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Favoriting July 12, 2020: In this house we make mistakes. In this house we never give up.

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Paul McCartney  Another Day   Favoriting All the Best!  Capitol / Parlophone    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Lewsberg  Standard Procedures   Favoriting In This House  12XU  *   0:03:27 (Pop-up)
MB Jones  Smart Cities, Dumb People   Favoriting NOSCI NOFI  Feeding Tube Records  *   0:09:01 (Pop-up)
Silver Scrolls  Walk Two (I - Nature's Promise)   Favoriting Music for Walks  Three Lobed Recordings  *   0:12:32 (Pop-up)
Talking Heads  Take Me to the River   Favoriting More Songs About Buildings and Food  Sire Records    0:19:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The B-52's 

Follow Your Bliss   Favoriting

Cosmic Thing 

Reprise Records  

 

0:24:32 (Pop-up)
The Features of Life  Soul Sabbath   Favoriting Moris Zekler: Fuzz & Soul Sega from 70's Mauritius  Born Bad Records  *   0:31:19 (Pop-up)
Don Howland  Sleep in Cars   Favoriting Endgame  In the Red Recordings  *   0:35:51 (Pop-up)
Neil Young with Crazy Horse  Cowgirl in the Sand   Favoriting Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere  Reprise Records     0:38:26 (Pop-up)
Mosses  Time in Your Mind   Favoriting T.V. Sun  Anyways Records  *   0:48:24 (Pop-up)
Edison Lighthouse  Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)   Favoriting Single  Bell Records    0:53:13 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The B-52's 

Follow Your Bliss   Favoriting

Cosmic Thing 

Reprise Records  

 

0:56:02 (Pop-up)
Doug Gillard  Cannons   Favoriting Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter  Rough Trade Publishing / Bank Robber Music  *   1:04:52 (Pop-up)
Liz Phair  Whip-Smart   Favoriting Whip-Smart  Matador / Atlantic Records    1:09:12 (Pop-up)
Peggy Lipton  Wear Your Love like Heaven   Favoriting Peggy Lipton  Ode Records    1:13:19 (Pop-up)
Habibi  Angel Eyes   Favoriting Anywhere but Here  Muddguts Records  *   1:17:02 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson  Jump Into the Fire   Favoriting Nilsson Schmilsson  RCA Victor Records    1:21:32 (Pop-up)
Silver Jews  The Wild Kindness   Favoriting American Water  Drag City Records    1:28:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The B-52's 

Follow Your Bliss   Favoriting

Cosmic Thing 

Reprise Records  

 

1:32:36 (Pop-up)
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks  My Hobo Heart   Favoriting Orange Crate Art- 25th Anniversary Edition  Omnivore Recordings  *   1:38:07 (Pop-up)
Gerry Rafferty  Waiting for the Day   Favoriting City to City  United Artists Records     1:41:33 (Pop-up)
Sir Douglas Quintet  Dynamite Woman   Favoriting The Mono Singles '68-'72  Sundazed Music    1:47:20 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The B-52's 

Follow Your Bliss   Favoriting

Cosmic Thing 

Reprise Records  

 

1:50:59 (Pop-up)
Talking Heads  Heaven   Favoriting Fear of Music  Sire Records    1:55:05 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  6:01pm
P-90:

Ever notice what a little love letter to Paul Simon this song is?
  6:02pm
P-90:

Hi Therese
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UncleMarty:

G'Day T - Elmhurst Queens bakin' ....
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Interesting premise P-90!
Macca is into pastiche...
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Therese:

Hello! Thanks for stopping by!
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UncleMarty:

Paul is a musical pack-rat ...
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chresti:

Hi Therese and everyone, I will be listening in the shower... 95F in San Gabriel, CA..
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efd:

Album of the year contender, this Lewsberg.
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Linda Lee:

so reminiscent of so many things.. but its own thing too.
hi!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Also of course Paulie does 3rd person often where Lennon was about Lennon - or Humainity as an abstract (Leo & Aquarius Moons respectively) - as Eleanor Rigby was already...
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Linda Lee:

Uncle Marty, i think i'm in love with your picture.
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UncleMarty:

LL & I love Roses
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Linda Lee:

yay! :-)
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Linda Lee:

it blows my mind that sphinxes have no wiskins. i thought there were essential for balance! guess not!
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UncleMarty:

RR 63 - Way to deep for cocktail hour ... PM does British Music Hall with love ... even w the boyz ... Starkey & McC penned some solid pop - still fun ...
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UncleMarty:

Facial hair is needed for going down holes ... I gave up rodenta long ago ... just a bad habit ...
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Linda Lee:

ah! good then.
  6:15pm
Jett:

@ Therese I guess it is just "Another Day" Hope you're well Therese. Actually did some hanging out today with some great friends. We sat at an outdoor cafe of a smoothie place and just talked there for several hours, it was very nice. A great break from the same old routine.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Nicely recorded thumpy bits! Kewl track.
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Linda Lee:

it is!
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UncleMarty:

Low impact grooming ... Xeriscaping
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Fishtown Mike:

@EFD, purchased...that was some high praise. Bandcamp is awesome, but I miss the lack if instant gratification.
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Linda Lee:

good. time is short. nice if we can leave things alone.
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Linda Lee:

i keep my fur close too & deal with it once a month, not once a day!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
Franco Twinkie:

Therese, can you tell us something you personally witnessed at Action Park that was either so funny or horrible that we can all laugh like it was last week?
  6:21pm
Jett:

Are you dedicating this Talking Heads covering All Green to a cousin of yours?
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Therese:

@Franco- Not while I'm trying to maintain the playlist!
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Franco Twinkie:

Pleeease!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Therese:

Maybe next week!
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RobinSays:

Really great segue, Therese!
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Therese:

Thanks, @Robin!
  6:24pm
P-90:

Is Chris Frantz’s book out yet...?
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Franco Twinkie:

Okay, fair enough Therese. I'll just look at todays paper for something to make me shutter.
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alexorwhatever:

Oh man, I wanna buy Chris' book.
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coelacanth∅:

that talking heads song was a thing of wonder at the time
  6:26pm
phat:

Did you play Talking Heads because of Scharpling's silly Twitter posts?
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UncleMarty:

T Heads! Life/WarTime get me thru last 120 dayz
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coelacanth∅:

i was in my bedroom, getting ready for school, and wnew played it. some of that new "punk rock".
  6:28pm
P-90:

Oh, has Scharpling been tweeting about Byrne?
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Therese:

@phat- I did not!
  6:29pm
Jett:

@Therese I find that I keep coming back to Ike and Tina Turner in the same way that you mentioned The Talking Heads and Nina Simone during the pandemic.
  6:29pm
sim:

Another poor McCartney karaoke choice: Jet.
  6:29pm
P-90:

Oh that song would be a Karaoke NIGHTMARE
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Franco Twinkie:

Yes, haven't thought about it. But the Talking Heads loomed large in happier times. Saw their first show in So. Cal in 1977.
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Linda Lee:

coel, i had a similar experience with patti smith's 'gloria'. it grabbed me & i couldn't move til i heard the whole thing. wnew.
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UncleMarty:

yep wnew .... Take Me & Devo's Satisfaction made them instant stars for me ..... Neeeew Wave
  6:30pm
morphe':

Talmudic detail.... always a good idea...figure out the this and the that...
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Franco Twinkie:

Patti Smith too!
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Linda Lee:

i saw them at cbs in .. 76? the weirdest damn band ever. short hair, highwaters, falsetto, pasty & nervous. what rock is this?
Avatar 6:33pm
Linda Lee:

male rockers were meant to be potent. this guy looked like he'd faint if you touched him .. or he might stab you with a pen.
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UncleMarty:

Think I caught one of the last Dolls shows @ Max's ... went over my head .... but catching the Police there soon after was another sublime moment ..
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coelacanth∅:

haha Linda who the Patti Smith group?
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Linda Lee:

beautiful :-)
no, talking heads.
speaking of, i'm hearing Tina in this bass line for sure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
coelacanth∅:

that makes more sense
  6:36pm
phat:

@Therese I didn't really think so. However, those posts were hilarious.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...well threelobed records are on faceborg hipsters - but Silver Scrolls might be too kewl...
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UncleMarty:

Speaking of immortal Pop ... how 'bout that TomTomCLub ?
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Linda Lee:

i did see Patti that year or the next. they were more in the rocker vein for sure.
  6:37pm
morphe':

Therese y NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
MASH UP!!!! WORKING SO FAR >>> IF THERE IS a CONFLICT>>
I DROP NPR!!!!
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Linda Lee:

Patti was more llike a conventional male rocker than Byrne. absolutely.
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UncleMarty:

Nice thing was how Punk & New Wave co-existed ... ah, the East Village ... I get lost in WmsBerg
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Therese:

There is no stopping Tom when he gets on a roll, @phat!
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Linda Lee:

i only know 2 songs from Tom Tom Club & i have trouble picking them apart! the something of love & the other one.
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Franco Twinkie:

I really liked the Talking Heads nervous look, but it was Patti's confrontational sexuality that knocked me for a loop. Up so close I could smell her.
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UncleMarty:

TTC has been sampled so much they bought beach houses ..... LoL
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Linda Lee:

if i remember right it was sort of all Punk for a while, domestically. New Wave was the Stiff people.. the Brits .. then we had No Wave in new york.
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Linda Lee:

Patti was extremely confident & quite butch.
  6:41pm
phat:

@Therese very true. On another note, sometimes I think Cowgirl in the Sand is the greatest sounding record ever made. Holy. Hell.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Oh now here's s neato bit of gittar...Neil somone - crazyeyed Scorpio...writes a bit...
  6:41pm
morphe':

I worked in St Mark's Bookshop '83-'87.. 13 St Mark's Place
smelt Patti and too many others - even over my own stink...
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Linda Lee:

did you! hi! what a great bookstore.
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UncleMarty:

Living with Mapplethorpe would give anyone sexual angst ...
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Linda Lee:

some of us didn't have bathrooms, so we were often ripe.
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chaos_in_la_la:

Hi Therese. Love hearing some Don Howland up in here. Long time fan!
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coelacanth∅:

devo's satisfaction intrigued me immediately but didn't win me over 'till i saw them on saturday night live.
wnew's daring punk rock ("new wave" hadn't been invented yet) plays that immediately threatened my pink floyd and rolling stones was talking heads (<, + "pulled up" and "don't worry about the government"); miracle man by Elvis C; stick to me by Graham Parker...
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Linda Lee:

i was on bowery & 4th in 81 .. toilet in the hall, tub in the kitchen. but that was the kitchen table too. a door laying on the tub. bathing.. so much trouble.
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UncleMarty:

I listen to Niel's Cortez the Killer once a month ... prescient.
  6:43pm
morphe':

Linda .. it was super special -- great workers and the foolish owners drove it to the cemetery.. the workers were more comitted than the owners... I split in '87 before it truly fell apart...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Still wizing up to Devo. So great.
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Linda Lee:

i seem to remember the issues. owners, always the problem.
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coelacanth∅:

i learned of Patti Smith by a friend. i'd never heard it on the radio before he played horses for me. (and lent it to me to tape)
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Linda Lee:

i distinctly remember some wise-ass kid bringing 'never mind the bollocks' to class (high school, senior year) & lending it around so we could hear it. no radio play yet.
  6:47pm
morphe':

I never read Biographies but someone gave me #1 of Patty's Bio -- well worth reading... Could she really not have knwn that Mapplethorpe was Bi-Gay???
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Linda Lee:

that's how we heard new music much of the time. hading things around.
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UncleMarty:

Devo = deliberate difficult listening, ... but Mothersbaugh has produced so much since then ...
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Linda Lee:

do you mean 'just kids'? sure, i can see it ~ he did his thing away from home & she, being not so sophisticated, felt only his love. one didn't announce, really.
  6:49pm
davefromtoronto:

his yo gabba gabba spots were some of his best work.
  6:49pm
P-90:

Ahhh... Neil...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I had a Rawk obsessed brother about nine years older - spoonfed me masses of culture. Didn't have to do anything.
What I did not have in small-town New England was any kind of scene whatsoever.
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Linda Lee:

i realized i was bisexual in the mid 70s at school, but there was no descriptive languagee for my feelings. i just did what i did, felt what i felt. finally, in about 85, the word 'bisexual' came into consciousness. people found it a fascinating concept.
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Linda Lee:

i'm sorry, i have a sticky e key. i text with an accent.
  6:51pm
phat:

Holy crap. This Mosses is something else.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Just Kids' - yes.
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UncleMarty:

Smith bio is a must read .... worth researching Devo - Deeply committed to Dada ... 1980, who knew ... Whip It meant only one thing ...
  6:51pm
Jett:

@Linda Lee Do we know each other? Have we hung out together? Were you a big fan of The Senders?
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Linda Lee:

a girl i knew was deeply in love with someone who identified to her as bisexual. i had to explain to her what was going on in his head. as if i knew! :-)
Jett, i'm not sure! can't say i remember The Senders now.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Devos were @ Kent State for the shootings - formative for views.
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Franco Twinkie:

Seen Devo for the first time in 1977 on a bill with Blondie,Weirdos and others, it struck me how advanced and committed they were. Bands are always more memorable if they are put into contrast with other bands.
  6:54pm
davefromtoronto:

knew someone who thought bisexual meant you had to pay for it.
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Linda Lee:

ahahaha.. oy. :-)
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coelacanth∅:

anarchy in the uk and god save the queen got play on wnew, but it didn't do much for me. just mediocre rock and roll songs with snarly singing! i was already into the clash by then and saw them as a beautiful day dawning, compared to being banished to live in a filthy bathroom!
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Linda Lee:

yes. wasn't that a funny thing. i remember a clash/pistols thing similar to a beatles/stones thing..
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Bubblegum is Sexy.
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chaos_in_la_la:

Speaking of The Senders, Phil Marcade's Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 was a fun tragic read.
  6:56pm
Jett:

This Edison Lighthouse is a big favorite since it's release. Always puts me in a great mood! Thanks for playing!
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coelacanth∅:

Linda, true! but i've always liked both the beatles and the 'stones
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Roberto:

The chorus to "Love Grows" makes me slightly queasy. I guess it makes me think of a fungus or an STD.
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Linda Lee:

i just gotta say, New York was a beautiful place in that period of time. room for one & all, no matter the trip.
  6:56pm
morphe':

Uncle Marty - Great Book by Greil Marcus = "Lipstick Kisses on a Cigarette"
From Jean D'Arc
to Baudaluire
to Dada
to Situationists
to Punk
A small hiking trail with so much ....
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Linda Lee:

of course! it's just sort of a cliche' non-conflict conflict. but people talked about the clash/pistols in a similar way.
  6:57pm
Jett:

@Linda Lee, I remember that Clash/Pistols rivalry at the time also. I was and still am in the Pistols camp.
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Roberto:

Everyone except Roberto.
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Linda Lee:

@morphe' ~ what, no Rimbaud?
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RobinSays:

When I was a young child my mom had WCBS-FM playing in the house constantly and I loved listening to it. This Edison Lighthouse track was a favorite of mine back then. Thanx for playing it.
  6:58pm
Peter from Dover NJ:

A different show tonight. Not that I'm complaining. PS "Love Grows..." was the first 45 my wife ever bought.
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Hoboken Jack:

Hello Therese and Cowgirl in the Ruth Booth!
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Therese:

Hiya, Jack!
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Linda Lee:

oh! being a kid with a radio in the 60s was a really lovely thing. i think i had a transistor instead of a teddy bear.
  6:59pm
Jett:

@Linda Lee, You're taking me back to a great time on my life in the mid to late seventies. Thanks for bringing cool memories back.
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Roberto:

More like Love Gross.
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Linda Lee:

yes!! wasn't it good! :-)
  6:59pm
P-90:

“muffled singing though masked faces” I’m stealing that
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UncleMarty:

Therese plays B52s & no comments??? ... Seminal in the clubs ...
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coelacanth∅:

i did grow to like some 'pistols songs, despite johnny rotten himself.
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Linda Lee:

bcmms lff gmms lk r rssmmy gss.. n nmddy nsss k mmf
  7:00pm
Jett:

@Linda Lee My transistor was mainly tuned to WMCA the good guys as a child. Also Soul 16.
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Linda Lee:

oh sure!! i think mine was WABC. :-)
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Linda Lee:

with Hal Lundy!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Always think of Joey Ramone saying he envisioned a sort of Beatles/Stones movement with them & the Pistols...but Murika said NO.
Pistols crashed & burned in one album - as was destiny.
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Franco Twinkie:

I remember when Pretty Vacant came out as a 45 on Warner Brothers it got a lot of airplay on a short lived AM station in L.A. with a lot of high energy DJ screaming. I clearly remember hearing it driving down the Pasadena Freeway, and that car DID NOT have a FM radio.
  7:02pm
P-90:

WABC is what everyone switched to when WMCA switched to talk radio.
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coelacanth∅:

...and sexpistols didn't last long enough to be turned to shit by producer glyn johns. they surely would have, but instead went out with the rock n roll swindle - true to form and in my opinion more respectable than the combat rock abomination.
  7:03pm
phat:

https://images.app.goo.gl/r9H1pCqtuEuZouNeA
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Linda Lee:

that sounds lovely, Franco. :-)
  7:03pm
Jett:

WABC musicradio 77 was good but a lot of commercials, so later years it was 97 WWDJ for me and eventually WABC - FM and WOR-FM.
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Mike W:

someone’s bound to be accidentally subbing for themselves
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UncleMarty:

Only problem w the Pistols was Malcolm McLaren.... wanna be haberdasher .... tho' Buffalo Gals was a hoot ... helped bring Rap downtown ..
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Roberto:

I saw Malcolm McClaren's grave in London last year whilst looking for Karl Marx's.
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Linda Lee:

@ Jett ~ so you were in the city throughout?
  7:05pm
Jett:

I loved Malcolm's Buffalo Gals.
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coelacanth∅:

Franco i bought that pretty vacant 45, having never heard of it. i still think it's their best song.
and on the flip is a decent demolition of the stooges' no fun.
  7:05pm
Jett:

NYC born and raised!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Bollocks was super important in terms of vinyl rotation - but @ the same time I was spinning New York Dolls 1st - early Who ...wasn't about any scene - just what seemed real.
Now who cares about Bollocks? Odd really.
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Linda Lee:

beautiful! :-)
  7:06pm
Jett:

I was listening to the Dolls a few years before the Pistols.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

& I don't remember buying a new 45 in my life.
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Linda Lee:

so then. when did you find St Mark's Bar? :-D
  7:08pm
Jett:

Bowie was a big deal also at the time before the Dolls.
  7:08pm
P-90:

It’s RON Lundy btw
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coelacanth∅:

(i should qualify that turned to shit by a producer to include the even worse than glyn johns phil spectre, as he was the one who put a stop to ramones run of excellency)
  7:08pm
morphe':

Linda - Baudalauire is short cut for Rimbaud and Lautremount y Lousi ARAGON AND THE TRUE SURREALISTS - skipping homophobic Breton (Breton was instrumental in the suicide of Rene Crevel - he was ostracized by Breton because he was gay....
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Linda Lee:

i'm thinking *just* before ~ but their stars rose together a little while.
that's right! Ron Lundy!
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Linda Lee:

got it. thank you, morphe'!
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coelacanth∅:

Roberto were those graves in alphabetical order?!
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Uncle Michael:

good evening
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Iggy on Dinah Shore show
- 'Well I think I helped end the 60s!'
- Bowie cracks up...
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Linda Lee:

hi Uncle Michael!
  7:10pm
Jett:

Since age13 I was going to Max's and CBGBs, found At Marks bar shortly afterwards, midnight snacks sometimes at Phebes a bit later.
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Uncle Michael:

Hello, Linda.
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Roberto:

Ha, no, Coel, they were at opposite sides of the cemetery. I went there to see Karl. Malcolm was a bonus.
  7:11pm
Jett:

Correctatype changed St. to At
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Linda Lee:

oh sure! Phebe's! :-) lovely. really so nice, all of it.
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Therese:

Hiya, Uncle Michael!
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Linda Lee:

how funny. i heard Iggy was doing a bunch of tv after i'd lost my tv habit.
  7:13pm
Jett:

@Linda Lee, remember The Dugout?
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coelacanth∅:

just mentioned this album this morning on Jeff's show. i bought the cassingle of whip smart, thinking it was the album. (2 bucks? used at st.marks sounds)
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Linda Lee:

i do!! :-) we hung out at a bunch of places with names lost to me, too..
  7:14pm
Jett:

I sometimes worked at Free Being in the early eighties.
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Linda Lee:

in a way the old timer bars were very nice.. around Bowery. seem to remember a place called Three Roses.
they were all olde timer bars for a while though, weren't they.
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Franco Twinkie:

Coel, I liven down the street from KROQ. My neighbors brother was a DJ and we were allowed in the studio while he was doing his show, just as long as we didn't open our mouths. They had a green room with some furniture that looked like it was 'borrowed' from the hotel across the street. One particular end table had a pile of promo records free for the taking. That's were my copy of Pretty Vacant came from. It's worth a lot of money,right?
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Linda Lee:

Free Being! record store?
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coelacanth∅:

ha, i might've seen you there
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Jett:

I hung out at Three Roses many times.
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Linda Lee:

beautiful! :-)
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Uncle Michael:

Hi, Therese.
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Therese:

Speaking of Malcolm McLaren, there is a great anecdote in Viv Albertine's "Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys" about Vivienne Westwood getting into an argument with Bernie Rhodes WHILE DELIVERING A EULOGY at Malcom McLaren's funeral.
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Jett:

Yes Free Being the record store @Linda Lee
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coelacanth∅:

Franco it might be!
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Linda Lee:

very nice!! :-) record stores. how lovely.
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Linda Lee:

this Peggy Lipton track is just luscious. adored her.
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RobinSays:

I was the day waitress at Continental Divide on Third Ave. right next to St. Marks. I remember bringing Beat writer Herbert Huncke several gin and tonics while he was being interviewed by a British dude...
  7:18pm
Jett:

I loved Viv Albertine and Arianna Up a lot, just such great people. @Therese I miss Arianna a lot.
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coelacanth∅:

Franco what's on the flip? a lounge version created by Malcolm?!
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Franco Twinkie:

Lemme look.
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morphe':

Jett - the Dugout wasunder SOUNDS Records Yes? South side of St Mark's ..was thrown out for sleeping in the windowsill - the end of a qualude high... 1980???
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Linda Lee:

i think i might like Viv's book more than i enjoyed Patti's. i felt Patti tried especially hard for the literary.
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mariano:

Hey there Therese, crew, folks.
  7:19pm
Jett:

No the Dugout was just south of 14street
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Linda Lee:

Jett, did you get down to TR3? saw the Slits play there. so many others. just a *fabulous* club. second home. Puffy's Tavern the third.
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coelacanth∅:

Therese you think that event has been preserved for posterity, future collectable profits, or shits n giggles?
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Therese:

I highly recommend both of Viv's books, @Linda Lee
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Linda Lee:

i lived just across Broadway from the Mudd Club & Dave's Luncheonette for a few years from 78 - 81.
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coelacanth∅:

hey mariano
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Linda Lee:

thanks Therese!
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P-90:

Last I heard the revived Holiday Cocktail Lounge on St. Marks was still thriving (if that’s a word one could ever apply to that place), but that was before The Lockdown...
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mariano:

Robin: Wow, that's cool - Huncke the junkie!

Hey there coela.
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Linda Lee:

oh my. the Holiday.
  7:22pm
Jett:

TR3 many times, never saw the Slits there, but saw them in many other places. I loved hanging out at Irving Plaza, my home, away from home. I felt like I owned that place.
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RobinSays:

Grassroots Tavern was under Sounds.
  7:22pm
morphe':

Jett - just looked ..I was thinking of GRASSROOTS below Sounds...
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coelacanth∅:

Yes!
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Linda Lee:

hah! good!
*thank you* RobinSays. was *just* trying to remember the name of the Grassroots. i think that was my first neighborhood bar during junior year in high school.
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Jett:

That was it @Robin "Grass Roots"
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alexorwhatever:

oh hellll yeah. needed this song.
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chresti:

Evening from late afternoon, UM.
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RobinSays:

@Mariano. I remember Huncke being pleasant to wait on. I also fetched a rum and Coke for Sinead O'Connor during a party Continental Divide had for The Sugarcubes.
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chresti:

This is so great.
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Uncle Michael:

Tip of the day... If you can't find Schweppes Bitter Lemon, Cock and Bull is pretty good.
  7:25pm
Jett:

Dugout was on third Ave btwn 13th and 14th
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Montanus McMonty:

Therese, 1st time listener in Hotlanta. Was sooooooo excited when I heard Follow Your Bliss as the music bed. I used it on my college show back in the late 90's.
YES! (with fist pump)
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Linda Lee:

Therese, for books by female rockers i'd recommend June Millington's memoir "Land Of A Thousand Bridges". just an amazing story. she & her sister Jean were the core of Fanny, the first all female band to secure a major label album deal. just phenomenal musicians. fascinating tales.
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chresti:

I have a lime, will that work?
  7:26pm
Jett:

NYC was such a cool place during that period @Linda Lee
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Jett:

I was a big fan of Fanny!
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Therese:

Thank you for reminding me, Linda! That's been on my list.
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Linda Lee:

it was. it really was. the most fabulous thing: you didn't have to work your tail off to live a life. most of my time there i worked possibly 4 days a weekt at most, part time. glorious fun.
Fanny is still knocking me out today. :-)
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RobinSays:

@ Linda Lee. I love fellow NY native stories like yours:) King Tut's Wah Wah Hut on E. 7th Street was where I did most of my high school drinking as a senior.
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Linda Lee:

oh my god. King Tut's!! of course!
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Linda Lee:

was King Tut's after hours? for a while there we had some very nice after hours clubs on the LES. the names, of course..
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Linda Lee:

i remember the Ziwi or Kiwi club..
  7:29pm
Chris:

Tired rehashed historically flat content. Try allot harder. I've been listening for 30 years and this show is profoundly mediocre.
  7:30pm
Jett:

I was very involved in the music biz, and had been doing a regular radio show on WHBI-FM at the time, well into the early eighties. For a short time Rocks In Your Head record store and NY Rocker sponsored my radio show.
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RobinSays:

I'm pretty sure King Tut's was open regular bar hours. I remember Save The Robots on Avenue B as an after-hours place...
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Linda Lee:

after the bars closed you'd just head over to the after hours places & hang out til 8 or 9 AM..
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Franco Twinkie:

Coel, the sleeve, which has a very funny type written screed says Submission. But the actual record which is a radio station copy has Pretty Vacant on both sides. Stereo and mono.
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JohnEBGood:

Hi Therese. This is a classic. Check out Steppenwolf Monster. The album and song are awesome! 50 years and the same issues. so sad. Peace : )
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Bobby K:

I love this song so much
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Linda Lee:

Rocks In Your Head was Spring St, right?
  7:31pm
Jett:

Wow, The Wah Wah Hut, haven't even thought of that place.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It is a treat to get personal accounts of Thuh City! I am total failure to launch into cities.
...Kind of the famous thing to do: buy Huncke something to pay for an interview about Kerouac / Ginsberg / Burroughs & the real origin scene.
  7:32pm
P-90:

Haven’t even thought of King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in years. Decades maybe.
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RobinSays:

I'm pretty sure King Tut's was open regular bar hours. I remember Save The Robots on Avenue B as an after-hours place...
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chaos_in_la_la:

So I showed up to work one morning in bk about 7 years ago, midway thru some mushrooms. I let my one friend know, the one who would get me thru this situation I'd created. He immediately went to the radio and put Jump Into The Fire on. Everything was okay from there on out that day..
  7:32pm
Jett:

I think Rocks In Your Head was on Prince as I recall.
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Handy Haversack:

Hi, Therese. Hi, all. Been listening and doing chores. Sounding great!
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Linda Lee:

i fondly remember passing Allen & Peter on their block on 12 th street while carrying a toilet bowl. Allen peered at me searchingly. likely thought i was some cute boy. they'd gotten out of a cab. both nicely suited.
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Linda Lee:

that's likely true, Jett.
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Jett:

157 Prince Street, I remember the commercial
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Franco - sounds like quite an artifact!
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Jett:

I had such a crush on Peggy Lipton
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mariano:

Welcome aboard, Montanus. And heya Handy.
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Linda Lee:

ah! thank you!
did you visit the Soho Music Gallery on Wooster? what a place! a massive loft space, full of light, all records. i dated the store manager for a bit. he runs Byrne's record label now, Luaka Bop. the music gallery was possibly the world's most beautiful record store.
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Linda Lee:

they had a phenomenal sound system there.
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Handy Haversack:

Hey, Mariano!
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chresti:

Sounds like a fun place, King Tut's.
  7:36pm
Jett:

Does anyone remember the Thalia theater, a great revival house on the upper west side?
  7:37pm
morphe':

Assessing much of the input today (this am in Madrid) we can qualify for an
WFMU AARP special discount card....
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Linda Lee:

i'm remembering a place on St Marks called .. Club 55? they showed films. we saw the entirety of Chelsea Girls there one long night. very nice.
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RobinSays:

I remember applying for a job at St. Marks Sounds when I was a junior in high school. They asked me to name every Rolling Stones album from their debut in the '60s until Dirty Work. I flunked that test:(
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P-90:

The Thalia is still there.
  7:37pm
Jett:

Soho Music Gallery always had a lot hard to find stuff.
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chaos_in_la_la:

@morphe': that idea could have wheels.
I love it!
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Linda Lee:

the Thalia! absolutely. a beautiful theater.
we loved Theater 80, for a local place. Bleecker St Cinema, Film Forum..
yes, they did.
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morphe':

Linda - club 57???
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Linda Lee:

oh man. hell of an intervieew.
thank you, morphe'! Club 57! :-)
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Franco Twinkie:

Yes the Thalia! I saw Stranger Than Paradise there.
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Linda Lee:

i'm pretty sure i did too, Franco! :-)
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Jett:

I knew people that worked at St Mark's Sounds, the drummer in a band I was in worked there.
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RobinSays:

I saw Metropolis with live piano accompaniment at The Thalia. Pretty amazing.
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coelacanth∅:

i did not find that record in my search Franco. that's a good sign!
  7:40pm
Jett:

I spent a lot of time watching Films at the Thalia, I became quite friendly with the staff there.
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Linda Lee:

my god, i think i did too, RobinSays! haha!!
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chresti:

Jump Into The Fire saves the day again, @chaos.
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Linda Lee:

i enjoyed sitting in the balcony for a smoke, at the Thalia, if i'm not dreaming. it was nice, smoking at the movies. very relaxing.
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Linda Lee:

they had a fabulous Kitsch program at Theater 80. i'm fairly sure i saw Cat Women From Outer Space in 3D there. glasses & all.
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Linda Lee:

we were lucky, children. we really were.
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morphe':

Robin all - I am away from NYC but a great free thing that I think still happens:
in WTC
free silent classics with live orchestra - CLUB FOOT SF and Gamelon and
Metropolis and Nosfrayu and ??

check and see - now is the time - except for the virus
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P-90:

The Thalia is now in the same neighborhood, in the basement level of the venerable Symphony Space. It’s the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, he donated the money to build the new theater.
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Tome:

wonderful Sunday again hi Therese !<>!
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chresti:

^and WFMU*
  7:45pm
Jett:

Does anyone remember the name of the record store on Mercer Street next to the Anarchist Book Store?
  7:46pm
Jett:

@P-90 I did not know that.
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Linda Lee:

tough one..
  7:48pm
morphe':

Theatre 80 - the Irish owners (Larry Ottway)have turned it into an old Speakeasy kind of place with a back story and are trying to make a film doc - about hidden safes and corpses.. there is now a window next door that sells odd sandwichews - Kangarroo BBQ with pickled cucumbers or Iguana tail with green salsa or.. serious true ..... saw it on my last NYC vist Feb 2020
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Jett:

@Linda Lee I've been trying to remember the name of that record store for a long time.
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Franco Twinkie:

My one and only time at the Thalia. The experience put me in such a mood that I forgot I had planned to see Gene Clark later that night at Folk City. I was so dreamy and distracted that I totally forgot!
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Linda Lee:

ha! wow, Franco! :-)
Jett, i'm sorry i can't help..
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P-90:

Isn’t iguana tail always served with RED salsa?
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Jett:

@Franco Twinkie I loved the Thalia theater, it felt so comfy to me.
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Linda Lee:

another great thing.. book stores, book stores, book stores.
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Fishtown Mike:

Thank you, Therese! Great show as always!
  7:50pm
Jett:

Hey, @Linda Lee no problem, you've ignored so many cool memories today.
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Linda Lee:

have i? oh no!
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Therese!
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RobinSays:

I had a class at NYU with Larry Ottway! I remember him being a nice fella. On more than one occasion I hung out at his apartment with classmates and our professor, snacking on smoked salmon and hot apple cider.
  7:52pm
Jett:

I'd be very remiss at not recognizing what an excellent job the amazing ❤️@Therese is doing today.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gene Clark - sh*t !
Saw Clubfoot Orchestra do Metropolis in Santa Barbara. So kewl. I miss living in civilization...
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mariano:

Thank you Therese! And thanks to the Skeleton Crew as always. Take care everyone.
  7:53pm
morphe':

Jett - was not that bookstore actually the Ann Ryand folk - Aesthetic Realists who wore buttons that said "VICTIM of the PRESS?" Not sure - just asking.. A true cult ..
  7:53pm
Jett:

spell check changed inspired to a negative word @Linda Lee
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Linda Lee:

hahah!! ok!
i just looked up a place called "mercer books and records" .. there for 30 years only, though.
  7:54pm
Jett:

I'm pretty sure that was the bookstore, but I'm looking for the name of the record store next door.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Therese fails us not.
Thx for securing Sunday P.M.
  7:55pm
Jett:

that Victim of the Press place
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chresti:

Wow, morphe' @7:48
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radioronan:

Thanks Therese.. Thanks skeleton crew!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Therese. Have a pleasant, safe week.
  7:56pm
P-90:

Thanks Therese!
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Linda Lee:

thanks for a really lovely show, Therese!
oh my. i seem to remember dropping acid to this one
:-D
  7:56pm
Jett:

Be safe @Therese, thanks for a wonderful show. Everybody here, be safe!
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Franco Twinkie:

Thank you, Action Girl!
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Linda Lee:

thanks so much for heading back home with me tonight, kids!
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Jett:

@LindaLee honored to have spoken with you.
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morphe':

Thanks Therese ... and all
221b Baker Street
ps look for the Comet NeoWise in the sky 0500-0600 EST in the Eastern Horizon..
Amazing...
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Linda Lee:

absolutely the same, Jett! :-)
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chresti:

Maybe there's a photo of that record store from that time, Jett?
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RobinSays:

@ Linda Lee Yes! Good to share memories of NYC:)
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Linda Lee:

so good, RobinSays! thank you!
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UncleMarty:

Thanks T - Great show

Good meeting LindaLee, RR63, Jett & all who survived the 80s ...
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chaos_in_la_la:

Thx@Therese+Crew
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Linda Lee:

we sure did! :-) good seeing you too, Handsome.
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Jett:

@UncleMarty I hear ya!
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chresti:

And 7:53
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chresti:

Thanks Therese!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Therese! Thanks crew!
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