S9E483 - Herbie Hancock 'Chameleon' with Michael Hampton (Parliament-Funkadelic)

This week, we're honored to have Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton joining us to discuss Herbie Hancock and his groundbreaking song 'Chameleon' off of the 1973 album Head Hunters. Let's get FUNKY! Songs discussed in this episode: Underwater Rimes - Digital Underground; Words Of Wisdom - 2Pac; The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary - Frank Zappa; Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man (Dub Mix) - Public Enemy; Cellphone's Dead - Beck; Me vs Me - Biz Markie; (Not Just) Knee Deep - Funkadelic; King Kong Theme, Savanna - Michael Hampton; Good To Your Earhole - Funkadelic; Super Bad - James Brown; Chameleon - Herbie Hancock; Savage Beat, Leaving The Island - Michael Hampton; Chameleon - Herbie Hancock; 101 Eastbound - Fourplay; Chameleon - Herbie Hancock; Dance The Night - Dua Lipa; Fight Or Flight - Michael Hampton

For this special BONUS episode, we took a break from records to discuss a MOVIE with returning guest Les Norris - because why not?? It's 'That Movie Got Me High' featuring the 1982 classic: Fast Times At Ridgemont High! "All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."       - Jeff Spicoli

The first album by an American band to be released on British independent label 4AD, Throwing Muses' stunningly beautiful 1986 debut got this week's guest Ronnie Barnett (The Muffs) supremely and hopelessly high! Truth be told, the record's combination of gorgeous complexity, serene tension and emotional power STILL sounds fresh 40 years on. Songs discussed in this episode: Wave Of Mutilation (Pixies cover) - Throwing Muses; Kids In America - The Muffs; Finished - Throwing Muses; Agony (Live at Fort Apache, 1995) - The Muffs; Call Me - Throwing Muses; Feed The Tree - Belly; Green, Hate My Way - Throwing Muses; Johnny Hit and Run Paulene - X; Vicky's Box, Rabbits Dying - Throwing Muses; Watchin' You - KISS; America (She Can't Say No), Fear, Fear (The Doghouse Cassette Demo), Stand Up  - Throwing Muses; When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky - Bob Dylan; White Lies - Jason & The Scorchers; Soul Soldier, Delicate Cutters - Throwing Muses; New Love (Live at Fort Apache, 1995) - The Muffs

This week's returning guest, Canadian documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig, brings a record many before him have mentioned but never pulled the trigger to tackle. Released in February 1977 to lukewarm commercial reception, Television's stunning debut 'Marquee Moon' is considered by many to be one of the greatest rock guitar albums of all time. Let's DO this! Songs discussed in this episode: Marquee Moon (Television cover) - Kronos Quartet; Halloween - The Dream Syndicate; That's All I Know (Right Now) - The Neon Boys; Prove It (Eno Demos), Venus De Milo (Eno Demos) - Television; In The Flesh - Blondie; Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones; Betrayal Takes Two - Richard Hell; See No Evil - Television; Divine Intervention - Matthew Sweet; Venus - Television; Venus (Television cover) - Jeff & Spencer Tweedy; I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses; Friction - Television; Screamin' Fist - Viletones; Marquee Moon - Television; Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis; Errors Of My Way - Wishbone Ash; Elevation - Television; Town Without Pity - Gene Pitney; Blank Generation - Richard Hell; Misty Eyes - Richard Lloyd; Guiding Light - Television; American Music - Violent Femmes; Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground; Days, Prove It, Torn Curtain - Television; Souvenir From A Dream - Tom Verlaine; Marquee Moon (Television cover feat. Richard Lloyd) - Ellen Sundberg

This week's returning guest, Woody Compton, brings us Social Distortion and their 2026 release 'Born To Kill'. Their first studio album in fifteen years, it's both a return to form and statement of purpose - and Woody makes the case that leader Mike Ness STILL has some fire in his belly and the songwriting chops to back it up. Songs discussed in this episode: Ball and Chain (Honky Tonk version) - Mike Ness; Prison Bound, Ball and Chain - Social Distortion; Ballad Of A Lonely Man - Mike Ness; Machine Gun Blues, Born To Kill - Social Distortion; Search & Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges; No Way Out - Social Distortion; Goin' Out - U.S. Bombs; Ooh La La - The Faces; The Way Things Were - Social Distortion; Will The Wolf Survive - Los Lobos; Tonight, Partners In Crime, Crazy Dreamer, Wicked Game, Walk Away (Don't Look Back) - Social Distortion; Kids Of The Black Hole - Adolescents; Never Goin' Back Again, Don't Keep Me Hanging On, Over You, Death Or Glory (Clash cover) - Social Distortion

This week's guest, record/hot sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl, El Enojado Hot Sauce), brings us singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) and his 1981 solo release 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam'. Originally recorded in 1979 as an intended follow up album to his 'Bill Nelson's Red Noise' project, EMI declined to release the recordings and the material remained unreleased until Bill licensed the original stereo mixes of the album to Mercury Records, who issued the album in the Spring of 1981. Already far ahead of the 80s New Wave curve, it's a futuristic, forward-looking art-pop gem of a record! Songs discussed in this episode: Do You Dream In Colour - Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers (Live at Metropolis Studios, London); Steamboat Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers; Hey Hey - Big Bill Broonzy; Near East - Bill Nelson; Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) - Bill Nelson's Red Noise; Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe; Stay Young - Bill Nelson's Red Noise; Acceleration, Banal - Bill Nelson; Candy-O - The Cars; Maid In Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe; Living In My Limousine, Vertical Games - Bill Nelson; Underpass - John Foxx; Disposable, False Alarms - Bill Nelson; Charade - Skids; Decline And Fall, Life Runs Out Like Sand, A Kind Of Loving, Do You Dream In Colour - Bill Nelson; Do You Dream In Colour - Cate Le Bon ft. Parquet Courts (Live); U.H.F. - Bill Nelson; Elephant Talk - King Crimson; Youth Of Nation On Fire, Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam, Instantly Yours - Bill Nelson; Death Riff U.S.A. - Ghetto Scheist; Lonesome Cowboy Bill (Velvet Underground cover) - Bill Nelson & the Roy Rodgers Rocketeers

This week, returning guests Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto (hackedepicciotto) join us to discuss musician David Eugene Edwards' (16 Horsepower) offshoot project Wovenhand, and the stunning 2022 release 'Silver Sash' Songs discussed in this episode: Ain't No Sunshine - Wovenhand; Einig, Lichtung - hackedepicciotto; Domina - Crime & the City Solution; Long Horn - Wovenhand; Black Soul Choir, Low Estate - 16 Horsepower; Tempel Timber - Wovenhand; Destroy The Nations - Nihilist Spasm Band; Acacia, Duat Hawk - Wovenhand; All In The Palm - David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke; Dead Dead Beat, Omaha, Sicagnu, The Lash - Wovenhand; Tanz Debil - Einstürzende Neubauten; 8 of 9, Silver Sash - Wovenhand; Zeitenwende - hackedepicciotto

This week we set the way-back machine to North Shore, Massachusetts 1986, as returning guest Tim Hinely (Dagger Zine, Where The Wild Gigs Were) brings us Moving Targets and their blistering debut album 'Burning In Water'. It's wicked good!! Songs discussed in this episode: Bad Blood - Kenny Chambers; Little Tiny Pieces - Bullet LaVolta; Nothing Changes, The Other Side - Moving Targets; I Apologize - Hüsker Dü; Faith - Moving Targets; That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission Of Burma; Let Me Know Why - Moving Targets; One More Step - Sorry; All Going Out Together - Big Dipper; Shape Of Somethings - Moving Targets; Sounds Of Laughter - T.S.O.L.; Criminal - Dredd Foole and the Din; Stone - American Pulverizer; Less Than Gravity, Almost Certain, Urban Dub, Always Calling, Underground, MTV - Moving Targets; MTV Get Off The Air - Dead Kennedys; Fun World - Mission Of Burma; Funtime, Coming Home - Moving Targets; Dead Wrong (Bullet LaVolta cover) - Ken Chambers Band (Live 1994)

For this special BONUS episode, we asked our Patrons to send in some of their favorite ENDINGS (Outros, Codas...etc) of songs that - you know - got them high! Songs discussed in this episode: The Chain - Fleetwood Mac; Layla - Derek and the Dominos; Celebrated Summer - Hüsker Dü; Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin; Purple Rain - Prince; A Day In The Life - The Beatles; Country Pie - Bob Dylan; Therapy - The Damned; Kicked It In The Sun - Built To Spill; Only In Dreams - Weezer; Get Me - Dinosaur Jr; The Most Exalted Potentate Of Love - The Cramps; Lip Gloss - Pulp; I'm A Man - The Yardbirds; Madonna Nude - Half Japanese; Little Man With a Gun in His Hand - Minutemen; Man Is The Loneliest Animal - Uranium Club; Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd; Philadelphia - Magazine; When Winter Comes - Rheostatics; La Dolce Vita - Fay Wray; Run From Me - Timber Timbre; Seven and Seven Is... - Love; I Believe - Buzzcocks; A Quick One (While He's Away) - The Who

Alan Peter Kuperschmidt - better known as Al Kooper - is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician who throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s was a prolific studio musician, playing organ on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", French horn and piano on the Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and lead guitar on Rita Coolidge's "The Lady's Not for Sale". He also formed and named Blood, Sweat & Tears, produced a number of one-off collaboration albums such as the Super Session album with guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, and was a successful manager and producer, recording Lynyrd Skynyrd's first three albums. This week's guest, singer, songwriter and retired record exec Glenn Morrow (Bar/None Records, Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help) brings us Kooper's second solo album, 1969's 'You Never Know Who Your Friends Are' Great guest and GREAT conversation! Songs discussed in this episode: Plans For Nigel (XTC cover) - Al Kooper; Beatle Bones, That's That - Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help; Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan; You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones; Brand New Day - Al Kooper; Albert's Shuffle - Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper; Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat & Tears; Magic In My Socks, Lucille - Al Kooper; Time Of The Season - The Zombies; Too Busy Thinking About My Baby - Marvin Gaye; Too Busy Thinking About My Baby, First Time Around - Al Kooper; Begin Again - Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help; Loretta (Union Turnpike Eulogy), Jolie, Blues, Part IV - Al Kooper; This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys; You Never Know Who Your Friends Are - Al Kooper; Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends - Phil Ochs; Care Of Cell 44 - The Zombies; The Great American Marriage/Nothing - Al Kooper; I Don't Know Why I Love You - Stevie Wonder; I Don't Know Why I Love You - Al Kooper; Love You 'Til I Don't - Otis Ball; She's A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones; In Love With Love - Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help; Mourning Glory Story - Harry Nilsson; Without Her - Blood, Sweat & Tears; Mourning Glory Story, Anna Lee (What Can I Do For You), I'm Never Gonna Let You Down  - Al Kooper; In Love With Love - Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help