Listener comments!

  6:53am
: Hi Mr. Fab! 🎸 ♥ 8:13am
ultradamno: Fab! Monkeys! Witches! 🎸 ♥ 8:50am
ultradamno: As is becoming my routine, listening to yesterday's Morricone Youth, a Nosferatu theme show (he even worked in Messer Chups), so going from one horror classic type to another... 🎸 ♥ 8:54am
David The Splatter: Good morning, Fab and friends!

I see Mr. Fab's pulling a doubleheader today.

🎸 ♥ 8:57am
ultradamno: Ah, yeah. Not end on end but...Kitten did yesterday too (streaming for Transmissions right after his show) ♥ 8:59am
Mr Fab: Andrew in! ultra! David The! yes indeed, following Jan, I'll be jet-setting over to Vini Vidi Vinyl-land 🎸 ♥ 8:59am
David The Splatter:

↳ ultradamno @8:57

I missed that. Long day yesterday, went home and vegged out. 🎸 ♥ 9:00am
ultradamno: Pretty good Ex interview with cafe ambience   9:02am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ ultradamno @9:00

Hi ultra!   9:03am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mr Fab @8:59

Wonderful. 🎸 ♥ 9:03am
ultradamno: Hiya Andrew!   🎸 ♥ 9:04am
Jay Current:

↳ David The Splatter @8:54

When I heard DJ GeorgyGirl was taking off as well, I thought this was going to be a *very* long Friday for Mr. Fab, but then GeorgyGirl clarified DJ Babs was stepping in for her. ♥ 9:04am
Mr Fab: Morricone Island isn't on WFMU anymore, tho, right?   9:04am
JoeH: Howdy Fabsters ♥ 9:05am
Mr Fab: hey Jay, whatdoya say?! 🎸 ♥ 9:05am
ultradamno: Babs is doing a fill-in for Flange & Frigate too...I'll have to hit the archives for both of those at a later date

@Fab Nope. East Village Radio eastvillageradio.com...

♥ 9:05am
Mr Fab: yo Joe, whatdoya know?!   9:06am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Jay Current @9:04

Hi Jay!   🎸 ♥ 9:07am
Jay Current:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @9:06

Hello Andrew in Toronto 🎸 ♥ 9:07am
WR:

↳ Song: "Witchcraft" by "Stan Ridgway"

Not totally awake. Can't tell if I'm hearing pedal steel guitar or theremin. Probably just some oscillation. 🎸 ♥ 9:08am
ultradamno: Not gtr, maybe theremin ♥ 9:09am
Mr Fab:

↳ WR @9:07

WR, I'm messin with yo mind! ♥ 9:10am
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Bewitched" by "Milton Delugg"

this vinyl was a real witch to clean. sounds pretty good now..   🎸 ♥ 9:10am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Witchcraft" by "Stan Ridgway"

The guy from Wall of Voodoo made a quirky easy listening album in the late '90s? 🎸 ♥ 9:11am
ultradamno: Though no theremin is mention on the album cover, though someone is credited with playing merlot....so probably fell under 'keyboards' 🎸 ♥ 9:12am
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @9:11

www.discogs.com... ♥ 9:13am
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @9:10

an entire album of lounge/Broadway standards, with a big band. I really don't know why, but I'm glad it exists. 🎸 ♥ 9:13am
ultradamno: I think it's Factrix/Cazazza's California Babylon that has a 'chemicals' credit (made me wonder if the bass player wasn't using a fish) ♥ 9:14am
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Femme de Sorcière" by "Randall Throckmorton w/ La...

this is a musical saw, btw 🎸 ♥ 9:14am
ultradamno: Björk has a good album of standards, pre-fame days 🎸 ♥ 9:15am
ultradamno: Oh, I believe in witches...but a virgin witch, in this sacrifice culture? 🎸 ♥ 9:18am
ultradamno: Jay! ♥ 9:18am
Mr Fab:

↳ ultradamno @9:14

Nina Hagen, who might actually be a witch, has a couple of swinging Big Band albums, covering the standards. And Iggy likes to croon em sometimes, too. The punk/Vegas line is a fine one ♥ 9:20am
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "You Put The Spell On Me" by "Screamin' Jay Hawkins"

I like how the backup singers call him "Screamin," like it's his first name. 🎸 ♥ 9:21am
David The Splatter:

↳ Mr Fab @9:20

"Screamin', your latte's ready at the counter." ♥ 9:22am
Mr Fab: Screamin J. Hawkins   🎸 ♥ 9:22am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "You Put The Spell On Me" by "Screamin' Jay Hawkins"

Someone on Wake and Bake pointed out the similarities between Screamin' Jay's "You Put a Spell on Me" and the opening of Leslie Gore's "You Don't Own Me." There could be some remix potential there. 🎸 ♥ 9:23am
ultradamno: Ah, the tones of the satanic marimba ♥ 9:24am
Mr Fab: Theremin Thfriday continues! 🎸 ♥ 9:25am
ultradamno: Is this the Anton LaVey orientation lecture? 🎸 ♥ 9:25am
David The Splatter:

↳ Song: "House On Infernal Hill" by "The Infernal Order of...

Yes, but are we playing D&D or not?
www.chick.com... 🎸 ♥ 9:26am
ultradamno:

↳ David The Splatter @9:25

They seemed friendly   🎸 ♥ 9:26am
Jay Current:

↳ David The Splatter @9:25

With a ruleset that long, you may as well be. ♥ 9:29am
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Big Black Witchcraft Rock" by "Tokyo Cramps"

this is Tokyo Cramps. Have you considered opening a Cramps franchise in your town? 🎸 ♥ 9:29am
David The Splatter:

↳ Jay Current @9:26

"HR said we had to give you all the rules first." 🎸 ♥ 9:30am
ultradamno: Not to be confused with Tokyo Tramps from...Boston tokyotramps.bandcamp.com... 🎸 ♥ 9:31am
David The Splatter:

↳ Mr Fab @9:29

One day, I'll own a whole line of Cramps franchises up and down I-95 from Philly to Miami. 🎸 ♥ 9:33am
ultradamno: Indiana Cramps? Maybe...racecars are easy to work in there... 🎸 ♥ 9:37am
David The Splatter:

↳ ultradamno @9:33

Texas Cramps. Bikini girls with machine guns, the money practically prints itself. ♥ 9:42am
Mr Fab: Transylvania Cramps has a cool ring to it. 🎸 ♥ 9:51am
ultradamno: Well, they do have the tapes from there www.discogs.com... ♥ 9:51am
Mr Fab: is all instrumental rock "surf"? Not sure if the Trabants conjure up images of beach parties and riding the waves. But when you play guitar instros, that's how you're gonna get tagged... ♥ 9:52am
Mr Fab:

↳ ultradamno @9:51

Hmm, that basically looks like a bootleg of "Gravest Gravy " 🎸 ♥ 9:52am
ultradamno: If you make that buhbuhbuhbubuh sound with the guitar, you're surf   9:53am
JoeH:

↳ ultradamno @9:33

Colorado Cramps? Like the Bends but from coming down the mountain too fast. 🎸 ♥ 9:53am
ultradamno:

↳ Mr Fab @9:52

Which was something I kind of expected is was at first, but that was produced by Chris Spedding 🎸 ♥ 9:54am
ultradamno: ...it also includes a lengthy studio outtake of Lux chewing a guy out for wasting their time ♥ 9:57am
Mr Fab:

↳ ultradamno @9:54

that IS the same session! that bit is at the end of Gravest Gravy   🎸 ♥ 9:57am
Jay Current:

↳ ultradamno @9:52

If you let the guitar twang, it's country, and if you let the rhythm section lead then it's R&B. ♥ 9:58am
Mr Fab: ZHANDOR seems to be accompanied by the music of Korla Pandit everywhere he goes. Which is kinda cool, but might get a bit aggravating after a while ♥ 9:59am
Jan Turkenburg: Hi everybody! ♥ 9:59am
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @9:57

I see what you're saying. But surf get twangy, too?
there used to be a guy on the surf101 forum who insisted that The Ventures were not surf. ♥ 10:00am
Mr Fab: a hearty quack-quack to you, good sir!   🎸 ♥ 10:00am
Jay Current:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @9:59

You holding up against the heat Jan? ♥ 10:01am
Jan Turkenburg: nearly 100 F overhere so this cool show is needful. ♥ 10:02am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Jay Current @10:00

I can manage Jay, thank you!   10:05am
JoeH:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @10:01

Wow that's Texas heat!?!   🎸 ♥ 10:05am
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @9:59

I've seen an argument that real surf rock is instrumental and songs with lyrics don't count, so who knows. I do know that sort of buzzy Dick Dale reverb seems to be fairly ubiquitous with the genre. 🎸 ♥ 10:06am
David The Splatter:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @9:59

Oh, my gosh. Hi! (and Happy belated Birthday!) ♥ 10:07am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ David The Splatter @10:06

Thank you David! 🎸 ♥ 10:07am
ultradamno: Hmmm. There are some track listing differences Hungry, Natives Are Restless, Domino and Rocket In My Pocket on GG, not on TT, Everybody's Moving, Lonesome Town, Love Me, Mystery Plane and Voodoo Doll on TT, not GG, and the producer discrepency... ♥ 10:10am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ JoeH @10:05

Inside I can keep it 82. I'm not going out until 8 pm 🎸 ♥ 10:10am
ultradamno: TT: Side I recorded and produced by Chris Spedding in Dracula's House Dec. 78
Side II recorded live in the deep Carpathian Mountains during a cold winter night. The wolves were screaming, the moon did not shine".

GG: Recorded at Ardent Studios in October 1977

♥ 10:10am
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @10:05

that might be what the purists say - no Dick Dale quick picking, drenched in reverb, no surf.
There was an instro guitar band Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet who released an album called "We're Not a Fucking Surf Band."
Then a few years later, they released one called "We Are A Fuckin Surf Band," haha. It's like, they just gave up. 🎸 ♥ 10:11am
ultradamno: Side B: Live recording at the Max's Kansas City, New York, December 29th, 1978...a less colorful way to say it ♥ 10:11am
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Beat Girl" by "Oranj Symphonette"

Ralph Carney on sax   10:17am
JoeH:

↳ Mr Fab @10:11

Art Carney played Ralph..... 🎸 ♥ 10:18am
ultradamno: An Akron legend 🎸 ♥ 10:19am
David The Splatter:

↳ Song: "mission impossible" by "M'lumbo"

"This cocktail will self-destruct in 30 seconds..." 🎸 ♥ 10:19am
ultradamno: (also was uncle of one the Black Keys) ♥ 10:20am
Mr Fab:

↳ ultradamno @10:18

there are TWO Sheena DJs who were friends with Ralph Carny: Barno in Akron, and Krys O in NY.
I guess Ralph kinda franchised himself   🎸 ♥ 10:21am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Yr Host Heps You To "Lowbrow Jazz""

That wave of Kenny G/Weather Channel style smooth jazz in the '80s and '90s seems to have really done a number on jazz's reputation with the American public. 🎸 ♥ 10:24am
ultradamno: Well, playing with Tom Waits opened a lot of the world up for him I think...   🎸 ♥ 10:24am
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @10:10

I may have mentioned this before, but I think the funniest example of an artist giving up on something like this is Bachman-Turner Overdrive being pronounced bach-man instead of back-man because Randy Bachman got tired of correcting people's pronunciation of his last name. ♥ 10:25am
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @10:21

oh gawd, yeah...maybe that inspired the push to enshrine jazz as "America's Classical Music" came from?
in any case, for a big chunk of jass's history, it WAS fun dance/pop music. 🎸 ♥ 10:26am
ultradamno: I think the same thing happened to Squeaky Fromme (whose name, according to doc I saw, is pronounce frum-ee, but the judge insisted on Froam) ♥ 10:28am
Mr Fab: Leonard Nimoy wrote a book called "I Am Not Spock."

Years later, he wrote one called "I AM Spock."

♥ 10:29am
Mr Fab: and supposedly it's pronounced Alistair CROW-lee, like the bird. 🎸 ♥ 10:31am
ultradamno:

↳ Mr Fab @10:28

I can imagine an episode of Community where they debate which book title is true (kind of like the Nicholas Cage: Good or not class) ♥ 10:32am
MHLee: hey hey   10:35am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ MHLee @10:32

Hi MHLee! 🎸 ♥ 10:36am
ultradamno: Apparently Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time" charted rateyourmusic.com... ♥ 10:36am
Mr Fab: Mr Lee! You have arrived just in time to infuriate jazz purists.   🎸 ♥ 10:40am
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @10:25

I feel like rock music was starting to walk a similar path by the '70, which was one of the reasons for the emergence of stuff like punk and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. And as much as critics hated them at the time, stadium rockers like Boston and Van Halen did a lot to restore rock's reputation as fun party music after years of more self-serious, LP oriented material dominating conversations around rock music.   🎸 ♥ 10:41am
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "Salt Peanuts" by "The Nutty Squirrels"

A song originally made famous by South Carolina native Dizzy Gillespie ♥ 10:42am
MHLee:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @10:35

Hi Andrew 🎸 ♥ 10:44am
ultradamno: This sounds like lounge music that would play as Tony Stark walks in being a douche ♥ 10:44am
MHLee:

↳ Jay Current @10:24

The too Apiece brothers pronouce name differently ♥ 10:44am
Mr Fab:

↳ Jay Current @10:40

I used to say: jazz never had a punk movement to save it! That's why it seemed so dead by the mid-70s. The likes of Kenny G waiting in the wings. ♥ 10:44am
MHLee: *two ♥ 10:45am
MHLee:

↳ Mr Fab @10:44

Bop was jazzes punk rock ♥ 10:46am
Mr Fab: But bop made jazz so complex, most people couldn't follow it anymore. ♥ 10:49am
MHLee:

↳ Mr Fab @10:46

That was the point though. They wanted to stop it being danceable party music that was accessible. I guess it wasn't a roots things, but it was still let's save jazz from commericialization by making a new in group   10:49am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mr Fab @10:46

There's always Jaco for putting the punk into jazz! 🎸 ♥ 10:50am
ultradamno: Well, Kenny G....when the white people come in patting themselves on the back for curating a form on stage.....well, look at blues.   🎸 ♥ 10:51am
Jay Current:

↳ Mr Fab @10:44

You did have some synthfunk fusion material like Herbie Hancock's '80s singles that did well on the R&B and dance charts.   10:51am
JoeH: Thanks for the show Mr. Fab! Great way to start a weekend. Sorry for the stupid comments, it's a little early for me to be typing in public. 🎸 ♥ 10:53am
David The Splatter: Outta siiiight, man, diiig...

Thanks, Mr. Fab. Catch you next... this afternoon. :D

🎸 ♥ 10:54am
ultradamno: Do they do a Sweet Leaf, that seems a natural for jazzifyng   🎸 ♥ 10:55am
Jay Current:

↳ MHLee @10:49

Bop and punk were both pushing against the mainstream of their genre, but it seems like the streams were flowing in different directions. Bop wanted to save a genre from excess populism, punks wanted to return a genre to populism. 🎸 ♥ 10:56am
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @10:54

Doesn't look like it from their discogs 🎸 ♥ 10:57am
ultradamno: Babs seems to go solo on a lot of these fill-ins, she did for Flannery not long ago, anyhow 🎸 ♥ 10:58am
David The Splatter:

↳ ultradamno @10:56

But it looks like they covered The Wizard, which I want to check out this weekend. ♥ 10:59am
Mr Fab: Moo-cho grassy-ass, all! 🎸 ♥ 11:02am
WR: Thanks Mr Fab. Hear ya later.