WFMU: The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from July 8, 2018

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Agent Peter: Smooth transition from the Funky Sesame Street chimes. :-)
	10:02pm Adamsworth: yeah, to Horny Dylan! :-P
	10:03pm mb: Drove thru Conklin, NY this weekend. Granted a full nod.
	♥ 10:04pm opurt: Good evening! Remembered to tune in early this week.
	10:05pm Agent Peter: oh jeez, Englishtown...Raceway Park....Funny cars!
	10:10pm Adamsworth: dang good version of this song
	10:10pm Chris H: Greatest 1/2 Step ever, hands down.
	10:10pm Agent Peter: A very inspired show all around.
	♥ 10:11pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Agent Peter: Now I'm thinking of the Raceway Park commercial with that sped-up laughing intro. Nitro-burning funny cars!
	10:14pm Adamsworth: Ha ha I'm from Minnesota but I also remember tv commercials for nitro burning funny cars. I didn't know what that meant, but I thought it would be fun. I'd probably be bored out of my mind if I went.
	♥ 10:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Adamsworth: These commercials I'm thinking of are from the 1980s, mostly. Is that when you saw them, too? Maybe it was a big thing across the USA back then. Now I don't watch tv or listen to commercial radio, so if it's still happening, I'd have no idea!
	10:18pm JakeGould: Funny cars are drag racers that look like exaggerated stock cars, right?
	10:19pm Adamsworth: yeah it would have been the 80s.
	10:20pm phat: rats
	10:20pm Agent Peter: They're stock cars with the front end jacked up rebuilt for drag racing.
	10:21pm Adamsworth: I may be mixing up eras, but I think there would also be commericals with a Truckersaurus Rex...maybe that was just Monster Truck shows. I forget if they were combined.
	10:21pm Dean: Funny cars and dragsters are the epitome of American muscle-flexing sporting. A billion dollars aimed at about five seconds of wad-blowing. I love it!
	♥ 10:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: The Root Cellar! I live about 20 minutes from that place and keep meaning to go. It's nice to hear a recording from there. This is awesome. Thanks, Jeff!
	10:23pm Agent Peter: @Adanswirth. The ads were a staple of both AM & FM radio. Pretty much any commercial station in NY, Philly or points in between ran them. Think they were on TV too, but that was a long time ago.
	♥ 10:23pm tuner fish: Wet Tuna sounds even better with a live drummer! Although the drum machine stuff I've heard before does have a certain character to it that I liked, as well. These guys are so great at jamming, no matter what the instrumentation!
	10:23pm skeeterj: Avant ghetto is the sleeper car of a wfmu drag race
	10:24pm Adamsworth: yeah, they were also a staple of the Midwest boondocks I grew up in! "SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!" Were they on Sundays on the East Coast too?
	10:24pm Agent Peter: oh, there's a bunch on youtube.
	♥ 10:25pm Wendy del Formaggio: I vaguely remember the tv commercials for funny cars and such -- there was one for occasional events where they'd do monster trucks in the Meadowlands Arena. In the NYC-area market, the radio ads for Raceway Park played allllll the time when I was a kiddo.
	♥ 10:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Adamsworth: TOTALLY! "Sunday Sunday Sunday" is a thing I say sometimes, in that voice, and friends who are younger than I am have no idea what I'm talking about and I feel so sad for them. haha.
	10:27pm Dean: Went to two or three drag races at Irwindale (home of sriracha!) with my dad m-a-n-y years ago. Effing amazing. Every sense: smell, touch, taste, hear, see, massively stimulated. The best!
	10:30pm Jeff Conklin: Hi. Talk about the music.
	10:31pm Dean: The music? This Wet Tuna is spectacular.
	10:31pm Adamsworth: ha ha ha
	10:32pm Adamsworth: you know what's a good Matt Valentine song? Sweetheart of the Nascar. What do you guys think about Nascar? Hee hee
	♥ 10:32pm Wendy del Formaggio: Jeff, I did. You have to scroll up above some of the "funny car" comments. haha
	♥ 10:33pm Wendy del Formaggio: I like Matt Valentine a lot. I don't give a rat's ass about NASCAR. :-)
	10:34pm Carmichael: Jeezus, finally a show I can listen to. Heya Jeff and enjoyees. That’s a word, ya? Peter Green is a visionary.
	10:35pm Dean: However, NASCAR doesn't have shit to do with drag racing. Try NHRA.
	♥ 10:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: This Peter Green track is NUTS. I love it. I wish I didn't have to go to sleep so soon. Jeff, your show is always a good way to end my Sunday.
	10:38pm Carmichael: Big Daddy Don Garlits, and Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney.
	♥ 10:41pm Luisa24: sounds gooood
	10:42pm Adamsworth: Yeah, this is cool.
	10:44pm Agent Peter: Lots of Dead shows at race tracks, not just Englishtown. Watkins Glen another 70's venue. Manor Down in the 80's but that's a horse track. Played Gulfstream back in '68, also a horsetrack. Skipped Altamont of course.
	♥ 10:47pm Luisa24: Hoyt Axton, very cool
	10:47pm Agent Peter: Hoyt Axton. Nice surprise.
	10:49pm Jeff Conklin: Y'all dig that Amoramora?
	♥ 10:49pm Luisa24: yep!
	10:49pm sfolk16: sending love from Yellow Springs OH! Loving the set on this beautiful summer night!!!!!!!!
	10:51pm sfolk16: yes!! the Amoramora track was humming!!!!!!! nice!
	10:52pm Adamsworth: RIP VINCE
	10:53pm Adamsworth: Oh yeah, Yuzo Iwata passed away this last week too. I had no idea he was ill, if that is even what it was, I don't know. I always considered myself lucky to have met him and see him play live.
	♥ 10:53pm Aitch: I think he wants to go fishing?
	10:54pm Clint in Reno: Sitting on a folding chair with my feet in the Truckee River and watching the sunset and listening to this song.
	10:57pm mb: Vince peaking hard here. Great build up.
	10:59pm Carmichael: Clint, I have cabin right there.
	11:00pm Clint in Reno: Beautiful.
	11:01pm mb: Umm Jeff? You are biting DJ TROUBLE's style here with this mic break.
	11:03pm DJ E: WFMU's mission statement upon first broadcast in 1958? Teach people the greatness of Peter Green
	11:05pm The Butterman: Jeff, I've attempted that with half-step as well. I wanted to see when they decided to stretch out the instrumental part before " acrossssssssss the rio grandio part. Cuz they used to go right into it. That half step is just unbelievable. It has never gotten enough respect.
	11:05pm DJ E: looks like they are playing Nectar's in Burlington?
	11:08pm Eric: I was at the Englishtown concert! New Riders and Marshall Tucker Band. Keith and Donna had just come back from a car accident!
	11:09pm Jennifer_PNW: Good evening from Juneau, Alaska
	11:10pm Jeff Conklin: @DJ E: Yeah! Go See them!
	11:11pm Jennifer_PNW: That Gene Clark song is nice. Heard amazing things about the release but haven't grabbed it yet
	11:20pm mb: Those drums on Scavengers sounded like Levon's. Like he took a smoke break and the Traum brothers snuck in and laid that tune down.
	11:23pm Jennifer_PNW: Yes!! Love this jam
	11:34pm mb: This 2nd set has a very Patriots beat the Falcons vibe.
	♥ 11:44pm tuner fish: love this taiconderoga!
	11:59pm cbk: Right on Jeff. Thanks for all this.
	9:59am Lucky: Wow, that Peter Green sounds so Fleetwood Mac to me. But's the only member on it? Huh.
	10:47am Lucky: The Roger McGuinn sounds like Big Star sort of...

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from July 8, 2018

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July 8, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Bob Dylan	Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You	Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975	Columbia	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo	Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ, 9/3/77	Bootsville	0:03:57 (Pop-up)
Wet Tuna	New York Street "New York Street" by "Wet Tuna"	The Root Cellar, Greenfield, MA, 6/29/17	Bootsville	0:17:59 (Pop-up)
Peter Green	Burnt Foot "Burnt Foot" by "Peter Green"	The End of Game	Reprise	0:31:42 (Pop-up)
Amoramora	Bloom (Live) "Bloom (Live)" by "Amoramora"	S'Moramora Volume II	Self-Released	0:36:05 (Pop-up)
Spruce	Far From Home "Far From Home" by "Spruce"	Spruce	Out to Lunch	0:41:56 (Pop-up)
Hoyt Axton	Sunrise "Sunrise" by "Hoyt Axton"	My Griffin Is Gone	Columbia	0:44:45 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch	Open Up the Watergate (Let the Sunshine in)	LA Turnaround	Chrysalis	0:46:59 (Pop-up)
Vince Martin	Yonder Comes the Sun	If the Jasmine Don't Get You...The Bay Breeze Will	Capitol	0:49:48 (Pop-up)

Gene Clark	On Her Own "On Her Own" by "Gene Clark"	Sings For You	Omnivore	1:06:56 (Pop-up)
NRBQ	That's Alright "That's Alright" by "NRBQ"	All Hopped Up	Red Rooster	1:11:03 (Pop-up)
Happy & Artie Traum	Scavengers "Scavengers" by "Happy & Artie Traum"	Double Back	Capitol	1:14:13 (Pop-up)
Bob Hughes	Black Haired Girl "Black Haired Girl" by "Bob Hughes"	The Kids are Ok!	Kith & Kin	1:18:43 (Pop-up)
Roger McGuinn	Lost My Drivin' Wheel	Roger McGuinn	Columbia	1:22:14 (Pop-up)
Green	RCMPB "RCMPB" by "Green"	Green	ATCO	1:26:12 (Pop-up)
Cottonwood	Holdin' On "Holdin' On" by "Cottonwood"	Camaraderie	ABC-Dunhill	1:29:34 (Pop-up)
Canned Heat	Boogie Music "Boogie Music" by "Canned Heat"	Living the Blues	United Artists	1:32:39 (Pop-up)
John Lee Hooker	Boogie with the Hook	Never Get Out of These Blues Alive	ABC	1:35:11 (Pop-up)
Taiconderoga	Speaking My Mind "Speaking My Mind" by "Taiconderoga"	Whitchi Tai To b/w Speakin' My Mind	Beacon	1:41:45 (Pop-up)
Muddy Waters	Rollin' & Tumblin' "Rollin' & Tumblin'" by "Muddy Waters"	After the Rain	Chess	1:46:07 (Pop-up)
John Mayall And Eric Clapton	Little Girl	Bluebreakers	London	1:51:06 (Pop-up)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band	Spoonful	The Original Lost Elektra Sessions	Rhino	1:53:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:01pm Agent Peter: Smooth transition from the Funky Sesame Street chimes. :-)
	10:02pm Adamsworth: yeah, to Horny Dylan! :-P
	10:03pm mb: Drove thru Conklin, NY this weekend. Granted a full nod.
	♥ 10:04pm opurt: Good evening! Remembered to tune in early this week.
	10:05pm Agent Peter: oh jeez, Englishtown...Raceway Park....Funny cars!
	10:10pm Adamsworth: dang good version of this song
	10:10pm Chris H: Greatest 1/2 Step ever, hands down.
	10:10pm Agent Peter: A very inspired show all around.
	♥ 10:11pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Agent Peter: Now I'm thinking of the Raceway Park commercial with that sped-up laughing intro. Nitro-burning funny cars!
	10:14pm Adamsworth: Ha ha I'm from Minnesota but I also remember tv commercials for nitro burning funny cars. I didn't know what that meant, but I thought it would be fun. I'd probably be bored out of my mind if I went.
	♥ 10:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Adamsworth: These commercials I'm thinking of are from the 1980s, mostly. Is that when you saw them, too? Maybe it was a big thing across the USA back then. Now I don't watch tv or listen to commercial radio, so if it's still happening, I'd have no idea!
	10:18pm JakeGould: Funny cars are drag racers that look like exaggerated stock cars, right?
	10:19pm Adamsworth: yeah it would have been the 80s.
	10:20pm phat: rats
	10:20pm Agent Peter: They're stock cars with the front end jacked up rebuilt for drag racing.
	10:21pm Adamsworth: I may be mixing up eras, but I think there would also be commericals with a Truckersaurus Rex...maybe that was just Monster Truck shows. I forget if they were combined.
	10:21pm Dean: Funny cars and dragsters are the epitome of American muscle-flexing sporting. A billion dollars aimed at about five seconds of wad-blowing. I love it!
	♥ 10:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: The Root Cellar! I live about 20 minutes from that place and keep meaning to go. It's nice to hear a recording from there. This is awesome. Thanks, Jeff!
	10:23pm Agent Peter: @Adanswirth. The ads were a staple of both AM & FM radio. Pretty much any commercial station in NY, Philly or points in between ran them. Think they were on TV too, but that was a long time ago.
	♥ 10:23pm tuner fish: Wet Tuna sounds even better with a live drummer! Although the drum machine stuff I've heard before does have a certain character to it that I liked, as well. These guys are so great at jamming, no matter what the instrumentation!
	10:23pm skeeterj: Avant ghetto is the sleeper car of a wfmu drag race
	10:24pm Adamsworth: yeah, they were also a staple of the Midwest boondocks I grew up in! "SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!" Were they on Sundays on the East Coast too?
	10:24pm Agent Peter: oh, there's a bunch on youtube.
	♥ 10:25pm Wendy del Formaggio: I vaguely remember the tv commercials for funny cars and such -- there was one for occasional events where they'd do monster trucks in the Meadowlands Arena. In the NYC-area market, the radio ads for Raceway Park played allllll the time when I was a kiddo.
	♥ 10:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: @Adamsworth: TOTALLY! "Sunday Sunday Sunday" is a thing I say sometimes, in that voice, and friends who are younger than I am have no idea what I'm talking about and I feel so sad for them. haha.
	10:27pm Dean: Went to two or three drag races at Irwindale (home of sriracha!) with my dad m-a-n-y years ago. Effing amazing. Every sense: smell, touch, taste, hear, see, massively stimulated. The best!
	10:30pm Jeff Conklin: Hi. Talk about the music.
	10:31pm Dean: The music? This Wet Tuna is spectacular.
	10:31pm Adamsworth: ha ha ha
	10:32pm Adamsworth: you know what's a good Matt Valentine song? Sweetheart of the Nascar. What do you guys think about Nascar? Hee hee
	♥ 10:32pm Wendy del Formaggio: Jeff, I did. You have to scroll up above some of the "funny car" comments. haha
	♥ 10:33pm Wendy del Formaggio: I like Matt Valentine a lot. I don't give a rat's ass about NASCAR. :-)
	10:34pm Carmichael: Jeezus, finally a show I can listen to. Heya Jeff and enjoyees. That’s a word, ya? Peter Green is a visionary.
	10:35pm Dean: However, NASCAR doesn't have shit to do with drag racing. Try NHRA.
	♥ 10:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: This Peter Green track is NUTS. I love it. I wish I didn't have to go to sleep so soon. Jeff, your show is always a good way to end my Sunday.
	10:38pm Carmichael: Big Daddy Don Garlits, and Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney.
	♥ 10:41pm Luisa24: sounds gooood
	10:42pm Adamsworth: Yeah, this is cool.
	10:44pm Agent Peter: Lots of Dead shows at race tracks, not just Englishtown. Watkins Glen another 70's venue. Manor Down in the 80's but that's a horse track. Played Gulfstream back in '68, also a horsetrack. Skipped Altamont of course.
	♥ 10:47pm Luisa24: Hoyt Axton, very cool
	10:47pm Agent Peter: Hoyt Axton. Nice surprise.
	10:49pm Jeff Conklin: Y'all dig that Amoramora?
	♥ 10:49pm Luisa24: yep!
	10:49pm sfolk16: sending love from Yellow Springs OH! Loving the set on this beautiful summer night!!!!!!!!
	10:51pm sfolk16: yes!! the Amoramora track was humming!!!!!!! nice!
	10:52pm Adamsworth: RIP VINCE
	10:53pm Adamsworth: Oh yeah, Yuzo Iwata passed away this last week too. I had no idea he was ill, if that is even what it was, I don't know. I always considered myself lucky to have met him and see him play live.
	♥ 10:53pm Aitch: I think he wants to go fishing?
	10:54pm Clint in Reno: Sitting on a folding chair with my feet in the Truckee River and watching the sunset and listening to this song.
	10:57pm mb: Vince peaking hard here. Great build up.
	10:59pm Carmichael: Clint, I have cabin right there.
	11:00pm Clint in Reno: Beautiful.
	11:01pm mb: Umm Jeff? You are biting DJ TROUBLE's style here with this mic break.
	11:03pm DJ E: WFMU's mission statement upon first broadcast in 1958? Teach people the greatness of Peter Green
	11:05pm The Butterman: Jeff, I've attempted that with half-step as well. I wanted to see when they decided to stretch out the instrumental part before " acrossssssssss the rio grandio part. Cuz they used to go right into it. That half step is just unbelievable. It has never gotten enough respect.
	11:05pm DJ E: looks like they are playing Nectar's in Burlington?
	11:08pm Eric: I was at the Englishtown concert! New Riders and Marshall Tucker Band. Keith and Donna had just come back from a car accident!
	11:09pm Jennifer_PNW: Good evening from Juneau, Alaska
	11:10pm Jeff Conklin: @DJ E: Yeah! Go See them!
	11:11pm Jennifer_PNW: That Gene Clark song is nice. Heard amazing things about the release but haven't grabbed it yet
	11:20pm mb: Those drums on Scavengers sounded like Levon's. Like he took a smoke break and the Traum brothers snuck in and laid that tune down.
	11:23pm Jennifer_PNW: Yes!! Love this jam
	11:34pm mb: This 2nd set has a very Patriots beat the Falcons vibe.
	♥ 11:44pm tuner fish: love this taiconderoga!
	11:59pm cbk: Right on Jeff. Thanks for all this.
	9:59am Lucky: Wow, that Peter Green sounds so Fleetwood Mac to me. But's the only member on it? Huh.
	10:47am Lucky: The Roger McGuinn sounds like Big Star sort of...

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from July 8, 2018

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