WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 12, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 3:09pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:32pm Arvo Zylo: HOWDY
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:32 Thanks for joining us, ARVO!
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Welcome to the Digital Salon, Imaginos!
	8:56pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:54 Awesome to be here.
	9:01pm Mr. X: Hey, this sounds familiar.
	9:01pm Krys O.: Hey, just a quick message wishing you a fun show! G'night, all!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(Live #1)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" For those outside of the Mid-Valley, John Henry's has a long history, going back to at least the late 80's, probably even longer than that. The original owners are no longer involved, and this new incarnation had a very long gap between when it used to be around, and now. But it is a well-known name in Eugene, and a great place to get to play.
	👻 9:02pm Heather: Tuned in from a La Quinta hotel room in Memphis! Looking forward to the show!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Thanks Krys! Take care!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:02 Thanks for joining us, Heather!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 It's Mr. X! Hooray!
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:02 Nice to see you
	👻 9:04pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 Hi Imaginos!
	9:05pm Imaginos: Looks like the party crowd is here. Now we just need cheese, crackers, Janx Spirit and a few jet engines to make this party fly!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:05 I'm into that!
	9:10pm Mr. X: Bustle and truckle! LOL
	👻 9:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @9:04 Hi Heather! I hope La Quinta is treating you well! It made me think of John Candy selling shower curtain hoops on the road... in the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bella Ciao, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" A song that gets more and more desperately relevant with each passing day.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bella Ciao, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" Photo by Ivan, someone Marla and I met in our Covid Cautious group here in the Mid-Valley, and who came to the show! Ivan took some incredible photos of the show at Blast Off! here in the Mid-Valley, and I was really impressed with their eye for composition.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(Live #3)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" Joe Baiza (of Saccharine Trust) was sort of blowing my mind with his guitar playing at these shows. He really was excellently suited for changing with the songs as they developed. He was a lot of fun to watch, and I wish I could have talked to him more than the handful of times we chatted.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Of course, my only complaint about these shows: people never stop talking loudly at bars, no matter what kind of show is happening. I was hoping they would chill out for the music, but no...
	👻 9:20pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:12 Thank you, Arvo! I'm on the last leg of a whirlwind trip to help a friend show her Maine Coon cats in a cat show in Colorado! The white cat cleaned up on awards!!
	9:21pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 They were all three quite friendly and humble for being such stars. In the green room, it was particularly interesting whenever Watt and Baiza got into talking together about their memories of growing up in Pedro. They got pretty animated about which buildings got torn down when, and what took their places.
	9:21pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:20 Pretty kitty?
	👻 9:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @9:20 Nice! I used to have a Norwegian Longhair, they tend to look much like a Maine Coon.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Oh, I wish I'd heard them together. That would have been delightful. I knew they both grew up in Pedro, and even shared a practice space way back at the beginning.
	👻 9:23pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 OMG such a pretty kitty as is his brother, a Black Smoke! Both huge and gorgeous and sweet!! I miss them terribly now but they and their mom have gone home and I'm in the hotel, tuned in and catching up on office work and, best of all, checking in on the chat!
	👻 9:24pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:22 I think they had some of those at the cat show, too!! Just gorgeous gorgeous....
	👻 9:24pm Arvo Zylo: I am eating one of my favorite dishes, although it is not expensive: Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo. ...But I am a lurkin'. So Don Haugen is in Desperate Strangers? I don't see him in the pic... Which band is he in?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 It's coming later (beginning of hour 2). He was doing drones.
	👻 9:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @9:24 I was not trying to say I knew the difference between a Norwegian Longhair and a Maine Coon, by the way. I have been told at one point that there is a difference...
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wolves, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" Blast Off! is a vintage clothing show that hosts DIY shows in the basement, periodically. Not often, and only for very special shows. But they thought this was special enough to make an exception, and for that I'm very grateful to Kati and Pete, the people who run that place. (They also host AA Meetings and ALL AGES punk shows.)
	9:27pm Mr. X: Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, isn't it? Beautiful plumage!
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 The plumage don't enter into it
	9:29pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 LOL
	👻 9:30pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:26 I learned at the cat show there are many many many kinds of Maine Coon looking kitties and people who know KNOW. I also don't know the difference, really, but I guess there's a big one if you're into cat breeds?
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: They way you can tell that this radio show is live: I fucked up!
	👻 9:37pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 That's the beauty of live radio! It's live!
	9:38pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Mistakes make the show one of a kind
	9:38pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @9:30 Ever met a Bengal Cat? They are a bit eccentric. I knew one once named Merlin. He used to jump up on top of doors, and remain perched there even as the door was swung to and fro.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Chris Corsano is a MONSTER on drums, and it was really a treat to get to watch him play. His wiki page offers a small SAMPLING of the work he's done, but he's played on a ridiculous number of albums, and with a crazy number of people that are excellent. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:38 I once had several and they were eccentric but beautiful
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I like that his wiki lists playing with "Thurston Moore" and "Kim Gordon" separately. Even wikipedia respects their divorce.
	👻 9:42pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I've only seen them! Never been lucky enough to meet one. But they're so gorgeous and I've seen videos of their antics!! I'd love to actually hang out with Bengals!!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:38 I like the name Merlin.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Is Hell, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" This song feels like, "A Novel Written About The Dust Bowl In !930's America," in song form.
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:42 I had F4s but have seen an F2
	👻 9:48pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:45 I was just at a cat show, I know, but I don't know the distinction! I'm one of those that sees any cat at all and goes, "ahh, kitty!!" There was a Bengal in the final Best In Show category with the white Maine Coon named Mozart, though! A black and white Maine Coon won the cat.....egory, though.
	9:48pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Merlin is A good name. So is Gwion Bach
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: With the number of DJs that have / love cats, and the number of Sheena's listeners who all have / love cats, some enterprising person should have an "ALL CAT RADIO" show, and essentially corner the market on all people, everywhere.
	9:49pm Mr. X: John Henry's has these slogans painted on their walls. You can see above the stage it says "Music you can smell." On another wall, it says "Classy as fuck."
	9:49pm JM in Texas: Howdy!!! I’m just home from 9+ hours in a hospital waiting room (oldest daughter having our first grandchild)💛……still hours away so I was sent home for a while. Anyway, I have shrimp ravioli heating up and will be enjoying that and the show until it’s over or my wife calls from the hospital.
	9:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I've got a few songs for that
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 I have a lovely photo of Don Haugen under the "Classy As Fuck" sign. We should have gotten a Human Dino photo under that sign!
	9:50pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Wishing your wife well
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 JM! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, and congrats on a Grandchild! That's huge news!
	9:51pm Mr. X: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Congrats, gramps! That's major!
	9:51pm Imaginos: And your whole family
	9:52pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Will see you Monday
	👻 9:52pm Heather: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Congratulations!!! A grandbaby! That's just lovely!!
	👻 9:52pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 You can bet I do, too!!
	9:53pm JM in Texas: We are very excited……thx guys, I truly appreciate it!!!
	9:53pm JM in Texas: ↳ Heather @9:52 Thank you!!!
	9:53pm Mr. X: Oh yeah, I was going to say, Joe Baiza's guitar sometimes reminds me of Sonny Sharrock.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:53 High Praise! Sonny Sharrock is one of my fave musicians, hands down!
	9:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 Saw Sonny Sharrock live at the WOW Hall, just a few months before he passed.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Spirit Bird, Live!" by "Human Dinosaur featuring ... Photo by Ivan, again. Ivon does photography and video professionally, so it makes sense they look good.
	👻 9:55pm Heather: yeahhhhhh Human Dinosaur!!!
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Spirit Bird, Live!" by "Human Dinosaur featuring ... Again, this mix is unique to this broadcast, and is NOT like what you heard at the show, or on the album we have out. Enjoy this anomaly....
	9:56pm Mr. X: Human Dinosaur on Bandcamp: humandinosaur.bandcamp.com
	9:57pm Mr. X: Human Dinosaur on Facebook: www.facebook.com...
	9:58pm Mr. X: "Tour through time and space..." that was Ray Bradbury speaking.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: I was thinking that one of us should wear a 60's era NASA Jumpsuit, as if we are lost in time, and one of us should wear a labcoat, like a scientist studying dinosaurs via a Time Machine.
	10:00pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Spirit Bird, Live!" by "Human Dinosaur featuring ... Nice remix, Austin. I haven't heard this version before.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:00 This is the "impossible" version, because I have different parts of the same night all playing over each other at the beginning.
	10:01pm Mr. X: Spirit Bird Xeres: And now to explain the etymology of the word dinosaur, we have our guest expert, with a spiel to explain the Latin origins. Mike Watt: Dinosaur. Think of "saur." They fucked up with the word "dinosaur." "Saur": lizard. Think of a lizard. Think of an alligator. A crocodile. And where do their legs connect? On the side. Now, think what they call "saur." Fossils. The ones that are really old. But the legs don't come out the sides. Like a lizard. Or alligator. Or crocodile. They come out straight down. Like a chicken. Like a turkey. Like an ostrich. Or a bird! Yes they were. They weren't lizards. Now "dino" means mean. Mean lizard? Uh-uh. Spirit bird. Spirit bird. Spirit bird.
	👻 10:11pm Heather: Grawlix is my go to name when I need a character name for, e.g., DND!
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 I remember playing a game with Grawlix and Martin Gnoll. But I had forgotten that it was a reference to swearing symbols in comics. (Or maybe I never knew? Hard to say...)
	10:13pm Mr. X: Says here "grawlix" was coined by Mort Drucker. en.wiktionary.org...
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I got a message today from my Step-Mom asking me to "friend" my Dad on social media, so he could send me messages. I was trying to tell them that I don't use social media anymore.
	👻 10:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Congrats!
	10:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Live Performance" by "#@*! Trio" Nice to hear the bells in this mix. I was having trouble hearing them from where I was sitting during the live performance.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:16 I had earplugs in, so none of the nuance and subtlety was there for me, in the room. I usually have to listen back to anything nice like this when I can actually hear it on a nice stereo.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I really love Adrian's cello playing. And Don's huge white beard makes him look like he could play Santa if he wore a pillow in the front, too.
	10:19pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:14 Thx Arvo!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: The Mid-Valley lost a very important, eccentric figure recently: Frog, The Joke Book Salesman. As long as I have known about Eugene, I recal hearing about Frog selling books on the street there. Bummer that he has passed. He was a real Eugene Weirdo. www.registerguard.com...
	👻 10:21pm Arvo Zylo: I have visited a certain haunted cemetery several times, including spending the night there, and I have seen a number of odd things. One strange thing that I saw was something like a grey Norwegian Longhair, much like the pet that I had at the time, except it was massive. It was at least 65 pounds. I don't know if it was a bobcat or what, and the way that I saw it was during the day, walking down the concrete path that leads into the cemetery, which was otherwise lined with trees. So with the sun reflecting off of the concrete and all, the cat looked like a mirage. It walked right past me, so I stared at it for a good 50 yards before it seemingly disappeared. I don't include that in the stories I tell about that cemetery, because people will think I'm crazy. In fact, someone who interviewed me about that cemetery was very intrigued until I told them about that cat, and then it was radio silence after that, and I don't think the interview was published anywhere.
	10:21pm JM in Texas: This #@*! Trio track is beautiful
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:21 Yeah, this was delightful to see.
	👻 10:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I was wondering if that was Don! I have not seen him in a few years...
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:21 I know you told this story on my show, but I don't recall this detail!
	10:24pm Mr. X: Notice the bar crowd audience got quiet for this.
	👻 10:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I didn't include the cat in that story, I generally don't, but yeah, I saw all kinds of things. It changed my life.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:24 I would be embarrassed to be the jerk who was laughing loudly during this set.
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I don't mean to piggyback, but my writing on that cemetery is here, for anyone who may be interested... if not that's cool too. arvozylo.medium.com...
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Live Performance" by "#@*! Trio" Nice set!
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Mary & Child, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" The very first song that Obadiah brought to me as something he wanted to work out for a performance was this Born Against cover, which was a lot faster and wilder originally. I think he made the right choice to playing slower.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: Born Against is one of my all time favorite bands.
	👻 10:28pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:26 I sent myself this link for reading later on!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(Live #2)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" Another photo by Ivan, who can make anyone look cool!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: What I loved about watching Watt play bass - and this has been the case since I first saw him with Firehose in the 90's - is that when he gets into a real groove, he starts playing with his tongue sticking out. It reminds me of my dad; when he would juggle in front of crowds, and he was concentrating hard, he would stick his tongue out, too.
	👻 10:32pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @10:28 Thanks! By the way, I have definitely had times doing weekly radio where it was hard not to integrate the other things I was doing. For example, I was sort of obsessed with silent films because I had done a live set to a segment of Wizard of Oz's silent film version, and wanted to do more. So I played things like Nosferatu in full on the radio. There were other times where I was working on a comp that I spent a lot of time on-- 80 hours on the cover art collage alone, and I was just playing stuff that I was considering for the comp. So I can understand how that can spill over into radio. I didn't record a lot of live shows around then, but did used to book weekly shows, for a while it was twice a week.
	10:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 Frog was a very confrontational salesperson, though always in a funny and sweet way. I tended to cross the street to avoid him. Had to tell him to back off a number of times throughout the years.
	👻 10:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 There is a record label called "Alligator Records" and as I recall, it's named after an artist who used to chomp constantly while he was playing...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: The carpet at Blast Off! is sort of legendary, because it was taken from the PDX Airport, where people would famously instagram their feet with the carpet, until it was torn out. Some people in the Mid-Valley find that carpet to be a very big deal.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:33 Yeah, he would sometimes not take No for an answer, if you didn't want to buy anything, so you had to cross the street. Now, I don't have any of his joke books, and sort of wish I'd bought at least one or two.
	10:35pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 Oh, that's funny! I thought it looked familiar.
	👻 10:39pm Arvo Zylo: The Ex played with Hamid Drake in Chicago, and it was improvised, but it was better than anything I'd heard by any of the artists prior. I still sort of want to hear an improv group that sounds like the band in the movie Lost Highway...
	👻 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: I first saw The Ex open for Shellac and Fugazi in 1999 or so... They were great, but I'd like to hear more of their experimental side.
	👻 10:44pm Arvo Zylo: I am not a great expert at improv, but I was fortunate to see Ken Vandermark and Mars Williams with various line ups several times. Vandermark did a live improv set with Mike Patton once, he was on tour with a band opening for Tool, but one of the members of Tool was sick, so he came for a surprise show.
	10:47pm JM in Texas: Their In The Fishtank with Sonic Youth is. Sry enjoyable!!!
	10:47pm JM in Texas: *very enjoyable!
	10:49pm Mr. X: Aww shucks, back at you, Austin!
	👻 10:51pm Heather: Great show!! Thank you Austin, for the show, and everyone for making my hotel time here in Memphis fun! Have a wonderful night!!
	10:51pm JM in Texas: No worries Austin about the correspondence….we all have good intentions! The Ex-ICP-Sonic Youth www.discogs.com...
	👻 10:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @10:51 Have a good night Heather!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: For the show in Salem, Pete was our sound person, who really did a great show, in spite of the fact that we are not a rock band, and don't have guitars. I can't remember the name of the sound person in Eugene, but they were excellent, too and worked well with all of us. And Kati at Blast Off! worked the door, too, if I recall correctly. Very cool of her to do that.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:51 Yes, have a great evening, Heather! I'm glad a little radio could help.
	👻 10:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:51 Insane Clown Posse!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: "If this is love, why is there blood in my mouth?" Uhm, because it's love. If it's not dramatic, then why bother?
	👻 10:53pm Arvo Zylo: I played a song by the Mississippi Sheiks called "Blood In My Eyes" recently, it was later covered by Bob Dylan.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:53 I remember that! I was thinking of this song, by Obadiah's band, when you played it.
	10:54pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:52 Remember Beta-Lactam Ring Records?? They had a ICP wooden boxset for $500
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:54 That label was out of PDX! They had such excellent releases, including something by The Silverman, if I recall.
	10:56pm Mr. X: Great show, Austin. It has been nice to hear these performances again, with good sound quality, and in a different order.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "I won't go over by much." Talks so much that I'm gonna go 15 minutes over. SORRY EVERYONE.
	👻 10:56pm Arvo Zylo: Speaking of Mike Watt, and his humility, the only other person I know of who maintains this enthusiasm and is not burnt out or jaded by the sheer magnitude of sounds out there, is GX Jupitter-Larsen. He sits in a chair and listens to damn near every set, even if the sets are 12 hours long and there are three days of it. I am always going to support that, because I can't say the same for myself. I tend to be strategic about what sets I am there to see, especially if I was performing on that day.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:56 I liked all the performances, but these were my faves of both shows. I could do a whole other shows that's more of the Trio, and of course, the rest of our sets... but this seemed like good stuff to feature.
	10:57pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 You recall correctly!!! I hope Chris is somewhere out there doing okay. Great show and nice distraction from a long day at the hospital. Receiving good reports……just slow going.
	👻 10:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:54 I remember that label, they put out a number of things I picked up. I think they posted on facebook not to send CDR demos with handwritten letters on looseleaf paper shortly after I did just that. What a coincidence!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 GX is very cool! An excellent corespondent, and has done some interesting things. I love that guy. I owe him a package.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 dAs from Big City Orchestra has some great stories of shows they did with GX / The Haters.
	10:59pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 I love GX’s 5-minute hour which I believe Austin still contributes to???
	11:00pm Andrew Waterloo: I saw Corsano with Zoh Amba.. he is a pleasure to watch
	11:00pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:58 Hahaha of course you did!!!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:59 I think I stopped funding it when I needed to cut back on expenses, but I do love that show! They featured some of my stuff once, I think... one of my 'zines, I think?
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Andrew Waterloo @11:00 Totally! Chris is such a great dummer!
	👻 11:00pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:59 I enjoyed that too for a while, before my exile from social media. I was recently able to get back on social media after a year of being unable to reset my password... so maybe will catch more of that. I tend to have a difficult time navigating all of the things I am interested in.
	11:01pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 Pretty sure I still see your name scrolling by in the credits at the end
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 I am totally one of those guys who sits through every act on the bill, if I'm playing. But I have had too many people play a show with me, and leave when I'm playing... so I try not to be that guy.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @11:01 Oh, wow! Well, thanks GX! That's very sweet.
	11:02pm Andrew Waterloo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 I got a great recording.. no idea how to share it.. already tried youtube
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Andrew Waterloo @11:02 Yeah, this is how I'm sharing mine.
	👻 11:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 They have featured post cards and things from me too. I did a CDR called "Radio Feedback" and part of that was me recording the sound of the radio station I was at while there was a broken transmitter, so the stream was still working, but locally, the signal was making odd sounds, so I recorded the broken transmitter and played it for the streaming listeners to hear. This is something that GX also did, for his "radio installations". He also prepared a 4 hour set for my show, good guy.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Oh, shit! I keep forgetting to add Leander to the end-credits.
	👻 11:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 I hate when people do that, I was talking about noise fests, where it starts at 3pm and goes until after midnight sometimes...
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: And now, one more recording of the Trio...
	11:04pm Mr. X: Leander the incognito cat.
	👻 11:05pm Arvo Zylo: Already, jolly good show, thanks Austin, have a good night!
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:04 Yeah, Don and I were talking about how most Noise Fests are too long, and need more breaks. We wanna book one where no one is allowed to play. Just socialize and hang out and plan split-releases.
	👻 11:08pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 noise tea fest
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:08 But: you have to commit. None of this, "I'll dip out once it gets started." This is your scene. Hang out. Enjoy. Or else. That was our idea, anyway.
	👻 11:10pm Austin Rich: Jealous that you saw Sonny Sharrock, Mr. X. I just know the albums.
	11:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:10 He was on a tour in association with The Knitting Factory venue and label from the downtown New York scene, along with Samm Bennett and Chunk, and Wayne Horvitz.
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:13 Wayne Horvitz! Very cool.
	11:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "(Live #6)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" I wanted to give them a standing ovation, but everyone was already standing up.
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: Nice transition to the stream, too! Well, that must mean I did a good show.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 12, 2024

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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November 12, 2024: Come For The Show: The Autumnal Bards In The Mid-Valley (LIVE!)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Overture "Overture"
Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	(Live #1)	21 October 2024 @ John Henry's	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:00:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:05:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Popeye Vs Bluto	Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Yucca Alta Records	2024	0:06:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Part I "Part I"
Desperate Strangers	Bella Ciao, Live!	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:12:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	(Live #3)	21 October 2024 @ John Henry's	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:16:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Desperate Strangers	Wolves, Live!	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:22:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Metamorphosis	Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Yucca Alta Records	2024	0:28:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Part II "Part II"
Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	(Live #4)	21 October 2024 @ John Henry's	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:36:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Desperate Strangers	This Is Hell, Live!	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:43:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	(Live #6)	21 October 2024 @ John Henry's	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:47:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Human Dinosaur featuring Mike Watt	Spirit Bird, Live!	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:54:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Inevitable	Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Yucca Alta Records	2024	1:03:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Part III "Part III"
#@*! Trio	Live Performance "Live Performance" by "#@*! Trio"	21 October 2024 @ John Henry's	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:11:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Desperate Strangers	Mary & Child, Live!	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:26:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	(Live #2)	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:29:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	I Looked In The Mirror, again	Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	Yucca Alta Records	2024	1:36:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Part IV "Part IV"
Desperate Strangers	Blood In My Mouth, Live!	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:49:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	(Live #3)	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:53:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	2:02:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Corsano Baiza Watt Trio	(Live #6)	28 October 2024 @ Blast Off!	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	2:07:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 3:09pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:32pm Arvo Zylo: HOWDY
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:32 Thanks for joining us, ARVO!
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Welcome to the Digital Salon, Imaginos!
	8:56pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:54 Awesome to be here.
	9:01pm Mr. X: Hey, this sounds familiar.
	9:01pm Krys O.: Hey, just a quick message wishing you a fun show! G'night, all!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(Live #1)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" For those outside of the Mid-Valley, John Henry's has a long history, going back to at least the late 80's, probably even longer than that. The original owners are no longer involved, and this new incarnation had a very long gap between when it used to be around, and now. But it is a well-known name in Eugene, and a great place to get to play.
	👻 9:02pm Heather: Tuned in from a La Quinta hotel room in Memphis! Looking forward to the show!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Thanks Krys! Take care!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:02 Thanks for joining us, Heather!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 It's Mr. X! Hooray!
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:02 Nice to see you
	👻 9:04pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 Hi Imaginos!
	9:05pm Imaginos: Looks like the party crowd is here. Now we just need cheese, crackers, Janx Spirit and a few jet engines to make this party fly!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:05 I'm into that!
	9:10pm Mr. X: Bustle and truckle! LOL
	👻 9:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @9:04 Hi Heather! I hope La Quinta is treating you well! It made me think of John Candy selling shower curtain hoops on the road... in the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bella Ciao, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" A song that gets more and more desperately relevant with each passing day.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bella Ciao, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" Photo by Ivan, someone Marla and I met in our Covid Cautious group here in the Mid-Valley, and who came to the show! Ivan took some incredible photos of the show at Blast Off! here in the Mid-Valley, and I was really impressed with their eye for composition.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(Live #3)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" Joe Baiza (of Saccharine Trust) was sort of blowing my mind with his guitar playing at these shows. He really was excellently suited for changing with the songs as they developed. He was a lot of fun to watch, and I wish I could have talked to him more than the handful of times we chatted.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Of course, my only complaint about these shows: people never stop talking loudly at bars, no matter what kind of show is happening. I was hoping they would chill out for the music, but no...
	👻 9:20pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:12 Thank you, Arvo! I'm on the last leg of a whirlwind trip to help a friend show her Maine Coon cats in a cat show in Colorado! The white cat cleaned up on awards!!
	9:21pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 They were all three quite friendly and humble for being such stars. In the green room, it was particularly interesting whenever Watt and Baiza got into talking together about their memories of growing up in Pedro. They got pretty animated about which buildings got torn down when, and what took their places.
	9:21pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:20 Pretty kitty?
	👻 9:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @9:20 Nice! I used to have a Norwegian Longhair, they tend to look much like a Maine Coon.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Oh, I wish I'd heard them together. That would have been delightful. I knew they both grew up in Pedro, and even shared a practice space way back at the beginning.
	👻 9:23pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 OMG such a pretty kitty as is his brother, a Black Smoke! Both huge and gorgeous and sweet!! I miss them terribly now but they and their mom have gone home and I'm in the hotel, tuned in and catching up on office work and, best of all, checking in on the chat!
	👻 9:24pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:22 I think they had some of those at the cat show, too!! Just gorgeous gorgeous....
	👻 9:24pm Arvo Zylo: I am eating one of my favorite dishes, although it is not expensive: Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo. ...But I am a lurkin'. So Don Haugen is in Desperate Strangers? I don't see him in the pic... Which band is he in?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 It's coming later (beginning of hour 2). He was doing drones.
	👻 9:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @9:24 I was not trying to say I knew the difference between a Norwegian Longhair and a Maine Coon, by the way. I have been told at one point that there is a difference...
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wolves, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" Blast Off! is a vintage clothing show that hosts DIY shows in the basement, periodically. Not often, and only for very special shows. But they thought this was special enough to make an exception, and for that I'm very grateful to Kati and Pete, the people who run that place. (They also host AA Meetings and ALL AGES punk shows.)
	9:27pm Mr. X: Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, isn't it? Beautiful plumage!
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 The plumage don't enter into it
	9:29pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 LOL
	👻 9:30pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:26 I learned at the cat show there are many many many kinds of Maine Coon looking kitties and people who know KNOW. I also don't know the difference, really, but I guess there's a big one if you're into cat breeds?
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: They way you can tell that this radio show is live: I fucked up!
	👻 9:37pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 That's the beauty of live radio! It's live!
	9:38pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Mistakes make the show one of a kind
	9:38pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @9:30 Ever met a Bengal Cat? They are a bit eccentric. I knew one once named Merlin. He used to jump up on top of doors, and remain perched there even as the door was swung to and fro.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Chris Corsano is a MONSTER on drums, and it was really a treat to get to watch him play. His wiki page offers a small SAMPLING of the work he's done, but he's played on a ridiculous number of albums, and with a crazy number of people that are excellent. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:38 I once had several and they were eccentric but beautiful
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I like that his wiki lists playing with "Thurston Moore" and "Kim Gordon" separately. Even wikipedia respects their divorce.
	👻 9:42pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I've only seen them! Never been lucky enough to meet one. But they're so gorgeous and I've seen videos of their antics!! I'd love to actually hang out with Bengals!!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:38 I like the name Merlin.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Is Hell, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" This song feels like, "A Novel Written About The Dust Bowl In !930's America," in song form.
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:42 I had F4s but have seen an F2
	👻 9:48pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:45 I was just at a cat show, I know, but I don't know the distinction! I'm one of those that sees any cat at all and goes, "ahh, kitty!!" There was a Bengal in the final Best In Show category with the white Maine Coon named Mozart, though! A black and white Maine Coon won the cat.....egory, though.
	9:48pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Merlin is A good name. So is Gwion Bach
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: With the number of DJs that have / love cats, and the number of Sheena's listeners who all have / love cats, some enterprising person should have an "ALL CAT RADIO" show, and essentially corner the market on all people, everywhere.
	9:49pm Mr. X: John Henry's has these slogans painted on their walls. You can see above the stage it says "Music you can smell." On another wall, it says "Classy as fuck."
	9:49pm JM in Texas: Howdy!!! I’m just home from 9+ hours in a hospital waiting room (oldest daughter having our first grandchild)💛……still hours away so I was sent home for a while. Anyway, I have shrimp ravioli heating up and will be enjoying that and the show until it’s over or my wife calls from the hospital.
	9:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I've got a few songs for that
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 I have a lovely photo of Don Haugen under the "Classy As Fuck" sign. We should have gotten a Human Dino photo under that sign!
	9:50pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Wishing your wife well
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 JM! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, and congrats on a Grandchild! That's huge news!
	9:51pm Mr. X: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Congrats, gramps! That's major!
	9:51pm Imaginos: And your whole family
	9:52pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Will see you Monday
	👻 9:52pm Heather: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Congratulations!!! A grandbaby! That's just lovely!!
	👻 9:52pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 You can bet I do, too!!
	9:53pm JM in Texas: We are very excited……thx guys, I truly appreciate it!!!
	9:53pm JM in Texas: ↳ Heather @9:52 Thank you!!!
	9:53pm Mr. X: Oh yeah, I was going to say, Joe Baiza's guitar sometimes reminds me of Sonny Sharrock.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:53 High Praise! Sonny Sharrock is one of my fave musicians, hands down!
	9:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 Saw Sonny Sharrock live at the WOW Hall, just a few months before he passed.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Spirit Bird, Live!" by "Human Dinosaur featuring ... Photo by Ivan, again. Ivon does photography and video professionally, so it makes sense they look good.
	👻 9:55pm Heather: yeahhhhhh Human Dinosaur!!!
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Spirit Bird, Live!" by "Human Dinosaur featuring ... Again, this mix is unique to this broadcast, and is NOT like what you heard at the show, or on the album we have out. Enjoy this anomaly....
	9:56pm Mr. X: Human Dinosaur on Bandcamp: humandinosaur.bandcamp.com
	9:57pm Mr. X: Human Dinosaur on Facebook: www.facebook.com...
	9:58pm Mr. X: "Tour through time and space..." that was Ray Bradbury speaking.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: I was thinking that one of us should wear a 60's era NASA Jumpsuit, as if we are lost in time, and one of us should wear a labcoat, like a scientist studying dinosaurs via a Time Machine.
	10:00pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Spirit Bird, Live!" by "Human Dinosaur featuring ... Nice remix, Austin. I haven't heard this version before.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:00 This is the "impossible" version, because I have different parts of the same night all playing over each other at the beginning.
	10:01pm Mr. X: Spirit Bird Xeres: And now to explain the etymology of the word dinosaur, we have our guest expert, with a spiel to explain the Latin origins. Mike Watt: Dinosaur. Think of "saur." They fucked up with the word "dinosaur." "Saur": lizard. Think of a lizard. Think of an alligator. A crocodile. And where do their legs connect? On the side. Now, think what they call "saur." Fossils. The ones that are really old. But the legs don't come out the sides. Like a lizard. Or alligator. Or crocodile. They come out straight down. Like a chicken. Like a turkey. Like an ostrich. Or a bird! Yes they were. They weren't lizards. Now "dino" means mean. Mean lizard? Uh-uh. Spirit bird. Spirit bird. Spirit bird.
	👻 10:11pm Heather: Grawlix is my go to name when I need a character name for, e.g., DND!
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 I remember playing a game with Grawlix and Martin Gnoll. But I had forgotten that it was a reference to swearing symbols in comics. (Or maybe I never knew? Hard to say...)
	10:13pm Mr. X: Says here "grawlix" was coined by Mort Drucker. en.wiktionary.org...
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I got a message today from my Step-Mom asking me to "friend" my Dad on social media, so he could send me messages. I was trying to tell them that I don't use social media anymore.
	👻 10:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 Congrats!
	10:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Live Performance" by "#@*! Trio" Nice to hear the bells in this mix. I was having trouble hearing them from where I was sitting during the live performance.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:16 I had earplugs in, so none of the nuance and subtlety was there for me, in the room. I usually have to listen back to anything nice like this when I can actually hear it on a nice stereo.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I really love Adrian's cello playing. And Don's huge white beard makes him look like he could play Santa if he wore a pillow in the front, too.
	10:19pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:14 Thx Arvo!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: The Mid-Valley lost a very important, eccentric figure recently: Frog, The Joke Book Salesman. As long as I have known about Eugene, I recal hearing about Frog selling books on the street there. Bummer that he has passed. He was a real Eugene Weirdo. www.registerguard.com...
	👻 10:21pm Arvo Zylo: I have visited a certain haunted cemetery several times, including spending the night there, and I have seen a number of odd things. One strange thing that I saw was something like a grey Norwegian Longhair, much like the pet that I had at the time, except it was massive. It was at least 65 pounds. I don't know if it was a bobcat or what, and the way that I saw it was during the day, walking down the concrete path that leads into the cemetery, which was otherwise lined with trees. So with the sun reflecting off of the concrete and all, the cat looked like a mirage. It walked right past me, so I stared at it for a good 50 yards before it seemingly disappeared. I don't include that in the stories I tell about that cemetery, because people will think I'm crazy. In fact, someone who interviewed me about that cemetery was very intrigued until I told them about that cat, and then it was radio silence after that, and I don't think the interview was published anywhere.
	10:21pm JM in Texas: This #@*! Trio track is beautiful
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:21 Yeah, this was delightful to see.
	👻 10:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I was wondering if that was Don! I have not seen him in a few years...
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:21 I know you told this story on my show, but I don't recall this detail!
	10:24pm Mr. X: Notice the bar crowd audience got quiet for this.
	👻 10:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I didn't include the cat in that story, I generally don't, but yeah, I saw all kinds of things. It changed my life.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:24 I would be embarrassed to be the jerk who was laughing loudly during this set.
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I don't mean to piggyback, but my writing on that cemetery is here, for anyone who may be interested... if not that's cool too. arvozylo.medium.com...
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Live Performance" by "#@*! Trio" Nice set!
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Mary & Child, Live!" by "Desperate Strangers" The very first song that Obadiah brought to me as something he wanted to work out for a performance was this Born Against cover, which was a lot faster and wilder originally. I think he made the right choice to playing slower.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: Born Against is one of my all time favorite bands.
	👻 10:28pm Heather: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:26 I sent myself this link for reading later on!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(Live #2)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" Another photo by Ivan, who can make anyone look cool!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: What I loved about watching Watt play bass - and this has been the case since I first saw him with Firehose in the 90's - is that when he gets into a real groove, he starts playing with his tongue sticking out. It reminds me of my dad; when he would juggle in front of crowds, and he was concentrating hard, he would stick his tongue out, too.
	👻 10:32pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @10:28 Thanks! By the way, I have definitely had times doing weekly radio where it was hard not to integrate the other things I was doing. For example, I was sort of obsessed with silent films because I had done a live set to a segment of Wizard of Oz's silent film version, and wanted to do more. So I played things like Nosferatu in full on the radio. There were other times where I was working on a comp that I spent a lot of time on-- 80 hours on the cover art collage alone, and I was just playing stuff that I was considering for the comp. So I can understand how that can spill over into radio. I didn't record a lot of live shows around then, but did used to book weekly shows, for a while it was twice a week.
	10:33pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 Frog was a very confrontational salesperson, though always in a funny and sweet way. I tended to cross the street to avoid him. Had to tell him to back off a number of times throughout the years.
	👻 10:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 There is a record label called "Alligator Records" and as I recall, it's named after an artist who used to chomp constantly while he was playing...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: The carpet at Blast Off! is sort of legendary, because it was taken from the PDX Airport, where people would famously instagram their feet with the carpet, until it was torn out. Some people in the Mid-Valley find that carpet to be a very big deal.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:33 Yeah, he would sometimes not take No for an answer, if you didn't want to buy anything, so you had to cross the street. Now, I don't have any of his joke books, and sort of wish I'd bought at least one or two.
	10:35pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 Oh, that's funny! I thought it looked familiar.
	👻 10:39pm Arvo Zylo: The Ex played with Hamid Drake in Chicago, and it was improvised, but it was better than anything I'd heard by any of the artists prior. I still sort of want to hear an improv group that sounds like the band in the movie Lost Highway...
	👻 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: I first saw The Ex open for Shellac and Fugazi in 1999 or so... They were great, but I'd like to hear more of their experimental side.
	👻 10:44pm Arvo Zylo: I am not a great expert at improv, but I was fortunate to see Ken Vandermark and Mars Williams with various line ups several times. Vandermark did a live improv set with Mike Patton once, he was on tour with a band opening for Tool, but one of the members of Tool was sick, so he came for a surprise show.
	10:47pm JM in Texas: Their In The Fishtank with Sonic Youth is. Sry enjoyable!!!
	10:47pm JM in Texas: *very enjoyable!
	10:49pm Mr. X: Aww shucks, back at you, Austin!
	👻 10:51pm Heather: Great show!! Thank you Austin, for the show, and everyone for making my hotel time here in Memphis fun! Have a wonderful night!!
	10:51pm JM in Texas: No worries Austin about the correspondence….we all have good intentions! The Ex-ICP-Sonic Youth www.discogs.com...
	👻 10:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather @10:51 Have a good night Heather!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: For the show in Salem, Pete was our sound person, who really did a great show, in spite of the fact that we are not a rock band, and don't have guitars. I can't remember the name of the sound person in Eugene, but they were excellent, too and worked well with all of us. And Kati at Blast Off! worked the door, too, if I recall correctly. Very cool of her to do that.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:51 Yes, have a great evening, Heather! I'm glad a little radio could help.
	👻 10:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:51 Insane Clown Posse!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: "If this is love, why is there blood in my mouth?" Uhm, because it's love. If it's not dramatic, then why bother?
	👻 10:53pm Arvo Zylo: I played a song by the Mississippi Sheiks called "Blood In My Eyes" recently, it was later covered by Bob Dylan.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:53 I remember that! I was thinking of this song, by Obadiah's band, when you played it.
	10:54pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:52 Remember Beta-Lactam Ring Records?? They had a ICP wooden boxset for $500
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:54 That label was out of PDX! They had such excellent releases, including something by The Silverman, if I recall.
	10:56pm Mr. X: Great show, Austin. It has been nice to hear these performances again, with good sound quality, and in a different order.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "I won't go over by much." Talks so much that I'm gonna go 15 minutes over. SORRY EVERYONE.
	👻 10:56pm Arvo Zylo: Speaking of Mike Watt, and his humility, the only other person I know of who maintains this enthusiasm and is not burnt out or jaded by the sheer magnitude of sounds out there, is GX Jupitter-Larsen. He sits in a chair and listens to damn near every set, even if the sets are 12 hours long and there are three days of it. I am always going to support that, because I can't say the same for myself. I tend to be strategic about what sets I am there to see, especially if I was performing on that day.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:56 I liked all the performances, but these were my faves of both shows. I could do a whole other shows that's more of the Trio, and of course, the rest of our sets... but this seemed like good stuff to feature.
	10:57pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 You recall correctly!!! I hope Chris is somewhere out there doing okay. Great show and nice distraction from a long day at the hospital. Receiving good reports……just slow going.
	👻 10:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:54 I remember that label, they put out a number of things I picked up. I think they posted on facebook not to send CDR demos with handwritten letters on looseleaf paper shortly after I did just that. What a coincidence!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 GX is very cool! An excellent corespondent, and has done some interesting things. I love that guy. I owe him a package.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 dAs from Big City Orchestra has some great stories of shows they did with GX / The Haters.
	10:59pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 I love GX’s 5-minute hour which I believe Austin still contributes to???
	11:00pm Andrew Waterloo: I saw Corsano with Zoh Amba.. he is a pleasure to watch
	11:00pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:58 Hahaha of course you did!!!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:59 I think I stopped funding it when I needed to cut back on expenses, but I do love that show! They featured some of my stuff once, I think... one of my 'zines, I think?
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Andrew Waterloo @11:00 Totally! Chris is such a great dummer!
	👻 11:00pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:59 I enjoyed that too for a while, before my exile from social media. I was recently able to get back on social media after a year of being unable to reset my password... so maybe will catch more of that. I tend to have a difficult time navigating all of the things I am interested in.
	11:01pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 Pretty sure I still see your name scrolling by in the credits at the end
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 I am totally one of those guys who sits through every act on the bill, if I'm playing. But I have had too many people play a show with me, and leave when I'm playing... so I try not to be that guy.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @11:01 Oh, wow! Well, thanks GX! That's very sweet.
	11:02pm Andrew Waterloo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 I got a great recording.. no idea how to share it.. already tried youtube
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Andrew Waterloo @11:02 Yeah, this is how I'm sharing mine.
	👻 11:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 They have featured post cards and things from me too. I did a CDR called "Radio Feedback" and part of that was me recording the sound of the radio station I was at while there was a broken transmitter, so the stream was still working, but locally, the signal was making odd sounds, so I recorded the broken transmitter and played it for the streaming listeners to hear. This is something that GX also did, for his "radio installations". He also prepared a 4 hour set for my show, good guy.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Oh, shit! I keep forgetting to add Leander to the end-credits.
	👻 11:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 I hate when people do that, I was talking about noise fests, where it starts at 3pm and goes until after midnight sometimes...
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: And now, one more recording of the Trio...
	11:04pm Mr. X: Leander the incognito cat.
	👻 11:05pm Arvo Zylo: Already, jolly good show, thanks Austin, have a good night!
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:04 Yeah, Don and I were talking about how most Noise Fests are too long, and need more breaks. We wanna book one where no one is allowed to play. Just socialize and hang out and plan split-releases.
	👻 11:08pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 noise tea fest
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:08 But: you have to commit. None of this, "I'll dip out once it gets started." This is your scene. Hang out. Enjoy. Or else. That was our idea, anyway.
	👻 11:10pm Austin Rich: Jealous that you saw Sonny Sharrock, Mr. X. I just know the albums.
	11:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:10 He was on a tour in association with The Knitting Factory venue and label from the downtown New York scene, along with Samm Bennett and Chunk, and Wayne Horvitz.
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:13 Wayne Horvitz! Very cool.
	11:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "(Live #6)" by "Corsano Baiza Watt Trio" I wanted to give them a standing ovation, but everyone was already standing up.
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: Nice transition to the stream, too! Well, that must mean I did a good show.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 12, 2024

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