Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 19, 2017 Favoriting

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Favoriting January 19, 2017: If The Drum Is A Woman – March

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Max Roach feat. Abbey Lincoln  Triptych: Prayer, Protest, Peace   Favoriting We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite  1960    0:01:30 (Pop-up)
Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show  A Loss of Consciousness   Favoriting Revenge: The Bigger The Love The Greater The Hate  1969/71  Annette Peacock and Paul Bley  0:06:15 (Pop-up)
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory And Invisible Strings  Sisters O Sisters   Favoriting Some Time in New York City  1972    0:12:59 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band & Something Different ‎  Woman Power   Favoriting Feeling the Space  1973    0:16:44 (Pop-up)
Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show  I Belong to a World That's Destroying Itself   Favoriting Revenge: The Bigger The Love The Greater The Hate  1969/71    0:21:58 (Pop-up)
Betty Davis  Nasty Gal   Favoriting Nasty Gal  1975    0:26:22 (Pop-up)
Angela Davis        Speaking at Northern Arizona University, 2013(?)  0:31:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
David Lee Jr. 
Second Line March   Favoriting
Evolution 
1974 
 
0:35:16 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter   Favoriting It Is Finished  1974    0:44:16 (Pop-up)
Sarah Webster Fabio  JuJu for Grandma   Favoriting Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues  1976    0:49:07 (Pop-up)
Jayne Cortez  Do You Think   Favoriting Celebrations and Solitudes  1974    0:54:28 (Pop-up)
Wanda Robinson  Paranoia   Favoriting Me and a Friend  1973    0:57:13 (Pop-up)
Maxayn  Trying for Days   Favoriting Maxayn  1972    1:01:57 (Pop-up)
Marie "Queenie" Lyons  I Want My Freedom   Favoriting Soul Fever  1970    1:05:36 (Pop-up)
Norma Jean and Ray J  Raising Hell   Favoriting Raising Hell  1974    1:07:44 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Backlash Blues   Favoriting The Great Show of Nina Simone Live in Paris  1968    1:10:54 (Pop-up)
Jayne Cortez & the Firespitters  If the Drum is a Woman   Favoriting There It Is  1982    1:14:41 (Pop-up)
Sonny Sharrock  Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black   Favoriting Black Woman  1969    1:17:09 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
David Lee Jr. 
Second Line March   Favoriting
Evolution 
 
 
1:25:39 (Pop-up)
The Drifters  Only in America   Favoriting Change Is Gonna Come: The Voice of Black America 1963-1973      1:36:57 (Pop-up)
Little Jo Ann  My Daddy Is President   Favoriting My Daddy Is President / Macaroni (Caroline's Pony)  1962    1:38:17 (Pop-up)
Parliament  Chocolate City   Favoriting Chocolate City  1975    1:40:42 (Pop-up)
Amnesty  Mr. President   Favoriting Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions  1973    1:46:52 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause   Favoriting America Eats Its Young  1972    1:50:28 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron  Work For Peace   Favoriting Spirits  1994    1:54:09 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp  Things Have Got To Change   Favoriting Things Have Got To Change  1971    2:01:28 (Pop-up)
Jeanne Lee & TTT  Don't Freeze Yourself to Death Over There in Those Mountains   Favoriting Don't Freeze Yourself to Death Over There in Those Mountains  1984    2:18:30 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Transcendence   Favoriting Transcendence  1977    2:38:35 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
David Lee Jr. 
Second Line March   Favoriting
Evolution 
 
 
2:41:52 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono with Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory  I Have a Woman Inside My Soul   Favoriting Approximately Infinite Universe  1973    2:51:25 (Pop-up)
Kim Jung Mi  Your Dream Like a Stream   Favoriting Now  1973  Prod. Shin Joong Hyun  2:55:32 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:51pm
Flash Strap:

Evening explorers!
  6:53pm
Ehd:

Hi Flash, are you driving up for the march?
Avatar 6:54pm
Flash Strap:

regrettably, no, but I'll be attending the one in Raleigh. You?
  6:57pm
Ehd:

I'm close to DC, Yep.
Avatar 6:58pm
Flash Strap:

wonderful, Ehd
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
doctorjazz:

Hi, great opening!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there, Doc Jazz! Hard to beat it really
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Dave in Vermont:

Good morning.
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Good morning, brother Dave
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Dave in Vermont:

Hey, Flash when I first tuned in to your show a long time ago did I understand that you are in St Louis?
Avatar 7:06pm
hyde:

heye, i started my day listening to Paul Bley (Mr. Joy)
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hyde!

I was in St. Louis back then, but these days I look around and find myself in Bahama, NC. You have ties to STL, Dave in Vermont?
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

God damn I love Annette Peacock, she is SAVAGE on that moog
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Dave in Vermont:

I was born there. Moved away when i was 10ish but my mom moved back there; got lots o' fam there.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

I was only there three strange years, it's quite a place. High highs and low lows
Avatar 7:15pm
geezerette:

Yay Evan!!!
Hi gang!
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

Hi geezerette! That's one hell of an avatar, sister!
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

Yoko's been ready for this shit for years, man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Dave in Vermont:

Strange, indeed.
Avatar 7:18pm
geezerette:

haha,thanks man. :D
Avatar 7:19pm
geezerette:

this is a great record!
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

I love how unapologetic her rhetoric is, i mean she does not try to play it cool. She just says the thing that she wants to say

LOVE YOKO
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

That whole album is great
Avatar 7:21pm
geezerette:

Me too! :)
Avatar 7:23pm
hyde:

it seems sort of appropriate here to point out that i *just* got word that my niece is on a plane to Stockholm because her metal record got nominated for a Swedish grammy
Avatar 7:24pm
geezerette:

Congratulations hyde! Fingers crossed!
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

That is such crazy good, interesting news, Hyde! A Swedish Grammy! Congrats, congratulations
Avatar 7:28pm
hyde:

thanks, you guys! i didn't even know there were Swedish grammys. i think she's probably most excited about a free trip to Stockholm.
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

what's her band?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Dave in Vermont:

Fuckin, Betty Davis!
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

She is incredible
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
doctorjazz:

Congrats, Hyde! Good luck with the awards! Do you get herring if you win?
Avatar 7:33pm
hyde:

the record is Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas. She's Julie Christmas (she was born on Xmas day)
Avatar 7:34pm
hyde:

@doctorjazz i asked for some Swedish fish
Avatar 7:36pm
hyde:

(actually the record is Mariner by C of L & JC)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
doctorjazz:

Is that record "Mariner"? I just checked Amazon, they have it. Very cool! Tough to be in the performance arts...my older daughter is trying for musical theater, spends days waiting many hours to get 1 minute to audition, waitresses the rest of the time (had some local theater that just finished). Best of luck!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
doctorjazz:

Oops, I see it is Mariner, didn't see the last post.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Doug Schulkind:

The Drum Is a Woman.

The Womb Is a Drummin'
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

damn doug that is a scientifically good word-play
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Doug Schulkind:

Word playing truth to power.
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

Next track here might be a Doug classic
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Doug Schulkind:

Flash Strap is GIVING BIRTH this evening.
Avatar 7:49pm
geezerette:

Gods,this playlist! :D
Avatar 7:50pm
hyde:

ooh, i don't know this one. it's great.
Avatar 7:52pm
geezerette:

loving!!!
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

me too!!! I mean, DAMN
Avatar 7:54pm
geezerette:

like Last Poets. Or Amiri Baraka.
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

Besides being an unbelievably powerful poet, Jayne Cortez is also Ornette Coleman's wife, and Denardo's mother
Avatar 7:57pm
hyde:

i just turned my stereo up as loud as it can go
Avatar 7:57pm
geezerette:

70s birthed many revolutions. Easy to forget that.
Thnks for memory nudge.

Wow, talk about a power couple!
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

we'll hear some more Jayne a little later, with Denardo on drums
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Little Danny:

Hi Flash and all! Just tuned in and this Wanda Robinson is already blowing my mind
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

that's the ticket Hyde! Don't blow those life-giving speakers now

Hi LD!
Avatar 7:59pm
geezerette:

Do you know the LA poet Wanda Coleman?
She was wonderful too.
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

I don't think so! I'll have to get-to-know
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Doug Schulkind:

I once stood next to Ornette a good long while at a Jayne/Firespitters show. Could barely breathe.
Avatar 8:01pm
hyde:

@geezerette i just packed up the Wanda Coleman book that i bought when i was a college student in the 80's ;)
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

DOUG THAT'S INSANE
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Doug Schulkind:

Virtually literally.
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

we'll hear some Firespitters, this set
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
doctorjazz:

Time to drive home, catch the rest in the car, thanks for the great show!
Avatar 8:03pm
geezerette:

Doug I'd have the same response!
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks for tuning in, Doc!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Right On.
Avatar 8:04pm
geezerette:

hyde,great that you have that! :)
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

Maxayn, minus the singer Maxayn Lewis, became the masked-man electrofunk project Mandré!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
melinda:

hi y'all!
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Rev Rab! Melinda!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

So proud of the Women.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Doug Schulkind:

Yes yes yes absolutely yes, Flash.
  8:11pm
MrFab:

I remember Wanda Coleman well, Saw her on the same bill as Jello Biafra at a spoken word show at my uni.
Avatar 8:12pm
hyde:

@Mr Fab ok, wow
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

Hi MrFab, that sounds like quite a ticket
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
coelacanth∅:

What's going on here! Break it up or i'm hauling y'all to jail. who d'ya think y'are? Mind your place!
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

Coelacanth! Welcome, pig!
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

GOD THIS IS RIGHT ON
Avatar 8:16pm
hyde:

this show is crazy good
Avatar 8:17pm
Hams:

yeaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
coelacanth∅:

damn, sometimes being a channeler is scary!

ehem, it's me now. just an insignificant old fish.
hi Evan and Explorers.
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks, Hyde. That Cortez track is so good, i just can't stand it. It really means something. I love her
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hams!

Glad to have ya back C.! Sorry for the rude welcome, but that's roleplay for ya
Avatar 8:20pm
Flash Strap:

Linda Sharrock is a lightning bolt to the brain
Avatar 8:21pm
Hams:

there's a good tribute to sharrock on SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST. a whole episode in memory of him.
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

i love that show
Avatar 8:23pm
hyde:

hmm, i'm getting some dropouts
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Ike:

Yep, me too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Little Danny:

Yeah, me too hyde. Very brief tho
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

ah shit. should be back now?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Doug Schulkind:

The connection just rebuffered and kicked back to the stream a few times. The music playing on the stream during this: THELONIOUS MONK.

It's all good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Little Danny:

Haha, thanks Doug! I was curious about that
Avatar 8:26pm
hyde:

yeah, seems fine now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Doug Schulkind:

Wow. Doing a double-take over here. I remember hearing that Drifters track in early November 2008 being played completely unironically.
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

man, i wondered about that
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

Oh well, GAININ ON YA
  8:41pm
MrFab:

When Obama won, kenny G played this song for all 3 hours of his show.
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

I still play this track unironically. Trump might have the White House, but it's still CC in my book
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

holy shit, mr fab
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

this is my all-time #1 Parliament track, for sure, for sure
Avatar 8:43pm
hyde:

@MrFab you have the best anecdotes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Doug Schulkind:

This isn't just a radio show, it's a doctoral dissertation.
Avatar 8:45pm
Flash Strap:

i do my bext to play with the text
  8:45pm
MrFab:

Ha, thanks Hyde! Well, if you really really like this song, I think that show is still archived.
Avatar 8:48pm
geezerette:

Ah,sing it Miss Simone!!!
Avatar 8:50pm
Flash Strap:

One of the great organizing-oriented funk jams, right here. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO NEGATE
Avatar 8:52pm
hyde:

i lowered my speaker volume for a bit. BUT IT'S BACK UP NOW
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

THERE IT IS HYDE

YES
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

Peace is not the absence of war, it is the absence of the rules of war and the threats of war and the preparation for war

yes please
Avatar 8:57pm
geezerette:

Evan this whole show is exhilarating.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
JtotheK:

dropping by to say hi! also, now wondering about #1 favorite Parliament track...(does this also include the Parliaments era?) ... oh my.... and is reminded that the 'come in out of the rain' 45 is ever so elusive... hi everyone!
Avatar 8:58pm
Flash Strap:

Hi J-K! Generally I prefer Funkadelic and The Parliaments to Parliament, and Parliament to P-Funk, if that helps
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

it's all good in its way, though. I am a Funkadelic boy to the end of days and that's the deal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Doug Schulkind:

OK, this is where I start weeping. Externally.
Avatar 9:02pm
Flash Strap:

thanks, g, and I'm glad of it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
JtotheK:

Parliaments have some outstanding 45s. (Reminds me, I need to find "Don't Be Sore At Me" ... again.) Also, if I ever stumble across their 45 on Golden World for 50 cents, that'd be pretty nifty.
Avatar 9:03pm
Flash Strap:

you won't be alone doug i've been feeling some feelings myself
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
melinda:

I've read that in Eisenhower's first draft of his speech he referred to the 'military-industrial-congressional complex'.
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

Vocals on this find you in your gut
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
JtotheK:

My fave Parliament LPs ... Osmium and Mothership. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain and Free Your Mind... There's a really great Wax Poetics from a few years ago that has the entire issue dedicated to Parliament/Funkadelic. Gonna have to dig out and re-read.
Avatar 9:06pm
Flash Strap:

Super curious who's on the synth here, I've never seen a credit I don't think
Avatar 9:07pm
hyde:

my take on Parliament etc is that the first LP i ever bought by any incarnation of those bands is The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein that i got at Strawberiies for $3.99, and in some ways it will always remain my favorite even if it is not the best
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

I'm so completely obsessed with the first three Funkadelic LPs I can barely see beyond them sometimes. They are so rock solid genius

America Eats Its Young is amazing too. Favorite Parliament LPs are Choco City and Osmium
Avatar 9:11pm
geezerette:

melinda,I heard the same thing but don't remember where.
What were you reading?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Doug Schulkind:

This was engineered by the maestro Rudy Van Gelder.
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

wow, I didn't know that. The guy has so many unbelievable credits to his good name
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
coelacanth∅:

i've been trying and still can't hear a synthesiser in this
Avatar 9:15pm
geezerette:

superb.
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

I wonder if he's handling the synth?

C: you'll hear it when it pops back out of teh mix for sure, but it's a sort of cricket-sounding metallic drone. sort of
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
coelacanth∅:

there! right on cue.
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

end of that sounds so much like Neu!'s Negativland
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
melinda:

I don't remember where I first saw it. But I googled just now and it came up in an interview with Norman Lear.
Avatar 9:17pm
hyde:

this show feels to me like a classic up-and-back rollercoaster, where you threw in the Drifters and Little Jo Ann just for a breather, so we wouldn't get too exhausted
Avatar 9:18pm
geezerette:

Lear would know. :)
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

First heard this on Doug's show, of course. Instantly became my 2nd favorite Jeanne Lee performance (after Blasé naturally)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Doug Schulkind:

I am trembling at the presentation of this particular number.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
coelacanth∅:

one website lists "romulus franceschini, donald F.cooper (electronics)" for that archie shepp album.
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

Ha, man, Little Jo Ann was like a no-breather for me

Doug, I know the feeling

C, that sounds like one of the synthy-boy fake names!
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

poking around, Romulus is also credited as a conductor for Shepp's Attica Blues... Donald F Cooper is sort of a ghost
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
coelacanth∅:

romulus franceschini?!
...he's also played with sunny murray and Khan Jamal - at least.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
coelacanth∅:

...and cal massey.
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, I saw that! Never heard it though
Avatar 9:31pm
geezerette:

She's astonishing, and this show is my introduction.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Doug Schulkind:

Jeanne Lee taught music to NYC school children for many years. Can you just imagine being one of her students? Life changing!
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

G: She does the vocals on Archie Shepp's Blasé, and her work on the title track is one of the greatest performances I've ever ever heard. Highly recommended to give it a listen or ten or a hundred
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

unbelievable Doug. unfathomable
Avatar 9:35pm
geezerette:

Absolutely! Lucky kids!
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

Doug: is it Jee-anne or Jeanie, pronunciation-wise?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Doug Schulkind:

And her version of "There Is a Balm in Gilead" on that same record is a wonderment.
Avatar 9:36pm
Flash Strap:

Yes!
Avatar 9:36pm
geezerette:

Thanks Doug and Evan. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Doug Schulkind:

Pronounced just like Jean.
Avatar 9:37pm
Flash Strap:

aha, thanks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Dave in Vermont:

Great show. Sorry I missed the middle. Archives on Saturday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
Dave in Vermont:

soundcloud.com...
Fiona Apple's song written for this weekend.
Avatar 9:43pm
geezerette:

www.youtube.com...
Evan & Doug, a treat for later. Hope you enjoy.
All y'all,check it out.
Avatar 9:48pm
hyde:

we are the people of elsewhere
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Little Danny:

Cool Blue Flame is next in line. Hope everyone will join! wfmu.org...
Avatar 9:52pm
Flash Strap:

See ya there, LD! next room is best room
Avatar 9:53pm
Flash Strap:

See ya in the archives, brother dave
Avatar 9:55pm
Flash Strap:

will do, geezerette! thanks in advance
Avatar 9:57pm
Flash Strap:

I wish I knew what this song was about. She just sounds so defiant
Avatar 9:57pm
geezerette:

my pleasure Evan.
Avatar 9:58pm
geezerette:

this song shimmers.
Avatar 9:59pm
hyde:

thanks, pal
Avatar 9:59pm
Hams:

glad i heard this.
Avatar 9:59pm
geezerette:

has a Piaf sort of quality.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
coelacanth∅:

Thank you
Brilliant program, Evan!
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

thanks all and good night

sleep tight and fight the good fight
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