Listener comments!

Thu. 8/20/09 12:01pm From: Carmichael

A jaunty tune to start the show!

Thu. 8/20/09 12:04pm From: steven

Scott- are you by any chance from Bennington, VT?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:06pm From: Scott

Hi Carmichael - yep! Hi Steven - nope!

Thu. 8/20/09 12:08pm From: BSI

Hey Scott!
Got anything for the sniffles?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:13pm From: Scott

Hey BSI! Have I!! Yeah,but you gotta wait til I find it. But I will find it, rest easy.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:19pm From: -

this is good for the sniffles.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:19pm From: anyone to everyone

hello hello

Thu. 8/20/09 12:20pm From: BSI

aaaah!
Better 'n COMTREX!
I miss those viking kittens...

Thu. 8/20/09 12:20pm From: anony moose

oh god, what does he want to put in me?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:26pm From: dc pat

Is "Gay Bar" the greatest song ever written?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:28pm From: Carmichael

Crap, I step out for some pie and I miss Gay Bar! Is that the song with the video featuring Blair and W.?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:28pm From: BSI

yes, dc pat.
yes it is.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:35pm From: dc pat

thought so..

Thu. 8/20/09 12:39pm From: Art Smass

Hi Scott!
Got anything for crab lice?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:42pm From: Scott

Hi Art Smass! Do I?! How 'bout a funked up shuffle?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:45pm From: dc pat

that A is out of tune

Thu. 8/20/09 12:45pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

One crab lice to the other: "Let's head for zee hills!"

Thu. 8/20/09 12:45pm From: Art Smass

Thanks Scott!

I can feel it working!

Thu. 8/20/09 12:46pm From: Carmichael

Sounds like Aynsley Dunbar back there.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:47pm From: dc pat

ok, how about something for in-grown toenails?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:48pm From: Taylor

As long as you're taking requests...CLEAN YOUR ROOM YOUNG MAN! Also, Greenwich Village's own Devil's Anvil (1967) had "Hard Rock from the Middle East" reissued just last week. "Selim Alai" smokes.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:49pm From: Mr. Microphone

Hey good lookin', we'll be back to pick you up in a minute!

Thu. 8/20/09 12:50pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

What's that I hear?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:50pm From: dc pat

"later" not " in a minute", sheesh!

Thu. 8/20/09 12:51pm From: Ike

Hooray, I got my swag! I would have done the swag dance except that it was too humid, so I got confused and walked in circles instead. Hey, great show Scott. That Bernard Szajner was far out, man.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:51pm From: Calgon lady

Ancient Chinese secret, huh Mr. Lee??

Thu. 8/20/09 12:52pm From: dc pat

do you all realize if Bunny Tarquinio married Eddie Rabbit, her name would be Bunny Rabbit?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:53pm From: Carmichael

Has there ever been a soundtrack to that song-poem documentary "Off the Charts"? This cheesy stuff is reminding me of that song about kung fu bicycles and Priscilla Presley.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:54pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Eddie Rabbit's dead. The right-wing conspiracy would never stand for marrying a dead guy. BTW, nice name check with Bunny Tarquinio.

Thu. 8/20/09 12:58pm From: dc pat

that Mr. Microphone reference brought back a lot of memories. Glad some one else remembers. What commercial was that? Tide?

Thu. 8/20/09 12:59pm From: Gloria

Automobile Club of America, did you have to be THAT good?

Thu. 8/20/09 1:00pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEXBTlWf_4

Thu. 8/20/09 1:01pm From: Carmichael

No, that was actually a K-Tel style commercial for a microphone that broadcasted in the low FM range. I just remember that 70s dweeb leaning out of a convertible and yelling at a car full of surprised, giggling cuties.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:03pm From: Mrs. Lee

Yeah, I know that one--I was talking about Bunny Tarquinio, I think she was on a Tide commercial

Thu. 8/20/09 1:04pm From: Carmichael

Boy, nice catch Dum Dum! Is that black guy stereotyped or what?!?

Thu. 8/20/09 1:05pm From: Rob W

Silly me Scott - I never realized until just this moment where Negativland got their name from. To their credit - since they began their mischief well before Krautrock really was on the radar over here...

Thu. 8/20/09 1:05pm From: raga

howdy, doody!

Thu. 8/20/09 1:05pm From: Art Smass

He looks like he's doing the Funked-Up Shuffle.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:07pm From: Carmichael

http://media.www.eraunews.com/media/storage/paper917/news/2000/10/27/CampusNews/Pflag.Representative.Speaks.To.Students.On.Campus-1651101.shtml#4

Thu. 8/20/09 1:08pm From: Frankie Teardrop

play more Jed Hershon

Thu. 8/20/09 1:09pm From: dc pat

DAMN carm, you're one step ahead of me. Don't think it's the same Bunny Tarquinio though...

Thu. 8/20/09 1:11pm From: dc pat

cracking up..I posted as Mrs. Lee above. Don't know how that happened!...

Thu. 8/20/09 1:11pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

scroll down to the 914Driver post. He/She remembers Bunny.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/ads/4265/page1/

Thu. 8/20/09 1:15pm From: Chris

Actually the Weddoes are still a pretty good live band, though with Peter Slowoka they were truly amazing.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:15pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Scott, with all due respect, you are no Bobby McFerrin.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:15pm From: Carmichael

How many Bunny Tarquinios can there be?

Thu. 8/20/09 1:17pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

In Mexico, Tarquinios is as common a last name as is Smith in the U.S.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:17pm From: dc pat

yeah really, but I think the one in your article is a man, yes a man, Carm. DDGuy, that's the one...

Thu. 8/20/09 1:18pm From: jex

historical bed music!

Thu. 8/20/09 1:20pm From: Carmichael

Nah Pat, She's married to George and they're in real estate. I just read her Dad's obit.

In about 2 minutes, I found out about most of her life ....

Thu. 8/20/09 1:22pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Scott song-checks The Other One.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:23pm From: Paul B...

Scott,
that Neu base line is also the base line from the introduction to the Joy Division song 'No Love Lost' (1978?) I can't say off hand who came up with it first. Also thanks for the Wedding Present. I love that song -- love Niagra too. Saw them once, twice maybe, at the old 9:30 club (W.DC). I always tell people they were the loudest band I ever saw play, with the exception of a certain Husker Du/ Negative Approach show.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:23pm From: BSI

back with a big box of chocolate bunny tarquinios.
it's a toilet outside, in case y'all were wondering.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:25pm From: Scott

>> "Scott, with all due respect, you are no Bobby McFerrin. "
WHOAH! You take that back, man!

Thu. 8/20/09 1:26pm From: Carmichael

I stood next to a stage speaker during a Steppenwolf concert. An F-4 isn't that loud.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:27pm From: dc pat

Carm, oh, I thought I saw a reference to Bunny being a him.

Loudest show: easily the Cynics at Electric Banana in PGH.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:28pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Scott - Just joshin'. LOL. You actually are Bobby McFerrin.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:28pm From: Chris

Mogwai: anyone without earplugs was standing as far from the stage as possible. Though I lost hearing in one ear after a Weedeater set for a short time.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:29pm From: Scott

Thank you Dum Dum, that's what I'm talking about.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:30pm From: Carmichael

That McFerrin track on Rob Wasserman's Duets CD is something to behold. Alluring, hypnotic and just plain odd.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:32pm From: Scott

OK Carmichael, we need to stop this now

Thu. 8/20/09 1:33pm From: BSI

Loudest show?
I didn't get a precise measurement but Merzbow at the DC Arts Center (circa 1989) would have to be a contender.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:34pm From: Carmichael

He he .... I was in a zone there for a moment.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:37pm From: BSI

splendid mix, this.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:39pm From: dc pat

what's the softest show you've ever seen? Mine was Cat Power at Black Cat back when she was still drunk. It was excruciating, couldn't hear her, she kept turning around--after a while people just started talking, drowned her out...

Thu. 8/20/09 1:41pm From: Scott

Easily a summertime Jonathan Richman show at Maxwell's where he demanded they turn off the AC because he wasn't gonna turn up his guitar.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:43pm From: Chris

Good one. Nmperign was the quietest by far for me. The audience was seated directly in front of the musicians and leaning in to about a foot away to hear them. It was great, actually.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:44pm From: Carmichael

Larry Carlton. He wanted to cha-cha-cha and mingle with the audience. It was more like a fiddler working the restaurant floor. Impersonal, inaudible, uncomfortable.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:50pm From: Taylor

Speaking of Donovan, any idea who's singing this? http://www.footnoteconspiracy.com/rhh-cues/1970-03-15%20KPPC%20Hurdy%20Gurdy%20Man.mp3

Thu. 8/20/09 1:52pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Softest Show - Some David Bromberg gig in a club whose name I forget on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston in the late 1980s. There was a complete power failure during the first song. They lit candles and he and his band played the entire show without amplification. It was one of the better shows of his I have seen.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:53pm From: Carmichael

Sounds like Richie Havens, but I'm not certain.

Thu. 8/20/09 1:55pm From: erika

hi, i think i'm obsessed with yr show. keep it up!

Thu. 8/20/09 2:00pm From: -or droneflyshards

back w 2 cents -WHO,spectrum,philly...not th best show,as KeithMoon had recently died...in fact-he wasn't even there, but the loudest...quietest,prob Orion Dommisse.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:02pm From: boris

just tuned in.damn this set looks good,def. gotta archive it up quickk!

Thu. 8/20/09 2:04pm From: Carmichael

OK Taylor, if it isn't Richie Havens, then it's Eric Mercury. But I can't find a sample to prove it.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:04pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Loudest - The Clash in Hamilton, NY.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:05pm From: Taylor

Thanks Carmichael. Feel free to preview anything else in directory http://www.footnoteconspiracy.com/rhh-cues which is full of interesting mystery records played by the Firesign Theatre during their show The Radio Hour Hour in 1970.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:05pm From: dc pat

-or dronefylshards, was that Who show right after the "tramplings" in Cincy? If so, I was there

Thu. 8/20/09 2:06pm From: boris

@bsi, merzbow in dc? damn

Thu. 8/20/09 2:10pm From: Taylor

Scott, FYI this Rita Pavone tune was used recently as the soundtrack to the animated short "Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen, & Mr. Horlocker". http://www.animationshow.com/MrSchwartzMrHazenMrHorlocker

Thu. 8/20/09 2:10pm From: dragonfryshards

(rude am i)Hi Scott! -(checed in early as "-") ...'Love yer show..(actually,the Who was one of my first concrts-painfullyloud, but mabe i jut wasn't used to that kind of assault,yet...Clash,HuskerDu--all lou...as are bands where i ive,now.)

Thu. 8/20/09 2:12pm From: dc pat

the specrum Who show was one of my first shows too. Others were Kinks shows.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:15pm From: BSI

Boris: it was a stunner. Merzbow & Due Process at the DCAC, little intimate gallery space for a noise gig...

Thu. 8/20/09 2:17pm From: dragonflyshards

(i've given up correcting for this crappykeyboar...sorry)---dc pat -i'm ignorant& curious"tramplings"? -anyway,twas the first Who tour,AD

Thu. 8/20/09 2:19pm From: dc pat

tramplings = when there was a mad rush for general seating in Cincinnati and a bunch of people got trampled to death. Not sure if that was the first tour after Moonie bit it, god rest his soul...

Thu. 8/20/09 2:22pm From: Keith Moon

Not to worry dear boy, plenty of Mandrex here in Drummer's Heaven.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:25pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Concert Where the Sound Was Just Right: Mel Torme at Blues Alley in Washington DC in the mid 1980s. Seriously.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:25pm From: Parq

I hated Journey back in the day. A show in Boston may not have been the loudest ever, but it was the least justifiably loud show I ever saw. The show I most vividly remember being loud - again, probably not the decibel-for-decibel loudest, but the one where the loudness had the most impact on me - was Elvis C and the Atrracs, Boston Paradise, first US tour, 1977.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:29pm From: Scott

I can't remember shit anymore, so my "best-sounding" show goes back about 2 months: Spiritualized at Primavera sound fest in Barca -- unbelievable mix job, and outdoors taboot. Man, i hope J Spaceman lets us b'cast that fucker!

Thu. 8/20/09 2:29pm From: draonflyshrds

dc -duh was thinking"openning band?how do i not know of them!" yes,i remember tramplings,&methinks i went earlier, for i dont remember being concerned about possibly dying at a concert!

Thu. 8/20/09 2:31pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

The Boston Paradise. Thank you. That is where I saw the Bromberg show.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:32pm From: dc pat

ah yeah, you'd probably remember that because we were definitely worried about getting walked on...

Thu. 8/20/09 2:32pm From: Parq

Scott, how loud was that two-guitar duo at Primavera that plays throbbing soundscapes while wearing black robes? (Blanking on the name - Sun-something-or other?)

Thu. 8/20/09 2:35pm From: Dominick

Loudest for me was Iggy & The Stooges at Jones Beach (2 years ago?)
It felt like the air molecules were exploding in my ears. Listened to much of the set behind the seating area

Thu. 8/20/09 2:35pm From: Taylor

SunO))))?... Styx at the Boise State Pavilion in August 1983, I remember being very very loud, but I was only eleven at the time

Thu. 8/20/09 2:36pm From: Scott

Sunn 0))) was smokin' (literally) and stellar at PSF. vid here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33075116@N02/sets/72157618925002713/

Thu. 8/20/09 2:36pm From: dragonfleeshards

i can imagine that Elvis show...that clean git bass drum sound-LOUD- the first 2 Costello albums...i'm envious.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:39pm From: randy in NC

Loudest show for me, PIL at this place in Sheepshead Bay called the Brooklyn Zoo. I think my ears are still ringing.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:41pm From: dc pat

hey dragonflyshards -- I think the Who only played 2 gigs at the spectrum after KM died and both were in December '79 according to some Who live show DB. So we may both have been at the same show. DId they show a clip from Quadrophenia (film)?

Thu. 8/20/09 2:44pm From: Jonathan Steinke

Hmmm...Decapitated Hed. I wonder if they...er, modified their name after a certain famous Australian group that used a lot of loops?

Thu. 8/20/09 2:45pm From: Marshall Stacks

It's a tie between Dinosaur Jr. somewhere in SF ca. 1989 or 90, and Electric Hot Tuna at the Beacon ca. 1977.

Dino Jr. was so loud it was impossible to tell the songs apart or know what they were playing. My GF of the time told me this was part of their "genius."

I credit both bands with laying the foundation for my incipient tinnitus.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:48pm From: Scott

You're onto something Jonathan - and no, the name isn't even modified. Same <sic> name, diff band, outta Baldymore.

Thu. 8/20/09 2:49pm From: #225

Damn how do these guys (Axemen) have time to record records in between being nearly crushed to death by falling logs on Discovery?

Thu. 8/20/09 2:49pm From: Parq

Sunn 0))), that's it. I remember listening to the broadcast on a tabletop radio, thinking "Jesus, this must be loud in person."

Thu. 8/20/09 2:51pm From: J-Mar

Wow, I haven't heard this Mekons track in 15 years maybe. Sounds effing great!

Thu. 8/20/09 2:53pm From: Jonathan Steinke

Thank you for playing them, by the way!

Ya know, I kinda thought their M.O. was a little "copy-catted" from Ellard and Co.!

Thu. 8/20/09 2:56pm From: Scott

Or crashing their cars into govt buildings!
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/851629/bullied-taxman-drives-car-through-workplace

Thu. 8/20/09 2:58pm From: GP

Mekons..cool. I just found a CD of theirs that I forgot I had had...been playing it in the car for two days straight now.

Loudest show? North Mississippi All Stars in a venue for about 150 people but they had their sound at stadium level..+ the band members were flirting with my girlfriend.

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