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Favoriting April 17, 2013: John Strausbaugh discusses his new book The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village.

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Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
DEAN DRUMMOND (1949-2013)  IN MEMORIAM   Favoriting various works by and featuring Dean Drummond  0:12:15 (Pop-up)
Newband  Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (comp: Harry Partch)   Favoriting Harry Partch: Barstow  0:13:13 (Pop-up)
Newband  'Round Midnight (comp. Thelonious Monk, arr. Dean Drummond)   Favoriting Newband Play Microtonal Works by Partch, Monk, Drummond, Pugliese, and Rosenblum  0:23:38 (Pop-up)
Newband  Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (comp. Partch; arr. Dean Drummond)   Favoriting Newband Play Microtonal Works by Partch, Cage, LaBarbara, & Drummond  0:30:12 (Pop-up)
Newband  Then or Never (comp. & cond. Dean Drummond)   Favoriting Newband Play Microtonal Works by Partch, Cage, LaBarbara, & Drummond  0:33:45 (Pop-up)
Newband  Daphne of the Dunes (comp. Harry Partch)   Favoriting Newband Play Microtonal Works by Partch, Monk, Drummond, Pugliese, and Rosenblum  0:46:29 (Pop-up)
JOHN STRAUSBAUGH  THE VILLAGE: Beats & Bohemians, Radicals & Rogues: 400 Years of a History of Greenwich Village   Favoriting   1:06:07 (Pop-up)
JOHN STRAUSBAUGH  interview seg 1   Favoriting   1:08:27 (Pop-up)
Billy Murray  Rose Of Washington Square   Favoriting   1:18:59 (Pop-up)
JOHN STRAUSBAUGH  interview seg 2   Favoriting   1:23:27 (Pop-up)
Jean Shepherd  Bacchanal At Sheridan Square   Favoriting   1:41:46 (Pop-up)
JOHN STRAUSBAUGH  interview seg 3   Favoriting   1:45:23 (Pop-up)
Dave Van Ronk  Last Call   Favoriting   2:05:50 (Pop-up)
JOHN STRAUSBAUGH  interview seg 4   Favoriting   2:05:58 (Pop-up)
Thelonious Monk  Coming On the Hudson (feat. Johnny Griffin)   Favoriting Complete Live At the Five Spot 1958 (feat. Johnny Griffin)  2:10:17 (Pop-up)
The Horace Silver Quintet  The African Queen   Favoriting The Cape Verdean Blues  2:15:05 (Pop-up)
Lisa Germano  ... And So On   Favoriting No Elephants  2:24:54 (Pop-up)
Xenia Rubinos  Ultima   Favoriting Magic Trix  2:27:19 (Pop-up)
Coolrunnings  BTC   Favoriting Dracula is Only the Beginning  2:31:51 (Pop-up)
Harvey Danger  Flagpole Sitta   Favoriting Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?  2:34:57 (Pop-up)
Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton and His Orchestra  Jollity Farm   Favoriting Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us: A Pre-History of the Bonzos  2:38:36 (Pop-up)
 
Whiteroom  At Odds   Favoriting Whiteroom  2:50:25 (Pop-up)
Jenny O.  Rain   Favoriting live on WFMU, April 3, 2013  2:54:31 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
rrg:

Playiist updated live!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
rrg:

In the 1950s one could still drive one's automobile through that arch and into the park.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
rrg:

Note: This playlist is still being updated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Parq:

Oh, is today the Strausbaugh session? Dang, and me with a heavy workload. This may be a job for The Archives.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
rrg:

We're okay.
Avatar 3:04pm
fleep:

"the arch wasn't fully complete when it was unveiled: the two statue bases on the Fifth Avenue side of the arch were conspicuously empty and would remain that way until 1915-17 when the two statues of Washington were finally erected"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Excited about today’s Show ! :
– as Kerouac & Beats, Dylan & Hendrix are all among personal obsessions
- & the scope & detail of the work discussed look so impressive !
– I know I’m going to learn a lot that’s very interesting!

…Some books just because I know them & are brought to mind by this … :

- Suze Rotolo was Dylan’s girlfriend in early 60’s - & just read her recent (2008) book centered around the Village: "A Freewheelin' Time"
- I found Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ about her time w/ Robert Mapplethorpe in NYC very moving
- & even more tangentially (but hopefully appropriate enuff to scope of Mr. Strausbaugh’s work to mention) I’m reminded of 'Birth of the Cool’ by Lewis MacAdams.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
SeanG:

always loved the book, "Kafka was the Rage", by Anatole Broyard---great Village memoir
  3:12pm
common:

i'll play those instruments. have someone get in touch.
  3:14pm
Domenic:

These inscriptions are hardly blonde biased
  3:17pm
Domenic:

Again...Jesus was not what one would call a pretty woman
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...It certainly makes an interesting Comparison/Contrast to Woody Guthrie's or Kerouac's Chronicles of The Road...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Alison Porchnik:

This is lovely
Avatar 3:27pm
Michael:

Agree Alison - this Partch is great. Thanks Irwin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...as this does to other versions of a Jazz Standard;
- not just a novelty - but really rewarding tonalities...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& his own composition is beautiful...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
G:

What was his date of death, and is there a published source for that? It's not on his wiki page, nor on his personal webpage (where his bio is in present tense), as linked to off his faculty site.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- & beautifully played - by Mr. Drummond (& a few others)?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Irwin:

If anyone can find a death citation online, please add it to DD's wiki page. I've heard it from multiple reliable sources, but have yet to come across an obit. The NYT apparently has one ready to go, but they have yet to find space for it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- both experimentally Moderne & really lovely. What a treat.
Avatar 3:44pm
fleep:

www.legacy.com...
Avatar 3:44pm
northguineahills:

what RRN63 said.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Irwin:

Thanks, fleep!
  3:51pm
Brett:

What's that drumming stuff? Gamelan?? I missed the spoken information..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& it's interesting to Compare/Contrast this piece (Daphne) w/ what Electronic Composers were doing;
- for all the pictures I've see of his unique instruments & the attention that's had - I'm grateful to really hear some Partch as Composer...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- wonder what Partch said about Asian influence...
  3:56pm
common:

yea, revolution. me too. this is great!
Avatar 3:58pm
northguineahills:

Haven't heard "Then or Never" or "Daphne of the Dunes". Enlightening..., I thought I heard most Partch, and by extension, Drummond pieces.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:01pm
Parq:

Joining what everyone else is saying; this is wonderful.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...some of it reminds me of Japanese Theater music (or what I *think* that is) - & Gamelon is often epic play music too - altho' Daphne prob. a Greek Myth theme. Ancient Greece is considered the roots of the West, but what I've heard of recreations (best guesses?) of their music (Smithsonian CD?) sounds fairly 'Orient'...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
G:

tx, fleep. that obit wasn't there the other day...

his wiki article has updated info now. someone knowing his work well may want to check and fix, if needed, the long list of his works...

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Alison Porchnik:

cholera ... and herds of pigs running amok in the streets of lower Manhattan.
Avatar 4:13pm
northguineahills:

Jon Savage's "Teenage" touches on Greenwich Village from the late 1850s-1960s.
Avatar 4:14pm
fleep:

And now we sneer virtually. Progress.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
G:

We have very efficiently lowered the transport cost on sneering to near zero. Just the energy required to hit some keys. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Parq:

Ah, so *this* is "Rose of Washington Square"! I've heard of this song all my life and yet never heard it before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Liam Clancey's account of the scene in Scorsese's Dylan doc 'No Direction Home' I think says a lot in compact fashion...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- & Jazz! The mind reels...
Avatar 4:25pm
fleep:

The Baroness www.francisnaumann.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...The Baroness was decidely 'Alt'...
- The Bus Tour thing sounds like the same thing in Haight-Ashbury?: The Dead holding mirrors to Tourists & all that...
Avatar 4:40pm
uuee:

Shep, then Long John....
  4:41pm
common:

he wrote a great short story about beer.
  4:42pm
Thelma Blitz:

Tuli Kupferberg (the Dead Fug) on Bohemianism:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8GhRSwngY
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Caryn:

Man, Jean's cultural connections and contributions are myriad...
  4:44pm
Thelma Blitz:

Tuli Kupferberg: "Way Down South in Greenwich Village" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYj4VGcCfiQ
Avatar 4:45pm
uuee:

"In God weTrust, All Others Pay Cash"...had an autographed copy....(sigh)...dissapeared when my son left home...Shep signed--Ecelsior! at a bookstore in Plainfield NJ...early 70's
  4:47pm
Thelma Blitz:

Tuli Kupferberg ( the revenant Fug): Greenwich Village of My Dreams pt. 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU0ZBkte8J8
  4:48pm
Thelma Blitz:

Tuli's "Greenwich Village of My Dreams" part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLTCyVsLYKk
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Caryn:

John's website doesn't seem to have any way to sign on to a newsletter or other e-mail notices. Just thought I'd mention it.
  4:54pm
Aly Dukes:

I am so loving this interview.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Caryn:

I suspect some of today's chess boxers might be fine with GBS...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:03pm
Irwin:

to sign up for mailing list: press@johnstrausbaugh.com
Avatar 5:09pm
fleep:

Thanks, John!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:10pm
Alison Porchnik:

Such a great interview, Irwin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thx - ! More FMU greatness...

...Monk is my favorite Jazz after Coltrane - just does for me (I take Irwin's point he doen't play much Miles or Monk for HardBop 'cause they're heard elsewhere)...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:37pm
G:

That tongue piercing line is a hoot. I've been in residence with someone who's done it! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:39pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Not a Bonzo original - ?!?!
  5:39pm
Brett:

I love this music!!! It sounds like a black and white cartoon.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:39pm
rrg:

This is a great and underplayed album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:40pm
Caryn:

Irwin, what's the name of that website with the historical writing on it? I suspect I heard it wrong, because any spelling I've tried is not coming up with results.
Avatar 5:40pm
Dr. Goot:

This is an apt Bonzo cover.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:40pm
Irwin:

chiseler.org
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:41pm
Parq:

Can I believe what I'm seeing? This Bonzos tribute album has "I Love to Bumpity Bump" performed by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:41pm
rrg:

I think it's actually chiseler.org
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:42pm
rrg:

Too fast for me.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:43pm
rrg:

"Jollity Farm" was also done in German by the Comedian Harmonists. Called "Heut' fahr' ich mit Dir in die Natur"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:44pm
Mutant:

FYI, Peep Show is on Netflix
Avatar 5:49pm
fleep:

It's on? Wow. Cool.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:50pm
Mutant:

Netflix streaming at least
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Drum Throwdown! Excellent!
Avatar 5:51pm
Droll:

Why is Bryce always skipped as one of the FMU Drum Corps?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:54pm
Parq:

Droll, Bryce drums in several numbers each year for the Hoof 'n' Mouth, and did so this year, including his flawless rendering of the drum kick-off to "We're An American Band".
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:55pm
G:

@Droll: Beats me :-)

Also @Droll: Very busy this week so far. Tomorrow should be better. Will get to your email from early this week...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:55pm
rrg:

Flip side of "Paperback Writer". Both good songs if you like that sort of thing. Which I do.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
rrg:

Hey, no secrets.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...single released very same day as 'Revolver'. Some maintain - as good as it gets...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:57pm
rrg:

What? It's almost 18:00? Where does the time go?

Not sure what's for dinner. I'd better check.

Bye, all.
Avatar 5:59pm
fleep:

Thanks, Irwin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...or I may be wrong - Rubber Soul & 'Work It Out' actually I think...close...
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