Glenn Mercer of the Feelies!: Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

Listener comments!

12:03pm Greg from ZONE 5:

YES!!

12:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...that girl - put a spell on me! [off mic mouths 'not me baby']...

12:04pm PKNY:

Yes! "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" is harder that 99.99% of the punk rock/metal/hardcore I've ever heard. Eternal thanks to the Funky Drummer, Clyde Stubblefield!

12:05pm Parq:

Dept. of Mondagreens: When this record first broke on the charts, I thought they were saying "Get embalmed."

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12:05pm Ken From Hyde Park:

James Brown, a man for our times. RIP, Clyde.

12:06pm joe:

'ello folks

12:08pm northguineahills:

Perfect!

12:10pm Alirio G.:

Good God! Get on up! Take to the bridge Joe!

12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

About as historic, definitive, essential - & broadly influential as anything ever. Clyde Stubblefield, the Funky Drummer.

12:14pm Guido from Cologne:

hello Joe & everyone

12:15pm Uncle Michael:

The Honey Drippers track provided the bed for my open!

12:15pm Parq:

UM, I have been wondering for years where that lick came from.

12:16pm Uncle Michael:

It's an oft-sampled beat.

12:17pm Parq:

As for Clyde S, there are 1364 confirmed instances of "Funky Drummer" being sampled. Thirteen hundred and sixty four.
www.whosampled.com...

12:19pm Guido from Cologne:

Mike Vickes' "I Wish I Were A Group Again" is worth for exactly two tracks. One is "On the Brink"

12:20pm Joe B:

greetings everyone! thanks for tuning in/checking in! Glenn Mercer interview coming up around 1 pm!

12:23pm Stevel:

UM: I checked to make sure I hadn't hit an archive of one of your shows when I heard The Honey Drippers.

12:24pm Parq:

Hot dogs at a funeral -- what a great idea!

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12:24pm Hoboken Jack:

Just call me Saddle Brook Jack this week! Really looking forward to the Mercer interview.

12:28pm Uncle Michael:

So did I, Steve.

12:31pm Dennis Diken:

go Joe, go!

12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

BigStar much?? Nice.

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12:37pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Just hot dogs or hot dog sandwiches?

12:39pm still b/p:

I wrote a 4th grade essay, titled, I believe, "The Real Monkees," crediting their versatility after I'd seen them playing different instruments live during the summer at Boston Garden. What were they really achieving on those instruments? No idea, but I thought I needed to expand my classmates' presumed Monkees perspectives/expectations.

12:42pm Fuzzy:

Remembering all these lyrics during a live performance would be an impressive feat.

12:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gene Clark worked w/ Monkee record people, no?

12:50pm Michele:

Hi everyone! Sounds great Joe, love this track!

12:51pm egould310:

Been listening to Jacuzzi Boys alot this week. They are rapidly becoming a favorite band. More please.

12:52pm Your Ace From Exchange Place:

Love this Holly / Greenhornes track!

1:00pm KP:

Feeling it

1:01pm Nacho:

Hello Joe! Hello everyone! Waiting for Glenn Mercer!!

1:02pm Parq:

I have invented memories all the time, too, Joe. A friend suggests that I invent one where I was Mayor of NYC or some such thing.

1:03pm Dave the Spazz:

The 91.1 scene in Broken Flowers is there (you're not going cuckoo). Great show!

1:05pm joe:

And he makes the Ponderosa Stomp save. :)

1:06pm Ike:

I just tuned in. Invented memories? Are we talking about that genie movie again?

1:15pm psysci:

no Joe couldnt find the scene where 91.1 is on the radio in the movie Broken Flowers and Dave the Spazz confirms it actually exists in a shared invented memory

1:19pm KP:

Wowee!

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1:22pm acid casualty:

@ yafexchangeplace. Joe B. had Holly and the Greenhornes live on his show some years back and they performed that song. I only remember 'cos I got it on a cassette. Check out the archives for the great live set by them.

1:23pm JakeGould:

Hey! Great interview!

@Ike: Look up “The Mandela Effect.” knowyourmeme.com...

1:27pm Joe B:

Feelies March 4 at Vintage Vinyl in fords, NJ, April 28 at Rent party, The Woodlands, Maplewood NJ April 29 at World cafe, Philly, May 12 & 13 at Rough Trade, brooklyn

1:32pm Brian C.:

My invented memory was of seeing Moondog on 6th Avenue. For a long time I thought it was true. I must've dreamt it

1:37pm Nacho:

Hey Joe, do you know if there's any chance to see The Feelies down here in a possible South American Tour?

1:37pm JakeGould:

An invented/non-invented memory I have is of ex-NYC Mayor Abe Beame shaking my baby hand in a baby carriage. I have no direct memory of it since I was a damned baby, but it was told to me so much occasionally a baby me shaking Abe Beame’s hand pops up in my dreams.

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1:43pm acid casualty:

I just invented a memory of holly on the greenhorns performing on joe's show, but it was actually terre's in 2002.

1:48pm Joe B:

yes it was terre's show, and it was eric and jack fro the greenhornes and bruce brand on drums!

1:49pm Mayor Frank:

Feelies memory: going to an R.E.M. show in Buffalo from Geneva, NY and walking in, late, to this Easter Egg theater and seeing this band thrashing around to a Monkees' tune. Never forget.

1:50pm Brian C.:

Joe, Thanks for lining up this interview, very nice to hear some backstory and stuff on the Feelies. Looking forward to getting the LP autographed at Vintage Vinyl!

1:50pm Nacho:

Or maybe I'll have to invent myself a memory of them... as I did with many other bands...

1:51pm northguineahills:

Sounds amazing, Mayor Frank!

1:51pm Brian C.:

Mayor Frank, do you remember the year/venue for the REM show?

2:03pm Ken B,:

Nice interview with the Feelies Joe. I commend you for getting Glenn to actually speak.

2:06pm Snortley:

The 91.1 scene in Broken Flowers is at 43:45:

123movies.is...

2:08pm Mayor Frank:

Brian C: 1986 at Shea's, I think.

2:12pm PKNY:

Alright, the Electric Mess! Dan and 'Chip' are friends of mine!

2:25pm KP:

Mick Tape

2:29pm geezerette:

Hey!
I have an invented memory of listening to the Feelies interview even though I just got here. Or maybe it's precognition because I know I WILL listen in the archives.

2:30pm geezerette:

Spoooooooooky! :)

2:31pm George In WO:

I saw Diken/Alstrom do that 2 Guys thing a few years ago at Trumpets in Montclair. It was SO FUN!

2:31pm joe:

He just got to 100. I didn't realize he had slowed down so much :)

2:52pm geezerette:

This is lovely.

12:54am John from CDA:

'Alternative memory' would be a more appropriate phrase these days. Like the Honey Drippers said,...

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Johnny Jones and the King Casuals	Purple Haze	various - Introducing a bad Mutha ... Shaftman!	no label	1968/1995?		0:00:00 Pop-up)
James Brown	Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved	Star Time	Polydor	1970/1991	RIP Clyde Stubblefield	0:02:57 Pop-up)
The Honey Drippers	Impeach The President			1973		0:10:30 Pop-up)
Ray Gant & the Arabian Knights	Chattanooga Walk	various - Soulful Sounds From Soulville	Get Hip Archive Series	?/2001		0:13:00 Pop-up)
Mike Vickers	On The Brink	various - On the Brink: Return of the Instro-Hipsters	Psychic Circle	1965/2007		0:15:35 Pop-up)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	Flower Girl	various - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B: 1971	Hip-O Select	1971/2009	happy birthday Smokey! 76 yesterday	0:18:14 Pop-up)
Andre Williams	Bury Me Deep	Don't Ever Give Up	Pravda	2016		0:21:47 Pop-up)

Monkees	I Don't Think You Know Me	Music Box	Rhino	1966/2001		0:32:44 Pop-up)
Minus 5	Michael Nesmith	Scott the Hoople in the Dungeon of Horror Part II: Of Monkees And Men	Yep Roc	2014		0:34:46 Pop-up)
Wilco	Taste the Ceiling	Star Wars	dBpm	2015	Scott McCaughey of the Minus 5 co-writing and playing mellotron and organ/piano on this track	0:42:55 Pop-up)
Jacuzzi Boys	Heavy House	s/t	Hardly Art	2013		0:46:41 Pop-up)
Greenhornes With Holly Golightly	There Is An End	Dual Mono	Telstar	2002		0:50:22 Pop-up)
Ron Gallo	Please Yourself	Heavy Meta	New West	2017		0:53:26 Pop-up)
The Feelies	Higher Ground	Only Life	Bar/None	1988/2016		0:56:32 Pop-up)

The Feelies	In Between	In Between	Bar/None	2017		1:05:49 Pop-up)
Glenn Mercer	interview					1:09:26 Pop-up)
The Feelies	Forces At Work	various - Ork Records: New York, New York	Numero Group	1977/2015		1:17:19 Pop-up)
Glenn Mercer	interview pt 2					1:20:37 Pop-up)
The Feelies	Original Love	Crazy Rhythms	Bar/None	1980/2009		1:24:46 Pop-up)
Glenn Mercer	interview pt 3					1:27:55 Pop-up)
Feelies March 4 at Vintage Vinyl in fords, NJ, April 28 at Rent party, The Woodlands, Maplewood NJ April 29 at World cafe, Philly, May 12 & 13 at Rough Trade, brooklyn
East of Venus	Let's Find a Way	Memory Box	Omnivore Recordings	2016		1:29:53 Pop-up)
Glenn Mercer	interview pt 4					1:33:59 Pop-up)
The Feelies	In Between (reprise)	In Between	Bar/None	2017		1:47:30 Pop-up)
Glenn Mercer	interview pt 5					1:56:37 Pop-up)
The Feelies	Flag Days	In Between	Bar/None	2017		1:58:53 Pop-up)

Ty Segall	Break a Guitar	s/t	Drag City	2017		2:06:02 Pop-up)
Electric Mess	Trash Talkin' Woman	s/t	self-released	2009		2:09:47 Pop-up)
Steve Adamyk Band	Carry On	Graceland	Dirtnap	2016		2:12:42 Pop-up)
Snowmans of Love	Staycation	various - Office Supplies: An Unblinking Ear Mixtape	Unblinking Ear	2017		2:15:21 Pop-up)
The Pink Tiles	Time For Love			2017		2:17:35 Pop-up)
Sloppy Heads	The Suck	Useless Smile	Shrimper	2017		2:20:20 Pop-up)

Guided By Voices	Hiking Skin	August By Cake	Guided By Voices Inc.	2017		2:31:10 Pop-up)
Phantom Tollbooth w/Robert Pollard	Mascara Snakes	Beard of Lightning	Off	2003		2:32:29 Pop-up)
Death By Unga Bunga	Best Friends	Pineapple Pizza	Jansen	2016	playing live on WFMU this saturday on the todd-o-phonic todd show!	2:35:31 Pop-up)
White Wires	Goodbye Girl	7"	Trouble In Mind	2011		2:38:12 Pop-up)
Wyldlife	Keepsakes	Out On Your Block	Wicked Cool	2017	playing with death by unga bunga saturday night at baby's all right!	2:39:54 Pop-up)
The New Trocaderos	You Broke My Heart		bandcamp	2016	kurt baker/connection side project	2:42:52 Pop-up)

Willard Grant Conspiracy	Right On Time	live on WFMU		2000	RIP Robert Fisher; recorded april 27, 2000. engineer: Phil Wrecktor	2:50:44 Pop-up)
Willard Grant Conspiracy	How To Get To Heaven	Mojave	Slow River	2000		2:53:59 Pop-up)

February 20, 2017

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