WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 05/09/14

Listener comments!

Sad to hear of Bob Rixon's demise. I did not know his shows but the link gives a good insight into early days which for me is a foreign land. Thanks Doug.

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6:37am duke:

I saw the note about Bob Rixon on the front page last evening. Like Brian, I wasn't familiar with his shows. My sympathies to his family and the WFMU family.

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8:39am listener james from westwood:

Dammit. I'll miss him and his wide-ranging shows. A hero of freeform.

8:42am Doug Schulkind:

Glad you're here Brian, duke and Listener James. It feels good to be surrounded by WFMU family just now.

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8:54am listener james from westwood:

Would occasionally see him at 00's FMU record fairs, too, still on the hunt for good tunes.

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8:56am listener james from westwood:

We're here with you, Doug. Hell, I still think of good ol' Raymond Franks whenever I hear "Comme à la radio." Heard it twice this week on the station. Still sad not to have him.

8:56am Doug Schulkind:

WFMU is WFMU because of people like Rix.

8:57am holland oats:

sorry to hear this doug

8:57am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

8:58am Doug Schulkind:

Last time I saw Ray Franks, James, was in his motorman's compartment on the F train he was driving in the NYC subway. This was a few years after he'd left the airwaves.

Greetings holland oats and ndbob!

8:59am Maggie B.:

Oh, Doug, I'm so sorry to hear this about Bob!

9:00am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for being here, Maggie dear.

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9:02am βrian:

Good lord, you guys are up early!

9:02am Doug Schulkind:

Merry Isthmus, βrian.

9:02am holland oats:

JaM in the AM

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9:03am βrian:

Why, zank you, doctor.

9:04am Doug Schulkind:

I prefer to think of it as marmalade in the AM, but that's just me, holland oats.

9:06am Van in DC:

Just in time! Good morning Doug and all

9:07am Doug Schulkind:

Snap your seatbelt on Van and away we go!

9:08am Van in DC:

Oh, just seeing / hearing / noticing the bad news there. Condolences as well to the FMU family.

9:10am Doug Schulkind:

Unfortunately, all of Rix's archived shows are in the old RealAudio format. Otherwise I'd say we all just head over there and listen.

9:14am Doug Schulkind:

Disclaimer: Give the Drummer Some does not endorse the murdering of anyone's baby.

9:16am Len:

Now you tell me.

9:17am holland oats:

too late

9:18am Doug Schulkind:

OK, Len, but just this once.

9:22am Holly in NC:

Good morning Doug, hugs.
I'll check out the archives.

Morning everyone else!

Also @Doug - two words = Sweetblood Call
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9:24am Doug Schulkind:

I may be red, Holly in NC, but I ain't Louisiana Red. G'morning!

9:24am ndbob:

morning Holly et al!

9:26am Holly in NC:

Oh! Today's birthday:
"On May 9, 1960, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved what would soon become the first birth control pill produced for commercial use. The drug was manufactured by the G.D. Searle Company in Chicago, Illinois. Its official moniker was Enovid-10, but it would forever be known simply as “The Pill.” "

Thank you Margaret Sanger & Kathleen McCormick.

9:27am Mr C:

Monica told me of Bob's passing yesterday....sad news.

9:28am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for getting up oily, Mr. C!

9:29am Uncle Michael:

Good morning friends.

9:30am Holly in NC:

Good morning, UM!

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9:31am bobdc:

Hi Doug--your talkover music reminds me that a local bar here in Charlottesville has a poster for Fellini's "The Clowns," and you can see a copy at fffmovieposters.com... . Best part: the blurb from Seventeen Magazine calling it "Picture of the month!"

9:37am Uncle Michael:

Hi, Holly.

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9:39am listener james from westwood:

"He would have made a great old man." —I should be so lucky as to earn such praise. Beautiful eulogy, Doug.

9:40am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, bobdc! Was that back when Pauline Kael was writing for Seventeen?!?

9:42am Holly in NC:

What @ljfw said.

On a far, far ligher note, here's a bass hunter unlike most:
www.youtube.com...

9:43am still b/p:

Allo allo.
Sorry to hear about DJ Bob. Nice appreciation, Doug.

@ bobdc -- Please notify the person I was supposed to provide something for today and the person I was supposed to meet for lunch that you sent me to a movie poster site....and well, bada-binge bada-browse...

9:45am Gary:

Hi Everyone ... that's a very sweet photo, Doug. :(

9:46am Doug Schulkind:

The Goody Oswaldo track up next is from the record Rix gave me as a gift.

Hello radio brother Gary!

9:47am ?:

Very nice tribute Doug. The link to Bob’s reminiscence of the his early days brought back memories to me as well trying to tune the station in from Monmouth County and later from the palisades of Weehawken. Of Naruki, Vanilla Bean, Jim Price, Frank and Irwin’s shows and RSM. And Bud Styple – hadn’t thought of him in some time.

9:47am earrie:

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and memories of Rix, Doug. And to share some of your memories through music, too. My hat is off.

9:49am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks ? and earrie. There is no place I'd rather be than amongst the likes of you.

9:49am Michael:

I guess I wasn't signed in above. No wonder it asked for the math!

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

John Narucki and Bud Styple were just slightly before my time at WFMU. (Maybe a good thing, considering Narucki's attachment to handguns.) Both were FMU legends then (in '87) and the remain legends today. Just like Rix.

9:52am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks to listener holland oats for sending out to search for this Ricardo Marrero LP!

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9:53am listener james from westwood:

Sweet fancy Moses, one of the few things I love more than a highlife set is a Latin set. Killin' it, Doug!!

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9:54am listener james from westwood:

("Latin" not meant to be any sort of limit on the possibly wildly different origins of the actual artists, BTW.)

9:54am Stanley:

Why can't they leave me alone for Chrissakes?!!
Finally, I'm able to tune in.

9:55am Gary:

Just read that bombshelter piece. Really, really great.

9:55am Doug Schulkind:

Let me punch my finger into their chests, Stanley. I'll tell 'em what's what.

9:57am Gary:

I see he was a relatively early blogger, too: bobrixon.blogspot.com...

9:59am Doug Schulkind:

@Gary
Yes indeed he was. Rix was (as I'm sure you will appreciate) a poet first and a DJ a close second. He got the word out. When his DJing waned, his blogging waxed.

9:59am Holly in NC:

lord, sometimes I think EVERY song should incorporate cowbell.

10:01am Doug Schulkind:

Hate to break this to you, Holly, but I think that was an elephant bell.

10:01am ndbob:

Hmm - after looking at the headline of his first post there , I certainly have no desire to read more

10:02am Holly in NC:

Even better!

10:04am ndbob:

@Doug ty for the premium CD! - it came yesterday - took a while because apparently I forgot to properly notify FMU of my address change

10:04am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
So glad you got it!

10:07am Cecile:

I am sad to hear about Rix. I didn't know much about him, but he sounds like a lovely man.

Also? DO NOT MESS WITH PNEUMONIA.

10:07am Holly in NC:

I'm rather fond of one of DJ Bob's last posts, a repost from 2006:

""If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson

10:09am ndbob:

@Holly I certainly agree with that

10:10am Gary:

Here's some of his videos on his YouTube page: www.youtube.com... ... will have to check out after the show

10:12am Cecile:

So a question.
What album or band were you turned off by the performer's image or bad press and now love?

For me, it was South of Heaven by Slayer. Satanists usually make for bad music, and I am still Catholic enough to be creeped out by pentagrams. Then I found out the band is composed of both practicing Catholics and atheists. Then I got it and am enjoying this album immensely.

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy Cecile!

10:13am Cecile:

Howdy, Doug!

10:14am Cecile:

I never walk in the door quietly, do I? ;)

10:14am Doug Schulkind:

I'm hoping the elephant from the previous set doesn't stomp over for the peanuts in this one!

10:15am ndbob:

ah Lee Moore - "the coffee drinking nighthawk" from WWVA

10:15am Doug Schulkind:

That's just about the worst fake peanut cracking sound effect I've ever heard.

10:15am ndbob:

Hi Cecile!

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10:16am listener james from westwood:

Jesus. pneumonia. Killed a 43-y.o. friend of mine. Killed that singer in Broadcast at 42. Killed Jim Henson in his 50s. So tempted to get the pneumonia shot, and I'm 44.

10:16am Cecile:

hi, ndbob!

10:16am Holly in NC:

Holy sh*t! From a different room (brushing teeth) I thought this (the Balls) was the Handsome Family, which is cool because the Handsome Family have indeed covered the Balls - a SUPERLATIVE version of Jenny Jenkins.

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10:16am listener james from westwood:

(although that would only guard against viral and not bacterial, but it's a start)

10:16am Webhamster Henry:

Nice picture of Rix.. I hope he was not cracking peanuts.

10:17am Gary:

@Cecile: M.I.A., though I don't really love her now. But someone at the EMP pop conference a couple of weeks ago played something of hers and I really responded to it (and to the talk during which it was played).

10:17am Cecile:

listener james:
also trish from broadcast and Heavy D.
Bernie Mac, too, although he was already quite sick.

10:18am Cecile:

cool, Gary! I'm still on the fence with her.

10:18am Doug Schulkind:

@Cecile
As a young man, I had a huge bias against pretty much all white southern music. Growing up, to me the southern accent was the accent of George Wallace and Bull Connor. Took a lot to get me to shake off my pathetic smallmindedness.

10:19am Cecile:

And we're glad you did, Doug!

10:19am Doug Schulkind:

Coming up, our next (and final) mother song. It's not quite the sugar and roses of the first one...

10:20am ndbob:

Indeed Cecile

10:21am Doug Schulkind:

@Cecile
Imagine my shock and delight when, quite a few years ago now, a newspaper in New Jersey called my radio show one of the best "country" radio shows in the state. Ridiculous, of course, but I appreciated the sentiment.

10:21am Cecile:

whoops, james, you said trish.

I had "walking pneumonia" last year. That's just a lung infection caused by a non pneumonia bacteria. That completely torpedoed my summer. And I considered myself lucky.

10:21am Cecile:

God, Hal, just put in an ad that says "wanted psycho gold-digger stepmom."

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10:21am Brian in UK:

Just got back from the osteopath. Is the Nino Rota a tip of the hat to Bob?

10:22am Webhamster Henry:

Oh yeah, patter break.

10:24am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, Webhamster H!

10:24am Holly in NC:

@Ceceile - I begrudgingly like a number of songs on the latest Deerhunter lp.

Unfortunately my problem goes the other way - much of the music I adore is made by complete assholes, sometimes so much that it's really hard to justify my adoration of the music. Head often close to exploding ;-)

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10:24am listener james from westwood:

My mom had walking pneumonia as a young-ish woman. Took her 6 weeks to shake. The cigs didn't help, but still.

10:25am Cecile:

I often have that problem, too, Holly.

10:25am Cecile:

that was about how long it took me, listener james.
And then I got an ear infection. And a root canal. Yikes.

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10:28am listener james from westwood:

Good gravy, Cecile, what a sequence of events. Yikes indeed!!

10:28am Michael:

I think that NJ newspaper is right Doug. Great stuff!

10:28am Cecile:

My husband had something similar and ended up with a swollen big toe! It was such a weird and annoying summer last year.

10:29am ndbob:

@Holly same here - but you just half to separate that - I know someone who posted this vile, disgusting anti-Obama joke - and I called him on it - turned out he had gotten it from someone who made a great rockabilly record - he was shocked when i told him i would still listen to it.

10:29am Doug Schulkind:

Just getting in touch with my (cough, burp) roots, Michael!

10:30am ndbob:

have to*

10:32am Cecile:

I think you can do it to a point.
But there are some things I will not touch.
I don't care how great some racist skinhead oi music might be, but I will never buy or support it.

10:32am Cecile:

I had a real problem with people listening to Skrewdriver ironically

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10:34am listener james from westwood:

Ecch, there's an example of an artist and an act where I do not forgive.

10:35am Gary:

I sent my mom a card already

10:36am Cecile:

I like the 90s modem keyboards.

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10:36am listener james from westwood:

I can't think of any artists/acts where I've had that sort of change of heart. Once I relegate a hate-filled or a loathsome act or artist, I forget them, I guess. Kinda like Adblock on Firefox.

10:37am Gary:

Already loving this ... the crazy almost non-committal yet still awesome keyboard action!

10:37am davex:

Hi Doug and everyone. Sorry to hear the news.

10:40am Doug Schulkind:

You had to Gary, or she'd stop listening to your show!

I am really horrible at separating the art from the artist thing. I hold grudges against artists that do and say and represent things I find reprehensible.

I try to fight against that bias, though. I kind handle it the way I think the Baseball Hall of Fame should handle Pete Rose. Stick his ass in the Hall of Fame, but put in his plaque in big letters that he was a cheating motherfucker.

I will play the music of musicians with whom I disagree, but I will tell you that they are assholes while I spin their records.

Hi davex!!

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

The sax player here with Jeanne Lee is C Sharpe. (The C is for Clarence.)

10:41am davex:

Agree about Pete Rose - the Hall is full of even less savory personalities. Nobody cared (much) back in the day.

10:42am Diane:

Jeanne Lee is so good!! And this piece is a real treat.

10:42am Doug Schulkind:

Come everyone and have yourself a download of this fabulous record: inconstantsol.blogspot.com...

10:43am Diane:

Oh! Thanks, Doug!

10:44am Doug Schulkind:

Yay, Diane!

10:46am Cecile:

I like the cut of Jeanne Lee's jib.

10:46am Alex In Illinois:

Speaking of great music from human beings who are not so great at other things, I remember on the Sound Opinions forum, someone attacking John Lennon for divorcing his first wife and being a bad father. But then someone else responded by pointing out the Mick Jagger and Sting are not exactly candidates for any "good parent" awards. What about Ike Turner? He sort of invented Rock & Roll, he made a lot of good music but he was a wife-beating jerk. Then Phil Specter, etc. There is something on WFMU's site about Don McLean being a jerk too. Leadbelly had to go to prison multiple times for stabbing people. Sometimes I think of songs and peices of music as life forms that are floating in their own dimension, but then need human beings as mediums to be converted to something that we can hear, and often can't consider a human's faults when choosing someone to be their gateway.

10:48am Cecile:

I take people's faults into consideration. I understand that music might be the only good offering from a bad person, but at least they are offering it up.

But proto-fascist bands are different.

10:49am Doug Schulkind:

A: Ike Turner
B: Mick Jagger
C: Don McLean
D: Leadbelly

Which one does not belong?

10:50am Uncle Michael:

I don't draw many lines...no Nazis, rapists...or Scientologists.

10:50am Cecile:

yeah. that's about right.

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10:54am Brian in UK:

Do you buy music for any moral standpoint. People made the mistake of thinking that Bob Dylan was some kind of protest leader, naive and of the times. If it moves you then do not get precious about it.

10:54am Stanley:

@UM, what no Woody Woodmansey?

10:54am Alex In Illinois:

Don't proto-fascist bands have proto-fascist lyrics, and actual proto-fascist intentions with their music? That clearly makes them something that I am unlikely to enjoy or value.

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10:55am Brian in UK:

Odd one out is Slim Gaillard.

10:55am pacific standard simon:

Orson Scott Card, and that idiot who wrote and drew Cerebus The Aardvark, poisoned their own wells for me years ago. Hi gang -- might be awake soon.

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10:56am Brian in UK:

By the way that is SIR Mick Jagger a frigging misnomer if ever there was one.

10:56am Doug Schulkind:

Here's a for instance: In the early 1990s, I was in a record store pouring over a bin of South African records. A fellow noticed me doing this and we got into a long conversation about South African music. It turns out this guy was a South African who was working in the ANC's office at the United Nations. He found it curious that a person such as myself would be interested in South African music and he was surprised by my level of knowledge about it. One thing I didn't know, and that this gentleman told me about, was that the group Ladysmith Mambazo, the 7-Up hawking vocal group that Paul Simon sang with on Saturday Night Live, was a tool of the Apartheid government. Despite the fact that Joseph Shabalala and the group had been asked to refrain from doing so by numerous black SA organizations (including the ANC), it continued to perform at Apartheid government functions and ceremonies. One could say that they were just earning a paycheck (kinda like Ray Charles singing the National Anthem at the Republican National Convention), but this was just totally unacceptable.

I have never played Ladysmith Black Mambazo on my show since.

Fuck them.

10:57am Andrew Waterloo:

Yah.. I used hang out with a guy who was a huge fan of Cerebus and David Sims and was constantly obsessing over his essays. Doesn't help that David Sims is local.

10:59am Doug Schulkind:

By the way, Nina Simone is about to cut our your heart and feed it to you. Fair warning.

10:59am Stanley:

Brian - I still sing along to Gary Glitter tunes.

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10:59am Brian in UK:

Doug did you like LBM's music before, never heard them meself.

10:59am Gary:

@Simon: Dave Sim! Haw, he is legendary (for all the wrong reasons) in the comics world. I have never read those books, but then I've never been one for talking animal comics.

10:59am Van in DC:

This kicks brass

11:00am Cecile:

Yes, Alex.
But people were in love with the fact Skrewdriver wrote viciously catchy songs, and would look past a lot for a catchy tune. Which was kind of their point any way.

PSSimon, Cerebus was great for about 2 years, and then Sim believed his own hype. I read Orson Scott Card's first short story (in the same collection as the brilliant "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop, and the magnificent "The Way of Cross and Dragon" by George RR Martin. It was stodgy, moralistic and predictable, even though it was beautifully written. I have continued reading the other authors (Waldrop more so than Martin) but have never regretted a moment not reading any more Card works.

11:00am Stanley:

The fucker.

11:01am Cecile:

And if you have to read funny animal comics, the beautfiul Usagi Yojimbo is a fine place to start and end.

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

Glad (but not at all surprised that) you like it, Van!

11:01am davex:

Tough topic, actually. I only need to think of Wagner and how people choose to deal with his legacy, always a tight-rope act.

11:02am Gary:

@Doug: By far the most thrilling talk at EMP was by this guy from South Africa on Capital Radio 604: www.capital604.com... ... he's apparently writing a book, which I can't wait to read (someday, when it's out)

11:02am Cecile:

*sniff*

11:02am Van in DC:

Oooh, Cerebus talk? Boggle. I LOVED early Cerebus! Then it got weird and I gave it up.

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11:03am Brian in UK:

Hey davex, does sun shine in Leipzig?

11:03am Cecile:

Van, remember the storyline with issue after issue revolving around currency trading? Christ!

11:03am Alex In Illinois:

@Cecile:
I will have to confess ignorance of Screwdriver. But I do agree with you on that. Any group that does that and has people eating it up like that is even more insidious and disturbing.

11:03am davex:

Hey Brian! Yes, spring has sprung, even on Wagner's birthplace - now a spanking new mall!

11:04am Cecile:

stay ignorant, alex.

11:04am Doug Schulkind:

I'm always the last to know: Who/what the heck is Cerebus?!

Thanks for the linkage, Gary!

11:04am davex:

How are things in Watford today?

11:04am Diane:

Brian in UK - What did you mean by the reference to Slim Gaillard?

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11:04am Brian in UK:

@davex not a new spanking mall?

11:04am ndbob:

and then of course - there's Ezra Pound

11:05am Cecile:

It was a comic book about an Aarvark trying to conquer the world in a Conan-esque universe.

11:05am ndbob:

@Cecile What collection is that?

11:05am Van in DC:

Cerebus the Aardvark was a loosely based on Conan the Barbarian thing

11:06am Cecile:

For awhile it was better than it sounded.

11:06am Van in DC:

I read Cerebus like in, oh, 1983, 84

11:06am Cecile:

ndbob, I think it was Terry Carr's best SF of 79 or 80.

11:06am davex:

@Brian: Funny! Not that I know of. Could be a mall just about anywhere. There is a plaque somewhere to commemorate, but who would know?

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11:06am Brian in UK:

@davex saw a full on rainbow on the way to work almost crashed the car. Funny because I was walking. Ta Da.

11:07am Cecile:

ndbob, I think it was Terry Carr's best SF of 79 or 80.

11:07am Webhamster Henry:

Nina Simone is a hard act to follow.

11:07am earrie:

Unbelievably beautiful, Nina Simone.

11:07am Cecile:

Van, I stopped around 82. THe year of the currency trading.

11:07am pacific standard simon:

I still find myself capable of differentiating between artists who express a passing mood, and those who systematize an evil worldview.

11:07am Cecile:

that was a killer f'ing anthology.

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11:08am Brian in UK:

@Diane it was in response to Doug question at 10:49.

11:08am davex:

@Brian: Sounds magical...

11:08am Van in DC:

The best thing about Cerebus was the artwork by "Gerhard" whoever that was. Just phenomenal artwork. And Cecil - I don't remember the currency issues...I guess I came in late for that

11:09am Carmichael:

Hello Doug, and a Huckleberry Hound Dog howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwdy to all listeners.

11:09am ndbob:

@Ceclie ty!

11:09am Alex In Illinois:

To me, Cerebus, is a 2 headed dog guarding the gates of Hades, from Greek mythology. As you can all see now, there are certain parts of popular culture that I have not been in on. There are other parts of popular culture of which I WHICH I were ignorant.

11:09am davex:

...or did you crash into the pot of gold?

11:09am ndbob:

I once found an Ayler ESP LP at a church flea market

11:10am Van in DC:

Alex, that would be Cerberus I think

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11:11am Brian in UK:

Davex I would not know what to do with a pot of gold it would scare me to death. It went right from one end of the sky to the other. Set me up for the day and put a smile on my face.

11:11am Van in DC:

stevestiles.com...

ha ha

11:11am Cecile:

Not terry carr's or donald wolheims SF anthology. Dammit. I knows what I read. I will have to do some more looking.

11:12am davex:

Brian: You're right, it's probably better than an actual pot of gold - ultimately.

11:12am still b/p:

@ davex -- I believe it was you and I talking a year ago about our mutual friend and his Summer King opera. That thing was put on here in town last night -- not a full staging but still a large production in a major local venue. A mammoth undertaking, a large appreciative crowd and from all appearances, quite a success.

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11:13am Brian in UK:

@Alex Hades used to be a nightclub called Shades 'till the 'S' fell off, then the trouble started.

11:13am Carmichael:

128 stream is taking hits for me. Its usually quite reliable for California.

11:14am Andrew Waterloo:

What I gathered from my friend Cerebus was the general fantasy of the man-boy who reads Anne Coulter and thinks the world was ruined by liberals, feminists, and lawyers.

11:15am Alex In Illinois:

@Van: You're right. I was reading the string "Cerebus" as "Cerberus". You know that phenomonon where you can still recognize words even with letters missing or re-arranged?

11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Anyone else having trouble with the 128k stream?

11:16am Andrew Waterloo:

My 128K stream is happy.

11:16am ndbob:

I wonder sometimes if Ann Coulter takes herself seriously

11:16am Dean:

No trouble so far with 128 here in Berkeley. Last week, on the other hand, it was spotty, cutting out every ten minutes or so for a few seconds.

11:16am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning, Carmichael. Sorry about the dodgy audio.

11:16am ndbob:

not right now Doug

11:16am Michael:

No issues here Doug.

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11:16am Brian in UK:

Doug 128 is cooking here.

Radio Congo, n'est pas?

11:16am Stanley:

Like it Brian - did it capture the goth scene from then on?

11:17am Cecile:

I am conflating the Terry Carr and the Donald Wollheim collections in my memory. OK, then. Between the both of them, at least 4 classic stories, but not by OS Card.

11:18am davex:

@still b/p: Yes, I do remember. Glad to hear that it went well! Waiting for the European tour...

11:18am Doug Schulkind:

Yes, Brian in UK, thought surely Zaire at the time of recording.

11:19am Doug Schulkind:

Sam Mangwana's nasallly voice makes it sound like he has a perpetual cold.

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11:19am Brian in UK:

Stanley part joke but true story, now a Jaguar showroom in Watford. Which is worst?

11:19am ndbob:

@Cecile Could it be the Nebula Awards collection from 1980? I see that The Ugly Chickens is in it

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11:20am Brian in UK:

I could wrap myself up in that guitar as a winding sheet.

11:20am Cecile:

Yes! Did it have James Tiptree, John Varley, Martin, Card and RA Lafferty in it?

11:21am Cecile:

I gotta get going. But everyone read The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop. It's a great damn story.

11:22am Holly in NC:

Was just reading about Alex Chilton blacking his gf's eyes...

@doug - google Cerebus mick keith for one of the best sequences in comic history. Speaking of misogynist assholes who make great music...

11:22am Stanley:

Brian - hard to say. There was a night club round the corner here called the G-Spot but it closed. It was to find (no kidding).

11:22am Doug Schulkind:

Is "Bi Loko" a song encouraging us all to live a little on the wild side?

11:22am Stanley:

sorry ... hard to find

11:23am ndbob:

@Ceclie Not sure - I searched on The Ugly Chickens and found out that it was Nebula Award Winner and had been collected in 1980 - haven't found a Table of Contents yet though

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11:23am Brian in UK:

Down in Acapulco

11:23am Van in DC:

If you scrunch it all up there Doug, you get "Biko", a song by Peter Gabriel

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11:23am Brian in UK:

Nice one Stanley.

11:23am Stanley:

Sort of blew my own joke there. That's what comes of trying to listen, comment and work all at the same time.

11:23am Uncle Michael:

holy hell this is great. I need lots of this!

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11:24am Brian in UK:

Stanley What is the Gandi Spot anyway?

11:25am Gary:

Xtremelee rawkin, this

11:26am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Check out the monster show Gary Sullivan has planned for Bodega Pop Live, here on the Drummer Stream next Wednesday evening: bodegapop.blogspot.com...

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11:26am Brian in UK:

This reminds me of Edikanfo, also out of Sierra Leone.

11:27am Doug Schulkind:

Edikanfo is goodness!

11:29am Gary:

i1.ytimg.com...

11:29am pacific standard simon:

You guys made me get out of bed; the mobile app cuts off long comments.

11:29am Doug Schulkind:

More tasty guitar shredding coming up. This time, courtesy of Zambia.

11:29am davex:

This is a great set.

11:30am Alex In Illinois:

UNtil now, I thought I was the only one who bought the Edikanfo record back in the 80's

11:31am Doug Schulkind:

You're just mugging for the camera, Gary.

You can always go back to bed after, pacific standard simon. After Hinky Dinky Time, that is. Hahahahahaha!

Speaking of which, Uncle Michael is up next. His playlist is here: wfmu.org...

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11:31am Brian in UK:

@Alex you were the only one.....in Illinois.

11:31am Carmichael:

Lost everything here at work. Hope they didn't finally block me.

11:33am Doug Schulkind:

@Alex!
I think Edikanfo pressed up there records, then slunk around American records stores, dropping them in cut-out bins.

Speaking of losing:
Tomorrow, due to a lack of funds, I am giving up my iPhone. No more WFMU/Give the Drummer Radio app for me. :(

11:33am pacific standard simon:

Sleep no more! Doug Schulkind hath murdered sleep!

11:33am Alex In Illinois:

But I lived in Missouri at the time! Well, a suburb of St. Louis.

11:33am Doug Schulkind:

Of course, it is my own damn fault for not getting a job and paying for it.

11:33am Doug Schulkind:

Shredding has commenced, if you hadn't noticed.

11:34am Gary:

Jimminies!

11:36am davex:

@Doug: Ouch! I have no idea how phone options pan out over there, but the Android app is working fine for me on a much less expensive phone.

11:37am Diane:

I noticed! Great set!

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11:38am Artie:

This Ring of Fire is a much groovier place than I had recalled.

11:39am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, davex. Gotta give up the smartphone altogether. I feel like I'm losing a leg. (Which is, I admit, pretty ridiculous.)

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11:40am Brian in UK:

Using TuneIn Radio on Nokia Lumia 800 in dark black.

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

@Artie
C'mon in. We're all playing with matches!

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

And yes, Diane, even more shredding!

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11:41am Brian in UK:

....with brown slacks, slip ons and a soft wool zipped top.

11:42am pacific standard simon:

I'd sooner cut off a leg than carry any kind of phone, but I do love my Kindle.

11:43am Stanley:

You were always the King of Cool

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11:43am Brian in UK:

After 'notwithstanding' is there a better word than 'slacks'.

11:44am Carmichael:

Boy, the iPhone has a crappy little speaker. Signal reset!

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11:44am Brian in UK:

Hey Stanley, I saw the Jesus of Cool last night. He had smashing slacks.

11:44am pacific standard simon:

Slack.

11:44am ndbob:

I love my phone - and my Kindle!

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11:45am Brian in UK:

I love my wife.

11:46am pacific standard simon:

Coincidence, Brian.

11:46am Uncle Michael:

I love my label.

11:48am Carmichael:

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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11:50am Brian in UK:

Doug, that is a wonderful photograph. Great show.

11:50am pacific standard simon:

Yesterday, I was training a new (female) employee when Tex Williams' "Never Trust A Woman" came on my music player. I grinned and said, "Well... that's embarrassing."

11:51am Uncle Michael:

This is a hilariously tragic lyric. It's right up there with Kung Fu Christmas.

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11:51am Brian in UK:

Did he say furry little rodents?

11:52am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, Brian.

11:52am Doug Schulkind:

C'mon people, this guy is serious!

11:52am Uncle Michael:

"Gee, he's a wonderful skier."

11:53am Gary:

Wow, definitely coming back to the archives to give these lyrics a re-listen

11:54am Uncle Michael:

Join me in the next room! wfmu.org...

11:54am holland oats:

that song gave me butterflies

11:54am pacific standard simon:

You whippersnapper GTDR DJs can always learn something from the old master.

11:55am Doug Schulkind:

One of my oldest listeners, the great Listener Mel, once sent me a cassette of this Ellerine Harding record. He said, "Drummah, you're gonna like this one."

Listener Mel is never wrong.

11:56am Uncle Michael:

Refusing to learn anything from anyone has worked for over fifty years. I'm not about to risk change at this point.

11:56am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:57am Carmichael:

Thanks for the show, ol buddy ol pal.

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

Excellent listening, ndbob!

11:57am Uncle Michael:

I'll see all of you with discerning taste shortly.

Thanks for a GREAT show, Doug.

11:58am ndbob:

.. and I love furry little rodents too:)

🥁

11:58am listener james from westwood:

Wonderful show, Doug. Rix would've starred the hell out of this episode.

11:58am davex:

Thanks, Doug. I did my best to listen well.

11:58am Stanley:

Thanks Doug, spiffing show.
See y'all later

11:58am Diane:

Thanks, Doug!

11:58am pacific standard simon:

I hear you still whittle points on your pencil with a pocket knife.

11:58am earrie:

The best for last, indeed(-ily). Thanks, Doug.

11:59am Gary:

Thanks for being/playing the awesome-est!

11:59am Uncle Michael:

It's called a pen knife for a reason.

11:59am Uncle Michael:

Quills, baby.

12:00pm Holly in NC:

Android ate my comments!!! :-)

12:00pm Doug Schulkind:

Bad Android!

12:00pm pacific standard simon:

Manny, Moe, and Jeffs!

12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Thanks everyone for hanging out with me while I played all these nice records!

12:02pm Señor Andy:

Thanks, Doug!

12:03pm Michael:

Thanks Doug - wonderful show!

Rosie Mae Moore	Ha-Ha Blues	b/w Staggering Blues (Victor 1928)
King Solomon Hill	The Gone Dead Train	b/w Tell Me Baby (Paramount 1932)
Pat Hare	I'm Gonna Murder My Baby	Bonus Pay (Ain't Gonna Be That Way) (Redita 1954)
Koko Taylor	What Kind of Man Is This?	b/w I Got What It Takes (Checker 1964)
Curtis Griffin	Baby Have Your Way	b/w I Found Something Better (Jewel 1966)
Archie Edwards	East Virginia John Henry	Living Country Blues USA, Volume 12: East Coast Blues (L&R 1982)

Osvaldo Fresedo	Snobismo	Homenaje a Osvaldo Fresedo en Su 80 Aneversario (RCA 1922)
Lúcio Alves	Dindi	A Bossa é Nossa (Philips 1960)
Billo's Caracas Boys	Vicky	Porros Solo Porros, Volume 2 (Discos Fuentes )
Goody Oswaldo	Barco Sin Puerto	Goody Oswaldo Swings (Willow )
Ricardo Marrero & the Group	Vengo	A Taste (TSG 1976)
Ray Barretto	O Elefante	The Message (Fania 1972)
Dee Ervin	Smoke	b/w Smoke (pt. 2) (ABC 1973)

E.C. Ball & Orna Ball	Sweetest Mother	E.C. Ball with Orna Ball (Rounder 1972)
Lee Moore & Juanita	Stop Crackin' Peanuts	Lee Moore's Country Hits (Point 1958)
Vin Bruce	La Valse De St. Marie	Vintage Cajun Classics of the 1950s (Vintage Masters )
Hal Kennedy	Wanted One Mother	b/w She'll Leave You for Someone Else (Spar )
Merle Haggard	I Threw Away the Rose	Branded Man (Capitol 1967)
Leona Williams	I Narrowed This Triangle (Down to Two)	That Williams Girl (Hickory 1970)
Waylon Jennings	Straighten My Mind	Just to Satisfy You (RCA Victor 1969)

Jeanne Lee	Sorry, Brother	Don't Freeze Yourself to Death Over There in Those Mountains (Not on Label 1984)
Jimmy Giuffre	Angles	New York Concerts: The Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 (Elemental 1965)
Matthew Shipp Horn Quartet	Strata 9	Strata (Hatology 1997)
Nina SImone	Lilac Wine	Wild Is the Wind (Philips 1966)

Ryco-Jazz	An Drole Di Chance	Fantastique Ryco-Jazz (Hit Parade )
Sam Mangwana et Som Ensemble	Bilinga Linga	b/w Sisika (Editions Sam )
Orchestre Muyei	Bi Loko	Muyei Power: Sierra Leone in 1970s USA (Soundway )
Karl Hector & The Malcouns	Girma's Lament	Beyond Addis: Contemporary Jazz & Funk Inspired By Ethiopian Sounds from the '70s (Trikont )
Musi-O-Tunya	Katonga	Give Love to Your Children (Now Again )

The Nite-Liters	Cowboy	A-Nal-Y-Sis (RCA 1973)
Melvin Davis	I'm the One Who Loves You	Detroit Soul Ambassador (Vampisoul )
Mickey & the Soul Generation	The Whatzit
The Ideals	You Hurt Me	b/w You Lost and I Won (Satellite )
Walter Jackson	No Butterflies	b/w Ad Lib (Epic 1968)
Ellerine Harding	We'll Cry Together	Ellerine (Mainstream 1972)

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	May 9, 2014 R.I.P. Rix
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