Listener comments!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:10am Larry:

Hi Bill, the best to you in the coming year.

Sat. 1/1/11 3:14am Bill Mac:

Hey Larry,
The same to you and yours.... at this stage of the game on the East Coast it's 3 am as you know... time to chill and help you folks across the way through your breakfast

Sat. 1/1/11 3:15am Larry:

Sounds good, that, thanks. We've seen the future and it looks just like the past. Long live the NOW!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:18am Bill Mac:

LONG LIVE THE NOW!!!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:24am Steve:

R&B, happy new year to me!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:25am Bill Mac:

Happy new Year R&B!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:31am Larry:

Aah, takes me back to the Doo wop days of Dublin. An Italian four piece on every corner singing their hearts out

Sat. 1/1/11 3:34am Bill Mac:

That's sounds pretty awesome... to bad stuff like that changes..

Sat. 1/1/11 3:46am Mike:

Greetings from Boulder, CO. I dig the tunes! WFMU and its incredible DJs always help me get through my overnight shifts!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:46am pingarina:

Oh, I am in LOVE!!!!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:50am Bill Mac:

Know what you mean Mike.... 3 am here... Pingarina, hey!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:52am Mike:

Yep. We run our programming schedules on EST, so I'm in 2 time zones at once! It's always an adventure to exist in vampire hours....

Sat. 1/1/11 3:53am Steve:

Who didn't Dylan influence?

Sat. 1/1/11 3:54am Bill Mac:

I hope you get to celebrate in at least one of them

Sat. 1/1/11 3:54am Mike:

to Steve: One word: Beiber.

Sat. 1/1/11 3:56am Mike:

Listening to WFMU while working on my new comic is all the celebration I need, my friend!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:57am Bill Mac:

I hear you brother! Welcome to the party!

Sat. 1/1/11 3:58am Mike:

Thank you kind sir! I will now put my boots back on!

Sat. 1/1/11 4:04am Mike:

Sorry Steve, I meant Bieber.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:08am Mike:

You should definitely toast the Hopper! He died while I was in Portugal. 'Twas all over the news. Dennis Hopper certainly lived a full, interesting life! Cheers!

Sat. 1/1/11 4:12am pingarina:

meeoww. Hey, are you from the DelMarVa orbit? Just curious. Love the show, man

Sat. 1/1/11 4:14am Mike:

Say Bill, I just realized we have 3 special dates this year: today 1/1/11, 11/1/11, and of course the goocher 11/11/11...

Sat. 1/1/11 4:15am Bill Mac:

Hoppers is a career that totally eluded me.... and he never stooped to franchisey levels a la Fokkers

Sat. 1/1/11 4:17am michael:

Happy new year Bill from Germany..., crazy pictures in the playlist... ! 50`s or 40`s i`m not shure ?

Sat. 1/1/11 4:18am Bill Mac:

Nah, I hail from South Jersey actually... forgot there was a tri-fecta of dates made entirely of ones

Sat. 1/1/11 4:19am Bill Mac:

Michael!!!! my assistant is hanging pics whilst I wail... happy belated new year to you and the family!

Sat. 1/1/11 4:20am pingarina:

Ok, I was close. The accent 'n all

Sat. 1/1/11 4:22am pingarina:

Why'd Dennis Hopper's career elude youse? Not your cup a tea?

Sat. 1/1/11 4:23am Bill Mac:

Close for sure, most north easterners sound the same but they all have there distinct dialects

Sat. 1/1/11 4:27am Bill Mac:

Hopper was a 1/2 generation older than me, so I missed all the hippie-cycle stuff when it originally came out. I do like him in movies I have seen him in.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:30am Mike:

"Heineken?!? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!" - Dennis Hopper from David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"

Sat. 1/1/11 4:32am Madi H:

This show is very good in my opinion.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:34am Madi H:

I recommend Out Of The Blue, Hopper movie w/ Linda Manz.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:34am Bill Mac:

Glad you were quoting Mike... I had two Heiney's tonite... I thought you were psychic... and a little foul mouthed too! I did see Blue Velvet, deserves a revisit

Sat. 1/1/11 4:36am Mike:

Who says I'm not psychic or foul-mouthed, Bill? :-)

Sat. 1/1/11 4:38am pingarina:

Well said. I was also a bébé when he was at the peak of his wave.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:40am Madi H:

Out of the Blue Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgR_LUmf4vs
Thought I'd reinforce my approval of all of the above.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:41am Mike:

;-) sorry Bill!! I'm totally joking! Just being silly! I just dig the banter at this hour. WFMU shows always make me feel like I'm right there with ya!

Sat. 1/1/11 4:43am Bill Mac:

Likewise Man! when the talk is flowing just right this time o night it makes the entire radio experience more satisfying for me.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:43am pingarina:

yum kinks

Sat. 1/1/11 4:44am Mike:

Kinks rock!

Sat. 1/1/11 4:45am Madi H:

I thought Dizzy was his only good song!

Sat. 1/1/11 4:45am Bill Mac:

A top 40 show in an alternate universe

Sat. 1/1/11 4:47am Mike:

Universe/chorus/verse

Sat. 1/1/11 4:48am Bill Mac:

Tommy Roe had a few good ones back when dinosaurs walked the earth...

Sat. 1/1/11 4:49am Mike:

Tommy Roe vs. Wade was a good one, too.

Sat. 1/1/11 4:51am Bill Mac:

I feel a rimshot coming on...

Sat. 1/1/11 4:52am cherrypicker:

There is some pop music that i find unlistenable, and I get sick before I get to the good tracks. Since he used songwriters, maybe I can find the good Tommy Roe ones that way.
(rimshot)

Sat. 1/1/11 4:53am pingarina:

whoo, is it hot in here, or is it just me?

Sat. 1/1/11 4:53am Mike:

Tommy Roe your boat ashore...

Sat. 1/1/11 4:54am Psychic2:

I'm guessing pingarina is hot.
another rimshot

Sat. 1/1/11 4:56am Bill Mac:

There's a lot of chaff on the old iPod, Took awhile for me to find these and hang them together... is it hot or what?

Sat. 1/1/11 4:56am Mike:

There's your psychic, Bill! I mean, that's his name even!!! (No hatin' here, Psychic2. Just funnin' on an earlier joke)

Sat. 1/1/11 4:56am pingarina:

ouaf! maybe just too much champagne and caviar

Sat. 1/1/11 5:03am Psychic Heiniemeister:

What's all this I hear about Pabsts, which you can't even pronounce. Then I'm hearing about champagne, which everyone knows makes one bilious. My spidey sense says we all will get out of our chairs and dance around for this song. I'm never wrong.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:05am pingarina:

::sigh:: I always wanted one of them giant-size Champagne coupes to play in.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:06am Bill Mac:

I fell out of one of them once... no picnic

Sat. 1/1/11 5:09am Trevor Jones:

New to WFMU. Grateful forever for your bringing me Amen Dunes via the live session through the FMA. Just got your app on but the stream keeps skipping... arghhh! Howlin' Wolf cut off and on in his prime... What gives? Lovin' the show though!!

Sat. 1/1/11 5:11am Gratuitous Advicemeister:

Trevor can download the archives.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:13am Bill Mac:

Morning Trev.... Icheck some of the other streaming options, might be one that's more compatible with your computer...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:15am Larry:

Are you compatible, Bill????

Sat. 1/1/11 5:15am Bill Mac:

Oh you have the app for iPhone.... yeah, not sure about how to handle that.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:16am Bill Mac:

Should I be covering something Larry?

Sat. 1/1/11 5:16am Trevor Jones:

Not sure what you mean GA. I'm listening live on Iphone 4 in dear old blighty. I'm a brit listner - at 10.13am. It's flipping like a skippin record. Maybe i should try streaming at a lower quality - 32 instead of 128. I'll give it a go. Your skipping sounds is better than most any other anyhow. Cheery New Year to you all.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:18am Larry:

You're covering everything, Bill. I just hope you're not naked in the booth there. 2 heinekens?? Yes, maybe you are.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:21am pingarina:

So what? Long as he don't catch cold

Sat. 1/1/11 5:21am Steve:

Ray Collins makes my day, along with the nifty rhythm section

Sat. 1/1/11 5:22am pingarina:

Never got Frank Z.....

Sat. 1/1/11 5:22am Bill Mac:

Thanks so much for shifting the conversation away from my drunken nakedness...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:24am Larry:

See!!! I told you so! The dj is naked. Get the shotgun out, we're goin' a huntin'

Sat. 1/1/11 5:24am Bill Mac:

FZ is definitely an acquired taste, but wasn't he part of the typical teenage stoner uniform back in the 70s?

Sat. 1/1/11 5:24am Trevor Jones:

Last time I heard 'Im not satisfied' on radio was some 15 years ago. On John Peel show here in UK. Nice reminder...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:26am Trevor Jones:

Nancy Sinatra. That calls for some Lee Hazlewood, surely...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:26am Bill Mac:

Most of his early stuff was fairly consistent.... in the 80s the material got pretty sterile

Sat. 1/1/11 5:27am pingarina:

yeah. just not my uniform. he was a fave with the really, deeply weird boys

Sat. 1/1/11 5:28am Bill Mac:

Hmmmm.... we debated on whether on not to play a Sinatra/Hazlewood tune tonight.... let's see...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:28am pingarina:

not that I didn't secretly love those boys... ya know

Sat. 1/1/11 5:29am Trevor Jones:

Some Velvet Morning...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:30am Bill Mac:

just a bunch of idiots with zappa cache.... didn't work for most of us.... snif...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:32am Steve:

Here is a live Zaapa show from 1967. Part of my admiration is that rock was a way to make some commentary on the extemes of the time.

http://snipurl.com/zappastockholm1967 (84 MB)

Sat. 1/1/11 5:33am pingarina:

Army jacket-wearin, jew-fro-ed, super-smart boychicks. I was just too shy. And a punk rocker

Sat. 1/1/11 5:34am Bill Mac:

Oh so you liked the cool geeks....

Sat. 1/1/11 5:35am pingarina:

::shudder: yeth

Sat. 1/1/11 5:35am Bill Mac:

Thanks for the Zappa post Steve...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:36am Bill Mac:

I KNEW those guys!!!

Sat. 1/1/11 5:38am Trevor Jones:

Awww. Thanks for that. First time online with WFMU and you play my suggestion. Hazlewood - no other like him. Regarding Zappa, I always preferred it whe he Shut up and played his guitar....

Sat. 1/1/11 5:40am Steve:

I swear I could be a romantic with enough Brenda Lee songs

Sat. 1/1/11 5:41am Bill Mac:

I don't hafta be coaxed too hard to get some Lee Hazlewood on... post 70s material would generally include 3 gems per album in my opinion.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:42am Bill Mac:

I wish the Paris Sisters had more songs about pie

Sat. 1/1/11 5:43am pingarina:

I wish I had me some pie

Sat. 1/1/11 5:47am Stanley:

Hi Bill, just managed to crawl out of bed to wish you a Happy New Year. (Now gotta crawl back)......

Sat. 1/1/11 5:49am Bill Mac:

Thanks for making the effort Stan! See you.... next year? Happy New Year!

Sat. 1/1/11 5:50am Steve:

Thanks to the lovely assistant providing the pictures. Careful driving home, its no secret New York is a mess right now.

Sat. 1/1/11 5:51am Bill Mac:

I'm just outside of NYC, driving south. should be no problem... thanks man...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:57am osvi:

Happy new decade and stuff. The Best Coast sends much love to WFMU land and Zzzzzero Hour. Keep it rocking in the new year. The music stays on, I go sleep now...

Sat. 1/1/11 5:58am Bill Mac:

Thanks O... and all... get set for the NEW YEAR....

Sat. 1/1/11 6:00am pingarina:

Healthy and peaceful 2011 to you Bill. Au revoir

Mon. 1/3/11 4:00pm Sully215:

Great picks here, Bill - real fine digs from vault (er, laptop)...a timely cooldown in prep for Mummer mayhem!

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