A Token Of My Machine

No.156, aired February 1, 2012. Played the opening Chapters of an audiobook of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, accompanied by instrumental music by Webern, Korsrud, Buckethead, and Les Georges Leningrad, and interrupted by songs with time-related lyrical themes.

Frank Zapp’s A Token Of My Extreme was thrown in merely because it references a “machine” – and turned out to provide the most stunning correspondence with The Time Machine, performing something like a psychoanalysis of H.G.Wells’ text, in which the time machine becomes an object of fetish for the circle of late-nineteenth century gentlemen viewing it.

Some people think
That if they go too far
They’ll never get back
To where the rest of
Them are
I might be crazy
But there’s one thing
I know
You might be surprised
At what you find
When ya go!
- Frank Zappa, A Token Of My Extreme

“We all saw the lever turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone—vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare.”
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

If you been
Mod-o-fied,
It’s an illusion,
An yer in between
Don’t you be
Tarot-fied,
It’s just a lot of nothin’,
So what can it mean?
- Frank Zappa, A Token Of My Extreme

Part 1

1. Three Little Pieces For Cello & Piano, op.11, no.2 – Anton Webern
2. Xs & Os – John Korsrud
3. One Tooth Of The Time Train – Buckethead
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Part Of The Season – Long Time Comin’
6. Three Little Pieces For Cello & Piano, op.11, no.1 – Anton Webern
7. Shape Of Things To Come – Diodes
8. Glurp For 14 Musicians – John Korsrud
9. Blower – Voivod

Part 2

1. Girl On The Grass - John Korsrud
2. Eight Hours A Day – Northwest Passage
3. Three Little Pieces For Cello & Piano, op.11, no.3 – Anton Webern
4. Arc Of The Pendulum – Buckethead
5. Time Damage – Diodes
6. The Future For Less – Les Georges Leningrad
7. A Token Of My Extreme – Frank Zappa
8. Zippy Pinhead – John Korsrud

Two-Year Anniversary Special

No.97, aired November 17, 2010, featuring selections (short snippets + some longer tracks) from Frank Zappa’s Lather album (& related material), and only the best of musical artists that I had no knowledge of before the past 12 months of radio programming.

Part 1

1. Lather (Intro, 1st :25 of CD 1, Track 1) – Frank Zappa
2. Ain’t Got Time To Waste – Red Hot Lovers
3. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT – Prophet’s Philosophy / Conscience Ahg Heng Dem – Capleton
4. Whatever Happened To All The Fun In The World – Frank Zappa
5. Crazy Nights – 3 Inches Of Blood
6. Scissorhands – Les Georges Leningrad
8. Wait A Minute – Frank Zappa
9. Imeltime Of The Season – Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice
10. Revised Music For Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra – Frank Zappa
11. Alpha Punk – Ripcordz

Part 2

1. Lather (alternate intro, 1st :32 of CD 4, Track 5) – Frank Zappa
2. Teenage Crimewalk – CPC Gangbangs
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Rook – Sheavy
5. RDNZL – Frank Zappa
6. Midnight Movie Star – The Diodes
7. Eye Of The Vortex – Helios Creed
8. Tryin’ To Grow A Chin (1st :22 of Lather CD1, Track 7, then cut to Sheik Yerboutti version of same song)
9. Sailing - Ripcordz

Next Stop Mars

No.93, aired October 20, 2010.

Spoken word was from an episode of the Twilight Zone radio drama titled "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up."

Probably one of the better episodes in terms of fortuitous synchronicity, one example being Coltrane's 10-minute tenor sax / drums duet with Rashied Ali (from Interstellar Space, 1967) being introduced with the words "If somebody is truly from outer space, they'll just go through the walls anyway, won't they?"

Part 1

1. Martian Graverobber – Forbidden Dimension
2. The Planets, Op.32, Mars, The Bringer Of War – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
3. Photographs From Mars – Diodes
4. Mars – John Coltrane
5. Red Rubber Ball – Diodes

Part 2

1. King Of Mars – Monster Magnet
2. Next Stop Mars – Sun Ra
3. Child Star – Diodes
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. I Control, I Fly – Monster Magnet

All OUT

No.83, aired August 11, 2010.

Featuring exclusively tracks with the word “Out” in the title, except the opening song, which was supposed to be The Hanson Brothers’ Duke It Out, but my notes were messed up so that song had to wait until the end.

Also featured a live reading of KRYATL, a strange but potent brew of words by one Out To Lunch.

Part 1

1. It’s A Secret – Hanson Brothers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jerk It Out – Caesars
4. Get Out Of My Life – D.O.A.
5. I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore – Ugly Ducklings
6. Extension Out – Sun Ra –- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
7. Outta Harm`s Way – King Khan & The Shrines
8. Lashed Out And Gashed – Pericardium
9. Sort It Out – Caesars

Part 2

1. Check It Out Dude, Get Ready, Cuz We're Rock 'N' Roll Rebels Cruisin' for Chicks in Our Metal Machine, Baby, All Night Long, Alright, Oh Yeah! (A Rock Anthem) Dude. (We Really Know How to Rock.) – Lungbutter
2. Demons Out! – Art Brut
3. Out To Lunch – Eric Dolphy -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
4. (I`m Gonna) Kick You Out – Caesars
5. Looking Outward – Sun Ra -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
6. Duke It Out – Hanson Brothers
7. Noise [#] [Outtake] – Diodes