WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 03/29/13

Listener comments!

🥁 ♥ 7:59am duke:

I hope to hear lots of filthy Jazz today.

♥ 8:05am Doug Schulkind:

The filthier, the better! Morning Duke!

🥁 ♥ 8:12am duke:

You said it. The filthier, the better! The image today looks like FMU DJs running off with their filthy jazz records while the FCC fumes.

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♥ 8:15am Uncle Michael:

I like filthy...but I love greezy. Morning all.

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♥ 8:18am Uncle Michael:

The lid on that record player reminds me of a classic box and stick trap. I think those kids baited it with Bait-ovin.

♥ 8:27am Doug Schulkind:

@UM
A classic Beethoven and switch!

8:44am Parq:

Doug, I just noticed that your stream's icon on the WFMU-for-iPad app is a set of bongos. Rat own.

♥ 8:46am Doug Schulkind:

Same as the stream's iPhone app icon. I studied many long minutes before picking that, Parq!

8:53am Van in DC:

Is the stream down or is it just me? Good morning!

♥ 8:54am Doug Schulkind:

THE STREAM IS BACK. I was stupidly futzing with something and made it cry. I promised it ice cream and now everything is back.

8:54am Van in DC:

All better now...

♥ 8:56am Doug Schulkind:

I am constantly cleaning up the ID tags on the MP3s in the stream's queue. Unfortunately, I tried to do this with THE TRACK THAT IS CURRENTLY PLAYING, and that is (apparently) a bad thing to do.

8:56am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

8:57am Parq:

Ah, I assumed the problem was on my end. Maybe now people will take me seriously when I tell them the internet's out to get me.

♥ 8:57am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning Nanookbob of the northlands.

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♥ 8:58am Brian in UK:

Hey diddle dee a listeners life for me.

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♥ 8:59am Brian in UK:

Herring bone sucks.

♥ 8:59am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Welcome back. Had a good holiday, yes? Lincoln and Jessie had a bang-up time in London.

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♥ 9:02am Brian in UK:

Yes thanks Doug, we got out just as the wind driven snows arrived. It was fun driving home.
Glad your folks had a good time.

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♥ 9:02am Uncle Michael:

I had a problem on my end once.

♥ 9:03am Doug Schulkind:

@B in UK
I was reading about the 10-foot snow drifts. Glad you weren't stuck in them.

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♥ 9:05am Brian in UK:

@UM Tell me all about it. You can trust me I'm a listener.

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♥ 9:08am Uncle Michael:

I try not to even think about it.

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♥ 9:08am Brian in UK:

Doug we stayed just by Kinder Scout where eighty years ago there was a mass trespass of the common man to walk the land.
kindertrespass.com...

♥ 9:10am Doug Schulkind:

"Mass trespass" sounds so civilized.

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♥ 9:10am Brian in UK:

@UM try a warm bath & hot chocolate, works for me.

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♥ 9:11am Uncle Michael:

Ok, so I'm working on this theme show for next Wednesday. It's a not-in-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame theme. I've decided that it won't be based on who I think *should* be in a well-run hall...but rather, artists that a reasonably engaged music fan that doesn't pay significant attention to the Hall or its politics could reasonably be surprised to learn *aren't* in the Hall.

Does that make sense?

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♥ 9:12am Brian in UK:

I loves a bouzouki.

9:12am Parq:

UM, did someone tell you it had to?

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♥ 9:12am Uncle Michael:

put a little tzatziki on bouzouki and I'm all over that shit.

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♥ 9:13am Brian in UK:

Why a hall. Let's go into the front room.

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♥ 9:13am Uncle Michael:

Parq, just the guy with horns on my left shoulder.

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♥ 9:14am Uncle Michael:

You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties.

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♥ 9:14am Brian in UK:

@UM probably someone like Ray Davies.

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♥ 9:14am Uncle Michael:

Ray's in with his band.

♥ 9:15am Doug Schulkind:

@UM
I used to put a little tzatziki on my bouzouki, but my doctor said it's bad for my cholesterol.

9:18am still b/p:

Slow computer makes me want to smash smash smash. now I missed all the opening numbers that were called for the Big Bouzouki Bingo Jackpot.

♥ 9:21am Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
What if you use this to listen: www.wfmu.org...

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♥ 9:21am Brian in UK:

These Thai tracks sounds as if on the edge of imminent collapse. Sheer willpower holding them together.

9:22am ndbob:

that does make sense Michael

♥ 9:23am Nardo:

Hey Doug. Just read your BOTB post about Google Reader. You originally turned me on to using that and I was bummed when I heard the news a couple weeks ago too. I haven't had a chance to start looking for other options, but besides Feedly, Flipboard is also one to consider (according to Marketplace report I heard). Thanks for the insight on Feedly.

♥ 9:25am Doug Schulkind:

@Nardo
So far my only disappointment with Feedly is that it's not Reader. Mostly a positive experience, so far. (I love that it can import all your saved items from Google.) I will poke around with Flipboard. Thanks!

9:25am still b/p:

I do use the Flash sometimes, but usually the ridiculously groggy boggy start-up and the delay while anti-virus software does its check are what make the waiting so gnashy waily and long.

9:27am Van in DC:

Does MediaFire not work any longer or is it just for the Phongsi Woranut album that it is broke?

♥ 9:28am Doug Schulkind:

@Van
Mediafire in general still works, but as a company, it has gotten extremely skittish and is taking down links to anything that it thinks may be a copyright infringement or for which there has been a complaint.

Which page are you trying to get that Phongsi from?

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♥ 9:29am Uncle Michael:

@ndbob: Good. I was hoping it did.

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♥ 9:30am Uncle Michael:

Most reliable links these days seem to be file factory or deposit files.

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♥ 9:30am Brian in UK:

I see Rodriguez is playing Glastonbury.

9:30am Van in DC:

@Doug from the old standby Monrak blog

monrakplengthai.blogspot.com...

♥ 9:31am Doug Schulkind:

@Van
Here is the Phongsi album I just played. And the Mediafire link WORKS!

monrakplengthai.blogspot.com...

9:32am Van in DC:

Maybe the RAR file is being blocked by work firewall or something. It keeps timing out and tells me it needs to be repaired, then retry doesn't work. I'll have to try from home I reckon

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♥ 9:37am Uncle Michael:

My tried and true method is to just have 300 blog tabs open in my browser.

9:37am ndbob:

Ha Michael!

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♥ 9:38am thedunkel:

coffee + drummer + friday = AWESOME!

9:39am Hugo:

"Feed aggregator". Sounds indigestible ...

♥ 9:42am Doug Schulkind:

Here is today's Mining the Audio Motherlode: bit.ly...

@Hugo
Feed aggregator sounds like something to do with cattle.

@thedunkel
You are awesomer!

@Van
Sorry it's not working. If you still have trouble at home, email and I will have my trained gerbils send you the files via their pneumatic tube network.

9:43am Van in DC:

Danke! :)

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♥ 9:44am Uncle Michael:

Friday is fast becoming my favorite day...

9:50am Van in DC:

Well, it IS Good Friday UM...

♥ 9:50am Doug Schulkind:

How fast?

9:51am ndbob:

great one here Doug!

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♥ 9:51am Uncle Michael:

It's hard to say...pretty fast...

9:58am Van in DC:

The motherload mining is another thing I have to remember to do at home.

Your attempt to access the following Web address was blocked:

blog.wfmu.org

9:58am Shaun:

WALLY FAWKES! *Shaun spoons*

9:58am Shaun:

Afternoon/morning all.

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♥ 9:59am Uncle Michael:

Hey Shaun of the scary avatar.

♥ 10:01am Lewis:

a quiet morning here in the midwest - all the better for composing my next bit of science policy radicalism...

10:03am Shaun:

@UncleMIchael Haha.

10:04am still b/p:

I loved Ha Howa Ha Howa. Loved the set.

♥ 10:04am Doug Schulkind:

Hi Shaun Hi Lewis!

♥ 10:05am Doug Schulkind:

This Loy Clingman was produced by Lee Hazlewood!

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♥ 10:07am Brian in UK:

@UM with due respect. Scary avatar?

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♥ 10:08am Uncle Michael:

@Brian: I was in a very fragile state of mind when, as a child, I first saw "Sleuth," first run in the theater.

10:08am ndbob:

wow Doug

10:09am dçþät:

hello.

♥ 10:10am Doug Schulkind:

@dçþät
You're right on time! Now comes the "good" stuff.

♥ 10:11am Doug Schulkind:

Read about Janet Greene, the "Anti-Joan Baez" here:

www.conelrad.com...

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♥ 10:12am Brian in UK:

Belting name, Doug. Horden Raikes that is.

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♥ 10:12am Uncle Michael:

I thought *I* was the anti-Joan Baez.

♥ 10:12am Lewis:

cool bit of trivia on the Loy Clingman - Lee was among my daughter's first musical loves. (In the third grade at PS84 she responded to a question about favorite musician with "junior Brown" (said proud papa)).

10:12am dçþät:

good, glad I missed all the crappy stuff...

10:14am dçþät:

oh, yeah! Satie!

10:15am ndbob:

@Doug I've heard the Janet Greene record - there are some pretty strange anti-protest records - some on the great Bear Family Cold War and Vietnam boxed sets

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♥ 10:15am Uncle Michael:

If you don't all have the Atomic Platters sets, get 'em! I was right about the comet!

♥ 10:16am Doug Schulkind:

@Lewis
PS 84, as in New Yawk?

@ndbob
Yes, I have all those Bear Familty "Atomic Platters" discs. Jawdroppers. Oops, just saw Uncle Michael comment.

10:16am ndbob:

www.clarionledger.com...

♥ 10:17am Lewis:

@ndbob - didn't know Great Bear did a VietNam box. I won the cold war one in the marathon some years back... Could dump a lot of money into Great Bear (and Sublime Freq (and Dust to digital))

10:18am dçþät:

my daughter use to like Sonny Boy Williamson "play some Sonny Boy, dad!" but now she likes Lily Allen....which isn't SO bad...

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♥ 10:18am Brian in UK:

Same time as Duchamps' 'Bride Stripped Bare by her Batchelors' Dada for now.

10:18am ndbob:

@Lewis 14 CD set - and maybe another in the works

♥ 10:19am Lewis:

@dcpat - yeah I actually captured her lily allen as it was headed for the recycle (you know for those times you need so good pop music)

10:21am dçþät:

I tried to play her some Madness last night which sounds like an influence to me, but she wasn't having ANY of that...

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♥ 10:21am Uncle Michael:

Is this that National Lampoon "save the whales" bit?

10:22am Van in DC:

So I leave for a bit for work, come back, and find that my Phongsi download finally went through! Yay!

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♥ 10:22am Uncle Michael:

I spun some almost-Madness on my show last night...the Jools Holland/Suggs song about Ian Dury...

♥ 10:23am Lewis:

@dcpat - the flip is that she pulled OMC out of a bin at a record fair one year and I still listen to it and think of her every time: How Bizarre...

10:23am Van in DC:

dcpat! Hey, I went to National Gallery of Art - East yesterday, and found out, you are right. Closing for 3 years of massive internal renovation, around the first of next year...

10:24am Parq:

Pat, just let her do her thing. My daughter went through her Averill Lavigne phase and even her A Simple Plan phase, and I just patiently waited.

10:24am dçþät:

hah! See? mrs. dçþät did exaggerate! she said 5 years. Well that's a little better.

10:26am Parq:

Pat, if they're saying three years, you better pray it's *only* five.

10:26am Van in DC:

Their wonderful 7-station cafeteria thingy in the tunnel between the buildings featured great falafel with many trimmings, much like Amsterdam Falafel. Was great!

♥ 10:27am Lewis:

@Parq - agree, but it can be painful and booorrrinnnggg.

10:27am dçþät:

@Parq, I know, I know. I approached it the wrong way at the start--wasn't ready for Lady Gaga, etc. "YOU WILL LISTEN TO THE KINKS AND THE FLAMING LIPS" but I've found you're right, you just have to cool it. The other day I heard her from the other room: "DAD, where's the Fugazi CD? the one with Waiting Room..."

♥ 10:29am Lewis:

Bollywood Time!!

10:29am Parq:

I still remember riding in a car with my daughter on a Saturday afternoon. She had just gotten old enough to sit in the front seat. I had Terre T on the radio. She asked me whose show it was and I told her. She gazed at the radio thoughtfully for a few secs, and then sat forward and turned up the volume. *That's* my girl!

10:30am Parq:

She's run with a comic book/gaming crowd for years now, and that informs her current listening. The stuff that Nick the Bard does is right up her alley.

10:30am ndbob:

very foggy here with freezing fog - but all in all not so bad:)

10:31am dçþät:

Bollywood/bhangra gets instant star.

♥ 10:31am Lewis:

@Parq - kudos to your daughter. Terre T has done some GREAT radio.

10:32am ndbob:

I actually like a few Averill Lavigne songs

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♥ 10:32am Brian in UK:

I confess I do not push any music. One daughter likes Stereophonics, the other the Rifles. The third can pick out Jim White at 100 paces. Go figure. We do sing along to the opening track of the Flamings Lips 'Death Hit'!!

♥ 10:33am Doug Schulkind:

My daughter is full-on into the current pop music shite. I know better than to try to push her in any other direction. As is said, "If you Love them, let them listen to crappy music until they figure things out."

♥ 10:34am Lewis:

@Doug - well said - I was looking for those words earlier...

10:35am dçþät:

well at least we're all in the same boat. The son right now is into the Undertones and Sham 69, so I have that... "WE'RE GOING DOWN THE PUB!"

10:36am Parq:

Some of it's just old fashioned rebellion, Doug. When you get right down to it, we of all parents have it coming.

10:36am ndbob:

I rarely listen to current pop but when I do it's a mix - good music, bad music, most mediocre - nothing wrong with it - just that's it's a low priority for me

♥ 10:37am Doug Schulkind:

I listen to a lot of the current pop on the car radio (when driving with Miss Daughter). I am amazed at the number of top of the chart tracks that hardly use any real music instruments.

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♥ 10:37am Uncle Michael:

<- Uncle Pufnstuf has only nephews and a niece. On the upside...they named me.

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♥ 10:38am Brian in UK:

The crazy thing is I really dig the music of my parents' generation. Now I understand Frank Sinatra's 'In the Wee Small Hours' and where it comes from as one example.

10:38am ndbob:

true Doug

10:38am dçþät:

@ndbob: I disagree there. I think it's total shite (to borrow Doug's word). It's music made for kids with adult themes. Awful all around. At least the local radio station is...

♥ 10:39am Doug Schulkind:

Get this exquisite Thai Thanh here:

bodegapop.blogspot.com...

10:40am Hugo:

My eldest son went through that period, too. Now, he wants to disfgure those cds. His current tastes are in Bryce territory.

10:40am Van in DC:

This day has become rife with wonderful bounty. Thanks Doug!

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♥ 10:40am Brian in UK:

The boys and girls wanting to form bands these days are less likely to be chart potential than previously.

10:41am dçþät:

wow, way to go Hugo's son!

10:41am ndbob:

@ Pat I figured I would get some disagreement there

♥ 10:41am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
I am operating under the assumption that my wise and thoughtful child will pull herself up into the light. And by light, I of course mean appreciating Bryce!

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♥ 10:42am Uncle Michael:

You know what gets on my wick? Grownups and serious music fans caring that breakfast cereal for tweens, like Beiber, is nutritionally without value. My Facebook newsfeed is full of people that think they're mavens for slamming disposable kid-pop. *yawn* So he's not the Beatles or Sinatra...and you're not Bob fucking Christgau for noticing.

10:44am trish:

The thing is, kids aren't arriving to Bieber-tastes independently.

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♥ 10:45am Uncle Michael:

Nor were they the Osmonds, Leif Garrett or Menudo.

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♥ 10:45am Brian in UK:

@UM people that call rap music (c)rap music. So bluddy funny.

♥ 10:45am Doug Schulkind:

Anyone wanna try translating this song title for me? Google's version ain't cutting it.

10:46am trish:

It's a packaged good.
0-2 is a Nielsen demographic.

10:46am ndbob:

@Michael - agree there - and i don't think Beiber is all that bad - though I vastly prefer Brill Building pop, in some ways you could make the same argument about it

10:46am Parq:

Uncle Michael, clicking like. Doug, with me, it's a process of realizing that it doesn't matter whether or not she ever gets Bryce, as long as she gets things like marriage equality.

10:47am ndbob:

right Parq

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♥ 10:47am Uncle Michael:

There's a lot of music I don't like. My solution is to not listen to it...not insult people that do. And Trish...'twas ever thus. You think Fabian records sold on their merits?

10:47am Van in DC:

Man. Talk about wondering far afield of Hall talk bwaaa ha ha

10:48am Hugo:

He's ordering a Korg MS20. Bryce was very appreciative when I mentioned it last week on his comments board.

When we were in NY for the 2011 FMU rec fair, we went to hear La Monte Young, one of his big faves. It was bitingly cold out on the streets, but the ambience at the Dream House put us at ease.

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♥ 10:49am Uncle Michael:

@Van: That's why I live in Kansas. Easier to get all over the map from here.

10:49am ndbob:

Fabian no - but yes for other early 60s teen idols - there's only one Fabian record I like - "String Along"

♥ 10:49am Doug Schulkind:

Halllooo Trish!

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♥ 10:50am Brian in UK:

Doug. 'My trousers are on fire upon seeing the radiant gleam in your spectral eyes'. Any good?

10:50am trish:

Heya

10:51am Parq:

I grew up admiring a lot of very opinionated people. It's taken me a whole bunch of decades to figure out that opinionated does not equal judgmental.

♥ 10:51am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Is that a fire in your trousers or are you just glad to see my radiant gleam? Or both?

10:51am trish:

@Uncle Michael. That's not true. 0-2 has not always been a measured demographic. Big changes happened after the US deregulated advertising to children.

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♥ 10:52am Brian in UK:

Both ofcourse mon ami.

10:53am Robert Brenner:

That is some great psychotic jazz you are playing! More, please!

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♥ 10:53am Uncle Michael:

Think about the musical gestalt of 1969. You know what the number one record of that year was? Sugar, Sugar. Now, I like it...but it is what it is. It's product for children.

@Trish: Not only didn't I say 0-2, I don't even know what it means.

10:54am Van in DC:

0-2 is either a hockey or a baseball score. Or soccer.

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♥ 10:55am Uncle Michael:

I used to be opinionated and judgmental. Now I'm just opinionated. I don't care if people like music that I don't and I don't care if they don't like music that I do. I like that when someone and I like the same music that it's a connection.

10:55am trish:

Ha. No. It's a demographic age group.

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♥ 10:57am Brian in UK:

@UM There always used to be oddball records in the past getting into the charts. They have disappeared now it seems. Vaudeville is really dead. Let's face it singles do not sell units.

10:57am Hugo:

The new Korg MS 20 mini. Ain't it a thing of beauty?

www.korg.com...

Should arrive on these shores sometime in April (hopefully).

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♥ 10:57am Uncle Michael:

Whether or not it has always had a name and a metric...it's been exploited for as long as merchandisers have recognized that kids have buying power or drive purchasing decisions. In music, that goes back to nearly the beginning of the rock and roll era.

♥ 10:59am Doug Schulkind:

Read about and download this Ebenezer Obey record here:

likembe.blogspot.com...

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♥ 11:00am Brian in UK:

@Hugo I just love the name KORG.

Doug did he have some military prefix? Commander/Chief?

♥ 11:00am Doug Schulkind:

Ah yes, Hugo, but how about Corgi2013?

doodlingdogs.com...

♥ 11:01am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Yes, yes: "Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey"

♥ 11:01am Lewis:

hey all - I need a good introduction to midi concepts. I am trying to make my new (not nearly as cool as the Korg MS20 Mini) Korg nanoKey talk to Reaper as mechanism to trigger sound clips. I have come to realize that I am lacking some basic conceptual knowledge. And being the intellectual that I am I believe that the right book will solve my problems...

11:01am Van in DC:

That is one happy Corgi :)

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♥ 11:02am Brian in UK:

I salute you Chief Commander Sir Doug de Schulkind. KMA

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♥ 11:03am Uncle Michael:

@Brian: Did you write that in 1985? Because to the extent that there still *is* a music business, it's gone almost totally back to a singles economy. It's all about the iTunes.

I will agree that the skill at manipulating and exploiting young music buyers has only increased but it's not new. Beiber is just the latest New Kid On The Block that's about to become totally played out. He's not his own fault.

man, I'm uppity today.

11:04am Van in DC:

@UM - I express my musical opinion with every post. :)

♥ 11:05am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
It is no longer all about iTunes. With the under-20 crowd, now it is all about YouTube. That is where my kid and all of her friends get 100% of their music. (We gave Lincoln a $25 iTunes gift card for Xmas and she hasn't touched it.)

11:05am Hugo:

@Do(u)g: Woof woof!

If it can't emulate a Corgi, it ain't no good.

11:06am Van in DC:

Sigh. Another to-do after work...that Bodega download is blocked for me here :(

Your attempt to access the following Web address was blocked:

www.divshare.com

♥ 11:07am Doug Schulkind:

Does anyone know if there is was to turn off the sound that Facebook makes when you get a message?!

11:07am Van in DC:

Ha ha ha! Heard a beep and it was my "Downloads" window...I've now downloaded the Phongsi album about 17 times

11:08am Hugo:

Facebook, what's that?

11:09am Parq:

Hug, it's this thing they came up with so that middle aged people can show each other viral JPEGs that their kids first saw a year or two earlier.

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♥ 11:09am Uncle Michael:

@Doug: That's interesting. They sit and watch Youtube? They watch it on their phones? Is the playlist dead? Is this like when we were kids, playing 45s? One song at a time...not turning on music and going about our business?

♥ 11:09am Matt from Springfield:

Good Friday, Doug and Drummers!
For now I'm a non-listener listener at my current job, but wanted to check in and say hi to youse! :)

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♥ 11:10am Uncle Michael:

Hi Matt

♥ 11:10am Doug Schulkind:

@Matt from Springfield
Greetings, employed person!

11:10am trish:

It's one thing to target a fully matured mind. Kids can't vote.

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♥ 11:10am Brian in UK:

If memory serves, Chief Commander was one of the first African sounds I heard around the mid 70s, still sounds great. Relentless, in a kind of relaxed way.

11:10am Van in DC:

Matt! You NLL'er you!

11:11am ndbob:

Hello Matt!

♥ 11:13am Matt from Springfield:

@Doug: Aw, ya make me blush!
@Van: I thank listener pierre for coining that term. A temporary state, I hope :)

@Hugo: Who needs FB, when we've got FS!!
@NDBob: Hiya from the East!

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♥ 11:13am Brian in UK:

Hello MATT.

11:13am Parq:

UM, worse than that (and no less than Adam Gopnik has noted this), they've turned their backs on our quest for the best high fidelity speakers and listen to music on tinny little mini-speakers wired into the players.

♥ 11:13am Matt from Springfield:

Whoops, hi Uncka Mike, as well!

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♥ 11:15am Uncle Michael:

@Parq. xref Raspberries singles mixed specifically for the single AM radio dashboard speaker in an American car.

♥ 11:16am Matt from Springfield:

UK Brian, howdy to ya!

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♥ 11:17am Brian in UK:

Doug, what are you calling todays show. 'the aging farts try to remember'

@parq where do you get the 'our' in the search. Always had crap speakers. All the good music was recorded on less than 4 track.

11:17am ndbob:

great one here Doug!

♥ 11:18am Doug Schulkind:

@Parq
I've got that Gopnik piece sitting right here. We bought our daughter a really nice external, wireless speaker for her iPad—and she never uses it. She doesn't "get" making the music sound better. I've tried to explain that it's better louder, but even that Trojan Horse argument didn't work. Sigh.

11:19am Parq:

Hah. Come to think of it, I listened to all my old grade-school 45s on a crappy record player the size of a portable typewriter.

Doug, I know all the words to that song. Did the same thing at Christmas. She smiled all over and even her boyfriend commented on what great speakers they were. The box remains unopened.

♥ 11:19am Carmichael:

Good morning Douglas, and hello everyone.

♥ 11:20am Doug Schulkind:

Morning, Carm!

11:20am ndbob:

Currently I just use the external speakers from my laptop and my $100 turntable/radio/cd cassette player from Target

11:21am ndbob:

morning Carmichael!

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♥ 11:22am Uncle Michael:

Find the craziest, audiophile dealership in P-burgh. Take her favorite song...and let her hear it on a quarter-million dollar system in a perfect listening room. Then tell her that she'll never have that...but there's a lot of room between her computer speakers and that listening room. People do need to know what good audio sounds like. They also need not to embrace the $1000 power cord craziness...but that's another story.

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♥ 11:22am Brian in UK:

Lovin' the mix today Doug. Keeps us on our metaphorical toes.

Hello Carmichael.

♥ 11:22am Doug Schulkind:

I must admit, Carmichael, every time I see your name, I think "Carm." Then I think of Carmella Soprano. Not a bad association, really. Me and the wife just started watching the Sopranos again from the beginning and you know what? It holds up amazingly well.

11:22am glenn:

parq, it has long been my contention that once most of us can afford that amazing sound system of our dreams that our hearing has deteriorated to the point where we can no longer hear most of the notes anyway.

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♥ 11:23am Brian in UK:

Keep Carm and play another record.

♥ 11:23am Lewis:

I had been saving for a pair of Axiom speakers, but ended up with a decent pair of Polk RT3 from craigslist. Now gonna buy a zoom h4n with the speaker money (@glenn point well taken)

11:24am Hugo:

My speakers are called IMF. 30 years old. Not to be confused with that agency in DC.

Eje Thelin! Cool!

11:24am Van in DC:

I wish I could get Studio P something like an $8,000 turntable

www.enjoythemusic.com...

♥ 11:24am Doug Schulkind:

@glenn
Would you repeat that, please?

♥ 11:25am Lewis:

@doug - is that a comment list sight gag?

♥ 11:25am Doug Schulkind:

I still have a set of Advent speakers from 1979 that produce a magnificent sound.

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♥ 11:25am Uncle Michael:

I always listen to the best sound available in a given context...because the music matters most. On a plane...an iPod...at work...computer speakers...at home, well...I'm listening to this show through a pretty decent setup. My ears have held up really well, especially, considering.

♥ 11:26am Lewis:

@doug - yeah wish I had held on to my advents from way back when...

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♥ 11:28am Uncle Michael:

I'm butt-groovin'.

11:29am Parq:

I listen at work on a $30 pair of Altec puter speakers that sound better than any $100 puter speaker set up I've ever owned. Sometimes it's just luck.

♥ 11:29am Doug Schulkind:

@Lewis
Comments list sight gags, the bastard stepchildren of radio sight gags!

11:30am glenn:

I SAID "PARQ, IT HAS LONG BEEN MY CONTENTION....

11:31am Parq:

<<@glenn
Would you repeat that, please? >>
Exactly.

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♥ 11:31am Brian in UK:

I used to work with a guy who spent £3000 on speakers and listened to the Pink Floyd. Go figure.

♥ 11:31am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
Too much information...

11:31am Parq:

Once again, I came in a measure behind the band. Gotta get bigger sheet music.

♥ 11:33am Doug Schulkind:

Pierre Akengengue is here:

rhythmconnection.blogspot.com...

11:33am Hugo:

I'm trying to think of the first African tune I heard. Hugh Masakela - Grazing in the Grass? Later, Osibisa and Assagai.

11:34am dçþät:

phew! kids on spring break--had to play soccer. What'd I miss?

11:35am glenn:

i have two sets of missions. the little bookshelf units are way, way better than the floor units. that said, the quality of the speakers is meaningless if you're driving them from a 15$ amplifier. i also disagree with uncle michael to some extent. you don't need 1000$$ metre cable, but the 10$ metre cable does make a big difference over lamp cord.

♥ 11:37am Carmichael:

Doug, you can call me Carm anytime. Funny, that name brings to my mind Carmine Raguzo from Laverne & Shirley. Although I might look good in spats and a fedora.

♥ 11:40am Doug Schulkind:

The next song coming up is DISGUSTING. I will explain later.

11:40am Damon Runyon:

EVERYBODY looks good in spats and a fedora.

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♥ 11:41am Uncle Michael:

@Glenn, in my radio studio a set of '80s vintage Mission boohshelves are my primary listening speakers. Not the near-field monitors but just for the hanging around and listening speakers.

♥ 11:42am Carmichael:

After years of Bose bookshelf speakers, I moved to a new house and shelled out an assload of coin for a 6.1 surround system and HDTV. Best decision I ever made, at least musically.

11:42am dçþät:

This is great--thanks for reminding me of Los Piranas...

11:43am trish:

Wow, this 'Champeta ..'

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♥ 11:43am Uncle Michael:

This Champeta is giving me the crazy.

11:45am glenn:

assload of coin has now entered my lexicon. thank you, carmichael.

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♥ 11:48am Uncle Michael:

Did this guy just say something about his "fwatem bwe bwe?"

♥ 11:49am Doug Schulkind:

Mr. Matavire was charged with rape, a crime for which he eventually did jail time. (Only two years.) This song, released before the trial is mocking the charges. Like I said, DISGUSTING.

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11:50am Alex In Illinois:

Hi everyone! Great show!

♥ 11:51am Doug Schulkind:

Hey Alex!

11:52am Jesse K:

This song, this set. Awesome.

♥ 11:52am Doug Schulkind:

Brother Kaminsky!

11:53am Parq:

Another brilliant show, Doug. Another brilliant conversation, gang.

11:53am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:54am Van in DC:

About time to trundle down to the wharf and get some fresh seafood. Crabcake & lobster anyone...?

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♥ 11:54am Uncle Michael:

I hate to hear it end.

♥ 11:54am Lewis:

Give the drummer some....

♥ 11:54am Doug Schulkind:

TY Parq 'n' ndbob!

♥ 11:54am Carmichael:

Thanks Doug!

11:54am Van in DC:

Thank YOU Doug!

🥁 ♥ 11:55am duke:

Thanks Doug!

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♥ 11:57am Brian in UK:

Good work Chief Commander.

11:58am dçþät:

damn you Van in DC!

11:58am dçþät:

danke Doug.

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♥ 11:59am Uncle Michael:

Thanks Dawg.

12:01pm Van in DC:

:) @dcpat

♥ 12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

The pleasure was MINE ALL MINE, ahahahahahaha!!

12:01pm trish:

Thanks, too.

("it's over??!")

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band	You Done Done It	Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order (RST 1939)
Sotiria Bellou	To Meraki Tis Kardias Mou	On 78rpm 1947-1954 (Echo Arts )
Simone Bultiauw et Son Orchestre	Finotte-Java	Accordeon: Musette / Swing / Paris 1925-1942 Volume 2 (Frémeaux & Associés 1933)
Blue Lu Barker	Here's a Little Girl from Birmingham	b/w Leave My Man Alone (Capitol 1948)
Phongsi Woranut	Nong Pen Khon Rak Thi Thao Rai	Khon Sut Thai
Maysa	Chorou, Chorou	Maysa, Amor...E Maysa (RGE 1961)
Baden Powell Quartet	Pra Que Chorar	Baden Powell Quartet, Volume 1 (Barclay 1970)

Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists	Caravan	Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists (Esquire 1955)
Alfredo Gutierrez y Sus Accordeones Dorados	Adorado Socorro	Cumbias de Oro (Discos Fuentes 1976)
Zaleha Hamid & Orkes Zindegi	Bertemasha	Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970 (Sublime Frequencies )
Bennasser Oukhouya & Cheikha Hadda Ouakki	Ha Howa Ha Howa (That's Him)	Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco (Parlortone )

Loy Clingman	(Those Ole) Uranium Blues	b/w (Time Heals All Wounds and) Time Wounds All Heels (Viv 2000 1955)
Janet Greene	The Hunter and the Bear	Freedom Is a Hammer: Conservative Folk Revolutionaries of the Sixties (Omni 1966)
Horden Raikes	The Factory Bell	King Cotton (Folk Heritage 1972)
Erik Satie	Embryons Desséchés	Dada et la Musique (Muza 1913)
Toshinori Kondo	Buriki	Fuigo - From a Different Dimension (Bellows 1979)

Bhupinder & Chorus	Idhar Ka Maal Udhar	Deewaar (Polydor 1975)
Kazuki Tomokawa	Point	Sakura no Kuni no Churi Naka O (Bellwood 1980)
Thái Thanh	Thoi	Mot Mai Gia Tu Vu Khi (Nhac Vàng Truoc 1975)
Wokshop de Lyon	L'auveugle et Les Marchands (Ou Des Coups de Canne Dans les Vitrines)	Tiens! Les Bourgeons Éclatent (L'oiseau Musicien 1977)

Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band	Oba Sijuade	Current Affairs (Decca 1980)
Terry Timmons	Got Nobody to Love	b/w Daddy Be Good to Me (Juke Jam 1951)
Eje Thelin	Piece 1	Acoustic Space (EMI 1970)

Pierre Akendengué	Eseringila	Eseringila (Ntye 1978)
Los Pirañas	Champeta de la Corrupción y la Desgana	Toma Tu Jabón Kapax (Vampisoul )
Paul Matavire	Joke of the Year	Doctor Love, Volume Two ( 1990)
Dur-Dur Band	Dooyo	Volume 5 (Awesome Tapes From Africa 1987)

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