BROADCAST #06
AIR DATE: 02-06-07

Hello Fanatics! I hope you enjoyed tonight’s show. I think it went all over the place and that’s a good thing. Next week’s show falls on my birthday. I came up with a good set of music that I think you will like. That was a fast two hours. Please tune in next week if you can, it’s going to be a great one. Thanks for listening tonight and even though you’re perhaps freezing where you are at this moment, STAY FANATIC!!! --Henry

For you Europeans, Australians and New Zealand Fanatics, there is a re-broadcast time of Friday mornings, 0200 – 0400 hrs. West coast time so you all can check out the show and not have to set your alarms to too rude an hour.

Little Joe - Tradition Skank: I think if I play any more tracks from the If Deejay Was Your Trade CD, you will think it’s the only CD of this kind I have. It’s not but it’s one of the best so I keep finding tracks on it to bring to our show. It’s on Blood And Fire, one solid label. Little Joe is also known as Rankin Joe.

The Clash – White Riot / 1977: I got this Clash singles box set so we’re going to hit that one with some frequency so be warned. It’s The Clash, how bad can it be? What a band. This was the first Clash single and the b-side is one of my favorite Clash songs of all time. This was released in March of 1977 and nothing was ever the same since. There have been a lot of important bands to come through and The Clash is one of them. It is hard for me to listen to them sometimes because I am so mad that Joe Strummer is gone. I saw them when I was very young and it had a great effect on me. Sometimes when I listen to them, it makes look back a little too much so I have to be careful but mostly I get mad because they’re gone and Joe was too young to go.

The Fall - Telephone Dub: For the sake of convenience, I pulled this from the Listening In CD and not the CD version of the Telephone Thing CD single, released in January of 1990. What a cool song. I don’t know if you have noticed, we listen to a Fall track every week. I am hoping for a copy of the new CD to arrive here at any moment as I found a promo copy on EBay. When I get it, I will bring it to the show immediately. http://www.visi.com/fall/index.html

Hawnay Troof - By Way Of Ten: I first heard Vice Cooler of Hawnay Troof in his old band XBXRX. Ian did some recordings with them years ago. Fuckin’ intense. This is Vice’s most recent musical endeavor I think. Tonight’s track is from the Dollar And Deed album. It’s brought to you by the wonderful folks at Retard Disco, a label to be checked out for sure. If you liked what you heard tonight, the entire album holds up like this. Another testament to the fact that music is not only alive and well but maybe in one of its better phases.

György Ligeti – Artikulation: This is from The Ligeti Project V CD on Teldec. There is another version of this piece on a Ligeti CD on Wergo. I don’t know if it’s different. I’ll check on that and get back to you. Apparently, this is some of Ligeti’s electronica from 1958. From what I read, it’s one of three pieces of electronic music he composed. Stanley Kubrick used Ligeti’s music in some of his films. I don’t know much about Ligeti but I am liking it all so far. It’s very new to my ears so it’s keeping me interested.

The Brides Of Dr Funkenstein – Amorous: Oh, the sacrifices I make for you. This album, Funk Or Walk is only on CD as a pricey import from Japan but since I only had their live album, I thought I better check out some more of the Brides and figured you all would dig it so all the more reason to fork out too much money for a little bit of music. It’s a great album though so it was worth. Almost any record from the universe of George Clinton is worthwhile. Bootsy is credited on drums and bass on this record.

Third World War - Ascension Day: From the Third World War CD. I know, you heard of this band a long time ago and are bored already. As you know, I am usually late to class on a lot of things. I was at Ian’s the other night and he put this album on and asked me if I had ever heard of the band. Of course not. Sounds like Skrewdriver heard this album at least once or twice. I was able to find their two albums on CD and got them. I have not checked out the 2nd much yet but I will. The first album is really cool. I am surprised no one pointed this one out to me before. Check out Terry Stamp’s vocals. This album was recorded in 1970 and released in 1971. Lyric wise, it sounds like pre-white power Skrewdriver and almost Oi. I don’t remember seeing Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 ever mention this band. There’s a brief write-up on the band here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World_War_(band). We’ll definitely play more off this album. There’s a song called Preaching Violence that you have to hear. Here’s the band’s site: http://www.stardomroad.com/index.html

The Bears - On Me: The Bears released two singles and have a cut on the Farewell To The Roxy album. The band’s lifespan was short lived. I used to see their singles in the bins but I never checked them out. Ian played this one the other night at his place and I thought it sounded great. On Me is from their first single, released in 1977 on Waldo’s Records that has Wot’s Up Mate on the b-side. Their 2nd single, released on Good Vibrations contained the songs Insane and Decisions. We’ll play a track off the 2nd single in the weeks ahead. An interesting side not about this band is that they had two original members of Wire, George Gill and Kris Kershaw. Tonight’s track was taken from the Punk Rock Rarities Vol. 1 CD on Anagram.

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Lume, Lume: Fanatic Drew suggested this band; CD Iag Bari to me so I went online and checked out some of this album and the next time I went to the record store I looked for it and much to my surprise, it was there. I don’t know anything about the band past what I’ve read online which says that they are a loose collective of musicians from Romania and perhaps might be most well known at this moment for playing that version of Born To Be Wild in the Borat film. This is some really insane-o stuff. It’s hard to get your head around at first because it’s so much at once and then you kind of get a grip on it and it’s completely amazing, dense and intense. I would really like to see these guys play live.

Public Image Ltd. - Blue Water: This is a track off the Commercial Zone LP. When Keith Levine left PIL, he released an album of demos and outtakes of songs, some of which ended up on the This Is What You Want album released in 1984. CZ is an interesting collection of tracks. There’s a cool version of This Is Not A Love Song that I think ended up as a b-side of the This Is Not A Love Song 12” along with more produced version of the track Blue Water, which I have been able to find on the Plastic Box set. I prefer the less messed with Commercial Zone version of the song so that’s the one we played tonight. I don’t think Levine and Lydon will ever resolve their differences and put this record out officially. You see it now and then online and perhaps it’s out there somewhere to be downloaded.

The Vibrators - Judy Says (Knock You In The Head): I never had this single back in the day. I think I taped it from Jeff Dischord’s stash or somewhere. I eventually got the single years later and it’s always been one of my more favorite Vibrators songs. As far as the band’s albums, I never got past the Pure Mania album but I like that one a lot. I got tonight’s track from a Best Of CD. One of the things that held me back from getting more into the Vibrators wasn’t that I didn’t like the music enough but I knew they were, at least band leader Knox, was a Pub Rock guy who changed his look when Punk Rock came around. I used to see some of that in DC. Bar bands would all of a sudden get skinny ties and sunglasses and play the same old plodding songs. The Vibrators actually had real songs but their roots seem to be more in R&B, still that Pure Mania record is one I still go back to and I have met Knox a few times over the years and he’s a cool guy.

VVV - It Was Her Eyes: Another track from the Resurrection River CD. VVV is Alan Vega, Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. Vainio and Väisänen are the Finnish group Pan Sonic. I don’t know how they got together with Alan Vega but they did and they have done some really heavy music. This is dark stuff. I am so happy that Alan has found people to work with that allow him to realize all that great stuff he’s got inside. I just got word from Paul Smith at Blast First that the new Vega album is done. He threatened to send me a promo copy. When I get it, I think you know that it will fly into our mix with all speed. Vega is the man!

Deerhoof - The Perfect Me: From the newly released Friend Opportunity album. What a record! Deerhoof are just incredible, I don’t know what else to say. I only have a few of their records but there’s nothing I have heard that I don’t like. Engineer X says they’re all great so when I get the chance, I’ll check out more of their stuff. I was at the record store the other day on the day this was released and it made sense to get it. Really great.

Miriam Makeba - Iphi Ndilela: From the Makeba! album released in 1968. Ms. Makeba doesn’t know it but she’s one of my mothers as is Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick. Those were some of the voices that raised me as I listened to them on the radio or stereo when I was very young. I met Ms. Warwick years ago and got to tell her this and she was really cool. Anyway, Miriam Makeba, we have played her before on the show, probably tracks from her perfect Pata Pata album. I was raised on that one. My mother had some serious taste in music. Anyway, I thought this would be the perfect track to come down after all that Deerhoof noise. Wasn’t that a great one, too? If you find yourself digging the Makeba, you should start with the Pata Pata album.

Afflicted Man - It’s Too Easy: From the I’m Off Me ‘Ead LP. Another Afflicted track. I have been trying and still unable to track down the man behind the band, Steve Hall. I have gotten reports on the man but they’re all fairly old. This is one of the more tripped out tracks of the Afflicted Man. The whole album is pretty intense and out there. You see it now and then on Ebay. Worth tracking down. We have played this guy before. The Afflicted Man is one of my obsession bands. I know of only one person who saw him play and I couldn’t get much information out of him. There’s no record by this guy that’s not worth checking out.

Crisis - White Youth: From the Holocaust Hymns CD. When I bought the Crisis singles many years ago, I got them not knowing what I was getting, the covers looked cool so I went for it. Such great music. It was Punk Rock with brains and chops. At the end of this, I have included a really good site that has information on the band. After the band broke up, two of them formed Death In June. I have never heard that band. My favorite song of theirs is found on their Hymns Of Faith 12” called Frustration. We have played that one before. There’s a really rare 2CD set of their recordings called We Are All Jews And Germans that has all their songs and a lot of extra tracks. I have only seen one of them. Recently, a single CD of their recordings came out called Holocaust Hymns that you can find. If you liked this track, then you might want to check this one out. Here’s that site address: http://www.deathrock.com/crisis/index.html

The Evens - Get Evens: From the Get Evens album. Attention Australia and New Zealand, The Evens are coming to your shores next week so check your local listings. I think they’re going to have a great time down there. If any of you can make it to the shows, do so, I think you will have a great time.

Dead Boy And The Elephant Men - What The Stars Have Eaten: From the We Are Night Sky album. I have not played anything from this in a long time so I thought I would. From either the title of this song or the title of the album, I would have checked it out. I think the band’s leader, Dax is really something else. I can’t wait to hear what he’ll do next. I bet there will be some kind of release this year. I just wrote Dax and I’ll see what he has to say for himself if he gets back to me, I will relay the message here. Dax Gets Back Dept.: Mr. Henry, we are recording basic tracks in our swamp studio then overdubbing and mixing in NYC. Matt Sweeny (Superwolf, the last Johnny Cash rec.) will be adding guitar. Should be out July/August. Henry thank you, say hi to Heidi May. The Elephantmen love you, Dax

The Bags – Survive: From the Dangerhouse Volume One CD. The Bags were one of the original LA Punk bands. Bassist Pat Bag is also known as Patricia Morrison from Sisters of Mercy, Gun Club, etc. Craig Bag was also known as Craig Lee who worked at the LA Weekly, Rob Bag, also known as Rob Ritter was also in the Gun Club. One of the cooler and more memorable songs and performances from this era. There sure were a lot of good songs and bands in LA at this time. A lot of them were on the Dangerhouse label.

Cedell Davis - Mistreatin' Me: I first heard Cedell Davis when the great writer Robert Palmer gave me Cedell’s Feel Like Doin’ Something Wrong CD. I was a fan immediately. This track is from The Horror Of It All CD. Cedell contracted polio as a child. He was already playing guitar and due to the ravages of the polio, he had to learn to play left handed. He used a knife handle for a slide and so he sounds quite unique. I think he has like four CDs out, they are easy enough to find and I recommend all of them. Guys like Cedell don’t miss often because they are the real deal.

The Unknown Instructors – Doghouse Riley: From their new album coming out next month called The Master’s Voice. I hope the label doesn’t get mad that I am playing this before it comes out. We had some extra time and I had the CD with me so I figured what the heck. It’s a cool record. This track has David Thomas on vocals. Here’s the thing I wrote for their press kit earlier this evening: The idea of Watt on bass, Baiza on guitar and Hurley on drums, if it means anything at all to you, is a dream line-up. It doesn't mean it's going to be any good but you'd go a great distance to find out for yourself. It is good, it's great actually. The way the players move with, around and against each other forces them to constantly re-invent the reference point. These aren't "just jams." The vocalists don't just read poetry over the top of it all but immerse themselves in the music, especially David Thomas, who seems to get more interesting as he goes. Great record.

John Coltrane – Welcome: From the Kulu Se Mama album. 1965 was a year of change for John Coltrane. For some of the sessions he put together in that year, he expanded his group to include players like Pharoah Sanders and even vocalist Juno Lewis. Coltrane was getting restless and wanted to push past the confines of his very able quartet set up. This was the start of what I think was one of the greatest periods for Coltrane. From here until his death a couple of years later, Coltrane got new players and pushed himself relentlessly. Of all the Coltrane that is out there, this is the period we have listened to on our show the most. Listen to Coltrane’s tone on this track, it’s absolutely amazing. This is a man who was obsessed by music. It gets no more real than Coltrane.