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Foelschin' It Up Again (Ode to the Wad-4 CDs)

Side A
Artist Song
? & the Mysterians  Love Me Baby (Cherry July) 
The Doors  Soul Kitchen 
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials  Chicken Gravy And Biscuits 
Burning Spear  Marcus Garvey 
Toots & the Maytals  Pressure Drop 
Junior Murvin  Police & Thieves 
Frank Zappa  Uncle Remus 
Cream  White Room 
Dirty Mac  Yer Blues 
Ike & Tina Turner  Come Together 
John Hammond, Jr.  Heartattack and Vine 
Eric Clapton  Traveling Riverside Blues 
John Lee Hooker  Boom Boom 
The Rolling Stones  Route 66 
Chuck Berry  Jo Jo Gunne 
Sex Pistols  Johnny B Goode 
David Bowie  Almost Grown 
The Mothers of Invention  Wowie Zowie 
The Clash  Brand New Cadillac 
The Velvet Underground  Rock & Roll 
Los Bravos  Black is Black 
? & the Mysterians  96 Tears 
The Kinks  You Really Got Me 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
The Rolling Stones  Around & Around 
The Velvet Underground  I'm Waiting for the Man 
MC5  Tutti Frutti 
David Johansen  Build Me Up Buttercup 
The Who  Pictures of Lily 
Paul Revere & the Raiders  Searchin' 
Freddy Fender  Ya Me Voy 
The Sir Douglas Quintet  She's About a Mover 
Ray Charles  I Got A Woman 
Creedence Clearwater Revival  Night Time is the Right Time 
Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm  Get Over It Baby 
Sonny Boy Williamson  Bring It On Home 
The Who  My Wife 
David Bowie  Diamond Dogs 
Lou Reed  Dirty Blvd. 
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers  You Can't Put Your Arms Round a Memory 
Mott the Hoople  Ready for Love/After Lights 
Ian Hunter  Once Bitten Twice Shy 
David Bowie  It Ain't Easy 
The Velvet Underground  Beginning to See the Light 
Tom Waits  I Don't Wanna Grow Up 
B.B. King  Nobody Loves Me But My Mother 

Comment:

Continued from previous mix.
Some people lift an eyebrow at hearing that his nickname is "Wad" and mine is "Doowad", but it doesn't mean "I do Wad" (or "did Wad", even though Steve always introduces me as the "guy I lived with in Mexico" to which I add "but we're just friends now". "Wad" comes from all meanings of the word, Steve, as calm as he was, at times would lose patience (especially with us) and just shoot his wad, spouting off about God knows what. Also, he would get bothered by certain things and just kind of "wad up" like crumbled paper.
So, Tim was pretty much the source for both our nicknames. At parties, I would be like Cassady on Bennies, acting as Steve's surrogate hands, helping with `refreshment' (beer or otherwise), putting on miscellaneous visual or aural stimuli, fixing snacks, etc. I would get going so much that Tim called me "Do it all Doowad", inspired by some Ella "doo-wah, doo-wah, doo-wah".Actually, these CDs were made for the after-party for the fundraiser to buy Steve a new van. Second time he has been victimized as a quad. The first time, a friend of a later roommate ripped off about 100 CDs out of his collection (Zappa/Bowie/Mott/Pistols/The Damned/Standells/Who/all kinds of blues), and now his van that took him all over Mexico including the piramide del sol en Teotihuacßn.
Steve is philosophical about these losers and figures "anyone willing to steal from a gimp is gonna have Karma bite him the arse sooner than later" (paraphrased with liberties). The mix tapes I made with him were mostly done when he had gone to bed (and Tim was out with the zapatona), with him shouting out instructions and tips from the bedroom. To this day, my mixes still follow the same kind of ebb and flow of rhythm, melody and tone as songs are linked musically, lyrically, historically, contextually, solipsistically, antithetically or otherwise. As explained in Foelsch Sampler #3, Steve's baby brother kind of undid the nice collection of `Foelsch Samplers' I had put together, which is why these four CDs are not in the sequence, though they are pretty much in the same vein, with a couple of doowad touches here , and there .Sorry for tanto rollo, click here for the mix.As a final note, here is video of Wad before he was Wad, at 18 and lead singer for Proud Young Men, late of Crestwood, MO:

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musicgnome
Date: 8/13/2007
oh-my-oh-my....
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buglady
Date: 3/28/2008
Really great tribute to an obviously influential friend. I can soooo relate to these mixes. Nicely done!