Music and Musical Conversations
Hey there,
I've really abandoned this thing, haven't I? Well, maybe not if I'm typing in it now. I do still read it occasionally, in other words I read what everyone else is typing. I just haven't typed anything in a long time. I left off with a half finished meme and the start of playlists of Internet radio shows. The meme was fun, the playlists end up getting way too long and time consuming to retype. Though honestly, I write them all down, so I do have them. Cool thing is that I hardly ever repeat songs. I have a few set songs that I do play every time, those are outside of that qualification though, they're the "special" ones.
Musical Conversations is my Internet radio broadcast that I do on Tuesday nights from 9 until 3am. Yes, six hours of music and conversation! Using the interactivity of the Internet, I chat using various forms and methods, including but not limited to Facebook (yeah, the enemy around here in LJ land), AIM and Yahoo! chats, email (seems so quaint and archaic now) and even Google+ (though that's just starting up). What's cool is that occasionally I have a co-host or even a local band sit in for an interview. I'm working on expanding that aspect of Musical Conversations, to have an actual conversation with others here.
Thanks to the wonders of computers, the show is archived, which allows me to do the minor editing needed in case there is a glitch (and, it like many other things, happens), so that I can then upload it to the guys at PMCR for rebroadcast. PMCR is Plaza-Midwood Community Radio. They at PMCR then rebroadcast my show very early Saturday morning, like at 1 am, which means it goes until 7 am. I'm the all-night DJ on Friday nights! I've always thought of myself as an overnight DJ and so this fits and works out great.
There's more! PMCR takes over Snug Harbor on Monday nights. First night, last week (8-22-11) I was the only DJ to show. I mean, one guy was there, though he was also the bartender. He handed it over to me and I got to play! I was told there was a turntable (as in one) and an input for a laptop or i-Pod or something. So, I packed up the little Acer Netbook, the backup hard drive (only 1tb) and brought more vinyl than I could use.
Wow.
I mean, it was wonderful! I am not a club DJ. I tend to play music for myself and if others happen to enjoy it, great. I'm not one to DJ for weddings either. If I do play music for someone, I consider it to be for one singular person and focus on that, me sharing music with them. If that individual happens to be multiple people, great also. I tend not to like to play for a crowd, like at a dance club or a wedding. So, being invited down to Snug Harbor is a challenge I thought I would undertake. Now, does this mean that I'd never do a club night? I'd really like to acclimate myself to it, though still keep my style in place. I know, I know, the key is to be mutable and play to (and for) the crowd. I'm happy that I've been able to find a crowd that is interested in the music as a journey and follow what I'm doing. As I've said, if you're not following the conversation, then you're not listening.
I show up and there's nobody there. One guy at the bar and he wasn't the bartender. A couple outside also. A few more showed up throughout the night. I had my regular listeners tune in even though they aren't in town. And I had fun. Lots of fun. So maybe I'll share that playlist. Note that V or C means that it came from vinyl or computer.
Spirit of Radio - Rush - V
Clones/Pain - Alice Cooper - V
The Step and The Walk - The Duke Spirit - C
Live for the Music - Bad Company - V
Bourbon Street/Girl Like You - Colby Dobbs Band - C - local band
Roland The Headless Gunner - Warren Zevon - V
Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagles - C
Turn to Stone - Joe Walsh - V - live
Urban Spaceman - the Bonzo Dog Band - C
Piranhas - Man Man - V
Montana - The Mothers - C
Ah Via Musicom/Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson - V
Mohammad's Radio - Warren Zevon - C - request
Higher Love - Steve Winwood - V - hey, I got a cue headphone finally
Peace of Mind - Boston - C
Dragon Attack - Queen - V
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith - C - note to self, the segue sucked from Queen
I am the Sea/The Real Me - The Who - V
Frozen Love - Buckingham-Nicks - C
Love Alive - Heart - V
Let's Get The Show On The Road - Michael Stanley & Friends - C
Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe - V
Rock and Roll Creation - Spinal Tap - C
Too much time on my hands - Styx - C
Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar - V - Heavy Metal soundtrack
Mean Street - Van Halen - C - Internet request
Everybody Run, the Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun - Julie Brown - V
This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide - The Kings - C
Let's Go - the Cars - V
Mystery Achievement - Pretenders - C
Destroyer - Kinks - C
Love Is - Allanah Myles - V
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers - C - request
The Wizard - Black Sabbath - V
Dreamline - Rush - C
Fight the Good Fight - Triumph - V
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic - C
L.A. Woman - The Doors - V
And that's it. What did Jason put on after the Doors? Pop that pussy by 2 Live Crew. From there? I don't know.
I also went last night and had a great time also. I'm going to post about that one soon. It was a night of overcoming tragedies and triumphing beyond reality. I'll explain at some point.
Well, hello again LJ. It's been awhile. I've not forgotten about you though. Still working on blogging a bit better. I've got a few other outlets for it, yet this still is the better one as I don't have a limitation on the number of words or characters. Why have I forgotten? The other outlets are so easy and appealing. So I'll keep this going as my Snug Harbor DJing blog.. with a few other things maybe?
Should I post my Musical Conversations playlists? Realize that they're six hours worth of music. Least number of songs I've played has been in the mid-40's. Most? I don't know... I'll look that up.
More eventually soon.
I've really abandoned this thing, haven't I? Well, maybe not if I'm typing in it now. I do still read it occasionally, in other words I read what everyone else is typing. I just haven't typed anything in a long time. I left off with a half finished meme and the start of playlists of Internet radio shows. The meme was fun, the playlists end up getting way too long and time consuming to retype. Though honestly, I write them all down, so I do have them. Cool thing is that I hardly ever repeat songs. I have a few set songs that I do play every time, those are outside of that qualification though, they're the "special" ones.
Musical Conversations is my Internet radio broadcast that I do on Tuesday nights from 9 until 3am. Yes, six hours of music and conversation! Using the interactivity of the Internet, I chat using various forms and methods, including but not limited to Facebook (yeah, the enemy around here in LJ land), AIM and Yahoo! chats, email (seems so quaint and archaic now) and even Google+ (though that's just starting up). What's cool is that occasionally I have a co-host or even a local band sit in for an interview. I'm working on expanding that aspect of Musical Conversations, to have an actual conversation with others here.
Thanks to the wonders of computers, the show is archived, which allows me to do the minor editing needed in case there is a glitch (and, it like many other things, happens), so that I can then upload it to the guys at PMCR for rebroadcast. PMCR is Plaza-Midwood Community Radio. They at PMCR then rebroadcast my show very early Saturday morning, like at 1 am, which means it goes until 7 am. I'm the all-night DJ on Friday nights! I've always thought of myself as an overnight DJ and so this fits and works out great.
There's more! PMCR takes over Snug Harbor on Monday nights. First night, last week (8-22-11) I was the only DJ to show. I mean, one guy was there, though he was also the bartender. He handed it over to me and I got to play! I was told there was a turntable (as in one) and an input for a laptop or i-Pod or something. So, I packed up the little Acer Netbook, the backup hard drive (only 1tb) and brought more vinyl than I could use.
Wow.
I mean, it was wonderful! I am not a club DJ. I tend to play music for myself and if others happen to enjoy it, great. I'm not one to DJ for weddings either. If I do play music for someone, I consider it to be for one singular person and focus on that, me sharing music with them. If that individual happens to be multiple people, great also. I tend not to like to play for a crowd, like at a dance club or a wedding. So, being invited down to Snug Harbor is a challenge I thought I would undertake. Now, does this mean that I'd never do a club night? I'd really like to acclimate myself to it, though still keep my style in place. I know, I know, the key is to be mutable and play to (and for) the crowd. I'm happy that I've been able to find a crowd that is interested in the music as a journey and follow what I'm doing. As I've said, if you're not following the conversation, then you're not listening.
I show up and there's nobody there. One guy at the bar and he wasn't the bartender. A couple outside also. A few more showed up throughout the night. I had my regular listeners tune in even though they aren't in town. And I had fun. Lots of fun. So maybe I'll share that playlist. Note that V or C means that it came from vinyl or computer.
Spirit of Radio - Rush - V
Clones/Pain - Alice Cooper - V
The Step and The Walk - The Duke Spirit - C
Live for the Music - Bad Company - V
Bourbon Street/Girl Like You - Colby Dobbs Band - C - local band
Roland The Headless Gunner - Warren Zevon - V
Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagles - C
Turn to Stone - Joe Walsh - V - live
Urban Spaceman - the Bonzo Dog Band - C
Piranhas - Man Man - V
Montana - The Mothers - C
Ah Via Musicom/Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson - V
Mohammad's Radio - Warren Zevon - C - request
Higher Love - Steve Winwood - V - hey, I got a cue headphone finally
Peace of Mind - Boston - C
Dragon Attack - Queen - V
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith - C - note to self, the segue sucked from Queen
I am the Sea/The Real Me - The Who - V
Frozen Love - Buckingham-Nicks - C
Love Alive - Heart - V
Let's Get The Show On The Road - Michael Stanley & Friends - C
Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe - V
Rock and Roll Creation - Spinal Tap - C
Too much time on my hands - Styx - C
Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar - V - Heavy Metal soundtrack
Mean Street - Van Halen - C - Internet request
Everybody Run, the Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun - Julie Brown - V
This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide - The Kings - C
Let's Go - the Cars - V
Mystery Achievement - Pretenders - C
Destroyer - Kinks - C
Love Is - Allanah Myles - V
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers - C - request
The Wizard - Black Sabbath - V
Dreamline - Rush - C
Fight the Good Fight - Triumph - V
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic - C
L.A. Woman - The Doors - V
And that's it. What did Jason put on after the Doors? Pop that pussy by 2 Live Crew. From there? I don't know.
I also went last night and had a great time also. I'm going to post about that one soon. It was a night of overcoming tragedies and triumphing beyond reality. I'll explain at some point.
Well, hello again LJ. It's been awhile. I've not forgotten about you though. Still working on blogging a bit better. I've got a few other outlets for it, yet this still is the better one as I don't have a limitation on the number of words or characters. Why have I forgotten? The other outlets are so easy and appealing. So I'll keep this going as my Snug Harbor DJing blog.. with a few other things maybe?
Should I post my Musical Conversations playlists? Realize that they're six hours worth of music. Least number of songs I've played has been in the mid-40's. Most? I don't know... I'll look that up.
More eventually soon.