WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 20, 2017

Listener comments!
	6:35pm Flash Strap: On this psychedelic day, Explorers Room would like to invite you to participate in a science experiment from your own home. All you need is a laughing string! To be elaborated upon shortly I'm sure with the aid and guidance of Henry Jacobs and his team ⇐⇐⇐⇐⇐⇐Collages by Bruce Conner
	6:58pm Scraps: Hm!
	6:58pm Flash Strap: Scraps! new 'cut, looks good
	7:00pm Scraps: Why thanku!
	🥁 ♥ 7:02pm doctorjazz: Hi all! Nice Beach Boys start!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	🥁 ♥ 7:03pm Little Danny: Evening Flash, evening Explorers!
	♥ 7:03pm hyde: hello all!
	7:04pm Scraps: luv Vegetables! Let's see if we can hear Mick Jagger
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Eevening Hyde, LD! Did we all come wrapped up in our Laughing String, I wonder I'm laughin I know that
	7:05pm Scraps: Oup! Never mind then
	7:05pm Flash Strap: I know Paul is on that track Scraps, but I don't think I ever heard of Mick being in on it – is that a thing to know?
	7:10pm Flash Strap: This guy is just such a great guitarist, what a cool session
	🥁 ♥ 7:12pm doctorjazz: Cool psychedelic jam.
	7:12pm Scraps: Did I misremember?
	7:14pm Flash Strap: Not sure. I know that McCartney plays the celery on the Vega-tables sessions. That I know
	7:15pm Flash Strap: anyway did everyone have a good day on this day?
	♥ 7:15pm hyde: my day was ok. made some muffins.
	7:16pm Flash Strap: blueberry ?
	♥ 7:17pm hyde: cardamom-vanilla-pecan
	7:17pm Flash Strap: oh NICE
	🥁 ♥ 7:19pm doctorjazz: Fine day on this end; usually work late Thursday nights, nice to have the Explorer company.
	🥁 ♥ 7:20pm doctorjazz: Talk about psychedelic and McCartney, backwards tape stuff on this Jade, no?
	7:20pm Flash Strap: totally
	🥁 ♥ 7:24pm Doug Schulkind: Greetings to Admiral Strap and all goofer-offers!
	🥁 ♥ 7:31pm Little Danny: Henry Jacobs is so cool
	7:33pm Flash Strap: Greetings Honorable Admiral with Honours Doug and COMPLETELY AGREED Danny Lot of Jacobs tonight, so get ready. he is our guide and our tormentor in the lab
	🥁 ♥ 7:33pm Little Danny: Excellent
	🥁 ♥ 7:34pm Little Danny: Doug! How goes the end-of-semester madness?
	7:34pm Flash Strap: I second that query Cap'n
	🥁 ♥ 7:37pm doctorjazz: Yeah, Doug, how's the papers and exams going?
	7:39pm Flash Strap: Kevin Ayers is such a weirdo
	🥁 ♥ 7:40pm Little Danny: To my knowledge this is the first time I've actually heard Kevin Ayers. Is he always so VU-ish? I seriously dig!
	7:44pm Flash Strap: he's all over the place. he's like terminally lazy, but really creative. Hard to say... you should check him out. he did do a famous concert with Nico and John Cale. And a some stuff with Eno.
	7:46pm Flash Strap: I really like Ayers' Whatevershebringswesing and a lot of Bananamour, but have sort of struggled with a lot of the rest of it. But I can't stop coming back to what I like, I'll say that
	7:47pm Flash Strap: Maybe my favorite Seeds song here. Some of the best Sky Saxon guitar outside of Ya Ho Wa
	7:48pm Scraps: He's Soft Machine. Not really VU-ish as at the same time, American and England, VU and Soft Machine. To me...
	🥁 ♥ 7:49pm Little Danny: Sky Saxon's lyrics are so endearingly dumb
	7:50pm Scraps: Little Danny, I would think you would like =Joy of a Toy=
	7:50pm Flash Strap: Fair point, though his solo stuff doesn't have much of the jazz-math that a lot of Soft Machine has, at least later on. He's extremely Canterbury scene, and that's a fact we can all agree on I'm sure of it I like Joy of a Toy too, I forgot that one
	🥁 ♥ 7:51pm Little Danny: Thanks for the tip, Scraps!
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @LD re: Saxon – and the delivery sells it! always the same sneering vowels, no matter the subject
	🥁 ♥ 7:52pm Little Danny: My knowledge of the Canterbury Scene is pathetically limited
	🥁 ♥ 7:53pm Little Danny: Totally! Saxon was forever vocally in the same gear, but oh what a gear it was
	7:58pm Flash Strap: One of the best Italian psych nuggets out there, this one. So spy-heavy
	🥁 ♥ 7:59pm Doug Schulkind: @Little Danny Just finished the third of three finals. Now I have two papers to finish by Tuesday. I could sleep for a month.
	🥁 ♥ 8:00pm Little Danny: Good luck sir, I feel yer pain!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Holy shit Doug. That brings back feelings I had repressed. Best of luck!
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm Little Danny: Same, Flash. Serious PTSD over here.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Athanor is so good
	🥁 ♥ 8:05pm melinda: hello explorers!
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hello Melinda!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: I don't know why that Carnival of Light stuff isn't talked about more
	8:10pm Flash Strap: "pickin a hot storm up over the ocean" hysterical delivery
	🥁 ♥ 8:14pm Doug Schulkind: @Flash Strap You never want to repress a holy shit. God would smite you with an enema of the people. Thanks and good night. I'll be here all week.
	8:17pm Flash Strap: Doug's got his laughing string out!
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Seriously, this is SUCH a good Turtles song. It's everything that's good about the Turtles, in my opinion
	🥁 ♥ 8:19pm melinda: This is great, I agree.
	🥁 ♥ 8:24pm Little Danny: Baby Grandmothers is a record I lust after
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Oh I bet! I imagine this is quite the lusted-after 7" in your collectors' underworld. They didn't press very many of these, if I recall
	8:28pm Flash Strap: Plus it's just INSANELY good. Unfathomably fuckin awesome
	8:31pm Flash Strap: "rare hamburgers"
	8:33pm Flash Strap: This whole record is just a pure beam of bizarre
	8:36pm geezerette: one hit wonders
	8:38pm geezerette: What an excellent party this is.
	8:38pm Flash Strap: H o w d y Geezerette!
	8:40pm geezerette: Howdy back Evan !
	8:42pm Flash Strap: How are you tonight and how was your day and how nice it is to have you with us!
	8:42pm Scraps: Luv this!
	8:42pm Flash Strap: me too man, it really gets me
	8:46pm geezerette: :D And how nice of you to say so Evan! I'm feeling no pain, can't complain, right as rain! What an incredibly great playlist.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Very glad to hear it G! and thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 8:47pm melinda: Was there an explanation of the Laughing String before I joined the party?
	8:48pm Scraps: All you bongoists!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: haha, yes, sort of. it's an enigmatic concept that loosely maps to pot parties or whatever, but not so neatly that it's an actual metaphor. It's completely bizarre and surreal. it's my way of undermining the day and celebrating the cause at the same time, and playing a lot of classic psych sounds while disrupting them with clinical surrealism
	8:53pm Flash Strap: in other words, i got wrapped up in my laughing string and came up with the show between peals of absurd chuckles and belly laughs of Deep Thoughts
	🥁 ♥ 8:53pm melinda: Ah, I get it. I like the bizarrity.
	8:54pm geezerette: Well done ,man! Got MY synapses in a twist.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: This Sun City Girls was almost universally panned every time it was released... but I really like it. I love it man!
	8:54pm Scraps: now this is Sun City Girls at best
	8:55pm Flash Strap: thanks friends
	8:55pm Scraps: heh!
	8:55pm Flash Strap: glad to hear someone else agrees Scraps! Have you heard Live Room? maybe my #1
	8:55pm geezerette: This is like the Free Form of my childhood.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: "one o them devil-familiars!"
	8:57pm Flash Strap: "he made a sound that smelled so bad"
	🥁 ♥ 8:59pm melinda: the sound that smelled bad, haha. I liked that too.
	8:59pm Scraps: Flash, yep!
	9:03pm Flash Strap: McGear = McCartney's kid brother (if you didn't know). He;s really good sometimes!
	9:12pm geezerette: So much playful weirdness.Bo ho sweet spot was fulcrum between about '55-'6; humor/media/music/fffashion/art/...pretty much everything but horrible hippymfood.
	9:14pm geezerette: oops...did not mean to post! Your show altered my consciousness, m-aaaaaaaa-nnn.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: @G: Hahaha, happy to intercept your secret mind-altered messages This is the greatest song on the subject of all time
	9:24pm Flash Strap: I MEAN DAMN THIS IS A JAM
	9:27pm geezerette: Rolling on floor,laughing helplessly...no,wait,that's a flash...back...
	9:27pm Flash Strap: Sis really came through I guess
	9:34pm Flash Strap: god that was good. i got blissed
	9:36pm Flash Strap: Every time I listen to the official McCartney II, I'm so depressed this isn't actually on it. It's such a trip
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Love McCartney II though, with or without those sweet bonus tracks
	9:38pm Scraps: McCartney II has some of his trippiest stuff
	9:38pm Scraps: heh!
	🥁 ♥ 9:38pm Little Danny: Wow, this McCartney!
	9:38pm Flash Strap: agreed, much agreed
	9:39pm geezerette: This is great.
	9:40pm Scraps: I think much Beatles fans had given up on Paul by the time of McCartney II. It really is a underrated album
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Somewhere I have a rough draft of a show called The Stoned Genius of Paul McCartney that attempts to track all his wackiest stuff, but with the Beatle boys you always feel like a kid in shorts and somebody's already written the book
	9:43pm Scraps: I have a friend who's a Rolling Stone writer who, several years ago, picked my brain for weird McCartney solo stuff. I supplied ten tracks, I think four of which came from II
	9:43pm Flash Strap: along with Ram, it's the best MCartney I think. Then I guess McCartney I and Wings Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway. Would love to hear the opinions of others
	9:44pm geezerette: You really should do it though!
	9:44pm Scraps: I really like that Ras Michael album also!
	9:45pm Scraps: Band on the Run is still good, imo
	9:45pm geezerette: It's a great idea,Evan.
	9:46pm Flash Strap: Oh me too! one of the best Perry productions, occasionally a real rival to Heart of the Congos in my book. Which is leaving aside that Ras Michael drops classics with or without Perry in the mix. Dadawah is legend
	9:46pm just julia: i wanna hear your wacky mccartney show, shorts and all! no surprise, just sayin. also, not related, i love "forge your own chains" so. much.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: @G: You've convinced me to dust it off and see what can be done with it
	9:47pm Scraps: Dadawah is awesome
	9:47pm Flash Strap: @Julia: you just sealed the deal! and boy oh boy, i legitimately can't hear this song enough times
	9:48pm geezerette: YAY!
	9:48pm Flash Strap: tho it'd be hard to resist just playin Ram all the way through
	🥁 ♥ 9:49pm Doug Schulkind: My high school sweetheart's last name was Negus. I'd be lying if I hadn't from time to time, thought about the possibility of producing my very own little son of Negus.
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Doug! You made that joke last time I played Ras Michael! Get out of the kitchen you little scamp! you're incorrigible!
	9:50pm geezerette: Agree,"Forge Your Own Chains"incredible.
	🥁 ♥ 9:50pm Doug Schulkind: Dammnit! I forget what material I've used where. I basically have five comments that cycle and recycle.
	9:52pm geezerette: haha, PERFECT sign off.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: haha Doug you never cease to astound, in reruns or no
	9:55pm geezerette: Thanks for all the insanity.
	🥁 ♥ 9:56pm Little Danny: That Slim Gaillard was just the greatest
	🥁 ♥ 9:57pm Doug Schulkind: I bet I also said this about a previous Explorers Room, Flash Strap: What a perfectly marvelous radio program! (Like me, Sir, you are so predictable!)
	🥁 ♥ 9:57pm Little Danny: We are laughing to keep from crying over at the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Please join in!
	9:57pm Scraps: Yay thank you!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! And Doug, a guillotine for any fool who describes you as predictable
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Good night, Jah Bless, solidarity with Venezuela, much love!
	🥁 ♥ 10:01pm Doug Schulkind: I KNEW you were going to say that!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 20, 2017

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April 20, 2017: The Laughing String: A Science Experiment

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
The Beach Boys	Vega-Tables (various sessions)	The Smile Sessions	1966		0:00:48 (Pop-up)
Shin Joong Hyun	"J" Blues 72 ""J" Blues 72" by "Shin Joong Hyun"	Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974		with the Golden Grapes	0:03:22 (Pop-up)
Jade	My Mary (More Than Ever) "My Mary (More Than Ever)" by "Jade"	Faces of Jade	1970		0:18:18 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	excerpt from "The Fine Art of Goofing Off"	The Fine Art of Goofing Off			0:20:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gunner Møller Pedersen	Stoned - An Electronic Symphony Part 1	Stoned - An Electronic Symphony	1974		0:22:46 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Dean Marlon Group Demonstration	The Laughing String	1959		0:30:31 (Pop-up)
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics	Dub With Strings	Pleasure Dub	1976	remixed by Errol Brown	0:31:30 (Pop-up)
Slim Gaillard	Travellin' Blues "Travellin' Blues" by "Slim Gaillard"	Opera in Vout			0:33:51 (Pop-up)
Kevin Ayers	Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes	Whatevershebringswesing	1972		0:36:44 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	For the Residents of Texas	The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs / The Fine Art Of Goofing Off			0:39:58 (Pop-up)
Kim Fowley	The Trip "The Trip" by "Kim Fowley"	The Trip / Big Sur, Bear Mountain, Ciros, Flip Side, Protest Song 7"	1965		0:41:15 (Pop-up)
The Seeds	900 Million People Daily (All Making Love)	The Future (sessions)	1967		0:43:51 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	For the Sick "For the Sick" by "Henry Jacobs"	The Laughing String	1959		0:52:46 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	Psychedelic Senate "Psychedelic Senate" by "Les Baxter"	Shape of Things to Come	1968	Max Frost and the Troopers	0:54:14 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Psycodelic Sounds: Moaning Laughing	The Smile Sessions	1966		0:56:01 (Pop-up)
The Pawnshop	My Shade "My Shade" by "The Pawnshop"	The Telegraph is Calling 7"	1971	Alessandro Alessandroni (Braen) & co.	0:57:17 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Alleluia "Alleluia" by "Henry Jacobs"	The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs / The Fine Art Of Goofing Off			0:59:57 (Pop-up)
Athanor	Urizen (Your Reason) "Urizen (Your Reason)" by "Athanor"	Flashback	1973-1981		1:00:40 (Pop-up)
The Beatles	Carnival of Light (segment 3)	Carnival of Light	1967		1:05:09 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan and the Band	All American Boy	The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11	1967		1:07:53 (Pop-up)
Shorty Petterstein (Henry Jacobs)	It's No Laughing Matter	The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein	1958		1:11:45 (Pop-up)
Gene Pitney	I Laughed So Hard I Cried				1:12:09 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Vega-Tables (Demo)	The Smile Sessions			1:12:56 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Beatniks, Bohemians, And Business Failures	The Laughing String	1959		1:14:27 (Pop-up)
The Turtles	Down in Suburbia "Down in Suburbia" by "The Turtles"	You Baby	1966	wr. Bob Lind	1:15:30 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Scarekicks "Scarekicks" by "Henry Jacobs"	The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs / The Fine Art Of Goofing Off			1:19:32 (Pop-up)
Baby Grandmothers	Somebody Keeps Calling My Name	Somebody Keeps Calling My Name / Being is More Than Life 7"	1968	Swedish group, Finnish release	1:21:05 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Squares "Squares" by "Henry Jacobs"	The Laughing String	1959		1:30:08 (Pop-up)
Bond + Brown	Amazing Grass "Amazing Grass" by "Bond + Brown"	Two Heads Are Better Than One	1972		1:31:11 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Reflexive Sound Therapy	The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs / The Fine Art Of Goofing Off			1:36:07 (Pop-up)
Elias Tanenbaum	For The Bird "For The Bird" by "Elias Tanenbaum"	Arp Art	1972		1:37:20 (Pop-up)
Charlie Nothing	The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing	The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing	1967		1:44:14 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Emergency Use Only "Emergency Use Only" by "Henry Jacobs"	The Laughing String	1959		1:45:43 (Pop-up)
Henry Jacobs	Drumhead Jones "Drumhead Jones" by "Henry Jacobs"	The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs / The Fine Art Of Goofing Off			1:47:27 (Pop-up)
Sun City Girls	Gurnam "Gurnam" by "Sun City Girls"	Jacks Creek	1994		1:50:09 (Pop-up)
Kevin Ayers	Champagne Cowboy Blues	Whatevershebringswesing	1972		1:58:36 (Pop-up)
McGough & McGear	So Much To Love "So Much To Love" by "McGough & McGear"	McGough & McGear	1968		2:01:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gunner Møller Pedersen	Stoned - An Electronic Symphony Part 2	Stoned - An Electronic Symphony	1974		2:05:34 (Pop-up)
Harlem Underground Band	Smokin Cheeba Cheeba	Harlem Underground	1976		2:21:23 (Pop-up)
Maxayn	Doing Nothing, Nothing Doing	Maxayn	1972		2:28:01 (Pop-up)
Paul McCartney	Check My Machine "Check My Machine" by "Paul McCartney"	McCartney II	1980	(bonus track)	2:34:23 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus	Hear River Jordan Roll	Love Thy Neighbour	1979	prod. Lee Perry	2:39:57 (Pop-up)
D.R. Hooker	Forge Your Own Chains	The Truth	1972		2:44:26 (Pop-up)
The New Tweedy Bros.	Danny's Song	The New Tweedy Bros!	1968		2:49:40 (Pop-up)
Slim Gaillard	Laughing in Rhythm "Laughing in Rhythm" by "Slim Gaillard"	Laughing In Rhythm			2:51:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Artie Shaw	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes				2:53:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:35pm Flash Strap: On this psychedelic day, Explorers Room would like to invite you to participate in a science experiment from your own home. All you need is a laughing string! To be elaborated upon shortly I'm sure with the aid and guidance of Henry Jacobs and his team ⇐⇐⇐⇐⇐⇐Collages by Bruce Conner
	6:58pm Scraps: Hm!
	6:58pm Flash Strap: Scraps! new 'cut, looks good
	7:00pm Scraps: Why thanku!
	🥁 ♥ 7:02pm doctorjazz: Hi all! Nice Beach Boys start!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	🥁 ♥ 7:03pm Little Danny: Evening Flash, evening Explorers!
	♥ 7:03pm hyde: hello all!
	7:04pm Scraps: luv Vegetables! Let's see if we can hear Mick Jagger
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Eevening Hyde, LD! Did we all come wrapped up in our Laughing String, I wonder I'm laughin I know that
	7:05pm Scraps: Oup! Never mind then
	7:05pm Flash Strap: I know Paul is on that track Scraps, but I don't think I ever heard of Mick being in on it – is that a thing to know?
	7:10pm Flash Strap: This guy is just such a great guitarist, what a cool session
	🥁 ♥ 7:12pm doctorjazz: Cool psychedelic jam.
	7:12pm Scraps: Did I misremember?
	7:14pm Flash Strap: Not sure. I know that McCartney plays the celery on the Vega-tables sessions. That I know
	7:15pm Flash Strap: anyway did everyone have a good day on this day?
	♥ 7:15pm hyde: my day was ok. made some muffins.
	7:16pm Flash Strap: blueberry ?
	♥ 7:17pm hyde: cardamom-vanilla-pecan
	7:17pm Flash Strap: oh NICE
	🥁 ♥ 7:19pm doctorjazz: Fine day on this end; usually work late Thursday nights, nice to have the Explorer company.
	🥁 ♥ 7:20pm doctorjazz: Talk about psychedelic and McCartney, backwards tape stuff on this Jade, no?
	7:20pm Flash Strap: totally
	🥁 ♥ 7:24pm Doug Schulkind: Greetings to Admiral Strap and all goofer-offers!
	🥁 ♥ 7:31pm Little Danny: Henry Jacobs is so cool
	7:33pm Flash Strap: Greetings Honorable Admiral with Honours Doug and COMPLETELY AGREED Danny Lot of Jacobs tonight, so get ready. he is our guide and our tormentor in the lab
	🥁 ♥ 7:33pm Little Danny: Excellent
	🥁 ♥ 7:34pm Little Danny: Doug! How goes the end-of-semester madness?
	7:34pm Flash Strap: I second that query Cap'n
	🥁 ♥ 7:37pm doctorjazz: Yeah, Doug, how's the papers and exams going?
	7:39pm Flash Strap: Kevin Ayers is such a weirdo
	🥁 ♥ 7:40pm Little Danny: To my knowledge this is the first time I've actually heard Kevin Ayers. Is he always so VU-ish? I seriously dig!
	7:44pm Flash Strap: he's all over the place. he's like terminally lazy, but really creative. Hard to say... you should check him out. he did do a famous concert with Nico and John Cale. And a some stuff with Eno.
	7:46pm Flash Strap: I really like Ayers' Whatevershebringswesing and a lot of Bananamour, but have sort of struggled with a lot of the rest of it. But I can't stop coming back to what I like, I'll say that
	7:47pm Flash Strap: Maybe my favorite Seeds song here. Some of the best Sky Saxon guitar outside of Ya Ho Wa
	7:48pm Scraps: He's Soft Machine. Not really VU-ish as at the same time, American and England, VU and Soft Machine. To me...
	🥁 ♥ 7:49pm Little Danny: Sky Saxon's lyrics are so endearingly dumb
	7:50pm Scraps: Little Danny, I would think you would like =Joy of a Toy=
	7:50pm Flash Strap: Fair point, though his solo stuff doesn't have much of the jazz-math that a lot of Soft Machine has, at least later on. He's extremely Canterbury scene, and that's a fact we can all agree on I'm sure of it I like Joy of a Toy too, I forgot that one
	🥁 ♥ 7:51pm Little Danny: Thanks for the tip, Scraps!
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @LD re: Saxon – and the delivery sells it! always the same sneering vowels, no matter the subject
	🥁 ♥ 7:52pm Little Danny: My knowledge of the Canterbury Scene is pathetically limited
	🥁 ♥ 7:53pm Little Danny: Totally! Saxon was forever vocally in the same gear, but oh what a gear it was
	7:58pm Flash Strap: One of the best Italian psych nuggets out there, this one. So spy-heavy
	🥁 ♥ 7:59pm Doug Schulkind: @Little Danny Just finished the third of three finals. Now I have two papers to finish by Tuesday. I could sleep for a month.
	🥁 ♥ 8:00pm Little Danny: Good luck sir, I feel yer pain!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Holy shit Doug. That brings back feelings I had repressed. Best of luck!
	🥁 ♥ 8:04pm Little Danny: Same, Flash. Serious PTSD over here.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Athanor is so good
	🥁 ♥ 8:05pm melinda: hello explorers!
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hello Melinda!
	8:08pm Flash Strap: I don't know why that Carnival of Light stuff isn't talked about more
	8:10pm Flash Strap: "pickin a hot storm up over the ocean" hysterical delivery
	🥁 ♥ 8:14pm Doug Schulkind: @Flash Strap You never want to repress a holy shit. God would smite you with an enema of the people. Thanks and good night. I'll be here all week.
	8:17pm Flash Strap: Doug's got his laughing string out!
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Seriously, this is SUCH a good Turtles song. It's everything that's good about the Turtles, in my opinion
	🥁 ♥ 8:19pm melinda: This is great, I agree.
	🥁 ♥ 8:24pm Little Danny: Baby Grandmothers is a record I lust after
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Oh I bet! I imagine this is quite the lusted-after 7" in your collectors' underworld. They didn't press very many of these, if I recall
	8:28pm Flash Strap: Plus it's just INSANELY good. Unfathomably fuckin awesome
	8:31pm Flash Strap: "rare hamburgers"
	8:33pm Flash Strap: This whole record is just a pure beam of bizarre
	8:36pm geezerette: one hit wonders
	8:38pm geezerette: What an excellent party this is.
	8:38pm Flash Strap: H o w d y Geezerette!
	8:40pm geezerette: Howdy back Evan !
	8:42pm Flash Strap: How are you tonight and how was your day and how nice it is to have you with us!
	8:42pm Scraps: Luv this!
	8:42pm Flash Strap: me too man, it really gets me
	8:46pm geezerette: :D And how nice of you to say so Evan! I'm feeling no pain, can't complain, right as rain! What an incredibly great playlist.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Very glad to hear it G! and thanks!
	🥁 ♥ 8:47pm melinda: Was there an explanation of the Laughing String before I joined the party?
	8:48pm Scraps: All you bongoists!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: haha, yes, sort of. it's an enigmatic concept that loosely maps to pot parties or whatever, but not so neatly that it's an actual metaphor. It's completely bizarre and surreal. it's my way of undermining the day and celebrating the cause at the same time, and playing a lot of classic psych sounds while disrupting them with clinical surrealism
	8:53pm Flash Strap: in other words, i got wrapped up in my laughing string and came up with the show between peals of absurd chuckles and belly laughs of Deep Thoughts
	🥁 ♥ 8:53pm melinda: Ah, I get it. I like the bizarrity.
	8:54pm geezerette: Well done ,man! Got MY synapses in a twist.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: This Sun City Girls was almost universally panned every time it was released... but I really like it. I love it man!
	8:54pm Scraps: now this is Sun City Girls at best
	8:55pm Flash Strap: thanks friends
	8:55pm Scraps: heh!
	8:55pm Flash Strap: glad to hear someone else agrees Scraps! Have you heard Live Room? maybe my #1
	8:55pm geezerette: This is like the Free Form of my childhood.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: "one o them devil-familiars!"
	8:57pm Flash Strap: "he made a sound that smelled so bad"
	🥁 ♥ 8:59pm melinda: the sound that smelled bad, haha. I liked that too.
	8:59pm Scraps: Flash, yep!
	9:03pm Flash Strap: McGear = McCartney's kid brother (if you didn't know). He;s really good sometimes!
	9:12pm geezerette: So much playful weirdness.Bo ho sweet spot was fulcrum between about '55-'6; humor/media/music/fffashion/art/...pretty much everything but horrible hippymfood.
	9:14pm geezerette: oops...did not mean to post! Your show altered my consciousness, m-aaaaaaaa-nnn.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: @G: Hahaha, happy to intercept your secret mind-altered messages This is the greatest song on the subject of all time
	9:24pm Flash Strap: I MEAN DAMN THIS IS A JAM
	9:27pm geezerette: Rolling on floor,laughing helplessly...no,wait,that's a flash...back...
	9:27pm Flash Strap: Sis really came through I guess
	9:34pm Flash Strap: god that was good. i got blissed
	9:36pm Flash Strap: Every time I listen to the official McCartney II, I'm so depressed this isn't actually on it. It's such a trip
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Love McCartney II though, with or without those sweet bonus tracks
	9:38pm Scraps: McCartney II has some of his trippiest stuff
	9:38pm Scraps: heh!
	🥁 ♥ 9:38pm Little Danny: Wow, this McCartney!
	9:38pm Flash Strap: agreed, much agreed
	9:39pm geezerette: This is great.
	9:40pm Scraps: I think much Beatles fans had given up on Paul by the time of McCartney II. It really is a underrated album
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Somewhere I have a rough draft of a show called The Stoned Genius of Paul McCartney that attempts to track all his wackiest stuff, but with the Beatle boys you always feel like a kid in shorts and somebody's already written the book
	9:43pm Scraps: I have a friend who's a Rolling Stone writer who, several years ago, picked my brain for weird McCartney solo stuff. I supplied ten tracks, I think four of which came from II
	9:43pm Flash Strap: along with Ram, it's the best MCartney I think. Then I guess McCartney I and Wings Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway. Would love to hear the opinions of others
	9:44pm geezerette: You really should do it though!
	9:44pm Scraps: I really like that Ras Michael album also!
	9:45pm Scraps: Band on the Run is still good, imo
	9:45pm geezerette: It's a great idea,Evan.
	9:46pm Flash Strap: Oh me too! one of the best Perry productions, occasionally a real rival to Heart of the Congos in my book. Which is leaving aside that Ras Michael drops classics with or without Perry in the mix. Dadawah is legend
	9:46pm just julia: i wanna hear your wacky mccartney show, shorts and all! no surprise, just sayin. also, not related, i love "forge your own chains" so. much.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: @G: You've convinced me to dust it off and see what can be done with it
	9:47pm Scraps: Dadawah is awesome
	9:47pm Flash Strap: @Julia: you just sealed the deal! and boy oh boy, i legitimately can't hear this song enough times
	9:48pm geezerette: YAY!
	9:48pm Flash Strap: tho it'd be hard to resist just playin Ram all the way through
	🥁 ♥ 9:49pm Doug Schulkind: My high school sweetheart's last name was Negus. I'd be lying if I hadn't from time to time, thought about the possibility of producing my very own little son of Negus.
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Doug! You made that joke last time I played Ras Michael! Get out of the kitchen you little scamp! you're incorrigible!
	9:50pm geezerette: Agree,"Forge Your Own Chains"incredible.
	🥁 ♥ 9:50pm Doug Schulkind: Dammnit! I forget what material I've used where. I basically have five comments that cycle and recycle.
	9:52pm geezerette: haha, PERFECT sign off.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: haha Doug you never cease to astound, in reruns or no
	9:55pm geezerette: Thanks for all the insanity.
	🥁 ♥ 9:56pm Little Danny: That Slim Gaillard was just the greatest
	🥁 ♥ 9:57pm Doug Schulkind: I bet I also said this about a previous Explorers Room, Flash Strap: What a perfectly marvelous radio program! (Like me, Sir, you are so predictable!)
	🥁 ♥ 9:57pm Little Danny: We are laughing to keep from crying over at the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Please join in!
	9:57pm Scraps: Yay thank you!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! And Doug, a guillotine for any fool who describes you as predictable
	10:01pm Flash Strap: Good night, Jah Bless, solidarity with Venezuela, much love!
	🥁 ♥ 10:01pm Doug Schulkind: I KNEW you were going to say that!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 20, 2017

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