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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Artist Track Album
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Daikaju/Livin Blues/Daikaju  Overture   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar/Bamboozle/Jesus Christ Surferstar (OmOm Music/Phillips/OmOm Music - 2003/1972/2003)  
Holy Rollers  Heaven On Thier Minds   Favoriting Holy Roller (Dischor - 1993)  
Queensrÿche  Heaven On Thier Minds   Favoriting Take Cover ( Rhino  -  2007)  
Inner Sanctum  Heaven On Thier Minds   Favoriting Christi Testamenta (I, Voidhanger -  2012)  
 
Amy Ray, Emily Sailers, Lay Quiet Awhile  What's the Buzz   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection (Daemon - 1994)  
Prawns With Horns  Strange Thing Mystifying   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003)  
Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Kermit (Christo Graham)  Everything's Alright   Favoriting Muppet Christ Superstar(bandcamp - 2014)  
Atomic Mosquitos  This Jesus Must Die   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003 )  
El Ray  Hosanna   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003)  
Uncle Green  Simon Zealotes   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection(Daemon - 1994)  
Amy Ray  Poor Jerusalem   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection(Daemon - 1994)  
 
Gerard McHugh  Pilate's Dream   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection(Daemon - 1994)  
Afghan Whigs  The Temple   Favoriting Congregation(SubPop - 1992)  
Percy Faith  Everything's Alright   Favoriting Jesus Christ, Super Star(Columbia - 1971)  
Shirley Bassey  I Don't Know How To Love Him (pt. 1)   Favoriting And I Love You So(United Artist - 1972)  
Helen Reddy  I Don't Know How To Love Him (pt. 2)   Favoriting I Don't Know How To Love Him(Capitol -  1971)  
Agnetha Fältskog  I Don't Know How To Love Him (pt. 3)   Favoriting Basta(Cupol - 1973)  
Five-Eight/Scratch Acid/Five-Eight  Damned For All Time-Blood Money   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection/Just Keep Eating(Daemon/Rabid Cat - 1994/1986)  
 
The Overton Berry Ensemble  The Last Supper   Favoriting TOBE(C.E. - 1972)  
Steelopus  The Last Supper   Favoriting 40 in 40(tumblr - 2011)  
Jose Feliciano  I Only Want To Say (Gethsemane)   Favoriting single (b/w Watch It With My Heart)(RCA Victor - 1971)  
The Hi-Fi Ramblers  The Arrest   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003 )  
 
The Fabulous Plantones  Peter's Denial   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003)  
The Capacitors  Pilate and Christ   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003 )  
Rowlf (Christo Graham)  King Herod's Song   Favoriting Muppet Christ Superstar(bandcamp - 2014)  
Johnny Vortex  Judas' Death   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003)  
Percy Faith  Trial Before Pilate   Favoriting Jesus Christ, Super Star(Columbia - 1971)  
Acid King  39 Lashes   Favoriting Busse Woods(Man's Ruin - 1999)  
 
Laibach  Superstar   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar/God Is God(Mute - 1996)  
The Atlantics  Superstar   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection(Daemon - 1994)  
Longhorn Devils  Crucifixion   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003 )  
Amy Ray  Crucifixion   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection(Daemon - 1994)  
Revalation String Quartet  John Nineteen Forty One   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection(Daemon - 1994)  
Aquilads  John Nineteen Forty-One   Favoriting Jesus Christ Surferstar(OmOm Music - 2003 )  
Social Insanity  Superstar   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar - A Resurrection(Daemon - 1994)  
 
Johnny Cash  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)   Favoriting single (b-side to (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)) (Columbia - 1962)
(From: The Essential Johnny Cash (1955-1983))
 
P. J. Proby  It Ain't Necessarily So   Favoriting single (b-side to You've Come Back) (Liberty - 1966)  
Son House  John The Revelator   Favoriting The Legendary Son House: Father Of Folk Blues (Columbia - 1965)
(From: Traditional)
 
The Four Knights  Shadrack   Favoriting unk. (unk. - unk.)
(From: 1945-1950)
 
The Blasters  Samson And Delilah   Favoriting Hard Line (Slash/Warner Bros. - 1985)
(From: Testament - The Complete Slash Recordings)
 
Sister Rosetta Tharpe And Marie Knight With Sam Price Trio  Didn't It Rain   Favoriting single (b/w Stretch Out) (Decca - 1947)  
Quicksilver Messenger Service  Joseph's Coat   Favoriting Shady Grove (Capitol - 1969)
(From: Sons of Mercury (1968-1975))
 
Blood, Sweat & Tears  John the Baptist (Holy John)   Favoriting B, S & T 4 (Columbia - 1971)  
Mott The Hoople  Roll Away The Stone   Favoriting single (b/w Where Do You All Come From) (CBS - 1973)  


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Listener comments!

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Artie Haywire:

Yip!
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tikk:

Don't you get me wrong!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00pm
Doug Schulkind:

I owe you about two minutes, Uncle Mikey!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Good Friday? No. With UM, it's a GREAT Friday.
Avatar 12:02pm
ndbob:

afternoon UM and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Charlie:

Uncle Michael: I can see your house from here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Mike East:

everyday's a special day!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Parq:

Just made it! Nobody bother me for the next three hours.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Joel:

Any Friday I can stay home, chill and listen to Hinky Dinky time, is a GREAT FRIDAY, not good, GREAT..
Avatar 12:03pm
hyde:

well alright. i like having a friday off.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Joe Friday:

This is NOT a bust!
Avatar 12:05pm
conkrete dawg:

hosanna!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
tikk:

This will not be too much of a good thing.
Avatar 12:06pm
Lewis:

too much of a good thing? here at the home of 3hrs of Bohemian Rhapsody? au contrar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Uncle Michael:

Look at all you apostles! Welcome!
Avatar 12:07pm
annie:

wonderful!!!! how cool is this!?
  12:07pm
Dean:

You can call me Judas. Just don't call me late for supper.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Joel:

extremism in the defense of free form music is not a vice...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
joe:

'ello folks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
joe:

Courious to see if Scratch Acid makes the cut.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
joe:

Ok this is a great start already. I'm hooked.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Dominick:

Wow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
listener james from westwood:

I played Jesus in a church play once.

It wasn't my church; I just showed up in a cassock and began declaiming from their altar.
  12:09pm
Dean:

Out to irritate Doug with that "Livin' Blues"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Uncle Michael:

yep.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
tikk:

This scares me so.
  12:10pm
Dean:

I played a clothespin, the lead part, in a community theater production once. Really. Take that, Stanislavski.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Doug Schulkind:

I am livid.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Uncle Michael:

Livin' Blues was from Den Haag.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Charlie:

I played Murray the cop in an abbreviated summer-camp production of The Odd Couple.
Avatar 12:11pm
V Priceless:

woo! Hey UM and gang!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
joe:

No disrespect meant to anyone but how great would that be to just walk into a Sunday service dressed as Jesus sit down take in the goodness and get up and leave like any any other parishioner
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Parq:

Anybody mind if I get personal here? In 1971, I was still mostly listening to AM music, and I heard JCSS and it knocked me out -- more important, it put me on the trail of non-mainstream music that led me to my present status as a WFMU stalwart. A friend offered to let me come over to her house and tape it on her father's stereo system, and that introduced me to the word of component audio, home taping and messing with patch cords, which also became a lifelong enthusiasm. We all talk about albums changing our lives, but JCSS genuinely, literally changed mine. I've been looking forward to this all week.
  12:12pm
Dean:

Kinda gives new meaning to "Hang ten," doesn't it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Uncle Michael:

Great stories, Parg. Jesus was your gateway drug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
joe:

@Parq super cool. I remember seeing the movie for the first time when I was about 17 and although I was/am very agnostic in my beliefs I remember the music having a very powerful impact on me.
  12:14pm
Dean:

This is Billy Corgan's side project.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
joe:

I have already starred this episode.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
tikk:

wondering if Jack Black doesn't squeeze in as an encore for his work on Mr. Show's JCS parody Jeepers Creepers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
Parq:

Has anybody ever sampled this iconic rhythm riff for a hip hop record?
Avatar 12:15pm
conkrete dawg:

forgive me, this is goddamn awesome
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
Uncle Michael:

No Jack Black, tikk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
listener james from westwood:

Heh, no mistaking those "Operation Mindcrime"–style vocals!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Parq:

Wow, Queensryche really got it! This is exactly what it should sound like.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Polyus:

It's kind of amazing to read the wiki page for JCSS and see all the people who have played roles in the various productions. Even Dennis DeYoung, Irene Cara, and Sebastian Bach, for crying out loud.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Mike East:

@tikk - love that parody. "No!!! I was on the 18th hole!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Guido from Cologne:

would Pink Floyd "let there be more light" also fit to this family of riffs?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
tikk:

Is Station Mgr Ken jealous? He should be, he plays a lot of JCS. Don't think he ever did this. And on Great Friday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Parq:

Tikk, Ken once performed "Heaven On Their Minds" at a marathon finale.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
joe:

Yeah there has been a strange list of cast members recently there was supposed to be a tour with John Lydon, members of Destiny's Child N'Sync and Incubus but it was canceled last minute.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
tikk:

I'll have to rethink my innate dislike of Queensrÿche, they nailed that.
  12:23pm
Dean:

Handsome Dick Manitoba, too.
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glenn:

their.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
Charlie:

this is amazing
  12:24pm
Dean:

"List the cheeses to the morning..."?
Avatar 12:24pm
Lewis:

@UM - One For the Ages! very cool!
Avatar 12:24pm
still b/p:

My distinctly impious brother brought the album home before it was well known, and I had the confused dog, tilted-head reaction. "It's what, now? ..Rock and Bible and Jesus...and it's cool...?"

After it had taken off, a young priest sticks his head in the classroom door and is talking to our 7th grade nun about Superstar, and they agree they like it, including the Hosanna song, which is a favorite for him. And she says she doesn't like the one where they refer to Himself as "JC," and we're all sitting there thinking, "That IS the Hosanna song, Sister So-and-So. You don't know the album well at all. You don't know NUTHIN'!"!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

You're going to get to the Muppets, right?
I did my own parody in high school - just the first side though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

Many years ago, the Loser's Lounge did a JCSS concert, with the addendum of "AlwaysLook on the Bright Side Of Life"
  12:28pm
Dean:

Indigo Girls? Now I've heard everything.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
Uncle Michael:

Henry...no spoilers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
efd:

I was away from my computer before, but I just wanted to say I enjoyed hearing the dulcet tones of Geoff Tate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm
joe:

Only album I have ever owned that had anything to do with Indigo Girls.
Avatar 12:29pm
glenn:

they do a good uncle john's band on deadicated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:30pm
Uncle Michael:

joe, that's funny...you owned this?!
  12:30pm
Dean:

The Indigo Girls cover the Dead? I guess I haven't heard everything.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Uncle Michael:

glenn is right...that's an excellent cover
Avatar 12:32pm
glenn:

deadicated is a great record.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Uncle Michael:

agree
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Doug Schulkind:

Uncle Michael was put on this Earth to do this radio show.
  12:34pm
Dean:

I only regret that Robert Schuller didn't live to hear this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Parq:

This isn't Frank Oz's voice, is it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Parq:

What Doug said.
  12:34pm
Dean:

"It's not easy being the Messiah."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Uncle Michael:

nope
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
joe:

@uncle Michael yeah I was working for a big name music store in the mall when it came in as a promo. When we divied up the promos between the employees at the end of the month like we alwasy did nobody else wanted it and sicne I was a fan of the original I figured what the hell. Funny enough that was one of hte few tracks I actually would listen to on it.
Avatar 12:35pm
Lewis:

What Doug said
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
listener james from westwood:

Imagining the Herod song sung by the Swedish Chef.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
joe:

THIS IS AMAZING!!!!! Why did I not know abou this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Uncle Michael:

Are we having fun?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm
Uncle Michael:

I pulled the trigger too soon on Hosanna.
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still b/p:

Dean, that's funny!

Parq, those really were some minor league Muppetizings.

UM, we might not hear Wand'rin' Star talked over today, but I gotta tell ya, I tried to watch sections of Paint Your Wagon last night, hoping to enjoy in-context moments for that song and I Talk to the Trees, which was stuck in my head for a while recently. But couldn't stick with it. Too clunky corny awful; not the right kind of clunk 'n corn.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
tikk:

Charlie don't surf. But Jesus walks on water.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Uncle Michael:

I can understand that still b/p.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Uncle Michael:

funny, tikk!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Charlie:

Tell your rabble to be quiet
we anticipate a riot
this common crowd
is much too loud
Avatar 12:40pm
glenn:

i'm not at all familiar with jcs. are the surferstar tracks the incidental music, or instrumental versions of the songs? either way, it's pretty great stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Uncle Michael:

mostly instrumental versions
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still b/p:

Does The Count tally the lashes in the Muppet version?
Avatar 12:41pm
glenn:

also, check out meshuggah beach party for some kosher surf music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Uncle Michael:

I have played that for Hanukkah shows, glenn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
listener james from westwood:

@still b/p: Outstanding.
Avatar 12:44pm
glenn:

i missed 'em.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
Uncle Michael:

I haven't done that on GDTR yet, glenn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
joe:

Taste changes wit age are making some of the other stuff from Resurrection a bit more palatable. :)
  12:50pm
Dean:

Uh, not kosher.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:50pm
Lane Steelpicker:

Heh. Good show
Avatar 12:52pm
Lewis:

My Mom had the boxed version - she was pretty cool
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Mike East:

I think we had the gatefold...I'll have to double check as I move my records to my new pad this weekend
  12:53pm
Dean:

No room at the (Ramada) Inn.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Stanley:

Just switching to phone app for my walk to the pub.
Great show.
  12:55pm
Dean:

There was that production of JCSS featuring Curly, Larry, and Moe as the Three Wise Guys.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
Parq:

Norman Jewison caught some grief when the movie first came out, for casting blonde, pale-skinned Ted Neely as Jesus and a black guy, Carl Anderson, as Judas. Nowadays, he would have been celebrated for "not being Politically Correct."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm glad you're all into this.
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glenn:

norman jewison not jewish, either.
  12:58pm
Dean:

Smells Like Teen Holy Spirit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:59pm
joe:

Uncle Michael make yourself a nice package for this and I think you have your next year premium :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:00pm
Parq:

A whole set of "Everything's", I'm guessing.
Avatar 1:00pm
still b/p:

More than 40 years on, I still remember where some of the lyrics sat on the page in the accompanying libretto booklet. Brain keeps strange snapshots.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
Doug Schulkind:

And I was going to take a nap.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
Parq:

Sorry, I meant "Don't Know How."
Avatar 1:04pm
Lewis:

@Doug - I was going to eat lunch...
  1:04pm
Dean:

Seamless seque there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
Uncle Michael:

Not a set...more of a medley.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
tikk:

Smooth Bassey to Reddy transition. Boy, if I had a dime every time I said that...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
drr:

oh, okay, I was thinking, this sounds more like Helen Reddy than Shirley Bassey.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
tikk:

And sticks the landing says the German judge.
  1:06pm
Dean:

...to ABBA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
Parq:

Wow, seamless.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
tikk:

For me nothing beats the Yvonne Elliman film version. Warm tasty syrup.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:09pm
Uncle Michael:

Yvonne was the only one to make the trip from album to film, I believe.
  1:09pm
Dean:

He borrowed somebody else's Accord?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Doug Schulkind:

I have the Yvonne Elliman 45!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Uncle Michael:

I really didn't drive here in my old Accord.
  1:11pm
Dean:

Jesus Christ Used Car Dealer
Avatar 1:11pm
still b/p:

Curious to see how high the Reddy version charted, I also learned the song started as something called Kansas Morning, and Lloyd Webber was knocked for ripping off Mendelssohn in it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
Uncle Michael:

It was the title track for an album for Helen.
  1:12pm
Dean:

That's okay. Mendelssohn ripped off Bach.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
Uncle Michael:

I fantasize about doing this one at Hoof & Mouth, myself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
joe:

Bob Bingham and Barry Dennen as well record to film just happened to read it in the Wiki
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
Parq:

"Dammned" is the song that really sent really set the old Roman Catholic hierarchy on edge. They were convinced that the idea was to whitewash Judas and turn him into a hero. It was my first run-in with a now-universal opinion that, if an author has a character say it, regardless of context, it means that's what the author personally believes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
joe:

Yvonne seems to be the only one that made it from album to broadway to film
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Guido from Cologne:

Great work Michael!
Avatar 1:16pm
still b/p:

Is there a Wendy Carlos record... Switched On Mendelssohn, Ripped Off Bach?
  1:17pm
Dean:

Wendy ripped off Walter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
Guido from Cologne:

It took me years to understand this about the record change versions.

Residents' "Santa Dog" was also one of those, as a double single
Avatar 1:20pm
glenn:

more like wendy's doctor ripped off walter.
  1:20pm
Dean:

C.E. Is that the record label? Really?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
Uncle Michael:

I believe so, Dean.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:23pm
Uncle Michael:

www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:23pm
pacific standard simon:

Late for the last supper.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Uncle Michael:

don't cry over spilt milk, Simon
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Guido from Cologne:

disd you pay $ 150 for this Michael?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:25pm
Uncle Michael:

no!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:25pm
listener jeff:

I used to be able to sing this word for word with the album. The covers are throwing me off a bit but it is slowly coming back. I am going to listen to the original tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Lane Steelpicker:

There's slightly more 5/4 than I'm used to
Avatar 1:27pm
glenn:

what did they have for dessert at the last supper? i'm betting baklava. or peach melba.
  1:27pm
Dean:

TOBE might be the only release on the label. Fun coincidence, common era.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm
Uncle Michael:

This is the track that led to the whole project for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm
Parq:

From a point of view of drama, this is where it really starts to take off.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
Dominick:

This is such a great version
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
Uncle Michael:

The last temptation...as it were.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
Parq:

Seen Jose Feliciano's new guitar? Neither has he. Okay, I'm going to hell for that, no less so for having stolen it from the Nat Lampoon in the early 70s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:31pm
Uncle Michael:

I saw him live in the very late '70s and he was freaking amazing.
  1:34pm
Dean:

Nowadays it's be WTB.
  1:34pm
Dean:

*it'd
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glenn:

nobody goes to hell on good friday. it's like a free space in bingo.
  1:35pm
Dean:

Isn't somebody supposed to read JC his Miranda rights?
  1:38pm
Dean:

...three times real fast.
  1:41pm
Dean:

Something involving clicking heels, "There's no place like home"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:41pm
joe:

Spoiler Alert!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
Uncle Michael:

surf banjo?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
Lane Steelpicker:

Do the Beach Party appear?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
Uncle Michael:

Sorry, Lane...nope.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:45pm
listener james from westwood:

I will also accept Rowlf as Herod.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
Parq:

Man, *I* could do better Muppet voices!
  1:46pm
Dean:

"Hop..." Heh heh.
Avatar 1:47pm
still b/p:

Christian frogma.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
Guido from Cologne:

This is an incredible show today!
How long did you work on this?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
Uncle Michael:

is he saying "frog" or "fraud?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
pacific standard simon:

Both.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
Uncle Michael:

Too long, Guido. Too long.
  1:49pm
Dean:

Frog is my co-pilot.
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pacific standard simon:

Long ago accepted Hello Kitty as my personal savior.
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Uncle Michael:

I'm not complaining...one works on such things for as long as they take. It's my idea of a good time.
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Dean:

Blessed are the DJs of Topeka, for they shall inherit the airwaves.
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listener james from westwood:

Winnowing the harvest of possible covers must have been tough for a lot of these.
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Uncle Michael:

some tough...some were very scarce
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still b/p:

Every hour spent on this knocks off an hour in purgatory for ya.
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Uncle Michael:

I'll take that deal.
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Dean:

Actually, purgatory is hella fun.
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listener james from westwood:

Ahhhh, the mark of a good covers show: Two hours and this Laibach is the only one I've heard before. Well done!
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joe:

I don't know how it ends but I heard they left it open for a sequel.
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Parq:

See, this is the guy they should have gotten to voice Rowlf.
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still b/p:

Percy Faith gettin' down on that pretty quick, recording selections just a year after the original was released.
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pacific standard simon:

Professor Dum Dum sponsored this portion of the program.
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Uncle Michael:

Everybody out on the floor!
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Uncle Michael:

next week, GODSPELL!
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Doug Schulkind:

He is risen. He now goes to the punchbowl.
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello awl! Whatta great show to pregame a Seder with! Thanks Unc!
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glenn:

he takes the lotion from the basket.
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Dean:

There must be enough cover material out there to do Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, doncha think?
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Uncle Michael:

What an idea, Dean!
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Polyus:

I really wish Arthur Brown had attempted this song at some point.
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Lane Steelpicker:

Speaking of the Seder, some years ago, NPR did a piece on a book called Haikus for Jews. Years later, I still remember one of them:
Left the door open
For the prophet Elijah
Now the cat is gone
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Uncle Michael:

That's a good haiku.
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listener james from westwood:

That cat walked with Yahweh.
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still b/p:

Must have been interesting team conversations preceding some of these recordings. "So look, here's what I thought we'd cover..."
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Lane Steelpicker:

Love the bite of those old Mosrites
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Doug Schulkind:

A heart-staggering work of breaking genius.
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joe:

Wow I kind of regret I no longer own this.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Doug. Now I need to think of my next act of stunt-streaming.
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joe:

@Uncle Michael Zeppelin IV with no guitars. :)
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Uncle Michael:

Maybe a show with song titles that feature *two* parentheticals.
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pacific standard simon:

I was there when Lt. Columbo proved that Johnny Cash did it.
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glenn:

it would scan better if the line was "when they nailed him to some boards". now I'M going to hell.
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Parq:

In case anyone's wondering about John 19:41. New International Version:

At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid
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Uncle Michael:

I think I spent high school there, Parq.
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pacific standard simon:

Huh. I thought John 19:41 was th part where Belushi strafes Hollywood Blvd.
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johnk77:

were laibach
the residents of slovenia?
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Uncle Michael:

Yep
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glenn:

Wilson runs a nail factory and decides his business needs a bit of advertising. He has a chat with a friend who works in marketing and he offers to make a TV ad for Wilson's Nails.

"Give me a week," says the friend, "and I'll be back with a tape."

A week goes by and the marketing executive comes to see Wilson. He puts a cassette in the video and presses play. A Roman soldier is busy nailing Jesus to the cross. He turns to face the camera and says with a grin "Use Wilson's Nails, they'll hold anything."

Wilson goes mad shouting: "What is the matter with you? They'll never show that on TV. Give it another try, but no more Romans crucifying Jesus!"

Another week goes by and the marketing man comes back to see Wilson with another tape. He puts it in the machine and hits play. This time the camera pans out from a Roman standing with his arms folded to show Jesus on the cross. The Roman looks up at him and says 'Wilson's Nails, they'll hold anything'.

Wilson is beside himself. "You don't understand: I don't want anything with Jesus on the cross! Now listen, I'll give you one last chance. Come back in a week with an advertisement that I can broadcast."

A week passes and Wilson waits impatiently. The marketing executive arrives and puts on the new video. A naked man with long hair, gasping for breath, is running across a field. About a dozen Roman soldiers come over the hill, hot on his trail. One of them turns to camera and says 'If only we had used Wilson's Nails!'.
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drr:

Wait: the Bible....it ain't necessarily so? I have to think about this.
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listener james from westwood:

@glenn: LOL. This would've killed at my Catholic high school.
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Uncle Michael:

No thinking!
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pacific standard simon:

@glenn - you've got the very beginning of a classic shaggy-dog story there! ;)
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Parq:

Literally LOL, Glenn.
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pacific standard simon:

@UM - How about an all-covers version of TOMMY?
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Uncle Michael:

Hmmm...think it could be done?
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pacific standard simon:

Maybe. I used to keep a eMusic subscription going just so I could research these things.
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Uncle Michael:

I'm really glad you all could hang out and listen to this madness with me.
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glenn:

Jesus is dying on the cross, and Peter is down the hill comforting Mary Magdalene when he hears Jesus' faint voice, "Peter. . . Peter. . ."

"I must go and help my Savior," he said and went up the hill, only to be beaten and kicked back down by the Roman centurions guarding the cross. But soon he hears, "Peter. . . Peter," in even fainter tones but he cannot ignore the call. Peter limps up the hill, leans a ladder against the cross, and gets halfway up when the centurions knock over the ladder, beats him brutally, and tosses him back down the hill.

Again he hears, "Peter. . . Peter. . ." ever fainter, and again, he cannot refuse his Lord. In pain, he slowly staggers up the hill, drags himself up the ladder, and finally gets even with Christ's face. Just as the centurions are reaching for the ladder, Jesus says, "Peter. . . Peter. . . look, I can see your house from here."
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pacific standard simon:

I have a confession -- I've never listened to, nor watched, JCS.
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Uncle Michael:

That's remarkable.
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glenn:

neither have i.
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Mike East:

I've never seen it...only heard it.
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pacific standard simon:

So this is all new to me.
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ndbob:

nice version of "Didn't It Rain" - my fave version is by Evelyn Freeman
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johnk77:

anyone seen dave and/or phil alvin recently?
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Uncle Michael:

I know someone that did a couple days ago...I think.
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johnk77:

john cipollina was <a> guitar god:>
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pacific standard simon:

I wish I could put my avatar next to Uncle Michael's, so it would look like I was scratching the back of his neck.
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Uncle Michael:

said Phil's voice is kinda shot but that dave played amazing and the storytelling was terrific
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Uncle Michael:

not creepy at all, Simon!
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Parq:

Two more points to Glenn. I'm glad you respect the rule of threes.
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johnk77:

@um thank u sir
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glenn:

last joke for the day.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are your Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, Me too! Are your Episcopalian or Baptist? He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are your Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? He said, Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are your Original Baptist Church of God or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
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Uncle Michael:

I'll have to catch up on your prose later, Glenn.
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listener james from westwood:

@glenn: Emo Phillips, IIRC?
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glenn:

all jokes here. www.nobeliefs.com...
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ndbob:

excellent show UM!
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glenn:

you know, i think it was emo.
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listener james from westwood:

Superstar of a survey, UM, and a fine coda in that last set! Safe and fun weekend to all!
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Spaniel:

really enjoyed that three hours, over too fast! cheers everyone!
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Parq:

This was a gas. Thanks so much for it, Uncle. Thanks to the rest of you for putting up with my yakking and for your own witty contributions.
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still b/p:

A show of glory. Feel like I been down to the stream to pray,
studying about that gold old way.
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Lizardner Dave:

I was unable to listen live on Friday but loving it now. Thanks for putting this together Uncle Michael.
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