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Favoriting February 11, 2023: When Brian Jones Left The Rolling Stones, They Lost Their Musical Rainbow.

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Artist Track Album Year Comments New Approx. start time
Hank Levine & His Orchestra w/ Timothy Leary  Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience   Favoriting   1961/1966      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Gene Clark  Keep On Pushin'   Favoriting Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers  1967      0:02:20 (Pop-up)
Impressions  Keep On Pushing   Favoriting Definitive Impressions  1964 / 1989      0:04:04 (Pop-up)
Laura Nyro  Hands Off the Man (Flim Flam Man)   Favoriting More Than a New Discovery  1967      0:06:32 (Pop-up)
David McCallum  Insomnia   Favoriting Music-A Part Of Me  1966      0:09:06 (Pop-up)
Chiles & Pettiford  The Joker   Favoriting Live At Jilly's  1965      0:11:20 (Pop-up)
Professor Longhair  Willie The Prince   Favoriting   1965  Watch label    0:14:16 (Pop-up)
Mark Weinstein and his Cosa Nueva Orchestra  Just Another Guajira   Favoriting Cuban Roots  1967      0:16:35 (Pop-up)
Steely Dan  Turn That Heartbeat Over Again   Favoriting Can't Buy A Thrill  1972      0:19:51 (Pop-up)
Tinariwen  Amassakoul 'n' Ténéré   Favoriting Putamayo Presents: Mali  2003 / 2005  VAR    0:24:45 (Pop-up)
David Greenberger & The Waldameer Players  Simonizer Boss   Favoriting Today!  2022    *   0:28:06 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 

 

 

 

 

 

0:29:57 (Pop-up)
Pee Wee Marquette  Announcement   Favoriting Art Blakey Quintet - Live At Birdland  1954      0:37:02 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey Quintet  Wee Dot   Favoriting Live At Birdland, Vol. 2  1954 / 1956      0:38:00 (Pop-up)
Young Tiger  Calypso Be   Favoriting Beat Jazz - Pictures From The Gone World Vol. 2  1953 / 2009  VAR    0:44:55 (Pop-up)
Tony Allen, Ali Shaheed Muhammed & Adrian Younge  Ebun   Favoriting Jazz Is Dead 011  2022    *   0:47:53 (Pop-up)
Elizondo, Ojeda, Taveira Trio  Real Fake Love   Favoriting Cerentenyal  2023    *   0:53:21 (Pop-up)
Joe Cocker  One   Favoriting Heart & Soul  2004      0:56:04 (Pop-up)
Kevin Ayers  Girl On A Swing   Favoriting Joy Of A Toy  1969      1:00:33 (Pop-up)
Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott  Eyes Shut   Favoriting Chopin Project Live  2015      1:03:23 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 

 

 

 

 

 

1:09:57 (Pop-up)
Byrds  Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)   Favoriting originally from 5d (Fifth Dimension)  1966      1:17:31 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones  Yesterday's Papers [backing track]   Favoriting   1966  from Between The Buttons sessions    1:20:02 (Pop-up)
The Church  Sisters   Favoriting Of Skins & Heart  1991  CD bonus track    1:23:17 (Pop-up)
unk  7 Up Ad   Favoriting   1968      1:27:28 (Pop-up)
Eric Dolphy  Iron Man   Favoriting Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions  1963 / 2018      1:27:30 (Pop-up)
Nirvana  Nova Sketch   Favoriting Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975  1972 / 2022  VAR  *   1:36:44 (Pop-up)
Nirvana  Home (Reconstruction)   Favoriting Lullabies For Catatonics: A Journey Through The British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-74  1970 / 2019  VAR    1:38:29 (Pop-up)
World Party  Put The Message In The Box   Favoriting Goodbye Jumbo  1990      1:41:57 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jelly Roll Morton  Carves St. Louis (Part One)   Favoriting The Complete Library of Congress Recordings  1938 / 2005      1:53:27 (Pop-up)
P.J. O'Connell  That's Gone   Favoriting Dream Life  2001      1:57:48 (Pop-up)
Duncan Browne  Cherry Blossom Fool [demo]   Favoriting Early Morning Hush: Notes From the UK Folk Underground 1969-1976  1967 / 2006  VAR    2:01:37 (Pop-up)
Kai Winding & Orchestra  Time Is On My Side   Favoriting   1963  The original version    2:04:37 (Pop-up)
Teo Macero w/Charles Mingus]  How Low The earth   Favoriting Teo  1953 / 2002      2:07:49 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Sounds Of Nature   Favoriting Gong!  1957 / 1978      2:11:12 (Pop-up)
Jon Brion  Hands & Feet   Favoriting Punch Drunk Love  2002  OST    2:14:56 (Pop-up)
Le Groupe X  Transfert 2002   Favoriting split 7"  1972 / 2004      2:18:35 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 

 

 

 

 

 

2:22:11 (Pop-up)
Aaron Copland  Buckaroo Holiday from Rodeo   Favoriting The Copland Collection: Orchestral & Ballet Works  1942 / 1990      2:29:00 (Pop-up)
Dusty Springfield  In The Middle Of Nowhere   Favoriting   1966  MONO    2:36:45 (Pop-up)
Magnet  Willow's Song   Favoriting The Wicker Man  1973 / 2010  OST
Lesley Mackie-vocal
 
  2:39:49 (Pop-up)
John Rubenstein  Swan   Favoriting Jeremiah Johnson  1976  OST    2:44:26 (Pop-up)
Pretty Things  Parachute   Favoriting Parachute  1970      2:47:11 (Pop-up)
Ray Mason Band  Wilson Rd.   Favoriting Old Soul's Day  1998      2:50:52 (Pop-up)
Lincoln Chase  Our Love Is Satisfactory   Favoriting   1957  Dawn label    2:53:27 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
"frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch" 

 

 

 

 

 

2:55:41 (Pop-up)
  Thanks To David Borks, Ron Jett, Doug Young, Mike Greenberg & Pete Tomlinson


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Listener comments!

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Meself:

Good Morning Bob, Pete and all!
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RobbieWhite:

Good morning everyone
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doctorjazz:

Happy Saturday Bob and Bobbers!
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listener james from westwood:

Morning, Bob, Pete, and all ragers!
  10:59am
1whoknewcthulhu:

Good morning Bob, Pete, and Fellow Brainiacs!
  10:59am
dan:

Good morning all
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doctorjazz:

The Bob and Pete show, psyched!
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Bob Brainen:

Meself!
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Andrew in Toronto:

Good morning Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
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(Mr) Bill:

Burt Bacharach.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @11:00
Hey doc!
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Bob Brainen:

RobbieWhite of WOWD!
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Bob Brainen:

doctorjazz!
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wmfromD:

Mornin' Bob & Pete and all! Looking forward to this show.
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Bob Brainen:

listener james from westwood!
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Bob Brainen:

1whoknewcthulhu!
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Bob Brainen:

dan!
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(Mr) Bill:

I’m confident that this show will not be teenage wasteland.
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Soule:

Good morning all!
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Bob Brainen:

Pete will be here next week.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Good morning Bob Brainen, Pete Tomlinson, and all!!!
  11:02am
Jeff:

Good Morning Bob, Pete + fellow listeners! Looking forward to revisiting some of our teenage music obsessions.
Hey Pete, I finally saw the Big Star doc (could’ve sworn I saw it before…). Loved your invaluable contribution!
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Bob Brainen:

Andrew in Toronto!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @11:02
Hi Will!
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Bob Brainen:

(Mr) Bill!
Yup R.I.P. Burt.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Andrew!
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SmokinJ:

Mornin' brethren.. 8-)
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Bob Brainen:

Soule!
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Bob Brainen:

Will thee Sound Guy!
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Bob Brainen:

Jeff!
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WR:

Hello Bob and drummer streamers.
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Bob Brainen:

SmokinJ!
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Bob Brainen:

WR!
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WR:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:02
Hope all is well in Pete Land
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Bob Brainen:

wmfromD!
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chresti:

Morning Bob and braineniacs!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ chresti @11:06
Hi crestikins!
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Bob Brainen:

Sorry folks, the playlist is laid out clunkily and if you look fast it looks like an upcoming show is happening today, but Teenage Rage is next week.
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Bob Brainen:

chresti!
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WR:

↳ Song: "Keep On Pushing" by "Impressions"
Good thoughts to bear in mind, keep on, keep on.
  11:08am
Leonardo:

Damn, I missed Gene Clark. Any chance you could play it again?
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(Mr) Bill:

Perfect pop, this Laura—which makes “Stoney End” better pop than perfect.
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WR:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:06
No worries, we'll blame Doug and then he will come and fix it and later readers will wonder what we're writing about.
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Meself:

↳ Song: "Insomnia" by "David McCallum"
This is my song! Ha, ha…
  11:10am
dan:

↳ Song: "Insomnia" by "David McCallum"
Is this McCallum the musician or his son the famous actor?
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doctorjazz:

↳ WR @11:08
True, that's what's on the Give The Drummer schedule for today.
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Bob Brainen:

Ha, not Doug, it's the playlist database. Not that I would know how to make it more clear what's happening?!?!
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Bob Brainen:

Jeez, just noticed the date is today on "upcoming events."
That one is on me. My apologies.
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hopewithfeathers:

No worries Bob, I’m looking forward to whatever you’re planning to play for us today.
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Roberto:

↳ Song: "The Joker" by "Chiles & Pettiford"
This reminds me of the 1980 high school production of Roar/Smell that my brother starred in. Also, Anthony Newley's son was in my high school class.
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listener james from westwood:

I grew up on the Sérgio Mendes version of "The Joker." Eventually heard Newley himself sing it on FMU and was amazed. This one's a delight!
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Bob Brainen:

hopewithfeathers!
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Bob Brainen:

Roberto!
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Bob Brainen:

I played Newley doing The Joker year ago and got hate mail.
My very first hate mail was playing Seals & Crofts.
Good times.
  11:18am
Gerry from Miami:

BOB, perhaps a slight glitch with this week's show, but we did get to hear Ms. Nyro and Gene Clark. Always a gift!
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Roberto:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:16
Nothin' but love mail from me, Bob.
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(Mr) Bill:

Bob, any hate mail from playing Three Dog Night last week?
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Bob Brainen:

No hate mail in a long time.
These were in the pre on-line playlist days.
Now people can leave comments of any type. Luckily I have an understanding audience. :)
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wmfromD:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:16
Ya can't please 'em all Bob.
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Bob Brainen:

No, (Mr.) Bill.
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Bob Brainen:

Gerry from Miami, thanks!
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Roberto:

↳ Song: "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" by "Steely Dan"
DAAAANNNNN
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Will thee Sound Guy:

It's about Dan time!!! 🕑
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Meself:

↳ Roberto @11:22
Good times!
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Bob Brainen:

Yeah Wm. I have to say nothing has ever stopped me from playing anything I wanted. Ever.
In fact I may have doubled the Seals & Crofts, you know, been defiant...like a teenager.
  11:24am
dan:

Any tribute to Burt Bacharach today?
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Bob Brainen:

dan, I'll try to get to something but i didn't plan anything.
But, rest assured, LOTS of tributes on the FMU mothership and on the the streams.
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(Mr) Bill:

Bob has a unique aptitude for identifying musical value, even greatness, in music too easily dismissed as cheesy. Exhibit A: “Everything That Touches You.”
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Bob Brainen:

Thanks to Doug S. for correcting the date of the Teenage Rage show to Feb. 18!
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Meself:

↳ (Mr) Bill @11:28
Yes!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

🐸 🐸 🐸
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Roberto:

Without Bob, Roberto would have little to no appreciation for:
- Left Banke
- Del Amitri
- Lots of others, I'm sure.
  11:31am
Gerry from Miami:

It always pisses me off when people(non-fans!) characterize Steely Dan's music as easy-listening. middle-of-the-road, "yacht rock." The cut you played, Bob, is so sophisticated and full of nuance that the average listener can't begin to appreciate it in any meaningful way. And this was from their debut album 50 years ago!
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spodiodi:

good morning, Bob!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ spodiodi @11:33
Morning spodi!
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Roberto:

↳ Gerry from Miami @11:31
Many, if not most of Steely Dan's songs are about losers and outcasts. Yacht Rock doesn't celebrate losers and outcasts.
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spodiodi:

gm, Andrew! hope you enjoy your Saturday
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Roberto @11:31
If you`re into Del Amitri you should check out the Justin Currie solo cds.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ spodiodi @11:35
I sure am.
I hope you are too.
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Bob Brainen:

spodiodi!
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Bob Brainen:

Andrew In Toronto, I saw that on your Youtube channel and watched some. Just great!
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WR:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:29
Doug S to the rescue. He takes good care of the drummer stream.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Wee Dot" by "Art Blakey Quintet"
GREAT!!! (Wotta Band!)
Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson
Bass – Curly Russell
Drums – Art Blakey
Piano – Horace Silver
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
Trumpet – Clifford Brown
  11:41am
Gerry from Miami:

@Roberto. My definition of "yacht rock" is pop music that doesn't reuire the listener to exert any effort to listen to while sipping tropical cocktails aboard an overpriced ocean-going vehicle. Is your definition different?
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Bob Brainen:

The Steely Dan hatred baffles me. Anyone read the Steve Albini article?
I gotta say, if you don't like something the best thing to do is ignore it. I don't know why people have to waste time on stuff they dislike. Thanks Steve, for saving the f-ing planet.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Gerry from Miami @11:41
Is that a bad thing? (I'm ready if anyone will send me on such a trip, though I'd prefer a Carribean beach to the yacht)
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:39
They`re spending this summer over here opening for the Barenaked Ladies.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @11:43
Hey doc!
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Frank Zaatar:

Steely Dan got me through the mid-70s.
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Bob Brainen:

Frank Zaatar! Me too!! I've said that for years.
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wmfromD:

To actually take the time to write about something you dislike and then share it with the world is patently unhip/uncool.
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WR:

↳ doctorjazz @11:41
Yes, incredible lineup. Just looked at Wikipedia info, Russell and Blakey are about the same age, the others are 7 or more years younger. Is this the first Blakey with younger Jazz Messengers, although Silver is generally considered a cofounder of the Jazz Messengers.
  11:48am
Gerry from Miami:

I'm with you, doctor jazz! But just as long as we don't have to listen to any of what these "Dan-dissers" call their adopted baby, "yacht rock." The Dan ain't members of THAT club!
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Meself:

↳ wmfromD @11:46
Be sure to stay away from Reddit.
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Roberto:

↳ Gerry from Miami @11:41
That was my point. SD's songs often tell sad tales that aren't conducive to mindless recreation.
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WR:

↳ Song: "Calypso Be" by "Young Tiger"
Wow. Calypso Be Bop!
  11:50am
Gerry from Miami:

Glad to get that straight, Roberto! You're on our team!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:43
Hi Andrew!
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Roberto:

↳ Gerry from Miami @11:50
Hells yeah! Team Dan all the way!
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Roberto:

↳ Roberto @11:50
That said, if I had me a yacht, I'd definitely blast the Dan from it.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @11:50
What are you listening to after Bob?
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spodiodi:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:36
thanks. so far so good. digging the show
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ spodiodi @11:51
Me too.
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Bob Brainen:

So what is it about Steely Dan that brings out such animosity?
And can you think of another artist/band that elicits such strong reactions which people feel it's their duty to share?
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Zipperhead7:

Hi Bob! Nice to fire up th website and be greeted by Tony Allen et al
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coelacanth∅:

Greetings Bob & all
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Bob Brainen:

Zipperhead7! He was truly amazing, wasn't he?
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Zipperhead7:

And I gotta say that the Association track you played last week sent me scrambling to rethink their ouevre. Lots of brilliant bass playing!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:44
This is lovely!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ coelacanth∅ @11:57
Hiya coel!
  11:58am
dan:

Joe Cocker making a subpar band like U2 sound good
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(Mr) Bill:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:53
I dunno. Steely Dan’s music is simultaneously highly sophisticated and blessedly accessible. Perhaps the combination irks some folks.
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Meself:

↳ dan @11:58
🤔
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(Mr) Bill:

↳ dan @11:58
Agreed!
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doctorjazz:

↳ WR @11:47
I dug out my old Mosaic Box, The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings of Clifford Brown (they generally have great notes included in the box), and checked on this session/live recording. It was actually before Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers.
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Zipperhead7:

↳ coelacanth∅ @11:57
Those taillights! They look like a couple of small snapping mouths
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coelacanth∅:

hey Andrew!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:53
Beautiful segue way.
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Bob Brainen:

Could be (Mr) Bill. And Becker & Fagen could be a handful to interviewers and hard to pin down, but to being out such strong reactions is really something.
Which brings up the point: is it better to be disliked than ignored?
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wmfromD:

↳ Song: "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers"
Man, I really love this album.
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coelacanth∅:

hahaha Zipper why didn't i think of that?!
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Meself:

↳ Song: "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers"
I listen to this song a lot. A bit Eno.
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(Mr) Bill:

↳ Meself @12:02
First time for me, and certaintly not the last.
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Bob Brainen:

IIRC, Blakey had a big band date that first used the Jazz Messengers name, maybe on Bethlehem?
Then Blakey & Silver co-led the original small units. But was it an amicable parting when Silver left and Blakey took over the name?
  12:05pm
Dean:

Okay, I'll bite. I am not a SD fan or, rather, I can take SD only in small doses. To my ears, Can't Buy a Thrill is an outlier, inasmuch as it's enjoyable throughout. Why, in particular, do I not like too much SD, i.e., beyond the handful of tracks I hear on this station? Well, for one, I was working in a record store when Aja appeared. We played it over and over and over in the store, a circumstance that guarantees increasing weariness with the album. For all of the musical skill and songwriting cleverness, SD has a signature sound that can be irritating.

I know: I haven't provided much in the way of evidence to support my opinion. But I don't "hate" SD. Rather, I can only extract so much enjoyment from their accessible sophistication. One day a few years ago I played The Royal Scam (I have the LP). It caused me to lose sleep that night, "Kid Charlemagne" running through my head on an endless loop. So, yes, the music is memorable, but to a fault.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

🐸 🐸 🐸
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Frank Zaatar:

↳ Dean @12:05
I'm convinced that stereo manufacturers in the 70s engineered their equipment so it would sound good on a Steely Dan record in a hifi store.
  12:12pm
Gerry from Miami:

@Dean. Yes, I too have a lot of "earworms" running unannounced through my head. Many of them are Steely Dan songs. Not 100% sure what that means, but there they reside. And there they will stay.
  12:15pm
Gerry from Miami:

@Frank Zaatar. I had a salesman of high-end stereo equipment say that same thing about Toto's records.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Frank Zaatar @12:12
Probably a sound assumption
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(Mr) Bill:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @12:16
Pun?
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Meself:

↳ Song: "Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)" by "...
So beautiful!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ (Mr) Bill @12:18
just a touch
  12:19pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)" by "...
This is Old Blue Rugby Football Club's official song.
  12:19pm
Dean:

Two records that were ubiquitously played in hi-end hi-fi stores: Jennifer Warnes' Bird On a Wire, and Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session. Props to engineers for taking care to record as much audio information as possible, but hi-end nerds could get carried away and miss (or simply not care about) the musical substance.
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Frank Zaatar:

↳ Gerry from Miami @12:15
The prospect of spending that much money to listen to Toto makes me shudder.
  12:19pm
lou in CHI:

This is wild
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Bob Brainen:

lou in CHI!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Sometimes I play Aja to see if the tops, side fills, and subs are all at a decent level when I'm doing live sound. There are other things that I'll play too
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Meself:

Listening to The Church always makes me nostalgic…
  12:27pm
Dean:

I remain a worshiper at the altar of CIMP's Marc Rusch, who pretty much exclusively engineers all-acoustic recordings, mostly of out jazz. His records are superior reproductions of what are often compelling performances.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Dean @12:27
I'll have to check into it
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Iron Man" by "Eric Dolphy"
Great!!!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Bob Brainen @12:04
According to Wiki-

Silver's final recordings with the Jazz Messengers were in May 1956.[37] Later that year, he left Blakey after one and a half years,[34][38] in part because of the heroin use prevalent in the band,[2] which Silver did not want to be involved in.

Doesn't sound all that amicable (Blakey has a rep of sometimes paying sidemen with heroine).
  12:42pm
Gerry from Miami:

@Frank Zaatar. Ain't that the truth?!
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doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @12:40
*heroin
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SecretSquirrel:

Hi Bob 'n' all!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

🐸 🐸 🐸
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SecretSquirrel:

re Steely Dan: a lot of people don't understand the concept of an unreliable narrator. They think SD is endorsing the terrible things people do in their songs.
  12:47pm
Gerry from Miami:

Yes, folks, there was another band named Nirvana beside the one from Seattle! The Night Owl plays the British one quite often on her late-night show on the Rock & Soul stream here at WFMU.
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chresti:

↳ Dean @12:27
CIMP?
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doctorjazz:

↳ SecretSquirrel @12:46
Remids me of Fountains of Wayne's Stacey's Mom, I know folks who think they are advocating this kind of behavior.
  12:48pm
Dean:

Creative Improvised Music Projects
https://cadnor.com/collections/creative-improvised-music-productions-cimp
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ chresti @12:47
Hiya crestikins!
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doctorjazz:

↳ chresti @12:47
Hey chresti-
it's a small label that pretty much releases avant garde jazz.
  12:49pm
Dean:

Speaking of Sonny Simmons, he has a release or two on CIMP.
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Meself:

↳ SecretSquirrel @12:46
I really like your take on this.
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chresti:

Ah, thanks doc 'n Dean!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ chresti @12:51
Hiya crestikins!
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chresti:

Hi Andrewkins!
  12:52pm
Dean:

I once played a Marshall Allen recording on CIMP for a hi-end stereo salesman who was also an engineer (and a friend of Joe Henderson). We put the disc on his store's system. His jaw dropped.
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coelacanth∅:

i like steely dan. but there's a cut-off, and that is aja. far too slick, very boring sound. on top of that by the time they got to aja they'd become completely predictable in their arrangements.
i like can't buy a thrill a lot, and pretzel logic; the other 3 pre-aja records are pretty good.
(i listened to katy lied not long ago and it was pretty boring. i liked it when i was a teenager though.)
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Bob Brainen:

Jeez Doc, you ask a question, you gotta be prepared for any answer.
All in all I'd give Buhaina a thumbs up. Got to.
Miles broke up the mid 50s quintet for the same reason: he was tired of sidemen & drugs: Philly Joe, Trane, maybe others (?)
Trane went with Monk, kicked heroin and cigarettes, and rejoined Miles. It all worked out! Then Miles didn't want to let him go. Had a terribly hard time replacing him.
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Franco Twinkie:

I swiped Between the Buttons from the Thrifty Drugs Store in 1967 when I was eleven years old. At that time I could not have articulated the Brian-ness of the sound, but I sure heard it.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Franco Twinkie @12:56
Hi Franco!
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Franco Twinkie:

Hey Andrew.
  12:57pm
Eugene Bentley:

Checking in, Bob.
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SecretSquirrel:

@Dean: True story. I used to be the promo guy for the New Music Distribution Service. One day in about 1989 this band sent us a cassette of their upcoming album for consideration. The cassette broke through the cheap envelope they used and all I had was the note. So I called up the bandleader and said, "Hey Michael, could you send it again in a padded mailer?" Hung up the phone and said to my office mates, "How do they ever expect to succeed with a name like Cowboy Junkies?" And yes, the album was 'The Trinity Sessions.'
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coelacanth∅:

same here Franco (the latter part! i bought mine)
i bought it because i knew the song "connection" from a NRPS/'dead bootleg; and i knew the big hits - but man what an album! top 5 'stones.
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Bob Brainen:

So back to Steely Dan, we have this music that is slick (I'd say it started w/Katy Lied and got increasingly slick.
And, as Secret Squirrel says, they are singing about questionable characters so there's the disconnect between the characters and subject matter and the pristine sound.
....Hell, that description would make me want o hear the freakin' music!
FWIW, my favorite Steely Dan is the 1st 3-4 albums.
I think the haters focus on the last 2-3 albums. OK, enough
0f my take/recapitulation on Steely Dan.
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Bob Brainen:

Franco Twinkie!
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(Mr) Bill:

↳ Meself @12:50
I as well. I have a cousin-friend who’s fond of trotting out “Every cop is a criminal” in a mindlessly libertarian fashion. After I pointed out that it’s not Jagger and Richards he’s citing—no authorities themselves on policing—but none other than Old Scratch himself, he shut up for a while.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @12:52
Wasn't CIMP connected to a high end stereo outfit, Cadence? I remember seeing their stuff (many accessories, if I recall), but didn't find them now on a quick Google search.
  1:02pm
Eugene Bentley:

I liked steely Dan up to aja. Goucho took a little while to drow on me.
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Dean:

That's a great story, SecretSquirrel. My connection to distribution occurred about a decade earlier. I was working for Music+, a small chain in Southern California, when one of the execs, Steve Boudreau, started Greenworld. A buddy and I visited Steve's new digs. He gave me a copy of the first National Health album.
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chresti:

↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59
"She was a waitress at a cocktail bar, a cocka-cocka-cocka cocktail bar..."
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59
Absolutely. I had to give that particular record to my friend Mark, because my mom kept asking me who it belonged to. As soon as I got a job, I bought a copy fair and square.
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Dean:

You are correct, doctorjazz. Cadence was the journal. North Country Audio was the stereo dealership. I bought an MSB DAC from them ages ago. Vladimir was the guy who ran it. He was very accommodating.
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Frank Zaatar:

↳ Bob Brainen @12:59
@Bob and Squirrel: I think some of the haters are just turned off by the fans who don't look past the sheen and put them on their playlists.
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chresti:

↳ chresti @1:03
Thank you, People Like Us!
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Bob Brainen:

Eugene Bentley!
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SecretSquirrel:

@Dean Nice one!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Song: "Time Is On My Side" by "Kai Winding & Orchestra"
such a full sound
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Franco Twinkie:

This is so good!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @1:03
North Countrt Audio doesn't seem to come up any more in a search.
  1:07pm
Dean:

It is no more. But the Cadence space in upstate NY continues to sell a small supply of gear.
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Franco Twinkie:

'You're searching for good times, but you wait and see' on a trumpet no less - OYE!
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coelacanth∅:

it's difficult to imagine singing about unrelatable if not unsavoury characters is not something most people understand completely.
(-even millenials and zoomers)
there's barely an artist from pre-1980 that doesn't tell a story in a song now & then.
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wmfromD:

Did the Dan have it's detractors from the beginning? Or did it come about a little later as the punk/diy thing started to happen. They would seem an obvious target.
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chresti:

I was born in 57!
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ coelacanth∅ @1:10
To me, it's an aspect of humanity that's rich with possibilities. Just like in real life, the shady characters are some of the most interesting...and fun!
  1:14pm
Listener Robert:

Just took some time for a phone call, but getting back to the show, frankly, more of what you've played today was in the category that fit what you said it would last week -- "What were we thining?" -- and less of it the stuff that's still pleasing.

I have to explain stuff like that to my friends who ask why I listen to WFMU.
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Sounds Of Nature" by "Yusef Lateef"
love the sounds!
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coelacanth∅:

when i was in school steely dan was respected, generally, even if not actively listened to by the popular kids.
when aja came out even the popular kids liked it.
(as did i)
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coelacanth∅:

ha, Franco -i've recorded a few albums -that no one will ever hear!
and i've thought a few times that if anyone decides that these lyrics are autobiographical i'm in BIG trouble!
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SecretSquirrel:

@wmfromD: SD weren't immediately divisive – they were seen as a solid rock band and had two Top 40 hits right off their first album. It wasn't until they moved into more fusion-y territory that attitudes began to split.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ wmfromD @1:12
so that (me^) to say i think the hate came later.
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Meself:

↳ wmfromD @1:12
My first experience with Steely Dan was their Aja album, which came out during my high school years. At the same time, we were also listening to Alice Cooper, The Tubes, Yes, and The Bonzo Dog Band. To me, it was a very eclectic time.
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coelacanth∅:

i remember hearing "bodhisattva" on the radio when it came out and loving it. so mathematical yet melodic.
but that seemed to be somewhat of a dividing line with kids that liked ricki don't lose that number and dirty work.
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ coelacanth∅ @1:17
That's why we get along. Tarred with the same brush, as they say.
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Frank Zaatar:

↳ wmfromD @1:12
@wmfromdc, I think you got it. It's hard to explain how weird they sounded when they came out (Yamaha organ? electric sitar?). By the time of punk came out those chords and harmonies were an (undeserved) symbol of Rock Bloat. Frankly, The Dan's lyrics have more in common with Lou Reed's than Jimmy Buffet's.
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coelacanth∅:

why,Franco i thought the characters in your art were all YOU!
...(although i do know you ARE mixed into it -as i am in mine)
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Will thee Sound Guy:

🐸 🐸 🐸
  1:28pm
Eugene Bentley:

My first Steely Dan record was Rikki Don't Lose That Number 4. I really liked the B-side Any Major Dude.
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coelacanth∅:

hot rocks version of time is on my side is circumsised
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ coelacanth∅ @1:25
Well, I try an separated, but anyone who knows me....
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coelacanth∅:

(or the single version is... now forget; been a while)
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doctorjazz:

Gotta run, thanks Bob!
  1:30pm
Eugene Bentley:

I think there is vast difference between the mono and stereo versions of the Rolling Stones Time Is On My Side.
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Dean:

Copland is a rightly beloved composer whose output was far more varied than we generally regard it. I'm a sucker for his Our Town, but then I still enjoy Wilder's play, too.
  1:34pm
Eugene Bentley:

The vinyl version of Hot Rocks has the mono version while the cd version has the stereo which sounds like entirely different take.
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Meself:

↳ Meself @1:21
Oh, and Queen.
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chresti:

↳ coelacanth∅ @1:25
They are!
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coelacanth∅:

chresti!
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Andrew in Toronto:

What a fabulous show!
Thanks Bob!
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Meself:

↳ Song: "Parachute" by "Pretty Things"
Love this
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(Mr) Bill:

Bob is helping me get through the early ’20s and my late ’60s.
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wmfromD:

↳ Song: "Parachute" by "Pretty Things"
as great a piece of work as S.F. Sorrow!
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(Mr) Bill:

Oh! You Pretty Things!
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chresti:

↳ coelacanth∅ @1:48
Hi coel!
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Eugene Bentley @1:34
hi Eugene if time is on my side on hot rocks is a mono version then it's a stereo recording of a mono recording.
but what i was referring to was that the us was given that song without a guitar intro
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coelacanth∅:

(because hot rocks is stereo, that is)
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Meself:

A pleasure as usual; till we meet again…
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spodiodi:

great show! thanks, Bob
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listener 126464:

Bob, thanks for today's show. Good day all!
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chresti:

Thanks Bob!
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listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Bob!
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wmfromD:

Great show Bob!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

🐸 🐸 🐸
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Willow's Song" by "Magnet"
There was a more recent indie-rock band called Magnet. I saw them play at the Brighton Bar in 1997, with Moe Tucker on drums.
discogs.com...
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Bob, great show!!!
  1:59pm
Eugene Bentley:

The version that was on hot rocks cd had what sounds like an organ instead of guitar.
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Bob!
  2:00pm
Eugene Bentley:

↳ Eugene Bentley @1:59
Or the original cd release of Hot Rocks.
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coelacanth∅:

oh, interesting, Eugene -that's the first version, the original us version
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coelacanth∅:

(i assume)
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