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Today In Music History: As Soon As I Get Thing Disconnected, I'm Gonna Throw It At You

Posted at 6:10 AM on August 13, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Danny Bonaduce of The Partridge Family turns 50 today


1965 - Jefferson Airplane made their live debut at San Francisco's Matrix Club.
1971 - John Lennon flew from Heathrow Airport to New York and never set foot on British soil again.
1977 - Bachman Turner Overdrive split up.
1980 - Four masked robbers broke in to Todd Rundgren's New York house, tied Rundgren and three others up, and proceeded to steal electronic equipment and paintings. It was reported that one of the intruders had been humming Rundgren's hit "I Saw The Light."
1988 - Robert Smith of The Cure married his childhood sweetheart Mary Poole.

Today in 2002, Adam Ant pleaded guilty to threatening drinkers at The Prince Of Wales Pub in London in January of this year. Ant had returned to the bar with a starting pistol after being refused entry. He had also thrown a car alternator through the window of the pub (?!!!).

Thursday Coffee Break: Tom Waits as The Devil?

Posted at 7:54 AM on August 13, 2009 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

(updated below)

If you could cast anyone as the Devil, who would you pick? Ever consider Tom Waits?

Filmmaker Terry Gilliam thought Waits would be the ideal actor to portray Satan for his new film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Now that's something we can't wait to see. Only, according the Movieline, we may have some trouble actually seeing it - because the film has yet to find a US distributor. This despite the fact that it's apparently Heath Ledger's last film. Well then, the film must be awful, right? Uh, no - check out the praise-filled blurbs in the trailer below (lifted from credible review soureces like GQ, the LA Times and the Daily Mail - not exactly hacks from small-market TV stations). Unbelievable, eh?

So today for the 9:30 Coffee Break, we asked for some of your favorite devilish songs by Tom Waits.

(Updated): Your requests that we played:

1) "What's He Buiding?"
2) "Goin' Out West"
3) "Singapore"
4) "How's It Gonna End"

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Theft of the Dial: The Dead Weather

Posted at 10:28 AM on August 13, 2009 by Jill Riley (3 Comments)
Filed under: Theft of the Dial


Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence (LJ) of The Dead Weather took over the airwaves of The Current during another edition of Theft of the Dial.

Here's what they played while they sat in as DJ's.
1. Captain Beefheart - Sure Enough and Yes I Do
2. Townes Van Zandt - It's Easier Than Just Waiting Around To Die
3. Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
4. Blue Cheer - Out Of Focus
5. Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words
6. RUNDMC - Peter Piper

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A tribute to Les Paul

Posted at 12:46 PM on August 13, 2009 by Michael Wells (4 Comments)

Music and recording pioneer Les Paul died today at the age of 94. Les Paul has been called "the father of modern music" with his innovations and inventions, including multi-track recording and his iconic guitar.

Host Barb Abney presented a musical tribute today highlighting the artists known for playing the Les Paul guitar, but here's three quick videos showing you a bit about Les Paul the man.

Les Paul - Chasing Sound

Chet Atkins and Les Paul

Les Paul and Mary Ford demonstrating early multi-track recording

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Catch the Fruit Bats..

Posted at 10:53 AM on August 13, 2009 by Barb Abney

Last week, the Seattle by way of Chicago trio, Fruit Bats released their fourth record, The Ruminant Band. Today on our Song Of The Day podcast you can grab the title track for free!

If you're a new subscriber, you'll also receive new music from God Help The Girl, Femi Kuti, Jeremy Enigk and Vampire Hands. Tomorrow we'll be featuring new local music from Zak Sally.

3 songs that Nils is in love with..

Posted at 12:23 PM on August 13, 2009 by Barb Abney
Filed under: My Three Songs

Nils Anderson from Two Harbors, MN picked today's My 3 Songs set because...

"I'm in love with all three songs and I don't think it matters how old or new they are- a great song is a great song...am I right?"

Radiohead - "Reckoner"
Yeasayer - "2080"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Hysteric"

Make your "My 3 Songs" requests here.

Cover to Cover Cher and George edition..

Posted at 1:43 PM on August 13, 2009 by Barb Abney

Today on Cover to Cover (C2C, if you will,) we heard Terry Reid's take on Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" and Yim Yames' George Harrison tribute, "My Sweet Lord."

I thought it would be fun to hear/watch yet another version of "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)." Apparently, this tune was relatively obscure until the release of Kill Bill Vol. 1.

Yim Yames IS Jim James of My Morning Jacket/Monsters Of Folk. Back in 2001, shortly after the passing of George Harrison, Jim recorded a handful of George's tunes that moved him the most. Those recordings have recently been made available on Tribute To. Learn more about the release or buy it directly from the artist. Let's take a moment to remember the original version of this tune, shall we?

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