Here’s the deal. The studio at KBGA has been rebuilt and has yet to install a device with which to record your radio show. This device will soon be here, but for the last few weeks I haven’t had any show recordings and have thus had no new postings. Now, what I have started, is a “song of the day” thing on facebook…each day posting some tasty little nugget I’ve stumbled across that seems to fit the mood. Not all of the people who come across this blog are my facebook friends, at least not yet, and those poor folks haven’t yet tapped into the wealth of Mp3 tracks chosen for my facebook “song of the day” postings. So, non-facebook readers, here is a link to the folder that contains all the tracks chosen… (unfortunately you might not be able to tell the artist and name of each track)
This deer above was poached near my house a few days ago. I heard the shot, saw the deer die, saw the illegal hunters on the side of the hill, and called I-800-TIP-MONT and reported the sunsabitches to the warden. The hunters saw me, I guess, because they didn’t come down and try to claim the deer which now lay dead in front of me. The warden was excited, a real live crime happening, and on the way up the road he took the time to write down the license plate of a vehicle parked about a mile down the road. He drove up to my house and I hurriedly gave him the facts, he jumped back in his truck and sped down the road. An hour or so later he called me and told me he got the guys, some college kids, and now he was going to make them gut the deer (but they can’t keep it), show him where they shot the deer from, and hand them down some fines for illegally shooting firearms (you can only bow hunt around here), trespassing, and failure to wear hunter’s orange. I got the guys.
I wasn’t able to record last weeks’ show so I took the time to assemble a mix on the computer here. The new studio at KBGA is running and looks downright gorgeous. We’ve got a new board, new cabinetry, and a cool hiding place for the turntables so they don’t get damaged needles any more. This mix would be a good one for headphones, what with some subtle soft dreamy downer psych and some sweet orchestrated parts within. I am absolutely obsessed with the band, “Gandalf”, who have two tracks in this mix….hunt that album down if you can.
Bye,
Collin
Been listening to a lot of early Dylan these days.
PLAYLIST:
The Beatles / Ticket to Ride/ Help! 1963
Bobby Callender / Rainbow / Rainbow 1968
Murray Head / She Was Perfection / We Can Fly Vol. 3
Paul Parrish / The Forest of My Mind / The Forest of My Mind 1968
Food / Lady Miss Ann / Forever is a Dream 1968
Can Am des Puig / Hear The Voice of Bard / Book of AM 1970
Gandalf / Hang On To A Dream / Gandalf 1968
J.K. And Co. / Christine / Suddenly One Summer 1969
Wind In The Willows/ Moments Spent / The Wind In The Willows 1969
Food / Forever Is A Dream / Forever Is A Dream 1968
Gandalf / Me About You / Gandalf 1968
America / Here/ America 1972
Gary Higgins / Thicker Than A Smokey / Red Hash 1975
Andy Zwerling / Words to This Song / Spiders in the Night 1971
Jake Holmes / Signs of Age / The Above Ground Sound 1967
This weeks show was kind of a recap for me…having played half of the music on the air during previous shows (maybe even posting a few up here in the past). I was in a sort of rock and roll mood so this set has some nice crunchy rawk within it.
This last week on the radio was a sort of rough one due to the fact that two of the needles on the turntables in the studio had mashed up needles that made even the most clean record sound like scratched-up garbage so, I decided to clean up and edit the set a bit before I posted it up here for you, hope it sounds nice.
What’s new? Any requests?
Collin
Richie Havens “Here Comes The Sun” from Alarm Clock
Kaleidoscope “Poem” from Faintly Blowing
Paul Parrish “The Forest of My Mind” (1968)
Ruperts People “Reflections of Charles Brown” from A Perfumed Garden Vol. 1
The Outsiders “I Love You #2” from C.Q. CD ALBUM (PolyDor 1968)
The Choir “It’s Cold Outside” SINGLE (1967)
The Fireballs “Come On React!”
The Knight Riders “I” SINGLE
The Glass Family Electric Band “The Means” from The Glass Family (Warner Bros. 1968)
Oscar & The Majestics “I Can’t Explain” SINGLE
The Longboatmen “Take Here Any Time” from Taker Here Any Time SINGLE (1966
St. John Green “Canyon Woman” from St. John Green (Flick Disc 1968)
Beauregard Ajax “Loneliness Is A Sometimes Thing” from Deaf Priscilla (Shadoks 1966)
Here’s an unedited radio program from a few weeks back. I’m really going to try to post my weekly show up here from now…i’ve been receiving complaints.
Holy, have I really not updated this Mother since December 22? What has happened to my internet work ethic? Forgive me, seriously, I won’t go that long again….Appy-polly-logies.
Well, when I haven’t been updating this blog I have been doing quite a number of other interesting projects. First off, my radio show, which is a weekly 2 hours of heavenly bliss on Missoula, Montana’s KBGA 89.9, has turned into a sort of 60’s Psychedelic, Garage, Freakbeat, and Sun-Soaked Psych-Folk specialty show that I have been putting some real hard country back-breaking work into and it seems to be shaping up nicely. So far, the critics, are just lapping it up. I have been enjoying focusing my show on a few genres and decades of music rather than your everyday radio Smörgåsbord chock full of lord-knows-what. So, since I’ve been spending a whole bunch of extra time compiling radio shows of the highest quality I am probably not going to take the extra time to edit those shows down in order to paste bite-size little tasty nuggets of mixes up here, but will rather post my radio shows up here in their entirety, weekly, with warts and all. And KBGAshould be streaming relatively soon, so you can tune in live if you’d like.
Sister, let me tell you, I have had some horrible ear problems lately. A little over a month ago I was at work, getting a sup of water, when a slow ring began in my right ear. The ring increased in volume and spread slowly across my head until it filled my left ear as well. Then, without any forewarning whatsoever, a wall of ear wax came down within both of my ears and my hearing was cut in half, literally, I felt shut out. My head was buzzing with a high-pitched scream and I had to strain to hear anyone speaking, all within an hour. The next day I went to the doc and he washed my ears out and got rid of the wax, and my hearing got better, but the ringing stayed. Two weeks passed and I was still ringing, I’d fall asleep with a ringing and open my eyes to it as well. I went back to the doc and he said whoa, weird, and prescribed me anti-depressants…both to allow me to deal with the anxiety of a buzzing head, and to alleviate stress and depression which can oftentimes lead to people hearing ringing noises in their heads. I popped the pills each night and felt nothing positive come from them, I dropped them after a week. On my next visit Doc threw up his hands and said I needed a specialist, I left defeated and with visions of a lifetime of ringing ears before me. It’d been a whole month, and I’d been living day to day with screams in my ears at all moments, Tinnitus is a real mother-f. Anyway, this story is a work in progress as the ringing is still in my ears and I am now seeking treatment at an acupuncturist. Yesterday was my first acupuncture treatment and I’ve got an optimistic feeling about the future potential of these treatments. I had a bunch of needles stuck in and around my ears, a few scattered around my body, especially my feet, and then the lights were dimmed and I laid there and listened to soothing oriental music for a half an hour before I was flipped over and had the same thing done to the backside of me. I’ve also been given some special tea and pills. We’ll see what happens, I’ll let you know.
I’ve been spending hours and hours dealing with thousands and thousands of classical LPs. Day, over at thevintage vinyl revival, came into possession of a ridiculously large and amazing classical LP collection some years ago and has kept the collection in storage, its’ own storage space, since acquiring it. The collection came from an older gentleman who passed away and left it in the care of his family. His family was clueless as to what to do with 3, 000 classical records and thus tried to give them to KBGA college radio, where Daywas employed at the time. Our small radio station couldn’t handle that many records, and anyway, we don’t really play much classical, so Day, looking to save the collection from a less than noble fate, agreed to take the collection and deal with it personally. He started the daunting task of moving the collection and building shelving and eventually got every record settled and started putting out his feelers for a potential home for the collection. The years passed and the collection sat, no one wanted it or could handle it. The library couldn’t house or catalogue the collection and the radio stations didn’t want it. Now the collection has been passed down to me and is sitting in storage in specially built shelving beneath the bakery I work at. Apart from moving the whole collection, and building shelving for it, both of which were huge processes that Day kindly helped me with, I have also been slowly cataloging it and putting certain selections on ebay. It’ll be a daunting process to get through the whole collection, and it is going to take a lot of time, but maybe I’ll find some gems in there that may make this vinyl adventure more than worth the time. Here is my ebay pageif you want to see what I’ve got for sale. I also take requests. Oh, and I have started listening to more classical music now….it’s amazing, you just have to wade through and find the right stuff.
and now for some bullets:
If you ever need to take pictures of records for ebay build one of these
I am reading a novel called “Car” by Harry Crews…It’s outrageous…watch this interview, he is amazing.
OK, here is a radio show from last week that seemed to be a good one. Tonight I am doing an all 45rpm show that should be a lot of fun and I hope to post that soon as well.
I have been getting into some seriously awesome shit lately, seriously. I started digging a little bit deeper into 60’s psychedelic and garage music and found some bands that have been blowing me away over the last month or so. These latest mixes, which are actually taken from my radioshow and include my sweet sultry DJ voice, feature a lot of the artists and albums I have recently been blasting on my boom-box while I freak out.
I have been especially impressed with The Outsiders (from The Netherlands, not the American version) and can’t seem to get enough of their 65-69 singles collection. Their songs have a punk quality to them but are softened with incredibly catchy melodies and a smooth vocal delivery….maybe a bit like The Buzzcocks I would say. Check out this video for the song “lying all the time”…Look at Wally Tax play that Tambourine…so life-like!
Nearly all of the selections chosen hover somewhere between those glorious years of 1965-1974. I left out so many great artists in these mixes and will hopefully have a pt. 2 post some time in the future.
A) The Tape-Beatles “The American Adventure” from The Grand Delusion SINGLE (1993) Silver Apples “Lovefingers” from Silver Apples (MCA 1968) Shocking Blue “Boll Weevil” from At Home (1969) Tomorrow “My White Bicycle” from S/T (1st LP) (1967) The Outsiders “Don’t You Worry About Me” from strange things are happening (RPM Records UK 2005) Aphrodite’s Child “The Four Horsemen” from 666 (Universal Int’l 1971) The Deviants “Bun” from Ptoof! (Alive Records 1967) B) Faust “Krautrock” from Faust IV (Caroline 1974) White Noise “Firebird” from An Electric Storm (Universal 1969) Skip Spence “Broken Heart” from Oar (Sundazed Music Inc. 1969) Ithaca “Feelings (look around – I want to feel you)” from Game For All Who Know (1973) Gong “Glad to Sad to Say” from Magick Brother (Snapper UK 1969) Fifty Foot Hose “The Things That Concern You” from Cauldron (Radioactive 1969) Aphrodite’s Child “Seven Trumpets” from 666 (Universal Int’l 1971)
Aphrodite’s Child “Altamount” from 666 (Universal Int’l 1971) The Fugs “Life Is Strange” from It Crawled into My Hand, Honestly (4 men with beards 1968) The Tape-Beatles “Behold A Republic” from The Grand Delusion SINGLE (1993) Silver Apples “Oscillations” from Silver Apples (MCA 1968) Blossom Toes “Look at Me I’m you” from We Are Ever So Clean (Sunbeam Records 1967)
