WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 10, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:02pm Uncle Michael: I'm not sure I have the stamina for dosing at my age.
	10:02pm Gary: Yay!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Flashback!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: It's all a bag of fond (mostly) memories these days
	10:05pm Jeff Ash: Greetings again from Green Bay!
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:07pm Uncle Michael: Kitchen Cinq is in the pantheon of artists "interviewed" by Harry Harrison for The In Sound.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: No kidding? Texas group on Lee Hazlewood's label.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Next one's for Uncle Michael
	10:08pm JohnMount: love the harmony in this. is this one singer on many tracks or a group?
	10:09pm JohnMount: im john the musical luddite
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Group, the Blue Things, from Kansas!
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, I have the segment. I'll get it to you. I don't play 'em because they're kind of Evan Davies' thing. They're fun. Harry's so smarmy and I've decided that some lackey did the phoners and Harry's voice was edited in later.
	10:10pm JohnMount: i was referring to the codine song, just got late in posting,
	10:10pm Uncle Michael: Andrew did a Blue Things thing on Monday! Hays, KS...represent!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: I have some cool Voices of Vista records with Herb Oscar Anderson interviewing groups. One with two Jersey Shore garage bands!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: @John - Codine was the Kitchen Cinq, group
	10:12pm cupcakejenny: Hi
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Hi Jenny! Did those two maniacs go to bed yet?
	10:13pm still b/p: Wellll, I just had an unwelcome episode -- two-phase fuckuppery. Had my feet inside a duffel with a hot water bottle, to deal with stubbornly cold toe. When warmth was mostly gone from bottle, I switched to slippers and something's wet. Whoa, puddle, big puddle! Water bottle leaked a LOT. Moving my chair aside to deal with the alarming floor pond, I knocked what my supper tray was sitting on. The tray and last portions of supper with related dishware fell and were overturned on the floor. Bad trip, man Bad luckenklutzer...such a wetzenmesser.
	10:13pm cupcakejenny: No. I think I’ll let them run free and go to bed instead
	10:14pm PeterW: Awesome start to show!
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - OUCH.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Jenny - Good idea.
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Peter!
	10:15pm Uncle Michael: jesus, sb/p that's slapstick. slapstick in real life is not funny
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: I'm just glad there wasn't a bowling ball in there somewhere
	10:16pm Dean: I dunno. Laurel, Hardy & still b/p has a nice ring to it.
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Then he'll have to move pianos
	10:18pm still b/p: "Well, here's another fine minestrone you've gotten us into cleaning up."
	10:19pm Uncle Michael: Howard, Howard, Fine & still b/p.
	10:20pm Dean: L&H were pianos, but so much more. @UM, I've been listening to Ducks Deluxe c/o this: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/artists/ducks-deluxe/ If you don't know them, you should. (Which is my way of asking, please play some!)
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: It could have been fondue...
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: Or a hearty boulliabaisse...
	10:21pm Dean: ...to which you add a dash of laurel.
	10:21pm Uncle Michael: I can do that, Dean. I dig the Ducks.
	10:22pm Uncle Michael: I try to keep Laurel at bay.
	10:22pm Dean: Give him thyme.
	10:28pm still b/p: Now that both teams have entered the discussion, I'll cite a roughly recollected quote from Moe Howard contrasting Stooges and Laurel and Hardy: We got eight laughs a minute. They took eight minutes to get one laugh.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: I love them both, but L&H were sublime.
	10:31pm Uncle Michael: I wonder if Moe thought that was a knock.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough I was watching a clip of Moe on the Mike Douglas show today. He was still sharp.
	10:32pm Uncle Michael: Moe, or Mike?
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: Moe. Mike was never sharp
	10:33pm Uncle Michael: Was gonna say...
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: BTW this is a young Paul 'Rainbow Connection' Williams
	10:34pm Uncle Michael: I'd have banked on Scorpio Red...but I like this choice better.
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Also a good one
	10:35pm Uncle Michael: Mike Douglas made his first bones as the boy singer with Kay Kyser. At that time, the girl singer was Lucy Ann Polk.
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Who did she turn into?
	10:38pm Uncle Michael: Nobody: www.theabsolutesound.com...
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: Ah, the way you said that I made the assumption that it was the birth name of someone that went on to bigger things
	10:39pm still b/p: Yeah, I wish there'd been some added words from Moe to frame it. Either "So we were funnier," or "But they (L&H) were masters -- just different style." I never knew Peter Marshall was also a boy singer with bands until I heard him talking about it and plugging his stuff in his stint as a DJ in "Music of Your Life" format. "Boy Singer" is what he titled a late-life album. But he was...not so good in those later efforts. Don't know about the early ones.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I heard Marshall on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. I had no idea how old he was and how far back he went
	10:41pm Uncle Michael: His son played Major League ball...and was brave enough to use the real family name.
	10:42pm Uncle Michael: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: LaCock!
	10:42pm northguineahills: So, celebrating my first time being a defendant, ever, having my case dismissed, after work, I had a drink and an escargot tostada. I overheard one of the waitresses saying for her grad school video art assignment she had to do an "islamic rap". She had no idea what to do, so I pointed her to former wfmu dj /rupture's jaceclayton,com to get some reference. (Oddly enough, as soon I did that, I read a review in the wire of his book, "Uproot".
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Escargot tostada sounds delightful
	10:43pm Uncle Michael: Jace has never replied to my email. (harumph)
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Also a good name for a band
	10:44pm Dean: I don't question the reliability of that particular Absolute Sound article, but I dropped my subscription many years ago when a review in one issue proclaimed X the best ever, never to be excelled, and then an issue or two later another review (by the same reviewer) proclaimed another iteration of X far superior. The reviewer questioned how anybody could ever have endured the original X.
	10:45pm northguineahills: My Kaleidoscope LP got crushed during my move from Bed-Stuy to Williamsburg, 15 years ago.... @UM: He was really busy (especially w/ the book), so it might have been lost in the noise. I suggest you try again. He's been cordial w/ me and responded to my emails (when he wasn't swamped).
	10:46pm Uncle Michael: Reading TAS for music reviews seems silly.
	10:47pm Dean: TAS for equipment reviews is silly.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: I will try again, NGH. I know he keeps a shit-ton of iron in the fire. He's the only FMU DJ that's ever really featured that flavor of Cumbia I've spoken with you about.
	10:49pm still b/p: ngh, that was the case involving a victim of impactum exaggerata?
	10:49pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, Dean...I'm not into the terroir of the copper used in the winds of a transformer.
	10:49pm Uncle Michael: congrats on the dismissal, by the way
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: Yes, seriously
	10:52pm Dean: For music reviews, their canon includes, e.g., Jennifer Warnes' "Famous Blue Raincoat" for recording quality, but to my mind the music is at best fine. As for all the nitpicking about copper and cable, I'm actually a sucker. I believe weird adjustments can make real differences, but also that most double-blind tests won't reveal them, because you need to live with new equipment for quite a while before deciding how or why you enjoy it.
	10:54pm northguineahills: @still b/p: exactly. The responding officer got chewed out by the judge for not requesting the claimant to be subpoenaed (He had been in the force for less then a year). I knew he fell on his sword to get rid of this bullshittery. I thanked him afterwards and told him I saw what he did. He told me, "I had to write you up, but I don't like seeing BS". It's been a while since I've had a positive interaction w/ a cop.
	10:55pm Dean: The reviews I wrote about (X and its new iteration) had to do with cartridges, not music. Unbelievable. A straight-faced extreme contradiction of what the reviewer had recently proclaimed.
	10:55pm Uncle Michael: I don't think anyone can correctly identify a $1k cable they've lived with against a .99 cent radio shack cable in a double blind test...but I don't want to get into an audiophile argument. Most of the $100k+ systems I've listened to sounded amazing. I'll leave it at that. There's no reason such a system should have .99 cent cables.
	10:56pm Dean: Precisely. Though I've heard $100k systems that sound not so good, too.
	10:57pm Uncle Michael: I actually thought you were talking about the band X.
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: I'd rather spend 100K on 45s
	10:58pm Dean: X the band is not a question for me at all. I liked their very first single, nothing at all thereafter. Poseurs.
	11:00pm Uncle Michael: That's an argument I'm REALLY not going to have. In fact, I'm going to bed. Night all.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Nite UM!
	11:00pm Dean: G'night.
	11:09pm northguineahills: I've done that before. "everything is half off! [2 hours and two armfulls later]"
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, "I'll be riiiiiiiiight back!"
	11:21pm Jeff Ash: I listened to this Moody Blues cut a million times back in the '70s. That great "This Is The Moody Blues" comp.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: I had that one too
	11:24pm still b/p: I recall doing my paper route at about age 12 and composing in my head a song in the voice of someone on an acid trip.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: How'd it turn out?
	11:27pm still b/p: Oh, it was ridiculous and melodramatic and based on a mish-mash of standard impressions from what I'd seen and read in the previous few years. I don't think the song idea lasted many days beyond that. I wouldn't actually have the experience for myself until three years later. And no song came out of it.
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: hello Larry and all
	11:27pm Parq: Hi, all. F16C @ 10:31, I saw that clip of Moe Howard on Mike Douglas too recently. Some stuff, huh? Exact same soup-bowl haircut but ash white. Mike Douglas had a ton of cool guest segments in the early 70s. I always used to wonder, was he cooler than he looked, or did he have producers who were allowed to do their own thing?
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: (been here on n off and on for a good while now)
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Hi C, Parq!
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: About 30 years ago my brother and I tripped while listening to this album. I kept playing the intro over and over to see if I could figure out what they were saying, all the while jiggling a desk lamp because I was convinced the light bulb was a balloon containing light. Good times!
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - You know who one of Douglas's producers was??
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: Roger Ailes...
	11:33pm Parq: I don't, Larry, but somebody was cool enough to book the likes of John Lennon (with Chuck Berry!), Spanky McFarlane and the Johnny Otis Show on a weekday afternoon talk show for housewives. And watching Douglas, it's awfully hard to believe it was him, but we know that looks can be deceiving.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: it's weird i think i never played that pink floyd album whilst tripping. definitely meddle. that got scary during echoes. - and wish you were here; and dark side, probably, though i don't remember that one.
	11:34pm Parq: Wait, seriously?? This changes everything!
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @C - All of the above
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Seriously
	11:35pm still b/p: It was interesting days when talk shows could routinely have as guests true old-schoolers who'd been at it since vaudeville days and then also have the new talent and freaks and counterculture provocateurs of the day as TV tried to keep up and generate attention.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: I think the Douglas Show is where Ailes met Nixon. From Wikipedia: Ailes' career in television began in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he started as Production Assistant (1961), Producer (1965), and Executive Producer (1967–68) for KYW-TV,[6] for a then-locally produced talk-variety show, The Mike Douglas Show. He continued as Executive Producer for the show when it was syndicated nationally, and in 1967 and 1968 he won Emmy Awards for it.[6]
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: I think he might have moved on by the John and Yoko days
	11:38pm coelacanth∅: never watched Mike Douglas. i did like Dick Cavett. i think he was truly cool because he was a dork! he didn't adopt any cool expressions and persona even when he had the heavyweights on. obviously into them, but absolutely real.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: I was too young for Cavett (watched him alot since) but Mike Douglas was on every day after school
	11:42pm Parq: My dad worked for Cavett once. It did not go well.
	11:42pm still b/p: Those asterisks on the Douglas set...those asterisks... Funny, Cavett always strikes me as a guy who must ALWAYS show he's as clever and erudite as whomever he's interviewing. Maybe there's more appeal in the earliest period. But he's a little tough to take. He was friendly enough when he knelt on my back in an impromptu human pyramid in a Yale quad when I was visiting in '77.
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: i was not into tv at all by the time i was around 8-9; though i did watch a few things as a teenager, like "don kirshner's rock concert" on friday nights. i recorded a lot of that onto radioshack cassettes with a panasonic lecture recorder.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: Part of Cavett's appeal for me is watching him butt his brain against guys like Norman Mailer. He was egotistical, but gutsy, and smart
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: And he had some really unusual panels on his shows
	11:45pm still b/p: I saw Mailer in Provincetown in his last years. He did not kneel on my back.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: I bet he wanted to
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: His wife was constantly holding him back. "Norman, stop kneeling on people!!"
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: i guess Cavett did try to demonstrate some level of hipness but why wouldn't he try? he was into these hippies and rockers, at least on some level. as far as trying to be clever, isn't that part of the job? ...i don't know; maybe i don't remember him accurately.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Rick Moranis used to do a great imitation of Cavett at his namedroppingest on SCTV
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: definitely listened to the who sell out tripping...and spirit, but not that album.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: That first Spirit album is amazing
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: i didn't hear it till years later. my friend had "...dr.sardonicus" (sp?)
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yes, 'The 12 Dreams of..."
	11:55pm Parq: Love that Turtles track. In the early 80s, inspired by its success on Armed Forces Radio, they used to lead into it in their live shows with an elaborate Apocalypse Now spoof. ("I wanted a mission, and for my sins and they gave me one. Kill the fat actor.")
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Cool show. Thanks, Larry!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: okay i haven't thought about this since it was where i was at. now i thinking i'll make a list of the soundtrack albums to my acid experiences. (in chronological order through different eras of my social life) ...because i'm already surprised by what i'm remembering!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: @C - Yeah, things come creeping back gradually
	12:01am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Great program! ciao
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks C!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 10, 2018

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Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Cherry Slush	I Cannot Stop You "I Cannot Stop You" by "Cherry Slush"	45RPM Single	USA	1967	45
Kitchen Cinq	Codine "Codine" by "Kitchen Cinq"	Everything But	LHI	1967	LP
The Blue Things	The Orange Rooftop Of Your Mind	45RPM Single	RCA	1966	45
The Equals	The Skies Above "The Skies Above" by "The Equals"	Baby Come Back	RCA	1968	LP
Clear Light	Think Again "Think Again" by "Clear Light"	Clear Light	Elektra	1967	LP
Fever Tree	Death Is The Dancer "Death Is The Dancer" by "Fever Tree"	Another Time Another Place	UNI	1968	LP
Bee Gees	The Earnest of Being George	Horizontal	Atco	1968	LP
Kak	Rain (45 Edit) "Rain (45 Edit)" by "Kak"	45RPM Single	Epic	1968	45

Les Sauterelles	Dream Machine "Dream Machine" by "Les Sauterelles"	45RPM Single	London	1968	45
Holy Mackerel	The Secret of Pleasure	Holy Mackerel	Reprise	1968	LP
Thorinsheild	Wrong My Friend "Wrong My Friend" by "Thorinsheild"	Thorinshield	Philips	1968	LP
Pink Floyd	Candy and a Currant Bun	45RPM Single	Columbia	1967	45
National Gallery	Long Hair Soulful	Performing Musical Interpretations of the Paintings of Paul Klee	Philips	1968	LP
Keleidoscope	Flight From Ashiya "Flight From Ashiya" by "Keleidoscope"	45RPM Single	Fontana	1967	45
Kaleidoscope	Keep Your Mind Open "Keep Your Mind Open" by "Kaleidoscope"	Side Trips	Epic	1967	LP
The Millennium	Karmic Dream Sequence #1	Begin	Columbia	1968	LP
JK and Co	Break Of Dawn/Fly "Break Of Dawn/Fly" by "JK and Co"	Suddenly one Summer	White Whale	1968	LP
JK and Co	Crystal Ball "Crystal Ball" by "JK and Co"	Suddenly One Summer	White Whale	1968	LP
JK and Co	Magical Fingers of Minerva	Suddenly One Summer	White Whale	1968	LP
JK and Co	Land of Sensations and Delights	Suddenly One Summer	White Whale	1968	LP

Brotherhood	Jump Out the Window "Jump Out the Window" by "Brotherhood"	Brotherhood	RCA	1968	LP
The Avant Garde	Yellow Beads "Yellow Beads" by "The Avant Garde"	45RPM Single	Columbia	1968	45
Kak	Lemonade Kid "Lemonade Kid" by "Kak"	Kak	Epic	1969	LP
Moody Blues	Legend of a Mind "Legend of a Mind" by "Moody Blues"	In Search of the Lost Chord	Deram	1968	LP
Pink Floyd	Astronomy Domine "Astronomy Domine" by "Pink Floyd"	Piper at the Gates of Dawn	Columbia	1967	LP
Virgin Sleep	Love "Love" by "Virgin Sleep"	45RPM Single	Deram	1967	45
Philamore Lincoln	The North Wind Blew South	The North Wind Blew South	Epic	1970	LP
Spirit	The Girl In Your Eye "The Girl In Your Eye" by "Spirit"	Spirit	Ode	1968	LP
Steve Miller Band	Quicksilver Girl	Sailor	Capitol	1968	LP
The Who	Rael "Rael" by "The Who"	The Who Sell Out	Decca	1967	LP
The Turtles	She's My Girl "She's My Girl" by "The Turtles"	45RPM Single	White Whale	1968	45
Mighty Baby	Egyptian Tomb "Egyptian Tomb" by "Mighty Baby"	Mighty Baby	Head	1969	LP

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45

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Listener comments!
	10:02pm Uncle Michael: I'm not sure I have the stamina for dosing at my age.
	10:02pm Gary: Yay!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Flashback!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: It's all a bag of fond (mostly) memories these days
	10:05pm Jeff Ash: Greetings again from Green Bay!
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: Hey Jeff!
	10:07pm Uncle Michael: Kitchen Cinq is in the pantheon of artists "interviewed" by Harry Harrison for The In Sound.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: No kidding? Texas group on Lee Hazlewood's label.
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Next one's for Uncle Michael
	10:08pm JohnMount: love the harmony in this. is this one singer on many tracks or a group?
	10:09pm JohnMount: im john the musical luddite
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Group, the Blue Things, from Kansas!
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, I have the segment. I'll get it to you. I don't play 'em because they're kind of Evan Davies' thing. They're fun. Harry's so smarmy and I've decided that some lackey did the phoners and Harry's voice was edited in later.
	10:10pm JohnMount: i was referring to the codine song, just got late in posting,
	10:10pm Uncle Michael: Andrew did a Blue Things thing on Monday! Hays, KS...represent!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: I have some cool Voices of Vista records with Herb Oscar Anderson interviewing groups. One with two Jersey Shore garage bands!
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: @John - Codine was the Kitchen Cinq, group
	10:12pm cupcakejenny: Hi
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Hi Jenny! Did those two maniacs go to bed yet?
	10:13pm still b/p: Wellll, I just had an unwelcome episode -- two-phase fuckuppery. Had my feet inside a duffel with a hot water bottle, to deal with stubbornly cold toe. When warmth was mostly gone from bottle, I switched to slippers and something's wet. Whoa, puddle, big puddle! Water bottle leaked a LOT. Moving my chair aside to deal with the alarming floor pond, I knocked what my supper tray was sitting on. The tray and last portions of supper with related dishware fell and were overturned on the floor. Bad trip, man Bad luckenklutzer...such a wetzenmesser.
	10:13pm cupcakejenny: No. I think I’ll let them run free and go to bed instead
	10:14pm PeterW: Awesome start to show!
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - OUCH.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Jenny - Good idea.
	10:15pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Peter!
	10:15pm Uncle Michael: jesus, sb/p that's slapstick. slapstick in real life is not funny
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: I'm just glad there wasn't a bowling ball in there somewhere
	10:16pm Dean: I dunno. Laurel, Hardy & still b/p has a nice ring to it.
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: Then he'll have to move pianos
	10:18pm still b/p: "Well, here's another fine minestrone you've gotten us into cleaning up."
	10:19pm Uncle Michael: Howard, Howard, Fine & still b/p.
	10:20pm Dean: L&H were pianos, but so much more. @UM, I've been listening to Ducks Deluxe c/o this: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/artists/ducks-deluxe/ If you don't know them, you should. (Which is my way of asking, please play some!)
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: It could have been fondue...
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: Or a hearty boulliabaisse...
	10:21pm Dean: ...to which you add a dash of laurel.
	10:21pm Uncle Michael: I can do that, Dean. I dig the Ducks.
	10:22pm Uncle Michael: I try to keep Laurel at bay.
	10:22pm Dean: Give him thyme.
	10:28pm still b/p: Now that both teams have entered the discussion, I'll cite a roughly recollected quote from Moe Howard contrasting Stooges and Laurel and Hardy: We got eight laughs a minute. They took eight minutes to get one laugh.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: I love them both, but L&H were sublime.
	10:31pm Uncle Michael: I wonder if Moe thought that was a knock.
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Oddly enough I was watching a clip of Moe on the Mike Douglas show today. He was still sharp.
	10:32pm Uncle Michael: Moe, or Mike?
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: Moe. Mike was never sharp
	10:33pm Uncle Michael: Was gonna say...
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: BTW this is a young Paul 'Rainbow Connection' Williams
	10:34pm Uncle Michael: I'd have banked on Scorpio Red...but I like this choice better.
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: Also a good one
	10:35pm Uncle Michael: Mike Douglas made his first bones as the boy singer with Kay Kyser. At that time, the girl singer was Lucy Ann Polk.
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: Who did she turn into?
	10:38pm Uncle Michael: Nobody: www.theabsolutesound.com...
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: Ah, the way you said that I made the assumption that it was the birth name of someone that went on to bigger things
	10:39pm still b/p: Yeah, I wish there'd been some added words from Moe to frame it. Either "So we were funnier," or "But they (L&H) were masters -- just different style." I never knew Peter Marshall was also a boy singer with bands until I heard him talking about it and plugging his stuff in his stint as a DJ in "Music of Your Life" format. "Boy Singer" is what he titled a late-life album. But he was...not so good in those later efforts. Don't know about the early ones.
	10:40pm Funky16Corners: I heard Marshall on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. I had no idea how old he was and how far back he went
	10:41pm Uncle Michael: His son played Major League ball...and was brave enough to use the real family name.
	10:42pm Uncle Michael: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: LaCock!
	10:42pm northguineahills: So, celebrating my first time being a defendant, ever, having my case dismissed, after work, I had a drink and an escargot tostada. I overheard one of the waitresses saying for her grad school video art assignment she had to do an "islamic rap". She had no idea what to do, so I pointed her to former wfmu dj /rupture's jaceclayton,com to get some reference. (Oddly enough, as soon I did that, I read a review in the wire of his book, "Uproot".
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Escargot tostada sounds delightful
	10:43pm Uncle Michael: Jace has never replied to my email. (harumph)
	10:44pm Funky16Corners: Also a good name for a band
	10:44pm Dean: I don't question the reliability of that particular Absolute Sound article, but I dropped my subscription many years ago when a review in one issue proclaimed X the best ever, never to be excelled, and then an issue or two later another review (by the same reviewer) proclaimed another iteration of X far superior. The reviewer questioned how anybody could ever have endured the original X.
	10:45pm northguineahills: My Kaleidoscope LP got crushed during my move from Bed-Stuy to Williamsburg, 15 years ago.... @UM: He was really busy (especially w/ the book), so it might have been lost in the noise. I suggest you try again. He's been cordial w/ me and responded to my emails (when he wasn't swamped).
	10:46pm Uncle Michael: Reading TAS for music reviews seems silly.
	10:47pm Dean: TAS for equipment reviews is silly.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: I will try again, NGH. I know he keeps a shit-ton of iron in the fire. He's the only FMU DJ that's ever really featured that flavor of Cumbia I've spoken with you about.
	10:49pm still b/p: ngh, that was the case involving a victim of impactum exaggerata?
	10:49pm Uncle Michael: Yeah, Dean...I'm not into the terroir of the copper used in the winds of a transformer.
	10:49pm Uncle Michael: congrats on the dismissal, by the way
	10:50pm Funky16Corners: Yes, seriously
	10:52pm Dean: For music reviews, their canon includes, e.g., Jennifer Warnes' "Famous Blue Raincoat" for recording quality, but to my mind the music is at best fine. As for all the nitpicking about copper and cable, I'm actually a sucker. I believe weird adjustments can make real differences, but also that most double-blind tests won't reveal them, because you need to live with new equipment for quite a while before deciding how or why you enjoy it.
	10:54pm northguineahills: @still b/p: exactly. The responding officer got chewed out by the judge for not requesting the claimant to be subpoenaed (He had been in the force for less then a year). I knew he fell on his sword to get rid of this bullshittery. I thanked him afterwards and told him I saw what he did. He told me, "I had to write you up, but I don't like seeing BS". It's been a while since I've had a positive interaction w/ a cop.
	10:55pm Dean: The reviews I wrote about (X and its new iteration) had to do with cartridges, not music. Unbelievable. A straight-faced extreme contradiction of what the reviewer had recently proclaimed.
	10:55pm Uncle Michael: I don't think anyone can correctly identify a $1k cable they've lived with against a .99 cent radio shack cable in a double blind test...but I don't want to get into an audiophile argument. Most of the $100k+ systems I've listened to sounded amazing. I'll leave it at that. There's no reason such a system should have .99 cent cables.
	10:56pm Dean: Precisely. Though I've heard $100k systems that sound not so good, too.
	10:57pm Uncle Michael: I actually thought you were talking about the band X.
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: I'd rather spend 100K on 45s
	10:58pm Dean: X the band is not a question for me at all. I liked their very first single, nothing at all thereafter. Poseurs.
	11:00pm Uncle Michael: That's an argument I'm REALLY not going to have. In fact, I'm going to bed. Night all.
	11:00pm Funky16Corners: Nite UM!
	11:00pm Dean: G'night.
	11:09pm northguineahills: I've done that before. "everything is half off! [2 hours and two armfulls later]"
	11:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, "I'll be riiiiiiiiight back!"
	11:21pm Jeff Ash: I listened to this Moody Blues cut a million times back in the '70s. That great "This Is The Moody Blues" comp.
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: I had that one too
	11:24pm still b/p: I recall doing my paper route at about age 12 and composing in my head a song in the voice of someone on an acid trip.
	11:24pm Funky16Corners: How'd it turn out?
	11:27pm still b/p: Oh, it was ridiculous and melodramatic and based on a mish-mash of standard impressions from what I'd seen and read in the previous few years. I don't think the song idea lasted many days beyond that. I wouldn't actually have the experience for myself until three years later. And no song came out of it.
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: hello Larry and all
	11:27pm Parq: Hi, all. F16C @ 10:31, I saw that clip of Moe Howard on Mike Douglas too recently. Some stuff, huh? Exact same soup-bowl haircut but ash white. Mike Douglas had a ton of cool guest segments in the early 70s. I always used to wonder, was he cooler than he looked, or did he have producers who were allowed to do their own thing?
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: (been here on n off and on for a good while now)
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: Hi C, Parq!
	11:29pm Funky16Corners: About 30 years ago my brother and I tripped while listening to this album. I kept playing the intro over and over to see if I could figure out what they were saying, all the while jiggling a desk lamp because I was convinced the light bulb was a balloon containing light. Good times!
	11:30pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - You know who one of Douglas's producers was??
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: Roger Ailes...
	11:33pm Parq: I don't, Larry, but somebody was cool enough to book the likes of John Lennon (with Chuck Berry!), Spanky McFarlane and the Johnny Otis Show on a weekday afternoon talk show for housewives. And watching Douglas, it's awfully hard to believe it was him, but we know that looks can be deceiving.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: it's weird i think i never played that pink floyd album whilst tripping. definitely meddle. that got scary during echoes. - and wish you were here; and dark side, probably, though i don't remember that one.
	11:34pm Parq: Wait, seriously?? This changes everything!
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: @C - All of the above
	11:34pm Funky16Corners: Seriously
	11:35pm still b/p: It was interesting days when talk shows could routinely have as guests true old-schoolers who'd been at it since vaudeville days and then also have the new talent and freaks and counterculture provocateurs of the day as TV tried to keep up and generate attention.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: I think the Douglas Show is where Ailes met Nixon. From Wikipedia: Ailes' career in television began in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he started as Production Assistant (1961), Producer (1965), and Executive Producer (1967–68) for KYW-TV,[6] for a then-locally produced talk-variety show, The Mike Douglas Show. He continued as Executive Producer for the show when it was syndicated nationally, and in 1967 and 1968 he won Emmy Awards for it.[6]
	11:38pm Funky16Corners: I think he might have moved on by the John and Yoko days
	11:38pm coelacanth∅: never watched Mike Douglas. i did like Dick Cavett. i think he was truly cool because he was a dork! he didn't adopt any cool expressions and persona even when he had the heavyweights on. obviously into them, but absolutely real.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: I was too young for Cavett (watched him alot since) but Mike Douglas was on every day after school
	11:42pm Parq: My dad worked for Cavett once. It did not go well.
	11:42pm still b/p: Those asterisks on the Douglas set...those asterisks... Funny, Cavett always strikes me as a guy who must ALWAYS show he's as clever and erudite as whomever he's interviewing. Maybe there's more appeal in the earliest period. But he's a little tough to take. He was friendly enough when he knelt on my back in an impromptu human pyramid in a Yale quad when I was visiting in '77.
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: i was not into tv at all by the time i was around 8-9; though i did watch a few things as a teenager, like "don kirshner's rock concert" on friday nights. i recorded a lot of that onto radioshack cassettes with a panasonic lecture recorder.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: Part of Cavett's appeal for me is watching him butt his brain against guys like Norman Mailer. He was egotistical, but gutsy, and smart
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: And he had some really unusual panels on his shows
	11:45pm still b/p: I saw Mailer in Provincetown in his last years. He did not kneel on my back.
	11:45pm Funky16Corners: I bet he wanted to
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: His wife was constantly holding him back. "Norman, stop kneeling on people!!"
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: i guess Cavett did try to demonstrate some level of hipness but why wouldn't he try? he was into these hippies and rockers, at least on some level. as far as trying to be clever, isn't that part of the job? ...i don't know; maybe i don't remember him accurately.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: Rick Moranis used to do a great imitation of Cavett at his namedroppingest on SCTV
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: definitely listened to the who sell out tripping...and spirit, but not that album.
	11:49pm Funky16Corners: That first Spirit album is amazing
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: i didn't hear it till years later. my friend had "...dr.sardonicus" (sp?)
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yes, 'The 12 Dreams of..."
	11:55pm Parq: Love that Turtles track. In the early 80s, inspired by its success on Armed Forces Radio, they used to lead into it in their live shows with an elaborate Apocalypse Now spoof. ("I wanted a mission, and for my sins and they gave me one. Kill the fat actor.")
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Cool show. Thanks, Larry!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: okay i haven't thought about this since it was where i was at. now i thinking i'll make a list of the soundtrack albums to my acid experiences. (in chronological order through different eras of my social life) ...because i'm already surprised by what i'm remembering!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: @C - Yeah, things come creeping back gradually
	12:01am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Great program! ciao
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks C!

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