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Midwest #1
   Casper
     06/16/1995
   Morrison
     06/19/1995
     06/20/1995
   Sacramento
     06/22/1995
   San Francisco
     06/24/1995
Midwest #2
   Milwaukee
     07/08/1995
     07/09/1995
   Chicago
     07/11/1995
Southwest
   Phoenix
     09/13/1995
   Las Cruces
     09/14/1995
   Austin
     09/16/1995
   New Orleans
     09/17/1995
West
   Salt Lake City
     11/01/1995
     11/02/1995
   San Jose
     11/04/1995
   San Diego
     11/06/1995
     11/07/1995

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Were there MWFM broadcasts before, during or after the show and do we have transcriptions of them?

Show Was? Have?

Pre-Show Broadcast Yes No

Mid-Show Broadcast No No

Post-Show Broadcast Yes Yes

The Cast
People who stepped up to the mic during the broadcast.

David Meinert (Dave)
Pirate Radio DJ

Ed Vedder (Eddie)
Singer for Pearl Jam

James Lane (James)
Pirate Radio DJ

Michele Ceazan (Michele)
Manager for Bad Religion

Angelo ??? (Angelo)
Fan from Brooklyn

Trevor Wilson (Trevor)
Boy actor in Jeremy video

Wednesday, September 13, 1995
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

First Set
Go, Animal, Last Exit, Spin the Black Circle, Tremor Christ, Corduroy, Lukin, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Whipping, Dissident, Glorified G, Daughter, Habit, Rearviewmirror, Immortality, Alive, Black, Blood

First Encore
Not For You, I Got Id, Better Man, Improv, Porch

Second Encore
Yellow Ledbetter

Monkeywrench Links:
Five Horizons
Hard To Imagine

Although Monkeywrench Radio broadcasted Pearl Jam's set at the previous show in Chicago, they did not broadcast their set in Phoenix. The broadcast in Phoenix stretches for about a 30-mile radius. About an hour-and-a-half of Post-Show broadcast was recorded to DAT by a kind taper, and he let the tape roll as we have the broadcast up until the plugged was pulled. The post-show is very entertaining as James - a native Texan - voices his disaffection for New York by declaring: "No, man, New York sucks, alright. Just deal with it." Travis - the boy actor from the Jeremy video - is at this show and joins the crew at the van. Evidently Ed didn't know he was there or there were a "couple songs we didn't play I wish we would've now.". We would like to say that he participated, but after a very long and funny story by Ed about the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, all Travis can muster at this show is one Marcel Marceau-like "Hi."

Pre-Show Broadcast

This segment of the show was broadcasted; however, we do not have any information, audio or transcriptions to date. If you have any information or audio on this segment to share with us, please email us a info@monkeywrenchradio.org. Thank You.

Mid-Show Broadcast

As far as we know, there was no aired broadcast of this segment of the show.

Post-Show Broadcast

Starting the Southwest Leg of 1995 Tour, James and David are jovial and Ed tells some really funny stories. Playing a Chicago band's demo, David says "Wow, that band kinda sucked. ... Check 'em out. If you like it, buy it, cause I'm not gonna play it, anymore." You don't hear that honesty on modern radio too much. Ed does his best tightrope-walking with a fan who sounds like he's two beers short of a case. Apparently this fan is from Brooklyn and has driven a Moped down to the Southwest to see the shows. Only in America. Lastly, Ed brings on Trevor - the actual "Jeremy" from the video - and tells a great MTV Music Awards Story.

(Transcription by: Kari Janecke)

Song	Helmet - Unsung (inc) Helmet - "Unsung" (Broadcast cuts in the tape with 44 seconds left in the song)
James	James Hates New York Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright,alright, alright, alright! That was fuckin Helmet, okay, it was fucking Helmet. It was Helmet. They're from New York.
Michele	Woo! New York!
James	Whatever. All the wimps live in New York now. Yep, yep, yep. So uh, CMJ, what was CMJ like?
Michele	CMJ was rockin', lots of bands, I don't know maybe thousands of bands playing for ...
James	Thousands?
Michele	Literally, thousands, there were at least 20 clubs where at least 20 bands played a night.
James	Any highlights?
Michele	not really, it was just a lot of annoying people walking around with their little laminates, most of the time, so..
James	Uh, what are you saying there, Ms. Laminate? [laughter]
Michele	Well, you know how it is, one of those things, if you're wearing one it's okay, it's when half of New York City is wearing them that it's kind of annoying. But, New York's a cool place, there's lots of good music all the time, so, festival or no festival, lots to do.
James	New York, uh, well actually I don't really like New York. Uh, the only, the only real experience in New York that I've ever had was spending all day long in a taxi cab with a guy that well, obviously couldn't speak English, and uh, I was tripping my fucking brains off on acid, and it was uh ...
Michele	That's your own problem
James	Oh no, uh
Michele	Don't blame New York on your drug problems.
James	No, man, New York sucks, alright. Just deal with it.
Michele	No, New York is great, you're just not hanging with the right people when you're in New York.
James	Ah, that's probably, that's probably the case actually. Um, okay speaking of the case, uh, I cannot, I cannot say enough about this album. This is the latest Circle Jerks album, it's called "Oddities, Abnormalities, and Curiosities". And, if you don't have it, you suck! Because you should have gone out and bought it already. Because these guys, ah-hah, they've been on the road for a really long time and they really need your money. So buy this album, because, for one thing I personally think that it's the best album of 1995 so far, man. It is just amazing. Every, every single song is amazing, so anyway, I'm gonna go ahead and uh, and play "Sinking Ship" because it's a really cool song and you'll enjoy it. Bye!
Song	Circle Jerks - Sinking Ship Circle Jerks - "Sinking Ship"
James	James knows metal Oh!!! The classic rock and roll ending. Yes, of course, that was the Circle Jerks, and that was from their 1995 release "Oddities, Abnormalities, and Curiosities". And um, now I think I'm gonnna go back to Indie-land, and uh, play some, uh, this band out of Chicago, Illinois, they're called D... , D.O.P.E. And uh they're of course, they're uh D - O - P - E with periods between each letter, you know that kind of thing. Uh, fortunately they don't have an umlaut, not one single umlaut, and uh, you know, most of the time I don't even deal with bands that don't have umlauts.
Song	D.O.P.E. - Unknown D.O.P.E. - "Unknown Song"
David	David hates D.O.P.E. Wow, that band kinda sucked. Um, anyhow that's D.O.P.E., check 'em out, if you like it, buy it, cause I'm not gonna play it, anymore. So, uh, here we go, this is a bunch of stuff that uh, Kill Rock Stars put out, so, gonna play some stuff by Tiger Trap, GodheadSilo, Jack Acid, Tribe 8, and a bunch of other shit, so. Listen to it, here we go, 89.3 FM, um, this is Monkeywrench Radio. (waits for tracks to start) La da da, da da da da...
Song	Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing Tiger Trap - "Supreme Nothing"
Song	Godheadsilo - Nutritious Treat GodheadSilo - "Nutritious Treat"
Song	Jack Acid - Cheap Tragedies Jack Acid - "Cheap Tragedies"
Song	Tribe 8 - Speed Fortress Tribe 8 - "Speed Fortress" (Ed during the song, testing out the mic: Che-che. Check)
Eddie	Eddie Loves Wesley Hey, he-he-he, hey...alright, I don't know who's listening. Are you listening? And if you are, who are you? Who am I? Hehe, good question. Uh, well, you can call me Ed. And uh, we're on 89.3 tonight, I believe. Transmitting out of a van, uh, somewhere here in Phoenix, where uh, the band Pearl Jam, or whatever it's called played, and uh, the Ramones opened up and it was a pretty cool night. And uh, if you were there, maybe you can back me up on this. And, uh, if you weren't, well, gosh darnit. I wish we could have fit you in. Um, did we have flyers up at the T-shirt booth tonight?
David	Yeah.
Eddie	Okay. So maybe there are a few people listening, I, uh, had the microphone in front of all those people and completely forgot to tell everybody to tune in for some uh, fine musical buffet. Alright, haha, my friend, uh James has been doing the, uh, DJ work all night, he's much better at this than me. Uh, he's my driving partner, he, uh, he said he's gonna go get the phone, so maybe we'll give out a number you can call us. I don't think we can put your voice on the air, but we can, you know talk as the songs are playing. Um, and that's, that's kinda what feels like is missing, when uh, we're talking to you all here, cause uh... It's kind of a one-sided conversation the radio. And that's what guys like Rush Limbaugh, all those other right-wing motherfuckers take advantage of. Cause they can just spew, and spew, and spew, and no one really questions them. And if you do call them to question them like I've, I've liked to have called a number of times, they're not gonna put you on the air. They just want people to back them up and say "Yeah, yeah Rush you're right. The country's going to shit and it's all because of, you know welfare, and all the colored people." Jesus Christ. So anyways, uh, I should play you a song, and uh, it's gonna take me a minute to set it up. And the guy I wanna play for you is called Wesley Willis. He's from Chicago, I think he'd have a great time in Arizona if he lived here, it's a little, uh, well it's a little easier probably to live here if you're uh, homeless, you know. I, I think Wesley has an apartment now, he's been putting out these records. Uh, but he uh, he's a street guy, he rides a lot of buses, and uh, does paintings, uh, actually, uh, pencil drawings, sells them on the corner. Uh, and he sells the CDs for, you know, five bucks. You know, he'll say uh, (in W.W. voice:) "You Eddie Vedder?" "Yeah. What's up Wesley?" (in W.W. voice:) "You like my music?" "Yeah, Wesley, I uh, I actually really love your music, I've got quite a few of your records there." (in W.W. voice:) "You wanna buy some more of my records? I tell you what, five dollars for one, fifteen for three." So I say, "Okay (laughing.) Give me three." Uh, let me see if I can cue up this song, the one I wanna play is uh, aw, Jesus this fucking thing ain't working. The one I wanna play is called "My Daddy got me High" and, let me give this a shot here. (delay of a few seconds) Play, motherfucker.
Song	Wesley Willis - My Daddy Got Me High Wesley Willis - "My Daddy Got Me High"
Eddie	Eddie and Angelo (in W.W voice:) "Rock on Chicago. Rock over London. Cheetos. The cheese that goes Crunch." So that's Wesley Willis, uh, man from Chicago. Hey we got a uh, we got a phone number here. Uh, we'll be uh, giving it out in just a second. We'll play more music as well. Uh, we've been doing this uh, little show here out of the van, and uh, couple people outside so, uh, we brought one of these guys in, I'm gonna ask him what his name is, what's your name?
Angelo	Angelo.
Eddie	Angelo, where you from, man?
Angelo	I'm from Brooklyn, man.
Eddie	He's from Brooklyn.
Angelo	Just hanging out, and traveling.
Eddie	So uh, what do you, what's your mode of transportation?
Angelo	Uh right now, my moped, but you know...
Eddie	Alright, Angelo rode a moped from New York to Arizona, everybody, round of applause! (applause and laughter) On two tanks of gas! Those mopeds, just, get good ... tremendous gas mileage. So you must have some uh, flies in your teeth.
Angelo	Well, you know, I, I had to pick em out, but, you know ... it happens.
Eddie	Yeah, you still got one right up in the corner there. So uh, how long you gonna be here in Arizona, you need a place to stay? We can, you know ...
Angelo	Well, I thought about checking you out in New Mexico tomorrow.
Eddie	Okay, uh, good luck. (laughter) You're on your own. (laughter) No, no, we'll uh, you can trade in uh, you know, when you interview on the radio with me here you get a free T-shirt and a bottle of wine, so maybe you can trade that in for a ticket and we'll work something out.
Angelo	Alright
Eddie	Uh, so how long you been in uh, Arizona?
Angelo	Uh, about two weeks.
Eddie	Two weeks? So, uh, where you, where you stay here for two weeks?
Angelo	Well, you know, just kind of wherever. I got a, right now, uh, no place you know. (laughs) Might have to shack up with some people, but.
Eddie	Okay, well be careful. Uh, you got your own sleeping bag or is that something that you, you gotta borrow people's blankets and stuff?
Angelo	It's down to newspapers tonight, somebody mugged me for my sleeping bag last night.
Eddie	Yeah, this is a real sob story here. He's really preying upon the listeners here. Well, if anybody has a place for Angelo to stay, uh, give us a call here at XXX-XXX-XXXX. Now only call tonight, this number's only good for tonight, and uh, we'll turn on the phone in a few minutes here. Again, we can't play your voice over the air, but we'll be able to talk to you. Okay, I'm gonna play a song now, uh it's by a guy named Nick Cave, and uh, it's just one of the most beautiful songs, see if you agree. Uh, let me get this going here. (off mic: Hey James, what's going on with this, ah.)
Angelo	So how'd you like playing in Casper? Am I on? How'd you like playing in Casper?
Eddie	Uh, it was friendly. (laughter) Okay, this song's called the "Ship Song" by Nick Cave.
Song	Nick Cave - Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Ship Song" (Live)
Eddie	More Eddie and Angelo Alright, so that was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from their live record that you can pick up just about anywhere. Alright, now anybody, who uh, subscribes to MTV, uh, this would make you, uh, different from me. But if you saw Michael Jackson, uh, someone just told me that he was pretty weak on that thing. That's too bad. Cause, boy, when he was a young kid, he could ... he could whip a song into shape. The guy could really ... the young man could sing. And so uh, I think I've got a uh, example of that here. And uh, I'll play it for you. Actually I think it's this one here. Oh, no, it's this other, it's this CD here. See what you think. I think I'm about to play Michael Jackson as a kid. Do it Michael.
Angelo	Are these yours? Are these all your CDs here?
Eddie	Uh, not all of them. Come on baby. Hehe, where is it? (Nick Cave song starts playing) That ain't Michael! (long pause, mic feedback) James go ahead and uh, help me with this Michael Jackson song that I just need to play. Angelo, get the fuck out of here, I got work to do here. Oh, by the way we're still looking for a place for Angelo, call us at uh, XXX-XXX-XXXX.
James	What do you want?
Eddie	Uh, that's my home number for tonight.
James	Alright, you're wanting that CD to play?
Eddie	Yeah, we'd like to play a Michael Jackson song, number 11. I know, if I had vinyl with me, I wouldn't have any problems, but...okay before you get too bored, oh, here we go now.
James	You just hit that, you hit play, this should be going, or it will be real soon. No, man, don't do this to me man. It's fucked up! Uh, what'd you do? (laughs)
Eddie	Ladies and gentlemen, please, thirty seconds. A pause for technical difficulties. Happens to the best of us.
James	Oh (song starts)
Eddie	(over song) Here you go, Michael Jackson.
Song	Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are Michael Jackson - "I Wanna Be Where You Are"
Song	Michael Jackson - "Ben" - cuts in
James	(over song) Can you fuckin believe this? This is Monkeywrench Radio, 89.3 FM, and we're listening, ah ha ha ha (fake crying) we're listening to "Ben"!
Song	James hates Ben Michael Jackson - "Ben"
James	(song stopped after 2nd verse) Not a fuckin chance man. No fucking way, I'm not letting that happen. Not on this...not right now. Haha. John Wayne!
Song	John Wayne - Mr. Egyptian John Wayne - "Mr. Egyptian" (really fucked up song, "trucking down the freeway the other night, pulled my truck off the freeway, all the bars were closed, pulled into a gas station smelling like a Texas rose, that's when I seen him, I said I need four quarts of oil for that truck over there. He just sat there for a while and stared. So I says, buddy I need some oil for my truck, and he said something like no go diggy die. Mr. Egyptian, you're a goddamn liar." guy's voice sounds like George W. Bush on crack.
James	John Wayne on Monkeywrench Radio 89.3 FM. I think we'll just go ahead and continue along with that particular genre. John Lee Hooker. This is 89.3 FM Monkeywrench Radio!
Song	John Lee Hooker - Unknown John Lee Hooker - "Unknown Song" (instrumental)
Song	Spearhead - Hole in the Bucket Spearhead - "Hole In the Bucket"
Song	Spearhead - Home Spearhead - "Home" (another rap song, female singer, lyrics "My man loved me so much, he left me when I was eight months pregnant. I wonder if when walking through the door, he just said fuck it. My man loved me so much...")
Eddie	Eddie and Trevor Hey (song comes on, stops) What's goin on? Alright, is anybody listening? Who knows? Who cares? Uh, we're going for about thirty miles wide from the uh, this ain't the America West Arena, what is it, we're on McDowell street. (bkgd: Veteran's Memorial..Coliseum) Vedder's Memorial Coliseum. That's where we are. Anyway, so if you're within thirty miles, and you happen to be, uh...you know, tuned in, then uh...I guess we're coming through to your car or your house, or your gas station, whatever. There were some special guests tonight, that I didn't even realize. Uh, couple songs we didn't play I wish we would've now. But, um...I don't know, I haven't had MTV for a long time. ("Kid" laughter) Uh, last time I remember participating with the channel, was, they had an awards show which we felt kind of obligated to go to and uh, Neil Young, Young Neil decided to, uh, come to. I mean, everybody was going, you know, Nirvana, and everybody was going and we felt like we had to go so we went, and. It was okay, a lot of people thought I was drunk. But uh, to be honest, I was sour. Uh, we showed up and we were in this trailer thing, much like the van here. We were sitting there and there was all these like, stars... or regular people, you know, putting their feathers out like peacocks, you know uh. Cindy ... Christina ... Crawford. Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford and Lenny Kravitz posing, boy did they have outfits. (hootin-hollarin laughter in background) I jumped out of the trailer, I said get me my Super 8 camera! (more laughter) I walked right up to 'em, and I'm filming, and then a bunch of security guys grabbed me and grabbed me, and all the photographers they're lined up and they're going "Cindy! Cindy! Lenny! Lenny!" they all scream at ya, so you'll look at 'em, so they can get their picture taken, they can can put it in US magazine, or the Enquirer, or whatever it is, and make their money, they're doing their job. So, part of their job is yelling, "Cindy! Lenny! Cindy! Cindy! Cindy!" And uh, I had, I had, I had not gone through that, uh, gauntlet of photographers, I had avoided them all day. And all the sudden I was, uh, standing there with my Super 8 camera getting a real good close up of Lenny Kravitz in his silver outfit, that was as tight as could be (laughter) and uh, hey guys (off to side) and uh, Cindy Crawford, I , she was probably wearing something tight as well, so...we got a couple like, you know, Ballpark franks standing in front of us, and I'm filming, and all of the sudden security grabs me and then the photographers see me being grabbed and they start yelling, you know "Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!" So anyways, I got some good footage out of it. But, uh, after that, I don't know, I guess we, we uh, there was a, that one film, I almost consider it like a short film, I guess that's pretentious, but there was that Jeremy thing. And uh, before that the only other things we've done is, were live performance things, and I felt that was okay. And uh, this song seemed to lend itself to something more, like a little bit of a story or something, so, um, this guy named Mark Pellington and I got together, and we were unshaven, and manic, and drunk on English beer, and we came up with all these great ideas, and then, uh, we gave him a bunch of money, and uh, and then he asked for more, we told him "no". And uh, he, he worked with what he had, and uh one of the things he had to work with and, uh, without him it wouldn't have been, uh, I don't know, this guy, all of the sudden he's like a brother. And it's, the guy's name is Trevor, and he was the young man who, uh, portrayed um, this semi-fictional character, uh, Jeremy, and uh. Anyways, it, it went on to, you know, get that "best video" award, and if I would have made up a speech if I would've thought that I was gonna end up there, it would've said "Cool! Now I can put this in my basement. Fuck the establishment!" or something, I don't know, but uh, probably the coolest part of the night was, uh, being able to bring Trevor up there and kind of raise his hand, you know, like we just won the heavyweight championship or something. But uh, he made it exciting, and uh, and then afterwards we had a really great limo ride, and (laughter) but he, anyways, he was here, in Phoenix tonight, and he's sitting right here, you wanna say hi?
Trevor	Hi!
Eddie	And that's Trevor. Um, well, we'd love to get feedback from you, we don't really have a uh, I thought we had a phone going. If you uh, if you're out there and you hear this number. Uh, it's XXX-XXX-XXXX. And uh, you're listening to 89.3, you're listening to me ramble, and uh, we've got some music coming up for you, I don't know what it is. Here it goes... (music starts) There you go, to the second. Talk to you guys in a second.
Song	Nick Cave - The Mercy Seat Nick Cave - "The Mercy Seat"(Live)
Eddie	Ed Loves the Frogs (over music) There you go, it took a second. Talk to you guys in a minute. (song ends) Alright. Uh, we're gonna play a song, uh by some guys from Milwaukee. They're called the Frogs. They're two brothers, and uh, they were nice enough, they were uh hanging out at our place in Seattle, uh, the same place we did the Monkeywrench radio broadcast from, they played in Seattle at a place called the Crocodile Cafe, and, uh, they had a bit of a, uh, bit of a play afterwards and they started playing all our songs, and they were, they were pretty good! So, uh, I said you should record one of those and we'll put it on a B-side. Well my word means something, uh, this is the B-side, it's Rearviewmirror by the Frogs.
Song	The Frogs - Rearviewmirror The Frogs - "Rearviewmirror"
Eddie	Ed Loves the Who Alright. Whether you enjoyed it or not, I can't care about that. It's music. Uh, we're about to shut off the air here, we'll pick a couple more songs, uh, let's hear from the 'Oo [the Who] before we go. Uh, this is off one of their least popular, yet my favorite album, called "Who by Numbers", and uh, the song's called "Dreaming from the Waist", they would play this one live, and, uh, bass player John Entwistle would just kick the shit out of the bass. What a great player. Bad suits, but great player. Here's uh, the Who.
Song	The Who - Dreaming by the Waist The Who - "Dreaming by the Waist"
Eddie	Eddie and Dave have problems Alright, good evening once again, and uh. A reminder, I don't know what I'm doing. Uh, this is uh, a song called uh [voices: "Sex Drive", "Sex" something] No, I don't think it's called "Sex Drive". Where's Nicky? The band's called, uh "Y'all Fuck Y'all", and uh, it's headed uh, by the drummer, who also, uh, makes our candles and fixes my bike. Nicky. And uh, I'm gonna try to play it for you now. Uh, it's called "Sex Explosion" or something. (Nicky voice) "Listen for the chorus, I'm sure they repeat it over and over." Okay, here it is. Y'all Fuck Y'all. Give me a second. Tape one, cross fade that should do it. Hehehehe. [Laughter.] I'm fucked. (About 40 seconds of silence then the Who come on for 3 seconds) Again, ladies and gentlemen, technical difficulties. Well, [laughter] again, uh, I covered myself by telling you I don't know what I'm doing. Apparently I'm not the only one. There's uh, even my helpers are being rendered impotent by the technology that we have in this tiny little van, we can't get the Walkman to work, uh.
David	Is that a Sony walkman?
Eddie	It, it's a Sony walkman,
David	No wonder!
Eddie	And that explains a lot. You'll never see me on the corporate plane cause it's the Sony corporate plane and I'm afraid it's going to break. The uh, I think we've got one song left here.
David	Play the whole Jackson Five album
Eddie	Uh, we'll pick one, what should it be? Uh, before we go I'd like to thank the Ramones. Thank you for listening to this uh, tripe, uh, I can't call you up on the phone, you know, talk to everybody, I tried before, but uh, you know, hopefully this is some form of communication. Uh, I've got the Fear record in front of me, but there's no record in it. So, uh, I'm going through my collection here, bear with us. Um, how about a nice little song , we'll go back to the Who and uh, play another song off the uh the same record "Who By Numbers". And uh, there was a song that the Ramones played tonight, uh, and Joey introduced it by saying, "Do you remember rock and roll radio?" and uh, I wish I had a copy of that, I'd play it for you right now. So, uh after we're done here, get your uh Ramones records out and play that song, will ya? Uh, this is our goodnight, this is the Who. Thanks to James who's done the driving. Uh, thanks to our special guest Trevor.
Trevor	Bye!
Eddie	Uh, it means more than I can say to have him around, anyway, uh, this is The "oo", one more time. Goodnight, Arizona. We'll see you around. Enjoy this one. Goodnight.
Song	The Who - Blue, Red and Grey The Who - "Blue, Red, and Grey" - (geez, Pete on a Ukekele. Sound familiar?)
comment	(static - no signal)

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Song	Helmet - Unsung (inc) Helmet - "Unsung" (Broadcast cuts in the tape with 44 seconds left in the song)
James	James Hates New York Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright,alright, alright, alright! That was fuckin Helmet, okay, it was fucking Helmet. It was Helmet. They're from New York.
Michele	Woo! New York!
James	Whatever. All the wimps live in New York now. Yep, yep, yep. So uh, CMJ, what was CMJ like?
Michele	CMJ was rockin', lots of bands, I don't know maybe thousands of bands playing for ...
James	Thousands?
Michele	Literally, thousands, there were at least 20 clubs where at least 20 bands played a night.
James	Any highlights?
Michele	not really, it was just a lot of annoying people walking around with their little laminates, most of the time, so..
James	Uh, what are you saying there, Ms. Laminate? [laughter]
Michele	Well, you know how it is, one of those things, if you're wearing one it's okay, it's when half of New York City is wearing them that it's kind of annoying. But, New York's a cool place, there's lots of good music all the time, so, festival or no festival, lots to do.
James	New York, uh, well actually I don't really like New York. Uh, the only, the only real experience in New York that I've ever had was spending all day long in a taxi cab with a guy that well, obviously couldn't speak English, and uh, I was tripping my fucking brains off on acid, and it was uh ...
Michele	That's your own problem
James	Oh no, uh
Michele	Don't blame New York on your drug problems.
James	No, man, New York sucks, alright. Just deal with it.
Michele	No, New York is great, you're just not hanging with the right people when you're in New York.
James	Ah, that's probably, that's probably the case actually. Um, okay speaking of the case, uh, I cannot, I cannot say enough about this album. This is the latest Circle Jerks album, it's called "Oddities, Abnormalities, and Curiosities". And, if you don't have it, you suck! Because you should have gone out and bought it already. Because these guys, ah-hah, they've been on the road for a really long time and they really need your money. So buy this album, because, for one thing I personally think that it's the best album of 1995 so far, man. It is just amazing. Every, every single song is amazing, so anyway, I'm gonna go ahead and uh, and play "Sinking Ship" because it's a really cool song and you'll enjoy it. Bye!
Song	Circle Jerks - Sinking Ship Circle Jerks - "Sinking Ship"
James	James knows metal Oh!!! The classic rock and roll ending. Yes, of course, that was the Circle Jerks, and that was from their 1995 release "Oddities, Abnormalities, and Curiosities". And um, now I think I'm gonnna go back to Indie-land, and uh, play some, uh, this band out of Chicago, Illinois, they're called D... , D.O.P.E. And uh they're of course, they're uh D - O - P - E with periods between each letter, you know that kind of thing. Uh, fortunately they don't have an umlaut, not one single umlaut, and uh, you know, most of the time I don't even deal with bands that don't have umlauts.
Song	D.O.P.E. - Unknown D.O.P.E. - "Unknown Song"
David	David hates D.O.P.E. Wow, that band kinda sucked. Um, anyhow that's D.O.P.E., check 'em out, if you like it, buy it, cause I'm not gonna play it, anymore. So, uh, here we go, this is a bunch of stuff that uh, Kill Rock Stars put out, so, gonna play some stuff by Tiger Trap, GodheadSilo, Jack Acid, Tribe 8, and a bunch of other shit, so. Listen to it, here we go, 89.3 FM, um, this is Monkeywrench Radio. (waits for tracks to start) La da da, da da da da...
Song	Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing Tiger Trap - "Supreme Nothing"
Song	Godheadsilo - Nutritious Treat GodheadSilo - "Nutritious Treat"
Song	Jack Acid - Cheap Tragedies Jack Acid - "Cheap Tragedies"
Song	Tribe 8 - Speed Fortress Tribe 8 - "Speed Fortress" (Ed during the song, testing out the mic: Che-che. Check)
Eddie	Eddie Loves Wesley Hey, he-he-he, hey...alright, I don't know who's listening. Are you listening? And if you are, who are you? Who am I? Hehe, good question. Uh, well, you can call me Ed. And uh, we're on 89.3 tonight, I believe. Transmitting out of a van, uh, somewhere here in Phoenix, where uh, the band Pearl Jam, or whatever it's called played, and uh, the Ramones opened up and it was a pretty cool night. And uh, if you were there, maybe you can back me up on this. And, uh, if you weren't, well, gosh darnit. I wish we could have fit you in. Um, did we have flyers up at the T-shirt booth tonight?
David	Yeah.
Eddie	Okay. So maybe there are a few people listening, I, uh, had the microphone in front of all those people and completely forgot to tell everybody to tune in for some uh, fine musical buffet. Alright, haha, my friend, uh James has been doing the, uh, DJ work all night, he's much better at this than me. Uh, he's my driving partner, he, uh, he said he's gonna go get the phone, so maybe we'll give out a number you can call us. I don't think we can put your voice on the air, but we can, you know talk as the songs are playing. Um, and that's, that's kinda what feels like is missing, when uh, we're talking to you all here, cause uh... It's kind of a one-sided conversation the radio. And that's what guys like Rush Limbaugh, all those other right-wing motherfuckers take advantage of. Cause they can just spew, and spew, and spew, and no one really questions them. And if you do call them to question them like I've, I've liked to have called a number of times, they're not gonna put you on the air. They just want people to back them up and say "Yeah, yeah Rush you're right. The country's going to shit and it's all because of, you know welfare, and all the colored people." Jesus Christ. So anyways, uh, I should play you a song, and uh, it's gonna take me a minute to set it up. And the guy I wanna play for you is called Wesley Willis. He's from Chicago, I think he'd have a great time in Arizona if he lived here, it's a little, uh, well it's a little easier probably to live here if you're uh, homeless, you know. I, I think Wesley has an apartment now, he's been putting out these records. Uh, but he uh, he's a street guy, he rides a lot of buses, and uh, does paintings, uh, actually, uh, pencil drawings, sells them on the corner. Uh, and he sells the CDs for, you know, five bucks. You know, he'll say uh, (in W.W. voice:) "You Eddie Vedder?" "Yeah. What's up Wesley?" (in W.W. voice:) "You like my music?" "Yeah, Wesley, I uh, I actually really love your music, I've got quite a few of your records there." (in W.W. voice:) "You wanna buy some more of my records? I tell you what, five dollars for one, fifteen for three." So I say, "Okay (laughing.) Give me three." Uh, let me see if I can cue up this song, the one I wanna play is uh, aw, Jesus this fucking thing ain't working. The one I wanna play is called "My Daddy got me High" and, let me give this a shot here. (delay of a few seconds) Play, motherfucker.
Song	Wesley Willis - My Daddy Got Me High Wesley Willis - "My Daddy Got Me High"
Eddie	Eddie and Angelo (in W.W voice:) "Rock on Chicago. Rock over London. Cheetos. The cheese that goes Crunch." So that's Wesley Willis, uh, man from Chicago. Hey we got a uh, we got a phone number here. Uh, we'll be uh, giving it out in just a second. We'll play more music as well. Uh, we've been doing this uh, little show here out of the van, and uh, couple people outside so, uh, we brought one of these guys in, I'm gonna ask him what his name is, what's your name?
Angelo	Angelo.
Eddie	Angelo, where you from, man?
Angelo	I'm from Brooklyn, man.
Eddie	He's from Brooklyn.
Angelo	Just hanging out, and traveling.
Eddie	So uh, what do you, what's your mode of transportation?
Angelo	Uh right now, my moped, but you know...
Eddie	Alright, Angelo rode a moped from New York to Arizona, everybody, round of applause! (applause and laughter) On two tanks of gas! Those mopeds, just, get good ... tremendous gas mileage. So you must have some uh, flies in your teeth.
Angelo	Well, you know, I, I had to pick em out, but, you know ... it happens.
Eddie	Yeah, you still got one right up in the corner there. So uh, how long you gonna be here in Arizona, you need a place to stay? We can, you know ...
Angelo	Well, I thought about checking you out in New Mexico tomorrow.
Eddie	Okay, uh, good luck. (laughter) You're on your own. (laughter) No, no, we'll uh, you can trade in uh, you know, when you interview on the radio with me here you get a free T-shirt and a bottle of wine, so maybe you can trade that in for a ticket and we'll work something out.
Angelo	Alright
Eddie	Uh, so how long you been in uh, Arizona?
Angelo	Uh, about two weeks.
Eddie	Two weeks? So, uh, where you, where you stay here for two weeks?
Angelo	Well, you know, just kind of wherever. I got a, right now, uh, no place you know. (laughs) Might have to shack up with some people, but.
Eddie	Okay, well be careful. Uh, you got your own sleeping bag or is that something that you, you gotta borrow people's blankets and stuff?
Angelo	It's down to newspapers tonight, somebody mugged me for my sleeping bag last night.
Eddie	Yeah, this is a real sob story here. He's really preying upon the listeners here. Well, if anybody has a place for Angelo to stay, uh, give us a call here at XXX-XXX-XXXX. Now only call tonight, this number's only good for tonight, and uh, we'll turn on the phone in a few minutes here. Again, we can't play your voice over the air, but we'll be able to talk to you. Okay, I'm gonna play a song now, uh it's by a guy named Nick Cave, and uh, it's just one of the most beautiful songs, see if you agree. Uh, let me get this going here. (off mic: Hey James, what's going on with this, ah.)
Angelo	So how'd you like playing in Casper? Am I on? How'd you like playing in Casper?
Eddie	Uh, it was friendly. (laughter) Okay, this song's called the "Ship Song" by Nick Cave.
Song	Nick Cave - Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Ship Song" (Live)
Eddie	More Eddie and Angelo Alright, so that was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from their live record that you can pick up just about anywhere. Alright, now anybody, who uh, subscribes to MTV, uh, this would make you, uh, different from me. But if you saw Michael Jackson, uh, someone just told me that he was pretty weak on that thing. That's too bad. Cause, boy, when he was a young kid, he could ... he could whip a song into shape. The guy could really ... the young man could sing. And so uh, I think I've got a uh, example of that here. And uh, I'll play it for you. Actually I think it's this one here. Oh, no, it's this other, it's this CD here. See what you think. I think I'm about to play Michael Jackson as a kid. Do it Michael.
Angelo	Are these yours? Are these all your CDs here?
Eddie	Uh, not all of them. Come on baby. Hehe, where is it? (Nick Cave song starts playing) That ain't Michael! (long pause, mic feedback) James go ahead and uh, help me with this Michael Jackson song that I just need to play. Angelo, get the fuck out of here, I got work to do here. Oh, by the way we're still looking for a place for Angelo, call us at uh, XXX-XXX-XXXX.
James	What do you want?
Eddie	Uh, that's my home number for tonight.
James	Alright, you're wanting that CD to play?
Eddie	Yeah, we'd like to play a Michael Jackson song, number 11. I know, if I had vinyl with me, I wouldn't have any problems, but...okay before you get too bored, oh, here we go now.
James	You just hit that, you hit play, this should be going, or it will be real soon. No, man, don't do this to me man. It's fucked up! Uh, what'd you do? (laughs)
Eddie	Ladies and gentlemen, please, thirty seconds. A pause for technical difficulties. Happens to the best of us.
James	Oh (song starts)
Eddie	(over song) Here you go, Michael Jackson.
Song	Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are Michael Jackson - "I Wanna Be Where You Are"
Song	Michael Jackson - "Ben" - cuts in
James	(over song) Can you fuckin believe this? This is Monkeywrench Radio, 89.3 FM, and we're listening, ah ha ha ha (fake crying) we're listening to "Ben"!
Song	James hates Ben Michael Jackson - "Ben"
James	(song stopped after 2nd verse) Not a fuckin chance man. No fucking way, I'm not letting that happen. Not on this...not right now. Haha. John Wayne!
Song	John Wayne - Mr. Egyptian John Wayne - "Mr. Egyptian" (really fucked up song, "trucking down the freeway the other night, pulled my truck off the freeway, all the bars were closed, pulled into a gas station smelling like a Texas rose, that's when I seen him, I said I need four quarts of oil for that truck over there. He just sat there for a while and stared. So I says, buddy I need some oil for my truck, and he said something like no go diggy die. Mr. Egyptian, you're a goddamn liar." guy's voice sounds like George W. Bush on crack.
James	John Wayne on Monkeywrench Radio 89.3 FM. I think we'll just go ahead and continue along with that particular genre. John Lee Hooker. This is 89.3 FM Monkeywrench Radio!
Song	John Lee Hooker - Unknown John Lee Hooker - "Unknown Song" (instrumental)
Song	Spearhead - Hole in the Bucket Spearhead - "Hole In the Bucket"
Song	Spearhead - Home Spearhead - "Home" (another rap song, female singer, lyrics "My man loved me so much, he left me when I was eight months pregnant. I wonder if when walking through the door, he just said fuck it. My man loved me so much...")
Eddie	Eddie and Trevor Hey (song comes on, stops) What's goin on? Alright, is anybody listening? Who knows? Who cares? Uh, we're going for about thirty miles wide from the uh, this ain't the America West Arena, what is it, we're on McDowell street. (bkgd: Veteran's Memorial..Coliseum) Vedder's Memorial Coliseum. That's where we are. Anyway, so if you're within thirty miles, and you happen to be, uh...you know, tuned in, then uh...I guess we're coming through to your car or your house, or your gas station, whatever. There were some special guests tonight, that I didn't even realize. Uh, couple songs we didn't play I wish we would've now. But, um...I don't know, I haven't had MTV for a long time. ("Kid" laughter) Uh, last time I remember participating with the channel, was, they had an awards show which we felt kind of obligated to go to and uh, Neil Young, Young Neil decided to, uh, come to. I mean, everybody was going, you know, Nirvana, and everybody was going and we felt like we had to go so we went, and. It was okay, a lot of people thought I was drunk. But uh, to be honest, I was sour. Uh, we showed up and we were in this trailer thing, much like the van here. We were sitting there and there was all these like, stars... or regular people, you know, putting their feathers out like peacocks, you know uh. Cindy ... Christina ... Crawford. Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford and Lenny Kravitz posing, boy did they have outfits. (hootin-hollarin laughter in background) I jumped out of the trailer, I said get me my Super 8 camera! (more laughter) I walked right up to 'em, and I'm filming, and then a bunch of security guys grabbed me and grabbed me, and all the photographers they're lined up and they're going "Cindy! Cindy! Lenny! Lenny!" they all scream at ya, so you'll look at 'em, so they can get their picture taken, they can can put it in US magazine, or the Enquirer, or whatever it is, and make their money, they're doing their job. So, part of their job is yelling, "Cindy! Lenny! Cindy! Cindy! Cindy!" And uh, I had, I had, I had not gone through that, uh, gauntlet of photographers, I had avoided them all day. And all the sudden I was, uh, standing there with my Super 8 camera getting a real good close up of Lenny Kravitz in his silver outfit, that was as tight as could be (laughter) and uh, hey guys (off to side) and uh, Cindy Crawford, I , she was probably wearing something tight as well, so...we got a couple like, you know, Ballpark franks standing in front of us, and I'm filming, and all of the sudden security grabs me and then the photographers see me being grabbed and they start yelling, you know "Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!" So anyways, I got some good footage out of it. But, uh, after that, I don't know, I guess we, we uh, there was a, that one film, I almost consider it like a short film, I guess that's pretentious, but there was that Jeremy thing. And uh, before that the only other things we've done is, were live performance things, and I felt that was okay. And uh, this song seemed to lend itself to something more, like a little bit of a story or something, so, um, this guy named Mark Pellington and I got together, and we were unshaven, and manic, and drunk on English beer, and we came up with all these great ideas, and then, uh, we gave him a bunch of money, and uh, and then he asked for more, we told him "no". And uh, he, he worked with what he had, and uh one of the things he had to work with and, uh, without him it wouldn't have been, uh, I don't know, this guy, all of the sudden he's like a brother. And it's, the guy's name is Trevor, and he was the young man who, uh, portrayed um, this semi-fictional character, uh, Jeremy, and uh. Anyways, it, it went on to, you know, get that "best video" award, and if I would have made up a speech if I would've thought that I was gonna end up there, it would've said "Cool! Now I can put this in my basement. Fuck the establishment!" or something, I don't know, but uh, probably the coolest part of the night was, uh, being able to bring Trevor up there and kind of raise his hand, you know, like we just won the heavyweight championship or something. But uh, he made it exciting, and uh, and then afterwards we had a really great limo ride, and (laughter) but he, anyways, he was here, in Phoenix tonight, and he's sitting right here, you wanna say hi?
Trevor	Hi!
Eddie	And that's Trevor. Um, well, we'd love to get feedback from you, we don't really have a uh, I thought we had a phone going. If you uh, if you're out there and you hear this number. Uh, it's XXX-XXX-XXXX. And uh, you're listening to 89.3, you're listening to me ramble, and uh, we've got some music coming up for you, I don't know what it is. Here it goes... (music starts) There you go, to the second. Talk to you guys in a second.
Song	Nick Cave - The Mercy Seat Nick Cave - "The Mercy Seat"(Live)
Eddie	Ed Loves the Frogs (over music) There you go, it took a second. Talk to you guys in a minute. (song ends) Alright. Uh, we're gonna play a song, uh by some guys from Milwaukee. They're called the Frogs. They're two brothers, and uh, they were nice enough, they were uh hanging out at our place in Seattle, uh, the same place we did the Monkeywrench radio broadcast from, they played in Seattle at a place called the Crocodile Cafe, and, uh, they had a bit of a, uh, bit of a play afterwards and they started playing all our songs, and they were, they were pretty good! So, uh, I said you should record one of those and we'll put it on a B-side. Well my word means something, uh, this is the B-side, it's Rearviewmirror by the Frogs.
Song	The Frogs - Rearviewmirror The Frogs - "Rearviewmirror"
Eddie	Ed Loves the Who Alright. Whether you enjoyed it or not, I can't care about that. It's music. Uh, we're about to shut off the air here, we'll pick a couple more songs, uh, let's hear from the 'Oo [the Who] before we go. Uh, this is off one of their least popular, yet my favorite album, called "Who by Numbers", and uh, the song's called "Dreaming from the Waist", they would play this one live, and, uh, bass player John Entwistle would just kick the shit out of the bass. What a great player. Bad suits, but great player. Here's uh, the Who.
Song	The Who - Dreaming by the Waist The Who - "Dreaming by the Waist"
Eddie	Eddie and Dave have problems Alright, good evening once again, and uh. A reminder, I don't know what I'm doing. Uh, this is uh, a song called uh [voices: "Sex Drive", "Sex" something] No, I don't think it's called "Sex Drive". Where's Nicky? The band's called, uh "Y'all Fuck Y'all", and uh, it's headed uh, by the drummer, who also, uh, makes our candles and fixes my bike. Nicky. And uh, I'm gonna try to play it for you now. Uh, it's called "Sex Explosion" or something. (Nicky voice) "Listen for the chorus, I'm sure they repeat it over and over." Okay, here it is. Y'all Fuck Y'all. Give me a second. Tape one, cross fade that should do it. Hehehehe. [Laughter.] I'm fucked. (About 40 seconds of silence then the Who come on for 3 seconds) Again, ladies and gentlemen, technical difficulties. Well, [laughter] again, uh, I covered myself by telling you I don't know what I'm doing. Apparently I'm not the only one. There's uh, even my helpers are being rendered impotent by the technology that we have in this tiny little van, we can't get the Walkman to work, uh.
David	Is that a Sony walkman?
Eddie	It, it's a Sony walkman,
David	No wonder!
Eddie	And that explains a lot. You'll never see me on the corporate plane cause it's the Sony corporate plane and I'm afraid it's going to break. The uh, I think we've got one song left here.
David	Play the whole Jackson Five album
Eddie	Uh, we'll pick one, what should it be? Uh, before we go I'd like to thank the Ramones. Thank you for listening to this uh, tripe, uh, I can't call you up on the phone, you know, talk to everybody, I tried before, but uh, you know, hopefully this is some form of communication. Uh, I've got the Fear record in front of me, but there's no record in it. So, uh, I'm going through my collection here, bear with us. Um, how about a nice little song , we'll go back to the Who and uh, play another song off the uh the same record "Who By Numbers". And uh, there was a song that the Ramones played tonight, uh, and Joey introduced it by saying, "Do you remember rock and roll radio?" and uh, I wish I had a copy of that, I'd play it for you right now. So, uh after we're done here, get your uh Ramones records out and play that song, will ya? Uh, this is our goodnight, this is the Who. Thanks to James who's done the driving. Uh, thanks to our special guest Trevor.
Trevor	Bye!
Eddie	Uh, it means more than I can say to have him around, anyway, uh, this is The "oo", one more time. Goodnight, Arizona. We'll see you around. Enjoy this one. Goodnight.
Song	The Who - Blue, Red and Grey The Who - "Blue, Red, and Grey" - (geez, Pete on a Ukekele. Sound familiar?)
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