Listener comments!

Fri. 4/3/09 9:08am From: Unclear on the concept

You could take the lyrics in this Mabel Scott song more than one way.

Fri. 4/3/09 9:13am From: texas scott

yes,unclear....pitcher,catcher...
different generation though.

Fri. 4/3/09 9:19am From: listener rey

bebop wino is the name of a site I linked to from the "motherlode"
Excellent stuff on there. Thanks Doug, your compiled lists have been making my days/weeks!

Fri. 4/3/09 9:25am From: Confused WFMU Fan

Why is the show called "Give the Drummer Some", but none of the songs have drum solo's?

Fri. 4/3/09 9:27am From: El Thatchmo...

Doug,

Will I see you @ OTB @ the usual time? The Olde English is on me today!

Fri. 4/3/09 9:28am From: G.

Is (at least somewhat) Confused FMU Fan redundant? :-P

Cut the DJ Some (Slack)?

Fri. 4/3/09 9:29am From: Toby

I'm going to the New Shea tonight!

Fri. 4/3/09 9:29am From: dc pat

the dj is the drummer

Fri. 4/3/09 9:29am From: Drummer Some

Hey Confused,
The show title derives from James Brown's ubiquitous utterance in performance. At the end of the night after everyone has had their chance to solo and hog the spotlight, the drummer gets his turn. The title is offered metaphorically for all the artists who get the spotlight on the airwaves.

How's dat?

Fri. 4/3/09 9:30am From: dc pat

this silvertones is the most perfect morning rainy day music I've heard in a loooooong time.

Fri. 4/3/09 9:32am From: Confused WFMU Fan

Drummer Some, Thanks a lot. That clears up everything. It was something I really wanted to understand

Fri. 4/3/09 9:32am From: Paul Sherratt

dc pat,
It ain't bad on a gorgeous Spring afternoon, either ... ( p.m. in the a.m. )

Fri. 4/3/09 9:33am From: G.

i imagine someday individual show archives will be tagged for optimal fits-with weather, add your own emoticon here

Fri. 4/3/09 9:40am From: gumby

Doug you continue to outdo yourself. This Right on Rasta is awesome, as it this set, as is the show. Rockin' steady in the cube here.

Fri. 4/3/09 9:41am From: Paul Sherratt

I'm just wondering if some of this gorgeous reggae set are Norwegian exports ?

Fri. 4/3/09 9:42am From: Hugo

Fine Coxsone set, that one (but you knew I would say that)

Fri. 4/3/09 9:48am From: PMD

Thanks for the clear explanation of your show name Doug. Hadn't read that before. Mornin' all. Off to a meeting.

Fri. 4/3/09 9:48am From: stingy d

does anyone know the name of the album, by kevin ayers, that the song "this song isn't called anything" is on?

ps- good morning everyone i hope you are not in physical pain.

Fri. 4/3/09 9:49am From: dc pat

yeah I think that was some Scratchy vocals

Fri. 4/3/09 9:57am From: annie

thoroughly enjoying this music...

Fri. 4/3/09 9:59am From: dc pat

What More Can I Say? at least that's what the internets says

Fri. 4/3/09 10:04am From: Cecile

mornin' all ya'll

Fri. 4/3/09 10:04am From: stingy d

true. ok, well, ok. anyhow... i have to learn a new mixer today. what a pain, but should be awesome.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:05am From: Cecile

what new mixer? Club soda? Quinine water? Jones Orange Soda?

Fri. 4/3/09 10:06am From: dc pat

I have to learn a new software program I care absolutely nothing about--should suck dogs.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:07am From: stingy d

some mixer korg makes with a kaoss pad built in

Fri. 4/3/09 10:08am From: Cecile

Grapefruit juice? Red Bull?

Fri. 4/3/09 10:08am From: stingy d

a dj mixer wise guy!

Fri. 4/3/09 10:09am From: Drummer Some

If you dig the talkover tune Mathar, my latest blog post on the WFMU blog has a link to a download of an album with it. Here is the blog post:
http://tinyurl.com/cn3ezr

Fri. 4/3/09 10:10am From: Cecile

I'm not a guy today. Not today.
bwah.
what is a kaoss pad? that sounds cool

Fri. 4/3/09 10:13am From: Hugo

For newer Bollywood, check out A.R.Rahman. It turns out that he won two Academy Awards this year, but he's been at it for many years.

http://www.arrahman.com/v2/

Yep, I had to seek out the cd to get the "Mathar" tune. A classic.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:14am From: stingy d

well, that's the question...but basically it's a dj mxer with this pad that is touch sensitive, and there are 100 effects. but i have never used a kaoss pad.. but i really hate that word when it's written that way.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:17am From: Cecile

So you can make scratch and bew-bew-bew FX?

that sounds cool

Fri. 4/3/09 10:19am From: stingy d

yes i will now have the bew bew bew element! it really does soundcool, i am going to write "bew bew bew" over "kaoss", aaahhhhh what a relief thank ou so much cecile

Fri. 4/3/09 10:19am From: annie

oh man, bew,bew,bew.... i want that!!

Fri. 4/3/09 10:20am From: stingy d

i have bewbewbew

Fri. 4/3/09 10:21am From: stingy d

we could make some decent bank on a crumby effects thing if we called it the bew-bew-bew machine or box or something like that.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:25am From: still b/p

KAOS = individual enemy of Stardust the Super Wizard and planet earth.
KAOS = organizational enemy of Maxwell Smart and CONTROL
KAOSS = unfamiliar prospective enemy or ally of stingy d

Fri. 4/3/09 10:26am From: Cecile

I need to see a pic of that.

I would totally buy that and I could use it with my GarageBand to make Corn Weenie remixes.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:26am From: Joe

Doug, Mongo's "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" is stunning.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:27am From: Cecile

ok, Doug, where can I find this Mongo?

Fri. 4/3/09 10:28am From: annie

cecile, just got your email... :) slow puter here and not mine so diff schedule totally on checking mail

Fri. 4/3/09 10:29am From: Cecile

no problema.

Doug, I can haz Santana?

Fri. 4/3/09 10:29am From: Hugo

Some oblique references to "Sunshine of your love" there ...

Fri. 4/3/09 10:33am From: tim

What does "out of phase" mean?

Fri. 4/3/09 10:37am From: Carmichael

Good morning, Doug and everyone. Tim, in relation to what?

Fri. 4/3/09 10:38am From: Drummer Some

Out oh phase means that in a stereo recording, either the left or right channel has become inverted. Recording engineers sometimes screw this up, but it is prevalent with MP3 downloads with people using those USB turntables. If you hook up the cables wrong the track will be out of phase. It's is almost possible to hear the problem with an OoP recording. Though when you play it through a device that splits the stereo tracks, like the audio console at a radio station, the track becomes unlistenable.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:41am From: Parq

Cecile (or anyone else who knows), is there a good tutorial for Garage Band? I have some downtime coming up late this spring, and would like to mess around with it.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:42am From: Carmichael

Doug, we used to purposely do it with our turntables to drop out vocals on LPs. We would invert two of the four tiny wires at the back of the needle cartridge to achieve the effect. It was secret knowledge in those days, and if you could do it you were considered to be an alchemist.

I used (and still use) a Technics SL-Q3.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:44am From: Cecile

the apple site has some ideas, and the help keys are good, but srly, you just need to have a project and mess around with it. I have a hard time using it unless i have a clear idea in mind. And, if you want, you can email me and I can give you some tips.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:46am From: Drummer Some

Here is a link to a download of the Mongo Santamaria:

http://tinyurl.com/dmdqvo

Enjoy!

Fri. 4/3/09 10:48am From: Cecile

thank you, Doug! Giver of all that is good.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:51am From: Parq

Charm, a large number of realy funny parodies were produced that way by Boston's WBCN in the late 70s. Many of them were done for the noon "lunch" spot and involved the word, usually substituted for "love. EG: "Lunch is like oxygen/ You get to much you get fat thighs . . . "

Fri. 4/3/09 10:52am From: Parq

"too" much . . .

Fri. 4/3/09 10:55am From: still b/p

I was thinking about those very same way-back bits on 'BCN this week when comment talk was all about the hunger and the lunch to come.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:58am From: Parq

b/p, to this day, I still make a mental party game of substituting "lunch" for "love" in songs and seeing if I can get it to go anywhere.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:59am From: Cecile

When we were in australia for a year as kids, we used to like to sub "sausage roll" for rock 'n' roll.
So, "it's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll"

Fri. 4/3/09 10:59am From: Hugo

Doug, as you are a man about the blogs, I thought I should mention that a live Human Arts Ensemble recording from 1978 has turned up in the contributions section of the IS blog. I haven't heard it myself yet, but should be interesting. Lotsa interesting stuff in that section. I should probably get around to making proper posts out of it.

Fri. 4/3/09 10:59am From: annie

i've always enjoyed adding "in bed" to fortune cookies

Fri. 4/3/09 11:03am From: Sean Daily

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!

Fri. 4/3/09 11:05am From: Carmichael

I just did that last night, Annie ....

Fri. 4/3/09 11:06am From: Drummer Some

Hugo,
The Human Arts Ens. track I played probably came from the comments of the IS blog!

Fri. 4/3/09 11:06am From: Cecile

in bed, carm?

Fri. 4/3/09 11:06am From: Cecile

need the link to that HA track, folks. unless it was part of this week's post, Doug.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:11am From: Carmichael

Cecile: http://tinyurl.com/delvlt

Fri. 4/3/09 11:12am From: Cecile

oh, unavailable. Too bad.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:13am From: tim

Thanks for the explanation on out of phase. It seems like an either/or thing, so maybe a "dedicated" out of phase turntable is the answer, as per Mrs. Carmichael above.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:16am From: Carmichael

Thanks for the gender change, Tim ... :-)

Fri. 4/3/09 11:18am From: still b/p

Parq, I recall them also playing with any non-love opportunity that allowed a lunch or lunch-food substitution -- e.g. Cars, Let the Lunch Times Roll. And yes, I still do it, too. (btw - tangent time: remember the Cars demo tape they used to play? The 2 tons of production bizness on the subsequent first album was off-puttingly overdressed by comparison. Saw 'em play the Rat for a few bucks.)

Fri. 4/3/09 11:19am From: Cecile

hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

Fri. 4/3/09 11:19am From: Glenn L

Carmichael's gender is 180 degrees out of phase.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:20am From: Hugo

Cecile, this is the one:

http://ajbenjamin2beta.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html

at the top of the list.

The one I was thinking of is a different recording of the same tune.

The Frank Wright is easier ... ahem ...

Fri. 4/3/09 11:21am From: Cecile

thanks, Hugo!!!

Fri. 4/3/09 11:23am From: Carmichael

Here's another, Cecile: http://tinyurl.com/dk8zx6

$35.00. Not bad ...

Fri. 4/3/09 11:25am From: Parq

b/p, do you remember the 1979 strike? The deejays got into a fracass with Klee Dobra and walked off, to be replaced by lame, generic announcers (the kind one currently finds on all commercial and most non-commercial radio, but that's another rant). They did a one-day outlaw broadcast via the Boston College station, for which they transformed Zevon's "Nighttime in the Switching Yard" into "Lunchtime on the Picket Line".

Carm, Annie, 'Cile, a young friend of ours is very much into tagging everything she hears with "That's what she said!"

Fri. 4/3/09 11:25am From: annie

technically, if you have not signed up for benefits, you are not counted... that's why the numbers never make sense.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:25am From: Hugo

Cecile, if you do a search of that blog, you'll find lots more Human Arts Ensemble.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:27am From: Cecile

hahah!
I have the BLack Saint LP and the Arista freedom, and the Funky Donkey reissue. Although that live one isn't all that bad for vintage rare jazz vinyl...

Fri. 4/3/09 11:27am From: Cecile

good for her, Parq. heh.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:31am From: Hugo

Both the Aristas are very fine.

And the Frank Wright is right here:

http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2008/07/frank-wright-run-with-cowboys.html

Fri. 4/3/09 11:33am From: Carmichael

You're correct, Annie. Unemployment levels are counted by the number of people who file for a claim each week. That's how the govt *trends* the rate as either rising or falling. The theory is that, when one is laid off, he or she will immediately file. That's not entirely true, so the numbers aren't entirely accurate. And when your benefits run out, you're dropped from the roles, even if you didn't get a job.

But I can't think of a better way to count *people without jobs*.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:35am From: annie

yup charmichael.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:38am From: still b/p

Parq - I was just gone from the area by '79, to areas stunningly bereft of anything close in broadcast choices, with friends updating me for a couple yrs. that "'BCN stinks now." Early & mid-70s had some really good eclectic free-form DJs/shows. Would love to peruse old playlists if they exist. Was lamenting the long, long lack of such exposure/accompaniment when -- miracolo! -- I found FMU.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:47am From: Mark

Good morning Doug... Sounding great (as usual!). For those interested in Mr. Reece, there is a nice overview/celebration from Ben Young available online @ <http://www.archive.org/details/WkcrDizzyReece2007BirthdayBroadcastHostedByBenYoung>.

Fri. 4/3/09 11:48am From: Drummer Some

Mark,
Thanks for sharing that Dizzy Reece tribute info with the gang!

Fri. 4/3/09 11:53am From: Cecile

hey Doug, that Mickey Lolich song sound like it would be a good addition to the Joe Belock baseball canon...

Fri. 4/3/09 11:55am From: annie

doug, the show has been great, sorry i haven't said alot, i been preoccupied.. i'll be so happy to get my old computer back.

Fri. 4/3/09 7:26pm From: miketp

love the sinatra selection.no one has loved and lost like frank has loved and lost. hahahahaha spinal tap dont look now but ol blue balls is back in town. in the wee small hours is a fine sinatra piece too. rip lou the duck

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