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November 5, 2025 56 mins
They're calling it derealization. The feeling that your surroundings and people in them are not real. In the world of A.I., nothing is what it seems. From robots to fantasy to a dream like existence.
So this week, we're featuring deep tracks of Vintage Rock from Trumph, The Who, The Scorpions,
Joe Walsh and more. 
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following program is brought to you in living color.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Some call in to the barrow e sound.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Somebody tell me that said.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Please that son, my.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
God, it's God.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
I see God, you will provide.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
The grand design.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.

Speaker 6 (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 Mayville? Then it rocked?

Speaker 7 (00:43):
It's been bottled up way too long. Welcome to Don's basement.

Speaker 8 (01:05):
Sometimes I can't help feeling stud.

Speaker 9 (01:11):
Live in the life of elusion, that I can't be
letting me and see through the hole in the small
look confusion.

Speaker 10 (01:28):
I just can't delp the feeling a live and the
life of elusion.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Right between the eyes.

Speaker 11 (02:00):
Are little surprises.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Wow, as you so much?

Speaker 12 (02:10):
You just followed the.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Man a disguises. Let me go along.

Speaker 10 (02:18):
At a little surprises, give you aprises.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hey, don't you know it's a waste your day? You
got up in endless Alusis.

Speaker 11 (03:27):
That?

Speaker 13 (03:28):
I am know?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's just another hunt marries.

Speaker 8 (03:35):
A bunch of conclusions got up in the listening mass
back up, but it's a long conclusion.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Leaving oh he would know Joe Walsh the album There
goes the neighborhood and life of Illusion 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's basement. So I'm talking
to my therapist the other night. All right, I'm talking

(04:21):
to my bartender the other night, and he brought up
a term that I had never heard of before, derealization,
And basically, it's looking at life. It's an altered reality.
What's genuine, what's fake, what's real, and what's fantasy. And
we immediately started talking about AI and the way that

(04:44):
things look in our world today, and he looked at
me and he said, that would be a great topic
for your show. So thanks to your suggestions, We've got
some songs about reality and fantasy that haven't seen the
light of day in a long long time. The band
is Bebop Deluxe. The album is Live in the Air Rage,

(05:06):
and this is their robot tale, Life in the Air Rage.
Welcome to Don's Baseman.

Speaker 14 (05:49):
If the stars throughout. The boss that served up bits
of drink moment smiles me. His wife, She gives a secret.

Speaker 13 (06:02):
Listen. Impatient said to me, my story I unfold.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
See that face is changing the lights, gull them up,
losing all.

Speaker 14 (06:48):
Used to me and boy, my heart was young and
supple than now. It's stony cold a mode and I
couldn't use the world is not like yours.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Come from somewhere long ago.

Speaker 15 (07:05):
I was going back.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
I'm lost and I feel so.

Speaker 16 (07:10):
Whoa.

Speaker 17 (07:25):
You can.

Speaker 16 (07:27):
Check you life, but I didn't allow to go back
to my time.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
I think we amage aproach your saying I am stupid.

Speaker 18 (07:44):
You must stay.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
I think the average, crushing every until.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I think the average. So I was in it's kind
I'm really imagine all.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
The options have fun dry.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
This music had so much meaning. It still does bringing
it back one scratchy album at a time. This is
Don's basement.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
In the new world.

Speaker 13 (09:12):
That will live in it.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's fashionable to let nothing pas you.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, you're not at all. You're falling, fooling a stead.
You're living in a tree.

Speaker 15 (09:54):
In the desert day.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Where about flop.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
And people will call me coming from more. Yeah, sort
of at all?

Speaker 13 (10:21):
You won't.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
You don't say that you're living in a dream. So

(11:17):
you closed the door. You said nothing and yet your
movie and not care every where you been.

Speaker 18 (11:38):
Yeah, you're about all.

Speaker 13 (11:44):
And you remind.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Me nothing. Nothing at the bread.

Speaker 13 (12:14):
Think.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
He spent a lot of time with the Allman Brothers
and numerous bands, going out on the road with them.
One of the greatest keyboard players around, Chuck Lenelle Sea
Level and living in a dream in Don Clark and
Don's Baseman. So what is real and what is fake?
What's genuine and what's fantasy? And so we're looking at
this time around. He came out of Canada in nineteen

(13:29):
eighty two and made an awful lot of noise with
his debut album This is Aldo Nova and Fantasy in
Don's Basement.

Speaker 19 (14:21):
Sending nights seem breading like being right.

Speaker 13 (14:50):
Neil, lights shining bright.

Speaker 20 (14:53):
They make a breading.

Speaker 12 (14:54):
Night, say the course, but the trus so.

Speaker 13 (15:01):
Give the lord my sis writing.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I'm like, oh why in the streets.

Speaker 12 (15:08):
Long nor right?

Speaker 13 (15:10):
No?

Speaker 15 (15:27):
I was sight by.

Speaker 13 (15:29):
Kids from a man white.

Speaker 19 (15:34):
It's all right, power person who's ready noms to night,
say the man, the prices and rs like some girls
some wonder why see the light super school? Because like
if night like a night, it's nicely it's just can't

(16:04):
you say what discuss it as doing to me?

Speaker 13 (16:11):
Let us just got to say, can you let me
just say? Can I say.

Speaker 17 (16:56):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (16:58):
It's dye?

Speaker 14 (17:02):
Can't you see what this classics going?

Speaker 16 (17:06):
Toping like we just don't want to say kinds.

Speaker 13 (17:17):
Like we just don't want to say kind of Lissa,
it's just getting want to say dands.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Like you want to.

Speaker 13 (17:32):
Saying oh no, oh no.

Speaker 21 (18:05):
Out of all the shows on the radio, we're one
of them. Welcome to down Spaceman.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Lately, I've learned so many learners I've ever.

Speaker 8 (18:28):
Till the illusions merely delusions of.

Speaker 13 (18:35):
A girl that I see.

Speaker 12 (18:40):
And my man I see clearly.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's good to.

Speaker 13 (18:48):
See girl.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
How enough to be.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
My bada see girl? Set me beef?

Speaker 12 (19:04):
Don't have my ship?

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Sometimes I swear that I've had me all.

Speaker 13 (19:12):
You end up being suppling, looking into morrows, dog me.

Speaker 18 (19:20):
For a bad time, season it.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
And how it should be?

Speaker 16 (19:29):
Girl?

Speaker 15 (19:32):
How do to be.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Be the fatasy girl?

Speaker 13 (19:40):
Don't set me be the fatasy?

Speaker 22 (20:00):
The guy.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Seebll matacy and God.

Speaker 12 (20:24):
Bea ban see.

Speaker 16 (20:29):
I'm not to.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Don't not manacy guy.

Speaker 22 (20:36):
Consactly, he's a bats.

Speaker 12 (20:44):
I'm not to be.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Don't not manacy.

Speaker 22 (20:52):
Consactly bad The Fantasy.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
From the Rock and End of the Nine album thirty
eight special. I am Fantasy Girl and Don Clark and
Don's Basement fantasy and reality. It was all because of
a talk that we had the other night and the
term came up, the realization and describing it kind of
what's going on with AI right now. And I looked
at the bartender that he was talking about, and I said,

(22:17):
explain it a little bit more. And he says, that's
kind of like a like an altered state. Now I
get it. Now you're talking. Here are the scorpions and
make it real in Don's.

Speaker 16 (22:29):
Basement, always tell them to.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
It gets you.

Speaker 20 (22:39):
Then youz it.

Speaker 13 (22:43):
Tried.

Speaker 15 (22:46):
You take my crazy.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Dies, take your.

Speaker 16 (22:59):
Time, say.

Speaker 13 (23:02):
Make it bring not fancy.

Speaker 16 (23:07):
Fantasy, may.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Fancy?

Speaker 20 (23:20):
Did you never have seen nurny?

Speaker 13 (23:24):
Don't you know?

Speaker 20 (23:26):
Dum nothing to you said? Please turn me open up.

Speaker 13 (23:33):
God life for you.

Speaker 15 (23:36):
As you know that all good?

Speaker 16 (23:38):
And make your choice.

Speaker 20 (23:41):
Don't be a sie hating of your mind.

Speaker 10 (23:45):
Don't be flu There's a whole your world mine.

Speaker 20 (23:53):
Make it rain, not fancy.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Fancy.

Speaker 20 (24:05):
I say, did you fella have a say right? Don't

(24:49):
you know that you can.

Speaker 13 (24:52):
Not?

Speaker 15 (24:53):
Don't you said?

Speaker 16 (24:54):
Weave?

Speaker 13 (24:57):
God?

Speaker 20 (24:58):
Lie, I'm gonna.

Speaker 15 (25:01):
Take the bad a break.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
You die take them you see the.

Speaker 13 (25:10):
Friends and.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
Wi we have people ask us all the time why

(25:55):
don't you tell more stories about what happened in the basement.
The reason we don't as simple halfter, the wouldn't believe us.
The other half would try to prosecute us, and we
just still't need that headache again. Welcome to Don's Basement.

Speaker 13 (26:18):
See captain, we are.

Speaker 12 (26:43):
Kind of.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Lift subs conn.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
The sith the.

Speaker 13 (27:09):
Name said, And you know that.

Speaker 22 (27:16):
The show.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
The nap. You gotta let it, you gotta let it go.
So keep on playing the game to get.

Speaker 13 (27:42):
In the puget the nap. You just picked up.

Speaker 18 (27:59):
Its bye bok crab up.

Speaker 13 (28:10):
The checking out reach in spaces and.

Speaker 18 (28:15):
Times, and you know that.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
The show, So.

Speaker 16 (28:40):
You gotta let it, you gotta let it go. So
shame I'm playing those bag Stop doing the dum.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
John Lennon and mind Games and Don Clark and Don's
Basement and a look at Ai and what's real, what's fake,
what's genuine, and what's fantasy? And it was a song
that Pete Townsend put his pen to a few years ago,
talking about people at a party who hide from their
problems behind a facade kind of a delusion. That's up next.
I'm Don Clark. Welcome to Don's Basement.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
From one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever
comes one of the most eagerly awaited new albums of
the year, Who Are You, The explosive return of the Who.
Who Are You? New from the Who, the ultimate rock

(30:28):
and roll band on mc A Records and Tapes.

Speaker 21 (30:33):
It's classic rock. There's village rock, there's this place. This
is Don's Basement.

Speaker 13 (31:37):
Its string.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Speed for that beep it again, get their ride. The
girls sid.

Speaker 23 (33:13):
Peak again, t.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Fas exci tas peak it again.

Speaker 13 (33:26):
Did the.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Because lemons put it?

Speaker 18 (33:32):
The puddles.

Speaker 12 (33:48):
Never fun.

Speaker 8 (33:51):
Mun puddle themon funk.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
It's them punch. It's a little a fuck, it's a bod.

Speaker 13 (34:04):
It's a boot on.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
It's a boot dancing.

Speaker 18 (34:21):
Won't you come?

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Don't the body dance?

Speaker 13 (34:27):
You can?

Speaker 2 (34:31):
That's two kids.

Speaker 22 (34:40):
Drink spar.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Ha be wil Fins, the head Fi people.

Speaker 24 (34:55):
Begin getting there, Hide the new look small heap It
a gag, the sad pass on sun fishful bed for
gag for getting there.

Speaker 11 (35:17):
Hide and.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
We had an Emden but an Emence buckets, but it's
the emden.

Speaker 13 (35:33):
En fuck.

Speaker 12 (35:40):
Everden Puck fuck Lemon, puck so noon, fuck.

Speaker 13 (35:53):
It, it's Bo.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
It's Bo's.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Basting the who.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
From It's hard and eminence front. It was such a
fun conversation the other night, as we're talking about derealization,
and as we started throwing out some different terms and
topics of what's real and what's fake, what's genuine, what's fantasy.
Some of it came down to delusions of the fantastic kind.
Here are the tubes in Down's basement.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Look around, tell me.

Speaker 13 (37:04):
What you see.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
The sky is blue and the trees are green. But
what you see is what it sees.

Speaker 13 (37:13):
It's all brought up cools.

Speaker 18 (37:16):
Skis, the holes in.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
The barn, cracksy in the words.

Speaker 13 (37:30):
Pas and.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
So it begins.

Speaker 15 (37:40):
Show come in a ban.

Speaker 24 (37:54):
I see you dancing as the fool, the stream, the
drooling wind, that the belly.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Don't you wish you co stop wishes.

Speaker 22 (38:05):
You're not even listening.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
I said, if the trees all cree and the sky.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Not move, want then shot.

Speaker 18 (38:22):
Bak so because.

Speaker 15 (38:37):
Gay that thought all day? Oh people never know.

Speaker 18 (38:54):
I'm not praying.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
I don't know what I say.

Speaker 13 (39:38):
Don't you way s? Good staff wation?

Speaker 16 (39:42):
Your mad.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Is that name?

Speaker 13 (39:46):
Share is real bats that fantastic. Don't you wish you good?
Staff shr I saw.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Vintage rock with the warm sound of vinyl and the
scratcher too, just to keep it real.

Speaker 21 (40:36):
This is Don's basement.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
I'm so my.

Speaker 8 (41:05):
Own little great thought.

Speaker 13 (41:09):
That's it the loco.

Speaker 11 (41:15):
That's chest stream of spect suffering.

Speaker 12 (41:42):
I'm so.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
You romance and stuffy. You've got to me as can't.

Speaker 22 (42:17):
Stas last.

Speaker 17 (42:42):
Lot of dost answer watching dot June June, welcome.

Speaker 13 (43:02):
Up. Your s.

Speaker 16 (43:07):
S were such strange scout words bastos the world said,

(44:38):
sting of.

Speaker 13 (44:49):
The bouncy want to dont don of that?

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Doci about.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
What's world of fantasy? From triam? What's fantasy? What's reality?
Just off topic for a little bit. These guys finally
getting a good dose of reality, finally getting into the
rock and roll hall of fame. Here's bad company, Don Spaceman.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Here called the just ask Little Tuesday.

Speaker 25 (45:42):
It's soundboud fantasy, the music allow to see the ground
dancing in the last and singing out loud.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
You'll call and dancers one bold.

Speaker 25 (46:07):
Your mama's calling, bunch of heaven birst you found your
dancing nor number nine pouds put your meds together and
saying out loud.

Speaker 8 (46:20):
It's off back, I'm rock getting old fantasy.

Speaker 13 (46:28):
It's off bad.

Speaker 16 (46:31):
I'm a rock girl.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
It's off back.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
A'm my rock and roll fantasy.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
It's all bad.

Speaker 13 (47:09):
I'm i.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
D put off the spotlights, wading.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
And let the feeling get down to the soul. The
music's so loud.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
And being near the sound, reaching brother guy turning up
the grove.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
It's all brod. I'm my rock and roll bat sh.

Speaker 12 (47:49):
It's all bad.

Speaker 13 (47:51):
Am I rock and old?

Speaker 2 (47:58):
It's a bad.

Speaker 16 (48:01):
Rock this god.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
You know that feeling when you hear a song you
haven't heard in years, Welcome to.

Speaker 13 (48:44):
I.

Speaker 7 (48:49):
You feel that way all the time. Vintage rock from
Don's basement, sing.

Speaker 26 (49:26):
Me South, you'll see that, do me arow you're afraider
of evil, the devils nather maa.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
The less that's your give your Jacob.

Speaker 18 (49:47):
So it's all no, no, it's even hel.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Fowey.

Speaker 27 (50:09):
The love of life's now the sameas the ending is
just stumping the cruels. You get to the meeting the
sooner you know that you're breathing.

Speaker 13 (50:31):
So it's all words, no long and.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Well. If we said so befre and to.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Lose jobs for every moment talk to that's.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Gonna lose you in a life.

Speaker 27 (51:53):
Let me see, can not say answer, but no pod
definitely that something the.

Speaker 23 (52:02):
Storm, No no, no no, I say that nice so

(53:38):
channel sound.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
And it's actually gonna right sel what this going on?
Things street like good nights.

Speaker 8 (53:45):
That's still your drinks, that's river the carol away, and
that's your breath.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
It's really white.

Speaker 13 (53:54):
It's just up front of the night and went you'll
walk in going.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
After dream.

Speaker 13 (54:10):
From the.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Just like the man said, well, if it seems to
be real, it's illusion. For every moment of truth, it's
confusion in life. Bronnie James the put his pen to
that back in nineteen eighty. He said, it's the song
that he was the most proud of that he ever wrote.
And the song that was written the long ago still

(55:08):
rings true today. What's genuine and what's fantasy? That's what
we were looking at this time around. 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 FM WYMLNWYML
dot us in Chicago. Thank you, Joe and Jeff the
Great ninety eight WMDC Mayveel, Wisconsin, Beck where all this

(55:31):
madness started, chucking his crew at CAZFX rockin the High
Desert in Ridgecress, California, and all the stations. I want
to thank the iHeartRadio Network, iHeart Podcast channel in Amazon
Music for getting the word out about Down Spaceman tapes.
Check out our website downs Basement Productions dot com, shoot
us an email like Nick and the crew and Economo
walk de in. Thanks to mister Lee Peak, the voice

(55:53):
of Down's basemen, and thank you for coming down and
hanging out in the basement. I'm Don Clark. Peace
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