ANNOUNCING - The Bartlepodcast!

Now you don't have to get up with the chickens to hear The Doctor!

Just click the "This Week's Podcast" link at the end of every playlist, and hear anywhere from one to three hours' worth of Doctor B!

My space-mix segment from September 17th, 2008 is up now. Go ahead, give it a try!

During the semester, my program runs like this:

7 AM to 8 AM - Boot of the Week (Bartlemania, Part 1)*
8 AM to 9 AM - Apprentice segment
9 AM to 10 AM - Bartlemania, part 2

Part 3 is the part which will be podcast each week.

During breaks and vacations, the entire program will be podcast*.

(*-Due to legal and technical issues, I regret that I cannot podcast the Boot of the Week. Sorry about that!)

The permanent link to my podcast page (which includes RSS feed) is at:
http://doctor-b.podomatic.com

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Playlist for October 1, 2008

Frank Zappa
Amougies (Belgium), Actuel Festival
24 to 27 October 1969

source: audience recording

Taper's Notes:

This is an amazing find that I'm sure will delight fans of Frank Zappa and the bands concerned
alike. A little background : the Actuel festival was organized by the publication of the same name
(who, under different editorship, went on to become a prime mover of the French counterculture
in the early to mid-70s) in collaboration with the fledgling BYG label. It was originally going to
take place in or near Paris, but French authorities forbid it and the marquee was eventually set up
a few miles outside the French border, on Belgian soil. It took place over 5 nights, entertaining an
audience of 15-20,000 to a unique mixture of progressive pop, free jazz and contemporary music.

Frank Zappa was present at the festival (well, the first four days, it seems) in a twofold capacity.
First, as Captain Beefheart's road manager; secondly, as M.C., assisting Pierre Lattes, a famous
radio/TV presenter at the time (and the pop music editor for Actuel magazine). The latter task
proved problematic given FZ's very limited mastery of French, the prevailing language among
the audience, who themselves didn't seem to understand much English. Instead, FZ relinquished
his M.C. job for one of occasional guest guitarist.

As far as I know, with the exception of FZ's performance with Captain Beefheart, this collects all
of his jams with participating bands. A couple of films, directed by Jerome Laperrousaz and
Jean-Noel Roy, came out in 1970 but were instantly banned because of objections from various
bands (most notably Pink Floyd) whose permission hadn't been properly secured. Zappa's
performance with Beefheart is included in one of them, and since the audio of the film (unlike
the film itself) is in circulation, possibly in better sound than I could provide, I decided not to
include it.

The whereabouts of the master tapes for the festival, if any exist, are unknown. What recordings
are circulating are either the soundtrack of the film, or taken from radio broadcasts (on
Luxemburg's RTL and Belgium's RTBF). The source used here is an audience recording made by
a young French member of the audience using a now antiquated amateur tape recorder. The
original tapes have been newly transferred, but even so, the sound quality is rather poor. Still, it
seems to be the only source available at this time, so that will have to do for now.

Most legendary, of course, is Frank Zappa's jam with Pink Floyd on a very extended "Interstellar
Overdrive". Apparently, despite the wealth of Pink Floyd bootlegs in circulation, no one seems to
have their Amougies set, so this will probably delight a lot of people. Browsing various
PF-related websites, there even seems to be a debate on whether the jam ever took place. Well,
here is the final proof that it did.

Now, the tracklist:

1. Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation: unknown title (7:08)
[October 24]
Victor Brox (vocals, harmonica); John Moorshead (guitar); Alex (Erroneous) Dmochowski
(bass); Aynsley Dunbar (drums)

2. Pink Floyd: Interstellar Overdrive (20:25)
[October 25]
David Gilmour (guitar); Richard Wright (organ); Roger Waters (bass); Nick Mason (drums)

3. Caravan: If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (7:55)
[October 26]
Pye Hastings (guitar & vocals); David Sinclair (keyboards); Richard Sinclair (bass & vocals);
Richard Coughlan (drums)

4. Blossom Toes: unknown title (26:10)
[October 26]
Brian Godding (guitar, vocals & keyboards); Jim Cregan (guitar & vocals); Brian Belshaw (bass
& vocals); Kevin Westlake (drums)

5. Sam Apple Pie: unknown title (6:04)
[October 27]
Sam Sampson (vocals & harmonica); Danny Barnes (lead guitar); Andy Johnson (slide guitar);
Bob Renny (bass & vocals); Lee Baxter Hayes Jr (drums)

(Note: I understand FZ jammed with some of the free jazz players. Sadly the taper was into rock,
not jazz, and didn't bother recording any of the jazz acts.)

I intend to seed some of the individual performances in the near future, so watch out. I must
thank the taper, JJB, for his permission to seed these rare treasures, making them available freely
to all via DaD in affinity with its non-profit philosophy.

(Apprentice segment - Kevin rocks the house!
Playlists at http://thebirdmanwhrw.blogspot.com)

Space Mix - Ingredients:

Avarus - A-V-P - ruskeatimmati (tumult dot net).wav
Masabumi Kikuchi - Pierrot's Samba - Hairpin Circus (Philips)
Bevis Frond - City of the Sun - Auntie Winnie Album (Reckless)
KuuPuu - Aara - Maan Metoset (pokrecords at yahoo dot com)
RJD2 - Fugitive Motel Remix - Loose Ends (rjd2 dot com)
Floom - Just for a few minutes - Floom (floom dot com)
Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery - Peel Slowly & See (Polydor)

Raunchettes - What? 'Scuse Me? - Hyped2Death Vol 1 (hyped2death dot com)

Playlist for September 24, 2008

Please note my new format:
Effective as of this week, I'll be showing two new
apprentices the ropes. Owing to their class schedules,
they'll be on the air in Hour 2 instead of
Hour 3, as was formerly the case.

Hour 1 - Boot of the Week

Johnny Dowd
ABC Cafe, Ithaca, NY
September 20, 2008
Recorded by Doctor B. on the
Bartlemuzik Ltd. Mobile Unit

Hour 2 - Apprentice Time!

(Say hello to my two new pupils!)

Hour 3 - Space Mix

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Telemuzik
Can - Father Cannot Yell - Monster Movie (Spoon)
Chemical Brothers - Chico's Groove - Exit Planet Dust (Astralwerks)
Holy Modal Rounders - Intro to Part 2 - Indian War Whoop (espdisk dot com)
The Pins - Brittle Starling - Ptolemaic Terrascope Vol 28
Holy Modal Rounders - trks 4-6 - Indian War Whoop (espdisk dot com)
Ministry - Just Like You - Twitch (Sire)
DJ Shadow - The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Remix) - Endtroducing (d eluxe reissue-Island)

Playlist for September 17th, 2008

Gone
“The Joint”
WBRS-FM
Brandeis University,
Boston, MA
July 14, 1986
(WBRS-FM)

taper: Harrison Merims

Taper's Notes:

Here (finally!) is the last of Harrison’s recordings from the Boston area. It’s Gone!, featuring Greg Ginn of Black Flag (who had just played their final show 2 weeks prior), with who would comprise the Rollins Band rhythm section later, Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain!

All of the songs are instrumentals and, not having studied their catalog, I will leave the song titles fer you to figure out. What you’ll get here is a smattering of styles from spazz-funk to jazz to driving rock, it’s all here. It’s pretty lengthy too at 65mins. Feel free to add yer own Rollins style lyrics…throw in stuff about being ugly and a machine and lots of YEAH!s…you know the drill;))

Harrison was lucky enough to witness this live, a very intimate show in the summer at the mostly empty campus of Brandeis University. Now you can hear it… I figure this will make a nice back to school gift fer you kiddies out there…

Tribute to Rick Wright (R.I.P):
Pink Floyd - Paris Theater, London
July 16th, 1970

1. Embryo
2. Green Is The Colour
3. Careful With That Axe Eugene
4. Let There Be More Light
5. Murderistic Woman
6. Point Me At The Sky
7. The Narrow Way
8. Julia Dream
9. A Saucerful Of Secrets
10. One of These Days
11. Echoes

Space Mix - Ingredients:

Klaus Schulze - In Cosa Crede Chi Non Crede - Mirage (Revisited)
Ken Nordine - I Sometimes Think - Upper Limbo (Grateful Dead)
Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain (Part 2)
Pink Floyd - Quicksilver - More (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Saucerful of Secrets (Capitol)
Boards Of Canada - Skyliner - Trans-Canada Highway (Warp)
William Spencer-The Eternal Machines - from the Mindwebs series

Playlist for August 27, 2008

Big Brother And The Holding Company
Santa Clara Fairgrounds
San Jose, California, USA
1967/10/08

Source: unknown SBD

setlist:

01 Down On Me
02 Road Block
03 Bye Bye Baby
04 Light Is Faster Than Sound
05 Coo Coo
06 Farewell Song
07 Combination Of The 2

ps. Janis Joplin bootlegs tend to come with little to no information about the source and lineage.

++++++++++

CAN - Hannover,Germany,Beethoven-Saal
1976.04.11

bootleg CD - Germany 1976 vol.1 Label:
On the Road TKCD 1117

FM broadcast,excellent quality

Holger Czukay - bass
Michael Karoli - guitar
Jaki Liebezeit - drums
Irmin Schmidt - keyboards
Michael Cousins - vocals

setlist :

01.Vitamin C 9:29
02.One More Night 7:33
03.Bel Air 10:43
04.Dizzy Dizzy 14:44

Space Mix
Ingredients:

Nurse With Wound - from Soliloquy for Lilith (United Diaries)
Zaimph - Recorded Live at the Lost Dog, Ithaca, NY 8-12-08 on the Bartlemuzik Ltd. Mobile Unit
George Carlin - Nostalgia - Braindroppings
Stonebaby - from Prophet Devil Failure
Brian Eno Interview June 1979 - From Brussels With Love (cassette, 1980)
Brian Eno - Stedelijk - The Shutov Assembly (All Saints)
Brian Eno - Stars - Apollo (All Saints)
Brian Eno - Julie With - Before & After Science (All Saints)

Plus found sounds, recorded, bent and twisted by Doctor B.

Lord Buckley - The Train - A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat (Straight)

This week's program cancelled

Due to Murphy's Law, this week's program has also been canceled.

Cross your fingers. I should be back on the 20th.

- The Doctor

No program Wed. August 6, 2008

Due to technical difficulties, I will not be on
the air today.

Please tune in at 7AM next Wednesday, August
13th, 2008.

- Dr. B.