Organic Jam Radio playlist 6-16-13

Organic Jam

WGAO Power 88

June 16, 2013

1.     Fast as Lightening – Whitewater Ramble – Roots & Groove

2.     Part of Me – Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made Up Mind

3.     Central Time – Pokey LaFarge – st

4.     Ring the Bell – Magnolia Electric Co. – Trials and Errors

5.     Shut Up – Savages – Silence Yourself

6.     Holland, 1945 – Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aero plane Over the Sea

7.     Cayucas – Cuyacas – Bigfoot

8.     Ride On/Right On – Phosphorescent – Muchacho

9.     Queen Bitch – David Bowie –Hunky Dory

10. Planet Queen – T-REX – Electric Warrior

11. Step – Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

12. Common People – Pulp – Different Class

13. Trash – new York Dolls – st

14. Pressure Drop – Robert Palmer – Pressure Drop

15. Cool Down the Pace – Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse

16. Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season – Mishka ft. Jimmy Buffett – Ocean is My Potion

17. I Know What I Know – Paul Simon - Graceland

18. Fire on the Bayou – The Meters – Fire on the Bayou

19. Anthracite – Cymande – Renegades of Funk

20. Fat Old Sun – Pink Floyd –Atom Heart Mother

21. Sea of Love – The National – Trouble Will Find Me

22. Sweet Jane – The Velvet Underground – loaded

23. Stay Forever – Ween – White Pepper

24. On Blue Mountain – Foxygen – We Are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

25. Doin’ it Right – Daft Punk ft. Panda Bear – Random Access Memories

26. Losing My Edge – LCD Soundsystem – st

27. Robot Rock – Daft Punk – Human After All

28. Trip Like I Do – The Crystal Method – Vegas

29. Gangs in the Garden – Black Moth Super Rainbow – Cobra Juicy

30. The Giant is Awaken – Horace Tapscott Quintet – Liberation Music: Spiritual Jazz and the Art of Protest

31. Pretzel Logic – Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

32. Humiliation – The National – Trouble Will Find me

33. The Great Curve – Talking Heads – Remain in Light

6/17/2011
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Rock and Roll^[3] > Ghost > Free > Reba^[4], Icculus, Hold Your Head Up > Bike^[5] > Hold Your Head Up, Chalk Dust Torture, You Enjoy Myself

[3] A Love Supreme tease from Mike.
[4] No whistling.
[5] Somewhere Over the Rainbow teased by Fish during vacuum solo.

War Memorial Auditorium

Buffalo, NY (5/9/77) 

Bertha -> Good Lovin', Ship of Fools, Estimated Prophet -> The Other One -> drums -> Not Fade Away -> Comes a Time -> Sugar Magnolia

Protect Your Ears! Hearing Loss is No Joke!

published in Surrender to the Flow 2012: 

Protect Your Ears! Hearing Loss is No Joke!

By Mike Akers – Milford, MA

The human ear is one of the most intricate organs in biology and perhaps one of the easiest to damage.  The worst part about this is once the damage is sustained, it is not going to get any better.  It is also hard to detect symptoms in the early stages of hearing damage beyond the occasional ringing that may or may not go away. 

To simplify, your inner ear is made up of three tiny bones that cause vibrations and electrify a pulse to the brain replicating the sound you hear every day of your life.  With age, the hearing diminishes and damage only makes hearing worse.  Tinnitus is a result of exposing your inner ear to sounds greater than what is known as the threshold of hearing and threshold of pain to an audiologist.  When you are experiencing symptoms of tinnitus, your ears are constantly whistling and buzzing and will never reverse.   There are temporary lubricants and eardrops that soothe the painful symptoms, but the main point to drive home about hearing loss is that once you lose it, you will not be hearing the same ever again without the use of technology.  Even then, the spectrum of sound your ears are able to pick up will be incredibly lessened.

There are several affordable safety measures to consider whether you are a musician, concert spectator or a runway traffic controller at a busy airport.  Simple rubber earplugs are designed to block the sound from entering the ear canal entirely.  They are fairly cheap and can be found at any local drug store.  However, one attending a concert might not want to block the entire spectrum of sound from their senses and there are certainly other options available.  Etymotic Research Inc. has designed a high fidelity earplug that takes the sound one is exposed to and filters it to a much safer level of sensory.  They are designed to simulate the normal response of the ear canal, so as sound enters the plug the listener hears it as it is meant to be.  According to their website, these plugs reduce the dB level by about 20 units and are fairly cheap as well ($12.95).  The next option would be to visit an audiology professional and have custom molded earpieces with similar technology found in the Etymotics plugs.  That can get costly, but in the eyes of a music lover who never wants to lose their hearing, it is priceless.

The typical sound pressure decibel level at a concert would be right around 130 dB.  This is more than the human ear was designed to handle by properties of nature and can lead to permanent hearing loss depending on the amount of exposure. Adding another 50 dB to that would be on the verge of deafening. A typical conversation or office ambience reaches levels of about 50-60 dB, so you can see the comparison in numbers. It takes just less than 180 dB to completely blow your eardrums, so hopefully this stresses how important and delicate the human ear is.  

The self-consciousness one might struggle with in wearing hearing protection in public is worth much less than the price of hearing and enjoying music alone.  The common perception of a spectator wearing earplugs at a concert is as follows: Why would you want to wear earplugs at a concert?  After reading this piece I will hope you see the value in taking these measures. Using the Etymotics plugs as an example, you actually hear the music coming from the sound system with less distortion making it that much more clear.  Those annoyed by folks talking in your section, the high fidelity earplugs will certainly have added value on that front.  Wearing them for the first time I myself was skeptical but quickly adapted to their usage. 

A music lover without their sense of hearing and perception is much like a visual artist without an imagination.  Your hearing is a tool of nature.  If it is abused, it will dissipate.  Think of how much you love music, and how disappointed you would be if you never had the opportunity to hear it the same way again.  Or ever hear at all.  Hearing loss in entirely preventable, and might be one of the five senses humans take for granted the most.

Organic Jam Radio Playlist 6-9-13

Organic Jam

WGAO Power 88

June 9, 2013

1.     Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska

2.     Part of Me – Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made up Mind

3.     Old Man Reefer – Les Racquet – Whale Hail

4.     Love bug Blues – Charles Bradley – Victim of Love

5.     Black Cow – Steely Dan – AJA

6.     Short Circuit – Daft Punk – Discovery

7.     This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) – Talking Heads – Speaking in Tongues

8.     A-Punk – Vampire Weekend – st

9.      High School Lover – Cayucas – Bigfoot

10. Good Time – Brazilian Girls – New York City

11. Humiliation – The National – Trouble Will Find Me

12. Phosphorescence – Ride On / Right On – Muchacho

13. I Will Follow – U2 – Boy

14. Obstacle 1 – Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights

15. Shut Up – Savages – Silence Yourself

16. Oh Yea – Les Racquet – Be Water My Friend

17. Nautical Wheelers – Jimmy Buffett – A1A

18. It’s Gonna Be Alright – Ween – The Mollusk

19. Queen Bitch – David Bowie – Hunky Dory

20. Caravan – Van Morrison – Moondance

21. Things Behind the Sun – Nick Drake – Pink Moon

22. Don’t Play With Guns – Black Angels – Indigo Meadow

23. Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National – High Violet

24. Electric Feel – MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

25. Chameleon – Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters

26. Oh! Sweet Nothing – The Velvet Underground – Loaded

27. Mongoloid – Devo – Are We Not Men? We Are Devo

28. Mustang Ranch – Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears – Scandalous

29. Virtual Insanity – Jamiroquai – Travelling Without Moving

30. Get Lucky – Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams – Random Access Memories

31. Us vs. Them – LCD Soundsytem – Sound of Silver

32. Veridis Quo – Daft Punk – Discovery

33. Starship Trooper – Yes – The Yes Album

34. Goldtone – Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze

35. Sea of Love – The National – Trouble Will Find Me

06/04/2011
Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Set 2: Birds of a Feather, Possum > Steam^[2] > Piper -> The Lizards, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley^[3] > Harry Hood > Have Mercy -> Harry Hood^[4] > Character Zero^[5]

[2] Debut.
[3] Manteca teases.
[4] Have Mercy and Lizards teases.
[5] Smoke on the Water teases.

Curtis Hixon Convention Hall

Tampa, FL (12/18/73) 

Promised Land -> Bertha, Greatest Story Ever Told, Row Jimmy, WRS Prelude -> WRS Part 1 -> Let It Grow, Dark Star -> drums -> Eyes of the World -> Wharf Rat -> Sugar Magnolia

Organic Jam Radio Playlist 6-2-13

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Organic Jam

WGAO Power 88

June 2, 2013

1.     All Hail – Devil makes Three – Do Wrong Right

2.     Fast as Lightening – Whitewater Ramble – Roots and Groove

3.     Your Lady, She’s Shady – JJ Grey & MOFRO – This River

4.     One More Day – Sol Driven Train – Underdog

5.     High School Lover – Cayucas – Bigfoot

6.     Ride On/Right On – Phosphorescence – Muchacho

7.     Shuggie – Foxygen – We Are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

8.     Love Bug Blues – Charles Bradley – Victim of Love

9.     House of Suffering – Bad Brains – I Against I

10. Shut Up – Savages – Silence Yourself

11. Ya Hey – Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

12. Humiliation – The National – Trouble Will Find Me

13. You Were Right – Built to Spill – Keep it Like A Secret

14. Wakin on a Pretty Day – Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze

15. Did You See The Words – Animal Collective – Feels

16. Doin’ it Right – Daft Punk ft. Panda Bear – Random Access Memories

17. Drifting Away – Jamiroquai – Travelling Without Moving

18. Get Lucky – Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams – Random Access Memories

19. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House – LCD Soundsystem – st

20. Crosseyed and Painless – Talking Heads – Remain in Light

21. Cayucas – Cayucas – Bigfoot

22.  Sailin Shoes > Hey Julia > Sneakin Sally Through the Alley – Robert Palmer – Sneakin Sally Through the Alley

23. Roadrunner – The Modern Lovers – st

24. Sea of Love – The National – Trouble Will Find Me

25. Day at the Dog Races – Little Feat – Time Loves a Hero

26. Woman and Man – Ween – La Cucaracha

27. You Lust – The Flaming Lips – The Terror

28. Veridis Quo – Daft Punk – Discovery

29. Sonic Armada – Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune

30. Fat Old Sun – Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother

31. New Age – Velvet Underground – Loaded

32. Going to Acapulco – Bob Dylan and the Band – Basement Tapes

06/27/2010                     
Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

Set 2: Wilson > Meatstick^[2] -> Saw It Again -> Piper^[3] > Ghost^[3] -> Jumpin' Jack Flash^[4] -> Saw It Again > Contact^[3], You Enjoy Myself^[5]

Encore: Fire^[6]

[2] Japanese lyrics.
[3] Saw It Again quotes.
[4] Phish debut.
[5] Saw It Again quotes and Jumpin' Jack Flash teases; Meatstick tease from Trey, Saw It Again and Surfin' Bird quotes, Daniel Saw the Stone quote from Mike in vocal jam.
[6] Saw It Again quotes; Lyrics changed to "Let Jon Fishman take over."

Kezar Stadium

San Francisco, CA

(5/26/73) 

Mississippi Half-Step, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone -> Truckin' -> The Other One -> Eyes of the World > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia

E:  Casey Jones