Playlist for March 21, 2007

DJ LOGIC with VERNON REID
Jazz Festival (outdoor)
Esplanade de la Défense
La Défense (near Paris)
July 2nd, 2002
at 12:30 PM on a bright sunny day

EX+ MASTER audience recording - sample provided

This is not a Vernon Reid concert. You first hear turntables and saxophone. Vernon is only guesting, but he is on stage during the whole gig.

No set list

Richard Hell
Old Waldorf, SF, Ca._7-14-1982

1. Kid with the Replaceable Head
2. Time
3. You Gotta Lose
4. I can only give you everything
5. Walking on the Water
6. Staring in her Eyes
7. Blank Generation
8. Ignore That Door
9. Going Going Gone
10.You Gotta Move

Line Up:
Richard Hell:Bass,Vocals
Fred Maher:Drums
Robert Quine:Guitars
Naux:Guitars

DJ Q-Bert - Razorblade Alcohol Slide - Wave Twisters (GBH)
Sometimes Why - I'm Tryin' to Remember What City I Know You From - Sometimes Why (sometimeswhy dot us)
Nancy Sinatra - Lightning's Girl (Reprise 1967)
Lou Reed - Looking For Love - The Definitive Collection (Arista)
Death By Chocolate - The Land of Chocolate - Death By Chocolate (Jetset)

Les McCann - The Lovers - Invitation to Openness (Water)

Baby Gramps - Black Swamp Potioner - Baptized on Swampwater (babygramps dot com)
Nazz - Rain Rider - Open Our Eyes (Sanctuary)

Ray Pillow - Country Music Lovin' Cowboy (Hilltop 1978)

Playlist for March 14th, 2007

Sunburned Hand of the Man
(with Mouthus)
Live at the Von Cramm Co-Op
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
March 10, 2007


120 Days - The Mixtape

Cluster - Imsuden
Neu! - Fur Immer
Silver Apples - Oscillations
Spacemen 3 - Suicide (live)
Tussle - Tight Jeans
Suicide - Fast Money Music
Bob Hund - Allseende Ogat
David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town
Mental Overdrive - New World
Primal Scream - Detroit
Jesus & Mary Chain - Reverberation
Kraftwerk - Metropolis
Steve Reich - Music for
18 Musicians (excerpt)
Spectrum - How You Satisfy Me

Jefferson Airplane - Won't You Try - After Bathing at Baxter's (BMG)

Tangerine Dream:

Atem - Atem (Virgin)
Phaedra - Phaedra (Virgin)
Strand of Nightmares - Phaedra (Virgin)
Cold Smoke - Electronic Meditations (Relativity)
Brian Eno - Tal Coat - On Land (All Saints)

Tex Williams - The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel for Single Girls Burned Down - 7-inch(Monument)

Playlist for March 7th, 2007

Unholy Modal Rounders
July 4th Weekend 1975
Inman Square Men's Bar
Boston

Master Soundboard Reel

Peter Stampfel (Violin, Banjo, Vocals), Paul Presti (Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals), Kirby Pines (bass), anyone else? I don't remember.

The taper's Notes:

I first saw the UMR in May of 1975 at CBGBs. I asked Peter if I could tape, he said sure. When I heard that they were playing in Boston for July 4th I packed my reel and headed up from NYC to join them. It was a fairly eventful weekend. During the drive through Connecticut I heard on the radio that NRBQ would be playing at Powder Ridge that Sunday so I stopped off on the way home and taped it off the soundboard and will post that sooner or later. That's another story. Copies of that are around anyway.

After the first night's gig of the UMRs, Michael Hurley showed up at the house that we were staying at and since he brought along a bunch of demo tapes that he had, well, I copied those also. I didn't get a whole lot of sleep. I don't think that I can post those but I'll ask him the next time that I see him. Could be 10 years the way things are going.

The UMR tapes have sat on a shelf for just about thirty years now and the statute of limitations must have expired. The mix is a bit strange. The vocals are mostly in one channel and the instruments are split among both channels. Usually I did a blind mix of my two mikes into the soundboard feed, adjusting the volume until I saw the levels change. Taping in small places requires something like that since much of the music is not piped through the board. There was likely only a single mono board feed going into one channel and it sounds like I miked Peter's amp into the other channel, then mixed another mike with Paul and Kirby's amps into the board channel. Maybe.

This is also pretty early UMR. Charlie Messing hadn't joined the band yet and he added quite a bit to the lineup. Jeff Berman played drums later but I guess he hadn't joined yet either. I seem to hear a guitar that I can't identify on these tapes and it might be Kirby.

A caveat: I understand that there will be an official UMR album released sooner or later. Those guys did not make a whole lot of money and I don't want to be responsible for costing them any sales. If you like this music, please support Peter and the others by buying a copy or two. They will make swell gifts for all of your friends. Besides, you'll likely get the full band on that one. And if you don't have Have Moicy in your collection, buy that now. You won't be sorry.

Paul Presti died a few years after this recording, and recently a relative posted a message to the Have Moicy list asking for remembrances of Paul. I really liked Paul and I thought that his voice was a perfect counter to Peter. So I dug the tapes out and spent some time preparing a CD to send. Without meaning to sound hokey I think that Paul still lives through the music; certainly he does for me. And once a CD is out there in the real world, well, it might as well spread around. So this is dedicated to Paul.

Usually when I prepare a show for posting I just run it off as is. This time I ran through four separate burns before I was reasonably happy with it. I didn't have a whole lot of money, or tape, back in 1975. I cut out some between song stuff just to make sure that I got all the music. So I spent some time making the transitions as even as I could, and evened out some of the volume swings and a few assorted pops, crackles, and clicks. The CD is basically the first two (of three) sets from July 5th and since I had some time left over, I picked a few tracks from July 4th and stuck them at the end.

Enjoy.

dgk, March 2005

First Set July 5th 1976:

Low Down Dog
Please Don't Bury Me
Hesitation Blues (Paul on Shotglass slide)
Don't Monkey With The Widow
Happy Scrapple Daddy
Grandpa
Endless Highway
If You Wanna Be A Bird > Wild Blue Yonder

Second Set July 5th:

Black Jack Davy
Old Kentucky Home
Goofus (broken string noise)
Melinda
Patriotic Songs
Goofus
Midnight In Paris
Haul The Woodpile Down
Flop Eared Drink

July 4th bonus tracks:

Chittlen Cookin' Time In Cheatham County
Happy Time
Griselda
Old Man Mose Is Dead
Year of Jubaloo
Hoodoo Bash


The Splendors - Naked - The Splendors
Colin Blunstone - Smoky Day - One Year (Columbia)
Heaven 17 - Fascist Groove Thang - Penthouse & Pavement (Virgin)

Steinski-Radio Advertising Bureau - Theatre of the Mind - private recording
The Flock - Crabfoot - Dinosaur Swamps (One Way)
Elvans Road - Summer Free Fo' All - Super Fly Soul (Union Square)
Cookin' Bag - This Is Me - Wheedle's Groove (Light In The Attic)
Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues - Billboard magazine promo disc (Warner Bros)
Coldcut - Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Sound Mirrors (Ninja Tune)
DJ Qbert - Invasion of the Octopus People = Wave Twisters (Galactic Butt Hair)

Be Bop Deluxe - Blazing Apostles - Sunburst Finish (Harvest)
Death By Chocolate - Who Needs Wings to Fly - Death By Chocolate (Jetset)
Puerto Muerto - With a Little Help from my Friends - MOJO presents Sgt Pepper (MOJO)
R. Stevie Moore - Alicia - Contact Risk (rsteviemoore dot com)
The Unlovables - Bein' In Love - Crush Boyfriend Heartbreak (Whoa Oh)
The Velvet Underground - The Gift - White Light White Heat (Polydor)
Tori Amos - A Case of You - Spew U (Atlantic Records promo CD)

Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - Apache - Bongo Rock (Mr Bongo)
Simon & Garfunkel - Fakin' It - The Best of S&G (Columbia)
Frank Zappa - Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy - FZ-OZ (zappa dot com)
Flaming Groovies - Slow Death - Punk Legends (Jungle Freud)
Fit & Limo - Terra (September Gurls Records)

The Generic Band (from Ithaca!) - The Dr Ruth Rap (7-inch) (Generic)

Playlist for February 28, 2007

Fred Frith/Bob Ostertag
Public Access Synthesizer Studio (PASS)
NYC
January 7 1983

A little background.....

PASS was a loft in NY where, as the name suggests, you
could rent all sorts of advanced electronic gear, you could
also rent the space out for performances. It was very
reasonable and artist friendly.

This tape comes from a late midnight set when Frith and
Ostertag were promoting their "Voice Of America" LP.
This tape, like the one I made that night is incomplete.
The set ran about 55 minutes total and consisted of 2
pieces . This tape is missing the first few minutes, the
applause and announcements in between the pieces and
the last few minutes. I cannot locate the tape I made.

A few years back I made a combination of all the extant
tapes that was almost complete....I may have even seeded
it back on Share The Groove....I probably traded it...can't
remember, but If anyone has that copy, please seed it as
mine has eluded me for months now.

On to the music.......

The first piece is a typical non-idiomatic free improv....
Fred plays his "tabletop" homemade guitars, and Ostertag
had a giant modular Synth and was manipulating tape
loops.

The second piece was one of the most astounding
avant-garde performances I had seen up to that time. It
consists of Ostertag reading from 2 sources....one is a TV
Guide fluff piece about some soap-opera actress rescuing
cats, the other is graphic quotes from victims of political
violence in El Salvador. He reads them both straight
through and then juxtaposes the 2 articles in a sort-of
live-action version of the William Burroughs cut-up
experiments, all the while Fred clatters along with this
narrative and Ostertag manipulates his synths. The piece
built to an incredible climax which left more than one
audience member gasping and slack-jawed....quite
powerful, if not a lot of fun....unfortunately the tape runs
out about 4 or 5 minutes short of the climax.


Sybarite - Grey Sky Bright - Cut Out Shape (Temporary Residence Ltd)
Jean-Michel Jarre - Diva - Zoolook (Disques Dreyfus)
Kraftwerk - Hall Of Mirrors - Trans Europe Express (Capitol)

Alice Coltrane - Sita Ram - Universal Consciousness (Impulse)
John Cale & Terry Riley -The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace At
Versailles - Church of Anthrax (Columbia)
Aki Onda - Buddha in New York - Jukebox Buddha (Staubgold)
Tackhead - Airborn Ranger - Friendly as a Hand Grenade (TVT)

Parlet - Wolf Tickets - The Best of Parlet (Casablanca)
James Brown - Soul Power - Star Time (Polydor)
Mother Fuyer - Chick Willis (7-inch)(Collectables)
Frank Zappa - Po Jama People - One Size Fits All (Ryko)

The John Sinclair/Doctor B. Show
Recorded January 2007 in
WHRW's Control Room 2

For playlist and downloadable MP3
of this segment, click here.

Playlist for February 21, 2007

PATTI SMITH
THE BOTTOM LINE,NYC
DECEMBER 27,1975
LATE SHOW

Set 1

1-MY MAFIA ( SOLO )
2-NIGGER BOOK
3-SALLY
4-RAPE
5-LULLABY ( I WAS WORKING REAL HARD )
6-WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REAL GOOD TIME TOGETHER
7-PRIVILEGE ( SET ME FREE )
8-AIN'T IT STRANGE
9-SPACE MONKEY
10-REDONDO BEACH
11-FREE MONEY
12-PALE BLUE EYES >
13-LOUIE LOUIE
14-PUMPING MY HEART

Set 2

1-MY MAFIA ( W/ BAND )
2-BIRDLAND
3-BAND INTROS/TUNING/TALK
4-LAND > GLORIA
5-CROWD/TUNING
6-TIME IS ON MY SIDE
7-MY GENERATION
8-CROWD/TALK
9-DEDICATION


IN THE PAST THIS WAS DATED DEC.28,1975 BUT
AT THE END OF THIS SHOW PATTI APOLOGIZES
FOR NOT PLAYING MORE DUE TO HER HAVING
TO PLAY 3 SHOWS THE FOLLOWING NIGHT.
THE MASTER REEL WAS DATED DEC.27 AND THIS
DIALOG CONFIRMS IT.

DEC 26 - 28 , 1975


* Dec 28 - Because of ticket demand a third show at 2:00am was added (one of only two times this has happened in the history of The Bottom Line. The other time this took place was an Elvin Bishop engagement.)

The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love - Peel Slowly & See (Polydor)
Jefferson Airplane - Watch Her Ride - After Bathing at Baxter's (RCA)
Lothar & The Hand People - This Is It - Presenting (One-Way)
Robert Palmer - Give Me An Inch - Pressure Drop (Island)
Frank Zappa-Love Of My Life - Reuben & The Jets (1968 Mix)(Verve)
The Evolution Control Committee - Don't Miss the Great Snatch - Plagiarhythm Nation (http://evolution-control.com/)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Wake Up & Make Love With Me - New Boots & Panties (Stiff)
James Brown & The Famous Flames - Tell Me That You Love Me (7-inch)

Wolfman Jack - Free Shots (7-inch)
Maggie Estep - The Stupid Jerk I'm Obsessed With - No More Mr Nice Girl (Imago)
R. Stevie Moore - Hours of Delight - Contact Risk (rsteviemoore dot com)
Ramones - Oh Oh I Love Her So - NYC 1978 (kingbiscuit dot com)
Eberhard Schoener - San Francisco Waitress - Video Magic (Harvest)
United States Of America - I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You Sugar - United States of America (Sundazed)
The Unlovables - Bein' In Love - Crush Boyfriend Heartbreak (Whoa Oh)
Lou Reed - Vicious - Transformer (RCA)
Vitamin C - I Know What Boys Like - More (Elektra)
Greg Keeler-Talkin Interface Blues
Amy Rigby - Dancing With Joey Ramone

Television - Little Johnny Jewel - The Blow-Up (ROIR)
Leno Lagrey - Mollusk on the Vessel - Architechtural Digressions (Recycled Carbon)
T Rex - Casual Agent - Futuristic Dragon (Rhino)
Elvis Costello - King Horse (Demo) - Get Happy (Rhino)

Dow Chemical CHEM-TV - Table of Life (cassette)


And remember -
John Sinclair is my guest DJ (live via tape)
next Wednesday, February 28, 2007,
9AM!

Today's program has been cancelled FEB 14 2007

Due to the blizzard which is now in our face, the Doctor regrets that he was not be able to rock your morning drive-time this Wednesday (February 14th, 2007).

Doctor B. will be back in your loudspeakers again next Wednesday, February 21st at 7AM, weather permitting of course!

And don't forget, on Wednesday morning February 28th at 9AM, you'll hear a show which activist, poet, DJ and MC5 member John Sinclair
and I recorded at WHRW studios last month. Don't miss it!

In the meantime, check out this story, 'cos I think it's kind of important!

Playlist for February 7, 2007

Sometimes Why at The Haunt
In Ithaca Tomorrow (February 8, 2007)

MAGMA
Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany, February 8th 1974
(excerpts)
audience recording

Kohntarkosz
Sowiloi Part 1
Sowiloi Part 2
Ptah
Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Gamma Anteria Part 2

Considered the most intense Magma line-up there ever was. The 1974 line-up is with Janik Top on bass, and Christian Vander at his very best. The sound is for collectors only (i.e. not hi-fi) but if you push the treble a bit, and close your eyes, you'll be right there.

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe - Ottawa 1968 (Dagger)
The Electric Hole - Love Will Find A Way III - USA (Radish)
Clark Hutchinson - Free To Be Stoned - Retribution (Deram)
T Rex - Token Of My Love (alt) - Bolan's Zip Gun (Rhino)
The Splendors - Dirty Road - The Splendors (thesplendors dot com)
Richard & Mimi Farina - House Un-American Blues Activity Dream - The Best Of (Vanguard)

Les Petroleuses - Samantha Est Partie - French Fried Funk II (Kickin Records)
Herbie Mann - In Tangier - Stone Flute (Embryo)
Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues - Billboard magazine promo disc (Warner Bros)
Sun Ra - Discipline 27 Part 2 - Concert for Comet Kohoutek (ESP)
Dr Seuss - The Left Sock Theives - The Cat In The Hat Songbook (Buddah)

Commodores - Brick House - Commodores (Motown)
Elvis Costello - New Lace Sleeves - Get Happy (Rhino)
The Pixies - Monkey Gone TO HEaven - Doolittle (elektra)
Velvet Underground - European Son - Norman Dolph acetate 1966
Elvis Costello - There's No Action (demo) - My Aim Is True (Rhino)
MG and the Escorts - A Someday Fool - Wyld Canada Vol 1
Paul Ritchie & The Cryan Shames - Come On Back - The Freakbeat Scene (Decca)

Don't forget -
The Doctor shares the studio with John Sinclair
on Wednesday, February 28th at 9AM!