Listener comments!

🎸 ♥ 5:56pm
: Good Hello. 8:45pm
Imaginos: Ahoy 9:01pm
postconsumer: hiya 🎸 ♥ 9:01pm
MarkTime: I'll hang on until dinner is ready (5 to 15 minutes). 🎸 ♥ 9:02pm
Bandit: Pants!! Yes we give praise for good PANTS! 🎸 ♥ 9:03pm
MarkTime: One of these days I will be around for a "Call In" portion ... reminds me of insomniac nights when I was still up for Over the Edge on KPFA 9:07pm
postconsumer: but how did the story end?? 9:07pm
postconsumer: i love this intro 9:07pm
postconsumer: Here we go again! 9:08pm
Imaginos:

↳ Bandit @9:02

Shorts, hip huggers, khakis jhods 9:10pm
Imaginos: Here's to Watson! The man who ejaculated more than any other in English literature 9:10pm
postconsumer: Is it considered gauche to ask about source material? 😆 9:11pm
Imaginos: Happy 28year anniversary   9:12pm
Ninah Pixie: Listening from the car with Das 9:14pm
postconsumer: 28? yikes, Austin we are in the exact same boat, time-wise. weird. 9:16pm
Mr. X: Howdy fellow Mute Ants!   🎸 ♥ 9:17pm
Heather Z: Happy Radioversary, Austin!! 🎸 ♥ 9:17pm
Austin Rich: Thanks for listening in tonight, Imaginos, postconsumer, Ninah and das, Mr. X, and Heather Z! It's great to see ya'll hanging out. Hope you're ready for some fun... 9:18pm
Imaginos: I am though this is very hypnotic 🎸 ♥ 9:18pm
Austin Rich: And Mark Time, too! Thanks for a great show last hour. 9:19pm
Mr. X: Are you taking requests tonight, Austin? 9:19pm
postconsumer:

↳ Imaginos @9:18

yes, I'm really curious about the tones 🎸 ♥ 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @9:19

Certainly! What would you like to hear? 🎸 ♥ 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Ocean 2" by "Smoke 'N' Mirrors"

This was the band of one of the DJs at KPSU in 2007, and she handed me a cdr of these "demos." I don't know what happened to this band, but I really like these tunes. 9:20pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @9:19

I was thinking I haven't heard Vortex Remover in a while. Is that something you can track down? 🎸 ♥ 9:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @9:20

I might be able to find something. I think they are not making new music, but aren't really broken up. The members are doing other things, as I understand it. 9:24pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @9:21

Cool, thanks! An oldie but goodie would be fine. Yeah, I was wondering what happened to those gents. Thanks for the update. 9:25pm
Mr. X:

↳ Song: "Late Anthropocene" by "Brian Eno"

What a coincidence! I watched a documentary about Eno just last night. 9:27pm
Imaginos: Getting sleepy 9:29pm
Imaginos: Everyone have a wonderful time 🎸 ♥ 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "88888888888888" by "Vortex Remover"

By request! 🎸 ♥ 9:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:27

Sleep Well. 9:32pm
Mr. X:

↳ Song: "88888888888888" by "Vortex Remover"

Thanks! Yes, good one! ♥ 9:37pm
das ubuibi: home from work and ready for MUTATIONS ! 9:39pm
Geoff-U: Happy Tuesday all   9:41pm
Ninah Pixie: Eno! 9:48pm
Mr. X: Anyone here own an official deck of Eno's Oblique Strategies? 9:53pm
Geoff-U: Speaker scratchers of the world unite 9:54pm
Geoff-U: I have seen larger speaker drivers used as kick drum mics 9:56pm
Mr. X:

↳ Geoff-U @9:53

My brother and I ruined a perfectly good 45 of "Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin, by playing the record with our fingernails, feeling that driving bass line pulsing up our fingers. 9:59pm
Geoff-U: Haha rad 🎸 ♥ 10:02pm
Bandit: Is the book Sex and Broadcasting? 10:06pm
Mr. X: I don't know a lot of Dream Syndicate's material, but I've always loved that one song of theirs, "Medicine Show." 🎸 ♥ 10:07pm
Bandit:

↳ Mr. X @9:48

I own some decks of cards, does that count? 10:09pm
Mr. X:

↳ Bandit @10:07

Only if you consult them as part of your creative process. 10:16pm
Mr. X: I like Wynn's recipe, just as a little something for critiquing music. But while I'm creating music, I would most likely get bogged down in trying to meet all those elusive criteria, and give up before I start. 🎸 ♥ 10:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @9:48

There's an official free app for "Oblique Strategies," which all the kids love. The decks are VERY expensive. 10:36pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @10:31

Yeah, that's why I decline from possessing the actual artifact, despite the temptation of acquiring some cool points. 🎸 ♥ 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:36

I recall a website where you could just print them out, too. Not official, but would work in a pinch. 🎸 ♥ 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Geoff-U @9:39

Lovely to see you in the digital salon, Geoff-U! 10:40pm
Mr. X: Should we hear some Dream Syndicate and Be Bop Deluxe? 10:43pm
Geoff-U: My Eugene band used to cover some Dream Syndicate songs 10:44pm
Geoff-U:

↳ Austin Rich @10:37

Good to see you too, and it was great to see you and Don in person weekend before last! 🎸 ♥ 10:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Geoff-U @10:44

Yeah, that show was a lot of fun. I might be playing at that space again, soon! 10:50pm
Mr. X:

↳ Song: "Then She Remembers" by "Dream Syndicate"

I don't think it meets the "falling apart" requirement. It's tight all the way through. 🎸 ♥ 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:50

I don't know... one wrong move, and it would have been a trainwreck. I think I see what he means. 10:52pm
Mr. X:

↳ Song: "Ringer" by "Moth Hunter"

Is this the same Moth Hunter who builds the circuit bent stuff? 🎸 ♥ 10:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:52

It is! I met him as a musician. He bent his own gear... and then eventually started selling it. 🎸 ♥ 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @10:52

www.mothhuntermods.com 10:53pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @10:52

Very cool.   10:59pm
Laura Panic: Three cheers for our young technician, Hurrah!! Tally ho!! 🎸 ♥ 11:08pm
Bandit: I'm enjoying your anniversary show buddy! 🎸 ♥ 11:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Live" by "Death Worth Living"

This was a band that came in to play on Ricardo Wang's show, "What's This Called?" He still hosts that show. I was his live sound engineer for MANY years, and we recorded / hosted a number of bands over the years. 🎸 ♥ 11:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Laura Panic @10:59

Laura Panic! Thanks for dropping in. 🎸 ♥ 11:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @11:08

Thanks Bandit. It's fun to do radio, so in that regard, every show is fun!

But there's not really anything "special" about this show. It's just another show... and maybe that's the important part.

🎸 ♥ 11:13pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @11:12

Maybe the special part of it is the regualrness of it?! Any who, I enjoyed our talk about your radio journey. I had a question that I thought of when I left the call; what lesson would you say you have learned in your 28 years doing radio? 🎸 ♥ 11:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Live" by "Death Worth Living"

I think I'm just gonna let this one play, and not mix over it. I haven't heard this in a while, and I'm really digging the mix.

I'm remember now: they insisted on really dim lighting, and lit incense before they started. Because of emergency lights and stuff like that, it was hard to get it "very dark," so I remember some of the band members trying to unscrew lightbulbs, too.

🎸 ♥ 11:15pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @11:14

That is wild 😂 🎸 ♥ 11:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @11:13

That's a good question! I'll think about that, and answer it at the next break. 11:18pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @11:14

That's weird, before you even said that, for some reason the beginning of this piece got me to thinking about the bright lighting at the studio where we've been recording, and I had this sudden urge to unscrew some lightbulbs. 🎸 ♥ 11:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Live" by "Death Worth Living"

Photo by Ricardo Wang. There might be some more photos around of them, but this is the one I can find on the What's This Called? Blog.

whatsthiscalled.net

11:22pm
Mr. X:

↳ Mr. X @11:18

Hitting Birth always lit mass quantities of incense during their shows. 🎸 ♥ 11:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:22

It would happen more than you think. As a student radio station, we had a pretty lax policy on what bands could and couldn't do. I always said, as part of the station staff: it's like camping. You pack out what you pack in, and you leave it better than you found it. 🎸 ♥ 11:25pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @11:20

This blog looks like it has shows on it. Is it worth a listen? 🎸 ♥ 11:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @11:25

Oh yeah! I worked on the "What's This Called?" show for years, and he has been doing radio since the late 80's. He really leans experimental, but he does all sorts of stuff on his show. We did shows together for years when I lived in PDX, and I played in his band for a while, too. 🎸 ♥ 11:29pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @11:27

Saving for later! 🎸 ♥ 11:30pm
Austin Rich: I will say: WTC has far fewer live bands on their show now than they used to, and it's become largely a DJ show. Which is fine, but I miss the days when almost every other show had a live band on it. 🎸 ♥ 11:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @11:29

He's now part of the "Freeform Portland" family of DJs, and there's a lot of great people that work there. I would probably try to join that crew if I wasn't already on WFMU/ Sheena's. 🎸 ♥ 11:33pm
Austin Rich: I should mention: I have been filming and putting my shows on YouTube these days, so people can see the cut-ups, and other live stuff I do (when I do live stuff).

youtube.com...

🎸 ♥ 11:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @11:33

The videos don't always come out, and I didn't film a lot of shows. But I have tried to film as much relevant stuff as possible, when I can. 🎸 ♥ 11:36pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @11:31

I should save that station too! I've been adding other stations that I learn about from WFMU. I have an internet radio thing on my Foobar 2k on my computer that I'll switch between channels. 🎸 ♥ 11:49pm
Bandit: Take doing radio a day at a time? Interesting take 🎸 ♥ 11:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Live (04)" by "Santiago Latorre"

That's a photo someone took on their phone in 2009, of Santiago (Left) and Me (Right), at the KPSU studios, between songs he was performing. I ran the sound, interviewed him, and DJed everything in-between. That was a fun show! 🎸 ♥ 11:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @11:52

It was during Ricardo Wang's usual Time Slot. This is a live version of the song; the album version of this track by Santiago is different.

midvalleymutations.com...

11:53pm
Mr. X: Enjoyed the music and show this evening, Austin. Thanks! And goodnight folks! 🎸 ♥ 11:53pm
Austin Rich: The link is to the full show with Santiago, so many years ago... 🎸 ♥ 11:54pm
Bandit: Great show Austin, see you next week! 🎸 ♥ 11:55pm
Austin Rich: Thanks everyone!

Here's to the next 28 Years?!?

11:57pm
pxe: congratulations, Austin! 🎸 ♥ 11:57pm
Austin Rich: Thanks pxe! ♥ 11:58pm
das ubuibi: wheeeeee, see you on the other side !! 11:58pm
pxe: was another fun one 12:01am
Arvo Zylo: just dropping by to say howdy
happy mutaversary