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9:02am
Zip7:
Hello Doug and Drumizens! Back from Japan. The highlight was seeing drummer Shoji Hano in a tiny club in Tokushima. He was in a duo with a guitarist. and it was like a RS Jackson/Sharrock throwdown/meltdown. Hano played with Brotzmann among many others. The guy is a force of nature!
9:02am
Andrew in Toronto:
↳
Doug Schulkind @8:54
Hi there, Doug, and all others!
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9:03am
Doug Schulkind:
chresti! lisenter james from westwood! Zip7! Zipperdawg! Andrew in Toronto!
Welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome!
9:03am
Andrew in Toronto:
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Zip7 @9:02
Hi there, Zip7!
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9:03am
Doug Schulkind:
Oh hey, unpopularfred! How you be?!
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9:06am
Webhamster Henry:
Ooh I'll be able to hear Ridgewood live since it won't conflict with gamelan rehearsal.
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9:07am
Webhamster Henry:
Yeah more Steinski! so good! And probably weirdly still relevant and relevatory!
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9:07am
Zip7:
Zipperdawg was a bad boy. Ms. Zip won't drive him out to the woods, so one morning she found him on his back on the driver's side floor with his muzzle buried under the dash. Apparently trying to hotwire the car with his teeth.
9:08am
Andrew in Toronto:
↳
Brian in UK @8:48
HI there, Brian.
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9:08am
Doug Schulkind:
bobdc! (Mr) Bill! Alex in Downers Grove! Webhamster Henry! StringOFperils! Little Danny!
I'm so so so so so gladdend by your presence!
9:08am
Listener Gregory:
Good morning, Doug and the ensembled drummers.
9:10am
BillfromRockTavern:
My goodness , I've been around long enough to remember Steinski.!
9:16am
BillfromRockTavern:
Good morning #1 Son! Mama Maggie and I are planning a road trip to Michigan in late Sept /early October and are planning a stop in Pittsburgh. .No details yet.
When I worked at J&R I was always enamored with the gorgeous Ocora and Harmonia Mundi records.
9:20am
Andrew in Toronto:
↳
doctorjazz @9:15
Hi, doc!
9:20am
Andrew in Toronto:
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Olleh @9:16
Hi there, Olleh!
9:21am
BillfromRockTavern:
Hey Andrew ,!
9:22am
Andrew in Toronto:
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BillfromRockTavern @9:21
Hi there, Bill!
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9:22am
StringOFperils:
This is the album that was 'sampled' (too early technologically, I know) for Joni Mitchell's The Jungle Line, on The Hissing of Summer Lawns......innit?
He is a rascal. That's what happens when you mix a border collie, Australian cattle dog, coonhound and rottweiler
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9:26am
Webhamster Henry:
Are we gonna get some of those ping-pong percussion stereo show-off albums, or is that too Sheena Jungle Roomy for the Drummer stream?
Hey Kat -- I listened to Replacements Cabaret Metro 1/11/86 yesterday. Were you at that show?
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9:31am
Doug Schulkind:
Some tracks that sampled the Burundi Drummers:
"Burundi Black" (1971): A proto-punk/new wave track created by French producer Michel Bernholc (under the pseudonym Steiphenson) by overdubbing piano and guitar lines over field recordings. This heavily influenced 80s bands like Adam & The Ants and Bow Wow Wow
"The Jungle Line" (1975): Featured on Joni Mitchell’s album The Hissing of Summer Lawns, which prominently used a heavy Burundian drum sample as the rhythmic foundation for the song
"59 Chrystie Street" (1989): The Beastie Boys sampled a drum loop from "Burundi Black" on this instrumental track featured on their album Paul's Boutique.
"Rocket" (1987): Def Leppard’s hit single was heavily inspired by the driving percussive styles and vocal chants of the drummers.
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9:32am
Doug Schulkind:
Corrine Curry is the woman vocalizing here with the percussion ensemble.
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9:33am
StringOFperils:
You are the fountain of information inspiration station
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9:33am
Doug Schulkind:
I played a cut from this Max Roach record a few shows back during a feature on The Music Inn in Western Massachusetts. I am besotted with this proto-M'Boom record from Max.
Agreed. Last week's descarga show was so hot I thought it was gonna melt my speakers when I listened on archive a couple of days ago
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9:36am
Kat in the chat:
Zip7, I almost certainly was at that show, although my recollections of it are pretty vague! If it was the "Tim" tour, I'm sure I was there. That's when I worked for the venue.
It's ok, I'm small like a bunny and easily overlooked. (If you knew me irl, you'd know why this was funny.)
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9:37am
Doug Schulkind:
Thanks for shooting off that flare, adamdoesit! It's all too easy for me to miss a contribution to the chat as they go scrolling by.
That's what I figured. I've been culling tapes and assembled a five-CD set of their sloppy covers. I thought they were the greatest rock band in the world from '84 to '86 when they kicked Bob out
I find myself revisiting the Burundi rabbithole more and more frequently in recent years. I would’ve also included *samples of remixes* to my initial comment, but I didn’t want to get too wordy.
Oh fudge! I missed your question, Listener Gregory! I guess I am more distracted than usual today. Faberman is credited with composing the tracks, but I bet it was a more collaborative deal.
You're drumming up some business, eh, listener james from westwood?
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9:50am
StringOFperils:
The rabbit who spied his reflection
Fell prey to his own misdirection
When the evening grew dim
Where the stream should show him
He winked out sans external detection.
It's funny, I always assumed that percolator referred to the percussive blooping of coffee in the bulb at the top of the vessel, kind of an onomatopoeia, but it turns out to refer to the silent downward straining of the coffee through the metal filter.
It was either that or my incessant tinnitus, adamdoesit.
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10:08am
Kat in the chat:
I only make/drink one cup of coffee at a time now, so I do paper filter and ceramic whatchamacallit for pour-over. It's a nice lil ritual.
Well it was so damned much work I made an extra set. If you're interested, PM your address and I'll mail it to ya
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10:09am
Doug Schulkind:
It was my listening to this outlandish Les Tambours du Bronx record that spurred the idea for this all-percussion wallowing. You have them to thank. Or curse.
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10:09am
Kat in the chat:
Honestly Zip7 I probably wouldn't listen to 5 CDs worth right now, but for someone who drives (unlike me) that sounds perfect! I bet you can find a taker. Thanks though!
I have made good friends with my tinnitis. It's like there is ALWAYS a record playing in my head. It's at the end of the track and the needle is scraping against the label.
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10:26am
Doug Schulkind:
I could program a hundred hours of songs with or inspired by William Blake's poetry. Maybe hundreds.
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10:28am
Doug Schulkind:
You will be possibly surprised to learn what other cultural touchstone the artists of The Open Window collaborated on...
Any guesses?
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10:28am
Olleh:
We share the same frequency and chirping. Had an interesting conversation with an audiologist about it. She told me that it’s a feedback loop, but hard to exactly trace and fix. I once worked with a guy who was mentally ill and had terrible tinnitus and I think hearing voices too. He had a headpiece system aimed to mediate the tinnitus. Wow.
I'm only into their early stuff. After the first demo, they sold out!
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10:31am
Kat in the chat:
Rich, I bet you have an elaborate coffee ritual.
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10:32am
Doug Schulkind:
Yes, Peter Schickele aka P.D.Q. Bach was a member of the trio behind the Open Window. But I'm asking, what other notable music effort did they collaborate on?
I made shrinky dink earrings of all the illuminated poems of songs of innocence and experience
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10:36am
Doug Schulkind:
Amazing lineup of artists on this Ginsberg document. Arthur Russell! Elvin Jones! Don Cherry! Bob Dorough! Jon Sholle! Peter Orlovsky! Julius Watkins! And many more. Incredible!
This what makes me crazy. I cannot have a conversation when there's a lot of loud ambience. So hearing aids can fix this?
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10:38am
adamdoesit:
As seekers of sound, tinnitus
should not pain but delight us:
all night its song
rings loud and long,
a tonic beacon to guide us.
Uncle Michael, I learned from today's New York Times midi crossword puzzle that "Avon" means "river." So the River Avon means, essentially River River.
Yes, but you may have to get used to the manner. Different than natural hearing. But dig this: hearing aids now have a setting for listening to music. It is incredible to me. Picking up lots of details I missed normally. Very cool. Costco has the best deal. Don’t go for the high mark up through dedicated hearing aid shops. And costco has really great and thorough audiologists.
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10:48am
Doug Schulkind:
The actor Nathan Lee Graham is delivering the verbiage here.
Speaking of Fugging around, Sam Shepard was a great Holy Modal Rounder drummer of the Mo Tucker school of lysergic drumming.
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11:17am
Doug Schulkind:
This is one of the first African records I ever bought. I only recently learned that Ambiance Akasavougou was an alias used by the Congolese rumba group Orchestre Minzoto Wella-Wella.
I'm glad he dramatized the savage threadbare howling of the lonely American night though. Guy's an amazing writer. And way too good looking. It's not fair. Waaaaaaaaaaaahhh
One NEVER apologizes for wordplay here in the Drummerchat, StringOFperils.
11:28am
Jeff g., via app:
Hi. Hoping I can get from the borough of kings to the land of Mass. on the wings of you, Uncle Michael, Arlo… and hopefully that does it.
We're inextricably braided together IMO, my friend. NEVER to be the same thing entirely, but we are going through this together, and don't be deceived, there are similar forces at work here, and I don't know how much longer we can successfully hold them at bay. It's a woeful world this one.
You’re right. Populist flunkies abound. I remember seeing all those red hat sympaticos when you folks had that trucker strike. I was aghast. I know I sometimes tend to think in polarities, but Canada always charmed me as being welcoming in its diversity, kind, cultured, and the home of SCTV.
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11:46am
Doug Schulkind:
So so so happy to have spent the morning with you all...
...Brian in UK! chresti! lisenter james from westwood! Zip7! Zipperdawg! Andrew in Toronto! unpopularfred! bobdc! (Mr) Bill! Alex in Downers Grove! Webhamster Henry! StringOFperils! Little Danny! Listener Gregory! BillfromRockTavern! doctorjazz! Olleh! Oleh! Kat in the chat! dutchtheo! A.J. MACHETE! tim! thedunkel! Uncle Michael! newton! Gina Bacon! Sun Coup! Rich in Washington! Jef Golick! rw! Marie de Chicago!...
...and everyone!
I can't hardly wait to do it all over again next week!
Quite a few of the SCTV wigs are now with my significant other and her business partner...wig rental and construction for film/TV...they acquired quite a bit of stuff when the original creator retired and sold up
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11:58am
StringOFperils:
Ironically, I don't see a lot of Canadian television. Or film. And it seems like I rarely get exposed to good Canadian music. I hear more of it on WFMU. Part of the shut-in generation, waiting for the ICE robots, and listening to this beautifully obscure universe of stuff.
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11:58am
Doug Schulkind:
It is I who thank YOU! And YOU! And YOU!
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11:58am
tim:
Thanks, Doug! Excellent show today!
Listener comments!
: Doctor, doctor gives me the news, I got a bad case of listening to you.
Doug Schulkind: It's best not to consume the broadcast whilst operating heavy machinery, Brian in UK.
chresti: Morning Doug and drummers!
listener james from westwood: Friiiiiiiiiidaaaaaaayyyyyyyy! All the better with Give the Drummer Some!
unpopularfred: Morning Doug and all
Zip7: Hello Doug and Drumizens! Back from Japan. The highlight was seeing drummer Shoji Hano in a tiny club in Tokushima. He was in a duo with a guitarist. and it was like a RS Jackson/Sharrock throwdown/meltdown. Hano played with Brotzmann among many others. The guy is a force of nature!
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Doug Schulkind @8:54
Hi there, Doug, and all others!Doug Schulkind: chresti! lisenter james from westwood! Zip7! Zipperdawg! Andrew in Toronto!
Welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome!
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Zip7 @9:02
Hi there, Zip7!Doug Schulkind: Oh hey, unpopularfred! How you be?!
bobdc: Good morning all!
(Mr) Bill: I don't need no doctor. But I need "Give the Drummer Some" on Friday mornings.
Alex In Downers Grove: Hi Y'all!
Zip7:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @9:03
Hey there Andrew!Little Danny: yoohoo!
StringOFperils: Good morning. Let us proceed.
Webhamster Henry: Ooh I'll be able to hear Ridgewood live since it won't conflict with gamelan rehearsal.
Webhamster Henry: Yeah more Steinski! so good! And probably weirdly still relevant and relevatory!
Zip7: Zipperdawg was a bad boy. Ms. Zip won't drive him out to the woods, so one morning she found him on his back on the driver's side floor with his muzzle buried under the dash. Apparently trying to hotwire the car with his teeth.
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Brian in UK @8:48
HI there, Brian.Doug Schulkind: bobdc! (Mr) Bill! Alex in Downers Grove! Webhamster Henry! StringOFperils! Little Danny!
I'm so so so so so gladdend by your presence!
Listener Gregory: Good morning, Doug and the ensembled drummers.
BillfromRockTavern: My goodness , I've been around long enough to remember Steinski.!
Doug Schulkind:
↳ listener james from westwood @9:01
I enjoyed your best Murray Saul impression at the show's start, listener james from westwood!Zip7:
↳ BillfromRockTavern @9:10
Yeah really looking forward to hearing Steve's shows. Hope he shows up on the board sometimeDoug Schulkind: Listener Gregory! BillfromRockTavern! The sounds are on me, gents!
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Zip7 @9:11
Steinski plans to be present in the comments as much as possible.doctorjazz: Hi Doug and Drummer Peeps!
Doug Schulkind: Our doctor makes house calls. Welcome, doctorjazz!
StringOFperils: Amazing image on this album cover. That's some beautiful work. Wow!
doctorjazz:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @9:02
Hey Andrew!BillfromRockTavern: Good morning #1 Son! Mama Maggie and I are planning a road trip to Michigan in late Sept /early October and are planning a stop in Pittsburgh. .No details yet.
Doug Schulkind:
↳ StringOFperils @9:14
Ocora records are as gorgeous to behold visually as they are aurally.Olleh: Good morning Sir Doug and Boom Booms!
Doug Schulkind: Aloha, Oleh!
BillfromRockTavern:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:16
When I worked at J&R I was always enamored with the gorgeous Ocora and Harmonia Mundi records.Andrew in Toronto:
↳ doctorjazz @9:15
Hi, doc!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Olleh @9:16
Hi there, Olleh!BillfromRockTavern: Hey Andrew ,!
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ BillfromRockTavern @9:21
Hi there, Bill!StringOFperils: This is the album that was 'sampled' (too early technologically, I know) for Joni Mitchell's The Jungle Line, on The Hissing of Summer Lawns......innit?
(Mr) Bill:
↳ Zip7 @9:07
Hi there, Zipperdawg. You are smart!Doug Schulkind:
↳ StringOFperils @9:22
The self-same record, StringOFperils. And also sample by, of course, Burundi Black.Kat in the chat: It sounds like it to me, SOp! I know that track very well.
Olleh:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @9:20
Howdy Andrew!Doug Schulkind: Glad you could prowl on over, Kat in the chat!
adamdoesit: Hello Doug and drummerati and, wow, this! Chunk-a-chunk a-chunk-a-chunk…
Kat in the chat: Glad you're providing this percussive introduction to the day, Doug!
StringOFperils:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:23
New to me! It's on YT tho, so I will edumacate myself laterZip7:
↳ (Mr) Bill @9:23
He is a rascal. That's what happens when you mix a border collie, Australian cattle dog, coonhound and rottweilerWebhamster Henry: Are we gonna get some of those ping-pong percussion stereo show-off albums, or is that too Sheena Jungle Roomy for the Drummer stream?
Olleh:
↳ Song: "Evolution: First Movement / Second Movement / Thi...
Max Roach is my spirit drummer. The best.StringOFperils:
↳ Song: "Evolution: First Movement / Second Movement / Thi...
Little Danny, this is in your wheelhouse!dutchtheo: Howdy, Doug and Ensemble de Tambours!
A.J. MACHETE:
↳ Song: "Ingoma" by "Ensemble de Tambours"
This recording left an amazing footprint of samples and remixes that spanned, as far as I know, thru 2019 (and maybe beyond).Doug Schulkind:
↳ Webhamster Henry @9:26
Webhamster Henry, you should know better than to place arbitrary aesthetic limits on any Drummer Stream programming.Doug Schulkind: Welcome aboard, dutchtheo! A.J. MACHETE!
Zip7:
↳ Kat in the chat @9:25
Hey Kat -- I listened to Replacements Cabaret Metro 1/11/86 yesterday. Were you at that show?Doug Schulkind: Some tracks that sampled the Burundi Drummers:
"Burundi Black" (1971): A proto-punk/new wave track created by French producer Michel Bernholc (under the pseudonym Steiphenson) by overdubbing piano and guitar lines over field recordings. This heavily influenced 80s bands like Adam & The Ants and Bow Wow Wow
"The Jungle Line" (1975): Featured on Joni Mitchell’s album The Hissing of Summer Lawns, which prominently used a heavy Burundian drum sample as the rhythmic foundation for the song
"59 Chrystie Street" (1989): The Beastie Boys sampled a drum loop from "Burundi Black" on this instrumental track featured on their album Paul's Boutique.
"Rocket" (1987): Def Leppard’s hit single was heavily inspired by the driving percussive styles and vocal chants of the drummers.
Doug Schulkind: Corrine Curry is the woman vocalizing here with the percussion ensemble.
tim: Hey Doug! Sounding great!
Hey everyone!
StringOFperils: You are the fountain of information inspiration station
Doug Schulkind: I played a cut from this Max Roach record a few shows back during a feature on The Music Inn in Western Massachusetts. I am besotted with this proto-M'Boom record from Max.
Doug Schulkind:
↳ tim @9:33
Hiya, tim!adamdoesit: Doug, no greets for me?
Listener Gregory:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:33
Are these Roach’s compositions?Doug Schulkind:
↳ adamdoesit @9:34
I'm mortified, adamdoesit! I missed ya! SORRIES!Zip7:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:33
Agreed. Last week's descarga show was so hot I thought it was gonna melt my speakers when I listened on archive a couple of days agoKat in the chat: Zip7, I almost certainly was at that show, although my recollections of it are pretty vague! If it was the "Tim" tour, I'm sure I was there. That's when I worked for the venue.
adamdoesit:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:35
It's ok, I'm small like a bunny and easily overlooked. (If you knew me irl, you'd know why this was funny.)Doug Schulkind: Thanks for shooting off that flare, adamdoesit! It's all too easy for me to miss a contribution to the chat as they go scrolling by.
How about a limerick in honor of my rude manners?
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ tim @9:33
Hi there, tim!Doug Schulkind:
↳ adamdoesit @9:37
Glad you're not hopping mad, adamdoesit.Zip7:
↳ Kat in the chat @9:36
That's what I figured. I've been culling tapes and assembled a five-CD set of their sloppy covers. I thought they were the greatest rock band in the world from '84 to '86 when they kicked Bob outA.J. MACHETE:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:31
I find myself revisiting the Burundi rabbithole more and more frequently in recent years. I would’ve also included *samples of remixes* to my initial comment, but I didn’t want to get too wordy.tim:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @9:37
Hey Andrew!Listener Gregory:
↳ Listener Gregory @9:34
Great question, LG. They are all by the conductor, Harold Farberman.Doug Schulkind:
↳ A.J. MACHETE @9:40
A.J. MACHETE, I give you the floor. Let the words flow like wine. Or whine. Your choice.Doug Schulkind:
↳ Listener Gregory @9:40
Oh fudge! I missed your question, Listener Gregory! I guess I am more distracted than usual today. Faberman is credited with composing the tracks, but I bet it was a more collaborative deal.A.J. MACHETE:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:41
The former is a lot easier on the collective palate.listener james from westwood:
↳ Song: "Fugue in C Major" by "New York Percussion Ensemble"
When you need aces tympani skills AND your Constitutional rights defended, better call Saul!Doug Schulkind:
↳ listener james from westwood @9:47
You're drumming up some business, eh, listener james from westwood?StringOFperils: The rabbit who spied his reflection
Fell prey to his own misdirection
When the evening grew dim
Where the stream should show him
He winked out sans external detection.
adamdoesit:
↳ Song: "Fontomfrom" by "Ammasu Akapoma"
Suddenly I find myself wanting to make popcorn…adamdoesit:
↳ StringOFperils @9:50
NICE!thedunkel: Good morning Mr.Drummer!
StringOFperils: Ha ha. :)
Olleh:
↳ adamdoesit @9:50
😁 and I’m pining for some vintage percolating Maxwell HouseDoug Schulkind:
↳ StringOFperils @9:50
A marvelous concoction, SringOFperils!Doug Schulkind: Greetings, thedunkel!
Kat in the chat: Five CDs of Replacements' sloppy covers, I love that, Zip7!
(Mr) Bill: The drummers are giving us listeners a lot of some this morning.
Doug Schulkind: The Milford Graves Percussion Ensemble is just Milford and Sunny Morgan.
StringOFperils: Very interesting/strange film about Mr. Graves:
www.criterionchannel.com...
adamdoesit:
↳ Olleh @9:52
It's funny, I always assumed that percolator referred to the percussive blooping of coffee in the bulb at the top of the vessel, kind of an onomatopoeia, but it turns out to refer to the silent downward straining of the coffee through the metal filter.Doug Schulkind:
↳ adamdoesit @9:57
Drink enough and the downward straining ain't so silent, amirite, adamdoesit?!?!StringOFperils:
↳ adamdoesit @9:57
As per collation, I guessOlleh:
↳ Song: "Wu Bulang Theravada Buddhist Drum Ensemble" by "U...
So great!Doug Schulkind: I forget who's playing the saw on this track.
Doug Schulkind: Probably Roy Brooks.
Olleh:
↳ adamdoesit @9:57
I’ve lost those sourcing skills. It’s pod this, pod that anymore and a damned planned obsolescence built into the plastic coffee machine.tim:
↳ StringOFperils @9:57
That's a good one!adamdoesit:
↳ Doug Schulkind @9:58
Wait, you heard that?Doug Schulkind:
↳ adamdoesit @10:07
It was either that or my incessant tinnitus, adamdoesit.Kat in the chat: I only make/drink one cup of coffee at a time now, so I do paper filter and ceramic whatchamacallit for pour-over. It's a nice lil ritual.
Zip7:
↳ Kat in the chat @9:54
Well it was so damned much work I made an extra set. If you're interested, PM your address and I'll mail it to yaDoug Schulkind: It was my listening to this outlandish Les Tambours du Bronx record that spurred the idea for this all-percussion wallowing. You have them to thank. Or curse.
Kat in the chat: Honestly Zip7 I probably wouldn't listen to 5 CDs worth right now, but for someone who drives (unlike me) that sounds perfect! I bet you can find a taker. Thanks though!
Olleh:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:07
I have tinnitus too. What’s the buzz?adamdoesit:
↳ Kat in the chat @10:08
My day starts with the french press for two; but when it's just me, having an extra cup during GTDS, I do the ceramic Hario cone, too.Doug Schulkind: The French press can be so invasive, adamdoesit. A simple "No comment" is never sufficient.
Olleh:
↳ Kat in the chat @10:08
I have a friend who has an elaborate coffee ritual. I think I could easily buy into that tasty ocd myself.?: Nice to see young people playing traditional instruments!
newton: ooops, no loggin
Listener Gregory:
↳ Song: "Ionisation (1929-1931)" by "Percurama, Jean Thorel"
This is Varèse?adamdoesit:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:12
Je suis mortDoug Schulkind:
↳ Listener Gregory @10:14
This indeed IS Varèse, Listener Gregoire.Doug Schulkind: Hola, newton!
Zip7:
↳ Olleh @10:11
I have tinnitus too. It's at about 7 Khz. Sounds like crickets. FortunatelyI can ignore it most of the timeadamdoesit:
↳ Zip7 @10:19
Mine's in my left ear, centered around 2000kHz. A constant companion, whether I want it or not.adamdoesit:
↳ adamdoesit @10:23
*2kHz. 2000kHz would be high indeed.Kat in the chat: Interesting topic for a set! I did a high school term paper on Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Got an A.
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Zip7 @10:19
I have made good friends with my tinnitis. It's like there is ALWAYS a record playing in my head. It's at the end of the track and the needle is scraping against the label.bobdc:
↳ Song: "Ah! Sunflower, Weary of Time" by "The Fugs"
Velvety guitar, in the Sterling Morrison sense of the word.Doug Schulkind:
↳ Kat in the chat @10:24
Fuckin' A, Kat in the chat!Kat in the chat: I was very proud of that fuckin' A.
Doug Schulkind: I could program a hundred hours of songs with or inspired by William Blake's poetry. Maybe hundreds.
Doug Schulkind: You will be possibly surprised to learn what other cultural touchstone the artists of The Open Window collaborated on...
Any guesses?
Olleh: We share the same frequency and chirping. Had an interesting conversation with an audiologist about it. She told me that it’s a feedback loop, but hard to exactly trace and fix. I once worked with a guy who was mentally ill and had terrible tinnitus and I think hearing voices too. He had a headpiece system aimed to mediate the tinnitus. Wow.
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Olleh @10:28
Hey, Oleh. I passed my audiology exam. No hearing aids for me just yet?tim:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:28
The name Peter Schickele rings a bell but I can't place in what context though.Doug Schulkind:
↳ tim @10:29
You're on the right path, tim!Olleh:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:28
Open window with PDS Bach guy Peter Schikle? Man, that was a great album of minimalist compositions.Sun Coup:
↳ tim @10:29
I think that might have been the name of Doug's first band in high school.Kat in the chat: P.D.Q. Bach! I never heard of this record before, however.
Doug Schulkind: Big thanks to Tony Coulter who "loaned" me a copy of this charming Open Window record.
Rich in Washington: Tuning in while performing my coffee ritual. Hola Señor Doug!
Dobro jutro, Drummerites!
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Sun Coup @10:29
Buon giorno, Sun Coup!tim:
↳ Sun Coup @10:29
I'm only into their early stuff. After the first demo, they sold out!Kat in the chat: Rich, I bet you have an elaborate coffee ritual.
Doug Schulkind: Yes, Peter Schickele aka P.D.Q. Bach was a member of the trio behind the Open Window. But I'm asking, what other notable music effort did they collaborate on?
No Googling!
Webhamster Henry:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:24
I have a constant 12500Hz signal in my head.Olleh:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:29
Congrats! I finally had to get them. Can’t well make out conversations with background noise. Helpful, but natural hearing is a gift to keep.Rich in Washington:
↳ Kat in the chat @10:31
I do! Part of it is deciding what method of coffee making I am going to use for the day.Today: French press.
Olleh:
↳ tim @10:29
PDQ BachDoug Schulkind:
↳ Rich in Washington @10:30
Brother Rich in Washington. Delighted upon your arrival am I!Olleh:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:30
Great album indeed.Rich in Washington:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:33
Damn glad to be here!Olleh: Doug, you got the Fugs album!
newton:
↳ Kat in the chat @10:24
I made shrinky dink earrings of all the illuminated poems of songs of innocence and experienceDoug Schulkind: Amazing lineup of artists on this Ginsberg document. Arthur Russell! Elvin Jones! Don Cherry! Bob Dorough! Jon Sholle! Peter Orlovsky! Julius Watkins! And many more. Incredible!
Gina Bacon: Morning, Doug and all!
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Olleh @10:34
All so I could Fug you, Oleh.Zip7:
↳ Olleh @10:33
This what makes me crazy. I cannot have a conversation when there's a lot of loud ambience. So hearing aids can fix this?adamdoesit: As seekers of sound, tinnitus
should not pain but delight us:
all night its song
rings loud and long,
a tonic beacon to guide us.
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Gina Bacon @10:36
Gina Bacon! Gina Bacon! Gina Bacon!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Gina Bacon @10:36
Hi there, Gina!Uncle Michael:
↳ Song: "My Silks and Fine Array" by "Julie Covington"
I like the "down by the river" rhythm guitar.tim:
↳ Song: "My Silks and Fine Array" by "Julie Covington"
This is great!Doug Schulkind:
↳ adamdoesit @10:38
You are an alchemist, adamdoesit! A weaver of wonder!Doug Schulkind:
↳ Uncle Michael @10:39
Uncle Michael, I learned from today's New York Times midi crossword puzzle that "Avon" means "river." So the River Avon means, essentially River River.Uncle Michael: La Brea
Doug Schulkind: Phil Minton singing here with the dearly departed Mike Westbrook.
Doug Schulkind: Mike Westbrook died 11 April at the age of 90.
Doug Schulkind: Jerusalem is a ubiquitous marker in the universe of William Blake-inspired creations. (More coming up.)
Doug Schulkind: Big sloppy bear hugs to Uncle Michael who dug up a few of the marvels presented in this set.
Kat in the chat: newton: Ha! Did you wear them? sell them? give them away?
newton:
↳ Kat in the chat @10:46
yes, all. Also made them from the illustrations for Alice in wonderland(Mr) Bill:
↳ Doug Schulkind @10:39
Bravo to the Drummer stream's house limerickist.Olleh:
↳ Zip7 @10:37
Yes, but you may have to get used to the manner. Different than natural hearing. But dig this: hearing aids now have a setting for listening to music. It is incredible to me. Picking up lots of details I missed normally. Very cool. Costco has the best deal. Don’t go for the high mark up through dedicated hearing aid shops. And costco has really great and thorough audiologists.Doug Schulkind: The actor Nathan Lee Graham is delivering the verbiage here.
tim: Mark Stewart!
Zip7:
↳ Olleh @10:47
Thanks, Olleh!!!Rich in Washington:
↳ Song: "Jerusalem" by "Mark Stewart + Maffia"
Love this album so much. Mark Stewart is greatly missed.tim:
↳ Song: "Mani Malaikat" by "Arrington de Dionyso"
Alright! Another great selection!Rich in Washington:
↳ Olleh @10:47
The only reason I finally caved and joined Costco was for my hearing aids.and the hot dog.
StringOFperils:
↳ Song: "Mani Malaikat" by "Arrington de Dionyso"
This is pretty cool.Ramblin' Ray: Greetings Doug and all.
The sounds on point as ever.
Hurrah!
Doug Schulkind:
↳ StringOFperils @10:55
Even cooler than is readily apparent!Olleh:
↳ Rich in Washington @10:53
😆 its part of my weight lifting regimen. I’m up to lifting 200 rolls of toilet paper!Olleh: Thanks Doug!
Zip7: Sam Shepard hailed Allen Ginsberg as "The Father of my Country," and I agree wholeheartedly
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Zip7 @11:02
The country where we watch the best minds of our generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...You mean that country, Zip7?
Olleh:
↳ Zip7 @11:02
Speaking of Fugging around, Sam Shepard was a great Holy Modal Rounder drummer of the Mo Tucker school of lysergic drumming.Doug Schulkind: This is one of the first African records I ever bought. I only recently learned that Ambiance Akasavougou was an alias used by the Congolese rumba group Orchestre Minzoto Wella-Wella.
StringOFperils:
↳ Olleh @11:13
I'm glad he dramatized the savage threadbare howling of the lonely American night though. Guy's an amazing writer. And way too good looking. It's not fair. Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhadamdoesit:
↳ Song: "Sala Ya Yo Makasi" by "Ambiance-Akasavougou"
This is way too delightful to run out on for silly errands, but silly errand I must. Thank you, Doug! See you at the Hinky Dinky.Doug Schulkind:
↳ adamdoesit @11:19
The Silly Errand was the name of my first band in high school.Olleh:
↳ StringOFperils @11:18
The Neal Cassidy of the Post generationOlleh:
↳ adamdoesit @11:19
See ya lateradamdoesit:
↳ Doug Schulkind @11:19
Day: made.Cya Olleh!
Doug Schulkind: Ta-ta, adamdoesit! Errand like a champ!
StringOFperils: To errand is human, to forage diverting.... Sorry....it must be this blood pressure medication
Doug Schulkind:
↳ StringOFperils @11:25
One NEVER apologizes for wordplay here in the Drummerchat, StringOFperils.Jeff g., via app: Hi. Hoping I can get from the borough of kings to the land of Mass. on the wings of you, Uncle Michael, Arlo… and hopefully that does it.
StringOFperils: Sorry, I'm Canadian. Sorry.
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Jeff g., via app @11:28
I'm hoping for you a nice tailwind, Jeff G!Doug Schulkind:
↳ StringOFperils @11:28
You sound like Ellen Fanshaw on Slings & Arrows (the second best program in the history of television).Olleh:
↳ StringOFperils @11:28
To eh is human. Certainly more human than this s**thole of a country your immediate neighbors now find ourselves inZip7: Gotta head out but the show has been a delight. Thanks, Doug! I can't think of a better place to hang out on Friday mornings
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Zip7 @11:32
Welcome home, Zip7!Olleh:
↳ Zip7 @11:32
Take care and hear, Ziprw: Whew. Made it.
rw: Good morning!
Doug Schulkind: If this was Talk Like a Pirate Day, I'd say, hello there, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrw!
StringOFperils:
↳ Olleh @11:31
We're inextricably braided together IMO, my friend. NEVER to be the same thing entirely, but we are going through this together, and don't be deceived, there are similar forces at work here, and I don't know how much longer we can successfully hold them at bay. It's a woeful world this one.(Mr) Bill:
↳ StringOFperils @11:28
In that case, as a U.S. citizen, I apologize to you.Doug Schulkind: If this was Talk Like a Pirate Day, I'd say you can listen to Hinky Dinky Time or you can walk the plank!
No scurvy here: wfmu.org...
StringOFperils: Geopolitics. Greed. Manipulation of thought itself. Let's just dance.
rw: Dang. Too bad it’s not Pirate Day. Hellooooo Doug!
Doug Schulkind: Bass clarinet alert! Bass clarinet alert! Bass clarinet alert! Bass clarinet alert! Bass clarinet alert! Bass clarinet alert!
Marie de Chicago: Hi Doug, hi All! Happy Friday! I’d love to hear the sounds made by the guys in the gif
Doug Schulkind: Woo-hoo! Marie de Chicago's here!
Olleh:
↳ StringOFperils @11:38
You’re right. Populist flunkies abound. I remember seeing all those red hat sympaticos when you folks had that trucker strike. I was aghast. I know I sometimes tend to think in polarities, but Canada always charmed me as being welcoming in its diversity, kind, cultured, and the home of SCTV.Gina Bacon:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @10:38
Hi Andrew!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Doug Schulkind @11:43
What an inspired show!Doug, thanks!
Doug Schulkind: So so so happy to have spent the morning with you all...
...Brian in UK! chresti! lisenter james from westwood! Zip7! Zipperdawg! Andrew in Toronto! unpopularfred! bobdc! (Mr) Bill! Alex in Downers Grove! Webhamster Henry! StringOFperils! Little Danny! Listener Gregory! BillfromRockTavern! doctorjazz! Olleh! Oleh! Kat in the chat! dutchtheo! A.J. MACHETE! tim! thedunkel! Uncle Michael! newton! Gina Bacon! Sun Coup! Rich in Washington! Jef Golick! rw! Marie de Chicago!...
...and everyone!
I can't hardly wait to do it all over again next week!
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Gina Bacon @11:45
See you tomorrow!Doug Schulkind:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:45
And thanks for your inspiration with that William Blake set, Andrew in Toronto!Kat in the chat: Thank you Doug! Wrestling with an uncooperative Word template right now, but still listening!
doctorjazz: Thanks, Doug!
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Doug Schulkind @11:46
You`re welcome, Doug!StringOFperils:
↳ Olleh @11:44
Quite a few of the SCTV wigs are now with my significant other and her business partner...wig rental and construction for film/TV...they acquired quite a bit of stuff when the original creator retired and sold up(Mr) Bill:
↳ Olleh @11:44
This last--"the home of SCTV"--is of incalculable value. Canada also punches way over its population weight in musical artistry, too.Olleh:
↳ StringOFperils @11:48
That is great!Doug Schulkind:
↳ Olleh @11:48
How could a record on Groove Merchant be anything but?Olleh:
↳ (Mr) Bill @11:48
Best comedy on tv…ever! Canada has the edge on comedy overall.Doug Schulkind: Yes! This is the same group the Impossibles as the the Impossibles from Thailand!
Olleh:
↳ Doug Schulkind @11:49
I wouldn’t disagree, but your affirmation for another hit me in the head, boss man.Uncle Michael: Thanks, Doug!
Oh....
wfmu.org...
Doug Schulkind: Monument Records was one crazy muthahfuckin label!
(Mr) Bill: Thank you for your latest musical and humanistic contribution to my lived experience, Doug. Invaluable, as always.
Rich in Washington: Thanks, Doug!
See you on the radio!
StringOFperils: Ironically, I don't see a lot of Canadian television. Or film. And it seems like I rarely get exposed to good Canadian music. I hear more of it on WFMU. Part of the shut-in generation, waiting for the ICE robots, and listening to this beautifully obscure universe of stuff.
Doug Schulkind: It is I who thank YOU! And YOU! And YOU!
tim: Thanks, Doug! Excellent show today!
(Mr) Bill:
↳ StringOFperils @11:58
Let's not forget: Your national anthem beats the tar and feathers out of the U.S.'s.Ramblin' Ray: THanks Doug for awesome sounds
Marie de Chicago:
↳ Doug Schulkind @11:43
Thanks, Doug!StringOFperils: Thanks Doug, and thank you all for the commiseration. Big love!
Doug Schulkind:
↳ Ramblin' Ray @12:00
Oh shit! I forgot to say HEY, Ramblin'Ray! I apologize!!!chresti: thanks Doug!
Olleh: Muchos gracias Doug!