"The City" by Walid Itayim & Sami Shabshab. Jon Solomon Wed Oct 21 with Jon Solomon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Big night on deck!

IT BEGINS.

Hey Jon! BRING ON THE NIGHT

woo woo

Marcus! John!

Marcus, as part of this week's prep I learned that Bob Dylan cameos on a Kurtis Blow album??

Human Radio Station

Let’s go Bob Dylan night!

Howdy everyone

I feel like I will need to interrupt often to let people know BOB DYLAN IS OK TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.

Zach! Rob!

Jon Solomon (host)!

Kurtis Blow and Bob Dylan in 1986 on Kingdom Blow

skyfall too

ok here we go!

Pat! OMBG!

Hi gang, how we doin?

I made my own version of a song I like real well this week because there were things about multiple unique versions of said track I wanted to be on the same recording.

Correct, Marcus!

Donutage!

I like this Model Living!

Yeah, this whole record is super good. I emailed the band to learn...they had played Philadelphia a few weeks ago. Alas!

Love to learn from other WPRB DJs.

I saw friend-of-the-show Marissa Paternoster with her band Universal Girlfriend this past weekend. They were great, to no one's surprise.

Awesome. Might have some new Noun coming up in a few...

It was odd being in the Khyber Pass again for the first time in 30-some years. The old concert space is now a dining room, but it turns out there's an upstairs they use for performance space. Pretty small, but it did the job.

They used to have "DJ nights" up there sometimes.

This is the first I've heard of U.G. I see it features the singer from Cayetana, who I saw a decade ago at the Brighton Bar.

Yeah, it's Augusta Koch from Cayetana/gladie, Marissa, and 2 other women whose names I should know but don't. They started playing together a little over a year ago. I saw what I think was their first official performance in Aug. 2025.

I think it's still sort of a side-gig for all of them. They don't have any records or merch yet.

Good afternoon

Heya Carlos!

Tonight’s WPRB dinner: Thai yellow curry with tofu: homemade

Yum.

Yesterday woke up w/'please don't tell me about the death of pop'...just that line. Just kept knitting, and knitting, and knitting.

Amy, hi! I read an interesting knitting story this week.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-invented-a-knitting-stitch-that-stops-mistakes-from-spreading/

Dang, Sprints AND Lambrini Girls together? That's gonna be ferocious!

No Philly date is at a bare minimum annoying but also they have three off days after NYC...

Here for the Hot Knitting Content! 🧶

Jimbooooo!

Jam Alert

Jonnnnnnnbooo

Boo, we gotta lure them down here!

Running man in full effect cabbage patch up next

🚨🚨🚨

Since this is from a Spike Lee movie… any thoughts on what he was wearing at the game last night.. made me wish I had a black-and-white TV set

jon jolomon🔥

Hi everybody. Do you like Ratt?

Marcus, I never liked the distracting bleep in the album version, or the "Elvis was a hero to most" 3x loop and the soundtrack version has neither but...the extended version with the horns rules so...I cut the uncensored "Elvis was a hero to most..." verse from the former and cut it into the latter!

Carlos, I missed most of the game.

Hey Dennis! Hi Dan! Hi Bobby Blotzer!

Anyone else been seeing their Halloween costume for three days?

Is this a Ring situation?

hey now. lambrini girls made toes tap over here.

Happy to help you feel alive, Dale!

lol sewing

Not seeing

Shout out to my local paper's movie critic who called DTRT "The worst movie he'd ever seen"

Dr. DTRT?

Hip hop and hardcore deserve an FCC exemption

Wish it were true.

Not enough great adjectives for this noun

Sounds even better in headphones.

23 years after “Do the Right Thing”, Spike Lee reprised his Mookie character in “Red Hook Summer”. Sal had rebuilt his pizzeria and Mookie continued to deliver for him. He even wore the exact same shirt from the former film!

i was just thinking that she is amazing and I would love to see her play

Noun's first drummer was Miranda from Hunchback (who reunited and are playing shows again).

I can second Jon's recommendation of Marissa's Patreon, the Paternoster Listener Alliance. Along with the monthly tracks, she's been posting pages from a (harrowing) comic about the personal crisis she went through while Screaming Females was breaking up. It's a tough but moving read.

But are Lambrini Girls ever coming to New Jersey?

i love her

Minutemen! Great pick!

I think Madeline Peyroux's version of "You're going to make me lonely when you go" is absolutely charming

The first time Eric Burdon saw Alan Price after Alan left the Animals was in that 1967-released Dylan doc.

David, I've never seen Red Hook Summer. Some year I'll watch every Spike Lee movie in order of release!

Also David I think Lambrini Girls played Jersey City on a prior tour?

Oh wow, this Specials song is WILD

On Suzi Hotrod's WFMU program, you mean?

@Jon, did we hear the name "Radiohead" during your set announcement a few minutes ago?

Trying to think of how I might have said such a thing, contextually.

Maybe it was two words that at low volume in this household while one of us was talking that we twisted in to "radiohead?"

Jon, Loved that Specials version, and now I can understand Dylan's lyrics! LOL

Ha, Bob. Glad you dug it. Just getting started!

David, I thought they played the theater in JC?

Oh, right. White Eagle Hall!

Gotta love Pajamas Harvey.

Hi

Roffle!

right to Tim Midygett....

I have some unreleased Crust Brothers covers but most of them I had a version someone else is doing tonight...

hoping for thalia zedek dylan cover tonight

Is there one?

youre a big girl now

I was not aware until this moment.

ladies and gentlemen, the internet

Robert Hazard two weeks in a row after maybe not playing him ever prior??

if only "young" was a dylan cover

Not "You're a Big Girl Now" (1971) by the Stylistics?

I was gonna comment on you entering your Hazard era, Jon!

Hazard pay.

If all goes according to plan those in the theater will also see a slide telling them they're listening to WPRB as part of the pre-show.

I should hope so!

whoop!

Robin!!

Adding Zedek to my list OMBG.

heyooooo. dylan is my fave so this is like the covers-superbowl for me

Hope I do right by ya.

Greetings to Jon and his listeners. Unable to attend the screening. Jon could you ask Mr. Dylan .. How many protest singers are currently performing ?

The answer is ... 42

keepin it weird.

YESSSSSSSS DEVO

I thought it was 22

Read the book @bob

I remember an old video, but I am numerically dyslexic sometimes

The Donovan hate in the movie is vintage 1989 Pistons vs Jordan hating

Don't panic

Perfectly put. I saw Don't Look Back at the Three Penny in Chicago in the 1990s and it was a perfect evening. Didn't expect to like the film as much as I did because I think I thought it was "not for me."

I have John Lennon's radio-unfriendly version of this on a cassette I bought from David Peel.

I remember Devo at the Tower coming out as the Opening act Dove. RIP Tower Theater.

I thought Dylan and Donovan got along amicably in the film.

@jon - Billy Corgan had Stewart Copeland on his podcast and "URGH! A Music War" was mentioned; fondly remembered by the drummer of The Police

wow, best mic break i've heard on wprb in a long time.

Had to post that while still fresh in my mind ---- carry on

Randy, do you know what Stewart Copeland's toms said on them during Urgh!?

OMBG, trying to keep it snappy for our captive audience!

Also, I have SO MANY COVERS TO GET THROUGH (ideally 30).

i love it. more rock, less talk

I am a fan of an hour of rock, talk as long as you feel fit, an hour of rock.

But I can let other weeks be about ME. I understand the assignment.

nope, 3-4 song sets, talk for less than a minute and right back to it.

at least that is my ideal and my practice

Playing by one's own rules is the way to go. :)

when and if i get the chance

Respect. The framework is always ripe for rearrangement from week to week. I used to talk a lot more frequently in youth.

@jon "Randy, do you know what Stewart Copeland's toms said on them during Urgh!?" I do!!! Quite impolite towards 'Ol' Sting-O!" --- the middle two words were "off" and "you"

Kids right?

like this sunwatchers.

Good evening Jon Solomon - good evening chatters - lovely evening

Dale, thank goodness I had already flagged this one as a Bob Dylan cover.

Hello DJ Tenderloin!

There is an amazing Japanese koto version of All Along the Watchtower, but it based on the Hendrix version, which is a rather second hand interpretation, so not directly a cover, but way cool, and it really rocks.

did you run actross any covers of the man in the long black coat jon? i had his oh mercy album on repeat when it came out.

I don't believe so, Dale?

what the hell, another Feelies album I never knew came out? This is outrageous!

This is on their covers LP (and also a RSD EP).

My bandcamp shopping list is getting long again.

Absolutely fabulous.

Wonder if anyone will notice the nanosecond clips inserted into the film for WPRB mind control.

lol, Amy

My sched. has been crazy or I woulda suggested Rainy Day - I'll Keep It With Mine - early 80s SoCal Paisley Undergound era. Always love the Feelies btw

Rainy Day on deck!

Get out! Great minds...

They do a great, very sweet version. Excited to hear! And all your other goodies....

I've missed every mic break so perhaps it was covered. What's the film for school this week?

Amy, GREAT question. Last week was Bonnie and Clyde. This week is Vertigo!

I need to pick it up on the way home...

Is the Kurtis Blow track the only one that had Dylan on it?

Classics!

WPRB Fall Silent Drive starts MONDAY. Keep freeform free!

Pat, I think so. I looked into some samples (and could not find a good version of The Roots' Dylan cover).

@amy don't tell everyone the secrets!

The people want more Bob & Blow.

This one I didn't know prior but it comes from our own Mr. Mike Lupica.

Of all the thousands of words Bob Dylan put together "you'd know what a drag it is to see you" has to be the harshest burn in musical history - in the Pre-Taylor Swift Era, anyway

I saw The Roots do Masters of War - was that the one?

Yep! I saw some crowd-filmed versions but nothing useful.

Yeah it was super cool when they busted it out - that was at the Tower I think.

They kinda mashed it up at one point with War Pigs

Have you seen Vertigo, Jon?

A band I used to see would mashup the Beverly Hillbillies Theme w/War Pigs

Roky and the Elevators! That version of baby blue really stood out

I have seen Vertigo but I am really looking forward to seeing Vertigo again. It will be my reward for building the Fall Membership Drive site tomorrow!

Sean, my hope is that there's a special something for each special someone tonight.

Randy - mashup the Beverly Hillbillies Theme w/War Pigs?! I would like to hear that

the thing I like about Vertigo is that Jimmy Stewart has a certain rep, you know he's so often a hero, a good guy. And in Vertigo he's completely unhinged and psychotic! Also that shot where they're kissing and they're spinning in one direction (on a spinning table) and the camera is doing a 360 in the opposite direction. crazy!

@tenderlion - 1990? doc Watson's, Philly https://youtu.be/JmE0xYmTEu0?is=uoA85P1fLW4OP_nb

thx Randy - I will check it out!

I don't understand why the mystery of "Vertigo" had to be spoiled so early in the film (i.e., Judy's flashback).

This has been terrific, Jon! Alas, it is time for me to go feed my feeble human body again. (After this Yo La, of course)

I hope to make it hard for you to turn away from the radio!

@david We're not gonna talk about Judy. No we're not gonna talk about Judy at all

I shoulda done all three hours of covers.

The actual story in Vertigo is preposterous. I feel like it's more a study in grief & madness - and highly stylized.

I also had no idea the Ramones did that

Yoou are making it VERY difficult Jon, but needs must!

That is all I need to hear.

<3 Jon, <3 chat!

I don't think I've ever heard him singing in English

Spanish and Portuguese

Where's his accent?

Marcus - agreed!

I've heard him interject some english words before, but not a whole song

It's hard to eradicate a B razilian accent

I heard a zydeco band in New Orleans tear this song UP!

Actually "Dust in the Wind" is sung quite often in Brazil and with good accent

I wonder if they got the idea from Fairport

I'm back. speaker died and i was too locked in to do anything about it

This was one of my absolute favorite discoveries prepping tonight's show.

this is super cool. and 77 - they're at the peak of their powers...

People don't realize how much some Big Black and Shellac guitar parts are owed to Cheap Trick.

Bring back Bun E!

Before I refreshed the playlist/chat I thought 'this sounds like a certain band from Rockford, Illinois'

I didn't "get" Cheap Trick until I lived in Chicago and people played me stuff that wasn't just what I would see on the teevee.

Ric Nielsen played on Foo Fighters "Sonic Highways"

I was the right age for Cheap Trick. I've always wanted someone to do a good punk rock cover of Dream Police!

Cheap Trick lyrics can be "problematic" in 2026

Up The Creek the song is less problematic than Up The Creek the movie!

No late Cheap Trick. Only early Cheap Trick.

I'm sure the first thing I ever heard was I want you to want me. That song was everywhere when it came out. and then I saw a picture of Ric Nielson in a magazine and that was it. He may have had the guitar with the 7 necks or whatever.

I once did a Bob Dylan illustration for a friend that had Bob wrapped up in a blue ribbon with all the lyrics to "Tangled Up In Blue" upon it - it was a cheap trick, I know, but she bought it

A fave Dylan cover non musical. Howard Cosell reciting the lyrics of Forever Young after the second Ali vs Leon Spinks fight

Oh that would have been good to include, Patrick.

"Do I play the Isaac Hayes version of Lay Lady Lay or go with US Maple's rendition instead?" is my sort of Sophie's Choice.

I just realized the line about dealing in slaves and something inside of him dies is from Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" - where's Mats Sabbath to back me up?

Could have used Mats several times tonight, I agree.

There must be like crazy versions by William Shatner and the like

He's probably busy with that new eleven disc live Ween behemoth.

I was right - he does a spoken word version of mr. tamborine man from his 1968 record The Transformed Man

Next time!

Considered it but also thought it might not play well in the theater.

something funny about William Shatner not playing well in a theatre. I mean he can chew some scenery!

Thanks for great show tonight Jon . Inspired programming. You can always tell a Northwestern Man !

While I am (I can admit) not a huge Dylan Guy, I also didn't want to seem like I was taking the piss with a captive audience.

Thank you Patrick. Beat Maryland at field hockey tomorrow night, NU!

This is my favorite Dylan song

My niece plays FH for PSU - she scored a double OT winner vs Iowa last year

Heck yes, Randy.

I totally went through a "dylan period" in my 20's where I listened to everything I could get my hands on. I like Dylan. What would the world be without?

I went to the Northwestern / Princeton field hockey game the Sunday before last and even with an umbrella I got soaked in a fashion rarely experienced previously.

I like the gospel feel, this was Dylan's come to Jesus period, so I wonder how much intent went into this?

@.Jon even got her name read on B1G plays of the week

Jon, it was great to hear the Bryan Ferry cover version!

Yeah I especially dug that one, Rob.

I was actually riding around on my scooter for that rainy day, got soaked too, but it wasn't really cold.

I just learned now that Judy Collins was the first to put out that song; not Nico.

This has been a fabulous show tonight, Jon, ty!!

THX

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:06 PM		Set Break
5:10 PM		Model Living Head of Talent / & Enrichment N The Wall Earth Worms 2026
5:16 PM		Walid Itayim & Sami Shabshab The City Habibi Funk 035: Beirut City Pop V/A Habibi Funk 2026 "[T]en tracks from Lebanon's private press cassette scene of the late 1970s and 1980s."
5:19 PM		The Fall A Caveat N Post Script Cog Sinister 2026 32nd (and final?) studio LP.
5:23 PM		Ken Vandermark Voigtländer Brilliant (for Gordon Parks) / First Substitute (for John Sparagana) / Acronym (for Wifredo Lam) A Living Poets Group Audiographic 2026
5:40 PM		Lambrini Girls The Basement N No Refunds City Slang 2027 Touring the USA in March with SPRINTS!
5:44 PM		Public Enemy Fight the Power Do the Right Thing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Motown 1989 I combined the Extended Version + Uncensored Soundtrack Version into what you're hearing tonight.
5:50 PM		Noun Desperation N VIRAGO 2026
5:55 PM		Set Break Hello to everyone listening to the next hour at the Garden Theatre! The following are all Bob Dylan covers...save one...
6:03 PM		Minutemen Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs What Makes a Man Start Fires? SST 1983
6:04 PM		The Specials Maggie's Farm A Special Collection Chrysalis
6:08 PM		PJ Harvey Highway '61 Revisited Rid of Me 1993
6:10 PM		The Crust Brothers Going to Acapulco Marquee Mark Telemomo 1998
6:15 PM		Robert Hazard & The Heroes Blowin' In the Wind Out of the Blue Independent
6:20 PM		Dove (the Band of Love) Gotta Serve Somebody (Live) Recombo DNA Rhino 2000 a/k/a DEVO.
6:26 PM		Set Break
6:27 PM		Sunwatchers Changing of the Guards Aquarium Drunkard: Lagniappe Sessions
6:34 PM		Kurtis Blow Street Rock Kingdom Blow Mercury 1985 Bob Dylan intro on loop.
6:34 PM		The Feelies Seven Days Rewind Bar/None 2025
6:38 PM		Siouxsie & The Banshees This Wheel's On Fire Through the Looking Glass 2014
6:43 PM		Set Break
6:44 PM		13th Floor Elevators (It's All over Now) Baby Blue Easter Everywhere Charly 1967
6:49 PM		Automatic Head Detonator Desolation Row What the Fuck Do You Know? Lo-Fi 1994
7:01 PM		Set Break Have so many Bob Dylan covers that those of you not at the movie theater get to enjoy a second hour of them over the radio...
7:02 PM		Yo La Tengo It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Sleepless Night EP Matador 2020
7:05 PM		Ramones My Back Pages Acid Eaters 1994
7:07 PM		Caetano Veloso Jokerman Circuladô Vivo (Live 1992) Decca Music Group Ltd. 1991
7:14 PM		Fairport Convention Si Tu Dois Partir Unhalfbricking Island Records 1969 Cover of "If You Gotta Go, Go Now."
7:16 PM		Richard Hell & The Voidoids Going Going Gone Destiny Street
7:19 PM		Set Break
7:19 PM		Cheap Trick Mrs. Henry (Live at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, CA - June 1977) Sex, America, Cheap Trick Epic/Legacy 1996
7:29 PM		Robyn Hitchcock Tangled Up In Blue Robyn Sings Editions PAF! 2002
7:35 PM		The Dream Syndicate Blind Willie McTell Buckefull of Brains flexi Buckefull of Brains 1988 Split with The Bevis Frond.
7:40 PM		Set Break
7:42 PM		Bryan Ferry A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall These Foolish Things Virgin 1973
7:47 PM		Sonic Youth I'm Not There I'm Not There (Original Soundtrack) Columbia/Legacy 2007
7:52 PM		Rainy Day I'll Keep It With Mine 7" 1984
7:55 PM		Silkworm You Ain't Going Nowhere New School-Old School Matador 1997

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Jon Solomon

10.21.26

Hour two of tonight's show will be simulcast at the Garden Theatre in Princeton prior to their screening of the Bob Dylan documentary "Don't Look Back."