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DoublePlusGood

Jan 15, 2026 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission

TRAMWAYS

QUADRUPLEPLUSGOOD edition of ::DOUBLEPLUSGOOD:: with Lizbot!

Filling in for Cynthia from 3-5 & then on to my regularly-scheduled show from 5-8 pm!
Dig in to a big ‘ol heaping helping of DoublePlusGoodness!

3:12 PM		Sufjan Stevens Impossible Soul (feat. My Brightest Diamond) Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz Asthmatic Kitty 2010
3:38 PM		Alec Holowka Back to the Holler Alec Holowka Night in the Woods (Original Soundtrack, Vol. 1) [At the End of Everything] Alec Holowka 2017
3:41 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:41 PM		Eno • Hyde Return Brian Eno / Karl Hyde High Life Warp Records 2014 Collab between Eno & Karl Hyde, the electronic musician and vocalist for Underworld.
3:50 PM		William Onyeabor Anything You Sow William Onyeabor Anything You Sow Luaka Bop 1984 Nigerian funk singer and songwriter who studied cinematography in Russia (then USSR) for many years, returning to Nigeria in the mid-1970's to start his own music studio, label and film studio, Wilfilms Records
3:58 PM		Terry Riley A Rainbow in the Curved Air A Rainbow in the Curved Air CBS Records 1969
4:17 PM		Horse Lords Macaw Hidden Cities RVNG Intl. 2014
4:28 PM		Zombi Surface To Air Surface to Air Relapse Records 2006 Claudio Simonetti's Goblin-influenced heavy darkwave synth
4:34 PM		King Crimson The Court of the Crimson King (Including "The Return of the Fire Witch" and "The Dance of the Puppets") In the Court of the Crimson King Island 1969
4:44 PM		David Bowie Blackstar David Bowie Blackstar Columbia 2015 R.I.P. David Bowie, 10 years +5 days ago today!
4:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:59 PM		Kristen Roos Music Mouse II Kristen Roos Universal Synthesizer Interface Vol II We Are Busy Bodies 2023
5:02 PM		Yellow Magic Orchestra 1000 Knives Ryuichi Sakamoto BGM Alfa 1981
5:07 PM		Phylliss Bailey Dance, Dance N Phylliss Numero Group 2025
5:11 PM		Кофе Баланс (KGBK Edit) Баланс+ Maschina Records 2020
5:17 PM		David Bowie Beauty and the Beast "Heroes" RCA 1977 twelfth studio album. Part of the "Berlin Trilogy"
5:21 PM		Hélène Barbier La peur Hélène Barbier Regulus Celluloid Lunch 2021
5:24 PM		mitamu Old Young Boy Tammy Huynh Sunflower In The East 2021 PHILLY!
5:28 PM		The Prids You As the Colorant Love Zero This-a-Way Records 2003 Debut album from this long-running Portland band
5:32 PM		Artificial Go Hallelujah Musical Chairs Feel It Records 2025
5:34 PM		Garden of Love Silly Rules Love Is Coming Ever/Never 2025
5:37 PM		Mush Blunt Instruments Lines Redacted Memphis Industries 2021
5:40 PM		Television Friction Tom Verlaine Marquee Moon Elektra Records 1977 debut; The late Tom Verlaine's extensive archive of handwritten notebooks, unpublished poetry, and rare recordings of the Neon Boys and Television have been officially acquired by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts for research and public use!
5:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:53 PM		Dino DiMuro Elmwood's Irish Trip (feat. John Serrano) Elmwood's Irish Trip (feat. John Serrano) - Single DiMurotapes 2024
5:57 PM		Dislocation Dance You Can't Beat History Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective) V/A MMC Records 1980
6:00 PM		The Fall Fit and Working Again Slates Rough Trade Records 1980
6:02 PM		Sparks Change Music That You Can Dance To MCA 1986
6:08 PM		Ennio Morricone We'll Be Back, Isn't That Fate? Ennio Morricone Ci Risiamo, Vero Provvidenza? (Here We Go Again, Eh Providence? ) soundtrack 1972
6:10 PM		Officer! Air Mick Hobbs Ossification Ayaa 1984
6:13 PM		Dirty Projectors When the World Comes to an End David Longstreth Mount Wittenberg Orca Domino Recording Co 2010
6:16 PM		Jean-Jacques Perrey Moog Indigo Jean-Jacques Perrey / Andy Badale Moog Indigo Vanguard Records 1969 9th studio album
6:16 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:20 PM		King Missile When She Closed Her Eyes John S. Hall They Shimmy Disc 1990
6:23 PM		Manchester Mekon No Forgetting Have A Go Go Cherry Red Records
6:25 PM		The Modern Lovers Dignified and Old A&M sessions 1972
6:28 PM		Dan Deacon Learning to Relax Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer Domino Recording Co 2015
6:35 PM		Giggle the Ozone Forget Who? Dylan Sparrow The Error of Good Feeling 2021
6:37 PM		Už jsme doma Cajdák Hollywood Indies Scope 1996
6:42 PM		Moğollar Çığrık Çığrık / Sıla Yavuz Plak 1972 Anatolian rock
6:43 PM		Les Rita Mitsouko Hip Kit Marc & Robert Because Music 1988
6:48 PM		TTC Travailler 3615 TTC 2006
6:51 PM		Ruins Equesspaldho Tatsuya Yoshida Ruins Alone Skin Graft 2011
6:54 PM		Zeehas; 12 Wait The Human Factory To the Maxxxxxxx
7:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:08 PM		The Gap Band You Dropped the Bomb On Me Lonnie Simmons / Rudy Taylor / Charlie Wilson Gap Band IV Total Experience 1982 6th studio album; prominently features a synthesizer that imitates the whistling sound of an aerial bomb being dropped
7:13 PM		Esther Phillips Boy, I Really Tied One On Capricorn Princess KING RECORDS 1977
7:17 PM		Heaven 17 We Live So Fast The Luxury Gap Virgin 1983
7:20 PM		The Who Sister Disco Pete Townshend Who Are You MCA 1978
7:24 PM		Flowers Sister Icehouse Chrysalis 1981
7:29 PM		Family Fodder Savoir Faire Monkey Banana Kitchen Fresh! 1980
7:33 PM		Water From Your Eyes Born 4 N It's Beautiful - EP Matador 2025
7:36 PM		Magic Fig Flammarion N Valerian Tea Exploding In Sound Records 2025
7:41 PM		Wombo Danger In Fives N Danger In Fives Fire Talk 2025
7:45 PM		quickly, quickly Enything I Heard That Noise Ghostly International 2025
7:50 PM		Treat Her Right No Reason Mark Sandman Tied to the Tracks
7:53 PM		Will Lawrence Unbound Will Lawrence N Rooftops in the Centerfold Triangle House/Sophomore Lounge 2025
7:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- I am doing his AGAIN next week! BUT it will be SIX hours and it will be after my usual show instead of before! So January 22nd: Quadrupleplusgood Part II 5-11 PM!
8:00 PM		Pilocka Krach Hey Party People (feat. noun) [Instrumental] FAUST III AKT I (Instrumentals) - Single Greatest Hits International 2025

Chat is archived.

It's time for an extra heaping helping of Doubleplusgood with Lizbot! Quadrupleplusgood edition of the show today! 3-8 PM!

And here we are! YAY 5 hours of LizBot!

Yezzzz!

oh no!

doom funk

Double down in progress. :)

ACK!

Every time I hear that station ID, I know it intimately. Woody and Steina Vesulka.

Stand by!

Playin' the hits right out of the box. lol

FM and stream doomin'

What a pleasure to welcome you. I have been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

back

That's not my music. Just something Mike threw on. No connection on this end yet

The system buckled under the doubleplus requirements.

Hi Richard Mitnick!

Hi Roffle 0x7EA!

okay, gotcha. I'mmma hang in of course

Hi Ears! Hi Lester!

Hey Roff!

Heya!

Mayhem music. I like it.

Ready for a whole lotta Lizbot!

Readie- what is your opening track. ? Its from an iconic record, just cant remember

Hi Bud! Thanks!

haha, not me either, but should be switching over soon!

got called away...Lester hi

your techie problems are completely solved!!!!

Quadruple plus good!!

Hi Zach!

PHEW!

What is that intro from?

Sorry if this gets asked a LOT

SUFJAN!

Can’t get much gooder than this

Hello Scurrow Squirrel! No worries! It's an old TV show! I'll find the name in a minute!

@Zach - Glad you're digging it

Apparently if you live in Canada, you can buy Weed, over the internet. Incredidbly potent weed. Does anyone have a friend in Canada? Who can order me some great weed? We will meet at Niagra Falls. I will be in a barrel going over that falls. weed pipe in hand.

@Lester Wiggs - Yr order could be sent over the falls in a barrel. Adds new meaning to dank bud

Northampton Massachusetts is closer. go to Embr. Worth the drive.

BC Bud is next level. :)

@Zach / @Roffle 0x7EA / @Lester - But Sufjan/My Brightest Diamond is imploring you "don't be distracted"!

I am high as a kite trying to get a wire A 15- or 16-year-old American boy named Homan Walsh (from the New York side) won the contest. He crossed to the Canadian side (via ferry upstream, then walking to the site) to take advantage of better wind direction. He launched his kite, named the "Union," and after some initial failures—including one attempt where the line snapped on rocks and ice—he succeeded on his second major try after waiting out weather and river ice issues over several days. His

Hi Host, all others, part of why I love Thursdays.

Hi dan Cochrane! Happy to help!

Don't be short on a Tuesday, Dan.

A round tin of Danish (imitation flavor) butter cookies in various shapes, including pretzel, helps.

Hello everyone

Hi Dan & Rob!

I wondered why the tin lid was tape sealed, it’s loose otherwise. Bummer

Hi Readie!

@Rob- happy 1st day of Winter Climate Watch!

Gangs of ny all here

Greetings, Rob from Maryland 🦀!

@Readie, are you referring to the super f***ing cold weather we are about to have?

Hi Zach, Ears & Richard too!

@Zach - Drove to Northampton in summer of 2022 - First road trip post-2020. Had a nice Western Mass sojourn!

& Bud..Lester, et alia!

Hello Lizbot!

I'm looking at my Audubon claendar, and it's the first day where people are tracking birds to understand how their migrations are affected by climate change!

*calendar*

@Lester Wiggs - Treacherous!

Hey Rob- Took Dog to the park y'day. Beaver wes very ...Busy. a lot of small trees down.

@dan Cochrane - Oh I have such a visceral intense taste memory of those blue tin Danish cookies! My mom and Grandmom always used to buy those and put them out for parties. The pretzel one was the best!

Yes! They’re almost disgusting eating contest good.

@Readie /@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Good luck to the migratory birds! I will have to check out Winter Climate Watch!

Also, marked down this time of year.

@Readie, ah, I wasn't aware of that. I am sure the upcoming cold spell will make things interesting.

Valley Creek, a little bit above the famous Valley Forge location. Have not found where he/she is building.

@dan Cochrane - haha, those little paper wrapper they sit in, and the sound they make, making it hard to sneak one! Might have to buy one of those for old time's sake!

@Lester, ya gotta watch those beavers!

@Rob, Lizbot - here's the Climate Watch info: https://www.audubon.org/community-science/climate-watch

@Readie - At first, before I read the Audubon Society explanation, I thought "Winter Climate Watch" was referring to a grassroots listener-to-DJ report on winter weather/road conditions for getting to and from the studio! I welcome that as well!

I picked up a book from Cornell U., device in book plays 200 (!) bird calls from around the world. For when I sub HS Science.

@Readie, thanks for that info! I'm not sure how much time I might have for a project like that :-(

@dan Cochrane - Whoa! Gift ideas for future Christmases! I think I need to play those calls in my yard and see what happens

@LizBot - that sounds FAB! Hive Minds!!

@dan, that sounds like a good book! Happy HS Science teaching!

@Rob - yes, I know- it looks very involved!

@Dan - hurray for teachers! good work!!

I am not a climate 'denier' I just think that this will be weaponized against working people. I have watched finance for some time. Silver is trading at $91. What was that great 60's song? Something going on here, were not sure what it is.

@Lizbot 3:33 PM, that is more or less what I was thinking too

@Lester Wiggs - Cool! I walk my dog in the Wissahickon Woods in Philly. I've seen signs of beavers, but never seen them in action. They're so impressive, though their bright orange teeth as a little freaky

I tried that, after a couple hours I sighted the rare ticked-off warbler (neighbor), juvenile.

lol, dan!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Re: DJ climate watch: I am sometimes caught off guard, though most weeks in winter I'm closing watching the Thursday forecasts!

LW, same in upstate NY, evidence, no sightings. Nocturnal gnawing

Never too much Eno

@dan Cochrane - Very true!

Great album cover art too

Listening to WRTI y'day. Great mourning DJ. So Glass riffed off of the Berlin Trio, David Bowie. WRTI is cool,

Have you seen video of Eno directing choir of shoppers, etc. in the middle of a shopping mall? Unless I dreamt that

@dan Cochrane - Yes! I first heard this album on a road-trip and very much enjoyed driving to it!

Hi Lizbot, just tuned in at the break a minute ago. Audio has me hearing you're not at the Barge. Hope all is well!

@Dan. Speaking of Eno.

Sandy the squirrel (from TX) hibernates in Sponge Bob, but they don’t really, right?

@Lester Wiggs - Even though overall I prefer Heroes and Low, I like Adrian Belew's playing on Lodger, speaking of the Berlin Trio. When I was in Berlin in the summer of 2024, I got excited when I saw Potsdamer Platz thanks to Bowie's lyrics!

Hi John Coffey!

@John Coffey - The Barge is getting a new heater at the moment! I'm well!

@dan Cochrane - haha, no! I need to seek out this Eno video! Unless it was all just a dream, in which case, pretty sweet dream!

So cool! I was in East and West Berlin, Summer of ‘71 with chamber singing group. Went through checkpoint Charlie. Thrilling day there!

@Lester Wiggs - I adore Always Crashing in the Same Car from Low, though

Everything Brian touches, every group, etc., golden (hours)

Onyeabor!!

Wow Dan. I have never traveled to Berlin.

Aren’t RCA vinyl records generally inferior, some seem to be. But Island, DGM excellent.

@dan Cochrane - Cool! I saw a great lesser-known movie from a Berlin filmmaker from around that time. It had great black & white footage from all over Berlin. It was by director/photographer Helke Sander and is called "All Around Reduced Personality". In it, Helke and her real-life all-woman photographer collective photograph Berlin and submit photos to a citywide contest that ends up accepting, but paying them half the prize money they offered the male collective.

I know the Eno when I hear it.

I put the Czeck in the mail? You never got it?

@dan Cochrane - The film's cinematography is gorgeous. Also has interesting commentary on pooling domestic resources for childcare etc for working woman artists. Loved it! The old TLA in Philly had it many years ago. Don't know where you can find it now

@DJ Readie - Love me some Onyearbor! Needed a mid-winter Onyeabor injection pick-me-up!

Interesting concept! I’ll try to track that down. In ‘71 there were still plenty of bombed out WWII buildings in East Berlin.

It's a semi-autobiographical, feminist experimental feature film that blends documentary and fiction elements. Sander herself stars as the protagonist, Edda Chiemnyjewski, a single mother and freelance press photographer living in 1970s West Berlin.

Daisies! Masterpiece Check film, on YouTube. Two adorable kooky chicks

The story follows Edda's struggles to balance her professional life, artistic ambitions (she collaborates with other women photographers on a project documenting the city and the Berlin Wall), her responsibilities as a mother, her personal relationships, and the broader political and social constraints on women. The title ironically reflects the constant "reduction" of women's personalities and capacities under patriarchal and capitalist pressures—trying to juggle everything leaves little room f

@dan Cochrane - oh yeah, I'll bet it was something else to see that in person! You see a lot of evidence of those bombed out buildings in the film. Somewhere I have an old clamshell VHS of that movie, I think Janus Films put it out, but nothing to play it on! I have to see if Criterion ever picked it up for DVD/Blu-Ray release or on their streamer, but last I checked a few years ago, they had not. More people need to see it, it's a great movie!

@dan Cochrane - I love "Daisies"! I have a DVD of that! Saw it at a Secret Cinema screening on the big screen at I-House hosted by Jay Schwartz about 15 years ago. So good!

Just watched Janus film, The Card with Alec Guinness. Wonderful! Almost a proto Forrest Gump if you can believe it.

I have to get Daisies Blu Ray. Never gets old.

@Lizbot! I hear you! perfect!

Playtime and Daisies would be wonderful double feature. Tati.

@dan Cochrane - The scene in Daisies where they dance around on the top of that huge feast was so great! So much good Czech New Wave and Czech maximalist animation/stop-motion film too! Their filmmakers receive a lot of arts funding from their government. Jan Svankmeyer films were a huge influence on Philly's own The Brother Quay, who attended the same art college as my husband, the new defunct University of the Arts!

Did Alec play as Obi Wan Kenosha?

A quick look and I couldn't locate any streaming opportunities for Helke Sander: DIE ALLSEITIG REDUZIERTE PERSÖNLICHKEIT - REDUPERS

The Card, and Our Man in Havana are both on YouTube now.

Bummersauer

@DJ Readie - Very sad! With every format change, so much lost media!

Yes, Lizbot! I feel like Netflix had so much more to offer in the old days of the red envelopes!!

Walmart stopped selling that DVD/VHS machine, not that long ago.

I saved my VHS player. I also have a Sony 8MM with a spinning head, and the other standard. Also a spinning head.

Our IGA still has long closed Red Box, self serve dvd kiosks. Barbie last hit movie on it.

And I read somewhere that if you "BUY" a film on Amazon, it's not really yours...they can withdraw it anytime they like, and you're out of luck!

@Readie - Netflix and all the streamers have been cutting back on movie offerings left and right, though none of them ever had Helke Sander! My only hope for that is Criterion!

Bastards

I hear you Lizbot- I was also thinking Criterion...I need to look into that

@Readie - Oh yeah, that whole "buy" digital copy of a movie on a streamer is a total crock! They can take anything away whenever they want. I maintain my dvd/blu-ray player!

2001: A S O on VHS was pretty lame, sound and image

yeah, dan, and they charge upwards of 15 bucks for some of those films!

Funny you should mention that. Money is all ones and zero's in an information retrieval system these days.

Yes, Lizbot - me too!

Blu Rays are way temperamental compared to DVD’s in my experience. Libraries should give them up I feel.

Bought a hrd copy of How They Won the West off Amazon.

@dan Cochrane / @DJ Readie- Another great German film I saw at the [sadly now defunct] International House's theater in West Philly a couple decades ago is Ulrike Ottinger's "Joan of Arc of Mongolia"! So good! Late 80s German Maximalism. Another feminist as well. She has a new movie coming out this year!: The Blood Countess!

Luckily I never "bought" one of those - rental is fine in a pinch. And I keep forgetting to check my local library! so many DVD's & Blu-Rays there!

@Lester Wiggs - Yup! 010101010100100000101

Any of you film buffs subscribe to the Metrograph streaming service? I think I'm paying $5-6/month for a decent and constantly updating selection of foreign/indie/art films.

@dan Cochrane - Remember laser discs! Princeton Record Exchange used to sell loads of them! I bought Silver Lake Life on laser disc a long time ago!

Nice, Lizbot! Sounds great!

Librarians often grab the wrong version of a film. Recently, Lolita (not Kubrick), They just read the spine. One other title too.

International house in West Philly! Stop breaking me heart!!

@Bud Burroughs - Sounds good, but no! I should check it out. I subscribe to Criterion's streaming service, and I used to subscribe to Fandor until that folded

Anthology Film Archive, 2nd and 2nd

@Lester Wiggs - My parents' wedding reception was there! It was brand new!

wut

@Lester Wiggs - I love Anthology. I always check their screenings when heading up to NYC!

Stan Brakage Daughter. I should have known

I've not heard of Metrograph, Bud, but I use Kanopy from the library - it's free and they have a crazy wide selection of films, foreign, occult, etc.

Have you noticed when people pick films in Criterion Closet, how many pick their own films, can’t turn off self promo? Funny really.

I remember the time I was directed by the great George Kuchar. he said, Just be yourself.

Brakage was a film survey prof of mine SAIC. He commuted from Denver, and had a tobacco spit bottle. Amazing guy!

@Lizbot, we are both love love loving this Terry Riley piece! :-D

It is superb, turning it up

@Lester Wiggs - I have a huge soft spot for I-House - I loved their theater so much. Saw a lot of film festivals and screenings there - Jay Schwartz's Secret Cinema, Philadelphia's old original Festival of World Cinema, weekend animation fests curated by Herbie Shellenberger, and course it I-House's theater eventually got rechristened as The Lightbox Film Center, curated by Jesse Pires!

@ Dan? SFAI?

Schooloftheartinstituteofchicago, BFA ‘85

Lightbox Film Center had to move the program to the Gershman Y after I-House closed down, but Gershman Y had been acquired by University of the Arts prior to that move, and U.Arts abruptly closed down last year with almost no notice for faculty or students!, so now Lightbox operates out of the The Bok in South Philly! Phew! I HOPE that lasts

OK nice. We were once young. I think I saw Terry Riley once at the Annenberg center.

Film Center had great series, Tak Fujimoto, who did Wenders, and Demme. To die for

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Glad you're digging the Terry Riley! I also love the title A Rainbow In Curved Air! Also reminds me of the 70s British prog band, Curved Air

yes you are correct Lizbot. Maybe you're lifeboat?

@Lizbot, the air is very curved, Terry Riley, Curved Air,

LizB have you played Glenn Branca?

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 /@Lester Wiggs - My husband and some other musicians participated in a couple of performances of Terry Riley's "In C" in Philly in the past. Performances of that seem to pop up in NYC once a year!

Wow

@dan Cochrane - Yes!

I’m toeing in the JBL’s

So they decided that everything had to go into the dustbin, including a few universities. U of A was one. My former school got dunked too.

Love that climb Horse Lords do in this one a bit ala Television Verlaine/Lloyd Marquee Moonish

@dan Cochrane - I hung out with Glenn, (RIP,) on a number of occasions. My husband played in his 100 guitar orchestra Hallucination City project with Wharton Tiers on drums and Weasel Waltor recording the sessions at the Kaufman-Astoria Studios in Queens. I was there the whole weekend, have tons of photos!

Art schools closing left and right, also art degree programs. Replaced with criminal Justice, video game design. I pick up free, new art books.

Horses Aren't Real. Just saying.

Holy Shiite, I’d kill just to see them tuning up

In another related story, Delaware does not exist

@dan Cochrane - George also played in the L.A. Hallucination City at the Frank Gehry Disney Concert Hall for the Minimalism Festiva and the Montclair Hallucination City performance. I have a LOT of stories from those! I got to see and touch Harry Partch's homemade microtonal instruments at Montclair with Glenn! They're no longer there, sadly

Hi Brian D!

Do you remember Zinni, art supply guy over on Spruce Street? Funny guy. He told me a joke that made ethnic humor funny again.

100 Jaguars, Jazzmasters like Sonic Youth on crack,er…steroids

@Brian D - Just intonation! LaMonte Young fanatics, these Lords o' horses! Seen them a few times live and they put me in a delightful trance!

Some great Glenn Branca stories in Thurston Moore's bio book. Glenn very generously just threw a handful of his chopped up franken-guitars at Lee and Thurston, here take these. Thurston and Lee played in the GB orch as well.

actually saw a work tuck over in the lowes parking lot y'day. Bumper sticker- WNOB

Bourbon

@Brian D - Oh yes, I know Thurston was there! I met and talked to him through Glenn!

Also worthy of mention Rhys Chatham. Die Donnergotter especially. Right up this Horse Lords alley and Glenn's

That’s so cool, I had no idea. I bet Johnny Greenwood has plenty of his recordings

yessss its horse lords!

The well detempered guitarclavier

Time for Lizbotshot, frozen Stoli (no flavor) or Wild Turkey 101 (proof)

@Brian D - Almost shared a cab with Thurston from the studio one day. I have a lot of photos and stories from the Glenn Branca shows and recording sessions! My husband's old bandmate and childhood best friend mastered that album for Cantaloupe Records, Colin Marston, but it went through many iterations before its eventual release. Glenn was a lot of fun to watch in action. He was obsessive with getting the sound just right, which is not easy with all that reverb of that many guitars!

Fripp ing a coin

@dan Cochrane -ha, whip me up one and whip it over to NW Philly!

Hi Michael gudgeon! Yes!

Upsal Street never had it so good.

I did read Sonic Youth bassist memoir, a page Turner. Name escapes me, you all know

@Brian D / @et.al. - I loved Rhys Chatham's Die Donnergottir, and definitely similar vein to Branca

I dated Paige Turner. She dumped me eventually. No idea why..

Isn’t a shame most can’t afford the good caviar, Champaign, hell who’s ever seen a truffle?

@dan Cochrane /@Lester Wiggs - Ha!

Betty P. Was easy

I took her to the McDonalds in Turnersville NJ. I said- order whatever you want. She got the Fries.

Paige Turner and John Hurd, Body Heat

Insertrimshothere

One of the most memorable moments in the Hallucination City recordings sessions was when Glenn was frustrated that he couldn't hear Wharton's drums over the guitar din, so he started trying to dissemble the Kaufman-Astoria's big fancy drum baffles, which were built into the floor! Weasel Waltor had to stop him! Glenn was a joy to watch in action.

I bet she never seen one like that.

Maureen Tucker/Glenn Branca?

Glenn's wife, Reg Bloor, has a band called the Paranoid Critical Revolution that's worth checking out. She visits us and plays Philly from time to time.

Wooo!Crimson!

Kristen Wiigs…ahhhhhhhh

Pretty cool Liz. Some personal history there.

@DJ Readie - Yeah, I rarely am on air for such a long chunk o' time that I feel I have time to play this whole track!

Been using the first couple seconds of the quiet flute part from CotKC here coming up soon (Dance of the Puppets) for wake up alarm ringtone. Works well.

Bring on the Calliope, G D it!

@DJ Readie - I kinda meant to do a mic break after Zombi, though, but was trigger happy with my mixer and just jumped right in to KC! And the track after this will meld well into this, so prob no mic break until after that, ha!

I think I was in 5th grade. Peter Brodell brought in a cassette player with this track But the pops were palying some kind of tragic drug death song. at that time.

Can’t top this

1969. The Mets Won. Also- Whole Lotta Love.

@Lester Wiggs - Good on Peter Brodell for inducting the elementary kids into the Court of the Crimson King!

@dan Cochrane - I still have not accepted that King Crimson will no longer tour, but Fripp insists it is so and I tend to believe him, unlike so many other bands with their 3rd, 4th and 5th "farewell tours"!

I play my students old scratchy 78 of “Chicken Chatter”, farmyard picture disc

Hey Lizbot! Hi everybody in the chat!

I saw them Discipline tour I think.

One of my all-time favorite live music experiences is hearing King Crimson play "Starless." Seen them do it many times, but the time they played The Met, for the 50th anniversary tour, was the most sublime

Hey Danosaur🦖!

And now for this silly part!

I thought you were extinct, glad not true

This is the part right here.... time to wake up! Alarm ring tone currently...

I always picture this part being played by a court jester

correct. Mets won the world series 1969, Led Zep relaeased Whole lotta love, and Court of the Crimson King also came out. Altamont had just happened.

Radiohead calliope

Bigassbeat

@LizBot - viva DJ prerogative! 😉

Dan Cochrane - still alive and roaring

hey pals!

Strapped in for the flameour

owh jay electronica samples this i believe

So glad Fripp got the hounds howling again for a decade or so.. finally got to see them just as they were about to go dormant. What a band. Wish I could have seen them with Bill Rieflin still alive on the drums and multi instruments.

Flame out

didn't know this is where its from!

Hey addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum!

Had to play something from Blackstar for the 10th anniversary of Bowie's passing, and I love this epic song

YEAH

Belew picked up David Byrne vocals. Distracting.

Very nice segue Lizbot!

Yes

@Brian I saw several iterations of KC and I felt like the triple drummer lineup was the best of them all

@Brian D - Were you at the Mann Music Center show??

I did get to see one Rieflin show, which was cool

Yep they still had the triple drummer lineup at the end as well. 1 drummer sometimes on the keys.

my wagon is draggin' but hopefully some Lizbot tunes will get me through till 6 when i have to go back to the circ desk.

And yeah, great segue, Lizbot!

When I first heard this album and saw the videos...wow...

Bowie’s all over the streams today, terrific. I’m learning Sound & Vision on guitar

addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum- at least your wagon isn't dragon

The video for this song is amazing. And what a way to end a career!

Show starts off w/triple drummer piece on the bottom row.... other musicians wait patiently on the above "floors" risers. Those drummers were doing a combo of rock, Scottish military, Indian rhythms... opening piece that really sets the tone.

@Brian D - If you didn't see it yet, I highly recommend the 2022 doc, In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50! It's so good, and there's a lot of footage and great interviews with Bill Rieflin, who toured with them up until the last months of his life.

@Bud- YES

@Bud Burroughs - Thanks!

Yep saw that. Great docu. Good interviews with all esp Bill R

Hi Danosaur!

Bowie was able to reinvent himself and stay creatively relevant for so long. Amazing

THIS part is so swirling, spooky and gorgeous! What an incredible statement for him to go out on

has it been that long since Bowie left us? whew

Hi Readie Rightous!

Great documentary. I learned from it that Bill R had lost his wife to cancer about a year before he died. Incredibly tragic.

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum- I hope so! I will be playing some more upbeat tunes at 5!

Bowie campaign of box sets in past decade or so have been very well done.

@Danosaur i dunno, a dragon wagon would be pretty cool. think of everything i could tote around in that!

@Bud Burroughs - It's SO good! And I don't just say that as a Crimson fan! I was very happy with how they doc ended up. Geez, didn't know about Rieflin's wife. Terrible!

consummate artist- Bowie

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - Sorry to hear you're dragging, but you put the song "Draggin' Wagon" in my head!

Pretty sure I was listening to to lizbot when I learned Bowie died

And then we listened to this

wow, Zach

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum- Draggin' Wagon by The Surfer Girls!

@Zach - Yeah, I was on air when the news broke. My show turned into a tribute

Carlos Alomar one of his many monster hired guns

I recently learned that Soupy Sales' sons played with Iggy Pop and were in David Bowie's band Tin Machine

WRTI DJ played some of the Berlin trilogy of Philip Glass, inspired by Bowie y'day morning.

"The Next Day" the Bowie lp before this with the ode to the Heroes cover art was really good too.

Thomas the Worried Waltzer did an excellent tribute to the more esoteric side of Bowie the weekend after his death

Whats My line- you would never believe the backstories of those folks.

What a resume Bill Rieflin had. Ministry, REM, Robyn Hitchcock/Venus 3, King Crimson etc.

It's 5 p.m., do you know where your Lizbot is?

Changeling: The Dreaming is fairy-tale syncretism gone feral: Celtic sidhe nobility mashed with American urban legends, All fighting over dwindling Glamour in a world that doesn't believe anymore.

@Danosaur🦖 - No one has a better performer name than Soupy Sales, with the possible exception of Ishkabibble!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - ha! I HOPE the signal didn't cut out again!

syncretism I just like the rhythm of that word.

Indeed Ishkabibble.

Lizbot - Totally agree.

ok that was hilarious.

@Danosaur🦖 - Pennsylvania's finest!

Here I come long Beach

@Lizbot, I didn't mean to suggest that the signal had cut out again (and I was tuned in at 3 pm when it did).

That's a lot of knives

@Lester Wiggs / @Danosaur🦖 - Ishkabibble's also still a cheesesteak place on South Street!

The only bot I want in my life is Lizbot

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Don't worry, I didn't think so, just a bit wary after the 3 pm tech drama!

@Lizbot, you are being an iron dj today, doing two (back to back even) shows!

@Danosaur🦖 - Thank you! And here I am wondering if the "bot" in my name causes my emails and whatnot to automatically go to spam folders!

@Lizbot - That's amazing that a restaurant still has his name on it. I'm sure most people have no idea who or why

@Lizbot, I would be wary too. @Danosaur (hi!), I agree, I only want one bot in my life

yessss, these are the vibes i need!

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum- this music will tame your dragon

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - ha, I was literally typing "I hope this revives you!" when your message popped up!

we need someone to make a "No Bots but Lizbot!" sticker

Hey Rob!

ahoy Rob!

@Danosaur🦖 - Probably most ppl have no idea who Ish Kabbibble was at this point, but that steak place has been in business for as long as I can remember!

Hiya addie!

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - Amazing! I welcome it! Anyone wanna make that, I'm game!

Digging this funky guitar

I didn't realize Ish Kabbibble was an actual person. I remember that as a phrase from my childhood

My iMac put the cover art for Sounds of Silence S&G, on Bestie Boys Sounds of Science double anthology. Funny and troublesome

Beastie

*as some sort of phrase

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - He was! My grandmom used to talk about him and of course his name stuck with me as a kid!

@Rob - I listen to a lot of old time radio and Ish Kabibble's name was a joke punchline even back then

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 / @Danosaur🦖 - Ish Kabibble's birth name was equally charming: Merwyn Bogue!

@Lizbot - Seems like that name change was a lateral move

@dan Cochrane - haha, I love those happy accidents! That begs for a mashup!

@dan Cochrane - Although a Beastie Boys / Simon & Garfunkel mashup would be...jarring! Same city, different eras!

@dan Cochrane - Beastiefunkle

Is this supposed to sound like a riff from Duran Duran?

now for some more upbeat Bowie!

This should also get you dancing, @addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum!

Sorry not Duran Duran but another synth pop band from the 80's

We get one murky slow introspective Bowie and one bouncy funk Bowie!

Never having seen him, I’ve imagined a cross between Oscar Lavant and, er…Morrie Amsterdam

Ishka

@Lizbot i'll work on a sticker design!

wigglin' in my seat!

@Danosaur🦖 - hrmmm, dunno, but now I'm tryna think of who else that beat reminds me of, but it's hard to think of it now that George Murray's bouncy basslines and this Fripp solo are in my cans

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - That's what I wanna hear!

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - Excellent! That would be amazing! No pressure, but that would be cool if you do get to it!

Ah, it's a riff from the song Nowhere Girl by the band B-Movie

@Danosaur🦖 - Ah! Thanks for getting to the bottom of that mystery! Good to know!

@dan Cochrane - He kinda looks like Moe from The Three Stooges - Little goofy guy with a bowl cut. Except he wielded a cornet!

That last song had a kind of medieval jazz vibe to it

@Danosaur🦖 - hrmmm, yeah I like that description. I am looking forward to more from mitamu AKA Tammy Huynh. Really digging her music. She is a Philly artist!

Wait?!? Born Merwyn Bogue, he had to go with Ish K.?

@dan Cochrane - I know, right?! Leave some for someone else!

Jim Carrey saw his haircut for Dumb & Dumber

LizB have you seen a kids show performer, probably from Vaudeville called “The Bananna Man”? He’s on YouTube, from Capt. Kangaroo. He’s insanely funny and surreal.

@dan Cochrane - ha, omg you're right. Carrey was channeling Ish Kabibble!

@dan Cochrane - I watched a lot of Captain Kangaroo as a kid, so I might've encountered this guy a long time ago on TV, but I don't recall him by name. Will have to see if a photo of him jogs my memory!

“Banana Man!” Is all he utters. My brother and I drove Mom bonkers after we saw him. You wouldn’t forget him, trust me. He was around for ages before he appeared in color of C K.

@dan Cochrane - Oh I just looked him up! That costume DOES ring a bell!

@dan Cochrane - Looks like he was a Vaudeville guy! This is amazing!: "He played with a backdrop of cardboard cut-outs of musicians, which he worked mechanically to give the impression that they were playing. His early act involved him taking cups and saucers from hiding places in his clothing, and pouring milk from his sleeves." Ha! I love it!

Friction!! And, good news about what the NYPLftPA acquired :-DD

He could step right into PeeWee’s Playhouse or SNL!

Yes! Grand finale I won’t spoil!

I don't remember The Banana Man from Captain Kangeroo

…N

He played a cardboard violin!

I'm here for the whatnot

Warhol had a big box, for every year, his stuff. I looked through a couple in Pittsburg, at his museum. Incredible!

Kope, that little blue, poisonous pill

My peoples!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Indeed! So glad his papers and photos have been archived! After all, he saved them for all these years!

Hi. Always good to hear Television on the radio.

Did you go see Cate Le Bon on Tuesday?

Hi Kevin Schofield! TV on the Radio vs Television on the radio!

@Kevin Schofield - At Union Transfer! I had tickets for it and then my sister-in-law announced she was having a birthday party that night! I intended to get to the show after her party, but alas the party ran late and I lost track of time!

@Kevin Schofield - Did you get to it?

I love that Elmwood's Irish Trip ends with the Aer Lingus flight taking off sound!

@Danosaur🦖 - I think you gotta look up the Banana Man's shenanigans! Delightful weirdo! I'm all for it

Yes! Very cool new (to me) prime cuts LizB

I did see Cate. My 2nd time seeing her. Great show. I didn’t love her new album at first, but it’s growing on me.

@dan Cochrane - I love the cardboard instruments! Reminds me of 2000s era Michel Gondry movies!

I told you! That voice of his!

@Kevin Schofield - Same. Not my favorite album by her, but I am enjoying it!

Exactly! Lowest tech, if ANY!

@dan Cochrane - The best! handmade/analog/practical effects always > digital! Reminds me of the "sweding" with cardboard props of various movies in Gondry's "Be Kind Rewind!"

Liz did you ever see an old B&W movie about a squirrel who performs? It’s his name. The squirrel taxidermy in stop motion! It’s downright morbid to watch, as a comedy, obviously for kids.

QUADRUPLEPLUSGOOD! An historic 5-hour moment ~ and I'm lovin' it :-D

Hello Richard of Rocky Hill!

@Richard of Rocky Hill - Glad you're digging it!

The Great Rupert! (1950), on YouTube. What a relic!

@Lizbot and dan Cochrane - If you like that weird cardboard collage check out the photoshoot from whowhatwear with Elle Fanning on Instagram. Very cool and artistic

@Danosaur🦖 - Gonna have to check that out! Love the name!

Rupert’s keeper was in The Quiet Man I’m pretty sure. A real leprechaun himself.

@dan Cochrane - Oh whoa! No, I have not seen this talented squirrel, Rupert! I must amend that! Reminds me of a water-skiing squirrel my friend & I were obsessed with briefly 25 years ago! I had completely forgotten about it!

Rupert Pupkin!

Twiggy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy_the_Water-Skiing_Squirrel

@Lizbot - Yeah, the photographer is Szilveszter Mako

Twiggy began in 1978! I wonder just how many Twiggys there have been?!

I just pictured a big table full of soon to be stuffed Rupert’s off camera. Norman Bates in Brigadoon

@Danosaur🦖 - Szilveszter Mak! Zo manzy Z's!

@Lizbot - Ha! I know, it's crazy.

@dan Cochrane - Okay, I'd pay good money to see a Rupert Pupkin as portrayed by a squirrel with a microphone. Hell, add in Twiggy as the opening act and it's a hit!

hi lizbot!

@Lizbot - ...or should I say crazzzzzzzzzzee

Twiggy was adorable in The Boyfriend, and Diet Rite Cola TV ads.

i was just in the midst of a Morricone binge this afternoon!

Is this the Squirrel Kitchen show?

I was binge watching every Sandra Bernhardt appearance on Letterman. Omg! When she sang To Sir With Love! Totally sincere, to Dave.

I remember the time she taped up Jerry Lewis. Dean Martin was nowhere to be found.

I’ve, er…had squirrel. Farmer warned about, the buckshot. Yes, tasted like…you know what.

I feel like I should be wearing a powdered wig when I'm listening to this song

Sandra rocks hard!

srry, I read Sarah Blues-hart.

Hi sorry it's Andrew!

Wiig?

@dan Cochrane - RIP the MANY Ruperts!

Rupe In Piece (s)

Heart! Tastes like a rattlesnake stew

Sorry

Like the use of the human voice as instrument in that last song

Hey! Today the Hudson River plane, and the plane the band “Got To Get It On” Chase both went down.

sorry not sorry

I prefer the human mind as an instrument. Although it can be very silent.

Didn't Jean-Jacques Perrey write the Popcorn song?

although in not of this manifestation.

Never trust anyone with more than trois names'

@Danosaur🦖- Longtime Perrey collaborator Gershon Kingsley wrote Popcorn! Great song!

The proposed, though never produced sequel to…THEM!

@Lizbot - oh, yeah! That's right

Cool. I def am going to need a lot more Popcorn.

Adore Popcorn song. (With perking Mr. Coffee) to me.

That was a song for the end of the world that you could dance to

Kingsley reportedly came up with the catchy melody in just a few minutes, inspired by the sound of a popcorn machine.

Popcorn is universal.

@Lester Wiggs - That's interesting

You can’t be serious! - John McEnroe

5th grade OK popcorn. Go ahead you guys. fkthtsht

@dan Cochrane - oh man, one of my dad's favorite movies, The Quiet Man! We visited the Village of Cong in Ireland where it was shot and my daughter stuck a bag of Mr. Tayto's Prawn Crisps deftly in the open outstretched hand of the statue of Maureen O'Hara there!

I M Serious. Said Johnathan Richmon.

No one sings like Jonathan

I want one of those Chinese pressure cooker popcorn poppers.

He swallowed a crybaby wa wa

MOST SERIOUS MUSICIAN EVER. Here come the Martian Martians.

@Danosaur🦖 - Catching up from the mic break - Mount Wittenberg Orcas wear powdered wigs and only deign to flip over luxury yachts

(heyyyy kids)

All caps don’t MAKE IT SO

What kind of ice cream will those martians like

Hey jimbooooo!

@Lester Wiggs - Don't make me do The Martian Hop!

One leg

deaconnn!!!

Sponge Bob cover art

@Michael gudgeon - Dan Deacon's coming back to Philly this spring!

@Michael gudgeon - AND BalletX is going to perform to a Dan Deacon score at The Mann Music Center this coming summer!

may be coming home in like may trying to see delicate steve, would love to see dan deacon ty for the info! gotta check the dates

@sorry it's Andrew - Sorry, I'm catching up! Nice! I love a good Morricone dive! Scores or the films he scored?

@Michael gudgeon - I was so disappointed to miss his collab with BalletX when it premiered at Lincoln Center last year, but it was two nights only and I couldn't get up to NYC then. So psyched they just announced yesterday the Mann show!

Dan Deacon? While thats not a name I have not heard in a while. Johnny hammersticks. Was watching a Liam Lynch video ealier. 'It's hard Being God. I suppose.

this song is entrancing

@Danosaur🦖 - This guy, Dylan Sparrow, aka Giggle the Ozone, was in that band I played last week from the early 2000s that stirred up a lot of chatter in the chat because no one could find it online due to them having a ";" in their name!: Zeehas; 12 Wait!

Bought 'Once Upon a Time in the West recently. DVD or something. Mostly for the soundtrack. But painting the room. also- I do paint houses.

@Lester Wiggs - That movie had a crazy stacked cast! Robards, Bronson, Fonda! I haven't seen it in many years

The great Jack Elam, in first scene! Fly annoying him.

I've been fixing a hole where the rain has been coming in. Jan 19 I will be 64, give or take.

A little Morricone harmonica goes a long, long way. In The Untouchables as well.

That might be my fave Modern Lovers song. Hadn’t heard it in ages. It’s interesting to hear it with adult ears. I guess I made it after all these years, at least the old part.

@dan Cochrane- So good! I need a rewatch!

@Lester Wiggs - I played my mom When I'm 64 on air when she had that birthday, but that was decades ago!

My Last Sigh is a fine book by the great Spanish film maker., He also made a film abut Russia, peasents. Luis Bunuel.

@Kevin Schofield - Dignified and Old is a good song. And leave it to Jonathan Richman to be a [then] young person writing about getting old in a mostly positive way, unlike most young rockmen!

@Kevin We are all Modern Lovers. Although i kinda got a thing for contemporary lovers.

@Lester Wiggs - I enjoy Bunuel, but I never got over that eye-slicing scene in Un Chien Andalou! Did you know that was a real live cow's eye, standing in for the woman's eye? Pre-animal cruelty laws in film! But a great short!

I love that this song extolls the pleasures of sitting home eating couscous

More hyper songs about couscous, please

I think they also just dropped "Jacques Tati" in there!

Ce Matin / Jacques Tati!

haha, Duolingo is paying off!

@Roffle 0x7EA! I didn't see you here during last mic break. Popcorn and couscous - Both enticing options

songs sick!

@Michael gudgeon - Trying to draw attention to this forgotten early 2000s band!

@Michael gudgeon - Zeehas; 12 Wait charted at WPRB in the early 2000s, but then disappeared

@Michael gudgeon - To be fair, they were short-lived. The guy from Giggle the Ozone, Dylan Sparrow, was in Zeehas

Kenneth Ian Morris (1 February 1957 – January 2026), known professionally as Kenny Morris, was an English drummer, songwriter and visual artist.

We live in padded cells of consensus, where the loudest sob wins the argument and the quiet blade of reason is called cruel. Ambition curdles into resentment; risk becomes recklessness; excellence is elitist. The masculine impulse—to build, to conquer, to stand alone—has been pathologized as the original sin, while the feminine one—to nurture, to include, to smooth edges—is canonized as moral progress.

lol kidding

Hi Mike Tropiano!

Aw thank you for playing in the court of the crimson king, and I'm sorry I missed it!

Hello!

@Mike Tropiano - I saw yesterday the news that Kenneth Morris had passed. He played in so many bands I love, but I heard him in Siouxsie and the Banshees more than any other band

Hi Tyler B.!

@Tyler B. - My pleasure! King Crimson will always been near and dear to me. I miss their live shows soooo much!

Hi lizbot! Thanks for the great show like always

Center City Hustler. 13th and Market. Sal

Sal's Pizza.

@Tyler B. - I've had to make do with Adrian Belew's "Beat" tours and Tony Levin's Stickmen shows, but I'm grateful for those!

I used to park in my '85 coupe Deville and lounge out on the seat playing that cassette back and forth

@Lester Wiggs - Making me want pizza!

Ahhh, this song must have been what inspired "Sex Bomb" by Flipper. I get it now.

@Tyler B. - Probably wore the tape out! That is such an epic debut

Hi Chris Mohr!

@Chris Mohr - haha, yeah that's quite likely! Gonna have to do a side-by-side some time!

Hi, Lizbot! (Hm, the Flipper song came out in '81.... 🤔)

@Chris Mohr - There was a theory for a while that You Dropped a Bomb on Me was written about the Tulsa race massacre because Charlie Wilson is from Tulsa, but he denied that.

Just steppin' back in after a phone call - getting funky y'all!!

@Chris Mohr - Who influence whoommm???? hrmmmm

Hey DJ Readie!

Once I was driving my 95 prizm and the cassette slowed down majorly so I heard Glenn danzig sing like three octaves lower for a half mile before I realized I had to buy a new car2

@DJ Readie - Dance time!

There's rumors that there'll be new King Crimson music. Don't know if they're true. Toyah and Robert's exploits since the Lockdown have been a trip!

@DJ Readie - now imagine if we were in the Barge together, just us and the new heater and this bassline!

Both tapes are still totally operational, though!

YES - re: "You dropped a bomb on me...I remember thinking of that song during the MOVE bombing in Philly a few years later...

@Mike Tropiano - Oh BELIEVE me, I've gone down THAT particular rabbit hole! I spend entirely too much time on the King Crimson reddit and I

@LizBot! YEA I am visualizing it RIGHT NOW!

@Mike Tropiano - AND I've got DGM Live bookmarked! But I'm not holding my breath!

Lots of us would love more KC, but let's not hold ....

beat me to it

@Mike Tropiano - I have been enjoying TOyah & Robert's shenanigans and costumes since 2020, and am jealous of the UK folks getting to see them bring that goofiness to the stage! A real departure for Discipline-d Fripp!

def elevating my mood rn, LizBot! 🤩

@DJ Readie - haha, YES. Keeping it dancy!

Yes, saw a whole new side to Fripp. Who knew he could laugh?

okay more old synths

Hey readie!

Hey Tyler B!!!!

I love this dang arpeggiator!

What a blessed night on air & in the chat.

Turns out heaven 17 is the perfect music for washing dishes.

alt who track observed and reported

Point/counterpoint: On the one hand, stop being rockists and trashing disco, Pete and Roger! On the OTHER hand, this song is hilarious to me. Disco is like somehow Pete Townsend's uppity teen sister in this song! And that freaking synth

Hi Pat G.!

Hi Liz great extend show this evening

@Pat G. - Good to know! I can picture it! I bet you got those dishes done 30% faster than usual!

@Pat G. - Thanks!

The 3 cup chicken sauce that stuck to the pan didn’t even see what was coming

More sisters. Keeping the sister/family thing going for another song!

My 1st concert was seeing Fripp at Richardson Hall at Princeton in 1983. He laid down some Frippertronics loops, lectured for a while, then soloed over the loops. Pretty magical.

well ihave to sign off to listen to

Coltrane

@Pat G. - Ha! Putting sauce in its place! Lipids stand no chance when up against the boys from Sheffield!

@LizBot - (Radio Sister!)I see you played the Phylliss re-issue! I'm really loving that lately!

@Chris Mohr - ! Amazing! Circa the era when he was also producing and playing on Roches record! I loved that era of Fripp traipsing around New York! I keep telling George he should do Fripp's workshop! He's considered it, but he knows (from friends who've done it) that there is a part where he makes everyone just stare at a wall for an inordinate amount of time and George is SURE he'd doze off and make Fripp cross and Fripp is his idol, so we can't have that!

@DJ Readie - Yes! So good! Loving Phylliss!

And yes! I could see George at the Fripp workshop - I think he would be so engrossed...it would really work...I'm just guessing here - but wow! George!!!

Fripp has really melllowed, doncha think?

@Chris Mohr - Did he start going on about the teachings of Gurdjieff?? I wanted to see his "That Awful Man and his Manager" speaking tour! Fripp and David Singleton came to City Winery in Philly a few years ago, but I couldn't make it. Probably would've made for an amusing evening!

@DJ Readie - Here's the thing I very much respect: He is still VERY precise and obsessive with rehearsals and practicing many hours a day when it comes to King Crimson...Which is why he felt he needed to stop touring the band. He doesn't want it to slide even slightly. I get it. It's nice to see him relax a bit, kick back in his garden and goof around with Toyah!

This Magic Fig song is channeling some Sweet Child o' Mine riffs!

Yes, Gurdjieff as filtered through J.G. Bennett (whose spoken word snippets are on League of Gentlemen LP). He told a story about sleeping on Eno's couch and some insight came to him. Don't remember the details.

@DJ Readie - And yes! I can definitely see George getting a lot out of Fripp's workshops! At the very least, some good stories, told only as George would tell them! He has considered it before. There was one near NYC that Reg Bloor attended and told us about. But George legitimately has a low blood pressure issue where he falls asleep if he's still too long, a bit like narcolepsy, but caused by inactivity, so he KNOWS he would fall asleep during that part

Yes, LizBot - I watch him with Toyah and the rabbits, silly and fun! - and yes - his work is "sacred" - but I have a feeling he would be able to relate with a very talented artist like George on whatever terms are presented!

@DJ Readie - ...and he's pretty sure Fripp would not take kindly to that!

Aha - I would hate for that limitation to come into play....I would hate for George to not do something like that...but I understand!!

@Chris Mohr - ooh, I wonder if anyone has a recording of that show...But I can picture the spiel he gave! Did you know his sister, Patricia, is a motivational speaker?!

All you can do is keep talking about it...

The tour t-shirt says, "The Lecture 1983. Contents: One small, mobile, intelligent unit," with Fripp's signature below

No, I did not!

Several people who were WPRB DJs then and WPRB trustees now were there.

@DJ Readie - Yeah, he really needs like medical card for that issue b/c he's fine if he can just stand occasionally, or better yet, the whole time, which is what he prefers

@Chris Mohr - haha, I definitely was the teen who'd proudly walk around in a "lecture 1983" shirt!

Yes, it me! My fellow teens at Bridgewater-Raritan H.S. we're not impressed, though.

Kudos to George for the Xmas marathon contributions this year!

@Chris Mohr - haha, lemme guess...I am recalling a former head of the PRB Board of Trustees circa '03-'06 or so who loved prog...and was likely a student in '83. Blanking on his name...Bill! Bill Rosenblatt?

@Chris Mohr - I second that emotion!!

@Chris Mohr - I will pass the message on to George!

Winding down the energy nearing 8 pm!

Thanks Chris! Merry Midwinter!

Post-dance-party cooldown

Thanks Readie! Merry Midwinter to you too!

@ Lizbot (host) Thanks again for a fab show. And five hours of it, major!

@DJ Readie - Most bands don't care, but some venues are so uptight. We saw this modern classical series at The Kimmel's smaller stage years ago where George just tried to stand in the back, but venue employees chided him! It's not like he didn't have a ticket!

Thanks, Richard of Rocky Hill!

Fingerpicking good!

Hey George! 🤩

Also…. Fingerpicking good

@George Korein - ha! Now's the portion of the show when people start making food puns and I remember that it's dinnertime!

I was digging your show earlier Readie!

I was vibing to the Laurie Anderson

@Lizbot - some people just don't understand...I wish all folk could just be kind...

Thanks so much George!! yeah that octaver is so cool!!

@DJ Readie - For real! Not disturbing anyone!

@Lizbot, we enjoyed your show tonight, thank you for this extended play

Kudos LizBot for Quadrupleplusgoodness!

OH, BEFORE I FORGET!: I am doing his AGAIN next week! BUT it will be SIX hours and it will be after my usual show instead of before! So January 22nd: Quadrupleplusgood Part II 5-11 PM!

❤️❤️❤️ to all the beautiful people in the chat!!

WOW !!

Quadrangleplusgood was plusgreat! ❤️

have a great week!

Thanks, George Korein!

Thanks Readie! It was nice having a moment to chat with you earlier today pre-show as well!

Absolutely! miss you!

See you here next Thursday for Quadrupleplugoodness Part II