live set from The Above! Plus Sylvain Sylvain and Billy Gibbons interviews!: Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

Listener comments!

12:04pm Joe B:

Hi all! tripleheader today! 12:15 - live set from Brooklyn beat masters The Above! 1 pm - rebroadcast of Billy Gibbons interview with the Moving Sidewalks show this Saturday! Then at 1:30, Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls in the studio!

12:05pm Cecile:

wow, busy day!

12:06pm geokopp:

Good Mornin' Joe!! Action-packed show!

12:06pm Dr. Goot:

Let's Rock!!!

12:09pm Lonious Monk:

Bonjour everyone ! great great day ! Bonjour WFMU & Joe !

12:09pm Stevel:

Wow. What a show, and what a start.

12:11pm SmokinJ:

Seat belt fastened and ready to R-O-C-K!

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12:12pm tim from champaign:

Go Joe!!!!!

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12:14pm ChrisB.:

So looking forward to The Above!

12:20pm Cecile:

Deke Richards passed - songwriter for J5 and late-period Supremes

12:23pm Joe B:

I heard Cecile. A member of the songwriting team The Corporation!

12:25pm Mike East:

Cool, The Above! I played bass with these guys for two rehearsals many years ago

12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

All of The Above - !

12:26pm Joe B:

The Above LIVE this Friday March 29, Grand Victory in Brooklyn with the Electric Mess and the Mystics!

12:29pm joe:

'ello folks

12:30pm Mike East:

I remember digging David's style cuz it was very Kinks-y, and he dressed the part, too.

12:30pm joe:

I'll be attending one of those Sylvain Sylvain/Glen Matlock shows.

12:31pm joe:

Yay The Above with Matt my fellow WFMU volunteer and Power Pop a Licisous attendee

12:32pm Eugene Green:

The Ahhhbuve! they're so good!

12:33pm joe:

As you all can hear The Above are well worth seeing and if you have not had the privledge to see the Electric Mess yet another killer live band. Highly recommend seeing both

12:33pm Stevel:

If I ever play on the radio (and learn how to play guitar, write music, etc) I want Mike Sin at the controls.

12:33pm Joe B:

Thanks to Mike Sin for another stellar mix job! These guys are an excellent band

12:36pm Tom from Detroit:

Go Joe! Diggin the above

12:39pm Joe B:

Hi everyone, thanks for tuning in! glad everyone is digging The Above! Hey Tom!

12:40pm Cheri Pi:

Joe B! Just back from lunch-whoa these guys sound amazing.

12:42pm Derek D:

The Above are tearing it up!! Great job as always Mike Sin, sounds like a vintage BBC broadcast!! And if people do plan on making it out to the Above/Electric Mess/Mystics Grand Victory show Friday night, THE ELECTRIC MESS are on FIRST at 8:30!! Please try and come EARLY!! Bands will be done by 11:00...

12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Any Links to BandPhotos?

12:46pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- *does* sound like a 'Live @ B'B' - !

12:47pm Thee KeeKee:

The Above sounding great!

12:47pm Joe B:

theabovebrooklyn.com

12:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

They look like they sound!

1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

bangbang

1:05pm braveness23:

B23 here!

1:06pm pacific standard simon:

Bet those master tapes are awfully brittle!

1:06pm Cheri Pi:

This is badass. B23!

1:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...always heard that Billy knew Hendrix - & they would hang & put paintbrushes on their guitars & freak out - like the Creation er somethin' - what is meant by 'legendary'...

1:08pm pacific standard simon:

Have to say, I like this Moving Sidewalks stuff better than anything I've heard from ZZ since about 1980.

1:11pm joe:

Have to give Billy credit most times when you hear band members interviewed about stuff like this the constent answers are like "oh to old to remember blah blah" He seems to have a great memory and love of that time.

1:13pm pacific standard simon:

Nice Roky-esque scream, there!

1:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Billy played w/ Roky Erickson of 13th Floor Elevators on Austin City Limits:
acltv.com...

1:13pm braveness23:

Sorry, I was listening to an archive. Monica played a brand new Low song last Sunday night and I've had it stuck i my head ever since. had to purge...

1:15pm pacific standard simon:

Thanks for that link, RRN63! I'll enjoy.

1:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gotta read 'Eye Mind' about Elevators: Their Code was would not ever Play or Record unless tripping - in 60's Texas. This reportedly left even the Dead incredulous...

1:18pm Cheri Pi:

OMG!!

1:19pm pacific standard simon:

The blurb on that page is incorrect about one thing, though -- The Holy Modal Rounders used the word “psychedelic” in a song as early as '63 or '64. They re-wrote the words to "Hesitation Blues" to do it.

1:23pm pacific standard simon:

I always wonder how some rock'n'rollers managed to stay out of the draft, and others didn't.

1:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- How easily we forget Getting Drafted - ! It cut a swath thru 60's Garage & Psych...one of the classic typical occurances...

1:30pm pacific standard simon:

Need to get this Moving Sidewalks set -- way more fun than a complete collection of The Amboy Dukes.

1:30pm Stevel:

Second time listening to that interview. Good stuff.

1:31pm joe:

Ok now this track you can hear some serious Hendrix influence.

1:31pm pacific standard simon:

I know Gary Lewis (of "and The Playboys") served.

1:34pm pacific standard simon:

3/4 of the original Ramones are dead, but they can scrape together a Moving Sidewalks reunion. Awesome!

1:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Sex Dolls - ! Ha - !

1:37pm pacific standard simon:

I'd like to ask Matlock about the differences between working with Syl, and Iggy, and Rotten. Bet Syl would win the personality contest!

1:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hendrix of course was fortunate enuff to serve right before 'Nam: 101 Airborne jumpin' outta planes was his stylee...
- What a Heavy show this week!...

1:38pm pacific standard simon:

Country Joe McDonald, too.

1:41pm pacific standard simon:

Who's singing back-up on this?

1:42pm Tom from Detroit:

Syl should do "Leaving Detroit". Party song.

1:48pm pacific standard simon:

Syl should write stories. They'd be really short stories, but they'd be good short stories.

1:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

No Dolls in R'n'R Hall of Fame???
...That's like giving a Grammy to Milli Vanilli - an ex-Hitler Youth for Pope - a President losing the popular vote & still winning...like...

1:53pm frenchee:

love Syl's voice: "yew jawdiences"

1:54pm pacific standard simon:

...like The Monkees not being in the "hall of fame".

1:54pm joe:

Syl I'll be at the Stanhope House.

1:56pm joe:

Lenny Kaye does a great cover of Jessie's Girl at his one man shows. LOL

1:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Syl's voice is choice.

1:58pm Tornado:

What's goin' on with the Dolls? Seem to be on hiatus.

2:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Dolls are sure an interesting buncha cats!
- What's the film about Arthur - ??

2:02pm joe:

My favorite NYD's song

2:04pm pacific standard simon:

@RRN63 - New York Doll

2:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's 'New York Doll'.
- Gotta see that sometime.
...Early takes of Dolls - !...

2:05pm pacific standard simon:

It'll make you cry.

2:05pm joe:

@Revolution really good doc about Arthur pretty much about what he did post NY Dolls leading up to the reunion a few years back. If I remember the movie ends not to long before his passing. Goes into his working on geneology carrier with the Mormon church and some of his other musical endevours and how he coups with the band gettig back togeather.

2:05pm efd:

Yeah, New York Doll is a great movie.

Outstanding show, Joe! The hits just keep on coming!

2:06pm joe:

Yes pacific is correct it will make you cry

2:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Prob. mine too, Joe - but that 1st album is sure all killer no filler...

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2:07pm tim from champaign:

Man, Sylvain Sylvain is so cool. I saw the modern Dolls in Detroit about 10 years ago. I loved Syl's stories that he told on stage.

2:08pm KP:

Fantabulous afternoon, joe.

2:09pm pacific standard simon:

I thought the second Dolls record was more about a thicker guitar sound. And saxophone.

2:11pm SHIMMY:

damn this is your best interview ever!

2:14pm pacific standard simon:

OK -- I need another bottle of bourbon. Oh, and I once worked the polls on election day, and one of the people who showed up to vote was a lesbian who was legally named Shadow Morton, Jr.

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2:15pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Some years ago, Glen Jones interviewed Sylvain Sylvain on his Jonesville Station program.

2:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I love how always - the Music Nerds learn all this detail - base their lives on it
- but the Musicians themselves can't remember anything (they have Lives to carry on w/) - like even the Beatles don't know which album is which half the time...

2:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...it might induce spitakes around here - I dunno - but I'd like to hear Syl & Little Steven interview each other - just to hear their voices & attitudes together...

2:21pm pacific standard simon:

That's how I justify my participation on WFMU playlist comments to my wife ~ "Honey, I'm a music nerd, this way I don't have to annoy YOU with my music nerd talk!"

2:22pm frenchee:

when I went to GA to claim my dad's body....the funeral director asked me, are you a Yankee or a DAMN Yankee?

2:24pm joe:

@Rev Syl, Little Steven and Handsome Dick :)

2:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- I think Little Steven & H.Dick are pals already...*Next* week on the Joe Show: He gotta live up to *this* week now...

2:28pm joe:

Yeah actually H.Dick is a DJ on Steven's radio station.

2:28pm pacific standard simon:

Glen Matlock is an underrated song writer.

2:31pm joe:

Pacific SS I totally agree that is one of the things that made me decide to go to this show

2:32pm Mike East:

my wife's from forrest hills. she did not know the ramones.

2:33pm frenchee:

He is hilarious. "which foot should I use?"

2:36pm pacific standard simon:

It's pretty amazing, how much rock 'n' roll vibe came out of Forrest Hills High. Also Peter Parker (Spider-Man).

2:38pm KP:

Jersey City really has it all

2:40pm geokopp:

please tell sylvain to cheer up!

2:41pm pacific standard simon:

The Monkees Never Die!

2:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Ramones as a symptom of the Middle Class makes sense - altho' they were an 'interesting' buncha cats too...If you haven't seen 'End of the Century' film do so...

2:44pm Dr. Goot:

"End of the Century" is bittersweet. "RAW" is more fun!

2:51pm Tamar:

What a great interview!

2:53pm pacific standard simon:

Oddly enough, I lost interest in The Ramones' latest record at the same time I lost interest in ZZ Top's latest record -- about '80 or '81. I don't know if it's a coincidence, or what. It's not like I don't enjoy hard-edged rock anymore -- far from it.

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2:57pm tim from champaign:

Joe, you deserve a cold one. Excellent show!

2:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Many many time many Critics say the Earlier the Better for Rackbands. (Unlike the Bluesman who must suffer & mature - oddly enuff considereing heavy connections 'twixt Blues & Rock.) There is the adage that you have your whole life to prep for 1st album - but no others...Just as an eaxmple - Queen has good early stuff that Classic Rock format & Mainstream Rockfans knownothing of...Rock is like Sports in that it's adolescent physical hormones...Pop is based on Disposableness...

3:00pm geokopp:

a real bangin' show Joe!

3:34pm Joe B:

thanks everybody!

5:22pm patryck Albert:

Great live shows ....here's mine if u get free tyme & wanna get "Fun " ! http://rockencaux.musicblog.fr

6:42pm patryck Albert:

BILLY ' M ' SIDEWALKS ' / Sylvain-Sylvain ' NYDolls '/ The Above interviews 're totaly great moments on the air wave ....MERCI !

6:44pm patryck Albert:

BILLY ' M ' SIDEWALKS ' / Sylvain-Sylvain ' NYDolls '/ The Above interviews 're totaly great moments on the air wave 'coz can't fly overseas to see 'em alive ( live in France )....MERCI !

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Pluto Walkers	Coffin Dragger	The Throwaway Age	Sundazed	2012		0:00:00 Pop-up)
Randy & The Radiants	Boppin' The Blues	Memphis Beat: The Sun Recordings 1964-1966	Big Beat	1965/2007		0:02:11 Pop-up)
Born Liars	Make Up Your Mind	Exit Smiling	Cutthroat Records	2006		0:04:31 Pop-up)
Born Loose	Fat Chance	s/t	Drug Front Records	2012		0:07:21 Pop-up)
New York Dolls	Seven Day Weekend	A Hard Night's Day	Norton	1973/2000	Sylvain Sylvain here at 1:30!	0:10:29 Pop-up)
Moving Sidewalks	What Are You Going To Do	The Complete Collection	Rock Beat	1967/2012		0:12:45 Pop-up)

The Above live in the studio!
Engineer: Mike Sin. recorded Feb. 16
David Horowitz - belly-fiddle, lead vocals Frank Caira - doghouse, vocals Jason Trygstad - skins, pocket piano Matt Marando - belly-fiddle
The Above	Coming Around	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:20:21 Pop-up)
The Above	(Do You Have) A Healthy Mind	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:22:44 Pop-up)
The Above	Georgia Peach	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:24:54 Pop-up)
The Above playing live this Friday, Grand Victory in Brooklyn with the Electric Mess and the Mystics!
The Above	Imprisoned	live on WFMU	The Above			0:28:08 Pop-up)
The Above	Chuck's Blues	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:30:34 Pop-up)
The Above	We Can Be Together	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:34:37 Pop-up)
The Above	Do What You Wanna Do	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:37:52 Pop-up)
The Above	The Prisoner	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:40:51 Pop-up)
The Above	Broken Soul	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:42:14 Pop-up)
The Above	My Love	live on WFMU!	The Above			0:47:06 Pop-up)
The Above	You Make It Real	liv on WFMU!	The Above			0:49:15 Pop-up)
The Above	interview	live on WFMU	The Above			0:51:35 Pop-up)

Billy Gibbons	interview					1:03:37 Pop-up)
Moving Sidewalks	Scoun Da Be	The Complete Collection	Rock Beat	1969/2012		1:04:57 Pop-up)
Billy Gibbons	interview				Moving Sidewalks this Saturday at BB King's. First show since 1969!	1:09:31 Pop-up)
Moving Sidewalks	Every Night a New Surprise	The Complete Collection	Rock Beat	1967/2012		1:10:02 Pop-up)
Billy Gibbons	interview					1:17:20 Pop-up)
Moving Sidewalks	I Want To Hold Your Hand	The Complete Collection	Rock Beat	1968/2012		1:18:47 Pop-up)
Billy Gibbons	interview					1:22:32 Pop-up)
Moving Sidewalks	Pluto Sept. 31	The Complete Collection	Rock Beat	1969/2012		1:25:51 Pop-up)

Sylvain Sylvain	interview					1:33:38 Pop-up)
Sylvain Sylvain	Leaving New York	The Monkey Never Dies	Sylvain Sylvain			1:39:14 Pop-up)
Sylvain Sylvain	interview					1:42:58 Pop-up)
New York Dolls	Trash	A Hard Night's Day	Norton	1973/2000		2:02:16 Pop-up)
Glen Matlock & the Philistines	Born Running	Born Running	Peppermint			2:23:16 Pop-up)
New York Dolls	(There's Gonna Be a) Showdown	Too Much Too Soon	Mercury	1974		2:34:29 Pop-up)
Ramones	Sheena Is A Punk Rocker	Rocket To Russia	Sire	1977		2:37:03 Pop-up)
New York Dolls	Stranded In The Jungle	Too Much Too Soon	Mercury	1974		2:47:04 Pop-up)
Sweet Talk	Pickup Lines	Pickup Lines	12XU			2:50:47 Pop-up)
The Mighty Grasshoppers	I Wouldn't Follow	s/t	Vital Gesture	2012		2:53:25 Pop-up)
Ben Vaughn	Hawaiian Shirts	The Prehistoric Ben Vaughn 1978-1980	Munster	1980/2003		2:57:29 Pop-up)
The Fireballs	Dumbo	various - Dancehall Stringbusters! Crunchy Guitar Instros from the 60s	Sundazed	1964/2004	sans Jimmy Gilmer	2:58:00 Pop-up)

March 26, 2013

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