Favoriting The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles with Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles: Playlist from May 25, 2023 Favoriting

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Debbie Davenport:

💖
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ultradamno:

Kitten! Fantasticles!
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DJ Babs:

Hello Hello Sparkly Frenz! Derek and I will be your guest host streamers and chat buddies today as K-Spark is OOO
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Debbie Davenport:

Very cool of you and Derek to help with hosting like that.
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DJ Babs:

No worries at all! Really we are just playing his prerecorded show! LOL. But happy to hold down the chat. We were on vacation this week...which then got sidetracked by a Covid diagnosis..boooooo so we're locked in at home
  5:03pm
Cheree July:

Yes, Kitten has gone Vegas since he'll be doing misguided tours at the Punk Rock Museum today & Friday.
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ultradamno:

↳ DJ Babs @5:03
Get well soon!
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DJ Babs:

Thanks UD! Luckily we are vaxxed to the max so it really just feels like a light cold. I tested positive and Derek is still negative…
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Debbie Davenport:

↳ DJ Babs @5:03
Oh no! My thoughts are with you. Hope you get through it quickly.
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DJ Babs:

Hi Cheree! 😀
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DJ Babs:

↳ Debbie Davenport @5:07
Yeah I’m on day…5 now so coming out the other side for sure. It sucks not being able to go out and do stuff but…safety first!
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Debbie Davenport:

↳ Cheree July @5:03
Did you go to Vegas too Cheree? If so, have fun!
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ultradamno:

That's good.

RIP Kenneth Anger, who gets name checked sometimes on Wired Up for A Raincoat song playing twice in one version of his great Rabbit's Moon.
  5:08pm
Cheree July:

Hi DJ Babs👋 I'm not in Vegas with Kitten/Don. He gave me a much needed break.
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DJ Babs:

↳ ultradamno @5:08
Yes bummer for sure about Anger for sure…and of course the amazing Tina Turner. 🙁🙁🙁
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DJ Babs:

↳ Cheree July @5:08
Glad you’re getting a break Cheree! I’m just enjoying the tunes and drinking a white claw…this stuff is swill! How do people drink this yuck!?
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Mr Fab:

Hey all you punk rock New Wavers! That first song was from a ridiculous children's record called “Pink Panther Punk,” a weird tie-in to the “Pink Panther” cartoon show.
  5:11pm
Cheree July:

Probably because it's cheap like Two Buck Chuck by Trader Joes?
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DJ Babs:

That was fantastic! Yes sadly no track list for yas today…
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DJ Babs:

↳ Cheree July @5:11
😂😂😂
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DJ Babs:

I picked up
A case for a party of calorie wise ladies and nobody ended up
Drinking it so here we are lol
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ultradamno:

Tommy Chong's birthday was yesterday, as it happens twitter.com...
  5:13pm
Cheree July:

Debbie, I didn't go this time. Kitten/Don said I didn't have to go. Also, I'm pretty bummed out because one of my best friends died this week.😪😥
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Mr Fab:

Oh damn, sorry to hear, Babs. Glad you’re available to run Don’s show from your sick bed!
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DJ Babs:

Ha! Tis hardly a sick bed. More enforced isolation. But I’m lucky to be pretty unscathed! I’m more bummed that o lost a week of vacation to this nonsense!
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ultradamno:

"Oh well, big pussy" is one of the best punk stage lines
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ultradamno:

It never occurred to me before, but it sounds like Darby is mostly singing right into the microphone on Germicide (which he famously never did)
  5:21pm
Cheree July:

At least the Victim song by the Germs is kinda making me feel better cuz I'm never that. Kitten/Don always finds a way to make me feel better.
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Debbie Davenport:

↳ Mr Fab @5:11
Wow! I hadn't heard that before.
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Aitch:

Pass me the antiseptic wipes
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Mr Fab:

↳ ultradamno @5:17
Sell out!
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Aitch:

Thanks B and D
Hello Sparklers
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Mr Fab:

↳ Cheree July @5:03
Hello to all the school kids being shuffled through the Punk Rock Museum on your field trips.
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ultradamno:

Michael Des Barres, who was a subject of discussion elsewhere on the boards this week for being in the WKRP In Cinti fake punk band Scum Of The Earth
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DJ Babs:

Hi Aitch! I’m lovin all the Germs history!!!
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DJ Babs:

↳ ultradamno @5:33
Michael Des Barres disappointed me hugely when he replaced Robert Palmer on the Power Station tour.
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ultradamno:

That episode was funny, because the music of this much talked up outrageous punk band when they finally played at the end was "Got Enough Love" by Des Barres' real band Detective...which was much closer to Bad Company than anything you'd call punk...
Avatar 5:39pm
Mr Fab:

Great lineup at the Whiskey. As a tot, I would read those club listings in the LA Weekly, listen to Rodney, and wonder what these “punk rock” shows were like…
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:43pm
ultradamno:

Scary Cuomo would be a good name for a TV horror movie host
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Derek Westerholm:

This has all been fantastic, loving hearing all the early days of DB/Kitten.
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ultradamno:

....the local one when I was a kid was Sammy Terry
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DJ Babs:

↳ ultradamno @5:43
I can’t remember who our local horror host was…I wanna say Count Floyd! Lol
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello Debbie, Ultra, Cheree, Aitch, Fab, & all Sparklers. Hope you are all well in your world as you glisten in the glambient world that is Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles
  5:48pm
Cheree July:

Weird, slowed down Polka stuff, LOL😆🤣
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ultradamno:

Hiya Derek!

A look at Sammy cbs4indy.com...

A poster from one time I saw him in person as a kid twitter.com...
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Derek Westerholm:

I told Babs that Elwy Yost used to be our local horror film host, I suppose she prefers Count Floyd...
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Debbie Davenport:

↳ Derek Westerholm @5:47
Hello Derek! I'm cooking and listening to this wonderful station. Here in Oregon.
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Mr Fab:

↳ ultradamno @5:43
There should be one named Scary Belafonte.

He would sing goth calypsos.
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Derek Westerholm:

But for those of you who are curious... www.blogto.com...
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ultradamno:

↳ Mr Fab @5:49
...with floating Winona dancers
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DJ Babs:

Maybe the closest we had was Elwy Yost. This is forever imbedded in my brain youtu.be...
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Aitch:

Loving these hell-bound sex perverts
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:52pm
DJ Babs:

MeepMoop is here on the sofa with me enjoying the show…
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ultradamno:

↳ DJ Babs @5:50
Gilliamesque animation
  5:52pm
Cheree July:

Young Don/Kitten😆
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Derek Westerholm:

Hi Debbie, sounds lovely!
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DJ Babs:

Man…to have seen Germs and Screamers and Bags…that would have been AMAAAAAZING
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @5:48
That's great, Ultra... low-tech characters, ha! -- "Sammy became arguably the most popular personality on Channel 4. His show featured a cast of low-tech characters like “George” the rubber spider who dangled from a fishing line just off camera. Sammy grew to become a Hoosier legend."
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Mr Fab @5:49
"Scary Belafonte", ha, Fab!
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ultradamno:

Speaking of X, tour dates xtheband.bandcamp.com...
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ultradamno:

↳ Derek Westerholm @5:56
He married Janie, who was another big Ch4 personality...so power couple. There was also a cowboy pretty boy...Bob, maybe.
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Krys O.:

Hello!
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ultradamno:

Not many punk bands worked "sardonic" into the lyrics
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chresti:

Hi Kitten and sparklers!
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DJ Babs:

Hello Krys! Hi Chresti!
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chresti:

Hi Babs!
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chresti:

Back then (70s-80s)-making prank calls to radio shows was entertainment
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Mr Fab:

"play the new Smiths single"?

Wow, Rodney saw the future.
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ultradamno:

This is more like the guests pranking the callers
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DJ Babs:

Agreed!
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Debbie Davenport:

We totally crank called people from the phone book too. especially at slumber parties. Once when I was ten I scared this woman so much she was crying and called the cops.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
chresti:

Yes the guests are clearly in charge
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Debbie Davenport:

No caller ID then.
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chresti:

YAY Monitor!
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Mr Fab:

↳ DJ Babs @5:54
I was like minutes too young to see those bands. By the time I was old enough, I saw the ones who survived into the '80s: Wall of Voodoo, X, Dickies...
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @5:59
Ultra, that Ch4 story seems to be getting more fascinating by the minute...
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ultradamno:

↳ Derek Westerholm @6:13
This was Janie cbs4indy.com...
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chresti:

YAY the EYEs! Charlotte quit and joined the Go Gos
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Mr Fab:

"Hal Negro & The Satintones," ha, never saw them...
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ultradamno:

Here's Cowboy Bob from his obit cbs4indy.com...
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Mr Fab:

↳ chresti @6:12
Monitor were from my 'hood. They went to my uni, CSUN. Northridge in the house!
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chresti:

↳ Mr Fab @6:17
Yes
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Mr Fab:

haha, when Jane Wiedlin was still known as Jane Drano.

I had a friend who knew their family. People would call and ask for her, and her father would say, "She's not here. This is Mr. Drano."
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ultradamno:

Just in time to avoid a cease and desist from S. C. Johnson & Son inc.

From wiki "Liquid Drano was introduced in response to Clorox's purchase of Liquid-Plumr in 1969" so many punk names could be appropriated from that sentence
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
DJ Babs:

↳ Mr Fab @6:12
I always say born too late!
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DJ Babs:

I’d have been going to shows every night!!!
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Aitch:

↳ Mr Fab @6:19
Jane W will always be special for singing Cool Places with Sparks
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ultradamno:

I want to hear the live MX-80 Sound...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Derek Westerholm:

Hello Krys-O, Hi Chresti! (Late to the "hello" train.)
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chresti:

Hi Derek!
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Derek Westerholm:

Kitten is really throwing it down tonight... So wonderful to hear all the history, both of the bands & of himself!
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WR:

I guess I may as well hop on the "hello" train as well. Hello Kitten S and all!
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello WR! Lovely to hear from you!
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chresti:

I remember that stuff, zip tone and rub-on letters
  6:50pm
Cheree July:

Damn, can you imagine if Mark Lindsey produced G.I.?😲
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Derek Westerholm:

Aha! Fall content!!
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Debbie Davenport:

Except for Punk Rock Girl, this song was the most requested song at one of my old radio shows. For 10 years!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Debbie Davenport @6:58
Where were you on the radio, Debbie?
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ultradamno:

Seems like We Must Bleed was the secret hit back in the day...
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @7:06
It's a pretty great one!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Debbie Davenport @6:58
That's awesome! + What Mr. Fab asked x2
  7:15pm
chresti:

I only saw the germs when Darby was Bobby Pin at the Masque
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
DJ Babs:

Meep Moop is also enjoying this show. He's going punk rock and clawing the couch and running about!
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Debbie Davenport:

↳ Mr Fab @7:05
For awhile in the 80s I was at KHSU (humboldt state) then in 96 -2006 I was at KWVA University of Oregon). I also sang a radio ID for KERG in 82, but that wasn't a host thing. It was an accapella jazz grou pI was in . Kinda like the Love You song. I think that's by Kites Are Fun. Or it could of been in a latin madrigal group I was in. but like I say, that was radio stuff but not as a host.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Debbie Davenport @7:29
Excellent travels through the radio-scape! Now the next question, of course... What groups were you in Debbie?
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Mr Fab:

↳ Debbie Davenport @7:29
When I saw "latin madrigal group" I first thought like mambo/cha cha versions of medieval songs.

I'm a little slow like that sometimes..
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ultradamno:

Burning question: did his Huntington Beach ass get got?
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Debbie Davenport:

↳ Mr Fab @7:35
We used to do these elaborate 12 and 14 part harmonies in latin. I don't know latin, but we'd memorize it for the songs. Cantate domino. etc. Very christmas focused, but we did something at the end of the year too. I don't remember the topic. I was in a separate madrigal jazz group that did more modern things and for awhile an after school project that was an all female barbershop group. Stuff like that ape disney song. For the Jazz group I have a photo in facebook. I had a mohawk that was growing out so I had to swirl it up to fit it under my derby hat.
I'm a terrible singer but I wanted to learn it all.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Debbie Davenport @7:42
That's so excellent!
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Debbie Davenport:

Thanks Derek. I like to learn about things I like.
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chresti:

Thanks Kitten!
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DJ Babs:

We'll see y'all over on the beach in just a few!!! :-)
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ultradamno:

"Come on, sucker, let's rock and roll"
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Debbie Davenport:

Thanks Kitten!
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WR:

Just took a few minutes to catch up on the playlist comments. I thought earlier that this sounded like a repeat. And an episode well worth repeating. And more Kitten adventures afoot in Vegas.

Gosh, Kenneth Anger, didn't know he was still alive. 96 years.

More comments went we go out onto the Echo Beach.
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ultradamno:

Speaking of fentanyl twitter.com...
  7:59pm
sufferwords:

Dude... I could hear a whole show of crowd chatter- do specific rooms- bugging out down the memory synapses - if you were there this shit can put it back into view- VOX POP anti-club!!!
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello Sufferwords!
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Derek Westerholm:

Thanks Kitten, for a great show & we were happy to be able to press "play" and hold down the chat... Hope you are having a fantastic time out in the world!
  8:01pm
sufferwords:

ooops just checked no Don- repeat - but just so I'm not 100% dolt it woulda made sense to Don
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