I learned about it on WFMU, of course. But to play it for my kids , I looked it up on youtube. It is a surprisingly, nay, shockingly well produced video. This Dawson fellow seems to be well endowed.
@steveo: One amusing thing about that video is that he put up a "hey LARPers! Wanna be in my video?" message on his facebook page last fall, and that was the result (although I'm still not sure whether or not Mads Mikkelsen is in it).
found it! "Come for a day of LARP (live action role play) led pseudo medieval frivolity, dancing and ritual at a secluded river valley location near Corbridge, Northumberland. All ages welcome."
Speaking of hippies, I'm disappointed WFMU hasn't recognized the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love with events, giveaways, retrospectives, and a little LSD.
if you can play Zarah Leander's "Kann die Lieber sunder sein", that would be great.
10:10am
Morphe:
Ken,
Simon (6yrs old)(Arnan's 1/2 brother) mumbling and humming his way through SCHAM. Simon loves his Kazoo when he is not playing the plastic Sax,Trumpet or recorder... Glad to catch you live ...
@medson; thank you for reminding me that I had not yet eaten my banana and hard-boiled egg. Mission accomplished.
10:13am
weiterso:
btw Götz Alsmann is (was) a great tv-entertainer in germany and he has his own radioshow, every monday: http://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr4/programm/sendungen/gogoetzgo124.html
fun fact on the fabulous Rosa Extra: they had to rename the band in 1984 to "Hard Pop" to be allowed to perform in the GDR. Rosa Extra was a brand of GDR sanitary towels and for some reason that wasn't OK...
10:15am
weiterso:
Götz Alsmann told me, that he likes doing radio more than tv...
Oh shit, if the <em>German</em> people suffered and were blamed as a group because of the government they got in 1932 even though most of them didn't vote Nazi….
speaking of the Pavonia Newport mall, once we tried to see a movie there, but it was sold out, so we had a snowball fight on the roof of the parking garage instead. (See lh3.googleusercontent.com... )
Also, everyone: Today is the LAST DAY to support the efforts to make a documentary about Other Music, the iconic record store off of Lafayette Street in NYC (and the one time that I had a verified David Bowie sighting--he lived around the corner from the place). Ken, can you please give it a shoutout? For those in forum, you can find the full deets at www.kickstarter.com...
Hughie, it's a great album...he obviously didn't work for rolling stone then
10:27am
FʡFʢ (:
Sebastian,
I didn't know about the Rosa Extra/Hard Pop tip. Thank goodness for you and me since we are the definite authoritative voice when it comes to German knowledge and pronunciation (I did a German introductory course in 1998 just in case anybody doubts me).
Didn't realize he was ever at Rolling Stone, was he? He was best known for Stereo Review and I actually worked with him in the late nineties at dot-com. He's as irascible as ever.
excellent, Kiki & Herb! they are too crazy - once, kiki is just rambling away and then she stares at her cigarette. "smoking keeps me focused". or she tells us why she hates Reagan, on & on, and then says "somebody should do something. I would, but I was tired.". I saw their reunion show at Joe's Pube last year.
Ken did a 3-hour epic show playing covers of the song 'Institutionalized'. This great cover was featured in this show. Check in the archives of the Morning Show.
I once completed my work quota for the summer at a coöp by cleaning-out a fœcal bum's nest they'd made of a badly-locked bins room; I had an hose, a quart of Dr Bronner's Peppermint Soap (the good, pre-hemp stuff), and an auto-looping cassette player with a copy of "Life in the Food Chain".
He seriously abused drugs and had a complete nervous breakdown. He studied philosophy and came to the conclusion Christianity worked for him. If you look at his liner notes, there are tons of references to that. His second album, Amerika featured a ton of tributes to Dada.
It's worth reading the Church Committee Reports to see all the crazy shiz the FBI was up to. And it doesn't even get into things that local Red Squads were doing - like the outright murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark (w/ FBI help).
Suddenly it seems even more wrong that Fred Hampton got murdered by the F.B.I. and the Chicago police when Cleaver got to be born twice. Maybe it resulted from a very astute assessment of their relative long-term effectivenesses at change.
yes i have "amerika" too...obviously radical; and i guess believing in some hippie stud that may or may not have lived 2000 years ago is okay, if you're not part of a cult (like catholicism, etc.)
The UMass Lowell had a show when I was in high school that exclusively played songs from '80s movie soundtracks. I think Tonio's "I'm Supposed to Have Sex With You" and Gleaming Spires' "Are You Ready for the Sex Girls" were played every single week. It was a pretty great show.
10:46am
FʡFʢ (:
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Amazing to think that the FBI/police were running around killing activists, but we're left with a society that thinks the Weathermen - who did their best to prevent casualties w/ their bombings of buildings - are seen as "terrorists" (see the campaign in 2008 "Obama's terrorist friends" bs)
10:49am
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Oh, damn! I always forget I can't write _____________ in the comment section.
@Ken not that one actually, it was an R&B tune with an exciting rhythm guitar and a chorus that sounded like "so long, so long", played slightly after Nina Simone's Rich Girl and before Singer's Three & Tenjo Sajiki
Spinderella is playing a DJ night at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston coming up, and I'm seriously tempted.
11:12am
FʡFʢ (:
Talking about commies here's a selfie pic I especially collected for Comrade Ken and all other lovers of T.a.t.U and the like (i.e. Russians in uniforms).
@fred -- i know that word from Joan Miró (www.joan-miro.net... ), but I'm not sure of the significance of "swallow" here, unless it's somehow meant as a bilingual (english) pun.
Here's the info for that DJ Spinderella appearance at Boston: www.icaboston.org...
Tickets are sold out, but I'm sure they're taking people at the door.
11:29am
mary jane:
yo ken meow
11:31am
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What we need to do, Cliff, Ken, people, is throw the most epic Joe Belock party in Moscow, make sure we cause great anti-social behaviour and unrest and wait for our arrest by the Russian politzya:
@Mike The ICA quietly puts on a lot of really awesome shows. I saw Zola Jesus with JG Thirlwell and a string quartet a few years back, and, many moons ago, JANDEK.
I've shared that Happy Valley Band project band with some coworkers. Some were fascinated, some were insulted. No middle ground (they are MIR researchers)
Problem is Spotify and/or people behind them, are fabricating fake artists and pushing them into their playlists to profit for themselves at the cost of real artists. We are talking about millions of plays generated by quite a few fake bands. Have you heard of this, Ken?
Every time I hear Luke the Drifter I have the thought "More famous country stars should record under obscure aliases." Then I have the thought "CHRIS GAINES."
@FʡFʢ (: not saying this isn't what Spotify is aiming for. They're actually buying many researchers in machine learning applied to music. For a lot of money. So there is something to it
Yes, machine learning making music is great! But now when is used to take unfair advantage over real artists. Same type of fraud was uncovered by Spain police last month (google SGAE fraud).
hey ken, i'm glad you're into the Tken these days. wondering if this will be the gateway to other...related... music... stay tuned to the comments, for whatever that's worth....