March 16, 2005

YO 'FMU

It's almost 1AM and I just got back from volunteering at WFMU for the evening. I was answering phones and taking pledges for the annual Fund Raising Marathon at the station in Jersey City. Tonight was Tom Scharpling's Show and, for the 10th year, Yo La Tengo was performing listener pledge requests live in the studio. It was a great night to be there and I met many cool people.

I took a few photos, but I turned off the flash so everything is a little blurry. Sorry about that. Here is the band in the downstairs studio. In between phone call waves, a few of us would run down to watch them play for a bit.

So the deal is that Yo La Tengo will pretty much play whatever requests come in - or at least give their best attempt at it. Some of the songs they performed were, Hey Ya!, Mindless Child Of Motherhood by the Kinks, Can't Explain, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Purple Haze, I Wanna Be Sedated, Psycho Killer, Palisades Park, Lido Shuffle, Search and Destroy, Take The Skinheads Bowling, Two-Headed Dog, Aliens In Our Midst, Chewy Chewy by the Ohio Express, and they closed with Sonny and Cher's The Beat Goes On - which totally rocked because that's one I wrote down when a caller couldn't think of a song to request. They actually did a cool version of it too.

I have two more shifts to do this week. You should call up and make a pledge.