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Listener comments! | |
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![]() Hello, Joe and fellow Belockians! Big HI to the Blind Shake!! And RIP Lou. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 12:04pm
Joe B:
Hi everybody! thanks for tuning in. THE BLIND SHAKE are here! soundcheckig now. live set should be coming up not too long |
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![]() they had a funny article in the local paper about how much more popular they are in other cities than in Mpls. |
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![]() ...if there'd been no VelvetUnderground - would we even recognize ourselves - ?! |
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![]() I wish they could play around here more, but that to me says a lot about the high quality of their music. |
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![]() Replacements, Soul Asylum and Huskers had to go on the road forever before they became heroes here. Hey, it's 11th Lou Day! |
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![]() Rev. Rabbit: I would not recognize myself. |
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![]() I came to them later in life, but between them and Beefheart, there would be no alternative as we know it, for better or worse. |
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![]() I don't remember hearing this when I was in the FFA (1977-1980). The album Ecstasy came out in 2000, per my Google search, so that explains that. |
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![]() Wow, really looking forward to the Blind Shake. They tore it up last year. I knew Joe would have a unique and cool tribute to Mr. Lou. Keep it coming, Joe! |
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![]() Ken, the deal in our neighbhood was 4-H |
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![]() ... makes me remind that Lou and Metallica performed Lulu Live in a Cologne TV-studio on 2011-11-11, kind of speial holy-holy-day in Cologne ... whatever that means. |
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![]() Joe, you got "Kill Your Sons?" |
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![]() @ RevRabbit 12:06: I sure wouldn't. Can't say exactly how different I'd be, but pretty damn different. So would New York be, or at least the parts of it that I came to be a part of. When you think about all the other things that have influenced us, which would have been non-existent or fundamentally different if there had been no Lou -- well, whew. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 12:18pm
still b/p:
My only live Lou show was fairly flat -- '76 or '77, I think. Him in a spotlight, band in just the dim spill for the duration. No effort to be engaged with the audience on any channel, and not taken to any apparent place by his own material...perhaps his standard brand of cool. |
Tue. 10/29/13 12:19pm
laura spike:
When you think about it, really, whose life *wasn't* saved by rock and roll? | |
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Tue. 10/29/13 12:19pm
InBrkly:
It is a cold war movie. |
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![]() Oh, it's a movie with Baryshikov and Gregory Hines where Baryshnikov tries to escate from Russia. And it had a crappy Lionel Ritchie song as its centerpiece. |
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![]() @Cecile - Yes, I was in 4-H from third to eighth grade. Our county even had a 4-H camp during the summer. The canoeing was the funnest part. |
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![]() White Nights - A mid 80s feel good Russia is bad movie about overcoming differences through ballet dancing and Lionel Richie's "Say You Say Me". |
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![]() Laura, I talked to the minutemen once, and misquoted the line "punk rock changed my life" as "punk rock changed my life". d boon said "It was changed, not saved. We would have gone along, it just would have been different." |
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![]() The Velvet Underground changed my life. I think the Kinks, Sweet and Skyhooks saved it. |
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![]() but THE BLIND SHAKE RULES RIGHT THIS MINUTE |
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![]() Ken, I was in it for about 5 minutes, but my sister really did well in it - winning prizes for weird baked goods she'd make up on the fly. |
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![]() These guys are tearing it up! |
Tue. 10/29/13 12:31pm
laura spike:
Yeah, the Blind Shake are saving my life right now, otherwise I'd be dying of boredom. | |
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![]() you know it, laura. |
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![]() APPLAUSE !!!!!!!!!!!! |
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![]() yeah. WOW. |
Tue. 10/29/13 12:35pm
benny:
cant wait to see the blind shake tomorrow in phila! | |
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![]() @cecile and ken - my wife's youngest brother got really involved in 4-H when the family moved from the Detroit burbs to the sticks of West Michigan. Now he's in his mid 20s working quite successfully in agriculture. |
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![]() oh, dere's dat accent! |
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![]() tim, people forget what a farming state MI is. |
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![]() what's their favorite local beer? |
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Tue. 10/29/13 12:38pm
InBrkly:
What is thee oh sees connection? I love their album art. |
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![]() any plans to do another record with Michael Yonkers? |
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![]() Can the Blind Shake throw down a little more? |
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![]() @tim - Good deal. Keeps kids out of trouble and closer to nature. Other practical things, too. Like how to use hand tools and how small engines work. |
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![]() oh, yah. love it. |
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![]() - as always - I wonder why WFMU ~ Joe bring the great contemporary Rawk like this - & like the whole rest of the world is so dull & bad. Wtf ?!? |
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![]() oh nice! Can't wait to hear the John Reis surf record! |
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![]() @RevRabbit - its easier for most people to be boring. |
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![]() Blind Shake has a good sound. Good luck on their upcoming shows. |
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![]() hahahahaah secret plans! |
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![]() that is very true. |
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![]() @ken - yeah, or driving big ass combines. |
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![]() they are right. The amount of pain that guy endures on a daily basis would kill anyone else. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 12:48pm
InBrkly:
That sucks. I have a back injury. Just took my daily hydrocodone/cyclobenziprine. Still hurts. |
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![]() Does the drummer in a punctual band have great timing? |
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![]() thanks, Blind Shake! |
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![]() Great set and fun interview. Thanks Joe and Blind Shake! |
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![]() Tim, would a supergroup consisting of the group that did "bag lady (I wonder)" and this band be the EBN OZN OBN IIIs? |
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Tue. 10/29/13 12:57pm
Joe B:
cecile sorry didnt see the local beer question! |
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![]() that's fine, Joe! |
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![]() @cecile - maaaaaaaaaannnnn........ hahahaha |
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![]() I gotta get this album. It is rock solid. |
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![]() You mean to tell me I ate lunch with my mom instead of hearing the Blind Shake? I am a bad person. |
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![]() Hey! Hot show today, Joe! |
Tue. 10/29/13 1:14pm
gabee:
Great show t'as vu!!!! | |
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![]() this is awesome. |
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![]() Hey, Joe. I forgot I was here. |
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![]() wow you are at 80%. Hey, Ho, let's go. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:27pm
Joe B:
hey KP! thanks again! be in your neighborhood Friday - Steve wynn at bowery electric if you are not busy |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:27pm
Joe B:
and mark lindsay thursday |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:41pm
InBrkly:
I was in Texas last month and I blame them for everything. |
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![]() Okay: I turns Five-Oh on Sunday - 19 days after I was born - same day JFK was assasinated - C.S.Lewis died - & Aldous Huxley died choosing to go on a huge dose of LSD - 'With the Beatles' was released - & the 1st thing on the BBC after JFK coverage was the 1st episode of 'Dr, Who' - 'An Unearthly Child' ...& explain that Jack Ruby thing, is all I'm saying... |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:47pm
Joe B:
happy birthday RR! |
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![]() ...I was born less than a day before Lennon told the Queen to 'Rattle Her Jewelry' - not that I read anything into that ; )... |
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![]() - Cheers Joe ! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:48pm
Joe B:
Hi Mike Sin and Gabee, thanks! appreciate it! Stevel, dont worry, archive will be up later today! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:51pm
MissV:
Hell-oh from mid-town Manahatta! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:52pm
Joe B:
hi Miss V, not midtown for long! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:52pm
MissV:
Hell-oh from mid-town Manahatta! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 1:53pm
MissV:
Can't wait! I can pedal myself downtown! |
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![]() yeah, Split Squad! |
Tue. 10/29/13 2:04pm
jason in shanghai:
thank you wfmu and wfmu app developers. joe b. keep the hits rollin! | |
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![]() I knew this was coming sooner or later... |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:05pm
Joe B:
Hi Jason, thanks! Hey EFD! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:05pm
Dominick:
Now yer talkin' ! |
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![]() I was kind of planning what I think will be a slightly different sort of Lou Reed tribute for tomorrow night, and now I'm thinking I should inclu--- nah, never mind. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:08pm
Joe B:
yes Matt I know i am predictable! hey Dominick! |
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![]() nice tease, efd. Looking forward to it. |
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![]() You say that now... |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:13pm
Dominick:
Lou's in rare form on this one |
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![]() love it when Lou is angry |
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![]() i'm turning this way UP |
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![]() ...bring them mallets down Mo... |
Tue. 10/29/13 2:16pm
Sue:
Go Joe | |
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![]() Oh yeah, this 45 VU box is really cool. I love the radio spots for the 3rd album. |
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![]() Howdy Joe et al. So sad hearing this. NY lost a big one! |
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![]() Scharpling & Maron talked about how easy it is for people with older siblings, who could just walk across the hall and be like "Hey, a Velvet Underground record!" Exactly how it worked for me when I was 12. |
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![]() "I Can't Stand It" = the VU song with the best sense of humor! |
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![]() do it again! |
Tue. 10/29/13 2:24pm
Sue:
Best album, even though it's not an album !!!! | |
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![]() I give the VU and Another View outtakes records equal value as the 4 proper albums. The live records too. There's just so much great music to absorb from the Velvets. |
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![]() yep! |
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![]() re: VU "Loaded" -- Has it ever been pointed out ust who played drums on specific tracks? Billy Yule and Adrian Barber (of all people!) are listed as playing on the sessions but not the specific tracks, correct? |
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![]() Tim- yes! I think the outtakes records and the live records are the best showcase of the VU as a killer rock & roll band. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:31pm
RSB:
Transformer Lou - Right On |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:32pm
MissV:
They are the 89% |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:32pm
InBrkly:
I still haven't heard the VU "lost" acetate that was discovered a couple of years ago... |
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![]() Saw Lou during the Transformer era at SUNY Albany. Great show but the man was truly wasted. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:33pm
InBrkly:
oh I just conveniently found it on WFMU haha. |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:45pm
MissV:
Lou Reed ruined a movie experience for me as he snored through it's entirety! |
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![]() great stuff! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 2:58pm
Joe B:
thanks everybody who pledged! thanks for the push KP! |
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Tue. 10/29/13 3:16pm
Ajax:
I love being a part of another great JB show! Thanks for the spin Joe! And thanks for playing Lou Reed. | |