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October 8, 2025 • 56 mins
From the Acme Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin. Raise your lighters! Deep tracks of Vintage Rock from The Scorpions, Styx, Alice Cooper, Foreigner and more. Thanks to your suggestions, these are the Best of the Power Ballads.
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We will provide the grand 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.

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Where the hell is Mayville?

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Then it rocked it's been bottled up way too long.

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Welcome to Don's basement.

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We'reout standing into space. What you want a think about
the what's ever crossed?

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My bad?

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We're not thinking it about you.

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Basp's fans.

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See there's a lot o.

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Baby with the breathing and lasting give me world that time, but.

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So it as a kid at ways the word a time.

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Until we get fined away, don't.

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Well it just fay.

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Because I guess from aside to the days were the

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big big of life. So show myself and display solf.
It's always say that's something it don't That is a besting.

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How we hat.

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You'll know what that Oh?

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It's one of a finest albums. Sammy Hagary from stending Hampton,
perfectly named google it. You'll get a gig a lot
of it and baby it's you and hello there, how
are you welcome back in? I'm Don Clark. Thank you
so much for coming down and hanging out with us
once again down hearing Don Spaceman. It wasn't too long
ago a friend of mine, Sue, reached out to us

(05:21):
at Don Spaceman Productions dot com and she said, you
should do a show about power ballads, and we did
and we ended up with some extras. So we are
doing power Ballads Part Die and thanks to your suggestions,
we've got some that haven't seen the light of day
in a long long time. He recently announced that he
is retiring from performing. Those that missed him on stage,

(05:42):
he missed a lot from nineteen seventy seven's Let It Flow.
This is Dave Mason and Mystic Traveler and I welcome
you to Don Spaceman.

Speaker 10 (05:52):
Hey and Crystal Tree A love live shots for all
to see. Cousins, We know the way it goes, sharing
all that we can give and living all that we
can live with freedom aside.

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The only corner stone mistake.

Speaker 11 (06:19):
Chama Yama, hay well outway mistic Chama.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Kama. When y'all.

Speaker 9 (06:42):
Alone, and when he's saying y'all, a.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Time is on our side.

Speaker 10 (06:54):
I feel the light of truth will soon revealed a
reason for a years of letting go all about life,
senergy longing between you and me?

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Where'd you gather? Though required alone?

Speaker 11 (07:18):
District trabls, be got go, I can't well away, sad.

Speaker 9 (07:31):
Distict job.

Speaker 12 (07:35):
On travel, And when he said y'all not and when
he said ya.

Speaker 9 (07:49):
Bon m say see a book and hard at every.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Understanding?

Speaker 13 (08:01):
Is you.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Loving it?

Speaker 9 (08:06):
And only me?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Love all them? Too much?

Speaker 9 (08:14):
Charm as past than the lone your key last.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Hanging in the Pristal street.

Speaker 10 (08:35):
A love light shine for all time because in our
hearts we know the way it goes.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Sharing on that Weekenddian and living.

Speaker 11 (08:49):
On that weekend with freedom as a holy Cornerstone's.

Speaker 9 (08:58):
Take Charmer, he's stealing.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
And way bad job and when he said.

Speaker 11 (09:25):
And where he said jock, and where he said show
back and where he said joke.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
And when he said jo.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
And where he said.

Speaker 9 (09:59):
Where he.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
This is the official radio show of the Maker's Mark Distillery.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
They don't actually know that.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
We just kind of said that, but they would be
proud of that if they knew how much of the
stuff we were drinking.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
Welcome to Down's Basement, well, I miss.

Speaker 14 (10:27):
You, honey, a little more every day, and I know
it's you.

Speaker 15 (10:44):
You'd be coming back home misday. I know you belong

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here beside me. I'm a fool for you anyway. I'm
a fool for you anyway.

Speaker 8 (11:25):
I'm a fool for you anyway.

Speaker 15 (11:33):
Well, a crawd for you.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
So long.

Speaker 15 (11:38):
The river of tears red ry, and I try to
this low straw grow weaker as time.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Webber. You know you do that to my coffy. I
don't think it.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
Will way away.

Speaker 15 (12:15):
Sit here, wait till you come home, because I'm a
fool for you anyway.

Speaker 14 (12:26):
I'm a fool for you anyway, you.

Speaker 16 (12:34):
Anyway, I'm thinking away. Still here, wait till you come home.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
I'm a fool for you.

Speaker 15 (13:22):
Ready away, I'm a fool or you already away.

Speaker 9 (13:34):
I'm a fool while.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Some fool for you.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
So the way the story goes, mc jones and lou
Graham were in the studio and they looked around the
room and said, well, half of us are from Europe,
the other half are from America. I guess everybody's a foreigner.
And the name stuck from the debut album and fool
for You anyway, and don Clark and Don's Baseman with
the best of the power ballads and in going through
the vinyl. You know, it is our tenth anniversary, and

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we wanted to go a little bit deeper than normal
on some of these albums, and especially on this one
because not a lot of people knew he did a
power ballad from the Heat in the Street album. This
is the Pat Travers band. And I tried to believe
in Don's basement.

Speaker 17 (15:32):
You get him mad, just call up you're talking all
those I say, what's that?

Speaker 11 (15:51):
Why not you brandma friend that you go e the
god all feel.

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Understand that desting a.

Speaker 8 (16:04):
Show of this till.

Speaker 11 (16:10):
I'm trying to feeling gonna but you that that time.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I want a degree.

Speaker 11 (16:22):
I'm not.

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Gonna do aside.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Your father. Let me just me me the olment thing, docus.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
The jambel had the dupe. That's the key things. The guy,
you should say to me, what.

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I have to go to short to.

Speaker 11 (17:19):
The townmy not on the feal.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
And that really has me so to see your ho
to ma fel the game. I try to believe in
Donna a you there now design.

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A want of bere have about.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Try to really.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Thinking of the all time on the food.

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All that I'm not the many.

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You're gonna find you there Downing.

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You've come a long way from that little room downstairs.

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Vintage rock heard worldwide on Don's Basement tapes.

Speaker 18 (19:56):
Domandom again as see, I love that seems strong.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Who's not meant to be.

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Broken? Hot Stone always men.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Left to I'm shore to try.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
And love a game. But just between you and me, baby, And.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Love will be just between you and me always. I
know love will be just between you and me and try.

Speaker 15 (20:57):
Lovers often seemed to say hearts can be blind to
love God and straight always it's the same old sir.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Someone's been heard, and I.

Speaker 8 (21:15):
Love that's going wrong?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Just between you and me.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Maybe I know I love you just between you and me.

Speaker 9 (21:36):
Always.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I know I love Westhy just between you, just between
you and me.

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Love.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
We are sometimes hard of fire.

Speaker 10 (22:17):
The silence can be so God, you always help me
by my word.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
You love that share the storm to reach day. Just
between you and me, baby, and.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Just between you and me. Oh love.

Speaker 9 (22:57):
Seems liney.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Judge between you.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
The album The Nature of the Beast in April Wine
and just between You and Me and the best of
the power ballads These are the songs that burned out
more lighters than a weekend at Bob Marley's Place. These
guys wanted to do an unplugged show, but they didn't
want to do it in a small venue. They wanted
to make sure that it was a historic venue. And
by the time they were done, the show became legendary.

(23:55):
That's next. I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don'spaceman.

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This Classic Rock.

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Rock jes.

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This Village Rock.

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Then there's this place. Welcome to down Spaceman.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
Time and it's time to win make your love again.
I will be there.

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One nah.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
Only love can bring make your law some day I
will be there. What's gone. I'm still loving you, I'm

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still loving you. I'm fine.

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You have fight.

Speaker 8 (26:30):
To win back your law again.

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I wave me there I war be there. Laugh only laugh.

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Can break down the lad Sunday I.

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Weary there, I war be there, and we go again
all the way from the storm.

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I won't trying to change things.

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Na Kid over long j rid aspen alone so strong
that I.

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Can't get from He's still really not changed.

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To stand once again. I'm still loving you. I'm still
loving you. I'm still having ye, I'm.

Speaker 14 (28:03):
Loving you.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Stillorpians live in Athens, then still loving you. When his
debut album came out, he caught the ear of Ozzie
and Kiss, who invited him to come along on their tours.
David Coverdale eventually asked him to become part of White Snake,
then he brought the original band back together. This is
Vandenbergen burning heart in Don's basement.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Dots it be the same when he goes name and
doesn't fel the same when you play.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
The game of Don love.

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When he had to tie, doesn't be.

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What just like get used to do. When I want
with you making up to you this fundy.

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It still uns up the fastest.

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Time this Monday, after all.

Speaker 22 (29:42):
This time, you still hold by bye. I just get
seem to buy the piece of mine. I needs some bad.

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Does it be?

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Say what he calls your name?

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Noth agreeal the same when you read the girl al.

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This Monday, it's still.

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Sometime office time, This mony, mony, mad monny baby, This mornay.

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Ride, it's still be up this time.

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This monay mid ll listen beast.

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This morning.

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It's the hot side the sun.

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This morning's fun.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
Yeah, we're always ready for another hit record. We mean
hit record. Welcome to Down's basement.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Man got his woman to take a seat.

Speaker 8 (32:45):
He got the power.

Speaker 9 (32:46):
Oh, she got the knee.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
She spends her laugh through, but he's an upper man.

Speaker 8 (32:58):
Feeds some dinner.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
An event she can.

Speaker 23 (33:04):
She cries alone and lie too often. He smokes and
drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed
only women bleed only women bleed.

Speaker 24 (33:31):
Man makes your head gray. He's your lives mistake? Are
you really looking for us? An even break?

Speaker 1 (33:43):
He lies right at you. You know you hit this
skin slaps you once in a while, and you live
and love and things.

Speaker 23 (33:56):
She cries alone and die too often, smoke some drinks
and don't.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Come home at all.

Speaker 13 (34:08):
On the wim.

Speaker 14 (34:11):
Only will blea.

Speaker 25 (34:14):
On the will and blea.

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Black guys all the time, don't spell the.

Speaker 15 (34:39):
Die read the describe man that down.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
On your knees in the drinks come.

Speaker 9 (35:10):
Only Women only, Women.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Only, Women Bleed.

Speaker 8 (35:19):
Only, Women.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Only, Women Only, Women Bleed.

Speaker 9 (35:29):
Only, Women Bleed.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Halloween's right around the corner, and that album is going
to get a workout. Alice from Welcome to My Nightmare
and Only Women Bleed was back in Washington, DC, Paul
Stanley and Gene Simmons discovered a band called Angel. They
were a hell of a band and this guy was
their keyboard player. Eventually branched out.

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On his own.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
This is Greg Giuffrea called to the heart in Don's basement.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Now, though you choose to.

Speaker 26 (37:04):
Kist voices from the song's night or to sell me
someone touched about the b it's on.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
The line.

Speaker 9 (37:19):
Lead comes to you, walt to real, I'm coming to you,
to come to me. I lost the line less but

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in some.

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Colling to hear me, a cold hear me cord to.

Speaker 11 (38:49):
Donards didn't a massive stage of me. I didn't gonna
fay to.

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Donalds to catch us.

Speaker 11 (39:00):
I can't work out, so stay with data.

Speaker 9 (39:04):
I'm to regal.

Speaker 11 (39:15):
To real, too real, too real.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
The dropt to.

Speaker 8 (40:20):
It was always the music that mattered.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
We just needed someone to bring it all back.

Speaker 6 (40:24):
Welcome to Don's Basement.

Speaker 27 (40:52):
Damn prita book news Love.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
You're a mystery, always remow.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Like a child out at all.

Speaker 7 (41:16):
You're always such a child, such bolling me live, but
it's easy come and easy go.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Oh, I'm sorry, but it's chill.

Speaker 9 (41:30):
You're ringing on the.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Chaining of the mast me.

Speaker 9 (41:38):
You can't just see you got the best of me?

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Whoa can't to say?

Speaker 9 (41:46):
Your way up?

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Can't you see?

Speaker 8 (42:24):
It's such a secret.

Speaker 27 (42:26):
Missad and shaded laid, oh lack cano then so burning
out and bird.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Can't you see just transcipity.

Speaker 9 (42:49):
You're bringing on the high changing on the best to me?

Speaker 28 (42:58):
You can't just see you got the mass of me?
O cat to say, can't see?

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Can't you see.

Speaker 11 (43:35):
Now?

Speaker 9 (43:53):
What got the passaby? Oh cat to say you got?

Speaker 4 (44:47):
It's still my favorite album from those guys from High
and Dry, def Leppard and Bringing on the Heartache. These
guys are currently on the road in Japan for their
Farewell Japan to Whur. They'll be back in the States
in November. B Get tickets if you can. It's a
great show and don't forget your lighter. Here's a night
ranger in Don's basement.

Speaker 11 (45:16):
Where it's born in a park, and he's gone from.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
The desk of the cools.

Speaker 25 (45:23):
Your eyes and you're back.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Are the glue right? How was it you boy?

Speaker 8 (45:34):
I dressed you?

Speaker 2 (45:35):
Why man? Do you see I think that.

Speaker 8 (45:44):
I shave?

Speaker 9 (45:51):
I'm so good about you?

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Go jup.

Speaker 9 (46:08):
Past are bad?

Speaker 29 (46:19):
I guess a soll lot of thinkin coming on a
hot bad a drinkin.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
As go go to do by a soul.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
The bleed on.

Speaker 29 (46:33):
Cooking done and the different cataway. But by you you
pret JP with Fred it's a bad I bet you
still think about than.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
I'm gonna e so chingay like I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Set too wide out here.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
I need you so much to day.

Speaker 8 (47:00):
When John.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
Joe, he may be older, but he did see some

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great bands and for less than ten bucks a ticket.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
This is Down's basement.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
I used to lie to walk the street, und.

Speaker 9 (49:18):
I used to averything else.

Speaker 30 (49:22):
Spar Sometimes I sit and gaze for days to see
the street all alone, Tracy, all alone, a tract deep time.

Speaker 25 (49:45):
I won't know what tomorrow or am eason and it's
my name.

Speaker 13 (49:58):
Perhaps I did a chance to the gold heard I
soon has a fine Crystal Ball soon as a five stuba.

Speaker 8 (50:19):
Tell me tell me where I'm going?

Speaker 9 (50:22):
I don't know where?

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Tell me tell me, won't you tell me?

Speaker 2 (50:29):
And then tell me?

Speaker 9 (50:33):
My heart is breaking, my body's egg and I don't.

Speaker 14 (50:37):
Know where to go to tell me?

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Tell me, won't you tell me?

Speaker 8 (50:45):
Scarting so many things?

Speaker 9 (50:54):
I need, so many things.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
That want to tell everyby.

Speaker 9 (51:09):
Stop lady.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Where girls don't know where are.

Speaker 9 (52:10):
Turn out of town and want to tell me the time.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
My frank. My body's aging and I don't know where.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
It'll go, so turn out to tell me?

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Want to tell me.

Speaker 9 (52:36):
So many things adding me to know stop and so
many things. I'm down too. I want to turn it.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Please get bucking.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Wow m.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Stop anything stop everything.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Stop.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
The album Caught in the Act, recorded live in New
Orleans nineteen eighty three. Stick and Crystal Ball. Putting the
wraps on our salute to the power ballads, 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 in
WYML dot us in Chicago. Thank you, Joe and Jeff

(55:16):
on the West coast. We've got Chuck and everybody at
CAZYFX rock in the High Desert in Ridgecress, California. To
the east coast, Morristown, New Jersey. That's where rock Party
Radio is. Thank you, Al Rockin' the Big Apple and
beyond and in the middle in Chicago, Buddy Guy and
everybody at Buddy Guy Radio, thank you so much. Big
thanks to the iHeartRadio Network and Amazon Music for getting

(55:40):
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 Spaceman, and a great big thank
you to you for coming down here each and every
week and hanging out with us down here in the basement.
We appreciate it. I'm Don Clark. Peace.
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