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The Bear Necessities
Tuesday May 9th, 2023 with Lester Bear
Rock'n'Roll Factory

On today's show featuring songs about the music business from the perspective of the artists. In some cases a tongue and cheek tune about an aspect of the music business, in other cases a more direct message about an industry that is somewhat removed from the actual art of making music and focused on making money even if it means, at times, chocking off the goose that lays the golden egg.
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads - ABKO Music
Sign On The Line
Goddo - An Act of Goddo - Polydor Canadian
Danny Says
The Ramones - End of the Century - Sire
Working At The Factory
The Kinks - Think Visual - Geffen Records
Prisoners of Rock'n'Roll
Neil Young - Life - Geffen Records Canadian
Mercury Poisoning
Graham Parker - Squeeze Out The Sparks - Arista
Tour Spiel
The Minutemen - Project Merch - SST
Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners
Against Me - Total Clarity - Fat Wreck Chords
Complete Control
The Clash - The Clash - Epic Records
EMI
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks - Virgin
Don't Call Us We'll Call You
Sugarloaf - Don't Call Us We'll Call You - Purple Pyramid Records
I Love My Label
Wilco - The Whole Love - dBpm Records
Next Best Superstar
Melanie C - Beautiful Intentions - Red Girl Records
For The Roses
Joni Mitchel - For The Roses - Asylum Canadian
Have A Cigar
Dirty Sound Magnet - Have A Cigar (Single) - Independent
Interactive CKCU
hillbilly
cool list✊

5:06 PM, May 9th, 2023
gentlegypsie
Cu Cu ~ rockin' the Rock Roll me a golden egg no lie ... Miigwech-merci

5:17 PM, May 9th, 2023
hb
Great Strike!!! Congrats! ✊

5:20 PM, May 9th, 2023
Bobby Calzone
Hillbilly !?! You alive! Good!

5:35 PM, May 9th, 2023
hillbilly
A bud has a bass he's not using....forget kind! How ya doin'?! Peace!

5:50 PM, May 9th, 2023
gordo
Sugarloaf ?! Not ‘green-eyed lady’, but ‘don’t call us - we’ll call you’ ?! Wowzers, Les. That’s hard core awesome right there.

5:55 PM, May 9th, 2023
Bobby Calzone
Wow, you still on that, thats great, i sure appreciate it, but so much goin on up here, no coin... happy you ok Sorry, Bear, i AM appreciating and enjoying the show, which is ,as hb mentionned à very interesting list and stories to go with them! Thank you!

5:59 PM, May 9th, 2023
Lester Bear (host)
Thanks Hillbilly!!

8:33 AM, May 12th, 2023
Lester Bear (host)
Thanks Gordo.....We'll call you fits in with the them....

8:34 AM, May 12th, 2023
Lester Bear (host)
Thanks Bobby!!

8:34 AM, May 12th, 2023