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Every show starts with the ’70s! We’ll rediscover forgotten rockers, revisit unfairly maligned disco beats and replay power-pop favorites. Next: plenty of new releases, occasional live bands and more. Don’t let the nickname confuse you.
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April 18, 2012: Knuckleball! special, with directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg plus Red Sox great Tim Wakefield!!! Plus, a little more from Rich Teeter.
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In an era of bigger, faster, and stronger, the slow-moving but evasive knuckleball remains an anomaly in Major League Baseball. The new documentary Knuckleball! from directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (who also directed the acclaimed documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work) explores one of the game's biggest mysteries, and the lives of the few men who have made a living throwing it. The fascinating story is told through copious archival footage and interviews with knuckleballers past and present, including Phil Niekro, Jim Bouton, Charlie Hough, current Mets star R.A. Dickey, and Tim Wakefield, who retired earlier this year after winning two World Championships with the Boston Red Sox. Wakefield, along with directors Stern and Sundberg, join Evan "Funk" Davies tonight to discuss the documentary, which has its world premiere outdoors this coming Saturday night as part of the Tribeca Drive-In series at the World Financial Center. (Get there early for knuckleball pitching clinics with R.A. Dickey, Tim Wakefield and Jim Bouton!) Visit TribecaFilm.com for more info on Knuckleball!, and don't miss this special even-more-baseball-than-usual edition of The Evan "Funk" Davies Show! |
Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | New | Approx. start time | |||
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daddy maxfield | you're breaking my heart | 7" | rhino | 1977 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||||
mean magic | incinerate, incinerate | cd single | no label | get it on bandcamp | * | 0:02:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
in trance 95 | presidente | va-the minimal wave tapes vol 2 | stones throw | * | 0:04:56 (Pop-up) | |||||
associates | amused as always | affectionate punch | fiction | 1982 | 0:09:13 (Pop-up) | |||||
throwing up | medicine | 7" | what's your rupture | * | 0:13:44 (Pop-up) | |||||
39 clocks | past tense hopes & instant fears on 42nd street | subnarcotic | bureau b | new CD collection, orig 1981 | * | 0:15:35 (Pop-up) | ||||
red mass | television personalities | 7" | mammoth cave recording co. | * | 0:34:19 (Pop-up) | |||||
the undertones | it's going to happen | all wrapped up | capitol | 1983 | 0:37:16 (Pop-up) | |||||
the golden boys | california | dirty fingernails | 12xu | * | 0:40:32 (Pop-up) | |||||
terry malts | i do | killing time | slumberland | playing live on the show next week! | * | 0:43:18 (Pop-up) | ||||
tyvek | still sleep | fast metabolism | m'lady's/water wing | * | 0:45:43 (Pop-up) | |||||
vhf | love is our address | 1981 demos | no label | 1981 | Rich Teeter on drums & vocals; his post-Dictators band. Many thanks to Sal C. and Karen L. from the DFFD Blog for their help in getting these demos to me, and to Lindsay as well. | 0:48:53 (Pop-up) | ||||
vhf | kerry please | 1981 demos | no label | 1981 | 0:57:33 (Pop-up) | |||||
the chills | flamethrower | va-time to go: the southern psychedelic moment | flying nun | * | 1:00:13 (Pop-up) | |||||
the ketamines | spaced out | spaced out | southpaw/mammoth cave recording co. | * | 1:03:30 (Pop-up) | |||||
tom petty & the heartbreakers | anything that's rock 'n' roll | s/t | shelter | 1976 | 1:05:45 (Pop-up) | |||||
the ready stance | real america | damndest | damndest | * | 1:08:16 (Pop-up) | |||||
liar | five knuckle shuffle | set the world on fire | 1978 | 1:17:37 (Pop-up) | ||||||
the neanderthals | draggin' knuckles | shutdown 2002 b.c. | spinout | 2002 | 1:20:20 (Pop-up) | |||||
the baseball project | the closer | vol 1: frozen ropes & dying quails | yep roc | 2008 | 1:22:51 (Pop-up) | |||||
Interview with Knuckleball! directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield! Don't miss the FREE world premiere this Saturday night, outdoors at the World Financial Center (part of the Tribeca Film Festival's Drive-In series)! The movie screens at dusk, but you'll want to get there early for knuckleball pitching clinics with R.A. Dickey, Tim Wakefield, Charlie Hough, and Jim Bouton, plus tons of other activities. Here's all the info. |
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personal & the pizzas | brass knuckles | 7" | 1:46:39 (Pop-up) | |||||||
xtc | knuckle down | english settlement | geffen | 1:48:34 (Pop-up) | ||||||
apache | bloody knuckles | radical sabbatical | 1:53:06 (Pop-up) | |||||||
night beats | puppet on a string | s/t | trouble in mind | 2011 | 1:56:34 (Pop-up) | |||||
the skunks | earthquake shake | 7" | last laugh | vinyl reissue, orig 1979 | * | 2:05:14 (Pop-up) | ||||
the manxx | hard lessons | 7" | snappy little numbers | * | 2:07:50 (Pop-up) | |||||
takeshi terauchi | let's go boogaloo | nippon guitars | big beat | 2011 | 2:09:57 (Pop-up) | |||||
the woggles | already warned you | ragged but right | telstar | 2003 | 2:13:09 (Pop-up) | |||||
mount carmel | lullaby | real women | siltbreeze | * | 2:23:35 (Pop-up) | |||||
white hills | song of everything | frying on this rock | thrill jockey | * | 2:28:19 (Pop-up) | |||||
ruckus roboticus | take me to a disco | phantom of the disco | dance or die | oh here, listen to it anytime! | * | 2:36:48 (Pop-up) | ||||
adam warrock | booster gold | you dare call that thing human?!? | silver age | * | 2:39:50 (Pop-up) | |||||
dean parrish | tell her | va-smash boom bang: the songs and productions of feldman-goldstein-gottehrer | ace | * | 2:44:05 (Pop-up) | |||||
le chelsea beat | lady macbeth | mesdames et messieurs | killer diller | * | 2:46:31 (Pop-up) | |||||
black marble | on my head | weight against the door 12" ep | hardly art | * | 2:54:53 (Pop-up) |
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Listener comments!
Danne D:
It's time for the Funk!
G:
miss cheri:
miss cheri:
Danne D:
miss cheri:
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Kat:
john:
Resentful Pooch:
miss cheri:
Joe B:
john:
john:
Resentful Pooch:
Danne D:
Danne D:
john:
Danne D:
miss cheri:
Danne D:
john:
Roberto:
Mike East:
Shemp:
My Groundhogs Day Moment for 4.18.2012:
Danne D:
Side note - Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies ever, if not my favorite.
efd:
miss cheri:
keving:
steve:
Danne D:
miss cheri:
Danne D:
Barkevious Shabazz:
Just Guessing:
miss cheri:
Barkevious Shabazz:
Pop Culture Expert:
Andrew Waterloo:
john:
miss cheri:
Andrew Waterloo:
Danne D:
Pop Culture Expert:
miss cheri:
Pop Culture Expert:
Manolo:
miss cheri:
Danne D:
Btw - temporarily 1st place in the fantasy league!!!
Pop Culture Expert:
Pap Culture Dish:
Danne D:
G:
Danne D:
Danne D:
G:
Mike East:
G:
Barkevious Shabazz:
Danne D:
john:
keving:
Matt from Springfield:
First time commenting here (as myself anyway...) proud to say that I've been listening along the whole time--with a new iPad and the WFMU App I can listen while taking a late night and cleaning up!
Danne D:
efd:
@keving, first 2-3 Petty albums are definitely worth a look - and a listen!
Matt from Springfield:
Late night *dinner* I meant. Evan's show is like the Studio 54 of FMU--everyone's here! While I don't comment on every show I have playing, I might as well start here, since I now leave some comments with Mary Wing right after :)
Danne D:
Matt from Springfield:
efd:
Danne D:
efd:
miss cheri:
G:
Matt from Springfield:
Danne D:
Matt from Springfield:
G:
efd:
G:
efd:
Ball 3:
Danne D:
Barkevious Shabazz:
Danne D:
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john:
Matt from Springfield:
Not just a name for a "cut-up" person?
Danne D:
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G:
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Danne D:
R
1993
Pitched 1 inning in his career - then needed Tommy John Surgery.
Matt from Springfield:
Thanks Danne, G. (Hector Santiago mentioned in list)
Danne D:
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Holly in NC:
Here's a great interview with compiler & hero Bruce Russell re the Time To Go Southern Psychedelic Moment comp http://bit.ly/J6J807
@john - Yankees can lose all they want this early in the season, I don't stress 'til late August. That's right, I'm the lone Yankee fan in efd world
Danne D:
Danne D:
Kurt V:
Matt from Springfield:
This one goes out to: "Brass Knuckles" in Brooklyn. (You out here tonight??)
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john:
Danne D:
Holly in NC:
Just missed Shabazz Palaces playing 2 minutes from my house because I was working :-(
Danne D:
efd:
Danne D:
john:
Holly in NC:
Matt from Springfield:
The whole world will throw down their swords and shields"!! :)
miss cheri:
Danne D:
By the way I love these Knuckles sets as my fantasy team is the New Jersey Knuckles :D
efd:
SteveL:
miss cheri:
Matt from Springfield:
Barkevious Shabazz:
Holly in NC:
Danne D:
Danne D:
miss cheri:
Danne D:
Danne D:
SteveL:
miss cheri:
efd:
"Holly":
Danne D:
Matt from Springfield:
And an epic performance by Bill Mac! That arrangement was kind of Pogues style--is that how Killdozer played it?
Holly in NC:
@Cheri, excuse me? :-)
Holly in NC:
Matt from Springfield:
Matt from Springfield:
Holly in NC:
Matt from Springfield:
efd:
Woggles:
Holly in NC:
hipster/redneck venn diagram success!
Biker Dude Named Holly:
Johnny Cash:
Matt from Springfield:
Johnny Cash:
Mud, blood and beer:
radiobelly:
G:
SteveL:
Matt from Springfield:
Holly in NC:
@everyone - y'know how most folks have names that mean "wise, gallant, fair-haired first child who will lead the world", or something to that effect? 'Holly' means "prickly shrub". That really bothered me when I was little.
Anatomist:
Dave Hester:
Small World Alert:
Nacho:
Matt from Springfield:
efd:
@SteveL, White Hills live set was 2 weeks ago, and it smoked! Just listened to it the other day myself.
Holly in NC:
Small World Alert:
Holly in NC:
Forrest:
Matt from Springfield:
Holly in NC:
Obviously no one should need to pick their teeth, either...
Matt from Springfield:
But only *certain* kinds of "dodo"...
Forrest:
Holly in NC:
I really need to purchase le chelsea beat
Aharon:
Gotta say, this music soothes after spending too much of the evening in the presence of Free Energy.
Matt from Springfield:
Holly in NC:
Danne D:
Noah Webster:
Noah Webster:
Danne D:
Holly in NC:
Danne D:
Forrest:
Aharon:
Holly in NC:
Danne D:
Hope everyone in Funkland has a wonderful night :)
Holly in NC:
Danne D:
Matt from Springfield:
Yes, everyone in Funkland have a great night!
Holly in NC:
Matt from Springfield:
Danne D:
Anyway gnight all :)
Spoony:
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Bill:
Anon: