Bartlemania, week of December 20, 2025 - ANNUAL FRANK ZAPPA BIRTHDAY (MEMORIAL) SHOW!

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NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:09  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:07  -  3:57  -  Mothers Of Invention  -  Are You Hung Up-Who Needs The Peace Corps (mono)  -  Lumpy Money  -  zappa.com

13:07:33  -  2:10  -  Mothers Of Invention  -  Uncle Bernie's Farm  -  Absolutely Free  -  Ryko

13:09:44  -  2:22  -  Mothers Of Invention  -  Concentration Moon  -  We're Only In It For The Money  -  Ryko

13:12:05  -  3:33  -  Mothers Of Invention  -  Who Are The Brain Police?  -  Freak Out  -  Ryko

13:15:38  -  0:15  -  Frank Zappa  -  PSA-Do It Now Foundation  -  ("Hi, wanna die?")  -  not on album  -  no label

13:15:53  -  3:18  -  Mothers Of Invention  -  It Can't Happen Here (Mothermania Version)  -  Making of Freak Out (MOFO)  -  zappa.com

13:19:48  -  5:52  -  Frank Zappa  -  Apostrophe  -  Apostrophe  -  Ryko 

13:25:35  -  5:22  -  Frank Zappa  -  Cosmik Debris  -  Harpur College (Binghamton University), October-29-1972  -  no label

13:31:56  -  4:50  -  Frank Zappa  -  Valley Girl (w/Moon Zappa)  -  Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch  -  Ryko

13:37:24  -  18:12  -  Frank Zappa  -  Transylvania Boogie (Unedited Master)  -  Funky Nothingness  -  zappa.com

13:55:51  -  2:09  -  Mothers of Invention  -  Wowie Zowie (instrumental track)(excerpt)  -  Making of Freak Out (MOFO)  -  zappa.com

14:00:09  -  2:17  -  Frank Zappa  -  Convocation-The Purple Lagoon  -  Hammersmith Odeon  -  zappa.com

14:02:27  -  3:00  -  Frank Zappa  -  Jones Crusher  -  Hammersmith Odeon  -  zappa.com

14:05:26  -  4:23  -  Frank Zappa  -  I'm The Slime  -  Zappa In New York  -  Barking Pumpkin

14:10:18  -  6:37  -  Frank Zappa  -  Montana  -  Over Nite Sensation  -  Ryko

14:17:11  -  2:05  -  Burt Ward  -  Boy Wonder I Love You  -  7-inch  -  MGM

14:19:15  -  5:32  -  George Duke  -  Old Slipper  -  Feel  -  MPS

14:24:46  -  1:58  -  R. STEVIE MOORE  -  Let's Make The Water Turn Black  -  Pow Wow  -  rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com

14:26:42  -  3:43  -  Wild Man Fischer (w/Frank Zappa)  -  Circles  -  An Evening With Wild Man Fischer  -  Bizarre/Warner Bros

14:31:25  -  4:43  -  Frank Zappa  -  Band Intro, Dead Girls of London  -  Brest, France, March 19, 1979  -  no label

14:36:08  -  2:51  -  Frank Zappa  -  The Dangerous Kitchen  -  Man From Utopia  -  Ryko

14:38:59  -  4:18  -  Frank Zappa  -  It Just Might Be A One Shot Deal (Alternate Mix)  -  Waka Wazoo  -  zappa.com

14:43:52  -  5:14  -  Frank Zappa & The Mothers  -  Guitar Build '70  -  The Mothers - 1970  -  zappa.com

14:49:07  -  3:33  -  Frank Zappa  -  When The Lie's So Big  -  Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY, March 17, 1988  -  no label

14:52:40  -  4:19  -  Frank Zappa  -  Dumb All Over  -  YCDTOSA Vol 1  -  Ryko

Bartlemania - Week of December 13, 2025

The Doctor's social media links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bartlemania/

NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:07  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:06  -  2:45  -  Merle Haggard  -  If We Make It Through December  -  Best Of Merle Haggard  -  Direct Source

13:06:07  -  5:02  -  Tony Joe White  -  I Want My Fleetwood Back  -  Greatest Hits and More  -  Polydor

13:11:07  -  4:40  -  Tower of Power  -  Don't Change Horses  -  Back To Oakland  -  WB

13:15:43  -  2:44  -  Wreckless Eric  -  Semaphore Signals  -  Berkeley, CA, Nov 16, 1979  -  no label

13:18:55  -  1:09  -  Plague Skater  -  Here Come The Drums  -  Plague Skater Plus  -  https://fleacollartapes.limitedrun.com/

13:20:03  -  2:05  -  The Ramones  -  Teenage Lobotomy  -  Live CBGB's 1977  -  Rhino

13:22:08  -  3:35  -  Gallon Drunk  -  Gallon Drunk  -  Tonite-The Singles Bar  -  Ryko

13:26:11  -  7:38  -  Birth Control  -  Just before the sun will rise  -  Operation  -  Cargo

13:33:43  -  6:37  -  Deep Purple  -  Woman From Tokyo (alt version)  -  Who Do We Think We Are (CD reissue)  -  Rhino

13:40:42  -  3:24  -  Eugene Chadbourne  -  Neurologically Impaired Leaders  -  The Competition of Misery  -  Stella-Nera

13:44:04  -  3:35  -  Loretta Lynn  -  Pregnant Again  -  7-inch  -  MCA

13:47:38  -  3:04  -  Nicole Panter  -  Confession (with music by Conlon Nancarrow)  -  Cause-Rock For Choice  -  Piece Of Mind

13:51:07  -  6:53  -  Art Of Noise  -  Beatbox (Diversion 1)(excerpt)  -  Who's Afraid of The Art Of Noise?  -  Island

14:00:49  -  23:57  -  DROOPS  -  Second Improvisation  -  The Downstairs, Ithaca, NY, Dec 4, 2025  -  no label

14:25:07  -  24:54  -  Klaus Schulze  -  Neuronengesang  -  Cyborg  -  Brain

14:50:23  -  7:36  -  Gentle Giant  -  Experience  -  In A Glass House  -  DRT

BARTLEMANIA, Week of December 6th, 2025 (repeat)

My program on WRFI, Ithaca/Odessa/Watkins Glen, NY will be live this week, as part of WRFI's winter fundraising marathon! (Shameless plug department: the easiest way to donate to WRFI is to go to https://wrfi.org, and click or tap the green "DONATE" button in the middle of your screen).

Listeners in the other localities where Bartlemania runs will enjoy an encore presentation of Bartlemania! This is the playlist for that show!

The Doctor's social media links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bartlemania/

NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

Hour 1

Silicon Teens - Chip 'N' Roll - Music For Parties (Mute)

Funki Porcini - Pere Pete Pete - Let's See What Carmen Can Do (Ninja Tune)

Funki Porcini - Ritmo Di Jazz - Let's See What Carmen Can Do (Ninja Tune)

The Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today - Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick)

Menace - Screwed Up - Screwed Up-The Best of Menace (Taang!)

Eater - Outside View - All Of Eater (Creativeman)

Fugazi - Waiting Room - 13 Songs (Dischord)

Cibo Matto - White Pepper Ice Cream - Viva La Woman (WB)

Elvis Costello - Ship Of Fools - Sep 30, 2022 SF, CA Late Show

Baron Lee & The Blue Rhythm Band - Reefer Man - Viper Mad Blues (Jass)

Cab Calloway - Everybody Eats When They Come To My House - Are You Hep To The Jive (Okeh)

Billy Murray - Profiteering Blues - 78RPM record (1920) ( Victor )

Mick Farren & The Deviants - Let's Loot The Supermarket (Like We Did Last Summer) - This CD Is Condemned (Total Energy)

The Bad Plus - My Friend Metatron - Never Stop (EmArcy)

Nick Lowe - Time I Took A Holiday - Dig My Mood (Upstart)

CATACOMBZ - Long Pretty Fingers - Mother Tongue 2 (https://catacombz.bandcamp.com/)

Hour 2

FAUST - At The Beginning - SF May 8 1994

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Some notes on this particular Faust gig from Jean-Herve Peron:

This tour April/May 1994 was the  first Faust  USA tour…Jeff Hunt of TotE ( Table of the Elements label)  invited us . You will hear his voice on track  3 [not played this time - maybe next time], wishing us  a good gig in Oslo . I had broken my hand  but managed to do the show with three fingers which I  had freed from the cast 😊 …So Zappi and me  packed a few things and together wth Carina Varain as our tour manager  ( god, it was ever so good to have her with us as she solved many many infrastructural problems on that tour ! ) , also Rolli Blunck , a friend who I worked with , building sets for foto and flm shootings , as stage manager, welding on stage  and explosions expert. ,,,and… Jeanne-Marie . She was 4 years old at the time and VERY excited at the all luggage belts of all airports  we went through … she could not wait for  grabbing our suitcases  as if it was Xmas everytime …I recall a very “ USA” experience : we had rented a “ normal” car to do the first gigs ( Atlanta etc…)  but we got a free upgrade to a Lincoln Continental ! nice ..;)

On the tour ,  Steven Wray Lobdell joined us with his fantastic/crazy guitar  and we were very lucky to have also Scott McLeod joining us , such a good sound engineer , such a grand person.

On that tour  we had the honor to meet and jam with  lots of  great muscians : AMM, Barbara Manning, Michael Morley, Sonic Youth, Tony Conrad , Keiji Haino.

IN San Francisco , we were introduced to Erling Wold on piano , Stephen Kent and Mark Growden on didgeridoos. ..definitely enriching !

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Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura - The Last Gasp - The Grand Celestial Purge (https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/)

Avoidance (Ithaca, NY -  Lexi Turner (Prayer Rope) and E. Weber-Han (The Electrozone) ) There is a Hole in the Moon I Shall Fill with Shadow and Bone (https://serratedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/avoidance)

James Spitznagel - M-Exit - SMX (Level Green)

R. STEVIE MOORE - Sidelines - Ob Newschk (rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com)