Artist	Song
Goo Goo Dolls	Two Days in February
Suicide Twins	Declaration
Parliament	P-Funk
The Stranglers	Thrown Away
The Fall	L.A.
Pink Floyd	Remember A Day
Big Audio Dynamite	Stone Thames
Cheap Trick	I Want You To Want Me (Live)
Naz Nomad and the Nightmares	I Can't Stand This Love, Goodbye
Kool Moe Dee	Wild Wild West
Soul Asylum	Be On Your Way
Butthole Surfers	Suicide
The Godfathers	I Want Everything
Jason & The Scorchers	Both Sides of the Line
Violent Femmes	Kiss Off
The Damned	Plan 9 Channel 7
Jane's Addiction	Jane Says (Live)
Redd Kross	Neurotica
The Fluid	Our Love Will Still Be There
Brian Eno	Backwater
Primus	Tommy the Cat
Robyn Hitchcock	Clean Steve

Comment:

This mix is something of a historical artifact, and another chapter in
my Rock History.

In 1989 I got bored with working in Berkeley, and got a job working in
an art supply store in San Francisco. While working there I met a cocky
wannabe libertine named Peter. Despite my initial aversion to his
in-your-face personality, his natural charm eventually won me over and
we became great friends. When my Berkeley roommate decided to move in
with her boyfriend, I faced a huge hike in the rent, so I started
looking for a new place to live. Peter had a roommate moving out, so I
made the move to San Francisco's Upper Haight (which was eerily similar
to Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue).

Peter and I started hanging out a lot together, turning each other onto
our musical tastes, having all kinds of debates over which artist or
musical style was better... we were definitely different people-- I was
Beatles, he was Stones, I was Mod/Garage/Quirk while he was
Metal/Glam/Funk. We finally decided that I listened to music with my
brain, and he with his gut. In the year we lived together I introduced
him to Brian Eno, Robyn Hitchcock (he played my copy of Eye to death!),
The Violent Femmes, They Might Be Giants, The Fleshtones and other
bands of that ilk. He in turn got me listening to The Stranglers, The
Fall, Goo Goo Dolls, The Fluid and other bands that paved the way to my
appreciation for Grunge bands. Peter taught me to listen to music with
both my brain and my gut.

By the end of 1991, Peter was ready for a new adventure and was
planning to move to L.A. Before he left, I raided his record collection
to make a farewell mix. This is a slightly truncated version of that
mix. It worked exactly the way I wanted it to-- it both reminded me of
Peter and gave me a lasting example of his musical taste in 1991. I
still listen to it now and again, and ended up liking it so much I
thought I'd share.

Last time I heard, Peter had moved to Manhattan. Wherever you are now,
Peter, this one's for you.

p.s. the title and cover are sort of
an in-joke between us. The title came from a mock debate we'd had about
the proper spelling of the word "dookie". he insisted it should be
spelled with a "y" at the end... while I stood firmly in the "ie"
ending camp (this was several years before the Green Day album was
released). The cover was taken from a flyer he made for his going away
party. We used to always make fun of Jean Claude Van Damme (whose
movies were VERY popular back then), one day I noted a certain
resemblance between them...the rest is "history".

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