WFMU: Bob Brainen: Playlist from October 2, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 8:43am Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Hey Andrew!
	11:00am dan: Time to get into the Spirit.
	11:01am Robbie White: Bob Good Morning. I LOVE Spirit!!!
	11:01am Jeff: Good Morning Bob, Pete, Doc Rock + fellow listeners. Looking forward to getting the Spirit today!
	♥ 11:01am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob & everyone!
	♥ 11:01am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Bob, gang!
	♥ 11:01am Franco Twinkie: Spirits Rebellious!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: Hey Dan!
	🥁 ♥ 11:01am wmfromdumont: Hey Bob, Pete and all. I don't believe in ghosts, but I most certainly believe in Spirit!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Robbie, we do too!
	🥁 ♥ 11:02am (Mr) Bill: The flesh isn’t willing, but Spirit is able.
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Morning Jeff!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Morning Gina!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Hey Pauly!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Hey Franco Twinkie!
	🥁 ♥ 11:04am chresti: Hi Bob and brainiacs!
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Hey wmfromdumont!
	🥁 ♥ 11:04am PaulRobeson1920: Hi Hi Hi, Bob & all!
	♥ 11:04am Franco Twinkie: When I was asked to DJ at a local record store years ago, Fresh Garbage is the song I started my set with. The song meant that much to me.
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Morning (Mr) Bill!
	♥ 11:04am TDK60: Hi Bob & Pete. Very excited for the look at Spirit.
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Hi chresti!
	♥ 11:05am TDK60: It's /correct/ to start with Fresh!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Hey PaulRobeson1920!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Morning TDK60!
	11:06am SmokinJ: Hey bb & all! 8-)
	🥁 ♥ 11:06am listener james from westwood: How do, Bob and all!
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Hey SmokinJ!
	11:07am Bob Brainen: Hey listener james from westwood!
	11:10am dan: Any chance of you playing the song "Jewish" with Randy California singing in Hebrew?
	11:10am Cronbat: Yay Spirit! Actually postponing a trip to the dump to listen
	♥ 11:11am WR: Hi all. Spirit!
	11:11am Bob Brainen: Morning Cronbat!
	11:12am Bob Brainen: Hey WR!
	♥ 11:12am Franco Twinkie: A local band called Central played Dark Eyed Woman. When they played, we would ride our bikes to the park and sit on the grass with all the other kids smoking pot and sing along.
	♥ 11:15am Doug Schulkind: Smells like stream Spirit.
	11:16am Todd E: Morning, far and wide. Lifting our Miami spirits with Spirit. Thanks, Bob!
	♥ 11:17am StringOFperils: Yay! I almost forgot. Good morning, Bob!
	11:17am Bob Brainen: Ha, hey Doug!
	♥ 11:17am Franco Twinkie: Ess ohh pee!
	11:18am Bob Brainen: Morning Todd E!
	🥁 ♥ 11:18am PT: Good morning, all. Pete Tomlinson here. When we began planning this show, I sez to Bob, I sez "is there enough Spirit for a 3-hour show?" Oh, is there ever!
	♥ 11:18am StringOFperils: Hi, Franco!
	11:18am Bob Brainen: Hey StringOFperils!
	11:21am Bob Brainen: Pete, we coulda easily filled 4 hours with all stuff from our A-lists.
	🥁 ♥ 11:21am wmfromdumont: One of the best debut albums by anyone.
	11:22am Bob Brainen: Absolutely wm!
	11:23am johnk77: spirit rocked live only time i saw them ashland, ohio around 1969
	♥ 11:23am StringOFperils: Ed Cassidy. If there isn't already a statue of the guy, there should be, looking out at the ocean somewhere.
	11:24am Bob Brainen: Hey johnk77, you were lucky!
	♥ 11:24am Franco Twinkie: The first album was a close the bedroom door classic in junior high school.
	11:25am Bob Brainen: Pete, didn't your friend see an amazing line-up with Spirit?
	11:25am Docrock: Good morning Bob, Pete, Jeff and everyone listening to the show today.
	11:26am Bob Brainen: Morning Docrock!
	11:27am johnk77: lucky to still be alive:> also rip commander cody rock in power!
	11:27am Gerry from Miami: Mornin', Bob! My younger sister introduced me to Spirit on a holiday trip home from college in 1968. She was crazy about "Fresh Garbage" and "Mechanical World." I had only heard "I Got a Line on You" on AM radio. A whole new world opened up after hearing what they were really capable of, not just a Top 40 single.
	11:28am Todd E: Saw the band 3 times, alas never the original lineup.
	🥁 ♥ 11:28am PT: My friend saw the Spirit/Kinks/Bonzo Dog Band show @ Fillmore East October 69. The mind boggles, if only for Spirit headlining over the Kinks! (In fairness, it was the Kinks' return to the US after their infamous 4-year ban, and they had some serious ground to make up)
	11:28am Bob Brainen: Hey Gerry from Miami!
	🥁 ♥ 11:29am wmfromdumont: My brother-in-law was at the same show @PT.
	🥁 ♥ 11:31am doctorjazz: Hi Bob and Pete!
	11:32am Docrock: Saturday Oct. 18 1969 Fillmore East Bonzo Dog Band, Spirit and The Kinks. Great Show.
	♥ 11:32am TDK60: All it took for me was hearing the first three songs on their debut album. (I did successfully pick myself back off the floor.)
	♥ 11:34am Franco Twinkie: Spirit was huge in L.A. Somehow this album came my way. KRLA always had Spirit in heavy rotation.
	11:36am Robbie White: Early Led Zeppelin covered FRESH GARBAGE after opening for Spirit in the USA.
	🥁 ♥ 11:36am Uncle Michael: Good morning.
	11:37am Docrock: At the Late show on Sat. Night that I went to Bomzo Dog Band played first followed by Spirit, and the Kinks topping the bill.
	♥ 11:40am Franco Twinkie: Icon?
	♥ 11:41am TDK60: Randy C. plucked up a nova in timbre-sound. Definitely moved the guitar ahead. Also, one of the first electric guitarists to doubletrack solos artfully, possibly.
	♥ 11:42am TDK60: [rock guitar - Les Paul did much earlier]
	🥁 ♥ 11:42am (Mr) Bill: Looking forward to a pilgrimage to the Balfour in Forest Hills sometime this week.
	🥁 ♥ 11:43am wmfromdumont: Randy's time playing with Hendrix in the village was a major influence on his style.
	♥ 11:43am solo mon: Haha I just looked on google and said “oh yeah that guy” right when you did. Hi!
	♥ 11:43am Franco Twinkie: The Ashgrove let in kids because the didn't serve alcohol. They had old church pews for seats and a parachute hanging from the ceiling.
	♥ 11:45am Franco Twinkie: The film from I got a Line on You was shown on Boss City on KHJ channel nine I remember.
	🥁 ♥ 11:45am Uncle Michael: There was an attempt to raise Spirit's profile in the MTV era: www.youtube.com...
	11:46am Bob Brainen: Hey Uncle Michael!
	♥ 11:46am Franco Twinkie: This was the first Spirit record in our house. My sister got it when it first came out.
	🥁 ♥ 11:47am Uncle Michael: Hi, Bob. Hi, Pete.
	♥ 11:47am Frank Zaatar: But you do get to see them in their house in Jacques Demy's "Model Shop!"
	🥁 ♥ 11:48am doctorjazz: Perfect song!
	♥ 11:48am Franco Twinkie: I remember they were on Music Scene doing 1984.
	11:48am Bob Brainen: Hey Frank Zataar, that was the actual house In Topanga?
	🥁 ♥ 11:49am wmfromdumont: Always fascinated by the Lou Adler involvement in these records. Such a big time LA producer getting in with these cats. Strange.
	11:49am Bob Brainen: Morning Dr. Jazz!
	🥁 ♥ 11:50am PT: @Frank Zaatar: That Model Shop cameo is memorable for the band's snippets of (unscripted?) dialogue: "hey man, if Grossman wants us to tour..." Referring to Albert?
	11:50am Docrock: On Sat. March 22 1969 at Fillmore East I saw The Ainsley Dunbar Retaliation, Spirt, and Credence Clearwater Revival. Another great show.
	♥ 11:50am Franco Twinkie: That scene in Model Shop is so infuriating! The whole band was in the living room of the mid-city craftsman, and they only show Jay plonking on the piano!
	11:51am Bob Brainen: PT, absolutely Albert, mentioned like 3-4 times.
	11:51am Bob Brainen: Docrock, really great line-up!
	♥ 11:51am coelacanth∅: good morning Bob and kindred spirits
	♥ 11:52am Franco Twinkie: Coel!
	11:52am Bob Brainen: I wouldn't have wanted to be on the same bill as Spirit.
	♥ 11:53am coelacanth∅: hi Franco!
	11:53am Bob Brainen: Hey coelacanth∅!
	♥ 11:53am Frank Zaatar: Actually, I don't know if it's the actual house, but they did live in Topanga. I thought I read somewhere that it was.
	11:53am Eugene Bentley: For a moment I thought that Space Child was Steely Dan. Checking in. Bob.
	🥁 ♥ 11:54am PT: I had an actual Uncle Jack (last name Murphy, what else?). Tough little Irishman, absolutely nothing to do with Spirit's Uncle Jack!
	11:54am Bob Brainen: Hey Eugene!
	♥ 11:54am solo mon: Hey coela hey FT!
	11:55am Bob Brainen: Hey solo mon, welcome to the Drummer Stream!
	♥ 11:56am TDK60: Thanks for playin' Cold Wind, Bob!
	♥ 11:56am Franco Twinkie: You really smashed things to pieces last night Solo. I bow down!
	♥ 11:56am coelacanth∅: solo! -PT me too, my favorite uncle!
	11:56am Eugene Bentley: Space Child starts out alot like the beginning of Steely Dan's hit FM. I know Spirit came up with the piano motif first.
	🥁 ♥ 11:58am (Mr) Bill: Thanks for “Farther Along.”
	11:59am Bob Brainen: Eugene, there's a Spirit/Dan connection!
	♥ 12:00pm solo mon: Hi Bob- Thanks! so happy to be part of this family- love Spirit!
	♥ 12:01pm Franco Twinkie: I went to the beach with my older sister and two other girls. While they were laying in the sand talking about boys, I walked over to a record store and bought Clear and a Canned Heat record. On the way home, one of the girls studies the covers of the albums and asked me "Are these the popular bands of the day?" She was kind of doofy.
	♥ 12:01pm solo mon: Awwww FT! Thank you! Can’t wait to do more. Also- Saw your art on the main page slider Buddy! Looks Amazing!
	♥ 12:02pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Solo!
	♥ 12:03pm Franco Twinkie: Trancas - a popular surfing beach.
	12:03pm Bob Brainen: Franco, funny. Andes was briefly in Canned Heat!
	♥ 12:03pm StringOFperils: @solo mon > I got called away from Cha Cha Hills, early on, but I'll see if I can find a cab that will take me back out there, later.
	♥ 12:04pm coelacanth∅: haha that's beautiful Franco! ...occasionally i miss something by not using fmu's current main page
	♥ 12:05pm Franco Twinkie: You know what a show off I am Coel.
	♥ 12:05pm solo mon: SOP ;-)
	♥ 12:06pm coelacanth∅: i know... but you have something to show off
	♥ 12:07pm Franco Twinkie: Aw shucks, humbled (not really!)
	♥ 12:07pm StringOFperils: Going out for some of Nature's Way...brb. Canyon's burning...
	♥ 12:08pm solo mon: Walking children in nature.
	♥ 12:08pm Franco Twinkie: This a good one to drag out in Southern California.
	12:08pm gene sculatti: Had sort of forgotten this (sadly, always relevant in Cali) song. Great stuff.
	12:09pm Bob Brainen: Hey Gene! Yeah too topical!
	12:09pm Eugene Bentley: Stylistically, Spirit and Dan incorporate Jazz elements.
	12:10pm Gina Bacon: This is excellent soundtrack music for hoofing it around the neighborhood.
	♥ 12:11pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Gina!
	♥ 12:11pm TDK60: Never knew there were some Spirits behind Fahey on this.
	🥁 ♥ 12:11pm wmfromdumont: I knew you would play this Fahey cut. Nice!
	12:11pm Bob Brainen: Lots of Jazz elements.
	♥ 12:11pm solo mon: Hey Gina! I was a bout to say, also a perfect soundtrack driving to the hot springs for a soak!
	12:12pm Gina Bacon: Hey, Franko!
	12:12pm Bob Brainen: TDK60, it's an odd fit but...probably anyone is an odd fit w/him! Maybe Alan Wilson was closest.
	12:13pm Cronbat: Ed Cassidy's black-clad-cleanhead fashion sense certainly has persisted
	♥ 12:15pm TDK60: Cronbat- I still sport a pancho and headband, beads.
	12:15pm Gina Bacon: That sounds more relaxing, solo mon!
	12:16pm Eugene Bentley: Wow! A Dr Demento and Spirit connection.
	🥁 ♥ 12:16pm chresti: I got the first Spirit album from my friend Phil Griffin, when he was offloading his records, in '73
	♥ 12:18pm TDK60: Eugene, I heard Dr. Demento roadied for Spirit.
	♥ 12:21pm Franco Twinkie: Barry had his first show on our local free form station, KPPC in Pasadena. He was a guest on on The Obscene Steven Cleans show. One night Steven said "Barry, you're so demented". A star is born?
	12:24pm Cronbat: Could go down the rabbit hole to Kaptain Kopter & Jo-Jo Gunne...
	♥ 12:25pm coelacanth∅: dr. sardonicus was an integral part of the blossoming psychedelics era of my teens, but i first heard it via a cooler friend in 3rd grade
	🥁 ♥ 12:27pm wmfromdumont: Sadly no known recordings of Jimmy James & the Blue Flames.
	♥ 12:27pm WR: Spirit fans across the nation, I lived in Texas, mostly Dallas, in the late 60s and got all the Spirit albums as they were released. Today is the first time I've ever heard Cassidy referred to as "Cass". Just something I missed? A Jersey thing?
	♥ 12:29pm Franco Twinkie: Magic Marker!
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: i never heard any other spirit albums 'till 1979. i don't know why that happened.
	♥ 12:29pm Frank Zaatar: When I was in college, you couldn't go to a dorm party without hearing Dr. Sardonicus. That was one of the ubiquitous albums of that period that people don't remember (like The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys).
	♥ 12:32pm TDK60: Coel; one reason may be, the more freeform-oriented, "progressive," underground" radio formats faded into, or were overwhelmed by, to more commercial "ROCK" radio in the '70s-'90s. A more restricted amount of music.
	12:32pm Eugene Bentley: TDK60 finding all sorts of connections to Jimi, Dan to the Ramones(?).
	♥ 12:32pm Franco Twinkie: 1984 got a lot of airplay in L.A. on AM radio!
	♥ 12:32pm Frank Zaatar: Proud to say I bought 1984 when it came out.
	12:33pm dan: 1984 should’ve been a #1 hit on the charts instead of the bubblegum crap (by comparison) like The Osmonds and The Partridge Family.
	♥ 12:33pm coelacanth∅: i do remember 1984 from the radio - but not from 1969. more like 1978 on wnew-fm.
	12:34pm Cronbat: This is the best 1984
	♥ 12:35pm Frank Zaatar: Is this from the 45 or a remix? I seem to remember the voice not being so forward.
	12:35pm Taavi: As to Spirit on film: Aren't they in a feature film, playing "a rock band"? I think there's a rehearsal scene, in a living room.
	🥁 ♥ 12:35pm wmfromdumont: I bought a copy of Best of Spirit just for this.
	12:35pm Eugene Bentley: It's also a bonus track on Clear cd reissue.
	12:36pm Bob Brainen: Taavi, Model Shop!
	12:36pm Cronbat: Wish 1984 was way longer
	12:37pm Taavi: Bob: Thanks for that. It would've been forever lost...
	12:38pm dan: Randy taking us to the synagogue
	🥁 ♥ 12:39pm (Mr) Bill: Based on the prayer “Hinai Ma’Tovu,” I think.
	♥ 12:39pm TDK60: Who else played Hebrew-psych-jazz-rock? Jewish yet another example of Randy's incredible tone.
	♥ 12:39pm Franco Twinkie: It was so weird watching them on prime time TV doing 1984 surrounded by kids sitting on the floor. But at that time the networks were trying to be 'with it'. For me, as a kid sitting on the floor at home salivating, it was heaven.
	12:41pm Bob Brainen: Thanks (Mr) Bill. I sang it as a kid.
	♥ 12:41pm Frank Zaatar: The song is based on Psalm 133:1, which is sung with various melodies in synagogues and at Shabbat dinner. There are a few popular melodies but this was an original one. It's the first American Hebrew rock song I ever heard. I'd love to know the story behind it.
	♥ 12:42pm Frank Zaatar: The verse means, "How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together."
	🥁 ♥ 12:42pm wmfromdumont: Who sings lead on Jewish? Ferguson or California.
	12:42pm dan: Scott Benarde’s book “Stars Of David” has a chapter on Randy California. It’s a great read.
	12:43pm Cronbat: Didn't Randy California play Silvertone guitars?
	12:44pm Bob Brainen: Yes, a Danelectro man!
	🥁 ♥ 12:44pm PT: @Cronbat: I think Randy played Danelectro guitars, but since Dan E manufactured Silvertone, you're right!
	12:44pm Bob Brainen: dan, is it a music book?
	🥁 ♥ 12:45pm PT: Then he switched to Dan Armstrong clear plexiglass models around 1970. Axe geeks unite!
	♥ 12:46pm Frank Zaatar: @dan: I'd never heard of that book. I'll have to check it out.
	🥁 ♥ 12:46pm PT: @wmfromdumont: Gotta be Randy singing Jewish, right? As he WAS Jewish...
	12:47pm dan: @Bob https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1584653035/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1584653035 Here’s a link to the book
	12:48pm Mike Sin: Sundazed did fans a great service by finally getting all those tracks from “Model Shop” released in a proper soundtrack. The great lost Spirit album!
	♥ 12:49pm TDK60: This is the song that finally felled me, the first time I heard LP#1.
	♥ 12:50pm TDK60: Mike Sin: Hats off to Sundazed records.
	12:50pm Bob Brainen: Hey Mike Sin, yr right! Bob Irwin/Sundazed did more than anyone for Spirit's catalogue ~plus~ the soundtrack!
	♥ 12:52pm Frank Zaatar: @PT: I'm not so sure it was Randy. The singer doesn't pronounce the Hebrew "ch" sound quite right.
	12:52pm Cronbat: Party at Mechanical World!
	♥ 12:52pm Franco Twinkie: TDK, Oh the pain Mechanical World crated in this young mind!
	♥ 12:53pm Franco Twinkie: Created? Cratered!
	♥ 12:55pm TDK60: Frank Z & PT- It sounds like Ferguson sang Jewish.. / Franco, gotcha.
	🥁 ♥ 12:55pm wmfromdumont: It sounds like Ferguson to me, but I 've never been sure.
	12:55pm Bob Brainen: No question Randy sang "Jewish."
	🥁 ♥ 12:57pm PT: Ooh, the great Jewish controversy! Being goyim myself, I defer to those who would know better
	♥ 12:59pm Frank Zaatar: Thanks Bob.
	♥ 12:59pm TDK60: Love "Fly." I feel it could've been a hit. It sounds like "LA" to this Easterner.
	♥ 12:59pm Frank Zaatar: I guess Randy spent more time at Manny's than in Hebrew school.
	♥ 1:00pm Franco Twinkie: The cover of the first JoJo Gunn album was asperational. Long haired freaks in a muscle car. It meant one thing -chick magnet. I believe the photo was taken by Frank Bez, who chronicled the 'look' of those times.
	1:00pm Bob Brainen: Dang, now I think it's Jay singing "Jewish."
	🥁 ♥ 1:01pm (Mr) Bill: Oy, dot Rendy California! Vut a telented boychik!
	🥁 ♥ 1:03pm wmfromdumont: Sorry, I didn't mean to start this controversy.
	1:09pm Gerry from Miami: NOW I know why my sister had heard "Mechanical World." I was in college in Philly and my two sisters were attending school in Fort Lauderdale. They must have heard that "very long" single on either WQAM or WFUN here in Miami. Thanks for the story, Pete!
	♥ 1:10pm Frank Zaatar: Porcol Harum covered Bach.
	♥ 1:12pm TDK60: (Mr) Bill at 12:39 identified it. Based on the prayer “Hinai Ma’Tovu" he said.
	♥ 1:13pm Frank Zaatar: Also see my comments at 12:41 and 12:42.
	1:14pm Taavi: I gotta defend "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" as much more than cringe-worthy. One of the most beautiful films ever. And there's a new version with restored color that's hallucinogenic...
	1:16pm Bob Brainen: wm, no, thanks for helping to clairify!
	♥ 1:16pm TDK60: ..and Frank Z. too! // I recall the stores on 48th. About three or four big music shops. There was a used guitar shop with rare acoustic and electric stuff.
	♥ 1:16pm StringOFperils: Yes to Umbrellas and Nature''s Way
	1:17pm dan: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is an excellent piece of cinema. Catherine Deneuve at her best, even though that wasn’t her voice you heard on film.
	1:17pm Bob Brainen: Frank Zataar, sorry senior
	♥ 1:17pm Frank Zaatar: Bob, are you from Bloomsburg? Our father used to take us to the Bloomsburg Fair every summer.
	1:18pm ?: Dialed that tone knob down, no doubt,to get that flutey sound. Wonderful band, wonderful show! Thanks!
	1:19pm Bob Brainen: I will revisit Umbrellas next time its on but I still think singing about the prosaic is hilarious.
	1:19pm Bob Brainen: Thanks "?" !
	♥ 1:19pm TDK60: Glad you two are bouncing back and forth in time periods instead of the usual linear way.
	1:21pm Bob Brainen: TDK60, we've taken that approach on all our specials and we're very "chronology obsessed" dudes
	1:25pm Taavi: It was "Umbrellas" that led me to "Model Shop," the unlikeliest next film.
	1:28pm PT: @dan: I meant “cringe worthy” in a Cop Rock context: bursting into song mid-scene. I’m sure Umbrellas of Cherbourg would evoke a much different reaction.
	1:29pm Gerry from Miami: Jay Ferguson hss stayed quite active in the music world. I had to do some research when I saw his name repeatedly showing up in the credit roll for TV's NCIS: Los Angeles. He actually won an award for the soundtrack to "The Office." as well. And it turns out he has written the soundtracks for at least 15 feature films, including "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child." Pretty busy and talented guy.
	1:29pm Bob Brainen: Cop Rock! Yes. Randy Newman songs. I find them both goofy, just my opinion.
	♥ 1:31pm TDK60: Silky Sam another master cut.
	1:31pm dan: @PT Jacques Demy was a master of the musical film. Steven Bochco didn’t know what he was doing.
	1:32pm Bob Brainen: yeah Dan, but Randy Newman did.
	1:33pm Cronbat: Drunkard sounds Tom Rappish
	🥁 ♥ 1:33pm wmfromdumont: Love the Marty Paich arrangements.
	1:34pm Gerry from Miami: Randy Newman wrote the theme song to the ill-fated "Cop Rock," but there were three other composers who wrote for that show, including Mike Post.
	♥ 1:36pm TDK60: A fab Finale to "Family"! Randy shreds..
	♥ 1:52pm Franco Twinkie: This show has been a revelation! Spirit is in that pantheon of bands that created a yearning in me that has never abated. It isn't over reaching to say that Spirit is one of the puzzle pieces of my psyche. Thank you so much Bob and Pete.
	♥ 1:52pm TDK60: I smell incense. Gracias muchas Bob & Pete! Fine special.
	♥ 1:55pm coelacanth∅: did todd rundgren do this song? or just rip it off
	1:55pm Cronbat: Many thanks for the great show, Bob&Pete!
	1:55pm Cronbat: Many thanks for the great show, Bob&Pete!
	♥ 1:56pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks Bob and Pete.
	🥁 ♥ 1:56pm wmfromdumont: Great show Bob and Pete!
	🥁 ♥ 1:56pm chresti: Thanks for the show Bob and Pete!
	♥ 1:57pm Frank Zaatar: Great show. Thanks!
	1:58pm Gerry from Miami: Excellent stuff, guys! Have a great week!
	♥ 1:58pm coelacanth∅: outside musicians were rarely credited back then. the strings on eleanor rigby weren't credited. it wasn't the custom, sadly. Dylan changed that fact.
	♥ 1:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Bob! Thanks Pete! tchau
	1:59pm Gerry from Miami: The Who music is from CSI shoss, not NCIS!
	♥ 2:01pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks, gents!
	2:01pm PT: Once again and always: thanks for having me, Bob! And thanks to everyone for listening!
	♥ 2:06pm Gina Bacon: Thanks, guys...really enjoyed the show today!
	🥁 ♥ 11:31am Brian in UK: Great show Bob & Pete.
	🥁 ♥ 5:41pm Wendy S: Run Run Run - love it! Another great show!

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October 2, 2021: Bob Brainen & Pete Tomlinson Present The Music of SPIRIT!

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Hank Levine Orchestra w/ Timothy Leary	Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience		1961 / 1966		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Fresh Garbage "Fresh Garbage" by "Spirit"	Spirit	1968	debut album	0:02:22 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Poor Richard "Poor Richard" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	1968		0:05:32 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Dark Eyed Woman "Dark Eyed Woman" by "Spirit"	Clear	1969	also a single	0:08:04 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Life Has Just Begun "Life Has Just Begun" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970		0:11:08 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Fog "Fog" by "Spirit"	Now Or Anywhere	1968 / 2000		0:14:35 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Joker On The Run "Joker On The Run" by "Spirit"	Spirit Of 76	1975		0:17:14 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Gramophone Man "Gramophone Man" by "Spirit"	Spirit	1968		0:19:37 (Pop-up)
Spirit	It's All The Same "It's All The Same" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	1968		0:23:23 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Holy Man "Holy Man" by "Spirit"	Chronicles 1967-1992	1975 / 1991		0:27:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					0:30:19 (Pop-up)
Spirit	I Got A LIne On You "I Got A LIne On You" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	1968	Highest charting single	0:45:36 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Space Child "Space Child" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970		0:48:15 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Uncle Jack "Uncle Jack" by "Spirit"	Spirit	1968	B-side of 1st single	0:51:43 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Cold Wind "Cold Wind" by "Spirit"	Clear	1969		0:54:17 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Farther Along "Farther Along" by "Spirit"	Farther Along	1976	Reunion album [4/5ths of original line-up]	0:57:38 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Trancas Fog-Out "Trancas Fog-Out" by "Spirit"	Feedback	1972	Fifth album w/only 2 original members	1:00:48 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Mr. Skin "Mr. Skin" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970	B-side of Nature's Way	1:03:24 (Pop-up)
Spirit	The Great Canyon Fire In General	Spirit	1968		1:07:20 (Pop-up)
John Fahey [w/Spirit]	Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensburg	The Yellow Princess	1968	w/Mark & Matt Andes, Jay Ferguson, Kevin Kelley & Barry Hansen	1:10:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					1:14:15 (Pop-up)
Spirit	1984 "1984" by "Spirit"		1969	non LP A-side / also on: The Best Of Spirit 1973	1:31:35 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Sweet Stella Baby "Sweet Stella Baby" by "Spirit"		1969	non-LP B-side of above song, Clear CD bonus track 1996	1:35:12 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Jewish "Jewish" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	1968	What Hebrew song is this based on?	1:38:07 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Coral "Coral" by "Spirit"	Model Shop	1968 / 2005	archivally released Soundtrack (and what Pete and I consider one of "the first 5 Spirit albums.") Jay Ferguson on vibes	1:40:44 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Rougher Road "Rougher Road" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970 / 1996	CD bonus track	1:45:13 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Mechanical World "Mechanical World" by "Spirit"	Spirit	1968	Their first single (5:51 length!)	1:48:16 (Pop-up)
Jo Jo Gunne	Run Run Run "Run Run Run" by "Jo Jo Gunne"	Jo Jo Gunne	1972	spin-off band w/ Jay Ferguson & The Andes Brothers	1:53:31 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Animal Zoo "Animal Zoo" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970	single	1:56:06 (Pop-up)
Spirit	So Little Time To Fly "So Little Time To Fly" by "Spirit"	Clear	1969		1:59:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					2:01:52 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Nature's Way "Nature's Way" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970	single	2:16:03 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Straight Arrow "Straight Arrow" by "Spirit"	Spirit	1968		2:18:45 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Model Shop I "Model Shop I" by "Spirit"	Model Shop	1968 / 2005	OST	2:21:38 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Silky Sam "Silky Sam" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	1968		2:23:38 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Prelude-Nothing To Hide "Prelude-Nothing To Hide" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970	Matt Andres-dobro	2:28:21 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Drunkard "Drunkard" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	1968		2:31:22 (Pop-up)
Spirit	What Do I Have "What Do I Have" by "Spirit"	Spirit Of 76	1975		2:33:54 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Aren't You Glad "Aren't You Glad" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	1968		2:35:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					2:41:14 (Pop-up)
Spirit	"Jay's Song" from Model Shop		1968	excerpt of a piece Jay performs in the movie [taken from video] unreleased	2:49:54 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Girl In Your Eye "Girl In Your Eye" by "Spirit"	Spirit	1968	sitar played by ?	2:50:34 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Love Has Found A Way "Love Has Found A Way" by "Spirit"	The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus	1970	Jay Ferguson-vibes	2:53:50 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					2:56:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 8:43am Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Hey Andrew!
	11:00am dan: Time to get into the Spirit.
	11:01am Robbie White: Bob Good Morning. I LOVE Spirit!!!
	11:01am Jeff: Good Morning Bob, Pete, Doc Rock + fellow listeners. Looking forward to getting the Spirit today!
	♥ 11:01am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob & everyone!
	♥ 11:01am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Bob, gang!
	♥ 11:01am Franco Twinkie: Spirits Rebellious!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: Hey Dan!
	🥁 ♥ 11:01am wmfromdumont: Hey Bob, Pete and all. I don't believe in ghosts, but I most certainly believe in Spirit!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Robbie, we do too!
	🥁 ♥ 11:02am (Mr) Bill: The flesh isn’t willing, but Spirit is able.
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Morning Jeff!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Morning Gina!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Hey Pauly!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Hey Franco Twinkie!
	🥁 ♥ 11:04am chresti: Hi Bob and brainiacs!
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Hey wmfromdumont!
	🥁 ♥ 11:04am PaulRobeson1920: Hi Hi Hi, Bob & all!
	♥ 11:04am Franco Twinkie: When I was asked to DJ at a local record store years ago, Fresh Garbage is the song I started my set with. The song meant that much to me.
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Morning (Mr) Bill!
	♥ 11:04am TDK60: Hi Bob & Pete. Very excited for the look at Spirit.
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Hi chresti!
	♥ 11:05am TDK60: It's /correct/ to start with Fresh!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Hey PaulRobeson1920!
	11:05am Bob Brainen: Morning TDK60!
	11:06am SmokinJ: Hey bb & all! 8-)
	🥁 ♥ 11:06am listener james from westwood: How do, Bob and all!
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Hey SmokinJ!
	11:07am Bob Brainen: Hey listener james from westwood!
	11:10am dan: Any chance of you playing the song "Jewish" with Randy California singing in Hebrew?
	11:10am Cronbat: Yay Spirit! Actually postponing a trip to the dump to listen
	♥ 11:11am WR: Hi all. Spirit!
	11:11am Bob Brainen: Morning Cronbat!
	11:12am Bob Brainen: Hey WR!
	♥ 11:12am Franco Twinkie: A local band called Central played Dark Eyed Woman. When they played, we would ride our bikes to the park and sit on the grass with all the other kids smoking pot and sing along.
	♥ 11:15am Doug Schulkind: Smells like stream Spirit.
	11:16am Todd E: Morning, far and wide. Lifting our Miami spirits with Spirit. Thanks, Bob!
	♥ 11:17am StringOFperils: Yay! I almost forgot. Good morning, Bob!
	11:17am Bob Brainen: Ha, hey Doug!
	♥ 11:17am Franco Twinkie: Ess ohh pee!
	11:18am Bob Brainen: Morning Todd E!
	🥁 ♥ 11:18am PT: Good morning, all. Pete Tomlinson here. When we began planning this show, I sez to Bob, I sez "is there enough Spirit for a 3-hour show?" Oh, is there ever!
	♥ 11:18am StringOFperils: Hi, Franco!
	11:18am Bob Brainen: Hey StringOFperils!
	11:21am Bob Brainen: Pete, we coulda easily filled 4 hours with all stuff from our A-lists.
	🥁 ♥ 11:21am wmfromdumont: One of the best debut albums by anyone.
	11:22am Bob Brainen: Absolutely wm!
	11:23am johnk77: spirit rocked live only time i saw them ashland, ohio around 1969
	♥ 11:23am StringOFperils: Ed Cassidy. If there isn't already a statue of the guy, there should be, looking out at the ocean somewhere.
	11:24am Bob Brainen: Hey johnk77, you were lucky!
	♥ 11:24am Franco Twinkie: The first album was a close the bedroom door classic in junior high school.
	11:25am Bob Brainen: Pete, didn't your friend see an amazing line-up with Spirit?
	11:25am Docrock: Good morning Bob, Pete, Jeff and everyone listening to the show today.
	11:26am Bob Brainen: Morning Docrock!
	11:27am johnk77: lucky to still be alive:> also rip commander cody rock in power!
	11:27am Gerry from Miami: Mornin', Bob! My younger sister introduced me to Spirit on a holiday trip home from college in 1968. She was crazy about "Fresh Garbage" and "Mechanical World." I had only heard "I Got a Line on You" on AM radio. A whole new world opened up after hearing what they were really capable of, not just a Top 40 single.
	11:28am Todd E: Saw the band 3 times, alas never the original lineup.
	🥁 ♥ 11:28am PT: My friend saw the Spirit/Kinks/Bonzo Dog Band show @ Fillmore East October 69. The mind boggles, if only for Spirit headlining over the Kinks! (In fairness, it was the Kinks' return to the US after their infamous 4-year ban, and they had some serious ground to make up)
	11:28am Bob Brainen: Hey Gerry from Miami!
	🥁 ♥ 11:29am wmfromdumont: My brother-in-law was at the same show @PT.
	🥁 ♥ 11:31am doctorjazz: Hi Bob and Pete!
	11:32am Docrock: Saturday Oct. 18 1969 Fillmore East Bonzo Dog Band, Spirit and The Kinks. Great Show.
	♥ 11:32am TDK60: All it took for me was hearing the first three songs on their debut album. (I did successfully pick myself back off the floor.)
	♥ 11:34am Franco Twinkie: Spirit was huge in L.A. Somehow this album came my way. KRLA always had Spirit in heavy rotation.
	11:36am Robbie White: Early Led Zeppelin covered FRESH GARBAGE after opening for Spirit in the USA.
	🥁 ♥ 11:36am Uncle Michael: Good morning.
	11:37am Docrock: At the Late show on Sat. Night that I went to Bomzo Dog Band played first followed by Spirit, and the Kinks topping the bill.
	♥ 11:40am Franco Twinkie: Icon?
	♥ 11:41am TDK60: Randy C. plucked up a nova in timbre-sound. Definitely moved the guitar ahead. Also, one of the first electric guitarists to doubletrack solos artfully, possibly.
	♥ 11:42am TDK60: [rock guitar - Les Paul did much earlier]
	🥁 ♥ 11:42am (Mr) Bill: Looking forward to a pilgrimage to the Balfour in Forest Hills sometime this week.
	🥁 ♥ 11:43am wmfromdumont: Randy's time playing with Hendrix in the village was a major influence on his style.
	♥ 11:43am solo mon: Haha I just looked on google and said “oh yeah that guy” right when you did. Hi!
	♥ 11:43am Franco Twinkie: The Ashgrove let in kids because the didn't serve alcohol. They had old church pews for seats and a parachute hanging from the ceiling.
	♥ 11:45am Franco Twinkie: The film from I got a Line on You was shown on Boss City on KHJ channel nine I remember.
	🥁 ♥ 11:45am Uncle Michael: There was an attempt to raise Spirit's profile in the MTV era: www.youtube.com...
	11:46am Bob Brainen: Hey Uncle Michael!
	♥ 11:46am Franco Twinkie: This was the first Spirit record in our house. My sister got it when it first came out.
	🥁 ♥ 11:47am Uncle Michael: Hi, Bob. Hi, Pete.
	♥ 11:47am Frank Zaatar: But you do get to see them in their house in Jacques Demy's "Model Shop!"
	🥁 ♥ 11:48am doctorjazz: Perfect song!
	♥ 11:48am Franco Twinkie: I remember they were on Music Scene doing 1984.
	11:48am Bob Brainen: Hey Frank Zataar, that was the actual house In Topanga?
	🥁 ♥ 11:49am wmfromdumont: Always fascinated by the Lou Adler involvement in these records. Such a big time LA producer getting in with these cats. Strange.
	11:49am Bob Brainen: Morning Dr. Jazz!
	🥁 ♥ 11:50am PT: @Frank Zaatar: That Model Shop cameo is memorable for the band's snippets of (unscripted?) dialogue: "hey man, if Grossman wants us to tour..." Referring to Albert?
	11:50am Docrock: On Sat. March 22 1969 at Fillmore East I saw The Ainsley Dunbar Retaliation, Spirt, and Credence Clearwater Revival. Another great show.
	♥ 11:50am Franco Twinkie: That scene in Model Shop is so infuriating! The whole band was in the living room of the mid-city craftsman, and they only show Jay plonking on the piano!
	11:51am Bob Brainen: PT, absolutely Albert, mentioned like 3-4 times.
	11:51am Bob Brainen: Docrock, really great line-up!
	♥ 11:51am coelacanth∅: good morning Bob and kindred spirits
	♥ 11:52am Franco Twinkie: Coel!
	11:52am Bob Brainen: I wouldn't have wanted to be on the same bill as Spirit.
	♥ 11:53am coelacanth∅: hi Franco!
	11:53am Bob Brainen: Hey coelacanth∅!
	♥ 11:53am Frank Zaatar: Actually, I don't know if it's the actual house, but they did live in Topanga. I thought I read somewhere that it was.
	11:53am Eugene Bentley: For a moment I thought that Space Child was Steely Dan. Checking in. Bob.
	🥁 ♥ 11:54am PT: I had an actual Uncle Jack (last name Murphy, what else?). Tough little Irishman, absolutely nothing to do with Spirit's Uncle Jack!
	11:54am Bob Brainen: Hey Eugene!
	♥ 11:54am solo mon: Hey coela hey FT!
	11:55am Bob Brainen: Hey solo mon, welcome to the Drummer Stream!
	♥ 11:56am TDK60: Thanks for playin' Cold Wind, Bob!
	♥ 11:56am Franco Twinkie: You really smashed things to pieces last night Solo. I bow down!
	♥ 11:56am coelacanth∅: solo! -PT me too, my favorite uncle!
	11:56am Eugene Bentley: Space Child starts out alot like the beginning of Steely Dan's hit FM. I know Spirit came up with the piano motif first.
	🥁 ♥ 11:58am (Mr) Bill: Thanks for “Farther Along.”
	11:59am Bob Brainen: Eugene, there's a Spirit/Dan connection!
	♥ 12:00pm solo mon: Hi Bob- Thanks! so happy to be part of this family- love Spirit!
	♥ 12:01pm Franco Twinkie: I went to the beach with my older sister and two other girls. While they were laying in the sand talking about boys, I walked over to a record store and bought Clear and a Canned Heat record. On the way home, one of the girls studies the covers of the albums and asked me "Are these the popular bands of the day?" She was kind of doofy.
	♥ 12:01pm solo mon: Awwww FT! Thank you! Can’t wait to do more. Also- Saw your art on the main page slider Buddy! Looks Amazing!
	♥ 12:02pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Solo!
	♥ 12:03pm Franco Twinkie: Trancas - a popular surfing beach.
	12:03pm Bob Brainen: Franco, funny. Andes was briefly in Canned Heat!
	♥ 12:03pm StringOFperils: @solo mon > I got called away from Cha Cha Hills, early on, but I'll see if I can find a cab that will take me back out there, later.
	♥ 12:04pm coelacanth∅: haha that's beautiful Franco! ...occasionally i miss something by not using fmu's current main page
	♥ 12:05pm Franco Twinkie: You know what a show off I am Coel.
	♥ 12:05pm solo mon: SOP ;-)
	♥ 12:06pm coelacanth∅: i know... but you have something to show off
	♥ 12:07pm Franco Twinkie: Aw shucks, humbled (not really!)
	♥ 12:07pm StringOFperils: Going out for some of Nature's Way...brb. Canyon's burning...
	♥ 12:08pm solo mon: Walking children in nature.
	♥ 12:08pm Franco Twinkie: This a good one to drag out in Southern California.
	12:08pm gene sculatti: Had sort of forgotten this (sadly, always relevant in Cali) song. Great stuff.
	12:09pm Bob Brainen: Hey Gene! Yeah too topical!
	12:09pm Eugene Bentley: Stylistically, Spirit and Dan incorporate Jazz elements.
	12:10pm Gina Bacon: This is excellent soundtrack music for hoofing it around the neighborhood.
	♥ 12:11pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Gina!
	♥ 12:11pm TDK60: Never knew there were some Spirits behind Fahey on this.
	🥁 ♥ 12:11pm wmfromdumont: I knew you would play this Fahey cut. Nice!
	12:11pm Bob Brainen: Lots of Jazz elements.
	♥ 12:11pm solo mon: Hey Gina! I was a bout to say, also a perfect soundtrack driving to the hot springs for a soak!
	12:12pm Gina Bacon: Hey, Franko!
	12:12pm Bob Brainen: TDK60, it's an odd fit but...probably anyone is an odd fit w/him! Maybe Alan Wilson was closest.
	12:13pm Cronbat: Ed Cassidy's black-clad-cleanhead fashion sense certainly has persisted
	♥ 12:15pm TDK60: Cronbat- I still sport a pancho and headband, beads.
	12:15pm Gina Bacon: That sounds more relaxing, solo mon!
	12:16pm Eugene Bentley: Wow! A Dr Demento and Spirit connection.
	🥁 ♥ 12:16pm chresti: I got the first Spirit album from my friend Phil Griffin, when he was offloading his records, in '73
	♥ 12:18pm TDK60: Eugene, I heard Dr. Demento roadied for Spirit.
	♥ 12:21pm Franco Twinkie: Barry had his first show on our local free form station, KPPC in Pasadena. He was a guest on on The Obscene Steven Cleans show. One night Steven said "Barry, you're so demented". A star is born?
	12:24pm Cronbat: Could go down the rabbit hole to Kaptain Kopter & Jo-Jo Gunne...
	♥ 12:25pm coelacanth∅: dr. sardonicus was an integral part of the blossoming psychedelics era of my teens, but i first heard it via a cooler friend in 3rd grade
	🥁 ♥ 12:27pm wmfromdumont: Sadly no known recordings of Jimmy James & the Blue Flames.
	♥ 12:27pm WR: Spirit fans across the nation, I lived in Texas, mostly Dallas, in the late 60s and got all the Spirit albums as they were released. Today is the first time I've ever heard Cassidy referred to as "Cass". Just something I missed? A Jersey thing?
	♥ 12:29pm Franco Twinkie: Magic Marker!
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: i never heard any other spirit albums 'till 1979. i don't know why that happened.
	♥ 12:29pm Frank Zaatar: When I was in college, you couldn't go to a dorm party without hearing Dr. Sardonicus. That was one of the ubiquitous albums of that period that people don't remember (like The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys).
	♥ 12:32pm TDK60: Coel; one reason may be, the more freeform-oriented, "progressive," underground" radio formats faded into, or were overwhelmed by, to more commercial "ROCK" radio in the '70s-'90s. A more restricted amount of music.
	12:32pm Eugene Bentley: TDK60 finding all sorts of connections to Jimi, Dan to the Ramones(?).
	♥ 12:32pm Franco Twinkie: 1984 got a lot of airplay in L.A. on AM radio!
	♥ 12:32pm Frank Zaatar: Proud to say I bought 1984 when it came out.
	12:33pm dan: 1984 should’ve been a #1 hit on the charts instead of the bubblegum crap (by comparison) like The Osmonds and The Partridge Family.
	♥ 12:33pm coelacanth∅: i do remember 1984 from the radio - but not from 1969. more like 1978 on wnew-fm.
	12:34pm Cronbat: This is the best 1984
	♥ 12:35pm Frank Zaatar: Is this from the 45 or a remix? I seem to remember the voice not being so forward.
	12:35pm Taavi: As to Spirit on film: Aren't they in a feature film, playing "a rock band"? I think there's a rehearsal scene, in a living room.
	🥁 ♥ 12:35pm wmfromdumont: I bought a copy of Best of Spirit just for this.
	12:35pm Eugene Bentley: It's also a bonus track on Clear cd reissue.
	12:36pm Bob Brainen: Taavi, Model Shop!
	12:36pm Cronbat: Wish 1984 was way longer
	12:37pm Taavi: Bob: Thanks for that. It would've been forever lost...
	12:38pm dan: Randy taking us to the synagogue
	🥁 ♥ 12:39pm (Mr) Bill: Based on the prayer “Hinai Ma’Tovu,” I think.
	♥ 12:39pm TDK60: Who else played Hebrew-psych-jazz-rock? Jewish yet another example of Randy's incredible tone.
	♥ 12:39pm Franco Twinkie: It was so weird watching them on prime time TV doing 1984 surrounded by kids sitting on the floor. But at that time the networks were trying to be 'with it'. For me, as a kid sitting on the floor at home salivating, it was heaven.
	12:41pm Bob Brainen: Thanks (Mr) Bill. I sang it as a kid.
	♥ 12:41pm Frank Zaatar: The song is based on Psalm 133:1, which is sung with various melodies in synagogues and at Shabbat dinner. There are a few popular melodies but this was an original one. It's the first American Hebrew rock song I ever heard. I'd love to know the story behind it.
	♥ 12:42pm Frank Zaatar: The verse means, "How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together."
	🥁 ♥ 12:42pm wmfromdumont: Who sings lead on Jewish? Ferguson or California.
	12:42pm dan: Scott Benarde’s book “Stars Of David” has a chapter on Randy California. It’s a great read.
	12:43pm Cronbat: Didn't Randy California play Silvertone guitars?
	12:44pm Bob Brainen: Yes, a Danelectro man!
	🥁 ♥ 12:44pm PT: @Cronbat: I think Randy played Danelectro guitars, but since Dan E manufactured Silvertone, you're right!
	12:44pm Bob Brainen: dan, is it a music book?
	🥁 ♥ 12:45pm PT: Then he switched to Dan Armstrong clear plexiglass models around 1970. Axe geeks unite!
	♥ 12:46pm Frank Zaatar: @dan: I'd never heard of that book. I'll have to check it out.
	🥁 ♥ 12:46pm PT: @wmfromdumont: Gotta be Randy singing Jewish, right? As he WAS Jewish...
	12:47pm dan: @Bob https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1584653035/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1584653035 Here’s a link to the book
	12:48pm Mike Sin: Sundazed did fans a great service by finally getting all those tracks from “Model Shop” released in a proper soundtrack. The great lost Spirit album!
	♥ 12:49pm TDK60: This is the song that finally felled me, the first time I heard LP#1.
	♥ 12:50pm TDK60: Mike Sin: Hats off to Sundazed records.
	12:50pm Bob Brainen: Hey Mike Sin, yr right! Bob Irwin/Sundazed did more than anyone for Spirit's catalogue ~plus~ the soundtrack!
	♥ 12:52pm Frank Zaatar: @PT: I'm not so sure it was Randy. The singer doesn't pronounce the Hebrew "ch" sound quite right.
	12:52pm Cronbat: Party at Mechanical World!
	♥ 12:52pm Franco Twinkie: TDK, Oh the pain Mechanical World crated in this young mind!
	♥ 12:53pm Franco Twinkie: Created? Cratered!
	♥ 12:55pm TDK60: Frank Z & PT- It sounds like Ferguson sang Jewish.. / Franco, gotcha.
	🥁 ♥ 12:55pm wmfromdumont: It sounds like Ferguson to me, but I 've never been sure.
	12:55pm Bob Brainen: No question Randy sang "Jewish."
	🥁 ♥ 12:57pm PT: Ooh, the great Jewish controversy! Being goyim myself, I defer to those who would know better
	♥ 12:59pm Frank Zaatar: Thanks Bob.
	♥ 12:59pm TDK60: Love "Fly." I feel it could've been a hit. It sounds like "LA" to this Easterner.
	♥ 12:59pm Frank Zaatar: I guess Randy spent more time at Manny's than in Hebrew school.
	♥ 1:00pm Franco Twinkie: The cover of the first JoJo Gunn album was asperational. Long haired freaks in a muscle car. It meant one thing -chick magnet. I believe the photo was taken by Frank Bez, who chronicled the 'look' of those times.
	1:00pm Bob Brainen: Dang, now I think it's Jay singing "Jewish."
	🥁 ♥ 1:01pm (Mr) Bill: Oy, dot Rendy California! Vut a telented boychik!
	🥁 ♥ 1:03pm wmfromdumont: Sorry, I didn't mean to start this controversy.
	1:09pm Gerry from Miami: NOW I know why my sister had heard "Mechanical World." I was in college in Philly and my two sisters were attending school in Fort Lauderdale. They must have heard that "very long" single on either WQAM or WFUN here in Miami. Thanks for the story, Pete!
	♥ 1:10pm Frank Zaatar: Porcol Harum covered Bach.
	♥ 1:12pm TDK60: (Mr) Bill at 12:39 identified it. Based on the prayer “Hinai Ma’Tovu" he said.
	♥ 1:13pm Frank Zaatar: Also see my comments at 12:41 and 12:42.
	1:14pm Taavi: I gotta defend "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" as much more than cringe-worthy. One of the most beautiful films ever. And there's a new version with restored color that's hallucinogenic...
	1:16pm Bob Brainen: wm, no, thanks for helping to clairify!
	♥ 1:16pm TDK60: ..and Frank Z. too! // I recall the stores on 48th. About three or four big music shops. There was a used guitar shop with rare acoustic and electric stuff.
	♥ 1:16pm StringOFperils: Yes to Umbrellas and Nature''s Way
	1:17pm dan: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is an excellent piece of cinema. Catherine Deneuve at her best, even though that wasn’t her voice you heard on film.
	1:17pm Bob Brainen: Frank Zataar, sorry senior
	♥ 1:17pm Frank Zaatar: Bob, are you from Bloomsburg? Our father used to take us to the Bloomsburg Fair every summer.
	1:18pm ?: Dialed that tone knob down, no doubt,to get that flutey sound. Wonderful band, wonderful show! Thanks!
	1:19pm Bob Brainen: I will revisit Umbrellas next time its on but I still think singing about the prosaic is hilarious.
	1:19pm Bob Brainen: Thanks "?" !
	♥ 1:19pm TDK60: Glad you two are bouncing back and forth in time periods instead of the usual linear way.
	1:21pm Bob Brainen: TDK60, we've taken that approach on all our specials and we're very "chronology obsessed" dudes
	1:25pm Taavi: It was "Umbrellas" that led me to "Model Shop," the unlikeliest next film.
	1:28pm PT: @dan: I meant “cringe worthy” in a Cop Rock context: bursting into song mid-scene. I’m sure Umbrellas of Cherbourg would evoke a much different reaction.
	1:29pm Gerry from Miami: Jay Ferguson hss stayed quite active in the music world. I had to do some research when I saw his name repeatedly showing up in the credit roll for TV's NCIS: Los Angeles. He actually won an award for the soundtrack to "The Office." as well. And it turns out he has written the soundtracks for at least 15 feature films, including "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child." Pretty busy and talented guy.
	1:29pm Bob Brainen: Cop Rock! Yes. Randy Newman songs. I find them both goofy, just my opinion.
	♥ 1:31pm TDK60: Silky Sam another master cut.
	1:31pm dan: @PT Jacques Demy was a master of the musical film. Steven Bochco didn’t know what he was doing.
	1:32pm Bob Brainen: yeah Dan, but Randy Newman did.
	1:33pm Cronbat: Drunkard sounds Tom Rappish
	🥁 ♥ 1:33pm wmfromdumont: Love the Marty Paich arrangements.
	1:34pm Gerry from Miami: Randy Newman wrote the theme song to the ill-fated "Cop Rock," but there were three other composers who wrote for that show, including Mike Post.
	♥ 1:36pm TDK60: A fab Finale to "Family"! Randy shreds..
	♥ 1:52pm Franco Twinkie: This show has been a revelation! Spirit is in that pantheon of bands that created a yearning in me that has never abated. It isn't over reaching to say that Spirit is one of the puzzle pieces of my psyche. Thank you so much Bob and Pete.
	♥ 1:52pm TDK60: I smell incense. Gracias muchas Bob & Pete! Fine special.
	♥ 1:55pm coelacanth∅: did todd rundgren do this song? or just rip it off
	1:55pm Cronbat: Many thanks for the great show, Bob&Pete!
	1:55pm Cronbat: Many thanks for the great show, Bob&Pete!
	♥ 1:56pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks Bob and Pete.
	🥁 ♥ 1:56pm wmfromdumont: Great show Bob and Pete!
	🥁 ♥ 1:56pm chresti: Thanks for the show Bob and Pete!
	♥ 1:57pm Frank Zaatar: Great show. Thanks!
	1:58pm Gerry from Miami: Excellent stuff, guys! Have a great week!
	♥ 1:58pm coelacanth∅: outside musicians were rarely credited back then. the strings on eleanor rigby weren't credited. it wasn't the custom, sadly. Dylan changed that fact.
	♥ 1:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Bob! Thanks Pete! tchau
	1:59pm Gerry from Miami: The Who music is from CSI shoss, not NCIS!
	♥ 2:01pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks, gents!
	2:01pm PT: Once again and always: thanks for having me, Bob! And thanks to everyone for listening!
	♥ 2:06pm Gina Bacon: Thanks, guys...really enjoyed the show today!
	🥁 ♥ 11:31am Brian in UK: Great show Bob & Pete.
	🥁 ♥ 5:41pm Wendy S: Run Run Run - love it! Another great show!

Bob Brainen: Playlist from October 2, 2021

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