WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from November 18, 2023

Listener comments!
	♥ 10:12am Listener Baby: Good morning! Hope the show was great last night. (Of course it was) Looking forward to today’s guest. Wish I had read his book. Anyway, can we start now?
	♥ 10:28am Michael Shelley: Good morning!
	♥ 10:58am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and all! MS, I think I missed you at the Knitting Factory last night? Accept this as a tardy "Hey!" from me. Gotta go chop onions and peppers. Listening hard!
	♥ 11:00am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!!
	11:01am clarke: hey now. you are the problem!!
	♥ 11:01am listener phat in Lincoln: I promise I'll make it up to you, Michael!
	♥ 11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am Bob: Good morning! I’m celebrating by having beer for breakfast. Or maybe it’s oatmeal with reduced sugar. Either way.
	♥ 11:03am yerfriendpaul: Hey Michael, everyone!
	11:03am clarke: hello bob.
	11:03am Andres: Good morning. I hope we get the reveal for “top Michael of 2018”.
	11:03am Bob: Top five Mars track
	♥ 11:03am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	♥ 11:03am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all
	♥ 11:03am Handy Haversack: Wait, are we not going to find out who the top Michael of 2018 is? Because I think I still have money on that. clarke! Frank! phat! Paul! Squints! Bob! Christina! Andres! All!
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:00 Treasurer inna haus!! welcome back!!
	♥ 11:04am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Now And Then" by "David A. Rodriguez (aka Dreamer... Well, that did/t take long
	11:04am Bob: ↳ Bob @11:03 Mats
	♥ 11:04am JG: ↳ Song: "Now And Then" by "David A. Rodriguez (aka Dreamer... Mike please talk a little bit about what this is exactly
	♥ 11:04am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:04 Thank ye
	♥ 11:04am Franco Twinkie: Hey hey!
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:03 you don't want to be f'd on sattaday, i f u on wednesday!!
	♥ 11:04am yerfriendpaul: Wow! They didn’t waste a second to record this! Sounds pretty good!
	11:05am Eddy in Australia: Bernard Purdie doing a great job on the kit. As usual.
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 he shoots, he scores!!
	11:05am Colin and Eddie in Durham, England: I don’t understand this
	♥ 11:05am JG: ↳ JG @11:04 In general, I take it that you prefer it to the MCCarney- Ringo- Robot John- Robot George rendition
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:05 EDDY!!! YER AWAKE, MATE!!
	11:06am davefromtoronto: better than the fake beatles version
	11:06am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:05 dimmies, mate!!
	♥ 11:07am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:04 Eight-year-olds, Dude.
	11:08am Eddy in Australia: @Ckarke Barely. Just got home. Gonna drift off soon. Have a good one.
	11:08am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:07 the ringer appears to be empty.
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:08 always great to see ya here, take care, mate!!
	♥ 11:09am Michael Shelley: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:08 LOCAL TIME?
	11:09am Bob: If you didn’t record the interview already can you ask about the Trouble Boys biopic? It may have been dropped as there’s been no updates about it since Covid.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:09 bob, have you seen that film that has tons of interviews but NO mats material in it?
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...ain't nuthin' like a #1 in thuh mornin' !...
	11:11am clarke: rev!
	♥ 11:11am Ken From Hyde Park: How do? I bought some asparagus last night and just cooked it. Had a couple of spears, so VEGGIE BREAFAST, I guess.
	♥ 11:11am JohnEBGood: My buddy Michael Z and I were good baseball players when our part of Downtown JC was known as Gammantown. Love you Z. Go Juniper : )
	11:11am clarke: no beer ken??
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 favorite moment in europe??
	♥ 11:15am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:28 You weren't kidding about Nick Lowe's 2nd encore of Heart. Great ending of a hell of a show. People started to leave. They missed a gem.
	♥ 11:16am Chris Hiatt: Good Morning, peoples!
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Song: "Can't Hardly Wait" by "Replacements, The" i prefer the horn-less version, but this is jus'fine.
	11:16am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:10 AWFUL! My friend Brendan is a filmmaker who worked some with the guy and said he’s also a giant Richard.
	11:16am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:15 good times???
	11:16am Greg g: Great book and looking forward to the interview! Morning Michael & all My #1’s!!
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Now And Then" by "David A. Rodriguez (aka Dreamer... Where is YouTube or Link to this ?
	♥ 11:17am myron feld: ↳ clarke @11:16 I was typing the same. Sans horns is just...nicer.
	11:17am davefromtoronto: that snare drum!
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:16 some of those interviews are important, however.
	11:17am paul: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:15 Speaking of Nick, I thought he and Dave were the Trouble Boys.
	11:17am Bob: I like the horns version better!
	♥ 11:17am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:16 Amazing.
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:16 as the folks are now dead.
	♥ 11:17am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:13 For me always either seeing old friends or making new ones. Did a fair bit of both this time around.
	11:18am PatrickMC: Personally I dig the Memphisiness of the horns
	11:18am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:17 nice!! new fave town??
	11:18am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:17 90 minutes of bearded poindexters who I never remembered seeing at actual Replacements shows.
	11:19am clarke: ↳ PatrickMC @11:18 you're not wrong, walter...
	11:19am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:18 yes but bob's ex-wife, etc.
	♥ 11:19am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:18 Madrid (obviously), Valencia (great show and wonderful weather) and Leon (quaint but rockin' town).
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:19 oui!!! whee!!
	♥ 11:21am Don Gorden: Howdy all, I've been on a Kink's kick all week , It started with , So Tired
	11:21am clarke: who listens to the radio?!?
	♥ 11:22am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" Love this one
	♥ 11:22am Michael Shelley: ↳ paul @11:17 The book title comes from that song - I think it was the first song they ever played
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:22 yeppers.
	♥ 11:23am JG: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" For a second I don't know who Rick Nelson is when I hear that name. I'm a big fan of Ricky Nelson. Rick too, but always takes me a second to have that name register
	♥ 11:23am Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" Like a lost Michael Penn record.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:22 the first FULL song they got through, i believe.
	11:23am tonyb: A bit off topic, but I also enjoyed Westerberg backed by the Neighborhoods. Late to the party, only saw the band with Bob once.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Uncle Michael @11:23 i know this is crazy, but i JUST saw Boogie Nights for the first time, this week. love penn's score!
	♥ 11:24am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" Really great. A bit of a revelation.
	11:24am Todd in RVA: Michael, Good morning!!. A bit of a non-sequitur here but saw the Televisionaries w/ Les Greene doin' his Little Richard-ish thang down here in RVA Thursday night! Thank you very much for turning me on to the Televisionaries! Btw - they absolutely lub you!
	11:25am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:17 oh and belated happy bday, Phat!!
	♥ 11:25am Uncle Michael: ↳ clarke @11:24 I had no idea he scored that film.
	11:25am clarke: ↳ Uncle Michael @11:25 hah, me either - and he is also in it as the recording engineer
	♥ 11:27am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Attitude" by "Replacements, The" Aces! I think this qualifies as a deep cut.
	11:27am SeanG: all shook down baby!
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:27 i really have a soft-spot for this album.
	11:27am PatrickMC: ↳ Todd in RVA @11:24 In Charleston last week I saw posters for Televisionaries headlining a rockabilly BBQ fest this wknd. Realized then that I came the wrong wknd!
	♥ 11:28am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:25 Thanks!
	11:28am clarke: mauro magellan on drums, here.
	♥ 11:29am Handy Haversack: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:11 WORD!
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:29 plus jalapenos!!
	11:30am clarke: ↳ Song: "Wrong To Me" by "John Fred And His Playboy Band" oh yes yes!!
	♥ 11:30am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:27 Same. Solo LP in all but name or not, the songs are top-notch.
	11:31am clarke: ↳ Song: "Wrong To Me" by "John Fred And His Playboy Band" first band i ever 'saw'
	11:31am SeanG: paul's solo stuff is so awesome too
	11:31am clarke: ↳ SeanG @11:31 basically, that album WAS paul's solo album, sorta.
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thot the 'Color Me Obsessed' doc was worth watching on PlutoTV : pluto.tv...
	11:32am Bob: Too early for movie time? I’m giving a soft recommendation for ‘Dreamin’ Wild.’ Cheap rent on Priime. Casey Affleck, Zooey Deschanel, Walton Goggins, Beau Bridges. True story about a LP reissue that Light In The Attic records did ten years ago. The story escaped me at the time but it’s a nice story and pretty good little movie.
	♥ 11:33am listener phat in Lincoln: This Slim Dunlap solo records are good, too. He played Lincoln a handful of times around that time.
	♥ 11:33am listener phat in Lincoln: Those
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:32 frank governs MovieTime, but this is an interesting thing i didn't know about. cool!
	11:35am SeanG: hope Slim is doing all right these days
	11:35am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	♥ 11:36am yerfriendpaul: Damn! Ever since you recommended him, I’ve been wanting to see Marty Stuart. Sorry I missed it. Hope he comes around closer soon
	♥ 11:36am myron feld: I was at the Marty show last night as well, and Michael is actually underselling how great a show it was.
	♥ 11:36am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:33 I merely second the motion to do Movie Time. I never spearhead the effort.
	11:37am P-90: “underpriced” is such a pleasant word
	♥ 11:37am Handy Haversack: Le brunch, eet ees sairved.
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:36 now yer being modest. ha ha. but, i don't figure you have had much time for movies??
	♥ 11:38am listener phat in Lincoln: Cousin Kenny plays the coolest weirdo guitar solos.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:37 bar's over there, haversack.
	♥ 11:38am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:37 A couple on the plane back and one last night. But not much in between.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 and...?
	11:39am goes211: Saw Marty a few months back on your recommendation, Michael. His bus broke down on two separate occasions before our date! Rescheduled each time. Well worth the wait!!
	♥ 11:39am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:38 Oh, we're doing it?
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 while you were away, i did see The Helmet - wow.
	♥ 11:40am Squints: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:39 <insert bluto gif> Let's....
	♥ 11:40am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:39 The one from India?
	♥ 11:40am Uncle Michael: I'm overdue for another Superlatives show.
	11:40am Bob: Oh hell. As long as I’m at it, there’s a GREAT new doc on Netflix called ‘Squaring the Circle’. The story of those Hipgnosis guys that did all those great, elaborate covers for LP’s back in the day. Pink Floyd, Zep, Wings, 10cc, etc. fascinating watch.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:40 bluto or brutus??
	♥ 11:41am Handy Haversack: Stupid question, but I was at the stove: which is the best band in America right now?
	♥ 11:41am Squints: ↳ Song: "Watch Your Step" by "Ted Hawkins" We-he-hell. This kinda rocks.
	11:41am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:40 no, The Helmet sam fuller one. wow.
	♥ 11:41am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Bob @11:40 Very good. Saw it at our little arthouse theatre.
	♥ 11:41am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:41 Ah, The Steel Helmet. Yes, wow indeed. Possibly my fave of his.
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Watch Your Step" by "Ted Hawkins" Loves TedHawkins.
	11:42am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 Marty Stuart & The Fabulous Superlatives.
	♥ 11:42am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:40 The former. Funny how Brutus never wore a toga.
	♥ 11:42am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:40 I have a memory of an episode of Popeye where a frog saying in a rumbly frog voice, "Bluto did it." Or did I dream it?
	11:42am PatrickMC: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 Jason Bonham's Led Zep Experience apparently
	11:42am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:41 doh.. YES!! The Steel Helmet!! unreal.
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:42 No that was a thing.
	♥ 11:43am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:42 S'what I thought, thanks.
	♥ 11:43am Frank In Queens: I'm partial to Ted Green myself.
	11:43am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:42 he DID!! in the roman coliseum one!
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:42 it sounds vaguely fam.
	♥ 11:44am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:43 Did he smash a folkie's guitar against the wall?
	11:45am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:44 ha ha, he ate spinach and kicked some lions' asses.
	11:45am SeanG: I live alone, it's awesome!
	♥ 11:45am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" Harry Stone is smiling down upon you right now.
	♥ 11:45am Hughie Considine: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:42 I needed that (in rumbly frog voice)
	♥ 11:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" The Velvet Fog!
	11:45am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:45 turned them into rugs.
	♥ 11:46am listener phat in Lincoln: I might not be able to live with anyone else again.
	♥ 11:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:45 The old man said to take any rug in the place.
	♥ 11:46am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" Rick Moranis as Mel Torme singing the national anthem is one of the best bits in all of SCTV. He starts scatting.
	♥ 11:46am JG: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" The Velvet Fog was on Seinfeld last night. The Jimmy. Maybe the best ep of all
	11:46am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:46 know the feeling.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:46 it really brought the room together.
	♥ 11:48am JG: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 haha I gotta check that out again
	♥ 11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:47 Did I micturate on your rug, sir?!
	♥ 11:49am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "I'll Buy" by "Replacements, The" This just sounds more awake than the original.
	11:50am clarke: let me say, up front, that i think Trouble Boys is GREAT. love it. however, i do think it misses a key point: the shows were not just shambles. the mats, at some point, in every show i saw did ONE song perfectly - just to show the crowd they were being fucked-with.
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:48 er. well no, man. but..
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "I WIll Dare" by "Replacements, The" K8's a MPLS girl, but the timing was all wrong for her. She didn't see them until at Forest Hills a few (eight?) years back.
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:52 since my band was label-mates with the mats, i probably saw them about 14-15 times.
	♥ 11:53am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:53 Well, K8's jealous!
	11:54am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "I WIll Dare" by "Replacements, The" Remember when Let It Be was on everyone's turntable?
	11:54am SeanG: first saw the Mats in 1989 at the cameo theatre in south beach, fla Tommy keene opened up
	♥ 11:54am Vertual: Back when this originally came out, I remember liking it so much, I actually had my car stereo volume at 10 for the first time. And it still wasn't loud enough.
	11:55am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:53 oh, and also later when Pleased came out, too.
	♥ 11:55am ScottySlave: You are right on about Marty Stuart. I took your advice two years ago & was floored! What a great bunch of crackerjack musicians! Truly spiritual!
	♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: I saw the show at Maxwell's that Chris Mars sat out, and I remember that it didn't matter to me.
	♥ 11:55am Handy Haversack: So here's a(nother) dumb question: where does the "Mats" nickname come from?
	11:55am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:55 what was the sitch??
	♥ 11:56am drr: Hearing I Will Dare reminds me: we got all our music recommendations at that time from reading about bands that Peter Buck and Mike Mills talked about in R.E.M. interviews. If they mentioned it we would go out and buy it, no questions asked. i remember being really excited to get this album. (Others include Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Big Star (very hard to find), Jason and The Scorchers, Miracle Legion...probably more.
	♥ 11:56am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:55 Placemats, a mishearing of the band name
	11:56am SeanG: placemats
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:55 place-mats
	♥ 11:56am myron feld: I saw them in places ranging from Folk City to Madison Square Garden. Folk City was better!
	11:57am clarke: ↳ drr @11:56 mornin' dave!!
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:56 Thank you! I never knew.
	11:57am PatrickMC: Saw em at The Ritz around time of Tim. Can't recall opener
	11:57am SeanG: dead man's pop is a great reissue too
	♥ 11:57am Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:56 Yes, and Mission of Burma. I remember Buck saying it was the reason he bought a CD player.
	11:57am dday: ↳ clarke @11:53 what would be that band's name?
	♥ 11:57am drr: how do, clarke!
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @11:56 We were much the same in HS! Pylon and Drivin' N' Cryin'!
	11:58am clarke: ↳ dday @11:57 Charlie Picket & The Eggs
	♥ 11:58am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:57 It's not exactly intuitive :)
	11:58am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:58 oops Charlie Pickett
	11:58am tonyb: Garden opening for Costello? “So this is the big time? Madison Sh*t Garden.”
	11:58am PatrickMC: ↳ drr @11:56 Pylon, Love Tractor, Let's Active and others in the athens orbit
	11:58am Bob: ↳ drr @11:56 ALL of that
	♥ 11:59am Handy Haversack: Well, this show sure is making K8 happy, MS. MPLS people -- they are LOYAL.
	11:59am Donna: Aching to Be!! Love the show today! Love the Mats!
	♥ 11:59am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Achin' To Be (Matt Wallace Mix)" by "Replacements... Such good musicians. They can swing, they can channel No Depression vibes. All the feels!
	♥ 11:59am Mr Gee: Welp, I must say: I think the new "I'll Buy' is not as good as the original. I would compare it to when I first heard Magical Mystery Tour in mono and realized, "woah, this song actually rocks!"
	♥ 11:59am drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:57 I do remember that--I was the hip teenager who already knew about MoB. There was a great band in Chattanooga called The Value who played "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" and we all thought they were genius songwriters. Nobody knew they didn't write it!
	12:00pm dday: ↳ clarke @11:58 I ask in hopes that I may have seen you perform but alas, I did not
	12:00pm tonyb: Great “B” side.
	♥ 12:00pm Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @11:59 Chattanooga! Fantastic.
	♥ 12:00pm drr: ↳ clarke @11:58 The R.E.M. guys definitely mentioned Charlie Pickett and the Eggs, too; that one we couldn't find.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ dday @12:00 we were all over!! ha ha.
	♥ 12:01pm ScottySlave: And that version of Now & Then! I've been sharing that for two weeks now! It truly defines a John song when done that way. Tim from The Fabulous Flemtones heard it & declared that they are going to learn that version!
	12:01pm Bob: I worked with Paul’s first wife a bit. She was a cutie. Bit disorganized her ownself
	♥ 12:01pm drr: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:57 I forgot Pylon, of course! D&C was like a local band for us already.
	12:01pm PatrickMC: ↳ drr @11:59 Academy Fight Song was in the WNYU rotation back in the day, which got them some attention
	12:02pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:01 nice gal!!
	♥ 12:02pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bob @12:01 Who among us isn't?
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:01 hey - did you know MoB played at Jimmy's? i missed it, but they hardly did ANY shows in the south.
	12:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That RevRab Replacements story : Was in Cape Cod, Mass. in the mid-1980s in my first attempt to Leave Home. (Failed.) Well-to-do Doctor's son I was hanging with heard that 'Tommy & the Placemats' would be @ the Men's Insquare pub in Cambridge (Boston) - or some name like that. A tiny tiny club~bar with barely a foot to stand in - right in front of the stage. Everybody in the Underground knew this meant TheReplacements - & they were warming up here for a bigger Boston gig to come. We dropped acid & went ...Bob was in a Dress. & they played 'Strawberry Fields' into our faces...
	♥ 12:05pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:59 When I was in junior high, we convinced a guy at soccer camp that "The Rover" by Led Zeppelin was our garage band. Same idea.
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:04 rev takes the cake.
	♥ 12:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @12:01 I think I saw them the first time at fifteen and then probably ten more times through HS. Through a weird series of coincidences, KK ended up playing solo on a bill with K8's band in Brooklyn a dozen or so years back, and I was the only one in the place who knew him, and he basically did a request show for me. And then I got to talk to him and tell him how foundationally formative his music had been for me, as a listener but also in terms of art imbued with ethics and and with solidarity and how much I felt he had shaped the course of my development from snot-nosed brat to SLIGHTLY less snot-nosed brat, and it meant just the absolute world to me to be able to tell him that. And he was totally cool about it. And then his wife approached me later to tell me how much that conversation meant to him, and it's just one of the most treasured memories I have.
	♥ 12:06pm drr: ↳ PatrickMC @11:58 Yep yep. Forgot Love Tractor. Which is funny--when I was 17 I sneaked off to Athens to see Love Tractor at the 40 Watt, and got interviewed by the Washington Post after the show. I've mentioned it on here before; it was a fun time. I had no plan, I slept on somebody's porch.
	12:07pm clarke: take it you are referring to Kevn Kinney, here??
	♥ 12:08pm drr: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:05 oh, that's great.
	♥ 12:08pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:07 Yerp.
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:07 that was for handy.
	12:08pm dday: ↳ clarke @12:00 Unfortunately, I wasn't
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:08 yup.
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ dday @12:08 we were all over until it was ALL OVER
	12:09pm dday: ↳ clarke @12:09 Shortest books ever. Lived a few of them :)
	♥ 12:10pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:03 I didn't--Jimmy's is before my time. I did love the story in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" about how they could fly for cheap or free on Delta, but to get the deal they always had to change planes in Atlanta. Sounds so miserable.
	12:10pm PatrickMC: ↳ drr @12:06 Sleeping outside after seeing a show and not having well made plans is an experience I can identify with.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:10 well, at least there is/was good soul food at ATL airport!!
	♥ 12:15pm JimB: Ref. Hold My Life chorus: m.youtube.com...
	♥ 12:16pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:11 One of the best things about growing up in Atlanta is that at least you don't have to transfer THROUGH the Atlanta airport -- you can just get on MARTA.
	♥ 12:18pm Spikey BXL: Caught 20 minutes of this and loved it - will need the archive for the rest. Thanks Michael! (hello all)
	♥ 12:18pm Handy Haversack: They're all from Minnesota? Amazing -- this is a really good nudge toward getting this book. If only K8 still had time to read!
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:16 i never had any problem hubbing in ATL - what's that place Mrs. _____'s Food??
	♥ 12:19pm Franco Twinkie: This is so amazing. I'm glad I tuned in.
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:18 i have a MAJOR problem driving thru ATL, tho!!! only worse is houston.
	♥ 12:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:18 Dunno -- I'm a Soul Vegetarian guy!
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:20 mrs ____ rocks!! pete buck hipped me to the place (which is an outpost of an ATL place)
	♥ 12:23pm myron feld: ↳ JimB @12:15 I remember this well. I always figured that's where the chorus came from.
	12:24pm MinneChristo: Peter Jesperson just published his memoir. He's been popping up here in Mpls this week to promote. I need to pick up a copy.
	♥ 12:24pm Frank In Queens: With you there Michael.
	♥ 12:24pm Handy Haversack: Now K8's complaining about the limited Replacements selection at Koreatown karaoke. I mean, I get it, but forget it, K8. It's Koreatown.
	12:25pm clarke: one story i have a bit of question about: when paul says to bob "DRINK or get the fuck off my stage!!" - what is the implication? is it that he was just looking for an excuse to fire bob??
	♥ 12:25pm Hubig Pie: I slept on the floor of the Atlanta airport after an all night red-eye flight. I lived .
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:25 i mighta seent'cha!!
	♥ 12:27pm Hubig Pie: ↳ clarke @12:26 1990-ish.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:27 ha ha, maybe!
	♥ 12:31pm Pedro in Arlington: Have always wished for Bob Dylan to do "Aching to Be" live, preferably Friday in Baltimore.
	12:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thot this a good discourse on the Mats : jeremydylan.net... - in which characterization is made - they were like all Keef Richards taking the piss with no Mick Jagger to be controlling & organizing...
	♥ 12:31pm Michael Shelley: ↳ MinneChristo @12:24 me too
	♥ 12:33pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:31 Could be a good Marathon prize, MS -- as could this book! (Loved the Little Richard biog. I won off your show a few years back.)
	♥ 12:35pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:24 Insa in Gowanus might be worth a look for that. They're pretty hip.
	12:35pm PatrickMC: The Forest Hills show was happy/sad
	♥ 12:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Chris Hiatt @12:35 Been there, actually! But it's so pricey!
	♥ 12:37pm Listener Baby: What does a Replacements hit look like? Or sound like? Same question for an NRBQ song. Just maybe not a thing in this dimension.
	12:37pm clarke: baby? baby.. BABY!!!!!
	♥ 12:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:35 Pogues and Tom Waits selections, at least, pretty standard. But "Tom Traubert's Blues" is my jam, so all good.
	♥ 12:38pm Listener Baby: Clarke!!
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:37 mats were HUGE Q fans, btw!! the ONLY bumper-sticker on their trailer was Ridin' In My Car
	♥ 12:39pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:37 Interesting question. Here's what was on the charts when they released "Don't Tell A Soul" en.wikipedia.org...
	12:40pm PatrickMC: ↳ Listener Baby @12:37 Mighta been a cover, which were always so great
	♥ 12:41pm Hughie Considine: Aha, so the J is silent in Fjelstad. I've learned much this afternoon.
	12:42pm Bob: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:39 Boy, that’s even more grim than I remember. I was working at Wherehouse records in Mt Pleasant Michigan at the time. It was definitely one of the few promos that I could stand to play instore.
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:41 jep
	♥ 12:42pm Listener Baby: I’m thinking of REM, and their hits. Those songs sounded like a different band from where they started Could/should have the Replacements done such? Would we have liked it?
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:41 it is actually a very soft Y
	♥ 12:42pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bob @12:42 I still think Boy Meets Girl gets screwed over.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:42 REM changed their original sound, too.
	12:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:39 ...YEESH.
	♥ 12:43pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:35 Hipster pricing. How's the karaoke list?
	♥ 12:44pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Baby @12:42 R.E.M. also very consciously wanted every album to sound different from the last/others-- why they thought Document was a failure.
	♥ 12:45pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:42 that's what i thought
	♥ 12:45pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:43 Certainty for their hit song era. That’s my point.
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:45 ah, misunderstood.
	♥ 12:46pm Hughie Considine: I always remember hearing "Can't Get There From Here" on the AM radio in a cab in Akron, Ohio, and being flabbergasted. It's not that commercial sounding a song, but it got played.
	♥ 12:46pm Listener Baby: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:44 Interesting, Handy. Probably why they kept changing producers?
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:46 i love when a song brings to an exact place and point!
	♥ 12:47pm DanChusid: Tommy Stinson is actually playing a house concert tonight in my friend's backyard here in San Diego. Good timing that this show is being broadcast today.
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:47 -one
	12:48pm SeanG: uncle pappy! haha
	♥ 12:48pm Hubig Pie: With a few exceptions that 1989 Hot 100 looks like a soundtrack to an eternity in hell.
	♥ 12:48pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:48 Straight up, now tell me.
	♥ 12:48pm Listener Baby: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:48 And then the entire decade of the 90s.
	♥ 12:48pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:47 totally - I wish I held onto more of those moments. I still remember hearing Television's "Venus" on WPIX and flipping out.
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ SeanG @12:48 you never wanted to see Uncle Pappy!
	12:49pm Mike W.: Chris Mars draws great monsters
	12:50pm clarke: woe, that is sad to hear that spoken out loud.
	12:51pm clarke: i hope that paul is still writing, somehow somewhere.
	♥ 12:51pm Handy Haversack: Seventeen years in Guns and Roses! Jesus god.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:51 talk about hell.
	♥ 12:52pm Listener Baby: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:51 Only a stint in The Replacements would prepare you for.
	♥ 12:53pm Handy Haversack: Which also makes me think that every band's story is worth hearing. Great to listen in on a conversation on this deep dive. MS, Bob M., thanks for it.
	12:53pm tonyb: G*d bless the Minnesota Twins.
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:52 not for Buckethead!
	12:53pm SeanG: loved that Tommy song "Satellite"
	♥ 12:53pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:53 Who could forget Buckethead?
	12:54pm clarke: who?
	12:54pm P.Welles: Such an interesting interview
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Odd period... Associate REM exactly with that time of College Radio surfacing into Alternative Culture writ large. Which happened to correlate exactly to some of us Leaving Home & this major life transition - & all the implications of that. So ...with REM - it was both a thrill & validating & gave hope that they were in the Charts that way ...& - simultaneously - by the time, say, 'Stand' was on MTV often enuff - a feeling REM was morphing into a Pop Chart band in ways - less than optimal. Tho they continued to put out relevant things (imho) for some time ...one feels they start with 'Murmur' which is this shimmering sterling artifact expressing our young longing & potential - & frankly it's diminishing returns as they go on - tho more or less steeply (not an exact precipitous plunge, but more obliquely...)
	♥ 12:55pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Baby @12:52 Like, you just figure such a thing is a karmic punishment reserved for whatever the hell Axl did in past lives to piss the bardo all the way the hell off.
	♥ 12:55pm yerfriendpaul: Great interview!
	12:56pm mike east: Fantastic interview…I gotta read this book!
	12:56pm Crei6hton: Afternoon WFMU
	12:56pm clarke: thanks Bob and MS!!! fab!!
	♥ 12:56pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Bob Mehr" This was really great. Definitely picking up the book!
	♥ 12:56pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:54 New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996? 1997?) stands up against ANYthing in their catalogue. Material forces affected them, but they were always trying to innovate, I think.
	♥ 12:56pm DanChusid: Great interview. Gonna see Tommy tonight and will mention.
	12:56pm SeanG: awesome!
	♥ 12:56pm listener phat in Lincoln: Great interview, thanks Michael
	♥ 12:57pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Little Mascara" by "Replacements, The" Love the extra oomph on this one!
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:56 guess i need to re-listen. i was there for the recording of one of those tunes.
	♥ 12:57pm egould: Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Bob. Wonderful interview. The Michael Shelley show is always the highlight of my week.
	12:57pm SeanG: hey clarke, are you a big Go-Betweens fan?
	12:57pm Bob: Great interview. Very good, very sad and dark story. Definitely worse than we imagined.
	♥ 12:57pm Listener Baby: Very nice work, Baby. Two dudes who know what they are doing, going at it. Great stuff.
	♥ 12:57pm Handy Haversack: Damn, great stuff, MS! Many thanks to you and Bob!
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ SeanG @12:57 OF COURSE!!!
	♥ 12:58pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:56 I lost interest after Automatic for the People, but loved that one. Haven't listened to it for years though.
	12:58pm SeanG: ah nice! I worship them!
	12:58pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Little Mascara" by "Replacements, The" RIP BOB!!!! Loving this mix of a real #1
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:56 Well I acknowledge it's not a straight plunge downward - but there's outcroppings to stand on here & there. @ least.
	12:58pm clarke: let me also establish that it was a huge morale buzzkill to be a poor band opening for the Mats and they are burning $100 dollar bills.
	♥ 12:59pm radioronan: Great interview..loved the book. Let it Bleed edition is already on my xmas list..Thanks Michael!
	12:59pm Bob: I refuse to believe Paul is done. That’s just inconceivable to me.
	12:59pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:59 same!
	♥ 12:59pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:58 Ouch. You are NOT wrong, Walter.
	12:59pm SheWolf: Care of ya & mascara only rhyme in a Midwestern accent.
	♥ 1:00pm Micheal: Excellent interview with Bob, Michael - thanks! Love the solo rip on this remix. The Replacements were so important to a lot of us Reagan era misfits. One of best Mats show I saw was at the Channel in Boston in 86 when Bob missed the first few songs then came on stage naked and tore it up for rest of show.
	1:00pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:59 yeah, it was harsh. we are like, uhh, we could actually eat FOOD with that!!
	♥ 1:00pm Listener Baby: In a “Road not Taken” story. I was offered the live front of house engineering job for REM. Probably 1988. Turn it down. Wonder if I’d be alive, of deaf, of single at this point if I’d taken it?
	♥ 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Ever get the feeling you haven't been cheated?
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: Great show and interview Michael. Thanks!
	♥ 1:00pm drr: that was fun. Thanks, MS!
	1:01pm clarke: ever get the feeling you been matted. good nite/
	1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~ & TY author BobMehr
	1:01pm Greg g: Thank you Michael, thank you Bob Mehr, the Mats & RIP Bob Stinson.
	1:01pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Thanks, MS. You are one of the best interviewers on WFMU!
	1:02pm Barefoot Jimmy G: ↳ Bob @12:59 Agreed
	1:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Micheal @1:00 Reagan era misfits. Dig it.
	♥ 1:05pm drr: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:54 THat's a great description. I'll say though, that I was furious when "Green" came out. I felt like my favorite band had betrayed me, and themselves.
	9:07pm Mark R from New Paltz: Fabulous interview, Michael. Mehr was fascinating and insightful.
	12:46am pp: ↳ clarke @11:53 Only saw them once at the basement of the Whole Coffehouse U of Minnesota. A few dozen in attendance

Michael Shelley: Playlist from November 18, 2023

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November 18, 2023: Guest: Bob Mehr, Replacements Author and Archivist

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Artist	Track	Album
Replacements, The	Love Lines "Love Lines" by "Replacements, The"	Hootenanny
David A. Rodriguez (aka DreamerJazz)	Now And Then	none
Wade Jackson	Sippin' On A Sud "Sippin' On A Sud" by "Wade Jackson"	45
Junior Wells	Snatch it Back and Hold It	Hoodoo Man Blues
Trio Irakitan	Só Danço Samba "Só Danço Samba" by "Trio Irakitan"	A Bossa Que Gostamos De Cantar
Replacements, The	Can't Hardly Wait	Pleased To Meet Me
(Fab) Phatons, The	I've Got That Feeling'	45
Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band	Promises	45
Wee Willie Walker	Ticket To Ride "Ticket To Ride" by "Wee Willie Walker"	45
Replacements, The	Attitude "Attitude" by "Replacements, The"	All Shook Down
John Fred And His Playboy Band	Wrong To Me	45
Kenny Vaughan (with the Fabulous Superlatives)	Country Music's Got A Hold On Me (live at Ernest Tubb's)	V
Ted Hawkins	Watch Your Step "Watch Your Step" by "Ted Hawkins"	Watch Your Step
Mel Tormé	Live Alone And Like It	At The Movies
Replacements, The	I'll Buy "I'll Buy" by "Replacements, The"	Tim (let it bleed edition)
Replacements, The	I WIll Dare "I WIll Dare" by "Replacements, The"	Let It Be
Replacements, The	Achin' To Be (Matt Wallace Mix)	Dead Man's Pop
Replacements, The	If Only You Were Lonely	45
Replacements, The	Waitress In the Sky	Tim (let it bleed edition)
Replacements, The	Hold My Life "Hold My Life" by "Replacements, The"	Tim (let it bleed edition)
Bob Mehr	Interview "Interview" by "Bob Mehr"	none
Replacements, The	Little Mascara "Little Mascara" by "Replacements, The"	Tim

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CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version

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Listener comments!
	♥ 10:12am Listener Baby: Good morning! Hope the show was great last night. (Of course it was) Looking forward to today’s guest. Wish I had read his book. Anyway, can we start now?
	♥ 10:28am Michael Shelley: Good morning!
	♥ 10:58am Handy Haversack: Hey now, Michael and all! MS, I think I missed you at the Knitting Factory last night? Accept this as a tardy "Hey!" from me. Gotta go chop onions and peppers. Listening hard!
	♥ 11:00am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!!
	11:01am clarke: hey now. you are the problem!!
	♥ 11:01am listener phat in Lincoln: I promise I'll make it up to you, Michael!
	♥ 11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:02am Bob: Good morning! I’m celebrating by having beer for breakfast. Or maybe it’s oatmeal with reduced sugar. Either way.
	♥ 11:03am yerfriendpaul: Hey Michael, everyone!
	11:03am clarke: hello bob.
	11:03am Andres: Good morning. I hope we get the reveal for “top Michael of 2018”.
	11:03am Bob: Top five Mars track
	♥ 11:03am Christina Ginger: Good morning!
	♥ 11:03am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all
	♥ 11:03am Handy Haversack: Wait, are we not going to find out who the top Michael of 2018 is? Because I think I still have money on that. clarke! Frank! phat! Paul! Squints! Bob! Christina! Andres! All!
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:00 Treasurer inna haus!! welcome back!!
	♥ 11:04am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Now And Then" by "David A. Rodriguez (aka Dreamer... Well, that did/t take long
	11:04am Bob: ↳ Bob @11:03 Mats
	♥ 11:04am JG: ↳ Song: "Now And Then" by "David A. Rodriguez (aka Dreamer... Mike please talk a little bit about what this is exactly
	♥ 11:04am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:04 Thank ye
	♥ 11:04am Franco Twinkie: Hey hey!
	11:04am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:03 you don't want to be f'd on sattaday, i f u on wednesday!!
	♥ 11:04am yerfriendpaul: Wow! They didn’t waste a second to record this! Sounds pretty good!
	11:05am Eddy in Australia: Bernard Purdie doing a great job on the kit. As usual.
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 he shoots, he scores!!
	11:05am Colin and Eddie in Durham, England: I don’t understand this
	♥ 11:05am JG: ↳ JG @11:04 In general, I take it that you prefer it to the MCCarney- Ringo- Robot John- Robot George rendition
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:05 EDDY!!! YER AWAKE, MATE!!
	11:06am davefromtoronto: better than the fake beatles version
	11:06am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:05 dimmies, mate!!
	♥ 11:07am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:04 Eight-year-olds, Dude.
	11:08am Eddy in Australia: @Ckarke Barely. Just got home. Gonna drift off soon. Have a good one.
	11:08am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:07 the ringer appears to be empty.
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:08 always great to see ya here, take care, mate!!
	♥ 11:09am Michael Shelley: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:08 LOCAL TIME?
	11:09am Bob: If you didn’t record the interview already can you ask about the Trouble Boys biopic? It may have been dropped as there’s been no updates about it since Covid.
	11:10am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:09 bob, have you seen that film that has tons of interviews but NO mats material in it?
	11:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...ain't nuthin' like a #1 in thuh mornin' !...
	11:11am clarke: rev!
	♥ 11:11am Ken From Hyde Park: How do? I bought some asparagus last night and just cooked it. Had a couple of spears, so VEGGIE BREAFAST, I guess.
	♥ 11:11am JohnEBGood: My buddy Michael Z and I were good baseball players when our part of Downtown JC was known as Gammantown. Love you Z. Go Juniper : )
	11:11am clarke: no beer ken??
	11:13am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:04 favorite moment in europe??
	♥ 11:15am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Michael Shelley @10:28 You weren't kidding about Nick Lowe's 2nd encore of Heart. Great ending of a hell of a show. People started to leave. They missed a gem.
	♥ 11:16am Chris Hiatt: Good Morning, peoples!
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Song: "Can't Hardly Wait" by "Replacements, The" i prefer the horn-less version, but this is jus'fine.
	11:16am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:10 AWFUL! My friend Brendan is a filmmaker who worked some with the guy and said he’s also a giant Richard.
	11:16am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:15 good times???
	11:16am Greg g: Great book and looking forward to the interview! Morning Michael & all My #1’s!!
	11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Now And Then" by "David A. Rodriguez (aka Dreamer... Where is YouTube or Link to this ?
	♥ 11:17am myron feld: ↳ clarke @11:16 I was typing the same. Sans horns is just...nicer.
	11:17am davefromtoronto: that snare drum!
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:16 some of those interviews are important, however.
	11:17am paul: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:15 Speaking of Nick, I thought he and Dave were the Trouble Boys.
	11:17am Bob: I like the horns version better!
	♥ 11:17am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:16 Amazing.
	11:17am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:16 as the folks are now dead.
	♥ 11:17am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:13 For me always either seeing old friends or making new ones. Did a fair bit of both this time around.
	11:18am PatrickMC: Personally I dig the Memphisiness of the horns
	11:18am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:17 nice!! new fave town??
	11:18am Bob: ↳ clarke @11:17 90 minutes of bearded poindexters who I never remembered seeing at actual Replacements shows.
	11:19am clarke: ↳ PatrickMC @11:18 you're not wrong, walter...
	11:19am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:18 yes but bob's ex-wife, etc.
	♥ 11:19am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:18 Madrid (obviously), Valencia (great show and wonderful weather) and Leon (quaint but rockin' town).
	11:20am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:19 oui!!! whee!!
	♥ 11:21am Don Gorden: Howdy all, I've been on a Kink's kick all week , It started with , So Tired
	11:21am clarke: who listens to the radio?!?
	♥ 11:22am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" Love this one
	♥ 11:22am Michael Shelley: ↳ paul @11:17 The book title comes from that song - I think it was the first song they ever played
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:22 yeppers.
	♥ 11:23am JG: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" For a second I don't know who Rick Nelson is when I hear that name. I'm a big fan of Ricky Nelson. Rick too, but always takes me a second to have that name register
	♥ 11:23am Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" Like a lost Michael Penn record.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:22 the first FULL song they got through, i believe.
	11:23am tonyb: A bit off topic, but I also enjoyed Westerberg backed by the Neighborhoods. Late to the party, only saw the band with Bob once.
	11:24am clarke: ↳ Uncle Michael @11:23 i know this is crazy, but i JUST saw Boogie Nights for the first time, this week. love penn's score!
	♥ 11:24am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Promises" by "Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band" Really great. A bit of a revelation.
	11:24am Todd in RVA: Michael, Good morning!!. A bit of a non-sequitur here but saw the Televisionaries w/ Les Greene doin' his Little Richard-ish thang down here in RVA Thursday night! Thank you very much for turning me on to the Televisionaries! Btw - they absolutely lub you!
	11:25am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:17 oh and belated happy bday, Phat!!
	♥ 11:25am Uncle Michael: ↳ clarke @11:24 I had no idea he scored that film.
	11:25am clarke: ↳ Uncle Michael @11:25 hah, me either - and he is also in it as the recording engineer
	♥ 11:27am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Attitude" by "Replacements, The" Aces! I think this qualifies as a deep cut.
	11:27am SeanG: all shook down baby!
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:27 i really have a soft-spot for this album.
	11:27am PatrickMC: ↳ Todd in RVA @11:24 In Charleston last week I saw posters for Televisionaries headlining a rockabilly BBQ fest this wknd. Realized then that I came the wrong wknd!
	♥ 11:28am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:25 Thanks!
	11:28am clarke: mauro magellan on drums, here.
	♥ 11:29am Handy Haversack: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:11 WORD!
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:29 plus jalapenos!!
	11:30am clarke: ↳ Song: "Wrong To Me" by "John Fred And His Playboy Band" oh yes yes!!
	♥ 11:30am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:27 Same. Solo LP in all but name or not, the songs are top-notch.
	11:31am clarke: ↳ Song: "Wrong To Me" by "John Fred And His Playboy Band" first band i ever 'saw'
	11:31am SeanG: paul's solo stuff is so awesome too
	11:31am clarke: ↳ SeanG @11:31 basically, that album WAS paul's solo album, sorta.
	11:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thot the 'Color Me Obsessed' doc was worth watching on PlutoTV : pluto.tv...
	11:32am Bob: Too early for movie time? I’m giving a soft recommendation for ‘Dreamin’ Wild.’ Cheap rent on Priime. Casey Affleck, Zooey Deschanel, Walton Goggins, Beau Bridges. True story about a LP reissue that Light In The Attic records did ten years ago. The story escaped me at the time but it’s a nice story and pretty good little movie.
	♥ 11:33am listener phat in Lincoln: This Slim Dunlap solo records are good, too. He played Lincoln a handful of times around that time.
	♥ 11:33am listener phat in Lincoln: Those
	11:33am clarke: ↳ Bob @11:32 frank governs MovieTime, but this is an interesting thing i didn't know about. cool!
	11:35am SeanG: hope Slim is doing all right these days
	11:35am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers.
	♥ 11:36am yerfriendpaul: Damn! Ever since you recommended him, I’ve been wanting to see Marty Stuart. Sorry I missed it. Hope he comes around closer soon
	♥ 11:36am myron feld: I was at the Marty show last night as well, and Michael is actually underselling how great a show it was.
	♥ 11:36am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:33 I merely second the motion to do Movie Time. I never spearhead the effort.
	11:37am P-90: “underpriced” is such a pleasant word
	♥ 11:37am Handy Haversack: Le brunch, eet ees sairved.
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:36 now yer being modest. ha ha. but, i don't figure you have had much time for movies??
	♥ 11:38am listener phat in Lincoln: Cousin Kenny plays the coolest weirdo guitar solos.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:37 bar's over there, haversack.
	♥ 11:38am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:37 A couple on the plane back and one last night. But not much in between.
	11:38am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 and...?
	11:39am goes211: Saw Marty a few months back on your recommendation, Michael. His bus broke down on two separate occasions before our date! Rescheduled each time. Well worth the wait!!
	♥ 11:39am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:38 Oh, we're doing it?
	11:39am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:38 while you were away, i did see The Helmet - wow.
	♥ 11:40am Squints: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:39 <insert bluto gif> Let's....
	♥ 11:40am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:39 The one from India?
	♥ 11:40am Uncle Michael: I'm overdue for another Superlatives show.
	11:40am Bob: Oh hell. As long as I’m at it, there’s a GREAT new doc on Netflix called ‘Squaring the Circle’. The story of those Hipgnosis guys that did all those great, elaborate covers for LP’s back in the day. Pink Floyd, Zep, Wings, 10cc, etc. fascinating watch.
	11:40am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:40 bluto or brutus??
	♥ 11:41am Handy Haversack: Stupid question, but I was at the stove: which is the best band in America right now?
	♥ 11:41am Squints: ↳ Song: "Watch Your Step" by "Ted Hawkins" We-he-hell. This kinda rocks.
	11:41am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:40 no, The Helmet sam fuller one. wow.
	♥ 11:41am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Bob @11:40 Very good. Saw it at our little arthouse theatre.
	♥ 11:41am Frank In Queens: ↳ clarke @11:41 Ah, The Steel Helmet. Yes, wow indeed. Possibly my fave of his.
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Watch Your Step" by "Ted Hawkins" Loves TedHawkins.
	11:42am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 Marty Stuart & The Fabulous Superlatives.
	♥ 11:42am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:40 The former. Funny how Brutus never wore a toga.
	♥ 11:42am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:40 I have a memory of an episode of Popeye where a frog saying in a rumbly frog voice, "Bluto did it." Or did I dream it?
	11:42am PatrickMC: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:41 Jason Bonham's Led Zep Experience apparently
	11:42am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:41 doh.. YES!! The Steel Helmet!! unreal.
	11:42am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:42 No that was a thing.
	♥ 11:43am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:42 S'what I thought, thanks.
	♥ 11:43am Frank In Queens: I'm partial to Ted Green myself.
	11:43am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:42 he DID!! in the roman coliseum one!
	11:44am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:42 it sounds vaguely fam.
	♥ 11:44am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:43 Did he smash a folkie's guitar against the wall?
	11:45am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:44 ha ha, he ate spinach and kicked some lions' asses.
	11:45am SeanG: I live alone, it's awesome!
	♥ 11:45am Frank In Queens: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" Harry Stone is smiling down upon you right now.
	♥ 11:45am Hughie Considine: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:42 I needed that (in rumbly frog voice)
	♥ 11:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" The Velvet Fog!
	11:45am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:45 turned them into rugs.
	♥ 11:46am listener phat in Lincoln: I might not be able to live with anyone else again.
	♥ 11:46am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:45 The old man said to take any rug in the place.
	♥ 11:46am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" Rick Moranis as Mel Torme singing the national anthem is one of the best bits in all of SCTV. He starts scatting.
	♥ 11:46am JG: ↳ Song: "Live Alone And Like It" by "Mel Tormé" The Velvet Fog was on Seinfeld last night. The Jimmy. Maybe the best ep of all
	11:46am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:46 know the feeling.
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:46 it really brought the room together.
	♥ 11:48am JG: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:46 haha I gotta check that out again
	♥ 11:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:47 Did I micturate on your rug, sir?!
	♥ 11:49am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "I'll Buy" by "Replacements, The" This just sounds more awake than the original.
	11:50am clarke: let me say, up front, that i think Trouble Boys is GREAT. love it. however, i do think it misses a key point: the shows were not just shambles. the mats, at some point, in every show i saw did ONE song perfectly - just to show the crowd they were being fucked-with.
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:48 er. well no, man. but..
	♥ 11:52am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "I WIll Dare" by "Replacements, The" K8's a MPLS girl, but the timing was all wrong for her. She didn't see them until at Forest Hills a few (eight?) years back.
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:52 since my band was label-mates with the mats, i probably saw them about 14-15 times.
	♥ 11:53am Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @11:53 Well, K8's jealous!
	11:54am PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "I WIll Dare" by "Replacements, The" Remember when Let It Be was on everyone's turntable?
	11:54am SeanG: first saw the Mats in 1989 at the cameo theatre in south beach, fla Tommy keene opened up
	♥ 11:54am Vertual: Back when this originally came out, I remember liking it so much, I actually had my car stereo volume at 10 for the first time. And it still wasn't loud enough.
	11:55am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:53 oh, and also later when Pleased came out, too.
	♥ 11:55am ScottySlave: You are right on about Marty Stuart. I took your advice two years ago & was floored! What a great bunch of crackerjack musicians! Truly spiritual!
	♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: I saw the show at Maxwell's that Chris Mars sat out, and I remember that it didn't matter to me.
	♥ 11:55am Handy Haversack: So here's a(nother) dumb question: where does the "Mats" nickname come from?
	11:55am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:55 what was the sitch??
	♥ 11:56am drr: Hearing I Will Dare reminds me: we got all our music recommendations at that time from reading about bands that Peter Buck and Mike Mills talked about in R.E.M. interviews. If they mentioned it we would go out and buy it, no questions asked. i remember being really excited to get this album. (Others include Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Big Star (very hard to find), Jason and The Scorchers, Miracle Legion...probably more.
	♥ 11:56am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:55 Placemats, a mishearing of the band name
	11:56am SeanG: placemats
	11:56am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:55 place-mats
	♥ 11:56am myron feld: I saw them in places ranging from Folk City to Madison Square Garden. Folk City was better!
	11:57am clarke: ↳ drr @11:56 mornin' dave!!
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:56 Thank you! I never knew.
	11:57am PatrickMC: Saw em at The Ritz around time of Tim. Can't recall opener
	11:57am SeanG: dead man's pop is a great reissue too
	♥ 11:57am Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:56 Yes, and Mission of Burma. I remember Buck saying it was the reason he bought a CD player.
	11:57am dday: ↳ clarke @11:53 what would be that band's name?
	♥ 11:57am drr: how do, clarke!
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @11:56 We were much the same in HS! Pylon and Drivin' N' Cryin'!
	11:58am clarke: ↳ dday @11:57 Charlie Picket & The Eggs
	♥ 11:58am Hughie Considine: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:57 It's not exactly intuitive :)
	11:58am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:58 oops Charlie Pickett
	11:58am tonyb: Garden opening for Costello? “So this is the big time? Madison Sh*t Garden.”
	11:58am PatrickMC: ↳ drr @11:56 Pylon, Love Tractor, Let's Active and others in the athens orbit
	11:58am Bob: ↳ drr @11:56 ALL of that
	♥ 11:59am Handy Haversack: Well, this show sure is making K8 happy, MS. MPLS people -- they are LOYAL.
	11:59am Donna: Aching to Be!! Love the show today! Love the Mats!
	♥ 11:59am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Achin' To Be (Matt Wallace Mix)" by "Replacements... Such good musicians. They can swing, they can channel No Depression vibes. All the feels!
	♥ 11:59am Mr Gee: Welp, I must say: I think the new "I'll Buy' is not as good as the original. I would compare it to when I first heard Magical Mystery Tour in mono and realized, "woah, this song actually rocks!"
	♥ 11:59am drr: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:57 I do remember that--I was the hip teenager who already knew about MoB. There was a great band in Chattanooga called The Value who played "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" and we all thought they were genius songwriters. Nobody knew they didn't write it!
	12:00pm dday: ↳ clarke @11:58 I ask in hopes that I may have seen you perform but alas, I did not
	12:00pm tonyb: Great “B” side.
	♥ 12:00pm Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @11:59 Chattanooga! Fantastic.
	♥ 12:00pm drr: ↳ clarke @11:58 The R.E.M. guys definitely mentioned Charlie Pickett and the Eggs, too; that one we couldn't find.
	12:00pm clarke: ↳ dday @12:00 we were all over!! ha ha.
	♥ 12:01pm ScottySlave: And that version of Now & Then! I've been sharing that for two weeks now! It truly defines a John song when done that way. Tim from The Fabulous Flemtones heard it & declared that they are going to learn that version!
	12:01pm Bob: I worked with Paul’s first wife a bit. She was a cutie. Bit disorganized her ownself
	♥ 12:01pm drr: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:57 I forgot Pylon, of course! D&C was like a local band for us already.
	12:01pm PatrickMC: ↳ drr @11:59 Academy Fight Song was in the WNYU rotation back in the day, which got them some attention
	12:02pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:01 nice gal!!
	♥ 12:02pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bob @12:01 Who among us isn't?
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:01 hey - did you know MoB played at Jimmy's? i missed it, but they hardly did ANY shows in the south.
	12:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: That RevRab Replacements story : Was in Cape Cod, Mass. in the mid-1980s in my first attempt to Leave Home. (Failed.) Well-to-do Doctor's son I was hanging with heard that 'Tommy & the Placemats' would be @ the Men's Insquare pub in Cambridge (Boston) - or some name like that. A tiny tiny club~bar with barely a foot to stand in - right in front of the stage. Everybody in the Underground knew this meant TheReplacements - & they were warming up here for a bigger Boston gig to come. We dropped acid & went ...Bob was in a Dress. & they played 'Strawberry Fields' into our faces...
	♥ 12:05pm Hughie Considine: ↳ drr @11:59 When I was in junior high, we convinced a guy at soccer camp that "The Rover" by Led Zeppelin was our garage band. Same idea.
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:04 rev takes the cake.
	♥ 12:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ drr @12:01 I think I saw them the first time at fifteen and then probably ten more times through HS. Through a weird series of coincidences, KK ended up playing solo on a bill with K8's band in Brooklyn a dozen or so years back, and I was the only one in the place who knew him, and he basically did a request show for me. And then I got to talk to him and tell him how foundationally formative his music had been for me, as a listener but also in terms of art imbued with ethics and and with solidarity and how much I felt he had shaped the course of my development from snot-nosed brat to SLIGHTLY less snot-nosed brat, and it meant just the absolute world to me to be able to tell him that. And he was totally cool about it. And then his wife approached me later to tell me how much that conversation meant to him, and it's just one of the most treasured memories I have.
	♥ 12:06pm drr: ↳ PatrickMC @11:58 Yep yep. Forgot Love Tractor. Which is funny--when I was 17 I sneaked off to Athens to see Love Tractor at the 40 Watt, and got interviewed by the Washington Post after the show. I've mentioned it on here before; it was a fun time. I had no plan, I slept on somebody's porch.
	12:07pm clarke: take it you are referring to Kevn Kinney, here??
	♥ 12:08pm drr: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:05 oh, that's great.
	♥ 12:08pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:07 Yerp.
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:07 that was for handy.
	12:08pm dday: ↳ clarke @12:00 Unfortunately, I wasn't
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:08 yup.
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ dday @12:08 we were all over until it was ALL OVER
	12:09pm dday: ↳ clarke @12:09 Shortest books ever. Lived a few of them :)
	♥ 12:10pm drr: ↳ clarke @12:03 I didn't--Jimmy's is before my time. I did love the story in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" about how they could fly for cheap or free on Delta, but to get the deal they always had to change planes in Atlanta. Sounds so miserable.
	12:10pm PatrickMC: ↳ drr @12:06 Sleeping outside after seeing a show and not having well made plans is an experience I can identify with.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ drr @12:10 well, at least there is/was good soul food at ATL airport!!
	♥ 12:15pm JimB: Ref. Hold My Life chorus: m.youtube.com...
	♥ 12:16pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:11 One of the best things about growing up in Atlanta is that at least you don't have to transfer THROUGH the Atlanta airport -- you can just get on MARTA.
	♥ 12:18pm Spikey BXL: Caught 20 minutes of this and loved it - will need the archive for the rest. Thanks Michael! (hello all)
	♥ 12:18pm Handy Haversack: They're all from Minnesota? Amazing -- this is a really good nudge toward getting this book. If only K8 still had time to read!
	12:18pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:16 i never had any problem hubbing in ATL - what's that place Mrs. _____'s Food??
	♥ 12:19pm Franco Twinkie: This is so amazing. I'm glad I tuned in.
	12:20pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:18 i have a MAJOR problem driving thru ATL, tho!!! only worse is houston.
	♥ 12:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:18 Dunno -- I'm a Soul Vegetarian guy!
	12:21pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:20 mrs ____ rocks!! pete buck hipped me to the place (which is an outpost of an ATL place)
	♥ 12:23pm myron feld: ↳ JimB @12:15 I remember this well. I always figured that's where the chorus came from.
	12:24pm MinneChristo: Peter Jesperson just published his memoir. He's been popping up here in Mpls this week to promote. I need to pick up a copy.
	♥ 12:24pm Frank In Queens: With you there Michael.
	♥ 12:24pm Handy Haversack: Now K8's complaining about the limited Replacements selection at Koreatown karaoke. I mean, I get it, but forget it, K8. It's Koreatown.
	12:25pm clarke: one story i have a bit of question about: when paul says to bob "DRINK or get the fuck off my stage!!" - what is the implication? is it that he was just looking for an excuse to fire bob??
	♥ 12:25pm Hubig Pie: I slept on the floor of the Atlanta airport after an all night red-eye flight. I lived .
	12:26pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:25 i mighta seent'cha!!
	♥ 12:27pm Hubig Pie: ↳ clarke @12:26 1990-ish.
	12:27pm clarke: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:27 ha ha, maybe!
	♥ 12:31pm Pedro in Arlington: Have always wished for Bob Dylan to do "Aching to Be" live, preferably Friday in Baltimore.
	12:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thot this a good discourse on the Mats : jeremydylan.net... - in which characterization is made - they were like all Keef Richards taking the piss with no Mick Jagger to be controlling & organizing...
	♥ 12:31pm Michael Shelley: ↳ MinneChristo @12:24 me too
	♥ 12:33pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:31 Could be a good Marathon prize, MS -- as could this book! (Loved the Little Richard biog. I won off your show a few years back.)
	♥ 12:35pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:24 Insa in Gowanus might be worth a look for that. They're pretty hip.
	12:35pm PatrickMC: The Forest Hills show was happy/sad
	♥ 12:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Chris Hiatt @12:35 Been there, actually! But it's so pricey!
	♥ 12:37pm Listener Baby: What does a Replacements hit look like? Or sound like? Same question for an NRBQ song. Just maybe not a thing in this dimension.
	12:37pm clarke: baby? baby.. BABY!!!!!
	♥ 12:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:35 Pogues and Tom Waits selections, at least, pretty standard. But "Tom Traubert's Blues" is my jam, so all good.
	♥ 12:38pm Listener Baby: Clarke!!
	12:39pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:37 mats were HUGE Q fans, btw!! the ONLY bumper-sticker on their trailer was Ridin' In My Car
	♥ 12:39pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Listener Baby @12:37 Interesting question. Here's what was on the charts when they released "Don't Tell A Soul" en.wikipedia.org...
	12:40pm PatrickMC: ↳ Listener Baby @12:37 Mighta been a cover, which were always so great
	♥ 12:41pm Hughie Considine: Aha, so the J is silent in Fjelstad. I've learned much this afternoon.
	12:42pm Bob: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:39 Boy, that’s even more grim than I remember. I was working at Wherehouse records in Mt Pleasant Michigan at the time. It was definitely one of the few promos that I could stand to play instore.
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:41 jep
	♥ 12:42pm Listener Baby: I’m thinking of REM, and their hits. Those songs sounded like a different band from where they started Could/should have the Replacements done such? Would we have liked it?
	12:42pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:41 it is actually a very soft Y
	♥ 12:42pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bob @12:42 I still think Boy Meets Girl gets screwed over.
	12:43pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:42 REM changed their original sound, too.
	12:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:39 ...YEESH.
	♥ 12:43pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:35 Hipster pricing. How's the karaoke list?
	♥ 12:44pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Baby @12:42 R.E.M. also very consciously wanted every album to sound different from the last/others-- why they thought Document was a failure.
	♥ 12:45pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:42 that's what i thought
	♥ 12:45pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:43 Certainty for their hit song era. That’s my point.
	12:46pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:45 ah, misunderstood.
	♥ 12:46pm Hughie Considine: I always remember hearing "Can't Get There From Here" on the AM radio in a cab in Akron, Ohio, and being flabbergasted. It's not that commercial sounding a song, but it got played.
	♥ 12:46pm Listener Baby: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:44 Interesting, Handy. Probably why they kept changing producers?
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:46 i love when a song brings to an exact place and point!
	♥ 12:47pm DanChusid: Tommy Stinson is actually playing a house concert tonight in my friend's backyard here in San Diego. Good timing that this show is being broadcast today.
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:47 -one
	12:48pm SeanG: uncle pappy! haha
	♥ 12:48pm Hubig Pie: With a few exceptions that 1989 Hot 100 looks like a soundtrack to an eternity in hell.
	♥ 12:48pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:48 Straight up, now tell me.
	♥ 12:48pm Listener Baby: ↳ Hubig Pie @12:48 And then the entire decade of the 90s.
	♥ 12:48pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:47 totally - I wish I held onto more of those moments. I still remember hearing Television's "Venus" on WPIX and flipping out.
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ SeanG @12:48 you never wanted to see Uncle Pappy!
	12:49pm Mike W.: Chris Mars draws great monsters
	12:50pm clarke: woe, that is sad to hear that spoken out loud.
	12:51pm clarke: i hope that paul is still writing, somehow somewhere.
	♥ 12:51pm Handy Haversack: Seventeen years in Guns and Roses! Jesus god.
	12:52pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:51 talk about hell.
	♥ 12:52pm Listener Baby: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:51 Only a stint in The Replacements would prepare you for.
	♥ 12:53pm Handy Haversack: Which also makes me think that every band's story is worth hearing. Great to listen in on a conversation on this deep dive. MS, Bob M., thanks for it.
	12:53pm tonyb: G*d bless the Minnesota Twins.
	12:53pm clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @12:52 not for Buckethead!
	12:53pm SeanG: loved that Tommy song "Satellite"
	♥ 12:53pm Listener Baby: ↳ clarke @12:53 Who could forget Buckethead?
	12:54pm clarke: who?
	12:54pm P.Welles: Such an interesting interview
	12:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Odd period... Associate REM exactly with that time of College Radio surfacing into Alternative Culture writ large. Which happened to correlate exactly to some of us Leaving Home & this major life transition - & all the implications of that. So ...with REM - it was both a thrill & validating & gave hope that they were in the Charts that way ...& - simultaneously - by the time, say, 'Stand' was on MTV often enuff - a feeling REM was morphing into a Pop Chart band in ways - less than optimal. Tho they continued to put out relevant things (imho) for some time ...one feels they start with 'Murmur' which is this shimmering sterling artifact expressing our young longing & potential - & frankly it's diminishing returns as they go on - tho more or less steeply (not an exact precipitous plunge, but more obliquely...)
	♥ 12:55pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Baby @12:52 Like, you just figure such a thing is a karmic punishment reserved for whatever the hell Axl did in past lives to piss the bardo all the way the hell off.
	♥ 12:55pm yerfriendpaul: Great interview!
	12:56pm mike east: Fantastic interview…I gotta read this book!
	12:56pm Crei6hton: Afternoon WFMU
	12:56pm clarke: thanks Bob and MS!!! fab!!
	♥ 12:56pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Interview" by "Bob Mehr" This was really great. Definitely picking up the book!
	♥ 12:56pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:54 New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996? 1997?) stands up against ANYthing in their catalogue. Material forces affected them, but they were always trying to innovate, I think.
	♥ 12:56pm DanChusid: Great interview. Gonna see Tommy tonight and will mention.
	12:56pm SeanG: awesome!
	♥ 12:56pm listener phat in Lincoln: Great interview, thanks Michael
	♥ 12:57pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Little Mascara" by "Replacements, The" Love the extra oomph on this one!
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:56 guess i need to re-listen. i was there for the recording of one of those tunes.
	♥ 12:57pm egould: Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Bob. Wonderful interview. The Michael Shelley show is always the highlight of my week.
	12:57pm SeanG: hey clarke, are you a big Go-Betweens fan?
	12:57pm Bob: Great interview. Very good, very sad and dark story. Definitely worse than we imagined.
	♥ 12:57pm Listener Baby: Very nice work, Baby. Two dudes who know what they are doing, going at it. Great stuff.
	♥ 12:57pm Handy Haversack: Damn, great stuff, MS! Many thanks to you and Bob!
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ SeanG @12:57 OF COURSE!!!
	♥ 12:58pm Hubig Pie: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:56 I lost interest after Automatic for the People, but loved that one. Haven't listened to it for years though.
	12:58pm SeanG: ah nice! I worship them!
	12:58pm PatrickMC: ↳ Song: "Little Mascara" by "Replacements, The" RIP BOB!!!! Loving this mix of a real #1
	12:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:56 Well I acknowledge it's not a straight plunge downward - but there's outcroppings to stand on here & there. @ least.
	12:58pm clarke: let me also establish that it was a huge morale buzzkill to be a poor band opening for the Mats and they are burning $100 dollar bills.
	♥ 12:59pm radioronan: Great interview..loved the book. Let it Bleed edition is already on my xmas list..Thanks Michael!
	12:59pm Bob: I refuse to believe Paul is done. That’s just inconceivable to me.
	12:59pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:59 same!
	♥ 12:59pm Handy Haversack: ↳ clarke @12:58 Ouch. You are NOT wrong, Walter.
	12:59pm SheWolf: Care of ya & mascara only rhyme in a Midwestern accent.
	♥ 1:00pm Micheal: Excellent interview with Bob, Michael - thanks! Love the solo rip on this remix. The Replacements were so important to a lot of us Reagan era misfits. One of best Mats show I saw was at the Channel in Boston in 86 when Bob missed the first few songs then came on stage naked and tore it up for rest of show.
	1:00pm clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @12:59 yeah, it was harsh. we are like, uhh, we could actually eat FOOD with that!!
	♥ 1:00pm Listener Baby: In a “Road not Taken” story. I was offered the live front of house engineering job for REM. Probably 1988. Turn it down. Wonder if I’d be alive, of deaf, of single at this point if I’d taken it?
	♥ 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Ever get the feeling you haven't been cheated?
	♥ 1:00pm Frank In Queens: Great show and interview Michael. Thanks!
	♥ 1:00pm drr: that was fun. Thanks, MS!
	1:01pm clarke: ever get the feeling you been matted. good nite/
	1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~ & TY author BobMehr
	1:01pm Greg g: Thank you Michael, thank you Bob Mehr, the Mats & RIP Bob Stinson.
	1:01pm Barefoot Jimmy G: Thanks, MS. You are one of the best interviewers on WFMU!
	1:02pm Barefoot Jimmy G: ↳ Bob @12:59 Agreed
	1:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Micheal @1:00 Reagan era misfits. Dig it.
	♥ 1:05pm drr: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:54 THat's a great description. I'll say though, that I was furious when "Green" came out. I felt like my favorite band had betrayed me, and themselves.
	9:07pm Mark R from New Paltz: Fabulous interview, Michael. Mehr was fascinating and insightful.
	12:46am pp: ↳ clarke @11:53 Only saw them once at the basement of the Whole Coffehouse U of Minnesota. A few dozen in attendance

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