WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlist from August 1, 2020

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	11:00am Listener Baby: Good morning, Baby. Good morning, Baby Jupe. Good morning, Baby Jordon up in HQ. Good morning, Baby Everyone. And back at Montgomery Street, good morning Baby Ruth!
	11:01am Hoboken Jack: Good morning Michael, Ruth, Baby, Frank, anybody and everybody!
	11:01am P-90: Can’t have enough Babies...
	11:03am Ruth Booth: Good Morning!
	11:03am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Michael, Skeleton Crew, all!
	11:04am Listener Baby: Paul's Big brother. I just found a sealed copy of his solo record. Think I'll leave it that way.
	11:05am Michael Shelley: Mint-
	11:05am Listener Baby: Emphasis on Minus.
	11:08am juniper: Good morning!
	11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What do you call this Country Rhythm? Two Step? Not a Shuffle....
	11:12am morphe': Christy Moore's (Ireland) brother Kevin chose Luca Bloom.. never read or heard of an explanation.... Kierkegaard often wrote under a different name so as to not be pigeon holed...
	11:12am adam: JD McPherson live streamed at 3 via Stageit
	11:13am pp: from a few weeks ago, the mystery lazy record producer that only offered drugs is mentioned in Michael's interview with Emitt
	11:13am Frank In Queens: Hi Kids, sorry I"m late!
	11:13am Frank In Queens: Been listening is McGear though.
	11:15am egould310: Pizzicato 5 sampled this. Cool.
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh orginal! I know Cat from the James Taylor that's not that JT...
	11:18am clarke: i'm late too - but i brought Funyuns!!
	11:19am morphe': The BlueNote?
	11:20am rw: Love this MC tune. Could listen to it all day long. Good morning!
	11:20am Hughie Considine: Clarke, in the tie-in book to Dazed and Confused, Funyuns are listed as the favorite snack food of Fred O'Bannion (the noxious character played by Ben Affleck). Just FYI...
	11:20am pp: from LA Record : "Since we’re plucking obscure names out of the ether, what was it like working with Curt Boettcher, the producer who worked with Sagittarius and the Millenium? What influence did he have on your sound?" Emitt Rhodes: "He brought the drugs."
	11:21am Steve Harsh: How were probably two dozen Marshall Crenshaw songs not for real No. 1 hits?
	11:21am pp: Bette Midler's go-to song
	11:21am clarke: ha ha - there was a guy in my freshman dorm at lsu that had a midnight snack of funyuns and milk!!! ewww..
	11:26am Dean: Heard Jimmy Smith a number of times, once with Phil Upchurch. I don't recall Upchurch singing. Once, though, Smith had recently returned from a tour in the UK before playing at the Hollywood club where I heard him. He was under the weather and in a bad mood. We were seated at a table at center stage, just below Smith. Two drink minimum. When the server delivered my second martini, Smith advised me to slow down with the booze.
	11:26am myron feld: The Dud. #1.
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You Boettcher life ... Yurp yer like my Saturday Morning Cartoons now...
	11:26am clarke: in new orleans you can still get a liquor delivery - although that might happen everywhere in Our Current Situation?
	11:26am gf2002: Was this song Dave Dudley's 7th day on the road?
	11:27am phat: Good way to get my Saturday morning going, which has been slow so far.
	11:30am Frank In Queens: E-eeeeeeaaaasy!
	11:31am Montmaster J: Yes! Thanks!
	11:31am clarke: bruce thomas - one of my favorite bass-line MAKERS of all time!!
	11:32am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Shelleys & all!
	11:32am Hughie Considine: I'll be curious to hear the Bruce Thomas interview. Elvis was not particularly kind to him in his (lengthy) biography, although he said good things about his playing (how could he not?)
	11:32am Hughie Considine: Herman Cain...didn't he serve on the Danville train?
	11:33am phat: I need to get a copy of Bruce Thomas's Bruce Lee biography.
	11:33am clarke: bruce is not too complimentary about declan, either
	11:33am morphe': Is it a steiner Farm?
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How many lives did the tick tock kids save? ...A medical question...
	11:35am clarke: ha ha ha memorable flicks!
	11:35am adam: I like that actor from kissing booth, Joey King
	11:35am GListener MW: HA, I have to tell my dad the same thing all the time — “YES, you DID see X and Y! With ME!”
	11:36am Hoboken Jack: Former Scientologist Beck
	11:36am P-90: “Scientologist Beck”
	11:36am Mike Sin: Ha! I just said the same thing this week -- If the weather holds, school classes should definitely be held outside. Might as well do whatever can be done to reduce risk if some type of "real" school must happen.
	11:36am Lizardner Dave 2: Not a great choice for a Marvel movie. Really only exists to set up the much better "Civil War".
	11:38am Tim In SF: @Michael Your daughter sounds so smart. I guess it's been so long since I was in high school, maybe I forgot. I fall asleep in movies too. Enjoy the commentary and the music this morning.
	11:38am clarke: is this the only dwight song with handclaps?
	11:38am GListener MW: Yeah I would agree about Age Of Ultron. Doesn’t work as a stand-alone movie at all for me, only seemingly existing to put pieces in place for later
	11:38am myron feld: Nice article here about America's #1 DJ's other job: poprockrecord.com...
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wonder Woman D.C. ... D.C. is WWII archetypes - & Marvel be Cold War antiheroes & monsers ...nevermind...
	11:41am P-90: @Michael: What years did you live in that place in Hollywood ?
	11:42am clarke: we, the #1 Listeners, need to interview Michael Shelley at some point
	11:42am morphe': That was an old hotel up on the Hill above Sunset? Amazing
	11:42am paul: You want to see Scientologists? Come to Clearwater?
	11:42am Montmaster J: We saw a good documentary this week...Cameraperson.
	11:43am Michael Shelley: hmmm 1984 - 6ish
	11:43am Hoboken Jack: I kinda loved the first Avengers movie but found Ultron merely ok. Beck was married to serious Scientologist Marisa Ribisi. He now denies he had anything to do with it (Scientology, not Age of Ultron), which has angered other "escapees" who feel he could help others by being honest about his experience.
	11:43am clarke: did you happen to go see Walter Egan at Club Lingerie around then??
	11:44am Michael Shelley: wasnt 21!
	11:45am clarke: ah, my band opened that show
	11:46am morphe': Aristotle taught (if historically accurate) outside - The Perepethetic Method... Was also accused of being a spy and walking around to make secret maps for the enemies of Athens???
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& - freaking Disney owns Marvel now...
	11:46am phat: Classic Big Sandy story.
	11:46am Dean: clarke: What was your band? I never made it to Lingerie, because by then I'd wearied of the scene. But was just emailing a friend who asked me to remind him whom we heard at Beyond Baroque around that time. Was Kommunity FK.
	11:47am clarke: my band at that time was dash rip rock - still trying to live that down, tho.
	11:48am Bootsie: Big Sandy! I love Robert's voice.
	11:49am Dean: Impressive! Jello used to shop at my buddy's record store in Whittier.
	11:49am spodiodi: hi Michael Shelley an all! sounding nice 8^)
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Loves those vintage toons where whole orchestras or bookstores or gardens come to life !!
	11:50am clarke: never met jello - i quit that band shortly after that west coast tour
	11:50am phat: One of the last shows I saw before all this went down was Big Sandy. I remember his first US tour. Shit that was fun. We all stayed up all night that night, too. Lol.
	11:51am Tim In SF: Hey spodiodi....good to see you
	11:51am morphe': Clarke - someone posted some early phtos of Clay Pigeon and his Florida band so don't fret... One drove/passengered from Yellowstone to Red Rocks COlorado to see the Grateful Dead ( 1975) aged 14...13.5.. That is embarrassing
	11:51am clarke: (i did see jello speak at the university of alabama, ha ha, but never talked to him)
	11:52am spodiodi: hi Tim! likewise :)
	11:52am Hoboken Jack: Hi Juniper, Greg, Mike Sin!
	11:52am clarke: hmm..can you recall the name of clay's band?
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Delores Telescope !
	11:54am morphe': Clarke - Delerious ?????...something???
	11:55am morphe': YES: Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Delores Telescope !
	11:55am Dean: Deloris Telescope. Not that I "remembered" it. Looked it up.
	11:56am clarke: never hoid of 'em.
	11:56am phat: Shit. I need to listen to those interviews.
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *Dolores ?? ...Ahhh! Was searching for some podcast interview with Emitt I listened to ...was it - HERE ?! : D
	11:56am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Jack!
	11:57am clarke: yes, those interviews don't correlate with emmitt's music very much.
	11:57am Sean: Oh danm, I tuned in too late to hear Jimmy Smith. :(
	11:57am clarke: but they are fascinating!
	11:58am phat: Rhodes's death bummed me out way more than I would have expected. But I remembered that I listened to that first album religiously, on a cassette a friend gave me, for months.
	11:58am Tim In SF: Michael Caveat?
	11:58am clarke: caveat emptor??
	11:59am nowheresville: DT was based in St. Pete, Fl.
	11:59am juniper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leAh00n3hno Link to three little pigs cartoon circa 1933!
	11:59am phat: Trigger warning
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Trigger Warning ?
	12:00pm clarke: juniper - your record is OUTSTANDING!! a HUGE fan!!
	12:00pm Tim In SF: @Clark... If I remember anything about Econ in college: caveat vendor-caveat emptor.
	12:00pm morphe': Michael - why did this need a disclaimer????
	12:01pm phat: I've heard worse bass solos
	12:01pm Michael Shelley: bass solo!
	12:01pm phat: Hell, I've played worse bass solos
	12:01pm clarke: this is our concern, dude.
	12:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ah - Disney 1933. How great is that wolf... Deepest year of the Depression...same year as Kong - Dracula & Frankenstein also round then...
	12:04pm Dean: "Worse bass solos"? Guilty as charged.
	12:04pm juniper: Clarke! Thank you so much!
	12:05pm clarke: it took a while for me to get my turntable back in order - but the pressing of Juniper record is GOOD!
	12:06pm P-90: Wow! I’m a bit surprised that Disney hasn’t yanked that “Three Little Pigs” down off YouTube yet. It really is a classic, it was a huge success and helped propel Disney’s move into animated feature-length movies, and the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big.Bad Wolf” was one of the big hits of that year.
	12:06pm clarke: yes i have two!!
	12:06pm spodiodi: Juniper "Beast Kept Secret" is the song I've heard that I like the best! great tune :)
	12:07pm Greg from ZONE 5: I don't have a stylophone, but I did just dig up my old Magical Musical Thing from my parents' basement! youtu.be...
	12:07pm gf2002: The only thing worse than a bass solo is an upright bass solo
	12:07pm clarke: dang, i NEED one of THOSE!!!
	12:08pm clarke: is that a Mattel product??
	12:09pm phat: Richman is odd to talk to. Very kind but odd.
	12:09pm Rick A.: I vaguely remember Belinda and Hova doing an odd interview with Jonathan Richman many years ago. He was "the patron saint of Greasy Kids Stuff". So there was much anticipation of the interview. Then he was kind of standoffish throughout the interview.
	12:09pm Sean: the encyclopidia
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Stylophone on 'Space Oddity' yeah?
	12:10pm clarke: yes - Mattel had some cool shit going on!!
	12:11pm Dean: Met Pete Best in uptown Whittier!
	12:11pm clarke: i think Space Oddity featured an ondioline
	12:12pm paul: Beatles still feel guilty about sacking Pete.
	12:13pm davefromtoronto: bernard purdie claimed to play the drums on this...
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: $50 - www.ebay.com...
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bad blood with Best. He pushed back. There were lawsuits & stuff. Beatles not the types to take that. Regrettable. Seems a good fellow.
	12:13pm phat: Another stalker song. Lol.
	12:14pm clarke: just added to my watchlist ---- pondering...
	12:14pm paul: Pete released an album called "Best of the Beatles." Really
	12:14pm phat: @davefromtoronto what didn't Purdie say he was on?
	12:14pm P-90: Interested to see there’s currently a Stylophone re-issue that claims to be an exact repro of the 1968 original.
	12:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pete was steady but stiff. They got Ringo & just flew.
	12:15pm clarke: oh - i have one P90 - look up urban outfitters that's where i got mine in n'hampton mass
	12:15pm Michael Shelley: p-90 I gave juniper one - and it is the SAME
	12:16pm paul: "Pete was a better drummer, but Ringo was a better Beatle."
	12:16pm Michael Shelley: Paul, you would know!
	12:16pm gf2002: I've loved Cry For A Shadow since I was a kid. But does anyone else thing this does not sound like George Harrison's lead guitar style?
	12:16pm clarke: the reason why i have 2 stylo's is because the first one was vintage and the contacts were jinky
	12:17pm paul: I think CFAS is a Lennon-Harrison composition.
	12:18pm phat: I think I need a stylophone. I REALLY want an ondioline.
	12:18pm Hubig Pie: This is kinda Dean Martin - esque
	12:18pm clarke: while i am a huge Best fan, he was NOT a better drummer - i insisted on the '4 on the floor' approach to EVERY song. this was where he got into trouble.
	12:19pm clarke: the difference in price is about four thousand dollars, phat
	12:19pm phat: @clarke yes
	12:20pm egould310: What do you know, Mike? You know alot about music And yes, that was country music.
	12:20pm clarke: best insisted on using his kick drum straight through every beat instead of the 'normal' approach of other variations
	12:20pm DG: "Cry for a Shadow" is the ONLY John & George composition. It's an homage to the Shadows, which is maybe why it doesn't sound much like George's later style (I always thought that too).
	12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cry the only track credited to Lennon-Harrison - the Guitar players. A send up of The Shadows. They didn't have the guitars or amps they world get famous with yet - maybe John has a Rickenbacher... & in Hamburg they were leather wearing speedfreaks entertaining pimps & such all night long! Also meant though they had to play any kind of anything they could - which would serve them well later...
	12:22pm clarke: george's style changed when he got a guitar that was easier to play - the gretsch was a revelation to george.
	12:23pm Hoboken Jack: No I think they came back with a bad case of megillah
	12:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But Pete was with them like two years - a fasinating formative period. Damn right I wanna hear him talk.
	12:24pm clarke: it is ironic that, later, Pete Best taught himself how to break out of the 4-on-the-floor style, but also he didn't play drums on some of his later records
	12:25pm Hughie Considine: Calling Scaramanga from Live and Let Die!
	12:25pm clarke: but pete best did NOT have four nipples as far as you know.
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Witch's Tests !
	12:26pm Hughie Considine: Roger Moore deadpans, "What a titillating experience!"
	12:26pm Hoboken Jack: Alexa says he has two nipples.
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *Witch's TEATS
	12:27pm clarke: witch's tests, i like that.
	12:27pm swivs: The drummer in my band also has 4 nipples. He says he absorbed a twin in the womb. He also used to like wearing snap-button shirts and I enjoyed ripping his shirt open at parties. We remain friends.
	12:28pm P-90: In medical speak we call those “supernumerary papillae” which just means: extra nipples
	12:29pm swivs: P-90, that's not nearly as romantic.
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...she turned me into a newt...
	12:30pm Dean: If this were a Drummer Stream show, I'd mention that Supernumerary Papillae was the name of my first band in high school.
	12:30pm clarke: didn't Boettcher produce this?
	12:30pm Michael Shelley: don t think so
	12:31pm Dennis Diken: diggin'!
	12:31pm Hoboken Jack: @swivs An in-womb twin is an important part of a nutritious breakfast.
	12:31pm clarke: hmm...
	12:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pete was 4 On the Floor - not on the chest ...this is how rumours start...
	12:34pm gf2002: Harrison sounds like a better and more technical guitarist on Cry For A Shadow than he did on many of the Beatles albums, either he held back for the albums or his playing was better when he was learning licks from Tony Sheridan and playing those marathon gigs in Hamburg
	12:35pm mlsgrrl: Was that a STYLOPHONE I heard on the Charley Crockett track? My grandpa had one of those.
	12:35pm gf2002: After realizing I thought the lead didn't sound like George, I thought it may have been Sheridan himself playing that lead guitar on "Shadow"
	12:35pm clarke: HQ is not relenting
	12:35pm gf2002: The Wondermints have a great stylophone solo on a track from their Bali album too
	12:36pm Corey: Hello Michael and listeners! Listened to that new Charley Crockett this morning. So good.
	12:37pm mlsgrrl: @gf2002 I was amazed to learn stylophones were really used as instruments, I just used to mess around with it and make sci-fi sounds with it when I was a kid.
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Is possible Harrison was back burnered by George Martin a small bit...When it came to Arranging the most important rekkiids ever (really) ...Harrison would get more resentful of being an 'economy class Beatle' - his words - as they went on & he became a Writer too & so on. He was good getting out & staying out basically...
	12:39pm clarke: george was usually the reason they had to do so many takes - it took him a while to get up to speed while the others had their parts down, early
	12:39pm gf2002: Yes! I think the ultimate well-known Stylophone track might be Space Oddity
	12:39pm 707: there was a band in the late 60s called ' the food '. and for the life of me can't find anything on it.
	12:39pm clarke: read up gf
	12:39pm Christina Low: This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’m going to side with the Executive Producer today. Too warm to bake.
	12:40pm clarke: miss low!!! what's on yer menu??
	12:41pm egould310: 2:41 am
	12:41pm Eddy in Australia: 2:41am Sunday morning
	12:41pm morphe': 0241 local time Melbourne
	12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Interesting. George was on his - coming up in the session with Leads of quality for songs he didn't Write or Arrange....He was the Kid of the band after all!
	12:42pm clarke: yeah where's eddy this "morning"??
	12:42pm Eddy in Australia: @Clarke Lurking!
	12:43pm clarke: but, later mccartney is the one who would not hold the band up and overdubbed his bass after everyone left into the night
	12:43pm clarke: aha - g'day mate!!!
	12:43pm morphe': Michael - you are on live ...not the archive.. unless I am out of sync and consciousness???? 1842 Madrid = 1242 Tri-State/EST
	12:44pm McGroovey: Sounds like the early Australian BeeGees (before they went to England), with a different lead vocalist.
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: * his own ...Beatles were not great Improvisers / Jammers - & got worse Live as Beatlemania because madder....
	12:45pm clarke: yes but the repetition seemed to help george with his licks
	12:46pm MFlynn: Yeah but Del and Steve Earle made one of the best bluegrass albums I’ve ever heard, “the Mountain”. Wish they did more!
	12:47pm clarke: del did not like steve earle's foul language
	12:48pm gf2002: I read Geoff Emerick's book too, and he was sometimes brutally honest about George's playing, especially when it came to solos. But I do think in Hamburg when all of them were playing non-stop, George may have been a better soloist than we hear on the 63-65 Beatles tracks because they stretched out more than they could on a 2 and a half minute pop song
	12:48pm MFlynn: That’s what I heard. What a shame, they made great music together.
	12:49pm Chop Scott: Tape Op is great!
	12:50pm clarke: oh, yeah - poor george was a GREAT player, but he was 1) not the quickest improviser, 2) intimidated by paul
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Emmerick some rep as a subjective kind of witness...
	12:51pm morphe': Hurray for the Riff Raff play in the old school way .. one mike and in and out movements
	12:51pm Michael Shelley: Seems like Geoff though George didnt like/respect him.
	12:52pm clarke: and what i mean by 1) is that george took a few takes to get his shit together and the others were frustrated with him
	12:52pm Michael Shelley: del on Steve "just not a nice guy"
	12:52pm egould310: Barreracudas, hell yeah!!
	12:52pm morphe': Clarke... SONNY BONO .. was said to be "...a very good singer but a very bad skier..."
	12:53pm Hackensack Slim: This song is so good it needs to be covered. Juniper?
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Spector speaking about All Things Must Pass said George would never sign off on a final take! If we want him as a Witness....
	12:54pm clarke: i find it ironic that mccartney just took his instrument out of the equation while they were tracking basics. i mean, we reap the benefits, but i just think: poor george
	12:55pm morphe': For after Mikey: Hurray for The Riff Raff in a church or mauesloum(sp?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsfNmg9dGpM
	12:56pm clarke: like, george just needed a little more time to get his part and they were a bit impatient with george, and then paul just does something that george didn't have the opportunity to do, back when
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: McCartney control. Also not until they were using more tracks & overdubs...It's good to be the Writer! Ask Brian Jones....
	12:57pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael! Good driving music!
	12:57pm clarke: brian was another guy who took a few takes to get going - and then not so much at the end, there
	12:57pm Hoboken Jack: Thanks for another great show, Michael, Ruth, and Juniper!!
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'We got tired of being Paul's sidemen.' - John
	12:58pm clarke: if you could just find it in your heart to play a little Stinkfinger!!!!
	12:58pm Corey: Thanks for the great show, Michael! Look forward to catching the first hour on the archives. Thanks Ruth for working the booth. Be well all!
	12:58pm morphe': Thanks Mikey ......and all...
	12:58pm Steve Harsh: Thank you Michael and FMU crew!
	12:58pm spodiodi: thanks, Michael Shelley!
	12:58pm clarke: really good shew!!! ah ha ha. good nite.
	1:00pm CalZone!: I guess Kermit Schaefer s bloopers were all fake news,
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY DJ MS !

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Mike McGear	Leave It "Leave It" by "Mike McGear"
Merry-Go-Round, The	Gonna Fight The War
Farmer Boys, The	Yearning, Burning Heart
Prince Patridge	Get Back "Get Back" by "Prince Patridge"
Jimmy Smith	The Cat "The Cat" by "Jimmy Smith"
Marshall Crenshaw	You're My Favorite Waste of Time
Johnny Fortune	Don't Stay Out After Midnight
Dave Dudley	Two Six Packs Away "Two Six Packs Away" by "Dave Dudley"
Little Milton	Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around the World)
Dwight Yoakam	3 Pears "3 Pears" by "Dwight Yoakam"
Jerry Fuller	Hollywood Star "Hollywood Star" by "Jerry Fuller"
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys	The New Ball
James Duncan	Three Little Pigs "Three Little Pigs" by "James Duncan"
Gwigwi Mrwebi	Keleketle "Keleketle" by "Gwigwi Mrwebi"
Emitt Rhodes	Talks About Life "Talks About Life" by "Emitt Rhodes"
Emitt Rhodes	She's Such a Beauty "She's Such a Beauty" by "Emitt Rhodes"
Travelin Troubadors	The Israelites
Lefty Frizzell	Somebody's Pushing (live on radio)
Sherman Evans	The Craze "The Craze" by "Sherman Evans"
Johnathan Richman	Lydia "Lydia" by "Johnathan Richman"
Pete Best Four	I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door
Beatles,The	Cry For A Shadow "Cry For A Shadow" by "Beatles,The"
Conway Twitty	C'est Si Bon "C'est Si Bon" by "Conway Twitty"
Fantastic Four	Can't Stop Looking For My Baby
Owen Gray	Candita "Candita" by "Owen Gray"
Muffs, The	How I Pass the Time "How I Pass the Time" by "Muffs, The"
Mark Eric	Just Passing By "Just Passing By" by "Mark Eric"
Charley Crockett	It's a Man Down There
Soloman Burke	It's Been A Change "It's Been A Change" by "Soloman Burke"
Mama Sonic	Ella "Ella" by "Mama Sonic"
Strangers, The	Take The Time "Take The Time" by "Strangers, The"
Del McCoury Band	That Old Train "That Old Train" by "Del McCoury Band"
Leroy Washington	Don't Blame It On Me Mama
Barreracudas, The	Promises "Promises" by "Barreracudas, The"
Booze, The	Can't Stand Losing You
Kermit Schafer	Mic Fright "Mic Fright" by "Kermit Schafer"
Kermit Schafer	Pork Solio Vaccine
Kermit Schafer	My Hand Hit The Mic
Kermit Schafer	Lousy Godiliea "Lousy Godiliea" by "Kermit Schafer"
Kermit Schafer	McPeter's Funeral Parlor

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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!

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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"

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CLICK HERE to read the report on Kippington Lodge's 1967 BBC audition - Includes phrases "painful" & "tone deaf" then
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CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"

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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

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

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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
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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

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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

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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"?

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CLICK HERE for a laugh

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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"

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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

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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!
	11:00am Listener Baby: Good morning, Baby. Good morning, Baby Jupe. Good morning, Baby Jordon up in HQ. Good morning, Baby Everyone. And back at Montgomery Street, good morning Baby Ruth!
	11:01am Hoboken Jack: Good morning Michael, Ruth, Baby, Frank, anybody and everybody!
	11:01am P-90: Can’t have enough Babies...
	11:03am Ruth Booth: Good Morning!
	11:03am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Michael, Skeleton Crew, all!
	11:04am Listener Baby: Paul's Big brother. I just found a sealed copy of his solo record. Think I'll leave it that way.
	11:05am Michael Shelley: Mint-
	11:05am Listener Baby: Emphasis on Minus.
	11:08am juniper: Good morning!
	11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: What do you call this Country Rhythm? Two Step? Not a Shuffle....
	11:12am morphe': Christy Moore's (Ireland) brother Kevin chose Luca Bloom.. never read or heard of an explanation.... Kierkegaard often wrote under a different name so as to not be pigeon holed...
	11:12am adam: JD McPherson live streamed at 3 via Stageit
	11:13am pp: from a few weeks ago, the mystery lazy record producer that only offered drugs is mentioned in Michael's interview with Emitt
	11:13am Frank In Queens: Hi Kids, sorry I"m late!
	11:13am Frank In Queens: Been listening is McGear though.
	11:15am egould310: Pizzicato 5 sampled this. Cool.
	11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh orginal! I know Cat from the James Taylor that's not that JT...
	11:18am clarke: i'm late too - but i brought Funyuns!!
	11:19am morphe': The BlueNote?
	11:20am rw: Love this MC tune. Could listen to it all day long. Good morning!
	11:20am Hughie Considine: Clarke, in the tie-in book to Dazed and Confused, Funyuns are listed as the favorite snack food of Fred O'Bannion (the noxious character played by Ben Affleck). Just FYI...
	11:20am pp: from LA Record : "Since we’re plucking obscure names out of the ether, what was it like working with Curt Boettcher, the producer who worked with Sagittarius and the Millenium? What influence did he have on your sound?" Emitt Rhodes: "He brought the drugs."
	11:21am Steve Harsh: How were probably two dozen Marshall Crenshaw songs not for real No. 1 hits?
	11:21am pp: Bette Midler's go-to song
	11:21am clarke: ha ha - there was a guy in my freshman dorm at lsu that had a midnight snack of funyuns and milk!!! ewww..
	11:26am Dean: Heard Jimmy Smith a number of times, once with Phil Upchurch. I don't recall Upchurch singing. Once, though, Smith had recently returned from a tour in the UK before playing at the Hollywood club where I heard him. He was under the weather and in a bad mood. We were seated at a table at center stage, just below Smith. Two drink minimum. When the server delivered my second martini, Smith advised me to slow down with the booze.
	11:26am myron feld: The Dud. #1.
	11:26am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: You Boettcher life ... Yurp yer like my Saturday Morning Cartoons now...
	11:26am clarke: in new orleans you can still get a liquor delivery - although that might happen everywhere in Our Current Situation?
	11:26am gf2002: Was this song Dave Dudley's 7th day on the road?
	11:27am phat: Good way to get my Saturday morning going, which has been slow so far.
	11:30am Frank In Queens: E-eeeeeeaaaasy!
	11:31am Montmaster J: Yes! Thanks!
	11:31am clarke: bruce thomas - one of my favorite bass-line MAKERS of all time!!
	11:32am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Shelleys & all!
	11:32am Hughie Considine: I'll be curious to hear the Bruce Thomas interview. Elvis was not particularly kind to him in his (lengthy) biography, although he said good things about his playing (how could he not?)
	11:32am Hughie Considine: Herman Cain...didn't he serve on the Danville train?
	11:33am phat: I need to get a copy of Bruce Thomas's Bruce Lee biography.
	11:33am clarke: bruce is not too complimentary about declan, either
	11:33am morphe': Is it a steiner Farm?
	11:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: How many lives did the tick tock kids save? ...A medical question...
	11:35am clarke: ha ha ha memorable flicks!
	11:35am adam: I like that actor from kissing booth, Joey King
	11:35am GListener MW: HA, I have to tell my dad the same thing all the time — “YES, you DID see X and Y! With ME!”
	11:36am Hoboken Jack: Former Scientologist Beck
	11:36am P-90: “Scientologist Beck”
	11:36am Mike Sin: Ha! I just said the same thing this week -- If the weather holds, school classes should definitely be held outside. Might as well do whatever can be done to reduce risk if some type of "real" school must happen.
	11:36am Lizardner Dave 2: Not a great choice for a Marvel movie. Really only exists to set up the much better "Civil War".
	11:38am Tim In SF: @Michael Your daughter sounds so smart. I guess it's been so long since I was in high school, maybe I forgot. I fall asleep in movies too. Enjoy the commentary and the music this morning.
	11:38am clarke: is this the only dwight song with handclaps?
	11:38am GListener MW: Yeah I would agree about Age Of Ultron. Doesn’t work as a stand-alone movie at all for me, only seemingly existing to put pieces in place for later
	11:38am myron feld: Nice article here about America's #1 DJ's other job: poprockrecord.com...
	11:40am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Wonder Woman D.C. ... D.C. is WWII archetypes - & Marvel be Cold War antiheroes & monsers ...nevermind...
	11:41am P-90: @Michael: What years did you live in that place in Hollywood ?
	11:42am clarke: we, the #1 Listeners, need to interview Michael Shelley at some point
	11:42am morphe': That was an old hotel up on the Hill above Sunset? Amazing
	11:42am paul: You want to see Scientologists? Come to Clearwater?
	11:42am Montmaster J: We saw a good documentary this week...Cameraperson.
	11:43am Michael Shelley: hmmm 1984 - 6ish
	11:43am Hoboken Jack: I kinda loved the first Avengers movie but found Ultron merely ok. Beck was married to serious Scientologist Marisa Ribisi. He now denies he had anything to do with it (Scientology, not Age of Ultron), which has angered other "escapees" who feel he could help others by being honest about his experience.
	11:43am clarke: did you happen to go see Walter Egan at Club Lingerie around then??
	11:44am Michael Shelley: wasnt 21!
	11:45am clarke: ah, my band opened that show
	11:46am morphe': Aristotle taught (if historically accurate) outside - The Perepethetic Method... Was also accused of being a spy and walking around to make secret maps for the enemies of Athens???
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& - freaking Disney owns Marvel now...
	11:46am phat: Classic Big Sandy story.
	11:46am Dean: clarke: What was your band? I never made it to Lingerie, because by then I'd wearied of the scene. But was just emailing a friend who asked me to remind him whom we heard at Beyond Baroque around that time. Was Kommunity FK.
	11:47am clarke: my band at that time was dash rip rock - still trying to live that down, tho.
	11:48am Bootsie: Big Sandy! I love Robert's voice.
	11:49am Dean: Impressive! Jello used to shop at my buddy's record store in Whittier.
	11:49am spodiodi: hi Michael Shelley an all! sounding nice 8^)
	11:49am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Loves those vintage toons where whole orchestras or bookstores or gardens come to life !!
	11:50am clarke: never met jello - i quit that band shortly after that west coast tour
	11:50am phat: One of the last shows I saw before all this went down was Big Sandy. I remember his first US tour. Shit that was fun. We all stayed up all night that night, too. Lol.
	11:51am Tim In SF: Hey spodiodi....good to see you
	11:51am morphe': Clarke - someone posted some early phtos of Clay Pigeon and his Florida band so don't fret... One drove/passengered from Yellowstone to Red Rocks COlorado to see the Grateful Dead ( 1975) aged 14...13.5.. That is embarrassing
	11:51am clarke: (i did see jello speak at the university of alabama, ha ha, but never talked to him)
	11:52am spodiodi: hi Tim! likewise :)
	11:52am Hoboken Jack: Hi Juniper, Greg, Mike Sin!
	11:52am clarke: hmm..can you recall the name of clay's band?
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Delores Telescope !
	11:54am morphe': Clarke - Delerious ?????...something???
	11:55am morphe': YES: Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Delores Telescope !
	11:55am Dean: Deloris Telescope. Not that I "remembered" it. Looked it up.
	11:56am clarke: never hoid of 'em.
	11:56am phat: Shit. I need to listen to those interviews.
	11:56am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *Dolores ?? ...Ahhh! Was searching for some podcast interview with Emitt I listened to ...was it - HERE ?! : D
	11:56am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning Jack!
	11:57am clarke: yes, those interviews don't correlate with emmitt's music very much.
	11:57am Sean: Oh danm, I tuned in too late to hear Jimmy Smith. :(
	11:57am clarke: but they are fascinating!
	11:58am phat: Rhodes's death bummed me out way more than I would have expected. But I remembered that I listened to that first album religiously, on a cassette a friend gave me, for months.
	11:58am Tim In SF: Michael Caveat?
	11:58am clarke: caveat emptor??
	11:59am nowheresville: DT was based in St. Pete, Fl.
	11:59am juniper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leAh00n3hno Link to three little pigs cartoon circa 1933!
	11:59am phat: Trigger warning
	11:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Trigger Warning ?
	12:00pm clarke: juniper - your record is OUTSTANDING!! a HUGE fan!!
	12:00pm Tim In SF: @Clark... If I remember anything about Econ in college: caveat vendor-caveat emptor.
	12:00pm morphe': Michael - why did this need a disclaimer????
	12:01pm phat: I've heard worse bass solos
	12:01pm Michael Shelley: bass solo!
	12:01pm phat: Hell, I've played worse bass solos
	12:01pm clarke: this is our concern, dude.
	12:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ah - Disney 1933. How great is that wolf... Deepest year of the Depression...same year as Kong - Dracula & Frankenstein also round then...
	12:04pm Dean: "Worse bass solos"? Guilty as charged.
	12:04pm juniper: Clarke! Thank you so much!
	12:05pm clarke: it took a while for me to get my turntable back in order - but the pressing of Juniper record is GOOD!
	12:06pm P-90: Wow! I’m a bit surprised that Disney hasn’t yanked that “Three Little Pigs” down off YouTube yet. It really is a classic, it was a huge success and helped propel Disney’s move into animated feature-length movies, and the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big.Bad Wolf” was one of the big hits of that year.
	12:06pm clarke: yes i have two!!
	12:06pm spodiodi: Juniper "Beast Kept Secret" is the song I've heard that I like the best! great tune :)
	12:07pm Greg from ZONE 5: I don't have a stylophone, but I did just dig up my old Magical Musical Thing from my parents' basement! youtu.be...
	12:07pm gf2002: The only thing worse than a bass solo is an upright bass solo
	12:07pm clarke: dang, i NEED one of THOSE!!!
	12:08pm clarke: is that a Mattel product??
	12:09pm phat: Richman is odd to talk to. Very kind but odd.
	12:09pm Rick A.: I vaguely remember Belinda and Hova doing an odd interview with Jonathan Richman many years ago. He was "the patron saint of Greasy Kids Stuff". So there was much anticipation of the interview. Then he was kind of standoffish throughout the interview.
	12:09pm Sean: the encyclopidia
	12:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Stylophone on 'Space Oddity' yeah?
	12:10pm clarke: yes - Mattel had some cool shit going on!!
	12:11pm Dean: Met Pete Best in uptown Whittier!
	12:11pm clarke: i think Space Oddity featured an ondioline
	12:12pm paul: Beatles still feel guilty about sacking Pete.
	12:13pm davefromtoronto: bernard purdie claimed to play the drums on this...
	12:13pm Michael Shelley: $50 - www.ebay.com...
	12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bad blood with Best. He pushed back. There were lawsuits & stuff. Beatles not the types to take that. Regrettable. Seems a good fellow.
	12:13pm phat: Another stalker song. Lol.
	12:14pm clarke: just added to my watchlist ---- pondering...
	12:14pm paul: Pete released an album called "Best of the Beatles." Really
	12:14pm phat: @davefromtoronto what didn't Purdie say he was on?
	12:14pm P-90: Interested to see there’s currently a Stylophone re-issue that claims to be an exact repro of the 1968 original.
	12:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pete was steady but stiff. They got Ringo & just flew.
	12:15pm clarke: oh - i have one P90 - look up urban outfitters that's where i got mine in n'hampton mass
	12:15pm Michael Shelley: p-90 I gave juniper one - and it is the SAME
	12:16pm paul: "Pete was a better drummer, but Ringo was a better Beatle."
	12:16pm Michael Shelley: Paul, you would know!
	12:16pm gf2002: I've loved Cry For A Shadow since I was a kid. But does anyone else thing this does not sound like George Harrison's lead guitar style?
	12:16pm clarke: the reason why i have 2 stylo's is because the first one was vintage and the contacts were jinky
	12:17pm paul: I think CFAS is a Lennon-Harrison composition.
	12:18pm phat: I think I need a stylophone. I REALLY want an ondioline.
	12:18pm Hubig Pie: This is kinda Dean Martin - esque
	12:18pm clarke: while i am a huge Best fan, he was NOT a better drummer - i insisted on the '4 on the floor' approach to EVERY song. this was where he got into trouble.
	12:19pm clarke: the difference in price is about four thousand dollars, phat
	12:19pm phat: @clarke yes
	12:20pm egould310: What do you know, Mike? You know alot about music And yes, that was country music.
	12:20pm clarke: best insisted on using his kick drum straight through every beat instead of the 'normal' approach of other variations
	12:20pm DG: "Cry for a Shadow" is the ONLY John & George composition. It's an homage to the Shadows, which is maybe why it doesn't sound much like George's later style (I always thought that too).
	12:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cry the only track credited to Lennon-Harrison - the Guitar players. A send up of The Shadows. They didn't have the guitars or amps they world get famous with yet - maybe John has a Rickenbacher... & in Hamburg they were leather wearing speedfreaks entertaining pimps & such all night long! Also meant though they had to play any kind of anything they could - which would serve them well later...
	12:22pm clarke: george's style changed when he got a guitar that was easier to play - the gretsch was a revelation to george.
	12:23pm Hoboken Jack: No I think they came back with a bad case of megillah
	12:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But Pete was with them like two years - a fasinating formative period. Damn right I wanna hear him talk.
	12:24pm clarke: it is ironic that, later, Pete Best taught himself how to break out of the 4-on-the-floor style, but also he didn't play drums on some of his later records
	12:25pm Hughie Considine: Calling Scaramanga from Live and Let Die!
	12:25pm clarke: but pete best did NOT have four nipples as far as you know.
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Witch's Tests !
	12:26pm Hughie Considine: Roger Moore deadpans, "What a titillating experience!"
	12:26pm Hoboken Jack: Alexa says he has two nipples.
	12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *Witch's TEATS
	12:27pm clarke: witch's tests, i like that.
	12:27pm swivs: The drummer in my band also has 4 nipples. He says he absorbed a twin in the womb. He also used to like wearing snap-button shirts and I enjoyed ripping his shirt open at parties. We remain friends.
	12:28pm P-90: In medical speak we call those “supernumerary papillae” which just means: extra nipples
	12:29pm swivs: P-90, that's not nearly as romantic.
	12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...she turned me into a newt...
	12:30pm Dean: If this were a Drummer Stream show, I'd mention that Supernumerary Papillae was the name of my first band in high school.
	12:30pm clarke: didn't Boettcher produce this?
	12:30pm Michael Shelley: don t think so
	12:31pm Dennis Diken: diggin'!
	12:31pm Hoboken Jack: @swivs An in-womb twin is an important part of a nutritious breakfast.
	12:31pm clarke: hmm...
	12:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Pete was 4 On the Floor - not on the chest ...this is how rumours start...
	12:34pm gf2002: Harrison sounds like a better and more technical guitarist on Cry For A Shadow than he did on many of the Beatles albums, either he held back for the albums or his playing was better when he was learning licks from Tony Sheridan and playing those marathon gigs in Hamburg
	12:35pm mlsgrrl: Was that a STYLOPHONE I heard on the Charley Crockett track? My grandpa had one of those.
	12:35pm gf2002: After realizing I thought the lead didn't sound like George, I thought it may have been Sheridan himself playing that lead guitar on "Shadow"
	12:35pm clarke: HQ is not relenting
	12:35pm gf2002: The Wondermints have a great stylophone solo on a track from their Bali album too
	12:36pm Corey: Hello Michael and listeners! Listened to that new Charley Crockett this morning. So good.
	12:37pm mlsgrrl: @gf2002 I was amazed to learn stylophones were really used as instruments, I just used to mess around with it and make sci-fi sounds with it when I was a kid.
	12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Is possible Harrison was back burnered by George Martin a small bit...When it came to Arranging the most important rekkiids ever (really) ...Harrison would get more resentful of being an 'economy class Beatle' - his words - as they went on & he became a Writer too & so on. He was good getting out & staying out basically...
	12:39pm clarke: george was usually the reason they had to do so many takes - it took him a while to get up to speed while the others had their parts down, early
	12:39pm gf2002: Yes! I think the ultimate well-known Stylophone track might be Space Oddity
	12:39pm 707: there was a band in the late 60s called ' the food '. and for the life of me can't find anything on it.
	12:39pm clarke: read up gf
	12:39pm Christina Low: This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’m going to side with the Executive Producer today. Too warm to bake.
	12:40pm clarke: miss low!!! what's on yer menu??
	12:41pm egould310: 2:41 am
	12:41pm Eddy in Australia: 2:41am Sunday morning
	12:41pm morphe': 0241 local time Melbourne
	12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Interesting. George was on his - coming up in the session with Leads of quality for songs he didn't Write or Arrange....He was the Kid of the band after all!
	12:42pm clarke: yeah where's eddy this "morning"??
	12:42pm Eddy in Australia: @Clarke Lurking!
	12:43pm clarke: but, later mccartney is the one who would not hold the band up and overdubbed his bass after everyone left into the night
	12:43pm clarke: aha - g'day mate!!!
	12:43pm morphe': Michael - you are on live ...not the archive.. unless I am out of sync and consciousness???? 1842 Madrid = 1242 Tri-State/EST
	12:44pm McGroovey: Sounds like the early Australian BeeGees (before they went to England), with a different lead vocalist.
	12:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: * his own ...Beatles were not great Improvisers / Jammers - & got worse Live as Beatlemania because madder....
	12:45pm clarke: yes but the repetition seemed to help george with his licks
	12:46pm MFlynn: Yeah but Del and Steve Earle made one of the best bluegrass albums I’ve ever heard, “the Mountain”. Wish they did more!
	12:47pm clarke: del did not like steve earle's foul language
	12:48pm gf2002: I read Geoff Emerick's book too, and he was sometimes brutally honest about George's playing, especially when it came to solos. But I do think in Hamburg when all of them were playing non-stop, George may have been a better soloist than we hear on the 63-65 Beatles tracks because they stretched out more than they could on a 2 and a half minute pop song
	12:48pm MFlynn: That’s what I heard. What a shame, they made great music together.
	12:49pm Chop Scott: Tape Op is great!
	12:50pm clarke: oh, yeah - poor george was a GREAT player, but he was 1) not the quickest improviser, 2) intimidated by paul
	12:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Emmerick some rep as a subjective kind of witness...
	12:51pm morphe': Hurray for the Riff Raff play in the old school way .. one mike and in and out movements
	12:51pm Michael Shelley: Seems like Geoff though George didnt like/respect him.
	12:52pm clarke: and what i mean by 1) is that george took a few takes to get his shit together and the others were frustrated with him
	12:52pm Michael Shelley: del on Steve "just not a nice guy"
	12:52pm egould310: Barreracudas, hell yeah!!
	12:52pm morphe': Clarke... SONNY BONO .. was said to be "...a very good singer but a very bad skier..."
	12:53pm Hackensack Slim: This song is so good it needs to be covered. Juniper?
	12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Spector speaking about All Things Must Pass said George would never sign off on a final take! If we want him as a Witness....
	12:54pm clarke: i find it ironic that mccartney just took his instrument out of the equation while they were tracking basics. i mean, we reap the benefits, but i just think: poor george
	12:55pm morphe': For after Mikey: Hurray for The Riff Raff in a church or mauesloum(sp?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsfNmg9dGpM
	12:56pm clarke: like, george just needed a little more time to get his part and they were a bit impatient with george, and then paul just does something that george didn't have the opportunity to do, back when
	12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: McCartney control. Also not until they were using more tracks & overdubs...It's good to be the Writer! Ask Brian Jones....
	12:57pm Frank In Queens: Great show Michael! Good driving music!
	12:57pm clarke: brian was another guy who took a few takes to get going - and then not so much at the end, there
	12:57pm Hoboken Jack: Thanks for another great show, Michael, Ruth, and Juniper!!
	12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'We got tired of being Paul's sidemen.' - John
	12:58pm clarke: if you could just find it in your heart to play a little Stinkfinger!!!!
	12:58pm Corey: Thanks for the great show, Michael! Look forward to catching the first hour on the archives. Thanks Ruth for working the booth. Be well all!
	12:58pm morphe': Thanks Mikey ......and all...
	12:58pm Steve Harsh: Thank you Michael and FMU crew!
	12:58pm spodiodi: thanks, Michael Shelley!
	12:58pm clarke: really good shew!!! ah ha ha. good nite.
	1:00pm CalZone!: I guess Kermit Schaefer s bloopers were all fake news,
	1:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY DJ MS !

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