KFOG - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion LIVE! (2/19/97)

<p>A VERY SPECIAL BONUS RADIO SHOW THIS WEEK. I am so excited to share with you something I never thought I would hear again in my lifetime.&nbsp;</p><p>Let me set the scene for you. It's 1997. Alternative rock radio is playing things like Third Eye Blind's, "Semi-Charmed-Life," Sugar Ray's "Fly," and a song I'm sure you've never heard before, "Everlong" by the Foo Fighters.&nbsp;</p><br><p>On October 15th, 1996, Matador/Capitol Records released <a href="https://shoverecords.bandcamp.com/album/now-i-got-worry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Now I Got Worry"</a> by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thejonspencerbluesexplosion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion</a>. It was their follow-up to <a href="https://shoverecords.bandcamp.com/album/orange" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Orange" </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;which contains "Bellbottoms" (which a new generation knows as that awesome song from Edgar Wright's, "Baby Driver.")&nbsp;</p><br><p>I was good pals with JSBX drummer Russell Simins back in the 90's. I'll talk about it a bit more on this week's episode of <strong>I DID THIS FIRST!</strong> Russell was like a cool older brother and for my birthday one year, I believe my 19th, he gave me copies of "Exile on Main St.," "#1 Record" and "Here Come The Warm Jets." To say he helped send me down the right path would be putting it mildly.&nbsp;</p><p>Were The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion getting a ton of radio airplay in 1997? Were they on MTV beyond 120 Minutes? No. To give you further perspective, "Spiceworld" the second album from The Spice Girls came out a few weeks after "Now I Got Worry."&nbsp;</p><br><p>The 90's were a strange time. While I was at opening night of the film "Spice World" with a bunch of friends and even once attended a Spice Girls concert at Madison Square Garden (Ginger had already left), by that time I had also probably seen The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion play I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES on the East Coast.&nbsp;</p><p>I'll let myself do t