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Favoriting February 27, 2016: Guest: Emitt Rhodes!

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Merry-Go-Round, The  Gonna Fight The War   Favoriting
Emitt Rhodes  Put Some Rhythm In It   Favoriting
Little Jimmy Dickens  Cornbread And Buttermilk   Favoriting
Olympics, The  I'll Do A Little Bit More   Favoriting
Nancy Ames  Eso Beso   Favoriting
Nouvelle Vague  Blister In The Sun   Favoriting
Emitt Rhodes  Somebody Made For Me   Favoriting
Kenny Vaughan  Hot Like That   Favoriting
Foster Sylvers  Misdemeanor   Favoriting
Bram Tchaikovsky  Girl of My Dreams   Favoriting
Emitt Rhodes  With My face On The Floor   Favoriting
Cactus Blossoms, The  Mississippi   Favoriting
Emitt Rhodes  Dog on a Chain   Favoriting
Emitt Rhodes  Interview   Favoriting
Emitt Rhodes  If I Knew Then   Favoriting
Hobbits,The  Artificial Face   Favoriting
Nikki Lane  Right Time   Favoriting
Joe Haywood  Talk to Me Baby (Put Some Sugar in My Ear)   Favoriting
Kalyanji-Anandji  Bluff Master Title Music   Favoriting
Keys, The  I Don't Wanna Cry   Favoriting
Crystal Robots  Welcome Back   Favoriting
Bruce Channel  Keep On   Favoriting
Bellfuries, The  Beaumont Blues   Favoriting
Gloria Jones  Tainted Love   Favoriting
Above, The  Holding Back   Favoriting
Muffs, The  From Your Girl   Favoriting
Turn That Music Down!  PSA   Favoriting
Bob Prescott‎  Russian Roulette   Favoriting

CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"

CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015

CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good

CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie

CLICK HERE to test your ability to tap your mouse to the beat

CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch

CLICK HERE for a story about the new Emitt Rhodes album and CLICK HERE to to buy it & watch a video about it

CLICK HERE for Mitchell Kezin' IndieGoGo Campaign Page for "BUT FOR NOW: The Music & Mojo of Bob Dorough"

CLICK HERE to see a BBC Allen Toussaint Documentary

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Esquerita

CLICK HERE to help Joey Spampinato through cancer treatment

CLICK HERE and CLICK HERE for a huge trove of downloadable, remixable stems

CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

CLICK HERE for the Glyn Johns interview in Tape Op!

CLICK HERE for Bruce Swedien: Recording Michael Jackson!

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!

CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour

CLICK HERE for "Cassette Revolution: Why 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World"

CLICK HERE for a new Q&A with Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read about "The Endless Fall of Suge Knight" (yikes!)

CLICK HERE for Barack Obama on WTF

CLICK HERE for info on the new, all instrumental, Michael Shelley album

CLICK HERE for a video of David Myhr's cover of Oh Susie, featured on "Even More Super Hits of the Seventies"

CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club

CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"

CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to

CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions

CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010

CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"

CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and

CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar

CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion

CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350

CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"

CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"

CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload

CLICK HERE for Gay Robot

CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research

CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)

CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing

CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen

CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!

CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years

CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman

CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"

CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse

CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story

CLICK HERE for Ock TV

CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"

CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.

CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?

CLICK HERE for optical illusions

CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work

CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill

CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"

CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off

CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show

CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU

CLICK HERE for Paul Lukas' excellent piece about cultural criticism

CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut

CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of

CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"

CLICK HERE for a film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis"

CLICK HERE for a laugh

CLICK HERE for Roz Chast's piece “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?”

CLICK HERE for a brief history of the baritone guitar"

CLICK HERE for "The Making of 96 Tears"

CLICK HERE for a Rolling Stone piece about The Jerky Boys

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Dues" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"

CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin

CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people

CLICK HERE if you want see a lady call for President Obama's execution. My mind keeps returning to his video and what it means about how screwed up our county is.

CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"

CLICK HERE for my July 2007 interview with Mighty Hannibal

CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot

CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does

CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes

CLICK HERE for a weird Tonight Show episode where Jerry Lewis fills in for Johnny, with guest Bob Hope

CLICK HERE for the Jim Keltner Discography

CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was

CLICK HERE then click "Random Video"

CLICK HERE Rolling Stone's 500 Worst Reviews of All Time, according to Schmidtt

CLICK HERE for the 1966 Esquire Magazine piece "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"

CLICK HERE for a dumbly titled, but interesting piece on Tom Wilson

CLICK HERE to find out about folks buying old lps in the USA to sell in Europe

CLICK HERE for a grammar test

CLICK HERE for Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

CLICK HERE to see Jerry Lewis and Al Goldstein show of gadgets in 1976 on "A.M. New York"

CLICK HERE for Nick Lowe's odd appearance on the Adam Carolla show.

CLICK HERE for a $400+ out of print book about Pub Rock that Nick Lowe recommends - OR - buy it HERE for for £20 (about $30), including postage, on Will Birch's website

CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)

CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

CLICK HERE for a new interactive video from Bob Dylan

CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears

CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!

CLICK HERE for STAX at The White House

CLICK HERE to read the list of the best selling vinyl records of the last 20 years

CLICK HERE for photos of Nashville session cello player Byron Bach's ledger from Paul Lukas' excellent Permanent Record web site

CLICK HERE if you're a BEATLE fan!

CLICK HERE for The Turtles "Happy Together" (vocals only)

CLICK HERE to read the story behind Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” bass line

CLICK HERE I think this hurts ants, but it looks cool - I want one

CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

CLICK HERE for some videos from the BUCKY album 'Women, Ladies and Girls (Sing the Bucky Songbook).' (I especially like THIS ONE! {due to the great acting})

CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CLICK HERE for Liverpool Scene's "Batpoem Live!

CLICK HERE for info on Fake Amps!

CLICK HERE for a PDF of who plays what on Everly Brothers recordings.

CLICK HERE for How we made "You Really Got Me"!

CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.

I love THESE Beach Boy videos!

CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.

CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!

CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!

CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios

Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.


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Listener comments!

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Uncle Michael:

Present.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Baby:

Baby!! Good morning old boy. Take it easy on us this morning, Mike. We are delicate.
  11:02am
John W.:

It's great to see Emitt Rhodes will be back on the show.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:07am
Uncle Michael:

Take a cold tater and wait, Michael.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:08am
Baby:

Maybe refer to him as Big Jimmy. He might like that better.
  11:16am
Nachurall:

Love the hits! Thank you sir.
  11:18am
Eddy in Australia:

So which other dead musicians aren't returning your calls and emails?!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:20am
Baby:

That damned Buddy Holly is a stuck up bastard. He never returns anything.
Avatar 11:21am
Michael Shelley:

The question is which dead musicians ARE returning them!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:23am
Baby:

Paul McCartney
  11:23am
?:

I hope Lloyd Price is OK.
  11:25am
adam:

is this a sylvers from the family band of the same name?
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:25am
Baby:

Paul is dead? I bury Paul, etc...
  11:26am
1whoknewcthulhu:

Wow--I haven't heard that Jackson's track, probably, since it first charted.
  11:26am
burpage:

ox
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:27am
Baby:

When this song came out, I flipped!!
  11:27am
1whoknewcthulhu:

Doh! Mistook the Foster Sylvers for the Jackson 5. Mea culpa.
  11:29am
Eddy in Australia:

Reminds me of the time a British journo called the Polydor press office for an interview with Jimi Hendrix, because "Crosstown Traffic" was in the charts after being used in a TV ad. The year was 1990.
  11:29am
burpage:

yeah well emitt rodes somebody made for me---- badfinger--- hehe
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:31am
Jeff from Rahway:

I love "Girl of my Dreams"
  11:33am
John:

ditto to "Girl of My Dreams".
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:37am
Jeff from Rahway:

The Starland Ballroom is a scary joint right out of some creepy movie. Ted Leo opened there years ago for Against Me and the crowd was not fond of TL. I thought I was gonna get the crap kicked out of me by the aggro bouncers and fans. I found some retired cop to hang out with and discuss college football but Against Me and this venue were awful.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37am
Ken From Hyde Park:

It just occurred to me. Whatever happened to Rerun from the old TV show What's Happening!!?
  11:38am
burpage:

i agree starland ballroom thats there own click then when you get inside then they pick and choose
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am
Ken From Hyde Park:

Well, a few seconds of Google results say Fred Berry became an ordained minister and died in 2003 at age 52. That's too bad.
  11:39am
John:

Which dead musicians are returning their calls? I guess there art least two ways to answer...

1) Phil Lesh, etc.

2) Styx, Genesis, Kansas, REO Speedwagon, etc: bands who refuse to stay dead.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:40am
myron feld:

Cactus Blossoms need a new sound guy -- vocals are mixed way too low.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:41am
Jeff from Rahway:

IIRC, Starland Ballroom usually books more hard rock and corporate punk bands. I'm sure the young ladies at your gig really wished they were at a Florda-Georgia Line concert,
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:42am
Baby:

You mean people in the USA are stupid, and clueless??
  11:43am
burpage:

somewhat
  11:43am
Cal Zone:

Worst crowd recording ever. Best Michael Shelley rant ever.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:44am
Baby:

Check that spelling, Mike. two more SS
Avatar 11:45am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I wager Cactus Blossoms consider the comparison overstated - but it's like having new Everlys tracks - just that good - not just the singing but great songs...
  11:45am
RCinMT:

"missippi"? they spell it right in the song. which is great.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 11:46am
Jimmy Wipper:

I hear there are a lotta tomatoes down at the Starland Ballroom!
  11:46am
Tommy Caldwell:

Mike, were you out on the floor or in one of the bar cubbies? Sounds like, from the conversations going on, you were by one of the bars. I've been to Starland so I know the layout and you described it accurately. I find when you're on the floor, where you go to actually listen to the band, the crowd is paying attention to the artist. By the bar it's all chatter. It's a bar, what do you expect? And yes, it is a New Jersey bar, so the girls say like alot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46am
melinda:

@Rev.Rabbit: yes, I concur!
  11:47am
Eddy in Australia:

I came for the rant, I'm staying for the hits.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:47am
James in ATL:

Michael, Thanks for your story about Starland. We have a concert park in Atlanta called Chastain which is in an ultra expensive neighborhood and has extreme sound limits and a curfew. My favorite quote from a friend is, "I went there to hear Elvis Costello and all I heard about all night was Megan's summer dress."
  11:47am
Hackensack Slim:

I feel your pain, Michael. And when it's sold out, there's no escape from the jabbering nitwits.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:48am
drr:

In the south, they teach you how to spell Mississippi. It's like this: "M I crooked letter crooked letter I crooked letter crooked letter I humppack humpback I."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...which is a bit like a Costello line - haha...
  11:49am
Eddy in Australia:

@James in ATL: That said, Megan's summer dress *was* pretty cute.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:49am
ChrisB.:

Starland is a dump, and the staff considers their jobs more like cow punching and cattle herding. The goal is to "get this thing over with," and avoid an excessive amount of personal injuries.
  12:03pm
muhrvis:

Emmit Rhodes is such a nice humble and direct person. Thanks for this interview.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Jeff from Rahway:

We now know that Emmit Rhodes loves love. <3
  12:07pm
burpage:

theres always clicks and i was jerk somewhere in a club-- concert im sure but as we get older no ones aloud to be a jerk nah let them be or dont go
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
drr:

"You are a successful man!"
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:

Oh, man. I like Michael too.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
drr:

Very different from the previous interview.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
drr:

Before I got divorced, my wife said, "Your problem is you always do what you want." It's a way of life but it can be a difficult one.
  12:19pm
clarke:

superb, MS!!! emmitt, compared to last time, is ON TOP OF THE WORLD!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Jim Price:

Great interview Michael.
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
drr:

yes, excellent interview, thanks for letting him just talk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Summer and Michael:

Michael, love this song by The Keys! Weasel used to play it in DC. Great show, as ever...
  12:38pm
clarke:

wow - weasel!! i was tuned in for many weasel shows esp out of annapolis
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 12:41pm
Cat:

Great show, per usual, Michael. Glad I decided against the trip to Sayreville NJ last weekend, and instead went to a baseball tourney in SC. We tuned in from the beach last week.
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Melissa Jean:

hay good mornin!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
Baby:

Thumbs!!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
drr:

Smithville is WEST of Beaumont!
  12:48pm
clarke:

you go east of beaumont you's in LA.!!!
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Melissa Jean:

last Sat. you played Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat Take 8
Fiveash played that Thurs, and this Gloria Jones.
love that! you're both amazing djs
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
Baby:

And more THUMBS!!
  12:52pm
clarke:

SS is too ill - but emitt ain't???
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
drr:

That's a whole different jurisdiction; that song made no sense.
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djsheilab:

I totally forgot about this Muffs song! Takes me back. Thanxxxx!!!!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
drr:

I will mention it to them next time I see them, which is all the time, because they reliably open for Barbara Lynn when she comes over to Austin from Beaumont.
Avatar 12:57pm
djsheilab:

This PSA!!! Glorious!
Avatar #1 Hit Supporter Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 12:59pm
drr:

Great show, lotsa stars
  5:40pm
Steve:

Thanks for the new updated 2016 Emitt Rhodes Interview, Michael ! I enjoyed it and love Emitt's new tunes.
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