More Freeform Purple from DJ Junglebook

The last song of the DKs set that night was "Holiday in Cambodia", then they split the stage - the crowd responded by stomping and chanting, until they came back out and whipped through "Rawhide. Then the club's DJ wanted to clear the room, so he put on some really annoying prog rock noodling.

So, Jello hands the microphone to an audience member, and the guy just makes hooting, duuuuuude, rock fan noises. This ticks Jello off, and he then turns his ire on the rest of the crowd.

My good friend Luke Cole was a brilliant, pioneering lawyer, and you can Google his name to learn more about his amazing life and career. But before all that, he was just the cub reporter on the punk rock beat for SKANK Magazine, when he was at Stanford in 1982. As such, he got the job of interviewing Jello Biafra, lead singer for San Francisco's legendary Dead Kennedys, when they came through Palo Alto. Here's the 11-minute 1-on-1 interview, where the future corporate-butt-kicking attorney and inventor of the practice of Environmental Justice probes Mr. Biafra on fashion, religion, politics, the band's name, and why he liked playing the Mab.

Also linked below are two other bits of audio from that night:

• Jello berating the audience for being conformist jugheads, after one of them only hooted and grunted when Jello gave him the microphone.

• For Brave Ears only - a raw, noisy audience-Walkman recording of a couple of songs from that night: "Holiday In Cambodia", the sounds of the crowd demanding more, and the encore "Rawhide". This very dodgy recording is presented only for the sake of evoking memories of those dank, beery halls, and those nights when the air shook with punk energy. I even included a bit of the ghastly prog-rock tune the club's DJ immediately put on to clear the room.

Here's the (first hour of two in the) final episode in the four-show arc I did to celebrate my 1-year anniversary at www.FCCfreeRadio.com, the wild pirate band I fell in with 52 episodes ago.

Check out the show Friday afternoons, 2 to 4 California time, it's usually chocked with slightly more obscure tracks - though you never know when we might invoke the "Ballroom Blitz" rule.

The final countdown's in the next episode. I hope you enjoy it and it makes you think of what your favorite songs are!

Finally! After all that, we get down to the final countdown.

Now, I should be able to avoid playing all these songs for the next 52 weeks, don't you think? That's going to be my goal. Maybe find another 100 Best Records Evah.

Thanks for tuning in - Fridays from 2 to 4 California time, at www. FCCfreeRadio.com

Oh, and if you'd like to hear the first three episodes in this countdown of the 100 Best Records, they're posted here at Podomatic under my other name, JunglebookMusic , which also has the All-HalfBeat show, if you're into that kind of thing.

Jb

Here's my new online radio show - it's called Jb Streams, and you can hear the show live every Monday night, from 5 to 7 pacific time, at www.Awesomeville.us