We’ve got a live split LP of a show for you this week, as we bring you post punk and experimental music – and interviews – with artists here in the Mid-Valley, that I think you are going to love.
We start off with a live performance and interview with Ghosts of Ghosts, a trio who bring you instrumental tunes that are as danceable as they are otherworldly. After a brief intermission in hour two, flip the show over, and go on an otherworldly journey, with a live set by Scot Jenerik, who returns to the show to talk about his new live boxed set, Street of Crocodiles, and also gets into a lot of the process and motivation behind creating new work.
It’s a live double-header and you don’t want to miss it!
We forego our regular shows during the holidays, and for this program, we offer you a variety of holiday fare, all originally aired on this same date, but many decades before.
This week, we air an episode of The Good News of 1939, a variety show with music and comedy, and a performance by Lionel Barrymore, recreating some key moments for A Christmas Carol. Voice of The Army brings us a unique (and somewhat unusual) broadcast, Christmas Harps, with harp-renditions of Christmas classics. Finally, we bring you a story from the anthology program, NBC Radio City Playhouse, with a story that is using a very familiar title.
It’s two hours of vintage holiday broadcasts, ready for you this holiday season.
We make another nod to Nordine, as we continue to explore the classic Word Jazz series of broadcasts.
This week, Barno was out again, so it made sense to grab two more installments of this program, and give it a throw. The Digital Salon was pretty lively, as Hot Dog – and the pros and cons of Chicago Style – rapidly became the subject of conversation.
Join us for a casual conversation with legendary Science Fiction author, Melinda Snodgrass. We get a nice overview of her career, stories about how she got involved in Hollywood, and lots of tips on writing, and what makes a dedicated writer. Melinda has two series of books available to read now, which you can learn a lot more about (and find links to buy them) on her website: .
It’s that time of year, when our thoughts turn to those of Halloween!
Heather would have picked something local.
Austin is stuck in the 80’s, at Halloween.
Our Setlist:
Vic Crume * The Haunted House
Tim Curry * The Halloween Song
Oingo Boingo * Dead Man’s Party
Ramones * Pet Sematary
The Dickies * Killer Clowns From Outer Space
Men At Work * Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive
The Fall * There’s A Ghost In My House
Toto Coelo * Dracula’s Tango
We encourage you to help with our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost vintage Max Headroom script, “Families.” So if you help support Austin Rich so he doesn’t have to punch a clock, then we can get more of this kind of material to you, quickly.
Continuing to filter through the massive, 100 volume “Once Upon A Time” compilation series of chronological punk singles, here’s another playlist, about the problems with dating. .
After some technical issues, we finally get this Valentine’s Day retroacts going, with a fairly lively chat, and a simple story about what love in the future might be like.
This one gets a little serious, as we discuss Mental Illness, and some of the challenges therein This one closes with one of the last live performances by MKUltramegaphone.
This one gets a little serious, as we discuss Mental Illness, and some of the challenges therein This one closes with one of the last live performances by MKUltramegaphone.
On the anniversary of Karel Čapek’s birthday, we listen to this 2005 presentation from the BBC, where they dramatize a 90 version of, “The War With The Newts.” This story is fantastic, breaks the fourth wall, has Karel and Olga – real life people – narrate the story from WWII Prague – as they worry about Hitler’s impending invasion, and instead, discuss a different world wide calamity that we all brought upon ourselves.
As we wind down the year, it’s time for an extended vinyl solution, and a live performance by Mini-Mutations. In a way, both are sort of an extension. of the other. Hopefully it’s the perfect way to ease into the new year.
Sheena’s Jungle Room presented six hours of New Year’s Eve radio, and I contributed a tiny bit to the PST Time Zone celebration. This was a lot of fun, and Bob’s already talking about doing it again next year.
As we wind down the year, it’s time for an extended vinyl solution, and a live performance by Mini-Mutations. In a way, both are sort of an extension. of the other. Hopefully it’s the perfect way to ease into the new year.
Once your star is ascending, it’s only a matter of time before someone realizes that the next logical step is to have your work the holiday angle, with a Special and a Holiday Single that will be on TVs and in stores… just in time for you and your loved ones to spend this special time of year with your new favorite celebrity. And this is how Max Headroom’s 7″ Single — “Merry Christmas Santa Claus” b/w “Gimme Shades” — came to underwhelm all of us in 1986.
Heather is really hung up on the lyrics, and can’t seem to think of anything else.
Austin wants to set the record straight, and thank Blank Johnny in the UK for sending a copy of the single to The Lava Lamp Lounge!
(This show was originally a part of our Podcast, 20 Minutes Into The Future.)
Austin’s Annual Holiday Program For Mid-Valley Mutations takes an unusual turn, as he desperately tries out something new, in an effort to make his show the best in the tri-county area. It’s a Holiday Horror Story, written by univac and Austin! Guest voices! Music! And a story about the places where dreams and technology intersect in the worst possible way.
Probably one of the more legendary and divisive opinions on our show: one of us did NOT like Blade Runner, and one of us is rather fond of it for it’s impact and influence on cinema, culture, and specifically, Max Headroom. Wanna hear us get into it, with a tid-bit recorded with Steve Roberts, who offers his thoughts on all of it?
Heather is reminded of the way certain men like to behave.
Austin argues about Class Consciousness. Again.
(This was originally released as an episode of 20 Minutes Into The Future.)
A rundown of 7″ Records and all vinyl / lathe-cut recordings, leaning heavily on a record by Nicole Panter, and one about Duck Calls. (Among many other things.) A wide range of experimental vinyl in short-form.
Between November 14th and November 24th, the Apollo 12 Mission quietly worked in the shadow of the much more exciting, and famous, Apollo 11 Mission from earlier that summer. Since we are continuing our coverage for “Sounds From Space,” this is sort of a sequel to our Apollo 11 Tribute from the summer, as we listen to Apollo 12 tapes this time, and enjoy a long-form Mini-Mutations jam… and while thinking about Sounds From Space.
Enjoy!
November In The Stars * Mini-Mutations * 27 November 2023.
Austin had gone out of his way to make a fantastic dinner for his 20 Minutes Into The Future family. They would like to have nothing to do with it, in any way, shape, or form.
Heather’s Holiday Playlist is, once again, here to help us deal with unwanted family this time of year.
Austin spent too much time on something no one wants to enjoy. Again.
“Title” * “Album” * “Artist”
Bread * Your Favorite Music * Clem Snide Breakfast Man * My Report Card * Todd Shuster Sugar Sugar Sugar * Tender Prey * Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Like Eating Glass * Silent Alarm * Bloc Party Know Your Chicken * Viva! La Woman * Cibo Matto Angel Food * I’m Around * Nod Sugar * R&B Transmogrification * Quasi Chicken * A Date With Elvis * The Cramps Two All-Beef Patties (Live) * Fan Club: From The Rare To The Unreleased * Jellyfish Everybody Eats When They Come to My House * Everybody Eats When They Come to My House * Cab Calloway and his Orchestra Chicken and Ice Cream * Podcast 41 * They Might Be Giants Come On-A My House * Superstars Of The Fifties * Rosemary Clooney Dinner Bell * Apollo 18 * They Might Be Giants Toast * Pretending I’m Not Home * Heywood Banks Big Rock Candy Mountain * God Don’t Make No Junk * The Halo Benders Fishcakes * Mask * Bauhaus
(This show was originally a part of the podcast, 20 Minutes Into The Future.)
Just in time for you to step out onto the porch and have a cigarette in radio form, it’s a chance to get away from your family during the holiday, and instead, listen to a bunch of loud rock and roll, all thanks to our PUNKSGIVING Special, continuing to filter through the massive, 100 volume “Once Upon A Time” compilation series of chronological punk singles.
It looks like Heather and Austin have decided to go… trick or treating in The Fringes!? Oh no! This can only lead to a drunken night at Caligula’s, where Heather has taken over the jukebox. Hopefully the good music will protect us from Bruegel & Mahler.
(The voice of our announcer is none other than Xeres of Xeron himself! The doorman was played by Imaginos.)
Heather’s Holiday Playlist is most definitely below.
Austin can’t even work a fake tiara on Halloween. Sigh.
That’s Halloween – Duplex Planet – Duplex Halloween Planet
Bones –The Killers – Sam’s Town
Please Mr. Gravedigger — David Bowie – David Bowie
I’m a Vampire — Future Bible Heroes – Eternal Youth
The Devil Was in my Yard – The Sleepy Jackson – Personality–One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird
Never Kick a Black Cat – Eban Schletter – Eban Schletter Presents Michael Avallone’s Tales of the Frightened
Wolfman – The Real Tuesday Weld – The Last Werewolf
I’ve Created A Monster – Eban Schletter – Eban Schletter’s Witching Hour
I Was a Teenage Werewolf – The Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught Us
Seven Little Girls – Reverend Glasseye and his Wooden Legs – Black River Falls
Hello Neighbor – The Quitters – The Quitters’ Second Album
Turn Around –They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
Bassem Sabry – Of Montreal – Aureate Gloom
O Death – Ralph Stanley – Oh Brother Where Art Thou Official Film Soundtrack
Killing for Satan – Paul Wibier – Satan’s Sadists Official Film Soundtrack
Xeres and I decided that we needed to get away from it all, for a while. We arrive at Big Rock Candy Mountain, a fantastic campground with a number of odd features, including a creek near an ocean beach with lots of hiking in tropical and pine forests. Occasional guests wander in, we read some poetry and short stories, offer some PSAs about camping, and we have our Short Wave Radio to tune in music and The Weather Computer.
It’s The Great Outdoors. Sit around the campfire, and stay a spell.
Enjoy!
The Great Outdoors
Artist
Track
Album
Label
Year
Comments
Apemen On Big Rock Candy Mountain
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Driving Out
The Great Outdoors
The Kinks
Apeman
Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One
Pye Records
1970
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
The Campsite
The Great Outdoors
Harry McClintock
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Haywire Mac
Folkways Records
1972
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Setting Up Camp
The Great Outdoors
Coleman Camping Gear
Let’s Go Camping
Let’s Go Camping
Coleman
1970
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Cooking Hoedown
The Great Outdoors
Xeres of Xeron
Results
Radio Jam
1991
Where Are We?
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Down By The River
The Great Outdoors
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Nature Sounds on the Nature Hike
The Great Outdoors
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
An Encounter with Gentle Ben and…
The Great Outdoors
Gene Autry
Smokey The Bear
“Smokey The Bear” b/w “Back In The Saddle”
Columbia Records
1960
Eric Haenn
Jew’s Harp
Eric Haenn
Ad Council
Smokey Bear “Think” PSA
Smokey Bear “Think” PSA
1972
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
The Weather Computer Calls In
The Great Outdoors
It’s Gettin’ Dark Mighty Fast
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
The Beach & The Whales
The Great Outdoors
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
A Plague of Frogs
The Great Outdoors
The Firesign Theater
Back to the Shadows, Again!
I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus
Columbia Records
1971
Fern Zimmerman
The Littlest Trompt
2010
Where Are We, Again?
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Reading Pulp Fiction
The Great Outdoors
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Shortwave Radio Jam In A Cave (w/ Re-Started Nature)
The Great Outdoors
[w/ “Ode,” “All Right,” “All Baby,” & “All Out” * Xeres * Radio Jam (1991); “Later Than We Think (w/ Woody Guthrie samples)” * Trey Gunn w/ Will Kreth * unreleased (1984)]
Yogi Bear
Trying To Escape Jellystone Park [Excerpt]
Hanna-Barbera
1968
Ad Council
Rod Serling “Careless Killers” PSA
1962
“He left the next day for The Mountains.”
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Racoons
The Great Outdoors
Eric Haenn w/ Jim Richards
untitled
Eric Haenn
Gary Snyder w/ Paul Winter Consort
True Night
Live at Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkely, CA (25 March 1979)
1979
OFF!
OFF! Commercial
1970
Richard Brautigan (read by Austin Rich)
A Note On The Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America
Trout Fishing In America
Four Seasons
1961
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich
Wolf Jam
The Great Outdoors
Ken Carson
Clementine
American’s Favorite Campfire Songs featuring Ken Carson
For my this particular Pledge Drive show, I play a bunch of cuts from prizes and premiums that you can get if you donate to WFMU! I’m joined by the lovely Ironybread, to help spread the word.
For my first ever Marathon show for WFMU, I’m joined by the station manager, Mr. Fab! We offer live coverage of the first “Animalympics” in the Mid-Valley, AND ask you to help donate money to keep WFMU going for another year. Hilarity and fun ensue! Join us!
After getting lost in the Mid-Valley on my way home from a show, I stumble upon a pair of “Haunted Houses,” and have to endure these ridiculous experiences.
Fortunately, I was allowed to crack wise to help me get through the night. Radio Riffing on two ridiculous horror classics, for those who enjoy a little comedy with their weirdness.
Miss Rikki joins me for a trip through nostalgia and great mixes, as we replay some choice selections from a few of our finest radio moments together. We also catch up with Miss Rikki, to talk about all the things that she is involved in now.
2022 has been hard on all of us already, and we’ve lost a number of excellent artists and performers that touched all of us quite a bit. With that in mind, here’s two hours of songs in tribute to those we have lost and loved, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
In this History Lesson (originally aired on 10 September 2011), we offer some clips from some music documentaries, that focus on how all this wonderful music got started. This version is a little re-vamped from the original broadcast, for Jungle Room Listeners.
This began last week! Feel free to listen to them as a four hour “documentary.”
Enjoy!
Live Playlist & Comments
Artist
Track
Album
Label
Ghost Riders in New York
Narrator
Part 9 Punk: Introduction
Rock & Roll Documentary
PBS
Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Blank Generation
Blank Generation
Music behind DJ:
The Flamin’ Groovies
Slow Death (San Francisco, California, 72)
Suicide
Frankie Teardrop [Edit]
Suicide
Suicide Interview
Kill Your Idols Documentary
Suicide Interview
Punk Attitude
Suicide
Ghost Rider
Suicide
The Ohio Scene
Music behind DJ:
Killer Kane Band
Longhaired Woman
David Thomas Interview
Toronto TV
Rocket From The Tombs
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs
The Dead Boys
Punk Roots In Ohio
Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Frankenstein
Down In Flames (Cleveland, Ohio, 75)
Eve Of The Dead Boys (October, 1975)
Cheetah Chrome
Cleveland Scene
Interviews From The Edge
Mirrors
She Smiled Wild
Cheetah Chrome
Cleveland Scene
Interviews From The Edge
Mike Rep & The Quotas
Rocket To Nowhere (Columbus, Ohio, 75)
Rocket to Nowhere 7″
Cheetah Chrome
Cleveland Scene
Interviews From The Edge
Bizarros
Lady Doubonette (Akron, Ohio, 76)
“Lady Doubonette” b/w “I Bizzaro”
We’re All Devo!
Music behind DJ:
Nervous Eaters
Loretta (Boston, Massachusetts, 76)
Loretta
Devo
We’re All Devo!
Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
Devo
De-Evolution In Akron
Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Devo
Jocko Homo (Booji Boy Version)
Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
Devo
De-Evolution In Akron
Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Devo
Clockout
Hardcore Devo Vol. 2 1974 – 1977
Devo
De-Evolution In Akron
Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Patti Smith
Free Money (NYC, 75)
Horses
The Modern World
The Punks
Drop Dead (Detroit, 75)
The Punks
Music behind DJ:
Wayne Kramer
Ramblin’ Rose (Detroit, Michigan, 74) (Edit)
Ramblin’ Rose
Narrator
Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers
Rock & Roll Documentary
PBS
The Modern Lovers
Roadrunner
The Modern Lovers
Narrator
Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers
Rock & Roll Documentary
PBS
The Modern Lovers
Girl Friend
The Modern Lovers
Narrator
Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers
Rock & Roll Documentary
PBS
Neon Boys
That’s All I Know (Right Now) (NYC, 73)
That’s All I Know (Right Now)/ Love Comes In Spurts/ High Heeled Wheels
In this History Lesson (originally aired on 3 September 2011), we offer some clips from the unfortunately titled, “Punk Attitude,” documentary, and focus on the music a little more than the interviews. This version is a little re-vamped from the original broadcast, for Jungle Room Listeners.
This show continues next week! Tune in to follow the story!
In this episode, I’m joined by Xeres of Xeron, who wrote and programmed this show, too. (With a little help from me, too.) Two hours of novelty music! Help us raise money for the Parade of Pennies, before we both find out it is a scam. And enjoy some excellent tunes, too.
The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be.
David Seville
Witch Doctor
“Witch Doctor” b/w “Don’t Whistle At Me, Baby”
Music behind DJ:
Vince Guaraldi
Blues For Peanuts [Excerpt]
The Definitive Vince Guaraldi
The Hollywood Argyles
Alley Oop
“Alley Oop” b/w “Sho’ Know a Lot About Love”
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
Li’l Red Riding Hood
“Li’l Red Riding Hood” b/w “Love Me Like Before”
Napoleon XIV
They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
“They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” b/w “!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT”
Sheb Wooley
The Purple People Eater
“The Purple People Eater” b/w “I Can’t Believer You’re Mine”
The Five Blobs
The Blob
“The Blob” b/w “Saturday Night in Tiajuana”
Music behind DJ:
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Spanish Flea
Going Places
Allan Sherman
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)
My Son, The Nut
Shel Silverstein
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out
Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time
Ken Nordine
Fliberty Jib
Word Jazz
Tom Lehrer
The Elements
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
Monty Python
The Galaxy Song
Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life”
Allan Sherman
Back At Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah revisited)
Nutty But Nice
Music behind DJ:
Henry Mancini
Baby Elephant Walk
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to, “Hatari!”
Barnes & Barnes
Fish Heads
Voobaha
The Playmates
Beep Beep
“Your Love” b/w “Beep Beep”
Dana Lyons
Cows With Guns
Cows With Guns
Larry Verne
Mr. Custer
“Mr. Custer” b/w “Okeefenokee Two Step”
Steve Martin
King Tut (Live)
A Wild and Crazy Guy
Music behind DJ:
The Raymond Scott Quintette
Powerhouse
“Powerhouse” b/w “The Toy Trumpet”
Billy Murray
Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo
“Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo” b/w “We Don’t Get Much Money, But We Have A Lot Of Fun”
Paul Wynn
Shaving Cream
Cocktail Party Songs
Spike Jones and His City Slickers
William Tell Overture
“William Tell Overture” b/w “By The Beautiful Sea”
Groucho Marx
Lydia The Tattooed Lady
From the film “At The Circus”
The Coasters
Shoppin’ For Clothes
“Shoppin’ For Clothes” b/w “The Snake and the Book Worm”
Red Ingle
Serutan Yob (A Song For Backward Boys And Girls Under 40)
“Oh! Nick-O-Deemo” b/w “Serutan Yob (A Song For Backward Boys And Girls Under 40)”
Music behind DJ:
Orkestar Vyacheslav Mescherin
Vozdushnaya Kukuruza (Popcorn!)
Orkestar Vyacheslav Mescherin
King Missle
Cheesecake Truck
Mystical Shit
Mr. Bungle
Platypus
Disco Volante
Bongwater
David Bowie Wants Ideas
Double Bummer
Schlong
I Feel Pretty
Punk Side Story: The Original Drunk Punk Play
Flight of the Conchords
Robots
Flight Of The Conchords
The Rutles
The Knicker Elastic King
Archaeology
Music behind DJ:
Danny Elfman
The Breakfast Machine
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to, “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
Tennessee Bird Walk
Birds Of A Feather
Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
You’re the Reason Our Kids are Ugly
Honky Tonk Heroes
The Fugs
Nothing
The Fugs First Album
Music behind DJ:
Blain Morris
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
The Trailer Park Boys
Negativland
The Piddle Diddle Report: A Future Confronting The Past Which Is Our Future, Last Call From Howland Island, Eaten By A Black Hole, Returned To Your Rightful Channel [Excerpt]
Over The Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project
Buchanan & Goodman
The Flying Saucer (Part 1)
“The Flying Saucer (Part 1)” b/w “The Flying Saucer (Part 2)”
VIX NOELOPAN
!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT
“They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” b/w “!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT”
Using some documentaries, music about radio, and a pile of Edison Cylinder recordings, we take you to the beginning of recorded sound, to the early days of Radio Broadcasting, in this two-hour Audio Essay that you will have to hear to believe.
I’m driving the Big Time Television bus through the Mid-Valley, and I’m broadcasting two hours of punk and post-punk tunes, all about that box we just can’t stare at enough.
Are we feeling isolated, stuck in places we’d rather not be… or, at least, we want everyone to believe that? Both a metaphor and something very real, we’ve all entered the Cave of Night, and the music around us is starting to reflect our state of mind.
It’s a New Year’s Eve story (sort of), about having to spend this time alone, wanting to get away, and reflecting on strange occurrences around us. We close with a Cookie Recipe and some Richard Brautigan, of course.
It’s a live, double-feature, with music by Four Dimensional Nightmare and Brad Anderson, live on the show, in the Lava Lamp Lounge! We also have an interview with both gents, and a performance where they are collaborating. It’s a ton of excellent radio, all for you!
Below you’ll find links for video, in the event you’d like to watch those while you listen
This week, we review two shows from 2017, where the then-house band – MKUltramegaphone – presented two long-form cut-ups and live jams, all centering around how, exactly, we got into WWII. This was our “Pearl Harbor Day” broadcast, and only at the end did I remember: we didn’t get to Pearl Harbor Day in our original broadcasts! Oh well.
This week I make a visit to Ramen City, USA, to visit my oldest and dearest friend, The Ramen City Kid! He’s been appearing on my program since the late 90’s, and he always brings a bag full of amazing records and CDs. Join us as we take a trip through the Ramen City Record Collection, here or Mid-Valley Mutations!
With the holidays upon us, it seems like there’s too many family and social obligations already upon us. So, before we have to do the family thing, and drive for too long to visit family that we might not be excited about, let’s instead have a party, to celebrate with friends before we have to do the holiday thing.
Wanda Jackson punctuates this celebration. Let’s party!
Our debut via “Sheena’s Jungle Room on WFMU.” For this program, we offer an overview of what our show is like for new listeners! This includes: technical difficulties! A visit to hang out with The Grumpy Punk. I engage my vintage tour guides to help us trek through the wilds of The Mid-Valley.
And then: some live Mini-Mutations along the way.
Listen as I stumble through a new incarnations of Mid-Valley Mutations!
The release of People Like Us‘ new album The Mirrorgot me thinking about reflections, and what the do and do not say about us and our state of mind. As I begin to prepare for an incredible voyage to make new friends and travel far, I am compelled to take a similar trip through music and sound, hoping to stumble upon something that works.
In hour one, I continue to mine the joy that comes from new music that I have come across recently. This is a great mix, with a lot of cool stuff that I do not announce during the show, so please, read the notes below.
Then, in hour two, Mini-Mutations sort of busts open the idea of reflection with an hour-long jam on the subject itself. Samples (manipulated with a MicroGranny & a pair of Numark CDJs), bass, and a delay pedal.
And you were there!
Enjoy!
Reflection
The Unbearable Reflections by CBS Radio Mystery Theater (15 August 1975) and The Man In The Mirror by The Macabre (27 November 1961).
HOUR 1
Part I:
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Flake * Inspector 22 * Friendship Cemetery Revisited (1997 – 2003) * Therapy Tapes (2014)
03.) Most Big * Chefkirk * Big Disc * Self-Released
Part II:
04.) We Bask In The Radiance of Dear Leader’s Omnipotent Excellence * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * Taxidermy Frogs Copulating * Butte County Free Music Society (2018)
05.) Ego Death * The Viper * Art For Pain’s Sake * Self-Released (2016)
06.) Polydactyly * The Conduits * Descending Order * Chair Chair Tapes (2016)
07.) Not Who I Was * Lawrence Crane * Craniostomy 1981 – 1987 Vol One * Butte County Free Music Society (2016)
Part III:
08.) False Memories * Jen Sandwich * Electronic Cottage 004 * ElectronicCottage.org (2018)
09.) I Don’t Believe In Color * Idler Arms * Kubelik Unbugged * Self-Released (2012)
10.) [track 3] * Hal McGee * Halzine #11 * Self-Released (2018)
11.) Do You See What I Hear * People Like Us * The Mirror * Self-Released (2018)
Sometimes, radio can seem different when you’ve vanished. Hopefully, this is a good way of meeting everyone much more directly – with live mixing and a performance – to cause the notion that I’ve vanished to disappear.
Hour one is all jams I’ve been into lately. Hour two is a mix of samples (manipulated with a MicroGranny & a pair of Numark CDJs), bass, a delay pedal.
Somehow I have would up in Florida, but my good friend Bill Martin happens to own a boat there. Maybe he can help me get home, somehow, on his way to Horror Island?
b/w
The Creeping Terror!
(We take WTBC Radio to new depths of bad horror movies with this 1964 piece of schlock-o-rama. Originally 15 October 2015, and as “#20.1” in 2016.)
Here’s everything you need to know about this movie from 1964: there is no documented evidence that the film was ever shown to anyone – anywhere – until it first appeared on Television some time in 1976. Even then, 12 years later, the film was mocked and panned relentlessly, as anyone who came into contact with the film could only speak of its shortcomings. Something that bad begins to attract a certain kind of reputation with a certain kind of movie fan, and in spite of the terrible reviews, the inexcusable acting, the cheapness of the monster(s), and the spareness and near-incoherence of the plot (even without the long musical interludes where nothing happens, the film clocks in at 75 minutes), it would not die! Rather, The Creeping Terror– miraculously! – accrued a reputation that could not be forgotten, canonized as being so bad it must be seen to be believed. As tapes of The Creeping Terror circulated to TV stations running Shock Theater! type fare, this piece of cinematic trash not only found an audience among those dedicated to the rejects of film culture, but eventually found its way to the hallowed halls of Mystery Science Theater 3000, not only keeping it forever in the public’s mind, but forever preserving it for future generations to look at and puzzle through.
Just what did they have in mind when they made this thing?
You can thank the twisted mind of Vic Savage for that. “Director” does fully cover Vic’s role in this film, who also starred in, produced, edited, paid for, scammed other’s to participate in, and – essentially – made the movie what it is, in every sense of the word, at the age of 28. As the story goes, Vic paid Allan Silliphant to be the writer for the film, but it was clear once production began that Vic was in over his head, and had a “unique” vision for the film that was not what Allan was prepared for. Vic had a number of excuses time and again: the location “fell through” at the last minute, most likely something that was never secure in the first place. An impressive monster had been made for the production, so Vic claimed, but “disappeared” before filming could take place, so Vic and a few others created the “carpet remnants” monster you see in the picture. Supposedly the film was going to be a well-funded horror film, as Vic had sold it to everyone, but as the filming date got closer, more and more of the cast were made up of people who paid to be in the film, “funding” the production from within. Vic’s sound crew “never showed up,” so the majority of the audio was to be recorded in post-production. As the production went on, more and more people backed out, delaying time it was taking Vic to put the thing together.
The stories about this film don’t end there. Vic had to use another name (for “Union Purposes,”) and “Directed” (among other things) under the name “A.J. Nelson,” which led to some confusion moments on set when a financial backer was trying to figure out who had just ripped him off. (A mystique that Vic was hoping to maintain.) Vic had secured a location for the film eventually – a pond that a friend of his by the name of Randy Starr – yes, THE Randy Starr that provided Charles Manson with the gun used in the Tate-LaBianca murders – had found, which stood in for Lake Tahoe in the film, and was near where the Manson Family lived at the time. When all the footage was shot, Vic rented a motel room, “borrowed” a 30 year old movola to cut the film. As the movola was from the silent era, the soundtrack was essentially destroyed by this move, something that Vic had not anticipated. Some of it could be made out, but large chunks were gone now, and the edits were noticeable. To help cover for this, Vic turned to his friend Frederick Kopp, a teacher at Los Angeles State College, who taught music composition and worked occasionally in television, though not in a “credited” capacity. Kopp scored the entire film, his first and only composition where he was credited, and was even conned into dropping a few dollars to help the production, on the promise that his son, Pierre, could get a role in the picture. Vic then asked Larry Burrell, then working as voice talent in radio, to narrate the film. (Larry might be the most famous person associated with the film outside of Randy Starr, who worked on Batman, Columbo and the amazing TV movie, They Saved Hitler’s Brain.) When Vic mixed these with what remained of the original audio bits that were worth saving, and added a few stock sound effects to pad out the sound of the monster and other bits here and there. (Sound effects that also appeared in in Battle Beyond the Sun and Jack the Giant Killer, as well as Rosemary’s Baby, though it should be added, not intentionally.)
Vic “completed” (or, as some would say, “stopped adding to”) the film in 1964, but before he could try do anything with The Creeping Terror, everything began to fall apart. True, Vic had a working “print” to try and sell, but actors began to demand compensation for the money they had put into the picture. Allan Siilliphant, angry over the changes Vic made to the story, sued Vic successfully, over clear breach of contract. Vic actually disappeared completely rather than face the financial consequences of the lawsuit, and Allan was awarded the rights to do with the film as he wished. Allan washed his hands of it, giving it to his agent, and through a series of hand-offs that have yet to be tracked down, was eventually shelved by a TV exec who pawned the problem off on the future. Vic spent the rest of his live in a drunken stupor, and died of liver failure in 1975. He never attempted to return to film in the time since the disaster that was The Creeping Terror, and he died knowing that he was the only person who had seen it, and thus, know the vision he had for the film.
In this rare instance, time was a friend to Vic Savage. Even when you fail at something so spectacularly, that failure can open up a whole world of possibility in the future. Sure, the camp value of it is the only thing recommending The Creeping Terror to modern audiences, and even on MST3K, the film is hard to get through. But I think that people see an artist trying to make their voice heard when they see a failure like this. They see themselves, barely an adult at age 28, wanting to express themselves in film the way so many others have before. Vic was willing to go out on a limb, and pay the price of that taken chance, to see his vision completed. Sure, it was a dumb vision, but who hasn’t put all their eggs in a basket, if only to learn that lesson up close and personal?
To accompany the film, I’ve selected a sort of stream-of-consciousness set of tunes to complement this narrative mess. The Creeping Terror barely makes any sense, so really, just absorb the ambience and the musical accompaniment, and try to imagine yourself watching late night TV in the mid-70’s, and then, suddenly, this comes on.
Enjoy!
The Creeping Terror!
Side A.
The Glowing Rocket / “Must Be An Accident Or Something.” / “Get In, Honey.” / At The Location Of The Crash / They Looked At The Rocket In Utter Amazement / “It’s No Airplane” / The Monster Attacks / “Car One, Calling In.” / A Temporary Military Headquarters / When, As, And If They Were Contacted / The First In A Series Of Tragedies / Maintaining Secrecy / If The Truth Were Known / “I’ve Heard A Lot About You.” “Nothing Bad, I Hope?” / A Magnificent Opportunity For Mankind / In Advance Of Anything On Earth / Bachelor Buddies For Years / Dating All The Girls In Town / Married Life / Life Has It’s Way of Making Boys Grow Up / “Poor Baby.” / Come From Beyond Our Solar System
01.) Crash! Crash! * The Agenda * Start The Panic
02.) Drug Fueled Accident * The Punks * The Punks
03.) Rocketship * The Dead Milkmen * Bucky Fellini
04.) Creeping Crawling * Guyve * Delaying The Inevitable
05.) Negative Creep * Nirvana * Bleach
06.) Truth * The Dead C * Vain, Erudite And Stupid
07.) Experiment In Terror * Fantômas * The Director’s Cut
08.) Creep In The Cellar * The Butthole Surfers * Rembrandt Pussyhorse
09.) 102 Creep [Excerpt I] * Eric Hausmann * Invisible Films
Side B.
The Trials Of Re-Entry & Impact / Failing To Establish Communication / A Frightening Theory / A Product Of Engineering / Humanity Might Be In Grave Danger / “You Stay There. Stay Calm.” / The Remains Of A Guitar / There Must Be Another Monster / The Monster Was Moving Toward The Community Dance Hall / The Monster Next Appeared In Lover’s Lane / Enough Lives Were Being Endangered / Highly Specialized Test Animals / “Get Out Of My Way.” / The Transmitter Stopped / What Was In Store For Humanity / The Vastness of The Universe Was Incredible / Only God Knows For Sure
10.) 102 Creep [Excerpt II] * Eric Hausmann * Invisible Films
11.) Communication Breakdown * The Dickies * Stukas Over Disneyland
12.) The Creep (Twist) * Frankie Stein And His Ghouls * Monster Sounds And Dance Music
13.) The Creep * Bob Luman * Lux And Ivy’s Favorites Volume 15
14.) Exploration In Terror * The Ventures * The Ventures In Space
15.) A Fistful Of Terror * The Bomboras * Head Shrinkin’ Fun
16.) Terror * Les Baxter * RE/Search: Incredibly Strange Music Vol II
17.) Go To Hell * Railbirds * Killed By Dead Vol. 14
18.) Gotta Get Away * The Blues Magoos * Kaleidoscopic Compendium: The Best Of The Blues Magoos
19.) The Creeper * Quintron * “These Hands Of Mine”
This week we continue our Ghost Story program with special guest, Obadiah Baird, who talks about editing The Audient Void, his favorite free horror movies, and then we read some poetry that is perfect for this time of year.
In hour two, Nathan Carson and Erin Jane Laroue provide an excellent rendition of an Ambrose Bierce short story, and so much more. This is a good one!
While we haven’t done all that many of these Ghost Stories shows, very few people have wanted to come into the studio and tell their stories live either. But DJ Victrola is not like other DJs, hosting her very own program – The Guitar Shop – now in its 21st year, with no signs of slowing down. When she offered to come in and tell old Philly Ghost Stories, I knew we had to do this one live. And you, dear listener, get to reap the rewards.
While I don’t want to spoil too much about her stories, I will say that you should stay tuned, as she not only features appropriate tunes to complement her stories, but sets a mood that is perfect for strange happenings in a haunted house. And: Cyclopsycho composed a bespoke Ghost Tune for this broadcast, which we get into almost immediately during the show. (You should visit cyclopsychosite.com for more music, or check out the live performance on Ricardo Wang’s What’s This Called?) Plus: we get to hear one of the all time best Lord Buckley recordings that is not only about ghosts, but spans two holidays in one.
Stay tuned to the very very end, and hear a very special treat: The Professor & Miss Rikki from Closet Radio call in. Miss Rikki, DJ Victrola and I all go back to KPSU, when we were on after each other for a spell in the days when Rikki & I hosted A Momentary Lapse of Reason. We had an excellent radio reunion on the air, and Rikki spills the beans about normal childhood happenings that absolutely count as ghost stories, even though she just shook them off.
This one has a personal touch that is well worth a listen, and we’re not even finished with the holiday season. (BTW: Shoutouts to Steve & Lisa, from Vicky.) This is a Friday The 13th that you must hear to believe.
Enjoy.
Victrola’s Tales!
HOUR 1
Part I: The Ghost of Lost Mind
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Halloween Ambience * Austin Rich / Old Records * Mid-Valley Mutations.
03.) The Ghost of Lost Mind * Cyclopsycho * The Ghost of Lost Mind * Mid-Valley Mutations (2017)
Part II: Cottage Street Parts 1 & 2.
History of The House, Disappearing Steak Sauce, The Misplaced Wallet
04.) Carol Ann’s Theme * Jerry Goldsmith * Poltergeist Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * MGM Records (1982)
05.) Wakey Wakey * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)
06.) Ghost of A Texas Ladies Man * Concrete Blonde * Recollection: The Best of Concrete Blonde * I.R.S. Records (1996)
07.) Ghostwind * Steve Morse * High Tension Wires * MCA Records (1989)
Part III: Chatting With Victrola
Part IV: Cottage Street Part 3
08.) I Do Believe It / Sheets and Chains * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)
09.) Tam Lin * Fairport Convention * Liege & Lief * Island Records (1969)
Part V: Cottage Street Part 4
10.) Laugh * Danny Elfman * Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to ‘Beetlejuice’ * Geffen Records (1988)
11.) Old Times * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)
HOUR 2
Part VI: Chatting With Victrola Again
Part VII: The Lady in the Hatboro House & The Bucks County Hitchhiker
12.) They Are Everywhere * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)
13.) “I Do Believe In Spooks” * The Cowardly Lion * The Wizard Of Oz * MGM Studios (1939)
14.) Scrooge * Lord Buckley * Blowing His Mind (And Yours) * World Pacific (1966)
15.) Big Joe & Phantom 309 * Tom Waits * Nighthawks At The Diner * Asylum Records (1975)
Part VIII: Victrola’s Moving Chair & Chatting With Victrola Even Yet Still
The Black Cat & Other Frightening Tales
(Featuring a four hour Halloween presentation of Diamanda Galás reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat! Originally broadcast on 30 October 2010 on KPSU, and re-aired in 2015 and 2021.)
Playlist & Footnotes:
Join me for a special extended edition of Blasphuphmus Radio, just in time for the Holidays! That’s right, tune in for a special re-telling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” (read by Diamanda Galás), mixed with Ed Wood samples, Vampires, Bob & Ray, Werewolfs, Lux & Ivy’s Favorite Hits, Ghosts, a Mad Monster Party, a handful of Zombies, a trip to the Graveyard, and four hours of Halloween madness. It’s everything you need to set your mood for the Halloween soiree in your future!
That’s a Halloween Spook-tacular, only on Blasphuphmus Radio.
The Black Cat & Other Frightening Tales
001.) Halloween Hootenanny * Zacherle
002.) KPSU Halloween
003.) A Night In A Haunted House
004.) Haunted House * Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
005.) The Baron * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
006.) Dead Moon Night * Dead Moon
007.) The Black Cat 1
008.) A Night In A Haunted House
009.) Haunted House Blues * Bessie Smith
010.) Monster Surfing Time * Deadly Ones * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 05
011.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 1
012.) The Haunted House Sounds
013.) The Haunted House * Vic Crume
014.) Strolling Spooks * Ken Nordine
015.) The Haunted House Sounds
016.) The Black Cat 2
017.) Mad Monster Party * Maury Laws w/ Ethel Ennis * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
018.) It’s Halloween! * The Shaggs * Philosophy Of The World * Third World Records
019.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 2
020.) Monster Mash * Bobby “Boris” Picket & The Crypt-Kickers
021.) The Headless Horseman * Bing Crosby
022.) A Night In A Haunted House
023.) The Black Cat
024.) Scream * Ralph Neilsen & The Chancellors * Back From The Grave Part 1
025.) The Boogie Monster * Gnarls Barkley * St. Elsewhere * Downtown Records
026.) The Haunted House Sounds
027.) Anxiety!: Poison Coffee * Bob & Ray * The Lost Episodes, Vol. 3
028.) A Night In A Haunted House
029.) The Black Cat 4
030.) Waltz For A Witch * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
031.) El Monstruo * Los Shains
032.) Jack The Ripper * The One Way Streets * Back From The Grave Part 1
033.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 3
034.) Ghost Hop * The Surfmen * Wild Surf!
035.) The Haunted House Sounds
036.) Mr. Ghost Goes To Town * The Five Jones Boys * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 04
037.) Ghost Wanted * The Carl Stalling Project * The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2
038.) Ghost Train * Electro-Tones * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 04
039.) A Night In A Haunted House
040.) The Black Cat 5
041.) The Spook * The Tomkos
042.) Sir Roderic’s Song * William Schwenck Gilbert
043.) Grim, Grinning Ghosts – The Haunted Mansion * Disneyland
044.) The Haunted House Sounds
045.) The Black Cat 6
046.) Dark Shadows Main Title Theme
047.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 4
048.) The Mummy’s Bracelet * Lee Ross * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 10
049.) The Mummy * Bob Mcfadden * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume One
050.) The Way Out Mummy * Bob Ridgley * Lost Treasures
051.) The Mummy * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
052.) Anxiety!: Commander Nelville Putney * Bob & Ray * The Lost Episodes, Vol. 2
053.) A Night In A Haunted House
054.) The Black Cat 7
055.) The Wolf Wobble * Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti * 1920’s And 1930’s Sides Remastered * JSP Records
056.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 5
057.) Frankenstein Walk * Gene “Bowlegs” Miller
058.) Over At The Frankenstein Place * The Cast * The Rocky Horror Picture Show
059.) The Haunted House Sounds
060.) Werewolf Watusi * Don Hinson And The Rigamorticians
061.) The Haunted House Sounds
062.) The Black Cat 8
063.) Night Of The Vampire * The Moontrekkers * It’s Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek
064.) Raving Vampire Pt. I * Souls Unlimited
065.) Dinner With Dracula * Zacherle * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 02
066.) Dracula’s Daughter * Screamin’ Lord Sutch * I Hear A New World
067.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 6
068.) A Night In A Haunted House
069.) The Black Cat 9
070.) Do the Zombie * The Symbols * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 03
071.) Zombi * Los Sleepers * Mas Rock and Roll – 26 Rare 60’s Teen-Punk
072.) Zombie Lou * Johnson Bros.
073.) Zombie Jamboree * Kingston Trio
074.) Watusi Zombie * Jan Davis * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 11
075.) The Thing Strikes [Excerpt] * Henry Mancini
076.) The Haunted House Sounds
077.) The Twilight Zone Main Title Theme
078.) The Midnight Zone * Bob & Ray * The Lost Episodes, Vol. 2
079.) A Night In A Haunted House
080.) The Black Cat 10
081.) Mad Monster Party Instrumental * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
082.) Sinister Purpose * Zacherle with Southern Culture On The Skids
083.) Graveyard Shift * Bobby “Boris” Picket & The Crypt-Kickers
084.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 7
085.) Morgus The Magnificent
086.) Jungle Madness * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
087.) The Haunted House Sounds
088.) The Black Cat 11
089.) The Night Of The Phantom
090.) Graveyard * Dead Moon
091.) Rockin’ In The Graveyard * Jackie Morningstar * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 02
092.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 8
093.) Graveyard * Blenders
094.) Cementario * Los Saicos
095.) Cemetery Blues * Bessie Smith
096.) A Night In A Haunted House
097.) The Black Cat 12
098.) Till The Following Night * Screamin’ Lord Sutch
099.) Finale * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
100.) The Great Pumpkin Waltz * Vince Guaraldi
101.) Happy Halloween * Zacherle
This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, both from 2006. In the first, I join another KPSU DJ, Tim, where we read many selections from Richard Brautigan’s “Revenge of The Lawn.” In the second show, I’m joined by kiisu d’salyss, who performs a tune as “Neutered Prunes,” then together we improvise two pieces under the name “The Black Noise Orchestra.” Further shenanigans ensue. The dates: 27 March and 26 July.
Hour 1: Revenge of The Lawn
Hour 2: w/ kiisu d’salyss
01.) La Cucaracha (Long Version) * Eastside Connection * La Cucaracha 12″
02.) By The Mark * Danava * Invaders
03.) Hank * Neutered Prunes * Performed Live
04.) (piece 1) * The Black Noise Orchestra * Performed Live
05.) (piece 2) * The Black Noise Orchestra * Performed Live
06.) Buffalo Gas Works * The Hataway Family Plot * MySpace
This combines two live performance broadcasts from my KPSU years, both from 2006. The first is when Dr. Frank hung out on May 24th, to read and play a couple songs. The other is from June 6th, when Jesse Ransom played a few tunes live, and the we DJed his favorite cuts the rest of the time. Both of these were very fun shows.
This combines two live performance broadcasts from my KPSU years hosting Live Friday, from 2005 and 2006. The first is Book of Maps, performing on 11 November 2005. The other is The Prids, performing on 7 July 2006. Both bands were / are Portland legends, but The Prids are the only of the two who are still together.
This combines two live performance broadcasts from my KPSU years, from 2005 and 2006. The first is Krandroid The Friendly Robot, performing on Live Friday on 1 July 2005. The other is a show where I engineered the sound for George & Caplin, perfoming on “What’s This Called?” on 5 August 2006.) Both excellent electronic / sequenced hybrid performers.
This combines two live punk performance broadcasts from my KPSU years, from 2005 and 2006. The first is Straitjacket (from 14 October 2005), and the second is The-Front (from 21 March 2006). I’m a sucker for DIY punk nonsense, and both of these bands deliver in spades.
This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, one from 2005 and 2006 each. Sort of theme shows, the first only features artists that begin with the letter M, while in the second, it charts and much more emotional and libidinal frame of mind. The dates: 30 August 2005 and 12 July 2006.
Hour 1: Today’s Show Was Brought To You By The Letter M.
01.) 10 lb. Moustache * Man Man
02.) Carry Stress In The Jaw * Mr. Bungle
03.) Ten Dollars A Pile * Melt Banana
04.) Never Ending Math Equation * Modest Mouse
05.) Walking Through Forever * Charles Manson
06.) Reverb 1000 * Man… Or Astro-Man?
07.) This Is Not A Photograph * Mission Of Burma
08.) Free Arthur Lee * The Make Up
09.) 1 2 X U * Minor Threat
10.) Anyone Else But You * The Moldy Peaches
11.) Maximum Radiation Level * Man… Or Astro-Man?
12.) Come In Alone * My Bloody Valentine
13.) Motorbreath * Metallica
14.) Sweet Willy Rollbar * Melvins
15.) Where Is Our Reason? * My Dad Is Dead
16.) Sferic Waves * Man… Or Astro-Man?
17.) Burn It Clean * Mudhoney
18.) Dumb Little Band * The Mr. T Experience
19.) Maybe Partying Will Help * Minutemen
20.) Stanley Kubrick * Mogwai
Hour 2: The Baron
01.) The Baron * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party
02.) Track 04 * Voltage * Building The Bass Castle Vol. I
03.) Forever * Yuma Nora * Red Train Graphing The Sunset Of All
04.) Macbeth * Ciccone Youth * The Whitey Album
05.) Lakes In Space * Zach Hill And Mick Barr * Shred Earthship
06.) Progressive Rock Medley * Ruins * Pallaschtom
07.) Hands On… * Coachwhips * Double Death
08.) I Want An Ugly Girl * Little Fyodor * The Very Best Of Little Fyodor’s Greatest Hits
09.) Phantom Fire Ball * Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno * “Another Band From The Cosmic Inferno European Tour 2005” Cosmic Funeral Route 666
10.) Antigravity * Pink Mountain * Pink Mountain
11.) I Ain’t Got None * Jandek * Interstellar Discussion
12.) Heel Toe * Dance Card * Waterlogged
13.) This Time * The Wipers * Over The Edge
14.) New Years Eve In A Haunted House * Raymond Scott * Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights
15.) Hit It And Quit It * Funkadelic * Maggot Brain
16.) Fun House * The Stooges * Fun House
This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005 and 2006, both from my stint on Live Friday, and both “best of” shows, where I featured Live Performances from either of my shows. The dates are: 24 June 2005 and 3 March 2006. Here’s a rough idea of what the “songs” were.
Hour 1.
01.) What Have You Done * The Mayonnaise vs. Venn Demonstrational
02.) I Never Said * Bugs Of Lightning
03.) Girls On Bikes * Miraflores
04.) It’s Snowling On TV Again * The Pink Snowflakes
05.) 51 / 7 * Camper Van Beethoven
06.) Ballad Of The Space Chimp * Tijuana Homers
07.) Straight Out Of Clackamas * Courage
08.) One Hand * Dance Card
09.) Kitty * The Human Genome Project
10.) Apocalyptic Girl * Empty Room
11.) The Oblivion * Devotchka
12.) Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy Down * Radicchio & Tet Soy
Hour 2.
01.) Sleeper (Rise Over Run recorded on 07/22/05)
02.) A New Disaster (Straitjacket recorded on 10/14/05)
03.) Hot Lava (Courage recorded on 12/10/04)
04.) Stooge (Dance Card recorded on 12/16/05)
05.) Dangerous Degree (The Mayonaise vs. Venn recorded on 04/26/05)
06.) [untitled] (If If, Was Was… recorded on 12/20/05)
07.) I’m On Nine (The Bugs Of Lightning recorded on 08/05/05)
08.) Doorway (Empty Room recorded on 07/15/05)
09.) Triforce Of Boom (Krandroid The Friendly Robot recorded on 07/01/05)
10.) Robot Affliction (The Human Genome Project recorded on 09/17/04)
11.) Lose The Noose While It’s Loose (The Undoing of David Wright recorded on 08/16/05)
12.) [untitled] (Avery Bell recorded on 02/25/05)
13.) Exhibit A Burns A Hole In The Sky With Her Death Stare (Book Of Maps recorded on 11/11/05)
14.) Let’s Get Drunk And Watch TV (The Juanita Family & Friends recorded on 06/10/05)
15.) With A One (The Headliners recorded on 11/18/05)
16.) I Was Bowling Through The End Of The World (Tijuana Homers recorded on 11/30/04)
17.) Summer’s End (Gordon Taylor recorded on 12/17/05)
This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. The first is a live performance by The Juanita Family & Friends (from 10 June 2005). The second is a live performance by Thee Headliners (from 18 November 2005). Both performances have a sort of country vibe to them, but of course, with their own particular perspectives. I really enjoy both of these shows.
This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. The first is one of my “Nuggets” shows, which was a common form my show took at KPSU in the early days (from 26 July 2005). The second is a show from the day that I first met Ricardo Wang, where he and I DJ’d for an hour (2 August 2005). Both are very much full of 60’s Psyche-Rock that goes down well, all these years later.
This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. The Mayonnaise Vs. Venn performed live on my show on 26 April 2005, and Rise Over Run performed on Live Friday on 22 July 2005.
It’s Alive w/ Ghosts of Ghosts & Scot Jenerik!
Stereogram #13: Reigning CattyWampus Hell In A Hand Made Basket Case of Unread Mixed Bag Messages From A Passive-Aggressive God Throwing Lamp Shade Graven Image Death Rattle Snake Splatterhouse Earthling Unearthing Mean Human Beans Elimidate Phlebotomy Crepes Mediocre Miracles In Disguise Surprise
Hangin’ On The Telephone Part Five
Found In The Demento Dimension III: Janitor’s Jubilee
Hangin’ On The Telephone Part Four w/ The Weatherman, LIVE!
“Dave’s Not Here, Man.” (The, Uh, 420th Episode, Dude.)
Hangin’ On The Telephone Part Three
Hangin’ On The Telephone Part Two
Hangin’ On The Telephone
Three-Run: Three Shows In One
Howlin’ At The Doom Part 5: More Partch-Meants
An Exercise In Nepotism w/ Xeres of Xeron
Another UFO: Supplemental (Document #MVM01)
Howlin’ At The Doom Part 4: Noir Time Like The Present (Double Indemnity!)
Howlin’ At The Doom Part 3: Partch-Meants
Stereogram #12: Prelude To A Folly (w/ Arvo Zylo)
Howlin’ At The Doom Part 2: On The Delta At Midnight
Howlin’ At The Doom Part 1: The King of The Beats
Once Upon A Time – Punk On War (A Grumpy Punk History Lesson)
When Rock Went Off Its Rocker (w/ Xeres of Xeron)
Oscar & Richard
Here We Go Again…
Saturn Returns (Part 4)
Saturn Returns (Part 3)
Saturn Returns (Part 2) (MVM 401 / 27th Anniversary Broadcast)
Saturn Returns (Part 1) (MVM 400 / 27th Anniversary Broadcast)
TV or Not TV! (Is That The Jest, Then?: A Holiday Special)
Stereogram #11: Black Vomit Love Affair With Greenlit Nostalgic Waste Parade
I QUIT! (A Joint uBradio Salon / Mid-Valley Mutations Production)
Journey To The Center of The Mind: Part VI: Slip Inside This Dream – A Firesign Nordine (Marathon Week 2)
Journey To The Center of The Mind: Part V: Lost In Dreams (Marathon Week 1)
Journey To The Center of The Mind: Part IV: I Know You’re Questioning The Nature of Reality But are You Really Questioning It?
Journey To The Center of The Mind: Part III: If I Only Had A Brain
Journey To The Center of The Mind: Part II: Free Falling Through Your Imagination
Stereogram #10: For The Love of The Conundrum
Another Post-Punk Jukebox: Or, “The Max Headroom 40th Anniversary Celebration”
A Post Punk Jukebox: Musical Mysteries To Help You Dance & Forget…
We Are All Teengenerates!
The Study of The Universe
“Born With Stars At Their Feet, But Their Souls Are Lost At Sea…” (Dreams & Stars: A Sci-Fi Holiday Radio Yarn)
Punk For X-Mas, Week 2
Punk For X-Mas, Week 1
TV-MA & Andrew Wayne Is Broadcasting, LIVE!
New! NeoAmerica’s! Next! Harsh! Noise! Wall! (An Joint uBradio Salon / Mid-Valley Mutations Production)
November In The Stars: Walking On The Moon: Special Apollo 12 Tribute Broadcast
Come For The Show: Autumnal Bards In The Mid-Valley (LIVE!)
Remember, Remember…
Camping Cassette’s Vol. 6: Cheryl’s Story
The Mystery Band w/ Xeres of Xeron
It’s Our Back To School Special, 2024 Edition!
Camping Cassettes Vol 4. Lost In The 90’s
Camping Cassettes Vol 3. w/ The Ramen City Kid
A Dance Party In The Mid-Valley
Celebrating 10 Years of Corvallis Experiments In Noise (LIVE!)
Camping Cassettes Vol 2. w/ The Ramen City Kid
Camping Cassettes Vol 1. w/ The Ramen City Kid
The Brian Frankish Interview: Stories From A Hollywood Veteran
Slip Inside This Dream: A Firesign Nordine
Stereogram #8: Quid Pro Quo Pro Quo Pro Quo (w/ Arvo Zylo)
The Bug Jar w/ Xeres of Xeron
Karloff, Kaye & Holloway (Oh My!): Family-Friendly Experimental ‘Vinyl Solution’ Mash-Ups
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Train I Ride w/ Bob & Ray
Way Out West Chapter Thirteen
Way Out West Chapter Twelve
UB Radio Salon #846 – The Crow’s Nest w/ the 4th Sunday Players – 31 March 2024 on DFM.nu
MUTATION FEST! (Week 1)
Below you’ll find links for video, in the event you’d like to watch those while you listen
Reflection
A Night On Horror Island
Stay tuned to the very very end, and hear a very special treat: The Professor & Miss Rikki from 
Mid-Valley Mutations 