Jon Solomon Wed Apr 17 with Jon Solomon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

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Nice. Hello. Levels OK? Jen too loud? Jon too loud?

Sing it!

wooo!

Jon, this song is killer

I hope you type those words 30x times tonight.

THIS SONG TOO!

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Good evening, Rob!

I think TAndy is going to single-handedly get this log-in issue fixed ASAP.

thank goodness radios don't require signing in!

all time hits keep coming!

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this is the kind of song i envision hitting someone as they're driving down the turnpike scrolling radio stations, and instant SMILES. that's why we become members!

Evening Jon and Jen

Ossy! Hello!

howdy!

Man, this breakdown gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Hi Jon and Jen! Company left now it's time to turn it UP🎶🔊

Nice! Welcome back, Richard!

hi, richard!

did we sign your company up as members yet?

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"If you want me to get your coats from the front closet, first I need you to do one thing for me..."

Howdy, Jon and Jen

I hope TAndy can get it fixed

howdy!

and jon, this is last change is the part of the song that slays me....

ha ha. Not yet, Jen :)

they can become members even if they echew listening. ;)

i love that the photo of us above includes not one but TWO Tar posters.

The drummer for TAR actually spends a decent amount of time in Princeton these days.

Must mention that photo on-air next break...

Tommy three times, babe, I'm going awaaaayyyyyy

Logged in from Google! Now where is that pic of kids John and Jen?

At the top of the playlist!

Let me find it on Flickr too...

1970 was a good year. A VERY good year. Or so they say...

babies

Came for the Brand Nubian. STAYED for the Lemonheads deepcuts.

Hopefully this works?

https://flickr.com/photos/deadlytango/2342234746/in/photolist-4yYyMG-4yUj4t-4yUiXa-4tv3pj-4yUijM-qEbjky-5GEExm-mVHfk-qTyKYg-6y4MeV-7UKve7-2pbEzbo-82UCF-2ntwQP8-6SL2mf-2nqw4pK-2kUsVDs-2ojxm7X-2mPN2DM-2kUq2f7-2kUoWHB-2kUoWQk-2kUsVwU-2kUq2ng-2kUuDcb-2kUq2hr-2kUq2mj-2kUoWKa-2kUoWME-2kUoWPD-2kUuDdi-2kUkura-2kUuDja-2kUkuyp-2kUsVF1-2kUq2k7-2kUq2nm-2kUkux2-2kUsVEu-2kUq2pq-2kUoWR2-2kUuDhw-2kUuDjL-2kUq2pR-2kUq2iy-2kUsVAM-2kUsVGJ-M3Cv77-2kUoWSE-2kUHiCP

Polvo, Lungfish and Cake Kitchen posters too...

Next membership drive: Give away the Tar poster in that photo.

Sorry, posters (plural)

I see an open flame, Mr Tater Head and a volcano suns poster too

"That's ... peanut butter!" -A Bunch of Us, Right Now While This Stooges Song Plays Out

ah the potato head! no idea why we had a candle going.

I did not notice the candle in the photo for a few years.

Tar poster for ultra premium giveaway!

Still can't remember which Volcano Suns song I have stuck in my head. "She's a work of art and I'm a piece of work." Anyone?

I asked A MEMBER OF VOLCANO SUNS about this and he couldn't recall but I swear it exists.

for the record, i'm pretty sure i still have that t-shirt. we can give that away in the next premium too.

@jon HAHAH

I def. still have that Wedding Present shirt (in a box).

Outtakes!

https://flickr.com/photos/deadlytango/2341404387/in/photolist-4yYyMG-4yUj4t-4yUiXa-4tv3pj-4yUijM-qEbjky-5GEExm-mVHfk-qTyKYg-6y4MeV-7UKve7-2pbEzbo-82UCF-2ntwQP8-6SL2mf-2nqw4pK-2kUsVDs-2ojxm7X-2mPN2DM-2kUq2f7-2kUoWHB-2kUoWQk-2kUsVwU-2kUq2ng-2kUuDcb-2kUq2hr-2kUq2mj-2kUoWKa-2kUoWME-2kUoWPD-2kUuDdi-2kUkura-2kUuDja-2kUkuyp-2kUsVF1-2kUq2k7-2kUq2nm-2kUkux2-2kUsVEu-2kUq2pq-2kUoWR2-2kUuDhw-2kUuDjL-2kUq2pR-2kUq2iy-2kUsVAM-2kUsVGJ-M3Cv77-2kUoWSE-2kUHiCP/

pretty sure i was enjoying that record more than you

I look so comfortable!

Lync!!

Woooooooooo!

Jam time oh yeah

TANDY IN THE CHAT! I REPEAT: TANDY IN THE CHAT!

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"Oh, every raw material at hand/ Oh, remember all the things you said you'd do?/ That would take us all by surprise/ What happens next, what happens now, what happens next?"

"What I will be when I grow up/ If I grow up, when I grow up"

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>>>FORK IN YOUR EYE, DRIVE YOU INSANE<<<

I feel as though the announcement of my pledge caused this set to focus on my generation of WPRB hits!

The Frogs' cover of "Freebird" (from CB-Gay-B) clocks in at 0:51 and could provide some competition.

Heya Rob

Good work, @Ken Katkin! Good to hear some old favorites.

Angry Samoans and Shellac now we're tawkin 👍

Ken, it was all excellent timing.

Chris! Matt!

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we're all on the same train! let's do this!

CHOO and also CHOO.

why did i not know about this breeders song?

Jen, the most recent Breeders record rules but also the two records prior that most people overlooked are amazing too. I'm so glad I picked up budget CDs of Title TK and Mountain Battles at PREX.

i guess i blew it in not accepting a ticket to see them on that last tour...

BAAAAMMMMMM

Chubb Chubb, choo choo!

CHEFFFFF

This show is so what I would expect from a Jon and Jen endeavor. Cool!

Roffle, that's high praise indeed.

we are having too much fun

Good things are precious.

amen to that!

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Appreciate all the support so far. Seriously wonderful.

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Fly or Die! 🐦‍🔥 🦜 🦚 🐦‍🔥

liz bot!

LizBot!

Always great to hear Jaimie Branch!

Hi Jon & Jen!

The best. I will kick myself eternally for never getting to see her play live.

@Jon Solomon - I know! She was a powerful force!

BAM!

@Jon Solomon - Incredible memorial procession of musicians gathered and played in her memory in nyc.

Hi Chef!

BAM to you LIZ BOT

@Ken Katkin - I'm tempted to play that The Frogs cover of "Freebird" for my bird-themed show part two tomorrow night..I was gonna resist Freebird, but if The Frogs have a version, I might have to reconsider

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Hi TAndy!

Hey Lizbot!!!

Hi Lizbot! An alternate universe version of Freebird might not bad. lol

Hi Roffle! I am willing to take that chance! We'll see. MOST Frogs songs cannot be played on the radio, but I play that first album often!

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@Liz, all the more reason then :)

4 is SO CLOSE TO GOAL!

four more!

@Roffle like nobody's watching - I saw The Frogs at The Khyber in the early 2000s and it bizarrely, despite having barely had anything with alcoholic content, got super dizzy and nearly passed out, which just added to the weirdness of seeing The Frogs. All dizziness and capes.

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Hi Space Lizlady Susanbot

OH YES, JON

HI Ossy!

@Liz, Capable use of amplifiers! Very nice!

And capes

I assume everyone who is not dancing is pledging and everyone who is not pledging is dancing. Prove me wrong!

@Jon Solomon - Or they're otherwise occupied attempting to choreograph their driving maneuvers to this song

Hands at 10 and 2 (then pull over to pledge).

Driving maneuvers in a sea of Red Lights.

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TWO!

Fugazi!

@Jon Solomon - First rule of Driver's Ed! Driver's plEDge!

It was Ian MacKaye's birthday yesterday, I have been told.

Aerosmith greatest hits

I was 12

The death of pop at the top of the show almost brought me to tears. So emotional about this member drive and the station!

Tyler! Men at work cargo may have been my first

the first thing i bought with my own money was uh. soul asylum and the horse they rode in on. with my 1994 xmas money.

that or the Close Encounters sound track.

hear hear! every year is a great year for music especially with WPRB DJs to help guide me!

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Yoooooooooooooo! I've missed some sensational comments here.

Colin, Men at Work was my first rock and roll concert.

my first cd was Ramonesmania in 1990. my second was my friend's copy of Louder Than Bombs by the Smiths, which I never returned

Ha.

Yo Colin! Happy drive!

but I stuck to mostly cassettes and vinyl because they were still cheap

I get mad thinking about records I should have purchased when they were a bargain but snagged tapes instead.

Well, "mad."

I used to record so many songs of wprb, wtsr, and wkdu. I think i was up volume 11 of radio tapes. static included!!

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Just getting on line. You should have gotten my contribution via my donor fund. They said the $103.30 grant was approved.

THATS A BIG BAM!!!!!!!

A student walked into class today wearing a misfits shirt and Doc Martens. She didn't kniwvwhi the band was when I asked (one emo kid in class did). I called her s poser, she smiled and agreed. I then (all before class started) showed her and the other students the Discord House photo, and they asked to hear some, so I played "Minor Threat"(WOW! Threat popped into the auto complete), which not even the emo kudos heard before. Then Waiting Roon, which I'd thought some might gave heard.

My first CD, Neuronium's "Digital Dream", the first reissue of the long out of print LP.

Amazing, Participant. I will keep my eye out. Feel free to write me back-channel to confirm.

OMGosh, my first buy was Dave Mason's Alone Together and the 1st CSN album for way less than 20 dollars. lol

the first record i bought with my own money was not a CD. but I think it was Purple Rain. And I bought Husker Du "Warehouse" in one of those 10 cassettes for a 1 cent things.

@Colin - I records The Anchor by Minutemen from What Makes a Man Start Fires off PRB when I was a teen!

That picture is about as old as I have been a listener.

@mike your class sounds like fun

This is great driving music! (note: i'm not driving)

the first concert i went to was in 1995, matthew sweet opening for soul asylum. it was dave pirner’s 60th birthday yesterday. and i saw matthew sweet play for the seventh or eighth time last night. this has been your completely uncool full circle report

I'll get them to try listening to Jen's show this Friday. More than a handful of these younglings expressed interest.

@maggie hahahah outstanding!

I think my parents had to pay off Columbia House because my tastes changed so seriously after I got those first 10 tapes.

I get mad thinking about thinking about how my brother had this older brother grift wherein we split the cost of albums we both wanted 50/50, and yet he ALWAYS got to keep the CD and I got the taped copy of the CD!

@mike YES!!!! It's going to be a garage rock party on Friday. let's do this.

Fixing the nickname after some Pc issues.

Ha! Hey, Andy.

Thanks Jen, I try to make all my classes fun. I certainly often share my live 9f music.

liz, those staticy tapes ruled. my friends and i would make dubs of each others radio recordings.

Liz Bot, let me officially request that you DO play The Frogs' cover of "Freebird" on a bird-themed show. I'm sure you're already planning to play one of David Thomas's many bird songs!

It is a happenning!

@Jon Solomon - I was just listening to Paul F. Tompkins talking about how his mom had to scream at some hapless Columbia House employee on the phone to get them to cancel that service, and I started thinking, that MUST have been a common experience for Columbia House customer service employees: getting yelled at by parents all day!

How about Lyrd Skyrd's "Fastbird", too?

Jon S: Yes, Ian MacKaye turned 62 yesterday because he was born in '62!

@Ken Katkin - You got it! Working on my playlist for tomorrow night right now! 5-8 pm! I think things can get weird and I can work some Frogs into there!

Hi Andy - ahhh, might get that one in there too!

YOURE KICKIN IT UP A NOTCH 4 SHORE

I'd heard Ian's bday was yesterday too, which is why it was on my mind.

@Colin - Oh I had sooo many taped-off-the-radio mixes, and still viscerally remember that excitement in my gut when a song I was waiting to come on the air began, with my Maxell blank 110 minute tape poised in the deck and my finger at the ready on the record button!

I could give extra credit for students to listen.....

By the way. this show was great.

Thanks Jon & Jen for a great show!

Wowowowowwow. What a night!

that was too much fun.

excellent show, thanks!!

The best!

See you all Friday, if not sooner.

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you guys rule!!

lights out

Thanks Jon and Jen!

Rob, thank YOU!

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OK, a cover I did not ever expect to hear.

Marquee Nutley Moon Brass!! :-D

Andy Wing, me neither

this is a delight

Thank you Kelly for the recurring pledge!

Thank you Jen and Jon!

classic show! BAM

Bye!!

cheers!

5:00 PM		Jennifer O'Connor The Death Of Pop 2007 WPRB Membership Drive
5:05 PM		Set Break
5:08 PM		mclusky To Hell With Good Intentions Mclusky Do Dallas Too Pure 2002
5:10 PM		Bob Destiny Wang Dang Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection Of Music From The Arab World V/A HABIBI Funk Records 2017
5:15 PM		The Eastern Dark Johnny and Dee Dee Julie Is a Junkie / Johnny and Dee Dee Half A Cow Records 1985
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5:24 PM		Upper Wilds Love Song #7 Venus Thrill Jockey 2021
5:26 PM		Brand Nubian All for One One for All Tommy Boy 1990
5:31 PM		The Lemonheads Ever Lick Taang! 1989 Remember when I used to close my show with this one...?
5:34 PM		Set Break
5:41 PM		Drive Like Jehu Super Unison Yank Crime Interscope 1994
5:49 PM		Jaimie Branch Take Over the World Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) International Anthem 2023
5:53 PM		Shellac Spoke The End of Radio Touch and Go 2019
5:55 PM		Set Break
6:05 PM		The Stooges 1970 Funhouse Rhino/Elektra 1970
6:10 PM		Azna de L'Ader Ya Manina Zabaya Sahel Sounds 2016
6:14 PM		Lync Cue Cards These Are Not Fall Colors K 1994
6:18 PM		Set Break
6:25 PM		Mission of Burma Academy Fight Song Signals, Calls and Marches Ace of Hearts 1981
6:28 PM		Vanishing Twin Afternoon X Afternoon X Fire Records 2023
6:32 PM		Angry Samoans Lights Out Back from Samoa Nickel and Dime 1982
6:33 PM		Set Break
6:42 PM		The Breeders Wait in the Car All Nerve 4AD 2018
6:44 PM		Chubb Rock Treat 'Em Right The One Select Records 1991
6:49 PM		Les Thugs As Happy As As Happy as Possible 1993
6:54 PM		Set Break
6:59 PM		Oneida Beat Me to the Punch Success Joyful Noise 2022
7:04 PM		Jane Weaver Oblique Fantasy Oblique Fantasy Speedy Wunderground 2022
7:09 PM		Moving Targets The Other Side Brave Noise & Burning In Water Taang!
7:13 PM		Set Break
7:20 PM		The Embarrassment Two-Week Vacation Heyday 1979-83 Bar/None 1995
7:23 PM		Public Enemy You're Gonna Get Yours Yo! Bum Rush the Show Def Jam 1987 The first CD I ever bought!
7:27 PM		Fugazi Epic Problem The Argument Dischord 2001
7:31 PM		Set Break
7:38 PM		The Grifters Re-Entry Blues Full Blown Possesion Sub Pop 1997
7:42 PM		English Teacher The World's Biggest Paving Slab N This Could Be Texas Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2024
7:45 PM		Tubeway Army My Shadow In Vain Tubeway Army Beggars Banquet 1978
7:48 PM		Set Break
7:54 PM		The Celibate Rifles Sometimes The Turgid Miasma of Existence Rough Trade 1986
7:57 PM		The Nutley Brass Marquee Moon Beat On The Brass Nectar Masters 1996 Television cover.

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