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Jon Solomon

May 31, 2023 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Jon Solomon

For those of you keeping score at home, it is me Jon Solomon, heard every Wednesday night on 103.3 fm WPRB...including this one! Requests? Please email me or chime in through the listener chat, champ.

5.31.23

En Attendant Ana live at Jerry's On Front last Saturday night.

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death Of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:04 PM		Set Break
5:10 PM		En Attendant Ana Ada, Mary, Diane N Principia Trouble In Mind 2023 Gosh, they were great on Saturday.
5:13 PM		Bob Destiny Wang Dang Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World V/A Habibi Funk 2017
5:17 PM		Ayako Shinozaki Heterodyne N Music Now For Harp WeWantSounds Originally released in 1974, with Takehisa Kosugi on violin + sound waves.
5:42 PM		Bill Orcutt Anxiety of Symmetry I The Anxiety of Symmetry 2023
5:58 PM		Man or Astro-Man? Space 1991 Space 1991 Earth Libraries 2021
6:00 PM		Moon Orchids Into the Violet Skin/Skein 2023
6:07 PM		Throwing Muses Jak Firepile 4AD 1992 Volcano Suns cover.
6:09 PM		Set Break
6:19 PM		Naked Roommate Wandering Thumb Typical Girls, Vol. 6 V/A Emotional Response 2022
6:22 PM		Jeich ould Badu Elyn Music from Saharan WhatsApp V/A Sahel Sounds 2022
6:25 PM		Lazy Salon Deutzia N Bellis Local. Out Friday!
6:28 PM		Sharon Van Etten Memorial Day Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar 2019
6:32 PM		Anatomy Of Habit Black Openings Black Openings 2023
6:50 PM		Natural Information Society Is N Since Time Is Gravity Eremite 2023
7:02 PM		Wax Chattels Spanners & Implements Clot Flying Nun 2020
7:06 PM		Set Break
7:13 PM		Begushkin 23:29 Live on WPRB https://begushkin.bandcamp.com Photo from the Flickr of Scott Kiernan.
7:36 PM		Set Break
7:44 PM		Eggs The Government Administrator How Do You Like Your Lobster? Teen Beat 1995 I recently had a dream where I led a cafeteria in a rousing sing-along of this tune...
7:48 PM		Kid Millions & Jan St. Werner Dark Tetrad Imperium Droop Thrill Jockey Records 2021
7:56 PM		Olden Yolk Every Ark Living Theatre Trouble In Mind 2019

Chat is archived.

Why look at that, the chat is open!

GOOD. EVENING. ALL.

HIya

James!

Hello Mr. Solomon and everyone

I'm only here for a bit. Season 3 of I Think You Should Leave came out and I have a friend coming over to watch it with me around 6ish

ooo happy birthday eve to kiddo

I am so jealous of you and everyone else I know who saw En Attendant Ana at Jerry's!

Best spot at Jerry's - sidewalk out front.

I think "back left" was the right play in retrospect.

James, I love how much laughter that show brings People Who Are Not Me. I will watch it though because I keep trying / have a high tolerance for screaming.

Pat, I was actually surprised I didn't see more familiar faces at Jerry's. Good crowd though.

I'm very excited about I Think You Should Leave Season 3, not only because I hope there will be more hot dog based humor throughout but also because a very good/old friend directed a bunch of episodes.

There has only been one ITYSL scene that made me laugh loudly. It involved the late, great Fred Willard. I'm laughing again now thinking about it!

Holiday weekends can be a real crapshoot for show attendance but glad to hear there was a good turnout. That way they'll come back again and I can miss seeing them a third time.

Hot dog sketch was the best hahaha

Pat, I believe in you.

Jon have you seen the ITYSL sketch where some students go out to dinner with their old teacher?

I've seen all of seasons one and two.

hey Jon, hey all. getting a chancw to listen in for the first time in a while

Hey Sebastian. Was thinking of you earlier today, my friend.

*chance

aw. that's sweet

ok well that teacher sketch in season 2 I think, wherein the teacher keeps asking for a bite of Tim Robinson's cheeseburger, absolutely kills me every time. At this point I can practically recite it but it still leaves me cry laughing.

I appreciate the casting and how short each episode is, will keep soldiering on until it clicks (or it never does).

How's everyone doing today / tonight?

Hello chat…

(I worry that the harp / violin / sound waves combo might have blissed everyone out to the point of no return.)

Mary!

Hello Jon! I feel like I haven’t been on the chat in a while.

It happens to the best of us (well, not me on Wednesdays because that would be weird).

I have been instructed to tell you that Dennis sends his regards.

Please return the sentiment. Great to see you both over the weekend.

Yeah! I’m so glad you made it out to that. We’re so busy theses days, I feel like I never see people in person.

Same, honestly. Things ease up in mid-June on this end though...theoretically.

For us that’ll be July—moving day is June 23.

Ooh! Soon but not too soon I would imagine.

Three weeks shouldn’t be too bad.

I wonder if the guy I bought an oven from who said he was going to listen tonight tuned in and I also wonder if he was prepared for a 20+ minute harp drone -> what's coming next.

Who knows, you may be opening him up to a whole new world.

He was a former "radio guy" so anything is possible.

Well, I hope he’s hearing this!

Loooove this new Orcutt! I mean he had me at the Cleo 5 to 7 still on the sleeve!

Pat, I wondered if you had heard this one. This side is especially beautiful. Need to check out the first LP in this trilogy (I only knew "A Mechanical Joey").

Good evening chat folk

D! S! M!

Woo-ha!

This reminds me to track down that other Orcutt numbers thang

The Joey Ramone one?

That's it! I was trying to remember who was sampled for it

There's a third one in this "trilogy" I was just saying I have yet to hear. Unclear what direction the numbers go there (or who is saying them). Pat, do you know?

here's part one https://fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/pure-genius

have not listened yet though

Thanks!

Also, given the counting, Orcutt's gotta make it a quadrilogy, right?!

just gave it a quick sample and I can't say who the voice is

The end of "Jeffrey I Hear You" is just waiting for some looping.........

I was really into Laurie Anderson when I was in grade school (yes, I know how pompous that sounds) and this reminds me of those tapes I adored.

Jon, I think this is a safe space to say that.

I have told the story before of trying to let Laurie Anderson know about asking for a bunch of her cassettes for my bar mitzvah, yes?

Oh no!

Oh yes! This was in 2019 or early 2020.

Oh boy—how did that go?

She was a visiting professor at Princeton and one of her students was a favorite WPRB DJ of mine so I went to the end of term / class recital where each student presented the piece they were working on.

Which was great. Both some excellent pieces and also some Princeton students way out of their comfort zones taking big swings and failing.

Reception followed. Snacks and crackers. Laurie is there. Realize this is likely my only chance to tell her about these tapes / my bar mitzvah in my life.

So I go up to her and tell her.

"Those must have been some very old tapes," she says.

😬

It takes me a moment to realize that LAURIE ANDERSON THINKS I AM A CURRENT COLLEGE STUDENT.

It wasn't going to get any better than that so I made my way to my car and headed home.

LOL

Wow, that’s quite an ego boost!

America has a new World’s Oldest Teenager.

Ha.

wait a second, this isn't the old best show theme?!??!?!

seriously though, had no clue Throwing Muses ever covered the ol' Volcano Suns classic.

oh nice, background music button!

Need the FX stuff too, broken glass, siren, fart, etc...

Seeing the picture of En Attendant Ana… What’s the best way to find out about show’s happening at Jerry’s on Front? I’ve seen a few there, but more often than not, I find out about them too late.

Maybe this it too public a spot to ask? Or maybe if I have to ask I’ll never know.

only place I know to find out about Jerry's shows is via their Instagram

Oh thank god, I worried I was going soft by actually finding the Ted Lasso ending affecting.

Not perfect, but affecting.

I thought it was the one episode of this third season that earned the run time.

Fr1day, the Jerry's Instagram + Facebook are the best way to go. I don't think they have a "calendar" per se.

DSM, there are sound effects too!

I'll make a note to drop a couple next break...

Can only use it 20 times before I have to pay for the full version but that will get us through tonight...

Fr1day, the Jerry's Instagram has posted about a 6/4 show recently.

https://www.instagram.com/jerrysonfront/

Hope that helps.

Similarly, this... https://www.songkick.com/venues/3847884-jerrys-on-front

Hello there!

Dan Wade!

Dan, would liked to have seen a different team than Alabama in the WCWS but alas...

Hello Dan!

Dan is an upcoming guest on a Mary vs Movies episode, btw…

ha!

Wilhelm Scream!

fun with audio!

I’m having flashbacks to when I was a sound tech at a Philly theater company.

That sounds like a fun job Mary

It was great, I miss doing that.

My daughter was doing some theater tech sound effect work for one of her school's shows and it was fun by proxy for me.

Thanks for the sound effect display

DSM, thank YOU for the inspiration. This has easily been one of the more ridiculous Wednesdays in a while and I'm not complaining.

omg Dan in leather pants?!

First thing I do tomorrow is unlock the "pro" version of this program so all DJs can use it. Next, we import over a bunch of station IDs from the Barge.

Begushkin band photos were hard to come by...

I and probably TAndy would love a special show where it's just allllll the station IDs that exsist

Oh boy, I can’t wait to hear Marvin Rosen go all Morning Zoo with these sound effects.

Marv + The Mad Dog.

Last time I saw Dan it had been a few years since I'd seen him last and I guess he got really into body building and was Massive, and had also shaved his head Mr Clean style, and combined with his strange (compliment) personality, it was like pretty intense! lol

[20 minute contemporary minimal work followed by a series of reggaton sirens and a toilet flushing]

Woah, DSM.

lol Marvin using the effects

I've nearly typed about 30 different Morning Zoo-related jokes that I would have had to delete.

All these jokes lost like tears in the rain.

All these jokes lost like tears in the [cues rain sound effect].

Lunchtime with Lupica

Happy birthday Maggie!

que Holiday Road

Happy birthday, Jon's daughter!!

Hello radio peeps

I'm gonna miss having Mike's show accompany me on my evenings to work. But alas. Heya Dan and Jon and all.

I'm excited for some nighttime radio!

You're going to be hazed via chat

BRING IT

Oop, logged off to make dinner. I was sure pulling for northwestern in that last game. WCWS is my favorite week in OKC. Softball brings out the best in us

morning TAndy

What a great song to dream about

College softball is terrific. I love how all the "unspoken rules" of baseball are not a part of this sport.

Rob, it was a fun one to wake up from.

Cheering and celebrating and spiking bats is encouraged!

(both to this song and on the softball diamond.)

I really thought this was gonna be "spaceship or ufo landing" sound effect before I refreshed the playlist

Ha. I might have a few spare seconds after the final song for a couple more FX....

If anyone is interested in creating fitting background loops for mic breaks this program has a good looping function and you're welcome to take a crack...

Good night, stay safe in the smog. Lis bon Tom roulay

I didn't realize the havoc the Nova Scotia fires were having down here until I saw the air quality alert!

What's the program called?

Farrago.

From the makers of the program that saved WPRB during the pandemic, Audio Hijack.

I approve of this cat themed track

Rogue Amoeba. They do great stuff.

I will check it out!

Two hearty thumbs up to Rogue Amoeba

Twas a fun program, thanks Jon! Have a great vacation!

I didn't know about Farrago before this afternoon but a few Barge-destined DJs were asking about a way to play station IDs here to ease transitions between in-person shows and our radio friend Mike said this looked like a good fit. I installed and it is!

This song, as many sound effects as I am allowed and Dan are next. Thanks, everyone!

This was a great show, Jon!

Thanks, Rob. Still 30 seconds to blow it!