Hello. It’s Saturday night, October 9th. I am in Los Angeles for a few more hours and then I am going back to LAX and heading out for a few shows. This is the other show that Engineer X and I taped a couple of weeks ago. It looks like I might have to tape some more in the next couple of weeks as I start a film that works every Monday but I can’t get a shooting schedule yet. I will see what kind of time Engineer X can give me and perhaps he and I can tape stuff on Sunday. I have the feeling we will be working six day weeks on this one. I’ve been flying a lot lately and I have all my airport chops back. I have Dulles, LAX, Denver and O’Hare wired. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the show. It’s strange writing all this stuff now even though the show hasn’t happened yet but it kind of has.
Great stuff out now: New Q and Not U album called Power, new Miles box set, the Lenny Bruce box is finally out and the Ayler box is out as well. Happy listening. --Henry

Harmony in My Head Transmission for October 11th 2004

Roxy Music – Both Ends Burning: This song is from Roxy’s very fine Siren album. What a song, what a band. This album, For Your Pleasure, Country Life, Manifesto, Stranded, the first album, I listen to these records all the time. Incredible playing, singing and composing. I know Steve Jones plays Roxy all the time and you might have had your fill of this band but for me, there’s never too much Roxy Music.

The Mad – Frying Pan: I saw there was a Mad CD listed online. The mention said it had the singles and some live stuff. I figured it would be worth it if it was what it said it was. Those singles are really rare. Some of you may remember I played a crackly version of this song weeks ago. Cool song, lots of surface noise. Anyway, one great day, the CD arrived and it sounds great! So tonight we have a better sounding version. Consider it an upgrade!

The Adverts – We who Wait: One of the great singles from the Adverts. There's a great singles comp. CD of the Adverts worth checking out. It might be just me but there’s no Adverts song I don’t like. The two albums, Crossing the Red Sea and Cast of Thousands are great records. I’m sure the Punk 77 site has all the Adverts info you can handle.

Einsturzende Neubauten – Auf Berlin: Might be the single most disturbing record to your favorite guest Heidi May. I play this one and she shuts the door to my office extra hard. This song is from the band’s first album Kollaps. This album, Drawings of Outpatient OT and Halber Mensch are my personal favorites but I know a lot of people like the mid period stuff like House of Lies.

Ennio Marricone – Lonesome Billy: I got this from a Marricone Western Film comp. called The Legendary Italian Westerns Volume 2. I’ve had for many years. So much drama in such a short song! I used to put this song on comp. tapes I would make for girls. Guys, don’t put this song on a mix CD you’re making for a girl.

Skulls – Victim: From the Therapy for the Shy CD. Not the original version but really good. The Skulls are one of the old school LA punk rock bands. I ran into Billy Bones the other night at the Ramones show. There’s a cool record the Skulls did years ago with LA band the Controllers. They called themselves Skull Control and I think the record is called Radio Danger. Cool stuff.

Sods – Copenhagen: We listened to their song Pathetic weeks ago. They only did one record, it’s called Minutes to Go. Finally, it’s on CD. Only out of Denmark I think. Worth checking out. I wish there was more interest in music like this so I could license some titles and release them here without making people have to search high and low for records at stupid prices. This one will cost you unless you can find it used. Worth it though. The Sods changed their name to Sort Sol and released a bunch of records under that name. They’re cool too.

Boozoo Chavis – I’m Ready Me: I played Dog Hill before and it’s off the same album called Boozoo Chavis. I have all his records that I know of but this is the one I play the most. He’s one of those guys who didn’t make a bad one I think. I saw him play once, it was great.

Richard Kiley – Dream: I was very young when Richard Kiley did his last tourof Man of la Mancha. One day my mother informed me that she had gotten tickets for the show and we were going. On instinct I protested and she repeated that we were going but in a louder voice and a great deal of passion so I decided just to go. Thanks to my mother’s good taste and charitable feelings towards me I saw one of the greatest shows ever for free. Richard Kiley was amazing. Beyond amazing. Chills. The voice, the presence. I remember it now. I had a hard time explaining this one to the meatheads at school.

Funkadelic – Back in Our Minds: We thought we were going to listen to Superstoopid but we got Back of Our Minds instead. This is off the Maggot Brain album. A must have. If we get the 24 hours of H8 broadcast, we’ll play the cut Maggot Brain that features the very great but sadly very departed Eddie Hazel.There's some Funkadelic records not to be missed. Hardcore Jollies, America Eats Its Young, Electric Spanking of War Babies get a lot of rotation at my bunker but they’re all pretty great.

Diamanda Galas – Do Room: From Schrei X released in 1996. Wait, this might be an even more ultimate door slammer for Heidi. I have known Diamanda for about 19 years now. I met her by writing her a fan letter in 1985. I met her soon after. She turned me onto Artaud and Iannis Xenakis. She’s done a lot of stuff and I have all her records but I don’t know if I could recommend them to anyone. I like them but I am easily bent. I saw her do this show in NYC once, it was called Insekta. It was one of the heaviest things I have ever seen. She finished the show in a cage suspended over the stage. Backstage after the show, I met Debbie Harry and was completely, I don’t know, that thing where it takes about 8 seconds for “Hi” to come out of your mouth and it sounds like you’re reading the word off the page for the first time. I’m sure Ms. Harry and Ms. Galas are used to that by now. “Dog is man’s best friend, not woman’s.” –D.Galas.

Skip James – Devil Got My Woman: I don’t think we’ve played Skip James on the show yet. He’s another one of those guys where it’s all good. You might find the 1931 recordings more surface noise than music but it’s good anyway. You might want to check out the Devil Got My Woman and Skip James Today! Albums to start. He wrote a song called I’m so Glad that was covered by Cream. Clapton loves the real blues stuff.

John Coltrane – Stellar Regions: From the album Stellar Regions. I think this one came out in ‘95 or ‘96 right? I was living in NYC at the time and it became heavy rotation in my hell hole apartment. It’s from 1967 and it’s supposed to be one of Coltrane’s last ever sessions. It’s amazing and somewhat frustrating to me at least in that you can tell he’s about to turn a corner in his playing and we never had the chance to hear where he was going to take it and that’s hard. It’s sometimes hard for me to listen to Coltrane, even though he’s my favorite musician. It’s the same frustration I sometimes feel with Hendrix—neither guy got to finish. Anyway, there’s no bad Coltrane. He was pure all the way.

Velvet Underground – I’m Set Free: From the 3rd Vu album called Velvet Underground. John Cale had left and the band sounds different. The sheer insanity of the previous release White Light White Heat is replaced with less chaos no less great material. I’m Set Free has one of the greatest lyrics I’ve ever heard. “I’m set free to find a new illusion . . .” Brutal!

Richard Berry – The Big Break: I can’t get away from Richard Berry. Twenty years of listening and I’m still all over this guy. This has to be one of the all time greatest vocals. The chorus where Berry says, “Run, run real fast,” it sounds like he can barely get up much less take part in a successful prison break. Found on the Get Out of the Car CD.

Alan Vega – Video Babe: You’re welcome! Many years ago, I was Alan Vega's place and saw a stack of reel-to-reel tapes between a heater and a stereo system. I asked the Great One what they were and replied that they were masters to some of his records. A great way to ruin tape. Stacked like pancakes, next to heat and speakers. Disaster. I asked if I could take the tapes away and back them up and he said sure. I took the tapes to a studio in LA and transferred all of them to digital. The master for the Saturn Strip basically fell apart after we copied it. My transfer was used for this CD re-release. It’s all aboutthe back up! New on Wounded Bird Records.

El Guapo – Space Tourist: Another cut off the Fake French album. I love this
album. It’s on Dischord.

Garnet Mimms – Cry Baby: This is off the Mimms best of CD. A Great soul singer. This song is on soundtracks and compilation records all the time. I don’t know anything about him and can’t find a solid site that has info on him. Cool song though.

Piranhas – Coffee: I first heard this band on a comp. album. They had a song called Jilly that I thought was cool so I checked out their other stuff and it's pretty cool and then a couple of years ago, I found a comp. CD on the Anagram label online and got it.

The Fall – Two Librans: From the very fine Unutterable album. Another great song from this record is Ketamine Sun.

Buzzcocks – Why Can’t I Touch It?: The b-side of the Everybody’s Happy
Nowadays single. The Singles Going Steady CD with the classic eight singles is desert island listening to my ears. Classic stuff and one of the most played bands on my stereo for about twenty-five years now.

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Thanks for listening.