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Terry Klein With Dee-Jay & The Runaways  Keep On Running   Favoriting
Stiv Bators  It's Cold Outside   Favoriting
Gene O'Quin  Too Hot To Handle   Favoriting
Wee Willie Walker  Ticket To Ride   Favoriting
Pete And Louie  Evil Ways   Favoriting
Chris Isaak  I'm Not Sleepy   Favoriting
Turtles, The  Wrong From The Start   Favoriting
Big Sandy And His Fly-Rite Boys  Love That Man   Favoriting
Lollipops, The  Busy Signal   Favoriting
Queers, The  Overdue   Favoriting
Malibus, The  Humpty Dumpty Was Making Out   Favoriting
Louvin Brothers, The  Pitfal   Favoriting
Little Johnny Taylor  Zig Zag Lightning   Favoriting
Phyllis Dillon  Midnight Confessions   Favoriting
Keith Richards  How I Wish   Favoriting
Bruce Channel  Mr. Bus Driver   Favoriting
Johnny Cash  Bad Bad News (live)   Favoriting
Otis Redding  You Left The Water Running   Favoriting
Rockin' Horse  Biggest Gossip In Town   Favoriting
Hal Blaine And The Young Cougars  Nashville Coupe   Favoriting
Mel Robbins  Save It   Favoriting
Slim Harpo  I'm Gonna Keep What I Got   Favoriting
Ed Lincoln  Vou Rir de Voce   Favoriting
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts  Insecure   Favoriting
Stella  Beatnicks d'Occasion   Favoriting
Jerry Lee Lewis  Shotgun Man   Favoriting
Etta James  The Same Rope   Favoriting
Quitters, The  Damned Thing   Favoriting
XTC  The Mayor Of Simpleton   Favoriting
Byrds, The  You Showed Me   Favoriting
Johnny Bond  I'll Be Here (After You've Gone)   Favoriting
Dorando  I'm Gonna Love You   Favoriting
Courtney Barnett  Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party   Favoriting
Bobby Rydell  When I See That Girl of Mine   Favoriting
Osborne Brothers, The  Don't Even Look At Me   Favoriting
Bill Pinkney  I Do The Jerk   Favoriting
Dwight Yoakam  3 Pears   Favoriting
They Might Be Giants  Moonbeam Rays   Favoriting
Lou Reed  1974 Australian Press Confrence   Favoriting

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CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

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CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

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CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

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CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HEREfor "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version


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Listener comments!

Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:14am
Listener Baby:

Good morning Baby. BTW. That Gumbo looks righteous. Good morning fine folks. Okay, let’s do this. Ready?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:58am
Handy Haversack:

Morning, Michael, Baby, and all the Shelle Gamers!
Avatar 10:58am
Michael Shelley:

Yeah... that is some serious #1 hit gumbo.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:00am
Squints:

ok then.

hey HEY hey now.
  11:01am
Frank In Queens:

Heeeeeyyyyyy Now!
  11:01am
rx scabin:

Good morning. 11 happy degrees f here.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Baja Joe:

Morning Michael!
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HyperDose:

Heyyy let's get moving now, yeah?
  11:02am
clarke:

hey now.
sanjay's piece!!!!
  11:03am
clarke:

this song is litter.
  11:05am
egould310:

Good bit of powerpop on that Stiv album.
  11:05am
Biba McLurex:

Somebody’s dancing a wild Monkey over here!
  11:06am
berb:

10deg. in Wisconsin!
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PatrickMC:

I have that Bomp 45. RIP Steve
  11:06am
ledzeppelinsucks:

mid range bummer
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 11:07am
graphic_taco:

That gumbo was a labor of love
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:07am
happymaan:

That napkin really brings it all together.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:07am
Listener Baby:

15 years later, eh Baby?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07am
hollow:

Honky Tonk
  11:07am
Frank In Queens:

I love that Disconnected LP.
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hollow:

This guy died in an accident too. It's accident hour?
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Moammar:

The Brits, selling back our own culture. I think the Beatles should have covered Wee Willie Walker!
  11:11am
ledzeppelinsucks:

Where is the born from accident to died from accident statistic? That is some ass kicking fodder.
  11:13am
morphe':

A good Stiv Bators read:
https://pleasekillme.com/how-i-lost-my-virginity-to-stiv-bators/

"When I was 14, my father accused me of being a whore and a drug addict. But I didn’t become a whore and a drug addict until I was 19. That’s when I lost my virginity to Stiv Bators, the singer of my favorite punk band, The Dead Boys....."
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steveo:

good morning. i'll never change.
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Kotzwinkled:

is the pattern an Elmo?!
  11:15am
Peter Horvath:

Hello from a Honda element on route one south
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steveo:

and now here's a song i don't play on the radio :D
  11:15am
ledzeppelinsucks:

The seafood is right here in Anacortes.
  11:15am
clarke:

it LOOKS like there's beans in that 'gumbo' - uh, gumbo doesn't have beans.
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Hackensack Slim:

Is it a Muffs Napkin?
  11:16am
Peter:

Ronnie Spector's hair?
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PatrickMC:

I want to like him but he's always a little . . . underwhelming
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Listener Baby:

Scooby Doo?
  11:16am
listener monica:

big fan of Chris Isaak over here.
  11:17am
clarke:

scooby doesn't DO anything.
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Kotzwinkled:

Thought those were the "Oh Yoko!" lyrics for a second.
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Listener Baby:

Worst deal we ever had.
  11:17am
clarke:

A to B.
  11:18am
clarke:

it's a terrible deal.
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Moammar:

I saw Chris Isaak once by accident at a festival and he was unexpectedly entertaining. His records underwhelm.
  11:19am
ledzeppelinsucks:

If the Bengals win the mayor of Cincinnati gets top Mexican food. If the Rams win the mayor of Inglewood has to eat that spaghetti chili slop.
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steveo:

i respect his hair a lot
  11:20am
clarke:

geaux bengals!!
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PatrickMC:

Is this a perfect record
  11:21am
Dennis Diken:

go, Mikey! hey gang!
  11:21am
clarke:

how do!!
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Listener Baby:

If one accidentally gets to see Robert Cray at some festival, do so. He is great.
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HyperDose:

Diken is diggin'! 🍹
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SecretSquirrel:

Hey Michael + everyone! Digging the upbeat vibe this morning.
  11:24am
rx scabin:

My new ringtone.
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Hughie Considine:

One could do a tidy set with phone sounds like "Hangin' on the Telephone" and the Pretenders' "The Phone Call."
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Moammar:

Holy cow, there's a French version of this by someone called Gillian Hills "Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut" or something. Which is the original?
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Hughie Considine:

@Moammar, yep, that's the one i know too.
  11:25am
bd:

My parents landline has no voicemail or call waiting. I always got a busy signal up until about two months ago when it changed into some strange electronic tone. I wonder what happened to the old busy signal and who canceled it?
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Kotzwinkled:

haha it was Guillermo del Toro! Nightmare Alley: the book and the original film are much better.
  11:26am
Frank In Queens:

The original Nightmare Alley is fantastic. Maybe one day I’ll get around to this new one.
  11:27am
rx scabin:

Demimonde?
  11:27am
clarke:

i have new respect for del toro. french dispatch.

agreed Frank!
  11:27am
ledzeppelinsucks:

Analog phone systems are now digital.
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graphic_taco:

No beans @clarke, that would be the sausage or the crawfish
  11:28am
clarke:

MovieTime Frank????
  11:28am
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Guillermo
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happymaan:

Michael, you have the recipe in your e-mail.
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PatrickMC:

And "Wrong Number" by Allen Toussaint
  11:28am
Fark:

Not Benicio del Toro!
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Listener Baby:

B-52’s
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Kotzwinkled:

check out the business card the author of Nightmare Alley left behind after he killed himself pbs.twimg.com...
  11:28am
clarke:

gotcha - sausage is gumbeaux approved!!!
  11:29am
egould310:

The Queers are out… well, duh!
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steveo:

the busy signal wikipedia pages has a few different recordings of busy signals, but no this new strange electronic tone; i want one
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steveo:

page*
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PatrickMC:

Lisa Loeb placemats are a thing?
  11:31am
gf2002:

Marty's Pennsylvania show in March will be at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, for classic film fans the Colonial is where The Blob was filmed and all the kids come running and screaming out of the theater after the blob takes it over. I saw Mike Nesmith there in 2013, great venue and very cool historical theater.
  11:31am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke sure! Finally finished Twin Peaks so we’re back to movies. Foreign Correspondent and A Woman Under The Influence were the choices this week. Also about half if the first season of What We Do In The Shadows, which is just ok. I might’ve bailed on it already if Matt Berry wasn’t in it.
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Squints:

Not are, probably. Were, maybe.
  11:32am
Frank In Queens:

@Baby, the napkin? I was thinking the same thing.
  11:32am
clarke:

cool, Frank - FC - so great!!!!
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Michael Shelley:

HERE is the GUMBO recipe: ibb.co...
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steveo:

i saw Tanglefoot at a cafe in Phoenixville. interesting town.
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Moammar:

Charlie and Ira Loudermilk of Henegar, Alabama. Favorite sons of Sand Mountain.
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PatrickMC:

I accidentally saw Del McCoury at a festival in the 90s and became a fan for life
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dday:

Are those Loeb swag napkins from when she & Dweezil did that Food Network show ?
  11:35am
clarke:

what is the full Twin Peaks viewing like? worth it, or did i cut it off at the right juncture? does it jump the shark??
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Moammar:

Suddenly in the mood for some snake-handling.
  11:36am
morphe':

Clarke - I was waiting to see you on Board the past few days .. After the NOLA cycling exchanges, by sheer coincidence I found a photo(print) from 2004. I had taken the ferry over to Algiers as was tooling around with no plan... I went online and found the almost exact same photo of what was Daigle's Grocery(538Bouny St)... Current occupant ket the classic exterior:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sazerac/9320533524

Now:
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9496925,-90.0529181,3a,37.5y,55.66h,88.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sorGA4-rXbCyE4Lk2Tyrmzw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
  11:37am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke, the new TP was ok. Just ok. Seemed to be lacking the light of the original series. Focused mostly on the dark and what lightness there was seemed either forced or merely fan service.
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steveo:

zero tanglefoot on wfmu playlist search; maybe olivia would let me do an hour on radio row haha
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Handy Haversack:

Calling a small-city hospital, you can def. get busy signals.
  11:40am
clarke:

ha ha Morphe' - i did a similar thing and laughed at that sign!! except i used the Jackson Street Ferry (RIP)
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PatrickMC:

Calling Cousin Brucie's contest line will get you the buzz buzz buzz
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Squints:

My weakness is reggae covers of 60s pop hits.
  11:40am
phat in lincoln:

Hi ya'll!
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Kotzwinkled:

Can't hear this without thinking of Bridget Fonda grooving in the VW bus in Jackie Brown.
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McGroovey:

Any song can be a reggae song.
  11:42am
phat in lincoln:

That Midnight Confessions cover was awesome.
  11:42am
clarke:

@Frank - i guess i won't be re-visiting TP
  11:43am
clarke:

i have good memories of it - and when i stopped, it felt 'right'.
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PatrickMC:

Talk Is Cheap Is an awesome record still.
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Kotzwinkled:

Waddy on the Zevon records and live bootlegs made me a fan. I went nuts when we saw Stevie Nicks at Mohegan Sun and she introduced Waddy as her guitarist.
  11:44am
clarke:

the past few weeks, i went back and watched ALL of Ozark seasons and then the (half) season that just got posted - it was a good trip, thru some bad territory.
  11:44am
ledzeppelinsucks:

Sax Expensive Winos in Oakland 1988. Keith Richards birthday party with hay bail keg party in the basement of Kaiser Arena.
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PatrickMC:

Waddy's hair overwhelms his riffs
  11:45am
Sean:

Waddyaknow! I can finally post again on my new computer.

I LOVE seeing Waddy play and like someone said, his appearances with Zevon are great!
  11:46am
clarke:

not quite patrick, but i know what you mean.
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Kotzwinkled:

Can hear Zevon exclaiming "WAAHHDDYY!" over his riffs cause I've listened to the live bootlegs so much haha.
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hollow:

Talk is Cheap is a great record!
  11:47am
gf2002:

The curse of session guitarists is that they get paid to be chameleons and adapt to whatever style or artist they're asked to play with. It's mostly the fans who dive deep into liner notes and get to know their styles and names that appreciate what they bring to a record. Waddy is awesome - Werewolves, Edge Of 17, Oh Sherry...you can hear it's him
  11:47am
clarke:

Byrds in three notes.
  11:47am
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Amazing Waddy clip here :https://vimeo.com/302604378
  11:49am
clarke:

The Letter any one??
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myron feld:

I first heard "Mr. Bus Driver" on "Michael Shelley Presents Music Is Freedom," your 20?? marathon premium. It's a fine song.
  11:53am
Frank In Queens:

The Big O!
  11:54am
clarke:

hey frank - how was your booze-free month and comeback???
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Moammar:

I *think* that's Otis himself on the acoustic guitar. Clearly Cropper adn the usual horns, but this is a demo, I believe.
  11:56am
Sean:

This sounds like Sedaka wrote it
  11:56am
Frank In Queens:

@clarke it was and still is fine. I don’t need to rush back. When I feel like a drink, I’ll have one.
  11:57am
clarke:

gotca - cool. i used to take about a month off each year i was doing the drinking.
  11:58am
clarke:

-h
  11:58am
clarke:

also, i guess you saw the new GbV tour dates and re-schedule on the east coast dates??
i am considering that Carrboro show in april, myself....
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Handy Haversack:

We went to a "battle of the bands" at a local venue last night. I don't want to name names, but the sound was I think the worst I have ever, ever heard at a ticketed event. And that includes high school musicals.
  12:00pm
clarke:

ha ha wow.
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Handy Haversack:

Some real Number Two work, if you know what I mean.
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steveo:

i could use a good high school musical about now
  12:01pm
P-90:

nobody these days would name a band “The Young Cougars”
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Squints:

I HAVE kept trying to sell the fellas on the band name Cougar Bait.
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Handy Haversack:

steveo, K8 ran the theater program at a HS on the LES for *years*. I saw a lot of HS musicals. And plays. She did two full productions per year. She did Brecht!
  12:02pm
Frank In Queens:

@clarke, i was considering the NC show as well. I’ll be down there at some point in April, but I have to decide between GBV and hockey.
  12:03pm
clarke:

wow - frank - we gotta try to hook this UP!! i was considering getting an amtrak pass. pandemic allowing.
  12:04pm
egould310:

Maybe he died from COVID-19? Ha ha ha. It’s funny when people die.
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myron feld:

Like most listeners, The Cramps introduced me to "Save It." But then I got Mel's version.
  12:07pm
bob dublon Plasticland:

luxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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steveo:

@HH sounds awesome!
  12:07pm
Frank In Queens:

@Handy, that bad, huh? That place runs the gambit in terms of sound, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it as bad as you describe.
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Oxidized:

I heard Pig's "Uh Oh" recently (probably on WFMU) and added it to my playlist where I tend bar.
  12:08pm
bob:

@egould ill laugh when u die lolol funny when u die
  12:09pm
Frank In Queens:

@clarke, the only issue is that the GBV show is pretty close to another trip I’m taking in May. My preference is to space stuff like that, especially these days.
  12:09pm
TimG:

Mary of the ShangriLas hairdo?
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myron feld:

"Fidgety" is another great Mel Robbins cut.
  12:10pm
bobobob:

@egould your a fkn joke
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Afternoon, Michael & all! My heat is out yet again. Let's keep the music hot.
  12:13pm
clarke:

i know what you mean, Frank. i'm still on the fence, too. but, it MIGHT happen. that's enuff rite now.
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Handy Haversack:

Ack, Greg, that's not cool!

I mean -- you know what I mean.
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Handy Haversack:

Frank, we were stunned.
  12:16pm
Frank In Queens:

@Handy, were the bands loud bands?
  12:17pm
clarke:

greg - hope you have a wood-stove?? or something. jeez.
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Squints:

We mean, besides on that night? 8^)
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Handy Haversack:

I don't even know if they meant to be, Frank! I don't think in particular, no. One was just bass, drums, and vocals. You could hear one of those three things. I did not make out a single lyric among three bands except from lip reading. None of the 20-somethings who kept trading off at the soundboard seemed concerned. Half the people in the room seemed to work there, so you'd think maybe one of them could have given it a shot.
  12:19pm
clarke:

my sis was born in the same room that jerry lee was born in.
  12:19pm
Frank In Queens:

Wow. I haven’t been there in ages (for obvious reasons) but I guess it’s really gone downhill.
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Michael Shelley:

Greg - you're welcome in studio A
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Claire from Montclair:

Literally! Check it out of the library!
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Michael Shelley:

You'll get the same copy I got..
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Claire from Montclair:

No doubt! I was there a couple days ago to take out A Wrinkle in Time and was surprised to see the shelves condensed !
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Handy Haversack:

There were other disturbing signs. I mean, this event was sponsored (sweet god, I loathe Six Point beers). But it seems like the whole place is maybe now sponsored? Six Point, Jim Beam, and Hornitos: looking at the bar you could be forgiven for thinking that you can get only those liquids in various combinations. (Though one of those combos is a beer and a shot where the shot adds $4!! FFS, that's not a deal, it's just a second damn drink!) So ... I don't know what it means or if it means anything at all, but I just noticed that it was more highly corporatized in presentation than I remembered.

Most interesting musical moment of the night was a King Baby graffito in the bath room.
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McGroovey:

Quitters! Rachacha!
  12:26pm
clarke:

ouch!
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hollow:

I've never been near a university!
  12:28pm
Frank In Queens:

@Handy quite honestly, I was always on the fence about that joint. It’s nice in the summer though, I guess.
  12:28pm
TCJimmy:

Quitters are king!
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Handy Haversack:

Ooo, this is a great 1-2-3 combo, MS! XTC!
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Moammar:

Curious lack of bongo feet today.
  12:29pm
clarke:

uh-oh.
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McGroovey:

My two favorite upstate NY band are The Quitters (Rochester) and The Flashcubes/Screen Test. Both play excellent power pop. Well, as far as I know, The Quitters are defunct, or at least inactive. The Flashcubes just put out a single written by Dwight Twilley last week.
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Roberto:

BTW it's Charles Nelson Reilly, not Riley. I may be the mayor of Simpleton, but that's one thing I know.
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prof.fuzz:

@Handy: Sounds like an evening for the record books...
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Handy Haversack:

I could have stayed home with records and books!

But it was good to at least theoretically hear live music again. No one can deny that we *saw* live music.
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CTEmpress:

Swooning over this Byrds You Showed Me. Hi everyone happy Saturday
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Frank Zaatar:

This is much better than the Turtles' version.
  12:40pm
clarke:

never heard this -- WoW~~~ sho'nuff!!
  12:41pm
bobdublon Plasticland:

im gonna start drinkin indat Hot Rod Lincoln Abe
  12:41pm
clarke:

this new courtney is chock full
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Handy Haversack:

One problem with Bandcamp Fridays is WFMU Saturdays. When am I supposed to listen to all this stuff?!
  12:44pm
clarke:

band-width issues.
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Squints:

The uddah five days.
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GeoSinPhilly:

Better than the Turtles version? Really?

Interesting to hear, but I don't think so.
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CTEmpress:

@Clarke too right! And this Bobby Rydell is #1 for realz
  12:48pm
clarke:

Squints - you still ain't made yer mind up about Toledo have ya??
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Frank Zaatar:

@Geo: I guess I never warmed up to the Turtles version to begin with. I want a little more jangle and a little less croon.
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Hubig Pie:

Can someone 'splain what the 'lost factor of a song is ? I no unnerstand
  12:50pm
clarke:

i love the Turtles version, but will way in SLIGHTLY on the side of Byrds - because gene is WAILIN' on it - insaaane!!
  12:51pm
clarke:

(full disclosure: i will side with the 'original' version most every time with only a few exceptions)
  12:52pm
clarke:

good tune - good album!
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GeoSinPhilly:

But Howard Kaylan can really croon.
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Squints:

That's a very FoW opening to that Dwight number. Thinking he mighta called the hotline.

And, clarke, absolutely, what a great, great record.
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Handy Haversack:

Hubig, I think it's comparing recent no. of spins (last year) to no. of spins at the song's height? Or at least to a past number, though I was cooking eggs à la Lucullus when MS was explaining it, so I might have missed some nuance.
  12:53pm
clarke:

no doubt geo!!
  12:54pm
clarke:

oh THAT Gerald!!!
  12:54pm
Oh my:

Thx Michael Shelly for all that and this.

Reading this old Mellow Mafia link and gotta say I would love it so much if you could get David Lindley in for an interview sometime.

Peace out kids. Great read


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-section-knights-of-soft-rock-233728/
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Frank Zaatar:

@Clarke: If the "original" came out 25 years after the "cover" is it still the original? @Geo: For sure. But sometimes you want the jangle.
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Hubig Pie:

Ahh, thanks Handy, but now you gotsta 'splain eggs a la Lucullus
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HyperDose:

This sounds like a slowed down Masked Intruders song <3
  12:56pm
clarke:

release date does not necessarily denote a thing.
  12:56pm
morphe':

Maybe now I can leave the house .. Unless I also get trapped in Rxville???
Thanks Mikey and all !!!
  12:57pm
egould310:

Thanks for the #1 hits MS. Listen at ya’ next week.
  12:57pm
clarke:

great photos Morphe!
  12:57pm
Frank In Queens:

Thanks for making the word day pass quickly, Michael. Great show!
  12:58pm
clarke:

great great show (as par usuale) see some'o'you knuckleheads later.
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Moammar:

Lou: Sort of a jerk
  12:59pm
clarke:

which is about 99& percent of ya.
  12:59pm
Oh my:

Lou is doing his Brando impersonation.

Johnny in the Wild Bunch
  12:59pm
yippie:

i met lou and laurie in a tribeca art gallery. lou had dutch orange socks on and his palm felt like old thin leather
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Michael!

Hubig: Lucullus dines with Lucullus. So eggs made in a way K8 would never eat them since I was cooking for one. Lightly fried on cheesy toast with sauteed spinach, shallot, jalapeno (with a little veg. Worcestershire sauce) and a fake hot dog.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Jesus, anybody would be a jerk with these insipid questions.
  1:00pm
yippie:

but it was totally aewsome
  1:52pm
phat in lincoln:

New favorite lyric: "Bury me upside down, I can't face-up to my past."
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Barefoot Jimmy G:

www.nytimes.com...
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