The Stork Club: Quintron, The Frogs and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
For a brief but delirious spell way back in the 1990s, The Stork haunted our halls. That's him on the left. Stork hosted a must-listen program called Live At The Stork Club, mostly on Sunday nights, if memory serves. As the name might imply, mostly Stork hosted live musical guests, in his own impeccably gracious manner.
I bet somewhere on The Internet there exists a full list of all the bands who served time in Stork's "Moose Room". Unfortunately, most of this stuff happened during the last Stone Age, just before we began archiving all our programming. Happily, many of these shows do exist, someplace, in some form or another; and where time, technology and endurance permit, we'll make the archives available to you. Here's three vintage shows to get you started:
Christmas With Quintron - Mr. Quintron, Miss Pussycat and Flossie & The Unicorns joined Stork on Xmas Eve, 1995 for a uniquely warped evening of organs, drum buddies & puppet shows. Listen here (mp3 stream).
The Frogs - Wisconsin's legendary Flemion brothers celebrate their newfound 90s celebrity among the era's alt-rock elite; spin records by Wesley Willis, Beck and Jewel; and perform an acoustic set of music positively guaranteed to get us some major FCC finery were this show to be aired today. From July 20, 1997. Listen here (mp3 stream)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - On July 16, 1998, WFMU consummated its love affair with these Welsh psych-folk imps. And Stork was there. Gorky's would visit us three more times over the years, visiting Irene's show and my own show (twice, in fact). Listen here for their first appearance, with Stork.
fmu bonus : NYC Radio The Night John Lennon Died (mp3)
Here's a dial scan of New York City's FM band from 25 years ago (MP3). It was recorded shortly after the news of John Lennon's murder broke. The recording was made by an unknown listener, and it was included on our CD compilation, Radio Archival Oddities, Vol. 2.
stork was a roomie for a while and he told me the quintron christmas eve story once. ok, christmas eve 1995 and there is a serious blizzard going on. new orleans own quintron and miss pussycat are booked and do show up just in time. the studios were still in the old east orange campus house and qunitron tours with a hammond organ and analog drumbuddy had to be negotiated up stairs down stairs and round corners but then they proceeded to play a great show in the hours leading up to midnight. if you do one thing i ask you to do it should be to listen to the (see mp3 stream link) quintron and miss pussy show. it gave me hope for the future of music in the late 90's and that hope is still alive today thanks to quintron.
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- bill 12-09-2005 6:41 pm
stork was a roomie for a while and he told me the quintron christmas eve story once. ok, christmas eve 1995 and there is a serious blizzard going on. new orleans own quintron and miss pussycat are booked and do show up just in time. the studios were still in the old east orange campus house and qunitron tours with a hammond organ and analog drumbuddy had to be negotiated up stairs down stairs and round corners but then they proceeded to play a great show in the hours leading up to midnight. if you do one thing i ask you to do it should be to listen to the (see mp3 stream link) quintron and miss pussy show. it gave me hope for the future of music in the late 90's and that hope is still alive today thanks to quintron.
- bill 12-09-2005 7:29 pm [add a comment]