WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 04/24/15

Listener comments!

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8:46am listener james from westwood:

This Usha Uthup track on the stream is delightful.

8:46am Doug Schulkind:

I hope you're singing along, Listener James!

8:48am Doug Schulkind:

The name Usha Uthup makes me think of the Mets' erratic relief pitcher Ugueth Urbina. He had four or five siblings and all their first names started with U.

8:49am Doug Schulkind:

And middle names, too, if I remember correctly. (His full name was Ugueth Urtaín Urbina.)

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8:49am listener james from westwood:

There's something to be said for a pattern!

8:54am ausmanx:

not much to be said for pattens, though. they always look damn uncomfortable. good evening from chilly antipodes, where we had floods this week. even bits of Sydney were evacuated.

8:55am Doug Schulkind:

U think this song is about u, don't u?!

@ausmanx
Yikes! Hope you're high and dry. Or at least dry.

8:57am Uncle Michael:

Good morning! (rimshot)

8:58am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, Uncle Rimshot!

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8:58am duke:

Time to quit horsing around with those drums and get the show going

8:59am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
Well alright, but just since you asked so nicely.

9:01am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

9:03am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome welcome, ndbob!

9:04am holland oats:

drumma! peoples! panties!

9:06am Doug Schulkind:

Keep your eyes on the road, holland oats!

9:14am Jeff g.:

You're playing our song!

9:17am Doug Schulkind:

They played that when you dance with the bride's father, Jeff G.

9:23am Doug Schulkind:

Eight trumpeters here, each playing a single note. Trumpets made of wood, I do believe.

9:26am Jeff g.:

Oh right. He was a little handsy.

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9:27am Brian in UK:

Hello drummer man.

Hey ausmanx, I hear Bondi was buggered.

9:27am Doug Schulkind:

Brian in UK! Brain in KU!

9:27am MrC:

Akom is giving the drummer some..

9:28am Doug Schulkind:

Good greetings, MrC!

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9:28am Brian in UK:

Bit fast for drums of d'eath.

9:30am Doug Schulkind:

Not bad for funeral music!

9:33am ausmanx:

bondi was okay, brian. might even have swept away some British backpackers, if we were lucky. the southern suburbs copped it, down where my parents live. meanwhile, i'm doing maori again tonight - I te aahua nei kua tuutaki kee ahau ki tetahi maatanga peenei

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9:35am Brian in UK:

I guess too sombre would be a dull thing indeed.

Doug, please play some dross (I know that is difficult) but I need to paint the fence and drag my carcass outside.

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9:39am Brian in UK:

ausmanx, was Brisbane OK? My cousin lives north of the city.

9:40am ausmanx:

yeah. brisbane fine this time (they copped it last year... we like to share it around...)

9:40am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Experimental dross or just mental floss?

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9:42am Brian in UK:

It was Glenn Gould recording the Bach variations that made his name?

9:44am Doug Schulkind:

The Goldberg Variations. Pretty much, Brian.

9:45am The Untreated Wooden Fence:

Get off your arse and git preserving you lazy dimwit.

9:47am Uncle Michael:

Did we just lose the show on the stream?

9:47am Jeff Golick:

whoa - stream blues cut in!

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9:47am listener james from westwood:

Did we just switch to the stream or are we now on Clarence Garlow?

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9:47am Brian in UK:

The Clarence Garlow Variations?

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9:48am listener james from westwood:

Stream faded, Gould back!

9:48am Uncle Michael:

And it returned with a fade-in?

9:48am thatpatsmith:

that was kinda great

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9:48am duke:

Fences need painting? Try the Tom Sawyer Method.

9:48am Doug Schulkind:

How fuck'n rude. Sorry, Mr. Gould. (Though he probably would've dug the randomness.)

9:49am Jeff Golick:

I started scrambling around, looking for the offending tab.

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9:49am Brian in UK:

Apologies I am going to have a word with that bluddy fence.

9:49am Webhamster Henry:

interesting GTDS break in the middle of that for a few seconds....

9:49am ndbob:

ha Brian!

9:49am Doug Schulkind:

Second Friday in a row I've been booted off the stream. Time to reboot my router and cross my fingers.

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9:52am βrian:

Slate skies over the isthmus today. Good morning. (I guess.)

9:53am Parq:

Is that what that was? I just figured you had pressed the wrong button.

9:54am Doug Schulkind:

@Parq
Either way, I take full credit. All sounds occur on my watch. (Just not my Apple Watch.)

9:56am Parq:

Doug I say society is to blame.

9:57am Doug Schulkind:

But if we blame society, we blame βrian. Good morning, βrian!

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9:58am βrian:

No worries. By the time I finish this triple espresso, I'll be bullet-proof.

9:59am Parq:

Aha! It's all βrian's fault! Stand up and take your lashes. And I hope its a merry isthmus.

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9:59am Brian in UK:

Doug, April 24th is Bring a Brian to the Stream Day Then throw him in the river..

10:00am Webhamster Henry:

"Krzhenek" - it's an unique Czech consonant.

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10:01am βrian:

Didn't Edvard Munch say that one can never enter the same scream twice?

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10:02am Brian in UK:

Off to have words with the fence. Dada for now.

10:03am Parq:

I think we can all agree that "Czech Consonant" would be a good name for a band.

10:04am Doug Schulkind:

Could you repeat that, Webhamster Henry? And louder.

10:05am ausmanx:

shame marinetti was such a ghastly fascist. weird that futurism seems to be the only art/philosophical movement that spanned communism and fascism at the same time!

10:05am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in River
Da da.

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

By complete COINCIDENCE, the next selection I have in the queue is on the Futura label.

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10:10am βrian:

Huh. The UW library just did a display on the Futurism movement. Well, several months ago.

10:10am Jeff Golick:

Looks like a cigar to me.

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

@ausmanx
Surely not the first fascist I've played on the show {gulp}.

10:13am glenn:

that's one way to keep away from the glue factory.

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10:14am βrian:

"One foot in the future and one mustache in the past."

10:16am glenn:

also, what's up with the mets? i didn't think they'd win eleven games all year, much less in a row.

10:16am Doug Schulkind:

glenngluey glen ross!

10:17am Doug Schulkind:

@glenn
Harvey/de Grom /Colon is the best pitching trio in MLB.

10:17am glenn:

now that's funny.

10:19am Jeff Golick:

Also, loving the small ball; taking the walks, especially. Their patience at the plate has been impressive.

10:20am Jeff Golick:

The USA Today article that predicts a Mets postseason appearance has probably damned them to mediocrity, however.

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10:21am βrian:

Now, why was 1969 the Summer of Love, again?

10:21am glenn:

they've allowed 47 runs in 16 games. that's pretty impressive. the run differential is +26.

10:23am Uncle Michael:

Charles Amirkhanian and my uncle Jim co-founded the Other Minds festival in San Francisco. This was the festival's 20th year.

10:25am Doug Schulkind:

Wows, Uncle Michael! Wows! Amirkhanian was also music director at KPFA in Berkeley for almost 25 years.

10:27am Doug Schulkind:

Amirkhanian is batting only .227, but with runners in scoring position, he's up to .371.

10:28am Uncle Michael:

His BABIP is what's killing him. He's been unlucky against the shift.

10:30am Doug Schulkind:

I like to read about BABIP while eating bibimbap.

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10:35am βrian:

Bombard is a kind of crazy reed instrument.

10:35am Alex In Illinois:

I think a bombard is a kind of French Bagpipe

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10:36am βrian:

It can wake the dead.

10:37am Alex In Illinois:

or it is like some kind of French reed instrument that is played along with French bagpipes. Bagpipes are very reedy.

10:38am Doug Schulkind:

βrian and Alex, my tag-team bombarde research crew!

10:39am Uncle Michael:

pilot to bombardier...pilot to bombardier...

10:39am George from Bristol UK:

BELATED COMMENT ABOUT 09:23 TROMPES AGWARA : Check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXNqO7-HCfc Thirteen trumpeters walk, sit, lie down, then standing again point their long trumpets skywards. Fantastic ! Another film is shot from above.

10:42am Doug Schulkind:

As long as the trompes aren't l'oiel, Geogre from Bristol UK! (I can't click on the video or it will go out over the air.)

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10:42am Brian in UK:

Doug, really enjoying the new Tommy B.

Spare a thought today for all the Armenians killed 100 years ago by the Ottomans. How is this for a cop out. The Turks say that the word genocide was not invented then so they are not guilty of it. THe moustache is still alive and well in Turkey, not sure what that means.

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10:43am βrian:

Somewhere I have an album of music based on the tradition of the troubadours. The bombarde figures large.

10:43am Alex In Illinois:

Okay, I was not exactly correct the first time. βrian was. It is the very reedy oboe like thing played along with the French (Breton) bagpipes. On Wikipedia, there is a photo of a French bagpiper and bombard player playing side-by-side as they walk down a street.

10:44am Jeff Golick:

Well, this tune works.

10:45am glenn:

the turks are being complete scummy dicks.

10:45am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Yes, the new Brosseau brew goes down nice.

Partial credit to Alex in Illinois! (βrian wins the Kewpie® Doll.)

10:45am Flash Strap:

The word genocide was invented specifically to describe what the Turks did to the Armenians, so I believe the shoe fits. It was custom-made. And with that, I must leave for work

10:46am Alex In Illinois:

Turkish law prohibits its citizens from telling things that paint anything Turkish in a negative way, which is a way for them to ban mentioning the Genocide without acknowledging that it occurred, and a way to require Turkish citizens to deny it.

10:46am Doug Schulkind:

Jeff Golick, are you familiar with the Shibusashirazu Orch? Oh em gee are they fantastic. Listener Hugo turned me onto them. Worth seeking out.

Hellogoodbye, Flash Strap!

10:47am Jeff Golick:

Not aware of this orchestra. I wonder if 4chan knows about these guys.

10:47am glenn:

"patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". samuel johnson.

10:48am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
Maybe DougChan can hook you up.

10:50am ausmanx:

can people stop saying "the Turks this, the Turks that..." official government policy doesn't represent what the Turkish people as a whole think, any more than what Dubya implemented represented what all Americans think...

10:51am glenn:

fair enough. the turkish government are being complete scummy dicks.

10:52am oazar:

Hello all!

10:54am Doug Schulkind:

Well hello there, oazar! Drinks are on me, what'r you having?!

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10:54am βrian:

This must be the Lullaby segment of the show ...

10:56am Alex In Illinois:

I agree, Ausmanx. To suggest so is to ignore the many Turkish soldiers who adopted orphaned Armenian children and raised them as their own. I am letting many Turkish citizens off the hook by pointing out that they have to live in fear of punishment for mentioning it. Also, in the US, the state of Oklahoma has banned teaching Advanced Placement History in its public schools because it mentions "too many negative things about America". So U.S. conservatives are not much different from those in the Turkish government.

10:58am Jeff Golick:

And don't mess with Mr. In-Between, @Alex.

10:59am Doug Schulkind:

People throwing down some wisdom today.

11:01am George from Bristol UK:

Duog, you spell Geogre like this "George" OK. It loops georgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorgeorge . . .

11:01am ndbob:

hmm I actually agree with most of what's being said here- except for the comparison of U.S. conservatives to the Turkish government - tho the OK AP ban is ridiculous

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11:02am Brian in UK:

It's always the old to lead us to the war
It's always the young to fall

Am I hearing Townes?

11:09am Mike East:

my daughter 's with me at work today. she approves of your gif

11:10am George from Bristol UK:

Dear Duog Dugo Dogu - my new profile picture is not of me but by me of my slap happy friend Mick Humphreys, a drummer in Bradford Yorkshire.

11:10am Parq:

I mentioned, on Charlie's playlist yesterday, having seen "Don't Think I've Forgotten". A lot of what comes out of it is how little any regime change is meaningfully more than meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Ironically, what Pol Pot did is often described as genocide, when it was in a strange way just the opposite; he believed (or at least held himself out as believing) that killing 1.2 million of his countryman would be the salvation of their race.

11:11am Dean:

Ah, today is "Bring Your Daughter [or is it Child?] to Work Day"! Mine are in school, but I always bring my inner toddler to work.

11:12am Jeff Golick:

Thought this sounded familiar. Didn't find room for it on a recent Magic Hour...

11:12am Doug Schulkind:

@Mike East
My daughter just called from the nurse's office at school. She's coming home sick.

Nice to see you, Mick Humphreys' face!

11:12am Alex In Illinois:

@ndbob: Okay, so the decision of the Oklahoma legislature to ban teaching "negative" US history is not quite as extensive as the Turkish ban on mentioning anything negative in Turkish history or Turkish current situations, but it is still the same idea. The Oklahoma law is the same attitude as that of Sean Hannity and the Fox News crowd saying that liberals "hate America" for mentioning anything negative in U.S. History.

11:16am Jeff Golick:

I'm almost done reading a magisterial work of US history about the Great Migration: WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS. It's hard to keep from crying. If you see me with it on the subway, I'm usually shaking my head in sad amazement and the depths folks will go to in expressing their hatred and fear. And also at the vitality and strength and courage of those that face oppression.

11:16am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
Which didn't make it onto a recent Magic Hour?

11:17am Jeff Golick:

* at the depths.

@Doug: Spaceheads.

Also: Bernard Stollman, dead.

11:18am Doug Schulkind:

Fuck can be good and bad.

Good fuck: Spaceheads
Bad buck: Bernie Stollman

11:23am ndbob:

@Alex agree re the "hate America" attitude

11:23am Doug Schulkind:

You'll never (but probably will) guess who the preacher at the center of this amazing sermon is...

11:24am Dean:

Speaking of obituaries, I was stunned to read of M.H. Abrams' death at 102. Stunned, because I wasn't even sure he was alive in the first place, but also because he lived such a long, full life. We read of the death of the humanities these days. The loss of Abrams is a concrete, unavoidable example.

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11:25am listener james from westwood:

Must head out for an ill-timed appointment (aargh! hate to miss any of UM's centennial!). Will revel in the rest and the open of HDT via the magic of archives!

11:26am Doug Schulkind:

I had assumed he was already dead, too, Dean.

@Listener James
Glad I had you for almost the whole show!

11:28am Doug Schulkind:

Want to hazard a guess as to the identity of our Love Power Preacher?

11:30am Alex In Illinois:

And now for me to be positive: I believe that progress is a tradition of the U.S. and in our history and even present times are many good progressive people who have been pushing forward.

11:30am Dean:

Richard Pryor? Warm? Cold?

11:30am lucyinbrooklyn:

just got here in time for the power of love...

11:30am Dean:

(I know it's wrong, but I had to start somewhere.)

11:32am Jeff Golick:

m'BOOOOOM!

11:32am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Richard Pryor would be honored to be confused with this fellow (and vice versa). It is...

Max Roach!

11:33am Uncle Michael:

The power of love continues at the top of the hour, in the next room. Please join me there. wfmu.org...

11:33am Doug Schulkind:

lucyinbrooklyn!

11:33am Dean:

Beautiful! He played a solo gig at LA's Jazz Bakery not too long before he passed. So happy I heard him.

11:34am Parq:

Uncle M, j'regret, I don't know what we're celebrating the 100 Anniv of.

11:34am Doug Schulkind:

The most amazing musical afternoon of my life was spent in Max Roach's Upper West Side apartment. I brought along this Brother Ah record and asked Max about it. He smiled broadly.

11:34am Uncle Michael:

100 Hinky Dinky Time episodes on Give the Drummer Radio!

11:35am Jeff Golick:

"EVEN touch your wives..." (emphasis added)

11:35am glenn:

i'm pretty sure touching your brothers and sisters is the kind of love that is frowned upon.

11:37am Dean:

Next up, "Peace Piece." Then "Give Piece a Chance" and "I Hate Meeces to Pieces!"

11:42am Uncle Michael:

Well, I have surely never heard this before.

11:42am Doug Schulkind:

Little Richard's "country" record. Recorded in 1972, but never released until decades later as part of a Rhino comp.

11:43am Doug Schulkind:

The cover art (never used) is a photo of Little Richard milking a cow.

11:44am Uncle Michael:

Richard wrote this.

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11:45am Brian in UK:

....as opposed to Bernie Stollman miking the artistes.

11:45am Uncle Michael:

upload.wikimedia.org...

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael will take you on a radiophonic journey of delights and surprises.

Here is your itinerary: wfmu.org...

11:51am Parq:

Ever think about what would have happened if the lost greats had made it? Hendrix up on stage in his 70s like the Stones? Janis at City Winery? Lenny Bruce on "Fallon"? It's almost better not to try.

11:53am Uncle Michael:

Janis is playing City Winery.

Oh, you don't mean Janis Ian, do you?

11:53am Doug Schulkind:

Lenny Bruce on Fallon. Makes my spine shiver.

11:55am Uncle Michael:

Mort Sahl can't even get on Fallon.

11:55am Parq:

UM, I don't, but it's worth noting that teenage Janis Ian has turned into a pretty cool person.

11:55am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Ward's "underwater" guitar sound here just slays me.

Excellent listening, ndbob!

11:56am Dean:

Laura Nyro on Oprah. Duane Allman does CSI.

11:56am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the good times, Doug. See you all over in the other booth.

12:15pm Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Doug!

12:52pm Spaniel:

Thanks, Doug, exactly what I needed this AM.

12:54pm Doug Schulkind:

Hey, Spaniel. So happy you dug it!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Hiran'ny Tanoran'ny Ntao Lo	O Ry Dada Sy Neny Malala O (O! Dear Father And Mother)	The Music of Madagascar: Classic Traditional Recordings of the 1930s (Yazoo )
Abibu Oluwa & His Group	Layiwola Akande	Echoes of Africa: Early Recordings (Wergo 1940)
Unidentified	Kayamba Dance: Giriama Wedding	Kenya & Tanzania: Witchcraft & Ritual Music (Nonesuch 1975)
Deftene Belete Mengesh	Bagana	Ethiopian Urban and Tribal Music: Volume 1 - Mindanoo Mistiru (Lyrichord 1971)
Group N'Gali	Orchestre Do Trompes Agwara	Ouganda: Aux Sources du Nil (Ocora 1991)
Mekela Akom & Friends	Akom	Drums of Death (Avant 1996)

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti	Sintesi Musicali Futuriste	Futurism & Dada Reviewed (Sub Rosa 1931)
Horde Catalytique Pour La Fin	Gestation Sonore 1	Gestation Sonore (Futura 1971)
Charles Amirkhanian	Gold and Spirit	Walking Tune (Starkland 1984)

The Drifters	Li Yu Da Na
Shibusashirazu Orchestra	P-Chan	Shibusai (Chitei 1996)
Slap Happy Humphrey	Tatoeba Bokuga Shindara	Slap Happy Humphrey (Public Bath 1994)
Kengo Iuchi	Ku-on No Kane No Na	Inugami to Kachiku (Kubitsuri 1995)
Yoshio Hayakawa	Maisou	Kakkoii Kotowa Nante Kakkowaruin Darou (URC 1969)

James Chance & The Contortions	Don't Want to Be Happy	Buy (ZE 1978)
Spaceheads	Shoot the Boss	Round the Outside (Dark Beloved Cloud 1996)
Henry Grimes	Fish Story	The Call (ESP-Disk' 1965)
Brother Ah	Love Piece	Sound Awareness (Strata-East 1972)

Little Richard	If You Pick Too Hard (She Comes Out of Tune)	Southern Child (Reprise 1972)
Eddie Hinton	Nice Girl	Beautiful Dream Sessions, Volume 3 (Zane mid-1970s)
Jimi Hendrix	1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)	By Himself: The Home Recordings (Berkshire Studio Productions 1968)
Rosco Gordon	You Don't Care About Nothing	Memphis, Tennessee (Stony Plain 2000)
Robert Ward & the Ohio Untouchables	Forgive Me Darling	b/w Love Is Amazing (Lu Pine 1963)

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