Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 16, 2020 Favoriting

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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting January 16, 2020: Psychedelic Dreams & Psychotic Vibrations: A Freak-Out Light Show for Radio

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
International Harvester  Dies Irae   Favoriting Sov Gott Rose-Marie  Love Records  1968    0:00:49 (Pop-up)
Head  Cannabis Sativa   Favoriting Head  Buddah Records  1970  Nik Raicevik  0:02:51 (Pop-up)
Taste of Blues  Schizofrenia   Favoriting Schizofrenia  SSR  1969    0:12:30 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Campbell  That's Right That's Me   Favoriting Half Baked  Vertigo  1970    0:28:54 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Space Kids  
 
 
 
 
0:32:34 (Pop-up)
The 23rd Turnoff  Michael Angelo   Favoriting Michael Angelo / Leave Me Here 7"  Deram  1967  wr. Jimmy Campbell  0:39:01 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope  (Further Reflections) In The Room Of Percussion   Favoriting Tangerine Dream  Fontana  1967    0:41:01 (Pop-up)
Donovan  Jersey Thursday   Favoriting Fairytale  Pye  1965    0:44:18 (Pop-up)
The Tea Company  Flowers   Favoriting Come and Have some Tea with the Tea Company  Smash  1968    0:46:30 (Pop-up)
Tages  The Old Man Wafwer   Favoriting Studio  Parlophone  1967    0:56:27 (Pop-up)
Margo Guryan  Love   Favoriting Take A Picture  Bell Records  1968    1:00:42 (Pop-up)
The Lemon Fog  Summer   Favoriting The Psychedelic Sound of Summer with The Lemon Fog  Cicadelic Records  1968 / 2011  Previously unreleased complete version  1:05:52 (Pop-up)
The Turtles  To See The Sun   Favoriting Turtle Soup  White Whale  1969  Bonus track  1:09:45 (Pop-up)
The Moving Sidewalks  Eclipse / Reclipse   Favoriting Flash  Tantara  1968    1:13:44 (Pop-up)
The Mesmerizing Eye  The War for My Mind   Favoriting Psychedelia ~ A Musical Light Show  Smash  1967    1:19:28 (Pop-up)
The Mesmerizing Eye  Dear Mom, Send Money   Favoriting Psychedelia ~ A Musical Light Show  Smash  1967    1:21:34 (Pop-up)
The Mesmerizing Eye  An Exercise in Frustration   Favoriting Psychedelia ~ A Musical Light Show  Smash  1967    1:23:42 (Pop-up)
Pearls Before Swine  (Oh Dear) Miss Morse   Favoriting One Nation Underground  ESP Disk  1967    1:25:56 (Pop-up)
The Velvet Underground  Noise   Favoriting The East Village Other  ESP Disk  1966    1:27:37 (Pop-up)
The Vampires  Memphis Underground   Favoriting Vampires Underground  RAJ  1971    1:28:49 (Pop-up)
The Underground  Psychedelic Visions   Favoriting Psychedelic Visions  Mercury Wing  1967    1:34:16 (Pop-up)
The Underground  Psychotic Vibrations   Favoriting Psychedelic Visions  Mercury Wing  1967    1:36:26 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Underground 
Psychedelic Dream   Favoriting
Psychedelic Visions 
 
 
 
1:38:36 (Pop-up)
Flat Earth Society  Satori   Favoriting Waleeco  Fleetwood  1968    1:50:13 (Pop-up)
The Fugs  Marijuana   Favoriting It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest  Reprise  1968    1:53:31 (Pop-up)
White Noise  Your Hidden Dreams   Favoriting An Electric Storm  Island Records  1969    1:54:52 (Pop-up)
The United States Of America  Osamu's Birthday   Favoriting The United States Of America  Columbia  1968  bonus track  1:59:29 (Pop-up)
The Unfolding  Electric Buddha   Favoriting How To Blow Your Mind and Have A Freakout Party  Audio Fidelity  1967    2:02:55 (Pop-up)
Cosmic Eye  Dream Sequence 2   Favoriting Dream Sequence  Regal Zonophone  1972    2:06:55 (Pop-up)
Harumi  Twice Told Tales of the Pomegranate Forest   Favoriting Harumi  Verve Forecast  1968    2:20:38 (Pop-up)
Tonto's Expanding Head Band  Riversong   Favoriting Zero Time  Embryo Records   1971    2:44:38 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Pool  
 
 
 
 
2:52:04 (Pop-up)
The Beau Brummels  Only Dreaming Now   Favoriting Triangle  Warner Bros.  1967    2:57:52 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Flash Strap:

Hello explorers
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listener james from westwood:

How do, Flash and all night-trippers!
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

Hi James!
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doctorjazz:

Hi, Flash!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hiya Doc!
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northguineahills:

Should do a set based on bands named after large tractors, etc....
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi NGH! that'd be a challenge for me i think
Avatar 7:04pm
northguineahills:

ok, just farming/construction/mining equipment....
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

you drive a hard bargain
  7:05pm
chresti -on the way home:

Hi Flash and explorers!
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Chresti!
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

This record is so weird: "Electronic Music from ART IN SPACE. "The sound of numbers for soaking in soft dreams. Sweet moments and private notes making a rhyme into a habit. An album that creates the ultimate environment for the smoke generation. Taste it."
Avatar 7:09pm
hyde:

hello!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Hyde!
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

"having a heat wave"
Avatar 7:14pm
still b/p:

Head album cover says:
"Inside you will find something colorful to do with your hands while you're listening to this album."

Aaaaand, zing 'em if you got 'em, commenters.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

legendary sidelong jam here
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hi b/p! not that i can't think of more colorful things to do with my hands, but it's worth noting that HEAD came with an 8-page coloring book!
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Taste of Blues hails from Sweden, very unusual mixture of sounds here
Avatar 7:16pm
hyde:

the title of that Fugs record is one of my all time favorites
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

not the first or last swedish group of the evening, interestingly enough
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

Fugs are so great like that
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Passaic River Blues:

This is fantastic.
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

PBR! hello!
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

drummer on this is so crucial to its having that otherworldly kraut sound, despite the preponderance of blues& soul vamps
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Passaic River Blues:

@Flash: word. The not-quite-Liebezeit build in the last section was tremendous!
Avatar 7:20pm
still b/p:

Coloring opportunity was my guess, but 8 pages is more generous than I'd imagined.
Coulda been a little tiny Holi Festival Kit of powders, too, though that'd be more likely these days when the Holi-influenced clouds and whacks and eruptions of color are showing up everywhars.
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

exactly!
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

hard to track down the full coloring book, but I found a couple pages in discogs at least: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

still can't believe the first guitar notes on this mutant jam are a crib from Bing: "we're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave"
  7:28pm
CC:

You could always alternate Bruce Springsteen, Graham Parker, Steve Earle and Ian Hunter songs???...(:
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

Hi CC!
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

love the art on this album so much, really perfect encapsulation of the overall mood
  7:32pm
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Wow that Head Tune Sativa really got me. Updating my youtube playlist^^
  7:36pm
?:

there us a "dies irae" called band also, tune called "the trip" 1970ish, a german krautrock gem, check it out - great video too
  7:37pm
CC:

The first time I tripped I remember listening to Country Joe and the Fish...a song called Grace...
Avatar 7:39pm
Flash Strap:

will do
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
chresti:

Finally home!
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

Country Joe has some killers, at his best (generally instrumental) he produces the platonic ideal of the psychedelic west coast sound
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

welcome home, chresti
Avatar 7:42pm
Flash Strap:

Kaleidoscope looking like 15 year olds on that cover
Avatar 7:42pm
hyde:

i'm a sucker for that jangly guitar
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

this whole track just has the Right Sound
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Franco Twinkie:

Is it okay to trip out if you're wearing a plaid bathrobe and slippers?
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Franco, sounds both wise and safe honestly
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

tho personally, I like to be outfitted in action-apparel, just in case
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Franco Twinkie:

In the psychedelic ballroom in my mind everyone is in pajamas.
Avatar 7:48pm
Flash Strap:

love the Tea Company's little New York accents as they compete with a kind of Beatles affectation
  7:48pm
CC:

daisy dukes and a tube top ain't bad..!..hehehe...
Avatar 7:48pm
Flash Strap:

insane instrumental incoming
  7:49pm
?:

I always get the urge to be naked if tripping, I like it to be alone with my wife then :D
Avatar 7:49pm
northguineahills:

Tea Company is new to me!
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

i hear ya pal, naked is good, it's gotta happen at some point or it's not a full trip
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Passaic River Blues:

@NGH: They cover "You Keep Me Hangin' On" on this record and, if memory serves, it's awesome.
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: this is the high point of the album but it has many charms as well
Avatar 7:50pm
northguineahills:

@franco:I read that as 'psychedelic bathroom'....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
chresti:

Granny Spicy Tuna has a psychedelic bathroom
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Franco Twinkie:

Granny Spicy Tuna actually has a psychedelic bathroom. It is beyond belief.
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

sounds incredible
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
chresti:

We both saw it!
  7:53pm
CC:

I remember taking the metal grate out of the oven and tying shoe strings on it and then holding them to my ears while somebody beat on it..!.. too heavy!!!!
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

tea company serving up pure boiling primitivism at this point
Avatar 7:55pm
Flash Strap:

sounds like a war, almost sounds like German Oak or something
Avatar 7:56pm
northguineahills:

I love German Oak!
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

they're so heavy and good
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Flash Strap:

and raw
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Flash Strap:

I really just DIE for this Tages track
Avatar 7:58pm
passiflora:

music to organize to
Avatar 7:59pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Passiflora!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Franco Twinkie:

It's time for hashish and something smeared with cream cheese.
Avatar 8:00pm
fleep:

(joins the brain safari, now in progress) Howdy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Flash & mind explorers
  8:02pm
CC:

did anybody ever tie a bread bag up into tight knots into a long strand and then light it on fire in the dark and watch it drip into a bucket of water while tripping???...oh man!!!
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

Fleep! Coelacanth! let's mind-explore this brain-safari together friends!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Passaic River Blues:

I love this Guryan inordinately. Talk about a song going everywhere.
Avatar 8:03pm
fleep:

CC: we called them zoomies, a dry cleaning bag works fine, too
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

@CC: sounds very smart, will have to try
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

@PBR: so good, i agree. might even be my fave over Sunday Morning
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
chresti:

Sounds toxic, lets do it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Franco Twinkie:

I use to lay in puddles while I was tripping.
  8:05pm
CC:

hehehe...yeah...joop plop, jooop plop!!!...hahaha
Avatar 8:07pm
hyde:

@CC haha, i did that plastic bag thing when i was a kid. probably inhaled toxic fumes, but it was cool
  8:07pm
CC:

I always loved seeing the clouds and the stars in three dimension!!!
Avatar 8:07pm
hyde:

@CC also i wasnt tripping, because i was like 8
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

no excuse
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hyde:

i made up for it later
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Flash Strap:

great texas psych sound on this Lemon Fog cut
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Franco Twinkie:

Pre-drugs we would make candle powered gas bags that would get serious elevation then come crashing down to earth.
Avatar 8:10pm
Flash Strap:

all-time weirdo Turtles track. god they're incredible
  8:11pm
CC:

Frank Zappa movie 200 Motels is primo!!!
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

@CC: is this in 200 motels? I don't remember that flick very well, it's been ages
  8:12pm
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the turtles track was new to me, nice one!
  8:12pm
Dean:

First time I've seen Nik Raicevik (aka Pascal) on a playlist! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS RECORD IF YOU ARE STONED!
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Dean! not even my first time out with Raicevik actually but I really am overdue to check out the Pascal LPs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Little Danny:

Hey hey hello all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Franco Twinkie:

I saw Flo and Eddie a couple of times when they were backed up by The Mothers minus Frank.
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

Hi LD! how goes it pal?
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

this Texas group famous for having a very young Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
  8:14pm
Dean:

I have one or two, but no stickers, alas. Bonkers. Reminds me of those great Cosmic Jokers albums.
  8:15pm
CC:

Yeah... Flo & Eddie made me think about that movie...
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Little Danny:

Good! Finally prepared my shit in advance. For once I'm not scrambling this evening. Knock on wood...
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

@Dean: almost had some Cosmic Jokers in the mix for tonight, love those covers & a classic krautrock analogue to psychsploitation
  8:18pm
Dean:

Indeed. Then there's Yatha Sidhra's Meditation Mass, some Agitation Free, early Guru Guru and Grobschnitt...
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Franco Twinkie:

Hey Dean! As luck would have it I found myself at the CVS right next to Moffets Pie Shoppe the other day. I had been there previously and was not impressed, but the second time around both Chresti and I agreed that it was a better than average chicken pot pie.
  8:20pm
CC:

Franko... how's it hanging man?!?... nice to see you I haven't seen you in awhile hope everything is well..!?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Little Danny:

Definitely one of the better anonymous psychsploitation freakouts, the Mesmerizing Eye. Still need a cleaner copy over here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Franco Twinkie:

I'm okay CC, thanks for asking.
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Flash Strap:

yeah, this one's actually pretty good. a lot of them are so weak
  8:21pm
Dean:

I don't know Moffets! Arcadia? Vicinity of the old Bahuka? Dang, I miss them parts.
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

the secret is really just going all-out with the sound effects. if you're gonna try it, go all the way
  8:22pm
CC:

I'm always a little low and to the left myself...hehehe
Avatar 8:23pm
hyde:

another one for the typewriter music show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
coelacanth∅:

so, and maybe this will be obvious tomorrow Evan, but how did you get the hallucinogens to come through the internet -and into our bloodstreams just by listening?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
chresti:

psychsploitation
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Passaic River Blues:

@hyde: That is such a good idea for a show theme! I probably would need to be high to listen, but, man, great idea.
  8:25pm
Dean:

Fast forward to 2003, Wolfgang Mitterer's Radio Fractal/Beat Music.
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

@C: the trick is, you have to look at the playlist blotter sheet
  8:25pm
Dean:

You can't spell Explorer's Room without L.S.D.

Oh, wait, sure you can.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
chresti:

For the telephone show..
Avatar 8:26pm
hyde:

@PRB as with most of my ideas, it's a little half baked
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yeah, Arcadia. It was on Merrills list. It's a place that could only exist in the SGV, or maybe West Virginia. Little House On The Prairie mixed with Twin Peaks.
Avatar 8:26pm
Flash Strap:

morse spells --- ? anyone
  8:27pm
CC:

hehehe...Flash... it made an inkblot blotter in my mind!!!
Avatar 8:28pm
fleep:

Mickeys and Goofys, tiny postage stamps of fun
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
coelacanth∅:

ah. that explains why i'm just mildly tripping whereas some folks here seem to be tripping their brains out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Little Danny:

@Flash re: @8:22 - absolutely
  8:28pm
Dean:

Oh, right. Good for MS!

Seems to me, @FS, you need to include "...rope sex..." but I can't conjure the rest of it.
  8:30pm
CC:

I'll tell you a real trippy tune if you like bongo drums...Self Portrait by Chuck Mangione!!!
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

weird outfit, the Vampires, don't know much beyond this but we have an all-Indian musical lineup recording for RAJ in South Africa
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

great cover art too, really out of a weird dream with that sleeve design
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
chresti:

I am seeing trails
  8:34pm
Dean:

Pacific Chrest?
  8:34pm
CC:

you can't go wrong with a nice flute!!!
Avatar 8:36pm
Flash Strap:

the Underground with a more lackluster shot at psychsploitation - one of it's greatest strengths is just the sheer dissonance between presentation and content
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
chresti:

Yes, the Electric Crest Toothpaste trail.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
coelacanth∅:

"an oral hygiene ritual that will change your perspective"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Franco Twinkie:

This sounds like a Lowrey home organ set on ultra-violet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Little Danny:

Yeah, less freeform than souped-up studio-psychedelic versions of charting hits and some nominal originals. Similar to the Fire Escape LP on GNP-Cresendo...
Avatar 8:38pm
quinn:

oooo hay-lo i'm just tuning in... speaking of trips... last time i was in the desert i listened to one of your archived shows on headphones and it was tooooo much. jungle circus scenes. too much.
  8:39pm
Dean:

Toothpaste. The Colgateway drug to harder stuff.
  8:39pm
CC:

Happy trails!!!
Avatar 8:39pm
fleep:

Flossing. A national tragedy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
coelacanth∅:

haha Dean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
coelacanth∅:

...twice a day

(or as recommended by your dentist)
  8:42pm
Dean:

I had a dentist who advised absolutely no flossing! Nobody knows how to do it right, and they cause injury in the process. I'm evolved to a water flosser.
Avatar 8:42pm
northguineahills:

Thanks, Evan, I'm off!
  8:42pm
Dean:

^I've
  8:43pm
CC:

The Pleasant Pheasant is also a groovy song by Billy Cobham!!!...way trippy!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Franco Twinkie:

That Jimmy Campbell album cover is really something. The very idea of encountering clown mimes in the forest while you are wrecked on acid is an interesting proposition.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
coelacanth∅:

the last dentist i saw (?) strongly recommended i don't use my hydroflosser. said there's no proof blah blah blah...
he's obviously brainwashed.
  8:46pm
Dean:

Reminded me of the first Fat Mattress LP cover.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Passaic River Blues:

@Franco: the raven atop the stump and a black-robed and hooded figure in the far left background (Death?) just complete the batshit tableau. Love it.
  8:46pm
Dean:

Yeah, well, the dentist who told me that was flossed out on acid.
Avatar 8:50pm
still b/p:

You never know how something routine, such as those organ licks of Greensleeves, might hit the heightened mind condition. When we were tripping on something or other outside someone's lakeside cottage one evening 40-something years ago, a fella, who maybe wasn't tripping, suddenly had a trumpet, stood ramrod straight and earnestly and assertively played the theme from the Godfather. We were uproariously responsive to these unexpected stimulus.
Avatar 8:50pm
still b/p:

"stimuli"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
coelacanth∅:

i have a sneaky suspicion that clown mimes in the woods whilst tripping wouldn't disturb me as much as it would whilst not tripping
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

here's an ear to lend!
  8:51pm
Dean:

Er, the theme from "The Godfather" is "something routine"? I can't even remember the melody.
Avatar 8:51pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Qunn! sounds wild! might not have been my most desert-friendly show
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Flash Strap:

adios NGH!
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quinn:

Oh, it wasn't your fault! A balloon unexpectedly tumbling across the ground also threw me for a loop.
  8:52pm
CC:

Just don't send in the clowns!!!...hehehe...
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

so true, b/p. i remember tripping once and switching from psych music to Gene Pitney and being in ecstasy, instant relief
  8:53pm
CC:

this kind of reminds me of that animal song where all the rich people in the castle died???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
coelacanth∅:

i get the theme from the godfather lodged in my head occasionally. a few times/year.
i've never even seen the movie (but a tiny bit of, as a child) but it's a great melody.
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

hey Nino Rota doesn't do bad music
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

@quinn: well, that'll happen, yeah
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quinn:

piano ending of layla from goodfellas > godfather theme FIGHT ME
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Flash Strap:

i disagree but refuse battle in this case
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quinn:

fair
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Flash Strap:

but i do feel it's better used in the film (where i like it) than in the song (which I refuse to like)
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quinn:

i don't like the actual song either. and it's weird how its just tacked on to the end of it like that.
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quinn:

*but* i would listen to an hour loop of just the ending to the song, and probably have
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Flash Strap:

it's a great coda! i don't think clapton wrote it which explains why it's good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Franco Twinkie:

This show is to entertaining to be distracted with making dinner, so I just popped a Trader Joe's Spanakopitain the oven. Now, where were we?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
ParUbi:

Hey there Flash Strap and everyone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
coelacanth∅:

apparently Rita Coolage composed it, essentially, and her then husband stole it. Clapton didn't know how to end layla so they tacked that on.
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Flash Strap:

this seems to be an example of psychsploitation where the musicians are sincere freaks & the label is just hoping to cash in with it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
coelacanth∅:

(Coolidge)
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quinn:

the more you know ::shootingstar::
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Flash Strap:

Hi ParUbi!
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Flash Strap:

@C: i had no idea about Rita Coolidge!
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Flash Strap:

more about How to Freak Out: dangerousminds.net...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Eyes elsewhere but digging every scintilla.
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coelacanth∅:

she was drummer Jim Gordon's ex at the time, and Clapton heard him playing it on piano.
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Flash Strap:

Cosmic Eye led by the great Indian jazz guitarist Amancio D'Silva
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

enjoying all these trippy sounds, clicky starred to listen later!!!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Rev! Hi Granny!
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CC:

I remember sitting around and groovy parties with people who were all mellow and relaxed and making out and everything and then all of a sudden some guy with stand up and he would act like he was pulling a sword out and go shlang and then another guy would stand up and would go shling..!.. and they would have an imaginary sword fight and wake everybody up!!!
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Franco Twinkie:

A guy I use to work with was hit on by Rita Coolidge at the Mayfair supermarket in Hollywood.
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chresti:

I thought it was Faye Dunaway. too?
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ParUbi:

Shlang!
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Flash Strap:

@CC: sounds pretty cool
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Flash Strap:

god i love this album, what a true rarity
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Franco Twinkie:

Yes, Faye Too. And Janis as well.
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doctorjazz:

Time to move, thanks Evan!
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chresti:

Shling Shlang!
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Flash Strap:

Doc's about a mover, safe travels friend!
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Dean:

Huh? All of a sudden everybody on the comment board is a proponent of strict IP rights?

Led Zeppelin is innocent!
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Flash Strap:

i disagree with strict IP rights AND Zep claims to innocence across all fields of crime
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Little Danny:

This Cosmic Eye is new to me and very cool!
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CC:

I forgot to ask you Flash... do you always come in with a prepared playlist or can you play off the cuff from time to time if you like???
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Flash Strap:

crazy guitar from D'Silva, he's so versatile here
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Flash Strap:

@LD: very happy to hear that
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Little Danny:

Ooohhh this is D'Silva. Hadn't appreciated that.
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Flash Strap:

@CC: i almost always prep the show pretty extensively but I improvise all the time as well
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Franco Twinkie:

Okay, everybody knows about the Spirit/Led Zepplin kerfuffle, but did you know they also 'borrowed' from the British folk singer Anne Briggs?
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Little Danny:

Love this Harumi so much.

Instrumentation just made me flash on Ariel Kalma
  9:22pm
CC:

ok... so that must be a extemporaneously at your desire???
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Flash Strap:

@LD: totally, it's a really unusual piece! very exotic and new age - the flipside is a more conventional psych groove, but with Harumi's parents speaking for 25 minutes in Japanese. what a special record
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coelacanth∅:

it's called stealing, and they stole from many people
being influenced by or even using a song or melody is fine; but i don't think it's fine when they take full writing credit for it, when they know they didn't write it.
thieves.
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Flash Strap:

@CC: indeed. it is all at my desire. the desirers room
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Passaic River Blues:

@Little Danny: Harumi is amazing. In July 2017, Irwin aired an episode of Tom Wilson's 1968 Music Factory show featuring a Harumi interview: wfmu.org...
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Flash Strap:

@PBR: i gotta check that out
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Flash Strap:

"you know how you can... become smaller and have just as much fun"
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coelacanth∅:

throw Mick and Keith into the fire too; and Peter,Paul & Mary; sublime; Jewel...etc
  9:27pm
CC:

Some might say...'We must give ourselves away'!!!
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coelacanth∅:

(but -was it Anne Briggs or was it Bert Jansch [?] -or both?)
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Flash Strap:

being critical of them requires articulating that they are actually abusing IP law by employing it in a ruthless way - not that they are being cool scofflaws, which is in fact cool. if they were cool they would record what they want and just not claim it as their IP. i know there are problems with that position, but it is mine
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Flash Strap:

lotta pregnant dog talk incoming
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Franco Twinkie:

Let say both to be on the safe side. Anne is still alive and I'm sure she could use a little extra scratch.
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Flash Strap:

from How to Freak Out: dangerousminds.net...
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Flash Strap:

"try some psychedelic words on your guests"
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coelacanth∅:

not sure i have a problem with that Evan! but in the case of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page -and the others i mentioned -they did give themselves full dredit for composing songs they obviously didn't write. it's greedy and selfish.
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Flash Strap:

@C: yeah we agree
  9:34pm
CC:

I saw a news piece the other day where this family adopted a three-legged dog!!!... that dog looks so happy I couldn't believe it!!
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passiflora:

love
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coelacanth∅:

...there's one thing you can say positive about Clapton (and i'm not known for saying positive things about Clapton!) is that when he (same goes for Jack Bruce, the heart and brains behind cream) did someone else's song, and they did that a lot, they always gave credit where credit was due.
-even when the writer was long gone and there was no one to fight it.
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Little Danny:

Have you heard the Rosko With The John Berberian Ensemble LP, Flash? Nice counterpart to this Harumi
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Flash Strap:

no! i've never heard of it even! will check it out
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CC:

truth is beauty and beauty is truth!!!
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Little Danny:

It's a good cheapie, Evan: www.discogs.com...
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Flash Strap:

looks cool, looking forward to hearing it
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Little Danny:

You've sustained an extraordinary vibe this eve, Evan. Full Aquarian beads to you sir
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Flash Strap:

ah, many thanks
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Flash Strap:

love this Tonto track, truly otherworldly
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Flash Strap:

absolutely floating
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CC:

Light as a feather can be!!! good show!!
  9:53pm
Dean:

I tend toward the other end of the spectrum. I think it's meaningless to claim authorship. So, when I refer to "Virginia Woolf," I mean those texts we attribute to her. I frankly don't care whether or not she wrote them.

I say, fuck John Locke!

And you can quote me. But please attribute properly.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

thank you!!!!
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Franco Twinkie:

Put a paisley pillow case over your head and call it a day.
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Little Danny:

Breathe in the cool night air with me now: wfmu.org...

Hope to see y'all there!
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Matt from New Orleans:

Larry played the Harumi flip recently
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chresti:

Thanks Fllash, really transporting and wig flipping!
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coelacanth∅:

Stellar program Evan Thanks!
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Flash Strap:

thanks to you all! I'll return in three weeks, please meet me here and we'll explore again anew
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Flash Strap:

good night friends
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coelacanth∅:

not sure i heard it accurately but if it's changing residence you're up to hope that all goes smoothly
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Doug Schulkind:

Brother Flash, was otherwise occupied and missed it! I am bereft! Will catch up in the alternate reality of the archives soon. Just reading this page is music!
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