Listener comments!

Tue. 7/14/09 12:05pm From: Laurie

I can't wait for Robyn Hitchcock. He wrote one of my top five favorite songs ever, "Egyptian Cream."

Tue. 7/14/09 12:06pm From: G

It's Bastille Day Space Shock 2009!

Original Bastille Day Space Shock, 2000:

http://spacephysics.ucr.edu/index.php?content=solar_wind/cc/cbastille.html

I have the British 45 of Outa Space, I'd forgotten about that...

Tue. 7/14/09 12:08pm From: Carmichael

Man, does this bring back some memories. Some of them good .....

Tue. 7/14/09 12:11pm From: randy in NC

Space is the place! I saw Apollo 11 take off.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:13pm From: David Bowie

Ground control to Major Joe!!!!!!!!

Tue. 7/14/09 12:13pm From: efd

Awesome opening set, Joe!

My family was visiting my uncle in CA when the moon landing happened; I still have a vague recollection of watching it on TV.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:15pm From: Carmichael

In keeping with this theme Joe, could you play something from Stampfel/Weber's "Beer Cans on the Moon"?

Tue. 7/14/09 12:17pm From: randy in NC

We were visiting my grandmother in Miami and my Dad drove us up to watch it.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:23pm From: Parq

Oh yeah, today's Hitchcock! Totally stoked.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:25pm From: Marshall Stacks

Maybe not the right vibe, but definitely the right topic: Angst's Neil Armstrong.

Love the Gil S-H, by the way.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:25pm From: Gilbert and the Beav'

What the Hell, Whitey's on the moon?

Tue. 7/14/09 12:27pm From: doug in dc

Whatcha doin' on the moon?

Tue. 7/14/09 12:27pm From: rubble

I saw the moon just clear as day up in the sky at 9:30 AM yesterday! Quite a remarkable sight.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:30pm From: Carmichael

Just don't play the friggin' Police .....

Tue. 7/14/09 12:30pm From: Moon

Don't mess wit me or imma stick it right in yer face. It's big, it's round, and it's white.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:33pm From: doug in dc

The moon has a dark side.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:34pm From: Carmichael

YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Tue. 7/14/09 12:35pm From: Edzo

Howzabout "Before the Moon Falls" by The Fall?

Tue. 7/14/09 12:35pm From: Rob W

July 16 is indeed the correct Apollo 11 launch date, Joe. I share the space-age nostalgia, loved it all as a kid and although it's not really PC I hope we make it to Mars before you and I are pushing up daisies!

Tue. 7/14/09 12:35pm From: Bad Ronald

Wreckless Eric "Walking on the Surface of the Moon"?

Tue. 7/14/09 12:35pm From: gumby

Scruffy the Cat - Moons of Jupiter

Tue. 7/14/09 12:36pm From: doug in dc

B.R. - you beat me to it. Was just about to request.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:37pm From: dc pat

Keith?

Tue. 7/14/09 12:37pm From: Bad Ronald

Sweet.

http://tinyurl.com/moonstuff

Tue. 7/14/09 12:39pm From: Laurie

"Blue Moon," by Big Star!!

Tue. 7/14/09 12:39pm From: Gerry O'Driscoll

There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:40pm From: Edzo

Maybe Robyn Hitchcock can play "The Moon Inside"

Tue. 7/14/09 12:42pm From: Parq

Second the motion for Scruffy's "Jupiter". Love that little chuckle in the first sung line.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:47pm From: Buzz Lightyear

Jupiter? I don't think we have landed there yet.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:51pm From: HAL

I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:53pm From: Laurie

"Gone to the Moon," Fastbacks PLEASE. Thanks.

Tue. 7/14/09 12:54pm From: anthony

Bark at the Moon-Ozzy
Moonage Day Dream-Bowie

Tue. 7/14/09 12:55pm From: Maria

hey love this moon stuff. I did a moon show just about a month ago. Good subject matter, great songs!

Tue. 7/14/09 12:59pm From: ?

solo Ozzy = shit

Tue. 7/14/09 1:00pm From: ken in denver

Astronauts! Colorado's own! Woo-hoo!

Tue. 7/14/09 1:00pm From: Ozzy

oi, mnbmlmm rnnmsgmn msgsnmn

hey, where are my fuckin subtitles?

Tue. 7/14/09 1:01pm From: dc pat

ok, that one's news to me--didn't know the Astronauts wrote this tune. Play the Monkees' version too!

Tue. 7/14/09 1:02pm From: paul

This entire show is sheer lunacy so far. I remember the moon landing - a little. My parents sent me to bed they were listening to it on the radio, summer beachhouse no tv. I had to do that sneak-halfway down-the-stairs thing to hear it.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:03pm From: Rubble

Paul, you made my day with your comment. :)
Lunatic!

Tue. 7/14/09 1:07pm From: Parq

Paul's comment sparks my own memory. I was in camp 40 years ago this week. A small back-and-white TV was set up in the rec hall, and for two hours, we sat there looking at the landing module and listening to chatter we didn't understand. We were sent to bed long before the Small Step took place.

Incidently, I remember hearing news reports later the same summer, about this giant rock concert going on somewhere in upstate NY, closing the Thruway and attracting mud-soaked hordes. Oh, I spent that entire summer on the sidelines of history!

Tue. 7/14/09 1:09pm From: History

I'm kinda overrated, to be honest. I'm still around after all, and nobody's overawed.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:11pm From: dc pat

man I was too little to remember any of that stuff. I do remember a Beatles live performance on tv in the late 60's at some point...I wonder if I imagined that.

I love PRatRs!!!

Tue. 7/14/09 1:12pm From: ?

DC Pat, they were televised performing 'all you need is love; in the late 60's ...

Tue. 7/14/09 1:13pm From: Carmichael

Now I distinctly remember the Raiders on "Where the Action Is" every week. There was a VW bug that would pop a wheelie during the intro. Nothing in my youth was cooler.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:13pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Well, History, if you'd quit repeating yourself, perhaps we'd pay more attention.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:15pm From: Carmichael

Mr Sun, Mr. Moon was some cool hippie pop shit. And Joe, you're playing a lot of Goffin-King Brill Building songs. Super cool.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:17pm From: dc pat

I thought what I saw was post-psychedelic but maybe it was All Ya Need Is Love and I'm remembering it wrong...

Tue. 7/14/09 1:19pm From: Raiders

Huh, I just never get no respect! {adjusting tie knot nerviously}

Tue. 7/14/09 1:19pm From: Parq

Pat - another possibility: there was a widely played, and occasionally parodied, video of the Bs doing "Hey Jude", with McC on piano and John playing a sizable hollow-body.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:20pm From: JCityJensen

Crap missed whitey on the moon!

Tue. 7/14/09 1:25pm From: dcite

saw gil at blues alley in dc a few weeks back. he still can bring the goods. good band. good monologues.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:26pm From: dc pat

Parq: That sounds more like it--long hair and big guitar. I remember my older brother making a big deal about it.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:28pm From: Laurie

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:30pm From: Carmichael

Pat, could that have been the rooftop sessions at Abbey Road?

Tue. 7/14/09 1:33pm From: Laurie

Oh god, I love this song.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:34pm From: dc pat

Carm: I thought not, but I dunno now. I'm a huge fan and thought I'd ruled out anything I ever saw again. I'll have to ask my brother...

Tue. 7/14/09 1:38pm From: dc pat

ok, never mind, my brother has no idea what I'm talking about. shit. I've been wondering about this for 40 years goddammit!! It was just a bum memory...

Tue. 7/14/09 1:38pm From: David Shortell

Carmichael:
Nope. That Saville Row shindig was filmed, not televised, and released cinematically the following year.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:39pm From: Dan

Tell Bill Reiflin
Dan Bauman (violent femmes)
and Dave Collins (thrill Kill Kult)
Say Hi from Chicago

Tue. 7/14/09 1:40pm From: Joe B

sorry Dan ... this was pre-taped! He was here a few weeks ago.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:40pm From: Carmichael

Well, the only TV I can recall is the Ed Sullivan show (the later, color one) and some things on Dick Cavett or David Frost. Or maybe Mike Douglas.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:42pm From: Parq

Pat, at the risk of overkill (and of making it obvious that I'm bored at my desk right now), here's a still from the Hey Jude vid. Familiar?

http://tinyurl.com/heydjvid

Tue. 7/14/09 1:43pm From: dc pat

my bro says it was just John Lennon doing Come Together solo. That must be it.. sorry for overkill, done.

Tue. 7/14/09 1:45pm From: ?

I know all you need is love was televised live- perhaps not here!
Robyn sounds awesome!

Tue. 7/14/09 1:52pm From: Parq

Aha, Pat! I know that one. That was the so-called "One to One Concert" to benefit mental care reform after the Willowbrook scandal. The concert was in summer 1972 and a TV version aired that fall. I was there for both of two shows. The bill also included Sha Na Na, Roberta Flack and Stevie Wonder. Here's a shot of Lennon and the Missus.

http://tinyurl.com/lenn1972

Tue. 7/14/09 1:57pm From: Laurie

Isn't Dante's a strip club?

Tue. 7/14/09 2:04pm From: Razzle

Great set!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:05pm From: dc pat

I'll bet that's at, thanks Parq!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:05pm From: Moon

I am totally *not* cheesy.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:06pm From: Laurie

Thanks for playing my request, Joe!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:07pm From: The Tides

I find you very attractive, actually.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:10pm From: Carmichael

Hey! Good choice, Joe!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:11pm From: Parq

I really like that garage version of Rapposo's "Moon" but I'm always sorry they left out the bridge, with its thoughtful comment, "There's so many strange places that I'd like to be - but none of them permanently."

Tue. 7/14/09 2:11pm From: Bad Ronald

Can we get the Bonzo's "Urban Spaceman"?

Tue. 7/14/09 2:12pm From: Jandek

This guy is some singer :-)

Tue. 7/14/09 2:13pm From: Judge Sonia Sotomayor

I'd rather be standing on the moon than listen to these pompous blowhards speechify at me under the guise of questioning.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:13pm From: Randy Jackson

Pitchy for me, dawg. Keepin it real. Weird getup.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:13pm From: Shane McGowan

I envy his raw singing skills.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:17pm From: Joe B

Tickets gone, thanks to all who called.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:19pm From: Parq

Shane, not to mention his relatively sound dental health.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:21pm From: em

the randy jackson comment completely made my day, thanks.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:22pm From: efd

ooh, this fine extra moon set just reminded me of a good moon-related song I can start my show with. But I shall not reveal it, because I don't want to be gazumped.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:23pm From: Joe B

Should we expect Evan "Buzz" Davies tonight?

Tue. 7/14/09 2:23pm From: G

yvw

Tue. 7/14/09 2:25pm From: maria

eeeee elllll ooooohhhhh!!!!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:25pm From: Shane McGowan

Who needs teefs?

Tue. 7/14/09 2:27pm From: ken in denver

I read that Shane got a new set of choppers.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:28pm From: efd

I'll be Evan "Michael Collins" Davies - he never gets any props.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:29pm From: Sybil

efd, you'll always be "buzz" to us!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:30pm From: Parq

Ken in Den, sad to have to say this, but can he also get a new set of brain cells?

Tue. 7/14/09 2:33pm From: Carmichael

All I can say to this song is "Uhhh!"

Tue. 7/14/09 2:51pm From: ?

Excellent show today Joe!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:52pm From: Carmichael

Thanks for the show, Joe!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:53pm From: Joe B

Thanks everybody for listening/commenting. Also thanks for the moon suggestions, couldn't find a lot of them but perhaps next week!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:54pm From: Leon Spinks

Teeth and brain cells = overrated.

Tue. 7/14/09 2:55pm From: Marshall Stacks

Thanks for the GREAT show, Joe!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:55pm From: efd

the actual landing was July 20, so you'll still be within the statute of limitations next week!

Tue. 7/14/09 2:56pm From: Bad Ronald

Great show as always Joe, thanks!

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