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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.
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September 9, 2016: Shake a hand.
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:02pm
ndbob:
afternoon UM and everyone! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:05pm
Brian in UK:
Well hello dere Uncle and ndbob again. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:06pm
Uncle Michael:
Bob! Brian! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:06pm
Dominick:
Great kickoff! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:07pm
Uncle Michael:
Dominick! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:08pm
listener james from westwood:
How do, UM and all!! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:08pm
Stevel:
I believe I have your rooty-poot right here. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:08pm
Uncle Michael:
James! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:09pm
Uncle Michael:
Steve! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:09pm
listener jeff:
Got to hand it to you UM! (easy one) |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:10pm
Uncle Michael:
Jeff! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:10pm
Jeff Golick:
The red hands of rock! Rock on with your back self, @UM. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:11pm
Uncle Michael:
Jeff! ( I said that ) |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:11pm
Jeff Golick:
Back self? Ugh: bad self. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:11pm
listener jeff:
Gotta stick together |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:14pm
chromaphone:
I used to think this was the most heavily covered song ever until I started listening to this show :) |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:15pm
Lane Gray:
Craziest Caravan I've heard. God bless the Farina Brothers |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:15pm
Uncle Michael:
Chromaphone! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:15pm
Stanley:
Ooh, thought we were going with the 'teenage' in the title songs, just then. But hey, no matter. It's good to be listening again. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:15pm
mauri:
glove is all around |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:15pm
Uncle Michael:
Lane! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:15pm
Uncle Michael:
Mauri! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:
Stanley! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:16pm
Lane Gray:
Chroma, we lost the guy who started it all last week |
Fri. 9/9/16 12:20pm
V Priceless:
Hey Uncle M! | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:20pm
Uncle Michael:
VP! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:21pm
chromaphone:
Who did we lose Lane, Santo? I think I heard mention of that. Didn't the brothers have a huge falling out or something, early on in their career? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:21pm
doctorjazz:
HI UM and Drummer Streamers! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:24pm
chromaphone:
Nice UM! glad I can hear you better. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:25pm
Lane Gray:
Bud Isaacs. The first player to record pedal steel where you can hear the pedals bending the strings (Webb Pierce, "Slowly" 1956> |
Fri. 9/9/16 12:25pm
Dean:
Claw Hammer's "Caravan" is ... different. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:26pm
doctorjazz:
I do believe it was Ivy Anderson on vocals on Jump for Joy. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:26pm
Lane Gray:
I like the Mike Auldridge version off of "8 String Swing" |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:27pm
Brian in UK:
@Lane Hello, there are so many steel players that I have no idea of living here; that you take for granted. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:28pm
Uncle Michael:
Doc! Dean! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:29pm
Lane Gray:
Brian, you have David Hartley. One of only two Steel players on the playlist at my wedding two years ago. The other was Buddy Emmons' recording of the Pachelbel Canon David is VERY impressive |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:34pm
Lane Gray:
This version of Haul Off and Love Me is worth the price of admission |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:35pm
Brian in UK:
Buddy I know, David is new. You might like this steel link. My favourite steel pan player from Trinidad, Robert Greenidge (a good Trini name) playing some improvisation. www.youtube.com... |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:37pm
Lane Gray:
One of the two prettiest steels being made today is in Blighty. Dave Wheelhouse makes the Sheffield Steel. Gorgeous wood and beautiful machinery |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:40pm
Brian in UK:
Amazing how does that happen. Love the use of Blighty. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:42pm
chromaphone:
Love Bud Isaacs music. Sorry to hear of his passing. I have a great comp of his early music somewhere on my computer at home. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:42pm
burke:
Love this album!!! Never released on compact disk to my knowledge. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:43pm
Uncle Michael:
burke! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:44pm
burke:
It's fun to compare Jim Keltner's drumming on this album to Fleetwood's |
Fri. 9/9/16 12:45pm
Dean:
Seems only fair that if Lindsey and Stevie get to name a band after themselves then Mick and John should get to do the same! | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:47pm
Doug Schulkind:
Supposed to reach 90°F tomorrow. No tipping point just yet. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:48pm
listener james from westwood:
No sign of fall around northern NJ; summery humidity this morning, 90s today and tomorrow. Cannot wait for autumn. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:49pm
PMD:
No seasons here, alas |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:50pm
chromaphone:
91 and horribly muggy in Boston right now. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:52pm
Uncle Michael:
Doug! PMD! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:55pm
Parq:
Hi, gang. Hiding out in air conditioning until 7 at least. PMD! Long time no see, champ. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:57pm
Uncle Michael:
Parq! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:58pm
Brian in UK:
Sandie Shaw original by Chris Andrews or is this the original? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 12:59pm
chromaphone:
Not yer stepping stone, I know my rights. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:00pm
Roberto:
Seriously, why can't he have his rice? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:02pm
Uncle Michael:
Roberto! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:02pm
Roberto:
Buenos dias Tio Miguel! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:03pm
Parq:
Head hurts from the heat, and work is piled up. Can't think of a good pun. Can we take some clever "hand" reference to the animation as read? |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:06pm
Dean:
Read-handed? | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:06pm
Uncle Michael:
Lay your aching head on the pile of work. |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:09pm
Dean:
I can't figure out whether the image depicts a meatball factory or a canned applause machine. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:10pm
listener jeff:
Put something on that pile o' work. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:13pm
Uncle Michael:
Just add meat. |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:14pm
Dean:
For later consumption, this interview at WCIN with a friend of mine concerning his recent book about his uncle's photography among the hippies of New Mexico: http://www.wicn.org/podcasts/audio/benjamin-klein-irwin-klein-and-new-settlers Well worth the half hour. And the book is lovely, too. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:17pm
listener james from westwood:
I needed this energetic cut; copyediting book references right now. A slog. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:18pm
Lane Gray:
Cool, Michael |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:20pm
chromaphone:
You know UM is chair dancing right now. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:21pm
Lane Gray:
Safety features in the dashcam just went active today. It beeps if we get too close to a vehicle in front even in heavy traffic. And it chatters like an angry squirrel if I leave the lane, even to pass. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:21pm
Uncle Michael:
oh, wonderful. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:22pm
Lane Gray:
My truck is now officially my babysitter |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:23pm
Dean:
I was reading about regulation of the Internet of Things when you posted that, @Lane. You need a bumper sticker: BIG BROTHER IS MY CO-PILOT. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:23pm
Alex In Illinois:
I can understand why the proximity part is programmed in there, but why the lane changing alarm? Are trucks supposed to stay in the same lane? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:24pm
Lane Gray:
We are allowed to change lanes, but the first symptom of highway hypnosis for falling asleep at the wheel is drifting out of the lane |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:24pm
Dean:
Drift. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:25pm
Lane Gray:
Like being said. My last co-driver, the one with three wrecks in five weeks, took out somebody's bumper cover by drifting out of his Lane |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:25pm
Uncle Michael:
I'd think the turn signal would tell the system you're out of your lane on purpose. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:26pm
Lane Gray:
My boss is too cheap for one of the dash cams that integrates with all of the controls, it just sits here in the dash with no inputs other than microphone and two cameras |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:26pm
Dean:
I know from experience. I was struck on 5 in Southern California by a truck/trailer that drifted into my lane. My car spun perpendicular to the flow of traffic, conveniently settling directly in front of the truck as it slowed to a stop. I looked out my driver's side window. I could read MACK. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:26pm
Lane Gray:
Being=Dean |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:27pm
Alex In Illinois:
Ahh, I see. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:27pm
doctorjazz:
Have to note, this ChuchuSteady is GREAT! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:28pm
Lane Gray:
Come to think of it, his other two wrecks also started with Lane excursions. My speech to text keeps capitalizing my name even when I don't mean me |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:28pm
Dean:
I was also once t-boned by a nun. Accidents are fun. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:30pm
Guido from Cologne:
Hello Michael! Killer show (as always) |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:30pm
Lane Gray:
They are positively surreal when they wake you up and you can't see what's going on because you are in the wrong room |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:30pm
Alex In Illinois:
If it has a mike input, maybe somehow it can be programmed to accept a voice command to indicate that you are awake before you make a lane change. But that would be for the programmers at the device vendor to figure out. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:31pm
Uncle Michael:
Guido! Thank you. Alex! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:32pm
Lane Gray:
All the music today is great! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:33pm
listener jeff:
Sounds like a plan. Here we go! |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:34pm
Dean:
Hence the rights The Acoustics were demanding. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:36pm
Lane Gray:
I I suspect FedEx might have a problem with me joining the party |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:38pm
Rich in Washington:
I just posted psychotropic drug related comments on the wrong shows playlist. Boy are my faces red. And blue. And electric pink. Anybody got something for an acid stomach? |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:38pm
Dean:
You can't spell Rolaids without LSD. | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:39pm
Uncle Michael:
Bryce doesn't mind, Rich. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:39pm
Rich in Washington:
I am sure not, but I still backed awkwardly out of the virtual room, then ran. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:40pm
Lane Gray:
Fortunately, everything is kind of damp to keep the risk of spreading down |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:41pm
Lane Gray:
Another day, another green red and purple Paisley dollar |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:42pm
Rich in Washington:
"Give the nice horsey a sugarcube..." The horse's whinny mutating into an elephant's trumpet just killed me when I was a kid. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:43pm
Lane Gray:
Sundowners: somebody wanted to be status quo? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:44pm
Jeff Golick:
Nobody captured weird quite like Firesign. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:44pm
Uncle Michael:
Jeff caught my reference! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:46pm
Lane Gray:
I did. Hence the Firesign quote |
Fri. 9/9/16 1:47pm
Dean:
Mr. Klein? | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:47pm
Uncle Michael:
I didn't catch yours, Lane. My bad. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:52pm
Lane Gray:
Jeff, I'd say the Goons were S weird as Firesign, but a little different |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:54pm
Lane Gray:
Cool Webb cut. Who's on the Table Harp? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:54pm
Jeff Golick:
I have had much less exposure to the Goons, @Lane. Something about Firesign highlighted (for my young mind) the almost sinister aspects of "hippie culture." Did the Goons mine similar territory? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:55pm
Brian in UK:
@Lane Goons title like I'm Walking Backwards to Christmas Across the Irish Sea. Weird enough. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:55pm
Lane Gray:
BTW, I just reread the playlist table. I did not mean to Sundowners sounded like status quo, I meant EIEIO sounded like the status QUO to me |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:57pm
listener james from westwood:
Julea's DS&DC is my Friday morning wake the hell up show! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:57pm
Brian in UK:
@Jeff the main weirdness was probably Spike Milligan. The others happily jumped in too. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:58pm
Lane Gray:
Jeff, there are a couple of internet radio streams of the Goons. They also had some great music. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 1:59pm
Brian in UK:
Harry Secombe has a great singing voice. Peter Sellers did the voices. Michael Bentines the sets. That is a very simple run through. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:01pm
Jeff Golick:
I had my chance. A few jobs ago I managed BBC Audiobooks publishing in the US. Tried bringing some Goon Show recordings over, but...was not greeted with a lot of enthusiasm. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:02pm
Lane Gray:
Max Geldray blew the hell out of the harmonica. Can't forget the Conk |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:02pm
Jeff Golick:
The company met a sad end, and now Amazon owns all of the old BBC Radio recordings. Blergh. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:02pm
Rich in Washington:
I found a shelf full of Goon Shows on open reel in KBOO's catacomb-like archive dead storage area last night. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:03pm
Jeff Golick:
Wow, @Rich. Score. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:03pm
Lane Gray:
You lucky man |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:04pm
Rich in Washington:
I am hoping they're on the list to be digitized. Also, the original Hitchhiker's Guide was all there. And some Ken Nordine's Word Jazz - I think his 80s shows. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:07pm
Jeff Golick:
Sweet set, @UM. Funky stroll. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:07pm
Uncle Michael:
I sent Nordine a record to autograph and he went overboard with the inscription. I treasure it. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:07pm
Rich in Washington:
the station got a grant (I think) to digitize its tape archive but I think it only applies to content which originated at the station - tons of rare stuff that was sent in by other stations, later sent via ISDN and taped to open reel. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:08pm
Uncle Michael:
who knew a stroll could be a pimp walk? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:08pm
Rich in Washington:
Ken is great! Someone once gave me his number and suggested I call him but I was too chicken! He's in his 90s now, slowed down considerably but I guess still active. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:10pm
Jeff Golick:
pallid/salad is solid. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:11pm
Rich in Washington:
Solid potato squalid. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:12pm
Lane Gray:
At 14, all of Pimp's Walks are strolls (Pimp, actually Pimpin, is our superannuated pit bull |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:15pm
chromaphone:
Weird, I assumed this was a recent recording because of the way it sounded. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:16pm
Parq:
Long John! A relatively obscure 70s figure who means a lot to me for reason I won't bore you with. |
Fri. 9/9/16 2:18pm
johnk77:
baldry was a talent and a queenly piece of work | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:18pm
chromaphone:
Wow, I also assumed Baldry was black. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:21pm
ndbob:
don't think I know this Wade song - a good one |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:21pm
Parq:
Remember "English Bob," the character played by Richard Harris in Eastwood's "Unforgiven"? Baldry looked kinda like that. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:21pm
Uncle Michael:
not very! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:23pm
Uncle Michael:
Baldry is a lot longer than Harris |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:25pm
burke:
That guitar sound is totally psychotic.. |
Fri. 9/9/16 2:26pm
johnk77:
baldry meant a lot world-wide not so much lower 48 | |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:28pm
chromaphone:
It must feel weird to be a popsicle. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:29pm
Parq:
Hmm. Well, I remember seeing Unforgiven and thinking "Is that Long John Baldry?" Maybe it was just coz Baldry had a very similar black suit when I saw him ca. '72. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:31pm
Uncle Michael:
I'm just saying Baldry is really, really tall. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:35pm
Roberto:
All right already, I'll vote for him. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:36pm
Roberto:
OK turns out he's not on the ballot this cycle, and is unlikely to be at any future date seeing as he died 10 years ago. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:37pm
Lane Gray:
I can't wait for this show to resume, but I can't remember if it's Mock the Week or HIGNFY |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:40pm
Parq:
Wow, from Baldry to the Nice. You really are playing my 70s today. Got any Sha Na Na coming up? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:49pm
geezerette:
Wow, beautiful Terry Smith! Hello-Goodbye! I'm too L.A. :( |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:51pm
geezerette:
...but better late than, so cheers! :) |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:51pm
Uncle Michael:
What, geezerette? Hi! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:52pm
chromaphone:
McCartney much? |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:52pm
Bill Mac:
Hello Uncle Michael and Hinky Dinky Shoppers! After checking out them groceries head over to Bill Mac’s Virtual Café for the Zzzzzzero Hour program from 3-6 pm! wfmu.org... Clean up on aisle 5….. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:53pm
geezerette:
Howdy UM, everyones favorite radio uncle! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:53pm
Uncle Michael:
Hey Bill...see you there! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:54pm
geezerette:
These babies have such mature vocal cords! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:55pm
Uncle Michael:
before John Waite's voice changed |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:55pm
geezerette:
haha :D |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:55pm
ndbob:
excellent show UM! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:57pm
Uncle Michael:
Thanks Bob. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:57pm
Brian in UK:
Nice one, Uncle. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:58pm
chromaphone:
Saw Eddie Harris with Scofield in the 90s. It was so amazing. Apparently he did comedy for a while, but I've never heard any recordings. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:59pm
Uncle Michael:
Thanks for being here, everyone...see you next week. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 2:59pm
burke:
Flash Strap had an awesome Eddie Harris show with comedy stuff in it |
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Fri. 9/9/16 3:00pm
listener james from westwood:
Thanks a ton, UM! |
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Fri. 9/9/16 3:01pm
Stanley:
Thanks UM. Great show. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 3:02pm
chromaphone:
Thanks for the tip Burke and thanks Unkie. |
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Fri. 9/9/16 3:03pm
Uncle Michael:
My pleasure! |
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