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June 4, 2025 • 56 mins
From the Acme Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin. You know them by name. Nicole...Lorraine...Athena. These are the Ladies of Vintage Rock, featuring deep tracks of Vintage Rock from Point Blank, Uriah Heep, The Who and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following program is brought to you in living color.
To the barrow it sounds. Somebody tell me that, my.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
God, it's gone.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
I see God.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We 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 6 (00:41):
Where the hell is Mayville? Then it rocked. It's been
bottled up way too long. Welcome to Don's basement.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
When that think of bloor al my hair turns on.
The ride was gentle.

Speaker 7 (01:06):
Lissiport to fly to lose without a sign.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I call her on the teleboat. She said to me
there by end to nights.

Speaker 7 (01:19):
The night she's moving in and I can honey wait.

Speaker 8 (01:30):
Says to get up right, stop, to get up right, stop.

Speaker 7 (02:06):
Her as become the perdie when she saw, please speaks
my name.

Speaker 9 (02:13):
She's writings everydoly night.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
No man's quite the same.

Speaker 8 (02:19):
She calls me born. She says, peace the bad.

Speaker 7 (02:26):
That's them that she's in its time, the same pray,
she the same, that's together to speak.

Speaker 10 (02:45):
I tell that stop about.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's to get up.

Speaker 10 (02:57):
Write that stop.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
One fine piece of vinyls sticks and the Equinox album.
Man Laureline. Hello there, how are you welcome back in?
I'm Don Clark. Thanks so much for coming down hanging
out with us once again down here in. Don Spaceman,
Oh you know them well, you know them as Nicole
and Lorraine and all of the ladies of Vina Trock

(04:15):
and that's what we're rolling out this time around. The
album was Northern Lights Southern Cross from nineteen seventy five.
This is the band and o't feel you welcome to
Don Spaceman the window.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Why would anybody leave Queen calif.

Speaker 11 (04:40):
Where have you gone?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
The old neighborhood?

Speaker 12 (04:49):
Just be the same?

Speaker 13 (04:52):
Nobody knows one Bacon mo.

Speaker 11 (05:00):
Tell me one.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Was it something that somebody says.

Speaker 11 (05:13):
From I know when we wrote the room?

Speaker 14 (05:18):
Why somebody?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
For guess?

Speaker 14 (05:21):
I didn't know why that.

Speaker 13 (05:28):
As says some laughter, the gooss clear, why do the best?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's always that something I got read? Please talking my door?

(06:31):
Was it something that's a thought?

Speaker 12 (06:33):
It said?

Speaker 11 (06:36):
How did you know we brought the wrong's?

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Somebody? But guess honey, you know? And I got two
numbers standing.

Speaker 13 (06:55):
Running and I'm still waiting for him second come back?

Speaker 5 (07:41):
You know, way do people ask us all the time,
why don't you tell more stories about what happened in
the basement.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Reads.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
We don't as simple. Half of the world wouldn't believe us.
The other half would try to prosecute us. We just
still need that headache again. Welcome to Don's Basement.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
I hear you go through some changes.

Speaker 15 (08:12):
I hear your friends all time their backs on you,
and now you're hanging down with strangers. Now just be
careful who you're talking to.

Speaker 16 (08:28):
Cole My speeding Cold Sweet, speeding Cold, you.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Started looking like a mad house. You're looking like you
just eight of all night, looking like you been turned out.

Speaker 17 (09:06):
The way you're acting, girl the rstay right, my speeding cold.

Speaker 18 (09:25):
Spe you.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Know you're ready?

Speaker 18 (10:14):
Drive me, please it.

Speaker 16 (10:17):
You upset and went to wake the a smile. It
started looking kind of space out. You drive a man's
doof fading wild.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Speed and cold.

Speaker 16 (10:41):
Cold speed speed near cold, speedy.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Cold Out of Texas, Point blank and Nicole and Don

(11:27):
Clark and Down's Basement. Celebrating the Ladies of Vintage Rocket
was an album that came out in twenty fourteen. Not
every cut was spectacular, but it certainly was a fitting
tribute to Sir Paul McCartney from the album The Art
of McCartney checked this cutout def Leppard doing Helen Wiels
in Down's Basement.

Speaker 9 (11:51):
Canada, All out sey Ever look so pretty and the
candle freeways fast.

Speaker 19 (12:06):
So now drive to work and stay down.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
And make this Jody is hell hell on mel scream,
ain't nobody t know w s feel.

Speaker 11 (12:25):
Hell real.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Now' the narr gonna take a f it see sound
count the cool Way Way.

Speaker 19 (12:47):
To the West Coast sound say let's said again the
body count duty.

Speaker 18 (12:53):
Down will be now.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
And went finn a man long and sun Ris I
can found.

Speaker 18 (13:00):
My friend.

Speaker 20 (13:03):
Mon.

Speaker 21 (13:04):
Won't you check a round?

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Just gonna take me back again?

Speaker 18 (13:18):
Ship reel.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
The man's gonna take away. You can don't tell mother
the back again. My back got down the ship some
does happen, so Bad's got again? Round town.

Speaker 11 (13:53):
The day Way and the conference.

Speaker 19 (13:57):
Is places now say no this Johnny, let know.

Speaker 10 (14:15):
She s.

Speaker 18 (14:25):
Never wan table.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
It's the kind of music that's great whenever you pair
it with Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill e gives me a
headache just thinking about it.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Welcome the dance Basement, Lovely.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Rita, meet her maid. Nothing can come between when you
get stuck.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
I told your heart to wait.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Standing a parking METERA where my God? A glimpse of
Rita filling in the take it in a little white boat, in.

Speaker 22 (15:50):
A cat juke my Jola and the bag across the shoulder.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
May you look a little like a military man? Lovely
Rita Beta.

Speaker 8 (16:02):
Maid may quietly screamed, when are you free to take
some tea to see.

Speaker 22 (16:19):
readA took her around and tried to wear handle and
over dinner to her reading and.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
See her again.

Speaker 22 (16:39):
You've got the ball and Reda had it to God
and nearly made it sitting.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
On the supper with the sister and too oh, lovely
readA meet her maid? Where would I be with thout?
You give us a wink and make me think of.

Speaker 11 (17:13):
Exau tap.

Speaker 20 (17:50):
Isn't she lovely?

Speaker 4 (17:51):
From Pepper the Beatles and Lovely Rita. We made a
promise this here on the tenth anniversary of Down's Basement tapes,
that we were going to dig just a little bit
deeper than normal and grab some of these cuts in
definitely have not seen the light of day in a
long long time. They started off as a Beatles tribute
band called Cartoon. They eventually changed their formula and back

(18:12):
in the early eighties. If you saw cheap trick, chances
are really really good. You saw these guys as the
opening act. They're out of Atlanta. The band is the Producers.
This is she Sheila in Don's Basement.

Speaker 11 (19:01):
Put off my new spirit, pulling that off my stall.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Say something.

Speaker 8 (19:17):
See say them sid by fine and I myself someway
set by.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
The smoky fin.

Speaker 11 (19:28):
See say those sin.

Speaker 23 (19:30):
By head went on talk to her a lie lolling
wats some so around pe sober.

Speaker 18 (19:45):
Every word.

Speaker 11 (19:49):
Says, I went to ubu.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
And tell my bas story.

Speaker 9 (20:00):
See say listen bye bye, Si say said nons lovely fe.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
See say listen by.

Speaker 14 (20:15):
Sal to im not.

Speaker 20 (20:18):
Long a.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
Shee shee.

Speaker 8 (21:25):
See see the si fe w se something say honest
small be bine.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
See see them sit my head and no way I
talk to her.

Speaker 18 (21:42):
Not long.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
See see the send my mie.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
No w simon something says, well be fine.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
See see they.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
Simpy ten years of doing Don's Basement. It's funny when

(22:23):
you do the math. We lasted longer and some of
the basement dwellers first marriages. Yayus, welcome to Don's Basement.

Speaker 12 (22:37):
Alright, I heard the news.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Let's go over town. If you were hurting bjr Mat
sitting down. I got the story, hands out on the brass,
races out out taking deep brown.

Speaker 23 (23:00):
We have a hall of something along tighten him better
lose getting nine tonight him my such ru McDonald twelve
de made the old drunkers team was gone and saying
him he stop for selling out like never before.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
He finally had the other closed storm all. It wasn't
getting ready in a fight him.

Speaker 23 (23:20):
Betty Lows getting nine tonight him, Betty Lows getting nine
tonight him, you better lose getting nine tonight him.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
She was bad, but mama got him down. But now
when Mama saysant gets all rad All it wasn't getting.

Speaker 23 (23:35):
Ready in Arada better Lows getting nine tonight him.

Speaker 18 (23:40):
Even better than.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
It's all true, it's really true.

Speaker 14 (23:52):
But what do you mean about the boy.

Speaker 18 (23:55):
God bad Alou.

Speaker 23 (24:34):
Bad Alouyes, it's true, bad Loud, Beta Louse.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Getting nights and mad Louse getting nights, and that she
was bad, but Mama gott bad. But now Mama says,
gets all right.

Speaker 18 (24:57):
I was getting read.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
I'm singer and the Silver Bullet band from against the Wind,
and Betty Lou's getting out tonight. These are the ladies
of vintage rock. And I always pondered, because I do
like to ponder from time to time, I pondered if
this lady was any inspiration for Queen for the Jazz album.
We know her name and we know that there's a

(25:40):
lot of her, and she's coming up next. I'm Don Clark.
Welcome to Don's Basement.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
For the first time of only a favorite Clips from
the World's Greatest rough Band was a two and a
half ass of classic videos and TV appearances.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Family Jools The Philadelphi History of a c d C
on DVD.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Now this classic Rock because I'm.

Speaker 20 (26:19):
Rock.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Then there's this place.

Speaker 14 (26:23):
Show take chance.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
Still It's John's Basement.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
No joy story.

Speaker 24 (26:53):
Show.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
She's exactly pretty, ain't exactly small.

Speaker 18 (27:00):
For you.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Don't nothing sist you can.

Speaker 14 (27:03):
Say a guy, let not love never. You don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
They don't anything. They know fan stop, they don't scary.

Speaker 18 (27:33):
Bout I don't.

Speaker 14 (27:38):
Stop.

Speaker 11 (27:40):
Don't oh shut tell me.

Speaker 18 (28:10):
Only tell to the night, simeon.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
To some.

Speaker 18 (28:26):
Staff up to the.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Live nineteen seventy eight a CDC and whole lot of Rosie.
There is a book out there by the way called
The Last Highway. If you have never read it. I
highly recommend you pick it up because it is full
of stories about Bond Scott and you know you're reading
it and you go, wow, there's got to be true.
You just can't make this stuff up. We're celebrating the
ladies of vintage rock this time around. We've dug this

(30:55):
album out quite a few times, We've just never gone
this deep into it. The album is He in the Street,
This is the Pat Travers band and Evy in don spacebant.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Money in my head. I got my cockies in my head.
I got a couple of guess to see him rocking rolling.

Speaker 10 (31:16):
Come on, girl, just get on the shoes you got.

Speaker 11 (31:21):
Come on, sun, hang out, he hang out, hang down.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
You got the body of a woman. The way you're moving, Queen,
you gotta ud. Let's say you're on the seventeen.

Speaker 11 (32:01):
Where God also stuff got out the banks, the whole
bag down, the mist of the house, AmAm.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Even letter had now either ever either let even letting
her hand.

Speaker 11 (32:25):
Now, Eva, listen, I got a chance sometimes gets don't
don't forget to wu the fen but just the whole time,
and I got just s.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
We at nobody of a woman. You need't even make it.
You know you're getting what's gonna happen? What little girl
you saw?

Speaker 11 (33:33):
Mister you're trying to take soun non'body even give me
down and let's some pans a down gave let's own gamen, Gamen,
gave a letter, Amen, Amen, let's hand out an emailstatt.

Speaker 20 (35:00):
M hm.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
The music you grew up with, the music you grew
up with.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
This is dannce basement.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Would you like to take this magic motion? Wear me
on a trip to a cosmic playground?

Speaker 14 (35:34):
Fry on.

Speaker 7 (35:36):
She understands, she's been the it's in her hand, too
bad to.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Spa the rain, leave a.

Speaker 21 (35:48):
Carry on, Lena, see slaver rain, leve avery, You and
I can killa breathe.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
There is no time, no wealth, only ya surround you.
The waching off. This guy is simpally sincerity. She understands
because she's been. It's setting her hands to both to sound.

Speaker 21 (36:43):
Sweet Lorain, Let the body carry over. You're I sell
the sea, Sweet Loraine.

Speaker 18 (36:53):
Let the body cary.

Speaker 25 (36:57):
You and I can kill a breath, pup pup pi.

Speaker 14 (37:44):
Stack by more.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Still the same, staying right more steak a body sad
see steer d and body.

Speaker 11 (38:12):
There snip Sneez called Speak Grid called Stay Rights, Stay Right,

(38:49):
Stay Say.

Speaker 20 (38:54):
Spading Sandy.

Speaker 14 (38:59):
Speak.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
You know it's just a shame. It's an album that
you don't hear anywhere anymore. The Magician's Birthday and You're
Riyah Heap and Sweet Lorraine. These are the ladies of
vintage rock. And it was the final album with John
Enwhistle on base before he sadly passed away from It's Hard.
It's the Who and a pena in down Spaceman.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I had no idea how much I need her. In
peaceful times, I hold a close enough nah stop battle table.
When I think I guess was wrong, I think I'll
get it along. It's just a girl, all I have

(39:50):
a one of youse, please her. My life has been
so settled, and she's the reason. Just won't grow from
her and my tumbles all long. But I think I'll
get along. She's just a girl.

Speaker 20 (40:05):
She's a ball.

Speaker 14 (40:08):
She's a ball.

Speaker 15 (40:28):
My whot got like a shadow glass in an acid bath,
felt like one of those flat nts you find on
a crazy path.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
I taught myself to give her time. She didn't need
to asking a suicidal psycho path.

Speaker 12 (40:42):
She's just a girl.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
She's a ball.

Speaker 14 (40:45):
She just a girl.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
She's a all.

Speaker 9 (40:49):
God said, there was a beautiful white horse I saw
on a dream stage.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
He has to take the size of a superpipe living
in this rich cage. I'm not a big old.

Speaker 22 (41:00):
Priest who was being flown.

Speaker 26 (41:02):
Baby, you got me a requisition block Dad, She's a.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
She's a ball, she's a ball, Stuffy.

Speaker 11 (41:15):
God, he's just a girl. Looking through the place of

(41:46):
the child are follow You spoke and one of them
the plays.

Speaker 12 (41:53):
How would children really?

Speaker 20 (41:57):
How long?

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Gold chill?

Speaker 12 (41:58):
The remedy.

Speaker 20 (42:00):
Been up?

Speaker 1 (42:02):
You make me up by my afairs and screaming with ever.
I felt like waking up in the heaven on echy
meet her.

Speaker 23 (42:10):
And now you're stuck with a castrated leader.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
I think I didn't read that she's bad.

Speaker 12 (42:19):
I just said she's hard, she's all.

Speaker 16 (42:29):
I had no idea how I'm a john need her
My life better be so settled.

Speaker 27 (42:35):
She's the reason.

Speaker 20 (42:37):
Just don't from.

Speaker 12 (42:40):
You were getting on.

Speaker 20 (42:42):
She's got an.

Speaker 14 (42:44):
She's bad, She's just a girl.

Speaker 9 (42:48):
She's a ball.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Alright, this is buddy guy.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
You all come again. You're gonna listen to Don basement
tapes with Don up. Don't turn that radio die because
he can't stop Mustang sale. I guess she's got to

(43:21):
slow your.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Mustang down, Mustang sadah bade. I guess you better slow
your Mustang down?

Speaker 1 (43:49):
You better around.

Speaker 18 (43:52):
Town?

Speaker 1 (43:55):
I guess I better put your big.

Speaker 12 (43:58):
Feet on a down.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Oh yeah, I'm.

Speaker 26 (44:03):
So will.

Speaker 27 (44:08):
Are you wanna boots rid out around sally Head? Are
you mona duties spride around sally.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Salad a? Are you wanna doodle's.

Speaker 26 (44:28):
Ride around set every day? Are you mona duties rid
around Sally here, s.

Speaker 14 (44:44):
Para?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
These are the morning you gonna be wiping dog with
bad pies? Yes, you will.

Speaker 24 (45:01):
I bought you a ventage Mustanging. I'm nineteen and sixteen five?
Are you calling a roundsta from room your Donald Loder?

Speaker 26 (45:16):
Let me ride Mustang Sealing leave.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Yeah, I guess you're mad a slow yo musty down.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
That's you're with?

Speaker 20 (45:34):
Hurry with you.

Speaker 11 (45:37):
Gone a lot a lot all the time.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
I'm going a bunch of big fat feet.

Speaker 20 (45:45):
On the brown.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 12 (45:49):
Seven? Well, now.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
All you mony to ride around Sealing.

Speaker 20 (46:00):
Sad?

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Are you gonna do? That's a love? Seven? Say all you.

Speaker 11 (46:13):
Got a duel a rout sad?

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Are you gonna do? Run out of Love, seven Sad
Wanna around You Gotta put your back?

Speaker 26 (46:41):
Oh yes I will seven.

Speaker 14 (46:48):
Same s.

Speaker 20 (46:57):
Seven.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
You've got two legends riding that bony Buddy Guy and
Jeff Beck together with Mustang Sally and Doc Arkan down
Spaceman as we celebrate the Ladies of Vinja Drug.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
The way the story goes, Dicky Betts was sitting at
his piano and he's working on this song, and he's
got the beginning of it, and he gets down to
the middle of it and he just can't find a
way past it. And he's playing this middle part and
playing it and playing it and playing it. All of
a sudden, his young daughter comes crawling into the room
and she starts bopping her head up and down as
he's playing and playing and playing, and all of a

(47:47):
sudden he found an ending and a song is born.
His daughter's name. By the way, Jessica, here are the
Allman Brothers in.

Speaker 20 (47:54):
Don About.

Speaker 28 (53:31):
The Nat.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
It's from the album Brothers and Sisters. The Allman Brothers
and Jessica putting the wraps. I'm the Ladies of Vintage
Rock edition of Don Spasement Tapes. Big thanks to 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 dot
us in Chicago. Thank you Joe and Jeff a great

(55:25):
ninety eight WMDC Maybel Wisconsin, Buddy Guy and everybody at
Buddy Guy Radio in Chicago, Tom Maloney and his crew
at Lakeshore Public Media and Northwest Indiana and all the stations.
Big thanks to the iHeartRadio Network and Amazon Music forgetting
the word out about Don Spaceman tapes. Check out our website,
Don's Basement Productions dot com. Big thanks to mister Lee Peek,

(55:46):
he is the voice of Don's Basement, and a great
big thank you to you for coming down here each
and every week and hanging out with us in the basement.
We do appreciate it. I'm Don Clark.

Speaker 26 (55:57):
Peace
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