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B.U.Z.Z. Radio Basement #10: Cleaning out the archive for Grand Theft Radio

December 5 will be the 5th anniversary of The Buzz Fugazi Show debut on Grand Theft Radio Live365.com, so I'm cleaning out the audio archive for Doc to have new shows to bootleg for his Buzz Fugazi marathon. These remixes feature never been podcasted audio from different points in the last 5 years.

This includes Katya from '05 and last summer. Mary Jane Marvel from July and December '08. There's a lot more in the vault from those Katya and MJ Marvel sessions. The bit with Mikey is from our first Over The Top summer of love in 2005.

The coda is a a small sample from GTR in December '04

Music featured on this show includes The Rugburns, No Empathy, Cheaptrick, The Soft Boys, The Donna's, New Order, X, and recent music by Kinobe.

Listen for the rare version of Odor Ideology by Diet Christ from almost 20 years ago with Bill Hartley on vocals and guitar.

Bill died, 46 years old, just before this past Thanksgiving. He was unable to recover from a massive heart attack he suffered on Halloween. Despite his outspoken humor and honesty, Bill was rather unassuming about being an underground guitar legend and embodied the Non Rock Star Guitar Hero ethic of the DIY scene where he was much respected and loved. Dude could play the hell out of a guitar.

The public FACEBOOK group Bill Hartley Was A Musical Genius has a cross section of memories and anecdotes that describe him better than I ever could.

Mikey and I have discussed a more fitting tribute to Bill than the shout out on this show. Meanwhile, Patrick's MSIG ARMY YouTube has a lot of old personal and performance videos of Bill, Rocket Propelled Goat on MySpace features some of Bill's Diet Christ guitar and vocal work remixed in an outstanding way with Blaq Mummy, a band in the Czech Republic. Listen for samples of all of that on our upcoming tribute.

My condolences go out to the many people who are grieving this loss. May your memories of him continue to be a blessing in your lives.

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NEW - B.U.Z.Z. Radio Basement #9 --- RAJ tribute

It's been a year and a half since we posted a new podcast on MSIG ARMY. Real life has a way of interfering with our internet fun. Shortly after the last show was posted, our friend Raj died of a heart attack. He was known on the program as "Lamont from Rogers Park"---he was a character and a half. He was a Palestinian nationalist that I engaged in public shouting matches. We sometimes walked away from each other in anger. We were frequently mistaken as brothers. I invariably replied we were distant cousins.

Despite our militant differences---me a believer, him an atheist, me a progressive, him a libertarian, and of course, the Palestinian/Zionist thing... we saw our common ground as Chicago neighborhood guys. We shared a hope for a better more peaceful future for humanity, even if we were often cynical about its potential. We shared a geeky love of science fiction, chess and the dog and pony show of electoral politics. He offered me friendship and respect and invited me into his home for coffee, chess and conversation when I was completely down and out and barely scraping through life... and was someone I shared many arguments, many laughs, and many thoughtful moments with. My journals are filled with odd fragments that came from my visits to his home.

Last night I was listening to the final mix of this show and one of the North Avenue chess sharks tried to get me into a game. Some chess player in a coffee shop at 3 am.... who turns out to know Raj and can tell a fond Raj story? Not a surprise. We talked about him at length.

Raj was street smart, tough and cynical, but he had a big heart and that's how people remember him. If it seems odd that someone remembered for being so opinionated and stubborn and crazy could also be remembered fondly by so many for being generous, and funny, and smart... well, that was Raj. He could play guitar when he felt like it and he was a veteran. He was supposed to be an enemy, but he was my neighbor and my friend and I miss him.

1. Bla Bla Bla --- Toots and the Maytals
2. Chinese Rock --- Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers (live)
3. Avenue A --- The Dictators (live at the Empty Bottle, Chicago 1999)
4. Turn, Turn, Turn --- Pete Seeger (live)
5. Ward 81 --- Fuzztones
6. So it Goes --- Rockpile w/ Nick Lowe (live 1978)
7. Road to Rock 'n' Roll --- Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
8. Passing Through --- Pete Seeger

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B.U.Z.Z. Radio Basement #8: Brain-damaged Deja Vu

One more time in the M.S.I.G. Army vault... one more time if you please... some of my favorite moments and some of my favorite music from 2 and a half years improvising shtick and learning digital production with punk Jedi-master Mikey.

I get by with a little help from my friends on this one... Joe the Assyrian digitally re-edited and re-mastered as Fake Mayor Daley...unanimously regarded as the funniest bit ever done on MSIG Radio and more proof that we are bi-partisan, equal opportunity satirists (though the current Bush Administration holds a special place in our hearts and in our spleens), Doc Canonbong as President Satan, Nurse Terryn not wanting to be on the radio, Lamont from Rogers Park asking if there's anything more amateur and unprofessional than this, Mary Jane Marvel... who brought back the sexy; and last but not least, the fearless leader of odor ideology... Mikey Snot, my co-host on Over The Top.

That's my boy, Buzz Jr., at the start... "Hey, you're listening to my dad's show" was from Dec. '04 when he had recently turned 3... then at the end of the show, watching the World Series with me in '05 just after he turned 4. I neglected to dig up the old sound clip from Over The Top when Mikey was arguing with me that the White Sox would not even make the playoffs. Thanks also to Katya for her special guest appearance on an earlier show. I hope I get a chance to use some of the outtakes from that on future shows... look for them in December '08.

Special thanks to Jim Willgoose for sending me the wonderfully produced cover version of Apache by one of the hundreds of nameless, unfamous bar bands he was in. Congrats to him for finally using his doctorate in philosophy for teaching philosophy. I hope it won't be the death of his musical career, but a new chapter in it.

And congrats to me for taking my training and experience as an organizer and going back to the campaign trail with it. I am a Volunteer for America... Volunteer for America...

In addition to a few outtakes and surprises, the songs on this show...

1. Dick About It---M.O.T.O.
2. Gangrene---The Rugburns
3. The Ballad of G.W.---MDC
4. The Italian Song---The Gits
5. Side Effects---Tension Wire
6. I Wanna Destroy You---The Soft Boys
7. Rat Patrol---Naked Raygun
8. Illin Oi---U.S. Skeletons

Thanks to Kelly for putting up with Mikey and I having our shouting matches in the basement, and Mikey for the hundreds of old school professionally drawn shots of espresso... the Italian Song is especially for him... and to Mary Jane for enjoying the show so much, she became a part of it.

Thanks to everyone who enabled my recent sabbatical... The Ex, Les and the kids, Robert and the Herzog girls, Paul Matalonis and Kathy Livingston...the Unitarians... Huber, etc. Thanks again to Mikey and MSIG Army, Brady C., House of Blues San Diego and Turbonegro for providing Mary Jane and I with the ultimate loud, throbbing punk rock date.

Shalom, yo.

R.I.P. Bambi. Zog shot Bambi because Bambi is tender.

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Over The Top 14 Offensive Anniversary and Reunion Show For anyone keeping track, June marks the 4th anniversary of the first Over The Top show posted by MSIG ARMY. Punks. Politics. Prose.

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bands and songs on this show...

1. Crypt-Keeper Five--In search of the Anti-Christ
2. Husker Du--Eight Miles High (live, 1985)
3. Blaggers--House of the Fascist Scum
4. Misfits--Astro Zombies
5. GBH--Children of Dust
6. New York Dolls--Vietnamese Baby
7. Jefferson Airplane--Good Shepherd
8. Minutemen--History Lesson Part II
9. Diet Christ--Evil Disease
10. Ramones--Howling At The Moon (Ramones version)

Show number 13 Buzz Fugazi nterviews the fake Mayor of Chicago and an MSIG Army tribute to the women of Punk Rock. We tried to represent all but there were too many bands to choose from. So some bands that we rehashed for this show from earlier shows and added some new bands and some 90's as well. A nice mix of old 80's and new stuff to rock your joint. We might carry the theme over for the next show. SO 14 will be coming around in the next millennium or so. Punk Rock. Thanks to Joe the Assyrian as the fake Mayor of Chicago.

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Songs played on this podcast show.

1. Horror Pops - Where You Can't Follow
2. Sin 34 - Live or Die
3. Babes In Toyland - 22
4. Treason - Dropout
5. So Unloved - FTW
6. The Groodies - Hope you Die
7. The Gits - Drinking Songs
8. X-ray Specs - Identity

Show number 12 Sorry, no interviews this time just some bits and pieces of Over the Top insanity. We take a poke at Ann Coulter and all the fine, fine public self-servants that have been raping this country for way too long. The honorable mentions are Donald Rumsfeld, Kathrine Harris, George Allen, and my personal favorite self serving public servant Rick Santorum. Opening sequence song by Throbbing Gristle off their album Heathen Earth. Also used the song Na-Na-Na by Steam for the goodbye epilogue. You also have to hear the bit by Stephanie Miller talking to Rush wanna bee Sock. And they refer to us as the lunatic left.

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Songs played on this podcast show.

1. Les Thugs - Stop the War
2. Leadbelly - Concertina Hanging Music
3. Propagandhi - Anti-Manifesto
4. FEAR - Public Hangings
5. Groodies - Hell City
6. Oi Polloi - Sgrudadh (don't ask me it is Gaelic)

Show number 11 Interviews with Vic Bondi and George Tabb, remote commentary by Buzz and mikey via cell phones, Brazil, SPFODP, Bill Moyers, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the usual suspects. Special Thanks to Vic and George. Especially Vic for putting up with my son and I in that Tribeca hotel room... Also thanks to the RSA guys for giving us a sneak peak at their new album that is coming out. In this show we play the exclusive never before heard "Goldstein" by RSA! We love NY.

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Songs played on this show.

1. Furious George - I am the King
2. Servotron - SRA
3. MOTO - Dick About It
4. Hüsker Dü - Real World
5. Report Suspicious Activity - Goldstein
6. Dicks - Police (Force)

Show number 10 So once again, we finally got our act together and put together a new show for 2006. . Show 11 is already started so stay tuned for more MSIG podcasts.

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Songs played on this show.

1. Fang - Diary of a Mad Werewolf
2. Stitches - 7 girls in 7 days
3. Electric Frankenstein - Back at you
4. NOFX - 100x Fuckadeer
5. Hostile Amish - It's No Fun
6. Zero Boys - I need inergy
7. Diet Christ - Onward Christian Soldiers
8. Joy Division - Leaders of Men
9. Devastation - Cranial Hemorhage
10. Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards - 1%
11. EMG - Red Banner

Show number 9 So after a 5 month hiatus, we finally got our act together and put together a new show for 2006. Call us lame if you will, but this show is packed with weird fun and is represented by over 25 years of punk rock. We also have special call in interviews with our left coast time traveling scene reporter Adonis and a quick conversation with Frank Caimpi, of the famous Chicago band Generation Waste and now with Tension Wire. Show 10 is already almost in the can and the songs will rock you so stay tuned for more MSIG podcasts.

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Songs played on this show.

1. Report Suspicious Activity - Bin Laden determined to strike in the US
2. Feederz - 1984
3. Reagan Youth - Degenerated
4. False Prophets - Banana Split Republic
5. Apostles on Strike - Good Cop Bad Cop
6. Tension Wire - Side Effects
7. Nitro Jr. - Wake Up Call
8. Generation Waste - Broken Glass
9. DOA - America the Beautiful

Well here it is the infamous Impulse Manslaughter interview that was conducted at the Lost Cross House back in January 1987. The tape that was lost for 15 years and then unearthed in a box in my attic, discovered while moving into my new home. The tape had to be manually forwarded to the end and then back in order to loosen it up so that I could digitize it for the MSIG archive vaults. This is an audio podcast interview.

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Impulse Manslaughter songs played on this show.

1. Sedation
2. Chaos
3. They Start The War
4. Contradiction