WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 1, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	8:56pm Imaginos: The tricky thing about memorial shows is that after you finish setting it up, someone else dies
	9:00pm Mr. X: ^ Still alive & kickin'.
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:00 Glad of that
	👻 9:01pm ramencity: Bom dia, mutantes meus!
	9:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Yeah, but it was just Kris Kristofferson...
	👻 9:02pm ramencity: Speaking of the recently deceased: I just discovered José Mauro, who found out he died when someone reissued his record, claiming he'd died in the 1970s. And now he's died for real. (The only obit I've seen so far is on Pitchfork)
	9:06pm BC Sterrett: Hello all :)
	9:08pm BC Sterrett: Random power outage during last year's Halloween show. lol
	9:09pm Krys O.: Hello. I'm still grieving for the loss of my dear friend, Daved Hild. He was in the Boston band The Girls (Jeffrey I Hear You) and he played with David Thomas of Pere Ubu, as well as Roger Miller of Mission of Burma. He died three weeks ago today. We were really close buddies and were in touch every day for many years. We'd talk for hours on the phone about all sorts of things. He died suddenly on the way to work as a healthcare worker taking care of a cerebral palsy patient. I'm trying to muddle through. I have some really rough moments. Must get some sleep. Take care.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:09 Sleep Well, Krys!
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Imaginos, Mr. X, The Ramen City Kid, and BC Sterrett. Let's start this set with a song about passed entertainers...
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Super Star Super Star" by "Beauregarde" As I mentioned, the guitar on this song is by Greg Sage, of the Wipers.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Whips and Furs [Instrumental Excerpt]" by "The Vi... More information about The Vibrators: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Act I, Scene 1: The Experiment" by "Bob Booker An... More about The First Family: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Mas Que Nada (Instrumental)" by "Sergio Mendes & ... More about Sergio Mendes: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Super Star Super Star" by "Beauregarde" More about Beauregarde, the wrester / musician / legend: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Heavenly Pop Hit (Instrumental)" by "The Chills" More information about The Chills: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: That's sort of a weird Hercules joke; you would have to know those movies were produced in Italy, even though they were made for American markets.
	9:18pm BC Sterrett: Always saw the First Family record at thrift stores over the years. This my first time hearing from it.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:18 They are in every thrift store in America. It's part of the Cadence Records deal with the American Thrift Store Union.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: So the joke for this skit is that the Kennedys are really bored on Saturday nights, I guess?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Zomby Woof" by "Frank Zappa" Tom Fowler, from The Mothers and a bunch of other bands, passed this year. More information about Tom Folwer: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Zomby Woof" by "Frank Zappa" Plus... Halloween song, so...
	9:23pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Zomby Woof" by "Frank Zappa" First heard this album while visiting a friend in Salem, in his dorm room at Willamette U, late 70s.
	9:24pm BC Sterrett: Nice!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Sometimes I love Zappa. Sometimes I don't. I think I like The Mothers more than Zappa, if I'm honest. That band was great!
	👻 9:27pm ramencity: Bob Newhart and Chills Martin are two of the hard losses for me this year
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 200 Motels was awesome
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Anniversary (Instrumental)" by "The Pogues" Shane MacGowan died in November of last year, so technically he's a 2023 death, but I don't think I've played and Pogues in honor of him since then. More information about Shane MacGowan: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:27 Yeah, I really love those Newhart records, and watched SO MUCH of him on TV when I was a kid.
	9:28pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Maybe I should put more effort into making the distinction. They kind of blur together in my mind. For me, everything before Joe's Garage was great, after that, he's sort of off and on for me.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" More information about the MASSIVE career Newhart had: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" The TV Show Mad Men licensed this routine to include in an episode of their show, since it starts off with the riff about marketing and advertising.
	👻 9:30pm ramencity: To this day, when I hear "Abraham Lincoln" I think "... a sort of cardigan..."
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I do like that this routine requires a little bit of knowledge of history. That always gets me.
	9:38pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Listening while watering the lawn.
	9:39pm Maulydaft: Totally agree with you about deaths and so much info. I thought Bob Newhart died years ago... I thought Cuba Gooding Jr. was dead for many years... I forgot Sinead Oconnor died. Dang :P
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:39 Oh shit! That's right. And I think I even did a song for Sinead on the last show The Ramen City Kid and I did. Man... I can't seem to remember anything anymore. Have to look everything up. Or is that the researcher in me?
	9:40pm Mr Fab: “The first family“ was one of the biggest selling albums of all time when it was released. Then Kennedy was killed and pretty much everybody got rid of their copies. The world still doesn’t know what to do with them all, they’re just bouncing around from thrift store to thrift store. we should just gather them all up and make, like, affordable housing for the poor with them.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Man With A Harmonica" by "Ennio Morricone" More information about Ennio Morricone: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:40 I can only do so much, with the one copy of each of them I bought and kept.
	9:42pm Mr Fab: I grew up with Kris Kristofferson’s music. Mom was a big fan. I still consider “Sunday morning, coming down” to be one of the most perfectly written songs ever. The opening lines are just golden.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's The Same Old Song" by "The Four Tops" Duke Fakir of The Four Tops passed this year, too. More information about The Duke: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:44pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "It's The Same Old Song" by "The Four Tops" I can never keep straight which songs are by the Temptations and which by the Four Tops.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow" by "Martin Mull" More information about Martin Mull: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:45pm Geoff-U: Good evenin'!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:44 I love them both, but I have more Four Tops records, personally.
	👻 9:45pm ramencity: Mojo Nixon and Damo Suzuki dying just a few days apart was too much. (Hope that wasn't a spoiler alert!)
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:45 Nice to see you in the chat, Geoff-U!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:45 Yeah, that was rough. No Mo Mo Jo.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Mars Williams of The Psychedelic Furs passed, too. More information: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "I thought to myself - which is my favorite way."
	9:49pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Good show tonight.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 Sleep well, imaginos! We'll catch ya next time around.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: We also lost Wayne Kramer of the MC5 this year. More information: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:52pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 I guess I think of Mars Williams more as somebody coming from the Ohio scene, Tin Huey , the waitresses, etc. He wasn’t the original saxophone for the psychedelic Furs,he’s not on those early albums, but I guess he was the longest serving number
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 Oh, I did not realize! I was less familiar with that, and mostly just knew the Furs. I should have read more about him.
	9:55pm Mr Fab: Yeah, he was great! That’s him on “I know what boys like,“ etc.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Joe Chambers, of The Chambers Brothers, also passed. More information about The Chambers Brothers: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 I should have known. Shows how much I know about The Waitresses other band members...
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Time Has Come Today" by "The Chambers Brothers" Kind of amazing that this got radio play back in the day, it's so long.
	9:57pm Hunterian: ↳ Song: "Time Has Come Today" by "The Chambers Brothers" One of the all-time great pop songs…
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 I feel like it got a lot of movie action, too, which sort of perpetuated it as a hit. Or am I mis-remembering that?
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Hunterian @9:57 I have a soft spot for the Ramones version of it.
	9:58pm Hunterian: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Absolutely—it was a revelation back in the day
	10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" My favorite skit about Lincoln is Woody Allen's "The Query" (1976), inspired by the President's famous quote regarding the proper length of a man's legs. I've never seen it acted, but it can be read in his 1980 collection "Side Effects".
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "...On The Music Industry" by "Steve Albini" Steve Albini also passed this year. More information about him: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:00 Or here: rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu...
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:00 There are so many I wanted to play. It was hard to pick.
	10:03pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Their cover was so good, it's hard to tell it from the original
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Hunterian @10:03 The Ramones were inspired by some very cool acts.
	10:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 You're right. Including 2 Spike Lee films.
	10:07pm Geoff-U: I could never get into Albinis production style... quite screechy haha
	10:08pm Geoff-U: I respect him a lot tho
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:07 I'm a fan of the music, and some of his philosophy I agree with. But I'm sort of been back and forth over the years. He makes it challenging to like him, for sure.
	10:12pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Like "House of the Rising Sun", "Light My Fire" "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and "Won't Get Fooled Again", it was truncated for AM radio play. "Like a Rolling Stone" differed in that respect.
	10:13pm Mr. X: ↳ David Shortell @10:12 "Hey Jude" was another long one that got airplay.
	10:18pm Geoff-U: I didn't realize Albini did the Poster Children record "Flower Plower". It sounds great and not screechy at all
	10:18pm wenzo: Ello ello
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:18 He has range. But... he's an acquired taste, for sure.
	10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" Bob and Don Rickles were close friends, though it's hard to imagine two comedians more different from each other.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow / Procrastination Nat... I will admit, the website wanted to turn it into a modern song, with beats and keyboards. It took a few tried to get it to actually mimic the right style of music.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow / Procrastination Nat... I think AI has been procrastinating taking over the world.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 I love that! Bob had a weird sense of humor. I could see him really getting Don Rickles, as a sort of person he would aspire to be like.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 "Too busy practicing my guitar chops, beep."
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow / Procrastination Nat... I should re-iterate: I gave the website a LOT of input, to get it to do this. I don't think suno.com wants to actually do what I want; I think it was trying to make something modern. I'm more interested in it trying to mimic a 1979 comedy song, more than getting it to make beats.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Not too long before he died, we saw Don Rickles live, and Newhart was in the audience. Got a pic with him!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:25 So jealous!
	10:25pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Both played WWII military men in 1970 films. Bob was Major Major in "Catch-22". Don was Sergeant Crapgame in "Kelly's Heroes".
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Was it worth the effort, would you say?
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: Duane Eddy passed this year, who I thought had already passed. My bad! And he died on my birthday, too! More information about Duane Eddy: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 Well, it was interesting as an experiment in music. But I wouldn't want to spend my days telling AIs to write Martin Mull songs.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Well, maybe if I got paid for it...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: "We don't know too much about what he likes." I think you do.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Sellout! Well, everyone has their price, I guess.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:30 Suno.com also allows you just to type in lyrics, and have the computer make music for them. That's sort of interesting, too...
	10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow" by "Martin Mull" I think Mull starred in only one film: "Serial" (1980). It's rarely if ever televised these days.
	10:36pm wenzo: Lurk lurk
	10:39pm wenzo: I know the feeling
	10:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 I read that when JFK was killed, Lenny Bruce started his stand-up act exclaiming "Phew. Poor Vaughn Meader!" That impressionist's celebrity indeed came to a halt.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 I heard that about Lenny Bruce, too. Is that on any of his albums?
	10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 I don't think so.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: In a way I'm finally - after almost five years - returning to playing shows again. Wearing a mask, under controlled circumstances. But I'm back, opening for Mr. Mike Watt!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... I am a big fan of Doug Theriault, and he's played at my birthday once or twice. I have been lucky enough to open for him a few times, and engineered him a few times on the radio, too. His group, Office Products, is VERY good.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... Opening for Wally was probably the most high-profile show my band, The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble, ever played, and our guitar player had managed to get us a number of other shows, that seemed to be leading to something. Unfortunately, my guitar player has decided to stop performing live, in light of Covid, and so we can only record under very controlled circumstances. There will be some more Olsen Twins here and there, but we won't likely play live in front of audiences anymore.
	10:51pm Mr. X: So Wally Shoup was a founder of the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music. My band played at the 5th annual version of that fest. Though he was not one of the curators booking the shows that year, I still very much appreciate Wally Shoup for putting it all in motion.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:51 Very cool! He's done a lot in his life. While he could have done a lot more, I feel like I will continue to learn from his music as time goes on.
	10:53pm Mr. X: If I'm not mistaken, Fred Kellogg played a ton of Wally Shoup on his Free Jazz with Fred show on KAOS out of Olympia, WA.
	10:54pm Geoff-U: Man this would be trippy after one of those pot cigarettes I've read about
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: This performance will cause us to go over by 30 minutes. Wow, I really blew the timing on this one. The chat will continue, but after a while we'll be bounced to the bottom of the screen, instead of on the side.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:53 I usually enjoyed Fred's show. He was a very cool dude.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:54 Those crazy kids and their wacky tabaccy.
	10:56pm Geoff-U: They smoke the devil's cabbage and walk around town in tight dungarees!
	10:56pm Mr Fab: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 What happened was he started with a moment of silence, then he picked up the mic, stood there a moment, and then said: "Man...Vaughn Meader is FUCKED..."
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... I forgot to post: more information about Wally Shoup is here: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: This bar didn't have a great place for me to set up for recording, so I just put a zoom out on the table and crossed my fingers. I'm really impressed with how much I was able to get under such "quick and dirty" circumstances. I was impressed, though. I've been to jazz shows where the audience was almost louder than the band.
	10:59pm Geoff-U: My uncle gave me Henry Threadgill's "Too Much Sugar For A Dime" - great jazz record with a good skronk factor. Recommended!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:59 I'll have to check that out! Thanks for the tip.
	11:01pm Geoff-U: I'm really enjoying this piece
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: After seeing a lot of wannabe folks play "free-improv" and not really listen to each other, it is always refreshing to hear / see a band that is absolutely listening to each other, very well. Something to aspire to.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @11:01 Yeah. I was really lucky to see this show.
	11:02pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... Yeah, this is how it's done. Pretty inspiring, thanks for playing it, Austin.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:02 Good thing to absorb before we open for Watt.
	11:03pm Geoff-U: OK i gotta run, thank you again for the great radio every week!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @11:03 See ya soon!
	11:07pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 Absolutely! Something to strive for.
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: I did love going to this bar. When they had shows, people really did respect the music. I've played shows at other places where the staff would talk through your sets, and the "crowd" was not there for music. It's just nice to hear a room full of people who are there to listen. I forget that it can happen.
	11:17pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 I have an extra poster from that show in Seattle. Wally's name is on it, as he played the next night after us. There may be some other names you recognize on the poster as well.
	11:18pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @11:17 I'll bring it next time we jam. You should have it.
	👻 11:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:18 Ahh, thanks. More junk for the archive!
	11:21pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:20 Someday you will have to build a museum for all of it.
	👻 11:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:21 I need to open a store, and sell stuff online, to pay for the store, which can then be a museum to all the crap I've collected.
	👻 11:22pm Austin Rich: "A short one? Three hours." was Wally's quip that was hard to hear.
	11:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:21 Somehow I knew you had a plan!
	👻 11:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:22 It's not a reasonable or sustainable plan, but for some reason, I want to run a weird thrift store SO BAD. And it is a bad idea, to be sure. But I still dream about it.
	👻 11:27pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, anyone who is hanging in there. I do love this set, and I'm glad I could share it with others.
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: As you could hear: there were a few kids at the show, too.
	11:28pm Mr. X: Catch you later, Austin! Good show, thanks!
	11:31pm Mr Fab: Thanks, Austin! Rad show tonight.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 1, 2024

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Experiment "The Experiment"
The Vibrators	Whips and Furs [Instrumental Excerpt]	Pure Mania	Epic Records	1977	0:00:04 (Pop-up)
Bob Booker And Earle Doud Featuring Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 1: The Experiment	The First Family	Cadence Records	1962	0:00:06 (Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:00:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	Mas Que Nada (Instrumental)	Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	A&M Records	1966	0:02:08 (Pop-up)
Super Star, Super Star "Super Star, Super Star"
Beauregarde	Super Star Super Star	Beauregarde	F-Empire	1971	0:10:39 (Pop-up)
The Chills	Heavenly Pop Hit (Instrumental)	Heavenly Pop Hit	Slash Records	1990	0:15:54 (Pop-up)
Bob Booker And Earle Doud Featuring Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 7: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning	The First Family	Cadence Records	1962	0:15:55 (Pop-up)
Frank Zappa	Zomby Woof "Zomby Woof" by "Frank Zappa"	Over-Nite Sensation	Discreet	1973	0:20:09 (Pop-up)
The Pogues	Anniversary (Instrumental)	Pogue Mahone	Mesa	1995	0:25:19 (Pop-up)
Bob Newhart	Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue	The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart	Warner Bros. Records	1960	0:25:23 (Pop-up)
Time Has Come Today... "Time Has Come Today..."
Music behind DJ: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	One Note Samba (Instrumental)	Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	A&M Records	1966	0:32:40 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone	Man With A Harmonica	Once Upon A Time In The West	RCA Victor	1972	0:37:48 (Pop-up)
The Four Tops	It's The Same Old Song	"It's The Same Old Song" b/w "Your Love Is Amazing"	Motown Records	1965	0:40:59 (Pop-up)
Martin Mull	Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow	Near Perfect / Perfect	Elektra Records	1979	0:43:39 (Pop-up)
The Psychedelic Furs	Sister Europe (Instrumental)	The Psychedelic Furs	Columbia	1980	0:44:37 (Pop-up)
MC5	Sister Anne "Sister Anne" by "MC5"	High Time	Atlantic Records	1971	0:48:35 (Pop-up)
The Chambers Brothers	Time Has Come Today	The Time Has Come Today	Columbia	1967	0:54:40 (Pop-up)
Steve Albini	...On The Music Industry	D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist	Music Video Distributors	2002	0:58:53 (Pop-up)
Procrastination Nation "Procrastination Nation"
Music behind DJ: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	The Joker (Instrumental)	Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	A&M Records	1966	1:10:36 (Pop-up)
Martin Mull / Suno.com	Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow / Procrastination Nation	Mid-Valley Mutations	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:18:09 (Pop-up)
The Art of Noise feat. Duane Eddy	Peter Gunn (Extended Version.)	In Visible Silence	Chrysalis Records	1986	1:24:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	Tim Dom Dom (Instrumental)	Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66	A&M Records	1966	1:30:10 (Pop-up)
Wally & Friends "Wally & Friends"
	a song				1:41:49 (Pop-up)
Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew Jones & Alan Cook	LIVE	29 February 2020	Mid-Valley Mutations	2020	1:41:51 (Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	8:56pm Imaginos: The tricky thing about memorial shows is that after you finish setting it up, someone else dies
	9:00pm Mr. X: ^ Still alive & kickin'.
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:00 Glad of that
	👻 9:01pm ramencity: Bom dia, mutantes meus!
	9:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Yeah, but it was just Kris Kristofferson...
	👻 9:02pm ramencity: Speaking of the recently deceased: I just discovered José Mauro, who found out he died when someone reissued his record, claiming he'd died in the 1970s. And now he's died for real. (The only obit I've seen so far is on Pitchfork)
	9:06pm BC Sterrett: Hello all :)
	9:08pm BC Sterrett: Random power outage during last year's Halloween show. lol
	9:09pm Krys O.: Hello. I'm still grieving for the loss of my dear friend, Daved Hild. He was in the Boston band The Girls (Jeffrey I Hear You) and he played with David Thomas of Pere Ubu, as well as Roger Miller of Mission of Burma. He died three weeks ago today. We were really close buddies and were in touch every day for many years. We'd talk for hours on the phone about all sorts of things. He died suddenly on the way to work as a healthcare worker taking care of a cerebral palsy patient. I'm trying to muddle through. I have some really rough moments. Must get some sleep. Take care.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:09 Sleep Well, Krys!
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Imaginos, Mr. X, The Ramen City Kid, and BC Sterrett. Let's start this set with a song about passed entertainers...
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Super Star Super Star" by "Beauregarde" As I mentioned, the guitar on this song is by Greg Sage, of the Wipers.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Whips and Furs [Instrumental Excerpt]" by "The Vi... More information about The Vibrators: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Act I, Scene 1: The Experiment" by "Bob Booker An... More about The First Family: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Mas Que Nada (Instrumental)" by "Sergio Mendes & ... More about Sergio Mendes: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Super Star Super Star" by "Beauregarde" More about Beauregarde, the wrester / musician / legend: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Heavenly Pop Hit (Instrumental)" by "The Chills" More information about The Chills: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: That's sort of a weird Hercules joke; you would have to know those movies were produced in Italy, even though they were made for American markets.
	9:18pm BC Sterrett: Always saw the First Family record at thrift stores over the years. This my first time hearing from it.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @9:18 They are in every thrift store in America. It's part of the Cadence Records deal with the American Thrift Store Union.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: So the joke for this skit is that the Kennedys are really bored on Saturday nights, I guess?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Zomby Woof" by "Frank Zappa" Tom Fowler, from The Mothers and a bunch of other bands, passed this year. More information about Tom Folwer: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Zomby Woof" by "Frank Zappa" Plus... Halloween song, so...
	9:23pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Zomby Woof" by "Frank Zappa" First heard this album while visiting a friend in Salem, in his dorm room at Willamette U, late 70s.
	9:24pm BC Sterrett: Nice!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Sometimes I love Zappa. Sometimes I don't. I think I like The Mothers more than Zappa, if I'm honest. That band was great!
	👻 9:27pm ramencity: Bob Newhart and Chills Martin are two of the hard losses for me this year
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 200 Motels was awesome
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Anniversary (Instrumental)" by "The Pogues" Shane MacGowan died in November of last year, so technically he's a 2023 death, but I don't think I've played and Pogues in honor of him since then. More information about Shane MacGowan: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:27 Yeah, I really love those Newhart records, and watched SO MUCH of him on TV when I was a kid.
	9:28pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Maybe I should put more effort into making the distinction. They kind of blur together in my mind. For me, everything before Joe's Garage was great, after that, he's sort of off and on for me.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" More information about the MASSIVE career Newhart had: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" The TV Show Mad Men licensed this routine to include in an episode of their show, since it starts off with the riff about marketing and advertising.
	👻 9:30pm ramencity: To this day, when I hear "Abraham Lincoln" I think "... a sort of cardigan..."
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I do like that this routine requires a little bit of knowledge of history. That always gets me.
	9:38pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Listening while watering the lawn.
	9:39pm Maulydaft: Totally agree with you about deaths and so much info. I thought Bob Newhart died years ago... I thought Cuba Gooding Jr. was dead for many years... I forgot Sinead Oconnor died. Dang :P
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:39 Oh shit! That's right. And I think I even did a song for Sinead on the last show The Ramen City Kid and I did. Man... I can't seem to remember anything anymore. Have to look everything up. Or is that the researcher in me?
	9:40pm Mr Fab: “The first family“ was one of the biggest selling albums of all time when it was released. Then Kennedy was killed and pretty much everybody got rid of their copies. The world still doesn’t know what to do with them all, they’re just bouncing around from thrift store to thrift store. we should just gather them all up and make, like, affordable housing for the poor with them.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Man With A Harmonica" by "Ennio Morricone" More information about Ennio Morricone: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:40 I can only do so much, with the one copy of each of them I bought and kept.
	9:42pm Mr Fab: I grew up with Kris Kristofferson’s music. Mom was a big fan. I still consider “Sunday morning, coming down” to be one of the most perfectly written songs ever. The opening lines are just golden.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's The Same Old Song" by "The Four Tops" Duke Fakir of The Four Tops passed this year, too. More information about The Duke: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:44pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "It's The Same Old Song" by "The Four Tops" I can never keep straight which songs are by the Temptations and which by the Four Tops.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow" by "Martin Mull" More information about Martin Mull: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:45pm Geoff-U: Good evenin'!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:44 I love them both, but I have more Four Tops records, personally.
	👻 9:45pm ramencity: Mojo Nixon and Damo Suzuki dying just a few days apart was too much. (Hope that wasn't a spoiler alert!)
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:45 Nice to see you in the chat, Geoff-U!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:45 Yeah, that was rough. No Mo Mo Jo.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Mars Williams of The Psychedelic Furs passed, too. More information: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "I thought to myself - which is my favorite way."
	9:49pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Good show tonight.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 Sleep well, imaginos! We'll catch ya next time around.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: We also lost Wayne Kramer of the MC5 this year. More information: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:52pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 I guess I think of Mars Williams more as somebody coming from the Ohio scene, Tin Huey , the waitresses, etc. He wasn’t the original saxophone for the psychedelic Furs,he’s not on those early albums, but I guess he was the longest serving number
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 Oh, I did not realize! I was less familiar with that, and mostly just knew the Furs. I should have read more about him.
	9:55pm Mr Fab: Yeah, he was great! That’s him on “I know what boys like,“ etc.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Joe Chambers, of The Chambers Brothers, also passed. More information about The Chambers Brothers: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 I should have known. Shows how much I know about The Waitresses other band members...
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Time Has Come Today" by "The Chambers Brothers" Kind of amazing that this got radio play back in the day, it's so long.
	9:57pm Hunterian: ↳ Song: "Time Has Come Today" by "The Chambers Brothers" One of the all-time great pop songs…
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 I feel like it got a lot of movie action, too, which sort of perpetuated it as a hit. Or am I mis-remembering that?
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Hunterian @9:57 I have a soft spot for the Ramones version of it.
	9:58pm Hunterian: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Absolutely—it was a revelation back in the day
	10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" My favorite skit about Lincoln is Woody Allen's "The Query" (1976), inspired by the President's famous quote regarding the proper length of a man's legs. I've never seen it acted, but it can be read in his 1980 collection "Side Effects".
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "...On The Music Industry" by "Steve Albini" Steve Albini also passed this year. More information about him: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:00 Or here: rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu...
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:00 There are so many I wanted to play. It was hard to pick.
	10:03pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Their cover was so good, it's hard to tell it from the original
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Hunterian @10:03 The Ramones were inspired by some very cool acts.
	10:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 You're right. Including 2 Spike Lee films.
	10:07pm Geoff-U: I could never get into Albinis production style... quite screechy haha
	10:08pm Geoff-U: I respect him a lot tho
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:07 I'm a fan of the music, and some of his philosophy I agree with. But I'm sort of been back and forth over the years. He makes it challenging to like him, for sure.
	10:12pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Like "House of the Rising Sun", "Light My Fire" "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and "Won't Get Fooled Again", it was truncated for AM radio play. "Like a Rolling Stone" differed in that respect.
	10:13pm Mr. X: ↳ David Shortell @10:12 "Hey Jude" was another long one that got airplay.
	10:18pm Geoff-U: I didn't realize Albini did the Poster Children record "Flower Plower". It sounds great and not screechy at all
	10:18pm wenzo: Ello ello
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:18 He has range. But... he's an acquired taste, for sure.
	10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" by "Bob Newhart" Bob and Don Rickles were close friends, though it's hard to imagine two comedians more different from each other.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow / Procrastination Nat... I will admit, the website wanted to turn it into a modern song, with beats and keyboards. It took a few tried to get it to actually mimic the right style of music.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow / Procrastination Nat... I think AI has been procrastinating taking over the world.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 I love that! Bob had a weird sense of humor. I could see him really getting Don Rickles, as a sort of person he would aspire to be like.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 "Too busy practicing my guitar chops, beep."
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow / Procrastination Nat... I should re-iterate: I gave the website a LOT of input, to get it to do this. I don't think suno.com wants to actually do what I want; I think it was trying to make something modern. I'm more interested in it trying to mimic a 1979 comedy song, more than getting it to make beats.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Not too long before he died, we saw Don Rickles live, and Newhart was in the audience. Got a pic with him!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:25 So jealous!
	10:25pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Both played WWII military men in 1970 films. Bob was Major Major in "Catch-22". Don was Sergeant Crapgame in "Kelly's Heroes".
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Was it worth the effort, would you say?
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: Duane Eddy passed this year, who I thought had already passed. My bad! And he died on my birthday, too! More information about Duane Eddy: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 Well, it was interesting as an experiment in music. But I wouldn't want to spend my days telling AIs to write Martin Mull songs.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Well, maybe if I got paid for it...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: "We don't know too much about what he likes." I think you do.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Sellout! Well, everyone has their price, I guess.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:30 Suno.com also allows you just to type in lyrics, and have the computer make music for them. That's sort of interesting, too...
	10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow" by "Martin Mull" I think Mull starred in only one film: "Serial" (1980). It's rarely if ever televised these days.
	10:36pm wenzo: Lurk lurk
	10:39pm wenzo: I know the feeling
	10:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 I read that when JFK was killed, Lenny Bruce started his stand-up act exclaiming "Phew. Poor Vaughn Meader!" That impressionist's celebrity indeed came to a halt.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 I heard that about Lenny Bruce, too. Is that on any of his albums?
	10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 I don't think so.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: In a way I'm finally - after almost five years - returning to playing shows again. Wearing a mask, under controlled circumstances. But I'm back, opening for Mr. Mike Watt!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... I am a big fan of Doug Theriault, and he's played at my birthday once or twice. I have been lucky enough to open for him a few times, and engineered him a few times on the radio, too. His group, Office Products, is VERY good.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... Opening for Wally was probably the most high-profile show my band, The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble, ever played, and our guitar player had managed to get us a number of other shows, that seemed to be leading to something. Unfortunately, my guitar player has decided to stop performing live, in light of Covid, and so we can only record under very controlled circumstances. There will be some more Olsen Twins here and there, but we won't likely play live in front of audiences anymore.
	10:51pm Mr. X: So Wally Shoup was a founder of the Seattle Festival of Improvised Music. My band played at the 5th annual version of that fest. Though he was not one of the curators booking the shows that year, I still very much appreciate Wally Shoup for putting it all in motion.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:51 Very cool! He's done a lot in his life. While he could have done a lot more, I feel like I will continue to learn from his music as time goes on.
	10:53pm Mr. X: If I'm not mistaken, Fred Kellogg played a ton of Wally Shoup on his Free Jazz with Fred show on KAOS out of Olympia, WA.
	10:54pm Geoff-U: Man this would be trippy after one of those pot cigarettes I've read about
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: This performance will cause us to go over by 30 minutes. Wow, I really blew the timing on this one. The chat will continue, but after a while we'll be bounced to the bottom of the screen, instead of on the side.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:53 I usually enjoyed Fred's show. He was a very cool dude.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:54 Those crazy kids and their wacky tabaccy.
	10:56pm Geoff-U: They smoke the devil's cabbage and walk around town in tight dungarees!
	10:56pm Mr Fab: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 What happened was he started with a moment of silence, then he picked up the mic, stood there a moment, and then said: "Man...Vaughn Meader is FUCKED..."
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... I forgot to post: more information about Wally Shoup is here: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: This bar didn't have a great place for me to set up for recording, so I just put a zoom out on the table and crossed my fingers. I'm really impressed with how much I was able to get under such "quick and dirty" circumstances. I was impressed, though. I've been to jazz shows where the audience was almost louder than the band.
	10:59pm Geoff-U: My uncle gave me Henry Threadgill's "Too Much Sugar For A Dime" - great jazz record with a good skronk factor. Recommended!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:59 I'll have to check that out! Thanks for the tip.
	11:01pm Geoff-U: I'm really enjoying this piece
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: After seeing a lot of wannabe folks play "free-improv" and not really listen to each other, it is always refreshing to hear / see a band that is absolutely listening to each other, very well. Something to aspire to.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @11:01 Yeah. I was really lucky to see this show.
	11:02pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "LIVE" by "Wally Shoup w/ Doug Theriault, Andrew J... Yeah, this is how it's done. Pretty inspiring, thanks for playing it, Austin.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:02 Good thing to absorb before we open for Watt.
	11:03pm Geoff-U: OK i gotta run, thank you again for the great radio every week!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @11:03 See ya soon!
	11:07pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 Absolutely! Something to strive for.
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: I did love going to this bar. When they had shows, people really did respect the music. I've played shows at other places where the staff would talk through your sets, and the "crowd" was not there for music. It's just nice to hear a room full of people who are there to listen. I forget that it can happen.
	11:17pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 I have an extra poster from that show in Seattle. Wally's name is on it, as he played the next night after us. There may be some other names you recognize on the poster as well.
	11:18pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @11:17 I'll bring it next time we jam. You should have it.
	👻 11:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:18 Ahh, thanks. More junk for the archive!
	11:21pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:20 Someday you will have to build a museum for all of it.
	👻 11:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:21 I need to open a store, and sell stuff online, to pay for the store, which can then be a museum to all the crap I've collected.
	👻 11:22pm Austin Rich: "A short one? Three hours." was Wally's quip that was hard to hear.
	11:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:21 Somehow I knew you had a plan!
	👻 11:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:22 It's not a reasonable or sustainable plan, but for some reason, I want to run a weird thrift store SO BAD. And it is a bad idea, to be sure. But I still dream about it.
	👻 11:27pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, anyone who is hanging in there. I do love this set, and I'm glad I could share it with others.
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: As you could hear: there were a few kids at the show, too.
	11:28pm Mr. X: Catch you later, Austin! Good show, thanks!
	11:31pm Mr Fab: Thanks, Austin! Rad show tonight.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 1, 2024

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