Things began with one of Ed's popular "initial" renditions based on the letters "MW" ala Melbourne '95 and subsequently pop up later at one Ed's solo show in Los Angeles in '99). After Ed spins the black circle on a few tunes, there is a piercing hush as Pearl Jam begins their first live set. With many in radio-land hearing these songs for the first time, a record would have probably been set this night for the amount of people jumping around in their bedrooms at one time. Pearl Jam performed six new songs in all.
Pro-Choice issues were once again brought up this night with the occurrence once again of Abortion Clinic violence occuring within days of the broadcast. After more wax and a lighting-fast set by Zeke, Ed had on noted feminist Gloria Steinem who described the impact the Roe vs. Wade decision has had on the country up until 1998 - the year marking the 25th anniversary of the decision. Ed also welcomed Corrice Tucker - lead singer of Sleater Kinney who announced the release of a 7" with an organization called "Free To Fight" that promoted Self-Defense awareness for women.
Live sets were again spectacular. This time showcasing the talents of Zeke, Tuatara, Mudhoney and Brad.
Monkeywrench Radio '98 could be called "Self-Pollution Radio, Part Two". It still moved along like a '73 Pinto, but you had so much damn fun riding in it. Pearl Jam continued to use the airwaves as a powerful medium for fan contact, great live and pre-recorded music, and poignant social awareness. Although 1998 was a direct contrast to 1995 for Pearl Jam, they again put a monkeywrench in the modern radio framework and the result was a fun, provoking night for Pearl Jam fans worldwide.
| Song | Color Red - Pearl Jam |
| Eddie | MW, MW, MW, MW, WM, MW. Must we? Mink Walt. Mundane Wishes. Motion Witness. Mod Waistcoat. Mud Wrestling. More Worchester. Mast Windfall. Much Waste. Most Wanted. Mill Worker. Money Wallet. Most Wicked. Male Witch. Monk Welts. Meat ... Well. Mr. Wind. Manwich. Mr. Wizard. Ms Wisconsin. Mike Watt. Mary Worth. Morning Wood. Milk White. Minwax. Marital Weeping. Making Whoopee. Mall Wart. Mysterious Ways. Matching Wardrobe. Man, Woman. Magic Wand. Midwest. Modern World. Mustn't Worry. Monkey Wrench. Hello. Welcome to the second annual Monkey Wrench Radio broadcast. The last time we did this was three years ago. And again it's live from our hideout in Seattle, my name's Ed and I will be your host. Let's go play some records. Sonic Youth's first. |
| Song | Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth |
| Song | Rock & Roll Radio - The Ramones |
| Eddie | Okay kiddies, some band called Pearl Jam is going to play a live set for your spontaneous listening enjoyment. Since I am in that band I guess I'm going to have to move into the next room. I'll leave you with a song called Noise of Carpet by Stereolab. |
| set | Pearl Jam Set: |
| Stone | Here's a new song. |
| Jeff | Here's a song called Evolution" |
| Song | Do The Evolution (Live) |
| Song | Given To Fly |
| Jeff |
The crowd's getting bigger. Two people now. |
| Stone | This next song is "Wishlist", as soon as Ed gets his shit together. |
| Eddie | Okay, I got my shit together now, or actually we'll see. |
| Song | Wishlist |
| Eddie | Alright, back to more records. |
| Song | Don't Stand in Line - Pailhead. |
| Eddie | Alright, you're stuck with me still. Just this one man back in this little room here and I'm surrounded by records. Can I tell you what that last one was? That was Pailhead, which is a guy named Al Jourgensen who you might have heard play with Ministry and a guy name Ian MacKaye, who you might have heard play with Fugazi or you might have heard play with Minor Threat, or you might have heard play with Teen Idles, any number of things. You might hear that they run a label called Dischord out of DC. Anything you get on Dischord I can pretty much ... they pretty much guarantee your money's worth. Speaking of records, the next one is going to be by a band who's from this town. Everyone who's playing tonight is from this town. No one flew in for this or anything. Quite an assembly of people out in the other room, kinda exciting to see what happens here. These guys couldn't make it cause they're playing a show not far away, five blocks or so, but it's their last show. They're calling it quits and talking control of their lives. So this goes out to them. Congratulations on going out in a ball of fire. This song is by them called Bath of Fire and it's by The Presidents of the United States of America. |
| Eddie | I'm going to play something that's yet to be released. I don't think it comes out for another couple weeks. I'm not really sure even how I got this copy. But I'm hoping that the woman who recorded it doesn't get upset with me cause I imagine she would write a song about it. And, I hope she does, songs are good in the world. The more the merrier. This is something by Ani DiFranco and I think it has something to do with fire or fuel. Have a listen. Go Annie. |
| Song | Fuel - Ani DiFranco |
| Eddie | Alright, there she goes, like the words. I kinda said Annie (laughs) right before the song. I meant Ani. I said it right once and then the second time I said it wrong. Maybe two reasons. There's this friend named Annie who I've been hangin out with the last couple days and that be one reason. The other is, uh, I might be a little nervous. You know there's potentially millions of people getting this broadcast, we, that's the idea. It's just a big pirate radio kind of setup here, if you don't if you haven't picked up on that yet. But, through the graciousness of the local stations they're kind of picking up our satellite feed. So, thank you for letting us have this time, radio folks. Hopefully you're enjoying the music as well. You know it's amazing, like Ani, it's like Yanni without the "Y" - so isn't it amazing how just one letter can make the difference between a good song and an awful one? Speaking of good songs and good words, if you can figure them out, there's a band here. The last time we did this I got to play their single. I think I played one called West Seattle Acid Party, but here tonight they're in the flesh and they're in the next room and it's loud and I'm gonna actually run in and watch them. Four guys from Seattle, four letters in the name of the band, first letter is Z, name of the band is Zeke, and they're gonna play now. |
| set | Zeke |
| Song | Dogfight |
| Song | Twisted |
| Song | Highway Star |
| Song | Wanna Fuck |
| Song | Chiva Knievel |
| Song | West Seattle Acid Party |
| Song | Easy Rider |
| Song | ? |
| Song | ? |
| Eddie | Alright then. Bank number two, Zeke, band number three will have pieces to pick up I'm afraid. Excellent, you should see them live. Here's a record, this is Sleater-Kinney the first song, the title track ... |
| Song | Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney |
| Eddie | Okay. So it's Saturday night and here's the news. It's Saturday night and Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. a bomb exploded in a woman's health care clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. Reports confirm that one person is dead.
Now we've played you some nice music and a spoon full of sugar, right? Hope you can sit and listen to this cause I think it's important.
Now last week America celebrated twenty-five years of legal abortion. This bombing is yet another example of the violent tactics that the opponents of choice, who've been unable to overturn Roe V Wade, are willing to employ to intimidate patients and to scare doctors and clinic workers from providing essential services.
Since 1995 (I have this little sheet here in front of me telling me this) there have been thirty-four different bombing and arson attacks at clinics. Clinics not only provide abortion services and counseling, they provide family planning and contraceptive services as well. So when terrorists bomb clinics women are denied the very services that reduce the need for abortion. This is where we see a glaring contradiction. Why are anti-choice opponents fighting legislative measures supporting contraception and sex education?
Now Gloria Steinem who is the president of something called Voters For Choice and a long time champion for human rights and the rights of women, stated that "The murderous bomb blast in Birmingham continues the right-wing terrorist campaign against women's reproductive freedom. A clinic bombing in nearby Atlanta remains unsolved and attacks on abortion clinics now average one a month. If this were another country we would be condemning these egregious violations of human rights. Why is there such silence about terrorism against American women?"
So Gloria's with us on the phone from New York. It's late there and I'm going to turn it over to her for a few minutes. She's got something to say. Gloria, are you there? |
| Gloria | Yep, I'm right here. |
| Eddie | Alright ... you go. |
| Gloria | Okay thanks. Thanks Eddie. You know I just called Birmingham again and there's still no arrest and besides killing the guard, the bomb nearly killed a nurse on her way to work. Emily Lyons is alive after ten hours on the operating table. But she probably won't have the use of her leg or sight in one eye. The truth is that like other bombs used in anti-abortion terrorism, this one was very powerful and packed with nails. In other words, it was designed to maim and kill, not just to destroy property. So, there's the question you were asking. How could someone kill in the name of opposing killing?
Well, the same way that many who oppose abortion support the death penalty and military adventures. I think the point is less what is done to them, I mean from their point of view, than who has the power to do it. If the State has the power, that's okay. If the individual has the power, that's subversive and sinful and wrong.
In Congress, for instance, 185 anti-abortion members also voted 100 percent against contraception and family planning programs that would have diminished the need for abortion. So I think the truth is they oppose the right to reproductive and sexual freedom.
But I don't' want to depress all the good folks out there, because there really is good news and it is the 25th Anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling called Roe V Wade. It did give each woman the right to decide with her physician, whether or not to have an abortion as part of the constitutional right to privacy.
Before that decision, which is a time I remember all too well, at least 5,000 women and girls died every year from illegal abortions and that doesn't count all those who were injured or rendered sterile. Thanks to years of marching in the streets and courageous campaigning, by men as well as women, but especially by the woman's movement, we now have the right as do women in most democracies to make this a personal and private decision without government interference. The truth is Roe V Wade has probably saved the life and health and safety and peace of mind of more women of all ages of every race in every class, than any other event in this country's history. And the majority of Americans very much support it.
But you young women and young men who are out there listening need to know that your right to reproductive freedom is being weakened and it could very easily be lost. The anti-choice campaign targets those who have the least political power-the young and the poor.P>For instance 35 states deny Medicaid funding for the abortions of poor women and that forces them either into compulsory pregnancy, because that's what's funded, or cheap and dangerous alternatives. Thirty-nine states have parental notification and consent laws for woman under 18. This is really targeting the young. That means if you can't tell your parents or in some states get permission from a judge, as if that were easier, you can't get a safe and legal abortion. You're not your own person, you're the legal possession of your parents or of the state.
For instance three months ago in Alabama, where this clinic just got bombed, there was a sex party where older men invited teenage girls and gave them the drug Raffi. When one fifteen-year-old girl found herself pregnant as a result she killed herself rather than tell her parents. A second survived a suicide attempt before finding an abortion clinic that would help her confront a judge. Meanwhile, Alabama is supposed to provide funding for abortions in cases or rape or incest, but it has yet to do so in one single case.
So whether or not you yourself would choose an abortion, if you want to preserve reproductive freedom for everybody, go to your local clinic and offer to join defense vigils or become a patient escort and if you don't' know the clinic nearest you, there's a national hotline you can call 1-800-772-9110, I'll give it again at the end, and if you're a medical student by any chance make sure you learn simple and save abortion procedures. Most of all vote for candidates who support reproductive freedom for all women, whatever party they come from, and I mean for all women, the poor and the young too. And no matter who you are, speak out against violence. I think rock music stands for freedom and you can too. |
| Eddie | Alright. Gloria thanks for staying up and thanks for the information. |
| Gloria | Okay. Thank you. Shall I give that hotline number again? |
| Eddie | Please do. |
| Gloria | Okay, it's 1-800-772-9100. You can find your local clinic and they can also help you if you don't have money for an abortion or if you're in a state where there's parental consent laws, maybe they can help you. |
| Eddie | Gloria, thanks again. Good night. |
| Gloria | Okay, good night. |
| Eddie | We're going to continue on here and ... um ... little bit shaken up, but we're gonna pull it together and the song that you heard before we went into that was, after Zeke, was a song called Dig Me Out. I mentioned it was by Sleater-Kinney. Now the fine woman singing that song is actually sitting right next to us here. She's gonna share a few words and a few songs with you as well. Her name is Corine Tucker. |
| Corinne | That's right. |
| Eddie | We just met today. Do you know I saw you guys at the Moore. You opened for John Spencer. |
| Corinne | Oh really, you were there? |
| Eddie | I think you even mentioned the guy who flew off the balcony. And I was thinking, yeah, that's me. (Corrine laughs) But super, I was kinda talking about that show for a long time. It's nice to meet you. |
| Corinne | Same here. |
| Eddie | I'm excited to hear, tell us what you've got in your hands there. |
| Corinne | Okay. I brought along this 7 inch my band just put out with this organization called Free To Fight. What Free To Fight is, is a group that teaches self-defense to women and young girls and gives them some tools to protect themselves either verbally or physically. The 7 inch is a series that is talking about different areas of self-defense. This is the first one in the series that we're on. But before this, there was a record that actually has instructions for girls who want to learn about self-defense and about fighting for their own rights every day. So what I'm gonna do now is play the 7 inch and give a listen to that and then we'll talk some more. |
| Song | Free To Fight # 1 |
| Eddie | Alright, we're back. |
| Corinne | We're back after a rough intro into that. But that was a 7 inch from Free To Fight and now we're gonna listen to a track from the record, the first Free To Fight record. It's about yelling and it teaches some information about actually stuff you can do if you feel threatened. Using your voice and using your body in ways that give you power is what Free To Fight is all about; and having fun and playing rock music too. |
| Eddie | Yeah, yelling that's a good start. Shall we do it? |
| Corinne | Yeah, let's do it. |
| Eddie | I've never seen this record before. Again, the name. |
| Corinne | It's called Free To Fight and it's available from Candy Ass Records. You can get that information by writing to Candy Ass and mail ordering it. Their address is P. O. Box 42382 Portland, OR 97242. I have some more information if you want to know more about domestic violence. There's a domestic violence hotline you can call at 1-800-562-6025. |
| Eddie | Excellent. |
| Corinne | Yeah, and now we should hear some more music. |
| Eddie | And it comes with a book too. |
| Corinne | Yeah. With the full length record a booklet comes with it. It has lots of pictures and drawings by girls and women. |
| Eddie | This is great. I can't believe I've never seen this. Okay, we're gonna go back to one more recorded song. And I can see in the next room, ready to play live, is Mudhoney. So stay turned for them and enjoy this next number. Again, no commercials here. |
| Song | Sandy - Wellwater Conspiracy. |
| set | Mudhoney |
| Song | Editions of You |
| Song | Oblivion Into Infinity |
| Song | Real Low Vibe |
| Song | Have To Laugh |
| Eddie | Alright. I'm looking to see if they're gonna put their guitars back on. No, they're done. That's Mudhoney. Blessed to have them here, in my humble opinion. |
| Song | Matt Lukin's answering machine message. |
| Eddie | The record you heard before Mr. Lukin was on the Super Electro label and it was a song called Sandy, and it's a cover song I believe, I'll find out some more in a minute. It's by the band Wellwater Conspiracy, which John McBain is in it as well as Mr. Matt Cameron, whose name you might recognize. And Super Electro, actually that would be, I'm talking with Steve from Mudhoney. That happens to be your label. |
| Steve | Yes, it does. |
| Eddie | Is there something else? Actually you're kind of, well you and Mark should probably be the one spinning records. |
| Steve | Anybody can spin records. |
| Eddie | Well, actually anybody can. But I think you'd really know the good stuff. I might be even just skimming the surface, but I think it might be good. It's stuff people can handle. But if we were going to through the history of music, and let's say Seattle music, you'd bring up, well one night we were at the house and you played me the Sonics. You know I was aware of them, but not, I wasn't aware how good they were. |
| Steve | Yeah, yeah, they're, I guess when you grow up in Seattle and you get into punk rock or rock and roll you immediately are also turned onto the Sonics somehow. Cause as soon as I knew about the Clash, I knew about the Sonics. I don't really know why that as the case, but I did. There was so much great Sixties rock and roll from this area that's like so gnarly. (laughs) |
| Eddie | And to think I was stuck on the Who. |
| Steve | Yeah, it's a local thing here, there's the Walers, the Sonics, the Ventures are from up here. Paul Revere and the Raiders. |
| Eddie | The list goes on. |
| Steve | Yeah. |
| Eddie | The love flows on. And this song, we're gonna play the Sonics right now. This song's gonna be "He's Waiting." |
| Steve | Yes. |
| Eddie | Who would that be? |
| Steve | That would be Satan is waiting. |
| Song | He's Waiting - The Sonics. |
| Eddie | Alright, that was 1965 we're talking. |
| Steve | Yes sir. |
| Eddie | And that was their second record. |
| Steve | Yeah, from the Sonic's Boom. |
| Eddie | So I was, when I was being born they were in the studio making their second record. |
| Steve | Pretty much, yeah. Me too. (laughs) |
| Eddie | Fast forward to last week, because now we're gonna play something off a record yet to be released. |
| Steve | Yeah, yeah, the Kent 3. |
| Eddie | And that's gain on Super Electro, if you want to track it down or ask your local Mom and Pop, or large retailer. |
| Steve | It's gonna be called Peasant Music by the Kent 3. |
| Eddie | And this track would be called? |
| Steve | DJ New. |
| Eddie | After we hear that it looks like our band's gonna play again, which is that band called Pearl Jam. We're into hour two of this Monkey Wrench Festival live at the hideout here and it's, looks like it's gonna go for, we're shooting for twelve o'clock West Coast, so if you guys can stay up or set your tape players there's a lot of, I don't think you want to miss what's coming up. So after we play we continue. So this is the Kent 3 and ... |
| Steve | DJ New. |
| comment | Cont'd... |
| set | Pearl Jam Set : Brain of J |
| song | In Hiding |
| song | Spin The Black Circle |
| Song | "HIV Baby" by Soundgarden |
| Eddie | Alright Soundgarden that was you ahh that was you. HIV Baby ahh that's a rare kinda release these ahh because that was somethin' called the Sub Pop singles club ahh where ahh would give them a certain amount of money every year and ahh every month just like a magazine, they'd ahh send you a single. And ahh this was ahh I think quite a rare one. Ohmm and I think Sub Pop just started doin' that again so if you have any interest ahh I'm sure you can check in to it. Ahh now ahh there's a guy named Peter Buck and he's settin' up to ahh play something live for ya and to ahh but sitting next to me is ahh ohmm Mr. Krist Novoselic and ahh... |
| Krist | Hi Eddie. |
| Eddie | Hi |
| Krist | It's great to be back Monkey Wrench Radio. Wow thanks for havin' me. |
| Eddie | Yeah that's right. It's ahh its been a long year... |
| Krist | Yeah yeah 1997 6 when was that 1995? Somethin' like that... |
| Eddie | Ahh just it feels like one long year ago. |
| Krist | Yeah. One long year. Yeah. |
| Eddie | But you've got ahh maybe some words for us. Whatcha been up to? |
| Krist | Oh God what have I been doin'? Well I've been doin' JamPac a lot ohmm I've been mostly doing JamPac. Finding some legislation here in Washington State. Been working on Inch Radio (?) Probably the coolest, well after Monkey Wrench Radio almost the coolest radio show after Monkey Wrench Radio and so if you want to hear Inch Radio call your radio program director at your station say we want Inch Radio. |
| Eddie | So Inch Radio that's somethin' different from pirate radio because its something you put together ahh is it a half hour show? |
| Krist | Yeah it's like a half hour show. It's like a news magazine. Its ahh its really cool. Its like music information and ahh if you're not careful you might learn something ha ha God I noticed that ahh Jack in his drum set has this garbage can lid as like cymbal and it reminded me of the Fat Albert Band and ahh yeah I'm doin' that. I'm workin' on a film. I'm doin'a film ahh and that's what I brought by here. I brought by here the film is kinda bitter and irresponsible but in the end it's about personal triumph over ohmm adverse conditions so ohmm at the end of the film the devil kinds lays it all out and ahh I'd like to read somethin' from it. So maybe I'll ahh get cookin' on that right now... "Ceremonies and traditions are important to preserve structure. Structure is important to the collective. On the surface we interact through the structure of speech and other social connections. Underneath there is an interaction and social connection we all share unspoken this is a realm where the spirit of music dwells among other spirits all connected through the thread of love. All art and commerce - the struggle continues the emotional response to tones and rthyms is an experience that is uniquely human. I've never seen a monkey hand jive. Then again, monkeys don't put value on sticks and stones. Oh the struggle between emotion and cash. Don't you know necessity wins over tears? You've got to keep the plate on the table no matter how bad you feel. Songs make us laugh and songs make us cry. But that stuff ain't got no place on the bottom line. And by the way, speaking of lines, we signed on the dotted one. If we want to talk about a fair shake, remember what the guys say: shake it more than 3 times and you're playing with it. Shake it enough, who knows what you'll spill. Spill your guts on my doorstep and I'll wipe my feet on your format. Ahh, at versus commerce. Emotion versus cash. Essentially, flesh versus spirit. Everyone is looking for the new Messiah. It's always been that way. Just remember, for every Jesus, there is a Paul selling what you want to hear. Let us now take a moment before we give out the pink slips and bow our heads in prayer. 'Oh Messiah, on the scene, at the start our favorite flavor. At the end, a bitter taste. Unclean. Of course, we chew you up and spit you out. You must have heard this one before, but swimming up the mainstream has always been a chore. It's a weight the new Messiah carries. A shiney, shiney jewel. It's a rich bag full of spice, girls. It's there the boys who write the songs rule. The market and the stage - since when were they the same? What does the bank say? What does the player play? The ticket or the tune? A lote holds them apart. One fits in your pocket, the other in your heart. These days, it gets real fuzzy. It's hard to make out what's dear. When you've got to choose between the merchant or the balladeer. Amen.'" |
| Song | "Wouldn't It By Nice" by The Beach Boys |
| Krist | "It's been almost four years since Galgatha. Paul morphed into the Holy Roman Empire of Fast. That's the information age for you. After Peter walked into Cheetah Roman, they made his bones into candlestick holders. Apostle swag at planet vacation. Judas drags corpses across checkstand. Truth is all Greek to King James. The revival tent draws a crows 2,000 light years after the fact and the testimonies and baptisms are projected onscreen. The film holds some water but not enough to break God's law. The Holy Romans say the sun goes around the Earth. You better believe it or they'll burn you bad. Ask Gallileo. Good thing his Agent was connected. At Kasemsaki's last temptation, Paul bum rushes the hippie looking freak. 'I'll shall become your apostle whether you like it or not. I shall construct you and your life and your teachings and your crucifiction and resurrection just as I wish. Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth did not beget you. I begot you. I, Paul, the Scribe from Tarsus and Selicia.' Judas karokes old age while the Messiah goes uncredited. The cherade will blast open upon the dirty lawyer's split nucleus. A shotgun can't cancel out the A Bomb. The fallout is still in orbit. And myself, I don't practice the religion their Messiah practiced. My saves my soul saves over 100% when it subscribes to liberation. Call now - 1 800 I am Free. That number again: 1-800-I A M - F R E E." |
| Song | "Live For Today" by REM |
| Eddie | Ok ahh and in the next room I can see 'em from here ahh a band with more people than any other band that ahh that's ever done this show to this point ahh I can see Peter Buck. I can see guy named Sherat who plays sax. Ahh it's quite a few. I'm gonna have to find my list to name everybody but ahh guy named Barrett playin' drums. Ahh and ahh and as a collective they're called Tuatara and ahh hope you got your tape recorders goin' cause ahh they're gonna play for ya right now. |
| set | Tuatara Set : Saturday Night Church |
| Song | L'Espionnage de Pomme de Terre |
| Song | Serengeti |
| Song | The Streets of New Delhi |
| Eddie | So there you have it. Tuatara. This is ahh Chris Cornell singin' ahh a song called "Sunshower." |
| Song | "Sunshower" by Chris Cornell |
| Eddie | Alright. As I mentioned that's ahh my friend Chris Cornell playin'. Ahh so we've ccovered Chris and Matt ahh tonight ahh cause we had Well Water Conspiracy and then there's a bond called Hater ahh when Ben playes in ahh I think Matt has another band ahh I think even Ben has another band besides that and ahh you Kim's doing good too so ahh ahh say hello to those guys and I heard ahh ahh well I got this guy ahh Watt on the phone. Mike Watt. Are you there? |
| Watt | Yeah. |
| Eddie | Hey. |
| Watt | I hear Krist and those cats. |
| Eddie | Yeah. |
| Watt | There's a devil dog too or somethin' . |
| Eddie | Ahh I heard we lost ahh lost to LA down there. |
| Watt | Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Air rush. |
| Eddie | Air rushed out. |
| Watt | There's a crop and it's right at the end. I got Brian Wilson. You know, I read that book. It's a trippy book. |
| Eddie | On Brian? |
| Watt | Ahh Wouldn't It Be Nice. Ahh Mike Love. I guess when the cousin sued him for it, won it in Connetticutt. I was readin' in the paper. But right after that song also, there was a bunch of generic new wave. They ahh the plug got pulled. |
| Eddie | I think ahh yeah. Well I was just thinkin' that ahh it's a little hectic runnin' around here between the live band speakers and ahh collecting our thoughts to play the records and ahh then I was thinkin' it must be great to be a regular DJ who just sits back and ya know who just plays records as opposed to all this other stuff and you know they can just sit back and play whatever they want and then I thought, but they can't. Ya know? Those guys ahh are on a play list and all these ahh... |
| Watt | I think Krist was sayin' that in his poem. He says is it it is it the players or is it the danglers? And ya know art and commerce spill thing stuff that guy was getting' heavy. Us Krockers was sweatin' under the collars and stuff. It got they might have gotten the amen's and stuff. I think it was like I said too much weight for the brain to take and they ain't I don't know. |
| Eddie | The words just might've been knockin' out the satellites instead of bouncin' off. |
| Watt | Yeah. It was it was great thought man to hear him and I remember the last time yeah he was talkin' with ya too man. He's ahh he he asked me to come up there. He's send this bunch of stuff and he's got this place by the border near Oregon there and ahh a lot of places need to be torn down with the salt zogs and pry bars and he wants to build some new sheds and stuff and the old house and stuff and he says to 'come on Watt out for a week.' He says we take some Volkswagon 3 dead ones andmake one live one. |
| Eddie | Yeah. Destruct and reconstruct. That's actually how he thinks a lot ahh... |
| Watt | He told me the band think he's out kinda bummin' him the Art and Commerce. |
| Eddie | Yeah. Art and Commerce. It looks like is ahh ahh is smothered. Ahh Sweet 75 - this one record, a good record, I'm glad I got to see 'em 6 or 7 times I think, maybe, cause ahh they were playing with Hovercraft so ahh... |
| Watt | Saw 'em in LA at The Trube. |
| Eddie | Yeah that's right. We were down there. Kyra was down there. So ohmm anyways... |
| Watt | Have a guitar? |
| Eddie | 12 string. |
| Watt | Yeah that was a trip. |
| Eddie | Yeah Krist is somthin' else. What... |
| Watt | Band and stuff. But ahh I think people just got a I like the way he's just framed. |
| Eddie | Yeah ahh that's ahh I think it's not allowed a lot of times and apparently ahh you know not in ahh not in LA tonight. Ohmm.. |
| Watt | You jive guys. I got you guys. It's trippy. |
| Eddie | Well, hey the last time we were talkin' no you had a spill... |
| Watt | The wall went down. Went down like and that was it. Brian Wilson and that was it. |
| Eddie | KROK. KROK. I'm sure they mean well. Someone at the station does. |
| Watt | Ah Spin the Black Circle. You guys playin' it live it sounded good too. You guys it was pumpin'. |
| Eddie | Ahh good. That's our tribute to vinyl. Well actually we're tryin' to keep it all vinyl that we're playin' tonight. Actually, last time that we we ahh spoke ahh you had a record out. That was the ahh last year ahh well it was a long year. Maybe three years ago. But it feels like a year. |
| Watt | Long year. |
| Eddie | Ahh but ahh in this long year ahh you've completed another and I was thinkin' we'd play somethin' off of it and ahh ahh you wanna tell us the ahh the title? About the album and the track? |
| Watt | Yeah. It's a heavy thing for me. An opera about ohmm one day. 24 hours. And I made the tunes go round the day and this was kinda early in the mornin' on the bike ride. It has to do with these 3 guys on a boat. They're sailors and it's kinda like ahh I got to thinkin' I was a decade in last year. And it was a trip and so I started thinkin' ya know I was on a bus for the 1st time and ahh.. |
| Eddie | That was with ahh I know the band but you can tell everybody. |
| Watt | ... perk and I was thinkin' a lot about the band and I mean that was a boat too but to them it was seeming like a boat. I got this book "The Sand Pebbles" which was one of me and D Boones favorite movie when we as kids and the book is just so much so intense. |
| Eddie | Hmm... |
| Watt | And ahh so I got spurred on and made this opera and it was kind of a Valentine to people I've lost. Pop and Boone. |
| Eddie | Yeah I don't know how many people have gotten to hear it yet but ahh but you know I was even talking to you know I I've been listening to it and I was kinda impressed to hear someone like this guyDave Marsh who listens to tons of records and ahh knows music history like ahh ahh you know ahh ahh life and ahh ahh he thought it was the best rock opera he'd heard and you know since ahh you know.... |
| Watt | Well that's very nice. |
| Eddie | Since Mr. Townsend and all that ya know. |
| Watt | Well ahh it's been almost it's been 12 years and I just wanted to make a piece I wanted to integrate my thing I been ahh pretty skitso for years I been pretty fragmented for years and stuff. I just wanted to be grout for a bathroom tiles I hope the tiles you get it and use it for a day. Cause I think one life is many days. You know the sun rises. The sun sets. The week could be nineteen days. Could be five. But you know why but the day is real I think I just I I well you go down. You're makin' the records now and after and after after you just want somethin' in you inside in it was just circumstance that shoved it out of you. I I had tell you it had to be a decade under the way. |
| Eddie | That was with ahh yeah very long span. |
| Watt | It was a trip. And was waitin' for that and wear those funky you know dresses or pajamas or whatever but it was like sailor suits. Ahh I remember bein' a boy and seein' my dad wearin' those suits and then the hippies copied their pants with bell bottoms I just I they had to have kahoneys to look like that and then he told me they all had jobs. Like they wore the bibs cause they carved their hair. And they wore the hat cause the hat could be a bucket and they could bail water and like they all had and the bell bottoms you could get out and float. It all had device and stuff (laughs) somethin' about it playin' in that unit with them and then the idea of him tellin' these little stories and then I thought why don't I tell a big story. And that's the whole idea of the opera. |
| Eddie | And this is ahh this song come in ahh ahh in the 24 hours we're talkin' this song comes in the morning? |
| Watt | Yeah ahh in the morning. Well see, most of the time see I'm sittin' there with the bass and that's how I write the song. But this record, I wrote all on the bike. I got one song all for the route for the bike where I wrote. See I'm lucky in Pedro. Like I say in the end I'm a lucky man. Geography. I don't know. The cliffs. The boats. The pelicans. It's intense. And what I did, I just opened my eyes and let it all just fill. Like in this song I call Eye Gifts. You just open 'em up and they come right in all the rythms or the waves or pounders, you do surfin' and stuff... |
| Eddie | Yeah. |
| Watt | On the bike, you learn to listen man you know? |
| Eddie | Yeah. |
| Watt | Different than the band. So so this is one where I was with this then. It's a trip. So Pedro Bound... |
| Eddie | Let's ahh let's play this thing. |
| Watt | Sailor man. My daddy you gotta understand... Navy housin' right or anyone who moves around you get orders and you got to move. And this about getting' orders to move to Pedro. This was gonna be our last move. It was our 11th move. My mom says no more movin' this is it. And it ended up bein' my home and this is where I met D Boone, where I was a Minute Man. This is my home. Now I'm a Pedro Man. But you know I'm not really a Pedro, I was like a sailor in a way and am still torn and stuff. Both things still dazzle me. In a way Still tryin' to make sense of it bit it's ahh... |
| Eddie | Well just like ahh what Krist had written. |
| Watt | A mean opera. I just feel good about it. Sayin' these things. In a in a and then with Hodges and Nells for makin' it. It was a trip for me. Cause bass is like a rudder man. You know? You cannot sail sails with your own breath. You can try. I do. |
| Eddie | Its it's a broom. A rudder. |
| Watt | A broom. |
| Eddie | It's a bike. |
| Watt | You got rudders. You got orders. |
| Eddie | With big wheels. |
| Watt | You got a deck, huh. You know. |
| Eddie | Ok ahh well I got to got to get to this track cause ahh I got another band still ready to play and ahh but ahh I should call you tomorrow and we ahh we'll keep talkin'. But I' glad I hope that some people got to hear where Watt was comin' from. |
| Watt | Alright. |
| Eddie | Alright? Ok so this is Pedro Bound. I'll call ya tomorrow. |
| Song | "Pedro Bound" by Mike Watt |
| Eddie | Ok so you heard the story. So that was the last stop for Watt. Pedro. Ahh now we didn't mean to ahh get on KROKor on anybody we don't mean to ahh get on anybody. Ahh if anybody is still carryin' this thing on the air, we're still going. Ahh Brad is about to play. That would be ahh my friend Stone and his friend Sean and Regan. Ahh they've done some touring and ahh I expect them to be good. Ohmm and ahh we're also gonna give out a phone number which I'll do right now or ahh just a in just a second if you want to to just call in and say hey. I don't know if you're getting' sick of my voice by now. I'm I'm getting there myself. But ahh I just wanted to say ahh if stations are pulling out you know I don't think this thing is ahh kind of you know the ordinary thing and and ahh or maybe there's people still out there on ahh computers listenin' to it or ahh you know or tomato soup cans you know I don't know but we've got another hour and ahh we're gonna play again and ahh right now ahh we're gonna go to well I promised you that number. If you want to give us a call (206) 343-8724. 343-8724. And while you're ahh ahh figurin' that out, let's listen to Brad. |
| set | Brad : |
| Song | I Don't Know |
| Song | Not Too Late |
| Song | Buttercup |
| Eddie | That's it. Gees. I've never seen them live. Dang. So that's what Stone's been doin' with his time. Gees. Excellent. Ahh the other members of the band that I didn't mention were ahh Mike Berg and Matt Brown again with ahh Regan Hagar, Sean Smith and ahh Mr. Stone Gossard. So ahh ahh kinda sounded like the record. Kinda blown away. Great. Ahh I tell ya ahh we gave out the incorrect number and I have some more numbers for ya and ahh I have to think if anyone's still up at the East Coast right now, here's to you. It's still water I'm not gonna do it til right after we're done here then I'm gonna have 19 of 'em. Speakin' of numbers ahh 121 2387. 121 2387. Now that's not a phone number so don't try callin'. This number represents Tibetan deaths under Chinese occupation. 1,212,387. 1,212,387. Ahh if you want to call and talk about that or anything else is ahh we do have this other number for ya. It's (206) 303-8565. That last one is wrong. This one is right. And ahh Stone is ahh gonna come in and play a couple records for ya and then I'm gonna say good bye so ahh ahh this was his first choice which was HiFi Killers we'll see ya in a second. |
| Song | "" by HiFi Killers |
| Stone | Alright. This is ahh Stone. I've come back to play a couple songs with Regan who plays ahh drums with Brad. We just had a really nice time playin' some ahh music and ahh this one ahh ahh goes out to Carrie Harrah, our good friend who works at Sub Pop and ahh she brought this single down and it seemed fitting tonight. I don't know why, but here we go. |
| Song | "You Sexy Thing" by Hot Chocolate |
| Stone | Alright. That was ahh Hot Chocolate, You Sexy Thing. Alright. Man that was funky. Ahh anyway ahh we're gonna play somethin' off a record that me and Regan have been listening to a lot lately. It's Timbaland and Magoo record and this songs gettin' played a lot on urban radion stations. I doubt its been played on KROK and it might not even be played on KROK right now but we're gonna play it for ya anyway. It's called Luv 2 Luv and it's Timbaland and Magoo. |
| Song | "Luv 2 Luv" by Timbaland & Magoo |
| Stone | Alright. Ahh that that was ahh Timbaland & Magoo. Ahh I just wanted to give a shout out to the HiFi Killers ahh that was the first track you guys heard after the ahh Brad play was HiFi Killers and that's a track off ahh a new EP coming out ahh lo and behold on LooseGroove Records. And ahh I just wanted to ahh thank Ed for ahh puttin' this whole thing together. He's done a great job and ahh brought a lot of great bands together and ahh Brad's very happy to be here. And ahh let's see, we're gonna listen to somethin' else here. It's off of SupaDupa Fly - Missy Elliott. And ahh... |
| Regan | Beep me 911. |
| Stone | What is it? |
| Regan | Beep Me 911. |
| Stone | Ah hah Beep Me 911. It's the same guys produced ahh they actually the track you just heard a second ago. And ahh here it goes. |
| Song | "Beep Me 911" - Missy Elliott |
| Stone | Ahh alright. That was ahh Missy Elliott and ahh we go one more song to play for ya. And this one is kindof a shout out for Mike McCready ahh this is a band ahh called the YaYa's and ahh it's got some classic Seattle guys in it. Ahh Lance Mercer, who is a good friend and photographer in Seattle, an old school punker guy. And ahh Eddie Hulitz who was ahh what was Eddie's band again? |
| Regan | Good God. Silly Killers. |
| Stone | Siller Killers. Them slats. God damn they're genius band. Charlie Ryan who used to play in the U Men and ahh is another classic Seattle drummer and ahh ahh Dan Kempcorn who plays with Green Apple Quick Step and is a fair guy. And ahh let's see this song is called Long Ways and ahh this one's for Mike McCready, a good friend of mine. And ahh we'll you all later ahh this is Brad kind of signing off now. And ahh I think Pearl Jam's gonna play and Ed's gonna come and talk a little bit more so ahh we'll talk to ya soon. Bye bye. |
| Song | "Long Ways" by the YaYa's |
| set | Pearl Jam Set :"Nothingman" |
| Eddie | We're gonna finish up. We've got five minutes. While I've still got the microphone, I just want to say thanks to every body for comin' and playin' and drinkin; and laughin'. |
| other | Unknown Sound Byte |
| Song | "" by Hovercraft |
| other | (Unknown) I'm so much happier since I joined the legion of doom. Who cares if Superman and his bunch always spoil our evil schemes? Nobody ever gets hurt and we always get away at the last minute. Good doesn't really triumph over evil, it just postpones it. In the end, we're always the one who gets to claim the last laugh. Which is the whole point of being a super villain in the first place is cause of the laughs. You don't know how much fun an evil laugh can be until you've tried it. Everybody here at the legion are the best laughers. We throw big catered parties and all the super bad guys come and we crack jokes about Batman and Superman and we just laugh like crazy. Everybody practices and perfects their own brand of personal evil laughter. There are so many possibilities. You can cackle or chortle or gaffaw or chuckle or titter or giggle or snicker or roar or just snort. You can be ominous or menacing. You can bent or you can be grim. You can be forboding or just be filled with sick laughter. You can just be sick. The possibilities are endless. There is nothing like the combined laughter of a dozen maniacal madmen. We have such great a parties. |
| Eddie | Alright. Well ahh thanks for comin' to our party tonight and ahh ahh a sincere thank you to any and all radio stations ahh throughout ahh the United States here that have ahh carried it. We hoped that we did ahh hope we did ok programming. Ahh we took advantage of the freedom ahh ahh that you gave us to do whatever we wanted so ahh ahh I'm I'm actually just startin' to have a pretty good time here so ahh you know I don't know if I'm a villain or if I'm ahh ahh a good guy ahh but you know we got this opportunity to make music and there is a little attention that goes along with it and ahh we thought we'd ahh ahh spread the wealth a little bit. Ohmm yeah. Let me think of a final thought here. What's been on my mind is the media attention. Ahh maybe I'll go on a rant here. Got a few minutes. Ahh it's kinda crazy this thing about the President's penis, isn't it? You know it's it's ahh sexually intriguing. I admit there might be a little interest there but that's a little interest and to see ahh people like Peter Jennings and people like Cokie Roberts and ahh people with college degrees going to waste talking about this kind of stuff. Theme songs to go with the ahh the latest Presidential conflict. Clinton in Crisis. I kinda don't to be honest, I don't give a fuck about President Clinton. Ahh not as a person. I mean ahh ahh it's fine. Whatever happens, happens. Just get down to business. All these guys arguing amongst themselves. This is my little rant. Again ahh without a college degree. You know, campaign finance, get over it. Let's go. This stuff exposing ahh ahh these little kind of things, get over it. We voted you in and give you our tax money to take care of us. Get to work. Quit fighting amongst each other. Get to work. Ohmm well that's pretty much ahh my rant. Ahh Look I think we're ahh gonna be tourin' this summer so we'll see you all out there. We might even bring our little pirate radio station so if you're in the parking lot ahh you might even be able to hear a few ahh private words comin' at ya and ahh spin some things. Maybe spin some records that maybe you might not here normally. Ahh the last year it was at 89.1 ahh imagine it should be the same. So ahh good luck with that. Again, good luck to all the radio stations out there ahh programming things that they want to program ahh thanks again for playin' us and ohmm and ahh I guess I should have wrote this down. See I'm not good at speeches. You should've remembered that from the band. Ohmm I guess it's just time to say ahh say goodnight. Ahh thanks to all the bands: Tuatara, Brad, Zeke, Mudhoney ahh and I thank the guys in my band for lettin' me be the ahh program director for tonight and even the people in here that've helped, which is Harvey, Mitch and Sonny and ahh you got guys in the satellite trucks and ahh it's been a good night. Can we take a phone call? Hello? |
| Eddie | Ahh it's me. Oh here, I got to put it down for a second. Hello? |
| Shannon | Hello? This is Shannon from Des Plaines in Chicago. |
| Eddie | Des Planes? Yeah I know where that is. |
| Shannon | Yeah, well why I just wanted to tell you that you're great. So I wanted to tell you I've listened to all of your shows that you've had and I thought they were great. |
| Eddie | Ok ohmm Wow ohmm thanks a lot. I'm impressed with your tenacity with this band. We really appreciate that. If it weren't for you, we couldn't do this kind of thing. And actually ahh ahh I wouldn't even be able to surf and ahh ahh take time off to have the life that ahh ahh we get to have now days if it weren't for you. So I hope it was a good trade. I hope the music's alright. |
| Shannon | Yeah, it's wonderful. |
| Eddie | Well thank you. |
| Shannon | Thanks and god luck on the rest of your show. |
| Eddie | Ok well we like this one and hope you do too and we'll see ya this summer in Chicago, hopefully. Ok ahh see I just promised I would try to take one call before the end of the night. Ok ahh ahh that's it folks. See ya all out there. Take care of yourselves. Take care of one one another. You know, the usual stuff. See if I can find it. |
| Song | "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong |
