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May 24, 2013 Favoriting
Every generation gets the Medea Benjamin it deserves
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Artist Selection Album    (Label / Recording date)
Theme Music:
Sarah Webster Fabio 
Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues   Favoriting Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues
(Folkways 1976)
ECD  In Tempo   Favoriting Major Force: The Original Art-Form
(Mo' Wax 1990)

Song Xiping, Xie Dejiang & Zou Desheng  Tonight, Life   Favoriting Music of the First Moon:
Shawms from Northeast China, Volume 1
(Buda Musique )
T.R. Mahalingam  Sarajisa Nabha   Favoriting Portrait of a Prodigy:
His Early Years, 1940s-50s
(EM )
Geraldo Mousinho e Cachimbinho  Côco da Corrupção   Favoriting Côcos
(Musicolor 1975)
Clear Light  Mr. Blue   Favoriting Black Roses
(Elektra 1967)

Talkover Music:
00-Soul 
Taboo   Favoriting The Solid Sounds of the 8-Piece Brotherhood
(Manteca 1999)

Pete Seeger  My Rainbow Race   Favoriting Rainbow Race
(CBS 1971)
Richard and Linda Thompson  The Great Valerio   Favoriting I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
(Island 1974)
Henry Flynt  Lonesome Train Dream   Favoriting Graduation And Other New Country and Blues Music
(Ampersand mid-1970s)
Peter Walker  White Wind   Favoriting Rainy Day Raga
(Vanguard 1966)

Talkover Music:
Kodo 
Sai-So (Strobe's Satori Beats)   Favoriting Sai-So
(Sony Japan 1999)

Jimmy Giuffre  Suspensions   Favoriting Modern Jazz Concert
(Columbia 1957)
The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble  Tar Box Poltergeist   Favoriting The Neptune Collection
(Folkways 1976)
Rufus Harley  Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child   Favoriting Bagpipe Blues
(Atlantic 1966)
Fred Van Hove  C1 à 3   Favoriting KKWTT
(Nato 1984)

Talkover Music:
Dwight Sykes 
Bye   Favoriting Songs, Volume 1
(Peoples Perpetual Understanding 1981)

Sabah  La'a Ya Melowaa Le Albi   Favoriting Al-Shahroura (The Blackbird)
Unknown  แมวเฝ้าปลา (Like a Cat Guarding a Fish)   Favoriting b/w เสียงแคนที่หนองคาย (Playing Khaen in Nong Khai)
Slim Smith  The Time Has Come   Favoriting Keep That Lovelight Shining
(Trojan )
Duffy Power  July Tree   Favoriting Leapers and Sleepers
(RPM )
Mina  Se Telefonado   Favoriting Brava Mina
(Warner Italy 1966)

Talkover Music:
Nino Rota 
The Clowns (pt. 2)   Favoriting The Clowns
(Cam 1971)

Cardinal Rex Lawson  Ojukwu Imiete, Biafra Bolate   Favoriting Biafra: Birth of a Nation
(Lyntone 1968)
Amanar  Onin Okalol   Favoriting Alghafiat
(Sahel Sounds 2008)
Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National  Obialu Be Onye Abiabunia   Favoriting Ilo Abu Chi
(Philips 1974)
C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7  M'atow Abowa   Favoriting Party Time With "Ceekay"
(Essiebons 1973)
Stanislah Tohon  Dja, Dja, Dja   Favoriting Dans le Tchink System
(Editions les Vedettes 1979)

Talkover Music:
Guitar Red 
Disco from a Space Show   Favoriting Hard Times
(Mod-Art 1976)

The Falcons  You're So Fine   Favoriting You're So Fine:
The Falcons Story, Part One
(Flick )
Johnny Daye  Stay Baby Stay   Favoriting Nobody Wins:
Stax Southern Soul 1968-1975
(Kent 1968)
East of Underground  Smiling Faces Sometimes   Favoriting East of Underground
(U.S. Army/Wax Poetics 1971)
Curtis Mayfield  Short Eyes   Favoriting Short Eyes (OST)
(Curtom 1977)

Closing Theme:
John Lee Hooker 
Stand By   Favoriting I Feel Good
(Jewel 1971)

Listener comments!

Avatar 8:19am ausmanx:

now i've been initiated into the Drummer MO, i thought i'd send today's first comment from the Antipodes... good evening, all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30am Doug Schulkind:

I will try to keep you awake, ausmanx!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:56am Uncle Michael:

Hello from the propodes.
Avatar 8:57am ndbob:

morning Doug, ausmanx, everyone!
Avatar 8:57am ndbob:

morning UM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57am Doug Schulkind:

Say Uncle! Hello ndbob!
Avatar 8:58am hyde:

once more, it's morning time in drummer land
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:58am Uncle Michael:

Hi Bob!

Hi Doug!

Hi Manx! (what happened to your tail?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:00am Uncle Michael:

That Shure is pink.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01am Doug Schulkind:

hyde-e hyde-e hyde-e ho!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am Stanley:

Awright - on my own at the office and grooooving!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03am Doug Schulkind:

The Stan with a plan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am Rich in Washington:

Mekka-lekka hi, mekka heinie ho!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05am Doug Schulkind:

Sounds like you got lei-d, Rich!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05am AndrewC.:

Afternoon. How come you get a playlists/Doug URL? and not playlists/DS. Must have slipped the site admins some baksheesh, eh?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:07am Uncle Michael:

Jambi? JAMBI??
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:09am Uncle Michael:

The story about the speech on NPR didn't even mention this incident.
Avatar 9:09am ausmanx:

sadly down in a bunker like some latter-day morlock, rather than on the mountain. evening to all the folks, and i'm subtitling a serbian film about a Gay Pride rally in Belgrade tonight, which seems appropriate!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10am Doug Schulkind:

@AndrewC
It used to be .../Doug, but the WFMU's whole playlist database just got overhauled and my old playlist were migrated onto a new set-up, thus the new .../DS url. (I realize I described that pitifully.) The old .../Doug still works, it just transfers you to the new directory or somesuch. Still stuck with the same old me, however.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:12am AndrewC.:

Doug, you're always the same, but always refreshingly different.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:13am Jeff Golick:

I remember this cut from my high school daze as a chorus member of our production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:13am Uncle Michael:

Yidle deedle didle dum.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
I had the SAME reaction. All I can think of is "L'Chaim!"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:19am Jeff Golick:

There's a great anecdote in a long and long-ago New Yorker profile of Ang Lee. Lee was trying to get his screenwriter to make some family scenes "more Chinese." The screenwriter, who was Jewish, had no idea how to do this, so just made the family encounters as typically Jewish as he could. Lee came back and said something like, "Yes, you have really captured it now."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20am Doug Schulkind:

Ishes to ishes, dust to dust.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:22am Jeff Golick:

ONE WORLD, man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23am Doug Schulkind:

Careful friends: This flutist T.R. Mahalingam is not to be confused with the actor T.R. Mahalingam.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25am AndrewC.:

If you get a chance to read Stewart Lee's book "The Lifes and Deaths of a Standup Comedian"- brace yourself for a very funny Ang Lee anecdote.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26am Doug Schulkind:

"Brace yourself for a very funny Ang Lee anecdote" is itself a very funny anecdote.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28am Doug Schulkind:

Coming up next is an amazing sort of free-style rapping/dozens playing/call-and-response duet performance from Brazil that just blows me away. I'm not sure if this style is particular to the performers (Geraldo Mousinho & Cachimbino) or if it is a wider style. If the latter, I have yet to find anyone other than these two performing it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:29am Artie:

SM-58, Pantone 212 C.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32am Doug Schulkind:

Way to make an entrance, Artie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32am Rich in Washington:

Bridge collapse here in Washington. I hope there's a spate of folk songs about it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33am Artie:

Shades of Morocco in those little castanet sounds. Wonder if the vocal styles have some lineage there as well?
Avatar 9:33am ndbob:

quite a segue here:)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33am Brian in UK:

Hello Doug & Co.
Always loved Black Roses off this Clear Light.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35am Doug Schulkind:

@Artie
Surely there are African traces in the Brazilian performance style. More likely West African (due to slave trade) than North African. But you never know. (See Jeff Golick's comment at 9:22.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35am Rich in Washington:

Viewing, commenting via tiny mobile device. Desktop computer's logic board just bit the big one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:37am Brian in UK:

Dallas Taylor on drums?
  9:37am andujar:

this Clear Light is nasty!
Avatar 9:37am ndbob:

think so Brian
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:39am Brian in UK:

Hello bob.
Avatar 9:40am ndbob:

heya Brian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:45am Doug Schulkind:

Yes, Dallas Taylor on drums! Good aftenoon, Brian in UK!

And buon giorno to you, Maestro Andujar!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:47am Brian in UK:

Was this Pete Seeger song the principle for South Africa, in Mandela time? A hero by anyones stripe.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:48am Brian in UK:

I want to see the sunshine today.
Avatar 9:49am ausmanx:

one of THE great records. ever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am Doug Schulkind:

"My Rainbow Race" was performed by Nilsen and a crowd of more than 40,000 people in Youngstorget in Oslo and at squares across the country on April 26, 2012, as a protest against statements given in court by Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the July 22 attacks in 2011. The performance was inspired by Facebook reactions after Breivik claimed in his trial testimony that the song was an example of Marxist propaganda and that it was being used to "brainwash" Norwegian children. Organization was made at the level of Norwegian Minister of Culture, and other Ministers [of Culture] from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands were also present. The song was thus performed a few days later, in the midst of the ongoing trial. In Oslo the sing-along was followed by a march up to the site of the trial, where the crowd laid down flowers. The song was performed both in Norwegian and English, and Nilsen had personally contacted Seeger, who responded with the words: "Oh me, oh my. I wish you luck." (Wikipedia)
Avatar 9:54am ausmanx:

ah, mention of Breivik reminds me that he quoted our Australian conservative Prime Minister John Howard as a policy model in his manifesto. one of Howard's great legacies. (he will forever be known as "the lying rodent", as the Opposition leader referred to him in parliament).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57am Doug Schulkind:

George Brandis admits to calling him a rodent, but not a lying rodent. He says Howard was a "truthful rodent." (Do I have that right?)
Avatar 10:00am ausmanx:

one of Brandis' colleagues swore a statement that he used "lying". it seems pretty likely! Brandis will be our next Attorney-General, sigh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02am Doug Schulkind:

I will forever be smitten with your current PM. And not just because she's a redhead.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03am Hugo:

In my language, it is known as "Barn av regnbuen" - children of the rainbow. I wasn't aware that it was a cover of a Pete Seeger song, though. The artist in question was Lille-Bjørn Nilsen. A huge hit in this country back in the early 70s.
Avatar 10:04am ausmanx:

sadly she's been disgraceful enough in her own way (though nothing like your own incumbent). her refugee policy, which was what Breivik admired in Howard, is not so different
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05am Doug Schulkind:

Hugo! I was thinking of of you, for obvious reasons. (Because you are a paragon of love, of course.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05am Doug Schulkind:

@ausmanx
Hell is for heroes.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:06am Uncle Michael:

The Flynt and the Walker...gorgeous.
Avatar 10:07am Michael:

Yes, loving this Peter Walker.
Avatar 10:07am ausmanx:

this IS a flawless set
Avatar 10:07am ndbob:

I actually bought this when it came out
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08am Doug Schulkind:

Michael, meet Uncle Michael. (All non-Michaels are welcome.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09am Uncle Michael:

Hugo, meet Sluggo...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11am Hugo:

Hullo all cool cats out dere.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:12am Uncle Michael:

Hugo, do you know Kristiansand?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13am Hugo:

It's on the Southern tip, ferry service to Denmark. I've been there once, ages ago.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:13am Brian in UK:

Hello Bergen.
Avatar 🥁 10:13am βrian:

I just remembered y'all were here, so I made the lateral move.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:15am Brian in UK:

@ βrian Do you spend Christmas on the isthmus?
Avatar 🥁 10:15am βrian:

Crystal blue skies over the isthmus today.
Avatar 10:15am ndbob:

@Doug if you want unpredictable weather come here:)
Avatar 10:17am hyde:

how come nothing is ever low falutin'?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17am Hugo:

Hi Brian, we're in the middle of music festivals here:

www.fib.no...
www.nattjazz.no...

Sunny outside (as long as it lasts)

We tend to say: We'll have UK weather - one day later ...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:18am Brian in UK:

To misquote The Bonzoes. Jazz, delicious Hot, disgusting Cold.
Avatar 10:18am hyde:

also: Jimmy Giuffre is really, really underrated
Avatar 10:18am Shaun:

Your third stream can become weaker and intermittent as you grow old. Morning/Afternoon, Doug and all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20am Artie:

A snake couldn't limbo under my usual falutin'.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:21am Jeff Golick:

Jeet yet?
No, Giuffre?
Avatar 🥁 10:21am βrian:

Low falutin: ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_flute
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am Doug Schulkind:

βrian, isthmus is a magnificent word. Welcome "over here."

Agreed (on JG) hyde. The story of his slow descent into dementia before dying in '08 really saddened me.

@Shaun
That is a direct quote from I.P. Daily.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22am Uncle Michael:

My friend I was just in Spain with lives in Kristiansand.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24am Doug Schulkind:

@Jeff Golick
I corrected your misspelling of "Guiffre" at no extra charge.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25am Jeff Golick:

Thanks! I was in that instance guilty of looking over hyde's shoulder.

Cheating will get you nowhere.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25am Doug Schulkind:

Oh that's not true, Artie, your falutin' has engorged python clearance.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25am Hugo:

Spain is for Europeans what Florida is for Americans.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26am Jeff Golick:

@Hugo: a place where freaks go to be freaky? And/or get old?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27am Doug Schulkind:

I don't think you understand the true nature of Florida, Hugo.
Avatar 🥁 10:27am βrian:

A swamp full of teabaggers? Nah, I don't think so.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28am Jeff Golick:

@Hugo: here, this might help: gawker.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28am dvx:

Hi Doug and everyone!

@Hugo, yes and Mallorca in particular
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29am Doug Schulkind:

Yes, that was me coughing. Left the mic on. Haven't you heard of reality radio?
Avatar 10:29am still b/p:

Where can I do some low falutin' lawful lootin', or get some high falafel?
  10:29am El Thatchmo:

Chillin' In The Hizzie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am Doug Schulkind:

Guten tag, dvx!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:30am Brian in UK:

@Hugo I see Britten's War Requiem is on. Oddly there is a new film about his life.
www.benjaminbrittenfilm.co.uk
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
I like the way your mind works.

@El Thatchmo
I like the way your liver works.
Avatar 10:31am dc pat:

digging bagpipe blues, man.
Avatar 🥁 10:31am βrian:

Good felafel here: ttp://banzomadison.com/
I once did shots of tequila in Palma de Mallorca with Johnny Horton in the background. ("The Battle of New Orleans.")
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34am Doug Schulkind:

Hiya dc pat! The subject of bagpipes came up in the comments during my Tuesday show. That record's been in my head ever since.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34am KevinfromBayRidge:

Happy mid-show point to all Drummer-Somes. Merrily listening to the new Pop-up stream. Makes MY Fridayyyyy!!! Tks for the Rufus.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36am Jeff Golick:

Sometimes I feel like a motherless bagpipe.

I think Don Draper knows how I feel.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36am Jeff Golick:

<plug alert>
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings from not Brooklyn (boo-hoo) KevinfromBayRide!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37am Doug Schulkind:

Jozef Matthessen on the hyperventilating tuba here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:37am Jeff Golick:

Monday is Memorial Day here in the ol' USA. Miles Davis' birthday is Sunday.
D:O Radio will be memorializing Miles for much of Monday's show. With some bonus Wayne thrown in for kicks.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38am Jeff Golick:

</plug alert>
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39am Uncle Michael:

you can't close a tag you didn't open, pal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39am dvx:

That is quite a brass section.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:39am Brian in UK:

Bring out your lerts. Mobilise lerts everywhere. You are never alone with a lert.
Avatar 10:39am dc pat:

wonder if there is any Irish pipe jazz..
Avatar 🥁 10:40am βrian:

Ah, but look above. Problem is, an element may not contain whitespace.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40am Hugo:

Err, Florida looks like an exciting place. Maybe, too exciting? Well, it ain't dull ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40am Doug Schulkind:

And Tuesday is your Drummer's birthday and he'll be on the air to sell/berate.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:42am Jeff Golick:

...speaking of berating, today is this guy's 15th wedding anniversary. Hey-o!!

Seriously though, couldn't be happier. Might have to break out something especially lovely on Monday.
Avatar 10:43am hyde:

I'd sing happy birthday, but I can't afford the royalties
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43am KevinfromBayRidge:

If it makes you feel any better, Doug I'm actually at work in a windowless office in Queens as we speak. Which is why getting your live show, finally, is such a mind-saver. Alas I will probably traverse your old hood (Cobble Hill? ) over the W/E.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:44am Jeff Golick:

Birthday greetings, too, to Bob Dylan -- 72 today!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:44am Brian in UK:

Happy Asbestos anniversary, Jeff. You are fireproof.
  10:44am andujar:

that Fred Van Hove piece is exactly what I wanted to hear (but didn't know it!). Thanks.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:46am Uncle Michael:

I'm still accepting belated Monday birthday wishes.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:46am Brian in UK:

@hyde we got the Royalties and we cannot afford them either.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47am Jeff Golick:

<belated>Happy Birthday, Uncle Michael!</belated>
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48am dvx:

One suggestion: You should be able to favorite songs from the stream throughout the week.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:49am Uncle Michael:

Give the Curmudgeon Radio
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50am Hugo:

@Kevin: What's the population of Bay Ridge these days? It used to be many Norwegians there back in the middle of last century. I bought a sociology dissertation on Norwegians in Bay Ridge, written in the 1950s, to find out more about the expat community, but now I believe most have left for the suburbs and been thoroughly assimilated.
Avatar 10:50am dc pat:

..and where's my Hate button?? with helpful skull symbol right next to the star...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51am Uncle Michael:

<sincere>
Thanks, Jeff!
</sincere>
  10:52am raissa:

lovin this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52am Doug Schulkind:

@dvx
That is a capital idea. I doubt it is possible because the favoriting is possible with songs entered into the WFMU playlist database system and the songs in the stream's general queue are not. It is a request worth making, though, and I will!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53am Doug Schulkind:

@raissa
So happy to see (er, read) you!
Avatar 10:54am dc pat:

WHOA! Thanks for the edit Drummer! I feel so perfected...
Avatar 10:54am Shaun:

Niece has just taken out her iPod earbuds - happens twice a year, tops - because she thought this Sabah "was the sound of someone crying".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55am Doug Schulkind:

The title of my next selection: แมวเฝ้าปลา
Avatar 10:55am dc pat:

this Sabah tune is making my morning! Fantastic! Where from where?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:56am dvx:

@Doug: Just free associating here, but maybe a playlist could appear like this one for the stream, and people could comment throughout the week. Just a thought...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56am Brian in UK:

Doug, Sabah sounds so familiar. Is it like early Souad Massi, who is Egyptian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57am Doug Schulkind:

You can snag this amazing Thais record here: aseam.info...
Avatar 10:59am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@dvx: That's been discussed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:00am Doug Schulkind:

@dc pat
I am trying to remember where I got that Sabah. I will share link if I find it.
Avatar 11:01am dc pat:

Is it Egyptian as Brian suggests?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01am Doug Schulkind:

@dvx
I would LOVE to have a permanent website for the stream that will provide song info and a running comments thread. Of course, I will have even less of a life than I do now. But that's okay.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02am Doug Schulkind:

Sabah was From Lebanon. Big movie star as well as as a heartthrob singing act.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04am davex (is this nickname easier to pronounce?):

Haha, no don't let it ruin your life, Doug. Maybe there's a way to automate it. Do you currently program the order the songs are played?
Avatar 11:04am dc pat:

AH! Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04am Brian in UK:

@dc pat Well south east corner of the Mediterranean.
As an aside, this is a great album.
www.wrasserecords.com...
Avatar 11:06am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@dvx: I can automate the machines, but there's no robot that can replace Doug's care and feeding of the GTDR stream listening community. It'd be like a party without a host. (Audio footnote: Charlie's recent Party show.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07am Doug Schulkind:

This song. Arranged by Ennio Morricone. Perfection.
Avatar 11:10am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hey, is anyone here using IE 9 or 10 on Windows 7 or Vista? I would LOVE your help testing a new fix. Please email me: kenzodb.com...
Avatar 11:11am dc pat:

Kenzo?.......hate button?......
Avatar 11:11am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@dc pat: No need, that's implied.
Avatar 11:12am dc pat:

Oh, I disagree! BUT I understand the implications of injecting bad vibes into the whole scene...
Avatar 11:13am dc pat:

I only star songs I REALLY like. I don't hate anything Doug's played today however.
Avatar 11:14am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh, you weren't referring to IE! No, there are no song hate buttons coming.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am dvx:

@Kenzo: True, there is the danger of the party getting out of control. I guess adding favoriting might be nice enough.

@dc pat: Hating would be like booing someone off the stage. That would be sad.

OT: Does "davex" work better than the vowelless "dvx" for anyone?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Shaun, niece was kinda sorta right.
Avatar 🥁 11:16am βrian:

Hating should be reserved for songs with auto-tune.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18am Brian in UK:

Hating:to wear or be in possession of a hat.
Avatar 🥁 11:20am βrian:

Those hatters were a mercurial lot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20am Doug Schulkind:

@dvx
To answer your earlier question: The songs that play during the stream's automated default mode are nor individually selected. I have programmed the software to select tracks from specific folders and programmed it to play from a rotation of folders, but the tracks themselves are essentially random (though there are parameters about how often a particular track, artist or album can be played within a certain period of time.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20am Brian in UK:

Why are vowels so unpopular these days? There are four consonants in the word anyway.
Where is james?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20am Brian in UK:

As mad as a hater.
Avatar 11:21am dc pat:

hmm but that's part of art isn't it? instant critique? when I started playing punk groups in Harrisburg PA at 16 the crowd was always very vocal about what was liked or disliked. Immediate feedback. I always thought that was good. Nowadays, everybody claps for everything no matter how lousy. That bugs me. I guess so we can all just move on without bickering all the time. I dunno. I was only half serious anyways.
Avatar 11:22am dc pat:

Anyways, gotta hit the shower. 2 long bike rides without washing = stinky dc pat. Thanks Drummer, learned a lot today Third Stream, Sabah, bagpipe jazz. WFMU is school folks. Have fun. and...don't hate.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:23am Brian in UK:

Remember Rassy.
Avatar 🥁 11:23am βrian:

Tightrope-walking those guitar strings ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25am Doug Schulkind:

Stay stinky, dc pat!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:25am Brian in UK:

Gotta walk our sickly dog. Beagle trots. TMI.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26am Uncle Michael:

I just unstunked the funk. Was that a mistake?
Avatar 11:26am still b/p:

Ken played a track this week with intensively autotuned vocal by Big Blood daughter. Interesting, and my reflexive autotune recoil was soon suppressed. Suggestions of Arabic style and melisma in the effect.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:26am KevinfromBayRidge:

@Hugo, Sorry I was away from the Comments ( BAD BAD work!!). Yeah BR has gotten much more diverse but it's still a "too white" 'hood but that's with a very loose definition. I do know a few old-family Norseman (& Norsewomen!). My guestimate on ethnicity would be: 20% Italian (leaving off "-American"); 20% Asian;15% Arabic;15% Greek;10% Irish;20% Other(including me!).Over in Sunset Park, there were some Scandanavian bars on 8th Ave up until about 10 years ago, but became totally incongruent to the venue and are sadly relics now.
  11:26am trish:

@Brian in UK
Shorthand without corrupting language? And that study demonstrating readability without vowels?

(Hiya. Quietly listening.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27am davex:

@Doug: Thanks, I was thinking that it would be a lot of work to select every track all the time. I suppose other functions could still work automatically with that system with a bit of tweaking.

@Brian in UK: I didn't realize vowels were out of style. That would be a reason to put them back in.
Avatar 🥁 11:28am βrian:

NRA: "Auto-tune doesn't kill people ..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32am Doug Schulkind:

The sax on this Stanislas Tohon track slays me. It slices me up and eats me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33am Hugo:

@Kevin: Yeah, that's what I expected. If there are any left, they would be up in their 60s-70s or even beyond. Politically, from what I can read, they are more conservative than over here and more religious.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael commences immediately following GTDS at noon (ET). Michael's playlist page is here: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36am Brian in UK:

Sounds like Maphumo Avenue again.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:37am Uncle Michael:

He's just kidding.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37am davex:

@Brian: You have a fast beagle.
Avatar 11:38am hyde:

I always sort of wondered how the Drummer stream sort of seemed to group things together but still also was seemingly kinda random. Now I know. This is like going backstage at the puppet show. I know more, but a little bit of the magic is gone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38am Doug Schulkind:

I got a beagle for my 10th birthday. I named her Lubi.

@hyde
And I program the stream naked. Now you know everything.
Avatar 11:39am still b/p:

"...sliced the Drummer so thin he would liquefy in the pan with a little oil. It's a very good system."
Avatar 11:40am hyde:

@Doug I am no longer paying any attention to the man behind the curtain!
  11:41am Listener Gregory:

Do you KNOW that Stanislah is not related to Lindsay? They seem to share a certain party mentality.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:41am Brian in UK:

@davex think he has eaten something that disagrees with him.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42am Brian in UK:

Doug What about Nascente?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:42am Uncle Michael:

I get ALL my music at Pottery Barn.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:43am Brian in UK:

Blow me, its cold, windy & wet. May 24th my arse.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am Stanley:

Leaving the office to the sound of The Falcons.
What could be a better start to the weekend?

Bye all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:44am Brian in UK:

Double belting show, Doug.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:44am Uncle Michael:

Hey...don't go!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45am Doug Schulkind:

This next tune, by Pittsburgh's Johnny Daye made my week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45am Stanley:

(I'll be back but next time in my underwear)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46am Hugo:

Found a few things here:

blogs.villagevoice.com...

That should be kringler, firkløver and knekkebrød.

Not to speak of Lapskaus Avenue (only comprehensible to Nordics)

Anyway, that's all history ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46am Doug Schulkind:

Amazing story about this unknown singer. Well worth a read: idigpgh.blogspot.com...
Avatar 11:48am still b/p:

Nice. The Daye Stay's been fayevorited.
  11:49am Filip:

Putumayo!!! Doug, you're right on the target! I always felt the same and avoided their record store displays! Something stale about them and their plain ugly graphics... Ha ha... Cheers from Warsaw!
Avatar 11:50am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@hyde: Doug told you what he knows about the robot. But the robot didn't tell anyone its secrets.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51am Doug Schulkind:

@Filip
Hey!! I was thinking of you recently when I read about the Dalai Lama and Dr. John receiving honorary degrees at Tulane's commencement this year!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53am Doug Schulkind:

Before you get your groove on too deeply, this song is about a pedophile. Just sayin'.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:53am Uncle Michael:

Creepy film, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54am pacific standard simon:

G'mornin' Dog 'm i awake yeet?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am Doug Schulkind:

@pss
You arise and the world brushes its teeth with you.
  11:55am Filip:

Cool! I sure miss visiting NOLA... My daughter's back in NY. Maybe this late summer/early fall I'll get the chance to visit. She still loves it and visits a bunch...
Avatar 11:55am fleep:

Based on the typing, no.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am davex:

Great show, Doug! See you all a bit later...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am pacific standard simon:

That would explain why my hair's wore down to th' nubs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am Doug Schulkind:

@fleep
Hey there, friend. Didn't see you slip in.
Avatar 11:57am Shaun:

*Reads Doug's comment, immediately stops doing the mashed potato*
Avatar 11:58am still b/p:

East of Underground won a band contest held by the Army!?
Doug, I hope you got the poster when you got the album!
store.waxpoetics.com...
Avatar 11:58am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59am Uncle Michael:

See you all in the next room. Great show Doug.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

You gals and guys are der best!
  12:07pm robtatet:

that's a big pink one you got
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm Doug Schulkind:

@robtatet
All the girls say volume doesn't matter.
  1:49pm Listener Gregory:

Hi, Doug. Great show as always. However, I am not sure I agree with your comment on the beginnings of the Third Stream movement. I don't think the originators like Gunther Schuller, Charles Mingus, John Lewis, and even Ornette Coleman were that interested in moving jazz to the concert hall. I think they were more interested in trying to expand jazz beyond the be-bop mainstream, which was in danger of becoming cliche'ed. Of course, there has always been "jazz plays the classics" tripe around, which DOES fit that description, but I wouldn't call that Third Stream. I'm glad you played the Jimmy Giuffre in any case.
Avatar 🥁 4:44pm bobdc:

Every generation gets the Medea Benjamin it deserves, but FMU listeners get a Media Benjamen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm Doug Schulkind:

Ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm Doug Schulkind:

@Listener Gregory
Fair Point. I wasn't intending to mean that the artists themselves were pushing for the sort of legitimacy that fancy concert halls would bestow. Rather, it was the industry of jazz, the labels, bookers and promoters, and especially the critics, who, were encouraging (through all there attendant pressures) the music to follow a path less intimidating to white audiences. Surely my garble missed the essential point I intended to make.
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