A Season in Hell #196: Friends Be Crazy

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One of my closest compatriots, Eric Wilcox is in the studio with me tonight. Eric and I have taught together for the past eleven years, and go to a lot of Melvins shows together. Most of our lunch breaks are spent not talking about school, but talking about he new record we just purchased.


Like myself, Eric shares a wide spectrum of musical tastes. Tonight on the show we run the gamut. There's metal, there's rocksteady, just look at the playlist below. The banter is pretty funny too. You should just listen to the whole show and enjoy the hell out of it.

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By the Time I Get to Arizona: Public Enemy vs. Tijuana Brass
Pink: Boris and Merzbow
Common People: Leonard Nimoy

A Chronology for Survival: Neurosis
Brazil: Frank Sinatra
Flesh: Ken Nordine
Primitive: The Cramps

Repo Man: Iggy Pop
Welcome to the Dust War: Fear
Rags and Bones: Nomeansno
Piss Pisstopherson: The Melvins
Rock Steady Train: Evan and Jerry with Carib Beats

Give Me Loving: The Black Brothers
Bye Bye Bye: Clarendonians
Throw Me Corn: Larry and Alvin
Jamaican Farewell: Three Stoned Men

Broken Vows: Pentagram
Frazetta: Wizard Rifle
By Sanity Denied: Hot Fog
Hate Worldwide: Slayer

Blazer: Zig Zags
Where Dead Angels Lie: Dissection
Coup de Grace: Motorhead
Love Canal: Flipper

I Left My Heart in San Francisco: Tony Bennett

A Season in Hell #131: Slipping Away

OK, this is really late. Sorry about that. No guests tonight, just you and me and the beautiful music that has been made for me to share with you.

I open with brand new Mudhoney. This album rocks harder than their last few, and that's really saying something, as all of their albums ROCK HARD!

I also include some live Nick Cave from the show I attended a couple of weeks ago. SWEET!

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Slipping Away: Mudhoney
Son of Mustang Ford: Swervedriver

March Of The Lor: The Sword
I Heard it on the X: Olivelawn
The Big Three Killed My Baby: The White Stripes

Buenas Tardes Amigo: Ween
The House on the Hill: The Mummies
Shit Luck: Modest Mouse
Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing: Minutemen
The Gulag Orkestar: Beirut

Black Betty: The Melvins
Frazetta: Wizard Rifle
Dreaming: The Cherubs

Like a Hurricane: Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Stagger Lee: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (04/09/13 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, SF, CA)
Alcohol: The Kinks

Public Image Limited: PIL (11/08/83 The Studio, Bristol, England)
Tekufah: Bar Kokhba (04/06/13 Walker Art Center, McGuire Theater, Minneapolis, MN)

Lost Sailor->Saint of Circumstance: Grateful Dead (11/24/79 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA)

A Season in Hell #119: Hellnation

I'm without my computer tonight and to be honest, I'm scared.

Hold me.

So I played all vinyl tonight. And damn, that was fun. I have a lot of music to choose from, so if i don't have my iTunes to keep me warm, the smooth, scratchy sounds emanating from my LPs will keep me toasty indeed.

As always lots of genres to enjoy. Some themes as well, including a set of ROCK that the Melvins have covered, but by the original bands! How amazing is that?  

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Tour de France: Kratwerk
Ballad of Bilbo Baggins: Leonard Nemoy
The Only Son of the Laidesman: Father John Misty

Summertime: Big Brother and the Holding Company
Baby, Please Don't Go: Muddy Waters
Mona Lisa Please: Leon Russell

There is a Mountain: Joe Jones
Driving South: Jimi Hendrix
Tears Won't Soften Steel: Wizard Rifle

Freedom Day: Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln
Farewell to Ibusa: Afro Funk

Communist Eyes: The Germs
Love Canal: Flipper
Momma's Little Jewel: Mott the Hoople
Hellnation: Dead Kennedy's

I Wanted Everything: The Ramones
God of Thunder: The Melvins

Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Pink Floyd
Whaling Stories: Procol Harum

My Way: Sid Vicious

A Season in Hell #109: John Hell Wins the Pennant!

I'm 3-0 in broadcasting when the Giants win something big! Yay me! And yay to the San Francisco Giants for sweeping the highly favored (for some unknown reason) Detroit Tigers.

I just got back from a great weekend in Portland, Oregon. This town is like San Francisco North, but the people are all really friendly...and white. Where are all the people of color at? I mean really, this is one white town.

I was also expecting a lot more Portlandia-like experiences. I was a bit disappointed. Where the quirkiness? Where are Fred and Carrie? I did drink my fair share of local beers though. So tasty. I recommend you hit up Bailey's Tap Room. They have 20 of the finest west coast micro-breweries on tap. That was a joyous night, I tell you.

We also spent quite a few hours at the nations largest independently owned book sore, Powell's. It's  city block large. DAMN! So many books. It heavenly and a bit overwhelming at the same time.

Being a music junkie I had to hit up the local record stores. I was happy to find Jackpot records and there ever so fine collection of new and used vinyl. I can buy pretty much everything I've ever wanted at Aquarius and Amoeba. The great thing about visiting music towns is the opportunity to find local music that I cannot find at home. My trip was fortuitous. I found this ripping LP from a Portland band, Wizard Rifle. Damn, they are loud. LOVE IT! I played them tonight, so be listening for them. I also found a double 10" of a 2012 Ty Segall Band release, "Slaughterhouse", which I've never heard of, nor seen. Thanks Portland, and thanks to Jackpot Records, a local Portland record label and store.

And the rain. Did I mention the rain? It rained a lot. A lot. Really, a lot.

I played a few songs in tribute to Hurricane Sandy, because I could. I did not play anything in the memory of a longtime friend and collaborator, Paul Addis, who chose to take his life last Saturday night by jumping in front of a BART train in SF. I'll save that for when I have my head better wrapped around it.

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Do It: Rollins Band
Lonesome Train: Robert Gordon w/Link Wray
Stormy Weather: Jimmy Luxury

???: The Hooded Fang
Rebel Without a Pause: Public Enemy
General Hospital/Blue Flowers: Dr. Octogon

Diddy Wha: Ty Segall Band
Save Yourself: Hemi
Let's Get Funky: Jack O'Fire

Tears Won't Soften Steel: Wizard Rifle
Akuma No Kuma: Boris and Sunn)))
White Light/White Heat: Lou Reed

Shame Shame Shame: Bryan Ferry
Soul Rebel: Bob Marley
Water No Get Enemy: Fela Kuti

Down, Down, Down: Tom Waits
Desert Blues: Leon Redbone
The Fat Lady of Limbourg: Brian Eno

Hey Hey My My: Neil Young and Crazy Horse (Hollywood Bowl 10-17-12)
Stormy Monday: Allman Brothers Band (Fillmore East, February, 1971) - Going out to our friends and family surviving the ravages of Hurricane Sandy and the Frankenstorm!