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John Lennon's Birthday - Yoko Lights Imagine Peace Tower
http://imaginepeacetower.com/ Go here to twitter your messages for a better world.
Our wish was for people to "come together" to stop global warming.
Listen to Yoko's message to the world from the United Nations on what would have been John's 50th birthday:
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Damn, we love this man.
If you followed the secret adventures of The Tooth Fairy, if you were amused by Chickenman or have ever laughed at a commercial with this sound effect in it, you are a fan of Dick Orkin. (Negativland once honored him with this little sample mix tape.) Tonight, we are prouder than ever to count ourselves among the lifelong followers of his work.
( Orkin's letter to the National Association of Broadcasters, asking them to remove his name from their Hall of Fame, and why. ) -
another one on the night shift
January 14th, 2010
another one on the night shift
1/14/10 07:45 pm
* Current Music: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes with Teddy Pendergrass - Wake Up, Everybody
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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
From J.A. Bartlett's blogDoes anybody read Longfellow anymore? I suspect he's been replaced in school curricula by others considered more "relevant," even though dozens of elementary and middle schools were named for him in an era when he was still one of America's greatest authors. In 1863, a couple of years after his wife died in a fire and a ( Read more... ) -
What will save rock and roll?
A Crisis Of Craft
By Steven Van Zandt
SXSW March 2009
It is an interesting time in our business is it not?
Now you wish you listened to your parents and went to college, huh?
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Look what I found!
http://www.last.fm/music/Radio+Station+WWV
We remember when this was given in Greenwich Mean time. The announcer you hear for the 1976 announcement is the one we remember. He is Don Elliott Heald.
More here: radio, autistic-interestThe Night John Lennon Died
Couldn't have said it better ourselves...
The Night John Lennon Died"I keep telling regular commenter Yah Shure that he needs his own blog. His knowledge of pop music is encyclopedic, and he’s an old radio guy on top of it. Twenty-eight years ago tonight, he was on the air at WJON in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and was doing an oldies show after the 10PM ( Read more... )
