May 14, 2025 • 56 mins
From the Acme Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin. From across the Heartland they came, to play the clubs in Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland and more. Featuring deep tracks of Vintage Rock from Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, Kansas, Ted Nugent and more. They are The Best of the Midwest.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following program is brought to you in living color.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Something call in to the barrow.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It sound somebody tell me that said please that son, my.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
God, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I see God, you will provide the grand design.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
It's one hour of Radio Anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Where the hell is Mayville?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Then it rocked.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
It's been bottled up way too long. Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Yes I did, I have not believe that's true, ble sunt.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Then one day in my life I have a love again.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I am love again.
Speaker 8 (01:49):
All the emptyestdays have dissolve me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Now want you to have felled my love with live.
Don't one else you have of me so much to me.
Speaker 8 (02:11):
Every day my high life alma as I love Grandpa songa.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, my dad, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's a the sunshine. That's my dad.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
My life as a live again. When you gave your
love to me, change my life.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Dreams for once. Hope, Let's come with me. Thank you
love me. Just waiting you.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I have my slides in the saints and ahims to
love you.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Again. Just go there.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
That's sun from shout.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
That it was an album of firsts, the first one
(04:30):
that didn't have a number in the title, also the
first album that didn't include founding member Terry cath after
his accidental shooting. Chicago from Hot Streets and Alive Again
and Hello There, how are you? Welcome back in I'm
Don Clark. Thanks so much for coming down and hanging
out with us once again down here in Don Space.
When they came from Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, all across
(04:52):
the Heartland. These are the bands that make up the
best of the Midwest and out of Kansas with the
album there Goes Neighborhood. Here is Joe Walsh in Life
of Illusion. Welcome to Don Spaceman.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I can't help feeling living the life of belusion.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
And can't be letting me can see through the hole
in the squall confusion.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm just cantled the feeling, the living the life of
elusion right between us.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
River a little.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
At so much check, the.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Just follow the man, disguises, let me go, disguises.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Rises. Don't you know it's to waste day? You got
(07:22):
up in the listener.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Ships that I am mod It's just another hunt as
a bunch of conclusions caught up in a listening mission
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back up, but gets a long conclusion, leaving a line.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Moking he may be older, but he did see some
great bands and for less than ten bucks a ticket.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
This is Don's basement.
Speaker 11 (08:24):
Then I've seen the women who truss them lads who
when they sit down to the table.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Man.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
I've seen the women who looks through the sky screaming dawn.
Speaker 12 (08:33):
I believe in the father, and I've seen a look
of second two times away up.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The hats held up so high. But I never seen a.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Father who let the bee here. I'm stucking you hey.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
I've seen the combers holding the hands over the crazy
looks in your eyes. Then I've seen another's roaming round
in bear streaming us in that corner. And I've seen
the number's hole, little hands but looking when the backs
a turn.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I've never seen a father make the free heel. Oh
look you.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
No man, I like you.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And have not.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I've seen women cross that days and woman sit down
to the table.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
And I've seen a woman who looks through the skyl
I screaming Dad.
Speaker 12 (11:28):
I believe in the father, and I've seen what the
second who comes way upstairs, her up sha, but never
seen a woman who made me.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Fear here, never, never not.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
Seeing the woman who couldn't make me fear here.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
I'm not like again, mixed up like you listen to love.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Start up, makes me speak like you, lady, you gotta
la may don't. Father makes no speak next to you?
Oh God, stand next stop snack.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Stapstan, my fa my fat passion, my father, not stig
not no but not mother no father no mother no
no not now mother, not like.
Speaker 13 (13:21):
That?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
By them, No, don't, don't.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
They were attending the University of Illinois Champagne, and they said,
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let's put a band together, Ario Speedwagon from Live to
Get what You Play for and like you too, and
Don Clark and Don Spaceman with the best of the Midwest. Now,
it was one thing to have all of these great bands.
It was another to go to these great clubs where
these bands played. And they all smelled the same. They
smelt of steel, beer, cigarettes and lost hope. There was
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the Agora in Cleveland, Moby Dix in Minneapolis, the Palms
twenty six in State of Milwaukee, and then there was
a club south of Chicago. I never had a chance
to go to this particular club, but I heard the
stories over and over, and I would love to go
back for just one night to enjoy the hijinks. A
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Point East where these guys played a number of times.
They only had a couple of albums out, but boy
what albums they were making big noise out of Chicago.
These are the hounds from putting on the Dog and
under my Thumb in down Spasement.
Speaker 14 (16:00):
Once at LEAs down the basel, laid and want av
he's down to bay.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
How yes, here it is, but you see the clow.
She wears down to beef.
Speaker 14 (16:19):
She chance comes, she's on the macou the bag.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
On the bathl is schooled down. Who just at the
dance for the basel? I could you have just twitch
her ways? He's on the band.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Who way?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
She does us what she's tolen down.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
To be She chance comes on.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The maco y she's from the battle.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
M m hm.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
H data.
Speaker 10 (17:36):
No way.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
See Tom's stone galls me. She trs gone on the babum.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You got on no mind the babom.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
Sad cattle game the bottom see the little.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
The world. It's not the.
Speaker 15 (18:05):
First Who wis he talks when you go to the
Thousand Nights to transc on the Babo.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
On the bbo.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
It all began with him talking to himself in the basement.
Now he's talking to himself in the studio. That is
literally in a basement. We're proud of the progress.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
D you see, way to go, pou welcome to Don's basement.
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Those times then you won't be happy with the nice
pruspin you for posic slipping out?
Speaker 16 (20:16):
Thank God, this down you can give us a la.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Don't just sit there and find it times.
Speaker 17 (20:25):
Get up, get up and joy sl get up, get up,
get up and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Get up, get up, get up and enjoy your side.
Speaker 16 (20:44):
There you won't the mom in hand for some good
gord and you got them.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Give the time is night, so then up seeing also
you know, also.
Speaker 16 (21:14):
Said flap last last song, startups.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Not the times.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Speaks to the study seven.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Set up, get us.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
So you know you up and set get up, get up,
get up, up, up.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yourself made up.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I remember hearing somebody say, must be something in the
air at the University of Illinois to put bands together.
Something in the air. All right, they got their start
there too. Head east and get up and enjoy yourself.
On the best of the Midwest. They came out of
Topeka in nineteen seventy three like a twister, and nineteen
seventy five, with the help of Rush, they introduced a
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lot of Midwest fans to their version of progressive rock
and their next I'm Don Clark, Welcome to Don's Baseman.
Speaker 18 (24:11):
Steve daw with you, Man, Gary Meyer, and man, we're
in trouble again.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Look at this.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Let's Tracy with rock and Roll on FM ninety eight.
Speaker 19 (24:22):
Mich Michael's doing the cruise.
Speaker 20 (24:23):
I'm the Lukes Sky Daniels into the eighties at FM
ninety eight.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
You have a remarkable mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We have a remarkable radio station, the.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Loop where Chicago rocks at FM ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Hi, I'm Don Cavern.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Walk Oh with Marsha's Tucker Band Rock on Mere Walkee.
Speaker 12 (24:51):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
This is Jerry Mercer from April Wine.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Ron on Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Where are your Speedwagon? Rock up? Walk on with ninety
three w q f M Milwaukie.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
No, there's classic rock, there's vintage rocks.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
He had as him on his name.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
He live the long Way Division.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Now the paper.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
But then there's this place. This is John's basement.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In the fall Side, Sor in not the waves and
dawn You're all even die with man.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wins in the sky.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
A welcome down, hire you in the face, and Sid said,
fall on a wain succeeded so much to feel ru
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A welcome, say say you pies, He say to.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Me, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So high, so hi, I find the.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Mountains of the sky. Were now wait to know my song.
I found my freedom by.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I find the mountains of the sky on the cloud
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to Maber sit ching for the ray, moda, what's some money?
Help me? I'm here lo LANDA welcome, say say lawn.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Easy stay to me the god so high, so high,
when the light tells out the sky.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Were got my way once, so.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
My fred find about two.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Thus they spent a lot of time on the road
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with Rush, and when they came through the Midwest, we
ended up getting a double shot of some of the
best progressive rock in the business. Kansas from Mask and
Icarus and Born on the Wings of Steel, Don Clark
and Don's Basement with the best of the Midwest. Everybody
had their favorite club, everybody had their favorite band. These
guys would come into Milwaukee and they would play the
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Palms time and time again, and every time we saw them.
It was better than the first. The musicianship was unbelievable,
but the lead singer one of the best in the business,
Gary West, Behind the microphone from Saint Louis. It is
a shooting star and flesh and blood in Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Money has to the nanny teeth, cost goes to b
and he pats fat about life. Try to be the head.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
No nos ekuls himself to give head and needs money.
It's no mony need and he's mine. It's nobody believes
and he's mine.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's yes him pleas straps us.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
To know about mothers, love tunities.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
He needs love on his money needs.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
To he needs love the promises, love him kiss.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Here right now, you'll hear right now all the desi.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Wheyone is my passing through time, some sorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And sustem the girls running through well hid when you're
looking there, my bo Soon you'll go over the seeds
the same Manyes, he needs to feel. He needs love.
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How one's money ears. He needs love the promises because
the have cheese.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
It s.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
A for so man, so the world only fish fool.
Look at him as you see the souls so like
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give it. Look at him trying to make some sense.
But well writ first, he's a person, he's got feelings,
and it's not made a fare. And the souls laugh
direct things either. He says.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
The telement's hurt, but all his hampers. He says he
gives just as af. So he needs child.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And needs child, has to stay about it all. When
the chime comes to say goodbye, he chis to be
not show not you good. He means it's not a lot.
He needs lot, and listen to her house.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
He needs a lot some the shine the ears of
lots car held itself.
Speaker 21 (35:31):
So o listen.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Sustain EXPI out of all the shows on the radio,
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we're one of them. Welcome to Down's basement. I can't
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help me about to shit.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
If I'm in, I can't sing.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I ain't pretty and my legs a thin.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Don't ask me what to think of you.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I might not give the answer that you want me to. Well,
(38:26):
now I talked to God. Do we understand, he said,
stick by me.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
I'll be a god.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Dam don't ask me what to think of you, and
might not get the answer that you wobb me too.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Hey help, I said my head.
Speaker 11 (39:52):
I can't think I am pretty, but that do want
to think of you?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Am I nap giving into the bom.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Out of Detroit The Rockets in their version of oh well,
I gotta stay in Detroit for just a second. I
know that he's back on the road, but maybe we
could talk him into running for president just one more time.
Man's got my boat from Billion Dollar Babies. Here's Alice
in Down's Basement.
Speaker 8 (40:38):
And Joy.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Step.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
What do you need to get to day I get.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
In the late nineteens, Dus dolts.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Against.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
It was always the music that mattered. We just needed
someone to bring it all back.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Welcome to Down's Basement. Wet them down.
Speaker 8 (44:26):
Mega calls a number numbers busy talk about to ruining.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
A number rests the ring a thing the memory.
Speaker 13 (44:46):
Then then she said she had the hell of the
giant's tip. She's water choice, it's tight, She's.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
A challenger girl. She's tight, She's got her down tight.
Speaker 8 (45:17):
I had sudden guy say to you, vision a train
of pot on the tip a timble my char.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Vision with now show the little from the window went
down the school, It went downstairs, turned.
Speaker 21 (45:39):
The dog over the She's funny, she's tight, she's ahead
of the chie's tip.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
She's one of joy, She's a challenger girls. She's down tight.
Speaker 13 (46:15):
Tas type, she's killing's killing, will turn up the lights, tip.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Ship's nice taste, Tipe turns nice sis, nice.
Speaker 20 (46:37):
N nice trick, and she's tight.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
Meanwhile, back in Detroit, Ted NuGen has a new album
coming out. His lead singer Derek Saying Holmes leaves the band.
Record company says, don't worry about a thing. We got
a guy, he's a big guy, and he'll do the
album for one thousand dollars. And Ted NuGen has the
free for All album and we are introduced to meet Loaft.
This is I Love You So I told you a
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lie in Don's basement.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
To see what Knock again Africa as the Dusty.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Record, I had a bod.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
S a lone.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
I love the sort the sort when you know how
to do a lob.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Just see akind of scene.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
That's the finger of the paddle. Me don't know, I
learned the sort you love the sort of see.
Speaker 18 (50:06):
I'm not gonna say there was some funny stuff going
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on down there, but every time we opened the basement
door at the top of the stairs.
Speaker 19 (50:37):
It looked like a new pulpe had just been elected.
Welcome the dun's basements.
Speaker 22 (51:04):
Too long between her, too long without someone that you
want the leg said sosasp just singing up storm.
Speaker 23 (51:30):
I'm all your.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Too much intert.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Just can't take it in.
Speaker 24 (51:50):
Too much money right out. I can't tell you where
it happened. It seems just like second where see all
earthing on being the hell man passed time.
Speaker 22 (52:11):
Songs, just like ladies can't forget their way through their oside.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Man the old wood bitters, l man needs so.
Speaker 25 (52:27):
Shine in the morning, and those wood bitters held than
that of you.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Do you stop? Bos, I guess it's house goes so
sure this much.
Speaker 10 (53:42):
More read don't want.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
Des fans men as the bass pass awhile I'm crying
in my bill, I guess seeing.
Speaker 24 (54:01):
Someone else's those guilty as your mollot that how let
the swart bitters help him means such at him more.
Speaker 23 (54:22):
That's sowd bitters, help me do the night that no
smoot bitterers, you'll map such a him. Let's stood bitters.
Speaker 6 (54:48):
Help me do the night of your.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
He was the pride of Cleveland, Ohio, and we miss
him dearly.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
The Michael Stanley Band and Rosewood bidders putting the wraps
on our best to the Midwest. We want to thank
all the radio stations up and down the dial that
take the time to run our show each week, including
our flagship station ninety nine point nine FMWYML and WYML.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
Dot us in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Thank you, Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC,
Maybel Wisconsin, Buddy Guy and everybody at Buddy Guy Radio
in Chicago, and all the stations. Big thanks to the
iHeartRadio Network and Amazon Music for getting the word out
about Don Spaceman tapes. Check out our website, Don's Basement
Productions dot com. Thanks to mister Lee Peek, the voice
of Don's Basement, and thank you for coming down and
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hanging out in the basement. We appreciate it. I'm Don Clark.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
Peace
The following program is brought to you in living color.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Something call in to the barrow.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It sound somebody tell me that said please that son, my.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
God, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I see God, you will provide the grand design.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
It's one hour of Radio Anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Where the hell is Mayville?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Then it rocked.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
It's been bottled up way too long. Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Yes I did, I have not believe that's true, ble sunt.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Then one day in my life I have a love again.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I am love again.
Speaker 8 (01:49):
All the emptyestdays have dissolve me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Now want you to have felled my love with live.
Don't one else you have of me so much to me.
Speaker 8 (02:11):
Every day my high life alma as I love Grandpa songa.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, my dad, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's a the sunshine. That's my dad.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
My life as a live again. When you gave your
love to me, change my life.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Dreams for once. Hope, Let's come with me. Thank you
love me. Just waiting you.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I have my slides in the saints and ahims to
love you.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Again. Just go there.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
That's sun from shout.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
That it was an album of firsts, the first one
(04:30):
that didn't have a number in the title, also the
first album that didn't include founding member Terry cath after
his accidental shooting. Chicago from Hot Streets and Alive Again
and Hello There, how are you? Welcome back in I'm
Don Clark. Thanks so much for coming down and hanging
out with us once again down here in Don Space.
When they came from Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, all across
(04:52):
the Heartland. These are the bands that make up the
best of the Midwest and out of Kansas with the
album there Goes Neighborhood. Here is Joe Walsh in Life
of Illusion. Welcome to Don Spaceman.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I can't help feeling living the life of belusion.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
And can't be letting me can see through the hole
in the squall confusion.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm just cantled the feeling, the living the life of
elusion right between us.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
River a little.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
At so much check, the.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
Just follow the man, disguises, let me go, disguises.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Rises. Don't you know it's to waste day? You got
(07:22):
up in the listener.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Ships that I am mod It's just another hunt as
a bunch of conclusions caught up in a listening mission
(07:49):
back up, but gets a long conclusion, leaving a line.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Moking he may be older, but he did see some
great bands and for less than ten bucks a ticket.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
This is Don's basement.
Speaker 11 (08:24):
Then I've seen the women who truss them lads who
when they sit down to the table.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Man.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
I've seen the women who looks through the sky screaming dawn.
Speaker 12 (08:33):
I believe in the father, and I've seen a look
of second two times away up.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The hats held up so high. But I never seen a.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Father who let the bee here. I'm stucking you hey.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
I've seen the combers holding the hands over the crazy
looks in your eyes. Then I've seen another's roaming round
in bear streaming us in that corner. And I've seen
the number's hole, little hands but looking when the backs
a turn.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I've never seen a father make the free heel. Oh
look you.
Speaker 10 (09:16):
No man, I like you.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And have not.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I've seen women cross that days and woman sit down
to the table.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
And I've seen a woman who looks through the skyl
I screaming Dad.
Speaker 12 (11:28):
I believe in the father, and I've seen what the
second who comes way upstairs, her up sha, but never
seen a woman who made me.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Fear here, never, never not.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
Seeing the woman who couldn't make me fear here.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
I'm not like again, mixed up like you listen to love.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Start up, makes me speak like you, lady, you gotta
la may don't. Father makes no speak next to you?
Oh God, stand next stop snack.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Stapstan, my fa my fat passion, my father, not stig
not no but not mother no father no mother no
no not now mother, not like.
Speaker 13 (13:21):
That?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
By them, No, don't, don't.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
They were attending the University of Illinois Champagne, and they said,
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let's put a band together, Ario Speedwagon from Live to
Get what You Play for and like you too, and
Don Clark and Don Spaceman with the best of the Midwest. Now,
it was one thing to have all of these great bands.
It was another to go to these great clubs where
these bands played. And they all smelled the same. They
smelt of steel, beer, cigarettes and lost hope. There was
(15:08):
the Agora in Cleveland, Moby Dix in Minneapolis, the Palms
twenty six in State of Milwaukee, and then there was
a club south of Chicago. I never had a chance
to go to this particular club, but I heard the
stories over and over, and I would love to go
back for just one night to enjoy the hijinks. A
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Point East where these guys played a number of times.
They only had a couple of albums out, but boy
what albums they were making big noise out of Chicago.
These are the hounds from putting on the Dog and
under my Thumb in down Spasement.
Speaker 14 (16:00):
Once at LEAs down the basel, laid and want av
he's down to bay.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
How yes, here it is, but you see the clow.
She wears down to beef.
Speaker 14 (16:19):
She chance comes, she's on the macou the bag.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
On the bathl is schooled down. Who just at the
dance for the basel? I could you have just twitch
her ways? He's on the band.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Who way?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
She does us what she's tolen down.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
To be She chance comes on.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The maco y she's from the battle.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
M m hm.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
H data.
Speaker 10 (17:36):
No way.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
See Tom's stone galls me. She trs gone on the babum.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You got on no mind the babom.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
Sad cattle game the bottom see the little.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
The world. It's not the.
Speaker 15 (18:05):
First Who wis he talks when you go to the
Thousand Nights to transc on the Babo.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
On the bbo.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
It all began with him talking to himself in the basement.
Now he's talking to himself in the studio. That is
literally in a basement. We're proud of the progress.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
D you see, way to go, pou welcome to Don's basement.
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Those times then you won't be happy with the nice
pruspin you for posic slipping out?
Speaker 16 (20:16):
Thank God, this down you can give us a la.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Don't just sit there and find it times.
Speaker 17 (20:25):
Get up, get up and joy sl get up, get up,
get up and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Get up, get up, get up and enjoy your side.
Speaker 16 (20:44):
There you won't the mom in hand for some good
gord and you got them.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Give the time is night, so then up seeing also
you know, also.
Speaker 16 (21:14):
Said flap last last song, startups.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Not the times.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Speaks to the study seven.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Set up, get us.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
So you know you up and set get up, get up,
get up, up, up.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yourself made up.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I remember hearing somebody say, must be something in the
air at the University of Illinois to put bands together.
Something in the air. All right, they got their start
there too. Head east and get up and enjoy yourself.
On the best of the Midwest. They came out of
Topeka in nineteen seventy three like a twister, and nineteen
seventy five, with the help of Rush, they introduced a
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lot of Midwest fans to their version of progressive rock
and their next I'm Don Clark, Welcome to Don's Baseman.
Speaker 18 (24:11):
Steve daw with you, Man, Gary Meyer, and man, we're
in trouble again.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Look at this.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Let's Tracy with rock and Roll on FM ninety eight.
Speaker 19 (24:22):
Mich Michael's doing the cruise.
Speaker 20 (24:23):
I'm the Lukes Sky Daniels into the eighties at FM
ninety eight.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
You have a remarkable mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We have a remarkable radio station, the.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Loop where Chicago rocks at FM ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Hi, I'm Don Cavern.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Walk Oh with Marsha's Tucker Band Rock on Mere Walkee.
Speaker 12 (24:51):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
This is Jerry Mercer from April Wine.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Ron on Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Where are your Speedwagon? Rock up? Walk on with ninety
three w q f M Milwaukie.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
No, there's classic rock, there's vintage rocks.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
He had as him on his name.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
He live the long Way Division.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Now the paper.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
But then there's this place. This is John's basement.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
In the fall Side, Sor in not the waves and
dawn You're all even die with man.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wins in the sky.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
A welcome down, hire you in the face, and Sid said,
fall on a wain succeeded so much to feel ru
(26:50):
A welcome, say say you pies, He say to.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Me, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So high, so hi, I find the.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Mountains of the sky. Were now wait to know my song.
I found my freedom by.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I find the mountains of the sky on the cloud
(29:14):
to Maber sit ching for the ray, moda, what's some money?
Help me? I'm here lo LANDA welcome, say say lawn.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Easy stay to me the god so high, so high,
when the light tells out the sky.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Were got my way once, so.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
My fred find about two.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Thus they spent a lot of time on the road
(31:13):
with Rush, and when they came through the Midwest, we
ended up getting a double shot of some of the
best progressive rock in the business. Kansas from Mask and
Icarus and Born on the Wings of Steel, Don Clark
and Don's Basement with the best of the Midwest. Everybody
had their favorite club, everybody had their favorite band. These
guys would come into Milwaukee and they would play the
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Palms time and time again, and every time we saw them.
It was better than the first. The musicianship was unbelievable,
but the lead singer one of the best in the business,
Gary West, Behind the microphone from Saint Louis. It is
a shooting star and flesh and blood in Don's basement.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Money has to the nanny teeth, cost goes to b
and he pats fat about life. Try to be the head.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
No nos ekuls himself to give head and needs money.
It's no mony need and he's mine. It's nobody believes
and he's mine.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's yes him pleas straps us.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
To know about mothers, love tunities.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
He needs love on his money needs.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
To he needs love the promises, love him kiss.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Here right now, you'll hear right now all the desi.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Wheyone is my passing through time, some sorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And sustem the girls running through well hid when you're
looking there, my bo Soon you'll go over the seeds
the same Manyes, he needs to feel. He needs love.
(33:48):
How one's money ears. He needs love the promises because
the have cheese.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
It s.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
A for so man, so the world only fish fool.
Look at him as you see the souls so like
(34:21):
give it. Look at him trying to make some sense.
But well writ first, he's a person, he's got feelings,
and it's not made a fare. And the souls laugh
direct things either. He says.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
The telement's hurt, but all his hampers. He says he
gives just as af. So he needs child.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And needs child, has to stay about it all. When
the chime comes to say goodbye, he chis to be
not show not you good. He means it's not a lot.
He needs lot, and listen to her house.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
He needs a lot some the shine the ears of
lots car held itself.
Speaker 21 (35:31):
So o listen.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Sustain EXPI out of all the shows on the radio,
(37:02):
we're one of them. Welcome to Down's basement. I can't
(37:43):
help me about to shit.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
If I'm in, I can't sing.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I ain't pretty and my legs a thin.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Don't ask me what to think of you.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I might not give the answer that you want me to. Well,
(38:26):
now I talked to God. Do we understand, he said,
stick by me.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
I'll be a god.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Dam don't ask me what to think of you, and
might not get the answer that you wobb me too.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Hey help, I said my head.
Speaker 11 (39:52):
I can't think I am pretty, but that do want
to think of you?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Am I nap giving into the bom.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Out of Detroit The Rockets in their version of oh well,
I gotta stay in Detroit for just a second. I
know that he's back on the road, but maybe we
could talk him into running for president just one more time.
Man's got my boat from Billion Dollar Babies. Here's Alice
in Down's Basement.
Speaker 8 (40:38):
And Joy.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Step.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
What do you need to get to day I get.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
In the late nineteens, Dus dolts.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Against.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
It was always the music that mattered. We just needed
someone to bring it all back.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Welcome to Down's Basement. Wet them down.
Speaker 8 (44:26):
Mega calls a number numbers busy talk about to ruining.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
A number rests the ring a thing the memory.
Speaker 13 (44:46):
Then then she said she had the hell of the
giant's tip. She's water choice, it's tight, She's.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
A challenger girl. She's tight, She's got her down tight.
Speaker 8 (45:17):
I had sudden guy say to you, vision a train
of pot on the tip a timble my char.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Vision with now show the little from the window went
down the school, It went downstairs, turned.
Speaker 21 (45:39):
The dog over the She's funny, she's tight, she's ahead
of the chie's tip.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
She's one of joy, She's a challenger girls. She's down tight.
Speaker 13 (46:15):
Tas type, she's killing's killing, will turn up the lights, tip.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Ship's nice taste, Tipe turns nice sis, nice.
Speaker 20 (46:37):
N nice trick, and she's tight.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
Meanwhile, back in Detroit, Ted NuGen has a new album
coming out. His lead singer Derek Saying Holmes leaves the band.
Record company says, don't worry about a thing. We got
a guy, he's a big guy, and he'll do the
album for one thousand dollars. And Ted NuGen has the
free for All album and we are introduced to meet Loaft.
This is I Love You So I told you a
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lie in Don's basement.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
To see what Knock again Africa as the Dusty.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Record, I had a bod.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
S a lone.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
I love the sort the sort when you know how
to do a lob.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Just see akind of scene.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
That's the finger of the paddle. Me don't know, I
learned the sort you love the sort of see.
Speaker 18 (50:06):
I'm not gonna say there was some funny stuff going
(50:34):
on down there, but every time we opened the basement
door at the top of the stairs.
Speaker 19 (50:37):
It looked like a new pulpe had just been elected.
Welcome the dun's basements.
Speaker 22 (51:04):
Too long between her, too long without someone that you
want the leg said sosasp just singing up storm.
Speaker 23 (51:30):
I'm all your.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Too much intert.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Just can't take it in.
Speaker 24 (51:50):
Too much money right out. I can't tell you where
it happened. It seems just like second where see all
earthing on being the hell man passed time.
Speaker 22 (52:11):
Songs, just like ladies can't forget their way through their oside.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Man the old wood bitters, l man needs so.
Speaker 25 (52:27):
Shine in the morning, and those wood bitters held than
that of you.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Do you stop? Bos, I guess it's house goes so
sure this much.
Speaker 10 (53:42):
More read don't want.
Speaker 1 (53:51):
Des fans men as the bass pass awhile I'm crying
in my bill, I guess seeing.
Speaker 24 (54:01):
Someone else's those guilty as your mollot that how let
the swart bitters help him means such at him more.
Speaker 23 (54:22):
That's sowd bitters, help me do the night that no
smoot bitterers, you'll map such a him. Let's stood bitters.
Speaker 6 (54:48):
Help me do the night of your.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
He was the pride of Cleveland, Ohio, and we miss
him dearly.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
The Michael Stanley Band and Rosewood bidders putting the wraps
on our best to the Midwest. We want to thank
all the radio stations up and down the dial that
take the time to run our show each week, including
our flagship station ninety nine point nine FMWYML and WYML.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
Dot us in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Thank you, Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC,
Maybel Wisconsin, Buddy Guy and everybody at Buddy Guy Radio
in Chicago, and all the stations. Big thanks to the
iHeartRadio Network and Amazon Music for getting the word out
about Don Spaceman tapes. Check out our website, Don's Basement
Productions dot com. Thanks to mister Lee Peek, the voice
of Don's Basement, and thank you for coming down and
(55:54):
hanging out in the basement. We appreciate it. I'm Don Clark.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
Peace
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