22 April 2011: it's Earth Day!

[RGMike]

This PG is NTM.

actually, on reflection, I have heard it -- it's his Oscar-nominated tune from the WALL-E sndtk.  But I surely have never heard it on the radio.

[urth]

Here's what AL put together for last year's set, just for comparison's sake:

4/22/10  Thursday! A Foghead generated Earth Day set!!

 1. Marvin Gaye- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(News: Walter Cronkite First Earth Day 1970)
 2. Cat Stevens- Where Do The Children Play?
 3. Three Dog Night- Out In The Country
(Movie: Harold and Maude)
 4.  Quicksilver Messenger Service- Fresh Air (locally grown B.O.S!!)
 5.  Thomas Dolby- Windpower
(TV: Colbert-sacrifice iPod)
 6.  Bruce Cockburn- If A Tree Falls
(TV: quick clip from Simpsons, the gun-shootin' Texan)
 7.  Johnny Cash- Don't Go Near The Water
 8.  Cake- Carbon Monoxide
(Jane Goodall-one person can make all the difference)
 9.  Ben Harper- With My Own Two Hands
(TV: Al Gore & Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock/Kermit- It's Not Easy Being Green)
10. Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World!!

Just three repeats this year, although it looks as if the Kermit version of INEBG was a between-song clip.

[RGMike]

So, I just saw on FB that a friend of mine, "MaryJean... has answered What's Your Pick For Best of Set..."  and she's not a Foghead (lives in Jersey), hasn't "like"ed KFOG Radio on FB and isn't friends with Annalisa.  She saw the post on my page and was able to click on it and vote (for Van Morrison, even tho' she's a Deadhead from way back). Somehow there's something... wrong about that.  Call me crazy.

[RGMike]

4/22/11- Friday!!  Earth Day!!

  1.  Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World (B.O.S-Best of Set)
(News: First Earth Day--Walter Cronkite)
  2.  Marvin Gaye- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(PSA- Woodsy Owl- Water pollution)
  3.  Cowsills- Indian Lake
  4.  Three Dog Night- Out In The Country
(Movie: Harold and Maude- What Kind of flower would you be?)
  5.  Grateful Dead- Sugar Magnolia
(The Eco-Bunnies save Earth Day)
  6.  Talking Heads- (Nothing But) Flowers
(Ad: It's not nice to fool Mother Nature)
  7.  Johnny Clegg & Savuka- Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
(Movie: Human Nature -man raised as ape)
  8.  The Kinks- Ape Man
(Movie: Harold and Maude- I love the feel of soil)
  9.  Peter Gabriel- Down To Earth
(PSA: Woodsy Owl Give a Hoot Don't Pollute:)
 10.  Van Morrison- Bein' Green

[ggould]

So, I just saw on FB that a friend of mine, "MaryJean... has answered What's Your Pick For Best of Set..."  and she's not a Foghead (lives in Jersey), hasn't "like"ed KFOG Radio on FB and isn't friends with Annalisa.  She saw the post on my page and was able to click on it and vote (for Van Morrison, even tho' she's a Deadhead from way back). Somehow there's something... wrong about that.  Call me crazy.

The only way I can tell during the day what was played was from Mike posting the question thingy.  Both KFOG and this club are blocked at school.

[ggould]

"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.

A lot, I'd say.

You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection.  Did she explain it?

[RGMike]

"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.

A lot, I'd say.

You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection.  Did she explain it?

there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it.

[ggould]

"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.

A lot, I'd say.

You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection.  Did she explain it?

there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it.

yes, it's all very bucolic and all, but there are many other GD tunes more apropos.

[urth]

"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.

A lot, I'd say.

You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection.  Did she explain it?

there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it.

yes, it's all very bucolic and all, but there are many other GD tunes more apropos.

True--Throwing Stones was an Earthday evergreen in the Morey era. What other songs were you thinking of, Geoff?

[ggould]

"Sugar Magnolia" is stretching it a bit, AL.

A lot, I'd say.

You know I love the Dead, and Sugar Magnolia is historic in stature, but I don't get the Earth Day connection.  Did she explain it?

there's a line in the lyrics about the "wonders of nature" or something? I think that was about the extent of it.

yes, it's all very bucolic and all, but there are many other GD tunes more apropos.

True--Throwing Stones was an Earthday evergreen in the Morey era. What other songs were you thinking of, Geoff?

Throwing Stones of course, and Unbroken Chain.  There's also a rarely heard Brent Mydland song, "We Can Run" that was achingly beautiful, and retroactively tragic, considering his early demise.

Heard AL's keynote remarks this morning, and she specifically mentions "The Wonders of Nature" and the audio clip just now before the start of Sugar Magnolia is about flowers.  So, I'd say she did a pretty good job after all.  It just didn't come through in the abstract reading the list.

"We Can Run But We Can't Hide"
Words by John Perry Barlow; music by Brent Mydland

We don't own this place, though we act as if we did,
It's a loan from the children of our children's kids.
The actual owners haven't even been born yet.

But we never tend the garden and rarely we pay the rent,
Some of it is broken and the rest of it is bent
Put it all on plastic and I wonder where we'll be when the bills hit.

[Chorus:]
We can run,
But we can't hide from it.
Of all possible worlds,
We only got one:
We gotta to ride on it.
Whatever we've done,
We'll never get far from what we leave behind,
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.
Oh no, we can't hide.

I'm dumpin' my trash in your back yard
Makin' certain you don't notice really isn't so hard
You're so busy with your guns and all of your excuses to use them.

Well, it's oil for the rich and babies for the poor,
We got everyone believin' that more is more,
If a reckoning comes, maybe we will know what to do then.

[Bridge:]
All these complications seem to leave no choice,
I heard the tongues of billions speak with just one voice,
Saying, "Just leave all the rest to me,
I need it worse than you, you see."
And then I heard...
The sound of one child crying.

Today I went walking in the amber wind,
There's a hole in the sky where the light pours in
I remembered the days when I wasn't afraid of the sunshine.

But now it beats down on the asphalt land
Like a hammering blow from God's left hand
What little still grows cringes in the shade like a bad vine.