It began as the usual SwaG! for the first hour. And the Green Slime was without incident... and then Mr. Guano decided to comment on this story, “Recording Industry Decries AM-FM Broadcasting as ‘A Form of Piracy.’”
It would seem that the RIAA would like radio disk jockeys to stop playing music for free. You know -- promoting songs, giving artists exposure. It is a stunning reversal from their traditional practice of payola.
The Dr. (of the following program “Rock and/or Roll”) had to clean the mic off.
SwaG! Hour One: We begin with the extended theme to Mr. Guano’s favorite TV program, “All In the Family.” “Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days.” He gets into hard-drivin’ rock and roll, then just gets weird and spacey. Really -- follow Bo Diddley with Add N to X, Chrome and Funkadelic? He doesn’t even do drugs harder than Kentucky bourbon and cigars and lots of strong coffee, people.
Green Slime, “The Program Within The Program”: We can tell from the opening that he’s had a lot of coffee. This provides a suspenseful tension in the program, long-time listeners know. The music: Rod McKuen, more from “All In The Family,” Frank Zappa, Shockabilly, Captain Beefheart, The Lonesome Organist and some moldy old ragtime, flipping into a The Fall counterpoint and Swell Maps, early XTC, Kim Fowley... Green Slime is a journey over hill and dale, crevasses and crevices.
SwaG! Hour Three: And the ranting. For the past 54 years, every song played has been a crime of piracy, Guano realizes. At the end of the hour he has a conversation with The Dr. about booty and the roller derby queens who The Dr. is bringing in to be on his show. The Dr. isn’t on mic, so it sounds like Guano is talking to himself like a person with mental illness. And there are many musics between the ranting, New Real People and New York Dolls and old-timey music.