The Blind Shake live in the studio!: Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

Listener comments!

12:02pm SeanG:

Hell yeah

12:02pm Cecile:

Hello, Joe and fellow Belockians!

Big HI to the Blind Shake!!

And RIP Lou.

12:04pm Joe B:

Hi everybody! thanks for tuning in. THE BLIND SHAKE are here! soundcheckig now. live set should be coming up not too long

12:06pm Cecile:

they had a funny article in the local paper about how much more popular they are in other cities than in Mpls.

12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...if there'd been no VelvetUnderground - would we even recognize ourselves - ?!

12:07pm Cecile:

I wish they could play around here more, but that to me says a lot about the high quality of their music.

12:07pm Cecile:

Replacements, Soul Asylum and Huskers had to go on the road forever before they became heroes here.

Hey, it's 11th Lou Day!

12:09pm common:

Rev. Rabbit: I would not recognize myself.

12:09pm Cecile:

I came to them later in life, but between them and Beefheart, there would be no alternative as we know it, for better or worse.

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12:11pm Ken From Hyde Park:

I don't remember hearing this when I was in the FFA (1977-1980). The album Ecstasy came out in 2000, per my Google search, so that explains that.

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12:11pm tim from champaign:

Wow, really looking forward to the Blind Shake. They tore it up last year.

I knew Joe would have a unique and cool tribute to Mr. Lou. Keep it coming, Joe!

12:11pm Cecile:

Ken, the deal in our neighbhood was 4-H

12:12pm Guido (Cologne):

... makes me remind that Lou and Metallica performed Lulu Live in a Cologne TV-studio on 2011-11-11, kind of speial holy-holy-day in Cologne ... whatever that means.

12:15pm Cecile:

Joe, you got "Kill Your Sons?"

12:16pm Parq:

@ RevRabbit 12:06: I sure wouldn't. Can't say exactly how different I'd be, but pretty damn different. So would New York be, or at least the parts of it that I came to be a part of. When you think about all the other things that have influenced us, which would have been non-existent or fundamentally different if there had been no Lou -- well, whew.

12:18pm still b/p:

My only live Lou show was fairly flat -- '76 or '77, I think. Him in a spotlight, band in just the dim spill for the duration. No effort to be engaged with the audience on any channel, and not taken to any apparent place by his own material...perhaps his standard brand of cool.

12:19pm laura spike:

When you think about it, really, whose life *wasn't* saved by rock and roll?

12:19pm InBrkly:

It is a cold war movie.

12:20pm Cecile:

Oh, it's a movie with Baryshikov and Gregory Hines where Baryshnikov tries to escate from Russia. And it had a crappy Lionel Ritchie song as its centerpiece.

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12:20pm Ken From Hyde Park:

@Cecile - Yes, I was in 4-H from third to eighth grade. Our county even had a 4-H camp during the summer. The canoeing was the funnest part.

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12:21pm tim from champaign:

White Nights - A mid 80s feel good Russia is bad movie about overcoming differences through ballet dancing and Lionel Richie's "Say You Say Me".

12:22pm Cecile:

Laura, I talked to the minutemen once, and misquoted the line "punk rock changed my life" as "punk rock changed my life". d boon said "It was changed, not saved. We would have gone along, it just would have been different."

12:23pm Cecile:

The Velvet Underground changed my life. I think the Kinks, Sweet and Skyhooks saved it.

12:24pm Cecile:

but THE BLIND SHAKE RULES RIGHT THIS MINUTE

12:26pm Cecile:

Ken, I was in it for about 5 minutes, but my sister really did well in it - winning prizes for weird baked goods she'd make up on the fly.

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12:27pm tim from champaign:

These guys are tearing it up!

12:31pm laura spike:

Yeah, the Blind Shake are saving my life right now, otherwise I'd be dying of boredom.

12:33pm Cecile:

you know it, laura.

12:34pm Guido (Cologne):

APPLAUSE !!!!!!!!!!!!

12:34pm Cecile:

yeah. WOW.

12:35pm benny:

cant wait to see the blind shake tomorrow in phila!

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12:36pm tim from champaign:

@cecile and ken - my wife's youngest brother got really involved in 4-H when the family moved from the Detroit burbs to the sticks of West Michigan. Now he's in his mid 20s working quite successfully in agriculture.

12:36pm Cecile:

oh, dere's dat accent!

12:36pm Cecile:

tim, people forget what a farming state MI is.

12:36pm Cecile:

what's their favorite local beer?

12:38pm InBrkly:

What is thee oh sees connection? I love their album art.

12:39pm Cecile:

any plans to do another record with Michael Yonkers?

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12:42pm tim from champaign:

Can the Blind Shake throw down a little more?

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12:42pm Ken From Hyde Park:

@tim - Good deal. Keeps kids out of trouble and closer to nature. Other practical things, too. Like how to use hand tools and how small engines work.

12:43pm Cecile:

oh, yah. love it.

12:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- as always - I wonder why WFMU ~ Joe bring the great contemporary Rawk like this - & like the whole rest of the world is so dull & bad. Wtf ?!?

12:44pm Cecile:

oh nice! Can't wait to hear the John Reis surf record!

12:45pm Mike East:

@RevRabbit - its easier for most people to be boring.

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12:47pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Blind Shake has a good sound. Good luck on their upcoming shows.

12:47pm Cecile:

hahahahaah secret plans!

12:47pm Cecile:

that is very true.

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12:47pm tim from champaign:

@ken - yeah, or driving big ass combines.

12:48pm Cecile:

they are right. The amount of pain that guy endures on a daily basis would kill anyone else.

12:48pm InBrkly:

That sucks. I have a back injury. Just took my daily hydrocodone/cyclobenziprine. Still hurts.

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12:51pm tim from champaign:

Does the drummer in a punctual band have great timing?

12:51pm Cecile:

thanks, Blind Shake!

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12:54pm tim from champaign:

Great set and fun interview. Thanks Joe and Blind Shake!

12:55pm Cecile:

Tim, would a supergroup consisting of the group that did "bag lady (I wonder)" and this band be the EBN OZN OBN IIIs?

12:57pm Joe B:

cecile sorry didnt see the local beer question!

12:58pm Cecile:

that's fine, Joe!

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1:01pm tim from champaign:

@cecile - maaaaaaaaaannnnn........
hahahaha

1:08pm Cecile:

I gotta get this album. It is rock solid.

1:08pm Stevel:

You mean to tell me I ate lunch with my mom instead of hearing the Blind Shake? I am a bad person.

1:10pm Mike Sin:

Hey! Hot show today, Joe!

1:14pm gabee:

Great show t'as vu!!!!

1:20pm Cecile:

this is awesome.

1:24pm KP:

Hey, Joe. I forgot I was here.

1:26pm KP:

wow you are at 80%. Hey, Ho, let's go.

1:27pm Joe B:

hey KP! thanks again! be in your neighborhood Friday - Steve wynn at bowery electric if you are not busy

1:27pm Joe B:

and mark lindsay thursday

1:41pm InBrkly:

I was in Texas last month and I blame them for everything.

1:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Okay: I turns Five-Oh on Sunday
- 19 days after I was born - same day JFK was assasinated - C.S.Lewis died - & Aldous Huxley died choosing to go on a huge dose of LSD - 'With the Beatles' was released - & the 1st thing on the BBC after JFK coverage was the 1st episode of 'Dr, Who' - 'An Unearthly Child'
...& explain that Jack Ruby thing, is all I'm saying...

1:47pm Joe B:

happy birthday RR!

1:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I was born less than a day before Lennon told the Queen to 'Rattle Her Jewelry' - not that I read anything into that ; )...

1:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Cheers Joe !

1:48pm Joe B:

Hi Mike Sin and Gabee, thanks! appreciate it! Stevel, dont worry, archive will be up later today!

1:51pm MissV:

Hell-oh from mid-town Manahatta!

1:52pm Joe B:

hi Miss V, not midtown for long!

1:52pm MissV:

Hell-oh from mid-town Manahatta!

1:53pm MissV:

Can't wait! I can pedal myself downtown!

1:56pm efd:

yeah, Split Squad!

2:04pm jason in shanghai:

thank you wfmu and wfmu app developers. joe b. keep the hits rollin!

2:05pm Matt F:

I knew this was coming sooner or later...

2:05pm Joe B:

Hi Jason, thanks! Hey EFD!

2:05pm Dominick:

Now yer talkin' !

2:06pm efd:

I was kind of planning what I think will be a slightly different sort of Lou Reed tribute for tomorrow night, and now I'm thinking I should inclu--- nah, never mind.

2:08pm Joe B:

yes Matt I know i am predictable!

hey Dominick!

2:09pm Mike East:

nice tease, efd. Looking forward to it.

2:09pm efd:

You say that now...

2:13pm Dominick:

Lou's in rare form on this one

2:13pm SeanG:

love it when Lou is angry

2:15pm SeanG:

i'm turning this way UP

2:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...bring them mallets down Mo...

2:16pm Sue:

Go Joe

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2:16pm tim from champaign:

Oh yeah, this 45 VU box is really cool. I love the radio spots for the 3rd album.

2:17pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Howdy Joe et al. So sad hearing this. NY lost a big one!

2:18pm Greg from Bloomfield:

Scharpling & Maron talked about how easy it is for people with older siblings, who could just walk across the hall and be like "Hey, a Velvet Underground record!" Exactly how it worked for me when I was 12.

2:18pm Mike Sin:

"I Can't Stand It" = the VU song with the best sense of humor!

2:23pm SeanG:

do it again!

2:24pm Sue:

Best album, even though it's not an album !!!!

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2:24pm tim from champaign:

I give the VU and Another View outtakes records equal value as the 4 proper albums. The live records too. There's just so much great music to absorb from the Velvets.

2:25pm common:

yep!

2:26pm Mike Sin:

re: VU "Loaded" -- Has it ever been pointed out ust who played drums on specific tracks? Billy Yule and Adrian Barber (of all people!) are listed as playing on the sessions but not the specific tracks, correct?

2:30pm Matt F:

Tim- yes! I think the outtakes records and the live records are the best showcase of the VU as a killer rock & roll band.

2:31pm RSB:

Transformer Lou - Right On

2:31pm KP:

Pledge! JB needs we!

2:32pm MissV:

They are the 89%

2:32pm InBrkly:

I still haven't heard the VU "lost" acetate that was discovered a couple of years ago...

2:33pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Saw Lou during the Transformer era at SUNY Albany. Great show but the man was truly wasted.

2:33pm InBrkly:

oh I just conveniently found it on WFMU haha.

2:45pm MissV:

Lou Reed ruined a movie experience for me as he snored through it's entirety!

2:52pm common:

great stuff!

2:53pm KP:

joe is close! Pledge!

2:55pm KP:

Less than $70 away PLEDGE!

2:55pm KP:

Go for the GOAL!

2:56pm KP:

PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE

2:57pm KP:

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAL!

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2:57pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Goal is attained....nice work!

2:58pm Joe B:

thanks everybody who pledged! thanks for the push KP!

2:59pm KP:

NP.

3:16pm Ajax:

I love being a part of another great JB show! Thanks for the spin Joe! And thanks for playing Lou Reed.

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Lou Reed	Video Violence	Mistrial	RCA	1986		0:00:00 Pop-up)
Lou Reed	Future Farmers of America	Ecstasy	Reprise	2000		0:06:22 Pop-up)
Lou Reed	My Love Is Chemical	7"	Atlantic	1987?	from the 'White Nights' soundtrack	0:09:33 Pop-up)
Lou Reed	This Magic Moment	Lost Highway soundtrack	Interscope	1987		0:17:26 Pop-up)

The Blind Shake live on WFMU!	Can't Stand Life					0:21:03 Pop-up)
The Blind Shake live on WFMU!	Calligraphy					0:22:23 Pop-up)
engineer: David Mambach
Jim Blaha - guitar, vocals; Mike Blaha - guitar, vocals; Dave Roper - drums
on tour right now with Thee Oh Sees! new LP - Key To a False Door
The Blind Shake live on WFMU!	unnamed surf jam					0:24:51 Pop-up)
The Blind Shake live on WFMU!	Fly Right					0:27:20 Pop-up)
The Blind Shake live on WFMU!	Young Carnival Waste					0:29:35 Pop-up)
The Blind Shake live on WFMU!	Porto Alegre					0:31:17 Pop-up)
The Blind Shake live on WFMU!	interview					0:33:50 Pop-up)
OBN IIIs	Nicky the Knife	Live at WFMU	12XU		june 6, 2012 live on the Evan ' Funk Davies Show. engineered by Diane Kamikaze	0:53:20 Pop-up)
OBN IIIs	So What If We Die					0:54:04 Pop-up)
Thee Oh Sees	Go Meet the Seed	Help	In the Red	2009	rock block from this LP!	0:57:18 Pop-up)
Thee Oh Sees	I Can't Get No					1:05:35 Pop-up)
Thee Oh Sees	Soda St.					1:05:44 Pop-up)
Thee Oh Sees	Peanut Butter Oven					1:09:14 Pop-up)

The Future Primitives	the drone	Into the Primitive	Voodoo Rhythm	2013		1:13:10 Pop-up)
Figures of Light	It's Lame (2013 remaster)	Great! Now We've Got Time To Party!	figures of light	2013		1:17:31 Pop-up)
Metalleg	Physical Therapy	Hit of the week	Trend Is Dead	2013		1:19:56 Pop-up)
Boogarins	Hoje Aprendi de Verdade	As Plantas Que Curam	Other Music	2013		1:21:23 Pop-up)
The Breakup Society	So Much Unhappiness, So Little Time	So Much Unhappiness, So Little Time	Get Hip	2013		1:24:47 Pop-up)
The Wrong Words	Where Am I Now	Everything Is Free	Trouble in Mind	2013		1:30:55 Pop-up)

Lowell Yoder	Don't Blame the State of Texas	various - Tragic Songs From the Grassy Knoll: JFK 50th Anniversary Collection	Norton	2013		1:39:23 Pop-up)
Buddy Pastuck	John F. Kennedy	various - Tragic Songs From the Grassy Knoll: JFK 50th Anniversary Collection	Norton	2013		1:41:36 Pop-up)
Maynard & the Musties	Big News, I'm Cryin'	West	Troublefield Music	2013		1:44:45 Pop-up)
Jay Sherman Godfrey	Small Victories	Public Address	Simon	2013		1:47:08 Pop-up)
Steve Wynn	Still Messed Up	Up There: Home Recordings 2000 to 2008	Short Run	2013	tick tick tick outtake	1:51:44 Pop-up)
The Split Squad	She Is Everything	Now Hear This ...		2013	supergroup. produced by scott mccaughey	1:55:23 Pop-up)

The Surfsiders	Little Deuce Coupe				Lou Reed lead vocals	2:04:30 Pop-up)
Lou Reed	Foot of Pride	various - Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration	Columbia	1993		2:07:58 Pop-up)
Velvet Underground	I Can't Stand It	Singles 1966-1969	Sundazed	2009		2:14:53 Pop-up)
The Smithereens	Point of No Return	A Date With the Smithereens	RCA	1994	Lou Reed guitar solo	2:18:06 Pop-up)
Velvet Underground	Foggy Notion	Singles 1966-1969	Sundazed	2009	this song makes a strong case that cymbals are overrated!	2:21:53 Pop-up)

King Khan & the Shrines	Thorn In Her Pride	Idle No More	Merge	2013		2:33:36 Pop-up)
King Khan & the Shrines	Luckiest Man	Idle No More	Merge	2013		2:34:04 Pop-up)
Swingin' Neckbreakers	No Costume, No Candy	various - Halloween Hootenany	Zombie A-Go-Go		Playing Thursday night at Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn with a certain garage rock legend sitting in on organ!!!!!	2:37:10 Pop-up)
The 3-D Invisibles	Go-Go Ghost	various - Ghoul's Delight	Bellyache Records			2:42:15 Pop-up)
The Hentchmen	Ghost of John	various - Ghoul's Delight				2:45:41 Pop-up)
John Zacherle	Let's Twist Again (Mummy Time Is Here)	Monster Mash	Parkway			2:51:38 Pop-up)

Barrence Whitfield & The Savages	Daddy's Gone To Bed	Dig Thy Savage Soul	Bloodshot	2013		2:57:53 Pop-up)

October 29, 2013

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