Listener comments!

♥ 9:00pm
: came for the Honky Tonk, stayed for yer Dad! 🎸 ♥ 9:00pm
Joemama: Hi Sydney and Mike! ♥ 9:00pm
DanFA: Hello DJ Sydney's Dad ♥ 9:00pm
Hunterian: TRIBE! YES   9:01pm
matt from LNK: hello 🎸 ♥ 9:01pm
Handy Haversack: Sydney! Sydizens! Dads of all stripes and birthdayayans! Happy birthday, Sydney's dad!   9:01pm
dave: Sup Sydney and Salkmaxxers   9:02pm
Pete from Hoboken: Tribe! ♥ 9:02pm
PC77: Hi Sydney! Happy birthday Sydney's Dad! ♥ 9:02pm
Listener Bop Monroe: greetings from got really dark Tannersville DJSS & Mr. S.
Strong start. ♥ 9:04pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "How Records Are Made" by "David Greenberger, Bird...

OK, this Boston theme has me hooked for the rest of the show   9:05pm
Kat in the chat: I love how things are starting off tonight   9:05pm
Kat in the chat: And we haven’t even been introduced to Dad yet!   ♥ 9:06pm
New Dave: I commend you, Sydney's Dad ♥ 9:06pm
Listener Bop Monroe: and if it has a good beat, it can become popular with the record buying public. ♥ 9:07pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "This Is Not a Photograph" by "Mission of Burma"

OK, Dad is obviously spent quality time in Boston, now I'm wondering how often we were both at the same show back in the day   9:08pm
dave: Happy birthday Mike!   9:08pm
Marie de Chicago: Hey Sydney, hey All! Excited to your dad! ♥ 9:08pm
Hunterian: Happy Birthday, Mike!   9:10pm
matt from LNK: ...i learned it from you DAD... 🎸 ♥ 9:10pm
Joemama: It sounds like good parenting to expose you to awesome music.   9:11pm
matt from LNK: happy birthday Mike   9:11pm
Michele with One "L": How old is your dad?! ♥ 9:11pm
Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ Song: "Here and Now" by "Letters to Cleo"

ok ya got me!
LOVE THIS SONG!!!   9:11pm
Kat in the chat: I think Dad might be my age ♥ 9:11pm
sydneysalk: a lady never reveals her dads age   9:12pm
Michele with One "L": Hahaha ok. I think hes my age. 🎸 ♥ 9:13pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Sydney and birthday party! 🎂   9:13pm
matt from LNK: i think Mike is my age ♥ 9:13pm
Listener Bop Monroe: The comfort of a knowledge of a rise above the sky
But could never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the
Here and now   9:13pm
MikeS: Old enough to be Syd's Dad ♥ 9:13pm
Hunterian:

↳ Kat in the chat @9:11

I know he's my age, because I'd bet big money that I've seen Letters to Cleo many more often than Miche1e 🎸 ♥ 9:13pm
Vanejsa:

↳ Song: "Here and Now" by "Letters to Cleo"

always love letters to cleo... what a sound ♥ 9:13pm
Hunterian:

↳ Listener Bop Monroe @9:13

Nice work LBM ♥ 9:14pm
Listener Bop Monroe: still can't wrap my mouth around that chorus   9:14pm
ledzeppelinsucks: Saw Roger Miller’s No Man with NOMEANSNO several times on a tour. Saw Mission of Burma at Doug Fir Lounge in Portland and somewhere else. ♥ 9:14pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "With You" by "O Positive"

I was an O Positive groupie. True story. ♥ 9:15pm
listener 126464: Hi Dad, happy birthday, I'm in jail.   9:15pm
dave: I bet he’s turning 6 7   9:15pm
Kat in the chat: That chorus was awesome. I didn’t pay much attention to Letters to Cleo at the time - possibly that was a mistake.   9:15pm
MikeS:

↳ Hunterian @9:14

Saw them many many times ♥ 9:16pm
Hunterian:

↳ listener 126464 @9:15

But if you're listening to this show, you should be relatively in jail ♥ 9:17pm
Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ listener 126464 @9:15

...and i LIKE IT!!! 🎸 ♥ 9:17pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Hunterian @9:14

Plausible. Plausible. ♥ 9:17pm
Hunterian:

↳ MikeS @9:15

Yeah, you've yet to play a song from a band that I didn't know personally, so I imagine back in the day, we'd have recognized each other ♥ 9:18pm
Hunterian: Scott from Boston is going to be sooooo sad he's missing this show 🎸 ♥ 9:18pm
Joemama:

↳ Song: "Cigarettes" by "The Schemers"

WFMU premier for The Schemers.   9:19pm
Kat in the chat: Changed my mind, Dad is younger than me, even if he saw Birdsongs in the 80s.   9:20pm
MikeS:

↳ Hunterian @9:18

Prob. So many great shows ♥ 9:21pm
Hunterian:

↳ listener 126464 @9:15

Sorry, I meant relatively *happy* in jail, which probably doesn't help… 🎸 ♥ 9:22pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Kat in the chat @9:19

Boston, though. Boston. My first serious GF was from the South Shore. Letters to Cleo was one of the good finds of the relationship!   9:23pm
Kat in the chat: I might need to listen to Throwing Muses soon. Not right now though. ♥ 9:23pm
Folsom: If Sydney's dad worked on Guitar Hero, then that was at Harmonix in Boston.   9:23pm
Boh: A lot of people are snobby about bands of this era like Letters to Cleo, Spin Doctors, Dada, Toad the Wet Sprocket, etc. So good to hear this kind of music on WFMU. Thank you. ♥ 9:23pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "Voices Carry" by "Gang Green"

OK, now u r killing me   9:24pm
MikeS:

↳ Folsom @9:23

I did not work on guitar hero. Members of Tribe did ♥ 9:25pm
Folsom:

↳ MikeS @9:24

Sorry about that, just heard guitar hero and assumed.   ♥ 9:25pm
New Dave:

↳ Song: "Voices Carry" by "Gang Green"

hits the spot   9:25pm
Kat in the chat: Does the singer know that this was written about Al Jourgensen? ♥ 9:25pm
Listener Bop Monroe: nostalgic in spite of myself. '94.
was what was playing in my buddy's car all summer when he wasn't listening to Howard. ♥ 9:26pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "Voices Carry" by "Gang Green"

First encounter with Aimee Mann, at Newbury Comics: "You're wearing sunglasses inside? Really?" That left a mark.   9:26pm
MikeS:

↳ Folsom @9:25

I played guitar hero once. And failed. I'm a better (bad ) guitar player on a real guitar ♥ 9:26pm
Listener Bop Monroe: (btw F'Howard)   9:26pm
Cro Mignon:

↳ MikeS @9:24

Sorry about the Bruins, Mike. Usually my fallback at 'this time of year'. Alas, Habs it is. Happy B'day. Great selections.   9:26pm
MikeS: I played guitar hero once. And failed. I'm a better (bad ) guitar player on a real guitar ♥ 9:27pm
sydneysalk:

↳ Hunterian @9:26

young snakes!!! 9:28pm
Creamo Coyl: Is Sydney's Dad on the new schedule? Give him a slot!   9:28pm
MikeS:

↳ Cro Mignon @9:26

My roommate used to work at a Packy and Ray Bourque was a regular. I was at the game the night he changed from 7 To 77 ♥ 9:29pm
Hunterian:

↳ sydneysalk @9:27

Yes'm, saw them at the Rat and several other venues in Beantown and Cambridge—early fan here ♥ 9:30pm
sydneysalk:

↳ Creamo Coyl @9:28

youll have to bring that one up with ken ;)   9:30pm
ledzeppelinsucks: Saw Gang Green in downtown Manchester after meeting the Mayor at the bar a few years ago. Chris Doherty was disabled by a stroke. It was troubling to watch.   9:30pm
Boh: Saw Pearl Jam at the Avalon in Boston in like 92 or 93, incredible show   ♥ 9:30pm
New Dave:

↳ Creamo Coyl @9:28

I second the motion   9:31pm
Cro Mignon:

↳ MikeS @9:28

Legendary stuff. Ray Bourque, not so much. That guy should've got shirted every step on the ice. JK. Good fella, great on the blades.   9:31pm
Zoë Bushwick: Lovin it💓 ♥ 9:31pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "Seven Steps Down" by "Salem 66"

So, OK, another band whose parties I attended—I had a big crush on the girl who wasn't Judy   9:31pm
Boh: Throwing Muses in Providence around 91 was also unforgettable 🎸 ♥ 9:31pm
St. Booze: look at the cast of characters on this board hey Creamo ♥ 9:32pm
sydneysalk:

↳ St. Booze @9:31

i know right everyone showed up for my dad's birthday party! 🎸 ♥ 9:32pm
St. Booze:

↳ sydneysalk @9:32

let me add my bday wishes to Sydney's Dad ♥ 9:33pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "Seven Steps Down" by "Salem 66"

btw, I want two points for knowing that Judy married David Minehan from the Neighborhoods   9:34pm
ledzeppelinsucks: Saw Mock Execution at Black Lodge last night. Those guys are good.   9:34pm
Boh:

↳ Song: "When You're Young" by "Atlantics"

another banger! ♥ 9:37pm
Listener Bop Monroe: raising a can of Polar Grapefruit Seltzer in your honor, sir.
HB and many more.
great set, both of you.   9:39pm
Cro Mignon: RISD, represent. ♥ 9:40pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "(it's interference)" by "The Library is On Fire, ...

First time i saw Mike Watt was at The Rat, so Boston theme continues at least for me personally   9:43pm
dave: Wish i had a Del’s frozen lemonade right now ♥ 9:44pm
Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ Song: "Mr. Pharmacist" by "The Fall"

hopping off the board, keeping the ears on etc.
gotta get horizontal.
thank you again DJSS and DJSS's Dad!   9:44pm
MikeS:

↳ dave @9:43

Maybe with a little vodka ♥ 9:46pm
Hoboken Jack: Hi Sydney and happy birthday to your dad!! Great selections! Looking forward to Beth Kaplan of Salem 66 at Mama Tried!   9:47pm
Marie de Chicago: Hey, fun show! 🎸 ♥ 9:48pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ St. Booze @9:31

Your Holiness.   9:48pm
The Man ION: Def Gen X dad. 🎸 ♥ 9:52pm
Joemama:

↳ Song: "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by "Living Colour"

Caught these guys in 1988 with Fishbone. Hot. ♥ 9:55pm
Drongo Zone: Ranking Roger was the coolest.   9:55pm
Kat in the chat: Yeah I saw them on that tour too 🎸 ♥ 9:55pm
St. Booze: Pre-show good luck msg Syd. HBD again Syd dad ♥ 9:55pm
sydneysalk:

↳ St. Booze @9:55

GOOD LUCK BOOZE   9:58pm
Carmichael: Heya Sydney and listenẽros. I detect a theme. 🎸 ♥ 9:58pm
frozencocoa: good evening sydney and listeners! happy birthday mike!   10:00pm
kevlicki: Joe Strummer presente!!   10:01pm
Kat in the chat: BLAKE BABIES ❤️❤️❤️ 🎸 ♥ 10:02pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Kat in the chat @10:01

One of the best shows I ever saw.   ♥ 10:03pm
vinyl hero of Lenox, MA...in the Berkshires!: Um...I feel old. But that's OK, I guess. ♥ 10:03pm
Hunterian:

↳ Kat in the chat @10:01

Juliana Hatfield, her ELO covers album is in my personal GOAT collection 🎸 ♥ 10:04pm
Vanejsa: family radio 💜 🎸 ♥ 10:04pm
Joemama:

↳ Song: "Out There" by "Blake Babies"

Fun fact: Blake Babies were named by Allan Ginsberg   10:06pm
Andre: Happy birthday Mike   10:06pm
O____o: Welcome Sydney’s dad!   10:06pm
kevlicki: Just tuning in, dad has a particular accent, where’s it from?!   10:07pm
kevlicki: Ok, hes a Mass guy, makes sense ♥ 10:08pm
coelacanth∅: greetings sydney and salkaholics
Happy birthday sydney's dad!   10:15pm
Kat in the chat: I was singing this around the house this weekend for some reason   10:15pm
lou in CHI: Greetings sydizens ♥ 10:17pm
coelacanth∅: 'wish i'd caught more stories. i like stories. i just heard the last bit.
...and don't worry about missing the ramones, they were only AMAZING! 10:17pm
laurapanic:

↳ Song: "I Play My Bass Loud" by "Gina Birch"

this whole album is really really good 10:18pm
laurapanic:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:02

oh wow!! the Suburn album somehow made it to Australia and I found a vinyl copy in a record store in 1991 and yeh, life changed. ♥ 10:21pm
TDK60: Good evening, Sydney. 🎸 ♥ 10:23pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ laurapanic @10:18

We went to see them in high school without really knowing them and had our minds blown! 🎸 ♥ 10:23pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ TDK60 @10:21

You got home OK!   10:23pm
DAMN SON MAN: DAMN SON   10:23pm
Cro Mignon: Gina could probably withstand a Jah Wobble 'I Play My Bass Loud' challenge. Oh, Papas Fritas. Dusting off the good bottle. 10:25pm
laurapanic:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:23

there are a few precious youtube videos of that era, which is nice. ♥ 10:26pm
TDK60:

↳ Handy Haversack @10:23

Ahoy, HH. The waves of the estuary were sailed, then the tunnel ran north, all smoothly. Gracias!   10:26pm
Cro Mignon:

↳ Song: "Top Down" by "Teenage Head"

Went to the riot. ♥ 10:27pm
Berfie:

↳ Song: "Top Down" by "Teenage Head"

Frankie Venom and the lads from "The Hammer" -Hamilton, Ontario - the Canuck Ramones! <3 ♥ 10:36pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Top Down" by "Teenage Head"

in a record store in the 80s i found a record by the diodes. a record store employee had put a note on it calling *them* the canadian ramones.
i bought it, and i was disappointed. ♥ 10:38pm
coelacanth∅: but siouxsie didn't get siouxsed ♥ 10:39pm
coelacanth∅: (siouxed) ♥ 10:39pm
DanFA: These kids who didn't want to listen to Blondie sound like a bunch of lamewads. ♥ 10:39pm
Berfie:

↳ coelacanth∅ @10:36

Diodes were cool, but not at all Ramoney. "Tired Of Waking Up Tired" and their rockin' cover of The Cyrkle's "Red Rubber Ball" (written by Paul Simon) are classics. ♥ 10:39pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ DanFA @10:39

most kids are lamewads! ♥ 10:40pm
DanFA:

↳ coelacanth∅ @10:39

These kids especially. ♥ 10:41pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Hungry, So Angry" by "Medium Medium"

i'm not sure but i think Irwin played a wee soundbite of a different medium medium song today, for Gemma. i meant to track that down, i forgot... ♥ 10:41pm
@MrGeeHeals: Wow. I didn't know Paul Simon wrote Red Rubber Ball. And I also heard on FMU last week that Wagon Wheel was written 25 years later from a Dylan scrap! ♥ 10:41pm
HesperusWrecked:

↳ Song: "Hungry, So Angry" by "Medium Medium"

Memories of waking up on the couch in the middle of the night and seeing “the tv thing's blue.” I don't think that happens anymore. ♥ 10:41pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Berfie @10:39

yes exactly! the record's good, but not ramones.   10:42pm
AS from MP: Happy Earthstrong, Mike. This show is your birthday gift to us. The ability of Sidney to program this is what makes FMU wholly unique.   10:43pm
Kat in the chat: coel, I think it was A Certain Ratio that Irwin played ♥ 10:43pm
Drongo Zone: Wow, I haven't heard these last two songs in decades. Holy cow. Hungry Angry, Mind Your Own   10:43pm
AS from MP: Misspelled Sydney… ♥ 10:44pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Kat in the chat @10:43

you caught that too?! i think you may be right! Thank you ♥ 10:45pm
@MrGeeHeals: Can FMU hire Sydney Sr? ♥ 10:45pm
HesperusWrecked:

↳ Song: "Mind Your Own Business" by "Delta 5"

Total disbelief when “Mind…” turned up in an Apple commercial a couple of years ago. ♥ 10:46pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ @MrGeeHeals @10:45

he can take sundays, noon>3. ♥ 10:46pm
@MrGeeHeals: Would be nice to hear some more aging white northeastern rock dudes on here, for a change.... BAHAHAHAHA   10:46pm
Keith in Columbus: It is also my birthday. 49. It made me smile to hear Teenage Head into Radio Birdman. ♥ 10:47pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Keith in Columbus @10:46

Happy birthday, Keith in columbus! ♥ 10:47pm
@MrGeeHeals:

↳ coelacanth∅ @10:46

There's only one again white rock dude I want to hear on FMU at that time... well, two, actually but sadly one will not return any time soon. ♥ 10:48pm
@MrGeeHeals:

↳ @MrGeeHeals @10:47

one *aging white rock dude   10:48pm
MikeS: Happy Birthday 🎉 ♥ 10:49pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "LEMON TEA" by "Sheena & The Rokkets"

lemon kept a-rolling, all night long ♥ 10:49pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "LEMON TEA" by "Sheena & The Rokkets"

Well now this Lemon Tea is hitting the spot   10:50pm
Kat in the chat: Haha yes, this is odd   10:53pm
Kat in the chat: Wonder how many times I’ve danced to Optimo over the decades ♥ 10:55pm
Drongo Zone: This is one helluva radio program going on here. ♥ 10:58pm
Hunterian:

↳ Drongo Zone @10:55

Right? ♥ 10:58pm
Drongo Zone:

↳ Kat in the chat @10:53

I think the 12" Optimo/Cavern record still exists in a box at my daughter's house. Got it at J&R.   11:07pm
dave: Wow haven’t heard freezepop in forever   11:08pm
Kat in the chat: Me neither!   11:08pm
Kat in the chat: Unfortunately I have 2 get ready 4 bed. Happy birthday Mike! ♥ 11:09pm
Berfie:

↳ @MrGeeHeals @10:41

... and Bruce Woodley (of The Seekers). I just checked on it, and I omitted Mr. Woodley in my post about The Diodes.

Love their cover:

www.youtube.com...

  11:15pm
dave: Haha family karaoke?   11:17pm
Cro Mignon:

↳ Song: "Hungry, So Angry" by "Medium Medium"

Was on a triple bill, in Toronto. Opening for them who were opening for...Sly Stone. We did our bit to little fanfare. Medium Medium were great. And then the headliner, who was f*cked up. One of those 'Don't ever meet your heroes' things.   11:22pm
Erik in VT: ✅ OK, with this last set, y’all are just showing off now! 😉. this dad/daughter show is priceless! & the camaraderie charming! SS’s show is a mighty mighty show that we are all delighted to set sail with 🛟
👏🥳👏. Thank You both for sharing your family & life stories with us all !!!   11:23pm
dave: Salkamania ♥ 11:23pm
sydneysalk:

↳ dave @11:23

lol   11:23pm
Erik in VT: Oh yea, & happy birfday 🎉 🎊 🎈 🎸 ♥ 11:24pm
7uring7est: just tuning in during my lunch break and it sounds like Sydneys dad should have his own show! Paging Ken!   11:25pm
MikeS:

↳ dave @11:23

Syd loved the cartoon Tasmania -- come to Tasmania come to tasmania.

Come to Salkmania

♥ 11:31pm
Mark T:

↳ Song: "stereo mice lab" by "鼠鼠鼠"

I really dig this. It’s got that mid 60’s guitar sound but more
modern “alternative” flavor.   11:36pm
Jamie: David Byrne is a great celebrity siting I’m jealous!!   11:37pm
Jeremy: I met Jim E. Brown at Abasement at Artists Space, we chatted for a few minutes and he was completely in character the entire time.   11:38pm
Marc15: I waited on Patrick Ewing when I worked at a record store in the Short Hills Mall in the 1980s. ♥ 11:38pm
RomanDogBird: celebrity prankster richard kind? ♥ 11:39pm
coelacanth∅: i've never thought about getting a picture with any "famous" people - or i would have a picture of myself and Bob Mould (and Grant Hart, and Greg Norton) having food at a diner. ♥ 11:39pm
Mark T: What a great show. Your dad has outstanding taste in music Sydney. Clearly, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree ♥ 11:41pm
coelacanth∅: i just want to shake hands, or hug, and say Thank you. (if i know who they are before it's too late - which is usually not the case) 11:45pm
Joe B: great show Mike & Sydney! happy birthday!   11:45pm
dave: No set of german music? Is that Moms playlist? ♥ 11:46pm
Mark T:

↳ coelacanth∅ @11:41

When I got sober in SoCal 18 years ago, I went to plenty of 12 step meetings where celebs go. One in Brentwood still features a celebrity speaker on Wednesday night. And some of them
are you hilarious when they share tier stories   11:46pm
Erik in VT:

↳ Song: "Only You" by "Flunk"

as a youth, when I found/listened to Vince Clarke’s Assembly “never never” 12” (1983) featuring wonderful vocals by Feargal Sharkey, it became an instant fave!
Would love to hear a ‘Flunk’ version of that one.   11:50pm
dave: Hell yea   11:51pm
dave: Great show!! Thanks Sydney! Thanks Mike! Happy birthday dude! ♥ 11:55pm
Mark T:

↳ Song: "Volunteers of America" by "Tomato Monkey"

YEAH! Got to see Jefferson Starship in September of 1975 in Philly. Ahh memories 🎸 ♥ 11:55pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Happy birthday, Mike. Enjoyed the Bring Your Parent to Work Day. ♥ 11:56pm
Mark T: Happy birthday Mike.   11:57pm
Gordon: Ken: Give Mike a permanent show. Fantastique! ♥ 11:58pm
Hunterian: Thanks DJs Mike and Sydney, magnificent show tonight   11:59pm
matt from LNK: great show! ♥ 12:00am
coelacanth∅: Thanks sydney! Thanks Mike!

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