WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 05/23/14

Listener comments!

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8:45am duke:

Sun-Ra in a can. Time to stock up.

8:47am Doug Schulkind:

SUn-Ra in a can beats Prince Albert in a can any day.

8:48am Doug Schulkind:

Old Vermont farmer joke:
1st farmer: Think the rain'll hurt the rhubarb?
2nd farmer: Not if it's in a can
1st: farmer: What, the rain?
2nd farmer: No, the rhubarb

8:48am ausmanx:

i wonder if he did a full range of preserved products?

8:51am Doug Schulkind:

This image would have made the perfect cover for Sun Ra's album "Nuclear War."

8:54am Uncle Michael:

ra-ra-ra

8:56am Doug Schulkind:

Root, root, root for the home team, Uncle Michael. (I bet Sun Ra was a Cubs fan.)

8:56am hyde:

there's nothing like sun ra fungi

8:57am Doug Schulkind:

Sunrafungi forever!

8:57am holland oats:

happy birthday sun ra -- 100 years of sol-itude

8:57am Gary:

Mushi-mushi!

8:58am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

8:59am Doug and everyone:

Good morning to you, ndbob!

8:59am Doug Schulkind:

You sound like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Gary!

Happy day, holland oats!

9:00am Gary:

I Khan haz mushi-mushi?

9:01am davex:

Good day, Doug and everydrum.

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Danger: Haz-mat can of mushi-mushi!

9:01am Alex In Illinois:

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan are two artists on my list of artists I have seen performing, but are now no longer living.

9:02am Doug Schulkind:

All the other artists you've seen, Alex, are hoping there is no correlation.

9:05am Michael:

Morning all on this Friday before the long weekend.

9:06am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, davex! Welcomings, Michael!

9:07am hyde:

I warmed up for the show today by listening to Starday Hillbilly, so this transitions nicely

9:08am El Thatchmo:

Thatchmo in the Hizzie!
Be gentle with me today, Doug.
I want sweet aural from you.

9:08am Webhamster Henry:

Nice can of mushies you got there, Doug. D'you know most of the mushrooms used in the US from about 1930s-1960s came from right here in Ulster County, NY?

9:09am Webhamster Henry:

Although if these as Sun-Ra brand, that are probably from Jupiter.

9:10am Mr C:

Heliocentric world trip today?

9:11am Doug Schulkind:

Around the world and back for lunch, Mr. C!

9:11am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy hyde, El Thatch, and Webhamster H!

9:12am Mr C:

Like they say at football games, " Ra Ra Ra"

9:13am Webhamster Henry:

hey I have this 78!

9:15am Webhamster Henry:

Oh wait, I have it with Billy Murray. Al is a somewhat less over the top and enthusiastic.

9:15am hyde:

I want this cookbook. How to Add Zest to Every Meal with Sun-Ra Mushrooms by Sun Ra Frozen Foods www.worldcat.org...

9:18am Doug Schulkind:

Mystery, Mister Ra!

9:19am Alex In Illinois:

@Webhamster Henry:
Wasn't Sun-Ra from Saturn? Oh, but I see, he would have harvested the mushrooms from Jupiter.

I once had a dream that extra-terrestrials were smuggling tomatoes from Earth because the tomatoes made them hallucinate.

9:20am ausmanx:

how do you know that was only a dream, alex?

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9:24am duke:

@Alex Those aliens may have been on to something "Tomato plant originates from the family of Nightshade plants (potato, tobacco, chili peppers) from Central America. It was domesticated around 500 BC by Aztecs and used not only as a food, but also as powerful (and dangerous) hallucinogenic." www.vegetablefacts.net...

9:24am ndbob:

excellent set Doug!

9:25am Alex In Illinois:

@ausmanx: I don't! The most certain way that I know that I am dreaming is if the characters try to convince me that Jello is really ice cream and then try to convince me that I am not in a dream and fail miserably

9:36am thedunkel:

Jersey City bids you a good morning Mr. Drummer other Drum-ites!

9:37am Doug Schulkind:

Oops, I lied. This is from 1931.

Buenos días, el dunkel!

9:41am thedunkel:

SunRa + Irwin (woofmoo) = 1956-1974 --> tinyw.in...

9:41am holland oats:

v lovely sonic journey this morning

9:44am Doug Schulkind:

WFMU's Michael D. Anderson ("the Good Doctor") is the exec. director of the Sun Ra Archives. Along with Irwin Chusid's major assistance, they have helped revive and remaster key recordings from Sun Ra's catalog. Available on iTunes. Michael and Irwin will be live on Columbia University's WKCR today from 11a-2p as part of the station's huge Sun Ra Festival!!

9:44am Fernando M P:

Doing the Mambo all the way from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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9:47am Artie:

Strictly speaking, that's only 3.36 Saturnian solar years.

9:48am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, Fernando M P!

Thank you for injecting some serious Saturnian solemnity into the conversation, Artie.

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

Ladies and gents, please meet Mr. Durán: www.elvallenato.com...

9:52am holland oats:

^ love

9:52am davex:

Another fine set of discovery.

9:55am Cecile:

Hola!

9:56am Doug Schulkind:

Hey, Cecile's here! Hey Cecile!

9:57am Cecile:

hey doug!

9:57am Gary:

This is hitting the awesome spot

9:59am Doug Schulkind:

Who are you kidding, Gary. You are one giant walking A-spot.

10:00am earrie:

From the first bent bars.

10:01am Dominick:

totally dig-able set!

10:01am thedunkel:

Big Fat Ken Freedman

10:02am thedunkel:

10:05am davex:

South of the border starts at Penn Station.

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

You're very proud of yourself for that one, eh thedunkel?!

Hello earrie!

10:10am earrie:

G'morningk.

10:12am Doug Schulkind:

Almost forgot to say, HI DOMINICK!

10:16am Doug Schulkind:

Coming up next, a tune described thusly:

"Polyphonic analog synthesizers and drum machines interpret ancient Saharan folk ballads in an imagined science fiction future. A proposed relaxation guide, sonically lying somewhere between ambient library music and minimal wave."

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10:18am Brian in UK:

Well that is better, just back from the osteopath. He is not ffom this planet. Hello folks.

Doug, that sounds like 'pataphysics music or 'patamusic.

10:19am Van in DC:

Taaritt?

10:19am Webhamster Henry:

Sounds like my Prophet-600 . not a "fat" as a Moog!

10:19am Doug Schulkind:

Miriam Makeba's cover: "PataPataMusic"

Steer clear of those osteopathogens, Brian in UK!

10:20am Doug Schulkind:

Van in DC! Van in DC!

Here is the mindblowing cover art for Taaritt: f0.bcbits.com...

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10:21am Brian in UK:

Bob Moog would have been eighty years old today. Sound like bleeding Google.

10:23am thedunkel:

that taaritt cover is awesome!

10:23am Cecile:

wow, I haven't heard this in a long long time.

10:23am Doug Schulkind:

Bob Moog never knew how to pronounce his own last name. Poor fella.

10:23am Doug Schulkind:

The drummer on this Deadline track is Philip Wilson, the original drummer for....

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

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10:24am Brian in UK:

Now Bob Fairlight never had that trouble.

10:25am Doug Schulkind:

Well you shant be cheated, Cecile. I'm playing the full 11-minute version, not the puny 4-minute edit!

10:25am Cecile:

nice.

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10:26am Brian in UK:

Doug is Mr Wilson playing a Matisse or a Kokoschka? Hard to detect.

10:28am Alex In Illinois:

I have this album on Vinyl somewhere. Down BY Law. One of those 1980's Bill Laswell projects.

10:29am Mr C:

no Arkestra my man?

10:29am Doug Schulkind:

I had to Google Kokoschka, Brian in UK.

10:30am Cecile:

I thought Curlew was Down by Law, but you would know as I don't have the album.

10:31am Doug Schulkind:

Mr. C
WKCR is playing wall-to-wall Ra. Beginning in 30 minutes, my WFMU colleagues Irwin Chusid and Michael Anderson will be on WKCR spinning for three hours. Thought I'd let them have the floor: www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu...

10:34am Cecile:

Kerri Chandler is awesome.

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10:35am Brian in UK:

Think it is fair to say that FMU covers Sun Ra consistently and comprehensively.

10:37am Cecile:

Rough Guides have good music but are pretty safe.

10:37am Uncle Michael:

I put on Putomayo every time I want to pretend I'm in a Pottery Barn.

10:38am Andrew Waterloo:

good morning

10:38am Cecile:

they are a good starting point but aren't definitive.

hahahahaha Uncle michael

10:40am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
Exactaly. I've always called those Putomayo comps, "Music to shop at Banana Republic to"

10:41am Webhamster Henry:

Yow, Doug! What did he do on Thursday?

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

At least Murray lived long enough to see pot become legal in Colorado.

10:42am Gary:

Super love this Saaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuul

10:42am Van in DC:

Wait till he gets to Saturday

10:43am ndbob:

Putomayo comps are OK.. not adventurous as Cecile says, but not bad. Just think of what else Banana Republic or Pottery Barn might play without them.

10:43am holland oats:

gotta get down on friday

10:44am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning to you, A. Waterloo!

10:45am Doug Schulkind:

Still the greatest Bollywood horror flick soundtrack LP cover ever: 4.bp.blogspot.com...

10:46am El Thatchmo:

Murray is the DJ I want to be. Holy Cow! I just had a cow!

10:48am Doug Schulkind:

@El Thatchmo
Did the cow come out of your chest, Alien-style, or out of your forehead, Zeus/Athena-style?

This is important.

10:51am Doug Schulkind:

I think it's no secret that Okko Bekker was a member of the KKKK.

10:51am El Thatchmo:

I don't wanna say on a mixed board from whence it came ..

10:52am Doug Schulkind:

Ah, normal vaginal delivery then. It's OK, you're among friends.

10:53am holland oats:

anyway, that sun ra, huh people?

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10:55am bobdc:

I think the this picture of Herr Bekker at www.progarchives.com... would make an excellent top-of-the-playlist picture.

10:57am Doug Schulkind:

Crazy snap, bobdc! Hard to separate beard from rest of human form.

11:07am Jeff:

Apropos of bumper stickers which used to be prevalent...

There used to be LOTS of bumper stickers which said:

I <heart> my <picture of a dog breed>

I really wanted to commission a square sticker of the appropriate width and height, which just had a line-drawing rendition of a wood screw on a white background, which I could slap on top of those hearts.

11:09am Van in DC:

This is terrific

11:10am Doug Schulkind:

I remember back at one of WFMU's earliest record fairs—the ones held at the Elk's Lodge in Hoboken—Chris T sold a bunch of crazy crap including bumperstickers that read:

I ♧ My Dog

11:11am Doug Schulkind:

This same Art Blakey collection features an all-percussion version of Moose the Mooche!

11:12am Mr C:

Lee Morgan was such a burner..incredible! Lucky to have seen him at Slugs right before the incident...Benny Maupin and that band.

11:16am Carmichael:

The drummer is giving ME some! Hiya, Doug and others of your ilk.

11:16am Doug Schulkind:

I never saw Morgan perform, but I've read that he would look out over his trumpet at the audience while soloing. Very intense and disconcerting.

11:17am Webhamster Henry:

@Doug Which is funny because you wandered around a later Rec Fair at Mary Help of Christians with a name tag that said "Dog".

11:18am Doug Schulkind:

Hey, Carmichael is awake! Hide the rum!

11:20am Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
Those were the days when I was running the WFMU Record Fair. At Mary Help of Christian's, the ladies room plumbing had a tendency to back up. The pipes would then leak and start gurgling up through the floor tiles, right under the record dealer (Davie "Ozie" Ozenbaugh) with the most overloaded tables that I had to crawl under to swab up the mess of.

Ah, good times.

11:22am Dean:

Aw, nuts. How am I supposed to settle into my morning when WFMU is playing Ab Baars and John Carter, and WKCR is round-the-clock Sun Ra?!

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

Making life even tougher, Dean: The fellows playing Sun Ra on WKCR right now are Michael Anderson and Irwin Chusid from WFMU!

11:26am Doug Schulkind:

Ab Baars sound like the name of a chain of fitness club/drinking establishments.

11:26am Alex In Illinois:

@Jeff: I think someone actually did commission a screw mini-sticker to put over the heart part of the bumper sticker. I thought I saw an ad for them in the back of a magazine sometime in the 1980's. On someone's car, I actually saw the heart part covered by a sticker showing a picture of a spade.

11:27am Dean:

You are correct, Doug. (Oh, good lord. Now Braxton's Parker!) BTW, this might have shown up on another program's comments yesterday, Sun Ra lecturing at Berkeley: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/05/listen-to-sun-ras-berkeley-lecture/

11:30am Doug Schulkind:

Here's a little piece I wrote a few years back about that John Cage Meets Sun Ra record: blog.wfmu.org...

11:30am Van in DC:

HA HA HA, this piano is giving me the mental image of a cat jumping across the keys

11:31am Carmichael:

NPR did a nice but short piece on Ra, including a few old interview snippets. He had an interesting disposition.

11:34am Carmichael:

Here's the link, BTW: www.npr.org...

11:37am Hugo:

Hi folks! Checking in from Shillong. Look it up on the map!

11:37am ndbob:

ty Carmichael

11:38am Jeff:

@AII: I've seen the spade stickers - I thought that was their original form, not the product of a mod, but those neurons are rusty.

Glad to hear somebody did the screw thing. It was an idea the zeitgeist was calling for.

11:38am ndbob:

nice one here!

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
Shilong time, no see!

11:41am Van in DC:

I agree with ndbob!

11:41am Uncle Michael:

Shilong...gotta beat it.

11:41am Uncle Michael:

I hope you will all join me in the next room: wfmu.org...

11:42am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael is up next on the Drummer Stream. Playlist (and a ton of musical fun) here: wfmu.org...

11:42am Uncle Michael:

Hah!

11:43am Uncle Michael:

I'm doing my endzone dance.

11:44am Hugo:

No idea? OK. Northeast India. State of Meghalaya. between Assam and Bangladesh.

11:44am Doug Schulkind:

When I Googled Shilong, I came up with China!

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
Show you the moneyyyyy!

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11:45am Brian in UK:

Hey Hugo on the road to Lhasa?

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

Could this Lost Generation track be an odd kind of answer song to Weldon Irvine's "Young Gifted and Black"?

11:47am Doug Schulkind:

One of the great falsettos coming up next...

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11:48am Brian in UK:

Doug there are several semi autonomous states in China. Xian Jiang is still going through tough times. Feel for the Uyghurs.

11:49am Hugo:

@Brian: far away. Sikkim is closer. Actually an old hill resort during British times. About 1500 metres above sea level, so climate is quite pleasant for Europeans. Better than Assam in my view (and Kolkata). Similar to Kathmandu.

11:50am Doug Schulkind:

The Uyghurs are being savaged.

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11:51am Brian in UK:

Sounds great, Hugo. Enjoy that clear fresh air & the tea.

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11:54am Brian in UK:

Hey Hugo What me jealous? Well YES. Have a great trip.

Super show, Doug. Have to catch most on the rebop.

11:54am ndbob:

For sure Doug

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Our next and last track is a tribute to the mighty Mr. Ra!

11:56am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:56am Gary:

Thanks for making my time in Resume Rewriting Hell a bit less egregious this morning, Doug

11:56am Hugo:

Ah, never made it as far as Xinjiang. Got as far as Szechuan. Yunnan is quite pleasant, Especially Kumning. Yep, enjoying Assam tea here (and Fosters beer).

Only drawback here is that the traffic is terrible. Quite congested, but i do like this town otherwise. Great being up in the hills.

11:57am Andrew Waterloo:

I'm so happy I got to see Marshall Allen and Pico lead an orchestra last week.

11:58am Doug Schulkind:

One of my nephews is in Yunnan right now.

12:00pm Uncle Michael:

Great show, Doug...I'm heading over...

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12:00pm duke:

Thanks for the great show Doug

12:00pm davex:

Thanks, Doug!

12:00pm Van in DC:

Kop kum mah kop Doug!

12:01pm Andrew Waterloo:

great show Doug!

12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

Thank you and you and you! I had a blast!

12:02pm Hugo:

That sounds thai. Yet another coup there, so what else is new?

12:03pm Van in DC:

Yep, Thai Hugo :)

12:03pm earrie:

(Friday!)

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Lonesome Pine Fiddlers	Twenty-One Years	b/w I'm Left Alone (RCA 1952)
Colwell Brothers	Bluebonnet Lane	b/w Mountain Valley Blues (Columbia 1952)
Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers	Lonely Tomb	b/w All My Friends (Bluebird 1938)
Al Jolson	Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers	Al Jolson, Vol. 1 (1911-1914)
Fess Williams & His Royal Flush Orch.	'Leven-Thirty Saturday Night	b/w I'm Feelin' Devilish (Victor 1930)
Goofus Five (California Ramblers)	Go, Emmaline	b/w Hey! Hey! And Hee! Hee! (I'm Charleston Crazy) (OKeh 1924)
Red & Miff's Stompers	Hurricane	b/w Black Bottom Stomp (Edison 1927)
Bill Gaither	Do Like What You Want to Do	b/w New Pains in My Heart (Decca 1938)

Don Azpiazú & His Havana Casino Orchestra (vocal: George Owen)	African Lament	b/w The Voodoo (Victor 1931)
Conjunto Matamoros con Beny Moré	Que Te Estan Mirando	Conjunto Matamoros with Beny Moré (Tumbao 1945)
Don Tosti y Su Conjunto	Mambo Del Pachuco	Pachuco Boogie (Arhoolie 1953)
Tabaco y Sus Metales	Lino	Ni Poco... Ni Demasiado (Top Hits 1979)
Alejandro Durán	Melba Maria	Trago Gorriao (Polydor )
Totem	Orejas	Corrupción (De La Planta 1973)
Los Pirañas	Hueles a Espiritu Joven	Toma Tu Jabón Kapax (Vampisoul 2012)

Augustin Konan N'goran et l'O.F.I. de Bouaké	N'wla	Augustin Konan N'goran et l'O.F.I. de Bouaké (Nikadi )
Sotho Sounds	Mobopong	Junk Funk (World Music Network 2012)
Third Eye	Children's Song	African Music Today (Truth & Soul )
Mamman Sani	Gosi	Taaritt (Sahel Sounds mid-1980s)
Deadline	Makossa Rock	Makossa Rock (Celluloid 1985)

Murray Saul	It's Friiiiiiday!
Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle & Mahendra Kapoor	Are Sun Bhai	Jaani Dushman (EMI 1978)
Okko Bekker	Ganges Delta	Sitar & Electronics (BASF 1971)
The Joe Thomas Group	You Can Bet Your Sweet Bippy	Comin' Home (Cobblestone 1968)
The Swan Silvertones	If You Believe Your God Is Dead (Try Mine)	b/w He's Sweet I Know (HOB Is Gospel )

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Art Blakey	Blakey's Blues	Drums Around the Corner (Blue Note 1958)
Ab Baars Trio	Juba Stomp	A Free Step: The Music of John Carter (GeestGronden 1999)
Gil Evans	Jambangle	Gil Evans & Ten (Prestige 1957)
Anthony Braxton	Bongo Bop	Charlie Parker Project 1993 (Hat Art 1993)

Freddie Scott	Shake a Hand	Are You Lonely For Me? (Shout 1967)
Darrell Banks	I Could Never Hate Her	Here to Stay (Volt 1969)
The Lost Generation	The Young, Tough and the Terrible	Young Tough and Terrible (Brunswick 1972)
Roy Lee Johnson	Ain't Nothin' Good About Bein' Lonely (demo)
Renaldo Domino	Nevermore	b/w Not Too Cool to Cry (Twinight 1969)
Tommy Hunt	It's All a Bad Dream	b/w You Made a Man Out of Me (Scepter 1964)
The Jerms	I'm a Teardrop	b/w The Green Door (Honor Brigade 1969)
Tony Hestor	Spaceland	b/w Tommy Neal: Goin' to a Happening (Pameline )

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