WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 9, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Parq: Made it! Battery died and I was worried I wouldn't be here for the intro. Baby baby baby ...
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq!
	10:02pm Parq: I love this We Five number.
	10:03pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry ...and flower children
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed. Great record.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: And IMHO better than the original
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: i don't recall ever hearing an earlier version of you were on my mind. i might've guessed that that was the original.
	10:06pm hyde: only here briefly, but hello
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: It was by Ian and Sylvia
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Hyde!
	10:13pm coelacanth∅: i hear your voice. the music before your voice didn't fit in with the theme, from what i can tell.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, the connection software crapped out and the stream popped back in, Can you hear the Count Five now?
	10:15pm Uncle Michael: Hello.
	10:15pm Uncle Michael: yes
	10:15pm Parq: Somebody -- I don't remember who, maybe Uncle Michael? -- played the other version recently.
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: oh yeah! - this track never wears out!
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: Hey Unk!
	10:16pm Parq: I heard everything that's listed on your playlist. And there was only a very brief gap before your voice came back in. I mean a second, maybe.
	10:16pm still b/p: Hear’em fine. Unless I’m having, y’know....a sigh caught tick reaction.
	10:16pm Uncle Michael: I played the Brenton Wood version last July.
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: I def disconnected for a minute or so
	10:17pm Parq: I was about to say "But then, I'm on the stream" and then I remembered that this is Drummer Some and the stream is all there is.
	10:17pm Uncle Michael: yes you did, briefly
	10:18pm Parq: Well, my puter must have processed it efficiently, because i scarcely had time to look up before you were back.
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: there was a minute or more of a stream song...guy with maybe a hispanic "accent" and a raunchy bluesy git.
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: I couldn't tell what was up for a second, my screen went completely black
	10:20pm Parq: Mentioning "Drummer Some" reminds me, anyone know how our fearless leader is doing? He ought to be in his finals period now, and having been to professional school myself, I know what that's like.
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: Done with school and on vacation!
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: He was at a ballgame tonight
	10:21pm Uncle Michael: Doug graduated and is on vacation with his family. Thatchmo is filling in this Friday.
	10:21pm still b/p: Heard enough of Buttermilk — a glass half FULL — to realize I never heard it before, but must hear/drink it again.
	10:22pm Funky16Corners: I'd have played Pt2 but it's pretty much just a rehash of Pt1
	10:22pm Uncle Michael: You have much Stewart Brothers stuff, Larry?
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: No, I do not. I wish I had the comp that came out a while back
	10:25pm Uncle Michael: oooh, there's a comp?
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I can't recall the title. It's a bunch of early Sly-related stuff
	10:26pm Uncle Michael: This? www.amazon.com...
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: I think that's it
	10:28pm Uncle Michael: Doesn't look like it includes the Stewart Brothers singles...The Rat, Sleep on the Porch...
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: I have a vague memory of that stuff being comped, but maybe it was back in the 80s
	10:29pm Parq: Doug is finished with school? Oh, that's fantastic, I didn't know that. Did his semester end early or did he finish in December? (My kid did the latter, so I know about that.) If the latter, is gonna walk with his class this year?
	10:30pm Parq: Re Coales @ 10:18, I didn't hear anything like that, I'm pleased to say.
	10:30pm Uncle Michael: It ended last week or the week before.
	10:31pm Parq: UM, wow, that's great, good for him. He's gonna be great in the field he chose. I'll have to write him when he gets back from vaca.
	10:33pm coelacanth∅: this backing track may have influenced "i'm your captain",methinks.
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: There is certainly a resemblance
	10:34pm Uncle Michael: I'm trying to hang on but it's not working. I'm putting my tired ass to bed. Keep the tunes coming, Larry. Night all.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: Nite Unk!
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: nighty night Uncle M
	10:37pm Parq: JA! Boy, them and the Rascals, the two of them made up the bulk of my 45 collection in those days.
	10:38pm chresti: good night
	10:38pm coelacanth∅: Parq haha i probably didn't do it justice with my description! it wasn't bad...and (not that i'm a great fan, but) was sorta Beefheart-ish. (maybe... it's a long time ago now!)
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: This is one of my favorite songs ever
	10:39pm Parq: UM, sleep well and dream of the fun we're gonna have on Friday.
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: they had so many great ones.
	10:40pm Parq: I love the version that starts their live album (Bless Its Pointed Little Head?) that follows the "King Kong" clip-- the roaring Cassidy and Spencer intro, with Jorma and Paul falling in and building it up.
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Such a great band, and as big as they are, underrated
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: i revisited after bathing at baxters a few months ago, and my visit is still going on!
	10:42pm chresti: Groovin
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Excellent!
	10:43pm coelacanth∅: maybe the mediocre-at-best-starship cast a dark shadow over their legacy?
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: It does indeed. Every time We Built This City gets played another spadeful of dirt lands on their grave
	10:44pm Doctorjazz: Late to the party again... Hi Larry and all.
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:45pm Parq: Yeah, Coales, Grace has cheerfully admitted that most of what she recorded in the 80s probably sucks, candidly saying that, if someone said to her "Sing this and we'll give you more coke", she sang it.
	10:46pm coelacanth∅: haha Larry i'm laughing and cringing at the same time!
	10:48pm Lord Johnzon: That Lester Bangs essay sounds interesting... I'm gonna check it out!
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: hey doc Parq it doesn't surprise me that coke was behind it, but cool that she said that. ...the truth is i never much liked her singing and time gradually makes me like it less...although i like her singing usually if she's not the lead.
	10:50pm Lord Johnzon: I'm trying to find it... can you post a link? Just finding the whole book for sale... maybe I should buy it
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: Marty Balin had a wonderful voice.
	10:54pm Funky16Corners: @Lord Johnzon - It's worth picking up the whole book. Some of the greatest music writing ever.
	10:56pm Doctorjazz: DEAD! Bout time...
	10:58pm still b/p: I think it’s funny how We Built This City became such a punching bag. I don’t stand up for it, but it seems a harmless semi-ho-hum production j.o. that suffers mostly from contrast with band’s earlier legacy. I recall hearing someone in the biz giving it generous props back then, saying, production-wise, “something’s happening every moment!”
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: Something's happening alright. Nothing good!
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: I mean, did anybody ever need to hear Grace Slick sound like all the rest of the stuff on MTV?
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: i remember the first time i heard the first 'dead album i was like no, really? YES! i already knew europe 72; workingman's; 'beauty; scullfuck... it pretty instantly became my favorite grateful dead album and remains so.
	11:02pm still b/p: Other than provision of some blow, I’m curious about pitches and perspectives as Starship undertook such a track.
	11:02pm Doctorjazz: Great County Joe! Balin and Slick had a nice blend and chemistry
	11:02pm Parq: Larry, I was gonna try to comment, but @ 10:59, you nailed it. There is nothing I could usefully add.
	11:03pm Funky16Corners: I used to play it all the time for my mod/garage freinds when they'd start carping about the Dead. There's some straight up garage pop on that first album.
	11:03pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - I assume it was money? If you read the bands bio, the influence of Mickey Thomas got them some hits but was terrible for the band artistically
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: Somebody needs to write an anti-Trump song this good.
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: well then i heard my brother's "vintage dead" album which is my other favorite...but because the dead doesn't make money for that album they pretend it didn't exist, and zombie deadheads obediently pretend it doesn't exist also, it seems.
	11:06pm still b/p: Lorraine is good and worth hearing more often. Never coulda told ya who recorded it til now.
	11:07pm Funky16Corners: That first Country Joe album is great from end to end, with some really trippy psychedelic tunes
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: it's perfect. not a bad moment.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: section 43 as trippy as trippy ja
	11:10pm Doctorjazz: Omaha was fav at the time! The 1st 2 Dead albums did have punky moments, but they also had lots of hints on the Dead live show, more than the other studio albums, seems to me (of course, the live albums were better for this).
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: Anthem is practically live
	11:11pm Lord Johnzon: Anybody else heard that story about Salvatore Dali showing up to a party naked... well not technically I guess... but wrapped in Saran Wrap(or whatever the contemporary equivalent)... not sure if it's apocryphal
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: isn't anthem live with a whole lot of overdub? or is it not that much...
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: (...and released later, stripped down again - and much better in my opinion?)
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Anthem is a mix of live and overdubs. Pretty forward thinking for the time
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: @LordJ - I haven't heard that story, but from what I know of Dali, it wouldn't surprise me a bit
	11:19pm Doctorjazz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_the_Sun Story of Anthem..., interesting.
	11:20pm Dean: I so fucking need this BB&tHC right now.
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: For their rep as a bunch of stoners, the Dead were on the cutting edge of technology and recording
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean!
	11:21pm northguineahills: I took my puter 20 some minutes, but, I'm finally here!.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	11:21pm Doctorjazz: BIG Brother got a bad rap at the time.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: Yes, and it doesn't help that Janis gave them their walking papers pretty quickly. Sam Andrew was a great guitarist
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: I always loved how they used this as the opening sequence to Monterey Pop
	11:26pm still b/p: I should watch the Monterey doc again... probably viewed 25 years ago. Good chance for music, scene, festival envy.
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: they were great musicians. they should've just found another good female singer. it wouldn't be the same, but just as good. (maybe better?)
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I mean Janis was a hard act to follow, but they could have done something
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - The Criterion Collection box of Monterey Pop is amazing. Lots of unissued footage
	11:28pm doctorjazz: Janis supposedly took the critics panning of the band to heart; they used to say Big Brother was holding Janis back. That was really her high point.
	11:28pm coelacanth∅: (i've never heard anything about their bad rap, but the best Janis is with them, in my opinion)
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: I dig Full Tilt Boogie, too, but there's something perfect about her stuff with Big Brother
	11:30pm coelacanth∅: yeah i should've said there are exceptions! (bobby mcgee, for one)
	11:31pm doctorjazz: I remember reading about it, critics thought she'd be much better without them. She definitely did great stuff after she left, but the recordings with them were special.
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: Along with Hendrix, she's one of the great puzzles, i.e. what might she have done if she'd survived? Progressed and "tuned her instrument" or ended up hacking it on the blues fest circuit?
	11:32pm Dean: For sure. I think Janis hadn't yet reached a high point.
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: Got a bad rap as a screecher, but really had a lot of talent and was sublime at her best
	11:34pm Dean: A--not the, but a--high point for Cipollina is on Man's Maximum Darkness album. Not saying it's all due to him, but the record's a good one.
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Another great player. I saw some of his gear at the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
	11:42pm doctorjazz: Cool version of Shotgun, never heard that (or Clover, for that matter).
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: I'll explain them at the break. Interesting guys
	11:46pm Dean: So fun: Joplin was born pretty much halfway between the time of the births of me and my mom. I regard Janis as formative of my musical life. My mom likely doesn't even remember her.
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Her legacy is really enduring, too.
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: i got to check out early Thanks Larry! tchau camaradas
	11:47pm doctorjazz: Boom laka laka laka laka
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: Nite C!
	11:50pm doctorjazz: Awww, pretty way to end (I figure that works out time wise).
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: Just about perfectly!
	11:52pm doctorjazz: Loved the show, thanks!
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc!
	11:55pm still b/p: Great show. This one’s always so evocative of mid-70s radio play for me.
	11:55pm rw: Thank you F16C!
	11:57pm Dean: Oh christ don't say "lean into it"! Not these days.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks guys!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - who wrecked that turn of phrase? Or do you mean leaning in general?
	12:05am Dean: What's her name Sandberg of Facebook. Pop press BS, presented as feminist or pro-woman.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 9, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
We Five	You Were On My Mind "You Were On My Mind" by "We Five"	45RPM Single	A&M	1965	45
Beau Brummels	When It Comes To Your Love	Volume 2	Autumn	1965	LP
Mojo Men	Off the Hook "Off the Hook" by "Mojo Men"	45RPM Single	Autumn	1965	45
Sly	Buttermilk Pt1 "Buttermilk Pt1" by "Sly"	45RPM Single	Autumn	1965	45

The Count Five	Psychotic Reaction	45RPM Single	Double Shot	1966	45
The Other Side	Walking Down the Road	45RPM Single	Brent	1966	45
Knight Riders	I "I" by "Knight Riders"	San Francisco Roots	Vault	1968	LP
The Mourning Reign	Satisfaction Guaranteed	45RPM Single	Link	1966	45
The Chocolate Watchband	Sweet Young Thing	45RPM Single	Tower	1967	45
The New Breed	Want Ad Reader "Want Ad Reader" by "The New Breed"	45RPM Single	HBR	1966	45
The Charlatans	Alabama Bound "Alabama Bound" by "The Charlatans"	Alabama Bound	Philips	1968	LP
Jefferson Airplane	3/5 Mile In Ten Seconds	Surrealistic Pillow	RCA	1967	LP
Jefferson Airplane	My Best Friend	Surrealistic Pillow	RCA	1967	LP
Sons of Champlin	Fat City "Fat City" by "Sons of Champlin"	45RPM Single	Verve	1966	45

The Loading Zone	Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead	The Loading Zone	RCA	1968	LP
Grateful Dead	The Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion	Grateful Dead	Warner Brothers	1967	LP
Grateful Dead	Born Cross Eyed "Born Cross Eyed" by "Grateful Dead"	Anthem of the Sun	Warner Brothers	19681	LP
Country Joe and the Fish	Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine	Electric Music For the Mind and Body	Vanguard	1967	LP
Country Joe and the Fish	Superbird	Electric Music For the Mind and Body	Vangauard	1967	LP
Moby Grape	Omaha "Omaha" by "Moby Grape"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1967	45
Sopwith Camel	Cellophane Woman "Cellophane Woman" by "Sopwith Camel"	Sopwith Camel	Kama Sutra	1967	LP

Steve Miller Band	Living In the USA	Sailor	Capitol	1968	LP
Big Brother and the Holding Company	Combination of the Two	Cheap Thrills	Columbia	1968	LP
Quicksilver Messenger Service	Who Do You Love	Happy Trails	Capitol	1969	LP
Quicksilver Messenger Service	Mona	Happy Trails	Capitol	1969	LP
Kak	Rain (45 Edit) "Rain (45 Edit)" by "Kak"	45RPM Single	Epic	1968	45
Clover	Shotgun "Shotgun" by "Clover"	45RPM Single	Liberty (Italy)	1970	45
Santana	Persuasion "Persuasion" by "Santana"	Santana	Columbia	1969	LP
Sly and the Family Stone	I Want To Take You Higher	Stand	Epic	1969	LP
It's a Beautiful Day	White Bird "White Bird" by "It's a Beautiful Day"	It's a Beautiful Day	Columbia	1969	LP

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	LIke	1966	45

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Listener comments!
	10:01pm Parq: Made it! Battery died and I was worried I wouldn't be here for the intro. Baby baby baby ...
	10:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Parq!
	10:02pm Parq: I love this We Five number.
	10:03pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry ...and flower children
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed. Great record.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: And IMHO better than the original
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: i don't recall ever hearing an earlier version of you were on my mind. i might've guessed that that was the original.
	10:06pm hyde: only here briefly, but hello
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: It was by Ian and Sylvia
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Hyde!
	10:13pm coelacanth∅: i hear your voice. the music before your voice didn't fit in with the theme, from what i can tell.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, the connection software crapped out and the stream popped back in, Can you hear the Count Five now?
	10:15pm Uncle Michael: Hello.
	10:15pm Uncle Michael: yes
	10:15pm Parq: Somebody -- I don't remember who, maybe Uncle Michael? -- played the other version recently.
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: oh yeah! - this track never wears out!
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: Hey Unk!
	10:16pm Parq: I heard everything that's listed on your playlist. And there was only a very brief gap before your voice came back in. I mean a second, maybe.
	10:16pm still b/p: Hear’em fine. Unless I’m having, y’know....a sigh caught tick reaction.
	10:16pm Uncle Michael: I played the Brenton Wood version last July.
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: I def disconnected for a minute or so
	10:17pm Parq: I was about to say "But then, I'm on the stream" and then I remembered that this is Drummer Some and the stream is all there is.
	10:17pm Uncle Michael: yes you did, briefly
	10:18pm Parq: Well, my puter must have processed it efficiently, because i scarcely had time to look up before you were back.
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: there was a minute or more of a stream song...guy with maybe a hispanic "accent" and a raunchy bluesy git.
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: I couldn't tell what was up for a second, my screen went completely black
	10:20pm Parq: Mentioning "Drummer Some" reminds me, anyone know how our fearless leader is doing? He ought to be in his finals period now, and having been to professional school myself, I know what that's like.
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: Done with school and on vacation!
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: He was at a ballgame tonight
	10:21pm Uncle Michael: Doug graduated and is on vacation with his family. Thatchmo is filling in this Friday.
	10:21pm still b/p: Heard enough of Buttermilk — a glass half FULL — to realize I never heard it before, but must hear/drink it again.
	10:22pm Funky16Corners: I'd have played Pt2 but it's pretty much just a rehash of Pt1
	10:22pm Uncle Michael: You have much Stewart Brothers stuff, Larry?
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: No, I do not. I wish I had the comp that came out a while back
	10:25pm Uncle Michael: oooh, there's a comp?
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I can't recall the title. It's a bunch of early Sly-related stuff
	10:26pm Uncle Michael: This? www.amazon.com...
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: I think that's it
	10:28pm Uncle Michael: Doesn't look like it includes the Stewart Brothers singles...The Rat, Sleep on the Porch...
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: I have a vague memory of that stuff being comped, but maybe it was back in the 80s
	10:29pm Parq: Doug is finished with school? Oh, that's fantastic, I didn't know that. Did his semester end early or did he finish in December? (My kid did the latter, so I know about that.) If the latter, is gonna walk with his class this year?
	10:30pm Parq: Re Coales @ 10:18, I didn't hear anything like that, I'm pleased to say.
	10:30pm Uncle Michael: It ended last week or the week before.
	10:31pm Parq: UM, wow, that's great, good for him. He's gonna be great in the field he chose. I'll have to write him when he gets back from vaca.
	10:33pm coelacanth∅: this backing track may have influenced "i'm your captain",methinks.
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: There is certainly a resemblance
	10:34pm Uncle Michael: I'm trying to hang on but it's not working. I'm putting my tired ass to bed. Keep the tunes coming, Larry. Night all.
	10:35pm Funky16Corners: Nite Unk!
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: nighty night Uncle M
	10:37pm Parq: JA! Boy, them and the Rascals, the two of them made up the bulk of my 45 collection in those days.
	10:38pm chresti: good night
	10:38pm coelacanth∅: Parq haha i probably didn't do it justice with my description! it wasn't bad...and (not that i'm a great fan, but) was sorta Beefheart-ish. (maybe... it's a long time ago now!)
	10:38pm Funky16Corners: This is one of my favorite songs ever
	10:39pm Parq: UM, sleep well and dream of the fun we're gonna have on Friday.
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: they had so many great ones.
	10:40pm Parq: I love the version that starts their live album (Bless Its Pointed Little Head?) that follows the "King Kong" clip-- the roaring Cassidy and Spencer intro, with Jorma and Paul falling in and building it up.
	10:41pm Funky16Corners: Such a great band, and as big as they are, underrated
	10:41pm coelacanth∅: i revisited after bathing at baxters a few months ago, and my visit is still going on!
	10:42pm chresti: Groovin
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Excellent!
	10:43pm coelacanth∅: maybe the mediocre-at-best-starship cast a dark shadow over their legacy?
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: It does indeed. Every time We Built This City gets played another spadeful of dirt lands on their grave
	10:44pm Doctorjazz: Late to the party again... Hi Larry and all.
	10:45pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:45pm Parq: Yeah, Coales, Grace has cheerfully admitted that most of what she recorded in the 80s probably sucks, candidly saying that, if someone said to her "Sing this and we'll give you more coke", she sang it.
	10:46pm coelacanth∅: haha Larry i'm laughing and cringing at the same time!
	10:48pm Lord Johnzon: That Lester Bangs essay sounds interesting... I'm gonna check it out!
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: hey doc Parq it doesn't surprise me that coke was behind it, but cool that she said that. ...the truth is i never much liked her singing and time gradually makes me like it less...although i like her singing usually if she's not the lead.
	10:50pm Lord Johnzon: I'm trying to find it... can you post a link? Just finding the whole book for sale... maybe I should buy it
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: Marty Balin had a wonderful voice.
	10:54pm Funky16Corners: @Lord Johnzon - It's worth picking up the whole book. Some of the greatest music writing ever.
	10:56pm Doctorjazz: DEAD! Bout time...
	10:58pm still b/p: I think it’s funny how We Built This City became such a punching bag. I don’t stand up for it, but it seems a harmless semi-ho-hum production j.o. that suffers mostly from contrast with band’s earlier legacy. I recall hearing someone in the biz giving it generous props back then, saying, production-wise, “something’s happening every moment!”
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: Something's happening alright. Nothing good!
	10:59pm Funky16Corners: I mean, did anybody ever need to hear Grace Slick sound like all the rest of the stuff on MTV?
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: i remember the first time i heard the first 'dead album i was like no, really? YES! i already knew europe 72; workingman's; 'beauty; scullfuck... it pretty instantly became my favorite grateful dead album and remains so.
	11:02pm still b/p: Other than provision of some blow, I’m curious about pitches and perspectives as Starship undertook such a track.
	11:02pm Doctorjazz: Great County Joe! Balin and Slick had a nice blend and chemistry
	11:02pm Parq: Larry, I was gonna try to comment, but @ 10:59, you nailed it. There is nothing I could usefully add.
	11:03pm Funky16Corners: I used to play it all the time for my mod/garage freinds when they'd start carping about the Dead. There's some straight up garage pop on that first album.
	11:03pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - I assume it was money? If you read the bands bio, the influence of Mickey Thomas got them some hits but was terrible for the band artistically
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: Somebody needs to write an anti-Trump song this good.
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: well then i heard my brother's "vintage dead" album which is my other favorite...but because the dead doesn't make money for that album they pretend it didn't exist, and zombie deadheads obediently pretend it doesn't exist also, it seems.
	11:06pm still b/p: Lorraine is good and worth hearing more often. Never coulda told ya who recorded it til now.
	11:07pm Funky16Corners: That first Country Joe album is great from end to end, with some really trippy psychedelic tunes
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: it's perfect. not a bad moment.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: section 43 as trippy as trippy ja
	11:10pm Doctorjazz: Omaha was fav at the time! The 1st 2 Dead albums did have punky moments, but they also had lots of hints on the Dead live show, more than the other studio albums, seems to me (of course, the live albums were better for this).
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: Anthem is practically live
	11:11pm Lord Johnzon: Anybody else heard that story about Salvatore Dali showing up to a party naked... well not technically I guess... but wrapped in Saran Wrap(or whatever the contemporary equivalent)... not sure if it's apocryphal
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: isn't anthem live with a whole lot of overdub? or is it not that much...
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: (...and released later, stripped down again - and much better in my opinion?)
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Anthem is a mix of live and overdubs. Pretty forward thinking for the time
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: @LordJ - I haven't heard that story, but from what I know of Dali, it wouldn't surprise me a bit
	11:19pm Doctorjazz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_the_Sun Story of Anthem..., interesting.
	11:20pm Dean: I so fucking need this BB&tHC right now.
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: For their rep as a bunch of stoners, the Dead were on the cutting edge of technology and recording
	11:20pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean!
	11:21pm northguineahills: I took my puter 20 some minutes, but, I'm finally here!.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	11:21pm Doctorjazz: BIG Brother got a bad rap at the time.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: Yes, and it doesn't help that Janis gave them their walking papers pretty quickly. Sam Andrew was a great guitarist
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: I always loved how they used this as the opening sequence to Monterey Pop
	11:26pm still b/p: I should watch the Monterey doc again... probably viewed 25 years ago. Good chance for music, scene, festival envy.
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: they were great musicians. they should've just found another good female singer. it wouldn't be the same, but just as good. (maybe better?)
	11:27pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I mean Janis was a hard act to follow, but they could have done something
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - The Criterion Collection box of Monterey Pop is amazing. Lots of unissued footage
	11:28pm doctorjazz: Janis supposedly took the critics panning of the band to heart; they used to say Big Brother was holding Janis back. That was really her high point.
	11:28pm coelacanth∅: (i've never heard anything about their bad rap, but the best Janis is with them, in my opinion)
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: I dig Full Tilt Boogie, too, but there's something perfect about her stuff with Big Brother
	11:30pm coelacanth∅: yeah i should've said there are exceptions! (bobby mcgee, for one)
	11:31pm doctorjazz: I remember reading about it, critics thought she'd be much better without them. She definitely did great stuff after she left, but the recordings with them were special.
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: Along with Hendrix, she's one of the great puzzles, i.e. what might she have done if she'd survived? Progressed and "tuned her instrument" or ended up hacking it on the blues fest circuit?
	11:32pm Dean: For sure. I think Janis hadn't yet reached a high point.
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: Got a bad rap as a screecher, but really had a lot of talent and was sublime at her best
	11:34pm Dean: A--not the, but a--high point for Cipollina is on Man's Maximum Darkness album. Not saying it's all due to him, but the record's a good one.
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Another great player. I saw some of his gear at the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
	11:42pm doctorjazz: Cool version of Shotgun, never heard that (or Clover, for that matter).
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: I'll explain them at the break. Interesting guys
	11:46pm Dean: So fun: Joplin was born pretty much halfway between the time of the births of me and my mom. I regard Janis as formative of my musical life. My mom likely doesn't even remember her.
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Her legacy is really enduring, too.
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: i got to check out early Thanks Larry! tchau camaradas
	11:47pm doctorjazz: Boom laka laka laka laka
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: Nite C!
	11:50pm doctorjazz: Awww, pretty way to end (I figure that works out time wise).
	11:50pm Funky16Corners: Just about perfectly!
	11:52pm doctorjazz: Loved the show, thanks!
	11:53pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc!
	11:55pm still b/p: Great show. This one’s always so evocative of mid-70s radio play for me.
	11:55pm rw: Thank you F16C!
	11:57pm Dean: Oh christ don't say "lean into it"! Not these days.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks guys!
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - who wrecked that turn of phrase? Or do you mean leaning in general?
	12:05am Dean: What's her name Sandberg of Facebook. Pop press BS, presented as feminist or pro-woman.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from May 9, 2018

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