Florida Rocks Again! #40: Anywhere But Here

This eclectic episode is sort of a companion piece to Florida Rocks Again! #20: Florida Time. Unlike that show, where all of the songs were about Florida, all of these songs are about other places. So lay back and get a load of the all-time greats from the Sunshine State singing about Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, California, and elsewhere.

Hosted by Mal Thursday, produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich, and presented in Living Monophonic Sound on the GaragePunk Podcast Network.

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Playlist:

HOUR GLASS: Gotta Get Away/Down in Texas
CHARLIE PICKETT & THE EGGS: Goin’ Back to Marlboro Country
WE THE PEOPLE: Follow Me Back to Louisville
THE MOVERS: Birmingham/Hello LA (Bye Bye Birmingham)
PURPLE UNDERGROUND: On Broadway

WAYNE COCHRAN: Harlem Shuffle
SAM MOORE: The Tennessee Waltz
MIGHTY SAM: Georgia Pines
SAMMY AMBROSE: Welcome to Dreamsville

TOMMY ROE & THE ROEMANS: Diane from Manchester Square
CHARLIE McCOY: The Boy from England
THE ROYAL GUARDSMEN: Battle of New Orleans
STEVE ALAIMO: New Orleans
KANE’S COUSINS: Good Lovin’ Women of Bismarck, North Dakota
TRACY PENDARVIS: Philadelphia Filly

THE OUTLAWS: Sweet Home Alabama
MUDCRUTCH: Up in Mississippi Tonight
FRED NEIL: Mississippi Train
GRAM PARSONS: Ooh Las Vegas/California Cotton Fields
MAGIC: California
THE ECHO: Monterey
THE ROVIN’ FLAMES: I’m Afraid to Go Home

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Classic Reruns: The Mal Thursday Show #5 / Florida Rocks Again! #25

This weekend, it's a double shot of classic reruns from the GaragePunk.com Podcast Archives:


Live recordings of rock ‘n’ roll bands from the mid-’60s are often a mixed bag of out-of-tune guitars, screaming girls, and questionable mic placement. Witness the Rolling Stones’ Got Live If You Want It and The Kinks’ Live at Kelvin Hall, to name but two. Then there are the fake live records, where audience noise is dubbed on to studio recordings, usually with underwhelming results.

Here, originally posted 5/5/08, is the most popular episode of The Mal Thursday Show to date, "Live 'n Wild," featuring some excellent live garage records, drawn from 45s, radio and TV broadcasts, demo tapes, and even a Hawaiian “Battle of the Bands” LP.

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Playlist:

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: You're Gonna Miss Me
THE SAVAGES: The World Ain't Round, It's Square
RAIK'S PROGRESS: I'm Gonna Change the World
THE GREEK FOUNTAINS: Howlin' for My Darlin'
THE SNAILS: Snails Love Theme
THE OUTSIDERS: Summertime Blues

LYRES: 100 cc/Gonna Find A New Love
THE REMAINS: Hang on Sloopy/All Day and All of the Night/Why Do I Cry

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love/I'm Gonna Love You Too/Before You Accuse Me/You Don't Know/You Really Got Me

THE SPIRITS: Almost There

The other classic rerun is Florida Rocks Again! #25, "Girls, Girls, Girls," a rockin’ roll call of delightful dolls and delectable dames as the all-time greats from the Sunshine State sing songs with girls’ names in the title. Featuring a mess of fine Florida garage 45s, as well as some deep soul, psych, rockabilly, and crispy, crunchy country rock, with added bonus cuts by the Champions and Papa Don Schroeder.

Series hosted by Mal Thursday, produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound.

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Playlist:

STEVE ALAIMO: Girls, Girls, Girls/Big Bad Beulah
THE 31st OF FEBRUARY (with GREGG & DUANE ALLMAN): Melissa
THE BIRDWATCHERS: Mary, Mary (It's to You I Belong)
MAGIC: Indian Sadie
THE RAVEN: Calamity Jane
JIM STAFFORD: Cow Patti

DON SCHROEDER: Peggy Sue
THE ROYAL GUARDSMEN: Bonnie & Clyde
THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: Christine's Tune
PAINTED FACES: Blackhearted Susan
THE NIGHTCRAWLERS: Sally in Our Alley

THE CHAMPIONS: Annie Met Henry
THE NEW CLARENCE REID: Cadillac Annie
KRIS JENSEN: The Jackie Look
JOHNNY TILLOTSON: Gidget
POWERS UV PURPLE: Miss Dove
BENNY JOY: Steady with Betty

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The Year the Expos Almost Won the Pennant!

It was 30 years ago this summer that the Montreal Expos had their first winning season, finished second in a wild race for the NL East title, and captured the hearts and minds of the Canadian People. Re-reading Brodie Synder's The Year the Expos Almost Won the Pennant is a bittersweet experience, given the team's sad decline and eventual relocation. I fell in love with Les Expos that long ago summer, a love that only diminished when Major League Baseball moved them to Washington, D.C. I have no love for the Nationals, who recently traded Nick Johnson, their last remaining player who had also played for Montreal.

After a disappointing 1978, the team's tenth straight losing season, manager Dick Williams and GM John McHale sought to improve a few glaring weaknesses on the Expos' 25-man roster. They got lefthander Bill "Spaceman" Lee on the cheap from the Red Sox, for light-hitting infielder Stan Papi. They signed ace reliever Elias Sosa as a free agent, and strengthened the bench by picking up Duffy Dyer, Jim Mason, Jerry White, and Rodney Scott (who would beat out Dave Cash for the starting second base job in Spring Training).

The team already had a good nucleus, with a stellar outfield consistening of Andre Dawson, "The Hawk," who would go on to win the NL MVP award with the Cubs in 1987, Warren Cromartie, and talented head case Ellis Valentine, whose frequent absences may or may not have had something to do with the drug and alcohol abuse that would derail his career in the '80s. The infield was anchored by former Cincinnati slugger Tony Perez, out to prove the Reds wrong for running him out of town, at first base, with Larry Parrish at third, Scott at second and Chris Speier at short. Behind the plate, in his young prime, was Hall of Famer Gary Carter, handling a staff that included Steve Rogers, Rudy May, Ross Grimsley, Woodie Fryman, Stan Bahnsen, David Palmer, and Dan Schatzeder.

The team came out of the gate on fire, and held first place for most of the season, only faltering on a brutal West Coast road trip in August, and against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the team that would win the division and eventually the World Series. Reading Brodie's day-by-day account of the '79 season, it is difficult for the Expo-lover in me not to play "What if?"

"What if Steve Rogers had pitched better down the stretch?"

"What if Dave Cash hadn't been in Williams's doghouse for most of the season?"

"What if Ellis Valentine had played up to his potential, and not dogged it at various junctures?"

Of course, the late-season acquisition of former Expo great Rusty Staub lit a fire under Valentine's ass, and he finished strong, even if the team didn't.

I recommend this book to any Expos fan who remembers the 1979 season, or even those who don't, but recall the '94 team, who had the best record in baseball before the ill-advised player's strike ended the season, and effectively killed baseball in Montreal.

Florida Rocks Again! on YouTube

Here's a video I did to promote Florida Rocks Again!

Your comments and ratings are greatly appreciated. Enjoy.

Two Broadcasting Giants

Here I am in Montana with Tom Brokaw.

I also met novelist Thomas McGuane, who shared pungent memories of Warren Zevon in fair trade for a rare copy of the Sunday Times.

I later received an inscribed copy of 92 in the Shade, which I will treasure.

Also rode a horse for the first time since 1966, and caught three fish.

Thank you, Meg and Skip!

Reality TV Police Blotter: Parole Violations, 911 Calls, and Murder!

The typical reality show contestant is usually good for a misdemeanor or two, the occasional felony, or more often, a sex tape. Reality TV "star" Ryan Alexander Jenkins has taken it to another level entirely.

Police in Buena Park, California, investigating the strangulation murder of Jenkins's ex-wife, 28-year-old swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore, have labeled him "a person of interest," which is allegedly cop slang for "guilty as hell."

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The Return of 'Mad Men'

Matthew Weiner's brilliant, Emmy-winning drama "Mad Men" returns for a third season on AMC this Sunday with big changes afoot at Sterling-Cooper. The opening episode, "Out of Town," finds Don Draper (Jon Hamm) going on a business trip with closeted graphic designer Salvatore Romano (Bryan Batt). After years of banging everything in skirts, is Don going gay? Tune in and find out.

The image above is my guest starring role as Joan Holloway's new love interest, super-suave ad man Biff Brannigan, courtesy of AMCTV.com's cool "Mad Men Yourself" application.