WFMU: The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from June 29, 2015

Listener comments!
	3:04am can't lose with this track: out with a bang
	3:05am Jeff Conklin: My favorite Yes song if anybody was wondering. RIP. Chris Squire
	3:06am can't lose with this track: omg the feels. I had forgotten about this part. Now I feel stupid.
	3:06am can't lose with this track: My spine is tingling!!!! stop, it tickles.
	3:08am can't lose with this track: Noooo, don't stop!!! I love how I always think this break is going to happen about 13 minutes before it does. So glad this isn't on karaoke.
	3:08am can't lose with this track: wait for it..... wait for it.......
	3:09am can't lose with this track: If this isn't sexual, I don't know what is. Up there with james brown.
	3:09am can't lose with this track: I liked when I had this on vinyl because you could see on the record player if it was close to the break.
	3:10am can't lose with this track: eargasm!
	3:11am yeah: Imagining bong hits, transcendent sex in the early 1970s, underneath black lights
	3:11am can't lose with this track: If only we had the master tapes where they undoubtedly kept jamming for another week.
	3:12am can't lose with this track: early mic drop...
	3:13am John in Texas: Good morning, Jeff! Are you a member of the Sonic Youth Gossip forum? I ask because YESSONGS was discussed this past week.
	♥ 3:14am pacific standard simon: Dude, what the what?
	3:14am Jeff Conklin: Morning, all. No, John, I am not.
	3:15am Jeff Conklin: Problem, PSS?
	3:17am can't lose with this track: I am re-listening to the starship trooper guitar break, don't know about you all.
	3:19am can't lose with this track: pro tip- it's right at the friggin end. And then it fades out. Metaphor much?
	3:21am yeah: Where's Revolution Rabbit when we need him - I bet he had sex under black lights back in the day ;-)
	3:21am can't lose with this track: This is like managing a forest. I thought WFMU was having technical difficulties, but now that I shut down the yes album I see that there is very minimal ambient music that has probably been going for some time. Well, we all have our own tastes.
	♥ 3:22am pacific standard simon: Who knew a listener could be so, uh, overwhelmed by a Yes record?
	3:22am yeah: LOL
	3:23am can't lose with this track: Sometimes you just get blindsided by something, I don't know. I haven't listened to that in like 10 years, and to hear it on WFMU of all places? Well, that's why I love FMU among other reasons.
	3:23am Jeff Conklin: Thanks for checking in , Can't Lose. Have yourself a swell day.
	♥ 3:23am pacific standard simon: I never did it with blacklight, but waterbeds, on the other hand...
	3:25am can't lose with this track: I'll stick with having yes on the stereo "in the moment". While we are sharing. ;) Bong hits are ok too..
	3:26am yeah: waterbed freaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dzx5R9se4A
	3:27am can't lose with this track: not clicking on that. no way. nope. not in a million years. hmmm, well now i'm curious.
	3:27am John in Texas: No blacklight experience, but I can speak to the power of a mirror ball
	3:28am Gay Married: Finally.
	3:28am can't lose with this track: I am the mastern of my own domain, I seriously am not going to click on that. The URL is comedy enough.
	♥ 3:30am pacific standard simon: @ yeah - Now you're talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation.
	3:30am yeah: @can't lose - it's not what you think haha "In this video from Super 8 footage filmed by Larry (Max) Maxeiner we trip back to the 1970's and see The Celestial Theatre take on 2 bare naked waterbeds for sacrifice." It's some sort of happening at the Univ. of Missouri. LOL
	♥ 3:32am pacific standard simon: The rhythm section has found its eternal groove.
	3:33am yeah: @pss - "Freak Week"
	♥ 3:33am pacific standard simon: @yeah - maybe it's a dramatization of the climactic scene from Moby Dick.
	3:34am yeah: LOL
	3:35am can't lose with this track: Thanks for explaining. I checked it out, Missouri seemed a lot cooler in those days, though I suppose that is not uncommon relative to now. I had a friend that went to WUSTL, there wasn't anything like that in missouri when I was there. Though I speak from very limited experience, you can kinda get the feel of a place fairly quickly, as I have learned from places I have been back to a bunch of times.
	♥ 3:36am pacific standard simon: Jam bands were more fun back in the day.
	3:37am can't lose with this track: And this was in the late 90s, which is still inherently cooler than now!!! except for fmu. They hold steady.
	3:40am can't lose with this track: Although we are still chatting here on WFMU and listening to this groovy shit, i feel like the counterculture in general has really dropped the ball. Thank whatever you want for the occasional beacon in the night.
	3:40am can't lose with this track: almost made it in the usa. perfect. the synchronicity is what I come back for.
	3:41am Gay Married: don't you just hate this song?
	♥ 3:41am pacific standard simon: Nope.
	3:41am can't lose with this track: I'm not gonna cheat and look it up on the internet, I will say it reminds me of the wire, which I can tolerate more than country and western or cough syrup rap, but isn't my fave.
	3:43am yeah: @can't lose - good guess...same time period, similar vocal sound to Wire, but Wire don't have jammy guitar solos.
	3:43am can't lose with this track: It's like, if a cute girl is into it, that's totally cool, but not as cool as if she was into yes.
	3:44am can't lose with this track: I was once into a cute girl who was a huge wire fan, finally it pays off. She had one of those 100 CD changers. This was a few years ago. I'm in my 30s...
	3:45am can't lose with this track: by a few i probably mean like 34564
	♥ 3:47am pacific standard simon: The counter-culture was well on its way to becoming sorta mainstream by the time I hit adolescence, so it's difficult to think of a straight world except by referencing childhood.
	♥ 3:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo hullo enjoying every bit of this music & no, no carnal jollies involving blacklights I specifically recall thanks for the inquiry.
	♥ 3:48am pacific standard simon: Speak of the devil.
	3:48am yeah: haha you're here!
	3:48am Jeff Conklin: Hey, Rev. Thanks for joining.
	3:48am can't lose with this track: like how gay married just chimed in there. lulzsec.
	3:48am Gay Married: Yes is the best prague band though.
	♥ 3:49am pacific standard simon: "carnal jollies" looks like "camal jollies" in this font
	3:50am John in Texas: The "irritating" (well, before the words) part at the end was my favorite!
	3:51am Gay Married: Funny how you mention lulzsec.
	3:52am can't lose with this track: I was reading a lot about the shit that was going down a little while back with occupy wall street and how that all went to shit like most decent things do. The fact that wfmu is playing these great throwback jams is part of why they are a salve to anyone with sensitivity. god bless.
	3:52am can't lose with this track: why was it funny to you?
	♥ 3:52am pacific standard simon: Too bad camel isn't spelled that way.
	3:54am can't lose with this track: I don't work for the government if that's what you are implying. Though if they are half as bad ass as they want us to think probably half the DJ's are CIA or something we haven't even heard of. It ain't me though.
	3:56am yeah: definitely "plod rock"...I'm beginning to agree with John in Texas about this song.
	♥ 3:56am Īke: Good evening.
	3:57am Jeff Conklin: Hey, Ike.
	♥ 3:57am pacific standard simon: We meet again!
	3:57am can't lose with this track: See I think this sort of thing is what kept prog rock from having more exposure. A lot of it is quite plodding, good term. The trick is to keep it interesting. Similar to classic or jazz or other things they cited as influences. Hey, it's a high bar.
	3:58am yeah: Totally agree. This part's cool.
	3:59am can't lose with this track: totally. a weird mix of prog and punk. BTW the autocorrect keeps turning "prog" into prig or prick. lol.
	3:59am Jeff Conklin: This was a garage band from Buffalo with no illusions of "success". Just jamming for the hell of it. Not everything needs exposure.
	3:59am Gay Married: Plodding is a government conspiracy of men.
	♥ 4:00am pacific standard simon: I'm listening to this the same way I'd listen to a Pere Ubu or Tin Huey rehearsal tape, except that I never heard of these guys before, so it's a pleasant surprise.
	4:00am can't lose with this track: And I bet the cute chicks in the garage were all over it. Thanks for sharing. I have spent plenty of time in sessions like this as a photo/video guy, I can relate, no worries.
	4:00am Gay Married: We know about the memes.
	4:00am Jeff Conklin: Or was it Rochester?
	4:02am yeah: Rochester
	4:03am Gay Married: That outro DEFINITELY brought the chicks.
	4:03am can't lose with this track: Makes me feel like a deuce, but sometimes context is important. I have some recording of stuff like this, I love this stuff. Is there some web repository? Just dudes with some sort of musical sense jamming, I mean you would probably edit all this down and re do it to be successful commercially but I am totally into this raw stuff. I guess just after some of the more commercial tracks earlier in the set i was thrown off. Now I feel like a bad listener.
	♥ 4:05am pacific standard simon: www.archive.org is your friend.
	4:05am Gay Married: Cleveland
	♥ 4:06am pacific standard simon: No, I didn't get that, Jeff -- but I did find myself wanting to hear some Country Joe & The Fish.
	4:07am can't lose with this track: No, I mean something curated for the modern short attention span. I have been online since 1990, I wouldn't still be listening to WFMU if they didn't save me mad time and keep me in the loop. Never mind, I was just mentally jerking off. great set, no complaints, please don't anyone think I'm complaining :)
	♥ 4:09am pacific standard simon: Hey, I'm not in Seattle -- it's Bainbridge Island, WA!
	4:10am can't lose with this track: hey... I had a job on bainbridge island for a bit, teaching art. No lie. What do you do? WFMU continues to deliver the synchronicity, like always. I also dated a girl that was a barista or something, one of those northwest fairy goddesses. Sucked for me. But hey, the ferry was great, with the seagulls.
	4:11am Jeff Conklin: Wasn't talking about you, PSS ;)
	♥ 4:12am pacific standard simon: Oh ho!
	4:12am can't lose with this track: She had or maybe has, I have proudly not been a web stalker, a radio show on kptz, from nearbyish port townsend? I suck at geography but I think its kinda close.
	4:14am can't lose with this track: well, that's kind of a lie but she doesn't have the highest online profile. Nor do I for that matter. Maybe it's a 90s thing now?
	4:15am can't lose with this track: I mean, this is the most social thing I have done online in years, and I am just here cause my girlfriend is doing stuff with her family out of town. Sad internet!
	4:16am Gay Married: You talk about girls a lot. This is rather suspect.
	4:16am can't lose with this track: We do both listen to WFMU together and pledge as much change as we have between us every year though. I have a t-shirt!
	♥ 4:16am pacific standard simon: Port Townsend is way cooler than Bainbridge, but I'd need to drive to live there. And to answer your earlier question, I'm a baker, which accounts for these stupid hours.
	4:16am Gay Married: I'm going to venture to guess you don't actually have a girlfriend.
	4:17am can't lose with this track: OMG are you affiliated with the fitch bakery?
	♥ 4:18am pacific standard simon: Nope.
	4:19am can't lose with this track: at the time I had a car, so your sense of distance is so different. Now, going from downtown brooklyn to harlem takes seriously almost as long as going from pdx to sea. That would really be too much if you were. But at least you can back up that I know tha names of some fairly obscure places that most nobody would who hadn't been in the region.
	4:20am can't lose with this track: @gaymarried: u wish
	4:21am Gay Married: I'm happily Gay Married.
	♥ 4:21am pacific standard simon: "you don't actually have a girlfriend" is kind of a straight bro thing to say.
	4:22am can't lose with this track: I'm happy for you! seriously. I think it's retarded that it's still an issue. Do what you fucking want.
	4:22am Gay Married: I bet you wouldn't say that to my face on my minecraft server.
	♥ 4:23am pacific standard simon: Ooh, Current tour!
	4:23am can't lose with this track: well, it does suck that the patriarchy introduced aids. I will give you that. Uh on now i have a tinfoil hat.
	4:24am Gay Married: I'm actually a girl so I can't get GRIDS.
	4:25am can't lose with this track: man, the patriarchy has really dominated homosexual discourse. But I guess people generally has less beef with lesbians. I fell into the trap.
	4:26am Gay Married: Funny you mention traps.
	4:26am can't lose with this track: I don't really get mine craft. I have some cousins in law who are like 12 that are all into it.. I mean, if kids have the attention span for this, it's a shame not more reform is happening in the world.
	4:27am can't lose with this track: it's no more boring than local politics
	♥ 4:27am pacific standard simon: Doesn't sound like your dad's Grateful Dead.
	4:28am yeah: LulzSec, tinfoil hat. traps - watch out!
	4:29am can't lose with this track: trigger alert. someone's hip :) :)
	4:29am can't lose with this track: If only I really was a fed or something. Then I would get paid for this shit.
	4:29am Gay Married: This jam is so boring, I've decided to run for comptroller.
	4:30am map: how did i know this was grateful dead?
	4:30am can't lose with this track: But isn't that what they would say? whoa. john brasco shit.
	4:31am can't lose with this track: I was saying that a long time ago. But the jam was less boring. First they come for the slightly boring jams. They they come for the neighbors! Oh a nazi ref, somebody throw money at me.
	4:32am Gay Married: Actually, you may be more boring than anything played tonight.
	4:33am yeah: @gay married - play nice
	♥ 4:33am pacific standard simon: OK, this is my new favorite band since they played on Transpacific Sound Paradise.
	4:34am Gay Married: @yeah: this is me playing nice.
	4:34am can't lose with this track: seriously, I had to google that grids reference, and I had sworn off the internet tonight. How have I been in any ways disrespectful, misogynistic, patriarchal, etc. Geez, it's enough to make a jewboy feel limey.
	4:35am can't lose with this track: I had an aids scare myself you know. unprotected sex in the 90s was a thing.
	4:37am Gay Married: please stop referring to GRIDS by its slave name.
	4:38am can't lose with this track: man, I was trying to move on from HIV. Or is that better?
	♥ 4:39am pacific standard simon: There's a "Tomorrow Never Knows" element in this number.
	4:39am can't lose with this track: I mean man metaphorically, as human. I will just keep digging myself deeper ;) you crack me up.
	4:40am Gay Married: Cubic Time is Truth, and I bid you goodnight.
	4:42am can't lose with this track: Interesting, sorry you don't care to discuss more. That grids thing is truly wack, you get my props there. I first heard of it as the gay cancer, but I grew up in the suburbs in the 80s...
	4:42am can't lose with this track: not in, ya know, downtown nyc...
	4:44am Jeff Conklin: Can we circle the discussion back to music (not necessarily what's being played). I'd hate to have to browse the 10k pages of the FMU wiki to learn how to moderate this board. Thanks.
	4:46am can't lose with this track: cool prague sound.
	4:48am can't lose with this track: That was sarcastic, but seriously please I don't want in any way to discourage you from what you are doing. Have some fun with it. Like tom sharpening!
	♥ 4:48am pacific standard simon: I'm trying.
	4:49am can't lose with this track: again the auto correct is higghhh comedy.
	4:50am can't lose with this track: Pro tip, maybe not to the DJ but to anyone- if somebody bothers to seriously fuck with your program, you are hitting a nerve. If all anybody does is pat you on the head but you never accomplish anything, that is when you should worry. If you don't have a skin though, don't go for it. Like I don't. Know what you are up to.
	♥ 4:51am pacific standard simon: Fifty Foot Hose is, BTW, close enough to the CJ&TF that I was thinking about.
	4:52am Jeff Conklin: Ha. Comments (positive, negative or otherwise) will never discourage me in the least. Pro tip, maybe not to a commenter, but I've been doing radio for a long time and know what I'm doing, believe in it, and will never be derailed by trolling of any type.
	4:53am can't lose with this track: And the DJ is holding it down despite of my nonsense. Great!
	4:54am can't lose with this track: I love that WFMU has such high standards. True grit!
	♥ 4:54am pacific standard simon: Now you've got me interested in the FMU Wiki.
	4:56am can't lose with this track: better off to check into the snowmen leaks. Who programmed this autocorrect? it turned snowmen into snowmen, which is so in keeping wit dat ole cacher in the rye feel but who programmed this thesaurus.
	4:56am can't lose with this track: SNOWDEN. IT MAKES A FOOL OF ME AGAIN.
	4:57am Jeff Conklin: The wiki is for staffers. A general FAQ about the station. AND ITS MASSIVE
	♥ 4:57am Ĩkє: Sadly, @PSS, I imagine that's on an intranet.
	4:58am can't lose with this track: How many entries are attributed to Ken?
	♥ 4:58am pacific standard simon: @ can't lose - EASY. Easy, ole hoss.
	4:59am can't lose with this track: the irony is just so thick. you are right though. chill.
	♥ 5:01am pacific standard simon: There was hum. And don't call me Shirley.
	5:03am can't lose with this track: At one point I overed 100 space ball computer controllers. If that was a sucker brothers reference. The space ball never really caught on and that was how I was able to buy 100 of them for $1 each from a dot com cad firm liquidation in the early2000s.
	5:04am can't lose with this track: the autocorrect is killing me here big time. ZUCKER brothers, the dudes that did the airplane movies, and the sci fi parody space balls. WFMU, fire whoever you got to do your friggin autocorrect.
	♥ 5:07am pacific standard simon: Your auto-correct is your own responsibility. Don't blame it on the station.
	5:07am pierre: Bonjour bonjour Jeff and all !
	5:08am JoeRay: The mixing board at Apostolic looked really cool!
	5:10am can't lose with this track: like brian eno made love to yellow magic orchestra...
	♥ 5:10am pacific standard simon: Hello pierre, the sun is probably well up in the sky for you!
	5:10am Jeff Conklin: Hey Pierre, Hey JoeRay
	♥ 5:11am pacific standard simon: Did that Japanese guy just say "achtung"?
	5:13am can't lose with this track: And its on the holy mountain lablel? neerdgasm. No autocorrect there.
	♥ 5:18am pacific standard simon: Don Cherry is sort of a household god around my house.
	♥ 5:21am pacific standard simon: This sounds like "Moonlight Mile".
	5:22am can't lose with this track: Any thoughts on who was the last band/person to use the rock n roll flute? Jethro tull is my bet but I have to admit I slept on don cherry. Around my house was a suburban musical drougb, thank god I made it this far. Ever heard of Eddie Money? I was surprised to hear Yes "yours is no disgrace" earlier tonight on FMU..
	5:23am Jeff Conklin: 672 playlists found where Artist starts with "Yes"
	5:24am can't lose with this track: That's all? Vanne Damme.
	5:25am Jeff Conklin: There's a popular modern Canadian metal band with flute as the lead instrument I believe
	5:26am can't lose with this track: Cool :)
	5:30am can't lose with this track: man, thank god JM in the AM isn't about to go on. That was a bad part of insomnia. On the other hand now you guys are facilitating..
	♥ 5:33am pacific standard simon: I have no idea. Certainly Jethro Tull is the biggest of the "rock n roll". Probably some prog bands in the '70 ("Hocus Pocus" by Focus) too. Rahsaan Roland Kirk for teh JAZZ, like Cherry.
	♥ 5:34am pacific standard simon: Zappa also.
	5:36am can't lose with this track: JM in the AM was like last call at a bar.. time to go. I guess if you have an on the air radio you still pick it up? I recall it was always a fundraising whale, which no doubt is why it was around, but I loved how they cut it off from the web stream. Real shit! I had a I had a bootleg of some rhino record with hocus pocus and highway star and some other AM gold. I apologize for being an annoying jerk, digging your show and will check out that thing I can't spell.. kk
	♥ 5:39am pacific standard simon: Don't disrespect JM in the AM. I don't know how the station would be here without it.
	5:42am can't lose with this track: good point, zappa. Why doesn't he get more play on wfmu? Too mainstream? I'm not disrespecting it, I guet that it pays the bills, I just love that I am not about to hear it. Nothing but love. I can't tell you how many times I listened through that show when I was way more wasted than I am now, and it's like wow, what a world. Like most things on WFMU! But I still would probably prefer whatever other weirdness is in store. Almost certain. ;)
	5:42am JoeRay: Mellotron flute - Eric Drew Feldman on Doc at the radar Station by Beefheart. Thanks for all the great music this morning, Jeff!
	5:50am can't lose with this track: there aren't as many websites as there used to be that have a live chat, it was actually kind of a precursor to social media like having a live call-in to a radio show, cool to trace the evolution. But I do feel like the number of both web and radio shows with a live common has decreased over all. Part of the plan. FMU continues to stand against the tide though.
	5:53am can't lose with this track: This whole friggin website is so 90s, but it actually still works. Some MilSpec shit. Now I am definitely a government agent ;)
	5:54am can't lose with this track: Get home safe DJ! Don't take an uber.
	5:56am can't lose with this track: Who is the other FMU DJ that plays birdsong in the background? This is certainly silly though.
	5:57am the Canterbury wood-elf: Thanks Jeff. Happy to have caught the last hour, after missing quite a few episodes of your show. Loved the Don Cherry. A shame I missed the Dead, but I'll hopefully be watching the final Soldier Field show via satellite in a cinema in Brighton. RIP Chris Squire.
	5:58am can't lose with this track: k just wow.
	5:59am can't lose with this track: the dead show was kind of plodding. coincidence?? zombies ya know.
	6:01am can't lose with this track: There is a little sparrow that perches outside my window and makes noises like the birdsong soundbed. Oh noe internet stream take over. ya.

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from June 29, 2015

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Unstuck in time, The Avant Ghetto wanders through heavy folk, pastoral noise, spiritual rock, harsh jazz and other dimly lit corners of the universe.

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June 29, 2015

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Yes	Starship Trooper "Starship Trooper" by "Yes"	The Yes Album	Atlantic	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Forest Management	Untitled "Untitled" by "Forest Management"	Dusk Memory	Mistake By The Lake	0:09:08 (Pop-up)
Taste of Blues	Schizophrenia "Schizophrenia" by "Taste of Blues"	Schizofrenia	SSR	0:18:27 (Pop-up)
Zenith Effluveum	Opie / Plod Rock / Wholes	Almost Made It in the USA	Seperate	0:35:17 (Pop-up)
Jooklo & Metabolismus	Forme Geometriche	Perception Of The Illusion Of The Opposition Of Contraries	Troglosound	1:07:10 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Drums "Drums" by "Grateful Dead"	6/27/15, Santa Clara, CA	Bootsville	1:18:03 (Pop-up)
Horse Lords	Untitled "Untitled" by "Horse Lords"	Mixtape III	Self-Released	1:29:30 (Pop-up)
MFH	Electric Blues "Electric Blues" by "MFH"	First Move	YHR Tapes	1:39:41 (Pop-up)
Fifty Foot Hose	Fantasy "Fantasy" by "Fifty Foot Hose"	Cauldron	Limelight	1:43:42 (Pop-up)
The Family of Apostolic	Mabel's Umbrage	The Family of Apostolic	Vanguard Apostolic	1:53:47 (Pop-up)
Hiiragi Fukuda	Dump "Dump" by "Hiiragi Fukuda"	Dump 7"	Holy Mountain / Selection	2:04:08 (Pop-up)
Don Cherry	California "California" by "Don Cherry"	Modern Art	Mellotronen	2:10:54 (Pop-up)
Aritomo	Blooming the Ena "Blooming the Ena" by "Aritomo"	The Flying Garden In The Painting	Hakanairo	2:17:27 (Pop-up)
Andrew Weathers	Electric Piano and Twelve String Guitar	Light in the Valley	Twin Springs Tapes	2:23:54 (Pop-up)
Mij	Look Into the (K)night "Look Into the (K)night" by "Mij"	Yodeling Astrologer	ESP-Disk'	2:42:52 (Pop-up)
Hunter Muskett	I Have a House "I Have a House" by "Hunter Muskett"	Every Time You Move	Lilith	2:53:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:04am can't lose with this track: out with a bang
	3:05am Jeff Conklin: My favorite Yes song if anybody was wondering. RIP. Chris Squire
	3:06am can't lose with this track: omg the feels. I had forgotten about this part. Now I feel stupid.
	3:06am can't lose with this track: My spine is tingling!!!! stop, it tickles.
	3:08am can't lose with this track: Noooo, don't stop!!! I love how I always think this break is going to happen about 13 minutes before it does. So glad this isn't on karaoke.
	3:08am can't lose with this track: wait for it..... wait for it.......
	3:09am can't lose with this track: If this isn't sexual, I don't know what is. Up there with james brown.
	3:09am can't lose with this track: I liked when I had this on vinyl because you could see on the record player if it was close to the break.
	3:10am can't lose with this track: eargasm!
	3:11am yeah: Imagining bong hits, transcendent sex in the early 1970s, underneath black lights
	3:11am can't lose with this track: If only we had the master tapes where they undoubtedly kept jamming for another week.
	3:12am can't lose with this track: early mic drop...
	3:13am John in Texas: Good morning, Jeff! Are you a member of the Sonic Youth Gossip forum? I ask because YESSONGS was discussed this past week.
	♥ 3:14am pacific standard simon: Dude, what the what?
	3:14am Jeff Conklin: Morning, all. No, John, I am not.
	3:15am Jeff Conklin: Problem, PSS?
	3:17am can't lose with this track: I am re-listening to the starship trooper guitar break, don't know about you all.
	3:19am can't lose with this track: pro tip- it's right at the friggin end. And then it fades out. Metaphor much?
	3:21am yeah: Where's Revolution Rabbit when we need him - I bet he had sex under black lights back in the day ;-)
	3:21am can't lose with this track: This is like managing a forest. I thought WFMU was having technical difficulties, but now that I shut down the yes album I see that there is very minimal ambient music that has probably been going for some time. Well, we all have our own tastes.
	♥ 3:22am pacific standard simon: Who knew a listener could be so, uh, overwhelmed by a Yes record?
	3:22am yeah: LOL
	3:23am can't lose with this track: Sometimes you just get blindsided by something, I don't know. I haven't listened to that in like 10 years, and to hear it on WFMU of all places? Well, that's why I love FMU among other reasons.
	3:23am Jeff Conklin: Thanks for checking in , Can't Lose. Have yourself a swell day.
	♥ 3:23am pacific standard simon: I never did it with blacklight, but waterbeds, on the other hand...
	3:25am can't lose with this track: I'll stick with having yes on the stereo "in the moment". While we are sharing. ;) Bong hits are ok too..
	3:26am yeah: waterbed freaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dzx5R9se4A
	3:27am can't lose with this track: not clicking on that. no way. nope. not in a million years. hmmm, well now i'm curious.
	3:27am John in Texas: No blacklight experience, but I can speak to the power of a mirror ball
	3:28am Gay Married: Finally.
	3:28am can't lose with this track: I am the mastern of my own domain, I seriously am not going to click on that. The URL is comedy enough.
	♥ 3:30am pacific standard simon: @ yeah - Now you're talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation.
	3:30am yeah: @can't lose - it's not what you think haha "In this video from Super 8 footage filmed by Larry (Max) Maxeiner we trip back to the 1970's and see The Celestial Theatre take on 2 bare naked waterbeds for sacrifice." It's some sort of happening at the Univ. of Missouri. LOL
	♥ 3:32am pacific standard simon: The rhythm section has found its eternal groove.
	3:33am yeah: @pss - "Freak Week"
	♥ 3:33am pacific standard simon: @yeah - maybe it's a dramatization of the climactic scene from Moby Dick.
	3:34am yeah: LOL
	3:35am can't lose with this track: Thanks for explaining. I checked it out, Missouri seemed a lot cooler in those days, though I suppose that is not uncommon relative to now. I had a friend that went to WUSTL, there wasn't anything like that in missouri when I was there. Though I speak from very limited experience, you can kinda get the feel of a place fairly quickly, as I have learned from places I have been back to a bunch of times.
	♥ 3:36am pacific standard simon: Jam bands were more fun back in the day.
	3:37am can't lose with this track: And this was in the late 90s, which is still inherently cooler than now!!! except for fmu. They hold steady.
	3:40am can't lose with this track: Although we are still chatting here on WFMU and listening to this groovy shit, i feel like the counterculture in general has really dropped the ball. Thank whatever you want for the occasional beacon in the night.
	3:40am can't lose with this track: almost made it in the usa. perfect. the synchronicity is what I come back for.
	3:41am Gay Married: don't you just hate this song?
	♥ 3:41am pacific standard simon: Nope.
	3:41am can't lose with this track: I'm not gonna cheat and look it up on the internet, I will say it reminds me of the wire, which I can tolerate more than country and western or cough syrup rap, but isn't my fave.
	3:43am yeah: @can't lose - good guess...same time period, similar vocal sound to Wire, but Wire don't have jammy guitar solos.
	3:43am can't lose with this track: It's like, if a cute girl is into it, that's totally cool, but not as cool as if she was into yes.
	3:44am can't lose with this track: I was once into a cute girl who was a huge wire fan, finally it pays off. She had one of those 100 CD changers. This was a few years ago. I'm in my 30s...
	3:45am can't lose with this track: by a few i probably mean like 34564
	♥ 3:47am pacific standard simon: The counter-culture was well on its way to becoming sorta mainstream by the time I hit adolescence, so it's difficult to think of a straight world except by referencing childhood.
	♥ 3:47am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo hullo enjoying every bit of this music & no, no carnal jollies involving blacklights I specifically recall thanks for the inquiry.
	♥ 3:48am pacific standard simon: Speak of the devil.
	3:48am yeah: haha you're here!
	3:48am Jeff Conklin: Hey, Rev. Thanks for joining.
	3:48am can't lose with this track: like how gay married just chimed in there. lulzsec.
	3:48am Gay Married: Yes is the best prague band though.
	♥ 3:49am pacific standard simon: "carnal jollies" looks like "camal jollies" in this font
	3:50am John in Texas: The "irritating" (well, before the words) part at the end was my favorite!
	3:51am Gay Married: Funny how you mention lulzsec.
	3:52am can't lose with this track: I was reading a lot about the shit that was going down a little while back with occupy wall street and how that all went to shit like most decent things do. The fact that wfmu is playing these great throwback jams is part of why they are a salve to anyone with sensitivity. god bless.
	3:52am can't lose with this track: why was it funny to you?
	♥ 3:52am pacific standard simon: Too bad camel isn't spelled that way.
	3:54am can't lose with this track: I don't work for the government if that's what you are implying. Though if they are half as bad ass as they want us to think probably half the DJ's are CIA or something we haven't even heard of. It ain't me though.
	3:56am yeah: definitely "plod rock"...I'm beginning to agree with John in Texas about this song.
	♥ 3:56am Īke: Good evening.
	3:57am Jeff Conklin: Hey, Ike.
	♥ 3:57am pacific standard simon: We meet again!
	3:57am can't lose with this track: See I think this sort of thing is what kept prog rock from having more exposure. A lot of it is quite plodding, good term. The trick is to keep it interesting. Similar to classic or jazz or other things they cited as influences. Hey, it's a high bar.
	3:58am yeah: Totally agree. This part's cool.
	3:59am can't lose with this track: totally. a weird mix of prog and punk. BTW the autocorrect keeps turning "prog" into prig or prick. lol.
	3:59am Jeff Conklin: This was a garage band from Buffalo with no illusions of "success". Just jamming for the hell of it. Not everything needs exposure.
	3:59am Gay Married: Plodding is a government conspiracy of men.
	♥ 4:00am pacific standard simon: I'm listening to this the same way I'd listen to a Pere Ubu or Tin Huey rehearsal tape, except that I never heard of these guys before, so it's a pleasant surprise.
	4:00am can't lose with this track: And I bet the cute chicks in the garage were all over it. Thanks for sharing. I have spent plenty of time in sessions like this as a photo/video guy, I can relate, no worries.
	4:00am Gay Married: We know about the memes.
	4:00am Jeff Conklin: Or was it Rochester?
	4:02am yeah: Rochester
	4:03am Gay Married: That outro DEFINITELY brought the chicks.
	4:03am can't lose with this track: Makes me feel like a deuce, but sometimes context is important. I have some recording of stuff like this, I love this stuff. Is there some web repository? Just dudes with some sort of musical sense jamming, I mean you would probably edit all this down and re do it to be successful commercially but I am totally into this raw stuff. I guess just after some of the more commercial tracks earlier in the set i was thrown off. Now I feel like a bad listener.
	♥ 4:05am pacific standard simon: www.archive.org is your friend.
	4:05am Gay Married: Cleveland
	♥ 4:06am pacific standard simon: No, I didn't get that, Jeff -- but I did find myself wanting to hear some Country Joe & The Fish.
	4:07am can't lose with this track: No, I mean something curated for the modern short attention span. I have been online since 1990, I wouldn't still be listening to WFMU if they didn't save me mad time and keep me in the loop. Never mind, I was just mentally jerking off. great set, no complaints, please don't anyone think I'm complaining :)
	♥ 4:09am pacific standard simon: Hey, I'm not in Seattle -- it's Bainbridge Island, WA!
	4:10am can't lose with this track: hey... I had a job on bainbridge island for a bit, teaching art. No lie. What do you do? WFMU continues to deliver the synchronicity, like always. I also dated a girl that was a barista or something, one of those northwest fairy goddesses. Sucked for me. But hey, the ferry was great, with the seagulls.
	4:11am Jeff Conklin: Wasn't talking about you, PSS ;)
	♥ 4:12am pacific standard simon: Oh ho!
	4:12am can't lose with this track: She had or maybe has, I have proudly not been a web stalker, a radio show on kptz, from nearbyish port townsend? I suck at geography but I think its kinda close.
	4:14am can't lose with this track: well, that's kind of a lie but she doesn't have the highest online profile. Nor do I for that matter. Maybe it's a 90s thing now?
	4:15am can't lose with this track: I mean, this is the most social thing I have done online in years, and I am just here cause my girlfriend is doing stuff with her family out of town. Sad internet!
	4:16am Gay Married: You talk about girls a lot. This is rather suspect.
	4:16am can't lose with this track: We do both listen to WFMU together and pledge as much change as we have between us every year though. I have a t-shirt!
	♥ 4:16am pacific standard simon: Port Townsend is way cooler than Bainbridge, but I'd need to drive to live there. And to answer your earlier question, I'm a baker, which accounts for these stupid hours.
	4:16am Gay Married: I'm going to venture to guess you don't actually have a girlfriend.
	4:17am can't lose with this track: OMG are you affiliated with the fitch bakery?
	♥ 4:18am pacific standard simon: Nope.
	4:19am can't lose with this track: at the time I had a car, so your sense of distance is so different. Now, going from downtown brooklyn to harlem takes seriously almost as long as going from pdx to sea. That would really be too much if you were. But at least you can back up that I know tha names of some fairly obscure places that most nobody would who hadn't been in the region.
	4:20am can't lose with this track: @gaymarried: u wish
	4:21am Gay Married: I'm happily Gay Married.
	♥ 4:21am pacific standard simon: "you don't actually have a girlfriend" is kind of a straight bro thing to say.
	4:22am can't lose with this track: I'm happy for you! seriously. I think it's retarded that it's still an issue. Do what you fucking want.
	4:22am Gay Married: I bet you wouldn't say that to my face on my minecraft server.
	♥ 4:23am pacific standard simon: Ooh, Current tour!
	4:23am can't lose with this track: well, it does suck that the patriarchy introduced aids. I will give you that. Uh on now i have a tinfoil hat.
	4:24am Gay Married: I'm actually a girl so I can't get GRIDS.
	4:25am can't lose with this track: man, the patriarchy has really dominated homosexual discourse. But I guess people generally has less beef with lesbians. I fell into the trap.
	4:26am Gay Married: Funny you mention traps.
	4:26am can't lose with this track: I don't really get mine craft. I have some cousins in law who are like 12 that are all into it.. I mean, if kids have the attention span for this, it's a shame not more reform is happening in the world.
	4:27am can't lose with this track: it's no more boring than local politics
	♥ 4:27am pacific standard simon: Doesn't sound like your dad's Grateful Dead.
	4:28am yeah: LulzSec, tinfoil hat. traps - watch out!
	4:29am can't lose with this track: trigger alert. someone's hip :) :)
	4:29am can't lose with this track: If only I really was a fed or something. Then I would get paid for this shit.
	4:29am Gay Married: This jam is so boring, I've decided to run for comptroller.
	4:30am map: how did i know this was grateful dead?
	4:30am can't lose with this track: But isn't that what they would say? whoa. john brasco shit.
	4:31am can't lose with this track: I was saying that a long time ago. But the jam was less boring. First they come for the slightly boring jams. They they come for the neighbors! Oh a nazi ref, somebody throw money at me.
	4:32am Gay Married: Actually, you may be more boring than anything played tonight.
	4:33am yeah: @gay married - play nice
	♥ 4:33am pacific standard simon: OK, this is my new favorite band since they played on Transpacific Sound Paradise.
	4:34am Gay Married: @yeah: this is me playing nice.
	4:34am can't lose with this track: seriously, I had to google that grids reference, and I had sworn off the internet tonight. How have I been in any ways disrespectful, misogynistic, patriarchal, etc. Geez, it's enough to make a jewboy feel limey.
	4:35am can't lose with this track: I had an aids scare myself you know. unprotected sex in the 90s was a thing.
	4:37am Gay Married: please stop referring to GRIDS by its slave name.
	4:38am can't lose with this track: man, I was trying to move on from HIV. Or is that better?
	♥ 4:39am pacific standard simon: There's a "Tomorrow Never Knows" element in this number.
	4:39am can't lose with this track: I mean man metaphorically, as human. I will just keep digging myself deeper ;) you crack me up.
	4:40am Gay Married: Cubic Time is Truth, and I bid you goodnight.
	4:42am can't lose with this track: Interesting, sorry you don't care to discuss more. That grids thing is truly wack, you get my props there. I first heard of it as the gay cancer, but I grew up in the suburbs in the 80s...
	4:42am can't lose with this track: not in, ya know, downtown nyc...
	4:44am Jeff Conklin: Can we circle the discussion back to music (not necessarily what's being played). I'd hate to have to browse the 10k pages of the FMU wiki to learn how to moderate this board. Thanks.
	4:46am can't lose with this track: cool prague sound.
	4:48am can't lose with this track: That was sarcastic, but seriously please I don't want in any way to discourage you from what you are doing. Have some fun with it. Like tom sharpening!
	♥ 4:48am pacific standard simon: I'm trying.
	4:49am can't lose with this track: again the auto correct is higghhh comedy.
	4:50am can't lose with this track: Pro tip, maybe not to the DJ but to anyone- if somebody bothers to seriously fuck with your program, you are hitting a nerve. If all anybody does is pat you on the head but you never accomplish anything, that is when you should worry. If you don't have a skin though, don't go for it. Like I don't. Know what you are up to.
	♥ 4:51am pacific standard simon: Fifty Foot Hose is, BTW, close enough to the CJ&TF that I was thinking about.
	4:52am Jeff Conklin: Ha. Comments (positive, negative or otherwise) will never discourage me in the least. Pro tip, maybe not to a commenter, but I've been doing radio for a long time and know what I'm doing, believe in it, and will never be derailed by trolling of any type.
	4:53am can't lose with this track: And the DJ is holding it down despite of my nonsense. Great!
	4:54am can't lose with this track: I love that WFMU has such high standards. True grit!
	♥ 4:54am pacific standard simon: Now you've got me interested in the FMU Wiki.
	4:56am can't lose with this track: better off to check into the snowmen leaks. Who programmed this autocorrect? it turned snowmen into snowmen, which is so in keeping wit dat ole cacher in the rye feel but who programmed this thesaurus.
	4:56am can't lose with this track: SNOWDEN. IT MAKES A FOOL OF ME AGAIN.
	4:57am Jeff Conklin: The wiki is for staffers. A general FAQ about the station. AND ITS MASSIVE
	♥ 4:57am Ĩkє: Sadly, @PSS, I imagine that's on an intranet.
	4:58am can't lose with this track: How many entries are attributed to Ken?
	♥ 4:58am pacific standard simon: @ can't lose - EASY. Easy, ole hoss.
	4:59am can't lose with this track: the irony is just so thick. you are right though. chill.
	♥ 5:01am pacific standard simon: There was hum. And don't call me Shirley.
	5:03am can't lose with this track: At one point I overed 100 space ball computer controllers. If that was a sucker brothers reference. The space ball never really caught on and that was how I was able to buy 100 of them for $1 each from a dot com cad firm liquidation in the early2000s.
	5:04am can't lose with this track: the autocorrect is killing me here big time. ZUCKER brothers, the dudes that did the airplane movies, and the sci fi parody space balls. WFMU, fire whoever you got to do your friggin autocorrect.
	♥ 5:07am pacific standard simon: Your auto-correct is your own responsibility. Don't blame it on the station.
	5:07am pierre: Bonjour bonjour Jeff and all !
	5:08am JoeRay: The mixing board at Apostolic looked really cool!
	5:10am can't lose with this track: like brian eno made love to yellow magic orchestra...
	♥ 5:10am pacific standard simon: Hello pierre, the sun is probably well up in the sky for you!
	5:10am Jeff Conklin: Hey Pierre, Hey JoeRay
	♥ 5:11am pacific standard simon: Did that Japanese guy just say "achtung"?
	5:13am can't lose with this track: And its on the holy mountain lablel? neerdgasm. No autocorrect there.
	♥ 5:18am pacific standard simon: Don Cherry is sort of a household god around my house.
	♥ 5:21am pacific standard simon: This sounds like "Moonlight Mile".
	5:22am can't lose with this track: Any thoughts on who was the last band/person to use the rock n roll flute? Jethro tull is my bet but I have to admit I slept on don cherry. Around my house was a suburban musical drougb, thank god I made it this far. Ever heard of Eddie Money? I was surprised to hear Yes "yours is no disgrace" earlier tonight on FMU..
	5:23am Jeff Conklin: 672 playlists found where Artist starts with "Yes"
	5:24am can't lose with this track: That's all? Vanne Damme.
	5:25am Jeff Conklin: There's a popular modern Canadian metal band with flute as the lead instrument I believe
	5:26am can't lose with this track: Cool :)
	5:30am can't lose with this track: man, thank god JM in the AM isn't about to go on. That was a bad part of insomnia. On the other hand now you guys are facilitating..
	♥ 5:33am pacific standard simon: I have no idea. Certainly Jethro Tull is the biggest of the "rock n roll". Probably some prog bands in the '70 ("Hocus Pocus" by Focus) too. Rahsaan Roland Kirk for teh JAZZ, like Cherry.
	♥ 5:34am pacific standard simon: Zappa also.
	5:36am can't lose with this track: JM in the AM was like last call at a bar.. time to go. I guess if you have an on the air radio you still pick it up? I recall it was always a fundraising whale, which no doubt is why it was around, but I loved how they cut it off from the web stream. Real shit! I had a I had a bootleg of some rhino record with hocus pocus and highway star and some other AM gold. I apologize for being an annoying jerk, digging your show and will check out that thing I can't spell.. kk
	♥ 5:39am pacific standard simon: Don't disrespect JM in the AM. I don't know how the station would be here without it.
	5:42am can't lose with this track: good point, zappa. Why doesn't he get more play on wfmu? Too mainstream? I'm not disrespecting it, I guet that it pays the bills, I just love that I am not about to hear it. Nothing but love. I can't tell you how many times I listened through that show when I was way more wasted than I am now, and it's like wow, what a world. Like most things on WFMU! But I still would probably prefer whatever other weirdness is in store. Almost certain. ;)
	5:42am JoeRay: Mellotron flute - Eric Drew Feldman on Doc at the radar Station by Beefheart. Thanks for all the great music this morning, Jeff!
	5:50am can't lose with this track: there aren't as many websites as there used to be that have a live chat, it was actually kind of a precursor to social media like having a live call-in to a radio show, cool to trace the evolution. But I do feel like the number of both web and radio shows with a live common has decreased over all. Part of the plan. FMU continues to stand against the tide though.
	5:53am can't lose with this track: This whole friggin website is so 90s, but it actually still works. Some MilSpec shit. Now I am definitely a government agent ;)
	5:54am can't lose with this track: Get home safe DJ! Don't take an uber.
	5:56am can't lose with this track: Who is the other FMU DJ that plays birdsong in the background? This is certainly silly though.
	5:57am the Canterbury wood-elf: Thanks Jeff. Happy to have caught the last hour, after missing quite a few episodes of your show. Loved the Don Cherry. A shame I missed the Dead, but I'll hopefully be watching the final Soldier Field show via satellite in a cinema in Brighton. RIP Chris Squire.
	5:58am can't lose with this track: k just wow.
	5:59am can't lose with this track: the dead show was kind of plodding. coincidence?? zombies ya know.
	6:01am can't lose with this track: There is a little sparrow that perches outside my window and makes noises like the birdsong soundbed. Oh noe internet stream take over. ya.

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from June 29, 2015

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