WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from August 20, 2022

Listener comments!
	9:40am Listener Baby: A jangly, chimey, good morning to you all. Baby, hope all is perfectly in tune with you. Looking forward to this.
	10:58am HyperDose: The early Baby gets the hits!
	10:59am Squints: ok then. heyHEYhey.
	11:00am Squints: Hypothermia? Dude, that's cold.
	11:01am clarke: you sound pretty good for a drowned man.
	11:01am Baja Joe: Good morning Michael!
	11:01am Handy Haversack: Michael and the Shellegamers! Rickenbacker bass used to great effect by Claudia Gonzalez of Baby Shakes backing up Dion Lunadon at TV Eye last night.
	11:01am Dennis: Well,there’s a perfect opening
	11:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: F#maj6th7th9th11th24th...
	11:01am clarke: HEY NOWWWWWW (in Ric-O-Sound)
	11:01am Sonny Rickles: Starting off with my all time favorite #1 hit!
	11:01am DanFA: Are we gonna get some Fugazi?
	11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& the 60s hurtled out of the starting gate...
	11:03am clarke: and Handy reminds me that Baby Lemonade had a few ric's in their guitar rack
	11:03am DanFA: POW POW POW POW
	11:04am P-90: Raise your hand if you know instantly what the “frying pan” and the “Fireglo” are. You’re my people.
	11:04am phat in lincoln: Hey there. Keith Moon's snare just woke me the eff up. Holy hell.
	11:04am clarke: i have the ric in the middle in the posted photo
	11:05am KWilde: Hey Michael! Good Morning all!
	11:06am clarke: townshend could rock, mate.
	11:06am Various Julius: Mornin'
	11:06am P-90: Deke!
	11:07am HyperDose: Redheads!
	11:08am phat in lincoln: I've never been a fan of how Rick basses play. But I've always wanted to. I'm still a Fender guy.
	11:08am Michael in Montclair: Good Morning Mr. Shelley and everyone!
	11:08am phat in lincoln: They're great instruments! They just don't fit me.
	11:09am Moammar: "Rubber Biscuit" is the new national anthem.
	11:10am Doug in MP: I'm primarily a bass player but never played a Rick. I have a pretty fancy Rick 6 string though
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Ivy League - John Carter band backing vocals on 'I Can't Explain' (...not to be confused with The Iveys who would be Badfinger. Cause I do.) Would posit that 'I Can't Explain' is thee Single that moves Rawk Drumming beyond the Ringo era (Ringo Rules - you know what I mean...)
	11:11am Handy Haversack: K8 and Frank in Queens were discussing the relative merits of Rick basses vs. Fenders. As a total useless duffer, my main feeling was, "Well, it sure sounded good to me!"
	11:12am Baja Joe: Rubber Biscuit ought to be sent to space in a capsule as a warning... IMHO
	11:12am drr: Thanks to the salubrious influnce of the Blues Brothers, at least one Tennessee neighborhood in the mid-70s was full of kids asking each other: "What do you want for nothing? A RUBBER BISCUIT?"
	11:12am P-90: I’m mainly a guitar guy, so l’ve only ever had one bass. A 1969 Rick 4001S. Gotta play with big roundwound strings and a pick.
	11:13am clarke: we were little boys
	11:13am Handy Haversack: Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Chronic. Town.
	11:13am SeanG: Nice!
	11:14am Baja Joe: Early R.E.M.- nice.
	11:14am P-90: I’ve always thought that the Fender-style electric bass and the Rick bass are almost like two different instruments…
	11:14am Squints: Just the thing to jangle one nerves the right way.
	11:14am Listener Baby: What a lyricist!
	11:14am phat in lincoln: I wondered if we'd hear any REM.
	11:15am Joe B: good morning Michael and everyone
	11:15am clarke: hello JoeB!!
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Would guess that Rick Basses have a more clear distinct trebly tone (interesting as Fender Gittars are known for TrebleTone) - & faster action for playing ?? Whereas Fender P(recision)-Basses are a little throatier... Both common workhorses... I never know for sure til I get something n my hands. & hasn't happened that much with Basses ...tho I find playing Bass great fun !!
	11:15am Handy Haversack: Morning, Joe B!
	11:16am Joe B: Handy did you make it to TV Eye last night?
	11:16am pgalub: Good morning all. The Buck strums here.
	11:17am Franco Twinkie: Guitar worship is like polio - it scars you for life.
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& with Electric instruments much depends on pickup & tone settings & amps & so on. Anyhow. When I play Bass - I like to roll some Tone off ...kinda Feel it a little more than Hear it ??...
	11:18am clarke: hey JoeB: was wondering if you might agree w/me that the new Johnny Marr album is slightly disappointing. it's not bad, but, he did not knock it out of the park either.
	11:18am P-90: @Franco: guilty
	11:18am Handy Haversack: Definitely, Joe! WFMU shirt worn proudly since you gotta dance with the one what brung ya. Sweet Knives and Dion Lunadon both had blisteringly good sets. Got to see a set of fantastic luminaries, too! Frank in Queens and Christina! LesleyK! Terre T!
	11:19am Michael in Montclair: When I hear the intro to 1,000,000, I think of the intro to Moral Kiosk off of Murmur. It has such a similar feel and key.
	11:19am Listener John from NJ: Hello to our #1 Hit DJ, and to all you listeners!
	11:19am Listener Baby: #1'!!!!!!
	11:19am clarke: my all-time #1 #1
	11:19am Juke Joint Jonny: Great pick, unnamed listener
	11:19am Moammar: Enter the bongo.
	11:19am Handy Haversack: Michael, would you say it's so much more attractive ... inside the moral kiosk? Bongo feet!
	11:20am clarke: 8/10
	11:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pretty sure this 45 Nugget was in the house in my toddlerhood. Damn ! & the band were mere kids too pretty sure...
	11:20am Various Julius: My Rick bass tone is all treble and subterranean bass but a big gap in the midrange. Sometimes it fits the mix, other times not. I wish I could predict when it works.
	11:21am Moammar: Unexpected Rickenbacker player: Gatemouth Brown, who I think has a 360 in YouTube clips of that "!!! Beat" show in Nashville, where he was band director.
	11:22am Joe B: @handy - cool! wish I could have made it
	11:23am morphe' y Simon: Must away for a bit.. if not back.. Thanks Mikey and all = LIFE!!!!!
	11:23am P-90: I’d love to see the list of listener suggestions for tracks with Rick sounds. It’s a wide category. I assume someone suggested Eight Miles High for the 12-string lead tone, and of course “With a Little Help from My Friends” and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” as classic Paul bass examples.
	11:23am clarke: well, Gatemouth Brown used a Gibson 335 most everytime i saw him - but, this was in later years.
	11:23am nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds
	11:24am Don Gorden: Yo Mike !, Little Girl is sung by Frost Gump Bahahaha
	11:24am prof.fuzz: morning, y'all.
	11:25am Michael Shelley: Moammar: YEAH!
	11:25am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZ
	11:25am Moammar: @clarke I think both times I saw him (late 80s, early 90s) he had a Firebird.
	11:25am Dennis: Great Allen T track! What a master
	11:25am Handy Haversack: prof.fuzz!
	11:26am Joe B: in my top 5 worst singers of all time
	11:26am egould: So goddamn jangly. The pinnacle of jangle v
	11:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Story of course is Beatles complained that Motown in the USA was getting all this mad Bass into their records & they were frustrated. Starting 1966 w/ the Paperback Writer / Rain single - they used a Bass Amp speaker as a microphone (mics & speakers are the same idea in reverse...) to try & get more. Then in '67 with Pepper Paul began plugging his Bass straight into the board - & recording that later with the privilege of really working out his parts. His use of Rick Basses went right along with this ...correct this as necessary...
	11:27am Listener Baby: Rock solid rhythm section
	11:27am Andres: Oh yes!!
	11:27am clarke: agreed JoeB - but, i'll put him at the top for destroying a great bed of music, every time.
	11:27am Michael in Montclair: @Handy, perhaps. It might be even more attractive if I could live a million years inside the moral kiosk
	11:28am clarke: but, Marr was tricky, because he got a lot of jangle from a telecaster, too.
	11:28am jmd: @Baby: one of the best and underrated for sure.
	11:28am Joe B: is Marr known for rickenbacker? would guess fender jaguar or telecaster
	11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Nowhere Man' is Stratocasters ! Still surprised by this...
	11:29am P-90: Then there are outliers like Wendy Melvoin, who gigged and recorded a lot with Rickenbackers, but they didn’t SOUND like Ricks the way she played them…
	11:29am clarke: true, Joe - but this right here is a ric
	11:29am Frank In Queens: He-ey Now!
	11:29am prof.fuzz: clarkEEEEEEEE. handY. joeB. dRR.
	11:29am Handy Haversack: Yeah, I loathe him. Pretty interesting essay on revisiting and regretting one's early Smiths fandom: yalereview.org...
	11:29am JimB: The last thing I am is a pop music historian, so this is probably a naive question. To my addled boomer schlub memory, when the Byrds had a hit with Turn, Turn. Turn, that established the Rickenbacker 12-string sound as a thing. What do the more knowledgeable people think?
	11:30am clarke: you slackin' Frank!!
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Peter Buck has written about a sort of transatlantic parallelism felt twixt REM & Smiths...
	11:31am prof.fuzz: Marr was mostly a jag guy... Ultimate Rick bass playing = Motorhead!
	11:31am clarke: @JimB - well, the main reason that roger had a ric is because of the Beatles.
	11:31am phat in lincoln: Geddy Lee! Lol.
	11:31am DanFA: Kim Gordon played a Rickenbacker bass. As did Cliff Burton.
	11:31am Ken From Hyde Park: Lots of bass topics to explore, including but not limited to: the fretless bass, bass bandleaders (e.g., Primus), where do you get a bass keytar, Flea playing the national anthem.
	11:31am phat in lincoln: @prof.fuzz Lemmy! Yes!
	11:31am Andres: Another, oh yes!!
	11:32am Squints: JimB: The ealier single, Mr Tambourine Man. McGuinn was inspired by seeing George play a Rick in A Hard Day's Night.
	11:32am b0b0b0b plasticland: @@@what about Ventures 12 sting Mosrite ??
	11:32am anti echo man: Bruce fox ton of the Jam used a Ric bass
	11:32am Squints: What clarke said.
	11:32am clarke: this was mostly discussed last week.
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: JimB - yeah 'Tambourine Man' right @ their beginning really. BYrdS of course totally inspired by 'Hard Day's Night'. That album is the 1st & only with nothing but Lennon-McCartney compositions. But ! George Harrison brings the 12-String Rick on it - & that's the root of it, really.
	11:32am Frank In Queens: @clarke, been listening, but we're entertaining again this weekend, so I didn't want to be rude to our guests by being on the comments board.
	11:33am Handy Haversack: Get to the "working overtime" part!
	11:33am SeanG: geddy lee played a ric
	11:33am P-90: This BTO is a great not-so-obvious choice
	11:33am jmd: Are we gonna get some prog bassists?
	11:33am Squints: Heh. I was drinking in Wellfleet last week.
	11:33am Various Julius: Exit Stage Left by Rush has some of the most aggressive Rickenbacker bass tone I've heard. Chris Squire isolated bass tracks sound like a knife fight in a grand piano.
	11:33am HyperDose: What a jam
	11:33am Listener Baby: Great song! Great choice, but me thinks the are double tracked Strats with capos. I could be wrong, but it’s my guess. Again great song. Bass is 100% Rick.
	11:33am Squints: How can this be on the test? Wasn't that LAST semester?
	11:33am Pseu Braun: Oh yeah!
	11:33am eastvanhalen: Ohhhhhh CanCon, how you have delightfully warped my life
	11:33am Alworthyb: Mike Shelly, what is the address for my membership card?
	11:33am clarke: ha ha, Frank!! just gettin' u back. hope all's well.
	11:34am phat in lincoln: @P-90 yes, I had no idea it was a Ric. Seems kind of obvious now, though.
	11:34am Christina Ginger: Good morning, all!
	11:34am frank Migliorelli (anti echo man?): Going underground by the jam. Or ma in a corner shop covers guitar and bass. Along wit the bitterest pill
	11:34am SeanG: pseu braun in the house!
	11:34am Michael Shelley: AL - info here michaelshelley.net...
	11:34am phat in lincoln: @Pseu Braun has entered the chat!
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Various Julius @ 11:20 - gotcha !
	11:35am b0b0b0b0b: @@ yeah Handy I loath him too !!! I agree. love Marr tho
	11:35am Sonny Rickles: OMG
	11:35am Christina Ginger: Clarke, I made brioche French toast for FIQ and guests with JUSTegg and the Trader Joe’s new vegan brioche loaf. It was great!
	11:35am clarke: @Squints - how wuz yer time in the 'fleet??
	11:35am Frank In Queens: WOW! I am shocked! SHOCKED!
	11:35am phat in lincoln: Eff. Yeah.
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: frankM - good one !
	11:35am HyperDose: Trick question, Lemmy is god!
	11:35am Christina Ginger: I was hoping for Motörhead!
	11:36am SeanG: hell yeah
	11:36am iiibeat: I just left a bouquet of flowers out the front door . . Please grab them before someone else does for their ailing grandmother!! Leave them for Scott?
	11:36am eastvanhalen: Pseuuuuuuuuuu!
	11:36am gf2002: There can't be a Rickenbacker bass playlist without including Lemmy
	11:36am David Watts: wake up everybody!!!!
	11:36am Andres: Blowing the speakers.
	11:36am P-90: @JimB: “Turn Turn Turn” absolutely broke out the “McGuinn electric folk Rickenbacker 12-string jangle sound”
	11:36am Handy Haversack: And, as we learned last night, Christina and Frank: Baby Shakes also uses a Rickenbacker bass. Nice, iiibeat!
	11:36am Juke Joint Jonny: The severity of my tinnitus is down to these boys.
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lemmy specifically noted he was a Bass Gittarist - rather than a Bassist. Which seems relevant.
	11:36am clarke: @Christina - wow, and i hain''t even had breakfast yit.
	11:36am Squints: It was awesome, thanks, clarke. Cahoon Hollow was rockin'. No shark alerts like last year. ("Get outtah tha watah, you hahdons.") Nobody got arrested. So we got that going for us.
	11:36am SeanG: turning this way up
	11:37am phat in lincoln: I'll tell you what, the guitar parts in Ace of Spades are about as fun to play as it gets.
	11:37am SecretSquirrel: Good morning! Probably too obvious to mention, but I hope there’s some CCR on your playlist. John Fogerty famously played a ‘69 Rickenbacker 325 six-string (and got a searing lead sound from it).
	11:37am clarke: @Squints - did you happen to see Nada Surf show????? if so: jealous!
	11:37am frank Migliorelli (anti echo man?): And the opening track from my second record is all ric. 12 string ric. https://dirtnappers.bandcamp.com/album/bass-drums-guitars-and-organs Figured I’d plug it.
	11:37am phat in lincoln: My God, this rocks.
	11:38am DanFA: en.wikipedia.org...
	11:38am Squints: Got no tinnitus despite my history of playing my rekkids way too loud. But in crowded talky bars I lose a lot of high frequencies and frequently lipread somewhat.
	11:38am Various Julius: Oh yes.
	11:38am gf2002: One of the first Rickenbacker endorsers was Ricky Nelson, seen on TV playing them with James Burton after the endorsement deal. But hands down, no contest...The Beatles put Ricks on the map for everyone, first the guitars then bass. Credit Carl Wilson a bit too, he was playing a Ricky 12 soon after The Beatles, before McGuinn
	11:38am eastvanhalen: Oh I love this so much
	11:38am phat in lincoln: Holy hell, this set.
	11:38am Doug in MP: I get a lot of staccato sounds rendering as static in my ears these days
	11:38am clarke: yessss1
	11:38am Juke Joint Jonny: Holy shit, Michael. Stop with my personal #1s
	11:38am pgalub: Happy 70th to Record Huw Gower today!
	11:39am Christina Ginger: Clarke, I was on it today, hahahaa. Powered by caffeine!
	11:39am clarke: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
	11:39am iiibeat: Definitely a sunflower in there!! Gonna check Word now before heading for Eastern Shore MD . . Thank you Handy.
	11:39am clarke: number one number one number one...
	11:40am Cooh John: 3 great tracks so far. This song is on my Seeburg jukebox.
	11:40am gf2002: Fogerty's playing on that Rick 325 at Woodstock was on FIRE! Listen to CCR's I Put A Spell On You from Woodstock, it's amazing. Rickenbacker with a Bigsby vibrato
	11:40am Handy Haversack: Christina, can one make omelet-type things with JUSTEgg pretty easily? Enjoy it, iiibeat.
	11:40am Joe B: can't trust wikipedia lists. graham nash?
	11:40am P-90: Also if you really want to hear what a Rick bass can do in the right hands, and how completely different from a Fender bass a bass can sound, just check out “Roundabout.”
	11:40am Squints: clarke, no. Did they play the 'Comber? I really need to do more homework. Bikes and beers tour. I drive the beer and am pretty much den mother. Nothing like making the "responsible" one the guy who consistently blows the highest on the Alcohawk down on the beach. EArly Nada Surf did not much for me, really. But their records the last ten years have been really great.
	11:40am clarke: @Christina - killin' it!!
	11:40am phat in lincoln: @P-90 yep. Squire had the definitive Ric sound.
	11:41am Jimmy Wipper: This is a #1 Show of #1 Hits!!!
	11:41am Frank In Queens: Sadly, me and Rick basses don't really jive.
	11:41am clarke: Wippaaaahh
	11:41am Listener Baby: @GF. 100% agree!
	11:41am phat in lincoln: Goddamn I love rock n roll.
	11:41am Jimmy Wipper: Love my Rick 1997 model, btw.
	11:42am gf2002: Forgot to mention Marty Willson-Piper from The Church on the lists last week: He got some great Rickenbacker tones on those Church records
	11:42am clarke: @Squints - yes, Nada Surf is one of the only shows that would be of interest this summer (except i think the Figgs played the same week)
	11:42am egould: Here’s my Rickenbacker. https://twitter.com/egould310/status/1561013956021342210?s=21&t=jpnf9dT4quzbpKEljTQzVg
	11:42am Jimmy Wipper: Not the year 1997, model #.
	11:43am Various Julius: I just dragged my 4003 out of the basement
	11:43am Squints: I did see the Figgs were playing there but I don't think I was our weekend.
	11:43am Frank In Queens: @Handy, you can use Just Egg to make scramble and omelettes, and I've heard very good things about using it in that fashion, but I don't think it's something we'll ever do. We're too old school so we'll stick to our tofu scramble.
	11:43am Squints: I saw the Figgs playing with Graham Parker in 2005 at the Middle East downstairs. That was fun.
	11:44am gf2002: YES! One of my all-time number ones, The Outsiders. And The Smithereens did a TERRIFIC version of this one too. I'm in paradise right now listening to these tracks.
	11:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: OK ! Time is once & for all now : en.wikipedia.org... - Rick is a Santa Ana, CA company - which makes sense for the Hawaiian steel connection. They are NOT German (this is about my mental delusions...) - rather, co-founder Adolph Rickenbacher was born in Switzerland & moved to LA. Thot perhaps TheBeatles picked up on Ricks in the days apprenticing in Hamburg cause they were German. ...So ...what is the story of how TheBeatles encountered them...
	11:44am Handy Haversack: Gotcha, Frank. Send that recipe along some time! Great to see you two last night.
	11:44am SecretSquirrel: You seddit, gf2002!!
	11:44am Christina Ginger: Handy, yes, you can. We however, are not actually fans of eggs as eggs, however real or fake they might be, so I’ve never tried it. I really only use JUST for baking when an egg is a must (custard pie, quiche, al).
	11:45am Squints: The fills in this are so neat.
	11:45am Frank In Queens: @Handy, yeah same here. Hoping I'll run into K8 a little later today at Mama Tried. Hey what's the name of that Mexican joint near by that everyone talks about?
	11:45am StringOFperils: I too love this Outsiders single. A late-night radio staple in the mid 60s,this and The Buckinghams Kind of a Drag.
	11:46am clarke: cool Squints! hope you got some onion rings at PJ's!!! they are another #1
	11:46am P-90: McCartney, Squire, and Entwistle got their hands on the very first Rick basses imported into England from California (at a time when American instruments were still hard to find in England.) Those three were the first generation of big-time Rick bass players.
	11:46am Moammar: The Plimsouls cover of "Time Won't Let Me" is incandescent. No Rickenbackers involved however, I think.
	11:47am Joe B: George Harrison did not hack a Rick in Germany. acquired on the first US visit in Feb 1964
	11:47am Listener Baby: Great choice
	11:47am Joe B: "have"
	11:47am clarke: munoz pretty much stuck to his Strat
	11:47am clarke: hack!
	11:48am gf2002: @Revolution Rabbit: It was Toots Thielemans' endorsement of Rickenbacker that was the key. That 325 John ended up with was part of a trade show display when Toots was an endorser (one of the first), and somehow that guitar got to Germany. There is a photo of that same guitar in the trade show display, and when Lennon got it he endlessly modified and changed it around. I think John Hall from Rickenbacker showed up at the NYC hotel when the Beatles did Sullivan and gave George the new 12-string hoping for an endorsement after seeing Lennon playing that 325 which he had painted by that time.
	11:48am egould: “So ...what is the story of how TheBeatles encountered them...” I think Rickenbacker sent the Beatles a couple of guitars, unsolicited. The guys liked the guitars.
	11:48am Joe B: The guitar was given to him by Francis C. Hall, owner and president of the California-based Rickenbacker company, which is now celebrating its 85th anniversary.Hall spoke to Brian Epstein before the Beatles arrived in the U.S. and arranged a meeting with the group. On February 8 at the Savoy Hilton in New York City, he showed the band several different models. Lennon tried out the 360/12 but thought it would be better for Harrison, who was sick in bed at the Plaza Hotel. When Harrison finally got to see it, he loved it immediately.
	11:48am StringOFperils: Iggy's cover of Time Won't Let Me is fun too...on Party
	11:49am Joe B: www.guitarworld.com...
	11:49am Listener Baby: I love Taxman!
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes - company gifted George the 12-String in the USA. But John had his Rick by the time they were Recording @ all - & earlier... Just happened I guess !
	11:50am gf2002: That's right, yes my bad: Hall originally gave the 12-string to Lennon who passed it off to George instead. Thanks for the info!
	11:50am Moammar: @Listener Baby: So did Paul Weller, apparently.
	11:51am StringOFperils: I don't know how Weller got so much air with that Rickenbacker strapped on, not to be outdone by his model, Pete
	11:52am gf2002: Lennon was a fan of Toots Thielemans' harmonica playing and saw the brand through him, I believe. Then when he saw the 325, and tried it, the smaller size fit his playing style perfectly and he got it. But it's odd that Toots Thielemans of all artists was a part of how Lennon got that 325
	11:53am Joe B: @RR63 - oh yeah, was referring just to the 12 string. you are correct.
	11:54am egould: @Moammar The Plimsouls cover of "Time Won't Let Me" certainly had a Rickenbacker involved.
	11:54am clarke: this take makes me realize that crosby's gretsch was important to this tune. plink plink.
	11:54am Squints: This being the instrumental bed, except for McGuinn, are there any other actual Byrds on this cut?
	11:54am Handy Haversack: Frank, not sure -- Joe B. might know? There are a couple of places on Fifth Ave., though. Also, try the potato salad at MT. Pretty sure it's vegan. And definitely good!
	11:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx !! John loved playing harp ...so that led to the Rick ! Tho John famously kinda ProRawk & AntiJazz, so to speak... Yes! John liked the slightly undersized aspect of it - as he was such an intense Chord Rhythm player - that made it faster & easier ...Johnny Ramones use a Rick now & then as well we might note.
	11:55am clarke: @egould - that was a strat (as mentioned above)
	11:55am Michael Shelley: Definitely Hal Blaine on drums (you can hear him count off). Word is that Byrds drummer cried.
	11:55am gf2002: The Halls at Rickenbacker saw Lennon playing his original painted 325 in photos and film clips before they appeared on Sullivan, saw an opportunity to make a lot of money, and that's how they ended up in the hotel room gifting the band those guitars in Feb '64.
	11:55am Franco Twinkie: This is it! Lacking the resources on ability to obtain a Rick, I settled for a pair of Granny glasses.
	11:56am clarke: Michael Clarke was VERY upset - and rightly so: he was a great drummer!
	11:56am gf2002: No Byrds except McGuinn on that record. Wrecking Crew players hired by Terry Melcher playing the tracks, he was going for a Beach Boys "Don't Worry Baby" groove. The rest is history!
	11:56am Squints: Sizewise, is there a current analog to the 325? (proTip: Start playing guitar before you're 58 going on 59. The struggle is real.)
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Crosby harmonizes I think...
	11:57am StringOFperils: I've been a beginner guitarist for decades
	11:57am clarke: the 325 has been re-issued, Squints.
	11:58am clarke: they's VERY expensive!
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Is 325 3/4 Scale ? That small ?
	11:59am P-90: See: “lap steel” guitars were the first commonly available “electric guitars”…
	11:59am Squints: Yikes! Your not wrong, clarke.
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - held a Rick Gittar twice in life. They are that uncommon on the ground... One was Johnny Ramones' - owned then by one of TheJabbers (early G.G. Allin band here NewHampshuh)...
	11:59am gf2002: Yes the 325 is very small! Roughly 3/4 size and scale. Tiny frets. Almost too small
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not the bridge makes Twang ?? Like a Sitar ? :)
	12:00pm clarke: i would suggest a Fender Duo-Sonic, but they have been priced way out of reach, now, as well.
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I guess couldn't be...
	12:01pm andy fuchs: The fact the Rickenbacker amps had that nasty habit of burning up may have affected their amp legacy being so limited....
	12:02pm gf2002: I always wanted a 325 because of Lennon. When I had just turned 18 I walked into a music store that had a Lennon model 325. I was blown away until I picked it up to play it. Very, very tight fit in the frets, much smaller than it looks in the photos of John (and John Fogerty) playing them. I no longer wanted one because it was too small. Decades later I finally got a 330, turquoise color. Awesome guitar.
	12:02pm Michael Shelley: ASTRO GTR. only $795 - CHEAP!: reverb.com...
	12:03pm Michael Shelley: Andy - lol
	12:03pm Doug in MP: The Rick 381 has super tight spacing too. Always a sloppy play but fun in its own way
	12:03pm P-90: @RevRab: the “ease” of playing is one thing with the short-scale guitar, but it sounds slightly different too, chords in rhythm playing voice differently than they would with the conventional scale. That’s something you can listen for in the early John tracks.
	12:03pm Squints: Yeah, frets up the neck are tight on 3/4 necks. (I have a couple around for the grandkids when they visit.) I have trouble doing bar or power chords on the frets of the wide end of the neck. Small hands, short fingers (especially for a former goalkeeper) with the limberness of a now nearly 63-year-old. Not so much the chords as reaching for the fourth fret up from the barre on the rhythm.
	12:03pm clarke: my 360's neck is rahhthah thin, as well.
	12:04pm Squints: Several dozen amps spontaneously combust each year.
	12:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...perhaps Rick Gittars are not the most robust instrument in terms of lasting in one piece (?)...
	12:05pm clarke: they are pretty durable, Rev.
	12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: P-90 - fascinating ...string tensions & things ? clarke - corrected, Thx.
	12:06pm Squints: Thanks for the rec on the Astro, Michael. Will check out that and the DuoSonic. Unlike my car, I can't move out of my house if necessary and live in a guitar.
	12:07pm Handy Haversack: Squints -- unless ... !
	12:07pm karlward: Man those Rickenbacker basses sound damn fine.
	12:07pm clarke: duo-sonics are as pricey as ric's these days.
	12:08pm Squints: rrn63: Heh. There was my guitar, electric junk.
	12:08pm P-90: Ricks are mostly “neck through” instruments built mainly from study hard maple, so they tend to be very durable. The basses are almost indestructible.
	12:08pm gf2002: Two key songs where you can hear Lennon's 325 and how the small scale affected the tone: This Boy for the rhythm chord work, and You Can't Do That for Lennon's lead. Those are the pure Rickenbacker tone and further affected by the small scale.
	12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh the Basses durable - no doubt .
	12:09pm P-90: “Jetglo” is the Rick name for their glossy black color, “Fireglo” is the burst finish.
	12:09pm clarke: nice stuff, Shelley!!
	12:10pm Listener Baby: Great job, Baby. Nobody better than you at that.
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So Ricks generally not bolt-on necks ? That was probly ahead of the curve...
	12:10pm Bob: Tuning in late to a Gene Clark masterwork. Not bad.
	12:11pm rw: That blue bass with the white trim looks damn sharp to me.
	12:11pm phat in lincoln: @Revolution Rabbit Nov63 that was my problem with them.
	12:11pm clarke: hello bob.
	12:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Crosby speaks in awe of McGuinn evoking Coltrane's sax keys opening & closing. Immense track.
	12:12pm Squints: 1. Build guitar with bolt-on neck. 2. Call it the Karloff. 3. $$$$$!
	12:12pm Franco Twinkie: The first take of this song recorded by Dave Hassinger at RCA has a much angrier sound. Weirdly preferable to me.
	12:12pm karlward: The Rick bass had a long standing design flaw in the bridge, it warps and tuning stability is subpar. Hipshot sells a replacement, I bought one for a bandmate recently. I think 2020 models finally fixed that flaw.
	12:12pm phat in lincoln: Oops, that was supposed to be someone else about the size of Ricks. Too small for me.
	12:13pm andy fuchs: Compressed twice !!
	12:13pm gf2002: All Gibson solidbody electrics were neck-thru-body in the 50's and 60's
	12:13pm Joe B: Minus 5 have a song called Blue Rickenbacker
	12:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: gf2002: Appreciate all the Data ! Gibson tones too...
	12:14pm HyperDose: Pretty gnarly axe, Franco
	12:15pm PB: Can never get too much of The Byrds.
	12:15pm Bob: Flamin' Groovies made that Rick bass look the coolest. But they just looked cool in every way anyhoo. Hey Clarke!
	12:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sane people did not Drum like this in 1965.
	12:15pm P-90: @gf2002: John’s ever-so-slightly Latin flavored rhythm part on “I’m Happy Just to Dance with You” is critical too, if you want to understand the tonality of the short-scale 325 guitar. I would also cite it as an all-important example of classic Rick “jangle”, even though it’s not the 12-string kind.
	12:15pm Dennis: Great interview, Michael - definitely going on somebody’s Christmas list 😉
	12:16pm gf2002: Yes! Those compressors were McGuinn's secret weapon for that tone, no surprise that the McGuinn model Rickenbacker has an on-board compressor! I think they ran McGuinn's Rick through a chain of either two or was it even 3 old LA-2A's to get that jangle
	12:16pm clarke: bob - what's happnin' near campus??
	12:16pm egould: High Numbers number one hitmakers.
	12:17pm clarke: what give you the right to take this tonality, here??
	12:17pm gf2002: @P-90 Yes, absolutely! That is an amazing rhythm part and tone, thanks for mentioning that! Pure Rickenbacker tone on display
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The difference ShowBiz money & Know How made in Studios in LosAngeles was a thing...
	12:18pm Dennis: Clarence!!
	12:18pm clarke: still waiting... still waiting...
	12:18pm Squints: Who's singing harmony on this? This is real nice.
	12:18pm Bob: Student move-in clogging up the works. WCBN changing up their schedule. Beautiful if slightly warm day.
	12:19pm egould: Compression / sustain are key to jangle.
	12:19pm clarke: how is that ann arbor radio station?? it wasn't that great when i was there.
	12:19pm Handy Haversack: A friend of mine had a late-night show on WCBN, late nineties.
	12:20pm clarke: that is around the time i was around - the big album at that station was Beck's Vultures album
	12:21pm Bob: WCBN? It's more uneven than WFMU but it's their longtime sister station. It's more student oriented than old townie hipster, thus hit and miss. But it's often brilliant.
	12:21pm Dennis: Where’d that Clarence/Ry track hail from??
	12:21pm Mike Sin: Very much enjoying the show today -- tunes and info!
	12:21pm P-90: @gf2002: that built-in circuit board in the McGuinn “Signature” model 12-strings emulated the sound of two compression pedals chained together. I’ve played one or two, and sure enough if you turn the compressor way up, you get that “Eight Miles High” clean sustain lead tone, then you turn it down and it gets you right into that jangly McGuinn rhythm territory.
	12:21pm clarke: as with all college radio - depends on the dj
	12:21pm Listener Baby: A show of hands whether Baby should keep going with Rickys?
	12:22pm drr: Oakland + Stockholm = Oaklaholma?
	12:22pm clarke: lime rickeys!!
	12:22pm Squints: now i'm thirsty.
	12:23pm clarke: me, too!! damn.
	12:23pm Squints: see what you did?
	12:24pm clarke: i've done it, again.
	12:24pm Listener Baby: How did I not think of this one? Sheesh!
	12:24pm SeanG: XTC!!
	12:25pm Bob: ALL the high-hat!
	12:25pm P-90: @Baby: maybe once you go Ricky you never go back
	12:26pm Listener Baby: Agree P90. Keep going Baby!,
	12:26pm Bob: hi hat
	12:26pm clarke: yer givin' me the hi-hat!!
	12:27pm David Watts: great song
	12:27pm gf2002: @P-90 Very cool feature! I've told people who were looking to buy any 12-string electric to buy a compressor too, or two compressors! That's the sound everyone wants to hear. I've never played the McGuinn signature model, but I need to...
	12:27pm Bob: Clear as mud
	12:27pm HyperDose: First heard this in the movie Rolling Kansas
	12:28pm Frank In Queens: This Fenwyck song has been popping up all week for me.
	12:28pm Squints: Mindrockah.
	12:28pm SeanG: the schmatta kid!
	12:28pm clarke: hey hey hey hey
	12:28pm Juke Joint Jonny: Bubble Gum at its catchiest
	12:29pm P-90: Any band called Fenwyck has a foot in my door
	12:29pm Bob: I'll argue Millers Crossing is the Coen's masterpiece all day
	12:29pm clarke: it's one of 'em, bob.
	12:30pm McGroovey: I've heard and read interviews with Colin Moulding and Geedy Lee in which they admit that a lot of studio recordings were done on other basses, for one reason or another. Geddy had to play a Ric live because it was expected of him. Same sort of thing (kind of in reverse) as with Jimmy Page: he used a Danelectro more in the studio, Les Paul more on the road.
	12:30pm clarke: whattsamattah?? somebody hit you?!?
	12:31pm Juke Joint Jonny: Band that plays Rush covers dressed as Gilded Age robber barons: Greedy Lee
	12:32pm clarke: McG - you ready to sweat? pro tip: bring an umbrella!!
	12:32pm Listener Baby: Colin M played Wal Basses a lot in the studio. Getty loved a Fender Jazz more than a lot. Mike Rutherford used Rick a lot early on.
	12:32pm Squints: G. G. Y.
	12:33pm Bob: Aren't Rick's just too damn heavy to use onstage?
	12:33pm John L: I use this line al lot: I was just speculatin' about a hypothesis.
	12:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like McCartney had to be seen with the Hofner. Never know what's on the dang Records !!...
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...all my life told people I could listen to Beatle Records for the Bass alone...
	12:36pm Bob: On the RUSH front, i just saw that Geddy and Alex are doing those Taylor Hawkins tribute shows. They look like really weird bills in general but some people will be very excited about that.
	12:37pm gf2002: There's a brief scene in the Get Back documentary where Glyn Johns asks if McCartney could try another bass because the Hofner wasn't recording well, and McCartney says he's sticking with the Hofner. He rediscovered the Hofner violin bass during that past year and liked how light it was, and I think it was during this same time that his original Hofner bass was stolen and still hasn't been recovered
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gawd I love 'MillionMiles'.
	12:38pm luka: now this is a no. 1
	12:38pm Listener Baby: Baby, you still Ricky-ing, and I love you for it!
	12:38pm Bob: I've got it. I put a Roy Rogers lampshade on it for a disguise
	12:38pm paul: Where in tarnation is Oaklaholma?
	12:38pm eastvanhalen: I love this, and this, and this, and
	12:38pm SeanG: so damn good
	12:38pm johnk77: hofner beatle bass used later by the late michael been of the call front guy/bassist rip robbie shakespeare who used a short-scale hofner great work selecter
	12:38pm clarke: there is a "plimsouls" that toured a few years back, but it is basically eddie munoz with new guys.
	12:39pm egould: Rickenbacker heaven.
	12:39pm P-90: Plimsouls: a band that always spoke the “jangle” language. Note the clean, chorused amp tones.
	12:39pm PatrickMC: Whither Peter Case
	12:39pm clarke: one of the 'new guys' was FleshHammer (RIP) from Woggles
	12:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Listen to Beatle-themed podcasts like Fab4Free4All & Something About The Beatles ...instrument spotting in GetBack is a whole concern...
	12:40pm Bob: Peter Case is one of the great rock and roll singers ever
	12:41pm clarke: agreed, bob
	12:41pm Squints: clarke, the Guadalcanal Diary fella?
	12:41pm David Watts: isn't there some nerves/plimsouls connection?
	12:42pm johnk77: plimsouls could have been as big as tommy tutone?
	12:42pm clarke: yes, he played bass with the "plimsouls"
	12:42pm PatrickMC: Yes case in both I think
	12:42pm paul: Good Morning Girl
	12:42pm Squints: Case was in the Nerves with Paul Collins and Jack Lee.
	12:42pm Franco Twinkie: I met Peter Case at a Fourth of July party. We sat on the sofa and talked about the cardboard records that came in Mad Magazine. No rock star posturing there.
	12:42pm McGroovey: Neon Philharmonic! I bought this when it was reissued (on Sundazed?) in the nineties.
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...'clean, chorused amp tones' ...mild shudders...
	12:42pm johnk77: peter case was great as a solo also
	12:43pm PatrickMC: Case also a fine songwriter
	12:43pm clarke: again, let's establish that the plimsouls did NOT use rickenbackers.
	12:43pm paul: Bought the single when it came out. Still one of my favorites.
	12:43pm Jay S.: Love the Neon Philharmonic (not just this single).
	12:44pm Frank In Queens: Peter Case and The Plimsouls rate extremely high here in Queens.
	12:44pm Listener Baby: They did use Ricks. Not live
	12:44pm johnk77: historically most signals that were chorused were no longer clean!?;>
	12:44pm Squints: Some days, like the day you hear it, this is the best record ever made. My pop loved this record.
	12:45pm Hubig Pie: Lotsa words rhyme with Cheerios ™
	12:45pm clarke: you could be right, Baby (as usual).
	12:46pm Squints: "Let's head out for some beerios."
	12:46pm clarke: Hubig - 'ow goes?
	12:46pm P-90: @RevRab: “clean, chorused amp tones” are KEY to late 70’s-early 80’s New Wave sounds
	12:46pm Listener Baby: Clarke. Spent some nights with Eddie M in my old studio. Asked him too many questions.
	12:47pm Franco Twinkie: I always start the day with a bowl of Learios.
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not Franc-Ohs ??
	12:47pm clarke: one of me fave players, Baby. BABY!!
	12:48pm phat in lincoln: That Shaker's track, damn.
	12:48pm clarke: btw, Baby: is the punk back at school???
	12:48pm Squints: rrn63: I would, but, you know, the currency conversion....
	12:48pm Gaylord Fields: Charley Crockett channeling Bill Withers here, which is a good thing indeed!
	12:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...'Franco Twinkies' could be a breakfast indulgence ...if I didn't know better...
	12:49pm gf2002: This is a great new record - Check out the BB King channeling guitar solo...
	12:49pm clarke: good day gaylord fields!!
	12:49pm Jessie: Didn't Matt Piucci of Rain Parade use a Rickenbacker on Emergency Third Rail Power Trip?
	12:49pm Gaylord Fields: Ahoy there, clarke!
	12:50pm clarke: yer a cookie full of arsenic, Fields!!
	12:50pm Ochre Ogre: Gaylord- Indeed, good call!
	12:51pm clarke: i've never seen piucci use anything but gibsons - that doesn't mean on the records...
	12:51pm johnk77: mike campbell & tom petty used a number of attractive ricks live in 1980 vintage vox amps the guitar tech was bugs
	12:51pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hello All. Another mighty & informative show! Enjoy your vacation, Michael.
	12:51pm Franco Twinkie: A wiener wrapped in sponge cake!? Now I'm sick.
	12:51pm Bob: I've done some shows and spent a fair amount of time with Peter. One time he sat at my desk and went crazy with a cd-rom i had that had EVERY Mad magazine page ever. He was super stoked to go through old Mad's that he had and loved as a kid. It was pretty cool how excited he was.
	12:51pm Hubig Pie: Doin' swell-io, clarke
	12:52pm Squints: Was bugs his name? Or was he a little bit bugs?
	12:52pm Handy Haversack: Great show, MS -- even for the apparently only nonmusician listening!
	12:52pm clarke: @johnk77 - was it you who touted the book Stereo Killers?? if so, just finished it - great one!
	12:52pm P-90: Petty and Campbell def deserve a mention in the Rickenbacker topic!
	12:52pm dday: @gaylord: That Charlie Crockett is also like Jebloi Nichols (remember him? Country Disco) I may have incorrectly spelled his name...been a long time :)
	12:52pm Squints: Handy, I don't call myself a musician yet. Just some jackass with a guitar.
	12:52pm Jimmy Wipper: One day I brought my Rick (and an amp) to school to let the kids in my first grade class play it, and they lost their minds. The fireglow was a big hit. www.instagram.com...
	12:53pm morphe' y Simon: Made it back ..Thanks mSheely y all !!!!
	12:53pm johnk77: in the context of that tour he was not bugs not his birth name
	12:53pm Handy Haversack: Something for me to aspire to, Squints!
	12:53pm Ochre Ogre: Look at those go-go girls go to this track! (In my mind)
	12:53pm dday: Jeb Loy Nichols
	12:53pm nycmusicnerd: Handy: I'm just as clueless about this stuff as you are.
	12:53pm clarke: wipper - you teach first grade?!? wow!!
	12:53pm Franco Twinkie: Bob, that's the impression I got. He knew his MAD, there's no question.
	12:53pm Gaylord Fields: @dday: I haven't thought of Jeb Loy Nichols in a day or two.
	12:53pm Baby: Special request for the CCR song Baby. Amazing example of Rick as a hard rock guitar.
	12:54pm dday: @Gaylord: that much more than I :)
	12:55pm KevinfromBayRidge: I'm there with ya, Handy!
	12:55pm johnk77: the book i have been recommending is teddy templeman's also joel selvin's hollywood eden
	12:55pm clarke: Dr. Feelgood cover?
	12:55pm PatrickMC: This is mind blowing. No trace of Lee Brillaux
	12:55pm Handy Haversack: The musicians need us -- fans!
	12:56pm clarke: ok john - the search continues. ha ha.
	12:56pm Bob: Woah! Yeah, what's the story with that song?
	12:56pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Michael!
	12:56pm Jimmy Wipper: @clarke, I'm a (mostly) long term substitute teacher, so last year I was in a first grade class, and three years in a row I was the music teacher--only K and 1st grade. Blew a lot of minds with music they never would have heard or seen!
	12:56pm drr: that was cute though I question the wisdom of covering Dr. Feelgood and lowering the flame.
	12:56pm Handy Haversack: Oh, Kevin, K8 will be at Mama Tried like 3-7 for some bands, and then afterward Terre T and Vicki V are spinning, I believe. I don't think I'm likely to make it down.
	12:57pm P-90: @Jimmy Wipper: thanks for the photo. Fab!
	12:57pm Jimmy Wipper: @P-90--glad you liked it!
	12:57pm clarke: nice jim!! blowing minds!!
	12:57pm Handy Haversack: Rickenbacker sax?
	12:58pm Gaylord Fields: Noo Yawkahs don't tawk like dat no moah!
	12:59pm KevinfromBayRidge: Thanks, Handy. You just gave me my late afternoon plans! Hope you can saunter down.
	12:59pm clarke: it will be long!! ever get the feelin' ye been Ric'd?? goo'nite.
	12:59pm Jimmy Wipper: Every day, clarke! Sometime I'll post the video of the spring show I was in charge of--definitely no kids' songs!
	12:59pm dday: Ric's: It's all what you play'em through. Super cheaply made in the early days (plywood bodies). Interesting passage in Elvis Costello's book about a red one he purchased (supposedly belonged to George Harrison) & eventually returned way back when because he found it to be horrible to play. They're better built now & way more pricey. My love's got an '89 John Lennon Model here a 350V6 I believe it to be known as officially. Versatile with the proper amp, & or, pedals.
	12:59pm paul: Happy birthday,John Hiatt
	12:59pm SamTheRam: Fun times today, Thank You Michael
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael! Enjoy your time off.
	12:59pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Michael. What a show!
	1:00pm P-90: Thanks and enjoy the vaycay @Michael Shelley
	1:00pm drr: Great to hear Ace Of Spades on the #1 hit show. Thanks!
	1:00pm Doug: Great choice of tracks today! Love hearing songs that are new to me that I'm compelled to add to my playlist so that I can hear it over again. Thank you!

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Beatles, The	Hard Day's Night "Hard Day's Night" by "Beatles, The"	45
Who, The	Can't Explain "Can't Explain" by "Who, The"	45
Deke Dickerson	Peroxide Blonde "Peroxide Blonde" by "Deke Dickerson"	Number One Hit Record! & More Million Sellers
Chips, The	Rubber Biscuit "Rubber Biscuit" by "Chips, The"	45
Kay Starr	Just In Time "Just In Time" by "Kay Starr"	Movin On Broadway
R.E.M.	1,000,000 "1,000,000" by "R.E.M."	Cronic Town
Syndicate Of Sound	Little Girl "Little Girl" by "Syndicate Of Sound"	45
Little Jimmy Dickens	Hey Worm! (You Wanna Wiggle)	45
Allen Toussaint	Hands Christiananderson	45
Smiths	This Charming Man "This Charming Man" by "Smiths"	45
Bachman Turner Overdrive	You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet	45
Motörhead	The Ace Of Spades "The Ace Of Spades" by "Motörhead"	Ace of Spades
Records, The	Starry Eyes "Starry Eyes" by "Records, The"	45
Outsiders, The	Time Won't Let Me "Time Won't Let Me" by "Outsiders, The"	45
Beach Boys, The	Dance, Dance, Dance	45
Jam	Start! "Start!" by "Jam"	45
Byrds, The	Mr Tambourine Man (take 2)	Mr. Tambourine Man
Martin Kelly	Interview "Interview" by "Martin Kelly"	none
Byrds, The	Eight Miles High "Eight Miles High" by "Byrds, The"	45
High Numbers, The	Leaving Here "Leaving Here" by "High Numbers, The"	My Generation
Clarence White With Ry Cooder	Why You Been Gone So Long?	Byrd Parts
Ted Taylor	I'm Gonna Send You Back To Oaklaholma	45
XTC	Earn Enough For Us "Earn Enough For Us" by "XTC"	45
Fenwyck	Mindrocker "Mindrocker" by "Fenwyck"	45
Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles	Get As Gone Can Get	Love's Middle Name
Otis Redding	Love Man "Love Man" by "Otis Redding"	Love Man
Johnny Organ And The Love People	Bewitched	Come Back Darling
Plimsouls, The	A Million Miles Away	45
Neon Philharmonic, The	Good Morning Girl	45
Shaker's	Say To Me With Your Eyes	In The Studio Again
Charley Crockett	I'm Just A Clown	none
Willie Mitchell	Barefootin' "Barefootin'" by "Willie Mitchell"	45
New Piccadillys, The	All Through The City	Introducing...
Lou Bennett	Hit The Road Jack "Hit The Road Jack" by "Lou Bennett"	Un Portrait de Ray Charles
Beatles Fans	At Shea Stadium "At Shea Stadium" by "Beatles Fans"	none
KLIF	Beatles Spectacular "Beatles Spectacular" by "KLIF"	none

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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!
	9:40am Listener Baby: A jangly, chimey, good morning to you all. Baby, hope all is perfectly in tune with you. Looking forward to this.
	10:58am HyperDose: The early Baby gets the hits!
	10:59am Squints: ok then. heyHEYhey.
	11:00am Squints: Hypothermia? Dude, that's cold.
	11:01am clarke: you sound pretty good for a drowned man.
	11:01am Baja Joe: Good morning Michael!
	11:01am Handy Haversack: Michael and the Shellegamers! Rickenbacker bass used to great effect by Claudia Gonzalez of Baby Shakes backing up Dion Lunadon at TV Eye last night.
	11:01am Dennis: Well,there’s a perfect opening
	11:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: F#maj6th7th9th11th24th...
	11:01am clarke: HEY NOWWWWWW (in Ric-O-Sound)
	11:01am Sonny Rickles: Starting off with my all time favorite #1 hit!
	11:01am DanFA: Are we gonna get some Fugazi?
	11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& the 60s hurtled out of the starting gate...
	11:03am clarke: and Handy reminds me that Baby Lemonade had a few ric's in their guitar rack
	11:03am DanFA: POW POW POW POW
	11:04am P-90: Raise your hand if you know instantly what the “frying pan” and the “Fireglo” are. You’re my people.
	11:04am phat in lincoln: Hey there. Keith Moon's snare just woke me the eff up. Holy hell.
	11:04am clarke: i have the ric in the middle in the posted photo
	11:05am KWilde: Hey Michael! Good Morning all!
	11:06am clarke: townshend could rock, mate.
	11:06am Various Julius: Mornin'
	11:06am P-90: Deke!
	11:07am HyperDose: Redheads!
	11:08am phat in lincoln: I've never been a fan of how Rick basses play. But I've always wanted to. I'm still a Fender guy.
	11:08am Michael in Montclair: Good Morning Mr. Shelley and everyone!
	11:08am phat in lincoln: They're great instruments! They just don't fit me.
	11:09am Moammar: "Rubber Biscuit" is the new national anthem.
	11:10am Doug in MP: I'm primarily a bass player but never played a Rick. I have a pretty fancy Rick 6 string though
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Ivy League - John Carter band backing vocals on 'I Can't Explain' (...not to be confused with The Iveys who would be Badfinger. Cause I do.) Would posit that 'I Can't Explain' is thee Single that moves Rawk Drumming beyond the Ringo era (Ringo Rules - you know what I mean...)
	11:11am Handy Haversack: K8 and Frank in Queens were discussing the relative merits of Rick basses vs. Fenders. As a total useless duffer, my main feeling was, "Well, it sure sounded good to me!"
	11:12am Baja Joe: Rubber Biscuit ought to be sent to space in a capsule as a warning... IMHO
	11:12am drr: Thanks to the salubrious influnce of the Blues Brothers, at least one Tennessee neighborhood in the mid-70s was full of kids asking each other: "What do you want for nothing? A RUBBER BISCUIT?"
	11:12am P-90: I’m mainly a guitar guy, so l’ve only ever had one bass. A 1969 Rick 4001S. Gotta play with big roundwound strings and a pick.
	11:13am clarke: we were little boys
	11:13am Handy Haversack: Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Chronic. Town.
	11:13am SeanG: Nice!
	11:14am Baja Joe: Early R.E.M.- nice.
	11:14am P-90: I’ve always thought that the Fender-style electric bass and the Rick bass are almost like two different instruments…
	11:14am Squints: Just the thing to jangle one nerves the right way.
	11:14am Listener Baby: What a lyricist!
	11:14am phat in lincoln: I wondered if we'd hear any REM.
	11:15am Joe B: good morning Michael and everyone
	11:15am clarke: hello JoeB!!
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Would guess that Rick Basses have a more clear distinct trebly tone (interesting as Fender Gittars are known for TrebleTone) - & faster action for playing ?? Whereas Fender P(recision)-Basses are a little throatier... Both common workhorses... I never know for sure til I get something n my hands. & hasn't happened that much with Basses ...tho I find playing Bass great fun !!
	11:15am Handy Haversack: Morning, Joe B!
	11:16am Joe B: Handy did you make it to TV Eye last night?
	11:16am pgalub: Good morning all. The Buck strums here.
	11:17am Franco Twinkie: Guitar worship is like polio - it scars you for life.
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& with Electric instruments much depends on pickup & tone settings & amps & so on. Anyhow. When I play Bass - I like to roll some Tone off ...kinda Feel it a little more than Hear it ??...
	11:18am clarke: hey JoeB: was wondering if you might agree w/me that the new Johnny Marr album is slightly disappointing. it's not bad, but, he did not knock it out of the park either.
	11:18am P-90: @Franco: guilty
	11:18am Handy Haversack: Definitely, Joe! WFMU shirt worn proudly since you gotta dance with the one what brung ya. Sweet Knives and Dion Lunadon both had blisteringly good sets. Got to see a set of fantastic luminaries, too! Frank in Queens and Christina! LesleyK! Terre T!
	11:19am Michael in Montclair: When I hear the intro to 1,000,000, I think of the intro to Moral Kiosk off of Murmur. It has such a similar feel and key.
	11:19am Listener John from NJ: Hello to our #1 Hit DJ, and to all you listeners!
	11:19am Listener Baby: #1'!!!!!!
	11:19am clarke: my all-time #1 #1
	11:19am Juke Joint Jonny: Great pick, unnamed listener
	11:19am Moammar: Enter the bongo.
	11:19am Handy Haversack: Michael, would you say it's so much more attractive ... inside the moral kiosk? Bongo feet!
	11:20am clarke: 8/10
	11:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pretty sure this 45 Nugget was in the house in my toddlerhood. Damn ! & the band were mere kids too pretty sure...
	11:20am Various Julius: My Rick bass tone is all treble and subterranean bass but a big gap in the midrange. Sometimes it fits the mix, other times not. I wish I could predict when it works.
	11:21am Moammar: Unexpected Rickenbacker player: Gatemouth Brown, who I think has a 360 in YouTube clips of that "!!! Beat" show in Nashville, where he was band director.
	11:22am Joe B: @handy - cool! wish I could have made it
	11:23am morphe' y Simon: Must away for a bit.. if not back.. Thanks Mikey and all = LIFE!!!!!
	11:23am P-90: I’d love to see the list of listener suggestions for tracks with Rick sounds. It’s a wide category. I assume someone suggested Eight Miles High for the 12-string lead tone, and of course “With a Little Help from My Friends” and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” as classic Paul bass examples.
	11:23am clarke: well, Gatemouth Brown used a Gibson 335 most everytime i saw him - but, this was in later years.
	11:23am nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds
	11:24am Don Gorden: Yo Mike !, Little Girl is sung by Frost Gump Bahahaha
	11:24am prof.fuzz: morning, y'all.
	11:25am Michael Shelley: Moammar: YEAH!
	11:25am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZ
	11:25am Moammar: @clarke I think both times I saw him (late 80s, early 90s) he had a Firebird.
	11:25am Dennis: Great Allen T track! What a master
	11:25am Handy Haversack: prof.fuzz!
	11:26am Joe B: in my top 5 worst singers of all time
	11:26am egould: So goddamn jangly. The pinnacle of jangle v
	11:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Story of course is Beatles complained that Motown in the USA was getting all this mad Bass into their records & they were frustrated. Starting 1966 w/ the Paperback Writer / Rain single - they used a Bass Amp speaker as a microphone (mics & speakers are the same idea in reverse...) to try & get more. Then in '67 with Pepper Paul began plugging his Bass straight into the board - & recording that later with the privilege of really working out his parts. His use of Rick Basses went right along with this ...correct this as necessary...
	11:27am Listener Baby: Rock solid rhythm section
	11:27am Andres: Oh yes!!
	11:27am clarke: agreed JoeB - but, i'll put him at the top for destroying a great bed of music, every time.
	11:27am Michael in Montclair: @Handy, perhaps. It might be even more attractive if I could live a million years inside the moral kiosk
	11:28am clarke: but, Marr was tricky, because he got a lot of jangle from a telecaster, too.
	11:28am jmd: @Baby: one of the best and underrated for sure.
	11:28am Joe B: is Marr known for rickenbacker? would guess fender jaguar or telecaster
	11:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Nowhere Man' is Stratocasters ! Still surprised by this...
	11:29am P-90: Then there are outliers like Wendy Melvoin, who gigged and recorded a lot with Rickenbackers, but they didn’t SOUND like Ricks the way she played them…
	11:29am clarke: true, Joe - but this right here is a ric
	11:29am Frank In Queens: He-ey Now!
	11:29am prof.fuzz: clarkEEEEEEEE. handY. joeB. dRR.
	11:29am Handy Haversack: Yeah, I loathe him. Pretty interesting essay on revisiting and regretting one's early Smiths fandom: yalereview.org...
	11:29am JimB: The last thing I am is a pop music historian, so this is probably a naive question. To my addled boomer schlub memory, when the Byrds had a hit with Turn, Turn. Turn, that established the Rickenbacker 12-string sound as a thing. What do the more knowledgeable people think?
	11:30am clarke: you slackin' Frank!!
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Peter Buck has written about a sort of transatlantic parallelism felt twixt REM & Smiths...
	11:31am prof.fuzz: Marr was mostly a jag guy... Ultimate Rick bass playing = Motorhead!
	11:31am clarke: @JimB - well, the main reason that roger had a ric is because of the Beatles.
	11:31am phat in lincoln: Geddy Lee! Lol.
	11:31am DanFA: Kim Gordon played a Rickenbacker bass. As did Cliff Burton.
	11:31am Ken From Hyde Park: Lots of bass topics to explore, including but not limited to: the fretless bass, bass bandleaders (e.g., Primus), where do you get a bass keytar, Flea playing the national anthem.
	11:31am phat in lincoln: @prof.fuzz Lemmy! Yes!
	11:31am Andres: Another, oh yes!!
	11:32am Squints: JimB: The ealier single, Mr Tambourine Man. McGuinn was inspired by seeing George play a Rick in A Hard Day's Night.
	11:32am b0b0b0b plasticland: @@@what about Ventures 12 sting Mosrite ??
	11:32am anti echo man: Bruce fox ton of the Jam used a Ric bass
	11:32am Squints: What clarke said.
	11:32am clarke: this was mostly discussed last week.
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: JimB - yeah 'Tambourine Man' right @ their beginning really. BYrdS of course totally inspired by 'Hard Day's Night'. That album is the 1st & only with nothing but Lennon-McCartney compositions. But ! George Harrison brings the 12-String Rick on it - & that's the root of it, really.
	11:32am Frank In Queens: @clarke, been listening, but we're entertaining again this weekend, so I didn't want to be rude to our guests by being on the comments board.
	11:33am Handy Haversack: Get to the "working overtime" part!
	11:33am SeanG: geddy lee played a ric
	11:33am P-90: This BTO is a great not-so-obvious choice
	11:33am jmd: Are we gonna get some prog bassists?
	11:33am Squints: Heh. I was drinking in Wellfleet last week.
	11:33am Various Julius: Exit Stage Left by Rush has some of the most aggressive Rickenbacker bass tone I've heard. Chris Squire isolated bass tracks sound like a knife fight in a grand piano.
	11:33am HyperDose: What a jam
	11:33am Listener Baby: Great song! Great choice, but me thinks the are double tracked Strats with capos. I could be wrong, but it’s my guess. Again great song. Bass is 100% Rick.
	11:33am Squints: How can this be on the test? Wasn't that LAST semester?
	11:33am Pseu Braun: Oh yeah!
	11:33am eastvanhalen: Ohhhhhh CanCon, how you have delightfully warped my life
	11:33am Alworthyb: Mike Shelly, what is the address for my membership card?
	11:33am clarke: ha ha, Frank!! just gettin' u back. hope all's well.
	11:34am phat in lincoln: @P-90 yes, I had no idea it was a Ric. Seems kind of obvious now, though.
	11:34am Christina Ginger: Good morning, all!
	11:34am frank Migliorelli (anti echo man?): Going underground by the jam. Or ma in a corner shop covers guitar and bass. Along wit the bitterest pill
	11:34am SeanG: pseu braun in the house!
	11:34am Michael Shelley: AL - info here michaelshelley.net...
	11:34am phat in lincoln: @Pseu Braun has entered the chat!
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Various Julius @ 11:20 - gotcha !
	11:35am b0b0b0b0b: @@ yeah Handy I loath him too !!! I agree. love Marr tho
	11:35am Sonny Rickles: OMG
	11:35am Christina Ginger: Clarke, I made brioche French toast for FIQ and guests with JUSTegg and the Trader Joe’s new vegan brioche loaf. It was great!
	11:35am clarke: @Squints - how wuz yer time in the 'fleet??
	11:35am Frank In Queens: WOW! I am shocked! SHOCKED!
	11:35am phat in lincoln: Eff. Yeah.
	11:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: frankM - good one !
	11:35am HyperDose: Trick question, Lemmy is god!
	11:35am Christina Ginger: I was hoping for Motörhead!
	11:36am SeanG: hell yeah
	11:36am iiibeat: I just left a bouquet of flowers out the front door . . Please grab them before someone else does for their ailing grandmother!! Leave them for Scott?
	11:36am eastvanhalen: Pseuuuuuuuuuu!
	11:36am gf2002: There can't be a Rickenbacker bass playlist without including Lemmy
	11:36am David Watts: wake up everybody!!!!
	11:36am Andres: Blowing the speakers.
	11:36am P-90: @JimB: “Turn Turn Turn” absolutely broke out the “McGuinn electric folk Rickenbacker 12-string jangle sound”
	11:36am Handy Haversack: And, as we learned last night, Christina and Frank: Baby Shakes also uses a Rickenbacker bass. Nice, iiibeat!
	11:36am Juke Joint Jonny: The severity of my tinnitus is down to these boys.
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lemmy specifically noted he was a Bass Gittarist - rather than a Bassist. Which seems relevant.
	11:36am clarke: @Christina - wow, and i hain''t even had breakfast yit.
	11:36am Squints: It was awesome, thanks, clarke. Cahoon Hollow was rockin'. No shark alerts like last year. ("Get outtah tha watah, you hahdons.") Nobody got arrested. So we got that going for us.
	11:36am SeanG: turning this way up
	11:37am phat in lincoln: I'll tell you what, the guitar parts in Ace of Spades are about as fun to play as it gets.
	11:37am SecretSquirrel: Good morning! Probably too obvious to mention, but I hope there’s some CCR on your playlist. John Fogerty famously played a ‘69 Rickenbacker 325 six-string (and got a searing lead sound from it).
	11:37am clarke: @Squints - did you happen to see Nada Surf show????? if so: jealous!
	11:37am frank Migliorelli (anti echo man?): And the opening track from my second record is all ric. 12 string ric. https://dirtnappers.bandcamp.com/album/bass-drums-guitars-and-organs Figured I’d plug it.
	11:37am phat in lincoln: My God, this rocks.
	11:38am DanFA: en.wikipedia.org...
	11:38am Squints: Got no tinnitus despite my history of playing my rekkids way too loud. But in crowded talky bars I lose a lot of high frequencies and frequently lipread somewhat.
	11:38am Various Julius: Oh yes.
	11:38am gf2002: One of the first Rickenbacker endorsers was Ricky Nelson, seen on TV playing them with James Burton after the endorsement deal. But hands down, no contest...The Beatles put Ricks on the map for everyone, first the guitars then bass. Credit Carl Wilson a bit too, he was playing a Ricky 12 soon after The Beatles, before McGuinn
	11:38am eastvanhalen: Oh I love this so much
	11:38am phat in lincoln: Holy hell, this set.
	11:38am Doug in MP: I get a lot of staccato sounds rendering as static in my ears these days
	11:38am clarke: yessss1
	11:38am Juke Joint Jonny: Holy shit, Michael. Stop with my personal #1s
	11:38am pgalub: Happy 70th to Record Huw Gower today!
	11:39am Christina Ginger: Clarke, I was on it today, hahahaa. Powered by caffeine!
	11:39am clarke: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
	11:39am iiibeat: Definitely a sunflower in there!! Gonna check Word now before heading for Eastern Shore MD . . Thank you Handy.
	11:39am clarke: number one number one number one...
	11:40am Cooh John: 3 great tracks so far. This song is on my Seeburg jukebox.
	11:40am gf2002: Fogerty's playing on that Rick 325 at Woodstock was on FIRE! Listen to CCR's I Put A Spell On You from Woodstock, it's amazing. Rickenbacker with a Bigsby vibrato
	11:40am Handy Haversack: Christina, can one make omelet-type things with JUSTEgg pretty easily? Enjoy it, iiibeat.
	11:40am Joe B: can't trust wikipedia lists. graham nash?
	11:40am P-90: Also if you really want to hear what a Rick bass can do in the right hands, and how completely different from a Fender bass a bass can sound, just check out “Roundabout.”
	11:40am Squints: clarke, no. Did they play the 'Comber? I really need to do more homework. Bikes and beers tour. I drive the beer and am pretty much den mother. Nothing like making the "responsible" one the guy who consistently blows the highest on the Alcohawk down on the beach. EArly Nada Surf did not much for me, really. But their records the last ten years have been really great.
	11:40am clarke: @Christina - killin' it!!
	11:40am phat in lincoln: @P-90 yep. Squire had the definitive Ric sound.
	11:41am Jimmy Wipper: This is a #1 Show of #1 Hits!!!
	11:41am Frank In Queens: Sadly, me and Rick basses don't really jive.
	11:41am clarke: Wippaaaahh
	11:41am Listener Baby: @GF. 100% agree!
	11:41am phat in lincoln: Goddamn I love rock n roll.
	11:41am Jimmy Wipper: Love my Rick 1997 model, btw.
	11:42am gf2002: Forgot to mention Marty Willson-Piper from The Church on the lists last week: He got some great Rickenbacker tones on those Church records
	11:42am clarke: @Squints - yes, Nada Surf is one of the only shows that would be of interest this summer (except i think the Figgs played the same week)
	11:42am egould: Here’s my Rickenbacker. https://twitter.com/egould310/status/1561013956021342210?s=21&t=jpnf9dT4quzbpKEljTQzVg
	11:42am Jimmy Wipper: Not the year 1997, model #.
	11:43am Various Julius: I just dragged my 4003 out of the basement
	11:43am Squints: I did see the Figgs were playing there but I don't think I was our weekend.
	11:43am Frank In Queens: @Handy, you can use Just Egg to make scramble and omelettes, and I've heard very good things about using it in that fashion, but I don't think it's something we'll ever do. We're too old school so we'll stick to our tofu scramble.
	11:43am Squints: I saw the Figgs playing with Graham Parker in 2005 at the Middle East downstairs. That was fun.
	11:44am gf2002: YES! One of my all-time number ones, The Outsiders. And The Smithereens did a TERRIFIC version of this one too. I'm in paradise right now listening to these tracks.
	11:44am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: OK ! Time is once & for all now : en.wikipedia.org... - Rick is a Santa Ana, CA company - which makes sense for the Hawaiian steel connection. They are NOT German (this is about my mental delusions...) - rather, co-founder Adolph Rickenbacher was born in Switzerland & moved to LA. Thot perhaps TheBeatles picked up on Ricks in the days apprenticing in Hamburg cause they were German. ...So ...what is the story of how TheBeatles encountered them...
	11:44am Handy Haversack: Gotcha, Frank. Send that recipe along some time! Great to see you two last night.
	11:44am SecretSquirrel: You seddit, gf2002!!
	11:44am Christina Ginger: Handy, yes, you can. We however, are not actually fans of eggs as eggs, however real or fake they might be, so I’ve never tried it. I really only use JUST for baking when an egg is a must (custard pie, quiche, al).
	11:45am Squints: The fills in this are so neat.
	11:45am Frank In Queens: @Handy, yeah same here. Hoping I'll run into K8 a little later today at Mama Tried. Hey what's the name of that Mexican joint near by that everyone talks about?
	11:45am StringOFperils: I too love this Outsiders single. A late-night radio staple in the mid 60s,this and The Buckinghams Kind of a Drag.
	11:46am clarke: cool Squints! hope you got some onion rings at PJ's!!! they are another #1
	11:46am P-90: McCartney, Squire, and Entwistle got their hands on the very first Rick basses imported into England from California (at a time when American instruments were still hard to find in England.) Those three were the first generation of big-time Rick bass players.
	11:46am Moammar: The Plimsouls cover of "Time Won't Let Me" is incandescent. No Rickenbackers involved however, I think.
	11:47am Joe B: George Harrison did not hack a Rick in Germany. acquired on the first US visit in Feb 1964
	11:47am Listener Baby: Great choice
	11:47am Joe B: "have"
	11:47am clarke: munoz pretty much stuck to his Strat
	11:47am clarke: hack!
	11:48am gf2002: @Revolution Rabbit: It was Toots Thielemans' endorsement of Rickenbacker that was the key. That 325 John ended up with was part of a trade show display when Toots was an endorser (one of the first), and somehow that guitar got to Germany. There is a photo of that same guitar in the trade show display, and when Lennon got it he endlessly modified and changed it around. I think John Hall from Rickenbacker showed up at the NYC hotel when the Beatles did Sullivan and gave George the new 12-string hoping for an endorsement after seeing Lennon playing that 325 which he had painted by that time.
	11:48am egould: “So ...what is the story of how TheBeatles encountered them...” I think Rickenbacker sent the Beatles a couple of guitars, unsolicited. The guys liked the guitars.
	11:48am Joe B: The guitar was given to him by Francis C. Hall, owner and president of the California-based Rickenbacker company, which is now celebrating its 85th anniversary.Hall spoke to Brian Epstein before the Beatles arrived in the U.S. and arranged a meeting with the group. On February 8 at the Savoy Hilton in New York City, he showed the band several different models. Lennon tried out the 360/12 but thought it would be better for Harrison, who was sick in bed at the Plaza Hotel. When Harrison finally got to see it, he loved it immediately.
	11:48am StringOFperils: Iggy's cover of Time Won't Let Me is fun too...on Party
	11:49am Joe B: www.guitarworld.com...
	11:49am Listener Baby: I love Taxman!
	11:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes - company gifted George the 12-String in the USA. But John had his Rick by the time they were Recording @ all - & earlier... Just happened I guess !
	11:50am gf2002: That's right, yes my bad: Hall originally gave the 12-string to Lennon who passed it off to George instead. Thanks for the info!
	11:50am Moammar: @Listener Baby: So did Paul Weller, apparently.
	11:51am StringOFperils: I don't know how Weller got so much air with that Rickenbacker strapped on, not to be outdone by his model, Pete
	11:52am gf2002: Lennon was a fan of Toots Thielemans' harmonica playing and saw the brand through him, I believe. Then when he saw the 325, and tried it, the smaller size fit his playing style perfectly and he got it. But it's odd that Toots Thielemans of all artists was a part of how Lennon got that 325
	11:53am Joe B: @RR63 - oh yeah, was referring just to the 12 string. you are correct.
	11:54am egould: @Moammar The Plimsouls cover of "Time Won't Let Me" certainly had a Rickenbacker involved.
	11:54am clarke: this take makes me realize that crosby's gretsch was important to this tune. plink plink.
	11:54am Squints: This being the instrumental bed, except for McGuinn, are there any other actual Byrds on this cut?
	11:54am Handy Haversack: Frank, not sure -- Joe B. might know? There are a couple of places on Fifth Ave., though. Also, try the potato salad at MT. Pretty sure it's vegan. And definitely good!
	11:55am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx !! John loved playing harp ...so that led to the Rick ! Tho John famously kinda ProRawk & AntiJazz, so to speak... Yes! John liked the slightly undersized aspect of it - as he was such an intense Chord Rhythm player - that made it faster & easier ...Johnny Ramones use a Rick now & then as well we might note.
	11:55am clarke: @egould - that was a strat (as mentioned above)
	11:55am Michael Shelley: Definitely Hal Blaine on drums (you can hear him count off). Word is that Byrds drummer cried.
	11:55am gf2002: The Halls at Rickenbacker saw Lennon playing his original painted 325 in photos and film clips before they appeared on Sullivan, saw an opportunity to make a lot of money, and that's how they ended up in the hotel room gifting the band those guitars in Feb '64.
	11:55am Franco Twinkie: This is it! Lacking the resources on ability to obtain a Rick, I settled for a pair of Granny glasses.
	11:56am clarke: Michael Clarke was VERY upset - and rightly so: he was a great drummer!
	11:56am gf2002: No Byrds except McGuinn on that record. Wrecking Crew players hired by Terry Melcher playing the tracks, he was going for a Beach Boys "Don't Worry Baby" groove. The rest is history!
	11:56am Squints: Sizewise, is there a current analog to the 325? (proTip: Start playing guitar before you're 58 going on 59. The struggle is real.)
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Crosby harmonizes I think...
	11:57am StringOFperils: I've been a beginner guitarist for decades
	11:57am clarke: the 325 has been re-issued, Squints.
	11:58am clarke: they's VERY expensive!
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Is 325 3/4 Scale ? That small ?
	11:59am P-90: See: “lap steel” guitars were the first commonly available “electric guitars”…
	11:59am Squints: Yikes! Your not wrong, clarke.
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah - held a Rick Gittar twice in life. They are that uncommon on the ground... One was Johnny Ramones' - owned then by one of TheJabbers (early G.G. Allin band here NewHampshuh)...
	11:59am gf2002: Yes the 325 is very small! Roughly 3/4 size and scale. Tiny frets. Almost too small
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Not the bridge makes Twang ?? Like a Sitar ? :)
	12:00pm clarke: i would suggest a Fender Duo-Sonic, but they have been priced way out of reach, now, as well.
	12:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I guess couldn't be...
	12:01pm andy fuchs: The fact the Rickenbacker amps had that nasty habit of burning up may have affected their amp legacy being so limited....
	12:02pm gf2002: I always wanted a 325 because of Lennon. When I had just turned 18 I walked into a music store that had a Lennon model 325. I was blown away until I picked it up to play it. Very, very tight fit in the frets, much smaller than it looks in the photos of John (and John Fogerty) playing them. I no longer wanted one because it was too small. Decades later I finally got a 330, turquoise color. Awesome guitar.
	12:02pm Michael Shelley: ASTRO GTR. only $795 - CHEAP!: reverb.com...
	12:03pm Michael Shelley: Andy - lol
	12:03pm Doug in MP: The Rick 381 has super tight spacing too. Always a sloppy play but fun in its own way
	12:03pm P-90: @RevRab: the “ease” of playing is one thing with the short-scale guitar, but it sounds slightly different too, chords in rhythm playing voice differently than they would with the conventional scale. That’s something you can listen for in the early John tracks.
	12:03pm Squints: Yeah, frets up the neck are tight on 3/4 necks. (I have a couple around for the grandkids when they visit.) I have trouble doing bar or power chords on the frets of the wide end of the neck. Small hands, short fingers (especially for a former goalkeeper) with the limberness of a now nearly 63-year-old. Not so much the chords as reaching for the fourth fret up from the barre on the rhythm.
	12:03pm clarke: my 360's neck is rahhthah thin, as well.
	12:04pm Squints: Several dozen amps spontaneously combust each year.
	12:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...perhaps Rick Gittars are not the most robust instrument in terms of lasting in one piece (?)...
	12:05pm clarke: they are pretty durable, Rev.
	12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: P-90 - fascinating ...string tensions & things ? clarke - corrected, Thx.
	12:06pm Squints: Thanks for the rec on the Astro, Michael. Will check out that and the DuoSonic. Unlike my car, I can't move out of my house if necessary and live in a guitar.
	12:07pm Handy Haversack: Squints -- unless ... !
	12:07pm karlward: Man those Rickenbacker basses sound damn fine.
	12:07pm clarke: duo-sonics are as pricey as ric's these days.
	12:08pm Squints: rrn63: Heh. There was my guitar, electric junk.
	12:08pm P-90: Ricks are mostly “neck through” instruments built mainly from study hard maple, so they tend to be very durable. The basses are almost indestructible.
	12:08pm gf2002: Two key songs where you can hear Lennon's 325 and how the small scale affected the tone: This Boy for the rhythm chord work, and You Can't Do That for Lennon's lead. Those are the pure Rickenbacker tone and further affected by the small scale.
	12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh the Basses durable - no doubt .
	12:09pm P-90: “Jetglo” is the Rick name for their glossy black color, “Fireglo” is the burst finish.
	12:09pm clarke: nice stuff, Shelley!!
	12:10pm Listener Baby: Great job, Baby. Nobody better than you at that.
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So Ricks generally not bolt-on necks ? That was probly ahead of the curve...
	12:10pm Bob: Tuning in late to a Gene Clark masterwork. Not bad.
	12:11pm rw: That blue bass with the white trim looks damn sharp to me.
	12:11pm phat in lincoln: @Revolution Rabbit Nov63 that was my problem with them.
	12:11pm clarke: hello bob.
	12:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Crosby speaks in awe of McGuinn evoking Coltrane's sax keys opening & closing. Immense track.
	12:12pm Squints: 1. Build guitar with bolt-on neck. 2. Call it the Karloff. 3. $$$$$!
	12:12pm Franco Twinkie: The first take of this song recorded by Dave Hassinger at RCA has a much angrier sound. Weirdly preferable to me.
	12:12pm karlward: The Rick bass had a long standing design flaw in the bridge, it warps and tuning stability is subpar. Hipshot sells a replacement, I bought one for a bandmate recently. I think 2020 models finally fixed that flaw.
	12:12pm phat in lincoln: Oops, that was supposed to be someone else about the size of Ricks. Too small for me.
	12:13pm andy fuchs: Compressed twice !!
	12:13pm gf2002: All Gibson solidbody electrics were neck-thru-body in the 50's and 60's
	12:13pm Joe B: Minus 5 have a song called Blue Rickenbacker
	12:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: gf2002: Appreciate all the Data ! Gibson tones too...
	12:14pm HyperDose: Pretty gnarly axe, Franco
	12:15pm PB: Can never get too much of The Byrds.
	12:15pm Bob: Flamin' Groovies made that Rick bass look the coolest. But they just looked cool in every way anyhoo. Hey Clarke!
	12:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sane people did not Drum like this in 1965.
	12:15pm P-90: @gf2002: John’s ever-so-slightly Latin flavored rhythm part on “I’m Happy Just to Dance with You” is critical too, if you want to understand the tonality of the short-scale 325 guitar. I would also cite it as an all-important example of classic Rick “jangle”, even though it’s not the 12-string kind.
	12:15pm Dennis: Great interview, Michael - definitely going on somebody’s Christmas list 😉
	12:16pm gf2002: Yes! Those compressors were McGuinn's secret weapon for that tone, no surprise that the McGuinn model Rickenbacker has an on-board compressor! I think they ran McGuinn's Rick through a chain of either two or was it even 3 old LA-2A's to get that jangle
	12:16pm clarke: bob - what's happnin' near campus??
	12:16pm egould: High Numbers number one hitmakers.
	12:17pm clarke: what give you the right to take this tonality, here??
	12:17pm gf2002: @P-90 Yes, absolutely! That is an amazing rhythm part and tone, thanks for mentioning that! Pure Rickenbacker tone on display
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The difference ShowBiz money & Know How made in Studios in LosAngeles was a thing...
	12:18pm Dennis: Clarence!!
	12:18pm clarke: still waiting... still waiting...
	12:18pm Squints: Who's singing harmony on this? This is real nice.
	12:18pm Bob: Student move-in clogging up the works. WCBN changing up their schedule. Beautiful if slightly warm day.
	12:19pm egould: Compression / sustain are key to jangle.
	12:19pm clarke: how is that ann arbor radio station?? it wasn't that great when i was there.
	12:19pm Handy Haversack: A friend of mine had a late-night show on WCBN, late nineties.
	12:20pm clarke: that is around the time i was around - the big album at that station was Beck's Vultures album
	12:21pm Bob: WCBN? It's more uneven than WFMU but it's their longtime sister station. It's more student oriented than old townie hipster, thus hit and miss. But it's often brilliant.
	12:21pm Dennis: Where’d that Clarence/Ry track hail from??
	12:21pm Mike Sin: Very much enjoying the show today -- tunes and info!
	12:21pm P-90: @gf2002: that built-in circuit board in the McGuinn “Signature” model 12-strings emulated the sound of two compression pedals chained together. I’ve played one or two, and sure enough if you turn the compressor way up, you get that “Eight Miles High” clean sustain lead tone, then you turn it down and it gets you right into that jangly McGuinn rhythm territory.
	12:21pm clarke: as with all college radio - depends on the dj
	12:21pm Listener Baby: A show of hands whether Baby should keep going with Rickys?
	12:22pm drr: Oakland + Stockholm = Oaklaholma?
	12:22pm clarke: lime rickeys!!
	12:22pm Squints: now i'm thirsty.
	12:23pm clarke: me, too!! damn.
	12:23pm Squints: see what you did?
	12:24pm clarke: i've done it, again.
	12:24pm Listener Baby: How did I not think of this one? Sheesh!
	12:24pm SeanG: XTC!!
	12:25pm Bob: ALL the high-hat!
	12:25pm P-90: @Baby: maybe once you go Ricky you never go back
	12:26pm Listener Baby: Agree P90. Keep going Baby!,
	12:26pm Bob: hi hat
	12:26pm clarke: yer givin' me the hi-hat!!
	12:27pm David Watts: great song
	12:27pm gf2002: @P-90 Very cool feature! I've told people who were looking to buy any 12-string electric to buy a compressor too, or two compressors! That's the sound everyone wants to hear. I've never played the McGuinn signature model, but I need to...
	12:27pm Bob: Clear as mud
	12:27pm HyperDose: First heard this in the movie Rolling Kansas
	12:28pm Frank In Queens: This Fenwyck song has been popping up all week for me.
	12:28pm Squints: Mindrockah.
	12:28pm SeanG: the schmatta kid!
	12:28pm clarke: hey hey hey hey
	12:28pm Juke Joint Jonny: Bubble Gum at its catchiest
	12:29pm P-90: Any band called Fenwyck has a foot in my door
	12:29pm Bob: I'll argue Millers Crossing is the Coen's masterpiece all day
	12:29pm clarke: it's one of 'em, bob.
	12:30pm McGroovey: I've heard and read interviews with Colin Moulding and Geedy Lee in which they admit that a lot of studio recordings were done on other basses, for one reason or another. Geddy had to play a Ric live because it was expected of him. Same sort of thing (kind of in reverse) as with Jimmy Page: he used a Danelectro more in the studio, Les Paul more on the road.
	12:30pm clarke: whattsamattah?? somebody hit you?!?
	12:31pm Juke Joint Jonny: Band that plays Rush covers dressed as Gilded Age robber barons: Greedy Lee
	12:32pm clarke: McG - you ready to sweat? pro tip: bring an umbrella!!
	12:32pm Listener Baby: Colin M played Wal Basses a lot in the studio. Getty loved a Fender Jazz more than a lot. Mike Rutherford used Rick a lot early on.
	12:32pm Squints: G. G. Y.
	12:33pm Bob: Aren't Rick's just too damn heavy to use onstage?
	12:33pm John L: I use this line al lot: I was just speculatin' about a hypothesis.
	12:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...like McCartney had to be seen with the Hofner. Never know what's on the dang Records !!...
	12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...all my life told people I could listen to Beatle Records for the Bass alone...
	12:36pm Bob: On the RUSH front, i just saw that Geddy and Alex are doing those Taylor Hawkins tribute shows. They look like really weird bills in general but some people will be very excited about that.
	12:37pm gf2002: There's a brief scene in the Get Back documentary where Glyn Johns asks if McCartney could try another bass because the Hofner wasn't recording well, and McCartney says he's sticking with the Hofner. He rediscovered the Hofner violin bass during that past year and liked how light it was, and I think it was during this same time that his original Hofner bass was stolen and still hasn't been recovered
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gawd I love 'MillionMiles'.
	12:38pm luka: now this is a no. 1
	12:38pm Listener Baby: Baby, you still Ricky-ing, and I love you for it!
	12:38pm Bob: I've got it. I put a Roy Rogers lampshade on it for a disguise
	12:38pm paul: Where in tarnation is Oaklaholma?
	12:38pm eastvanhalen: I love this, and this, and this, and
	12:38pm SeanG: so damn good
	12:38pm johnk77: hofner beatle bass used later by the late michael been of the call front guy/bassist rip robbie shakespeare who used a short-scale hofner great work selecter
	12:38pm clarke: there is a "plimsouls" that toured a few years back, but it is basically eddie munoz with new guys.
	12:39pm egould: Rickenbacker heaven.
	12:39pm P-90: Plimsouls: a band that always spoke the “jangle” language. Note the clean, chorused amp tones.
	12:39pm PatrickMC: Whither Peter Case
	12:39pm clarke: one of the 'new guys' was FleshHammer (RIP) from Woggles
	12:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Listen to Beatle-themed podcasts like Fab4Free4All & Something About The Beatles ...instrument spotting in GetBack is a whole concern...
	12:40pm Bob: Peter Case is one of the great rock and roll singers ever
	12:41pm clarke: agreed, bob
	12:41pm Squints: clarke, the Guadalcanal Diary fella?
	12:41pm David Watts: isn't there some nerves/plimsouls connection?
	12:42pm johnk77: plimsouls could have been as big as tommy tutone?
	12:42pm clarke: yes, he played bass with the "plimsouls"
	12:42pm PatrickMC: Yes case in both I think
	12:42pm paul: Good Morning Girl
	12:42pm Squints: Case was in the Nerves with Paul Collins and Jack Lee.
	12:42pm Franco Twinkie: I met Peter Case at a Fourth of July party. We sat on the sofa and talked about the cardboard records that came in Mad Magazine. No rock star posturing there.
	12:42pm McGroovey: Neon Philharmonic! I bought this when it was reissued (on Sundazed?) in the nineties.
	12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...'clean, chorused amp tones' ...mild shudders...
	12:42pm johnk77: peter case was great as a solo also
	12:43pm PatrickMC: Case also a fine songwriter
	12:43pm clarke: again, let's establish that the plimsouls did NOT use rickenbackers.
	12:43pm paul: Bought the single when it came out. Still one of my favorites.
	12:43pm Jay S.: Love the Neon Philharmonic (not just this single).
	12:44pm Frank In Queens: Peter Case and The Plimsouls rate extremely high here in Queens.
	12:44pm Listener Baby: They did use Ricks. Not live
	12:44pm johnk77: historically most signals that were chorused were no longer clean!?;>
	12:44pm Squints: Some days, like the day you hear it, this is the best record ever made. My pop loved this record.
	12:45pm Hubig Pie: Lotsa words rhyme with Cheerios ™
	12:45pm clarke: you could be right, Baby (as usual).
	12:46pm Squints: "Let's head out for some beerios."
	12:46pm clarke: Hubig - 'ow goes?
	12:46pm P-90: @RevRab: “clean, chorused amp tones” are KEY to late 70’s-early 80’s New Wave sounds
	12:46pm Listener Baby: Clarke. Spent some nights with Eddie M in my old studio. Asked him too many questions.
	12:47pm Franco Twinkie: I always start the day with a bowl of Learios.
	12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not Franc-Ohs ??
	12:47pm clarke: one of me fave players, Baby. BABY!!
	12:48pm phat in lincoln: That Shaker's track, damn.
	12:48pm clarke: btw, Baby: is the punk back at school???
	12:48pm Squints: rrn63: I would, but, you know, the currency conversion....
	12:48pm Gaylord Fields: Charley Crockett channeling Bill Withers here, which is a good thing indeed!
	12:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...'Franco Twinkies' could be a breakfast indulgence ...if I didn't know better...
	12:49pm gf2002: This is a great new record - Check out the BB King channeling guitar solo...
	12:49pm clarke: good day gaylord fields!!
	12:49pm Jessie: Didn't Matt Piucci of Rain Parade use a Rickenbacker on Emergency Third Rail Power Trip?
	12:49pm Gaylord Fields: Ahoy there, clarke!
	12:50pm clarke: yer a cookie full of arsenic, Fields!!
	12:50pm Ochre Ogre: Gaylord- Indeed, good call!
	12:51pm clarke: i've never seen piucci use anything but gibsons - that doesn't mean on the records...
	12:51pm johnk77: mike campbell & tom petty used a number of attractive ricks live in 1980 vintage vox amps the guitar tech was bugs
	12:51pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hello All. Another mighty & informative show! Enjoy your vacation, Michael.
	12:51pm Franco Twinkie: A wiener wrapped in sponge cake!? Now I'm sick.
	12:51pm Bob: I've done some shows and spent a fair amount of time with Peter. One time he sat at my desk and went crazy with a cd-rom i had that had EVERY Mad magazine page ever. He was super stoked to go through old Mad's that he had and loved as a kid. It was pretty cool how excited he was.
	12:51pm Hubig Pie: Doin' swell-io, clarke
	12:52pm Squints: Was bugs his name? Or was he a little bit bugs?
	12:52pm Handy Haversack: Great show, MS -- even for the apparently only nonmusician listening!
	12:52pm clarke: @johnk77 - was it you who touted the book Stereo Killers?? if so, just finished it - great one!
	12:52pm P-90: Petty and Campbell def deserve a mention in the Rickenbacker topic!
	12:52pm dday: @gaylord: That Charlie Crockett is also like Jebloi Nichols (remember him? Country Disco) I may have incorrectly spelled his name...been a long time :)
	12:52pm Squints: Handy, I don't call myself a musician yet. Just some jackass with a guitar.
	12:52pm Jimmy Wipper: One day I brought my Rick (and an amp) to school to let the kids in my first grade class play it, and they lost their minds. The fireglow was a big hit. www.instagram.com...
	12:53pm morphe' y Simon: Made it back ..Thanks mSheely y all !!!!
	12:53pm johnk77: in the context of that tour he was not bugs not his birth name
	12:53pm Handy Haversack: Something for me to aspire to, Squints!
	12:53pm Ochre Ogre: Look at those go-go girls go to this track! (In my mind)
	12:53pm dday: Jeb Loy Nichols
	12:53pm nycmusicnerd: Handy: I'm just as clueless about this stuff as you are.
	12:53pm clarke: wipper - you teach first grade?!? wow!!
	12:53pm Franco Twinkie: Bob, that's the impression I got. He knew his MAD, there's no question.
	12:53pm Gaylord Fields: @dday: I haven't thought of Jeb Loy Nichols in a day or two.
	12:53pm Baby: Special request for the CCR song Baby. Amazing example of Rick as a hard rock guitar.
	12:54pm dday: @Gaylord: that much more than I :)
	12:55pm KevinfromBayRidge: I'm there with ya, Handy!
	12:55pm johnk77: the book i have been recommending is teddy templeman's also joel selvin's hollywood eden
	12:55pm clarke: Dr. Feelgood cover?
	12:55pm PatrickMC: This is mind blowing. No trace of Lee Brillaux
	12:55pm Handy Haversack: The musicians need us -- fans!
	12:56pm clarke: ok john - the search continues. ha ha.
	12:56pm Bob: Woah! Yeah, what's the story with that song?
	12:56pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Michael!
	12:56pm Jimmy Wipper: @clarke, I'm a (mostly) long term substitute teacher, so last year I was in a first grade class, and three years in a row I was the music teacher--only K and 1st grade. Blew a lot of minds with music they never would have heard or seen!
	12:56pm drr: that was cute though I question the wisdom of covering Dr. Feelgood and lowering the flame.
	12:56pm Handy Haversack: Oh, Kevin, K8 will be at Mama Tried like 3-7 for some bands, and then afterward Terre T and Vicki V are spinning, I believe. I don't think I'm likely to make it down.
	12:57pm P-90: @Jimmy Wipper: thanks for the photo. Fab!
	12:57pm Jimmy Wipper: @P-90--glad you liked it!
	12:57pm clarke: nice jim!! blowing minds!!
	12:57pm Handy Haversack: Rickenbacker sax?
	12:58pm Gaylord Fields: Noo Yawkahs don't tawk like dat no moah!
	12:59pm KevinfromBayRidge: Thanks, Handy. You just gave me my late afternoon plans! Hope you can saunter down.
	12:59pm clarke: it will be long!! ever get the feelin' ye been Ric'd?? goo'nite.
	12:59pm Jimmy Wipper: Every day, clarke! Sometime I'll post the video of the spring show I was in charge of--definitely no kids' songs!
	12:59pm dday: Ric's: It's all what you play'em through. Super cheaply made in the early days (plywood bodies). Interesting passage in Elvis Costello's book about a red one he purchased (supposedly belonged to George Harrison) & eventually returned way back when because he found it to be horrible to play. They're better built now & way more pricey. My love's got an '89 John Lennon Model here a 350V6 I believe it to be known as officially. Versatile with the proper amp, & or, pedals.
	12:59pm paul: Happy birthday,John Hiatt
	12:59pm SamTheRam: Fun times today, Thank You Michael
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael! Enjoy your time off.
	12:59pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Michael. What a show!
	1:00pm P-90: Thanks and enjoy the vaycay @Michael Shelley
	1:00pm drr: Great to hear Ace Of Spades on the #1 hit show. Thanks!
	1:00pm Doug: Great choice of tracks today! Love hearing songs that are new to me that I'm compelled to add to my playlist so that I can hear it over again. Thank you!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from August 20, 2022

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