PURE with Howard Thompson

Chicken v Monkey Pt. 4

Los Straitjackets: Itchy Chicken
Roy Hall: One Monkey Can't Stop The Show 
Hasil Adkins: Chicken on the Bone 
Pere Ubu: Monkey Bizness 
Truitt Forse: Chicken Bop 
The A-Bones: Monkey Man
The Steampacket: Back At The Chicken Shack 
Derrick Harriott: Monkey Ska 
Alison Brown Quartet: Chicken Road 
The Pink Fairies: Monkey Chatter 
Mel Brown: Chicken Fat 
David Allan Coe: Monkey David Wine
Sly & The Family Stone: Chicken 
13th Floor Elevators: Monkey Island 
Kenny Loran: I Chickened Out 
Ramsey Lewis: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 
Roy Orbison: Chicken Hearted 
Warren Zevon: Leave My Monkey Alone 
Harry Reser: There's a Trick In Pickin' a Chick-Chick-Chicken 
Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley & Jimmy Edwards: The Little Red Monkey 
Henry Mancini & his Orchestra: Chicken Little Was Right 
The Three Johns: Men Like Monkeys 
The Gizmos: Chicken Queen (live)
Keller Williams: Bitch Monkey 
The York Brothers: Chicken Blues
The Zambonis w/James Kochalka: Hockey Monkey
April March: Chick Habit
The Faces: Pineapple And The Monkey 
Tony Harris: Chicken, Baby, Chicken 
Ronnie Dawson & High Noon w/Lisa Pankratz: Monkey Beat City (live)
Ron Haydock: 99 Chicks 
Larry Kennon: Monkey Love 
Cedell Davis: The Chicken And The Hawk 
Dr. John: Monkey Puzzle 
Les Paul: Chicken Reel
William Bell: Monkeying Around
Ray McKinley: Chicken Gumboogie
The English Beat: Monkey Murders 
Tony Hatch: Chick
Dave Rawlings Machine: Monkey and the Engineer 
Slim Gaillard & his Orchestra: Chicken Rhythm 
David Greenberger & Prime Lens: Unfictitious Wet Monkeys
Yo La Tengo: Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Beau Jocque: Don't Sell That Monkey 
Billy Bland: Chicken Hop 
XTC: The Smartest Monkeys 
Hop Wilson: Chicken Stuff 
Claude & The Hightones: Monkey Stuff 
Clarence Samuels: Chicken Hearted Woman 
Shep & The Limelites: Monkey

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

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howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President