Pirate Radio, Without The Pirates?

That's what I get to listen to all day. My new mechanic, Vic, had to be broken of his "World Class Rock" habit. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled onto KYEN out of Severance, Colorado. They seem to play lots and lots of "deep cuts", including stuff that I've never even heard before. A couple of days ago, they played "Venus in Furs" which is one of my favorite tunes by the VU.

I love the noisy racket (and out of tune viola) on this YouTube find:



My favorite song has to be "Pale Blue Eyes", mostly because that's the song that blew me away when I heard the nascent Red Cloud duo do it at the hipster youth halfway house. It worked out with a sparse arrangement. I wish that someone had recorded that show.

Like Goin' To Church

We made our offering to the music and radio gods this morning. Technical issues aside, I think that we pulled it off. Magical Trevor was hung-over, and Ross hasn't had enough sleep recently, so we were a really rough bunch. It was fun, though.

Once the podcast is up, I'll link through to it here (the audio link is up at the top of the page). Photos were taken, so those will probably wind up somewhere, too. Hopefully, Ross' impromptu noise session will make it out for public consumption, even if it didn't go over the air. I did get a BLC mention on the air.

The Route 78 West crew are really a fun group. Music has been bumming me out lately. Talking to and seeing people really excited about music (all different kinds) really was helpful for curing my bad attitude. I wish that I had been feeling a little better (I feel like I'm coming down with some crud), and could have gone for the "traditional" post-show margaritas (maybe next time). Jeff said that he has a bunch of bootlegged early RC shows that I'm interested in getting my hands on.

I feel like I've got a hangover, but that's impossible. I've certainly got a case of the dehydration. I require fluids and vitamins.

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Now playing: Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Coming Down

Exit...Stage Left; The Spirit of Radio

I finally got my hands on some of the video from Red Rocks. Those fancy cameras really do a nice job. It's an eye-opener to see myself playing: I've got way better right-hand technique than I used to (lots of masturbating, I'm sure); and I'm still really uncomfortable with being stage right. I'm apparently a graduate of the Entwistle school of stage presence. The bass tone sounds huge, despite the shitty stage sound and truly surreal natural reverb. It's totally not like this:


But I do love the pretension involved in double-necked instruments. Hilarious. I need one of those bass/12-string rigs.

Last night, The Chariots of Judah had our radio debut on Folksplosion. Awesome. Now, I'm totally in a folk band. Actually, I looked through dude's playlist, and he has Devendra in there and the Billy Nayer Show, so it's a loosely-defined "folk show". It's radio, but not like this:


I need to get one of the jazz basses on-line. The white one really doesn't require much work to be in go mode.

CD Database Angst

I have been tasked with giving discs to the 1190 kids. Apparently, there was a change to one of the songs, and some upset about the way shit was showing up on computers. Obviously, the Gracenote and the freeDB entries were totally fuckeed. Now, I'm playing the waiting game after fixing that shit.

I got one rejection email from freeDB:

"Discid collision in category rock"

Huh? Apparently, it can be caused by "a bug in your CD player software," so I resubmitted Adelaide as "Rock" and "Misc." "Misc" is working a lot better (surely they didn't scan the disc and decide that it didn't rock hard enough).

Gracenote is behaving itself at the moment. I'll redo this nonsense once I get a real copy from the pressing plant.

I wanted due diligence before cutting CDRs for those media types.