WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 13, 2019

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from snow-covered Wisconsin!
	10:01pm Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Gary!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Starting strong! We played the bejeezus out of this!
	10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry. Was doing some work and looked up and saw it was 9 so I quickly tuned in. I’m not so sure this will be in my wheel house but we shall see.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: I was so happy when I finally got this on CD and didn't have to flip over the record!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	10:03pm Dean: I so loathed (and to this day loathe) ELP, that I in fact love hearing this again after so many decades!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean!
	10:04pm Erica: Hey Testifiers! I'm ready to Prog on!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Erica!
	10:04pm Jeff Ash: Things only high school kids do ... we hated our new basketball coach so we wrote a rock opera about him and this was one of the songs for which we wrote new lyrics.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: A buddy of mine just saw Carl Palmer in concert.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I'd love to hear that!
	10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: At least, it’s not the entire half hour.
	10:05pm Dean: And I'm losing it, 'cuz I at first thought the parenthetical was a quotation of Klaatu!
	10:06pm still b/p: I seem to remember this being the one that jumped the trio to wider rock radio mainstream attention.
	10:06pm TDK60: I used to love ELP then became embarrassed later, but now It sounds okay if a bit over the top; what the hey.
	10:06pm Jeff Ash: Ahhh, you had to be there, man.
	10:06pm Dean: Well, "Roundabout."
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: SBP! TDK60!
	10:07pm Erica: @Dean To be continued. Haha!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: This marked the second time ELP got played on Testify!
	10:07pm Matt from New Orleans: Jeff I feel no loss of having been born after this rock era
	10:09pm Jeff Ash: All good, Matt. Everyone has their time. This was mine.
	10:09pm Dean: I worked for a record store whose import buyers left to set up company that distributed FM's records, etc.
	10:09pm Little Danny: Hey y'all
	10:10pm Matt from New Orleans: Danny slacking off tonight?
	10:11pm Erica: Either that Matt or he's on the air at Marfa Public Radio.
	10:11pm Erica: In other words: Psychedelic pop evolved into progressive rock.
	10:12pm Franco Twinkie: Okay now, It's high school all over again - Lord have mercy!
	10:12pm Little Danny: Hey hey, thanks you two. Homebound this evening so I'm here
	10:13pm Dean: I remember celebrating the release of Tales. I expect we'll hear from Gabriel Bondage, hmm?
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny! Franco!
	10:13pm chresti: Hey Testify!
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:14pm Erica: Oh hi Danny. I thought you were DJing tonight.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - FM's first album was initially issued by the CBC!
	10:16pm Dean: CBC is pretty darn good.
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: I was looking up the record in Discogs (I only have the CD) and recognized the logo. I had no idea they released anything like that. But, Canadian Content, I guess.
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: Davey Johnstone!
	10:19pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry & all
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:19pm Franco Twinkie: In my mind Love Lies Bleeding inspires a cartoon illustration in the style of Robert Crumb of a heart laying on the sidewalk with a distressed face, crying as a pair of big fine legs go marching off to ruin someone else's day.
	10:20pm still b/p: Geddy looking particularly Spicoli-ish in the double-neck performance shot.
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: Is that the illustration inside the gatefold?
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - I saw Rush right at the tail end of those years.
	10:21pm Franco Twinkie: No, it's in my brain.
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: Also acceptable.
	10:22pm Little Danny: @still b/p I thought the same!
	10:22pm TDK60: I was born in these platform shoes.
	10:24pm Franco Twinkie: I've always loved that picture of Pink Floyd and all their gear. Coel, is that a Commer van?
	10:24pm coelacanth∅: i tuned in near the top but wanted to finish listening to something else; and that worked out. i loved ELP when i was a tyke but never cared for karn evil much. ...and when i got over ELP it was fairly thorough -though i still play parts of trilogy every few years
	10:24pm Dean: Saw these guys live at the Greek in LA. Opening act: Jean-Luc Ponty.
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - what era?
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: oh, in the pink floyd shot Franco? i don't think so?
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: Hard to believe that Keith Relf founded this band.
	10:26pm Dean: '80s?
	10:27pm TDK60: ..any prog cop spies lurking?
	10:27pm Dean: Shoot, no, '70s. I think it was the Novella tour.
	10:27pm Jeff Ash: Renaissance was the record you bought your new girlfriend before you really had a clue about her tastes in music.
	10:28pm Erica: Haha Jeff!
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Yes indeed. Very lady-friendly, in a Stevie Nicks, Rhiannon way.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: Annie Haslam had a very Sandy Denny-esque vibe
	10:30pm Jeff Ash: Exactly, especially with Annie Haslam as the lead singer and that elegant, vaguely classical sound.
	10:31pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, I just checked. It's a Commer Walk -Thru.
	10:31pm Jeff Ash: True, Erica. You'd think, "Oh, she might like this." Sometimes, she did. Sometimes, she didn't.
	10:32pm Erica: Everyone's taste in music is different Jeff.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: I guess it would depend on her capacity for far-outness and/or marijuana.
	10:33pm Little Danny: @franco: Nice transport van ID!
	10:33pm Jeff Ash: 'Twas ever thus.
	10:36pm coelacanth∅: well shit Franco! i thought maybe a bedford? but i guess commer made different styles. i always think of the ones like the beatles used (if i'm not mistaken) quite a bit smaller than the ummagumma van
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: There's a great clip on Youtube of Glass Harp playing live in what looks like a college classroom.
	10:40pm Franco Twinkie: A Brit comparable to an International Metro Van, or a Chevy Step Van. All of them bread trucks.
	10:40pm chresti: Darn it, I missed the carpet of the sun song.
	10:40pm TDK60: I recall when folks had Glass Harp LPs around parties. I thought they were ok. Ohio band.
	10:41pm Erica: Aww yes! Genesis!
	10:41pm Little Danny: Youngstown OH's favorites! Great track
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Their guitarist Phil Keaggy went on to be big Christian artist
	10:42pm Dean: SEBTP was an LP I played virtually daily during the late '70s, right along with Gang of Four's Entertainment.
	10:43pm TDK60: I still like earlier Genesis.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: I love Gabriel-era Genesis.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Me, I'm just a lawn mower...
	10:44pm Dean: I have a bunch of bootlegs from those days. Buddy of mine ran a record store whose motto was "Selling records by the pound." We were devotees.
	10:44pm Erica: You can tell me by the way I walk.
	10:46pm coelacanth∅: coincidentally (?) just last week i checked the jukebox at the pub to see if it's got king crimson yet. i've checked every few months for several years now. it's finally appeared! so yesterday i decided to subject my fellow drinkers. first i played "providence" which i thought would get skipped before it finally got to the more structured section. the bartender had to turn it down but she actually liked it. (she does like most of what i play)
	10:46pm Dean: Another buddy of mine, a freshman in high school in '75, attended one of the Shrine Lamb shows. He confesses that he slept through it.
	10:46pm Erica: Also I never knew about the Charisma releases of the LPs. Didn't grow up in that time.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @C - If you put on Discipline I'll buy the beers!
	10:47pm Franco Twinkie: I saw Phil Keaggy at some church in the early 70's. He was indeed a proselytizing christian in sensible slacks.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I think some of the Monty Python records are on Charisma
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I always wished I'd seen Genesis during Gabriel's theatrical years.
	10:49pm Little Danny: @coel: that's quite the esoteric waiting game, congrats
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: then (after "hunting girl" by jethro tull) i played starless. one of my favorite songs of all songs. she insisted it was the singer from ELP. (who i informed her of the name of) she called her husband because she didn't believe me! i never thought Lake and Wetton sounded similar. anyway of course we talked about ELP too.
	10:51pm Dean: Same here. First I saw was Starwood Amphitheatrer in Burbank. At least Bruford was there. (Got the bootleg of that show.) Crimson...I must be very selective. Some good, most not, to my ear. And as much as I adore Bruford, their stuff with him falls flat for me. On top of that, Fripp was a genius when it comes to picking bland vocalists. Lake was always second rate, and Wetton was perhaps fourth?
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - That's why I love the Discipline era. Adrian Belew!
	10:52pm coelacanth∅: haha Thanks Danny! i did the same thin g with Eno and Roky Erickson. Eno appeared maybe 1/2 a year ago and Roky immediately when he died...but still no easter everywhere.
	10:53pm Dean: Nope. Can't tolerate Belew.
	10:53pm Dean: I really love Red, if only Wetton were edited out of the mix.
	10:54pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	10:54pm TDK60: I do like King Crimson, often intense, sometimes mellow.
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:56pm coelacanth∅: Larry -we agree on a lot of music, as you know; but i don't like discipline or anything since then! their first 7 albums i love love love. (especially the Bruford/Wetton 3) no soul after that; just technical; and uninspired compositions. (in my opinion)
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: I loved that era of King Crimson because it reminded me of Material, who I was listening to at the time.
	10:57pm Franco Twinkie: I worked with this dope smoking fiend at a hospital in the mid 70's. He loved Genesis to the point of fanaticism. Years later, I would run into him at punk shows. He was funny and smart and fun to hang around with. He's probably listening.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Dope smoking fiends are the best kind of fiend
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Here comes the Coleridge!
	10:58pm Dean: coel, I heard that "technical and uninspired" on the first few albums, too. Tons of talent, not a heck of a lot of inspiration. Let's return to the Capitol Records meet, Franco. Tons of us fanatic Genesis fans.
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: and Dean i agree about Wetton as a vocalist (but he did write starless, which Fripp of course stole the credit for to share between 5-6 different people) but Greg Lake had a beautiful voice.
	11:00pm Erica: Yeah it's a shame but Lake and Keith Emerson both died in 2016.
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: rest in peace
	11:02pm Dean: Can't agree about Lake. His voice set my teeth on edge. It was a wispy non-committal drawl. Fripp doesn't understand vocals.
	11:02pm TDK60: Fripp could've gotten this Rush guy.
	11:03pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, I do remember seen Pere Ubu at the Whisky on a hot August night and later that morning half the audience was at Capitol.
	11:03pm Erica: Would you believe that I didn't hear about ELP until I saw an episode of the Simpsons when Homer was singing Lucky Man in the car?
	11:04pm Dean: Okay, y'all are putting me in a shitty mood, shittier than usual. I friggin' hate Pere Ubu. David Thomas...another bland vocalist.
	11:04pm ?: i still can believe you played xanadu...well done
	11:05pm TDK60: Elton John could've sung for Fripp.
	11:07pm still b/p: Fripp now fighting Bowie estate over credit status for Heroes and Scary Monsters.
	11:07pm Franco Twinkie: Extend an olive branch and you slap my hand.
	11:08pm Dean: Don't get me wrong. I can be converted. Until about a year or two ago, I despised Tull, even the early stuff. Now I really enjoy it (the early stuff, I mean). Ain't gonna happen with Thomas, I predict. Saw him at Victo around 2000. Yawn.
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: Elton's voice would be good in king crimson. Geddy Lee should never be allowed to sing in any band!
	11:09pm doctorjazz: When I was in high school,around this time, you were either i into progressive rock or a Deadhead, and never the twain did meet. I fell into the Deadhead group, and didn't pay attention much to this stuff (unless it was played on FM, so the "hits" were familiar), but didn't have much interest in checking this stuff out.
	11:09pm coelacanth∅: s b/p Fripp's a douche. excellent guitarist, but forever a douche.
	11:10pm doctorjazz: See Tull around Aqualung release, loved the 1st 2 albums as well. Lost interest after that.
	11:10pm Dean: Around this time I detected no divisions whatsoever. A bunch of us were into a ton of music. Shoot, I did homework to medieval dance music. Nobody gave a damn. But we were ordinary LA suburban jerk-offs. We didn't have much to lose or gain.
	11:11pm doctorjazz: Saw Till, that is...
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: dr.j in mine it was the dead or zeppelin. the prog guys were a small quiet other group. the prog girls were deadheads that also liked yes and genesis.
	11:12pm Erica: This must've been when Pink Floyd was transitioning from psychedelic pop to prog.
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Exactly.
	🥁 11:13pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): hello, Larry and WFMU kin!
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: In high school it was a big Zep/Aerosmith et al thing with my friends, then I discovered power pop and new wave
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny!
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: this one gets played at least every other time i go to the pub. i've played it enough that it now only requires 1 credit instead of 2.
	11:14pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, me too. Although things were not that stratified. No hard party lines adhered to. Lots of opened minded young music lovers.
	11:14pm Erica: What I don't get is why the album cover of Dark Side of the Moon is more popular than the songs from that album. What's interesting about a triangle pattern?
	11:14pm Erica: Hi Granny!
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: i like triangles.
	11:15pm doctorjazz: I wouldn't call David Thomas bland, an acquired taste for sure (question is whether it's worth acquiring). Saw him solo art Danceteria. Interesting character.
	11:15pm Erica: I like cats.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: It was years before I understood that this was a stadium full of soccer fans singing
	11:16pm Erica: GOOOAAAAALLL!
	11:16pm Erica: (Had to do it Larry.)
	11:16pm Dean: Best PF album in my uninformed opinion. I think we examine our lives with a loaded rhetoric. Zep and Aerosmith made their offerings, and we dug 'em or not. Then punk emerged and we added them to the mix. I don't recall ever "discovering" an artist, because I always learned about them from others who knew them. And then I added them to the roster, or not. Social networking existed before the dickheads of Silicon Valley took over.
	11:17pm TDK60: We listened to all sorts of stuff then: psych rock, funk, hippy country rock, prog/kraut, blues, fusion, singer-songwriter, early space music, etc.
	11:18pm Franco Twinkie: I agree with you about our perception of music back then, Dean, but unlike you I never did my homework.
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Exactly. I heard what the people around me were playing, or what was on the NYC FM stations
	11:19pm Dean: I have two versions of Meddle (which really is a terrific title, when you think about it). Both are CDs, though I learned the album on vinyl way back then. One is a cheesy reissue, the other a Mobile Fidelity remaster. H-u-g-e difference between the two, and I enjoy both of them. Do your homework to medieval dance music, Franco. You'll see improvements immediately.
	11:19pm coelacanth∅: our school was very divided; but early into 10th grade i crossed the line and liked both zep and the dead...but more than anything, pink floyd. then the wall came out and the stones now sucked as did Rod Stewart and zeppelin etc etc so i turned to punk rock and reggae!
	11:21pm Franco Twinkie: If I was capable of returning to my lost youth, it wouldn't be to do my homework.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: By the time I was a junior (78) the Ramones and the Clash were making inroads at my school. I went more to skinny tie/power pop stuff.
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: but yes TDK...i also liked fleetwood mac and John Lennon and Graham Parker and Bowie etc..... i don't think the majority of my classmates were that open though. (and today they probably still don't listen to wfmu!)
	11:24pm coelacanth∅: oh man Larry the few of us (me and my 4 male friends; another kid and maybe 3 girls...in the whole school) that "advertised" our punk leanings were mocked on big time.
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: By 1981/1982 I really sailed off into uncharted waters. I started listening to and collecting all kinds of US garage punk, UK psyche/freakbeat, UK folk, weird psychedelic stuff.
	11:26pm Franco Twinkie: Was it Oliver Sachs that revealed that the music you liked between the ages of 11 and 17 will stick with you till the day you die?
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: def not true for me.
	11:28pm Dean: I learned of the Pistols in '76 in high school, and shortly after that I had the good fortune of visiting London, where I purchased their first single in a drug store. I guess I hung around with a range of folks -- stoners, (pseudo-)intellectuals, artists, maybe not a lot of athletes, but even some of them -- and we mostly got along. There was the elitist social crowd, but then I even hung out with them! Shoot, I planned my senior class prom (which I didn't attend) with my buddy, the junior class president. He and I shared music all the time. I don't understand the compulsion to divide, to define "in" and "out" groups. Too much trouble. But I do hate the rich.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - He was right, at least in the sense of the power of nostalgia. I'll put on the 70s channel in the car and listen to stuff I'd never buy, because ut reminds me of when I was a kid.
	11:29pm chresti: Stadium Rock
	11:29pm Dean: A friend's brother just published a book about his time with Oliver Sacks. Lawrence Weschler. Check it out.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: boston's first album falls into that age range, and i know i never want to hear that again.
	11:31pm Dean: The guy who engineered that first Boston album has a stereo store about four blocks from my home. He's really cool.
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I can do without Boston, but Peter Frampton, Grand Funk, Blue Oyster Cult, Zep etc I still listen to
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: In fact, I don't think I ever owned more than the 45 of More Than a Feeling
	11:31pm Dean: Boston I can handle once a decade. Styx? No way.
	11:31pm Doug Schulkind: Testify! Goes BIG!
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, For the life of me, I can't sing along with London Calling. But if I heard Crown Of Creation, I'd be shrieking right along.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: This is the second 20+ minute song I've played in as many weeks. A trend???
	11:33pm Dean: I had to sell that crap when I worked in the record store late '70s. Queen album after Queen album after Queen album after Queen album... And I don't wholly dislike Queen. But, Jesus, people, try the PFM.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: i used to intend to cut my first class; i'd smoke some herb, put echoes on and watch the birds around the fig trees in the neighbor's yard; then didn't get to school that day.
	11:33pm Little Danny: I'd never actually heard Meddle before. Very much enjoying it
	11:34pm Dean: Yeah, London Calling is overrated, just like everything by Springsteen.
	11:35pm coelacanth∅: i was very disappointed when london calling came out. yet another of my favorite bands turning to shit.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - This was a regular feature of bedroom stoner sessions back in the day, with Lou Reed's Rock'n'Roll Animal and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
	11:36pm Dean: Low Spark, oh, my, yes.
	11:38pm Dean: And I wasn't a stoner. I'd by then realized that pot operated primarily as a placebo. Yet the records gave me visions, due I suspect to sleep loss.
	11:38pm coelacanth∅: there are artists from pre-11 that i will love my whole life, and some that i don't care to ever here again. the same is true for between 11 & 17; and the same is true for after 17.
	🥁 11:38pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Hi, Erica, i was enjoying a bath to this music. Lovely set, Larry.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Granny!
	11:39pm Erica: Very lovely indeed Granny.
	11:39pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, I scratch my head in dismay when I hear people convulsing over The Clash. I saw them in 1979, my response? So what.
	11:40pm Dean: That's because punk had fallen flat by '79, Franco. Clash's first album and a track or two off the second were smashing.
	11:42pm coelacanth∅: boy i love this song!
	11:42pm Jeff Ash: This Pink Floyd/Yes set is airing at about the time of night we'd hear it on the old free-form FM radio.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: That worked out well!
	11:45pm Franco Twinkie: Well I suppose if I had been a globe trotting sceanster I would have seen them in London in 77, but I was broke and living in L.A. You take what you can get - when you get it.
	11:45pm Dean: In '73 I was strolling down my suburban street's sidewalk, when I espied an 8-track of Close to the Edge in a neighbor surfer's VW. I was then 14 or so, he was probably late teens. He agreed to loan it to me. I played it for my best buddies. Our heads spun and our synapses snapped.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: I remember going to see Yessongs at the local midnight movie palace (with a bong in the car).
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: i saw the clash in 79 Franco and i loved 'em -despite the london calling stuff they played. probably 20 minutes or more of armadideon time + lots from give 'em enough rope, which is a perfect album (as well as the first one) but like the dead kennedys and ramones and devo and talking heads and etc etc they turned to shit...in line with the onslaught of shit that the 80s generally is represented by.
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: Next one going a little bit earlier by special request.
	11:48pm coelacanth∅: ("armagideon" time)
	11:49pm Dean: I was neither globe-trotting (I'd been once to London in '76 with my high school theater group), nor a scenester (even when I worked with Flipside I didn't mix with the scene). But I knew the albums, which were solid musical statements. The records were there to be reviewed.
	🥁 11:50pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): just send me over the top with this gorgeous song!
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, this one is sweet.
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: i loved (and love) fragile, which i borrowed from the library regularly, then didn't hear much yes again 'till my brother gave me relayer on 8-track tape for x-mas. man that opened me up! one of their best albums...underrated.
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: This is one of those songs that reminds me of Alison Steele,'The Night Bird', great New York DJ
	11:52pm coelacanth∅: definitely!
	11:52pm Franco Twinkie: Yeah, I know Coel. I liked all the band you mentioned - with the exception of The DK's, and I never listen to any of it anymore.
	11:53pm Franco Twinkie: A great second wave San Francisco band!
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: i still do. i used to practice the drums to albums. the clash's first album was one of those.
	11:54pm Dean: Sandy Pearlman signed my Give 'Em Enough Rope. And then he dedicated "Safe European Home" to me on air at KROQ. I'm a 60YO teenybopper. (I never liked DKs, either.)
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: Topper was a good basher.
	11:56pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry! Enjoyed the show mightily
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: i still listen to plastic surgery disasters every couple years, and play songs from it on that pub jukebox. (along with the great "police truck")
	11:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	🥁 11:57pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Thank you, Larry— got this show clicky-starred for future listens.
	11:58pm Dean: Read Bruford's autobiography for accounts of Yes, touring, recording...
	11:58pm Erica: A very proggy ride it was. Thanks Larry! It was nice to hear something different tonight.
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Great show, Larry! Thanks!
	11:59pm Franco Twinkie: I do like Police Truck. That song is accurate journalism.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff! Erica! Granny!
	11:59pm Franco Twinkie: Rock on Larry!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! good night y'all
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc! Danny! C! Franco!
	12:00am chresti: Thanks Larry!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Chresti!

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Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Emerson Lake and Palmer	Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2)	Brain Salad Surgery	Manticore	1973	LP	0:01:11 (Pop-up)
FM	Dialing For Dharma "Dialing For Dharma" by "FM"	Black Noise	Passport	1978	CD	0:05:54 (Pop-up)

Elton John	Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	MCA	1973	LP	0:12:41 (Pop-up)
Renaissance	Carpet of the Sun "Carpet of the Sun" by "Renaissance"	Ashes Are Burning	Capitol	1973	LP	0:23:31 (Pop-up)
Renaissance	Mother Russia "Mother Russia" by "Renaissance"	Turn of the Cards	BTM	1974	LP	0:27:01 (Pop-up)
Glass Harp	Song of Hope "Song of Hope" by "Glass Harp"	Synergy	Decca	1971	LP	0:36:10 (Pop-up)
Genesis	I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe	Selling England by the Pound	Charisma	1973	LP	0:40:31 (Pop-up)
Genesis	The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway	The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway	Charisma	1974	LP	0:44:31 (Pop-up)
Jethro Tull	Witches Promise "Witches Promise" by "Jethro Tull"	Living In the Past	Chrysalis	1972	LP	0:49:15 (Pop-up)
Rush	Xanadu "Xanadu" by "Rush"	Farewell to Kings	Mercury	1977	LP	0:53:01 (Pop-up)

Pink Floyd	Fearless "Fearless" by "Pink Floyd"	Meddle	Harvest	1971	LP	1:10:23 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd	Echoes "Echoes" by "Pink Floyd"	Meddle	Harvest	1971	LP	1:16:20 (Pop-up)
Yes	And You And I "And You And I" by "Yes"	Close To the Edge	Atlantic	1972	LP	1:39:51 (Pop-up)
It's a Beautiful Day	White Bird "White Bird" by "It's a Beautiful Day"	It's a Beautiful Day	Columbia	1969	LP	1:49:37 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:59:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:01pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from snow-covered Wisconsin!
	10:01pm Gary: Larry!
	10:02pm Funky16Corners: Jeff! Gary!
	10:02pm Jeff Ash: Starting strong! We played the bejeezus out of this!
	10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Larry. Was doing some work and looked up and saw it was 9 so I quickly tuned in. I’m not so sure this will be in my wheel house but we shall see.
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: I was so happy when I finally got this on CD and didn't have to flip over the record!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Matt!
	10:03pm Dean: I so loathed (and to this day loathe) ELP, that I in fact love hearing this again after so many decades!
	10:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dean!
	10:04pm Erica: Hey Testifiers! I'm ready to Prog on!
	10:04pm Funky16Corners: Erica!
	10:04pm Jeff Ash: Things only high school kids do ... we hated our new basketball coach so we wrote a rock opera about him and this was one of the songs for which we wrote new lyrics.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: A buddy of mine just saw Carl Palmer in concert.
	10:05pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - I'd love to hear that!
	10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: At least, it’s not the entire half hour.
	10:05pm Dean: And I'm losing it, 'cuz I at first thought the parenthetical was a quotation of Klaatu!
	10:06pm still b/p: I seem to remember this being the one that jumped the trio to wider rock radio mainstream attention.
	10:06pm TDK60: I used to love ELP then became embarrassed later, but now It sounds okay if a bit over the top; what the hey.
	10:06pm Jeff Ash: Ahhh, you had to be there, man.
	10:06pm Dean: Well, "Roundabout."
	10:06pm Funky16Corners: SBP! TDK60!
	10:07pm Erica: @Dean To be continued. Haha!
	10:07pm Funky16Corners: This marked the second time ELP got played on Testify!
	10:07pm Matt from New Orleans: Jeff I feel no loss of having been born after this rock era
	10:09pm Jeff Ash: All good, Matt. Everyone has their time. This was mine.
	10:09pm Dean: I worked for a record store whose import buyers left to set up company that distributed FM's records, etc.
	10:09pm Little Danny: Hey y'all
	10:10pm Matt from New Orleans: Danny slacking off tonight?
	10:11pm Erica: Either that Matt or he's on the air at Marfa Public Radio.
	10:11pm Erica: In other words: Psychedelic pop evolved into progressive rock.
	10:12pm Franco Twinkie: Okay now, It's high school all over again - Lord have mercy!
	10:12pm Little Danny: Hey hey, thanks you two. Homebound this evening so I'm here
	10:13pm Dean: I remember celebrating the release of Tales. I expect we'll hear from Gabriel Bondage, hmm?
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny! Franco!
	10:13pm chresti: Hey Testify!
	10:13pm Funky16Corners: Chresti!
	10:14pm Erica: Oh hi Danny. I thought you were DJing tonight.
	10:14pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - FM's first album was initially issued by the CBC!
	10:16pm Dean: CBC is pretty darn good.
	10:17pm Funky16Corners: I was looking up the record in Discogs (I only have the CD) and recognized the logo. I had no idea they released anything like that. But, Canadian Content, I guess.
	10:18pm Funky16Corners: Davey Johnstone!
	10:19pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry & all
	10:19pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	10:19pm Franco Twinkie: In my mind Love Lies Bleeding inspires a cartoon illustration in the style of Robert Crumb of a heart laying on the sidewalk with a distressed face, crying as a pair of big fine legs go marching off to ruin someone else's day.
	10:20pm still b/p: Geddy looking particularly Spicoli-ish in the double-neck performance shot.
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: Is that the illustration inside the gatefold?
	10:20pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - I saw Rush right at the tail end of those years.
	10:21pm Franco Twinkie: No, it's in my brain.
	10:21pm Funky16Corners: Also acceptable.
	10:22pm Little Danny: @still b/p I thought the same!
	10:22pm TDK60: I was born in these platform shoes.
	10:24pm Franco Twinkie: I've always loved that picture of Pink Floyd and all their gear. Coel, is that a Commer van?
	10:24pm coelacanth∅: i tuned in near the top but wanted to finish listening to something else; and that worked out. i loved ELP when i was a tyke but never cared for karn evil much. ...and when i got over ELP it was fairly thorough -though i still play parts of trilogy every few years
	10:24pm Dean: Saw these guys live at the Greek in LA. Opening act: Jean-Luc Ponty.
	10:25pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - what era?
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: oh, in the pink floyd shot Franco? i don't think so?
	10:26pm Funky16Corners: Hard to believe that Keith Relf founded this band.
	10:26pm Dean: '80s?
	10:27pm TDK60: ..any prog cop spies lurking?
	10:27pm Dean: Shoot, no, '70s. I think it was the Novella tour.
	10:27pm Jeff Ash: Renaissance was the record you bought your new girlfriend before you really had a clue about her tastes in music.
	10:28pm Erica: Haha Jeff!
	10:28pm Funky16Corners: @Jeff - Yes indeed. Very lady-friendly, in a Stevie Nicks, Rhiannon way.
	10:29pm Funky16Corners: Annie Haslam had a very Sandy Denny-esque vibe
	10:30pm Jeff Ash: Exactly, especially with Annie Haslam as the lead singer and that elegant, vaguely classical sound.
	10:31pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, I just checked. It's a Commer Walk -Thru.
	10:31pm Jeff Ash: True, Erica. You'd think, "Oh, she might like this." Sometimes, she did. Sometimes, she didn't.
	10:32pm Erica: Everyone's taste in music is different Jeff.
	10:33pm Funky16Corners: I guess it would depend on her capacity for far-outness and/or marijuana.
	10:33pm Little Danny: @franco: Nice transport van ID!
	10:33pm Jeff Ash: 'Twas ever thus.
	10:36pm coelacanth∅: well shit Franco! i thought maybe a bedford? but i guess commer made different styles. i always think of the ones like the beatles used (if i'm not mistaken) quite a bit smaller than the ummagumma van
	10:39pm Funky16Corners: There's a great clip on Youtube of Glass Harp playing live in what looks like a college classroom.
	10:40pm Franco Twinkie: A Brit comparable to an International Metro Van, or a Chevy Step Van. All of them bread trucks.
	10:40pm chresti: Darn it, I missed the carpet of the sun song.
	10:40pm TDK60: I recall when folks had Glass Harp LPs around parties. I thought they were ok. Ohio band.
	10:41pm Erica: Aww yes! Genesis!
	10:41pm Little Danny: Youngstown OH's favorites! Great track
	10:42pm Funky16Corners: Their guitarist Phil Keaggy went on to be big Christian artist
	10:42pm Dean: SEBTP was an LP I played virtually daily during the late '70s, right along with Gang of Four's Entertainment.
	10:43pm TDK60: I still like earlier Genesis.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: I love Gabriel-era Genesis.
	10:43pm Funky16Corners: Me, I'm just a lawn mower...
	10:44pm Dean: I have a bunch of bootlegs from those days. Buddy of mine ran a record store whose motto was "Selling records by the pound." We were devotees.
	10:44pm Erica: You can tell me by the way I walk.
	10:46pm coelacanth∅: coincidentally (?) just last week i checked the jukebox at the pub to see if it's got king crimson yet. i've checked every few months for several years now. it's finally appeared! so yesterday i decided to subject my fellow drinkers. first i played "providence" which i thought would get skipped before it finally got to the more structured section. the bartender had to turn it down but she actually liked it. (she does like most of what i play)
	10:46pm Dean: Another buddy of mine, a freshman in high school in '75, attended one of the Shrine Lamb shows. He confesses that he slept through it.
	10:46pm Erica: Also I never knew about the Charisma releases of the LPs. Didn't grow up in that time.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @C - If you put on Discipline I'll buy the beers!
	10:47pm Franco Twinkie: I saw Phil Keaggy at some church in the early 70's. He was indeed a proselytizing christian in sensible slacks.
	10:47pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I think some of the Monty Python records are on Charisma
	10:48pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - I always wished I'd seen Genesis during Gabriel's theatrical years.
	10:49pm Little Danny: @coel: that's quite the esoteric waiting game, congrats
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: then (after "hunting girl" by jethro tull) i played starless. one of my favorite songs of all songs. she insisted it was the singer from ELP. (who i informed her of the name of) she called her husband because she didn't believe me! i never thought Lake and Wetton sounded similar. anyway of course we talked about ELP too.
	10:51pm Dean: Same here. First I saw was Starwood Amphitheatrer in Burbank. At least Bruford was there. (Got the bootleg of that show.) Crimson...I must be very selective. Some good, most not, to my ear. And as much as I adore Bruford, their stuff with him falls flat for me. On top of that, Fripp was a genius when it comes to picking bland vocalists. Lake was always second rate, and Wetton was perhaps fourth?
	10:52pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - That's why I love the Discipline era. Adrian Belew!
	10:52pm coelacanth∅: haha Thanks Danny! i did the same thin g with Eno and Roky Erickson. Eno appeared maybe 1/2 a year ago and Roky immediately when he died...but still no easter everywhere.
	10:53pm Dean: Nope. Can't tolerate Belew.
	10:53pm Dean: I really love Red, if only Wetton were edited out of the mix.
	10:54pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	10:54pm TDK60: I do like King Crimson, often intense, sometimes mellow.
	10:55pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	10:56pm coelacanth∅: Larry -we agree on a lot of music, as you know; but i don't like discipline or anything since then! their first 7 albums i love love love. (especially the Bruford/Wetton 3) no soul after that; just technical; and uninspired compositions. (in my opinion)
	10:57pm Funky16Corners: I loved that era of King Crimson because it reminded me of Material, who I was listening to at the time.
	10:57pm Franco Twinkie: I worked with this dope smoking fiend at a hospital in the mid 70's. He loved Genesis to the point of fanaticism. Years later, I would run into him at punk shows. He was funny and smart and fun to hang around with. He's probably listening.
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Dope smoking fiends are the best kind of fiend
	10:58pm Funky16Corners: Here comes the Coleridge!
	10:58pm Dean: coel, I heard that "technical and uninspired" on the first few albums, too. Tons of talent, not a heck of a lot of inspiration. Let's return to the Capitol Records meet, Franco. Tons of us fanatic Genesis fans.
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: and Dean i agree about Wetton as a vocalist (but he did write starless, which Fripp of course stole the credit for to share between 5-6 different people) but Greg Lake had a beautiful voice.
	11:00pm Erica: Yeah it's a shame but Lake and Keith Emerson both died in 2016.
	11:01pm coelacanth∅: rest in peace
	11:02pm Dean: Can't agree about Lake. His voice set my teeth on edge. It was a wispy non-committal drawl. Fripp doesn't understand vocals.
	11:02pm TDK60: Fripp could've gotten this Rush guy.
	11:03pm Franco Twinkie: Dean, I do remember seen Pere Ubu at the Whisky on a hot August night and later that morning half the audience was at Capitol.
	11:03pm Erica: Would you believe that I didn't hear about ELP until I saw an episode of the Simpsons when Homer was singing Lucky Man in the car?
	11:04pm Dean: Okay, y'all are putting me in a shitty mood, shittier than usual. I friggin' hate Pere Ubu. David Thomas...another bland vocalist.
	11:04pm ?: i still can believe you played xanadu...well done
	11:05pm TDK60: Elton John could've sung for Fripp.
	11:07pm still b/p: Fripp now fighting Bowie estate over credit status for Heroes and Scary Monsters.
	11:07pm Franco Twinkie: Extend an olive branch and you slap my hand.
	11:08pm Dean: Don't get me wrong. I can be converted. Until about a year or two ago, I despised Tull, even the early stuff. Now I really enjoy it (the early stuff, I mean). Ain't gonna happen with Thomas, I predict. Saw him at Victo around 2000. Yawn.
	11:08pm coelacanth∅: Elton's voice would be good in king crimson. Geddy Lee should never be allowed to sing in any band!
	11:09pm doctorjazz: When I was in high school,around this time, you were either i into progressive rock or a Deadhead, and never the twain did meet. I fell into the Deadhead group, and didn't pay attention much to this stuff (unless it was played on FM, so the "hits" were familiar), but didn't have much interest in checking this stuff out.
	11:09pm coelacanth∅: s b/p Fripp's a douche. excellent guitarist, but forever a douche.
	11:10pm doctorjazz: See Tull around Aqualung release, loved the 1st 2 albums as well. Lost interest after that.
	11:10pm Dean: Around this time I detected no divisions whatsoever. A bunch of us were into a ton of music. Shoot, I did homework to medieval dance music. Nobody gave a damn. But we were ordinary LA suburban jerk-offs. We didn't have much to lose or gain.
	11:11pm doctorjazz: Saw Till, that is...
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: dr.j in mine it was the dead or zeppelin. the prog guys were a small quiet other group. the prog girls were deadheads that also liked yes and genesis.
	11:12pm Erica: This must've been when Pink Floyd was transitioning from psychedelic pop to prog.
	11:12pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Exactly.
	🥁 11:13pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): hello, Larry and WFMU kin!
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: In high school it was a big Zep/Aerosmith et al thing with my friends, then I discovered power pop and new wave
	11:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny!
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: this one gets played at least every other time i go to the pub. i've played it enough that it now only requires 1 credit instead of 2.
	11:14pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, me too. Although things were not that stratified. No hard party lines adhered to. Lots of opened minded young music lovers.
	11:14pm Erica: What I don't get is why the album cover of Dark Side of the Moon is more popular than the songs from that album. What's interesting about a triangle pattern?
	11:14pm Erica: Hi Granny!
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: i like triangles.
	11:15pm doctorjazz: I wouldn't call David Thomas bland, an acquired taste for sure (question is whether it's worth acquiring). Saw him solo art Danceteria. Interesting character.
	11:15pm Erica: I like cats.
	11:16pm Funky16Corners: It was years before I understood that this was a stadium full of soccer fans singing
	11:16pm Erica: GOOOAAAAALLL!
	11:16pm Erica: (Had to do it Larry.)
	11:16pm Dean: Best PF album in my uninformed opinion. I think we examine our lives with a loaded rhetoric. Zep and Aerosmith made their offerings, and we dug 'em or not. Then punk emerged and we added them to the mix. I don't recall ever "discovering" an artist, because I always learned about them from others who knew them. And then I added them to the roster, or not. Social networking existed before the dickheads of Silicon Valley took over.
	11:17pm TDK60: We listened to all sorts of stuff then: psych rock, funk, hippy country rock, prog/kraut, blues, fusion, singer-songwriter, early space music, etc.
	11:18pm Franco Twinkie: I agree with you about our perception of music back then, Dean, but unlike you I never did my homework.
	11:18pm Funky16Corners: @Dean - Exactly. I heard what the people around me were playing, or what was on the NYC FM stations
	11:19pm Dean: I have two versions of Meddle (which really is a terrific title, when you think about it). Both are CDs, though I learned the album on vinyl way back then. One is a cheesy reissue, the other a Mobile Fidelity remaster. H-u-g-e difference between the two, and I enjoy both of them. Do your homework to medieval dance music, Franco. You'll see improvements immediately.
	11:19pm coelacanth∅: our school was very divided; but early into 10th grade i crossed the line and liked both zep and the dead...but more than anything, pink floyd. then the wall came out and the stones now sucked as did Rod Stewart and zeppelin etc etc so i turned to punk rock and reggae!
	11:21pm Franco Twinkie: If I was capable of returning to my lost youth, it wouldn't be to do my homework.
	11:21pm Funky16Corners: By the time I was a junior (78) the Ramones and the Clash were making inroads at my school. I went more to skinny tie/power pop stuff.
	11:22pm coelacanth∅: but yes TDK...i also liked fleetwood mac and John Lennon and Graham Parker and Bowie etc..... i don't think the majority of my classmates were that open though. (and today they probably still don't listen to wfmu!)
	11:24pm coelacanth∅: oh man Larry the few of us (me and my 4 male friends; another kid and maybe 3 girls...in the whole school) that "advertised" our punk leanings were mocked on big time.
	11:25pm Funky16Corners: By 1981/1982 I really sailed off into uncharted waters. I started listening to and collecting all kinds of US garage punk, UK psyche/freakbeat, UK folk, weird psychedelic stuff.
	11:26pm Franco Twinkie: Was it Oliver Sachs that revealed that the music you liked between the ages of 11 and 17 will stick with you till the day you die?
	11:27pm coelacanth∅: def not true for me.
	11:28pm Dean: I learned of the Pistols in '76 in high school, and shortly after that I had the good fortune of visiting London, where I purchased their first single in a drug store. I guess I hung around with a range of folks -- stoners, (pseudo-)intellectuals, artists, maybe not a lot of athletes, but even some of them -- and we mostly got along. There was the elitist social crowd, but then I even hung out with them! Shoot, I planned my senior class prom (which I didn't attend) with my buddy, the junior class president. He and I shared music all the time. I don't understand the compulsion to divide, to define "in" and "out" groups. Too much trouble. But I do hate the rich.
	11:28pm Funky16Corners: @Franco - He was right, at least in the sense of the power of nostalgia. I'll put on the 70s channel in the car and listen to stuff I'd never buy, because ut reminds me of when I was a kid.
	11:29pm chresti: Stadium Rock
	11:29pm Dean: A friend's brother just published a book about his time with Oliver Sacks. Lawrence Weschler. Check it out.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: boston's first album falls into that age range, and i know i never want to hear that again.
	11:31pm Dean: The guy who engineered that first Boston album has a stereo store about four blocks from my home. He's really cool.
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: I can do without Boston, but Peter Frampton, Grand Funk, Blue Oyster Cult, Zep etc I still listen to
	11:31pm Funky16Corners: In fact, I don't think I ever owned more than the 45 of More Than a Feeling
	11:31pm Dean: Boston I can handle once a decade. Styx? No way.
	11:31pm Doug Schulkind: Testify! Goes BIG!
	11:32pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	11:32pm Franco Twinkie: Larry, For the life of me, I can't sing along with London Calling. But if I heard Crown Of Creation, I'd be shrieking right along.
	11:33pm Funky16Corners: This is the second 20+ minute song I've played in as many weeks. A trend???
	11:33pm Dean: I had to sell that crap when I worked in the record store late '70s. Queen album after Queen album after Queen album after Queen album... And I don't wholly dislike Queen. But, Jesus, people, try the PFM.
	11:33pm coelacanth∅: i used to intend to cut my first class; i'd smoke some herb, put echoes on and watch the birds around the fig trees in the neighbor's yard; then didn't get to school that day.
	11:33pm Little Danny: I'd never actually heard Meddle before. Very much enjoying it
	11:34pm Dean: Yeah, London Calling is overrated, just like everything by Springsteen.
	11:35pm coelacanth∅: i was very disappointed when london calling came out. yet another of my favorite bands turning to shit.
	11:36pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - This was a regular feature of bedroom stoner sessions back in the day, with Lou Reed's Rock'n'Roll Animal and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
	11:36pm Dean: Low Spark, oh, my, yes.
	11:38pm Dean: And I wasn't a stoner. I'd by then realized that pot operated primarily as a placebo. Yet the records gave me visions, due I suspect to sleep loss.
	11:38pm coelacanth∅: there are artists from pre-11 that i will love my whole life, and some that i don't care to ever here again. the same is true for between 11 & 17; and the same is true for after 17.
	🥁 11:38pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Hi, Erica, i was enjoying a bath to this music. Lovely set, Larry.
	11:39pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Granny!
	11:39pm Erica: Very lovely indeed Granny.
	11:39pm Franco Twinkie: Coel, I scratch my head in dismay when I hear people convulsing over The Clash. I saw them in 1979, my response? So what.
	11:40pm Dean: That's because punk had fallen flat by '79, Franco. Clash's first album and a track or two off the second were smashing.
	11:42pm coelacanth∅: boy i love this song!
	11:42pm Jeff Ash: This Pink Floyd/Yes set is airing at about the time of night we'd hear it on the old free-form FM radio.
	11:43pm Funky16Corners: That worked out well!
	11:45pm Franco Twinkie: Well I suppose if I had been a globe trotting sceanster I would have seen them in London in 77, but I was broke and living in L.A. You take what you can get - when you get it.
	11:45pm Dean: In '73 I was strolling down my suburban street's sidewalk, when I espied an 8-track of Close to the Edge in a neighbor surfer's VW. I was then 14 or so, he was probably late teens. He agreed to loan it to me. I played it for my best buddies. Our heads spun and our synapses snapped.
	11:47pm Funky16Corners: I remember going to see Yessongs at the local midnight movie palace (with a bong in the car).
	11:47pm coelacanth∅: i saw the clash in 79 Franco and i loved 'em -despite the london calling stuff they played. probably 20 minutes or more of armadideon time + lots from give 'em enough rope, which is a perfect album (as well as the first one) but like the dead kennedys and ramones and devo and talking heads and etc etc they turned to shit...in line with the onslaught of shit that the 80s generally is represented by.
	11:48pm Funky16Corners: Next one going a little bit earlier by special request.
	11:48pm coelacanth∅: ("armagideon" time)
	11:49pm Dean: I was neither globe-trotting (I'd been once to London in '76 with my high school theater group), nor a scenester (even when I worked with Flipside I didn't mix with the scene). But I knew the albums, which were solid musical statements. The records were there to be reviewed.
	🥁 11:50pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): just send me over the top with this gorgeous song!
	11:51pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, this one is sweet.
	11:51pm coelacanth∅: i loved (and love) fragile, which i borrowed from the library regularly, then didn't hear much yes again 'till my brother gave me relayer on 8-track tape for x-mas. man that opened me up! one of their best albums...underrated.
	11:52pm Funky16Corners: This is one of those songs that reminds me of Alison Steele,'The Night Bird', great New York DJ
	11:52pm coelacanth∅: definitely!
	11:52pm Franco Twinkie: Yeah, I know Coel. I liked all the band you mentioned - with the exception of The DK's, and I never listen to any of it anymore.
	11:53pm Franco Twinkie: A great second wave San Francisco band!
	11:54pm coelacanth∅: i still do. i used to practice the drums to albums. the clash's first album was one of those.
	11:54pm Dean: Sandy Pearlman signed my Give 'Em Enough Rope. And then he dedicated "Safe European Home" to me on air at KROQ. I'm a 60YO teenybopper. (I never liked DKs, either.)
	11:55pm Franco Twinkie: Topper was a good basher.
	11:56pm Little Danny: Thanks Larry! Enjoyed the show mightily
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: i still listen to plastic surgery disasters every couple years, and play songs from it on that pub jukebox. (along with the great "police truck")
	11:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry!
	🥁 11:57pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them): Thank you, Larry— got this show clicky-starred for future listens.
	11:58pm Dean: Read Bruford's autobiography for accounts of Yes, touring, recording...
	11:58pm Erica: A very proggy ride it was. Thanks Larry! It was nice to hear something different tonight.
	11:59pm Jeff Ash: Great show, Larry! Thanks!
	11:59pm Franco Twinkie: I do like Police Truck. That song is accurate journalism.
	11:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Jeff! Erica! Granny!
	11:59pm Franco Twinkie: Rock on Larry!
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! good night y'all
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Doc! Danny! C! Franco!
	12:00am chresti: Thanks Larry!
	12:00am Funky16Corners: Thanks Chresti!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from November 13, 2019

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