S2 Episode 11

## Date

Monday, 2/8/2021, 3:00 pm

**Length:** 3:12:57

## Title

**The Day Josh Played A Bunch Of Filthy Songs, Including An Ode To Spinal Tap, And The Music Team From Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Got Back Together For A Return Visit — This Time With “Piano Hand Double” Ernest McCarty**

## Link

Facebook Videos:

* https://facebook.com/241737477506683

## Noteworthy Details

Regular Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** Branford Marsalis, Ernest McCarty, Dawn Sutter Madell, and Anthony Roman, who worked on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom film

## Quotes and Taglines:

* "This is your eighth straight day doing the show. That's almost the record. No, the record's 120." (to Mary, recapping Groundhog Day week of episodes)
* "That's a Spinal Tap demo; that's how deep I go with Spinal Tap. I can't even say the name of that song on this show. 'Cause this show is rated G. It's a hard G, but it's a G nonetheless and so I cannot say the name of that song." (on request for Lick My Love Pump from Spinal Tap)
* Conversation:
	+ **Josh:** Afternoon Delight, can you write that down?
	+ **Mary:** But I'm not putting it on the board.
	+ **Josh:** Why?
	+ **Mary:** Well, because you keep getting distracted by what's on the board…
	+ **Josh:** No, I don't. I keep getting distracted by what's in my head and what's in the chat.
* "This is where I start to look at the board and I'm like, 'If I know it, I'll play it,' even if it's a bad song. Man oh man, some of you guys like some bad songs but today there's lots of good ones. And I'll fake it if I think I can fake it."
* "Here's the thing: I feel I have earned the right to occasionally give legitimate critical feedback because I have spent my life studying that guy's work. So occasionally there's something that he does where I'm like, 'Dude, why'd you do that?'" (on commenting that Stevie Wonder often buries guest artists in the mix)
* "I don't think I've ever played that song before. And if you had told me when I was 12 that I would be able to pull that song out of thin air, I would've been like, 'Wow, I'm gonna be the coolest guy ever.' And now I just pulled it out of thin air and I was like,' That was not cool.'
* "I don't like Billy Joel. Some of you know this about me. I don't dislike him — I do dislike him — but I go with the flow because people love him. And I used to love him when I was a little, man oh man. Why do I not like him anymore? I don't know. Let's not get into that." (on playing Allentown by Billy Joel)
* "Guys, music's not a competition. Except it is. Except it's not. But maybe it is. Am I just jealous and bitter that I've never been nominated for a Grammy, even though I don't deserve one?" (on Grammy Museum hosting virtual talk with Branford Marsalis about his work on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom six weeks after his appearance on 7IS)
* "I've been avoiding it because that song is filthy also. Just like the other filth that I played. Played that Spinal Tap filth, played that Starland Vocal Band filth, about to play the Ginuwine filth. How's this song go?" (on request for Pony by Ginuwine)
* "That song is actually not filthy; that song is very cute. And I know how to play it for some reason. I don't know why. It's not the kind of thing you're proud of, that you can pull that song out of thin air." (on I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred)
* "I like Space Truckin,' the song (by Deep Purple), better than Truckin'. I also like the act of space truckin' more than the act of truckin', although I Iike both acts. And I've never space trucked — truckin'-ed — before, but it sounds like so much fun." (on requests for Truckin' by the Grateful Dead for Red Sox Truck Day)
* "When we started this show three hours ago, you were much more molecularly together than you are right now. We had no intention of going three-plus hours and yet here we are." (to Mary when she started getting punchy near the end of the show)

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## Baseball Card of the Week

* Photo of musicians Darius Minwalla and Matt Harris of The Posies and Spiral Stairs bands; Harris passed away the previous week, while Minwalla passed away a few years earlier. (Note: During pre-recorded Zoom chat/interview, card was Dick Allen [1982 KMart reissue series of 1960s and 1970s MVPs].)

## Album of the Week

* Spiral Stairs – We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized. (Note: During pre-recorded Zoom chat/interview, album was Erroll Garner – Close-Up In Swing [repeat from Season 1-Episode 90, 6/23/20].)

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* No-hatter

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