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What's up, loved ones?
Neighborhood Love Radio.
Hey, loved ones, thank you so much for coming by.
My name is Johnny Scott Gramercy, and I'll be your host and selector this evening.
I'm joined, as I usually am, by Mr. Jeff Raffredo.
Hi, what's happening?
You know Jeff as a bass player from the AgroLights, among other projects.
And a very punctual man.
You are a little more punctual than normal, and you brought treats, so that's good.
I'm also joined by a special guest, DJ Extraordinaire, Astro138.
What's up, dude?
Hello, everybody.
How's it going?
And he's a local L.A.
DJ, and we're going to talk about a thing or two about music.
But first, Lee McDonald.
Enjoy.
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I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me, one and three.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me, one and three.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me, one and three.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me, one and three.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me, one and three.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me.
Your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, every tribe they grow together.
I'm a tree, I'm a tree, you and me.
Miss Sharon Brown out of Harlem.
Family Tree was the name of that tune.
Next up, Ego Death is the name of the record, Girl, by the band The Internet from Los Angeles.
California.
Enjoy.!
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building falling faster and faster if i told you that you're at my world won't you around me would you let me call you my girl girlfriend my girlfriend i can give you the life you deserve just say the word baby and i gotcha hey now then i gotcha tell them you're my girl so old-fashioned and natural got me falling for you oh yeah baby i told you that you're at my world won't you around me yeah my girlfriend my girlfriend i can give you the life you deserve just say the word gotcha girl they don't know your worth they don't know about my baby my baby tell them you're my girl my girl tell them you're my girl my girl anything you want is yours my baby my baby my girl my baby i love you they don't know your worth my baby pretty lady tell them you're my girl my girl my girl anything you want is yours my baby my baby my baby my baby my baby If they don't know your worth They don't know your worth Tell them you're my girl You're my girl Anything you want is yours And you're the one Girl If they don't know your worth Tell them you're my girl And anything you want is yours Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Baby, baby, love me, save me Keep me wrapped up in your open arms Come on, baby, you gave me something amazing But don't mistake me for someone permanent Cause girl, we don't fight, we just fuck I'm in like she's in love She gave in I gave up Can we just live in the moment?
After that, we heard Family Tree by Sharon Brown out of Harlem.
Sharon Brown, interesting gal.
She's a prison minister in New York, too, as well as an entertainer singer.
And then the last tune you heard was by LA's Own The Internet, and that's out on the Odd Future label.
Girl is the name of that tune.
That's featuring, well, obviously, Sid the Kid on vocals.
It's a regular part of the band, but also featuring a musician, DJ, Kaytranda, on production on that tune.
So it's got a little bit of a different sound than their other tunes.
One of my favorite records this year, though, Eagle Death by The Internet.
And that brings us right up to present time.
By the way, loved ones, this is Neighborhood Love Radio.
We are the musical extension of neighborhood-love.com, which is a website devoted to street culture, music, food, fashion, street art, et cetera.
Welcome.
Sitting here, let me see.
Astro.
May I call you Astro?
You can call me whatever you want, just as long as you call me.
All right.
Astro 138, LA DJ.
A little bit specializes in kind of the vintage, obscure type, and it's a little bit of a general field because it could mean your garage, it could mean old soul.
I was lucky enough to sit on his vinyl record association show the other night and played a bit of old ska and reggae, too.
Your catalog stretches.
Your crates are deep, I guess, as they say, right?
Pretty deep.
They're pretty deep for digging.
Yeah.
What would you call it?
Labor of love and obsession.
What would you call it?
Like your interest in the mountains of vinyl that you own?
At this point, I would call it a compulsion.
This is getting pretty bad.
No, it's love.
It's part of my psyche.
I'm sure you can relate to that, being a musician.
Yeah.
He's talking to Jeff.
Talking to Jeff.
Yeah.
Sitting on my left.
It's also a hobby.
I mean, a lot of us have our vices.
Thank God, I don't...
It could be a lot worse.
It could have been worse.
With the music that I collect, I call myself, I guess, a collector, is really pretty much unsung rock and roll music that one hit wonders from the 50s and 60s, maybe recorded by kids out of high school who went into the country, in the garage and recorded 20, you know, 200, 500 singles.
And, you know, after 50 years, they might have all disappeared.
Maybe there was just one surviving or a couple.
Stuff like that, you know, really makes me happy to discover.
Musically speaking, what would you say your first style was?
What's your first love?
Well, as I mentioned to you earlier, you know, before we start the show, I think I was turned on to rock and roll by my dad because he worked at a big factory that distributed music, mostly LPs and 8-tracks and cassettes.
And he was kind of like, you know, the line assembly guy.
So he would come home and, like, chuck me, you know, an LP of Kiss or, you know, ACDC.
And I'd be fascinated by the art.
And, you know, the music is great.
And that kind of soaked into me.
And, you know, as I got into, as I was leaving elementary, I was getting more into, you know, the 80s stuff, you know, the David Bowie, the, you know, the specials and selected that sort of stuff.
And it kind of just took off from there.
Excellent.
Yeah, I'm the same way.
I'd say as a kid, like a lot of, most of the music I heard is maybe on the radio.
I'm.
To be true.
I mean, the only thing I really remember listening on the radio as a little kid was maybe the Dr. Mento show.
But I lived around in some poor neighborhoods, you know, and in the lower class neighborhoods, there's a lot more music on the street, you know, like a bunch of dudes crowded around, you know, trying to fix a truck and they had like the band War on the boombox, you know, stuff like that.
People hanging out in front of their apartment or house.
So soul and funk was, you know, the what I associate with.
Yeah.
Being a kid, a little rug rat, you know, walking around with nothing to do.
But like you, my father, later on, my father was a big inspiration because he was kind of on top of it as far as that.
I don't know what you'd call it, like not new way, but sort of post-punk era when the punk, punk rock influenced a lot of rock and roll.
So they weren't necessarily punk rock, but you know what I'm talking about is like Tom Petty.
Yeah.
You know, and maybe a couple of years later, like the Pogues and, and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Stuff like that.
Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson.
And it really tipped me in that sort of direction.
And so inevitably, you know, punk rock was there.
But a lot of people, I think, would say punk rock was an influence.
But I would say, well, it might not be.
You know, a lot of people, I think, might call it an influence.
But it's just, it was there for them with that type of spirit.
And that's the cool thing about, I think, a lot of soul music now.
Because there's a bunch of R&B in the top ten.
But there isn't any.
There isn't very many.
There's only roots artists out there.
And it kind of goes along with that independence, you know.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I totally relate to that.
I think pretty much anything that just makes you feel good, you know.
When you listen to music, you know, you get the goosebumps or you get nostalgic.
You know, that's, to me, that's what it's all about.
You know, and I can, I can sit at home and, you know, play some 45s.
And all of a sudden, I forgot I had the back pain or, you know, I had to pay these bills.
It's just a great little escape, you know.
So, that's why I do it.
That's excellent.
Love doing this real fast.
I'm going to plug the show.
Astro 138.
You can find his particular, his specific show is Vinyl Record Association.
You all right, buddy?
You all right, Jeff?
I'm going to be okay, yeah.
Jeff, the coffin.
I choked on that moment right there.
The nostalgia.
Yeah.
Vinyl Record Association is the name of his program.
And he's part of the collective, sort of, and I'll ask him about it in a minute.
The collective called Radio Chorus.
Radiochorus.org.
We have about 30 to 40 seconds.
You want to tell us about Radiochorus.org?
Sure.
Well, I got approached by a friend of mine who developed a software to broadcast out of the internet.
It's a program you can install and literally plug in your mixer and your turntables.
So, he pitched a show, you know, doing a program.
And I thought it was, you know, it'd be a good idea.
I can do it out of my living room.
I can do it out of my living room.
And I didn't have to carry a box with me of records.
And, you know, I can have a beer and play music.
And we've already, we're on our year.
In your home.
Yeah, we do that at home.
And, you know, I have guests over like you.
In your leather gear at home.
My leather gear and my whips and furs.
So, you know.
Your sailor hat.
Hey, my daughter's here.
So, yes.
And, you know, there's.
We have about.
Seven residents.
And, you know, we're looking to bring more people aboard who have the passion to, you know, share great music.
Like I said, I mostly play early 50s and 60s.
And you can find us on.
If you look at us.
Look us.
Find us on www.radiocore.org.
And it'll give you the schedule.
I play on Mondays from 8 to 10 Pacific Standard Time.
Okay.
We're going to talk about that a little bit more later.
Cool.
This is the first.
Let's end up the spark.
The sparkles.
Trying to.
Trying to get over.
And a couple other surprises after that.
Enjoy.
Loved ones.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Every time I call you, you're never home I spend my weekends sometimes alone You say it's me who's got your heart But if it's true, why don't you start?
All the things that we used to share Now you're acting like you don't care Making love to you is not the same I feel in my heart that you're running the game Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
I don't understand why you want to do it, baby Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Not you and me, no, no, no Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Don't ever, ever try to do it again Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Don't ever, ever try to do it again Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
If you don't want me, baby, why don't you say so?
And stop playing a silly game All the things that we used to share Now you're acting like you don't care Making love to you is not the same I feel in my heart that you're running a game Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Not when we've been through the things we've been through Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
I know we can move any mountain Ain't no mountain high enough, baby Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Don't play these silly games, don't you?
Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Don't play these silly games, don't you?
Well, well, well Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Not when you have a love like us, no, no, baby Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Stop playing these silly games I don't want you to leave nobody Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Stop playing these silly games, don't you?
Stop playing these silly games, don't you?
Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
No, no, no, no, no, no Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
I don't want you to leave, don't you?
Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
This don't make no sense to me I can't believe what's going on around me Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
Stop playing these silly games Not you, my love I got double limit, baby Try to get, try to get over, won't you?
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Y'all, not even out of it.
Yeah.
Come back next week now.
Pick another load of Funkin' Folk.
Funkin' Folk.
We want to get your hairs together.
Be right here on time.
We got to see you.
Time for the countdown.
Give me the countdown, Zach.
Go, man.
Ready?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Next week, we'll do it again.
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Remember when we were gay?
Before that, we heard that commercial I was talking about.
And then we started off the set with The Sparkles.
A soul disco burner called Trying to Get Over from 1981.
Sparkle, The Sparkles.
That's out on the Small Axe record label.
And then here we are, present time.
Loved ones, I want to make sure to convey to you that Evalorio, A Day of the Dead event, is on Saturday, November 7th.
I believe this is our fifth year.
It's a great cultural event.
Surrendering the Day of the Dead.
They got music, DJs, and so on.
That is Saturday, November 7th.
What's going on over there?
You okay?
And basically, there's a lot going on there.
There's musicians, Norteño artists, DJs.
Of course, music.
Other things.
Face painting.
They do have an all ages from 4 o'clock to 10 o'clock.
And they're going to have music and face painting and things like that.
Lots of photo, excuse me, food booths.
Arts, crafts.
It's over there at the Plaza de la Raza.
Over there by, what's that, Lincoln Park, I think.
Beautiful little area.
Don't tease people with the photo booths.
Yeah.
Food booths.
Evalorio.
And that's put on by our friends over at Exodus Events.
It's a great event.
Super fun.
Bring your camera.
And word to the wise loved ones, take an Uber or a cab or whatever because parking sucks around there.
So definitely put that on your list.
Saturday, November 7th.
Starting at the all late, excuse me, the 21 and over part starts at 6 p.m.
And it goes all night.
For tickets, you can check out Eventbrite.
And just type in Evalorio.
V-E-L-O-R-I-O.
But you can also play them at the door.
Except they might sell out.
I think it might sell out.
So check out Evalorio.
This place is falling apart.
They're doing some interpretive percussion in celebration of the El Velodio event.
Also, loved ones, the studio could be falling apart too.
Because as I may have communicated last week to you, loved ones, Neighborhood Love Radio is the last show.
We'll be on the 15th in about two weeks.
And the glorious Skid Row Studios, the place we do the show.
From is closing its doors.
It's been a great public service for a few years.
And I have a lot of fun memories here.
This was a great place to work.
And some great people to work with.
I got some things in the mix.
Me, Mr. So Pay Attention to Johnny.
You know, if you like the show, then you can always follow the Neighborhood Love Radio page on Facebook.
And you'll hear about some upcoming stuff.
Or you can go ahead and seek me out there as well.
If you've got any questions, comments, concerns, reflections, please share.
You can always email us here at neighborhoodloveradio at gmail.com.
There is some stuff in the works.
There is going to be some cool stuff coming up.
I just can't talk about it yet.
Good stuff ahead.
But stick around or check out the Neighborhood Love Radio Facebook page for some upcoming junk.
All right.
That brings us right up to present time.
Sorry for talking so much about that.
Mr. Jeff Refredo to my left.
Yo.
Yeah.
DJ Astro 138.
Hola.
Yeah.
And you brought someone special with you today, right?
Yes.
Who's this?
I brought the lovely Miss Astro 138.
No, this is my daughter Jessica is here with me.
Hey, what's going on?
Hi.
What do you think about your dad's interest in music?
I'm into that kind of music too.
But I find it really cool that I have a unique dad.
Not like the other dads in the world.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's only, yeah, true.
There's only one, I won't use his real name, but there's only, you got one of a kind there.
Mm-hmm.
You had a good pop.
And music wise, what are you into right now?
Well, I'm into like oldies like my dad, but I'm also into like indie music.
Like what?
Like new artists.
Like I'm into this band called The Weeknd.
Yeah.
Weeknd.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Coming up.
Yeah.
And I'm also like a really big fan of this band called Paramore.
You're a little young to be in The Weeknd.
Oh, well.
A little bit.
She lives for The Weeknd.
There's some- Everybody's working for The Weeknd.
There's some grown up vibes that The Weeknd music conveys.
Yeah.
You get heavy rotation.
But I just like the vibe that they have.
And his hair looks like a big fried chicken nugget.
Yeah.
It's this weird assemblage of- Wait, you know them, Johnny?
You heard of them?
It's just one guy.
It's a dude.
Yeah, it's one guy.
It's one guy.
There you go.
He's from Canada.
Canadian.
Anyway, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Oh, what?
Paramore, she said.
Oh, yeah.
I'm into this band called Paramore.
Yeah, I like Paramore.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hayley something.
Hayley Williams.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She got belt.
Yeah.
She got some pipes.
That's awesome.
Cool.
And so you don't like when your pop plays music, you don't roll your eyes and stuff, right?
No, I don't.
Actually, I'm like a little record collector myself.
My dad gave me his old record box and I just play what I see and I use his little like Fisher Price record box and I play whatever I'm interested in.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And you play music as well?
Yeah.
Saxophone and violin.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
At the same time?
No.
Wow.
One woman band.
Is that possible?
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
Anything's possible.
Yeah.
I used to have a one man band down on, when I lived in Venice, I had a one man band down there on the boardwalk and he would play the saxophone.
He'd kind of do the thing where he plays stuff with his elbows, but he'd play the bass with his feet.
Yeah.
He had a bass guitar, like a Fender, and he would just sort of sit down and just play with his foot and he'd play kind of simple bass lines, but hell, he's playing with his feet.
That's telling.
And he'd get the, he'd be head bobbing, playing like a good groove.
And like, because he was a good guy.
Yeah.
And like, be shouting, you know, a lot of call and response.
And with the audience, he'd be like, you want to play some saxophone?
And the other would go, yeah.
You want to hear some dirty sax?
And everyone would go, yeah.
And he'd like, grab the saxophone and play like a mean dirty saxophone.
Wow.
And it was pretty cool.
Yeah.
And the dollars went flying.
Mm.
There you go.
Yeah.
He's dead now.
I'm just, I have no idea.
He retired with all the money.
I figured that was a really nice, cool story that I would just bum everybody out on.
Yeah.
I don't know if he's dead.
He retired to a mansion in Malibu with all the boardwalk dollars he made.
One dollar at a time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Built an empire.
Anyway, we're going to, you guys hanging out?
You want to hear some more music?
Yeah.
All right.
Let's do it.
Let's see what we got here.
How about, we'll play another newer artist, Ego Ella May.
She's a little bit hard to find online.
She's got a little bit of music out.
Very contemporary London artist.
She's not on iTunes, but you can find her on Bandcamp.
She's got a few tunes out on the- Bandcamp.
Her name is Ego Ella May.
And the tune we're going to hear is called Bull.
After that, an older tune, 1976, Eddie Russ with I Heard That.
A little of a, kind of a satin disco soul number.
And Eddie Russ is the artist.
The vocals are actually done by Jackie Holiday.
Enjoy, loved ones. . . . .! .
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All right then.
Let's learn.
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I hear bells I hear a rat I hear that Ooh, baby I hear Ooh I hear that I hear that I hear that I hear that I hear that I heard that by Eddie Russ and Jackie Holliday out of Detroit, 1976.
Prior to that, we heard Ego, Ego, excuse me, Ego LMA out of London.
The name of that tune was Bowl.
I want to thank my guests.
Thank you, everybody.
Yay!
And Astro, I want to make sure Make sure that you understand Loved Ones.
You can find his show, Vinyl Record Association, out on the sort of collection, radiocore.org, radiocore.org, and you'll find Mr. Astro 138's show as well as some other stuff on there too.
Check it out.
Loved Ones, thank you so much for coming by.
We've got two more shows to do before we call it quits and move on to other stuff.
Transition.
Yeah.
And you are very much a part of the show.
So thank you so much.
Thanks, Jeff.
Hey, man.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you for the cupcake.
Yeah.
Good cupcake.
You like the cupcake?
Yeah.
It was good.
Thanks, Jeff.
It was a good cupcake.
Yeah.
Thanks, Jeff.
