BROADCAST #35
AIR DATE: 08-28-07

Hello Fanatics! Good to be back with you live. I do hope you enjoyed the pre-tape show Engineer X and I put together for you last week. A few things I wanted to tell you about: A couple of years ago, I put out a book called Fanatic!. It was basically the notes from all the broadcasts from 2004 along with a lot of repros of flyers, sheet music and anything else I could find that would make the book coo las possible. Basically, it was grossly oversized fanzine, make that a Fanaticzine. Anyway, we finally got Fanatic! Vol. 2 off to the printer a few weeks ago. It’s an awful thing to behold. It staggers to the table at almost 500 pages and contains all the broadcasts from 2006. For about a year, scoured the globe looking for cool ads and flyers to scan and include and I think I found some good stuff, it’s all in there. I will have it on the road with me on this upcoming tour and we’ll have it on the site at the end of November. I am taking the whole press run with me on the tour and selling them as cheap as I can at the shows. You can always access the same notes by dragging them off the site at any time or course. I am excited about seeing the book, it was a lot of work getting that one out the door. I will post the tour dates on the site so if you feel so inclined, you can come check me out. What else? Oh yeah, there is a hard release date on the Miles Davis On The Corner Sessions box set. It’s 09-18-07. It looks like it’s going to be a great one. There’s a new Buck Gooter album out called Animals and you can get info on it here: http://www.littlegrillcollective.com/bg/. Also, I should tell you now that I will be out for a few weeks after the 09-11-07 broadcast but Engineer X and I have put together some really great broadcasts for you. Wait until you heard the pre-Halloween 10-30-07 one, it’s got to be one of the most inspiring and flat out annoying sets of music I have ever whipped up. There are moments that are just down right cruel! I think you’ll like it. Enough of this twaddle! Let’s get into this music and think about what Alberto is doing tonight. You could ask him tomorrow but I bet he wouldn’t remember. Hello?! Is this thing on?!

If you want to reach me, here’s the address: Henryontheradio@aol.com

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.

Public Enemy – Harder Than You Think: From PE’s brand new album How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?. WHAT A SONG!!! I can’t stop playing this one. This is one of the best PE albums ever. New Whirl Odor was really great but this is a stand out album and this song is one of the coolest things I have heard in I don’t know how long, there is no way we could start our show off tonight any other way.

Dax Riggs – I Forgot I Was Alive: From the brand new We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love album on Fat Possum. You Fanatics probably know that Dax was in Deadboy And The Elephantmen. That band is over with and he’s onto the next thing and damn, is this great. I knew he would follow up brilliantly. You know, sometimes you hear someone and you know right away that they have that thing? Dax has that thing.

Von Südenfed - The Young The Faceless And The Codes: From the Tromatic Reflexxions album. When I got to the Pukkelpop Festival grounds in Belgium the other day, I went to the itinerary to see if Von Südenfed was still playing. I didn’t see their name in the time slot but instead saw Mouse On Mars, which is the band without Fall vocalist Mark E. Smith. I asked what the deal was on that and was told that MES didn’t show up and so the band was going to play anyway. I was really looking forward to seeing them play. It’s an interesting record and I would have liked to have seen them pull it off live.

Bark Bark Bark - New Kids On The Block: From the Haunts album on Retard Disco. We have not listened to anything from this record for awhile. The one man band, Jacob Cooper, hails from Tucson AZ and makes some pretty cool indie music. There’s a lot of “bedroom” recordings out there, people who make their music on their own with minimal gear. Some of it is more pretense and preciousness than talent. That being said, I think Mr. Cooper has something to say and I am glad the good folks at RD were cool and brave enough to put this out. There’s a lot of “product” out there these days and small labels have to really believe in who they get behind and that’s why we should support these labels as much as possible.

The Sound – Skeletons: From the criminally not so easy to locate From The Lion's Mouth album. I think this was their 2nd album, right after Jeopardy and before All Fall Down. It’s dark, Joy Divisionesque stuff. I have played this album a few times now and there are some great moments. So far, it’s the guitars that are really doing it for me. It took me awhile for me to get used to Adrian Borland’s vocals. He’s a great singer but it took me some time to get a feel of where he is coming from. Borland, a long sufferer of depression, finally succumbed and took his life in April of 1999. Here’s the address for a write up on the incident:

. The Sound released a lot of albums, EP’s, etc. and I never heard them mentioned anywhere ever. Of course, a lot gets by me but it’s interesting that I had not heard of them until a few months. I felt a little better when I asked Engineer X if he knew of them and he said no. That doesn’t happen all that often. Here’s a site that has a lot of Sound and Borland info: http://www.brittleheaven.com/index.php?section=10.

Steel Leg - Stratetime And The Wide Man: Another track from the Steel Leg v. The Electric Dread EP. I am really liking this record. I bumped into it several weeks ago, never knew of its existence before. This was a one-off release, the players are Keith Levene and Jah Wobble on the instruments and on the two vocal tracks are Vince Bracken and Don Letts. We already played the track with Don and tonight we checked out one of the two instrumental tracks. The Wobble/Levene combination was so cool. The first two Public Image Ltd. albums are so great because of those two. I have heard some of Wobble’s solo stuff and it’s pretty cool but I have never heard any of Levene’s solo stuff. You can get what little information there is on this release here: http://www.fodderstompf.com/DISCOGRAPHY/SOLO/steel.html

The Ruts - I Ain't Sofisticated: This was a b-side. The very heavyweight Ruts classic, Jah War was the A-side. This is not the best song the band ever did. I think it’s the band blowing off some steam, perhaps the song was targeted to offset the sheer intensity of the A-side. With purposely misspelled title and a chorus of “How now, brown cow?”, one can’t take the song too seriously. Having met all the remaining members, it was easy to see there was a lot of humor amongst the guys. You can find this on the singles CD and their album The Crack.

Shock Headed Peters (w/Sam Ireland) - Conditional Discharge: From the Fear Engine II album. Sam gave me this in 1998. I remember at one point Lydia Lunch mentioning the band to me, she’s on this album as well. I don’t know anything about the band. Sam guests on two songs on this album and I saw pictures of her and the band online from 2002.

Excepter - Shoot Me First: From the Self Destruction CD. I got this the other day at the record store and really like it. I got turned onto Excepter by Engineer X who knows a lot of music I never will and thankfully he takes pity on me and lends me records all the time. I just borrowed some CDRs of a bunch of free streams the band puts up on their site. I have played some, there are a lot of them and have not gotten through a fraction of what I copied off Engineer X.

The Falcons - Juke Hop: From the You're So Fine CD. This is one of a few different comp. CDs I have of this band. This track was recorded 01-14-59 and never released at the time. They were a 50’s band and released a lot of singles and were on many labels. They had line up changes, kept at it, like a lot of the vocal groups of the day. A lot of these bands were always looking for the big single and lived song to song. If you go to this info site, you can find out quite a bit of info on the band: http://home.att.net/~uncamarvy/Falcons/falcons.html. I got some of their albums years ago because they looked interesting and I had one of their songs, You’re So Fine, on a couple of compilations and liked it.

Fanfare Ciocarlia – Hurichestra: Another visit to the Iag Bari album. This is how they roll in Romania. I think it was at some point last year, a Fanatic wrote me after playing a track from the Ivo Papasov album Orpheus Rising, I believe it was and told me if I liked that album, I should check out this one. The next day, I was at the record store and I found a copy of it and got it. I don’t know much about this music or music from the region but from what I’ve read, the band borrows from everywhere and throws it all in the pot. I would love to see this band play live, I bet they shred. The speed that they play at and the complexity of the music is nuts. I just got their new album Queens And Kings and when I get a chance to listen to it, I’ll bring in some to check out. You can go online and check out bits of their music, it’s incredible stuff.

Babs Gonzales - Weird Lullaby: From the Babs Gonzales 1947-1949 on Jazz Classics. You can also find this one on the Weird Lullaby CD as well. I don’t think either one is in print any more but you can find them if you try. We have played Mr. Gonzales a few times on our show. I’ve never been able to find much information on the man. He enjoyed moderate success but was quite a character and recorded occasionally through the 40’s to the 60’s. He was one of the professors of Bop Speak along with people like Slim Gaillard. He co-wrote Oop-Pop-A-Da with Dizzy Gillespie and that might be as close to fame as he got. I get the idea he was at least as much hustler as anything else.

DEVO - Space Girl Blues: From the Hardcore DEVO Volume 1 CD. We have played tracks from this CD before. I had a lot of the tracks on this CD on bootlegs and tapes I found over the years. The Hardcore series documents the band’s pre-Warner days and it’s some amazing stuff. Why the CDs are out of print, I don’t know but it’s a damn shame. The Hardcore CDs are DEVO at their most regressive and devoluted. Seek them out if you can. They are expensive on e-Bay but perhaps you can find a copy to borrow and burn. What a band!

Jim Healy – 1993 Excerpt: Back in the SST days, we used to listen to Jim Healy’s show on KLAC I think it was. He did a sports show with lots of corny sound bytes that he rarely changed. That was part of the whole thing, year after year, the same shtick, it was great. I started taping him now and then in the 1980’s all the way up until his passing in 1994. I thought it was a good idea. I ended up with about 20 hours of the man and I am still listening to these tapes. I think towards the end of his career, he ended up at KMPC until he finished his career. I remember when he died. I was on the road and someone at my office saved his obituary for me. The photo in the obit. was the first time I ever saw what he looked like. I love this old school radio. I always imagined him in a small studio with an engineer frantically shoving 8-track carts into players to trigger the samples he used so frequently. You can go online and find a few sites dedicated to the great Jim Healy. He had some great personalities doing his drops. You can hear Howard Cosell, Tim Conway and some really great Tommy Lasorda moments as well. I don’t know too much about sports but I always checked out Healy when I could. I think when he died, he kinda took that kind of radio with him. It’s an older head he was in. “Who goofed? I’ve got to know!”

Alice In Chains - Brush Away: From the Alice In Chains album, you know, the one with the three-legged dog on the cover. This was the band’s last real album. I have played this one many times and it is a good album but seems strained and at times, somewhat dialed in. I was told the band were not on the best terms with each other at the time and I don’t think they did any extensive touring behind the album. Of that whole Seattle scene, there were of course, many great bands and of all of them, this was my favorite on record. I never saw Alice In Chains live but have a lot of bootlegs and must have been a great night out when they played. I saw a lot of those bands at the time and the best one live to me at least was Soundgarden. I like all the Alice records but play Dirt and Jar Of Flies the most.

Gennadi Tumat – Sygyt: More throat singing from Tuva. From the Alys Churtum Ovu¨r Charyy CD. I have a few CDs of this music. I’ve never heard anything like this stuff. Of all the groups I have heard so far, Huun Huur Tu is still my favorite.

The Damned – Neat Neat Neat: From the Damned Damned Damned album. This is one of the most played Damned songs so why are we listening to it? That bass line intro put the hook in me many years ago and I just wanted to have it on the show. I think if I wax any more about this band, you all will protest. I never get tired of this album. Thank you for enduring me.

Captain Beefheart - The Buggy Boogie Woogie: From the Lick My Decals Off, Baby album. I never had this album on vinyl. I got a copy when it came out on CD in America many years ago. It seemed to go out of print almost immediately. I don’t know why. This was Beefheart’s follow up to the very lauded Trout Mask Replica album. Trout Mask was the first Beefheart album I connected with and then got into the later albums because they were available and cheap and then from there I went to albums like Spotlight Kid, Clear Spot and others. I missed out on a lot of music ed. in the 80’s due to be being all the time. I used to camp out at Deirdre O’Donoghue’s apartment and tape a lot of her albums so I could take them on tour. In fact, I associate Beefheart with her as I taped a lot of Beefheart from her. She was a DJ on KCRW FM and our show is nothing but an enthusiastic but spotty attempt to do what she did with radio. She was one of the best radio people ever. She passed away in 2001 and it still gets to me.

Casual Dots - Evil Operations Classified: From the band’s one an only release, Casual Dots. I was lucky enough to see the band play in LA at The Smell a few years ago. I was hoping for another album but I don’t know if that’s going to happen. I think the only person in the band I know is Kathi, the bass player. You are probably familiar with an earlier band of hers, Bikini Kill. They were a great band too.

Preachers - Who Do You Love: From the Trash Box CD set. Many years ago, I was at the Tower Records at Piccadilly and saw this 5 CD set. The Trash Box set has many of the tracks you can find on the Pebbles volumes. I don’t know much about Garage Rock so I figured I better check it out. I played it a lot on the tour I was on and really liked it. When I got back to America, I gave it to Ian figuring he would like it. He had the some of the Pebbles albums when we were growing up so I figured he would dig it. I got another copy when I got back to London much later. There’s a lot of great bands on this set. I don’t know much about this kind of music and all I have are some collections like the Nuggets sets, which are really great. I also have a few volumes of the Back From The Grave series that are really cool too. Some of the music on these collections I have found to be mediocre but for the most part it’s good, raw music. The most inspiring aspect of this kind of music is the irreverence to the other musics that were around at that time. I have always been impressed with people who do their own thing in the midst of conformity. Also, as you know this is a Bo Diddley song but it sounds like he wrote it for them. If you can’t find this collection, I bet this song is on one of the Pebbles sets. Let’s see, oh look. It’s on Vol. 1. I found The Preachers site, http://www.therealpreachers.com/. It’s incredible! Wait, oh, no, it’s not.

Family Fodder – Warm: From the Savoir Faire: The Best Of Family Fodder CD. This band is going to make me have to work. A good chunk of the band’s material only exists on vinyl so to bring in some other stuff of theirs that might be unfamiliar to you, I will have to do some LP to CD’ing when I get a chance. I have been doing this for almost a decade now. It’s slow moving work but always worth it to have ready access to tracks.

Young Marble Giants - Radio Silents: from the Singles And Salad Days disc of the new 3CD version of the band’s Colossal Youth album that includes home recordings, BBC sessions and singles. This is great, smart Post Punk stuff. If you remember when we listened to the Jah Scouse single weeks ago, that was Stuart and Philip Moxham from the YMGs. This is a really great release to check out. I will bring in tracks from this one more often. http://www.youngmarblegiants.com/

Ween - Licking The Palm For Guava: From the God Ween Satan – Anniversary Edition CD. We don’t play enough Ween on our show, do we? It’s not that I have anything against the band. Quite the opposite is true, actually. I was lucky enough to see the band very early on by living in New Jersey on and off in the 80’s and 90’s. They were friends of the band and we used to do shows together and see them play fairly often. Such a great band. I saw them a few years ago and they were smokin. It would be great to play a track from the Ween split off project Moist Boyz but vocalist Dickie Moist cusses up a storm. I have all their albums and there’s not a dud in the bunch. I have not studied up on the new one as I just got it but I will take it on tour with me and get some listens in.