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Current OTE
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 17" - 3 hours
Sep. 28, 2006
Solo.
After some opening announcements by Izzy Isn't, we start creeping into
The mid '60s with DJs of the time, all the hits, lots of Andy Warhol, H bomb love, the Beatles in the studio, and Bob Dylan's 1965 Newport "electric surprise" show introduced by Jumpin' Jack Jackson.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 19" - 3 hours
Oct. 12, 2006
Solo.
An early to mid 60s look at the Beatniks' progress, the H bomb, People Are No Good, the words to Mission Impossible, Dylan rehearsing, top 40 blaring, MLK saved by not sneezing, and students revolting, but you'll never walk alone - a double play!
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 20" - 3 hours
Nov. 9, 2006
Solo.
"65 turns into '66 with the focus on the touring Beatles at the end of that rope. WABC's continuous coverage of the Beatles in New York City, Casey Kasem reads a Beatle fan letter, DJs rant, IDs play, The Byrds are influenced, and lots of live Beatle performances, chopped and not.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 21" - 3 hours
Nov. 16, 2006
Solo.
Slowing to a snail's pace as the relevant material increases, we remain inside 1966 once again where the Beatles are still more popular than Jesus, their studio music becoming more complicated as their desire to play live diminishes. Meanwhile, Scott Muni holds forth at WOR, radio comes to Vietnam, Neil Cassidy drives, Ken Keasey begins the San Francisco Acid Tests, and Timothy Leary expounds on psychedelics and LSD.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 22" - 3 hours
Nov. 23, 2006
Solo.
Our roaming radio is stuck in 1966. Bob Dylan brings electricity to England and holds a press conference in San Francisco, The Beatles on tour continue to exhaust everyone, Bobby Kennedy sings his greatest hit, And hot jocks of the year, who all talk rapidly, lurch toward their next Thanksgiving turkey shoot. Also playing on this 1966 radio, The Blues Project, Al Kooper, The Rolling Stones, Them, The Hollies, The Dave Clark Five, Peter and Gordon, Etc.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 23" - 5 hours
Nov. 30, 2006
Solo.
A five hour edition. Beginning with a flashback into the development of Motown and Soul radio, not to mention Malcom X, through '66, we then lurch into 1967 from Radio Caroline where they're first to play "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and confront the government with "illegal" broadcasting. The Beatles produce Sargent Pepper, San Francisco's first underground station, KMPX, reaches the air with Edward Bear and Tom Donahue as the San Francisco bands emerge, Dylan refuses to give his autograph, McLuhan's LP, drugs everywhere, and lots of '67 DJs and songs.Ê
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 24" - 3 hours
Dec. 7, 2006
Solo.
In this normally unscheduled edition (being the first Thursday of the month), Psychedelia explodes all over us from Hendrix in the studio, Timothy Leary's LP,Ê More Marshall McLuhan on wax, 60s radio bloopers, Pink Floyd's first album, Jeff Beck, Lothar and the Hand People, Quicksilver Messinger Service, Tom Donahue and The Grateful Dead on KMPX, John Cage interviewed on WBAI, and that whole '67 wave of music which freaked out at the end and turned into noise.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 25" - 3 hours
Dec. 14, 2006
Solo.
The '67 beat goes on. Timothy Leary and Marshall McLuhan continue as the Hippies are born, Bill Graham and the San Francisco sound emerge in much unreleased live music from '67 by Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother And The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and beyond. Neil Cassidy and the acid tests, Chicken Man, and more DJs of the day on the air.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 26" - 3 hours
Dec. 21, 2006
Solo.
1967 flowers with the Beatles making the Magical Mystery Tour film and album, The Supremes and their Coke ad, John Cage and Morton Feldman discuss radio and silence, and back to San Francisco for the Human Be-In, The Diggers, and seminal bands playing for free in the street, including some dynamite live Moby Grape and Mother Earth.
Lots of '67 music in this one.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 27" - 3 hours
Dec. 28, 2006
Mark Hosler, Don.
More Beatles on the Magical Mystery Tour, The Porch Patrol's Oldie McOlderson is live in the studio to interview Izzy Isn't concerning his draft dodging days, the San Francisco music scene continues to develop, and it's a 1967 New Years celebrity explosion at KRLA in Los Angeles.
"The New Years Revolution Show" - 5 hours
Jan. 5, 2007
The Church Of The Subgenius, Don.
In a diversion from the HRWD series, many members of the Subgenius sect join Over The Edge as we combine OTE and The Puzzling Evidence Show (which follows OTE on KPFA) for a five hour gathering of unscripted banter. All the regulars are here plus Ivan Stang (subgenius founder), Michael Pepe, Bishop Joey, Science fiction author John Shirley, a new baby, and more. Highlighted by multiple simultaneous conversations over beds of simultaneous musics, it's all about everything, not to mention comic books. Can you stand it?
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 28" - 3 hours
Jan. 18, 2007
Solo.
1967 radio continues with a WBAI discussion between John Cage and Morton Feldman about the intrusion of radio in modern sound, Martin Luther King gives a startling speech against the Vietnam war, Tom Donahue interviews the Grateful Dead on San Francisco's KMPX, as British and American psychedelic music play right through the evolving social and musical turmoil.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 30" - 3 hours
Feb. 8, 2007
Solo.
We continue 1968 radio with a budding radio host making tapes during his combat duty in Vietnam, William F. Buckley interviewing Jack Kerouac on the meaning of the hippies, the Firesign Theatre getting re-grooved, A Child's Garden Of Grass, and a lot more music about all this.
Recent Episodes
"Circuit Bending" - 3 hours
May 18, 2006
Univac, Das, Nina, Khate, and Wayne.
This group of circuit benders present the art form live. Circuit bending involves manipulating the circuitry of electronic audio toys and other instruments to create new and unintended sounds with them. The process is discussed and described, and we mix throughout with these sounds.
"Old Is New/New Is Old Receptacle" - 3 hours
Mar. 3, 2005
Thomas Dimuzio, Don.
Thomas Dimuzio provides his sounds and musical deconstructions for this live mix devoted to the callers and the title idea. However, Jack Benny does the show he'll do in 40 years, the Infiniphone captures sound from the past, the Beatles collide, and perhaps it's too chaotic because the callers don't seem to have much to say. Just too darn entertaining, probably.
"Identity" - 3 hours
July 14, 2005
Solo.
Four stories about one person becoming two interweave with songs about identity, and we pause for a mix of the earliest OTE tapes we have from 1982 concerning the impossibly true identity of C. Elliot Friday having fun in space.
"Brain Waves" - 3 hours
July 21, 2005
Solo.
All about the brain and its still mysterious physiological operations, the crucial role of electricity in there, the sense of mind produced by the brain and how we rarely associate these two things that are one, and the recent interest in quantum connectedness and how thought and ideas may be involved.
"Tell Us What To Do" - 3 hours
Aug. 18, 2005
Solo.
Beginning with a quote from "Civil Disobedience," we delve into Kurt Vonnegut, Harlan Ellison, an old radio production of 1984, Christianity's Satan, a lot of songs about being told what to do inspired by the continuing need to resist, and a full Receptacle complete with instructions by Leland Googleburger.
"The Subgenius Thanksgiving Executive Banquet" - 5 hours
Nov. 24, 2005
The Subgenius Executive Bored, Don.
Over The Edge and The Puzzling Evidence Show merge for a 5 hour special. Izzy Isn't, professional banquet facilitator, hosts this holiday get together for the Subgenius big wigs, producing a show that must rival the record for lengthiest, non-stop, multi-voice rapping and ranting on radio record. It never stops. Try to follow just one of them, or give up and immerse yourself in the whole unraveling weave of multi-subgenius patter. We never did get to the details of the annual accounting report...
Recent Series
How Radio Was Done
How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 1" - 3 hours
Apr. 27, 2006
Solo.
In a completely related turnaround, we begin a series on radio history and how it happened. From Morse and Marconi, into the 20s and the earliest commercial stations, we follow the emergence of this amazing invention that burst into national consciousness at the turn of the 20th Century with lots of vintage audio, Edison discs, and a view of the culture and technology that informed it.
How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 2" - 3 hours
May 11, 2006
Solo.
We continue through the 20s and 30s, with the development of early radio, the spread of stations, and emerging content from comedy to melodrama.
How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 3" - 3 hours
May 18, 2006
Solo.
We focus on 1938 and Orsen Welles's "War Of The Worlds" broadcast that caused a panic among listeners. I play the whole original broadcast along with a lot of material about the Mercury Theatre production, including fiction about the making of it and post show debate and commentary of the time.
How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 4" - 3 hours
Jun. 1, 2006
Solo.
Beginning around 1939, we follow radio's presentation of WW II as it began. In the 30s you could buy swastika "lucky charms," news and commentary about the world on the brink, The Third Reich begins attacking Europe, Edward R. Murrow reports profusely from England at war, and Pearl Harbor is attacked. Fiction, actualities, and music of the radio day.
How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 5" - 3 hours
Jun. 15, 2006
Solo.
Radio from Pearl Harbor through the early days of WW II, with lengthy focus on a Roosevelt fireside chat given three months after Pearl Harbor. Big Bands rule. England endures. Fibber Mcgee can't listen to his radio and Lum and Abner finally get that rocket to Mars launched, but war propaganda from all sides takes up much of radio's time.
How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 6" - 3 hours
Jun. 22, 2006
Solo.
On through the war - Murrow over Berlin, Hop Harrigan, Tokyo Rose, The A-Bomb is conceived and development begins by Germany and the U.S., Tom Mix and radium, big bands and big band songs, The Lone Ranger begins, an extensive eyewitness report from the invasion of Normandy, and victory in Europe, but it goes on in the Pacific.
How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 7" - 5 hours
Jun. 29, 2006
Solo.
This 5-hour edition covers the defeat of Germany and the continuing war with Japan. Orsen Welles returns with his brand of patriotism in the Lockheed Vega program, "Ceiling Unlimited," Nazi death camps are exposed by Edward Murrow, and battlefield radio covers island invasions across the pacific until the atomic bomb is dropped and the war ends. Hiroshima immediately enters the English language and then it's songs. Two years later, as Superman battles the Atomic Man, the first Flying saucer sightings are documented by radio news across the country and enter science fiction radio at the speed of light.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 8 (Another UFO)" - 3 hours
Jul. 6, 2006
Solo.
Still in the time frame of Part 7 (Late '40s and early '50s) we focus in depth on the birth of both the atomic age and the modern UFO phenomenon as they both appeared on radio of the time. As post war atomic bomb testing on Bikini Island in the Pacific is covered by radio, Kenneth Arnold launches the term "flying saucer" after sighting a few while flying over Washington State. The Government establishes a series of UFO investigative groups culminating in Project Blue Book, as nation wide flying saucer sightings continue to show up in the country's media, and both "factual" public affairs radio and science fiction shows, atomic angst in tow, immediately add "flying saucers" to their vocabularies. Lots of UFO actualities, features, and interviews from the time.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 9" - 3 hours
Jul. 13, 2006
Solo.
From the late '40s into the early '50s, we continue to cover developments of the time on the radio. Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose "flight" is covered live in 1947, the Beats emerge to become beatniks, dope enters mainstream radio fiction, Lenny Bruce ties for first place on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in '48, the term, "Rock & Roll" enters our musical language, and the Communist menace is accompanied by atomic civil defense.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 10" - 3 hours
Jul. 20, 2006
Solo.
Radio continues in the early 50s, including the rise of Rock & Roll with Alan Freed at the microphone, at live shows, and in Hollywood, Tupperwear is born, the Russians get the bomb, Doo Wop rules, as does advertising, and Receptacle Programming returns with a discussion with callers of KPFA's new language dump button.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 11" - 3 hours
Jul. 27, 2006
Solo.
The 50s continue with Alan Freed still in charge and presenting Rock & Roll live (some of the earliest rockers playing for live audiences in the 50s), whites cover the black hits, the end of the Tupperwear saga, Tom Corbit in space, the hydrogen bomb and celebrity civil defense, rock history documentaries collide, and a TV quiz show on radio.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 12" - 3 hours
Aug. 10, 2006
Solo.
Still stuck on the '50s with Elvis, Elvis, Elvis. Lots of '50s radio interviews, rarely heard early live performances including many of his earliest TV appearances, lots of his less familiar songs, and 50s media reactions to this emergence of blatantly suggestive sexuality. "Rock & Roll is here to stay but I wish I wasn't" - Groucho Marx.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 13" - 3 hours
Aug. 17, 2006
Solo.
After reviewing how we got here, the late 50s roll on inside the radio with the history of Rock & Roll, a heavier Soviet A-bomb requiring a bigger rocket thrust which produces the first satellite, Beatniks reacting to American materialism, some communist Disney music, and Stan Freeburg and Lonnie Donnegan sing Rock island Line.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 14" - 5 hours
Aug. 31, 2006
Solo.
Beginning in the late 50s and pushing into the early 60s, we cover the decline of the first generation of rock, yet another UFO, the Soviet vs American space programs, the cold war and the bomb, the golden age of the western genre, and the beginning of the girl group explosion.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 15" - 3 hours
Sep. 14, 2006
Solo.
Through the early 60s, we cover girl groups coming to predominance in Pop Rock, Folk music and Bob Dylan emerging, Peter, Paul, and Mary appearing with Jack Benny, JFK speaking, the Mercury Space Program launching as radio fiction goes to the moon, and radio DJs just go on and on.
"How Radio Was DoneÊ- Part 16" - 3 hours
Sep. 21, 2006
Solo.
Through the early 60s, we cover girl groups coming to predominance in Pop Rock, Folk music and Bob Dylan emerging, Peter, Paul, and Mary appearing with Jack Benny, JFK speaking, the Mercury Space Program launching as radio fiction goes to the moon, and radio DJs just go on and on.
How Radio Isn't Done
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 1" - 3 hours
Aug. 25, 2005
Solo.
In this radio about radio series, we cover many aspects of how good "wrong" radio can be, and how innovative radio procedures, normally shunned in the meek and convention-bound history of radio formats, have inevitably provided the most interesting listening. Intermixed tonight are Firesign radio, early Bob and Ray from '49, Chris Morris on the BBC, Australian radio on culture jamming, prank calls to religious call-in shows, and a frustrated Howard Stern gradually leaving the constraints of terrestrial broadcasting.
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 2" - 3 hours
Sept. 15, 2005
Solo.
Rambling thorough the airwaves with unreleased Firesign Theater from their Oz Radio series in the 60s, more of Howard Stern's tribulations, People Like Us manipulating the BBC, Adbusters philosophy, a commentary on station license renewal, and some Casey Kasim and Eminem that could make that difficult.
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 3 (Still Not funny)" - 3 hours
Sept. 22, 2005
Will Ryle, Macy, Keith, Don.
Ronald Redball and friends Calvin G. Krebs and Marilyn Page join Mr. Edge in this sequel to "Is This Funny?" After some years of practice, Ronald the semi-professional comedian, returns to ruin yet another show with his special untamed brand of rebellious incompetence. It's just a big radio embarrassment with semi-scripted features including "Problems Solved" and "Nirvana Nightline," constant babbling, garbled mixing, and some nice singing by Marilyn. It makes no sense and is still not funny.
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 4" - 5 hours
Sept. 29, 2005
Solo.
This five hour edition moves on and on with all our continuing radio characters like Negativland doing an interminably incompetent broadcast from WNUR, Evanston Ill. while on tour in 2000, the continuing free-dum saga of Howard Stern, an entry from "Another UFO" in which Art Bell is debunked and Jackie Gleeson interrogates the author of a 50s UFO book on the Long John Neble Show, Chris Morris with "On The Hour" from the early 90s BBC, People Like Us, and more.
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 5" - 3 hours
Oct. 13, 2005
Solo.
The vastness of how radio isn't done continues, including Firesign Theatre, God, the Beatles, Howard Stern, Tom Donahue, Dick Vaughn, Negativland on the BBC's "Mixing It", Bob and Ray, the finalÊ end of that tour broadcast from Evanston Ill., and we wind it up with some over the edge Islamic broadcasting with Patti Smith.
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 6" - 5 hours
Nov. 3, 2005
Solo.
Tonight I play the recent live performance by Negativland of "It's All In Your Head FM" from the El Ray in LA and the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, performed during the previous week. It's two plus hours of why there is no God, performed as a radio show on stage. We finish out this 3 hours with more of how radio isn't done, including the infamous Casey Kasim/U2 cut that got us sued so long ago. Now it seems so innocent!
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 7" - 3 hours
Nov. 10, 2005
Solo.
On we go with lots more unrepentant radio. Firesign Theatre, Bob and Ray, Howard Stern, and Negativland, including the inimitably dead Dick Vaughn all help to bring you wrong listening, stopping only for some 60s music broadcasting nostalgia.
"How Radio Isn't Done Part 8" - 3 hours
Nov. 17, 2005
Solo.
The cast of characters remains more or less the same, but there's so much of them you still have never heard most of it before. From the best of OTE to the LA riots and the Duchess Of Earl, you'll wonder whatever happened to radio.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 9" - 3 hours
Dec. 1, 2005
Solo.
This edition focuses on indecency in media, including clips from a recent Congressional hearing on the subject intimating that the rise of unencumbered speech and imagery in both cable TV and satellite radio has hit the FCC radar as probably requiring the same language/image prohibitions that terrestrial broadcasting is now subject to. Also The Weatherman's Come Out Line, more of Howard Stern's tempestuous radio troubles, perversion for profit, and sexy songs.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 10" - 3 hours
Dec. 8, 2005
Solo.
Indecency continues but even more so. "Dirty word this and dirty word that" peppers Hip Hop to the brim while lots of songs about explicit sex play through. Congressional hearings continue, as does Howard Stern's mission in life. Here on terrestrial radio, I just hope no one notices this show. But it is surprising how harmless this stuff becomes in no time at all!
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 11" - 3 hours
Dec. 15, 2005
Solo.
Yes, it just goes on and on, something like the inevitable human tendency to do the wrong thing, even when they know what that is. Kant's philosophy in radio, Congress, Stern, religious broadcasting jams, the word, "fuck" explained, more Weatherman, and receptacle programming.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 12" - 3 hours
Dec. 23, 2005
Don Davis and Don.
Long time OTE caller, Suicide Man, joins me, Izzy Isn't, to co-host "The Suicide Hotline" in which we invite all comments and proposals concerning the timeless human right to do it. Mostly a call-in talk show whose purpose is to enable and encourage suicide, we cover the history, traditions and future potentials of suicide as a reasonable response to life as we know it.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 13" - 5 hours
Dec. 29, 2005
Solo.
This final show in '05 is a five hour edition rambling through extensive sections of uncertain 80's radio links with Radio Moscow, including a WBAI experiment and The Time Zones Exchange Project from Negativland, as well as more on indecency in media, including Howard Stern's on-air call to FCC Chairman Powell appearing on KGO in San Francisco, and religion in radio.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 14" - 3 hours
Jan. 12, 2006
Solo.
This time it's pirate radio. We delve into the problems of Richard Dunnifer's Radio Free Berkeley, the history of England's Radio Caroline while the Beatles do take after take, several other UK pirate stations on shore and off, and Disney's Pirates Of The Caribbean emote throughout. This is illegal radio walking the plank.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 15" - 3 hours
Jan. 19, 2006
Solo.
The beginning of this show finishes off all the pirate radio material, domestic and foreign, and then we move on to more Congressional hearings on media control and indecency, Mr. Stern arrives on Sirius satellite radio, Firesign radio, and more.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 16" - 3 hours
Jan. 26, 2006
Solo.
Bits from the recent Congressional hearings on indecency continue with a vengeance as Howard Stern shows some of his own. The community speaks before an FCC hearing on media monopoly, the BBC as edited by People Like Us, the Firesign Theatre answers the phone, and live receptacle programming input just for spice.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 17 - The Richard Lyons Story Part 1" - 3 hours
Feb. 9, 2006
Solo.
The series refocuses on one individual, Richard Lyons, founding member of Negativland, whose radio characters (Pastor Dick, Dick Goodbody, and Dick Vaughn) have graced OTE programs since the early 80s. We review this "legend of radio" through many segments of Pastor Dick shows, including endless Bible Quizzes, and then on to Dick Goodbody contests on TV and commercial product trivia. An uncertain genius of how radio isn't done.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 18 - The Richard Lyons Story Part 2" - 3 hours
Feb. 16, 2006
Solo.
We continue with this tribute to one of radio's greatest. Well, maybe not. Anyway, many OTE segments from the past highlight Richard Lyon's on-air character, Dick Goodbody, and his many contests testing the public's knowledge of cars and T V products.
Through a whole array of elaborate quiz formats, Dick Goodbody exploited American trivia and became radio's most beloved source of annoyance.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 19 - The Richard Lyons Story Part 3" - 3 hours
Feb. 23, 2006
Solo.
Don't worry, this is the last one. But we couldn't sum up the career of Richard Lyons without focusing on his culmination of radio disconcertion, Dick Vaughn. This guy was all about Moribund Music Of The 70s, and he did it first. Bringing 70s nostalgia to the early 80s, Dick Vaughn shrewdly tapped in to all that music that captivated his listener demographics when they were in high school, and they rewarded him with somewhat questionable devotion. Then he died in a plane crash. Well, let's move on.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 20 - The Chopping Channel" - 3 hours
Mar. 23, 2006
Peter Conheim, Jon Leideker, Tom Dimuzio, Don.
The Chopping Channel returns with lots and lots full of ear flattering cuts. Bud Choke, Velma, and Help Suit join electronics to sell all night sound to all night people all night long. Culture's bargain bin of devalued music is now conveniently affordable for all.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 21: The Amateurs" - 3 hours
Apr. 13, 2006
Solo.
The people's side of broadcasting - ham, worldwide shortwave, and citizen's band broadcasting crackles through a whole range of Amateur radio news, jamming, pirates, and on air discussions and debates about the medium, who uses it, and how it's used.
"How Radio Isn't Done - Part 22: Solid Receptacle" - 3 hours
Apr. 20, 2006
Solo.
UMN once again attempts to verify that letting listeners provide all the program's content via telephone still doesn't work. The lines stay full all night as listeners air their thoughts and expressions amid ever changing music and sounds, including the rants of Francis E. Dec, and Howard Stern's first test broadcast on Sirius.
All Art Radio
"All Art Radio" - 3 hours
May 19, 2005
Solo.
All Art Radio returns to the air every few years just to see if there is any need for it yet. This time we focus on painting and Manet's career in particular, including the role of French painting in establishing the very idea of avant guard art. Manet's Olympia set the stage for art formula subversion and social taboo breaking that has remained a major impetus in modern art ever since. Meanwhile, modern artists, critics, and commentators debate all the latest spawns of art that shocks and disturbs us today.
"Still All Art Radio" - 3 hours
May 26, 2005
Solo.
We continue this bright new radio format as if it will
never change. Art as covered by old radio, Tod
Dokstader explains organized sound, and painters from
surrealism to today's controversial affronts to the
NEA.
"All Art Radio - The Pop Years" - 3 hours
June 9, 2005
Solo.
This is entirely about early to late 60s pop art and music. Mainly, this is about Andy Warhol's career in art, from commercial illustrator to high art guru, and how the concept of popularized celebrity entered the NYC fine art world, along with the seriously impressive work that expressed it, changing American art forever. Listen to Bob Dylan (the other 60s pop artist featured extensively here) making "Like A Rolling Stone." Watch extremely boring movies that resulted from turning on the camera and just letting it run. Notorious glamour and fashion becomes an artistic goal amid the production of artworks in multiples mirroring our commercial landscape of mass product presences, and POP goes the art market. And it ruined a lot of people. "Everybody warned me not to go near Andy Warhol!"
"All Art Radio" - 3 hours
June 16, 2005
Solo.
After piles of artist complaints about Andy Warhol, we return to our traditional ALL art formula for artists only, where every artist can find an artist to like. Ranging from Samuel Morse the painter, early Surrealism, comic painters, and there's Andy again, to David Lynch's sight and sound, and landscape painting, we are once again on track with everything everybody wants.
"All Art Radio" - 3 hours
June 23, 2005
Solo.
The neglected art of drawing by kids and adults leads this march of all art. A photographer whose subjects are dead people in the morgue runs into social resistance, an artist's poll of paintings people want painted, David Ross expounds on art's changing parameters, Mark Pauline's art of mechanical destruction, and once it gets late enough, more dirty words in one place than you've ever heard before.
"All Art Radio" - 5 hours
June 30, 2005
Solo.
A 5 hour compilation of all art concludes this series, patching a fast and bumpy fabric together from multiple 50s science fiction stories about art, painting and the Cold War, Salvador Dali, contemporary debates on what's art and why, the history of American art genres, and art music galore.
About Music
"And About Music?" - 3 hours
Mar. 24, 2005
Solo.
Well finally. Here's a lengthy show all about modern music, the business it's in, its tendency to borrow from other's examples and now with the added spice of digital technology allowing everyone to be a recomposer, and how Hip Hop in particular drove this whole era of mix 'n mash music abuse to today's head, wherever they may be. Also the clash of business interests vs. art in the age of reproduction, the Internet and music downloading, and a bunch of songs about music. Are you still keeping music in your house?
"More About Music" - 3 hours
Apr. 7, 2005
Solo.
Let's continue. Eno narrates. Combine the beginnings of recorded rock which began to see the studio equipment as creative tools, with music sampling and how anyone can construct music like the pros on personal digital software now, then add copyright laws which define our culture as private propertyÊ (a conceptual position utterly irrelevant to art impulses.) and you have this show made out of music about music.
"So Much For Music" - 3 hours
Apr. 14, 2005
Solo.
Wrapping up the unwrapable, with Rap, Rock, Hip Hop and music downloading. Mashed Jimmy Hendrix lives today, felony music downloading vs. the owners of culture, the Beatles musically sue each other on bootlegs, and a BBC Pink Floyd retrospective remixed.
Music: So much is given to make it, so much is transmitted through it, and no matter what the threat, it never ends. Never has, never will.
Evolution
"Receptacle Evolution" - 3 hours
Mar. 10, 2005
Solo.
The results of human evolution to date are given the Receptacle airwaves once again to state their case for the existence of intelligence. Time passes in the form of the history of life on earth compressed into one year, the Cambrian explosion of organic forms which have been diminishing ever since, small "Hobbit" human skeletons are discovered, a road trip in France is interrupted by the appearance of a Neanderthal man, and the oddities of evolutionary adaptations in creatures great and small.
"Evolution Again" - 3 hours
Mar. 17, 2005
Solo.
Just keep moving; we've got a long way to go. God raises its invisible head a few times in this continuing expose of our million-year romp on Earth. But the origin of our species is still not a clear map to archeological authorities either. Who were the first Americans, scientists from Dimension X speed up evolution inside a drop of water, spiders get their day, frozen accidents, all humans didn't develop civilization at the same rate, and music, a brand new recent development, just keeps playing.
Massive Misconception
"Massive Misconception" - 3 hours
July 28, 2005
Solo.
A show of big misunderstandings, including a solar generator from ancient Egypt, an electrician who has proven Einstein's law of relativity wrong, how video games and TV are actually good for us, and lots of little comedy bits and music on this kind of idea.
"Massive Misconception - Part 2" - 3 hours
Aug. 11, 2005
Solo.
Continuing the misconceptions, here's a few big historical ones. Nazi Germany was built on a fantasized history of Arian heritage going back to Atlantis. Primarily propagated by Himler, this mystical view of ancient history quickly became accepted dogma among Germany's most respected scholars and intellectuals during the Third Reich. The arrogance of General George Custer in confronting the Sioux of the Black Hills resulted in a major (subsequently glorified) defeat of American eminent domain in 1876. From OTE history, Ringo Starr is reported dead in 1984 and the show immediately switches to tribute mode.
