The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - What's In My Bag?

Jon Spencer & Russell Simins of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion go shopping at Amoeba Music Los Angeles for this installment of “What’s In My Bag?”. They recently released “Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015” on Mom & Pop Music.
Check out their picks:
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Sternklang (LP) bit.ly/2iWtKNj
Einstürzende Neubauten - Lament (CD) bit.ly/2icmA8M
Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier - Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes De Pierre Henry Pour Maurice Béjart (LP)
Various Artists - Ho-Dad Hootenanny Too! (LP) bit.ly/2icoYMT
Angus MacLise - New York Electronic 1965 (LP) bit.ly/2icn6Uo
13th Floor Elevators - Live Evolution Lost (LP) bit.ly/2ichoSA
Harry Partch - The Bewitched (LP)
Bo Diddley - The Black Gladiator (LP)
Isaac Hayes - Presenting Isaac Hayes (LP)
White Noise - An Electric Storm (LP) bit.ly/2iWH5W1
Various Artists - The Cosimo Matassa Story (LP)
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[@bonzoboots]

So much cooler than everybody else's picks, ever.

[@merickz78]

I was expecting these guys to show some great records and they didn't fail me.

[@unit2655]

Saw jsbx in the early 2000s, at the 930 Club in Washington DC. Ticket price was extremely modest, and there was no such thing as a bad seat in the house. Fantastic concert and the band gave you your money's worth. These guys will always be one of my favorites. Always

[@louderthangod]

He's right, that might be the best episode.

[@stonecole4703]

No it's Neil Hamburger. Lol

[@CarynDPrescott]

louderthangod Eric Andre and The Melvins are great too.

[@vollsticks]

Yeah they're definitely good ones!

[@versnellingspookie]

@@stonecole4703 Lou Barlow is the best one

[@sinancemcetin4060]

Finally, a What's in My Bag worth listening to!

[@cuzcuzcuzcuzcuzcuz]

Killer selection from guys who live for music like most of us freaks

[@louislygo6914]

Super cool Choices from a super cool Group and people ❤

[@sebbityseb]

Woah, could sit down with these two and talk records all day....

[@stephenkane2464]

these guys are so underrated everybody

[@ItsaDaPope-a]

I saw them at CBGB with Jesus Lizard and it was such an amazing experience. One of the best shows I have ever seen EVER. I went on to see JSBX about dozen times and every show was as delicious as the last

[@stephenkane2464]

@@ItsaDaPope-a i love hearing that Josh forreal!!!! I feel like Jon Spencer band just gives and gives and gives....theyre a very generous band we're lucky to have them.....THE BLUES ARE NO. 1 !!!!!!

[@ItsaDaPope-a]

@@stephenkane2464 Haha! Hell YEAH!

[@artax3434]

​@@ItsaDaPope-a Omg Jon Spencer and David Yow in the same show, that's insane.

[@ryhowe6158]

Absofuckinglutely!!!

[@popetones7400]

They don’t even need to introduce themselves. That’s the respect they command after this long!!

[@christianscazzieri]

Honestly can't even begin to say how much I love these guys.

[@ab8817]

probably is the best episode. every other band shows you their picks but then all they do is talk about themselves and when they listen to it, and what their mood is when they hear it, blah blah blah, and nothing about the actual record

[@calvinguile1315]

Wow..I liked all of both of their selections

[@georgerafael]

it's been confirmed by me. that was the best episode.

[@bartlettohio]

Jon Spencer...who STARTED the "pawn shop" off brand guitar revolution over 20 years ago...he knows more about obscure weird electric guitars from the '60s than anyone ! I was amazed to see their interest in obscure Electronica from the '60s...especially White Noise...An Electric Storm. I have a copy with an alternate cover. Delia Derbyshire was amazing....look up her life story and listen to her other stuff that survived the BBC's axe. They should make a movie about her...and it should star Nicole Kidman ! Roky Erickson and The Thirteenth Floor Elevators...need I say more !!!!!

[@danielstoddart]

I love JSBX and Spencer, I'm a huge fan. But it wasn't Spencer, it was Dexter Romweber of the Flat Duo Jets down in Carrboro, NC who started the pawn shop guitar thing earlier than that, back in the 1980's. Also it was Sonic Youth in NYC. Don't ask me how I know...

[@Steph-ot2ej]

These guys know their music. Love JSBX

[@milesdufourny3783]

A very intelligent and diverse selection of albums by Russell and Jon. I'm impressed.

[@fuglycharly1798]

That great moment when one of your favorite bands likes some of your other favorite bands!! Also: it is the best episode of an amazing series!

[@lastbohemian654]

Damn great choices by damn great musicians 🤘🎸🍻

[@alexcox7357]

these guys are awsome jsbx!!!!the drummer is the most underated drummer ever ...

[@RolexTharsus]

The Blues is number one, and these selections are amazing. One of the best of these I've watched

[@ItsaDaPope-a]

Neubauten rules. If you haven't seen them live, do yourself a favor and see them before they end. Fucking fantastic!

[@irrationallynegative]

Great guys with excellent musical tastes to match!

[@jessmanuel540]

If Lux Interior were still alive, that would be the best episode.

[@mikerophone235]

Man Russell Simins is heavy into the avant electronics/outsider sounds, that's very cool

[@devinhanley3555]

Best episode. I love their taste

[@xdinoify]

love this series so much

[@sword649]

Jon Spencer has one of the best screams in rock'n roll yep! ahhhhhhhhhhooowww! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ahhhoow!

[@bach1750]

1:25 the song that influenced the Futurama theme.

[@rafaelhannah8411]

+bach1750 Holly shit it is

[@squinkque]

Wow, good ear. I was kinda not listening too hard to the experimental electronic music they were going on about but I listened again to that little snippet & sounds pretty cool hearing it again.

[@davidlericain]

Holy SHIT. That's not an influence, that's the actual song.

[@80Jibbo]

Wow good ears 👍

[@aydanlesina1687]

Was pretty easy to hear it if ya ask me

[@user-ms4fs3vk2h]

Russell Simims is not only a drummer, but he is the author of Comfortable Place in Roshen!

[@Brian_B505]

Been a fan of JSBX for years but never heard these guys in an interview. Weird to hear his natural voice when up to this point all I've heard are his fuzz-laden scats and rocknroll wails: "wheahhhhhh!....ungh!...good god!...commone now!...here we go!...that's right!...yeaaahhhhh!" :D

[@gravitytwins1921]

its funny I was thinking wow... this is might be the best episode... then he said it

[@r.dbergman4034]

Love these..

[@larrydallas697]

definitely the best episode

[@matthewfuller5209]

BLUES EXPLOSION!!!

[@allancarey3273]

Neubauten YES

[@MrCocksuckme]

Good Lord I have a lot to learn! Don't we all

[@gomey70]

5:26 That's not Delia Derbyshire, it's Liz Parker.

[@leonline3424]

one of the best episodes

[@technodroog]

easy listening

[@comicKkrakK]

Fantastic. Thanks.

[@DistortedBirth]

superb picks.

[@Maxinquaye4real]

Best episode? I don't know. But it has been so great. Unpredictable, surprising, interesting.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Finally a bunch of interesting guys.....I'm proud to tell I own 'Pierre Henry" and 'White Noise' respectively since '68 and 1970..... But why does Iggy sound like he's puking ❓

[@neonatalpenguin]

Delia Derbyshire didn't write the Doctor Who theme tune, as Jon implies here. Ron Grainer wrote the tune, intending it to be performed as a swashbuckling orchestral piece. Since the show's producers didn't have the budget for an orchestra, Derbyshire rearranged it for synthesizers while Grainer was on holiday.

[@swipp9]

Low budget makes it more interesting again

[@jumbosilverette]

excellent choices -- get the partch!

[@cjr1971]

these guys are #1!

[@josephearp7180]

Two of the very finest gentlemen around.

[@randallluke]

Umm check there police records And then get back to me... I know we all can change .. but some things you can never fucking undo

[@reijaroberts9958]

great picks!

[@frankpetermann9366]

So cool this guys

[@thytoe]

THE BLUES IS NUMBER ONE

[@Warp75]

Nice selections

[@mexicanson]

Angus Maclise 'Chumlum' was an "experience" to say the least, but a very mystical one.

[@styxcreek]

Very interesting choices

[@creepycraig73]

Never met Russell, but Jon is, without a doubt, the nicest rock 'n roller I've ever met. If anyone should ever be excused for being full of ego and an incredible asshole it's the man that created or helped create Dial M for Motherf*cker, Cold Hands and Extra Width.

[@jlobiafra]

Agreed met him at one of his solo concerts and he was working his own merch booth, signed all my blues explosion, boss hog, and pussy galore records

[@triplesevensix291]

Love the JSBX.

[@icebear2049]

Damn, That was cool!

[@pippocalippo2447]

Really good tastes!

[@tomcromwell4094]

This is BLUES POWER!!!

[@fuzzylumpkin49]

Great choices. ^_^

[@FGP_Pro]

Blues Explosion Man, Yeah!

[@machinenkanone9358]

Diggin the bottle opener

[@bonhamhouse1169]

Knowledge!

[@williamhollaway1960]

13 floor elevator is the band that Al Jourgensen credited for sparking his use of distorted vocals

[@skeletonshorror5184]

Legends.💀🔥

[@SunshineClementine]

1:31 The driver! 🤣

[@OldSethOnetooth]

Re the Cosimo Matassa Story, I was pillaging the cd collections at three of my local libraries, taking out my five cd limit every week for awhile and this was one of the albums I found. Nothing lasts forever though and when I last went in they told me that I'd be the last ever borrower of a cd from them as that week the city libraries entire collection of cds and dvds was being donated to the local prison.

[@b-r-i-a-n-s]

My 2 biggest periods of musical growth were 5 years of working in a record store in the early '90s & building an immense & diverse collection of mixed tapes & cds from the Denver Public Libraries. What a blessing!

[@josuefuentes8672]

Imagine if they get Kanye on here he would probably pull out all his own albums LOL

[@spensert4933]

Hahaha and trash the store if they didnt have his shoes etc

[@spensert4933]

Or grab the PA and yell Tower Records is better.

[@tc4423]

Id like to show everyone my remixes

[@MultiKane99]

It fn was the best episode

[@SleezeJest]

Long live Crypt Records!!!!!!

[@mikelfuertes594]

Meh... Tim Warren didnt like The Pandoras... Im not his fan anymore, since many years ago... Not that much... I like Crypt style, Have a swig... Pandoras were better than Devil Dogs, better than NB Turks...

[@ianh45]

Good episode but that's not a photo of Delia Derbyshire it's (the massively under-rated) Elizabeth Parker.

[@amoeba]

Good catch, you are absolutely correct. Ms. Derbyshire is in the first image and Ms. Parker is in the second.

[@soundhog09]

Great choices from a great band (or two thirds of a great band). However, the photo at 5' 25" is of another Radiophonic composer, Elizabeth Parker, not Delia Derbyshire!

[@fyeo1961]

Is there a list of these albums? It's hard to pick out from the soundtrack

[@tudormiller8898]

OMG!! It's the theme tune from Futurama. Lol. Fucking loved that show. I wanted to marry Turanga Leela. Watching from London UK.

[@tudormiller8898]

Doctor Who ??? Fuck Yeah!!!!

[@danielmancillas5672]

Fourth song!!!

[@larryslemp9698]

What is the story on Jon Spencer and crew getting with the Mississippi Delta Blues guys a number of years ago?

[@drago6769]

I would love to see a Johnny Thunders what's in my bag but unfortunately that won't happen.

[@ypmtrga]

Those guys are still so fucking cool. Love them.

[@MarsHottentot]

Russel has GREAT TASTE

[@insofar4885]

Russell Simins is Sam from WKUK

[@roddyfraser]

Hip fellas

[@mysticalgerald]

That's a billion $ bag. Blues Explosion number 1.

[@frankrogers2968]

Jon autographed a dollar bill for me in 2004

[@buenogoodlive]

Hey, obscure artists. I'm gonna love this episode!! /sarc

[@massesesclaves644]

5:25 -> not Delia, but Elizabeth Parker.

[@nechadi]

20 years ago these guys were the shit

[@ConalLewis123]

angel Olsen what's in my bag please!!

[@amoeba]

+Conal Lewis We've invited her before and the scheduling didn't work out. Hopefully it can happen in the future.

[@ConalLewis123]

ok cool, thanks for replying

[@neboknenim9429]

Wat bout Bree Olson???

[@travpathood]

Futurama theme song is AVANT ELECTRIC

[@squinkque]

Cosimo Mattasa Story - check. $19.98 for the 4 cd box set on Amazon. Awritey!

[@Tweegrrl]

I want to pillage Russell's record collection

[@michaelbuhl4250]

I wish they could get Albert Kuvezin from Yat-Kha to do an episode.

[@andrewworkman4344]

holy shit!

[@sidestyle05]

What's the story on why these guys broke up? The only thing I could find was an interview where Jon said: “There were just circumstances which made it impossible to continue working,” Spencer says. “It was very unfortunate, especially since we were in the middle of promoting that last album. It was a real blow. It took me awhile to mourn that and get over it, but I’m moving on.”

[@hamupinhere]

Well I guess it's been 3 years but at least an official announcement was made about it a week or two ago. Judah Bauer has some kind of condition or ailment that prevents him from playing music in the capacity required to continue onward. In spite of that, I will state quite frankly, the Blues remains #1.

[@Phobophiliac]

These are the ultimate patrician

[@spacewurm]

MacLise was kicked out of VU. That's why he "left" the group.

[@elmaspendejo666]

Amoeba, could you try Amon Tobin, please!

[@amoeba]

We have tried and it didn't work out. Maybe someday... We're huge fans.

[@elmaspendejo666]

Okay, thanks.

[@mikebenoit5658]

Gee, I wonder if these guys are from the NYC area???

[@lazydobo1094]

1:30 is that the futurama theme ?

[@messthetics]

+dillon b. Yes. It's a remix of that Pierre Henry track.

[@markplayer3772]

The Doctor Who theme is amazing.

[@holdencaulfield4808]

Nothing will top this episode. EVER.