WFMU: The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles with Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles: Playlist from November 17, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 5:01pm ultradamno: Kitten! Fantasticles!
	5:02pm Debbie Davenport: 💖
	5:03pm Mr Fab: Meow, all! I do loves me some Hawkwind. Sucks when the greats die, but at least we get great big tribute shows to them.
	5:04pm Cheree July: Godspeed Nik.🎇⚡️
	5:06pm Cheree July: Even Nik's sax was meowing like Kitten or when Kitten does his Henrietta Pussycat impression.
	5:08pm Debbie Davenport: I like how there are hearts on the inside of his sax.
	🎸 ♥ 5:11pm ultradamno: Another angle on the heartzamaphone media2.fdncms.com...
	5:13pm Kitten Sparkles: I got their first lp the week it came out.
	5:16pm Debbie Davenport: I'm late to the party on that one. No Hawkwind in my collection until the mid 90s.
	5:16pm Mr Fab: I was in search of space. Then one night I looked up, and there it was.
	5:20pm Cheree July: Kitten definetly wasn't late to the Hawkwind party as a 70's teen.
	5:22pm Krys O: Hello from Jersey!
	5:29pm Debbie Davenport: I was a 70's tween. I think he's ten years older than me. Way more of a sophisticated listener. I was still learning the difference between AM and FM.
	5:30pm Debbie Davenport: Hello Jersey!
	🎸 ♥ 5:32pm ultradamno: As Chucky said during his exorcism last night "you think I'm afraid of Hell? I'M FROM JERSEY!"
	5:33pm Debbie Davenport: 🤣
	5:34pm Cheree July: ultradamno, that's def me.😆👏👏👏
	5:37pm Kitten Sparkles: I was more into krautrock then, so I wasn’t all that enamored of that 1st Hawkwind. But I liked the next 3 or 4 Los a lot.
	5:38pm Kitten Sparkles: alps.
	🎸 ♥ 5:39pm ultradamno: I like the vegetable gator people on the cover
	5:39pm Mr Fab: Kitten, how did you find out about this stuff in the wilds of Arizona? From reading UK music mags?
	5:40pm Cheree July: Oh yeah, now I remember your stories from assisting you, Kitten.💡
	5:41pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah. No such thing as discogs, youtube or even home internet then.
	🎸 ♥ 5:42pm ultradamno: I came by a lot of weird stuff as a kid at the public library. Republicans are probably putting a stop to that.
	5:45pm Debbie Davenport: I remember checking out Hitler records at the library as a kid. Speeches, crowds yelling. it was kind of boring to me but full of energy.
	5:46pm Cheree July: No, not really ultradamno.
	5:47pm Krys O: I was raised by older siblings and cousins who were hippies who listened to FM radio, but I didn’t learn about Hawkwind until I was in college in the early 80s and working at WFMU as a student.
	5:47pm Cheree July: What?!😳
	🎸 ♥ 5:48pm ultradamno: Oh, it's definitely on their radar. Librarians getting death threats for....being librarians has absolutely happened. They want to work through making public schools teaching illegal first, but still...
	5:49pm lala: heeeetyt hi everyone been qorkin graveyard!! miss u gyys !!
	5:50pm Krys O: It’s awful in Texas and Florida.
	5:50pm lala: I made it let's hawkwind it up!
	🎸 ♥ 5:51pm ultradamno: Anyway, I came by my first brushes with Hawkwind, Roxy Music, Harry Partch, Stockhausen, Cage etc at the public library
	5:51pm Kitten Sparkles: @Mr Fab- I made friend s w some record store weirdos in Tempe and Phoenix. I’d hitchhike to their stores and hang out all day. I also read the UK mags there.
	🎸 ♥ 5:51pm ultradamno: (granted the Roxy was Siren, which kind of turned me off them for awhile, but still)
	5:51pm Debbie Davenport: The book banning lists really crack me up. My mom was a jr high librarian for awhile. One day she came home with a list she made for me off the check out cards inside of books she deemed dangerous. To warn me about students who checked out books on witchcraft. It was a small town so I knew everyone on the list.
	5:52pm Debbie Davenport: Hi LALA!
	5:52pm Kitten Sparkles: Those guys turned me on to a lot of. Cool shit.
	5:53pm Mr Fab: We salute you, record store weirdos!
	🎸 ♥ 5:55pm Rich in Washington: I got turned onto Hawkwind by a comic store clerk who was blaring Doremi Faso Latido so loud it chased off all the casual browsers one fine Saturday. That clerk later founded Dark Horse Comics.
	🎸 ♥ 5:56pm ultradamno: Be yourself is terrible advice for a celebrity impersonator
	5:56pm lala: hitchhike to stores that's dedication n what we record store peeps love!! miss working in records what s cool vibe so true bout getting your hands on rare stuff and getting new stuff from cool heads
	5:57pm lala: hi debbie!!!
	5:58pm lala: thanks mr fab! we salute you patrons of our stores!
	5:58pm Debbie Davenport: I miss working in record stores too Lala. A couple of them I worked at were really cool. Probably my favorite job even though it was minimum wage.
	5:59pm Mr Fab: Where did you work, Debbie?
	🎸 ♥ 5:59pm Aitch: Let there be wind!
	6:00pm Debbie Davenport: Two locations of The Record Works in Arcata and Eureka. But the two I really liked were House Of Records in Eugene and green Noise Records in Eugene. They moved to POrtland and then the owner sold it. Still probably a good store though.
	6:01pm Debbie Davenport: Super anal collectors would come into house of records and some of my coworkers were intense also. I love that kind of obsessive mind.
	6:02pm Debbie Davenport: We had a handwritten letter by Jello Biafra to look for things for him when he came through.
	♥ 6:02pm chresti: Hi Kitten and sparklers!
	6:03pm lala: o cool debbie I worked at Tower Mountain View near KFJC so we had lots of djs from the station who worked with us snd then some of us worked at Shoreline Amphitheater (I did both) so it was music books videeo n weirdos 24 7
	6:04pm Debbie Davenport: heaven
	6:05pm lala: Ak Cisneros from Sleep / Om worked at Tower Books with us when they were starting out
	6:05pm lala: Al
	6:05pm Debbie Davenport: The Germans are coming!
	♥ 6:06pm Barno in Akron: Hey Debbie. Thankfully, House of Records is still rocking in Eugene. I visited during a trip in September.
	6:09pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah, that's really something. They've been there since the early 70s. I also encountered Matt Groening there and made a complete fool of myself thinking he was some random guy with the same name. I even mentioned working with Matt as a teen and he engaged me in conversation about it! I was a complete airhead.
	6:12pm Debbie Davenport: There are even more records in the basement Barno!
	♥ 6:30pm Barno in Akron: House of Records is a treasure house, Debbie. I didn't know there were records in the basement.
	6:32pm Debbie Davenport: The owner keeps part of his collection there, but there is also a lot of old random 7" stock. Or was. I quit in 98. I don't know what it's like down there now.
	6:34pm Debbie Davenport: Fred was my favorite employee there, and he even tried to talk me into staying. But he moved to Portland and does other stuff now. He made that place special.
	♥ 6:35pm Barno in Akron: That was before my times as a customer there.
	6:36pm Debbie Davenport: If anyone on this thread wants a rare random old 7" they'd be a place to look I know they have a website now, maybe they aren't as magical in that way. I couldn't stand the employees that made fun of customers. I haven't been back in a really long time.
	6:37pm ?: Flute was my 3rd instrument in the 70s coz of stuff like this lol psyche flute maaaan
	6:38pm Mr Fab: the employees made fun of customers? Like, to their face? Or just snicker about em after they leave
	6:38pm lala: that was me who said that bout psyche fñute duhh
	🎸 ♥ 6:40pm ultradamno: Not a good idea to do that to their faces, they know where you work
	6:41pm Debbie Davenport: Mostly talking at the counter. Not even that quietly. That was one of my positive traits there. I sold a lot due to genuine enthusiasm and people who didn't intend to buy much wound up buying twice as much. But the random long hair dudes who liked classic rock cassettes got an earful from me about what came from what and what people are doing now or what they may like if they liked something else, (usually a mainstream thing). I'd turn them on to the not so mainstream. The shitty fancy girls were like ew gross... etc.
	🎸 ♥ 6:43pm ultradamno: The fancy girls reminded me of this post and the response
	🎸 ♥ 6:43pm ultradamno: twitter.com...
	6:48pm Debbie Davenport: Taylor Swifty
	6:49pm lala: of course we made fun of some clients or some were just odd n awesome one person would csll is everyday in falsetto ans say "i got my balls cut off" i think it was Michael michelle a trans client we had. her checks ssid Michael Michelle. Her checks were good then there was andy eho loved Kawang and Double Bass Dwums (he couldn't say his R's) we were on a street of s busline that took people to the VA and county hospital
	6:49pm Cheree July: More like Taylor Shifty.😒🙄
	🎸 ♥ 6:51pm ultradamno: It is nice to know Dengue Fever are still out there.
	6:51pm lala: I was genuine too Debbie people would come up to me snd say wow you're actually nice i dont get it!! everyone was underpaid altered coming down goin up hungover etc it ruled!! people there would say y r u buying this crap! someone said that to me before I worked there.. ended up marrying him briefly later n had his kid so now i also hsve a snob kid hahaha
	6:52pm lala: shitty fsncy girls lol Debbie
	6:53pm Debbie Davenport: haha! You totally get it.
	6:53pm lala: you could say anything in retail pre yelp and surveys!!
	6:54pm Debbie Davenport: Its so weird to me when people are surprised I'm nice or that I'm inspired by inspiring others or I jsut want to participate with others about music in a real way. What is so hard to understand about that?
	6:55pm Debbie Davenport: Ooh, good point. maybe those snobby types are more mellow now.
	6:55pm Cheree July: Not to mention pre secret shoppers & focus groups.
	6:55pm Debbie Davenport: I still won't patron a store that makes fun of it's customers.
	6:57pm Debbie Davenport: or " get that guy out of here as soon as you can. He's only going to spend 1.50"
	🎸 ♥ 6:57pm ultradamno: To me it's on the same level as being rude to a waiter, it's just poor character.
	6:58pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah.
	6:58pm Kitten Sparkles: Sorry about all the skips, especially Orgone Accumulator. These are all my OG copies from the 70s. They’ve seen a lot of action.
	6:59pm Cheree July: Or "Page security on that problem customer so they don't shoplift even if they only spent $1.50."
	7:00pm Cheree July: A piece of the action, as the Sweet would say?😉
	7:00pm Debbie Davenport: The surface noise is appealing. LIke we are sitting around in a livingroom together. LIstening with you.
	7:01pm Cheree July: We are all Alvin Lucier.😄
	♥ 7:06pm Carmichael: Just got here for the Hwakwind and the record store comments. I grew up behind the Tower mothership in Sacramento. All my allowance $ went to 45s, and later LPs.
	7:06pm lala: I like the surface noise too
	7:10pm lala: It was a different time people wanted to shop places that werecsnobby and make the cut ...butbyeh I worked in comsetics for years too and that csn be snobby way more than music shops and same thing I was nice to sññ my clients even if they had soup on their shirts n cat hair all over them and unwashed hair bring it on!
	7:10pm lala: but if someone is a rude client then game on of course employees will clown them
	🎸 ♥ 7:12pm ultradamno: What I liked working in a record store was the people who would hide records. They're still for sale even after you misfile them
	7:13pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah! Some of those scruffy guys could of been the artists we sold music of too. Every picture I've seen of Nik Turner in the wild later in life is pretty scruffy and he fit in with random wild hippy dude customer types.
	7:13pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah record hiding is funny.
	7:13pm lala: hahaahba yeh right.... they would hide em n hope to come beck later to get em ahha
	7:13pm Kitten Sparkles: This was at Budget Tapes and Records, eh ich became Evolution Redords later.
	7:14pm lala: tons of artists shopped in our store famous to not so..
	7:15pm lala: that guy Jaron Lanier creator of virtual reality total desd fsn n classical fan shopped there n he was mr dead head dreads tye died shirt n totally loaded
	7:18pm lala: music art literature creative world is full of snobs that's y its important to find sweety pies that truly love things n people with some sparkle like kitten sparkles otherwise it can a resl bummer
	7:19pm Debbie Davenport: Exactly. and some of those snobs don't even care about the arts. they just want cool kid points.
	7:20pm Mr Fab: friend of mine worked at Amoeba Hollywood. Once Lux Interior came in. he recognized him in his natural grey hair and glasses - "he looked like Ted Danson." He asked Lux to do a "what's in my bag" bit and he said, sure but let me come back later when I look like Lux Interior!" Alas, he died before that happened. I so would have LOVED to know what was in Lux's bag.
	7:23pm ?: aww RIP Lux
	7:23pm Debbie Davenport: Sam Elliot shops around here and people don't usually recognize him. Maybe that's why he drives all the way from Brownsville to Eugene to buy bags of compost.
	7:24pm ?: My most id ssy culturally hugecperspn I met st my store was Joan Baez.. she kissed my cheek I was 18 n like wow i come from a folky family.. anyway great humanitarian woman
	7:24pm Debbie Davenport: Once I was buying compost at the same time in front of him in line and the clerk kept trying to get his number. He was so uncomfortable. I was thinking, he'll probably not be back now.
	♥ 7:24pm Carmichael: Lux and Ivy lived in Sacramento in the early days, and they would frequent a local store called Records on the K St mall. An old guy named Ed ran the place, and he seemed to know absolutely everything about every music genre.
	7:28pm laka: sheesh my name fell off that's my Joan baez story yeh don't bug famous people it does ruin stuff I said hi to neil young in a parking lot here casually as lots of people did in the bay but a lady ran up to his van and jumped on it screaming neil neil i felt bad! then i aaw him in safeway the next day n said sorry man
	7:28pm Mr Fab: Carmichael: ah, maybe we should thank Ed The Record Store Guy - perhaps he was the one slipping them "The Crusher," "Goo Goo Muck," etc. Ed may have changed history and he never knew it.
	7:29pm Debbie Davenport: Totally!
	7:29pm lala: Ed rules
	7:30pm lala: well this is fun knowing record store peeps are here listenin! like minds yay
	♥ 7:32pm Carmichael: HA, could be, Fab!
	7:32pm Debbie Davenport: I think Dave brock went by a different name there. I looked it up recently. Maybe Dr technical.
	7:34pm Debbie Davenport: I agree Lala.
	7:39pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah. Dr. Technical was one of his aliases.
	♥ 7:40pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Everyone!!! Great show so far K-Spark!
	7:41pm lala: music art literature creative world is full of snobs that's y its important to find sweety pies that truly love things n people with some sparkle like kitten sparkles otherwise it can a resl bummer
	7:42pm Mr Fab: Do you have Faust's "J'ai Mal Aux Dents" handy, Kitten?
	7:50pm Cheree July: Just pulled into a 7-11 parking lot & I'm thinking to myself "Instead of playing opera and classical music to keep the winos and hobos away, why don't they just play Faust instead?"😆
	7:50pm lala: I got to see Faust couple few yrs ago in a groovy sant cruz mts spot super intimate n fun obviously not all original peeps but fun they had the old school oil overhead projector visuals....
	7:51pm Debbie Davenport: Super cool!
	🎸 ♥ 7:52pm ultradamno: The title track of So Far is the best 70s cop show theme that never got used for one
	7:53pm lala: luv Faust
	7:54pm lala: great show todsy ty kitten 🌈🌈💫🌈🌈 n everyone
	7:54pm Kitten Sparkles: Gonna have to cut this one short, probably. Sort of miscalculated the time
	7:57pm Mr Fab: was a fantastic Fantastic World today, Kitten!
	7:57pm lala: xoxo
	♥ 7:58pm DJ Babs: Great Great show!
	7:59pm Debbie Davenport: One of my favorite episodes of The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles. Great time with chat friends too. 💖

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Hawkwind	Master Of The Universe "Master Of The Universe" by "Hawkwind"	In Search of Space	United Artists	1971	Vinyl	UK	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago	In Search of Space	United Artists	1971	Vinyl	UK	0:08:28 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Sonic Attack "Sonic Attack" by "Hawkwind"		Cleopatra	2015	7"	US	0:15:42 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Lord Of Light "Lord Of Light" by "Hawkwind"	Space Ritual	United Artists	1973	2LP	UK
Hawkwind	7X7 "7X7" by "Hawkwind"	Space Ritual	United Artists	1973	2LP	UK	0:22:51 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	10 Seconds Of Forever "10 Seconds Of Forever" by "Hawkwind"	Space Ritual	United Artists	1973	2LP	UK	0:29:32 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Brainstorm "Brainstorm" by "Hawkwind"	Space Ritual	United Artists	1973	2LP	UK	0:29:37 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Hurry On Sundown "Hurry On Sundown" by "Hawkwind"	Hawkwind	United Artists	1970	Vinyl	UK	0:40:18 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Be Yourself "Be Yourself" by "Hawkwind"	Hawkwind	United Artists	1970	Vinyl	UK	0:44:14 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Paranoia pt 1 "Paranoia pt 1" by "Hawkwind"	Hawkwind	United Artists	1970	Vinyl	UK	0:54:48 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Orgone Accumulator "Orgone Accumulator" by "Hawkwind"	Space Ritual	United Artists	1973	2LP	UK	0:59:47 (Pop-up)
Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters	The Aerospaceage Inferno	Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters	United Artists	1974	Vinyl	UK	1:05:27 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Space Is Deep "Space Is Deep" by "Hawkwind"	Space Ritual	United Artists	1973	2LP	UK	1:11:01 (Pop-up)
Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters	The Right Stuff	Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters	United Artists	1974	Vinyl	UK	1:21:09 (Pop-up)
Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters	Ejection		United Artists	1974	7"	UK	1:29:59 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Assault & Battery "Assault & Battery" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	1:29:43 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	The Golden Void "The Golden Void" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	1:33:45 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	The Wizard Blew His Horn	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	1:38:58 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind ‎	Opa-Loka "Opa-Loka" by "Hawkwind ‎"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	1:40:29 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind ‎	The Demented Man "The Demented Man" by "Hawkwind ‎"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	1:46:47 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind ‎	Magnu "Magnu" by "Hawkwind ‎"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	2:01:39 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Standing at the Edge "Standing at the Edge" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	2:01:51 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Spiral Galaxy 24968 "Spiral Galaxy 24968" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	2:02:20 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Warriors "Warriors" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	2:04:28 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Dying Seas "Dying Seas" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	2:06:17 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Kings of Speed "Kings of Speed" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On the Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Vinyl	UK	2:13:41 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Paranoia pt 2 "Paranoia pt 2" by "Hawkwind"	Hawkwind	United Artists	1970	Vinyl	UK	2:13:58 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	See It As You Really Are	Hawkwind	United Artists	1970	Vinyl	UK	2:17:05 (Pop-up)
Faust	Just a Second "Just a Second" by "Faust"	Faust IV	Virgin	1973	Vinyl	UK	2:33:05 (Pop-up)
Faust	Mo "Mo" by "Faust"	So Far	Polydor	1972	Vinyl	Germany	2:36:52 (Pop-up)
Faust	Krautrock "Krautrock" by "Faust"	Faust IV	Virgin	1973	Vinyl	Germany	2:38:44 (Pop-up)
Fayst	Meadow Meal (with a bit of Why Don’t You Eat Carrots)	Faust	Polydor	1971	Vinyl	Germany	2:49:14 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 5:01pm ultradamno: Kitten! Fantasticles!
	5:02pm Debbie Davenport: 💖
	5:03pm Mr Fab: Meow, all! I do loves me some Hawkwind. Sucks when the greats die, but at least we get great big tribute shows to them.
	5:04pm Cheree July: Godspeed Nik.🎇⚡️
	5:06pm Cheree July: Even Nik's sax was meowing like Kitten or when Kitten does his Henrietta Pussycat impression.
	5:08pm Debbie Davenport: I like how there are hearts on the inside of his sax.
	🎸 ♥ 5:11pm ultradamno: Another angle on the heartzamaphone media2.fdncms.com...
	5:13pm Kitten Sparkles: I got their first lp the week it came out.
	5:16pm Debbie Davenport: I'm late to the party on that one. No Hawkwind in my collection until the mid 90s.
	5:16pm Mr Fab: I was in search of space. Then one night I looked up, and there it was.
	5:20pm Cheree July: Kitten definetly wasn't late to the Hawkwind party as a 70's teen.
	5:22pm Krys O: Hello from Jersey!
	5:29pm Debbie Davenport: I was a 70's tween. I think he's ten years older than me. Way more of a sophisticated listener. I was still learning the difference between AM and FM.
	5:30pm Debbie Davenport: Hello Jersey!
	🎸 ♥ 5:32pm ultradamno: As Chucky said during his exorcism last night "you think I'm afraid of Hell? I'M FROM JERSEY!"
	5:33pm Debbie Davenport: 🤣
	5:34pm Cheree July: ultradamno, that's def me.😆👏👏👏
	5:37pm Kitten Sparkles: I was more into krautrock then, so I wasn’t all that enamored of that 1st Hawkwind. But I liked the next 3 or 4 Los a lot.
	5:38pm Kitten Sparkles: alps.
	🎸 ♥ 5:39pm ultradamno: I like the vegetable gator people on the cover
	5:39pm Mr Fab: Kitten, how did you find out about this stuff in the wilds of Arizona? From reading UK music mags?
	5:40pm Cheree July: Oh yeah, now I remember your stories from assisting you, Kitten.💡
	5:41pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah. No such thing as discogs, youtube or even home internet then.
	🎸 ♥ 5:42pm ultradamno: I came by a lot of weird stuff as a kid at the public library. Republicans are probably putting a stop to that.
	5:45pm Debbie Davenport: I remember checking out Hitler records at the library as a kid. Speeches, crowds yelling. it was kind of boring to me but full of energy.
	5:46pm Cheree July: No, not really ultradamno.
	5:47pm Krys O: I was raised by older siblings and cousins who were hippies who listened to FM radio, but I didn’t learn about Hawkwind until I was in college in the early 80s and working at WFMU as a student.
	5:47pm Cheree July: What?!😳
	🎸 ♥ 5:48pm ultradamno: Oh, it's definitely on their radar. Librarians getting death threats for....being librarians has absolutely happened. They want to work through making public schools teaching illegal first, but still...
	5:49pm lala: heeeetyt hi everyone been qorkin graveyard!! miss u gyys !!
	5:50pm Krys O: It’s awful in Texas and Florida.
	5:50pm lala: I made it let's hawkwind it up!
	🎸 ♥ 5:51pm ultradamno: Anyway, I came by my first brushes with Hawkwind, Roxy Music, Harry Partch, Stockhausen, Cage etc at the public library
	5:51pm Kitten Sparkles: @Mr Fab- I made friend s w some record store weirdos in Tempe and Phoenix. I’d hitchhike to their stores and hang out all day. I also read the UK mags there.
	🎸 ♥ 5:51pm ultradamno: (granted the Roxy was Siren, which kind of turned me off them for awhile, but still)
	5:51pm Debbie Davenport: The book banning lists really crack me up. My mom was a jr high librarian for awhile. One day she came home with a list she made for me off the check out cards inside of books she deemed dangerous. To warn me about students who checked out books on witchcraft. It was a small town so I knew everyone on the list.
	5:52pm Debbie Davenport: Hi LALA!
	5:52pm Kitten Sparkles: Those guys turned me on to a lot of. Cool shit.
	5:53pm Mr Fab: We salute you, record store weirdos!
	🎸 ♥ 5:55pm Rich in Washington: I got turned onto Hawkwind by a comic store clerk who was blaring Doremi Faso Latido so loud it chased off all the casual browsers one fine Saturday. That clerk later founded Dark Horse Comics.
	🎸 ♥ 5:56pm ultradamno: Be yourself is terrible advice for a celebrity impersonator
	5:56pm lala: hitchhike to stores that's dedication n what we record store peeps love!! miss working in records what s cool vibe so true bout getting your hands on rare stuff and getting new stuff from cool heads
	5:57pm lala: hi debbie!!!
	5:58pm lala: thanks mr fab! we salute you patrons of our stores!
	5:58pm Debbie Davenport: I miss working in record stores too Lala. A couple of them I worked at were really cool. Probably my favorite job even though it was minimum wage.
	5:59pm Mr Fab: Where did you work, Debbie?
	🎸 ♥ 5:59pm Aitch: Let there be wind!
	6:00pm Debbie Davenport: Two locations of The Record Works in Arcata and Eureka. But the two I really liked were House Of Records in Eugene and green Noise Records in Eugene. They moved to POrtland and then the owner sold it. Still probably a good store though.
	6:01pm Debbie Davenport: Super anal collectors would come into house of records and some of my coworkers were intense also. I love that kind of obsessive mind.
	6:02pm Debbie Davenport: We had a handwritten letter by Jello Biafra to look for things for him when he came through.
	♥ 6:02pm chresti: Hi Kitten and sparklers!
	6:03pm lala: o cool debbie I worked at Tower Mountain View near KFJC so we had lots of djs from the station who worked with us snd then some of us worked at Shoreline Amphitheater (I did both) so it was music books videeo n weirdos 24 7
	6:04pm Debbie Davenport: heaven
	6:05pm lala: Ak Cisneros from Sleep / Om worked at Tower Books with us when they were starting out
	6:05pm lala: Al
	6:05pm Debbie Davenport: The Germans are coming!
	♥ 6:06pm Barno in Akron: Hey Debbie. Thankfully, House of Records is still rocking in Eugene. I visited during a trip in September.
	6:09pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah, that's really something. They've been there since the early 70s. I also encountered Matt Groening there and made a complete fool of myself thinking he was some random guy with the same name. I even mentioned working with Matt as a teen and he engaged me in conversation about it! I was a complete airhead.
	6:12pm Debbie Davenport: There are even more records in the basement Barno!
	♥ 6:30pm Barno in Akron: House of Records is a treasure house, Debbie. I didn't know there were records in the basement.
	6:32pm Debbie Davenport: The owner keeps part of his collection there, but there is also a lot of old random 7" stock. Or was. I quit in 98. I don't know what it's like down there now.
	6:34pm Debbie Davenport: Fred was my favorite employee there, and he even tried to talk me into staying. But he moved to Portland and does other stuff now. He made that place special.
	♥ 6:35pm Barno in Akron: That was before my times as a customer there.
	6:36pm Debbie Davenport: If anyone on this thread wants a rare random old 7" they'd be a place to look I know they have a website now, maybe they aren't as magical in that way. I couldn't stand the employees that made fun of customers. I haven't been back in a really long time.
	6:37pm ?: Flute was my 3rd instrument in the 70s coz of stuff like this lol psyche flute maaaan
	6:38pm Mr Fab: the employees made fun of customers? Like, to their face? Or just snicker about em after they leave
	6:38pm lala: that was me who said that bout psyche fñute duhh
	🎸 ♥ 6:40pm ultradamno: Not a good idea to do that to their faces, they know where you work
	6:41pm Debbie Davenport: Mostly talking at the counter. Not even that quietly. That was one of my positive traits there. I sold a lot due to genuine enthusiasm and people who didn't intend to buy much wound up buying twice as much. But the random long hair dudes who liked classic rock cassettes got an earful from me about what came from what and what people are doing now or what they may like if they liked something else, (usually a mainstream thing). I'd turn them on to the not so mainstream. The shitty fancy girls were like ew gross... etc.
	🎸 ♥ 6:43pm ultradamno: The fancy girls reminded me of this post and the response
	🎸 ♥ 6:43pm ultradamno: twitter.com...
	6:48pm Debbie Davenport: Taylor Swifty
	6:49pm lala: of course we made fun of some clients or some were just odd n awesome one person would csll is everyday in falsetto ans say "i got my balls cut off" i think it was Michael michelle a trans client we had. her checks ssid Michael Michelle. Her checks were good then there was andy eho loved Kawang and Double Bass Dwums (he couldn't say his R's) we were on a street of s busline that took people to the VA and county hospital
	6:49pm Cheree July: More like Taylor Shifty.😒🙄
	🎸 ♥ 6:51pm ultradamno: It is nice to know Dengue Fever are still out there.
	6:51pm lala: I was genuine too Debbie people would come up to me snd say wow you're actually nice i dont get it!! everyone was underpaid altered coming down goin up hungover etc it ruled!! people there would say y r u buying this crap! someone said that to me before I worked there.. ended up marrying him briefly later n had his kid so now i also hsve a snob kid hahaha
	6:52pm lala: shitty fsncy girls lol Debbie
	6:53pm Debbie Davenport: haha! You totally get it.
	6:53pm lala: you could say anything in retail pre yelp and surveys!!
	6:54pm Debbie Davenport: Its so weird to me when people are surprised I'm nice or that I'm inspired by inspiring others or I jsut want to participate with others about music in a real way. What is so hard to understand about that?
	6:55pm Debbie Davenport: Ooh, good point. maybe those snobby types are more mellow now.
	6:55pm Cheree July: Not to mention pre secret shoppers & focus groups.
	6:55pm Debbie Davenport: I still won't patron a store that makes fun of it's customers.
	6:57pm Debbie Davenport: or " get that guy out of here as soon as you can. He's only going to spend 1.50"
	🎸 ♥ 6:57pm ultradamno: To me it's on the same level as being rude to a waiter, it's just poor character.
	6:58pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah.
	6:58pm Kitten Sparkles: Sorry about all the skips, especially Orgone Accumulator. These are all my OG copies from the 70s. They’ve seen a lot of action.
	6:59pm Cheree July: Or "Page security on that problem customer so they don't shoplift even if they only spent $1.50."
	7:00pm Cheree July: A piece of the action, as the Sweet would say?😉
	7:00pm Debbie Davenport: The surface noise is appealing. LIke we are sitting around in a livingroom together. LIstening with you.
	7:01pm Cheree July: We are all Alvin Lucier.😄
	♥ 7:06pm Carmichael: Just got here for the Hwakwind and the record store comments. I grew up behind the Tower mothership in Sacramento. All my allowance $ went to 45s, and later LPs.
	7:06pm lala: I like the surface noise too
	7:10pm lala: It was a different time people wanted to shop places that werecsnobby and make the cut ...butbyeh I worked in comsetics for years too and that csn be snobby way more than music shops and same thing I was nice to sññ my clients even if they had soup on their shirts n cat hair all over them and unwashed hair bring it on!
	7:10pm lala: but if someone is a rude client then game on of course employees will clown them
	🎸 ♥ 7:12pm ultradamno: What I liked working in a record store was the people who would hide records. They're still for sale even after you misfile them
	7:13pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah! Some of those scruffy guys could of been the artists we sold music of too. Every picture I've seen of Nik Turner in the wild later in life is pretty scruffy and he fit in with random wild hippy dude customer types.
	7:13pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah record hiding is funny.
	7:13pm lala: hahaahba yeh right.... they would hide em n hope to come beck later to get em ahha
	7:13pm Kitten Sparkles: This was at Budget Tapes and Records, eh ich became Evolution Redords later.
	7:14pm lala: tons of artists shopped in our store famous to not so..
	7:15pm lala: that guy Jaron Lanier creator of virtual reality total desd fsn n classical fan shopped there n he was mr dead head dreads tye died shirt n totally loaded
	7:18pm lala: music art literature creative world is full of snobs that's y its important to find sweety pies that truly love things n people with some sparkle like kitten sparkles otherwise it can a resl bummer
	7:19pm Debbie Davenport: Exactly. and some of those snobs don't even care about the arts. they just want cool kid points.
	7:20pm Mr Fab: friend of mine worked at Amoeba Hollywood. Once Lux Interior came in. he recognized him in his natural grey hair and glasses - "he looked like Ted Danson." He asked Lux to do a "what's in my bag" bit and he said, sure but let me come back later when I look like Lux Interior!" Alas, he died before that happened. I so would have LOVED to know what was in Lux's bag.
	7:23pm ?: aww RIP Lux
	7:23pm Debbie Davenport: Sam Elliot shops around here and people don't usually recognize him. Maybe that's why he drives all the way from Brownsville to Eugene to buy bags of compost.
	7:24pm ?: My most id ssy culturally hugecperspn I met st my store was Joan Baez.. she kissed my cheek I was 18 n like wow i come from a folky family.. anyway great humanitarian woman
	7:24pm Debbie Davenport: Once I was buying compost at the same time in front of him in line and the clerk kept trying to get his number. He was so uncomfortable. I was thinking, he'll probably not be back now.
	♥ 7:24pm Carmichael: Lux and Ivy lived in Sacramento in the early days, and they would frequent a local store called Records on the K St mall. An old guy named Ed ran the place, and he seemed to know absolutely everything about every music genre.
	7:28pm laka: sheesh my name fell off that's my Joan baez story yeh don't bug famous people it does ruin stuff I said hi to neil young in a parking lot here casually as lots of people did in the bay but a lady ran up to his van and jumped on it screaming neil neil i felt bad! then i aaw him in safeway the next day n said sorry man
	7:28pm Mr Fab: Carmichael: ah, maybe we should thank Ed The Record Store Guy - perhaps he was the one slipping them "The Crusher," "Goo Goo Muck," etc. Ed may have changed history and he never knew it.
	7:29pm Debbie Davenport: Totally!
	7:29pm lala: Ed rules
	7:30pm lala: well this is fun knowing record store peeps are here listenin! like minds yay
	♥ 7:32pm Carmichael: HA, could be, Fab!
	7:32pm Debbie Davenport: I think Dave brock went by a different name there. I looked it up recently. Maybe Dr technical.
	7:34pm Debbie Davenport: I agree Lala.
	7:39pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah. Dr. Technical was one of his aliases.
	♥ 7:40pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Everyone!!! Great show so far K-Spark!
	7:41pm lala: music art literature creative world is full of snobs that's y its important to find sweety pies that truly love things n people with some sparkle like kitten sparkles otherwise it can a resl bummer
	7:42pm Mr Fab: Do you have Faust's "J'ai Mal Aux Dents" handy, Kitten?
	7:50pm Cheree July: Just pulled into a 7-11 parking lot & I'm thinking to myself "Instead of playing opera and classical music to keep the winos and hobos away, why don't they just play Faust instead?"😆
	7:50pm lala: I got to see Faust couple few yrs ago in a groovy sant cruz mts spot super intimate n fun obviously not all original peeps but fun they had the old school oil overhead projector visuals....
	7:51pm Debbie Davenport: Super cool!
	🎸 ♥ 7:52pm ultradamno: The title track of So Far is the best 70s cop show theme that never got used for one
	7:53pm lala: luv Faust
	7:54pm lala: great show todsy ty kitten 🌈🌈💫🌈🌈 n everyone
	7:54pm Kitten Sparkles: Gonna have to cut this one short, probably. Sort of miscalculated the time
	7:57pm Mr Fab: was a fantastic Fantastic World today, Kitten!
	7:57pm lala: xoxo
	♥ 7:58pm DJ Babs: Great Great show!
	7:59pm Debbie Davenport: One of my favorite episodes of The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles. Great time with chat friends too. 💖

The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles with Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles: Playlist from November 17, 2022

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