Chicks and Cars 05/29/08
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008, 8-10PST: I had a hankerin' for some banjo, so expect some of that.  Bit of a country flair overall this week.  Just because.

The New Age - High As A Kite - All Around
Peter Walker - Road to Marscota - Rainy Day Raga
The Strawbs - Witchwood - From the Witchwood
George Stavis - Cold Spring - Labyrinths
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Townes Van Zandt - Heavenly Houseboat Blues
Jack Elliott - 1913 Massacre
Elyse Weinberg - Last Ditch Protocol John Velveteen - Elyse
Phil Ochs - The Highwayman - I Ain't Marching Anymore
Godz - Weary Blues - Godzundheit
Dennis Stoner - Nightingale
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Tim Hardin - Red Balloon - 2
J. B. Blackfoot - Angel - The Ultimate Prophecy
International Submarine Band - Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome? - Safe At Home
The Superfine Dandelion - Shameful Lady
Country Joe - I'm On the Road Again - Incredible! Live! Country Joe!
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Subway - I Am A Child
It's A Beautiful Day - No World For Glad - Choice Quality Stuff
The Charlatans - Codine Blues - The Amazing Charlatans
Euphoria - Did You Get the Letter - A Gift From Euphoria
The Left Banke - Bryant Hotel
The Mystery Trend - So Glad I Found You - So Glad I Found You
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The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Free - Spreading From The Ashes
Buffalo Springfield - Everybody's Wrong
Blackburn & Snow - It's So Hard - Something Good For Your Head
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The Brothers Unconnected - The Flower
Meic Stevens - Ghost Town - Ghost Town
Michael Yonkers - And Give It To You - Grimwood
The Brothers Unconnected - The Vinegar Stroke
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The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Delicate Fawn
The Monks - Love Came Tumblin' Down

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Chicks and Cars 05/22/08
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008, 8-10PST: The new Nothing People LP is so awesome that I have to give it another spin this week.  Probably lots of 60's garage tonight too.

P.F. Sloan - Ain't No Way I'm Gonna Change My Mind - Songs of Our Times
Eternity's Children - You Know I'll Find A Way
A Group Called Eve - Within A World of You    
Spiffys - Dreams - v/a: Oil Stains
The Merry-Go-Round - Gonna Leave You Alone - Listen, Listen: The Definitive Collection
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Burch Ray - Love Questions
The Trolls - I Don't Recall - v/a: Now Hear This!
The Things To Come - Mississippi Dealer - I Want Out
The Sugar Cube Blues Band - Never Think About Today
The Bearies - I Paid My Dues- v/a: Don't Press Your Luck!
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The Bandits - I Remember The Girl - v/a: Northwest Battle of the Bands Volume 4
The E-Types - I Can't Do It
The Shillings - Made You Cry
The Living Children - Now It's Over
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Birmingham Sunday - You're Out of Line
William Penn and the Quakers - Believe Me
Second Helping     On Friday - v/a: Ain't It Hard!
Wheel of Fortune - Before You Leave   
Syndicate of Sound - Games
The Bucket - I Can't Help Thinking of You
Brass Tacks - Maxwell Ferguson
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The Collectors - What is Love
The Ballroom - I'm Not Living Here
The Sons of Champlin - Sing Me A Rainbow
Think Dog - Can't Begin to Be Happy - Dog Days
SRC - Marionette
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Absalom - Reefer Madness
Maximillian - Scar On My Memory
Audience - Jackdaw - The House On The Hill
Prufrock - Tired - Visions
Jade Stone & Luv - Man - Pieces of Stone
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Sun City Girls - Cruel & Thin
Sun City Girls - Wingspan Eclipse the Moon
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Nothing People - Should've Known - Anonymous
Art Lessing - Now I Understand - Sleeping Ghost

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Chicks and Cars 05/15/08
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008, 8-10PST: I haven't played something from the Yodeling Astrologer in a while, so I'll have to fit in some Mij tonight, along with the usual grab-bag of rock, folk, and psych.

The Blue Birds - We Are Us
Food - Leaves - Forever Is A Dream
Jackson Heights - Catch A Fool
Edward H. Dafis - Rosie - v/a: Welsh Beat 2
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The Mandrake Memorial - Sunday Noon
Pulse - Why Can't She See Me?
Fruit - Kunscap
BIB Set - Pythagorean Child N:o II - Arrival In Time
Saga - Onskebrunn
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Mij - Planet of A Flower - The Yodeling Astrologer
Instant Orange - Suburban Pictorial Abstract
TIME - At Shadow's Eye - Before There Was . . .
Group Inerane - Ashal Wali Tigeli - Guitars From Agadez
Lazy Bones - Look Out - The Witch
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Elderberry Jak - You're The One - Long Overdue
Research 1*6*12 - Omar - In Research
San Kazakgascar - Planet Dog (on 45)
Dan Melchior und das Menace - Street of Crocodiles
Rare Earth - Sidewalk Cafe - Dreams Answers
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Bobby & I - Love Is For the Sharing
The Holy Mackerel - Wildflowers
The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band -Yesterday Girl - Flowers Never Cry
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The Pizzas - Bad Ass Youth
Guinea Worms - Box of Records
The Barbaras - Summertime Road
Mike Rep & the Quotas - H M My Mind - Black Hole Rock
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Nothing People - Outsiders Are

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Chicks & Cars 05/08/08
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The Incredible String Band - The Mad Hatter's Song - The 5000 Spirits

Fit & Limo - Dark Star - The Serpent Unrolled

Ananda Shankar - Metamorphosis

Spires That In The Sunset Rise - Clouds - This Is Fire

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Soft Machine - Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening - Volume Two

Richard Youngs - Before We Were Here - Autumn Response

Peter Grudzien - Innocents - The Unicorn

Victoria - Never Knew Blues

Homo Homini - Swiat Bez Ram - 2

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Question Mark - Be Nice to the People

Freedom's Children - Ten Years After - Battle Hymn of the Broken-Hearted Horde

Joshua - Please Excuse Me - Opens Your Mind

Dug Dug's - Stupid People - El Loco

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Unknown Mystery 60's Group - I Gave Up On You - Volume II

The Baytovens - Such A Fool - v/a: You Got Yours!

1 2 6 - That's Why I'm Here - Graveyard Paradise

Fab - Our Little Rendez-Vous

The Shane - Gotta Hold On

Max Frost & the Troopers - Captain Hassel - Shape of Things to Come

Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends - Flashing Lights

Sandy Salisbury -Do Unto Others - Do Unto Others

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The Dils - Not Worth It

The Slickee Boys - Riddles & Fairytales - A Postcard From the Day

Radio Birman - Non Stop Girls

Satan's Rats - In My Love For You -What A Bunch of Rodents

Permanent Wave - Bed 4, 13th Floor

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Gun Club - Severn Miles With the Devil - The Birth The Death The Ghost

100 Flowers - I Don't Own My Own Heart - 100 Years of Pulchritude

Swell Maps - Harmony in the Bathroom - A Trip to Marineville

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Pierced Arrows - The Wait - Straight to the Heart

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Chicks and Cars 05/01/08
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008, 8-10PST: Thank you so much to everyone who supported KDVS during our 2008 fundraiser - with your help we've raised over $60,000!  Now it's back to (lack of) business as usual.  Tonight I'll bring you a nice rag-tag ensemble of assorted garage, folk and psych.  Satisfaction guaranteed.

Jan Dukes de Grey - Call of the Wild - Mice And Rats In the Loft
Fresh Maggots - Frustration
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Furekaaben - Den gule filthatmand
A Cid Symphony - Noisemakers Number 3     
Instant Orange - Seems Like Everything
Vanica Doble - Ay, Quien Fuera A Hawai       
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Bobb Trimble - One Mile From Heaven - Iron Curtain Innocence
Rustic Hinge - Rumanian Folk Dance No. 1 *request
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The Tokens - Droplets of Water - Intercourse
The Source - You Don't Know What's Going On - v/a: Soft Sounds For Gentle People: He & She
John Cale - Paris 1919 - Paris 1919
The Fingers - Just Like Loving You Baby
Skip Bifferty - Time Tracks
Procession - Every American Citizen       
The Twilights - Blue Roundabout - Once Upon A Twilight . . .
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Morgen - Beggin' Your Pardon (Miss Joan) *request
Tempos - Pardon Me - The Best of Justice Records
The Heard - I Don't Believe You - v/a: So Cold!
The Bush - Gonna Treat You Bad - Got Bush If You Want It
Fourth Ryke - You're Cutting Out - v/a: Now Hear This!
The Juveniles - I've Searched
The Brave New World - Fire Girl
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The Vycounts - Can't You Tell - Lost Souls: 1960s Garage and Psych from the Un-natural State: Arkansas
The Light - Every Day - Turn On . . .
The Cords - Too Late To Kiss You Now - v/a: Now Hear This!
The Fire Escape - Fortune Teller - Psychotic Reaction!
Fabien Collin - Ophoepelen - v/a: Biet Het is Prop! volume 2
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Okmoniks - I'm on My Own - Party Fever
CoCoComa - (Tryin' To) Read My Mind - CoCoComa
Elektras - It Ain't Me - Elektras
Cheap Time - Permanent Damage - Self-Titled
Sic Alps - Brill Building - A Long Way Around to a Shortcut
Art Lessing - Ten Fold - Sleeping Ghost

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Chicks and Cars 04/17/08
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The 2008 KDVS Fundraiser starts next week!  I'm putting the finishing touches on this years compilation, "Beyond Chicks and Cars Vol 8," which can can be yours along with other goodies when you pledge your support of free-form community radio.  In the meantime, enjoy some classics that will hopefully remind you of why KDVS is so darn great.

Leaves - Good Bye, My Love
The Nightcrawlers - The Little Black Egg - The Little Black Egg
T-Boones - At The Club
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Downliners Sect - Be A Sect Maniac - Sectuality
Beat Merchants - Pretty Face
The Animals - Story of Bo Diddley
Bo Street Runners - Bo Street Runner
The Oxford Circle - Baby Please Don't Go - Live At the Avalon 1966
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The Who - Motoring -My Generation: Deluxe Edition
Les Sauterelles - Janet - v/a: Swiss Beat Generation
Count Five - Teeny Bopper, Teeny Bopper
The Pretty Things - Come See Me
The Bluestars - Social End Product
The Ugly Ducklings - Nothin'
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The Opposite Six - I'll Be Gone - v/a: The Sound of Young Sacramento
The Marauders - Our Big Chance - v/a: So Cold!
The Hustlers - Linda
Plague LTD - Doing What I Wanna Do - v/a: So Cold!
Moss & the Rocks - There She Goes - Gotta Survive
Public Nuisance - Small Faces - Gotta Survive
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The Victors - I Ain't Eat Out My Heart Anymore
The Traits - High On A Cloud
The Blues Magoos - Gotta Get Away
The Shadows 5 - Gathers No Moss
Five More - I'm No Good
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Kenny & the Kasuals - Nothing Better To Do
Barry & the Remains - You Got A Hard Time Comin'
We The People - My Brother, The Man
Ray Columbus & the Art Collection - Kick Me
Peter & the Silhouettes - Claudette Jones
Bonny St. Clair - Tame Me Tiger - v/a: From the Kitchen to the Garage
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Phluph - Another Day
Earth and Fire - Wild and Exciting
The Outsiders - Doctor - CQ
Shy Limbs - Trick or Two
The Orange Machine - Real Life Permanent Dream
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The Monks - Shut Up

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Chicks and Cars 04/10/08

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008, 8-10PST: Keeping the energy up tonight with lots more garage and psych classics in preparation for the 2008 KDVS Fundraiser in less than 2 weeks!

The Young Ones - Big Teaser
The Knight Riders - I
Rocky & the Riddlers - Flash and Crash
The Lively Ones - Too Many Lies - v/a: Don't Press Your Luck!
Treez -  You Lied to Me Before - v/a: Gravel vol. 4
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The Bad Roads - Blue Girl
The Trolls - I Don't Recall - v/a: Now Hear This!
Terry Knight & the Pack - How Much More
New Breed - I Got Nothin' to Say to You - It Came from the Garage
Flash & the Memphis Casuals - Uptight Tonight
Illusions - City of People
Kings - Trove un Altro
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The Bells of Rhymny - She'll Be Back
The Brogues - Don't Shoot Me Down
The Golliwogs - Fight Fire
Mouse & the Traps - Maid of Sugar, Maid of Spice
The Painted Ship - She Said Yes *request
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The Shindogs - Who Do You Think You Are - v/a: Ain't It Hard!
A Group Called Eve - Within A World of You - v/a: Fuzz, Flaykes and Shakes vol. 6: Come On In To My World
Tony and Siegrid - Up Here
The Son of P.M. - Cho Cho Chan - Shadow Music of Thailand
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13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me *request
Soul Inc. - I Belong to Nobody
Mike Burnett - Mattie Jo's - Get Ready to Fly: Pop-Psych from the Norman Petty Vaults
Art of Lovin'- Paul's Circus
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Gandalf - Can You Travel In the Dark Alone
The Churchills - Sunshine Man
July - Friendly Man
The Plastic Cloud - Civilization Machine
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The Zombies - Tell Her No *request
The Deep - Trip 76
Instant Orange - Silent Green
Savage Resurrection - Expectations
Morgen - Welcome to the Void
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Art Lessing - Here We Go Again - Sleeping Ghost

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Chicks and Cars 04/03/08
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008, 8-10PST: Back to basics this week with plenty of mid-60’s garage goodness.  After all, the show is called chicks and cars for a reason, and it’s not just laziness.

The Easybeats - Sorry
The Guess Who - It’s My Pride
The Torquays - Stolen Moments
Paul Bearer & the Hearsemen - I’ve Been Thinking
006 - Like What, Me Worry?
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The Friedles - I Lost Her - v/a: Attack of the Jersey Teens
The Shanes - I Don’t Want Your Love - v/a: Searchin’ For Shakes
The Chadwicks - The Only Way To Do It - Baltimore’s Teen Beat A Go Go
Fugitives - On the Run - v/a: Best of Justice Records
The Electras - ’Bout My Love
Tasmanians - Baby
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Cuby & the Blizzards - Your Body Not Your Soul
A Passing Fancy - I’m Losing Tonight
The Lyrics - Mr. Man
The Others - I Can’t Stand This Love, Goodbye
The Barracudas - The Reason Why - v/a: It Came From Thee Garage
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Robb London & the Rogues - Who’ll Be the One - v/a: Gravel vol. 5
Four of Us - You’re Gonna Be Mine - v/a: Friday at the Hideout
Other Side - Streetcar
Oscar & the Majestics - Got To Have Your Lovin’
Sands of Time - Red Light
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The Shags - Hide Away - v/a: Don’t Press Your Luck!
Cave Men - Small World - v/a: Trip In Tyme vol. 2
Vectors - What In the World
The Sultans 5 - You Know You Know
The E-Types - Put The Clock Back On the Wall
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The Royal Coachmen - Killer of Men
Innsmen - I Don’t Know
The Sheap - Thinkin’ About It
The Cords - Ain’t That Love - v/a: Get Ready To Fly
The Topsy Turbys - Topsy Turby
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Expedition to Earth - Tiem Time Time
The Mixed Emotions - Can’t You Stop It Now
The Castaways - You Were Telling Lies
Brain Train - Black Roses
The Wheels - Road Block
Los Yetis - Llegaron Los Peluqueros
Os Baobas - Pintata de Preto - v/a: Basementsville vol. 2
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Staggers - Justine
Hipshakes - Duh Duh
Elektras - Say You  Love Me
CoCoComa - Too Tired
Heartattacks - Stay/Go
Flat Duo Jets - Mr. Guitar
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Nar - Drunk and Benevolent

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15 Years of Ruckus -- The Troublemakers at Old Ironsides, Friday March 28, 2008
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    There are a few things you can count on when it comes to The Troublemakers: they will play about once per year, they will look sharp, the ever-reliable Stan and Brian will lay down a solid rhythm section, Tim will sing about 75% of the lyrics tops in any given song, Rodney will complain a lot, and at some point the show will dissolve into complete chaos.  This is what you could expect at the end of an average Troublemakers gig:

    I saw the Troublemakers for the first time in ’94. They blew me away, because not only did they look and sound like they had sprung fully-formed from a Back From the Grave comp, they were also a little scary, in no small part due to Tim Foster’s antics. He would lay down on stage, crawl on the floor, stick the mic in your face, wander into the bathroom or outside in the middle of a song -- basically going as far as the mic cord would let him. He also liked to climb things -- kick drums, PA stacks, tables, bars -- nothing was too tall or wobbly for him to scale and teeter on precariously. I’ve never seen him fall, although one time he jumped onto a small cafe table I was sitting at and nearly slipped off -- there was a split second I was sure he was going to wind up in my lap.  His antics became legendary, and he loved to tell you about them. One time he threw a bag of flour all over a club, never to play there again. Another time he confronted some lady who was heckling him and said, "You remind me of my dear departed mother, who’s not even dead yet." She slapped him, my guess is out of confusion, since even Tim doesn’t know what he meant by that cryptic remark. I remember being a little wary that I was going to get beer poured on me, or tripped by a mic cord, or worst of all, have him get in my face -- you just never knew what was going to happen.
    Until that is, you saw them a few times. I soon realized that while the specifics were often spontaneous, it was also choreographed chaos. I don’ t feel like I’m betraying any trade secrets here, because anyone who has talked to Tim Foster knows he’s not actually deranged, but in fact one of the nicest guys around. Plus when you call yourselves the Troublemakers you’re setting yourself up for certain expectations, right?

    So perhaps the biggest surprise to me was the lack of usual shennanigans. Sure, Tim temporarily disappeared during a couple of songs, (I enjoyed the confused look on Stan’s face at one point as he tried to figure out where Tim had gone) but all in all was on his best behavior. It was perhaps the most together I have ever seen the Troublemakers. No false starts, no bickering, no moments where the song fell apart. Not that those moments aren’t entertaining, mind you, but they just didn’t happen this time, and I didn’t miss them. Although it was pretty funny when they wrapped up "Jack The Ripper," which has often been their closing number, and Tim ended the show by walking away with the kick drum.
    And another thing: these guys are aging criminally well.  Here they are at their "last ever" show, which was about 10 years ago:

And here they are now:

So here’s to 15 years of the Troublemakers and wishing them 15 more -- they’ll probably STILL look the same, the bastards.

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Chicks and Cars 3/27/08
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008: I’m still nursing away the last stages of the flu, so this week will be pretty mellow.  Expect some creatively downtempo stuff, like the supremely odd "Half Baked" LP from Jimmy Campbell.

The Youngbloods - Darkness, Darkness - Elephant Mountain *request
Jimmy Campbell - Half Baked - Half Baked
Beau Brummels - And I’ve Seen Her - Triangle
George Gerdes - Catechism Wednesday - Son of Obituary
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Fallen Angels - One of the Few Ones Left - The Roulette Masters Part 2 of 2
Click (Horning) - Many Times Jimbo - Click
David Blue - These 23 Days In September - These 23 Days In September
Gram Parsons - I Just Can’t Take It Anymore - Another Side of This Life
Kaleidoscope - Why Try - Side Trips
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Perry Leopold - When You’re Gone - Experiment In Metaphysics
Linda Perhacs - Hey, Who Really Cares? - Parallelograms
Susan Christie - Rainy Day - Paint A Lady
The Common People - I Have Been Alone - Of The People/By The People/For The People From
Please - You’re Still Waiting - 1968/69
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The Choir - A to F (I Don’t Want Nobody) - Choir Practice
Justin Heathcliff - Sea
Beauregard Ajax - Blue Violins - Deaf Priscilla
Beacon Street Union - The Clown Died In Marvin Gardens - The Clown Died In Marvin Gardens
Richard and Thomas Frost - Hell Stranger - Visualize
Jungle - Somewhere Sweet Memories
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Alexander "Skip" Spence - War In Peace - Oar
Penny Arkade - Year of the Monkey - Not The Freeze
The Growing Concern - Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled
The Moon - I Should Be Dreaming
Music Emporium - Winds Have Changed
Montage - She’s Alone
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Dark - Darkside - Round the Edges
The Mothers of Invention - Trouble EveryDay - Freak Out! *request
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The Weeds - Underground Railroad - The Weeds *request

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