The “Farewell to Mainely Dead” Show Part II “We were somewhere around
… when
the drugs
began to take hold.”
Here’s what
you got to hear this week (in this order):
·
Fear & Loathing In
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Animal House: It’s Not Over Until We Say It Is
·
The Godfather Theme: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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The Ink Spots: I Understand (Just How You Feel)
·
BB King: The Thrill Is Gone
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The Rolling Stones: No Expectations
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Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger
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The Band: The Last Waltz
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Waking Life: The Ongoing Wow !
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Michelle Shocked: Come A Long Way
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Talking Heads: Clean Break [Live]
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Talking Heads: Heaven
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Pixies: Monkey Gone To Heaven [Live: CEPSUM,
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REM: Can't Get There From Here
·
Pixies: Head On
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Queen: My Best Friend
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The Grateful Dead: To Lay Me Down [LIVE:
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Phil Hersey: The Afri Cola moment
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Lucinda Williams: Fruits Of My Labor
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Bob Dylan: Changing Of The Guards
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Lenny Bruce: I Just Do It And That’s All
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The Grateful Dead: It's All Over Now Baby Blue [LIVE:
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The Doors: The End
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Monthy Python: Always Look Upon The Bright Side of Life
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Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy: So Long & Thanks For The Fish
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Lenny Bruce: Completely Exposed
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The Rolling Stones: Wild Horses
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Rickie Lee Jones: Company
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The Grateful Dead: Ripple [LIVE:
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Russian National Orchestra: To Lay Me Down
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The Wire: Theme Song
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“This Is Area 51”
“The Wave”
- Hunter S. Thompson
“
History is hard to know, because of all the
hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems
entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole
generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really
understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually
happened.
My central memory of that time seems to
hang on one or five or maybe forty nights — or very early mornings — when I
left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred
miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming
through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to
take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted
to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain
that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just
as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .
There was madness in any direction, at any
hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101
to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks
anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was
right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle — that
sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean of
military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail.
There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the
momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can
go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of
eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave
finally broke and rolled back.”
Raoul Duke: “There he goes. One of God's own
prototypes.
Some kind of high powered mutant
never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and
too rare to die.”
Thank you, to all of you who have
in any way shape or form helped in the creation, broadcast, or presentation of
both
Area 51 on KFAI
Radio and Mainely Dead on WMPG Radio.
I could not have done any of this
without you all,
and for that I am eternally grateful.
Area 51:
Patrick Babcock: Host, Producer
Pete Pappas: Webmaster
Aaron Young: Archivist
Bryan Bowen: Archivist
Jason Duerr
Nancy Seward
Tim Chapdelaine
Tom Daggeford
Matt Lawrence
Andy
Michael Tortorello
Eric Mitchell
Al Sedacca
Dave “Soupy”
Timmy “The Freak” Smith
Brooks Elliot
The Jones Gang!
Mainely Dead:
Patrick Babcock: Host, Producer
Pete Pappas: Webmaster
Bryan Bowen: Archivist
Aaron Young: Archivist
Don Carlson: The Home Office
David Lemieux: Co-host “A View From Lemieux”