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DoublePlusGood

Sep 9, 2021 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

With Lizbot

A Tribute to Susan Anway, original vocalist of The Magnetic Fields

Underneath the City In the Catacombs: A Tribute to Susan Anway

Underneath the City In the Catacombs: A Tribute to Susan Anway, original vocalist of The Magnetic Fields

DoublePlusGood
5:04 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Smoke Signals
The Magnetic Fields Smoke Signals
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
Susan Anway, original lead vocalist of the Magnetic Fields, just passed away fro, Parkinsons. This is her tribute.
5:08 PM
The Magnetic Fields - You Love to Fail
The Magnetic Fields You Love to Fail Stephin Merritt
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP Records 1991
5:10 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Summer Lies
The Magnetic Fields Summer Lies
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
2nd studio album
5:13 PM
The Magnetic Fields - The Saddest Story Ever Told
The Magnetic Fields The Saddest Story Ever Told
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
5:15 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Old Orchard Beach
The Magnetic Fields Old Orchard Beach Stephin Merritt
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
When we go dancing underneath the city in the catacombs When we go dancing the strobe lights and the disco will bring us home. I know Old Orchard Beach is where you belong You can go back, but, baby, that won't make you young The wind will blow or it won't The stars come out or they don't The world goes round or we get thrown into the stars.
5:19 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Lovers from the Moon
The Magnetic Fields Lovers from the Moon
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
5:21 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Jeremy
The Magnetic Fields Jeremy Stephin Merritt
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
5:24 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Railroad Boy
The Magnetic Fields Railroad Boy Stephin Merritt
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
5:27 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Dancing In Your Eyes
The Magnetic Fields Dancing In Your Eyes
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
5:32 PM
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5:32 PM
The Magnetic Fields - When You Were My Baby
The Magnetic Fields When You Were My Baby Stephin Merritt
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
5:35 PM
The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
The Magnetic Fields 100,000 Fireflies Stephin Merritt
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
"I went out to the forest and caught A hundred thousand fireflies As they ricochet round the room They remind me of your starry eyes."
5:39 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me (Susan Anway, Vocal)
The Magnetic Fields Take Ecstasy With Me (Susan Anway, Vocal) Stephin Merritt
Oh, Merge: A Merge Records 10 Year Anniversary Compilation V/A Merge 1999
The Susan Anway version!
5:42 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Living In an Abandoned Firehouse With You
The Magnetic Fields Living In an Abandoned Firehouse With You
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
5:46 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Babies Falling
The Magnetic Fields Babies Falling
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
5:49 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave
The Magnetic Fields Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave Stephin Merritt
The Wayward Bus PoPuP 1992
5:52 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Josephine
The Magnetic Fields Josephine
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
"If I were Napoleon, you could be my Josephine We could go to drive-in films in my red convertible If I were Napoleon, I might be in magazines I'd write some science fiction - science fiction about you"
5:55 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Tar-Heel Boy
The Magnetic Fields Tar-Heel Boy Stephin Merritt
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
5:57 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Crowd of Drifters (Susan Anway Version)
The Magnetic Fields Crowd of Drifters (Susan Anway Version) Stephin Merritt
Doctor Death's Volume IV - The Marvels Of Insect Life V/A C'est La Mort 1990
Later released with Stephin Merritt vocals
6:01 PM
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lizbot spins

6:05 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Kings
The Magnetic Fields Kings
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
6:07 PM
The Magnetic Fields - Falling In Love With the Wolfboy
The Magnetic Fields Falling In Love With the Wolfboy Stephin Merritt
Distant Plastic Trees PoPuP 1991
6:12 PM
V - 1926
V 1926
The V EP Propeller Product 1982
V; were a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, comprising guitarists Gary Gogel and George Petcoff, drummer Matt Burns, bassist Joe Cuneo and vocalist Susan Anway. Active on the East Coast music scene from 1979-1982. Also known as Vee.
6:14 PM
David Bowie - Always Crashing In The Same Car
David Bowie Always Crashing In The Same Car
Low RCA Records 1977
Every chance, Every chance that I take I take it on the road
6:18 PM
Trees - Polly on the Shore
Trees Polly on the Shore
On the Shore CBS 1971
2nd and final album by British folk rock band Trees
6:24 PM
The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties
The Velvet Underground All Tomorrow's Parties
The Velvet Underground & Nico Verve Records 1966
an Anway favorite
6:30 PM
This Mortal Coil - Kangaroo
This Mortal Coil Kangaroo This Mortal Coil
It'll End in Tears 4AD 1984
6:33 PM
Renaissance - At the Harbour
Renaissance At the Harbour
Ashes Are Burning Sovereign 1973
6:40 PM
King Crimson - Starless
King Crimson Starless
Red Island Records 1974
in celebration of the KC show I saw on Tuesday night at The Mann - Their supposed final U.S. tour! Of course they played Starless
6:52 PM
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Paix
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes Paix Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
La déboussole Philips 1980
French experimental progressive group that existed 1970-1980, rooted in the short-lived 1969 outfit Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis. Fronted by Portuguese born female singer Catherine Ribeiro, Alpes was the multi-instrumental backing group led by Patrice Moullet and a roster of other musicians that changed over the years. Their music cross-bred folk and psychedelic musics, with avant-garde and space-rock elements, and often featured special home-made instruments like the Cosmophone (a guitar/lyre hybrid), Percuphone (a mechanical rhythm machine), Orgolia (a large metallic violin) and other inventions.
7:04 PM
Steffen Schleiermacher - Mad Rush
Steffen Schleiermacher Mad Rush Philip Glass
Glass: Early Keyboard Music Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm 2000
German composer, pianist, conductor and co-founder of the Ensemble Avantgarde, which is committed Contemporary classical music until today.
7:10 PM
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7:10 PM
Gentle Giant - Edge Of Twilight
Gentle Giant Edge Of Twilight
Acquiring The Taste Vertigo 1971
2nd studio album
7:14 PM
Beak> - When We Fall
Beak> When We Fall Beak>
>>> Temporary Residence Ltd. 2018
BEAK> were formed in January 2009 by three Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller, Matt Williams and Geoff Barrow of Portishead. They are heavily krautrock influenced.
7:19 PM
Weyes Blood - Movies
Weyes Blood Movies Natalie Mering
Titanic Rising Sub Pop Records 2019
Doylestown's own
7:25 PM
John Maus - Hey Moon
John Maus Hey Moon John Maus
We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves Ribbon Music 2011
7:29 PM
Felt - Declaration
Felt Declaration
Poem of the River - EP Cherry Red Records 1987
"I will be The first person in history To die Of boredom And I will have As my epitaph The second line of "Black Ship In The Harbour"" (which IS "I was a pauper I was second class I was a moment That quickly passed") from 1985's Ignite The Seven Cannons And Set Sail For The Sun
7:31 PM
The Chameleons - View From A Hill
The Chameleons View From A Hill
Script of the Bridge Statik Records 1983
7:38 PM
Leonard Cohen - Take This Longing
Leonard Cohen Take This Longing R
New Skin for the Old Ceremony Columbia/Legacy 1974
4th studio album
7:42 PM
Tom Waits - Watch Her Disappear
Tom Waits Watch Her Disappear
Alice Anti/Epitaph 2002
14th studio album. The album contains the majority of songs written for the play Alice, directed by experimental stage director and playwright Robert Wilson, best known for his collaboration with Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs on Einstein on the Beach and the CIVIL warS: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down with David Byrne and Gavin Bryars, a 12-hour piece in 6 parts.
7:44 PM
Marianne Nowottny - The Bell Ringer
Marianne Nowottny The Bell Ringer Marianne Nowottny
Afraid of Me Abaton Book Company 1999
7:48 PM
Sibylle Baier - The End
Sibylle Baier The End Sibylle Baier
Colour Green Orange Twin 2006
German folk singer and actress whose previously unreleased recordings from the early 70s finally saw the light of day as 2006's album Colour Green. She appeared in Wim Wenders' 1973 film Alice in the Cities, and her music is also featured in 1975's Umarmungen und andere Sachen and in Wim Wenders' "Palermo Shooting" from 2008.
7:51 PM
Flock of Dimes - 100 Knives
Flock of Dimes 100 Knives
You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This (20 Year Anniversary) Double Double Whammy 2000
a tribute to the 20th anniversary of Mirah YomTov Zeitlyn's incredible 2000 debut, You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This. Flock of Dimes is a solo project of Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner.
7:55 PM
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7:58 PM
Robyn Hitchcock - The Abandoned Brain
Robyn Hitchcock The Abandoned Brain
Eaten By Her Own Dinner EP Midnight Music 1986
"I'm sitting here, in the abandoned brain, Waiting for take off in it. They say its never going to work again, But I can spare a few minutes."
Chat is archived.
Christine 🦊 5:02:31 PM
We really oughta get some counseling.
Alan Pasnyk 5:04:16 PM
Hi Christine ! ✨ That last Stones track really hit the spot....
Steve Volaric 5:04:54 PM
Oh no! Sorry to hear this, RIP. 🥲
Rob from Maryland 5:05:00 PM
Oh man, this is sad news about Susan Anway. (btw I won't be able to listen for another hour)
Christine 🦊 5:05:49 PM
Hi, Alan! 🌕 Moonlight Mile is one of my favorites.
Lizbot (host) 5:05:50 PM
Bot here! Hi Rob! Hi Steve! Hi Alan! Hi Christine!
Lizbot (host) 5:06:02 PM
Man, how's it already 5 after?!
Alan Pasnyk 5:06:11 PM
Hi Lizbot!! Sorry to hear about Magnetic Fields, one of my Most Favorite Artists...
Rob from Maryland 5:06:19 PM
Hi Lizbot, Christine, Alan, Steve
Alan Pasnyk 5:07:14 PM
Rob! Hope u r doin' ok...
Lizbot (host) 5:07:44 PM
I love these first two Magnetic Fields albums so much, so I'm very happy to play a huge chunk of them starting off the show today...but sad about the reason why I'm doing it. I had correspondences with Susan a number of times over the years and she actually suggested I interview her for the show, but alas, I never got around to it and I will always regret that
Lizbot (host) 5:07:47 PM
Hi Rob!
Christine 🦊 5:07:54 PM
Hi Lizbot 🤖, Alan, Rob, Steve! I am very sorry to hear about the passing of Susan Anway.
Lizbot (host) 5:09:35 PM
@Christine - I've been glum about it all day. I knew she was sick, but I didn't realize how bad it had gotten.
Lizbot (host) 5:09:52 PM
Wagner in dungarees
Lizbot (host) 5:09:59 PM
I love the lyrics of this song so much
Lizbot (host) 5:12:30 PM
@Steve, @Rob - I know, it's so sad. At least her voice lives on on these songs
Christine 🦊 5:13:19 PM
It's really awful news. I'm so sorry.
Alan Pasnyk 5:13:34 PM
Lizbot, Since I've been new to all this music on WPRB for the last 15 or so years, Thank You for introducing me to Magnetic Fields music back in March of this year, Anway will always be Remembered....
Brian D 5:15:05 PM
Sorry to hear. Always loved hearing her voice on the earlier songs.
Lizbot (host) 5:17:44 PM
@Alan - You're welcome. I love these first two albums so much, they are honestly two of my favorite albums ever
Lizbot (host) 5:17:58 PM
Hi Brian, yeah, I never tire of her voice
addie 5:18:06 PM
hey y'all! sad about the reason for it, but this is a lovely set.
Christine 🦊 5:19:28 PM
Hi, addie! I agree: it's gorgeous.
Alan Pasnyk 5:20:12 PM
As long as she is Remembered, a part of her still lives on... In us....
Lizbot (host) 5:20:13 PM
Hi Addie! Thanks, yeah. Like I said earlier, I hate the reason why, but I love an excuse to play a huge chunk of this music back to back
Lizbot (host) 5:21:52 PM
Susan was always very kind in correspondences with me. She also took a great interest in my daughter when she was younger. We almost visited her in Tucson back in 2015, but schedules didn't align
Rob from Maryland 5:22:43 PM
@Alan, I'm doing ok. How about you? Thankfully it's not raining here today.
Rob from Maryland 5:23:21 PM
@Lizbot, Susan sounds like a wonderful person. It's unfortunate you didn't interview her
Alan Pasnyk 5:23:34 PM
@ Rob: ok here escaped Destruction!
Rob from Maryland 5:23:36 PM
Hello addie
Alan Pasnyk 5:23:53 PM
Hi Addie! Autumn leaves!!
Rob from Maryland 5:24:04 PM
And hello Brian
Rob from Maryland 5:24:31 PM
@Alan, hooray!
Alan Pasnyk 5:24:33 PM
... And Brian! Hi!
Lizbot (host) 5:24:55 PM
@Rob - Yeah, I dropped the ball on that one. To be fair, I had a 1 year-old at the time that we discussed it and had a hard time finding time to work on projects like that
Lizbot (host) 5:25:16 PM
I feel like autumn descended upon us very suddenly!
Alan Pasnyk 5:25:31 PM
@ Lizbot: So much music... So Little Time>>
Lizbot (host) 5:26:09 PM
I have to readjust to it getting dark out during my show
addie 5:26:10 PM
hi Rob and Alan!
Lizbot (host) 5:26:20 PM
@Alan - Exactly
Lizbot (host) 5:26:40 PM
I feel like this music is suited to usher in the fall
addie 5:26:53 PM
@alan the leaves are definitely turning here already, it feels too soon!
Alan Pasnyk 5:26:58 PM
I'm not ready for Autumn yet...maybe later...
Lizbot (host) 5:28:26 PM
@Alan - Yeah, it feels too soon! I love the fall, but I got seasonal whiplash from how quickly we went from hot dog days of summer to being thrust into what feels like mid-fall. Also, my kid just started 7th grade yesterday and the adjustment has been...challenging
Alan Pasnyk 5:28:49 PM
Maybe there will be an Indian Summer T-Shirt time later??
Alan Pasnyk 5:29:05 PM
( I hope!)
Christine 🦊 5:29:31 PM
@Alan, I hope so 🌞
Lizbot (host) 5:29:40 PM
@Alan - Maybe. I will wear a t-shirt for as long as reasonably possible either way!
Alan Pasnyk 5:30:18 PM
@ Christine: Clear Indian Summer Nights ✨
Christine 🦊 5:35:10 PM
I'll keep wearing my rotation of PRB t-shirts, per usual. 👕 Minus one, because my 11-year-old niece recently claimed one (the one from 2015 with the cassette tape art).
addie 5:36:24 PM
it's always tshirt weather if you just layer creatively!
Lizbot (host) 5:36:38 PM
I don't know if anyone here has school-aged kids, but my current biggest complaint with the seasonal change is really just that I wasn't ready for her to be back in school. We were down the shore until the day before the 1st day of school. I have not readjusted my mind! I also don't love that the school buses aren't an option now so we gotta get up super extra very very early
addie 5:37:06 PM
we avoid that problem by homeschooling!
Lizbot (host) 5:37:47 PM
@Addie, Christine, Alan - I am bummed I didn't wear my King Crimson shirt to the show at the Mann Tuesday night! I like the one I got at their 50th anniversary show at The Met. Would've blended in with all the other prog dudes.
Lizbot (host) 5:38:12 PM
@Addie - Tempting... My kid's best friend is trying home-schooling for the first time this school year
addie 5:38:14 PM
what a missed opportunity @lizbot!
Alan Pasnyk 5:38:31 PM
@ Lizbot: WOW! this is the First track that I heard (100,000) you play back in March of this year, And I Absolutely Love It!! ❤️
Christine 🦊 5:39:10 PM
@Lizbot, why blend in when you can stand out? 😊
Lizbot (host) 5:39:42 PM
@Alan - Glad to hear it!
Lizbot (host) 5:40:53 PM
@Christine - True, true. Anyway, I think it was SUPPOSEDLY the final American tour...(we'll see about that! I don't believe it!)...so I missed my possible final opportunity to nerd out about various KC shirt designs in the KC shirt club!
Christine 🦊 5:42:23 PM
🙏 I pray to the gods of music that this isn't their final American tour...
Lizbot (host) 5:45:30 PM
@Christine - Seriously! I feel like they wouldn't plan that 50th anniversary tour back in 2019, another in 2020 (that got postponed until 2021) and then SUDDENLY pull the rug out from under us...right? It's KC feast or famine! And they've been so tight on these tours. Fripp even did another league of crafty guitarists/ frippertronics workshop last month. My friend Reg participated!
Christine 🦊 5:49:00 PM
@Lizbot, that LoCG/Frippertronics workshop must have been interesting. 🎸🎶
Bud Burroughs 5:49:17 PM
I'm hoping they'll still do small strings of shows or something. I get that most of them are getting pretty old to spend 2 months on the road.
Lizbot (host) 5:49:29 PM
Hi Bud!
Bud Burroughs 5:50:02 PM
Hi LizBot! I was there too, by the way, wearing my obscure Free Salamander Exhibit T-shirt.
Lizbot (host) 5:50:43 PM
@Christine - Yeah, I'll bet! Reg shared the 2-day workshop schedule and it was intense! She also got a pretty sweet one-on-one photo with Mr. Robert Fripp! Reg is Reg Bloor of Paranoid Critical Revolution and the Glenn Branca ensemble
Lizbot (host) 5:51:25 PM
@Bud - Nice!!!! I wonder if I saw you and didn't realize it. I was in the farthest left seat 4th two back in the pit
Bud Burroughs 5:52:12 PM
Ooh, closer than me! I was in Row Q, near the center. Sounded great from there.
Lizbot (host) 5:53:24 PM
@Bud & Christine - The guy sitting next to my husband was a middle school teacher who said his students are suddenly aware of Fripp and Crimson because of Robert & Toyah's Sunday Brunch weekly covers going viral on YouTube! Haha! And here I thought the kids solely used TikTok these days
Bud Burroughs 5:54:21 PM
That's pretty funny! Although some of those videos aren't particularly kid-friendly :)
Lizbot (host) 5:54:22 PM
@Bud - Center would've been better for sound! Fripp was on the far right of the stage (when facing it) and we had the speakers basically right above our heads
Brian D 5:54:39 PM
I have a Dobro. It sounds like a mountain range...
Christine 🦊 5:55:09 PM
These lyrics 💯💮
Bud Burroughs 5:55:53 PM
Yeah, there was even quite a bit of stereo spread to the mix, particularly in the drums.
Lizbot (host) 5:56:54 PM
@Brian D - 100,000 Fireflies is perfection
Lizbot (host) 5:57:50 PM
@Bud - Yeah, honestly, SO glad it was at the Mann so I felt comfortable being an outdoor show....BUT, the sound at The Met in 2019 was SO much better!
Brian D 5:58:35 PM
I think i heard a Stephin vocal version of 100,000 Fireflies on WPRB once...
Bud Burroughs 5:58:49 PM
I agree about the sound at the Met. But yeah, don't know if I'd have been comfortable going if it hadn't been semi-outdoors.
Brian D 5:59:13 PM
Crim at Garden State Arts Ctr was so good!
Brian D 5:59:34 PM
very undersold though
Christine 🦊 6:02:46 PM
The KC show at the Met was the last concert of theirs I was fortunate enough to go to. The Met is a fantastic venue. What an incredible night! ✨
Christine 🦊 6:03:14 PM
@Brian, I am envious!
Dennis Lingg 6:04:53 PM
That Crowd of Drifters find was amazing.
Lizbot (host) 6:06:07 PM
Hi Dennis! Yeah, I was really happy to find that version! I like it better than Stephin's vocals version, not that I don't like a good Stephin-sung track
Rob from Maryland 6:06:45 PM
I am bummed that I missed the first hour of the show. But now we get to hear a few Susan Anway songs. ☺️
Rob from Maryland 6:07:13 PM
We need to find our Anway-era Mag Fields cds pronto
Lizbot (host) 6:07:57 PM
@Rob - Sorry you missed it! You can go back and find these songs and recreate it...or I could actually eventually get around to uploading my shows to mixcloud one of these days!
Rob from Maryland 6:08:45 PM
@Lizbot, we may recreate it. And find the old cds!
Lizbot (host) 6:08:47 PM
@Bud - Yeah, exactly. It was perfect conditions for the Mann, and a beautiful night
Lizbot (host) 6:09:38 PM
@Brian D - When was the Garden State Arts Ctr show? I think my least fav time seeing them was at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank but that had more to do with our crappy seats that time
Alan Pasnyk 6:09:56 PM
This "Wolfboy" track = Real Bot music !
Rob from Maryland 6:10:16 PM
Breaking: My wife saw the old Mag Fields cds in the basement mess and will dig it out and we will get to hear all the Anway songs 😊
Lizbot (host) 6:10:21 PM
@Christine - The Met 50th anniversary show was my all-time favorite KC show hands down! Such an incredible night!
Lizbot (host) 6:12:45 PM
This is Susan's first band, V, also sometimes known as Vee, from Boston in the early 80s
Lizbot (host) 6:14:56 PM
@Rob - Excellent! Good digging around on your wife's part!
Lizbot (host) 6:15:40 PM
@Alan - It's true! And Wolfboy combines bots with a wolf theme! Two things I'm passionate about!
Christine 🦊 6:16:14 PM
👨‍🎤 💙❤✨
Rob from Maryland 6:16:46 PM
@Lizbot, she was looking for Coil's Horse Rotovator a few days ago when she noticed the Mag Fields cd
Brian D 6:19:11 PM
Garden State Arts Ctr was last Sat
Lizbot (host) 6:19:42 PM
@Rob - Funny you should mention Horse Rotovator because I very nearly included Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) in today's playlist. It could still happen, it wouldn't be out of place later in the show, but I know I'm gonna run outta time before I get to just the songs I planned for today
Bud Burroughs 6:19:53 PM
Ooh, Trees! I love obscure folk rock.
Lizbot (host) 6:20:19 PM
@Brian D - Where's Garden State Arts Ctr? I haven't been there.
Lizbot (host) 6:20:35 PM
@Bud - Yes! I love this album. Too bad they didn't record more than 2 albums
Brian D 6:22:15 PM
Holmdel NJ. Beautiful spaceship venue. More breezy ventilated than the Mann.
Bud Burroughs 6:22:38 PM
My least favorite Crimson show: sometime in the 90s at the TLA, because it was around 100 degrees inside and they hadn't yet leveled the floor, so standing on a slope was very uncomfortable. The performance (the Double Trio) was excellent.
Brian D 6:22:48 PM
But i love the Mann
Brian D 6:23:49 PM
It's up by the Highlands / Sandy Hook
Lizbot (host) 6:23:57 PM
@Bud - Yeah, I have seen so many bands at the TLA but have never been a fan of that venue! It's always frustrating to see bands there, but so many bands I love have played there
Rob from Maryland 6:24:14 PM
@Lizbot, my wife says: "Ostia is the best!!!" and "I will scream uncontrollably with happiness if you do play it"
Bud Burroughs 6:24:33 PM
It's still not a great venue, but there have at least been some improvements.
Brian D 6:24:38 PM
Sun breaking through
Lizbot (host) 6:24:52 PM
Oh man, I left my mic on during that last 5 songs! Did anyone hear me typing?!
Rob from Maryland 6:25:11 PM
Meanwhile, I like this Trees song. I did not know of this band before. Thanks, Lizbot!
Christine 🦊 6:25:15 PM
I didn't hear any typing.
Rob from Maryland 6:25:22 PM
@Lizbot, I did not hear any typing
Lizbot (host) 6:25:23 PM
@Brian D - Sounds like a great venue! I'd probably like it better than Red Hook. Red Hook was okay, just got the worst seats
Alan Pasnyk 6:25:31 PM
@ Lizbot: Not here..
Lizbot (host) 6:25:44 PM
@ROb , @ Christine - Phew! Glad I didn't bang around my water bottle or anything!
Christine 🦊 6:26:29 PM
You must have been in < StealthBot > mode. 🤖
Brian D 6:26:31 PM
They renamed it PNC Bank Ctr but.... i refuse to call it that
Rob from Maryland 6:26:33 PM
Better to have it on between set breaks than not turn it on for the set breaks like one of last night's djs did
Alan Pasnyk 6:26:49 PM
@ Lizbot: Even Bottle Banging is not as bad as commrcial radio!!!!!!
Lizbot (host) 6:26:53 PM
@Rob - Glad to introduce you to Trees! I was playing British folk revival stuff in my kitchen last night and returned to that album for the first time in a while after listening to some Steeleye Span (Which my daughter found hilarious to rhyme with Steely Dan)
Lizbot (host) 6:27:08 PM
@ROb - True!!
Brian D 6:27:52 PM
Love Maddy Prior and Steeleye Spann! And June Tabor.
Lizbot (host) 6:28:14 PM
@Brian D - yeah, I can understand why! PNC Bank Ctr isn't a proper venue name, it's an ad! I hate how many times these venues change names due to bank mergers too! I'm glad the Mann remains the same!
Brian D 6:28:22 PM
Saw Maddy solo at Phila Folk Fest once
Christine 🦊 6:28:37 PM
@Rob, but we got to hear an EZ Listening version of Devo's Mongoloid, which was pretty nice...
Lizbot (host) 6:29:09 PM
Also, a really nice full-circle thing is that my husband's very first King Crimson show was 25 years ago at The Mann, so it was nice to return there for this "final" tour!
Bud Burroughs 6:29:19 PM
Lizbot, speaking of obscure British folk rock, are you familiar with the album Fly On Strangewings by Jade, from 1970? (Credited to Silver Jade on some releases)
Rob from Maryland 6:29:43 PM
@Christine, that version was really nice
Lizbot (host) 6:31:49 PM
@Christine and rob - yeah, I like those DEVO instrumentals as bed music a lot. Dana makes great use of them
Lizbot (host) 6:32:16 PM
@Brian D - Oooh, nice! I'd like to see Maddy Prior live
Lizbot (host) 6:32:54 PM
@Bud - Jade/Silver Jade? No! I gotta check that out!
Bud Burroughs 6:33:54 PM
I think you'll like it. I only learned about it from bassist Pete Sears. It was the last project he was involved with in England before moving to the US.
Lizbot (host) 6:37:04 PM
@Bud - I gotta check it out! Sounds up my alley
Lizbot (host) 6:37:48 PM
@Rob - I can't hear Annie Haslam without thinking about her infirm cat she told me all about at NEARfest Apocalypse. That cat would be 150 in cat years if it were still alive now
Rob from Maryland 6:39:41 PM
@Lizbot, that sounds like an amusing story (I deleted my comment b/c I got the songs mixed up)
Lizbot (host) 6:40:22 PM
HERE ya go, ya Kram Crimsong fans
Christine 🦊 6:41:06 PM
Very nice. 💗
Bud Burroughs 6:41:21 PM
Excellent!
Christine 🦊 6:41:50 PM
Kram Crimsong lol
Lizbot (host) 6:42:13 PM
My husband said he was incredulous the first time he heard Starless, in his best friend's dad's car on the way to the Spring Gulch Folk Festival when he was 13, because he thought it was "just a ballad". By the end, it was his favorite KC song
Lizbot (host) 6:42:59 PM
It never ceases to amaze me how Fripp barely moves when playing. He's perfectly upright
Bud Burroughs 6:43:42 PM
I love how they make their one and only lighting change during this song on the last few tours. Fading from white to red during the instrumental at the end!
Lizbot (host) 6:45:15 PM
oh so sneaky and lurking
Lizbot (host) 6:45:47 PM
@Bud - Yes! I love that! Also, fitting given the album from when Starless comes
Brian D 6:46:07 PM
This was such a highlight! Thanks for playing this!
Brian D 6:48:08 PM
that clang clang gtr.... Jakko and Bob nailed it
Lizbot (host) 6:49:44 PM
@Brian D - Of course!
Lizbot (host) 6:53:08 PM
From one epic into another!
Lizbot (host) 7:15:03 PM
@Bud - Speaking of early 70s folk, I'm gonna play German folk singer Sibylle Baier whose sound overlaps with that Brit folk revival stuff
Alan Pasnyk 7:28:12 PM
Clouds clearing, evening, Weyes then John setting the mood....Nice !
Lizbot (host) 7:28:48 PM
@Alan - Thanks! Watching the sky darken from the windows of my home studio
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:31:27 PM
Hi Liz
Mary Jones 7:31:58 PM
Just wanna pop in and say how lucky I feel to live in an area that gets WPRB. (I know we can get it through the internet, and I’ve done that on vacation, but still…)
Lizbot (host) 7:32:01 PM
Hi Vaughn! I guess I summoned you by talking about watching the skies!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:32:19 PM
Some pretty decent weather coming over the next several days. Please enjoy.
Mary Jones 7:32:25 PM
The music tonight—as usual—has been so, so good.
Lizbot (host) 7:33:19 PM
Hi Mary! I feel the same way re: having WPRB in our terrestrial [and internet] presence, filling the air with music I love. I have found so many great artists through this station over the years
Lizbot (host) 7:33:36 PM
@Mary - re: the music tonight - Thanks!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:34:00 PM
WPRB is as always the best place for music discovery.
Lizbot (host) 7:34:05 PM
@Mary - I hope you and Dennis had a great summer! I'm in denial that it's come to an end
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:35:19 PM
Any Cocteau Twins Liz?
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:37:34 PM
I'm loving this track from the Chameleons. Amazing.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:39:04 PM
OMG! Leonard Cohen
Christine 🦊 7:39:31 PM
💜 Lenny
Lizbot (host) 7:39:33 PM
@Vaughn - Funny you should mention Cocteau Twins because I almost added Cherry-coloured Funk to this playlist earlier today. Basically running out of time, so I won't get to it, but you are definitely on the same wavelength. CT would fit in well in tonight's show
Lizbot (host) 7:39:58 PM
@Vaughn - Glad you enjoyed The Chameleons track!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:40:20 PM
I got out work early & got to tune in. Ordinarily this never happens.
Mary Jones 7:40:48 PM
@Liz yeah, considering what state the world is in, we’ve had a surprisingly great summer! A week down the shore, Colorado for a wedding, lots of gardening and swimming at my mom’s house. We’ve been very lucky, and I’m not ready for it to be over either. But I like autumn, so it’s not so bad.
Lizbot (host) 7:40:58 PM
@Christine & @Vaughn - Yeah, overcast/rainy autumn days/nights call for some Cohen!
Mary Jones 7:41:28 PM
@Liz I’m envious of you seeing King Crimson!
Lizbot (host) 7:41:54 PM
I was just talking to my MIL over the weekend about what a consummate showman Leonard Cohen was. We both saw him on the same tour, me in NYC and she in Philly, and were blown away. What a great backing band he assembled too
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:41:56 PM
No worries my friend. Just knowing we were on the same wavelength & they were on your mind to is thrilling to me.
Alan Pasnyk 7:42:32 PM
Lizbot: I had both the FM and laptop on for that Chameleons track, and the percussion exactly matched the FM time delay, gave a slightly eerie effect...
Lizbot (host) 7:42:37 PM
@Vaughn - haha, great!
Lizbot (host) 7:43:00 PM
@Mary - It was a great show, a ventilated show! (The Mann)
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:43:21 PM
Tom Waits.... incredible
Dennis Lingg 7:43:31 PM
Banjo tango!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:44:03 PM
This has the same feeling as the track I wonder what he is doing in there?
jimbeaux 7:44:13 PM
Yeooo Lizbot!
Lizbot (host) 7:44:22 PM
@Mary - I'm glad you and Dennis had a great summer! We got in a good amount of shore and one road-trip, and it turned out to be a really good summer, all things considered. I love autumn, but yeah, I'm not ready for the summer to end and it ended too abruptly!
Lizbot (host) 7:44:30 PM
Hi Dennis!
Lizbot (host) 7:44:47 PM
@Dennis - banjo tango indeed!
Lizbot (host) 7:44:58 PM
Hi jimbeaux!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:46:43 PM
Marianne Nowottny's voice reminds me of Patti Smith.
Rob from Maryland 7:47:06 PM
We were taking the trash and recycling to the street while Leonard Cohen was playing. That somehow seemed appropriate
Lizbot (host) 7:47:12 PM
@Vaughn - Oh yeah, there's some overlap there
Rob from Maryland 7:47:22 PM
hello jimbeaux
Lizbot (host) 7:47:42 PM
@Jimbeaux - How've you been? I hope autumn/back to school proceedings are going smoothly!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:48:27 PM
I love this track from Marianne Nowottny Wow! I've never heard of her before.
Dennis Lingg 7:48:31 PM
I remember buying a pair of book-CDs at tower records featuring diy instruments with a forward by Tom Waits. It had Wendy Carlos and Don Buchla and a bunch of other cool folks.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:50:06 PM
Sibylle Baier has such a great voice. I love folk music so much.
Lizbot (host) 7:50:06 PM
@Rob - Haha, Take this recycling from my bin. All the useless things my hands have tossed. Let me see your cardboard broken down Like you would do for one you love Like you would do for one you love
jimbeaux 7:50:16 PM
Doing well Lizbot...sunmer can't be over, I'm months behind :) Yo Rob!
Lizbot (host) 7:50:41 PM
@Vaughn - And she's not a bad actor either!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:51:58 PM
Folk music has to be my top as far as genres go. Do you remember an artist named Bob Lind?
Lizbot (host) 7:53:22 PM
@Dennis - Whoa. Was it Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones booklet/CD by Ellipsis Arts??? I love that collection. All music made with and composed for homemade instruments with a thick hardcover yellow booklet. I bought it in West Philly at Bindlestiff Books on Baltimore Ave 18 or so years sgo
Lizbot (host) 7:54:04 PM
@jimbeaux - glad to hear it! yeah, I'm always 2 weeks behind! and 2 hours behind every day. That will be my epitaph.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:54:12 PM
He did Bright Illusive Butterfly, which was a hit. But I love his song Since there were circles.
Lizbot (host) 7:54:35 PM
@Vaughn - Yes! I need to revisit Bob Lind though!
Rob from Maryland 7:55:13 PM
@Lizbot, confusion won't be your epitaph?
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 7:55:33 PM
Yeah I'm shocked that his stuff didn't go further. He was very talented.
Christine 🦊 7:56:19 PM
@Rob, lol
Dennis Lingg 7:56:55 PM
Yes! There was a yellow and blue one
Alan Pasnyk 7:59:26 PM
Almost 8pm already, Thanks Lizbot for putting together a fine Tribute to one of my Favorites, Magnetic Fields, ad astra Susan Anway ✨❤️
Lizbot (host) 7:59:26 PM
@Rob - That'd be the B-side/ back side of my tomb
Dennis Lingg 8:00:18 PM
Fantastic set, Lizbot!
Christine 🦊 8:00:31 PM
Thank you, Lizbot 🙏 What a wonderful tribute 💜
Rob from Maryland 8:00:46 PM
@Lizbot, of course! Thanks for this special show tonight in memory/honor of Susan Anway
Lizbot (host) 8:01:06 PM
@Dennis - Awesome! Yeah, I LOVE that collection! Shake up Adina by Sugarbelly (who plays a gourd) is one of my favs from it. I sometimes play it on ++good
Lizbot (host) 8:01:21 PM
@Rob - Thanks for joining me!
Lizbot (host) 8:01:27 PM
Thanks, Christine!
Lizbot (host) 8:01:43 PM
Thanks for hanging everyone! See you next week!