Yeti Bob - Not too bad thanks man. We've been hit by Storm Alex here, so it's been three or four days of relentless lashing rain. However, the sun is out now so I'm taking off the wetsuit... How's things over in the Windy City?
@David: Summer was over, then it came back just a little bit. We're harvesting the last things from the garden, taking the last boat rides of the season, etc.
Colleen -- great to see you at Stashu's party the other night. That was a really uplifting time. Things were a little chaotic -- Kate had a play in a festival, done online of course, and we weren't sure of the timing. So we did not sign up to sing. But next time!
Phillippe! Buddha! The prime groovers are all here.
9:17am
Dropof Goldensun:
Hey Buddha!
9:17am
Colleen:
Hey there Handy!! It was great to see you too!! I actually felt like I went out-ish to an event...yeah...Ibwas scared of getting it all to work too and got my ticket in the nic of time!
@David: Don't blame me, blame Jimmy Jensen. That song was of course a takeoff of "My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii"..... but that song, in turn, was a parody of a 1924 song, "Back in Hackensack, New Jersey" - which just proves that NJ really is the center of the universe.
Paul, I didn't (scheduling issues; see above). I *think* Colleen did, but I missed it because of the same scheduling issues. Also missed Therese! Double bummer!
Hey Colleen! So I got a call from my dentist. They canceled my appointment for today because they have to CLOSE THEIR OFFICE. and will reschedule whenever their branch re-opens. That doesn't sound good. So that's why I'm here. No dentist appointment after all.
Yes, Colleen! Scary out there. I got all these gift cards for my Birthday, but I feel weird going to stores when the world is in CRISIS and I fear I could catch a deadly virus!! Sorry for being such a buzzkill on your board, Joe McGaskett. See what I did there?
Joe / Buddha - Carol has been a great supporter of our album, and asked us to contribute a track for her Premium this year. I was obviously bowled over to be asked. We chipped in a track called 'A Game of Chess'.
9:40am
Terr n DE:
wow, never knew Alan was British...All is One , and One is Nothing...at least thats what my computer said.
If I had a track on a WFMU comp I'd want to let everyone know (hmmm, I wonder if I could bribe Fabio to include one of my unlistenable oscillator/feedback jams?)
@ Yeti Bob if your phone s Android, check out the Etheral Dialpad app. Great for that kinda thing. I did a FB jam w a Morley Electrostatic Delay and a Flanger...trains chasing airplanes thru tunnels and caverns
Hey Handy, I saw the coolest duck this weekend -- apparently a black duck/mallard hybrid. Black bill and feet, dark brown color, white chest with brown highlights. Was swimming with mallards. Sending a pic.
@Terr: Thanks but I'm all set. I've got a bank of 1950s tube oscillators, ring modulators, pitch shifters, delay lines, etc. All analog, all big and heavy. Knobs and dials and wires, kind of the opposite of a phone app.
Last week they had an announcement from our state asking people to turn off all unnecessary lights as 4 million migrating birds were expected to fly through the state that night and they wanted to confuse the birds as little as possible..
9:56am
johnk77:
another great set
thank you selecter
alan watts brought on
heavy berkeley/marin county
flashbacks
he started as a volunteer
at kpfa
Thanks for the curiousity, folks. I wasn't intending to self-promote. I don't have a big online presence. I had a website for a while but it's offline ATM.
@YETI BOB I have a friend who makes music like that. Name is Dave Seidel. Used to go by the name Mystery Bear. Great stuff, even if I don't understand what he's doing most of the time.
lights on at night don't reduce crime, uh oh i feel i'm triggered! down with lights on at night, down with twice a year time changes, down with schools that don't operate year round....UP with WF M U!
I am just arriving because I have to work the first hour of the show. So I missed any conversation on Davis. I guess he is a Kenny Rogers figure. Like the Rogers tribute, Joe has found Davis's best work. I remember seeing North Dallas Forty when I was thirteen and being really impressed on what a good actor Mac Davis was. He was a natural in that role. I did not see Cheaper to Keep Her, however, so I can't vouch for that one.
AAAHHHHHHH I was 16 when this hit and yes I did blast it from our living room stereo with the front doors of the house wide open. How did anyone make any songs after Big Country did this one? It should’ve ended music
10:49am
PJ:
Taking me back to high school, Joe. This is still a great song.
10:49am
Rick A.:
Poor Stuart Adamson, tragic life, though he at least got to have fun performing this song and appearing on MTV in the early 80s.
10:51am
paul:
Meet me in my dwessing woom.
10:51am
PJ:
@Terr: I think there was a different single mix (album is longer I think).
Many of us are the same age. I was beginning my senior year in high school when Big Country broke. I also had a big crush on Madeline Kahn growing up given my love of Mel Brooks' movies.
That this was released as a single is odd. The Frankie Laine title track is rip roarin' song too. Supposedly, Laine didn't know that he was singing a title track for a Western parody.
Been busy working, but ROADRUNNER! The first time I heard this song I was literally driving to Stop & Shop late at night as a dorky Massachusetts teenager. I got a little spooked.
@The Oscar, the first time I heard Roadrunner was in my dorm room, windows open and the guy upstairs was blasting it out the window. I actually went up there to find out who it was because it sounded so great.
@YETI BOB, I saw Dreaming Grand Avenue yesterday in a movie theater. Only 3 other people so we felt safe. Beautiful document of Chicago. It's different but never dull.
@Hubig: I hear the triplets. And he does count up to 6 at the beginning...
@Woo: Cool. I'll have to see if it's still playing. I live a block and half from Grand Avenue.
Joe I'm late to the party here because of work but am looking forward to going archive to give a listen and especially whatever it is you played by alan watts. I have missed hearing his voice on these airwaves. Used to be him followed by Joe Frank. Made for some interesting afternoons/evenings.
Alan Watts: An hour of Buddhist thought punctuated by cigarette coughing. Can't beat it? Well, you can with Joe Frank: anguished phone call dramas over Steve Reich pieces.
@ Web-henry, the wife and I and our baby at the time used to lay on the bed w windows open and not quite nap while listening to alan wats and Joe frank. really dreamy fond memory. the baby's 26 now. who knows where the time goes?
@Pantz My genuine sympathies! I am a coffee person and I sometimes fear I’m doing in my tummy. I already take drugs though (not uppers...maybe that’s what I should try)
I'm going to get going! Have a great day! Thanks for a great show, Joe McGasko. I have a question about donating. I'm going to just shoot you an email. Have a great day everyone!!
David, ha! Someone walking a labradoodle complimented me (him?) on his training, which confused us both. Got another fifteen pages read. Enjoyed both sunlight and breeze. All boxes ticked.
Gaylord, isn't it? Bob was in a Psych band called Pandemonium before Thoughts and Words. They've had a bit of revival press in the likes of Shindig in recent years. It's so great to hear him on your Premium.
11:50am
Handsome Johnny:
Remember seeing Bleary Eyed & Coughing many years ago.
A round of drugs to the White House press secretary, the latest Covid-19 recipient. Thanks for your stint piloting the rescue ship this morning, Joe. Did not run aground; did not capsize. Five stars, would recommend.
@Joe: And you got in both the British Byrds-ian 70s groups! Well done!
@David: Oh, yeah — Pandamonium of "No Presents for Me" shoulda-been fame! Jersey City's own 2000's freakbeat combo The Black Hollies put Bob's riff from that song to good use in their song "Bruised Tangerines."
Gaylord, I don't know The Black Hollies, so I will check them out. Thanks. Christ, it's really knocked me for six hearing Morning Sky suddenly. I have a scratchy old vinyl copy of the album, so it was weird to hear it without a sudden jump halfway through.
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Listener comments!
12539:
Strandlund:
David (in London):
YETI BOB:
Marley P. Dogg:
Handy Haversack:
David, Marley, boingy Monday to you both.
Deborah:
YETI BOB:
Krys O.:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
pantz:
Sonderangebot:
Stanley:
David (in London):
Yeti Bob - Not too bad thanks man. We've been hit by Storm Alex here, so it's been three or four days of relentless lashing rain. However, the sun is out now so I'm taking off the wetsuit... How's things over in the Windy City?
Colleen:
Colleen:
YETI BOB:
Handy Haversack:
Handy Haversack:
Joe McG:
Stanley:
Dropof Goldensun:
PaulRobeson1920:
Stanley:
Barney Grubbs:
David (in London):
Handy Haversack:
Marley P. Dogg:
Phillippe Bastille:
Buddha of Suburbia:
MplsCoco:
Webhamster Henry:
David (in London):
Dropof Goldensun:
Colleen:
Phillippe Bastille:
yerfriendpaul:
melinda:
12539:
YETI BOB:
Joe McG:
yerfriendpaul:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
TDK60:
Webhamster Henry:
David (in London):
Stanley:
Handy Haversack:
The Oscar:
Colleen:
Buddha of Suburbia:
Handy Haversack:
Colleen:
Martinibomb:
Stanley:
Colleen:
Stanley:
YETI BOB:
Joe McG:
Handy Haversack:
Paul, I didn't (scheduling issues; see above). I *think* Colleen did, but I missed it because of the same scheduling issues. Also missed Therese! Double bummer!
Buddha of Suburbia:
Buddha of Suburbia:
ami ad:
Webhamster Henry:
goyim in the am:
Terr n DE:
YETI BOB:
Colleen:
oh Boods, that's not good..myeah hearing about new cases in our hood too...
Colleen:
Steve from Dunwoody:
David (in London):
Buddha of Suburbia:
Webhamster Henry:
egould310:
Ed Casey:
Buddha of Suburbia:
waters7:
David (in London):
Jasminejungle:
wild neil peace all:
Handsome Johnny:
Stanley, glad you managed as escapade. It was always the witch's house with the overgrown garden that never returned the footballs.
Joe McG:
ami ad:
Handy Haversack:
ami ad, hey pal. Blue skies over BK.
12539:
David (in London):
Joe McG:
ami ad:
Buddha of Suburbia:
YETI BOB:
Webhamster Henry:
Webhamster Henry:
Haiku Henry:
YETI BOB:
David (in London):
Terr n DE:
Lixiviated Life:
TDK60:
Lixiviated Life:
p/b:
djsheilab:
Handy Haversack:
p/b:
David (in London):
Thanks for the kind words pals. Sorry to make it all about me, but occasionally you just have to toot your own trumpet.
Handy Haversack:
Joe McG:
TDK60:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
YETI BOB:
βrian:
Webhamster Henry:
yerfriendpaul:
Deborah:
Strandlund:
Sylvia (France-NYC):
It's nice to be able to hear the other premiums
DannyBoyNYC:
Terr n DE:
courtneynoir:
LP Stevenson:
12539:
Hubig Pie:
DannyBoyNYC:
Webhamster Henry:
pp:
Phillippe Bastille:
Buddha of Suburbia:
Hubig Pie:
YETI BOB:
PKNY:
Handy Haversack:
Andrew_in_WI:
Terr n DE:
Buddha of Suburbia:
Joe McG:
Handy Haversack:
βrian:
David (in London):
Yeti Bob - Now Simeon Coxe is sadly departed, you have an opening to take his crown.
Martinibomb:
Sylvia (France-NYC):
Have to go out for a bit, to pick up my son at school
David (in London):
Terr n DE:
Andrew_in_WI:
YETI BOB:
steveo:
I see that Discogs has 344 releases listed under the WFMU label and 1,154 overall search results for the term "wfmu".
Phillippe Bastille:
johnk77:
thank you selecter
alan watts brought on
heavy berkeley/marin county
flashbacks
he started as a volunteer
at kpfa
Joe McG:
YETI BOB:
Handy Haversack:
Sylvia (France-NYC):
Do you feel like Joe isn't playing Carol's premium ON PURPOSE?
βrian:
Phillippe Bastille:
Sylvia (France-NYC):
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
p/b:
TDK60:
Terr n DE:
βrian:
dougseidel:
TDK60:
pantz:
PaulRobeson1920:
anon:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Yes:
anon:
βrian:
βrian:
dougseidel:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Buddha of Suburbia:
Buddha of Suburbia:
Buddha of Suburbia:
Micheal:
βrian:
www.allaboutbirds.org...
Stevel:
YETI BOB:
Stevel:
Terr n DE:
SheWolf:
βrian:
Joe McG:
David (in London):
Jan Turkenburg:
Crudbringer:
northguineahills:
Terr n DE:
Handy Haversack:
Hello, goodbye, Crudbringer!
Joe McG:
David (in London):
Roberto:
Handy Haversack:
Listener Baby:
Terr n DE:
Handy Haversack:
Yeah, David, glad *someone's* in charge around here!
Lewis:
Rick A.:
fred:
Lewis:
Greg from ZONE 5:
Terr n DE:
northguineahills:
Tim 07030:
Joe McG:
Lewis:
Joe McG:
northguineahills:
the Master:
YETI BOB:
PKNY:
Rick A.:
tom:
Terr n DE:
Tim 07030:
Terr n DE:
Strandlund:
YETI BOB:
Krys O.:
YETI BOB:
Terr n DE:
Krys O.:
David (in London):
Listener Alexandra:
Terr n DE:
Joe McG:
Deborah:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Joe McG:
Deborah:
fred:
SmokinJ:
Roberto:
paul:
Terr n DE:
Mike W:
PJ:
Rick A.:
paul:
PJ:
Krys O.:
yerfriendpaul:
Lewis:
egould310:
Rick A.:
Mike W:
Hubig Pie:
Mike W:
Joe McG:
Mike W:
Rick A.:
Terr n DE:
Mike W:
Squints:
paul:
Dean:
Rick A.:
pantz:
Pale Son:
Roberto:
Squints:
Joe McG:
G:
Lewis:
Hubig Pie:
PaulRobeson1920:
Deborah:
The Oscar:
Terr n DE:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
northguineahills:
Woo:
fred:
Pale Son:
YETI BOB:
PJ:
Dennis Diken:
medson:
Hubig Pie:
Lewis:
Terr n DE:
WO Town Wick:
Woo:
Rick A.:
Hubig Pie:
YETI BOB:
@Woo: Cool. I'll have to see if it's still playing. I live a block and half from Grand Avenue.
suzyhotrod:
βrian:
yerfriendpaul:
βrian:
WoodsOfNH (now Maine):
Phillippe Bastille:
suzyhotrod:
northguineahills:
suzyhotrod:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Joe McG:
Joe McG:
Ken From Hyde Park:
northguineahills:
Phillippe Bastille:
?:
Joe McG:
tim from champaign (now washington):
JG:
Ross T.:
pantz:
βrian:
Joe McG:
Ross T.:
Handy Haversack:
Lovely day out there in NYCland.
anon:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Joe McG:
Hubig Pie:
PaulRobeson1920:
pantz:
Handsome Johnny:
Webhamster Henry:
chris_in_space:
Ross T.:
Phillippe Bastille:
Handy Haversack:
YETI BOB:
JG:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Mike W:
Mike W:
Squints:
b. I miss the dirtier sound.
But I do like this. At a show of hers opening for Old 97s in 2014, my only request of her when I divebombed the merch table was "Please make more."
Buddha of Suburbia:
Joe McG:
12539:
David (in London):
Handy - How was the walk? Did Bagpipe throw a stick for you to chase?
Seanbelly:
tim from champaign (now washington):
Buddha of Suburbia:
Joe McG:
David (in London):
pantz:
βrian:
Buddha of Suburbia:
Handy Haversack:
Pale Son:
Ross T.:
David (in London):
Gaylord Fields:
David (in London):
Joe McG:
Gaylord Fields:
David (in London):
Handsome Johnny:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Handsome Johnny:
Gaylord Fields:
@David: Oh, yeah — Pandamonium of "No Presents for Me" shoulda-been fame! Jersey City's own 2000's freakbeat combo The Black Hollies put Bob's riff from that song to good use in their song "Bruised Tangerines."
Michael:
egould310:
Gaylord Fields:
Handy Haversack:
Thanks, Joe. Very much obliged.
Be well, all! See some of you rocking out with the Next Joe Up!
12539:
Marley P. Dogg:
ami ad:
βrian:
coming up on the Drummer Stream:
wfmu.org...
Joe McG:
David (in London):
Terrific fun today Joe, thanks.
Webhamster Henry:
Strandlund:
Handsome Johnny:
Hubig Pie:
Hubig Pie:
Krys O.:
Webhamster Henry: