WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 8, 2022

Listener comments!
	10:55am Listener Baby: Baby. Can I be your troll today?
	11:01am clarke: hey now (jupe voice) woof mooo!!!
	11:01am clarke: BABY!!! when's the youngun's return to ze east?
	11:02am Webhamster Henry: Autoharp Alert!
	11:02am clarke: or, as it may be known: PizzaTown USA
	11:02am Listener Baby: Hi Clarke. I think January 17th. Awesome to have her back. Hope you are doing great.
	11:03am Handy Haversack: Michael and all the Shellegamers! Oh, momma, I want to move to Pizza Town USA!
	11:03am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!
	11:03am clarke: i'm doin' ok -- that's a nice long time home! hope them vines are swellin'!! Handy!!
	11:04am Handy Haversack: Wait, I might already live there. Hot up the fryer! clarke! Frank! Baby! Henry!
	11:04am clarke: @FiQ - office or home??
	11:05am Corey: Good morning Michael and listeners! Man, sure wish I had that calzone!
	11:05am clarke: hot up - yass!!
	11:06am Qibote: hi from Holland
	11:08am clarke: get a free quote from Michael Shelley --- it's a NUMBER ONE!!
	11:08am Webhamster Henry: The Album cover shows Ron Trudeau with a Chromaharp, arch-rival chorded zither to the Oscar Schmidt ones.
	11:09am Andres: Good morning! Was that Garry or Justin’s cousin?
	11:09am gf2002: Fried calzone or deep fried calzone? That one looks pretty deep...and is it calzone or stromboli?
	11:09am Listener Baby: I really like Tyler B’s guitar playing. Always.
	11:10am clarke: margaret's
	11:10am clarke: Tyler B likes your vintage!!
	11:11am Handy Haversack: I am feeling you, Corey! I like also that the picture lets us imagine the fillings. I am going with broccoli rabe and black olives!
	11:12am HyperDose: Every town is pizza town USA!
	11:12am Andres: clarke: That explains the Stones influence.
	11:12am clarke: funny, i got the brocolli vibe myself, there, HH
	11:13am Corey: @Handy That's a winning calzone filling!
	11:13am Dennis Diken: Go Mikey! howdy gang!
	11:14am clarke: hope Bagpipe and the kits are swingin' this mawnin'!! DENNIS!!!!
	11:14am rx scabin: Good morning.
	11:15am Handy Haversack: It's exterminator day, so everyone is unhappily confined to the front rooms. But the kittens have found a sunbeam to compete over, so they ought to be distracted for a bit.
	11:15am Frank In Queens: @clarke, home on Saturdays until the 22nd. Feb is still TBD.
	11:15am clarke: i would compete over a sunbeam, today - if avail
	11:17am clarke: nice Frank!! have u pulled the carpets yet??
	11:18am Frank In Queens: @clarke No, not yet. Still have more stuff to get rid of.
	11:18am HyperDose: Gordian Knot are a favorite of ours over in The Perfumed Garden. Fri nights 9-11! - wfmu.org...
	11:18am clarke: gotcha = wasn't rushing the process!!
	11:18am Listener Baby: If the Grass Roots and the Association merged
	11:19am Andres: HD: I was waiting for Zoe to appear :)
	11:19am Frank In Queens: @clarke, yeah, the room needs to be done before the end of the year. That's the only deadline.
	11:19am clarke: a good resolution - accomplishable
	11:20am Handy Haversack: Now imagining what Elvis would put in that calzone ...
	11:20am Michael Shelley: Perfumed Garden = #1!
	11:21am VincentNifigance: Michael, did you say something about a song comparing The President to Batman? What’s it called and who’s it by?
	11:21am JG: It's his Birthday!
	11:21am clarke: donuts!!
	11:21am Michael Shelley: Wiewe Pop Ivar
	11:21am HyperDose: @Andres We can only hope for Zoe and marpay to appear to brighten the comments board with their charm! @Handy How do you navigate the exterminator business? At my old place I always declined and signed the thing when they came around. Didn't want to take the chance.
	11:21am gf2002: 'Play it James!'
	11:22am Listener Baby: Just realized an old friend of mine would have been on the mixing desk at that Elvis show.
	11:23am clarke: wow, Baby!! '69 in vegas - no pun intended
	11:24am VincentNifigance: @Michael Thank you!
	11:24am Dennis Diken: hey clarke! re Verve hits, "Soul & Inspiration," "Soul Sauce," "More" - "Ringo Beat" (ha). I think there were others
	11:25am clarke: mui verve!
	11:25am Hughie Considine: what a bass line - in any language!
	11:25am Listener Baby: @Clarke. Sadly he down in a plane. After Elvis, he was Springsteen’s guy for decades.
	11:26am rx scabin: @Handy Haversack peanut butter and banana.
	11:26am Listener Baby: Funny. No Spanish word for Lip Service.
	11:27am clarke: damn, Baby. i probably heard the guy's mixes at early springsteen shows.
	11:27am Hughie Considine: Or, I guess no Spanish idiom with three syllables that would work
	11:27am Listener Baby: No doubt.
	11:28am clarke: EC interview coming up...
	11:28am Michael Shelley: Mentira = Lie
	11:29am Zaphod: I sure hope the Attractions are getting a $ taste of that cover bs
	11:29am phat in lincoln: I love Brutal Youth so much.
	11:29am clarke: yes.
	11:29am Kotzwinkled: Mike, did you hear the new Cactus Blossoms track WITH Jenny Lewis? Nature is healing, etc.
	11:30am Listener Baby: Baby. Seems there is slang for lying that would have worked. So they used the real word. Just sayin’
	11:30am Handy Haversack: HyperD: We really can't afford to skip it. We're under siege here, it sometimes feels. So we confine it to the kitchen/bathroom for the most part and keep the pets all out those rooms for a couple of hours afterward.
	11:32am phat in lincoln: Completely agree on Brutal Youth being his last great album.
	11:32am clarke: wipper might disagree.
	11:33am clarke: i think North is all-the-way-good, just not what one probably WANTS
	11:33am Handy Haversack: Used to be a place on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, near Southpaw, called Pizzatown, which was one of the few slice shops that also sold beer. Extant in memory!
	11:35am Lizardner Dave !: I wonder if that pizza town is related to the old pizza town (that was formerly pizza clown) on Staten Island. www.oldstatenisland.org...
	11:35am clarke: pete's a clown
	11:36am ledzeppelinsucks: Suffern has a top pizza shop, stuffed, fried calzone, stromboli and it is great for a two week binge. Stayed across the highway.
	11:36am Listener Baby: Lottie is a huge fan of the Dukes. As am I.
	11:36am nachurall: I love Downtown Arbie’s
	11:36am Kotzwinkled: Gosford Park = more digestable Downton Abbey in my opinion.
	11:36am The Chief: Everyone who saw Dukes of Stratosphear in '68 went on to start a band
	11:37am common: Dukes
	11:37am Hackensack Slim: Michael, Pretty Good Pie at Pizza Town USA. And the sisters say you're at the wrong window even when that's not the case. Occasionally they yell at customers. Part of the charm. Happy New Year.
	11:37am jt: Dukes of Stratosphere, so obv. XTC spinoff hard to believe the label tried to make it a mystery.
	11:38am dday: Pizzatown USA,Rt. 46 W. Elmwood Park,NJ (Formerly East Patterson) Been there as long as I can remember (growing up in Garfield) I'm 63.
	11:39am clarke: i believe it was the band who insisted on the nom-de-plum'ery
	11:39am jt: speaking of spinoff's & (Not owning a televisioné) but isn't Downton Abby just a remake of Upstairs /Downstairs?
	11:39am ledzeppelinsucks: It may have been in Mahwah. Both places near Sterling Forest where I was working at a creepy subterranean federal outpost.
	11:40am Frank In Queens: Speaking of British television, anyone else looking forward to the new series of Toast?
	11:40am phat in lincoln: We could all use more Collins Kids in our lives.
	11:40am Handy Haversack: Never heard of it, Frank! What's it like?
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: GutenMatin ! ...The Dukes' #1 track & they had no bad ones in their brief run. Fantastic representation of the period...
	11:41am clarke: i will have to look into that, Frank! heard a few recs for it. MovieTime??
	11:41am HyperDose: Glad you got it figured out, Handy. Used to get frequent ants and the occasional roach at the last place. Sort of like Sheila B's...but you know, with insects.
	11:41am McGroovey: Welcome Back Kotter was a remake of To Sir With Love, but with a laugh track.
	11:41am Kotzwinkled: Yes on Toast. Matt Berry is one of the funniest men on the planet.
	11:41am Frank In Queens: @Handy, do you know Matt Berry? If so, that's kind of all you need to know in order to watch Toast.
	11:43am Frank In Queens: @clarke, still working through Twin Peaks. I'm guessing we'll hit Fire Walk With me by mid-week and then start the new series. i think I've got 2 weeks left of it, maybe 2 and half with the Isles starting back up on Thursday.
	11:43am pasquale: The first Pizzatown in NJ holds a long history in our family. Our grandparents would bring us to the East Paterson [now Elmwood Park] location soon after the shop originated. For a long time the front of the pizza box contained a full-length food review from the Paterson MORNING CALL newspaper circa 1959. During the 1970s and 80s three Pizzatown locations flourished in North Jersey. The owner was a client of my Dad, who sold life insurance. Their Calzone remains unique in the industry.
	11:43am Listener Baby: ER changing my life on a daily basis. Thanks Baby!
	11:44am clarke: my MovieTime is kinda sad -- i watched two film that somehow evaded me. Old School was okay, but not as hilarious as it was then, probably, and i could NOT make it thru Fight Club - so sue me. thought it was horrible.
	11:44am jt: "Welcome Back Kotter' intro was my first real exposure to High-Style Graffiti-Bubble-Letters full subway train-cars, excellent.
	11:44am McGroovey: @Handy I think I used to go to a place called Pizzatown, but I don't remember where. And I used to live on 9th St. in the Slope in the mid-nineties. Where was that one?
	11:45am clarke: 2nd mandariin orange MAY be in cahoots with Turntable #1
	11:46am Frank In Queens: @clarke, i remember being really into Fight Club when it cae out but I haven't seen it in ages.
	11:46am HyperDose: Thanks for the suggestion, Frank. I've been a Berry-ite since IT crowd. Just finished what's been released of the new season of The Expanse (amazing as always). The persistent request of a friend has submitted me into starting Yellowjackets tonight.
	11:46am Handy Haversack: North of there, McGroovey, toward the top of Fifth Ave. Around Park Place? Yeah, clarke, I have always thought Fight Club was garbage.
	11:46am Geoffrey in Ottawa: That is one crazy looking calzone. Nowhere near here that I know of to get something like that.
	11:47am Frank In Queens: Also, I hate it when you have two of something and the first turns out to be amazing and you're thrilled that you have another one to eat, but it turns out to be lousy! Like, you wish you would've chosen the other one to eat first.
	11:47am Michael Shelley: Smilers Pizza ? On 9th & 7th???
	11:47am clarke: just could NOT get into Fight Club - and this is really liking both principles.
	11:48am Kathryn: To solve your Multiple Mandarin Oranges Problem: peel them both and put all the segments in a bowl. See if you can tell which ones were from the first orange and which ones came from the second orange. Or skip the oranges and just have pizza.
	11:48am Matt Clarke: Good morning Michael and all!
	11:48am Handy Haversack: We have been enjoying Yellowjacks, HyperD.
	11:48am phat in lincoln: Los Straitjackets has got to be one of the best gigs in America.
	11:49am ledzeppelinsucks: Ottawa and DC have the best restaurants because of foreign embassy staff, diplomats and the need for booze dealing.
	11:49am clarke: i drummed with them for a couple tours - fun fun fun!!
	11:49am Christina Ginger: Butting in here, I think Fight Club is one of those things that needs to be both watched and read. I think if I had only seen the film, I would have hated it, but both pieces support each other well. I usually hate books turned into film, but this one worked for me.
	11:50am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:50am McGroovey: Rob Filardo, drummer in half the bands in Rochester, has been posting great live videos of various Rochester bands, mostly from the mid-nineties to the mid-'00s. A couple of them would have Hi-Risers connections. Rochester has so much good local music for a city of its in size. Most of the bands never play outside of Rochester.
	11:50am Hughie Considine: @Clarke, I hear ya -- couldn't stand Fight Club any of the times I tried watching it.
	11:50am clarke: not butting in, at ALL -- but, i am NEVER going to read that book.!!!!
	11:50am Frank In Queens: Hey Matt!
	11:50am phat in lincoln: @clarke nice!
	11:50am Christina Ginger: McGroovey, I fully support this statement!
	11:51am Geoffrey in Ottawa: Fight Club is by Chuck Pahlaniuk, right? Used to see his name all the time, but now I never do. Weird.
	11:52am phat in lincoln: It was all right
	11:52am Christina Ginger: Hi Matt! The book is indeed by Pahlaniuk, Geoffrey.
	11:52am phat in lincoln: Holy crap I love rock and roll.
	11:52am clarke: i agree about rochester - but, also, it is endemic of every scene - there are, for instance, there are hundreds of boston bands that you'll not hear about - and good ones, too!
	11:52am McGroovey: @Handy yeah, i must have frequented that Pizzatown. I lived at a few other places in the Slope in the nineties. I moved at least once a year, as one does when one is young and broke.
	11:55am clarke: also drummed with moe tucker on two short tours
	11:55am Frank In Queens: @HyperDose, Matt Berry is one of my faves, so I'll watch anything with him in it (although strangely, we haven't watched What We Do In The Shadows yet). His music is pretty damn good too!
	11:55am Michael Shelley: I bartender at The Park Slope Brewery in the 90s.
	11:56am clarke: how many seasons of Toast are there, Frank (could look this stuff up, but no).
	11:56am Listener Baby: Baby. You are doing such good work cutting those bumpers. Slick and sneaky. PS. Great show today. Got work to do, and you are sucking me in ..
	11:56am clarke: them vines can wait, Baby!! BABY!!
	11:57am Listener Baby: @Clarke. The vines can wait, but not the weeds.
	11:58am Handy Haversack: Ah, he's Laslo in What We Do in the Shadows? He's excellent in that! Strong recommend on that show.
	11:58am clarke: I, Bartender they have those automatic weeder robots, now!!
	11:58am phat in lincoln: @clarke envy. But, also, had she gotten all Tea Party yet?
	11:58am Squints: I love the nod to If I Needed Someone in the guitar break.
	11:58am McGroovey: I grew up closer to Syracuse, and white there are a few good bands, there isn't the sort of scene there is in Rochester. Favorite Syracuse band: The Flashcubes/Screen Test. Great power pop band. Ithaca is small, but its music scene is probably healthier than Syracuse's, and almost as big as Rochester's (though not so much of the Rock'n'Roll). Syracuse is best for roots music and jazz. Not do much rock, these days.
	11:59am clarke: well, not publicly - moe was the sweetest gal in the world, really.
	11:59am phat in lincoln: Martinis and Bikinis is a perfect, perfect album and I'm in love with Sam Philips.
	11:59am HyperDose: @Frank Highly suggest watching the WWDITS movie first, sets up the TV series (which is completely different) nicely. You see Taika Waititi's idea really bloom. Couldn't have cast the series any better.
	11:59am Listener Baby: @Squints. Words a word for bigger than a nod?
	11:59am Listener Baby: What’s
	12:00pm phat in lincoln: @clarke good to hear
	12:00pm McGroovey: The Park Slope Brewery: I did go in there in the nineties, but I wasn't a regular.
	12:00pm Frank In Queens: @clarke, this current series of Toast is the 4th.
	12:00pm Listener Baby: Answer. Famous people my band has open for.
	12:01pm Squints: LBaby, I was being polite. 8^) But after I Feel Fine, whaddadeygonna do?
	12:01pm phat in lincoln: The lyrics for "I Need Love" are so damned good.
	12:01pm Frank In Queens: @handy, it's on the list. Since the NHL forced me into the Hulu/ESPN/ subscription, I'll get to it sooner rather than later.
	12:01pm Ross T.: Loved this Sam Phillips LP!
	12:02pm Squints: My Sweet I Need Love.
	12:02pm Frank In Queens: @Hyper, thanks for the suggestion. We'll do that when the time comes.
	12:02pm clarke: is the NHL on hold?? i haven't paid attention, sorry
	12:02pm phat in lincoln: Could be playing a p-bass with a bridge cover and foam in it muting. My p-bass came with that stock.
	12:02pm ?: Jesus, Michael! It's annoying enough when DJs talk over songs but to cut it off to point out the palm muting -- sheesh! We get it, we get it. You notice production and love to point it out.
	12:02pm clarke: i think it's the mandarin orange.
	12:02pm Ross T.: And Pizza Town is still there as is Smiley's.
	12:02pm Squints: Not no more, clarke. Broons 3-1 since the mini-hibahnation.
	12:03pm Squints: Make sure you ask Cliff Richard who the real Devil Woman was.
	12:03pm Frank In Queens: @clarke, not the whole League. But the Isles haven't played since New Year's Day. They were supposed to go out to Western Canada, but the games were PPD because of attendance restrictions in some Canadian provinces. They resume on Thursday at home.
	12:03pm Dennis: Cliff OWNS this song, imho. Best version!
	12:03pm clarke: ah, this keeps the Squints happy. yes?
	12:04pm phat in lincoln: Uh oh, the grumpy Gusses are back.
	12:04pm Squints: Sure does, clarke. Finally found scoring away from the first line. Bear want dance.
	12:04pm Dennis: Great Shadows backing track
	12:05pm Squints: Grumpy Gusses would be a great name for the right kind of band.
	12:05pm phat in lincoln: @Dennis totally
	12:05pm clarke: i shoulda toined left at Sheboygan!!!
	12:05pm phat in lincoln: The 500songs.com episode about early Shadows history is so great.
	12:06pm Michael Shelley: @? (aka anonymous ) you are a mean spirited, sad & angry person - please get the help you need.
	12:06pm phat in lincoln: @Squints yes!
	12:06pm Squints: These Izaak Opatz songs make me so happy.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: Isaac is not afraid to turn some knobs. Always unusual effects and twists in his music. Really enjoying him these days.
	12:07pm clarke: well, that guitar sound just MAKES that version and i don't think the chorus pedal was invented when they tracked BTTG?
	12:07pm Dennis: Clarke - I thought it was a Leslie…?
	12:08pm McGroovey: Izaak Opatz: I hear a good dose of JJ Cale. Just enough to make it a good thing.
	12:08pm Kotzwinkled: Apparently Optaz makes leather crafts too? www.izaakopatz.com...
	12:08pm Squints: It's a great excuse the tell the manager, "But we GOTTA buy a 12-string Rick because the pedal that emulates it hasn't been made yet."
	12:09pm McGroovey: @?: You're welcome to listen to something else. The rest of us are enjoying it just fine.
	12:09pm clarke: well, that would be ric-o-sound (two outputs) but, there is MORE going on on BTTG, theyah.
	12:10pm phat in lincoln: I didn't know that the Beatles met Billy Preston in Hamburg until recently.
	12:10pm Listener Baby: Baby. I guess I’m fired as your troll today.
	12:10pm johnk77: excellent show recently saw a fun video of rochester band snaggletooth reunion other names for rochester: rockchester crotchfester
	12:11pm clarke: now git to the weeding!!!
	12:11pm Squints: This Billy Preston thing is ahhsome, theah.
	12:11pm Listener Baby: In Get Back. Billy looks 18 years. Imagine what he looked like 10 years before that in Hamburg
	12:11pm Dugan: Thanks for the Dukes, Michael Shelley.
	12:11pm P-90: I didn’t know Jackson had been on Marc Maron. Thanks for the heads up.
	12:11pm Squints: Probably Bernard Purdie. 8^)
	12:12pm clarke: oh yes, McGroovey - loved The Flashcubes but did not know they had morphed - thnx!
	12:12pm Zinn The Mood: Love this Billy Preston rendition. Rollicking and funky too.
	12:12pm ledzeppelinsucks: This bitch is woke.
	12:12pm DavidL: Agreed about Billy Preston's appearance on the session! Not to diminish the others in the least, but when he starts playing, feeling it out on the fly and sounding amazing, his musical mastery is just so damn clear.
	12:14pm clarke: Screen Test - will seek out.
	12:14pm Lizardner Dave !: Very woke, finally someone recognized that a Chief is a professional job on the level of a doctor or a lawyer.
	12:15pm Lizardner Dave !: Pretty sure that's the takeaway here.
	12:15pm ze boocherie: I think it's unnecessary to play stuff like that
	12:15pm ?: Love the music, Michael! I'm not being any more critical than your radio persona is. You spend half your mic time griping about one thing or another. I've even heard you complain about DJs talking over music before. Anyway, keep spinning the hits!
	12:15pm clarke: while i agree that Preston added a much-needed spark - a lot of it is because we are used to hearing those keyboard parts on the finished product, too.
	12:15pm Frank In Queens: I had no idea that The Fabulous Thunderbirds could be so confrontational.
	12:15pm Listener Baby: @Clarke. Very true
	12:16pm Michael Shelley: 100% NOT TRUE - You spend half your mic time griping about one thing or another.
	12:16pm Frank In Queens: Here we go again. ?, do fuck off.
	12:16pm phat in lincoln: You are just killing it today Michael.
	12:16pm Andres: johnk77: Crotchfester?! Ouch! I hope there’s an ointment for that.
	12:17pm Squints: There might be reason you're in one place and The Mysterians are in another place, far, far away.
	12:18pm clarke: the folks that come HERE to listen to the show LIKE the show. what can i say? no one is required to like it. they just do.
	12:18pm Squints: Mouse knocking off Bob Dylan? Go figure. 8^) He DOES kind of pull it off, though.
	12:19pm McGroovey: As Dylan imitators, Mouse and the Traps were the best. They were what you'd have if Dylan fronted a (really good) garage band.
	12:19pm DG: Preston's musical career goes back a long way. He played the young W.C. Handy in the movie "St. Louis Blues" (haven't seen it) & appeared on Nat King Cole's (who played Handy in the movie) TV show at 11 (I assume that clip's online somewhere). As for "...Shadows" (the vampire mockumentary)---yes, try to see the movie first, which is great. The series is a different set of vampires (& is set in Staten Island! instead of New Zealand) but the first 2 seasons or so are better, & it makes more sense to watch it from the beginning. Berry & the other people are hysterical...and it's been renewed for a 4th season.
	12:21pm gloomlurker: oh monah! this one's a real bop
	12:21pm Moammar: Watched a Fab Thunderbirds show on Y0uTube last night -- 1982 in East Baton Rouge -- and was again reminded why I so much prefer Jimmie over his little brother.
	12:21pm DG: Wow, I didn't realize that Mr. Mouse had other Dylan-ish tracks....of course, like many here (I assume) I just know "A Public Execution" from my Nuggets collection (the original double album, on Sire).
	12:21pm Moammar: That said, there's a 1978 SRV album out there with LouAnn Barton that's really tight.
	12:22pm clarke: i think Mouse was pretty diverse - but, totally under the spell of his Dylan side.
	12:23pm Squints: Andres, you don't want see Crotchfester with a light bulb. And now I can't unsee Jackie Coogan in p0rn.
	12:23pm clarke: i may have been at that show at Chief's, Moammar, but they played there quite often in baton rouge. good gawd they were great.
	12:24pm Squints: DG, with Mouse it's almost certainly Dylan-ish all the way down.
	12:24pm phat in lincoln: I cannot tell you how well that 500 songs podcast has helped put a lot of music in perspective. Having it be a timeline just worked for me. This Ray Charles is a good example. And I didn't know that Ashford and Simpson wrote for him. Damn.
	12:24pm Moammar: The essence of the Thunderbirds was distilled in Kim Wilson's lascivious laugh in "She's Tuff."
	12:25pm clarke: and, if it IS the show i was at (that had a video camera, there) then SRV was roadie'ing for his brother.
	12:25pm Andres: A song for our times!
	12:25pm Squints: If I remember right (too lazy to look check my copy), there's a similar second Mouse & The Traps track on the Nuggets box from 1999. It holds up pretty well.
	12:26pm clarke: Mouse & The Traps made an album and it is good all thru.
	12:26pm HyperDose: So it was Al who was the "bad" Beach Boy all along
	12:27pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: @Frank Ottawa Senators have played one game since Dec. 18. Crazy.
	12:27pm paul: @Squints, was it Maid Of Sugar - Maid Of Spice?
	12:27pm clarke: al basically admitted to that in his (awesome) interview, Here.
	12:27pm Frank In Queens: @geoffrey, yeah this has been one bizarre season.
	12:28pm Ross T.: Al is a man cussing while waiting for a bus.
	12:28pm clarke: bizarre is the right word for our times.
	12:28pm Andres: Yes!! Tiny Spark #1!! Great on repeat.
	12:29pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: @Frank At least the league hasn't shut it down completely. Yet.
	12:29pm clarke: i don't know a lot about hockey, but i know how i would/will feel if nfl has the same issues, etc.
	12:29pm Squints: Paul, <lucy van pelt shout> That's it!
	12:29pm McGroovey: Thanks for reminding me that i haven't listened to my Brendan Benson rekkids in too long a while.
	12:30pm clarke: the only reason why i pay attention to hockey is for some guy in Queens. ha ha.
	12:30pm paul: @Squints, still have that in my itunes collection.
	12:31pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: @Clarke The NFL just seems to power through no matter what. I watch the Saints and a couple weeks ago they could barely field a team, let alone be competitive, but the NFL doesn't care. Not cool for paying customers, I don't think.
	12:31pm Dennis: Dan Ingram: hear, hear!!!!! The greatest of all time.
	12:32pm Squints: HyperDose, you mean "bad" like him and not Mike Love? Or "bad" like a lot of stories from the road but that we're glad to here but equally glad we weren't there?
	12:32pm DJ Guin: FOOD FIGHT!!!!
	12:33pm DJ Guin: "Let's see if you can guess what I am now?"
	12:33pm alan the painter: Good morning afternoon all, nice to get the hits with Michael.
	12:33pm clarke: well, i partially agree - there are some teams that are viable. the quality of the game has suffered for other reasons, maybe, but i see your point.
	12:34pm Squints: clarke, it's easier for NFL and NBA. Even the Bills don't play the odd home game in Tronna no more, and the NBA only has the Raptors' scheduling to worry about.
	12:34pm ?: I think Carol Kaye played guitar on "Let's Dance"...
	12:34pm clarke: and, everyone knows that Dennis was the bad boy. al just was 2nd until the accident
	12:35pm Squints: paul, it's ripped to my hard drive and the box is packed away in my basement in case I ever need to rip it again.
	12:35pm andy fuchs: Or maybe bass, but I think guitar 90% sure
	12:35pm clarke: oh agree, Squints
	12:36pm alan the painter: Saw a fine biopic very early this morning, 3a, a look at the Strong women of the GoGo's.
	12:36pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: I don't think Kyrie Irving will be playing in Toronto should the Nets have a game scheduled there.
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Let's Dance' is on that Early Beatles with Tony Sheridan collection (Hamburg days) ...probly not even TheBeatle on that track - but not different universes, in that sense...
	12:36pm Hubig Pie: A cautionary tale
	12:37pm Squints: Wow. That started out VERY Sly.
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: Alan - agree - it's helped by their not shying away from the unpleasant parts. Fine art or houses?
	12:37pm phat in lincoln: Hot damn. Momma momma baby...
	12:37pm HyperDose: @Squints Not familiar with papa Wilson and if he was as overbearing as I'd imagine a parent manager to be. ...so I'll go with the first one. @Guin I came prepared 🍅🍩🍉🍌
	12:38pm gloomlurker: great show today
	12:38pm Mike Sin: Hey there Michael -- Enjoying the show as usual! I just found out recently that Johnny Paycheck was also Johnny "Paroled and Pardoned" Check
	12:39pm alan the painter: Michael, yes, and some fine filmmaking.
	12:39pm Benoni: Fried Calzone = Panzerotti
	12:39pm Dennis: Jeez Michael, you’re taking track after track from my personal “A” playlist today - Cliff, Billy P, Stevie…..
	12:40pm clarke: Paycheck recorded under a few guises, MSin!
	12:41pm Dennis: I think Stevie may have had a bit of weed by that time (‘71)
	12:41pm paul: Popy sold the restaurant and opened a disco.
	12:41pm Handy Haversack: I missed the whole troll episode while I was chatting with the exterminator and then my neighbors!
	12:42pm Frank In Queens: @Handy, I wouldn't exactly say you "missed" anything...
	12:42pm clarke: u didn't miss a thang - except Number ONE hitz!!
	12:42pm onthetrain: I am cleaning and dancing mike
	12:42pm Dennis: Music Of My Mind = my fave SW album
	12:43pm onthetrain: Don’t slow the beat down
	12:44pm clarke: oh man - i keep forgetting this: a LONG time ago MS asked if there was a Sonic Youth song that he should listen to to play on his show to tell him. i would submit: Incinerate
	12:44pm Frank In Queens: This is a great song.
	12:44pm Handy Haversack: Oh, I had the radio on. You're not dealing with morons here!
	12:45pm Listener Baby: Baby. Did you first come to this song from Calvin’s list?
	12:45pm clarke: speaking for the neighbor.
	12:45pm phat in lincoln: I would totally love to see The John Doe Thing again.
	12:46pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: Kathleen owns a coffee shop not far from me.
	12:46pm Andres: Yes, great! 50% CanCon!
	12:46pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: It's called Quitters.
	12:47pm Andres: You been, Geoffrey? Timing is always bad when I’m passing through.
	12:47pm clarke: wow, geoffrey, i just read that shes started a coffee shop and was very happy, etc.
	12:47pm paul: You light up my life.
	12:48pm clarke: yes, these few hours are really uplifting, esp when considering these times, here.
	12:48pm Micheal: Would love to have heard Sinatra sing the John Doe tune.
	12:49pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: I've been. It's probably closer to my parent's place than my place, to be honest, and when I was helping out my parents recently I stopped in while on a grocery run.
	12:49pm Frank In Queens: This is also a great song.
	12:49pm Listener Baby: @Paul. Thanks man. You aren’t so bad yourself.
	12:49pm clarke: fred just drives.
	12:50pm clarke: A to B.
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah interesting in that GarageRawk might in one sense be what Rawk would be without Dylan & Rawk becoming 'serious' or 'Art'. & then there's Mouse&Traps... So that's not entirely it... Dylan Going Electric & ticking people off on purpose was in one sense the most Punk thing ever... Garage riffed on the Class theme a lot - & that jibes with Dylan as 'Protest Singer'... A lot of what we now call 'Garage' is from the later 1960s anyhow - which is odd, really. As they say - it's the precious & anointed space between FratRawk like 'LouieLouie' & everything getting Heavy & Serious & Arty...
	12:50pm clarke: 20/20 - oh YES!!
	12:51pm paul: Thanks, Baby!
	12:52pm Don Gorden: Yo mike ! .. where are my shoes ?? great show as always
	12:52pm clarke: i've never had so much fun have you? good nite.
	12:53pm Dennis Diken: fabulous show today, Mikey, as per....
	12:53pm paul: Bigfoot!!!
	12:53pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael! Good times, great tunes, excellent company! Take care and party on, everyone! Hope Yeti Bob is listening ...
	12:54pm Frank In Queens: It's the cops, it is.
	12:54pm DG: What am I listening to? Did Tom Carvel have a recording career?
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: @DG, it's almost time for Cookie O'Puss!
	12:55pm Andres: This is no Sasquatch.
	12:55pm Hoboken Jack: Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm Mike Sin: Thanks, MS!
	12:55pm Squints: Bigfoot: Highbrow or lowbrow?
	12:55pm johnk77: great show selecter a thing i just learned kathleen edwards booking agent is frank riley
	12:56pm clarke: i cannot run in hi-heels.
	12:56pm Ross T.: I miss drugs.
	12:56pm Squints: Who's that guy bangin' on the piano?
	12:56pm Frank In Queens: Christina says that the Commissioner sounds like Mitch Hedberg.
	12:57pm phat in lincoln: This is amazing
	12:57pm clarke: ha ha ha ha.
	12:57pm Andres: Christina is right.
	12:57pm paul: Always wanted to hear the b-side.
	12:58pm Dominick: Goodness!!
	12:58pm common: Colicky starred from long ago
	12:58pm HyperDose: Thanks, Michael!
	12:59pm Corey: Thanks Michael for another great show! Flew by. Take care all!
	12:59pm Dennis: Wow. What an achievement in recorded sound.
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Thanks Michael. Fun show!
	12:59pm common: Clicky
	12:59pm clarke: fun shew!!
	12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael!
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY As Ever DJ MS ~

Michael Shelley: Playlist from January 8, 2022

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Ron Trudeau	Smile A Little Smile For Me
Mandarines, The	Trust Me "Trust Me" by "Mandarines, The"
Cactus Blossoms, The	Hey Baby "Hey Baby" by "Cactus Blossoms, The"
Roy "C"	Open Letter To The President
Wiewe	Pop Ivar "Pop Ivar" by "Wiewe"
Gordian Knot	Gonna Take A Lot "Gonna Take A Lot" by "Gordian Knot"
Elvis Presley	Baby, What You Want Me To Do? (live 1969)
Dixie Cups, The	Two-Way-Poc-A-Way
Elvis Costello & Pablo López	Mentira (Lip Service)
Elvis Costello	Just About Glad "Just About Glad" by "Elvis Costello"
Dukes of Stratosphear, The	The Vanishing Girl
Collins Kids, The	Hop, Skip And Jump
Eddie Floyd And Mavis Staples	Never Let You Go
Ernest Ranglin	Everybody's Talkin'
Eddie Angel And The Hi-Risers	One Track Mind
Los Straitjackets	Aerostar "Aerostar" by "Los Straitjackets"
Velvet Underground, The	We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
Joe Carson	I Gotta Get Drunk "I Gotta Get Drunk" by "Joe Carson"
Barbara Lynn	Soul Deep "Soul Deep" by "Barbara Lynn"
Sam Phillips	I Need Love "I Need Love" by "Sam Phillips"
Cliff Richard	When Blue Turns To Grey
Izaak Opatz	I Left Something Turned On At Home
Billy Preston	Eight Days A Week "Eight Days A Week" by "Billy Preston"
Betty Hutton	Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Fabulous Thunderbirds, The	You Ain't Nothing But Fine
Mouse	All For You "All For You" by "Mouse"
Pee Wee King	Oh Monah "Oh Monah" by "Pee Wee King"
Ray Charles	I Don't Need No Doctor
Bucky	O Miranda "O Miranda" by "Bucky"
Brendan Benson	Tiny Spark "Tiny Spark" by "Brendan Benson"
Chris Montez	Let's Dance "Let's Dance" by "Chris Montez"
Johnny Paycheck	Don't Monkey with Another Monkey's Monkey
Stevie Wonder	I Love Having You Around
Midnight Stars	Popy's Disco "Popy's Disco" by "Midnight Stars"
John Doe And Kathleen Edwards	The Golden State
Merry-Go-Round, The	Gonna Fight The War
20/20	Giving it All Away "Giving it All Away" by "20/20"
Lloyd Michigan Enterprises	Bigfoot

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CLICK HERE for five hours of live Stones, well chosen to spotlight Charlie

CLICK HERE to read the lawsuit "Brother Records Inc. vs Jardine"

CLICK HERE for the six part documentary of the making of Elvis Costello's "Spanish Model"

CLICK HERE for Margaret's Granola Recipe

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for the Song Exploder episode on Cheap Trick's Surrender

CLICK HERE for info on "Sweet Relief - A tribute to Joey Spampinato"

CLICK HERE for an interesting blog piece about cut-out lps

CLICK HERE to watch "Call Her Mom," a 1972 pre-Animal House made for TV movie featuring Mark Eric & Charles Nelson Riley
CLICK HERE to see recently unearthed 100% NUDE photos of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - WARNINGS: 1. N.S.F.W. 2. You cant un-see these 3. WFMU is not responsible for psychiatric bills resulting from clicking on this link

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

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 sense of pitch

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

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 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 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 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 laugh

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

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 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

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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 garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

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 Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

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

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

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

CLICK HERE to find how how you can submit your own top of the hour WFMU ID

CLICK HERE for Marty Stewart on the PBS show "The Kate"

CLICK HERE for info on The Steve Keene Art Book

CLICK HEREfor "Remembering Adam Schlesinger"

CLICK HERE to support the new Starry Skies album called 'Small Wonders'.

CLICK HERE to point to your pointer

CLICK HERE for a podcast titled "Nick Lowe breaks down his live show"

CLICK HERE to see The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold on Discogs in September 2020, and CLICK HERE to check out The Most Expensive Soul Records Ever Sold on Discogs

CLICK HERE to check out the Radio Time Machine and listen to any year of any country's radio

CLICK HERE to see U.S. recorded music revenues by format from 1973 to 2019

CLICK HERE to see if you can Spot The Troll

CLICK HERE for the (highly recommended) Chrome Music Lab

CLICK HERE for a short documentary on The Liverbirds

CLICK HERE to listen to the Student Teachers on 'KCRW's "Lost Notes"

CLICK HERE for Fountains Of Wayne Live from the Artists Den

CLICK HERE (if you dare) to watch "The Black Connection"

CLICK HERE to watch "Andrew Bird's Live From The Great Room feat. Jonathan Richman"

CLICK HERE for a NY Times piece on the lp "Casino Royale"

CLICK HERE to find how how you can make a guitar amp out of an old radio

The Boston public library are currently digitizing 100,000 vinyl LPs for anyone to listen to online, CLICK HERE to browse

CLICK HERE to hear Michael's new 30 minute mix for the debut installment of Lagniappe Radio

CLICK HERE for The Fab Four Archivist's "Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles"

CLICK HERE for a great piece called "Bernard Purdie ... did he really record with The Beatles?"

CLICK HERE for the multi part fascinating documentary about Dream Theater's search for a new drummer

CLICK HERE for info on the Top 100 Most Expensive Cassettes on Discogs

CLICK HERE for The Liner Notes Project

CLICK HERE to hear the new number one hit from Juniper

CLICK HERE for the old switcheroo: A new episode of the Casey's Musical Dustbin Radio podcast where Michael Shelley is the interview subject.

CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell interviewed on the Stereo Hysteria podcast

CLICK HERE to read "How the Beach Boys’ Lost Late-Sixties Gems Got a Second Life "

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Sonny Curtis Please Kill Me!

CLICK HERE to find out what happened when Jonathan Richman moved to Maine in 1981

CLICK HERE to read Michael's recent interview Lou Reed archivist Don Fleming on the Please Kill Me website!

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks And Linda Gail Lewis' interview & performance on Fresh Air

CLICK HERE Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis LIVE & unplugged at Paste studios!

CLICK HERE for info on the new compilation "Back Patio Bliss" produced by listener Baby!

CLICK HERE for a free download of the new album "Matt Gets Blue" from Matt Lucas

CLICK HERE for the program MP3 Tag

CLICK HERE to test if you hear Yanny or Laurel

CLICK HERE for an interesting short film about R. Stevie Moore

CLICK HERE for info on Copyright Termination Experts

CLICK HERE to read Michael Shelley's comic "Oh No, It's Tinnitus!"

CLICK HERE for very funny excerpts from a notebook where record store clerks logged "anytime we got a dopey phone call, boneheaded comment, or generally batshit customer experience"

CLICK HERE for Quincy Jones on Paul "the worst bass player I ever heard" McCartney, Michael "stole a lot of stuff" Jackson, Astrology, and who killed Kennedy!

CLICK HERE for a map, with audio links, to whatever the #1 song is in 3000 places around the world

CLICK HERE for a step-by-step guide to repairing damaged record sleeves

CLICK HERE for testimony given by Taylor Swift in Colorado district court

CLICK HERE for the animated guide to compression

CLICK HERE to check out drummer Jim Gordon's discography

CLICK HERE to listen to/download 1000s of digitized 78s

CLICK HERE to watch Robbie Fulks cover NRBQ at FMU

CLICK HERE for selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

CLICK HERE for an interview with Brian Wilson where he says "Mike Love is probably the greatest lyric writer in the world. I think he’s my favorite lyric writer. He just wrote a lot of good songs"

CLICK HERE for "Student Group Apologizes for Playing ‘Transphobic’ and ‘Problematic’ Lou Reed Song"

CLICK HERE to see how Steve Keene does it

CLICK HERE for 28:46 of "NRBQ & Friends"

CLICK HERE for "Marty Stuart: The Story of Clarence White & The Parsons/White StringBender "

CLICK HERE to find out "How the Nashville Number System revolutionized recording sessions"

CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"

CLICK HERE Cheap Trick on "Live At Daryl's House"

CLICK HERE to listen to a new interview with Jonathan Richman

CLICK HERE for an interesting piece about a journalist trying to interview Brian Wilson

CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"

CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show

CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms

CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"

CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall

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 sense of pitch

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

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 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 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 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 laugh

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

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 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 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 garbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."

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 Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website

CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers

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

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

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!
	10:55am Listener Baby: Baby. Can I be your troll today?
	11:01am clarke: hey now (jupe voice) woof mooo!!!
	11:01am clarke: BABY!!! when's the youngun's return to ze east?
	11:02am Webhamster Henry: Autoharp Alert!
	11:02am clarke: or, as it may be known: PizzaTown USA
	11:02am Listener Baby: Hi Clarke. I think January 17th. Awesome to have her back. Hope you are doing great.
	11:03am Handy Haversack: Michael and all the Shellegamers! Oh, momma, I want to move to Pizza Town USA!
	11:03am Frank In Queens: HEY NOW!!!!
	11:03am clarke: i'm doin' ok -- that's a nice long time home! hope them vines are swellin'!! Handy!!
	11:04am Handy Haversack: Wait, I might already live there. Hot up the fryer! clarke! Frank! Baby! Henry!
	11:04am clarke: @FiQ - office or home??
	11:05am Corey: Good morning Michael and listeners! Man, sure wish I had that calzone!
	11:05am clarke: hot up - yass!!
	11:06am Qibote: hi from Holland
	11:08am clarke: get a free quote from Michael Shelley --- it's a NUMBER ONE!!
	11:08am Webhamster Henry: The Album cover shows Ron Trudeau with a Chromaharp, arch-rival chorded zither to the Oscar Schmidt ones.
	11:09am Andres: Good morning! Was that Garry or Justin’s cousin?
	11:09am gf2002: Fried calzone or deep fried calzone? That one looks pretty deep...and is it calzone or stromboli?
	11:09am Listener Baby: I really like Tyler B’s guitar playing. Always.
	11:10am clarke: margaret's
	11:10am clarke: Tyler B likes your vintage!!
	11:11am Handy Haversack: I am feeling you, Corey! I like also that the picture lets us imagine the fillings. I am going with broccoli rabe and black olives!
	11:12am HyperDose: Every town is pizza town USA!
	11:12am Andres: clarke: That explains the Stones influence.
	11:12am clarke: funny, i got the brocolli vibe myself, there, HH
	11:13am Corey: @Handy That's a winning calzone filling!
	11:13am Dennis Diken: Go Mikey! howdy gang!
	11:14am clarke: hope Bagpipe and the kits are swingin' this mawnin'!! DENNIS!!!!
	11:14am rx scabin: Good morning.
	11:15am Handy Haversack: It's exterminator day, so everyone is unhappily confined to the front rooms. But the kittens have found a sunbeam to compete over, so they ought to be distracted for a bit.
	11:15am Frank In Queens: @clarke, home on Saturdays until the 22nd. Feb is still TBD.
	11:15am clarke: i would compete over a sunbeam, today - if avail
	11:17am clarke: nice Frank!! have u pulled the carpets yet??
	11:18am Frank In Queens: @clarke No, not yet. Still have more stuff to get rid of.
	11:18am HyperDose: Gordian Knot are a favorite of ours over in The Perfumed Garden. Fri nights 9-11! - wfmu.org...
	11:18am clarke: gotcha = wasn't rushing the process!!
	11:18am Listener Baby: If the Grass Roots and the Association merged
	11:19am Andres: HD: I was waiting for Zoe to appear :)
	11:19am Frank In Queens: @clarke, yeah, the room needs to be done before the end of the year. That's the only deadline.
	11:19am clarke: a good resolution - accomplishable
	11:20am Handy Haversack: Now imagining what Elvis would put in that calzone ...
	11:20am Michael Shelley: Perfumed Garden = #1!
	11:21am VincentNifigance: Michael, did you say something about a song comparing The President to Batman? What’s it called and who’s it by?
	11:21am JG: It's his Birthday!
	11:21am clarke: donuts!!
	11:21am Michael Shelley: Wiewe Pop Ivar
	11:21am HyperDose: @Andres We can only hope for Zoe and marpay to appear to brighten the comments board with their charm! @Handy How do you navigate the exterminator business? At my old place I always declined and signed the thing when they came around. Didn't want to take the chance.
	11:21am gf2002: 'Play it James!'
	11:22am Listener Baby: Just realized an old friend of mine would have been on the mixing desk at that Elvis show.
	11:23am clarke: wow, Baby!! '69 in vegas - no pun intended
	11:24am VincentNifigance: @Michael Thank you!
	11:24am Dennis Diken: hey clarke! re Verve hits, "Soul & Inspiration," "Soul Sauce," "More" - "Ringo Beat" (ha). I think there were others
	11:25am clarke: mui verve!
	11:25am Hughie Considine: what a bass line - in any language!
	11:25am Listener Baby: @Clarke. Sadly he down in a plane. After Elvis, he was Springsteen’s guy for decades.
	11:26am rx scabin: @Handy Haversack peanut butter and banana.
	11:26am Listener Baby: Funny. No Spanish word for Lip Service.
	11:27am clarke: damn, Baby. i probably heard the guy's mixes at early springsteen shows.
	11:27am Hughie Considine: Or, I guess no Spanish idiom with three syllables that would work
	11:27am Listener Baby: No doubt.
	11:28am clarke: EC interview coming up...
	11:28am Michael Shelley: Mentira = Lie
	11:29am Zaphod: I sure hope the Attractions are getting a $ taste of that cover bs
	11:29am phat in lincoln: I love Brutal Youth so much.
	11:29am clarke: yes.
	11:29am Kotzwinkled: Mike, did you hear the new Cactus Blossoms track WITH Jenny Lewis? Nature is healing, etc.
	11:30am Listener Baby: Baby. Seems there is slang for lying that would have worked. So they used the real word. Just sayin’
	11:30am Handy Haversack: HyperD: We really can't afford to skip it. We're under siege here, it sometimes feels. So we confine it to the kitchen/bathroom for the most part and keep the pets all out those rooms for a couple of hours afterward.
	11:32am phat in lincoln: Completely agree on Brutal Youth being his last great album.
	11:32am clarke: wipper might disagree.
	11:33am clarke: i think North is all-the-way-good, just not what one probably WANTS
	11:33am Handy Haversack: Used to be a place on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, near Southpaw, called Pizzatown, which was one of the few slice shops that also sold beer. Extant in memory!
	11:35am Lizardner Dave !: I wonder if that pizza town is related to the old pizza town (that was formerly pizza clown) on Staten Island. www.oldstatenisland.org...
	11:35am clarke: pete's a clown
	11:36am ledzeppelinsucks: Suffern has a top pizza shop, stuffed, fried calzone, stromboli and it is great for a two week binge. Stayed across the highway.
	11:36am Listener Baby: Lottie is a huge fan of the Dukes. As am I.
	11:36am nachurall: I love Downtown Arbie’s
	11:36am Kotzwinkled: Gosford Park = more digestable Downton Abbey in my opinion.
	11:36am The Chief: Everyone who saw Dukes of Stratosphear in '68 went on to start a band
	11:37am common: Dukes
	11:37am Hackensack Slim: Michael, Pretty Good Pie at Pizza Town USA. And the sisters say you're at the wrong window even when that's not the case. Occasionally they yell at customers. Part of the charm. Happy New Year.
	11:37am jt: Dukes of Stratosphere, so obv. XTC spinoff hard to believe the label tried to make it a mystery.
	11:38am dday: Pizzatown USA,Rt. 46 W. Elmwood Park,NJ (Formerly East Patterson) Been there as long as I can remember (growing up in Garfield) I'm 63.
	11:39am clarke: i believe it was the band who insisted on the nom-de-plum'ery
	11:39am jt: speaking of spinoff's & (Not owning a televisioné) but isn't Downton Abby just a remake of Upstairs /Downstairs?
	11:39am ledzeppelinsucks: It may have been in Mahwah. Both places near Sterling Forest where I was working at a creepy subterranean federal outpost.
	11:40am Frank In Queens: Speaking of British television, anyone else looking forward to the new series of Toast?
	11:40am phat in lincoln: We could all use more Collins Kids in our lives.
	11:40am Handy Haversack: Never heard of it, Frank! What's it like?
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: GutenMatin ! ...The Dukes' #1 track & they had no bad ones in their brief run. Fantastic representation of the period...
	11:41am clarke: i will have to look into that, Frank! heard a few recs for it. MovieTime??
	11:41am HyperDose: Glad you got it figured out, Handy. Used to get frequent ants and the occasional roach at the last place. Sort of like Sheila B's...but you know, with insects.
	11:41am McGroovey: Welcome Back Kotter was a remake of To Sir With Love, but with a laugh track.
	11:41am Kotzwinkled: Yes on Toast. Matt Berry is one of the funniest men on the planet.
	11:41am Frank In Queens: @Handy, do you know Matt Berry? If so, that's kind of all you need to know in order to watch Toast.
	11:43am Frank In Queens: @clarke, still working through Twin Peaks. I'm guessing we'll hit Fire Walk With me by mid-week and then start the new series. i think I've got 2 weeks left of it, maybe 2 and half with the Isles starting back up on Thursday.
	11:43am pasquale: The first Pizzatown in NJ holds a long history in our family. Our grandparents would bring us to the East Paterson [now Elmwood Park] location soon after the shop originated. For a long time the front of the pizza box contained a full-length food review from the Paterson MORNING CALL newspaper circa 1959. During the 1970s and 80s three Pizzatown locations flourished in North Jersey. The owner was a client of my Dad, who sold life insurance. Their Calzone remains unique in the industry.
	11:43am Listener Baby: ER changing my life on a daily basis. Thanks Baby!
	11:44am clarke: my MovieTime is kinda sad -- i watched two film that somehow evaded me. Old School was okay, but not as hilarious as it was then, probably, and i could NOT make it thru Fight Club - so sue me. thought it was horrible.
	11:44am jt: "Welcome Back Kotter' intro was my first real exposure to High-Style Graffiti-Bubble-Letters full subway train-cars, excellent.
	11:44am McGroovey: @Handy I think I used to go to a place called Pizzatown, but I don't remember where. And I used to live on 9th St. in the Slope in the mid-nineties. Where was that one?
	11:45am clarke: 2nd mandariin orange MAY be in cahoots with Turntable #1
	11:46am Frank In Queens: @clarke, i remember being really into Fight Club when it cae out but I haven't seen it in ages.
	11:46am HyperDose: Thanks for the suggestion, Frank. I've been a Berry-ite since IT crowd. Just finished what's been released of the new season of The Expanse (amazing as always). The persistent request of a friend has submitted me into starting Yellowjackets tonight.
	11:46am Handy Haversack: North of there, McGroovey, toward the top of Fifth Ave. Around Park Place? Yeah, clarke, I have always thought Fight Club was garbage.
	11:46am Geoffrey in Ottawa: That is one crazy looking calzone. Nowhere near here that I know of to get something like that.
	11:47am Frank In Queens: Also, I hate it when you have two of something and the first turns out to be amazing and you're thrilled that you have another one to eat, but it turns out to be lousy! Like, you wish you would've chosen the other one to eat first.
	11:47am Michael Shelley: Smilers Pizza ? On 9th & 7th???
	11:47am clarke: just could NOT get into Fight Club - and this is really liking both principles.
	11:48am Kathryn: To solve your Multiple Mandarin Oranges Problem: peel them both and put all the segments in a bowl. See if you can tell which ones were from the first orange and which ones came from the second orange. Or skip the oranges and just have pizza.
	11:48am Matt Clarke: Good morning Michael and all!
	11:48am Handy Haversack: We have been enjoying Yellowjacks, HyperD.
	11:48am phat in lincoln: Los Straitjackets has got to be one of the best gigs in America.
	11:49am ledzeppelinsucks: Ottawa and DC have the best restaurants because of foreign embassy staff, diplomats and the need for booze dealing.
	11:49am clarke: i drummed with them for a couple tours - fun fun fun!!
	11:49am Christina Ginger: Butting in here, I think Fight Club is one of those things that needs to be both watched and read. I think if I had only seen the film, I would have hated it, but both pieces support each other well. I usually hate books turned into film, but this one worked for me.
	11:50am Squints: ok then. hey HEY hey now.
	11:50am McGroovey: Rob Filardo, drummer in half the bands in Rochester, has been posting great live videos of various Rochester bands, mostly from the mid-nineties to the mid-'00s. A couple of them would have Hi-Risers connections. Rochester has so much good local music for a city of its in size. Most of the bands never play outside of Rochester.
	11:50am Hughie Considine: @Clarke, I hear ya -- couldn't stand Fight Club any of the times I tried watching it.
	11:50am clarke: not butting in, at ALL -- but, i am NEVER going to read that book.!!!!
	11:50am Frank In Queens: Hey Matt!
	11:50am phat in lincoln: @clarke nice!
	11:50am Christina Ginger: McGroovey, I fully support this statement!
	11:51am Geoffrey in Ottawa: Fight Club is by Chuck Pahlaniuk, right? Used to see his name all the time, but now I never do. Weird.
	11:52am phat in lincoln: It was all right
	11:52am Christina Ginger: Hi Matt! The book is indeed by Pahlaniuk, Geoffrey.
	11:52am phat in lincoln: Holy crap I love rock and roll.
	11:52am clarke: i agree about rochester - but, also, it is endemic of every scene - there are, for instance, there are hundreds of boston bands that you'll not hear about - and good ones, too!
	11:52am McGroovey: @Handy yeah, i must have frequented that Pizzatown. I lived at a few other places in the Slope in the nineties. I moved at least once a year, as one does when one is young and broke.
	11:55am clarke: also drummed with moe tucker on two short tours
	11:55am Frank In Queens: @HyperDose, Matt Berry is one of my faves, so I'll watch anything with him in it (although strangely, we haven't watched What We Do In The Shadows yet). His music is pretty damn good too!
	11:55am Michael Shelley: I bartender at The Park Slope Brewery in the 90s.
	11:56am clarke: how many seasons of Toast are there, Frank (could look this stuff up, but no).
	11:56am Listener Baby: Baby. You are doing such good work cutting those bumpers. Slick and sneaky. PS. Great show today. Got work to do, and you are sucking me in ..
	11:56am clarke: them vines can wait, Baby!! BABY!!
	11:57am Listener Baby: @Clarke. The vines can wait, but not the weeds.
	11:58am Handy Haversack: Ah, he's Laslo in What We Do in the Shadows? He's excellent in that! Strong recommend on that show.
	11:58am clarke: I, Bartender they have those automatic weeder robots, now!!
	11:58am phat in lincoln: @clarke envy. But, also, had she gotten all Tea Party yet?
	11:58am Squints: I love the nod to If I Needed Someone in the guitar break.
	11:58am McGroovey: I grew up closer to Syracuse, and white there are a few good bands, there isn't the sort of scene there is in Rochester. Favorite Syracuse band: The Flashcubes/Screen Test. Great power pop band. Ithaca is small, but its music scene is probably healthier than Syracuse's, and almost as big as Rochester's (though not so much of the Rock'n'Roll). Syracuse is best for roots music and jazz. Not do much rock, these days.
	11:59am clarke: well, not publicly - moe was the sweetest gal in the world, really.
	11:59am phat in lincoln: Martinis and Bikinis is a perfect, perfect album and I'm in love with Sam Philips.
	11:59am HyperDose: @Frank Highly suggest watching the WWDITS movie first, sets up the TV series (which is completely different) nicely. You see Taika Waititi's idea really bloom. Couldn't have cast the series any better.
	11:59am Listener Baby: @Squints. Words a word for bigger than a nod?
	11:59am Listener Baby: What’s
	12:00pm phat in lincoln: @clarke good to hear
	12:00pm McGroovey: The Park Slope Brewery: I did go in there in the nineties, but I wasn't a regular.
	12:00pm Frank In Queens: @clarke, this current series of Toast is the 4th.
	12:00pm Listener Baby: Answer. Famous people my band has open for.
	12:01pm Squints: LBaby, I was being polite. 8^) But after I Feel Fine, whaddadeygonna do?
	12:01pm phat in lincoln: The lyrics for "I Need Love" are so damned good.
	12:01pm Frank In Queens: @handy, it's on the list. Since the NHL forced me into the Hulu/ESPN/ subscription, I'll get to it sooner rather than later.
	12:01pm Ross T.: Loved this Sam Phillips LP!
	12:02pm Squints: My Sweet I Need Love.
	12:02pm Frank In Queens: @Hyper, thanks for the suggestion. We'll do that when the time comes.
	12:02pm clarke: is the NHL on hold?? i haven't paid attention, sorry
	12:02pm phat in lincoln: Could be playing a p-bass with a bridge cover and foam in it muting. My p-bass came with that stock.
	12:02pm ?: Jesus, Michael! It's annoying enough when DJs talk over songs but to cut it off to point out the palm muting -- sheesh! We get it, we get it. You notice production and love to point it out.
	12:02pm clarke: i think it's the mandarin orange.
	12:02pm Ross T.: And Pizza Town is still there as is Smiley's.
	12:02pm Squints: Not no more, clarke. Broons 3-1 since the mini-hibahnation.
	12:03pm Squints: Make sure you ask Cliff Richard who the real Devil Woman was.
	12:03pm Frank In Queens: @clarke, not the whole League. But the Isles haven't played since New Year's Day. They were supposed to go out to Western Canada, but the games were PPD because of attendance restrictions in some Canadian provinces. They resume on Thursday at home.
	12:03pm Dennis: Cliff OWNS this song, imho. Best version!
	12:03pm clarke: ah, this keeps the Squints happy. yes?
	12:04pm phat in lincoln: Uh oh, the grumpy Gusses are back.
	12:04pm Squints: Sure does, clarke. Finally found scoring away from the first line. Bear want dance.
	12:04pm Dennis: Great Shadows backing track
	12:05pm Squints: Grumpy Gusses would be a great name for the right kind of band.
	12:05pm phat in lincoln: @Dennis totally
	12:05pm clarke: i shoulda toined left at Sheboygan!!!
	12:05pm phat in lincoln: The 500songs.com episode about early Shadows history is so great.
	12:06pm Michael Shelley: @? (aka anonymous ) you are a mean spirited, sad & angry person - please get the help you need.
	12:06pm phat in lincoln: @Squints yes!
	12:06pm Squints: These Izaak Opatz songs make me so happy.
	12:06pm Listener Baby: Isaac is not afraid to turn some knobs. Always unusual effects and twists in his music. Really enjoying him these days.
	12:07pm clarke: well, that guitar sound just MAKES that version and i don't think the chorus pedal was invented when they tracked BTTG?
	12:07pm Dennis: Clarke - I thought it was a Leslie…?
	12:08pm McGroovey: Izaak Opatz: I hear a good dose of JJ Cale. Just enough to make it a good thing.
	12:08pm Kotzwinkled: Apparently Optaz makes leather crafts too? www.izaakopatz.com...
	12:08pm Squints: It's a great excuse the tell the manager, "But we GOTTA buy a 12-string Rick because the pedal that emulates it hasn't been made yet."
	12:09pm McGroovey: @?: You're welcome to listen to something else. The rest of us are enjoying it just fine.
	12:09pm clarke: well, that would be ric-o-sound (two outputs) but, there is MORE going on on BTTG, theyah.
	12:10pm phat in lincoln: I didn't know that the Beatles met Billy Preston in Hamburg until recently.
	12:10pm Listener Baby: Baby. I guess I’m fired as your troll today.
	12:10pm johnk77: excellent show recently saw a fun video of rochester band snaggletooth reunion other names for rochester: rockchester crotchfester
	12:11pm clarke: now git to the weeding!!!
	12:11pm Squints: This Billy Preston thing is ahhsome, theah.
	12:11pm Listener Baby: In Get Back. Billy looks 18 years. Imagine what he looked like 10 years before that in Hamburg
	12:11pm Dugan: Thanks for the Dukes, Michael Shelley.
	12:11pm P-90: I didn’t know Jackson had been on Marc Maron. Thanks for the heads up.
	12:11pm Squints: Probably Bernard Purdie. 8^)
	12:12pm clarke: oh yes, McGroovey - loved The Flashcubes but did not know they had morphed - thnx!
	12:12pm Zinn The Mood: Love this Billy Preston rendition. Rollicking and funky too.
	12:12pm ledzeppelinsucks: This bitch is woke.
	12:12pm DavidL: Agreed about Billy Preston's appearance on the session! Not to diminish the others in the least, but when he starts playing, feeling it out on the fly and sounding amazing, his musical mastery is just so damn clear.
	12:14pm clarke: Screen Test - will seek out.
	12:14pm Lizardner Dave !: Very woke, finally someone recognized that a Chief is a professional job on the level of a doctor or a lawyer.
	12:15pm Lizardner Dave !: Pretty sure that's the takeaway here.
	12:15pm ze boocherie: I think it's unnecessary to play stuff like that
	12:15pm ?: Love the music, Michael! I'm not being any more critical than your radio persona is. You spend half your mic time griping about one thing or another. I've even heard you complain about DJs talking over music before. Anyway, keep spinning the hits!
	12:15pm clarke: while i agree that Preston added a much-needed spark - a lot of it is because we are used to hearing those keyboard parts on the finished product, too.
	12:15pm Frank In Queens: I had no idea that The Fabulous Thunderbirds could be so confrontational.
	12:15pm Listener Baby: @Clarke. Very true
	12:16pm Michael Shelley: 100% NOT TRUE - You spend half your mic time griping about one thing or another.
	12:16pm Frank In Queens: Here we go again. ?, do fuck off.
	12:16pm phat in lincoln: You are just killing it today Michael.
	12:16pm Andres: johnk77: Crotchfester?! Ouch! I hope there’s an ointment for that.
	12:17pm Squints: There might be reason you're in one place and The Mysterians are in another place, far, far away.
	12:18pm clarke: the folks that come HERE to listen to the show LIKE the show. what can i say? no one is required to like it. they just do.
	12:18pm Squints: Mouse knocking off Bob Dylan? Go figure. 8^) He DOES kind of pull it off, though.
	12:19pm McGroovey: As Dylan imitators, Mouse and the Traps were the best. They were what you'd have if Dylan fronted a (really good) garage band.
	12:19pm DG: Preston's musical career goes back a long way. He played the young W.C. Handy in the movie "St. Louis Blues" (haven't seen it) & appeared on Nat King Cole's (who played Handy in the movie) TV show at 11 (I assume that clip's online somewhere). As for "...Shadows" (the vampire mockumentary)---yes, try to see the movie first, which is great. The series is a different set of vampires (& is set in Staten Island! instead of New Zealand) but the first 2 seasons or so are better, & it makes more sense to watch it from the beginning. Berry & the other people are hysterical...and it's been renewed for a 4th season.
	12:21pm gloomlurker: oh monah! this one's a real bop
	12:21pm Moammar: Watched a Fab Thunderbirds show on Y0uTube last night -- 1982 in East Baton Rouge -- and was again reminded why I so much prefer Jimmie over his little brother.
	12:21pm DG: Wow, I didn't realize that Mr. Mouse had other Dylan-ish tracks....of course, like many here (I assume) I just know "A Public Execution" from my Nuggets collection (the original double album, on Sire).
	12:21pm Moammar: That said, there's a 1978 SRV album out there with LouAnn Barton that's really tight.
	12:22pm clarke: i think Mouse was pretty diverse - but, totally under the spell of his Dylan side.
	12:23pm Squints: Andres, you don't want see Crotchfester with a light bulb. And now I can't unsee Jackie Coogan in p0rn.
	12:23pm clarke: i may have been at that show at Chief's, Moammar, but they played there quite often in baton rouge. good gawd they were great.
	12:24pm Squints: DG, with Mouse it's almost certainly Dylan-ish all the way down.
	12:24pm phat in lincoln: I cannot tell you how well that 500 songs podcast has helped put a lot of music in perspective. Having it be a timeline just worked for me. This Ray Charles is a good example. And I didn't know that Ashford and Simpson wrote for him. Damn.
	12:24pm Moammar: The essence of the Thunderbirds was distilled in Kim Wilson's lascivious laugh in "She's Tuff."
	12:25pm clarke: and, if it IS the show i was at (that had a video camera, there) then SRV was roadie'ing for his brother.
	12:25pm Andres: A song for our times!
	12:25pm Squints: If I remember right (too lazy to look check my copy), there's a similar second Mouse & The Traps track on the Nuggets box from 1999. It holds up pretty well.
	12:26pm clarke: Mouse & The Traps made an album and it is good all thru.
	12:26pm HyperDose: So it was Al who was the "bad" Beach Boy all along
	12:27pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: @Frank Ottawa Senators have played one game since Dec. 18. Crazy.
	12:27pm paul: @Squints, was it Maid Of Sugar - Maid Of Spice?
	12:27pm clarke: al basically admitted to that in his (awesome) interview, Here.
	12:27pm Frank In Queens: @geoffrey, yeah this has been one bizarre season.
	12:28pm Ross T.: Al is a man cussing while waiting for a bus.
	12:28pm clarke: bizarre is the right word for our times.
	12:28pm Andres: Yes!! Tiny Spark #1!! Great on repeat.
	12:29pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: @Frank At least the league hasn't shut it down completely. Yet.
	12:29pm clarke: i don't know a lot about hockey, but i know how i would/will feel if nfl has the same issues, etc.
	12:29pm Squints: Paul, <lucy van pelt shout> That's it!
	12:29pm McGroovey: Thanks for reminding me that i haven't listened to my Brendan Benson rekkids in too long a while.
	12:30pm clarke: the only reason why i pay attention to hockey is for some guy in Queens. ha ha.
	12:30pm paul: @Squints, still have that in my itunes collection.
	12:31pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: @Clarke The NFL just seems to power through no matter what. I watch the Saints and a couple weeks ago they could barely field a team, let alone be competitive, but the NFL doesn't care. Not cool for paying customers, I don't think.
	12:31pm Dennis: Dan Ingram: hear, hear!!!!! The greatest of all time.
	12:32pm Squints: HyperDose, you mean "bad" like him and not Mike Love? Or "bad" like a lot of stories from the road but that we're glad to here but equally glad we weren't there?
	12:32pm DJ Guin: FOOD FIGHT!!!!
	12:33pm DJ Guin: "Let's see if you can guess what I am now?"
	12:33pm alan the painter: Good morning afternoon all, nice to get the hits with Michael.
	12:33pm clarke: well, i partially agree - there are some teams that are viable. the quality of the game has suffered for other reasons, maybe, but i see your point.
	12:34pm Squints: clarke, it's easier for NFL and NBA. Even the Bills don't play the odd home game in Tronna no more, and the NBA only has the Raptors' scheduling to worry about.
	12:34pm ?: I think Carol Kaye played guitar on "Let's Dance"...
	12:34pm clarke: and, everyone knows that Dennis was the bad boy. al just was 2nd until the accident
	12:35pm Squints: paul, it's ripped to my hard drive and the box is packed away in my basement in case I ever need to rip it again.
	12:35pm andy fuchs: Or maybe bass, but I think guitar 90% sure
	12:35pm clarke: oh agree, Squints
	12:36pm alan the painter: Saw a fine biopic very early this morning, 3a, a look at the Strong women of the GoGo's.
	12:36pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: I don't think Kyrie Irving will be playing in Toronto should the Nets have a game scheduled there.
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Let's Dance' is on that Early Beatles with Tony Sheridan collection (Hamburg days) ...probly not even TheBeatle on that track - but not different universes, in that sense...
	12:36pm Hubig Pie: A cautionary tale
	12:37pm Squints: Wow. That started out VERY Sly.
	12:37pm Michael Shelley: Alan - agree - it's helped by their not shying away from the unpleasant parts. Fine art or houses?
	12:37pm phat in lincoln: Hot damn. Momma momma baby...
	12:37pm HyperDose: @Squints Not familiar with papa Wilson and if he was as overbearing as I'd imagine a parent manager to be. ...so I'll go with the first one. @Guin I came prepared 🍅🍩🍉🍌
	12:38pm gloomlurker: great show today
	12:38pm Mike Sin: Hey there Michael -- Enjoying the show as usual! I just found out recently that Johnny Paycheck was also Johnny "Paroled and Pardoned" Check
	12:39pm alan the painter: Michael, yes, and some fine filmmaking.
	12:39pm Benoni: Fried Calzone = Panzerotti
	12:39pm Dennis: Jeez Michael, you’re taking track after track from my personal “A” playlist today - Cliff, Billy P, Stevie…..
	12:40pm clarke: Paycheck recorded under a few guises, MSin!
	12:41pm Dennis: I think Stevie may have had a bit of weed by that time (‘71)
	12:41pm paul: Popy sold the restaurant and opened a disco.
	12:41pm Handy Haversack: I missed the whole troll episode while I was chatting with the exterminator and then my neighbors!
	12:42pm Frank In Queens: @Handy, I wouldn't exactly say you "missed" anything...
	12:42pm clarke: u didn't miss a thang - except Number ONE hitz!!
	12:42pm onthetrain: I am cleaning and dancing mike
	12:42pm Dennis: Music Of My Mind = my fave SW album
	12:43pm onthetrain: Don’t slow the beat down
	12:44pm clarke: oh man - i keep forgetting this: a LONG time ago MS asked if there was a Sonic Youth song that he should listen to to play on his show to tell him. i would submit: Incinerate
	12:44pm Frank In Queens: This is a great song.
	12:44pm Handy Haversack: Oh, I had the radio on. You're not dealing with morons here!
	12:45pm Listener Baby: Baby. Did you first come to this song from Calvin’s list?
	12:45pm clarke: speaking for the neighbor.
	12:45pm phat in lincoln: I would totally love to see The John Doe Thing again.
	12:46pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: Kathleen owns a coffee shop not far from me.
	12:46pm Andres: Yes, great! 50% CanCon!
	12:46pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: It's called Quitters.
	12:47pm Andres: You been, Geoffrey? Timing is always bad when I’m passing through.
	12:47pm clarke: wow, geoffrey, i just read that shes started a coffee shop and was very happy, etc.
	12:47pm paul: You light up my life.
	12:48pm clarke: yes, these few hours are really uplifting, esp when considering these times, here.
	12:48pm Micheal: Would love to have heard Sinatra sing the John Doe tune.
	12:49pm Geoffrey in Ottawa: I've been. It's probably closer to my parent's place than my place, to be honest, and when I was helping out my parents recently I stopped in while on a grocery run.
	12:49pm Frank In Queens: This is also a great song.
	12:49pm Listener Baby: @Paul. Thanks man. You aren’t so bad yourself.
	12:49pm clarke: fred just drives.
	12:50pm clarke: A to B.
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah interesting in that GarageRawk might in one sense be what Rawk would be without Dylan & Rawk becoming 'serious' or 'Art'. & then there's Mouse&Traps... So that's not entirely it... Dylan Going Electric & ticking people off on purpose was in one sense the most Punk thing ever... Garage riffed on the Class theme a lot - & that jibes with Dylan as 'Protest Singer'... A lot of what we now call 'Garage' is from the later 1960s anyhow - which is odd, really. As they say - it's the precious & anointed space between FratRawk like 'LouieLouie' & everything getting Heavy & Serious & Arty...
	12:50pm clarke: 20/20 - oh YES!!
	12:51pm paul: Thanks, Baby!
	12:52pm Don Gorden: Yo mike ! .. where are my shoes ?? great show as always
	12:52pm clarke: i've never had so much fun have you? good nite.
	12:53pm Dennis Diken: fabulous show today, Mikey, as per....
	12:53pm paul: Bigfoot!!!
	12:53pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Michael! Good times, great tunes, excellent company! Take care and party on, everyone! Hope Yeti Bob is listening ...
	12:54pm Frank In Queens: It's the cops, it is.
	12:54pm DG: What am I listening to? Did Tom Carvel have a recording career?
	12:55pm Frank In Queens: @DG, it's almost time for Cookie O'Puss!
	12:55pm Andres: This is no Sasquatch.
	12:55pm Hoboken Jack: Thanks Michael!
	12:55pm Mike Sin: Thanks, MS!
	12:55pm Squints: Bigfoot: Highbrow or lowbrow?
	12:55pm johnk77: great show selecter a thing i just learned kathleen edwards booking agent is frank riley
	12:56pm clarke: i cannot run in hi-heels.
	12:56pm Ross T.: I miss drugs.
	12:56pm Squints: Who's that guy bangin' on the piano?
	12:56pm Frank In Queens: Christina says that the Commissioner sounds like Mitch Hedberg.
	12:57pm phat in lincoln: This is amazing
	12:57pm clarke: ha ha ha ha.
	12:57pm Andres: Christina is right.
	12:57pm paul: Always wanted to hear the b-side.
	12:58pm Dominick: Goodness!!
	12:58pm common: Colicky starred from long ago
	12:58pm HyperDose: Thanks, Michael!
	12:59pm Corey: Thanks Michael for another great show! Flew by. Take care all!
	12:59pm Dennis: Wow. What an achievement in recorded sound.
	12:59pm Frank In Queens: Thanks Michael. Fun show!
	12:59pm common: Clicky
	12:59pm clarke: fun shew!!
	12:59pm radioronan: Thanks Michael!
	12:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY As Ever DJ MS ~

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