2024 Less Weird Exchange

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Here is our playlist for 2024:

01: January: The Eleven-Sixty Fours – Wallop The Wurlitzer

It’s another installment of Old Guy DIY. Five Inches! Six Songs! Nine Minutes! All The Eleven-SixtyFours, and then some. On the whole, I’m quite happy with the results, and while I’m sure it could be even shorter if I tried, perhaps you will forgive the almost 10 minutes of your time, and turn this one up as loud as you can.

The phrase “Wallop The Wurlitzer” is slang for, “playing bass in a combo,” coined by George Lefferts in the early 50’s. Lefferts was pulp and radio writer, who specialized in Science Fiction, daytime soaps, and “noir lite,” stories of everyperson type characters who find themselves in a situation where clever dialog and being charming manage to help them solve the crime, and usually, get a date, too. He wrote for Frank Sinatra, when he stared in “Rocky Fortune” on the radio.

While it is true, bands would often set up near the jukebox at clubs, and therefore, the “Wurlitzers” would get a fair amount of punishment from the performers, that is certainly a later meaning, and one that may well still be in use now, though it’s not usually a Wurlitzer Jukebox anymore, but some other kind, usually a digital brand with access to the web.

However, at the time Lefferts coined the phrase, Wurlitzer was not yet making jukeboxes, and instead, were better known for their pianos and, in the early 50’s, electric organs, very popular instruments in jazz combos. Because they explored similar sonic territory, the bass player was often standing near the Wurlitzer Organ when they were on stage. And, since bass players were standing and had a fair amount of animation to the way the instrument moved when they played – compared to the largely stationary Organ next to it – from the audience, it might look like the bass is pummeling the organ.

Every unpredictable and certainly our most unusual member of our group, here’s 30 Minutes of new tunes by Cyveiliog, on tape, just in time to get you through the rest of the year. Mixing acoustic performances and drones into unusual songs, this release is similar to their previous cassettes, too. There’s a little something for everyone, but at the same time, it’s very much its own thing that can’t be replicated any other way. Sit back and enjoy!

Hardcore heroes /root_DIR offer eight songs about a certain habit that everyone has, but no one talks about. Some of these songs are old. Some are new. But all of them are from the duo who never change… their shorts… until it is too late. This one comes with a nice sticker, for your skateboard or car.

Five new drafts from Clodewerks, our resident horn player who has been working on tunes in a variety of genres for a number of years. Just under 20 minutes, this disc offers a few different meditations on songs that are in production, by Clodewerks, in a more conventional vein. (They have done a lot of jazz and improvisation in the past.) Drums, bass, and other elements offer a bass for their horn playing, and it is hypnotic, engaging, and fun!

Solo Punk Demos by a loud musical ham. Primer Green is a chance to let humor and music mingle, where bass guitar and singing mix to create a stripped-down musical experience. The jokes are obtuse. The songs are rough drafts. It’s how Primer Green does their thing. Sit back and enjoy.