Jul 7, 2021
Recorded on July 4th, the twins discuss their recent back-to-back shows in Myrtle Beach and go deep about growing up in Coconut Grove, Florida - with side trips about fireworks, Bob Dylan shows, cats, cycling adventures, twins and more - including another tune from the archive.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - "A Different Light" by Chris Yale - Original Reflector version
3:54 - Greetings and about the song / Ian Talcroft / Stare Cat Sound Glendale, CA
5:41 - Back-to-back gigs / Cats at Chris' house / The fox (for real) outside Roger's place / "Fleabag" / Phoebe Waller-Bridge
8:08 - The Old Bull and Bush Myrtle Beach / LuLu's North Myrtle Beach / Schlepping our P.A.
10:00 - St. Hugh School Coconut Grove / Katie Casey, "That's a bunch of baloney" / The English New Yorker / Potential soccer riot
12:11 - Fireworks we had as kids / Bottle rocket battles / The cannons / "The Gat" / Our blank guns / "Sing Me Back Home"
17:22 - Death row and capital punishment / "Jail or 'Nam" / Compulsory military service
18:32 - Pineapples and swingers
20:08 - Psychic pain / "Grasping the heel" / More about twins / the twin neighbor kid
21:31 - 2340 Tigertail Court, our childhood home in Coconut Grove / Crabs / The sinkhole / Buried treasure / The 1920s land boom in and around Miami / Our brother sold the house
23:44 - About Coconut Grove / Jim Morrison obscenity / The Doors / Dinner Key Auditorium / Biscayne Bay / Dixie Highway / "The Hippie Place" / Lum's / Coconut Grove Pharmacy / Eskill's Clog Shop / Grove Folk Facebook Page / Dad's coffee houses / Briarwood Singers / Revisiting the Grove / Mercy Hospital / Vizcaya / MontyTrainer's / 1920s hurricane / Coral Gables / Silver Bluff / Silver Bluff Elementary / Hurricane Carter
28:56 - Bob Dylan / "Rolling Thunder Revue" / Dylan and Tom Petty at Irvine Meadows / Dylan and Willie Nelson in Myrtle Beach / Dylan at the Greek Theatre Los Angeles / G.E. Smith
32:30 - "Echo in the Canyon" / Laurel Canyon
33:00 - Chris' bicycling adventures over Laurel Canyon and to San Diego with David Valentine and Jim Alden
36:07 - Roger freaked out Miles (Chris' toddler grandson) / Rubber Ducky Shark / Elijah (Chris' older grandson)
28:23 - Parting shots / "Only Yesterday" / Bruce Tegner / Wallace Stegner / Stegosaurus / California Blonde amp (SWR) / When freebase became crack