BROADCAST #15
AIR DATE: 04-10-07

Here we go again Fanatics! I am in New York City as you listened to this tonight. Tonight was the start of a six show run at the Gramercy Theater of myself, Janeane Garofalo and the very talented Marc Maron. I just got back from the show and it was pretty damn good. Janeane was cool and Marc just killed. He’s a very funny man and people were digging it. I am so glad we are finally doing these shows, it’s been a long time since we booked the dates. I always have a good time in this city and am looking forward to the upcoming shows. I hope you liked tonight’s show, I will be back with you live next week. It’s going
to be a good one! STAY FANATIC!!! --Henry

For you Fanatics who can’t live without hearing this show again or if the
original broadcast time is too hard on your sleep cycle here’s the re-broadcast schedule.

USA: Fridays: 0200 – 0400 hrs. PST
UK: Fridays: 1000 hrs. – 1200 hrs.
Continental Europe: Fridays 1100 hrs. – 1300 hrs.
Australia: Fridays 2100 hrs. – 2300 hrs.

James Brown Escape-Ism Pt. 1: This is the 1971 single version from the Hot Pants CD. I heard the live version on the Revolution Of The Mind album. I heard this studio version sometime later. There’s another version of this tune on this CD that is the unedited version that’s really cool. This is one of my favorite JB jams.

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: To celebrate the birthday of Joe Cole we offer this fine title cut from the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album. The great follow-up to Vol. 4, Sabbath upped the ante with more complex arrangements and more ambitious music, instrumentation and arrangement without losing what was great about Black Sabbath. Sabbath fans rejoiced! I remember when the band performed this song at the reunion shows in Birmingham UK in 1997 and almost the entire place sang along with Ozzy on the lyric “You bastards!” One of the better nights of my life.

The Great Society Band - March Of The Astronauts: From 1967 when they really knew how to make ‘em. Many years ago, I taped this single from Ian and never bothered to see who had performed it. I played it on our show in 2004 and didn’t know who to give the credit to. Ian dug out the single recently and I found out who did it. I was able to find my own copy online. Go man go!

Hawkwind - Intro/Standing On The Edge: From the 1999 Party CD. This is a live show from Chicago 03-21-74 that only came out a few years ago as far as I know. It sure is cool. I don’t know if this came out back in the day. I don’t remember how I stumbled upon it but I remember asking Lemmy about it at some point when we were talking about Hawkwind. I was asking him if he knew where the band’s noise box player Dik Mik was and he said no and then I think I asked him if there were more live tapes of Hawkwind that could be released, etc. I don’t remember what he said about that. I reckon if there was something more from the vault, it would have showed up by now. I know they were releasing some later period stuff awhile ago and I got some of them but they didn’t really do it for me like this one does.

Gene Defcon - Texas Fever: From the Come Party With Me 2002 album. It’s been a few weeks since we listened to Gene Defcon. The ex-Prima Donnas man done went solo and has released many good records. I don’t know how he does it so many songs on one CD. There’s no Gene Defcon CD I don’t like.

XBXRX - Track 05: From the Clear EP. Ian gave me this years ago. Ian produced the session. This is the only record I have of this band. I have a couple of record of ex-XBXRX man Vice Cooler and his band The Hawnay Troof, which I like very much. I gotta get some more of the XBXRX stuff but it all seems out of print. I’ll keep looking.

Slim Gaillard - Travelin' Blues: From Shuckin' And Jivin' CD. For some years, I only had this track on a cassette. It was not the best sounding and I had to really strain to hear the song above the tape hiss. It was good to finally hear this very cool song clearly. I hope you Fanatics like Slim as he is a semi-frequent spin on our show. There’s a lot of his music out there. A good introduction to his work might be the Laughing In Rhythm: The Best Of The Verve Years. Slim has always been an interesting character to me ever since Mick Geyer gave me a tape of his music. Mick made me some great mix tapes many years ago and one of them had Slim’s Yip Roc Heresy, Atomic Cocktail, Potato Chips and Laughing In Rhythm.

The Circle Jerks - What's Your Problem: From the Group Sex album. This is a very old album but it never sounds that way to me. One of the better shows I saw in the 80’s was the Jerks opening for the Dead Kennedys and Flipper in San Francisco. It was before their album had come out and it was the first time I had ever seen Keith Morris sing. All we knew at the time was that he used to be the singer in Black Flag and this was his new band. I think I have mentioned this before so forgive me for repeating it. Before the show, the Circle Jerks were at Target Video where The Teen Idles were staying. I was along for the ride. The Jerks were there for an interview and they had Tony Alva along with them so we all met Alva and Keith at pretty much the same time, it was very cool.

Chrome - Creature Eternal: From the Half-Machine Lip Moves album. I don’t know anything about Chrome really but I like this CD that Corey Touch and Go gave me many years ago. I had the CD for a long time and played it now and then but never really checked it out all that closely until I got some of the Helios Creed records and went backwards and dug out the Chrome CD and really liked it after hearing the Helios stuff. I looked around on the internet and can’t seem to find too much of their stuff out there when they had Helios in the line-up.

Jack Holt - Moonshine Still: From the Compated Cats - Volume 1 CD. This is one of the many CDs I bought at the old Tower Records at Piccadilly in London. It’s gone now but when it was going, it was a great store, even for a chain store it was great. I spend a fair deal of time in London and one of my rituals was to go into the Piccadilly Tower and search out those really great compilation albums that seem to fall like rain in the UK. Great liner notes, interesting music, etc. There’s that one label, Ace Records, that puts out some really cool old Rock compilations that I have learned a lot from. Anyway, I got this
CD there and like it. I can’t find anything on Jack Holt but I am liking this song.

The Ruts - Babylon's Burning / Society: A great single by The Ruts. For a long time you could not get Society and the single version of Babylon’s Burning until a great CD of all the band’s singles was released on Captain Oi recently. This single was released in June of 1979. As far as I know, the single was pressed in the UK, France and Germany. I also know of at least one acetate of the single that exists. For the millionth time, if you don’t have The Crack album by The Ruts, that is one that you really gotta have in my opinion. As far as what is considered Punk Rock, this is one of the very important records. It’s one of my top ten records of all time.

ProjeKct Two - Vector Shift: This is from the Collector’s King Crimson Vol. 6 set. I know of ten volumes so far. I have all but Vol. 9, which seems to be hard to obtain. I am hoping that one I ordered weeks ago finally shows up. I have enjoyed these set mightily as there’s never too much King Crimson around for the likes of me. The ProjeKct groups, ProjeKct One and ProjeKct Two are Crimson members breaking away from the band for some improvs. From what I’ve read, ProjeKct One was short lived and only did a few shows. I have the ProjeKcts box set and have not listened to it all that much but I should. Between all the Crimson bootlegs and legit albums, the ProjeKct stuff and all the solo stuff of Fripp’s, it’s not easy for me to get my head around all the material but I try as it’s all pretty great material.

The Fall - Susan Vs Youthclub: from the The Fall Vs 2003 CD single. I scrolled through all the indexes of the broadcasts, thinking we had played this song but we have not so here ‘tis! This is a great Fall song. It was released on 12-02-02 and came out in two formats. There’s a single version with this song and Janet Vs Johnny on the b-side and there’s a CD single version that has these two songs along with a remix of Susan Vs Youthclub. It’s another week of denial as I am just not dealing with the band’s new album Reformation Post TLC all that well yet. There’s still time of course. You know, there’s a website where you can get all kinds of Fall info: http://www.visi.com/fall/
Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours: From the Permanent album. It’s not really a record you need if you’re a Joy Division Fanatic. I got it because the tracks are mastered well and that’s good for radio. This album came out many years after the band was long gone. I am reading reports about the remastering of the Joy Division albums. The information is a little skewed, Amazon.com has the Unknown Pleasures remaster set for release in 2025. I don’t know if I can wait that long. I hope that’s a typo. I should bring in some of my bootleg JD
stuff. There’s quite a few bootlegs of them around. My favorite is the band playing the Effenaar in Eindhoven Holland. I have done many shows there.

Brian Eno – Baby’s On Fire (Peel Session 03-05-74): I stole this music! Arrest me! Fanatic Aaron sent me the link and I went there and was so happy to see all this cool music there for the taking. It’s not like I can get this Eno Peel Session anywhere else. How cool is this?! The Peel version of Baby’s On Fire ?! This is too cool. The session is from 03-05-74 and sounds pretty damn good, don’t you think? The easier to come by version can be found on the perfect album called Here Come The Warm Jets, an album I have purchased a few times in different masterings and versions. I hope Mr. Eno, great genius that he is, will not be angry with me for taking this music for our show tonight.

Spencer P Jones - Stolen Car Serenade: From the The Last Gasp CD. Fuckin’ Spencer from the Beasts Of Bourbon! Last year when I was in Australia, some of the Beasts laid their newer solo efforts on me, thoughtful boys they are. This is from 2000. Damn, The Beasts were great the other night. I wish I had a tape of that show. Spencer as well as the Beasts’ Brian Hooper have made some really good solo records. Tex Perkins, the band’s vocalist is no slouch either and has put out some great stuff as well besides The Cruel Sea stuff. These Australians have a lot of music in them.

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return): From Rainbow Bridge Concert, the 1st set. From Maui, 07-30-70. I always liked these two sets. There’s different versions of the music that have been released over the years on bootleg. I have the Last American Concert 2 CD set I got somewhere many years ago. I think the playing and song selection on those sets are great. You can find a great version of Hey Baby on this set. In m mind, this is one of the greatest songs I have ever heard and a perfect vehicle for Hendrix to really let it happen. I always prefer Hendrix live shows to the studio stuff because when the audience was with him, he really cut loose. Yes, there were some concerts he played where people were not especially digging newer material. It’s not like the songs weren’t great. There’s no arguing that Freedom, and In From The Storm are not great but perhaps Hendrix was evolving past the pop song format too quickly for the audience or maybe they were just a bunch of duds but on some of the later live shows, you can hear Hendrix really bum on the audience, like at his last LA Forum show, you can hear Hendrix not having such a great time with the audience. You would have figured it would have been a more receptive audience. Anyway, tonight’s track was taken from the Rainbow Bridge Concert CD.

Wire - Ex-Lion Tamer: What a relief. A few weeks ago, I put you through a pretty rough version of this great Wire song from the legendary Pink Flag album. One of these days, we should play this album all the way through just to say we did it. I will pick a time when I have to be out of town and we’ll let it rip. If you don’t have this album, I think you need to change that situation. There’s a new version of the album that was remastered with the band present and it’s really worth it. One of the best remastering jobs of recent memory.

De La Soul - Potholes In My Lawn: From the 3 Feet High And Rising. I have not played this album in a long time. The last time I listened to it, I was getting tracks together for one of our shows. I think I played Plug Tunin’ that night. I have the first three De La albums and they’re good but I really like this first one. I think it’s one of those records that captures a band at a perfect moment where, as good as they are, they will never be able to capture the same thing the same way, even if they recorded the same songs a few months later, they wouldn’t have been able to get the magic they got. There’s a few albums that strike me that way. Exile On Main Street, Blonde On Blonde for sure. De La Soul was never like this again. This album was a revelation when it came out. I remember all kinds of people were buying it. I was in Europe when it came out and I was hanging out with a promoter who was putting on some shows I was doing. She had money, I didn’t so I watched her buy records one day in Brussels I think it was, this was one of them. We went back to her friend’s place and she put it on and it knocked me out. This one still holds up.

Electric Wizard - We, The Undead: I have played this band a lot on my own but not very often on the show so it’s time again. This is from the Let Us Prey album, released in 2002. I really like this band and have also been checking out Ramesses, the band ex-members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening formed after leaving Electric Wizard. I these guys fall into the Doom category. I like it. At some point, I want to bring in a track of theirs called I, The Witchfinder off my favorite album of theirs, Dopethrone, and rock that one on our show.

Charles De Goal – Frédéric: From the Etat Général CD. I checked out more of this guy’s music after hearing him on the So Young But So Cold album. I don’t know anything about the guy yet and I just got this album and it’s pretty interesting so far. Next time we listen to him, I’ll a bit more about him and his work.

PJ Harvey - Losing Ground (Peel Session): From PJ Harvey’s Peel Sessions CD. This session was recorded on 09-05-96 and broadcast 09-21-96. As far as I can tell, this song was not put on any of her albums but only as a b-side with That Was My Veil as the A-side from the Dance Hall At Louse Point album. I have never heard the single so I don’t know if it’s an alt. version. It’s been awhile since I’ve played that album. Ms. Harvey has released a lot of singles and I don’t think any of them come out in America so many of them get by me but I will try and catch up on those.

James Brown Escape-Ism Pt. 2: What a way to end the evening. I hope you liked our JB bookends!