WFMU: Matt Fiveash: Playlist from May 2, 2013

Listener comments!
	2:05pm Stanley: Cool, I'm from the start today. Just settle back with the ol' pipe and glass of stout.
	2:05pm northguineahills: With that start to the show, I would be forgiven I tuned in to Fabio ;)
	2:06pm listener james from westwood: afternoon, matt, and all george jones fans!
	2:06pm Parq: Another classic Fiveash intro.
	2:07pm Matt F: Hi y'all, it's hectic so I won't be participating in the discussion much. Please talk amongst yourselves, though!
	2:07pm duke: @Stanley I think a pack of camels and bottle of Jack Daniels would be more appropriate for today.
	2:07pm Doug Schulkind: Any chance the Possum is just playing dead?
	2:09pm Sonny Rickles: good one Doug!
	2:09pm listener james from westwood: he's spending a year dead for tax purposes.
	2:10pm Parq: Hah. Still thinking about that Eagles track toward the end of Irwin's show yesterday, James?
	2:13pm northguineahills: I was playing George Jones about 2 months ago, and my ex nearly flipped out, boy did she hate it! I guess for her, country had to be pre-1960 or Johnny Cash.
	2:16pm Green Mountain Man Mark: it appears that George Jones died on the same date as Hasil Adkins back in 2005.
	2:22pm pacific standard simon: A little late to the party -- Macy's just delivered a new mattress. My musical bed!
	2:28pm pacific standard simon: Some hippie puked on my pillowcase -- that Peter Max has a lot to answer for!
	2:28pm L Ketchum Esq: Hi Matt. Wait, I'm from Georgia and I'm deciding to take offense as your barrel full of crackers "joke"....
	2:29pm Parq: Great to hear Herr Barron again.
	2:34pm still b/p: I'm sure I'm not the first to note it woulda been a guffaw on funeral day if the undertaker undertook to make George a no-show one last time.
	2:35pm duke: I will add that i have never fired a gun at Tammy Wynette either
	2:36pm L Ketchum Esq: Well i DID fire a gun at Tammy Wynette. And I'd do it again!
	2:38pm Parq: I've kind of been waiting all week for a day like today. The very first thing I thought when i saw the headline about George last week was, wow, how's WFMU going to handle this? For reasons I could explain only at more length than I have here, there are few artists of any genre that I consider more WFMU than George Jones.
	2:43pm pacific standard simon: My paper targets at the shooting range are all signed, 8X10 glossy photographs of Tammy.
	2:44pm listener james from westwood: i only shoot at pictures of that ostrich that almost eviscerated johnny cash.
	2:44pm glenn: wow. there's six hours of the possum on wfmu today.
	2:48pm pacific standard simon: Just when you think you know what the next song will be...
	2:49pm Green Mountain Man Mark: when I lived in Tennessee I knew a cop and he used to tell everybody to speed. He said "Go ahead and speed all you want. We can use the revenue."
	2:51pm pacific standard simon: Man, this is gonna be a sweet Thursday...
	2:57pm Dominick: soaking it all up - so to speak
	3:01pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Looking at the playlist I see that it is entirely George Jones. What the heck is goin on? Some kind of a tribute or something? Cool.
	3:03pm pacific standard simon: One way or the other, I'm gonna hear "Walk Through This World".
	3:03pm glenn: i just realized that in solidarity with my maple leafs and blue jays, i should be boycotting matt "i'm from boston" fiveash's playlist today.
	3:09pm listener james from westwood: between this show and spazz's, it'll be the soundtrack to one helluva roadtrip.
	3:10pm Parq: Glenn: George Jones was from Tx. Nuff said.
	3:11pm glenn: okay. fair enough.
	3:12pm listener james from westwood: for the next 2 hours, we're all in jonestown. wait, that doesn't sound right.
	3:14pm Green Mountain Man Mark: I remember as a kid we went to the county fair and Roy Clark, and fuzzy kid memory possibly George Jones there. This was in Colorado and I was 10 I think. Then when the family lived in Arizona I think we went to a George Jones show or something. That was back in the late 70s early 80s so I don't really know for sure.
	3:17pm listener james from westwood: simon: i included some of the lyrics to "walk through this world" in a wedding card. in true george & tammy fashion, the couple d-i-v-o-r-c-ed 3 yrs later.
	3:20pm holland oats: ah the experimental years...
	3:27pm pacific standard simon: On the other hand, I've been married 28 and counting...
	3:29pm listener james from westwood: ah, ray charles, the perfect wingman.
	3:29pm Parq: George Jones and Ray Charles, and Chet Atkins ... <faints>
	3:32pm pacific standard simon: Ah c'mon, guys -- that five hour show was a classic! I'll treasure it 4-ever!
	3:40pm Karen Brown: Quack ain't wack....http://hosted.ap.org/audio/20130426123200-182.mp3
	3:40pm glenn: en.wikipedia.org...
	3:47pm Uncle Michael: @Matt: Been listening in the car...great show. Thanks for the plug, too!
	3:50pm KP: Listening on and off all afternoon. Tremendous work.
	3:53pm glenn: oh man. it just hit me - everybody should change their avatar to a picture of george.
	3:56pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Better yet Glenn, how bout we hear All I have left is an Avatar of You, by George Jones.
	3:57pm glenn: ha!
	3:59pm SeanG: Howdy Folks!
	4:04pm glenn: that's hilarious. buck owens without medication. oh lordy me.
	4:08pm G: What are we supposed to do again? :p
	4:08pm Josh from Missouri: This is great, folks!
	4:12pm glenn: sean possum and g possum. greetings.
	4:15pm Parq: Greatest audience ever on a live album, I'll say that without hesitation.
	4:19pm G: I think this may have been one of his hits... :p
	4:19pm Parq: ... what?
	4:21pm G: For archive readers, many of us changed to GJ picture avatars. Those will disappear from the archive when we change back later to our usual/current avatars, but they were here during the live show... :)
	4:21pm Green Mountain Man Mark: ok I give in. I change my avatar for this show tribute to Jones.
	4:22pm SeanG: I'm buildin' up a mighty thirst right about now
	4:23pm G: the bar must be open.
	4:24pm G: tell ya what, i'm ridin the lawnmower down there.
	4:24pm Green Mountain Man Mark: George Jones songs are so good that when you have a vomit fit after too much booze and pork rinds you don't need to brush your teeth after. Just shwizzle some booze around in your mouth to rinse and keep on drinking.
	4:25pm glenn: jones soda needs a george label.
	4:26pm listener james from westwood: and a higher proof!
	4:27pm G: proof means i aint botherin ta drink it if ya cant prove ta me it's got enough alcohol in it ta bother with
	4:29pm glenn: A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
	4:30pm G: say it, son!
	4:31pm Parq: Dang! I had to make a phone call and I missed the opening line of "Race Is On".
	4:32pm glenn: baritone guitar is the jam.
	4:32pm G: Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich? Malkovich Malkovich!
	4:32pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Who came up with the term proof anyway? Why don't breathalizers give you proof results from your breath, or from blood BAC? I'd say I am about 20 proof right now. Maybe 15.
	4:34pm Parq: GMMM, proof is double percentage, so strictly speaking, you are 30 to 40 proof.
	4:36pm glenn: The term originated in the 18th century, when payments to British sailors included rations of rum. To ensure that the rum had not been watered down, it was "proved" by dousing gunpowder with it and then testing to see if the gunpowder would ignite. If it did not, then the rum contained too much water and was considered to be "under proof". Gunpowder would not burn in rum that contained less than approximately 57.15% ABV. Therefore, rum that contained this percentage of alcohol was defined to have "100° (one hundred degrees) proof".
	4:36pm Green Mountain Man Mark: No, I did the calculation by proof. as in 80 proof is 40%. And does anyone else here think whenever you hear proof you think that it is slang and should be prooth? Like toof and tooth.
	4:36pm G: @GMMM: Many moons ago, government testers would light alcohol on fire to "prove" what the alcohol level was and whether it had been watered down (would a sample of it catch fire or not?). Later, when they could measure alcohol percentage numerically, proof was graded into half-percent units of alcohol content
	4:37pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Thanks for the info know it all at Glenn dot com.
	4:40pm G: what a poor situation for the wife in this song, having a husband who's chained to the booze bottle :p
	4:42pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Thank you as well know it all at G dot com. Heh, Heh. I am imagining all of us in the same room drinking and listening. Would be fun if we all escalated to a bar barreling furniture and appliance throwing brawl together, online.
	4:48pm Uncle Michael: I'm more the "I love you, mannnnn..." type.
	4:49pm still b/p: Make friends and memories when you get into rum and gunpowder experiments in a bar.
	4:50pm Uncle Michael: Oh fuck...how I love this song.
	4:51pm Parq: Hah. Been waiting a whole week to hear this song on FMU. Spazz is going to be ticked that you beat him to it, you know.
	4:52pm still b/p: These are lyrics to be projected large on a wall or a sheet at a party for a singalong.
	4:53pm G: @still b/p: George would approve, and probably did far worse on hundreds of occasions
	4:54pm glenn: i forgot to credit wikipedia.
	4:54pm wikipedia: we'll let it pass this time, buster
	4:55pm Green Mountain Man Mark: when i was in the army many years ago there was a guy that drank Jim Beam and root beer and locked himself into his room and ate delivered pizza, listened to country music, especially George Jones, and the next day he would emerge and there would be holes punched into all four walls and furniture overturned. stereo over turned. But the TV would always be left alone and ok, with some john wayne cowboy movie on
	4:55pm G: wow, a role model :p
	4:56pm Uncle Michael: @GMMM: You just wrote a great song.
	4:57pm Parq: GMMM, did this guy to go college on the GI Bill? Because I think he lived down the hall from me junior year.
	4:58pm Uncle Michael: I can promise you all that my GTDR premiere tomorrow wont be anywhere near this cool but you should stop by anyway....if only to snicker.
	4:59pm still b/p: Let Duke punch the dogies, I'll punch the walls, Hot pizza's the best date of allllll.
	4:59pm listener james from westwood: excellent tribute, gents. one for the ages.
	5:00pm Stanley: By George - another great show. Thanks guys
	5:00pm G: gotta leave my GJ avatar in place for tonight 9-12
	5:01pm Doug Schulkind: Can you go another three hours, Matt? Ted? The floor is your'n.
	5:03pm L Ketchum Esq: bravo, guys, bravo!
	5:03pm Parq: I am marinated in George goodness. Big thanks, guys.
	5:04pm Matt F: Thanks everybody! See you next week!
	5:04pm Uncle Michael: The floor is marinated in urine. Porter's.
	3:59pm Parq: Hi, guys. Came back to hear "The Race is On" again, and stayed to re-hear the last set. Just got done re-living the last hour of Spazz. Roughly eight hours of GJ. God damn, don't nobody try to tell me this isn't great songwriting.

Matt Fiveash: Playlist from May 2, 2013

View Matt Fiveash's profile

On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Give the Drummer Radio LIVE Audio Streams (Get help): Pop-up | 128k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Matt Fiveash playlists | Next playlist -->

May 2, 2013: Playing Possum: George Jones Tribute with special guest Ted Barron

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
George Jones	Cup of Loneliness "Cup of Loneliness" by "George Jones"	Cup of Loneliness: the Classic Mercury Years	Mercury
George Jones	Burn The Honky Tonk Down	Burn the Honky Tonk Down	Rounder	0:02:39 (Pop-up)
George Jones and Tammy Wynette	Golden Ring	Greatest Hits	Epic	0:05:09 (Pop-up)
George Jones	High On The Thought Of You	A Good Year For The Roses: The Complete Musicor Recordings 1965-1971		0:08:04 (Pop-up)
George Jones	You Gotta Be My Baby	Rockin' The Country	Mercury	0:10:19 (Pop-up)
George Jones & Brenda Carter	Milwaukee Here I Come	Burn the Honky Tonk Down	Rounder	0:12:13 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Little Boy Blue "Little Boy Blue" by "George Jones"	Rockin' The Country	Mercury	0:14:51 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Tall Tall Trees "Tall Tall Trees" by "George Jones"	Cup of Loneliness: the Classic Mercury Years	Mercury	0:16:55 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Ship Of Love "Ship Of Love" by "George Jones"	7"	Musicor	0:19:21 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Her Name Is "Her Name Is" by "George Jones"	The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country	Epic / Legacy	0:21:42 (Pop-up)

George Jones	Heartaches And Hangovers	7"	Musicor	0:32:59 (Pop-up)
George Jones	What Am I Worth "What Am I Worth" by "George Jones"	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, And Hillibilly Music: Country & Western Hit Parade 1956	Bear Family	0:34:53 (Pop-up)
George Jones & Melba Montgomery	I'd Jump The Mississippi	Vintage Collections: George Jones & Melba Montgomery	Capitol	0:37:56 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Knock Three Times "Knock Three Times" by "George Jones"	A Good Year For The Roses: The Complete Musicor Recordings 1965-1971	Bear Family	0:40:22 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Revenooer Man "Revenooer Man" by "George Jones"	Rockin' The Country	Mercury	0:42:21 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Root Beer "Root Beer" by "George Jones"	The New Favorites of George Jones	United Artists	0:44:48 (Pop-up)
George Jones	If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)	I Am What I Am	Epic	0:47:30 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Feeling Single Seeing Double	Burn the Honky Tonk Down	Rounder	0:50:35 (Pop-up)
George Jones	The Warm Red Wine "The Warm Red Wine" by "George Jones"	Superpak	United Artists	0:52:39 (Pop-up)

George Jones	Trouble In Mind "Trouble In Mind" by "George Jones"	Trouble In Mind	United Artists	1:03:25 (Pop-up)
George Jones	You're Still On My Mind	Cup of Loneliness: the Classic Mercury Years	Mercury	1:05:15 (Pop-up)
George Jones	A Good Year For The Roses	Burn the Honky Tonk Down	Rounder	1:07:49 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Settin' the Woods on Fire	George Jones Sings Hank Williams	Mercury	1:10:47 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Big Fool of the Year	7"	United Artists	1:12:55 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Please Don't Let That Woman Get Me	Jones By George!	Proper	1:15:49 (Pop-up)
George Jones & Keith Richards	Burn Your Playhouse Down			1:17:20 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Say It's Not You "Say It's Not You" by "George Jones"	7"	Musicor	1:20:16 (Pop-up)
George Jones	The Image Of Me "The Image Of Me" by "George Jones"	A Good Year For The Roses: The Complete Musicor Recordings 1965-1971	Bear Family	1:22:26 (Pop-up)
George Jones & Ray Charles with Chet Atkins	We Didn't See A Thing	The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country	Epic / Legacy	1:25:17 (Pop-up)

George Jones	She's All I Got "She's All I Got" by "George Jones"	George Jones	Epic	1:38:40 (Pop-up)
George Jones	The Bridge Washed Out	Walk Through This World with Me	United Artists	1:41:56 (Pop-up)
George Jones	If I Don't Love You (Grits Ain't Groceries)	Cup of Loneliness: the Classic Mercury Years	Mercury	1:43:36 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Between My House and Town	Love Bug	Musicor	1:45:40 (Pop-up)
George Jones	No Use Crying "No Use Crying" by "George Jones"	Cup of Loneliness: the Classic Mercury Years	Mercury	1:47:58 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Things Have Gone To Pieces	7"	Musicor	1:50:07 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Leaving Love All Over the Place	Bartender's Blues	Epic	1:53:04 (Pop-up)

George Jones	White Lightnin' "White Lightnin'" by "George Jones"	Live at Dancetown USA		2:03:07 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Something I Dreamed "Something I Dreamed" by "George Jones"	Live at Dancetown USA		2:05:38 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Aching, Breaking Heart	Live at Dancetown USA		2:08:17 (Pop-up)
George Jones	The Window Up Above "The Window Up Above" by "George Jones"	Live at Dancetown USA		2:11:15 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Bony Maronie "Bony Maronie" by "George Jones"	Live at Dancetown USA		2:13:55 (Pop-up)
George Jones	She Thinks I Still Care	Live at Dancetown USA		2:15:52 (Pop-up)
The Jones Boys	Rio City Chimes "Rio City Chimes" by "The Jones Boys"	Live at Dancetown USA		2:18:11 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Accidentally On Purpose	Live at Dancetown USA		2:20:39 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Who Shot Sam "Who Shot Sam" by "George Jones"	Live at Dancetown USA		2:23:34 (Pop-up)

George Jones	The Race Is On "The Race Is On" by "George Jones"			2:28:24 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Where Grass Won't Grow	7"	Musicor	2:29:53 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Out Of Control "Out Of Control" by "George Jones"	Cup of Loneliness: the Classic Mercury Years	Mercury	2:33:08 (Pop-up)
George Jones	The Honky Tonk Downstairs	Don't Stop The Music	Ace	2:35:43 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Take Me "Take Me" by "George Jones"	7"	Musicor	2:37:49 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Apartment #9 "Apartment #9" by "George Jones"	Walk Through This World with Me	Musicor	2:40:30 (Pop-up)
George Jones and Tammy Wynette	(We're Not) The Jet Set	Greatest Hits	Epic	2:43:01 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Slave Lover "Slave Lover" by "George Jones"	Rockin' The Country	Mercury	2:45:18 (Pop-up)
George Jones	Ya Ba Da Ba Do (So Are You)			2:47:29 (Pop-up)
George Jones	He Stopped Loving Her Today			2:50:47 (Pop-up)
George Jones with Ralph Stanley & Vince Gill	Angel Band	Saturday Night & Sunday Morning	Freeland	2:54:08 (Pop-up)

RSS feeds for Matt Fiveash's show: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed

| E-mail Matt Fiveash | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Matt Fiveash |

Listener comments!
	2:05pm Stanley: Cool, I'm from the start today. Just settle back with the ol' pipe and glass of stout.
	2:05pm northguineahills: With that start to the show, I would be forgiven I tuned in to Fabio ;)
	2:06pm listener james from westwood: afternoon, matt, and all george jones fans!
	2:06pm Parq: Another classic Fiveash intro.
	2:07pm Matt F: Hi y'all, it's hectic so I won't be participating in the discussion much. Please talk amongst yourselves, though!
	2:07pm duke: @Stanley I think a pack of camels and bottle of Jack Daniels would be more appropriate for today.
	2:07pm Doug Schulkind: Any chance the Possum is just playing dead?
	2:09pm Sonny Rickles: good one Doug!
	2:09pm listener james from westwood: he's spending a year dead for tax purposes.
	2:10pm Parq: Hah. Still thinking about that Eagles track toward the end of Irwin's show yesterday, James?
	2:13pm northguineahills: I was playing George Jones about 2 months ago, and my ex nearly flipped out, boy did she hate it! I guess for her, country had to be pre-1960 or Johnny Cash.
	2:16pm Green Mountain Man Mark: it appears that George Jones died on the same date as Hasil Adkins back in 2005.
	2:22pm pacific standard simon: A little late to the party -- Macy's just delivered a new mattress. My musical bed!
	2:28pm pacific standard simon: Some hippie puked on my pillowcase -- that Peter Max has a lot to answer for!
	2:28pm L Ketchum Esq: Hi Matt. Wait, I'm from Georgia and I'm deciding to take offense as your barrel full of crackers "joke"....
	2:29pm Parq: Great to hear Herr Barron again.
	2:34pm still b/p: I'm sure I'm not the first to note it woulda been a guffaw on funeral day if the undertaker undertook to make George a no-show one last time.
	2:35pm duke: I will add that i have never fired a gun at Tammy Wynette either
	2:36pm L Ketchum Esq: Well i DID fire a gun at Tammy Wynette. And I'd do it again!
	2:38pm Parq: I've kind of been waiting all week for a day like today. The very first thing I thought when i saw the headline about George last week was, wow, how's WFMU going to handle this? For reasons I could explain only at more length than I have here, there are few artists of any genre that I consider more WFMU than George Jones.
	2:43pm pacific standard simon: My paper targets at the shooting range are all signed, 8X10 glossy photographs of Tammy.
	2:44pm listener james from westwood: i only shoot at pictures of that ostrich that almost eviscerated johnny cash.
	2:44pm glenn: wow. there's six hours of the possum on wfmu today.
	2:48pm pacific standard simon: Just when you think you know what the next song will be...
	2:49pm Green Mountain Man Mark: when I lived in Tennessee I knew a cop and he used to tell everybody to speed. He said "Go ahead and speed all you want. We can use the revenue."
	2:51pm pacific standard simon: Man, this is gonna be a sweet Thursday...
	2:57pm Dominick: soaking it all up - so to speak
	3:01pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Looking at the playlist I see that it is entirely George Jones. What the heck is goin on? Some kind of a tribute or something? Cool.
	3:03pm pacific standard simon: One way or the other, I'm gonna hear "Walk Through This World".
	3:03pm glenn: i just realized that in solidarity with my maple leafs and blue jays, i should be boycotting matt "i'm from boston" fiveash's playlist today.
	3:09pm listener james from westwood: between this show and spazz's, it'll be the soundtrack to one helluva roadtrip.
	3:10pm Parq: Glenn: George Jones was from Tx. Nuff said.
	3:11pm glenn: okay. fair enough.
	3:12pm listener james from westwood: for the next 2 hours, we're all in jonestown. wait, that doesn't sound right.
	3:14pm Green Mountain Man Mark: I remember as a kid we went to the county fair and Roy Clark, and fuzzy kid memory possibly George Jones there. This was in Colorado and I was 10 I think. Then when the family lived in Arizona I think we went to a George Jones show or something. That was back in the late 70s early 80s so I don't really know for sure.
	3:17pm listener james from westwood: simon: i included some of the lyrics to "walk through this world" in a wedding card. in true george & tammy fashion, the couple d-i-v-o-r-c-ed 3 yrs later.
	3:20pm holland oats: ah the experimental years...
	3:27pm pacific standard simon: On the other hand, I've been married 28 and counting...
	3:29pm listener james from westwood: ah, ray charles, the perfect wingman.
	3:29pm Parq: George Jones and Ray Charles, and Chet Atkins ... <faints>
	3:32pm pacific standard simon: Ah c'mon, guys -- that five hour show was a classic! I'll treasure it 4-ever!
	3:40pm Karen Brown: Quack ain't wack....http://hosted.ap.org/audio/20130426123200-182.mp3
	3:40pm glenn: en.wikipedia.org...
	3:47pm Uncle Michael: @Matt: Been listening in the car...great show. Thanks for the plug, too!
	3:50pm KP: Listening on and off all afternoon. Tremendous work.
	3:53pm glenn: oh man. it just hit me - everybody should change their avatar to a picture of george.
	3:56pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Better yet Glenn, how bout we hear All I have left is an Avatar of You, by George Jones.
	3:57pm glenn: ha!
	3:59pm SeanG: Howdy Folks!
	4:04pm glenn: that's hilarious. buck owens without medication. oh lordy me.
	4:08pm G: What are we supposed to do again? :p
	4:08pm Josh from Missouri: This is great, folks!
	4:12pm glenn: sean possum and g possum. greetings.
	4:15pm Parq: Greatest audience ever on a live album, I'll say that without hesitation.
	4:19pm G: I think this may have been one of his hits... :p
	4:19pm Parq: ... what?
	4:21pm G: For archive readers, many of us changed to GJ picture avatars. Those will disappear from the archive when we change back later to our usual/current avatars, but they were here during the live show... :)
	4:21pm Green Mountain Man Mark: ok I give in. I change my avatar for this show tribute to Jones.
	4:22pm SeanG: I'm buildin' up a mighty thirst right about now
	4:23pm G: the bar must be open.
	4:24pm G: tell ya what, i'm ridin the lawnmower down there.
	4:24pm Green Mountain Man Mark: George Jones songs are so good that when you have a vomit fit after too much booze and pork rinds you don't need to brush your teeth after. Just shwizzle some booze around in your mouth to rinse and keep on drinking.
	4:25pm glenn: jones soda needs a george label.
	4:26pm listener james from westwood: and a higher proof!
	4:27pm G: proof means i aint botherin ta drink it if ya cant prove ta me it's got enough alcohol in it ta bother with
	4:29pm glenn: A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
	4:30pm G: say it, son!
	4:31pm Parq: Dang! I had to make a phone call and I missed the opening line of "Race Is On".
	4:32pm glenn: baritone guitar is the jam.
	4:32pm G: Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich? Malkovich Malkovich!
	4:32pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Who came up with the term proof anyway? Why don't breathalizers give you proof results from your breath, or from blood BAC? I'd say I am about 20 proof right now. Maybe 15.
	4:34pm Parq: GMMM, proof is double percentage, so strictly speaking, you are 30 to 40 proof.
	4:36pm glenn: The term originated in the 18th century, when payments to British sailors included rations of rum. To ensure that the rum had not been watered down, it was "proved" by dousing gunpowder with it and then testing to see if the gunpowder would ignite. If it did not, then the rum contained too much water and was considered to be "under proof". Gunpowder would not burn in rum that contained less than approximately 57.15% ABV. Therefore, rum that contained this percentage of alcohol was defined to have "100° (one hundred degrees) proof".
	4:36pm Green Mountain Man Mark: No, I did the calculation by proof. as in 80 proof is 40%. And does anyone else here think whenever you hear proof you think that it is slang and should be prooth? Like toof and tooth.
	4:36pm G: @GMMM: Many moons ago, government testers would light alcohol on fire to "prove" what the alcohol level was and whether it had been watered down (would a sample of it catch fire or not?). Later, when they could measure alcohol percentage numerically, proof was graded into half-percent units of alcohol content
	4:37pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Thanks for the info know it all at Glenn dot com.
	4:40pm G: what a poor situation for the wife in this song, having a husband who's chained to the booze bottle :p
	4:42pm Green Mountain Man Mark: Thank you as well know it all at G dot com. Heh, Heh. I am imagining all of us in the same room drinking and listening. Would be fun if we all escalated to a bar barreling furniture and appliance throwing brawl together, online.
	4:48pm Uncle Michael: I'm more the "I love you, mannnnn..." type.
	4:49pm still b/p: Make friends and memories when you get into rum and gunpowder experiments in a bar.
	4:50pm Uncle Michael: Oh fuck...how I love this song.
	4:51pm Parq: Hah. Been waiting a whole week to hear this song on FMU. Spazz is going to be ticked that you beat him to it, you know.
	4:52pm still b/p: These are lyrics to be projected large on a wall or a sheet at a party for a singalong.
	4:53pm G: @still b/p: George would approve, and probably did far worse on hundreds of occasions
	4:54pm glenn: i forgot to credit wikipedia.
	4:54pm wikipedia: we'll let it pass this time, buster
	4:55pm Green Mountain Man Mark: when i was in the army many years ago there was a guy that drank Jim Beam and root beer and locked himself into his room and ate delivered pizza, listened to country music, especially George Jones, and the next day he would emerge and there would be holes punched into all four walls and furniture overturned. stereo over turned. But the TV would always be left alone and ok, with some john wayne cowboy movie on
	4:55pm G: wow, a role model :p
	4:56pm Uncle Michael: @GMMM: You just wrote a great song.
	4:57pm Parq: GMMM, did this guy to go college on the GI Bill? Because I think he lived down the hall from me junior year.
	4:58pm Uncle Michael: I can promise you all that my GTDR premiere tomorrow wont be anywhere near this cool but you should stop by anyway....if only to snicker.
	4:59pm still b/p: Let Duke punch the dogies, I'll punch the walls, Hot pizza's the best date of allllll.
	4:59pm listener james from westwood: excellent tribute, gents. one for the ages.
	5:00pm Stanley: By George - another great show. Thanks guys
	5:00pm G: gotta leave my GJ avatar in place for tonight 9-12
	5:01pm Doug Schulkind: Can you go another three hours, Matt? Ted? The floor is your'n.
	5:03pm L Ketchum Esq: bravo, guys, bravo!
	5:03pm Parq: I am marinated in George goodness. Big thanks, guys.
	5:04pm Matt F: Thanks everybody! See you next week!
	5:04pm Uncle Michael: The floor is marinated in urine. Porter's.
	3:59pm Parq: Hi, guys. Came back to hear "The Race is On" again, and stayed to re-hear the last set. Just got done re-living the last hour of Spazz. Roughly eight hours of GJ. God damn, don't nobody try to tell me this isn't great songwriting.

Matt Fiveash: Playlist from May 2, 2013

Listener comments!

(C) 2025 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson