Setlist 4/21-22/05

Good lazy Sunday afternoon to all you folks in the digital domain. Hope you all had a happy 4/20 and a happy Earth Day. The past couple of weeks have been really hectic, but the light is starting to appear at the end of the tunnel. Whether on not that is the headlight of a northbound train, I can't say.

Well, I'm just sitting in a holding pattern for the next 18-24 hours waiting for people to get back to me on this, that, and the other, so I figured I'd better take advantage of the limited down time to get the setlist out to you. Remember, this is your request line. When I get to the studio, I can't always guarentee that I'll have the song you're looking for in my collection.


Setlist - Homestyle...that is to say, no setlist sheets in the studio!

Artist - Song or Interview - Album or Show

Jerry Garcia - What is a hippie? - Acid Test Reels
Galactic - The Beast - Ruckus
George Clinton & The P. Funk All-Stars - Maggot Brain - Philiadelphia, PA 8/30/93
Kudzu Kings - Bound For Zion - Jubilee Jam, Jackson, MS 2001
Hydra - Heart Of The Hydra - Chicago, IL 4/16/05
Gov't Mule - Thorazine Shuffle - New York, NY 12/30/03
Keller Williams - Spring Buds - Laugh

----Midnight Rant----
This week's topics:
Legalization of Marijuana (post 4/20 report)

Bill Hicks - Manditory Marijuana - Pittsburgh, PA 6/20/91
Paul Bullock - Mellow Hippie - Promo CD

How Congress Intends to spend Earth Day...

Music Interlude:
Vermont Youth Orchestra - My Friend, My Friend/Guyute - Sharin' In The Groove: Celebrating The Music Of Phish

Texas GLBT couples' adoption and foster care rights threatened
Unlawful Detention of American Muslims returning from a religious retreat in Canada


The remainder of the night...

As you might have noticed, I didn't really follow the schedule I set for myself on the setlist after the rant, it just seemed more appropriate to go to Gil Scott-Heron before moving back into more jam band kinda stuff.

Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America - The Very Best Of Gil Scott-Heron, Live!
Greyboy Allstars - Nautilus - Snowmass Village, CO 8/29/03
Oysterhead - Owner Of The World - The Grand Pecking Order
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Be The Rain - Greendale
Phish - The Happy Whip & Dung Song - The Siket Disc
Keller Williams - Stay Human - Bonnaroo 2003
Calexico - Quattro - Bonnaroo 2004
Allman Brothers Band - You Don't Love Me - Live At Fillmore East
Grateful Dead - We Bid You Goodnight - Nightfall of Diamonds

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And with that, I bid you a good afternoon. Have a great week, and I'll talk to you on Thursday.

Happy 420 everyone...here's last week's setlist

Wow, I've been really fuckin' busy. I mean between Recombinant Media, Information Discovery Lab, SALSA conference in Austin this past weekend, a revision for a publication paper, my master's thesis, potential new research programs on the horizon. and the remaining myriad of tasks I have burdened myself with, it's a wonder that I can take time to eat and breathe.

In commemoration of 4/20, this week's first hour will be dedicated to this "unofficial" holiday. As for last week's setlist...well check it yourself...


Last week's setlist...Happy 4/20 everyone!

Artist - Song (Interview) - Album (Show)

Jerry Garcia - What is a hippie? - Acid Test Reels
Galactic - The Beast - Ruckus
Widespread Panic - Ribs & Whiskey>Hatfield - Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY 10/31/03
Phil & Friends - Liberty - Chicago, IL 11/19/03
RatDog - Loose Lucy>Althea - Spokane, WA 3/9/04
Keller Williams - Moving Sidewalk - Home
Mitch Hedberg - Smackie The Frog>Frogs & Bears - Strategic Grill Locations
Phish - Divided Sky - Philiadelphia, PA 11/29/03
David Grisman Quartet - Chili Dawg - Lyons, CO 7/26/03
Afroskull - IT - Monster For The Masses
Particle - Triple Threat - Wakarusa Music Festival, 2004
Gov't Mule - Fallen Down - New York City, NY 12/31/03
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Squeeze>Three's Company Theme>Squeeze>Don't Worry, Be Happy>Squeeze - Bonnaroo 2004
Grateful Dead - We Bid You Goodnight - Nightfall of Diamonds

See ya tomorrow!

Aggies looking to Gig Em? Try Australia!

Ok, so for those who don't know, Texas A&M has a little cultish thing going on with their school spirit. The traditions range from reverant to just plain wacky. One of the just plain wacky ones is the term Gig 'Em. From my understanding, Gig 'Em came from yelling these words out while stabbing frogs with a sharp stick.

Now fast-forward to 2005. In Australia, the government is trying to get rid of a toxic toad called the Cane Toad, that was imported into the country 70 years ago to control a beetle problem. Now, Australia is over-run with Cane Toads. One solution suggested by the Australian government is to have citizens go out and smash the frogs with sticks, lumber, or bats. Granted, the U.S. has good relations with Australia, but if we exported some Aggies to Australia to Gig the Cane Toads, it would demonstrate that the U.S. is capable of international gestures of goodwill to mankind.

Only one question remains: What happens when Australia is overrun with Aggies?

Setlist 4/7-8/05

Sorry it took so long to get the show up this week, I've been kinda bummed about some personal matters that I won't worry you with, and getting a little anxious about my thesis proposal/defense. I was in a seriously bummed-out state on Saturday. I'm pretty much over it now, but I'm telling ya that being depressed doesn't do anyone any good, and it's a horrible way to lose time that you could spend in otherwise productive pursuits.



This week's show.

Artist - Song (Interview) - Album (Show)

Jerry Garcia - What is a hippie? - Acid Test Reels
Galactic - The Beast - Ruckus
Little Feat - Skin It Back>Fat Man In A Bathtub - Boston, MA 10/31/75
Sonny Landreth - Native Stepson - Grant St., Live 4/23-24/04
Particle - One Of These Days > Below Radar - Birmingham, AL 2/6/04
Allman Brothers Band - In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - Atlanta International Pop Festival 7/3/70
Phish - Mike's Song > Simple > Mike's Song - Oxford, MS 10/13/94
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez The Killer - Alberquerque, NM 2/28/04
Garage A Trois - Hard Headed Rio AKA Rio Cuca Dura > Plena For My Grundle - Boulder, CO 3/10/03 or 10/3/03, not sure which one exactly...
The Wailers - Jammin' - Austin City Limits Music Festival 2004
Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World - St. Louis, MO 5/15/77
Gov't Mule - Patchwork Quilt - The Deepest End
Grateful Dead - We Bid You Goodnight - Nightfall of Diamonds

See ya next week...

Healing Vibes for Neil Young needed NOW!

I got the news on this yesterday at Forward Fest, and confirmed this with several sources before posting this note. Get well soon Neil. Send your healing vibes to Neil.

(((((((((((((((((((((((((Neil Young))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

A moment of silence for Pope John Paul II

Ok, so I'm not a Catholic. I never agreed with the Pope's stance on gay marriage or contraception, but at the end of the day, the man was a human being, and his passing from humanity into something greater should be recognized.

As a question of intellectual curiosity, I have a question for my Catholic readers and listeners. How would the Catholic Church's structure stand if the Pope had slipped into a coma? Again, I mean no disrespect to the Catholic Church, but for a religion that places so much trust in one person, you have to admit that the human body is a frail conduit to God, at best. I posed this question to a few of my friends, none of which were Catholic, and we're all really confused. Does Jesus take over for a little while? Is there a Vice Pope? I mean, we just want to know how this works, just for personal edification's sake.

Here's a cool site

This site is growing by leaps and bounds. When I first started using it, they only had the music map, now you can search for movies based on title, director, or actor. The animations are pretty tight too. This another way data from a search engine could be express the collections it finds to match your search terms. After all, aren't lists boring? They're also a very artificial way to abstract the way knowledge is organized. That is, lists are more mechanical than organic. So one hypothesis could be that the more naturalistic the information is expressed might have some bearing on how the information is recalled.

Anyway, this is a really cool site.


Sample of the Music Plasma Format

In like a lion, out like a lamb: Setlist for 3/31 > 4/1/05

Well folks, it was a great show. We made up for our losses from last week, but things could have been a whole lot more lucrative if you know what I mean. Local folks, if you pledged some support this past couple of weeks to a different show, then your pledge was "gratefully" appreciated. I can tell you that there are new engineering changes at the station all the time and it's always amazing to come in to see what's new this week. This thing is about to get big. That's my prediction and I'm sticking to it, and you can help realize this vision by calling in and pledging your support either tonight or tomorrow through midnight.

Unfortunately, everything they tell you about a pledge drive is difficult to apply to my show at the best of times. Forget short songs. Pitching is equally long winded, admittedly, because I care a lot about the station and I want to make sure that opinion is explicitly expressed. This station is one of the few pillars in my life that keeps me sane as an ultraviolet person in an infrared world (and if you got that, you are indeed a scholar and a gentleperson!), but just like what Jerry sang in Crazy Fingers, "But I try...oooohhh, I try!"

Anyway, onto this week's setlist.




Back to a regular schedule next week, time to get back to what the show was meant to be. Want to find out what that is? Then you'll have to stay tuned. Same bat time, same bat channel.

Artist - Song (Interview) - Album (Show)

Jerry Garcia - Commercial Radio - Acid Test Reels
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Particle - Make It Real - Bonnaroo 2003
Wish Found Nation - Boss DJ - Cafe Revolution, Bryan, TX 7/10/04
Willis Brownstone - Somotopopp - Summer Salt
Galactic - Bittersweet - Ruckus
Gov't Mule - About To Rage - Deja Voodoo
Umphrey's McGee - Miss Tinkle's Overture - Anchor Drops
Phish - Weekapaugh Groove - Oxford, MS 10/13/94
Michael Franti & Spearhead - We Don't Stop - Bonnaroo 2003
Grateful Dead - Promised Land* - Passaic, NJ 4/1/80
Bill Hicks - The News, The War, Worst Audience Ever, More War - Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1: Pittsburgh, PA 6/20/91
Chris Robinson & New Earth Mud - Mother Of Stone - Bonnaroo 2004
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Peaches En Regalia>Torture Never Stops - New York City 10/31/77
Acoustic Syndicate - Rainbow Rollercoaster - Charolettesville, VA 2/22/03
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Calypso - Montreal, Quebec 11/18/03
Afroskull - Space Chicken - Monster For The Masses
Grateful Dead - We Bid You Goodnight - Nightfall of Diamonds

* April Fool's joke, the band switched instruments for the opener.

Correction: In the midnight rant, I said that Nigeria was the country that our faulty intelligence claimed had sold "yellow cake" uranium to Iraq. That should have been Niger. Please accept the humble apologies of your obedient servent.