WFMU: Teenage Wasteland Playlist

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3:06pm George Kopp:

Pride of Man! Love the early Quicksilver stuff. Wasn't this song mentioned on HBO's Vinyl recently?

3:06pm noel:

Hippie Music!!! love it.

3:06pm geezerette:

Yeah! (:cD

3:07pm John McCabe:

im here

3:12pm Richard Tobias:

Quicksilver opener! Worth an an additional pledge. Always the body music.
Ty

3:14pm John McCabe:

(@_@)

3:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I hope you'll excuse an extensive Guitarnerding re Cipollina of Quicksilver?:

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Wigkey: Equipment and technique[edit]
Cipollina had a unique guitar sound, mixing solid state and valve amplifiers as early as 1965. He is considered one of the fathers of the San Francisco psychedelic rock sound.

"I like the rapid punch of solid-state for the bottom, and the rodent-gnawing distortion of the tubes on top."[2]

To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one-of-a-kind amplifier stack. His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns.[3]

Cipollina used a custom foot switch setup to select reverb, tremolo, Maestro Echoplex (the unit mounted on the right of the Twin Reverb), and Standel Modulux (on the left of the twin reverb). 12 volt automotive running lights indicated which effect was being used. In the 1980s, he used a series of standard stomp-box pedals, including a chorus and a Boss Spectrum SP-1.

Cipollina also employed a Gibson Maestro Fuzz and Vox wah-wah/volume pedals. For slide effects, he favored a plastic Bic lighter for precision work, or ran his guitar against the mike stand for more dramatic effects.

Throughout his career, Cipollina usually played Gibson SGs, but in the late '70s and into the '80s could also be seen playing a Carvin DC150, a double-cutaway with more modern electronics. He played with finger picks, a thumb pick, and used a whammy bar extensively which, he explained to Jerry Garcia, was to make up for his weak left hand. For slide playing, he often switched to one of his Les Paul guitars, played lap-style, using his leg on a monitor for support.

3:16pm Karl:

Zoefonts? didn't catch that band's name - reminds me of the Jet Black Berries - that I first heard on your show back in the mid 80s

3:19pm Agent Peter:

There's a great clip on YouTube of Cipollina performing with Link Wray..

3:20pm George Kopp:

Cipollina could get that crazy rattlesnake guitar sound that I never heard anyone else achieve.

3:22pm Mailman Tom:

John Cipollina is my guitar god. I have a shrine dedicated to him in my living room, which includes his autograph tipped onto an 8x10 glossy.

3:25pm geezerette:

God Mr. Kelly! SoooooooooGOOD!!!!

3:26pm fleep:

I'll sit this one out, thanks.

3:36pm George Kopp:

Thanks for paying Chris Bolger's tunes, Bill. Really likin' the CD.

3:36pm geezerette:

Hey fleep! It's hot, but your avatar is cool!
Keep flappin' those flippers.

3:57pm davie allun:

and from "Let the Good Times Roll" Shirley Goodman went on - via Micky & Sylvia's Sylvia Robinson's persuasion - to sing disco's "Shame, Shame, Shame"

4:03pm noel:

venus in furs too good to be true

4:04pm fleep:

[fleep flaps a flipper in the general direction of the Basin] Yo, geezerette!

4:06pm Mailman Tom:

I have the paperback, the Velvet Underground by Michael Leigh, published in 1963. The band named themselves after the title to this book.

4:06pm geezerette:

(:cD

4:14pm davie allun:

preceded by the "Venus in Furs" title taken from another author

4:15pm Michael:

Mary McCarthy, the girl she loved, to rock-n-roll and Ball! Alternative Ulster in da house! woo- hoo!

4:22pm DaveinPA:

shades of 'Ballad of Bilbo Baggins'

4:42pm Cliff:

I can't believe what I'm hearing right now

4:44pm davie allyn:

limit dairy consumption, screamin' jay

4:45pm SeanG:

SPLISH SPLASH

4:46pm Cliff:

davie allyn: Except for yogurt, that always helps to get things moving

4:54pm geezerette:

David Foster Wallace's grannie called apples,"The broom of the system".

4:55pm geezerette:

Explains why they keep the doctor away!

4:56pm Cliff:

And then there's psyllium....

4:57pm geezerette:

and cruciferous vegetables.

4:58pm Cliff:

And Starbucks

4:59pm geezerette:

(:c)

4:59pm Cliff:

Anyways, Swedish sugar-sweet girl-pop cover of Dio was pretty cool

5:01pm IFisher:

Boss show, Mr. Kelly - thanks

7:06am Iikka from Helsinki:

I don't know if the typo was intentional or not, but 'Venus in Spurs' is pure genius.

10:01am bk:

"Venus in Spurs" is pure evil...and when I say evil I mean genius. It's the only reason I ever had to not completely dismiss Lou Reed.

April 17, 2016

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