Wave and Niloo of The Sound Spectrum share Deep Cuts and Deep Thoughts

Join us for a very special episode of Deep Cuts as Wave and Niloo of the iconic Sound Spectrum join us live in the studio to share some of their favorite records, classic and new.  We even play a CD or two. The Sound Spectrum a beloved Laguna Beach institution founded by the late great Jim Otto in 1967 is at a crossroads, we all wish for it to continue on spreading great vibes and positive energy along with musical culture and the facilitation of connection and community. Will the community rally together to carry it forward for future generations?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome, Welcome, you're listening to k x f M Deep Cuts.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Beautiful.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is a very special episode because I am joined
in the studio.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
In Wave.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hello of the sound spectrum. It's so good to have
you with us here on k x f M.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Thank you, thank you for having us, and good evening,
all listeners, all five of you.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
It can almost be a half a dozen by the
time we're and you know, if we play our cards right,
it's great to be here. It's awesome to have you here.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Wave.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I mean, I've always come to visit you at your work,
so it's great for you to.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Visit me at mine. All right. I don't exist outside
of that store.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I always thought that was the case, and now I've
I've been proven incorrect. I thought Wave, you exist in
this realm of reality. You're pretty good at this. You
might have a future in radio. You've brought some incredible
records this evening, and very diverse records, and I'm so

(01:28):
excited to play them with you. I can barely get
my thoughts out, but we have a lot to talk
about tonight. In you know Wave, I'm just going to
start with this. I have met some great human beings
inside of those walls.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And you're one of them, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I have been turned on to so much music and
gotten so many treasured records from you and the Sound
Spectrum over the years that I'll never let go of
my collection.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
They mean so much to me.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Some my favorite t shirts, some my favorite incense, some
my favorite posters. And I know I speak for listeners
of this show and members of this community that feel
the same way. So it's truly an honor to have
you here. Thank you, it's been a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
And to each and every one of you out there
that feels the same way, thank you. Thank you for
your years of support. All the faces, smiling faces. Relieve me,
I remember all those smiles in my downtime. It's like
I might not remember and name is too good, but

(02:38):
I always love seeing them again and again, my appreciation
to y'all absolutely. And this is my assistant managers. You
probably know her too, Neelu.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, it was truly the best two years of my life,
probably the best job I'll ever have.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
And well, I love that place.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It is beloved. And you know, the good news is
you got a lot of life ahead. You're pretty young. Yeah,
so maybe you peauked early.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I don't know, alas have to wait and see.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I guess you know. The future. The future reveals all.
That's the fun thing about it is the present. It's
a gift, right, and it's good to stay there and
enjoy it while we can. But time reveals everything, and
I believe in my heart that time will reveal the
future of the Sound Spectrum in a way that delights

(03:28):
us all.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
And speaking of which, probably some of our listeners want
to know what's going on. Yeah, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Man?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, we don't really know too much except what happens
right now. Tomorrow's another day. Yeah, But I want you
also know that I'm doing everything I can do to
keep the store going. Yeah, and again, I appreciate all

(03:56):
your support. You're carrying your vibe, vibes, anything, your ideas.
I believe it will continue, or I wouldn't be here tonight.
And Jonathan is giving us this time, and I thank
you again. And he's going to be part of it too.

(04:18):
It's getting bigger. Our family is only getting bigger, expand
we'll talk more about it right now. I just want
to let everybody know that the Sound Spectrum is going on.
Public listing next week. So all of you who who
want to see it go, and all of our fans

(04:39):
and our fans and lovers spread the word, and anybody
you know who has the desire to keep it going
and wants to help out. We'll leave you with a
phone number at the end of the show stick around
for that. I can give it out now if you

(05:00):
sure you can. Okay, just in case you can't listen
to the end of the show, but we hope you do. Yeah,
I'm going to give you all of them, all the
numbers except two of them.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okaytire out to stay too.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Love it nine nine four nine four waves my number.
Even if you're driving, you can remember that.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I love that's your number.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
So how did you get that?

Speaker 6 (05:28):
Man?

Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's so good? That call the wave line? Baby? So
we haven't been able to play records for you people
for a little while, and so it's really nice to
be here. And the first song I want to tell
you a little story about it. It's one of my
favorite artists and this is actually my favorite song by

(05:50):
that favorite artist. You may know him. The name is Jimmy.
And when I first heard this song, I didn't know
what it meant. It was nineteen sixty seven. I was
sixteen years old. I didn't know exactly what it meant,
but I somehow knew on some level that I was

(06:14):
not experienced.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Enjoy KXFM, Laguna's community radio.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
If you can't just get.

Speaker 7 (06:45):
Your mine to get of this, come.

Speaker 8 (06:50):
On across to We're mass and then we'll.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Watch the sunrise.

Speaker 9 (07:00):
From the bottom of the sea.

Speaker 7 (07:06):
But first, are you an experience?

Speaker 6 (07:13):
You have a very experience?

Speaker 7 (07:16):
Well I have.

Speaker 9 (07:23):
I know, I know you probably scream and cry, that's.

Speaker 10 (07:29):
Your little world.

Speaker 7 (07:30):
Won't let you go.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
But ruling on an easily little world?

Speaker 7 (07:38):
Are you trying to prove.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
That you're made out of gold that.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Can't be sold?

Speaker 7 (07:47):
So are you experience?

Speaker 11 (07:53):
Have you ever been experience?

Speaker 5 (07:56):
To me?

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Wow, I have of these? Coach.

Speaker 7 (08:48):
Yeah, Trump is in the mens.

Speaker 9 (09:22):
I can u here in the distance.

Speaker 7 (09:25):
I believe that calling armies. Maybe now you can't hear them.

Speaker 9 (09:34):
But you will if you just take hold of my hand.
Oh about your experienced?

Speaker 7 (09:48):
Have you ever been experience?

Speaker 9 (09:55):
Not necessarily a stone, but you the.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Are you experienced? That's the question?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Are you not particularly stoned?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
But beautiful? I like that absolutely? You know that's that song?
If I may say a few words about it. To me,
it always did kind of have that that that innuendo
of course, right, that element of intrigue. Well, what do
you mean are you experienced? And uh, well, once you

(11:06):
became experienced, then the question is is, uh, how are
you to be experienced as an individual?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
How do you How does one experience wave? How does
one experience Neilu? How does one experience Jonathan?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
As a sixteen year old, I just knew that I
was not experienced, and I thought it was all about sex.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh sure, yeah, and I knew I wasn't. Well isn't
it Isn't it all about sex.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
With all boil standard? Yeah, And yet I had no
idea of everything that, all the different dimensions of that,
and it it scared me. Actually, yeah, I was. I
love this song and it made me feel things that
I knew. One thing. I want to be experienced, of course.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I mean that's that's what good music should do, right, Yeah,
it should make you feel something.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's kind of a motto or a theme of our store. Yeah. Yeah,
it's the experience of the sound spectrum, which is so
valuable and just the colors and the sounds and people
coming together and absolutely it's a fun store.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
It is. And you know, I always, I've never ever
walked out of the Sound Spectrum not feeling happy. I've
always walked out of there feeling happy and feeling happy
that I came. And maybe my pocket's been lightened a
little bit, but that's okay, you know, because I am.

(12:43):
I am enjoying that experience. And when I would feel
down or i'd feel a little sad, I knew I
could go and flip through some records and interact with
you or whoever was there, mostly you, and leave, probably
with a new record. Even if I didn't walk out
with a new record, I'd get a little something I
treat myself, and ultimately I'd feel better. I feel like

(13:03):
that was time well spent and I was happier for
having done it. And I'm sure I speak for so
many others out there that would spend time and energy
feeling better by knowing that there was a place to
go that had so many favorite things for them, so
many fun memories in new memories to be made, new

(13:24):
music to discover.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Truly a gift.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, I definitely agree with that.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
I mean, even before I started working there, which could
probably say I was there like.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
At least three times a week, just bugging it.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, a lot of the times I did not buy anything.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Records are an expensive habit to keep exactly, you know,
but they're a rewarding one.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
She bugged me in a good way. Yeah, she bugged
me so much I hired her. I said, this girl
is not going to let up. I might as well.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
She's I remember some of you guys might remember the
little Garfield clock that has like the.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yes, no, maybe. And then Wave asked me.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Or I was like, if it lands on yes, then
that means you have to hire me.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
And then did land on yes.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Little did I know, probably a year later he asked
me if I wanted the job.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
And that was that.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
I usually follow that cat. I thought, I hired right
on the spot. We're going to pass it over to neither.
Now she's gonna talk a little music with you.

Speaker 12 (14:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
So the next song I'm gonna play is Blur by
the Marias. They're they're kind of a semi new band.
But the album is Submarine came just came out this year.
The whole album is pretty beautiful. I mean, it has
like a perfect mix of Latin and just indie. So yeah,

(15:01):
I definitely recommend it. This album has definitely blown them
up a lot more than what they were before. And
they're even performing at Coachella this year, so very cool.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, we're gonna break uh, we're gonna break the rules
here on Deep Cuts, who were typically a vinyl only program,
and we're gonna play a CD. This is the first
time making you're making Deep Cuts radio history here. This
is the first CD to ever be played on Deep Cuts,
So you know it's special and I'm excited to listen

(15:35):
to it. So this is Blur by the Marias off
the CD submarine. See if I can work this thing right? Okay,
I think it's working.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
The sunstre said, let's say.

Speaker 12 (16:17):
That's ocus.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
And just sister.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
Anyone my seega.

Speaker 10 (16:38):
My say.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
I and.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
See I thank you for fall So.

Speaker 11 (17:00):
I didn't do nothings like like a bus so fas
something inside.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
Me, something I d say. The shadow lifting my mouth

(17:30):
is so great, Saddles said, guess.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
Say tell me does s.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
I might make it one of the fallens and like,
but nothing's quite like it worse.

Speaker 11 (18:28):
So something sady and sudden outside shut nothing my lids.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well I thought that was a beautiful song, and I'm
so happy to have played it. I feel like, you know,
as far as CDs go, breaking the rules of deep
cuts as it were bending them. Really, I'm happy that
this is the first CD we played on deep cuts.
This is a great, great, beautiful record. I feel like

(19:57):
I would like this if I listen to the whole thing.
Thanks are turning me onto this band, you lou no problem.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
I recommend anybody listen to the whole thing. If you
like that song, you'll definitely like the whole album.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's got a cool vibe.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, as we were just expressing, like, you know, hearing
a band like this at Coachella will be interesting and
I think an interesting challenge for their sound because it
feels quiet and viby and.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Loungey to me.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
And gosh, a big, big space like Coachella, you know,
that's a lot of sound for you. Gotta make a
lot of sound for a space like that. Yeah, for sure,
will be interesting. I hope you get to go see them.
Are you going to go check them out? Have you
ever seen them before?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
I have not, Honestly. The tickets sold out so.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Fast and they always couldn't even buy.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
A resell ticket. So, and I don't even want to
imagine how much that was.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh man, you know, that's the thing that's to me
like such a bummer about. I guess the state of
the of the show scene in the music scene is
the ability to like actually go to a show for
a reasonable amount of money feels like a relic of
a bike one era. Yeah, we're just talking about that, right,

(21:13):
And what do we have up here?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, there's a poster on the wall here Jimmy Hendrix
June twenty fifth, nineteen sixty seven. Yeah, free concert in
Golden Gate Park. Can you imagine these days how much
that would cost?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
And I can barely see a free concert on Forest Avenue,
you know.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Now we have outside lands at Golden Gate Park which
is starting a five hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Oh my gosh, I'll bargain at any price. Well, yes,
we need it more than ever though, you're not kidding, brother.
You know, that's the thing about music that is so special.
It does connect us. It fosters community. You can not
know much about a person and but get to know
them through the music, you know, And I think it's

(22:05):
one of the best ways to get to know somebody.
And the record you know that you've selected next wave
is an al Theimer.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Well we're getting in the water together. You know, music
and water have a very similar It's like in cases
us and it, you know, forms a shape around us
and it includes us all whoever' s hearing that? And yeah,
that that. I really liked that last song. I don't
remember the name. It's kind of a blur to me,

(22:38):
this thing on, but it's really sensual quality. And so
this one it made me think. This song, which has
kind of a nice flow to it. And I know
you guys probably out there know that if I didn't
play one of this group songs, it wouldn't be me. Well,

(23:03):
this song, I like to think. I tell people the
street that the sound spectrum on is on is Love Street.
And there's even a lyric in there about our store.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
So see if you can spot it.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, let's take a walk down Love Street.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
That's the best street of all, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Hell? Hello?

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Hello, Oh.

Speaker 13 (24:01):
Lost Streets lingers long on Lost Streets.

Speaker 12 (24:07):
She has a house and codel.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
I would like to see what a houn.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
She has roads, and she has monkeys.

Speaker 14 (24:27):
Lazy diamonds study monkeys. She has wes no man knows
what you do.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
She has me, and she has you.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
She as we're st man, knows what to do. She has.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
And she as you.

Speaker 12 (25:26):
I see you live on Love Street.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
There's a store where the creatures meet.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Wonder what they do in their.

Speaker 12 (25:38):
Summer Sunday and a year.

Speaker 14 (25:43):
I guess I like it fine so far.

Speaker 13 (26:01):
He lives on long streets Lingers Long Low, Long Street.
She has a house and God and I would like
to see what happens, all right, all.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Right, both doors. It's kind of like kind of like
the feeling in the sound spectrum. You know, all through
the years, we've had all kinds of people coming through
those doors, as you can imagine, as as Jim Morrison said,
it's the place where the creatures meet. Oh yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
I met a creature in there named Bear. Bear Richard.
I know Bear, of course she did. He's lovable man,
you know, and you know I'll tell a quick story
about that and Bear, if you're listening, man, you feel
free to call in nine four nine seven, one five
five nine three six otherwise I'll catch up with you
later on.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
But we met.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
I was in there looking for some Graham Parker records,
and uh, he said, I have some Grand Parker records.
He said, well, why don't you come on down the
radio and bring him with you and we'll play him together.
And sure enough, he took me up on that offer, man,
and he came on down to the radio, and he
stuck around for like seven years.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
He's still here.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
He just kept coming back and we played so many
records together. And you came through and found a bunch
of Graham Parker records for me, which I added to
my collection, which I love, I still have. And he
he became a very good friend and a co host
and somebody that I'm grateful to have in my life.

(28:08):
And it all happened because of a chance meeting in
the Sound Spectrum.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I've seen that many times, people meeting somebody that turned
into a longtime friend. Yeah, and or a lot of
people coming in and they run into a friend they
didn't know was coming. It's a meeting place, absolute and
people have get togethers there without even knowing it. And

(28:36):
I have a speaking of Love Street back in the day.
This is a story a friend told me about Jimmy
Otto and Jimmy Outo was the founder of the Sound Spectrum,
My boss, my teacher. He taught me everything I know
about the music business, and I am so grateful. Jimmy

(28:58):
love you. And he started the store in nineteen sixty seven,
and I got to Lagoon in about seventy two, and
a friend of mine got here in about seventy five.
We hit up. He's my surf buddy, and he told
me a story just recently that I didn't know until recently.

(29:18):
That it was I think nineteen eighty a friend of
his had just committed suicide with my friend and he
was feeling down and out, and he thought to go
to the sound spectrum. Jimmy looked at him and he
came in, and he looked at him and says, you

(29:43):
need something, don't you? And he went and he closed
the door and he took care of my friend. He
played the latest, Oh you got to hear this, and
with a little urbal medicine halves sure I wasn't there,
but made a nice cup of tea and a little

(30:04):
cup of tea, and he played the latest or it
was actually a brand new the first album by UB forty.
Oh wow. It was something brand new, and Jimmy was
the reggae meister, so he turned us onto a lot
of reggae. He was a big part of why Laguna
Beach became the center for reggae in the seventies. It

(30:26):
was he introduced it, and he brought people in and
he put on shows, and everybody knew where to come
for their reggae hit.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
And so.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
He just in about twenty twenty five minutes, he just
turned my friends day around and he left that the
store feeling so much better than he came in. And
it was the music, it was the touch, it was
the love of Jimmy. So that's kind of a nice story.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Absolutely, man, it's a beautiful story. And think of how
many people, how many lives have been impacted by going
into the sound spectrum over the years. Man, that's one story.
There's thousands, tens of thousands, right when you think about
the amount of human beings fifty seven years worth.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, man, that is.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
That is really special.

Speaker 11 (31:26):
Man.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
And you know he had he had a reggae radio
show too, right, he sure did.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
And you know it's thirty some years he had a
reggae showcase out of Saddleback College.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah the sound right, was it on the sound the station.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
This KSPR, Yeah, the college, Yeah, Saddleback College. Station.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Man.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I remember meeting him, you know, when he was there
and asking him. I said, you know, gosh, would it
be okay? You know, I do this little record, you know,
this little vinyl radio show on the on on the
local station here KXFM, and you know, I'm always looking
for records to play. I said, it would it be

(32:11):
okay if I borrowed some records and played them, you know,
on the radio, if they were used and I brought
them back. And he kind of think he thought about it,
and he said, yeah, all right, sure, you know, that's okay.
And he was so generous to extend access to the
to the Sound Spectrum library and archives so I could

(32:34):
borrow a record here or there and play it on
the radio. And I always remembered that that kindness, you know,
and generosity. And that's just one small interaction that I
would imagine is a microcosm for all these interactions and
the and the and just the presence that he brought

(32:56):
and the generosity and what he created for this town.
And in my opinion, my humble opinion, as as a
you know, radio person, but as a customer, is that
it's got to keep going. Well, it will, it will
in all of our hearts.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Absolutely, and just that kring in a in a sense,
Jimmy taught me to care, care for the customer. He
never said those words to me, but he rubbed off
on me and I watched him and fell him and he.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, he set an example for how to treat people
and how to build community. And that's what it's all about,
building community. And so for those of you out there
in the community listening right now that feel a certain
way about what the Sound Spectrum has meant to you,
you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
To call us.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
If you want to share some of those memories, you
can call us here at nine four nine seven one
five five nine three seven, go on social media, write
about it, talk about it. Let's let everyone know what
this means to the community. And if you're in a
position to do something, to take some action, I encourage

(34:14):
you to do so, because you have a unique moment
in time in a small window. So sometimes you got
to go through that window, right maybe the open door
as it were.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
I never had the pleasure of meeting him in person,
but even the stories I heard of after the fires
in Laguna, he replaced so many people's record collections, which
was an amazing thing to do.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
I mean, nobody has to do that, but I never
heard that story.

Speaker 15 (34:46):
First.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
His first thought was to, you know, give back to
the people who gave to him.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's awesome. Yeah, records are so treasured. I couldn't imagine
leasing my records in a fire. Oh my god, gosh.
I'd be probably more distraught over that than my house.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
For you, you out there or anybody but who is
uncertain about the future, it's just about believing that that
what we're talking about, the love, the caring, is what's
going to continue and live through. And Neeli wants to
play a song that, yeah, kind of tells a little
bit about it's just going through a change. Our lives

(35:28):
are just going through changes, so to change it. This
is a good one.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Neil, accept it that you'll be the bone.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
If your time and he is worth saving.

Speaker 16 (36:03):
And you better stop swimming or you'll sink like a
storm all the time.

Speaker 10 (36:09):
A ch changing.

Speaker 17 (36:11):
And I'm writers and critics who priphacize.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
With your pain and keep your eyes wide.

Speaker 16 (36:26):
The chance will come again, and don't speak to you soon.
Are the wheels still in Spain? And there's no telling
who that it's naming for the loser, I will.

Speaker 10 (36:40):
Be later the win.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
All the time a changing.

Speaker 14 (36:58):
Some senators, congressmen, please heed the call.

Speaker 7 (37:03):
Don't stand in her door.

Speaker 14 (37:05):
They don't lock up the harp. Or he that gets
hurt will be he who has stalled the battle oside.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
Region we'll see.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Shake your windows and raddle your walls.

Speaker 7 (37:21):
O the times they are changing.

Speaker 14 (37:31):
The mothers and fathers to have the land. And don't
criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters
have beyond your command.

Speaker 7 (37:46):
Your old road is rapidly aging.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
Please get out.

Speaker 14 (37:51):
Of any one of your candle and your hand.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
O the times they are rich, changing.

Speaker 7 (38:16):
The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast.

Speaker 14 (38:21):
The slow one now will leader be passed?

Speaker 5 (38:25):
As the present? Now will let u be passed?

Speaker 14 (38:30):
The order is a robbery feeding and the first one now.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
Will lett up be last?

Speaker 7 (38:38):
Over the times we are richigengent.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
The times they are a change, and they certainly are.
And Neeliu, as you said, that song is always relevant.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yep, probably in every aspect of life. I mean, when
we listen to Bob Dylan, we always think of the
political aspect of the world, which times are indeed changing.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
But yeah, what does that song mean to you?

Speaker 5 (39:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (39:24):
I just.

Speaker 5 (39:28):
It's just.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
It's kind of a perennial classic, right, Yeah, I mean
I like when you put it on, I said, Man,
this one always hits for me. Yeah, it always, it always.
I always feel it in my heart in a different way.
Like some songs I listen to, I hear it in
my mind. It's like an analytical process. I'm like, okay,
kind of digesting it, you know, kind of processing it.
But that just like hits me straight to the core.

(39:53):
I think it's just his voice, the simplicity of it,
the rawness of the lyrics, the way that it it
does hold up to the passing of time. And there's
just something about the acknowledgement of change that it's like
a letting go, right. It's like you have to accept

(40:15):
that things are changing. And honestly, it hits for me
at this moment in my life because all the times
they are a change in too, Right, That's.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
What's so great about it. He's relevant then, and he'll
continue to be relevant.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
What do you think about some of these movies they're
making of him, these biopic picks.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Honestly, I'm pretty excited. I haven't seen the trailer or anything,
but I think Timothy Chalomey is a pretty great actor
and I'm really excited to see what yeah, he's going
to do with it.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Pretty great casting. Yeah, looks the part two. It's just
great that all generations are connecting with Dylan. Yeah, you know, yes,
I was telling Niela well the song was playing that
I heard it for the first time. I was probably eight,

(41:10):
eight or nine years younger than she is now when
I first heard that song. That's how long that's been around.
It's just great that she's hearing it and she's inspired
by it. And you know changes. I mean, we had
the election and we've had other Elections's just change is

(41:33):
always right. How many people have you heard say I
don't like change right? And I really feel for those
people because changes is the way it is. It's just
and what it comes down to for me, and some
of you know that I'm I'm not just a goofball

(41:57):
laughing around and having a good time. I really I
really love to get into the deeper meanings of music,
of life and how am I going to feel comfortable? Recently,
we had a major change in the store, major change
we're going through our country. How can I enjoy the ride?

(42:22):
It's all surfing to me, and I look like a
clerk in a music store, but I'm actually I'm a
waviologist in disguise, and I never don't talk about waveology.
It's just the principles I learned out surfing. You have
a wave, if you want to have a good time

(42:42):
on that wave, you have to be balanced. So basically
I teach surfing and how to be balanced because that's
when you have fun otherwise out Yeah. So, and what
it comes down to for me, I don't know how
things are going to work out. I'm not attached to
how they work out. I just want to feel good,

(43:05):
and in order to feel good, I have to be balanced.
So it gets down to when I relax into myself,
I have hope and I truly believe in goodness, and
I believe goodness will win out over everything, and that's
all I need to know. I don't know how it's

(43:25):
going to work out, but I can help. I've made
my life a study. How do you how do you
enjoy life? What's the secret to having a happy life?
And I want to know how do I create that?
And it comes down to that if you see yourself
as a creator, as it says in many of the
religious texts. I'm not religious. I just dabbled in many

(43:50):
of them, and they all say the same thing. It's
were created in the image of the creator. And I
wondered what that meant A long time ago. I said, well,
it must mean that I'm a creator also, So I
set out to see if that's true. And forty years later,
I still believe that. So if I believe that I

(44:12):
created this change in my life, I attracted to me
those people and things, I'm the one who has to
deal with these feelings. And nobody did it to me.
Nobody could make me angry, nobody can make me sad.
It's me. And so I thank everybody who might Somebody
might have said something I got annoyed or something, but

(44:35):
I thank them for saying that they're just touching something
in me that's a nerve and it's up. It's risen
its little head, you know, for me to deal with
that feeling. So just keep riding the way of kids,
and as soon as you wipe out, get back in
the middle of your border as quick as you can.
That's the idea. Relax, go deep. That's beautiful. So here's

(45:00):
another song that kind of follows.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
On that idea of the who's who's teeing me up?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Of the idea of it.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I believe it's up there. Yeah, you're right, it is.
I was so caught up in wave oology I forgot
there was a record on the turntable or DJ went deep,
that's what we do here on cut See now you
get the name, and he said, he said, what's the
name of the show? I said, CUDJ Deep Jonathan, Well,

(45:31):
you know way not everyone calls me that, but I
do like it when they when they do. All right,
let's uh, let's tee this one up here on the technic,
so talk about changes. I was just telling neither you
know how we see certain people in our life we
didn't get to see, and this person, David Bowie is
is one that I never saw live. And it's not

(45:55):
that I'm sorry I didn't, but if if I could,
I would see him tonight.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Yeah, same for sure.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
I think we can all agree with that.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Yeah, I know it wouldn't be the same, but I
had an idea one day when they were doing that,
like Tupac Hologram all those years ago, I thought, man,
how cool would it be if they had like a
place and I don't know, maybe it's in Vegas or
something like a holographic David Bowie residency.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
How about well, sure, great about it's a sound.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
I think that would be amazing if someone is out there,
if you're listening from Sony or some company that has
access to holographic technology.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
Bowie.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Yeah, absolutely. And on that note, Neelou, we're going to
play the record.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Good stuff. No, Dad, still don't know what I.

Speaker 8 (47:19):
Was waiting for, and the time is running wild in
dead streets of the time.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
I thought that God had married, and seemed the taste.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Was not so sweet.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
So I turned myself to base man.

Speaker 12 (47:38):
Well, I've never caught a glimpse.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
How you others my see it, Baker, I'm much too
fast to take that test. To change and base the strange,
to change the wanna be a richer man, and to
change and base the strange, and to changes, it's gonna

(48:06):
have to see a different man.

Speaker 10 (48:08):
Now may change me black and waste.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
What's to be, change the size, but never deeve.

Speaker 7 (48:31):
Extreme or permanent.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
Sin so that theys go through mind. But still the
day seem the same.

Speaker 8 (48:42):
And the children that Juice been on the state try
to change their worlds around them.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
To your consultation, see quite aware of what they're.

Speaker 6 (48:56):
Going through, to change it and base the strange and change.

Speaker 12 (49:03):
Us to further, to pull off part of it to change.

Speaker 6 (49:09):
It and base the strange to change. Tess where a
shame your left us up to her accident, down may
change me.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
She can't just.

Speaker 10 (49:23):
Strange pass.

Speaker 8 (49:27):
Passive, O change O take the base plan to change
and base the strange, change tags, wore.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
The count in your rocket corners to change and pays.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
The strange to change.

Speaker 10 (49:52):
Tests Still now you're going to get hold up time.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Maying, but can just now I said that down change.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Chit chit chit changes.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
The one thing about Bowie that I mean, there's so
many things about him that I find absolutely remarkable, but
the way that he continued to evolve over the years
and reinvent himself and kind of go through these different
personas and iterations of him as a performer, whether it
was the starman or the thin white Duke or you know,

(50:53):
all these different elements that he had. And as we
were chatting and listening to that, I thought how cool
would it be if somewhere, I don't know, like in
Vegas or something, they had some type of you know,
theater that you could go to and using modern technology
and holograms, they could like take you on this journey

(51:14):
through the career of David Bowie and you would see
him in all these different eras and iterations. But you'd
have the lights and the smoke and the music and
you know, the backup performers. Maybe you have a real band,
but he's a hologram. Sony, if you're listening, let's make

(51:34):
it happen.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
What do you think of that, Dave? I liked the idea.
I like the idea. Maybe we'll do it. It's a
future sounds spectrum. Yeah, I like that. You just reminded
me of a story that I want to share.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Pleased about David Bowie.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
And not too many people know this because I heard
it when Bowie came in the store one time, and
uh wow, just kid, you know, But actually I had
a friend, a British British fellow who worked with Bowie's label,

(52:13):
and he was kind of a gopher. He would have
to do whatever they said, and you know, you would
here giving all the kind of jobs. And one of
his jobs was to to communicate with David Bowie with
the label wanted to tell any important stuff like you

(52:35):
have till Tuesday to get us the master or whatever
it was. So my friend's job was to call Bowie
on the telephone. And this is long before phone machines
and things. It was back in the eighties. And so
if you can imagine me telling this story in a
better British accent, then I'm trying going to try to do.

(52:58):
My friend was British and it was just I love
this story. So his job was to call David Bowie
and tell him whatever it was. Sure, So he told
me that whenever he called Bowie, it would phone would
ring and ring and ring, and after about eighteen or

(53:19):
twenty rings, he would hang up redial because his job
as to get hold of me. He had to keep trying,
so he'd redial them again fifteen sixteen, seventy, eighteen ninety
and he'd do this over and over wow, And after
about twenty to twenty five minutes, finally the phone would

(53:42):
pick up and he goes, oh, Hello, this is David,
and oh hi hillo David, Yes, I wanted to talk
to you, who is this? This is Juna? And oh Jim,
it's so good to your voice. Are you having a
pleasant day? And listen to would to me go yes, David?

(54:05):
And he wanted to get him the information you know,
and and but he said that Boie is always the nicest,
most polite, always interested in his day. And after he
got to know Bowie a little better, because this would
happen every time he talked he called Bowie, he'd have
to wait about half an hour before a boy would answer.

(54:27):
So after he got to know him a little better,
and one day he after he waited twenty twenty five minutes,
Bowie answered, and he says, excuse me, David, I would
I was wondering, did you just get home or did
you know? Sure? David said, oh no, no, I've been.
I've been here. Of course i've been. I've been. I've

(54:50):
been sitting here reading my book. And he says, read
your book. He says, didn't the phone ringing bother you?
Oh no, no, He says, well why did you finally answer?
He says, oh, I don't know. I suppose I got
very curious about who had called me so many times

(55:12):
that I became more curious about that than curious about
the book I was reading, and they had a good laugh,
and it's just it's an endearing story, you know. I'm
just glad I know that story.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
But yeah, curiosity is key, right, Yeah, I mean having
a curious mind, a desire to discover the unknown. It's
probably one of the key elements that made him such
a creative person.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
I mean even the documentary moon Age Daydream. Yeah, I
saw that in theaters. It was just like, I was
speechless by the end of it.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
It'll blow you away if you like Bowie.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Yeah, it was such a good compilation of who he was,
his music, his art. I mean I didn't I didn't
know if he did art that wasn't music. So it
was crazy to see that.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
He was an early adopter of the internet too and technology.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
Yeah, I've seen that. Crazy.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
I have a trivia question if you Neeli, do you
know the song that David Boy wrote with John Lennon?

Speaker 4 (56:23):
Mm hm, putting me on the spot here man, Uh,
give me an album?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
It was a famous album.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
M hmm, thinking Ziggy Stardust. If you're saying.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Famous, fameus, oh fame, Yeah, the song fame. If you
listen closer you can hear his backing vocals, and I
think he played the piano and.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
He had Robert Fripp play guitar on that from King
Crimson Wow wast there.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Yeah, somebody else too that was kind of famous too.

Speaker 5 (57:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Yeah, he used to have the most amazing backing musicians,
from Adrian Ballou, Carlos al Lamar.

Speaker 18 (57:16):
Like.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
The bands that he put together were a who's who
of incredible players, and he would change them so frequently
for the sound of the records, you know, which is
also quite innovative, is you know you think, okay, well
it's this band and that's the same crew you know
every time. No, David Bowie didn't play it that way. Well,

(57:39):
we're gonna need a good saxophone player, We're gonna need
a different type of guitarist here, and okay, well maybe
Carlos shall come this time, but maybe next time I'll
have Adrian Steely.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Dan was like that in a different way.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Yeah, even with Iggy Pop and Bowie. Oh yes, great
friends famous my favorite aartists.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
You liked Iggy Pop. Yeah, he did a lot of
collaborations with a lot of different artists. Yeah, so this
is interesting.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
You have an Iggy Pomp CD here the Stooges, right, yes,
raw Power a classic, an all time classic. What do
you think about Iggy pop has such generational staying power
because I mean this is this is pretty old school here, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
Mean, proto punk is probably one of my favorite genres.
And I don't know, the first time I heard the
Stooges and Iggy it was like I was surprised that
that existed, Okay in sixty nine sixty eight, sure, so
that's kind of just what got me into them. It

(58:43):
was crazy to see that they had that sound. And
I even saw him a few years ago. He brought
out Chad Smith on the drums, Duff McKagan on bass,
and he even brought out Slash, which is pretty and
he sounded great. I mean, what a super group for sure.

(59:06):
I mean you got like guns and Roses, Chili Peppers,
and Iggy.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Pop all in the mix.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
Yeah, it's crazy. He sounded amazing.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Well what are we listening to?

Speaker 5 (59:15):
I think.

Speaker 12 (59:17):
Listen to.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
The title track Search and Destroy.

Speaker 10 (59:23):
For a first song.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
I mean, sorry, okay, little Iggy Pop, Iggy and the Stooges,
Raw Power, Search and Destroy.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
It not on the side.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
But he might have been there just hanging out.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
I would have doubt that.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Executive producer for reissue Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson,
right tremendous. Here it is on KXFM, Laguna's community radio,
keyword community. Think about it, man, tune in and turn on.

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
I'm a steep walking cheet.

Speaker 10 (01:00:23):
And wet for the name.

Speaker 6 (01:00:28):
I'm a runaway son.

Speaker 8 (01:00:29):
Of the nuclear anything.

Speaker 10 (01:00:35):
I am the world that's gonna got in the one
who sell cheers in the chorice.

Speaker 11 (01:00:42):
Son gyrees, somebody kind of save my son.

Speaker 6 (01:00:53):
You got hone it comes music technology, got know how
to so red at the theater.

Speaker 10 (01:01:09):
In the men of the fire.

Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
Got strike, I say so.

Speaker 10 (01:01:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
The world's called in.

Speaker 19 (01:01:32):
The one searching sche tschol worlds Cadi. The one is
searching today.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
But what.

Speaker 10 (01:02:02):
You got hid cause you don't taken of change. Ain't
got the man nor loi of change.

Speaker 20 (01:02:15):
So when each member dinner and now the men a
little five five.

Speaker 10 (01:02:23):
Got like, so I got say what I saw take out.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
The world.

Speaker 10 (01:02:37):
Oh God, the one subch subject.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
To this cab.

Speaker 18 (01:02:50):
The world's called got him.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
One subject subject to this school.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Search and destroy off of raw power I tell you
that is a very visceral mix of a record and
amazing photography of that glam rock era by the one
and only Mike Rock. Tell me a little bit about
how this speaks to you, Nilu, if.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
You could, honestly off the bat, just look looking at
a picture of Iggy or the Stooges, Lou Reed, anybody
in that scene. It's just like they're just interesting to
look at him. Yeah, I was definitely captivated by Iggy
and Sure they're just like the coolest looking guys and

(01:04:19):
they make.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
Cool music.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
The charisma is off the charts. Lou Reid is a
personal favorite of mine. I prefer him to Iggy Pop frankly,
but Iggy has an undeniable charisma, right, you know, with
those gold gold hip huggers on, you know, and the
freaking eight pack.

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
There's some live shows I've seen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
I'm not sure what year it was, but he covered
himself in peanut butter and jumped.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
In the crowd.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
Of course, he's just a weird guy and it's fun
to learn about.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Lou Reid to me was I think one of the
greatest songwriters. I feel like he's really underrated as a songwriter.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
I would pester everybody in sound spectrum with Lou reed
in the Velvet Underground all.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Day tremendous, all day tremendous. One of the most influential
bands of all time. Right, there's the classic saying about
the Velvet Underground. It's like they didn't sell that many records,
but everyone that's that bought a record started a band.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
There's something to that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
Even Yeah, that first album was so influential.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, I have a lot
of Lou Reid records, like my discott My catalog goes
pretty deep on him, and I like a lot of
the live stuff. Over the years, I've really really gone
deep into his live performances because his stage banter is tremendous.

(01:05:54):
Like I just really like the the takes that they
you know, have on these tracks and how much they jam.
But then how he interacts with his band and how
he interacts with the crowd, and he's just got that
classic New Yorker energy of that era. And you know,
there's certain things I can't say on the radio, but

(01:06:14):
you get the ideas, just got that attitude and it's awesome.
It just comes through and in so many ways it's
a visceral experience, but it was a really interesting moment
in time. I think in t rex Mark Bolin. Of
course I kind of put in that mix as well.
And I think this came out on main Man Records,
which was I believe this was the t Rexes label

(01:06:39):
at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Are You My main Man? Are You Now? That album
one of my all time favorites. T Rex.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Now, I think we should maybe go the complete opposite.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Direction, hard left, Let's do it, Let's do it change, yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
This is another album that came out this year called
Charm by Clara. And I don't know who's listening to this.
I did post on my story, so if there are
any friends listening, I know you'd like this song.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Do you know by Clara?

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
I'm not familiar with this artist. What can you share
with our listeners about Clara?

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
She's kind of the epitome of like a classic indie artist.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Okay, she's.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
I don't know, that album cover looks like it's right
out of the mid seventies.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Yeah for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
She definitely has that vibe about her, the haircut and everything,
the colors. Yeah, so this is going to be the
second track on the second side.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Okay, and this is like a beautiful lavender colored vinyl. Yeah,
did you get this at the Sounds? Did you get
this at the Sound Spectrum?

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
I actually did. It was one of the last records
I bought there before we closed, so it does have
that value to me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
I always remember this. The last year, there have been
several new indie email artists that have been taking over
the sales truck. Sure, I bet you sold a lot
of Chapel Roan records.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
Oh yeah, geez, we could not keep that on the sholf.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
That woman, to me came out of like.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
I wasn't familiar with her music at all, and then
I started seeing her name kind of bubble up, and
I watched this tiny desk concert and I was like,
I don't even understand what I'm looking at here. And
then I thought, what a voice. And immediately I thought
like Dolly Parton kind of meets Cyndi Lauper vibes. And

(01:08:55):
as I listened to it more and more, I thought,
this is a generational talent.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Yes, her, she's so.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Singular and unique and apparently an incredibly great live performer.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Yeah, I've seen some of the videos of her recent concerts.
Maybe it's in Austin or somewhere like that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
You see the La.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
Cho Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Eight hundred thousand people just for her. It's like, I mean,
that's big, big numbers, like unprecedented, and you know, grinding
away for years and years and years, ever since she
was like sixteen years old. You know, she was signed
to a label at like seventeen years old. And to

(01:09:43):
see that level of success by staying true to who
you are is a real rare thing these days, and
it's very special. And you know, Wave You've always stayed
true to who you are too, and that's a real
special thing.

Speaker 6 (01:09:58):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
You're one of a kind. I I believe I'm one
of jillions. Well that's waveology for you. But we're all different.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Well sure, right, you know you have to be. I mean,
you know, all right, we're playing track two off of
this yep, it's track two. What's the name of the track?

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
I see and I see people ask me. They'll bring
up an album in the store. They'll say, hey, is
this better than this one? And I said, well, to me,
it's like food, just because you like strawberries better than
you like peaches. Doesn't mean peaches are bad, so I

(01:10:50):
just I love it. Give it a taste, give it
a listen, and see what you like. And that's what
my job is, is to find out what they're as
sorry and feed them.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
I like a good strawberry, but nothing beats a juicy peach.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
You're learning about Jonathan tonight, Well they get to learn
about me every week, sometimes more than others.

Speaker 6 (01:11:25):
I don't ask ju there's.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Ll im just's.

Speaker 5 (01:12:14):
You to.

Speaker 7 (01:12:25):
Me ready.

Speaker 12 (01:12:29):
Yelling get on the dancing hall.

Speaker 6 (01:12:32):
The enjoy a kind of yelling. Do want by into travels?
You mayet.

Speaker 11 (01:12:41):
Tress and tra Let's see there's some great tending.

Speaker 18 (01:13:06):
Just just cha put the bott.

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Look at the.

Speaker 15 (01:13:39):
Look at the bull, the fucking bay for a time

(01:14:43):
to be said about it?

Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
Side about it, jus day finally.

Speaker 15 (01:14:54):
Mos up, stay all the wave stay do this my
head seeing it all back however my life it's just
something to.

Speaker 18 (01:15:07):
As money.

Speaker 12 (01:15:09):
That's it between your breath.

Speaker 6 (01:15:11):
Having seen.

Speaker 12 (01:15:15):
I thought it.

Speaker 6 (01:15:20):
Out of my loves it.

Speaker 11 (01:15:25):
There is it ever knows a.

Speaker 15 (01:15:34):
Good play for a time to be.

Speaker 12 (01:15:40):
About about it?

Speaker 7 (01:15:43):
Had to day my.

Speaker 15 (01:15:47):
Way, and I can say it to your face, see
to your face, do you miss my laugh?

Speaker 12 (01:15:55):
You f the Black Dock, the room.

Speaker 6 (01:15:57):
It's just something I missed too.

Speaker 12 (01:16:03):
All the ways in case you say the closing it

(01:16:24):
other No, I don't know the closing.

Speaker 6 (01:16:57):
There's another no, kind.

Speaker 12 (01:17:05):
About the.

Speaker 10 (01:17:09):
Kind of.

Speaker 12 (01:17:13):
Money nothing.

Speaker 11 (01:17:15):
There's another no.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
You ever listened to a record that just is so
viby It just kind of like transports you. This, I
feel is one of those records like I, I don't know,
this almost feels like a French French record or something
kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:18:40):
You know. I like this.

Speaker 4 (01:18:41):
Yeah, I could definitely see those vibes.

Speaker 9 (01:18:43):
She's very.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
I don't know how to describe her. I don't know,
she's kind of eclectic.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Yeah, yeah, what is it?

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
What is this artist?

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
Name? Again?

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
You Lou Claro Claro.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
This is her third studio album, I believe, so she's
been around for quite a while.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
You get some great picks and very diverse. I mean
we just literally listened to like Raw Power by you
Pop in the Stooges and then something like It's like
the exact opposite of that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
That's just what.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
Would go at work with Whatever I was playing is
all over the place.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
But that's how I like it, you know, it's the polarity, right,
it's the yin Yang. It's it's fascinating. You're listening to
deep cuts on k x FM. If you're just tuning in,
you're here with illustrious guest Wave in Neilu of the
Sound Spectrum, sharing some music, sharing some records, talking about

(01:19:38):
having some fun, having some fun, some chats, some nice chats,
and uh, we're gonna continue to do that, and I'm
gonna I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
Play a record.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
We're gonna We're gonna let Jonathan have a record. You know,
you throw me a bone, you know, Yeah, Well, I
get to play records. You know, the audience is sick
you hear me play. I hope they're not sick of
hear me play records. But you know, it's nice to
have guests and diversity of music choices because I wouldn't

(01:20:11):
play a lot of this stuff, Neelie that you brought Wave,
I've got a lot of that stuff. You got a
lot of similar tastes. This is cool new stuff. I've
never heard Clara before.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Clara, Yeah, she's definitely someone vibe, somebody everybody should listen to,
especially because you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Hear that everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
A lot of people talk about how there's no good
music nowadays. But it just comes down to if you
want to look for.

Speaker 5 (01:20:36):
It or not.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
And that's why you need somebody to help you find
new music. A real human being with a point of view.
What do you know about that? Not just an algorhythm man.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Human being who would have thunk it?

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
Who would have thought?

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Well, not ty.

Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
I'm going to play an album that I actually picked
up on a record store day, and this is on
the Southeastern Records label. This is called Live Welcome, Live
from Welcome To nineteen seventy nine. Kind of fumbled the
words on that. This is by a band called Jason

(01:21:19):
Isbel in the four hundred unit. Jason Isbel was in
the band Drive by Truckers, and he has I think, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Some great I forgot that s where he was he
came from here.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Yeah, he's got some great covers. These are pretty much
almost all covers on here. He's got Springsteen covers, He's
got a couple Stones covers, He's got a John Prime cover,
and uh, it's awesome. I think it's a great record.
It's just like a little EP. It's only six tracks,

(01:21:53):
but they rip and I really like the version that
they do of can't you hear me knocking? So to
hear that, I'm gonna spin it up for you here
on deep cuts.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
I love hearing new Stones covers, any Stones, like the
Sunday's cover of Wild Horses. It's great, very chill.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
I like that version.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
This is decidedly unchill.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
I like it when women do covers of Naile rockers.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Yeah, it's always a nice small songs, love songs.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
I hear women.

Speaker 6 (01:23:05):
Wherever you got you seven shoes, I.

Speaker 20 (01:23:14):
Snack conk cocaine, eyes.

Speaker 11 (01:23:24):
Kill you, guys, speaking dream chid, you give me knucket
on your.

Speaker 6 (01:23:32):
Window, continue on your do give me knocking.

Speaker 21 (01:23:45):
Down your dirty street, knock kill me by, I ain't
no strangers, ll me back. I ain't no stranger, baby,

(01:24:08):
I am not a strangers. Are you safe? Asleep?

Speaker 10 (01:24:22):
Down again?

Speaker 11 (01:24:23):
Some pas streets, swooming down the tea, Give me, give
me sing.

Speaker 6 (01:24:45):
Sometime, bagging on my knees. Chicken, call me.

Speaker 20 (01:25:05):
Your champs gas at.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
That was a little Jason Isabel covering the Rolling Stones.
First time hearing that for you, guys, Huh, what do
you think?

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
I really liked the guitar parts, cool right, one of
my favorite Stone songs. I really like what they did. Yeah,
it was me too. It changed it. It was a
little more of a journey, yeah, that whole album journey. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
I always like, can you hear me knocking?

Speaker 2 (01:29:50):
It's it is?

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
It is probably I mean yeah, it's hard for me
to say it's my favorite, but it's it's probably my
favorite Stone song.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
I mean, I don't know, it's one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:29:59):
It's While the Horses Moonlight Mile.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Yeah, Wild Horses is so good. It is, but I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
There's something about the energy of this one that always
gets me, gets me vibing. Yeah, well, thanks for letting
me share. It is only your radio, it's ours. It's
a community radio stage. But yeah, I mean, you know
it's kind of but you know, that's the beautiful thing,

(01:30:30):
right as I kind of think about it like a
like a utility, like a park, like who's park it
is it, it's kind of everybody's park, kind of everybody's
radio station. You know, you're here, look at it, So
it's yours, right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
That's kind of the way we feel sound Spectrum. It's
it's our. Yeah, it's all family, and it's our house
is over there, but it's everybody who comes in and
I think that's gonna be uh more so in the future.

(01:31:05):
Different ideas that we've had. We invite everybody who has
some ideas. We're we're thinking about several things enhance the
museum aspect of it. Yeah, I think that'd be great.
We would love to do classes yea, and readings and speakers, uh,

(01:31:30):
you know, like poetry reading and that'd be cool. Small concerts, like.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
A creative cooperative that celebrates the significance of music and culture,
you know, all the artifacts that you have, the historical Yeah,
elements to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Him or Billy and Yeah, we'd like to have more
more sitting areas. And we're thinking about recording studio abb
Rad thinking of putting on concerts I love in the
in the storm, but also in other places. Yeah, I
hope to work with yeh the radio station. We'd love

(01:32:11):
to do some collaboration and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:32:13):
Absolutely, that would be tremendous.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
We'd love this eating. We're recruiting people. Anybody who has ideas.
It's uh, bring them to the table. Yeah, absolutely, bring
your ideas to the table. Have your voice heard.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
Now is the time, you know, sometimes these things happen,
and this is I'll just share a brief story about
the radio station because there was a moment in time
where we thought the radio station wasn't going to continue.
We were really worried about it. You know, we had
a lot of changes going on. It was it was

(01:32:48):
kind of a bummer time, and we thought. I was
in here one night playing records and John Ford came
in and he said, yeah, you know, I don't know
how much longer we'll be be going. And I thought, man,
is this going to be one of my last shows?

Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
And I thought, no way, I can't. You know, that
would be such a bummer.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
And some people put.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Their heads together and came up and came up with
a plan, and very grateful that Billy stepped up and said,
I think there's a path forward and we're able to
come together and you know, work things out with Tyler
and keep the radio station going, and keep the radio
station here in the community. And it takes a village,

(01:33:37):
you know, it takes a lot of people working together
with a shared vision and a goal.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
And I believe those people.

Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
Are out there and the sound spectrum can continue on
in the same way. And I'll just say it from
my point of view, it's such a precious gem. It's
such an iconic historical institution and of Laguna Beach that
has paved the way for so many special moments and memories.

(01:34:06):
And I believe someone out there has the capacity and
the resources, in the vision and the willingness to keep
it in this community and keep it special and expand
it into the future beyond. Absolutely absolutely, And that's uh,

(01:34:31):
that's really the name. Put it out there in the
universal answer.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Meanwhile, neither has another little song. She wants what it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
Sifers a little Australian punk bin. We're going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Playing speaking angelunks. Want to shout out to Travis, who
we hope you're still with traits. Travis got Travis got
hit by a train, oh man, he told me. And
his one side of his face is all moldy or something.

(01:35:11):
Train in the mouth. Yeah that's no good train.

Speaker 5 (01:35:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
So shout out to you, brother. I hope you're feeling better.
And uh yeah, I'm gonna do my Travis impersonation. Sounds
just like him, nice burp, like like a whale or something.
Actually he's the king of burps.

Speaker 1 (01:35:36):
I don't know much about Amyl and the Sniffers. What
what can you tell us about this band.

Speaker 4 (01:35:41):
I mean, just looking at the cover, you can kind
of tell yeah, yeah, I can see that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Well a lot of people have been talking about the
punk scene and how it's kind of disappeared, but I
would definitely say after listening to them, you know that
it's back. And they might not be the biggest band
out there yet, but I believe they're definitely on that track.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
So this track is called Angel.

Speaker 5 (01:36:13):
Is this a.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
Cover of the shaggy song of the same name? I
think so probably not. That's just a little that's just
a little shaggy choke for those out there listening AML
and the Sniffers right here on k x FM.

Speaker 22 (01:36:32):
From Australia down Under, I should think you know this.

Speaker 23 (01:37:04):
This let you chuck him out? Wow, you don't love
you deep out? Love got study out? We'll make him play.

Speaker 6 (01:37:46):
I got comeing out.

Speaker 10 (01:37:47):
I love pot to study and you make me.

Speaker 6 (01:37:55):
Don't make out? Oh my you dear friends, I think
you wanted 'em come to bring us. What's up the secause?
I love you so fas may.

Speaker 10 (01:38:12):
You jaw who.

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
R U go?

Speaker 6 (01:38:51):
You love you?

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
Job Amal and the Sniffers. You know, I don't know

(01:39:25):
what quite what to make of that. I think I
liked it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
I got to listen to it a little bit more.
I got excited by it. It is exciting music. Drive
it does.

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
I love that she's not scared to let her act
or her accent play through.

Speaker 12 (01:39:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:39:41):
I think that's something we definitely need to.

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
Hear more of in any meaning English artists, Australian anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:39:47):
She's probably just making you know, she's making her music
for her people and her country, and then it happens
to get exported exactly. Yep, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
What else can you share with us about?

Speaker 6 (01:40:00):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Is that her name? Amyl? Okay, it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:40:05):
I'd recommend anybody to watch one of their live shows.
They're super high energy.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
I could see even in the photography. Yeah, she's like,
you know, in the in the mash pit, mixing it up.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
That's what it's all about. I love that, you know,
they're not scared to go out there.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
Yeah, you know, fear, false expectations, appearing real.

Speaker 22 (01:40:30):
Right, What are we that?

Speaker 5 (01:40:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
That's a little deep cuts ology for you. Wave another
pearl from Pearl Street.

Speaker 2 (01:40:42):
What do we have here, my friend? Well, I thought
we'd kind of yeah, Circle of the Block.

Speaker 4 (01:40:49):
And the back to the normal music.

Speaker 5 (01:40:52):
No, no, just.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
A little bit, you know the This is an.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
Just get this album cover.

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
Man, this is madness. This is something that's for sure.
This is another song that loved to play in the
store because it's it's it's about the Sound Spectrum. I
love it and always makes me feel happy. I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:27):
I love that they have nicknames. Sorry, I'm just I
you know wave what this is. One of the things
I love about records is I love the art. I
love to read about the names of the people in
the band that's in all the little credits.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
Yeah, the covers are one of the big pluses about vinyl.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
Yeah, that's kind of what sells you on it too.

Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
Yeah, Like I'll take a chance on something just based
on the cover alone.

Speaker 5 (01:41:53):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:41:53):
I bought many records which I really enjoy because I'm like.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
Huh, that's cool. I like that. You know which track
are we listening to off of here? House of Last? Yes? Okay,
last song? He knows it Welcome to the House of Fun.
That was just a test. Yes, the Sound Spectrum is

(01:42:19):
one of our houses of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
Absolutely enjoy.

Speaker 5 (01:42:48):
Life as quite.

Speaker 4 (01:43:01):
Casting its prey just.

Speaker 6 (01:43:04):
That has some fun now a Gamma page wing too
that has.

Speaker 5 (01:43:09):
Some fun to the lines.

Speaker 6 (01:43:13):
Definite precis like running to that house.

Speaker 11 (01:43:18):
Met mis Understanding sixteen.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Big boy in my Medicine, I'm as produce the study
of my not that.

Speaker 7 (01:43:36):
Has some family.

Speaker 6 (01:43:38):
Now come up to the lin definite precis like running
to that has so funny?

Speaker 7 (01:44:00):
Party games game shop right.

Speaker 6 (01:44:05):
It's becomes a few brands. This is a game, It's
not just a shop by heads.

Speaker 7 (01:44:12):
Similarly, Area.

Speaker 6 (01:44:14):
Sent me understanding, come by the carded.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
To like.

Speaker 7 (01:44:26):
Just like he's playing any Brits from the day that
has some fun.

Speaker 11 (01:44:31):
Now come up base, Welcome to that has some fun,
to the littations.

Speaker 10 (01:44:39):
Playing to that has some fun.

Speaker 6 (01:44:44):
To that has some fun. Now coome up page well to.

Speaker 10 (01:44:48):
That has some fun.

Speaker 6 (01:44:51):
Welcome to the li takeing time is playing to that
has some fun?

Speaker 5 (01:44:59):
To that.

Speaker 1 (01:45:26):
Welcome to the house of fun. You know, I was
just remarking at the kind of like wholesome zaniness of
this cover. But something tells me there's some deep undercurrents
of darkness to this could.

Speaker 4 (01:45:40):
Just be me, I mean, you know it is not
just youry.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
We got to get that album cover out of his head.

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
Getting things getting way too excitement. The name of the
show is deeper cuts. Oh yeah, deeper and deeper Baby,
my goodness, Wave. It has been wonderful to have you here, Neilu,
but a welcome surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
You have any questions for us as far as anything,
anything that you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:12):
Feel, Yeah, I mean I feel like I'm kind of
I'm kind of on the spot as it were now,
But I do have questions for you, man, I have questions,
which is like, oh, good, gotta go. Okay, yeah, let
me let me If I'm gonna ask you one question,
it's this, out of all the years and moments that

(01:46:34):
you've experienced at the Sound Spectrum, if you could distill
down and do a few points the things that brought
you the most.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
Joy, what would they be?

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
Yeah, out of all the out of all the years
and all the experiences and all the moments that you've
had at the sound spectrum, if you could share the
few things, the top top thing, the top few. I
don't want to constrict you to one that bring you
the most joy.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
What would they be? Well, there's so many and I
don't know if this is the first one that came
to me, and there's many like this, But for those
out there who've been teachers or worked with young people.

(01:47:31):
It's been my life work. And I'll see I'll see
a group of kids come through while they're in high school.
It's like and then when they graduate from high school,
they'll move on, they'll move out of town, sometimes go
to college. It's like a teacher in a school. You

(01:47:56):
don't see them anymore. And it's I'd love to see
how all the friends I made turned out as far
as what they did, Yeah, because they were just brilliant, bright,
you know, funny. I just I've been blessed by attracting

(01:48:18):
young people that are are so much fun. And once
in a while, I do get that experience of somebody
coming back, and not too long ago, a young woman,
she's probably about twenty five now, and I knew her
from high school, so it was about ten years ago,

(01:48:42):
and she came back in the last last spring. She
came back in and and nobody was in the store.
We were just talking, and you know, I hadn't seen
her for a couple of years, and we got to
talk and and and then the phone rang. I took
the phone call, and then I'm up at the counter,

(01:49:03):
and then she walks up from the back of the store,
and she said, Hey, I just wanted to tell you something.
You know, remember how me and all my friends, you know,
she had a small posse friends that she came in with,
how we came and so many times, and I just
wanted to thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:49:22):
And I go, what for?

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
And she said, and I speak for my friends when
I say this, We didn't know adults could be any
different than our parents. You gave us hope that we
saw somebody met met an adult that was so different

(01:49:44):
from them, and it they didn't know they existed. And
I almost cried when they said that. And I, you know,
she was just thanking me for showing them a different
way to be. And I don't know what her home
life was like or anything like that. I just know
that I'm blessed by the young people have come my way.

(01:50:08):
And sometimes I'll just start talking, you know, come in
the store and just start telling me something very personal
or you know that, Yeah, she goes, you know, and
it's for some reason they trust me and and I don't,
I think, because I don't judge them and I feel safe.
So yeah, that's that's a high compliment for the store

(01:50:32):
as well, because they feel good.

Speaker 4 (01:50:35):
There can be themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:50:37):
Yeah, they can be themselves. They don't have to you know. Yeah,
so that's what everyone really wants to do. Right to me,
there's nothing better than that type of experience, And I
trust I do you know, help people. It's always nice
to hear how it affected them, you know, yeah, so

(01:51:00):
absolutely thanks for asking that. That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (01:51:03):
Wow and deep cuts who like to ask the good questions?

Speaker 5 (01:51:09):
For me?

Speaker 3 (01:51:10):
I one of the feelings I loved the most was
whenever somebody would walk into the store, whether they'd be
older or younger, when they'd immediately find something that they've
been looking.

Speaker 4 (01:51:23):
For and they just freak out and their eyes light up.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
It's like, I'm so happy that we can be a
place where people can find the things that they love.
Like even with the newer artists, a lot of people
my age, I guess, can't find certain records at other
records stores. So I was really happy that I got
to play a part in what we carried and just

(01:51:51):
seeing people find what they've been looking for.

Speaker 1 (01:51:55):
What a beautiful sentiment and helping people find what they're
looking for. Isn't that really what it's all about? Being
yourself in its highest form and helping people find what
they're looking for.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Sometimes they don't know what they're looking for. They come
in and they don't realize that they just needed somebody
to talk to, or maybe they didn't need what they bought.
And we, by being sensitive to them and find out
what they do like, we maybe show them something new
that is equally as pleasing for them than that time.

(01:52:32):
And I just want to compliment Neilu. She finds things
for people. Yeah, if I need something, if I can't
find my keys, or I can't you know, I can't
find something, or somebody asks for a certain where is
my record and title? You know, I'll set her out

(01:52:53):
and she'll find it if it's in the store. And
Neilu also, and I was going to say my workers,
and I mentioned Travis earlier. He couldn't be here tonight
because he had a root canal done. And Neelu and
that's my staff right now. But it's changed through the years.

(01:53:14):
But yeah, this is just a it's it's just a
fun bright group. And and Neilu also will she'll see
somebody in the store and I'll say, remember that guy
over there. She goes, oh, yeah, he came in about
three months ago. Yeah, yeah, he heep on a Pink

(01:53:37):
Floyd album. I remember now, I'll look at her and
I'll go, wait a minute, you remember what that person
bought three months ago? All the people that have come
through here, I've got an amazing mind and memory. And
we're a complimenting team. And that's why I love doing
things with other people. I'm past the part of my

(01:54:00):
life where I want to do anything of myself. My
ego doesn't need that anymore. But doing something with a
team is so satisfying. And we're compliment each other. This
is my little punk rocker, as you probably realize tonight,
and thank you. I would be. I would. She's like

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one of my arms. I wouldn't have an army without her.
And Travis has his own area and we just all
fit together really well.

Speaker 3 (01:54:30):
So t is like a dictionary of music. I feel
like you can just go on and on about certain
artists that you'd have no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:54:41):
Well, I hope he heals up soone dead.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
If I have any dead questions, I go to Travis. Yeah,
well I love the dead, so we got to chat
about that for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
And everybody knows that wave is a laguna treasure, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:54:58):
Travis and I love everything he's done for Laguna. That
sounds spectrum.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Yeah, thank you, We all love you. Wave man, You're beloved.
It's it's a nice place to be. And yeah, maybe
we can do this again.

Speaker 1 (01:55:21):
Sometime anytime, anytime. You're welcome here on Deep Cuts on KXFM,
Mikasa Sukasa House of Fun, Baby, come on down, bring
those records so fun. Absolutely well. This has been a
very very special episode of Deep Cuts. The podcast will
be up on our website for those that want to

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listen to it and share it with whomever they choose
to Wave Neilu, thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
Thank you for having us.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
We appreciate it, appreciate the offer of the invitation. And yeah,
does that feel like landing the Are we landing the landing.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
The plane as they see in radio landing? Smooth landing baby.
And now we tell the people to tune in and
turn on support community radio and our classics. Sign off
here on Deep Cuts. Take care of yourself and somebody else.
Have a great weekend. We'll catch you down the line.

Speaker 7 (01:56:38):
Who's that lane, lady, beautiful lad,