Transcription Info Were there MWFM broadcasts before, during or after the show and do we have transcriptions of them? Show Was? Have? Pre-Show Broadcast Yes Yes Mid-Show Broadcast No Yes Post-Show Broadcast Yes Yes The Cast People who stepped up to the mic during the broadcast. David Meinert (Dave) Pirate Radio DJ James Lane (James) Pirate Radio DJ Monica ??? (Monica) Friend from Austin

Thursday, September 14, 1995
Pan American Center
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

First Set
Release, Last Exit, Spin the Black Circle, Animal, Tremor Christ, Corduroy, Whipping, Not For You, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Why Go, Jeremy, Go, Dissident, Satan's Bed, Daughter, Even Flow, Rearviewmirror, I Got Id, Immortality, Black, Porch

First Encore
Better Man, Alive, Blood, Footsteps, Yellow Ledbetter

Monkeywrench Links:
Five Horizons
Hard To Imagine


Ed travels in the van from Phoenix to Las Cruces making so many stops that apparently they arrived late greeted by a not-so-please production crew. MWFM broadcast before and after the show. Ed announces to the crowd that they'll be on 89.1, but the crowd doesn't react too well (Ed: "Can you guys hear me alright through these big speakers?"). As you read below, you will see that James and Ed continually refer to the fact that band members will be coming on later, but our tape ends before that ever happens.

Pre-Show Broadcast

Song	Circle Jerks Circle Jerks (Live) - "Teenage Electric" Includes the following banter by Circle Jerks Lead Singer Keith: "Courtesy of uh, Mr. Vedder's traveling ... (someone in the crowd yells: "Fuck Vedder", crowd laughs). Oh, fuck you, he's a cool guy. Just because you live here and you're his neighbor and you know him really well. Well hey, that's the way it goes. I only get to see the guy maybe once a year and he's always really cool to me, so hey. You know, if you don't like Pearl Jam, you don't have to listen to Pearl Jam. Nobody's fucking holding you down, nobody's tied you down, nobody's strapped you down - you can listen to whatever the fuck you want to listen to! (crowd cheers) Pirate Radio 89.1 FM is playing this right now. Whatever I say, whatever we play ... for your parents. Are your parents at home? Do your parents know where you're at? Ok now, this is very important I need to see some hands. How many of you are going to be picked up by your parents later on after the show? C'mon. Let's see some hands. Alright ... yeah ... cool. Uh, we're waiting for uh ... the guy that plays in Bad Religion. See Bad Religion's his real job, this is just an adventure and a hobby for him. (Guitar check) It works, ok. Do the drums work? (Drum check) How about the bass? (Bass check). Ok, we got A-boy on drums, Z-boy on bass, G-boy on guitar, I'm the K-boy and we're the Circle Jerks. (Crowd cheers ... song starts).
Song	Null Detector Fear - "Null Detector"
Song	I Love Livin in the City Fear - "I Love Living in the City (Live)"
Song	Mr. Egyptian John Wayne - "Mr. Egyptian"
James	James introduces John Lee Hooker All right, that was John Wayne and this is Monkeywrench Radio. 89.5 FM. And uh, it's pirate radio, it's totally fucking against the law, I don't have a license. Who gives a flying fuck about licenses! This is Monkeywrench Radio 89.5. Stay with us tonight, we're gonna have like a whole bunch of really cool guests come on and talk to you guys out there. And ... yeah ... I do believe that Pearl Jam is gonna play tonight. Las Cruces, New Mexico ... whatever. . John Lee Hooker here on 89.5.
Song	Unknown John Lee Hooker Song John Lee Hooker - "Unknown Song"
Song	Spearhead - Hole in the Bucket Spearhead - "Hole in a Bucket"
Song	Spearhead - Home Spearhead - "Home"
Song	Ice-T - Ya Played Yourself Ice T - "Ya Played Yourself"
Song	Unknown Drum Loops Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Drum/Bass/guitar loops - really sounds like a Wesley Willis instrumental)
Song	Unknown Hard Rock Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Punk song with lyrics "You try and tell me this is the land of xxx xxx xxx .... you try and tell me racism is a thing of the past"
Song	Unknown Acid Rock Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Hillbilly punk with syncopated beat and slide guitar. Lyrics include "Oh rosie" and the rest is indecipherable - sounds like butthole surfers)
Song	Unknown Rockabilly Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Hard Rock - can't tell if it's a male or female voice - "I feel like I'll be here for the rest of my life .. .all I did was shoot my wife")
Song	Dancing French Liberals The Dancing French Liberals of '48 - "Unknown Song" (features lyrics "Without a word or explanation, it's all torn apart. That't the way you broke my heart" ... "I feel my life blowin up on me. Oh yeah! I've got to go on. I'm .....")
James	(over song) You are listening to 89.5 FM Monkeywrench Radio. That last one was another seattlelband - The Dancing French Liberals of '48. (a few lines from the first verse of the Paris song). Paris."
Song	Unknown Paris Song Paris - "Unknown Song" (from "Guerilla Funk")
Song	Unknown Reggae/Rap Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Rap/Reggae)
Song	Unknown Reggae Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Reggae with verses "Walkin down the road with a pistol in your waist")
Song	Unknown Rap Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Rap - "I'm goin back to the scene of the bass, I'm looking brothers in the face, like I'm some kinda major case, askin "wassup", "what they wanna do"? They callin out their whole crew")
Song	Sonic Youth Sonic Youth - "Unknown Song" (Just Thurston on acoustic guitar with lyric "Back long to wait a long long time, there's nothing running free, you gotta time it all .... " and "Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose ... " song cuts into Critters Buggin)
comment	(Pearl Jam probably went on stage at this moment)

Mid-Show Broadcast

Song	Critters Buggin' - "Kickstand Hog"
Song	Critters Buggin' - "Critters Theme"
Song	Critters Buggin' - "J-Ski"
Song	Critters Buggin' - "5/4 f.t.d."
Song	Critters Buggin' - "Fretless Nostril"
Song	Critters Buggin' - "Double Pot Roast Backpack"
Song	Critters Buggin' - "Naked Truth"
Song	Critters Buggin' - "Los Lobos"
Song	Seaweed - Baggage
Song	Seaweed - Stagger
Song	Seaweed - Taxing
James	James Banter All right, you're listening to Seaweed and uh Seaweed is another one of those ... another one of those fuckin bands from Seattle, Washington. And right before that, you heard in its entirety, um, Critters Buggin and uh that was from their album "Quest" (JR: actually, it's "Guest"). And, uh, Critters Buggin was produced by Dennis Harring and Stone Gossard along with Critters Buggin and they are on Loosegroove. So, if you're into that, definitely um check them out because you can pretty much buy them anywhere at this point. Um, they're a really fantastic act. So I'm gonna ... I'm gonna move on again and I'm gonna play, in it's entirety - (stuff crashes) I'm droppin shit all over the fuckin place - Jah Wobble's 1994 release "Take Me To God". I'm gonna play the whole thing so just kick back and listen to it because uh I personally think this is a really fantastically produced album. Jah Wobble's done some of the best production I've heard in many, many years. And I don't know if you've heard anything that Jah Wobble has done, but it's definitely worth getting into. This is Monkeywrench Radio 89.1 FM.or, shit, I guess tonight we're on 89.5 FM and if you hang with me later on I'm gonna have a very special guest join in. Because, see, that's really easy to do because I'm now traveling with the band and that band, um, they really dig pirate radio. So one of the people that is gonna be in that band is gonna be joining me right after their show, which - if you're in Las Cruces, New Mexico right now - you know that the only real show happening tonight is Pearl Jam. So I think one of them road bums is gonna join me later on. Um right now we're gonna get "closer to God" with Jah Wobble.
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "God In The Beginning"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Becoming More Like God"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Whisky Priests"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "I'm An Algerian"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Amor"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Amor Dub"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Take Me To God"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "The Sun Does Rise" (with Dolores O'Riordan)
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "When The Storm Comes "
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "I Love Everybody"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Yoga of the Nightclub"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "I Am The Music"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "The Bonds of Love"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Angels"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "No Change is Sexy"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Raga"
Song	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - "Forever"
David	David Banter You are listening to MW radio. This is uh, we're at the pearl jam show broadcasting form backstage. This is a totally illegal pirate radio station so uh Eddie Vedder will be out here on the air playing music, talking, in a little while after the show. I saw their setlist a couple of minutes ago and they have 30 songs on it tonight so its gonna be a pretty insanely long show but he'll be out here at some time to uh to do the show and do what I'm doing now. So this is um pirate radio and we're just playing a bunch of stuff. You were just listening to Jah Wobble while we were taking a break and watching the show. Um, that's off Jah Wobble's last album it's called Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart "Take Me to God" so uh. That's what that was in case you cared at all. You may not, but, uh, oh well. We got tad comin up and a bunch of more rock. If you're listening and you wanna call in and uh actually find out what we're doin, you can call us at 206-612-0625 that's our cell phone that we got in the van and you can get through to Eddie on that later on so uh, check it out. You know? Give us a call. Anyhow, so this uh Tad - a great band from Seattle. (silence and you can hear "Dissident in the background" and song starts Tad song in the wrong place). Whoops, whoops, whoops. We're gonna start that over. Here's Tad."
Song	Tad - "Candi"
Song	Unknown Rock Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Slow, hard rock with pick slides features chorus "One More Thing". Female vocal)
David	David Banter Alright, this is Monkeywrench Radio and my batteries on my second CD player just died so I'm sitting here trying to fix it. This is uh Pearl Jam's radio station and we're broadcasting illegally from the Pearl Jam show, um, also the Ramones show, I guess. And we're just doin' a lot of music that we care about - hopefrully you will. I don't know if anyone's out there listening or not cause we didn't announce this to anyone. If you're interested in what we're doing at all, which is (a) pirate radio station, it's pretty cheap to do one of these. You basically need a Turntable, CD Player, Tape Player, an Amp and a Antenna and a Mixing Board and a Transmitter. Now, the Transmitters are real cheap. They cost uh 100 to 200 dollars and you can get them from this guy Stephen Dunifer in Berkeley. You can give him a call if want, I'll say the phone number in just a sec so get ready if you have a pen or anything. The number is 510 ... um... what is the number ... 510-464-3041 and uh, call Stephen and he will make a Transmitter for you and then you can have your own Pirate Radio Station. Do this and that way you don't have to listen to the shit music that they play on commercial radio. (Mudhoney song comes on) So, let's see, of course sometimes you have to fuck up on it, too. If you're out there listening and you want to call in and talk to anyone in the band or anything like that, give us a call at 206-612-0625 um, (Mudhoney comes on again) it is ... that would be Mudhoney which is coming up in a second and um.... You can call that number and talk to someone in the band. Eddie will be out there doing stuff in a little while and uh, I guess we're just gonna keep playin' music. So, uh, if there's anything you wanna here as well, we've got a ton of music - a lot from the Northwest and just other shit. Feel free to call us and, uh, request something. If you're in a band locally and you have music and you want to bring it down to us, um, you can also give us a call and bring it down and we'll play it while we're on the road. We're goin' to Austin tomorrow and then to New Orleans and then we'll be back out again in November. So, again, if you want to bring us music or just come down to see what we're doin' or talk to anyone down here, it's 206-612-0625. It's area code 206 because we're on a cell phone and that's where we live. So don't think it's a hoax. Anyhow here we go, this is Mudhoney - great band out of the Northwest that's been around for years. Mark Arm was in a band ... the band Green River which existed before Mook ... or before Mother Love Bone, which as you know turned into Pearl Jam. So here's Mark Arm and Mudhoney. (Few seconds pause) In just a second ... Mark Arm ... Mudhoney ... here we go. (Song starts) Oh and tell your parents to fuck off!
Song	Mudhoney - "Generation Genocide"
Song	Mudhoney - "Let it Slide"
Song	Mudhoney - "Good Enough"
Song	Mudhoney - "Something So Clear"
Song	Velocity Girl - "I Can't Stop Smiling"
Song	Spearhead - "Piece O' Peace"
Song	Spearhead - "Positive"
David	David on Spearhead Alright, that is Spearhead and this is Monkeywrench Radio 89.3 FM. Uh, we're broadcasting from the Pearl Jam show. If you want to call in and talk to us, uh you're welcome to. And you just need to call 206-612-0625 and you can get through to us and uh ... the reason that's 206 is 'cause the cell phone's cased out of Seattle. Um, maybe you don't have to dial 206, but probably you do. Anyhow so this is Monkeywrench Radio, again that was Spearhead - one of my favorite albums of the year and a couple of tracks off that called "Piece O' Peace" and "Positive". So uh, check out that album it's a really great album I think .so um. Here's a band ... a new band out of seattle on .. .er out of Portland .. I mean on Tim Kerr records. Which is a great new label which is pretty much the best indie lable in the country right now uh, they put out the first everclear album and uh a bunch of other cool stuff so um check that out . Anyhow, this is the Dandy Warhols (James in backgroudn: "Fuck off!") and it's a song called "Nothing To Do" . And that's James telling me to fuck off cause he doesn't like this band, but I like them. So if you don't like then, fuck off - you can always change the station. In fact, you can start your own station and you can start you row own station by calling Steven Dunifer at 510-464-3041 and uh control the media. Make your own media, that's the only way you're going to avoid the current crisis we're in - being controlled by the media. Control it yourself! Even if it's illegal. Don't let the Government stop you from doing anything, because their laws are pretty much fake and worthless and don't really matter and we just got to figure out a way around them. So do that and do a ratio station. Anyhow, enough of that. Here is the Dandy Warhols.
Song	Dandy Warhols - "Nothin To Do"
Song	Dandy Warhols - "The Coffee and Tea Wrecks"
Song	Robyn Hitchcock - "Flesh Cartoons"
David	David and James play nice Hey alright. This is Monkeywrench Radio. And that was um ... my god, who was that ... that was Robyn Hitchcock, who's my favorite artist of all time other than James Van Meter (?) and Katie Heiser (?) (There are now a few people in the background and everyone laughs). I know, well ... so people are making fun of me cause I suck, but ... but don't worry about it. You can't call us right now if you've been trying to call us. You can't because the other guy that does this has been jacking off on the phone and uh, so I've been announcing the number so you can call us and the line's probably been busy the whole time. Anyhow, that was um Robyn Hitchcock "Flesh Cartoons" and there's a bunch of them backstage always. Anyhow. I'm gonna play a new band out of Seattle, they're called the Presidents of the United States of America. They put their first album out on Pop Llama - a legendary Seattle label. And uh, they have another one coming out or it already came out on Columbia. And uh, I think they're a really funny band, they're not real serious; but god, they're goofy kids! So here they are: The Presidents of the United States of America.
Song	The Presidents of the United States of America - "Candy"
Song	Unknown Punk Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Punk song features the lyrics "You're a punk, and I'm telling everyone. Save your breath, there never was one. You don't know what I'm all about. Your enemies are all too familiar. They're the ones who start callin." and chorus "1-2-3-4 Who's Punk? What's the score?")
Song	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Papa Won't Leave You Henry"
Song	Man or Astroman? - "Transmissions from Uranus"
Song	Man or Astroman? - "Time Bomb"
David	Man or Astroman - plus Dave Alright, that was Man or Astroman? and this is Monkeywrench Radio. Let's see, Pearl Jam's at the end of their set then they're gonna do an encore and then you can uh, ya know, listen to Eddie and the boys come out here and deejay and probably lots of special guests, who knows, maybe the Ramones will come here for once and do something, although I don't know if they can actually do anything. (James mumbles off mic) Yeah, I mean. Who knows man? They are serious guys. Anyhow, this is 89.5, I believe, Monkeywrench Radio from ... broadcasting form the Pearl Jam show. You can call in and talk to us at 206-612-0625 totally at our expense and uh feel free to do that and uh Edward will be out here and you can talk to him if you want to ... if you care. Hopefully some of you out there listening don't give a fuck about talking to Eddie and actually just want to hear cool music that you probably don't get to listen to a lot in Las Cruces. That was Man or Astroman? if you want to know. And the album ... what album was that off of? God I lost my albums! That was off of "Man or Astroman? Live - Transmissions from Uranus".That's what that was. Before that was Nick Cave ... live as well and uh, the songs was "Poppa Won't Leave You Henry". Nick Cave, also a fucking fantastic artist. Uh, that was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Live Seeds. So anyhow. Another local Northwest artist - not local here, but up in Seattle - was The Gits and their no longer around cause Mia is no longer with us. But uh, this is ... I'm gonna play a song for you - Mia acoustic - playing at the first show that Seven Year Bitch ever played at. It was a benefit for uh "Books for Prisoners" and uh Seven Year Bitch and Big Brown House which, uh, had members of ... um eh ... Funny Car which is a band that's still around and touring and also Gas Huffer played that show. They're on Epitaph Records. You probably know who they are from bands like The Offspring and Rancid are on Epitaph with Gas Huffer. Anyhow, so uh, this is Monkeywrench Radio and this is Mia Zapata live.
Song	Mia Zapata - Unknown Song (Acoustic song performed solo features lyric "I don't need your social love")
Song	The Gits - "Here's to all of my friends"
Song	PJ Harvey - "To Bring You My Love"
Song	The Doors - "Unknown Song" (Jim Morrison poetry & phone call over the song "Riders on the Storm". Is this off of "American Prayer"?)
Song	Tiger Trap - "Supreme Nothing"
Song	Godheadsilo - "Nutricious Treat"
Song	Jack Acid - "Cheap Tragedies"
Song	Tribe 8 - "Speed Fortress"
Song	Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Starts for 7 seconds then stops. Sounds like Helmet)
Song	Versus - "Another Face"
David	David song recap (Slant 6 - "Nights X 9" starts but Dave talks over it) Alright this is 89.5 FM. If you're just leaving the Pearl Jam show, um, and you want to call in and talk to us, you're welcome to talk to us at 206-612-0625. That's our cell phone number, so feel free to give us a call. And uh ... let's see ... anyhow. I'm playin' a bunch of music. This is off the "Kill Rock Stars" compilation and god knows what track it is, so here we go.
Song	Karp - "Gause" (starts for about 1 minute, then goes into Fastbacks because it starts out slow and is really low volume)
Song	Fastbacks - "Waste of Time"
Song	Unknown Punk Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (Female vocal features verse "Stand still, you said 'watch it' , said 'watch it'" music is Sonic Youth influenced with guitar strummed on headstock)
Song	Unknown Alternative Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (chorus features "Just dressed to kill" repeated)
Song	Tina Chop - "Unknown Song" (chorus features "Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" repeated and something about Home Repair)

Post-Show Broadcast

David	David and James Flirt All right, this is 89.5 Monkeywrench Radio. Uh, we're broadcasting from the Pan American Center where uh Pearl Jam just played and the Ramones. And uh, that was a band called uh Tina Chopp. And uh, they used to be from Seattle and they uh don't exist at all anymore so uh (James talking on the phone in the background.) let's see, we're gonna do a phone-in interview.
James	Who's the last person to go on tape?
David	Tina Chopp was the last person to go on.
James	Say something Monica.
Monica	Ha-ha. What do you want me to say?
James	Um, say. um. "Thank you Tina Chopp for making wonderful music".
Monica	Thank you so much Tina Chopp for making great music for us.
all
David	Hi Monica, how are you?
Monica	Hey Dave, what's up
David	Oh nothing, I'm just doin this little radio thing.
Monica	Well, that's pretty cool though.
David	So we're talking to someone in Austin, Texas. Hi!
Monica	Hello?
David	Hello, go ahead ....
Monica	Oh god. You're not gonna put me on the radio are you?
David	We are! Yeah, you ...
Monica	For real.
David	Yeah, totally.
James	As we speak.
David	You're on the little radio show.
Monica	I'm on the little radio show, I'm so privileged!
James	Oh, it's not real!
all	(Laughing)
David	It's not real, it's actually this totally illegal pirate radio...
James	It's pirate.
Monica	It's pirated? That's even better!
David	Yeah! Of course.
James	Yeah!
Monica	(Squeal laugh) Yeah!
all	(Laughing)
David	Why would we do something legal?
James	So, tell us about your new car?
Monica	My new car?
James	Yeah.
David	Oh, god, I'm so embarassed.
Monica	It's an RX-7 convertible, but I have to sell it. 'Cause I'm buying a hang-glider.
David	Don't let us drive it.
Monica	No, I'm not gonna let you guys borrow it.
David	Ok (Dave and James laughing)
Monica	I wanna keep this one.
James	I can't wait, man.
David	I know.
Monica	I mean, I got the last one back.
David	You did?
Monica	Eventually.
David	Good (laughing).
Monica	It's missing a lot of parts, though.
David	Just so you know, if anyone out there's even listening to us ...
James	All six of our listeners are ...
David	Last time we drove her car, someone stole it from us.
Monica	But now I have two alarms on it.
David	And now you have two alarms? And it's a convertible!
Monica	Two alarms. One for friends and one for Robert.
David	(Laughing) Killer. Are you gonna hang out with us in Austin?
Monica	Am I gonna hang out with you? Yeah, I guess I am.
David	(Laughing) Oh, OK. You don't HAVE to?
Monica	Well, I have hang-gliding class that day.
David	Oh.
Monica	So James is trying to talk me out of it.
James	Oh, I thought she said "home-making" class.
David	"Home-making" class? "Home-making" or "Hang-gliding"?
Monica	"Home-making"? Are you kidding me? I'm a stripper, why would I take a "home-making" class?
David	Oh my god!
Monica	(Laughing)
David	So now everyone knows you're a stripper.
Monica	Those of you ...
James	She's the best.
David	Yeah.
Monica	Well, they don't know my name and don't you tell them.
David	We already said Monica.
Monica	Oh, well that's Ok.
David	But (Laughing) ... doesn't matter. how many "Monica"s are there in Austin, Texas that are strippers and that anyone in Las Cruces would know.
Monica	Exactly.
David	Probably no one.
Monica	Ton of them (sarcastic).
David	I just talked to someone from here, they'd never been to Austin.
Monica	Oh.
David	They'd never even been to Texas.
Monica	They should come down and see it.
David	Yeah, oh well. I'm gonna give you back to James, hang on.
Monica	Thank you.
David	There you go. (James talks to Monica in the background) Anyhow. That was our first phone-in radio interview. if you want to phone in and talk to us, um, do at 206-612-0625. Um, here is Unwritten Law - a band out of L.A. and uh, they just toured with the Circle Jerks. Here we go. (song starts and stops). Oh my god. Ok, James, you try it.
James	Dave, you fucked up. And I'm really sorry you fucked up. I just want everybody in the city of Las Cruces to know that Dave fucked up and uh (still on the phone with Monica) ... yeah .... yeah see, Monica just said that she's gonna tell everybpdy in Austin that Dave fucked up. So. (Dave mumbles) No, no, that's a big "twice" Dave ... as far as Monica's concerned. (uproarious laughter).
Song	Unwritten Law - Lessons Unwritten Law - "Lessons"
Song	Unwritten Law - Superficial Society Unwritten Law - "Superficial Society"
Song	Unknown Unknown Band - "Unknown Song" (only first 1:26)
comment	BOOM, at the 1:26 mark, tape cuts to static as the taper stopped taping. If you have information on this event, please send an email to info@monkeywrenchradio.org.