WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 10, 2023

Listener comments!
	1/9 1:07pm Arvo: GOOD HELLO
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: Good Hello. And a Good Hello to you, too, Arvo!
	9:00pm Scott67: Meanwhile!! G'day Austin & Mutants! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:01pm Krys O.: Yay! I love Moulty!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Scott67 @9:00 You know it's a Sheena's chat when Scott67 shows up!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Ready to nug out...
	9:01pm MarkTime: Meanwhile, back in Barbarians land ....
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 You gotta love Moulty!
	9:02pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Scott brings the thunder from down under!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 You know what time it is!
	9:02pm Kat in Chicago: Arvo! I used your Delerious Insomniac intro to intro my show last night :) will be posted soon
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ MarkTime @9:01 They are at the gate.
	9:02pm Geoff-U: Hiii waves
	9:02pm Kat in Chicago: I got no sleep last night and am fading fast but I'll listen from bed if I have to.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:02 At least he brings the good beer.
	9:03pm Aaron in Minneapolis: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Are you implying I don't?
	9:04pm Kat in Chicago: Hi Austin and all!
	9:04pm Scott67: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:02 G'day Aaron! I try mate.🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:04pm HyperDose: Let the party begin!
	9:06pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Cosmic Jim, of course he did a 60s show!
	9:08pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Where are these fabled archives? I asked last week and you went all quiet on me!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:08 Some are online, but there are lots of holes, and lots of work to be done to flesh it out. I do my best, but... you know... midvalleymutations.com
	9:10pm Mr. X: Let's play guess that organ! Hammond B-3 here?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:02 Thanks Kat! Sleep is important; do it!
	9:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:10 Nope, gotta be a Vox
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:02 Always good to see you, dude!
	9:11pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Some weeks you had a cassette in the deck and you just forgot to hit the play button?
	9:12pm ramencity: Will the kids now come up with "fentanylsploitation"?
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:11 That, and there's a lot of stuff not uploaded, or I haven't digitized yet... there's a closet with a lot of boxes to go through and work yet to be done.
	9:12pm Mr. X: Is that Ted Nugent on guitar?
	9:12pm Aaron in Minneapolis: I meant the record button
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:12 He's in this band in some capacity, but I try not to think about it.
	9:12pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 First point to Mr. Fab.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: I think there's some sort of glitch on this recording of "Baby Please Don't Go." I do apologize for that.
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 LOL
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:12 We should probably start writing those songs, ramencitykid.
	9:14pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:12 i'm pretty nerdy on the electric organs/early electronic instruments tip.
	9:15pm ramencity: Are you playing Amboy Dukes in hono(u)r of Duke Harry?
	9:15pm Geoff-U: Was that just a guitar phrase from 3rd Stone From The Sun? or did Jimi lift it from this?
	9:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr Fab @9:14 I'm terrible at it, but I like to guess.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:15 Ooooo, good question! I'll have to side-by-side those, and check the dates.
	9:17pm Mr Fab: ↳ Geoff-U @9:15 'twas a tip o' the (floppy) hat to Jimi.
	9:18pm Geoff-U: I hope my mom and dad don't catch me listening to this crazy music, they'll send me to military school for a good "straightening out"!
	9:18pm Geoff-U: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 Gotcha, thanks :)
	9:19pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Roses Are Red My Love" by "The Savages" Gotta love those boomy production values.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I feel like people were sharing / borrowing riffs a lot more in the 60s. Who would have the ability to compare, and chances are your regional rock band with one single wouldn't be obsessively collected decades later, right?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I think the Blues Magoos were SLIGHTLY better than a lot of other 60's bands. I return to their album a little more than some of these other bands. (Maybe Love and The Seeds outrank them a little more.
	9:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Tobacco Road" by "Blues Magoos" Farfisa?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: I always love the "freak out" parts of these tunes.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:18 Make sure to keep your radio quiet, and listen under a blanket!
	9:24pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "I Saw Her In A Mustang" by "The Vandals" Lowry?
	9:24pm Mr Fab: Starting in the late '80s, I used to buy any orig records of the songs that appeared on "Nuggets." At the time they weren't that rare or expensive. Most record stores didn't care, they were still being run by these old guys who played jazz. Ya want some 45 by some rock freaks I never heard of? Sure kid, here ya go.
	9:25pm Mr. X: They have all had organs in them so far.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I do think that my attraction to 60's rock / pop music was that the organ was such a presence in these songs. It sounds so cool!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 Jealous. I have a few, but more on CD than on LP.
	9:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:24 no, Lowerys were those big ol' organs granma had in her living room! Basic '60s rock organ was the Vox, but this sounds a little more sleazy, so could be Farfisa. The sleaziest sounding keyboard ever.
	9:27pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 I sold a lot of em. Could not resist the $$$.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: When I would do my "Nuggets" show in 2005, I was on from 4 PM to 6 PM in PDX. I got a lot of calls from people in their cars, cab drivers, etc., who would request their fave hits. KPSU had a pretty good CD / LP collection when I started in those days, and being on AM felt sort of hip, like MONO was gonna make everything sound better, somehow. It was silly, but I miss those days. ramencitykid remembers.
	9:29pm Mr. X: These bands were all so sincere back then. Except maybe Ted.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:27 I mean, I would have bought them.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:29 There's also a lot more songs about sour relationships than I remembered. Strangely: I asked the DJ at my wedding to only play 60's Rock Music, except for some specific exceptions my wife and I picked out.
	9:33pm WR: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 I had a Farfisa, currently gathering dust in my brother's garage...
	9:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Liar, Liar" by "The Castaways" One of the very best Nuggets selections. The vocals sound like the Mothers of Invention.
	9:35pm Heather: Was running late but I'm tuned in and dancing my cares away now! Loving the Nuggets!
	9:35pm Krys O.: Thanks for these Nugget nougats, Austin. Good night, all!
	9:37pm Geoff-U: My old Eugene band, Hot For Chocolate, had a vintage Unicord Panther organ - definitely gave stuff the early 60's pop edge!
	9:37pm WR: ↳ WR @9:33 1969 ad for Farfisa with Sun Ra and some rockers. www.worthpoint.com...
	9:38pm Mr. X: ↳ Geoff-U @9:37 Nice
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:37 That definitely put ya'll in a different category, for sure. I forget that you were in that band.
	9:39pm Mr. X: Funny how some punk bands stole the names of some of these garage bands.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:37 That is so cool!
	9:39pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 better copy of the image www.ledzeppelin.com...
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:35 Glad you could make it!
	9:40pm ramencity: The Undertones!
	9:41pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:33 one of those 45s i bought for cheap way back when. Who knew I was "investing"?
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:40 They don't make nearly enough appearances on my show.
	9:41pm ramencity: ↳ WR @9:39 Ooh, yeah WR - downloading that puppy
	9:42pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 They do a cover of "Let's Talk Abt Girls" if that ejaculation was perplexing
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: I forgot to chime in, but yes, I agree: "Liar Liar" by The Castaways is an ALL TIME, STONE COLD CLASSIC! I really love that one.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:42 I think I have that one, even. Or, got it because you turned me on to The Undertones.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: "Do you think Ramen City will beat Turkey Sausage Sandwich in the playoffs this year?" "Who can say? Who can say..."
	9:44pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 I bet you can get a ramen sandwich in St. Louis...
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Psychotic Reaction" by "The Count Five" While this is probably TOO obvious, I concur with Lester Bangs assessment of this tune, as being one of the most important songs in human history, as outlined in his book.
	9:46pm ramencity: Raise your hand if you got punked by Lester Bangs and actually scoured record stores looking for Count 5's "Iron Rainbows on the International Dateline" until you realized he made all of their albums up...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:44 Probably. You can get everything cool in St. Louis. Or, at least, anywhere but here.
	9:46pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I didn't know that, but I have to agree.
	9:46pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Yeah I was the first bass player in the original lineup
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:46 I am easily conned and convinced of things not true, so as I was reading that book, you warned me that there was only one Count Five album, and that he was goofin'...
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Rich and mutants
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:47 Good Hello, coelacanthø!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 But I will admit that his description of those "future Count Five records" do sort of outline the future of punk and post-punk in a pretty insightful way.
	9:52pm Heather: Bob Dylan Impersonator, is it you?
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: When I was a young man, and easily impressionable and not really worried about sounding completely obvious, I would read Richard Meltzer's, "The Aesthetics of Rock," and Lester Bangs, "Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung," and quote them at bars as if they were scripture. ramencitykid can attest: I was nigh-intolerable.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:52 But I actually like this guy! He's not afraid to borrow Bob's style, but he's rockin' a little harder than Bob did at the time.
	9:54pm Mr. X: And you know all these bands had to defy their parents and their neighbors in order to practice enough to be this good, right? They deserve medals just for that.
	9:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 TMBG used to do a Bob Dylan Impersonator shtick and I love it so much. Not a Dylan fan but I'm here for impersonations! Weird Al has that great palindrome one, too!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:54 I think about the heroics some of these bands hand to pull off, to actually get these songs recorded, and that they became regional hits. It's so unlikely... and yet... they pulled it off. It's pretty impressive, considering their parents were born in... what... the 20's at some point? They had to have hated rock and roll.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Roller Coaster" by "13th Floor Elevators" The 13th Floor Elevators sort of stick out in this playlist, but I love them so much, and this album is so undeniably amazing, I was listening to it WAY too much in those days, and probably played a song from it every single show for most of 2005.
	9:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Roller Coaster" by "13th Floor Elevators" The jug player does it so differently from jug band jug players. A trademark of 13th Floor Elevators.
	9:58pm WR: ↳ ramencity @9:46 Yes, had it on my search list for a while.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:58 It's so cool! It's just the best.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: The two time I got to see Roky were just the best, and he only played a few songs at each show. (The band mostly played, and then they would wheel Roky out for a few tunes.) But he would go NUTS once he had that guitar in his hands. Just amazing. And he could still sing.
	10:02pm Mr. X: AKA Flo & Eddie
	10:02pm HyperDose: Hot tunes!
	10:04pm Mr. X: Hey, I shook hands with Arthur Lee.
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Cl... "Forever Changes" is one of the few "perfect" albums ever made, and certainly in 2005, I would have been playing this album TOO often, ranting and raving to anyone who would listen about how important this album is, blah blah blah. I was really a pain.
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:04 Jealous! Never saw Love, or Arthur Lee, or any concoction of things that might have involved them. But I do really appreciate their albums SO MUCH.
	10:05pm Mr Fab: My daughter's first concert was Roky's kid show And no, I'm not making that up.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 That's a really excellent first show! Excellent parenting.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: My mom took me to see Robert Palmer. She was sure I would like him.
	10:07pm Mr Fab: plus it was free and we got free ice cream
	10:07pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:05 It was just after he got out of jail and just before he died, a reunion tour with Love, at the WOW Hall. Arthur went to the front of the stage and shook hands with audience members during a song.
	10:12pm Heather: Run over!! Don't cut anything!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:07 I think I remember these shows, but I can't remember why I didn't go. I'm sure it was a dumb reason, like I had to work or something. Or worse: missed it to spend time with a girl.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:07 This was the Ice Cream "socials" that he would host? I tried to go to one of this, but missed it.
	10:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" by "The Mothers of Invention" Speaking of the most important records in human history...
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" by "The Mothers of Invention" I got super into this first Mothers album, and I have some other Zappa stuff, but I always return to this first album. (And there's a live one that I enjoy, too.) I'm not sure if unfiltered "Frank" is quite my speed, but there's something about this version of The Mothers that I really think works great.
	10:18pm Mr. X: Standing in line to see Frank at MacArthur Court, some guy who looked like Frank walked past. My friend swore it was really him.
	10:20pm coelacanth∅: Roky had a kids' show?! Awwwww!
	10:20pm Mr Fab: Funny, when I was a wee tot and just starting to get into music in the early '80s, I didn't know some of these records were from the '60s. When Rodney Bingenheimer (or to a lesser extant other KROQ djs) would play these, they fit in nicely with the current stuff. The Balloon Farm to Pere Ubu, anyone? The Seeds in between The Ramones, and the Cramps, who could tell?
	10:20pm coelacanth∅: what an angel he was
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Of course, listening to all this stuff just reminds me of 2005. I recall making mix CDs for girls I was courting, where I would include a TON of this kind of music, and then I wouldn't really hear back from that girl again. A lot of these songs are sort of about bad relationships... duh...
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:20 You are TOTALLY right. The Seeds basically sound like what a lot of punk bands WANTED to sound like. I sometimes think I'm a half or full generation out of step, because I think I would have gelled very well with that era of radio, Mr. Fab.
	10:23pm Mr Fab: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 Indeed! musicformaniacs.blogspot.com...
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I really got into this Electric Prunes album when I got it, too, and was probably playing it WAY too much back then.
	10:25pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Probably for the best. I married the guy who made me mix tapes of this kind of stuff and, well, that didn't turn out all that well! 😂
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:25 Were the mix tapes the problem? Or was it deep-seated issues that he wouldn't confront in an adult way?
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: for a few minutes in the late 70s wpix-fm was good (just as wnew-fm was completing their transition to 100% birdshit -so it was my stepping stone to wfmu) they played 60s psych and "protopunk" (like the stooges) together with punk and other new music. occasionally hard to tell and hard to find out if something was 10-15 years old or new
	10:26pm Mr Fab: Yeah, your classic '60s garage song is a guy puttin' down his baby cuz she's runnin' 'round all over town on him. Perhaps not the most romantic choice. Tho it does show excellent taste, so you'd think that would count for something.
	10:27pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Oh, that made me laugh! The latter, of course! I think I still have the tapes, even. Down with the rest of the basement tapes!
	10:28pm Geoff-U: Austin where's this show's flyer art from? It's cool
	10:28pm Mr. X: But the hearts and flowers crap is so insipid. I couldn't put that in a mix tape!
	10:28pm Mr Fab: yme & cybelle featured, believe it or don't, Warren Zevon
	10:28pm drowsy: Just tuned in, great set Austin Rich!
	10:28pm Geoff-U: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 whoa neat!
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Follow Me" by "Lyme & Cybelle" I get this song stuck in my head easily, so I will not be surprised if I am singing this song for the next week.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ drowsy @10:28 Thanks drowsy!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 I do recall that!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:28 I swore I would never write a love song. Now I might have to take that back.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Yeah" by "The Alarm Clocks" You can almost hear the concrete floor of this garage. Maybe even a metal garage door, covered with a thin blanket...
	10:30pm Mr Fab: These Alarm Clocks weren't strawberry. More like the non-fat, plain variety (tho still plenty tasty).
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:28 The art is from the first Nuggets Boxed set, which was organized by Patti Smith's guitar player, Lenny Kaye. The art was by someone else, but I think he picked it.
	10:31pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @10:28 I'm with you, Mr. X. I'm a pretty sappy person and when my eyes are rolling so hard they clang? A line has been crossed.
	10:31pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @10:31 LOL
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:27 I mean, we can't blame the tapes. They are innocent bystanders.
	10:33pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 Hm. 😂
	10:33pm Mr Fab: yep, my wife hates all that Celine/diva melodrama. And rom-coms, too.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: I realize now that the kind of mix-tape you should make, if you really wanna woo someone, is the one my wife loves: a live Diamanda Galas performance on side A, with the "Dune" soundtrack on side B.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 LOLOL!!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "That's the Bag I'm In" by "The Fabs" Was this your first band, Mr. Fab?
	10:35pm Mr. X: Why don't we say "bag" anymore?
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "That's the Bag I'm In" by "The Fabs" I get this song stuck in my head when I'm making coffee in the morning...
	10:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 inspired by the time i was trapped in a giant bag
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 Probably the same reason that people don't ask, "Okay, who's holding?"
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: A lot of Organs in the first hour, a lot of harmonicas in this hour.
	10:37pm Geoff-U: Wow fun guitar and bass treatment
	10:37pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "That's the Bag I'm In" by "The Fabs" check out their address: Mockingbird Lane. They lived down the street from the Munsters!
	10:37pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I still often put messages in mixes for the show! Not always but often. And my sense is they're picked up just as well as they were in the mix tape days, i.e., not at all. And I'm never subtle!! Such is my life, though.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 You think they every borrowed Grandpa's hot-rod?
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: (they borrowed it like i used to borrow my father's bikes before i had a license)
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:37 I used to think, in the old days, that giving someone a mix-tape was code for, ahem, "telling secrets." (In the MST3K parlance.) But apparently some people would listen to them and just think it was a collection of cool songs.
	10:43pm coelacanth∅: i rarely put messages in my mixtapes. just trying to impress with obscurities, mainly. only exceptions were a few i made during an inevitable disintegration.
	10:46pm WR: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 that address is a residence in Dallas. Literally a garage band, with boxes of 45s in the garage and they misspelled Fred Neil.
	10:46pm Arvo: I once asked the drummer from The Vandals for an autograph in 1999, and he wrote on the CD inlay "get laid out". True Story. Hi Kat! I am looking forward to hearing your show!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:46 Nice to see you in the chat, Arvo!
	10:47pm Heather: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:43 Oh, I've done that, too, for sure! But the message I intended was always, "look how weird and funny I am! Date me!" I fear that's still the case!
	10:48pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 But it absolutely was! Imagine my confusion when a boy gave me a mix with Reel Around The Fountain on it! But yeah. It is actually a good song.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Rat's Revenge! The most ridiculous, and amazing, single of the entire 60's.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Everyone should remember to tune in next, when Arvo Zylo takes over Mid-Valley Mutations! Again! It's gonna be great.
	10:50pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Hahah wow
	10:50pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Rat's Revenge (Part 1)" by "The Rats" Haha, i agree Austin - this is the most stoopid primitive record ever, It sounds like it was made up on the spot.
	10:51pm Geoff-U: Man all this music makes me want to go buy a used Mosrite guitar
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:50 The Standells: another "punk before there was punk" band.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Not meant only for Mr. Fab, but... you know...
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Riot on Sunset Strip" by "The Standells" Lots of good Standells tunes, including their hit "Dirty Water"
	10:54pm ramencity: ↳ Geoff-U @10:51 "If it's a Mosrite...it's aaawwright."
	10:54pm Geoff-U: Who would win in a rumble, The Rats or The Standells?
	10:55pm ramencity: Rats fight dirty
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Standells were totally rad. But I think The Rats were actually greasy guys who would all pull out knives and ride motorcycles. Like the Fonz, but for real.
	10:55pm Geoff-U: There's no picture of The Rats, which makes me fear them more. The Standells look like the mean business though
	10:56pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" by "Strawberry Alarm C... I remember when these guys showed up on Laugh-In. I thought their name was too ridiculous, but I loved it.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:56 They are pretty ridiculous, but they had a few good tunes. This might not have been their best, but it was on I actually played on my show when I was "Nuggets" obsessed.
	10:57pm Geoff-U: When I was growing up our neighbor down the block had a harpsichord and he'd let us plink around on in it, it was pretty cool!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "No Escape" by "The Seeds" The other "punk before there was punk" song in this set.
	10:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "No Escape" by "The Seeds" I knew you working your way toward playing The Seeds.
	10:59pm ramencity: Cabaret Voltaire covered this! You could do a "nuggets covered over" answer show...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:58 The Seeds are AMAZING.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:59 That's a REALLY good idea...
	10:59pm Arvo: Calico Wall "I'm A Living Sickness" would be another for me, punk before punk, etc. Great track.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Is A Mountain" by "Donovan" I love Donovan, and I have a LOT of Donovan albums... but this might be my fave song by him.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:59 Yes! That's a good one.
	11:00pm coelacanth∅: haha Heather (@1047) ...but weird can be very attractive!
	11:01pm Heather: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:00 It's all I got, Coel! 😂🥺
	11:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 My parents played "Barabajagal" a lot. I grew up on that one.
	11:02pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 it's def up there, with maybe only "HUrdy Gurdy Man" as the most serious competition. And yes, another vintage 45 I picked up for cheap.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: "The Hawkwind sheds it's Lemmy / to find the Motorhead within."
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: crap, i was in the kitchen for a minute and now it's 11 o'clock already
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" by "Captain Beefheart & H... THE original example of "punk before there was punk."
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: Heather i'm sure not!
	11:04pm Mr Fab: pretty much a rewrite of Howlin Wolf's "Down in Mississippi," but that's ok by me. The first Beefheart album I bought. Appropriate since it's his first.
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:04 It's really flawless, too. I was re-listening not long ago.. and it's outstanding.
	11:05pm Heather: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:03 You're too kind!
	11:06pm Mr. X: I like most of The Kinks phases, but that early stuff really gets me going.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Really Got Me" by "The Kinks" Seems important to include at least one Kinks song in the line-up, but I feel like I could have gone for a deeper cut. Still, this one has a nice "proto-punk" sound, too.
	11:06pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @11:05 Understandably overshadowed by his later more ground-breaking stuff, but totally deserves to honored as a classic garage/blues classic.
	11:07pm Mr Fab: Ooh, I didn't know the Small Faces covered this. Nice!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:06 His entire catalog is pretty astonishing... but he really had it from early on, too. I'm shocked he didn't have a "clunker" first record, which a lot of folks did.
	11:08pm Mr. X: Awesome tunes tonight, Austin. Several are near and dear to my heart. Thanks for entertaining us.
	11:08pm Heather: Probably edging toward the wrap up here so just wanted to say thanks, Austin, for the great show and, truly, thank you all here in the chat for the conversation and laughs. I've had a bit of a day here and hanging with y'all has done me a world of good!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:08 You are welcome. It was an easy show to want to do.
	11:09pm Mr Fab: I hear ya, Heather. The WFMU chat is the only "social media" I need.
	11:10pm Geoff-U: Thanks for the great show Austin!
	11:10pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Loved it, just too hot to chat! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	11:11pm drowsy: Thank you!
	11:13pm ramencity: If I could take one thing from this show, it'd be the copper wiring
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Rich! g'night y'all
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: I could go on all night, but I have to stop eventually.
	11:14pm Mr. X: Of course, the Sonics! I was going to guess the Nightcrawlers "Little Black Egg"
	11:14pm Mr Fab: Yeah, SONICS!!!!
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:14 That's a good one, Mr. X! Next time...
	11:20pm WR: Thank you, Austin! Fun revisit to my youth.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 10, 2023

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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January 10, 2023: Got Nuggets In Me Pockets

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Tobacco Road "Tobacco Road"
Barbarians	Moulty "Moulty" by "Barbarians"				0:00:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Shades	Ballot Bachs "Ballot Bachs" by "The Shades"	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 60s Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Instrumentals But Were Afraid to Ask	Arf! Arf! Records	1993	0:02:28 (Pop-up)
Danny & The Other Guys	Hard Times				0:08:27 (Pop-up)
Amboy Dukes	Baby Please Don't Go "Baby Please Don't Go" by "Amboy Dukes"				0:10:50 (Pop-up)
The Savages	Roses Are Red My Love				0:16:23 (Pop-up)
Blues Magoos	Tobacco Road "Tobacco Road" by "Blues Magoos"				0:18:40 (Pop-up)
The Vandals	I Saw Her In A Mustang				0:23:13 (Pop-up)
Blues Project	No Time Like the Right Time				0:25:53 (Pop-up)
Jay-Bees	Good Times "Good Times" by "Jay-Bees"				0:28:37 (Pop-up)
The Castaways	Liar, Liar "Liar, Liar" by "The Castaways"				0:31:17 (Pop-up)

Psychotic Reaction "Psychotic Reaction"
Music behind DJ: Pinocchio & His Puppets	Fusion "Fusion" by "Pinocchio & His Puppets"	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 60s Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Instrumentals But Were Afraid to Ask	Arf! Arf! Records	1993	0:33:03 (Pop-up)
The Avengers	Shipwrecked "Shipwrecked" by "The Avengers"				0:37:09 (Pop-up)
Chocolate Watchband	Let's Talk About Girls				0:38:44 (Pop-up)
Motor City Bonnevilles	Make Up Your Mind				0:41:33 (Pop-up)
The Count Five	Psychotic Reaction				0:43:25 (Pop-up)
Odds & Ends	Be Happy Baby "Be Happy Baby" by "Odds & Ends"				0:46:26 (Pop-up)
The Cryan' Shames	Sugar and Spice				0:48:46 (Pop-up)
The Ardels	Piece Of Jewelry "Piece Of Jewelry" by "The Ardels"				0:51:17 (Pop-up)
Syndicate of Sound	Little Girl "Little Girl" by "Syndicate of Sound"				0:53:23 (Pop-up)
13th Floor Elevators	Roller Coaster				0:55:44 (Pop-up)
Turtles	Outside Chance "Outside Chance" by "Turtles"				1:00:50 (Pop-up)
Love	Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale				1:02:48 (Pop-up)

That's The Bag I'm In "That's The Bag I'm In"
Music behind DJ: Question Mark	Hang In "Hang In" by "Question Mark"	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 60s Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Instrumentals But Were Afraid to Ask	Arf! Arf! Records	1993	1:06:17 (Pop-up)
The Woolies	Who Do You Love? "Who Do You Love?" by "The Woolies"				1:12:06 (Pop-up)
The Mothers of Invention	Hungry Freaks Daddy				1:14:02 (Pop-up)
The Elite	My Confusion "My Confusion" by "The Elite"				1:17:25 (Pop-up)
The Electric Prunes	The Great Banana Hoax				1:20:57 (Pop-up)
The Jujus	Do You Understand Me? "Do You Understand Me?" by "The Jujus"				1:23:34 (Pop-up)
Lyme & Cybelle	Follow Me "Follow Me" by "Lyme & Cybelle"				1:25:58 (Pop-up)
The Alarm Clocks	Yeah "Yeah" by "The Alarm Clocks"				1:28:24 (Pop-up)
Lyrics	So What!! "So What!!" by "Lyrics"				1:31:06 (Pop-up)
The Fabs	That's the Bag I'm In "That's the Bag I'm In" by "The Fabs"				1:33:46 (Pop-up)
The Mojo Men	She's My Baby "She's My Baby" by "The Mojo Men"				1:36:06 (Pop-up)

No Escape "No Escape"
Music behind DJ: Oxford Circle	Mind Destruction "Mind Destruction" by "Oxford Circle"	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 60s Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Instrumentals But Were Afraid to Ask	Arf! Arf! Records	1993	1:39:08 (Pop-up)
The Malibu's	Cry (Over Her) "Cry (Over Her)" by "The Malibu's"				1:41:47 (Pop-up)
Mouse & The Traps	Maid Of Sugar - Maid Of Spice				1:43:54 (Pop-up)
The Legends	I'll Come Again "I'll Come Again" by "The Legends"				1:46:27 (Pop-up)
The Rats	Rat's Revenge (Part 1) "Rat's Revenge (Part 1)" by "The Rats"				1:48:31 (Pop-up)
The Standells	Riot on Sunset Strip				1:51:42 (Pop-up)
Strawberry Alarm Clock	Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow				1:54:01 (Pop-up)
The Seeds	No Escape "No Escape" by "The Seeds"				1:56:54 (Pop-up)
Donovan	This Is A Mountain "This Is A Mountain" by "Donovan"				1:59:05 (Pop-up)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do				2:01:39 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	You Really Got Me "You Really Got Me" by "The Kinks"				2:03:44 (Pop-up)
The Small Faces	Shake "Shake" by "The Small Faces"				2:05:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Sounds Like Us	The Other Side of a Record	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 60s Mind Expansive Punkadelic Garage Rock Instrumentals But Were Afraid to Ask	Arf! Arf! Records	1993	2:08:46 (Pop-up)
The Sonics	Psycho "Psycho" by "The Sonics"				2:12:51 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1/9 1:07pm Arvo: GOOD HELLO
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: Good Hello. And a Good Hello to you, too, Arvo!
	9:00pm Scott67: Meanwhile!! G'day Austin & Mutants! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:01pm Krys O.: Yay! I love Moulty!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Scott67 @9:00 You know it's a Sheena's chat when Scott67 shows up!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Ready to nug out...
	9:01pm MarkTime: Meanwhile, back in Barbarians land ....
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 You gotta love Moulty!
	9:02pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Scott brings the thunder from down under!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 You know what time it is!
	9:02pm Kat in Chicago: Arvo! I used your Delerious Insomniac intro to intro my show last night :) will be posted soon
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ MarkTime @9:01 They are at the gate.
	9:02pm Geoff-U: Hiii waves
	9:02pm Kat in Chicago: I got no sleep last night and am fading fast but I'll listen from bed if I have to.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:02 At least he brings the good beer.
	9:03pm Aaron in Minneapolis: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Are you implying I don't?
	9:04pm Kat in Chicago: Hi Austin and all!
	9:04pm Scott67: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:02 G'day Aaron! I try mate.🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:04pm HyperDose: Let the party begin!
	9:06pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Cosmic Jim, of course he did a 60s show!
	9:08pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Where are these fabled archives? I asked last week and you went all quiet on me!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:08 Some are online, but there are lots of holes, and lots of work to be done to flesh it out. I do my best, but... you know... midvalleymutations.com
	9:10pm Mr. X: Let's play guess that organ! Hammond B-3 here?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:02 Thanks Kat! Sleep is important; do it!
	9:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:10 Nope, gotta be a Vox
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:02 Always good to see you, dude!
	9:11pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Some weeks you had a cassette in the deck and you just forgot to hit the play button?
	9:12pm ramencity: Will the kids now come up with "fentanylsploitation"?
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:11 That, and there's a lot of stuff not uploaded, or I haven't digitized yet... there's a closet with a lot of boxes to go through and work yet to be done.
	9:12pm Mr. X: Is that Ted Nugent on guitar?
	9:12pm Aaron in Minneapolis: I meant the record button
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:12 He's in this band in some capacity, but I try not to think about it.
	9:12pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 First point to Mr. Fab.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: I think there's some sort of glitch on this recording of "Baby Please Don't Go." I do apologize for that.
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 LOL
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:12 We should probably start writing those songs, ramencitykid.
	9:14pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:12 i'm pretty nerdy on the electric organs/early electronic instruments tip.
	9:15pm ramencity: Are you playing Amboy Dukes in hono(u)r of Duke Harry?
	9:15pm Geoff-U: Was that just a guitar phrase from 3rd Stone From The Sun? or did Jimi lift it from this?
	9:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr Fab @9:14 I'm terrible at it, but I like to guess.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:15 Ooooo, good question! I'll have to side-by-side those, and check the dates.
	9:17pm Mr Fab: ↳ Geoff-U @9:15 'twas a tip o' the (floppy) hat to Jimi.
	9:18pm Geoff-U: I hope my mom and dad don't catch me listening to this crazy music, they'll send me to military school for a good "straightening out"!
	9:18pm Geoff-U: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 Gotcha, thanks :)
	9:19pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Roses Are Red My Love" by "The Savages" Gotta love those boomy production values.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I feel like people were sharing / borrowing riffs a lot more in the 60s. Who would have the ability to compare, and chances are your regional rock band with one single wouldn't be obsessively collected decades later, right?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I think the Blues Magoos were SLIGHTLY better than a lot of other 60's bands. I return to their album a little more than some of these other bands. (Maybe Love and The Seeds outrank them a little more.
	9:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Tobacco Road" by "Blues Magoos" Farfisa?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: I always love the "freak out" parts of these tunes.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:18 Make sure to keep your radio quiet, and listen under a blanket!
	9:24pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "I Saw Her In A Mustang" by "The Vandals" Lowry?
	9:24pm Mr Fab: Starting in the late '80s, I used to buy any orig records of the songs that appeared on "Nuggets." At the time they weren't that rare or expensive. Most record stores didn't care, they were still being run by these old guys who played jazz. Ya want some 45 by some rock freaks I never heard of? Sure kid, here ya go.
	9:25pm Mr. X: They have all had organs in them so far.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I do think that my attraction to 60's rock / pop music was that the organ was such a presence in these songs. It sounds so cool!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 Jealous. I have a few, but more on CD than on LP.
	9:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:24 no, Lowerys were those big ol' organs granma had in her living room! Basic '60s rock organ was the Vox, but this sounds a little more sleazy, so could be Farfisa. The sleaziest sounding keyboard ever.
	9:27pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 I sold a lot of em. Could not resist the $$$.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: When I would do my "Nuggets" show in 2005, I was on from 4 PM to 6 PM in PDX. I got a lot of calls from people in their cars, cab drivers, etc., who would request their fave hits. KPSU had a pretty good CD / LP collection when I started in those days, and being on AM felt sort of hip, like MONO was gonna make everything sound better, somehow. It was silly, but I miss those days. ramencitykid remembers.
	9:29pm Mr. X: These bands were all so sincere back then. Except maybe Ted.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:27 I mean, I would have bought them.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:29 There's also a lot more songs about sour relationships than I remembered. Strangely: I asked the DJ at my wedding to only play 60's Rock Music, except for some specific exceptions my wife and I picked out.
	9:33pm WR: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 I had a Farfisa, currently gathering dust in my brother's garage...
	9:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Liar, Liar" by "The Castaways" One of the very best Nuggets selections. The vocals sound like the Mothers of Invention.
	9:35pm Heather: Was running late but I'm tuned in and dancing my cares away now! Loving the Nuggets!
	9:35pm Krys O.: Thanks for these Nugget nougats, Austin. Good night, all!
	9:37pm Geoff-U: My old Eugene band, Hot For Chocolate, had a vintage Unicord Panther organ - definitely gave stuff the early 60's pop edge!
	9:37pm WR: ↳ WR @9:33 1969 ad for Farfisa with Sun Ra and some rockers. www.worthpoint.com...
	9:38pm Mr. X: ↳ Geoff-U @9:37 Nice
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:37 That definitely put ya'll in a different category, for sure. I forget that you were in that band.
	9:39pm Mr. X: Funny how some punk bands stole the names of some of these garage bands.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:37 That is so cool!
	9:39pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 better copy of the image www.ledzeppelin.com...
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:35 Glad you could make it!
	9:40pm ramencity: The Undertones!
	9:41pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:33 one of those 45s i bought for cheap way back when. Who knew I was "investing"?
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:40 They don't make nearly enough appearances on my show.
	9:41pm ramencity: ↳ WR @9:39 Ooh, yeah WR - downloading that puppy
	9:42pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 They do a cover of "Let's Talk Abt Girls" if that ejaculation was perplexing
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: I forgot to chime in, but yes, I agree: "Liar Liar" by The Castaways is an ALL TIME, STONE COLD CLASSIC! I really love that one.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:42 I think I have that one, even. Or, got it because you turned me on to The Undertones.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: "Do you think Ramen City will beat Turkey Sausage Sandwich in the playoffs this year?" "Who can say? Who can say..."
	9:44pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 I bet you can get a ramen sandwich in St. Louis...
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Psychotic Reaction" by "The Count Five" While this is probably TOO obvious, I concur with Lester Bangs assessment of this tune, as being one of the most important songs in human history, as outlined in his book.
	9:46pm ramencity: Raise your hand if you got punked by Lester Bangs and actually scoured record stores looking for Count 5's "Iron Rainbows on the International Dateline" until you realized he made all of their albums up...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:44 Probably. You can get everything cool in St. Louis. Or, at least, anywhere but here.
	9:46pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I didn't know that, but I have to agree.
	9:46pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Yeah I was the first bass player in the original lineup
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:46 I am easily conned and convinced of things not true, so as I was reading that book, you warned me that there was only one Count Five album, and that he was goofin'...
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Rich and mutants
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:47 Good Hello, coelacanthø!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 But I will admit that his description of those "future Count Five records" do sort of outline the future of punk and post-punk in a pretty insightful way.
	9:52pm Heather: Bob Dylan Impersonator, is it you?
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: When I was a young man, and easily impressionable and not really worried about sounding completely obvious, I would read Richard Meltzer's, "The Aesthetics of Rock," and Lester Bangs, "Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung," and quote them at bars as if they were scripture. ramencitykid can attest: I was nigh-intolerable.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:52 But I actually like this guy! He's not afraid to borrow Bob's style, but he's rockin' a little harder than Bob did at the time.
	9:54pm Mr. X: And you know all these bands had to defy their parents and their neighbors in order to practice enough to be this good, right? They deserve medals just for that.
	9:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 TMBG used to do a Bob Dylan Impersonator shtick and I love it so much. Not a Dylan fan but I'm here for impersonations! Weird Al has that great palindrome one, too!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:54 I think about the heroics some of these bands hand to pull off, to actually get these songs recorded, and that they became regional hits. It's so unlikely... and yet... they pulled it off. It's pretty impressive, considering their parents were born in... what... the 20's at some point? They had to have hated rock and roll.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Roller Coaster" by "13th Floor Elevators" The 13th Floor Elevators sort of stick out in this playlist, but I love them so much, and this album is so undeniably amazing, I was listening to it WAY too much in those days, and probably played a song from it every single show for most of 2005.
	9:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Roller Coaster" by "13th Floor Elevators" The jug player does it so differently from jug band jug players. A trademark of 13th Floor Elevators.
	9:58pm WR: ↳ ramencity @9:46 Yes, had it on my search list for a while.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:58 It's so cool! It's just the best.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: The two time I got to see Roky were just the best, and he only played a few songs at each show. (The band mostly played, and then they would wheel Roky out for a few tunes.) But he would go NUTS once he had that guitar in his hands. Just amazing. And he could still sing.
	10:02pm Mr. X: AKA Flo & Eddie
	10:02pm HyperDose: Hot tunes!
	10:04pm Mr. X: Hey, I shook hands with Arthur Lee.
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Cl... "Forever Changes" is one of the few "perfect" albums ever made, and certainly in 2005, I would have been playing this album TOO often, ranting and raving to anyone who would listen about how important this album is, blah blah blah. I was really a pain.
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:04 Jealous! Never saw Love, or Arthur Lee, or any concoction of things that might have involved them. But I do really appreciate their albums SO MUCH.
	10:05pm Mr Fab: My daughter's first concert was Roky's kid show And no, I'm not making that up.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 That's a really excellent first show! Excellent parenting.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: My mom took me to see Robert Palmer. She was sure I would like him.
	10:07pm Mr Fab: plus it was free and we got free ice cream
	10:07pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:05 It was just after he got out of jail and just before he died, a reunion tour with Love, at the WOW Hall. Arthur went to the front of the stage and shook hands with audience members during a song.
	10:12pm Heather: Run over!! Don't cut anything!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:07 I think I remember these shows, but I can't remember why I didn't go. I'm sure it was a dumb reason, like I had to work or something. Or worse: missed it to spend time with a girl.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:07 This was the Ice Cream "socials" that he would host? I tried to go to one of this, but missed it.
	10:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" by "The Mothers of Invention" Speaking of the most important records in human history...
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" by "The Mothers of Invention" I got super into this first Mothers album, and I have some other Zappa stuff, but I always return to this first album. (And there's a live one that I enjoy, too.) I'm not sure if unfiltered "Frank" is quite my speed, but there's something about this version of The Mothers that I really think works great.
	10:18pm Mr. X: Standing in line to see Frank at MacArthur Court, some guy who looked like Frank walked past. My friend swore it was really him.
	10:20pm coelacanth∅: Roky had a kids' show?! Awwwww!
	10:20pm Mr Fab: Funny, when I was a wee tot and just starting to get into music in the early '80s, I didn't know some of these records were from the '60s. When Rodney Bingenheimer (or to a lesser extant other KROQ djs) would play these, they fit in nicely with the current stuff. The Balloon Farm to Pere Ubu, anyone? The Seeds in between The Ramones, and the Cramps, who could tell?
	10:20pm coelacanth∅: what an angel he was
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Of course, listening to all this stuff just reminds me of 2005. I recall making mix CDs for girls I was courting, where I would include a TON of this kind of music, and then I wouldn't really hear back from that girl again. A lot of these songs are sort of about bad relationships... duh...
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:20 You are TOTALLY right. The Seeds basically sound like what a lot of punk bands WANTED to sound like. I sometimes think I'm a half or full generation out of step, because I think I would have gelled very well with that era of radio, Mr. Fab.
	10:23pm Mr Fab: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 Indeed! musicformaniacs.blogspot.com...
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I really got into this Electric Prunes album when I got it, too, and was probably playing it WAY too much back then.
	10:25pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Probably for the best. I married the guy who made me mix tapes of this kind of stuff and, well, that didn't turn out all that well! 😂
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:25 Were the mix tapes the problem? Or was it deep-seated issues that he wouldn't confront in an adult way?
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: for a few minutes in the late 70s wpix-fm was good (just as wnew-fm was completing their transition to 100% birdshit -so it was my stepping stone to wfmu) they played 60s psych and "protopunk" (like the stooges) together with punk and other new music. occasionally hard to tell and hard to find out if something was 10-15 years old or new
	10:26pm Mr Fab: Yeah, your classic '60s garage song is a guy puttin' down his baby cuz she's runnin' 'round all over town on him. Perhaps not the most romantic choice. Tho it does show excellent taste, so you'd think that would count for something.
	10:27pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Oh, that made me laugh! The latter, of course! I think I still have the tapes, even. Down with the rest of the basement tapes!
	10:28pm Geoff-U: Austin where's this show's flyer art from? It's cool
	10:28pm Mr. X: But the hearts and flowers crap is so insipid. I couldn't put that in a mix tape!
	10:28pm Mr Fab: yme & cybelle featured, believe it or don't, Warren Zevon
	10:28pm drowsy: Just tuned in, great set Austin Rich!
	10:28pm Geoff-U: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 whoa neat!
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Follow Me" by "Lyme & Cybelle" I get this song stuck in my head easily, so I will not be surprised if I am singing this song for the next week.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ drowsy @10:28 Thanks drowsy!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 I do recall that!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:28 I swore I would never write a love song. Now I might have to take that back.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Yeah" by "The Alarm Clocks" You can almost hear the concrete floor of this garage. Maybe even a metal garage door, covered with a thin blanket...
	10:30pm Mr Fab: These Alarm Clocks weren't strawberry. More like the non-fat, plain variety (tho still plenty tasty).
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:28 The art is from the first Nuggets Boxed set, which was organized by Patti Smith's guitar player, Lenny Kaye. The art was by someone else, but I think he picked it.
	10:31pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @10:28 I'm with you, Mr. X. I'm a pretty sappy person and when my eyes are rolling so hard they clang? A line has been crossed.
	10:31pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @10:31 LOL
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:27 I mean, we can't blame the tapes. They are innocent bystanders.
	10:33pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 Hm. 😂
	10:33pm Mr Fab: yep, my wife hates all that Celine/diva melodrama. And rom-coms, too.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: I realize now that the kind of mix-tape you should make, if you really wanna woo someone, is the one my wife loves: a live Diamanda Galas performance on side A, with the "Dune" soundtrack on side B.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 LOLOL!!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "That's the Bag I'm In" by "The Fabs" Was this your first band, Mr. Fab?
	10:35pm Mr. X: Why don't we say "bag" anymore?
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "That's the Bag I'm In" by "The Fabs" I get this song stuck in my head when I'm making coffee in the morning...
	10:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 inspired by the time i was trapped in a giant bag
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 Probably the same reason that people don't ask, "Okay, who's holding?"
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: A lot of Organs in the first hour, a lot of harmonicas in this hour.
	10:37pm Geoff-U: Wow fun guitar and bass treatment
	10:37pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "That's the Bag I'm In" by "The Fabs" check out their address: Mockingbird Lane. They lived down the street from the Munsters!
	10:37pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I still often put messages in mixes for the show! Not always but often. And my sense is they're picked up just as well as they were in the mix tape days, i.e., not at all. And I'm never subtle!! Such is my life, though.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 You think they every borrowed Grandpa's hot-rod?
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: (they borrowed it like i used to borrow my father's bikes before i had a license)
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:37 I used to think, in the old days, that giving someone a mix-tape was code for, ahem, "telling secrets." (In the MST3K parlance.) But apparently some people would listen to them and just think it was a collection of cool songs.
	10:43pm coelacanth∅: i rarely put messages in my mixtapes. just trying to impress with obscurities, mainly. only exceptions were a few i made during an inevitable disintegration.
	10:46pm WR: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 that address is a residence in Dallas. Literally a garage band, with boxes of 45s in the garage and they misspelled Fred Neil.
	10:46pm Arvo: I once asked the drummer from The Vandals for an autograph in 1999, and he wrote on the CD inlay "get laid out". True Story. Hi Kat! I am looking forward to hearing your show!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:46 Nice to see you in the chat, Arvo!
	10:47pm Heather: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:43 Oh, I've done that, too, for sure! But the message I intended was always, "look how weird and funny I am! Date me!" I fear that's still the case!
	10:48pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 But it absolutely was! Imagine my confusion when a boy gave me a mix with Reel Around The Fountain on it! But yeah. It is actually a good song.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Rat's Revenge! The most ridiculous, and amazing, single of the entire 60's.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Everyone should remember to tune in next, when Arvo Zylo takes over Mid-Valley Mutations! Again! It's gonna be great.
	10:50pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Hahah wow
	10:50pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Rat's Revenge (Part 1)" by "The Rats" Haha, i agree Austin - this is the most stoopid primitive record ever, It sounds like it was made up on the spot.
	10:51pm Geoff-U: Man all this music makes me want to go buy a used Mosrite guitar
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:50 The Standells: another "punk before there was punk" band.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Not meant only for Mr. Fab, but... you know...
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Riot on Sunset Strip" by "The Standells" Lots of good Standells tunes, including their hit "Dirty Water"
	10:54pm ramencity: ↳ Geoff-U @10:51 "If it's a Mosrite...it's aaawwright."
	10:54pm Geoff-U: Who would win in a rumble, The Rats or The Standells?
	10:55pm ramencity: Rats fight dirty
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Standells were totally rad. But I think The Rats were actually greasy guys who would all pull out knives and ride motorcycles. Like the Fonz, but for real.
	10:55pm Geoff-U: There's no picture of The Rats, which makes me fear them more. The Standells look like the mean business though
	10:56pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" by "Strawberry Alarm C... I remember when these guys showed up on Laugh-In. I thought their name was too ridiculous, but I loved it.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:56 They are pretty ridiculous, but they had a few good tunes. This might not have been their best, but it was on I actually played on my show when I was "Nuggets" obsessed.
	10:57pm Geoff-U: When I was growing up our neighbor down the block had a harpsichord and he'd let us plink around on in it, it was pretty cool!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "No Escape" by "The Seeds" The other "punk before there was punk" song in this set.
	10:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "No Escape" by "The Seeds" I knew you working your way toward playing The Seeds.
	10:59pm ramencity: Cabaret Voltaire covered this! You could do a "nuggets covered over" answer show...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:58 The Seeds are AMAZING.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:59 That's a REALLY good idea...
	10:59pm Arvo: Calico Wall "I'm A Living Sickness" would be another for me, punk before punk, etc. Great track.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Is A Mountain" by "Donovan" I love Donovan, and I have a LOT of Donovan albums... but this might be my fave song by him.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:59 Yes! That's a good one.
	11:00pm coelacanth∅: haha Heather (@1047) ...but weird can be very attractive!
	11:01pm Heather: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:00 It's all I got, Coel! 😂🥺
	11:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 My parents played "Barabajagal" a lot. I grew up on that one.
	11:02pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 it's def up there, with maybe only "HUrdy Gurdy Man" as the most serious competition. And yes, another vintage 45 I picked up for cheap.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: "The Hawkwind sheds it's Lemmy / to find the Motorhead within."
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: crap, i was in the kitchen for a minute and now it's 11 o'clock already
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" by "Captain Beefheart & H... THE original example of "punk before there was punk."
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: Heather i'm sure not!
	11:04pm Mr Fab: pretty much a rewrite of Howlin Wolf's "Down in Mississippi," but that's ok by me. The first Beefheart album I bought. Appropriate since it's his first.
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:04 It's really flawless, too. I was re-listening not long ago.. and it's outstanding.
	11:05pm Heather: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:03 You're too kind!
	11:06pm Mr. X: I like most of The Kinks phases, but that early stuff really gets me going.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Really Got Me" by "The Kinks" Seems important to include at least one Kinks song in the line-up, but I feel like I could have gone for a deeper cut. Still, this one has a nice "proto-punk" sound, too.
	11:06pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @11:05 Understandably overshadowed by his later more ground-breaking stuff, but totally deserves to honored as a classic garage/blues classic.
	11:07pm Mr Fab: Ooh, I didn't know the Small Faces covered this. Nice!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:06 His entire catalog is pretty astonishing... but he really had it from early on, too. I'm shocked he didn't have a "clunker" first record, which a lot of folks did.
	11:08pm Mr. X: Awesome tunes tonight, Austin. Several are near and dear to my heart. Thanks for entertaining us.
	11:08pm Heather: Probably edging toward the wrap up here so just wanted to say thanks, Austin, for the great show and, truly, thank you all here in the chat for the conversation and laughs. I've had a bit of a day here and hanging with y'all has done me a world of good!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:08 You are welcome. It was an easy show to want to do.
	11:09pm Mr Fab: I hear ya, Heather. The WFMU chat is the only "social media" I need.
	11:10pm Geoff-U: Thanks for the great show Austin!
	11:10pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Loved it, just too hot to chat! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	11:11pm drowsy: Thank you!
	11:13pm ramencity: If I could take one thing from this show, it'd be the copper wiring
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Rich! g'night y'all
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: I could go on all night, but I have to stop eventually.
	11:14pm Mr. X: Of course, the Sonics! I was going to guess the Nightcrawlers "Little Black Egg"
	11:14pm Mr Fab: Yeah, SONICS!!!!
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:14 That's a good one, Mr. X! Next time...
	11:20pm WR: Thank you, Austin! Fun revisit to my youth.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 10, 2023

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