Tag: The Who
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Episode 258: Greatest Hits – French Horn
Why do we mock the french horn? Learn the origin in this classic episode, as First Anniversary Week continues.
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TAYLOR HAWKINS: Dave Grohl’s doppleganger curates SECRET Foo Fighters music
What do you do when you’re the leader of the band but also the best drummer in the band but you’re really the guitar player?
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Episode 119: Fan Mail Friday 9
We cull through the mounds of emails and social medias from the listeners and pick out a few choice comments. What other show covers air drumming, a lost record collection, whether Dan Auerbach copied another artist, a train to Toronto, Revolution Summer, Wyoming “bourbon,” Zima and Styx?
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Episode 114: Echo Park Jimmy!
It’s a very special episode of Fan Mail Friday, focused on one very special fan, Echo Park Jimmy. Sit back and enjoy.
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Episode 87: Perfect Pop – Fastball, Garageland
Perfect Pop Week continues with two listener picks, one by Texas pop-rockers Fastball (it was the song of the summer in 1998) and the other by New Zealand indie rockers Garageland.
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Episode 86: Perfect Pop – Dusty Springfield, The Who
We kick off Perfect Pop Week with two nominees: a song by Dusty Springfield (via Chuck Prophet) and Who anthem (via friend Matt Beekley).
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Episode 85: Fan Mail Friday 5
It’s an episode programmed by you, the listeners! This edition of Fan Mail Friday includes songs by Bonny Doon, Concrete Blonde, the Spice Girls with Echo & the Bunnymen (what?), the Lightning Seeds, Better Than Ezra and more. (There’s even a song about poo; it was bound to happen.) Our friend Adam Woodard joins in the fun.
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Episode 73: A Salty Salute to Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices
The new Guided By Voices release, “August By Cake,” is reportedly Robert Pollard’s 100th album (with GBV or as a solo artist or in side projects). That’s a lot of idiosyncratic indie rock. Jim & Patrick discuss, with special appearances by Jasper Colt and Slicing Up Eyeball’s Matt Sebastian.
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Episode 70: Fan mail Friday 3
Our postal carrier brought some mail to the suburbs from you, listener. We read it, talk about it and play related music. That means Heart, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Cowboy Mouth, Martha and Bomb the Music Industry.
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Episode 56: Rockin’ the French Horn
Fear not, band nerds, you too can play on a rock song. Guest Dan Gursky, a French horn player, spins three famous tunes that feature that brass instrument. Also joining us in the basement this week is friend Kevin Goff.