May 19, 7pm
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Tonight on the show, I welcomed Jackie Nelson, from local SF Bay Area bowling alleys. She came in to talk about the summer kids bowling program: Say No To Drugs, Say Yes To Bowling. We had so much fun. She is hilarious, and she knows a terrific amount about bowling.
You can check out the website here for more summer info. If you have kids, you will want to check out there summer offers, including the summer bowling keytag. You get a free game a day until September 1st.
During her stay in Hell, Jackie and I began planning “Pirates and Pins”, a Pirate Cat Radio fund raiser. We have to come up with a date, but it will be on either a Friday or Saturday night, in July or August, 5:30-11pm. We’ll DJ live, get one or two bands, have drink specials (one named for me!!!), raffle ticket give-aways, and much, much more.
Take a look at the bowling alley websites by going here.
Do It: Henry Rollins
Satisfaction: Cat Power
24 Hours: Joy Division
Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues: Bob Dylan
Interview with Jackie Nelson
Elephant Gun: Beirut
Underdog World Strike: Gogol Bordello
Interview with Jackie Nelson
High Roller: Cheap Trick
Ace of Spades: Motorhead
Coney Island Baby: Tom Waits
Interview with Jackie Nelson
Run Devil, Run: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
The Big Guns: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
The Devil’s Chasing Me: The Reverend Horton Heat
I’m Branded: Link Wray
Detroit Breakdown: The BellRays
Interview with Jackie Nelson
Mudride: Mudhoney
I Turned Out Punk: The Hooks
Interview with Jackie Nelson
Plateau: Nirvana
Oh Me: Nirvana
Lake of Fire: Nirvana
Interview with Jackie Nelson
Ka Re Ha Te Ta Sa Ki (No One’s Grieve): Boris
Talkin’ Loud and Saying Nothing: James Brown
My Thang: James Brown
This is a Man’s World-> Lost Someone: James Brown
How To Speak Hip: John Close & John Brent
Now, Ah Lissen
Fornicating Female Freaks: Start the Countdown
Black 37: Kool Keith
Amphetamine: Rocket From the Tombs
Rhythm-a-Ning: Rashied Ali Quintet (with Ravi Coltrane-04-22-04)
Up in Smoke: Cheech & Chong
May 12, 7pm
Click here to download this great show!!!! Seriously, I had so much fun interview the Balloonatic, Addi. I’ve know Addi for 20 years. We did radio at KFJC, when he was Andy Cadavar, and I was the Reverend Dah Wave. So many great stories.
Assi and his friend Charlie traveled the world together, placing extravagant baloon hats on people’s heads and taking pictures to prove it. Amazing is all I can say. Addy is an interesting, interested, talented, and creative individual. I could have interviewed him the entire four hours, but there was too much good music to play tonight. Included in the good music, is Addi’s own band, Unpopable. It features Henry Bermudez on guitar, and Addi on the Balloon Bass. You read correctly.
Take a look at their website here.
Take a look at their myspace here.
Take a look at Addi’s youtube site here.
Addi also played live balloon bass solo in the studio this evening.
Play list for Week #33:
Do It: Henry Rollins
Grow Your Own Fucking Mustache, Asshole: The Wet Secrets
Bananas: Free Kitten
Sababa: Unpopable
Carney’s Asada: Unpopable (with Ralph Carney)
Interview with Addi
For Arlo, Part 3: Unpopable (with Money Mark and Danny Frankle)
Oddjob’s Pressing Engagement: Sex Mob
I Like it A Whole lot: Sex Mob (from the Balloon Hat Movie)
Interview with Addi
O’day: The Peekshow
I Am…I Said: Killdozer
Courez Courez: Ermasse
Addi Live
Cry For Me Baby: Elmore James
Improv With Nels: Addi and Nels Cline
Improv 2: Addi, Nels, Gabe
One Upon A Time in the West: Ennio Morricone
Interview with Addi
Aries: Lynx
Invitation to the Blues: Tom Waits (11-21-76)
Baciarach: Masada (04-10-96)
Hotel: Mark Lanegan (10-18-99)
?: Sex Mob with Eyvind Kang and Michael Blake (09-26-96)
Why Does My Head Hurt So: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
May 5, 7pm
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Do It: Henry Rollins
Judy is a Punk: Ramones (05-12-76)
Roller Derby Saved My Soul: Uncle Leon and the Alibi’s
B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls Interview
Cough/Cool: The Misfits
Thirty Days: Chuck Berry
B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls Interview
Christine Sixteen: Kiss
Alive Two Promo: Kiss
King Kong: Jimmy Castor Bunch
B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls Interview
Hot Rod Lincoln: Commander Cody
Dead Batteries: Sun Trash
Ace of Spades: Motorhead
Touch Me I’m Sick: Sonic Youth
Ragi the Lawyer
Dead Flowers: Rolling Stones
Goin’ Down South: RL Burnside
Ragi the Lawyer
Tango Till Your Sore: Tom Waits
Girl From North Country: Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
Ragi the Lawyer
Powerman: The Kinks
Statement: Boris
Ka Ra Ha Te Ta Sa Ki- No One’s Grieve: Boris
It’s Over: My Brightest Diamond
Trickle Down System: Giant Sand
Wild Horses: Iron & Wine/Calexico
I Don’t Always Know What You’re Saying: Ladyhawk
Whiskey Jingle: Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
3 Elephants and a Cow: Toychestra & Fred Frith
Mob Rules: Black Sabbath
One More Night: Can
Dogs: Pink Floyd
Once Upon A Time In The West: John Zorn
Atmospheric Distortions 2: Kangaroo Court
April 28, 6pm
Tonight on the show, Jen Burke Anderson (http://myspace.com/jenburkeanderson) joined me in the studio. Jen is an old friend from my KFJC days. She’s a fabulous writer, and was kind enough to read some excellent pieces for us. I love the fundamentalist church piece. Tent revivals should always be this fun.
After the show I went over to 12 Galaxies to check out the last show of the season for Ask Dr. Hal. I was very tempted to walk up on stage and carry Chicken off. But, I figured it was the last show, he might as well enjoy himself while it lasts. It is a very good show… at times.
You can download the show here.
for some reason it appears that only the first two hours were archived. All of my interview with Miss Anderson is there, but you miss some brilliant musical selections, as well as an amazing rant against the suburbs. What the hell do they have that’s so good, anyway? It’s always the best shows that don’t get recorded. Oh well, one for the ages, I guess. I think the podcast ends with Boris. Yes, yes it does.
Next week on a Season in Hell, the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls (BAD Girls, get it) will be on the show, as well as Ragi the Lawyer.
I Love Livin in the City: Danko Jones
She Watch Channel Zero: Public Enemy
The Elephant is Dead: Bill Hicks
Jen Burke Anderson Interview
Space-Age Couple: Captain Beefheart
Jen Burke Anderson Interview
Tribal Connection: Gogol Bordello
Jen Burke Anderson Interview
T For Texas: Toshio Hirano
Backed into a Corner: Three Day Stubble
Two Little Pigs: The Cows
Rip Van Winkle: Witch
A Bou A Qu: Boris
All Blues: Stan Hirsch & Eric McFadden
Three O’Clock Blues/Darlin’ You Know I Love You: BB King
29 Ways (To Get to My Baby’s Door): Koko Taylor
Rock Steady: John Lee Hooker
Baby Please Don’t Quit Me: Lightnin’ Hopkins
Planet of the Apes: The Mummies
Gallis Pole: Leadbelly
Skunk: MC5
Baro Faro: Gogol Bordello (11-13-08)
Looking out my Window: Tom Jones
Babelogue/Rock and Roll Nigger: Patti Smith
There Stands The Glass: Webb Pierce
Autobody: Zeni Geva
Everyday I Love You Less and Less: Kaiser Chiefs
I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth: Nadja
April 21, 7pm
So, it would appear that the Pirate Cat Radio internet and FM signal were down even before I came to the station tonight. I won’t get into the details, because I would end up airing dirty laundry, which really has no place on this here blog of mine. But, suffice it to say, I attempted to get us back on the air, to no avail.
Coincidentally, I received a phone call from Chicken John, while I was waiting to see if we were going to be back on the air (the whole time I have my guest, Miss Frisky Kitten of B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls, waiting to be interviewed). He was calling me to ask if I could fill in for him as host of the Ask Dr. Hal Show at 12 Galaxies tonight. Very unusual considering I’m regularly attending to my own show during this time. It became obvious within the next 15 minutes that I would not be doing my radio show, so I phoned him saying I would be pleased to do it.
I consider myself to be Joan Rivers to Chicken’s Johnny Carson. I’ve filled in for him about 10 or so times over the last seven years. I do not do a Chicken John impersonation. I do me. I got some cudos from the crowd, but mostly it was just entertaining as hell watching Rose and Spy do their Mouse Trap dance. The Mouse trap boys did a dance all their own. I got the video to prove it.
I did give Pete Goldie a hard time. That’s always fun. Josh the Orange Box Man did a stupid joke. KROB pleased us with his dulcent tones, David Cappuro flashed us, in time, with many a visual treat. There was no Frank Chu, which is hard to believe. And of course, Hal was truly remarkable in his snare drum tight delivery. That guy can answer anything. I was quite liberal with the Fernet Branca. You’ve had some, haven’t you? I like what Katie said about it: “it tastes like minty butt.” Hmm… OK Then.
DJ icecreamlopez was manning the merch table for the Life-Sized Mouse Trap. She is one cute counter girl. All in all a fine night indeed.
I got in a great discussion with Mark Perez, the creator of the Mouse Trap, about the lack of “new blood”, participating in the SF scene. I hypothesized that the newer folks in town are not aware of the rich body of work that has taken place by so many in recent years. They don’t know where their own place is. Mark told me that I must write a book about the last 15 years in SF. There is so much to say. Who would I interview? How would I focus it? Who would read it?
It’s almost 1am, and I work tomorrow. Thanks for reading. All comments are welcome, unless they’re about World of Warcraft, or some other shit like that. Good night to all the strip teasing mice out there.
April 14, 10pm
A Season In Hell #30: Dirty 30
Tonight in the studio I am so excited to have DADAist, wordsmith, absurdist, Michael Peppe. Peppe has a long performance history, going back to New York City in the mid-70s. He’s been in San Francisco for quite a while now (1980), and I have gotten to know him, seen him perform, had him perform at a few shows I produced over the years as well. On the show tonight Michael performs a part of a new two-and-a-half-hour long piece. He only does about 15 minutes of it.
The site UBU.com is a great DADA site you should definitely check out. There are some Peppe recordings on there from the late 70’s. It also says he’s dead. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice. I remember listening to WFMU about five years ago, and they were playing some Michael Peppe. the DJ was asking where is Peppe now. I rushed to the computer and sent him an email, screaming that he’s in SF!!!
I’ll have him on again soon.
Download the show here.
Enjoy.
I love Livin in the City: Danko Jones
Sonic Revelations: The Monkeywrench
Motor City is Burning: MC5
Ass, Gas, or Grass: Men’s Club
Pluto, September 31st: The Moving Sidewalks
Thurston Hearts the Who: Bikini Kill
Tunic: Sonic Youth
Columbian Necktie: Big Black
Michael Peppe Interview
Adolescent: Michael Peppe
We Do What We’re Told: Peter Gabriel
Rocked By Rape: Evolution Control Committee
Chariot Choogle: Fantomas/Mike Patton
Through the Roof and Underground: Gogol Bordello
?: Storm Large
This Land is your Land: Woody Guthrie
Leg: Arzachel
Desperado: Alice Cooper
Calvary Scars: Deerhunter
Ecru: Ken Nordine
Monster: Brute Force
Damballa: The Pharaohs
I Am The Black Wizard: Emperor
I Think of Demons: Roky Erickson
Ghost: Ladytron
Three Girl Rumble: Wire
Look At That Table and Make it Spin in Your Head: Lynx
Rollin & Tumblin’: Crack Daniels
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes/Maggot Brain: P-Funk (11-01-78)
Suck and Screw Orgy: Alan Karminski
Portland, Oregon: Loretta Lynn
Celluloid Heroes: The Kinks
April 7, 9pm
Tonight on the show, I, once again, invited Ragi the Lawyer to come down. He has been on four times in the last six weeks. He came down last week, when I stayed home, sick. Thanks Ragi. Anyway, he came in tonight to talk about renter’s rights; especially in case of a fire. We actually took one call. Good for him!
Katy Bell came by, celebrating her birthday. Happy Birthday Katy! We had a KROB moment and then she was off again. If you’ve been to the Power Tool Drag Races, you know Katy as our Flag Girl. She also produced the Mark Growden benefit, which I MCd just over a week ago.
I’ve really been keen on this new format idea. The first hour is an interview, the second
is new music, the third is specialty genres, the fourth will toss you into dreamland, either calmly and sweetly, or kicking a screaming. You be the judge. I’d like your suggestions about music and genres for the third and fourth hours.
I love hosting a four hour show. Two hours is not nearly enough. I’ve been in radio for 20 years now, and I look at it as an art form. Taking two or more sources of sound and mixing them together, either end to end, or throughout; it’s the art of the segue.
Go here to download the show. I’m very pleased with the set starting with Sonic Reducer, by Rocket from the Tombs. Tell me what you think.
Enjoy.
jh
I Love Livin’ In The City: Danko Jones
She Watch Channel Zero: Public Enemy
Alcohol: Gogol Bordello
Bury Our Sins: Eric McFadden
Give Me Wine or Money: The Mekons
Bukowski: Modest Mouse
Time Has Told Me: Nick Drake
Ragi the Lawyer
I’ve Been Everywhere: Johnny Cash
How To Speak Hip, Part One
Charlie Parker: Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
KC Blues: Charlie Parker
Untitled: Radio Moscow
Blessed Black Wings: High On Fire
Interview with Larnie Fox of Crank Ensemble
Sonic Reducer: Rocket From The Tombs
Maximum Protection: Mort Kridel Advertising Agency
Get It On: Kramer
FCC Station Identification: Cary Grant
How Babies Are Made: Christopher Recordings on Sex Instruction
2 Drunk 2 Fuck: Avenue D
The Session: Karen Finley
Peace Frog/Blue Sunday: The Doors
Take a Stress Pill: Turn Me on Dead Man
Gimme Shelter: Grand Funk Railroad
Zodiac: Melvins
California Uber Alles: Jello Biafra and the Melvins (10-31-04-Slims, SF, CA)
Kill the Poor: Dead Kennedy’s (12-13-82-Stuttgart, GR)
No Pussy Blues: Grinderman
Capitalism Stole My Virginity: The International Noise Conspiracy
The Hidden Garden/Naima: Material
Loran’s Dance: Idris Muhammad
Thursday Miles: Miles Davis
March 26, 9am
What a great show, if I do say so myself. Katy Bell stopped in to talk about the benefit she’s producing this Saturday night, at 12 Galaxies, for friend/musician Mark Growden. He broke his back when his bike frame broke during a ride. Ouch!
Go here for more info about the benefit.
I’m changing my format some. The first hour will feature an interview. The second hour will be new music. I’m thinking of some kind of countdown, but that probably won’t happen. The third hour will be genre focused; different week, different genre. The fourth hour will be more on the avant garde side. I think the late hours should allow your mind to wander as far out as it can. I’ll do my best.
You can download the show here.
Enjoy.
Play list: A Season in Hell #28: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Growden
I Love Living in the City: Dank Jones
Satisfaction: PJ Harvey & Bjork
Senorita: Ovarian Trolley
Surfin’ USA: Melt Banana
California Sun: The Dictators
Hundreds of Years: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Pocahontas Was Her Name: Billy Childish & the Singing Loins
Katy Bell interview
Frisco Line: Rube Waddell
Television Man: Man or Astroman
Amos Moses: Jerry Reed
Katy Bell interview
61 Sideburns: The Capstan Shafts
Strawberry Guillotine: Sic Alps
Don’t Sleep With Whores: The Invisible Hand
Who’s Gonna Care: Cause Co-Motion!
Mary Ellen Claims: Tyvek
Paranoia Strikes Again: Torn Curtains
I’ve Always Been Content: No Paws (No Lions)
Wet Nightmare: Munch Munch
Stupid Street: Home Blitz
The Power of Independent Trucking: Big Black
Own Up Time: Jack O’Fire
I Hear Goodnight: Low/Dirty
Notes and Chords Mean Nothing To Me: The Monkeywrench
Cocaine: Richard Pryor
King Kong: Jimmy Castor Bunch
Since You’ve Been Gone: James Brown
Train Blue: Masato Minami
The Rain Falls: Suishou No Fune
I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier Mama: John Lennon
Track 1: Fushitsusha
Like Death: High Rise
Tenshi No Gijinka 1: Keiji Haino
Banks of the Royal Canal: Bob Dylan
Two Fools: Francine King
Creole Love Call: Roland Kirk
Theme deYoyo: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Heart of the Sunrise: Yes
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We Bid You Goodnight: Grateful Dead, 02-28-69
Blah, Blah, Blah: Lenny Bruce
Up In Smoke (reprise): Cheech and Chong
March 18, 7am
A Season in Hell #27: School Layoffs, and a Dry Demartini
Tonight on the show, I spoke a bit about the California budget crises, which has led to a $40 million cut in education in SFUSD, where I teach. I, myself, have received a layoff notice, and it will hit me hard if I do not return to teaching next year. Hopefully the school district and the city/county of San Francisco will be able to come to a deal, regarding the city’s rainy day fund, and then they can rescind thee layoffs. Keep your fingers crossed please.
An old friend stopped by to say hello: Curtis Demartini. curtis was the former button monkey for Live 105 morning show host Alex Bennett, back in the 90s. We met at Burning Man, when I invited him to come on and do a show. We used to make a lot of fun of Alex. He’s easy to make fun of.
Curtis and Chuck Farnum (who phoned in) have a website, you can access here. They look for a weird time wherever they can find it.
You can access the entire show here. See the play list below.
I love livin; in the city: Danko Jones
Hard Time Killer Floor Blues: Skip James
Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis
Black Cross: 45 Grave
Freak Shop USA: Monster Magnet
Curtis Demartini & Chuck Farnum
Army of Ideal: Nothing People
What do you want from Life?: The Tubes
Curtis Demartini & Chuck Farnum
Come on, come on: Little Birdie
Gli Amanti D’Oltretomba: Black Sunday
These Days: Psychedelic Horseshit
Still Sleep: Tyvek
Movies for You: Little Claw
Message from the law: Sic Alps
Relentless Machines: Thomas Function
Alergy: Times New Viking
Sexiest: Sonic Chicken 4
Teabag Party: King Khan & BBQ
Killy Kundane: Dirty Three
Lanky: Syd Barrett
James Bond Theme: Naked City (12-05-90)
Flower Sun Rain: Boris (11-18-06)
You Don’t Love Me: Bloomfield Super Session
Shotgun Blues: Downchild Blues Band
Whiskey & Women: Hooker & Heat
Bring it on Back Home: Sonny Boy Williamson
Rap: Neil Cassidy
Cryptical Envelopment->
Drums->
The Other One->
Cryptical Envelopment: The Grateful Dead (02-27-69)
?: John Coltrane (06-26-65)
Streams of Whiskey: The Pogues
March 17, 3pm
I had two, count them two, guests on tonight: Ragi the lawyer, and the amazing, the wonderful, the splendiferous MC that is Mikl-em.
The show opens with an hour of courtly debate, when Ragi the lawyer comes by and threatens the listeners, saying he will refuse to take their questions off line, unless they call the show and ask him questions on line. Take a listen to just what exactly happened.
Mikl-em comes by after with a butt-load of great punk/indie music. Mikl-em and I have a hard time going two seconds without talking music. And you better be in the know when you’re around us, because we’re elitist snobs, you sot.
What exactly is a butt-load anyway?
Take a listen here.
I Love Livin’ In The City: Danko Jones
A Change is Gonna Come
Vicious: Lou Reed (12-26-72)
Where Eagles Dare: Bratmobile
See No Evil: Television
Ragi the Lawyer
Under the Shade: Fantasy
Bud In Yo Pocket: 50 Million
Sexy Boy: Fantasy
Far Away Eyes: Rolling Stones
Aint No Water in the Well: Husker Du
Pink Turns to Blue: Husker Du
If Regan Played Disco: Minutemen
Inhuman: Sonic Youth
Perry: Butthole Surfers
Just Got Paid: Rapeman
Hit a Man: Treat Her Right
Ace of Spades: Paska
Waiting Room: Red Hot Chili Peppers
I Heard it on the X: Olivelawn
Aint Talkin’ About Love: Minutemen
Towers of Dub: The Dylan Group
Black Diamond: The Replacements
The Orchids: Califone
Loop 41 Houston: The Fall
Drunkard’s Lament: Firewater
Alcohol: The Kinks
Bombed: Mark Lanegan
God’s Been Drinking: Bernadette Seacrest & Her Yes Men
Blues in A: Robyn Hitchcock
Beer: Artless
Mary Marie: Tom Verlaine
Carmelita: Warren Zevon
I’m Fucking Matt Damon
I’m Fucking Ben Afflec
Free James Brown (so he can run me down): Foetus
Hemo thee Cuckold: Foetus
Bombe A Mano: Mike Patton
We Care A Lot: Faith No More
Kissin’ Cousins: The Saints
Sistine Chapel: Hell Mach 4
Reality Dealer: I Am Spoonbender
No Firture: Rah Bras
Lean Woman Blues: T Rex
I don’t drink white zinfindel either. ew.
