BROADCAST #12
AIR DATE: 03-14-06

Writing to you live from Belgia! It’s the new name for Belgium. I like it better. It’s a little after one in the afternoon on Tuesday in LA. A little after ten here in Belgia. As you gathered, tonight’s show was a pre-tape thing. It’s better than a repeat but nothing nearly as fun as being with you Fanatics live. I have some great playlists written up for the weeks coming up in April when I am back from these European tour dates. I think the re-issues of the Fall albums Middle Class Revolt and Cerebral Caustic came out in Europe yesterday. I will start searching for them tomorrow. I am looking forward to hitting some European record stores.
     Remember, in two weeks, Heidi and Indie 103 morning guy Chuck will take over my show in two weeks from tonight. Heidi asked that you send in questions about me that you want answered so she can embarrass me while I am gone. I hope you enjoyed the show tonight. I will be back soon, hopefully with some interesting music and tales to tell from Belgia and beyond. Thanks for listening. –Henry

An archive of the 2005 – 2006 shows can be found here: http://www.rollins-archive.com/.

Archie Shepp – Malcom, Malcom-Semper Malcom: From the very fine Fire Music CD on Impulse! Shepp’s an angry and articulate man. I don’t have all his records and some of the ones I have I can’t say are all that easy to get to but worth the ride. http://www.archieshepp.com/

Hamell On Trial – No Delays: From Hamell on Trial’s very cool The Chord Is Mightier Than The Sword CD. I saw this guy rip it once at Irving Plaza. One man and an acoustic guitar. What a show. He plays all the time. If you see him listed anywhere, check him out because he is really a great song writer and performer. He’s still making records and they’re still good. I think he’s making records on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. She’s cool. She never caved in to the corny music world. She’s got her own label and does her own thing. Smart and inspiring.

Gene Defcon – Psycho Freakout: From the genius Come Party With Me 2000 CD on K records. It says on the back that only 2000 were pressed so if you find yourself liking this, you might want to get it sooner than later. Go to www.kpunk.com for Gene info. You should also check out the other incarnation of Gene as a member of the Prima Donnas. Their studio album Drugs, Sex & Discotheques released by your friends at Peek-a-Boo is a brilliant piece of work.

James Carr – You’ve Got My Mind Messed Up: This is from the Essential James Carr CD on Razor and Tie. James never really got into the mainstream of Soul when he was making records. He might be as well known for his mental problems as his incredible talent. Please please please read this article by Robert Gordon on Carr. No matter what you think of this track, the article and Carr interview are really cool. At least read the part where Carr talks about waking up from dreams and going out on a long voyage. Whoa. Here ‘tis: http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/20/carr.html

Lee Scratch Perry – Secret Laboratory (Scientific Dancehall): I know. Many Scratch Perry purists will want to know why I picked such a overproduced album of his to draw from and why didn’t I go with something from his more obscure albums like Satan Kicked The Bucket or Message From Yard. I have those as well but I wanted to play this one so tonight we listen to this not-so-obscure Scratch track. Lee Scratch Perry is responsible for more good music than is healthy.

Bernie Worrell – Muck Thrust: From the All The Woo In The World album. Not often referenced when considering all the P-Funk alumni recordings. I got this years ago in Japan in 1992 I believe. A few years ago, I saw Bernie playing with Bootsy and the stage right side-fill monitor fed back really loud right into his ear. It was painful to think of what that felt like. It happened again and he shook his head, waved to Bootsy and walked off.

The Groundhogs – Cherry Red: From the very fine Split album. Ian MacKaye turned me onto this band. We were in a record store some years ago and he was picking up a live BBC recording of the band. He suggested Split and another, Thank Christ For The Bomb. Great records. This is heavy duty gear.

Dome – Cancel The Order: From the Gilbert and Lewis project Dome. This track is from Dome 1. Of all four records they did, Dome 1 is my favorite. You might know Gilbert and Lewis from some band they were in called Wire. They were ok, I guess. No Nickleback but ok.

Wolfman Jack – Phone Call: Like we heard Dewey Phillips last week, here’s another live-on-air tape of another legendary radio man, the Wolfman. When I first got to LA to be in Black Flag, we were living in an office building near the 7-Eleven on La Cienega, a little north of Santa Monica Blvd. Mugger and I went there one night and saw the Wolfman walking out of the store and back into a limo. He gave us the nod and slipped into the back. Check him in the George Lucas masterpiece American Graffiti. If you haven’t seen that one, run do not walk. It’s where I initially got the hook of 50’s rock stuck deep in me. Oh yeah, this track is from The Legendary Wolfman Jack Howlin’ On The Air CD on Big Ear Music.

The Mob – Witch Hunt:  I remember buying this single because the cover looked so cool. That was about twenty-four years ago. This song and all their others are contained on the Let The Mob Increase CD. We listened to another song of theirs called Shuffling Souls on broadcast #6.

The Meters – Hey Pocky A-way (single edit): From the very awesome Rejuvenation album. This one and Cabbage Alley were out of print for a long time but they came back thanks to your friends at the very cool Sundazed Records. I should have brought some Dr. John with me tonight, a little of his Gris Gris album might have been good.

The Moffs – Grazing Eyes: From the Labyrinth album. I met these guys in Australia many years ago. The record’s really cool. I don’t know what kind of music this is, stoner-prog-psychedelic? As soon as I met them, I wanted to check out their album as they were a little gone but in a cool way. I don’t know how easy this one is to find these days. Here’s a site for a little Moffs info: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Underground/2507/moffs.html

Miles Davis – Black Satin: From the On The Corner album. When this was first released, the little jazz critics gave it the thumbs down. Then years after Miles passed away, On The Corner was re-released and all the critics admitted the album is great. It’s Miles Davis, critic boy! Kneel at his greatness, you overpaid, underachieving swine!

Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire: From the Birds Of Fire CD, This is John McLaughlin's monster band. If you have ever had a chance to check out any of the McLaughlin-Hendrix jam bootlegs, you will hear McLaughlin match Hendrix lick for lick. What was his rank on that lame Rolling Stone top 100 guitar players list? He wipes the floor with at least 95 of those players. If you like what you hear, the record is cool and so is Inner Mounting Flame. I think Greg Ginn really got a lot from McLaughlin and this record.

Lenny Bruce – Father Flotski’s Triumph: Not Lenny’s later period stuff when he was getting hammered by the courts over language tossed off casually by eleven year-olds these days, this routine comes from an earlier time when he wasn’t getting witch hunted. As far as spoken word or comedy, goes Lenny Bruce is the man. Years ago when I met George Carlin, he told me some cool Lenny stories. You should take the time to check out Lenny Bruce at some point if you haven’t already. If you check out the very fine movie Lenny, (starring Dustin Hoffman doing a great Lenny Bruce imitation) you will get a basic idea of what he went through near the end of his short life. Also, the documentary Without Tears is really intense. The best way to appreciate Lenny Bruce is to listen to what the man had to say. As far as albums to check out, some of my favorites are: Berkeley Concert, Thank You Masked Man, and Carnegie Hall Concert.

The Untouchables – I Hate You: I’ve played this one before. This track is from the Flex Your Head comp. from your friends at Dischord. If you have just opened to this page and want to know more about the band, the previous annotation from broadcast #9 has a lot of Untouchables info.

The Big Bopper – White Lightnin’: I think the last track I played from the big man was The Big Bopper’s Wedding. There’s a really good best of on Rhino that has all the Bopper you can handle. He was one of the unfortunate ones on the plane with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens on the day the music died, 02-03-59.

William Shatner – I Can’t Get Behind That: This is off Bill’s new album Has Been. I’m on this track as well. I didn’t know it was out yet, I found out when I got to the station tonight and Engineer X brought it in. I heard Bill on Howard Stern the other day and Howard was making fun of Bill but Bill was being a good sport about it. I don’t think he really cares what Howard Stern or anyone else thinks. I had a great time hanging out with him. He’s a blast.

Phil Lynott - Dear Miss Lonely Hearts: This is off Phil’s album Solo In Soho. There’s a lot of different music on this record. You get the feeling that he really wanted to try a lot of different stuff, perhaps he was feeling pent up after all the years rockin’ out with Lizzy. Dear Miss Lonely Hearts is a very Lizzy like track. A great one from the great one.

Charlie Harper – London Barmy Army: The b-side to Talk Is Cheap. We’ll play that one soon. I was living in my car in 1980 and at night I would play my one speaker tape deck to keep myself company. I didn’t have many tapes so this one mix tape was in there all the time and London Barmy Army, Talk Is Cheap, Good From The Bad by the Skunks, Lion’s Share by the Germs was on that one. I forget what else. Whenever I play the Charlie single, I remember those days. As most of you know, Charlie Harper is the singer of the UK Subs. Those first four Subs albums are must-haves. This song can be found as a CD extra on the UK Subs Diminished Responsibility album. That’s my favorite Subs album. http://www.uksubs.co.uk/

Squatweiler – Hot For Teacher: I remember touring with Squatweiler when they were doing this song and it was quite the show stopper. It’s a cool song anyway but when front gal Stacey hits that classic Roth vocal, it’s all you need. The only way I know to get this song is on a Spinart Records compilation. As far as I know, the song was never released on any of the band’s fine albums. After this song had passed out of the live set, I remember them covering the Minutemen’s great song Party With Me Punker as well as a Boston song, what was it, Smokin’’?! Anyway, Squatweiler, check ‘em out. New Motherstamper is a great album and the really hard to find first one, Full Bladder is really great too. All their records rock.

Dee Dee King – Mashed Potato Time: There was a time when Dee Dee Ramone fancied himself a rapper. He did the Funky Man 12” on Rock Hotel Records and then the classic (as far as this show is concerned) Standing In The Spotlight album on Sire. Released briefly on LP and CD, it’s really something. Blondie’s Debby Harry does vocals throughout the record. Don’t worry, there’s no way we’re NOT coming back to this album.