WFMU: The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles with Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles: Playlist from December 8, 2022

Listener comments!
	5:00pm lala: yeeeeeha! hola amigos
	5:00pm ultradamno: Kitten! Fantasticles!
	5:01pm Debbie Davenport: 💖 Hello Kitten Sparkles! Hello chatroom friends! Happy death day, dead Darby!
	5:01pm Debbie Davenport: Hello God!
	5:01pm lala: Darby 💙💙💙🌈💙💙💙
	5:02pm lala: Let's Hippie it up!!! 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
	5:03pm Doop: gimme another beer
	5:04pm Kitten Sparkles: Hey, gang!
	5:05pm Cheree July: #beer&damage😆🤣🍺🍻
	5:05pm Dean: Saw you guys at the Whisky and the Masque. So long ago. Spectacular.
	5:06pm Dean: But I think Nicky Beat drummed at the Whisky...
	5:07pm lala: hayyyyy kitten meeeeow!
	5:09pm Mr Fab: Kitten! I can feel the flying food. Perfect lunchtime listening.
	5:10pm Kitten Sparkles: No, it was Donna Rhia.
	5:11pm lala: I love this .. releases our license to be bratty insolent little sparklers!
	5:11pm Dean: At this '77 show, you mean? I mean a later show there.
	👻 5:12pm Aitch: wading into the swamp
	5:12pm Debbie Davenport: Lala, yes!!!
	5:14pm lala: don't come in my room dad I'm listening to the radio sheeeeeesh
	5:15pm Kitten Sparkles: @ Dean - the Rock n Rule lp one? That was moi.
	5:17pm Dean: That could have been it. Then maybe NB was at the Masque show...
	5:19pm Kitten Sparkles: Everything after the Masque Beneffit show at the Park Plaza/Elks Lodge in February 1978 (which featured Nicky Beat on there drums) was me. Except the Lexicon Devil EP. That was Nicky, too.
	5:19pm Dean: This sounds like NON at Kelbo's...
	5:20pm Kitten Sparkles: It was Nocturnal Emissions. But yes, it does!
	5:21pm Debbie Davenport: I have an 8 x 10 of that photo in the playlist. No solo Don photos though. I need to do something about that.
	5:22pm Dean: Forgot about the Benefit! Yeah, I was there, too. And Kelbo's. Slipping the chairs under the doorknobs to assure the proprietors couldn't get in right away to pull the plug.
	5:22pm Kitten Sparkles: Love the Shawn Kerri drawing I used for the flier. Just got that.
	5:23pm Cheree July: Industrial musical stuff mixed in with the Darby tribute?
	5:23pm Kitten Sparkles: Dean - good work!
	5:28pm Mr Fab: Kelbo's! Forgot about that place. during the '90s lounge revival, I DJed there in it's final days before it got rid of the vintage tiki decor and became one of those naughty dancin' goil joints. Of course, guess I could have still DJed there, but they didn't ask...
	5:31pm Dean: The NON performance was billed as a tiki buffet. The PA played Frankie & Annette stuff until NON was set up, at which point the banquet room doors were shut (and secured as above), and away he went.
	5:31pm ultradamno: Jet Black of The Stranglers has died
	5:33pm Cheree July: Mr. Fab, I think tiki lounges & bars should make a comeback. We need more of them, even if Kitten says "No blue drinks!"😆😅🍹
	5:34pm Kitten Sparkles: @ultradamno - yes, I saw that. Sad
	5:34pm Cheree July: ultradamno, yeah, I just saw that on IG. He was a year older than KF too.😳
	5:35pm Kitten Sparkles: I like blue drinks. I just don’t drink em. Too much alkyholl for kittens.
	5:35pm ultradamno: Didn't Non do pretty short sets? So you wouldn't have been locked in there too long to hold it
	5:36pm ultradamno: I think the blue drinks have the orgone energy boosts, or at least blueberry superfood energy
	5:36pm Kitten Sparkles: A little Non went a long way!
	5:37pm Dean: Damn. Yeah, something like a half hour. The audience demanded an encore, but he announced that he'd broken his gear.
	5:38pm Dean: This Cage is marvelous. Reminds me a bit of Wolfgang Mitterer's Radio Fractal/Beat Music, which is a bit more of a pastiche.
	5:40pm Dean: ...and so is this improvised glambience!
	5:42pm Mr Fab: Cheree July: it's frustrating. Recently a sushi place near me changed decor and went tiki. Good cocktails, too. Couldn't wait to check it out. But the music? "classic rock"... Bar/restaurant owners probably don't have much faith in the concept. And do the young 'uns know or care?
	5:47pm Cheree July: Oh yeah, Kitten, you're pretty much okay with your IPA bieer.😹🍺
	5:48pm lala: I can't have alcy drinks anymore either too much for ms lala but virgin colada no rum like Raz no probs
	5:50pm Debbie Davenport: I can't drink anymore either lala. It's not an addiction thing but a sick thing. I might be allergic or something.
	5:52pm Kitten Sparkles: I just don’t enjoy being drunken. It isn’t very glamorous and rarely helps anything.
	5:53pm Kitten Sparkles: Weed and psychedelics are groovy, tho.
	5:54pm Debbie Davenport: YES!
	5:57pm Krys O: Hello from New Jersey!
	👻 5:59pm WR: Hello from elmhurst, queens.
	5:59pm lala: 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 same page been there done that w drunk
	6:00pm lala: I'm always in a psychedelic state so that suits me like ducky to water
	6:00pm lala: naturally with no aid I mean 🐰🐰
	6:01pm ultradamno: I've cut down to a gallon of vodka a weekend just like Björk
	6:03pm Cheree July: They sure are, meow, meow, meow!🌴🚬🍄😸
	6:03pm Kitten Sparkles: Never liked downers. Narcotics are lame - I did my time w junk, and hated the asshole it made me - the withdrawals weren’t fun, but I just didn’t have the dedication to keep doing that shit, mostly because I didn’t like the dope version of me. So I quit for good in 1986, after quitting in ‘84 and falling off the wagon for a few months of ‘85.
	6:05pm chresti: Hi Kitten and cats! I don't drink anymore, just edible green stuff mostly
	6:05pm lala: glad ur back from that! I'm too moody to have ever messed with downers myself .. this show for instance right now is making me trip every week it does!
	6:06pm Debbie Davenport: Now we know what supplies we need for an IRL chatroom party!
	6:06pm lala: Fantastic World is sonically psychedelic
	6:06pm Kitten Sparkles: And the ones we don’t!
	6:06pm Debbie Davenport: It is!
	6:07pm ultradamno: I remember some Boston band asked a friend of mine if they could score dope. They were very disappointed at the frequency with which we in the midwest interchange the terms 'dope' and 'weed'
	6:07pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah, no alcohol or heroin. Check!
	6:07pm Kitten Sparkles: Lala & DD - that’s the idea, for sure
	6:08pm Debbie Davenport: 💖
	6:08pm lala: Have any of you heard the folkways album from Maria Sabina the Mushroom Saint of Oaxaca? It's one of my faves she's a favorite person of mine. good ol Santa Sabina
	6:09pm Debbie Davenport: I don't think I have. Unless I heard it here and didn't know what it was.
	6:09pm Krys O: Sober 16.75 years. I do CBD and occasionally THCV which has zero psychotropic effects.
	6:09pm ultradamno: I had a nice time smoking opium a few times, was never interested in the going to the trouble of needles, so it never stuck
	6:10pm lala: hahaha awesome it's workin on meeee do do that voodoo that you do so well .. same here with my weird visual art collages n sounds n even when I'm up to recording performing same intent we need to jam Sun-Time Kitren n melt some brains
	6:10pm lala: smack is wack
	6:11pm Kitten Sparkles: I used to dig the good psychedelic crystal meth that used to exist but is now pretty much gone. That disappeared in the late 90s.
	6:13pm ultradamno: I liked placidyls in...like, junior high. I think those went out a long time ago. www.biopsychiatry.com...
	6:13pm Debbie Davenport: I thought that was my imagination! I loved doing speed andthe love drug in 84/85. I didn't like it as much later on. wasn't sure if it was that i got used to it or if it was because I moved or what.
	6:14pm lala: hahahaha I remember that era of west coast crystal it was heavy in the rave scene late 90s in general out here anyway was really psychedelic
	6:14pm ultradamno: Speed I never liked at all. I'm nervous and paranoid enough.
	6:14pm chresti: Krys O, yeah THCV- pink lady boost
	6:15pm lala: it's coz old biker n lsd heads were cooking as per usual on the west coast lot of those old timey psychonauts have passed or got popped
	6:16pm lala: DD lol... awww the west coast was prolly every where but we were here so that's all I can go on
	6:17pm lala: we sound like old heads .. wait we are 🤣🤣🤣
	6:18pm Kitten Sparkles: Yeah. And some of the ingredients have been banned, so now it’s a whole nuther thing
	6:18pm lala: alot of mdma was and is cut w speed so even if u were just rollin u had some extra sauce in there
	6:18pm Kitten Sparkles: Used to calm my hyperactive ass down.
	6:19pm lala: that makes sense Kitten 😸
	6:19pm Krys O: Hey, chresti. My neighborhood shop has THCV mints. They help me focus In a relaxed way.
	6:20pm Kitten Sparkles: Focusing is good.
	6:21pm chresti: Fentanyl laced speed and junk kills people
	6:22pm Cheree July: I just use cannabis for rhematoid arthritis pain relief, usually my "future weed" vape, as Kitten calls it, my medication my Doctor gives me for mild OCD, homeopathic stuff, and I'm trying to quit smoking cigarettes after the Respitory Sinus Infection I got after Thanksgiving. The only recreational stuff I've done was LSD & Molly, which was awesome, but now I'm probably paying for that with grinding my teeth & clenching my jaw when I sleep. OOF.😬
	6:22pm ultradamno: Though Fentanyl gave us cop shows where police die from touching trays that have held it...that's some hilarious Dragnet nonsense.
	6:22pm Krys O: I’m a bit OCD, probably on the spectrum, and have annoying anxiety.
	6:22pm lala: yeh these days it's a gnarly world fentanyl is in lots of stuff ..dodgy.. Best to meditate to fix brain waves
	6:23pm lala: lol ultraD
	6:24pm lala: Krys I def have anxiety I have CPTSD I'm like cousin strawberry in Up In Smoke I seen some shit in my day
	6:24pm chresti: ADD here!
	6:25pm Cheree July: The only thing that sucked that I've used was DMT. That was fucking awful for me. I felt like I was in a real-life version of the bathroom scene from Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void.😳😱
	6:26pm lala: I love meditation yall helps a lot guided or otherwise tho some people may put subliminal shit in some meditation music and or words.. youtube meditation wormholes are fun
	6:26pm lala: yikes Cheree yeh I think DMT is too fast n furious plus we create it in our own 🧠 anyway
	6:28pm lala: I have a friend who is a bufo frog shaman ..legit It's called the Kambo Alliance she's an herbalist too she travels all over I can vouch for her skills.. good woman smart cookie she goes to Brazil and learns from tribes there.
	6:29pm Kitten Sparkles: 5MEO DMT is the shit!
	6:32pm lala: yeh Bufo frog 🐸 there's a cool episode of vice Hamiltons Pharmacopeia it'd on YouTube the bufo one is good.. peyote one is sad . strip malls covering peyote ground harder to find in TX / Southwest
	6:32pm Cheree July: Uhm, no, not for me, Kitten.
	6:36pm Kitten Sparkles: Fun Fact: I was totally sober for every Germs show I played back in “the day”. I couldn’t play that hit any other way. It was kind of intensely physical, plus mentally focused, so I had to be on top of my game and totally present. I couldn’t even eat food for at least 6 hours before a show, cuz digesting took too much of my energy.
	6:38pm Kitten Sparkles: Oops “plus I had to to be mentally focused”.
	6:39pm Mr Fab: meanwhile, i take it Darby had the complete opposite attitude
	6:39pm ultradamno: I was going to say, probably making you the extreme minority in the room
	6:40pm Cheree July: 👍
	6:40pm Dean: That is a fun fact. I'm grateful to be able to learn it directly from the source!
	6:44pm Kitten Sparkles: Oops “plus I had to to be mentally focused”.
	6:44pm lala: that also makes sense someone has to drive the bus while the rest zone out I can tell that from watching old footage drums ain't easy!
	6:44pm Kitten Sparkles: Posted that twice. Ugh.
	6:45pm Kitten Sparkles: @MrFab: exactly.
	6:46pm Dean: Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition.
	6:50pm Kitten Sparkles: Darby would not have been a fan of this show - he wasn’t high enough.
	6:51pm Rich in Washington: gesundheit, Dean
	6:51pm Dean: Bitte, Rich.
	6:52pm Kitten Sparkles: I was the only person in that band that liked any “outside” music.
	6:52pm Mr Fab: "You still playing that hippie noise, Don?" -Darby's ghost
	6:53pm Rich in Washington: You were an outsider's outsider, Kitten.
	6:53pm Dean: At the time. Do you have any sense as to how Lorna's and Pat's horizons have widened?
	6:54pm Robm: Hello fellow listeners
	6:57pm Dean: I'm a jerk. I'd forgotten that we lost Lorna/Teresa. Or didn't want to remember.
	6:58pm ultradamno: Interview with Gregg Turner of Angry Samoans (conducted by Bob Schick of Coral/Honor Role) where he talks about going to a party and Darby making everyone pipe down and watch Bowie on TV www.youtube.com...
	7:00pm Mr Fab: well Dean, I bravely listened to four Pat Smear albums from his obscure '80s/early '90s solo years for my old blog, and I wrote thusly: Pat Ruthensmear "Ruthensmear" (1988) - Amateur glam w/synths, drum machines, Smear's guitar (work that wah-wah!) and strangled vox; an odd, almost random eclecticism. "Golden Boys" is the completion of an unfinished Germs song. The Death Folk "Deathfolk" (1990) - Acoustic duo with Gary Jacoby from the band Celebrity Skin, but hardly "folk" music; covers Queens' "'39." Pat Smear "So You Fell In Love With A Musician..." (1992) Sounds properly grunge - his audition for Nirvana? - but hints of glam still pop thru. As usual, he sounds like he's having fun, uttering lyrics like "Wicked witch, your titties drip red lava 3-D fantasies." The Death Folk "Deathfolk II" (1992) - No longer acoustic, but grungy glammy pop-rock. This former punk minimalist is not afraid to guitar-wank as much as any arena-rocker. "Medely" honestly isn't that far removed from Styx' "Come Sail Away." Covers The Go-Gos' "Automatic."
	7:01pm ultradamno: It's only been a couple of years though
	7:02pm Kitten Sparkles: Once when we were practicing with Shane West in my room, Lorna showed up early while I was listening to Stockhausen’s “Hymnen” lp, she stared at the spinning record, and looked perplexed. Finally she said, “I can’t believe somebody put this on a record…” I pointed at my trcord shelves and said, “yup. And pretty much all of these albums would seem just as improbable to you. Some even more so!” She looked very confused for a good while after that.
	7:03pm Dean: Yeah, I know. Pat Smear's '80s into '90s output seems mildly daring, but not "outside," assuming I know what that means. Which "Hymnen"? The recordings of Stockhausen works can vary considerably.
	7:07pm Kitten Sparkles: @Dean: the double lp on DGG from 1969
	7:11pm Dean: Will have to seek that one out. Let me take this opportunity again to recommend Mitterer's Radio Fractal.
	7:12pm Kitten Sparkles: But I’m sure any Stockhausen piece would have gotten a similar reaction.
	7:13pm Dean: I believe you are right.
	7:15pm Krys O: I was primed for weird music as a kid. My older hippie siblings cousins had extensive record collections with lotsa prog and electronic stuff. We listened to early FM radio. My brother taught me how to do circuit bending in the early 70s. Heck, we played with hair dryer hoses and box fans to make strange sounds. 😀
	7:15pm Kitten Sparkles: @Dean: is that difficult to find and/or expensive? On YouTube, perhaps?
	7:17pm Mr Fab: Krsy O: What, with soldering irons and whatnot?!
	7:18pm Mr Fab: re: circuit bending
	7:18pm Krys O: Looks like it’s on YouTube, Kitten https://youtu.be/C0RSCLng9Vg
	7:19pm Kitten Sparkles: @krys O: wow! Yeah, I started making tapes of mostly shortwave radio sounds in the late 60s when I got my first reel to reel machine (and a shortwave radio). Ever do the cheap calculator/AM radio trick? Made some rad sounds.
	7:20pm Dean: I have the Songcircle version. Hillier's is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9G0asmZ_k Yes, Krys O! That's the Mitterer. Sublime.
	7:20pm Krys O: Really basic by taking the back off a transistor radio and using two straight pins touching the different circuits.
	7:22pm Krys O: We had an old Grundig my dad brought over from Germany where my parents were refugees. I loved to spin the dial and listen to shortwave and medium wave. My brother was into electronics and computers. He built a radio.
	7:23pm Kitten Sparkles: I would do various operations with old Texas Instruments calculators a few inches from the AM radio antenna. That made some really cool electronic sounds
	7:23pm lala: Krys u circuit bent a hairdryer ?? bravo!
	7:24pm Dean: I used to pound on empty oatmeal boxes. Does that count?
	7:24pm Rich in Washington: TV remotes make groovy sounds into electric guitar pickups
	7:25pm lala: whoa kitten calculator plus short wave... groovy hey in May speaking of short wave john Duncan is comin to west coast
	7:25pm lala: I will try that rich
	7:26pm Kitten Sparkles: Oh, cool. He’s the other shortwave-centric dude
	7:26pm lala: ok this is some good data
	7:27pm lala: yeh he told me to get my kiester to his sf gig pretty sure LA is right b4
	7:27pm Rich in Washington: There's a great album by an artist named ALP who recorded all the electromagnetic sounds around his apartment, suitably called At Home With ALP.
	7:27pm lala: He just gigged w Faust this past summer
	7:28pm Dean: A 1985 review of the Songcircle performance of Stimmung: I should start off this review by admitting that I consider Stimmung to be one of the most remarkable musical experiences of our time—even though it is also the sort of piece that may drive a spouse out of the house. For all attempts to imitate it (it dates from 1968), it remains a work sui generis. (Sui generis = liberal with hog-calls.) The title means “tuning“ or “mood,“ but a good equivalent taken from the days of its creation might be “vibes.“ My prejudice in favor of this piece may be measured by the probability that few of my colleagues or readers will also have published a poem in which Stimmung is mentioned—the result of having been introduced to the work by an unusual student. Even now, the composition is the most absorbing yet relaxing musical experience I can think of.
	7:31pm Krys O.: No, we used the hair dryer hose to amplify and distort our voices. Same with speaking or singing into a fan.
	7:31pm Mr Fab: lala, just as long as he doesn't perform "Blind Date": johnduncan.org...
	7:32pm Krys O.: Thanks for the tips, Rich!
	7:32pm lala: I know bout itvhes my friend lol yeh no blind date stuff
	7:34pm lala: Which I shoot its too late to ask how he is hes in europe will check on him later.. he got into sewing! he's good!
	7:35pm Mr Fab: what are Duncan's shows like now? More shortwave radio stuff?
	7:37pm lala: he does a lot of different things depending on what's up he does vox collabos etc I think he's doing something with someone om this west coast trip but it escapes me at the moment he is on IG n keeps people up to date there
	7:37pm lala: too much covid brain drain to make sense of what's comin up
	7:40pm lala: his vox are a spooky trip .. anywho will let u know when it's up I think it's not posted yet
	7:42pm Kitten Sparkles: This is from the Kitten Sparkles CD on he got 777 Was 666 label. All shortwave sounds.
	7:43pm Rich in Washington: something really spooky that dAs of Big City Orchestra showed me: Hang a large sheet of broiler foil from the ceiling and hook a contact mic up to it. It's really eerie sounding. It picks up sounds and voices but they sound really far away and echoey.
	7:45pm Krys O.: Nice!
	7:47pm Robm: @Kyrs O when you listened to the grundid did you listen to the BBC?
	7:49pm Robm: I meant Krys sorry
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello All!!!
	7:52pm Krys O.: @Robm: I think we did hear some UK stations, we liked to explore African and South American stations.
	7:52pm Robm: Hi DJ Babs thanks for telling me about georgy girl doing that two hour thing with christine mcvie
	7:52pm Krys O.: Hey, Babs!
	7:53pm Robm: @Kyrs that must have sounded very interesting
	7:54pm Krys O.: It's been a terrific show and fun chat. Thanks, Kitten & everyone!
	7:55pm Robm: See ya krys
	7:56pm DJ Babs: Hi Krys! Thanks for a great show K-Spark!!!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: And my pleasure Rob! Georgy always delivers the goods!
	7:57pm lala: ciao krys!!
	7:57pm Robm: @DJB never encountered a DJ phoning it in.
	👻 7:58pm WR: Lovely lovely episode today, thank you.
	7:58pm Mr Fab: ca-RAY-zee show today, Kitten, meoy thanks!
	7:59pm Debbie Davenport: Great chat today. I'm sad I missed a chunk in the middle when I went to get my prescription. Caught myself up though. Great sounds too. Thanks Kitten!!!
	7:59pm lala: nice shortwave nice show Kitten 😸 🌈🐸 great psychedelic Hippie Art znoise day in honor of Darby great chat love yall!!
	8:00pm ultradamno: Given the tone of the chat, having to leave to pick up drugs is excusable
	8:01pm Debbie Davenport: 🤣
	8:02pm lala: hahahaha Sorry I'm peaking now cant type anymore lol
	8:08pm Kitten Sparkles: Thanks, gang! Trajan, that was a social blast!
	8:10pm Kitten Sparkles: Trajan?!? Oops I meant “yeah”. Haha.
	8:38pm Krys O: Love SAULT

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December 8, 2022: Hippie Art Noise for Darby Crash

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Germs	Sex Boy, Victim, Street Dreams			1981	Vinyl	US	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Germs	Let’s Pretend "Let’s Pretend" by "Germs"		Mohawk	1981	Vinyl	US	0:10:46 (Pop-up)
Kitten Sparkles	Live Improvised Glambience!			NOW!	Other		0:18:31 (Pop-up)
Mario Bertoncini	Cartridge Music (John Cage)		Editions RZ	1989	Vinyl	Germany	0:27:44 (Pop-up)
Kitten Sparkles	More Live Improvised Glambience			NOW!	Other		0:37:03 (Pop-up)
Germs	Get a Grip, Suicide Machine, Vile Babies	Germicide	Mohawk	1981	Vinyl	US	2:49:40 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:00pm lala: yeeeeeha! hola amigos
	5:00pm ultradamno: Kitten! Fantasticles!
	5:01pm Debbie Davenport: 💖 Hello Kitten Sparkles! Hello chatroom friends! Happy death day, dead Darby!
	5:01pm Debbie Davenport: Hello God!
	5:01pm lala: Darby 💙💙💙🌈💙💙💙
	5:02pm lala: Let's Hippie it up!!! 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
	5:03pm Doop: gimme another beer
	5:04pm Kitten Sparkles: Hey, gang!
	5:05pm Cheree July: #beer&damage😆🤣🍺🍻
	5:05pm Dean: Saw you guys at the Whisky and the Masque. So long ago. Spectacular.
	5:06pm Dean: But I think Nicky Beat drummed at the Whisky...
	5:07pm lala: hayyyyy kitten meeeeow!
	5:09pm Mr Fab: Kitten! I can feel the flying food. Perfect lunchtime listening.
	5:10pm Kitten Sparkles: No, it was Donna Rhia.
	5:11pm lala: I love this .. releases our license to be bratty insolent little sparklers!
	5:11pm Dean: At this '77 show, you mean? I mean a later show there.
	👻 5:12pm Aitch: wading into the swamp
	5:12pm Debbie Davenport: Lala, yes!!!
	5:14pm lala: don't come in my room dad I'm listening to the radio sheeeeeesh
	5:15pm Kitten Sparkles: @ Dean - the Rock n Rule lp one? That was moi.
	5:17pm Dean: That could have been it. Then maybe NB was at the Masque show...
	5:19pm Kitten Sparkles: Everything after the Masque Beneffit show at the Park Plaza/Elks Lodge in February 1978 (which featured Nicky Beat on there drums) was me. Except the Lexicon Devil EP. That was Nicky, too.
	5:19pm Dean: This sounds like NON at Kelbo's...
	5:20pm Kitten Sparkles: It was Nocturnal Emissions. But yes, it does!
	5:21pm Debbie Davenport: I have an 8 x 10 of that photo in the playlist. No solo Don photos though. I need to do something about that.
	5:22pm Dean: Forgot about the Benefit! Yeah, I was there, too. And Kelbo's. Slipping the chairs under the doorknobs to assure the proprietors couldn't get in right away to pull the plug.
	5:22pm Kitten Sparkles: Love the Shawn Kerri drawing I used for the flier. Just got that.
	5:23pm Cheree July: Industrial musical stuff mixed in with the Darby tribute?
	5:23pm Kitten Sparkles: Dean - good work!
	5:28pm Mr Fab: Kelbo's! Forgot about that place. during the '90s lounge revival, I DJed there in it's final days before it got rid of the vintage tiki decor and became one of those naughty dancin' goil joints. Of course, guess I could have still DJed there, but they didn't ask...
	5:31pm Dean: The NON performance was billed as a tiki buffet. The PA played Frankie & Annette stuff until NON was set up, at which point the banquet room doors were shut (and secured as above), and away he went.
	5:31pm ultradamno: Jet Black of The Stranglers has died
	5:33pm Cheree July: Mr. Fab, I think tiki lounges & bars should make a comeback. We need more of them, even if Kitten says "No blue drinks!"😆😅🍹
	5:34pm Kitten Sparkles: @ultradamno - yes, I saw that. Sad
	5:34pm Cheree July: ultradamno, yeah, I just saw that on IG. He was a year older than KF too.😳
	5:35pm Kitten Sparkles: I like blue drinks. I just don’t drink em. Too much alkyholl for kittens.
	5:35pm ultradamno: Didn't Non do pretty short sets? So you wouldn't have been locked in there too long to hold it
	5:36pm ultradamno: I think the blue drinks have the orgone energy boosts, or at least blueberry superfood energy
	5:36pm Kitten Sparkles: A little Non went a long way!
	5:37pm Dean: Damn. Yeah, something like a half hour. The audience demanded an encore, but he announced that he'd broken his gear.
	5:38pm Dean: This Cage is marvelous. Reminds me a bit of Wolfgang Mitterer's Radio Fractal/Beat Music, which is a bit more of a pastiche.
	5:40pm Dean: ...and so is this improvised glambience!
	5:42pm Mr Fab: Cheree July: it's frustrating. Recently a sushi place near me changed decor and went tiki. Good cocktails, too. Couldn't wait to check it out. But the music? "classic rock"... Bar/restaurant owners probably don't have much faith in the concept. And do the young 'uns know or care?
	5:47pm Cheree July: Oh yeah, Kitten, you're pretty much okay with your IPA bieer.😹🍺
	5:48pm lala: I can't have alcy drinks anymore either too much for ms lala but virgin colada no rum like Raz no probs
	5:50pm Debbie Davenport: I can't drink anymore either lala. It's not an addiction thing but a sick thing. I might be allergic or something.
	5:52pm Kitten Sparkles: I just don’t enjoy being drunken. It isn’t very glamorous and rarely helps anything.
	5:53pm Kitten Sparkles: Weed and psychedelics are groovy, tho.
	5:54pm Debbie Davenport: YES!
	5:57pm Krys O: Hello from New Jersey!
	👻 5:59pm WR: Hello from elmhurst, queens.
	5:59pm lala: 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 same page been there done that w drunk
	6:00pm lala: I'm always in a psychedelic state so that suits me like ducky to water
	6:00pm lala: naturally with no aid I mean 🐰🐰
	6:01pm ultradamno: I've cut down to a gallon of vodka a weekend just like Björk
	6:03pm Cheree July: They sure are, meow, meow, meow!🌴🚬🍄😸
	6:03pm Kitten Sparkles: Never liked downers. Narcotics are lame - I did my time w junk, and hated the asshole it made me - the withdrawals weren’t fun, but I just didn’t have the dedication to keep doing that shit, mostly because I didn’t like the dope version of me. So I quit for good in 1986, after quitting in ‘84 and falling off the wagon for a few months of ‘85.
	6:05pm chresti: Hi Kitten and cats! I don't drink anymore, just edible green stuff mostly
	6:05pm lala: glad ur back from that! I'm too moody to have ever messed with downers myself .. this show for instance right now is making me trip every week it does!
	6:06pm Debbie Davenport: Now we know what supplies we need for an IRL chatroom party!
	6:06pm lala: Fantastic World is sonically psychedelic
	6:06pm Kitten Sparkles: And the ones we don’t!
	6:06pm Debbie Davenport: It is!
	6:07pm ultradamno: I remember some Boston band asked a friend of mine if they could score dope. They were very disappointed at the frequency with which we in the midwest interchange the terms 'dope' and 'weed'
	6:07pm Debbie Davenport: Yeah, no alcohol or heroin. Check!
	6:07pm Kitten Sparkles: Lala & DD - that’s the idea, for sure
	6:08pm Debbie Davenport: 💖
	6:08pm lala: Have any of you heard the folkways album from Maria Sabina the Mushroom Saint of Oaxaca? It's one of my faves she's a favorite person of mine. good ol Santa Sabina
	6:09pm Debbie Davenport: I don't think I have. Unless I heard it here and didn't know what it was.
	6:09pm Krys O: Sober 16.75 years. I do CBD and occasionally THCV which has zero psychotropic effects.
	6:09pm ultradamno: I had a nice time smoking opium a few times, was never interested in the going to the trouble of needles, so it never stuck
	6:10pm lala: hahaha awesome it's workin on meeee do do that voodoo that you do so well .. same here with my weird visual art collages n sounds n even when I'm up to recording performing same intent we need to jam Sun-Time Kitren n melt some brains
	6:10pm lala: smack is wack
	6:11pm Kitten Sparkles: I used to dig the good psychedelic crystal meth that used to exist but is now pretty much gone. That disappeared in the late 90s.
	6:13pm ultradamno: I liked placidyls in...like, junior high. I think those went out a long time ago. www.biopsychiatry.com...
	6:13pm Debbie Davenport: I thought that was my imagination! I loved doing speed andthe love drug in 84/85. I didn't like it as much later on. wasn't sure if it was that i got used to it or if it was because I moved or what.
	6:14pm lala: hahahaha I remember that era of west coast crystal it was heavy in the rave scene late 90s in general out here anyway was really psychedelic
	6:14pm ultradamno: Speed I never liked at all. I'm nervous and paranoid enough.
	6:14pm chresti: Krys O, yeah THCV- pink lady boost
	6:15pm lala: it's coz old biker n lsd heads were cooking as per usual on the west coast lot of those old timey psychonauts have passed or got popped
	6:16pm lala: DD lol... awww the west coast was prolly every where but we were here so that's all I can go on
	6:17pm lala: we sound like old heads .. wait we are 🤣🤣🤣
	6:18pm Kitten Sparkles: Yeah. And some of the ingredients have been banned, so now it’s a whole nuther thing
	6:18pm lala: alot of mdma was and is cut w speed so even if u were just rollin u had some extra sauce in there
	6:18pm Kitten Sparkles: Used to calm my hyperactive ass down.
	6:19pm lala: that makes sense Kitten 😸
	6:19pm Krys O: Hey, chresti. My neighborhood shop has THCV mints. They help me focus In a relaxed way.
	6:20pm Kitten Sparkles: Focusing is good.
	6:21pm chresti: Fentanyl laced speed and junk kills people
	6:22pm Cheree July: I just use cannabis for rhematoid arthritis pain relief, usually my "future weed" vape, as Kitten calls it, my medication my Doctor gives me for mild OCD, homeopathic stuff, and I'm trying to quit smoking cigarettes after the Respitory Sinus Infection I got after Thanksgiving. The only recreational stuff I've done was LSD & Molly, which was awesome, but now I'm probably paying for that with grinding my teeth & clenching my jaw when I sleep. OOF.😬
	6:22pm ultradamno: Though Fentanyl gave us cop shows where police die from touching trays that have held it...that's some hilarious Dragnet nonsense.
	6:22pm Krys O: I’m a bit OCD, probably on the spectrum, and have annoying anxiety.
	6:22pm lala: yeh these days it's a gnarly world fentanyl is in lots of stuff ..dodgy.. Best to meditate to fix brain waves
	6:23pm lala: lol ultraD
	6:24pm lala: Krys I def have anxiety I have CPTSD I'm like cousin strawberry in Up In Smoke I seen some shit in my day
	6:24pm chresti: ADD here!
	6:25pm Cheree July: The only thing that sucked that I've used was DMT. That was fucking awful for me. I felt like I was in a real-life version of the bathroom scene from Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void.😳😱
	6:26pm lala: I love meditation yall helps a lot guided or otherwise tho some people may put subliminal shit in some meditation music and or words.. youtube meditation wormholes are fun
	6:26pm lala: yikes Cheree yeh I think DMT is too fast n furious plus we create it in our own 🧠 anyway
	6:28pm lala: I have a friend who is a bufo frog shaman ..legit It's called the Kambo Alliance she's an herbalist too she travels all over I can vouch for her skills.. good woman smart cookie she goes to Brazil and learns from tribes there.
	6:29pm Kitten Sparkles: 5MEO DMT is the shit!
	6:32pm lala: yeh Bufo frog 🐸 there's a cool episode of vice Hamiltons Pharmacopeia it'd on YouTube the bufo one is good.. peyote one is sad . strip malls covering peyote ground harder to find in TX / Southwest
	6:32pm Cheree July: Uhm, no, not for me, Kitten.
	6:36pm Kitten Sparkles: Fun Fact: I was totally sober for every Germs show I played back in “the day”. I couldn’t play that hit any other way. It was kind of intensely physical, plus mentally focused, so I had to be on top of my game and totally present. I couldn’t even eat food for at least 6 hours before a show, cuz digesting took too much of my energy.
	6:38pm Kitten Sparkles: Oops “plus I had to to be mentally focused”.
	6:39pm Mr Fab: meanwhile, i take it Darby had the complete opposite attitude
	6:39pm ultradamno: I was going to say, probably making you the extreme minority in the room
	6:40pm Cheree July: 👍
	6:40pm Dean: That is a fun fact. I'm grateful to be able to learn it directly from the source!
	6:44pm Kitten Sparkles: Oops “plus I had to to be mentally focused”.
	6:44pm lala: that also makes sense someone has to drive the bus while the rest zone out I can tell that from watching old footage drums ain't easy!
	6:44pm Kitten Sparkles: Posted that twice. Ugh.
	6:45pm Kitten Sparkles: @MrFab: exactly.
	6:46pm Dean: Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition. Eschew repetition.
	6:50pm Kitten Sparkles: Darby would not have been a fan of this show - he wasn’t high enough.
	6:51pm Rich in Washington: gesundheit, Dean
	6:51pm Dean: Bitte, Rich.
	6:52pm Kitten Sparkles: I was the only person in that band that liked any “outside” music.
	6:52pm Mr Fab: "You still playing that hippie noise, Don?" -Darby's ghost
	6:53pm Rich in Washington: You were an outsider's outsider, Kitten.
	6:53pm Dean: At the time. Do you have any sense as to how Lorna's and Pat's horizons have widened?
	6:54pm Robm: Hello fellow listeners
	6:57pm Dean: I'm a jerk. I'd forgotten that we lost Lorna/Teresa. Or didn't want to remember.
	6:58pm ultradamno: Interview with Gregg Turner of Angry Samoans (conducted by Bob Schick of Coral/Honor Role) where he talks about going to a party and Darby making everyone pipe down and watch Bowie on TV www.youtube.com...
	7:00pm Mr Fab: well Dean, I bravely listened to four Pat Smear albums from his obscure '80s/early '90s solo years for my old blog, and I wrote thusly: Pat Ruthensmear "Ruthensmear" (1988) - Amateur glam w/synths, drum machines, Smear's guitar (work that wah-wah!) and strangled vox; an odd, almost random eclecticism. "Golden Boys" is the completion of an unfinished Germs song. The Death Folk "Deathfolk" (1990) - Acoustic duo with Gary Jacoby from the band Celebrity Skin, but hardly "folk" music; covers Queens' "'39." Pat Smear "So You Fell In Love With A Musician..." (1992) Sounds properly grunge - his audition for Nirvana? - but hints of glam still pop thru. As usual, he sounds like he's having fun, uttering lyrics like "Wicked witch, your titties drip red lava 3-D fantasies." The Death Folk "Deathfolk II" (1992) - No longer acoustic, but grungy glammy pop-rock. This former punk minimalist is not afraid to guitar-wank as much as any arena-rocker. "Medely" honestly isn't that far removed from Styx' "Come Sail Away." Covers The Go-Gos' "Automatic."
	7:01pm ultradamno: It's only been a couple of years though
	7:02pm Kitten Sparkles: Once when we were practicing with Shane West in my room, Lorna showed up early while I was listening to Stockhausen’s “Hymnen” lp, she stared at the spinning record, and looked perplexed. Finally she said, “I can’t believe somebody put this on a record…” I pointed at my trcord shelves and said, “yup. And pretty much all of these albums would seem just as improbable to you. Some even more so!” She looked very confused for a good while after that.
	7:03pm Dean: Yeah, I know. Pat Smear's '80s into '90s output seems mildly daring, but not "outside," assuming I know what that means. Which "Hymnen"? The recordings of Stockhausen works can vary considerably.
	7:07pm Kitten Sparkles: @Dean: the double lp on DGG from 1969
	7:11pm Dean: Will have to seek that one out. Let me take this opportunity again to recommend Mitterer's Radio Fractal.
	7:12pm Kitten Sparkles: But I’m sure any Stockhausen piece would have gotten a similar reaction.
	7:13pm Dean: I believe you are right.
	7:15pm Krys O: I was primed for weird music as a kid. My older hippie siblings cousins had extensive record collections with lotsa prog and electronic stuff. We listened to early FM radio. My brother taught me how to do circuit bending in the early 70s. Heck, we played with hair dryer hoses and box fans to make strange sounds. 😀
	7:15pm Kitten Sparkles: @Dean: is that difficult to find and/or expensive? On YouTube, perhaps?
	7:17pm Mr Fab: Krsy O: What, with soldering irons and whatnot?!
	7:18pm Mr Fab: re: circuit bending
	7:18pm Krys O: Looks like it’s on YouTube, Kitten https://youtu.be/C0RSCLng9Vg
	7:19pm Kitten Sparkles: @krys O: wow! Yeah, I started making tapes of mostly shortwave radio sounds in the late 60s when I got my first reel to reel machine (and a shortwave radio). Ever do the cheap calculator/AM radio trick? Made some rad sounds.
	7:20pm Dean: I have the Songcircle version. Hillier's is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9G0asmZ_k Yes, Krys O! That's the Mitterer. Sublime.
	7:20pm Krys O: Really basic by taking the back off a transistor radio and using two straight pins touching the different circuits.
	7:22pm Krys O: We had an old Grundig my dad brought over from Germany where my parents were refugees. I loved to spin the dial and listen to shortwave and medium wave. My brother was into electronics and computers. He built a radio.
	7:23pm Kitten Sparkles: I would do various operations with old Texas Instruments calculators a few inches from the AM radio antenna. That made some really cool electronic sounds
	7:23pm lala: Krys u circuit bent a hairdryer ?? bravo!
	7:24pm Dean: I used to pound on empty oatmeal boxes. Does that count?
	7:24pm Rich in Washington: TV remotes make groovy sounds into electric guitar pickups
	7:25pm lala: whoa kitten calculator plus short wave... groovy hey in May speaking of short wave john Duncan is comin to west coast
	7:25pm lala: I will try that rich
	7:26pm Kitten Sparkles: Oh, cool. He’s the other shortwave-centric dude
	7:26pm lala: ok this is some good data
	7:27pm lala: yeh he told me to get my kiester to his sf gig pretty sure LA is right b4
	7:27pm Rich in Washington: There's a great album by an artist named ALP who recorded all the electromagnetic sounds around his apartment, suitably called At Home With ALP.
	7:27pm lala: He just gigged w Faust this past summer
	7:28pm Dean: A 1985 review of the Songcircle performance of Stimmung: I should start off this review by admitting that I consider Stimmung to be one of the most remarkable musical experiences of our time—even though it is also the sort of piece that may drive a spouse out of the house. For all attempts to imitate it (it dates from 1968), it remains a work sui generis. (Sui generis = liberal with hog-calls.) The title means “tuning“ or “mood,“ but a good equivalent taken from the days of its creation might be “vibes.“ My prejudice in favor of this piece may be measured by the probability that few of my colleagues or readers will also have published a poem in which Stimmung is mentioned—the result of having been introduced to the work by an unusual student. Even now, the composition is the most absorbing yet relaxing musical experience I can think of.
	7:31pm Krys O.: No, we used the hair dryer hose to amplify and distort our voices. Same with speaking or singing into a fan.
	7:31pm Mr Fab: lala, just as long as he doesn't perform "Blind Date": johnduncan.org...
	7:32pm Krys O.: Thanks for the tips, Rich!
	7:32pm lala: I know bout itvhes my friend lol yeh no blind date stuff
	7:34pm lala: Which I shoot its too late to ask how he is hes in europe will check on him later.. he got into sewing! he's good!
	7:35pm Mr Fab: what are Duncan's shows like now? More shortwave radio stuff?
	7:37pm lala: he does a lot of different things depending on what's up he does vox collabos etc I think he's doing something with someone om this west coast trip but it escapes me at the moment he is on IG n keeps people up to date there
	7:37pm lala: too much covid brain drain to make sense of what's comin up
	7:40pm lala: his vox are a spooky trip .. anywho will let u know when it's up I think it's not posted yet
	7:42pm Kitten Sparkles: This is from the Kitten Sparkles CD on he got 777 Was 666 label. All shortwave sounds.
	7:43pm Rich in Washington: something really spooky that dAs of Big City Orchestra showed me: Hang a large sheet of broiler foil from the ceiling and hook a contact mic up to it. It's really eerie sounding. It picks up sounds and voices but they sound really far away and echoey.
	7:45pm Krys O.: Nice!
	7:47pm Robm: @Kyrs O when you listened to the grundid did you listen to the BBC?
	7:49pm Robm: I meant Krys sorry
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello All!!!
	7:52pm Krys O.: @Robm: I think we did hear some UK stations, we liked to explore African and South American stations.
	7:52pm Robm: Hi DJ Babs thanks for telling me about georgy girl doing that two hour thing with christine mcvie
	7:52pm Krys O.: Hey, Babs!
	7:53pm Robm: @Kyrs that must have sounded very interesting
	7:54pm Krys O.: It's been a terrific show and fun chat. Thanks, Kitten & everyone!
	7:55pm Robm: See ya krys
	7:56pm DJ Babs: Hi Krys! Thanks for a great show K-Spark!!!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: And my pleasure Rob! Georgy always delivers the goods!
	7:57pm lala: ciao krys!!
	7:57pm Robm: @DJB never encountered a DJ phoning it in.
	👻 7:58pm WR: Lovely lovely episode today, thank you.
	7:58pm Mr Fab: ca-RAY-zee show today, Kitten, meoy thanks!
	7:59pm Debbie Davenport: Great chat today. I'm sad I missed a chunk in the middle when I went to get my prescription. Caught myself up though. Great sounds too. Thanks Kitten!!!
	7:59pm lala: nice shortwave nice show Kitten 😸 🌈🐸 great psychedelic Hippie Art znoise day in honor of Darby great chat love yall!!
	8:00pm ultradamno: Given the tone of the chat, having to leave to pick up drugs is excusable
	8:01pm Debbie Davenport: 🤣
	8:02pm lala: hahahaha Sorry I'm peaking now cant type anymore lol
	8:08pm Kitten Sparkles: Thanks, gang! Trajan, that was a social blast!
	8:10pm Kitten Sparkles: Trajan?!? Oops I meant “yeah”. Haha.
	8:38pm Krys O: Love SAULT

The Fantastic World of Kitten Sparkles with Kitten Sparkles AKA Don Bolles: Playlist from December 8, 2022

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