Listener comments!

🥁 ♥ 11:00am
: Bob! Hank! Timothy! Experienced! 11:01am
Bob Brainen: ∫ydniuß! 11:01am
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience" by ...

Still the best song Bobs ever played on his show   11:01am
SecretSquirrel: Good morning Bob ‘n’ all!   11:02am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:01

Good morning Bob, and all others! 11:02am
Bob Brainen: JoeChrisMorris, Ha, thanks Joe 11:03am
Bob Brainen: Good morning, SecretSquirrel   11:03am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @11:01

Hi Joe! 11:03am
Bob Brainen: Morning, Andrew in Toronto 🥁 ♥ 11:03am
chresti: Morming Bob and bobbers! ♥ 11:03am
PaulRobeson1926: Morningggggggggggg 11:04am
Bob Brainen: chresti, g'morning to you ♥ 11:04am
StringOFperils: Good summer morning, Bob! Saturday, Bob-bob-bob-alongs!   11:04am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ chresti @11:03

Hi crestikins! 11:05am
Bob Brainen: Hiya, PaulRobeson1926 11:05am
Bob Brainen: Morning, StringOFperils 11:07am
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Dance, Dance, Dance" by "Neil Young & Crazy Horse"

Have the sheet music for this on a Easy Guitar - Neil Young softver book! (Play Guitar Like Neil Young) that has the easy chords!

Sea of Madness is in there, but sadly no Flying on the Ground is Wrong

🥁 ♥ 11:08am
Olleh: Bob! Bob! Hello!! And hello all bobbin’! 🥁 ♥ 11:09am
∫ydniuß:

↳ PaulRobeson1926 @11:03

🤠 🥣   11:09am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @11:07

Hi Joe! 🥁 ♥ 11:09am
wmfromd: Morning Bob and all! 11:09am
Bob Brainen: Olleh! Olleh! Hello!! 11:10am
Bob Brainen: Morning, wmfromd   11:10am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ wmfromd @11:09

Hi wmfromd! 🥁 ♥ 11:11am
wmfromd:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:10

Hey Andrew!   11:13am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:10

Are the pickles handy? ♥ 11:14am
StringOFperils: Never saw that film, but I like Jon Brion's production work a lot. Those Aimee Mann albums....pretty nice work. 11:14am
Bob Brainen:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:13

They're chilling in the fridge 11:15am
Bob Brainen:

↳ StringOFperils @11:14

Interesting film - fabulous soundtrack!   11:16am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:14

Wonderful.   11:19am
tfunk: Bonobo (not Benono) 11:20am
JoeChrisMorris: Neil Young just dropped a free concert film (Corduroy Plants) to his website - 2026 tour filmed by Daryl Hannah 11:20am
Bob Brainen:

↳ tfunk @11:19

thx, tfunk 11:21am
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:09

Hey man, raining up there like here in Bayonne?   11:22am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @11:21

Not a drop. 11:22am
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Revolving Door" by "Jon Brion"

Here We Go.. no that's another song! 11:24am
JoeChrisMorris: Hey Bob and all the other Bobbies!

Up way too early for another free form show (Back of the Book at 5

♥ 11:25am
PaulRobeson1926:

↳ ∫ydniuß @11:09

I agree 100% ♥ 11:25am
Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob & all! 11:26am
Bob Brainen: Morning, Gina 11:27am
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Go Down Moses" by "Wheat Street Female Quartet"

Is this out on cd? 🥁 ♥ 11:28am
chresti: Hi Andrew in TOkins! 🥁 ♥ 11:32am
chresti: Welcome to my world of putting things off, Bob!   11:34am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Gina Bacon @11:25

Hey, Gina!   11:38am
gene sculatti: 49 years! Congrats, Bob. ♥ 11:39am
(Mr) Bill: Hello, Bob and fellow Braineniacs. I'm late due to my little township's big celebration of my half-birthday (also, by the way and incidentally, commemorating an ailing nation's semiquincentennial and the township's long and storied history). 🥁 ♥ 11:39am
Franco Twinkie: Keep doing it and something will happen.

Words to live by.

♥ 11:41am
Gina Bacon:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:34

Hi, Andrew!   11:42am
marc mendelson: WOW 49 YEARS ! way to go Bob ROCK ON ♥ 11:43am
(Mr) Bill: Seven times seven years. Mazeltov, Bob. You're due for a jubilee year, but we would miss you too much. 11:44am
Bob Brainen: Hey Gene, thanks 11:45am
Bob Brainen: Hey, (Mr) Bill, the doors stay open 11:45am
Bob Brainen: Hey, Franco Twinkie 🥁 ♥ 11:46am
wmfromd:

↳ Song: "Looking At The Rose Through World Colored Glasses...

I'm sitting in my split level listening to Split Level. 11:46am
Bob Brainen:

↳ marc mendelson @11:42

Hey Marc M, thanks!   11:46am
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Franco Twinkie @11:39

Hiya Franco. 11:46am
Bob Brainen:

↳ wmfromd @11:46

That's meta ♥ 11:47am
(Mr) Bill:

↳ Song: "Looking At The Rose Through World Colored Glasses...

Something of a resemblance to "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd." 🥁 ♥ 11:56am
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Bob Brainen @11:45

My hat is off to you, Bob. ♥ 11:57am
(Mr) Bill: R.I.P. David Clayton-Thomas. 11:57am
Bob Brainen:

↳ Franco Twinkie @11:56

Thanks, 11:58am
Bob Brainen:

↳ (Mr) Bill @11:57

Yes, RIP. 12:00pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "You'll Come Back" by "Merseybeats USA"

Interesting 60s stuff! 12:01pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Diddy Wah Diddy" by "Bo Diddley"

An influence on Loves "Bummer in the summer" 12:03pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Wail, Baby, Wail" by "Kid Thomas / Tommy Louis"

Thought it was Chuck Berry. To be played loud 12:04pm
JoeChrisMorris: Minnie Ripperton RIP. "Lovin you" 12:05pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ wmfromd @11:46

Napoleon XIV lived in a split level HEAD! 12:06pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "🐸 🐸 🐸🦜🐦🦜" by ""frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer'...

The birds or the Byrds? 12:07pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "🐸 🐸 🐸🦜🐦🦜" by ""frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer'...

you go Baby Jesus! 12:11pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "🐸 🐸 🐸🦜🐦🦜" by ""frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer'...

You can hear Minnie singing "Maya" (her daughters name) on the fade of "Lovin you" (unedited album version) - her daughter Maya Rudolph was in the studio on the day ♥ 12:18pm
(Mr) Bill:

↳ Song: "Have You Seen Her" by "Chi-Lites"

In the pantheon. 12:20pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Have You Seen Her" by "Chi-Lites"

Great stuff Bob.. praise "Bob!   12:20pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @12:20

Here, here! 12:21pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:20

And what vocals! ba ba ba! ♥ 12:23pm
tom tom the pipers son: stylistics next in queue? hi bob … listeners 12:23pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Sideshow" by "Blue Magic"

I don't know this. Lovely vocals 🥁 ♥ 12:24pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Song: "Have You Seen Her" by "Chi-Lites"

This song was popular when I was in my first year of high school. I did not yet know about the wisdom it was imparting, but I would learn. Brother, would I learn   12:25pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Franco Twinkie @12:24

Hi Franco. 🥁 ♥ 12:26pm
Franco Twinkie: Hello Andrew. ♥ 12:26pm
(Mr) Bill:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @12:11

What a great tidbit. Thanks. ♥ 12:28pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Franco Twinkie @12:24

it’s about capitalism,right?… and the suckers it makes of people 12:28pm
Bob Brainen:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @12:11

nice! 🥁 ♥ 12:28pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:28

Right!   12:31pm
David B: Love the Chi-Lites song! 12:31pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "The Lost Soul" by "Ruth Garbus"

The guitar reminds me of the outtakes from Lazy Smoke (Corridor of faces) with the vocals reminiscent of "Sun king" 12:32pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ David B @12:31

kinda katchy!   12:32pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @12:28

Thanks for the tip on Ruth, Bob! 12:32pm
Bob Brainen: Glad to hear it, David B   12:33pm
David B: Speaking of glad…Glad you are here, sharing some wonderful tunes.. ♥ 12:34pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Franco Twinkie @12:28

sort of on the subject…. was speaking to a chinese friend visiting family in california, she’s from california…the subject of chinatown (polanski) came up…when i realized the HUGE subtext to the movie contained in the title is immigration and immigrant communities in california… “forget it jake, it’s only Chinatown” says it all 🥁 ♥ 12:37pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:34

And here simple minded me thought it was about water rights. 12:38pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:34

good film? any sequels like Return to Chinatown?!

(no relation to Return to Waterloo w the Kinks!

  12:39pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:34

Hi tom tom.   12:42pm
Jeff: Bob, I thought you were going to play music from my 20s?!   12:43pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @12:32

Have a snack, Bob. 12:43pm
Bob Brainen:

↳ Jeff @12:42

Ha, Jeff, I did-that's some of the rest of the show. ♥ 12:43pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Franco Twinkie @12:37

immigration is what haunts the film haunting the white shenanigans on the mainstage ♥ 12:44pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:39

hello andrew...   12:44pm
Jeff: 🤣🤣🤣 ♥ 12:46pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @12:38

there is one (?) the two jakes, with nicholson… i don’t think it’s very good… and i’m not sure how one could think of serializing that movie 12:47pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Cripple Creek" by "Tweedy Brothers"

Up on Cripple Creek they tell me! 12:47pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Jeff @12:42

Ha! 🥁 ♥ 12:48pm
Olleh:

↳ Song: "Z Ukrainskyce Stepiw" by "Vaddyl Yemetz"

Dammit, I missed it. Stopped in a thrift store to peruse. I love these vintage Ukrainian sides. This gent isn’t familiar to me. 12:49pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:46

I have to check out Chinatown

haven't seen Five Easy Pieces (w Jack) either though I have seen Head (w Jack in a fetching white cap!

♥ 12:49pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Olleh @12:48

i thought of you from your comment thursday when i saw this title 12:49pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Mr. Johnson's Blues" by "Lonnie Johnson"

FINALLY some guitar

bad singing though

♥ 12:50pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @12:49

five easy pieces is quite good... 12:52pm
JoeChrisMorris: I really LOVE free form
(Irwin probably does it best but he doesn't play much Love anymore

I'm just glad Bob doesn't play Jandek and that he can have his cats listen to his show!

Being buried with the Brainen Cats and Dogs cd

Bet "Image part 1" is the longest running theme song on WFMU. Its certainly the best song of the show (only made top 100 on its original release? MADE for AM radio though, with that piano!

12:53pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "The Lost Child" by "Stripling Brothers"

Excellent song. From down south with those fiddles ♥ 12:58pm
(Mr) Bill:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:50

I've seen "Five Easy Pieces" at least ten times. It gets better with every viewing. 🥁 ♥ 12:58pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:50

I saw Five Easy Pieces soon after it came out and it left me with a sinking feeling about what to expect life had in store for me.

As a young person without a lot of experience, I tended to look for lessons in romance where ever I could get it.

Kind of like Have You Seen Her by The Chi-Lites, no?

🥁 ♥ 1:02pm
Olleh:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @12:49

Thanks, tom tom. What was the comment, my memory is palsied? 1:05pm
Bob Brainen: Hey, Tom Tom 1:08pm
JoeChrisMorris: Strange show today Mr B.! 1:09pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Hastings Street" by "Charlie Spand & Blind Blake"

Cool piano funk! 🥁 ♥ 1:11pm
Olleh: I surely do love these 78 getting into my ears. 1:11pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Big Boy" by "The Wolverines w/Bix Beiderbecke"

to quote Syd"kinda catchy! ♥ 1:11pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Olleh @1:02

ukrainium…. ♥ 1:12pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Olleh @1:02

but in general that you are ukrainian 🥁 ♥ 1:12pm
Olleh:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:11

Hah! 🥁 ♥ 1:15pm
∫ydniuß: good thing I have fresh halupki to go round ♥ 1:15pm
(Mr) Bill: Gotta return to the township fair soon to find out if I win the contest for Most Handsome Beard. I kid you not. 1:15pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ ∫ydniuß @1:15

that's what she said

who's halupki when shes at home?

🥁 ♥ 1:16pm
∫ydniuß:

↳ (Mr) Bill @1:15

🏆 🥁 ♥ 1:16pm
Olleh:

↳ ∫ydniuß @1:15

Great E European soul food! ♥ 1:16pm
StringOFperils: 'Beardos' represent! 1:16pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ (Mr) Bill @1:15

you should

I never fell hair to a fortune but I'm afraid it went all to my head!

🥁 ♥ 1:17pm
Olleh:

↳ (Mr) Bill @1:15

May you win by much more than a hair! 1:18pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Olleh @1:17

he's the hair apparent 1:19pm
JoeChrisMorris: in Barrytown they do things very strange 🥁 ♥ 1:20pm
Olleh:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @1:18

👏 1:21pm
JoeChrisMorris: So Bill.. don't keep us in suspense..what do you win if you have the beard take 1st place by a hair (apologies to Chico Marx/Monkey business 1:22pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Cow Cow Blues" by "Cow Cow Davenport w/ Dora Carr"

horrid voice though.. oh no! Play the Shaggs, B.! ♥ 1:23pm
(Mr) Bill:

↳ JoeChrisMorris @1:18

Hee hee hee. Thanks, guys. Yeah, a bit of Barrytown. Much more of Willoughby in that "Twilight Zone" episode.

Bob, 49 bye-byes and congrats to you....

1:24pm
Bob Brainen:

↳ (Mr) Bill @1:23

Thanks, (Mr) Bill 1:24pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ (Mr) Bill @1:23

Elizabeth,right?

That's an excellent episode btw

All the episodes are up there on the uTube, even the BANNED ones!

Willoughby is actually rather sad. You cant go home again

1:25pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Black Bottom Stomp" by "Jelly Roll Morton & His R...

Excellent music. Short and sweet 🥁 ♥ 1:25pm
Olleh:

↳ Bob Brainen @1:24

What be the reason for congratulations? I want to congratulate you also. 1:27pm
JoeChrisMorris: I always loved how Steely Dan cursed on their best single (Showwbiz Kids)! 1:29pm
JoeChrisMorris: The Onion newspaper is back in print!

Just saw it at the Port ($9! yikes!!

Anyone read the Onion? I can no longer read the local NYC papers (Record,NYT) as its a misery now in DC, but the Onion tells the truth and gets away with it

"The news today will be the movies for tomorrow" (Arthur Lee

🥁 ♥ 1:37pm
Olleh:

↳ Song: "Heebie Jeebies" by "Louis Armstrong and His Hot F...

A favorite. 1:37pm
Bob Brainen: I mentioned that I just hit 5 years on The Drummer Stream and Sept. 8 will be 49 years on FMU altogether. 1:39pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Bob Brainen @1:37

Right on baby

Wild show today mate

How about blasting the Stones "Can't you hear me knocking" now - 1920s music is all very well, but I grew on on electric guitar!

🥁 ♥ 1:40pm
Olleh:

↳ Bob Brainen @1:37

Congratulations on both! I suspected 49 for the rings around the WFMU Tree, but wasn’t sure. ♥ 1:42pm
StringOFperils: Did not know The Onion was back in print. The context sure has changed; now the straight story is at least as ridiculous as any satire they used to concoct. How do you construct comedy in clown-world? I'll have to check it out. 1:42pm
JoeChrisMorris: I gotta say, you never really hear the old 78s

I remember listening to Blind Willie Mctell (noone can play the blues like Blind Willie Mctell) on cd but the vinyl source rendered the "sides" unlistenable!

1:43pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ StringOFperils @1:42

Real life is stranger than fiction

I miss the Star Ledger terribly.. BOOK REVIEWS!!

I have to settle for News of the Weird in the unreadable Post

♥ 1:44pm
StringOFperils:

↳ Song: "Wild Cat" by "Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang"

Oh man, these guys were so good 1:45pm
JoeChrisMorris: The Onion is still a lot for a paper at $9

I hope it does well as a newspaper in Manhattan.. who reads the Amsterdam News and the NYTimes anymore?

Real life is a misery and cartoonishly surreal

the Reflecting Pool is GREEN!

  1:47pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Bob Brainen @1:37

What an inspired show!
Bob,
thanks! 1:48pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Song: "Wild Cat" by "Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang"

This is not bad but I need electric blues.. Buddy Holly and his Les Paul SAVED rock and roll! 1:49pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:47

its very free form. An hour of 78s for goodness sakes! 🥁 ♥ 1:49pm
Olleh:

↳ StringOFperils @1:44

Any time I think of these superb gents I see Crumb’s trading card illustration for his “Heroes of Jazz” card set 1:53pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:03

Daniel Clark (Degrassi's Sean) was in Juno!

(Blink and you might miss him

  1:53pm
Andrew in Toronto: Fantastic. 🥁 ♥ 1:53pm
Olleh: As did DrJohn’s Mess Around, which is where I made my connection originally 1:54pm
JoeChrisMorris:

↳ Olleh @1:49

he drew The Book of Genesis

extraordinary stuff

  1:59pm
will in Norman (mobile): Lots of good klezmer in the 20s too. Look into naftule brandweim ♥ 1:59pm
StringOFperils: All of it, great stuff.....thanks BOB! 2:00pm
JoeChrisMorris: You have a great week as well
Bob 🥁 ♥ 2:01pm
chresti: Thanks Bob!