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May 11, 2016: I am great because I did something really great today. It was great. Not that I want to brag about my greatness.
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![]() Modesty prevents me from explaining how great what I did was. |
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![]() well, if this track is any indication, no explanation is needed |
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![]() you can trust us with the secret |
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![]() ... if I say so myself. |
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![]() and no doubt can possibly exist in anyone's mind that more greatness, the greatest greatness is yet to come. because you know how to be great. gooder greatness, even. |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:08pm
Laura L:
Was it super great or just pretty great? | |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:09pm
berbo:
Don't bother explaining how great you are. The rest of us are the losingest losers, just total losers. We couldn't possibly understand your greatness. | |
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![]() Laura, don't ask me to qualify or quantify the measure of greatness of the great thing I did. To do so would reduce greatness to a relative metric of itself. |
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![]() Oh, great! Irwin's show is on! |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:14pm
Polyus:
That was the Jayhawks back there? Not bad. | |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:15pm
Laura L:
It's true it is a great show--you're on a roll. | |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:17pm
Jess:
It couldn't have been as great as an album of Strange Geometry outtakes. | |
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Wed. 5/11/16 3:27pm
Shaun(ununun):
Keili! |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:28pm
Listener142985:
Dumb question: Is Keili still a DJ at WFMU? This song is awesome. | |
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![]() Keili lives in Florida, soon moving to Japan. |
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![]() Her musical talent is enormous. I hope she keeps sending new tracks. She records most of these at home. |
♥
Wed. 5/11/16 3:31pm
LandOfJƏrƏmy:
Didn't realize I missed hearing abba so much | |
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![]() Too bad about Abba being one-hit wonders. They had potential. |
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![]() The Beatles would have been more popular if they didn’t release mono tracks. Get with the times! |
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![]() I'm sure you've heard the Bernie Sanders version of Mr. Sandman... maybe you can sneak it on your Marathon Campaign songs premium. |
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![]() ...horns remind me of 'Lost In Space' theme (or - chronologically prolly vice versa) - apparently by John Williams... |
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![]() Great set. Great show, as usual. |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:48pm
Hoboken Jack:
Show is greatly improving the dreadful drive home from Paterson. | |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:49pm
Dean:
"...working in a muffler shop in Sweden," a country he also happens to own. | |
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![]() ...you can stay in the charts if you appeal to the Lowest Common DenAbbanator... |
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![]() Do a podcast Keili. |
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![]() ...blind, dressed as a kind of Viking, stood on busy NYC street corner, where he composed great Classical-style Music - by touch...in words & voice, like a precursor of Robert Wyatt & sorts - Musically confirmed a precursor to Phillip Glass...A moderately interesting & impressive human being... |
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![]() ...if I've learned nothing else here... |
Wed. 5/11/16 3:59pm
jan:
Irwin- great set since the break! | |
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![]() This isn't knuckles the dog who helps people! |
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![]() YOU ARE CLEANSED!!! |
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![]() Shoot! I missed a Moondog composition??? gar! and the Dalai Lama came through??? |
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![]() are those mind flowers on that sidewalk chair? |
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![]() Thanks to Laura for the stellar photo of juxtaposed incongruities. |
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![]() Nice chair you got there. |
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![]() Ken and Andy should raffle off that chair on 7SD tonight. |
Wed. 5/11/16 4:18pm
Dean:
Superlative Kale | |
Wed. 5/11/16 4:18pm
Polyus:
Irwin is strong to the finich, 'cause he plays Ultimate Spinach. | |
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![]() So... We talkin' just great or HUGE?! |
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![]() @KevinfromBayRidge: I believe you mean, "Yuge" |
Wed. 5/11/16 4:32pm
Dean:
Two in a week of M&tU?! Gotta grab my mom's copy of this LP next time I visit... | |
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![]() I'm on an Unbelievables binge. Mariano, not so much. |
Wed. 5/11/16 4:35pm
Dean:
Yeah, well, look where they ended up when he left. | |
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![]() re: that chair ... gentrifying those Jersey sidewalks i see. |
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![]() Ain't related to Mo! |
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♥
Wed. 5/11/16 4:41pm
V Priceless:
Moe was no Shemp, that's for sure. |
Wed. 5/11/16 4:41pm
Arlene Galonka:
Well ... he did love pastrami. | |
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![]() Sorry JP, didn't use my Trump-check! |
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![]() Most of these stories about Mo are just RUMORS. No one had nothin' on Moishe. |
Wed. 5/11/16 4:42pm
berbo:
... that they were willing to say in public. | |
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![]() Still not related, Irwin! |
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![]() it's about time. this is the first time i've heard Haley Bonar on fmu. Thanks Irwin. |
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![]() That's 'cos you weren't listening last week. |
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![]() ~ really lovely show today Irwin! ~ perfect. |
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![]() hmm - well thanks for playing Haley Bonar last week. |
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![]() I'll tell Ira the K to play Haley next week. |
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![]() luscious music ~ thank you Irwin! ~ |
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![]() i'd like at least one Haley song/ week for the rest of my life, but i'm usually working at this time on wednesdays...as i should be doing right now, but i'm not. |
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![]() hearing Simon & Garfunkel pretty strongly in Chameleon Church! |
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![]() Hearing Chevy Chase on drums. |
Wed. 5/11/16 4:58pm
berbo:
I have this Ch.Ch. album! | |
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![]() ...or Left Banke or - dangit...tip of my tongue...Lovely anyhow... |
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![]() really? Chevy Chase? :-D |
Wed. 5/11/16 5:00pm
berbo:
There is a picture of the band on the back of the album. You can recognize Chevy by his smirk. | |
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![]() i had no idea! |
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![]() ha! yeah he's pretty obvious! : thelinernote.net... |
Wed. 5/11/16 5:04pm
Hoboken Jack:
White Town's (Jyoti's) dad passed away recently, so I like to think he was transatlanticly cheered by the airplay. | |
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![]() that's him all right. ~ & played no instruments whatsoever on SNL ~ unless you count stairs & furniture. |
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![]() Charles Bradley, for those who have heard of him, performed last night on Conan. Great 60s style soul. |
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![]() ...well - drums *are* a bit like dancing... |
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![]() but of course! pratfalls = bodily percussion. |
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![]() always had the sense those were composed! ~ |
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![]() ...I think Jerry Lewis must've done that pretty flat-out - prolly Dick Van Dyke too... |
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![]() as usual, the artistry is about apparent accident |
Wed. 5/11/16 5:17pm
jan:
What would Steven Foster make of this wonderful, etherial cover of I Dream of Genie? | |
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![]() 'Do you know what the secret of Comedy is?' ...'I dunno ! - what *is* the secret of your Timing??'... |
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![]() what's the response? |
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![]() should i know this? |
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![]() Moondog...thank you !! |
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![]() Speaking of cool drum things, anyone else catch this 7 year old girl from the Ukraine? She’s pretty amazing. youtu.be... |
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![]() in my hometown, brilliant composers lived in the streets. |
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![]() Yay! Moondog. Thanks, Irwin. |
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![]() You know what makes writing REALLY funny? Appending "LOL" after the attempt at humor. That signifies to the reader that they should be deeply, outwardly amused. It's a courtesy -- sort of like a laugh track. In case someone really dense doesn't get your joke. |
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![]() often guilty as charged. |
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![]() The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! LOL! |
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![]() just sliced my toe on this broken beer bottle after stepping on a dirty needle. LOL. |
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![]() jake: Now THAT'S FUNNY! See how it works? |
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![]() Can I get a LMAO? |
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![]() roflmao! |
Wed. 5/11/16 5:30pm
Ted:
When is that Moondog documentary coming out Irwin? It's been on the shelf for a while now. | |
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Wed. 5/11/16 5:30pm
Peteski:
I'm I the only one waiting on The Hound? |
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![]() last i heard about moondog doc was editor had a baby and can continue with it again... also a bunch of new footage was found.... yay! |
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![]() @Irwin: I saw this horrible/patronizing cement graffiti in Brooklyn, so I will kick it up a notch: “Stand here and think about someone you love. LMAO!” www.instagram.com... |
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![]() facacta or innocently pubescent? |
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![]() The Moondog doc is moving slowly, but it shall be completed. Updates on the June 1 program. |
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![]() @LindaLee: This is the part of Brooklyn where they kick out old school diners and think they are doing you a favor selling you a muffin for $6. No words to describe that patronizing mentality just yet. |
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![]() oh my yes. i know that odor well! squeezed out of at least 4 gentrified neighborhoods myself. ~ |
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![]() moondog doc - www.kickstarter.com... |
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![]() now if that cement were near a sewer grate... omg lmao |
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![]() WOW! Nice photos of Mr. Hardin on the streets of NYC. |
Wed. 5/11/16 5:42pm
M:
Hitler eating a kosher pastrami sandwich saying..."I love Jewish people" | |
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![]() Jake, i can think of a few words... |
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![]() excellent McCoy here. i saw him only once, in the late '80s, and he was very subdued. |
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![]() h'lo Irwin, h'lo h'lo people people, and ah! McCoy Tyner! |
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![]() hello Scraps |
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![]() No Time = Traffic tune. |
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![]() Julie Tippetts! The second in two days! Love WFMU |
Wed. 5/11/16 5:53pm
Laura L:
Thanks for a GREAT show Irwin! | |
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![]() I saw Mr. Tyner w/ his Trio featuring Avery Sharpe in a small club in L.A. They were like Islamic prayer. Incredible. I was on the coattails of a friend who was a Jazz DJ - & we got into the dressing room - & McCoy Tyner shared his cheesecake w/ us & shook our hands & said Thx for coming! ...Uh - & TY for being Gawd, Sir... ...Then same day we went & saw Charlie Haden's Quartet West for free - for a whole sort of spiritual food! |
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![]() h'lo coel! |
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![]() Thank YOU for listening so GREATLY. |
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![]() (whole *other sort). TY Mr. IC. |
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![]() Have a good week off, Irwin! |
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![]() (just had rehab) |
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![]() thanks, Irwin! great work of greatness today. |
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![]() Thanks Irwin! |
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