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Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 06:33AM
This week's program featured several birthday tributes, included a block dedicated to Carol Kaye, a very in-demand session musician during the '60s and '70s (and native of Everett, WA). It also featured a block dedicated to The Rat Bastards, out of gratitude for their passionate effort to "resurrect the ghost dance of the '80s." After midnight, the program offered birthday tributes to three of the most widely beloved musicians in pop music history -- two of whom are household names, and the third of whom is loved by a cult of millions.

"Stop This Game" - Cheap Trick
"Musta Notta Gotta Lotta" - Joe Ely
"Chelsea Hotel '78" - Alejandro Escovedo
"I Like to Rock" - April Wine (for bassist Steve Lang's birthday)

"I'm a Believer" - The Monkees
"River Deep - Mountain High" - Ike & Tina Turner
"Alone Again Or" - Love
"Mission: Impossible" - Lalo Schifrin
"Feelin' Alright" - Joe Cocker

"Low Rider" - War (for harmonica player Lee Oskar's birthday)
"Jungle Boogie" - Kook & the Gang
"Theme from Foxy Brown" - Willie Hutch
"Superfly" - Curtis Mayfield

"Big Kick, Plain Scrap" - Nick Lowe (for Nick's birthday)
"Flesh and Blood" - Roxy Music
"Straight Lines" - New Musik
"99 Luftballons" - Nena (for Nena's birthday)

"Black Country Rock" - David Bowie
"Dogs in a Cage" - Angelfish
"I Die: You Die" - Gary Numan
"Midnight Shifter" - The Hives

"Transmission" - Joy Division
"Love and a Molotov Cocktail" - The Flys
"Sex Beat" - The Gun Club
"Birth, School, Work, Death" - The Godfathers

"Science Fiction Double Feature" - RHPS soundtrack (for Richard O'Brien's birthday)
"Gotta Get a Meal Ticket" - Elton John (for Elton's birthday)
"Rock Steady" - Aretha Franklin (for Aretha's birthday)
"The Time Warp" - RHPS soundtrack

"Respect" - Aretha Franklin
"The Wasteland" - Elton John
"Sweet Transvestite" - RHPS soundtrack
"Science Fiction Double Feature" - RHPS soundtrack

Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 11:12AM
That is probably the only time in history that an Alejandro Escovedo tune led into one by April Wine.
Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 01:29PM
It worked better than I thought it would!

I only wish I could've played some of Aretha's deep tracks. A one-disc best-of is all I had.

Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 02:42PM
Very nice, Delvin.

Do you know the wonderful song "Carol Kaye" by Portlander Laura Veirs?
Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 03:02PM
No, I'm not familiar with that one, Rhett! Thanks, I'll have to check that out.

Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 03:16PM
I'm not generally into that singer-songwriter stuff, but the album that that song came from, July Flame is pretty magical.
Laura went to Carleton College with me. I wasn't a close friend but it's remarkable to see her success - she didn't even play music in college, although she did have a show on the college radio station I managed.

She has put a lot of material out in the past years, among have two (?) babies with Tucker Martine, the producer of Decemberists and a bunch of other musicians.
Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 05:57PM
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She has put a lot of material out in the past years, among have two (?) babies with Tucker Martine, the producer of Decemberists and a bunch of other musicians.

Is that one of those sentences that calls for an Oxford comma? I can never tell anymore.
Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 25, 2014 06:38PM
Ha! Yes, she has had two kids with Tucker Martine. Not sure how many she's had with a bunch of other musicians.
Dammit, and I am a grammar snob myself. I just wasn't reading my own text carefully. Yes, she has two kids with Tucker Martine, and she has a bunch of records, some with Tucker Martine. But not all of them. The records, I mean, not the kids smiling smiley
Re: Setlist from last night (24/25 March)
March 26, 2014 05:23PM
I wasnt familiar with Laura Veirs until reading this thread. I am one of those that digs the "singer/songwriter stuff' (being an aspiring one myself) and am glad I stopped by today. Good stuff, particularly "July Flame". I hear a bit of Neko Case's influence in there among others.
Neko Case is a fan of hers, and they have sung and toured together. I personally find them very different, but I enjoy them both a lot.

What I find interesting about Laura is the cool, affectless vocals. As a temperature gauge, she and Suzanne Vega and maybe Karla Schickele of Ida are very cool, almost cold (ok, not as cold as Nico's singing in Velvet Underground!), but someone like Neko has a very warm, sometimes a hot, vocal tone. Perhaps someone better versed in musicology can use the specific phrasing, but that's how I hear it in my ears.

What Laura and Neko Case have in common is that they are both highly skilled observers of the natural world - Laura was a geology major at Carleton, and uses a lot of geology/biology/limnology language. Neko is more focused on animals and wildlife and much of that comes through in her writing, too.
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