WFMU: JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 3, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 9:04am Yetz: something dirty this way comes
	9:04am terminalhipness: listen to some music (yeah)
	9:04am Strandlund: Happy Friday Mr. Allen!!
	👻 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Don’t forget - only YOU can prevent dirty laundry!
	9:04am terminalhipness: maybe JUST TALKING…
	9:05am bradford: give me that dirt, Don
	👻 9:05am Karl Ward: Free jazz? In my early 80s multitracked drum machine + synth loop?
	👻 9:06am Yetz: ↳ Karl Ward @9:05 all jazz is free if you don't pay for it
	👻 9:06am Karl Ward: ↳ Yetz @9:06 Just finished reading John Allen's memoir "There's No Such Thing as a Free Jazz." I know everyone is all about the podcast but I like to read the book first.
	👻 9:07am Handy Haversack: JA. J'All. Don. (better)
	9:08am Krys O.: CHAZZ!! I mean, JAZZ!
	👻 9:08am Handy Haversack: Yeah, in the early 2010s, it was all "JAZZ wants to be free." And look where that got us. Big JAZZ owns you. Did you think your JAZZphone was all about convenience? Wake up, JAZZ sheeple!
	9:08am luka: kick
	9:09am luka: (yeah)
	👻 9:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Dirty Friday!
	👻 9:09am Karl Ward: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:08 I didn't know a saxophone could spy on me. Given the kinds of things that happen in practice spaces, I am chastened by this knowledge.
	9:10am Colleen: People's court
	9:11am Steve from Kalamazoo: Can you play something by Wowza In Kalamazoo?
	9:11am HyperDose: ↳ luka @9:08 ouch! 💥🤕 haha
	9:12am Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: Good morning John and everyone. Hanging here for a bit before I go for a run. Be well.
	9:13am Greg from ZONE 5: Make it funky, Johnny.
	👻 9:13am Handy Haversack: ↳ Karl Ward @9:09 And now Mayor Adams is letting them put up 30'-tall saxophones in every neighborhood in the city. And saying it's for us!
	9:13am Pax: By going natural style !
	👻 9:13am Karl Ward: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:13 They were always wearing sunglasses, those saxophonists. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♀︎Friday FMUvianz ~ ...thot we were getting Little Johnny Jewel arf a mo...
	9:14am PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "papa was a rolling stone" by "jay berliner" Hell Yeah Hi Hi Hi
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I get stoned I can't go home I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone - Jimi Hendrix
	9:20am Pax: ↳ Pax @9:13 Sorry, forgot to tap the bubble. My last post was for Marley P Dogg @9:04
	👻 9:22am Yetz: ↳ Song: "rabalder" by "the esoteric circle" this Esoteric Circle was my gateway to Terje Rypdal who I thought I didn't like but it turns out I do
	👻 9:23am Yetz: FREE YOUR MIND AND YOUR JAZZ WILL FOLLOW
	9:24am Mike W.: Friends i am here for the full force of your anti-Covid vibes
	9:26am vixo: This has strong smurf vibes.
	👻 9:27am Ken From Hyde Park: Gathering of the JAZZALOS later this month - www.hudsonhall.org...
	9:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Yetz @9:22 Always have some nostalgia for TerjeRypdal - cause taped something with him onto cassette off Vermont Public Radio in that other Century when I was first recognizing my love of the Jazzes.
	👻 9:31am Yetz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:27 Ah, I wish I had my old radio tapes! Hours and hours of WFMU including a few shows hosted by Fred Frith! Pre-archive, of course.
	9:41am jth: Mengelberg & Bennink are Dutch thank you for spinning them anyway. regardZZ, jth kunZZt
	👻 9:43am Handy Haversack: I am sincerely grateful that the Astral Weeks question has been officially settled!
	9:44am John Allen: jth, i think i said 'german scene', no?
	9:51am Alvy Singer: ↳ Song: "more than human" by "wayne shorter" Sharrock on guitar?
	9:53am Edgar from Maine: This is so damn great.
	9:54am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "interview" by "tom verlaine" Oh man, I love this so much.
	9:54am Mike W.: whaaaaaOWWWW
	👻 9:54am Handy Haversack: ↳ The Oscar @9:54 Really want to see the hat.
	👻 9:55am Mike H: This is quite the peek behind the (torn) curtain
	9:55am Miss G: I turn on the radio and Tom Verlaine is telling the French interviewer that no one in the US ever heard of the poet LOL
	9:55am terminalhipness: Hey Culligan man!!!
	9:57am Edgar from Maine: I hope for his sake he's right.
	👻 9:58am Handy Haversack: ↳ Miss G @9:55 Right?
	9:58am Mike W.: JA, which interview is that, is it the one billed “intense last interview” on y’tube?
	9:59am The Oscar: Found the interview, and it is indeed a damn fine hat: youtu.be...
	9:59am pp: Richard Lloyd has a substack article he posted a couple days ago called "death". He's pondering the same questions.
	9:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dying is perfectly safe. - RamDas
	10:00am Purvis: "Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters."
	10:00am John Allen: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 the circle/ void being the back of the marqee moon LP
	10:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 Thx !
	10:01am Miss G: Rimbaud by Jack Kerouac maddogblues-jackpersons.blogspot.com...
	10:01am Roberto: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 Beautiful hat, beautiful artist. Sadly, it's likely the cigarettes won in the end.
	👻 10:02am Handy Haversack: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 You can see why the Finnish girls would love it!
	10:02am Mike W.: thanku l’Oscar
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "live" by "television" My Tom Poem (which you may yet live to see me stop referencing) : www.facebook.com...
	10:04am Miss G: ↳ Song: "little johnny jewel" by "television" Shrieking like the people in the background.
	10:07am Edgar from Maine: The almost-syncopation is oozing.
	10:07am Destroit: Morning everyone. So glad to be listening to the TV!
	10:07am Miss G: L My sister the Scorpio is gonna yell at me. "You were supposed to be reviewing your lease and I come up here and find you dancing to that rock and roll music!" OK I'll thank you in advance John Allen, you made my day. (but I'll keep the music on til the last minute)
	10:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "little johnny jewel" by "television" If you can't be in this band why bother. & so the Elves leave Middle-earth for another Age.
	10:10am slugluv1313: greetings, John! Everyone! de-lurking to thank you for this Television 🖤🖤🖤 (is this from the ROIR cassette? called "Blow Up," iirc)
	10:10am TerrDE: Girls on Film quote, lol
	👻 10:11am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:10 Hi, slug. Happy Friday!
	👻 10:12am Mike H: Is the version of LJJ you just played from the Arrow / Blow-Up bootleg? Sounds familiar…
	10:12am John Allen: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:10 yep, Blow Up
	10:12am Miss G: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:10 Good morning slugluv1313 so happy to share ears with you listening to this, was just about to say the same, have had it on repeat
	10:13am slugluv1313: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @10:11 Happy Friday to you too! 🐱🐱
	👻 10:13am Mike H: Whoops didn’t mean to ask slugluv1313’s question a second time. Sorry
	10:14am listener 126464: "All that guy ever said/ He said, 'I want my little wing-head.'"
	👻 10:14am Handy Haversack: Great stuff. Morning, slugluv, Ken, Miss G, all.
	10:14am John Allen: ↳ Mike H @10:12 Arrow/ Blow Up same
	👻 10:15am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:14 Happy Dog-Saturday, Handy!
	10:15am Miss G: Good morning HH, I hope the picket line got some people noticing yesterday, and you all and everyone, Have a Great WEeekend!
	10:15am slugluv1313: thank you, Miss G and John Allen! (i thought it sounded familiar! i have the cassette, but alas, no cassette player)
	10:16am slugluv1313: (so i am cranking it now 💜😻🖤😻💜)
	10:16am slugluv1313: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:14 hiya Handy!
	10:17am Miss G: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:15 (oh, wishing a cassette player falls in your lap! I have the same boombox that my brother bought me early 90s when he said "CDs are here to stay, you need a CD player!)
	10:17am JG: It's like listening to Warren Haynes and Derrick Trucks jamming out , if they were about 50% less talented. Sorry, trying to like these guys but they just ain't that great
	10:18am Destroit: This song is legend
	10:19am luka: ↳ JG @10:17 this should be added to the playlist quote
	10:20am slugluv1313: ↳ luka @10:19 hah! agreed, luka!
	10:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:17 I wonder what Derek Trucks would say about that.
	10:21am slugluv1313: ↳ Miss G @10:17 that is awesome! i had a boombox, but the cassette player function died :(
	👻 10:22am Mike H: Television as a lesser Allmans is a take I never could have imagined before. Thank you for opening our minds to the possibilities JG
	👻 10:22am Karl Ward: Who is Warren Hynes?
	👻 10:22am Handy Haversack: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:21 Our Bathroom Boombox made the ultimate sacrifice recently. Going to have to replace it. I have a little transistor radio in there now, but I miss being able to play tapes. Tape deck in the front room works (well, one door is a little busted, but it works).
	10:23am JG: I don't even mind a primitive approach to the instrument, but I don't really find Verlaine's playing all that inspired
	10:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Karl Ward @10:22 Todd Haynes' uptight brother.
	10:24am John Allen: ↳ JG @10:17 JG, if you're starting off with some sorta trucks/ allman's perspective, that seems a bit too limiting in guitar discussions. they are exhausting careerists that have convinced their fanbase that there is one way to look at playing. It's boring shit to listen to.
	10:24am Destroit: Comments section heatin up haha
	10:24am sydnius: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:21 'tis almost always those rubber bands, is the transport moving?
	10:25am Greg g: First time hearing this track. Thank you JA
	10:26am sydnius: ↳ John Allen @10:24 I like Duane and Tom. To each their own, in multitudes.
	10:27am JG: ↳ John Allen @10:24 Musical approach aside,as guitarist, these guys are lesser Lou Reeds also, though
	10:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ John Allen @10:24 I would make exception somewhat for Derek Trucks - a slide gittarist of perhaps literally incomparable ability & respectable taste. But yeah. & for Duane Allmän. But he died in 1971.
	10:27am John Allen: I like Duane too/ short as it was. the 50% less talented thing is absurd though.
	10:27am sydnius: I always find it fascinating that John Cale could put up with Lou Reed as long as he did.
	10:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:27 Have you heard the Koto-like place Television gets to on 'Marquee Moon' ? ...Todd Haynes is a truly great Poet tho (snark)...
	10:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:28 *Warren Haynes - whoever...
	10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's perfectly legit to say 'this is not my jam' - I like it / I don't. As far as that goes. Any further & you're up for review yourself.
	👻 10:32am nathan: ↳ Song: "annie's telling me" by "tom verlaine" i'm appreciating the solo deep cuts (and of course LJJ live version #345623743276, always rips)
	10:33am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:28 Some of their jams get to a place where they seem like they're enjoying themselves. Nothing that really grooves or transcends its own simplicity for me though. ANd I have no problem w simplicity
	10:33am Destroit: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:32 100
	10:34am mico: OMG Verlaine was amazing. These tracks destroy.
	10:34am John Allen: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:27 there's no denying DT is brilliant at what he does. But to compare 50% with such different trajectories. Anyway, we're all thankful that Verlaine removed as much blues as he could
	10:34am bluecharlie: 🤘🏽🎸❤️‍🩹😍🚀🌎💫🔭
	10:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:33 Could just as easily (not to say glibly) be flipped verbatim towards the Allmans.
	10:35am SeaCreature: These are some of the finest Verlaine solo tracks. Focused, yet atmospheric
	👻 10:35am Handy Haversack: I have a vague memory of reading something that described TV and Richard Hell running into each other recently(ish?) just walking around in the city and both having a sort of rueful let-bygones-be-bygones response to it all. But I cannot remember where I read it. Ring a bell for anyone else?
	10:36am JG: This song is great
	10:36am SeaCreature: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:35 That is I the Richard hell book at the end
	10:36am sydnius: There’s a simplicity in improvisational arpeggiation/repetition to them I think lovers of Tom and Duane find endearing
	👻 10:37am Mike H: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:35 That’s the final scene of Hell’s memoir
	👻 10:37am Handy Haversack: OK, thanks, Mike H, SeaCreature! Must have been in a review of that. Many thanks for confirmation. Memoir a good read?
	10:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ John Allen @10:34 Yeah Verlaine had roots in Jazz per his early interests - & admired Richard Thompson. Thompson to me always remarkable for being the one on the shortlist of Greats with the least debt to Blues (& more UK Folk). I love Blues btw & even diddle Gittar myself following that massive unavoidable tradition.
	👻 10:38am Jason from Houston: Hey there.
	👻 10:39am Karl Ward: ↳ John Allen @10:34 I'm reminded of John Frusciante's quote that Hendrix had already done so much with blues rock, and it was time for guitarists to look elsewhere, like to Tom Verlaine or Bernard Sumner. Can't find the exact quote but the spirit of the quote is more or less represented here: www.musicradar.com...
	10:39am Barefoot Jimmy G: Great Verlaine set!!!
	10:39am ?: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:37 Hell’s book is not all that great. As I recall they may have bumped into each other checking out the outdoor “remainder” stacks at The Strand.
	10:40am sydnius: ↳ Karl Ward @10:39 and that's how we get Andy Summers eschewing the solo for ”interesting voicings” despite his being a huge Hendrix nerd
	👻 10:41am Mike H: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:37 I remember liking it OK but was annoyed by the amount of “I had a lot of sex” content
	10:42am Krys O.: ↳ Song: "dissolve / reveal" by "tom verlaine" YAY!!! My fave song from fave TV solo LP.
	10:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Can't get to Noon without quoting Jackson Pollack again : Technique is just a way of arriving @ a Statement. Television's influence on all of Alt~Indie Musics speaks for itself.
	👻 10:42am Handy Haversack: ↳ Mike H @10:41 Ha, what's his butt from the Sex Pistols got a whole TV show made out of that!
	👻 10:43am Karl Ward: ↳ Song: "dissolve / reveal" by "tom verlaine" The day after Verlaine died I listened to all his solo albums in order, what a brilliant run
	👻 10:46am Karl Ward: In my fantasy league, Tom Verlaine and Arthur Russell made a record together
	10:46am mico: His onetime best friend Richard Hell ends his memoir I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp with a sad tale about accidentally running into Verlaine on the sidewalk, outside the East Village’s Strand Bookstore, rummaging through the dollar bins. The two men chat, make awkward jokes, avoid saying anything the least bit personal, then stumble away in different directions. At a 2011 NYC literary event, Hell read this chapter to a hushed room, saying it had just happened the previous week. He sobbed all the way through. “We were like two monsters confiding, but that wasn’t what shocked me,” Hell wrote. “It was that my feeling was love.”
	10:48am John Allen: ↳ Karl Ward @10:46 I hear that, both in their own way capturing an 80s nyc undercurrent to the dominant cultures of the time.
	👻 10:49am Mike H: Had no idea he did an instrumental album. This is cool
	10:49am david: current song. has many parts. but I hear 'she moves through the fair '
	10:50am iiibeat: Coming, Going, Knowing and Flowing Knowledge creates capacities for thought. Vacuums in opposition. Whirls and eddies. Thought is illusion at play. Idle hands. Blank stares. Formations of flow. Hand in hand, Hearts in the sun, Birth and death. Novelties of count and amount. Pounding sound resounds, Repetition and response.
	10:50am Panther: Great show
	10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Karl Ward @10:39 & I stubbornly stubbornly cling - against all the vast & interminable evidence of egos & of competitive commerce - that Art & Musics are the final refuge from false equivalencies & zero sum predatory wars of Winner Takes All ...that if we needed only Tom Verlaine or only Derek Trucks - then that is what we would only have. But - this is in fact not the case.
	10:51am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "spiritual" by "tom verlaine" I hear Zawinul's "In a Silent Way" in this one.
	10:51am JG: Meandering. Doesn't ever head or get anywhere
	10:51am lawrence: Thanks for all the Verlaine, John. Haven't heard most of these. Verlaine truly loved the guitar. There's a story that he (and maybe also Lloyd?) was late to a Television gig in the 00s because he had been checking out guitars at the guitar store across the street and lost track of time.
	10:51am GeoSinPhilly: Never noticed it before, but this "Spiritual" by Verlaine sounds very much like the solo guitar section on Miles' "In a Silent Way."
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ iiibeat @10:50 Poetry seems a natural reflex in relation to Tom Verlaine.
	10:51am Crownless Gander: ↳ GeoSinPhilly @10:51 Jinx!
	10:52am david: so maybe this comes from Richard Thompson . I hear it.
	10:52am Mike W.: It does have a kinda Pentangle-y expansiveness to it, even just through intimation. The notes that aren’t being played, even
	10:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:51 Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing 1. Listen to the birds That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere...
	10:53am Greg g: Wow “Spiritual “ is lovely. Kudos again JA and thank you Tom Verlaine. Rest in peace
	10:53am jim in the d: ↳ JG @10:51 shhh, you've made your point
	10:54am John Allen: ↳ JG @10:51 oh boy. waiting for the climax
	10:54am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:52 don’t forget to lock people in a house, treat them like cult members under your leadership, and feed them little
	10:55am Dr No: ↳ sydnius @10:54 Occasionally place them in a barrel and shout at them, too.
	10:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @10:54 ...'Technique just a way of arriving @ a Statement' writ large... RIP this day Joe Meek...
	10:56am Polyus: And have the rest of the band jump the drummer for no apparent reason.
	10:56am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:52 Well I like Beefhearts music, and am willing to put in the work where it gets far out, but again w the playing on some of these jams- I'm not moved. It's me , I'm probably epxecting to find something that I'm not gonna find
	👻 10:57am Karl Ward: ↳ John Allen @10:54 This really would be better with two drummers playing the same thing underneath it
	👻 10:57am Mike H: Going forward, as I listen to Verlaine's music, I will ask myself, "Is this taking JG on a journey?"
	11:00am McGroovey: I'm reading this playlist while listening to the Phil Schaap birthday broadcast. WKCR doesn't have archives! I left the radio on when I feel asleep, and a great record woke me up at any 5:30. It was two unreleased takes of Django Reinhardt and André Ekyan doing Pennies From Heaven, on speed. The released version is relaxed, as you'd expect. These takes sounded like they were trying to pick up all the pennies while rushing for a train.
	11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No - what we really need is the WFMU 24/7 Hate Listening Stream & Comments Community. It's the logical (if unintentional) apotheosis of Irritainment.
	11:03am JG: ↳ Mike H @10:57 It won't be. And I'm adamant that you shouldn't like it either. But there's nothing I can do about that
	👻 11:03am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:00 Of possible interest to this crowd: I am going to be doing the production editing on a collection of 1980s WKCR interviews.
	11:04am sydnius: I like Don despite thinking he’s a monster, which is more than there can be said for some
	11:04am SeanG: Call Mr. Lee!
	11:04am david: Enjoying Dark Star
	11:04am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:03 Cool
	👻 11:04am Karl Ward: ↳ sydnius @11:04 Took a second to realize you're not talking about Don Henley
	11:04am sydnius: He always reminded me of the master from ”Manos”
	11:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:00 Schaap is all Archive now. Listened all night.
	11:05am abbazabba: What did Don Henley think of Tom Verlaine? Whatever dirty said should solve this dispute.
	11:05am david: anyone hear go to CRMS
	👻 11:06am Handy Haversack: ↳ abbazabba @11:05 (better)
	11:06am Dr No: ↳ Karl Ward @11:04 Felder...surely... van Vliet can wait
	11:06am John Allen: ↳ abbazabba @11:05 haha, Schaap is All Archive
	11:06am McGroovey: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:04 Yeah, he's not really able to make new shows anymore, I know. Or do you mean that there actually is a publicly accessible WKCR or Phil Schaap archive?
	11:07am iiibeat: sunyata, in Buddhist philosophy, the voidness that constitutes ultimate reality; sunyata is seen not as a negation of existence but rather as the undifferentiation out of which all apparent entities, distinctions, and dualities arise
	11:07am Polyus: This is pretty good laying in bed sick music, John.
	11:08am slugluv1313: this is all so beautiful -- thank you, again, John Allen
	👻 11:09am Handy Haversack: Pulling out the serious socks for sitting in the car today. JA has the soundtrack covered.
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:04 Well, Beefheart an Artist with a legitimately unique Vision - & as Yoko once said - an Artist has a right to expect perfection. Some degree of Megalomania may be required to get things realized in a World that as Nietzsche made explicit would kill us all without that palliative. Is it awful to think this Work we adore is married to flagrant Abuse ? It sure is. But - I think he got better. Fwiw.
	👻 11:10am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:09 Keep 'em warm, boss.
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ iiibeat @11:07 Creatura ~ Pleroma
	11:11am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:10 Fripp tortured people, too. Still like he & waifu
	11:13am Krys O.: 'All archive now' is the new euphemism for left this mortal coil.
	11:13am sydnius: ”You’re killing MY BABY”
	11:13am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:06 No just noting noting that Schaap - an Archivist of the highest order - is now nothing but Archives himself.
	👻 11:14am chris_in_space: Amazing Verlaine set!
	👻 11:15am Handy Haversack: Fantastic set, JA. Really great. WFMU has been a necessity this week in honoring TV, and this journey through his work has been one of the finest. You're good at this DJ stuff!
	11:15am Dr No: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:10 It's an interesting issue, Rabbit. Like you, I have no problem appreciating the artistic results, I just think it behoves us to remember the circumstances of their creation and keep the 'Beefheart is a wonder' rhetoric a little in check. Similarly, Yoko Ono was an absolute cow, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate her artistic oeuvre.
	11:15am Krys O.: Thanks, JA.
	11:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Dr No @11:15 Uh-huh. Comes from an anecdote from in the Studio where John had to pull her aside & say ...erm - in Rawk, we don't really interact with Musicians like that... Also - credit to the Magic Band themselves where due - both for the result & the endurance. & by extension in all such circumstances ...all too prevalent...
	👻 11:18am chris_in_space: ↳ david @11:04 @david lolz
	11:19am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:18 & yes, he ripened, and mellowed, as we all do, but what he did to them for TMR is both humorous and sad
	11:20am abbazabba: Was the Peace Piece the Bill Evans tune? I thought it was beautiful but didn't even notice it was the same song (at work with speakers turned down lower than I'd like)
	11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:19 Also I wonder how the Captain might be psychologically diagnosed in an era such as the present. Not of course that this justifies Abuse. The aim is breaking such cycles.
	11:22am John Allen: ↳ abbazabba @11:20 i think it was more of a deconstructed homage to the BE tune's name, but that's not w. me a/b'ing anything so could be a more speculative comment on my part
	11:23am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:22 & I love the record. Wife hates it, makes me skip. 😫
	11:24am sydnius: ”Moon over Vermont” is a triumph
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:22 ...but I wonder if he might even be in that category of neurologically atypical Creatives who've given us windows into another perspective like Monk & Syd et al. Tho Franco (for instance!) have said he communicated normally enuff. & others have spoken actually of his kindness & lack of pretension (...later ...& not working for him...)
	11:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I mean - have you tried Creative Collaboration ? I seem to have mostly evaded it in Life, somehow...
	👻 11:27am Handy Haversack: OK, I'm off to the car. Will be listening over the frozen FM waves. Thanks, JA! Stay warm, J'All. Don. (better)
	11:28am bobobob Dublon plasticland: I have em all...met him and talked Sun Ra with him and had Tom sign a picture of Himself he drew a flying saucer over his head...also got to talk to Adrian Belew that same evening
	11:28am Dr No: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:24 I remember Robert Williams talking of the Nosferatu album and saying that Hugh Cornwell was the most difficult and perfectionist person he'd ever worked with "and I played with Beefheart."
	11:28am abbazabba: ↳ John Allen @11:22 cool thanks
	11:29am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:24 PT Anderson has said some things about his movie The Master that make me think the relationship of Beefheart and his band was akin to Philip Hoffman's relationship with Jaquim Phoenix
	11:30am sydnius: ↳ JG @11:29 yeah Kubrick seems to be one as well
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @11:29 Did Hoffman Direct him ?? Or - something else here...
	11:31am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:30 No I meant their characters relationship in the story, not the actors
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:30 ...cause a Director - it seems to me - is essentially making Reality Dance for himself. What kind of damned ego you need for that ?
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @11:31 Oh.
	11:35am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:32 liked EYaaO? You?
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...it's also that Beefheart represents in his songs & work an Ideal of a childlike moralism - environmentalist & compassionate if absurd & bohemian & more than a little Beat. Even grotesque... Maybe it's all one big Tantrum & we're all just Big Babies after all...
	11:38am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:37 zappa & doo-wop. 😄
	👻 11:38am Karl Ward: ↳ Song: "compulsion" by "andrew hill" Wow
	👻 11:38am Karl Ward: JAZZ I meant to say
	11:39am sydnius: oh yes btw JAZZ
	11:40am terminalhipness: (shouting) JAZZ! JAZZ!!!
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What is EYaaO ?
	11:40am slugluv1313: ↳ Polyus @11:07 i hope it is helping you to feel better, Polyus!
	11:41am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:40 I apologize for misacronyming EEaaO
	11:41am Polyus: Joe Chambers going OFF here
	11:42am abbazabba: Yeah, really digging this Andrew Hill. Time to put the fanny pack on
	11:42am Polyus: Indeed it is slugluv!
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:41 Kubrick's opus regarding Old MacDonald's Farm ?
	11:45am sydnius: 🤣
	11:47am slugluv1313: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:37 i have yet to read Hell's memoir, but i have heard what others have commented: somewhat, um over-sexed i do have the Richard Lloyd memoir though! i have not read it cover to cover, but have skipped around, read different parts here and there -- i really like it!
	11:48am Mr. Blur: Re: Verlaine & Hell @ the strand. Richard Hell just wrote on his website that the song he loves is "The Scientist Writes a Letter (from T.V.'s Flashlight)," which is a real tearjerker when you hear the verse: "Unless chance finds us/ face to face/ this is the last you'll hear from me."
	11:50am TerrDE: I've added lots of tunes to my FMU playlist today
	11:50am bobobob Fabtriplasticland: JA. love the music you play ..I'm indebted to bands like Journey Forginer supertramp in the 70s for making me start listening to stuff your playing
	👻 11:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for today's curation, JA!
	11:51am terminalhipness: Fantastic show today JA! Thank you!!!
	11:52am bobobobob: DR No..Robert Williams..he drummer on Doc at the Radar Station??????That Robert Williams???
	11:52am slugluv1313: (a friend of mine dated Richard Hell in the 80s -- i have no idea if she is in the book! -- but iirc, the reason he was so smitten with her was bc she really did not know who he was -- maybe knew him through poetry/writing? -- but she was not aware of his LES "punk" "fame")
	11:55am Windy City: Can you post your insta feed Thx I can’t find it
	👻 11:56am Jason from Houston: I hear that phone blowing up! LOL
	11:56am slugluv1313: wonderful show, JA -- so glad i have been home and able to listen (& helping get through a lot of tedious crap!) -- thanks so much! take care, everyone -- be well, stay WARM!
	11:56am terminalhipness: What the wig is about:eriyamamoto.bandcamp.com...
	11:56am bradford: Thanks JA as always
	11:56am Creature Boy: Couldn't find it either
	11:56am d: whats the bed music
	11:56am terminalhipness: oh, guess she's telling us...
	👻 11:56am chris_in_space: Loved today's show, @JA!
	11:57am John Allen: ↳ Windy City @11:55 www.instagram.com...
	👻 11:58am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, JA. Cheers, good people. Get something nice for yourself on the Internet.
	11:58am Magenta: Great show JA!
	11:58am John Allen: ↳ terminalhipness @11:56 i was setting her up for us
	11:58am sydnius: 🤟🏻 JAZZers have a wonderful *
	11:59am Mr. Blur: Thanks for the Tom V. (Other DJs, more more!)
	11:59am d: what was the bed music
	12:00pm bobobob Fabtriplasticland: Richard Davis .. Wisconsin resident
	12:01pm listener 126464: Thanks JA
	👻 12:01pm Yetz: TYJA
	12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JA ~
	12:02pm John Allen: thanks for being here everybody!
	12:03pm abbazabba: Thanks JA!
	12:04pm bobobob: NO Bryce... that's a ok Keep up the good work JA..hey I'm a poet didn't noit

JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 3, 2023

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"I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but I could'nt see where you were going or what you were going for. This early seventies thing did'nt get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Dealney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are. Then you play this long winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves. And that noise without a beat and sounds like someones being pinched. Then you play a reggae song, I think you called it Dub, to what, be cool? You seem to really fetishize the whole folk thing too which is obnoxious to us who don't even care. I liked it when you played that punk song though. I like Joe Belock a lot." (Visit homepage.)

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February 3, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
dirty	don "don" by "dirty"			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
jay berliner	papa was a rolling stone	not all bananas are created equal	mainstream	0:07:55 (Pop-up)
the esoteric circle	rabalder "rabalder" by "the esoteric circle"	the esoteric circle	flying dutchman	0:13:30 (Pop-up)
egil 'bop' johansen	palevise "palevise" by "egil 'bop' johansen"	samse tak!	four leaf clover records	0:21:55 (Pop-up)
noah howard	patterns "patterns" by "noah howard"	patterns	altsax	0:25:03 (Pop-up)
wayne shorter	more than human "more than human" by "wayne shorter"	super nova	blue note	0:44:04 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	interview "interview" by "tom verlaine"			0:49:42 (Pop-up)
television	live "live" by "television"	the blow up	roir	0:56:23 (Pop-up)
television	little johnny jewel "little johnny jewel" by "television"	the blow up	roir	1:02:10 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	days on the mountain	words from the front	warner brothers	1:17:08 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	annie's telling me "annie's telling me" by "tom verlaine"	flash light	irs	1:26:18 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	breakin my heart "breakin my heart" by "tom verlaine"	s/t	elektra	1:29:39 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	the blue robe "the blue robe" by "tom verlaine"	dreamtime	warner brothers	1:35:48 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	dissolve / reveal "dissolve / reveal" by "tom verlaine"	cover	warner brothers	1:39:49 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	spiritual "spiritual" by "tom verlaine"	warm & cool	rykodisc	1:44:48 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	please keep going "please keep going" by "tom verlaine"	warm & cool	rykodisc	1:49:42 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	tontootempo "tontootempo" by "tom verlaine"	warm & cool	rykodisc	1:52:58 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	peace piece "peace piece" by "tom verlaine"	songs & other things	thrill jockey	1:57:56 (Pop-up)
tom verlaine	mountain / candle / balcony / flame	around	thrill jockey	2:00:23 (Pop-up)
bennie maupin & adam rudolph	4th part	symphonic tone poem for brother yusef	strut	2:17:43 (Pop-up)
andrew hill	black monday "black monday" by "andrew hill"	andrew!!!	blue note	2:26:46 (Pop-up)
andrew hill	compulsion "compulsion" by "andrew hill"	compulsion	blue note	2:35:22 (Pop-up)
eri yamamoto trio	a woman with a purple wig	a woman with a purple wig	mahakala music	2:54:13 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 9:04am Yetz: something dirty this way comes
	9:04am terminalhipness: listen to some music (yeah)
	9:04am Strandlund: Happy Friday Mr. Allen!!
	👻 9:04am Marley P. Dogg: Don’t forget - only YOU can prevent dirty laundry!
	9:04am terminalhipness: maybe JUST TALKING…
	9:05am bradford: give me that dirt, Don
	👻 9:05am Karl Ward: Free jazz? In my early 80s multitracked drum machine + synth loop?
	👻 9:06am Yetz: ↳ Karl Ward @9:05 all jazz is free if you don't pay for it
	👻 9:06am Karl Ward: ↳ Yetz @9:06 Just finished reading John Allen's memoir "There's No Such Thing as a Free Jazz." I know everyone is all about the podcast but I like to read the book first.
	👻 9:07am Handy Haversack: JA. J'All. Don. (better)
	9:08am Krys O.: CHAZZ!! I mean, JAZZ!
	👻 9:08am Handy Haversack: Yeah, in the early 2010s, it was all "JAZZ wants to be free." And look where that got us. Big JAZZ owns you. Did you think your JAZZphone was all about convenience? Wake up, JAZZ sheeple!
	9:08am luka: kick
	9:09am luka: (yeah)
	👻 9:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Dirty Friday!
	👻 9:09am Karl Ward: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:08 I didn't know a saxophone could spy on me. Given the kinds of things that happen in practice spaces, I am chastened by this knowledge.
	9:10am Colleen: People's court
	9:11am Steve from Kalamazoo: Can you play something by Wowza In Kalamazoo?
	9:11am HyperDose: ↳ luka @9:08 ouch! 💥🤕 haha
	9:12am Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: Good morning John and everyone. Hanging here for a bit before I go for a run. Be well.
	9:13am Greg from ZONE 5: Make it funky, Johnny.
	👻 9:13am Handy Haversack: ↳ Karl Ward @9:09 And now Mayor Adams is letting them put up 30'-tall saxophones in every neighborhood in the city. And saying it's for us!
	9:13am Pax: By going natural style !
	👻 9:13am Karl Ward: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:13 They were always wearing sunglasses, those saxophonists. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING
	9:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♀︎Friday FMUvianz ~ ...thot we were getting Little Johnny Jewel arf a mo...
	9:14am PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "papa was a rolling stone" by "jay berliner" Hell Yeah Hi Hi Hi
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I get stoned I can't go home I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone - Jimi Hendrix
	9:20am Pax: ↳ Pax @9:13 Sorry, forgot to tap the bubble. My last post was for Marley P Dogg @9:04
	👻 9:22am Yetz: ↳ Song: "rabalder" by "the esoteric circle" this Esoteric Circle was my gateway to Terje Rypdal who I thought I didn't like but it turns out I do
	👻 9:23am Yetz: FREE YOUR MIND AND YOUR JAZZ WILL FOLLOW
	9:24am Mike W.: Friends i am here for the full force of your anti-Covid vibes
	9:26am vixo: This has strong smurf vibes.
	👻 9:27am Ken From Hyde Park: Gathering of the JAZZALOS later this month - www.hudsonhall.org...
	9:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Yetz @9:22 Always have some nostalgia for TerjeRypdal - cause taped something with him onto cassette off Vermont Public Radio in that other Century when I was first recognizing my love of the Jazzes.
	👻 9:31am Yetz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:27 Ah, I wish I had my old radio tapes! Hours and hours of WFMU including a few shows hosted by Fred Frith! Pre-archive, of course.
	9:41am jth: Mengelberg & Bennink are Dutch thank you for spinning them anyway. regardZZ, jth kunZZt
	👻 9:43am Handy Haversack: I am sincerely grateful that the Astral Weeks question has been officially settled!
	9:44am John Allen: jth, i think i said 'german scene', no?
	9:51am Alvy Singer: ↳ Song: "more than human" by "wayne shorter" Sharrock on guitar?
	9:53am Edgar from Maine: This is so damn great.
	9:54am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "interview" by "tom verlaine" Oh man, I love this so much.
	9:54am Mike W.: whaaaaaOWWWW
	👻 9:54am Handy Haversack: ↳ The Oscar @9:54 Really want to see the hat.
	👻 9:55am Mike H: This is quite the peek behind the (torn) curtain
	9:55am Miss G: I turn on the radio and Tom Verlaine is telling the French interviewer that no one in the US ever heard of the poet LOL
	9:55am terminalhipness: Hey Culligan man!!!
	9:57am Edgar from Maine: I hope for his sake he's right.
	👻 9:58am Handy Haversack: ↳ Miss G @9:55 Right?
	9:58am Mike W.: JA, which interview is that, is it the one billed “intense last interview” on y’tube?
	9:59am The Oscar: Found the interview, and it is indeed a damn fine hat: youtu.be...
	9:59am pp: Richard Lloyd has a substack article he posted a couple days ago called "death". He's pondering the same questions.
	9:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Dying is perfectly safe. - RamDas
	10:00am Purvis: "Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters."
	10:00am John Allen: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 the circle/ void being the back of the marqee moon LP
	10:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 Thx !
	10:01am Miss G: Rimbaud by Jack Kerouac maddogblues-jackpersons.blogspot.com...
	10:01am Roberto: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 Beautiful hat, beautiful artist. Sadly, it's likely the cigarettes won in the end.
	👻 10:02am Handy Haversack: ↳ The Oscar @9:59 You can see why the Finnish girls would love it!
	10:02am Mike W.: thanku l’Oscar
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "live" by "television" My Tom Poem (which you may yet live to see me stop referencing) : www.facebook.com...
	10:04am Miss G: ↳ Song: "little johnny jewel" by "television" Shrieking like the people in the background.
	10:07am Edgar from Maine: The almost-syncopation is oozing.
	10:07am Destroit: Morning everyone. So glad to be listening to the TV!
	10:07am Miss G: L My sister the Scorpio is gonna yell at me. "You were supposed to be reviewing your lease and I come up here and find you dancing to that rock and roll music!" OK I'll thank you in advance John Allen, you made my day. (but I'll keep the music on til the last minute)
	10:09am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "little johnny jewel" by "television" If you can't be in this band why bother. & so the Elves leave Middle-earth for another Age.
	10:10am slugluv1313: greetings, John! Everyone! de-lurking to thank you for this Television 🖤🖤🖤 (is this from the ROIR cassette? called "Blow Up," iirc)
	10:10am TerrDE: Girls on Film quote, lol
	👻 10:11am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:10 Hi, slug. Happy Friday!
	👻 10:12am Mike H: Is the version of LJJ you just played from the Arrow / Blow-Up bootleg? Sounds familiar…
	10:12am John Allen: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:10 yep, Blow Up
	10:12am Miss G: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:10 Good morning slugluv1313 so happy to share ears with you listening to this, was just about to say the same, have had it on repeat
	10:13am slugluv1313: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @10:11 Happy Friday to you too! 🐱🐱
	👻 10:13am Mike H: Whoops didn’t mean to ask slugluv1313’s question a second time. Sorry
	10:14am listener 126464: "All that guy ever said/ He said, 'I want my little wing-head.'"
	👻 10:14am Handy Haversack: Great stuff. Morning, slugluv, Ken, Miss G, all.
	10:14am John Allen: ↳ Mike H @10:12 Arrow/ Blow Up same
	👻 10:15am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:14 Happy Dog-Saturday, Handy!
	10:15am Miss G: Good morning HH, I hope the picket line got some people noticing yesterday, and you all and everyone, Have a Great WEeekend!
	10:15am slugluv1313: thank you, Miss G and John Allen! (i thought it sounded familiar! i have the cassette, but alas, no cassette player)
	10:16am slugluv1313: (so i am cranking it now 💜😻🖤😻💜)
	10:16am slugluv1313: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:14 hiya Handy!
	10:17am Miss G: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:15 (oh, wishing a cassette player falls in your lap! I have the same boombox that my brother bought me early 90s when he said "CDs are here to stay, you need a CD player!)
	10:17am JG: It's like listening to Warren Haynes and Derrick Trucks jamming out , if they were about 50% less talented. Sorry, trying to like these guys but they just ain't that great
	10:18am Destroit: This song is legend
	10:19am luka: ↳ JG @10:17 this should be added to the playlist quote
	10:20am slugluv1313: ↳ luka @10:19 hah! agreed, luka!
	10:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:17 I wonder what Derek Trucks would say about that.
	10:21am slugluv1313: ↳ Miss G @10:17 that is awesome! i had a boombox, but the cassette player function died :(
	👻 10:22am Mike H: Television as a lesser Allmans is a take I never could have imagined before. Thank you for opening our minds to the possibilities JG
	👻 10:22am Karl Ward: Who is Warren Hynes?
	👻 10:22am Handy Haversack: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:21 Our Bathroom Boombox made the ultimate sacrifice recently. Going to have to replace it. I have a little transistor radio in there now, but I miss being able to play tapes. Tape deck in the front room works (well, one door is a little busted, but it works).
	10:23am JG: I don't even mind a primitive approach to the instrument, but I don't really find Verlaine's playing all that inspired
	10:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Karl Ward @10:22 Todd Haynes' uptight brother.
	10:24am John Allen: ↳ JG @10:17 JG, if you're starting off with some sorta trucks/ allman's perspective, that seems a bit too limiting in guitar discussions. they are exhausting careerists that have convinced their fanbase that there is one way to look at playing. It's boring shit to listen to.
	10:24am Destroit: Comments section heatin up haha
	10:24am sydnius: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:21 'tis almost always those rubber bands, is the transport moving?
	10:25am Greg g: First time hearing this track. Thank you JA
	10:26am sydnius: ↳ John Allen @10:24 I like Duane and Tom. To each their own, in multitudes.
	10:27am JG: ↳ John Allen @10:24 Musical approach aside,as guitarist, these guys are lesser Lou Reeds also, though
	10:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ John Allen @10:24 I would make exception somewhat for Derek Trucks - a slide gittarist of perhaps literally incomparable ability & respectable taste. But yeah. & for Duane Allmän. But he died in 1971.
	10:27am John Allen: I like Duane too/ short as it was. the 50% less talented thing is absurd though.
	10:27am sydnius: I always find it fascinating that John Cale could put up with Lou Reed as long as he did.
	10:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:27 Have you heard the Koto-like place Television gets to on 'Marquee Moon' ? ...Todd Haynes is a truly great Poet tho (snark)...
	10:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:28 *Warren Haynes - whoever...
	10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's perfectly legit to say 'this is not my jam' - I like it / I don't. As far as that goes. Any further & you're up for review yourself.
	👻 10:32am nathan: ↳ Song: "annie's telling me" by "tom verlaine" i'm appreciating the solo deep cuts (and of course LJJ live version #345623743276, always rips)
	10:33am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:28 Some of their jams get to a place where they seem like they're enjoying themselves. Nothing that really grooves or transcends its own simplicity for me though. ANd I have no problem w simplicity
	10:33am Destroit: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:32 100
	10:34am mico: OMG Verlaine was amazing. These tracks destroy.
	10:34am John Allen: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:27 there's no denying DT is brilliant at what he does. But to compare 50% with such different trajectories. Anyway, we're all thankful that Verlaine removed as much blues as he could
	10:34am bluecharlie: 🤘🏽🎸❤️‍🩹😍🚀🌎💫🔭
	10:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:33 Could just as easily (not to say glibly) be flipped verbatim towards the Allmans.
	10:35am SeaCreature: These are some of the finest Verlaine solo tracks. Focused, yet atmospheric
	👻 10:35am Handy Haversack: I have a vague memory of reading something that described TV and Richard Hell running into each other recently(ish?) just walking around in the city and both having a sort of rueful let-bygones-be-bygones response to it all. But I cannot remember where I read it. Ring a bell for anyone else?
	10:36am JG: This song is great
	10:36am SeaCreature: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:35 That is I the Richard hell book at the end
	10:36am sydnius: There’s a simplicity in improvisational arpeggiation/repetition to them I think lovers of Tom and Duane find endearing
	👻 10:37am Mike H: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:35 That’s the final scene of Hell’s memoir
	👻 10:37am Handy Haversack: OK, thanks, Mike H, SeaCreature! Must have been in a review of that. Many thanks for confirmation. Memoir a good read?
	10:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ John Allen @10:34 Yeah Verlaine had roots in Jazz per his early interests - & admired Richard Thompson. Thompson to me always remarkable for being the one on the shortlist of Greats with the least debt to Blues (& more UK Folk). I love Blues btw & even diddle Gittar myself following that massive unavoidable tradition.
	👻 10:38am Jason from Houston: Hey there.
	👻 10:39am Karl Ward: ↳ John Allen @10:34 I'm reminded of John Frusciante's quote that Hendrix had already done so much with blues rock, and it was time for guitarists to look elsewhere, like to Tom Verlaine or Bernard Sumner. Can't find the exact quote but the spirit of the quote is more or less represented here: www.musicradar.com...
	10:39am Barefoot Jimmy G: Great Verlaine set!!!
	10:39am ?: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:37 Hell’s book is not all that great. As I recall they may have bumped into each other checking out the outdoor “remainder” stacks at The Strand.
	10:40am sydnius: ↳ Karl Ward @10:39 and that's how we get Andy Summers eschewing the solo for ”interesting voicings” despite his being a huge Hendrix nerd
	👻 10:41am Mike H: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:37 I remember liking it OK but was annoyed by the amount of “I had a lot of sex” content
	10:42am Krys O.: ↳ Song: "dissolve / reveal" by "tom verlaine" YAY!!! My fave song from fave TV solo LP.
	10:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Can't get to Noon without quoting Jackson Pollack again : Technique is just a way of arriving @ a Statement. Television's influence on all of Alt~Indie Musics speaks for itself.
	👻 10:42am Handy Haversack: ↳ Mike H @10:41 Ha, what's his butt from the Sex Pistols got a whole TV show made out of that!
	👻 10:43am Karl Ward: ↳ Song: "dissolve / reveal" by "tom verlaine" The day after Verlaine died I listened to all his solo albums in order, what a brilliant run
	👻 10:46am Karl Ward: In my fantasy league, Tom Verlaine and Arthur Russell made a record together
	10:46am mico: His onetime best friend Richard Hell ends his memoir I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp with a sad tale about accidentally running into Verlaine on the sidewalk, outside the East Village’s Strand Bookstore, rummaging through the dollar bins. The two men chat, make awkward jokes, avoid saying anything the least bit personal, then stumble away in different directions. At a 2011 NYC literary event, Hell read this chapter to a hushed room, saying it had just happened the previous week. He sobbed all the way through. “We were like two monsters confiding, but that wasn’t what shocked me,” Hell wrote. “It was that my feeling was love.”
	10:48am John Allen: ↳ Karl Ward @10:46 I hear that, both in their own way capturing an 80s nyc undercurrent to the dominant cultures of the time.
	👻 10:49am Mike H: Had no idea he did an instrumental album. This is cool
	10:49am david: current song. has many parts. but I hear 'she moves through the fair '
	10:50am iiibeat: Coming, Going, Knowing and Flowing Knowledge creates capacities for thought. Vacuums in opposition. Whirls and eddies. Thought is illusion at play. Idle hands. Blank stares. Formations of flow. Hand in hand, Hearts in the sun, Birth and death. Novelties of count and amount. Pounding sound resounds, Repetition and response.
	10:50am Panther: Great show
	10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Karl Ward @10:39 & I stubbornly stubbornly cling - against all the vast & interminable evidence of egos & of competitive commerce - that Art & Musics are the final refuge from false equivalencies & zero sum predatory wars of Winner Takes All ...that if we needed only Tom Verlaine or only Derek Trucks - then that is what we would only have. But - this is in fact not the case.
	10:51am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "spiritual" by "tom verlaine" I hear Zawinul's "In a Silent Way" in this one.
	10:51am JG: Meandering. Doesn't ever head or get anywhere
	10:51am lawrence: Thanks for all the Verlaine, John. Haven't heard most of these. Verlaine truly loved the guitar. There's a story that he (and maybe also Lloyd?) was late to a Television gig in the 00s because he had been checking out guitars at the guitar store across the street and lost track of time.
	10:51am GeoSinPhilly: Never noticed it before, but this "Spiritual" by Verlaine sounds very much like the solo guitar section on Miles' "In a Silent Way."
	10:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ iiibeat @10:50 Poetry seems a natural reflex in relation to Tom Verlaine.
	10:51am Crownless Gander: ↳ GeoSinPhilly @10:51 Jinx!
	10:52am david: so maybe this comes from Richard Thompson . I hear it.
	10:52am Mike W.: It does have a kinda Pentangle-y expansiveness to it, even just through intimation. The notes that aren’t being played, even
	10:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @10:51 Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing 1. Listen to the birds That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere...
	10:53am Greg g: Wow “Spiritual “ is lovely. Kudos again JA and thank you Tom Verlaine. Rest in peace
	10:53am jim in the d: ↳ JG @10:51 shhh, you've made your point
	10:54am John Allen: ↳ JG @10:51 oh boy. waiting for the climax
	10:54am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:52 don’t forget to lock people in a house, treat them like cult members under your leadership, and feed them little
	10:55am Dr No: ↳ sydnius @10:54 Occasionally place them in a barrel and shout at them, too.
	10:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @10:54 ...'Technique just a way of arriving @ a Statement' writ large... RIP this day Joe Meek...
	10:56am Polyus: And have the rest of the band jump the drummer for no apparent reason.
	10:56am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @10:52 Well I like Beefhearts music, and am willing to put in the work where it gets far out, but again w the playing on some of these jams- I'm not moved. It's me , I'm probably epxecting to find something that I'm not gonna find
	👻 10:57am Karl Ward: ↳ John Allen @10:54 This really would be better with two drummers playing the same thing underneath it
	👻 10:57am Mike H: Going forward, as I listen to Verlaine's music, I will ask myself, "Is this taking JG on a journey?"
	11:00am McGroovey: I'm reading this playlist while listening to the Phil Schaap birthday broadcast. WKCR doesn't have archives! I left the radio on when I feel asleep, and a great record woke me up at any 5:30. It was two unreleased takes of Django Reinhardt and André Ekyan doing Pennies From Heaven, on speed. The released version is relaxed, as you'd expect. These takes sounded like they were trying to pick up all the pennies while rushing for a train.
	11:02am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: No - what we really need is the WFMU 24/7 Hate Listening Stream & Comments Community. It's the logical (if unintentional) apotheosis of Irritainment.
	11:03am JG: ↳ Mike H @10:57 It won't be. And I'm adamant that you shouldn't like it either. But there's nothing I can do about that
	👻 11:03am Handy Haversack: ↳ McGroovey @11:00 Of possible interest to this crowd: I am going to be doing the production editing on a collection of 1980s WKCR interviews.
	11:04am sydnius: I like Don despite thinking he’s a monster, which is more than there can be said for some
	11:04am SeanG: Call Mr. Lee!
	11:04am david: Enjoying Dark Star
	11:04am McGroovey: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:03 Cool
	👻 11:04am Karl Ward: ↳ sydnius @11:04 Took a second to realize you're not talking about Don Henley
	11:04am sydnius: He always reminded me of the master from ”Manos”
	11:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:00 Schaap is all Archive now. Listened all night.
	11:05am abbazabba: What did Don Henley think of Tom Verlaine? Whatever dirty said should solve this dispute.
	11:05am david: anyone hear go to CRMS
	👻 11:06am Handy Haversack: ↳ abbazabba @11:05 (better)
	11:06am Dr No: ↳ Karl Ward @11:04 Felder...surely... van Vliet can wait
	11:06am John Allen: ↳ abbazabba @11:05 haha, Schaap is All Archive
	11:06am McGroovey: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:04 Yeah, he's not really able to make new shows anymore, I know. Or do you mean that there actually is a publicly accessible WKCR or Phil Schaap archive?
	11:07am iiibeat: sunyata, in Buddhist philosophy, the voidness that constitutes ultimate reality; sunyata is seen not as a negation of existence but rather as the undifferentiation out of which all apparent entities, distinctions, and dualities arise
	11:07am Polyus: This is pretty good laying in bed sick music, John.
	11:08am slugluv1313: this is all so beautiful -- thank you, again, John Allen
	👻 11:09am Handy Haversack: Pulling out the serious socks for sitting in the car today. JA has the soundtrack covered.
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:04 Well, Beefheart an Artist with a legitimately unique Vision - & as Yoko once said - an Artist has a right to expect perfection. Some degree of Megalomania may be required to get things realized in a World that as Nietzsche made explicit would kill us all without that palliative. Is it awful to think this Work we adore is married to flagrant Abuse ? It sure is. But - I think he got better. Fwiw.
	👻 11:10am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:09 Keep 'em warm, boss.
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ iiibeat @11:07 Creatura ~ Pleroma
	11:11am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:10 Fripp tortured people, too. Still like he & waifu
	11:13am Krys O.: 'All archive now' is the new euphemism for left this mortal coil.
	11:13am sydnius: ”You’re killing MY BABY”
	11:13am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ McGroovey @11:06 No just noting noting that Schaap - an Archivist of the highest order - is now nothing but Archives himself.
	👻 11:14am chris_in_space: Amazing Verlaine set!
	👻 11:15am Handy Haversack: Fantastic set, JA. Really great. WFMU has been a necessity this week in honoring TV, and this journey through his work has been one of the finest. You're good at this DJ stuff!
	11:15am Dr No: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:10 It's an interesting issue, Rabbit. Like you, I have no problem appreciating the artistic results, I just think it behoves us to remember the circumstances of their creation and keep the 'Beefheart is a wonder' rhetoric a little in check. Similarly, Yoko Ono was an absolute cow, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate her artistic oeuvre.
	11:15am Krys O.: Thanks, JA.
	11:18am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Dr No @11:15 Uh-huh. Comes from an anecdote from in the Studio where John had to pull her aside & say ...erm - in Rawk, we don't really interact with Musicians like that... Also - credit to the Magic Band themselves where due - both for the result & the endurance. & by extension in all such circumstances ...all too prevalent...
	👻 11:18am chris_in_space: ↳ david @11:04 @david lolz
	11:19am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:18 & yes, he ripened, and mellowed, as we all do, but what he did to them for TMR is both humorous and sad
	11:20am abbazabba: Was the Peace Piece the Bill Evans tune? I thought it was beautiful but didn't even notice it was the same song (at work with speakers turned down lower than I'd like)
	11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:19 Also I wonder how the Captain might be psychologically diagnosed in an era such as the present. Not of course that this justifies Abuse. The aim is breaking such cycles.
	11:22am John Allen: ↳ abbazabba @11:20 i think it was more of a deconstructed homage to the BE tune's name, but that's not w. me a/b'ing anything so could be a more speculative comment on my part
	11:23am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:22 & I love the record. Wife hates it, makes me skip. 😫
	11:24am sydnius: ”Moon over Vermont” is a triumph
	11:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:22 ...but I wonder if he might even be in that category of neurologically atypical Creatives who've given us windows into another perspective like Monk & Syd et al. Tho Franco (for instance!) have said he communicated normally enuff. & others have spoken actually of his kindness & lack of pretension (...later ...& not working for him...)
	11:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I mean - have you tried Creative Collaboration ? I seem to have mostly evaded it in Life, somehow...
	👻 11:27am Handy Haversack: OK, I'm off to the car. Will be listening over the frozen FM waves. Thanks, JA! Stay warm, J'All. Don. (better)
	11:28am bobobob Dublon plasticland: I have em all...met him and talked Sun Ra with him and had Tom sign a picture of Himself he drew a flying saucer over his head...also got to talk to Adrian Belew that same evening
	11:28am Dr No: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:24 I remember Robert Williams talking of the Nosferatu album and saying that Hugh Cornwell was the most difficult and perfectionist person he'd ever worked with "and I played with Beefheart."
	11:28am abbazabba: ↳ John Allen @11:22 cool thanks
	11:29am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:24 PT Anderson has said some things about his movie The Master that make me think the relationship of Beefheart and his band was akin to Philip Hoffman's relationship with Jaquim Phoenix
	11:30am sydnius: ↳ JG @11:29 yeah Kubrick seems to be one as well
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @11:29 Did Hoffman Direct him ?? Or - something else here...
	11:31am JG: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:30 No I meant their characters relationship in the story, not the actors
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:30 ...cause a Director - it seems to me - is essentially making Reality Dance for himself. What kind of damned ego you need for that ?
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ JG @11:31 Oh.
	11:35am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:32 liked EYaaO? You?
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...it's also that Beefheart represents in his songs & work an Ideal of a childlike moralism - environmentalist & compassionate if absurd & bohemian & more than a little Beat. Even grotesque... Maybe it's all one big Tantrum & we're all just Big Babies after all...
	11:38am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:37 zappa & doo-wop. 😄
	👻 11:38am Karl Ward: ↳ Song: "compulsion" by "andrew hill" Wow
	👻 11:38am Karl Ward: JAZZ I meant to say
	11:39am sydnius: oh yes btw JAZZ
	11:40am terminalhipness: (shouting) JAZZ! JAZZ!!!
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What is EYaaO ?
	11:40am slugluv1313: ↳ Polyus @11:07 i hope it is helping you to feel better, Polyus!
	11:41am sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:40 I apologize for misacronyming EEaaO
	11:41am Polyus: Joe Chambers going OFF here
	11:42am abbazabba: Yeah, really digging this Andrew Hill. Time to put the fanny pack on
	11:42am Polyus: Indeed it is slugluv!
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ sydnius @11:41 Kubrick's opus regarding Old MacDonald's Farm ?
	11:45am sydnius: 🤣
	11:47am slugluv1313: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:37 i have yet to read Hell's memoir, but i have heard what others have commented: somewhat, um over-sexed i do have the Richard Lloyd memoir though! i have not read it cover to cover, but have skipped around, read different parts here and there -- i really like it!
	11:48am Mr. Blur: Re: Verlaine & Hell @ the strand. Richard Hell just wrote on his website that the song he loves is "The Scientist Writes a Letter (from T.V.'s Flashlight)," which is a real tearjerker when you hear the verse: "Unless chance finds us/ face to face/ this is the last you'll hear from me."
	11:50am TerrDE: I've added lots of tunes to my FMU playlist today
	11:50am bobobob Fabtriplasticland: JA. love the music you play ..I'm indebted to bands like Journey Forginer supertramp in the 70s for making me start listening to stuff your playing
	👻 11:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for today's curation, JA!
	11:51am terminalhipness: Fantastic show today JA! Thank you!!!
	11:52am bobobobob: DR No..Robert Williams..he drummer on Doc at the Radar Station??????That Robert Williams???
	11:52am slugluv1313: (a friend of mine dated Richard Hell in the 80s -- i have no idea if she is in the book! -- but iirc, the reason he was so smitten with her was bc she really did not know who he was -- maybe knew him through poetry/writing? -- but she was not aware of his LES "punk" "fame")
	11:55am Windy City: Can you post your insta feed Thx I can’t find it
	👻 11:56am Jason from Houston: I hear that phone blowing up! LOL
	11:56am slugluv1313: wonderful show, JA -- so glad i have been home and able to listen (& helping get through a lot of tedious crap!) -- thanks so much! take care, everyone -- be well, stay WARM!
	11:56am terminalhipness: What the wig is about:eriyamamoto.bandcamp.com...
	11:56am bradford: Thanks JA as always
	11:56am Creature Boy: Couldn't find it either
	11:56am d: whats the bed music
	11:56am terminalhipness: oh, guess she's telling us...
	👻 11:56am chris_in_space: Loved today's show, @JA!
	11:57am John Allen: ↳ Windy City @11:55 www.instagram.com...
	👻 11:58am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, JA. Cheers, good people. Get something nice for yourself on the Internet.
	11:58am Magenta: Great show JA!
	11:58am John Allen: ↳ terminalhipness @11:56 i was setting her up for us
	11:58am sydnius: 🤟🏻 JAZZers have a wonderful *
	11:59am Mr. Blur: Thanks for the Tom V. (Other DJs, more more!)
	11:59am d: what was the bed music
	12:00pm bobobob Fabtriplasticland: Richard Davis .. Wisconsin resident
	12:01pm listener 126464: Thanks JA
	👻 12:01pm Yetz: TYJA
	12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ JA ~
	12:02pm John Allen: thanks for being here everybody!
	12:03pm abbazabba: Thanks JA!
	12:04pm bobobob: NO Bryce... that's a ok Keep up the good work JA..hey I'm a poet didn't noit

JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 3, 2023

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