WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from February 24, 2024

Listener comments!
	♥ 10:46am Listener Baby: Coffee = Check AirPods = Check Hands Folded = Check I think I’m ready, Baby. Let’s do the show of the year. And as always, good morning!
	11:00am clarke: hey now ask mike!
	♥ 11:01am Kotzwinkled: Miiiiiiiiiiike and co.! I finally saw Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives last night in KC. GREAT show, obviously. But I must say it was hands down the most geriatric audience I have ever sat with at a concert.
	♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: Morning, MS and Numbers One! clarke! Getting the jalapeno hash put together over here!
	♥ 11:01am dreamyandseedy: Hi!! really excited to hear this interview
	11:02am clarke: rockfish gordon
	♥ 11:02am myron feld: MS, you should try the blond dreadlocks look described in today's opening. Could bring in a whole new audience.
	11:02am Scott from Boston: Best pilot show ever! Leave a message after the beep
	♥ 11:02am common: rockford files! hell yea
	♥ 11:02am JG: Watched the very first episode of Rockford Files last night
	♥ 11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now. Juggling this with Six Nations Rugby. Waiting for De One Troo Muster Race to nail down a victory over Wales.
	11:02am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:01 a return to normalcy!!!
	♥ 11:02am mariano: ↳ Song: "Rockford Files" by "Mike Post" Oh yeah, now we're talkin'. Hey, everybody!
	11:03am greg g: Morning Mike and Hitmakers! Starting with Rockford!! Just finished the book on Jim Gordon and I’m looking forward to the interview. Hope the day has started well for everyone!
	11:03am ledzeppelinsucks: Rockford Files exposed Los Angeles as a giant truck terminal. That started from nearby farming.
	11:03am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:02 is toledo involved (yet)???
	11:03am clarke: ↳ mariano @11:02 it was just like yesterday when we saw each other????
	♥ 11:04am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:03 <ron howard voice> Spain was not one of the Six Nations.
	11:04am Dennis: Really looking forward to this show! Big Joel Selvin fan here.
	11:04am clarke: i ain't made my mind up about spain, either.
	♥ 11:04am Matt Clarke: Good morning Michael and all!
	11:05am Dennis: And (being a drummer) JG fan too! Lucky enough to have seen him a couple times
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Song: "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by "Har... i'm gonna need MORE oboe!!
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Matt Clarke @11:04 toppermost!
	♥ 11:05am Listener Baby: ↳ Matt Clarke @11:04 Matt really been digging’ your show. You do good work, man. Thank you.
	♥ 11:05am Eddy in Australia: Hey all. Hanging around for the first hour. When does the interview start, Michael?
	11:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - I cannot help but be reminded of this Cocaine & Rhinestones episode about Spade Cooley : cocaineandrhinestones.com... - a significant Country Swing Musician who committed horrific murder - which is dutifully & most grimly detailed in that exposition...
	11:06am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:05 WHOAH. the thunder from down under!!
	♥ 11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all
	♥ 11:06am Squints: Probably catch most of this in the archive later. Bugging out for the pub in a bit for the second match. The Oppressor (England) vs The Handmaidens Thereto (Scotland).
	11:06am Moammar: ↳ Squints @11:02 Is Six Nations televised anywhere generally accessible this year?
	♥ 11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Played my first gig in years last night and I'm feeling groovy.
	♥ 11:06am Matt Clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:05 Cheers my friend!
	♥ 11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Ready for this interview!
	11:06am JohnBuck: I'm predicting a Harper's Bizarre <-> Belle and Sebastian segue
	11:07am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:06 i'm still gonna wanna hear that oboe!
	♥ 11:07am SeanG: hallo all!
	♥ 11:07am Eddy in Australia: Clarke! A little less thunder, a bit more chunder today - ie not feelin too groovy.
	11:07am clarke: hey man
	11:07am Dennis: RR, just yesterday I was reading the Spade Cooley story in Nick Tosches’s “Country”
	11:08am Dennis: Wotta book! Oy!
	♥ 11:08am Squints: ↳ Moammar @11:06 Sadly so far only on for-pay Peacock for the round-robin. Probably as it gets to elimination rounds it'll migrate to NBCish cable nets.
	♥ 11:08am mariano: ↳ clarke @11:07 Hey, long time no see!
	11:08am P-90: That dirty thieving Pufnstuf
	♥ 11:08am Eddy in Australia: I loved HR Pufnstuf as a kid.
	♥ 11:08am Squints: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:06 You go, guy.
	♥ 11:08am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:07 Woodwinds and I do not get along!
	11:08am clarke: i think it would be cooler if MS actually was going to interview jim gordon - but, that's just me.
	♥ 11:09am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by "Har... Good tune Morninggggggggg
	11:09am ledzeppelinsucks: In Port Townsend near the motel where the reject in Officer and a Gentleman hanged himself. Looks the same.
	♥ 11:09am SeanG: there's a great Netflix show about the Six Nations
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:07 this is not... the dude MINDS man! feel better, mate.
	♥ 11:10am egould: ↳ Song: "Rockford Files" by "Mike Post" 853 OKG
	♥ 11:10am JG: ↳ Song: "The Lady Came From Baltimore" by "Rick Nelson" Michael you turned me onto the Rick Nelson live at the Troubador album Which I picked up shortly after you played tracks from it., and he does this.
	♥ 11:11am Squints: ↳ Song: "Here Today" by "Bobby Vee" Apparently I've already clicky-starred this here before.
	11:12am Joe B: ↳ Song: "Here Today" by "Bobby Vee" produced by Dallas Smith, who also produced The Gants!
	11:12am clarke: Gants fanatic, here!
	11:13am JohnBuck: and Van Ronk
	♥ 11:13am JohnEBGood: GM Michael. Is Juniper excited for the spring break?
	11:14am clarke: yeah, wanted to read Hollywood Eden - thanks for reminding me.
	♥ 11:14am nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	♥ 11:14am Squints: ↳ Joe B @11:12 So, Joe, on The Gants' "I Wonder," was there supposed to be a guitar solo that got stripped out of the mix? Heck even if they'd just pushed up the 12-string chugging along. That's bridgy part just sort of sits there begging for something.
	11:14am clarke: nyyyyc
	♥ 11:15am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:12 They get into heaven just for "I Wonder."
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:15 yeah, in a perfect world.
	11:16am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers. Hiya, Handy. Did you get the email with my shifts for the marathon? Yes Michael, I will make your show this year!
	♥ 11:16am Andrea C: Hi everyone :) how are you doing today?
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:15 love to have ya, joe!! love ta have ya!
	♥ 11:16am JG: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Love the Velvet Fog
	♥ 11:17am nycmusicnerd: I'll be doing a shift with Jonesey. I asked for a Shelley shift as well, but didn't get it. Maybe next year.
	11:17am JohnBuck: Harry Anderson is smiling down
	♥ 11:17am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Rick Moranis as Mel Torme scatting the National Anthem is well worth seeking out. Morning, all!
	11:17am clarke: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:17 his people are talking to your people
	11:18am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:17 good day, Hugh.
	♥ 11:18am JG: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:17 I'm gonna have to watch that
	11:18am greg g: While I like the 7 Second Delay theme, really diggin this Torme version!
	♥ 11:18am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" The man had diction.
	♥ 11:18am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Hot damn
	♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:18 Tippin' my hat..
	11:19am clarke: ↳ JohnBuck @11:17 i am really good friends with harry's widow!
	♥ 11:19am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:18 He also had persuasive lips -- or so I'm told.
	♥ 11:19am myron feld: ↳ Song: "Got To Get You Into My Life" by "Ella Fitzgerald" "sleepin' in a Bombay alley/kissin' every Sue and Sally" -- that, my friends, is some #1 ad libbing!
	♥ 11:20am Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:19 Goes without sayin’
	♥ 11:20am myron feld: ↳ myron feld @11:19 oops -- that was for Mel's Secret Agent Man. Although Ella was known to ad lib now and then.
	11:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Got To Get You Into My Life" by "Ella Fitzgerald" SirMacca's lovesong to cannabis. But you know that.
	11:20am Cooh John: Time for crooners' corner.
	♥ 11:22am Squints: Alright. Pub beckons. Hasta, babes. Be excellent to one another.
	11:22am Cooh John: Scat true, myron.
	♥ 11:22am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:22 Have excellent libations!
	♥ 11:22am nycmusicnerd: ↳ clarke @11:17 Yeah, they're probably doing lunch now.
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:22 we barely knew ye!! cheers
	11:23am Moammar: ↳ Song: "High Heel Sneakers" by "Everly Brothers, The" Oh, wow. I had this vinyl at one point. I have not heard this in decades.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Song: "High Heel Sneakers" by "Everly Brothers, The" i know gordon drums on a lot of everly's stuff - but, like MS said, hard to tell which.
	♥ 11:24am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "High Heel Sneakers" by "Everly Brothers, The" how are high heel sneakers even work?
	♥ 11:24am Andrea C: ↳ Andrea C @11:24 how do* mmmmmm
	♥ 11:26am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:23 CHECK THIS: jimgordondiscography.blogspot.com...
	♥ 11:26am Hughie Considine: ↳ Andrea C @11:24 No idea, but a wig-hat is pretty much like it sounds like.
	11:26am ANA LA COLOMBIANA: JAMES BURTON!! THE BEAUTIFUL KING, ELVIS'S GUITARIST-AAAAMAZING & UNDERRATED!!!! & RONNIE TUTT, ALSO PART OF ELVIS'S BAND, DRUMMER, SAME-AMAZING & UNDERRATED!
	11:26am Mr Jones: THE THING WITH TWO HEADS!!!
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:26 you'd sent me that, before, but a few laptops ago!
	♥ 11:27am Andrea C: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:26 I pictured them kinda sloppy to be honest. all that extra rubber on the heel.
	♥ 11:27am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" Put this one one right near the top of the greatest sounding records ever made.
	11:27am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!!
	11:28am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:26 actually, i guess you'd sent me an everly's session guide that got lost.
	11:28am Bill C: Great kick off to the show.
	♥ 11:28am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" is this originally by Ennio Morricone?
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:27 he shoots... HE SCORES!!
	11:29am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" Bongo feet called for! Not redundant: additive!
	11:29am Mr Jones: ↳ Andrea C @11:28 Originally by Preston Epps
	♥ 11:29am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" More grooviness
	11:29am P-90: I’ve never heard an “Apache” I couldn’t live with
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Song: "Strangered In The Night" by "Tom Petty And The He... no way!! didn't know this
	♥ 11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Strangered In The Night" by "Tom Petty And The He... Really?
	♥ 11:29am egould: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" Bongo feet during that breakdown. Missed opportunity, MS.
	11:30am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:29 oh, a different version, methinks.
	♥ 11:30am Andrea C: ↳ Mr Jones @11:29 Thanks :) By the melody it sounded like Ennio.
	11:30am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	♥ 11:30am egould: ↳ Moammar @11:29 We tried.
	♥ 11:30am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:30 nope
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Agony of the Bongo Defeet...
	11:30am Alexandra: 💜💜💜💜💜💜⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
	♥ 11:30am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:29 Does sound like a different mix. Maybe they excise a bad word.
	♥ 11:30am listener phat in Lincoln: @clarke looking forward to New Orleans in a few days! I'll email with details.
	11:30am greg g: Wait … Perry or Stealer’s Wheel ??
	11:31am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:30 and twilley don't mind.
	♥ 11:31am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:31 Yeah, this totally sounds like a Twilley track.
	11:31am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:30 i think Hughie might be hear around the same time??
	11:32am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:31 mar 5-7??
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Strangered In The Night" by "Tom Petty And The He... One is impressed by the combination of deft precision & swing Drumwise. & strong & emphatic @ that. Great tone across the whole kit.
	♥ 11:34am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:32 actually looking like 3/11 - 3/14
	11:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:33 - & probly infallible Time (tho I'm no judge).
	♥ 11:34am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:32 I fly in on the 4th and out on the 7th
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:34 ohhhh. cool!
	♥ 11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: Actually going to Miami the next week if anyone here is in Miami!
	11:35am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:34 your limo awaits!
	11:36am P-90: “Apache” is the kind of song (The Shadows original version) that influenced Morricone when he got to his spaghetti Western phase, so much so that decades later it’s sounds like something he might have come up with.
	♥ 11:36am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:35 Whew!
	♥ 11:36am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Mohair Sam" by "Bobby And I" Drums on this similar to the Everly’s track we were wondering about Baby? That eight arm syndrome.
	11:36am johnk77: excellent selecting today just watched david fricke's interview w/guitarist mike campbell lots of interesting info on history of tom petty & heartbreakers https://www.withtheshow.com/mike-campbell-with-david-fricke
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 as he said, there are two drummers listed on some of the work
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Mohair Sam" by "Bobby And I" Kinda unbelievable Drums here. But never flashy. Super Session Star.
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ P-90 @11:36 Which is interesting.
	♥ 11:38am dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" will confess i have previously only heard this as the Brooks and Dunn country hit from the 90s
	♥ 11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" I definitely wouldn't have ever paid attention to the drums or the rest of this track until recently.
	11:39am clarke: one thing that kinda separated gordon from blaine is that he tuned his toms in a lower timber.
	♥ 11:39am dday: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" I can hear The Maverick's killing this one. Raul Malo, great singer
	♥ 11:39am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" Back when you could have a huge hit song, and look like that. Those days= over!
	♥ 11:39am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" I definitely have never appreciated the drums on this before.
	♥ 11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ dday @11:39 Totally!
	♥ 11:40am myron feld: Although I didn't know it at the time, I saw Jim Gordon at the first rock show I attended, when he drummed with Delaney & Bonnie.
	♥ 11:40am prof.fuzz: morning y'all it's a lovely day here on the backside...
	11:40am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	♥ 11:40am prof.fuzz: ClarkEEEEEEEEEEEEE
	♥ 11:41am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" Maria must be paradise to this guy.
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @11:39 Yeah - his approach seems to me both tight & hard. Precise but emphatic.
	♥ 11:41am dday: David Kershenbaum produced a few songs for my friend Craig.
	♥ 11:41am Andrea C: hi prof fuzz[1] [1] it's been a while :)
	♥ 11:42am Michael Shelley: ↳ dday @11:41 what does Greg say about him?
	♥ 11:42am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:39 Totally. You could be unkempt, balding and overweight, but if you had a hit song all you needed was the right tunic and all was forgiven.
	♥ 11:43am prof.fuzz: ↳ Andrea C @11:41 hi andrea* * yes, it has. how are you?
	♥ 11:43am dday: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:39 Met them in Nashville at The Exit Inn once when I went to see Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers. Crazy night. Met Manuel the Tailor too (the man who took over for Nudie). Drank tequila with him.
	11:43am clarke: footnotes are SO 2023!!~
	♥ 11:43am prof.fuzz: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:42 the judges (and public) would have also accepted "cape"...
	♥ 11:44am Andrea C: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:43 feeling good, thanks :)
	11:44am Dennis: Myron, D&B at the Fillmore East was my first Jim G sighting. Then again with Derek and the Dominoes (twice). So great!
	♥ 11:44am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Reason To Believe" by "Sandpipers, The" One of the world’s truly greatest melodies.
	♥ 11:44am Andrea C: ↳ Andrea C @11:44 ps: and I did it again... how are you doing?
	♥ 11:45am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ dday @11:43 I caught them last year here in Lincoln and they put on a HELL of a show.
	♥ 11:45am Michael Shelley: ↳ myron feld @11:40 enjoy New Orleans
	♥ 11:45am Listener Baby: ↳ Dennis @11:44 Whoa.
	11:46am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @11:36 campbell is a great and easy interview
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ☕️☠️Saluting Thee Assembled with thuh DeathWish Koffeez☠️☕️
	♥ 11:46am dday: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:42 Well Craig is an Australian, married to a local artist Sue & they live in Sparrowbush,NY (near Port Jervis, that party town). I don't recall if Craig & David worked remotely or not, but they did 3 songs together which were, but are no longer on the u of toobs.
	11:46am Dennis: Clarke, he did have a really distinctive Tom Tom sound - that’s usually how I could pick him out. I love his work on Van Dyke Parks’s Discover America (awesome solo on the coda of “Riverboat” - that tuning really leaps out at you)
	11:47am Mr Jones: ↳ Song: "Reason To Believe" by "Sandpipers, The" $1 bin filler until some DJ drives the prices up!
	♥ 11:47am myron feld: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:45 If I was going, I would!
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Dennis @11:46 yes, i think van dyke brought that out in his mix - as he had a hand in it
	♥ 11:48am Handy Haversack: OK, brunch is sairved!
	11:48am clarke: ↳ myron feld @11:47 wish you were - i may be at fault for him thinking that..
	♥ 11:48am egould: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:46 Cheers!
	11:49am clarke: muffled floor tom.
	♥ 11:49am Andrea C: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:48 enjoy!
	♥ 11:49am dday: ↳ dday @11:46 Oh wait. One of the 3 they did is still up: Craig Smith & Susan Miller; www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:49am greg g: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:48 Yes bon appetit Handy!
	♥ 11:50am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:49 with a "tea towel" on it
	♥ 11:50am greg g: ↳ Song: "Awaiting On You All (take one)" by "George Harrison" Some nice minimal funk here.
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:50 and a tea-boy standing by
	11:51am P-90: Superior to the final released version imo
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Song: "Workin' Man Blues" by "Merle Haggard" didn't know this either!
	♥ 11:51am Andrea C: this comes as a surprise. I believed George was Buddhist or more oriental oriented.
	11:52am Dennis: See, I would’ve bet that was Ringo. I could be wrong….
	11:52am DG: Haven't heard this version of the GH "All Things..." track, but I note it includes the lyric aboutt the Pope, which is also on the released version, even though those lyrics not on the lyric sheet. Wonder whose decision that was.
	11:52am clarke: ↳ Dennis @11:52 ringo is probably on the released version
	11:52am Dennis: Exactly because of the tea towel. Jim didn’t really do that sound.
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Dennis @11:52 well, he did there!
	♥ 11:54am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "Workin' Man Blues" by "Merle Haggard" Mama tried should be the B-sides of a Working Man Blues 45
	11:54am Mr Jones: I'm so looking forward to the interview, I've decided to put on pants.
	♥ 11:55am Andrea C: That is quite the list!
	♥ 11:56am greg g: ↳ Mr Jones @11:54 Whoa , getting fancy Mr. Jones!
	♥ 11:56am listener phat in Lincoln: What'd I miss? I had to purchase bollilos.
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Andrea C @11:51 Hindu ~ something of a post-psychedelic Universalist... Hinduism tending towards regarding holy men of whatever tradition as various avatars / manifestations of divinity whenever & wherever they are... 'Buddhism is Hinduism packaged for export.' - Alan Watts
	11:56am Mr Jones: I listened to that hit version of "Grazin'..." and it seems to have no cowbell. The song is about cows fer chrissake! I never really say this with sincerity except in this instance. More Cowbell!
	♥ 11:57am egould: Baaaallloooooonnnn!!! Simpler times, eh?
	♥ 11:57am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:56 Alan Watts wasn't necessarily the best source.
	11:57am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:56 mike bought everyone donuts!
	♥ 11:57am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Up, Up And Away" by "Lincoln Mayorga And Distingu... No way this is direct to disc.
	11:57am Mr Jones: ↳ greg g @11:56 #respect
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:57 Perhaps not always - but could be pithy like that.
	♥ 11:58am Andrea C: Soooo, I just opened the window to vape, shades on. Looked to the side, and a rainbow in between the dark clouds. Always something there to remind me.
	♥ 11:58am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:58 That is true. He's entertaining and could be insightful. I love his lectures.
	♥ 11:58am prof.fuzz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:56 exported by indic merchants across central asia, embraced by sodgian merchants who took it to china, where it was picked up by korean merchants and taken to korea, and later exported to japan. maps available upon request.* *citations also available upon request.
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 He da Prof, man.
	♥ 11:59am egould: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 Ha!
	♥ 11:59am greg g: ↳ Mr Jones @11:57 Right back at you Mr. Jones.
	♥ 11:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" I doubt the word "dawdle" has ever been used in a song before or since.
	11:59am clarke: *request definition of sodgian.
	♥ 12:00pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 Sodgian Merchants is my next band name.
	♥ 12:00pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" Great singer. Did so much. And the backwards LP cover is mind-blowing.
	12:00pm DG: That Darin album is not only Inside Out, but backwards. (smiley face---don't know how to do emjois on here)
	♥ 12:00pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" serendipity? - was just looking through the Jim Boggia catalog and there's a version of this! Also: loved hearing 'My Maria'
	♥ 12:00pm Hughie Considine: Sodgian merchants did not dawdle. This we know.
	♥ 12:00pm greg g: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" Wow, what a wonderful version here. Drums are so tasteful and the vocals and arrangement are something. Gotta get this LP into my life.
	♥ 12:01pm Dano59: ↳ myron feld @12:00 is he inside? or is he out? looks like he's "in" to me
	12:01pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:00 been a while, son. howya?
	12:01pm Bob: Oh, hey! Good morning everyone. Bob from Ann Arborish, coming in way late. Start it over.
	♥ 12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" This is such a great goddamn tune. It's one of the few where the great verse outshines the great chorus, in my book.
	12:01pm clarke: excellent distressed cd!
	12:01pm Bill C: What is peculiar with Gordon is his MI occurred later in age compared with first breaks which usually happen around ages 17-21. Drugs had to be the major problem that brought out his psychosis. A really sad and tragedy for him and his mother/family.
	♥ 12:01pm Creature Boy: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" A fine version. It occurs to me that I should get me some solo Sebastian
	12:02pm clarke: hello bob.
	♥ 12:02pm Dano59: surviving, trying to stay on top of my life - making a lot of concert plans for now
	♥ 12:02pm prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:59 the sogdians were a persian nomadic group who dominated central asian trade routes (i.e., silk roads) from ca. 200–700 CE. they were the first major group outside of india to convert to buddhism. later, they converted to islam. trade and religion, linked for ages...
	♥ 12:02pm dday: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" Of course I love John Sebastian's version best, but I will always love SLADE's version as well
	♥ 12:02pm listener phat in Lincoln: All sorts of early 70s car radio listening going on today.
	12:03pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:02 Hey, Clarke. Did you survive the carnival? How close was Treme to the real deal?
	♥ 12:03pm egould: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 And thanks for the sogdian reference. I’m now going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. Bye everyone…
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ dday @12:02 That.
	12:03pm Mr Jones: ↳ Creature Boy @12:01 Have you listened to Mike's interview with Sebastian? It's the most positive-vibe interview I've ever heard on the show.
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:02 and what kind of rope did they move?
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "It Never Rains In Southern California" by "Albert... Pertinent when I was homeless in Santa Barbara. & lately as well.
	♥ 12:03pm prof.fuzz: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:00 do it! we'll make the trek to the land of corn husks and play with you!
	12:04pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:03 ha ha ha, i survived - Treme'(the show) has very little to do with this city.
	♥ 12:04pm common: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:02 just what i was thinkin. feel like im riding in my mom's green gran torino wagon
	♥ 12:04pm myron feld: ↳ Dano59 @12:01 He's closer to the inside door, but he has an overcoat on, while his significant other appears to be only clothed in a minidress.
	♥ 12:04pm Dano59: yr killin me here, Mikey - there's a spherical green Panasonic radio swinging in front of me now
	♥ 12:04pm prof.fuzz: ↳ egould @12:03 if you're not back on the comments board in 72 hours, we'll send for help.
	12:04pm P-90: Alan Watts really knew Buddhism, he deserves recognition for being one of a small group that introduced it to the West in the 20th century. (When he said “Buddhism is Hinduism stripped for export” he meant for “export”within Asia, not to “the West.”)
	♥ 12:04pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "It Never Rains In Southern California" by "Albert... Not the strongest singer. Nope.
	12:04pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:04 Really? That's surprising. I liked it and assumed it mostly got things correct.
	12:05pm Mr Jones: ↳ egould @12:03 breadcrumbs!
	♥ 12:05pm dday: ↳ Mr Jones @12:03 I did some minor electrical work for John S. at his NY home many years ago. He is a really sweet, kind man.
	♥ 12:05pm myron feld: ↳ dday @12:02 And Cocker's (Joe, not Jarvis) version, too.
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:04 nobody here watched it for more than a few minutes, even though we have friends in the show
	♥ 12:05pm greg g: ↳ Bill C @12:01 That's a good point Bill. THey do mention in the book though that he was known to have imaginary conversation/talking aloud when no one else was in the room. Seems like drugs were a contributuing factor for sure. Would be an interesting question for Selvin: how much of a contributing factor was his drug abuse , especially in the 1970's.
	♥ 12:06pm prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @12:03 sogdians were the middlemen. that's where the profit is. china exported silk and iron, india exported aromatics, rome exported glass and asbestos, and the other central asias sold horses and gemstones.
	12:06pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:05 TV LIED TO ME!
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:06 again!!
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:06 and.. ROPE!!
	♥ 12:07pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ common @12:04 Red Ford something or other over here.
	12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:02 Was interested to be informed that many elements of Hinduism were not as ancient as I believed - but were imported to India by the Aryans who were from the Levant (Middle East?) ? Which kind of makes sense considering the Gita & Arjuna the Warrior &tc. & probly fused with indigenous Traditions - more in South India ?
	♥ 12:07pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by "Jimmy Gordon A... One more time, with feeling, Jim
	♥ 12:07pm Dano59: did Gordon ever record for Spector? his style really reminds me of Hal Blaine on some of those tracks
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:06 the stupid thing is that HAD Treme' been more realistic it would have been a better show!! tv always screws that up.
	♥ 12:08pm listener phat in Lincoln: I just think "stripped for export" is a little glib. I suppose you could say Buddhism stripped atman! Lol.
	12:08pm Mr Jones: ↳ dday @12:05 I know his younger brother Mark fairly well. Mostly from playing frisbee together in Central Park. He's also a musician. I never met his John though and didn't even realize the connection for years. Great interview, especially for tie-dye afficianados.
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:07 i don't think so, it's pretty much blaine and palmer. gordon was just a kid then, tho
	12:09pm DG: ↳ Bill C @12:01 Thanks, I thought that it usually occurs much earlier in life usually. Drugs probably brought it on or made it worse, as it probably did (from what I've read) for Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson, some early Fleetwood Mac members, etc.
	12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:08 'Packaged' (not 'stripped') was Watt's word.
	12:09pm R2: Maybe we'll hear The Dictators' "Jim Gordon Blues" before end of show?
	♥ 12:09pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Dano59 @12:07 yes he did - jimgordondiscography.blogspot.com...
	♥ 12:09pm prof.fuzz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:07 the aryans were just one of many indo-european groups who began migrating across the eurasian continent ca. 2500 BCE. they had horse and chariot tech, and thus easily overran the locals in india, greece, italy, central europe, and the british isles, as well as central asia. i wish there was a good accessible history of the indo-european migrations, but alas, there still is not.
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Bill C @12:01 Thx for that.
	♥ 12:10pm Dano59: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:09 oh, right, duh, with George!
	♥ 12:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:09 Still a little glib. The differences are pretty important, for a host of reasons
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Also the issue of how often - or - not - mental illness coincides with violence & danger to other people.
	♥ 12:11pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:09 My favorite history podcast just covered that!
	♥ 12:11pm prof.fuzz: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:08 agreed. buddhism was an offshoot of hinduism, and the hindu merchant classes in india were the main group of buddhist converts. they exported goods on the early silk roads, and buddhism followed.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:09 ah yes, much later
	12:12pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:10 i assumed you meant in hollywood, and i don't think he was old enough, then.
	♥ 12:12pm greg g: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:10 Good point Revolution Rabbit, I have a cousin who suffers from Schizophrenia, who has never been violent to me or anyone in my family.
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:11 The easy analogy is Buddhism is to Hinduism as Christianity is to Judaism. So then one wonders how that is not applicable...
	♥ 12:13pm prof.fuzz: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:11 that's great. i've been looking for a book that's accessible to undergrads on the subject for over 20 years. i don't teach world history regularly (now my big survey is the east asian civ survey).
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ greg g @12:12 This seems a really exceptional, dramatic, notable, tragic case here...
	♥ 12:14pm greg g: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:13 Yes
	♥ 12:15pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:13 It's too bad there's such a limited archeological record and such.
	12:16pm clarke: "when hollywood was a small town" - people tend to forget that it was small-town'ish before say 64
	12:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The element of Drugs here I'm looking @ too. The milieu of Superstar 1970s Rawkstars - that was Drugs writ large...
	12:17pm Sufferwords: never underestimate the juju in the SFV
	12:19pm P-90: Gene Krupa’s sound” is EVERYWHERE
	12:20pm clarke: adam minkof?? genius.
	12:23pm clarke: i've found that listening at different volumes can bring out stuff one is listening for.
	♥ 12:23pm Christina Ginger: Out of a unit of 40 patients at work, I have at least 5 who have a schizophrenia diagnosis. They all exhibit different manifestations when they are agitated, and very different social personalities in general. A few of them are the sweetest people on the entire unit. That being said, even with proper medication, I have seen some fairly violent behaviors, whether they be towards others or self inflicted. Schizophrenia is quite possibly one of the most difficult mental illnesses to contend with.
	12:24pm clarke: The Hager Twins!!
	♥ 12:24pm dday: ↳ Mr Jones @12:08 Some great tie-dye stories in Harvey Brook's book "A View from the Bottom" I became friends with Harvey when both he & Lonnie Mack resided near me in Milford,PA back in the early 80's. Fun times
	♥ 12:24pm listener phat in Lincoln: Big bread!
	12:26pm clarke: it seems like this is a case of too-soon being past. in other words, enough time has passed where you can kinda listen past the maladies.
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:23 Appreciate that.
	♥ 12:27pm PaulRobeson1924: Wow…
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:26 like, it's still too soon for, say, cosby or stringfellow.
	♥ 12:28pm Christina Ginger: Also, from a music therapy standpoint, I will venture that perhaps the structure of working on multiple sessions a day 6-7 days a week, allowed him to be in control of himself and his inner difficulties . Or perhaps, early on, quiet any disturbances that he was noticing but not really equating with a ‘problem’.
	12:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:16 So I may have missed him saying Jim was in fact not taking Drugs - &/or we may yet get to that...
	♥ 12:29pm greg g: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:28 Getting there now
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:28 it was said jim took a pledge to not do drugs. (i guess that was early on)
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:28 Yeah - cannot help but consider how his career as Session Man relates to his Mental State - & even his distinct Style...
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Aha. Self-medicating. Figures...
	12:31pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:30 i would say touring probably ruined what he had in hollywood.
	12:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:31 One thinks of Brian Wilson - who just got off The Road...
	♥ 12:31pm Christina Ginger: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:30 Absolutely!
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:31 well, brian actually FEARED touring. different.
	12:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:32 Yeah & Jim went out there.
	12:33pm Bob: It’s my understanding that all drummers have taken an anti-drug vow
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:33 yeah, gordon embraced touring - and why not? the biggest stars at the time wanted him.
	♥ 12:33pm listener phat in Lincoln: "Good place to hide if you're mentally ill" is a very good description of the music scene. Describes a large number of my friends.
	12:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Bob @12:33 Even the 13th Floor Elevators' Drummer didn't trip ? :D ...Somebody gotta keep Time ! :D ...
	♥ 12:34pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ dday @11:39 I was thinking the same thing. I know I've heard this song before, but not this version. Anyone out there know who covered it?
	12:34pm clarke: i saw gordon with Sonny & Cher, in say '73 or so, in monroe, LA.
	♥ 12:35pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:34 Oh wow.
	12:35pm Bob: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:34 Jugs not drugs!
	12:35pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 yeah, insane!
	♥ 12:35pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:34 Hot show!
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Bob @12:35 Ha ! The Jug guy was the acid cult leader tho...
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:35 i was 'forced' to go to it - and came out like: WHO WAS THAT DRUMMER?!?
	♥ 12:37pm myron feld: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:34 Brooks & Dunn had a big country hit with it sometime in the 90s.
	♥ 12:38pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ myron feld @12:37 Thanks. That's probably what I'm remembering.
	12:38pm clarke: andy newmark has a GREAT interview on youtube - extolls gordon, yes.
	♥ 12:39pm PaulRobeson1924: Really… wow
	12:40pm P-90: Schizophrenics can often show up and their job brilliantly, regardless of how challenged they might be in other areas of their lives. Not uncommon.
	12:40pm clarke: i also saw McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, with gordon on drums, in baton rouge
	♥ 12:41pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:40 Good lord
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:41 in the same venue where i later saw the sex pistols: The Kingfish
	12:41pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:40 !
	12:46pm johnk77: andy newmark was a killer live drummer in randy newman's road band late 1970s easy to work with on-stage and off also the kingfish in baton rouge 1 of the most fun nightclubs i was lucky enough to work there with bonnie raitt & sippie wallace
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:46 gosh, i remember when that show happened, but did not go
	♥ 12:47pm McMurphy: There's a good, albeit harrowing, book about personal experience with schizophrenia by Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark, "The Eden Express."
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:46 like '77 right?
	♥ 12:47pm myron feld: Pete Anderson, not only Yoakam's producer but his extremely ace guitar player.
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ myron feld @12:47 until he wasn't.
	12:48pm Frank In Queens: Fantastic interview Michael, but gotta split. I’ll check the rest on the archive.
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:48 l8r dude!
	♥ 12:49pm dday: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:34 A fun site: secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 12:49pm myron feld: ↳ clarke @12:48 Nothing is forever.
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ myron feld @12:49 ha ha, as Jay Osmond might testify
	♥ 12:50pm dday: We all wear masks..some more than others
	12:50pm johnk77: ↳ clarke @12:47 correct sometime between 1977->81? both bonnie and sippie's sets were recorded 24track by showco but i have never heard the tapes;<
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:50 was rikki fattar drumming with bonnie on that tour??
	12:52pm johnk77: that was probably dennis whitted
	♥ 12:53pm dday: Structure can be very comforting for people with mental illness & for recovering addicts
	♥ 12:53pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ dday @12:49 Oy, this is a rabbit hole waiting to happen. Thanks!
	♥ 12:53pm dday: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:53 Hee hee..I love the site :)
	♥ 12:53pm Listener Baby: Jim was in Atascadero?.. I know someone who worked there at that time.
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:52 ah.
	♥ 12:55pm JG: Fascinating interview Michael. Sad, compelling story
	♥ 12:55pm Matt Clarke: Such a tragic story. Thank you for doing this show, Michael.
	♥ 12:56pm Dave the Spazz: Brilliant interview! Mind blowing.
	♥ 12:56pm listener phat in Lincoln: Really great interview. Absolutely tragic story.
	12:56pm johnk77: thank u selecter joel selvin's other books are very good i really enjoyed hollywood eden joel's journalism in the chronicle's pink section was crucial to the sf bay area music scene in the 70s
	♥ 12:56pm egould: Thank you Michael. Thank you Joel. This was beautiful and sad and poignant. God bless Jim. Peace everybody.
	12:56pm clarke: being able to separate the music from the horror takes time.
	♥ 12:56pm Hughie Considine: Fascinating interview. Heavy and thought-provoking.
	♥ 12:57pm dreamyandseedy: excellent interview!!!!!!! thank you so much Michael and Joel
	♥ 12:57pm myron feld: Great interview. I love Selvin's books.
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:56 ditto
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes fascinating & informative about something challenging to navigate. Appreciated all around.
	♥ 12:58pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Everybody's Talkin'" by "Harry Nilsson" You knew this one was going to stick a knife in us, Baby. Ouch.
	♥ 12:58pm nycmusicnerd: Wow. What a story. Thanks to both MS and Joel Selvin.
	12:58pm Mr Jones: I wonder how to get my library to buy this book.
	♥ 12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @12:58 Yep
	12:59pm Bob: I'M WALKING HERE!
	♥ 12:59pm JG: ↳ Song: "Everybody's Talkin'" by "Harry Nilsson" ten thousandth time I've heard this song, but its killing me now
	♥ 12:59pm greg g: Excellent interview, research by Selvin and Michael, and thank you to both for bringing the story fully to light. The book and story are really staying with me. I just wish someone could have intervened to stop its tragic and horrific turn. Hopefully make us more aware of mental illness goinf forward.
	♥ 12:59pm Hughie Considine: ↳ JG @12:59 Zackly my thoughts!
	12:59pm clarke: great show, and interview. thanks! only the echoes of my mind....
	♥ 12:59pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Mr Jones @12:58 My local music librarian is a good friend of mine.
	♥ 12:59pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Mr Jones @12:58 have a look at the website for "suggest a purchase" or "recommend a purchase", most libs are very willing to buy reader suggestions
	1:00pm Kid Kennedy: Wow!
	♥ 1:00pm radioronan: Excellent - thanks Michael..Thanks Joel..cheers, y'all.
	1:00pm KWilde: Thanks MS!
	♥ 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS! Fascinating!
	1:00pm clarke: ever get the feeling you been gordon'd?? good nite.
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm P-90: Thanks, Michael
	♥ 1:44pm Wenzo: Great interview/show, thanks Michael!!
	11:23am saianjuma1: great Mike Post discussion... www.youtube.com...

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February 24, 2024: Guest: Joel Selvin author of "Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Mike Post	Rockford Files "Rockford Files" by "Mike Post"
Harpers Bizarre	59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Rick Nelson	The Lady Came From Baltimore
Bobby Vee	Here Today "Here Today" by "Bobby Vee"
Mel Torme	Secret Agent Man "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme"
Ella Fitzgerald	Got To Get You Into My Life
Everly Brothers, The	High Heel Sneakers
Incredible Bongo Band, The	Apache
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers	Strangered In The Night
Bobby And I	Mohair Sam "Mohair Sam" by "Bobby And I"
B.W. Stevenson	My Maria "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson"
Mark Eric	Just Passing By "Just Passing By" by "Mark Eric"
Sandpipers, The	Reason To Believe
George Harrison	Awaiting On You All (take one)
Merle Haggard	Workin' Man Blues "Workin' Man Blues" by "Merle Haggard"
Lincoln Mayorga And Distinguished Colleagues	Up, Up And Away
Bobby Darin	Darling Be Home Soon "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin"
Albert Hammond	It Never Rains In Southern California
Jimmy Gordon And His JazznPops Band	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Joel Selvin	Interview "Interview" by "Joel Selvin"
Harry Nilsson	Everybody's Talkin'

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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 HERE for 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

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HERE for "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

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!
	♥ 10:46am Listener Baby: Coffee = Check AirPods = Check Hands Folded = Check I think I’m ready, Baby. Let’s do the show of the year. And as always, good morning!
	11:00am clarke: hey now ask mike!
	♥ 11:01am Kotzwinkled: Miiiiiiiiiiike and co.! I finally saw Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives last night in KC. GREAT show, obviously. But I must say it was hands down the most geriatric audience I have ever sat with at a concert.
	♥ 11:01am Handy Haversack: Morning, MS and Numbers One! clarke! Getting the jalapeno hash put together over here!
	♥ 11:01am dreamyandseedy: Hi!! really excited to hear this interview
	11:02am clarke: rockfish gordon
	♥ 11:02am myron feld: MS, you should try the blond dreadlocks look described in today's opening. Could bring in a whole new audience.
	11:02am Scott from Boston: Best pilot show ever! Leave a message after the beep
	♥ 11:02am common: rockford files! hell yea
	♥ 11:02am JG: Watched the very first episode of Rockford Files last night
	♥ 11:02am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now. Juggling this with Six Nations Rugby. Waiting for De One Troo Muster Race to nail down a victory over Wales.
	11:02am clarke: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:01 a return to normalcy!!!
	♥ 11:02am mariano: ↳ Song: "Rockford Files" by "Mike Post" Oh yeah, now we're talkin'. Hey, everybody!
	11:03am greg g: Morning Mike and Hitmakers! Starting with Rockford!! Just finished the book on Jim Gordon and I’m looking forward to the interview. Hope the day has started well for everyone!
	11:03am ledzeppelinsucks: Rockford Files exposed Los Angeles as a giant truck terminal. That started from nearby farming.
	11:03am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:02 is toledo involved (yet)???
	11:03am clarke: ↳ mariano @11:02 it was just like yesterday when we saw each other????
	♥ 11:04am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:03 <ron howard voice> Spain was not one of the Six Nations.
	11:04am Dennis: Really looking forward to this show! Big Joel Selvin fan here.
	11:04am clarke: i ain't made my mind up about spain, either.
	♥ 11:04am Matt Clarke: Good morning Michael and all!
	11:05am Dennis: And (being a drummer) JG fan too! Lucky enough to have seen him a couple times
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Song: "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by "Har... i'm gonna need MORE oboe!!
	11:05am clarke: ↳ Matt Clarke @11:04 toppermost!
	♥ 11:05am Listener Baby: ↳ Matt Clarke @11:04 Matt really been digging’ your show. You do good work, man. Thank you.
	♥ 11:05am Eddy in Australia: Hey all. Hanging around for the first hour. When does the interview start, Michael?
	11:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - I cannot help but be reminded of this Cocaine & Rhinestones episode about Spade Cooley : cocaineandrhinestones.com... - a significant Country Swing Musician who committed horrific murder - which is dutifully & most grimly detailed in that exposition...
	11:06am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:05 WHOAH. the thunder from down under!!
	♥ 11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all
	♥ 11:06am Squints: Probably catch most of this in the archive later. Bugging out for the pub in a bit for the second match. The Oppressor (England) vs The Handmaidens Thereto (Scotland).
	11:06am Moammar: ↳ Squints @11:02 Is Six Nations televised anywhere generally accessible this year?
	♥ 11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Played my first gig in years last night and I'm feeling groovy.
	♥ 11:06am Matt Clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:05 Cheers my friend!
	♥ 11:06am listener phat in Lincoln: Ready for this interview!
	11:06am JohnBuck: I'm predicting a Harper's Bizarre <-> Belle and Sebastian segue
	11:07am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:06 i'm still gonna wanna hear that oboe!
	♥ 11:07am SeanG: hallo all!
	♥ 11:07am Eddy in Australia: Clarke! A little less thunder, a bit more chunder today - ie not feelin too groovy.
	11:07am clarke: hey man
	11:07am Dennis: RR, just yesterday I was reading the Spade Cooley story in Nick Tosches’s “Country”
	11:08am Dennis: Wotta book! Oy!
	♥ 11:08am Squints: ↳ Moammar @11:06 Sadly so far only on for-pay Peacock for the round-robin. Probably as it gets to elimination rounds it'll migrate to NBCish cable nets.
	♥ 11:08am mariano: ↳ clarke @11:07 Hey, long time no see!
	11:08am P-90: That dirty thieving Pufnstuf
	♥ 11:08am Eddy in Australia: I loved HR Pufnstuf as a kid.
	♥ 11:08am Squints: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:06 You go, guy.
	♥ 11:08am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:07 Woodwinds and I do not get along!
	11:08am clarke: i think it would be cooler if MS actually was going to interview jim gordon - but, that's just me.
	♥ 11:09am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by "Har... Good tune Morninggggggggg
	11:09am ledzeppelinsucks: In Port Townsend near the motel where the reject in Officer and a Gentleman hanged himself. Looks the same.
	♥ 11:09am SeanG: there's a great Netflix show about the Six Nations
	11:09am clarke: ↳ Eddy in Australia @11:07 this is not... the dude MINDS man! feel better, mate.
	♥ 11:10am egould: ↳ Song: "Rockford Files" by "Mike Post" 853 OKG
	♥ 11:10am JG: ↳ Song: "The Lady Came From Baltimore" by "Rick Nelson" Michael you turned me onto the Rick Nelson live at the Troubador album Which I picked up shortly after you played tracks from it., and he does this.
	♥ 11:11am Squints: ↳ Song: "Here Today" by "Bobby Vee" Apparently I've already clicky-starred this here before.
	11:12am Joe B: ↳ Song: "Here Today" by "Bobby Vee" produced by Dallas Smith, who also produced The Gants!
	11:12am clarke: Gants fanatic, here!
	11:13am JohnBuck: and Van Ronk
	♥ 11:13am JohnEBGood: GM Michael. Is Juniper excited for the spring break?
	11:14am clarke: yeah, wanted to read Hollywood Eden - thanks for reminding me.
	♥ 11:14am nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	♥ 11:14am Squints: ↳ Joe B @11:12 So, Joe, on The Gants' "I Wonder," was there supposed to be a guitar solo that got stripped out of the mix? Heck even if they'd just pushed up the 12-string chugging along. That's bridgy part just sort of sits there begging for something.
	11:14am clarke: nyyyyc
	♥ 11:15am Squints: ↳ clarke @11:12 They get into heaven just for "I Wonder."
	11:15am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:15 yeah, in a perfect world.
	11:16am Cooh John: Hello Michael and #1ers. Hiya, Handy. Did you get the email with my shifts for the marathon? Yes Michael, I will make your show this year!
	♥ 11:16am Andrea C: Hi everyone :) how are you doing today?
	11:16am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:15 love to have ya, joe!! love ta have ya!
	♥ 11:16am JG: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Love the Velvet Fog
	♥ 11:17am nycmusicnerd: I'll be doing a shift with Jonesey. I asked for a Shelley shift as well, but didn't get it. Maybe next year.
	11:17am JohnBuck: Harry Anderson is smiling down
	♥ 11:17am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Rick Moranis as Mel Torme scatting the National Anthem is well worth seeking out. Morning, all!
	11:17am clarke: ↳ nycmusicnerd @11:17 his people are talking to your people
	11:18am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:17 good day, Hugh.
	♥ 11:18am JG: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:17 I'm gonna have to watch that
	11:18am greg g: While I like the 7 Second Delay theme, really diggin this Torme version!
	♥ 11:18am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" The man had diction.
	♥ 11:18am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Secret Agent Man" by "Mel Torme" Hot damn
	♥ 11:18am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:18 Tippin' my hat..
	11:19am clarke: ↳ JohnBuck @11:17 i am really good friends with harry's widow!
	♥ 11:19am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:18 He also had persuasive lips -- or so I'm told.
	♥ 11:19am myron feld: ↳ Song: "Got To Get You Into My Life" by "Ella Fitzgerald" "sleepin' in a Bombay alley/kissin' every Sue and Sally" -- that, my friends, is some #1 ad libbing!
	♥ 11:20am Listener Baby: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:19 Goes without sayin’
	♥ 11:20am myron feld: ↳ myron feld @11:19 oops -- that was for Mel's Secret Agent Man. Although Ella was known to ad lib now and then.
	11:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Got To Get You Into My Life" by "Ella Fitzgerald" SirMacca's lovesong to cannabis. But you know that.
	11:20am Cooh John: Time for crooners' corner.
	♥ 11:22am Squints: Alright. Pub beckons. Hasta, babes. Be excellent to one another.
	11:22am Cooh John: Scat true, myron.
	♥ 11:22am Hughie Considine: ↳ Squints @11:22 Have excellent libations!
	♥ 11:22am nycmusicnerd: ↳ clarke @11:17 Yeah, they're probably doing lunch now.
	11:22am clarke: ↳ Squints @11:22 we barely knew ye!! cheers
	11:23am Moammar: ↳ Song: "High Heel Sneakers" by "Everly Brothers, The" Oh, wow. I had this vinyl at one point. I have not heard this in decades.
	11:23am clarke: ↳ Song: "High Heel Sneakers" by "Everly Brothers, The" i know gordon drums on a lot of everly's stuff - but, like MS said, hard to tell which.
	♥ 11:24am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "High Heel Sneakers" by "Everly Brothers, The" how are high heel sneakers even work?
	♥ 11:24am Andrea C: ↳ Andrea C @11:24 how do* mmmmmm
	♥ 11:26am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:23 CHECK THIS: jimgordondiscography.blogspot.com...
	♥ 11:26am Hughie Considine: ↳ Andrea C @11:24 No idea, but a wig-hat is pretty much like it sounds like.
	11:26am ANA LA COLOMBIANA: JAMES BURTON!! THE BEAUTIFUL KING, ELVIS'S GUITARIST-AAAAMAZING & UNDERRATED!!!! & RONNIE TUTT, ALSO PART OF ELVIS'S BAND, DRUMMER, SAME-AMAZING & UNDERRATED!
	11:26am Mr Jones: THE THING WITH TWO HEADS!!!
	11:27am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:26 you'd sent me that, before, but a few laptops ago!
	♥ 11:27am Andrea C: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:26 I pictured them kinda sloppy to be honest. all that extra rubber on the heel.
	♥ 11:27am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" Put this one one right near the top of the greatest sounding records ever made.
	11:27am Frank In Queens: Hey NOW!!
	11:28am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:26 actually, i guess you'd sent me an everly's session guide that got lost.
	11:28am Bill C: Great kick off to the show.
	♥ 11:28am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" is this originally by Ennio Morricone?
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @11:27 he shoots... HE SCORES!!
	11:29am Moammar: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" Bongo feet called for! Not redundant: additive!
	11:29am Mr Jones: ↳ Andrea C @11:28 Originally by Preston Epps
	♥ 11:29am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" More grooviness
	11:29am P-90: I’ve never heard an “Apache” I couldn’t live with
	11:29am clarke: ↳ Song: "Strangered In The Night" by "Tom Petty And The He... no way!! didn't know this
	♥ 11:29am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Strangered In The Night" by "Tom Petty And The He... Really?
	♥ 11:29am egould: ↳ Song: "Apache" by "Incredible Bongo Band, The" Bongo feet during that breakdown. Missed opportunity, MS.
	11:30am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:29 oh, a different version, methinks.
	♥ 11:30am Andrea C: ↳ Mr Jones @11:29 Thanks :) By the melody it sounded like Ennio.
	11:30am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Michael and Everyone.
	♥ 11:30am egould: ↳ Moammar @11:29 We tried.
	♥ 11:30am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:30 nope
	11:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Agony of the Bongo Defeet...
	11:30am Alexandra: 💜💜💜💜💜💜⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
	♥ 11:30am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:29 Does sound like a different mix. Maybe they excise a bad word.
	♥ 11:30am listener phat in Lincoln: @clarke looking forward to New Orleans in a few days! I'll email with details.
	11:30am greg g: Wait … Perry or Stealer’s Wheel ??
	11:31am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:30 and twilley don't mind.
	♥ 11:31am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:31 Yeah, this totally sounds like a Twilley track.
	11:31am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:30 i think Hughie might be hear around the same time??
	11:32am clarke: ↳ clarke @11:31 mar 5-7??
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Strangered In The Night" by "Tom Petty And The He... One is impressed by the combination of deft precision & swing Drumwise. & strong & emphatic @ that. Great tone across the whole kit.
	♥ 11:34am Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @11:32 actually looking like 3/11 - 3/14
	11:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:33 - & probly infallible Time (tho I'm no judge).
	♥ 11:34am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:32 I fly in on the 4th and out on the 7th
	11:35am clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:34 ohhhh. cool!
	♥ 11:35am listener phat in Lincoln: Actually going to Miami the next week if anyone here is in Miami!
	11:35am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:34 your limo awaits!
	11:36am P-90: “Apache” is the kind of song (The Shadows original version) that influenced Morricone when he got to his spaghetti Western phase, so much so that decades later it’s sounds like something he might have come up with.
	♥ 11:36am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @11:35 Whew!
	♥ 11:36am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Mohair Sam" by "Bobby And I" Drums on this similar to the Everly’s track we were wondering about Baby? That eight arm syndrome.
	11:36am johnk77: excellent selecting today just watched david fricke's interview w/guitarist mike campbell lots of interesting info on history of tom petty & heartbreakers https://www.withtheshow.com/mike-campbell-with-david-fricke
	11:37am clarke: ↳ Listener Baby @11:36 as he said, there are two drummers listed on some of the work
	11:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Mohair Sam" by "Bobby And I" Kinda unbelievable Drums here. But never flashy. Super Session Star.
	11:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ P-90 @11:36 Which is interesting.
	♥ 11:38am dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" will confess i have previously only heard this as the Brooks and Dunn country hit from the 90s
	♥ 11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" I definitely wouldn't have ever paid attention to the drums or the rest of this track until recently.
	11:39am clarke: one thing that kinda separated gordon from blaine is that he tuned his toms in a lower timber.
	♥ 11:39am dday: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" I can hear The Maverick's killing this one. Raul Malo, great singer
	♥ 11:39am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" Back when you could have a huge hit song, and look like that. Those days= over!
	♥ 11:39am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" I definitely have never appreciated the drums on this before.
	♥ 11:39am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ dday @11:39 Totally!
	♥ 11:40am myron feld: Although I didn't know it at the time, I saw Jim Gordon at the first rock show I attended, when he drummed with Delaney & Bonnie.
	♥ 11:40am prof.fuzz: morning y'all it's a lovely day here on the backside...
	11:40am clarke: FuZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
	♥ 11:40am prof.fuzz: ClarkEEEEEEEEEEEEE
	♥ 11:41am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "My Maria" by "B.W. Stevenson" Maria must be paradise to this guy.
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @11:39 Yeah - his approach seems to me both tight & hard. Precise but emphatic.
	♥ 11:41am dday: David Kershenbaum produced a few songs for my friend Craig.
	♥ 11:41am Andrea C: hi prof fuzz[1] [1] it's been a while :)
	♥ 11:42am Michael Shelley: ↳ dday @11:41 what does Greg say about him?
	♥ 11:42am Hughie Considine: ↳ Listener Baby @11:39 Totally. You could be unkempt, balding and overweight, but if you had a hit song all you needed was the right tunic and all was forgiven.
	♥ 11:43am prof.fuzz: ↳ Andrea C @11:41 hi andrea* * yes, it has. how are you?
	♥ 11:43am dday: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:39 Met them in Nashville at The Exit Inn once when I went to see Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers. Crazy night. Met Manuel the Tailor too (the man who took over for Nudie). Drank tequila with him.
	11:43am clarke: footnotes are SO 2023!!~
	♥ 11:43am prof.fuzz: ↳ Hughie Considine @11:42 the judges (and public) would have also accepted "cape"...
	♥ 11:44am Andrea C: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:43 feeling good, thanks :)
	11:44am Dennis: Myron, D&B at the Fillmore East was my first Jim G sighting. Then again with Derek and the Dominoes (twice). So great!
	♥ 11:44am Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Reason To Believe" by "Sandpipers, The" One of the world’s truly greatest melodies.
	♥ 11:44am Andrea C: ↳ Andrea C @11:44 ps: and I did it again... how are you doing?
	♥ 11:45am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ dday @11:43 I caught them last year here in Lincoln and they put on a HELL of a show.
	♥ 11:45am Michael Shelley: ↳ myron feld @11:40 enjoy New Orleans
	♥ 11:45am Listener Baby: ↳ Dennis @11:44 Whoa.
	11:46am clarke: ↳ johnk77 @11:36 campbell is a great and easy interview
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ☕️☠️Saluting Thee Assembled with thuh DeathWish Koffeez☠️☕️
	♥ 11:46am dday: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:42 Well Craig is an Australian, married to a local artist Sue & they live in Sparrowbush,NY (near Port Jervis, that party town). I don't recall if Craig & David worked remotely or not, but they did 3 songs together which were, but are no longer on the u of toobs.
	11:46am Dennis: Clarke, he did have a really distinctive Tom Tom sound - that’s usually how I could pick him out. I love his work on Van Dyke Parks’s Discover America (awesome solo on the coda of “Riverboat” - that tuning really leaps out at you)
	11:47am Mr Jones: ↳ Song: "Reason To Believe" by "Sandpipers, The" $1 bin filler until some DJ drives the prices up!
	♥ 11:47am myron feld: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:45 If I was going, I would!
	11:47am clarke: ↳ Dennis @11:46 yes, i think van dyke brought that out in his mix - as he had a hand in it
	♥ 11:48am Handy Haversack: OK, brunch is sairved!
	11:48am clarke: ↳ myron feld @11:47 wish you were - i may be at fault for him thinking that..
	♥ 11:48am egould: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:46 Cheers!
	11:49am clarke: muffled floor tom.
	♥ 11:49am Andrea C: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:48 enjoy!
	♥ 11:49am dday: ↳ dday @11:46 Oh wait. One of the 3 they did is still up: Craig Smith & Susan Miller; www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:49am greg g: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:48 Yes bon appetit Handy!
	♥ 11:50am Michael Shelley: ↳ clarke @11:49 with a "tea towel" on it
	♥ 11:50am greg g: ↳ Song: "Awaiting On You All (take one)" by "George Harrison" Some nice minimal funk here.
	11:50am clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @11:50 and a tea-boy standing by
	11:51am P-90: Superior to the final released version imo
	11:51am clarke: ↳ Song: "Workin' Man Blues" by "Merle Haggard" didn't know this either!
	♥ 11:51am Andrea C: this comes as a surprise. I believed George was Buddhist or more oriental oriented.
	11:52am Dennis: See, I would’ve bet that was Ringo. I could be wrong….
	11:52am DG: Haven't heard this version of the GH "All Things..." track, but I note it includes the lyric aboutt the Pope, which is also on the released version, even though those lyrics not on the lyric sheet. Wonder whose decision that was.
	11:52am clarke: ↳ Dennis @11:52 ringo is probably on the released version
	11:52am Dennis: Exactly because of the tea towel. Jim didn’t really do that sound.
	11:53am clarke: ↳ Dennis @11:52 well, he did there!
	♥ 11:54am Andrea C: ↳ Song: "Workin' Man Blues" by "Merle Haggard" Mama tried should be the B-sides of a Working Man Blues 45
	11:54am Mr Jones: I'm so looking forward to the interview, I've decided to put on pants.
	♥ 11:55am Andrea C: That is quite the list!
	♥ 11:56am greg g: ↳ Mr Jones @11:54 Whoa , getting fancy Mr. Jones!
	♥ 11:56am listener phat in Lincoln: What'd I miss? I had to purchase bollilos.
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Andrea C @11:51 Hindu ~ something of a post-psychedelic Universalist... Hinduism tending towards regarding holy men of whatever tradition as various avatars / manifestations of divinity whenever & wherever they are... 'Buddhism is Hinduism packaged for export.' - Alan Watts
	11:56am Mr Jones: I listened to that hit version of "Grazin'..." and it seems to have no cowbell. The song is about cows fer chrissake! I never really say this with sincerity except in this instance. More Cowbell!
	♥ 11:57am egould: Baaaallloooooonnnn!!! Simpler times, eh?
	♥ 11:57am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:56 Alan Watts wasn't necessarily the best source.
	11:57am clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:56 mike bought everyone donuts!
	♥ 11:57am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Up, Up And Away" by "Lincoln Mayorga And Distingu... No way this is direct to disc.
	11:57am Mr Jones: ↳ greg g @11:56 #respect
	11:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @11:57 Perhaps not always - but could be pithy like that.
	♥ 11:58am Andrea C: Soooo, I just opened the window to vape, shades on. Looked to the side, and a rainbow in between the dark clouds. Always something there to remind me.
	♥ 11:58am listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:58 That is true. He's entertaining and could be insightful. I love his lectures.
	♥ 11:58am prof.fuzz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @11:56 exported by indic merchants across central asia, embraced by sodgian merchants who took it to china, where it was picked up by korean merchants and taken to korea, and later exported to japan. maps available upon request.* *citations also available upon request.
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 He da Prof, man.
	♥ 11:59am egould: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 Ha!
	♥ 11:59am greg g: ↳ Mr Jones @11:57 Right back at you Mr. Jones.
	♥ 11:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" I doubt the word "dawdle" has ever been used in a song before or since.
	11:59am clarke: *request definition of sodgian.
	♥ 12:00pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 Sodgian Merchants is my next band name.
	♥ 12:00pm myron feld: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" Great singer. Did so much. And the backwards LP cover is mind-blowing.
	12:00pm DG: That Darin album is not only Inside Out, but backwards. (smiley face---don't know how to do emjois on here)
	♥ 12:00pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" serendipity? - was just looking through the Jim Boggia catalog and there's a version of this! Also: loved hearing 'My Maria'
	♥ 12:00pm Hughie Considine: Sodgian merchants did not dawdle. This we know.
	♥ 12:00pm greg g: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" Wow, what a wonderful version here. Drums are so tasteful and the vocals and arrangement are something. Gotta get this LP into my life.
	♥ 12:01pm Dano59: ↳ myron feld @12:00 is he inside? or is he out? looks like he's "in" to me
	12:01pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:00 been a while, son. howya?
	12:01pm Bob: Oh, hey! Good morning everyone. Bob from Ann Arborish, coming in way late. Start it over.
	♥ 12:01pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" This is such a great goddamn tune. It's one of the few where the great verse outshines the great chorus, in my book.
	12:01pm clarke: excellent distressed cd!
	12:01pm Bill C: What is peculiar with Gordon is his MI occurred later in age compared with first breaks which usually happen around ages 17-21. Drugs had to be the major problem that brought out his psychosis. A really sad and tragedy for him and his mother/family.
	♥ 12:01pm Creature Boy: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" A fine version. It occurs to me that I should get me some solo Sebastian
	12:02pm clarke: hello bob.
	♥ 12:02pm Dano59: surviving, trying to stay on top of my life - making a lot of concert plans for now
	♥ 12:02pm prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @11:59 the sogdians were a persian nomadic group who dominated central asian trade routes (i.e., silk roads) from ca. 200–700 CE. they were the first major group outside of india to convert to buddhism. later, they converted to islam. trade and religion, linked for ages...
	♥ 12:02pm dday: ↳ Song: "Darling Be Home Soon" by "Bobby Darin" Of course I love John Sebastian's version best, but I will always love SLADE's version as well
	♥ 12:02pm listener phat in Lincoln: All sorts of early 70s car radio listening going on today.
	12:03pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:02 Hey, Clarke. Did you survive the carnival? How close was Treme to the real deal?
	♥ 12:03pm egould: ↳ prof.fuzz @11:58 And thanks for the sogdian reference. I’m now going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. Bye everyone…
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ dday @12:02 That.
	12:03pm Mr Jones: ↳ Creature Boy @12:01 Have you listened to Mike's interview with Sebastian? It's the most positive-vibe interview I've ever heard on the show.
	12:03pm clarke: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:02 and what kind of rope did they move?
	12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "It Never Rains In Southern California" by "Albert... Pertinent when I was homeless in Santa Barbara. & lately as well.
	♥ 12:03pm prof.fuzz: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:00 do it! we'll make the trek to the land of corn husks and play with you!
	12:04pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:03 ha ha ha, i survived - Treme'(the show) has very little to do with this city.
	♥ 12:04pm common: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:02 just what i was thinkin. feel like im riding in my mom's green gran torino wagon
	♥ 12:04pm myron feld: ↳ Dano59 @12:01 He's closer to the inside door, but he has an overcoat on, while his significant other appears to be only clothed in a minidress.
	♥ 12:04pm Dano59: yr killin me here, Mikey - there's a spherical green Panasonic radio swinging in front of me now
	♥ 12:04pm prof.fuzz: ↳ egould @12:03 if you're not back on the comments board in 72 hours, we'll send for help.
	12:04pm P-90: Alan Watts really knew Buddhism, he deserves recognition for being one of a small group that introduced it to the West in the 20th century. (When he said “Buddhism is Hinduism stripped for export” he meant for “export”within Asia, not to “the West.”)
	♥ 12:04pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "It Never Rains In Southern California" by "Albert... Not the strongest singer. Nope.
	12:04pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:04 Really? That's surprising. I liked it and assumed it mostly got things correct.
	12:05pm Mr Jones: ↳ egould @12:03 breadcrumbs!
	♥ 12:05pm dday: ↳ Mr Jones @12:03 I did some minor electrical work for John S. at his NY home many years ago. He is a really sweet, kind man.
	♥ 12:05pm myron feld: ↳ dday @12:02 And Cocker's (Joe, not Jarvis) version, too.
	12:05pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:04 nobody here watched it for more than a few minutes, even though we have friends in the show
	♥ 12:05pm greg g: ↳ Bill C @12:01 That's a good point Bill. THey do mention in the book though that he was known to have imaginary conversation/talking aloud when no one else was in the room. Seems like drugs were a contributuing factor for sure. Would be an interesting question for Selvin: how much of a contributing factor was his drug abuse , especially in the 1970's.
	♥ 12:06pm prof.fuzz: ↳ clarke @12:03 sogdians were the middlemen. that's where the profit is. china exported silk and iron, india exported aromatics, rome exported glass and asbestos, and the other central asias sold horses and gemstones.
	12:06pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:05 TV LIED TO ME!
	12:06pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:06 again!!
	12:07pm clarke: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:06 and.. ROPE!!
	♥ 12:07pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ common @12:04 Red Ford something or other over here.
	12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:02 Was interested to be informed that many elements of Hinduism were not as ancient as I believed - but were imported to India by the Aryans who were from the Levant (Middle East?) ? Which kind of makes sense considering the Gita & Arjuna the Warrior &tc. & probly fused with indigenous Traditions - more in South India ?
	♥ 12:07pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by "Jimmy Gordon A... One more time, with feeling, Jim
	♥ 12:07pm Dano59: did Gordon ever record for Spector? his style really reminds me of Hal Blaine on some of those tracks
	12:08pm clarke: ↳ Bob @12:06 the stupid thing is that HAD Treme' been more realistic it would have been a better show!! tv always screws that up.
	♥ 12:08pm listener phat in Lincoln: I just think "stripped for export" is a little glib. I suppose you could say Buddhism stripped atman! Lol.
	12:08pm Mr Jones: ↳ dday @12:05 I know his younger brother Mark fairly well. Mostly from playing frisbee together in Central Park. He's also a musician. I never met his John though and didn't even realize the connection for years. Great interview, especially for tie-dye afficianados.
	12:09pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:07 i don't think so, it's pretty much blaine and palmer. gordon was just a kid then, tho
	12:09pm DG: ↳ Bill C @12:01 Thanks, I thought that it usually occurs much earlier in life usually. Drugs probably brought it on or made it worse, as it probably did (from what I've read) for Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson, some early Fleetwood Mac members, etc.
	12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:08 'Packaged' (not 'stripped') was Watt's word.
	12:09pm R2: Maybe we'll hear The Dictators' "Jim Gordon Blues" before end of show?
	♥ 12:09pm Michael Shelley: ↳ Dano59 @12:07 yes he did - jimgordondiscography.blogspot.com...
	♥ 12:09pm prof.fuzz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:07 the aryans were just one of many indo-european groups who began migrating across the eurasian continent ca. 2500 BCE. they had horse and chariot tech, and thus easily overran the locals in india, greece, italy, central europe, and the british isles, as well as central asia. i wish there was a good accessible history of the indo-european migrations, but alas, there still is not.
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Bill C @12:01 Thx for that.
	♥ 12:10pm Dano59: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:09 oh, right, duh, with George!
	♥ 12:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:09 Still a little glib. The differences are pretty important, for a host of reasons
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Also the issue of how often - or - not - mental illness coincides with violence & danger to other people.
	♥ 12:11pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:09 My favorite history podcast just covered that!
	♥ 12:11pm prof.fuzz: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:08 agreed. buddhism was an offshoot of hinduism, and the hindu merchant classes in india were the main group of buddhist converts. they exported goods on the early silk roads, and buddhism followed.
	12:11pm clarke: ↳ Michael Shelley @12:09 ah yes, much later
	12:12pm clarke: ↳ Dano59 @12:10 i assumed you meant in hollywood, and i don't think he was old enough, then.
	♥ 12:12pm greg g: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:10 Good point Revolution Rabbit, I have a cousin who suffers from Schizophrenia, who has never been violent to me or anyone in my family.
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:11 The easy analogy is Buddhism is to Hinduism as Christianity is to Judaism. So then one wonders how that is not applicable...
	♥ 12:13pm prof.fuzz: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:11 that's great. i've been looking for a book that's accessible to undergrads on the subject for over 20 years. i don't teach world history regularly (now my big survey is the east asian civ survey).
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ greg g @12:12 This seems a really exceptional, dramatic, notable, tragic case here...
	♥ 12:14pm greg g: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:13 Yes
	♥ 12:15pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ prof.fuzz @12:13 It's too bad there's such a limited archeological record and such.
	12:16pm clarke: "when hollywood was a small town" - people tend to forget that it was small-town'ish before say 64
	12:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The element of Drugs here I'm looking @ too. The milieu of Superstar 1970s Rawkstars - that was Drugs writ large...
	12:17pm Sufferwords: never underestimate the juju in the SFV
	12:19pm P-90: Gene Krupa’s sound” is EVERYWHERE
	12:20pm clarke: adam minkof?? genius.
	12:23pm clarke: i've found that listening at different volumes can bring out stuff one is listening for.
	♥ 12:23pm Christina Ginger: Out of a unit of 40 patients at work, I have at least 5 who have a schizophrenia diagnosis. They all exhibit different manifestations when they are agitated, and very different social personalities in general. A few of them are the sweetest people on the entire unit. That being said, even with proper medication, I have seen some fairly violent behaviors, whether they be towards others or self inflicted. Schizophrenia is quite possibly one of the most difficult mental illnesses to contend with.
	12:24pm clarke: The Hager Twins!!
	♥ 12:24pm dday: ↳ Mr Jones @12:08 Some great tie-dye stories in Harvey Brook's book "A View from the Bottom" I became friends with Harvey when both he & Lonnie Mack resided near me in Milford,PA back in the early 80's. Fun times
	♥ 12:24pm listener phat in Lincoln: Big bread!
	12:26pm clarke: it seems like this is a case of too-soon being past. in other words, enough time has passed where you can kinda listen past the maladies.
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:23 Appreciate that.
	♥ 12:27pm PaulRobeson1924: Wow…
	12:28pm clarke: ↳ clarke @12:26 like, it's still too soon for, say, cosby or stringfellow.
	♥ 12:28pm Christina Ginger: Also, from a music therapy standpoint, I will venture that perhaps the structure of working on multiple sessions a day 6-7 days a week, allowed him to be in control of himself and his inner difficulties . Or perhaps, early on, quiet any disturbances that he was noticing but not really equating with a ‘problem’.
	12:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:16 So I may have missed him saying Jim was in fact not taking Drugs - &/or we may yet get to that...
	♥ 12:29pm greg g: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:28 Getting there now
	12:29pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:28 it was said jim took a pledge to not do drugs. (i guess that was early on)
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Christina Ginger @12:28 Yeah - cannot help but consider how his career as Session Man relates to his Mental State - & even his distinct Style...
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Aha. Self-medicating. Figures...
	12:31pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:30 i would say touring probably ruined what he had in hollywood.
	12:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:31 One thinks of Brian Wilson - who just got off The Road...
	♥ 12:31pm Christina Ginger: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:30 Absolutely!
	12:32pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:31 well, brian actually FEARED touring. different.
	12:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ clarke @12:32 Yeah & Jim went out there.
	12:33pm Bob: It’s my understanding that all drummers have taken an anti-drug vow
	12:33pm clarke: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:33 yeah, gordon embraced touring - and why not? the biggest stars at the time wanted him.
	♥ 12:33pm listener phat in Lincoln: "Good place to hide if you're mentally ill" is a very good description of the music scene. Describes a large number of my friends.
	12:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Bob @12:33 Even the 13th Floor Elevators' Drummer didn't trip ? :D ...Somebody gotta keep Time ! :D ...
	♥ 12:34pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ dday @11:39 I was thinking the same thing. I know I've heard this song before, but not this version. Anyone out there know who covered it?
	12:34pm clarke: i saw gordon with Sonny & Cher, in say '73 or so, in monroe, LA.
	♥ 12:35pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:34 Oh wow.
	12:35pm Bob: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:34 Jugs not drugs!
	12:35pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:35 yeah, insane!
	♥ 12:35pm Hughie Considine: ↳ clarke @12:34 Hot show!
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Bob @12:35 Ha ! The Jug guy was the acid cult leader tho...
	12:36pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:35 i was 'forced' to go to it - and came out like: WHO WAS THAT DRUMMER?!?
	♥ 12:37pm myron feld: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:34 Brooks & Dunn had a big country hit with it sometime in the 90s.
	♥ 12:38pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ myron feld @12:37 Thanks. That's probably what I'm remembering.
	12:38pm clarke: andy newmark has a GREAT interview on youtube - extolls gordon, yes.
	♥ 12:39pm PaulRobeson1924: Really… wow
	12:40pm P-90: Schizophrenics can often show up and their job brilliantly, regardless of how challenged they might be in other areas of their lives. Not uncommon.
	12:40pm clarke: i also saw McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, with gordon on drums, in baton rouge
	♥ 12:41pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ clarke @12:40 Good lord
	12:41pm clarke: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @12:41 in the same venue where i later saw the sex pistols: The Kingfish
	12:41pm Bob: ↳ clarke @12:40 !
	12:46pm johnk77: andy newmark was a killer live drummer in randy newman's road band late 1970s easy to work with on-stage and off also the kingfish in baton rouge 1 of the most fun nightclubs i was lucky enough to work there with bonnie raitt & sippie wallace
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:46 gosh, i remember when that show happened, but did not go
	♥ 12:47pm McMurphy: There's a good, albeit harrowing, book about personal experience with schizophrenia by Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark, "The Eden Express."
	12:47pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:46 like '77 right?
	♥ 12:47pm myron feld: Pete Anderson, not only Yoakam's producer but his extremely ace guitar player.
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ myron feld @12:47 until he wasn't.
	12:48pm Frank In Queens: Fantastic interview Michael, but gotta split. I’ll check the rest on the archive.
	12:48pm clarke: ↳ Frank In Queens @12:48 l8r dude!
	♥ 12:49pm dday: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:34 A fun site: secondhandsongs.com...
	♥ 12:49pm myron feld: ↳ clarke @12:48 Nothing is forever.
	12:49pm clarke: ↳ myron feld @12:49 ha ha, as Jay Osmond might testify
	♥ 12:50pm dday: We all wear masks..some more than others
	12:50pm johnk77: ↳ clarke @12:47 correct sometime between 1977->81? both bonnie and sippie's sets were recorded 24track by showco but i have never heard the tapes;<
	12:51pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:50 was rikki fattar drumming with bonnie on that tour??
	12:52pm johnk77: that was probably dennis whitted
	♥ 12:53pm dday: Structure can be very comforting for people with mental illness & for recovering addicts
	♥ 12:53pm nycmusicnerd: ↳ dday @12:49 Oy, this is a rabbit hole waiting to happen. Thanks!
	♥ 12:53pm dday: ↳ nycmusicnerd @12:53 Hee hee..I love the site :)
	♥ 12:53pm Listener Baby: Jim was in Atascadero?.. I know someone who worked there at that time.
	12:54pm clarke: ↳ johnk77 @12:52 ah.
	♥ 12:55pm JG: Fascinating interview Michael. Sad, compelling story
	♥ 12:55pm Matt Clarke: Such a tragic story. Thank you for doing this show, Michael.
	♥ 12:56pm Dave the Spazz: Brilliant interview! Mind blowing.
	♥ 12:56pm listener phat in Lincoln: Really great interview. Absolutely tragic story.
	12:56pm johnk77: thank u selecter joel selvin's other books are very good i really enjoyed hollywood eden joel's journalism in the chronicle's pink section was crucial to the sf bay area music scene in the 70s
	♥ 12:56pm egould: Thank you Michael. Thank you Joel. This was beautiful and sad and poignant. God bless Jim. Peace everybody.
	12:56pm clarke: being able to separate the music from the horror takes time.
	♥ 12:56pm Hughie Considine: Fascinating interview. Heavy and thought-provoking.
	♥ 12:57pm dreamyandseedy: excellent interview!!!!!!! thank you so much Michael and Joel
	♥ 12:57pm myron feld: Great interview. I love Selvin's books.
	12:57pm clarke: ↳ Hughie Considine @12:56 ditto
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes fascinating & informative about something challenging to navigate. Appreciated all around.
	♥ 12:58pm Listener Baby: ↳ Song: "Everybody's Talkin'" by "Harry Nilsson" You knew this one was going to stick a knife in us, Baby. Ouch.
	♥ 12:58pm nycmusicnerd: Wow. What a story. Thanks to both MS and Joel Selvin.
	12:58pm Mr Jones: I wonder how to get my library to buy this book.
	♥ 12:58pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Listener Baby @12:58 Yep
	12:59pm Bob: I'M WALKING HERE!
	♥ 12:59pm JG: ↳ Song: "Everybody's Talkin'" by "Harry Nilsson" ten thousandth time I've heard this song, but its killing me now
	♥ 12:59pm greg g: Excellent interview, research by Selvin and Michael, and thank you to both for bringing the story fully to light. The book and story are really staying with me. I just wish someone could have intervened to stop its tragic and horrific turn. Hopefully make us more aware of mental illness goinf forward.
	♥ 12:59pm Hughie Considine: ↳ JG @12:59 Zackly my thoughts!
	12:59pm clarke: great show, and interview. thanks! only the echoes of my mind....
	♥ 12:59pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Mr Jones @12:58 My local music librarian is a good friend of mine.
	♥ 12:59pm dreamyandseedy: ↳ Mr Jones @12:58 have a look at the website for "suggest a purchase" or "recommend a purchase", most libs are very willing to buy reader suggestions
	1:00pm Kid Kennedy: Wow!
	♥ 1:00pm radioronan: Excellent - thanks Michael..Thanks Joel..cheers, y'all.
	1:00pm KWilde: Thanks MS!
	♥ 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, MS! Fascinating!
	1:00pm clarke: ever get the feeling you been gordon'd?? good nite.
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ MS ~
	1:00pm P-90: Thanks, Michael
	♥ 1:44pm Wenzo: Great interview/show, thanks Michael!!
	11:23am saianjuma1: great Mike Post discussion... www.youtube.com...

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