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Favoriting April 13, 2009: Citizen Kafka Lives!

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The Citizen Lives!



(L to R) Kenny Kosek, Citizen Kafka, John Goodman and Ed Haber (date unknown)



The Citizen in 2001 (2nd from right)
 


The Citizen Kafka Memorial Show - A longtime fixture on NYC's bluegrass scene, Citizen Kafka was probably best known as a radio host for a subversive comedy/music show on WBAI and producer of The Secret Museum of the Air, which also ran on WFMU. The Citizen recently passed, and three of his co-conspirators in comedy and music, (R to L) John Goodman (Buddy Fortune), Kenny Kosek ("Angry" Red Weltz) and Ed Haber joined Irene for a tribute show filled with musical rarities and comedy bits.
Citizen Kafka  Memorial Poem   Favoriting
The Citizen Kafka Show  "...licked clean by eternal flame"   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Jalopy Medley   Favoriting
 
The Citizen Kafka Show  The People's Arena of Justice   Favoriting
Buddy Fortune & "Angry" Red Weltz  community announcements   Favoriting
Saxons  Camel Walk   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka  Camel Walk   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka  Earthquake   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka Rock Band  Earthquake   Favoriting
 


Kenny Kosek and John Goodman
Kenny and John  memories   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka  The Human Bomb   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka  True-life experience   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Arkansas Traveler   Favoriting
NY Folk Trio  Tom Dooley   Favoriting
NY Folk Trio  Among the Leaves So Green   Favoriting
NY Folk Trio  Roll On East, East River, Roll On   Favoriting
 
 


Ed Haber, who recorded many of The Wretched Refuse String Band's live shows, and engineered a fair amount of The Citizen Kafka Comedy Hours on WBAI.
Citizen Kafka Rock Band  Warm California Sun   Favoriting
The Citizen Kafka Show  Scarey Doody TIme   Favoriting
The Citizen Kafka Show  Throat Harmonizer Bit   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka Rock Band  The Dream   Favoriting
Mr. Weltz and Mr Fortune  Scarey Doody   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Hallelujah to the Lamb   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Click Old Hen   Favoriting
 
The Citizen Kafka Show  Rastakeet   Favoriting
 


Mr. Weltz and Mr. Fortune  Memories of the Citizen   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka  Found Poetry   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka Rock Band  Castro Palisades Beret Bill Bailey Medley   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Mississippi Sawyer   Favoriting
 
Wretched Refuse String Band  Thumbelina   Favoriting
 


Mr. Fortune and Mr. Weltz  community bulletin board   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Pop Goes The Weasel   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Nothing   Favoriting
The Citizen Kafka Show  Dentistry Ragmop   Favoriting
Mr. Weltz and Mr. Fortune  memories of Ritchie   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Arkansas Traveller/ Secret Agent Man / Mandolin Andy   Favoriting
The Citizen Kafka Show  Crazy Pops   Favoriting
Mr. Weltz and Mr. Fortune  announcements   Favoriting
 


Wretched Refuse String Band  Red Wing (Kubla Kahn)   Favoriting
The Citizen Kafka Show  Scarey Doody For Lucifer   Favoriting
Mr. Weltz and Mr. Fortune  announcements   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Wheels of Karma-Jalopy   Favoriting
Mr. Fortune & Mr. Weltz  Announcements   Favoriting
Citizen Kafka Rock Band  I've Had It   Favoriting
Wretched Refuse String Band  Elzic's Farewell   Favoriting
 


Ed Haber, Kenny Kosek and John Goodman bid The Citizen goodbye.


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Listener comments!

  3:09pm
Pearly Sweets:

Hot doggie diddly damn!
  3:10pm
Cecile:

I like this version.
  3:12pm
Pearly Sweets:

Me too. I actually always liked the original theme too. But then the show started and usually the channel would change.
  3:17pm
Pearly Sweets:

I turn away for a minute and it all turns pink!
  3:19pm
dc pat:

a fine shade of peenk!
  3:21pm
Lewis:

Any one know where to track down wretched string band recordings?
  3:24pm
Pearly Sweets:

Already a great start! Hooray!
  3:30pm
Cecile:

Very Firesign Theater-esque. I'm enjoying this.
  3:35pm
Yehuda Mann:

Post-Easter-at the annual Citizen Kafka I'm not Dead Yet gig: The Citizen arises and looks around. If he turns around and heads back... Six more choruses of "Another Ice Cold Round".

Awww... Shulkie!!!
  3:38pm
Marilyn Chambers:

I'm dead.
  3:38pm
GP:

This sounds like it should have been a B-52's song......or is it?
  3:40pm
Freud:

Tom Carvel - Oral Sex. hmmmm. Verrry interesting.
  3:43pm
Pearly Sweets:

Mmm.. I could go for some Carvel right now.
  3:43pm
GP:

Mr. Goodman, where can one go to find the lyrics to your songs / poetry.

Earthquake baby..yeah yeah!
  3:43pm
Ismael:

Cookiepuss, anyone?
  3:44pm
Pearly Sweets:

With my cupcake dinner.
  3:44pm
Bad R☺nald:

Get your head around Fudgie the Whale Sigmund...
  3:44pm
Van Ordinaire:

Super Smooth... Creamy and Delicious...
  3:48pm
GP:

I meant a source for Citizens Kafka's material.
  3:49pm
Galusha Zane Sturdley:

The Citizen used to bring the Metex to gigs: a tiny, imported miniature toy television set that emitted howling feedback. A real show-stopper...
  3:50pm
k:

Hi all,
David Peel has nothin on this boy! (Deceased though he may be.)
  3:55pm
dc pat:

cookie puss seems to have been embezzling from Carvel and may have had something to do w/ his death...
  3:57pm
Bad R☺nald:

Cookie Puss is Fudgie the Whale in drag!
  3:59pm
dc pat:

or vice versa, I can't believe they tried to push fudgie the whale over on us. It was so obvious..
  4:00pm
Pearly Sweets:

Impossible! I have the Zapruder Film of Cookie Puss hanging out next to Fudgie the Whale.
  4:00pm
Carmichael:

What the hell did I just tune into?!?!
  4:04pm
Carmichael:

I'd like to request a whaling song, please.
  4:04pm
Cecile:

a sea chanty
  4:06pm
DS Jacobs:

Thank You,Thank You, Thank You Irene! This is just great! I knew Ritchi years ago. Got a good story. Taking any calls?
  4:06pm
Ben:

I met Citizen Kafka 'cos I am the architect of the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Soho, NYC, and Citizen was the manager around 1997, about a year after the Bookstore Cafe opened. I think your radio tribute to Citizen is quite wonderful.
  4:11pm
Irene:

No calls today. I think the gents would rather you put your thoughts into the comments page.
  4:11pm
Carmichael:

It just feels wrong to do The Swim to a string band song.
  4:14pm
Pearly Sweets:

I would love to watch the Scary Doody show. In my mind the visuals are quite amazing.
  4:16pm
DS Jacobs:

Please ask Mr. Kosak (Weltz) to talk about thurday night gigs at Arturos pizza parlor in the late 70's
  4:18pm
Sturd Galusha Zaneley:

Arturo's: Ah yes, Broiled Stuffed Mobster on the menu!
  4:19pm
GP:

This vocaliser bit is hilarious.
  4:24pm
Ike:

I loved the Secret Museum of the Air. But I had no idea that the Citizen did a comedy show featuring Mr. Goodman back in the day, or (as I just learned from the NPR story on CK) that J.G. was the mock-highfalutin recorded voice at the beginning of each Museum show. Wow.
  4:25pm
Cecile:

We bow to your secret, absurdist past, Mr. G.
  4:27pm
Lester Harry Covert:

Remembering Richie Shulberg and Citizen Kafka group
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=56144257950&ref=mf
  4:29pm
GP:

He heh LOL.....Pi ZAZZZZZZ!
  4:30pm
Russel Sproutz:

Facebook info about the Wretched Refuse Benefit:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=68736228958&ref=ts&nctrct=1239082933324
  4:31pm
Pearly Sweets:

Too much red meat can cause some scary doody.
  4:32pm
Cecile:

I could use some Tormentaline right about now.
  4:33pm
GP:

Pearly...for you:

http://instantrimshot.com/
  4:33pm
superiorland yooper:

your not wrong walter... your just an asshole
calmer than you are dude
  4:35pm
Pearly Sweets:

I need to with me all of the time. Maybe I will record it to my phone and figure out a way to play it at a punch of a button.
  4:36pm
DS Jacobs:

Hallelujah Citzen Kafka! We Will Never Forget You!
  4:36pm
GP:

Pearly, yet another invention waiting to happen...Kind of like those keychain deals that have funny sayings and movie quotes when you press the buttons.
  4:37pm
Sean Daily:

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!

Pepto Bismol Pink! Woo hoo!
  4:38pm
Carmichael:

I actually saw a desktop rimshot machine about 15 years ago. I've been looking for it ever since.
  4:41pm
Lester Harry Covert:

for Carmichael
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/a5bf/
  4:42pm
GP:

Who hoo..8 tracks for everyone!!!
  4:42pm
Carmichael:

If I show up at your show, I'll need an 8-track copy.
  4:43pm
Dr. Ed Habush:

Cassettes? iTunes? Howzabout 8-track tapes?
  4:44pm
Cecile:

wax cylinders!
  4:45pm
GP:

Man..triple jinx..I think that is a new record ( or 8-track as the case may be) nyck, nyck!
  4:46pm
Carmichael:

Yes! Edison Spools! Acetates! 78s!
  4:47pm
Cecile:

Where is Budgie?
  4:47pm
Carmichael:

I sense several incoming Budgie jokes.
  4:47pm
Budgie:

Hail Satan, mon!
  4:49pm
DS Jacobs:

Need Some Ganga Right Now Mon!
  4:50pm
Cecile:

Budgie, did they sneak some seeds and stems into your feed?
  4:50pm
Budgie:

Where's my present, mon?
  4:50pm
Pearly Sweets:

I think we know Citizen Kafka's favorite accuplaylist in-joke.
  4:51pm
Budgie:

Hey mon! I and I been turned into a budgie by this crazy white woman!
  4:52pm
rastakeet:

is that john goodman sitting in there with irene
  4:52pm
Budgie:

Natty don't die by dem bald'eds, seen?
  4:52pm
Carmichael:

That's a big 10-4, good buddy.
  4:52pm
Cecile:

Yeah, mon. I mean, Harry Fortune.
  4:53pm
Budgie:

Rasta...
  4:54pm
Carmichael:

Lester, thanks for the link.
  4:55pm
Sean Daily:

Beginning English for Adults? Where oh where are the "Good Morning, Vietnam" movie quotes?
  4:57pm
Budgie:

- is the boom king
  4:58pm
Irene:

Yes, t'is Mr. Goodman, aka Buddy Fortune.
  4:58pm
Cecile:

smoking boom at the back of the room?
  4:58pm
Cecile:

how did i get harry? Der.
  5:00pm
Pearly Sweets:

Irene, this show has turned a gross bummer of a day and turned it right around. I thank you more than these simple accuplaylist comments can show.
  5:00pm
Carmichael:

My dad used to play the Mitch Miller album with this song every Saturday night. It had singalong lyrics.
  5:03pm
Lester Harry Covert:

Do you have CK on theremin? I think he was the only thereminist in the NY musicians union at one point.
  5:04pm
DS Jacobs:

Ladies and Gentlemen, the great Andy Statman on Mandolin. Give him a hand!
  5:05pm
Bad R☺nald:

John's voice is very recognizable. Does he have to stoop over in the studio when he stands up?
  5:08pm
?:

Ahh the famed "knucklehead smiff mandolin tuning."
  5:10pm
Cecile:

Please, Mr. Fortune and Mr. Weltz, come and read community announcements every week!
  5:12pm
Bad R☺nald:

Andy Kaufman is dancing in his grave right now!!!
  5:15pm
DS Jacobs:

Hey Ronald, don't you mean Alan Kaufman?
  5:15pm
Pearly Sweets:

At this moment? Someone must tell the rampler!
  5:19pm
Bad R☺nald:

Him too but I'm sure Andy dug the "Pop Goes the Weasel" bit.
  5:19pm
Zane Sturda Galushley:

No lie... I watched Shulkey take a Dremel to his tooth.
  5:23pm
DS Jacobs:

What the hell is a dremel!?
  5:25pm
GP:

http://www.dremel.com/Pages/default.aspx
  5:25pm
Galushkey Sturd Zanely:

Dremel Moto-Tool: a small, powerful drill
  5:31pm
Pearly Sweets:

If it was meddling andy it would have been about breckman.
  5:33pm
Irene:

No, it was Andy Statman.
  5:33pm
DS Jacobs:

OY VEH!!!!!!!!!!
  5:34pm
Punchy Chicken:

Mo' Votney!
  5:37pm
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Like I said. I was writing the greatest poem in the world, but then I got high, and left you with this crap.
  5:38pm
DS Jacobs:

We Love This Crap!
  5:39pm
Budgie's Owner:

I was going to buy you a present... but then I got high.
  5:40pm
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

At least the tune was awesome. :D
  5:42pm
Zodram:

This portion of the Citizen Kafka show is brought to you by Crazy Joey Gallo Vineyards.
  5:46pm
Pearly Sweets:

I like it when singers use the musical meow in songs.
  5:46pm
GP:

This has been a wonderful way to start my week. Thanks for this show today!
  5:49pm
Pearly Sweets:

Agreed. Three cheers. Hiphiphooray.Hiphiphooray.Hiphiphooray.
  5:51pm
Cecile:

this had been gold, every second of it.
  5:51pm
parenthetical mu:

Thanks Citizen Kafka!
  5:54pm
Pearly Sweets:

My head just exploded
  5:54pm
Bad R☺nald:

Yes, much gratitude to all involved!
  5:54pm
slugluv1313:

MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  5:56pm
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Chow Chow Chow!
  5:56pm
LOL cAT2:

Im in ur radios makin mi soundz
  5:57pm
Budgie:

Oh shit pies! This place is infested with cats! I Gotta jet!
  6:00pm
maria:

great stuff everybody!!!
  6:01pm
Crazy Ol' Cat Lady of Hoboken:

yep and that be *my* kitties singing along (THANKFULLY distracting them for a lil while from giving me the soon-as-i-walk-in-the-door STARVING KITTEN ROUTINE!!!!!!!!!)
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