Since we've been talking about Iggy and stuff....here's a show I did with a
friend a few days ago.
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Inflammable Material hosted by Two Geeks Named Steve
3/16/99 5-8pm on WXDU-Durham
Classic Punk Rock
Inflammable Material is a show of classic punk that is aired on WXDU every
now and then during break weeks. The hosts the first time were Steve
Kelley, Eric Labow and Steve Gardner. Eric didn’t make this one, though,
because he was playing tennis (how punk!).
We didn’t have a year cutoff or anything, yet most of the stuff we played
could be considered classic or proto-punk. Here’s the setlist. The setlist
from the last show we did can be found on my website under the “special
shows and lists” section. (www.topsoil.net) I was amazed at the number of
phone calls and requests we got. Hopefully we’ll be doing this again
sometime soon.
Cheers.
Steve Gardner
Band/Song/Album
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Stiff Little Fingers/Suspect Device/All the Best
[theme song]
Buzzcocks/Noise Annoys/Product
Noise Annoys/Noise Annoys/Violence Inherent in the System
[Classic styled punk rock from Germany. The label (NKVD) owner is named
Steve Gardner...but it’s not me. It’s another Steve Gardner.]
Minor Threat/In My Eyes/Complete Discography
[Request]
Volcano Suns/Jak/The Bright Orange Years
[For Jack Kelley, Steve Kelley’s nephew]
Husker Du/Whatever/Zen Arcade
Black Flag/Jealous Again/Wasted...Again
Fear/Let’s Have a War/The Record
Big Black/Kerosene/Atomizer
Toy Dolls/I’ll Get Even with Steven (Steve is Tender)/High Spirits
[Request for “Diedre’s a Slag” from the Toy Dolls. We didn’t have that one
with us, so we played this very a propos tune.]
Radio Birdman/Aloha Steve and Dano/Radios Appear
[Thanks to Sophie Best for mailing this from Australia.]
Saints/No Time/I’m Stranded
Clash/Jail Guitar Doors/Clash
[Per a request for something by the Clash. This is one of my favorite songs
they’ve ever done.]
101ers/Letsagetabitarockin/Elgin Avenue Breakdown
[The 101ers were Joe Strummer’s band before he joined the Clash. Brag mode
on: I got this album for a quarter in a used bin!]
X/Hothouse/More Fun in the New World
[For Mimi Komos, Steve’s wife...whom he loves.]
Joe Jackson/One More Time/Look Sharp
[This started a three song set by the “angry young men.”]
Elvis Costello and the Attractions/No Action/This Year’s Model
Graham Parker and the Rumour/Mercury Poisoning/It Don’t Mean a Thing If You
Ain’t Got That Swing
[Graham was originally on Mercury records, hence the title of the song.]
XTC/Science Friction/Waxworks
Raincoats/Off Duty Trip/Totally Wired
[By request]
Mission of Burma/That’s When I Reach For My Revolver/Signals. Calls and
Marches
[One of Steve Kelley’s favorite songs ever.]
X-Ray Spex/Identity/Germ Free Adolescents
[By request]
Social Distortion/the Creeps/Mommy’s Little Monster
Descendents/Kabuki Girl/Milo Goes to College
[The Descendents were probably the first punk band that I *really* got
into.]
The Stooges/I Wanna Be Your Dog/The Stooges
MC5/American Ruse/Back in the USA
Flamin’ Groovies/Slow Death/Groovies Greatest Grooves
New York Dolls/Bad Girl/New York Dolls
Suicide/Ghost Rider/Suicide
[Punk without guitars.]
Youth Brigade/Sink With California/Sound & Fury
Agent Orange/Breakdown/Bitchin’ Summer
TSOL/Sounds of Laughter/Dance With Me
Adolescents/Wrecking Crew/Adolescents
Damned/Melody Lee/Machine Gun Etiquette
Buzzcocks/Boredom/Spiral Scratch
[For Steve Kelley's brother Barry. And thanks to Shaun Belcher from England
for providing me with this recording!]
Soft Boys/Yodelling Hoover/Wading Through a Ventilator
Rezillos/Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight/Can’t Stand the
Rezillos
Stiff Little Fingers/Barbed Wire Love/Inflammable Material
[Complete with the doo-wop interlude.]
Stranglers/Hanging Around/IV Rattus Norvegicus
Jam/Happy Together/The Gift
[One of the greatest and catchiest pop songs ever. This was in reponse to a
request for the Jam.]
Wire/Lowdown/Pink Flag
Dead Boys/Sonic Reducer/Young, Loud and Snotty
Richard Hell and the Voidoids/Blank Generation/Blank Generation
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers/Do You Love Me/DTK LAMF
[This was from the LAMF portion of the CD...the portion that is Live (As a
MF).]
Soul Asylum/Voodoo Doll/Say What You Will
[Before they sucked]
Patti Smith/Free Money/Horses
[By request]
Pogues/Waxie’s Dargle/Red Roses For Me
[The following day was St. Patrick’s Day.]
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Steve Gardner * Sugar Hill Records Radio Promotion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.sugarhillrecords.com
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WXDU "Topsoil" * A Century of Country Music
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