thanks!

Hey! Check it out, Glenn O'Brien's TV Party - the legendary Manhattan cable access show from the late 70s and early 80s is now on DVD, and priced to move. (Mine was only $11.98.) It's Arty! It's Punk! It's a Party! It's Bunk!

Jon, I think you'd be interested in the ep I linked since it's got Tim Wright of Pere Ubu playing with Walter Steding on electric, drone-o-riffic violin. Plus Lenny Ferrari playing the New Yorker as a drum kit. All with Fripp in the audience.

Here's one for Sean. A big love fest for Tool.

Cool article, Hec. Thanks!

I was glad to see him mention the song for Maynard's mother. It's quite moving.

Mine was only $11.98

Where? It's $20 at the link you provided.

Random bit of randomness from the WFMU blog:

Unusual Recording Techniques #1: Lou Reed's "The Kids"

While flipping through a five-year-old copy of NME in a WFMU bathroom, I came across an article about "scary music" by Mark Beaumont. He wrote that the little kids who can be heard wailing on Lou Reed's track The Kids (from his 1973 LP Berlin) were the young children of producer Bob Ezrin, who were crying because their Dad had told them that their mother had just been killed in a horrible accident. Their mother was fine - the track needed some crying, so Producer Ezrin produced some. The crying starts at the 5:17 mark: MP3.

A few years later, Ezrin went on to co-produce Pink Floyd's The Wall, on which he utilized another group of children to great effect, the chorus of British children from The Islington Green School who sing the "We Dont Need No Education" chorus on Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2). In 2004, 23 of those kids got together to sue for the session fee they never received. No word on whether Ezrin's own children (now around 40 years old) are planning their own suit.

Crap. I didn't bring my iPod to work today, so I can't check out the Berlin thing until I get home....

Self-pimpage! There's a noisy dark video of Parks & Wildlife up at our Myspace site: [link]

Crap. I didn't bring my iPod to work today, so I can't check out the Berlin thing until I get home....

I've heard and repeated this story many a time. You can't miss the kids. It's one of the many reasons I hardly ever listen to Berlin, which is icy-beautiful but thoroughly unpleasant.

From the comments on the WFMU blog:

"I refuse to believe the Ezrin story. Can you back it up?"

No, if I could've backed it up, I would have done so instead of citing where I read it. There are numerous references to this tale online, but I couldn't find any in which Ezrin himself is quoted. I also couldn't find any in which Ezrin denies it.

I find it hard to believe too, but... hmmm....

It's repeated in several Mojo articles and all the half-dozen or so books I've read about Lou Reed. Hell, even if it isn't true, it should be.