WFMU: Tony Coulter: Playlist from January 17, 2017

Listener comments!
	1:11am Tony Coulter: Today's playlist pic is a still from "Phantom," a 1975 film by Toshio Matsumoto: youtu.be...
	11:28am annie: ooooh, i'll have to watch that... hi tony!
	11:30am Tony Coulter: Hi, Annie! It's quite a beautiful and amazing film.
	11:31am Dave in Vermont: annie, are you who encouraged everyone to watch The OA on a comments board a few weeks back?
	11:32am annie: all i see is a short, is that it? ahh, yes it is, i've got it queued up!
	11:32am annie: yes dave, i did...pretty rad, right? did you see the whole thing?
	11:34am annie: dave, her other movies carry the same motif, but are still unquely different. worth watching them all
	11:35am Dave in Vermont: Yes, I loved it. I loved how even though it was all so absurd and potentially laughable the whole production was totally committed to it. It made it powerful. I accidentally thanked someone else on a comments board over the weekend.
	11:36am Dave in Vermont: You mean Brit Marling's other movies?
	11:38am Dave in Vermont: Hi Tony, thanks for letting us fill up the beginning of your comments board.
	11:39am annie: well, just consider that gratitude an earworm. yes, DO see her other films... yeah this is the pre-show chatter..
	11:40am Tony Coulter: Hey, Dave! Fill away -- I'm off to get ready for the show.
	11:45am annie: (i'm listening to KSDS, jazz from San Diego) i'll turn to fmu at noon, i promise
	11:48am Dave in Vermont: I saw I Origins at Sundance but I think that is all I have seen with her. It looks like she works with the other creator quite a lot.
	11:51am annie: yes, they have collaborated on many projects; she's quite accomplished
	12:00pm βrian: Why, look! Folks are already carrying on here!
	12:01pm annie: cinematic rabble rousing
	12:01pm Tony Coulter: Heya, βrian!
	🥁 12:02pm listener james from westwood: How do, Tony and all! Hope you're able to be out and about safely 'round your neck of the woods!
	12:02pm V Priceless: Greetings Tony and peoples!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Hola, James and VP!
	12:04pm Rich in Washington: greetings, Tony, fellow Coulterites! Day 7 of being completely snowbound.
	12:05pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Our streets here in Southeast Portland are still completely encased in ice and snow -- so I'm sticking to walking.
	12:05pm Tony Coulter: Ahoy, Rich! The great meltdown is coming soon -- here, anyway.
	12:07pm doctorjazz: The OA, is that on Netflix? TRANE!
	12:07pm βrian: After a couple days of glare ice coating everything on the isthmus, it's starting now to melt away. Thank Bob for crampons.
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Notwithstanding this digression into Coltrane, today's show will be mostly psych, prog, and fusion from the '60s and '70s.
	12:08pm Tony Coulter: Hola, doctorjazz!
	🥁 12:09pm listener james from westwood: Gaah! Do be careful out there. The pix I saw of Downtown are dreadful; can't imagine how y'all are over there. Are the light rail cars even remotely running anywhere?
	🥁 12:09pm listener james from westwood: I'm happy for the Northwest getting some snow pack after the droughts, but goodness, not like this!
	12:10pm doctorjazz: Sounds good to me, Tony.
	12:11pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Yeah, the lightrail trains are running, but they don't service my area anyway.
	12:11pm Rich in Washington: LJFW: me too. I hate being stranded, living way up here in the middle of the woods, but I also hate drought conditions, for the same reason.
	12:15pm annie: yes, docjazz, it is...
	12:16pm doctorjazz: @Annie, I'll check it out. Just finished Stranger Things last week, was fun.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: the missus and I binged the crap out of Travelers recently. Almost no one's talking about it. We liked it.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: No one's talking about the show, i mean. I'm not so delusional that I think people should be talking about what my wife and I bingewatch.
	12:22pm Tony Coulter: That's all I ever talk about, Rich.
	12:23pm Tony Coulter: What you and your wife watch, I mean. I have a spy camera installed in your house.
	12:30pm Tony Coulter: All we ever watch over here are VHS tapes I randomly find for 50 cents. Haven't watched TV since moving to Portland seven years ago.
	12:31pm Rich in Washington: YIKES! Some of that stuff we watch because it's so funny that it's so stupid. Honest!
	12:31pm Rich in Washington: I've been binge watching Alan Partridge on my own. I don't think it's something my wife could stand for very long.
	12:34pm Tony Coulter: Funny how the phrase "Commit Yourself" has a double meaning.
	12:36pm Carmichael: Heya Tony and flying eyeball lovers. My daughter in Salem also told me they were iced over. Another storm is moving in tomorrow for the rest of the week.
	12:37pm βrian: Yep, we have no TV either. I might consider it, but there's no way I'll pay for it.
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: Hey hey, Carmichael!
	12:49pm Carmichael: Thanks for playing Hatfield, Tony! I thought I hears Sinclair's voice in there ...
	12:50pm Tony Coulter: Yep -- 'twas him!
	12:58pm dale: ola mr deejay and people.
	12:58pm dale: do you ever play maneige tony?
	12:59pm Stanley: Hi Tony Dug the previous piece immensely. Reminded me what FZ was up to back in the day.
	1:00pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Dale! Yep -- I do indeed play Maneige from time to time. Really like their first three records.
	1:01pm dale: les porches and libre service are great.
	1:01pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Stanley! Glad you liked the Grits. Certainly know what you mean about the Zappa flavor!
	1:03pm coelacanth∅: greetings Tony, and all
	1:04pm snake: Man I love this jazz rock stuff from the 70's...kinda Soft Machine like too!!! Lovin' the set Tony!!!
	1:04pm Tony Coulter: Greets, coelacanth∅! (Hey -- you changed your name!)
	1:06pm Dean: Just in. Damn, missed some good stuff. That Finch used to be one of my favorite prog records. (Just re-acquired some Supersister, by the way.)
	1:07pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Dean! Supersister are tops.
	1:07pm coelacanth∅: i keep just missing Trane on wfmu, and i have been feeling a strong need for him lately.
	1:07pm Guido from Cologne: Hello Tony!
	1:08pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Guido!
	1:09pm geezerette: Afternoon!
	1:09pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, geezerette!
	1:13pm annie: i love this...
	1:15pm geezerette: this too!
	1:18pm Scraps: h'lo. I missed Happy the Man & Hatfield and the North, shoot. But I did catch Cosmic Slop, yeah
	1:22pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, Scraps!
	1:23pm Curt: Hi Tony - Greetings from down the street here in iceyside!
	1:25pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Curt! Can't wait for that damn ice to melt .. except that means our basement will flood.
	1:25pm Tony Coulter: There's actually a French comic/graphic novel thingee about Barmey Wilen, by Loustal: londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com...
	1:26pm Curt: Yes, I'm thinking things are going to get very messy tomorrow... storm drains could be mostly blocked.
	1:26pm doctorjazz: Set me free, why don't you babe...that break on the Wilen track was pretty incredible, coulda been Sun Ra.
	1:30pm geezerette: Barney Wilen piece was fantastic! :D ha ha! Not a fan of Lentils either! So Spinal Tap!
	🥁 1:31pm listener james from westwood: Hah, Neil from "The Young Ones"! Neil: "Does anyone want the last chickpea?" Mike: "I didn't even want the first one."
	1:31pm JtotheK: good afternoon Tony, hi everyone.
	1:31pm Tony Coulter: Greets, JtotheK!
	1:38pm geezerette: Love all this jazz/rock fusion.today.
	1:39pm Tony Coulter: Glad to hear it! Gonna be heading in a '60s psych direction soon.
	1:40pm geezerette: Yippie! :)
	1:42pm βrian: Why do I read that as psychotic instead of psychedelic? Dear me.
	1:45pm Tony Coulter: Well, some of the musicians could have ended up in psych wards, I suppose.
	1:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...for a certain SF Psych lady name of 'Grace' I heard somewhere... Love 'Electric Music...' album! - & to compare/contrast to 1st albums by Elevators, & even Floyd...& Ultimate Spinach plagiarized 'Section 43' - which the Fish did weirdly & wonderfully in the 'Monterey Pop' film - representing the unabashedly Spaced contingent of the Kulture...
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Are Country Joe fans Fish Heads?
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, Revolution Rabbit!
	1:50pm coelacanth∅: yes, and rolli-polli ones at that.
	1:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well - I've never been seen sipping cappuccino w/ an oriental woman - as of this typing...
	1:51pm Dean: Country Joe had a coffee shop here in Berkeley for a while. Closed up not too many months ago.
	1:51pm geezerette: eat em up,yum!
	1:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Skip Spence neatly crossing the -otic / - edelic line ...if I'd had the cappa in that shop, coulda tied it up neatly as well...
	1:54pm geezerette: Beautiful.
	1:56pm geezerette: I know absolutely nothing about music but I really love the melodic discord of 60s psychedelia.
	1:58pm geezerette: Beauty and weirdness in equal measure. Intertwined.
	1:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...already the Half Century observance of the Summer of Love has made very evident that it was not just 1966 that deserves accolades...
	1:59pm geezerette: RevRab,yeah,one year dos not an era make.
	2:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A matter of months just then could mark your output as Avant or Derivative.
	2:03pm geezerette: ...and the myth that it began in pure sunshine and ended in total darkness. Both were always present in the music. Sometimes in the same song, sometimes not.
	2:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The suggestion now is that Pepper is both heavier & more sardonic in the 'correct' Mono mix...
	2:08pm geezerette: Wow, how puritan!
	2:10pm coelacanth∅: but pepper would be relatively boring in mono!
	2:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Big debate coel! ...opinions differ track by track w/ the BeatleNerds...
	2:12pm coelacanth∅: ...actually i don't think mono was "correct" for pepper. i may be mistaken, but hadn't they (Martin, emi) gotten their heads out of their asses and recorded it for stereo from the ground, up?
	2:13pm Tony Coulter: I prefer my pepper in mono -- but my salt in stereo.
	2:13pm Carmichael: Barry Melton of the Fish was the Yolo County Public Defender for many years. He retired about 5 years ago, and is now doing pro bono work.
	2:14pm V Priceless: Dr. Peppers...great rekkid
	2:15pm geezerette: OMG this is beautiful.
	2:18pm doctorjazz: I thought the earlier albums were originally mono, but stereo was done to satisfy "spoiled" Americans who wanted stereo mixes. I thought the later ones, Pepper and later, had original stereo mixes done. (Wikipedia says Pepper had 2 different mixes, the Beatles were only involved in the mono, but they were involved from Yellow Submarine on). They are supposed to sound different, but haven't noticed big differences (have a box cd set from 10 yrs ago or so), except that early Beatles stereo is really done badly, hard left-right panning (but so was much early pop stereo).
	2:20pm Dean: The stereo to which he listens to every day must surely be among these: http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1969-Fisher-Brochure.jpg
	2:21pm coelacanth∅: yeh - Geoff Emerick: "We spent three weeks on the mono mixes and maybe three days on the stereo." ...heads still firmly in asses.
	2:21pm geezerette: Hlarious and Ramones like!
	2:22pm βrian: Does it stop when you open it??
	2:22pm coelacanth∅: -still i like the stereo mix.
	2:24pm geezerette: That's funny, I actually have to go. It's been fun! Thanks Tony & al!
	2:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Mono mixes were the main thing they put the time into w/ The Beatles & engineers up until practically the end w/ 'Abbey Road' - which only came out in Stereo - but w/ Pepper - I think it's the differences that matter. Pepper is always critiqued for being too baroque & not heavy enuff - but the Mono version gainsays that - & there are a few things that just aren't quite up in the Stereo mix enuff (Paul's singing on the 'Reprise' for instance), which (is said) gives it a different cast. The Fabs' 1st two albums were recorded on Two Track machines - w/ vocals in one & instruments the other - so Stereo in a way is a fiction! & their early approach w/ Four Tracks remained to mix hard Left & Right, yeah...They didn't get EightTracks until the White Album - which is almost the end, really...'Abbey Road', their last recorded as The Beatles - is quite different technologically than all the rest of their output - & so the slickest & most 'modern'...I dunno about heads & asses - just Stereo was for specialist weirdoes in the early 60s - & TheBeatles were a big radio hit anyhow. That's what they grew up w/ & mixed to. Hendrix came later - & hit the ground running in Stereo, quite dramatically - for instance...
	2:25pm coelacanth∅: ciao, g
	2:25pm Tony Coulter: See you, geezerette!
	2:30pm Nick S.: Excellent show, Tony! Love this pocket you're in.
	2:31pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, Nick! (And ... greets!)
	2:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah! - Great lesser-heard Psych. Appreciate it.
	2:32pm coelacanth∅: we don't hear in mono, most of us. as it was obvious to Hendrix, and Lennon, at least, it was time to not impose a limitation on recording that didn't exist except in the minds of control freaks who were uncomfortable with change. (ie, the emi staff)
	2:34pm coelacanth∅: ...how many years did they have that 8-track sitting in a closet for?...waiting to perform "tests"!
	2:35pm Tony Coulter: We don't hear in quad either, I guess ... except for a few two-headed Siamese twins.
	2:35pm Tony Coulter: We don't hear in quad either, I guess ... except for a few two-headed Siamese twins.
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: That was an accidental stereo post -- at least it wasn't in quad.
	2:37pm Dean: Speaking of the other kind of 8-track, a high-end audio equipment manufacturer recently introduced a new player: http://www.audioholics.com/blu-ray-and-dvd-player-reviews/emotiva-erc-8t-high-resolution-audio
	2:38pm coelacanth∅: we actually hear in something far beyond quad... but for me quad is overkill. (...should i repeat that?!)
	2:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lennon, driven by his imagination, always pushed @ the limits of Production (& complained about them) - as Hendrix pushed also. (McCartney basically became a Producer.) I don't think they had the 8-tracks yet: they had to link up four-tracks to have more tracks to use - very notably done for Pepper. Incidentally - THe Zombies walked into Abbey Road 2 1st thing after Pepper when they were taking those linked four-tracks apart - & said - stop! We'll use those - & did 'Odessey & Oracle' tracks. (Floyd was just down the hall during Pepper doing their debut, the great 'Piper @ the Gates of Dawn'.) But - Lennon actually said - 'If you haven't heard Pepper in Mono, you haven't heard it.'
	2:41pm βrian: Get thee binaural.
	2:41pm coelacanth∅: hahaDean! that's great! i still use an 8-track recorder. (but not for "listening" to music, so much)
	2:47pm coelacanth∅: RR, that's interesting that John said that; but then, 3 weeks to get it perfect vs. 3 days... i personally don't mind the baroque-ness of it. i like a lot of music that's kind of un-dynamic.
	2:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I can't call something 'over-produced' that bears up to basically infinite listening. Pepper kinda gets a raw deal!
	2:52pm doctorjazz: cassettes have been coming back as well (as we hear on Tony's show), see them for sale.
	2:53pm V Priceless: fab show, Tony! Thanx!
	2:55pm coelacanth∅: ...right, RR. like all those pompous and pretentious critics who denounced prog rock because it's pompous and pretentious; when the fact is they just were constipated. couldn't let go & accept the idea that pop and rock could be literate, complex, informed musically.
	2:55pm dale: lollipop shoppe bop!
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: See you, everyone! Thanks for showing up!!
	🥁 2:57pm listener james from westwood: Thanks for the fine fine music! Be safe out there!
	2:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks -great program Tony
	3:00pm Tony Coulter: Nice segue, stream robot!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from January 17, 2017

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January 17, 2017: Stereo Serpent

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The In-Theme	"The In-Theme"				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Holy Mackerel	The Secret of Pleasure	The Holy Mackerel	RE: Collector's Choice	1968	0:02:02 (Pop-up)
John Coltrane	Acknowledgement "Acknowledgement" by "John Coltrane"	A Love Supreme	Impulse	1964	0:05:41 (Pop-up)
Brainticket	Egyptian Kings "Egyptian Kings" by "Brainticket"	Celestial Ocean	RE: Buy or Die	1972	0:13:28 (Pop-up)
Finch	Unspoken Is the Word (intro)	Galleons of Passion	RE: Pseudonym	1977	0:19:19 (Pop-up)
Paul Marcano & Lightdreams	Visual Breakfast	10,001 Dreams	RE: Got Kinda Lost	1982	0:21:33 (Pop-up)
Help	Commit Yourself "Commit Yourself" by "Help"	Help	Decca	1970	0:32:21 (Pop-up)

Khan	Break the Chains (bonus track)	Space Shanty	Re: Eclectic	1972	0:38:48 (Pop-up)
Sopwith Camel	Coke, Suede and Waterbeds	The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon	Warner Bros.	1973	0:42:10 (Pop-up)
Hatfield and the North	Let's Eat (Real Soon)	7"	Virgin	1974	0:45:38 (Pop-up)
Happy the Man	I Forgot to Push It	Crafty Hands	RE: Esoteric	1978	0:48:52 (Pop-up)
However	It's Good Fun "It's Good Fun" by "However"	Sudden Dusk	RE: Kinesis	1981	0:51:57 (Pop-up)
Grits	Beef the Diver (197?) "Beef the Diver (197?)" by "Grits"	As the World Grits	Cuneiform	1992	0:55:37 (Pop-up)
Starcrost	False Paradise "False Paradise" by "Starcrost"	Starcrost	Fable	1976	0:57:48 (Pop-up)
Zao	Kabal "Kabal" by "Zao"	Kawana	RE: Musea	1976	1:00:17 (Pop-up)
Arti e Mestieri	Sagra "Sagra" by "Arti e Mestieri"	Giro di Valzer per Domani	Cramps	1975	1:04:24 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	March to the Witch's Castle	Cosmic Slop	Westbound	1973	1:07:31 (Pop-up)
War	Galaxy "Galaxy" by "War"	7"	MCA	1977	1:13:28 (Pop-up)

Barney Wilen & His Amazing Free Rock Band	Why Do You Keep Me Hanging On	Dear Prof. Leary	RE: Promising Music	1968	1:22:22 (Pop-up)
Neil (Nigel Planer)	Lentil Nightmare	Neil's Heavy Concept Album	RE: Esoteric	1984	1:27:11 (Pop-up)
Larry Coryell & Alphonse Mouzon	Beneath the Earth	Back Together Again	Atlantic	1977	1:32:56 (Pop-up)
The Mahavishnu Orchestra	Meeting of the Spirits	The Inner Mounting Flame	Columbia	1971	1:35:54 (Pop-up)

Country Joe & the Fish	Grace "Grace" by "Country Joe & the Fish"	Electric Music for the Mind and Body	Vanguard	1967	1:45:06 (Pop-up)
Influence	Dream Woman "Dream Woman" by "Influence"	Influence	RE: Picar	1968	1:52:11 (Pop-up)
The Third Power	Won't Beg Anymore	Believe	Vanguard	1970	1:55:47 (Pop-up)
The Mandrake Memorial	Next Number	The Mandrake Memorial	RE: Collectables	1968	2:00:17 (Pop-up)
New York Rock & Roll Ensemble	Mr. Tree	New York Rock & Roll Ensemble	RE: Collectables	1968	2:04:24 (Pop-up)
Montage	The Mirror (bonus track) "The Mirror (bonus track)" by "Montage"	Montage	RE: Sundazed	1969	2:06:54 (Pop-up)

Time	Waking (1968) "Waking (1968)" by "Time"	Before There Was ... Time	Normal	2004	2:12:51 (Pop-up)
Strawberry Alarm Clock	Heated Love	The World in a Sea Shell	RE: Collectors' Choice	1968	2:15:38 (Pop-up)
The Gentrys	Goddess of Love "Goddess of Love" by "The Gentrys"	7"	Sun	1970	2:17:34 (Pop-up)
The Velvet Illusions	The Stereo Song (1967)	Acid Head	Tune In	2011	2:19:40 (Pop-up)
Lothar and the Hand People	This May Be Goodbye	Presenting ... Lothar & the Hand People	Capitol	1968	2:21:30 (Pop-up)
Kensington Market	If It Is Love "If It Is Love" by "Kensington Market"	Aardvark	Warner Bros.	1969	2:23:57 (Pop-up)
Ars Nova	And How Am I to Know "And How Am I to Know" by "Ars Nova"	Ars Nova	RE: Sundazed	1968	2:26:35 (Pop-up)
The Unspoken Word	Anniversary of My Mind	Tuesday, April 19th	Ascot	1968	2:31:17 (Pop-up)
The Serpent Power	Nobody Blues "Nobody Blues" by "The Serpent Power"	The Serpent Power	Vanguard	1967	2:33:54 (Pop-up)
Country Joe & the Fish	Colors for Susan	I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die	Vanguard	1967	2:37:51 (Pop-up)

The Lollipop Shoppe	Underground Railroad	Just Colour	RE: Rev-Ola	1968	2:48:42 (Pop-up)
The Out-Theme	Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]				2:56:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1:11am Tony Coulter: Today's playlist pic is a still from "Phantom," a 1975 film by Toshio Matsumoto: youtu.be...
	11:28am annie: ooooh, i'll have to watch that... hi tony!
	11:30am Tony Coulter: Hi, Annie! It's quite a beautiful and amazing film.
	11:31am Dave in Vermont: annie, are you who encouraged everyone to watch The OA on a comments board a few weeks back?
	11:32am annie: all i see is a short, is that it? ahh, yes it is, i've got it queued up!
	11:32am annie: yes dave, i did...pretty rad, right? did you see the whole thing?
	11:34am annie: dave, her other movies carry the same motif, but are still unquely different. worth watching them all
	11:35am Dave in Vermont: Yes, I loved it. I loved how even though it was all so absurd and potentially laughable the whole production was totally committed to it. It made it powerful. I accidentally thanked someone else on a comments board over the weekend.
	11:36am Dave in Vermont: You mean Brit Marling's other movies?
	11:38am Dave in Vermont: Hi Tony, thanks for letting us fill up the beginning of your comments board.
	11:39am annie: well, just consider that gratitude an earworm. yes, DO see her other films... yeah this is the pre-show chatter..
	11:40am Tony Coulter: Hey, Dave! Fill away -- I'm off to get ready for the show.
	11:45am annie: (i'm listening to KSDS, jazz from San Diego) i'll turn to fmu at noon, i promise
	11:48am Dave in Vermont: I saw I Origins at Sundance but I think that is all I have seen with her. It looks like she works with the other creator quite a lot.
	11:51am annie: yes, they have collaborated on many projects; she's quite accomplished
	12:00pm βrian: Why, look! Folks are already carrying on here!
	12:01pm annie: cinematic rabble rousing
	12:01pm Tony Coulter: Heya, βrian!
	🥁 12:02pm listener james from westwood: How do, Tony and all! Hope you're able to be out and about safely 'round your neck of the woods!
	12:02pm V Priceless: Greetings Tony and peoples!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Hola, James and VP!
	12:04pm Rich in Washington: greetings, Tony, fellow Coulterites! Day 7 of being completely snowbound.
	12:05pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Our streets here in Southeast Portland are still completely encased in ice and snow -- so I'm sticking to walking.
	12:05pm Tony Coulter: Ahoy, Rich! The great meltdown is coming soon -- here, anyway.
	12:07pm doctorjazz: The OA, is that on Netflix? TRANE!
	12:07pm βrian: After a couple days of glare ice coating everything on the isthmus, it's starting now to melt away. Thank Bob for crampons.
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Notwithstanding this digression into Coltrane, today's show will be mostly psych, prog, and fusion from the '60s and '70s.
	12:08pm Tony Coulter: Hola, doctorjazz!
	🥁 12:09pm listener james from westwood: Gaah! Do be careful out there. The pix I saw of Downtown are dreadful; can't imagine how y'all are over there. Are the light rail cars even remotely running anywhere?
	🥁 12:09pm listener james from westwood: I'm happy for the Northwest getting some snow pack after the droughts, but goodness, not like this!
	12:10pm doctorjazz: Sounds good to me, Tony.
	12:11pm Tony Coulter: @ Listener James: Yeah, the lightrail trains are running, but they don't service my area anyway.
	12:11pm Rich in Washington: LJFW: me too. I hate being stranded, living way up here in the middle of the woods, but I also hate drought conditions, for the same reason.
	12:15pm annie: yes, docjazz, it is...
	12:16pm doctorjazz: @Annie, I'll check it out. Just finished Stranger Things last week, was fun.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: the missus and I binged the crap out of Travelers recently. Almost no one's talking about it. We liked it.
	12:21pm Rich in Washington: No one's talking about the show, i mean. I'm not so delusional that I think people should be talking about what my wife and I bingewatch.
	12:22pm Tony Coulter: That's all I ever talk about, Rich.
	12:23pm Tony Coulter: What you and your wife watch, I mean. I have a spy camera installed in your house.
	12:30pm Tony Coulter: All we ever watch over here are VHS tapes I randomly find for 50 cents. Haven't watched TV since moving to Portland seven years ago.
	12:31pm Rich in Washington: YIKES! Some of that stuff we watch because it's so funny that it's so stupid. Honest!
	12:31pm Rich in Washington: I've been binge watching Alan Partridge on my own. I don't think it's something my wife could stand for very long.
	12:34pm Tony Coulter: Funny how the phrase "Commit Yourself" has a double meaning.
	12:36pm Carmichael: Heya Tony and flying eyeball lovers. My daughter in Salem also told me they were iced over. Another storm is moving in tomorrow for the rest of the week.
	12:37pm βrian: Yep, we have no TV either. I might consider it, but there's no way I'll pay for it.
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: Hey hey, Carmichael!
	12:49pm Carmichael: Thanks for playing Hatfield, Tony! I thought I hears Sinclair's voice in there ...
	12:50pm Tony Coulter: Yep -- 'twas him!
	12:58pm dale: ola mr deejay and people.
	12:58pm dale: do you ever play maneige tony?
	12:59pm Stanley: Hi Tony Dug the previous piece immensely. Reminded me what FZ was up to back in the day.
	1:00pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Dale! Yep -- I do indeed play Maneige from time to time. Really like their first three records.
	1:01pm dale: les porches and libre service are great.
	1:01pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Stanley! Glad you liked the Grits. Certainly know what you mean about the Zappa flavor!
	1:03pm coelacanth∅: greetings Tony, and all
	1:04pm snake: Man I love this jazz rock stuff from the 70's...kinda Soft Machine like too!!! Lovin' the set Tony!!!
	1:04pm Tony Coulter: Greets, coelacanth∅! (Hey -- you changed your name!)
	1:06pm Dean: Just in. Damn, missed some good stuff. That Finch used to be one of my favorite prog records. (Just re-acquired some Supersister, by the way.)
	1:07pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Dean! Supersister are tops.
	1:07pm coelacanth∅: i keep just missing Trane on wfmu, and i have been feeling a strong need for him lately.
	1:07pm Guido from Cologne: Hello Tony!
	1:08pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Guido!
	1:09pm geezerette: Afternoon!
	1:09pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, geezerette!
	1:13pm annie: i love this...
	1:15pm geezerette: this too!
	1:18pm Scraps: h'lo. I missed Happy the Man & Hatfield and the North, shoot. But I did catch Cosmic Slop, yeah
	1:22pm Tony Coulter: Hey there, Scraps!
	1:23pm Curt: Hi Tony - Greetings from down the street here in iceyside!
	1:25pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Curt! Can't wait for that damn ice to melt .. except that means our basement will flood.
	1:25pm Tony Coulter: There's actually a French comic/graphic novel thingee about Barmey Wilen, by Loustal: londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com...
	1:26pm Curt: Yes, I'm thinking things are going to get very messy tomorrow... storm drains could be mostly blocked.
	1:26pm doctorjazz: Set me free, why don't you babe...that break on the Wilen track was pretty incredible, coulda been Sun Ra.
	1:30pm geezerette: Barney Wilen piece was fantastic! :D ha ha! Not a fan of Lentils either! So Spinal Tap!
	🥁 1:31pm listener james from westwood: Hah, Neil from "The Young Ones"! Neil: "Does anyone want the last chickpea?" Mike: "I didn't even want the first one."
	1:31pm JtotheK: good afternoon Tony, hi everyone.
	1:31pm Tony Coulter: Greets, JtotheK!
	1:38pm geezerette: Love all this jazz/rock fusion.today.
	1:39pm Tony Coulter: Glad to hear it! Gonna be heading in a '60s psych direction soon.
	1:40pm geezerette: Yippie! :)
	1:42pm βrian: Why do I read that as psychotic instead of psychedelic? Dear me.
	1:45pm Tony Coulter: Well, some of the musicians could have ended up in psych wards, I suppose.
	1:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...for a certain SF Psych lady name of 'Grace' I heard somewhere... Love 'Electric Music...' album! - & to compare/contrast to 1st albums by Elevators, & even Floyd...& Ultimate Spinach plagiarized 'Section 43' - which the Fish did weirdly & wonderfully in the 'Monterey Pop' film - representing the unabashedly Spaced contingent of the Kulture...
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Are Country Joe fans Fish Heads?
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, Revolution Rabbit!
	1:50pm coelacanth∅: yes, and rolli-polli ones at that.
	1:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...well - I've never been seen sipping cappuccino w/ an oriental woman - as of this typing...
	1:51pm Dean: Country Joe had a coffee shop here in Berkeley for a while. Closed up not too many months ago.
	1:51pm geezerette: eat em up,yum!
	1:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Skip Spence neatly crossing the -otic / - edelic line ...if I'd had the cappa in that shop, coulda tied it up neatly as well...
	1:54pm geezerette: Beautiful.
	1:56pm geezerette: I know absolutely nothing about music but I really love the melodic discord of 60s psychedelia.
	1:58pm geezerette: Beauty and weirdness in equal measure. Intertwined.
	1:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...already the Half Century observance of the Summer of Love has made very evident that it was not just 1966 that deserves accolades...
	1:59pm geezerette: RevRab,yeah,one year dos not an era make.
	2:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A matter of months just then could mark your output as Avant or Derivative.
	2:03pm geezerette: ...and the myth that it began in pure sunshine and ended in total darkness. Both were always present in the music. Sometimes in the same song, sometimes not.
	2:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The suggestion now is that Pepper is both heavier & more sardonic in the 'correct' Mono mix...
	2:08pm geezerette: Wow, how puritan!
	2:10pm coelacanth∅: but pepper would be relatively boring in mono!
	2:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Big debate coel! ...opinions differ track by track w/ the BeatleNerds...
	2:12pm coelacanth∅: ...actually i don't think mono was "correct" for pepper. i may be mistaken, but hadn't they (Martin, emi) gotten their heads out of their asses and recorded it for stereo from the ground, up?
	2:13pm Tony Coulter: I prefer my pepper in mono -- but my salt in stereo.
	2:13pm Carmichael: Barry Melton of the Fish was the Yolo County Public Defender for many years. He retired about 5 years ago, and is now doing pro bono work.
	2:14pm V Priceless: Dr. Peppers...great rekkid
	2:15pm geezerette: OMG this is beautiful.
	2:18pm doctorjazz: I thought the earlier albums were originally mono, but stereo was done to satisfy "spoiled" Americans who wanted stereo mixes. I thought the later ones, Pepper and later, had original stereo mixes done. (Wikipedia says Pepper had 2 different mixes, the Beatles were only involved in the mono, but they were involved from Yellow Submarine on). They are supposed to sound different, but haven't noticed big differences (have a box cd set from 10 yrs ago or so), except that early Beatles stereo is really done badly, hard left-right panning (but so was much early pop stereo).
	2:20pm Dean: The stereo to which he listens to every day must surely be among these: http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1969-Fisher-Brochure.jpg
	2:21pm coelacanth∅: yeh - Geoff Emerick: "We spent three weeks on the mono mixes and maybe three days on the stereo." ...heads still firmly in asses.
	2:21pm geezerette: Hlarious and Ramones like!
	2:22pm βrian: Does it stop when you open it??
	2:22pm coelacanth∅: -still i like the stereo mix.
	2:24pm geezerette: That's funny, I actually have to go. It's been fun! Thanks Tony & al!
	2:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Mono mixes were the main thing they put the time into w/ The Beatles & engineers up until practically the end w/ 'Abbey Road' - which only came out in Stereo - but w/ Pepper - I think it's the differences that matter. Pepper is always critiqued for being too baroque & not heavy enuff - but the Mono version gainsays that - & there are a few things that just aren't quite up in the Stereo mix enuff (Paul's singing on the 'Reprise' for instance), which (is said) gives it a different cast. The Fabs' 1st two albums were recorded on Two Track machines - w/ vocals in one & instruments the other - so Stereo in a way is a fiction! & their early approach w/ Four Tracks remained to mix hard Left & Right, yeah...They didn't get EightTracks until the White Album - which is almost the end, really...'Abbey Road', their last recorded as The Beatles - is quite different technologically than all the rest of their output - & so the slickest & most 'modern'...I dunno about heads & asses - just Stereo was for specialist weirdoes in the early 60s - & TheBeatles were a big radio hit anyhow. That's what they grew up w/ & mixed to. Hendrix came later - & hit the ground running in Stereo, quite dramatically - for instance...
	2:25pm coelacanth∅: ciao, g
	2:25pm Tony Coulter: See you, geezerette!
	2:30pm Nick S.: Excellent show, Tony! Love this pocket you're in.
	2:31pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, Nick! (And ... greets!)
	2:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah! - Great lesser-heard Psych. Appreciate it.
	2:32pm coelacanth∅: we don't hear in mono, most of us. as it was obvious to Hendrix, and Lennon, at least, it was time to not impose a limitation on recording that didn't exist except in the minds of control freaks who were uncomfortable with change. (ie, the emi staff)
	2:34pm coelacanth∅: ...how many years did they have that 8-track sitting in a closet for?...waiting to perform "tests"!
	2:35pm Tony Coulter: We don't hear in quad either, I guess ... except for a few two-headed Siamese twins.
	2:35pm Tony Coulter: We don't hear in quad either, I guess ... except for a few two-headed Siamese twins.
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: That was an accidental stereo post -- at least it wasn't in quad.
	2:37pm Dean: Speaking of the other kind of 8-track, a high-end audio equipment manufacturer recently introduced a new player: http://www.audioholics.com/blu-ray-and-dvd-player-reviews/emotiva-erc-8t-high-resolution-audio
	2:38pm coelacanth∅: we actually hear in something far beyond quad... but for me quad is overkill. (...should i repeat that?!)
	2:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lennon, driven by his imagination, always pushed @ the limits of Production (& complained about them) - as Hendrix pushed also. (McCartney basically became a Producer.) I don't think they had the 8-tracks yet: they had to link up four-tracks to have more tracks to use - very notably done for Pepper. Incidentally - THe Zombies walked into Abbey Road 2 1st thing after Pepper when they were taking those linked four-tracks apart - & said - stop! We'll use those - & did 'Odessey & Oracle' tracks. (Floyd was just down the hall during Pepper doing their debut, the great 'Piper @ the Gates of Dawn'.) But - Lennon actually said - 'If you haven't heard Pepper in Mono, you haven't heard it.'
	2:41pm βrian: Get thee binaural.
	2:41pm coelacanth∅: hahaDean! that's great! i still use an 8-track recorder. (but not for "listening" to music, so much)
	2:47pm coelacanth∅: RR, that's interesting that John said that; but then, 3 weeks to get it perfect vs. 3 days... i personally don't mind the baroque-ness of it. i like a lot of music that's kind of un-dynamic.
	2:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I can't call something 'over-produced' that bears up to basically infinite listening. Pepper kinda gets a raw deal!
	2:52pm doctorjazz: cassettes have been coming back as well (as we hear on Tony's show), see them for sale.
	2:53pm V Priceless: fab show, Tony! Thanx!
	2:55pm coelacanth∅: ...right, RR. like all those pompous and pretentious critics who denounced prog rock because it's pompous and pretentious; when the fact is they just were constipated. couldn't let go & accept the idea that pop and rock could be literate, complex, informed musically.
	2:55pm dale: lollipop shoppe bop!
	2:57pm Tony Coulter: See you, everyone! Thanks for showing up!!
	🥁 2:57pm listener james from westwood: Thanks for the fine fine music! Be safe out there!
	2:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks -great program Tony
	3:00pm Tony Coulter: Nice segue, stream robot!

Tony Coulter: Playlist from January 17, 2017

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