The media is full of stories that remind me why I worked so hard to set up community radio stations back in the ’70’s.
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Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
GC056 — Community media
Sunday, August 9th, 2009GC038 — War, the Internet and a Band
Monday, April 9th, 2007Yep, that’s quite a mix of topics for one Geezercast, but that’s the way it happened. You’ll just have to listen to find out what was going through my brain this afternoon.
GC037 — Got me a ham license
Saturday, March 24th, 2007Yep, I got skunked by the weather the first time out, but last weekend I made the grade. I talk about that and all the good engineering I’m starting to do. This show also features a one-time-only tune for the intro and outro which is a live, one-take snapshot of some of the “jam with the synth” stuff I’ve been doing recently. Not good enough to get promoted to “permanent theme music” status, but interesting.
GC026 — Radio Stories
Monday, October 2nd, 2006We visited Richard at Northland College this weekend and I was honored to be a guest on the award-winning Tea Time at 12 radio show that he co-hosts with his friends Kevin and Dan. I realized after my guest-shot was over that Richard really wanted me to tell old-geezer stories about my community radio days. So I decided to put of few of them in this here Geezercast instead — maybe Rich can play them on WRNC some time to make up for my mistake.
GC025 — Ray’s Song
Monday, September 25th, 2006Ze Frank has all us Sports Racers (check out The Show to find out more, or if you’re really into it check out his whole site — well worth the journey) mashing up a cool vocal track by a mystery guy named Ray. There are some interesting issues that have arisen now that it’s looking like Ray is an inner-city black preacher in St Louis who has trouble with Jewish people. I play the tracks I made up, and explore those issues, in this podcast.
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Click here to get the first (big-band, swing) version of Ray’s Whipass tune
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Geezercast 20 — Music, Madison and etc
Monday, August 14th, 2006Well, the farm party is over, fall is in the air and I have a new keyboard to play with. So this is a Geezercast showing off what the new gizmo can do, which leads to reflections about the Mifflin Street Block Pary in Madison, WI of all things.
Geezercast 17 — Internet and phone privacy
Sunday, May 14th, 2006I was going to do another one of my “see, I’m in the majority” rants based on the current polls. But I came across one where I’m in the minority — a majority (admittedly skinny — 51 to 49%) of Americans think it’s OK for the administration to rummage through our Internet traffic and phone calling records in the name of fighting terrorism. I was so struck by that number that I decided to devote a Geezercast to the topic.
Plus, there’s a new version of Jamstix out and I dropped a new theme song into the show as a result.
GeezerCast 04 — More music, politics, etc plus audiophile follies
Monday, November 21st, 2005A new tune — the first actual multi-part song using the new electronic music toys. Plus, a recap of the week’s politics and polls. Plus a very brief forey into that strange world of extreme high-end audio. Oh my grandchildren, keep your hands on your wallets.
More Jamstix, elections, aluminum foil mind-control beanies, polls
Monday, November 14th, 2005Ah, what a difference a week can make — the elections went well for folks like me who are in the mainstream (yep, I quote the polls to prove it). This show features another Jamstix creation, reviews some MIT research into aluminum-foil mind-control beanies, heads into a reminiscence about my experiences with the folks who believe contrails are evidence of a government plot and wraps up with this week’s poll results on a few key issues.
Geezercast; Jamstix, mayoral election, Carl Hiaasen
Monday, November 7th, 2005Got me a new drumming gizmo this week — Jamstix. Very cool deal that “plays along” with me on the synths. I’ve got a little demo sampler in there for ya. I’m hopeful that we’ll see a Bush-supporting mayor get his butt kicked in my home-town mayoral election tomorrow. And, in keeping with the political theme, some quotes from one of my favorite authors, Carl Hiaasen.