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!

15 AUGUST 2005: SIOBHAN FAHEY

I was listening, but I had to keep turning the radio off, so I missed alot. There were two people on the show, one was Siobhan from Banarama and Shakespeare's Sister, and now has her own solo career. The other was man, who was English and sounded familiar, but I never found out who he was, and he didn't say much when I was listening. What I heard was great, and Soibhan continues to be totally awesome!

Sometimes I heard the songs, and sometimes I heard the song announcements. They may not be in the right order, as sometimes he lists them backwards, etc.

Leo Sayer
Rolling Stones
Count Five, PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS

A few songs I missed altogether.

Whistled HEART OF GOLD by Neil Young and then played it.

Then a great set that I did hear most of the way through:
Adam Ant, DESPERATE BUT NOT SERIOUS
Sex Pistols, NO FEELINGS
Bananarama, I HEARD A RUMOUR
and their cover of NO FEELINGS
ALL THINGS BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL
Billy Fury (wasn't he the Australian Elvis?) IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE

1:30 PM

Siobhan, POSITRON The VTE Remix
Rolf Harris, I'VE LOST MY MOMMY
Ian Dury, CLEVER BASTARD
Dexies Midnight Runners
Roxy Music, STREETLIFE

Siobhan's last name is Fahey, and when she was little kids used to call her "Farty." Jonesy was farting quite a bit because if you talk about it, he does it. (Strangely this tactic does not work when requesting Pigbag or Stevie Nicks--not Fleetwood Mac-- just Stevie.) Jonesy's farts were pretty bad, from what I hear.

I only heard the beginning of STREETLIFE, when I came back they were playing another
Rolf Harris, WALK ON THE WILDSIDE
(The back up singers were singing "dodododododo--dijeredooooo" it was very funny. I might have spelled that wrong-- the Australian Aboriginal wind instrument the dijereedoo.)

That was the end of the show.