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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting April 30, 2020: Testify! - Big In Japan - Japanese Rock, Psych, Soul and Jazz 1964-2020

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Spiders  Seishun A Go Go   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Crown  1966  45  0:01:15 (Pop-up)
The Spiders  Taiyou No Tsubasa   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1966  45  0:03:29 (Pop-up)
Tigers  Seaside Bound   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Polydor  1967  45  0:06:52 (Pop-up)
Tigers  Flower Necklace   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Polydor  1968  45  0:09:41 (Pop-up)
Tigers  CCC   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Polydor  1968  45  0:13:32 (Pop-up)
 
Jun Mayazumi  Black Room   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1968  45  0:19:48 (Pop-up)
Terumasa Hino Quintet  Snake Hip   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia JP  1969  45  0:23:38 (Pop-up)
Carnabeats  Chu Chu Chu   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1968  45  0:27:03 (Pop-up)
Golden Cups  This Bad Girl   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1968  45  0:29:50 (Pop-up)
Golden Cups  Hey Joe   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1968  45  0:32:07 (Pop-up)
Jaguars  I Want To See You Again   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1967  45  0:37:41 (Pop-up)
Beavers  Over Under Sideways Down   Favoriting Viva Beavers  King  1968  LP  0:40:36 (Pop-up)
The Spiders  Inside Looking Out   Favoriting Album #3  Philips  1967  LP  0:43:40 (Pop-up)
Tempters  Wasari-Nnu Kimi   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1968  45  0:47:24 (Pop-up)
Wild Ones  Aozora No Arukagiri   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Capitol  1967  45  0:50:10 (Pop-up)
 
J-Girls  Yellow World   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Deram  1969  45  0:57:49 (Pop-up)
Mieko Hirota  On a Sorrowful Day (aka Unwind Yourself)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia JP  1969  45  1:00:39 (Pop-up)
Harumi  Talk About It   Favoriting Harumi  Verve  1968  LP  1:03:38 (Pop-up)
Houstons (Nozomi Aoki)  Solar Light   Favoriting 45RPM Single  World Pacific  1969  45  1:07:47 (Pop-up)
Houstons (Nozomi Aoki)  Sea Of Tranquility   Favoriting 45RPM Single  World Pacific  1969  45  1:10:47 (Pop-up)
Minoru Muraoka  Soul Bamboo   Favoriting Bamboo  UA JP  1970  CD  1:13:17 (Pop-up)
Minoru Muraoka  The Positive and the Negative   Favoriting Bamboo  UA JP  1970  CD  1:18:42 (Pop-up)
Masahiko Sato  Funny Feeling   Favoriting Belladonna Of Sadness OST  Cinevox  1969  CD  1:28:01 (Pop-up)
Masahiko Sato  TBSF   Favoriting Belladonna Of Sadness OST  Cinevox  1969  CD  1:32:05 (Pop-up)
 
Kikagaku Moyo  Dripping Sun   Favoriting Masana Temples  Guruguru Brain  2018  CD  1:41:56 (Pop-up)
Kikagaku Moyo  Majupose   Favoriting Masana Temples  Guruguru Brain  2018  CD  1:49:38 (Pop-up)
Kikagaku Moyo  Orange Peel   Favoriting Masana Temples  Guruguru Brain  2018  CD  1:53:33 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  2:00:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Erica:

First.
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Sem:

Oh, yah. Hello, Larry, Erica.
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Erica:

I always wanted to say that on YouTube haha!
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Funky16Corners:

Erica!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Sem!
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John from NP:

Fifth isn't a thing.
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John from NP:

Hi Larry
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Funky16Corners:

Hey John!
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coelacanth∅:

Bam, right on!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
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dutchtheo:

Konnichiwa a go go, Larry and testifiers
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fred:

Hello Larry and all. I'm not often tuning in to this show, but these are weird times
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Theo!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Fred!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Weird show for weird times!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Julie:

oooh Japanese show! I played Jullen I think they were Japanese
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Julie!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Julie:

hiya!
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fred:

Were The Spiders and Spiders different bands?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Funky16Corners:

No, same guys, bad typing
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
Julie:

Lotta guys in that band
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Some of the Japanese Group Sounds bands had seven or eight members. Lots of guitars!
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fred:

Could have happened, even with the same guys. Recording for a different label under a slightly different name
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Funky16Corners:

True that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Funky16Corners:

The arrangement on this one reminds me of the Bee Gees from around the same time
Avatar 🥁 3:13pm
Erica:

Like the Jpop and Kpop groups of today Larry. Haha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Funky16Corners:

Except I have yet to see any of those groups with instruments!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
coelacanth∅:

it reminded me of some moody blues song
Avatar 🥁 3:15pm
Erica:

True that. Haha! Then again times have changed since the 60s Larry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Yes, similar vibe
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
John from NP:

Sweet, looking forward to learning a little something today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
fred:

@Larry@3:14: maybe you should consider yourself lucky
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Phillippe Bastille:

howdy
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Phillippe!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Funky16Corners:

@Fred - I suspect you are correct
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Larry and Osaka Sound Seekers.

I see you just played the Fab Seven.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian!
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Funky16Corners:

The fuzz on this one is killer!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
doctorjazz:

Hi folks!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
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fred:

Then again Sex Pistols were kind of a boys band and Lydon proved better than that (pack of controversial opinions right there)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
ParUbi:

Like how heavy this one is getting
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, this is a real freak out
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Funky16Corners:

@Fred - I was discussing the prefab nature of the Sex Pistols with my son the other day, comparing them with musically important bands like the Damned and the Clash (all starting when Captain Sensible's 'Wot' came on the radio
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
coelacanth∅:

fred, i'll just say that john lydon is very lucky we've ever heard of him
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Pretty much anything Malcolm McLaren touched was prefab
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Phillippe
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Funky16Corners:

I was telling him how genuinely terrified some US officials were of the Pistols coming over here
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ParUbi:

early PiL is really worth it
Avatar 🥁 3:42pm
Erica:

It's unusual that the Pistols are more memorable than Lydon's other band Public Image Ltd. and PIL released more material.
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fred:

PiL opened my eyes in my high school years
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Funky16Corners:

PiL were a band. The Sex Pistols were a calculated provocation with a couple of excellent songs
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
doctorjazz:

Bought some One Culture Foods Ramen Noodles (Vietnamese Been Pho and Chinese Chicken Noodle), big hit in my family!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
Funky16Corners:

We got a bunch of those!I Had the spicy ramen for lunch!
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Phillippe Bastille:

Hey coel.

McLaren was one of those dudes that over-fertilized. Stuff grew like crazy at first because he dumped a lot of manure on it. Soon stuff started dying on the vine, figuratively and literally, however
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fred:

(PiL also got me kicked out of my own birthday party, down a slippery slope that eventually led to this station)
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coelacanth∅:

in my opinion, lowly though it may be, p.i.l. was good, very good, mainly because of the music -which lydon had little to do with. his lyrics were/are unremarkable and not much else going on there. just a guy with opinions and an overblown sense of self-importance.
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Phillippe Bastille:

ok Fred, that you gotta explain
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, really.
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Erica:

It means Fred lost his mind. Haha!
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Erica:

Or he became obsessed with WFMU.
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Doug Schulkind:

I don't like spiders and snakes, but that ain't what it takes to love you, Larrry.
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coelacanth∅:

great version!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
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Hubig Pie:

You're being too harsh , they had 3 excellent songs. GSTQ, Holiday in the Sun and Anarchy in the UK. If you watch The Filth and the Fury , you can see they were actually quite good. (Sid Vicious excepted)
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Funky16Corners:

@Doug - Is that your way of requesting a Jim Stafford retrospective?
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Hubig Pie!
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Doug Schulkind:

@Funky16Corners
My only request is that you do you. I'll be happy with the results.
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fred:

@PB: Well, it was also a girl's birthday in my class, which is why people showed up. Given a chance to play a track (because it was my birthday), I chose Four Enclosed Walls. I was shown the door. Worth it
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Erica:

Was it your house or someone else's? Because why would someone kick you out of your own house?
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Phillippe Bastille:

@fred nice! well-earned!
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coelacanth∅:

H Pie and pretty vacant
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Hubig Pie:

C-lo, Doh !
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Doug Schulkind:

@fred
Did you hear about Irene Trudel?! She has found a home on the Drummer Stream. Mondays, 12-3pm (et), beginning this coming Monday.
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fred:

Also, I think my first step on that slope was Kate Bush. I was introduced to her music (this is true) by a group of metalhead bikers who swore by Metallica until they got out of sight and played Kate Bush when drunk and high enough
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fred:

@Erica: Her (other birthday girl) house. I have never lived in a house
@Doug: I heard, and I'm so happy about that
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John from NP:

Was just gonna say, adult film title!
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ParUbi:

I'll say that I'm very *uninterested* in any music project that Lydon is involved with now. I think part of the luck being spoken of here was hooking up with Martin Atkins
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jazz upholsterer:

hey there great show always! what was the time on the disco show you mentioned? always wonder where the list of upcoming shows on the alternate steams can be found, is that a thing?
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ParUbi:

and Keith Levene
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Funky16Corners:

@Jazzupholsterer - Tomorrow 3-7 Eastern
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Erica:

Figured Fred. Where did you live then?
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fred:

@Erica: Not sure what you mean. Geographically, in the southern suburbs of Paris, as I still do (but closer to the city)
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Erica:

I meant did you live in an apartment building or something like that? That's all.
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fred:

I liked that Mieko Hirota track
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Funky16Corners:

It's a cover/adaptation of Marva Whitney's 'Unwind Yourself'
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coelacanth∅:

Ubi yes, lucky there too, but he had to have been extraordinarily lucky before that to have had the opportunity to make those acquaintances. (in other words -malcolm mclaren)
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fred:

@Erica: yeah, apartment building
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coelacanth∅:

...as mclaren was to have the talents of Steve Jones and Paul Cook at his disposal.
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fred:

@ParUbi and coel: at some point getting lucky enough times points at something different than luck
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Erica:

Thanks Fred. Sorry about what happened at that party.
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Funky16Corners:

McLaren was a canny manipulator of public sentiment and the press. Fortunately he restricted his abuses to fashion and entertainment
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Funky16Corners:

BTW These are two sides of the same 45
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coelacanth∅:

fred, absolutely. lydon, though maybe not on the level of mclaren, is also skilled at manipulation of public sentiment.
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Funky16Corners:

Lydon is basically the UR version of the modern media troll. He enjoy fucking with people
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fred:

@Erica: Don't be sorry, I'm not. It was a break from the high school mold. I even got a reverse experience of sort a few years later, when my second shot at choosing a track at a party went to Steve Reich's Drumming, and everybody went wild. Some people even talked to me after that. The popularity lasted days (as in two)
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Erica:

Cool Fred. Still you never forget the first time.
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Funky16Corners:

I'm pretty sure he's mixing traditional Japanese drums with a drum set here
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Funky16Corners:

Ah! He is! Kisaku Katada - "Japanese traditional nagauta percussionist. Appointed as a Living National Treasure by the Japanese state in 1999."
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fred:

That was nice indeed
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Funky16Corners:

I have to up the number of records in my collection featuring Living National Treasures
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fred:

Larry, the good thing about records is that no-longer-living National Treasures also count. Records can bring their talent to those who were born too late to witness it firsthand
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ParUbi:

That's part of the fun, the VOICES OF THE DEAD
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WR:

Hi folks. Listening while working so can't keep up with commenting. Fun show Larry. Thank you.
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ParUbi:

This is definitely one to download from the archives
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks WR!
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ParUbi:

@Larry @4:15-- yeah, his recent political comments have been... hard to take
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Funky16Corners:

@ParUbi - That's the heart of it. A weekly seance of sorts!
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fred:

Damn, I never saw Kikagaku Moyo. When will I get to fix that now?
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Funky16Corners:

Did they break up?
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fred:

They didn't, the world did
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Funky16Corners:

Ah, gotcha.
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Funky16Corners:

The performance I saw was very cool. They were switching instruments and improvising. They had a cello, too
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Funky16Corners:

BTW it was on the web, not in person
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fred:

All live shows are banned until September here. At least. Not sure how many small venues will survive that
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Funky16Corners:

Oh yeah, going overtime again this week (just a few minutes)
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Funky16Corners:

I suspect we're in the same boat, esp here in NY/NJ. There have already been some threatened venue closures
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello from the Land of Lurkdom. Wasn't near keyboards, but listening. Thanks for another nice un.StereoLab vibe here.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Kevin! Yes, there are a number of Stereolab-adjacent vibes on this album
Avatar 🥁 4:57pm
Erica:

I need to look up "Guruguru Brain". Really avant-garde stuff.
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Funky16Corners:

It's an Amsterdam-based label that mainly releases Asian music
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coelacanth∅:

oh goody then all the vacant clubs can be bought by big corporations, remodeled according to efficient specifications and equipped with generic, algorithm-proven acts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Phillippe Bastille:

This is such a great show, Larry. Clicky-star worthy!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Phillippe!
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coelacanth∅:

Excellent program Larry Thanks!
take care y'all
Avatar 🥁 5:00pm
Erica:

While I'm at it I'll check out Kikagaku Moyo and other artists under that label. Anyway, thanks for the Japanese show Larry! And thanks for the Johnny Lydon conversation guys.
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Lizardner Dave 2:

Enjoyed this, thanks!
  5:01pm
ParUbi ¤¤¤¤:

Excellent show today!
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dutchtheo:

Thanks Larry! Ippon for this Nippon show, sayonara!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Thank you all!
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