WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 20, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:02am fred: Good morning Brian and all
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	6:03am Brian D: Greetings all.
	6:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:02 Are you saying I'm not a person?
	⚡ 6:04am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian, fred, tom tom. Briad, it was geat to meet you in real life last week! Back in Finland now, and it's snowing outside.
	⚡ 6:04am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:03 djs are gods, right...?
	6:05am TDK60: Good morning, Brian.
	6:07am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:04 Likewise, Don. Only wish I could have stayed longer.
	⚡ 6:07am tom tom the pipers son: hello don...
	6:07am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and Currentors! Greetings from Concord, MA... bit of a change from my usual routine of listening to you at 11:00 am in my kitchen in London Town :-)
	6:07am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:04 Ha! If only...
	⚡ 6:07am Spikey BXL: Good morning Brian, currentistas. A thought for Mrs Current's rehab
	6:08am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:07 Hope it's a pleasant change, LCF. "The British are coming!"
	⚡ 6:09am Spikey BXL: *physical therapy - before someone makes wrong assumptions
	6:09am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:07 Thank you, Spikey, and good morning. Progressing... slowly. She's got about 80% function in her arm, well under 50% in her hand and wrist, however.
	6:09am TDK60: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:07 Hello London Calling Francky. That's Massachusetts? The land of Emerson and Thoreau.
	6:10am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:09 In our house, both apply. Although, I'm the one who's been in rehab.
	6:10am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:08 A very pleasant change Brian... Funny you should mention that; I am visiting family but did attend the Patriots Day parade and it was a lot of fun! :-)
	6:12am London Calling Francky: ↳ TDK60 @6:09 Morning TDK! Oh yes indeed, Concord, MA the hometown of both Emerson and Thoreau... I went to walk around Walden Pond to see where Thoreau's "simple life" cabin was located... beautiful part of the world!
	6:13am Toothgrinder Tom: @London Calling Francky I did the reverse of that recently.
	6:13am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:05 Hello TDK.
	6:14am Toothgrinder Tom: The birdsong at daybreak is back.
	6:14am London Calling Francky: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:13 The reverse as in moving to a "complicated life" cabin?
	6:15am Toothgrinder Tom: No I mean I went to the UK and monitored how the WFMU schedule now appeared.
	6:15am Toothgrinder Tom: Wake and Bake a late morning show and all that.
	⚡ 6:15am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "The Culprit Is You" by "Fay Victor / Herbie Nicho... Interesting sounds! Good noonday to you, Brian, Tom Tom, Fred, Don & all.
	⚡ 6:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:15 good afternoon micheal...
	6:18am London Calling Francky: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:15 Oh that makes a lot more sense T.T.! The real-time WFMU schedule in the USA is funny to me... yes, I am used to the Pidge and Brian at 11:00, I am WFMU-lagged!
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:15 Hello Michael!
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:14 I've stayed in one of those...
	6:20am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:18 I am with you Brian... most of my existence often feels like staying in a "complicated life" cabin...
	⚡ 6:24am tom tom the pipers son: somewhat in the realm of political cartoons, the courtroom sketches of the hush money trial, have been very evocative, in their rushed shoddiness they're capturing trump more than photography could...the sketches are also reminding me of goya a bit
	⚡ 6:25am Don in Tampere: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:15 Hi Michael, I never managed to get a gig in Cologne, but I do have a solo show coming up May 3 in a place called Park-Kultur in Düsseldorf in Oststr 116
	⚡ 6:25am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 couldn't believe one had him sleeping
	6:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ~
	6:26am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & all happy 4/20!
	⚡ 6:26am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:25 apparently there's been more than one opportunity to catch him napping
	⚡ 6:27am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:26 I get my updates on that from Colbert
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:25 He does have a grueling court schedule, to be fair.
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:27 It'd be funny... except we're doomed.
	⚡ 6:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:27 ah, used to watch consistently, but catch on youtube since ridding myself of tv
	⚡ 6:29am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:29 YT here as well, obviously
	⚡ 6:31am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:25 Good to hear you're touring in retirement, Don!
	6:34am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 Good morning tom tom. I'm sad to hear this morn someone tried to self-immolate outside that courtroom. A protest against fascism apparently.
	6:34am morphe': Attuned from gloriously sunny West Kerry, Ire ... every meeting with acquaintances or strangers will start with a conversation about the "glorious day..." ... the computer in the doorway ... working in the yard ...
	⚡ 6:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @6:34 i did not see/hear that... awful...
	⚡ 6:35am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:28 Fair?! You are a generous soul, Brian. But I sense your tongue in cheekiness.
	6:35am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:34 Yes, very sad. AP reporting this morning that he died.
	⚡ 6:36am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning Brian! Hello Friends! It's a chilly, foggy morning up at the dog park but we will not let wet paws stop is from chasing the ball!
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @6:35 AP also reporting he spread pamphlets espousing "conspiracy theories."
	6:36am Strandlund: Good Morning, Afternoon and Evening everyone!! Happy 4-20!!
	6:37am Brian D: Greetings NotARealDoctor, Strand.
	6:37am morphe': trump Trial ... the guy who lit himself on fire yesterday has died ... there is a photo of him with a poster saying Trump and Biden were in a combo conspiracy ??? https://deadline.com/2024/04/fire-trump-trial-1235890365/
	⚡ 6:38am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian D and everyone.
	6:38am Toothgrinder Tom: @tom tom 6:26 I try to avoid any images of that guy, especially ones with accompanying sound, but if the sketches are evocative of Goya, I may make an exception.
	6:38am Brian D: Peter! Belated hello, morphe.
	6:38am Strandlund: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:27 Colbert the best!!
	⚡ 6:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:38 goya on a bad day...;)
	6:40am Toothgrinder Tom: @Francky to be clear, I didn’t go to the UK primarily To monitor the station schedule time shift ….
	6:41am Toothgrinder Tom: It was just a side effect.
	6:42am Toothgrinder Tom: @tom tom so it goyas.
	6:42am morphe': ↳ Brian D @6:38 Arrived belatedly myself [not sure that is syntacticly correct] ... was listening to a guy on Irish radio Conor Buckley who grew up mixed race and albino in Ireland ... he runs a conscious design Co called ...Human Collective
	6:42am Strandlund: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:39 Here's Goya on a very bad day: www.bing.com...
	6:44am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. History is being made. Nice soundtrack.
	⚡ 6:45am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:36 Conspiracy!? What a joke! It's all happening in plain sight. With the connivance of the US Supreme Court, even. I'm in favour of the pre-political as our last hope.
	⚡ 6:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Strandlund @6:42 yes, i forget what the deal was w/goya ceo....
	6:49am Strandlund: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:45 Whatever it was...it was the day I stopped eating anything branded, "Goya."
	6:50am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:44 Hiya Cooh.
	⚡ 6:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "All My Trials" by "Sonny Sharrock Band" so good
	6:55am Beast of Boonton: ↳ Song: "All My Trials" by "Sonny Sharrock Band" Dickey Betts feel to this one. RIP
	6:55am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:52 Recorded here in JC.
	⚡ 6:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:55 ah...
	⚡ 6:57am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ Song: "All My Trials" by "Sonny Sharrock Band" This has such a morning feel to it
	⚡ 6:58am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Loss" by "Star City Survivor" Was away from keyboard, this was spectacular
	6:59am dale: morning. someone gave me a subscription to consumer reports....did you know chocolate is usually full of lead and other hetals metals? delicious AND deadly.
	7:00am dale: heavy.....HEAVY metals....
	7:00am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ morphe' @6:37 Good morning, Mr.morphe.
	7:00am rich in angleton: good morning Brian! hello everybody in radioland. it's nice to be here as always.
	7:02am Brian D: ↳ dale @6:59 Worth the risk for chocolate, though. Good morning, Dale.
	7:02am Brian D: PaulRobeson! Rich!
	7:04am ?: this hoppy kamiyama reminds me of a piece called the Dance of Death from the ballet the Green Table
	7:05am PaulRobeson1924: Brain! Big D!
	7:05am PaulRobeson1924: Brian!
	7:06am Toothgrinder Tom: Brain? What is brain?
	⚡ 7:07am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ dale @6:59 strawberries filled with pesticide, chocolate filled with lead, lettuce contaminated with e coli and salmonella, milk full of avian flu, things are great baby!
	7:07am fred: ↳ dale @7:00 Are you trying to summon Don Felder?
	⚡ 7:07am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @6:34 How close are you to Tralee? Have friends there
	⚡ 7:09am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning Paul Roberson! Had a bowl of high fiber heritage flakes this morning and thought of you
	7:13am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @7:09 Spelt! Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
	⚡ 7:15am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ Song: "Fistful of Love" by "Anohni and the Johnsons" incredible, devastating
	7:15am dale: ↳ fred @7:07 damn straight!
	⚡ 7:16am newton: Good morning brian, currants
	7:16am dale: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @7:07 should make us stronger if we survive dinner.
	⚡ 7:20am newton: Oh no Aiden was my neighbor
	⚡ 7:21am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ dale @7:16 but how will we make it through dessert?
	7:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The great author Michael Pollan made the observation that while our system of Food Distribution is in one sense a great advantage over how it's been for most of History - it does have the disadvantage of, if say you have one cow with mad cow disease & grind it up & mix it up with hundreds or maybe thousands of others - & then ship that out all over the place - it's an effective way of distributing disease - or contamination - as well as nutrition (not to say pleasure). Whereas I guess if you're more a Localvore - your regional source either has that concern, or doesn't in a given circumstance... Politically - I'm pretty sure the one Party will be in favor of resources for Food Safety Regulation for the Public well-being ...& the other less so. Certainly true for issues of the Environment & Toxins both generally & demonstrably... Distribution (of - most anything) also uses Resources for transportation fuel, of course. Another aspect of being a Localvore some might think more 'woo-woo' is that things grown where you are have shared the same environment you are in & adapted to it - & so will be better for you there...
	⚡ 7:23am Spikey BXL: Proper footy and rugby song, this
	7:23am Strandlund: I'm Irish, as well, Brian. I have an apostrophe in my last name. Looking forward to this set...
	7:24am Cooh John: I have roots to County Leitrim.
	7:24am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:20 He was indeed, Newton. Good morning.
	7:25am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:23 It'll be sung at Hampden Park today.
	⚡ 7:25am Don in Tampere: This song used to get the same eye rolls as sessions when I lived and played in Ireland as Foggy Mountain Breakdown gets at bluegrass sessions in the US.
	7:25am morphe': ↳ Spikey BXL @7:07 I am in Brandon = other side of Connor Pass from Dingle .. I spent 2-3 weeks every Summer in Tralee 60s-70s ... My aunt's husband was Sonny Tagney - the town tailor ..
	7:25am HyperDose: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:23 Shedding a tear or two in pub with the boys
	⚡ 7:26am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Very sorry for the loss of Aiden. Wonderful to have a friend and good to hear he was yours.
	⚡ 7:27am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @7:24 I used to own a house outside Arigna that was right at the intersection of Counties Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo
	7:27am Toothgrinder Tom: ↳ Song: "The Fields of Athenry" by "Dubliners" Lovely, plaintive melody.
	7:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Need a cure for excessive Anglophilia (love of all things British) - as a Rawker &/or enthusiast of Comedy - &tc. - might be prone to ? ...Meet an Irish person. I found this very effective for that seemingly most intractable condition...
	7:27am morphe': ↳ Song: "The Fields of Athenry" by "Dubliners" I missed the transition talk between Anohni and the set?? Anohni moved some years ago to Donegal...
	⚡ 7:28am newton: I met Aiden in the early 90s when I moved into the building next to his. He had a little ancient JRT named Sean. Aiden and I started talking the way neighbors will, small talk quickly gave way to local news and poetry and politics. He declaimed Yeats as easily as I could elvis costello. I always had an optimistic apprehension that I might run into him when ever I went out. A lovely man.
	⚡ 7:29am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Whiskey In The Jar" by "Thin Lizzy" Vibe for Philo ♥️
	⚡ 7:29am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Cooh John @7:24 Former sister-in-law is from County Cork. Still has family there.
	7:29am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:27 Didn't know that about Anohni. Made a great choice. My 96-year-old friend from Monaghan passed.
	7:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:25 What's your instrument ? A friend - a most excellent person - is a rather good Irish Trad piper.
	7:29am dale: THIS. is my favorite thin lizzy song. song goes back to the 1700s if i recall.
	7:30am Cooh John: Got to see Phil on the Jailbreak tour.🎸🎶❤️
	7:30am ?: first day with your jar you find.....
	7:30am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:28 Yeats... Shakespeare... Joyce... He could recite long passages from memory. Yes, Sean and later Dusty.
	⚡ 7:31am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Park time over, time to go get coffee and breakfast with Mom and Dad while the dogs steal toys back and forth
	7:32am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:29 Yeah I just figured that ... always sad.. but it happens and when the end is rough [my young sister, father, mother [Cancers]] it is a blessing as the cliche' goes with reason...
	⚡ 7:32am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @7:25 My friend got married in Dingle, his brother lives 25 minutes out
	7:32am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:32 Very true. He had a great run, but the last 5 years weren't great.
	⚡ 7:33am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Whiskey In The Jar" by "Thin Lizzy" Third kit for Bohemians is a Lizzy tribute this season. It's superb
	7:33am ?: .....everyone lies
	⚡ 7:38am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @7:29 Sorry for your loss, Brian. 🕯️♥️
	7:38am HyperDose: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @7:31 Love a nice dewy park in the morning. Enjoy breakfast!
	7:39am morphe': ↳ Spikey BXL @7:33 When near the end, Bob Marley played Dalymount and made the promoter reduce the price of the tkts and also played some footies before the show.. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-day-bob-marley-came-to-town-and-left-his-mark-on-bohemians/41284422.html
	⚡ 7:40am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @7:39 They did a Marley tribute shirt last season iirc
	⚡ 7:40am Don in Tampere: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:29 I played mostly clawhammer banjo in sessions there, but sometimes guitar. Yes, I know that 5-string banjo is not traditionally Irish but I found people to be much less dogmatic there than in "Irish" sessions outside Ireland
	⚡ 7:41am Spikey BXL: Replied before checking the link
	7:41am Toothgrinder Tom: The president of Local 100 of the Transit Wirkers Union went to Belfast this week to meet with Sinn Fein representatives.
	7:41am fred: ↳ Song: "Khuzama" by "Farah Kaddour" I like this a lot. I'll have to be on the lookout for a show nearby
	7:43am morphe': ↳ Spikey BXL @7:40 This is the article for which I was looking: https://www.the42.ie/bob-marley-dalymount-park-5145664-Jul2020/
	7:45am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Flight" by "SUSS" This is quite interesting. Never heard of SUSS before. I hear a little Fripp and Roches.
	⚡ 7:45am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @7:43 Thx for sharing
	7:47am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Flight" by "SUSS" Gorgeous
	⚡ 7:48am newton: ↳ Song: "Flight" by "SUSS" there were described as "ambient Country" in Stereogum
	7:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:40 Well - probly so that Traditions in this are not as 'ancient' as most people think. For instance, I was surprised to learn that the DADGAD Gittar Tuning now standard throughout Irish Trad was only established by (the inestimable) Davey Graham in the 1960s ! Perhaps in some way comparable to how what we think of as 'Country' Music has really only been codified gradually since the 1940s ?
	7:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:40 ...'Banjo' of course being an African word, if one considers it for even a moment...
	7:52am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:48 Maybe music, even trad, is alive there. Any art form that is alive keeps evolving
	⚡ 7:52am Spikey BXL: ↳ HyperDose @7:25 🍻
	7:54am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:52 Bonjour fred, Mr. Rabbit. I just learned that the Irish bouzouki instrument was adapted from the Greek one as recently as the 1960s.
	7:57am Cooh John: My Irish son-in-law plays the bouzouki. Planxty started the bouzouki craze.
	7:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @7:52 Consider the Blues for example. On one hand the most simple Form (I-IV-V chords, 12 Bars, what have you) - in which it's so much more the Way you do it than What you do - as well as the fundament of so much of our other Musics (Jazz, Rawk &tc.) Yet the Originators - & Innovators - tended to be much less 'Formal' - before it was Codified. John Lee Hooker wasn't much worried with doing exactly 12 Bars - as it were... Observed that - what mattered about Little Walter was - people had not stuck a microphone right up to a harmonica like that yet. What first engaged us was that it was once New...
	7:59am TDK60: ↳ Cooh John @7:57 Good morning Cooh John. I got to try one in a music store recently. I love the sound, similar to a 12-string guitar. If I were rolling in dough, I'd get one.
	⚡ 8:01am Spikey BXL: The Irish Bouzouki discussion reminds me of a friend jokingly referring to mashed potatoes as Irish Guacamole
	8:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Cooh John @7:57 'Bouzouki' as obvsly a Greek word as 'Banjo' is African. The really most Ancient things are probly Pipes & of course Drums. Tho I also carry an enthusiasm for the notion that things can be Musically retained by transmission - as African elements were in the Western Hemisphere against all the greatest Opposition of no less than Slavery & Segregation. To which we owe so much of what we even regard as Music & Culture now - whatsoever. Which is to say, I believe these things Matter.
	8:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& the Celts themselves once spanned across all of Europe, of course - driven into the sort of extreme NorthWest islands - perhaps very broadly comparable (if later) to First Nations People in the USA always Relocated to the Reservations.
	⚡ 8:10am Don in Tampere: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:04 I had the good fortune to play a few sessions with Johnny Moynihan, who is credited for bringing the bouzouki to Irish music. He later seemed to be unsure if that was a good idea: www.youtube.com...
	⚡ 8:11am Don in Tampere: I would love to introduce the jouhikko to American old-time string band music. The closest I got to that was doing a set of Finnish and American folk music on banjo and jouhikko with Pekko Käppi at Finnish Sauna Day last year.
	8:13am radioronan: Good morning Brian and all..speaking trad or semi-trad on the chat board, I saw The Mary Wallopers last night..great show.
	8:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Maybe it's just that some things just resonate with a People - & only then become Definitive for them. Like British people to Rhythm & Blues (Rawk) - or Tea from Asia for that matter.
	8:16am TDK60: ↳ Don in Tampere @8:10 Hello Don. I'll have to look at that later. Interesting. I just realized I forgot to ask you about that CD and 7 inch record you had at the meetup, that Paulo had acquired.
	8:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:15 ...just saw a Post suggested that every six days in the World - somebody celebrates their Independence from the British Empire...
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @8:13 Greetings, Ronan.
	8:18am Lona: Hello, chat board! Ready to tune in and turn up the volume on some great music today.
	8:20am Brian D: ↳ Lona @8:18 Welcome, Lona.
	⚡ 8:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Vector Divergent Scheme" by "Darius Denominator" perhaps "lois c denominator"
	8:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @8:11 Of course the Finnish have had an advantage, reportedly, of being more Cultural 'Localvores' - separate from most of the Stems from which most of the rest of Europe originated ? Tolkien of course especially admired & was influenced by the Kalevala - & I imagine admired how their Traditions have been preserved & persist...
	8:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Bruxism (Fire)" by "Lovataraxx" Bruxism - tooth grinding.
	8:29am LonaLona: It's fascinating how different cultures influence and shape music, creating a beautiful tapestry of sounds and traditions.
	8:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Of course it's typified Modernism that boundaries have melded into each other - & Genre Labels falter.
	⚡ 8:31am newton: I'm losing a mm a year too
	8:32am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:15 I once met a Taiwanese woman who told me how English tea is undrinkable to her. The long time shipping it from Asia had English people develop a very different taste from the Chinese (no way white tea would have survived the trip)
	8:32am morphe': India Elections ... BBC had people in a mixed Hindu/Muslim/other small town hoping to stop the further impowering of the Hindu Nationalist movement... "Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/india-mammoth-election-explained-narendra-modi-bjp
	⚡ 8:33am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky-Brussels shuts down conservatism confer... This has flushed out a lot of the - for me - scum. Not bad when something makes masks drop.
	⚡ 8:34am herb.nyc: Good morning all. Brian, very sorry to hear of yr friend’s death. We’re glad that you were there for Aiden, and would mention him at times. And in solidarity with Aiden, I’m gonna make a (cardboard) thin lizzy “whiskey in the jar” single and smash it up. So there! (We Chinese do such symbolic things)
	8:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @8:32 Interesting. I love GreenTea, for one thing... Of course 'India Ale' was from putting more bitter Hops in it to preserve it being Shipped so far ...but in the other direction I suppose...
	⚡ 8:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Cavern" by "Liquid Liquid" would this have existed w/o disco?
	8:36am Re6ecca: Love this!
	8:36am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Cavern" by "Liquid Liquid" timeless bass lines
	⚡ 8:36am herb.nyc: ↳ morphe' @8:32 I’m a pollworker. Wouldn’t it be funny if India had to outsource Pollwork jobs to here in USandA?
	8:37am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:34 Thank you, Herb. He'd hate that, which makes it a fitting tribute.
	⚡ 8:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ herb.nyc @8:36 ha!
	8:37am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:34 My favorite is blue-green tea, then white. Expensive though, so I rarely indulge
	⚡ 8:39am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:37 Haha. So much hate in the world
	8:40am LonaLonaLona: It's intriguing how music transcends boundaries and genres, creating a universal language that speaks to us all.
	⚡ 8:43am Spikey BXL: Pre clicky starred Boeckner - pay attention y'all
	8:45am ∫ydniuß: I love Beck with extra letters! ⭐️
	⚡ 8:48am Bobby: ↳ Song: "Plastic Bag" by "X-Ray Spex" Alright!
	8:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ LonaLonaLona @8:40 It's presumed - I think ! - that Music was earlier than Language. Whatever that means. But they say now that Music engages more parts of the brain @ once than about anything else. It's sort of Total. & I think - integrating. Otoh - I think every Continent & Culture has its own Musical Scale - which I actually equate with the same being true for distinct regional systems of for instance Calendars & Metaphysics - since that fascinates me as well. Point being - I think Musics & the view of the World ~ Universe have a distinct & a direct relation to each other. & it's a bit different for Europeans, Africans, Asians & First Nations Peoples. @ the same time as it is one of our most shared Human engagements. (Not to say - indeed - vibrational relations to the Universe & Existence themselves.)
	8:49am ∫ydniuß: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:48 at a fundamental level, vibrations in fields are all that are.
	8:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ ∫ydniuß @8:49 Yes - & Music gets us right to this.
	8:51am LonaLonaLonaLona: Music truly is a universal language that connects us all, transcending boundaries and genres with its vibrational relations to the universe and existence itself.
	8:51am fred: @RevRab: I was spoiled when it comes to tea, quite an amazing story. But we're running out of time, so I'll tell you another time
	8:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @8:51 Intrigued by 'Blue-Green' Tea ! Fact is - if it has Caffeine - I'm probly enthused...
	8:53am HyperDose: Thanks, Brian and so very sorry for your loss ❤️🙏🏾
	8:53am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!! and to/for Aiden: “Suaimhneas Síoraí Air” or “Go Raibh Suaimhneas Síoraí Air” = Eternal Rest .... [had to look that up]
	8:53am ∫ydniuß: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:52 when I meet people that remain free of it I am jealous and befuddled
	⚡ 8:54am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show Brian. Wish I could have contributed more to the comments, but that's how it goes some times. Catch you next week.
	⚡ 8:54am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:52 Chinese pu erh is interesting. Has a dark sepia-brown color and unique flavour.
	8:54am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @8:53 Cheers, Morphe. Slante.
	8:55am TDK60: Lots of musical vibrations I was not familiar with, but this has happened a few times while listening to WFMU. Hee. Gracias Brian. RIP to your friend Aiden.
	8:55am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:52 I'd say it's on the weak side, but amazing range of flavors
	8:56am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me today. Have a great Saturday and a great week. Stay safe. Diane Foley will be on next week discussing her book "American Mother" and her son, James Foley.
	8:56am radioronan: Thanks Brian..happy record store day everyone..regardless of the bloated releases bit - support & celebrate local stores everyday! Cheers y'all!
	⚡ 8:57am Spikey BXL: Thanks Brian!
	⚡ 8:57am Michael of Cologne: Bye bye, Brian. Hear you again.
	⚡ 8:57am Don in Tampere: ↳ TDK60 @8:16 Hi TDK, just back from an errand to the library to check out a DVD of a movie that was filmed almost next door to where my brother lives. I also gave 2 CDs and a single to Brian for the station, so maybe with any luck someone will find something worth playing!
	8:58am rich in angleton: great show Brian!! thank you!
	9:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ BrianD ~ Apologies anyone if I occupied too much chat space this morning - tho seemed a good exchange. Just elbow me out of the way, reclaim the availablw oxygen & Post yourself if this happens...
	9:01am Fredericks: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:00 I loved your contributions, Rev.
	9:02am LonaLonaLonaLonaLona: It's fascinating how different types of tea can have such unique flavors and colors, adding a touch of diversity to our daily routines.
	⚡ 9:03am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D, sorry to hear about your friend
	9:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Fredericks @9:01 TY. I fear enthusiasm may ironically have the same effect as trolling, if for opposite reasons - just in taking space others may want to use.

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 20, 2024

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Music inspired by life and current events

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Sat. Dec 21st, 6am - 9am: Writer and investigative journalist Greg Donahue (More info...)
Writer and investigative journalist Greg Donahue joins Currents on Saturday, December 21st to discuss his reporting on the mysterious -- and life-threatening -- brain disease that's affecting residents of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Greg's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The Guardian, The Atavist Magazine, Vice, and Marie Claire, among many other publications.

April 20, 2024: "We live together in a photograph of time..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Room 31	OK, Mr. Tough Guy "OK, Mr. Tough Guy" by "Room 31"	Crazy Town		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG	The Culprit Is You	Life Is Funny That Way		0:06:20 (Pop-up)
Departure Street	Everything Is A Dream	Into The Drop Zone	R.I.P. Don Wright: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/business/media/don-wright-dead.html	0:17:30 (Pop-up)
Pas Musique	Going Down Forever "Going Down Forever" by "Pas Musique"	Ether Arrangements		0:23:31 (Pop-up)
	CBC-Coral reefs experiencing mass bleaching event		https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/climate/coral-reefs-bleaching.html	0:29:18 (Pop-up)
Star City Survivor	Loss "Loss" by "Star City Survivor"	Wilderness		0:30:31 (Pop-up)
Sonny Sharrock Band	All My Trials	Highlife		0:48:28 (Pop-up)
	Clip: CBS-Some imported produce test high for pesticides		https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/fruits-vegetables-pesticide-consumer-reports	0:56:29 (Pop-up)
Hoppy Kamiyama	Cogito "Cogito" by "Hoppy Kamiyama"	Hoppy Kamiyama		0:56:58 (Pop-up)
Shiver	Chromakode "Chromakode" by "Shiver"	Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Vol. 2		1:04:16 (Pop-up)
Anohni and the Johnsons	Fistful of Love	I Am a Bird Now		1:11:39 (Pop-up)
Dubliners	The Fields of Athenry "The Fields of Athenry" by "Dubliners"	Spirit of the Irish		1:20:57 (Pop-up)
The Blarney Lads	I'll Tell Me Ma "I'll Tell Me Ma" by "The Blarney Lads"	Pub Songs Ireland		1:25:02 (Pop-up)
Thin Lizzy	Whiskey In The Jar "Whiskey In The Jar" by "Thin Lizzy"	The Peel Sessions		1:27:02 (Pop-up)
Farah Kaddour	Khuzama "Khuzama" by "Farah Kaddour"	Bada		1:33:53 (Pop-up)
SUSS	Flight "Flight" by "SUSS"	Birds and Beasts		1:41:09 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Sky-Brussels shuts down conservatism conference			1:46:48 (Pop-up)
Sin Ropas	The Fever You Fake "The Fever You Fake" by "Sin Ropas"	Holy Broken		1:48:00 (Pop-up)
Madder Rose	I Want A New Me (girlghostboyghost)	No One Gets Hurt Ever		1:53:16 (Pop-up)
	Clip: 4SidesTV-Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking		https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68844731	1:56:08 (Pop-up)
Elbow	This Blue World "This Blue World" by "Elbow"	The Take Off and Landing of Everything		1:57:02 (Pop-up)
FeMaLe GeNiuS	Fire (remix) "Fire (remix)" by "FeMaLe GeNiuS"	FeMaLe GeNiuS		2:04:18 (Pop-up)
David Bowie / Brian Eno	Get Real – Sounds Right Mix (ft. NATURE)	Single		2:07:38 (Pop-up)
Penny Arcade	Black Clouds "Black Clouds" by "Penny Arcade"	Back Water Collage		2:12:00 (Pop-up)
Darius Denominator	Vector Divergent Scheme	Derangements		2:14:57 (Pop-up)
Wolves Again	Endless Horizon "Endless Horizon" by "Wolves Again"	Ruined Cities Yield No Light		2:18:29 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Taiwan Plus-Indian Security Forces Kill at Least 29 Maoist Rebels			2:21:40 (Pop-up)
Lovataraxx	Bruxism (Fire) "Bruxism (Fire)" by "Lovataraxx"	Sophomore		2:22:09 (Pop-up)
Liquid Liquid	Cavern "Cavern" by "Liquid Liquid"	Optimo EP		2:32:09 (Pop-up)
Mollys	Zombi Mariachi "Zombi Mariachi" by "Mollys"	Balm Trips		2:37:28 (Pop-up)
	Clip: WION-Heavy rain and flash flood warnings sweep the Gulf		https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68839043	2:40:55 (Pop-up)
Boeckner	Lose "Lose" by "Boeckner"	Boeckner!		2:41:57 (Pop-up)
X-Ray Spex	Plastic Bag "Plastic Bag" by "X-Ray Spex"	The Anthology		2:46:48 (Pop-up)
Pearl Harbour	Do Your Homework "Do Your Homework" by "Pearl Harbour"	Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost, Too		2:52:36 (Pop-up)
Sheer Mag	I Gotta Go "I Gotta Go" by "Sheer Mag"	Playing Favorites		2:55:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:02am fred: Good morning Brian and all
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	6:03am Brian D: Greetings all.
	6:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:02 Are you saying I'm not a person?
	⚡ 6:04am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian, fred, tom tom. Briad, it was geat to meet you in real life last week! Back in Finland now, and it's snowing outside.
	⚡ 6:04am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:03 djs are gods, right...?
	6:05am TDK60: Good morning, Brian.
	6:07am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:04 Likewise, Don. Only wish I could have stayed longer.
	⚡ 6:07am tom tom the pipers son: hello don...
	6:07am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and Currentors! Greetings from Concord, MA... bit of a change from my usual routine of listening to you at 11:00 am in my kitchen in London Town :-)
	6:07am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:04 Ha! If only...
	⚡ 6:07am Spikey BXL: Good morning Brian, currentistas. A thought for Mrs Current's rehab
	6:08am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:07 Hope it's a pleasant change, LCF. "The British are coming!"
	⚡ 6:09am Spikey BXL: *physical therapy - before someone makes wrong assumptions
	6:09am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:07 Thank you, Spikey, and good morning. Progressing... slowly. She's got about 80% function in her arm, well under 50% in her hand and wrist, however.
	6:09am TDK60: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:07 Hello London Calling Francky. That's Massachusetts? The land of Emerson and Thoreau.
	6:10am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:09 In our house, both apply. Although, I'm the one who's been in rehab.
	6:10am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:08 A very pleasant change Brian... Funny you should mention that; I am visiting family but did attend the Patriots Day parade and it was a lot of fun! :-)
	6:12am London Calling Francky: ↳ TDK60 @6:09 Morning TDK! Oh yes indeed, Concord, MA the hometown of both Emerson and Thoreau... I went to walk around Walden Pond to see where Thoreau's "simple life" cabin was located... beautiful part of the world!
	6:13am Toothgrinder Tom: @London Calling Francky I did the reverse of that recently.
	6:13am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:05 Hello TDK.
	6:14am Toothgrinder Tom: The birdsong at daybreak is back.
	6:14am London Calling Francky: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:13 The reverse as in moving to a "complicated life" cabin?
	6:15am Toothgrinder Tom: No I mean I went to the UK and monitored how the WFMU schedule now appeared.
	6:15am Toothgrinder Tom: Wake and Bake a late morning show and all that.
	⚡ 6:15am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "The Culprit Is You" by "Fay Victor / Herbie Nicho... Interesting sounds! Good noonday to you, Brian, Tom Tom, Fred, Don & all.
	⚡ 6:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:15 good afternoon micheal...
	6:18am London Calling Francky: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:15 Oh that makes a lot more sense T.T.! The real-time WFMU schedule in the USA is funny to me... yes, I am used to the Pidge and Brian at 11:00, I am WFMU-lagged!
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:15 Hello Michael!
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:14 I've stayed in one of those...
	6:20am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:18 I am with you Brian... most of my existence often feels like staying in a "complicated life" cabin...
	⚡ 6:24am tom tom the pipers son: somewhat in the realm of political cartoons, the courtroom sketches of the hush money trial, have been very evocative, in their rushed shoddiness they're capturing trump more than photography could...the sketches are also reminding me of goya a bit
	⚡ 6:25am Don in Tampere: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:15 Hi Michael, I never managed to get a gig in Cologne, but I do have a solo show coming up May 3 in a place called Park-Kultur in Düsseldorf in Oststr 116
	⚡ 6:25am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 couldn't believe one had him sleeping
	6:25am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ~
	6:26am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & all happy 4/20!
	⚡ 6:26am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:25 apparently there's been more than one opportunity to catch him napping
	⚡ 6:27am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:26 I get my updates on that from Colbert
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:25 He does have a grueling court schedule, to be fair.
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:27 It'd be funny... except we're doomed.
	⚡ 6:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:27 ah, used to watch consistently, but catch on youtube since ridding myself of tv
	⚡ 6:29am Spikey BXL: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:29 YT here as well, obviously
	⚡ 6:31am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:25 Good to hear you're touring in retirement, Don!
	6:34am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 Good morning tom tom. I'm sad to hear this morn someone tried to self-immolate outside that courtroom. A protest against fascism apparently.
	6:34am morphe': Attuned from gloriously sunny West Kerry, Ire ... every meeting with acquaintances or strangers will start with a conversation about the "glorious day..." ... the computer in the doorway ... working in the yard ...
	⚡ 6:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @6:34 i did not see/hear that... awful...
	⚡ 6:35am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:28 Fair?! You are a generous soul, Brian. But I sense your tongue in cheekiness.
	6:35am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:34 Yes, very sad. AP reporting this morning that he died.
	⚡ 6:36am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning Brian! Hello Friends! It's a chilly, foggy morning up at the dog park but we will not let wet paws stop is from chasing the ball!
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @6:35 AP also reporting he spread pamphlets espousing "conspiracy theories."
	6:36am Strandlund: Good Morning, Afternoon and Evening everyone!! Happy 4-20!!
	6:37am Brian D: Greetings NotARealDoctor, Strand.
	6:37am morphe': trump Trial ... the guy who lit himself on fire yesterday has died ... there is a photo of him with a poster saying Trump and Biden were in a combo conspiracy ??? https://deadline.com/2024/04/fire-trump-trial-1235890365/
	⚡ 6:38am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian D and everyone.
	6:38am Toothgrinder Tom: @tom tom 6:26 I try to avoid any images of that guy, especially ones with accompanying sound, but if the sketches are evocative of Goya, I may make an exception.
	6:38am Brian D: Peter! Belated hello, morphe.
	6:38am Strandlund: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:27 Colbert the best!!
	⚡ 6:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:38 goya on a bad day...;)
	6:40am Toothgrinder Tom: @Francky to be clear, I didn’t go to the UK primarily To monitor the station schedule time shift ….
	6:41am Toothgrinder Tom: It was just a side effect.
	6:42am Toothgrinder Tom: @tom tom so it goyas.
	6:42am morphe': ↳ Brian D @6:38 Arrived belatedly myself [not sure that is syntacticly correct] ... was listening to a guy on Irish radio Conor Buckley who grew up mixed race and albino in Ireland ... he runs a conscious design Co called ...Human Collective
	6:42am Strandlund: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:39 Here's Goya on a very bad day: www.bing.com...
	6:44am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. History is being made. Nice soundtrack.
	⚡ 6:45am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:36 Conspiracy!? What a joke! It's all happening in plain sight. With the connivance of the US Supreme Court, even. I'm in favour of the pre-political as our last hope.
	⚡ 6:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Strandlund @6:42 yes, i forget what the deal was w/goya ceo....
	6:49am Strandlund: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:45 Whatever it was...it was the day I stopped eating anything branded, "Goya."
	6:50am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:44 Hiya Cooh.
	⚡ 6:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "All My Trials" by "Sonny Sharrock Band" so good
	6:55am Beast of Boonton: ↳ Song: "All My Trials" by "Sonny Sharrock Band" Dickey Betts feel to this one. RIP
	6:55am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:52 Recorded here in JC.
	⚡ 6:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:55 ah...
	⚡ 6:57am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ Song: "All My Trials" by "Sonny Sharrock Band" This has such a morning feel to it
	⚡ 6:58am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Loss" by "Star City Survivor" Was away from keyboard, this was spectacular
	6:59am dale: morning. someone gave me a subscription to consumer reports....did you know chocolate is usually full of lead and other hetals metals? delicious AND deadly.
	7:00am dale: heavy.....HEAVY metals....
	7:00am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ morphe' @6:37 Good morning, Mr.morphe.
	7:00am rich in angleton: good morning Brian! hello everybody in radioland. it's nice to be here as always.
	7:02am Brian D: ↳ dale @6:59 Worth the risk for chocolate, though. Good morning, Dale.
	7:02am Brian D: PaulRobeson! Rich!
	7:04am ?: this hoppy kamiyama reminds me of a piece called the Dance of Death from the ballet the Green Table
	7:05am PaulRobeson1924: Brain! Big D!
	7:05am PaulRobeson1924: Brian!
	7:06am Toothgrinder Tom: Brain? What is brain?
	⚡ 7:07am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ dale @6:59 strawberries filled with pesticide, chocolate filled with lead, lettuce contaminated with e coli and salmonella, milk full of avian flu, things are great baby!
	7:07am fred: ↳ dale @7:00 Are you trying to summon Don Felder?
	⚡ 7:07am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @6:34 How close are you to Tralee? Have friends there
	⚡ 7:09am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Good morning Paul Roberson! Had a bowl of high fiber heritage flakes this morning and thought of you
	7:13am PaulRobeson1924: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @7:09 Spelt! Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
	⚡ 7:15am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ Song: "Fistful of Love" by "Anohni and the Johnsons" incredible, devastating
	7:15am dale: ↳ fred @7:07 damn straight!
	⚡ 7:16am newton: Good morning brian, currants
	7:16am dale: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @7:07 should make us stronger if we survive dinner.
	⚡ 7:20am newton: Oh no Aiden was my neighbor
	⚡ 7:21am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: ↳ dale @7:16 but how will we make it through dessert?
	7:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The great author Michael Pollan made the observation that while our system of Food Distribution is in one sense a great advantage over how it's been for most of History - it does have the disadvantage of, if say you have one cow with mad cow disease & grind it up & mix it up with hundreds or maybe thousands of others - & then ship that out all over the place - it's an effective way of distributing disease - or contamination - as well as nutrition (not to say pleasure). Whereas I guess if you're more a Localvore - your regional source either has that concern, or doesn't in a given circumstance... Politically - I'm pretty sure the one Party will be in favor of resources for Food Safety Regulation for the Public well-being ...& the other less so. Certainly true for issues of the Environment & Toxins both generally & demonstrably... Distribution (of - most anything) also uses Resources for transportation fuel, of course. Another aspect of being a Localvore some might think more 'woo-woo' is that things grown where you are have shared the same environment you are in & adapted to it - & so will be better for you there...
	⚡ 7:23am Spikey BXL: Proper footy and rugby song, this
	7:23am Strandlund: I'm Irish, as well, Brian. I have an apostrophe in my last name. Looking forward to this set...
	7:24am Cooh John: I have roots to County Leitrim.
	7:24am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:20 He was indeed, Newton. Good morning.
	7:25am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:23 It'll be sung at Hampden Park today.
	⚡ 7:25am Don in Tampere: This song used to get the same eye rolls as sessions when I lived and played in Ireland as Foggy Mountain Breakdown gets at bluegrass sessions in the US.
	7:25am morphe': ↳ Spikey BXL @7:07 I am in Brandon = other side of Connor Pass from Dingle .. I spent 2-3 weeks every Summer in Tralee 60s-70s ... My aunt's husband was Sonny Tagney - the town tailor ..
	7:25am HyperDose: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:23 Shedding a tear or two in pub with the boys
	⚡ 7:26am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Very sorry for the loss of Aiden. Wonderful to have a friend and good to hear he was yours.
	⚡ 7:27am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @7:24 I used to own a house outside Arigna that was right at the intersection of Counties Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo
	7:27am Toothgrinder Tom: ↳ Song: "The Fields of Athenry" by "Dubliners" Lovely, plaintive melody.
	7:27am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Need a cure for excessive Anglophilia (love of all things British) - as a Rawker &/or enthusiast of Comedy - &tc. - might be prone to ? ...Meet an Irish person. I found this very effective for that seemingly most intractable condition...
	7:27am morphe': ↳ Song: "The Fields of Athenry" by "Dubliners" I missed the transition talk between Anohni and the set?? Anohni moved some years ago to Donegal...
	⚡ 7:28am newton: I met Aiden in the early 90s when I moved into the building next to his. He had a little ancient JRT named Sean. Aiden and I started talking the way neighbors will, small talk quickly gave way to local news and poetry and politics. He declaimed Yeats as easily as I could elvis costello. I always had an optimistic apprehension that I might run into him when ever I went out. A lovely man.
	⚡ 7:29am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Whiskey In The Jar" by "Thin Lizzy" Vibe for Philo ♥️
	⚡ 7:29am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ Cooh John @7:24 Former sister-in-law is from County Cork. Still has family there.
	7:29am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:27 Didn't know that about Anohni. Made a great choice. My 96-year-old friend from Monaghan passed.
	7:29am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:25 What's your instrument ? A friend - a most excellent person - is a rather good Irish Trad piper.
	7:29am dale: THIS. is my favorite thin lizzy song. song goes back to the 1700s if i recall.
	7:30am Cooh John: Got to see Phil on the Jailbreak tour.🎸🎶❤️
	7:30am ?: first day with your jar you find.....
	7:30am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:28 Yeats... Shakespeare... Joyce... He could recite long passages from memory. Yes, Sean and later Dusty.
	⚡ 7:31am NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA: Park time over, time to go get coffee and breakfast with Mom and Dad while the dogs steal toys back and forth
	7:32am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:29 Yeah I just figured that ... always sad.. but it happens and when the end is rough [my young sister, father, mother [Cancers]] it is a blessing as the cliche' goes with reason...
	⚡ 7:32am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @7:25 My friend got married in Dingle, his brother lives 25 minutes out
	7:32am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:32 Very true. He had a great run, but the last 5 years weren't great.
	⚡ 7:33am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Whiskey In The Jar" by "Thin Lizzy" Third kit for Bohemians is a Lizzy tribute this season. It's superb
	7:33am ?: .....everyone lies
	⚡ 7:38am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @7:29 Sorry for your loss, Brian. 🕯️♥️
	7:38am HyperDose: ↳ NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA @7:31 Love a nice dewy park in the morning. Enjoy breakfast!
	7:39am morphe': ↳ Spikey BXL @7:33 When near the end, Bob Marley played Dalymount and made the promoter reduce the price of the tkts and also played some footies before the show.. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-day-bob-marley-came-to-town-and-left-his-mark-on-bohemians/41284422.html
	⚡ 7:40am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @7:39 They did a Marley tribute shirt last season iirc
	⚡ 7:40am Don in Tampere: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:29 I played mostly clawhammer banjo in sessions there, but sometimes guitar. Yes, I know that 5-string banjo is not traditionally Irish but I found people to be much less dogmatic there than in "Irish" sessions outside Ireland
	⚡ 7:41am Spikey BXL: Replied before checking the link
	7:41am Toothgrinder Tom: The president of Local 100 of the Transit Wirkers Union went to Belfast this week to meet with Sinn Fein representatives.
	7:41am fred: ↳ Song: "Khuzama" by "Farah Kaddour" I like this a lot. I'll have to be on the lookout for a show nearby
	7:43am morphe': ↳ Spikey BXL @7:40 This is the article for which I was looking: https://www.the42.ie/bob-marley-dalymount-park-5145664-Jul2020/
	7:45am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Flight" by "SUSS" This is quite interesting. Never heard of SUSS before. I hear a little Fripp and Roches.
	⚡ 7:45am Spikey BXL: ↳ morphe' @7:43 Thx for sharing
	7:47am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Flight" by "SUSS" Gorgeous
	⚡ 7:48am newton: ↳ Song: "Flight" by "SUSS" there were described as "ambient Country" in Stereogum
	7:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:40 Well - probly so that Traditions in this are not as 'ancient' as most people think. For instance, I was surprised to learn that the DADGAD Gittar Tuning now standard throughout Irish Trad was only established by (the inestimable) Davey Graham in the 1960s ! Perhaps in some way comparable to how what we think of as 'Country' Music has really only been codified gradually since the 1940s ?
	7:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:40 ...'Banjo' of course being an African word, if one considers it for even a moment...
	7:52am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:48 Maybe music, even trad, is alive there. Any art form that is alive keeps evolving
	⚡ 7:52am Spikey BXL: ↳ HyperDose @7:25 🍻
	7:54am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:52 Bonjour fred, Mr. Rabbit. I just learned that the Irish bouzouki instrument was adapted from the Greek one as recently as the 1960s.
	7:57am Cooh John: My Irish son-in-law plays the bouzouki. Planxty started the bouzouki craze.
	7:58am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @7:52 Consider the Blues for example. On one hand the most simple Form (I-IV-V chords, 12 Bars, what have you) - in which it's so much more the Way you do it than What you do - as well as the fundament of so much of our other Musics (Jazz, Rawk &tc.) Yet the Originators - & Innovators - tended to be much less 'Formal' - before it was Codified. John Lee Hooker wasn't much worried with doing exactly 12 Bars - as it were... Observed that - what mattered about Little Walter was - people had not stuck a microphone right up to a harmonica like that yet. What first engaged us was that it was once New...
	7:59am TDK60: ↳ Cooh John @7:57 Good morning Cooh John. I got to try one in a music store recently. I love the sound, similar to a 12-string guitar. If I were rolling in dough, I'd get one.
	⚡ 8:01am Spikey BXL: The Irish Bouzouki discussion reminds me of a friend jokingly referring to mashed potatoes as Irish Guacamole
	8:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Cooh John @7:57 'Bouzouki' as obvsly a Greek word as 'Banjo' is African. The really most Ancient things are probly Pipes & of course Drums. Tho I also carry an enthusiasm for the notion that things can be Musically retained by transmission - as African elements were in the Western Hemisphere against all the greatest Opposition of no less than Slavery & Segregation. To which we owe so much of what we even regard as Music & Culture now - whatsoever. Which is to say, I believe these things Matter.
	8:10am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& the Celts themselves once spanned across all of Europe, of course - driven into the sort of extreme NorthWest islands - perhaps very broadly comparable (if later) to First Nations People in the USA always Relocated to the Reservations.
	⚡ 8:10am Don in Tampere: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:04 I had the good fortune to play a few sessions with Johnny Moynihan, who is credited for bringing the bouzouki to Irish music. He later seemed to be unsure if that was a good idea: www.youtube.com...
	⚡ 8:11am Don in Tampere: I would love to introduce the jouhikko to American old-time string band music. The closest I got to that was doing a set of Finnish and American folk music on banjo and jouhikko with Pekko Käppi at Finnish Sauna Day last year.
	8:13am radioronan: Good morning Brian and all..speaking trad or semi-trad on the chat board, I saw The Mary Wallopers last night..great show.
	8:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Maybe it's just that some things just resonate with a People - & only then become Definitive for them. Like British people to Rhythm & Blues (Rawk) - or Tea from Asia for that matter.
	8:16am TDK60: ↳ Don in Tampere @8:10 Hello Don. I'll have to look at that later. Interesting. I just realized I forgot to ask you about that CD and 7 inch record you had at the meetup, that Paulo had acquired.
	8:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:15 ...just saw a Post suggested that every six days in the World - somebody celebrates their Independence from the British Empire...
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @8:13 Greetings, Ronan.
	8:18am Lona: Hello, chat board! Ready to tune in and turn up the volume on some great music today.
	8:20am Brian D: ↳ Lona @8:18 Welcome, Lona.
	⚡ 8:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Vector Divergent Scheme" by "Darius Denominator" perhaps "lois c denominator"
	8:23am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Don in Tampere @8:11 Of course the Finnish have had an advantage, reportedly, of being more Cultural 'Localvores' - separate from most of the Stems from which most of the rest of Europe originated ? Tolkien of course especially admired & was influenced by the Kalevala - & I imagine admired how their Traditions have been preserved & persist...
	8:24am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Bruxism (Fire)" by "Lovataraxx" Bruxism - tooth grinding.
	8:29am LonaLona: It's fascinating how different cultures influence and shape music, creating a beautiful tapestry of sounds and traditions.
	8:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Of course it's typified Modernism that boundaries have melded into each other - & Genre Labels falter.
	⚡ 8:31am newton: I'm losing a mm a year too
	8:32am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:15 I once met a Taiwanese woman who told me how English tea is undrinkable to her. The long time shipping it from Asia had English people develop a very different taste from the Chinese (no way white tea would have survived the trip)
	8:32am morphe': India Elections ... BBC had people in a mixed Hindu/Muslim/other small town hoping to stop the further impowering of the Hindu Nationalist movement... "Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/india-mammoth-election-explained-narendra-modi-bjp
	⚡ 8:33am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky-Brussels shuts down conservatism confer... This has flushed out a lot of the - for me - scum. Not bad when something makes masks drop.
	⚡ 8:34am herb.nyc: Good morning all. Brian, very sorry to hear of yr friend’s death. We’re glad that you were there for Aiden, and would mention him at times. And in solidarity with Aiden, I’m gonna make a (cardboard) thin lizzy “whiskey in the jar” single and smash it up. So there! (We Chinese do such symbolic things)
	8:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @8:32 Interesting. I love GreenTea, for one thing... Of course 'India Ale' was from putting more bitter Hops in it to preserve it being Shipped so far ...but in the other direction I suppose...
	⚡ 8:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Cavern" by "Liquid Liquid" would this have existed w/o disco?
	8:36am Re6ecca: Love this!
	8:36am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Cavern" by "Liquid Liquid" timeless bass lines
	⚡ 8:36am herb.nyc: ↳ morphe' @8:32 I’m a pollworker. Wouldn’t it be funny if India had to outsource Pollwork jobs to here in USandA?
	8:37am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:34 Thank you, Herb. He'd hate that, which makes it a fitting tribute.
	⚡ 8:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ herb.nyc @8:36 ha!
	8:37am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:34 My favorite is blue-green tea, then white. Expensive though, so I rarely indulge
	⚡ 8:39am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:37 Haha. So much hate in the world
	8:40am LonaLonaLona: It's intriguing how music transcends boundaries and genres, creating a universal language that speaks to us all.
	⚡ 8:43am Spikey BXL: Pre clicky starred Boeckner - pay attention y'all
	8:45am ∫ydniuß: I love Beck with extra letters! ⭐️
	⚡ 8:48am Bobby: ↳ Song: "Plastic Bag" by "X-Ray Spex" Alright!
	8:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ LonaLonaLona @8:40 It's presumed - I think ! - that Music was earlier than Language. Whatever that means. But they say now that Music engages more parts of the brain @ once than about anything else. It's sort of Total. & I think - integrating. Otoh - I think every Continent & Culture has its own Musical Scale - which I actually equate with the same being true for distinct regional systems of for instance Calendars & Metaphysics - since that fascinates me as well. Point being - I think Musics & the view of the World ~ Universe have a distinct & a direct relation to each other. & it's a bit different for Europeans, Africans, Asians & First Nations Peoples. @ the same time as it is one of our most shared Human engagements. (Not to say - indeed - vibrational relations to the Universe & Existence themselves.)
	8:49am ∫ydniuß: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:48 at a fundamental level, vibrations in fields are all that are.
	8:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ ∫ydniuß @8:49 Yes - & Music gets us right to this.
	8:51am LonaLonaLonaLona: Music truly is a universal language that connects us all, transcending boundaries and genres with its vibrational relations to the universe and existence itself.
	8:51am fred: @RevRab: I was spoiled when it comes to tea, quite an amazing story. But we're running out of time, so I'll tell you another time
	8:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @8:51 Intrigued by 'Blue-Green' Tea ! Fact is - if it has Caffeine - I'm probly enthused...
	8:53am HyperDose: Thanks, Brian and so very sorry for your loss ❤️🙏🏾
	8:53am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!! and to/for Aiden: “Suaimhneas Síoraí Air” or “Go Raibh Suaimhneas Síoraí Air” = Eternal Rest .... [had to look that up]
	8:53am ∫ydniuß: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:52 when I meet people that remain free of it I am jealous and befuddled
	⚡ 8:54am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show Brian. Wish I could have contributed more to the comments, but that's how it goes some times. Catch you next week.
	⚡ 8:54am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:52 Chinese pu erh is interesting. Has a dark sepia-brown color and unique flavour.
	8:54am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @8:53 Cheers, Morphe. Slante.
	8:55am TDK60: Lots of musical vibrations I was not familiar with, but this has happened a few times while listening to WFMU. Hee. Gracias Brian. RIP to your friend Aiden.
	8:55am fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @8:52 I'd say it's on the weak side, but amazing range of flavors
	8:56am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me today. Have a great Saturday and a great week. Stay safe. Diane Foley will be on next week discussing her book "American Mother" and her son, James Foley.
	8:56am radioronan: Thanks Brian..happy record store day everyone..regardless of the bloated releases bit - support & celebrate local stores everyday! Cheers y'all!
	⚡ 8:57am Spikey BXL: Thanks Brian!
	⚡ 8:57am Michael of Cologne: Bye bye, Brian. Hear you again.
	⚡ 8:57am Don in Tampere: ↳ TDK60 @8:16 Hi TDK, just back from an errand to the library to check out a DVD of a movie that was filmed almost next door to where my brother lives. I also gave 2 CDs and a single to Brian for the station, so maybe with any luck someone will find something worth playing!
	8:58am rich in angleton: great show Brian!! thank you!
	9:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ BrianD ~ Apologies anyone if I occupied too much chat space this morning - tho seemed a good exchange. Just elbow me out of the way, reclaim the availablw oxygen & Post yourself if this happens...
	9:01am Fredericks: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:00 I loved your contributions, Rev.
	9:02am LonaLonaLonaLonaLona: It's fascinating how different types of tea can have such unique flavors and colors, adding a touch of diversity to our daily routines.
	⚡ 9:03am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D, sorry to hear about your friend
	9:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Fredericks @9:01 TY. I fear enthusiasm may ironically have the same effect as trolling, if for opposite reasons - just in taking space others may want to use.

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