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JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 22 Hang on wait is this 7 hours of Sister Ray!? This is even more Ray than Steve Irwin done got. Collected, devised and selected by Thomas "Honey" Newth esq. SISTER RAY PODCAST HERE 0.00 (mystery extract) Who knows where this is from? It may even be elsewhere on this mix. Who can say? Bootlegs throw up funny things like this. They are also of, ahem, variable audio quality. 2.13 The Gymnasium, NYC, April 7 or 8, 1967 The song's about a year old now, having been trotted out in the summer of '66 according to a setlist, but they say this is the earliest recording. The Gymnasium, incidentally, was a real gymnasium that Andy thought was cool. The bootleg of this whole(?) show is really great. The Velvets are starting to form their Andy-less identity as a hard rock'n'rolling dance band. 21.09 LP, NYC, mid-September, 1967 - alternate mix Famously, they did one take, with everything turned to 11. Masses of leakage. But no bass. 38.31 LP - Swan mix There was a random compilation in the early 70s I think it was, with an ugly four-headed swan cover (and Lou billed separately)  and the songs remixed (or at least remastered). "Sister Ray" and "Lady Godiva's Operation" are strikingly different. 55.54 LP - stereo Actually, Moe says they did maybe two takes. And she was pissed that Tom Wilson forgot to turn on some of the mics, so there's no rimshot after Lou says "Who's that knocking at my chamber door?". There's a mono version too, but I think this'll do. 1.13.14  Boston Tea Party  August 11 or 12, 1967 The Velvets really liked to play the BTP. This is their third weekend there of 1967, and it would be their home away from home during a three-year more-or-less boycott of New York. They built an enthusiastic local following, including one J.Richman, who talked his way into opening for them a couple of times. This is the only time Andy went up there, with Paul Morrissey, and did the whole EPI thing. They shot a film at these shows, whence this audio, so it's rated A for Andy. 1.26.45 Sweet Sister Ray, La Cave, Cleveland, April 30, 1968 "Sister Ray" now has a part 1, apparently played quite a few times, as a lengthy, blissful workout before launching into the main bit. But there's only this one recording; and there's no recording of the slightly later part 3, "Sweet Rock'n'Roll", which got trotted out on a couple of occasions, by repute, heavier even than part 2. Actually, there was a recording in San Diego, but the tape got stolen right after the gig. The Velvets really did play a lot of shows, it's usually overlooked, and were a cooking band always ready to work up and rework their songs on stage, which is one reason the bootlegs are so important. And they liked to play for a long time. Also, it may be worth mentioning at this point that one of the reasons they sound so awesome is that for quite a stretch of the earlier days, after the Ostrich guitar got nicked, Lou was playing a 12-string Gretsch Country Gentleman with added preamp, speed, stereo and tremolo controls (and Fender pickups, and maybe an echo unit as well - Lou ended by fucking it up adding too much junk, and the guy who originally built for him wouldn' speak to him for a year; also, the band early managed to score endorsement deals on amps from Vox, then later Sunn; and Sterling and John would play with whatever effecgts pedals they could lay thier hands on.) Anyway, they say that at this point Lou could play 16 notes at once, and if that's not awesome I don't know what is. 2.04.52 (not) Poor Richard's, Chicago, June-July, 1966 (excerpt) Sad to say, there's also very few recordings of John Cale playing on this song live ("Sweet Sister Ray" is the last one). This is not actually the first, tho it'd be cool if it were. The Poor Richard's stint marks the first time a song called "Searching" appears on an extant setlist. Sterl says it was still an instrumental jam at this point. Ingrid Superstar said it sounded like 12 million guitars and hurt her

JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 21 The United States of President America Election Special Devised and presented by Dan L. Fox, with contributions from Hillary R. Clinton, Andy D.T.B. Cooke, H. Sinclair Lewis, Nathaniel M. Mellors and Donald J. Trump As the Junior Aspirin Records label HQ moves its operations to a remote and heavily-fortified anarcho-syndicalist commune in the Pacific Northwest in anticipation of the total collapse of civic society after the 8 November election, label co-founder, writer and editor Dan Fox has made a rare trip into the city, finding time in his busy urban guerilla warfare training schedule to pop into SoHo, do a little shopping, and rig the US presidential election for this post-pre-post-truth liberal media elite conspiracy-thon. From Dead Kennedys to The Shangri-Las, from ABBA to Jay-Z, a caucus of paranoid political pundits, so desperate to be on the winning side that they'd baste their Grandmas in orange sun-tan lotion just to get ahead, will leak their most criminally top secret emails about the most tremendous electorial issues of the moment. So gather together your favourite tiny-fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret-wearing shitgibbons and take this opportunity to grope inside America whilst you enjoy the last few weeks of electricity and running water before the pitchforks come out and the briefcase containing the nuclear codes is lost forever at JFK baggage claim. Send in the clowns! Originally produced for Know Wave Radio, live at the Picture Room, New York, October 2016 PODCAST HERE PART 1 and here PODCAST HERE PART 2 PART ONE Wide Wide River - The Fugs Send in the Clowns - Tiger Lillies America - The Nice The Big Country - Talking Heads White House Blues - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers I Pity The Country - Willie Dunn Hard Times - Curtis Mayfield Disenchanted - Communards Waitin' for a Superman - The Flaming Lips Politicians in My Eyes - Death Liar Liar - The Castaways You Cheated, You Lied - The Shangri-Las Dead Presidents - Jay-Z PART TWO Anti-American Graffitti - J Dilla I'm Legal Now - Chingo Bling Fools Are You - Mother Night No Caucasian Guilt - Noh Mercy In the Flesh - Pink Floyd Don't Call Me N****r, Whitey - Sly & the Family Stone Sound of Da Police - KRS One Trip to Trumpton - Urban Hype Group Grope - The Fugs Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy Private Armies - Vivien Goldman The Red Telephone - Love California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys Know Your Rights - The Clash You've Got Big Hands - Crass We Do What We're Told - Peter Gabriel The World is Yours - Nas Philosophy of the World - Big Legs Lady, What Do You Do All Day? - Peggy Seeger Women of the World - Ivor Cutler & Linda Hirst Winner Takes it All - ABBA

JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 20 THE BREXPOD Devised, debated, campaigned and voted on by Andy Cooke, Dan Fox & Nathaniel Mellors Having relocated our production facilities to a heavily fortified and luxury redoubt deep in the Scottish highlands, Junior Aspirin Records presents The Brexpod: a balanced, neutral and wholly unbiased reflection on the misery and hopelessness inflicted on the United Kingdom by the cowardly, venal, xenophobic, meretricious, mendacious, over-privileged turdworms who, on 23rd June 2016, paddled the country up Bullxit creek and left us in a Euromess without so much as a bratwurst or baguette to gnaw on. From the country that brought you sterling classics such as The Restoration, Luddism, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, the invention of the machine gun, and the colonial subjugation of countries across the globe, the Brexpod is a three-hour epic told in broken English, and featuring Cotswold-stone-cold hits including 'Turd on the Run' by The Rolling Stones (feat. Boris Johnson) and 'Aftermath' by Tricky (feat. Nigel Farage vs. Jean-Claude Juncker). So when the clocks strike half-past France, and the stormy weather hits the pound, forget the summer beach holiday in Greece and thank The Village Green Preservation Society that you will have to learn to love Llandudno again. Kick back with the last remaining bottle of Chianti in England, finish off the tapas, complete your Irish passport application and let the Brexpod remind you and me, the perma-peasantry, that this is how it feels to be lonely. PODCAST HERE Europe Endless – Kraftwerk (feat. David Cameron) Edward Elgar – Nimrod (from ‘Enigma Variations’) Edward Elgar – The Pomp & Circumstance Marches, Op. 31 (March No.1) Anon – God Save the Queen William Blake/Hubert Parry – Jerusalem Coward – Swans Failure – Swans Panic – Coil Lay of the Land – The Fall Aftermath – Tricky (feat. Nigel Farage & Jean-Claude Juncker) Turd on the Run – The Rolling Stones (feat. Boris Johnson) That's When I Reach For My Revolver – Mission of Burma (feat. Michael Gove) European Son – The Velvet Underground (feat. Michael Gove) Euromess – J.J. Burnell Mob Rule – Robert Wyatt The Village Green Preservation Society – The Kinks Getting Nowhere in a Hurry – Roy Budd Somebody Else's World – Sun Ra & His Solar Myth Arkestra (feat. Michael Gove) It Couldn't Happen Here – Pet Shop Boys Still Ill – The Smiths Arthur – The Tiger Lillies Your English – The Rebel Neighborhood Threat – Iggy Pop Not One of Us – Peter Gabriel (feat. Donald Trump, Daniel Hannen & Boris Johnson) Running Scared – Roy Orbison Broken English – Marianne Faithful Inglan is a Bitch – Linton Kwesi Johnson If You're Not White You're Black – Lord Kitchener Norwegian Wood – Cornershop Racist Friend – The Specials Language & Mentality – African Head Charge Hard Times – Pablo Gad UK – Burial (feat. Nigel Farage) Alone Again Or – Love Isolation – Joy Division This is How It Feels – Inspiral Carpets Regret – New Order (feat. Mandy Suthi) Go Now – Bessie Banks Your Autumn of Tomorrow – The Crow The Carnival is Over – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 0:54 – Global Communication Half-Past France – John Cale I’m In Love with a German Film Star – The Passions Europa & The Pirate Twins – Thomas Dolby Come On Back to Me – The Foundations Where Do We Go From Here? – Death Big A Little A – Crass French Disko – Stereolab Stormy Weather – Elizabeth Welch (from Derek Jarman's ‘The Tempest’) We Shall Overcome – Charlie Haden (feat. PJ Harvey reading John Donne) Europe Endless (reprise) – Kraftwerk

JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 19: LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD REDUX (Originally performed live as part of the exhibition 'Last Year at Marienbad Redux', curated by James Voorhies/Bureau for Open Culture at EFA Project Space, New York City, 2013.) Musician James Brown would fine any member of his band if they could not provide him with a new and entirely comprehensive interpretation of 'Last Year at Marienbad' before going on stage. Thus, it is a little known fact that most of the major scholarship surrounding the film was pioneered by Bootsy Collins. (140 springs, 8-10 degrees Celsius, carbonated, used in the treatment of renal, urological, respiratory, rhinitic, asthmatic, digestive, endocrinal and metabolic problems – among others.) PODCAST HERE As Time Goes By - Dooley Wilson Promenade - Francis Seyrig You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra La Valse de Marienbad - Francis Seyrig You Know It's True - Spiritualized Remember a Day - Pink Floyd Six Different Ways - The Cure Try Again - Aaliyah You and Me in Time - Broadcast Time - David Bowie Favourite Films - Television Personalities Final - Francis Seyrig French Film Blurred - Wire When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe - The Divine Comedy The Shadow Garden - Bill Nelson Half Past France - John Cale Sense of Doubt - David Bowie Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn Time, Lapse, Life - Money Mark Reality Poem - Linton Kwesi Johnson Hall of Mirrors - Kraftwerk Marienbad - Barbara Marienbad - Julia Holter Set Me Free (Reprise) - Spacemen 3 Ghosts - Japan Losing Haringey - The Clientele Mirror Script Flipping Ghost - Advanced Sportswear I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel Bitter's End - Roxy Music

Junior Aspirin Records' 'Nice Feeling' Xmas Podcast 2013 SESSION 18 by Mellors & Cooke presented by Nathaniel Mellors, selected over the last year and a bit by Nathaniel & Andy Cooke  PODCAST HERE Tracklisting: 1. Jingle Bell Rock - The Fall 2. All I Want for Xmas Is My 2 Front Teeth - Spike Jones & his City Slickers 3. Christmas Time is Coming (A Street Carol) - Stormy Weather 4. Holy Man - Dennis Wilson 5. Ghostface Xmas - Ghostface Killah 6. The Beatles Xmas Song (1968) - The Beatles 7. Stilla Natt - Ulla Katajayouri 8. Take Me Home Jesus - Link Wray 9. Spread a Little Love on Xmas Day - Destiny's Child 10. Hark The Herald Angels Sing - The Fall 11. Hamburger Xmas - The Throbbing Yoko, Plastic John & Gristle Band  12. JA Xmas Advertorial 2014 - Elven Jones

JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 17: EMPATHY Devised and written by David Reinfurt, compiled and presented by Dan Fox, and produced in the context of 'ALWAYS LIFT INKING ROLLERS WHEN PRESS IS NOT IN OPERATION. IF ROLLERS ARE LEFT TURNING ON THE DRUM THE INK WILL DRY FASTER AND THE ROLLERS WILL BE SUBJECT TO NEEDLESS WEAR' organized by Will Holder at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada.  PODCAST HERE "Things in their alleged places. Things where they think they should be, where they prefer to be. All of the things, just where they are. Things with things of their own. Things obeying no rules, following no orders, filling no prescriptions, looking nowhere for directives. Things with no agendas, no platforms, no purpose. A thing for everything and everything every place, Each and every thing, all over the place. Something, something else, and something else entirely. All together, all the things together make everything there is. And this too, this thing here, is also a thing. This thing is a part of everything else but it doesnt belong to anything. This is simply another additional thing that exists along with all the other things. And that's all there is to it. That's it." How Does It Feel to Feel? - The Creation 24 Track Loop - This Heat Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne Do You Know How It Feels to Be Lonesome - Gram Parsons & I.S.B. How Does it Feel? - Spacemen 3 Windmills of Your Mind - Noel Harrison Occasionally - Dan Fox Known For It - Death Grips Can You Feel It? - Mr Fingers I Can't Understand - Pleasure Zone Things - John S. Hall & Kramer Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos Behind the Door - Vernon Green & The Medallions Friends - Koobas 5D - Death Grips The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes - The Very Things Endless Endless - Kraftwerk Insects Are All Around Us - Money Mark You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover - Bo Diddley My Personal Life - John S. Hall & Kramer Chicken Pussy - Bongwater As We Go Along - The Monkees Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler Earth Angel - The Penguins Stand By Me - Ben E. King Can't Let Go - Evie Sands How You Satisfy Me - Spectrum Leading a Double Life - "Blue" Gene Tyranny