WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from April 1, 2017

Listener comments!
	3/29 10:57pm PJ: April Fool's joke, or a Michael Shelley coup? We shall see . . .
	11:00am Baby: everyone
	11:00am Frank Above: Tube Bar!
	11:00am Baby: Baby
	11:01am melinda: This is hilarious.
	11:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Ack! Poor Denise!
	11:02am melinda: She should just hang up on him.
	11:04am Listener Baby: Baby Such tension on a beautiful Saturday morning. But I see where you are going with this.
	11:05am Chris: I was just telling my co-worker about LPC, thank you so much!
	11:05am Jimmy Wipper: Ohhhhhhhhh noooooooooo!
	11:05am rbxbex: Fell asleep with wfmu on and woke up to RIP Denise by LPC, what a glorious day
	11:05am Listener Baby: But is that tangible?
	11:07am Joe R.: :(
	11:08am Listener Baby: Colette Gagabootch: Best band name on earth.
	11:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Time for a commercial from the new Google Gnome product: store.google.com...
	11:09am jeebs: :(
	11:09am Listener Baby: PULL OUT MIKE!! PULL OUT!! You are about to crash!!
	11:10am elvis: so this is it? no Elvis interview? juvenile, not funny
	11:10am ?: This is fucking stupid. Time to switch to Give The Drummer Radio.
	11:10am jeebs: This is stupid. Just wanted to hear Elvis Costello. Buh-bye WFMU.
	11:11am Marcel M: OMG!!!!!! This is great hahaaaaaaaaaa. Easy to pick out the real FMU fans here.
	11:11am ?: this is GENIUS!!
	11:12am jeebs: Yea! Duhurrduhurrr!!! Real fans love this shizz! Huurrrduhurrrrp.
	11:12am Jimmy Wipper: You really IS a fan!
	11:13am PaddyMeBoy: I don't believe my ears!!!!!
	11:13am jeebs: It so genius it's better than when the JerkyBoys did it back in the 80s!
	11:13am Clarke: i have always wanted to know about THIS guy!!
	11:13am jamesie: i relate to this
	11:13am Chris M.: huge fan of LPC! this is incredible
	11:14am PorpoiseJerky: Heurerra Furmuehler
	11:14am jmd: This is terrific!
	11:14am Ken From Hyde Park: One time Chris M. played about 20 minutes of some guy who was trolling Eddie Money about a delivery of colored gravel. Speaking of Chis M.!
	11:14am Mikey_B: hahaha
	11:15am PorpoiseJerky: Gorilla Romero?
	11:15am Little Fyodor: Ah, good ol' Longmont Potions Castle! Been out of touch with him for a while! Doesn't really sound like the original guy, but like I say, it's been a while! (Not considering the sound disguises, as some of it sounds au naturel...)
	11:16am david from ks.: ,,,,this is fun stuff ! I appreciate testing employee patience.
	11:16am PorpoiseJerky: I'd love to know about the hardware used here.
	11:18am commodore vic: Ask him about John Trubee!
	11:18am Listener Baby: Your wish is my... Longmont Potion Castle filters his voice through a Digitech RDS 8000 rack-mounted digital delay unit to produce odd sound effects, thus making whoever he has called even more confused.[3]
	11:19am Little Fyodor: Ah, the original guy was veggie, so maybe that's him! He's made "real" music too, and he's recorded me for stuff I used to collaborate with someone else....
	11:19am mlsgrrl: I'm such a nerd for this stuff. I love it.
	11:21am Little Fyodor: He once told me he liked picking on places that sell meat! But I don't think it was ever limited to that....
	11:21am Cal Zone!: This is a total mindblower! #1 Interview of all time!
	11:21am Joe stalvey: Would not hurt to announce ETA for Costello, give those who are bored by this the chance to jump back later for the interview they wanted to hear.
	11:23am BEAVO: Dumbest "interview" ever.
	11:24am PorpoiseJerky: Uhhhh.... Meuhler Citera?
	11:24am Clarke: adios to people who dont get this... i was sorta hoping to ask elvis costello why he stopped making good records.
	11:25am rbxbex: Had never heard this interview, thanks so much for playing
	11:25am PorpoiseJerky: Longmont Potion Castle is so mysterious and wonderful to me! thanks so much Mike! Best April Fool's thing ever!!n1q1
	11:26am Listener Baby: @Clarke.. That would have been my question.
	11:26am Clarke: that's becuz we's on the same page Baby!!
	11:27am BEAVO: What's to get? This is old hat. Sour Shoes is the master of this genre.
	11:27am Listener Baby: Bring it home with the best, Baby! This is amazing.
	11:27am rbxbex: Wait was that interview just now?!
	11:28am tomasz.: i don't really get why he's still doing all the wacky sound effects and that even in the context of an interview with someone who already knows his schtick
	11:28am Clarke: there is plenty to get - IF you know
	11:28am Listener Baby: Dan Lineman
	11:28am Marcel M: That was amazing! Thanks
	11:29am Clarke: ROPe, inc
	11:29am rbxbex: @tomasz cuz LPC ?
	11:31am Clarke: hey i am loving this show....
	11:32am georgesmian: Elvis was an April Fools?
	11:32am georgesmian: Is Dave Davies too?
	11:33am Marc Francis: Yawn.
	11:33am Marc Francis: @georgesmian: Looks that way.
	11:34am Joe R.: "Ha, ha, ha. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
	11:34am jeebs: This is sooo punk rock.
	11:35am Clarke: no...i WON
	11:36am Listener Baby: Baby.. Are you going the whole way? You got the door locked?
	11:36am jeebs: You're a winner winning.
	11:36am Clarke: #1 HIT OF ALL TIME!!
	11:36am Elvis Costello: When do I get to go on? Been sitting in the WFMU green room for half an hour. How much Arizona Ice Tea can an old British guy drink? This place smells like mold. What happened to my career? Why did I stop making good records?!
	11:38am Clarke: why is Blood & Chocolate the last great one?
	11:38am Bruce Thomas: Wanker.
	11:38am Ken From Hyde Park: I figured caller ID would pretty much squash prank phone calls. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I recognize who's calling.
	11:38am Elvis Costello: I don't understand. Usually Michael Shelley plays number one hits. Thought I was on a music show.
	11:38am Clarke: bruce is WHY!!
	11:39am Ralphine: I don't think you're really Elvis Costello.
	11:39am Clarke: holy crap - i am HUUUUGE fan of this guy!!! wow...
	11:39am Mr. Lin: I think Brutal YOuth is fantastic
	11:40am Scraps: I'm sorry, but this guy didn't make me laugh even once. Not a twitch. He's just an adolescent asshole.
	11:40am Elvis Costello: I so am Elvis Costello! Why else would I be on here?
	11:41am Marc15: Has a phone prank ever gone horribly wrong?
	11:43am Little Fyodor: Wait, THIS guy is behind LPC? Huh. I thought it was this guy I knew in Colorado....... Hmmmmmmm........
	11:43am Mr. Lin: HEY EVERYONE: SCRAPS didn't laugh even once and thinks he's just an adolescent asshole.
	11:43am SmokinJ: Fucking brilliant!
	11:43am Clarke: that IS sorry
	11:44am tomasz.: i'm with scraps tbh
	11:44am Scraps: Mr. Lin: looking back, I see I'm not the only one.
	11:45am Elvis Costello: Somebody let me speak!
	11:45am Clarke: my name is benny!!
	11:46am Elvis Costello: I brought my acoustic guitar and I was going to strum it while I told fascinating stories of Burt Bacharach raping my childhood
	11:46am the real Elvis Costello: OK, I'm out of here...
	11:46am Cal Zone!: This is like VH1 Behind The Music for Prank Calls! Absolutely brilliant, and important archival work MS!
	11:47am Nick Lowe: I told you guys
	11:47am Elvis Costello: You're not real, just because you call yourself "real"!
	11:48am so boring: 40 mins of this, a supremely boring interlude in my life which I will never get back. Why, Mike, why?
	11:49am Mr. Lin: Scraps - what's so funny is that you are acting just like the people getting pranked - why would you keep listening if you hate it so much?
	11:49am david from ks.: ,,,,this is good stuff !
	11:49am Little Fyodor: I guess Wipper /= Mr. Grover Knox, just another practitioner.
	11:50am the Reel Elvis Costello: oh yes I am! See who?
	11:50am myron feld: Wipper on Missing Mics was very Sheldon Leonard as Nick in "It's A Wonderful Life" when he tosses George and Clarence out.
	11:50am Clarke: #1 hits!!!!!
	11:51am Mr Uzzle: Whipper Rocks!
	11:52am Clarke: has anyone heard/got the prank in which the catch-line is "i'm not gon' be there!!"
	11:52am Big Fat Al: Get me. I'm givin' out wings!
	11:53am jmd: even Minneapolis.
	11:53am myron feld: Anaheimians in the know have called it "Garbage Grove" for years.
	11:54am Power Papi: Doe this mean Todd isn't interviewing Dave Davies, too?
	11:55am so boring: Phone pranking--like epaulets and tab collars--is funny for, like, a minute or two. Michael Shelley show now falls way down my list of must-listen radio, well below WBGO Sunday Soul Hour for Shut-Ins and Assisted Living Breakfast Time.
	11:56am david from ks.: ,,,,,didnt the U.S. do the same exact thing to S.E. Asia without asking anyone first ?
	11:57am Clarke: So Boring is aptly named!!!
	11:59am Santos L. Halper: Hello, Mike? Brilliant show, thanks! New Saigon call, very topical...
	11:59am Mr. Lin: so boring hates it so much he's been listening for an hour
	11:59am rbxbex: Gotta run, thanks for the lovely start to the day
	12:00pm david from ks.: ,,,,really good stuff !!
	12:00pm Ricky Roma: You just cost me $6,000. Six thousand dollars!
	12:01pm Listener Baby: Barbara??
	12:01pm Clarke: yesss!!!
	12:01pm myron feld: My wife used to work at 30 E. 60th St!
	12:02pm Jimmy Wipper: He said Elvis Costello for me!!!!!!!!
	12:03pm david from ks.: ,,,the medical establishment deserves this definitely !
	12:03pm jmd: Tarbash Costello
	12:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...if the Longmont participants who wanted to get whipped met w/ the Whipper Bros. - wouldn't maybe everybody be satisfied & we could avoid this whole thing?...
	12:04pm myron feld: the greatest ever
	12:04pm Clarke: if you are the real Jimmy Whipper - let me say that i am a HUGE fan!!!!
	12:05pm Cal Zone!: Play the painter guy looking for a job!
	12:05pm myron feld: 18 years!
	12:05pm tomasz.: damn, i turned off just as the Jerky Boys calls started
	12:05pm Juke Joint Jonny: Show appears to be a polarizing challenge for the audience.
	12:06pm Jimmy Wipper: @Clarke, I will pass on your kind words!
	12:06pm Clarke: JJJ - which is something i can't understand if people are regular listeners!!
	12:07pm Mr. Lin: ? - curious: why not change the station?
	12:07pm Juke Joint Jonny: Classic example of too much of a good thing?
	12:07pm Parq: Is this part of Costello's rider? Nobody else's music on any show on which he appears?
	12:09pm PorpoiseJerky: What a bunch and sorry SOBs in here. LAUGH ON ONE DAY OF THE YEAR!
	12:09pm Mr. Lin: so - change the station already - just like we all do when FMU plays something that's not our favorite
	12:09pm jmd: ?: Hang in there, I'm sure he'll be on soon.
	12:10pm PorpoiseJerky: Mike, You ever hear The Musacha Tapes? Jerky Boys rip off but worth a listen.
	12:10pm Juke Joint Jonny: I find it refreshing, but I get if it wears on people. i would not be a fan of two hours of NRBQ for example, just never drank the Kool-Aid on that one, but I can imagine Michael doing a whole show and a lot of peeps would loooove it.
	12:11pm Elvis Costello: I am very unhappy that my name has been used as a promotion for this show. I often listen to the Michael Shelley Show while I brush my teeth in England. He usually has such fine taste in music. I have been trying to brush my teeth to this, but they are clenched in anger because my name was used to promote something called Potions.
	12:12pm Juke Joint Jonny: Who brushes their teeth in England!? Fake news.
	12:13pm Elvis Costello: I'm sure that this stuff is funny to your American sensibilities, but to my refined English tastes, it just doesn't hold a candle to the great Peter Sellers or Spike Milligan.
	12:13pm Juke Joint Jonny: Refined English taste = Benny Hill
	12:14pm Elvis Costello: Oh for a Derek and Clive record. For that, I would gladly offer my name for promotion.
	12:14pm Kim Shattuck: This sucks...I was looking forward to hearing an awesome Elvis Costello interview.
	12:14pm Elvis Costello: I am here, offering my interviewing services. Ask me any question.
	12:15pm david from ks.: ,,,,Yes ! I agree JJJ total disinformation about British dental !
	12:15pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Favorite color?
	12:16pm Elvis Costello: That is just a myth. We British often brush our teeth now.
	12:16pm Clarke: was Momufuku a deliberate attempt to shatter your previously good recording career?
	12:16pm Elvis Costello: Ironically, my favorite colour is smoker's teeth yellow.
	12:17pm tomasz.: LOL British teeth jokes as well now. this board's got it all
	12:17pm making: So the last five minutes of today's show will be nothing but #1 hits, right?
	12:18pm Fuzzy: Stop trying to get me in trouble, Kim!
	12:18pm lloyd michigan: Are you really banned from SNL for life?
	12:19pm Elvis Costello: Momufuku? I would say that I started to suck after Imperial Bedroom. After that, I just stopped caring for awhile. But, you know, a lot of bands at that time started to suck too, so it was just part of that trend at the time.
	12:19pm Bruce Thomas: Hi El, I know you despise me, but let's face it, like a listener mentioned above, your music has been boring since you fired me. How's about you dump the jazz singer, get miserable and angry like a proper English chap, and we make some great music again?
	12:20pm Elvis Costello: SNL banned me for life. I'm just that cool, I guess.
	12:21pm Aaron in Minneapolis: The end of this show will be Elvis saying“I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but there’s no reason to do these calls here"
	12:21pm Elvis Costello: Hey Bruce. I know what you're saying but from my point of view, you were a pain in the ass. So, it's true that when you left, I got less angry and miserable.
	12:22pm lloyd michigan: I have hangover this morning with a personality.
	12:23pm Elvis Costello: And by the way, Bruce. No hard feelings here. I went on to make a billion dollars. You're fishing around these lame comments sections looking for handouts.
	12:24pm Fuzzy: Why aren't these other fakes aka'd? Why you gotta single me out? I mouse pledged for this? Lame.
	12:24pm Aaron in Minneapolis: The real show is in the comments
	12:25pm lloyd michigan: Today it is, Aaron.
	12:26pm david from ks.: ,,,,too good !
	12:26pm myron feld: YES I DO!
	12:27pm mosquito: Is he the Johnny B who along with Chisy graffitied all over Astoria?
	12:30pm Bruce Thomas: C'mon, El, if you were so happy with those billions, you wouldn't be spending so much time on the comments board of a community radio station. Wouldn't things be better if you were out getting sloppy drunk and porking every hot new wave piece that came your way, just like in the old days?
	12:30pm Marc15: "You are all animals and for God's sake act like it"
	12:35pm Elvis Costello: You're right, Bruce. It's so depressing here in my mansion brushing my teeth in my silk robe, (gifted to me by the President of China after our weekend in the mythical Communist Presidential sex palace). I guess you're happier getting sloppy drunk, but I can afford to have my drugs delivered.
	12:35pm Frank Above: The only thing that Sal is good at in life.
	12:36pm Frank Above: Too bad you can't play most of their calls on your show.
	12:37pm Juke Joint Jonny: Well, thankfully fellow music lovers, Rex will be by soon to elevate the tone.
	12:38pm Clarke: no. rex is interviewing elvis costello!!
	12:38pm Elvis Costello: As they say here in England, it's better than Fabio!
	12:39pm Juke Joint Jonny: Ha!
	12:39pm Patster: Glad to hear Swap Shop clips. Not so pissed off anymore.
	12:40pm Juke Joint Jonny: Derek and Clive would hit the spot right now, Elvis, but the c***s at the FCC might take issue.
	12:40pm PorpoiseJerky: ZEEEEE
	12:41pm JakeGould: Red’s gonna put the ZZs on your butt cheeks!
	12:41pm Clarke: wow - star-studded!!!
	12:42pm chad from oregon: The best part of the show today is that it isn't being interrupted every two minutes by awful show ids.
	12:43pm david from ks.: ,,,,,X for Excellent !?
	12:44pm Clarke: no, chad, there will be five minutes of ID's at the end of the show!!
	12:44pm Lopez: I can't believe Red from the Tube Bar was playing when I turned on the radio! Outstanding work - I've loved these recordings since a friend had a cassette in the early '90s!
	12:44pm JakeGould: Wait… So Michael Shelley and Jim Fields pranked?
	12:45pm JakeGould: Al… Kahollic… Is there an Al Kahollic in here!
	12:46pm PorpoiseJerky: I gotta find our old tapes. We used to call folks and tell them they won a radio station contest. We would get ppl to sing the national anthem.
	12:47pm Clarke: yes - the prank where you have to give your number for them to call back could get one into some trouble!
	12:48pm Bruce Thomas: Ok, El, stick with your tedious classical and jazz excursions to prove you're a "serious" artist, I'll be playing Motown and Beatles covers at the every crappy working men's club in Barking, Bromley, and Barnet, and be having a much better time.
	12:48pm PorpoiseJerky: Stu. Pit.
	12:49pm Lopez: Back in the day a couple of friends and I were pranking random numbers when we hit an answering machine. We were having a teenage drunken party in my friends basement so we all kept redialing the number and filled up the machine with G-rated stuff like "yeah we're drunk! You should be partying with us!" Somebody wrote the number down and for years when we were hanging out we would call the same answering machine and let this stranger know we were all toasting them. I always wonder who this person was
	12:50pm Clarke: that was YOU, LopeZ!!!!!!?????
	12:51pm joe mulligan: Sam Kidel from the UK does a prank to customer service reps by playing modified hold music and confusing the heck out of them. "Disruptive Muzak" is a whole album of it
	12:52pm Clarke: honestly - NO FOOLIN' - i think this was one of the most GENIUS shows i have ever heard -
	12:52pm Frank Above: I love that OJ call.
	12:52pm Elvis Costello: Really, Bruce? I thought being 60 and playing in a pub in Barking for shillings meant you were a loser, not a serious artist. I would go look it up in my dictionary, but it's in the library of my mansion and I don't feel like walking down the enormous staircase right now.
	12:53pm Frank Above: "Lest anyone think that was somebody who was truly across the street..."
	12:54pm david from ks.: ,,,,The comment board has become a place of possible disinformation surrealism , i am not sure but it sure is some fun !
	12:54pm Jimmy Wipper: I always suspected that Michael Shelley was in the "wrong crowd."
	12:55pm dk50b: Jerky Boys may be the biggest, but Cooky Puss came out in 1983!
	12:56pm Marc15: So no Elvis Costello interview?
	12:56pm noel: Totally confused How old was this show? Maxwell's gone for years, Joe South dead since 2012. FMU's been plugging Elvis for months so why?
	12:56pm Clarke: red's bar was from the 50's
	12:57pm Marc Francis: Well, that was a nice reminder of the downside of freeform radio...
	12:57pm Elvis Costello: Often, as I fly around in my private jet, I look out the window at the streets of Bromley and wonder what it would be like to have to actually, you know, show up to a lame gastropub to play bass for Huey and the Blues cover band and hope they don't notice me stealing the remnants of the pints leftover when the customers leave because they'd rather leave their drinks than listen to your lousy bass playing.
	12:57pm Joe R.: Well, I'm disappointed that EC didn't appear on the show and feel dumb for falling for the prank. And even though I tuned out of the show (not my cup of tea, that happens), I have to give Michael an A+ for concept and execution.
	12:58pm ChrisB.: Red was a tough customer.
	12:58pm PorpoiseJerky: glorious
	12:59pm Clarke: i honestly can't see WHY this is so polarizing - americans are losing it.
	12:59pm Matt ww: applause
	12:59pm tranewreck: ...boys will be boys? I don't mind the EC joke but the meanness of prank calls and Michael's blindspot to this is disturbing.
	12:59pm Clarke: GENIUS SIR!!
	1:00pm Jimmy Wipper: Prank phone calls are the least of our concerns these days. Great April Fools joke.
	1:02pm Bruce Thomas: Ah, El, I might believe that if you hadn't hired the bloke from Cracker to duplicate my whole style of playing. But enjoy those comical opera singing demonstrations with your steadily dwindling audience!
	1:02pm Clarke: THIS SHOW WAS AND WILL BE: GENIUS!!!
	2:08pm Matt: Just how stupid do you have to be to get mad about this? Did ya REALLY think Elvis Costello was gonna be on WFMU, on APRIL FOOLS DAY no less? Anybody who legitimately got mad about this show had absolutely no right to. Better luck next time, dipsticks!
	4:08pm Marc Francis: @Matt: Dave Davies is way bigger than Elvis Costello. And I am listening to an interview with him on WFMU right now. On April Fools Day.
	3:57am david from ks.: Elvis Costello !!! You!!! Should be buried alive for what You did to Joni Mitchell`s composition, 'Edith and the Kingpin' !!! You did not need a delay device to ruin that recording for life ! I cannot listen to that song anymore without experiencing PTSD ! I hope You are happy with what You did to ruin a soul into a life of of drug addiction and destroying all the work a writer put into a song that did have meaningful lyrics. You actually sang a nightmare and permanently ruined that composition ! It should have been marked with a warning sticker!
	4:02am david from ks.: ,,,,,wonderful,,,,
	2:23pm ?: edited

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Red at the Tube Bar	Al Caholic "Al Caholic" by "Red at the Tube Bar"
Longmont Potion Castle	RIP Denise
Longmont Potion Castle	Freddie The Turtle
Longmont Potion Castle	Rolo Candies
Longmont Potion Castle	Underboki & Associates
Mr. Grover Knox of Longmont Potion Castle	Interview
Longmont Potion Castle	Rope "Rope" by "Longmont Potion Castle"
Longmont Potion Castle	You're My Hero
Ken Sims	Calls Radio Stations "Calls Radio Stations" by "Ken Sims"
Arnold Schwarznegger	Calls Preferred Reality
Brother Russell	Charismatic Chiropraqctor
Red at the Tube Bar	Poncho Mouth "Poncho Mouth" by "Red at the Tube Bar"
Wipper Brothers, The	Rocktober "Rocktober" by "Wipper Brothers, The"
Wipper Brothers, The	Amagram "Amagram" by "Wipper Brothers, The"
Seth Mocker aka Jimmy Wipper	Interview
Wipper Brothers, The	Missing Mics
Dong Win	Your Orphan Has Arrived "Your Orphan Has Arrived" by "Dong Win"
Mr. Easterly	Blackmail Me "Blackmail Me" by "Mr. Easterly"
Dong Win	New Saigon "New Saigon" by "Dong Win"
Fresh Prince	Calls A TV Show "Calls A TV Show" by "Fresh Prince"
Miss Cleo	Calls A Woman Who Is Not A Libra
Jerky Boys, The	Sol's Glasses "Sol's Glasses" by "Jerky Boys, The"
Jerky Boys, The	Egyptian Magician
Jerky Boys, The	Truck Driver "Truck Driver" by "Jerky Boys, The"
Johnny Brennan of The Jerky Boys	Interview
Jerky Boys, The	Auto Mechanic "Auto Mechanic" by "Jerky Boys, The"
Mary Rose	FCC Test "FCC Test" by "Mary Rose"
Long John Nebel on WMCA	Takes Some Calls
Ken Sander	Speak Out "Speak Out" by "Ken Sander"
Richard & Sal	Tradio "Tradio" by "Richard & Sal"
Gilbert as Old Groucho	Calls In "Calls In" by "Gilbert as Old Groucho"
Richard & Sal	Birthdays "Birthdays" by "Richard & Sal"
Red at the Tube Bar	Frank N Stein
Red at the Tube Bar	Stan Dup "Stan Dup" by "Red at the Tube Bar"
Red at the Tube Bar	ZZZ "ZZZ" by "Red at the Tube Bar"
Jim Fields	Interview "Interview" by "Jim Fields"
Red at the Tube Bar	Stu Pit "Stu Pit" by "Red at the Tube Bar"

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Listener comments!
	3/29 10:57pm PJ: April Fool's joke, or a Michael Shelley coup? We shall see . . .
	11:00am Baby: everyone
	11:00am Frank Above: Tube Bar!
	11:00am Baby: Baby
	11:01am melinda: This is hilarious.
	11:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Ack! Poor Denise!
	11:02am melinda: She should just hang up on him.
	11:04am Listener Baby: Baby Such tension on a beautiful Saturday morning. But I see where you are going with this.
	11:05am Chris: I was just telling my co-worker about LPC, thank you so much!
	11:05am Jimmy Wipper: Ohhhhhhhhh noooooooooo!
	11:05am rbxbex: Fell asleep with wfmu on and woke up to RIP Denise by LPC, what a glorious day
	11:05am Listener Baby: But is that tangible?
	11:07am Joe R.: :(
	11:08am Listener Baby: Colette Gagabootch: Best band name on earth.
	11:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Time for a commercial from the new Google Gnome product: store.google.com...
	11:09am jeebs: :(
	11:09am Listener Baby: PULL OUT MIKE!! PULL OUT!! You are about to crash!!
	11:10am elvis: so this is it? no Elvis interview? juvenile, not funny
	11:10am ?: This is fucking stupid. Time to switch to Give The Drummer Radio.
	11:10am jeebs: This is stupid. Just wanted to hear Elvis Costello. Buh-bye WFMU.
	11:11am Marcel M: OMG!!!!!! This is great hahaaaaaaaaaa. Easy to pick out the real FMU fans here.
	11:11am ?: this is GENIUS!!
	11:12am jeebs: Yea! Duhurrduhurrr!!! Real fans love this shizz! Huurrrduhurrrrp.
	11:12am Jimmy Wipper: You really IS a fan!
	11:13am PaddyMeBoy: I don't believe my ears!!!!!
	11:13am jeebs: It so genius it's better than when the JerkyBoys did it back in the 80s!
	11:13am Clarke: i have always wanted to know about THIS guy!!
	11:13am jamesie: i relate to this
	11:13am Chris M.: huge fan of LPC! this is incredible
	11:14am PorpoiseJerky: Heurerra Furmuehler
	11:14am jmd: This is terrific!
	11:14am Ken From Hyde Park: One time Chris M. played about 20 minutes of some guy who was trolling Eddie Money about a delivery of colored gravel. Speaking of Chis M.!
	11:14am Mikey_B: hahaha
	11:15am PorpoiseJerky: Gorilla Romero?
	11:15am Little Fyodor: Ah, good ol' Longmont Potions Castle! Been out of touch with him for a while! Doesn't really sound like the original guy, but like I say, it's been a while! (Not considering the sound disguises, as some of it sounds au naturel...)
	11:16am david from ks.: ,,,,this is fun stuff ! I appreciate testing employee patience.
	11:16am PorpoiseJerky: I'd love to know about the hardware used here.
	11:18am commodore vic: Ask him about John Trubee!
	11:18am Listener Baby: Your wish is my... Longmont Potion Castle filters his voice through a Digitech RDS 8000 rack-mounted digital delay unit to produce odd sound effects, thus making whoever he has called even more confused.[3]
	11:19am Little Fyodor: Ah, the original guy was veggie, so maybe that's him! He's made "real" music too, and he's recorded me for stuff I used to collaborate with someone else....
	11:19am mlsgrrl: I'm such a nerd for this stuff. I love it.
	11:21am Little Fyodor: He once told me he liked picking on places that sell meat! But I don't think it was ever limited to that....
	11:21am Cal Zone!: This is a total mindblower! #1 Interview of all time!
	11:21am Joe stalvey: Would not hurt to announce ETA for Costello, give those who are bored by this the chance to jump back later for the interview they wanted to hear.
	11:23am BEAVO: Dumbest "interview" ever.
	11:24am PorpoiseJerky: Uhhhh.... Meuhler Citera?
	11:24am Clarke: adios to people who dont get this... i was sorta hoping to ask elvis costello why he stopped making good records.
	11:25am rbxbex: Had never heard this interview, thanks so much for playing
	11:25am PorpoiseJerky: Longmont Potion Castle is so mysterious and wonderful to me! thanks so much Mike! Best April Fool's thing ever!!n1q1
	11:26am Listener Baby: @Clarke.. That would have been my question.
	11:26am Clarke: that's becuz we's on the same page Baby!!
	11:27am BEAVO: What's to get? This is old hat. Sour Shoes is the master of this genre.
	11:27am Listener Baby: Bring it home with the best, Baby! This is amazing.
	11:27am rbxbex: Wait was that interview just now?!
	11:28am tomasz.: i don't really get why he's still doing all the wacky sound effects and that even in the context of an interview with someone who already knows his schtick
	11:28am Clarke: there is plenty to get - IF you know
	11:28am Listener Baby: Dan Lineman
	11:28am Marcel M: That was amazing! Thanks
	11:29am Clarke: ROPe, inc
	11:29am rbxbex: @tomasz cuz LPC ?
	11:31am Clarke: hey i am loving this show....
	11:32am georgesmian: Elvis was an April Fools?
	11:32am georgesmian: Is Dave Davies too?
	11:33am Marc Francis: Yawn.
	11:33am Marc Francis: @georgesmian: Looks that way.
	11:34am Joe R.: "Ha, ha, ha. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
	11:34am jeebs: This is sooo punk rock.
	11:35am Clarke: no...i WON
	11:36am Listener Baby: Baby.. Are you going the whole way? You got the door locked?
	11:36am jeebs: You're a winner winning.
	11:36am Clarke: #1 HIT OF ALL TIME!!
	11:36am Elvis Costello: When do I get to go on? Been sitting in the WFMU green room for half an hour. How much Arizona Ice Tea can an old British guy drink? This place smells like mold. What happened to my career? Why did I stop making good records?!
	11:38am Clarke: why is Blood & Chocolate the last great one?
	11:38am Bruce Thomas: Wanker.
	11:38am Ken From Hyde Park: I figured caller ID would pretty much squash prank phone calls. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I recognize who's calling.
	11:38am Elvis Costello: I don't understand. Usually Michael Shelley plays number one hits. Thought I was on a music show.
	11:38am Clarke: bruce is WHY!!
	11:39am Ralphine: I don't think you're really Elvis Costello.
	11:39am Clarke: holy crap - i am HUUUUGE fan of this guy!!! wow...
	11:39am Mr. Lin: I think Brutal YOuth is fantastic
	11:40am Scraps: I'm sorry, but this guy didn't make me laugh even once. Not a twitch. He's just an adolescent asshole.
	11:40am Elvis Costello: I so am Elvis Costello! Why else would I be on here?
	11:41am Marc15: Has a phone prank ever gone horribly wrong?
	11:43am Little Fyodor: Wait, THIS guy is behind LPC? Huh. I thought it was this guy I knew in Colorado....... Hmmmmmmm........
	11:43am Mr. Lin: HEY EVERYONE: SCRAPS didn't laugh even once and thinks he's just an adolescent asshole.
	11:43am SmokinJ: Fucking brilliant!
	11:43am Clarke: that IS sorry
	11:44am tomasz.: i'm with scraps tbh
	11:44am Scraps: Mr. Lin: looking back, I see I'm not the only one.
	11:45am Elvis Costello: Somebody let me speak!
	11:45am Clarke: my name is benny!!
	11:46am Elvis Costello: I brought my acoustic guitar and I was going to strum it while I told fascinating stories of Burt Bacharach raping my childhood
	11:46am the real Elvis Costello: OK, I'm out of here...
	11:46am Cal Zone!: This is like VH1 Behind The Music for Prank Calls! Absolutely brilliant, and important archival work MS!
	11:47am Nick Lowe: I told you guys
	11:47am Elvis Costello: You're not real, just because you call yourself "real"!
	11:48am so boring: 40 mins of this, a supremely boring interlude in my life which I will never get back. Why, Mike, why?
	11:49am Mr. Lin: Scraps - what's so funny is that you are acting just like the people getting pranked - why would you keep listening if you hate it so much?
	11:49am david from ks.: ,,,,this is good stuff !
	11:49am Little Fyodor: I guess Wipper /= Mr. Grover Knox, just another practitioner.
	11:50am the Reel Elvis Costello: oh yes I am! See who?
	11:50am myron feld: Wipper on Missing Mics was very Sheldon Leonard as Nick in "It's A Wonderful Life" when he tosses George and Clarence out.
	11:50am Clarke: #1 hits!!!!!
	11:51am Mr Uzzle: Whipper Rocks!
	11:52am Clarke: has anyone heard/got the prank in which the catch-line is "i'm not gon' be there!!"
	11:52am Big Fat Al: Get me. I'm givin' out wings!
	11:53am jmd: even Minneapolis.
	11:53am myron feld: Anaheimians in the know have called it "Garbage Grove" for years.
	11:54am Power Papi: Doe this mean Todd isn't interviewing Dave Davies, too?
	11:55am so boring: Phone pranking--like epaulets and tab collars--is funny for, like, a minute or two. Michael Shelley show now falls way down my list of must-listen radio, well below WBGO Sunday Soul Hour for Shut-Ins and Assisted Living Breakfast Time.
	11:56am david from ks.: ,,,,,didnt the U.S. do the same exact thing to S.E. Asia without asking anyone first ?
	11:57am Clarke: So Boring is aptly named!!!
	11:59am Santos L. Halper: Hello, Mike? Brilliant show, thanks! New Saigon call, very topical...
	11:59am Mr. Lin: so boring hates it so much he's been listening for an hour
	11:59am rbxbex: Gotta run, thanks for the lovely start to the day
	12:00pm david from ks.: ,,,,really good stuff !!
	12:00pm Ricky Roma: You just cost me $6,000. Six thousand dollars!
	12:01pm Listener Baby: Barbara??
	12:01pm Clarke: yesss!!!
	12:01pm myron feld: My wife used to work at 30 E. 60th St!
	12:02pm Jimmy Wipper: He said Elvis Costello for me!!!!!!!!
	12:03pm david from ks.: ,,,the medical establishment deserves this definitely !
	12:03pm jmd: Tarbash Costello
	12:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...if the Longmont participants who wanted to get whipped met w/ the Whipper Bros. - wouldn't maybe everybody be satisfied & we could avoid this whole thing?...
	12:04pm myron feld: the greatest ever
	12:04pm Clarke: if you are the real Jimmy Whipper - let me say that i am a HUGE fan!!!!
	12:05pm Cal Zone!: Play the painter guy looking for a job!
	12:05pm myron feld: 18 years!
	12:05pm tomasz.: damn, i turned off just as the Jerky Boys calls started
	12:05pm Juke Joint Jonny: Show appears to be a polarizing challenge for the audience.
	12:06pm Jimmy Wipper: @Clarke, I will pass on your kind words!
	12:06pm Clarke: JJJ - which is something i can't understand if people are regular listeners!!
	12:07pm Mr. Lin: ? - curious: why not change the station?
	12:07pm Juke Joint Jonny: Classic example of too much of a good thing?
	12:07pm Parq: Is this part of Costello's rider? Nobody else's music on any show on which he appears?
	12:09pm PorpoiseJerky: What a bunch and sorry SOBs in here. LAUGH ON ONE DAY OF THE YEAR!
	12:09pm Mr. Lin: so - change the station already - just like we all do when FMU plays something that's not our favorite
	12:09pm jmd: ?: Hang in there, I'm sure he'll be on soon.
	12:10pm PorpoiseJerky: Mike, You ever hear The Musacha Tapes? Jerky Boys rip off but worth a listen.
	12:10pm Juke Joint Jonny: I find it refreshing, but I get if it wears on people. i would not be a fan of two hours of NRBQ for example, just never drank the Kool-Aid on that one, but I can imagine Michael doing a whole show and a lot of peeps would loooove it.
	12:11pm Elvis Costello: I am very unhappy that my name has been used as a promotion for this show. I often listen to the Michael Shelley Show while I brush my teeth in England. He usually has such fine taste in music. I have been trying to brush my teeth to this, but they are clenched in anger because my name was used to promote something called Potions.
	12:12pm Juke Joint Jonny: Who brushes their teeth in England!? Fake news.
	12:13pm Elvis Costello: I'm sure that this stuff is funny to your American sensibilities, but to my refined English tastes, it just doesn't hold a candle to the great Peter Sellers or Spike Milligan.
	12:13pm Juke Joint Jonny: Refined English taste = Benny Hill
	12:14pm Elvis Costello: Oh for a Derek and Clive record. For that, I would gladly offer my name for promotion.
	12:14pm Kim Shattuck: This sucks...I was looking forward to hearing an awesome Elvis Costello interview.
	12:14pm Elvis Costello: I am here, offering my interviewing services. Ask me any question.
	12:15pm david from ks.: ,,,,Yes ! I agree JJJ total disinformation about British dental !
	12:15pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Favorite color?
	12:16pm Elvis Costello: That is just a myth. We British often brush our teeth now.
	12:16pm Clarke: was Momufuku a deliberate attempt to shatter your previously good recording career?
	12:16pm Elvis Costello: Ironically, my favorite colour is smoker's teeth yellow.
	12:17pm tomasz.: LOL British teeth jokes as well now. this board's got it all
	12:17pm making: So the last five minutes of today's show will be nothing but #1 hits, right?
	12:18pm Fuzzy: Stop trying to get me in trouble, Kim!
	12:18pm lloyd michigan: Are you really banned from SNL for life?
	12:19pm Elvis Costello: Momufuku? I would say that I started to suck after Imperial Bedroom. After that, I just stopped caring for awhile. But, you know, a lot of bands at that time started to suck too, so it was just part of that trend at the time.
	12:19pm Bruce Thomas: Hi El, I know you despise me, but let's face it, like a listener mentioned above, your music has been boring since you fired me. How's about you dump the jazz singer, get miserable and angry like a proper English chap, and we make some great music again?
	12:20pm Elvis Costello: SNL banned me for life. I'm just that cool, I guess.
	12:21pm Aaron in Minneapolis: The end of this show will be Elvis saying“I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but there’s no reason to do these calls here"
	12:21pm Elvis Costello: Hey Bruce. I know what you're saying but from my point of view, you were a pain in the ass. So, it's true that when you left, I got less angry and miserable.
	12:22pm lloyd michigan: I have hangover this morning with a personality.
	12:23pm Elvis Costello: And by the way, Bruce. No hard feelings here. I went on to make a billion dollars. You're fishing around these lame comments sections looking for handouts.
	12:24pm Fuzzy: Why aren't these other fakes aka'd? Why you gotta single me out? I mouse pledged for this? Lame.
	12:24pm Aaron in Minneapolis: The real show is in the comments
	12:25pm lloyd michigan: Today it is, Aaron.
	12:26pm david from ks.: ,,,,too good !
	12:26pm myron feld: YES I DO!
	12:27pm mosquito: Is he the Johnny B who along with Chisy graffitied all over Astoria?
	12:30pm Bruce Thomas: C'mon, El, if you were so happy with those billions, you wouldn't be spending so much time on the comments board of a community radio station. Wouldn't things be better if you were out getting sloppy drunk and porking every hot new wave piece that came your way, just like in the old days?
	12:30pm Marc15: "You are all animals and for God's sake act like it"
	12:35pm Elvis Costello: You're right, Bruce. It's so depressing here in my mansion brushing my teeth in my silk robe, (gifted to me by the President of China after our weekend in the mythical Communist Presidential sex palace). I guess you're happier getting sloppy drunk, but I can afford to have my drugs delivered.
	12:35pm Frank Above: The only thing that Sal is good at in life.
	12:36pm Frank Above: Too bad you can't play most of their calls on your show.
	12:37pm Juke Joint Jonny: Well, thankfully fellow music lovers, Rex will be by soon to elevate the tone.
	12:38pm Clarke: no. rex is interviewing elvis costello!!
	12:38pm Elvis Costello: As they say here in England, it's better than Fabio!
	12:39pm Juke Joint Jonny: Ha!
	12:39pm Patster: Glad to hear Swap Shop clips. Not so pissed off anymore.
	12:40pm Juke Joint Jonny: Derek and Clive would hit the spot right now, Elvis, but the c***s at the FCC might take issue.
	12:40pm PorpoiseJerky: ZEEEEE
	12:41pm JakeGould: Red’s gonna put the ZZs on your butt cheeks!
	12:41pm Clarke: wow - star-studded!!!
	12:42pm chad from oregon: The best part of the show today is that it isn't being interrupted every two minutes by awful show ids.
	12:43pm david from ks.: ,,,,,X for Excellent !?
	12:44pm Clarke: no, chad, there will be five minutes of ID's at the end of the show!!
	12:44pm Lopez: I can't believe Red from the Tube Bar was playing when I turned on the radio! Outstanding work - I've loved these recordings since a friend had a cassette in the early '90s!
	12:44pm JakeGould: Wait… So Michael Shelley and Jim Fields pranked?
	12:45pm JakeGould: Al… Kahollic… Is there an Al Kahollic in here!
	12:46pm PorpoiseJerky: I gotta find our old tapes. We used to call folks and tell them they won a radio station contest. We would get ppl to sing the national anthem.
	12:47pm Clarke: yes - the prank where you have to give your number for them to call back could get one into some trouble!
	12:48pm Bruce Thomas: Ok, El, stick with your tedious classical and jazz excursions to prove you're a "serious" artist, I'll be playing Motown and Beatles covers at the every crappy working men's club in Barking, Bromley, and Barnet, and be having a much better time.
	12:48pm PorpoiseJerky: Stu. Pit.
	12:49pm Lopez: Back in the day a couple of friends and I were pranking random numbers when we hit an answering machine. We were having a teenage drunken party in my friends basement so we all kept redialing the number and filled up the machine with G-rated stuff like "yeah we're drunk! You should be partying with us!" Somebody wrote the number down and for years when we were hanging out we would call the same answering machine and let this stranger know we were all toasting them. I always wonder who this person was
	12:50pm Clarke: that was YOU, LopeZ!!!!!!?????
	12:51pm joe mulligan: Sam Kidel from the UK does a prank to customer service reps by playing modified hold music and confusing the heck out of them. "Disruptive Muzak" is a whole album of it
	12:52pm Clarke: honestly - NO FOOLIN' - i think this was one of the most GENIUS shows i have ever heard -
	12:52pm Frank Above: I love that OJ call.
	12:52pm Elvis Costello: Really, Bruce? I thought being 60 and playing in a pub in Barking for shillings meant you were a loser, not a serious artist. I would go look it up in my dictionary, but it's in the library of my mansion and I don't feel like walking down the enormous staircase right now.
	12:53pm Frank Above: "Lest anyone think that was somebody who was truly across the street..."
	12:54pm david from ks.: ,,,,The comment board has become a place of possible disinformation surrealism , i am not sure but it sure is some fun !
	12:54pm Jimmy Wipper: I always suspected that Michael Shelley was in the "wrong crowd."
	12:55pm dk50b: Jerky Boys may be the biggest, but Cooky Puss came out in 1983!
	12:56pm Marc15: So no Elvis Costello interview?
	12:56pm noel: Totally confused How old was this show? Maxwell's gone for years, Joe South dead since 2012. FMU's been plugging Elvis for months so why?
	12:56pm Clarke: red's bar was from the 50's
	12:57pm Marc Francis: Well, that was a nice reminder of the downside of freeform radio...
	12:57pm Elvis Costello: Often, as I fly around in my private jet, I look out the window at the streets of Bromley and wonder what it would be like to have to actually, you know, show up to a lame gastropub to play bass for Huey and the Blues cover band and hope they don't notice me stealing the remnants of the pints leftover when the customers leave because they'd rather leave their drinks than listen to your lousy bass playing.
	12:57pm Joe R.: Well, I'm disappointed that EC didn't appear on the show and feel dumb for falling for the prank. And even though I tuned out of the show (not my cup of tea, that happens), I have to give Michael an A+ for concept and execution.
	12:58pm ChrisB.: Red was a tough customer.
	12:58pm PorpoiseJerky: glorious
	12:59pm Clarke: i honestly can't see WHY this is so polarizing - americans are losing it.
	12:59pm Matt ww: applause
	12:59pm tranewreck: ...boys will be boys? I don't mind the EC joke but the meanness of prank calls and Michael's blindspot to this is disturbing.
	12:59pm Clarke: GENIUS SIR!!
	1:00pm Jimmy Wipper: Prank phone calls are the least of our concerns these days. Great April Fools joke.
	1:02pm Bruce Thomas: Ah, El, I might believe that if you hadn't hired the bloke from Cracker to duplicate my whole style of playing. But enjoy those comical opera singing demonstrations with your steadily dwindling audience!
	1:02pm Clarke: THIS SHOW WAS AND WILL BE: GENIUS!!!
	2:08pm Matt: Just how stupid do you have to be to get mad about this? Did ya REALLY think Elvis Costello was gonna be on WFMU, on APRIL FOOLS DAY no less? Anybody who legitimately got mad about this show had absolutely no right to. Better luck next time, dipsticks!
	4:08pm Marc Francis: @Matt: Dave Davies is way bigger than Elvis Costello. And I am listening to an interview with him on WFMU right now. On April Fools Day.
	3:57am david from ks.: Elvis Costello !!! You!!! Should be buried alive for what You did to Joni Mitchell`s composition, 'Edith and the Kingpin' !!! You did not need a delay device to ruin that recording for life ! I cannot listen to that song anymore without experiencing PTSD ! I hope You are happy with what You did to ruin a soul into a life of of drug addiction and destroying all the work a writer put into a song that did have meaningful lyrics. You actually sang a nightmare and permanently ruined that composition ! It should have been marked with a warning sticker!
	4:02am david from ks.: ,,,,,wonderful,,,,
	2:23pm ?: edited

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