WFMU: The Mike Rogers Show: Playlist from December 21, 2022

Listener comments!
	3:06pm Mike Rogers: Good Morning!
	4:01pm Mike Rogers: Fifi & the Mach III are my current favorite Japanese rock band!
	4:01pm Mr Fab: the 5678s playing on the stream now...
	4:02pm Mike Rogers: Hey Mr. Fab san! I thought I recognized that warbling scream!
	4:04pm Mike Rogers: Good Morning Mr. Fab san!
	4:04pm Mike Rogers: It's freezing cold here!
	4:13pm Mike Rogers: I found what I think is the best Japanese band of all time. They were active until 2005 then they broke up. In Japan, they didn't sell any records, never appeared on TV (They hate the mass media) no one came to their shows. But they went to Europe and all their shows were sold out!!!! They said they couldn't believe it! They came back to Japan, and it was the same old nothing... So the band broke up! They were 20 years too soon! They would be huge now! Fifi & the Mach III!
	4:15pm Mike Rogers: A big label wanted to sign them but the band said "No!" because they figured the label wanted to change them into a Big Hair Visual-Kei band. (And the label would have!)
	4:16pm Mike Rogers: We gonna rock n roll today...
	4:17pm Mike Rogers: I'm gonna record today's show just in case.
	4:17pm Mike Rogers: We are going to make rock history today!
	4:19pm Mike Rogers: Japanese girl who sings like the Go Go's or Joan Jett. Not typical high pitched Japanese girl singer.
	4:30pm Mike Rogers: The Kaminari Japan Film Festival will be held ONLINE and IT'S FREE! Dec, 26 ~ Jan. 8, 2023! WATCH FOR FREE! soundsurf.com...
	4:31pm Mike Rogers: Nearly 8000 people watched the JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival. Don't miss the Kaminari Japan Film Festival!
	4:57pm Mike Rogers: Ready to rock & roll????
	4:57pm Mr Fab: Wait a minute, i'm not ready...Ok, now I'm ready.
	4:58pm Mike Rogers: Kids! Put on your blast caps!
	4:58pm Aitch: Bring on greatest rock band! Ohayo Mike-san and crew
	5:00pm Mike Rogers: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Blast Off!
	5:00pm ultradamno: Mr Rogers! Neighbors!
	5:00pm Aitch: Hey ho, let's go!
	5:01pm Mike Rogers: Hey Aitch san! Good morning!
	5:01pm Mike Rogers: Hey Aitch san! I think this might be my last show. Nothing more to achieve!
	5:01pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Good morning! Rock n Roll!!!!
	5:02pm mochy: mike-san Dear listeners, Good morning！
	5:02pm Aitch: You have to stay Mike-san, we need you now we know
	5:03pm Mike Rogers: Ok.Let me think about it for a second. OK. I'm in!
	5:03pm SheenaER: Hey hey!
	5:03pm Mike Rogers: Mochy san! ohayougozaimasu!
	5:03pm mochy: sheena-san ohadesu!
	5:04pm Mike Rogers: Sheena! You are here! Thanks so much! We's gonna rock & roll!
	5:04pm Ted: Enjoyed the Clem Burke interivew!
	5:05pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Good morning! Ohayougozimasu!
	5:05pm Aitch: Your dad rules Sheena-san!
	5:05pm Mr Fab: in other happy rock news, The Cramps "Goo Goo Muck" is #25 on the iTunes chart. Great to see they finally have a charting single, tho I honestly don't know anyone who bothers with iTunes anymore.
	5:05pm mochy: Yesterday I went to see the illustration of yutaka-san of spam69. I went to a bookstore in Omotesando.
	5:05pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Thanks for watching the Clem Burke interview. He is such a nice guy!
	5:05pm ultradamno: Pertinent point of interest of the week 1: Legendary Japanese hardcore band G.I.S.M's '87 sophomore album Military Affairs Neurotic is being reissued, the first time it has been released outside of Japan www.punknews.org... gismband.bandcamp.com... Pertinent point of interest of the week 2: Fish soda? With a tomato base and peppers? And roe in it? www.bbc.com...
	5:06pm Aitch: Must see the Clem thing, busy pre-xmas and I forgot
	5:07pm Aitch: ↳ ultradamno @5:05 Rock'n'roe!
	5:08pm ultradamno: Yay Cramps! And that's not even one of the songs on the Stranger Things 4 OST
	5:08pm Ted: I was able to hear Clem drum for Nancy Sinatra at a Native American casino about 20 years ago here in Arizona. He was a powerhouse.
	5:08pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! That's great news!!!!
	5:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Aitch @5:06 same here. taking a long holiday and want to get caught up on Mike's video adventures.
	5:08pm Mike Rogers: Aitch san, Clem is so calm and he says, "Yeah, I was in Blondie, Eurythmics, blah, blah, blah" so nonchalantly.
	5:09pm Aitch: GISM should tour with TISM
	5:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Ted @5:08 Damn! Jealous!!
	5:10pm ultradamno: TISM would want to open so as not to compete with the ear ringing
	5:10pm Mike Rogers: Yeah Ted san! He mentioned, "Yeah I played for Nancy Sinatra" like you and I would say "I mowed the lawn."
	5:10pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab please watch the Clem Burke interview!!!!
	5:11pm ultradamno: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:08 Nearly a Ramone too
	5:11pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @5:08 All of WFMU crown should look at the Mike Rogers / Mr Fab interview, explains so much
	5:11pm Aitch: crowd
	5:11pm Feldy: Hey there Mike san!!
	5:12pm Mike Rogers: Ulradamno san! Yeah. the Ramones. He said the Ramones songs are difficult to play!
	5:12pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab needs to update his interview!!!!
	5:12pm Ted: I think Clem mentioned in the interview that he is writing a memoir.
	5:12pm Mike Rogers: Let's do that over the holidays, Mr. Fab.
	5:13pm ultradamno: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:12 Johnny wrote about it in his book Commando, they had to fire him
	5:13pm Mike Rogers: Feldy san! Goooood Morning!
	5:14pm Mike Rogers: Ted san, Clem is doing so many things! I think he doesn't sleep!
	5:14pm Ted: like you!
	5:15pm Mike Rogers: No. I sleep A LOT!!!! Take a nappy time everyday! I'm getting, er, I've gotten old!
	5:16pm Mike Rogers: Damm! It's cold as heck and raining here!
	5:17pm Domenic: ↳ Mike Rogers @4:13 What a story!
	5:17pm ultradamno: 34˚ Overcast. Feels Like: 28˚here now, according to Dark Sky
	5:19pm Mike Rogers: Domenic san! Good morning to you! Thanks for stopping by! We're going to be giving away ten million dollars to one lucky winner at today's show so you'll wanna stay tuned! ;)
	5:19pm ultradamno: Evidently a blizzard coming to Iowa.
	5:19pm Mike Rogers: Ultradmano san, That's kind of hot isn't it? Is it muggy?
	5:20pm Mike Rogers: Oh, me no like cold.... Or hot!
	5:20pm Aitch: They could re-form as Theee Mach Threee and all will be new again?
	5:21pm Domenic: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:19 I'm fine, thank you, already have ten million dollars! LOL
	5:21pm Mike Rogers: Well, they have reformed. It's a long story... But Fifi is gone and they have a new singer. I will play one song by the new band!
	5:21pm ultradamno: It's a pretty dry heat
	5:21pm Aitch: Americans still on F degrees Mike-san so 32 =zero
	5:21pm Mike Rogers: When Fifi and the Mach III broke up, they didn't play for ten years!
	5:22pm ultradamno: I can understand using an apple but this twitter.com...
	5:22pm Mike Rogers: Oh, Aitch san.... Just imagine you are on Celsius!
	5:23pm Mike Rogers: And a blizzard is coming? Need to stock up on booze!
	5:24pm Mike Rogers: God Fifi rocks!
	5:24pm ultradamno: Soup and vodka is how you get through those. Ruski protocol
	5:24pm Mr Fab: any Midwesterners in the house? Gonna get to -40F in some states.
	5:25pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab? Are you kidding us?????
	5:25pm Mike Rogers: Move to Florida immediately.
	5:26pm Domenic: Fifi & Mach 3 should have emigrated to Belgium.
	5:26pm mochy: そろそろ仕事入ります、ありがとうございました！
	5:26pm ultradamno: I'm midwest but pretty far from Iowa. Though it's forecast to get down to -8 on Friday, when I have my vaccine appt
	5:27pm Mike Rogers: They were huge in Europe. The band members were blown away. Then they came back to Japan and the same old shit....No customers at their shows. That was before the internet got really big in Japan.
	5:28pm Mike Rogers: Way before Twitter and other big social media here.
	5:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:25 not kidding. That's like north pole cold. i can't imagine, being a wimpy Southern Californian.
	5:28pm Ted: Somehow Fifi passed me by in the '90s. Thanks for the reconsideration review as I used to see their name around. I was thinking they were on that Troggs tribute, but it was the Dictators. Looks like they also have a connection to the Groovie Ghoullies and Sacramento's Troublemakers.
	5:29pm Mike Rogers: That's right Ted san! The Groovie Ghoulies seemed to LOVE that band.
	5:30pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab, move to Mexico before it's too late!!!
	5:31pm Mr Fab: ha, way ahead of you - i'll be cruising down to the tip of Baja in mere days.
	5:31pm Mike Rogers: You guys know "Line"? That's the huge social media here in Japan (and several Asian countries).... I think Facebook is taking on water fast..... Abandon ship!!!!!
	5:31pm Mike Rogers: Wow! When I lived there, I went to Mexico almost every year. It was wonderful!!!
	5:32pm Mike Rogers: Oh, how I envy you Mr. Fab!
	5:32pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab, you going with a bunch of chicks or the family?
	5:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:32 Well technically, both!
	5:33pm Mike Rogers: Fifi & the Mach III are godhead!
	5:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "If I Had a Hammer" by "Fifi & Mach 3" What the WHAT..?!
	5:33pm Mike Rogers: Oh, Mr. Fab. Do tell!!!!
	5:34pm Ted: Our Japanese class uses Line. It's pretty good.
	5:34pm Mike Rogers: Rawk & Lou Rawls!
	5:34pm Larry 7: Parachuting in! This has a Dickies feel to it!
	5:35pm Mike Rogers: Wow! That must be a very cool instructor Ted san
	5:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @5:33 I wonder if they have a version of I Gave My Love A Cherry on tap
	5:35pm Ted: ↳ Mr Fab @5:33 Check out the Trini Lopez doc. I think it streaming on Tubi now for free.
	5:36pm Mike Rogers: They sent me like well over 100 songs, Ultradamno san! I have never received so many song from one band!
	5:36pm Mike Rogers: Is Tubi like Netflix?
	5:37pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Do you have a lady teacher?
	5:37pm Mr Fab: ↳ Larry 7 @5:34 True! No wonder I'm digging these guys - who don't like The Dickies?
	5:38pm ultradamno: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:36 It's a Fox owned streaming service.
	5:38pm Mike Rogers: Hi Larry san! Thanks for coming by!
	5:38pm Mike Rogers: I interviewed the lead singer of this band. It is up now (I don't remember if it has English subtitles!)
	5:39pm Ted: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:37 Yes, she just moved to the states last summer from years in Japan. She is Taiwanese, so I'm leanring basic Japanese through beginning English and advanced Mandarin.
	5:41pm Mike Rogers: That's great Ted. Japan used to rule Taiwan, but they put a civilian government in control and they built roads & hospitals, schools... So the Taiwanese like the Japanese unlike most other SE Asian nations where the Japanese government put butt kickers in the military in charge.
	5:42pm Mr Fab: My daughter recently put this poster up on her wall: www.ebay.com...
	5:42pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Go watch サザイさん！オンYoutube. That's how I learned Japanese besides school.
	5:43pm Mike Rogers: Hello Kitty Punk Version??? She's so cute!
	5:43pm ultradamno: Apparently if a movie trailer has an actor in it that has been cut from the movie, you can sue www.yahoo.com...
	5:43pm Ted: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:41 Yes, there a lot of history involved. I'm thankful to have been able to travel to Taiwan about five times and Japan twice.
	5:43pm Mike Rogers: Ted san, I mean go watch: サザイさん！
	5:43pm ultradamno: Hello Kitty is PEOPLE!
	5:44pm ultradamno: Seriously time.com...
	5:44pm Mike Rogers: I heard that, Ultradamno san, all this time we all thought Hello Kitty was a kitty!
	5:45pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! I have been to Taiwan once. I think I gained 20 pounds in three days! Ha! Ha! Ha!
	5:46pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Uh oh! I might have to edit my Yoko Ono movie!!!!! Yikes!!!
	5:46pm Ted: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:43 Thanks Mike for the Sazae-san tip. Yeah, the Taiwanese take their food and drink seriously.
	5:47pm Mike Rogers: Everyday,Breakfast twice. Lunch twice. Dinner twice.... Throw in all these delicious snacks and drinking!!!
	5:49pm Mike Rogers: Hong Kong was basically the same thing!
	5:50pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Andriod Said" by "Molice" www.denofgeek.com...
	5:51pm Mike Rogers: I loved Marvel comics as a kid!
	5:51pm Mike Rogers: Should I play more Fifi & the Mach III?
	5:52pm Mike Rogers: I think I should.
	5:53pm Mike Rogers: The 50 Kaitenz are touring Japan now. I think their final show is Jan 8 in Tokyo
	5:54pm Larry 7: Yes, more fifi.
	5:54pm Mike Rogers: OK. Larry san! You got it!!!!!
	5:55pm Feldy: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:45 I was in Taiwan in 2018, went from Taipei and hot springs to the southern tip/scuba/night markets. So much to see
	5:56pm Mike Rogers: How cool is that, Feldy san????
	5:56pm Aitch: Shock sounding like suck a bit scary
	5:57pm Feldy: I loved Hong Kong, too. Japan is on my list, for certain
	5:57pm Mike Rogers: Hong Kong was also awesome. I've been there 4 or 5 times. Get fat there too!
	5:58pm Aitch: Tokyo way more fun than Honkers. People so super rude in HK, unbearable
	5:59pm Ted: The Taiwanese indie music scene leans way towards the noisy side. I prefer how the Japanese have mastered melody and harmonies!
	6:00pm ultradamno: I prefer the noisy side
	6:01pm Ted: It's way more Sonic Youth inspired than the Ramones.
	6:01pm ultradamno: By the way, Bandcamp Fridays resume Feb 3 isitbandcampfriday.com
	6:02pm ultradamno: Speaking of noisy, there was a Chinese band called 8 Eye Spy, I love the nerve of that maybemars.bandcamp.com...
	6:03pm Mr Fab: ↳ ultradamno @6:02 not only that, but Mike has played a Japanese band called The Mellvins.
	6:04pm Mike Rogers: I didn't take it as being rude. My college roommate's dad was Chinese. I used to go ver there and the dad would be creaming at someone on the phone, and I'd say to my friend, "Who is your dad yelling at?" He'd say, "He isn't yelling, He's talking to his brother."
	6:05pm ultradamno: We have those kind of phone services for creaming purposes in the US too
	6:06pm Runway Lights: I recall when Hang on the Box from Bejing were on the cover of Shredding Paper about 20 years ago. They did not sound like Mummy the Peepshow!
	6:06pm Mike Rogers: "Screaming!" Screaming! SCREAMING!!!!
	6:07pm Mike Rogers: Hi Runaway Lights san! Thank you for coming!!!!
	6:08pm ultradamno: THE punk anthem, IMO. More people should cover it.
	6:08pm Runway Lights: It's Ted...I forgot to Log-In and had to do a lot of math to post.
	6:08pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! That's a new idea to me.... Excellent!
	6:08pm Aitch: I think Fifi plays this better than The Deadboys?
	6:08pm Feldy: ↳ ultradamno @6:08 Agreed! Pearl Jam covered Sonic Reducer a lot in the 90's
	6:09pm ultradamno: ...and why not female pharaohs?
	6:09pm Mike Rogers: Yeah, Fifi is simply awesome!!!!
	6:09pm Mr Fab: and The Beastie Boys sampled it.
	6:10pm ultradamno: ...OK, but not so much Rocket From The Tombs Crocus > Stiv (I think even Cheetah said that...)
	6:10pm Mike Rogers: Wasn't one Pharaoh a woman?
	6:10pm Aitch: Ex wife's mother from Shanghai, every sentence sounds like a shouting match, she's get on the 'phone and the neighbours would want to call the police
	6:11pm ultradamno: A few, as it happens www.thoughtco.com...
	6:11pm Ted: Anyone from the 1+2 label still involved with music in Japan? I think Get Hip used to distribute their releases.
	6:12pm Mike Rogers: Ha! Ha! Aitch san. Yeah, it sounded like my friend's dad was furious.... But when he hung up the phone, it was like nothing happened and he was all smiley!
	6:12pm Mike Rogers: Gee, Ted san! I don't know. I could check it out if you want.
	6:12pm Mike Rogers: Let you know by email or next week.
	6:13pm Ted: Not a big deal. I believe they were associated with Barn Homes Records. I dreamed about going to their shop in Tokyo, but it closed maybe 10 years ago.
	6:14pm ultradamno: The best Chinese restaurant I ever went to had a kitchen that sounded like a warzone, always.
	6:14pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Land of 1000 Dances" by "Fifi & the Mach III" one-chord song?
	6:14pm Mike Rogers: I have never heard of Barn Homes Records!!!!
	6:15pm Mike Rogers: Why bother with chord change?
	6:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @6:14 Those kind of wonders don't care!
	6:16pm ultradamno: More than that you're getting into jazz...
	6:16pm Mike Rogers: Fifi 6 Mach III sent me so many songs, I haven't even listened to 90% f them. But I like everything they sent.
	6:16pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Ha! Ha! Ha! Thanks for the good laugh.
	6:17pm Ted: Looks like Barnhomes is still a mail-order: www.barnhomesrecords.com
	6:18pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Way cool!
	6:18pm Mike Rogers: This Two Hearts is actually Titty Twister.
	6:22pm Mike Rogers: This song is for a baby girl that was just born to one of the band members!
	6:22pm Ted: Barnhomes was the parent label of !+2 who released Fifi And The Mach III records. It all goes around!
	6:24pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! No kidding??? Fifi & the Mach III should have been huge here. I had heard the name too, I'll have an interview with the leader up in a few days.
	6:25pm Ted: Yes, as big as Supersnazz!
	6:26pm Mike Rogers: Hey Ted san, tell me if you can understand my Japanese.
	6:28pm Mike Rogers: I know Tomoko from Super Snazz very well. She is very nice and cool!
	6:29pm Ted: 4 percent:( I just started in August. We are on Dec. break and will return to class in Jan. Also, been struggling with Mandarin for years.
	6:30pm Mike Rogers: Oh, that's good. I have been here for nearly 40 years I will never speak perfect Japanese (I gave up long time ago)... Just remember one important thing: It's not how any words you know, it is how well you use the words you do know!
	6:32pm Ted: Yes, live conversation helps drill it in.
	6:32pm Mike Rogers: Not how any words you know, but how well you use the words you do know!
	6:32pm Mike Rogers: You will love Sazai san! 4 generations of people talking in it (trust me, that is so important!)
	6:33pm laurapanic: Ugh, missed most of the show...hi!
	6:33pm Mike Rogers: Howdy Laura san! We be Rock n Rolling!!!!!
	6:34pm Mike Rogers: Fifi & Mach III matsuri!!!!
	6:35pm laurapanic: ↳ Mike Rogers @6:33 I'm here for it
	6:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Rock n Roll" by "Led Zeppelin" I thought you didn't play heavy metal
	6:36pm Mike Rogers: I don't! But I couldn't resist! "It's been long time" What song was that? It kept rolling over and over in my head....
	6:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ ultradamno @6:35 was that really metal? Or just loud rockabilly?
	6:38pm laurapanic: heck yes, Fifi rules
	6:38pm Ted: I always like when the Fleshtones cover Led Zep songs like Communication Breakdown.
	6:39pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @6:36 It is the definition of metal, in my opinion. But then I cut my teeth on this www.discogs.com...
	6:39pm Mike Rogers: Yeah Laura, Fifi is god head! Gonna play a bunch next week too!
	6:40pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! I love the Fleshtones!
	6:40pm Ted: One of the best live band ever!
	6:40pm ultradamno: (though the Zep song on that is arguably loud ska....but to me the more something is unlike Zep the less classically metal it is)
	6:41pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! T-Rex is on that record. Yeah, I liked Metal until about 1975. When Kiss put out that ballad, "Beth" I thought it should be against the law for metal bands to release ballads.
	6:42pm Ted: make that bands...typo city for me today.
	6:43pm ultradamno: ...but then Motörhead saved it (Lemmy kind of thought of himself as loud rockabilly too)
	6:43pm Mike Rogers: No Problem, Ted san, mine are always all messed up!
	6:43pm Mike Rogers: Thank god for Lemmy!!!!
	6:44pm Feldy: Mike, I needed this shot of adrenaline to get through the day. Thank you!
	6:44pm Mike Rogers: Yeah. Me too, Feldy san!
	6:46pm Mike Rogers: I also really hated that Aerosmith, Beatles cover "Come together"
	6:48pm Ted: Thanks Mike...Gotta take out the family to the Chinese pastry shop before it closes. Fun to chat on a day off from work.
	6:48pm ultradamno: I don't like that cover, but I love Aerosmith up to about Draw The Line as a jr high dirtbag, though AC/DC were my jam
	6:49pm ultradamno: Powerage! Still love that!
	6:49pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Ted san! Drive careful. よく勉強してください！
	6:51pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Teenage Head" by "Fifi & Mach III" This band has a deep pool of covers, whipping out the Groovies now
	6:51pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! At the start Aerosmith was really cool!
	6:52pm Mike Rogers: I interviewed Aerosmith and got them to sing, "Rock & Roll All Night" on Nationally broadcast Japanese TV. No kidding.
	6:53pm Mike Rogers: I guess they hated Kiss... As if there are not enough fans for everyone!
	6:54pm ultradamno: My first brush with this song (Teenage Head) was The Snakes cover of it (with a pre-Wire Gotobed), still probably my fav version of it.
	6:54pm laurapanic: Love hearing your stories, Mike.
	6:54pm Mr Fab: indeed, great choice of covers. There's a million "Wanna Be Your Dogs" out there, we need more "I Gotta RIghts."
	6:55pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "I Got a Right" by "Fifi & Mach III" Second best Williamson era Stooges song after the flip Gimme Some Skin (yes, Search & Destroy is third)
	6:55pm laurapanic: Wow, fifi has been around since the 80s!
	6:56pm Mike Rogers: So Fifi & Mach III have broken up.... But now they have a new band, "Mami & the Mach III" next!
	6:57pm Mike Rogers: Yeah. I have so many favorite Stooges songs!!!
	6:58pm Mike Rogers: I guess Fifi must be 60 years old now. They were 25 years too soon for Japan.
	6:59pm Feldy: ...annnnnd you may nap now Mike
	6:59pm ultradamno: I remember, I think it was Sonic Youth who said they couldn't nail down Not Right when they tried to cover it.
	7:00pm ultradamno: (I think it comes up in a Forced Exposure interview of Lydia Lunch)
	7:00pm Mr Fab: thanks for the rock n roll, Mike! Been a long time!
	7:01pm SheenaER: Good night everyone!
	7:01pm Mike Rogers: Yes. Too long! See ya, Mr. Fab san! Thanks so much!
	7:01pm Mike Rogers: Sheena! Thanks so much!
	7:01pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Feldy san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Laura san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Ted san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Feldy san!
	7:03pm Mike Rogers: Aitch san! Thanks so much!
	7:04pm Mike Rogers: Larry 7 san! Thanks so much!
	7:04pm Mike Rogers: Domenic san! Thanks so much!
	7:05pm Mike Rogers: Aitch san! Did I say, "Thanks so much!"
	7:05pm Mike Rogers: Mochy san! Thanks so much!
	7:06pm Mike Rogers: Thanks to everyone! More Fifi & Mami next week! Have a merry Christmas! Be safe!

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December 21, 2022: #67 Fifi & Mach III

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Artist	Track	Comments	Approx. start time
Fifi & Mach 3	"Fifi & Mach 3"	Is this Japan's greatest rock band? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0KzXhiLAwg
		The Kaminari Japan Film Festival will be held ONLINE and IT'S FREE! Dec, 26 ~ Jan. 8, 2023! WATCH FOR FREE! https://soundsurf.com/station/kaminari-japan-film-festival-9nbGTgPf9uLQYPb8T
Fifi & Mach 3	I Like Sunday "I Like Sunday" by "Fifi & Mach 3"		0:00:07 (Pop-up)
Molice	Plugged Love "Plugged Love" by "Molice"		0:02:38 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach 3	Ghoulies are Go "Ghoulies are Go" by "Fifi & Mach 3"		0:09:06 (Pop-up)
Vivian Boys	Tokyo Sodom "Tokyo Sodom" by "Vivian Boys"		0:09:58 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach 3	I Wanna Kiss "I Wanna Kiss" by "Fifi & Mach 3"		0:11:51 (Pop-up)
Pats Pats	Girl's Talk "Girl's Talk" by "Pats Pats"		0:13:40 (Pop-up)
Tony Fox Sales	Success "Success" by "Tony Fox Sales"		0:17:45 (Pop-up)
Fifif & Mach 3	I'm Ramona "I'm Ramona" by "Fifif & Mach 3"		0:22:17 (Pop-up)
Molice	Blue "Blue" by "Molice"		0:24:48 (Pop-up)
Let's Go's	Don't Stop the Rock n Roll		0:28:41 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach 3	If I Had a Hammer "If I Had a Hammer" by "Fifi & Mach 3"		0:33:01 (Pop-up)
Two Hearts	High School "High School" by "Two Hearts"		0:35:34 (Pop-up)
Jinny Oops!	Hinoaruku "Hinoaruku" by "Jinny Oops!"		0:37:42 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach 3	Have fun, to ride my Bike		0:40:45 (Pop-up)
Mosis	Psycho Killer "Psycho Killer" by "Mosis"		0:42:24 (Pop-up)
Molice	Andriod Said "Andriod Said" by "Molice"		0:47:18 (Pop-up)
Highmarts	Hold Me "Hold Me" by "Highmarts"		0:50:27 (Pop-up)
The 50 Kaitenz	Teenage Shock "Teenage Shock" by "The 50 Kaitenz"		0:53:06 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach 3	You of My Dreams "You of My Dreams" by "Fifi & Mach 3"		0:57:11 (Pop-up)
News	"News"		1:01:52 (Pop-up)
chocoballs	"chocoballs"		1:01:57 (Pop-up)
Fifi and the Mach III	White Room 2005		1:02:17 (Pop-up)
Jinny Oops	Inner Hysteria "Inner Hysteria" by "Jinny Oops"		1:02:36 (Pop-up)
Fifi & the Mach III	Sonic Reducer		1:07:52 (Pop-up)
Tsushimaire	Anarchy Morning "Anarchy Morning" by "Tsushimaire"		1:10:31 (Pop-up)
Fifi & the Mach III	Land of 1000 Dances		1:13:36 (Pop-up)
Two Hearts	Eat Them "Eat Them" by "Two Hearts"		1:16:46 (Pop-up)
Young Parisian	Sara Little baby "Sara Little baby" by "Young Parisian"		1:20:59 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach III	Suki Suki "Suki Suki" by "Fifi & Mach III"		1:23:49 (Pop-up)
Koyanagi Rumiko	Ohisashiburi ne "Ohisashiburi ne" by "Koyanagi Rumiko"		1:28:17 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin	Rock n Roll "Rock n Roll" by "Led Zeppelin"		1:33:02 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach III	Rock & Roll Girls		1:37:27 (Pop-up)
Molice	Perfect Morning "Perfect Morning" by "Molice"		1:38:31 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach III	No. 1 "No. 1" by "Fifi & Mach III"		1:41:38 (Pop-up)
Fadeaways	I Feel Good "I Feel Good" by "Fadeaways"		1:42:23 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach III	Leave Me Alone "Leave Me Alone" by "Fifi & Mach III"		1:46:42 (Pop-up)
Sister Paul	Knock Knock "Knock Knock" by "Sister Paul"		1:47:32 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach III	Teenage Head "Teenage Head" by "Fifi & Mach III"		1:50:03 (Pop-up)
Fifi & Mach III	I Got a Right "I Got a Right" by "Fifi & Mach III"		1:53:04 (Pop-up)
Mami & the Mach III	Firm Will "Firm Will" by "Mami & the Mach III"		1:57:35 (Pop-up)
Clalas	American "American" by "Clalas"		2:00:43 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:06pm Mike Rogers: Good Morning!
	4:01pm Mike Rogers: Fifi & the Mach III are my current favorite Japanese rock band!
	4:01pm Mr Fab: the 5678s playing on the stream now...
	4:02pm Mike Rogers: Hey Mr. Fab san! I thought I recognized that warbling scream!
	4:04pm Mike Rogers: Good Morning Mr. Fab san!
	4:04pm Mike Rogers: It's freezing cold here!
	4:13pm Mike Rogers: I found what I think is the best Japanese band of all time. They were active until 2005 then they broke up. In Japan, they didn't sell any records, never appeared on TV (They hate the mass media) no one came to their shows. But they went to Europe and all their shows were sold out!!!! They said they couldn't believe it! They came back to Japan, and it was the same old nothing... So the band broke up! They were 20 years too soon! They would be huge now! Fifi & the Mach III!
	4:15pm Mike Rogers: A big label wanted to sign them but the band said "No!" because they figured the label wanted to change them into a Big Hair Visual-Kei band. (And the label would have!)
	4:16pm Mike Rogers: We gonna rock n roll today...
	4:17pm Mike Rogers: I'm gonna record today's show just in case.
	4:17pm Mike Rogers: We are going to make rock history today!
	4:19pm Mike Rogers: Japanese girl who sings like the Go Go's or Joan Jett. Not typical high pitched Japanese girl singer.
	4:30pm Mike Rogers: The Kaminari Japan Film Festival will be held ONLINE and IT'S FREE! Dec, 26 ~ Jan. 8, 2023! WATCH FOR FREE! soundsurf.com...
	4:31pm Mike Rogers: Nearly 8000 people watched the JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival. Don't miss the Kaminari Japan Film Festival!
	4:57pm Mike Rogers: Ready to rock & roll????
	4:57pm Mr Fab: Wait a minute, i'm not ready...Ok, now I'm ready.
	4:58pm Mike Rogers: Kids! Put on your blast caps!
	4:58pm Aitch: Bring on greatest rock band! Ohayo Mike-san and crew
	5:00pm Mike Rogers: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Blast Off!
	5:00pm ultradamno: Mr Rogers! Neighbors!
	5:00pm Aitch: Hey ho, let's go!
	5:01pm Mike Rogers: Hey Aitch san! Good morning!
	5:01pm Mike Rogers: Hey Aitch san! I think this might be my last show. Nothing more to achieve!
	5:01pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Good morning! Rock n Roll!!!!
	5:02pm mochy: mike-san Dear listeners, Good morning！
	5:02pm Aitch: You have to stay Mike-san, we need you now we know
	5:03pm Mike Rogers: Ok.Let me think about it for a second. OK. I'm in!
	5:03pm SheenaER: Hey hey!
	5:03pm Mike Rogers: Mochy san! ohayougozaimasu!
	5:03pm mochy: sheena-san ohadesu!
	5:04pm Mike Rogers: Sheena! You are here! Thanks so much! We's gonna rock & roll!
	5:04pm Ted: Enjoyed the Clem Burke interivew!
	5:05pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Good morning! Ohayougozimasu!
	5:05pm Aitch: Your dad rules Sheena-san!
	5:05pm Mr Fab: in other happy rock news, The Cramps "Goo Goo Muck" is #25 on the iTunes chart. Great to see they finally have a charting single, tho I honestly don't know anyone who bothers with iTunes anymore.
	5:05pm mochy: Yesterday I went to see the illustration of yutaka-san of spam69. I went to a bookstore in Omotesando.
	5:05pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Thanks for watching the Clem Burke interview. He is such a nice guy!
	5:05pm ultradamno: Pertinent point of interest of the week 1: Legendary Japanese hardcore band G.I.S.M's '87 sophomore album Military Affairs Neurotic is being reissued, the first time it has been released outside of Japan www.punknews.org... gismband.bandcamp.com... Pertinent point of interest of the week 2: Fish soda? With a tomato base and peppers? And roe in it? www.bbc.com...
	5:06pm Aitch: Must see the Clem thing, busy pre-xmas and I forgot
	5:07pm Aitch: ↳ ultradamno @5:05 Rock'n'roe!
	5:08pm ultradamno: Yay Cramps! And that's not even one of the songs on the Stranger Things 4 OST
	5:08pm Ted: I was able to hear Clem drum for Nancy Sinatra at a Native American casino about 20 years ago here in Arizona. He was a powerhouse.
	5:08pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! That's great news!!!!
	5:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Aitch @5:06 same here. taking a long holiday and want to get caught up on Mike's video adventures.
	5:08pm Mike Rogers: Aitch san, Clem is so calm and he says, "Yeah, I was in Blondie, Eurythmics, blah, blah, blah" so nonchalantly.
	5:09pm Aitch: GISM should tour with TISM
	5:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Ted @5:08 Damn! Jealous!!
	5:10pm ultradamno: TISM would want to open so as not to compete with the ear ringing
	5:10pm Mike Rogers: Yeah Ted san! He mentioned, "Yeah I played for Nancy Sinatra" like you and I would say "I mowed the lawn."
	5:10pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab please watch the Clem Burke interview!!!!
	5:11pm ultradamno: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:08 Nearly a Ramone too
	5:11pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @5:08 All of WFMU crown should look at the Mike Rogers / Mr Fab interview, explains so much
	5:11pm Aitch: crowd
	5:11pm Feldy: Hey there Mike san!!
	5:12pm Mike Rogers: Ulradamno san! Yeah. the Ramones. He said the Ramones songs are difficult to play!
	5:12pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab needs to update his interview!!!!
	5:12pm Ted: I think Clem mentioned in the interview that he is writing a memoir.
	5:12pm Mike Rogers: Let's do that over the holidays, Mr. Fab.
	5:13pm ultradamno: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:12 Johnny wrote about it in his book Commando, they had to fire him
	5:13pm Mike Rogers: Feldy san! Goooood Morning!
	5:14pm Mike Rogers: Ted san, Clem is doing so many things! I think he doesn't sleep!
	5:14pm Ted: like you!
	5:15pm Mike Rogers: No. I sleep A LOT!!!! Take a nappy time everyday! I'm getting, er, I've gotten old!
	5:16pm Mike Rogers: Damm! It's cold as heck and raining here!
	5:17pm Domenic: ↳ Mike Rogers @4:13 What a story!
	5:17pm ultradamno: 34˚ Overcast. Feels Like: 28˚here now, according to Dark Sky
	5:19pm Mike Rogers: Domenic san! Good morning to you! Thanks for stopping by! We're going to be giving away ten million dollars to one lucky winner at today's show so you'll wanna stay tuned! ;)
	5:19pm ultradamno: Evidently a blizzard coming to Iowa.
	5:19pm Mike Rogers: Ultradmano san, That's kind of hot isn't it? Is it muggy?
	5:20pm Mike Rogers: Oh, me no like cold.... Or hot!
	5:20pm Aitch: They could re-form as Theee Mach Threee and all will be new again?
	5:21pm Domenic: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:19 I'm fine, thank you, already have ten million dollars! LOL
	5:21pm Mike Rogers: Well, they have reformed. It's a long story... But Fifi is gone and they have a new singer. I will play one song by the new band!
	5:21pm ultradamno: It's a pretty dry heat
	5:21pm Aitch: Americans still on F degrees Mike-san so 32 =zero
	5:21pm Mike Rogers: When Fifi and the Mach III broke up, they didn't play for ten years!
	5:22pm ultradamno: I can understand using an apple but this twitter.com...
	5:22pm Mike Rogers: Oh, Aitch san.... Just imagine you are on Celsius!
	5:23pm Mike Rogers: And a blizzard is coming? Need to stock up on booze!
	5:24pm Mike Rogers: God Fifi rocks!
	5:24pm ultradamno: Soup and vodka is how you get through those. Ruski protocol
	5:24pm Mr Fab: any Midwesterners in the house? Gonna get to -40F in some states.
	5:25pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab? Are you kidding us?????
	5:25pm Mike Rogers: Move to Florida immediately.
	5:26pm Domenic: Fifi & Mach 3 should have emigrated to Belgium.
	5:26pm mochy: そろそろ仕事入ります、ありがとうございました！
	5:26pm ultradamno: I'm midwest but pretty far from Iowa. Though it's forecast to get down to -8 on Friday, when I have my vaccine appt
	5:27pm Mike Rogers: They were huge in Europe. The band members were blown away. Then they came back to Japan and the same old shit....No customers at their shows. That was before the internet got really big in Japan.
	5:28pm Mike Rogers: Way before Twitter and other big social media here.
	5:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:25 not kidding. That's like north pole cold. i can't imagine, being a wimpy Southern Californian.
	5:28pm Ted: Somehow Fifi passed me by in the '90s. Thanks for the reconsideration review as I used to see their name around. I was thinking they were on that Troggs tribute, but it was the Dictators. Looks like they also have a connection to the Groovie Ghoullies and Sacramento's Troublemakers.
	5:29pm Mike Rogers: That's right Ted san! The Groovie Ghoulies seemed to LOVE that band.
	5:30pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab, move to Mexico before it's too late!!!
	5:31pm Mr Fab: ha, way ahead of you - i'll be cruising down to the tip of Baja in mere days.
	5:31pm Mike Rogers: You guys know "Line"? That's the huge social media here in Japan (and several Asian countries).... I think Facebook is taking on water fast..... Abandon ship!!!!!
	5:31pm Mike Rogers: Wow! When I lived there, I went to Mexico almost every year. It was wonderful!!!
	5:32pm Mike Rogers: Oh, how I envy you Mr. Fab!
	5:32pm Mike Rogers: Mr. Fab, you going with a bunch of chicks or the family?
	5:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:32 Well technically, both!
	5:33pm Mike Rogers: Fifi & the Mach III are godhead!
	5:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "If I Had a Hammer" by "Fifi & Mach 3" What the WHAT..?!
	5:33pm Mike Rogers: Oh, Mr. Fab. Do tell!!!!
	5:34pm Ted: Our Japanese class uses Line. It's pretty good.
	5:34pm Mike Rogers: Rawk & Lou Rawls!
	5:34pm Larry 7: Parachuting in! This has a Dickies feel to it!
	5:35pm Mike Rogers: Wow! That must be a very cool instructor Ted san
	5:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @5:33 I wonder if they have a version of I Gave My Love A Cherry on tap
	5:35pm Ted: ↳ Mr Fab @5:33 Check out the Trini Lopez doc. I think it streaming on Tubi now for free.
	5:36pm Mike Rogers: They sent me like well over 100 songs, Ultradamno san! I have never received so many song from one band!
	5:36pm Mike Rogers: Is Tubi like Netflix?
	5:37pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Do you have a lady teacher?
	5:37pm Mr Fab: ↳ Larry 7 @5:34 True! No wonder I'm digging these guys - who don't like The Dickies?
	5:38pm ultradamno: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:36 It's a Fox owned streaming service.
	5:38pm Mike Rogers: Hi Larry san! Thanks for coming by!
	5:38pm Mike Rogers: I interviewed the lead singer of this band. It is up now (I don't remember if it has English subtitles!)
	5:39pm Ted: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:37 Yes, she just moved to the states last summer from years in Japan. She is Taiwanese, so I'm leanring basic Japanese through beginning English and advanced Mandarin.
	5:41pm Mike Rogers: That's great Ted. Japan used to rule Taiwan, but they put a civilian government in control and they built roads & hospitals, schools... So the Taiwanese like the Japanese unlike most other SE Asian nations where the Japanese government put butt kickers in the military in charge.
	5:42pm Mr Fab: My daughter recently put this poster up on her wall: www.ebay.com...
	5:42pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Go watch サザイさん！オンYoutube. That's how I learned Japanese besides school.
	5:43pm Mike Rogers: Hello Kitty Punk Version??? She's so cute!
	5:43pm ultradamno: Apparently if a movie trailer has an actor in it that has been cut from the movie, you can sue www.yahoo.com...
	5:43pm Ted: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:41 Yes, there a lot of history involved. I'm thankful to have been able to travel to Taiwan about five times and Japan twice.
	5:43pm Mike Rogers: Ted san, I mean go watch: サザイさん！
	5:43pm ultradamno: Hello Kitty is PEOPLE!
	5:44pm ultradamno: Seriously time.com...
	5:44pm Mike Rogers: I heard that, Ultradamno san, all this time we all thought Hello Kitty was a kitty!
	5:45pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! I have been to Taiwan once. I think I gained 20 pounds in three days! Ha! Ha! Ha!
	5:46pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Uh oh! I might have to edit my Yoko Ono movie!!!!! Yikes!!!
	5:46pm Ted: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:43 Thanks Mike for the Sazae-san tip. Yeah, the Taiwanese take their food and drink seriously.
	5:47pm Mike Rogers: Everyday,Breakfast twice. Lunch twice. Dinner twice.... Throw in all these delicious snacks and drinking!!!
	5:49pm Mike Rogers: Hong Kong was basically the same thing!
	5:50pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Andriod Said" by "Molice" www.denofgeek.com...
	5:51pm Mike Rogers: I loved Marvel comics as a kid!
	5:51pm Mike Rogers: Should I play more Fifi & the Mach III?
	5:52pm Mike Rogers: I think I should.
	5:53pm Mike Rogers: The 50 Kaitenz are touring Japan now. I think their final show is Jan 8 in Tokyo
	5:54pm Larry 7: Yes, more fifi.
	5:54pm Mike Rogers: OK. Larry san! You got it!!!!!
	5:55pm Feldy: ↳ Mike Rogers @5:45 I was in Taiwan in 2018, went from Taipei and hot springs to the southern tip/scuba/night markets. So much to see
	5:56pm Mike Rogers: How cool is that, Feldy san????
	5:56pm Aitch: Shock sounding like suck a bit scary
	5:57pm Feldy: I loved Hong Kong, too. Japan is on my list, for certain
	5:57pm Mike Rogers: Hong Kong was also awesome. I've been there 4 or 5 times. Get fat there too!
	5:58pm Aitch: Tokyo way more fun than Honkers. People so super rude in HK, unbearable
	5:59pm Ted: The Taiwanese indie music scene leans way towards the noisy side. I prefer how the Japanese have mastered melody and harmonies!
	6:00pm ultradamno: I prefer the noisy side
	6:01pm Ted: It's way more Sonic Youth inspired than the Ramones.
	6:01pm ultradamno: By the way, Bandcamp Fridays resume Feb 3 isitbandcampfriday.com
	6:02pm ultradamno: Speaking of noisy, there was a Chinese band called 8 Eye Spy, I love the nerve of that maybemars.bandcamp.com...
	6:03pm Mr Fab: ↳ ultradamno @6:02 not only that, but Mike has played a Japanese band called The Mellvins.
	6:04pm Mike Rogers: I didn't take it as being rude. My college roommate's dad was Chinese. I used to go ver there and the dad would be creaming at someone on the phone, and I'd say to my friend, "Who is your dad yelling at?" He'd say, "He isn't yelling, He's talking to his brother."
	6:05pm ultradamno: We have those kind of phone services for creaming purposes in the US too
	6:06pm Runway Lights: I recall when Hang on the Box from Bejing were on the cover of Shredding Paper about 20 years ago. They did not sound like Mummy the Peepshow!
	6:06pm Mike Rogers: "Screaming!" Screaming! SCREAMING!!!!
	6:07pm Mike Rogers: Hi Runaway Lights san! Thank you for coming!!!!
	6:08pm ultradamno: THE punk anthem, IMO. More people should cover it.
	6:08pm Runway Lights: It's Ted...I forgot to Log-In and had to do a lot of math to post.
	6:08pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! That's a new idea to me.... Excellent!
	6:08pm Aitch: I think Fifi plays this better than The Deadboys?
	6:08pm Feldy: ↳ ultradamno @6:08 Agreed! Pearl Jam covered Sonic Reducer a lot in the 90's
	6:09pm ultradamno: ...and why not female pharaohs?
	6:09pm Mike Rogers: Yeah, Fifi is simply awesome!!!!
	6:09pm Mr Fab: and The Beastie Boys sampled it.
	6:10pm ultradamno: ...OK, but not so much Rocket From The Tombs Crocus > Stiv (I think even Cheetah said that...)
	6:10pm Mike Rogers: Wasn't one Pharaoh a woman?
	6:10pm Aitch: Ex wife's mother from Shanghai, every sentence sounds like a shouting match, she's get on the 'phone and the neighbours would want to call the police
	6:11pm ultradamno: A few, as it happens www.thoughtco.com...
	6:11pm Ted: Anyone from the 1+2 label still involved with music in Japan? I think Get Hip used to distribute their releases.
	6:12pm Mike Rogers: Ha! Ha! Aitch san. Yeah, it sounded like my friend's dad was furious.... But when he hung up the phone, it was like nothing happened and he was all smiley!
	6:12pm Mike Rogers: Gee, Ted san! I don't know. I could check it out if you want.
	6:12pm Mike Rogers: Let you know by email or next week.
	6:13pm Ted: Not a big deal. I believe they were associated with Barn Homes Records. I dreamed about going to their shop in Tokyo, but it closed maybe 10 years ago.
	6:14pm ultradamno: The best Chinese restaurant I ever went to had a kitchen that sounded like a warzone, always.
	6:14pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Land of 1000 Dances" by "Fifi & the Mach III" one-chord song?
	6:14pm Mike Rogers: I have never heard of Barn Homes Records!!!!
	6:15pm Mike Rogers: Why bother with chord change?
	6:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @6:14 Those kind of wonders don't care!
	6:16pm ultradamno: More than that you're getting into jazz...
	6:16pm Mike Rogers: Fifi 6 Mach III sent me so many songs, I haven't even listened to 90% f them. But I like everything they sent.
	6:16pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Ha! Ha! Ha! Thanks for the good laugh.
	6:17pm Ted: Looks like Barnhomes is still a mail-order: www.barnhomesrecords.com
	6:18pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! Way cool!
	6:18pm Mike Rogers: This Two Hearts is actually Titty Twister.
	6:22pm Mike Rogers: This song is for a baby girl that was just born to one of the band members!
	6:22pm Ted: Barnhomes was the parent label of !+2 who released Fifi And The Mach III records. It all goes around!
	6:24pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! No kidding??? Fifi & the Mach III should have been huge here. I had heard the name too, I'll have an interview with the leader up in a few days.
	6:25pm Ted: Yes, as big as Supersnazz!
	6:26pm Mike Rogers: Hey Ted san, tell me if you can understand my Japanese.
	6:28pm Mike Rogers: I know Tomoko from Super Snazz very well. She is very nice and cool!
	6:29pm Ted: 4 percent:( I just started in August. We are on Dec. break and will return to class in Jan. Also, been struggling with Mandarin for years.
	6:30pm Mike Rogers: Oh, that's good. I have been here for nearly 40 years I will never speak perfect Japanese (I gave up long time ago)... Just remember one important thing: It's not how any words you know, it is how well you use the words you do know!
	6:32pm Ted: Yes, live conversation helps drill it in.
	6:32pm Mike Rogers: Not how any words you know, but how well you use the words you do know!
	6:32pm Mike Rogers: You will love Sazai san! 4 generations of people talking in it (trust me, that is so important!)
	6:33pm laurapanic: Ugh, missed most of the show...hi!
	6:33pm Mike Rogers: Howdy Laura san! We be Rock n Rolling!!!!!
	6:34pm Mike Rogers: Fifi & Mach III matsuri!!!!
	6:35pm laurapanic: ↳ Mike Rogers @6:33 I'm here for it
	6:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Rock n Roll" by "Led Zeppelin" I thought you didn't play heavy metal
	6:36pm Mike Rogers: I don't! But I couldn't resist! "It's been long time" What song was that? It kept rolling over and over in my head....
	6:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ ultradamno @6:35 was that really metal? Or just loud rockabilly?
	6:38pm laurapanic: heck yes, Fifi rules
	6:38pm Ted: I always like when the Fleshtones cover Led Zep songs like Communication Breakdown.
	6:39pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @6:36 It is the definition of metal, in my opinion. But then I cut my teeth on this www.discogs.com...
	6:39pm Mike Rogers: Yeah Laura, Fifi is god head! Gonna play a bunch next week too!
	6:40pm Mike Rogers: Ted san! I love the Fleshtones!
	6:40pm Ted: One of the best live band ever!
	6:40pm ultradamno: (though the Zep song on that is arguably loud ska....but to me the more something is unlike Zep the less classically metal it is)
	6:41pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! T-Rex is on that record. Yeah, I liked Metal until about 1975. When Kiss put out that ballad, "Beth" I thought it should be against the law for metal bands to release ballads.
	6:42pm Ted: make that bands...typo city for me today.
	6:43pm ultradamno: ...but then Motörhead saved it (Lemmy kind of thought of himself as loud rockabilly too)
	6:43pm Mike Rogers: No Problem, Ted san, mine are always all messed up!
	6:43pm Mike Rogers: Thank god for Lemmy!!!!
	6:44pm Feldy: Mike, I needed this shot of adrenaline to get through the day. Thank you!
	6:44pm Mike Rogers: Yeah. Me too, Feldy san!
	6:46pm Mike Rogers: I also really hated that Aerosmith, Beatles cover "Come together"
	6:48pm Ted: Thanks Mike...Gotta take out the family to the Chinese pastry shop before it closes. Fun to chat on a day off from work.
	6:48pm ultradamno: I don't like that cover, but I love Aerosmith up to about Draw The Line as a jr high dirtbag, though AC/DC were my jam
	6:49pm ultradamno: Powerage! Still love that!
	6:49pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Ted san! Drive careful. よく勉強してください！
	6:51pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Teenage Head" by "Fifi & Mach III" This band has a deep pool of covers, whipping out the Groovies now
	6:51pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! At the start Aerosmith was really cool!
	6:52pm Mike Rogers: I interviewed Aerosmith and got them to sing, "Rock & Roll All Night" on Nationally broadcast Japanese TV. No kidding.
	6:53pm Mike Rogers: I guess they hated Kiss... As if there are not enough fans for everyone!
	6:54pm ultradamno: My first brush with this song (Teenage Head) was The Snakes cover of it (with a pre-Wire Gotobed), still probably my fav version of it.
	6:54pm laurapanic: Love hearing your stories, Mike.
	6:54pm Mr Fab: indeed, great choice of covers. There's a million "Wanna Be Your Dogs" out there, we need more "I Gotta RIghts."
	6:55pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "I Got a Right" by "Fifi & Mach III" Second best Williamson era Stooges song after the flip Gimme Some Skin (yes, Search & Destroy is third)
	6:55pm laurapanic: Wow, fifi has been around since the 80s!
	6:56pm Mike Rogers: So Fifi & Mach III have broken up.... But now they have a new band, "Mami & the Mach III" next!
	6:57pm Mike Rogers: Yeah. I have so many favorite Stooges songs!!!
	6:58pm Mike Rogers: I guess Fifi must be 60 years old now. They were 25 years too soon for Japan.
	6:59pm Feldy: ...annnnnd you may nap now Mike
	6:59pm ultradamno: I remember, I think it was Sonic Youth who said they couldn't nail down Not Right when they tried to cover it.
	7:00pm ultradamno: (I think it comes up in a Forced Exposure interview of Lydia Lunch)
	7:00pm Mr Fab: thanks for the rock n roll, Mike! Been a long time!
	7:01pm SheenaER: Good night everyone!
	7:01pm Mike Rogers: Yes. Too long! See ya, Mr. Fab san! Thanks so much!
	7:01pm Mike Rogers: Sheena! Thanks so much!
	7:01pm Mike Rogers: Ultradamno san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Feldy san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Laura san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Ted san! Thanks so much!
	7:02pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Feldy san!
	7:03pm Mike Rogers: Aitch san! Thanks so much!
	7:04pm Mike Rogers: Larry 7 san! Thanks so much!
	7:04pm Mike Rogers: Domenic san! Thanks so much!
	7:05pm Mike Rogers: Aitch san! Did I say, "Thanks so much!"
	7:05pm Mike Rogers: Mochy san! Thanks so much!
	7:06pm Mike Rogers: Thanks to everyone! More Fifi & Mami next week! Have a merry Christmas! Be safe!

The Mike Rogers Show: Playlist from December 21, 2022

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