hi JA & all, nice tribute going here
	♥ 9:23am Sean Bikes: ↳ Bob Tankenstein @9:15 Lol Nice one
	9:23am honest Bernardo from Argentina: I know it’s on a different wavelength than this stuff but anybody listen to the new Sam Gendel album from last week? It’s pretty dooooope
	9:23am Art: Morning. I love the storytelling going on here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24am Bob Tankenstein: #LETCLAYSING
	9:24am Andres: ↳ Song: "feel like making make" by "bob james" Good morning. Love it. He played keys on the original. RIP Roberta and Bob.
	♥ 9:24am Mister Dobalina: Normal music for normal people, that's how I like it.
	9:24am Coneheads: Have Land Phil sit in next week
	♥ 9:24am Garrity: I thought I heard a Pidge fly by the mike!
	♥ 9:25am Mister Dobalina: ↳ Garrity @9:24 Yeah, I thought I heard cooing.
	9:25am Gerry from Miami: PIDGE, you're still here!! YAY!
	♥ 9:27am BillyLundun: Where's the brawny!
	♥ 9:27am Woo: Get out of there Clay! You gotta stay healthy for the next two weeks.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27am Will thee SG OCNY: Laptop, or gear... Maybe an xlr if silver
	♥ 9:28am Mister Dobalina: Did we ever find out JA's shoe size?
	🎸 ♥ 9:28am Handy Haversack: Mal'occhia! The evil eye, Clay.
	♥ 9:28am mdashkin: Malocchio!
	9:29am P-90: “malocchio” The Evil Eye
	9:29am John n Julie Gainesville FL: Loving everything this morn!! I’m a wake n baker usually on a podcast after Clay during work- so glad I stayed w you cuz it’s a morning of chaos at work- you’re keeping it in the chill zone 🤙
	9:29am Gerry from Miami: The Italian word of threat is MALOCCHIO. The "evil eye."
	♥ 9:29am Shelly Lawless: Clay, it's because they know you want it too bad and it's a turnoff lmao and JA set you up, man! He set you up 🤣🤣🤣 Where am I Stength in Faliure?
	♥ 9:29am mrs.bucci: Someone put the malocchio on me this week thats for sure :(
	♥ 9:29am Mister Dobalina: You better know what you're doing if you're hitting the moguls. & be careful through the glades, it can get dangerous out there.
	♥ 9:30am Shelly Lawless: She fell once for herself and once for you, Clay, so you could tell us this love story :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:30am Marley P. Dogg: Is the antique hat haunted?
	♥ 9:31am Mister Dobalina: At your age...hahahah
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am Handy Haversack: I'm sure Clay's ancient haunted ski cap will have no consequences.
	9:31am Toothgrinder Tom: ‘Better not buy a lot of stuff at your age.’ Oh no he di’ int!
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am Handy Haversack: ↳ Marley P. Dogg @9:30 SEE!?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31am common: rubber spider!
	9:31am Jay From NH: That hat is made out of witch's anus. be careful!
	♥ 9:31am Mennlinn Rebarts: This weekend the couch f'er VP is skiing at Sugarbush. Major downgrade in visitors!
	9:31am honest Bernardo from Argentina: Wow don’t stockpile stuff Clay you’re gonna die soon…gees JA 😂 he ain’t that old man!
	♥ 9:31am Shelly Lawless: You bought an antique hat lmao don't buy stuff, you are an antique! JA, Clay, you guys are the fricking best!
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Bobby: What was the jean cut at that show?
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Marley P. Dogg: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:31 It’s gotta be true
	9:32am Mich: Next time Check out Just L in Littleton NH on VT border—mid-century vintage stuff
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am PaulRobeson1925: Tickle them under the big toe
	🎸 ♥ 9:32am Marley P. Dogg: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @9:31 Heard they had to switch hotels to avoid protests
	9:32am honest Bernardo from Argentina: How DO you make a Goth laugh 🤣 great question
	♥ 9:33am Woo: Taunt-a-Goth
	♥ 9:34am Mister Dobalina: I thought there was going to be a funny punch line to, 'How do you make a goth laugh'...
	♥ 9:34am chris_in_space: If @JA is 46 that would make him around 6 years old when he saw Deep Purple on the Perfect Strangers tour.
	9:34am PhillyG: Don’t know any better at that age. That age being 46.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34am Bobby: Was that Clay’s Matt impression?
	♥ 9:34am Shelly Lawless: g=Hahaha! This is great! JA can be the Goth and Clay can the rockstar to this day. Woo! Taunt-A-Goth Day!
	♥ 9:35am PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Woo @9:33 Heh my same thought
	9:35am Lana from Bucksom County: Delicious!
	🎸 ♥ 9:35am PaulRobeson1925: LA woman inner sleeve style cross
	♥ 9:35am Shelly Lawless: Hahaha, how you asparagus heads doing out there? lmao
	9:35am P-90: “the Robert Smith hair”
	♥ 9:35am PigeonsAndRust: I don't usually think of Florida and goth together
	♥ 9:35am Mister Dobalina: Florida, the basement of America.
	9:35am PhillyG: ↳ Mister Dobalina @9:34 Another lyric for their song collab
	9:35am Audrey from Colombia: ↳ P-90 @9:35 And lipstick
	♥ 9:36am Shelly Lawless: Dude, Clay, you should go to California and play a Garlic Fest in the Garlic Capital of the world!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36am Marley P. Dogg: Yes! Saw off Florida! m.youtube.com...
	♥ 9:36am Woo: nice enough
	♥ 9:36am Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ Marley P. Dogg @9:32 That may be so--getting mixed signals on the Reddit thread. Warren is a very small town--surprised they're not going to Stowe or Killington. Disgusted by his presence, regardless.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37am Marley P. Dogg: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @9:36 I’ve been happy to see the organized resistance in VT!
	♥ 9:37am Shelly Lawless: Johnny is really nice and he keeps the conversation going in a very interesting fashion and Clay loves to talk. What a Golden dynamic!
	9:37am Lana from Bucksom County: “Taking him to task”
	♥ 9:38am Garrity: Billy Billy Billy!
	♥ 9:38am Shelly Lawless: Okay, you got me thinking too much :D and I got to move around now. Love you, guys!
	9:39am honest Bernardo from Argentina: OUCH - Pidge is just a lowly corporate drive time DJ
	♥ 9:39am PigeonsAndRust: Liddy's asparagus spears, loyal to the end
	♥ 9:39am Asheville Jon: i'd pledge to the show if the full deep purple story was told.
	9:39am Toothgrinder Tom: Some performers experience mild depression as they ‘come down’ after a show - they think they did a bad job and feel self-critical.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40am Handy Haversack: I have only ever approached Elizabeth, NJ, by water. Which I guess kept me safe from the John Allen Street Sextet!
	♥ 9:41am Asheville Jon: JA: how do you stash a knife in those $180 Lou Reed jeans?
	9:41am Lana from Bucksom County: A Swiss army knife with a toothpick?
	🎸 ♥ 9:41am PaulRobeson1925: If someone has a knife you run away immediately and fast
	♥ 9:42am Woo: flyer said no dead air
	9:42am Lana from Bucksom County: John, can you help me evict the flying squirrels living in my barn?
	♥ 9:42am Asheville Jon: i have 4 swiss army knives within view of me right now, and more in other places around the house
	9:42am rx "rexy" scabin: Make sure you give John a penny if he gives you a knife. Otherwise, the relationship will be severed.
	9:43am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County he evicts them from life.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43am Bobby: I lived in Elizabeth, it smelled like weed before your town smelled like weed
	🎸 ♥ 9:43am PaulRobeson1925: What can you play? Just tell em, Anything! Cut glass chines or silver spurs can make Em ring!!
	♥ 9:44am Asheville Jon: there is a video of Deloris Telescope getting artist of the year
	9:44am Toothgrinder Tom: Elizabeth is kind of like Patterson-by-the-sea.
	9:45am Toothgrinder Tom: Paterson.
	9:45am Lana from Bucksom County: John, will you be singing again this year at theHoofi n mouth?
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am PaulRobeson1925: Cut glass Chimes! Get down high get down low! Get yer, heals in tow. We don’t care what mama don’t allow round’ here anymoree
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Bobby @9:43 Did YOU have a JAZZ quintet watching your back, Mr. Big Man?
	🎸 ♥ 9:45am Handy Haversack: Clay, SUBDIVISIONS
	♥ 9:46am Mister Dobalina: The word of the day, Pigeonizing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am Bobby: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:45 No, I crossed the street or turned around when I saw that other one coming
	🎸 ♥ 9:46am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @9:45 Heels! If I had the sense to know which things count and which are show i’d hold may fate within my hands instead of all these chains and bands. yes I would!
	♥ 9:48am Micheal: You could also get your shirts Sanforized while your trousers got Martinized. So many options.
	♥ 9:49am PigeonsAndRust: Laundry disasters, coming up next on Geraldo
	9:49am Lana from Bucksom County: One hour Martinizing “This concept was pioneered in New York in 1949 by a chemist named Henry Martin, who had discovered a non-flammable solvent.”
	♥ 9:49am Ken From Hyde Park: A 10k race is kind of like a marathon, just not as long.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50am Charles in Chicago: I love when I go out for coffee, come home, and Clay is still on the radio
	🎸 ♥ 9:51am Karl: Hello from the streets of Philadelphia
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: The rest of the show should be a Winger retrospective.
	♥ 9:52am Jack McGuire: The pudgy nerd kid wore the Winger shirt. Because they suck.
	9:52am Theblandest in Atlanta: Stuart wore the Winger shirt
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am Bob Tankenstein: Kip Winger is a composer now too! Saw his first symphony a few years ago and will see his violin concerto later this year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52am Charles in Chicago: Goin' Down the Hammer-on Trail - there's a song title for ya
	🎸 ♥ 9:53am The Oscar: ↳ Jack McGuire @9:52 I was just going to say-- IIRC Kip Winger demanded an apology from Mike Judge!
	9:53am lankylad: That guy was…WINGER
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am The Oscar: Yngwie Malmsteen came into the Barnes & Noble I worked in college once. IIRC he bought a Best of Chris Farley SNL DVD, and his name was misspelled on his membership card.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54am Handy Haversack: Wait, if JA is forty-six, wouldn't he have been like seven in 1985? Pretty precocious for Malmsteen!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am captain beef fart: ↳ Jack McGuire @9:52 Stewart
	9:55am Lana from Bucksom County: Interesting about Kip Winger, just looked him up
	9:55am Fredericks: I never heard a good Yingvey song.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55am PaulRobeson1925: Cow pie
	♥ 9:55am Fishtown Mike: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 Yeah, I did the math in my head too & thought I missed something.
	9:56am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack about six years ago he talked about turning 50. Clouds.
	♥ 9:56am Jack McGuire: Discuss bowel health too!
	♥ 9:56am WoodsOfMaine: I can find nothing about Kip Winger being a ballet dancer. Maybe that information has been banned.
	9:57am Rich from Wading River: When I used to commute to work, if I heard Rolnick it was a bit stressful as I was pretty late.
	9:57am Beep Boop: FMU's AM View
	9:57am Lana from Bucksom County: No shame in being 50+ John. When you’re 50, you can kick! You can split!
	♥ 9:57am mrs.bucci: I want an Unchained Clay show
	9:58am Lana from Bucksom County: Who’s your favorite bass player?
	9:58am katharsis: hellos, what? no dancing?
	🎸 ♥ 9:58am PaulRobeson1925: Ah Ah, Ah, Ah we got the frenZy
	♥ 9:59am Mister Dobalina: JA has gotten really good at the gift of gab with the Pigeon.
	♥ 9:59am Shelly Lawless: I bet Mr. Loaf's mom cared about ALL his records hahaha
	🎸 ♥ 9:59am PaulRobeson1925: Every worldly possession at their feet
	9:59am Fredericks: I heard John laughing. 9:58 am.
	♥ 9:59am WoodsOfMaine: Clay is tuning up for next week.
	9:59am Lana from Bucksom County: Clay, I love how you you able to deflect barbs so deftly. I would like to learn that myself.
	10:01am markinbrooklyn: When will the spider tire the fly?
	🎸 ♥ 10:01am Handy Haversack: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @9:56 This makes more sense.
	10:01am clarkie: Clay is trying to play Gary to JA's "Dad"
	♥ 10:01am Mister Dobalina: Haha, don't get Pigeonized.
	♥ 10:02am Shelly Lawless: Clay, STOP being scared! We need you! We love you! We can't get enough of YOU! And we want to pay your SALARY, sir! I think we want to pay ALL THE DEEJAYS salaries, we just don't think we can. We can only do what we think we can do until we do more and realize the possiblities are endless. The Infinite Jest is a long book. I've never read it because I didn't think I would be able to fit it on an airplane! Bet I could of if I really wanted to carry it around 🤣 Anyway, judging by the title on the cover, I'm assuming it's about LIFE. and I got that shit on lock :D
	10:02am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack he also talked about Fabio threatening him with a knife.
	10:02am Lana from Bucksom County: I was wondering if that was staged or real that break up
	10:03am Lana from Bucksom County: Clarkie, good obs
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @9:57 We call it the "fuck-it fifties"
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Marley P. Dogg: Todd takes himself too seriously
	🎸 ♥ 10:03am Handy Haversack: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @10:02 Was this in Elizabeth?
	♥ 10:03am Shelly Lawless: Worry has no place at WFMU, it's Freedom reigning at WFMU. Marathon is going to be GOLD. We are going to watch each other shine. Todd!?! Hi, Todd! I'll hear and Yo La Tengo on Saturday and I am looking so forward that I'm going to set an alarm!
	10:03am Hot Rodney: THIS IS RADIO!!
	♥ 10:03am Hughie Considine: Hey Handy. was that REM bio you just read The Name of This Band Is REM?
	10:04am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack probably.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Shelly Lawless @10:02 One of my favorite books, I've read it twice, but it's not as good as Georges Perec's "Life: A User's Manual" which is maybe the best thing I've ever read.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Handy Haversack: ↳ Shelly Lawless @10:02 I've read it six times, mostly carrying it on the subway. Where there's a will, there's a way!
	10:04am P-90: THE PINKENING
	10:04am Lana from Bucksom County: Charles in Chicago, what are the 60s called?
	🎸 ♥ 10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @10:04 Get back to me next year and I'll tell you
	🎸 ♥ 10:05am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:03 I read two in a row! But yes, that was the first and most recent. Then I read the first edition of It Crawled from the South, which has apparently been updated with a new edition.
	10:05am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County the downhill slide.
	10:06am Trish: Why no music?
	10:06am Lana from Bucksom County: The pigeonizing process is manifested by “pinkening”
	10:07am Dex: The best on mic duo ever
	♥ 10:07am Mister Dobalina: Drats, gotta cheese it now. Great stuff between you two. May it last forever-ish.
	10:07am Lana from Bucksom County: Rexy, yes, I’ve noticed that :/
	♥ 10:07am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:04 Do now we disagree on Can and Infinite Jest. ;-)
	♥ 10:07am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:05 Ah, i see -- just got gifted with that one and am all in. Also, I have two complete mixing board shows, Tyrone's OC from '81 and Stichcraft '83. Let me know if you crave them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:07 We can still be friends!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am common: little dry back then? heee
	🎸 ♥ 10:08am PaulRobeson1925: Clay has practice cleaning up after S.A.M now
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am PaulRobeson1925: The bending and the scooping and the other thing
	10:09am Lana from Bucksom County: Can anyone tell me what to click on to reply to others’ posts? (“In reply to…” I only have an iPad/iPhone
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:07 Ooo, would love them. Just picked up a live record from a radio station in California in 1991 at Euclid Records in NOLA. Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:09am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @10:09 Is there a little speech bubble in the comment?
	10:09am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County long press on name/icon.
	♥ 10:09am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:07 Ha! Fabio played some Can yesterday and I had to tough it out.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:09 Keep listening and maybe someday you'll see delight.
	♥ 10:10am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Lana from Bucksom County @10:09 If you are on a web browser, you should see speech bubbles. If you're on a Woof Moo app, it might not show them.
	♥ 10:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:09 You'll dig this. Can send to you via the station. I know you'll be there this month.
	10:10am Lana from Bucksom County: Thanks, Rexy tried that but nothing happens
	10:11am Colin & Eddie in Durham, UK: Everyone I know is boycotting American products but I’m proud to help fund WFMU. You’re like a rose growing from a big tub of shit
	♥ 10:11am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:10 I've listened to those live things that came out not long ago and enjoyed them...but that's because of the dearth of horrific vocals.
	10:11am Toothgrinder Tom: @charles in Chicago 10:04 I too heart ‘Life: A User’s Manual’!
	10:11am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County which app are you using?
	🎸 ♥ 10:12am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @10:10 Sure. Or I can send my address? I think I have your e-mail.
	10:12am Lana from Bucksom County: Rexie, I’m using the WFMU app which shows the WoofMoo
	10:12am tgravel: Save it for the marathon pidge!
	10:13am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County use the unofficial app.
	♥ 10:13am J-W: oh Clay, man why did you do that? We love John Allen in the early slot.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13am Mike H: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:05 How are those REM books? Love them but have never read one of the bios...
	10:13am rx "rexy" scabin: @Lana from Bucksom County so am I.
	10:13am Lana from Bucksom County: Thanks,Rexy, I’ll try to find that one!
	🎸 ♥ 10:14am luka: flute juice incoming
	🎸 ♥ 10:14am PaulRobeson1925: We LoVe You
	♥ 10:14am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:12 Sounds good!
	10:15am markinbrooklyn: Hit us with some flute juice!
	♥ 10:15am steveo: Hey everybody. Greetings from the hospital in lovely Grand Junction Colorado!
	10:15am Lana from Bucksom County: Thank you, Clay and John, love you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15am Noir Lover: I love you Clay
	10:15am P-90: Now Clay has to be extra careful not to get broadsided by a Studebaker, because John hasn’t said “I love you” yet. See? Some of us are paying attention.
	10:16am ledzeppelinsucks: That was really lame. Please don’t do that again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16am Handy Haversack: ↳ steveo @10:15 That seems bad. Did your hiking club get majorly lost? You OK?
	♥ 10:16am Triple G: Thanks for the pinkening segment, gents, as always
	10:17am tak: that seemed like the voice on space ghost's intro
	10:17am Toothgrinder Tom: Love’s not love that alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
	♥ 10:17am Triple G: ↳ steveo @10:15 Damn, hope you're okay all in all, Steve
	10:17am Hi from Holland: ↳ Song: "nickel bag of tears" by "judy stuart" Aloha! If you said this was Nadia Now's aunt I'd believe it...
	🎸 ♥ 10:18am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Song: "nickel bag of tears" by "judy stuart" I dig this buy my cat just left the room
	♥ 10:18am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ steveo @10:15 I hope you're not denied coverage!
	🎸 ♥ 10:19am -жеи: ↳ Song: "nickel bag of tears" by "judy stuart" Is this the Judy Stuart who was the daughter of Jimmy Stuart?!
	♥ 10:19am steveo: Hey handy. Solo hiking in Utah, suffered a long fall, majorly banged up . Somewhat lucky to be alive, etc . At least I have the JAZZ in my heart. Thank you KFHP &GGG
	10:20am Hot Rodney: This is bananas 🍌
	10:20am billylondon: What a fun tune!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am luka: this isn’t flute juice but it’s p good
	10:20am tak: some flutin'
	10:20am luke: damn this judy stuart is crazy for 1969!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am Handy Haversack: ↳ steveo @10:19 Oh, man, steveo! So sorry to hear it! That's so scary! Sending pixie all the way across the country your way. Get well soon, friend!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20am Charles in Chicago: ↳ -жеи @10:19 Who's Jimmy Stuart?
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am Gregosaurus: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:18 Kitty's a tough audience, it seems.
	♥ 10:21am steveo: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:20 Much appreciated
	🎸 ♥ 10:21am Mike H: Sorry to hear that steveo, heal up fast!
	♥ 10:21am steveo: ↳ Mike H @10:21 Thanks
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Charles in Chicago: ↳ luke @10:20 1969 was pretty crazy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:22am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Gregosaurus @10:21 Kitty came back for Cecil McBee.
	♥ 10:23am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ steveo @10:19 If you have before & after photos to prove the bruises weren't a preexisting condition, you should be in good shape, insurance-wise. Get well soon!
	10:23am Toothgrinder Tom: @steveo I would imagine solo hiking could be kind of scary, especially out West?
	10:24am Toothgrinder Tom: Remembering what happened to Julian Sands.
	♥ 10:24am WoodsOfMaine: By the way, here's the exact sentence that made me toss Infinite Jest aside. It all just seemed like too much work for my tiny brain: Thereafter proceeding first to the Upper Brighton and now to the cooperative Back Bay-edge brownstone she had lived in once with Orin and performed in with his father and then passed on to the Molly Notkin, today's party's guest of honor and hostess in one, as of yesterday enjoying A.B.D. pre-doctoral status in Film & Film-Cartridge theory at M.I.T., having cleared the notorious hurdle of Oral Examinations on that day by offering her examination committee a dramatically rendered and if she did say so herself devastating oral critique of post-millennial Marxists Film-Cartridge Theory from the point of view of Marx himself, Marx as pretend-film-cartridge theorist and scholar.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24am Handy Haversack: I can't be the only one thinking we need a little pre-Marathon Moth Cock to purify us and cleanse the palate for what is about to occur?
	♥ 10:25am steveo: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:23 Was in a national Park, so perhaps a false sense of security
	🎸 ♥ 10:25am Handy Haversack: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:24 Right near there is one of the most beautiful passages in the book about the wet garbage that Joelle Van Dyne (the PGOAT) passes on her way to said party being flat in a way that only wet garbage can be flat. I think about it on Tuesday mornings a lot.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27am Jason from Houston: Heyyyyyyy there.
	♥ 10:27am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:25 I'm honestly glad people enjoy it. It just didn't resonate. I do like his non-fiction stuff. I think I have a book of short fiction? The Girl With Curious Hair?
	10:27am Toothgrinder Tom: Like Zion or Arches? One of the popular ones?
	♥ 10:28am steveo: Arches
	🎸 ♥ 10:28am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:27 I was at MIT the same time DFW was at Harvard, we probably crossed paths in Allston. I recognize some of the scenes he describes in that book, like the parked van full of snakes in glass cages. I was just gutted when he died.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:28 So was I. Went to the memorial at NYU here with some DFW scholars I know.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30am luka: i missed having DFW as an english professor at Illinois State by like two years
	🎸 ♥ 10:32am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:30 What's your take on "Pale King"?
	♥ 10:33am WoodsOfMaine: Probably my favorite DFW piece is that essay he did about going on a cruise ship.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33am Charles in Chicago: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @10:33 Yeah that's the one I recommend to folks who haven't read him
	10:34am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "odessa" by "arthur blythe" Do I hear Blood Ulmer?
	🎸 ♥ 10:35am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:32 Not a novel. Not meant for publication as such. Release an annotated edition for scholars, sure. But that was a publishing travesty. There was a lot of frankly ghoulish publishing after he died, and his publishers should have been ashamed. That's for-profit for you.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36am Charles in Chicago: I compiled a list of all the mathematical errors in "Infinite Jest" - I was going to send DFW a letter, when I realized he probably did it as a joke, to get people like me.... Pemulis' explanation of the Intermediate Value Theorem in calculus is completely messed up ("This shit works!") and the calculation of the probability of a tie in the Eschaton is off by billions. It had to be deliberate! So I never sent the letter.
	♥ 10:38am WoodsOfMaine: I wonder what DFW would have thought of AI
	10:39am Souleman: JA, my morning is made w/ a vastly under appreciated alto stud - Arthur Blythe. Used to see him regularly at the Tin Palace. Thx man
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:36 We published his philosophy MA, logical philosophy. I had to work my Unicode butt off to get all that to appear in text. You have read Everything and More, I assume?
	🎸 ♥ 10:39am Noir Lover: JA looks like you played something from Damon Locks in 2021. New one is great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:39 Yeah, and I thought it was terrible, TBH
	♥ 10:40am neil quarantino: ↳ Fredericks @10:34 Yep - en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 10:41am J-W: I know it's morning over there. But this set is perfectly for this springlike Friday afternoon! thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:40 He spends pages belaboring very minor points and then glosses over very important things in half a sentence. Here's a great review "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity" by the very literate Michael Harris (who write a terrific book about math called "Mathematics Without Apologies", a nod to G.H. Hardy's classic "A Mathematician's Apology") www.ams.org... Harris says: "It is laced through and through with blunders of every magnitude." This book could have used an editor who was a professional mathematician. I still love DFW though!!!
	10:47am Lana in Bucks County: Thank you Handy, Charles, Woods, etc for your discussion of DFW's works. You've saved me from an impending Infinite Jest quest and steered me toward his non-fiction... I just bought his book of essays, which includes the cruise ship essay.
	♥ 10:47am Ernest (NL): ↳ J-W @10:41 Same here!
	♥ 10:48am Matty Cannabis: Did I just hear "Big Fat Titties"???
	10:48am tak: jest is a funny book
	🎸 ♥ 10:48am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:45 Rudy Rucker's (sci-fi author and mathematican) review "Infinite Confusion" was less charitable www.rudyrucker.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:49am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Lana in Bucks County @10:47 Sure, start with "A supposedly fun thing", but I do think IJ is worth your time. And if you do read it, use two bookmarks ... one for your current page and one for the footnotes
	🎸 ♥ 10:49am 2/3 of the Perrin Family: ↳ Song: "nyc nostalgia redux" by "joe mcphee" good ol boyz
	♥ 10:49am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:49 It also makes a lovely doorstop.
	10:50am Toothgrinder Tom: I thought Infinite Jest was a parody of a spy thriller that was also a shaggy dog story that went nowhere, sort of like Sterne’s ‘Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy’ (another long and ostensibly tedious novel).
	🎸 ♥ 10:52am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:50 Oh, it went somewhere, you just have to put the pieces together. Something dreadful happened to young Hal ... involving the Cartridge and the drug DMZ ...
	🎸 ♥ 10:52am Jason from Houston: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" Niiiiiiiice...
	🎸 ♥ 10:54am JDub: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" That high pitched squeal is my fix
	♥ 10:54am WoodsOfMaine: I think the thing about Jest that didn't work for me is that, even though I was a software engineer, I'm the oddball who absolutely hates all games and puzzles. It felt like a giant puzzle, one that I was not willing to spend the time on. That's probably why I don't like science fiction either.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55am Jason from Houston: ↳ JDub @10:54 The best 19 minutes of this day.
	10:58am Lana in Bucks County: Wow never heard Gato Barbieri like this.
	10:58am Art: Morning. I love the storytelling going on here.
	♥ 10:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ Lana in Bucks County @10:58 You Gato be kidding me.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:45 Yeah, there was a whole series from that publisher. Seemed like an awkward idea.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:49 It's the magnum opus. The summa. The nonfiction is fine, but it's all very bounded for me by the extremely ... neoliberal context of U.S. magazine publishing. The fiction is where it's at.
	11:04am John Allen: as for DFW books that have been finished, Consider the Lobster
	♥ 11:04am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" This is reminding me of when we saw McPhee and Brotzmann....LOVE the sqeeeelies.
	♥ 11:05am WoodsOfMaine: ↳ John Allen @11:04 Same here.
	11:05am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles I’ll have to revisit it. But my memory was less that it had a coherent ending than it just wheezed to a stop (and the part about the wheelchair-bound Quebec separatist terrorists ended up being a red herring, for all intents and purposes).
	11:07am OMG! I'm Deaf Now: ↳ Song: "in search of the mystery" by "gato barbieri" Holy moly this is abrasive!!! Love you John A, but wow! I gotta check out for a bit.
	🎸 ♥ 11:08am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "samba de negro" by "stone alliance" Fantastic
	11:09am tak: carnaval woo
	11:13am TigerSoul: What a brilliant set of music, thx J.A.
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am PaulRobeson1925: OK
	🎸 ♥ 11:14am PaulRobeson1925: Where is Clay
	🎸 ♥ 11:19am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Song: "45tyh street -at 8th avenue" by "isao suzuki quar... JOHN"S ON A ROLL
	♥ 11:19am suzyhotrod: Hi John! If you see this, I hope you let all your listeners know Minnie is participating in the WFMU Puppy Bowl on Sunday March 9th on my show. 2 weens in the contest this year! Who will be the longest?!
	🎸 ♥ 11:20am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Morning JA, crew! Working away here, digging the tunes. TGIF and all that!
	🎸 ♥ 11:21am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ suzyhotrod @11:19 Wait wait wait...is this a live event or will it be available on the Interwebs also?
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Stream from desktop just died for me?
	11:22am Montreal Jones: Oops live stream buffering 😟
	🎸 ♥ 11:22am The Oscar: Is the feed down for anyone else?
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Noir Lover: We down
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ The Oscar @11:22 Yup just died
	♥ 11:23am prof.fuzz: mothership stream is down. RNS stream works for me.
	♥ 11:23am Fuzzy: ↳ The Oscar @11:22 Yep.
	♥ 11:23am mndave: ↳ Montreal Jones @11:22 same here - kaput
	♥ 11:23am BillyLundun: Yep mines down
	🎸 ♥ 11:23am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ The Oscar @11:22 Yes
	11:23am wimpy: Yeah both the app and the pop up stopped working for me
	♥ 11:23am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @11:22 Mine as well.
	♥ 11:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Some egregious technical error hitting my VLC stream. It pops me over the the funky stuff on the Drummer stream.
	♥ 11:24am Fuzzy: "You're 30% there..."
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am Noir Lover: Elon cut the internet
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am maurer: help! need music!
	♥ 11:24am Steve Del Sol: Musk is screwing with us perhaps?
	🎸 ♥ 11:24am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ Noir Lover @11:24 Luigi to the white courtesy phone...
	11:24am Fredericks: WFMU is not working, but WGXC had me fooled. Vinyl pops and guitar jazz.
	11:25am Cubicle Carl: Yup. Stereo and Mono of the mothership is down.
	♥ 11:25am Roberto: We all knew this day would come eventually. We had a good run!
	♥ 11:25am T GRavel: to the archives!
	11:26am Jay From NH: awww... no more WFMU streaming. Better fix it before Marathon! :)
	11:26am RecessionWretch: The ghost of Boris Spassky is messing with us.
	11:26am TerrDE: Hey the app just suddenly went off. Its saying it can't find the file ?!
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am Bob Tankenstein: Alt streams are working
	11:26am wimpy: The drummer stream stands tall and reigns supreme
	♥ 11:26am WallCharger360: Anyone have a phillips head screwdriver?
	🎸 ♥ 11:26am joe mulligan: App just goes to paused. Need jazz now more than ever
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Noir Lover: Unplug router and plug back in??
	🎸 ♥ 11:27am Handy Haversack: 91.1 strong in north Brooklyn.
	11:27am Toothgrinder Tom: Maybe the Puppy Bowl announcement broke the Internet?
	♥ 11:28am paddy in matawan: stream down
	🎸 ♥ 11:29am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: So is the Puppy Bowl a viewable event?
	🎸 ♥ 11:29am JDub: What am I supposed to do now, listen to ambient sound?? Come on, bring me some JAzzes
	11:29am TerrDE: Website doesn't work either
	🎸 ♥ 11:30am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ Bob Tankenstein @11:26 What are the alt streams?
	11:30am Jay From NH: JA! Help us!!!!!
	11:30am TigerSoul: Sounds even better on my top-notch table radio in the kitchen. Old school terrestrial heaven.
	11:31am Toothgrinder Tom: Hue and cry!
	♥ 11:31am Steve Del Sol: Sheena's Jungle Room is working.
	11:32am John Allen: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @11:30 no one needs to concern themselves with alt streams
	🎸 ♥ 11:32am joe mulligan: It used to be Russia, china, North Korea doing the hacking. Now it’s 19yo big balls but he works for the us govt
	♥ 11:32am Steve Del Sol: I say, the bigger the balls, the bigger the target.
	🎸 ♥ 11:33am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: ↳ John Allen @11:32 Alas I haz no actual physical radio! MUST HAVE MY WFMU
	11:33am John Allen: are we still offline?
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜 @11:30 Give the Drummer Radio, Sheena's Jungle Room, and Rock and Soul Radio!
	🎸 ♥ 11:34am Bob Tankenstein: ↳ John Allen @11:33 Yes
	11:34am Jay From NH: Well, it was great what we got to hear this morning. Still can't connect. Thanks JA. Have a great weekend! I'll tune in from London next week, hopefully.
	♥ 11:35am Aunt Sushi: We could start a band in the comments while it's down. My contribution: "skiddle-dee-bap doobeedoo"
	🎸 ♥ 11:36am Bobby: Come back to me, jazz. I can still smell you on my pillow
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am joe mulligan: “ In the TV show "Lost", the most prominent "emergency code" is the sequence of numbers "4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42" which characters are required to input regularly on a computer in the "Swan" station to supposedly maintain stability on the island”
	🎸 ♥ 11:37am Charles in Chicago: HTTP error 404 File Not Found
	♥ 11:38am Steve Del Sol: The thing I remember most from 9th grade Social Studies is Mr. Green impressing upon us that the first thing a dictator does is control communication.
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am JDub: "DOGE discovered TRILLIONS of dollars wasted on polluting the airwaves and innocent minds with caterwauling, be-bop, and scratchy vinyl recordings. For that kind of money you'd expect they could afford CDs but instead it's a scheme to funnel $$$ to big-jazz."
	♥ 11:38am Aunt Sushi: It's back up!!! Thanks gang!
	🎸 ♥ 11:38am 12539: It's back!
	11:39am Audrey from Colombia: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
	♥ 11:39am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Aunt Sushi @11:38 Yeah, well, ...its' STILL true, so there.
	11:39am Montreal Jones: He has risen! Er, WFMU that is… it’s back!
	11:40am TerrDE: DODGE . Pronounced Doggie
	🎸 ♥ 11:40am joe mulligan: The emergency code number sequence worked!
	♥ 11:40am Aunt Sushi: ↳ Steve Del Sol @11:39 They'll have to pry these headphones from my cold, dead ears
	♥ 11:41am Mick: Joy throughout the land at the triumphant return of the JA in the AM stream!
	♥ 11:41am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Aunt Sushi @11:40 I know. Me too.
	🎸 ♥ 11:46am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: YES stream is back. Now, on to that Puppy Bowl. Will it be streamed so that we can see the doggos?
	♥ 11:46am Polyus: It was JA who put me on to Bill Fay in the first place, many moons ago.
	11:48am rx "rexy" scabin: Thank you, John and Everyone.
	🎸 ♥ 11:48am Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: FYI PuppyBowl and other Marathon shenanigans here: www.wfmu.org...
	11:49am Toothgrinder Tom: What a meeting of minds!
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am 12539: Thanks, John. Looking forward to you and Irwin jazzing it up.
	11:51am Audrey from Colombia: Thank you JAzz 🎷💙
	11:53am Toothgrinder Tom: Just say ‘ja’ to JA.
	🎸 ♥ 11:53am Handy Haversack: Gotta walk the dog. Thanks, JA! Ready to jump into 'Thon! K8 and I will be with you for Marty's show again this year!
	♥ 11:54am Ken From Hyde Park: I hope the Jazz Police Benevolent Assocation donates generously this year. And thank JAZZ.
	🎸 ♥ 11:56am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, JA. Cheers, good radio friends.
	🎸 ♥ 11:57am listener 126464: Thanks, John.
	🎸 ♥ 11:58am maurer: yay! music is back! thank you! carry on...
	♥ 11:59am WallCharger360: Thanks JA and comment board
	🎸 ♥ 11:59am Bob Tankenstein: Thanks JA! Great show today.
	12:00pm clarkie: Thanks John!
	12:00pm Ajay / Krommenie (NL): Great show. Off to see steve Gunn play tonight
	12:01pm clarkie: arf! arf!
	♥ 12:03pm Mister Dobalina: Is JA still on??
	12:03pm Philip: whoa.
	12:06pm Jay From NH: OVERTIME!
	12:07pm dro: JessicA in the AM

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