15 NOVEMBER 2005

I caught a nice little chunk of the show today for a change. I wish I'd been able to write more of it down, but it was another one of Jonesy's sets. He really has an ear for putting it all together.

I heard

Marianne Faithfull, SISTER MORPHINE
Rolling Stones

Then I caught a bit more, but I all I remember is TINY DANCER and The Who. There were a few songs I didn't know.

 This set made me think of what it must have been like for Jonesy not while he was on the road with the Pistols, but what it must have been like during the eighties and nineties, when he was working with different musicians  and realizing just how far he'd gone.

How he very much was no longer that kid on King's Road "nicking" stuff. And how good those memories and experiences were no matter how frustrating it must have been at the time. (All of those difficult personalities and agendas!)

He talks about this alot now, but these songs made me wonder about his life when he'd FIRST had the chance to get some perspective.

And he just knows how to put a good set together. He really has a way of making you hear a thread in all of the songs, which makes it alot easier to listen to stuff that normally you don't like.

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
LONG LIVE INDIE!!!

22 SEPTEMBER 2005

Hurricane Sebastian is coming... Jonesy wanted to know why they are always birds. He thinks the next Hurricane should be Hurricane Steve, or Hurricane Jonesy.

Spear of Destiny, AGE OF UNREASON
Damned, PROBLEM CHILD
Kinks, THIS IS WHERE I BELONG
Great Glass Elevator, RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
Cockney Rebel, HIDEAWAY

The Duke: Nina's New Wave Nation

Jonesy is emotionally hung over today. Shovel wanted to know why and Jonesy told him some things were secret.

He played a Rolling Stones song. I missed a bit so I don't know if there was anything after that.

He just whistled GIMME SHELTER for some tickets to something.

The Duke: Robbins Bros, and Tower Records

Rolling Stones, GIMME SHELTER
Fleetwood Mac, OH WELL
Neil Young, THE NEEDLE
Frente, A New Order cover
David Bowie, LIFE ON MARS
Shudder to Think, HOT ONES
Red Walls, a special track that went all wiggy, and Jonesy said a manchiefrill had gotten all over it....hmmm....

The Duke: Nouvelle Vague is going to be at special FREE Indie concert at Lowe's Hotel in Santa Monica--ohh and they are opening for DCD

He was singing but I missed it... However, even without hearing it, I can assure you it was High Silliness from the Pontiff of Pop himself.

Replicants?????????,
TWO WAY ARMY ??????????
...Sounds of Africa, WILLIAM OBE OBE ??? (Groovy song)

Jonesy stands up for the people, watching out for the little people. "What about the workers!" He shouts.

He's going to whistle a masterpiece. It's The Monkees I'M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE

He sang his Man who can to the Monkees, and now he's singing that MORE THAN A FEELING. For being knackered and having an emotional hang over he sure is full of silliness and energy today. I LOVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!

20 SEPTEMBER 2005: DEAD MEN WALKING

I came in while they were talking about Daylight Savings Time.

Jonesy doesn't feel too great today and he might have "bird flu" hehehe...He's taking his ginger and wheatgrass.

He played a set but I missed most of it. Right now it's 12:35 and he is whistling to give away tickets to Madness tonight. It's that Sleepy Jean song by ?? Neil Diamond.

OH-- it was DAYDREAM BELIEVER!!! He is singing his "Pontiff of Pop" lyrics. Then he forgot the rest of it! I love Jonesy!

Monkees, DAYDREAM BELIEVER
?? , DOWN DOWN 
Johnny Winter, JUMPIN JACK FLASH

Dead Men Walking are in the studios with Jonesy. I have to miss a bit, but I will back.

Well, I blogged the whole last twenty minutes of the show, but blogger ate it. Too bad if you weren't listening. It was great.

19 SEPTEMBER 2005:MADNESS

I came in about 12:20 and heard part of this set.

Cockney Rebel, MAD MAD MOONLIGHT ("Mmmm, delicious" Jonesy purred, then he burped, hehe.)
Super Furry, DON'T BE A FOOL
88 ???
New Pornographers, TWIN CINEMA

The Duke: Spectra

???,
Damned, HELOISE
?,??

NO SHIT!!!!! Madness is on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I was always a 2-Tone girl! I even nicknamed myself "Rudie.")

They were on KROQ last time they were here. They are playing the Troubadour tonight.

It's very static-y today, and I am still dealing with Internet virus drama, and I missed the last chunk.  It's a bit spotty.

Jonesy is saying he is through with someone, "that lot", and not working with them anymore. They are tarts, says he of this someone or someones.

Madness wants some Imagineers from Disney. Sushi parades? A lot of laughter and stuff I couldn't hear.

"This is a conversation about English food, please don't worry," says a Mad Lad.
"Don't adjust your minds," adds another.

Madness is on English time. More laughter and stuff I couldn't catch or didn't write down fast enough.

"This is a conversation about English Soccer." Madness member says this in an English version of an American accent.

They are really enjoying themselves, but it's hard to keep up with the typing. THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM TALKING AND JOKING AT ONCE...

"Where's my wally?"

"At the end of the harvest, everything was pickled, everything that was left over-- pickled eggs, cuccumbers, and most important, pickled people."

"Pale sausages covered in lipstick-- you can get battered and non-battered!"  Jonesy, I think. Really hysterical laughter from the whole studio. It sounds like a fun day to be there!!!!

"Food Poisoning!"

You can even get "Battered Mars bars up North!" They are all laughing hysterically.

The Duke

"English mustard. Stick some up your nose and feel the pain."

Madness is not allowed to leave the state of California. They will be back on the 25th to watch some Footie. One Madness has a sister in Ventura. I think the footie is Jonesy's team.

Michael Myers skit? "You weren't allowed to say yes or no... It was in the box." And it was brilliant. It was in black and white.

Jonesy is going to play some Peter Sellers.

Peter Sellers, BOILED BANANAS & CARROTS (BEEF STEW)
Clip: "Mr Jones, do you have any kidney?"
London Boys,WE ARE THE LONDON BOYS
Clip: "I have my sausage, Mr Jones." "Oh, Miss Meadows, I wish all my ladies were as easy to please!" "I do try, Mr. Jones!"
,
CocRosie and that singer, ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL BOYS
, JENNIFER JE NE PAS
David Bowie, CHANGES

"Madness in the foyer now!"

One Madness' first single purchase was PYJAMARAMA by Roxy Music. Another Madness was BOLAN BOOGIE.

"Lipstick on your codfish," trills a Madness.

Someone met Ferry at a cafe they other day. "He does a bit of aristocratic, and fixed up a manor house," but moved his old kitchen into it, and had all his old stuff in there.

Foxes are hunting the aristocrats now. They are in every garden now, like big rats.

The most successful musician in England has never sold a record. People just like having him in the record company office.

Roxy Music is supposed to play Camden Palace?

The Duke: Jenny McCarthy is guesting today after Jonesy, listen today and maybe she will let you bone her in the limo at the premiere.

I think this is all English humour that you had to know already.

What rhymes with London Boys??? Let's see..
London Boys/ lipstick sausage / gherkins...

They are all doing Ferry imitations. They are all fans. Now they are talking about him...

He's like 60 and has loads of kids and has been married... He always wears a cumberband... he can't dance, but he could stand very well...Ferry sashays and bends the knee slightly... He's seen alot of James Bond movies....

Roxy Music, PYJAMARAMA
Kinks, VICTORIA
The Who, HAPPY JACK

Football... soccer, etc...American's aren't interested in Football unless it's American football...

"Soccer, a minority sport played by every other country in the world," quips a Madness... Chelsea, Holland, etc..

They are singing a song about Jonesy-- and a Pie shop where Bryan Ferry worked, it's too LONDON BOYS.... the lyrics incorporate all of the food conversations... it's pretty funny...

He's whistling for Dead Men Walking tickets. They are all whistling with him! And adding little funny bits! I LOVE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...And more food lyrics.... too bad if you missed this!!!! Even if you missed everything they were saying there was so much laughter you couldn't help but laugh too!

The Duke

"You've been listening to JJB."
"Are you hungry?" Quips a Madness.
"I'm a bit hungry," says Jonesy.
"For Love," adds a Madness.

Gordon Lightfoot, IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND

Two winners.

They are singing it, or actually, humming and making up lyrics about fish and chips and taste glands and lard...

Deep fat fryers have been banned in California. Instead, everything is cooked in Mayonaisse.

MADNESS IS PLAYING TOMORROW NIGHT AT TROUBADOUR!!!!!

They are playing that football song.

GOD BLESS JONESY!

14 SEPTEMBER 2005: MC5

MC5 is going to be the guest. Jonesy played my favourite MC5 song LET ME TRY.

He whistled the Elvis version of SUSPICIOUS MINDS. I have only been able to listen and haven't been able to write except for just now.

He sang his version of MELLO YELLOW to Shovel ("I'm just wild about Shovel..."). I'll tell you what, I didn't think that a look could be transmitted over the radio, but somehow, it was. Jonesy lost it and started giggling uncontrollably. It was very funny.

BTW, Jonesy needs a woman, per Shovel. He wears the same socks for five years and his washing up sponge has cancer.

Anyhow, Jonesy says he needs a new stinky scent thingy. (Those glade things I think they were talking about.)

MC5 are on now. They played Sun Ra but I don't know what song it was.

Per MC5, Sun Ra can astrally project to different planets. Sun Ra introduced the MC5 to the idea that music is more than just entertainment.

Jonesy wondered if he did LSD, but Sun Ra hasn't. Sun Ra is into other mind sets, and trance. Sun Ra is very into ancient Egypt and taking black people back to their roots.

His band was more of a troupe and people would dance and the instrumentation was all over the place. Was he a cult, per Jonesy? Not like Jim Jones, but he attracted a strong following.

OH MY GODDESS!!! Steve Jones was just invited to come and play with MC5 on Saturday!!! I hope he goes! Shit, I wish I could go. (Working...ugh...) They are going to have a bunch of guests, but I haven't really heard of any of them. They are going to play with Sun Ra's Arkestra, but Sun Ra won't be there. (At least not in the flesh.)

Jonesy wonders if they have played with Primal Scream?

OF COURSE they have! And their DJ was once the drummer in Primal Scream. They carry on the tradition of the rock n'roll celebration, per an MC5.

(Gilby Park is another guest, as well apparently. Couldn't discern the voices.)

They will be at Amoeba Records on Friday. They haven't said what time yet. Then they will go to San Diego on Friday night too.  Wear a cape and get in free.

They are going to jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh-- the Duke first!!!! Then Jonesy and MC5 will jam together !!!!!!!!!

The Duke: Download Festival in San Francisco

There is alot I didn't blog, but they are playing live AMERICAN RUSE!!!!

They were talking about free form radio in the 1970's.

I have to say, MC5 are far more optimistic than I am about the masses choosing imagination over an easily accessible, ephemeral sensation, which is what most music is these days. But I uphold their optimism. They are awesome and I love them!!! I think they are so courageous and also true visionaries.

I wonder though. Is Patty Smith considered like Yoko, or do they all like her? I never know anything about artists. I will have to ask my Patty Smith fan friend. I love her, but you know how bands/musicians can be.

I hope I can listen and blog tomorrow.

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!

15 SEPTEMBER 2005: ALICE COOPER

I missed almost the entire show. It was Alice Cooper as the guest.

I heard just a snippet, and Cooper made a joke about how their were 18 Hooters girls in the studios.

"They're all mutes," quipped Jonesy.

But I knew from that the Cooper probably doesn't listen to the show much, because Jonesy isn't into boobs at all. He is a hardcore ass-man.

They jammed a teeny bit on EIGHTEEN.

I am sorry I missed most of it.  I hope you were listening!

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!

Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale

Jonesy is always wondering what this song is about when he plays it.  He has asked so many times I have decided to investigate it for myself:
Before we begin, we already know from the title that maybe the people would be the times-- probably the times that are being lived in, and not chronological or clock times--and therefore that the people themselves would be the times. That the singer could define the times by the people if the people would agree. Moreover, those people appear to be found, at least during the writing of this song, between Clark and Hilldale. And I surmise from MC5 on JJB that it must be the stretch of Sunset between those two streets, which I now imagine as some sort of Haight/Ashbury. 


But it occurs to me that the writer came to this song in more ordinary encounters with fans who expressed appreciation for his music when they chanced to see him on the street. Or perhaps from bumping into his musical cronies or acquaintances on the street, maybe after he had been away touring, or in the studio or recording, or something else that would have taken him away from the shared "times." Or maybe it was just a really tiresome Love record release party, that he didn't want to seem ungrateful for, but frankly, had no desire to attend.
Verse 1:What is happening and how have you been
Gotta go but i'll see you again
And oh, the music is so loud
And then i fade into the...

A meeting, and greeting. He must be off, but another meeting is assured. The music is so loud. The music around him? The music inside of him? And where is the singer going? To die? Back into dreams? Back to oblivion? Back home? Back on the road?A surplus of meaning. Wherever he is going, the music is so loud that he will fade, fade into the...???

Verse 2:Crowds of people standing everywhere
'cross the street i'm at this laugh affair
And here they always play my songs
And me, i wonder if it's...

AH, he's fading into a crowd of people!! And as we read on we see that it's something that leaves one laughing? Are they laughing at him? Is it laughable? Well, they always play his songs, so it's probably shared laughter. Or is it one of those horrible record company get togethers? A release party or something where all of his contemporaries are there, and some are just old news, and tired and obsolete? It's very crowded, that's for sure. And he's wondering.... What is he wondering???

Verse 3:Wrong or right they come here just the same
Telling everyone about their games
And if you think it obsolete
Then you go back across the street
Yeah, street, hey hey

He's wondering about right and wrong, and the nature of right and wrong. And whether the collective motive to coming to this undefined "here"-- this here of laughter, where the singer's songs are played-- is right or wrong, and further, that hidden motives are being revealed. Everything is being questioned. Or perhaps that is game itself? How droll, how sophisticated, how cynical they are, telling everyone about their games. How rich, how bored, how boring.

However, if you have transcended this revelation of the games, and feel it is obsolete, this judgement (right vs wrong), then simply go back across the street. Which we might divine, given the name of the song, is a real street. But at any rate, there is another crossing, another transition. Perhaps back to ones roots, or back into the music, or back to the beginning, or back to simplicity.

Verse 4:When i leave now don't you weep for me
I'll be back, just save a seat for me
But if you just can't make the room
Look up and see me on the...

But something has changed. The singer has changed and the relationship to his environment has changed. Some unknown love and bonding has entered this scenario, for weeping is presumed to follow the departure. It must be consoled and assured that a return can be expected. The atmosphere and the gathering, despite the anticipated weeping, is very casual. And if you can't save the seat, if it is filled in my absence, look up and see me... Where will you see me? Shmoozing with someone else and promising to return? What? Where? When will you see me?
Verse 5:Moon's a common scene around my town
Yeah where everyone is painted brown
And if we do get stuck away
Let's go paint everybody gray
Yeah, gray, yeah

AH, of course! You do remember don't you? All musicians are really sorcerors. Witches and shamans and medicine men. Speaking to us in the language of our hearts. Making music of our feelings. Singing to us the sounds of moonlight on a clear night. The moon is common scene around the singer's town. And common among night people, which musicians surely are as well. And common among the hippies and the partiers and Sunset night life that lives on still. Or perhaps this is the end of the money, the label's belief in you, the end of touring and these parties and back into being unknown, almost.

Back to being as far away from all of this as being on the moon.

But everyone is painted brown. There is no colour distinction, no race, or perhaps it is the dulling of ones bright and true colours. The lifeless masks we don for one another, to "fit in." But if we get stuck while we are away, we can paint everyone grey... Perhaps this is the shade uncertainity, or the mixing of all the peoples of the world, or perhaps, a rhyming word, chosen under the auspices not only of the Lady herself, the moon, but her favourite Love Child consort, LSD. Or perhaps we can make everything the same again, and start all over again, revealing, as artists do, those bright colours beneath the mask...

There are many meanings to this song. That is what I see.

12 SEPTEMBER 2005: THE GREAT L.A. POWER OUTTAGE

Five after 12 bells, and the temperature is nice. Shovel thinks there will be more heatwaves.

Jonesy says we will have more of the Indian Summer. He likes warm summer nights. They make him feel good.

Chelsea beat someone. (Footie.) He pulled his groin playing his own game this weekend. (Hollywood United, I think is his team's name. They are pretty well known among the Brits I know here.) He's never pulled a groin muscle before.

"What are your loins?" He asks Shovel. "I know what a loin cloth is, but what are loins?"

"A child is a fruit of your loins," says Shovel.

"Yeah but where is it? Is the loins the groin?" He questions further. And should he wear a loin cloth?

"Perhaps a listener will know," says Shovel

Jonesy's legs hurt too, and he's never pulled a groin muscle before.

What's going on with that bloody disaster--is Bush paying the bills down there? Jonesy wonders, regarding Katrina.

Shovel wants to change the subject.

A boxed set of someone-- CATCH THE WIND-- oh, I think this is Donovon.

Donovon, CATCH THE WIND
Velvet Underground, SUNDAY MORNING ("Nico on vocals," he comments. "Beautiful!")
Leo Sayer, GIVING IT ALL AWAY ("Roger Daltrey had a hit with this.")
Rod Stewart, MANDOLIN WIND ("Monday morning blues set," comments Jonesy.)
Antony and the Jonhsons, HOPE THERE IS SOMEONE (** They have a gig at the Los Feliz Vista Theatre later this month, per Jonesy.)

The Duke: Radio Shack

The power went out and I missed the whole rest of the show.

OKAY-- I am back for the re-broadcast.

"Steven Nostradamus," he says.

The Duke: BMW

"It's chaos out there," says Jonesy of the power outtage. "Orange County is out as well."

Shovel says, let's all stay calm and just get home okay.

Jonesy just said the "t" word. Terrorist.

Both agree that there is no reason to get crazy. Stay calm.

"I'm going to calm the city," says Jonesy. (Only those of us that actually have battery powered radios.)

Oh my god, this is the silliest Jonesy song I have ever heard. It's starts out to FIVE YEARS.

"Five minutes/ five minutes what a surprise/ that's all we got/we all are going to die/ in five minutes/ in five minutes/ in five lovely minutes/ oh oh oh/ what's it like to die?/ Five sausages/ that what I fancy when I am anxious/ five sausage rolls, with branston pickle/ and sausage rolls/ five bunk ups too take away my worries/ five bunk ups before we all die..."

YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Stay calm, Los Angeles, counsels Jonesy.

Shovel is playing a clip. 
 "Please don't panic /we are going to orange alert/ then to red alert, we're all going to die..."

"Drive your cars into the back of the bloke in front of you/ don't worry about no lights/ get out of your car and smash someone's face in/ nick a handbag off some old lady, off some helpless lady/ see a bloke in a wheelchair/ smash his bleeding head in/ calm yourself /calm yourself.."

"You are too square I have to straighten you out," another Shovel clip. (How does he come up with these so fast?)

"I count to five this will be a dream/you will be coming up from the elevator/ you know what I mean/ it's been a phantasm/ it's been a phantasm of life..."

"Human error...This sort of thing has cropped up before... "

Shovel has another clip.

"Five men went into a toilet/ five men had a look at each other/ five men with funny coloured hankies out of the back of their pockets....Five birds that's all I ask for/ five birds, in their twenties/ in their twenties/ just for tonight, yes I'd be fine/ five manchiefrills/ clouding up the sky with their/ five manchiefrills, oh yeah..."

"I can no longer sit back and allow communist subversion, and the international communist consipiracy..." a final clip from Shovel on the matter.


The whistling song was MAGGIE MAY.  Jonesy bought this when he was 15 and he didn't know nothing. He bought it at the HMV Record Shoppe because it had a cool cover. It was Saturday and sunny, and he went to Cookies' house. They listened to it, and Jonesy was like "he's the man, he has a great voice." Maggie May was the number one album in the US and the UK after that. Jonesy was so proud that he bought it before anyone else, before it became popular.

"I am a visionary, aren't I, Shovel?" Shovel concurs that Jonesy had a feeling in his "gutty wutty" just moments before the power went out.

"If you are young and you want to be saved," come up to Jonesy's tonight and he will save you.

???
Red Walls, MEMORIES
Ian Hunter, ??
(He must have played these before his FIVE YEARS spoof. Maybe Killing Joke, too, I wasn't paying close attention.)

Killing Joke, WAR DOGS
The Damned, NEAT NEAT NEAT
PIL, ANNALISA

"Two water and power concubines aren't working," per Jonesy.

This is the second hour. I'll have to get up early tomorrow morning.

People are driving all silly and stuff because of the blackout, says Jonesy.

"Please make room for me, when I leave the station! While the rest of you die, I just want to get home," says Jonesy.

"Such a caring guy," snorts Shovel.

"That's me," says Jonesy. "Fanks for listening!"

New Pornographers, TWIN CINEMA
Journey, WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN IN THE CITY

9 SEPTEMBER 2005: RED WALLS, SLIM JIM, COOKIE

I missed alot:

They are singing more right now-- it's 2:05 but I heard that it's going to be a three hour show. I am going to try hear both parts of the re-broadcast-- if they play it tonight. I wonder if they will, because it's the radio-thon?

Red Walls are the guest. They are playing tonight. When I left it was Slim Jim Phantom and a guy from the Smithereens. I hope they play the re-broadcast.

Faces, TOO BAD
Boz Skaggs, DIRTY LOWDOWN
Kathy Macias (sp?), Title???

They sold Jonesy's shoes for $300 each!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!

One more size ten... you know what they say about big feet....

COOKIE IS THERE!!! And Slim Jim is there too!!!!!

It's crazy there today and Cookie had to sit in the lobby. Cookie was in Joshua Tree and it was waay hot. The only people out there were from DELIVERANCE in the desert. (And all the acid freaks.) Jonesy feels sorry for Ned Beatty.

They are talking about Bolan and how everyone is fan. Jonesy is remembering seeing him, and Cookie is talking about the shrine where Bolan crashed his car. Every year at Bolan's birthday there is big to-do where people tie ribbons to the tree.

Jonesy thinks that's where they yellow ribbon comes from.  Jonesy plays on that new Dead Men Walking Bolan cover.

Cookie is trying not to swear again.

,
, HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
,
,


I think Cookie and Jonesy were talking about he old days. ...

"We was only together for two years, from start to finish," Cookie says of the SP.

"How many shows? 100 or 102?"

"We played around London, at --- University," Jonesy remembers.

"For the legacy we left, nothing at all," concludes Cookie.

"And one album, really," says Jonesy. Jonesy says he worries about stuff.

Slim Jim says back then it was only the gig and your mates. You didn't worry about nothing else.

"Now we got mortgages," says Jonesy.

"Telling our kids what to do," Cookie says.

I can't keep up with this conversation. SJ son is in a band with Billy Idols kid. Cookie's kid is doing something with Matlock-- her name is Holly. Both are blessed with good kids'.
Cookie says be sure to raise em up right "belt em, lock em in the closet."
Slim Jim just says "Son, see all my friends, behave or you will end up like us." He's too lazy to hit them with the belt.
Jonesy would like a spanking. C0uld Slim Jim provide it?

"10 lashes."

They are going to play Cookie's daughter's song.

Holly Cook's song rocks!!!!!!!!!! Grrlll rock!!!! YEA!!!! Edgy pop.

Holly Cook, YEAH RIGHT

There were I think two songs after this, and they talked about some stuff. And I think SJ will be back, and too bad Cookie doesn't live here, because he's going back on Sunday. But what happened was, Blogger shut down for maintenance, and while I was trying to post, it lost everything. It was such an awesome show. I will try to catch the re-broadcast.

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!

8 SEPTEMBER 2005

JONESY IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's been very sick!!! Shovel is suspicious, but I think Jonesy is telling the truth.

Jonesy brought a note from his Doctor. Shovel reads it: "Steve is all knackered out."

The party was great, per Shovel and Jonesy. His friend Richard threw it for him. Jonesy isn't into all the attention about birthdays so he is very glad someone threw the party for him.

The Jonesy jubilee t-shirts were a big hit at the party, and Shovel didn't want to fight for one. Jonesy only has one left and it's a XX which might be a bit too big for slender Shovel.

Jonesy has been watching CNN and Fox, and he is horrified. He doesn't want to bring anyone down. Instead for the next two hours he is going to try to cheer us up!!!!!!!!!!

YAY JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's singing some song from the 70's. Oh, it's MORE THAN A FEELING.

He's going to do WARM LEATHERETTE. He's doing the one by???? Not the Grace Jones version. (I wish he'd play some Grace Jones.) Shovel remembers. It's The Normal.

Dana Gillespie, ANDY WARHOL (Brittany the CD detective found this, produced by Bowie. It's very hard to get.)
Velvet Underground, WHITE LIGHT
Rolling Stones, I'M GOING DOWN
ZZ Top, (missed the song title)

Jonesy saw Dana Gillespie at the theatre where ROCKY HORROR started. It was on Kings Road.

Joe Sib is there. He tells Jonesy that he looks great, and that he expected him to look horrible, because he sounded so horrible on the phone.

"You look great! Freshly showered and shaved. Maybe the flu was just getting something else out of you!"

"My inherent ugliness?" Quips Jonesy.

"Maybe I should leave you two alone," says Shovel.

Shovel is a bit of a homophobe, per Jonesy and Sib, and doesn't want to say a guy looks good.

There is nothing wrong with two blokes complimenting each other! "Quick, Shovel, say something complimentary!"

They try to egg him on. Shovel won't cave.

THERE WILL BE A 48 HOUR RADIO-A-THON STARTING WITH DICKY'S SHOW TOMORROW MORNING at 7 AM. THE EVACUEES FROM NEW ORLEANS WILL BE AT THE STATION. DICKY & SIB ARE GOING TO AUCTION OFF "AN ITEM AN HOUR." A FOO FIGHTERS GUITAR, SOCIAL D, RANCID, GREEN DAY, A LONG LIST OF STUFF, SOME CONCERT TICKETS. (Yet no one has taken up my idea for Mardi Gras beads...oh well..)

BTW, the 48 hours is in "indie hours" so that might mean 36 hours. They are trying to find someone for the super late shift, and Shovel goes "why are you looking at me?"

Jonesy thinks give some money to Red Cross and don't tell anyone.

The Duke: Guitar Center (gee, they are having a big sale, surprise, suprise)


Magpie Twenty Themes, CCS was the artist, WHOLE LOTTA LOVE (Per Jonesy, this was the theme song of Top Of The Pops for like, twenty years, and it has a cheesy flute. And he thinks CCS was just a group of session players. Shovel thinks Page stole the riffs from some old blues song. 

Lou Reed, MEN OF GOOD FORTUNE
John Cale, BIG WHITE CLOUD
David Bowie, WATERLOO SUNSET (This is on Japanese import of REALITY, which is also very hard to find-- too bad-- this is great great cover!)

(My radio keeps losing the station completely! WTF???)

Holy g-spot, Batman! Jonesy is playing Zeppelin! I am having an orgasm...Oh, well now he's being silly again "I gotta whole lotta salad..."

He's whistling to give away some buttons. "Badges, buttons, whatever you call them, of the finest tin."

The Duke: HB Toyota

Two winners. (Both birds, he should be happy about that!) It was a Joe Walsh song. But I missed the title. He's playing it, and singing his man who can lyrics "I'm the man who can/ two hours a day/take the blues away..." I agree!

Joe Walsh, A LIFE OF ILLUSION

There is something wrong at the station-- not my radio. Jonesy cut off the song and announced there was a "machine in the ghost"!

"Mr Sting, is there a machine in my ghost?"

Jonny & Edgar Winter, JUMPING JACK FLASH
J Geils Band, HARD DRIVIN MAN
Mr Big, WONDERFUL CREATION
Heavy Metal Kids, WE GOTTA GO
Faces, CINDY
The Raspberries, TONIGHT

Jonesy is wondering about the synchronicity of the universe. The second he put on his Winter brothers CD in the car, he saw an albino woman on her bike. He thought that was strange. He hasn't seen an albino for ages. (Both Winters are albinos.)

The Duke

Giant Drag, THIS ISN'T IT (This is a new song that Jonesy likes. It reminds him of Courtney Love. He heard this on Shovel's show, and now they have a new CD coming out soon.)
Flaming Groovies, HAVE YOU SEEN MY BABY (great song!)
Screaming Trees, WHO LIES IN DARKNESS

He's doing his New age music, something about "flying monkeys." It's so soothing, this music, and then it's someone angry on the other line, he says. Oh, maybe it's his ring tone or something.

Is it lying down or telling lies? "It's a double entendre," Shovel says of the Screaming Trees title.

Jonesy wonders is that a French word? entendre... He can't pronounce it. Jonesy don't need any words!!! Whatever it means.

Jonesy whistled LOVE HURTS for those tickets to Music Festival in Texas.

The Duke

He's playing the guitar and singing his own lyrics to LOVE HURTS. I think he should put out a solo album. I can't believe that they haven't released that JONESY AND... CD. In fact, I don't understand how the station hasn't just flat out hired me... and all of my brilliant ideas...hehehe

Nazareth, LOVE HURTS


GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LONG LIVE INDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 SEPTEMBER 2005: BLUES EXPLOSION REBROADCAST

I missed most of the show, but it was another re-broadcast and it was, of course, great. The guests were The Blues Explosion. I don't know when it was originally aired.

I hope Jonesy is recuperating from his birthday bash and will be back soon!

GOD SAVE JONESY!
LONG LIVE INDIE!

6 SEPTEMBER 2005: SLIM JIM PHANTOM REBROADCAST

If you want to read my account of ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY at the Hollywood Bowl, it's on my Toodler blog:

http://toodler.blogspot.com/

I really think someone should take this idea and run with it: to sell Mardi Gras beads as a fundraiser for Katrina and also that there is something we can all wear to show our sympathy.

I missed the very beginning of the show. I came in on a Rod Stewart show. I probably missed his birthday bash report... I will have to catch the rebroadcast.

Faces,
Sham 69, BORSTAL BREAK OUT
Edwardian Connection, SOMEBODY"S GOING TO GET THEIR HEAD KICKED IN TONIGHT
Shakin Stevens,

Someone named McHaggis is on. (Not really!) A drummer who is of Irish descent. They both used to like Shakin' Stevens???

Jonesy picked these songs out special for the guest.

The guest is married and has a daughter, I believe. Jonesy wonders if the guest has ever had a woman try to change him, and then give him the old "fiddlers elbow."

The guest does not share Jonesy's penchant for farting. The guest wonders if special measures are taken, or if Jonesy is naturally flatulent.

Jonesy is smarter than when the drummer first met him.

From drinking Smart water with effervescents, says Jonesy.

It's Slim Jim Phantom from Stray Cats. They are talking about his nickname and how he came up with it.

"That's the great thing about when you are young, you say these stupid things and they stick, and they're brilliant." Jonesy opines. "Then life kicks you down a few times, and you start thinking 'no, that sounds stupid.' But really, it's brilliant."

"Yeah, and you get it tattooed on yourself...Back then everyone was 'Rotten' and Viscious and so forth... And you are responsible for that," he tells Jonesy.

They are applauding all of the Veteren's. Apparently today is Veteren's Day. This must be a re-broadcast.
 
Nope, it's a re-broadcast, and the stats can be found on the first link down, another jonesy's jukebox blog. It's from 11 November 2004. So I will keep listening, but sign off...

GOD SAVE JONESY!

1 SEPTEMBER 2005: DJ EDDIE

I missed a bit, and also couldn't get to the computer until midway through the first set. Jonesy has a couple of friends in for his birthday and one clogged up the toilet... Probably he will flush his guitar down the toilet over the next few days.

Jonesy's phone is all screwed up. He uses Cingular.

William Orbital???? (Jonesy couldn't read it either)
Strife???, SET IT OFF ???(the cingular voice mail instructions was mixed in here, probably courtesy of Mr. Shovel)
Peters Sellers and Sophia Loren, BANGERS AND MASH

Jonesy feels like he's coming down with something. Shovel thinks he's trying to set up for calling in sick tomorrow.

A DJ named Eddie is one of the guests. He's barely legitimate. He's a puff, per Jonesy.

The Duke: HB Toyota, Heinekin

Missed a bit...

Judge Dred, BRING BACK THE SKINS ("A song that shouldn't have been in there but it was a bit of fun")
Delroy Wilson, ONCE UPON A TIME
Jonny Nash, HOLD ME TIGHT
Dawn Penn, NO NO NO

Giving away George Clinton and Parliment tix if you can tell him what he's playing on the axe. (It's Rolling Stones, WILD HORSES)

The Duke: Match dot com

He's singing his "man who can" lyrics to WILD HORSES. "Jonesy's jukebox/ he'll give you one in the gob"

Stones, WILD HORSES

Station ID

Ral Donner, WHAT A SAD WAY TO LOVE SOMEBODY (It's about a bird who is interested in everyone but you, says Jonesy... he's never had that happen to him, he says.)
Johnny Thunders, YOU CAN'T PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY
Minke De Ville, MIXED UP GIRL
Cingular Voice Mail instructions (he still can't get his messages!)
Blondie, HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE
New York Dolls, SONG BAD GIRL
Nashville Teens, TOBACCO ROAD

"Moonbeams, stardusts....kumquats..."
Now he's answering his cell phone. It's Cookie, but we can hardly hear him.

(When Martin Fry was on his cell phone kept going off, and Jonesy told him "go ahead and answer it, it's the new thing, everyone answers their cell phones on the air now." Fry was all, "Oh, brilliant, thanks!" Jonesy cracks me up.)

The Duke: Lenscrafters

Tell him who ripped off who as you listen to The Jam and then The Pistols. Jonesy says Weller ripped off the Pistols.

The Jam, IN THE CITY
Sex Pistols, HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN
Cliff Richard, SUMMER HOLIDAY
Tommy Bruce, LONDON BOYS

Now Jonesy says no one ripped anyone off. He's playing the two songs, and saying that his song was slower. Now he's humming UNDER PRESSURE.

More tickets for George Clinton and Parliment. He's whistling.

The Duke

He's singing "I want to listen to jonesy's jukebox/ five days a week/ he's the man who can... lalala..."

The Troggs, A GIRL LIKE YOU

Don't forget to email him some birthday greetings!!! He won't be in tomorrow!!!!

"When I come back next week, I'll be fifty. Fanks for listening!"

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!

31 AUGUST 2005: PAUL COOK

Okay-- it's the re-broadcast... Jonesy is saying that nowhere is safe, and what is happening to all of those poor people in New Orleans could just as easily happen here. "Nowhere is safe from the elements." Shovel says that Honolulu Hawaii and Boise, Idaho are the safest places to be.

"What's Saturday, Mr Shovel?"
"Jonesy's Golden Jubilee?"
Jonesy says golden is 100, his is the "Silver" jubilee. Shovel laments that Jonesy's birthday is on a Saturday and that they can't give him a big party.
"Like last year?" snorts Jonesy derisively...I take that to mean that he got nothing last year.

Now he's singing IN EVERY DREAMHOME A HEARTACHE. You really have to admire a man who can do Roxy Music on the guitar. He really is an awesome guitarist and a true Roxy Music fan (no one has Ferry's vox angelica though).

Stooges, -
New York Dolls, WHO ARE THE MYSTERY GIRLS? (playing tonight at HOB Anahiem)
Only Ones, LOVERS OF TODAY
Roxy Music, IN EVERY DREAM HOME

The Duke: HB Toyota, Savon

Jonesy's Jukebox, "The Captain of Kumquats"

He's going to make a bit of showbiz and have Shovel call him. He's doing his "Minister of" -- what does he say here? Minister of something--- to that "moonbeams, falling stars" music, but there is a small delay before the sound effects come on. Shovel cracks me up, he goes "yeah this is some good showbiz here" while there was dead air...

Pretenders, THE PHONE CALL
SONG
SONG-

Paul Cook and his wife, Jenny?, just walked in, and it's a great surprise!!!!! Lydon is the oldest Sex Pistols. Matlock's the youngest. There was a fight between Jimmy Parsly (sp?) from Sham 69 and Johnny Rotten in London at the Embassy.
"They hit each other with their handbags," quips Jonesy.

He said that the "blokes with machine guns" were fans of the two bands, so I guess they were let off easy. Cookie said it was in the British tabloids.

Jonesy's having a big bash, but he's not telling anyone...someone didn't text message him back. He thinks he's going to be sitting by himself at the bash trying to text message the people he invited.

The Duke

Missed a bit of conversation...

No ding dongs, but they are going to whistle something, he and Cookie, and give away tickets, but I missed to what...
Now they are all whistling together and laughing...(what a great gift for Jonesy!!)

Paul Cook-- Cookie-- is the guest...I think he's here for Jonesy's b-day on Saturday. They were talking about Cookie's dad, Tom Cook, wants to speak to Jonesy on Jonesy's birthday, and Mr Cook has cut back on the drinking. Also, Cookie lives two doors down from where he lived when he and Jonesy met.

Generation X, FROM THE HEART
Ruts, STARING AT THE RUDE BOYS
Ramones, I CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF (Troggs song, "Pretty good cover," per Jonesy.)

"You're listening to the Cookie & Jonesy Show," says Jonesy.

"That's right," Cookie responds in a BBC announcer voice, chortling.

Cookie is enjoying watching football and partying with Jonesy... Cookie has been getting some sun, especially on his hairless chest. Cookie is concerned about they "funny way" that Jonesy is looking at his hairless chest. (Seriously, you could hear years of friendship and admiration in their voices. What a great bday gift for Jonesy!)

The Duke: HB Toyota (they re-did that Ron Lester ad, and Jonesy weighs 216 now and Lester told him he's a sexy beast-- which he TOTALLY is but that last one had two men talking about polishing poles... I am beginning to wonder...???), Fantastic Sams, Malibu Rum, REI

They have known each other for forty years. They went to different schools and used to cross each other in the street. Then they both went to Christopher Wren and Jonesy was in the dunce class...Cookie was in the smart class. He can't believe that Jonesy made it. He can't believe that they both made it forty years. Jonesy is hoping to see alot of Cookie in the next ten days.

They are going to go out with a song they will play together: FRIGGIN IN THE RIGGIN

"Dah dah dah dah"...they forgot the lyrics... they are really hamming it up... I hope no Sex Pistols fans missed this show!!!

Jonesy said it was quite a surprise having Cookie on the show, and he looks forward to seeing him for the next ten days.

Leo Sayer, SHOW MUST GO ON ( a song Jonesy says sounds a lot like FITR)

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

30 AUGUST 2005

12 Bells! Jonesy is talking about the hurricane and all the animals and crazy stuff that is going on...Shovel says that the earth won't have a problem fixing itself.

But Jonesy says (and I concur) that what will happen is that it will balance but we will have to be exterminated to move forward, because the planet doesn't know humans are on it.

"Cockroaches will be the new President," declares Jonesy.

Shovel seems the type who reads, Jonesy says. "So what is up with Bush and the mother?"
"You want to get into that?" Shovel asks, surprised.
Yeah, says Jonesy, Bush vs Mom, why didn't he talk to her when she first showed up at the ranch? Wouldn't it be over if he had just met with her?

Shovel says "He's too busy riding his ATV! I only get two weeks off a year-- Bush gets 6 months off."

Jonesy wonders if the President shouldn't get more time off? (I think that must have been sarcasm.)

He's singing "Next stop Vietnam" he's flubbing the lyrics a little-- now he's just making some up...(Did he get a microphone for his guitar? Did I miss that yesterday? He's says it's thin, I think it sounds great!)

New Pornographers, TWIN CINEMA
Great Glass Elevator, RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
Anything Box, CONSTELLATION
Supergrass, PUMP YOUR STEREO UP

 He says he isn't playing any NEW ROSE or CLASH CITY ROCKERS, it's all new stuff today.

The Duke: Malibu Rum

Sugar Lumps, FOOD FOR SOUL

Clip: "Evacuation from a dead planet will begin. First the armies, then the civilians..."

Roxy Music Mash up??? Still can't hear the station!!! CRAP!! It was an awesome song!!!!

 STATIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lost the station!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kinks, GOD'S CHILDREN

Jonesy just answered his cell phone on the air. A woman doing a Chris Spedding biography and wants a phone interview. I wonder if she knows he always answers his cell on the air? Cuz after she hung up he goes "you imbecile! don't every call me on the air again!" (At least he put her on the air too, most of the time you just hear his side of the conversation...)

THE DING DONG!!! "What did I win? What did I win?"
Brian Wilson and the Polyphonic Spree tix.

The Duke: Kia Spectra

A song written by Iggy Pop and Steve Jones, what was the title? Cry for love? Two people won.

"I should know this one, I bloody created it." He's singing his "man who can" lyrics.

Iggy Pop, CRY FOR LOVE
Station ID
SONG
SONG--Billy Corgan?
SONG
SONG
Brian Wilson plug for JJB.
SONG

The Duke: Lenscrafters, Wendy's

Oliver Future, PILLS VS FRIENDS (There was a dedication, I think to Elaine...)
Astral Heights, THE WHOLE WORLD CHANGES
Crimean, SOMEONE'S CRYING
Leo Sayer, ONE MAN BAND

DING DONG "What'd I win?!"
More Brian Wilson and the gospel singers tix. What is he whistling on the axe?-- And you have to know who wrote it and performed it.

The Duke: Cha Cha, Sprint, Chevy

Jonesy is so sexy... Nobody won! "Imbeciles, fools, Jacobites!"
He has been defied! "Gods -have these people removed!" He commands.

He ding donged again and Shovel goes "What'd I win?"

Crap-- what was it? I missed it... Another song he wrote with Iggy... He's going to quit because no one knew what the song was! (NO!!!) Even Shovel didn't know it! Oh, now Shovel says he did....do we believe him????... yeah..

Jonesy won't sing it now....He sang man who can -- he forgot Pirate of Picadilly again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GREAT SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

29 AUGUST 2005

I totally missed the beginning! He was singing and talking about his birthday... but I couldn't listen...I missed a lot of the show, and I am doubtful about catching the re-broadcast.

Bob Blooming , ??? funny song
Telly Pop Music, GREEN
Anything Box, RELICS
??, FASHION -- was it bowie?

Apollo 13 movie on History channel & panic attacks

new band, local, I think he said
David Bowie


--missed everything--

came in on his version of SONG SUNG BLUE

Neil Diamond, SONG SUNG BLUE
ESG, SOUTH BRONX STORY
Q Lazarus, GOODBYE HORSES ("The lotion song")
Morrissey & Siouxsie, INTERLUDE
Mazzy Star, FADE INTO YOU

Paul Anka plugging Jonesy and Indie!

Bjork, ??

He's playing and singing GOODBYE HORSES... "good-by lotion, calamine lotion, I've used it all up... goodby lederhosen, (something about) leather and lace... goodby horses..." He's being goofy again.

The Duke


Massive Attack, ANGEL "...feel like I've cheated you out of a bit of lotion. So hopefully this will fufill your needs." A song with that "it puts lotion on it's skin" clip from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
Crystal Method, ??
???
(Missed some)

He played a very silly version of I AM I SAID.

Whenever he does his "man who can" lately, he always forgets my favourite "pirate of Picadilly."

Sorry I missed so much!!!!

GOD SAVE JONESY!

26 AUGUST 2005

Jonesy is glad that his job is to be "the man who can, for two hours a day" and not have to work at a regular joe job. He's appreciative of being the "man who can", which is not the same as being "the man" he informs Shovel when Shovel says "You're the man."

Jonesy needs an assistant! He needs someone to follow him around and write down everything that pops into his head.

Shovel is not being very Ed McMahon today and not supportive of Jonesy's vision. Ah, there, Jonesy has Shovel all sorted now.

 "It's going to happen!" Shovel affirms.

He's going to play a funny song, a German song. It's about "Seamen". Jonesy thinks it funny! It's from Lichtenstien in 1942.

Lolita, SAILOR, YOUR HOME IS THE SEA

Jonesy is very out of sorts, trying to get all of his CD's together, because on Friday's there is another show that runs right until noon. (If you go to the website there is a "pictures" page and the studio looks pretty tiny.) He wishes he had a list of all the things he always thinks to talk about, and then forgets in the hustle and bustle of preparing for the show.

Clip: "It's probably a misunderstanding due to language. Does Jones speak German, Frau Pineda?"

Rolling Stones, SALT OF THE EARTH
Ride the Blinds, TAKING BACK WHAT'S MINE
Humble Pie, C'MON EVERYBODY (an Eddie Cochran song)
The Who, SUMMERTIME BLUES (ditto)

Jonesy thinks that Eddie Cochran gets overlooked a lot. Cochran ends up on the B-list, and he was every bit as good as JL Lewis, and other fifties artists.

The Duke

Jonesy wonders about Los Angeles cabbies. Taxi drivers in New York "go round and round like it's BEN HUR," plowing through pot holes and so forth, but in Los Angeles they act like they have a permit to do anything! Shovel thinks taxi drivers are the same everywhere. Shovel doesn't like macho monster trucks.

Jonesy dedicates this song to all the loons out there driving cabs:

Curtis Mayfield, WE GOTTA HAVE PEACE (great song!)

Clip: "I'm walking here!" and lots of traffic noises-- this was from a movie-- TAXI DRIVER maybe?

Juicy Bananas, REPO MAN SOUNDTRACK, BAD MAN


Another clip but I missed it!

Stray Dog, CHEVROLET

"You just put your lips together and blow." He's whistling SWEET CAROLINE by Neil Diamond to give away tickets to Devo.


The Duke

He's playing the song with his own unique "man who can" and some other lyrics, that really, you just needed to hear yourself... "blokes touching other blokes feet"....Seriously, he's on something today... too much wheatgrass in the morning...He's really going insane, too bad you aren't listening, you'd be laughing...

Neil Diamond, SWEET CAROLINE
Humble Pie, HONKY TONK WOMAN
Heavy Metal Kids, HANGIN ON
Mr Big, ????
?-- I think I missed a song title

Clip: "Have you discovered what the earth people eat?" ...

Bowie, ALLADIN SANE

The Duke

Jonesy was hamming it up about something, but I missed what

Mick Ronson, THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT
Flaming Groovies, TEENAGE HEAD
Queen, NOW I'M HERE
, UNDERPANTS

The Mick Ronson orignally recorded by Little Richard, in the movie by the same title. Jonesy says it is worth it to get it, because it has live band performances in the movie by Little Richard and Cochran, plus it has Jayne Mansfield!

Giving away 2 Playstation games . He's reading the description of the game and it sounds pretty good. ...
But he is making it difficult. You have to know who wrote the song.

It's the Monkees, I'M A BELIEVER

The Duke

Two winners from Long Beach. The songwriter is Neil Diamond.

Singing a Jonesy version of I'M A BELIEVER.

"Have a great weekend and enjoy yourself!"

Neil Diamond, I'M A BELIEVER

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!

25 AUGUST 2005

I missed writing down the first bit... Jonesy says only four people responded to the question about the ding dongs with the music, and that the vote was evenly divided.

"The people have spoken!" proclaimed Shovel.

"The masses!" says Jonesy. "We are only going to have special ding-dongs-- we haven't had any of those in awhile."

Everyone calls Jonesy to see if they can get in somewhere or get something. Even stuff in England. "Because I'm the man who can," he says.

Jonesy is a bit knackered today. They had a shindig at Indie last night, and birds were making out with each other. Jonesy had to leave early and missed that! He went to see a hooker... just kidding... He had to leave the party and go to an appointment at the Beverly Hills hotel. He said at the BHH there's alot of old blokes with young birds. Why?
"Money doesn't talk it screams" Shovel declares.
"Cash is king, baby!" chortles Jonesy.

He can't decide what it is he is playing first: Faces, or Screaming Trees?

Rod Stewart Faces, THREE BUTTON HAND ME DOWN ("Title of the album comes from a teach yourself guitar book, FIRST STEP, that they are looking at in the album cover photo.")
Screaming Trees, DISAPPEARING
BrianJonestown Massacre, WHEN JOKERS ATTACK ("I love the second part of that name, the Jones is the best part" of the band's name.)
Paul Weller YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME ("Almost sounded like Joe Cocker in that one.")
Red Walls, THANK YOU

The Duke: HB Toyota, MP3's

Keith Richards, TAKE IT SO HARD... "For Gracie, who has got six months. Congratulations, darling. Behave yourself," warns Jonesy. "Or I'll have to come down there!"
Winkies, ???
The Who, GOING MOBILE

Three pairs of tix for Devo.
Whistling The Who, FOOLED AGAIN

Jonesy wants a mike, he says he can't keep whistling like this...

The Duke

Only blokes won, or no birds listen to the show. But Shovel says a girl did win, but she couldn't go that night. So they are sending her a button of finest tin.

The Who, FOOLED AGAIN
Thin Lizzy, ROSALIE
Queen, DOING ALRIGHT
Flaming Lips, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Clip: "I have my sausage Mr. Jones." "If only all the ladies were as easy to please!"

A Band of Bees, GO CARTS
Big Star, BALLAD OF EL GOODO
Danko Jones, HOT DAMN WOMAN
"This is Nash Cato from Urge Overkill on Jonesy's Jukebox. You totally rock!"

(The next bit I got from the re-broadcast at 6 AM, and it ended really early. I don't know if something was edited or if it was just a short show.)

Mr Big, ??? (Jonesy only plays the Mr Big from the seventies)

Giving away tickets to New Pornographers on the 26th at Galaxy. (I bet that will be a great show!)
Whistling Status Quo, ROCKING ALL OVER THE WORLD

The Duke: HB Toyota

He sang his version, and then played the song.

GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!

24 AUGUST 2005: RAT SCABIES

(THE STATION CAME BACK IN DURING THE INTRO!! A coincidence OR THE HAND OF THE INDIE RADIO GODS????????? You decide...)

"What is a portal?" And Shovel, god love him, has no idea what Jonesy's talking about... Jonesy wants to know if portal is like porthole or just a fancy new age word. Is it a "portal in another dimension?"

 (I think what he means is: is there an actual entrance, like a black hole, that takes you to another dimension? In fairy and fantasy stories and science fiction the portal is always like a cave, or underwater, or a plane will fly through some clouds.)

Joney's talking about Doctor Who and the telephone booth. That was a portal!

"There should be a portal that's a porthole, a toilet in the new Doctor Who series instead of the telephone booth," Jonesy says.

PORTAL, noun: a doorway or gateway, especially an imposing one. "portal to portal pay" wages that include allowances for the time a workman spends in going from the entrance of his factory, mine, etc. to his work station and back to the exit at the close of the work day.
However, it is actually used in Internet terminology more these days than anywhere else. It's definitely not a "new age" word. And really, a Web Portal is a entry point for a user to enter that much loved other dimension: the Internet.
Jonesy's Jukebox is a portal to my youth and also to new worlds where good music grows like leaves on trees.

The guest is there, in the hallway, about to step through the portal, but Jonesy's going to play a song first.

New Pornagraphers, USE IT
Cockney Rebel, HIDEAWAY
Mr Big, I AIN'T BEEN A MAN
"Hello this is Budgie, and you are listening to Jonesy's Jukebox. If you would like a nice cuppa tea, this is where you should be."
Damned, MORNING BIRD

Rat Scabies, drummer from the Damned, is here as the guest! He's pretty funny and has this great sexy accent!

His real name is Chris Miller. He doesn't mind people calling him Rat and Jonesy only knows him as Rat.... FUCKING STATIC...And back in the day Mick Jones used to come down and he had long hair and looked like Johnny Thunders from the Dolls. And how they all used to hang out together....

Now Jonesy wondered how Miller got scabies, and Miller says it's from shaking hands, or wherever, because it's a parasite that lives under the skin. He's was scratching himself a lot on stage. So he got the name for how he got the scabies, and for then capitalizing on it and acting very Rat like on stage. He didn't think it would last longer than a few weeks!

Steve Jones came up with Johnny Rotten, because he had rotten teeth.

(I remember when I was younger how we delighted in these punk names, the more insulting and/or rebellious the better they were!)

"It's a London thing, coming up with names... Names like rat scabies and johnny rotten, haha."

Jonesy thinks Miller should sue The Damned because he's not being properly credited on the tours and re-issues. He wasn't playing on that last track! But Jonesy didn't know that.

They are talking about touring and break-ups and where is everyone and I just couldn't get it all down fast enough!

"Whatever happened to Brian James?"
 "He's living in Brighton."
Miller wouldn't say James is rolling in it, but he ain't broke.

Roddy Thomas (?) is living in Brighton as well. (I'm listening again during the rebroadcast, but the static is still pretty bad.)

Someone is brilliant... Roddy Thomas?... Then The Heavy Metal Kids came out with an album but had rotten timing...There was a lot of reggae in something (HMK record?). And Jonesy plays it all the time, whatever it is.

The Heavy Metal Kids! They were the best for Millar! They were very rebellious with the biker thing and the chains and all that bit.

"They were acting, and we were the real thing," says Millar.

(Here's an interview with Millar from 1976:
http://thunder.prohosting.com/~naznomad/vamp2.htm)

A clip from some movie, I think...

The Duke: HB Toyota ( and the dog moved...lost my reception... static....)

The station comes back in when they are talking about NEW ROSE, in preparation for spinning it.

They were also talking about his book, RAT SCABIES AND THE HOLY GRAIL, which I haven't read but sounds great. (See the end of this posting for the review and link.)

Miller's talking about the book HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL, and how his father followed all of this and the Knights Templar... or did he say Masons?...Scabies' book, actually written by Christopher Dawes, is available on Amazon, and it's a trade paperback, which Jonesy wondered about, about what it meant for a book to have it's First Printing as a paperback.

(A trade paperback is a large paperback instead of a hardback, which in the publishing world means that they thought it would sell but not to a wide enough audience, or that the readers would not want to spend the extra cash for a hard back...That doesn't mean it won't stay in print and that it won't come out in a mass paperback, which is one of those little paperbacks. This is how I understand it.)

"Have you ever thought about doing an autobiography?"

"Well, yeah, but then I realized I'd never done anything, really."

Jonesy laughed his funny laugh but then disputed this. "You recorded one of the greatest punk records ever! NEW ROSE!"

Damned, NEW ROSE
Status Quo, PAPER PLANE

Was Scabies a Status Quo fan? Only in private, not publicly. Jonesy was a closet Boston fan, and asked was Scabies a closet fan of anyone else? King Crimson. He says that's nothing for Scabies to be proud of...Miller also like The Who and Cream...more static & less hearing of the interview...

They are discussing the favourite from Woodstock--- but who was it? I think it was Free.

The Duke: Dish TV

"We're here with Rat Scabies, drummer, author--"
"And Grail Hunter--" Scabies interjects.
"And thief of old antiquites," finishes Jonesy.

He was on the Anarchy tour with Clash, Thunders, Pistols, and he wouldn't travel with "you lot." There was "all this" between Jake and Maclaren... "Jake Riviera! With that name you know right away you can't trust him!"

The tour bus was really crowded, according to Jonesy, and Miller said he was in the van, and even if they were jealous at the time, he was probably better off in the van.

(This is one of those shows that really needs to just be listened to...Especially if you were a big fan of the Damned, Pistols, or the early British punk scene.)

He's going to write a film about the Anarchy tour, Miller is. He hated one night-- I couldn't hear-- the bands were brilliant but they hated the audience because it was all skinners and critics. And the cancellations... did Maclaren like the publicity?

He wasn't happy about the Grundy show (???). Queen had to go the dentist that day. According to Jonsey, "since Freddie Mercury had a toothache, the Pistols swore on TV!"

Millar said after that The Pistols were just everywhere and very famous. But all was not sunshine for the young punks. Jubilee Day made the whole country mad with patriotism, and if you had spiky hair the whole country wanted to kick your ass. Especially the Teddy Boys.

Jonesy loves to fart.

Scabies is remembering a story about Jonesy and Jonesy wonders who is going to write his (Jonesy's) autobiography?

What was the story that Millar wanted to tell about Jonesy?

A pub they used to go to on Saturdays, and once, after something, Jonesy pissed (drunk)-- or actually pissing at the bar, sorry, I couldn't hear clearly---ordered a bunch of drinks and then took off without paying for it, but first he had the bartender climb way up to fetch some bottle (? this might not be accurate transcription)... but either way, the story was not considered (biography) book worthy by Scabies, oh well...

Did Miller like the Faces? Jonesy does. Jonesy loves this song he's about to play.

Rod Stewart, TRUE BLUE
Rubettes, I CAN DO IT

They were phony Teddy Boys according to Millar and Jonesy. They used to tuck their long hair up under their caps. This song was played by Millar, it is an old favourite of his.

Jonesy remembers seeing them with Alvin Stardust and Suzi Quattro.

With that perfect dry English wit, Miller goes, "Stardust and Quattro-- that must have been, er, something." (That's not an exact quote, but it properly conveys the tone.)

Jonesy was like, uh yeah, it was, and they discussed the details of Stardust's death...(I think... I can't read some of my notes because I hadn't even had any coffee yet.

Little Jimmy Osmond, LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL (an artist who Millar said was "irritating" when Millar was younger)
Queen, KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE

The Duke

"Do you talk to any of the lads from the Damned?" and "Do you get along with the singer?"

Now, I have to say, there was some hemming and hawing here, honestly. That is what it sounded like, and the nicest possible answer, when it was made. In a long roundabout way, that there's no animosity left, as far as he knows, but that they would all need to get together.

 And, at this point, Jonesy began crusading for a Damned reunion, and Miller thought he'd do it if the band could do it and it would be fun.

Jonesy said do it cuz it's "an earner." Plus, Damned and Pistols are like the only bands left where all the original members are still alive.

Then Miller said it was like a divorce and he'd have to see what it was like all of them back together in the same room.

Jonesy said it's great because there have been so many years, that all the stuff doesn't matter. At the Pistols Reunion once they played the old songs --and the band was back together again--it was fine.

Millar sounded seriously soothed by this.

Jonesy laughed, "The Pistols [Reunion] was to prove that we could play!"

But you don't want to act like you did when you were 18, they agreed. Miller hates those old punks you see on tv saying "I'm still a rebel." It's phony.

"They aren't being themselves," Jonesy chimes in.

Millar lives in West London...okay, they are talking about footbal again...Cook's Mash-up is being discussed and I think this is the place that Jonesy joked to Fry yesterday that Paul Cook owned. (Don't you love a music show that has Martin Fry of ABC on one day and the next has Rat Scabies of the Damned?!!!!!)

Jonesy does miss London! Yes. He misses football and walking. He misses how in London you can walk everywhere, and it's great. But Jonesy does love it here, too. The heat and the palm trees, and all the young birds. He belongs here. "Lots of phony people! I fit right in!" He jokes.

(Sometimes the guests kind of interview him and it's so sweet-- and they are all always saying "it's an honour to be here" even if I forget to write it down, they do all say that at some point at least once.)

They are going to perform and Jonesy is like "sound check? when did Rat Scabies ever do a sound check?"

And Miller laughs, "sorry, pretending to be the consummate professional." Anarchy, punk rock radio, this is. What did the Weekly say about the show and Jonesy? "It's punk and Jones invented it." I think that was it.

The played together, with Scabies doing drum solos on the table top,
Rolling Stones, LIVE WITH ME

Gave away three pairs of tickets for Devo.

The Duke

Jonesy is trying to talk Scabies into a reunion tour again. He's charging $200 for his consultation services-- "to be paid in paperback books" hahahaha!

He ended the show with the Stones track.

I hope you didn't miss this show!!!!!!!! GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazon will probably sue me or something but:
Book Description

Christopher Dawes lives in a quiet English village. His neighbor is Rat Scabies, former drummer with the Damned, best noted for setting his drums on fire while still playing them at a live concert. Life with Rat as a neighbor isn’t run-of-the-mill, but things turn even stranger when Rat announces that he (and Christopher) are going on a search for the Holy Grail.

The saga begins in Rennes-le-Chateau in France, where in 1891 a local priest discovered a treasure whose mystery remains unsolved. Once Christopher and Rat have written a list of things to do ("Buy metal detectors!"), they need only unravel a tale involving the Cathars, the Knights Templar, the Man in the Iron Mask, and Louis XIV—and along the way, visit Paris, Rome, Glastonbury, and Tintagel—and perhaps join the Masons (Rat thinks they know something).

The legend of the Holy Grail is far from unknown, but this is the first time the quest has been given the punk rock treatment. Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail is a psychedelic, Pythonesque road trip, a testimony to the sometimes odd nature of friendship, and a rich historical yarn.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

23 AUGUST 2005: MARTIN FRY

Jonesy ate too much. He had four eggs, bacon, and two orders of potatoes. Now he's bloated. Why does he do that? he asks. He doesn't know.

The My Space dot com guy sold it for 600 million! Jonesy was blown away! He said everyone will be hitting the bloke up for money now and he wouldn't be able to say he doesn't have any. (The way Jonesy thinks cracks me up sometimes...) Jonesy said if he had all that money he'd buy a yacht and travel around to anyplace that was hot and always have tons of bubble butt birds on the boat with him.

(I'm glad he doesn't have 600 million if that means no more JJB!!! )

Oliver Future is playing tonight at the Viper Room, but they are probably already on by the time I actually post this. Jonesy said someone better get down there and sign them now. (I agree!!! )

Oliver Future, PILLS VERSUS FRIENDS
---missed quite a bit---

Jonesy was making a joke about working out on his Bowflex... hehehe...

PIL, RISE
Iggy, BESIDE YOU (co-written by Jonesy)
John Cale, A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

He whistled Bowie's SOUND + VISION
Gave away 4 pairs of tix to see Mike Peters of Alarm

Bowie, SOUND + VISION
Dandy Warhols, BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU
???
LITTLE THINGS
Ken Dodd, TEARS

Martin Fry was there and said it was an honour, he said, to be on Jonesy's Juke Box. He said that his song, TEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH was inspired by Dodd. American's don't really know who Dodd is, was the consensus between Fry and Jonesy.

(Today's interview often had this surreal "two English blokes talking in a pub on a congenial Saturday afternoon after a football game between any two teams other than Manchester and Chelsea" aspect to it...it really made me want a feckin' pint of Guinness!!!!)

I missed a chunk here, and I understand that it was this part that Fry was talking about his early influences? Hopefully I will catch the re-broadcast...

Jonesy says he will sell his show! (NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )

Jonesy said he'd purchased the Jonesy jukebox dot com for future projects. He suggested that Martin buy martin fry dot com.

I missed some and then they were talking about football... Sorry fellas, find a male blog if you want the sport details... Fry said he is a Manchester United fan...

Martin lives up North London where Jonesy used to live. His manager has an office near the Shepard's Bush station that just had the attempted bombing, but that his manager has stayed in that location. He said that his kids ride the tube to school and that right after the explosions vibes were really weird in London, and it was super tense. But now it's people just trying to get back to business, and that people are really emphasizing getting back to business.

There was a joke about Cookie owning a pie shop (meat pies) but I missed it. I think it was one of those things where if you haven't lived there and eaten there, it didn't make sense.

Now here's where I had another one of my fabulous marketing ideas: Somebody needs to record these jam sessions and release them on a collected CD!!!!!!!!!!! ...The CD should be called "STEVE JONES AND... Live on Jonesy's Juke Box."...(Yeah, no need to thank me, Indie, just send me the cash...hehe)

Then they were trying to decide what song to cover together and they did a GREAT GREAT version of HOW TO BE A MILLIONAIRE. Jonesy said "how to be a my space millionaire".

Martin Fry was laughing and joking, like "Hey, that was great, it was like we were professional musicians!" (I love him! "Shoot that poison arrow through my hea-------art!")

Fry said he was a Bryan Ferry fan and you can tell. Not just the suits but also the crooning. They talked about how brilliant Spedding had been when he'd been on the JJB last week. And how Spedding was touring with Roxy Music.

Bryan Ferry, IN CROWD (Fry said this was a Dobie Gray cover)
Slick, I DEDICATE TO YOU

They talked about Midge Ure and his many bands and tried to name them: Slick, Ultravox, Rich Kids with Glenn Matlock, and Vienna, which had Jonesy and Fry hamming it up and singing "Vienna."

Midge is the second in command at Live Aid now next to Geldof. Jonesy asked if Fry thought Geldof was lining his pockets. Fry didn't know and he didn't think so. Jonesy said he probably was. (I hope Geldof's not doing that! That would be substantially bad karma! Plus, I don't think the world can take anymore hits to it's heroes right now. What a horrible swindle that would turn out to be!)

Something about Martin Fry's Turkish Delight. And that he needs to buy the "fry up dot com" name as well. "Our future is in food," says Fry.

Fry had written a tribute song to Smokey Robinson called WHEN SMOKEY SINGS that he was able to give to Smokey personally one time when they performed together in ??? Fry said he was a huge Motown fan.

Then he said something I thought was just brilliant, about writing the song and then meeting Robinson. "Writing a song is a premonition," he stated. I thought that was beautiful.

Attention beautiful bubble butt birds: Jonesy is going to be at the ABC gig at "House of everything but" Blues on Sunset, this Sunday night. He may even be wearing a gold lame tux! (That's pronounced "lah-may" you snickering youngsters, there isn't a little accent on the blogspot editor!)

I missed some...The Duke...talking about Martin having seen the Pistols in Manchester back in 1977 or something...

They did DID YOU NO WRONG. ( I would totally buy a CD of these songs on JJB! It's definitely a 600 million idea)... Anyhow, it was awesome and they went into LOOK OF LOVE and back and it really rocked!

During the re-broadcast I somehow, once again, managed to miss the same spots!!! But I did get a chance to write down some stuff I hadn't been able to earlier.

Two quotes from Fry:

The British won't convert to the Euro because [Britain] "is an island, on it's own, like a little ship out there in the ocean."

On meeting a pro-football team: "All the guys in sport want to be in music."

It was a great show!! I can't stop humming ABC songs! (I always  thought BE NEAR ME was like a very tame Bryan Ferry song. Very AVALON.)

GOD SAVE JONESY'S JUKEBOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"When your world is full of strange arrangements/ And gravity won't pull you through/ You know you're missing out on something/ Well that something depends on you/ All I'm saying/ It takes a lot to love you/ All I'm doing/ You know it's true/ All I mean now/ There's one thing, yes one thing, that turns this gray sky to blue / That's the look, that's the look/ The look of love..."

22 AUGUST 2005

Today I didn't tune until 12:25 but luckily I caught it again at the re-broadcast.

The theme song is still in! (YEA!)
Mr. Shovel is back, thank the Indie Gods! He was in Lake Tahoe. He likes lakes and he wanted to get away.

CHELSEA SONG (football, I'm sure)
David Bowie, HEROES
Rolling Stones, STUPID GIRL
Marc Bolan, LADY

Jonesy said that he learned a lot about music from living in "other" homes. (He didn't say foster homes, but I don't know if that is what they would have been called in Britain.) He remembers this Bolan song being played on someone's record player when he was about eight or nine.

He says he's been watching the History channel alot. He wanted to know if a bald guy had every been President. (Looming fifty again? It's next Saturday-- don't forget to wish him Happy Birthday!!!) Shovel said yes and named a few. Then Jonesy said he didn't think that a woman could be President here because America is so-- gung ho, I think he said. Not until 2024!

Then Jonesy said Margaret Thatcher wasn't good for England.... But at least she had all of her hair, and a lot of Aquanet, cuz her hair was always a poufy helmet.

I was hoping he was going to play The Beat's STAND DOWN MARGARET, but he played

Flaming Groovies, TALLAHASSEE LASSIE (dedicated to ole Maggie and her Hair)
Sha Na Na, SEA CRUISE (Over here you always hear Frankie Ford's version of this. I think Sha Na Na was more popular in England. I remember my sister and I used to watch the specials and laugh at Bowzer, or whatever his name is... )
Eno, HERE COME THE WARM JETS
Kinks, LOLA

He gave away three pairs of tickets to ABC ("the look of love---")

He whistled Thin Lizzy's COWBOY SONG
The hint was: the singer is dead, he had an afro

The Duke: Growing up Gotti ads, State Farm

Sang his version of COWBOY SONG, and played the original ("roll me over and set me free/ a cowboy's life is the life for me").

Raspberries, ON THE ROCKER ( from a new compilation highly recommended by Jonesy)
Status Quo, AGAIN & AGAIN
Lou Reed, BUSLOADS OF FAITH (?)
Sharks, DRIVING SIDEWAYS (This is from a collection that is so hard to get that even Chris Spedding wanted a copy. Jonesy said you can't get it, and his record detective Janice can't even find another one.)

Then Jonesy and Shovel were lamenting Shovel's week without JJB, and Jonesy was saying that he thinks it will be a few years before he gets syndicated. (I HOPE SO!!! I haven't figured out how I am going to hear the show when I go back to the Mid-West. I think I will have to get this computer all fixed up. )

The Duke was Wendy's Hamburgers.

Chris Spedding, BOOGIE CITY (Great song!)
Mick Ronson, ONLY AFTER DARK
The Damned, HELOISE
Stooges, NIGHT IN 1969 (Jonesy played the version from the new compilation MILLION IN PRIZES)

Jonesy wondered if anyone had purchased a Bowflex? He was saying he bought a Soloflex when it first came out and it was soooo lame. He said only the dust gets a workout on it, except for once when he had sex on it with two birds . He said that was cool. He said it is so hideous and not like free weights which are fun and actually work you out. "It's a Swindle!" He declared. "That's my two cents!" He assumes an offer to be the Soloflex spokesperson will NOT be forthcoming.

The Duke: Jetta, Sprint

He is such a goofball. He sang a little song about Bowflex. Something along the lines of smashing heads in, from getting big muscles on his Bowflex, like the bloke in the infomercial: "He's on steriods/ He has a little knob/ and little testicles/ he's enhanced." Apparently, both the male and the female in the infomercial are under suspicion for using steriods. The girls has a nice butt, but there were no redeeming features to the bloke.

He ended his show with a Klaus Nomi song. "Klaus Nomi, a Bowflex User."

(OH MY GOD! I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT NOMI IN YEARS! I suspect Nomi of being a big influence on Maclaren's Opera record, which I have on vinyl somewhere... And maybe Nomi was also the inspiration for the song in FIFTH ELEMENT? A movie I like less everytime I see it, but that I enjoyed when it first came out. And I always loved Nomi. He was a beautiful freak. I wish there were more beautiful freaks in the world today, doing things no one thinks you can do!)

As usual, Jonesy ruled!

GOD SAVE JONESY'S JUKEBOX!!!!!

19 AUGUST 2005: CHRIS SPEDDING

I missed so much of the show today, and unfortunately, I wasn't familiar enough with the songs to recognize them on my own. But, as usual, it was totally awesome and if you are a musician I hope you didn't miss it. Jonesy had Chris Spedding on and it was a GREAT, GREAT interview-- or discussion, rather-- with the producer of three tracks on NEVER MIND THE BULLOCKS: NO FEELINGS, PRETTY VACANT, PROBLEMS, plus loads of other stuff.

12:25PM
I heard these announced, I didn't hear the tracks. I think the Captain Beefheart might have been a Spedding cover.
John Cale, MR WILSON (for Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, they said)
Captain Beefheart, CLICK CLACK
Eno, NEEDLES IN A CAMEL'S EYE
?, POGO DANCING

Spedding was talking about playing violin and being in band class in school. Bill Haley turned him on to rock and to guitars. In 1956 he was 12 years old in Sheffield, and he was a Teddy Boy.

Then he and Jonesy played ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK, and Spedding was like "oh no- I didn't know I'd be put to the test!" But they did it great! They actually sounded really great together although neither knew the lyrics.

The Duke

Then they played a Chuck Berry song I didn't know, but it was pretty awesome.

Spedding had a band called The Sharks. He said he'd missed session work and that's why he's not a shark anymore.

The Sharks, ?
(I missed some stuff in here. Everyone thinks Mercury is still retrograde because all the drivers today are just trying to kill each other! I get more phone calls when stuff is bad than good... The life of a witch...anyhow, I missed a lot here.)
Dave Sampson and the Hunters, ?

They talked about English comfort food (for Jonesy it was "Marrow and Nips, made by his Gran... that's marrow served with parsnips and turnips) and they talked some more about music they grew up with. I missed a lot here, too.

The Duke: HB Toyota, a motocross movie

Spedding played with Bryan Ferry in 1977. Spedding said Ferry is really cool. Spedding played guitar on the next track.

Bryan Ferry, PRICE OF LOVE

Then a really cool reminiscing about Kings Road and all the shops near Westwood's. I wish I had been able to write faster all the places he named and described. Jonesy said he used to nick stuff whenever he could because he grew up with a tin bath and outdoor toilet in a tenement building. He said he'd watch the telly and see all this stuff that he wanted. He said now he realizes that was wrong, to view things that way.

Jonesy used to go into this one shop where no one was ever around. He stole stuff like clothes and some other stuff. He didn't know about drugs then and didn't know that they were all in the back shooting up. That's why no one was watching the store. He tried to apologize and make amends later but Jonesy said the guy was all laid back and "whatever." But Jonesy was very adamant about "coming clean." He said would have bought the guy another velvet rhinestone suit! Hehehe.

?, ANGEL EYES
??
Little Richard, LUCILLE
and a few more songs that I either did not know or did not hear.

Then they talked about how Spedding got the Pistols' producing job. He said that everyone was trashing the Pistols but no one had heard them!!! He offered to produce a demo as long as MacLaren brought along cash to pay for the studio. The old skinflint paid for the recording, but Spedding never got any money for the work! They both agreed that Spedding had gotten off easy in not getting stuck with the bill for the studio!

The Duke

Jonesy said that Spedding was the real guitar on the record, and that he was just "the face." He said he was coming clean. (Jonesy was doing that a lot today! I wonder if looming 50 is leaning heavily upon his conscience?) Spedding laughed. (But I didn't hear a heavy denial? I don't know.) Jonesy sure can wield the axe now, says Spedding.

Jonesy asked if Spedding had ever nicked anything from Ferry or any other artist? Spedding said he'd never been able to, because he'd always get caught right away so he quit trying. Jonesy was cracking me up today. He said that one time he stole a Strobe tuner from the Roxy Music kit truck. He said if he ever met Ferry he'd offer to make it up to him. Strobe tuners were the first tuners, and they were huge. Neither of them thought that Ferry missed the tuner, and perhaps didn't even know what one was.

They played another song together and spun a few of Speddings' tracks, which I mostly missed and didn't hear the announcements.
Billy Fury, NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS
Chris Spedding and The Hunters

Spedding was a Womble (spelling?). It was a television show with hand puppets. It became very popular and turned into a thing like at Chucky Cheese, I gather from the description, except real people in big furry suits playing pop songs. And they had records, so I guess kind of like the Chimpmunks a little bit, too. Spedding was only a Womble two times. He was "Wellington Womble."

The last song was
REMEMBER YOU'RE A WOMBLE

Great show!

It's worth checking out Spedding's website. http://www.chrisspedding.com/ He's had a really amazing career.

And he is so awesome... well, except for his trashing of Jimmy Page. He calls him a "lesser Clapton." But you know, I get into the Jimmy Page arguement with almost every musician I have ever known. Everyone loooooooves Jeff Beck. Sorry, but whenever I listen to Beck I feel like I'm in music school trying to figure out what the free resolution of the minor feckin' seventh chord is.
And Clapton, sorry, but boooooring... Well, at least post-Yardbirds.

Anyhow, I will try to get the stats on the re-broadcast, if I am able to listen then. I hope you were able to listen, because he and Jonesy were talking about, and spinning, the music that --a very young-- Spedding and Jonesy's parents were listening to---and also a lot of the people whose music we love, like Roxy Music.

This is what I mean, friends, about Jonesy's show. All these fifties songs, and Billy Fury and stuff, take on a whole new meaning and even sound different in this context, this uniquely British youngster context. And then Jonesy spins the Bryan Ferry version of an Everly Brothers song, and even though I have been listening to Roxy Music for years, all of sudden some aspect of the music that I'd never heard before jumps out at me. It was like a little tour of personal musical roots and I loved it.

I loved remembering music I had never heard before.

GOD SAVE JONESY!

18 AUGUST 2005

I missed the very beginning, so I don't know what happened with the theme song. I also think I missed the first song, maybe the second. I've listed what he announced. Or, rather, what I heard and sometimes think he said. Sorry.

There weren't any guests today but it was great show with great spins.

Rolling Stones, ROUGH JUSTICE
?, LOVE EXPLOSION
Jones, HOT DAMN WOMEN
Queens of the Stone Age, REGULAR JOHN
Towers of London, ON THE LOOSE
Superfury Animal, VENUS & SERENA

The Duke-- HB Toyota, and some others. Lenscrafters has been sponsoring the show lately.

Flaming Lips, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (great cover!!!)
Roxy Music, THRILL OF IT ALL

12:50 PM Giving away three pairs of tickets to ABC ("shoot that poison arrow through my heart")
Whistled MISS YOU
The Duke: HB Toyota, missed the rest

Played Concrete's cover of MISS YOU
Then a bunch of great sets and songs:
Evergreen, FOOD FOR SOULS
Bowie, JEAN GENIE
Troggs, CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF
(Jonesy said this was on the jukebox at Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm MacLaren's store, where it all began. I love it when he talks about the old days and all this little stuff, like what was on the jukebox. I wish I'd been there!)
Dandy Warhols, EVERYONE IS TOTALLY INSANE (great song and not at all pretentious!)
Doves, LAST BROADCAST
Suede, WILD ONES

Then Jonesy was saying "is a CD an album?" That new guy actually answered and laughed. Maybe Jonesy gave him some ginger pills, hehe! He said it was an album, and I agree. Because an album is a collection, not just of music-- like a photo album. But young people will look at you like you are a dinosaur if you call a CD an album. Or they will just snicker at you behind your back. But they are probably doing that anyhow. ("I have seen the Eternal Footman/ Hold my coat and snicker..." And the Eternal Footman's name is Lost Youth.)

If you missed the awesome reggae set he played next, I feel sorry for you! Here's as much of it as I could catch.

Scotty, DRAW YOUR BRAKES
Vulcans, STAR TREK
Toots & the Maytals, 24546 IS MY NUMBER
Lee Perry, CLINT EASTWOOD
Freddie Notes & the Rudies, MONTEGO BAY

The Duke was Guitar Centre -- they are having a giant sale (are they ever NOT having a giant sale?). I missed the rest of the commercials.

The last song was-- I think--
Dat Pluto,
but I didn't catch the title-- if I can catch the re-broadcast I will try to get it. It was a great, great song, and the whole show was great music!

GOD SAVE JONESY!

SOMEBODY'S GOT TO PLAY JOHNNY CASH ON THE PUNK RADIO STATION

Did you catch the Watusi Rodeo at 7 AM this morning? I caught most of it and it was great. Plus I caught the artist on that cover of HOMEWARD BOUND. It's the Indigo Girls with a guest vocalist who will be on this week's regular Watusi show, Sunday.

Doc said "this isn't alternative country, which is neither alternative nor country." He said the purpose of the show is to keep things going in the Hank Senior vein. Whatever that means, I love the Blasters and the Plimsouls, and it was an awesome show!!! Too bad if you missed it! (Of course, I love Dicky too, he has that great sardonically sexy voice. I think he will be back next week.)

The title of this blog is a quote from Bryson, when Doc was talking about the musical format of Watusi Rodeo.

17 AUGUST 2005

Jonesy wanted people to call in and voice their opinions on his opening theme. (Personally, I like it. It’s very regal and English, and that makes it funny for the show.)

Then he said that he got a lot of emails from people complaining about the Dandy Warhols being pretentious.
( I thought they were interesting, perhaps a bit pompous and definitely belonging to the Art Centre/ Otis Parsons/RISD class of rock, but not too full of themselves. They live in Oregon for Pete’s sake, of course they sound a little pretentious. They have to! People who live in Los Angeles forget how culturally intolerant the rest of the country is.)

He played a Dandy Warhols song. I was sitting at the parking lot of Blockbuster, and even though they don't have late fees anymore, I think it's bad karma, so I missed a chunk of the show returning the movies and getting new ones.

12:33
He was talking about "footie." Some game he was watching. My theory is that is why there were so many long sets-- that, and there were no guests today. He played a lot of music that I had never heard before or had only heard on his show. It was a great show!!!

New Pornographers, SING ME SPANISH TECHNO
?, SOMETHING THE SUN
Big Sea, ?
Astral Heights, THE WHOLE WORLD CHANGES WHEN I AM WITH YOU

1PM
Whistled Bowie's SOUL LOVE (again!)
Gave away White Stripes tickets.
The Duke was: HB Toyota, Tower Records, Dish Network

Played SOUL LOVE
Oliver Future, PILLS VS. FRIENDS
Lovemakers, FASHION
Bananarama, CRUEL SUMMER RARE REMIX
Ponyclub, SINGLE ("I can stay in cuz it's raining and I'm single")
Millbrook, MEET ME IN FIELDS
Charlie Sexton, CRUEL AND GENTLE THINGS

Then he was talking about the new documentary about that guy who lived in Alaska with the bears and then was mauled to death by one. It was in the news a few days ago that there was concern that people might become romanced by the idea of moving to Alaska and copying this guy. That new guy that spins for Jonesy didn't know anything about it. I don't like that new guy. What happened to Mr Shovel? (I think this was Mark Sovel the Music Director, pronounced Shovel by Jonesy. But who ever Shovel was, I wish he would come back. Or give that new guy some personality pills.)

Then the Duke and some ads for HB Toyota and that movie THE 40 YEAR VIRGIN. (If a man makes it to age 25 without getting laid just buy him a blow up doll, trust me!)

Then Jonesy was giving away Coldplay tickets and he called them wankers and wimps and I loved him for it. (I did like that one song when it came out, but I can't recall any lyric or melody from it. Which goes to prove my point again-- in a few weeks you won't even want to hear what ever the hot new song is that you keep flipping up and down the dial looking for. But Jonesy stays with you for a long time...like real heavy cheese...JUST KIDDING!)

The Capes, HEAT
Arctic Monkeys, A CERTAIN ROMANCE
Gosling, SKELETON WINGS

He whistled Bob Seger's STILL THE ONE, but he didn't have the record, so the show ended with him singing his "man who can" lyrics to it.

INDIE ALERT: Tomorrow morning the amazing Bryson Jones will be filling in on the Mighty Morning show. Actually, it's Doc Holliday's WATUSI RADIO, but Bryson will be co-hosting. WORTH GETTING UP EARLY FOR!!!!!! Bryson is one of two or three people I've met who isn't famous, but that you know it's just inevitable he will be one day soon. I don't know him that well, but he has amazing energy and he's really interesting and knowledgeable. He also knows EVERYONE. If outer space aliens came here from Alpha Centauri, I would ask them if they know Bryson, and I bet they'd say yes and not abduct me 'cuz I dropped a name they knew.

16 AUGUST 2005: DANDY WARHOLS

When I tuned in they where talking about the Oregon Glam Rock movement. The Dandies have a giant studio in Portland. They were talking about Gothman who sashays and is totally gay, but has a girl friend right now. Gothman's favourite song on the CD is Jonesy's favourite song, too.

12:20 PM
Love, MAYBE THE PEOPLE, etc
Dandy Warhols (I think two songs)
Billy Fury (again)

Then the Dandies played SMOKE IT, their new single, and it was pretty awesome. I love hearing people perform live on the show!
The Duke, and then another live song.

Then they were talking about how the Capes should record a new song "Salty pee" or bitter pee or something (asparagus pee) and then they played a song from the Capes CD.

I had to turn off the radio and for some reason I also missed this section listening to the re-broadcast at six!!!

A Rolling Stones song I heard announced but missed.

When I came back they were talking about some people who'd gotten loaded on a plane and then gotten undressed in their sleep. One was having sex in the back of the plane with an Australian bull dyke of Jonesy's figure, wearing a fisherman's fly hat.

Jonesy has big hands and hooves, and you know what that means: big shoes and gloves!

Cliff Richard, DON'T TALK TO HIM
Kay Starr, WHEEL OF FORTUNE

They played BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU on their tiny toy instruments.

A totally awesome show, as usual! LONG LIVE INDIE! AND GOD SAVE JONESY!