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Jun 5, 2022Liked by Tom Worster

Great subject for cultural speleology but lighten up a bit, chaps.

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I hear you Fanny, but we are what we are...please stick around for the rest. You might enjoy the Tutti Frutti episode, even Tom managed the odd guffaw on that one.

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Jun 6, 2022Liked by Tom Worster, Gavin Hill

Listened to another big chunk and enjoyed, especially drilling down into Harmolodics. I knew a chap who attended a lecture by OC in the 90s following which he earwigged Lol Coxhill confessing utter bewilderment in the lavvies. WSB turns up in the OC docu 'Made In America' doing a reading at the opening of the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth, so they were apparently acquainted at least 8 years prior to the film. Barre Phillips, the bassist on the trio parts of the score, recalls somewhere getting a call to drop everything to make the session whilst in Paris celebrating his first grandchild's birth. Will sample Pynchon and King Tutenfrutti but think you pair should do a spot on how your bedtime rituals have been affected by screen sirens like Gina Lolollabridga and Greta Garbo.

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Who in their right mind wouldn't bump a grandkid's birthday for THAT gig?

Thanks for mentioning Lol Coxhill, a seriously underrated player. But I dunno how to get Gav to listen to him except by buying him smelly old LPs.

I'm convinced OC came up with the name Harmolodics specifically to provoke chin-scratching questions about theory that he could turn into head-scratching with some oracular bafflegab. Sheer genius.

As for Gina and Greta, yes! but I think we should do that as a video live stream, no?

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Bless you, Fanny! We do the podcast for moments like this, when we can feel a connection to others who swim in the same strange seas. Please feel free to point out anything we get wrong.

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Idk, Gav. As it turned out, that ep is another in our series on suicide.

Ha ha ha ha HAAAA!

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