WFMU: Tony Coulter: Playlist from March 25, 2014

Listener comments!
	11:59am Gary: Don't want to miss the hiss
	12:00pm DCE: Tony! g'day
	12:00pm Dervish: Hampton Hiss Band! Hiss Before Swine!
	12:00pm DCE: looka that guitar...droolin'
	12:00pm Tony Coulter: Hey Gary and DCE!
	12:01pm Tony Coulter: And hey there, Dervish!
	12:05pm DCE: we gonna git greazy
	12:06pm Carmichael: OK Tony. It's 9 o'clock and I want to rock!
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Hey Carmichael! Rocking has commenced.
	12:07pm Doug Schulkind: This music really a grease with me!
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Today's show is strictly boot city, so you'll get plenty of that hiss I promised you.
	12:08pm DCE: "Atlanta Sports Arena" huh...I love how things were just what they were back then. No corporate sponshorships.
	12:08pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Doug! Or should I say greasings....
	12:09pm fleep: The oily band gets the turn.
	12:11pm Tony Coulter: So, I guess this will be blindingly obvious to most of you, but: Hampton Grease Band are the band in the top photograph; Pearls Before Swine are below.
	12:12pm Tony Coulter: Hey fleep, you oily bird!
	12:13pm still b/p: Spectacled fellow looks like he could be Woody Allen's freaky brother.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: Greets, still b/p! The spectacled one is Tom Rapp, leader of PBS.
	12:16pm DCE: obligatory Peter Gunn theme...every band MUST COVER
	12:18pm northguineahills: Isn't Tom Rapp a practicing attorney?
	12:20pm Tony Coulter: Hey ho, NGH! He is indeed. Perhaps his ads read: Don't take the rap -- get Rapp.
	12:23pm Carmichael: I stole my line from Elton John. He is 97 years old today.
	12:23pm Tony Coulter: Hey, general question: I have loads of these kinds of concert tapes, but haven't played too many of them on Tape Hiss because of sound quality and tape speed issues. Should I play more of this kind of stuff -- or mostly stick to "official" releases? What say you?
	12:24pm Gary: Good Lord, Tony ... seriously? You should totally play them. This is great.
	12:25pm holland oats: as they said in the arrowsmith video, "let's bootleg!"
	12:25pm northguineahills: You should play all of the above, Tony.
	12:31pm still b/p: You can always let 'em roll and see if they get too draggy-whacked and then bail, or insta-poll the assembled connoisseurs and peanut gallery appraisers-without-portfolio.
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: It's been so long since I've heard this that I'd forgotten it existed!
	12:33pm Tony Coulter: True. Need to get me a tape deck with pitch control -- that would help. Guess I will wear my boots more often.
	12:33pm Tony Coulter: Hey ho, Uncle Michael! (That "true" was aimed at still b/p)
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Hey, ho! You could capture the tape to digital and adjust the speed in software?
	12:37pm still b/p: I thought about suggesting that but worried that bottles, rocks and scorn would be thrown at me. I'm assuming that original media is purposefully and philosophically The Way for the program.
	12:37pm Dean: The vibe here is a little bit Pere Ubu, a little bit Nihilist Spasm Band. What are "sound quality and tape speed issues"? Never heard of 'em.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: Eh. It's a 128k mp3 right now, either way.
	12:39pm Rich in Washington: I too want a pitch-controlled tape deck. I am surprised that so few have it. Software is difficult, as it's sometimes hit or miss, where application is concerned. If you could adjust pitch on the fly, it would be easier. That's me using Audacity, though. I do know that you can do it while capturing with Audio Hijack but it's helpful to know what the deviation is, pitchwise, beforehand.
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: @ Uncle Michael & still b/p: You can do it that way, yes, fer sure -- but it's a lot more laborious than twiddling away until everything sounds right. I vote pitch control.
	12:39pm DavID Thomas: HERESY! PERE UBU HAS NO INFLUENCES!
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: What Rich said....
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: I agree...if you have one!
	12:40pm Tony Coulter: Hey Dean! I like your attitude....
	12:40pm still b/p: Twiddler on the Woof (Moo).
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: There is no Beefheart or Mothers here...nossir.
	12:41pm Rich in Washington: I think most tape decks have a small trim pot on the circuit board but you'd be foolish to mess with it, unless your deck was slow/fast on everything.
	🥁 12:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: [screeches to a halt, conspicuously]
	🥁 12:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: MADE IT.
	12:44pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Turnip. Now, that's what I call a tongue.
	12:44pm Dean: OT, but I have to mention that during a local record store visit on the weekend I saw a used copy of Sebastian Hardie's Four Moments! The price tag: $15. Too rich for my blood.
	🥁 12:45pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ...i get that a lot.
	12:45pm holland oats: roland kirk played arena shows in what universe exactly?
	🥁 12:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: btw: excellent mix for today's show. Been a huge fan of both for ages. Pearls Before Swine was my gateway into the entire musical underground, at about age ten. . . .
	12:47pm holland oats: v psyched for pearls tony, love me some original rapp
	🥁 12:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ...a benevolent older step-sibling played me the One Nation Underground album (on 8-track, natch) and I was hooked. Tumbled into the abyss from there.
	12:53pm Tony Coulter: One odd thing I discovered preparing for this show is that there seem to be very few photos of PBS out there -- judging from google images, anyhow. A belated hello, Holland Oats!
	12:56pm holland oats: better belate than benever
	🥁 1:08pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Never got to see Hampton Grease (I was 4 yrs old when this show took place) but did catch Glenn Phillips at progday 2005. Not the same of course, but groovy...
	1:10pm Tony Coulter: I caught Hampton's Aquarium Rescue Unit in the late '90s/early 2000s. There was definitely more than a bit of Grease Band flavor. 'Twas great.
	1:10pm earrie: The sabres go dance.
	1:11pm Tony Coulter: Greets, earrie!
	1:14pm earrie: Heya. ARU happened to cross my mind's ear recently. I like how they bent blues.
	1:15pm Gary: That was fabulous
	1:15pm glenn: amazon has one used p.c. tape deck. www.amazon.com...
	1:15pm earrie: Col. Bruce Hampton, aha.
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: ARU gave us Jimmy Herring. That's enough for me.
	1:18pm Brian in UK: Hello Tony. Do not remember Pearls Before Swine ever coming over here. Not a big touring band.
	1:19pm Tony Coulter: @ Glenn: Thanks! Looks good -- just might go for it.
	🥁 1:19pm Rev. Turnip Druid: wheee!
	1:19pm glenn: but since pitch control is just a voltage regulator, it wouldn't be too hard to whip one up in your secret underground laboratory.
	1:19pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, Brian in U.K.!
	🥁 1:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: This Pearls gig was a year before the Stardancer LP came out . . secretly hoping for an early performance of "the 4th day of july" but no matter; great stuff.
	1:28pm Gary: I have a lunch date now, but thank you so much for sharing that great HGB bootleg, Tony.
	1:29pm Tony Coulter: Yer welcome, Gary! Nice to see you here.
	1:30pm Gary: Again, throwing in my vote for more live bootlegs in the future ... & see you around!
	1:31pm Brian in UK: Sounds as mellow as an early Seventies British audience at say the Roundhouse.
	1:32pm Tony Coulter: @ Gary: Your vote has been counted. I for one find live song intros entertaining. Tom Rapp's are pretty freeform.
	1:40pm Brian in UK: Love to hear someone in the audience pipe up after the Nixon comment with the Life of Brian line 'He's been a very naughty boy'
	🥁 1:44pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Digging the hell out of this.
	🥁 1:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: STYLOPHONE! HAH!
	1:48pm Brian in UK: Who can read morose code.
	2:07pm Tony Coulter: Tune that radio, man.
	2:09pm Tony Coulter: Funny how Rapp is obviously influenced by Dylan -- and yet is so unlike Dylan.
	🥁 2:11pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Agreed TC. Funny though - despite all the comparisons, I completely dig Rapp but have never had the slightest taste for Dylan, in any of his incarnations.
	2:12pm Tony Coulter: Same here, actually. I like 2 or 3 Dylan songs, at best.
	2:15pm Tony Coulter: Tho Dave Mandl tells me I might like "Blood on the Tracks."
	2:16pm Carmichael: I agree with the EchoDave. If any Dylan albums are accessible, Blood on the Tracks is one.
	2:21pm Dean: BotT is a point of entry, for sure. So is Infidels, believe it or not, if only because Sly & Robbie carry so much weight. But the real Dylan treat to me remains his work with The Band, Planet Waves and The Basement Tapes. Solid.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: I like Bob Dylan very much. There, I said it. The Dylan I don't like is bar far the shorter list.
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: BOTT is indeed, a masterpiece.
	2:31pm Tony Coulter: On the subject of Dylan, I've always liked the title of this Bing Selfish album: rymimg.com...
	2:31pm DCE: if I have to look out my window and see snow falling one more day...somethin' bad gonna happen
	2:36pm steve: hey all. not much of a folkie but i love PBS!
	2:38pm DCE: so Jesus makes the snow fall??? he's got something to answer for. Grumble.
	2:38pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Steve! Long live the Pearl Broadcasting System.
	2:45pm northguineahills: I don't think I've heard Pearls Before Swine do this one.
	2:50pm Tony Coulter: One more surprise bonus track coming up at the end of the show: an unreleased cover of CSN&Y's "Find the Cost of Freedom" -- by the Rascal Reporters!
	2:51pm steve: goddam, such heavy music. every time, this guy makes me reconsider my general disinterest in folkie singer songwriters.
	2:55pm Brian in UK: Nice one, Tony.
	2:56pm Uncle Michael: Great stuff today, Tony.
	2:56pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, B.!
	2:56pm Tony Coulter: ... and U.M....
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: ... and everyone else. See you all in 2 weeks!!
	2:58pm northguineahills: Thanks Tony, good fun!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from March 25, 2014

View Tony Coulter's profile

I play rhinoceros and psychedelic fork.

Tuesday Noon - 3pm (EST) | On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Give the Drummer Radio LIVE Audio Streams (Get help): Pop-up | 128k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Tony Coulter playlists | Next playlist -->

March 25, 2014: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: The Hampton Grease Band: Live, 1972 / Pearls Before Swine: Live, 1971 [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

Artist	Track	Album
The In-Theme	Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy

The Hampton Grease Band	side A "side A" by "The Hampton Grease Band"	Live at the Atlanta Sports Arena, 1972

The Hampton Grease Band	side B "side B" by "The Hampton Grease Band"	Live at the Atlanta Sports Arena, 1972

Pearls Before Swine	side A "side A" by "Pearls Before Swine"	Live, 11/2/71

Pearls Before Swine	side B "side B" by "Pearls Before Swine"	Live, 11/2/71

Rascal Reporters	Find the Cost of Freedom (CSN&Y cover) (198?)	unreleased track
The Out-Theme	Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]

RSS feeds for Tony Coulter's show: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed

| E-mail Tony Coulter | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Tony Coulter |

Listener comments!
	11:59am Gary: Don't want to miss the hiss
	12:00pm DCE: Tony! g'day
	12:00pm Dervish: Hampton Hiss Band! Hiss Before Swine!
	12:00pm DCE: looka that guitar...droolin'
	12:00pm Tony Coulter: Hey Gary and DCE!
	12:01pm Tony Coulter: And hey there, Dervish!
	12:05pm DCE: we gonna git greazy
	12:06pm Carmichael: OK Tony. It's 9 o'clock and I want to rock!
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Hey Carmichael! Rocking has commenced.
	12:07pm Doug Schulkind: This music really a grease with me!
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Today's show is strictly boot city, so you'll get plenty of that hiss I promised you.
	12:08pm DCE: "Atlanta Sports Arena" huh...I love how things were just what they were back then. No corporate sponshorships.
	12:08pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Doug! Or should I say greasings....
	12:09pm fleep: The oily band gets the turn.
	12:11pm Tony Coulter: So, I guess this will be blindingly obvious to most of you, but: Hampton Grease Band are the band in the top photograph; Pearls Before Swine are below.
	12:12pm Tony Coulter: Hey fleep, you oily bird!
	12:13pm still b/p: Spectacled fellow looks like he could be Woody Allen's freaky brother.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: Greets, still b/p! The spectacled one is Tom Rapp, leader of PBS.
	12:16pm DCE: obligatory Peter Gunn theme...every band MUST COVER
	12:18pm northguineahills: Isn't Tom Rapp a practicing attorney?
	12:20pm Tony Coulter: Hey ho, NGH! He is indeed. Perhaps his ads read: Don't take the rap -- get Rapp.
	12:23pm Carmichael: I stole my line from Elton John. He is 97 years old today.
	12:23pm Tony Coulter: Hey, general question: I have loads of these kinds of concert tapes, but haven't played too many of them on Tape Hiss because of sound quality and tape speed issues. Should I play more of this kind of stuff -- or mostly stick to "official" releases? What say you?
	12:24pm Gary: Good Lord, Tony ... seriously? You should totally play them. This is great.
	12:25pm holland oats: as they said in the arrowsmith video, "let's bootleg!"
	12:25pm northguineahills: You should play all of the above, Tony.
	12:31pm still b/p: You can always let 'em roll and see if they get too draggy-whacked and then bail, or insta-poll the assembled connoisseurs and peanut gallery appraisers-without-portfolio.
	12:32pm Uncle Michael: It's been so long since I've heard this that I'd forgotten it existed!
	12:33pm Tony Coulter: True. Need to get me a tape deck with pitch control -- that would help. Guess I will wear my boots more often.
	12:33pm Tony Coulter: Hey ho, Uncle Michael! (That "true" was aimed at still b/p)
	12:35pm Uncle Michael: Hey, ho! You could capture the tape to digital and adjust the speed in software?
	12:37pm still b/p: I thought about suggesting that but worried that bottles, rocks and scorn would be thrown at me. I'm assuming that original media is purposefully and philosophically The Way for the program.
	12:37pm Dean: The vibe here is a little bit Pere Ubu, a little bit Nihilist Spasm Band. What are "sound quality and tape speed issues"? Never heard of 'em.
	12:38pm Uncle Michael: Eh. It's a 128k mp3 right now, either way.
	12:39pm Rich in Washington: I too want a pitch-controlled tape deck. I am surprised that so few have it. Software is difficult, as it's sometimes hit or miss, where application is concerned. If you could adjust pitch on the fly, it would be easier. That's me using Audacity, though. I do know that you can do it while capturing with Audio Hijack but it's helpful to know what the deviation is, pitchwise, beforehand.
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: @ Uncle Michael & still b/p: You can do it that way, yes, fer sure -- but it's a lot more laborious than twiddling away until everything sounds right. I vote pitch control.
	12:39pm DavID Thomas: HERESY! PERE UBU HAS NO INFLUENCES!
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: What Rich said....
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: I agree...if you have one!
	12:40pm Tony Coulter: Hey Dean! I like your attitude....
	12:40pm still b/p: Twiddler on the Woof (Moo).
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: There is no Beefheart or Mothers here...nossir.
	12:41pm Rich in Washington: I think most tape decks have a small trim pot on the circuit board but you'd be foolish to mess with it, unless your deck was slow/fast on everything.
	🥁 12:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: [screeches to a halt, conspicuously]
	🥁 12:42pm Rev. Turnip Druid: MADE IT.
	12:44pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Turnip. Now, that's what I call a tongue.
	12:44pm Dean: OT, but I have to mention that during a local record store visit on the weekend I saw a used copy of Sebastian Hardie's Four Moments! The price tag: $15. Too rich for my blood.
	🥁 12:45pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ...i get that a lot.
	12:45pm holland oats: roland kirk played arena shows in what universe exactly?
	🥁 12:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: btw: excellent mix for today's show. Been a huge fan of both for ages. Pearls Before Swine was my gateway into the entire musical underground, at about age ten. . . .
	12:47pm holland oats: v psyched for pearls tony, love me some original rapp
	🥁 12:47pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ...a benevolent older step-sibling played me the One Nation Underground album (on 8-track, natch) and I was hooked. Tumbled into the abyss from there.
	12:53pm Tony Coulter: One odd thing I discovered preparing for this show is that there seem to be very few photos of PBS out there -- judging from google images, anyhow. A belated hello, Holland Oats!
	12:56pm holland oats: better belate than benever
	🥁 1:08pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Never got to see Hampton Grease (I was 4 yrs old when this show took place) but did catch Glenn Phillips at progday 2005. Not the same of course, but groovy...
	1:10pm Tony Coulter: I caught Hampton's Aquarium Rescue Unit in the late '90s/early 2000s. There was definitely more than a bit of Grease Band flavor. 'Twas great.
	1:10pm earrie: The sabres go dance.
	1:11pm Tony Coulter: Greets, earrie!
	1:14pm earrie: Heya. ARU happened to cross my mind's ear recently. I like how they bent blues.
	1:15pm Gary: That was fabulous
	1:15pm glenn: amazon has one used p.c. tape deck. www.amazon.com...
	1:15pm earrie: Col. Bruce Hampton, aha.
	1:18pm Uncle Michael: ARU gave us Jimmy Herring. That's enough for me.
	1:18pm Brian in UK: Hello Tony. Do not remember Pearls Before Swine ever coming over here. Not a big touring band.
	1:19pm Tony Coulter: @ Glenn: Thanks! Looks good -- just might go for it.
	🥁 1:19pm Rev. Turnip Druid: wheee!
	1:19pm glenn: but since pitch control is just a voltage regulator, it wouldn't be too hard to whip one up in your secret underground laboratory.
	1:19pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, Brian in U.K.!
	🥁 1:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: This Pearls gig was a year before the Stardancer LP came out . . secretly hoping for an early performance of "the 4th day of july" but no matter; great stuff.
	1:28pm Gary: I have a lunch date now, but thank you so much for sharing that great HGB bootleg, Tony.
	1:29pm Tony Coulter: Yer welcome, Gary! Nice to see you here.
	1:30pm Gary: Again, throwing in my vote for more live bootlegs in the future ... & see you around!
	1:31pm Brian in UK: Sounds as mellow as an early Seventies British audience at say the Roundhouse.
	1:32pm Tony Coulter: @ Gary: Your vote has been counted. I for one find live song intros entertaining. Tom Rapp's are pretty freeform.
	1:40pm Brian in UK: Love to hear someone in the audience pipe up after the Nixon comment with the Life of Brian line 'He's been a very naughty boy'
	🥁 1:44pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Digging the hell out of this.
	🥁 1:46pm Rev. Turnip Druid: STYLOPHONE! HAH!
	1:48pm Brian in UK: Who can read morose code.
	2:07pm Tony Coulter: Tune that radio, man.
	2:09pm Tony Coulter: Funny how Rapp is obviously influenced by Dylan -- and yet is so unlike Dylan.
	🥁 2:11pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Agreed TC. Funny though - despite all the comparisons, I completely dig Rapp but have never had the slightest taste for Dylan, in any of his incarnations.
	2:12pm Tony Coulter: Same here, actually. I like 2 or 3 Dylan songs, at best.
	2:15pm Tony Coulter: Tho Dave Mandl tells me I might like "Blood on the Tracks."
	2:16pm Carmichael: I agree with the EchoDave. If any Dylan albums are accessible, Blood on the Tracks is one.
	2:21pm Dean: BotT is a point of entry, for sure. So is Infidels, believe it or not, if only because Sly & Robbie carry so much weight. But the real Dylan treat to me remains his work with The Band, Planet Waves and The Basement Tapes. Solid.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: I like Bob Dylan very much. There, I said it. The Dylan I don't like is bar far the shorter list.
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: BOTT is indeed, a masterpiece.
	2:31pm Tony Coulter: On the subject of Dylan, I've always liked the title of this Bing Selfish album: rymimg.com...
	2:31pm DCE: if I have to look out my window and see snow falling one more day...somethin' bad gonna happen
	2:36pm steve: hey all. not much of a folkie but i love PBS!
	2:38pm DCE: so Jesus makes the snow fall??? he's got something to answer for. Grumble.
	2:38pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Steve! Long live the Pearl Broadcasting System.
	2:45pm northguineahills: I don't think I've heard Pearls Before Swine do this one.
	2:50pm Tony Coulter: One more surprise bonus track coming up at the end of the show: an unreleased cover of CSN&Y's "Find the Cost of Freedom" -- by the Rascal Reporters!
	2:51pm steve: goddam, such heavy music. every time, this guy makes me reconsider my general disinterest in folkie singer songwriters.
	2:55pm Brian in UK: Nice one, Tony.
	2:56pm Uncle Michael: Great stuff today, Tony.
	2:56pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, B.!
	2:56pm Tony Coulter: ... and U.M....
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: ... and everyone else. See you all in 2 weeks!!
	2:58pm northguineahills: Thanks Tony, good fun!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from March 25, 2014

Listener comments!

(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson