WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 1, 2017

Listener comments!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Evening, explorers!
	7:02pm doctorjazz: Hey, Flash!
	7:02pm Dean: Dang, was looking forward to Lewiston stuff, but gotta catch a bus!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: this first set is in tribute to a great explorer of sound who just this week marched into the hereafter. David Lewiston. www.nonesuch.com...
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Dean, Hi Doc! Sorry about the bus Dean
	7:03pm hyde: Lewiston? I hope that's not Lewiston Maine where as an ill advised teenager I went to see the Grateful Dead at the place where Sonny Liston once fought Muhammad Ali. (actually it was fun)
	7:04pm Flash Strap: haha this stuff is so wild
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! Not that Lewiston, rest assured. Does sound fun though
	7:07pm hyde: ah, David Lewiston. Cool. It was fun, though luckily for me i jettisoned the Dead for hardcore punk rock soon after. (Apologies to Dead fans.)
	7:07pm doctorjazz: This is really bizarre sounding-if someone from the Chicago AACM/avant garde recorded it, you'd feel right at home.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Totally get what you mean, Doc oh, btw, helpful liner notes on this LP: Recorded in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. Throughout South America, the descendants of the millions of slaves brought to the New World by the Spanish and Portuguese still pay homage to the pantheon of their African ancestors, often, albeit, under the identities of Christian saints.
	7:12pm Flash Strap: So we got two for St. Anthony tonight
	7:13pm Flash Strap: I, Mario!
	7:15pm doctorjazz: @Hyde-por que no los dos, as my daughter would say? I followed the dead in the early 70's, went for punk later in the decade, but was still listening to the Dead afterwards (though there was a long span I didn't listen much, 90's and 00's, listen some again now).
	7:19pm Flash Strap: I never really got into the Dead or hardcore, so i had neither. I do love the Rhythm Devils, though But I guess if you never saw the Dead live or attended a hardcore show, which I have not, you just have no idea about either scene.
	7:20pm hyde: @doctorjazz hehe. i was seventeen, and listened to a lot of jazz and 60's music at that time. (i mean, i saw Sun Ra in 1980 too!) i just kind of soured on the whole Dead thing by 1981, and rejected it. some of it still sounds OK (i actually listened to the Lewiston show on the Internet Archive a couple months ago and it was fine. SOme of it was good.) but there's just a lot of noodling and baggage that goes along with that whole package that just isn't my thing anymore, that's all.
	7:20pm jefff: man this is cool
	7:23pm hyde: @Flash well, tomorrow night i'm going to see Jerry's Kids, who were one of the seminal Boston hardcore bands I used to go see circa 1983 or so. we'll see how that stands up! i'm not slam dancing though, that's a young man's game
	7:29pm doctorjazz: Sounds like fun Went to see Phil Lesh a few months ago, that was fun (he had Stanley Jordan on guitar, interesting mix). Saw Sun Ra many times in the 80's, he used to play all sorts of clubs in Manhattan; man, that was amazing!
	7:33pm JtotheK: Hi Flash, hi explorers!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: Hi Jeff! Jerry's Kids is such a good name for a hardcore outfit. Hi JtotheK! Wonderful to see you!
	7:34pm doctorjazz: This version of Talking Heads was pretty amazing. (saw the earlier version a few times)
	7:34pm Listener Scott: This is one of the best live shows ever. Most (all?) of it's available on Youtube too. They're all so relaxed, and Belew was having the time of his life.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: or should I say Hi Jefff! @doc: it really is. this performance almost edges out all other versions for me, honestly, except that they're all too good
	7:35pm Listener Scott: I just saw Belew at the Iridium, he's still incredible.
	7:35pm hyde: @doc jazz yeah, the guy we stay with in Boston is going to see some leftover Dead band bunch that is playing at Fenway this summer. i'm not sure what the band is, but i imagine it's that same bunch. i only saw Sun Ra once, at Mass Art. it may have been 1979, not 1980. i'm amused that as i'm reminiscing about all this that Flash is playing Talking Heads ca. 1980. i saw the Remain in Light tour too at the Orpheum in Boston, haha
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Listener Scott! I was watching those videos and just dying, they're so good. And yeah, Belew always looks like he's in a state of grace. or rapture
	7:40pm Flash Strap: there's a video of this performance as well, Belew is on fire and Bowie is just cracking up watching him play.
	7:40pm Listener Scott: Born under punches and Crosseyed and Painless from that Rome show are the standouts on the video.
	7:41pm Flash Strap: totally agree, Scott
	7:43pm Listener Scott: At the Belew show I sat near some guys who attend Belew's "camp" each year, I think in Woodstock. They had a lot of interesting stories, and had a great take on why Belew doesn't tour with Fripp. Basically, Fripp makes the entire touring group practice each day for two weeks, 6 hours a day, so they sound like they're in the studio when they play live. Belew far too loose for that sort of regimentation.
	7:44pm hyde: wait, what? i live in Woodstock! i have never heard of this, though i'm really not plugged in up here. dang.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: huh, that makes sense. I know Belew is a huge part of the King Crimson (v.2) sound, but it just does nothing for me, and I suspect that's why. On the other hand, the only time I really groove on Fripp is when Bowie or Eno have him totally off guard
	7:47pm Listener Scott: Looked it up, it's in Big Indian NY, not Woodstock: www.facebook.com...
	7:48pm Little Danny: just made it in! greetings Evan and flashers and strappers alike
	7:48pm hyde: @Flash fwiw i actually saw that King Crimson band play too maybe ca. 1986 in Amherst, and it was pretty great. but you could tell there was a total dichotomy between cool Fripp and hot Belew on stage, like Scott says
	7:50pm Little Danny: Whoa I had no idea Jean-Michel Jarre sounded like THIS
	7:51pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! @Hyde: I bet it was great, and seeing it live would probably be the best way to find your way into that kind of music. at least, it would be for me I think
	7:51pm hyde: @Scott ah, Big Indian. well, that's not too far from here. maybe 15 miles.
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @LD: I love pretty much all of Jarre's prime-years work, but this album is totally, astonishingly unique and special. You'd love it, man
	7:53pm Flash Strap: of course, Laurie being on this totally MAKES it
	7:56pm hyde: @Flash yeah, it was cool. and the more i think about it, it had to be earlier than '86. maybe late 81 early 82, because i think it was before Beat. i was never a huge King Crimson guy, but it was sort of when they had their second act
	7:59pm Flash Strap: jesus, basically no one gets me in the soul the way Laurie Anderson does
	7:59pm Listener Scott: Belew photos I took at the Iridium show www.flickr.com...
	8:00pm Hams: one of the best shows i've seen was laurie anderson at battery park in new york, right there on the river. for free. really something else.
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Hi there, Hams! Maybe the best show I ever saw in my life was seeing her this last winter with Phillip Glass for his 80th birthday. he was just okay, but she was totally brilliant beyond belief. I cried like a baby
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Half a Century of Bowie Albums - Today.
	8:04pm Hams: ha. yeah, i wanted to cry too at the show, actually. funny.
	8:04pm Flash Strap: some notes on Belew's soloing here: "The variable is Adrian Belew, who came to the Lodger sessions some time after recording had started. Taking a cue from Robert Fripp’s improvisational work on “Heroes,” Bowie, Tony Visconti and Eno used a similar tactic, not letting Belew hear any of the tracks before he soloed on them, not even giving him a key or chords as clues. So Belew, alone in the studio and being monitored by closed-circuit cameras, ripped out the solos for “DJ,” Boys Keep Swinging” and “Red Sails” in three takes each. He was cut off just as he was growing familiar with each song. Belew’s various solos were then dissected, with Bowie and Visconti taking the shards they thought fit a particular section and dubbing them in. The result, like the tremolo-laden, joyous Belew patchworks in “Red Sails,” was somehow perfect—the solos sound as if they were crafted beforehand, but keep their sense of barely-controlled energy. It’s waves of thought being voiced on strings." bowiesongs.wordpress.com...
	8:05pm Little Danny: wow! (re: 50yrs of Bowie)
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi RevRab! @Hams: She has that effect, it's like she cuts through everything to show you a truth beyond beauty or fear but full of both
	8:06pm Little Danny: And thanks for the tip on that Jarre album, Flash!
	🥁 8:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have enjoyed Belew's solo albums - to me, evoking 'AbbeyRoad'~'LetItBe', of all things...
	8:08pm Flash Strap: I really like some of his solo stuff - it's hit and miss for me, but the hits hit hard
	8:10pm Flash Strap: I love all the hard boiled third worldisms on this LP. It has that a bit in common with Lodger, though the approaches are pretty different
	8:38pm Flash Strap: that's Einstein, baby!
	🥁 8:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love his voice.
	8:40pm Flash Strap: it's a perfect Einstein voice!
	8:46pm Flash Strap: this record is so interesting
	8:54pm geezerette: uncategorizeable :D
	🥁 8:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PetSounds at Night.
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! How goes it?
	8:58pm coelacanth∅: olá Evan e Exploradores
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Coelacanth! Good evening!
	9:04pm geezerette: Hey Evan! Good,thanks!, you? :)
	9:04pm bopapocalypse: just gettin here, this song is fire
	9:06pm hyde: whoops, i'm awol from playlist comments reading my book about The Last Mughal. But I'm still absorbing the tunes, do not worry...
	9:07pm geezerette: Hiya Coel & RevRab. :) Hiya Hyde.
	9:07pm northguineahills: Pecker sounds like a precursor Yamasuka Eye, Nabakuza Takmura, and Aki Onda's Audio Sports....
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Hey Big Bopper! Hi NGH!
	9:12pm hyde: hellooooooo geezerette!
	9:14pm geezerette: :::::D !
	9:16pm bopapocalypse: yo flash! ya know i got to check in & get my mind expanded by this & assorted other things ;)
	9:17pm Flash Strap: Never better than when you're on the scene, Spooky One
	9:20pm Dean: Off the bus, out of the car, errands run, home, catching up with comments and playlist. Re: Hyde's comments, I brag incessantly, usually on Uncle Michael's show, that I attended every Grateful Dead concert. Didn't miss one. I was with hyde at that Maine show. More plausibly, I also spent time in punk, at the advent of the LA scene. Fond memories. Not sure what prompted the Belew set, and I'm not a big fan, but he adds interesting spice to a track on a live Robert Palmer album.
	9:20pm northguineahills: David Gould's "Adonai in Dub"on Tzadik Recs is the most awesome mix of trad Jewish music w/ Perry-esque dub ot there
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @NGH: I gotta hear that!
	9:32pm Flash Strap: I love how trippy this is. I love this track
	9:32pm bopapocalypse: this is real nice. very lynchian.
	9:32pm hyde: @Dean ha!
	9:34pm Doug Schulkind: Home from my daughter's high school spring orchestra concert! Glad to now be attending my brother's spring sonic extravaganza!
	9:35pm Flash Strap: Welcome brother Doug!
	9:37pm bopapocalypse: hey doug ya tall drink of water. what a sight for sore eyes!
	9:38pm doctorjazz: Love Tzadik recordings, you could almost pull one out at random, chances are good I'll like it (especially the Radical Jewish Culture stuff).
	9:39pm Doug Schulkind: I like to think of myself as a tall drink of seltzer.
	9:41pm hyde: stream drop!
	9:41pm hyde: ok now though
	9:42pm Flash Strap: @Doc: I agree, I think the series contains easily some of the best music of the late 90s and early 2000s @Hyde: I should be back now?
	9:42pm hyde: @Flash yeah, just a brief interlude. fine now.
	9:43pm Doug Schulkind: Gone for just a microblip, Sir Flash.
	9:43pm Flash Strap: hate when that happens. gnash my teeth, hiss
	9:46pm northguineahills: The worst Tzadik Record I heard, my reaction was, "meh, that was pretty good, but I don't think I'll buy that today."
	9:47pm Flash Strap: so true, NGH
	9:47pm Dean: I hammer on this, too. Claw Hammer's "Caravan" is bananas. Worth hearing.
	9:48pm hyde: @Dean i love Claw Hammer
	9:49pm Dean: @hyde, me, too. Heard them a handful of times at, e.g., Al's Bar, Mr. T Bowl. Damn, I miss them.
	9:52pm northguineahills: David Gould was originally in the Boston ska/Reggae band, John Brown's Body". He first made "Adonai" as a regular Jewish reggae record. Zorn asked him to make a dub version. It took multiple versions as Zorn kept on asking for "more dub!". Finally, Zorn dubbed it out himself, and it sold better then Gould's original.
	9:52pm Little Danny: Thanks for another superb show, Flash! You make it sound so easy
	9:52pm Dean: That's great. "More dub!" Sounds like a SNL routine...
	9:53pm Little Danny: All! We plunge further and fearlessly into the night on the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Please come aboard!
	9:54pm northguineahills: I like how Zorn released the Marc Bolan and the Serge Gainesbourg tributes under the Radical Jewish Cultrue series
	9:54pm northguineahills: Thanks Flash, see you next week!
	9:56pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Flash!
	9:57pm hyde: thanks Flash!
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! See you in Danny's room or back here same time next week Have wonderful days and splendid nights
	10:10pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	11:35am Andrés Miranda Aqueveque: Ludwig Z!!!!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 1, 2017

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June 1, 2017: Lewiston, Belew, Hybrid Dub, & Radical Jewish Culture

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments
	Intro "Intro"
Unknown	Sekehe Genggong: a) Pemungkah b) Frog Song c) Flute Solo	Music From The Morning Of The World	Nonesuch Explorer	1967	recorded by David Lewiston ‎
Unknown	Oígame Juanita "Oígame Juanita" by "Unknown"	In Praise Of Oxalá And Other Gods / Black Music Of South America	Nonesuch Explorer	1970	recorded by David Lewiston ‎
Guapi	A Adorar A Antonio "A Adorar A Antonio" by "Guapi"	In Praise Of Oxalá And Other Gods / Black Music Of South America	Nonesuch Explorer	1970	recorded by David Lewiston ‎
Unknown	Arrullo San Antonio "Arrullo San Antonio" by "Unknown"	In Praise Of Oxalá And Other Gods / Black Music Of South America	Nonesuch Explorer	1970	recorded by David Lewiston ‎
I Mario	Bumblebee (Tumililingan) "Bumblebee (Tumililingan)" by "I Mario"	Golden Rain - Balinese Gamelan Music - Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant	Nonesuch Explorer	1969	recorded by David Lewiston ‎
Music behind DJ:	a song	Golden Rain - Balinese Gamelan Music - Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant
Talking Heads	Born Under Punches "Born Under Punches" by "Talking Heads"	Rome Concert 1980		1980	with Bernie Worrell & Adrian Belew
David Bowie	Stay "Stay" by "David Bowie"	Stage		1978	rec. live 1978 with Adrian Belew on lead guitar
Laurie Anderson	Credit Racket "Credit Racket" by "Laurie Anderson"	Home of the Brave		1986	Adrian Belew on guitar, Bill Laswell on bass
Jean-Michel Jarre	Diva "Diva" by "Jean-Michel Jarre"	Zoolook		1984	with vocals by Laurie Anderson and guitar&effects by Adrian Belew
Laurie Anderson	Sharkey's Day "Sharkey's Day" by "Laurie Anderson"	Mister Heartbreak		1984	Adrian Belew on guitar
David Bowie	Red Sails "Red Sails" by "David Bowie"	Lodger		1979	Adrian Belew on guitar
Talking Heads	Listening Wind "Listening Wind" by "Talking Heads"	Remain in Light		1980	Adrian Belew on guitar
Adrian Belew	Young Lions "Young Lions" by "Adrian Belew"	Young Lions		1990
Adrian Belew	Hot Sun "Hot Sun" by "Adrian Belew"	Lone Rhino		1982
Music behind DJ: Adrian Belew	Naive Guitar "Naive Guitar" by "Adrian Belew"	Lone Rhino
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Adrian Sherwood	Lucky Tarzan	Dub Setter		2010
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Adrian Sherwood	Elixir of Life	Dub Setter		2010
African Head Charge	Language & Mentality	Off the Beaten Track		1986	prod. Adrian Sherwood
African Head Charge	Over the Sky "Over the Sky" by "African Head Charge"	Off the Beaten Track		1986	prod. Adrian Sherwood
General Strike	Sea Hunt "Sea Hunt" by "General Strike"	Danger in Paradise		1984	David Cunningham with Steve Beresford & David Toop
General Strike	Guided Missiles "Guided Missiles" by "General Strike"	Danger in Paradise		1984	David Cunningham with Steve Beresford & David Toop; Lol Coxhill on Sax
General Strike	Danger In Paradise	Danger in Paradise		1984	David Cunningham with Steve Beresford & David Toop
Creation Rebel / New Age Steppers	Chemical Specialist	Threat To Creation		1981	prod. Adrian Sherwood
The Missing Brazilians	Quicksand Beach Party	Warzone		1984	The Missing Brazilians = Adrian Sherwood
Pecker	Pecker Power (Part Two) "Pecker Power (Part Two)" by "Pecker"	Pecker Power		1980	Pecker=Masahito Hashida; with Carlton and Aston Barrett, rec. at Tuff Gong studios
Pecker	Pecker Power (Part One) "Pecker Power (Part One)" by "Pecker"	Pecker Power		1980
Brenda Ray	Swirlin Hearts "Swirlin Hearts" by "Brenda Ray"	Walatta		2006	feat. Sir Freddie Viadukt aka the Minister of Noise; prod. by Scientist
Steven Bernstein	Dybbuk Dub "Dybbuk Dub" by "Steven Bernstein"	Diaspora Soul	Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture	1999
Music behind DJ: Steven Bernstein	L'Chaim "L'Chaim" by "Steven Bernstein"	Diaspora Soul
Greg Wall	Among The Exile, By The River Kiver	Later Prophets	Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture	2004	Gary Lucas on guitar
Frank London	Imanu Malkheteynu "Imanu Malkheteynu" by "Frank London"	Scientist At Work	Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture	2002	with John Zorn on sax
Frank London	Golem Khosidl "Golem Khosidl" by "Frank London"	Scientist At Work	Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture	2002
Marc Ribot	Caravan "Caravan" by "Marc Ribot"	Requiem For What's-His-Name		1992
Gary Lucas	The Mensch in the Moon	Busy Being Born	Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture	1998
Music behind DJ: Muzsikás	Lamenting Song (Keserves)	Máramaros - The Lost Jewish Music Of Transylvania		1993

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Listener comments!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Evening, explorers!
	7:02pm doctorjazz: Hey, Flash!
	7:02pm Dean: Dang, was looking forward to Lewiston stuff, but gotta catch a bus!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: this first set is in tribute to a great explorer of sound who just this week marched into the hereafter. David Lewiston. www.nonesuch.com...
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Dean, Hi Doc! Sorry about the bus Dean
	7:03pm hyde: Lewiston? I hope that's not Lewiston Maine where as an ill advised teenager I went to see the Grateful Dead at the place where Sonny Liston once fought Muhammad Ali. (actually it was fun)
	7:04pm Flash Strap: haha this stuff is so wild
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! Not that Lewiston, rest assured. Does sound fun though
	7:07pm hyde: ah, David Lewiston. Cool. It was fun, though luckily for me i jettisoned the Dead for hardcore punk rock soon after. (Apologies to Dead fans.)
	7:07pm doctorjazz: This is really bizarre sounding-if someone from the Chicago AACM/avant garde recorded it, you'd feel right at home.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Totally get what you mean, Doc oh, btw, helpful liner notes on this LP: Recorded in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. Throughout South America, the descendants of the millions of slaves brought to the New World by the Spanish and Portuguese still pay homage to the pantheon of their African ancestors, often, albeit, under the identities of Christian saints.
	7:12pm Flash Strap: So we got two for St. Anthony tonight
	7:13pm Flash Strap: I, Mario!
	7:15pm doctorjazz: @Hyde-por que no los dos, as my daughter would say? I followed the dead in the early 70's, went for punk later in the decade, but was still listening to the Dead afterwards (though there was a long span I didn't listen much, 90's and 00's, listen some again now).
	7:19pm Flash Strap: I never really got into the Dead or hardcore, so i had neither. I do love the Rhythm Devils, though But I guess if you never saw the Dead live or attended a hardcore show, which I have not, you just have no idea about either scene.
	7:20pm hyde: @doctorjazz hehe. i was seventeen, and listened to a lot of jazz and 60's music at that time. (i mean, i saw Sun Ra in 1980 too!) i just kind of soured on the whole Dead thing by 1981, and rejected it. some of it still sounds OK (i actually listened to the Lewiston show on the Internet Archive a couple months ago and it was fine. SOme of it was good.) but there's just a lot of noodling and baggage that goes along with that whole package that just isn't my thing anymore, that's all.
	7:20pm jefff: man this is cool
	7:23pm hyde: @Flash well, tomorrow night i'm going to see Jerry's Kids, who were one of the seminal Boston hardcore bands I used to go see circa 1983 or so. we'll see how that stands up! i'm not slam dancing though, that's a young man's game
	7:29pm doctorjazz: Sounds like fun Went to see Phil Lesh a few months ago, that was fun (he had Stanley Jordan on guitar, interesting mix). Saw Sun Ra many times in the 80's, he used to play all sorts of clubs in Manhattan; man, that was amazing!
	7:33pm JtotheK: Hi Flash, hi explorers!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: Hi Jeff! Jerry's Kids is such a good name for a hardcore outfit. Hi JtotheK! Wonderful to see you!
	7:34pm doctorjazz: This version of Talking Heads was pretty amazing. (saw the earlier version a few times)
	7:34pm Listener Scott: This is one of the best live shows ever. Most (all?) of it's available on Youtube too. They're all so relaxed, and Belew was having the time of his life.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: or should I say Hi Jefff! @doc: it really is. this performance almost edges out all other versions for me, honestly, except that they're all too good
	7:35pm Listener Scott: I just saw Belew at the Iridium, he's still incredible.
	7:35pm hyde: @doc jazz yeah, the guy we stay with in Boston is going to see some leftover Dead band bunch that is playing at Fenway this summer. i'm not sure what the band is, but i imagine it's that same bunch. i only saw Sun Ra once, at Mass Art. it may have been 1979, not 1980. i'm amused that as i'm reminiscing about all this that Flash is playing Talking Heads ca. 1980. i saw the Remain in Light tour too at the Orpheum in Boston, haha
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Listener Scott! I was watching those videos and just dying, they're so good. And yeah, Belew always looks like he's in a state of grace. or rapture
	7:40pm Flash Strap: there's a video of this performance as well, Belew is on fire and Bowie is just cracking up watching him play.
	7:40pm Listener Scott: Born under punches and Crosseyed and Painless from that Rome show are the standouts on the video.
	7:41pm Flash Strap: totally agree, Scott
	7:43pm Listener Scott: At the Belew show I sat near some guys who attend Belew's "camp" each year, I think in Woodstock. They had a lot of interesting stories, and had a great take on why Belew doesn't tour with Fripp. Basically, Fripp makes the entire touring group practice each day for two weeks, 6 hours a day, so they sound like they're in the studio when they play live. Belew far too loose for that sort of regimentation.
	7:44pm hyde: wait, what? i live in Woodstock! i have never heard of this, though i'm really not plugged in up here. dang.
	7:45pm Flash Strap: huh, that makes sense. I know Belew is a huge part of the King Crimson (v.2) sound, but it just does nothing for me, and I suspect that's why. On the other hand, the only time I really groove on Fripp is when Bowie or Eno have him totally off guard
	7:47pm Listener Scott: Looked it up, it's in Big Indian NY, not Woodstock: www.facebook.com...
	7:48pm Little Danny: just made it in! greetings Evan and flashers and strappers alike
	7:48pm hyde: @Flash fwiw i actually saw that King Crimson band play too maybe ca. 1986 in Amherst, and it was pretty great. but you could tell there was a total dichotomy between cool Fripp and hot Belew on stage, like Scott says
	7:50pm Little Danny: Whoa I had no idea Jean-Michel Jarre sounded like THIS
	7:51pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! @Hyde: I bet it was great, and seeing it live would probably be the best way to find your way into that kind of music. at least, it would be for me I think
	7:51pm hyde: @Scott ah, Big Indian. well, that's not too far from here. maybe 15 miles.
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @LD: I love pretty much all of Jarre's prime-years work, but this album is totally, astonishingly unique and special. You'd love it, man
	7:53pm Flash Strap: of course, Laurie being on this totally MAKES it
	7:56pm hyde: @Flash yeah, it was cool. and the more i think about it, it had to be earlier than '86. maybe late 81 early 82, because i think it was before Beat. i was never a huge King Crimson guy, but it was sort of when they had their second act
	7:59pm Flash Strap: jesus, basically no one gets me in the soul the way Laurie Anderson does
	7:59pm Listener Scott: Belew photos I took at the Iridium show www.flickr.com...
	8:00pm Hams: one of the best shows i've seen was laurie anderson at battery park in new york, right there on the river. for free. really something else.
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Hi there, Hams! Maybe the best show I ever saw in my life was seeing her this last winter with Phillip Glass for his 80th birthday. he was just okay, but she was totally brilliant beyond belief. I cried like a baby
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Half a Century of Bowie Albums - Today.
	8:04pm Hams: ha. yeah, i wanted to cry too at the show, actually. funny.
	8:04pm Flash Strap: some notes on Belew's soloing here: "The variable is Adrian Belew, who came to the Lodger sessions some time after recording had started. Taking a cue from Robert Fripp’s improvisational work on “Heroes,” Bowie, Tony Visconti and Eno used a similar tactic, not letting Belew hear any of the tracks before he soloed on them, not even giving him a key or chords as clues. So Belew, alone in the studio and being monitored by closed-circuit cameras, ripped out the solos for “DJ,” Boys Keep Swinging” and “Red Sails” in three takes each. He was cut off just as he was growing familiar with each song. Belew’s various solos were then dissected, with Bowie and Visconti taking the shards they thought fit a particular section and dubbing them in. The result, like the tremolo-laden, joyous Belew patchworks in “Red Sails,” was somehow perfect—the solos sound as if they were crafted beforehand, but keep their sense of barely-controlled energy. It’s waves of thought being voiced on strings." bowiesongs.wordpress.com...
	8:05pm Little Danny: wow! (re: 50yrs of Bowie)
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi RevRab! @Hams: She has that effect, it's like she cuts through everything to show you a truth beyond beauty or fear but full of both
	8:06pm Little Danny: And thanks for the tip on that Jarre album, Flash!
	🥁 8:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have enjoyed Belew's solo albums - to me, evoking 'AbbeyRoad'~'LetItBe', of all things...
	8:08pm Flash Strap: I really like some of his solo stuff - it's hit and miss for me, but the hits hit hard
	8:10pm Flash Strap: I love all the hard boiled third worldisms on this LP. It has that a bit in common with Lodger, though the approaches are pretty different
	8:38pm Flash Strap: that's Einstein, baby!
	🥁 8:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Love his voice.
	8:40pm Flash Strap: it's a perfect Einstein voice!
	8:46pm Flash Strap: this record is so interesting
	8:54pm geezerette: uncategorizeable :D
	🥁 8:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PetSounds at Night.
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Geezerette! How goes it?
	8:58pm coelacanth∅: olá Evan e Exploradores
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Coelacanth! Good evening!
	9:04pm geezerette: Hey Evan! Good,thanks!, you? :)
	9:04pm bopapocalypse: just gettin here, this song is fire
	9:06pm hyde: whoops, i'm awol from playlist comments reading my book about The Last Mughal. But I'm still absorbing the tunes, do not worry...
	9:07pm geezerette: Hiya Coel & RevRab. :) Hiya Hyde.
	9:07pm northguineahills: Pecker sounds like a precursor Yamasuka Eye, Nabakuza Takmura, and Aki Onda's Audio Sports....
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Hey Big Bopper! Hi NGH!
	9:12pm hyde: hellooooooo geezerette!
	9:14pm geezerette: :::::D !
	9:16pm bopapocalypse: yo flash! ya know i got to check in & get my mind expanded by this & assorted other things ;)
	9:17pm Flash Strap: Never better than when you're on the scene, Spooky One
	9:20pm Dean: Off the bus, out of the car, errands run, home, catching up with comments and playlist. Re: Hyde's comments, I brag incessantly, usually on Uncle Michael's show, that I attended every Grateful Dead concert. Didn't miss one. I was with hyde at that Maine show. More plausibly, I also spent time in punk, at the advent of the LA scene. Fond memories. Not sure what prompted the Belew set, and I'm not a big fan, but he adds interesting spice to a track on a live Robert Palmer album.
	9:20pm northguineahills: David Gould's "Adonai in Dub"on Tzadik Recs is the most awesome mix of trad Jewish music w/ Perry-esque dub ot there
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @NGH: I gotta hear that!
	9:32pm Flash Strap: I love how trippy this is. I love this track
	9:32pm bopapocalypse: this is real nice. very lynchian.
	9:32pm hyde: @Dean ha!
	9:34pm Doug Schulkind: Home from my daughter's high school spring orchestra concert! Glad to now be attending my brother's spring sonic extravaganza!
	9:35pm Flash Strap: Welcome brother Doug!
	9:37pm bopapocalypse: hey doug ya tall drink of water. what a sight for sore eyes!
	9:38pm doctorjazz: Love Tzadik recordings, you could almost pull one out at random, chances are good I'll like it (especially the Radical Jewish Culture stuff).
	9:39pm Doug Schulkind: I like to think of myself as a tall drink of seltzer.
	9:41pm hyde: stream drop!
	9:41pm hyde: ok now though
	9:42pm Flash Strap: @Doc: I agree, I think the series contains easily some of the best music of the late 90s and early 2000s @Hyde: I should be back now?
	9:42pm hyde: @Flash yeah, just a brief interlude. fine now.
	9:43pm Doug Schulkind: Gone for just a microblip, Sir Flash.
	9:43pm Flash Strap: hate when that happens. gnash my teeth, hiss
	9:46pm northguineahills: The worst Tzadik Record I heard, my reaction was, "meh, that was pretty good, but I don't think I'll buy that today."
	9:47pm Flash Strap: so true, NGH
	9:47pm Dean: I hammer on this, too. Claw Hammer's "Caravan" is bananas. Worth hearing.
	9:48pm hyde: @Dean i love Claw Hammer
	9:49pm Dean: @hyde, me, too. Heard them a handful of times at, e.g., Al's Bar, Mr. T Bowl. Damn, I miss them.
	9:52pm northguineahills: David Gould was originally in the Boston ska/Reggae band, John Brown's Body". He first made "Adonai" as a regular Jewish reggae record. Zorn asked him to make a dub version. It took multiple versions as Zorn kept on asking for "more dub!". Finally, Zorn dubbed it out himself, and it sold better then Gould's original.
	9:52pm Little Danny: Thanks for another superb show, Flash! You make it sound so easy
	9:52pm Dean: That's great. "More dub!" Sounds like a SNL routine...
	9:53pm Little Danny: All! We plunge further and fearlessly into the night on the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Please come aboard!
	9:54pm northguineahills: I like how Zorn released the Marc Bolan and the Serge Gainesbourg tributes under the Radical Jewish Cultrue series
	9:54pm northguineahills: Thanks Flash, see you next week!
	9:56pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Flash!
	9:57pm hyde: thanks Flash!
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! See you in Danny's room or back here same time next week Have wonderful days and splendid nights
	10:10pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	11:35am Andrés Miranda Aqueveque: Ludwig Z!!!!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 1, 2017

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