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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Emerson Lake and Palmer  Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2)   Favoriting Brain Salad Surgery  Manticore  1973  LP  0:01:11 (Pop-up)
FM  Dialing For Dharma   Favoriting Black Noise  Passport  1978  CD  0:05:54 (Pop-up)
 
Elton John  Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding   Favoriting Goodbye Yellow Brick Road  MCA  1973  LP  0:12:41 (Pop-up)
Renaissance  Carpet of the Sun   Favoriting Ashes Are Burning  Capitol  1973  LP  0:23:31 (Pop-up)
Renaissance  Mother Russia   Favoriting Turn of the Cards  BTM  1974  LP  0:27:01 (Pop-up)
Glass Harp  Song of Hope   Favoriting Synergy  Decca  1971  LP  0:36:10 (Pop-up)
Genesis  I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe   Favoriting Selling England by the Pound  Charisma  1973  LP  0:40:31 (Pop-up)
Genesis  The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway   Favoriting The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway  Charisma  1974  LP  0:44:31 (Pop-up)
Jethro Tull  Witches Promise   Favoriting Living In the Past  Chrysalis  1972  LP  0:49:15 (Pop-up)
Rush  Xanadu   Favoriting Farewell to Kings  Mercury  1977  LP  0:53:01 (Pop-up)
 
Pink Floyd  Fearless   Favoriting Meddle  Harvest  1971  LP  1:10:23 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd  Echoes   Favoriting Meddle  Harvest  1971  LP  1:16:20 (Pop-up)
Yes  And You And I   Favoriting Close To the Edge  Atlantic  1972  LP  1:39:51 (Pop-up)
It's a Beautiful Day  White Bird   Favoriting It's a Beautiful Day  Columbia  1969  LP  1:49:37 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:59:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Jeff Ash:

Greetings from snow-covered Wisconsin!
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Gary:

Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Jeff! Gary!
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Jeff Ash:

Starting strong! We played the bejeezus out of this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Hey Larry. Was doing some work and looked up and saw it was 9 so I quickly tuned in. I’m not so sure this will be in my wheel house but we shall see.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

I was so happy when I finally got this on CD and didn't have to flip over the record!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Matt!
  10:03pm
Dean:

I so loathed (and to this day loathe) ELP, that I in fact love hearing this again after so many decades!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Dean!
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Erica:

Hey Testifiers! I'm ready to Prog on!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Jeff Ash:

Things only high school kids do ... we hated our new basketball coach so we wrote a rock opera about him and this was one of the songs for which we wrote new lyrics.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

A buddy of mine just saw Carl Palmer in concert.
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - I'd love to hear that!
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Matt from New Orleans:

At least, it’s not the entire half hour.
  10:05pm
Dean:

And I'm losing it, 'cuz I at first thought the parenthetical was a quotation of Klaatu!
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still b/p:

I seem to remember this being the one that jumped the trio to wider rock radio mainstream attention.
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TDK60:

I used to love ELP then became embarrassed later, but now It sounds okay if a bit over the top; what the hey.
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Jeff Ash:

Ahhh, you had to be there, man.
  10:06pm
Dean:

Well, "Roundabout."
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Funky16Corners:

SBP! TDK60!
Avatar 🥁 10:07pm
Erica:

@Dean To be continued. Haha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

This marked the second time ELP got played on Testify!
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Matt from New Orleans:

Jeff I feel no loss of having been born after this rock era
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Jeff Ash:

All good, Matt. Everyone has their time. This was mine.
  10:09pm
Dean:

I worked for a record store whose import buyers left to set up company that distributed FM's records, etc.
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Little Danny:

Hey y'all
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Matt from New Orleans:

Danny slacking off tonight?
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Erica:

Either that Matt or he's on the air at Marfa Public Radio.
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Erica:

In other words: Psychedelic pop evolved into progressive rock.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Franco Twinkie:

Okay now, It's high school all over again - Lord have mercy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Little Danny:

Hey hey, thanks you two. Homebound this evening so I'm here
  10:13pm
Dean:

I remember celebrating the release of Tales.

I expect we'll hear from Gabriel Bondage, hmm?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny! Franco!
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chresti:

Hey Testify!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Funky16Corners:

Chresti!
Avatar 🥁 10:14pm
Erica:

Oh hi Danny. I thought you were DJing tonight.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Funky16Corners:

@Dean - FM's first album was initially issued by the CBC!
  10:16pm
Dean:

CBC is pretty darn good.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Funky16Corners:

I was looking up the record in Discogs (I only have the CD) and recognized the logo. I had no idea they released anything like that. But, Canadian Content, I guess.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Davey Johnstone!
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Larry & all
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Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
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Franco Twinkie:

In my mind Love Lies Bleeding inspires a cartoon illustration in the style of Robert Crumb of a heart laying on the sidewalk with a distressed face, crying as a pair of big fine legs go marching off to ruin someone else's day.
Avatar 10:20pm
still b/p:

Geddy looking particularly Spicoli-ish in the double-neck performance shot.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Funky16Corners:

Is that the illustration inside the gatefold?
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Funky16Corners:

@SBP - I saw Rush right at the tail end of those years.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Franco Twinkie:

No, it's in my brain.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Funky16Corners:

Also acceptable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Little Danny:

@still b/p I thought the same!
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TDK60:

I was born in these platform shoes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Franco Twinkie:

I've always loved that picture of Pink Floyd and all their gear. Coel, is that a Commer van?
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coelacanth∅:

i tuned in near the top but wanted to finish listening to something else; and that worked out. i loved ELP when i was a tyke but never cared for karn evil much.
...and when i got over ELP it was fairly thorough -though i still play parts of trilogy every few years
  10:24pm
Dean:

Saw these guys live at the Greek in LA. Opening act: Jean-Luc Ponty.
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Funky16Corners:

@Dean - what era?
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coelacanth∅:

oh, in the pink floyd shot Franco? i don't think so?
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Funky16Corners:

Hard to believe that Keith Relf founded this band.
  10:26pm
Dean:

'80s?
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TDK60:

..any prog cop spies lurking?
  10:27pm
Dean:

Shoot, no, '70s. I think it was the Novella tour.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Jeff Ash:

Renaissance was the record you bought your new girlfriend before you really had a clue about her tastes in music.
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Erica:

Haha Jeff!
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Funky16Corners:

@Jeff - Yes indeed. Very lady-friendly, in a Stevie Nicks, Rhiannon way.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Funky16Corners:

Annie Haslam had a very Sandy Denny-esque vibe
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Jeff Ash:

Exactly, especially with Annie Haslam as the lead singer and that elegant, vaguely classical sound.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Franco Twinkie:

Coel, I just checked. It's a Commer Walk -Thru.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Jeff Ash:

True, Erica. You'd think, "Oh, she might like this." Sometimes, she did. Sometimes, she didn't.
Avatar 🥁 10:32pm
Erica:

Everyone's taste in music is different Jeff.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Funky16Corners:

I guess it would depend on her capacity for far-outness and/or marijuana.
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Little Danny:

@franco: Nice transport van ID!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Jeff Ash:

'Twas ever thus.
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coelacanth∅:

well shit Franco! i thought maybe a bedford? but i guess commer made different styles.
i always think of the ones like the beatles used (if i'm not mistaken) quite a bit smaller than the ummagumma van
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Funky16Corners:

There's a great clip on Youtube of Glass Harp playing live in what looks like a college classroom.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Franco Twinkie:

A Brit comparable to an International Metro Van, or a Chevy Step Van. All of them bread trucks.
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chresti:

Darn it, I missed the carpet of the sun song.
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TDK60:

I recall when folks had Glass Harp LPs around parties. I thought they were ok. Ohio band.
Avatar 🥁 10:41pm
Erica:

Aww yes! Genesis!
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Little Danny:

Youngstown OH's favorites! Great track
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Funky16Corners:

Their guitarist Phil Keaggy went on to be big Christian artist
  10:42pm
Dean:

SEBTP was an LP I played virtually daily during the late '70s, right along with Gang of Four's Entertainment.
Avatar 10:43pm
TDK60:

I still like earlier Genesis.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Funky16Corners:

I love Gabriel-era Genesis.
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Funky16Corners:

Me, I'm just a lawn mower...
  10:44pm
Dean:

I have a bunch of bootlegs from those days. Buddy of mine ran a record store whose motto was "Selling records by the pound." We were devotees.
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Erica:

You can tell me by the way I walk.
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coelacanth∅:

coincidentally (?) just last week i checked the jukebox at the pub to see if it's got king crimson yet. i've checked every few months for several years now. it's finally appeared! so yesterday i decided to subject my fellow drinkers.
first i played "providence" which i thought would get skipped before it finally got to the more structured section. the bartender had to turn it down but she actually liked it.
(she does like most of what i play)
  10:46pm
Dean:

Another buddy of mine, a freshman in high school in '75, attended one of the Shrine Lamb shows. He confesses that he slept through it.
Avatar 🥁 10:46pm
Erica:

Also I never knew about the Charisma releases of the LPs. Didn't grow up in that time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Funky16Corners:

@C - If you put on Discipline I'll buy the beers!
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Franco Twinkie:

I saw Phil Keaggy at some church in the early 70's. He was indeed a proselytizing christian in sensible slacks.
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I think some of the Monty Python records are on Charisma
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Funky16Corners:

@Dean - I always wished I'd seen Genesis during Gabriel's theatrical years.
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Little Danny:

@coel: that's quite the esoteric waiting game, congrats
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coelacanth∅:

then (after "hunting girl" by jethro tull) i played starless. one of my favorite songs of all songs. she insisted it was the singer from ELP. (who i informed her of the name of) she called her husband because she didn't believe me!
i never thought Lake and Wetton sounded similar.
anyway of course we talked about ELP too.
  10:51pm
Dean:

Same here. First I saw was Starwood Amphitheatrer in Burbank. At least Bruford was there. (Got the bootleg of that show.)

Crimson...I must be very selective. Some good, most not, to my ear. And as much as I adore Bruford, their stuff with him falls flat for me. On top of that, Fripp was a genius when it comes to picking bland vocalists. Lake was always second rate, and Wetton was perhaps fourth?
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Funky16Corners:

@Dean - That's why I love the Discipline era. Adrian Belew!
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coelacanth∅:

haha Thanks Danny! i did the same thin g with Eno and Roky Erickson. Eno appeared maybe 1/2 a year ago and Roky immediately when he died...but still no easter everywhere.
  10:53pm
Dean:

Nope. Can't tolerate Belew.
  10:53pm
Dean:

I really love Red, if only Wetton were edited out of the mix.
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doctorjazz:

Hi all!
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TDK60:

I do like King Crimson, often intense, sometimes mellow.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
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coelacanth∅:

Larry -we agree on a lot of music, as you know; but i don't like discipline or anything since then! their first 7 albums i love love love. (especially the Bruford/Wetton 3)
no soul after that; just technical; and uninspired compositions. (in my opinion)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Funky16Corners:

I loved that era of King Crimson because it reminded me of Material, who I was listening to at the time.
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Franco Twinkie:

I worked with this dope smoking fiend at a hospital in the mid 70's. He loved Genesis to the point of fanaticism. Years later, I would run into him at punk shows. He was funny and smart and fun to hang around with. He's probably listening.
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Funky16Corners:

Dope smoking fiends are the best kind of fiend
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Funky16Corners:

Here comes the Coleridge!
  10:58pm
Dean:

coel, I heard that "technical and uninspired" on the first few albums, too. Tons of talent, not a heck of a lot of inspiration.

Let's return to the Capitol Records meet, Franco. Tons of us fanatic Genesis fans.
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coelacanth∅:

and Dean i agree about Wetton as a vocalist (but he did write starless, which Fripp of course stole the credit for to share between 5-6 different people)
but Greg Lake had a beautiful voice.
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Erica:

Yeah it's a shame but Lake and Keith Emerson both died in 2016.
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coelacanth∅:

rest in peace
  11:02pm
Dean:

Can't agree about Lake. His voice set my teeth on edge. It was a wispy non-committal drawl. Fripp doesn't understand vocals.
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TDK60:

Fripp could've gotten this Rush guy.
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Franco Twinkie:

Dean, I do remember seen Pere Ubu at the Whisky on a hot August night and later that morning half the audience was at Capitol.
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Erica:

Would you believe that I didn't hear about ELP until I saw an episode of the Simpsons when Homer was singing Lucky Man in the car?
  11:04pm
Dean:

Okay, y'all are putting me in a shitty mood, shittier than usual. I friggin' hate Pere Ubu. David Thomas...another bland vocalist.
  11:04pm
?:

i still can believe you played xanadu...well done
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TDK60:

Elton John could've sung for Fripp.
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still b/p:

Fripp now fighting Bowie estate over credit status for Heroes and Scary Monsters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Franco Twinkie:

Extend an olive branch and you slap my hand.
  11:08pm
Dean:

Don't get me wrong. I can be converted. Until about a year or two ago, I despised Tull, even the early stuff. Now I really enjoy it (the early stuff, I mean).

Ain't gonna happen with Thomas, I predict. Saw him at Victo around 2000. Yawn.
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coelacanth∅:

Elton's voice would be good in king crimson.
Geddy Lee should never be allowed to sing in any band!
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doctorjazz:

When I was in high school,around this time, you were either i into progressive rock or a Deadhead, and never the twain did meet. I fell into the Deadhead group, and didn't pay attention much to this stuff (unless it was played on FM, so the "hits" were familiar), but didn't have much interest in checking this stuff out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:09pm
coelacanth∅:

s b/p Fripp's a douche. excellent guitarist, but forever a douche.
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doctorjazz:

See Tull around Aqualung release, loved the 1st 2 albums as well. Lost interest after that.
  11:10pm
Dean:

Around this time I detected no divisions whatsoever. A bunch of us were into a ton of music. Shoot, I did homework to medieval dance music. Nobody gave a damn. But we were ordinary LA suburban jerk-offs. We didn't have much to lose or gain.
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doctorjazz:

Saw Till, that is...
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coelacanth∅:

dr.j in mine it was the dead or zeppelin. the prog guys were a small quiet other group. the prog girls were deadheads that also liked yes and genesis.
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Erica:

This must've been when Pink Floyd was transitioning from psychedelic pop to prog.
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Exactly.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

hello, Larry and WFMU kin!
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Funky16Corners:

In high school it was a big Zep/Aerosmith et al thing with my friends, then I discovered power pop and new wave
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Granny!
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coelacanth∅:

this one gets played at least every other time i go to the pub. i've played it enough that it now only requires 1 credit instead of 2.
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Franco Twinkie:

Doc, me too. Although things were not that stratified. No hard party lines adhered to. Lots of opened minded young music lovers.
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Erica:

What I don't get is why the album cover of Dark Side of the Moon is more popular than the songs from that album. What's interesting about a triangle pattern?
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Erica:

Hi Granny!
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coelacanth∅:

i like triangles.
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doctorjazz:

I wouldn't call David Thomas bland, an acquired taste for sure (question is whether it's worth acquiring). Saw him solo art Danceteria. Interesting character.
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Erica:

I like cats.
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Funky16Corners:

It was years before I understood that this was a stadium full of soccer fans singing
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Erica:

GOOOAAAAALLL!
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Erica:

(Had to do it Larry.)
  11:16pm
Dean:

Best PF album in my uninformed opinion.

I think we examine our lives with a loaded rhetoric. Zep and Aerosmith made their offerings, and we dug 'em or not. Then punk emerged and we added them to the mix. I don't recall ever "discovering" an artist, because I always learned about them from others who knew them. And then I added them to the roster, or not. Social networking existed before the dickheads of Silicon Valley took over.
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TDK60:

We listened to all sorts of stuff then: psych rock, funk, hippy country rock, prog/kraut, blues, fusion, singer-songwriter, early space music, etc.
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Franco Twinkie:

I agree with you about our perception of music back then, Dean, but unlike you I never did my homework.
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Funky16Corners:

@Dean - Exactly. I heard what the people around me were playing, or what was on the NYC FM stations
  11:19pm
Dean:

I have two versions of Meddle (which really is a terrific title, when you think about it). Both are CDs, though I learned the album on vinyl way back then. One is a cheesy reissue, the other a Mobile Fidelity remaster. H-u-g-e difference between the two, and I enjoy both of them.

Do your homework to medieval dance music, Franco. You'll see improvements immediately.
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coelacanth∅:

our school was very divided; but early into 10th grade i crossed the line and liked both zep and the dead...but more than anything, pink floyd.
then the wall came out and the stones now sucked as did Rod Stewart and zeppelin etc etc so i turned to punk rock and reggae!
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Franco Twinkie:

If I was capable of returning to my lost youth, it wouldn't be to do my homework.
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Funky16Corners:

By the time I was a junior (78) the Ramones and the Clash were making inroads at my school. I went more to skinny tie/power pop stuff.
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coelacanth∅:

but yes TDK...i also liked fleetwood mac and John Lennon and Graham Parker and Bowie etc.....
i don't think the majority of my classmates were that open though.
(and today they probably still don't listen to wfmu!)
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coelacanth∅:

oh man Larry the few of us (me and my 4 male friends; another kid and maybe 3 girls...in the whole school) that "advertised" our punk leanings were mocked on big time.
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Funky16Corners:

By 1981/1982 I really sailed off into uncharted waters. I started listening to and collecting all kinds of US garage punk, UK psyche/freakbeat, UK folk, weird psychedelic stuff.
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Franco Twinkie:

Was it Oliver Sachs that revealed that the music you liked between the ages of 11 and 17 will stick with you till the day you die?
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coelacanth∅:

def not true for me.
  11:28pm
Dean:

I learned of the Pistols in '76 in high school, and shortly after that I had the good fortune of visiting London, where I purchased their first single in a drug store.

I guess I hung around with a range of folks -- stoners, (pseudo-)intellectuals, artists, maybe not a lot of athletes, but even some of them -- and we mostly got along. There was the elitist social crowd, but then I even hung out with them! Shoot, I planned my senior class prom (which I didn't attend) with my buddy, the junior class president. He and I shared music all the time.

I don't understand the compulsion to divide, to define "in" and "out" groups. Too much trouble.

But I do hate the rich.
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Funky16Corners:

@Franco - He was right, at least in the sense of the power of nostalgia. I'll put on the 70s channel in the car and listen to stuff I'd never buy, because ut reminds me of when I was a kid.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
chresti:

Stadium Rock
  11:29pm
Dean:

A friend's brother just published a book about his time with Oliver Sacks. Lawrence Weschler. Check it out.
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coelacanth∅:

boston's first album falls into that age range, and i know i never want to hear that again.
  11:31pm
Dean:

The guy who engineered that first Boston album has a stereo store about four blocks from my home. He's really cool.
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Funky16Corners:

I can do without Boston, but Peter Frampton, Grand Funk, Blue Oyster Cult, Zep etc I still listen to
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Funky16Corners:

In fact, I don't think I ever owned more than the 45 of More Than a Feeling
  11:31pm
Dean:

Boston I can handle once a decade. Styx? No way.
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Doug Schulkind:

Testify! Goes BIG!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
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Franco Twinkie:

Larry, For the life of me, I can't sing along with London Calling. But if I heard Crown Of Creation, I'd be shrieking right along.
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Funky16Corners:

This is the second 20+ minute song I've played in as many weeks. A trend???
  11:33pm
Dean:

I had to sell that crap when I worked in the record store late '70s. Queen album after Queen album after Queen album after Queen album... And I don't wholly dislike Queen. But, Jesus, people, try the PFM.
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coelacanth∅:

i used to intend to cut my first class; i'd smoke some herb, put echoes on and watch the birds around the fig trees in the neighbor's yard; then didn't get to school that day.
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Little Danny:

I'd never actually heard Meddle before. Very much enjoying it
  11:34pm
Dean:

Yeah, London Calling is overrated, just like everything by Springsteen.
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coelacanth∅:

i was very disappointed when london calling came out.
yet another of my favorite bands turning to shit.
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Funky16Corners:

@Danny - This was a regular feature of bedroom stoner sessions back in the day, with Lou Reed's Rock'n'Roll Animal and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
  11:36pm
Dean:

Low Spark, oh, my, yes.
  11:38pm
Dean:

And I wasn't a stoner. I'd by then realized that pot operated primarily as a placebo. Yet the records gave me visions, due I suspect to sleep loss.
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coelacanth∅:

there are artists from pre-11 that i will love my whole life, and some that i don't care to ever here again. the same is true for between 11 & 17; and the same is true for after 17.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Hi, Erica, i was enjoying a bath to this music. Lovely set, Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Granny!
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Erica:

Very lovely indeed Granny.
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Franco Twinkie:

Coel, I scratch my head in dismay when I hear people convulsing over The Clash. I saw them in 1979, my response? So what.
  11:40pm
Dean:

That's because punk had fallen flat by '79, Franco. Clash's first album and a track or two off the second were smashing.
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coelacanth∅:

boy i love this song!
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Jeff Ash:

This Pink Floyd/Yes set is airing at about the time of night we'd hear it on the old free-form FM radio.
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Funky16Corners:

That worked out well!
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Franco Twinkie:

Well I suppose if I had been a globe trotting sceanster I would have seen them in London in 77, but I was broke and living in L.A. You take what you can get - when you get it.
  11:45pm
Dean:

In '73 I was strolling down my suburban street's sidewalk, when I espied an 8-track of Close to the Edge in a neighbor surfer's VW. I was then 14 or so, he was probably late teens. He agreed to loan it to me. I played it for my best buddies. Our heads spun and our synapses snapped.
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Funky16Corners:

I remember going to see Yessongs at the local midnight movie palace (with a bong in the car).
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coelacanth∅:

i saw the clash in 79 Franco and i loved 'em -despite the london calling stuff they played. probably 20 minutes or more of armadideon time + lots from give 'em enough rope, which is a perfect album (as well as the first one)
but like the dead kennedys and ramones and devo and talking heads and etc etc they turned to shit...in line with the onslaught of shit that the 80s generally is represented by.
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Funky16Corners:

Next one going a little bit earlier by special request.
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coelacanth∅:

("armagideon" time)
  11:49pm
Dean:

I was neither globe-trotting (I'd been once to London in '76 with my high school theater group), nor a scenester (even when I worked with Flipside I didn't mix with the scene). But I knew the albums, which were solid musical statements. The records were there to be reviewed.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

just send me over the top with this gorgeous song!
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, this one is sweet.
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coelacanth∅:

i loved (and love) fragile, which i borrowed from the library regularly, then didn't hear much yes again 'till my brother gave me relayer on 8-track tape for x-mas. man that opened me up! one of their best albums...underrated.
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Funky16Corners:

This is one of those songs that reminds me of Alison Steele,'The Night Bird', great New York DJ
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coelacanth∅:

definitely!
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Franco Twinkie:

Yeah, I know Coel. I liked all the band you mentioned - with the exception of The DK's, and I never listen to any of it anymore.
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Franco Twinkie:

A great second wave San Francisco band!
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coelacanth∅:

i still do. i used to practice the drums to albums. the clash's first album was one of those.
  11:54pm
Dean:

Sandy Pearlman signed my Give 'Em Enough Rope. And then he dedicated "Safe European Home" to me on air at KROQ. I'm a 60YO teenybopper.

(I never liked DKs, either.)
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Franco Twinkie:

Topper was a good basher.
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Little Danny:

Thanks Larry! Enjoyed the show mightily
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coelacanth∅:

i still listen to plastic surgery disasters every couple years, and play songs from it on that pub jukebox. (along with the great "police truck")
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry!
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Thank you, Larry— got this show clicky-starred for future listens.
  11:58pm
Dean:

Read Bruford's autobiography for accounts of Yes, touring, recording...
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Erica:

A very proggy ride it was. Thanks Larry! It was nice to hear something different tonight.
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Jeff Ash:

Great show, Larry! Thanks!
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Franco Twinkie:

I do like Police Truck. That song is accurate journalism.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Jeff! Erica! Granny!
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Franco Twinkie:

Rock on Larry!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry! good night y'all
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Doc! Danny! C! Franco!
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chresti:

Thanks Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Chresti!
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