WFMU: It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from May 22, 2023

Listener comments!
	🤯 7:00pm Troy: Hey 👋
	7:00pm Rich in Washington: Ooo! Things are about to get complicated!
	7:00pm Ciggy: Oi
	7:00pm Handy Haversack: It's go time! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! Greetings, Dave and the Complications.
	7:00pm luka: yes, it’s happening
	7:00pm ultradamno: Dave! Mandlotrons!
	🤯 7:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Dave Mandl and all!!!
	🤯 7:00pm Carmichael: Heya Dave.
	7:00pm dale: hey now.
	7:01pm bleubombersune: Dave Good Monday Evening
	7:01pm mic_a: Halloooo Dave and progglers! Happy Sun Ra Day!
	🤯 7:01pm chresti: Hi Dave complicated show!
	7:01pm Chris Hiatt: Evening, all!
	7:01pm P-90: complicate me, baby
	7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Dave and other complicated people out there in radio-land.
	🤯 7:01pm G: Missed last week due to being out of town (Portland OR). Still have to get back to that on archive...
	🤯 7:02pm HollyRT: Evening, all!
	7:02pm Dean: I don't get the Wilson thing.
	7:02pm dale: why do those artists need remixing?
	7:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a Prawgnant pause...
	7:03pm P-90: Wilson’s “5%” remix definitely pops a little differently
	7:03pm ultradamno: Sun Ra was born on this day
	7:03pm Wojaxsurprise: 😞😞😞🗝️🗝️🥁🥁
	🤯 7:03pm G: ↳ Dean @7:02 Maybe he has compromising pictures of relevant people... haha
	7:03pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	7:04pm Dave Mandl: Evening, friends. Thanks for joining me.
	7:04pm Androu B.: Evening Dave & Prog dogs, Prog hogs, & Prog frogs! @Dave, earlier today on her show, Wendy Del Fromaggio just played an amazing Latino Prog band called Espiritu! Get in touch with her if you can and ask about them!
	🤯 7:04pm G: ↳ dale @7:02 These legacy groups are always looking for ways to resell their old material again to completists.
	7:04pm Dean: Lots of relevant people, to judge from the fan club.
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Androu B. @7:04 @Androu: Yes! I will be playing them at some point. Wendy's the one who told me about them.
	7:05pm listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all!
	7:05pm dale: ↳ G @7:04 makes sense. sweeten the drums here, turn down the saxamaphone there.....$$$
	7:06pm Wojaxsurprise: I approve everything besides Roger Waters cover of DSOTM
	7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" Actually reminds me of Section 43 by Country Joe ...but will be something else by time I post that...
	7:06pm P-90: @dale: it’s about remixing for the expanded bandwidth/different sound reproduction of modern audio equipment, vs. the original mixes that were intended for vinyl, Fred Flintstone headphones, old-style radio signals amplified through mono car radios, etc.
	7:06pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ dale @7:05 Saxamaphone, saxamaphone
	7:06pm Jackie G: Prog time is happy time.
	🤯 7:06pm Carmichael: I commented that they sounded a lot like Caravan. Except in Espanol ...
	🤯 7:06pm G: Ahora Mazda is one spelling of the name of the creator god in Zoroastrianism
	7:07pm mic_a: I know this verse melody from another song. Maybe many other songs.
	7:07pm Dean: I heard a copy of Close to the Edge, early pressing, beat-up condition, played against pristine remastered version from MoFi. Original was a lot more fun.
	7:07pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Androu B. @7:04 Thanks for the mention, Androu B, and for tuning in today. :-)
	🤯 7:08pm chresti: ↳ G @7:06 Is that a cult?
	7:08pm Dave Mandl: Hello Troy, Rich, Ciggy, Handy, luka, ultradamno, Will, Carmichael, dale, bleubombersune, mic_a, chresti, Chris, P-90, Mlle. Wendy, G, Holly, Dean, RRN63, ultramnno, Jackie, Wojaxsurprise, pot8o, Androu, phat!
	7:08pm dday: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" This one has me chuckling :) Sounds like Rick Moranis (took guy) singing then meixed in a tin can. Is this a Steven Wilson re-mix (hee hee)
	🤯 7:08pm HollyRT: ↳ G @7:06 Interesting. I was assuming Spanish for "Today"
	7:09pm Jackie G: Sometimes those remixes mix out the good parts. And it does not sound any better. So it's kind of a waste
	7:09pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:06 I tried to teach my daughter from an early age that was how you said the instrument name. She's onto me now.
	🤯 7:09pm G: ↳ dale @7:05 20 or so years ago I belonged for awhile to an online prog-focused bootleg-trading club online. Several of us knew Yes management and contacted them to make sure we would not get dinged for doing this. Yes management said trade bootlegs for free all you want, **as long as you buy all* commercially issued product. LOL
	🤯 7:10pm Troy: ↳ chresti @7:08 One of the 1st Death Cults well before the more famous Christianity
	7:10pm Dean: I've always felt Roxy Music's "Re-make, Re-model" should be remixed and remastered.
	7:10pm dale: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" i like this, psychy freakout wah wah jam.
	7:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:09 Lol
	7:11pm Dean: @G: Do you know Al from Southern California? Major prog trader.
	7:11pm Androu B.: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:07 I only caught the last hour of your show, but just in time to hear you play the record. And I was quite surprised! Thank you for turning me on to them!
	7:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" ...why ...this isn't Prawg ...this is Space / Stoner Rawk ! ...Help ! Help ! Police ! Fraud !... Oh 'Proto' - that was early was it ?
	7:11pm P-90: @Jacki G: yes, remixes are controversial, they definitely get mixed reviews
	7:11pm Rich in Washington: The Lord Of The Rings guy!
	🤯 7:11pm G: ↳ chresti @7:08 A major and quite ancient world religion, Iranian / Persian.
	7:12pm mic_a: I remember when "Psych!" or "Psych-Out!" was a triumphal yelp for just having fooled someone.
	7:12pm Dean: The first Genesis album was Decca. Jonathan King.
	7:12pm Rich in Washington: I have his Magician's Hat LP but not the LOTRs one sadly.
	7:12pm TDK60: Dave! I'm glad to be here.
	7:13pm coelacanth∅: good evening Dave and Mandibles
	🤯 7:13pm G: ↳ Dean @7:11 Possibly, but only if he was involved in online "tape [actually, CD] trees" back in the late 90s and 00s. Ancient times, to me!
	7:13pm Dean: Would love someday to hear the first Shadowfax again.
	7:13pm Dave Mandl: @TDK: Glad you have you! @coelacanth∅ and @Rich, ditto.
	7:14pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" Oh, yeah. Good ol' Bo.
	7:14pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Androu B. @7:11 You're welcome, Androu B. I think I mentioned on the air, I have no idea how this album ended up in my digital music files. A lot of my mystery mp3s come from an external hard drive Charlie Lewis has let me borrow long-term, but it's not on there. The Prog Elves must have put "Libre Y Natural" on my computer one night.
	🤯 7:14pm SeaCreature: Phew I made it home. here to prog, Dave and all.
	7:14pm ultradamno: I remember Psych-Out...Bruce Dern was a seeker, or THE seeker
	7:14pm Dean: He was, indeed. One day I noticed that Peter Gabriel was playing the venue across the street from where I work. I informed Al. Within a week a package of CDs arrived in my mailbox: the entire show.
	7:15pm True colorful peace: Great tune
	7:15pm Jackie G: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:14 Mark Hurst would have a theory
	🤯 7:15pm G: ↳ Dean @7:12 Yes, King was a Charterhouse alum (or, "old boy" as they say in the UK), where they were attending school then. I think the name Genesis was his idea. They got someone to get a tape into his car when he visited Charterhouse one time.
	7:15pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Jackie G @7:15 Hahaha, Jackie G, probably!
	7:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: "It's Complicated" is brought to you today by the letter P and the number 587.
	🤯 7:16pm chresti: ↳ G @7:11 Ah, thanks.
	7:16pm Juli: SO enjoyment:::
	7:16pm P-90: “PROG ELVES!”
	7:16pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" This could be a ringer track on Morricone Island
	7:16pm Will: Sagan Om Ringen!
	7:17pm Dean: Yes, the original name for Genesis was Phil Collins and Friends, and this was before PC joined the band!
	7:17pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" Good prog fun tune.
	7:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ P-90 @7:16 Prog Elves are real! If you're good, they put cool, rare albums on your computer. Or sometimes even in your LP and CD collection.
	7:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" Speaking of PrawgElves - how is Bo's Lord of the Rings ? Asking for Tolkien fan - myself.
	7:18pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" This is cool, it was almost reminiscent of Sergio Leone there for a sec.
	7:18pm mic_a: I see that I still have Bo's LOTR album here on the shelf. The elves put it there.
	🤯 7:20pm HollyRT: "From the Beginning" from that album is probably my favorite song by them
	7:20pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:18 Morricone, I should say.
	🤯 7:20pm SeaCreature: From the Beginning is the first song I ever heard played live in a bar when I snuck into Wallace’s in Orange, way under age.
	7:20pm coelacanth∅: completely agree regarding trilogy. listen to is beginning to end once every couple years since i was a teenager. (tarkus probably my 2nd favorite elp)
	7:20pm TDK60: I was an E.L.P. fan! It's true. 'Trilogy' is a good album. (My A Certain Ratio and Wire friends slink away in embarrassment.)
	7:21pm slugluv1313: greetings, Dave! Complicated Ones! happy and grateful to be home, and listening with you all 😺😺 it is World Goth Day (which, honestly, i did not even know was a thing until a few years ago) 🖤🖤🖤 -- growing up and listening to FM radio in the 70s . . . lots of Prog, but thinking that a lot of Prog and Prog Adjacent that would eventually morph into what would later be called "Goth" -- ??
	🤯 7:21pm G: The first ELP album I bought, I think.
	7:21pm mic_a: @RR -- it's been too many decades for me to give you a realiable report on Bo's LOTR. Low-key and atmospheric, I think, maybe.
	7:21pm luka: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" this used to pass for party music on dad’s side of the family. it’s why i am how i am.
	7:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Brain Salad Surgery' one of my fave albums. If Gatekeepers wanna hate on that - know that your pompous opprobrium only gratifies me.
	7:21pm Dean: I know a person whose brother's given name is Tarkus. Suffice to say, the family hosted Devo at their house when they first arrived in LA.
	7:22pm Dave Mandl: @slugluv, @luka, @SeaCreature: Hey!
	7:22pm Juli: You ever see that graph of Top Forty Songs thru out the years w various key changes? Lol It Flat lines in 2020 or something. So sad: Feel it's the same w time signatures:::
	7:22pm TDK60: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:21 Monsieur Rabbit: Brain Salad is a gas.
	7:22pm Dave Mandl: ↳ HollyRT @7:20 Good song. Good bass part.
	7:22pm Juli: Maybe not::::
	7:23pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" oh gosh Trilogy -- i loved this as a kid, and still love it
	7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ mic_a @7:21 Thx
	7:23pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" Oh boy, Prog Classic! Crazy good
	7:23pm Will: Some of Keith's best work was on the first Nice record, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack.
	7:23pm True colorful peace: Kind of reminds me of Rick Wakeman
	7:23pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ mic_a @7:21 Definitely curious. There's vinyl copies to be had for not a lot of money!
	7:24pm Dave Mandl: ↳ luka @7:21 Those must have been some parties.
	🤯 7:24pm SeaCreature: Great so far, Dave. Love keith’s percussive piano on this
	7:24pm Jackie G: ↳ Will @7:23 Rondo!
	7:24pm dale: wasn't their last tour the most expensive one in history up to that point? lots of busses for personnel and hotel rooms and semis for the equipment etc...they lost money on every show...
	7:24pm TDK60: ↳ Will @7:23 Yeah Will. This is groovy too. C'mon folks this synth stuff was an exciting new timbre back in '72
	7:25pm Juli: ↳ dale @7:24 Lol.
	7:25pm Dave Mandl: Best use of cowbell ever.
	7:25pm Juli: At least they went out w a bang. And literally. Literal fun. Lol.
	7:26pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" diddily doo doo
	7:26pm slugluv1313: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:21 "Good tripping music" -- one of my high school classmates, describing Brain Salad Surgery when it was released -- i loved that album too! but never tripped or anything else while listening
	7:26pm dale: ↳ Juli @7:25 read it in mojo magazine so you know it's rooted in (some high person's) fact.
	7:26pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Aitch @7:26 Just fulfilling the show's mandate.
	7:26pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:21 I love Brain Salad Surgery too. I put it on at dinner at our house, it is not the greatest dinner music, at least for everyone else!
	🤯 7:27pm chresti: ↳ Aitch @7:26 twiddle dee dum de dum
	7:27pm coelacanth∅: older brother got trilogy when i was ~9? i loved it got pictures at an exhibition, not so much -but i like it more now... got the first album, disappointed in general. "lucky man" a great song compromised by that stupisd gratuitous moog at the end!. brain salad surgery seemed a bit predictable. ...none has held up like trilogy.
	7:27pm Juli: Most expensive ever? For for j them? Lol.
	7:27pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" Only discovered this track after finding their Best Of comp as a leftover from a yard sale. Tt's the end track on that disc.
	7:27pm ultradamno: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:25 I have to nominate Hair Of The Dog by Nazareth for the "he said a rude word" exclamation point use of cowbell
	7:28pm Will: I love it when you play the deep prog, Dave! (ELP at present.)
	7:28pm Dean: I once played Hillage's Fish Rising at a dinner party. One of the guests proclaimed, "That's cool!" Three days later he was arrested for a murder he'd committed just days before dining at my place.
	7:28pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" This is very, very ELP.
	7:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ True colorful peace @7:23 didn't Rick Wakeman leave yes because he didn't want to play synthesizers and they wanted him to?
	7:29pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" This awesome as well. Not as familiar. And yah, Carl rocking that cowbell!
	7:29pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dean @7:28 Interesting...
	🤯 7:29pm SeaCreature: I love Pictures, largely driven bu that live movie that used to Screen at 8th Street Playhouse
	7:29pm Juli: I have a lot of expensive product in my hair:: I have a comb to keep fixing it lol Need a flip comb like a greaser::: Just saying
	🤯 7:29pm Troy: ↳ Dean @7:28 Didn’t know that about Hillage!
	7:29pm Dean: Wakeman left Yes, because the composition and recording of Tales was the last straw for him.
	7:29pm Juli: Sorry: Useless fact.
	7:29pm TDK60: Aw Dave, we're thirsting for boring facts.
	7:30pm Dave the Spazz: Keith’s playing is reminiscent of The Nice’s Everything Good in America
	🤯 7:30pm G: When Yes lost Wakeman in 73-74, Anderson of Yes called and asked Emerson to join. As Emerson said many years later in interviews, why was he going to join as one member of Yes when he had his own group doing so well already. So Yes hired Moraz, who honestly played a lot like Emerson. Then ditched Moraz when Wakeman was willing to come back.
	7:31pm Juli: Loving these facts.
	7:31pm Dean: Waters & Giesen's Music from the Body opens a little differently...
	7:31pm luka: but not Lothar of the Hill People
	7:31pm Jackie G: ↳ G @7:30 Relayer just might be one of Yes' best albums.
	7:31pm listener phat in Lincoln: Ooh, I've been meaning to check out Lothar.
	7:31pm TDK60: I saw Lothar and those humans once.
	7:31pm Dean: Shortly after, Moraz joined The Moody Blues.
	🤯 7:31pm SeaCreature: Space Hymn is real Allison Steele business
	7:32pm ultradamno: Lothar & The Hand People should have live scored Manos: The Hands Of Fate at some point
	🤯 7:32pm chresti: Yay Lothar and the ✋🏽 people!
	7:32pm dale: there are some albums that start with a car starting. moody blues octave, chris rea's auberge....and now the others escape me.
	7:33pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Jackie G @7:31 Agree, probably my favorite? Moraz contributed mightily.
	7:33pm Maria: THANKS FOR ELP!!!! Love Trilogy!
	7:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ELP suffered sometimes from - 'we know something about Classical Music & you probly don't & should be impressed'. BrainSaladSurgery tho had fantastic range of Genre influence & fair mastery of them all (...& that's just KeithEmerson) - presented with dynamic flow as a whole. More could be said in praise of it. If that's 'predictable', then direct me towards more of the kind that's evident to you...
	7:33pm Aitch: I won a Lothar LP as part of the swag-fest, but it's not here yet.
	🤯 7:33pm G: ↳ Dean @7:29 Yes found out they had huge advance sales for Tales, and at that time they had somewhat more material than would fit on two sides. So they had to decide whether to trim to a single album or expand to a double. We all know what they chose, and Wakeman thought there was just way too much padding. He went down the hall and sat in on Black Sabbath sessions in an adjoining studio. Alan White actually wrote and played some of the tinkly piano on side 4 of Tales.
	7:33pm Jackie G: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:33 Was listening to it earlier today.
	7:33pm Dean: Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf, opens with a car door opening, the radio plays, and the car starts.
	🤯 7:33pm G: ↳ Jackie G @7:31 No argument here!
	7:34pm Dean: I still get an enormous kick out of Tales. "Mahlerian" it is, as I seem to recall a review at the time declaring.
	7:34pm dale: ↳ Dean @7:33 close enough!
	7:35pm coelacanth∅: oh it must've been the first keyboardist (Tony Kaye) that left yes because he didn't want to play the synthesizer, or other keys less common than piano and organ.
	7:35pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Aitch @7:33 You won a Lothar and the Hand People album?!
	7:35pm TDK60: I haven't heard Jethro T's Passion Play in years. Their most proggrokish?
	7:35pm ultradamno: ↳ dale @7:32 Double Nickles On The Dime has one of those
	7:35pm Dave Mandl: ↳ TDK60 @7:35 It is. I played it on one of my first shows.
	🤯 7:36pm SeaCreature: ↳ Dean @7:34 I agree Dean, though I remain convinced there’s a 38 minute LP hiding in there somewhere
	🤯 7:36pm chresti: ↳ Aitch @7:33 Was it from Kitten Sparkles show by any chance?
	7:36pm slugluv1313: ↳ SeaCreature @7:31 oh yes! Allison Steele, The Night Bird 🕊️💜
	7:36pm True colorful peace: Many wives of Henry the viii
	7:36pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Jackie G @7:31 relayer and fragile are my 2 favorite yes albums, with 2 others close behind
	7:36pm Jackie G: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:35 Yeah, so he says. Then he played lots of synthesizer on 'One Live Badger"
	7:36pm Dean: I saw Tony Kaye with Detective at the Starwood. They opened for...Hawkwind? Stranglers?
	🤯 7:37pm G: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:35 That was the band's story at the time, but it's not clear from all available evidence that Kaye did not want to do synths. What is clear is that Anderson and Squire and new addition Howe were super super ambitious, and wanted a clear upgrade on keys.
	7:37pm Jackie G: ↳ Dean @7:36 How was Detective? Rock band, yes?
	7:37pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:33 Coming into the show late.... I should revisit Relayer.
	7:37pm Juli: Great to edit to:::
	7:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Of courser the Transportation theory of Music History - Horse rhythm Musics, then Trains, then Cars, then Jets, then - ??... Motorik cause I just wanna type 'Motorik...
	7:38pm ultradamno: ↳ Jackie G @7:37 The band whose music (and one member) was used for the punk band on WKRP In Cinti
	7:38pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: ↳ SeaCreature @7:36 I will own to not going Tales from Topographic Oceans a fair chance.
	7:39pm Dean: Yes, pretty much a Hollywood rock band, Michael Des Barres. I didn't know their music, and so I didn't pay a lot of attention. But then I can't even remember the headliner that night. I did see Hawkwind and Stranglers at the Starwood. Both were superb.
	7:39pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" Now this is exactly why I pledge to WFMU.
	7:39pm dale: ↳ ultradamno @7:35 see? cars starting is a good icebreaker to a song and /or album.
	7:39pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" That is some freaky bass clarinet. Is that bass clarinet?
	7:39pm True colorful peace: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:28 That guy loves synths, are you talking about the '80s maybe?
	7:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Jackie G @7:36 ha! -i wonder if he tried to come back after yes broke through with 'roundabout'!
	7:40pm TDK60: ↳ ultradamno @7:35 ultradamno: "Nickels" had to have that.
	7:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" ...you should see the Score...
	7:41pm P-90: The key sides of “Tales” are 1 and 4. Most of the “padding” is on 2 and 3. (for anyone looking to revisit “Tales,” or for someone who doesn’t really know it but is curious, I highly recommend checking out the live version of Side 1 on the live “Keys to Ascension” album from 1996.
	7:41pm Dean: It was Hawkwind. March 24, 1978.
	7:41pm Androu B.: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:39 It's certainly more on the John Zorn side than it is Acker Bilk!
	7:42pm Erik/VermonT: Ha ! - Keep your ELP … I will be much happier with a large serving of ZGA ! 👏🤘😝
	7:42pm Dean: I love "Ritual." No padding at all to my ears.
	🤯 7:42pm SeaCreature: ↳ Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ @7:37 Some day im gonna edit Topographic, and why not? some of Eddie’s edits are audible.Kinda think Relayer is a perfect record, though very different from CTTE.
	7:42pm True colorful peace: This show isn't as enjoyable as it could be considering the news about The Smiths bassist, and cyberhacking musings of the past hour
	7:42pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dean @7:39 Wait, Tony Kaye was in Scum of the Earth?
	7:42pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" These guys musta been high. On "God's Plant"
	7:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Noise about Space Ritual's Half Century since Release.
	7:42pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" My favorite of the show so far
	7:43pm coelacanth∅: ↳ True colorful peace @7:39 no, i was mistaken...talking about Tony Kaye
	7:43pm Dean: (Sorry, I don't grok the Scum of the Earth allusion...) ZGA, not to be confused with SZA, a pop singer these days.
	7:43pm Jackie G: ↳ P-90 @7:41 Yeah, "Keys" is pretty good.
	7:44pm Dean: Dang, gotta run my daughter to soccer practice! Bye, all.
	7:44pm dale: this hour goes by too fast.
	7:44pm ultradamno: Lemmy's statement regarding 'quitting' Hawkwind and plans to start band to be 'dirtiest in the world' twitter.com...
	7:44pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Dean @7:44 Bye, Dean!
	7:45pm Ciggy: RZA vs ZGA ELP @ MSG in 74?
	🤯 7:45pm chresti: ↳ Dean @7:44 See you later!
	7:45pm Androu B.: ↳ Dean @7:44 See you, Dean!
	7:45pm luka: ↳ dale @7:44 this one and Mahogany are too short.
	7:45pm slugluv1313: ↳ Dean @7:44 take care, Dean!
	7:45pm True colorful peace: ↳ Ciggy @7:45 Or the invasion of the Gyggas lol
	7:46pm ultradamno: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:42 I think Des Barres was the only one in Scum..
	7:46pm dale: dave, re cuneiform - PLEASE check out jasun martz's 'the pillory.' side one is mind blowing. opening track is the whole side though so don't expect to hear it here unless you need a very long bathroom break.
	7:47pm mic_a: This is checking off circa-1970 styles left and right.
	7:47pm ultradamno: Peter Elbling and Jim Henderson were the other two Scums Of The Earth
	7:47pm listener monica: gosh, Dave, I don't usually have my radio turned on at this hour, but I was working late and I'm driving home now, listening on my car radio, so I had to pull over to comment. I used to listen to your show faithfully, it must have been over 30 years ago. Thanks for the ELP play, it was one of the 7 records I owned when I was 15 years old.
	7:47pm coelacanth∅: i like relayer because it's guitar-heavy; and also because it has what seems like odd time signatures until you realise you can tap your foot in "4/4" and it meets back up again very neatly
	7:47pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dean @7:43 Detective were the band that played as the band Scum of the Earth on WKRP. I had no idea Tony Kaye was in that band. I'd honestly assumed it was just some studio dudes backing up Des Barres
	🤯 7:47pm chresti: ↳ Song: "IV Tempo: Shadows (Per Jimi Hendrix)" by "New Tro... I'm on the fence about the singing and flute
	🤯 7:48pm G: ↳ Dean @7:42 To me, Tales is actually their best, though all of the classic-sequence albums are good. It takes time to spot them all, but there are interwoven bits and themes across all four sides of Tales. Repays attention and thought. Ironic that Wakeman ended up not liking it, because it's Wakeman with his classical music-theory education who showed them how to do themes, variations, recapitulations (as in classical music) when he joined during the Fragile sessions in 71.
	7:48pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Androu B. @7:41 For real!
	🤯 7:49pm chresti: A wet flute
	7:49pm ultradamno: The SOTE song on WKRP, as I recall, was Detective's "Got Enough Love"...which is more Bad Company than punk...
	7:49pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ ultradamno @7:46 The full band played at the end of the episode, according to Wikipedia. I need to track that down. They had actors play members of the band during the show.
	7:49pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ ultradamno @7:49 Definitely not punk.
	7:50pm dale: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" sounded like they were gonna do tush by zz top.
	7:50pm dale: michael pindar!!!
	7:50pm slugluv1313: ↳ SeaCreature @7:31 i loved when she played Space Hymn -- i was just a teenager, but i would follow the guide, attempting to meditate
	7:50pm queems: always here for a moody
	7:51pm True colorful peace: Healthy recording techniques and musicianship, maybe the '70s were onto something.
	7:51pm dale: ↳ queems @7:50 yay!
	7:51pm dale: his solo album 'the promise' has some good moments.
	7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" Moodys - best representative of the precise Psych to Prawg transition ?
	7:52pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" Gotta love that mellotron.
	7:52pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "IV Tempo: Shadows (Per Jimi Hendrix)" by "New Tro... That flutist was going for it.
	🤯 7:52pm SeaCreature: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:50 Me too! There was black lite and maybe some weed too ;)
	7:52pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" so lovely! still, after all these years 💙💙
	7:53pm dale: pindar was spiritual, believed we were seeded here by ancient aliens.
	7:54pm Erik/VermonT: Wow , that New Trolls was pretty kewl … curious, didn’t seem to have that Italian vibe I’m usta hearing. Hendrix meets J.Tull meets Sonny Sharrock meets ??? - Throw in a few others fur good measure.
	🤯 7:54pm SeaCreature: Gotta say, Dave your Continental European prog game is unparalleled
	7:54pm Juli: Ty so much for the hour of Prog!!
	7:54pm Dave Mandl: This will take us to the end of the show. Thanks as always for listening and gabbing. Have a great week.
	7:54pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:54 Thanks Dave
	🤯 7:54pm chresti: Thanks Dave!
	7:55pm slugluv1313: ↳ SeaCreature @7:52 ah! i did not have access to weed! i did have a small black light -- but usually i would burn candles, incense. . .
	7:55pm Chris Hiatt: Another great one. Thanks, Dave Mandl and all!
	7:55pm P-90: This has that “Mothers of Invention-esque” sound. (With the addition of the ubiquitous Hammond organ)
	7:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Grottekvarnen" by "Kultivator" Dig this. Like Zappa just enjoying Rawking out without any point to prove...
	🤯 7:55pm DjLorraine: Thanks Dave
	🤯 7:55pm Troy: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" Thanks Dave!
	7:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ DaveMandl ~
	🤯 7:56pm HollyRT: Great show as always, Dave!
	7:56pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" Now suddenly my favorite era of The Moodies. whereas I first became a fan in the 80's when they had the synths and a looser, non-complicated sound.
	7:56pm mic_a: Thanks Dave! Good fortune, proggies!
	7:56pm slugluv1313: thank you, Dave! your show is always such a joy, glad i was here to listen tonight!
	7:57pm dale: ↳ Androu B. @7:56 core seven, from days of future up to seventh sojourn.
	7:57pm bleubombersune: Dave Thanks for the prog. All stay safe and be well.
	7:58pm dale: thanks dave. great show.
	7:58pm Androu B.: Thanks so much, Dave! One of the best shows tonight!
	7:58pm slugluv1313: ↳ listener monica @7:47 hi Monica!!! 💜💜💜
	7:58pm Jackie G: Thanks, man
	7:58pm TDK60: Gracias, DJ DM.
	7:59pm pot8o: thanks Dave! have a great week everyone!
	🤯 7:59pm SeaCreature: That was just swell, thanks Dave
	7:59pm Erik/VermonT: @ dale : appreciated Martz’ The Pillory when I checked it a few months ago !
	7:59pm Gainstagerliquid90: Great show
	🤯 8:00pm chresti: nice ending
	8:00pm P-90: Thanks!
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Dave!
	🤯 8:01pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Dave Mandl!!!
	8:13pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Dave!

It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from May 22, 2023

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May 22, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Yes	Five Percent for Nothing "Five Percent for Nothing" by "Yes"	Fragile	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Ahora Mazda	Power "Power" by "Ahora Mazda"	Ahora Mazda	0:03:26 (Pop-up)

Bo Hansson	Divided Reality "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson"	Magician's Hat	0:11:29 (Pop-up)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Trilogy "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer"	Trilogy	0:19:33 (Pop-up)

Lothar and the Hand People	Wedding Night for Those Who Love	Space Hymn	0:33:08 (Pop-up)
ZGA	God's Plant "God's Plant" by "ZGA"	The End of an Epoch	0:37:38 (Pop-up)

New Trolls	IV Tempo: Shadows (Per Jimi Hendrix)	Concerto Grosso Per I New Trolls	0:44:07 (Pop-up)
Moody Blues	How Is It (We Are Here)	A Question of Balance	0:49:50 (Pop-up)
Kultivator	Grottekvarnen "Grottekvarnen" by "Kultivator"	Barndomens Stigar	0:52:42 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🤯 7:00pm Troy: Hey 👋
	7:00pm Rich in Washington: Ooo! Things are about to get complicated!
	7:00pm Ciggy: Oi
	7:00pm Handy Haversack: It's go time! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! Greetings, Dave and the Complications.
	7:00pm luka: yes, it’s happening
	7:00pm ultradamno: Dave! Mandlotrons!
	🤯 7:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Dave Mandl and all!!!
	🤯 7:00pm Carmichael: Heya Dave.
	7:00pm dale: hey now.
	7:01pm bleubombersune: Dave Good Monday Evening
	7:01pm mic_a: Halloooo Dave and progglers! Happy Sun Ra Day!
	🤯 7:01pm chresti: Hi Dave complicated show!
	7:01pm Chris Hiatt: Evening, all!
	7:01pm P-90: complicate me, baby
	7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Dave and other complicated people out there in radio-land.
	🤯 7:01pm G: Missed last week due to being out of town (Portland OR). Still have to get back to that on archive...
	🤯 7:02pm HollyRT: Evening, all!
	7:02pm Dean: I don't get the Wilson thing.
	7:02pm dale: why do those artists need remixing?
	7:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a Prawgnant pause...
	7:03pm P-90: Wilson’s “5%” remix definitely pops a little differently
	7:03pm ultradamno: Sun Ra was born on this day
	7:03pm Wojaxsurprise: 😞😞😞🗝️🗝️🥁🥁
	🤯 7:03pm G: ↳ Dean @7:02 Maybe he has compromising pictures of relevant people... haha
	7:03pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	7:04pm Dave Mandl: Evening, friends. Thanks for joining me.
	7:04pm Androu B.: Evening Dave & Prog dogs, Prog hogs, & Prog frogs! @Dave, earlier today on her show, Wendy Del Fromaggio just played an amazing Latino Prog band called Espiritu! Get in touch with her if you can and ask about them!
	🤯 7:04pm G: ↳ dale @7:02 These legacy groups are always looking for ways to resell their old material again to completists.
	7:04pm Dean: Lots of relevant people, to judge from the fan club.
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Androu B. @7:04 @Androu: Yes! I will be playing them at some point. Wendy's the one who told me about them.
	7:05pm listener phat in Lincoln: Hey all!
	7:05pm dale: ↳ G @7:04 makes sense. sweeten the drums here, turn down the saxamaphone there.....$$$
	7:06pm Wojaxsurprise: I approve everything besides Roger Waters cover of DSOTM
	7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" Actually reminds me of Section 43 by Country Joe ...but will be something else by time I post that...
	7:06pm P-90: @dale: it’s about remixing for the expanded bandwidth/different sound reproduction of modern audio equipment, vs. the original mixes that were intended for vinyl, Fred Flintstone headphones, old-style radio signals amplified through mono car radios, etc.
	7:06pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ dale @7:05 Saxamaphone, saxamaphone
	7:06pm Jackie G: Prog time is happy time.
	🤯 7:06pm Carmichael: I commented that they sounded a lot like Caravan. Except in Espanol ...
	🤯 7:06pm G: Ahora Mazda is one spelling of the name of the creator god in Zoroastrianism
	7:07pm mic_a: I know this verse melody from another song. Maybe many other songs.
	7:07pm Dean: I heard a copy of Close to the Edge, early pressing, beat-up condition, played against pristine remastered version from MoFi. Original was a lot more fun.
	7:07pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Androu B. @7:04 Thanks for the mention, Androu B, and for tuning in today. :-)
	🤯 7:08pm chresti: ↳ G @7:06 Is that a cult?
	7:08pm Dave Mandl: Hello Troy, Rich, Ciggy, Handy, luka, ultradamno, Will, Carmichael, dale, bleubombersune, mic_a, chresti, Chris, P-90, Mlle. Wendy, G, Holly, Dean, RRN63, ultramnno, Jackie, Wojaxsurprise, pot8o, Androu, phat!
	7:08pm dday: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" This one has me chuckling :) Sounds like Rick Moranis (took guy) singing then meixed in a tin can. Is this a Steven Wilson re-mix (hee hee)
	🤯 7:08pm HollyRT: ↳ G @7:06 Interesting. I was assuming Spanish for "Today"
	7:09pm Jackie G: Sometimes those remixes mix out the good parts. And it does not sound any better. So it's kind of a waste
	7:09pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:06 I tried to teach my daughter from an early age that was how you said the instrument name. She's onto me now.
	🤯 7:09pm G: ↳ dale @7:05 20 or so years ago I belonged for awhile to an online prog-focused bootleg-trading club online. Several of us knew Yes management and contacted them to make sure we would not get dinged for doing this. Yes management said trade bootlegs for free all you want, **as long as you buy all* commercially issued product. LOL
	🤯 7:10pm Troy: ↳ chresti @7:08 One of the 1st Death Cults well before the more famous Christianity
	7:10pm Dean: I've always felt Roxy Music's "Re-make, Re-model" should be remixed and remastered.
	7:10pm dale: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" i like this, psychy freakout wah wah jam.
	7:10pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:09 Lol
	7:11pm Dean: @G: Do you know Al from Southern California? Major prog trader.
	7:11pm Androu B.: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:07 I only caught the last hour of your show, but just in time to hear you play the record. And I was quite surprised! Thank you for turning me on to them!
	7:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Power" by "Ahora Mazda" ...why ...this isn't Prawg ...this is Space / Stoner Rawk ! ...Help ! Help ! Police ! Fraud !... Oh 'Proto' - that was early was it ?
	7:11pm P-90: @Jacki G: yes, remixes are controversial, they definitely get mixed reviews
	7:11pm Rich in Washington: The Lord Of The Rings guy!
	🤯 7:11pm G: ↳ chresti @7:08 A major and quite ancient world religion, Iranian / Persian.
	7:12pm mic_a: I remember when "Psych!" or "Psych-Out!" was a triumphal yelp for just having fooled someone.
	7:12pm Dean: The first Genesis album was Decca. Jonathan King.
	7:12pm Rich in Washington: I have his Magician's Hat LP but not the LOTRs one sadly.
	7:12pm TDK60: Dave! I'm glad to be here.
	7:13pm coelacanth∅: good evening Dave and Mandibles
	🤯 7:13pm G: ↳ Dean @7:11 Possibly, but only if he was involved in online "tape [actually, CD] trees" back in the late 90s and 00s. Ancient times, to me!
	7:13pm Dean: Would love someday to hear the first Shadowfax again.
	7:13pm Dave Mandl: @TDK: Glad you have you! @coelacanth∅ and @Rich, ditto.
	7:14pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" Oh, yeah. Good ol' Bo.
	7:14pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Androu B. @7:11 You're welcome, Androu B. I think I mentioned on the air, I have no idea how this album ended up in my digital music files. A lot of my mystery mp3s come from an external hard drive Charlie Lewis has let me borrow long-term, but it's not on there. The Prog Elves must have put "Libre Y Natural" on my computer one night.
	🤯 7:14pm SeaCreature: Phew I made it home. here to prog, Dave and all.
	7:14pm ultradamno: I remember Psych-Out...Bruce Dern was a seeker, or THE seeker
	7:14pm Dean: He was, indeed. One day I noticed that Peter Gabriel was playing the venue across the street from where I work. I informed Al. Within a week a package of CDs arrived in my mailbox: the entire show.
	7:15pm True colorful peace: Great tune
	7:15pm Jackie G: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @7:14 Mark Hurst would have a theory
	🤯 7:15pm G: ↳ Dean @7:12 Yes, King was a Charterhouse alum (or, "old boy" as they say in the UK), where they were attending school then. I think the name Genesis was his idea. They got someone to get a tape into his car when he visited Charterhouse one time.
	7:15pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Jackie G @7:15 Hahaha, Jackie G, probably!
	7:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: "It's Complicated" is brought to you today by the letter P and the number 587.
	🤯 7:16pm chresti: ↳ G @7:11 Ah, thanks.
	7:16pm Juli: SO enjoyment:::
	7:16pm P-90: “PROG ELVES!”
	7:16pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" This could be a ringer track on Morricone Island
	7:16pm Will: Sagan Om Ringen!
	7:17pm Dean: Yes, the original name for Genesis was Phil Collins and Friends, and this was before PC joined the band!
	7:17pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" Good prog fun tune.
	7:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ P-90 @7:16 Prog Elves are real! If you're good, they put cool, rare albums on your computer. Or sometimes even in your LP and CD collection.
	7:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" Speaking of PrawgElves - how is Bo's Lord of the Rings ? Asking for Tolkien fan - myself.
	7:18pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Divided Reality" by "Bo Hansson" This is cool, it was almost reminiscent of Sergio Leone there for a sec.
	7:18pm mic_a: I see that I still have Bo's LOTR album here on the shelf. The elves put it there.
	🤯 7:20pm HollyRT: "From the Beginning" from that album is probably my favorite song by them
	7:20pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:18 Morricone, I should say.
	🤯 7:20pm SeaCreature: From the Beginning is the first song I ever heard played live in a bar when I snuck into Wallace’s in Orange, way under age.
	7:20pm coelacanth∅: completely agree regarding trilogy. listen to is beginning to end once every couple years since i was a teenager. (tarkus probably my 2nd favorite elp)
	7:20pm TDK60: I was an E.L.P. fan! It's true. 'Trilogy' is a good album. (My A Certain Ratio and Wire friends slink away in embarrassment.)
	7:21pm slugluv1313: greetings, Dave! Complicated Ones! happy and grateful to be home, and listening with you all 😺😺 it is World Goth Day (which, honestly, i did not even know was a thing until a few years ago) 🖤🖤🖤 -- growing up and listening to FM radio in the 70s . . . lots of Prog, but thinking that a lot of Prog and Prog Adjacent that would eventually morph into what would later be called "Goth" -- ??
	🤯 7:21pm G: The first ELP album I bought, I think.
	7:21pm mic_a: @RR -- it's been too many decades for me to give you a realiable report on Bo's LOTR. Low-key and atmospheric, I think, maybe.
	7:21pm luka: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" this used to pass for party music on dad’s side of the family. it’s why i am how i am.
	7:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Brain Salad Surgery' one of my fave albums. If Gatekeepers wanna hate on that - know that your pompous opprobrium only gratifies me.
	7:21pm Dean: I know a person whose brother's given name is Tarkus. Suffice to say, the family hosted Devo at their house when they first arrived in LA.
	7:22pm Dave Mandl: @slugluv, @luka, @SeaCreature: Hey!
	7:22pm Juli: You ever see that graph of Top Forty Songs thru out the years w various key changes? Lol It Flat lines in 2020 or something. So sad: Feel it's the same w time signatures:::
	7:22pm TDK60: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:21 Monsieur Rabbit: Brain Salad is a gas.
	7:22pm Dave Mandl: ↳ HollyRT @7:20 Good song. Good bass part.
	7:22pm Juli: Maybe not::::
	7:23pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" oh gosh Trilogy -- i loved this as a kid, and still love it
	7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ mic_a @7:21 Thx
	7:23pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" Oh boy, Prog Classic! Crazy good
	7:23pm Will: Some of Keith's best work was on the first Nice record, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack.
	7:23pm True colorful peace: Kind of reminds me of Rick Wakeman
	7:23pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ mic_a @7:21 Definitely curious. There's vinyl copies to be had for not a lot of money!
	7:24pm Dave Mandl: ↳ luka @7:21 Those must have been some parties.
	🤯 7:24pm SeaCreature: Great so far, Dave. Love keith’s percussive piano on this
	7:24pm Jackie G: ↳ Will @7:23 Rondo!
	7:24pm dale: wasn't their last tour the most expensive one in history up to that point? lots of busses for personnel and hotel rooms and semis for the equipment etc...they lost money on every show...
	7:24pm TDK60: ↳ Will @7:23 Yeah Will. This is groovy too. C'mon folks this synth stuff was an exciting new timbre back in '72
	7:25pm Juli: ↳ dale @7:24 Lol.
	7:25pm Dave Mandl: Best use of cowbell ever.
	7:25pm Juli: At least they went out w a bang. And literally. Literal fun. Lol.
	7:26pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" diddily doo doo
	7:26pm slugluv1313: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:21 "Good tripping music" -- one of my high school classmates, describing Brain Salad Surgery when it was released -- i loved that album too! but never tripped or anything else while listening
	7:26pm dale: ↳ Juli @7:25 read it in mojo magazine so you know it's rooted in (some high person's) fact.
	7:26pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Aitch @7:26 Just fulfilling the show's mandate.
	7:26pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:21 I love Brain Salad Surgery too. I put it on at dinner at our house, it is not the greatest dinner music, at least for everyone else!
	🤯 7:27pm chresti: ↳ Aitch @7:26 twiddle dee dum de dum
	7:27pm coelacanth∅: older brother got trilogy when i was ~9? i loved it got pictures at an exhibition, not so much -but i like it more now... got the first album, disappointed in general. "lucky man" a great song compromised by that stupisd gratuitous moog at the end!. brain salad surgery seemed a bit predictable. ...none has held up like trilogy.
	7:27pm Juli: Most expensive ever? For for j them? Lol.
	7:27pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" Only discovered this track after finding their Best Of comp as a leftover from a yard sale. Tt's the end track on that disc.
	7:27pm ultradamno: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:25 I have to nominate Hair Of The Dog by Nazareth for the "he said a rude word" exclamation point use of cowbell
	7:28pm Will: I love it when you play the deep prog, Dave! (ELP at present.)
	7:28pm Dean: I once played Hillage's Fish Rising at a dinner party. One of the guests proclaimed, "That's cool!" Three days later he was arrested for a murder he'd committed just days before dining at my place.
	7:28pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" This is very, very ELP.
	7:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ True colorful peace @7:23 didn't Rick Wakeman leave yes because he didn't want to play synthesizers and they wanted him to?
	7:29pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "Trilogy" by "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" This awesome as well. Not as familiar. And yah, Carl rocking that cowbell!
	7:29pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dean @7:28 Interesting...
	🤯 7:29pm SeaCreature: I love Pictures, largely driven bu that live movie that used to Screen at 8th Street Playhouse
	7:29pm Juli: I have a lot of expensive product in my hair:: I have a comb to keep fixing it lol Need a flip comb like a greaser::: Just saying
	🤯 7:29pm Troy: ↳ Dean @7:28 Didn’t know that about Hillage!
	7:29pm Dean: Wakeman left Yes, because the composition and recording of Tales was the last straw for him.
	7:29pm Juli: Sorry: Useless fact.
	7:29pm TDK60: Aw Dave, we're thirsting for boring facts.
	7:30pm Dave the Spazz: Keith’s playing is reminiscent of The Nice’s Everything Good in America
	🤯 7:30pm G: When Yes lost Wakeman in 73-74, Anderson of Yes called and asked Emerson to join. As Emerson said many years later in interviews, why was he going to join as one member of Yes when he had his own group doing so well already. So Yes hired Moraz, who honestly played a lot like Emerson. Then ditched Moraz when Wakeman was willing to come back.
	7:31pm Juli: Loving these facts.
	7:31pm Dean: Waters & Giesen's Music from the Body opens a little differently...
	7:31pm luka: but not Lothar of the Hill People
	7:31pm Jackie G: ↳ G @7:30 Relayer just might be one of Yes' best albums.
	7:31pm listener phat in Lincoln: Ooh, I've been meaning to check out Lothar.
	7:31pm TDK60: I saw Lothar and those humans once.
	7:31pm Dean: Shortly after, Moraz joined The Moody Blues.
	🤯 7:31pm SeaCreature: Space Hymn is real Allison Steele business
	7:32pm ultradamno: Lothar & The Hand People should have live scored Manos: The Hands Of Fate at some point
	🤯 7:32pm chresti: Yay Lothar and the ✋🏽 people!
	7:32pm dale: there are some albums that start with a car starting. moody blues octave, chris rea's auberge....and now the others escape me.
	7:33pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Jackie G @7:31 Agree, probably my favorite? Moraz contributed mightily.
	7:33pm Maria: THANKS FOR ELP!!!! Love Trilogy!
	7:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ELP suffered sometimes from - 'we know something about Classical Music & you probly don't & should be impressed'. BrainSaladSurgery tho had fantastic range of Genre influence & fair mastery of them all (...& that's just KeithEmerson) - presented with dynamic flow as a whole. More could be said in praise of it. If that's 'predictable', then direct me towards more of the kind that's evident to you...
	7:33pm Aitch: I won a Lothar LP as part of the swag-fest, but it's not here yet.
	🤯 7:33pm G: ↳ Dean @7:29 Yes found out they had huge advance sales for Tales, and at that time they had somewhat more material than would fit on two sides. So they had to decide whether to trim to a single album or expand to a double. We all know what they chose, and Wakeman thought there was just way too much padding. He went down the hall and sat in on Black Sabbath sessions in an adjoining studio. Alan White actually wrote and played some of the tinkly piano on side 4 of Tales.
	7:33pm Jackie G: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:33 Was listening to it earlier today.
	7:33pm Dean: Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf, opens with a car door opening, the radio plays, and the car starts.
	🤯 7:33pm G: ↳ Jackie G @7:31 No argument here!
	7:34pm Dean: I still get an enormous kick out of Tales. "Mahlerian" it is, as I seem to recall a review at the time declaring.
	7:34pm dale: ↳ Dean @7:33 close enough!
	7:35pm coelacanth∅: oh it must've been the first keyboardist (Tony Kaye) that left yes because he didn't want to play the synthesizer, or other keys less common than piano and organ.
	7:35pm Dave Mandl: ↳ Aitch @7:33 You won a Lothar and the Hand People album?!
	7:35pm TDK60: I haven't heard Jethro T's Passion Play in years. Their most proggrokish?
	7:35pm ultradamno: ↳ dale @7:32 Double Nickles On The Dime has one of those
	7:35pm Dave Mandl: ↳ TDK60 @7:35 It is. I played it on one of my first shows.
	🤯 7:36pm SeaCreature: ↳ Dean @7:34 I agree Dean, though I remain convinced there’s a 38 minute LP hiding in there somewhere
	🤯 7:36pm chresti: ↳ Aitch @7:33 Was it from Kitten Sparkles show by any chance?
	7:36pm slugluv1313: ↳ SeaCreature @7:31 oh yes! Allison Steele, The Night Bird 🕊️💜
	7:36pm True colorful peace: Many wives of Henry the viii
	7:36pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Jackie G @7:31 relayer and fragile are my 2 favorite yes albums, with 2 others close behind
	7:36pm Jackie G: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:35 Yeah, so he says. Then he played lots of synthesizer on 'One Live Badger"
	7:36pm Dean: I saw Tony Kaye with Detective at the Starwood. They opened for...Hawkwind? Stranglers?
	🤯 7:37pm G: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:35 That was the band's story at the time, but it's not clear from all available evidence that Kaye did not want to do synths. What is clear is that Anderson and Squire and new addition Howe were super super ambitious, and wanted a clear upgrade on keys.
	7:37pm Jackie G: ↳ Dean @7:36 How was Detective? Rock band, yes?
	7:37pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:33 Coming into the show late.... I should revisit Relayer.
	7:37pm Juli: Great to edit to:::
	7:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Of courser the Transportation theory of Music History - Horse rhythm Musics, then Trains, then Cars, then Jets, then - ??... Motorik cause I just wanna type 'Motorik...
	7:38pm ultradamno: ↳ Jackie G @7:37 The band whose music (and one member) was used for the punk band on WKRP In Cinti
	7:38pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: ↳ SeaCreature @7:36 I will own to not going Tales from Topographic Oceans a fair chance.
	7:39pm Dean: Yes, pretty much a Hollywood rock band, Michael Des Barres. I didn't know their music, and so I didn't pay a lot of attention. But then I can't even remember the headliner that night. I did see Hawkwind and Stranglers at the Starwood. Both were superb.
	7:39pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" Now this is exactly why I pledge to WFMU.
	7:39pm dale: ↳ ultradamno @7:35 see? cars starting is a good icebreaker to a song and /or album.
	7:39pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" That is some freaky bass clarinet. Is that bass clarinet?
	7:39pm True colorful peace: ↳ coelacanth∅ @7:28 That guy loves synths, are you talking about the '80s maybe?
	7:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Jackie G @7:36 ha! -i wonder if he tried to come back after yes broke through with 'roundabout'!
	7:40pm TDK60: ↳ ultradamno @7:35 ultradamno: "Nickels" had to have that.
	7:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" ...you should see the Score...
	7:41pm P-90: The key sides of “Tales” are 1 and 4. Most of the “padding” is on 2 and 3. (for anyone looking to revisit “Tales,” or for someone who doesn’t really know it but is curious, I highly recommend checking out the live version of Side 1 on the live “Keys to Ascension” album from 1996.
	7:41pm Dean: It was Hawkwind. March 24, 1978.
	7:41pm Androu B.: ↳ Chris Hiatt @7:39 It's certainly more on the John Zorn side than it is Acker Bilk!
	7:42pm Erik/VermonT: Ha ! - Keep your ELP … I will be much happier with a large serving of ZGA ! 👏🤘😝
	7:42pm Dean: I love "Ritual." No padding at all to my ears.
	🤯 7:42pm SeaCreature: ↳ Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ @7:37 Some day im gonna edit Topographic, and why not? some of Eddie’s edits are audible.Kinda think Relayer is a perfect record, though very different from CTTE.
	7:42pm True colorful peace: This show isn't as enjoyable as it could be considering the news about The Smiths bassist, and cyberhacking musings of the past hour
	7:42pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dean @7:39 Wait, Tony Kaye was in Scum of the Earth?
	7:42pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" These guys musta been high. On "God's Plant"
	7:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Noise about Space Ritual's Half Century since Release.
	7:42pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" My favorite of the show so far
	7:43pm coelacanth∅: ↳ True colorful peace @7:39 no, i was mistaken...talking about Tony Kaye
	7:43pm Dean: (Sorry, I don't grok the Scum of the Earth allusion...) ZGA, not to be confused with SZA, a pop singer these days.
	7:43pm Jackie G: ↳ P-90 @7:41 Yeah, "Keys" is pretty good.
	7:44pm Dean: Dang, gotta run my daughter to soccer practice! Bye, all.
	7:44pm dale: this hour goes by too fast.
	7:44pm ultradamno: Lemmy's statement regarding 'quitting' Hawkwind and plans to start band to be 'dirtiest in the world' twitter.com...
	7:44pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Dean @7:44 Bye, Dean!
	7:45pm Ciggy: RZA vs ZGA ELP @ MSG in 74?
	🤯 7:45pm chresti: ↳ Dean @7:44 See you later!
	7:45pm Androu B.: ↳ Dean @7:44 See you, Dean!
	7:45pm luka: ↳ dale @7:44 this one and Mahogany are too short.
	7:45pm slugluv1313: ↳ Dean @7:44 take care, Dean!
	7:45pm True colorful peace: ↳ Ciggy @7:45 Or the invasion of the Gyggas lol
	7:46pm ultradamno: ↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:42 I think Des Barres was the only one in Scum..
	7:46pm dale: dave, re cuneiform - PLEASE check out jasun martz's 'the pillory.' side one is mind blowing. opening track is the whole side though so don't expect to hear it here unless you need a very long bathroom break.
	7:47pm mic_a: This is checking off circa-1970 styles left and right.
	7:47pm ultradamno: Peter Elbling and Jim Henderson were the other two Scums Of The Earth
	7:47pm listener monica: gosh, Dave, I don't usually have my radio turned on at this hour, but I was working late and I'm driving home now, listening on my car radio, so I had to pull over to comment. I used to listen to your show faithfully, it must have been over 30 years ago. Thanks for the ELP play, it was one of the 7 records I owned when I was 15 years old.
	7:47pm coelacanth∅: i like relayer because it's guitar-heavy; and also because it has what seems like odd time signatures until you realise you can tap your foot in "4/4" and it meets back up again very neatly
	7:47pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dean @7:43 Detective were the band that played as the band Scum of the Earth on WKRP. I had no idea Tony Kaye was in that band. I'd honestly assumed it was just some studio dudes backing up Des Barres
	🤯 7:47pm chresti: ↳ Song: "IV Tempo: Shadows (Per Jimi Hendrix)" by "New Tro... I'm on the fence about the singing and flute
	🤯 7:48pm G: ↳ Dean @7:42 To me, Tales is actually their best, though all of the classic-sequence albums are good. It takes time to spot them all, but there are interwoven bits and themes across all four sides of Tales. Repays attention and thought. Ironic that Wakeman ended up not liking it, because it's Wakeman with his classical music-theory education who showed them how to do themes, variations, recapitulations (as in classical music) when he joined during the Fragile sessions in 71.
	7:48pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Androu B. @7:41 For real!
	🤯 7:49pm chresti: A wet flute
	7:49pm ultradamno: The SOTE song on WKRP, as I recall, was Detective's "Got Enough Love"...which is more Bad Company than punk...
	7:49pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ ultradamno @7:46 The full band played at the end of the episode, according to Wikipedia. I need to track that down. They had actors play members of the band during the show.
	7:49pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ ultradamno @7:49 Definitely not punk.
	7:50pm dale: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" sounded like they were gonna do tush by zz top.
	7:50pm dale: michael pindar!!!
	7:50pm slugluv1313: ↳ SeaCreature @7:31 i loved when she played Space Hymn -- i was just a teenager, but i would follow the guide, attempting to meditate
	7:50pm queems: always here for a moody
	7:51pm True colorful peace: Healthy recording techniques and musicianship, maybe the '70s were onto something.
	7:51pm dale: ↳ queems @7:50 yay!
	7:51pm dale: his solo album 'the promise' has some good moments.
	7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" Moodys - best representative of the precise Psych to Prawg transition ?
	7:52pm Jackie G: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" Gotta love that mellotron.
	7:52pm Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "IV Tempo: Shadows (Per Jimi Hendrix)" by "New Tro... That flutist was going for it.
	🤯 7:52pm SeaCreature: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:50 Me too! There was black lite and maybe some weed too ;)
	7:52pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" so lovely! still, after all these years 💙💙
	7:53pm dale: pindar was spiritual, believed we were seeded here by ancient aliens.
	7:54pm Erik/VermonT: Wow , that New Trolls was pretty kewl … curious, didn’t seem to have that Italian vibe I’m usta hearing. Hendrix meets J.Tull meets Sonny Sharrock meets ??? - Throw in a few others fur good measure.
	🤯 7:54pm SeaCreature: Gotta say, Dave your Continental European prog game is unparalleled
	7:54pm Juli: Ty so much for the hour of Prog!!
	7:54pm Dave Mandl: This will take us to the end of the show. Thanks as always for listening and gabbing. Have a great week.
	7:54pm listener phat in Lincoln: ↳ Dave Mandl @7:54 Thanks Dave
	🤯 7:54pm chresti: Thanks Dave!
	7:55pm slugluv1313: ↳ SeaCreature @7:52 ah! i did not have access to weed! i did have a small black light -- but usually i would burn candles, incense. . .
	7:55pm Chris Hiatt: Another great one. Thanks, Dave Mandl and all!
	7:55pm P-90: This has that “Mothers of Invention-esque” sound. (With the addition of the ubiquitous Hammond organ)
	7:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Grottekvarnen" by "Kultivator" Dig this. Like Zappa just enjoying Rawking out without any point to prove...
	🤯 7:55pm DjLorraine: Thanks Dave
	🤯 7:55pm Troy: ↳ Song: "God's Plant" by "ZGA" Thanks Dave!
	7:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ DaveMandl ~
	🤯 7:56pm HollyRT: Great show as always, Dave!
	7:56pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "How Is It (We Are Here)" by "Moody Blues" Now suddenly my favorite era of The Moodies. whereas I first became a fan in the 80's when they had the synths and a looser, non-complicated sound.
	7:56pm mic_a: Thanks Dave! Good fortune, proggies!
	7:56pm slugluv1313: thank you, Dave! your show is always such a joy, glad i was here to listen tonight!
	7:57pm dale: ↳ Androu B. @7:56 core seven, from days of future up to seventh sojourn.
	7:57pm bleubombersune: Dave Thanks for the prog. All stay safe and be well.
	7:58pm dale: thanks dave. great show.
	7:58pm Androu B.: Thanks so much, Dave! One of the best shows tonight!
	7:58pm slugluv1313: ↳ listener monica @7:47 hi Monica!!! 💜💜💜
	7:58pm Jackie G: Thanks, man
	7:58pm TDK60: Gracias, DJ DM.
	7:59pm pot8o: thanks Dave! have a great week everyone!
	🤯 7:59pm SeaCreature: That was just swell, thanks Dave
	7:59pm Erik/VermonT: @ dale : appreciated Martz’ The Pillory when I checked it a few months ago !
	7:59pm Gainstagerliquid90: Great show
	🤯 8:00pm chresti: nice ending
	8:00pm P-90: Thanks!
	8:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Dave!
	🤯 8:01pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Dave Mandl!!!
	8:13pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Dave!

It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from May 22, 2023

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