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Hello,
I haven’t forgot about you. I have so many new discoveries to share and all I need to do is sit down and put them together.
Collin
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Hello,
Thanks to everyone that has decided to sign up for subscriptions to this site recently…it’s kind of neat and makes me actually believe that a few people listen to these posts every now and again. Oh, and IÂ am going to eventually update the link section one of these days, do you want in? I’ll do it.
I am thinking about getting a new pair of headphones, a damn good pair, do you have any recommendations? I was thinking about getting another pair of Grado Headphones, maybe these, but I need to do a bit more research I suppose before I drop bookoo bucks. The pair I have right now, also Grado, have been very good to me but are over ten years old and are starting to break down a bit and I’ll take any excuse to buy new headphones.
Well, I’m sure you’ll dig this set of music up above. It’s kind of an amalgamation of music I have discovered over the last few weeks. The Fallen Angels album, “It’s a Long Way Down”, gets heavy rotation in this set as it is one of the most amazing albums I’ve come across in quite awhile. There is a relatively inexpensive reissue out there that is worth getting.
Bye,
Collin
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SETLIST! (each set is an hour)
Here’s a two-part set I did last week on the radio…It was a good one, a touch of psych and a pinch of folk blended into a mind-melting pre-christmas stone-out. There are a lot of gems in these sets. I’ve been totally blown away by Jim Sullivan’s psych-folk album “U.F.O.” and a cut off of that is in here. Another album, and one that can be found easily, is the album “A Lovely Sight” by a group hitherto unknown named “Pisces”. It’s astonishing that an album as good as this could remain in absolute obscurity for almost 40 years until a recent re-issue. They possess all the juicy parts of The Jefferson Airplane with a slight Velvet Underground edge… I compel you to hunt down their album!
Oh, and I came across an album the other day by Bill Clint…A super depressing loner/downer folk album called “The Crying of a Generation”. I don’t have any problems with the music itself, it’s actually very good and melodic with John Denver-esque vocals, but the subject matter is so goldarned sad that I have trouble listening to the entire album straight through. Point in case, listen to this track, “Angels Don’t Need Friends”, and tell me you don’t feel a slight twinge of sickness in your gut around the 8-minute mark when Bill Clint starts crying, really starts crying! blubbering to be exact. Seriously, that is some downer-folk, seriously.
Thanks for stopping by, Collin
Bill Clint / Angels Don’t Need Friends
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Alan Watts / Om / Om: The Sound of Hinduism
Hi There,
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)
Dutifully Yours,
Forever and Ever,
Sweet Cheeks
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Hello,
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
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Howdy,
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.
adios,
Collin
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Hello,
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!â€
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)
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Hello,
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.
Collin
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Hello again,
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 SmörgÃ¥sbord 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 KBGA should 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 the vintage 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 Day was 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 page if 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:
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.
See You Later, Collin
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