WFMU: The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles with Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles: Playlist from October 14, 2021

Listener comments!
	👻 4:57pm Aitch: Quite the event. Will antibacterials be provided?
	4:58pm HyperDose: 🎸⭕👊🏾‍💥🤪🍻
	5:00pm ultradamno: Kitten! Sparklers!
	5:02pm Mr Fab: I'm prepared to throw food at my computer screen.
	5:02pm Chili MacPagoda: Been waiting all day for this business! 🙌🍕🙌
	5:06pm ultradamno: Nate played The Other Newest One on his Oh, My Soul show on the R&S stream and shared a story of buying (GI) at an Antique store for cheap
	👻 5:07pm WR: I'm prepared to throw up on my computer screen and I think I have a fever. I tried to do right, to always wash my hands but somehow The Germs got through.
	5:08pm Cheree July: I hope the Kid Stuff guy wasn't having an Attila-era Billy Joel moment😣😂
	5:08pm Juli: Correct
	5:09pm HyperDose: Cheers to the sluts!
	5:09pm Cheree July: Holy Moses, LOL!😂
	👻 5:14pm WR: Woe-Fie!
	5:15pm Juli: Cheers to the sluts indeed
	5:16pm laurapanic: this is amazing...is the playlist going to be up?
	5:16pm Cheree July: I got to hang with Cheech & Chong on 4/20 in Palm Springs. I have pics & a signed poster to prove it. 💨🚬🌴
	5:29pm HyperDose: 🤯🤯🤯
	5:30pm Juli: Gimme gimme thaaat
	5:31pm Cheree July: It's uncanny how much the lead singer of the Germs sounds like the Seeds.😮
	5:32pm chresti: Nicky Beat! I saw him last when he was making pizza in the late 90s. And Geza X! I met in 73.
	5:33pm chresti: *when I lived in Santa Maria, CA
	5:34pm Cheree July: Don sounds like the voiceover guy from the 70's K-Tel commercials!😂
	5:34pm HyperDose: Hey chresti! Ready to rock?
	5:35pm chresti: Hey HyperD!
	5:36pm ultradamno: waxworkrecords.com...
	5:38pm WEASEL WALTER: my friend alex unsuccessfully tried to give me a germs burn in the mid 80s.
	5:39pm WEASEL WALTER: VOX POP = BEST BAND EVER
	5:40pm ultradamno: I'm pretty sure a Germs burn will develop on all listeners during the course of this show.
	5:41pm WEASEL WALTER: it's amazing how rodney manages to keep some dignity while being assaulted by the infinite bile and sarcasm LOL
	5:43pm WEASEL WALTER: SCARY COMO
	5:44pm WEASEL WALTER: where's the exterminators, don?
	5:47pm chresti: Joe Nanini loved to taunt Rodney back them
	5:48pm chresti: *then
	5:48pm WEASEL WALTER: NO, GOD
	5:49pm Juli: Yessss
	5:55pm Rich in Washington: Howdy, Kitten! Hello everybody!
	5:55pm HyperDose: This is the pinnacle of radio
	6:03pm WEASEL WALTER: never heard these versions before!
	6:04pm WEASEL WALTER: was that "tooth and nail"?
	6:04pm Rich in Washington: Yeah, that was fantastic!
	6:06pm ultradamno: Inventing thrash before people said hardcore
	6:07pm HyperDose: Charlie 😍
	6:13pm WEASEL WALTER: NERVOUS GENDER, SECOND BEST BAND EVER
	6:16pm chresti: Candy Apple hid in my closet once when she and someone else were visiting my room mate.
	6:17pm Carmichael: Heya Kitten/Don/Germs/People.
	6:18pm chresti: Hey Carm!
	6:18pm HyperDose: Hey Carmichael! \m/
	6:19pm Kitten Sparkles: Hi. I'm here, just doing stuff.
	6:20pm WEASEL WALTER: HAIL THE DON
	6:21pm chresti: Hi Kitten! Thanks for checking in!
	6:21pm Carmichael: This sounds like organized mayhem.
	6:23pm ultradamno: Well, the part where he reads the upcoming shows seemed organized
	6:23pm WEASEL WALTER: it's not terribly organized. ha ha h
	6:24pm HyperDose: Best radio call-in I've ever heard "you're on the air" "...oh, fuck"
	6:31pm WEASEL WALTER: DIP HIS DICK IN SHOE POLISH
	6:32pm Rich in Washington: This has SKRONK appeal.
	6:32pm chresti: Pico and Sepulveda!
	6:32pm WEASEL WALTER: drugs are mandatory
	6:33pm WEASEL WALTER: "teacher's pet" a lovely ballad
	6:33pm Rich in Washington: LOL chresti! Now I can't unhear it.
	6:33pm ultradamno: To each her pets
	6:34pm Rich in Washington: I need all these Life Is.. comps.
	6:34pm Mr Fab: Ha, wow you're right, chresti. I'm singing along.
	6:35pm Rich in Washington: I used to think these comps were SST releases, prolly cuz of the Pettibone covers, but they're so much more.
	6:36pm HyperDose: Kitten Sparkles single-handedly keeping punk alive
	6:36pm Rich in Washington: FuCC the FCC
	6:38pm WEASEL WALTER: this album always sounds superb through FM radio compression
	6:39pm Mr Fab: it DOES sound better!
	6:39pm prof.fuzz: Oh. Hell. Yes.
	6:42pm WEASEL WALTER: survey: favorite germs recording. mine might be "my tunnel" from the last show. weird choice, but that's what came to mind first.
	6:42pm WEASEL WALTER: nicole panter
	6:43pm ultradamno: A master class in spin right here well before that term ever existed
	6:43pm Rich in Washington: Caught In My Eye. I would listen to that over and over as a teen. It was on that Slash comp
	6:44pm Mr Fab: Weasel Walter: Probably "Lexicon Devil," or maybe "No God," but "My tunnel" is a great one. For years it was unreleased - I only had a copy taped off Rodney.
	6:44pm WEASEL WALTER: "no god" is really amazing. chilling
	6:44pm ultradamno: We Must Bleed or Not All Right
	6:45pm WEASEL WALTER: white flag did a great version of "not alright" . . .
	6:47pm Rich in Washington: That live ROIR cassette, Germicide. I remember mail ordering it without knowing what the Germs actually sounded like. But it was that aforementioned track on that Slash comp that did it for me.
	6:48pm WEASEL WALTER: i always wanted to cover the whole "germicide" album in the style of the slash LP. ha ha ha. that's one of those bucket list projects i've been mulling on for decades
	6:48pm Rich in Washington: I'm of the Zip-A-Tone, Letraset generation. 'Camera ready'.
	6:49pm prof.fuzz: "forming" from germicide. so raw and simple. my first band covered this song ca. 1981.
	6:50pm Debbie Davenport: Yes to the off centering. When I first saw that album jacket design I was impressed with that.
	6:51pm ultradamno: @Weasel I think I heard them doing that on that Flipside Video Fanzine before I heard The Germs version
	6:51pm Rich in Washington: You could've had Paul Revere produce and play keyboards all over it a la Ray Manzanarek/X!
	6:53pm WEASEL WALTER: @ultradamno ha ha ha. white flag ruled. what a great wormhole to dive down. this full set is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2ut_P-Zp4
	6:53pm HyperDose: I can barely handle all this greatness. Thank you Mr. Fab for facilitating <3
	6:53pm ultradamno: "You had to assume she was one step more comatose than The Germs in the studio, so it had to be the engineer" - Greg Turner
	6:54pm Mr Fab: HyperDose, i am truly grinning like a proud parent.
	6:54pm WEASEL WALTER: a plague of lighthouse keepers, indeed
	6:55pm Rich in Washington: I am an unabashed VDGG/Hammill fan.
	6:57pm WEASEL WALTER: i gotta go to rehearsal now . . . where/when will this be archived svp???
	6:57pm Rich in Washington: This very page will be the archive in a few hours.
	6:57pm WEASEL WALTER: great. thanks. i shall return
	6:58pm ultradamno: Yeah, there's also a mobile app that will have it for awhile
	6:58pm HyperDose: @Mr. Fab also apologies for missing your last show. Don't know how it got past me!
	6:58pm Rich in Washington: Happy rehearsing, Weasel!
	6:58pm Mr Fab: ha, no prob HD. I'll be doing an even sillier fill-in later this month.
	7:02pm Rich in Washington: My copy of GI is among the many records which disappeared at house parties when I was a reckless youth. Mind you, I'm grateful no one would grab the weirder, more esoteric punk and noise records, but still...
	7:04pm ultradamno: As iconic as that cover is, The Germs spelled out in meat and jelly beans is intriguing
	7:06pm JR HTX: @ Rich in Washington that's exactly what happened to mine....with a few others like my L.A.M.F. this was early 80s
	7:06pm HyperDose: Are we pitching in to get Rich an original pressing off Discogs?
	7:07pm Milkies: HiDeHo gang
	7:08pm Debbie Davenport: 🖤Hi Milkies!
	7:09pm Milkies: Hey Hey Debbbie!!
	7:10pm Mr Fab: HyperDose - now you know what we're doing with our fundraiser money!
	7:10pm ultradamno: There were a few other records where the band's name took up the whole cover around that time (X, Adolescents, Fear) probably a good idea to resist it.
	7:12pm sufferwords: First reaction to hearing the Germs l.p.- you mean they’ve been playing actual songs at the shows?- top ten most historical wax releases ever for Los Angeles- watch out if you’re in public near me and a song off this wax comes on- I will fuck shit up
	7:16pm Milkies: Luv U Don!!!
	7:17pm Mr Fab: I had my share of treasures that disappeared after being "loaned" to friends. Everything from Roger Corman's memoirs to Kate Bush's "The Dreaming" to (and this one hurt) my Screamers live VHS tape. Of course it's all out there in internet-land now. So keep 'em, bloody thieves!
	7:20pm Debbie Davenport: 79-81 I was told two rules about punk. Cautions for when I finally went to out of town. 1.Cut your hair or the city girls will beat you up. 2. If someone comes up to you and says "Germs or Ramones?!" Always answer Germs or they will beat you up.
	👻 7:22pm WR: You received good advice Debbie
	7:23pm Mr Fab: re the vetoed meat and jellybeans lp cover idea, Bob Biggs DID build the giant wooden "X", went out in the desert, lit it on fire, and took the classic cover pic for "Los Angeles."
	7:23pm Milkies: @Debbie I answered Germones
	7:23pm Rich in Washington: The pattern continued into the CD age, as my sons and their friends were all huge punk fans, so my most stolen or scratched up CDs were the usual Sex Pistols. Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, etc. But they never touched the weirder, rarer stuff.
	7:24pm Milkies: This Richie Dagger version kinda rules
	7:24pm Debbie Davenport: Was it a real thing Milkies? The main boys who would say that to me were from Huntington Beach.
	7:24pm ultradamno: Well, there are more surviving Germs at this point, so they have that over Ramones for sure.
	7:25pm Milkies: @Debbie, I was never asked, yet is good advice
	7:26pm Rich in Washington: OMG- the Cruising soundtrack has The Cripples on it!
	7:26pm Debbie Davenport: Well you had the perfect answer had you been asked.
	7:26pm Milkies: 🎶 let’s pretend you’re cool 🎶
	7:27pm ultradamno: Were there people out canvassing on the question?
	👻 7:28pm WR: ultradamo, before the internet people had to troll, bullie and retweet in person.
	7:29pm Mr Fab: Not familiar with the Cripples. What were they like? Anything like our own Mike Rogers' old band The Rotters and their song, "I Dont Wanna Be An Amputee?"
	7:30pm ultradamno: I'm just imagining a clipboard with Germs Or Ramones, Clash Or Dils, X or X-Ray Spex, etc on it.
	7:30pm ultradamno: In relation to Gira's Li'l Cripples?
	7:31pm Milkies: There’s some good advice
	7:32pm Rich in Washington: I was just looking them up. Not the Cripples I was thinking of. There was this band with a guy in a wheelchair who sang these incredibly cheesy love songs. Dang.
	7:33pm Milkies: Right here right now!!
	7:33pm Debbie Davenport: Ultradamno, I lived in a town population 200 at the time. I think punk was such a wild far away thing that some of us used to read the Weekly World News and wonder about stuff. Some people felt cool being able to tell others what it was like in big cities at the time. I assumed it was true at the time because one of the boys had a big brother that knew Darby. I felt like it was an inside scoop kind of thing. but no one ever asked me in san fransisco or los angeles. Maybe it phased out like the commas followed by okay and with a questionmark and exclamation mark at the end. Like" Germs rule, okay?! (waves fist). I was dorky. hard to say.
	7:34pm Debbie Davenport: the chatroom is working really good for me today. WFMU rules!
	7:34pm ultradamno: I think Michael Gira's band was Little Cripples...I just like Li'l better
	7:35pm HyperDose: I hear that, Debbie! FREEFORM LIVES!
	7:35pm DJ Babs: Hello friends!!! Hello Don!
	7:35pm Milkies: @Debbie, I still get the kick off & restart
	7:36pm Rich in Washington: Hi Babs!
	7:38pm Asheville Jon: great show tonight!
	7:42pm DJ Babs: Hi Rich!!!
	7:42pm Milkies: Caught in my eye, my new earworm
	7:42pm ultradamno: Follow up: Did his Huntington Beach ass get got?
	7:51pm HyperDose: Damn the man!
	👻 7:51pm WR: This has been extra special sparkling today! Thank you Don!
	7:52pm JR HTX: Most excellent show! What a surprise. Love the Germs. Thanks Don!!!!
	7:53pm Milkies: This is thee FN inside scoop!
	7:54pm ultradamno: Yeah, this is one to revisit. Thanks Kitten.
	7:54pm Debbie Davenport: This is great. Reminds me of the crowd at a black sabbath record I have, only it's a lot better.
	7:54pm Debbie Davenport: Great show, thank you!!!💖
	7:54pm sufferwords: so good Don
	7:55pm DJ Babs: Don you are a goddamn legend.
	7:56pm Asheville Jon: thank you Don, awesome show!
	7:56pm Milkies: Thanks Kitten great show, happy that I heard today’s sparkle
	7:57pm HyperDose: Can't thank you enough Don. Not just for this retrospective, but for all your contributions to music and paving the way for young guns like me. Love ya, glampa! 💚
	7:59pm prof.fuzz: Great way to spend the evening. Thanks Don!
	8:01pm Kitten Sparkles: Sorry, Babs - all tours nowishly!
	8:02pm Mr Fab: Thaaaaank u, Don, this is one for the Smithsonian.
	8:07pm Kitten Sparkles: I liked letting Paul Cytler have the last word(s) - "Did that one sound OK?"

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October 14, 2021: The Fantastic World of The Germs!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
John Braden	It’s Punk "It’s Punk" by "John Braden"	Pink Panther Punk	Kid Stuff	1981	Vinyl		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Michelle Wood	Music of Today (lyrics Pat Gregory)	Now Sounds of Today		1980?	Vinyl		0:28:30 (Pop-up)
Germs	Lexicon Devil "Lexicon Devil" by "Germs"	EP	Slash	1978	7"	Nicky Beat on drums	0:29:03 (Pop-up)
Germs	Sex Boy "Sex Boy" by "Germs"		What?	1977	7"		0:29:13 (Pop-up)
Germs	Forming "Forming" by "Germs"		What?	1977	7"		0:29:35 (Pop-up)
The Germs & Rodney Bingenheimer	Live “Interview” Ontario “Rodney on the ROQ” show, 1979			1979			0:33:46 (Pop-up)
Vox Pop	Tumblebug "Tumblebug" by "Vox Pop"	Life Is Boring, So Why Not Steal This Record?	New Underground	1983	Vinyl		1:31:11 (Pop-up)
Germs	What We Do Is Secret "What We Do Is Secret" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash	1979	Vinyl		2:02:13 (Pop-up)
Germs	Communist Eyes "Communist Eyes" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:02:52 (Pop-up)
Germs	Land of Treason "Land of Treason" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:03:07 (Pop-up)
Germs	Strange Notes "Strange Notes" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:03:24 (Pop-up)
Germs	American Leather "American Leather" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:08:14 (Pop-up)
Germs	Lexicon Devil "Lexicon Devil" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl	Lp version, Don on drums	2:03:47 (Pop-up)
Germs	Richie Dagger’s Crime "Richie Dagger’s Crime" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:04:13 (Pop-up)
Germs	Manimal "Manimal" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:03:58 (Pop-up)
Germs	Our Way "Our Way" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:08:52 (Pop-up)
Germs	We Must Blees "We Must Blees" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:08:03 (Pop-up)
Germs	Lion’s Share "Lion’s Share" by "Germs"	Cruising OST	Lorimar	1980	Vinyl		2:23:09 (Pop-up)
Germs	The Slave "The Slave" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:32:33 (Pop-up)
Grtms	other newest one "other newest one" by "Grtms"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:32:45 (Pop-up)
Germs	Let’s Pretend "Let’s Pretend" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:33:00 (Pop-up)
Germs	Caught In My Eye "Caught In My Eye" by "Germs"	What We Do is Secret EP	Slash Records	1981	EP		2:33:08 (Pop-up)
The Posies	Richie Dagger’s Crime	A Small Circle of Friends: A Tribute to the Germs	Grass Records	1996	CD		2:33:23 (Pop-up)
Germs	Media Blitz, What We Do Is Secret (Live)	Life Is Beautiful,So Wht Not Eat Health Foods?	New Underground	1983	Vinyl		2:33:33 (Pop-up)
Germs	Media Blitz "Media Blitz" by "Germs"	The Germs	Slash Records	1979	Vinyl		2:33:48 (Pop-up)
Germs	Strange Notes, Caught In My Eye	life is boring so why not steal this record	New Underground	1983	Vinyl		2:39:06 (Pop-up)
Germs	My Tunnel "My Tunnel" by "Germs"	MIA - The Complete Anthology	Slash	2000	CD		2:47:33 (Pop-up)
Germs and various disgruntled fans	Do Damage	Live at The Great Gatsby’s		1979	Cassette		2:56:08 (Pop-up)
Boundstone School students	Wha der yer Want? (I’m a ) Heap Big Heterosexual Man	Boundstone School Presents “Gynt On the Rocks”	None	1978	Vinyl		2:56:25 (Pop-up)
Vox Pop	Cab Driver "Cab Driver" by "Vox Pop"		Bad Trip	1980	7"		3:01:33 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 4:57pm Aitch: Quite the event. Will antibacterials be provided?
	4:58pm HyperDose: 🎸⭕👊🏾‍💥🤪🍻
	5:00pm ultradamno: Kitten! Sparklers!
	5:02pm Mr Fab: I'm prepared to throw food at my computer screen.
	5:02pm Chili MacPagoda: Been waiting all day for this business! 🙌🍕🙌
	5:06pm ultradamno: Nate played The Other Newest One on his Oh, My Soul show on the R&S stream and shared a story of buying (GI) at an Antique store for cheap
	👻 5:07pm WR: I'm prepared to throw up on my computer screen and I think I have a fever. I tried to do right, to always wash my hands but somehow The Germs got through.
	5:08pm Cheree July: I hope the Kid Stuff guy wasn't having an Attila-era Billy Joel moment😣😂
	5:08pm Juli: Correct
	5:09pm HyperDose: Cheers to the sluts!
	5:09pm Cheree July: Holy Moses, LOL!😂
	👻 5:14pm WR: Woe-Fie!
	5:15pm Juli: Cheers to the sluts indeed
	5:16pm laurapanic: this is amazing...is the playlist going to be up?
	5:16pm Cheree July: I got to hang with Cheech & Chong on 4/20 in Palm Springs. I have pics & a signed poster to prove it. 💨🚬🌴
	5:29pm HyperDose: 🤯🤯🤯
	5:30pm Juli: Gimme gimme thaaat
	5:31pm Cheree July: It's uncanny how much the lead singer of the Germs sounds like the Seeds.😮
	5:32pm chresti: Nicky Beat! I saw him last when he was making pizza in the late 90s. And Geza X! I met in 73.
	5:33pm chresti: *when I lived in Santa Maria, CA
	5:34pm Cheree July: Don sounds like the voiceover guy from the 70's K-Tel commercials!😂
	5:34pm HyperDose: Hey chresti! Ready to rock?
	5:35pm chresti: Hey HyperD!
	5:36pm ultradamno: waxworkrecords.com...
	5:38pm WEASEL WALTER: my friend alex unsuccessfully tried to give me a germs burn in the mid 80s.
	5:39pm WEASEL WALTER: VOX POP = BEST BAND EVER
	5:40pm ultradamno: I'm pretty sure a Germs burn will develop on all listeners during the course of this show.
	5:41pm WEASEL WALTER: it's amazing how rodney manages to keep some dignity while being assaulted by the infinite bile and sarcasm LOL
	5:43pm WEASEL WALTER: SCARY COMO
	5:44pm WEASEL WALTER: where's the exterminators, don?
	5:47pm chresti: Joe Nanini loved to taunt Rodney back them
	5:48pm chresti: *then
	5:48pm WEASEL WALTER: NO, GOD
	5:49pm Juli: Yessss
	5:55pm Rich in Washington: Howdy, Kitten! Hello everybody!
	5:55pm HyperDose: This is the pinnacle of radio
	6:03pm WEASEL WALTER: never heard these versions before!
	6:04pm WEASEL WALTER: was that "tooth and nail"?
	6:04pm Rich in Washington: Yeah, that was fantastic!
	6:06pm ultradamno: Inventing thrash before people said hardcore
	6:07pm HyperDose: Charlie 😍
	6:13pm WEASEL WALTER: NERVOUS GENDER, SECOND BEST BAND EVER
	6:16pm chresti: Candy Apple hid in my closet once when she and someone else were visiting my room mate.
	6:17pm Carmichael: Heya Kitten/Don/Germs/People.
	6:18pm chresti: Hey Carm!
	6:18pm HyperDose: Hey Carmichael! \m/
	6:19pm Kitten Sparkles: Hi. I'm here, just doing stuff.
	6:20pm WEASEL WALTER: HAIL THE DON
	6:21pm chresti: Hi Kitten! Thanks for checking in!
	6:21pm Carmichael: This sounds like organized mayhem.
	6:23pm ultradamno: Well, the part where he reads the upcoming shows seemed organized
	6:23pm WEASEL WALTER: it's not terribly organized. ha ha h
	6:24pm HyperDose: Best radio call-in I've ever heard "you're on the air" "...oh, fuck"
	6:31pm WEASEL WALTER: DIP HIS DICK IN SHOE POLISH
	6:32pm Rich in Washington: This has SKRONK appeal.
	6:32pm chresti: Pico and Sepulveda!
	6:32pm WEASEL WALTER: drugs are mandatory
	6:33pm WEASEL WALTER: "teacher's pet" a lovely ballad
	6:33pm Rich in Washington: LOL chresti! Now I can't unhear it.
	6:33pm ultradamno: To each her pets
	6:34pm Rich in Washington: I need all these Life Is.. comps.
	6:34pm Mr Fab: Ha, wow you're right, chresti. I'm singing along.
	6:35pm Rich in Washington: I used to think these comps were SST releases, prolly cuz of the Pettibone covers, but they're so much more.
	6:36pm HyperDose: Kitten Sparkles single-handedly keeping punk alive
	6:36pm Rich in Washington: FuCC the FCC
	6:38pm WEASEL WALTER: this album always sounds superb through FM radio compression
	6:39pm Mr Fab: it DOES sound better!
	6:39pm prof.fuzz: Oh. Hell. Yes.
	6:42pm WEASEL WALTER: survey: favorite germs recording. mine might be "my tunnel" from the last show. weird choice, but that's what came to mind first.
	6:42pm WEASEL WALTER: nicole panter
	6:43pm ultradamno: A master class in spin right here well before that term ever existed
	6:43pm Rich in Washington: Caught In My Eye. I would listen to that over and over as a teen. It was on that Slash comp
	6:44pm Mr Fab: Weasel Walter: Probably "Lexicon Devil," or maybe "No God," but "My tunnel" is a great one. For years it was unreleased - I only had a copy taped off Rodney.
	6:44pm WEASEL WALTER: "no god" is really amazing. chilling
	6:44pm ultradamno: We Must Bleed or Not All Right
	6:45pm WEASEL WALTER: white flag did a great version of "not alright" . . .
	6:47pm Rich in Washington: That live ROIR cassette, Germicide. I remember mail ordering it without knowing what the Germs actually sounded like. But it was that aforementioned track on that Slash comp that did it for me.
	6:48pm WEASEL WALTER: i always wanted to cover the whole "germicide" album in the style of the slash LP. ha ha ha. that's one of those bucket list projects i've been mulling on for decades
	6:48pm Rich in Washington: I'm of the Zip-A-Tone, Letraset generation. 'Camera ready'.
	6:49pm prof.fuzz: "forming" from germicide. so raw and simple. my first band covered this song ca. 1981.
	6:50pm Debbie Davenport: Yes to the off centering. When I first saw that album jacket design I was impressed with that.
	6:51pm ultradamno: @Weasel I think I heard them doing that on that Flipside Video Fanzine before I heard The Germs version
	6:51pm Rich in Washington: You could've had Paul Revere produce and play keyboards all over it a la Ray Manzanarek/X!
	6:53pm WEASEL WALTER: @ultradamno ha ha ha. white flag ruled. what a great wormhole to dive down. this full set is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2ut_P-Zp4
	6:53pm HyperDose: I can barely handle all this greatness. Thank you Mr. Fab for facilitating <3
	6:53pm ultradamno: "You had to assume she was one step more comatose than The Germs in the studio, so it had to be the engineer" - Greg Turner
	6:54pm Mr Fab: HyperDose, i am truly grinning like a proud parent.
	6:54pm WEASEL WALTER: a plague of lighthouse keepers, indeed
	6:55pm Rich in Washington: I am an unabashed VDGG/Hammill fan.
	6:57pm WEASEL WALTER: i gotta go to rehearsal now . . . where/when will this be archived svp???
	6:57pm Rich in Washington: This very page will be the archive in a few hours.
	6:57pm WEASEL WALTER: great. thanks. i shall return
	6:58pm ultradamno: Yeah, there's also a mobile app that will have it for awhile
	6:58pm HyperDose: @Mr. Fab also apologies for missing your last show. Don't know how it got past me!
	6:58pm Rich in Washington: Happy rehearsing, Weasel!
	6:58pm Mr Fab: ha, no prob HD. I'll be doing an even sillier fill-in later this month.
	7:02pm Rich in Washington: My copy of GI is among the many records which disappeared at house parties when I was a reckless youth. Mind you, I'm grateful no one would grab the weirder, more esoteric punk and noise records, but still...
	7:04pm ultradamno: As iconic as that cover is, The Germs spelled out in meat and jelly beans is intriguing
	7:06pm JR HTX: @ Rich in Washington that's exactly what happened to mine....with a few others like my L.A.M.F. this was early 80s
	7:06pm HyperDose: Are we pitching in to get Rich an original pressing off Discogs?
	7:07pm Milkies: HiDeHo gang
	7:08pm Debbie Davenport: 🖤Hi Milkies!
	7:09pm Milkies: Hey Hey Debbbie!!
	7:10pm Mr Fab: HyperDose - now you know what we're doing with our fundraiser money!
	7:10pm ultradamno: There were a few other records where the band's name took up the whole cover around that time (X, Adolescents, Fear) probably a good idea to resist it.
	7:12pm sufferwords: First reaction to hearing the Germs l.p.- you mean they’ve been playing actual songs at the shows?- top ten most historical wax releases ever for Los Angeles- watch out if you’re in public near me and a song off this wax comes on- I will fuck shit up
	7:16pm Milkies: Luv U Don!!!
	7:17pm Mr Fab: I had my share of treasures that disappeared after being "loaned" to friends. Everything from Roger Corman's memoirs to Kate Bush's "The Dreaming" to (and this one hurt) my Screamers live VHS tape. Of course it's all out there in internet-land now. So keep 'em, bloody thieves!
	7:20pm Debbie Davenport: 79-81 I was told two rules about punk. Cautions for when I finally went to out of town. 1.Cut your hair or the city girls will beat you up. 2. If someone comes up to you and says "Germs or Ramones?!" Always answer Germs or they will beat you up.
	👻 7:22pm WR: You received good advice Debbie
	7:23pm Mr Fab: re the vetoed meat and jellybeans lp cover idea, Bob Biggs DID build the giant wooden "X", went out in the desert, lit it on fire, and took the classic cover pic for "Los Angeles."
	7:23pm Milkies: @Debbie I answered Germones
	7:23pm Rich in Washington: The pattern continued into the CD age, as my sons and their friends were all huge punk fans, so my most stolen or scratched up CDs were the usual Sex Pistols. Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, etc. But they never touched the weirder, rarer stuff.
	7:24pm Milkies: This Richie Dagger version kinda rules
	7:24pm Debbie Davenport: Was it a real thing Milkies? The main boys who would say that to me were from Huntington Beach.
	7:24pm ultradamno: Well, there are more surviving Germs at this point, so they have that over Ramones for sure.
	7:25pm Milkies: @Debbie, I was never asked, yet is good advice
	7:26pm Rich in Washington: OMG- the Cruising soundtrack has The Cripples on it!
	7:26pm Debbie Davenport: Well you had the perfect answer had you been asked.
	7:26pm Milkies: 🎶 let’s pretend you’re cool 🎶
	7:27pm ultradamno: Were there people out canvassing on the question?
	👻 7:28pm WR: ultradamo, before the internet people had to troll, bullie and retweet in person.
	7:29pm Mr Fab: Not familiar with the Cripples. What were they like? Anything like our own Mike Rogers' old band The Rotters and their song, "I Dont Wanna Be An Amputee?"
	7:30pm ultradamno: I'm just imagining a clipboard with Germs Or Ramones, Clash Or Dils, X or X-Ray Spex, etc on it.
	7:30pm ultradamno: In relation to Gira's Li'l Cripples?
	7:31pm Milkies: There’s some good advice
	7:32pm Rich in Washington: I was just looking them up. Not the Cripples I was thinking of. There was this band with a guy in a wheelchair who sang these incredibly cheesy love songs. Dang.
	7:33pm Milkies: Right here right now!!
	7:33pm Debbie Davenport: Ultradamno, I lived in a town population 200 at the time. I think punk was such a wild far away thing that some of us used to read the Weekly World News and wonder about stuff. Some people felt cool being able to tell others what it was like in big cities at the time. I assumed it was true at the time because one of the boys had a big brother that knew Darby. I felt like it was an inside scoop kind of thing. but no one ever asked me in san fransisco or los angeles. Maybe it phased out like the commas followed by okay and with a questionmark and exclamation mark at the end. Like" Germs rule, okay?! (waves fist). I was dorky. hard to say.
	7:34pm Debbie Davenport: the chatroom is working really good for me today. WFMU rules!
	7:34pm ultradamno: I think Michael Gira's band was Little Cripples...I just like Li'l better
	7:35pm HyperDose: I hear that, Debbie! FREEFORM LIVES!
	7:35pm DJ Babs: Hello friends!!! Hello Don!
	7:35pm Milkies: @Debbie, I still get the kick off & restart
	7:36pm Rich in Washington: Hi Babs!
	7:38pm Asheville Jon: great show tonight!
	7:42pm DJ Babs: Hi Rich!!!
	7:42pm Milkies: Caught in my eye, my new earworm
	7:42pm ultradamno: Follow up: Did his Huntington Beach ass get got?
	7:51pm HyperDose: Damn the man!
	👻 7:51pm WR: This has been extra special sparkling today! Thank you Don!
	7:52pm JR HTX: Most excellent show! What a surprise. Love the Germs. Thanks Don!!!!
	7:53pm Milkies: This is thee FN inside scoop!
	7:54pm ultradamno: Yeah, this is one to revisit. Thanks Kitten.
	7:54pm Debbie Davenport: This is great. Reminds me of the crowd at a black sabbath record I have, only it's a lot better.
	7:54pm Debbie Davenport: Great show, thank you!!!💖
	7:54pm sufferwords: so good Don
	7:55pm DJ Babs: Don you are a goddamn legend.
	7:56pm Asheville Jon: thank you Don, awesome show!
	7:56pm Milkies: Thanks Kitten great show, happy that I heard today’s sparkle
	7:57pm HyperDose: Can't thank you enough Don. Not just for this retrospective, but for all your contributions to music and paving the way for young guns like me. Love ya, glampa! 💚
	7:59pm prof.fuzz: Great way to spend the evening. Thanks Don!
	8:01pm Kitten Sparkles: Sorry, Babs - all tours nowishly!
	8:02pm Mr Fab: Thaaaaank u, Don, this is one for the Smithsonian.
	8:07pm Kitten Sparkles: I liked letting Paul Cytler have the last word(s) - "Did that one sound OK?"

The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles with Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles: Playlist from October 14, 2021

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