WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from February 11, 2017

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	11:01am Listener Baby: Good morning, Baby. How is our beacon of light of darkness doing? Got a dope T-Shirt from WFMU yesterday. Bet everyone who didn't donate to the last emergency fund drive, wishes they did now. Best T-Shirts EVER! Have so much fun today, Baby.
	11:01am Frank Above: Just gotta see The Rollers.
	11:01am Mikey_B: makes me wanna see the rollers
	11:02am Your Ace From Exchange Place: Good Morning!
	11:03am melinda: Hello Michael and everyone
	11:03am Cooh John: Gotta see the Rollers
	11:04am Clarke: ricky fataar on ze drums!!
	11:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (Stig O'Hara!)
	11:06am Clarke: indeed!!!
	11:16am Gaylord Fields: Me, I got a ticket for the Bay City Rollers!
	11:16am Hughie Considine: Got my T-shirt too! The wonders of the modern mail service. And indeed, it is rad!
	11:16am Listener Baby: Saffires shine very bright!
	11:17am Clarke: snowin' in the metro yet???
	11:18am Michael from the Left Coast: Was that Wayne Carson who also wrote "The Letter" and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before"?
	11:19am Parq: Funny you should mention travel to Cuba. Listening to that Zafiros, I was just remembering how I was in Cuba three years ago right around this time. One of my favorite memories was seeing people lined up for a block to buy chocolate in Old Havana the day before Valentine's Day.
	11:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Townshend Produced original.
	11:20am johnk77: no snow falling in boogie down bronx plenty on the ground
	11:20am Clarke: no, townshend produced - the song was written by John "speedy"Keen
	11:20am Listener Baby: Pete on Bass on the orig.
	11:21am Michael Shelley: wfmu.org/superhits
	11:22am Clarke: right, Baby - townshend plays bass and produced
	11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - like Pete Produced Arthur Brown. 'Speedy' also wrote 'Armenia City in the Sky' on 'SellOut'. Oo - Thx Baby!
	11:23am scott: A nice pro-America message
	11:23am Clarke: i highly recommend Speedy Keen's two solo albums! i think there is a third one that never came out??
	11:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pete actually often accused of being 'CounterRevolutionary'...
	11:25am Listener Baby: Lady Gaga was NOT good.
	11:26am rbxbx: i 100% agree but she does a lot for queer weirdo visibility
	11:27am Fuzzy: Opinions are like *
	11:27am Exile: Thank you Michael! I never could stand her music. Too pretentious for crap pop.
	11:27am bexx: so there's that and i don't mind her using capitalism to do it
	11:28am bexx: better than being exxon
	11:28am Marc Francis: I am not a Lady Gaga fan but her performance was great. She killed it!
	11:29am Exile: I think that's her saving grace @Rbxbx. That's why I give her a big pass, but I still avoid her music like the plague.
	11:30am Clarke: i would guess that the Beach Boys did not need carli (much) in the studio - but he mostly was part of the live band. pretty much fataar and chaplin were the big crossovers into the studio - i assume we are all about to find out....
	11:31am Listener Baby: rbxbx: So does Bernie Sanders, but I sure don't to hear him sing for 20 mintues.
	11:32am Frank Above: Not music that I would actually seek out to listen to, but Gaga has been on the Howard Stern show a few times and always does a stripped down performance with just her and the piano each time she's on. Her talent is pretty evident in that setting, but I can't say I'm a fan with the so-called "finished product" on her albums.
	11:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' If you plan to be a warrior, prepare to be broken. If you plan to be an explorer, prepare to get lost. If you plan to be a lover, prepare for both. ' ...' Why speak of Love? 1st - Love must shatter us. ' Many PopIcons whose attitudes I like - Madonna, GeorgeMichael, RickyVidaLoca - but Musically I just don't need. Gaga's another, tho' she can sing. She's supposed to be Shocking - but what's New & Original? Where's the great Ideas? See - it became all about Performers. But - Ideas - Something to Say - those are Talents too. Okay?! Famous for being Famous never interested me much...then complain about he paparazzi...it's like the DEA & the Cartels - jobs for them & nothing in it for me...
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& yeah - slick Production that makes it all homogenized Mall Candy for the stoopid - but actually buries Talent when it is actually there...
	11:39am Clarke: MS - i think that you truly are one of the few that have all three kinds of love -- i know you feel lucky, and you SHOULD. that kid of yours is pretty smaaaaht!!
	11:39am Michael Shelley: wow Frank - those Howard appearances are exactly what I'd point to as evidence of her being particularly mediocre - and pretentious - she sounds like an unworldly self involved high school coffee house singer who just wrote her first song - I like her politics
	11:40am Listener Baby: What Baby said!
	11:40am Power Papi: Lady Gaga is cool
	11:41am Listener Baby: Baby, we would have accepted "Campfire Singer" as well.
	11:41am Clarke: this is one helluva drum track - i never noticed. very live in the room - The Knack. i can't bear to talk about lady gaga when THIS is playing.
	11:42am Clarke: note to self: re-visit my Knack records....
	11:43am Uncle Michael: It seems a lot of people have never had the pleasure of hearing Smokey's original recording of Head to Toe.
	11:43am scott: A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist - Lenin (or was it Lennon?)
	11:43am Uncle Michael: Such a fun song.
	11:43am Frank Above: Maybe comparing those performances to what's on the albums is throwing off my perception, but I think she's decent. Again, not something I'd have in my collection, and talent doesn't always translate to quality, but I think she can play and sing. Sure, the air of pretentiousness is evident, but I think that's a part of her package. She definitely plays up the "artist" angle.
	11:44am Listener Baby: Knack never played it safe in the studio. No Red Light Fever for those guys. They went for it with gusto.
	11:44am Uncle Michael: Michael, can you look and see if the jacket lists the pedal steel player on that Del Reeves live set?
	11:44am Frank Above: Could also be that I'm so generally disinterested in her music to have spent the time to form a strong opinion of her one way or the other!
	11:44am Clarke: my all-time top song EVER
	11:45am AlexB: Damn I forgot how good the Knack were!
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Narrowcasting - she speaks for those people. Like - that candidate is an unqualified angry turd - that's why I like him...W/ population explosion & Targeted Marketing - such a one doesn't have to compete w/ the other cafe songwriters & scrabblers who are struggling. Get one AltPop Hit - hardly play Live - get on a LateNite show - don't even bother to try to sing the harmonies on yer own rekkids - then slag TheBeatles as oldhat posers...
	11:46am Superb Owl: gack. Knack is pretentious. When i heard that Springsteen wallOfSound intro on one of their songs, that was it. My ears shut down from then on.
	11:47am Mailman Tom: Syndicate of Sound played the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967
	11:48am Clarke: @mailman tom: do you happen to have that entire set?? this has been a holy grail search for moi...
	11:50am Clarke: before the interview even starts, i will have to say that the Beach Boys certainly had a lot of skill and luck at finding fill-ins - i think carl played an important role in figuring out who would work out well...
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @MTom: Wow! I guess this isn't complete... : en.wikipedia.org...
	11:52am Clarke: deep end - good pun, that...
	11:56am Clarke: Baby - along w/u at that long beach Q/ic's show were some other names: carlene carter, howie epstein, peter & ilene holsapple
	11:59am Listener Baby: Clarke: That was a great evening. Sweaty, high energy. Big Al was shooting tumbler sized shots of whiskey. I think he had a cold or something. I also remember Terry was in a shit mood that night. He was really throwing shade at Tom. I think his piano was somewhere else, and he had to rent one?? Something like that? Do you remember the situation?
	12:00pm Amanda: Loving the interview. Carli is a way cool dude.
	12:03pm Clarke: actually - it was terry and al who were not getting along. there were a lot of strange things going on around that venue - we should discuss, sometime. i don't know if you caught the show the night before at the Palomino - but, the piano was damaged a little after that show. i don't think they rented one, but i think the piano had to get fixed, and that show it wasn't fixed yet.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: Ah..Very interesting. I without doubt witnessed Terry getting all over Tom after the first three songs or so. Not trying to hide his dissatisfaction with something?
	12:06pm JSG: This in incredible.
	12:07pm Clarke: wow - i did not catch that, Baby! there were a lot of things going on, there, as i said, ha ha.
	12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Brothels! Down to like the very Roots of Jazz...
	12:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Living End: rockinpr.net...
	12:09pm Listener Baby: I was also at the Palomino show. First and only time I saw them do Pina Colada.
	12:09pm bexx: Listener Baby: I agree but I've liked art made by literal nazis in the past before I realized it so, .... it's relative.
	12:11pm Clarke: Baby - we should talk sometime, when you are not in such demand... it would be great to hear your perspective, because there was some strange stuff going on at the palomino too!!
	12:11pm Listener Baby: Clarke, you got it.
	12:13pm Todd-o-phonic: Can you tell listeners about your first acid trip Michael?
	12:13pm ledzeppelinsucks: hello
	12:14pm Listener Baby: bexx: She gets a huge pass for the way she thinks. But Mike put my thoughts about her in perfect detail. When you pull back the curtain and the fireworks, not much happening.
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Todd, will you follow suit?
	12:15pm ledzeppelinsucks: I hate 'i was so wasted stories' this is an exception
	12:16pm Clarke: long beach!!!
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @zepsux: Like anything - it's how you tell them. Try Julian Cope's bio about being on 'Top of the Pops'. :)
	12:18pm Listener Baby: Or Doc Ellis?
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: I have taken very few drugs never acid
	12:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remarkable in itself.
	12:19pm Listener Baby: You mean you do this show straight??
	12:21pm Clarke: i have taken even less than MS - NONE!! ok - some aspirin, a couple of times.
	12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I think that's what TheMonkees said on their show...
	12:23pm Michael Shelley: THE VEGAN CHICKEN SALAD I BOUGHT THIS MORNING IS SPOILED! HAS THAT HORRIBLE FIZZY THING GOING ON.
	12:23pm Clarke: ewwwww~~
	12:24pm Listener Baby: You mean hairy chicken salad? Please back away.
	12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...better off w/ antacid then...
	12:24pm Michael Shelley: A total disaster
	12:25pm Listener Baby: Do have an apple handy?
	12:26pm Gaylord Fields: Seeing your vegan chicken salad fizzle sounds like you're having a bad trip, man. Hope you can ride it out.
	12:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...w/ a side of yellow matter custard.
	12:28pm Frank Above: Don't eat the brown vegan chicken salad!
	12:29pm Michael Shelley: Making an apple pie today - so wanted to leave my apples at home no plan B
	12:30pm Gaylord Fields: Best Mike Love anecdote EVER! Sick burn by Carli!
	12:31pm Listener Baby: Shoot. Watch this instead. www.nbc.com...
	12:32pm Michael Shelley: we have to ask ourselves - if Mike had just bought a Chevy back then, would he be as well adjusted at Carli is now?
	12:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How great is this?! ...Feed the DJ!
	12:34pm Gaylord Fields: It does say a lot that the unapologetic acid eater is way more sane and sound than the clean-living meditation proponent.
	12:35pm Listener Baby: It does Gaylord. Somehow, especially right now.
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...YMMV...
	12:38pm Clarke: FLOL!!!!!
	12:41pm Gaylord Fields: @Baby: Carli is so clearheaded and rational. This interview is a real solid get by Michael.
	12:41pm Listener Baby: @Gaylord. I wish he was my Dad.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: Leaving This Town was written by - Ricky Fataar, Blondie Chaplin & Carl Wilson
	12:47pm Brian C.: What a great guy to interview, so forthcoming!
	12:47pm JSG: Fantastic conversation.
	12:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: On 'Piano Jazz' : www.npr.org...
	12:48pm Clarke: if we coulda just gotten him to dish on mike.... actually - i totally get that. that was really funny, and great
	12:48pm Brian C.: Rutle Ricky?
	12:50pm Tim: Thx Michael. Great interview and a very (as always) entertaining show.
	12:52pm Todd-o-phonic: @Uncle Michael: Believe it or not, Michael's drug intake probably surpasses mine.
	12:54pm museguy: Michael Great show ! I was getting ready to leave the house and couldn't. Really enjoyed the Carli Muñoz interview. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. -Mark
	12:56pm lloyd michigan: Is this from a Live lp?
	12:56pm lloyd michigan: (Darlin')
	12:57pm Clarke: number one as always, sir!!!
	12:58pm Michael Shelley: all from "In Concert" thanks ALL!
	12:59pm Clarke: find some food provisions, there!!
	1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'PetSounds' - visceral A few albums - beyond just great music. Imagine being in close proximity to their a cappella, indeed.

Michael Shelley: Playlist from February 11, 2017

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February 11, 2017: Guest: Carli Muñoz

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Artist	Track	Album
Nick Lowe	Rollers Show "Rollers Show" by "Nick Lowe"	Jesus of Cool
Beach Boys, The	Heroes and Villains (live from "In Concert:")	In Concert
Wayne Carson	I Couldn't Spell !*¢#!	45
Jerry Reed	Honey Chile "Honey Chile" by "Jerry Reed"	45
Wee Willie Walker	Ticket To Ride "Ticket To Ride" by "Wee Willie Walker"	45
Los Zafiros	Bossa Cubana "Bossa Cubana" by "Los Zafiros"	Bossa Cubana
Philistines Jr., The	Something In The Air (from Super Hits of the 70s: Pure Dynomite)	Super Hits of the 70s: Pure Dynomite
Tall Emma And His Skippers	Hammatan	45
Del Reeves	Down In The Boondocks (live)	Live At The Palomino Club
Gloria Edwards	Enough of A Woman "Enough of A Woman" by "Gloria Edwards"	45
Knack, The	Frustrated "Frustrated" by "Knack, The"	Get The Knack
Escorts, The	Head To Toe "Head To Toe" by "Escorts, The"	45
Syndicate of Sound	Little Girl "Little Girl" by "Syndicate of Sound"	45
Beach Boys, The	Let The Wind Blow (in Concert)	In Concert
Dennis Wilson	Under the Moonlight	Pacific Ocean Blue
Carli Munoz	Interview "Interview" by "Carli Munoz"	none
Beach Boys, The	Leaving This Town (live)	In Concert
Beach Boys, The	Darlin (live) "Darlin (live)" by "Beach Boys, The"	In Concert
Beach Boys, The	You Still Believe In Me (live)	In Concert

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Listener comments!
	11:01am Listener Baby: Good morning, Baby. How is our beacon of light of darkness doing? Got a dope T-Shirt from WFMU yesterday. Bet everyone who didn't donate to the last emergency fund drive, wishes they did now. Best T-Shirts EVER! Have so much fun today, Baby.
	11:01am Frank Above: Just gotta see The Rollers.
	11:01am Mikey_B: makes me wanna see the rollers
	11:02am Your Ace From Exchange Place: Good Morning!
	11:03am melinda: Hello Michael and everyone
	11:03am Cooh John: Gotta see the Rollers
	11:04am Clarke: ricky fataar on ze drums!!
	11:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (Stig O'Hara!)
	11:06am Clarke: indeed!!!
	11:16am Gaylord Fields: Me, I got a ticket for the Bay City Rollers!
	11:16am Hughie Considine: Got my T-shirt too! The wonders of the modern mail service. And indeed, it is rad!
	11:16am Listener Baby: Saffires shine very bright!
	11:17am Clarke: snowin' in the metro yet???
	11:18am Michael from the Left Coast: Was that Wayne Carson who also wrote "The Letter" and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before"?
	11:19am Parq: Funny you should mention travel to Cuba. Listening to that Zafiros, I was just remembering how I was in Cuba three years ago right around this time. One of my favorite memories was seeing people lined up for a block to buy chocolate in Old Havana the day before Valentine's Day.
	11:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Townshend Produced original.
	11:20am johnk77: no snow falling in boogie down bronx plenty on the ground
	11:20am Clarke: no, townshend produced - the song was written by John "speedy"Keen
	11:20am Listener Baby: Pete on Bass on the orig.
	11:21am Michael Shelley: wfmu.org/superhits
	11:22am Clarke: right, Baby - townshend plays bass and produced
	11:22am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - like Pete Produced Arthur Brown. 'Speedy' also wrote 'Armenia City in the Sky' on 'SellOut'. Oo - Thx Baby!
	11:23am scott: A nice pro-America message
	11:23am Clarke: i highly recommend Speedy Keen's two solo albums! i think there is a third one that never came out??
	11:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pete actually often accused of being 'CounterRevolutionary'...
	11:25am Listener Baby: Lady Gaga was NOT good.
	11:26am rbxbx: i 100% agree but she does a lot for queer weirdo visibility
	11:27am Fuzzy: Opinions are like *
	11:27am Exile: Thank you Michael! I never could stand her music. Too pretentious for crap pop.
	11:27am bexx: so there's that and i don't mind her using capitalism to do it
	11:28am bexx: better than being exxon
	11:28am Marc Francis: I am not a Lady Gaga fan but her performance was great. She killed it!
	11:29am Exile: I think that's her saving grace @Rbxbx. That's why I give her a big pass, but I still avoid her music like the plague.
	11:30am Clarke: i would guess that the Beach Boys did not need carli (much) in the studio - but he mostly was part of the live band. pretty much fataar and chaplin were the big crossovers into the studio - i assume we are all about to find out....
	11:31am Listener Baby: rbxbx: So does Bernie Sanders, but I sure don't to hear him sing for 20 mintues.
	11:32am Frank Above: Not music that I would actually seek out to listen to, but Gaga has been on the Howard Stern show a few times and always does a stripped down performance with just her and the piano each time she's on. Her talent is pretty evident in that setting, but I can't say I'm a fan with the so-called "finished product" on her albums.
	11:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ' If you plan to be a warrior, prepare to be broken. If you plan to be an explorer, prepare to get lost. If you plan to be a lover, prepare for both. ' ...' Why speak of Love? 1st - Love must shatter us. ' Many PopIcons whose attitudes I like - Madonna, GeorgeMichael, RickyVidaLoca - but Musically I just don't need. Gaga's another, tho' she can sing. She's supposed to be Shocking - but what's New & Original? Where's the great Ideas? See - it became all about Performers. But - Ideas - Something to Say - those are Talents too. Okay?! Famous for being Famous never interested me much...then complain about he paparazzi...it's like the DEA & the Cartels - jobs for them & nothing in it for me...
	11:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& yeah - slick Production that makes it all homogenized Mall Candy for the stoopid - but actually buries Talent when it is actually there...
	11:39am Clarke: MS - i think that you truly are one of the few that have all three kinds of love -- i know you feel lucky, and you SHOULD. that kid of yours is pretty smaaaaht!!
	11:39am Michael Shelley: wow Frank - those Howard appearances are exactly what I'd point to as evidence of her being particularly mediocre - and pretentious - she sounds like an unworldly self involved high school coffee house singer who just wrote her first song - I like her politics
	11:40am Listener Baby: What Baby said!
	11:40am Power Papi: Lady Gaga is cool
	11:41am Listener Baby: Baby, we would have accepted "Campfire Singer" as well.
	11:41am Clarke: this is one helluva drum track - i never noticed. very live in the room - The Knack. i can't bear to talk about lady gaga when THIS is playing.
	11:42am Clarke: note to self: re-visit my Knack records....
	11:43am Uncle Michael: It seems a lot of people have never had the pleasure of hearing Smokey's original recording of Head to Toe.
	11:43am scott: A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist - Lenin (or was it Lennon?)
	11:43am Uncle Michael: Such a fun song.
	11:43am Frank Above: Maybe comparing those performances to what's on the albums is throwing off my perception, but I think she's decent. Again, not something I'd have in my collection, and talent doesn't always translate to quality, but I think she can play and sing. Sure, the air of pretentiousness is evident, but I think that's a part of her package. She definitely plays up the "artist" angle.
	11:44am Listener Baby: Knack never played it safe in the studio. No Red Light Fever for those guys. They went for it with gusto.
	11:44am Uncle Michael: Michael, can you look and see if the jacket lists the pedal steel player on that Del Reeves live set?
	11:44am Frank Above: Could also be that I'm so generally disinterested in her music to have spent the time to form a strong opinion of her one way or the other!
	11:44am Clarke: my all-time top song EVER
	11:45am AlexB: Damn I forgot how good the Knack were!
	11:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Narrowcasting - she speaks for those people. Like - that candidate is an unqualified angry turd - that's why I like him...W/ population explosion & Targeted Marketing - such a one doesn't have to compete w/ the other cafe songwriters & scrabblers who are struggling. Get one AltPop Hit - hardly play Live - get on a LateNite show - don't even bother to try to sing the harmonies on yer own rekkids - then slag TheBeatles as oldhat posers...
	11:46am Superb Owl: gack. Knack is pretentious. When i heard that Springsteen wallOfSound intro on one of their songs, that was it. My ears shut down from then on.
	11:47am Mailman Tom: Syndicate of Sound played the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967
	11:48am Clarke: @mailman tom: do you happen to have that entire set?? this has been a holy grail search for moi...
	11:50am Clarke: before the interview even starts, i will have to say that the Beach Boys certainly had a lot of skill and luck at finding fill-ins - i think carl played an important role in figuring out who would work out well...
	11:51am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @MTom: Wow! I guess this isn't complete... : en.wikipedia.org...
	11:52am Clarke: deep end - good pun, that...
	11:56am Clarke: Baby - along w/u at that long beach Q/ic's show were some other names: carlene carter, howie epstein, peter & ilene holsapple
	11:59am Listener Baby: Clarke: That was a great evening. Sweaty, high energy. Big Al was shooting tumbler sized shots of whiskey. I think he had a cold or something. I also remember Terry was in a shit mood that night. He was really throwing shade at Tom. I think his piano was somewhere else, and he had to rent one?? Something like that? Do you remember the situation?
	12:00pm Amanda: Loving the interview. Carli is a way cool dude.
	12:03pm Clarke: actually - it was terry and al who were not getting along. there were a lot of strange things going on around that venue - we should discuss, sometime. i don't know if you caught the show the night before at the Palomino - but, the piano was damaged a little after that show. i don't think they rented one, but i think the piano had to get fixed, and that show it wasn't fixed yet.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: Ah..Very interesting. I without doubt witnessed Terry getting all over Tom after the first three songs or so. Not trying to hide his dissatisfaction with something?
	12:06pm JSG: This in incredible.
	12:07pm Clarke: wow - i did not catch that, Baby! there were a lot of things going on, there, as i said, ha ha.
	12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Brothels! Down to like the very Roots of Jazz...
	12:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Living End: rockinpr.net...
	12:09pm Listener Baby: I was also at the Palomino show. First and only time I saw them do Pina Colada.
	12:09pm bexx: Listener Baby: I agree but I've liked art made by literal nazis in the past before I realized it so, .... it's relative.
	12:11pm Clarke: Baby - we should talk sometime, when you are not in such demand... it would be great to hear your perspective, because there was some strange stuff going on at the palomino too!!
	12:11pm Listener Baby: Clarke, you got it.
	12:13pm Todd-o-phonic: Can you tell listeners about your first acid trip Michael?
	12:13pm ledzeppelinsucks: hello
	12:14pm Listener Baby: bexx: She gets a huge pass for the way she thinks. But Mike put my thoughts about her in perfect detail. When you pull back the curtain and the fireworks, not much happening.
	12:15pm Uncle Michael: Todd, will you follow suit?
	12:15pm ledzeppelinsucks: I hate 'i was so wasted stories' this is an exception
	12:16pm Clarke: long beach!!!
	12:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @zepsux: Like anything - it's how you tell them. Try Julian Cope's bio about being on 'Top of the Pops'. :)
	12:18pm Listener Baby: Or Doc Ellis?
	12:18pm Michael Shelley: I have taken very few drugs never acid
	12:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remarkable in itself.
	12:19pm Listener Baby: You mean you do this show straight??
	12:21pm Clarke: i have taken even less than MS - NONE!! ok - some aspirin, a couple of times.
	12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I think that's what TheMonkees said on their show...
	12:23pm Michael Shelley: THE VEGAN CHICKEN SALAD I BOUGHT THIS MORNING IS SPOILED! HAS THAT HORRIBLE FIZZY THING GOING ON.
	12:23pm Clarke: ewwwww~~
	12:24pm Listener Baby: You mean hairy chicken salad? Please back away.
	12:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...better off w/ antacid then...
	12:24pm Michael Shelley: A total disaster
	12:25pm Listener Baby: Do have an apple handy?
	12:26pm Gaylord Fields: Seeing your vegan chicken salad fizzle sounds like you're having a bad trip, man. Hope you can ride it out.
	12:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...w/ a side of yellow matter custard.
	12:28pm Frank Above: Don't eat the brown vegan chicken salad!
	12:29pm Michael Shelley: Making an apple pie today - so wanted to leave my apples at home no plan B
	12:30pm Gaylord Fields: Best Mike Love anecdote EVER! Sick burn by Carli!
	12:31pm Listener Baby: Shoot. Watch this instead. www.nbc.com...
	12:32pm Michael Shelley: we have to ask ourselves - if Mike had just bought a Chevy back then, would he be as well adjusted at Carli is now?
	12:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How great is this?! ...Feed the DJ!
	12:34pm Gaylord Fields: It does say a lot that the unapologetic acid eater is way more sane and sound than the clean-living meditation proponent.
	12:35pm Listener Baby: It does Gaylord. Somehow, especially right now.
	12:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...YMMV...
	12:38pm Clarke: FLOL!!!!!
	12:41pm Gaylord Fields: @Baby: Carli is so clearheaded and rational. This interview is a real solid get by Michael.
	12:41pm Listener Baby: @Gaylord. I wish he was my Dad.
	12:46pm Michael Shelley: Leaving This Town was written by - Ricky Fataar, Blondie Chaplin & Carl Wilson
	12:47pm Brian C.: What a great guy to interview, so forthcoming!
	12:47pm JSG: Fantastic conversation.
	12:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: On 'Piano Jazz' : www.npr.org...
	12:48pm Clarke: if we coulda just gotten him to dish on mike.... actually - i totally get that. that was really funny, and great
	12:48pm Brian C.: Rutle Ricky?
	12:50pm Tim: Thx Michael. Great interview and a very (as always) entertaining show.
	12:52pm Todd-o-phonic: @Uncle Michael: Believe it or not, Michael's drug intake probably surpasses mine.
	12:54pm museguy: Michael Great show ! I was getting ready to leave the house and couldn't. Really enjoyed the Carli Muñoz interview. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. -Mark
	12:56pm lloyd michigan: Is this from a Live lp?
	12:56pm lloyd michigan: (Darlin')
	12:57pm Clarke: number one as always, sir!!!
	12:58pm Michael Shelley: all from "In Concert" thanks ALL!
	12:59pm Clarke: find some food provisions, there!!
	1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'PetSounds' - visceral A few albums - beyond just great music. Imagine being in close proximity to their a cappella, indeed.

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