The Songs Vin Played for 09/10/2000

SCHEDULE UP UPCOMING GUESTS:

9/17      EMMYLOU HARRIS    plus
9/17      SID GRIFFIN (of Western Electric and The Long Ryders)
9/24      DOLLY VARDEN
10/1      RYAN ADAMS
10/15   TONY LEVIN

There are three essential Commandments:

     Respect The Elders.
     Embrace The New.
     Encourage The Impractical and Improbable,
     Without Bias.
                                                       — David Fricke

These are the songs I played on
Vin Scelsa's IDIOT'S DELIGHT®

on 102.7 WNEW-FM New York on 9/10/00

This used to be open country twenty-five years ago – a place where you’d see bobcat, mule deer, rabbit, quail, fox, before everything was poached and encroached out of existence. I remember stud farms here, fields running on forever .... Now it’s condos. Gray wet canyons of them. And who’s in those condos? Meat-eaters. Skin-cancer patients. People who know no more about animals – or nature, or the world that used to be – than their computer screens want them to know ....

– T.C. Boyle, in his novel A Friend Of The Earth (Viking, 2000)

FOSTER & LLOYD Whoa (opening theme)

THE YOUNGBLOODS Darkness Darkness
AIMEE MANN & MICHAEL PENN   Reason To Believe   (Springsteen; pre-release)
(from the forthcoming Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska – V/A)
DION   If I Should Fall Behind   (Springsteen)
PAUL PENA   Gonna Move   (pre-release)

STEVE MILLER BAND   Jet Airliner   (written by Paul Pena)
PAUL PENA   Jet Airliner
(his original 1973 version, never before released, out later this month)
THE BAND    Up On Cripple Creek
THE GOURDS   Gangsta Lean
PHIL CODY   We Could’ve Had It All
RICKIE LEE JONES   Show Biz Kids   (expurgated version)
CHRISTIAN McBRIDE   Aja   (Steely Dan)
THE PUSH STARS   Bad Sneakers   (Steely Dan)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG & THE HOT SEVEN   Twelfth Street Rag

SPORT MURPHY   Treat Me Like An Artist
BOB HILLMAN   Everyone’s An Actor In New York
ELTON JOHN   Tiny Dancer
JOSÉ CARRERAS   El eco de tu voz   (The echo of your voice)
U2   Beautiful Day   (new single)

LEE FELDMAN   Williamsburg Bridge
SPORT MURPHY   Home Is Far Away
BOB DYLAN   Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

T.C. BOYLE, author – guest – conversation
http://www.tcboyle.com

Tom Boyle is one of my favorite novelists. He has been a guest on the show several times over the years. We talked tonight about his new novel A Friend Of The Earth (Viking) which is a satirical (and very touching) look at eco-terrorism in the 1980s and a view into what the future of 2025 might hold in store. I played a few related songs during the visit:

TOM WAITS   Earth Died Screaming
SPIRIT   Nature’s Way
10,000 MANIACS   Eden
BRAD MEHLDAU   29 Palms

YOUSSOU N’DOUR   Mademba
PAUL SIMON   Cool Cool River
VICTORIA WILLIAMS   Water To Drink
TOM TOM CLUB   Let There Be Love
BEBEL GILBERTO   Lonely
RICKIE LEE JONES   Someone To Watch Over Me
MILES DAVIS   Once Upon A Summertime
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR   Hamsadhwani Table Duet
OASIS   Champagne Supernova
EMMYLOU HARRIS   Michelangelo

WIMME Nággu – Argument
(indigenous music from Finland)

RYAN ADAMS   My Winding Wheel
CHRISSIE HYNDE & ADAM SEYMOUR   Nebraska   (Springsteen; pre-release)
ERIC ANDERSEN & LOU REED   You Can’t Relive The Past
THE WALLFLOWERS   Sleepwalker
DAR WILLIAMS   Spring Street
DAN HICKS & THE HOT LICKS   I Scare Myself
(with Rickie Lee Jones)
WIMME   Baksamat – Lips /
WIMME   Suoldni – Dew
CHRISTIAN McBRIDE BAND   Walking On The Moon   (Sting)
(with James Carter, bass clarinet)
THE POLICE   Walking On The Moon

JASON WILBUR w/ JOHN PRINE The Galway Waltz

RICHARD “GROOVE” HOLMES Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me

Show ended at 2:15 AM.

NOTE: I'm not able to write the extensive notes I used to. Instead I've put web links to certain artist sites.

There is finally an Idiot's Delight t-shirt!
I designed it myself. It's simple, low key and to the point. It's short-sleeved, in heather gray, with very dark blue (almost black) lettering. The "3 essential commandments" are on the front and the show name is on the back, all quite unobtrusive, with no corporate or commercial logos anywhere. The shirt is only available through World Hunger Year (it was a Hungerthon '99 premium), for a $50 donation to that fine organization. For further information, call WHY at (212) 629-8850 or visit <http://www.hungerthon.org> or <http://www.worldhungeryear.org>.

NEW FEATURE: Check out the Idiot's Delight Audio Archives, where we'll be storing current guest
appearances as well as dipping into the past for guest segments from some of my favorite shows. We’re
limited as to space, so each guest segment will only remain up for a few weeks; and space limitations also mean that the segments are available in mono, not stereo. Please alert your friends in other parts of the world that there's now a way to listen to some portion of Idiot's Delight!!
The link is: <http://www.wnew.com/audio/scelsa>

And while you're checking out audio on the web, please visit a new web site called ArtistEnt.com at http://www.ArtistEnt.com where I have a new Internet-only free form show! “Vin Scelsa's Live At Lunch” http://www.liveatlunch.com is heard live from my home studio Tuesday thru Thursday from noon to 3 PM ET (and repeated immediately from 3 PM to 6 PM ET so that it is on at noon for the West Coast). In addition, each show is archived for one week and available to listen to on demand. ArtistEnt.com also site features shows by artists such as Peter Wolf and Rosanna Arquette and special features from Todd Rundgren, Scott Weiland, Sugar Ray and lots more!

VIN SCELSA's IDIOT's DELIGHT ® is produced by KARA MANNING.
The engineers for all guest performances are DAVID VANDERHEYDEN
and PAUL ALTEMUS.
Very often they are assisted by my Earnest Intern, SEAN "Shoe Hand" CLEARY.

Vin can be reached via e-mail at <idvin@tellurian.com>.

Engineer Paul has his own personal web page <http://www.engineerpaul.com>, which also contains "The Songs I Played" every week, as well as some of the digital photos he takes of our guests.

PLEASE NOTE:

The direct link to the Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight page at the WNEW 102.7 web site is:
http://wnew.com/local_archives/onair_personalities/idiots_delight.html

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