This morning's playlist:
1. Woody Guthrie: Hobo's Lullaby
2. Tom Waits: Cold Cold Ground
3. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band: God Bless Our Dead Marines
4. Robert Johnson: Rambling on my Mind
5. Mississippi John Hurt: Casey Jones
6. Adhamh Roland: Cottonmouths & Freight Trains
7. John Lee Hooker: Hobo Blues
8. This Bike is a Pipe Bomb: Depression
9. Hank Williams Sr.: Lost Highway
10. Defiance, Ohio: Response to Griot
11. Merle Haggard: Just A-Bummin' Around
12. Zegota: Sleepwalkers
13. Hank Williams Jr.: Ramblin' Man
14. Woody Guthrie: Baltimore to Washington
15. Adhamh Roland: Bella Ciao
16. The Weakerthans: Confessions of a Futon-Revolutionist
17. Reverend Horton Heat: Couch Surfin'
18. Los Cojolites: Luna Negra
19. Ryan Harvey: Ain't Gonna Come Today
20. Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
21. Against Me!: Pints of Guiness Make You Strong
22. Shannon Murray: The Train Song
23. The Evens: Crude Bomb
24. John Prine & Bonnie Raitt: Angel from Montgomery
25. Paul Baribeau: Ten Things
26. Odetta: Midnight Special
27. The Mountain Goats: Weekend in Western Illinois
Our Revered Rail Rider of the Week was: CASEY JONES.
"“Casey said just before he died,/fix the blinds so that the bums can ride..."
Casey Jones, who has been immortalized in song by the likes of Johnny Cash, the Grateful Dead, Mississippi John Hurt, Eric Clapton, Shannon Murray, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, and countless others, is the world’s most famous railroad engineer. Born in 1863, Jones was the lone fatality when his locomotive collided with a stopped freight train one foggy night in Mississippi, in 1900. His valiant efforts to stop his passenger train from crashing probably prevented the deaths of many other individuals. While living, Jones supported collective bargaining and was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Division 99. Known for keeping to his schedule (people set their watches by his train since it was so punctual), Casey Jones’s body was found with his pocket watch stopped at the time of impact, and his hands still clutching the whistle cord and brake.
Today's guest rambler was: our good friend and Kamikaze Noise Frontman DAN MCGREGOR!
10 Random Things I Learned on the Kamikaze Noise MidWest Tour by Dan McGregor
1. Boom Boom Kid is the best band ever. No matter what the situation, just listen to the Kid tell you about how vegetables are good for you and you’ll probably feel better.
2. Wearing the same pair of patched up dirty as hell blood stained plaid shorts every single day will not make matters better, only worse. My shorts smelled terrible and were disgusting to touch. Even though they looked pretty stylin, in the end I regretted not bringing any change of clothes. Chances are though, when the next tour rolls around, I’ll do it all over again.
3. 100% of those “from now on whenever _____ happens I will do _____” never work out. We had about 7 of those per day, ranging from “from now on whenever anyone says anything, I will only make sarcastic and mean remarks in response” (which was hilarious for about 20 minutes and then got irritating), to “from now on whenever we eat I will make obnoxious and over-the-top sound effects” (still funny) to “from now on I will only wear these huge obnoxious sunglasses that used to belong to my grandma” (which was dumb from the start). But none of them lasted longer than a day. They never do. This is both good and bad.
4. We carried a broken TV in our laps from Columbus OH to Lexington KY. Our friend Mikeal was throwing it out and thought we should smash it on stage. We wound up not doing so. I didn’t learn anything from this, but it’s one of my favorite stories to tell.
5. Convention centers never seem to lock all their doors. Me and my pal Charlie heard there was an anime convention going on right there in Fort Wayne the night we were playing. So we went to check it out. We asked some people and they said it cost $40 per day, well fuck that!! So we checked the back door and it was unlocked, so we just marched right in and watched some random episodes of Gurren-Lagann before the show started. Sweet!
6. If you’re not bleeding by the end of your set, you’re not doing a good job of being a punk band. If you can still walk in a straight line without collapsing after your set, you’re not doing a good job of being a punk band. If you still have both feet on the ground, you’re not doing a good job of being a punk band. If people can’t feel your breath in their face, you’re not doing a good job of being a punk band.
7. Cincinnati sucks.
8. Kentucky is like its own little kingdom of magic. They have their own home brand of cheap ginger ale, called Ale81s, what a fuckin genius name!! But apparently they are not vegan, my friend Ami claims there are animal bones in there? They also have the most ridiculously cheap and crappy cigarettes in the US, a carton of Waves was less than $20. We “rode the Wave” a lot (at least the one non-edge member of our band did).
9. It’s ok to go skinny dipping in broad daylight in public in areas full of rocks with shitloads of “no swimming” signs surrounding you. We did this in Lake Michigan in Chicago in the morning, we drove overnight from Lexington KY to escape having to stay at the Chug Chug House another night. We found a nice pile of rocks by the shore and wondered if we could go swimming, so we took off all our clothes and made a run for the ice cold water. It wasn’t until we got out that we realized there were “no swimming” signs everywhere.
10. Big Cat tolerates no insolence.
We still are looking for a file-hosting site so that we can post episodes of hobo's lullaby on this blog! I have the episode saved, so hopefully I can get going on that and you'll be able to listen right here on the blog, and not even have to wake up at 6 am ever!
Keep on Keepin' On,
Jenna
1 comment:
Try Mediafire. You might need to zip your show up in order to get it small enough to post there.
If you have any other questions, I'd love to help you guys out. :)
Chris Berry
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