Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from February 18, 2024 Favoriting

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Favoriting February 18, 2024: THE MAN WHO KICKED OUT THE JAMS

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  LP  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
MC5  Black to Comm   Favoriting Are You Ready To Testify? The Live Bootleg Anthology  Sanctuary  2005  CD  0:21:48 (Pop-up)
MC5  Ramblin' Rose   Favoriting   YouTube.com  1970    0:29:00 (Pop-up)
MC5 (with Lemmy)  Sister Anne   Favoriting   YouTube.com      0:31:55 (Pop-up)
MC5  I Can Only Give You Everything   Favoriting I Can Only Give You Everything  Get Back Records  2007  CD  0:37:53 (Pop-up)
MC5  Come Together/Motor City is Burning   Favoriting Kick Out the Jams  Elektra  1969  LP  0:40:54 (Pop-up)
Gang War  These Boots Are Made For Walking   Favoriting Gang War  Sonic  1996  CD  0:50:47 (Pop-up)
Wayne Kramer  Crack in the Universe   Favoriting Punk-O-Rama Vol. 1  Epitaph  1994  CD  0:53:43 (Pop-up)
Wayne Kramer  Something Broken In the Promised Land   Favoriting Dangerous Madness  Epitaph  1996  CD  0:58:19 (Pop-up)
Wayne Kramer  The Czar of Poisonville   Favoriting Mad for the Racket  Diesel Motor  2004  CD  1:03:53 (Pop-up)
Wayne Kramer & Mark Lindsay  I Can See For Miles   Favoriting Who Are You: An All-Star Tribute to the Who  Cleopatra  2012  CD  1:08:11 (Pop-up)
 
Mojo Nixon  Don Henley Must Die   Favoriting The Mojo Manifesto  Manifesto Records  2020  CD  1:14:44 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  9:05pm
Bluesman:

Hey Harry! Looks like there's a back-up on Runway 66!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:05
you nailed it Bluesman
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:05
how you doing
  9:17pm
Bluesman:

I'll credit Richard Whig for discovering your cool show! Rock on!
Avatar 9:18pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:17
Richard is THE MAN!!
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Fatherflot:

Hey Harry. Did you bet against Mahomes last week?
Avatar 9:20pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:20
Hell no. Jamais! How's Iowa?
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Harry and all!!!
Avatar 9:21pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hello Will how goes it
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Aitch:

Fun times
Avatar 9:21pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:21
hey man
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medson:

Hey Harry and all.
Avatar 9:25pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:23
hey medson thx for joining
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medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:25
Nice to be free on a Sunday night
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:20
The snow melted and it got warm for a while, now it's cold again.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Black to Comm" by "MC5"
Wild!
Avatar 9:26pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:25
Three days of expected rain just began here hour ago. YES!
  9:27pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Good to be Harry!
  9:27pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Your table will be ready shortly
Avatar 9:28pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Blvd Maitre D @9:27
Nice one
  9:29pm
Bluesman:

There's a great interview that the Hound did with Brother Wayne, 1996, I believe. WFMU. Brother Wayne explains the meaning of "Black to Comm." Wild stuff!
  9:29pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Here all night!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:29
Really?! Gotta check that out. Brother Wayne indeed
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Tom P:

Hi Harry! Enjoying the MC5 but have to head out. Will definitely catch the show on the archives tomorrow
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Ramblin' Rose" by "MC5"
It sounds nothing like Nat King Cole
Avatar 9:30pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom P @9:29
alright thx Tom have a good night
Avatar 9:31pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:30
Nat needed WK once in a while on guitar
  9:31pm
rychurd:

MC5ive baby!!
Avatar 9:32pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:31
rychurd! great stuff tonight. as usual.
  9:33pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Didn't HDM do a tour w Wayne?
Avatar 9:33pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Blvd Maitre D @9:33
yknow i think so. he certainly played KOTJ when I saw his new band in October
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:32
sure was
Avatar 9:37pm
DFFD617:

That was DKT/MC5. HDM rotated w Mark Arm from Mudhoney and Lisa from The Bellrays. Gilby Clarke playing Fred.
Avatar 9:38pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ DFFD617 @9:37
right! did you see em?
Avatar 9:39pm
DFFD617:

Central Park. Sun Ra Arkestra opened and joined Wayne and friends at the end. Great show
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Fatherflot:

↳ DFFD617 @9:39
damn
  9:42pm
Bluesman:

The secret is revealed at 10:45!

https://youtu.be/8RpSgT_wH3s?si=0Xi3hk58IswIR8QY
Avatar 9:43pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:42
will check it out after the show thx man
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medson:

↳ Song: "Come Together/Motor City is Burning" by "MC5"
I love how the MC5 got themselves dropped by Elektra.
Avatar 9:45pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:44
Didn't Brother Sinclair have something to do with that?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:46pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:45
Didn't they do something nuts like instruct their fans to steal the record?
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medson:

ultimateclassicrock.com...
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medson:

For later reading 🤣
Avatar 9:47pm
DFFD617:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:45
They took out a full page ad telling their biggest dept store distributor to go F themselves and stuck an Elektra logo on it w/o permission. They were gone soon after
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Fatherflot:

↳ DFFD617 @9:47
Oh right. . .
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:47
where's that spirit when you need it today?!
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DFFD617:

The store had refused to carry the unexpurgated version of KOTJ
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ DFFD617 @9:49
Mofos
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medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:48
Exactly.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "These Boots Are Made For Walking" by "Gang War"
Cool. I played some Gang War for my WK show
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medson:

↳ Song: "These Boots Are Made For Walking" by "Gang War"
To be a fly on the wall for Gang War
Avatar 9:53pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:52
Saw em twice. Once great opening for Clash in Worcester MA once few days earlier in Cambridge where JT disappeared behind amps after opener Rose and then...downhill. Rapidly.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:53
wow. . . .
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Mike Sin:

Was listening to the stream on Phone app and now on the pop up. All sounds good now since reset. Any other problems right now on other outlets?
Avatar 9:55pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:54
Wayne stood there onstage in Cambridge and was rather good humored about it, as I recall. wonder how long that lasted. Never forget him saying, "Well my partner...is apparently indisposed."
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Mike Sin @9:55
not to my knowledge: all good thx Mike.
  10:00pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Man this one is a bummer!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Blvd Maitre D @10:00
Because...?
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:21
Been good, I was on with customer service trying to transfer a domain to someone else... It was a live chat scenario... Been listening to the tunes, killin it Harry!!!
  10:01pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Dark is all I mean? Where's Lee Oswald now that we need him...
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @10:01
Thx Will! DFFD617 the main stem tonight.
Avatar 10:02pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Blvd Maitre D @10:01
well that's true
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @10:02
guess he wasn't a Bubba fan
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Fatherflot:

↳ Blvd Maitre D @10:01
What a crusher of a show. You are doing WK right, Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @10:04
Thx Fatherflot. Had a ringer with me.
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Harry Parmenter:

Love this one
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ DFFD617 @9:47
that's pretty awesome, kudos to them for serving it up
  10:08pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Whoa some bonus Who cover action!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:09pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "I Can See For Miles" by "Wayne Kramer & Mark Lind...
nice cover
  10:09pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Harry you can have the center table at my restaurant anytime.
Avatar 10:10pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Blvd Maitre D @10:09
As long as I'm comped
  10:11pm
Blvd Maitre D:

Sammy Glick showed up there the other night alone and ate dinner at the bar.
  10:14pm
carl from providence:

thank you for the tunes
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ carl from providence @10:14
hey thank you carl! glad you enjoyed
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medson:

Thanks Harry. Great show
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Harry Parmenter:

Thx for listening and joining the chat everyone. See you next week.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Harry!!!
Rest in Power Brother Wayne Kramer!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @10:15
merci monsieur medson. well said Will
Avatar 10:16pm
Harry Parmenter:

And R.I.P. Mojo
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Fatherflot:

thnx harry
  9:23pm
Flannery O'Connor:

Hey Harry! About time you played some southern rock! A good band is hard to find!
  9:23pm
Flannery O'Connor:

Sorry I'm late. We picked up a stranger on the way back home and tihngs got hairy.
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