I'm Mac.
I'm John.
I'm Jim.
We're in the band Superchunk and we're gonna tell you what's in our bag.
We are in San Francisco, so I got a documentary on the black experience at Alcatraz.
'The Black Rock.'
They totally separated the blacks from the whites.
All black inmates was on the right and everybody else was everywhere else.
So it was totally segregated.
I got a Wayne Shorter record that I'm not familiar with.
It was recorded in 1970 but, based on the weird
cover art style, it was probably released a few years later, it looks like.
Amebix. Crusty gutter punk from England.
Is that late period?
That's like Maximum Rock n Roll stuff, right?
I'm not sure. It is either just three songs, but one of them is 'Arise'
which was an LP. So it might be that it's... I don't know what it is.
'Beware of Mr. Baker,' a new documentary on Ginger Baker.
I've seen it a couple times and it's great.
And he's everything you hear he is.
The general public is so fucking dumb.
That, you know, like anybody could think Bonham was anywhere near this kind of drummer I am
is just extraordinary.
Bonham had technique, but he couldn't swing a fucking sack of shit.
This is a record by Major Harris.
It's called 'My Way,' in which he does a version of 'My Way,' which I haven't heard.
I think I've only heard the single, 'Love Won't Let Me Wait.'
But it's a Philly soul record
from a great era for Philly soul records.
Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler's second symphony. One of my favorite symphonies.
And I have probably six, seven, or eight performances of this.
But this is Leonard Bernstein, who was the speaker at my college graduation.
And he handed me my diploma.
Wow.
And then he died shortly thereafter.
I rewatched 'Citizen Kane' recently
and it got me thinking about William Randolph Hearst, and this is a documentary on him.
And I actually don't know a ton about him.
Hearst, for his part, made his displeasure known
so that if the film, or Orson Welles, were going to be mentioned at all, that's a big if
it would be in a negative light and the film would be disparaged, or in many cases ignored.
Louis B. Mayer, his longtime friend and ally
called Charles Koerner, the head of RKO, and offered to buy the negative
in order to burn it, in order to destroy it.
And Koerner, to his great credit said no.
Have you been to Hearst Castle?
What is it?
You might want to go after you watch the movie.
Oh it's where he had all his stuff, right?
Yeah.
It's amazing.
It's what what do you call it was based on.
Yeah.
Utopia, no, it was...
What's the name of the house?
What is it?
Xanadu?
Xanadu.
This is a Battalion Of Saints record that I don't have but
the only time I ever saw Battalion Of Saints was here in San Francisco.
Jackie DeShannon. A twofer.
My favorite... one of my favorite songwriters, one of my favorite singers.
And cute as a button, y'know, so...
Just go ahead and say it.
She had a relationship with Jimmy Page.
She's, y'know, deep waters.
What was her big hit?
She wrote a lot of hits for other people.
She's famous for 'Needles and Pins' but Sonny Bono actually wrote that.
She didn't do... there's a Circle Jerks song that...
I don't think she ever worked with the Circle Jerks.
It was a cover of hers. 'Put A Little Love in Your Heart.' Was that her?
Uh, yeah, that is her.
Full circle.
'Evocateur,' a new documentary on Morton Downey Jr.
that I've seen and it's great.
He related totally on an emotional level. There was no intellectual level for Mort.
I'll stick to the issues, pal.
If I had a slime like you in the White House, I'd puke on you.
His downfall comes when he goes into a restroom in an airport
and in order to get press, he claims that he was beaten up by some white supremacists.
And he paints a swastika on his forehead
But then it comes out that the swastika, it was obvious that it was written in reverse, like in a mirror.
That was a great era for television.
Yes.
This is called 'Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times and Nigerian Boogie Badness.'
There's so many compilations and reissues of African music
but a lot of it is based in the 60s and 70s.
So this is like an era that is not covered as much.
Like early 80s, so I'm looking forward to hearing this.
Gorguts' new release. Technical death metal from Quebec.
We were reading a review of it in the New York Times on the plane this morning
and I'm sure I'll hate it.
But, you know, every once in awhile, like Meshuggah, bands like that
they fill exactly what you need in the day.
This is a copy of 'Off the Wall' by Michael Jackson.
We recently gave our daughter a turntable for her birthday
and we listen to Michael Jackson a lot on my iPod
but I thought it'd be cool if she had an actual copy of a Michael Jackson record to listen to herself.
And I don't have this on vinyl and it's my favorite record by him.
So I got 'Off The Wall.'
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