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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 June 11, 2020: Liberation Speaks Nation: Jail, War, Blues

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Jacob Miller  Shaky Girl   Favoriting Jacob "Killer" Miller  Top Ranking  1977    0:01:43 (Pop-up)
Trinity Meet The Mighty Diamonds  Wash All Your Trouble   Favoriting Trinity Meet The Mighty Diamonds  Gorgon Records  1979    0:04:47 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry  Dub Fa Yah Rights   Favoriting Divine Madness...Definitely  Pressure Sounds  2001  rec. 1973-77  0:07:46 (Pop-up)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus  Wicked Got to Go   Favoriting Love Thy Neighbour  Jah Life  1979  mixed by Lee Perry  0:11:02 (Pop-up)
Dillinger  Don't Take Another Man's Life   Favoriting Talkin' Blues  Magnum Records  1977    0:16:56 (Pop-up)
Jacob Miller  Big Stripe (To Lock Up Rasta)   Favoriting Jacob "Killer" Miller  Top Ranking  1977    0:22:37 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo  No Peace   Favoriting Revelation Time  Tropical Sound Tracs  1975    0:25:31 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Cynthia  
 
 
 
 
0:29:14 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra  The Introduction   Favoriting Liberation Music Orchestra  Impulse!  1970  wr. Carla Bley  0:38:13 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra  Song of the United Front   Favoriting Liberation Music Orchestra  Impulse!  1970  wr. Hans Eisler & Bertolt Brecht  0:38:33 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra  El Quinto Regimento (The Fifth Regiment) – Los Cuatro Generales (The Four Generals) – Viva La Quince Brigada (Long Live The Fifteenth Brigade)   Favoriting Liberation Music Orchestra  Impulse!  1970  trad. Spanish Civil War songs  0:40:15 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra  The Ending to the First Side   Favoriting Liberation Music Orchestra  Impulse!  1970  wr. Carla Bley  1:01:18 (Pop-up)
Larry Saunders, The Prophet of Soul  Free Angela   Favoriting Free Angela  Golden Triangle Records  1971    1:03:46 (Pop-up)
Angela Davis  13 Question Interview   Favoriting Angela Davis Speaks  Folkways  1971  questions taken from a poll of Harlem residents & asked by Margaret Burnham, her lawyer  1:09:28 (Pop-up)
Joe McPhee  Nation Time   Favoriting Nation Time  CjRecord Productions  1971    1:32:26 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Mondo Island  
 
 
 
 
1:50:45 (Pop-up)
Kostas Bezos and the White Birds  Τ Άσπρα Πουλιά στα βουνα (The White Birds In The Mountains)   Favoriting Kostas Bezos and the White Birds  Mississippi Records /Olvido  2017  rec. in Athens, 1928-37  2:00:19 (Pop-up)
Demetrios Halkias  Selfos (Nightingale)   Favoriting Why The Mountains Are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960  Third Man Records / Long Gone Sound Productions  2016    2:03:17 (Pop-up)
Christos Daralas & Nikos Karakostas  Svarniara (Reckless Woman)   Favoriting Why The Mountains Are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960  Third Man Records / Long Gone Sound Productions  2016    2:05:36 (Pop-up)
A. Kostis  Giannis Hasiklis (Yannis the Hash Smoker)   Favoriting The Jail's A Fine School  Mississippi Records / Olvido  2015  A. Kostis = a pseudonymous Kostas Bezos  2:08:51 (Pop-up)
Abner Jay  Cocaine Blues / Too Poor to Live, Too Poor to Die   Favoriting Man Walked on the Moon  Mississippi Records  2019  rec. 2 months before Mr. Jay's passing  2:12:44 (Pop-up)
Atilla the Hun  Inequality of Life   Favoriting My Intention is War (Trinidad Calypsos 1928-1948)  Mississippi Records  2014    2:18:27 (Pop-up)
The Growler  Police Diplomacy   Favoriting Roosevelt in Trinidad: Calypsos of Events, Places and Personalities, 1933-1939  Rounder Records  1999    2:21:30 (Pop-up)
Lord Panama and The Stickers  Fire Down Below   Favoriting Panama! 3 – Calypso Panameño, Guajira Jazz & Cumbia Típica On The Isthmus 1960​-​75  Soundway  2009    2:23:52 (Pop-up)
Los Superiores  Descarga Superior   Favoriting Panama! 2 – Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical, & Calypso Funk On The Isthmus 1967-77  Soundway  2009    2:26:53 (Pop-up)
Raymond Cicault et son Orchestre Volcan  À Mon Ami Lucien Jolibois   Favoriting Disques Debs International Vol. 1 (An Island Story: Biguine, Afro Latin & Musique Antillaise 1960-1972)  Strut  2018    2:31:26 (Pop-up)
Dolor et ses Etoiles  Socíe Cabrite   Favoriting Lolita 7"  Aux Ondes  19??  also appears on Antilles Mechant Bateau comp. (Born Bad)  2:34:22 (Pop-up)
The Caresser  Exploiting   Favoriting My Intention is War (Trinidad Calypsos 1928-1948)  Mississippi Records  2014    2:40:06 (Pop-up)
Lord Invader & The Mighty Dictator  My Intention is War   Favoriting My Intention is War (Trinidad Calypsos 1928-1948)  Mississippi Records  2014    2:44:06 (Pop-up)
Kostas Bezos and the White Birds  Τα Άσπρα Πουλιά στον πόλεμο (The White Birds Go To War)   Favoriting Kostas Bezos and the White Birds  Mississippi Records / Olvido  2017    2:47:15 (Pop-up)
Kostas Bezos and the White Birds  Νύχτα ονειρεμμένη (Dreamy Night)   Favoriting Kostas Bezos and the White Birds  Mississippi Records / Olvido  2017    2:50:24 (Pop-up)
  Bells of My Soul           2:53:37 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Flash Strap:

hello Explorers!
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chresti:

Hi Flash and roomies!
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Flash Strap:

Hi chresti!
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Flash Strap:

incredible vocal style on display here
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Flash Strap:

a very charming presence
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Flash Strap:

cover: img.discogs.com...
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northguineahills:

word!
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hyde:

hello, old friends
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Flash Strap:

Hello NGH!
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Flash Strap:

Hello my dear Hyde!
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
WR:

Hello Flash and chresti and all drummer streamers. Looking forward to hearing the sounds as reflected by the covers on the playlist.
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hi WR! me too pal
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Flash Strap:

Trinity is so blessed in his method, love how he toasts
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Franco Twinkie:

Hey Flash, how you? It's really hot here, so I think I'm gonna sit in front of the cool air blower, turn my eyeballs around and explore the inside of my head.
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
WR:

Trinity! Ooh has been years since last heard him. I'll try not break out in my lame attempts at rasta patois.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
StringOFperils:

Perfect!
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hyde:

killer stuff
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Flash Strap:

Hi Franco ! it's hot here but raining cats & dogs, heavy heavy weather
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Flash Strap:

Hi StringofPerils!
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chresti:

Righteous selection, Selector Flash!
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Flash Strap:

real large demented Perry vibes on this one, a cavern of sounds to big for the head
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Flash Strap:

too big
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Flash Strap:

thanks to the-I Chresti
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Franco Twinkie:

Nothing is to demented for Scratch.
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
WR:

I like "to big for the head". Active expansion of the head instigated by Lee Perry sounds.
Avatar 7:10pm
Frog Mover:

Hey Everyone! Definitely feelin all this!
  7:11pm
Dean:

When I was in law school I did some work for the attorney who successfully defended Angela Davis in the Marin County Courthouse case years ago. Nice guy.
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Frog Mover!

just finally watched Rockers on Frog Mo's recommendation & boy I have to say it instantly became a favorite film
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Dean, I remember that from years back. extremely good & cool
Avatar 7:13pm
northguineahills:

Evan played this Ras Michael in 2016!
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Flash Strap:

Love Thy Neighbour is simply exemplary. could hardly be a better record
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Frog Mover:

Lion of Judah motorbike!
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Flash Strap:

very true NGH, i remember the show vividly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Franco Twinkie:

I got a free record by Lee Perry inside Mojo called City To Hot. That is the operative feeling today in L.A.
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northguineahills:

shit dean, that's awesome!
  7:14pm
CC:

Perfect timing flash... just when a guy is in the mood for some exotic fantasy you show up with your terrific program!!!...hi y'all!!!
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

if I disappear it is because of a hellacious lightning storm in the sky above me. fingers crossed i wont drop but that would be why
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there CC!
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northguineahills:

Lost internet earlier b/c of t-storm, myself.
Avatar 7:16pm
northguineahills:

I should know, Evan, it was my last week in NYC>..
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

a milestone marker then
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Franco Twinkie:

We had a black out on Monday. I think with all the people home now, black outs are going to be the norm this summer.
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
WR:

This Sly & Robbie jam was used as riddum track for many fine recordings
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

@Franco: that record in your avatar looks VERY intriguing
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Flash Strap:

@WR: big time
Avatar 7:19pm
northguineahills:

@WR: where to even start...? (Sly and Robbie were used in almost everything, and then there's this Dillinga...)
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

yeah Sly & Robbie are wonderfully ubiquitous, I've sort of stopped even making note of when & where they appear. they're on Killer Miller tho if I recall
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Franco Twinkie:

It's pretty good, but not my best bird record. I just couldn't resist the cover. I got it at Deans old haunt, Lovells.
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

just Robbie on Killer actually
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Flash Strap:

just Sly on Trinity / Mighty Diamonds
  7:21pm
Dean:

Just noticed the Kostis record. That's a good one.

Wow, Franco, that's cool. Tom had to board it up in anticipation of uptown Whittier bad behavior, so friends reported to me a week or two ago.
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

"these men are so ugly" nice
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Flash Strap:

@Dean: it's really good, yeah. deep stuff
  7:22pm
Dean:

Did you ever make it to the La Habra Lovell's, Franco, way the heck out east on Whittier Blvd.?
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Frog Mover:

Good storm jams now!
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northguineahills:

weird, I don't have any Jacob Miller platters....
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northguineahills:

damn, Sly & Robbie w/ Trinity & Yabby You is classic
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Flash Strap:

@NGH: I don't know all his stuff that well but can highly recommend Killer Miller and Tenement Yard (the latter I know much better in its dub form, EE Saw Dub or Tubby Meet Miller in a Tenement Yard)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Franco Twinkie:

I hope nothing happened! I'm going to Whittier very soon to see my accountant. I'll check it out. There was a picture of inside of the store in The L.A. Times recently accompanied by an article about shopping in the new world order.
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Flash Strap:

Romeo kicks ass man
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Little Danny:

Hi peeps
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Flash Strap:

cool cover: img.discogs.com...
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Flash Strap:

Hi LD!
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Franco Twinkie:

What's playing at Little Danny's drive-in tonight?
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chresti:

The Soul Syndicate, Sly and Robbie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Little Danny:

@Franco: TBD my dude
  7:32pm
CC:

I'm ready to move into Stage 2 from exotic fantasy into erotic ecstasy!!!
  7:37pm
Dean:

When Haden toured with LMO a few years ago, Alan Broadbent was pianist at the Yoshi's show. Needless to say, being a huge Broadbent fan, I had a great time at that show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
chresti:

What Flash said about Romeo.
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northguineahills:

danks, Evan!
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Flash Strap:

rather interesting insight into Haden's struggles over this record: aadl.org...
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northguineahills:

I'm about ready to go on the road and see a friend who needs a friend in Orlando, then I'm off to Birmingham to hang w/ the cellist from my old band.
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Flash Strap:

This section all a medley of Spanish Civil War songs
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Flash Strap:

fare thee well, NGH
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Flash Strap:

@Dean: that sounds wonderful
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Flash Strap:

on Viva La Quince Brigada (Long Live The Fifteenth Brigade): en.wikipedia.org...
  7:44pm
Dean:

ngh: Which band? A musician buddy of mine here in the Bay Area is originally from Birmingham.
  7:45pm
CC:

I'll be darned, Flash..!.. I could have sworn this had a Jewish flavor???...
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northguineahills:

If you like cumbia, check out "I'm no longer here". It centers on a bunch of teenagers into cumbia rebejada in Monterrey, Mexico. It starts when the Zetas make shit hit the fan, making Monterrey going from the safest to the most dangerous city for three years (2011). It also takes place in Elmhurst, Quenens. As mentioned beforehand, I have a personal connection to Mty. The sndrk is awesome, and I found most of the tracks there crate dgging in the barrio where it was filmed (it's on Netflix)>
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TDK60:

Sorry I'm late, forgot it's Thursday, and we live in a democracy. Can someone quickly summarize the above?
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northguineahills:

@Dean: She was in my band, Rubaiyats of the Cicadas, in Brooklyn, but the moved to LA when I moved FL. She's in Birmingham now, as her session work dried up, she took up residence in her grandmother's old house.
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Flash Strap:

I would love to see that NGH
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Flash Strap:

Hi TDK!
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northguineahills:

oh, the movie trailer: www.youtube.com...
  7:48pm
Doug Schulkind:

¡El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!
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Flash Strap:

@CC: all i can say for sure is that Jewish music in its syncretism contains multitudes
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Flash Strap:

always a good time to familiarize yourself with Brecht's lyrics to Song of the United Front : en.wikipedia.org...
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Flash Strap:

Doug! ¡Hola Compañero!
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StringOFperils:

I know this stuff more from this LP's followup in the 1980s on ECM, The Ballad of the Fallen. I think Haden was working more with changing the regime in Portugal at the time
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StringOFperils:

Not that I shouldn't own this album. :(
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Flash Strap:

@SoP: i actually haven't spent any real time with that record and I really should
  7:52pm
CC:

I'm always mistaking Spanish stuff for Jewish stuff??? I do love the chord A minor though!!!...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
StringOFperils:

@cc It's entirely possible that there is Sephardic Jewish music in those Spanish folk songs
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Flash Strap:

less politically meaningful but in some ways similarly deep & rewarding is Carla Bley's work on the Gary Burton album A Genuine Tong Funeral, if you're unfamiliar. highest honors from me
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TDK60:

Isn't Flamenco influenced from Romany, Jews, Arabs?
  7:55pm
Dean:

Was thinking the same thing, StringOFperils. Voice of the Turtle, etc.
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Flash Strap:

Dewey Redman and Gato Barbieri on sax
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Flash Strap:

@TDK, SoP: absolutely
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Flash Strap:

jesus this record is passion
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TDK60:

Powerful Flash, (and in '70 the Falangists were still in power.)
  7:58pm
CC:

So intense!!!
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Flash Strap:

Don Cherry evidently had to leave the session because Bob Thiele was being such an incredible asshole, but thankfully he's on this whole triptych section
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Flash Strap:

very klezmer, that passage
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StringOFperils:

That'd be around the period where Carla Bely and Michael Mantler realized that working as your own studio and record company was a better idea.
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Flash Strap:

Bley had to leave the session as well, in fact. Apparently Thiele almost tanked the whole blessed event with his bullshit attitude, but they persevered thank god
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Flash Strap:

really cool record, raised money for The National Comittee to Free Angela Davis: img.discogs.com...
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Flash Strap:

recorded at Muscle Shoals
  8:09pm
Dean:

Talk about a breath of fresh air! She was, pardon the expression, on the money then, all the more so now.
  8:10pm
CC:

I'm pretty sure the John and Yoko had a song about Angela...
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Flash Strap:

she is such an inspiration, blessed with a rare and enduring clarity and brilliance, both then and now
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Flash Strap:

@CC: "Angela" on Some Time In New York City
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StringOFperils:

Angela Davis' clarity and focus is so compelling. It becomes apparent why she seemed so dangerous to authority.
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Flash Strap:

from folkways, on the genesis of this 1971 release: "This recording of Gil Noble’s WABC-TV program, "Like It is" features an exclusive interview with Angela Davis done by her lawyer, Margaret Burnham, while she was jailed in NY and awaiting trial on the case of the Soledad Brothers in 1971. The interview was arranged by the leading black newspaper at the time, Mohammed Speaks, and the questions were drawn from a poll conducted on what the average Harlem resident would ask Davis if given the chance."
  8:14pm
CC:

Yeah, yeah...I got that album..!.. I swear time goes by so fast and I'm getting so old!!!!...
  8:17pm
CC:

It's like... some things never change!?!...sigh...
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Flash Strap:

pretty cool Cuban OSPAAAL poster in support of Davis: i.pinimg.com...
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Flash Strap:

@CC: alas and yet, we're working on it
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Flash Strap:

the pure poison she has for Reagan
  8:22pm
Dean:

Here's the attorney for whom I worked: https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/howard-moore-jr Hadn't seen this before. Will watch later today.
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Flash Strap:

he defended Stokely Carmichael as well, what a guy to work for / with
  8:24pm
Dean:

Met him at a coffee shop where I regularly read for class. Utterly lovely man.
  8:25pm
CC:

What a great piece, Flash!!!
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TDK60:

Women's House of Detention? Was that the old jail in Greenwich Village?
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Flash Strap:

that's the one, TDK
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Flash Strap:

imagine how exhausted she must have been while giving this interview
  8:30pm
CC:

She is certainly and respectably at no loss for words!!!
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doctorjazz:

Aww, I missed all that Haden Liberation Orchestra music...love them! (I could just pull out the album, though...)
Hi Flash and all you folks!
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northguineahills:

wow, on Folkways!
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TDK60:

Yeh? It's now a park-garden in the back yard of a library which used to be a cop shop. Jefferson Market Library. I recall as a teen in the '60s walking by! The jail had windows which could open then. Folks would stand outside on Greenwich Ave. and shout out to their wives, friends. "Whadaya need?"
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Flash Strap:

Hi Doc! It's an all-time killer classic
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Flash Strap:

@NGH: i know, pretty cool I think. they did a fair amount of stuff like that actually
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Flash Strap:

@TDK: incredible
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Doug Schulkind:

Another great one from the Folkways family: folkways.si.edu...
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Flash Strap:

i've seen but haven't heard that one!
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Flash Strap:

god i love McPhee here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
doctorjazz:

The Liberation Music Orchestra's Not In Our Name is also terrific!
  8:39pm
CC:

Speaking of Houses of detention... I can't help but tthinking of that Doors song... when the music is over...
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TDK60:

Did Smithsonian Folkways take over the old Paredon label?
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Flash Strap:

@Doc: another one I need to spend a little time with
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TDK60:

Yep: folkways.si.edu...
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Flash Strap:

@CC: hehe easily my 2nd favorite Doors song
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Flash Strap:

sky is BLOOD red outside & raining
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
doctorjazz:

Man,they're ROCKIN!
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Flash Strap:

such a legendary performance, "Recorded live on December 12 and 13, 1970 at Chicago Hall at Vassar College Urban Center for Black Studies."
  8:45pm
CC:

I like the version off of the Oliver Stone movie, Flash???
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Flash Strap:

@CC: not intimately familiar with that, haven't seen that one since high school
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Frog Mover:

Here's an article I just saw that feels perfect for this show! www.leftvoice.org...
  8:48pm
CC:

Jim Morrison died when I was in high school...sigh...
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Flash Strap:

@FM: CHAZ sounds wild man
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Frog Mover:

@flash I know! Really into it!
  8:52pm
Tusalava:

I am unspeakably happy you played Nation Time.

WHAT TIME IS IT!
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northguineahills:

Thanks, Evan!
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TDK60:

Thanks for that article Frog Mover. Will add to my tons of articles to read, hee...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Little Danny:

Wow. Can't say I've ever heard anything like this. (Kostas Bezos that is.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
StringOFperils:

Incredible record. Crazy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
doctorjazz:

Very cool record!
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TDK60:

Those rembetiko musicians, listenin' to Hawaiian 78s, smokin' hashish!
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Flash Strap:

I'd previously heard this one selection on Steeling 'Round The World, a great hawaiian int'l comp. but a whole compilation of this group! my god
  9:01pm
CC:

I can't really hear the Hawaiian influenced but again this sounds very Jewish to me???
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Flash Strap:

Hi there Tusalava! & my pleasure indeed
  9:01pm
Dean:

Mississippi is doing some real good stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Little Danny:

What era was that from? (I don't recall if'd you'd mentioned it.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
chresti:

The first times I'd heard the white Birds, I thought it was Hawaiian
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TDK60:

CC, as far as I know, aside from Greek music, some rembetiko artists lived in Turkey too, soaked that up.
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Flash Strap:

@LD: 1928-37
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Little Danny:

The Mississippi honcho has very good taste in music. Mississippi's releases are most definitely bootlegged from their original sources however.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Little Danny:

Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
doctorjazz:

That slide guitar is Hawaiin sounding, nothing like that in Klezmer. But the overall feel is Eastern European, as is Selfos..
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Flash Strap:

@CC: the slide guitar alone counts, often
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Little Danny:

Gorgeous
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Evan & Explorers
  9:06pm
CC:

Okay I must have been thinking ukuleles and Don Ho???
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StringOFperils:

@CC > > Athens/Pireus is a pretty centre of the world international port in the Mediterranean world, not quite Istanbul but close. A lot of Jews have moved through there and brought culture with them. So, once again, likely that there is shared melody etc. These musics are brewed out of all kinds of stuff. Also Arabic music. It was all caliphate at one time.
  9:08pm
CC:

I know SOP...I feel like I have an ear for it?!?
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Flash Strap:

this is such a cool record as well, would love to have lyric translations as they seem VERY interesting
  9:11pm
Dean:

Do you not have the 28-page insert?
  9:11pm
CC:

The chord changes really move my soul!!!
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doctorjazz:

Not familiar with Mississippi Records, just checked, they have quite an interesting catalog.
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StringOFperils:

Most of them I think ran to, "Oh I'm so unhappy now, I am sitting in a cloud of hash, and I can't see any up for down, etc.." The rembetika records are like Greek blues records out of one specific sub-culture.
  9:13pm
Dean:

Check your email, FS.
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TDK60:

I saw a Greek movie that shows that pre-WWII scene; as I recall, it's just called Rembetiko.
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Flash Strap:

@SoP: I'm curious because Kostis is supposed to be a bit unique or idiosyncratic among his peers so i'd love to know in what lyrical ways that manifests; he was an author & poet
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Flash Strap:

@dean: no i just have the digital, i hate how those don't come w/ insert
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Flash Strap:

ah thanks Dean!
  9:15pm
Dean:

Hmm, mine came with the booklet. I forwarded to you.
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TDK60:

..and also takes place during WWII. Those rembetiko musicians trying to avoid the Nazis.
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Flash Strap:

wow this is excellent, thanks Dean
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StringOFperils:

Most of the rembetika records I've heard seem like real stand-out stuff, fo the stuff that's survived I guess (not that I'm an expert), so some unique talents were involved, no doubt Like blues, the material is simple on the surface of it, and often recycled, but it's what you do with it
  9:17pm
Dean:

You're welcome!
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StringOFperils:

These original calypsos are so great. The original hip-hop
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Flash Strap:

I really think Calypso may be the superlative expression of the lyric, period
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chresti:

This is so great.
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Little Danny:

This is fantastic! Nice jazzy breaks, too.
  9:22pm
CC:

Very NSYNC with reggae type stuff!!!
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doctorjazz:

OK, looks like I need to dive into the Mississippi catalog...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
doctorjazz:

Love this old Calypso!
  9:23pm
Dean:

They're lovely productions, doctorjazz.
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Little Danny:

Gah the grimy guitar sound on this Lord Panama is so good
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Flash Strap:

Panamanian calypso is really underrated, Lord Cobra alone makes this true
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WR:

Have been working so can't keep up with the comments but program tonight is hitting all expectations and beyond.
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Flash Strap:

@LD: i know, great guitar sound
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Flash Strap:

Spanish section is pure fire, holllly shit
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StringOFperils:

There's an oil-drum lid in the guitarist's amp instead of a speaker.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Little Danny:

Oh wow, thanks S.O.P.! It really did have a wonderful metallic tone.
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StringOFperils:

Ha ha ha.
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TDK60:

Santana influence or vice versa?
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StringOFperils:

This show is blowing my mind. Great musical trip.
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Flash Strap:

were you in fact speaking figuratively SoP?
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StringOFperils:

I think I was speaking facetiously, but it did sound like a blown out resonator of some kind
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Franco Twinkie:

I've been asleep, so I dropped out for awhile which seems to be what happens every time I sit down lately. But a Syrian spinach pie and some hot coffee should have me up and dancing real soon.
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Little Danny:

Please tell me you weren't kidding SoP. I want so much for the oil can lid amp to be real.
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Flash Strap:

Santana's influence was so huge on S. American guitar music, it's probably that way around but I always think his influence is a lot more interesting than his actual work
  9:30pm
CC:

Oh yes..!.. there is so much more here than meets the eye!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Franco Twinkie:

Mon Ami!
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Little Danny:

There's no reason why such a thing wouldn't be possible, right? It would just take oodles of electricity.
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StringOFperils:

I know Danny! I hate to break it to you..but...that was some total b******t that I made up. I feel bad now.
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Little Danny:

YOU LET ME DOWN DAD
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TDK60:

Either way, that geetar was punk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
StringOFperils:

Ha ha ha. Oh man.
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Flash Strap:

hahah i love this - as a very trusting person who has a huge hunger for music knowledge i have been Danny in this exchange 1 million times
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Frog Mover:

@Flash nice Santana dig! Prob told you my dad gave him a ride in his cab once.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
StringOFperils:

I'm sure I've embraced some disinformation from time to time, especially before the internet of music data was available.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Little Danny:

One of the deepest exotica heads I know is a huge Santana fan
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Flash Strap:

i don't mean to dig on him too much, i just notice his influence in like 1000 international recordings that i love and can't sit through a whole side of a single record he's done, i guess its a personal problem
  9:35pm
CC:

When I lived in Brentwood California we went grocery shopping one day and saw Karl Malden there was no mistaking him because of his nose!!!
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still b/p:

In my dream last night I wryly referred to an Anglo guy as "my Cuban connection." He was in a white suit and a narrow-brimmed straw hat -- whattayacallit, a straw porkpie-trilby thing. But why Cuba..? He coulda been my Panama or Trinidad connection.
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Flash Strap:

cool dad story tho Frog Mo
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Flash Strap:

Hi B/P _ Our Man in Havana, so to speak?
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Frog Mover:

@Flash perfect amount of dig in my opinion
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Little Danny:

I'm pretty much with you there Flash
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Flash Strap:

maybe it's from being still fairly young during the heyday of "Smooth", tho I like to think i'm more sophisticated than to hold that sort of grudge. i think i just don't like the production or songwriting; the musicianship is great
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Flash Strap:

also i should say he has the best section of the woodstock movie
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Frog Mover:

He was the big new acid discovery of Woodstock
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Flash Strap:

it's mostly due to the boy-drummer though tbh
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Flash Strap:

I've previously played a version of Exploiting by Lord MacBeth w/ alan Lomax presenting. not sure who wrote it though
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Frog Mover:

Saw somewhere someone beheaded a Columbus statue recently. So cool!
  9:43pm
CC:

He's got a damn fine collection of jazz records!!!
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TDK60:

Flash, I love the early Santana albums up till round '76. It's okay, as I've heard people have different tastes.
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Flash Strap:

The North End in Boston, I know it well. a good play of technical iconoclasm. salute to the behedaers
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Flash Strap:

@TDK: respect to your good taste - I envy your ability to dig it, honestly
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Flash Strap:

one day perhaps I'll get there, TDK, i do keep trying to break in
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WR:

This calypso collection is name your price on Mississippi bandcamp. On the list for the next free artist fee day at start of July.
  9:46pm
Dean:

Puzzles me that I never picked up Santana's triple LP live album, Lotus. I grew up with the first two or three LPs. Still solid to this day.
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TDK60:

Don't worry Flash, as I suspect there's plenty of other music around to peruse.
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Franco Twinkie:

CC, I worked on a magazine ad for Canon copiers IN Brentwood. Karl Malden was the celebrity enlisted to make a copy!
  9:47pm
Dean:

Gonna recycle a joke I told a few months ago...

Ever notice how all the Xerox office buildings look the same?
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Flash Strap:

this music is so fresh to my ears, really makes me smile with discovery and delight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Franco Twinkie:

I will recycle my comment, Dean: Har!
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Flash Strap:

now here ya just gotta notice the Hawaiian influence
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
StringOFperils:

Makes me want pineapple yogurt.
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Franco Twinkie:

I love every version of Soul Sacrifice I have ever heard. What heat! What passion! What a tight band!
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TDK60:

In those days it probably had to be seamen buying 78s and movin' round the globe with their records..
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TDK60:

Yeh Franco. I saw 'em just once and they were caliente.
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coelacanth∅:

i agree with that Franco
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Franco Twinkie:

Not your everyday San Francisco tripsters - iPuro Mission cabrones!
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TDK60:

Yeh, Franco, but they were trippy in some ways too. Caravanserai album, etc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Little Danny:

Yet another brilliant show, Evan
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
Little Danny:

Strutters' paradise next door: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all there!

FLAME-O-SCOPE™ is up and running.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
doctorjazz:

Great show, Flash (costing me money again, you bum!)
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StringOFperils:

Thank you for the wonderful show.
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chresti:

Thanks Flash! Outstanding all the way!
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TDK60:

Thanks Flash. Great show. I hope to never touch that dial..
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Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, my friend. You done good.
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Franco Twinkie:

I danced in my sleep!
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coelacanth∅:

i think even the first 3 santana albums were trippy -in their own somewhat dark version of trippy
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TDK60:

Coel: Si.
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Flash Strap:

Thanks and thank you and much love to you all! it has been my pleasure, as ever and always
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan
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WR:

Thank you so much!
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