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Honest Tunes Radio Show, Dgold “interviews” members of The Codetalkers. It’s not exactly an interview, more of a crazy improv session, a stream-of-consciousness experiment. The Codetalkers’ Bobby Lee Rodgers plays guitar and a 1960’s echoplex (tape delay echo chamber), and sings, while Colonel Bruce Hampton performs improvised singing and poetry, talks in 12 languages and a variety of unearthly dialects, and communicates with several people by cell phone. It all comes together to show the OUT side of The Codetalkers.
SETLIST: Bail Bondsman > Look Out For That Tornado > Lo! > Some Say Love > 16 Years > Oh Falcon, Tornado > Bail Bondsman, Arkansas (I Never Had Much Control Until I Got To Arkansas), Interview, Lando Calrissean, Interview, Tornado
Interview topics / partial transcripts of some of the strange and funny moments such as Col. Bruce ![[LINK]](http://dgold.info/radio/wp-content/images/aoutside.gif)
playing Falcon’s drum kit:
In “Bail Bondsman” the Colonel says “Room 104 has 14 bail bondsmen entrenched by the Daniel Gold concept. While running amok they consumed meals on the hoof.”
The Codetalkers new CD “NOW” will be available in June (and we’ll be playing it in advance on KXUA)
Col. Bruce is in the phone booth talkin’ to his mama
Hampton Grease Band reunion show June 2nd @ Variety Playhouse, Atlanta… Colonel Bruce said “Need them people from Arkansas down there, make it go off. Need them peoples down there. If you’re from Arkansas we’ll give you 75% off, and a free room, and the letter M out of the alphabet. Give you $100,000 cash and a get-away car. Come on!”
Col. Bruce raving about BLR:
Hey that man’s been all over the world
He’s been everywhere,
Poland, Russia, St. Lawrence river
Texas, been all over Texas
He know the Queen of England and the Queen of Sweden
He’s been all over the world
That man sitting right there invented the sympathizer
He taught B.B. King how to use extortion
And that amplifier was born the same day Loralee Wallace the Governor of Alabama died
Looa-lean, that’s what his name is.
That man right there been all over the world!
Thank you for having us tonight.
Dgold: What was your original concept when you started the Hampton Grease Band?
Col. Bruce: There’s no such thing as a concept. Get a mental institute on the road. 12 different languages. I can say hello in 12 languages. I’d like to send this out to Joe-Tex, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley. I better go back into that phone booth now, somebody callin’ me.
Bobby Lee Rodgers lists the track-titles on the new CD “Now” by The Codetalkers, including Ike Stubbelfield, Victor The Snakeman, Blow My Brains, Sagittarius Face
Bobby Lee Rodgers on the song Sagittarius Face: “It’s about one of my friends, that actually went through a lot of stuff and had a lot go wrong in their life. They made a lot of decisions, and they had to wear it. That’s what it’s about. It’s about, ‘there’s some things you just can’t erase, that are on your Sagittarius Face.’ A lot of times you go through things in life, and you have to wear them for the rest of your life. And that person happens to be a Sagittarius.”
Bobby Lee Rodgers speaks about the song Saturn from The Codetalkers debut CD “There’s a thing called Saturn Return that happens every 30 years of your life, that makes you look at yourself. And it’s about just about someone having to look at themselves. A lot of people go through life, and they just kind of go through life, and then all of a sudden life catches up with them. And they have to go, ‘Oh my God, here it is.’ It kind of slaps them in the face. That’s what it’s about. I’ve had so many people come up to me and say, ‘Thanks for writing that tune.’ They finally get it. First they think it’s about a car or something, but that’s not it at all. And then they check out what Saturn Return is, and it’s something that’s pretty heavy. It’s a pretty powerful thing. We know people that are going through it, don’t we Falcon!”
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