WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 24, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Uncle Michael: Testify! Purger!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Unk!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Green Bay!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	10:03pm Uncle Michael: Jeff, can you head over to the Dells and send me some smoked sturgeon?
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Mmmmmmm. Smoked fish. Is it anything like lox?
	10:04pm Uncle Michael: Nope
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Please to describe.
	10:04pm Uncle Michael: Or the whitefish...stinky, oily thing...wrapped in foil.
	10:06pm geezerette: Evening, Larry and witnesses! ...but stinky & oily in a good way. :D
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Geezerette!
	10:07pm geezerette: Larry!
	10:07pm still b/p: Stinky and Oily were in a bunch of Hal Roach shorts I think.
	10:08pm geezerette: Ha ha!
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP!
	10:08pm Parq: Evening, all. So, Hugh Masakela an Ursula LeGuin are standing on line at the Pearly Gates. Ursula looks up from her manuscript and says...
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: I'll only watch those with the original Stinky. Rhey guy who replaced him after the "big accident" was awful.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Evening Parq!
	10:09pm Parq: I've never smoked sturgeon. It keeps clogging my pipe.
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: igx.4sqi.net...
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Too hard to light.
	10:10pm geezerette: ...use papers...
	10:10pm Dean: "Ooga Booga," recently revived as a trope by Frederick Seidel in a book of poetry so named: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/04/ooga-booga
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: As opposed to "UNGA BUNGA BINGA BANGA BOONGA" as revived by Bugs Bunny
	10:11pm geezerette: that photo makes me hungry.
	10:11pm Uncle Michael: That's ok, Parq...the Sturgeon General says it's bad for you.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: He'll be here all night folks!
	10:12pm hyde: aw hell, did i miss smoking the sturgeon?
	10:12pm Parq: "Ceci n'est pas une sturgeon."
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Hyde!
	10:12pm Dean: My kids definitely do not call it smoking the sturgeon.
	10:14pm geezerette: This is SO GOOD!!!
	10:16pm Parq: That "Mas Que Nada" was way cool -- one giant of 60s international pop covering another one.
	10:16pm Parq: "Hugh Masakela's music was black as night." -Eric Burdon.
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: The first time I heard that I was blown away. I was so used to the Sergio Mendes version and never conceived of it as a slow song
	10:17pm still b/p: Wicked bad for you -- Murderer's Roe.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and others
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:24pm geezerette: Howdy, Coel! Gang!
	10:25pm Parq: I assume there are other people here who remember hearing "Grazing" -- and "Mas Que Nada", for that matter -- on top 40 radio in the 60s. Looking back on that now, it blows me away. A kid from the burbs could turn on AM radio and hear soul, funk, boogaloo -- whatever was selling. We were so dumb! We had no idea that we had to be carefully divided into demographic sub-markets and stay within the lines. We actually thought we could listen to whatever sounded good enough to sell. The nerve of us!
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: g!
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - One of my great pleasures is the 60s Satellite Survey on Sirius. You tend to get all of the Top 40 for a given week. So many great things, in so many diverse genres
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: i heard this song within the past few weeks, but i'm not sure it was Norma Tanega. anyone know of another version ? ...it sounds like a Roy Harper song.
	10:28pm doctorjazz: Early Tull! Cool! Hi all, here for a bit...
	10:29pm Dean: Yes, Parq, I know that experience. I think I gained perspective from the fact that many of my friends had older siblings whose record collections informed what I heard. Even if those albums included AM and FM playlist songs, I was exposed to the albums as works in themselves. That taught me that there was more out there than what commercial radio had to offer.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: It's her song. It opens the movie 'What We Do In the Shadows'
	10:29pm Dean: Tull being a great example.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: Hey DR!
	10:29pm Uncle Michael: The small Tull window within which I don't hit "skip."
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: I love the first two albums especially
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: (i have a 'tull bay window!)
	10:30pm Dean: Heh, wider, I'm sure, than the window through which I view Elvis Costello, among others.
	10:31pm doctorjazz: With you, UM! First 2 albums were cool, saw them around that time...
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey mannnnn, Tull can go wherever he wants
	10:31pm doctorjazz: (and Larry)
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: the first 2 and aqualung are by far my 3 favorites; but i like everything up to and including songs from the wood. (minstrel... is boring though)
	10:32pm doctorjazz: Ahhh, making me smile...
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: That was my plan!
	10:32pm still b/p: Rock musicologists speak of the Tullian Mullion.
	10:32pm Uncle Michael: The complete Europe '72 box set makes this poor album suffer terribly.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: I'd like to hear that!
	10:33pm doctorjazz: Have to check it out, never heard the box.
	10:33pm Uncle Michael: It takes a while!
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: I can hang. I saw them a bunch of times, some amazing, some....not so amazing
	10:34pm Dean: The venue just beyond my backyard features tonight, as it does many Wednesday nights, a Dead emulation band. I have never heard them live. As opposed to the Dead themselves, whom, well, you know...
	10:34pm Uncle Michael: who's there tonight, Dean?
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: i don't need to to hear every one of the 100s or 1000s of versions of any dead song. and "i know you rider" there's 100 okay versions and only one great one. (the earliest one available)
	10:35pm doctorjazz: Same, some shows I don't think could be topped...then, when Jerry was ill, saw them at the Garden, and he was a full measure behind the band on Sugar Magnolia for about a chorus (and I think hardly anyone noticed...)
	10:35pm Dean: http://www.ashkenaz.com/eventcalendar/2017/12/13/stu-allen-mars-hotel-j3yfn-gcr4h-nw6ka
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: The first time I saw them do this was as blissful an experience as I've ever had seeing live music, and the drugs were just the frosting on the cake.
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: @DrJazz - The worst show I ever saw by them was at the Garden.
	10:37pm Dean: Speaking of which, I'd like to score some cake frosting...
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: They weren't stretching out at all. It was close to the end
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: MMMMMMMMMM frosting
	10:38pm Uncle Michael: Dean's worst was Boreal Ridge.
	10:38pm coelacanth∅: i recorded a dead performance being "simulcast" over wnewfm c.1979 (capital theatre?)onto 8-track tape. Jerry was sick and as he's the only good vocalist after Pig Pen died the show wasn't worth saving, in my opinion.
	10:38pm Dean: Because I attended every Dead show I've seen many worst shows. Hard to rank them.
	10:38pm Leslie: Love JT and now the dead
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: I was lucky enough to see then tour with Bruce Hornsby who was a great complement as a keyboard player
	10:39pm doctorjazz: More smilin', go Jerry!
	10:40pm Leslie: AndEurope '72 was one of their best lp's
	10:40pm Uncle Michael: I saw a bunch of those Bruce shows.
	10:42pm doctorjazz: Was at RFK Stadium Dead, Allman Brothers, that one was pretty good...Saw them with the Band as well (missed the 3 of them together, though).
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: i was very into europe 72 for quite a while. my favorite 'dead albums by far though are "vintage dead" and "the grateful dead"(the first album)
	10:45pm Uncle Michael: Help>Slip>Franklin's, baby!
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: I love everything up to Live Dead (and most after) but that early experimental stuff really hits me
	10:47pm coelacanth∅: i might agree with you there, UM. it's been a few years though.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: Doc submitted a China>Rider request for the all request show but I couldn't give it the time. I would have played Veneta '72.
	10:48pm coelacanth∅: oh yes i forgot about aoxamoaxa (sp?!) that's pretty stellar!
	10:48pm doctorjazz: I figured it was probably too long for that show...got to hear the saddest song ever, though (I know, I know...)
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Anthem of the Sun is challenging listening at times but it's one of my faves
	10:50pm coelacanth∅: UM if i'd submitted my request the day before it would've been "willie o'winsbury" by Anne Briggs. i did consider though that even that (@6 minutes?) may be too long.
	10:50pm doctorjazz: Basically I love everything up to Mars Hotel, (and that was a slight dip to me), not so much after.
	10:50pm Uncle Michael: I may play that China>Rider yet. I still have my tickets for the 20th anniversary shows for Veneta in '92. Cancelled due to Garcia's illness. They did the refunds and let us keep the tickets.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: There are bits and bobs that i love all the way to the end, Picasso Moon is a fave
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: mars hotel was big for me when we were tripping a lot!
	10:51pm doctorjazz: And speaking of Smiles, this Miles does the trick as well...
	10:51pm Uncle Michael: Ooh-Wee
	10:52pm doctorjazz: Ooh Wee. Baby!
	10:52pm cupcakejenny: I just texted you
	10:52pm Uncle Michael: By the time I was heavy into them, I had all the albums but tapes were much more important to me than the studio stuff.
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: I used to work with an oldschool Deadhead, deep into the tape game. He was always passing me stuff. Much lost to the ages (and old apartments)
	10:54pm Uncle Michael: I was a bigtime trader. Want thousands of hour on DAT? Pay the shipping...
	10:54pm doctorjazz: I had friends into all the taping stuff, other live shows as well. Tried it myself a couple of times-had a good Sony Cassette deck, stealth mics that hang from glasses, made me crazy staying totally silent and not moving, gave up quickly (got some good tapes from the friend, though...)
	10:55pm Dean: "An oldschool Deadhead"...let's get some perspective, folks. Is there a current crop of Deadheads?
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: Well, I didn't really get into them until the late 80s. This guy had been going since the early 70s
	10:57pm Uncle Michael: I started going to shows in '81 and started trading not long after that.
	10:57pm doctorjazz: Went to Phil Lesh's show in Westchester early last year...the answer is, yes, there are young Deadheads.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: When I was in high school they played at Raceway Park, not too far from my house. It was local hysterial/hippy invasion time
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: hysteria
	10:58pm doctorjazz: I'm an alte cocker/old fart, went in the 70's.
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: grateful dead at the garden was my first concert, in 1977; but that was just by chance. it almost was Chick Corea/Deodato, but then my older brother decided he didn't want to take me.
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: My first concert was the last MUSE/No Nukes at MSG in 1979. The headliners were CSN (no Y)
	11:06pm Uncle Michael: 9/3/77 Raceway Park is a pretty great show.
	11:06pm Parq: Coal, saw the Dead for the first time (of two) in '76, taken there by a girl I was trying to get with (spoiler alert: I didn't). Dug it, but it didn't take thoroughly enough for me to become a real Deadite.
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: Raceway Park just announced the end of drag racing on the site this week. The sound of those funny cars was a constant in my youth
	11:07pm Dean: I"ll repeat from earlier comments on other shows: let's hear some Ferron on WFMU. My first GD concert was...their first concert!
	11:08pm Parq: F16C -- another thing cemented in my mind from listening to Top 40 radio in the 60s. Just try and imagine hearing ads for a drag racing venue on major-broadcaster radio nowadays. Just try.
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: Those Raceway Park ads are huge for people that grew up in the NY area
	11:09pm doctorjazz: I have the Atlantic Box, Trane, in CD and Viny. (yeah, I know, Records Annonymous for me). But, They are laid out differently, the LP box has the albums intact, bonus/alternates after the albums. The CD set was all chronloogical. (more smiles for Van, think my face is starting to hurt).
	11:09pm Dean: The only sport I can endure: drag racing. Sensual overload, and the biggest fucking waste of money measured against time spent imaginable. I love it.
	11:09pm Uncle Michael: I grew up listening to the original "sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!" ads.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: rest in peace, Amy.
	11:10pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed
	11:11pm Uncle Michael: Tractor pulls are even better. All the noise and combustion without the speed and distance!
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: Uncle M -"THROBBING! SCREAMING! ROARING!!"
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: NITRO BURNING FUNNY CARS!!! THE MONGOOSE AND THE SNAKE! THE CHI-TON HUSTLER!!
	11:11pm Uncle Michael: Joan Baez: worst Grateful Dead onstage guest, ever..
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: What'd she do?
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: THE LEAD SLED!!!
	11:12pm Uncle Michael: 300 MILE PER HOUR ROCKET CAR!
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: I know she can be hard to take, but I love this song
	11:13pm Uncle Michael: She attempted rock and roll.
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: i like this a lot. i really don't like her voice though. it seems a bit subdued here.
	11:14pm Uncle Michael: She even ruined Me & Bobby McGee.
	11:14pm ifny: @coelacanth I'll like her voice for you.
	11:14pm doctorjazz: That's how she sang, very "clean" My friend the taper has the Dead show with Branford Marsalis on tape, great show.
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: Joan sounds more like Odetta here, maybe.
	11:15pm Uncle Michael: This is such a great Harry track.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Such a beautiful, sad song
	11:15pm ifny: Wait, we're talking about Winehouse not Baez right? I can never figure out if I'm behind terrestrial.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: Baez
	11:16pm Uncle Michael: Branford played a handful of shows with them.
	11:16pm ifny: Oh damn, yeah internet stream is behind the times then. David's song just came on.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: How did Short People come out of the person that wrote this?
	11:17pm still b/p: One Dead show, Boston Garden '77. Fascinating to me how well shows are remembered and ranked by the devoted. Interesting that that particular show is ranked fairly well...but, at one and done, I can't grade it myself . I saw the jet motorcycle, jet car and jet go-kart at Epping Raceway in NH! Hearing about Joan even swiping her sister's material when they were young left a lingering grudge in my regard.
	11:17pm Uncle Michael: If you like Branford with the Dead, try David Murray.
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: Parq (@11.06) grateful dead were/are just another band to me. i have 11/2 - 2 dozen albums, saw them once; seen some offshoots...if i was going to become obsessed with a band there're at least 100 that i'd sooner follow around and put reality on hold for.
	11:18pm Uncle Michael: s b/p, there just weren't many stinkers in '77.
	11:18pm doctorjazz: David Murray did a whole album of Grateful Dead music, very cool CD.
	11:19pm Uncle Michael: Yes, and he sat in at MSG in '93.
	11:19pm doctorjazz: (have to dig it up)
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: @UM - I just dug out that Baez album, it's all Nashville guys, and (dig this) on backing vocals on one track, Ramrod!
	11:20pm Uncle Michael: It'll be on arhive.org
	11:20pm Uncle Michael: the fuck
	11:21pm doctorjazz: Of course, thanks UM. (Lou on FMU twice today, on the morning show, nice)
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: Wait! My mistake! Different Mr Shurtliff!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: That would have been too perfect
	11:22pm Uncle Michael: Not Laurence, Laurence.
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: No, sadly. I really enjoyed learning about his big part in the organization in that long doc last year
	11:24pm Uncle Michael: I'm cashing in my Wednesday chips, friends. Resting up for Thursday. Night all...thanks, Larry.
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Nite Unk! Sleep well!
	11:25pm coelacanth∅: ifny, not that any 2 people who are passionate about music will agree on everything, but -for the record, in case you thought i was talking about Amy Winehouse, i consider her a modern Great. her voice was real and direct, generally without the histrionics that EVERYONE on the billboard top 100 employs (female, last i checked) and no autotune. i Love her and the loss is a tragedy.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: I agree completely. A big loss.
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: 'night Uncle M
	11:31pm ifny: @Uncle Michael Yay Internet Archive! I had sushi there once.
	11:33pm ifny: @coelacanth I have yet to disagree with you about everything :) For the record yes I thought you were talking about Winehouse. Agreed about her voice and her loss. Burned bright, fast and furiously. And what a songwriter!
	11:34pm still b/p: After only hearing about Amy's troubles in media bits and pieces before I'd heard any of the music, I was pleasantly taken with a loaned Back in Black. Had to get it. Read something a few years ago that compared her to Adele, was it?...and saying Amy's R&B and soul was mostly retro-gurgitation and appropriation and therefore had to be relegated to some second status. While Amy was an obvious borrower and close deriver, sweet jesus, I thought of the writer, give it a rest and get over yer self-strokin' self! And enjoy!
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: Of all the retro-soul being made, hers was backed up with great songs and of course the mighty Daptones
	11:36pm ifny: I think of Winehouse more as a palimpsest. Her live performances get me every time. Big bad broken heart.
	11:39pm ifny: Always struck me as odd to call it blue eyed soul when she's a Jewish sister...
	11:41pm doctorjazz: More Miles-love these complete sessions of the Miles electric beginnings, the whole sessions sound so different than the edited album issues.
	11:41pm coelacanth∅: yeah Sharon Jones another modern Great; but a whole different animal in regard to the lives they led/were dealt; the ways they seemed to process it. ...but...who the fuck would compare Amy to Adele?! somebody's not listening.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, love that set all the way through, I actually have 45s from In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: 'brew had a single released?
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: Spanish Key b/w Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: Mine's a promo: www.discogs.com...
	11:45pm coelacanth∅: ohh, that kind of makes sense. -as long as it didn't hit no.1; that wouldn't make sense! (though i'd love to see the day it does)
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Can you imagine that?
	11:46pm ifny: @coelacanth I recently came across Sharon Jones, a live performance with a Prince cameo. I was blown away! She's also a legend. I could not comprehend her ability to shake all the tailfeathers and singing powerfully the whole time. Magical!
	11:47pm ifny: Wish I'd known about her in time to see her live.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: She and Charles Bradley were the two finest modern soul singers in the classic style, and they're both gone
	11:48pm ifny: Thanks Funky, looking him up now. Wow, from the Guardian obit: "He did not record his first single until 2002, and made his debut album only in 2011."
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: ha i was just going to say that! i'm sure i had chances to see her perform but was too caught up with my world of shit to get off the pot and go dance.
	11:50pm ifny: Well there are a few epic singers around in case you get away from your world of shit before they're gone ;) Diamanda Galas comes to mind.
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: yeah Charles is another. someone in the pub played his version of that Ozzy song about a month ago and said i'm buying a shot for anyone who knows who this is. i, unfortunately was the only one.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: He had such a great voice. Unique.
	11:52pm ifny: This is _not_ what I expected a song called Necromania to sound like.
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: It's from a collection of tracks from German softcore sex and horror films of the 70s
	11:53pm ifny: Amazeballs.
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: my present world of shit is as finance-related as anything else-related. deerhoof is playing near me for a mere $15. and i don't think i can afford it.
	11:55pm ifny: Deerhoof are so wonderful live! I've seen them in Tokyo and Vancouver many times.
	11:55pm doctorjazz: Fun show, thanks Larry!
	11:55pm ifny: Finance related shit is often the stickiest.
	11:56pm geezerette: Wonderful show, always. Thanks, Larry!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: Hans-Joachim Roedelius performed and lectured at the college in my town a few months ago, for very little fee; but i couldn't not work. he's 83. i don't think i'll ever see him.
	11:58pm ifny: @coel anyway, they're young and probably vegan, they should be around for some years yet, so you can always catch them later.
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: ha! okay, but fuck - maybe i'll charge it!
	11:59pm northguineahills: Better late then never?
	12:00am ifny: Hans-Joachim Roedelius sounds like a vegan too, don't worry about it! I bet he doesn't smoke or get in bar fights...
	12:00am still b/p: Thanks thanks.
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks guys!
	12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Brilliant program! tchau camaradas
	12:01am ifny: @coel: you should definitely charge it. $15 for that much morale is a small price to pay. If I'm ever in NY I'll treat you to an expensive sandwich to make up the cost :P
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks C!
	12:01am coelacanth∅: haha! Thanks ifny!
	12:01am ifny: Thank you for spinning Larry/Funky
	12:02am Funky16Corners: My pleasure, as always!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 24, 2018

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January 24, 2018: Masekela-ology as prelude to a largely mellow affair.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Hugh Masekela	Bajabula Bonke "Bajabula Bonke" by "Hugh Masekela"	45RPM Single	Uni	1968	45
Hugh Masekela	Mas Que Nada "Mas Que Nada" by "Hugh Masekela"	The Americaniation of Ooga Booga	MGM	1965	LP
Hugh Masekela and Hedzoleh Soundz	Languta	45RPM Single	Blue Thumb	1973	45
Hugh Masekela	Grazing In the Grass	45RPM Single	Uni	1968	45

Norma Tanega	A Street That Rhymes at 6AM	Walking My Cat Named Dog	New Voice	1966	LP
Norma Tanega	You're Dead "You're Dead" by "Norma Tanega"	Walking My Car Named Dog	New Voice	1966	LP
Jethro Tull	Back To the Family "Back To the Family" by "Jethro Tull"	Stand Up	Reprise	1969	LP
Grateful Dead	China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider	Europe 72	Warner Brothers	1972	LP

Miles Davis Quintet	Dr Jekyll "Dr Jekyll" by "Miles Davis Quintet"	Milestones	Columbia	1958	LP
John Coltrane	Dahomey Dance "Dahomey Dance" by "John Coltrane"	Ole Coltrane	Atlantic	1961	LP

Van Morrison	Into the Mystic "Into the Mystic" by "Van Morrison"	Moondance	Warner Brothers	1970	LP
Amy Winehouse	Love Is a Losing Game	Back to Black	Universal Republic	2006	CD
Joan Baez	David's Song "David's Song" by "Joan Baez"	One Day At a Time	Vanguard	1969	CD
Nilsson	Snow "Snow" by "Nilsson"	Nilsson Sings Newman	RCA	1970	LP
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons	You're A Song (That I Can't Sing)	Chameleon	Mowest	1972	LP
The Velvet Underground	New Age "New Age" by "The Velvet Underground"	Loaded	Cotillion	1970	LP
Beth Orton	She Cries Your Name "She Cries Your Name" by "Beth Orton"	Trailer Park	Dedicated	1996	CD
Brian Auger Trinity	Bumpin' On Sunset	45RPM Single	Atco	1968	45
Joe Zawinul	Soul of a Village "Soul of a Village" by "Joe Zawinul"	45RPM Single	Vortex	1968	45
Miles Davis	Early Minor "Early Minor" by "Miles Davis"	The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions	Sony	1969	CD
Alan Lorber	Hang On To a Dream "Hang On To a Dream" by "Alan Lorber"	The Lotus Palace	Verve	1967	LP
John Martyn	Solid Air "Solid Air" by "John Martyn"	Solid Air	Island	1973	CD
Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab	Necromania	Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party	Crippled Dick Hot Wax	1971	CD
The Chocolate Watchband	The Dark Side of the Mushroom	No Way Out	Tower	1967	CD

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!
	10:01pm Uncle Michael: Testify! Purger!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Unk!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Green Bay!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	10:03pm Uncle Michael: Jeff, can you head over to the Dells and send me some smoked sturgeon?
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Mmmmmmm. Smoked fish. Is it anything like lox?
	10:04pm Uncle Michael: Nope
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Please to describe.
	10:04pm Uncle Michael: Or the whitefish...stinky, oily thing...wrapped in foil.
	10:06pm geezerette: Evening, Larry and witnesses! ...but stinky & oily in a good way. :D
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Geezerette!
	10:07pm geezerette: Larry!
	10:07pm still b/p: Stinky and Oily were in a bunch of Hal Roach shorts I think.
	10:08pm geezerette: Ha ha!
	10:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey SBP!
	10:08pm Parq: Evening, all. So, Hugh Masakela an Ursula LeGuin are standing on line at the Pearly Gates. Ursula looks up from her manuscript and says...
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: I'll only watch those with the original Stinky. Rhey guy who replaced him after the "big accident" was awful.
	10:09pm Funky16Corners: Evening Parq!
	10:09pm Parq: I've never smoked sturgeon. It keeps clogging my pipe.
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: igx.4sqi.net...
	10:10pm Funky16Corners: Too hard to light.
	10:10pm geezerette: ...use papers...
	10:10pm Dean: "Ooga Booga," recently revived as a trope by Frederick Seidel in a book of poetry so named: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/04/ooga-booga
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: As opposed to "UNGA BUNGA BINGA BANGA BOONGA" as revived by Bugs Bunny
	10:11pm geezerette: that photo makes me hungry.
	10:11pm Uncle Michael: That's ok, Parq...the Sturgeon General says it's bad for you.
	10:11pm Funky16Corners: He'll be here all night folks!
	10:12pm hyde: aw hell, did i miss smoking the sturgeon?
	10:12pm Parq: "Ceci n'est pas une sturgeon."
	10:12pm Funky16Corners: Hyde!
	10:12pm Dean: My kids definitely do not call it smoking the sturgeon.
	10:14pm geezerette: This is SO GOOD!!!
	10:16pm Parq: That "Mas Que Nada" was way cool -- one giant of 60s international pop covering another one.
	10:16pm Parq: "Hugh Masakela's music was black as night." -Eric Burdon.
	10:16pm Funky16Corners: The first time I heard that I was blown away. I was so used to the Sergio Mendes version and never conceived of it as a slow song
	10:17pm still b/p: Wicked bad for you -- Murderer's Roe.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and others
	10:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:24pm geezerette: Howdy, Coel! Gang!
	10:25pm Parq: I assume there are other people here who remember hearing "Grazing" -- and "Mas Que Nada", for that matter -- on top 40 radio in the 60s. Looking back on that now, it blows me away. A kid from the burbs could turn on AM radio and hear soul, funk, boogaloo -- whatever was selling. We were so dumb! We had no idea that we had to be carefully divided into demographic sub-markets and stay within the lines. We actually thought we could listen to whatever sounded good enough to sell. The nerve of us!
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: g!
	10:27pm Funky16Corners: @Parq - One of my great pleasures is the 60s Satellite Survey on Sirius. You tend to get all of the Top 40 for a given week. So many great things, in so many diverse genres
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: i heard this song within the past few weeks, but i'm not sure it was Norma Tanega. anyone know of another version ? ...it sounds like a Roy Harper song.
	10:28pm doctorjazz: Early Tull! Cool! Hi all, here for a bit...
	10:29pm Dean: Yes, Parq, I know that experience. I think I gained perspective from the fact that many of my friends had older siblings whose record collections informed what I heard. Even if those albums included AM and FM playlist songs, I was exposed to the albums as works in themselves. That taught me that there was more out there than what commercial radio had to offer.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: It's her song. It opens the movie 'What We Do In the Shadows'
	10:29pm Dean: Tull being a great example.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: Hey DR!
	10:29pm Uncle Michael: The small Tull window within which I don't hit "skip."
	10:30pm Funky16Corners: I love the first two albums especially
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: (i have a 'tull bay window!)
	10:30pm Dean: Heh, wider, I'm sure, than the window through which I view Elvis Costello, among others.
	10:31pm doctorjazz: With you, UM! First 2 albums were cool, saw them around that time...
	10:31pm Funky16Corners: Hey mannnnn, Tull can go wherever he wants
	10:31pm doctorjazz: (and Larry)
	10:32pm coelacanth∅: the first 2 and aqualung are by far my 3 favorites; but i like everything up to and including songs from the wood. (minstrel... is boring though)
	10:32pm doctorjazz: Ahhh, making me smile...
	10:32pm Funky16Corners: That was my plan!
	10:32pm still b/p: Rock musicologists speak of the Tullian Mullion.
	10:32pm Uncle Michael: The complete Europe '72 box set makes this poor album suffer terribly.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: I'd like to hear that!
	10:33pm doctorjazz: Have to check it out, never heard the box.
	10:33pm Uncle Michael: It takes a while!
	10:34pm Funky16Corners: I can hang. I saw them a bunch of times, some amazing, some....not so amazing
	10:34pm Dean: The venue just beyond my backyard features tonight, as it does many Wednesday nights, a Dead emulation band. I have never heard them live. As opposed to the Dead themselves, whom, well, you know...
	10:34pm Uncle Michael: who's there tonight, Dean?
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: i don't need to to hear every one of the 100s or 1000s of versions of any dead song. and "i know you rider" there's 100 okay versions and only one great one. (the earliest one available)
	10:35pm doctorjazz: Same, some shows I don't think could be topped...then, when Jerry was ill, saw them at the Garden, and he was a full measure behind the band on Sugar Magnolia for about a chorus (and I think hardly anyone noticed...)
	10:35pm Dean: http://www.ashkenaz.com/eventcalendar/2017/12/13/stu-allen-mars-hotel-j3yfn-gcr4h-nw6ka
	10:36pm Funky16Corners: The first time I saw them do this was as blissful an experience as I've ever had seeing live music, and the drugs were just the frosting on the cake.
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: @DrJazz - The worst show I ever saw by them was at the Garden.
	10:37pm Dean: Speaking of which, I'd like to score some cake frosting...
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: They weren't stretching out at all. It was close to the end
	10:37pm Funky16Corners: MMMMMMMMMM frosting
	10:38pm Uncle Michael: Dean's worst was Boreal Ridge.
	10:38pm coelacanth∅: i recorded a dead performance being "simulcast" over wnewfm c.1979 (capital theatre?)onto 8-track tape. Jerry was sick and as he's the only good vocalist after Pig Pen died the show wasn't worth saving, in my opinion.
	10:38pm Dean: Because I attended every Dead show I've seen many worst shows. Hard to rank them.
	10:38pm Leslie: Love JT and now the dead
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: I was lucky enough to see then tour with Bruce Hornsby who was a great complement as a keyboard player
	10:39pm doctorjazz: More smilin', go Jerry!
	10:40pm Leslie: AndEurope '72 was one of their best lp's
	10:40pm Uncle Michael: I saw a bunch of those Bruce shows.
	10:42pm doctorjazz: Was at RFK Stadium Dead, Allman Brothers, that one was pretty good...Saw them with the Band as well (missed the 3 of them together, though).
	10:44pm coelacanth∅: i was very into europe 72 for quite a while. my favorite 'dead albums by far though are "vintage dead" and "the grateful dead"(the first album)
	10:45pm Uncle Michael: Help>Slip>Franklin's, baby!
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: I love everything up to Live Dead (and most after) but that early experimental stuff really hits me
	10:47pm coelacanth∅: i might agree with you there, UM. it's been a few years though.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: Doc submitted a China>Rider request for the all request show but I couldn't give it the time. I would have played Veneta '72.
	10:48pm coelacanth∅: oh yes i forgot about aoxamoaxa (sp?!) that's pretty stellar!
	10:48pm doctorjazz: I figured it was probably too long for that show...got to hear the saddest song ever, though (I know, I know...)
	10:49pm Funky16Corners: Anthem of the Sun is challenging listening at times but it's one of my faves
	10:50pm coelacanth∅: UM if i'd submitted my request the day before it would've been "willie o'winsbury" by Anne Briggs. i did consider though that even that (@6 minutes?) may be too long.
	10:50pm doctorjazz: Basically I love everything up to Mars Hotel, (and that was a slight dip to me), not so much after.
	10:50pm Uncle Michael: I may play that China>Rider yet. I still have my tickets for the 20th anniversary shows for Veneta in '92. Cancelled due to Garcia's illness. They did the refunds and let us keep the tickets.
	10:51pm Funky16Corners: There are bits and bobs that i love all the way to the end, Picasso Moon is a fave
	10:51pm coelacanth∅: mars hotel was big for me when we were tripping a lot!
	10:51pm doctorjazz: And speaking of Smiles, this Miles does the trick as well...
	10:51pm Uncle Michael: Ooh-Wee
	10:52pm doctorjazz: Ooh Wee. Baby!
	10:52pm cupcakejenny: I just texted you
	10:52pm Uncle Michael: By the time I was heavy into them, I had all the albums but tapes were much more important to me than the studio stuff.
	10:53pm Funky16Corners: I used to work with an oldschool Deadhead, deep into the tape game. He was always passing me stuff. Much lost to the ages (and old apartments)
	10:54pm Uncle Michael: I was a bigtime trader. Want thousands of hour on DAT? Pay the shipping...
	10:54pm doctorjazz: I had friends into all the taping stuff, other live shows as well. Tried it myself a couple of times-had a good Sony Cassette deck, stealth mics that hang from glasses, made me crazy staying totally silent and not moving, gave up quickly (got some good tapes from the friend, though...)
	10:55pm Dean: "An oldschool Deadhead"...let's get some perspective, folks. Is there a current crop of Deadheads?
	10:56pm Funky16Corners: Well, I didn't really get into them until the late 80s. This guy had been going since the early 70s
	10:57pm Uncle Michael: I started going to shows in '81 and started trading not long after that.
	10:57pm doctorjazz: Went to Phil Lesh's show in Westchester early last year...the answer is, yes, there are young Deadheads.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: When I was in high school they played at Raceway Park, not too far from my house. It was local hysterial/hippy invasion time
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: hysteria
	10:58pm doctorjazz: I'm an alte cocker/old fart, went in the 70's.
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: grateful dead at the garden was my first concert, in 1977; but that was just by chance. it almost was Chick Corea/Deodato, but then my older brother decided he didn't want to take me.
	11:05pm Funky16Corners: My first concert was the last MUSE/No Nukes at MSG in 1979. The headliners were CSN (no Y)
	11:06pm Uncle Michael: 9/3/77 Raceway Park is a pretty great show.
	11:06pm Parq: Coal, saw the Dead for the first time (of two) in '76, taken there by a girl I was trying to get with (spoiler alert: I didn't). Dug it, but it didn't take thoroughly enough for me to become a real Deadite.
	11:06pm Funky16Corners: Raceway Park just announced the end of drag racing on the site this week. The sound of those funny cars was a constant in my youth
	11:07pm Dean: I"ll repeat from earlier comments on other shows: let's hear some Ferron on WFMU. My first GD concert was...their first concert!
	11:08pm Parq: F16C -- another thing cemented in my mind from listening to Top 40 radio in the 60s. Just try and imagine hearing ads for a drag racing venue on major-broadcaster radio nowadays. Just try.
	11:08pm Funky16Corners: Those Raceway Park ads are huge for people that grew up in the NY area
	11:09pm doctorjazz: I have the Atlantic Box, Trane, in CD and Viny. (yeah, I know, Records Annonymous for me). But, They are laid out differently, the LP box has the albums intact, bonus/alternates after the albums. The CD set was all chronloogical. (more smiles for Van, think my face is starting to hurt).
	11:09pm Dean: The only sport I can endure: drag racing. Sensual overload, and the biggest fucking waste of money measured against time spent imaginable. I love it.
	11:09pm Uncle Michael: I grew up listening to the original "sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!" ads.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: rest in peace, Amy.
	11:10pm Funky16Corners: Yes indeed
	11:11pm Uncle Michael: Tractor pulls are even better. All the noise and combustion without the speed and distance!
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: Uncle M -"THROBBING! SCREAMING! ROARING!!"
	11:11pm Funky16Corners: NITRO BURNING FUNNY CARS!!! THE MONGOOSE AND THE SNAKE! THE CHI-TON HUSTLER!!
	11:11pm Uncle Michael: Joan Baez: worst Grateful Dead onstage guest, ever..
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: What'd she do?
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: THE LEAD SLED!!!
	11:12pm Uncle Michael: 300 MILE PER HOUR ROCKET CAR!
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: I know she can be hard to take, but I love this song
	11:13pm Uncle Michael: She attempted rock and roll.
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: i like this a lot. i really don't like her voice though. it seems a bit subdued here.
	11:14pm Uncle Michael: She even ruined Me & Bobby McGee.
	11:14pm ifny: @coelacanth I'll like her voice for you.
	11:14pm doctorjazz: That's how she sang, very "clean" My friend the taper has the Dead show with Branford Marsalis on tape, great show.
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: Joan sounds more like Odetta here, maybe.
	11:15pm Uncle Michael: This is such a great Harry track.
	11:15pm Funky16Corners: Such a beautiful, sad song
	11:15pm ifny: Wait, we're talking about Winehouse not Baez right? I can never figure out if I'm behind terrestrial.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: Baez
	11:16pm Uncle Michael: Branford played a handful of shows with them.
	11:16pm ifny: Oh damn, yeah internet stream is behind the times then. David's song just came on.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: How did Short People come out of the person that wrote this?
	11:17pm still b/p: One Dead show, Boston Garden '77. Fascinating to me how well shows are remembered and ranked by the devoted. Interesting that that particular show is ranked fairly well...but, at one and done, I can't grade it myself . I saw the jet motorcycle, jet car and jet go-kart at Epping Raceway in NH! Hearing about Joan even swiping her sister's material when they were young left a lingering grudge in my regard.
	11:17pm Uncle Michael: If you like Branford with the Dead, try David Murray.
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: Parq (@11.06) grateful dead were/are just another band to me. i have 11/2 - 2 dozen albums, saw them once; seen some offshoots...if i was going to become obsessed with a band there're at least 100 that i'd sooner follow around and put reality on hold for.
	11:18pm Uncle Michael: s b/p, there just weren't many stinkers in '77.
	11:18pm doctorjazz: David Murray did a whole album of Grateful Dead music, very cool CD.
	11:19pm Uncle Michael: Yes, and he sat in at MSG in '93.
	11:19pm doctorjazz: (have to dig it up)
	11:19pm Funky16Corners: @UM - I just dug out that Baez album, it's all Nashville guys, and (dig this) on backing vocals on one track, Ramrod!
	11:20pm Uncle Michael: It'll be on arhive.org
	11:20pm Uncle Michael: the fuck
	11:21pm doctorjazz: Of course, thanks UM. (Lou on FMU twice today, on the morning show, nice)
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: Wait! My mistake! Different Mr Shurtliff!
	11:22pm Funky16Corners: That would have been too perfect
	11:22pm Uncle Michael: Not Laurence, Laurence.
	11:23pm Funky16Corners: No, sadly. I really enjoyed learning about his big part in the organization in that long doc last year
	11:24pm Uncle Michael: I'm cashing in my Wednesday chips, friends. Resting up for Thursday. Night all...thanks, Larry.
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: Nite Unk! Sleep well!
	11:25pm coelacanth∅: ifny, not that any 2 people who are passionate about music will agree on everything, but -for the record, in case you thought i was talking about Amy Winehouse, i consider her a modern Great. her voice was real and direct, generally without the histrionics that EVERYONE on the billboard top 100 employs (female, last i checked) and no autotune. i Love her and the loss is a tragedy.
	11:26pm Funky16Corners: I agree completely. A big loss.
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: 'night Uncle M
	11:31pm ifny: @Uncle Michael Yay Internet Archive! I had sushi there once.
	11:33pm ifny: @coelacanth I have yet to disagree with you about everything :) For the record yes I thought you were talking about Winehouse. Agreed about her voice and her loss. Burned bright, fast and furiously. And what a songwriter!
	11:34pm still b/p: After only hearing about Amy's troubles in media bits and pieces before I'd heard any of the music, I was pleasantly taken with a loaned Back in Black. Had to get it. Read something a few years ago that compared her to Adele, was it?...and saying Amy's R&B and soul was mostly retro-gurgitation and appropriation and therefore had to be relegated to some second status. While Amy was an obvious borrower and close deriver, sweet jesus, I thought of the writer, give it a rest and get over yer self-strokin' self! And enjoy!
	11:35pm Funky16Corners: Of all the retro-soul being made, hers was backed up with great songs and of course the mighty Daptones
	11:36pm ifny: I think of Winehouse more as a palimpsest. Her live performances get me every time. Big bad broken heart.
	11:39pm ifny: Always struck me as odd to call it blue eyed soul when she's a Jewish sister...
	11:41pm doctorjazz: More Miles-love these complete sessions of the Miles electric beginnings, the whole sessions sound so different than the edited album issues.
	11:41pm coelacanth∅: yeah Sharon Jones another modern Great; but a whole different animal in regard to the lives they led/were dealt; the ways they seemed to process it. ...but...who the fuck would compare Amy to Adele?! somebody's not listening.
	11:42pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, love that set all the way through, I actually have 45s from In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew
	11:43pm coelacanth∅: 'brew had a single released?
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: Spanish Key b/w Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
	11:44pm Funky16Corners: Mine's a promo: www.discogs.com...
	11:45pm coelacanth∅: ohh, that kind of makes sense. -as long as it didn't hit no.1; that wouldn't make sense! (though i'd love to see the day it does)
	11:46pm Funky16Corners: Can you imagine that?
	11:46pm ifny: @coelacanth I recently came across Sharon Jones, a live performance with a Prince cameo. I was blown away! She's also a legend. I could not comprehend her ability to shake all the tailfeathers and singing powerfully the whole time. Magical!
	11:47pm ifny: Wish I'd known about her in time to see her live.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: She and Charles Bradley were the two finest modern soul singers in the classic style, and they're both gone
	11:48pm ifny: Thanks Funky, looking him up now. Wow, from the Guardian obit: "He did not record his first single until 2002, and made his debut album only in 2011."
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: ha i was just going to say that! i'm sure i had chances to see her perform but was too caught up with my world of shit to get off the pot and go dance.
	11:50pm ifny: Well there are a few epic singers around in case you get away from your world of shit before they're gone ;) Diamanda Galas comes to mind.
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: yeah Charles is another. someone in the pub played his version of that Ozzy song about a month ago and said i'm buying a shot for anyone who knows who this is. i, unfortunately was the only one.
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: He had such a great voice. Unique.
	11:52pm ifny: This is _not_ what I expected a song called Necromania to sound like.
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: It's from a collection of tracks from German softcore sex and horror films of the 70s
	11:53pm ifny: Amazeballs.
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: my present world of shit is as finance-related as anything else-related. deerhoof is playing near me for a mere $15. and i don't think i can afford it.
	11:55pm ifny: Deerhoof are so wonderful live! I've seen them in Tokyo and Vancouver many times.
	11:55pm doctorjazz: Fun show, thanks Larry!
	11:55pm ifny: Finance related shit is often the stickiest.
	11:56pm geezerette: Wonderful show, always. Thanks, Larry!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: Hans-Joachim Roedelius performed and lectured at the college in my town a few months ago, for very little fee; but i couldn't not work. he's 83. i don't think i'll ever see him.
	11:58pm ifny: @coel anyway, they're young and probably vegan, they should be around for some years yet, so you can always catch them later.
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: ha! okay, but fuck - maybe i'll charge it!
	11:59pm northguineahills: Better late then never?
	12:00am ifny: Hans-Joachim Roedelius sounds like a vegan too, don't worry about it! I bet he doesn't smoke or get in bar fights...
	12:00am still b/p: Thanks thanks.
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks guys!
	12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! Brilliant program! tchau camaradas
	12:01am ifny: @coel: you should definitely charge it. $15 for that much morale is a small price to pay. If I'm ever in NY I'll treat you to an expensive sandwich to make up the cost :P
	12:01am Funky16Corners: Thanks C!
	12:01am coelacanth∅: haha! Thanks ifny!
	12:01am ifny: Thank you for spinning Larry/Funky
	12:02am Funky16Corners: My pleasure, as always!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from January 24, 2018

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