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Favoriting January 27, 2024: Guest: Bruce Dedrick of The Free Design

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Artist Track
Free Design, The  Like To Love   Favoriting
Free Design, The  Bubbles   Favoriting
Willie Nelson  Night Life   Favoriting
Shirley Ellis  Bring It On Home To Me   Favoriting
Barry Biggs  Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)   Favoriting
Jeevas, The  Ghost (Cowboys In The Movies) aka The Bike That I Ride   Favoriting
Enoch Light and The Light Brigade  What The World Needs Now Is Love   Favoriting
Free Design, The  California Dreaming   Favoriting
Karen Black as Connie White  Memphis   Favoriting
Jackie Paine  Go Go Train   Favoriting
20/20  Giving It All Away   Favoriting
Free Design, The  2002 - A Hit Song   Favoriting
Tony Mattola With The Groovies  Do You Know The Way To San Jose?   Favoriting
Del McCoury Band  Wimmen's Hats   Favoriting
Barbara Lynn  Club A Go-Go   Favoriting
Bola Sete  Both Sides Now   Favoriting
NRBQ  There Should Be A Book   Favoriting
Free Design, The  Canada in the Springtime   Favoriting
Tony Mattola With The Groovies  With A Little Help   Favoriting
Enoch Light and The Light Brigade  Bond Street   Favoriting
Free Design, The  Time And Love   Favoriting
Free Design, The  Happy Together   Favoriting
Bruce Dedrick  Interview   Favoriting
Free Design, The  Kites Are Fun   Favoriting

CLICK HERE for The Beatles' 167 page FBI file

CLICK HERE for a documentary about L.A.'s Chinatown Punk Wars

CLICK HERE to help Paul find his bass

CLICK HERE for an assortment of Wrecking Crew AFM union contracts

CLICK HERE for 20+ gigabytes of sound effects from the USC Sound Effects Library

CLICK HERE for Armstrong's 1954 catalog, featuring spectacular mid-century linoleum, rug, and wall tile designs

CLICK HERE for The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE for Michael Shelley's appearance on the Finding Favorites podcast where he discusses WFMU, NRBQ, Nancy & road food

CLICK HERE for The Beatles Sorter (1200 choice decision game takes an hour)

CLICK HERE for The Beatles & The Butcher - The Story of The 'Yesterday & Today' Album

CLICK HERE for the Radio & Broadcasting History site with archives of British music mags from the 60's

CLICK HERE for Beatle Novelty Records on YouTube

CLICK HERE for a free download of the book "Our time is now : A farandole of Jonathan Richman songs"

CLICK HERE for The 100 Most Lost Songs of All

CLICK HERE for a million dollar guitar

CLICK HERE for The Herman Cain Award

CLICK HERE for a pricing strategy consultant's look at how much Mike Love pays Brother Records INC. for the right to tour as The Beach Boys

CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley

CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HERE for the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HERE for "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then

CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version


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Listener Baby:

Baby. I’m going to stand by my contention that Kites Are Fun. They just are. Good morning!
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Frank In Queens:

HEY NOW!!!!!!
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Handy Haversack:

Michael! Shellefish! Hey now!
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Mister Dobalina:

A big fan of the opening MIKE bit..every time I hear it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Urine luck !...
MichaelShelley Time.
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Listener Baby:

Put a big star next to that new opening, Baby.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Kites are now and forever will be, fun.
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egould:

Literally a “number one” intro.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...time for the better speakers...
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Mister Dobalina:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:01
I kinda regret never seeing Urinetown.
  11:05am
Peter Horvath:

Good morning #1’ers, good morning Michael. Bubbles is my favorite Free Design song, just fyi.
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Chris Hiatt:

A good, late NYC morning to you all.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Good morning
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Listener Baby:

I’ve said this before. As an avid radio listener as a kid. I NEVER heard the free design on the West Coast. This band just appeared to me not that many years go. Astonishing that I never crossed paths with them.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Kites are definitely fun
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Squints:

ok then.

hey HEY hey now.
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StuartR:

↳ Song: "Night Life" by "Willie Nelson"
Willie is not a one-hit wonder
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Night Life" by "Willie Nelson"
Django's B-Day other day. All these quotes from Gittarists exalting him - including Willie.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Bring It On Home To Me" by "Shirley Ellis"
I love applause only in one side of one’s headphones. Very convincing.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @11:11
truly
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Michael Shelley:

↳ egould @11:03
lol
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Cooh John:

Good morning Michael and #1ers.💿
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by "Barry Bi...
A fact that nobody needs to know. Rosemary grows everywhere in my neighborhood. It is without doubt, our #1 hit foliage. Like I said, you didn’t need to know that. But Rosemary sure does grow.
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greg g:

Morning Michael & all Accu Players!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Ghost (Cowboys In The Movies) aka The Bike That I...
'Listenin' to TheWho'...
- we friends...
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ StuartR @11:09
You're correct, he usually takes a few hits.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Ghost (Cowboys In The Movies) aka The Bike That I...
I remember well when you unearthed this one, Baby. It had legs.
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Moammar:

Somehow I knew that's what the Free Design looked like before I ever saw that picture.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Moammar @11:17
Lol, yes
  11:19am
Eddie Huffman:

Ever had Tony Macaulay on the show?
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Handy Haversack:

Gonna start chopping and grating for brunch. Listening hard.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Chris Hiatt @11:16
Funny!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Listener Baby @11:14
Hey, people share all kinds of non-essential information here. Yours is just as valid as the rest!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:20
Hughie. You have no idea what you just posted means to me. Thanks Pal.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Eddie Huffman @11:19
No - good idea
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Listener Baby @11:14
...maybe if I lived there my hair would be fuller...
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evancuts:

I must have at least a dozen of those Enoch Light records. Tower Outlet on Lafayette used to sell them for .99 still in the shrink wrap back in the mid-90s.
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evancuts:

And I donated a bunch to WFMU not long ago. So listeners might be able to find some today!
  11:24am
Cooh John:

Feels like I am in an elevator.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:20
In that case I’d like to really stress the fact that we’ve got Rosemary in spades here in El Dorado Estates. Come by for some!
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Squints:

↳ Song: "California Dreaming" by "Free Design, The"
California Five-0
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "California Dreaming" by "Free Design, The"
Almost just a funky horn and bass from being the Up with People version.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Listener Baby @11:25
You got it. I'll come for the rosemary and stay to see if some love grows!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Trying to get the energy to get to the bakery
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Sometimes muse that part of the great relevance & indelible affect of the 1960s was the Blakean polarity of Innocence & Experience ...all the innumerable & various transitions from the former to the latter - & all the manifold & particular admixtures thereof...
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Listener Baby:

Great book, Baby.
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Frank In Queens:

I saw an amazing recipe for something called banana bark. Just 4 ingredients; banana, peanut butter, chocolate, and a sprinkle of sea salt. I haven't made it, but it looks fantastic!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "California Dreaming" by "Free Design, The"
I like this so much more than the OG.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Frank In Queens @11:29
That sounds great
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "California Dreaming" by "Free Design, The"
The Free Design's cover of "Feelin' Groovy" draws from the same playbook and is similarly delightful.
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Listener Baby:

Baby. You are such an archivist.
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myron feld:

I have that "Rock on Film" book! Haven't thought about it in years. Thanks for the reminder!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

What on earth?!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ myron feld @11:33
About to buy it.
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Hughie Considine:

What a silly bundt.
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egould:

Elder abuse!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...no ifs ands or bundts...
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Frank In Queens:

You told her! LOL!
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myron feld:

Coincidentally, Mrs. Feld just finished making a bundt cake. True story.
  11:35am
Bob:

Good morning! Coming in late. This daylight savings time messes me up.
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Frank In Queens:

Remastered in 4K resolution. It will probably look fantastic.
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Noir Lover:

American Fiction is a movie that challenges a white, NPR-ish audience on race. Half the audience in my theater got the joke, half was a bit uncomfortable and not laughing. I loved it.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:34
Nice
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Memphis" by "Karen Black as Connie White"
They all wrote & sang their own songs ?
  11:38am
?:

Hi Michael and All, Nashville is definitely a movie about how we live now...then, and probably still do now.
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luka:

↳ Noir Lover @11:36
i saw the preview for that before Poor Things. looked like a rehash of Bamboozled tbh.
  11:38am
NYsoul living in another place:

I love this scene in Nashville with the divine ( RIP) Karen Black!
Nashville is one of my #1 favorite movies
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myron feld:

Yes, I remember WMCA. I still have a Good Guys sweatshirt.
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Pedro in Arlington:

Wouldn't 4K just mean a more-detailed digital scan of the film? Hopefully cleaned up too. But even better would be a cleaned up print on film made from a negative.
  11:39am
aak:

The Good Guys!
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Rick A:

Damn! I forgot to put my name and email in the post about Nashville.
  11:39am
clarke:

i was unavoidably detained.

HEY NOW!!
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Bob:

Karen Black gave cross eyed people everywhere hope!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Bob @11:39
Slightly blurry hope.
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R2:

4K means top of the line in digital projection. It's not on film, but it will be a quality presentation.

This is, unfortunately, how most films are being screened these days.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Bob @11:39
She completely upended the cross-eyed dominance of Ben Turpin, which had prevailed for decades...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:39
Greetins!
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clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:41
greetin's cretins!
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Rick A:

↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:39
Yeah, I agree, Pedro. 4K will look great, restored celluloid would look even better.
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Noir Lover:

↳ luka @11:38
Sure, some references to CB4 as well. But American Fiction has dramatic layers mixed in as well. It's really good.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:39
Yes, a higher resolution new scan. Nashville isn't so old that a negative wouldn't be available, but stranger things have happened. Hopefully they put in a top quality clean up effort as well.
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Giving It All Away" by "20/20"
Gorsh, I saw 20/20 a lot.
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Michael Shelley:

↳ Listener Baby @11:41
GOOD?
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clarke:

ben turpin - my hero!
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luka:

↳ Noir Lover @11:41
you had me at CB4, will watch.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Uh oh
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Bob:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:42
Lucky
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Listener Baby:

↳ Michael Shelley @11:42
Always!
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joe mulligan:

↳ luka @11:38
And Poor Things is really a remake of Frankenhooker
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clarke:

↳ Listener Baby @11:41
dang - they were good live!! (only saw them once)
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Rick A @11:41
They're likely prepping a new physical media/digital platform release.
  11:43am
Bob:

Four episodes into Loudermilk. Should I stick with? I’m on the fence
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luka:

↳ joe mulligan @11:43
jesus, you’re right
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Bob:

↳ joe mulligan @11:43
A lot of style though. We liked it.
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joe mulligan:

↳ luka @11:44
I can’t take credit it’s a meme. But I absolutely love both
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luka:

↳ joe mulligan @11:45
i just said this to my partner and she confirmed it’s going around, but i am extremely offline atm.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "2002 - A Hit Song" by "Free Design, The"
Really good drums on here.
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Noir Lover:

↳ joe mulligan @11:43
I didn't love Poor Things. Emma Stone was great but it was mostly was a movie about costumes. I get why people love it though. Especially if you are into that Tim Burton future Victorian fantasy aesthetic.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "2002 - A Hit Song" by "Free Design, The"
How many could make a Production like this if their lives depended on it ?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" by "Tony Mattol...
No bad versions
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joe mulligan:

↳ luka @11:46
Makes me want to go rewatch it, and also young Frankenstein
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" by "Tony Mattol...
Free Design is proof that if you doing something, anything, with conviction, you going to be better off.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Noir Lover @11:48
Steampunk ?
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clarke:

i loved Poor Things! will pay full price to see again in theater!!
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egould:

↳ Song: "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" by "Tony Mattol...
Just take the 101 North all the way. Stop in Solvang and have some pea soup.
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joe mulligan:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:49
I’d say yes
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:49
high praise indeed!
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Pedro in Arlington:

Any talk of 4K etc brings back the horror and stupidity and loss of the Universal Music fire. The Day the Music Burned www.nytimes.com...
  11:51am
clarke:

↳ Hughie Considine @11:50
it seems to be a tribute to Tarsem, if you know who that is.
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Frank In Queens:

↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:50
Such a tragedy. So much was lost in that blaze.
  11:51am
Mare:

It’s Newton NJ which is actually the county seat ..
  11:52am
R3TOX:

DEL YEAH
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Noir Lover:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:49
Yes or adjacent
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @11:51
Sure I do: Lord of the Apes!
  11:53am
clarke:

that's IT!
  11:53am
Mare:

Of Sussex County … 😊
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Everybody knows now that this Land is sure as hell not Our Land anymore. Even without the No Trespassing verse.
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luka:

↳ joe mulligan @11:49
i just remembered the VHS box could talk
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Listener Baby:

↳ egould @11:49
Closing down. Huge news!
  11:55am
clarke:

pea soup done split!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:53
...& we're destroying it anyhow...
  11:55am
Billybob:

The avg age of the patrons at the Newton Theater is probably about 80, lol. I saw Roger McGuinn there a few months back.
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GeoSinPhilly:

The Guthrie Center in Tulsa is a great visit. And the Dylan Center right next door...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Both Sides Now" by "Bola Sete"
This is stunning. Rivals the very different instrumental version of this by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on Will the Circle Be Unbroken (side 6)
  11:58am
MFlynn:

Michael, thoroughly enjoying all these great alternative cuts, they are beautiful and all breath new life into these great songs !!
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joe mulligan:

↳ luka @11:54
“Wanna date?” That vhs fetches $800 on eBay now..
  11:59am
clarke:

nobody beats The Wiz!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Nobody beats the Wiz!
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Pedro in Arlington:

Was berated last summer by a genuine drunk Baltimore billyboy at a Yanks-O's game for not standing during a version of "This Land is Your Land" during the seventh-inning stretch. Said it was disrespectful to our fallen soldiers. He acknowledged not knowing who wrote the song. Told him to google.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...my jaw is still on the floor tho from you playing Chet Atkins doing that LesPaul in one pass with no effects...
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clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:59
you mean Carl Perkins??
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:59
Sad but comical!
  12:01pm
clarke:

Medium Sized Al!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:00
...that was *Carl Perkins* ?!?!
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Listener Baby:

↳ Song: "There Should Be A Book" by "NRBQ"
Makes me so happy! I read last that Big Al was instrumental in Meghan Trainor’s career. Strangely?
  12:02pm
clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:01
yeah - he was showing george harrison how he thought les paul did it by himself.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:02
...I'd wondered about George hanging with Chet. Well dayum Carl. This is a lot to process...
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clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:01
you can see it on video - i think MS said it was on the youtube.
  12:05pm
clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:03
well, george used to IDOLIZE atkins, as i am sure you know.
  12:06pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "With A Little Help" by "Tony Mattola With The Gro...
it is not a tone i would want for myself, but he sure did get a great tone!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:05
The technique - my brain jumped to Atkins.
  12:07pm
clarke:

yeah! ooooohhh!!
  12:08pm
clarke:

we've got a lot of ROPE to move, today.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "With A Little Help" by "Tony Mattola With The Gro...
I bet even Mom and Dad and Uncle Bill realize how good this is.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "With A Little Help" by "Tony Mattola With The Gro...
A not to so Revolutionary part of the 1960s I sometimes think we forget. Or - a more subversively ~ subliminally so part. What have you...
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clarke:

panning!!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

For a second there I thought my ear buds were having a problem.
  12:09pm
clarke:

gain struck
chaaaaaaahhhhhh
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...well, maybe Austin Powers remembers it ...but he has the advantage of going back & forth from then...
  12:11pm
clarke:

that's what we are: Ear Buds!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @12:11
Lol
  12:12pm
Paul In The OC:

enjoying the playlist today & think that at least a few selections from the Project 3 Lps are the 4-channel versions since they're decoding well on the surround receiver--With A Little Help sounded great
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:11
Ain't it the troof!
  12:13pm
clarke:

raise da roof!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Paul In The OC @12:12
FMU broadcasts in Quad ? :D
  12:14pm
clarke:

[bud turpin winks in acknowledgement]
  12:14pm
Bob:

Speaking of ear buds. Has anyone tried the Raycon? Better than the Apple as they claim? Definitely cheaper
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Bob @12:14
I only buy el-cheapo because I'm going to lose them.
  12:18pm
clarke:

↳ Bob @12:14
i guess not - but i would like to hear a good ear bud AFFORDABLE suggestion
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:17
Currently listening to BMANI brand, whatever that is.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Bruce Dedrick"
I'm hoping Bruce will come out with a few choice "ba-ba-ba's" just to punctuate a thought here and there, in true Free Design fashion.
  12:19pm
clarke:

pretty typical?? ha ha
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Their dad was a jazz arranger, ah, that explains a lot.
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Chris Hiatt:

TFD were so good at covers. They're almost like an effects processor. Put a tune through The Free Design and watch it sparkle!
  12:22pm
clarke:

i am not that big on Peter Paul & Mary, but gosh - they are SO pervasive in the legend of pop.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:22
You watch them tho - & PP&M could SANG awlright.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ clarke @12:22
They were pretty big in my house with my parents being 50s hipsters and all.
  12:23pm
clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:23
oh, i liked them - they just weren't completely my thang.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:22
In retrospect they were to folk what Pat Boone was to rock.
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Hubig Pie:

I just got here. We gonna hear "Kites are Fun" ?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:23
50s and 60s.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:23
I never like had their records...
  12:25pm
clarke:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:24
it's cawnivul tyme, bra!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

This is also a great interview.
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Handy Haversack:

Brunch is sairved!
  12:26pm
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:25
natch!
  12:26pm
clarke:

↳ Handy Haversack @12:25
FINALLY DUUUDE!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

24 Tracks!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:27
Way ahead then.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ clarke @12:25
Gimmee a box o' Popeye's and a six pack of Schlitz!
  12:29pm
clarke:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:28
would you take a carton of Brother's and a Jax??
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Hubig Pie:

↳ clarke @12:29
Make it Manchu chicken and a forty.
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Squints:

↳ Hubig Pie @12:28
Chafes me that the packies here only carry Schlitz, if at all, in 12 oz bottles. There's been the odd bar in Boston where they'd serve it up in tallboys. But I can't find Schiltz in cans.

Squints want gusto.
  12:31pm
clarke:

↳ Squints @12:30
Squints come down heayah!!
  12:31pm
P-90:

Hot Pockets and a sixer of Pink Champale?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I think I should start studying these arrangements.
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Chris Hiatt:

Bruce and Michael, holding a clinic on the musical sausage making here.
  12:32pm
clarke:

P-90 is onto something, here.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Chris Hiatt @12:32
So great.
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common:

this is so good, michael. thanks!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Holy crap, Chuck Rainey is on these tracks
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Bruce Dedrick"
This is all incredible really.
  12:35pm
clarke:

ambivalence is not what i expected. would assume that every band thought they were going straight to the toppermost??
  12:35pm
Bob:

Great stuff
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Sunshine baroque!
  12:36pm
clarke:

velly eenteresteeng!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...more like a 'Band' than 'Easy Listening' perhaps...
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Hughie Considine:

I was going to suggest that the childlike lyrics and subject matter of Kites might have not been deemed as groovy enough for the kids of the day, but then I thought of Brand New Key...
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Chris Hiatt:

That Canadian Brass stuff would be interesting to check out.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:37
'Brand New Key' has entendres & saucy delivery... RIP Melanie.
  12:38pm
clarke:

i know my peers were like "this is NOT the beatles!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I'm very glad I can appreciate this stuff nowadays. It wouldn't have been "heavy" enough for me back in the day
  12:40pm
clarke:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:39
exactly - but some appreciation down the line grows!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yeah it's interesting. I think I aways would've appreciated it - but on what level & in what way. Like Hal Wilner (?) referring to Carl Stalling cartoon stuff as 'the Music of our subconscious'. Well not like that but...
  12:41pm
clarke:

for instance, my 'gateway' for Velvet Underground was a commercial for (or against) VD - which featured the song: Who Loves The Sun!!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Oh Joe Franklin...
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:38
True, but very childlike and naive sounding. I don't think it was the innuendoes that made it a No. 1.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:41
Really ! Wow.
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clarke:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:44
yeah, it is a black and white commercial with the tag-line "VD - it's for everybody!" no shit!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:42
That's maybe a thing. Like 'Windy' by TheAssociation able to play both sides - the PopCharts & being (seems to me) all about Tripping, really...
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Chris Hiatt:

Airmen of Note has always been a hot band. Of course Chris arranged for them!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ clarke @12:45
I remember that tagline of course.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

"Day jobs"
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Interesting that Elton John would stick out for him.
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clarke:

seems to me like the 70's didn't really kick in until about 72 or so??
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:42
- or the 'YellowSubmarine' film being a Kid's Classic ...& the most lysergic thing imaginable.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I was born in 1970 so it's sometimes hard for me to put the impact of Elton John into perspective. Especially since there was so much happening in 1970.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:45
Yeah, the double entendres went from being sexual to drug related.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:49
- & that late 1960s thing of Being Positive ...whether High or High On Life...
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listener phat in Lincoln:

I love these interviews.
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:45
Who's reaching out to capture a moment? Somebody on some good LSD, I bet.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Wait, "cult-like" thing?
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Wow
  12:52pm
clarke:

dang - my landlord called me and i missed some stuff.... archives!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:50
Good point -- and then there was "switched-on" Bach, like, Hey kids, classical music+acid!
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Squints:

↳ clarke @12:52
What did he call you?
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:52
C.I.L.L. ... my landlord
  12:52pm
clarke:

↳ Squints @12:52
a communard!!
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Hughie Considine:

oh, man...tragic
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Hughie Considine @12:52
There's his dog, do he bite?
  12:53pm
clarke:

land lo'!!
  12:54pm
clarke:

gotta go someplace cool..
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Hughie Considine:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53
such a great bit
  12:55pm
clarke:

for reals, tho: i have the BEST landlord i have EVER heard of. if something breaks - you better be ready for him to come RIGHT AWAY!
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Hughie Considine:

↳ clarke @12:55
Well, that's a rare landlord!
  12:57pm
clarke:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Bruce Dedrick"
fine fine FINE stuff!!!! thanks for this!!
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Chris Hiatt:

What a great interview. Thanks, Michael and Bruce!
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Great interview, as usual.
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Hughie Considine:

Bravo, Michael.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Kites Are Fun" by "Free Design, The"
Ok, so in ear buds, this is something else.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ Song: "Kites Are Fun" by "Free Design, The"
Yay !
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nortonjutland:

Great interview Michael!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

My 8th grade girlfriend was Kerri Ann Eustice…so close!!
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Squints:

↳ Song: "Kites Are Fun" by "Free Design, The"
I wanted real bad to hear that as "flying cars."
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listener phat in Lincoln:

Good lord, this arrangement.
  12:59pm
P-90:

Another Number One interview, Michael
  12:59pm
wow wow:

Great interview. Tuned in late. Thank you.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Whut other Station ?
None. No other Station.
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listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "Kites Are Fun" by "Free Design, The"
This is a master class in mixing a record, too.
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Handy Haversack:

How is it over already?! Many thanks, Michael!

Kites *are* fun!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ MS ~
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greg g:

What a great interview! Thanks Michael!!
  1:00pm
clarke:

rope moved!! adios - ah hah hah
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