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Ep022: Jon Illum/Evan Gritzon (Lords of Sealand)
(stream and download – Episode 22)
Evan and Jon from Lords of Sealand come into the studio to speak about Found Fiction their new ep/lp. Additionally Conan paraphrases the “mclusky” benefit rather ineptly, there is talk of viewmasters, flavored coffee, lyrics and profitsharing systems, the spotted dick and Bono sneaking music onto iphones. DJ ambitious wordplay suggests you give it a listen.
…00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie
Intro
00:06:26 christian fitness – aghast, anon, anew
00:09:42 shellac – dude incredible00:15:38 Feeling Gravity’s Pull – The Committee to Keep Death Permanent
00:18:44 Talk with Evan Gritzon and Jon Illum from Lords of Sealand
Conan paraphrases the “mclusky” benefit rather ineptly, nostalgia, etc. Scottish independence.
The wrath of Con, “giving this ‘record thing’ up’. The Crux vs. Big Crux, viewmasters, etc.
The story behind “found fiction”.Jon Illum
00:42:19 Lords of Sealand – Salty Gear
00:45:42 Lords of Sealand – Architect00:48:07 back with Evan and Jon, Conan steals Brenna’s headphones. Musical takes on things, Lords of Sealand is hard to describe. Storytelling Forest Rock?, Evan rejects Conan’s description completely. Flavored coffee. Lyrics and profitsharing systems, charity, etc. Bloodhag and libraries, recording in isolation
01:04:45 Lords of Sealand – King With No Hands
01:09:29 Burn Permits – The Jerk
01:12:12 Dead Rider – New Eyes01:14:55 palpableness and the spotted dick, heard at a renfest, Jon spotted dick exclusive
skit tracks, people still love the “idea of Conan” on Spotify, Bono sneaking U2 songs onto iphones01:39:15 The Book-Burners – Come Home
01:43:05 Lords of Sealand – Brittle Bones01:46:56 Hitting the post-post, DJ Ambitious Wordplay, Camus. plugs and wrap up.
01:52:00 Shellac – The End of Radio
01:52:59 Surprise post show call from Torrey Neutron -
Ep021: Steve Albini (Shellac, Big Black, Engineer)
(stream and download – Episode 21)
We speak with the one and only Steve Albini, pretty cool. Drive Like Jehu show recap and a whole lotta great talkin’ get into it.
…00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:02:20 Welcome to one and all. Don’t leave your drugs scattered about. Rhymes with Gandolfino. Whippets with protonic reversal.00:05:50 The Bismarck – Necklace of Human Dicks
00:09:21 Shellac – Copper00:11:08 Candy necklaces and human dicks, coffee, Shellac – Breaking the Silence, and breaking the glass, the dicks of hazard, Frente! (yes Frente!), Drive Like Jehu / Spreckels Organ recap, reunions that are not cash ins but instead build community.
00:21:30 Drive Like Jehu – If It Kills You
00:28:42 Shellac – The Guy Who Invented Fire00:30:15 Steve Albini
Radio stations and ambient noise, Hearing the character of the neighborhood in the show, being a punk rock guru and answering questions, John Grabski III and the story of Teeth: a man with cancer who made the record he always wanted to make. That just so happened to be about his fight with cancer, the second Teeth record, The self policing PRF (Electrical Audio Forum), service industry, Spotify/Sleepify, pay to stream models, instant availability and constant present tense, the democratization of distribution, the statistical unlikeliness of a good band from Florida, finding an audience post-mortem, “classic DATs”, a typical Steve Albini day. work, sleep, wife and a few indulgences. longevity vs. productivity, DUDE INCREDIBLE, if the process is so slow, why not put out singles?, The people’s microphone, the song and concept. Surveyors. working knowledge of the land. The End of Radio – explained, perspective and evolution, younger generations, retrospection, etc. Nina Nastasia, listener fatigue from engineering, Cigar Aficionado and Guitar Aficionado magazines, heated walkways, Don’t quit.01:40:42 Shellac – Steady As She Goes
01:44:45 Shellac – Wingwalker
01:49:37 Shellac – Spoke01:51:04 Call from “Steve Albini”, always take the points.
01:52:04 Shellac – The End of Radio (Closing Theme)
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Ep020: Good Morning, Music
(stream and download – Episode 20)
At some point early on Conan talks about seeing Slint after the funeral of his dead friend. Otherwise this one is pretty much just music. Do you like music? Good! You will like this episode then.
…8:05am: Peacetime by Minutes from Minutes
8:08am: Digital Witness by St. Vincent from St. Vincent
8:17am: Come Home by The Book-Burners from The People’s Songs
8:21am: Tae Kwon Do by Motherfucker from Tae Kwon Do
8:32am: Lost Year by Family Ghost from No Dreams
8:40am: Mt. Pleasant Isn’t by The Evens from The Evens
8:46am: Brass Cupcake by Melvins from Hold It In
8:50am: Instrument of God by King Buzzo from This Machine Kills Artists
9:00am: Do You Compute? by Drive Like Jehu from Yank Crime
9:07am: soft power fitness by christian fitness from i’m scared of everything that isn’t me
9:08am: Wannadon’t by FoWlMoUth from Smith
9:17am: WORK! by Vulgar Trade from Gross Century
9:18am: Jamie by The Bismark from Wild Prairie Rose
9:24am: Song 30 by The Austerity Program from Beyond Calculation
9:28am: Buried in the Snow by the rutabega from Brother, The Lights Don’t Work
9:40am: The Swifts by Nonagon from People Live Everywhere
9:43am: Gold Widow by Survival Knife from Loose Power
9:48am: Nothing Left by Marnie Stern from Marnie Stern
9:54am: End of Radio (Closing Theme) by Shellac from Excellent Italian Greyhound
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Ep019: David Urbano (Eastern Anchors) / Dixie Jacobs (Body Futures)
(stream and download – Episode 19)
Double whammy! Dave Urbano from Eastern Anchor in studio and Dixie Jacobs from Body Future on the phone. The Steve Albini 7″ test, Genesis, ZZ Top, downward dog, crowdfunding, autoharps, spam e-mails and hilarious job posts. All this and more ding dang great music than you can shake a stick at! You try it, you try and shake that stick… YOU. WILL. FAIL.
00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:03:05 Intro, “Pass the ducky”, Dave Urbano intro, “Grab a hoodie”00:05:14 Drive Like Jehu – Bullet Train To Vegas
00:07:46 Eastern Anchors – Leading With Your Right00:10:26 Dancing or boxing, DLJ talk, Reis/Friberg, Torrey Neutron recommends opium to Tony Ash, Mariachi Bands and Urbano West, Eastern Anchors history, Avis O’Hara, Bud Clamato, split 7″, Screaming Females
00:32:19 Eastern Anchors – Above Your Station
00:35:20 Eastern Anchors – James the Viking00:40:06 ZZ Top talk, old records, rock parents and music discovery. DJ Spork, speeding up records. The Steve Albuni test, Justin Bieber 800% Slooooooower (sounds like Enya), Slayer, Downward Dog, B. Hamilton cover revealed, crowdfunding, that potato sald thing, Brenna on the house hunt, pay it forward, superbowl half time payola.
01:04:10 Minutes – In Your Own Fuel
01:07:17 Turbo Lightning – Oh! Oh! Oblivion
01:09:57 we say goodbye to David Urbano and make him redo a station ID.01:13:25 Body Futures – That’s So Church
01:16:15 Dixie Jacobs of Body Futures on the phone.
Sound clips and the new BF record, Ifihadahifi, BF origin story, organ harvesting, “bouncy”, autoharp and PJ Harvey, “Nice harpsichord”, Shanana Clone Project Alpha story, epic spam reveal, hilarious coffee job application, Why it may be better to grow up without the internet, the walkman as the mysterious entity. WARNING: Record is NOT actually butterscotch, tour dates with the rutabega.01:48:08 Body Futures – Shanana Clone Project Alpha
01:52:00 Shellac – End of Radio (closing theme)…
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Ep018: Ryan De La Hoz (Cool Try)
(stream and download – Episode 18)
…in the midst of the entire world falling apart in Ferguson Missouri, Protonic Reversal soldiers on… with artist Ryan De La Hoz. We talk social justice, constitutional law, black faxing, Robin Williams, the prescient nature of the movie Network and Altered Beast… usually over a bed of breaking glass soundclips.
00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:1:30 #inyoface, Howard Beale and more, Brenna introduces Ryan De La Hoz over six minutes of breaking glass!
00:07:00 The Gary – Valhalla
00:09:54 Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma00:13:15 John Houlihan calls in about the world falling apart. How do you do a radio show when the world
a mystery buzz shows in00:19:52 Body Futures – (That’s A) Big Smile (For Someone About to Drown)
00:24:18 Risk/Reward – In the Sea
00:26:22 fugazi – Reclamation
00:29:42 Generalissimo – Chemtrails00:32:39 More talk about Ferguson, somebody got shot because a white person got scared. Brenna talks about friends being unaware of racism, and the quiet racism in the south. “you can’t be ‘hey everybody! pizza party, when the eyes of the world are on you.”. The “P” word. Yell “FIRE” not help.
Ryan “Of the sickle”, being in Juxtapoz, how things have came together by just making stuff and sharing it. The heft of trusted sources. The yin and yang of being published, and what the different outlets are. Robin Williams story. Aaaaaand… back to politics.
Constitutional originalism, the Koch brothers, etc. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires.01:08:30 Minutemen – Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
01:09:43 fugazi – ex-spectator01:14:02 “I’m mad as hell…” now more than ever! The prescient nature of the movie network, corporate personhood, etc. Altered Beast and the origin of “Welcome to your doom.”. Indigo dying… printed skulls over real skulls.
01:26:35 Reverb Bomb – Good As Gold
01:29:35 Federation X – Good as Gold01:33:55 Pizza party board game, Crossfire board game and theme song, even more glass breaking, Anonymous and Scientology and Black Faxing, concept and t-shirt, Black Flag (featuring Greg Ginn) discussion… the one with the shoeless cut rate Harry Dean Stanton on drums, constant present tense… “Pixies, will you just go away?”, Shark week falsification
01:52:00 Shellac – End of Radio (closing theme)
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Ep017: Bob Bucko Jr.
(stream and download – Episode 17)
Bob Bucko Jr. is a prolific solo artist and a hilarious dude, listen in as heavy metal bellydancing, growing up on mix tapes being a tape trader vs. a tape TRAITOR, the city of Dubuque and lots more are discussed. All that plus some bonus Ryan Werner. Additionally Conan talks about the passing of his former best friend.
00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:04:39 Minutes – Get Off Your Ass
00:07:10 FoWlMouTh – (Baby I’m An) Old Motherfucker00:10:40 Conan polishes the floor with his coffee, running late, Brenna is “over people”, humans are terrible. “You’re a big weirdo, but you’re sweet.”
00:16:04 United Nations – Meanwhile on Main Street
00:19:02 Motherfucker – Dot. Dot. Dot.00:21:42 Instrumental bands, keep it succinct will ya?! Shannon Corr, What Hast Thou Wroth?! “Chooch Talkin'”
00:26:05 Minot – Allostatic Load
00:33:07 Bob Bucko Jr. (and Ryan Werner)
Genius and Cat poop… scattershot releases. Touring with Ryan Werner. 29 days of cover songs, BBJ by reputation, low budget tours and heavy metal bellydancing, HELMET, Battles and guest vocalists for each songs… My Machines video description. Extended John Stanier discussion. Growing up on mix tapes and releasing things on cassette. Tape Trader or Tape TRAITOR?!?, Illuminati and gold bars, Dubuque, IOWA… what makes it such a unique area.
Losing local cultural identity. Real time drop relates the hard sell on Des Moines.01:10:32 Bob Bucko Jr. – LR72
01:14:43 Least Best Beast – Frail Common Animal01:19:11 Tricky questions and dead friends, Silkworm documentary and Conan opens up about his former best friend Clay Wofford dying. Talking about perception from different times in your life. finding music that is “yours”, dealing with loss and what a “best friend” means. Being the person that has to break bad news to people
01:33:52 Big Black – Steelworker
01:38:02 Battles – My Machines01:41:54 More talk about Battles, junk science, Real Time Drop realizes the title of the show is a Ghostbusters reference, Cool Try designs, back patches, and creepy social networkers
01:52:00 Shellac – the End of Radio (Closing Theme)…
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Ep016: Austin Pitts (Hurry Up Shotgun)
(stream and download – Episode 16)
Austin from Hurry Up Shotgun comes on the show to talk music, socio economic class concerns and play a brand new HuS song acoustic. Point Break is quoted and discussed, as are spotted dicks. Speak into the microphone squidbrain…
…00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:04:21 rutabega- Come Back Big Brother
00:07:43 Feeling Gravity’s Pull – Have I Mentioned…00:12:45 Christopher Casuga and his wild weekend for sibling/brother (?) show Live From the Barrage, she ships and riddles of the ages, you can’t be on a radio show on an airplane. “I’m a surgeon! Let me play bejeweled”
00:19:20 Greys – Use Your Delusion
00:21:42 Dead Rider – Weird Summer00:25:37 Dead Rider show recap, former PR guest Todd Rittman as an alternate universe James Brown/Snakefinger badassery. Sheer Accident, etc. DJ Real Time Drop speaks about Point Break, Net Neutrality
00:37:28 Songs for Snakes – F.E.A.R.
00:41:21 christian fitness – carthage must be destroyed00:43:57 Gear thefts “Where do they go?”, how about a documentary on that?, talk about the mclusky gear theft spoken of in Episode 15, and the Hurry Up Shotgun/Songs For Snakes show that has now already passed.
00:53:46 Hurry Up Shotgun – acoustic song
00:57:25 Hurry Up Shotgun – What to Do When Your Unemployment Check Bounces
01:03:05 Hurry Up Shotgun – Swim01:07:38 “So that’s why Abraham Lincoln is a zombie then?”, bubble baths, aux barricades, class themes in Hurry Up Shotgun and the working poor. Serious socio-economic talk and class issues…on NPR… er… Radio Valencia, Caturday, the idea of the commons, corporate personhood, the logtical fallacy of corporate largesse and celebrating the individual without supporting the needs of the individual.
01:29:30 fugazi – Give Corporations
01:31:56 Minutes – Get Off Your Ass01:34:23 some thoughts on fugazi, classism in music, travel, more sobering economic concerns and class difference.
01:45:03 B Hamilton – Miss Carolina
01:48:29 What is and is not broken based upon if it is owned or not.
01:52:00 Shellac – End of Radio (Closing Theme)
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Ep015: Todd Rittmann (Dead Rider, U.S. Maple)
(stream and download – Episode 15)
We talk to Todd Rittmann about hats, inspiration and perspiration and Jim Belushi books. Academic deconstruction and more!
…00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:04:26 Motherfucker – Dot Dot Dot
00:07:19 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up00:09:27 Returning pets, getting old, etc.
00:17:02 New China – Bad Teacher
00:19:00: Dead Rider – Blank S(c)reen00:24:17 Dead Rider tour dates announce, why Conan doesn’t like Spotify or use it.
Being friends with the idea of Conan.00:31:02 US Maple – Letter To ZZ Top
00:34:06 Todd Rittmann of Dead Rider and U.S. Maple on the air, in a van… on the way to Houston Having Thymme Jones in the band, what is Dead Rider listening to on tour, The possibility of a U.S. Maple reunion, academic deconstructions or not, etc. Conan’s “Jim Belushi book story”01:07:26 Dead Rider – The Walk Slow
01:10:13 Dead Rider – Of One Thousand01:13:19 Sound Opinions sucks, there’s a new Morrisey album, Conan needs to be more inappropriate, some coffee talk with Real Time Drop
01:20:03 The Bismarck – Fake Tits, Real Assholes
01:22:30 The Austerity Program – Song 31
01:24:57 Commentary tracks on commercials “What song should Ryan Christopher Parks of B. Hamilton cover – finalist round”01:52:01: by Shellac – The End of Radio (closing theme)
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Ep014: Andrew “Falco” Falkous returns (Future of the Left, mclusky, christian fitness)
(stream and download – Episode 14)
The enigmatic and quick witted Andrew “Falco” Falkous returns to Protonic Reversal. DJ Real Time Drop returns and we introduce DJ Dano Distortion. Listen to the best radio show that speaks of shadow analysts, trash talks metallica, speaks of Carthage and cats, wards off wolves with acoustic guitars and gets to the bottom of exactly how rotten of a human being Piers Morgan is.
…00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening theme)
00:04:14 the Paver – Trust
00:08:11 mclusky – She Will Only Bring You Happiness00:11:48 Welcome back “DJ Real Time Drop”, the reverse Lemmy and the illusion of choice
00:14:45 christian fitness – teeth
00:18:04 Future of the Left – Singing of the Bone Saws00:22:44 introducing Dano Distortion, “Conan you have a lot going on right now”
00:25:43 christian fitness – carthage must be destroyed
00:28:21 mclusky – alan is a cowboy killer00:32:20 Andrew Falkous “Falco” of Future of the Left /mclusky/ christian fitness
releasing records on a friday evening, the royal we, from Tremendous Fence to christian fitness… what is in a name? why all lowercase letters and the lowercase affectation? Intercapping and fonts. Metallica trash talk, Some Kind of Monster as Waiting for Godot, keyboards and Metallica fans “thundering warm paste load of shit.”. Fiction vs. Fact, bottle feeding kittens. On Carthage and the winner’s version of history…00:51:01 christian fitness – christian fitness
00:53:47 Back with Andrew “Falco” Falkous.
Carthage/Cardiff, Going beyond the “baby, baby, baby let me touch you in your bathing suit area” level of lyricism, Aggressive lectures and revenge fists, erudite subjects and literacy with music, pretentious allusions, mclusky’s revisionist history, the unnatural life of touring, warding off Danzig and wolves with acoustic guitars, the Danzig punch’s anniversary… how about Piers Morgan? You can’t pick your allies. Best US Cities for mclusky/FoTl, mclusky gear theft ($25K worth of equipment) the day G.W.Bush is re-elected.
Hello to Jeff Moody, Doing what you do… harsh invectives and brutal truths with Falco. christian fitness live? Not touring because of lack of money, being in a proper band and what that means. Welsh trains, more about cats, Shadow Analysts… per actor? per movie? per shadow?01:22:21 Future of the Left – Small Bones, Small Bodies
01:24:40 christian fitness – i’m scared of everything that isn’t me01:26:27 awkward on the radio, real time drop ends up with three jobs, the job wizard (the metaphorical one, not the literal one)
01:30:38 Call from Joe “Coolhand” Mcclune of the band Roland
Playing with Vulgar Trade and the Mass… The Mass: “The Sound of a jazz band falling down the stairs”. Roland no slouch or slouch hat, Chad Allen’s pedigree, promo for a show that has already happened, rock show food talk, the delicate art of making people happy01:40:06 Roland – Is This Tyrese Gibson?
01:46:10 Children in adult situations (Stand by Me), explaining human feces on the sidewalk to children, getting your child PUMPED UP. (Survivor recap). Rock references, saying “God” a lot for a humanist, colloquialism, “Whatever happened to Survivor?”
01:51:32 Shellac – the End of Radio (Closing Theme)
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Ep013: Patrick Walsh (Risk/Reward, Live From the Barrage), Shehzaad Jiwani (Greys)
(stream and download – Episode 13 )
Conan speaks to Patrick Walsh of Risk/Reward and Live from the Barrage about self titled records, being from Queens, *NOT* Brooklyn, and developing naturally. Talk ensues about sounding natural on the radio and why they would do an internet radio show on Friday nights. Later in the show there is a call in from Shehzaad of Toronto band Greys who checks in on tour, and shockingly does not mention hockey or Tim Hortons, All this plus more suggestions for: “What song should Ryan Christopher Parks be forced to cover?” and SO. MUCH. MORE.
…00:00:01 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Protonic Reversal Theme)
00:04:37 Nonagon – Hydronauts
00:07:41 Hurry Up Shotgun – Girl From CA00:13:00 Conan mispronounces Varistor, Austerity Program frequently mistaken as “angry white dude clanking about… yelling”
00:15:26 Austerity Program – Song 37
00:21:19 DEVO – Blockhead00:24:15 Controlled Burn Records bit, 1/4″ tape reels available for that Austerity Program, Mission Bingo dog walker. Conan is tired.
00:28:01 Risk/Reward – Keep Your Mouth Closed
00:31:18 Risk/Reward – Breakin’ Hearts00:35:00 Interview with Patrick Walsh, two self titled records, huh?, record art, Varistor pronounciation correction, band mergers and being from Queens, Conan flails about with a dumb question, devloping naturally, recording with Steve Albini being “just a rock band” and the mild irritants of bands “from Brooklyn”.
conan flails with timezones
the organic joining of Patrick to the show Live From the Barrage, hanging back and not “going for it” as much. Chemistry in radio, What sounds terrible and turns out great. Being natural.
Pens of Japanese tourists, doing a radio show on friday nights01:03:16 Varistor – Bass
01:05:55 Risk/Reward – Killer01:08:47 Neutron and Gritzy show roundup, “what song should Conan make Ryan Christopher Parks cover?” returns. Foghat,
Suggestion: Foghat – Slowride
01:12:42 B. Hamilton – EVerything I Own is Broken
01:17:09 “what song should Conan make Ryan Christopher Parks cover?”, suggestion recap. The Scatman John hole. Foghat – Slow Ride01:22:54 Elmo Huth call, song suggestion:
Whitesnake – Here I Go Again01:27:31 Greys – Use Your Delusion
01:30:34 Call from Shehzaad from Greys, the Toronto scene “practice Wife”, touring, playing with REPTOID (meeting at Survival Knife), sf show promo, other tour dates.
01:41:39 Practice Wife – Chain of Command
01:46:14 Roomrunner – May01:48:48 DJ Real Time Drop returning on 07/17/2014, training Dan Kashkooli
01:52:00 Shellac – End of Radio (Closing Theme)
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Ep012: The Neutron and Gritzy Show: The Final Solution of Fun!
(stream and download – Episode 12 ) Neutron and Gritzy! 2/3 of You Can’t Stop The Signal head into the Radio Valencia studio in THE METAL ASYLUM’S SLOT and proceed to play a bunch of… not metal. It’s the FINAL SOLUTION OF FUN!
00:00:00 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up (Neutron and Gritzy Show Theme)
The Final Solution of Fun!
00:03:42 Deathfix – Better Than Bad
00:08:05 Bonnie & the Bang Bang – Car Crash00:12:24 on aruging on the internet about Tom Waits instead of taking a shower…Slouch Hats
00:15:40 Dead Rider – Of One Thousand
00:18:35 B. Hamilton – Stupid As the Sun00:23:27 (the annoying sound stops), Protonic Reversal Dead Rider… TV on the Radio Shreds,
creating the impression that there are women around. Once and Future band
00:31:29 Call from Brenna Betts aka: DJ Real Time Drop. Catamarans, fickle metal fans and wet
blankets, Midyett rub, 4th of July crime spree, Burger Boogaloo and some art show. “working
every day ever for the last few weeks”, real time drops over DJ Real Time Drop
00:43:07 Once and Future Band – Brain
00:51:49 Love – Always See Your Face00:55:06 Internal thought process on the inside of radio, “What song should Ryan Christopher
Parks cover?”
Tony! Tone! Toni! – If I had No Loot
Scatman John – Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
Mike and the Mechanics – the Living Years01:08:00 Melvins – Civilized Worm
01:13:44 Federation X – So Tired01:18:07 Morris Day, throwing the question to the audience, rubbins’ and food pics, food pics
with music gear.
Genesis – I can’t Dance
01:25:47 Call from Carlin Reed, eating fried chicken in a pool and shooting off fireworks at
the SAME TIME
Accept – Up To the Limit
Jawbox – Cornflake Girl
Bee-bop-bop-A-O-L, more Dead Rider talk.
01:35:27 Sleater-Kinney – Get Up
01:39:07 Motherfucker – Dot Dot Dot
01:41:56 Helms Alee – Shhmna01:45:29 the roar of Ben Verellen, Old yeller, Dot Dot Dot = radar love?!, Deliverance
Billy squier – the Stroke
Loverboy – Loving Every Minute of ItStroked out to the Stroke.
William S. Squier Esq.Billy Squier – My Kind of Lover
Backsellin’ and backfillin’01:54:50 Happy Fangs – That Activity
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Ep011: Erica Strout (Motherfucker), Ryan Werner (Passenger Side Books/The Internet)
(stream and download – Episode 11)
Back in the Radio Valencia studios! Erica Strout from Motherfucker, Ryan Werner of… many things, calls from Austin Pitts and Chris Casuga, music for days, all this and the kind of A+++ music you have come to expect from Protonic Reversal.
…00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:04:43 Gang of Four – Natural’s Not In It
00:07:52 Federation X – Anna Mist00:11:27 Protonic Reversal is back in the Radio Valencia studios. Mission bingo, Dead Rider walkup.
00:13:58 Dead Rider – Weaves
00:16:13 Minutes – Float and Breathe
00:19:01 The Cell Phones – Get You Alone00:21:54 more Minutes, less Mollie Hatchet
00:25:18 Mike Noto Conan Neutron origin story/station ID00:27:25 Call from Austin Pitts from Hurry Up Shotgun, fall in Wuv once again.
00:31:19 Call from Erica Stroutocaster from Athens band Motherfucker. Broken amps that become less less broken, bringing MF’er west, origin story of one of the most unfriendly names to radio ever, touring and Eureka, CA, having two members named Eric(k)a living in Athens
00:50:02 Motherfucker – Taw Kwon Do
00:57:14 Conan will bring Motherfucker to the West Coast, Oh yes!
00:58:21 Call from Chris Casuga of Feeling Gravity’s Pull, band life cycles and “hitting the wall”, Neutron gives some band advice, FGP drummer joins Kind of Like Spitting, last shows and band closure
01:10:45 Feeling Gravity’s Pull – Stress Test
01:14:45 Where is Dj Real time drop? promo for the Neutron and Gritzy one off show, Ryan Werner walkup.
01:17:28 The Bismarck – 0.079
01:22:20 The Gary – Fair Weatherer01:25:06 Talk up
01:27:37 Tilts – Touchdowns
01:31:00 Phone call with Ryan Werner of Passenger Side Books, Young Indian, Legal Fingers and more, on the heartbreak of the indie book tour, Billy Bisig, schlubes, on drinking (and not drinking), writing, Basing things based on appearances. Presentation vs. content, What Would Ike do? Coaxial Flutter , “Handsome Dave Two Pillow story”
01:50:58 Young Indian – I Don’t Understand Why You Have Two and I Have Two
Shellac – The End of Radio
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Ep010: Jeff Moody (Stripwax, FoWlMouTh)
(stream and download – Episode 10)
Remote broadcast from the heart of the midwest, Conan talks to national treasure Jeff Moody about rock ‘n roll themed 4 panel comic strips, music, starting a a band as an “old MF-er” the pain of losing a bandmate and all things awesome. This, PRF BBQ Chicago wrap up and lots more great music.
00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
00:05:30 Dead Rider – Weird Summer
00:09:42 Like LIke The The The Death – Night of a Hundred Hondos
00:12:02 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up
00:14:14 Nonagon – Vikings00:21:39 SEMINARS – Sweat Feels Like Blood
00:25:04 Hurry Up Shotgun – Garbage Destinations00:32:20 We Ride On – Plastic Vampire Teeth
00:34:01 Death – Rock-N-Roll Victim
00:36:39 Motherfucker – Snot Rocket00:39:27 Jeff Moody interview
01:31:57 FoWlMoUth – Wannadon’t
01:34:39 rutabega – Out Of The Woods And Into The Light
01:42:05 Happy Fangs – The Truth
01:44:46 The Bismarck – Breadwinner
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Ep009: More rock, less talk. PRF BBQ Chicago playlist
(stream and download – Episode 9)00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Protonic Reversal Theme)
00:04:00 Dead Rider – Weird Summer
00:08:01 Tilts – Kobra Kommander00:12:30 Roomrunner – Bait Car
00:16:22 The Cell Phones – Heavy Flow00:21:25 fugazi -long division / Runaway return
00:27:33 Turbo Lightning – Faster Than Light00:33:02 Rutabega – Turn On the Summer
00:47:01 Whales – Seafaring
00:52:24 Porch – Your hair01:00:04 King Buzzo – Rough Democracy
01:02:34 Minutes – In Your Own Fuel
01:05:47 Future of the Left – Failed Olympic Bid01:10:15 Risk/Reward – Killer
01:13:04 SEMINARS – Easy ‘Cause It Is
01:17:09 SCreaming Females – It All Means Nothing01:22:45 Hum – If You Are to Bloom
01:27:47 DEVO – What We Do
01:31:01 Federation X – Reign On01:36:41 Deathfix – Better Than Bad
01:40:56 Marnie Stern – Nothing is Easy
01:44:37 Minutemen – This Ain’t No Picnic
01:45:58 Hot Snakes – Braintrust01:50:30 Shellac – End of Radio…
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Ep008: Robert Kassees (Repeat After Me/Red Light Fever)
(stream and download – Episode 8)
Robert from Repeat After Me and Red Light Fever comes by, talks crayons and high grade vinyl and the abject immediacy of writing, arranging and recording songs with complete strangers. All this, free tattoos on Friday the 13th? and more! More T’s for extra hotttness….
00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (opening theme)
00:04:10 Repeat After Me – The Volcano00:08:35 Interview with Robert Kassees of Repeat After Me
New record “Mapmaker”, Crayon themed album covers, post mortem vinyl releases00:13:37 Repeat After Me – San Francisco
00:18:36 Robert Kassees interview part 2
Thoughts in leaving San Francisco, the recording process, Chicago (the band, not the city), weird Gwar Tangent, Cheap Trick, classic rock, etc.(Gwar – Carry On My Wayward Son as music bed)
00:35:42 Tilts – Titanium Falcon
00:39:21 Red Light Fever – You Wouldn’t Say Goodbye00:42:51 Robert Kassees interview part 3:
Red Light Fever! Writing, arranging and recording a song in a single day with a pick up band of people that don’t know each other. The Red Light Fever project and how it fits into modern times, and what RLF actually is.01:00:47 Red Light Fever – Illinois
01:04:14 Turbo Lightning – Oh Oh Oblivion!01:06:48 How great were Happy Fangs? How lame is waking up early. Big Wheels race, “only in San Francisco”
01:19:23 Primes – Tetragrammatron
01:21:54 Tilts – Thomas Jefferson II01:24:43 Science and Cosmos (the show ending), tattoos and do you get free tattoos on Friday the 13th?
01:33:50 Happy Fangs – That Activity
01:36:40 mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions01:39:05 Why Conan was completely wrong about mclusky and it made him stop reviewing records. More about Happy Fangs (DEAL WITH IT! NBD), The RV benefit
01:45:10 fugazi – Five Corporations
01:47:35 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up01:49:46 Protonic Reversal close, PRF BBQ Chicago, Conan is going to Chicago (the place, not the band)
01:52:00 Shellac – The End Of Radio (closing theme)…
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Ep007: Rebecca Gone Bad & Michael Cobra (Happy Fangs)
Rebecca and Michael from Happy Fangs stop by the studio to talk. Brenna Betts sits in as cohost and hilarity and mirth ensue.
(stream and download – Episode 7)
00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Protonic Reversal Theme)
00:04:05 Happy Fangs – The Truth00:06:44 Happy Fangs interview part 1
The third fang, noted sexist Conan Neutron, Greatness, graveness, Grape ape, RV benefit, Battlestar Galactica, Million Dollar Baby. DJ Scratchatory rape and other “badass’ dj names
00:18:04 Happy Fangs – Perk Up
00:20:51 Hurry Up Shotgun – Abracadabraham Lincoln00:26:31 Happy Fangs interview part 2
00:26:56 Call from Austin Pitts of Hurry Up Shotgun
in-ter-ven-tion INTER-VEN-TION! On “instasongs” and “sex and food… and heroin”, rap battle /reward
00:37:03 Happy Fangs – Hiya Kaw Kaw00:40:45 Happy Fangs interview part 3
Happy Fangs tour, DJ Other Male In the Room, Pittsburgh vs. Pittsburg, Bovine Sex Club, going international…00:50:01 Happy Fangs – That Activity
00:52:52 Happy Fangs interview part 4
DJ Ray of sexism. DJ names for Brenna, DJ Real Time Drop, Jeff Goldblum and the Jeff Goldblumangroup, Courage rock, “Nickel back”, “hick hop” “Big smo” the Scatman…
HF tour. Social media mongering…
01:08:07 Happy Fangs – Lion Inside You
01:11:08 B. Hamilton – EVerything I own is Broken
01:16:00
Brenna’s coworkers listen to the Seinfeld theme song at work.01:19:37 Dead Rider – Blank S©reen
01:24:01 Night Marchers – All Hits01:27:09 On the band The Night Marchers… Dead Rider as a “more evil TV on the Radio” and underwhelming bands.
01:34:53 Risk/Reward – B Side
01:37:45 Body Futures – Save the Clock Tower01:43:03 Red Fang show recap, on show hopping, Their / They’re / There the band and Creative Adult
01:50:24 fugazi – Great Cop
01:52:15 Shellac – End of Radio (Closing Theme)
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Ep006: Bryan Giles (Red Fang)/Melissa Dale Neal (Dark Beach)
(stream and download – Episode 6)
Neutron is completely exhausted from rock ‘n roll double header the night before. So he wanders around more than usual and laughs at nothing quite a bit more. Also he talks to the talented Melissa Dale Neal of Dark Beach and Bryan Giles the guitarist for Red Fang.
00:00:15 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
Protonic Reversal opening – mission bingo00:06:06 Federation X – So Tired
00:10:29 the rutabaga – The Shaman
00:13:24
Conan saw the final Griddle show and the Songs for Snakes release the night before the show and is very tired because of it.00:16:07 The Columbines – Nightstick
00:19:05 Primes – Valentine Heart Explosion00:21:49
Radio Valencia benefit, Conan is “a little disappointed in social media”, “serving posts”
00:27:11 Fred Schneider – Bulldozer00:31:14 Phone call from Michael Cobra of Happy Fangs, the radio valencia benefit show, custom songs, and adding a “third” fang and Mr. Boombastic.
00:36:22 Happy Fangs – The Truth
00:39:08
Interview with Melissa Neal impresario of 9th floor radio and half of excellent bay area band Dark Beach. Simple names. On keeping a campy image, while not being cheese ball. Also neutron rambles on about something.
00:48:33 Dark Beach – Scream Queen
00:51:14 Dark Beach UFO
00:53:57Back with Melissa Neal, the “show hierarchy” of important events. 9th floor radio and the east bay punk documentary. Why the term “videographer” sucks.
01:04:28 Dark Beach – Persephone
01:09:09 Last piece with Melissa Neal, local shows, etc. http://www.melissadale.net, http://9thfloorradio.com/01:16:04 Hot Snakes – Automatic Midnight
01:17:35 Red Fang – Wires01:23:17
Interview with Bryan Giles of Red Fang, on van murals/cop magnets, the “situation awesome” tour, cooking bandmates in an econoline, touring with Rick Froberg in Last of the Juanitas, and seeing Drive Like Jehu at a formative age. Vans vs. busses, breaking even. The making of the Wires video with Whitey McConnaughy01:38:17 Red Fang – Prehistoric Dog
Last piece of Bryan Giles tour, Federation X t-shirts, American Sharks and Red Fang Hot Sauce. Amazing!01:49:33 Red Fang – Blood Like Cream
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Ep005: Bradley R. Weissenberger (The Book-Burners, .22)
Conan talks with the prolific Bradley R. Weissenberger from the Book-Burners and rock band .22 about compiling the .22 anthology, songwriting, process, the Silkworm documentary, all things PRF, and lots more. All that and more great tunes than you can shake a stick at. Cool!
(stream and download – Episode 5)
00:00:15 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)
Protonic Reversal opening00:04:58 Marnie Stern – You Don’t Turn Down
00:07:59 The rutabaga – Come Back Big BrotherThe Mission as a game of Paperboy, St. Vincent on SNL
00:16:11 St. Vincent – Birth in Reverse (Live on SNL)
Conan discusses the “Controversy” and then plays music.00:22:23 Happy Fangs – Lion Inside You
00:25:20 Survival Knife – Fell RunnerSurvival knife show round up, Ben Abraham graduation party, Radio Valencia benefit reminder.
00:32:33 Hurry Up Shotgun – Ghost Of Ursula
00:35:57 Body Futures – A Complete Divorcemore Cosmos, Conan Degrasse Tyson
00:43:37 B. Hamilton – Stupid As the Sun
00:50:01 The Loyalists – Gorilla With a Hardon00:55:03 Minutes – Stolen Wallet
00:56:35 .22 – “Are You Still There, Cherie?”
01:00:54 Bradley R. Weissenberger interview, on the Dead Friends anthology, playing a first show the day they found Kurt Cobain’s body, pouring through the archives of the roaring 90s and more.01:07:35 .22 – Spyrock
01:10:52 The Book-Burners – Come Home
01:14:26 back to Bradley R. Weissenberger, on People’s Songs, agitprop, the Silkworm Documentary…. the origin of the Book-Burners and the process of begin a band with people living so far away.01:25:51 The Book-Burners – Fireman
01:27:07 Last BRW segment, the PRF BBQ On songwriting and process, songwriting as therapy, the band R.E.M., early and latter days. The story behind “You Won’t Hold My Hand When I Die.”
01:45:36 The Book-Burners – “You Won’t Hold My Hand When I Die.”
01:47:45 Bottomless Pit – Fleece01:53:30 Shellac – The End of Radio (Closing Theme)…
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Ep004: Andrew Falkous (Future of the Left, Mclusky), Bill Taylor (Songs For Snakes)
Falco from Future of the Left/Mclusky joins Neutron from across the pond to speak about middle class bands, scimitars and to debut a Tremendous Fence song. Later, SF noisepop rocker Bill Taylor comes in to speak about his band’s new record “Year of the Snake”. All this, and the rock solid tunes that you have come to expect with the Protonic Reversal.
(stream and download – Episode 4)
00:05:03 Body Futures – (That’s a) Big Smile (For Somebody About To Drown)*
00:09:22 Dead Rider – Of One Thousand
00:14:56 Turbo Lightning – Perfect Swell
00:18:28 mclusky – Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
00:21:27 Future of the Left – Donny of the Decks00:24:20 Andrew Falkous (Falco) interview.
Middle class band finances. Being thankful to not be Muse.00:33:20 Future of the Left – Sheena is a T-Shirt Salesman
00:35:21 Andrew Falkous (Falco) interview Part II.J. Mascis as singer of the Crash Test Dummies and other cruel tricks for dear friends. Lenny Kravitz as a founding member of fugazi. The debut of Tremendous Fence. Band names.
Controlled arguments (without Scimitars)00:57:57 Tremendous Fence – Christian Fitness*
01:00:34 Future of the Left – I Don’t Know What You Ketamine (But I Think I Love You)01:03:27 Interview with Bill Taylor from Songs for Snakes
on Rocket From the Crypt how a song for a snake became a band, May 28th 2014 record release show at Bottom of the Hill.01:10:34 Songs for Snakes – Trust Falls
01:14:03 Songs for Snakes – I Felt 13
01:17:11 Interview with Bill Taylor from Songs for Snakes part 2
Peppercorn begat Shoehouse which begat Songs for Snakes
being told to like bands… Bob Mould and more. Losing perspective on recording01:26:35 Songs for Snakes – She Is Not Impressed
01:29:30 Songs for Snakes – F.E.A.R.Fuck Everything and Run, False Expectations Appearing Real
Bill’s take on the current SF Music scene. Gargling kitty litter vocals, and the story behind Bill the Grill: Trained classical Shelf.01:40:27 Hurry Up Shotgun – Witches in the Garden
01:43:41 Cables and Arms – November Gales
01:46:49 Interview with Bill Taylor from Songs for Snakes part 3Closing out. Stalking Bob Mould at Safeway.
Bill Taylor don’t tweet.01:52:00 Shellac – The End of Radio (show close)…
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Ep003: Andrew Elstner (Torche, Tilts)
(stream and download – Episode 3)
Neutron is back in the studio on his own, and talks with professional cool guy Andrew from Torche/Tilts… plays a bunch of music and takes about a million calls.
0:00:29 Hurry Up Shotgun – What To Do When Your Unemployment Check Bounces?
0:06:05 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Protonic Reversal Theme)0:10:41 Sister Grizzly – Azaleas
0:15:24 Happy Fangs – Hiya Kaw Kaw0:21:11 Chris Frey of Porch calls in / PRF BBQ West Roundup
0:39:02 Jawbox – Mirrorful0:42:43 Chris Casuga of Feeling Gravity’s Pull talks about being named after an R.E.M. song, more PRF BBQ, etc.
0:51:39 Tilts – Give Me Some Of Your Loving
0:55:52 Andrew Elstner of Torche/Tilts, Tilts tour dates, crowdsourcing the pre-orders for the second record Cuatro Hombres, TV talk (Game of Thrones, Cosmos, Hannibal, Sherlock), ZZ Top and other classic rock, I suggest he call the record “I kinda know the sound man for Rob Zombie.”01:15:06 Tilts – Touchdowns
01:19:28 Feeling Gravity’s Pull – Have I Mentioned…01:24:00 call from Conan’s Dad
01:27:46 Survival Knife – Divine Mob
01:31:29 The Bismarck – Max Baer01:35:20 Flaming Lips: Wayne vs. Kliph
01:38:29 Call from Conan’s Evil Dad
01:40:09 Call from Conan’s real dad again.01:40:33 Like LIke The The The Death – Cropsies
01:43:49 Whores. – Jumping Someone Else’s Train01:51:01 Shellac – The End of Radio…
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Ep002: PRF BBQ Extravaganza! Ben Abraham!, Tommy Dski!, Chris Frey!, Austin Pitts!, Shannon Corr!
(stream and download – Episode 2)
5 guests! All PRF BBQ related (http://www.prfbbq.org) all very intelligent, Conan is late for his own show and is generally cranky about it the entire time. Great tunes are played, trash is talked, good times are had.
Protonic Reversal Theme:
Ozark Bowtie by Tilts
4:43 – Hurry Up Shotgun – Dances With Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
14:08 The Gary – Fair Weatherer
16:52 Porch – Bow to the Clown32:04 Generalissimo – Third Way Man
34:12 Thoughts Detecting Machines – Going Home41:17 Call from John Houlihan of Live From the Barrage – “Boobs and Dragons”
54:33 Call from Torrey Neutron (Conan’s Dad, who he hangs up on)56:36 Turbo Lightning – Faster Than Lightning
1:00:01 Nonagon – the Pfister01:13:27 Roland – Is This Tyrese Gibson?
01:24:43 Kowloon Walled City – Turk, Taylor and JonesProtonic Reversal End Theme: Shellac – End of Radio
Also, check out these sharp pictures by one Mr. Shannon Corr!…
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Ep001: the Maiden Voyage! Chris Frey of Porch in studio, Call from Austin Pitts of Hurry Up Shotgun
(stream and download – Episode 1)
Conan Neutron stumbles half awake into the Radio Valencia studios and manages to do a radio show. Who allowed this?!?
He amuses himself with the Game of Thrones and Cosmos theme songs and plays a bunch of music that he likes. He tries to not say “folks” and mostly fails.
including:
Protonic Reversal Theme:
Ozark Bowtie by Tilts8:10am: Keep On Knockin’ by Death from …For The World To See
8:14am: Level Me Out by Thoughts Detecting Machines from An Introduction To8:24am: I Don”t Mind It by Screaming Females from Castle Talk
8:27am: Name That Tune by Survival Knife from “Traces of Me” b/w “Name That Tune”Call from Austin Pitts of Hurry Up Shotgun
8:41am: Speedbath Megawaste by Hurry Up Shotgun from Abracadabraham Lincoln
8:44am: That Activity by Happy Fangs from Happy Fangs ep8:52am: West Coast by The Cell Phones from Get You Alone
8:54am: Northern California by Police Teeth from Real Size Monster Series9:01am: Vaporize by Roomrunner from Ideal Cities
9:04am: F.E.A.R. by Songs for Snakes from Charcoal Heather9:15am: Outside a Hexagram by B. Hamilton from Everything I Own Is Broken
9:17am: Super Ultra Mega by Tilts from Tilts9:26am: The Shaman by The Rutabega from Brother, The Lights Don”t Work
9:36am: Dickhead by Porch from Walking Boss
Chris Frey live in studio.
9:45am: Raise Our Fists Up by Minutes from Roland
Closing Theme:
9:55am: The End of Radio by Shellac from Excellent Italian Greyhound…
Ep313: Gerald V. Casale (DEVO) https://www.protonicreversal.com/2022/12/06/ep313-gerald-v-casale-devo-2/ via @ProtonicPod #DEVO @Gvc3Casale #podcast #protonicreversal Neutron’s Protonic Revenicrnicreversal rsal
Ep312: Paul Roessler (The Screamers, 45 Grave, Nervous Gender, Nina Hagen, Twisted Roots, Solo, Producer) https://www.protonicreversal.com/2022/11/21/ep312-paul-roessler-the-screamers-45-grave-nervous-gender-nina-hagen-twisted-roots-solo-producer-2/ #podcast #protonicreversal
Ep311: John Schmersal (Brainiac, Enon, Vertical Scratchers, Crooks on Tape) https://www.protonicreversal.com/2022/11/16/ep311-john-schmersal-brainiac-enon-vertical-scratchers-crooks-on-tape/ via @ProtonicPod #brainiac #protonicreversal #podcast some BREAKING NEWS in this one.
Ep311: John Schmersal (Brainiac, Enon, Vertical Scratchers, Crooks on Tape) https://www.protonicreversal.com/2022/11/16/ep311-john-schmersal-brainiac-enon-vertical-scratchers-crooks-on-tape/ via @ProtonicPod including BREAKING BRAINIAC NEWS! #brainiac #podcast #protonicreversal Neutron’s Protonic Reveninicreversal rsal