April 2, 2025 • 56 mins
From the Acme Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin. It's our Tenth Anniversary Show, with song suggestions from the Original Basement Dwellers. Deep tracks of Vintage Rock from UFO, Judas Priest, Kansas, Uriah Heep and more. Thanks for listening!
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The following program is brought to you in living color.
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To the barrow exund somebody tell me that said, please son,
my father, God it's gone.
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I see God.
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You will provide the brand design.
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We didn't say it'd be good.
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It's one hour of radio anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Where the hell is Maybelle then it rocked. It's been
bottled up way too long.
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Welcome to Don's Baseball.
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This is chapay.
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And so happen. We don't do it from book. Really
across the sky will get.
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Nothing.
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This is.
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Hobby Hobby jun Yes, away.
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Show.
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I'm swearing whether the show. It's been a heavy low.
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We f.
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Shows.
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Do you s.
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It was a a.
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You know, squats an time.
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This is.
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Welcome happy.
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Think since.
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Oct it was one.
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Of those true basement albums from back in the day.
And we raise a glass and tip our hat to
the DJs at kboz and Bozeman, Montana for turning a
bunch of basement dwellers down to the band Prism from
the Armageddon album and coming home and hello, how are
you welcome back in? I'm Don Clark, Thanks so much
for coming down and hanging out with us once again
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down here in Don's basement. Ten years It was ten
years ago this weekend that two gentlemen who unfortunately are
no longer with us, Art Porter, who was one of
the greatest radio producers in Chicago, and Marty Zivin, who
was a visionary for radio in Chicago, sat down with
me and we were talking about back in the day
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and being kids, and the topic of Don's Basement came up.
And they started hearing stories about the antics in a
certain basement back in Maybell, Wisconsin, back in the day.
And it wasn't just the antics, but it was the
music that was played down there. We turned a lot
of people onto a lot of bands that they had
never heard before, and we kind of became musicologists, I guess,
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is the best way to put it. People would come
down to the basement to hear new music, and then
they would start bringing albums down and say, you got
to check this out. This is a really good band.
You got to check this out. And that's how it
all started. So to do this properly, I had to
go back to the original basement dwellers and ask them
about some of the songs that they remember that were
core to Don's basement back in the day. So in
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the words of the great Downtown Freddie Brown, let's go
and get it going. The album is Face, the music,
the band, the Electric Light Orchestra. This is Fire on
High and I welcome you to Don's Baseman. Me I,
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oh my sarata as you miss.
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Sh sh sh sh.
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S So.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
My friends up the roll the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Hey, Herbert Leona, thanks for giving us a place to
jam and for putting up with us.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The little downstand the basement dwellers from Don's basement.
Speaker 13 (12:43):
Yes, the same kind of story. It seems to come
down long ago. Two friends ivan coffee together with something
flies by that window. It might be out on that lawn,
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which is wide at least half of a plain field.
Because there's no explaining.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Your imagination can make you see and feel.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Somebody got time.
Speaker 13 (13:33):
Now, it's not a meaning this question. Ask if they's
been and gone. I remember a talk about noise cabin
lighting in a strange.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Strange point.
Speaker 13 (13:50):
To see the sides weren't like glass in the thick
of a forest without a road. And if any man's
hand never made that man you go to show.
Speaker 14 (14:08):
That's why it seems like.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I mee, that's right, s.
Speaker 12 (15:00):
God.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
They said, there's a place down.
Speaker 13 (15:12):
In Mexico where a man can fly with the mountains
and hill. He don't need an airplane or some kind
of dature. He never will, now you know.
Speaker 14 (15:30):
It's a meaning.
Speaker 13 (15:31):
That's a question to ask if no stories are right,
it's what matters most.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's a feeding you get your hypnotide.
Speaker 13 (15:47):
It seems like a dream.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
God they got you have.
Speaker 13 (15:55):
His body means nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
God seems like a dream. Yeah, that's where.
Speaker 16 (16:16):
That's when they've got your.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Body.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
You can almost smell the Garnish number four in sounds,
can't you? Fleetwood Mac's Mystery to Me? That's hypnotized? Don
Clark and Don's Basement tenth anniversary celebration of Don's Basement tapes.
The Basement Dwellers consider it one of the greatest debut
albums ever. Man they would know from Montrose, Let's make
it last. In Down's Basement.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Seventeen, my father told me be God.
Speaker 17 (17:07):
Me said, life an easy as it seas.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
When you get old, you'll see what.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Be yees.
Speaker 14 (17:24):
All right.
Speaker 18 (17:32):
After the time I wanted to be twenty one, it
seemed to riding for having mon.
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Where I got there.
Speaker 17 (17:45):
I was still too young at twenty five, seemed to
be one.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And now live my life from dight. I wouldn't have anytho.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Re foun.
Speaker 12 (18:09):
Sea poll.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Spend my time.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah you know what, I sweet girl, you did chase
the bowel. She's got to her flaw. She keeps you down.
Would will have once she comes.
Speaker 17 (18:41):
Around, it won't belong and you'll be back on down.
Speaker 16 (18:49):
Well, now I'm been alive from day to day, I.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Wouldn't have any away.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Read that time around the pad sixty bus.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Shock day, all ride.
Speaker 17 (19:54):
Pas between this suit rid once you get the alma
see like the call the line so.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Making a life, I'm not so as you can. It's
so much easier when.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
You say can make your lives for the day day.
Speaker 12 (20:25):
The way.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
No, no, rather than I'm twelve, Rather I have six
you moll.
Speaker 16 (20:34):
Ten line gonna be no no, yeah, God, keep on,
come on, make a laugh, keep on.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Ten years of hanging out in the basement, and still
no one has explained why there is a parking meter
down here. We're pretty sure Schmiddy had something.
Speaker 13 (21:48):
To do with it.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Welcome the Don's basement.
Speaker 19 (21:56):
Wow, she said to knew how to do it, yes,
not better give it a try, just another reason to
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party or not.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You gotta have a reason why.
Speaker 19 (22:21):
A few nothing nines on a mirror. We really said
off the pis shots something like any time.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
On the FORNA wanna do when the risk, I wanna
do when the.
Speaker 20 (22:30):
Risk experience and sings start a denser.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
Spending around around, so.
Speaker 19 (22:40):
I'm an a battle in the consee see then we
really started getting.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Down and I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And you can't treat it right, she said, girl, Yeah,
well I care, don't doubt Yeah, because I care.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
She says that you can take me to heaven.
Speaker 19 (23:09):
But there was see evil men right steal the kind
of eating myself, and one didn't want to criticize.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I wanna comes up all.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Kind of sign and there was mad chick in the yell.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
She said, the chicken count her up the devil himself,
and I thought, I'm just gon leave him there, So
I'm just to leave me.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
I look about the later she was.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Fine and it was miss just like everybody. I knew
it wasn't cure for me to sol.
Speaker 19 (23:36):
Girl getting the hell away from now, But.
Speaker 14 (23:39):
I come.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Right.
Speaker 19 (23:43):
But none of the black man that smuggled me, honey, without.
Speaker 21 (23:51):
One knew what I'm good and hell I do ship
do those things? B belso cot soup weirdly never nothing is.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Fine, win away.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
A fie around, shoot a day.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Couldn't think.
Speaker 19 (25:11):
I think was singing Americans straight.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
When I realized who it was, when I knew the
help still gone.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Right right, JI.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Memory serves right. We wore out a couple of copies
of that album, Pat Travers Band and Heat in the
Street and Go All Night. It is the tenth anniversary
of Don's Basement Tapes, and in nineteen seventy six, this
next band released a masterpiece within a masterpiece. That's up next.
I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don's Basement.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Can I tell you something? Got to tell you one thing?
If you expect that freedom that you say ISAs.
Speaker 22 (26:16):
From that wonderful state that gave you the Wizard of
Oz wheat Leavenworth Penitentiary and Tornadoes. Kirshner Records proudly presents
Kansas A House I Remember Kansas. Six Jayhawks from Topeka
generating the total sound energy of a Prairie twister. A
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new album ready to devastate the length and breadth of America.
Man the storm Cellars, Kansas is coming on Kirshner Records.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
This classic, this place, this is John'spaceman.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Let.
Speaker 11 (27:51):
I can't believe the things I see. The path that
I have chosen has led me to a wall, and
with the passing down I.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Feel a little more like something dew was lost. It
rises now before.
Speaker 23 (28:09):
Me, a dark and silent burial between oh I am
and all that I would have a long to be.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's just a travesty, tiravy barking off the batteries.
Speaker 12 (28:29):
My spirit.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Body bents.
Speaker 24 (28:35):
To pest beyond is what I seek, A fear that
I may be too weak, and those are you have
seen it.
Speaker 23 (28:43):
To Clipsey on the side, the promised land is away
like a maden that isn't.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Soon to be abd The body is a masterpiece, the
way of in decision, say.
Speaker 24 (29:01):
Standing the submerb the soul of me. It's just a
trying stee bi looking at the lining.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
See old dime.
Speaker 20 (29:56):
It's Gustus Bell.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It's not called me. I know a well the origins
that I see Hollway young.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
Dy on the side, this.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Ball and I getting backs.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And the way always for me.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
I'm gonna sat down the world.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
And all that was not to be.
Speaker 24 (30:31):
Shy, nay, smiling back, get off like.
Speaker 20 (30:39):
That.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
When Kansas Release left Overture in nineteen seventy six, it
really was a masterpiece within a masterpiece. You heard the
second cut and the Wall, Don Clark and Don's Basement,
This is our tenth anniversary special. Every town had them.
They had that one local band that every time they played,
they just knocked one out of the park. And for us,
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it was a band that went on to become Gray
Star with a late great Ruby Star and mud Slide
and Pooh and all the other guys that were in
the band, But it was the nucleus of that band,
the Lucy Gray band that would play in the park pavilion.
You would gather up whatever money it took to get
in there. Couple of bucks, maybe a buck, Throw a
couple of dollars in there for some popcorns. Sit down
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on the floor, and if I concentrate really hard, I
can probably still smell that floor. But what a show
it was when these guys hit the stage, especially when
they did Uriah Heap from the Sweet Freedom album. This
is stealing in Don's Basement.
Speaker 25 (32:51):
Take me across the water because I need some place to.
I done the ranch of don and I shorted herd
is pride. Well, here's a hundred miles of desert lies
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between his hide.
Speaker 14 (33:32):
Mind.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I don't need no food, no water, Lord, because I'm.
Speaker 14 (33:38):
Running now of tired, fight and kill, hint.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Whining women gonna put me to.
Speaker 20 (33:48):
My grace, running hide and losing, crying.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Nothing left to say but my life.
Speaker 20 (34:15):
Stood on a red chance, should relieve?
Speaker 12 (34:19):
Just think in the world was mine?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I made by break and I be mistake steve a
man I should have been by him?
Speaker 25 (34:31):
Oh that body is killing one of those women going
to put me to an.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Any way, But is mine and he's it. I have
nothing left to say but my life, life, life, life, life,
light line life.
Speaker 20 (35:03):
Wait, So I stood on the ridge and shine with
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mere jam Thank you my world.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
Both Now.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I made by bray.
Speaker 26 (35:37):
Can a big mistake steal a man I should have
been bagging? I won't steal a man I should have
been by. I won't steal a man I should have
been by him? Now when a should have been by then?
When a should have been by gains?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Where the shoot be back?
Speaker 9 (36:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Where shoot the beauty?
Speaker 12 (36:06):
Whoa I'm ast?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Where a shoot of been by I step.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
No no, I guys.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Bye bye you sure sure back shore sure sure.
Speaker 12 (36:46):
Shot up shutter shoulder the b.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
Bather.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
I'm not gonna say there was some funny stuff going
on down there, but every time we opened the basement
door at the top of the stairs, it looked like
a new pulp had just been elected. Welcome to Down's basement,
Checkside and.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
He'll stop sideways.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
And smoking. In Lebanon we found the Midnight Oil.
Speaker 9 (38:27):
Yan side Logunness walks along today style.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
But in answer can stop wrings down the aisle?
Speaker 9 (38:41):
Will you binding up all night?
Speaker 7 (38:43):
Express the guts of the three year mind, Shape of.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
Fan and side st hell Stop sat sounder s experience
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still Still.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
It kind of took a while for us to find
Side too, because we are still enamored with Side one
of the twenty one twelve album Rush and a Passage
to Bangkok. We were talking about this not long ago,
things that we had a chance to experience back in
the seventies, sixties and seventies. The kids will never ever
ever have a chance to experience again. And one of
them was going into an album store to buy tickets
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for a concert. You'd be standing in line with a
bunch of friends. Everybody's talking about the show that's coming up,
so excited about that, getting the tickets, walking out of
the store, tickets in hand, maybe a copy of the album.
But every once in a while something extraordinary happened. You'd
walk into the store and there was the band that
you were buying tickets for and they were there signing autographs.
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That's exactly what happened when we walked into Peach's Records
in Milwaukee and there they were Rob Halford, Les Binks,
KK Downing, Glenn Tipton and Ian Hill, Judas Priest sitting
there signing autographs. And we had a chance to meet
our heroes from Hell Bend for Leather. This is rock
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Forever in Don Spaceman.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
But what day is old? But I can eat?
Speaker 7 (42:09):
Then?
Speaker 22 (42:11):
What is said that my sister with the.
Speaker 9 (42:14):
Bead of the every chimes, it's like a bottle open.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
I d a herd about her and then I said,
a hella, oh I can chumps the sky. I mean,
look so and I can't stop talking about my rock
by as.
Speaker 27 (42:46):
It's not the moments to me, just that I can't explain.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
It's like a brilliant sunshine. I'm just standing in the
pouring room. I said, if I gainst a single who
run home.
Speaker 8 (43:01):
Down, Now there's really got this feel bound in the
sensu fast.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I'm a low son and.
Speaker 28 (43:12):
I can't stop talking about my black moms.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
I can't stop talking m.
Speaker 14 (43:51):
I got rock.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
When you get the fondas, you'll just what to do.
Speaker 9 (44:13):
But you do this, laugh mo, and I be.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And rough food before you know it's moon day. I'm
out a lamp. I use to love your sister the
spirit of a lamper car.
Speaker 14 (44:30):
I'm in love.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
I'm so low, but I can't stop talking about the.
Speaker 14 (44:35):
Black hoop.
Speaker 9 (44:41):
Rap, my lap.
Speaker 6 (44:47):
Rap.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
All the name became bad Company fans, whether they liked
it or not, Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 18 (45:21):
In the beginning, I believe everywhere, she said, Now that
you're gone, our world is in you.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Oh you love me and love me. You took out
of me that I needed suicide. I'm standing here.
Speaker 14 (45:47):
Once loving, wet to the Lord and Copper.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Give me super and turn about the sky's turn.
Speaker 14 (46:06):
My right is old you.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
In the beginning, there was something I love with myne.
Speaker 14 (46:28):
Now that it's gone, worm, I crying.
Speaker 29 (46:34):
Love the time that it takes more enough to go
coldly the one of the two. I'm walking around with
my head hand down.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Tell me where she.
Speaker 14 (46:55):
Give me?
Speaker 12 (46:55):
Summer losing.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
You can't about the sky. I'm true.
Speaker 14 (47:03):
My ride.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Bore, this's o magic.
Speaker 30 (47:24):
Don't ball see me all the do't boy see me
as I.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Love it this s boot and I'm going about this guy.
I'm true.
Speaker 14 (47:48):
My right, Hainball, he's a dive the Sumer mood.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
You don't about the sky. This is a hoody then
the Sumer dandle you thought about the sky had not though.
Speaker 9 (49:00):
My retity is over, honey, don't by.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
All the don't mosey.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
I was taken off of the merchants of Cool DVD
and Bad Company and Silver Blue and Gold. Don Clark
and Don's Basement are tenth anniversary celebration kind of winding down.
But there was a conversation that we had not long ago.
Is there a vintage rock album out there where every
song is a great song. It'll definitely start an argument,
but we did have it, and I got to bring
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it out on vinyl because it sounds so much better
that way. It is the titled cut of the Lights
Out album. This is UFO in Don's basement.
Speaker 27 (50:26):
Stop what they deny tops.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
The treats no long shine by in the Scott night
sounds light shout, knocking up one tips till let him
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Now you know the Nemba wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 31 (51:15):
Night sound night sun knock up one times till.
Speaker 9 (51:19):
There that knows I'm coming, mom.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Never help do to help themselves. That's the way it goes.
Ride the box.
Speaker 31 (51:38):
What's the time that now it shows night sound night
side n u B takes two.
Speaker 21 (51:55):
Then not even know nember w you till to.
Speaker 31 (52:02):
Night sound let Sorry, Lomina M types too.
Speaker 7 (52:08):
That knows up coming.
Speaker 31 (52:36):
Night sounds light Sorry, morning tip too. Now you know
of them, but we takes about night sound light Sorry,
Lemina B types too, that knows s.
Speaker 27 (53:03):
You can't tell me that's not random tun a thousand
times under your feet classes, promim time, Sextoviye.
Speaker 31 (53:22):
Night sounds, night sounding lock them on tights too and
now you know where there wait two tomorrow night sound
light shot un mottle tights too.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Ye, that knows what I'm trying to be.
Speaker 4 (54:31):
Yeah, there are a couple of them out there, but
that one always rose to the top of albums that
are great from start to finish title cut from the
Lights Out album from UFO putting the raps on our
tenth anniversary celebration of Don's Basement tape. So we thanked
him at the beginning, I gotta thank him again. Mister
Ard Porter and mister Marty Zivin. These are the two
guys that really helped me get the show off and running,
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especially Marty taking it from a small little podcast to
a worldwide show in just six months. We miss you, guys.
I want to thank all the radio stations up and
down the dial to take the time to run our
show each week, and that includes our flagship station ninety
nine point nine FMWYML WYML dot us in Chicago. Thank you,
Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC Maybel, Wisconsin,
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Beck where all this man that started Buddy Guy and
everybody at Buddy Guy Radio in Chicago, and all the
stations from Boca Raton, Florida, all the way out to
Ridge Cress, California, where Chuck and his crew are at
KZFX Rock in the High Desert at ninety three point
seven FM. Big thanks to the iHeartRadio Network, the iHeart
Podcast channel, and Amazon Music for getting the word out
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about Don's Basement tapes. Check out our website when you
get a chance. Don's Basement Productions dot com. Thank you
to my good friend mister Lee Peak, the voice of
Don's Basement, and thank you so much for coming down
here each and every week and checking out the music
in the Basement. We appreciate it. I'm Don Clark.
Speaker 30 (55:58):
Peace,
The following program is brought to you in living color.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
To the barrow exund somebody tell me that said, please son,
my father, God it's gone.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I see God.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You will provide the brand design.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's one hour of radio anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Where the hell is Maybelle then it rocked. It's been
bottled up way too long.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Welcome to Don's Baseball.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
This is chapay.
Speaker 8 (01:29):
And so happen. We don't do it from book. Really
across the sky will get.
Speaker 9 (01:45):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
This is.
Speaker 10 (01:51):
Hobby Hobby jun Yes, away.
Speaker 9 (02:07):
Show.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I'm swearing whether the show. It's been a heavy low.
Speaker 11 (02:20):
We f.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Shows.
Speaker 12 (02:27):
Do you s.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It was a a.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
You know, squats an time.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
This is.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Welcome happy.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
Think since.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oct it was one.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Of those true basement albums from back in the day.
And we raise a glass and tip our hat to
the DJs at kboz and Bozeman, Montana for turning a
bunch of basement dwellers down to the band Prism from
the Armageddon album and coming home and hello, how are
you welcome back in? I'm Don Clark, Thanks so much
for coming down and hanging out with us once again
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down here in Don's basement. Ten years It was ten
years ago this weekend that two gentlemen who unfortunately are
no longer with us, Art Porter, who was one of
the greatest radio producers in Chicago, and Marty Zivin, who
was a visionary for radio in Chicago, sat down with
me and we were talking about back in the day
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and being kids, and the topic of Don's Basement came up.
And they started hearing stories about the antics in a
certain basement back in Maybell, Wisconsin, back in the day.
And it wasn't just the antics, but it was the
music that was played down there. We turned a lot
of people onto a lot of bands that they had
never heard before, and we kind of became musicologists, I guess,
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is the best way to put it. People would come
down to the basement to hear new music, and then
they would start bringing albums down and say, you got
to check this out. This is a really good band.
You got to check this out. And that's how it
all started. So to do this properly, I had to
go back to the original basement dwellers and ask them
about some of the songs that they remember that were
core to Don's basement back in the day. So in
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the words of the great Downtown Freddie Brown, let's go
and get it going. The album is Face, the music,
the band, the Electric Light Orchestra. This is Fire on
High and I welcome you to Don's Baseman. Me I,
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oh my sarata as you miss.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Sh sh sh sh.
Speaker 12 (08:49):
S So.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
My friends up the roll the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Hey, Herbert Leona, thanks for giving us a place to
jam and for putting up with us.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The little downstand the basement dwellers from Don's basement.
Speaker 13 (12:43):
Yes, the same kind of story. It seems to come
down long ago. Two friends ivan coffee together with something
flies by that window. It might be out on that lawn,
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which is wide at least half of a plain field.
Because there's no explaining.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Your imagination can make you see and feel.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Somebody got time.
Speaker 13 (13:33):
Now, it's not a meaning this question. Ask if they's
been and gone. I remember a talk about noise cabin
lighting in a strange.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Strange point.
Speaker 13 (13:50):
To see the sides weren't like glass in the thick
of a forest without a road. And if any man's
hand never made that man you go to show.
Speaker 14 (14:08):
That's why it seems like.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I mee, that's right, s.
Speaker 12 (15:00):
God.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
They said, there's a place down.
Speaker 13 (15:12):
In Mexico where a man can fly with the mountains
and hill. He don't need an airplane or some kind
of dature. He never will, now you know.
Speaker 14 (15:30):
It's a meaning.
Speaker 13 (15:31):
That's a question to ask if no stories are right,
it's what matters most.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's a feeding you get your hypnotide.
Speaker 13 (15:47):
It seems like a dream.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
God they got you have.
Speaker 13 (15:55):
His body means nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
God seems like a dream. Yeah, that's where.
Speaker 16 (16:16):
That's when they've got your.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Body.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
You can almost smell the Garnish number four in sounds,
can't you? Fleetwood Mac's Mystery to Me? That's hypnotized? Don
Clark and Don's Basement tenth anniversary celebration of Don's Basement tapes.
The Basement Dwellers consider it one of the greatest debut
albums ever. Man they would know from Montrose, Let's make
it last. In Down's Basement.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Seventeen, my father told me be God.
Speaker 17 (17:07):
Me said, life an easy as it seas.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
When you get old, you'll see what.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Be yees.
Speaker 14 (17:24):
All right.
Speaker 18 (17:32):
After the time I wanted to be twenty one, it
seemed to riding for having mon.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Where I got there.
Speaker 17 (17:45):
I was still too young at twenty five, seemed to
be one.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And now live my life from dight. I wouldn't have anytho.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Re foun.
Speaker 12 (18:09):
Sea poll.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Spend my time.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah you know what, I sweet girl, you did chase
the bowel. She's got to her flaw. She keeps you down.
Would will have once she comes.
Speaker 17 (18:41):
Around, it won't belong and you'll be back on down.
Speaker 16 (18:49):
Well, now I'm been alive from day to day, I.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Wouldn't have any away.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Read that time around the pad sixty bus.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Shock day, all ride.
Speaker 17 (19:54):
Pas between this suit rid once you get the alma
see like the call the line so.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Making a life, I'm not so as you can. It's
so much easier when.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
You say can make your lives for the day day.
Speaker 12 (20:25):
The way.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
No, no, rather than I'm twelve, Rather I have six
you moll.
Speaker 16 (20:34):
Ten line gonna be no no, yeah, God, keep on,
come on, make a laugh, keep on.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Ten years of hanging out in the basement, and still
no one has explained why there is a parking meter
down here. We're pretty sure Schmiddy had something.
Speaker 13 (21:48):
To do with it.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Welcome the Don's basement.
Speaker 19 (21:56):
Wow, she said to knew how to do it, yes,
not better give it a try, just another reason to
(22:18):
party or not.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You gotta have a reason why.
Speaker 19 (22:21):
A few nothing nines on a mirror. We really said
off the pis shots something like any time.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
On the FORNA wanna do when the risk, I wanna
do when the.
Speaker 20 (22:30):
Risk experience and sings start a denser.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
Spending around around, so.
Speaker 19 (22:40):
I'm an a battle in the consee see then we
really started getting.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Down and I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And you can't treat it right, she said, girl, Yeah,
well I care, don't doubt Yeah, because I care.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
She says that you can take me to heaven.
Speaker 19 (23:09):
But there was see evil men right steal the kind
of eating myself, and one didn't want to criticize.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I wanna comes up all.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Kind of sign and there was mad chick in the yell.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
She said, the chicken count her up the devil himself,
and I thought, I'm just gon leave him there, So
I'm just to leave me.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
I look about the later she was.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Fine and it was miss just like everybody. I knew
it wasn't cure for me to sol.
Speaker 19 (23:36):
Girl getting the hell away from now, But.
Speaker 14 (23:39):
I come.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Right.
Speaker 19 (23:43):
But none of the black man that smuggled me, honey, without.
Speaker 21 (23:51):
One knew what I'm good and hell I do ship
do those things? B belso cot soup weirdly never nothing is.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Fine, win away.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
A fie around, shoot a day.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Couldn't think.
Speaker 19 (25:11):
I think was singing Americans straight.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
When I realized who it was, when I knew the
help still gone.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Right right, JI.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Memory serves right. We wore out a couple of copies
of that album, Pat Travers Band and Heat in the
Street and Go All Night. It is the tenth anniversary
of Don's Basement Tapes, and in nineteen seventy six, this
next band released a masterpiece within a masterpiece. That's up next.
I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don's Basement.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Can I tell you something? Got to tell you one thing?
If you expect that freedom that you say ISAs.
Speaker 22 (26:16):
From that wonderful state that gave you the Wizard of
Oz wheat Leavenworth Penitentiary and Tornadoes. Kirshner Records proudly presents
Kansas A House I Remember Kansas. Six Jayhawks from Topeka
generating the total sound energy of a Prairie twister. A
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new album ready to devastate the length and breadth of America.
Man the storm Cellars, Kansas is coming on Kirshner Records.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
This classic, this place, this is John'spaceman.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Let.
Speaker 11 (27:51):
I can't believe the things I see. The path that
I have chosen has led me to a wall, and
with the passing down I.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Feel a little more like something dew was lost. It
rises now before.
Speaker 23 (28:09):
Me, a dark and silent burial between oh I am
and all that I would have a long to be.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's just a travesty, tiravy barking off the batteries.
Speaker 12 (28:29):
My spirit.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Body bents.
Speaker 24 (28:35):
To pest beyond is what I seek, A fear that
I may be too weak, and those are you have
seen it.
Speaker 23 (28:43):
To Clipsey on the side, the promised land is away
like a maden that isn't.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Soon to be abd The body is a masterpiece, the
way of in decision, say.
Speaker 24 (29:01):
Standing the submerb the soul of me. It's just a
trying stee bi looking at the lining.
Speaker 11 (29:19):
See old dime.
Speaker 20 (29:56):
It's Gustus Bell.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It's not called me. I know a well the origins
that I see Hollway young.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
Dy on the side, this.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Ball and I getting backs.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And the way always for me.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
I'm gonna sat down the world.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
And all that was not to be.
Speaker 24 (30:31):
Shy, nay, smiling back, get off like.
Speaker 20 (30:39):
That.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
When Kansas Release left Overture in nineteen seventy six, it
really was a masterpiece within a masterpiece. You heard the
second cut and the Wall, Don Clark and Don's Basement,
This is our tenth anniversary special. Every town had them.
They had that one local band that every time they played,
they just knocked one out of the park. And for us,
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it was a band that went on to become Gray
Star with a late great Ruby Star and mud Slide
and Pooh and all the other guys that were in
the band, But it was the nucleus of that band,
the Lucy Gray band that would play in the park pavilion.
You would gather up whatever money it took to get
in there. Couple of bucks, maybe a buck, Throw a
couple of dollars in there for some popcorns. Sit down
(32:36):
on the floor, and if I concentrate really hard, I
can probably still smell that floor. But what a show
it was when these guys hit the stage, especially when
they did Uriah Heap from the Sweet Freedom album. This
is stealing in Don's Basement.
Speaker 25 (32:51):
Take me across the water because I need some place to.
I done the ranch of don and I shorted herd
is pride. Well, here's a hundred miles of desert lies
(33:29):
between his hide.
Speaker 14 (33:32):
Mind.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I don't need no food, no water, Lord, because I'm.
Speaker 14 (33:38):
Running now of tired, fight and kill, hint.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Whining women gonna put me to.
Speaker 20 (33:48):
My grace, running hide and losing, crying.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Nothing left to say but my life.
Speaker 20 (34:15):
Stood on a red chance, should relieve?
Speaker 12 (34:19):
Just think in the world was mine?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I made by break and I be mistake steve a
man I should have been by him?
Speaker 25 (34:31):
Oh that body is killing one of those women going
to put me to an.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Any way, But is mine and he's it. I have
nothing left to say but my life, life, life, life, life,
light line life.
Speaker 20 (35:03):
Wait, So I stood on the ridge and shine with
(35:31):
mere jam Thank you my world.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
Both Now.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I made by bray.
Speaker 26 (35:37):
Can a big mistake steal a man I should have
been bagging? I won't steal a man I should have
been by. I won't steal a man I should have
been by him? Now when a should have been by then?
When a should have been by gains?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Where the shoot be back?
Speaker 9 (36:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Where shoot the beauty?
Speaker 12 (36:06):
Whoa I'm ast?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Where a shoot of been by I step.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
No no, I guys.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Bye bye you sure sure back shore sure sure.
Speaker 12 (36:46):
Shot up shutter shoulder the b.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
Bather.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
I'm not gonna say there was some funny stuff going
on down there, but every time we opened the basement
door at the top of the stairs, it looked like
a new pulp had just been elected. Welcome to Down's basement,
Checkside and.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
He'll stop sideways.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
And smoking. In Lebanon we found the Midnight Oil.
Speaker 9 (38:27):
Yan side Logunness walks along today style.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
But in answer can stop wrings down the aisle?
Speaker 9 (38:41):
Will you binding up all night?
Speaker 7 (38:43):
Express the guts of the three year mind, Shape of.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
Fan and side st hell Stop sat sounder s experience
(40:07):
still Still.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
It kind of took a while for us to find
Side too, because we are still enamored with Side one
of the twenty one twelve album Rush and a Passage
to Bangkok. We were talking about this not long ago,
things that we had a chance to experience back in
the seventies, sixties and seventies. The kids will never ever
ever have a chance to experience again. And one of
them was going into an album store to buy tickets
(41:02):
for a concert. You'd be standing in line with a
bunch of friends. Everybody's talking about the show that's coming up,
so excited about that, getting the tickets, walking out of
the store, tickets in hand, maybe a copy of the album.
But every once in a while something extraordinary happened. You'd
walk into the store and there was the band that
you were buying tickets for and they were there signing autographs.
(41:26):
That's exactly what happened when we walked into Peach's Records
in Milwaukee and there they were Rob Halford, Les Binks,
KK Downing, Glenn Tipton and Ian Hill, Judas Priest sitting
there signing autographs. And we had a chance to meet
our heroes from Hell Bend for Leather. This is rock
(41:46):
Forever in Don Spaceman.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
But what day is old? But I can eat?
Speaker 7 (42:09):
Then?
Speaker 22 (42:11):
What is said that my sister with the.
Speaker 9 (42:14):
Bead of the every chimes, it's like a bottle open.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
I d a herd about her and then I said,
a hella, oh I can chumps the sky. I mean,
look so and I can't stop talking about my rock
by as.
Speaker 27 (42:46):
It's not the moments to me, just that I can't explain.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
It's like a brilliant sunshine. I'm just standing in the
pouring room. I said, if I gainst a single who
run home.
Speaker 8 (43:01):
Down, Now there's really got this feel bound in the
sensu fast.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
I'm a low son and.
Speaker 28 (43:12):
I can't stop talking about my black moms.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
I can't stop talking m.
Speaker 14 (43:51):
I got rock.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
When you get the fondas, you'll just what to do.
Speaker 9 (44:13):
But you do this, laugh mo, and I be.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
And rough food before you know it's moon day. I'm
out a lamp. I use to love your sister the
spirit of a lamper car.
Speaker 14 (44:30):
I'm in love.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
I'm so low, but I can't stop talking about the.
Speaker 14 (44:35):
Black hoop.
Speaker 9 (44:41):
Rap, my lap.
Speaker 6 (44:47):
Rap.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
All the name became bad Company fans, whether they liked
it or not, Welcome to Don's basement.
Speaker 18 (45:21):
In the beginning, I believe everywhere, she said, Now that
you're gone, our world is in you.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Oh you love me and love me. You took out
of me that I needed suicide. I'm standing here.
Speaker 14 (45:47):
Once loving, wet to the Lord and Copper.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Give me super and turn about the sky's turn.
Speaker 14 (46:06):
My right is old you.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
In the beginning, there was something I love with myne.
Speaker 14 (46:28):
Now that it's gone, worm, I crying.
Speaker 29 (46:34):
Love the time that it takes more enough to go
coldly the one of the two. I'm walking around with
my head hand down.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Tell me where she.
Speaker 14 (46:55):
Give me?
Speaker 12 (46:55):
Summer losing.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
You can't about the sky. I'm true.
Speaker 14 (47:03):
My ride.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Bore, this's o magic.
Speaker 30 (47:24):
Don't ball see me all the do't boy see me
as I.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Love it this s boot and I'm going about this guy.
I'm true.
Speaker 14 (47:48):
My right, Hainball, he's a dive the Sumer mood.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
You don't about the sky. This is a hoody then
the Sumer dandle you thought about the sky had not though.
Speaker 9 (49:00):
My retity is over, honey, don't by.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
All the don't mosey.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
I was taken off of the merchants of Cool DVD
and Bad Company and Silver Blue and Gold. Don Clark
and Don's Basement are tenth anniversary celebration kind of winding down.
But there was a conversation that we had not long ago.
Is there a vintage rock album out there where every
song is a great song. It'll definitely start an argument,
but we did have it, and I got to bring
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it out on vinyl because it sounds so much better
that way. It is the titled cut of the Lights
Out album. This is UFO in Don's basement.
Speaker 27 (50:26):
Stop what they deny tops.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
The treats no long shine by in the Scott night
sounds light shout, knocking up one tips till let him
(51:09):
Now you know the Nemba wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 31 (51:15):
Night sound night sun knock up one times till.
Speaker 9 (51:19):
There that knows I'm coming, mom.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Never help do to help themselves. That's the way it goes.
Ride the box.
Speaker 31 (51:38):
What's the time that now it shows night sound night
side n u B takes two.
Speaker 21 (51:55):
Then not even know nember w you till to.
Speaker 31 (52:02):
Night sound let Sorry, Lomina M types too.
Speaker 7 (52:08):
That knows up coming.
Speaker 31 (52:36):
Night sounds light Sorry, morning tip too. Now you know
of them, but we takes about night sound light Sorry,
Lemina B types too, that knows s.
Speaker 27 (53:03):
You can't tell me that's not random tun a thousand
times under your feet classes, promim time, Sextoviye.
Speaker 31 (53:22):
Night sounds, night sounding lock them on tights too and
now you know where there wait two tomorrow night sound
light shot un mottle tights too.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Ye, that knows what I'm trying to be.
Speaker 4 (54:31):
Yeah, there are a couple of them out there, but
that one always rose to the top of albums that
are great from start to finish title cut from the
Lights Out album from UFO putting the raps on our
tenth anniversary celebration of Don's Basement tape. So we thanked
him at the beginning, I gotta thank him again. Mister
Ard Porter and mister Marty Zivin. These are the two
guys that really helped me get the show off and running,
(54:55):
especially Marty taking it from a small little podcast to
a worldwide show in just six months. We miss you, guys.
I want to thank all the radio stations up and
down the dial to take the time to run our
show each week, and that includes our flagship station ninety
nine point nine FMWYML WYML dot us in Chicago. Thank you,
Joe and Jeff the Great ninety eight WMDC Maybel, Wisconsin,
(55:18):
Beck where all this man that started Buddy Guy and
everybody at Buddy Guy Radio in Chicago, and all the
stations from Boca Raton, Florida, all the way out to
Ridge Cress, California, where Chuck and his crew are at
KZFX Rock in the High Desert at ninety three point
seven FM. Big thanks to the iHeartRadio Network, the iHeart
Podcast channel, and Amazon Music for getting the word out
(55:41):
about Don's Basement tapes. Check out our website when you
get a chance. Don's Basement Productions dot com. Thank you
to my good friend mister Lee Peak, the voice of
Don's Basement, and thank you so much for coming down
here each and every week and checking out the music
in the Basement. We appreciate it. I'm Don Clark.
Speaker 30 (55:58):
Peace,
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