WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 10, 2025

Listener comments!
	9:49am Listener Baby: Baby. Don’t start till I get there.
	10:49am Michael Shelley: Wouldn't dream of it.
	11:00am clarke: hey now lay yo' hands on the raydio!!!
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now. #getbusyliving
	♥ 11:01am Squints: G G Y
	11:01am clarke: HAWKS!!! SHARP!!
	♥ 11:02am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:01 Shahp, theah.
	♥ 11:02am StringOFperils: Richard Manuel rockin' out! Wooo!
	11:02am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:02 erah, a shaaap thing.
	11:03am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:02 the C's are killin' me! tatum, sit!
	♥ 11:03am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "He Don't Love You Anymore (And He'll Break Your H... Smokin' track. I love this
	11:04am clarke: the other brian D.
	11:05am Frank In Queens: Hey now!!
	♥ 11:05am Stevie Jay: Skeezix and I are rocking out to your jams.
	11:05am clarke: The Treasurer!!! inna haus!!
	11:05am Michael Shelley: ↳ Stevie Jay @11:05 Give him a banana!
	11:06am KWilde: Always reminds me of NY Mining Disaster 1941
	11:06am clarke: ↳ KWilde @11:06 i'm sure he'd be happy to hear that!
	♥ 11:06am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:03 Ach. Dinna get me started. The nerds' plan to shoot threes only works if you don't shoot 'em like me.
	♥ 11:07am Squints: ↳ KWilde @11:06 I also get a "Put The Clock Back On The Wall" E*Types vibe.
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:06 dey shootin' 'em like you!!
	♥ 11:07am Squints: ↳ KWilde @11:06 A little "Here Comes My Baby," too.
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:06 what is that definition of insanity?
	♥ 11:08am luca: gm ichibans
	11:09am clarke: @Frank - the mets seem to be trying to be the O's of the nat'l league, this month??
	♥ 11:09am Steve Del Sol: Maybe Levon should have read more.
	♥ 11:09am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:07 They need to bust it inside once every so often just to demonstrate that as a possibility.
	11:10am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:09 exacta-mundo [fonz voice]
	♥ 11:12am Pedro in Arlington: Hello from Marseille, a kick-ass town. But still need a No. 1 deejay as I visit shooting sites from the French Connection films and "Breathless" opening scene.
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:12 also, bogie shot some scenes in marseilles..
	♥ 11:13am herb.nyc: Hey. Wow, great song after great song. But I’m gonna excuse myself. Wanna listen to some bands that open for tv smith’s the adverts. They play at tv eye on Monday. Excuse me…
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:12 Beat The Devil was shot around there, in parts, i think?
	♥ 11:16am Squints: ↳ Song: "Can I Change My Mind?" by "Byron Lee And The Drag... Not for nothing, this hit by Tyrone is far superior to the (quite good its ownself) "Turn Back The Hands Of Time." That waggling horn figure in the chorus.
	11:17am Michael Shelley: ↳ herb.nyc @11:13 You are excused
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:16 i'm going to have to disagree, theayah.
	11:17am gf2002: So whose version of The Band's story is more accurate, Robbie's or Levon's?
	11:18am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:16 oh wait, you are saying original is better and i agree, ha ha.
	11:18am Listener Baby: Where is the heart?
	♥ 11:18am StringOFperils: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 Two vantage points. Two truths.
	♥ 11:18am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:17 That's OK. Let a hundred flowers bloom. More for all of us.
	11:18am Michael Shelley: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 I may try to address that. But that's 5 dudes who ALL did a ton of drugs and drinking - so, hard to pin point the truth in that mess.
	11:18am Daybreak!: The Pietasters did a great version of "can I change my mind?" Is it a number one hit? No Is it awesome? Hell yes! https://youtu.be/xXDwo2-4kxU
	11:19am rx "rexy" scabin: @gf2002 both.
	♥ 11:19am Mark T: Howdy
	♥ 11:20am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Valerie" by "Neighbors, The" Another great song called "Valerie" -- they're all good! Oh, and greetings to all!
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:20 and a fine good=mawnin' to ya suh!
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:20 we have prepared the fatty calf for thee.
	♥ 11:22am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:21 My favorite!
	11:22am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" Suicide!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" this makes seven.
	♥ 11:23am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:18 Oh. Yeah. I love reggae covers of just about anything. But among Tyrone's own work, I'm really taken with "Can I Change My Mind?" Sort of like of I loved "Shotgun" (and still do) but then I heard "Shake And Fingerpop." Or "Green Onions" and then "Jelly Bread."
	♥ 11:23am egould: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" What is this guys native tongue? ‘Cause it sure ain’t English.
	11:23am gf2002: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:18 The truth probably sits in the middle somewhere as in most of these cases. Robbie was better at interviews and storytelling, while Levon was more raw...but I have to say Levon going after Robbie as harshly as he did wasn't a good thing to read and hear since they were very close back in the day and shared some amazing stories. The most underheralded member of The Band for me is Garth Hudson, a real character in every sense (in a good way) and a musician many levels above the norm. I only found out how important and how gifted he really was in the past decade or so when his interviews started showing up online. But he tended to speak in riddles sometimes so it came back to Robbie or Levon being the historians
	♥ 11:23am Squints: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" Which "Sonic" is this? Splitter!
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:23 and you know me and covers...
	♥ 11:24am Hughie Considine: ↳ egould @11:23 His native language is broken English.
	11:24am gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:20 But only one has Louis Shelton playing blazing lead guitar!
	♥ 11:25am egould: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:24 Sense make that to’s me. You thanks!
	11:25am rob: Drunk tank once
	11:25am clarke: garth was a cryptic guy, but totally nice - used to see him tending to his sailboat in the Whychmere Harbor on cape, theyah.
	11:25am rx "rexy" scabin: I worked in a maximum security prison. That made me completely jail-phobic.
	11:26am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:25 Which one, Rex?
	11:26am Tim G: Jail? Not yet but given today's politics, probably soon.
	11:26am Frank In Queens: Spent a night in the clink because of “lapsed car insurance”, which was bullshit. Someone didn’t do their job and I had to pay the price.
	♥ 11:26am listener phat in Lincoln: I've been to jail!
	♥ 11:27am Squints: Kinna go wrong with a Dan Bairdy sound.
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:26 ryker's? ha ha.
	11:28am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:26 and back!
	♥ 11:28am drr: ↳ Daybreak! @11:18 My band does "Can I Change My Mind", and when I introduced it to the guys, the keyboard player said "You mean the song by the Pietasters"?
	11:29am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby Attica. I also worked in a medium security one after that.
	11:29am clarke: ↳ drr @11:28 i was going to mention just that!
	11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:29 Jeez
	11:29am Greg from ZONE 5: Beautiful day to hit estate sales and listen to Michael Shelley☀️
	♥ 11:29am pgalub: Hey Michael, clarke and everyone.
	11:30am clarke: pedro!!! happy saturday!
	♥ 11:30am Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @11:23 There's also the subjective nature of storytelling and the stark differences between the two of them. Robbie was the the ostensible leader, the "songsmith" the storyteller, etc., and Levon was in the back powering the whole thing and feeling a little underappreciated. It's inevitable they would have different tales to tell.
	11:30am George Kopp: Spent the night in the Goshen NY holding cell way back when. Possession of weed and peyote (one little button!). Fun times!
	11:30am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:29 What did you do to deserve that?
	11:31am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:30 but, i think robbie is a lot less, uh, bitter and therefore probably more accurate in the telling of??
	♥ 11:31am Hughie Considine: ↳ George Kopp @11:30 Oh boy. Were you under the influence when you were in the can?
	11:33am Zinn The Mood: It’s a two-tiered justice system, here in the Greatest Country in the World (tm). If you’re a Wall St Financial Terrorist, or a well-connected politician, or a cold-blooded murderous cop you’re immunized from the so-called “rule of law.” Everybody else can easily be ensnared into this corrupt justice system that basically exists to control the 99%. But nobody suffers a worse fate than young black and brown males. Unlike stock swindling those numbers don’t lie.
	11:33am clarke: [cookie monster voice]: mmm!! cookie!!
	11:33am George Kopp: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:31 No, thankfully not.
	♥ 11:34am Hughie Considine: Sure - makes sense that the angry resentful telling might be the less reliable one. But I can see why the story Robbie likes to tell might be a little tweaked for maximum coolness too.
	♥ 11:35am Mark Hurst: The Dana Carvey documentary is excellent.
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:34 sure. but, i just believe him, more, i think.
	♥ 11:35am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:27 Nah, Center Street Central Booking
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:34 especially hearing him effuse about how it was to visit arkansas, etc.
	11:35am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The" Can you star more than one song?
	♥ 11:36am Karl: ↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The" Hey I know these guys
	11:36am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:35 jk!
	11:36am clarke: ↳ Karl @11:36 and they... know you!!
	11:36am gf2002: I watched the Dana Carvey Show when it first aired! There was one skit he did playing Bob Dole who was campaigning at the time the show aired, and they would cut in and out of covering Dole's speech, and Carvey made Dole look more and more lost each time they cut back, to the point where Dole had his back to the cameras and was still delivering his speech. For whatever reason that literally had me crying laughing so hard. I need to catch this new doc.
	♥ 11:37am Frank In Queens: Thank ye, Michael
	11:37am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:36 i always preferred norm's dole.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The" short and SWEEET!!
	♥ 11:38am herb.nyc: Hey I’m back. Did ya miss me? Adverts opening bands played punky stuff, melodic. As for met gala, a friends union was gonna rally at a nearby hotel. She couldn’t go because she was, well, working(ouch; oh, another anti trump rally is June 14)
	11:38am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:37 Norm is the best standup ever. Brilliant with ZFG
	11:38am Michael Shelley: ↳ egould @11:23 Hard to say - internet says British band relocated to Germany...
	11:38am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby I was the tutorial company coordinator in a college program that was started in response to the Attica uprising. It was for a private consortium of colleges. It was the start to my soon-to-end career in education.
	♥ 11:39am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:35 I dig ya. My ears always perk up when someone seems to upend a story I think I know. Robbie's book was really good.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:39 keep in mind - i haven't read robbie's book. just going off of interviews, here.
	11:40am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:38 The road less traveled. Luckily. Because we wouldn’t have your amazing taste and talent. Right?
	11:41am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:40 where's the punk these days??
	11:42am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby it is weird to think that everything led to this moment. All unplanned.
	11:42am gf2002: Levon also had more personal demons to battle than Robbie, including financial troubles Robbie didn't have in his post-Band career, and he did come off as bitter often unnecessarily toward Robbie, sometimes seeming to be more jealous than anything. Just my take
	11:43am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:42 that might be true, but i have met levon and he is a down-to-earth nice guy. deaf as hell, tho.
	♥ 11:43am DJ Johnny Cool: pronounced Kway-bee
	11:43am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:42 And to think, I could have been a contender.
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Song: "Every Which-A-Way" by "Quebe Sisters, The" not too cool for me!!
	11:45am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:44 I’m with Clarke
	11:45am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:43 -was
	♥ 11:46am Karl: ↳ Song: "Baby I Love You" by "Roberta Flack and Donny Hath... Chuck Rainey can do no wrong
	11:47am clarke: is this song about Vida Blue?
	11:48am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 relative to the live version - which is downright HOT!
	11:49am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby I couldn't have.
	♥ 11:49am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:47 He was hard not to love, that's for sure.
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:49 will have to share a good levon story - off-line.
	11:50am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:43 I think Robbie learned at an early age how to navigate the music business and play the game, and that served him well in many ways including income from songwriting and publishing and how to schmooze, while Levon was a musician first and maybe didn't think those few steps ahead for the business side of it.
	11:50am Listener Baby: If you can find The Marty Stuart episode with John Conlee, watch it. Amazing
	11:51am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:50 levon always said he is just a dirt-farmer.
	11:52am Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:26 Can we ask why?
	11:52am gf2002: Louis Prima invented his own sound and style of music, I love his music and it never goes out of style. When he had Sam and Keely on stage with him, it was literal chaos on stage, and hilarious. Wish I had been alive to see them on stage.
	♥ 11:53am Karl: ↳ Song: "Scuba Diver" by "Louis Prima" This is greatness
	11:53am Tim G: Got to see Sam & Keely in Vegas in a nearly free lounge show in the 90's. What a treat. Nothing like it.
	11:54am Andres: ↳ Song: "Scuba Diver" by "Louis Prima" New to me. Living up to the hype!
	♥ 11:54am Karl: Michael: you might be interested in this article about Tulane’s recently acquired Prima collection: tulanian.tulane.edu...
	♥ 11:56am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and all!
	11:57am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Keep On Dancin'" by "Gentrys, The" Who ever prances?
	11:57am clarke: i think it is the prancing that they are not sure about.
	♥ 11:57am tgr53: Wow! We literally got just back on the boat after a scuba dive in Bonaire!!
	11:58am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:56 buncha f'n amateurs!!
	11:58am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Keep On Dancin'" by "Gentrys, The" Never noticed that. So cool
	♥ 11:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:57 Doing the Jerk, however, was quite common.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 it involved little prancing.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 wait are we still talking about robbie??
	12:00pm gf2002: ↳ Moammar @11:57 That singer PSY who did "Gagnam Style" had a bit of a prance in his dancing.
	♥ 12:01pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The Hot Guitar" by "Eddie Hill" I went ape for Chris Spedding's "Guitar Jamboree," which did something similar. "Here's Paul Kossoff!"
	12:01pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Karl @11:54 THANKS - interested!
	♥ 12:01pm Karl: ↳ Song: "The Hot Guitar" by "Eddie Hill" Hot (guitar) damn
	♥ 12:01pm Jherweg: Steve Vai's story about trying out for frank Zappa's band is pretty funny, Frank was asking him to play all this impossible stuff.
	12:01pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:01 love Spedding!
	♥ 12:01pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:00 Nope, we're on to Keep on Dancin'! Keep up!
	12:02pm jmandm: Spedding is the best!
	12:02pm greg g: Morning Michael! Any comment from Rex on all this exotic twangin!??
	♥ 12:02pm Matt in Nebraska: "Country Guitar" by Phil Baugh has gotta be my favorite song in this vein.
	12:03pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "The Hot Guitar" by "Eddie Hill" Wait...there was hot guitar before internet loop artists and fusion-funk shredding on 8 strings? Well, I'll be...
	♥ 12:03pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:01 Speaking of Paul Kossoff, Midge Ure rhapsodized about Free yesterday on Mona's show -- something I didn't have on my FMU bingo card.
	12:03pm jmandm: Where is Rex? I got here late.
	12:03pm Andy: Louie Prima, always fun. Talk about crazy if you never heard it...duke ellington live at newport diminuendo and crescendo in blue. Paul Gonsalves sax solo is insane.
	12:04pm clarke: fave james gang album: Thirds!!!
	12:05pm Listener Baby: I have the best ever James Gang story. Trust me
	12:05pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:26 WOW!
	♥ 12:05pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "But I Try" by "Little Richard With The James Gang" F'in fantastic!
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:05 suitable for airplay??
	12:06pm gf2002: Remember when The James Gang reunited on The Drew Carey Show? That was one of the only episodes I ever watched (and taped), because Joe Walsh and the original band was going to be on. They covered "Five O'Clock World" and it SMOKED!
	♥ 12:06pm drr: ↳ jmandm @12:03 Not late enough!
	12:06pm Andy: Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue https://g.co/kgs/WT6oP5d
	12:06pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "But I Try" by "Little Richard With The James Gang" Baby. Joe left JG in 1971 are sure this is Joe and not Tommy Bolin?
	12:07pm gf2002: Oops...not 5 o'clock world, forgive my memory...it was "Friday On My Mind"! Even better tune...
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:06 hey mate - you feeling any better???
	12:07pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:05 Very long. But you would believe me anyway.
	12:07pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:06 It's a bonus track on a JW lp...
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:07 we have 40 mins, here.
	♥ 12:08pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:07 Hahah -- I was gonna say that just doesn't sound like a song the Gang would cover. Friday makes way more sense.
	♥ 12:08pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Listener Baby @12:06 Tommy Bolin didn't join until like '73 or '74. They also expanded to a four piece when Walsh left
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:07 go with installments.
	12:09pm clarke: is anyone familiar with OAK???
	12:09pm Listener Baby: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:08 Sounds like a four piece in that one?
	♥ 12:09pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... There are about three songs on My Aim Is True that are all pretty much like this (Sneaky Feelings, e.g.) and I dig 'em all.
	♥ 12:09pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:07 Sounds like just like him as well.
	♥ 12:10pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... yo' cash ain't nothin' but trash.
	♥ 12:10pm drr: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... this is some nifty guitarring as well.
	♥ 12:10pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Listener Baby @12:09 The fourth piece was a dedicated vocalist.
	12:11pm Zephyr: No mention that Joe Walsh is from Montclair, NJ ???
	♥ 12:11pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... What a mighty band.
	♥ 12:12pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... This smokes.
	♥ 12:12pm egould: ↳ Zephyr @12:11 I thought he was a Cleveland/NE Ohio dude.
	12:12pm gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:08 My memory was playing tricks on me, haha. 5 O'Clock was the Carey show's theme song I think. Joe and the band NAILED Friday On My Mind, worth checking out. And...Funk 49 is one of the greatest rock rhythm guitar parts ever recorded. Pure feel and groove, great tone.
	♥ 12:13pm Frank In Queens: ↳ egould @12:12 He was an army brat. He's from a lot of places.
	12:13pm clarke: ages ago.
	♥ 12:13pm Karl: Houston represent
	12:14pm Marie in Chicago: Hi Michael, hi Everyone! Happy Saturday!
	♥ 12:14pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:12 Yea and verily on the "Funk #49" front. I wrote a book about number songs some years back and (correctly) cited "Funk #49" as the greatest of all #49 songs. (Funk #48 is pretty cool too, but no #49.)
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:14 an impressive tome!
	♥ 12:15pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:14 When trying to find the album "But I Try" is on, I noticed there's also a "Funk 50" from 2012.
	♥ 12:15pm greg g: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:13 Wikipedia said he grew up in Columbus Ohio but moved to NYC area at age of 12 and settled in Montclair , NJ.
	12:15pm gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:14 Haha!
	♥ 12:16pm Frank In Queens: ↳ greg g @12:15 And was born in Kansas. Like I said, he's from a lot of places.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:15 i thought there was
	12:16pm rx "rexy" scabin: I must go mow the lawn.
	12:17pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:16 come on, man. it's going to mow itself!!
	♥ 12:17pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:15 Didn't know that -- now my knowledge is complete!
	12:17pm Zephyr: JOE WALSH history (re: Montclair, NJ): https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/before-the-fast-lane/
	12:19pm gf2002: I heard that Joe as a teenager learned how to play both guitar harmony parts from "And Your Bird Can Sing" on a single guitar, and musicians in the area knew him as that kid who can play And Your Bird Can Sing. I also heard that Joe bought cases of Coricidin medicine after learning they were discontinuing putting it in bottles, because Duane Allman used that bottle as a slide and inspired Joe to do the same. And he didn't want to run out of the bottles. Those are mild Walsh stories obviously haha
	♥ 12:19pm egould: ↳ Song: "Sehorn's Farm" by "Meters, The" I wish Rev Rabbit was hearing this. He loves guitars that sound like chickens.
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Sehorn's Farm" by "Meters, The" marshall sehorn was a co-owner of Sea Saint Studio with Allen Toussaint.
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ egould @12:19 his laptop died - and he ain't been around.
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @12:19 What's your trip?
	♥ 12:20pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:20 I was wondering....
	♥ 12:21pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Song: "Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air" by "Sis... Always do great to hear her voice.
	12:21pm Bob: Good afternoon. Late to the party. I couldn't find anything to wear.
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:19 he just should NOT have taken all that coricidin!!
	♥ 12:22pm greg g: ↳ clarke @12:17 I've got to get a new mower!
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:20 i gotta stop in lyman to pick up some chord.
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:21 hello bob.
	♥ 12:22pm egould: I heard that Joe Walsh literally moved into Ardent Studios and lived there for like a year. They had to ask him to leave eventually.
	♥ 12:22pm greg g: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:16 Yes, dude got around! ;)
	12:22pm Listener Baby: James Gang Story. I’m a very young engineer at The Record Plant. Having a giant party to celebrate the closing of the original RP, and the opening of the new and soul-less RP. Huge party is called the Last Jam. One of the bands performing is the James Gang, in studio C. I walk in there, they are rocking, and there about four people in there watching. I notice my co-worker watching, sipping on her drink. To me, her name is Cecil. I knew she was a singer of some kind, but very fuzzy on the details at the time. I slide up next Cecil, and ask her if she going to sing with the James Gang. She sheepishly nods her head no. I ask why not? She says she would know what to sing. I said shit, do Stormy Monday. Everybody knows that one. She doesn’t say anything. I have to run out of Studio C for a minute or two. When I come back, Cecil is singing Stormy Monday with the James Gang. I walk right up to her, and she sings her ass off 6 inches from my face. Cecil was Lyn Collins. She was never very nice to me, but she sure was after that. Great, unforgettable night.
	12:23pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:21 Haha he probably didn't want to let it go to waste!
	12:23pm Bob: ↳ Song: "Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air" by "Sis... I first heard this song from the Jayhawks b-side for Blue maybe. Hi, Clarke
	12:24pm clarke: ↳ greg g @12:22 how close are 'we' to getting a lawn-mower similar to a rug-robot??
	♥ 12:25pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:24 Stephen King could not be reached for comment.
	♥ 12:25pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Listener Baby @12:22 Awesome story!
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:22 wow!! on many levels!
	12:26pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:24 Like having a son who doesn't talk back
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:26 ha ha ha. yakkety yak.
	♥ 12:26pm greg g: ↳ clarke @12:24 Not soon enough the way Im feeling this morning.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Get So Excited" by "Grass Roots, The" GRANT!
	♥ 12:27pm greg g: ↳ greg g @12:26 afternoon...
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ greg g @12:26 ha ha. they are still waiting to see how many auto-drive lawsuits there are.
	12:27pm Patster: Creed Bratton’s in there somewhere.
	♥ 12:28pm greg g: ↳ Listener Baby @12:22 Very cool! thanks for sharing Baby!!
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ Patster @12:27 maybe!
	12:28pm Bob: ↳ Song: "I Get So Excited" by "Grass Roots, The" who did the originals? The Equals? I'd argue the Casuals do it best
	♥ 12:28pm Matt in Nebraska: Robot lawn mowers are already a thing.
	12:29pm Listener Baby: Stevie Wonder performed somewhere that night too. I didn’t get to see that for some reason.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Patster @12:27 much of the Grass Roots is session players. and roto-toms were not quite invented at this time. hal blaine had some smaller toms tuned very high before roto came along.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:28 ha ha, thanks!
	12:31pm clarke: the first use of roto-toms MIGHT be jim gordon on the Rockford theme...
	12:32pm gf2002: The first use of Hal Blaine's roto-toms (Proto-toms?) was on The Monkees "You And I", written by Bill Chadwick and also featuring Neil Young on lead guitar. If I remember Hal said he had just taken delivery of them and set them up on that session, after that they were everywhere on the radio.
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:32 yet, prior to that, blaine had regular drums tuned very high.
	♥ 12:33pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Rockin’ All Over The World" by "John Fogerty" the "John Fogerty" LP is a gem. Springsteen first picked up on this song to close his dates in Europe in '81. (and to close shows on the final US stop before going overseas, on subsequent tours)
	12:34pm Bob: Anybody got movies or shows? I'm a little underwhelmed by the new season of Hacks. It was never really great tbh. I just stumbled across the Holy Modal Rounders doc for free on Youtube for anyone that hasn't seen it. It seems to be a shorter cut than the one Netflix had available 20 years ago but at least you can see it. It disappeared for a long time.
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: The Studio is worth watching - it's silly and it moves fast
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:34 have you seen Black Box?? quite good - got little attention.
	♥ 12:37pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "He Don't Love You Anymore (And He'll Break Your H... want to note that our friend Nick Hill covered this on his Radio Free Song Club show. (I was tuned in from the top, but, er, busy editing something on the 'pedia)
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:34 yes, The Studio is completely ridiculous and silly - so i, therefore, believe it is TRUE!
	12:38pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:37 you got the Blue Ridge Rangers two rekkids??
	12:38pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:33 Weren't Hal's modified timbales or something? I think it was how Hal had a company weld the stands together that made them what they were with the descending pitches and everything in a row, but they weren't the actual trademarked Roto-Toms...or were they? I was always confused by that story. But it is Hal's drums on Indian Reservation and all those AM hits.
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:38 one was a modified bongo, one was a modified snare, and one was a modified timbale
	12:39pm gf2002: ↳ Bob @12:34 I'm trying to sort through all my DVD's and found "Crazy", the biopic of Hank Garland. Decent movie, even better if you're a fan of Garland's guitar playing
	12:41pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:39 Hal loved his timbales!
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:38 but there is a murky part of the story, to be sure!!
	♥ 12:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:36 I bounced off it hard. Just couldn't care about the characters or their goals.
	♥ 12:41pm Frank In Queens: Fantastic card!
	12:41pm Bob: ↳ gf2002 @12:39 I think I saw that on Tubi or something. What a cool, obscure subject choice.
	12:42pm Moammar: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:41 Noisy. Bludgeoning. No stakes at all.
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:41 i don't know if you watch The Last Of Us, but it is well-written and not probably what it appears to be.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Picture Book" by "Kinks, The" YES. so YES!!
	12:43pm clarke: MICK AVORY BABY!!!
	12:43pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:41 I can't hear Bobby Helms' Jingle Bell Rock the same way again after learning how they ripped off Hank who actually wrote it! Murky indeed
	12:44pm clarke: murky!!
	12:44pm Bob: ↳ Song: "I Hate Pigeons" by "Sunshine Company, The" This song reminds me that Chris Ligon just uploaded like a dozen albums to bandcamp the other day. Most of them are done with his brother Scott. I'm still wading through it all but there is a lot of amazing stuff there. If he's your thing.
	12:45pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Picture Book" by "Kinks, The" What a great song and great album. They don't make 'em like this anymore!
	12:46pm tranewreck: Informative Ian Frazier piece on pigeons in the May 12/19 New Yorker. For pigeon haters, lovers and indifferents.
	12:46pm clarke: savage!!!
	12:47pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" by "Johnny Savag... I feel like I need a suit and tie with a cocktail while listening to this record
	♥ 12:47pm Squints: We have a nice woman at the Thursday open mic who plays accordion. We're always finding reasons to get her into our numbers and we kept nudging her to let rip a solo here and there. She's been steadfastly against so far.
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:47 tell her "accordian to my list you have to play!"
	♥ 12:49pm listener phat in Lincoln: Got sidetracked!
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:49 in disney jail?
	♥ 12:50pm listener phat in Lincoln: Similar, Home Depot
	♥ 12:50pm egould: This reminds me; I need to drink vodka.
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:50 their holding room has coffee.
	12:50pm annette: treat that great accordion gal to a nice cocktail. world peace on the map.
	♥ 12:50pm Frank In Queens: ↳ egould @12:50 That'll be my choice for this evening.
	12:51pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Disneyland Jail" by "David Lowery" Disneyland Jail named as the No.1 vacation destination for Alabama's furries.
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:50 no newcastle ale???
	♥ 12:51pm luca: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" no. 1 of no. 1s
	♥ 12:52pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:51 Tonight is not a beer night (that was last night) and I haven't seen Newkie Brown anywhere around here in ages.
	12:52pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" love this
	♥ 12:52pm Squints: ↳ annette @12:50 annette, she's absolutely gabba gabba one of us. We're all asking her to play with us. She likes chordal accompaniment. She might be afraid of judgment. But I remind her that they let ME play.
	12:52pm Bob: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Went down a big Paul Youtube hole this week. I miss the guy.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:52 that was more of a footie ref.
	♥ 12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:50 Mmm, Home Depot coffee...
	♥ 12:53pm StuartR: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Westerberg: Classic Rock or #1 AOR from Singles
	12:53pm tonyb: Who’s backing Paul? Neighborhoods?
	♥ 12:53pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Could this be the most No. 1 song Paul ever penned?
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53 and reverse-tones.
	♥ 12:54pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:52 Big match against Chelsea tomorrow. Winner moves up to 3rd in the standings.
	♥ 12:54pm eastvanhalen: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Having complicated PNW reactions to this song
	12:54pm Bob: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:53 I'd say Achin' To Be but this is a good choice too
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ tonyb @12:53 i'm pretty sure that Jim Spake is on the sax on this. but, as i recall, the album credits are vague.
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:54 this is our concern, dude.
	12:56pm George Kopp: Disneyland Jail hitting way too close to home; esp the teenage son parts!
	12:56pm annette: judgmental here. tired of typical drum bass keyboard guitar. put that accordion in front
	♥ 12:56pm egould: Thanks Michael. Muy bueno!
	12:57pm clarke: mister vanderbocki does IT, again!! good nite.
	♥ 12:57pm Squints: Rope duly moved. Thanks, Michael. Hasta, babes.
	12:58pm gf2002: The Three Suns - Some great accordion driven songs in their catalog! Or work in Wouldn't It Be Nice, great but challenging accordion parts on that, my #1 favorite song of all time.
	12:59pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Commercial" by "TCI" and the tool goes in your box
	♥ 12:59pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Bob @12:54 Toss-up!
	♥ 12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael..cheers y'all!
	12:59pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been sandwiched??
	12:59pm Bob: I had a dream last night that I started a new power pop band called the Sugar Apes. Has that ever been used? Anyway I'll be holding auditions if anyone is interested.
	♥ 12:59pm egould: “I used to work at a gas station!”
	♥ 1:00pm Hughie Considine: Thanks, Michael!!
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:59 mmmmm sandwich...
	1:00pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @1:00 beat chelsea!
	♥ 1:01pm eastvanhalen: Grazie!

Michael Shelley: Playlist from May 10, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album
Levon And The Hawks	He Don't Love You Anymore (And He'll Break Your Heart)	45
Brian D'Addario	Nothing On My Mind	till the morning
Cactus Blossoms, The	I'm Calling You	Easy Way
Jimmy Hicks	I'm Mr Big Stuff "I'm Mr Big Stuff" by "Jimmy Hicks"	45
Byron Lee And The Dragonaires	Can I Change My Mind?	Reggay
Neighbors, The	Valerie "Valerie" by "Neighbors, The"	Power Pop Art
Sonic, The	She's Looking Good "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The"	Sonic
Al Green	One Night Stand "One Night Stand" by "Al Green"	Al Green Explores Your Mind
Above, The	Holding Back "Holding Back" by "Above, The"	There Is A Reason
Red Squares, The	Along Comes Mary	It's Happening
Quebe Sisters, The	Every Which-A-Way	Every Which-A-Way
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway	Baby I Love You	Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
Louis Prima	Scuba Diver "Scuba Diver" by "Louis Prima"	Lake Tahoe Prima Style
Gentrys, The	Keep On Dancin' "Keep On Dancin'" by "Gentrys, The"	45
Eddie Hill	The Hot Guitar "The Hot Guitar" by "Eddie Hill"	45
Ben E. King	Si Senor "Si Senor" by "Ben E. King"	45
Little Richard With The James Gang	But I Try	Analogue Man
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Blame It On Cain (live!)	45
Thursday's Children	You Can Forget About That	45
Ralph Mooney	Moon's Boogie "Moon's Boogie" by "Ralph Mooney"	Wail Man Wail
Meters, The	Sehorn's Farm "Sehorn's Farm" by "Meters, The"	The Meters
Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air	45
Dahlmanns, The	Ring, Ring "Ring, Ring" by "Dahlmanns, The"	Super Hits of the '70s
Grass Roots, The	I Get So Excited	Lovin' Things
John Fogerty	Rockin’ All Over The World	45
Dixie Cups, The	Sugar That I Need	45
Disco Brothers, The	Let's Go To The Disco	45
James Hunter Six	If That Don't Tell You	Hold On!
Sunshine Company, The	I Hate Pigeons	Sunshine & Shadows
Kinks, The	Picture Book "Picture Book" by "Kinks, The"	45
Johnny Savage Quintet	What Is This Thing Called Love?	10"
David Lowery	Disneyland Jail "Disneyland Jail" by "David Lowery"	Fathers, Sons And Brothers
Paul Westerberg	Dyslexic Heart "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg"	45
Racket Squad, The	That Girl Is You	Racket Squad
TCI	Commercial "Commercial" by "TCI"	n/a
Sandwiched Again	Commercial "Commercial" by "Sandwiched Again"	n/a

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	10:49am Michael Shelley: Wouldn't dream of it.
	11:00am clarke: hey now lay yo' hands on the raydio!!!
	♥ 11:01am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now. #getbusyliving
	♥ 11:01am Squints: G G Y
	11:01am clarke: HAWKS!!! SHARP!!
	♥ 11:02am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:01 Shahp, theah.
	♥ 11:02am StringOFperils: Richard Manuel rockin' out! Wooo!
	11:02am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:02 erah, a shaaap thing.
	11:03am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:02 the C's are killin' me! tatum, sit!
	♥ 11:03am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "He Don't Love You Anymore (And He'll Break Your H... Smokin' track. I love this
	11:04am clarke: the other brian D.
	11:05am Frank In Queens: Hey now!!
	♥ 11:05am Stevie Jay: Skeezix and I are rocking out to your jams.
	11:05am clarke: The Treasurer!!! inna haus!!
	11:05am Michael Shelley: ↳ Stevie Jay @11:05 Give him a banana!
	11:06am KWilde: Always reminds me of NY Mining Disaster 1941
	11:06am clarke: ↳ KWilde @11:06 i'm sure he'd be happy to hear that!
	♥ 11:06am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:03 Ach. Dinna get me started. The nerds' plan to shoot threes only works if you don't shoot 'em like me.
	♥ 11:07am Squints: ↳ KWilde @11:06 I also get a "Put The Clock Back On The Wall" E*Types vibe.
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:06 dey shootin' 'em like you!!
	♥ 11:07am Squints: ↳ KWilde @11:06 A little "Here Comes My Baby," too.
	11:07am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:06 what is that definition of insanity?
	♥ 11:08am luca: gm ichibans
	11:09am clarke: @Frank - the mets seem to be trying to be the O's of the nat'l league, this month??
	♥ 11:09am Steve Del Sol: Maybe Levon should have read more.
	♥ 11:09am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:07 They need to bust it inside once every so often just to demonstrate that as a possibility.
	11:10am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:09 exacta-mundo [fonz voice]
	♥ 11:12am Pedro in Arlington: Hello from Marseille, a kick-ass town. But still need a No. 1 deejay as I visit shooting sites from the French Connection films and "Breathless" opening scene.
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:12 also, bogie shot some scenes in marseilles..
	♥ 11:13am herb.nyc: Hey. Wow, great song after great song. But I’m gonna excuse myself. Wanna listen to some bands that open for tv smith’s the adverts. They play at tv eye on Monday. Excuse me…
	11:14am clarke: ↳ Pedro in Arlington @11:12 Beat The Devil was shot around there, in parts, i think?
	♥ 11:16am Squints: ↳ Song: "Can I Change My Mind?" by "Byron Lee And The Drag... Not for nothing, this hit by Tyrone is far superior to the (quite good its ownself) "Turn Back The Hands Of Time." That waggling horn figure in the chorus.
	11:17am Michael Shelley: ↳ herb.nyc @11:13 You are excused
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:16 i'm going to have to disagree, theayah.
	11:17am gf2002: So whose version of The Band's story is more accurate, Robbie's or Levon's?
	11:18am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:16 oh wait, you are saying original is better and i agree, ha ha.
	11:18am Listener Baby: Where is the heart?
	♥ 11:18am StringOFperils: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 Two vantage points. Two truths.
	♥ 11:18am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:17 That's OK. Let a hundred flowers bloom. More for all of us.
	11:18am Michael Shelley: ↳ gf2002 @11:17 I may try to address that. But that's 5 dudes who ALL did a ton of drugs and drinking - so, hard to pin point the truth in that mess.
	11:18am Daybreak!: The Pietasters did a great version of "can I change my mind?" Is it a number one hit? No Is it awesome? Hell yes! https://youtu.be/xXDwo2-4kxU
	11:19am rx "rexy" scabin: @gf2002 both.
	♥ 11:19am Mark T: Howdy
	♥ 11:20am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Valerie" by "Neighbors, The" Another great song called "Valerie" -- they're all good! Oh, and greetings to all!
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:20 and a fine good=mawnin' to ya suh!
	11:21am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:20 we have prepared the fatty calf for thee.
	♥ 11:22am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:21 My favorite!
	11:22am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" Suicide!
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" this makes seven.
	♥ 11:23am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:18 Oh. Yeah. I love reggae covers of just about anything. But among Tyrone's own work, I'm really taken with "Can I Change My Mind?" Sort of like of I loved "Shotgun" (and still do) but then I heard "Shake And Fingerpop." Or "Green Onions" and then "Jelly Bread."
	♥ 11:23am egould: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" What is this guys native tongue? ‘Cause it sure ain’t English.
	11:23am gf2002: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:18 The truth probably sits in the middle somewhere as in most of these cases. Robbie was better at interviews and storytelling, while Levon was more raw...but I have to say Levon going after Robbie as harshly as he did wasn't a good thing to read and hear since they were very close back in the day and shared some amazing stories. The most underheralded member of The Band for me is Garth Hudson, a real character in every sense (in a good way) and a musician many levels above the norm. I only found out how important and how gifted he really was in the past decade or so when his interviews started showing up online. But he tended to speak in riddles sometimes so it came back to Robbie or Levon being the historians
	♥ 11:23am Squints: ↳ Song: "She's Looking Good" by "Sonic, The" Which "Sonic" is this? Splitter!
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:23 and you know me and covers...
	♥ 11:24am Hughie Considine: ↳ egould @11:23 His native language is broken English.
	11:24am gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:20 But only one has Louis Shelton playing blazing lead guitar!
	♥ 11:25am egould: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:24 Sense make that to’s me. You thanks!
	11:25am rob: Drunk tank once
	11:25am clarke: garth was a cryptic guy, but totally nice - used to see him tending to his sailboat in the Whychmere Harbor on cape, theyah.
	11:25am rx "rexy" scabin: I worked in a maximum security prison. That made me completely jail-phobic.
	11:26am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:25 Which one, Rex?
	11:26am Tim G: Jail? Not yet but given today's politics, probably soon.
	11:26am Frank In Queens: Spent a night in the clink because of “lapsed car insurance”, which was bullshit. Someone didn’t do their job and I had to pay the price.
	♥ 11:26am listener phat in Lincoln: I've been to jail!
	♥ 11:27am Squints: Kinna go wrong with a Dan Bairdy sound.
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:26 ryker's? ha ha.
	11:28am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:26 and back!
	♥ 11:28am drr: ↳ Daybreak! @11:18 My band does "Can I Change My Mind", and when I introduced it to the guys, the keyboard player said "You mean the song by the Pietasters"?
	11:29am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby Attica. I also worked in a medium security one after that.
	11:29am clarke: ↳ drr @11:28 i was going to mention just that!
	11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:29 Jeez
	11:29am Greg from ZONE 5: Beautiful day to hit estate sales and listen to Michael Shelley☀️
	♥ 11:29am pgalub: Hey Michael, clarke and everyone.
	11:30am clarke: pedro!!! happy saturday!
	♥ 11:30am Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @11:23 There's also the subjective nature of storytelling and the stark differences between the two of them. Robbie was the the ostensible leader, the "songsmith" the storyteller, etc., and Levon was in the back powering the whole thing and feeling a little underappreciated. It's inevitable they would have different tales to tell.
	11:30am George Kopp: Spent the night in the Goshen NY holding cell way back when. Possession of weed and peyote (one little button!). Fun times!
	11:30am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:29 What did you do to deserve that?
	11:31am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:30 but, i think robbie is a lot less, uh, bitter and therefore probably more accurate in the telling of??
	♥ 11:31am Hughie Considine: ↳ George Kopp @11:30 Oh boy. Were you under the influence when you were in the can?
	11:33am Zinn The Mood: It’s a two-tiered justice system, here in the Greatest Country in the World (tm). If you’re a Wall St Financial Terrorist, or a well-connected politician, or a cold-blooded murderous cop you’re immunized from the so-called “rule of law.” Everybody else can easily be ensnared into this corrupt justice system that basically exists to control the 99%. But nobody suffers a worse fate than young black and brown males. Unlike stock swindling those numbers don’t lie.
	11:33am clarke: [cookie monster voice]: mmm!! cookie!!
	11:33am George Kopp: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:31 No, thankfully not.
	♥ 11:34am Hughie Considine: Sure - makes sense that the angry resentful telling might be the less reliable one. But I can see why the story Robbie likes to tell might be a little tweaked for maximum coolness too.
	♥ 11:35am Mark Hurst: The Dana Carvey documentary is excellent.
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:34 sure. but, i just believe him, more, i think.
	♥ 11:35am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:27 Nah, Center Street Central Booking
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:34 especially hearing him effuse about how it was to visit arkansas, etc.
	11:35am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The" Can you star more than one song?
	♥ 11:36am Karl: ↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The" Hey I know these guys
	11:36am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:35 jk!
	11:36am clarke: ↳ Karl @11:36 and they... know you!!
	11:36am gf2002: I watched the Dana Carvey Show when it first aired! There was one skit he did playing Bob Dole who was campaigning at the time the show aired, and they would cut in and out of covering Dole's speech, and Carvey made Dole look more and more lost each time they cut back, to the point where Dole had his back to the cameras and was still delivering his speech. For whatever reason that literally had me crying laughing so hard. I need to catch this new doc.
	♥ 11:37am Frank In Queens: Thank ye, Michael
	11:37am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:36 i always preferred norm's dole.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Song: "Holding Back" by "Above, The" short and SWEEET!!
	♥ 11:38am herb.nyc: Hey I’m back. Did ya miss me? Adverts opening bands played punky stuff, melodic. As for met gala, a friends union was gonna rally at a nearby hotel. She couldn’t go because she was, well, working(ouch; oh, another anti trump rally is June 14)
	11:38am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:37 Norm is the best standup ever. Brilliant with ZFG
	11:38am Michael Shelley: ↳ egould @11:23 Hard to say - internet says British band relocated to Germany...
	11:38am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby I was the tutorial company coordinator in a college program that was started in response to the Attica uprising. It was for a private consortium of colleges. It was the start to my soon-to-end career in education.
	♥ 11:39am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:35 I dig ya. My ears always perk up when someone seems to upend a story I think I know. Robbie's book was really good.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:39 keep in mind - i haven't read robbie's book. just going off of interviews, here.
	11:40am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:38 The road less traveled. Luckily. Because we wouldn’t have your amazing taste and talent. Right?
	11:41am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:40 where's the punk these days??
	11:42am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby it is weird to think that everything led to this moment. All unplanned.
	11:42am gf2002: Levon also had more personal demons to battle than Robbie, including financial troubles Robbie didn't have in his post-Band career, and he did come off as bitter often unnecessarily toward Robbie, sometimes seeming to be more jealous than anything. Just my take
	11:43am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:42 that might be true, but i have met levon and he is a down-to-earth nice guy. deaf as hell, tho.
	♥ 11:43am DJ Johnny Cool: pronounced Kway-bee
	11:43am Listener Baby: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:42 And to think, I could have been a contender.
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Song: "Every Which-A-Way" by "Quebe Sisters, The" not too cool for me!!
	11:45am Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @11:44 I’m with Clarke
	11:45am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:43 -was
	♥ 11:46am Karl: ↳ Song: "Baby I Love You" by "Roberta Flack and Donny Hath... Chuck Rainey can do no wrong
	11:47am clarke: is this song about Vida Blue?
	11:48am Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @11:45 relative to the live version - which is downright HOT!
	11:49am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Baby I couldn't have.
	♥ 11:49am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:47 He was hard not to love, that's for sure.
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:49 will have to share a good levon story - off-line.
	11:50am gf2002: ↳ clarke @11:43 I think Robbie learned at an early age how to navigate the music business and play the game, and that served him well in many ways including income from songwriting and publishing and how to schmooze, while Levon was a musician first and maybe didn't think those few steps ahead for the business side of it.
	11:50am Listener Baby: If you can find The Marty Stuart episode with John Conlee, watch it. Amazing
	11:51am clarke: ↳ gf2002 @11:50 levon always said he is just a dirt-farmer.
	11:52am Michael Shelley: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:26 Can we ask why?
	11:52am gf2002: Louis Prima invented his own sound and style of music, I love his music and it never goes out of style. When he had Sam and Keely on stage with him, it was literal chaos on stage, and hilarious. Wish I had been alive to see them on stage.
	♥ 11:53am Karl: ↳ Song: "Scuba Diver" by "Louis Prima" This is greatness
	11:53am Tim G: Got to see Sam & Keely in Vegas in a nearly free lounge show in the 90's. What a treat. Nothing like it.
	11:54am Andres: ↳ Song: "Scuba Diver" by "Louis Prima" New to me. Living up to the hype!
	♥ 11:54am Karl: Michael: you might be interested in this article about Tulane’s recently acquired Prima collection: tulanian.tulane.edu...
	♥ 11:56am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and all!
	11:57am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Keep On Dancin'" by "Gentrys, The" Who ever prances?
	11:57am clarke: i think it is the prancing that they are not sure about.
	♥ 11:57am tgr53: Wow! We literally got just back on the boat after a scuba dive in Bonaire!!
	11:58am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:56 buncha f'n amateurs!!
	11:58am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Keep On Dancin'" by "Gentrys, The" Never noticed that. So cool
	♥ 11:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:57 Doing the Jerk, however, was quite common.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 it involved little prancing.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:59 wait are we still talking about robbie??
	12:00pm gf2002: ↳ Moammar @11:57 That singer PSY who did "Gagnam Style" had a bit of a prance in his dancing.
	♥ 12:01pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The Hot Guitar" by "Eddie Hill" I went ape for Chris Spedding's "Guitar Jamboree," which did something similar. "Here's Paul Kossoff!"
	12:01pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Karl @11:54 THANKS - interested!
	♥ 12:01pm Karl: ↳ Song: "The Hot Guitar" by "Eddie Hill" Hot (guitar) damn
	♥ 12:01pm Jherweg: Steve Vai's story about trying out for frank Zappa's band is pretty funny, Frank was asking him to play all this impossible stuff.
	12:01pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:01 love Spedding!
	♥ 12:01pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:00 Nope, we're on to Keep on Dancin'! Keep up!
	12:02pm jmandm: Spedding is the best!
	12:02pm greg g: Morning Michael! Any comment from Rex on all this exotic twangin!??
	♥ 12:02pm Matt in Nebraska: "Country Guitar" by Phil Baugh has gotta be my favorite song in this vein.
	12:03pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "The Hot Guitar" by "Eddie Hill" Wait...there was hot guitar before internet loop artists and fusion-funk shredding on 8 strings? Well, I'll be...
	♥ 12:03pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:01 Speaking of Paul Kossoff, Midge Ure rhapsodized about Free yesterday on Mona's show -- something I didn't have on my FMU bingo card.
	12:03pm jmandm: Where is Rex? I got here late.
	12:03pm Andy: Louie Prima, always fun. Talk about crazy if you never heard it...duke ellington live at newport diminuendo and crescendo in blue. Paul Gonsalves sax solo is insane.
	12:04pm clarke: fave james gang album: Thirds!!!
	12:05pm Listener Baby: I have the best ever James Gang story. Trust me
	12:05pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:26 WOW!
	♥ 12:05pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "But I Try" by "Little Richard With The James Gang" F'in fantastic!
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:05 suitable for airplay??
	12:06pm gf2002: Remember when The James Gang reunited on The Drew Carey Show? That was one of the only episodes I ever watched (and taped), because Joe Walsh and the original band was going to be on. They covered "Five O'Clock World" and it SMOKED!
	♥ 12:06pm drr: ↳ jmandm @12:03 Not late enough!
	12:06pm Andy: Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue https://g.co/kgs/WT6oP5d
	12:06pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "But I Try" by "Little Richard With The James Gang" Baby. Joe left JG in 1971 are sure this is Joe and not Tommy Bolin?
	12:07pm gf2002: Oops...not 5 o'clock world, forgive my memory...it was "Friday On My Mind"! Even better tune...
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:06 hey mate - you feeling any better???
	12:07pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:05 Very long. But you would believe me anyway.
	12:07pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:06 It's a bonus track on a JW lp...
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:07 we have 40 mins, here.
	♥ 12:08pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:07 Hahah -- I was gonna say that just doesn't sound like a song the Gang would cover. Friday makes way more sense.
	♥ 12:08pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Listener Baby @12:06 Tommy Bolin didn't join until like '73 or '74. They also expanded to a four piece when Walsh left
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:07 go with installments.
	12:09pm clarke: is anyone familiar with OAK???
	12:09pm Listener Baby: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:08 Sounds like a four piece in that one?
	♥ 12:09pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... There are about three songs on My Aim Is True that are all pretty much like this (Sneaky Feelings, e.g.) and I dig 'em all.
	♥ 12:09pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:07 Sounds like just like him as well.
	♥ 12:10pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... yo' cash ain't nothin' but trash.
	♥ 12:10pm drr: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... this is some nifty guitarring as well.
	♥ 12:10pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Listener Baby @12:09 The fourth piece was a dedicated vocalist.
	12:11pm Zephyr: No mention that Joe Walsh is from Montclair, NJ ???
	♥ 12:11pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... What a mighty band.
	♥ 12:12pm Squints: ↳ Song: "Blame It On Cain (live!)" by "Elvis Costello & Th... This smokes.
	♥ 12:12pm egould: ↳ Zephyr @12:11 I thought he was a Cleveland/NE Ohio dude.
	12:12pm gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:08 My memory was playing tricks on me, haha. 5 O'Clock was the Carey show's theme song I think. Joe and the band NAILED Friday On My Mind, worth checking out. And...Funk 49 is one of the greatest rock rhythm guitar parts ever recorded. Pure feel and groove, great tone.
	♥ 12:13pm Frank In Queens: ↳ egould @12:12 He was an army brat. He's from a lot of places.
	12:13pm clarke: ages ago.
	♥ 12:13pm Karl: Houston represent
	12:14pm Marie in Chicago: Hi Michael, hi Everyone! Happy Saturday!
	♥ 12:14pm Hughie Considine: ↳ gf2002 @12:12 Yea and verily on the "Funk #49" front. I wrote a book about number songs some years back and (correctly) cited "Funk #49" as the greatest of all #49 songs. (Funk #48 is pretty cool too, but no #49.)
	12:15pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:14 an impressive tome!
	♥ 12:15pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:14 When trying to find the album "But I Try" is on, I noticed there's also a "Funk 50" from 2012.
	♥ 12:15pm greg g: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:13 Wikipedia said he grew up in Columbus Ohio but moved to NYC area at age of 12 and settled in Montclair , NJ.
	12:15pm gf2002: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:14 Haha!
	♥ 12:16pm Frank In Queens: ↳ greg g @12:15 And was born in Kansas. Like I said, he's from a lot of places.
	12:16pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:15 i thought there was
	12:16pm rx "rexy" scabin: I must go mow the lawn.
	12:17pm clarke: ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @12:16 come on, man. it's going to mow itself!!
	♥ 12:17pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:15 Didn't know that -- now my knowledge is complete!
	12:17pm Zephyr: JOE WALSH history (re: Montclair, NJ): https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/before-the-fast-lane/
	12:19pm gf2002: I heard that Joe as a teenager learned how to play both guitar harmony parts from "And Your Bird Can Sing" on a single guitar, and musicians in the area knew him as that kid who can play And Your Bird Can Sing. I also heard that Joe bought cases of Coricidin medicine after learning they were discontinuing putting it in bottles, because Duane Allman used that bottle as a slide and inspired Joe to do the same. And he didn't want to run out of the bottles. Those are mild Walsh stories obviously haha
	♥ 12:19pm egould: ↳ Song: "Sehorn's Farm" by "Meters, The" I wish Rev Rabbit was hearing this. He loves guitars that sound like chickens.
	12:19pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Sehorn's Farm" by "Meters, The" marshall sehorn was a co-owner of Sea Saint Studio with Allen Toussaint.
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ egould @12:19 his laptop died - and he ain't been around.
	12:20pm Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @12:19 What's your trip?
	♥ 12:20pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:20 I was wondering....
	♥ 12:21pm Mister Dobalina: ↳ Song: "Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air" by "Sis... Always do great to hear her voice.
	12:21pm Bob: Good afternoon. Late to the party. I couldn't find anything to wear.
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:19 he just should NOT have taken all that coricidin!!
	♥ 12:22pm greg g: ↳ clarke @12:17 I've got to get a new mower!
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:20 i gotta stop in lyman to pick up some chord.
	12:22pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:21 hello bob.
	♥ 12:22pm egould: I heard that Joe Walsh literally moved into Ardent Studios and lived there for like a year. They had to ask him to leave eventually.
	♥ 12:22pm greg g: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:16 Yes, dude got around! ;)
	12:22pm Listener Baby: James Gang Story. I’m a very young engineer at The Record Plant. Having a giant party to celebrate the closing of the original RP, and the opening of the new and soul-less RP. Huge party is called the Last Jam. One of the bands performing is the James Gang, in studio C. I walk in there, they are rocking, and there about four people in there watching. I notice my co-worker watching, sipping on her drink. To me, her name is Cecil. I knew she was a singer of some kind, but very fuzzy on the details at the time. I slide up next Cecil, and ask her if she going to sing with the James Gang. She sheepishly nods her head no. I ask why not? She says she would know what to sing. I said shit, do Stormy Monday. Everybody knows that one. She doesn’t say anything. I have to run out of Studio C for a minute or two. When I come back, Cecil is singing Stormy Monday with the James Gang. I walk right up to her, and she sings her ass off 6 inches from my face. Cecil was Lyn Collins. She was never very nice to me, but she sure was after that. Great, unforgettable night.
	12:23pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:21 Haha he probably didn't want to let it go to waste!
	12:23pm Bob: ↳ Song: "Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air" by "Sis... I first heard this song from the Jayhawks b-side for Blue maybe. Hi, Clarke
	12:24pm clarke: ↳ greg g @12:22 how close are 'we' to getting a lawn-mower similar to a rug-robot??
	♥ 12:25pm Squints: ↳ clarke @12:24 Stephen King could not be reached for comment.
	♥ 12:25pm Frank In Queens: ↳ Listener Baby @12:22 Awesome story!
	12:25pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:22 wow!! on many levels!
	12:26pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:24 Like having a son who doesn't talk back
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:26 ha ha ha. yakkety yak.
	♥ 12:26pm greg g: ↳ clarke @12:24 Not soon enough the way Im feeling this morning.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Song: "I Get So Excited" by "Grass Roots, The" GRANT!
	♥ 12:27pm greg g: ↳ greg g @12:26 afternoon...
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ greg g @12:26 ha ha. they are still waiting to see how many auto-drive lawsuits there are.
	12:27pm Patster: Creed Bratton’s in there somewhere.
	♥ 12:28pm greg g: ↳ Listener Baby @12:22 Very cool! thanks for sharing Baby!!
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ Patster @12:27 maybe!
	12:28pm Bob: ↳ Song: "I Get So Excited" by "Grass Roots, The" who did the originals? The Equals? I'd argue the Casuals do it best
	♥ 12:28pm Matt in Nebraska: Robot lawn mowers are already a thing.
	12:29pm Listener Baby: Stevie Wonder performed somewhere that night too. I didn’t get to see that for some reason.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Patster @12:27 much of the Grass Roots is session players. and roto-toms were not quite invented at this time. hal blaine had some smaller toms tuned very high before roto came along.
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:28 ha ha, thanks!
	12:31pm clarke: the first use of roto-toms MIGHT be jim gordon on the Rockford theme...
	12:32pm gf2002: The first use of Hal Blaine's roto-toms (Proto-toms?) was on The Monkees "You And I", written by Bill Chadwick and also featuring Neil Young on lead guitar. If I remember Hal said he had just taken delivery of them and set them up on that session, after that they were everywhere on the radio.
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:32 yet, prior to that, blaine had regular drums tuned very high.
	♥ 12:33pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Rockin’ All Over The World" by "John Fogerty" the "John Fogerty" LP is a gem. Springsteen first picked up on this song to close his dates in Europe in '81. (and to close shows on the final US stop before going overseas, on subsequent tours)
	12:34pm Bob: Anybody got movies or shows? I'm a little underwhelmed by the new season of Hacks. It was never really great tbh. I just stumbled across the Holy Modal Rounders doc for free on Youtube for anyone that hasn't seen it. It seems to be a shorter cut than the one Netflix had available 20 years ago but at least you can see it. It disappeared for a long time.
	12:36pm Michael Shelley: The Studio is worth watching - it's silly and it moves fast
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:34 have you seen Black Box?? quite good - got little attention.
	♥ 12:37pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "He Don't Love You Anymore (And He'll Break Your H... want to note that our friend Nick Hill covered this on his Radio Free Song Club show. (I was tuned in from the top, but, er, busy editing something on the 'pedia)
	12:37pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:34 yes, The Studio is completely ridiculous and silly - so i, therefore, believe it is TRUE!
	12:38pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:37 you got the Blue Ridge Rangers two rekkids??
	12:38pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:33 Weren't Hal's modified timbales or something? I think it was how Hal had a company weld the stands together that made them what they were with the descending pitches and everything in a row, but they weren't the actual trademarked Roto-Toms...or were they? I was always confused by that story. But it is Hal's drums on Indian Reservation and all those AM hits.
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:38 one was a modified bongo, one was a modified snare, and one was a modified timbale
	12:39pm gf2002: ↳ Bob @12:34 I'm trying to sort through all my DVD's and found "Crazy", the biopic of Hank Garland. Decent movie, even better if you're a fan of Garland's guitar playing
	12:41pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:39 Hal loved his timbales!
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ gf2002 @12:38 but there is a murky part of the story, to be sure!!
	♥ 12:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:36 I bounced off it hard. Just couldn't care about the characters or their goals.
	♥ 12:41pm Frank In Queens: Fantastic card!
	12:41pm Bob: ↳ gf2002 @12:39 I think I saw that on Tubi or something. What a cool, obscure subject choice.
	12:42pm Moammar: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:41 Noisy. Bludgeoning. No stakes at all.
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:41 i don't know if you watch The Last Of Us, but it is well-written and not probably what it appears to be.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Song: "Picture Book" by "Kinks, The" YES. so YES!!
	12:43pm clarke: MICK AVORY BABY!!!
	12:43pm gf2002: ↳ clarke @12:41 I can't hear Bobby Helms' Jingle Bell Rock the same way again after learning how they ripped off Hank who actually wrote it! Murky indeed
	12:44pm clarke: murky!!
	12:44pm Bob: ↳ Song: "I Hate Pigeons" by "Sunshine Company, The" This song reminds me that Chris Ligon just uploaded like a dozen albums to bandcamp the other day. Most of them are done with his brother Scott. I'm still wading through it all but there is a lot of amazing stuff there. If he's your thing.
	12:45pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "Picture Book" by "Kinks, The" What a great song and great album. They don't make 'em like this anymore!
	12:46pm tranewreck: Informative Ian Frazier piece on pigeons in the May 12/19 New Yorker. For pigeon haters, lovers and indifferents.
	12:46pm clarke: savage!!!
	12:47pm gf2002: ↳ Song: "What Is This Thing Called Love?" by "Johnny Savag... I feel like I need a suit and tie with a cocktail while listening to this record
	♥ 12:47pm Squints: We have a nice woman at the Thursday open mic who plays accordion. We're always finding reasons to get her into our numbers and we kept nudging her to let rip a solo here and there. She's been steadfastly against so far.
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ Squints @12:47 tell her "accordian to my list you have to play!"
	♥ 12:49pm listener phat in Lincoln: Got sidetracked!
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:49 in disney jail?
	♥ 12:50pm listener phat in Lincoln: Similar, Home Depot
	♥ 12:50pm egould: This reminds me; I need to drink vodka.
	12:50pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:50 their holding room has coffee.
	12:50pm annette: treat that great accordion gal to a nice cocktail. world peace on the map.
	♥ 12:50pm Frank In Queens: ↳ egould @12:50 That'll be my choice for this evening.
	12:51pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Disneyland Jail" by "David Lowery" Disneyland Jail named as the No.1 vacation destination for Alabama's furries.
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:50 no newcastle ale???
	♥ 12:51pm luca: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" no. 1 of no. 1s
	♥ 12:52pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:51 Tonight is not a beer night (that was last night) and I haven't seen Newkie Brown anywhere around here in ages.
	12:52pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" love this
	♥ 12:52pm Squints: ↳ annette @12:50 annette, she's absolutely gabba gabba one of us. We're all asking her to play with us. She likes chordal accompaniment. She might be afraid of judgment. But I remind her that they let ME play.
	12:52pm Bob: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Went down a big Paul Youtube hole this week. I miss the guy.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:52 that was more of a footie ref.
	♥ 12:53pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:50 Mmm, Home Depot coffee...
	♥ 12:53pm StuartR: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Westerberg: Classic Rock or #1 AOR from Singles
	12:53pm tonyb: Who’s backing Paul? Neighborhoods?
	♥ 12:53pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Could this be the most No. 1 song Paul ever penned?
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:53 and reverse-tones.
	♥ 12:54pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:52 Big match against Chelsea tomorrow. Winner moves up to 3rd in the standings.
	♥ 12:54pm eastvanhalen: ↳ Song: "Dyslexic Heart" by "Paul Westerberg" Having complicated PNW reactions to this song
	12:54pm Bob: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:53 I'd say Achin' To Be but this is a good choice too
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ tonyb @12:53 i'm pretty sure that Jim Spake is on the sax on this. but, as i recall, the album credits are vague.
	12:55pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:54 this is our concern, dude.
	12:56pm George Kopp: Disneyland Jail hitting way too close to home; esp the teenage son parts!
	12:56pm annette: judgmental here. tired of typical drum bass keyboard guitar. put that accordion in front
	♥ 12:56pm egould: Thanks Michael. Muy bueno!
	12:57pm clarke: mister vanderbocki does IT, again!! good nite.
	♥ 12:57pm Squints: Rope duly moved. Thanks, Michael. Hasta, babes.
	12:58pm gf2002: The Three Suns - Some great accordion driven songs in their catalog! Or work in Wouldn't It Be Nice, great but challenging accordion parts on that, my #1 favorite song of all time.
	12:59pm Mr. Jones: ↳ Song: "Commercial" by "TCI" and the tool goes in your box
	♥ 12:59pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Bob @12:54 Toss-up!
	♥ 12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael..cheers y'all!
	12:59pm clarke: ever get the feelin' you been sandwiched??
	12:59pm Bob: I had a dream last night that I started a new power pop band called the Sugar Apes. Has that ever been used? Anyway I'll be holding auditions if anyone is interested.
	♥ 12:59pm egould: “I used to work at a gas station!”
	♥ 1:00pm Hughie Considine: Thanks, Michael!!
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @12:59 mmmmm sandwich...
	1:00pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @1:00 beat chelsea!
	♥ 1:01pm eastvanhalen: Grazie!

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