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    Fanatic! Vol. 2: Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show 2006
    Fanatic! Vol. 2: Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show 2006
    Fanatic! Vol. 2: Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show 2006
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    Fanatic! Vol. 2: Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show 2006

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    Fanatic! Vol. 2 contains annotated notes from the songs Henry Rollins broadcast on his Harmony In My Head radio show on Indie 103.1, from 12/27/05 to 12/26/06. Information on the bands, the songs, some anecdotes, websites, discographies and train spotter type information throughout. 470 pages of fanatic music worship.
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    Fanatic! Vol. 2: Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show 2006
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    Henry Rollins

    Originally from Washington DC, Henry Rollins fronted the Los Angeles-based punk band Black Flag and is well-known for his hard-hitting writing, music, and acting.

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      002

      BROADCAST #01

      AIR DATE: 12-27-05

      Hello Fanatics! It’s great to be back. It’s great to be working on my play lists again and gearing up for the broadcasts. I really missed this show.

      One thing I wanted to mention at the outset, I will be gone for a few broadcasts in January, February and March. I don’t know what we’ll do. Perhaps Engineer X and I will have time to tape some shows for when I am away. I will be out of the country on some of those Tuesdays: Australia, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Ireland to be exact. So, for the first few months, I will be around about half the time. I have a crazy schedule. I will post the days I’ll be out of town and what will be done in my absence. I know it’s not breaking your heart or anything but I don’t want you to forget me! I want to play a lot of good music and have been missing this DJ thing since I had to sign off last year due to touring schedules.

      There were a lot of shows this year, 119 in all: USA, Russia, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, Belgium, Holland, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Canada and England. I’m looking forward to getting back out there in 2006.

      For those of you who are new to this show: We play a lot of different stuff here, so please listen with an open ear. For the most part, we avoid the regular Indie 103.1 programming as best we can. No disrespect to said bands but they certainly don’t need my show to get their music played and since they’re so obviously well supported, we’ll take some roads less traveled lest they don’t get traveled at all! Please don’t change the channel if a song goes a little longer than a few minutes, features a horn in it or is sung in a language you don’t understand.

      OK, so onto the real reason we’re all here—THE MUSIC. Here’s what we listened to tonight. Please tune in next week and again, it’s great to be back on the air! Let’s do it Fanatics!!!—Henry

      The Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head: The name of the show is taken from this very great Buzzcocks song. In keeping with tradition, we start the first broadcast of 2005 with this classic song. To make things a little different than last year, we’re going to listen to a live version from the Small Songs With Big Hearts album recorded 11-09-79 at the Rainbow Theater in London. This album is one of a 2CD set called Beating Hearts / Small Songs With Big Hearts. The Beating Hearts disc is from 10-27-78 at the Manchester Apollo. This is one great set. I warn you right now, we will be listening to the Buzzcocks often on this show! Apollo 81 Dept.: Black Flag opened for The Exploited at the Rainbow in December 1981. This is also where the Ramones classic live album It’s Alive was recorded 12-31-77.

      Penetrators - Teenage Lifestyle: From the killer Basement Anthology: 1976-84 CD on Swami. I wish I could take the credit for finding this one on my own but it was Ian MacKaye who played me this one months ago. The Penetrators were from Syracuse NY. You can go to the Swami Records site and can get more Penetrators info. This is great Rock and Roll. This song has some of the best backing vocals I have ever heard. This band is not to be confused with the Washington DC area band of the same name.

      Jimi Hendrix - Radio One: I used to have this on a bootleg I got many years ago in Columbus OH. At one point, Rykodisc released a collection of the Hendrix BBC recordings but for some reason left off the great cover of Dylan’s Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Now the Hendrix BBC sessions are available in a 2CD version called The Jimi Hendrix Experience BBC Sessions. Worth it? As sure as you’re reading this, dear Fanatic. The track Radio One is Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding cutting loose a little with a written-on-the-spot jingle for Radio One. The BBC recordings of Hendrix are so straight ahead and I am always amazed at how a three piece could make such a racket. We’ll be checking in with Mr. Hendrix a lot as we go.

      The Fall - Clasp Hands: From the brand new and fantastic Fall album called Fall Heads Roll on Narnack. This is a great fall album and hats off to Shihan and his Narnack label for putting it out in America. For you vinyl Fanatics, there’s a 2LP version available from Narnack too. One pressing is in black and the other is colored. They are very limited and I don’t think they’ll last long. The LP version on the Slogan label out of the UK is a single LP and sounds good but not as good as the Narnack one and besides, there’s an alternate take of Blindness on the Narnack LP that’s not found on the CD. If you’re new to this show, be warned, we are Fall Fanatics here and they will be played every broadcast! For more info on The Fall, go to the best band site there is with more information on one band than you can handle: www.visi.com/fall.

      Negative Trend - How Ya Feelin’: The 4th track of the now legendary Negative Trend EP. Many of you listeners from last year will remember this song. We played almost all the songs from this EP last year and we probably will again. There’s a difference in the quality of the audio we played last year and the version you heard tonight. Rather than re-write all this stuff, I am pasting in what I wrote about this record from my last newsletter: A Negative Trend in Music: About 25 years ago, I found a single at Skip Groff’s Yesterday and Today record store that has remained one of my favorite 7 records of all time: The Negative Trend EP. I knew nothing about the band and probably bought it because it was only two dollars. The first time I played the four song EP, I was blown away by the heaviness of the band and the dark intensity of the singer. It occurred to me that these were not boys but angry men who played with malice. Many of us in the DC scene got the record and immediately became fans. Over the years I would see the Negative Trend record here and there, mostly bootlegged versions of the 7 and the occasional copy of the 12 re-release. At one point in the late 90’s, I asked the band’s drummer Steve DePace what was happening with the Negative Trend record and told him if I ever found out where the tapes were, I was going to put that record out so everyone could hear it. Early this year, I found them and we’re releasing the EP on CD. Steve from Subterranean Records mastered the record from the master mix tapes at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley CA and we worked off my single for the artwork. The tape held up over all these years and the mastering is fantastic. The Negative Trend EP never sounded better. I am so excited to be releasing this record on my label. The EP contains four songs: Mercenaries, Meat House, Black And Red, How Ya Feelin’. Four bludgeoning, savage, Stooges-like punches in the face that have not lost any power in over a quarter century. The Negative Trend EP and Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown EP are in my opinion, the two most intense 7 EPs from the whole American Punk Rock-Hardcore shootin’ match. We are offering the Negative Trend EP on CD for five dollars. If you are a fan of pop music, this is not the record for you. If you are someone who digs Black Flag, the Misfits, Flipper and other heavy music—this record was made for you. We’re offering the record at the cheapest possible price in the hopes that you will be so taken with my enthusiasm and overcome with curiosity, or perhaps just want to hear this gem again, that you will just get it. Those of you who checked out my radio show, Harmony In My Head, last year may have heard some of these songs. I got a lot of mail about the Negative Trend tracks. Getting this record out has been a long standing ambition of mine and a labor of love to get over the wall. I hope you check it out and dig it. Here’s some info on the EP: Mercenaries (Shatter/Gray), Meat House (Shatter/Gray), Black And Red (Gray), How Ya Feelin’ (Waters/Gray). Steve DePace-Drums (Later in Flipper), Will Shatter-Bass (Later in Flipper), Craig Gray- Guitar (Later in The Toiling Midgets), Mikal Waters -Vocal. Produced by Debbie Dub and Negative Trend, Engineered by Stu The Hippy, June 1978, San Francisco CA. If you’re interested in getting the record, you can check out my site for info: www.21361.com.

      The Evens - Around The Corner: From their self-titled debut on Dischord. If you have not heard by now, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, has a new band with drummer Amy Farina, who we listened to last year in her earlier band, The Warmers. The Evens are a two piece, guitar and drums. The studio album is great and live it’s even better. I have seen them three times now and they get better and better every time. This record is in print and on Dischord right now, www.dischord.com.

      Carl Douglas - Dance The Kung Fu: Just in case you didn’t know, Carl Douglas followed up his hit Kung Fu Fighting with this. I found this Carl Douglas best-of many years ago in Germany for a few bucks and got it just to hear this song. Worth it for the wah guitar alone.

      Electric Wizard - We Hate You: I read a series of on-line posts people were leaving about the band Sleep, who I am a Fanatic for. One guy compared Sleep to the band Electric Wizard so I picked up some of their records. All the sites talking about them said they were a Doom Rock band. Sounded good to me. I picked up the self-titled album along with Dopethrone, Come My Fanatics (like that title!) and Let Us Prey. This is some heavy shit! I think they’re from Dorset UK. Check out the crushing low end on these guys! There’s some absolutely bruising tracks on the Come My Fanatics album that will run you over. The song we listened to tonight was from the Dopethrone album. If you like what you heard, these records are more of the same. I bet some of you didn’t like this song at all and that’s cool. I really like where these guys are coming from. I really like that song title!

      Johnny Lydon & Afrika Bambaataa - World Destruction: One day I had an urge to hear this song that wouldn’t quit. I didn’t have it on anything and searched the internet for the song on CD and finally located an ancient CD3 of it. We just listened to the 7" version. This is a Bill Laswell joint and some of the players will not surprise you: Bill Laswell on bass, Bernie Worrell on synthesizer, Nicky Skopelitis on guitar. I don’t know much about Bambaataa but have been reading up on him and had no idea he was such a ground floor guy in hip hop. I just remember this video in the 80’s and how cool it was to see Bambaataa in that wig. So, I battled a bunch of other Fanatics on ebay and managed to wrestle a copy down. Hope you enjoyed this one.

      Scene Creamers (aka Weird War) - Bag Inc.: I know of this band only because my DC pal and raving genius Ian Svenonius is in the band, so of course I checked them out. Many of you know Ian from Nation of Ulysses and The Make-Up. Weird War is one of his many projects. This song is taken from 2003’s I Suck On That Emotion album. Ian made a record a few years ago called David Candy - Play Power that is really strange and great. I’ll get a track from that to you very soon. Ian Svenonius gets the dubious honor of being one of the most brilliant and intense people I have ever met in my entire life. When I think of him, a quote of Velimir Khlebnikov’s comes to mind: My mind is a caged animal! I think the first time I encountered Ian was at an early Fugazi show. I was watching from the side of the stage with my mother. Ian MacKaye of Fugazi announces their friend, the very famous Russian keyboard player Ian and then here MacKaye added many syllables to Svenonius. Svenonius runs onstage with a winter scarf wrapped around his head and starts playing all this insane shit on a keyboard or organ that was onstage at the time. I had all the Nation of Ulysses records but had never met him. Anyway, I have never met anyone like Ian Svenonius in my life. Really, he’s fascinating. His musical output is massive as his mind is unique and he should be checked out.

      Generation X - Dancing With Myself: Interesting version of this song. This is actually recorded by the original line up: Billy Idol on vocals, Bob Derwood Andrews on guitar, Tony James on bass and Mark Laff on drums. The more well-known version of this song was recorded after Andrews and Laff had departed and were replaced by ex-Clash (and later re-hired) drummer Terry Chimes (Tory Crimes) and a host of guitar players including Sex Pistol and Indie 103 host Steve Jones. This version comes from the K.M.D.: Sweet Revenge Xtra album. I had these tracks on different bootlegs but eventually they came out as an album as well as included tracks on the 3CD Generation X comp. called Anthology. This is an interesting listen-in to a song that would eventually help break Billy Idol in America. I have chased down every different copy of the Gen X Dancing With Myself single I could find. Here’s the 7"’s I have found so far:

      Dancing With Myself /Ugly Rash - (Germany, UK, Australia)

      Dancing With Myself /Untouchables - (Portugal)

      Dancing With Myself /Untouchables / King Rocker / Rock On (UK)

      Dancing With Myself /Untouchables - GENXDJ 1 (UK radio Pro)

      Dancing With Myself / Happy People - CHS 2488 (US radio pro??)

      Dancing With Myself (stereo)/Dancing With Myself (mono) - CHS 2488-AM

      The single with Happy People on the b-side is interesting in that there’s no country of manufacture listed but the label says Billy Idol and Gen X and says Mastered At Alan Zentz LA Calif. so I think it’s of US manufacture. There are three 12" versions I have found so far:

      Dancing With Myself /Happy People - CHS-27-PDJ

      Dancing With Myself /Loopy Dub/Ugly Dub - CHS 12 2444

      Dancing With Myself /Untouchables/Rock On/King Rocker - CHS 12 2488

      The Dancing With Myself/Happy People - CHS-27-PDJ 12 has a generic sleeve and lists the band as Billy Idol and Gen X." The version of Dancing is the extended 12" version and the version of Happy People is the Hubble, Bubble, Toil & Dubble version. The 4 song 12" has the extended version of Dancing. Sex Pistol Steve Jones gets guitar playing credits for Untouchables and Rock On but not Dancing, which he plays on. I’m not sure he plays on Rock On. Anyway, I had not seen the extended version on any Generation X CD so I started looking for it in other places. I looked up the track listing for a Billy Idol best of called Vital Idol and Dancing was there but it was called The Uptown Version. That looked interesting so I got the CD and played it. It’s the extended version and it sounds great. I know, I know—too much information.

      Chrysalis worked Dancing With Myself hard. There’s promo singles of the song with stereo and mono versions like the one I listed but they are credited to Billy Idol. In Europe there are 12" releases with Dancing and Untouchables credited to Billy Idol and Gen X on one side while the other side has Billy Idol solo stuff. The Spanish version of this 12 lists Billy Idol as Willy" Idol. Caramba! 0235 Hrs. Revelation Dept.: But wait, there’s more! I just made a file on my computer of the three versions I have of the original version of Dancing. One is from the original CD of K.M.D.: Sweet Revenge, another from the newer version called K.M.D.: Sweet Revenge Xtra and the third is from the Chrysalis version found on Anthology. Anthology and Sweet Revenge have the same version down to the second. The Xtra version is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT MIX! Forget the stick clicks and solo drum beats removed, this version has a ton more guitars. The difference is night and day. On the choruses, there’s a ripping rhythm guitar part that really pumps it up and way more of that killer Bob Andrews guitar all around. It makes the other version sound lifeless in comparison. This more rockin’ version is the one we heard tonight, of course. There’s no mention of the change in the liner notes on Xtra. I know Bob Andrews is behind the Sweet Revenge releases. I want to know why he switched out the versions and why, if he had both, did he not use this killer version the first time? Perhaps he just found this version and if he did, is there anything else to hear? How to get to the bottom of this? I better write to Bob Andrews and see if he’ll weigh in! I’ll get back to you if he gets back to me. In any case, really cool version of the song.

      Ivan & Jerry Lee Lewis - Real Wild Child: A lot of people know this song from Iggy Pop’s version on his 1987 album Blah Blah Blah. I think the original version was by Johnny O’Keefe, an Australian rocker who co-wrote the song and released it in 1958. I don’t know anything about him but he’s well known in Australia. Ivan also released this version in 1958. Ivan, better known as Jerry J.I. Ivan Allison, played with some guy named Buddy Holly back in the fifties. He actually co-wrote Peggy Sue and That’ll Be The Day with Buddy. Ivan’s vocal is supposed to be a parody of Ricky Nelson’s voice but he actually makes the vocal sound really cool. Also in 1958, The Killer, the one and only Jerry Lee Lewis, banged out a version of the song at Sun Studios in the same year and it remained an outtake until the 70’s. I have it on the Complete Sun Recordings Of Jerry Lee Lewis released on Bear Family. Anyway, two takes of a cool song.

      The Stooges - Stooges Party: No, not those Stooges! It’s The Stooges Brass Band from New Orleans. Their album is called It’s About Time and it’s great. There’s not much information on the internet about them. This record was played for me several months ago by Ian MacKaye who is always listening to something interesting. One of the things I really like about this album is that it’s live, those horns and drums make the floorboards shake.

      Wolf Eyes - Burn Your House Down: A relatively melodic and tastefully rendered bit of abuse from Wolf Eyes’ wonderful 2002 album Dread. Wolf Eyes have been making bruising, completely uncompromising noise for years now. Considering their many cassette, CDR and split LP efforts, I have no idea how to compile even a remotely comprehensive list of releases of this band. Some of the easier to find CDs include Dread, Dead Hills, Slicer, Fuck Pete Larson and the recent Sub Pop release Burned Mind from which we played the very fine Stabbed In The Face on the show last year. Whenever I listen to these guys, I think to myself that it’s about time someone came up and ripped the fucking place apart. Play their records and break shit.

      J Mascis & Friends - Please Remember That I’m Here: With regularity, I troll release info sites to see if there’s any activity from J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. and J Mascis And The Fog. Every great once in awhile, J drops a new one and I am a very happy Fanatic. I listen to Dinosaur Jr. and J’s solo pursuits all the time. There’s some great Dinosaur Jr. and J bootlegs out there: Jayloumurph, I’m Doin’ Fine, More Heavy, Freakin’ Live!, Dinosaurs Are Still Alive, Nothing Much To Say, Out There, Sludgefest, USA 1991 and Wasted Lovesongs. Anyway, I was on ebay recently and looked up Dinosaur Jr. to see if there was anything interesting and came across J And Friends Sing And Chant For Amma on Baked Goods Records. I bought it and played it as soon as it arrived. It’s really good and very different than the regular J Mascis bleeding guitar outing. It is, as the title states, a collection of devotional songs. I had to do some reading up on Amma, otherwise known as Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Dev. I typed Mascis Amma into Google and it took me to a page that can explain this a lot better than I can. If you’re into Dinosaur Jr. and J Mascis, this is worth checking out. Due to the fact that site links often go away, I will not bother to list the one I used here but if you’re interested, I am sure you will find your way.

      Antelope - Crowns: The only person I am familiar with in this band is Justin Moyer of Supersystem formerly El Guapo, the other two are Mike Andre and Bee Elvy, who both play bass and sing in the band. They have two releases as far as I know, both on Dischord. The first release, a self-titled six song EP, came out January 2003 and the other one, the two song single with Crowns and The Flock, came out in February 2004. Both are great. Info: www.dischord.com.

      The Cameos - Wait Up: My Doo Wop obsession rears its ugly head once again. From The Golden Era Of Doo Wops - The Groups Of Johnson Records on Relic. At one point, there was a seemingly endless supply of CDs from this series hitting the bins. Relic released at least 45 of these CDs from different independent Doo Wop labels from all over America. These were independent labels, quite often run out of a local record store. I am no authority on this genre but it fascinates me. I put all the Golden Era series in one file on my computer and there are well over one thousand songs. I just found a Cellos collection on Relic that I had never seen before. The Cellos most popular song was Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese Sandman), which can be found on many different Doo Wop box sets. I am eager to find out more about them. Anyway, I can’t find anything on The Cameos but the song sure is good and chances are, you’ve never heard this song before and in our relentless and never ending imperative to expand and enhance our eclectic musical taste, we again wrench musical victory from the jaws of the corporate beast of FM mediocrity!

      Youth Brigade - Last Word: Youth Brigade featured Nathan Strejcek, formerly the vocalist in the Teen Idles, the first band on the mighty Dischord label. After the Teen Idles broke up and Ian MacKaye went on to form some band called Minor Threat, Nathan teamed up with Danny Ingram on drums, Bert Queiroz formerly of the Untouchables was recruited for bass duties and Tom Clinton signed up for guitar duties. The band recorded the Possible EP (Dischord no. 6) in 1981. They weren’t around long, March to December of 1981. Honestly I can’t remember if I saw them or not. The song we heard tonight is not found on their EP but on an early classic Dischord release of previously unreleased Dischord bands called Flex Your Head. This is a cool record if you like the early Dischord sound. The Youth Brigade’s Possible EP is easily found on Dischord 1981: The Year In 7"s. They are also featured on the 20 Years Of Dischord box set (I did the liner notes. I was shaking in my boots when Ian called me and asked me to write up the notes for that one! Talk about write and re-write). Anyway, all things Dischord can be found here: www.dischord.com.

      The Clash - Janie Jones (demo): In honor of the first HIMH broadcast 05-17-04 where we listened to Janie Jones from the first Clash album, tonight we listen to a demo version found on the Clash On Broadway set. There’s some cool outtakes and rarities in that collection and it’s worth checking out. If you’ve never heard the Clash besides a song here or there and want to know more, On Broadway or The Essential Clash are good places to start. The Clash are one of the cornerstones of Rock and Roll and shouldn’t be missed. I don’t think anyone who listens to this station or to this show is a stranger to this good-as-it-gets band. I recently tracked down a flyer from the first time I saw them play 02-15-79.

      Supersystem - Tragedy: Supersystem existed for many years under the name El Guapo and recorded some really great records. Anyone listening to the show last year might remember me playing songs from their album Fake French on Dischord. Well, the lads changed their name and moved over to Touch & Go Records and released the first Supersystem album called Always Never Again in April of this year. It’s different than their previous records but still great. Listeners might find it a little more busy than the relatively sparse Fake French and Super/System albums. Worth checking out. I saw them play this year on a great double bill in Washington DC at the Black Cat. On September 22nd and 23rd, Q and Not U played their last ever shows at the Black Cat. I was there for the show on the 23rd. Supersystem opened and were amazing and then Q went on and ripped it up. They didn’t sound like a band that was breaking up. They were really tight, really together. For the encore they were joined by members of the Black Eyes to make it even more of an event.

      Tin Machine - Baby Can Dance: From the self-titled first album. Last year, I played Prisoner Of Love from this one. I really like the two Tin Machine studio albums. I don’t know why David Bowie named the band Tin Machine instead of calling it David Bowie. Perhaps he wanted to be in a band and not have his name in front of it for a second. Tin Machine played from the late 80’s into the early 90’s. Tin Machine played smaller places than Bowie usually did on his own. Perhaps that was the appeal for Bowie, just to go out and rock without all the production usually expected of him. Critics were hard on this band but I don’t see why. Pretty cool, although somewhat ordinary music for Bowie compared to what he had done in the past but still really cool and you could tell The Bo was having a good time.

      Paco - My Love: My old pal Michael Hampton sent me this. Michael and I used to be in a band together a few centuries ago in DC. His music pedigree is of the bluest ribbon. He’s all over the Dischord Records catalog in bands like The Snakes, SOA, Embrace, One Last Wish and Faith. After that bit of business he had a band called Manifesto, which I really like. Anyway, Mr. Hampton can write and sing and play guitar pretty damn well. I think Michael plays some guitar and did some production work on this one. Paco, from what I understand is a meeting of members of the bands Ivy and Hem + Michael. I don’t know anything about Ivy or Hem yet but I’m on it. I can’t always keep up with what all these youngsters are doing.

      RaVeN - Sex Candy: Several weeks ago, I was on tour in Canada. One night after the show I was standing outside in very cold weather talking to the shivering people gathered near the bus. A young man, all gothed out, came up and gave me a CDR of his music and asked me to hand it to one of my very powerful friends in the major label music industry as they would be very happy with what they heard. With an intro like that, how could I not be interested? He also told me that he didn’t go to my show that night as he had been following Nine Inch Nails, who he referred to as The Nines, and only stopped by to drop this CD off and had to go to catch NIN in the next city so he could wait outside NIN’s bus to give their front man Trent Reznor a copy of the aforementioned CDR too. I told him that Trent loved meeting people who waited outside of his bus in the afternoon near soundcheck time and liked nothing more than to check out CDRs given to him by men in make-up. I like Trent, I don’t know why I did that. I love it when someone gives you their demo or book like they’re doing you a favor. I rarely send anything I do to any of the few people I know because I don’t want to insult them or make them feel in any way obligated to get back to me about said product. Anyway, I popped this into the player as soon as I got back on the bus and we all sat and listened to the magic and dark genius of RaVeN and now, so shall you. You’re welcome.

      003

      BROADCAST #02

      AIR DATE: 01-03-06

      Alright Fanatics, we’re back for Broadcast #02! I would like to thank you for your great letters that came in over the last week. It’s great to be back on the radio. Listeners checked in from all over the world. Fanatics from America, Canada, Germany, Australia, England, Romania all wrote in and said they were catching the show. I will campaign for a re-broadcast time this week and get back to you when I get an answer.

      I hope you liked the show tonight. I know some of you may have winced when we played Zeppelin but it’s a great track. As a kid, I never really listened to what Robert Plant was actually singing, some of those lyrics are a little silly but what a delivery!

      OK, here’s a run down of what we listened to tonight. I can’t believe I have to wait a week to do this again! Until next week Fanatics!!!—Henry

      Public Enemy - MKLVFKWR: From the New Whirl Odor album that just came out. This is a strong PE record. As long as Chuck keeps doing it, I’ll keep listening. I played this record a lot in the last week and I think the band is trying some interesting things musically and the lyrics on this record are really strong. Worth checking out. This song is a collaboration with Moby and I think it’s the best song on the record.

      Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song: I love this raw version of Immigrant Song. I first heard this on LP bootleg in the 70’s and I never forgot it because it blew away the official version. The Zeppelin BBC Sessions have been bootlegged in varying degrees of quality for years now but finally these tracks are out for real and it’s fantastic to hear all this relatively new-to-the-ears Zep. I always ended up with really bad boot CDs of these tracks. Mainly I bought them to hear this one song again. Well, here it is. They didn’t play this when I saw them and they didn’t play Black Dog either but they did open with Kashmir and that was one of the greatest moments in live music I have ever witnessed.

      The Stains - Quit The Human Race: We played songs from this album in 2004. This was one of the early SST records and sadly, is out of print. The Stains were one of the heaviest bands I ever saw. An all Mexican heavy metal-punk rock band. The record is insane and the gigs were dangerous. Years ago, I put my copy of the album on a CDR so I could copy it for people and pass the music on as it doesn’t seem as if the album will be back in print. They were one of the great LA bands and if you ever see this record at an affordable price, you should pick it up. I don’t understand why this album was never put on CD or at least re-issued on vinyl.

      Bo Diddley - Road Runner: Some of you may remember that in 2004 we listened to Bo play Say Man. This time around, it’s Road Runner. Such a great riff. I was taken by his music very early on as a kid when I first heard Who Do You Love. When George Thorogood and The Delaware Destroyers were on the radio with this song as a single many years ago, it made me go and get a best-of Bo LP, which there are many of and for me, the best way to listen to him. I have a couple of different ones on Chess that are really great. Talk about the beat that everyone copped! He is an electric guitar innovator of the highest caliber. This song shows a lot of innovation for the time. If you can, check out his guitar some time, what a design! I remember when I saw him open for the Clash in February of 1979 and saw him with that guitar. That was a great night. I had only been 18 for about 48 hours and saw Bo and the Clash together. Forget it!

      Trouble Funk - Go-Go Fatz: From P.A. Classics Vol. 2. One of the later and harder to find TF releases. I don’t remember when or where I got this. There’s a lot of after the fact TF releases. Not-so-great soundboard recordings and such. I buy most of them to keep track of the music but they’re not as great as their earlier stuff. If you want to hear the real deal Trouble Funk, check out the thoughtfully priced 2CD live and early singles set I put out on my label District Line. This track Go-Go Fatz is really great and features some serious drums.

      Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers: Carrie, Corin and Janet, the three women who make up Sleater-Kinney recently turned up at the studio to play some songs for my TV show on the Independent Film Channel. They were great! They played Jumpers from their recent album on Subpop called The Woods. S-K has been around for a long time and has that serious respect and I was very happy to have them play on my show. I will be seeing their shows on the Big Day Out Festival in New Zealand and Australia as we will both be performing on the tour. I have not seem them play in a couple of years and look forward to it. Anyway, we all know that Sleater rocks and this is my favorite song on the record. Well, this one and Entertain, which they also played a couple of times for the show.

      Swans - Stay Here: From the bludgeoning first Swans album Filth. The Swans, lead by Michael Gira, turned out some of the heaviest, most crushing records ever. If you check the Cop album and the Raping A Slave EP, you’ll see what I mean. As far as the their most brain smashing material, it was all done in the 80’s. After 1987’s Child Of God, the band mutated into a no less intense but not as sonically dense band. The line-up changed and so did the music. Gira works ceaselessly on music and writing to this day, churning out a seemingly endless supply of music. At one point, my company published a collection of his writing called The Consumer. It was one of the most requested titles we ever had. I am not conversant on all of Gira’s projects and couldn’t get to the albums after the 1985 Greed and Holy Money releases. There’s one Swans set of all their bruising material that you might want to check out: Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money. You’ll get all the completely brutal stuff on one 2CD package. Tonight’s track isn’t on this one though, it’s on another Swans re-release worth checking out called Filth/Body To Body, Job To Job. This music is not for everyone and most people I know who hear it want it turned off almost immediately. For me, it sounds like the inside of my head so it’s good listening.

      Da Moronics - Flying Saucers: I don’t really know anything about this DC area band. As far as musical output, I know of two compilation cuts. One being Mr. President on the 30 Seconds Over DC compilation on Limp Records (reissued by the good folks at District Line) and another track on an out of print LP called the Best Of Baltimore’s Buried on Balto-Weird, released in 1979. It took me a while to find this record but I did. The song we heard tonight, Flying Saucers, is from this one. Pretty cool.

      Partyline - Unsafe At Any Speed: From the Girls With Glasses CD on Retard Disco. A few months ago, 06-30-05 to be exact, I was in Washington DC at a Routineers/Evens show at Fort Reno and at one point, Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts) came up and gave me this CD. She told me that she didn’t cuss as much as she did on the Cold Cold Hearts record and maybe this one would be better for radio play. I forgot who I told that it was impossible to play anything from the Cold Cold Hearts CD because as much as I wanted to put the band on the show, the language prevented me from doing so. I guess what I said got back to her. Anyway, it’s another wild, wrecking ball from Allison, who apparently is (I know you were wondering) a relative of the great American man of literature, Thomas Wolfe. I believe that was the first question I asked her when we met years ago. Oh, yes, the Routineers/Evens show. A great one. The Routineers have Amanda MacKaye, sister of Ian, on vocals and she can sing. I mean, she can really sing. It was a great set and the band have some really cool songs, the best ones were the new ones. I can’t wait for them to record again. The Evens put in a great set too with a couple of new songs, which were really good. If you’re ever in DC in the summer, try to go to one of the Fort Reno shows. They go all summer, they’re outside and they’re free. I saw a lot of people from my old neighborhood, even some people from my high school class. It was a great night.

      The Stoics - Hate: From Trash Box: Wild Psychotic Garage Punk!!! I saw this CD at the Tower Records at Piccadilly in London years ago and it looked interesting. I didn’t know much about garage punk and still don’t really but I figured I could learn a thing or two with this box. Apparently, these tracks are contained in the Pebbles series. I played this for Ian MacKaye and he dug it so I gave it to him and when I was back in London a few weeks later got another. I don’t know anything about the Stoics but I really like the title of the song and it sounds pretty cool too.

      The Telephone Company - I-C-E C-R-E-A-M: From The King’s Surprise? on Business Deal Records out of Austin TX. I think someone at the label sent me this or perhaps it was someone at Peek-A-Boo records. In any case, I don’t know anything about the band but they’re great.

      Link Wray - The Shadow Knows: I have a lot of Link Wray records. There’s a couple of best-of’s that are pretty cool: one on Rhino Records and another on the very cool UK label Ace Records. Tonight’s track is from the Rhino Records Link Wray compilation Rumble! The Best Of Link Wray. Mr. Wray recently passed away 11-05-05 at 76 years of age. Wray was a for real Rock and Roll badass. Perhaps his most famous instrumental is Rumble, which is still turning up on soundtracks and compilations. There’s a lot of Link records out there. If you liked what you heard tonight, the Rhino best-of is easy to find and might be all the Link you need. The collections on Norton, the Missing Links series, are really great as well. I really like the originators, these old guys who did their thing with primitive gear. They weren’t trying to be like anybody else, there wasn’t anyone to be like when they were doing it.

      The Dead Boys - Ain’t Nothin’ To Do: I always thought The Dead Boys was one of the coolest names for a band. The Dead Boys come from Ohio, where a lot of good bands came. Ohio has given music fans much to be thankful for: DEVO, Rockets From The Tombs, Pere Ubu, X Blank X, Electric Eels and The Pagans just to name a few. Formed in the mid-70’s, The Dead Boys released their classic Young Loud And Snotty album on Sire in 1977. The band was fronted by Stiv Bators who was one crazy motherfucker with a bit of an Iggy fixation. The Dead Boys didn’t last for long with only two full studio albums and at this point, more bootlegs than actual product. There’s a different version of the Young Loud album called Younger, Louder And Snottier. I compared the two versions of Ain’t Nothin’ To Do to see which one sounded better and I came to the conclusion that the original Young, Loud version has a little more wallop so that’s the one we’re listening to tonight. The guitars break up a little too much on the other version and those great smashing chords lose some power and we wouldn’t want that. The Younger version has some very noticeable edits which you’ll hear once you’re familiar with the other version of the song found on Young. Stiv had quite the post-Dead Boys career on and off the stage. He toured with his band Lords Of The New Church that had Brian James of the first two Damned albums fame, as well as former Sham 69 bass player Dave Treganna. I think Bators and James were bad for each other’s health and were quite hard on their bodies with their Rock and Roll lifestyle. Of all the ways to go, Stiv died in 1990 in France due to injuries sustained when he got hit by a car! Anyway, If you have not checked out Young Loud And Snotty, you should.

      Bad Brains - At The Movies: I think it was 1980, I was at Madam’s Organ, a punk rock hangout in DC where a lot of serious life changing shows happened and Darryl, the bass player in the Bad Brains, asked me if I wanted to listen to their new tape they had recorded at Omega Studios. He had borrowed bass player of Black Market Baby, Paul Cleary’s car keys so we could use his stereo. We sat in the car and listened to a couple of the songs. At The Movies was one, I Against I was another. I remember this song being one of the newer ones in their set at the time. Anyway, it was just a demo but it was a demo that we could never get our hands on. For a long time, the Bad Brains Omega Sessions tapes was one of the holy grails we were always after. Many years later, Ian finally secured a copy of it and then some years after that, the sessions were released by the good folks at Victory Records as The Omega Sessions. If you’re into the Bad Brains, this is a worthwhile record and if you’re a real fan of DC music history, you’ll really want this one in the collection as it marks a period when the band were really changing their approach to their music and also, it’s the Bad Brains! You gotta hear it! I’m always happy when stuff like this comes to light. Music sitting unheard has always bugged me. One of the reasons we get together here on Tuesday nights is to let it be heard, right?!

      Sleep - Snow Blind: From the Masters Of Misery Black Sabbath tribute album on Earache. I got this one just for the Sleep track. I am a huge Sleep fan. The first Sleep record I heard was Sleep’s Holy Mountain and I was hooked. I then found their first one called Volume One and then got a tape of their third album Dopesmoker which didn’t come out until after the band broke up. At first the album came out under the name Jerusalem which comes in at 52:09 and then later Dopesmoker, which comes in at 63:31, was released. From what I’ve read, Dopesmoker was the intentioned record and Jerusalem was the band vs. label compromise. Dopesmoker is one track and Jerusalem is six. I remember talking to an A&R guy in NYC many years ago who was trying to sign them after hearing Holy Mountain. They told him the next thing was going to be called Dopesmoker. Apparently they went to the major label’s big NYC office, straight into the head honcho’s office and sparked up some of that Northern Cal. skunk weed and proceeded with the meeting. He said the entire office stank for days. I like that. Anyway, this is the mighty, very mighty, Sleep doing Black Sabbath’s Snow Blind. Not all that easy to find, perfect for this show. Before I stop writing Fanatically here, let me say that Dopesmoker, played in its entirety, is a revelation. It’s an astounding piece of work that will have your ears ringing and your mind throwing in the towel. Also, Sleep man Matt Pike formed High On Fire after Sleep’s demise and their records, The Art Of Self Defense, Surrounded By Thieves and Blessed Black Wings are absolute monsters. A few weeks ago, I had a night off in Missoula MT so I went to the local coffee place, bought a cup of the regular, sat in a corner and wrote in my journal. The chatter of the highschool girls and the boys nervously walking around them made me glad that I was not young anymore and that I had an iPod loaded with Sleep and High On Fire. I was smashing my mind to pieces inside my Shure ear plugs while the locals looked at me like I was from somewhere else. I wonder why? I wondered what they were thinking. I know what I was thinking: Fuck you. How the fuck are you going to clap when the circus comes to town after I hack your hands off and send them to the Salvation fucking Army in a Hefty bag? That’s what I was thinking. I hope you enjoyed the song.

      Gen X - Untouchables: From the 3rd Generation X album, Kiss Me Deadly. By the time this album came out, Generation X had changed their name to Gen X and two members, guitarist Bob Derwood Andrews and drummer Mark Laff, had left or were sacked, depending on who you ask. They were replaced by a trio of guitar players for the sessions: Steve Jones, John McGeoch and Chelsea’s James Stevenson with Terry Chimes (better known as the drummer of the Clash before and after Topper Headon’s time in the band). This is a Generation X album fans don’t really mention all that often and was fairly obliterated in the press and eclipsed by Billy Idol’s huge stateside success as a solo act. I am a Generation X Fanatic full time as you know and I ignored this album for years. Instead of playing the album, I concentrated more on the singles and b-sides that came off the record, especially Dancing With Myself, Loopy Dub, Ugly Rash and the song we listened to tonight, Untouchables. Unmistakable guitar work on the song by Indie 103.1 star DJ, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and

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