RIP Lazy Lester: Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

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12:03pm Krys O.:

Hey, Joe B!

12:04pm Beast of Boonton:

Oooh - Summertime!

12:04pm northguineahills:

Nice segue!

12:04pm TheLoneliestMonk:

@JoeB i suddenly have this strong sense of deja vu...all over again

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12:05pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Hahaha! More "Summertime"!

12:05pm Chi Bill:

what a great theme for today, my first day back from vacation (in N MI incl UP, hey Brian from earlier)

12:07pm Brendan:

RIP Lester, taking the long nap.

12:08pm northguineahills:

Damn, Lazy Lester! :(

12:13pm Matt Fiveash:

Wow never heard this 2001 Lester before. It's great!

12:14pm Joe B:

the whole Lp is great!

12:15pm Todd-o-phonic Todd:

They call him Lazy but he's just tired.

12:17pm TheLoneliestMonk:

@JoeB yes! i was just thinking some early TBirds would fit in nicely here

12:17pm Matt Fiveash:

The first Ponderosa Stomp after Katrina (2007?) I got to hang out and drink with Lester at the Circle Bar and play him a couple of my favorite George Jones tunes on the jukebox. It's a blurry memory I will always cherish...

12:21pm Rocky Horror:

12:21pm Jeff formerly from Rahway:

Hiya Joe! Great running into you this weekend.

12:23pm suzyhotrod:

Did a Gieco commercial just somehow pollute the stream...?

12:24pm Rocky Horror:

Yes suzyhottod it did

12:25pm Rocky Horror:

@suzyhotrod: you can blame Joe B for that

12:25pm suzyhotrod:

SuzyHotTodd is the new band me and Todd O Phonic are starting, sponsored by Geico

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12:25pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Likely so, but keep your insurance with your present company.

12:26pm Brendan:

That wasn’t just any commercial but a Lazy Lester one. Old blues musicians finally gettin paid. Also good to see Lester was vindicated just before he nodded off : https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/scientists-suspect-evolution-favors-the-lazy/

I knew he was onto something....

12:30pm suzyhotrod:

Ooooooh. I had the stream on in the back at work and wasn't closely enough listening to hear that it was by choice. carry on. -Suzy HotTub.

12:31pm northguineahills:

Jejeje, suzyhotrod!

12:31pm Joe B:

not only was i dumb enough to once do a remote broadcast at a place with no beer, but I play commercials for no money

12:31pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

Thanks Joe, this is hitting me where I live. A fitting tribute

12:31pm Joe B:

greetings all, thanks for tuning in!

12:33pm andrew Forbell:

Why is Joe playing so much Lazy Lester???....Oh shit... did he die?..... check google.... shit he did died. I had the opportunity to open for him one time long ago at the Nightshift in Naugatuck CT He will be missed!

12:40pm Rob from NM:

Hola a todos from NM USA, fn great show Joe Bee. I'm just back from recording in South Memphis, took a little trip down to Clarksville Fri & Sat and met Terry Harmonica Bean who said, "if you want to play like Lazy Lester you gotta take that harmonica behind the shithouse and blow until you can 'sound like sumpin'". I guess I gotta build a shithouse, now.

12:50pm northguineahills:

cool andrew!

I love it when Joe surprises us, and it happens often....

12:59pm Nate K:

Hey, Joe. I missed the Lazy Lester tribute, damn.

1:00pm Keilidh:

Love this Wax Idols track. Awesome stuff as usual Joe! xo

1:00pm Joe B:

sadly more death tributes to come today

1:00pm Joe B:

i think i first heard them from you playing them!

1:01pm northguineahills:

Wax Idols, new to me!

1:06pm rw:

Tom Dash was on last night. He did a great show!

1:06pm Krys O.:

Was listening to this album just this weekend. Love it!

1:07pm Joe B:

krys, one of the year's best!

1:08pm Joe B:

rw, he always does! so glad he is officially in the fold here

1:08pm Joe B:

NGH, they are great!

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1:14pm Hoboken Jack:

One of the other three better be Theme From Flash Gordon

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1:14pm ChrisB.:

I love Cut Worms, but that name...

1:17pm northguineahills:

@Chris: could be worse, could be pin or guinea worms.... wait....

1:20pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

Haha, thanks again Joe!

1:20pm TheLoneliestMonk:

actually, really good NYC band from the late 80s/early 90s 'The Worms'

1:20pm Joe B:

no, thank YOU, DK!

1:22pm McGreivey:

Thousand$Car: love the drums in this, and the rest. I had to wake up from my nap to see who it is.

1:31pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

I had same reaction to Queen song--hey I like this, who is it? Queen?! Why do I only know their awful warhorses? This one's good.

1:34pm Nate K:

According to the band's Twitter account that Wax Idols tour was just cancelled and the band is on "indefinite hiatus." Heather is playing solo at Elsewhere. Did you cover that or is this late-breaking news?

1:35pm Joe B:

thanks nate did not know that. bummer

1:36pm Nate K:

I think it was just posted. EFD retweeted it. Crazy.

2:03pm Mike Sin:

Great show today, Joe!

2:10pm Joe B:

thanks Mike!

2:13pm northguineahills:

off to lunch, thanks Joe!

2:19pm Wild Neil||Peace All:

Queen is "prog rock" like Pink Floyd "is". Kinda like pop prog for the masses. Still, Queen is really good, I am just so tired of them. My 14 year old is crazy about them. Sick and tired of Queen war horses also. Forget classic rock radio, they stopped playing deep cuts 20 years ago. Forget Gloria by Them or Wild Thing by The Troggs. No more. Or The Animals or an unusual Who song. Its ALL preprogrammed from a library of 200 songs or so if you are lucky. Bleh.

2:20pm Wild Neil||Peace All:

This ELO is off the hook though!

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2:22pm Jeff formerly from Rahway:

Let's hope ELO revisits NYC and NOT when I am on vacation!

2:24pm Chi Bill:

As long as we don't forget Queens early stuff like so many bands (ELO, Rod Stewart/Jeff Beck, UFO, Jethro Tull...and all these bands I first heard on WFMU)

2:25pm Rocky Horror:

@Jeff formerly from Rahway: Love your rockin R2

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2:26pm Jeff formerly from Rahway:

@Rocky Horror beep boop tweet thank you!

2:26pm McGreivey:

I suddenly want to hear one of the long tracks from the Move's Looking On. I suppose it's too late to fit it in.

2:27pm Rocky Horror:

Welcome Jeff

2:30pm Bismuth Wizard:

I went to the Tuesday ELO show, so amazing. Telephone Line got me out of my seat.

2:30pm Wild Neil||Peace All:

I have Incense and Peppermints album. Pretty good actually!

2:30pm Tim from LH:

Listener Tim went, I loved it, even from the cheap seats.

2:30pm The Oscar:

Snopes says yes: www.snopes.com...

2:33pm Tim from LH:

For The Overture was a highlite, thanks for playing it.

2:39pm Parq:

Joining for the last reel. Digging the R&RHS GIF on the home page. I always related to Mr. McGree.

2:46pm Nate K:

Wow, this Burning Itch song is great. Not familiar with them.

2:50pm Joe B:

LP is here in the wall nate!

2:53pm Michael 98145:

thanks again, Joe B

2:53pm chris:

thanks, Joe! enjoyed listening to the fun show today. missed the Lester tribute set... will visit that one in the archives.

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2:54pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Zats, I just realized former Fabulous Thunderbirds' Jimmie Vaughn's brother Stevie Ray Vaughn died in that helicopter crash on this day in 1990.

2:56pm Rocky Horror:

Great show joe B

2:58pm Cooh John:

What state in Franklin county?

2:58pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

Good stuff even if he's repurposing the melody from "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"

2:59pm SeanG:

magic Kids!!

9:58pm Bigfoot:

Thank you for playing The Spires!

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
The Trashmen	Summertime	Bird Call! The Twin City Stomp of the Trashmen	Sundazed	1998	previously unissued; going out to Joe McGasko!	0:00:00 Pop-up)
Lazy Lester	Ponderosa Stomp	I Hear You Knockin'! The Excello Singles	AVI	1967/1994	RIP	0:03:43 Pop-up)
Lazy Lester	Through The Goodness Of My Heart	I Hear You Knockin'! The Excello Singles	AVI	1959/1994	originally the b side of i hear you knockin	0:06:21 Pop-up)
Freddy Fender	Sugar Coated Love	7"	ABC	1977	Lazy Lester cover	0:08:30 Pop-up)
Lazy Lester	I'm Your Breadmaker, Baby	Blues Stop Knockin'	Antone's	2001	Lester LP produced/lead guitar by Jimmy Vaughn	0:11:17 Pop-up)
The Fabulous Thunderbirds	I Hear You Knocking	Butt Rockin'	Chrysalis	1981	lazy lester cover, one of many they did	0:15:16 Pop-up)
Slim Harpo	Shake Your Hips	The Best of Slim Harpo	Rhino	1966/1989	Lester on percussion	0:18:05 Pop-up)
Lazy Lester	insurance ad			2018		0:20:29 Pop-up)
Lazy Lester	They Call Me Lazy	I Hear You Knockin'! The Excello Singles	AVI	1957/1994		0:21:14 Pop-up)
Lightnin' Slim	Mean Ole Lonesome Train			1957	w/ Lazy	0:24:29 Pop-up)
Lazy Lester	I Love You, I Need You	I Hear You Knockin'! The Excello Singles	AVI	1959/1994		0:27:40 Pop-up)
Lazy Lester	Lester's Stomp	I Hear You Knockin'! The Excello Singles	AVI	1956/1994	essential comp produced by Rob Santos	0:29:55 Pop-up)

Hugo Montenegro	Hang 'Em High	Mr. Groovy- The Master of Cinematic Moog-Pop!	The Omni Recording Corporation	1968/2008		0:41:42 Pop-up)
Man Or Astro-Man?	F=GmM(moon)/R²	Your Weight On The Moon	Overground	1994/2011		0:43:40 Pop-up)
Devo	Nu-Tra Speaks	New Traditionalists	Warner Bros.	1981/2010	2010 reissue	0:46:06 Pop-up)
Devo	Psychology of Desire (demo)	New Traditionalists	Warner Bros.	1981/2010		0:47:33 Pop-up)
Clinic	Emotions	Do It	Domino	2008		0:52:02 Pop-up)
White Fence	Baxter Corner	s/t	Make A Mess	2010		0:54:55 Pop-up)
Wax Idols	Uneasy	No Future	HoZac	2011		0:57:08 Pop-up)

Cut Worms	Don't Want to Say Good-bye	Hollow Ground	Jagjaguwar	2018		1:05:03 Pop-up)
Hurry	Jamie	Every Little Thought	Lame-O	2018		1:07:43 Pop-up)
Queen	Long Away	A Day at the Races	Elektra	1976	one of four Queen songs I like	1:11:16 Pop-up)
Sunshine & The Rain	It's All In Your Mind	Beneath the Stars	Ernest Jenning Record Co.	2018	brand new from Jersey City's own!	1:14:51 Pop-up)
Thousand $ Car	Eyes Up	Big Shot	Freedom	1997	new orleans	1:18:46 Pop-up)
Liquor Giants	Dearest Darling	Every Other Day At a Time	Matador	1998	inspired by hearing LG's on The Michael Shelley Show this past Saturday	1:22:34 Pop-up)

The Originals	Desperate Young Man	various - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 10: 1970	Hip-O Select	1970/2008	RIP Eddie Willis	1:31:02 Pop-up)
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas	You're the Loser Now	various - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 10: 1970	Hip-O Select	1970/2008		1:34:12 Pop-up)
The Rustix	Down, Down	various - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B: 1970	Hip-O Select	1971/2009		1:37:49 Pop-up)
Barney Ales	An Important Message From Barney Ales (Play Immediately)	various - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 10: 1970	Hip-O Select	1970/2008		1:42:24 Pop-up)
Brian Ray and Smokey Robinson	One Heartbeat	digital single	Wicked Cool	2018		1:45:07 Pop-up)
Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson	Ooh Baby Baby			1979	live improv on soul train	1:49:08 Pop-up)
Big Maybelle	96 Tears			1966		1:51:25 Pop-up)

Eurythmics	Belinda	In the Garden	Legacy	1981/2005		2:00:32 Pop-up)
Spires	Beaming In	Obscured View	Artificial Light	2018		2:04:30 Pop-up)
The Creation Factory	Why Can't You Make Up Your Mind	s/t	Lolipop!	2018	at monty hall sept 14!	2:07:26 Pop-up)
Strawberry Alarm Clock	The Birdman of Alkatrash	7"	Uni	1967	rip Ed King	2:10:07 Pop-up)
We the People	Beginning of the End	Too Much Noise	Sundazed	1966/2008		2:12:22 Pop-up)
Leigh Stephens	Joannie Mann	Red Weather	Sundazed	1969/2010	from blue cheer	2:14:14 Pop-up)
Electric Light Orchestra	10538 Overture	Olé ELO	United Artists	1972/1976	their first single in the UK	2:19:08 Pop-up)

King Tuff	Infinite Mile	The Other	Sub Pop	2018		2:33:23 Pop-up)
Spider Bags	Tonight, I Walk On The Water	Someday Everything Will Be Fine	Merge	2018		2:36:23 Pop-up)
The Shadracks	Locust Flies Again	s/t	Damaged Goods	2018		2:37:44 Pop-up)
Thee Dagger Debs	Black Book	s/t	Damaged Goods	2018		2:39:13 Pop-up)
Wax Museums	Quicksand	Eyes Times	Trouble In Mind	2011		2:41:39 Pop-up)
Sharp Balloons	Genetic Disorder	Evening News 7"	Goner	2011		2:43:45 Pop-up)
Burning Itch	Brains Fall Out	s/t	Tic Tac Totally	2011		2:45:08 Pop-up)
Terry Malts	No Good For You	Killing Time	Slumberland	2012		2:47:33 Pop-up)

Jeremy Wallace Trio	Gettin' On a Plane	Further Away	self-released	2018		2:56:32 Pop-up)
Magic Kids	Good To Be	7"	Goner	2009		2:56:46 Pop-up)

August 27, 2018

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