The Interference of the 8 of Swords
is brought you by Ed Haynes with “Evel Knievel”
his song about the famous 1970’s daredevil
performed live on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA on June 21st, 2005.
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The Science of the 6 of Swords is
“Politics Will Get You Gigs” by Andras Jones
performed live at a benefit for The Backstage Action Committee
at The Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington on August 28, 1998
with, among others, Engine 54,
Love Is Laughter,
Dub Narcotic Sound System,
Mary Lou Lord,
Rebecca Pearcy,
Miranda July with Zac Love,
C Average
& Unwound.
Politics is a kind of science.
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Ralph Covert brings us the 5 of Swords.
Ralph was the leader of Chicago’s, The Bad Examples.
This majestic song of Defeat is from his first solo CD, released in 1997.
Ralph (and his “World”) appeared on R8BKids
on Alternative Talk 1150AM in Seattle
on September 26th, 2008.
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The Moore Brothers re-enact the Sorrow of the 3 of Swords
live on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia on October 18th, 2005.
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XTC shine the piercing light of the Ace of Swords with “We’re All Light”
Andy Partridge is one of the smartest cats in music,
and one of our dream guests on Radio8Ball
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Chuck E. Weiss is “Extremely Cool”,
the model of satisfaction,
delivering the 10 of Cups.
He is everything you want to be and he knows it.
He is seen pictured above with Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones & Lowell George.
Extremely cool!
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Puffy Ami Yumi are Ami Onuki & Yumi Yoshimura.
This album is their collaboration with Andy Sturmer & John Fields.
Having any of them as the guest on our show would be pure happiness.
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Paul Plagens brings to life the Indolence of the 8 of Cups with “Wonderful Dead Guy”
recorded live on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA on February 1st, 2006.
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Paul Kotheimer is
an enigma wrapped in a has-been,
cloaked in the brilliant ambivalence of the 1990’s.
Here, with “Everybody Smokes In Hell” Kotheimer scares up the Debauchery of the 7 of Cups.
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Liz Phair‘s revels in the Pleasure of the 6 of Cups with “HWC”
produced by R. Walt Vincent of Mr. Jones & The Previous.
Andy Shmushkin does a pretty sweet cover of “HWC”, merged with Lenny Bruce‘s “To Come” below.
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Musical jack of all trades Mike Ruekberg (Rex Daisy, Shmushkin) delivers the 5 of Cups.
They Might Be Giants have a line from one of their early songs that goes,
“if it wasn’t for disappointments, I wouldn’t have any appointments“.
Like that line, this song from the Adrian Brody film “Dummy” puts the sweet in bittersweet.
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Scott Taylor delivers the Luxury of the 4 of Cups with Paul McCartney’s “Too Much Rain”
performed live on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA on November 1st, 2005.
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Anya Marina invokes the abundant spirit of the 3 of Cups
with the Three’s Company theme song
performed live on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, Washington on February 21, 2006.
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Veda Hille calls upon the Love of the 2 of Cups with “Precious Heart”.
Veda has appeared on Radio8Ball several times.
We love her very much.
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Dan Bern brings the Strength of the 9 of Wands to life with “Lake”
performed live on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3 FM on September 27, 2005.
Dan visited Olympia that week, hung out at a cheap hotel and wrote for several days.
At least a couple of the songs written at The Golden Gavel ended up on his “New American Language” CD
(which featured The Previous rhythm section of Colin Mahoney and Brian Schey).
We don’t know how many other times Dan performed this song but on this night in September
it burned up the studio.
Dan has been a regular contributor to Radio8Ball since it began.
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Jon Brion brings us the swiftness of the 8 of Wands with
“I Believe She’s Lying” from his “Meaningless” CD
Jon Brion is someone every music fan should be familiar with.
Aside from being a masterful musician, songwriter, producer and performer, he’s just so damned fast.
Watching him build a song before your eyes onstage is something to behold.
Jon has yet to appear on Radio8Ball.
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Andras Jones brings us the valiant “Three Day Weekend”
as our 7 of Wands.
This Labor Day song was recorded by Andras in Lawrence, Kansas for his 2000 CD A Curmudgeon For All Seasons.
It features The Previous rhythm section of Colin Mahoney and Brian Schey.
Dedicated to my grandfather, Louis D. Smullin
– Andras Jones
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Rachel Ries invokes the spirit of the 6 of Wands
with “The Luckiest One”, a song of Victory
performed live on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3 FM in Olympia, Washington on September 6th, 2005.
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With this song about unquenchable desire Candypants brings the 5 of Wands to life.
Candypants is a superior pop band from Los Angeles, CA
featuring Lisa Jenio, who turns emotional strife into musical brilliance on this song, and many others.
Lisa and Andras collaborated on several songs for a yet-to-be-completed project, Smartypants,
exploring the lives of great writers who moved to Hollywood and hated it.
Lisa and Andras have also performed together in Andy Dick’s Bitches of The Century,
and on Shmushkin’s Total Fucking Bullshit CD.
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Berkeley’s favorite son, Bart Davenport (The Loved Ones, The Kinetics) brings Completion to Harry Nilsson’s “This Could Be The Night”
on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3 FM in Olympia on July 12th, 2005.
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Andras Jones invokes the virtuous 3 of Wands with “UnNoticed”.
Ira Marlowe produced this unreleased demo for Andras Jones in 2002 just before Jones stopped touring, and started building this.
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Willie Wisely embodies The Ace of Fire with “Go!”
recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota
with John Fields & Mike Ruekberg
Willie and Andras have collaborated on numerous songs and projects
including Wisely’s songs ”
Vanilla“, “Joke”& “Drink Up”
as well as the Andy Dick CD The Darkest Day of The Year
and Shmushkin’s Total Fucking Bullshit
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Veda Hille, from Vancouver, British Columbia, embodies the perpetually pregnant Princess of Disks with this song for her “Return of The Kildeer” CD for Any Partridge’s Ape House Records.
This song ended up being a part of one of our favorite musical divinations. You can hear it (with her description of the song’s origin) on The Best of Radio8Ball on KAOS podcast – Episode 1A.
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Meredith Bragg embodies the earthly endeavors of the
Prince of Disks
with “Work And Winter”
performed live on Radio8Ball on KAOS 89.3 FM
in Olympia on August 2nd, 2005.
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Andrea Wittgens embodies the Queen of Disks looking back at the long arduous path to now
with this “Did You Go Too Far” performed live on Radio8Ball on Alternative Talk 1150AM in Seattle on October 4th, 2007.
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Spearhead is one of Michael Franti’s many inspired projects.
Michael manifests the earthy masculine energy of the Knight of Disks with this, the first public performance of his song “Stay Human“
Recorded at a benefit for Olympia’s local currency experiment (Sound Hours) organized by Andras Jones at The Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington on August 1st, 1998.
Recorded by Pat Maley.
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Julia McAlee embodies the airy rebellion of the Princess of Swords with “Animals” produced by R. Walt Vincent.
Julia was the guest on several Radio8Ball shows…
…including August 15, 2009 at Little Red Studio in Seattle, Washington.
the same summer she starred in “Bummer Summer” filmed in Olympia, Washington.
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Bart Davenport, embodies the airiest aspect of air, The Prince of Swords, with…what else? “Airwaves”.
A song that was covered by The Radio8Band at Bumbershoot 2009 in Seattle, Wa.
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The Owls are from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
With this song (written by Maria May) a zen state of pure mind is evoked as the Queen of Swords cuts through all illusion.
The Owls performed on Radio8Ball in Minneapolis on August 30, 2007
The Owls are…
Maria May – Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Tambourine
Brian Tighe – Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Drums
Allison LaBonne – Vocals, Guitar, Piano
John Jerry – Drums & Tambourine
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Hawksley Workman, of Toronto, breathes fire into this song like the Knight of Swords he is, or was, or is.
Hawksley has not been a guest on Radio8Ball… yet.
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Kelsie Love
wrote and recorded this song
with Andras Jones
when she was 16 years old.
Kelsie is now Olivia Love,
of Mosquito Hawk and The Radio8Band.
Here,
she embodies the youthful feminine Princess of Cups.
Kelsie Love – Vocals
Andras Jones – Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Veda Hille – Piano
John Nason – Electric Guitar
Carl Dexter – Bass Guitar
Chad Austinson – Drums
Written by Andras Jones & Kelsie Love
Produced by Carl Dexter & Andras Jones
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Mr. Jones & The Previous embody the airy aspect of water;
The Prince of Cups,
on this song from their 1993 release
Mr. Jones & The Fascists: In Search of The Hundredth Monkey.
Recorded live in downtown Los Angeles in April of 1992 during the LA riots/uprisings,
this album was conceived as a ritual of peace,
inspired by the Hundredth Monkey protests at The Nevada Nuclear test site
earlier that spring.
When the Rodney King verdict came down and the tape kept rolling,
this is one of the things that transpired.
The Previous at their best, live, in love, and in the studio.
Andras Jones – Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Julie Christensen – Vocals
Marshall Thompson – Keyboards
John Nason – Lead Guitar
Clay Goldstein – Harmonic & Vocals
Brian Mastalski – Bass Guitar
Colin Mahoney – Drums
Engineered by Colin Mahoney & John Nason
This song was featured in Little Witches, a low budget rip off of The Craft, in which a witchy Catholic schoolgirl (Sheeri Rappaport) performs an outdoor striptease to this song for the benefit of some construction workers
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The great Julie Christensen,
embodies the wisdom of water
on this song recorded on KCRW in Los Angeles
sometime in the late 1980’s.
Julie is best known as one of Leonard Cohen’s favorite back-up singers,
less well-known as one of The Divine Horsemen
and considerably more unknown for her contributions to
Mr. Jones & The Fascists: In Search Of The Hundredth Monkey
(“Who’s Gonna Make It Rain?” & “Ain’t I A Woman?”).
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Andy Shmushkin embodies The Knight of Cups
in this devotional song written
for his never-released National Lampoon album
Total Fucking Bullshit.
Written by Andras Jones & Andy Shmushkin
Produced by Andras Jones & Willie Wisely
Andy Shmushkin on acoustic guitar and vocals
Anya Marina on backing vocals
Willie Wisely on everything else
Video directed by Shawn Geer.
Featuring Anya Marina, Ric Borelli, David Ury, Craig “X” Rubin and illustrious others.
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Anya Marina slays the tiger
as the embodiment of the Princess of Wands,
performing this song live on Radio8Ball
on KAOS in Olympia
on February 21st, 2006.
You may recognize Anya
from Andy Shmushkin’s
“Christmas Cunnilingus” video.
Andy Shmushkin
wrote a song about Anya.
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Like the Prince of Wands,
Andras Jones explodes in
“Child of Destiny”
from The Transfused.
The Transfused is
Olympia’s great transgendered punk rock opera.
Created by Nomy Lamm & The Need,
with Emily Stern
in the millennial-mad summer of 2000
in which Time Magazine called Olympia
“the hippest town in the west”.
This visionary almosterpiece
was presented
at The Capitol Theater.
Andras Jones created the role of Ze.
A recruit in the army,
Ze oversees the heroic “Transfused”
for “The Corporation”
in the dystopian future
imagined by this production.
Child of Destiny is Ze’s love song to his commander,
played by Emily “Spider” Stern.
Synchronistically…
Emily Stern took her nickname
“Spider”
from the character Linnea Quigley played
in Andras Jones’ first leading role in
“Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-A-Rama“.
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Birdie Busch,
as The Queen of Wands,
burns like water,
which is to say,
she boils and steams up the room with…
“The Sideshow”
performed live
on Radio8Ball
on KAOS
in Olympia
on April 26th, 2005.
This was part of a musical divination that moved us so much
we put it in the Best of Radio8Ball on KAOS – Episode 1B.
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Mr. Jones and The Previous engage The Knight of Fire
in this prophetic song of love and justice…
love and justice that typified
the spring and summer of 1992…
In this song,
inspired by a protest
at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site…
recorded live during the LA riots/uprisings
that followed the Rodney King verdict…
(April 29th, 1992)…
Mr. J & The P
invite you to…
Check…
It…
Out!!!
Andras Jones – Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Clay Goldstein – Harmonica
Marshall Thompson – Keyboards & Vocals
John Nason – Lead Guitar & Vocals
Brian Mastalski – Bass Guitar
Colin Mahoney – Drums
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Scott Taylor of Olympia’s The Hard Way delivers The Universe
in Paul Williams‘ Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection”
performed live on Radio8Ball
on KAOS 89.3 FM
in Olympia, Washington
on November 1st, 2005.
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Choo Choo La Rouge are a band from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Here they invoke the power of The Chariot.
From “Accidental Initiations: In The Kabbalistic Tree of Olympia” by Andras Jones:
More and more I have been getting the suspicion that synchronicity is a vehicle for time travel or,
as Choo Choo La Rouge sing in their song “Say It Twice”
off their self-released CD
“You’re Like a Rocket – Always Taking Off With People In Your Head”
“It’s a nice device to repeat yourself in”.
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From Andras Jones:
I’ve been building Pop Oracles for years.
Most of them a mix of the classics
(according to me)
and the music of my peers.
In crafting this latest Pop Oracle, I realized…
if I want to really put this out there
I have to fill it with music I own (mostly)
or am at least connected to.
So this is my Pop Oracle.
Songs I wrote or recorded or worked on,
and (in rare cases)
songs that define me and this project.
In short, I am your Fool.
SUPERLAME
Written by Andras Jones
Produced by R. Walt Vincent
Released in 2001
on Complicated ’00
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