WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 14, 2025

Listener comments!
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:55pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Imaginos! Enjoy the digital salon, and the tunes!
	9:01pm Krys O.: Sending good tidings to all! Good night!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 I shall
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Sleep well, Krys O!
	9:02pm Mr. X: Teens and mutants, unite!
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "Teengenerate (Instrumental)" by "The Dictators" Awesome band
	9:07pm laurapanic: hi hi hi
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: Hopefully the sound is good enough for you to enjoy. It comes from a mono VHS tape. I did my best to improve it... but in keeping with the style of the band, I didn't improve it much...
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. My G.T.O. 2. Mess Me Up 3. Dressed in Black ... According to the interweb-a-tron, this is the setlist for this show. Please take it with a grain of salt.
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 Lack of improvement is sometimes more perfect than improvement
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: More information: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: By the time I discovered Teengenerate, they had already dissolved, and had moved on. But Guitar Wolf was going strong, and I saw them a few times over the years. But really, Guitar Wolf introduced me to Teengenerate, not the other way around. And if I'm really honest: The Cramps introduced me to Guitar Wolf, who then introduced me to Teengenerate.
	9:17pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Yep, I've spotted one error so far, The Queers song, #15 is actually called "Kicked out of the Webelos." I was once a Webelo myself.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. My G.T.O. 2. Mess Me Up 3. Dressed in Black ... To see a band that did a mixture of this many covers and originals, and a band that warped all covers to fit their style, was not entirely common in 1994. REM sort of made a name for themselves doing lots of covers mixed with lots of originals (something they claim to have learned from The Replacements, who also did that.) But by 1994, grunge had sort of planted the seed of all original songs, so that was what most bands were doing. It was sort of refreshing to see them do their take on what The Sonics did.
	9:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:17 #22 Teenage Kicks should be attributed to The Undertones.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: We've already heard them repeat "Get Back" at the top of the show. They often started their sets with that tune, and it was a favorite at live shows. I think we'll hear it one more time before the end of the show.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: While you might expect the primitive sound of a live show to be expected for something like this, when you listen to their records, they sound like this, too. They really went for a wall of sound approach to the way they recorded and played their music. If they weren't so tight, it might just come off as noise rock.
	9:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 I seem to recall you've played Guitar Wolf on the show before, yes? I think it was you who inspired me to look them up and give them a listen.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 I've played them a bunch. I've seen them three times, and they are always excellent. But they sort of take the Teengenerate idea to the next level, and some of their records are so primitive sounding that they ARE just noise rock. I think Teengenerate really still wanted to sound like a rock band, even at their most extreme.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: As hinted at above, seeing Guitar Wolf open for The Cramps in the late 90's was just incredible, and opened my eyes not just to Guitar Wolf, but thinking about music from Japan, and wondering what else was out there. I knew The Boredoms from the local college station, but otherwise, I didn't really know anything else. It made me a little more curious at the record store, after that Cramps show.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I'm pretty sure we are now listening to "Kicked out of The Webelos."
	9:38pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:38 I can imagine. Rest up! It's always nice to hear from you.
	9:38pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Thank you
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. My G.T.O. 2. Mess Me Up 3. Dressed in Black ... You can find a video of this set on YouTube, paired with the New Bomb Turks set, from the same night. It's about an hour and 45 minutes, about movie length, and well worth watching, if you wanna get a sense of what wild rock and roll bands were like in the mid-90's.
	9:44pm Arvo: I am at an intermission for a long movie! The Brutalist is about 3.5 hours long. Just saying hello. I dig Teengenerate and had planned to play them on your show some time! Wild!
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:44 That's a very long movie! I hope it's great.
	9:45pm Mr Fab: Austin! Dinner time is over. Back to radio listenin’. What is going on here?
	9:45pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @9:17 Early Queers were so great. I got to meet Wimpy a couple times. He is still wild.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 A tribute to Teengenerate. I found some live footage online, and I thought I'd air some for fun.
	9:47pm Arvo: I have never heard Guitar Wolf before, I don't think.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:47 I recommend, but I'm biased.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Right On! Love those guys. Among the first generation of artists that I added to the Sheena stream way back when.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:48 I finally saw the documentary, and it re-established my love for them.
	9:48pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 I did see Boredoms. Me and a friend started chanting "ACID POLICE" and the whole crowd followed. They did play about 30.seconds of that song, easily my favorite Boredoms song.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: This version of "Teenage Kicks" is from the end of the New Bomb Turks, that was after this live set. The guys from Teengenerate came out and joined them for this one song.
	9:57pm JM in Texas: HeyHeyHey, everyone! Play some Cathead!!!
	👻 9:59pm Heather Z: Yes! Play some Cathead!!! There's a clamor for it!!
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: Doesn't have to be tonight! But do play some Cathead again on the show!! JM in Texas and I aren't the only ones clamoring, I'm sure!
	10:05pm JM in Texas: ↳ Heather Z @10:01 I’m pretty sure Cathead = degenerate!
	👻 10:07pm Heather Z: ↳ JM in Texas @10:05 Absolutely and it's been too long since I've visited their Bandcamp! Now I'm fiending for some Cathead!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. Get Back  (introduced as "Psycho Killer" by Ta... Not only do I love their appreciation for the Subway "Spicy Italian" sandwich that they ate for dinner that night, I also love that they mis-identified their opening song, probably their most famous song. Teengenerate would regularly mis-identify the songs they were playing - usually their own - and would often start the show claiming to be an entirely different, very famous band, when they were not introduced by someone else. They were sort of "pranksters" on stage, and spoke / sang in English, no mater what country they played in. (Even their home country, Japan.)
	10:17pm Mr Fab: Is this “white light white heat”?
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 Ha! It's sort of the same riff...
	10:18pm JM in Texas: By the way, I’m loving all this Teengenerate tonight!
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. Get Back  (introduced as "Psycho Killer" by Ta... I should make the same comment I made above: I found this "setlist" on the Inter-Web-A-Tron, and while I'm sure it's close, it's only as accurate as people online can be...
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:18 I'm so glad to hear that! When I watched this documentary with Obadiah, I told him, "You know, I could just watch 90 minutes of live footage, if it's out there." And then when I got home, I found SO MUCH LIVE FOOTAGE. So here's some of it...
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. Get Back  (introduced as "Psycho Killer" by Ta... You can watch the whole set of this Portland performance on YouTube, and it's easy to find. There are two listings, from the same person. One is a little longer, and you get to see people hanging out at EJ's in 1995, before the band starts, and it's sort of magical...
	10:27pm JM in Texas: Well then, thank you Obadiah! And thank you Austin for taking it to the next level and making this possible tonight……love to hear the background of how shows like this become possible. Much appreciation for your hard work and efforts!!!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: While I can't exactly recommend this to everyone, because they would have to know Obadiah and whatnot, but getting to see the documentary about them on his huge ass TV was really something. It was like a small movie theater, it was so big.
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: Still here and making a note to watch this documentary! It sounds soooo good and this music? Same. This whole show? Also same.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Pogo Is The Best."
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to the documentary on YouTube: youtu.be...
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: If Arvo were still in the Digital Salon, he could tell us if he's ever been to / knows anything about The Fireside Bowl.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: One of the cutest parts of the documentary is when one of the guys in the band starts wearing a red dog collar on stage, and it becomes the talk of the town back in Japan. It's like some sort of Punk Rock F. Scott Fitzgerald story, or something. I kept thinking, "In the 90's? That seemed odd." But I have to remember that in 1994 / 95, punk in Japan was perceived very differently than it was in the US, and the dog collar thing was something you would only see in magazines, to them.
	👻 10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Darn those long long movies!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: We'll go a few minutes over tonight, but not that long.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Sorry for all the disconnections tonight. Hopefully it wasn't too distracting.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I was recently listening to old airchecks from my show in 1998, and I played plenty of Teengenerate back then. It occurred to me that I've been recalcitrant, and haven't played them in recent years. So this is an effort to change that.
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: As I always say, thanks for another great show, Austin, and I hope everyone has a lovely day or night ahead! Night all!
	11:01pm Mr. X: Have a good night, everyone. Take care, Austin.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: There's a book about rock and roll from the late 80's, through to 2001, called "We Never Learn." It's written by Eric Davidson, of the New Bomb Turks, who toured a lot with Teengenerate. It's a great overview of the indie Rock and Roll scene that grew up in parallel to Grunge. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:01 Thanks Mr. X!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: And thanks everyone else, too. Heather, JM, and Mr. Fab... anyone else out there lurking...
	11:03pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 No more distracting than, degenerates! JK, it wasn’t bad at all. Good night and everyone have a great week!!!
	12:03am Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 I have been to The Fireside Bowl many times. When I was underage, I used to get someone to buy me beer outside of a gas station, and sneak it into the fireside bowl in my backpack. I even played at the fireside bowl once, but long after it's hey day. Saw Nomeansno there a couple times, as well as Citizen Fish, The Casualties, Alkaline Trio when they still wore khakis, etc.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 14, 2025

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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January 14, 2025: We Are All Teengenerates!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Teengenerate	Get Back (Live In Greenbay, WI, 4 November 1995)	Live	Unreleased	1995	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Dictators	Teengenerate (Instrumental)	Go Girl Crazy!	Epic Records	1975	0:02:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Teengenerate	Live in Munich, Germany at the Kerosine, 27 November 1994	Live	Unreleased	1994	0:08:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
1. My G.T.O. 2. Mess Me Up 3. Dressed in Black 4. Wild Weekend (The Zeros, Robert Lopez aka El Vez) 05 Burn my Eye 06 All I Want (Dirty Lovers Cover) 07 Get Back 08 Screaming Fist (The Viletones) 09 Gonna Feel Alright 10 Sex Cow 11 Magic Bus (The Who/American Soul Spiders) 12 Drive 13 Teenage Head 14 Mighty Idy (DMZ) 15 Kicked out of the Webelos (The Queers) 16 Hippy Hippy Shake (Swinging Blue Jeans) 17 Let's Take Another Booze 18 So Bored 19 Six and Change (Pagans) 20 Dirty Robber (The Sonics) 21 Justin 22 Teenage Kicks (The Undertones, performed by New Bomb Turks w/ Teengenerate)
Music behind DJ: The Dictators	Teengenerate (Instrumental)	Go Girl Crazy!	Epic Records	1975	0:54:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Teengenerate	Live in Portland, OR at EJ's, 6 December 1995	Live	Unreleased	1995	1:05:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
1. Get Back  (introduced as "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads) 2. Mess Me Up  3. 1979  4. Human Tornado  5. I Don't Care  (The Kids cover)  6. Dressed in Black  7. Sex Cow  8. Gonna Feel Alright  9. Front Page  10. Wanna Drink  11. Let's Get Hurt  12. Plastic Man  13. Hippy Hippy Shake  (Chan Romero cover)
Music behind DJ: The Dictators	Teengenerate (Instrumental)	Go Girl Crazy!	Epic Records	1975	1:33:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Teengenerate	Live in Chicago, IL at Fireside Bowl, 2 November 1995	Live	Unreleaesd	1995	1:41:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
1. 1979  2. I Don't Wanna Follow You  3. Human Tornado  4. I Don't Care  (The Kids cover)  5. Dressed in Black  6. Sex Cow  7. Gonna Feel Alright  8. Front Page  9. Let's Get Hurt  10. Mess Me Up
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:55pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Imaginos! Enjoy the digital salon, and the tunes!
	9:01pm Krys O.: Sending good tidings to all! Good night!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 I shall
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Sleep well, Krys O!
	9:02pm Mr. X: Teens and mutants, unite!
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "Teengenerate (Instrumental)" by "The Dictators" Awesome band
	9:07pm laurapanic: hi hi hi
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: Hopefully the sound is good enough for you to enjoy. It comes from a mono VHS tape. I did my best to improve it... but in keeping with the style of the band, I didn't improve it much...
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. My G.T.O. 2. Mess Me Up 3. Dressed in Black ... According to the interweb-a-tron, this is the setlist for this show. Please take it with a grain of salt.
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 Lack of improvement is sometimes more perfect than improvement
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: More information: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: By the time I discovered Teengenerate, they had already dissolved, and had moved on. But Guitar Wolf was going strong, and I saw them a few times over the years. But really, Guitar Wolf introduced me to Teengenerate, not the other way around. And if I'm really honest: The Cramps introduced me to Guitar Wolf, who then introduced me to Teengenerate.
	9:17pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Yep, I've spotted one error so far, The Queers song, #15 is actually called "Kicked out of the Webelos." I was once a Webelo myself.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. My G.T.O. 2. Mess Me Up 3. Dressed in Black ... To see a band that did a mixture of this many covers and originals, and a band that warped all covers to fit their style, was not entirely common in 1994. REM sort of made a name for themselves doing lots of covers mixed with lots of originals (something they claim to have learned from The Replacements, who also did that.) But by 1994, grunge had sort of planted the seed of all original songs, so that was what most bands were doing. It was sort of refreshing to see them do their take on what The Sonics did.
	9:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:17 #22 Teenage Kicks should be attributed to The Undertones.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: We've already heard them repeat "Get Back" at the top of the show. They often started their sets with that tune, and it was a favorite at live shows. I think we'll hear it one more time before the end of the show.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: While you might expect the primitive sound of a live show to be expected for something like this, when you listen to their records, they sound like this, too. They really went for a wall of sound approach to the way they recorded and played their music. If they weren't so tight, it might just come off as noise rock.
	9:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 I seem to recall you've played Guitar Wolf on the show before, yes? I think it was you who inspired me to look them up and give them a listen.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 I've played them a bunch. I've seen them three times, and they are always excellent. But they sort of take the Teengenerate idea to the next level, and some of their records are so primitive sounding that they ARE just noise rock. I think Teengenerate really still wanted to sound like a rock band, even at their most extreme.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: As hinted at above, seeing Guitar Wolf open for The Cramps in the late 90's was just incredible, and opened my eyes not just to Guitar Wolf, but thinking about music from Japan, and wondering what else was out there. I knew The Boredoms from the local college station, but otherwise, I didn't really know anything else. It made me a little more curious at the record store, after that Cramps show.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I'm pretty sure we are now listening to "Kicked out of The Webelos."
	9:38pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:38 I can imagine. Rest up! It's always nice to hear from you.
	9:38pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Thank you
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. My G.T.O. 2. Mess Me Up 3. Dressed in Black ... You can find a video of this set on YouTube, paired with the New Bomb Turks set, from the same night. It's about an hour and 45 minutes, about movie length, and well worth watching, if you wanna get a sense of what wild rock and roll bands were like in the mid-90's.
	9:44pm Arvo: I am at an intermission for a long movie! The Brutalist is about 3.5 hours long. Just saying hello. I dig Teengenerate and had planned to play them on your show some time! Wild!
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:44 That's a very long movie! I hope it's great.
	9:45pm Mr Fab: Austin! Dinner time is over. Back to radio listenin’. What is going on here?
	9:45pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @9:17 Early Queers were so great. I got to meet Wimpy a couple times. He is still wild.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 A tribute to Teengenerate. I found some live footage online, and I thought I'd air some for fun.
	9:47pm Arvo: I have never heard Guitar Wolf before, I don't think.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:47 I recommend, but I'm biased.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Right On! Love those guys. Among the first generation of artists that I added to the Sheena stream way back when.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:48 I finally saw the documentary, and it re-established my love for them.
	9:48pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 I did see Boredoms. Me and a friend started chanting "ACID POLICE" and the whole crowd followed. They did play about 30.seconds of that song, easily my favorite Boredoms song.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: This version of "Teenage Kicks" is from the end of the New Bomb Turks, that was after this live set. The guys from Teengenerate came out and joined them for this one song.
	9:57pm JM in Texas: HeyHeyHey, everyone! Play some Cathead!!!
	👻 9:59pm Heather Z: Yes! Play some Cathead!!! There's a clamor for it!!
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: Doesn't have to be tonight! But do play some Cathead again on the show!! JM in Texas and I aren't the only ones clamoring, I'm sure!
	10:05pm JM in Texas: ↳ Heather Z @10:01 I’m pretty sure Cathead = degenerate!
	👻 10:07pm Heather Z: ↳ JM in Texas @10:05 Absolutely and it's been too long since I've visited their Bandcamp! Now I'm fiending for some Cathead!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. Get Back  (introduced as "Psycho Killer" by Ta... Not only do I love their appreciation for the Subway "Spicy Italian" sandwich that they ate for dinner that night, I also love that they mis-identified their opening song, probably their most famous song. Teengenerate would regularly mis-identify the songs they were playing - usually their own - and would often start the show claiming to be an entirely different, very famous band, when they were not introduced by someone else. They were sort of "pranksters" on stage, and spoke / sang in English, no mater what country they played in. (Even their home country, Japan.)
	10:17pm Mr Fab: Is this “white light white heat”?
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 Ha! It's sort of the same riff...
	10:18pm JM in Texas: By the way, I’m loving all this Teengenerate tonight!
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. Get Back  (introduced as "Psycho Killer" by Ta... I should make the same comment I made above: I found this "setlist" on the Inter-Web-A-Tron, and while I'm sure it's close, it's only as accurate as people online can be...
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:18 I'm so glad to hear that! When I watched this documentary with Obadiah, I told him, "You know, I could just watch 90 minutes of live footage, if it's out there." And then when I got home, I found SO MUCH LIVE FOOTAGE. So here's some of it...
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "1. Get Back  (introduced as "Psycho Killer" by Ta... You can watch the whole set of this Portland performance on YouTube, and it's easy to find. There are two listings, from the same person. One is a little longer, and you get to see people hanging out at EJ's in 1995, before the band starts, and it's sort of magical...
	10:27pm JM in Texas: Well then, thank you Obadiah! And thank you Austin for taking it to the next level and making this possible tonight……love to hear the background of how shows like this become possible. Much appreciation for your hard work and efforts!!!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: While I can't exactly recommend this to everyone, because they would have to know Obadiah and whatnot, but getting to see the documentary about them on his huge ass TV was really something. It was like a small movie theater, it was so big.
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: Still here and making a note to watch this documentary! It sounds soooo good and this music? Same. This whole show? Also same.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Pogo Is The Best."
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to the documentary on YouTube: youtu.be...
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: If Arvo were still in the Digital Salon, he could tell us if he's ever been to / knows anything about The Fireside Bowl.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: One of the cutest parts of the documentary is when one of the guys in the band starts wearing a red dog collar on stage, and it becomes the talk of the town back in Japan. It's like some sort of Punk Rock F. Scott Fitzgerald story, or something. I kept thinking, "In the 90's? That seemed odd." But I have to remember that in 1994 / 95, punk in Japan was perceived very differently than it was in the US, and the dog collar thing was something you would only see in magazines, to them.
	👻 10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Darn those long long movies!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: We'll go a few minutes over tonight, but not that long.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Sorry for all the disconnections tonight. Hopefully it wasn't too distracting.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I was recently listening to old airchecks from my show in 1998, and I played plenty of Teengenerate back then. It occurred to me that I've been recalcitrant, and haven't played them in recent years. So this is an effort to change that.
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: As I always say, thanks for another great show, Austin, and I hope everyone has a lovely day or night ahead! Night all!
	11:01pm Mr. X: Have a good night, everyone. Take care, Austin.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: There's a book about rock and roll from the late 80's, through to 2001, called "We Never Learn." It's written by Eric Davidson, of the New Bomb Turks, who toured a lot with Teengenerate. It's a great overview of the indie Rock and Roll scene that grew up in parallel to Grunge. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:01 Thanks Mr. X!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: And thanks everyone else, too. Heather, JM, and Mr. Fab... anyone else out there lurking...
	11:03pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 No more distracting than, degenerates! JK, it wasn’t bad at all. Good night and everyone have a great week!!!
	12:03am Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 I have been to The Fireside Bowl many times. When I was underage, I used to get someone to buy me beer outside of a gas station, and sneak it into the fireside bowl in my backpack. I even played at the fireside bowl once, but long after it's hey day. Saw Nomeansno there a couple times, as well as Citizen Fish, The Casualties, Alkaline Trio when they still wore khakis, etc.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 14, 2025

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