Mother's Day at Little Steven's Underground Garage

[90-percent]

Well, he really did a good job this time playing lots of MOTHERS OF INVENTION SONGS.

Only thing he got wrong is that Frank Zappa did not create the Soul Giants. they were already a group and Frank took over and they evolved into the Mothers (of invention) The Soul Giants included Ray Collins, Jimmy Carl Black and Roy Estrada, which were the core original Mothers. The original sax and guitar player are somewhere in music obscurity.


Motherly Love, Freak Out
Hungry Freaks Daddy, Freak Out
My Guitar wants to kill your Momma, (1988 Tour version, originally on Chunga's Revenge, I think? L.S. may have gotten the wrong album for this version?)

-90%

[klook]

1. Help, I'm a Rock

... or I've been living under one, because I didn't know about this show! Thanks for the tip -- I will check back to hear this episode. Right now, the latest archived show is from 4/30, so I guess it will be a couple of more days before the 5/7 edition is up there.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. I like that channel in the afternoon for Kid Leo.

It's off topic, but I remember the first time I tuned in one afternoon, and the DJ's voice was as familiar as that of a best friend from high school. It was Kid Leo.

I grew up near Cleveland, and in the late '60s through the early '70s The Kid was the iconic velvet smooth voice of underground FM rock on WMMS. He and Billy Bass were the go-to guys for everything from Moby Grape and Hendrix to The Dead and Country Joe & The Fish. If a song was a popular hit, then it was already an oldie on his show. He played the album cuts no one else dared or even knew of. Even then he always ended the shift with his trademark "it's time to wash up, punch out, and head home".

Cleveland's own Michael Stanley relates the time he went to the studio for a live event and first met the man behind that deep booming voice. He said he discovered a deceptively diminutive Italian fellow who leaned in close and spoke so softly into the microphone, he could barely hear him while he stood right next to him.

Little Steven's Underground Garage is a virtual time machine for me, and The Kid still plays whatever he likes whether anyone's ever heard of it or not. Even today, he's that guy who's way more cool than the other Kids. For a long time, he did his Sirius show live from The R&R Hall of Fame.