Hopefully tonight, I will get a copy of last week’s show and I’ll send it to Tony our site guy and he’ll put it up for download as I am getting a lot of requests. So glad you dug it. I love going off like that.
I spent a good amount of time wondering how to follow up that one. Can’t out do it, can’t repeat it. Now that Bush has another term, all the people who voted for him will perhaps over the next four years get burned by the man they voted for. Outsourcing, body count increasing. I wonder what the debt will be in 2008? Where will we be in 2008?!
Friday, I had a day off from the film so I flew to Chicago to DJ at a GQ party. I got to this club at 10 p.m. to play music for four hours. I was excited to do such a long set and I brought some great music. I was about an hour in and having a great time and people were digging it. One of the owners of the club, a gallon of oil in his hair, came over to me and asked if I could not play “old music”, that is to say, not play fifties music that I was throwing into the mix now and then. I asked him why. He said, “We get really good results when we play newer music.” When you think about it, he rented the club to GQ Magazine and the music wasn’t up to him. Perhaps he should shut the fuck up before someone smacked the ringlets out of his hair. I really wasn’t interested in arguing so I just said sure and went back to it. A few songs later, a drunk woman came up and started dragging her index finger across her throat. She yells at me that people are complaining and to stop playing heavy metal. I was in fact, playing Devil Doll by the amazing Los Angeles band X. Of course people were into it so I don’t know where this alcoholic was looking. Perhaps she’s already dead. Anyway, near midnight, owner boy comes up again and says that I am to take an hour break and come back at 0100 hrs. Again, this isn’t his club that evening. I had about had enough of this bitch. It was either smack him and get unceremoniously pounded by his bouncers, take his shit, or what I did. I asked the house DJ, a really cool guy, if he and his co-DJ had it covered and he said yes. I said goodbye and he said I was doing the right thing. I left. Fuck him and his hair. So, I went back to my room, slept a couple of hours and went to the airport and back to LA. What a waste of time that was. Here’s the music I brought:
Personality Crisis – NY Dolls / Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba / The Robots – Kraftwerk / Brothers Gonna Work It Out - Public Enemy / Would - Alice in Chains / Flying Saucer Attack – Rezillos / Jilted John - Jilted John / Hey Fellas – Trouble Funk / Honky Tonkin’ - Hank Williams / Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder / Synchro System – King Sunny Ade / Catman – Gene Vincent / Ace of Spades – Motorhead / The Wanderer – Dion / Down on the Street – Stooges / Hit the North! - The Fall / EU Freeze - Experience Unlimited / Old Time Music - Al Green / She Shook Me Cold – Bowie / The Passenger - Iggy Pop / She Wants to Rock - Richard Berry / Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash / Pretty Woman – Roy O / Ring the Alarm – Tenor Saw / Friendship Train - Gladys Knight / Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music / Rock the Casbah – Clash / No Rules - Pure Hell / Outdoor Miner – Wire / Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 / California – Simpletones / Ragnampiza – Dillinger / Sheena is a Punk Rocker – Ramones / Yip Roc Heresy – Slim Gaillaird / Don’t Play that Song for Me – Drifters / Smash It Up – Damned / Egg Man - Beastie Boys / Chinese Rock – Thunders / CC – Parliament / Suzi Q – Roaring Lion / I Shall Not Remove - Cornell Campbell / Freightrain – Nitro / Hop Around – Dee Dee Ramone / London Girls – Vibrators / No Fun – Dr. Mix and the Remix / Staring at the Rude Boys – The Ruts / Garbage Man – Cramps / Your Electric Guitar – Empire / Oh Bondage Up Yours – X Ray Spex / Devil Doll – X / My White Bicycle – Tomorrow / I Walked with a Zombie – Roky / Plug Tunin – De LA Soul / Good Night Irene – Brian Wilson / Pigskin Parade - Die Cheerleader / Wild About You – Saints / Whatever Happened To? – Buzzcocks / Sea Cruise – Frankie Ford / Fury Things – Dinosaur Jr. / Rock and Roll Highschool – Ramones / King Rocker – Generation X / Dog Hill - Boozoo Chavis / Beware - Louis Jordan / Sonic Reducer – Dead Boys / Louie Louie - Richard Berry / The Look of Love – ABC / Puppies – I’ll Kick Your Ass / MTV Girl - Gene Defcon / Monkeyman – The Specials / Batman – Link Wray / I Know You Got Soul – Bobby Byrd / She’s a Wino – Jimmy Rushing / See Me Shining – Buzzkunst / Arkade Funk – Tilt / Mongoloid – Devo / Voo Doo Chile – Hendrix / Shama Lama Ding Dong - Otis Day and the Nights / Roll Call – WKYS / Take Me Back – Lurkers / Christopher Columbus - Fats Waller / Don’t Touch that Stereo – Slim / Action Time and Vision – ATV /Running Back - Thin Lizzy / Leader of the Laundromat – Detergents / Last Words – Animal World / Hangin’ on the Telephone – Blondie / Paco – My Love / Candy – Cameo / Hammered – Alan Vega / Jukebox Babe - Alan Vega / Jah War – The Ruts / Wouldn’t It Be Nice (stereo) – Beach Boys / This Magic Moment – Ben E King / Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley / Feelin’ Alright with the Crew – 999 / Mama’s Gonna Bake Us a Cake – Casual Dots / Bloodstains – Agent Orange / Pretty and the Wolf – Duke Ellington / Charlie Chan – The Sounds / Shattered – Rolling Stones / This Life of Mine – The Lost Souls / Paranoia Carnival – Metal Boys / Israelites – Desmond Dekker / Bootzilla - Bootsy

Of course, most of the songs we have played on this show and you all dug them so I figured it’s more than enough and it would allow me to have some different directions to go in. Boy, are drunks a pain in the ass! I just don’t get it. Obnoxious, blathering idiots. How can you stand yourself? I don’t see the fun part. I do get the pain in the ass drunk slipping on the ice and breaking his hip and me erupting into gales of euphoric laughter. That I can get to. Jihad.

So tonight, what have we?
Howlin' Wolf - Evil: I remember once, years before many of you were born, KXLU FM asked me to come to the station and play records for a couple of hours. I did. I played this song and had some punk rock bed wetter call me and curse me out. It’s cool, I put a fatwa out on him and he’s not been heard from since. In an interview, they asked the legendary Sun Studios owner, sam Philips, the guy who recorded Elvis and Jerry Lee, who his favorite artist to record was and he said it was Wolf.

The Gun Club - Bad America: This is from the long out of print Miami album. Jeffery Lee’s sister called the other day to tell me that Sympathy for the Record Industry has re-released Miami, The Las Vegas Story and the Death Party EP. Great news for Gun Club fans. That’s one of the great American bands that never got the recognition they deserved. I saw some killin’ Gun Club shows. I also saw some that were a little drunken but memorable nonetheless. I miss Jeffery. He was an amazing man. Really from another place.

Tomorrow – My White Bicycle: From the Nuggets II box. I have been playing this song in the car all the time and thought you might dig it. I know nothing about the band but it sounds like the singer is Welsh.

John Cale - Leaving It Up to You: Staying with the Welsh thing, if indeed the Tomorrow guy was, this guy definitely is! John Cale, how cool is this boy-o?! You all know him from the Velvet Underground, of course but he’s done some stunning solo records and produced some great stuff as well. John Cale records to check out: Sabotage, Helen of Troy (from where we listening from now, Paris 1919, Honi Soit, the Animal Justice EP, Fragments of a Rainy Season. Some of the best, teeth clenched intense shows I have ever seen were Cale shows. I shook the hand a few years ago in Holland. I can wander into traffic now.

Extrapolating on the theme, let's get into some Cale produced stuff.

Stooges - No Fun: First Stooges album. Shows you the power of simplicity. That guitar outro is as good as it gets.

Nico - We've Got the Gold: From The End. I got this record in 1983 I think. It destroyed me. You know Nico, she was in the Velvet Underground on the very famous first album, the one with the banana on the cover. The band on this album: Phil Manzanera on guitar, Eno on synth, Cale on bass, xylophone, acoustic guitar, synth, organ, marimba, triangles, casaba, glockenspiel, percussion, piano, electric piano. Hello! The band that could eat the world! I like all the Nico records but the early ones like The Marble Index, Chelsea Girl, Desert Shore, this one and one called The Drama of Exile are the ones I listen to the most. I guess it's time to play some Eno!

Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire: From the can’t stand it, it's so good Here Come the Warm Jets album. Uh, another line-up from lofty realms Bush will never explore:
Brian Eno, vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, snake guitar, treatments; Busta Cherry Jones, bass; Simon King, drums; with Paul Rudolph, guitar, bass; Robert Fripp, guitar; Phil Manzanera, guitar; Andy MacKay, saxophones, keyboards; Marty Simon, drums; Chris Spedding, guitar; Bill MacCormick, bass; John Wetton, bass; Nick Judd, keyboards; Paul Thompson, drums; Lloyd Watson, slide guitar; Chris Thomas, bass. If you recon some of these names, you'll see links to Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Roxy Music, King Crimson, etc. Some of you like Eno and don't even know it. He’s the guy who propped up so many of those U2 records. Poor bastard, hopefully they paid him enough to endure those sessions. Jihad, bitch!

Dr. Mix and the Remix - Sister Ray: I done tole ya I wuz a'gonna do it! The Classic Velvet Underground done electro by French guys! Mon Dieu! Run, Bill O'Reilly, Run!

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair: I know, I know. How come I didn't play something off Starless and Bible Black, USA, Red, Lark's Tongue in Aspic, In the Court of the Crimson King? Why? Because You know all that stuff. The Three of a Perfect Pair album came out in 1984 I believe. I think Davo, Flag soundman, picked it up on cassette while we were in Europe. We played that tape to death. I remember by May of that year, it was ultra-heavy rotation in the van. I don't think there’s a bad second on this record. The re-issue has some serious bonus tracks. Been playing this one for twenty years now.

Black Lipstick - Serpentz: From the Converted Thieves album from your pals at Peek-a-Boo records in Austin TX. I don’t know anything about the band. I am listening away steadily at the stack of CDs I ordered from Travis, label owner and Black Lipstick member. These guys sound like they have bumped into a Television or Velvet Underground record somewhere along the way but I’m no critic. Cool record.

Television - Friction: From the legendary Marquee Moon album. This is a must-have rekkid I think. Tom Verlaine, great great guitar player, singer, song writer. This was their first record. The next one, Adventure is great but MM is the one if you had to pick one. There’s some great bootlegs of the band out there. I know Rhino put out the Live at the Waldorf album officially awhile ago and it sounds great. The new edition of MM has extra tracks and sounds amazing. The best way to dig this record is from the vinyl if you can find it. I would have played you the LP version, BUT INDIE 103.1 DOESN'T HAVE A TURN TABLE.

Suicide - Girl: Let's stay in NYC for a minute. Around the same time Television was treading the boards, so was a runaway genius duo by the name of Alan Vega and Martin Rev. They called themselves Suicide and their self-titled first album is another one of those must-haves. I know we played them last week during our sonic jihad but I’m a fan of the band and this is my show.

The Fall - City Hobgoblins: From a very early Fall single. I haven’t played this one in a long time and for some reason, the song makes me think of the imagery in the Nikolai Gogol short stories I have been reading and so, with almost presidential power, I disregard exit poll stats and current musical trends and broadcast Manchester England’s mighty export, The Fall!

Buzzcocks - Time's Up: Manchester is a tough town with a history of great music as well as dire crap like the Happy Mondays. Face it, you were high when you heard them and they might have been good to you then but a door buzzer with a dog barking over it would have sounded good to you as well. This song is from the band’s first release, the Spiral Scratch EP. This is before Pete Shelley took over lead vocals and the singing was done primarily by the very amazing Howard Devoto, who went onto further fame with Magazine, Luxuria and Buzzkunst. Thankfully, Mute records have released the EP as well, the enormously cool Time’s Up album, which is an album’s length dose of this line-up. I bought it as a bootleg LP in 1979 I believe. Both CDs are worth checking out.

One of the radio greats, the BBCís John Peel passed away on October 26th. In honor of this great man, who musicians and their fans owe a considerable debt, we will play some Peel Sessions. As you know, we have listened to Fall Peel sessions, now hereís some other bands.

Ruts - Society: Officially released as the b-side of the Babylon’s Burning single. We played that one last week during the pre-election sonic Jihad. A great Ruts song, as if there are any bad ones. Are there? No!

Wire - I Am the Fly: The official version of this song is on my favorite Wire album Chairs Missing. Thought my favorite would be Pink Flag didn’t ya?

Birthday Party - Rowland Around in that Stuff: This song was never released on a proper Birthday Party record. The Birthday Party Peel Sessions CD is really great. Another song, Bully Bones is also exclusive to the Peel show.

The Slits - Love and Romance: September 1977 they recorded this. They were right in the punk rock. They played with all the famous UK bands. The official version of this song is on their famous album titled Cut. Cut was remastered and has some extra tracks now.

Radio Birdman - What Gives: Great Australian band. Off the Radios Appear CD. Came out 1977 or thereabouts. I first heard them hanging out with Ian one day. He played me this song. I don’t know a ton about them but have a lot of their stuff. I know they did a re-union tour a few years ago and apparently they were rockin.

Flipper - Love Canal: A great Flipper single. I did a lot of shows with Flipper in the 80's. What a band. I will never forget hanging outside Target Video in San Francisco with them as Greg Ginn asked them if they wanted to be on SST and the band’s singer, Bruce just went off on Ginn. I’m paraphrasing, “You guys are just punk rock stars and SST is just a small label that wants to be mainstream,” etc. It was hard to watch Ginn take it from Bruce. We put them on our bills all the time and SST was a great label and Ginn wasn’t in line for that kind of dressing down but that was Flipper. Devastating live band. Their version of Super Freak was incredible.

Beastie Boys - Cookie Puss: Haven’t heard this one in awhile. The scratching with the Steve Martin record is brilliant.

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Thanks for listening.