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4:14pm
: Only three hours, forty-six minutes to curtain. Places, please...

Tonight: Hour Two of Radio Retrofit: QSKY FM

🎸 ♥ 7:25pm
Austin Rich: Good Hello. 7:33pm
Imaginos: Ahoy 🎸 ♥ 7:48pm
Krys O.: hi 7:59pm
postconsumer: hi, ahoy and good hello to you, Austin, Imaginos and Krys! 7:59pm
postconsumer: the Miracles, wow. dug that last track 🎸 ♥ 8:00pm
Bandit: Hello all 🎸 ♥ 8:01pm
Austin Rich: Hopefully it sounds good out there in radioland? 8:01pm
postconsumer: The prelude. Thanks for the help, Austin! Show proper starts at 5:02. Hi Bandit! 🎸 ♥ 8:01pm
Austin Rich:

↳ postconsumer @7:59

Nice to see you in the Digital Salon. 🎸 ♥ 8:02pm
Austin Rich: Imaginos, Krys O, Bandit, and all the Lurkers Out To Sea...

It's always lovely to see ya'll.

8:02pm
postconsumer:

↳ Austin Rich @8:01

You, too! 8:04pm
postconsumer: heaphones, everyone? volumes UP? 😁 🎸 ♥ 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Ça Plane Pour Moi" by "Plastic Bertrand"

Is this song really in the movie? 8:06pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:02

Wonderful to see you too 🎸 ♥ 8:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:06

Thank you. 8:07pm
postconsumer:

↳ Austin Rich @8:06

most of the songs aren't, actually. The soundtrack was a HUGE success, so I don't feel too bad going in a different direction. Those songs definitely had their day. 8:08pm
postconsumer: a few made it in though, as they were a part of the dialogue, or etc (or just to honor SOMETHING musical, from the movie). 8:10pm
postconsumer: The music in my QSKY mix is more a reference to what the stations the "FM" movie was based on were playing, in the early to mid 1970s. Through to 1978. 8:11pm
postconsumer: Martin Mull, ladies and gentleman. ❤️ 🎸 ♥ 8:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ postconsumer @8:11

I have a soft spot for his comedy records. He was usually the sign of quality. 8:13pm
postconsumer: omg I loved him in that recent National Lampoon movie, about how the magazine came to be... 8:14pm
postconsumer: anyway, yeah, he's great. 8:15pm
postconsumer: A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) 🎸 ♥ 8:16pm
Austin Rich: Com-Crash just disconnected, everyone. Sorry! Hopefully it sounded good at home... 🎸 ♥ 8:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ postconsumer @8:15

Certainly this could be the title of every movie about everything these days. 8:16pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:16

I hope the connection improves 8:18pm
postconsumer:

↳ Imaginos @8:16

I hadn't noticed any problems. Sounds great here, thx Austin 8:19pm
postconsumer:

↳ Austin Rich @8:16

I slip in and out of awareness, since the past couple of years, probably. Things are worse than I've ever seen them, and I can't live in constant fear, daily, hourly. It's too hard. I haven't completey tuned out, that could lead to absolute disaster. But we've got to pace ourselves. Anyway, that's the last I'll say about it. Stay strong, buddy. 🎸 ♥ 8:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ postconsumer @8:18

The stream disconnected for moment (both the streaming software indicated the interruption, and I heard it on the stream while monitoring). It happens pretty regular at our house, unfortunately. We don't have very good internet here, unfortunately. 8:20pm
postconsumer:

↳ Austin Rich @8:20

i haven't heard even a single hiccup. Thanks for your assistance. 🎸 ♥ 8:21pm
Austin Rich: A 555 number! 8:23pm
postconsumer: I love how I more or less inadvertently focused this playlist almost entirely on seventies music. I read a lot about 70's la radio and listened to a bunch of airchecks and it was very current music they were playing, but much more freeform leaning than any commercial station I was listening to in the 80s. 8:23pm
Don-O: Just popping in to see if this is any better than the movie....and indeed it tis! Way to go, Jon!! 8:23pm
postconsumer: lots of musc from 1978. 8:24pm
Arvo Zylo: hello hello 8:25pm
Don-O: I haven't heard so much from Martin Mull!! 8:25pm
Arvo Zylo:

↳ Song: "(I’m) Stranded" by "The Saints"

From Australia if I'm not mistaken! 8:25pm
postconsumer:

↳ Don-O @8:23

thanks, Don-O! YES. It was a hard job, too, honoring the movie, while choosing to aim the playlist itself more toward the sounds of the radio station the movie was supposedly based on. It's writer was a former DJ at KMET. 8:26pm
Arvo Zylo:

↳ postconsumer @8:23

I was listening to a compilation of '70s rock before this, so it's a seamless bit of serendipity for me. 🎸 ♥ 8:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Arvo Zylo @8:25

There's several UK inclusions, too. 8:26pm
postconsumer: welcome Arvo Zylo and Don-O! 8:28pm
postconsumer:

↳ Don-O @8:25

You missed most of it. Re-listen later! :) 8:29pm
Don-O:

↳ postconsumer @8:28

Yea, I'll have to catch this on the rebound. Repeats don't suck on 'FMU! 8:29pm
postconsumer: truth be told, the bulk of the movie takes place IN a radio station, with not too much actually on-air. I had to get creative to include the DJs as much as I did, in fact. I even grabbed a word, here and there, from other scenes, off-mic, and even from other movies. 8:30pm
Don-O: Though I'm still not getting the DVD of the movie. The soundtrack is better....next to this. 8:30pm
Arvo Zylo: The owner of Permanent Records, when it was in Chicago, had the tagline "You Can't Put Your Arms Around An MP3". I thought that was astute.

For years, I was told by locals that I'd stayed in the room where Johnny Thunders died, but it turned out, I didn't stay in the same room or the same hotel, people just made it up to flatter me or something. I didn't bother to look it up on the internet for years. This was 2004. New Orleans was very different then.

8:31pm
Don-O:

↳ postconsumer @8:29

I wonder if the people behind WKRP was this movie and felt they can do a better job.... 8:31pm
postconsumer: speaking of which, lots of sampling going on in the station IDs. This is based off of air-checks I heard from KMET in 1975. One memorable sequence briefly features the dj even having a conversation with a sample he's played. And the'res a few station promos which were really just sound collages. 🎸 ♥ 8:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Don-O @8:30

If I'm honest, I find a lot of movies "about radio" to not be very good, or to not really be about radio. I have a script for a movie about a radio station, but I have never polished up with the idea of actually making it. 🎸 ♥ 8:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Don-O @8:31

I have thought that, too. ♥ 8:32pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Radio Retrofit: QSKY's Bobbly Douglas"

Google's A.I. Overview thinks that picture is from the Howard Stern movie "Private Parts". 8:33pm
postconsumer:

↳ David Shortell @8:32

that's bizarre 8:33pm
postconsumer: RIP Mr Tom Lehrer. You were fabulous. 🎸 ♥ 8:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ postconsumer @8:33

Agreed. All of his songs are fantastic. 🎸 ♥ 8:37pm
Bandit: Im back; this time with potato chips and dip 8:37pm
postconsumer:

↳ Don-O @8:31

One of those 'coinci-dipities,' from what I've read. Like when Allen and Foley starred, the same summer, in two different animated movies about ANTS. Both sides swear they had no idea. 🎸 ♥ 8:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @8:37

Party at Bandit's pad. 8:38pm
postconsumer:

↳ Bandit @8:37

pass em my way? 🎸 ♥ 8:39pm
Bandit: *passes around chips* 🎸 ♥ 8:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Mohammed’s Radio" by "Linda Ronstadt"

We got a Ronstadt record in at the store I work at, and I was wondering today if I could even put to mind a single one of her songs. I don't really know her music, outside of her name. 8:40pm
Don-O: My radio during this period was Sweet Dick Whittington. He was the morning DJ for KGIL-AM. In fact the station's station was within walking distance from here I lived. Too bad I never went there. 8:41pm
postconsumer:

↳ Austin Rich @8:39

I liked her version better, plus it's released the year of this mix. Warren Zevon put his version out two years earlier. 8:41pm
Don-O: Zevon! 🎸 ♥ 8:42pm
Bandit: @Austin Rich I put down a couple ideas in the google doc 🎸 ♥ 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ postconsumer @8:41

I don't really know his music, either. (Or might have heard it on the radio, and just didn't know it was him). I never really gelled with 70's music outside of punk and metal. 🎸 ♥ 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @8:42

Hell yeah! That's what I'm talkin' about. 🎸 ♥ 8:43pm
Bandit:

↳ postconsumer @8:41

There was a local late night DJ (Slick Tom was his handle) who would end each show by saying "Weed, Whiskey, and Warren Zevon" ♥ 8:44pm
David Shortell:

↳ postconsumer @8:15

Based on the 2006 Douglas Kenney biography?
That was good reading, as was the 1998 biography "Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue" and Tony Hendra's 1987 book "Going Too Far: the Rise and Demise of Sick, Gross, Black, Sophomoric, Weirdo, Pinko, Anarchist, Underground, Anti-establishment Humor". 🎸 ♥ 8:47pm
Austin Rich: "M-E-L-V-I-N. MELVIN!" 🎸 ♥ 8:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Gloria" by "Patti Smith"

It's almost the "Born To Be Wild" riff, too. 8:49pm
postconsumer:

↳ Don-O @8:40

1978 was during my parents time, so I'd have been listening to whatever they were. I was 5. And my grandparents, too, who had a surprisingly large record collection, and evenings were literally spent sitting around the den, putting record after record on the hi-fi. When my aunt was visiting, she'd be sitting in the kitche with grandma, and the air was thick with cigarette smoke. People were drinking iced teas and cokes and making requests, from this carefully racked set of records, mostly country, but some rock and pop, some liberace and all the folk music my dad had, as a teenager, and pop from the 50s, on and a few comedy records, too. I first heard Flowers on the Wall, and live from Folsum Prison, Frankie Laine's Cry of the Cry of The Wild Goose, lying on the sapphire blue and deep sea green carpet, there in Dallas. 8:50pm
postconsumer:

↳ David Shortell @8:44

I'm not sure, but I wasn to say yes. I haven't read it. It stars Martin Mull, and a lot of comedians who chew the scenery, in a good way. I loved it. 8:51pm
postconsumer:

↳ Austin Rich @8:49

I hadn't noticed that! ♥ 8:52pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Gloria" by "Patti Smith"

The PS Group performed both sides of the single on Saturday Night Live in 1976.
latenighter.com... 8:52pm
postconsumer:

↳ Bandit @8:43

His version was so good, but Ronstadt is kind of a touchtone here. She pops up every once in a while, and like Austin, I had very little previous experience, only to find out she's frequently a relief from whatever I've been listening to, overly, at the moment. 8:53pm
postconsumer: SO many good songs about radio in the 70s 🎸 ♥ 8:53pm
Austin Rich: I don't really remember the 70's, but by 1985 I was listening to the radio pretty consistently. Until the Grunge Revolution, most radio in my area had a lot of pretty bland AOR / MOR type music around then, with occasional "Classic Rock" and "Oldies" shows / formats. I found it pretty dull where I lived, but there wasn't really any new wave or punk on the radio where I lived, so I wasn't hearing the good stuff until years later.

I remember when Nirvana was a huge hit, the DJs on the Classic Rock station made fun of them relentlessly. Now that station is pretty much an all-Grunge format.

8:54pm
Don-O:

↳ postconsumer @8:49

I was pretty much in the meddle of the grand Sen Fernando Valley. which was okay as I'm a urban rat. 🎸 ♥ 8:54pm
Bandit:

↳ postconsumer @8:52

I have to come clean... I have only ever heard "Werewolf of London" by Mister Zevon 8:54pm
postconsumer:

↳ Bandit @8:54

😄 8:55pm
postconsumer:

↳ Bandit @8:54

I love an honest man. 8:55pm
Arvo Zylo: For good or ill, I think of David Lee Roth's quote whenever I hear Elvis Costello.

"Music critics like Elvis Costello because they all look like Elvis Costello."

I don't mind a little Elvis Costello sometimes. I have made great use of a worn out warbly tape of This Year's Model.

8:55pm
Arvo Zylo:

↳ Bandit @8:54

"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" is close to my heart. 🎸 ♥ 8:56pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Arvo Zylo @8:55

I think most artists are better in moderation. 8:56pm
postconsumer: It goes, in order, like this: Honest Man <- Working Man <-Dead Man. Thankfully, I've always been painfully honest. 😂 8:57pm
Arvo Zylo:

↳ Austin Rich @8:53

I always craved the oldies. It's not that I didn't like Classic Rock, but the same 10 songs over and over got old. 🎸 ♥ 8:58pm
Austin Rich: Thanks again, postconsumer! See ya next time. 🎸 ♥ 8:58pm
Austin Rich: "Faster" miles an hour. ♥ 9:00pm
David Shortell:

↳ postconsumer @8:50

I was referring to the Netflix flick "A Futile and Stupid Gesture", which I haven't seen.
I wondered if it depicted his fatal fall from the Hawaii cliff. Some speculate it was a suicide, one month after the release of the disastrous "Caddyshack". 9:00pm
postconsumer:

↳ Austin Rich @8:53

Thanks all! Episode three in two week... 🎸 ♥ 9:00pm
Bandit: Great show! 9:00pm
Don-O: Solid! 9:00pm
postconsumer:

↳ David Shortell @9:00

It's a sad story. But the movie makes you laugh. 9:01pm
postconsumer:

↳ Bandit @9:00

Thanks! 9:04pm
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