Bottomless Pit

#190- from May 16, 2015
A salute to one of the greatest American record labels ever, ESP-Disc Records, a label that went where others dared not go. They elevated the culture. We hear The Fugs, Albert Ayler, Pearls Before Swine, Karl Berger, Sun Ra, The Godz, and many more. I only regret that I didn’t know about Patty Waters at the time, otherwise she’d have been included.
(#190)
Part 1
ART VAN DAMME QUINTET- I HEAR MUSIC
THE FUGS- DEFEATED
THE FUGS- KILL FOR PEACE
SUN RA- INTERPLANETARY TRAVELLERS
ALBERT AYLER- GHOSTS (VARIATION #1)
Part 2
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE- ANOTHER TIME
THE GODZ- LAY IN THE SUN
THE GODZ- WHITE CAT HEAT
KARL BERGER- STEPS
THE FUGS- I COULDN’T GET HIGH
Part 3
THE FUGS- MY BED IS GETTING CROWDED
SUN RA- THE COSMOS
JOEY RAMONE- WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
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THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.)
I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.
It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.
I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on RUclips! Watch this space!..
MC