You Know Who... Is Testing the Gear

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Ian Carr, 1973
Photo by Brian O'Connor
First show of 2026 and it was a doozy. There were quite a few issues with equipment, with one piece of gear crapping out completely, and another having connection issues. Consequently, the episode needed quite a bit of repair before the show reel was posted. Apologies to those who listened live and had to suffer through the crackling and dropouts in the right channel, and thanks to those who stuck it out.
 
That said, I was able to “fix it in post,” and it was a decent, if haphazard, “something old – something new” kind of show (hey, I’m old, if it’s from the new millennium, it’s new as far as I’m concerned). Some punk, some country, some jazz, some prog, some bossa nova. You can accuse this show of being stuck in the past, but not of being homogenous.
 
Click here to check it out:
LIC Radio 1/5/2026
 
 
 
Ian Carr's Nucleus
“Dawn Choruses”
(Ian Carr)
BBC Studios, London, UK, 12/12/81
 
 
Uncle Tupelo
“D. Boon”
(Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Mike Heidorn)
Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC, 10/28/90
 
 
Wilco
Jeff Tweedy, 1996
Photo by Paul Bergen

“Poor Places”
(Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett)
The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA, 11/18/04
Studio version released on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot  (Self-released, 2001/Nonesuch, 2002)
 
 
The Zombies
“Nights on Fire”
(Colin Blunstone, Sebastian Santa Maria)
From The Return of The Zombies  (RCA/BMG, 1990)
 
 
XTC
“Saturn Boy”
(Andy Partidge)
CBS Recording Studios, London UK, 1/5/77
 
 
Sex Pistols
“I Wanna Be Me”
(Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten)
The Great Southeast Music Hall, Atlanta, GA, 1/5/78
 
 
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge
Rita & Kris

“Me and Bobbie McGee”
(Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster)
The Bottom Line, New York, NY,  1/5/79
Studio version released on Kristofferson  (Monument, 1970)
 
 
Willie Nelson
“Shotgun Willie”
(Willie Nelson)
Gilley’s, Pasadena, TX, 1/5/78
Studio version released on Shotgun Willie  (Atlantic, 1973)
 
 
Rory Gallagher
“Big Guns”
(Rory Gallagher)
Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1/5/84
Studio version released on Jinx  (Chrysalis/Mercury, 1981)
 
 
Elvis Costello
With Steve Nieve and The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
“Accidents Will Happen”*
(Elvis Costello)
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, SE, 1/5/99
Studio version released on Armed Forces  (Radar/Columbia, 1979)
(*Includes excerpt from “Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David)
 
 
Elvis Costello with Steve Nieve
“This House Is Empty Now”
(Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach)
Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, SE, 1/5/99
Studio version recorded by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach; released on Painted from Memory  (Mercury, 1998)
 
 
Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats
Sam Phillips

“Rocket 88”
(Jackie Brenston)
Single A-side (Chess, 1951)
 
 
The Prisonaires
“Just Walkin’ in the Rain”
(Johnny Bragg, Robert Riley)
Single A-side (Sun, 1952)
 
 
Rufus Thomas
“Bear Cat”
(Sam Phillips)
Single A-side (Sun, 1953)
 
An “answer song” to Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog”
 
 
Stan Getz & João Gilberto
“The Girl from Ipanema”
(Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel)
From Getz/Gilberto  (Verve, 1964)
 
 
Paul Simon
Phil Ramone, 1985
Photo by Ebet Roberts

“50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”
(Paul Simon)
From Still Crazy After All These Years  (Columbia, 1975)
 
 
Billy Joel
“Pressure”
(Billy Joel)
From The Nylon Curtain  (Family Productions/Columbia, 1982)
 
 
Beat
“The Sheltering Sky”
(Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Bill Bruford)
From Neon Heat Disease - Live in Los Angeles  (Inside Out/Sony, 2025)
Recorded at the United Theatre on Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 11/10/24
Originally recorded by King Crimson; released on Discipline  (E.G./ Warner Bros., 1982)

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