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Jon Solomon

Mar 13, 2024 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Jon Solomon

For those of you keeping score at home, it is me Jon Solomon, heard every Wednesday night on 103.3 fm WPRB...including this one! Requests? Please email me or chime in through the listener chat, champ.

3.13.24

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:04 PM		Set Break
5:08 PM		The Proletariat Decorations Soma Holiday Radiobeat 1983
5:11 PM		CAN Paris 73 Eins N LIVE IN PARIS 1973 Mute 2024 One of Damo Suzuki's final shows with the band. Best in this series so far.
5:47 PM		Advance Base Summon Satan Nephew in the Wild Orindal 2015 Live on this show in two weeks, alongside Young Moon!
5:50 PM		La Sécurité Serpent (Standard Emmanuel Remix) N Stay Safe! REMIXED 2024
5:57 PM		Lorelei Caterwaul Asleep Slumberland 1993 A member of this band is now CEO of Amtrak!
6:02 PM		Jemeel Moondoc Trio Campbell's Soup N Tri-p-let Eremite 2024 First recording since 1985!
6:13 PM		The Martha's Vineyard Ferries Look Up Mass. Grave Kiam 2013
6:15 PM		Set Break
6:23 PM		Eyelids Faith Healer N No Jigsaw Jealous Butcher Records 2024 Big Dipper cover.
6:26 PM		Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah Chama'a Habibi Funk 011: Al Hadaoui Habibi Funk 2019
6:32 PM		ErnstErnst Persecution Plan Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 V/A Lost Sounds Montana 2022 RIP John Kappes.
6:37 PM		The George Otsuka Quintet Miles Mode Loving You George WeWantSounds 2021 Recorded live on the 19th of July, 1975.
6:46 PM		Florry When I Kicked You Out of the Band (I Wasn't Kicking You Out of My Life) Sweet Guitar Solos EP Dear Life Records 2022
6:51 PM		KRS-One Introducing The B.D.P. Album (Special Edition) 2012
6:54 PM		mclusky She Will Only Bring You Happiness The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire Too Pure 2004
6:58 PM		Set Break
7:05 PM		Eric Carbonara 42:48 Live on WPRB https://ericcarbonara.bandcamp.com
7:48 PM		Set Break
7:52 PM		Variety Plover N Plover 2024 Rhys and Zach from Borzoi. https://varietyband.bandcamp.com/track/plover
7:54 PM		Junior Y Su Equipo Alégrate Saturno 2000: La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962 - 1983 V/A Analog Africa 2022
7:57 PM		The Brown Christmas A Stampede Indeed Do They Serve Pizza In Heaven https://thebrownchristmas.bandcamp.com/album/do-th...

Chat is archived.

Almost there...almost there...

here, there, and everywhere?

Phew!

Ohey

Hey hey!

oHIo

Ahoy

Winsdee innit

✊

Great to have you all here in the chat tonight.

DECORATIONS

Nice smash rock!

Got yer Tempeh and Carrot sammies right here!

Commie, apparently Martha's Vineyard Ferries are going to record covers of that song + a Strike Under tune.

GW, save me one!

Tonight's header image taken walking from my car to The Palestra in the rain.

Thumbs up emoji.

Someone left there 80's on the sidewalk. :)

By the way, the sound quality / performance quality of this latest CAN live document is roughly 3,452x better than some of the others in this series.

Hey Jon, good evening everyone. The low end on this live Can is coming across very nicely. are you playing from digi or vinyl?

This is digital. I only have one of these on 3xLP.

Also, hey DSM!

Howdy! Hmm, 3xLP... not a huge fan of "breaking up a jam" to flip the record. Digi it be.

I don't know if this one is on vinyl but it would have to be split for sure. Do know there's a 2xCD option...

Anyone else hit up mclusky on this tour? I had never seen them before, I don't believe.

Good afternoon and evening, Jon. Thanks for playing Damo-era Can!

Chris! Thank YOU for repping WPRB in the wild. I did the same at the same location last week (and will do so again on Friday afternoon).

This recording is one of the last Damo-era Can shows!

Speaking of which, free Mary Timony show at noon on Friday at The Place That Has Free Friday Shows.

Was very happy to do so, Jon! Yes, I saw you liked my 'Gram post right after it went up.

Because I was wearing my WPRB merch, I met the son of Evie Ward. She was a WPRB DJ when I was in high school, who went on to a couple of decades-long career in radio.

Amazing.

This is nothing if not a jam.

Definitely checks all the boxes.

Certified JAM

TaKe ThAt GrAtEfUl DeAd lol

You can say that again, @DSM.

Am I missing something? MaryTimony.com is curious .

Will talk about it next break but Advance Base (playing now) and Young Moon will BOTH be live in-studio on my March 27th show.

GW, that's clearly a domain someone should have snagged (or let lapse). Whoops!

DSM I had same thought LOL

It’s the old Nude Party snafu!

Btw, that Advance Base song was used to excellent effect in great VICE show Abandoned 🛹

I love this remix, yet at times it sounds sort of like Lapti Nek.

Matt, I have a (hopefully good) story about that song to share.

That damn song makes me cry. Damn you Jon Solomon.

Advance Base does that to the best of us!

(Unless you meant Lapti Nek.)

Lol -- Advance Base

Lapti Nek BIG WEEPER REMIX

Amtrak music!!

Even starts with the sounds of a train!

Nothin like the Amtrak Empire Builder across the nort. 🛤️

I really enjoyed being able to tell my dad "a guy from a band that played in your living room is now CEO of Amtrak."

Take that Papa Sol

He was delighted.

Anyone ever had their partner say "go to my laptop and < task >" only for you to discover that nothing is "where it SHOULD be?"

All the time, Randy. The ongoing "hidden dock" debate in my household.

And "that's NOT where that belongs" right?

I feel ya.

My MILs father (my Grandfather-in-law?) worked for Pennsylvania RR, so she says

We have PA RR stuff in her "trinkets box"

hey, I was at the mclusky / mv ferries show in philly too!

Hi Jon and chat! Great first hour! Can't wait for that live show on the 27th!

Gormless MENTIONED

Andrew, I hope you had a good time. I had to leave midway through mclusky but I did get to hear my favorite song of theirs which was a legit thrill.

Thanks, Richard!

Big Dipper cover!

somehow i hadn't known of the Ferries before the show and was pleasantly surprised to see Brokaw and Weston get up on stage. twas definitely a great show!

Chris, a pretty good / faithful one at that!

The last two times I've been to Underground Arts, Chris Brokaw has been on stage.

I was at a basketball game elsewhere in Philadelphia and brought a friend straight from the game to the show. I don't think he'd been to see live music like that before so I decided I wouldn't push it. Certainly was a sport about it all!

More ecstatic funkkkkkkkkkk

Oh, to have been at one of this band's 12 hour shows.

This Without Warning is such a good release:)

Monpunky

John Kappes, the singer on this track, passed away last week. There's a whole live ErnstErnst tape on Bandcamp I have since discovered.

According to Stewart Copeland, in his interview w/Rick Beato, if you used a CASIO, it counted as AI back then LOL

Really dark tune, but also unfortunately timely.

https://lostsoundsmontana.bandcamp.com/album/ernsternst-last-live-1983

RIP. Thanks, Jon!

Great guy, according to friends who knew him.

Today is the birthday of Adam Clayton (U2), Greg Norton (Husker Du) and Al Jaffee (MAD Magazine)

That would be one weird-sounding band, Randy.

Great album covers, though

Very true.

"Snappy Answers to Bono's Stupid Lyrics"

I laughed.

👍

Born in 1921, Al Jaffe RETIRED in 2020

I was driving my daughter and a friend home several years ago and the friend was playing a game on an app that was sort of like the old board game Life. She was into her 100s but could not quit her job because of how she had handled her finances. It was bleak!

Bills kept piling up.

In the original version of LIFE, there was a suicide card

Now THAT is bleak!

FLORRY

Weirdly, I saw an Instagram reel using this song shortly before I played it (was already slotted and everything).

Great minds...

K R S - O N E 🔊💥

For a fourth decade KRS-One record, this is absurdly good.

My 20 yr old and I gave each other a look and both exclaimed FLORRY. Was our summer traveling tunes

Dude always has at least one ABSOLUTE BANGER on each of his 300 albums.

That's awesome, Jimbooooooooooooo.

Ahh I have mclusky "the world is our bitch" on the docket for tomorrow

Nice. Krista, I have a compliment for you!

There was a radio show my wife and daughter caught recently that caused them to text me "I'm not sure this DJ understands what freeform radio is."

Then, one Thursday in our family group chat I got another message that said "Krista, on the other hand completely understands what freeform radio is!"

Your iditarod material was especially memorable.

this could potentially turn into some really heavy shit

waiting for the drums to drop

Would love a WPRB tshirt that incorporated "Do you even freeform?" on it

Ha.

@DSM you need a "Bro?" on that

LOL Randy, I considered adding that!

This Eric Carbonara is quite nice

Agreed.

Just jumping on to say tonight was excellent music to go grocery shopping to.

Hopefully you didn't, I don't know, fist pump anyone in the produce aisle by mistake.

They liked it

Good. Take that, plantains!

I am sorry to miss you all next week. Dan from Tomorrow is an Octopus fills in while I Spring Break it up.

Enjoy Cancun Jon!

I had to drive to and from Newark Airport yesterday and thank goodness for Captain Ahab's fill-in show. Especially made getting back a breeze!

DSM, I'm gonna get so many beads!

at the end of ones life, it's the accumulated beads that count

Have a great week away, Jon! And thanks for this Eric Carbonara

Much appreciated, Rob. Lots on tap throughout the Delaware Valley.

And then it was 2025!

Thanks for the show!

Richard, as always thank YOU!

Did someone say plover?!

INCOMING HOG!!

Yes. Plover is the song on now!

I get lost in that grin when they’re flocking / All the plovers are stressed cuz its stalking

Thanks Jon, always a very good time. Night everyone!

I hope I see one soon!! https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-bellied_Plover/overview

Thanks, Jon!!

You and me both, Rob.

Thank ya, TAndy.

Thanks for the plover, and the cumbia, and the Carbonara!

This slowed down cumbia comp is really interesting. I didn't know anything about Sondineros until earlier today!

Great stuff Jon! Check out if not already: AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. by Abdallah Oumbadougou. Great African desert guitar

Will do, Brian! I think I got an email about them recently...

Bye!