WFMU: The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from May 3, 2020

Listener comments!
	10:01pm Mr. Pumpy: Hey, Jeff!
	10:02pm chresti: Hiya Jeff and ghetto blasters!
	10:02pm Uncle Michael: Smoothest lockdown transition ever.
	10:02pm fleep: Good evening from Los Angeles
	10:02pm Eiderdown: Evening Jeff! Making inner and grooving out with ya
	10:03pm Eiderdown: hahaha DINNER
	10:03pm Jeff Conklin: Evening, everybody. We had a nice day out here hope you all did too. Glad to be hanging...
	10:04pm ParUbi: Hello from Pittsburgh, Jeff and everyone
	10:05pm CC: We're having baked chicken again with country gravy and mashed potatoes with some French style green beans on the side and toast!!!
	10:05pm Eiderdown: ooooh. Sounds delish
	10:06pm Petricole: Hola from Toronto. Was just about as nice as days get here today, i.e. really quite nice, all global pandemics considered. Glad to be here with you all.
	10:07pm patrick: had to spend today at work so happy to have a nice "nightcap" on the shift. ✌️
	10:07pm ParUbi: Good day for some gardening and foraging
	10:07pm Uncle Michael: <rolls eyes>Nice try with the iframe.</rolls eyes>
	10:07pm hairyhood: I'm writing a capstone paper that is due at 10am tomorrow. why are humans so inclined to procrastinate?
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: Yeah it seems beautiful days will always come with some melancholy, at least thats how i felt today...
	10:08pm Mr. Pumpy: Is that the topic of the paper?
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: UM: <comment hidden>
	10:08pm CC: Jeremy just told me that's wrong we're having stuffing instead of toast...
	10:08pm ParUbi: There's always at least the sense that everything is subject to time
	10:08pm Phillippe Bastille: howdy
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: Sorry, Jeff. I shouldn't meddle.
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: I had a good day. I busted my ass prepping the garden for tomatoes. I ended it by getting some great bird photos.
	10:09pm MollyRose: hello friends !
	10:10pm Aaron: Hello from Indy, everyone. That last track was cool, sounded like Neil
	10:10pm MollyRose: I thought so too, Aaron
	10:11pm patrick: this Pacific Range album is poised to be a great summer soundtrack. been loving it.
	10:11pm Jeff Conklin: i still need to grip the vinyl tbh
	10:11pm jdcon: Tuning in from Jackson Wyoming
	10:12pm Geology: Evening Jeff and everyone. Rare chance to listen live! LOVING this Pacific Range album. Listened to it three times while gardening today.
	10:14pm Jeff Conklin: Seems like the PR LP is a unanimous winner round here!
	10:15pm strangesongs: good evening from LA, digging this jam
	10:15pm Eiderdown: Never heard of it til now...it's a jammer
	10:17pm Uncle Michael: There are so many better "jam bands" these days than back in say, The Wetlands days. All these players that were children back then are just nailing it.
	10:19pm Mr. Pumpy: Uncle...I hear you. I don't really consider a lot of things as jam bands any longer...but I get what you mean. No names...but I got so tired of certain bands that crawled out of the 90s. Aping each other an whatnot. There is more variety and meat on the bone these days. My opinion at least.
	10:19pm Jeff Conklin: How dare you put down Conehead Buddha and Jiggle the Handle.
	10:20pm Mr. Pumpy: Ha!
	10:21pm Uncle Michael: If you will dare...I will dare.
	10:22pm CC: You have to play from your heart!!!
	10:22pm Jeff Conklin: The bands now are better because they’re pulling from a wider range of source material. A band like Garcia People’s don’t come from a classic rock banckground and it’s for the best.
	10:23pm Mr. Pumpy: Can anyone sell me on Umphrey's McGee? I saw them at the Wetlands in the 90s, opening for Project/Object...and yeah, cool. Good opening act that I thought was headed somewhere. Every other time I attempted I just couldn't dig. I mean it, maybe I'm looking at the wrong stuff. I don't think so though, for me it is just where an artist is coming from, and they didn't seem to be coming from that place for me. Nothing against them.
	10:23pm Bob O: Greetings in the Avant Ghetto! I’m really glad Pacific Range are repeat offenders here! I’m digging em!
	10:23pm Pauly from Clifton: @Uncle Michael, 10:17, The Wetlands...wow...talk about taking me back with a thunderstorm in DC and a head full of gin and grass...Wow.
	10:24pm Petricole: Lovely tune. @hairyhood I bet you're a highly skilled procrastinator. You got this.
	10:24pm Mr. Pumpy: Jeff...agreed! That has made a huge difference. there was a time when all 'jam bands', for lack of a better term, sounded like they only listened to jam bands. Boring.
	10:25pm Geology: "A band like Garcia People’s don’t come from a classic rock banckground and it’s for the best." Spot on. They've absorbed the classic stuff, plus the Dead obviously, but also Sonic Youth and all that and it's brilliant.
	10:25pm moelarryandjesus: This was my first Dead LP... 1979!
	10:25pm MollyRose: who knew that all i needed to heal my quarantine blues was to dance to the dead in my living room
	10:26pm Mr. Pumpy: @Geology, in other words...they are true musicians, not mimics.
	10:26pm Uncle Michael: I'm not sure what it i, Jeff. There's a generation of musicians now that have absorbed the music without the mythos. The were never "on tour". They're not trying to pick up the pieces of the deadhead parking lot scene. Its wonderful.
	10:27pm Aaron: Yeah, this one’s washing the blues away for sure
	10:27pm MollyRose: this is perfect music
	10:27pm Jeff Conklin: my baby girl has taken to clapping when the Dead comes on. its kinda the best...
	10:27pm Yes: hello sisters and brothers
	10:28pm Geology: @MP I'm not going to argue with a lot of the earlier bands skill at their instruments, but it's a hell of a lot more enjoyable to listen to this new crop to these ears. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
	10:28pm CC: Oh man!!!...
	10:28pm Pauly from Clifton: Greetings Jeff and all. Hope you're all well and coping. Jeff, I just discovered your show; usually I am slumbering at this time. So glad I did!
	10:28pm Mr. Pumpy: No one up for the Umphrey's ice bucket challenge? I'll take that as a sign. Let's move on.
	10:28pm Geology: @UM yep, that's a big part of it, I think.
	10:29pm Uncle Michael: @ Mr. Pumpy: Now do Moe.
	10:29pm Jeff Conklin: Welcome, Pauly.. I tried Ump McG once i couldnt make it very far so I'm not gonna be any help there...
	10:29pm slowbear: checkin in from highland park los angeles.. whats up jeff thanks for spinnin
	10:29pm Mr. Pumpy: @Geology, there are mechanics and there are artists. Artists do what I'm interested in.
	10:29pm Mr. Pumpy: @Uncle...ha!
	10:29pm Jeff Conklin: moe are great! they wrote some good tunes..
	10:30pm Geology: @MP haha yep, good analogy
	10:31pm Uncle Michael: Fair enough, Jeff. There was just this cohort of bands that kind of washed over me in a blur. I'm not naming any more names.
	10:31pm Mr. Pumpy: @Geology...an that's coming from a guy that likes a lot of technical metal and other shit that would seem counter to what I said, but if it doesn't have that creative exploration behind it, no thanks.
	10:32pm CC: emulation as opposed to simulation?!?
	10:34pm Eiderdown: The problem with the jam band dudes when I was growing up in the late 80's/early 90's was that they were so...conservative in their musical tastes! For folks playing psychedelic sounds, they were really stodgy with their musical tastes
	10:34pm Mr. Pumpy: Moe never grabbed me, but hey...whatever. An acquaintance of mine did some of the covers, including the awesome Headseed. I heard a bunch of them through him and his dad. Got into a show or two. To each their own. I'm certainly not a taste-maker, but I know what I like.
	10:35pm Jeff Conklin: @Eiderdown: Yeah, that's why old school Deadheads are the worst. Thankfully the new generation is more open-minded..
	10:37pm Pauly from Clifton: @Jeff, 10:27, your selections lend themselves to that. Reminiscent of my parents and older sisters putting me to sleep to the great Alison Steele on WNEW a long time ago. Most excellent!
	10:37pm Mr. Pumpy: @Eiderdown...yes! A lot of peeps were that way. And they were so into tunes I knew were influenced by things I knew and thought they would also love. I'd play Zappa for some folks that I knew who were into Phish and they thought I was fucking insane! I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I decided early on that many were more into the scene than discovering awesome sounds. Again, to each their own. I still have a hard time coming to terms with that mode of thinking though.
	10:37pm Jeff Conklin: ah the Nightbird, my dad was a big fan...
	10:38pm Dean: Good god. There are "old school" deadheads? I don't think so.
	10:39pm Jeff Conklin: @dean: gonna ignore that comment
	10:40pm Mr. Pumpy: Well, Dean, I would think someone listening to them for 50 years as opposed to 5 years would make that discernment.
	10:40pm Eiderdown: Ha. Those kind of attitudes turned me off to a lot of good music...til I wised up and learned to trust the band, not the fan :)
	10:40pm Tome: great vibes oozing into the chair now indeed !<>!
	10:41pm Eiderdown: Btw, not a surprise but this new Matt Valentine stuff is wonderfully bonkers
	10:41pm Uncle Michael: I find myself enjoying a lot of music that's on some sort of loose spectrum between new-psychedelia and so-called stoner rock. An area that includes Garcia Peoples, Earthless, Endless Boogie, Heron Oblivion...
	10:41pm Dean: That's remarkable. That's a "discernment." I disagree.
	10:42pm Jeff Conklin: Yes @eiderdown! He needs to press this one uppppp
	10:42pm Tome: The Night bird , one of the reasons I had a spliter , twin lead to the tv ,, coax to the fm,, rarely watched the b&w tv in my room ,, didn't even want color ,, only a better fm / tuner reciever <>
	10:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Dean...I agree. You do disagree.
	10:43pm Franco Twinkie: Excuse me driver, does this bus go to oblivion?
	10:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Uncle...Earthless lay down some science live!
	10:44pm Pauly from Clifton: @Tome, oozing indeed. A great way to start the week in my headspace.
	10:44pm TDK60: Evenin' Jeff and sonic expanders.
	10:44pm Aaron: Man that was wild
	10:44pm Uncle Michael: I'd love to see Earthless live!
	10:45pm phat: hey!
	10:46pm phat: this Constant Smiles track grabbed me within a couple measures. Nice.
	10:46pm hairyhood: Great tune, this. also, Earthless kicks ass live - not sure I'd listen to them in any other format, really.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: Not even that Earthless Meets Heavy Blanket release? Man.
	10:47pm Eiderdown: That Constant Smiles was cool. No wonder you were grousing that no one would release it :)
	10:47pm hairyhood: that's why I qualified the statement with "not sure" ;)
	10:47pm doctorjazz: Guess I'm an "old school" Deadhead, haven't heard much of the current generation on "jam bands" (wasn't crazy about what I had heard years back in the genre) except what I've heard on FMU, but I'm liking the selections I'm hearing tonight. (Something else on my very long "need to check out" list) And...hi.
	10:48pm Franco Twinkie: Michael@10:41. Yes! Just the distilled essence without distraction.
	10:48pm Mr. Pumpy: I thought this was Spacemen 3 for a minute!
	10:48pm Mr. Pumpy: Jeff...keep on truckin' brother! Gotta duck out. Peace and love, all.
	10:48pm CC: time to meditate!!!
	10:48pm Jeff Conklin: in total love with that Constant Smiles record. I'm really surprised the labels i sent it to passed but thats ok we'll get heads to hear it...
	10:49pm Jeff Conklin: #notalloldschooldeadheads
	10:49pm Mike Davis: Digging the show!
	10:49pm ParUbi: Constant Smiles-- super dreamy, space pop, gotta get that
	10:49pm Jeff Conklin: Yo what up, Mike!
	10:50pm Aaron: Getting galaxy 500 vibes from this ash & herb
	10:51pm Jeff Conklin: The Constant Smiles goes to a lot of interesting places. One of my fave records of the year. 250 pieces of vinyl pressed up. I recommend moving fast on that one...
	10:51pm ParUbi: @Aaron, I was just writing that!
	10:51pm Mike Davis: Not much! Chilling up here, hope you and fam are well
	10:51pm MollyRose: another one to soothe the soul
	10:51pm Yes: i feel free
	10:52pm Uncle Michael: I'm closing the laptop. I'm gonna keep listening. Thanks, Jeff. Night, all.
	10:52pm Mike Davis: This set is hitting the spot right now
	10:53pm Franco Twinkie: See ya, Michael.
	10:53pm Uncle Michael: Night, Franco.
	10:54pm Jeff Conklin: peace, UM
	10:54pm Aaron: @parubi, haha it’s right in there!
	10:55pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Nature abhors a vacuum, so UM's departure has brought me here. Hello!
	10:56pm ParUbi: hey GST!
	10:58pm Franco Twinkie: Granny! What's the fog situation on Potrero hill tonight?
	11:01pm Franco Twinkie: Do jammy hippies like jammy cakes, or do they just break their teeth on bark cookies?
	11:02pm TDK60: Dunno Franco..I'll ask around...
	11:02pm Eiderdown: Thx Jeff!
	11:03pm Jeff Conklin: Did I pronounce it right, Adam?>
	11:03pm Geology: @Eiderdown Thank you. The comp is wonderful as is the cause.
	11:04pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Hey there, ParUbi! Franco Twinkie: very clear from here. The hills are bereft of fog. Carl must be sheltering elsewhere.
	11:04pm Eiderdown: Yes! I think :) Its a made up Latin word for "Cosmic Protection"
	11:05pm ParUbi: sounds gorgeous
	11:05pm Eiderdown: @Geology: THANK YOU! First proceeds going to food banks this week. So grateful for the artists and everyone's support.
	11:06pm Yes: this is great
	11:07pm ParUbi: Really dig the cover art for the compilation, Eiderdown!
	11:08pm hairyhood: made up Latin is the best Latin
	11:08pm Eiderdown: @ParUbi: hell yeah, thats Brian Lucas from Dire Wolves. So amazing. He has a solo track on the comp too: Old Million Eye
	11:09pm Petricole: This IS great! Delectable.
	11:09pm Eiderdown: @hairyhood: it's the only Latin I know :)
	11:09pm hairyhood: lol, same
	11:09pm moelarryandjesus: Dominus vobiscum!
	11:10pm ParUbi: people had to make up Latin at some point
	11:11pm Eiderdown: True true. That's a historical fact!
	11:11pm moelarryandjesus: Maybe it was the Latins.
	11:13pm ParUbi: Now that point in prehistory where we went from grunts to words, I'm sure it was smoothed over by music
	11:14pm Carmichael: I’m out of it, and therefore here.
	11:15pm Petricole: Farewell, Carmichael. Sleep sweet.
	11:16pm goldie:
	11:18pm Carmichael: I just showed up, but thanks. Out of it, generally.
	11:19pm Aaron: This drew Gardner is so smooth
	11:19pm moelarryandjesus: Longtime listener, Jeff... Gotta say this show tonight is flowing perfectly.
	11:20pm Yes: yeah this track pulled me back from across the house
	11:20pm Carmichael: This drew guy knows how to groove his groove.
	11:20pm Yes: i need to check out elkhorn
	11:20pm Petricole: Me too, looks like. I blame this magical mood Jeff is spinning. Thanks Jeff.
	11:21pm Petricole: And thanks, Japanese cheesecake.
	11:22pm Jeff Conklin: Just realized after doing the show this song features Andy from GPon bass. Ryan Jewell On drums. So killllller
	11:22pm ParUbi: Here's the Bandcamp link for the comp: eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com...
	11:23pm JakeGould: Hello all!
	11:25pm Jeff Conklin: Hey Jake and anyone else I missed!
	11:26pm Eiderdown: @ParUbi: thanks !
	11:27pm ChukAmok: Hello and goodnight. Zzzzz.
	11:27pm Eiderdown: And yeah Jeff, that Drew Gardner track has a sweet crew behind it
	11:30pm ParUbi: big sky sounds
	11:31pm Aitch: Thought I'd gone to a Nowhere Place, but that a bit early
	11:31pm Scott Williams: This whole set's got me in my feels, alright - thanks Jeff! And hello, everyone! Been here listening and enjoying all night
	11:32pm Aitch: Is this Fred Scheider's ambient brother?
	11:33pm Scott Williams: Ryan Jewell is a seriously versatile drummer, fantastic. 1st time I saw him play was (I think) with Psychedelic Horseshit!
	11:33pm ParUbi: Scott the newly aged! Thanks for your work and care
	11:37pm Eiderdown: Wait, Ryan was in Psychedelic Horseshit? Mind blown. that means I probably met him way back in the day
	11:37pm Eiderdown: Btw, this Kenji Kihara is very nice!
	11:38pm Jeff Conklin: Yeah I'm waaaay into this right now. Been jamming it every morning
	11:38pm chresti: Wow, a band named Psychadelic Horseshit.
	11:39pm Eiderdown: Heading over to Bandcamp right now...Inner Islands here I come
	11:39pm ParUbi: The world keeps on giving, right chresti?
	11:41pm chresti: Right, ParUbi.
	11:41pm Scott Williams: @Eiderdown, not sure if he was -in- the band, or just sitting in. He was here with them in '07, live on Brian Turner's show
	11:43pm Eiderdown: Hmmm, yeah probably not then. Rich was the drummer when my old band used to play with em, just realized
	11:44pm Eiderdown: Ol Tuluum is on a freakin roll these days...
	11:49pm Geology: @Eiderdown Yeah, no kidding. Turned my dad on to his Bird Song the other day.
	11:50pm Jeff Conklin: I put in another request. Fingers crossed he gets to it...
	11:53pm Eiderdown: @Geology: that's awesome. It's a deep zone for all age ranges
	11:54pm Eiderdown: @Jeff: looking forward to what that might be if it happens
	11:54pm Geology: Oh for sure and he turned me on to the original so it only seemed fair.
	11:55pm Eiderdown: The circle is complete :)
	11:56pm Scott Williams: Great show, thanks Jeff! G'night
	11:57pm Jeff Conklin: Thanks for hanging everybody and big ups to Scott in the studio!
	11:57pm fleep: Star for the whole show. Worth revisiting. Thanks, Jeff.
	11:58pm Jeff Conklin: Cheers, Fleep!
	11:58pm steveL: Great show. Thanks!
	11:58pm Aaron: Great show tonight, loved it
	11:58pm P-90: Thanks, JC. Good night Ghettopians.
	11:58pm ParUbi: Thanks Jeff!
	11:59pm Eiderdown: Great show and thanks for the benefit comp plays, I appreciate it!
	11:59pm Eiderdown: Goodnight all
	12:00am jeanli: Beauty of a show!!
	12:01am chresti: Thanks Jeff, sounded great!
	6:16am Anders Hansen: Hello from Oslo, Norway. Love the show. Just fantastic. That last track... Eight Miles High. Amazing stuff. Keep up the great work.

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from May 3, 2020

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May 3, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Warren Byrom	Piss and Song "Piss and Song" by "Warren Byrom"	Dreaming the Sun	Drowned Lands	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
One Eleven Heavy	Valley Bottom Fever	Live at Jam Castle	Was Ist Das?	0:04:26 (Pop-up)
Pacific Range	Nothing Else More "Nothing Else More" by "Pacific Range"	High Upon the Mountain	Curation Records	0:09:26 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Help on the Way/Slipknot!	Blues For Allah	GD	0:17:36 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	Franklin's Tower "Franklin's Tower" by "Grateful Dead"	Blues For Allah	GD	0:25:33 (Pop-up)
Matt Valentine Preserves	The Look I Love > WYDWYD > Keep It COMin'	Galactic Ooze	Doobie / Child of Microtones	0:29:14 (Pop-up)
Constant Smiles	Floating "Floating" by "Constant Smiles"	Control	Living Waters	0:43:32 (Pop-up)
Ash & Herb	Mudra of Creation "Mudra of Creation" by "Ash & Herb"	Roughin' It	Flower Room	0:47:00 (Pop-up)

Jesse Sheppherd and Turner Williams	Skywise	CosmoPraesidium	Eiderdown Records	1:01:35 (Pop-up)
Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble	Nature Spirits	The Neptune Collection	Folkways	1:09:49 (Pop-up)
Drew Gardner	Calyx "Calyx" by "Drew Gardner"	CosmoPraesidium	Eiderdown Records	1:16:02 (Pop-up)
Jeffrey Silverstein	Return to Roses	You Become the Mountain	Arrowhawk Records	1:22:27 (Pop-up)
Luke Schneider	Invicta Affection "Invicta Affection" by "Luke Schneider"	Altar of Harmony	Third Man	1:26:13 (Pop-up)
Kenji Kihara	Rain Flows "Rain Flows" by "Kenji Kihara"	Slow Slope Sleeps	Inner Islands	1:32:18 (Pop-up)
Tuluum Shimmering	Eight Miles High	Eight Miles High	Tuluum Shimmering	1:42:48 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:01pm Mr. Pumpy: Hey, Jeff!
	10:02pm chresti: Hiya Jeff and ghetto blasters!
	10:02pm Uncle Michael: Smoothest lockdown transition ever.
	10:02pm fleep: Good evening from Los Angeles
	10:02pm Eiderdown: Evening Jeff! Making inner and grooving out with ya
	10:03pm Eiderdown: hahaha DINNER
	10:03pm Jeff Conklin: Evening, everybody. We had a nice day out here hope you all did too. Glad to be hanging...
	10:04pm ParUbi: Hello from Pittsburgh, Jeff and everyone
	10:05pm CC: We're having baked chicken again with country gravy and mashed potatoes with some French style green beans on the side and toast!!!
	10:05pm Eiderdown: ooooh. Sounds delish
	10:06pm Petricole: Hola from Toronto. Was just about as nice as days get here today, i.e. really quite nice, all global pandemics considered. Glad to be here with you all.
	10:07pm patrick: had to spend today at work so happy to have a nice "nightcap" on the shift. ✌️
	10:07pm ParUbi: Good day for some gardening and foraging
	10:07pm Uncle Michael: <rolls eyes>Nice try with the iframe.</rolls eyes>
	10:07pm hairyhood: I'm writing a capstone paper that is due at 10am tomorrow. why are humans so inclined to procrastinate?
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: Yeah it seems beautiful days will always come with some melancholy, at least thats how i felt today...
	10:08pm Mr. Pumpy: Is that the topic of the paper?
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: UM: <comment hidden>
	10:08pm CC: Jeremy just told me that's wrong we're having stuffing instead of toast...
	10:08pm ParUbi: There's always at least the sense that everything is subject to time
	10:08pm Phillippe Bastille: howdy
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: Sorry, Jeff. I shouldn't meddle.
	10:09pm Uncle Michael: I had a good day. I busted my ass prepping the garden for tomatoes. I ended it by getting some great bird photos.
	10:09pm MollyRose: hello friends !
	10:10pm Aaron: Hello from Indy, everyone. That last track was cool, sounded like Neil
	10:10pm MollyRose: I thought so too, Aaron
	10:11pm patrick: this Pacific Range album is poised to be a great summer soundtrack. been loving it.
	10:11pm Jeff Conklin: i still need to grip the vinyl tbh
	10:11pm jdcon: Tuning in from Jackson Wyoming
	10:12pm Geology: Evening Jeff and everyone. Rare chance to listen live! LOVING this Pacific Range album. Listened to it three times while gardening today.
	10:14pm Jeff Conklin: Seems like the PR LP is a unanimous winner round here!
	10:15pm strangesongs: good evening from LA, digging this jam
	10:15pm Eiderdown: Never heard of it til now...it's a jammer
	10:17pm Uncle Michael: There are so many better "jam bands" these days than back in say, The Wetlands days. All these players that were children back then are just nailing it.
	10:19pm Mr. Pumpy: Uncle...I hear you. I don't really consider a lot of things as jam bands any longer...but I get what you mean. No names...but I got so tired of certain bands that crawled out of the 90s. Aping each other an whatnot. There is more variety and meat on the bone these days. My opinion at least.
	10:19pm Jeff Conklin: How dare you put down Conehead Buddha and Jiggle the Handle.
	10:20pm Mr. Pumpy: Ha!
	10:21pm Uncle Michael: If you will dare...I will dare.
	10:22pm CC: You have to play from your heart!!!
	10:22pm Jeff Conklin: The bands now are better because they’re pulling from a wider range of source material. A band like Garcia People’s don’t come from a classic rock banckground and it’s for the best.
	10:23pm Mr. Pumpy: Can anyone sell me on Umphrey's McGee? I saw them at the Wetlands in the 90s, opening for Project/Object...and yeah, cool. Good opening act that I thought was headed somewhere. Every other time I attempted I just couldn't dig. I mean it, maybe I'm looking at the wrong stuff. I don't think so though, for me it is just where an artist is coming from, and they didn't seem to be coming from that place for me. Nothing against them.
	10:23pm Bob O: Greetings in the Avant Ghetto! I’m really glad Pacific Range are repeat offenders here! I’m digging em!
	10:23pm Pauly from Clifton: @Uncle Michael, 10:17, The Wetlands...wow...talk about taking me back with a thunderstorm in DC and a head full of gin and grass...Wow.
	10:24pm Petricole: Lovely tune. @hairyhood I bet you're a highly skilled procrastinator. You got this.
	10:24pm Mr. Pumpy: Jeff...agreed! That has made a huge difference. there was a time when all 'jam bands', for lack of a better term, sounded like they only listened to jam bands. Boring.
	10:25pm Geology: "A band like Garcia People’s don’t come from a classic rock banckground and it’s for the best." Spot on. They've absorbed the classic stuff, plus the Dead obviously, but also Sonic Youth and all that and it's brilliant.
	10:25pm moelarryandjesus: This was my first Dead LP... 1979!
	10:25pm MollyRose: who knew that all i needed to heal my quarantine blues was to dance to the dead in my living room
	10:26pm Mr. Pumpy: @Geology, in other words...they are true musicians, not mimics.
	10:26pm Uncle Michael: I'm not sure what it i, Jeff. There's a generation of musicians now that have absorbed the music without the mythos. The were never "on tour". They're not trying to pick up the pieces of the deadhead parking lot scene. Its wonderful.
	10:27pm Aaron: Yeah, this one’s washing the blues away for sure
	10:27pm MollyRose: this is perfect music
	10:27pm Jeff Conklin: my baby girl has taken to clapping when the Dead comes on. its kinda the best...
	10:27pm Yes: hello sisters and brothers
	10:28pm Geology: @MP I'm not going to argue with a lot of the earlier bands skill at their instruments, but it's a hell of a lot more enjoyable to listen to this new crop to these ears. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
	10:28pm CC: Oh man!!!...
	10:28pm Pauly from Clifton: Greetings Jeff and all. Hope you're all well and coping. Jeff, I just discovered your show; usually I am slumbering at this time. So glad I did!
	10:28pm Mr. Pumpy: No one up for the Umphrey's ice bucket challenge? I'll take that as a sign. Let's move on.
	10:28pm Geology: @UM yep, that's a big part of it, I think.
	10:29pm Uncle Michael: @ Mr. Pumpy: Now do Moe.
	10:29pm Jeff Conklin: Welcome, Pauly.. I tried Ump McG once i couldnt make it very far so I'm not gonna be any help there...
	10:29pm slowbear: checkin in from highland park los angeles.. whats up jeff thanks for spinnin
	10:29pm Mr. Pumpy: @Geology, there are mechanics and there are artists. Artists do what I'm interested in.
	10:29pm Mr. Pumpy: @Uncle...ha!
	10:29pm Jeff Conklin: moe are great! they wrote some good tunes..
	10:30pm Geology: @MP haha yep, good analogy
	10:31pm Uncle Michael: Fair enough, Jeff. There was just this cohort of bands that kind of washed over me in a blur. I'm not naming any more names.
	10:31pm Mr. Pumpy: @Geology...an that's coming from a guy that likes a lot of technical metal and other shit that would seem counter to what I said, but if it doesn't have that creative exploration behind it, no thanks.
	10:32pm CC: emulation as opposed to simulation?!?
	10:34pm Eiderdown: The problem with the jam band dudes when I was growing up in the late 80's/early 90's was that they were so...conservative in their musical tastes! For folks playing psychedelic sounds, they were really stodgy with their musical tastes
	10:34pm Mr. Pumpy: Moe never grabbed me, but hey...whatever. An acquaintance of mine did some of the covers, including the awesome Headseed. I heard a bunch of them through him and his dad. Got into a show or two. To each their own. I'm certainly not a taste-maker, but I know what I like.
	10:35pm Jeff Conklin: @Eiderdown: Yeah, that's why old school Deadheads are the worst. Thankfully the new generation is more open-minded..
	10:37pm Pauly from Clifton: @Jeff, 10:27, your selections lend themselves to that. Reminiscent of my parents and older sisters putting me to sleep to the great Alison Steele on WNEW a long time ago. Most excellent!
	10:37pm Mr. Pumpy: @Eiderdown...yes! A lot of peeps were that way. And they were so into tunes I knew were influenced by things I knew and thought they would also love. I'd play Zappa for some folks that I knew who were into Phish and they thought I was fucking insane! I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I decided early on that many were more into the scene than discovering awesome sounds. Again, to each their own. I still have a hard time coming to terms with that mode of thinking though.
	10:37pm Jeff Conklin: ah the Nightbird, my dad was a big fan...
	10:38pm Dean: Good god. There are "old school" deadheads? I don't think so.
	10:39pm Jeff Conklin: @dean: gonna ignore that comment
	10:40pm Mr. Pumpy: Well, Dean, I would think someone listening to them for 50 years as opposed to 5 years would make that discernment.
	10:40pm Eiderdown: Ha. Those kind of attitudes turned me off to a lot of good music...til I wised up and learned to trust the band, not the fan :)
	10:40pm Tome: great vibes oozing into the chair now indeed !<>!
	10:41pm Eiderdown: Btw, not a surprise but this new Matt Valentine stuff is wonderfully bonkers
	10:41pm Uncle Michael: I find myself enjoying a lot of music that's on some sort of loose spectrum between new-psychedelia and so-called stoner rock. An area that includes Garcia Peoples, Earthless, Endless Boogie, Heron Oblivion...
	10:41pm Dean: That's remarkable. That's a "discernment." I disagree.
	10:42pm Jeff Conklin: Yes @eiderdown! He needs to press this one uppppp
	10:42pm Tome: The Night bird , one of the reasons I had a spliter , twin lead to the tv ,, coax to the fm,, rarely watched the b&w tv in my room ,, didn't even want color ,, only a better fm / tuner reciever <>
	10:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Dean...I agree. You do disagree.
	10:43pm Franco Twinkie: Excuse me driver, does this bus go to oblivion?
	10:43pm Mr. Pumpy: Uncle...Earthless lay down some science live!
	10:44pm Pauly from Clifton: @Tome, oozing indeed. A great way to start the week in my headspace.
	10:44pm TDK60: Evenin' Jeff and sonic expanders.
	10:44pm Aaron: Man that was wild
	10:44pm Uncle Michael: I'd love to see Earthless live!
	10:45pm phat: hey!
	10:46pm phat: this Constant Smiles track grabbed me within a couple measures. Nice.
	10:46pm hairyhood: Great tune, this. also, Earthless kicks ass live - not sure I'd listen to them in any other format, really.
	10:47pm Uncle Michael: Not even that Earthless Meets Heavy Blanket release? Man.
	10:47pm Eiderdown: That Constant Smiles was cool. No wonder you were grousing that no one would release it :)
	10:47pm hairyhood: that's why I qualified the statement with "not sure" ;)
	10:47pm doctorjazz: Guess I'm an "old school" Deadhead, haven't heard much of the current generation on "jam bands" (wasn't crazy about what I had heard years back in the genre) except what I've heard on FMU, but I'm liking the selections I'm hearing tonight. (Something else on my very long "need to check out" list) And...hi.
	10:48pm Franco Twinkie: Michael@10:41. Yes! Just the distilled essence without distraction.
	10:48pm Mr. Pumpy: I thought this was Spacemen 3 for a minute!
	10:48pm Mr. Pumpy: Jeff...keep on truckin' brother! Gotta duck out. Peace and love, all.
	10:48pm CC: time to meditate!!!
	10:48pm Jeff Conklin: in total love with that Constant Smiles record. I'm really surprised the labels i sent it to passed but thats ok we'll get heads to hear it...
	10:49pm Jeff Conklin: #notalloldschooldeadheads
	10:49pm Mike Davis: Digging the show!
	10:49pm ParUbi: Constant Smiles-- super dreamy, space pop, gotta get that
	10:49pm Jeff Conklin: Yo what up, Mike!
	10:50pm Aaron: Getting galaxy 500 vibes from this ash & herb
	10:51pm Jeff Conklin: The Constant Smiles goes to a lot of interesting places. One of my fave records of the year. 250 pieces of vinyl pressed up. I recommend moving fast on that one...
	10:51pm ParUbi: @Aaron, I was just writing that!
	10:51pm Mike Davis: Not much! Chilling up here, hope you and fam are well
	10:51pm MollyRose: another one to soothe the soul
	10:51pm Yes: i feel free
	10:52pm Uncle Michael: I'm closing the laptop. I'm gonna keep listening. Thanks, Jeff. Night, all.
	10:52pm Mike Davis: This set is hitting the spot right now
	10:53pm Franco Twinkie: See ya, Michael.
	10:53pm Uncle Michael: Night, Franco.
	10:54pm Jeff Conklin: peace, UM
	10:54pm Aaron: @parubi, haha it’s right in there!
	10:55pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Nature abhors a vacuum, so UM's departure has brought me here. Hello!
	10:56pm ParUbi: hey GST!
	10:58pm Franco Twinkie: Granny! What's the fog situation on Potrero hill tonight?
	11:01pm Franco Twinkie: Do jammy hippies like jammy cakes, or do they just break their teeth on bark cookies?
	11:02pm TDK60: Dunno Franco..I'll ask around...
	11:02pm Eiderdown: Thx Jeff!
	11:03pm Jeff Conklin: Did I pronounce it right, Adam?>
	11:03pm Geology: @Eiderdown Thank you. The comp is wonderful as is the cause.
	11:04pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Hey there, ParUbi! Franco Twinkie: very clear from here. The hills are bereft of fog. Carl must be sheltering elsewhere.
	11:04pm Eiderdown: Yes! I think :) Its a made up Latin word for "Cosmic Protection"
	11:05pm ParUbi: sounds gorgeous
	11:05pm Eiderdown: @Geology: THANK YOU! First proceeds going to food banks this week. So grateful for the artists and everyone's support.
	11:06pm Yes: this is great
	11:07pm ParUbi: Really dig the cover art for the compilation, Eiderdown!
	11:08pm hairyhood: made up Latin is the best Latin
	11:08pm Eiderdown: @ParUbi: hell yeah, thats Brian Lucas from Dire Wolves. So amazing. He has a solo track on the comp too: Old Million Eye
	11:09pm Petricole: This IS great! Delectable.
	11:09pm Eiderdown: @hairyhood: it's the only Latin I know :)
	11:09pm hairyhood: lol, same
	11:09pm moelarryandjesus: Dominus vobiscum!
	11:10pm ParUbi: people had to make up Latin at some point
	11:11pm Eiderdown: True true. That's a historical fact!
	11:11pm moelarryandjesus: Maybe it was the Latins.
	11:13pm ParUbi: Now that point in prehistory where we went from grunts to words, I'm sure it was smoothed over by music
	11:14pm Carmichael: I’m out of it, and therefore here.
	11:15pm Petricole: Farewell, Carmichael. Sleep sweet.
	11:16pm goldie:
	11:18pm Carmichael: I just showed up, but thanks. Out of it, generally.
	11:19pm Aaron: This drew Gardner is so smooth
	11:19pm moelarryandjesus: Longtime listener, Jeff... Gotta say this show tonight is flowing perfectly.
	11:20pm Yes: yeah this track pulled me back from across the house
	11:20pm Carmichael: This drew guy knows how to groove his groove.
	11:20pm Yes: i need to check out elkhorn
	11:20pm Petricole: Me too, looks like. I blame this magical mood Jeff is spinning. Thanks Jeff.
	11:21pm Petricole: And thanks, Japanese cheesecake.
	11:22pm Jeff Conklin: Just realized after doing the show this song features Andy from GPon bass. Ryan Jewell On drums. So killllller
	11:22pm ParUbi: Here's the Bandcamp link for the comp: eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com...
	11:23pm JakeGould: Hello all!
	11:25pm Jeff Conklin: Hey Jake and anyone else I missed!
	11:26pm Eiderdown: @ParUbi: thanks !
	11:27pm ChukAmok: Hello and goodnight. Zzzzz.
	11:27pm Eiderdown: And yeah Jeff, that Drew Gardner track has a sweet crew behind it
	11:30pm ParUbi: big sky sounds
	11:31pm Aitch: Thought I'd gone to a Nowhere Place, but that a bit early
	11:31pm Scott Williams: This whole set's got me in my feels, alright - thanks Jeff! And hello, everyone! Been here listening and enjoying all night
	11:32pm Aitch: Is this Fred Scheider's ambient brother?
	11:33pm Scott Williams: Ryan Jewell is a seriously versatile drummer, fantastic. 1st time I saw him play was (I think) with Psychedelic Horseshit!
	11:33pm ParUbi: Scott the newly aged! Thanks for your work and care
	11:37pm Eiderdown: Wait, Ryan was in Psychedelic Horseshit? Mind blown. that means I probably met him way back in the day
	11:37pm Eiderdown: Btw, this Kenji Kihara is very nice!
	11:38pm Jeff Conklin: Yeah I'm waaaay into this right now. Been jamming it every morning
	11:38pm chresti: Wow, a band named Psychadelic Horseshit.
	11:39pm Eiderdown: Heading over to Bandcamp right now...Inner Islands here I come
	11:39pm ParUbi: The world keeps on giving, right chresti?
	11:41pm chresti: Right, ParUbi.
	11:41pm Scott Williams: @Eiderdown, not sure if he was -in- the band, or just sitting in. He was here with them in '07, live on Brian Turner's show
	11:43pm Eiderdown: Hmmm, yeah probably not then. Rich was the drummer when my old band used to play with em, just realized
	11:44pm Eiderdown: Ol Tuluum is on a freakin roll these days...
	11:49pm Geology: @Eiderdown Yeah, no kidding. Turned my dad on to his Bird Song the other day.
	11:50pm Jeff Conklin: I put in another request. Fingers crossed he gets to it...
	11:53pm Eiderdown: @Geology: that's awesome. It's a deep zone for all age ranges
	11:54pm Eiderdown: @Jeff: looking forward to what that might be if it happens
	11:54pm Geology: Oh for sure and he turned me on to the original so it only seemed fair.
	11:55pm Eiderdown: The circle is complete :)
	11:56pm Scott Williams: Great show, thanks Jeff! G'night
	11:57pm Jeff Conklin: Thanks for hanging everybody and big ups to Scott in the studio!
	11:57pm fleep: Star for the whole show. Worth revisiting. Thanks, Jeff.
	11:58pm Jeff Conklin: Cheers, Fleep!
	11:58pm steveL: Great show. Thanks!
	11:58pm Aaron: Great show tonight, loved it
	11:58pm P-90: Thanks, JC. Good night Ghettopians.
	11:58pm ParUbi: Thanks Jeff!
	11:59pm Eiderdown: Great show and thanks for the benefit comp plays, I appreciate it!
	11:59pm Eiderdown: Goodnight all
	12:00am jeanli: Beauty of a show!!
	12:01am chresti: Thanks Jeff, sounded great!
	6:16am Anders Hansen: Hello from Oslo, Norway. Love the show. Just fantastic. That last track... Eight Miles High. Amazing stuff. Keep up the great work.

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from May 3, 2020

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