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Favoriting January 25, 2016

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments New Approx. start time
Uther Pendragon  Who's Gonna Try   Favoriting San Francisco Earthquake  Guersen         
Time  At Shadow's Eye   Favoriting Before There Was...Time  Shadoks  1968      0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Danakoti and Sister  Tamil Duet: nadanamakriya-eka   Favoriting V/a, Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record And Gramophone Collecting On The Sub-Continent  Sublime Frequencies  1908      0:08:40 (Pop-up)
Jefferson Starship  Mau Mau (Amerikon)   Favoriting Blows Against the Empire    1970      0:12:29 (Pop-up)
Tinariwen  Tinde (feat. Lalla Badi)   Favoriting Live in Paris 2014  Wedge        0:18:16 (Pop-up)
Oyvind Torvund  Untitled School #1 (Scales)   Favoriting Yarn / Wire Currents  Yarn / Wire        0:25:35 (Pop-up)
Tekitha  Walking through the Darkness   Favoriting sdtk, "Ghost Dog"          0:27:46 (Pop-up)
Portishead  Mysterons   Favoriting Dummy    1994      0:32:55 (Pop-up)
John Cale  If You Were Still Around   Favoriting M: Fans  Double Six      *   0:37:47 (Pop-up)
Don Banks  Tense Moments   Favoriting Sdtk, "Mark of the Devil I & II"  One Way Static        0:42:59 (Pop-up)
 
Salvatore Cerchio  Madagascar Whale One   Favoriting New Songs of the Humpback Whale  Important  1990      0:55:42 (Pop-up)
Mike Bloomfield  Like a Rolling Stone - master take, guitar   Favoriting Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge  Columbia Legacy        1:06:22 (Pop-up)
Cross Record  The Depths   Favoriting Wabi Sabi  BaDaBing!        1:12:44 (Pop-up)
Shelley Duvall  He Needs Me   Favoriting sdtk, "Popeye"  Boardwalk  1980  Harry Nilsson / Van Dyke Parks    1:17:10 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Lazarus   Favoriting Black Star  Columbia        1:20:40 (Pop-up)
 
Stabat Stable  You're Sitting in My Chair   Favoriting Ultrissima on the Junk's Moon  Cache Cache/Finders Keepers        1:34:40 (Pop-up)
Tortoise  Gopher Island   Favoriting The Catastrophist  Thrill Jockey        1:38:15 (Pop-up)
Mamuthones  Symphony for the Devil   Favoriting 12"  Rocket Recordings        1:39:37 (Pop-up)
Ulrich Krieger  Shoshone   Favoriting /RAW:ReSpace/  XI Recordings        1:47:26 (Pop-up)
Astor  The Sleepwalkers   Favoriting Lina in Nida  Penultimate Press        1:57:21 (Pop-up)
Iron Maiden vs. The Monkees  The Trooper Believer (DJ Schmolli Mashup Mix)   Favoriting           2:00:38 (Pop-up)
Novos Baianos  Tinindo Trincando   Favoriting Acabou Chorare  Som Livre/Mr. Bongo  1972      2:04:59 (Pop-up)
Bruce Dickinson  Delilah   Favoriting       vid    2:07:37 (Pop-up)
 
DJ Female Convict Scorpion  Geminus   Favoriting Space Cadet  DJ Female Convict Scorpion        2:15:15 (Pop-up)
Gurgles  You're Madder Than Me   Favoriting Gurglefirst?  Saltaire        2:25:31 (Pop-up)
Soft Machine  Hope for Happiness / Joy of a Toy / Hope for Happiness (Reprise)   Favoriting S/t (1968)    1968      2:28:02 (Pop-up)
Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name  Jeffrey Nothing   Favoriting Blue Velvet Revisited  Crammed Discs        2:36:33 (Pop-up)
Unloved  Far From Here   Favoriting Guilty of Love  Unloved        2:40:55 (Pop-up)
Charlie Hilton  Pony   Favoriting Palana  Captured Tracks        2:46:57 (Pop-up)
Milk Lines  Crystal Crown   Favoriting Ceramic  In the Red        2:49:55 (Pop-up)
Running  Reclaimed Would   Favoriting Wake Up Applauding  Castle Face        2:54:12 (Pop-up)
Ugly Animal  Buzzard Husband   Favoriting Panic Button  Foolproof Projects        2:56:41 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Cecile:

hola!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Oi Scott!
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V Priceless:

Hey!
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Scott Williams:

Afternoon, friends! Hope you're all warm in your igloos
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Cecile:

it's more icy here. it warmed up and then just got below freezing. good times.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Isn't Uther Pendragon King Arthur's dad? Was that song recorded by King Arthur's dad?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:11pm
Scott Williams:

You'd know better than I, Greg! Actually, I think most people would
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Scott Williams:

...and the wiki agrees with you - en.wikipedia.org...
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Everything I Know About Life I Learned From Monty Python.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:14pm
Scott Williams:

coulda been Monty Hall
Avatar 3:16pm
Carmichael:

Man, I'm sitting here blasting out work and not realizing the program has changed. Hiya Scott and fellow space cowboys ...
Avatar 3:17pm
Todd-o-phonic:

This was the first Airplane/Starship album I bought...used to play the hell out of this song. Not sure if it was because it was so good or most of the rest of the album was so bad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:18pm
Scott Williams:

Ohhh Todd, I love this whole record! Ok, maybe the Baby Tree gets a little ripe...
  3:19pm
paula pc:

in the context of you, Scott, I can love this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:20pm
Scott Williams:

thank you Paula! nicest thing I've heard all day
Avatar 3:26pm
Todd-o-phonic:

I can't remember anything except that track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:28pm
Scott Williams:

it's a killer track! so much punch in the bass
  3:28pm
bloopy:

Greetiings Scot
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:29pm
Scott Williams:

hola Bloopy!
Avatar 3:31pm
TDK60:

Hey Scott, Great to hear that angry hippy music again. (Mau Mau A.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Oh NO. We are entering high school love mix tape territory…
Avatar 🧩 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
chris:

Feeling all the feelz.
Avatar 3:36pm
BriJet:

Ahoy hoy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:38pm
Scott Williams:

Ahoy BriJ!
  3:39pm
i'M THE DUMMY:

perfect soundtrack for me, had dummy in the cd player on top of the hill as a lifty 20+ years ago
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:40pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Weekend road trip destination: Upstate Films is showing The Man Who Fell to Earth. www.upstatefilms.org...
Rhinebeck: Friday January 29, 8:10PM
Woodstock: Sunday January 31, 4:30PM
Avatar 3:42pm
Cecile:

is the rest of the album as good as this? Is Cale back in the game?
  3:42pm
Polyus:

ooh ooh thanks for playing this new Cale stuff.
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Scott Williams:

so far so good on the new Cale! Yeah, we've all been very patient, haven't we?
  3:43pm
Polyus:

new old Cale stuff, technically.
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Cecile:

oh. that's not good.
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Scott Williams:

is it all old stuff?
  3:46pm
Polyus:

the original Music For A New Society used to get quite a puzzled response from my cat.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Cale Guest DJ few years ago NPR : www.npr.org...
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BriJet:

Me <3 Cale
  3:48pm
Polyus:

@Scott - re-recording of an old album with his current band, isn't it? that was my understanding.
Avatar 3:49pm
Cecile:

Well, that's good in a way. I guess.
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Sandy in Houston:

I am jealous of all y'all's snowstorm.
Avatar 3:51pm
Cecile:

It stands for Music: For A New Society
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steve:

what Jarmusch didn't you like?
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Wait, how did I not know that Ghost Dog was shot in JC? I gotta rewatch that immediately.
Avatar 3:53pm
BriJet:

Wow, I like John Cale's NPR guest dj playlist! Cool!
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TDK60:

That Jefferson S. album is more like a Jefferson Airplane album than a Starship album. Not to bore.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...just read J.Depp re Jarmusch: 'He's pure. That's a rare beast in this town. He's Practically Christlike.'
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Oh, that's a mistake…
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Cecile:

Pen-Dragon, isn't it?
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Matt from Springfield:

Hey all!
Invigorating exercise shoveling snow down here! Is the sun out yet in JC?
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V Priceless:

re: Cale: "Black Acetate" was fab, albeit 11 years ago....
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SueAdynamo:

OMG what is that ? a dragon?!!
Avatar 🧩 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:58pm
Ike:

There's an incredibly lame British family TV series where Uther Pendragon was played by Giles from Buffy.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Cale's earliest years in W(h)ales...
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SueAdynamo:

oh.
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Scott Williams:

Wales to whales
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:01pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

It's like Star Trek IV up in here.
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Matt from Springfield:

Jarmusch--he did an excellent cameo on The Simpsons some years ago. Almost as great as Gore Vidal's!
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Cecile:

but was it as good as Jasper Johns'?
  4:06pm
Polyus:

I want to make noises like this all day.
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Gesundheit.
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Cheyenne:

U gonna play that sick walrus next???
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slugluv1313:

greetings, Scott, and everyone!
i am digging this new (old?) Cale myself
also these WHALES! ethereal but not . . . weightless? gossamer?
@ Polyus -- my cats are *enjoying* the whales!
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Webhamster Henry:

This is reminding me of the Weddell seals on my old Antarctica record, although it could also just be a squeaky swing set run through some effects. This is excellent, though.
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Matt from Springfield:

Hey Cecile--do you mean Simpsons cameo? Gore's was easily the highlight of that Wordloaf episode, but Jasper Johns and the other authors are easily up there with Jarmuschs appearance!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

LOVE this. One of the Saturday dudes played it a few weeks ago.
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Chris from DC:

That is kind of taking the edge off the afternoon, yes. Nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:11pm
Summer and Michael:

This soloing of Mike Bloomfield's guitar track is great, Scott! Thank you! And fantastic show, as always.
Avatar 4:11pm
Cecile:

yes, I do, Matt.
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steve:

as a non-musician, its so interesting how totally different a guitar part can sound taken out of a song. there's entire sections of this i've never been conscious of.
Avatar 4:12pm
Cecile:

it's interesting to hear how he's playing around the melody.
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Webhamster Henry:

Nice without harmonica!
  4:14pm
SeanG:

once upon a time...
Avatar 4:15pm
steve:

exactly Cecile. i never would have noticed that otherwise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:15pm
Scott Williams:

@Cheyenne, give me sick walrus please! I've already got a wheezing baby dinosaur
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's really just going up & down the neck in (mostly) marked fret intervals - sometime Major & sometimes Minor. & - it's no less than some of what a whole Culture has been based on...
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Matt from Springfield:

Back to work now. Enjoy the show and the snow, everyone!
Avatar 4:19pm
Cecile:

POPEYE
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SueAdynamo:

LOL i thought the depths sounded like shelly too
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slugluv1313:

OLIVE OYL!! awwww
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northguineahills:

I love this sndrk!
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ChrisB.:

This has Harry and Van Dyke's fingerprints all over it.
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Webhamster Henry:

I was just listening to the Lianne Smith (of Loser's Lounge) version of He Needs Me (from their Nilsson Tribute bootleg album).
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hendrix does it @ Monterey, the Experience's U.S. debut - if anyone could be unfamiliar :
vimeo.com...
Avatar 4:20pm
Cecile:

if I even end up at Hoof and Mouth, I will sing one of Olive's songs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:21pm
ChrisB.:

Also shows up on Punch Drunk Love soundtrack along with generous helpings of Jon Brion.
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Webhamster Henry:

He's LARGE! I wonder if it has extra verses?
  4:21pm
?:

Ooh, I was so ready to see Jimi doing a Nilsson cover ...
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Cecile:

YAH.
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Cecile:

I like Bowies singing best on this and on The Day After.
Avatar 4:26pm
Cecile:

the albums I mean.
  4:26pm
paula pc:

any and all -- cannot tell you how great Donny McCaslin is live, with anyone i've seen/heard him with. nice he got swept up in this
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Cecile:

he is pretty astounding on this.
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slugluv1313:

thank you so much, Scott
yes, BOWIE is truly sublime on this
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The real DeathRawk. Bowie.blows.my.mind.
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Cecile:

I'm wasn't the hugest fan before he passed, even though he wrote some of my favorite songs, but I gotta say that Blackstar is one of the best pop/rock albums I've heard in years
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V Priceless:

abowie, Scott, abowie
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TDK60:

Still moved about David B. Got to go by his apt. in Soho to see the memorial stuff. Like the little bass solo in this song.
Avatar 4:31pm
Cecile:

"I'm going through changes" Black Sabbath.
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slugluv1313:

no, Scott you are definitely not alone!
i STILL get so choked up, i am not "adjusting" to a world without David Bowie
and YES! i just watched that clip, AMAZING version of "Heroes"! (complete with BOWIE using a bottle cap taped to the bottom of his shoe for percussion!) -- and YES, Ms. Dorsey is freakin' awesome -- first time i ever heard/saw her was as part of the "1, 2, 3 Soleils" band
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TDK60:

Slugluv: Oh, the '1 2 3 Soleils' concert! A great one. Rai.
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Cecile:

oh! this is so good.
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Cecile:

Scott, if you feel the urge, I'd love to hear either the "Steve Reich" remix of Bowie's Love is Lost, or the album version from The Next Day.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Warren Zevon did 'My Ride's Here' - can you think of another Rocker who's done work about their terminal illness like this? What a generous, brave thing for Bowie to do - & so brilliantly.
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slugluv1313:

@ Cecile -- that remix is INCREDIBLE!
@ TDK60 -- YES! love those guys, esp. Rachid Taha -- and that opening instrumental STILL gives me goosebumps!
Avatar 4:53pm
Cecile:

I know there was a Skip Spence song originally commissioned for the X-files movie that ended up on More Oar, the tribute album. It's a hidden track. It's definitely a final will and testament kind of song.
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Cheyenne:

whoaaaaa
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Chris from DC:

Ha!
  5:03pm
bloopy:

lol this
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Cecile:

this is just about perfect.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:05pm
Scott Williams:

been shying from the mashups for awhile, but this one kills!
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Cecile:

this might be my favorite Iron Maiden song now.
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Cheri Pi:

hahaha
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Stevel:

Standing ovation for Trooper Believer!
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steve:

hahahaha
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steve:

yay
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:07pm
Scott Williams:

Bruce Dickinson is such a hero - I've got more, hold on a sec...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:10pm
Stevel:

This is cool. Somehow I came across this recently. Via WFMU Twitter, perhaps?
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steve:

what
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steve:

i started drinking early and am extra perplexed by what is happening right now!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:11pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Why not? Who the hell does he have to answer to?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I like how Bruce Dickinson pilots the Iron Maiden jet when they're on tour.
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steve:

are you serious Ken!?
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Cecile:

well, I now have an idea where Bruce got a lot of his phrasing from.
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Cecile:

yea, bruce is a trained commercial pilot.
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Chris from DC:

Yes!
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Carmichael:

Boy, I sure missed a great set during lunch. Have to hit the archives later. For the love of a salad ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:18pm
George of Troy:

Great vid of Bruce putting an Airbus A320 through it's paces: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 5:18pm
steve:

i never go to big stadium shows, but i saw Maiden at the PNC Center a few years ago and it was really awesome and memorable.

the music was great but pregaming with the 80s metalheads in the parking lot was even better.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:24pm
coelacanth:

hi Scott and others
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:25pm
Scott Williams:

yo Coel!
Avatar 5:32pm
Linda Lee:

lovely sounds once again Scott. you fix the day!
  5:32pm
JakeGould:

Hello!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm
Scott Williams:

Thank you Linda! Hello Jake!
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Carmichael:

No wonder Caravan sounds they way they do. They and Soft Machine members both came from Wilde Flowers. I love these educational shows!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:46pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

YES PLEASE
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:56pm
Scott Williams:

tanx errybuddy! see you next week
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thedunkel:

great snow scott! I mean show!
Avatar 🧩 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:57pm
chris:

thanks for making my flu-infested self feel much better, Scott! awesomeness.
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steve:

great show
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Linda Lee:

great show always
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm
coelacanth:

Thanks Scott!
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Thanks much, Scott!
Avatar 6:05pm
slugluv1313:

wonderful show, Scott -- thanks again!
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