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• The Bopst Show — Episode 27

Just got home from watching the Redskins squeak by the Cleveland Browns 14-11. Best of all, we beat traffic by cutting through DC and completely avoided the slow, painful agony that is Sunday traffic on the Wilson Bridge before and after a game. As Ice Cube would say, today was a good day.

On to the show. Due to the murky legal terrain of Internet broadcasting, I can’t post the track listing of the songs on this podcast here (for that, see the links below) so I’ll just post a little something, something on the songs and the performers you’ll hear if you decide to click play.

And it is my sincerest hope that you do.

The vocal only track of David Lee Roth singing, “Runnin’ With the Devil” that kicks off this edition of the Bopst Show has never failed to make me laugh. I hope it does the same for you. If it doesn’t, I would have to assume that you suffer from one of the following three afflictions:

1. You take life far too seriously.
2. Depression engulfs the entirety of your being like a stale, smothering fart.
3. You are deaf.

William Burroughs is always good for some solid advice. Just remember to stay away from the heroin, kids. It’s a killer.

Yes, I know I played a track from, “Fear of a Black Planet” recently, but in my book of musical truths, you can never play too much Public Enemy. They just make too much sense.

“Zuma” is the best rock record Neil Young & Crazy Horse has ever or will ever make.

If you are looking to end a party quickly, may I suggest cranking the Inuit throat singing sounds of Karin & Kathy Kettler at full volume. At the Richmond Folk Festival, the amount of thoroughly befuddled looks their performance generated was similar to the reactions reasonable people feel when they hear Sarah Palin speak only without all the perfectly justified anger.

Trinidadian Calypso legend Lord Kitchener clocks in with a timely little ditty about race.

Root Boy Slim was the first weirdo musician I ever saw perform live (1982 at the Psychodelly in Maryland). He was DC’s answer to Captain Beefheart and he always had a crack band (in this case, The Sex Change Band) backing him up. It’s too bad more people don’t know about him. He was one of the good ones.

If I want to put myself into a hypnotic state, I put on Ethiopian harpist Alèmu Aga. It works like a charm.

I think that listening to rock music virtually everyday since I was 5 has made me fall in love with Indonesian music. It is just so divorced from western notions of melody and rhythm that it tweaks my ears in ways that Marshall stacks can only dream of. I for one am sick to death of bass, drums, and guitar. Sure, I still love the sound of three together, but there’s a great big world of sound of there and I want to hear as much of it as possible. The Dangdut band from Jakarta is one of my current favorites.

The influential British anarchist collective Crass were always better in theory than in reality. Listen to them in small doses.

Born in Madrid to parents who were Zarzuela performers, Plácido Domingo moved to Mexico at the age of eight. He went to Mexico City’s Conservatory of Music to study piano and conducting, but eventually was sidetracked into vocal training after his voice was discovered. He made his operatic debut at Monterrey as Alfredo in “La Traviata” and then spent two and a half years with the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv, singing 280 performances of 12 different roles. In 1966, he created the title role in the United States premiere of Ginastera’s “Don Rodrigo” at the New York City Opera while appearing there in standard repertory as well. His Metropolitan Opera debut came in 1968, as Maurizio in “Adriana Lecouvreur. He has subsequently appeared there in more than 600 performances of 42 different roles and is now in his 39th consecutive season with the company (2007/08). He appears regularly at all the big opera houses of the world, including Milan’s La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, London’s Covent Garden, Paris’ Bastille Opera, the San Francisco Opera, Chicago’s Lyric Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Real in Madrid, and at the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals.

If The Wizard of Oz were released today, they wouldn’t let kids anywhere near it.

I have listened to Lee “Scratch” Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry, on March 20, 1936, in Kendal, Jamaica) in his many forms and guises almost everyday for the last 6 years. He’s an everyday type of musician.

David Liebe Hart believes he was abducted by aliens, hosts a public-access TV program called “The Junior Christian Bible Story Puppet Show,” draws pictures and performs music for tips on the streets of Los Angeles, and is looking for a woman. What more do you need to know?

I’m a sucker for the vibes especially when Tito Puente is the man behind them.

Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions. That’s all that needs to be said.

One of my favorite movies of all time is, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” directed by Miloš Forma. The 1962 novel written by Ken Kesey ain’t too shabby neither.

The set list for this week’s show is posted on my MySpace page.
Previous show set lists are on my blog.

The Bopst Show Request Line: 804.767.2550

Until next time:

Stay Clean,
BOPST

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