Listener comments!

🎸 ♥ 7:55pm
: Good Hello. 8:01pm
Imaginos: Ahoy 🎸 ♥ 8:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:01

Imaginos! Lovely to see you this afternoon. 8:03pm
Imaginos: And you as well 🎸 ♥ 8:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:03

It's okay so far. I'm certainly ready for a little Word Jazz... 🎸 ♥ 8:07pm
Austin Rich: I'll have made it through most of the Word Jazz episodes soon, at this pace. ♥ 8:07pm
Hunterian:

↳ Austin Rich @8:04

The time is always right for a little Word Jazz…have your passports and your tickets ready… 8:07pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:04

Word Jazz is a great way to spend an evening 🎸 ♥ 8:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Hunterian @8:07

Hunterian! Nice to see you in the Digital Salon. ♥ 8:08pm
Hunterian:

↳ Austin Rich @8:07

Ken Nordine almost always summons me 🎸 ♥ 8:08pm
Austin Rich: This bit about Mauve is from one of Ken's previous albums. (His "Colors" records.) While good parts of this Word Jazz shows are new, he adds in old bits, and riffs over them for this show. It's nice to see him give new life to old pieces. 🎸 ♥ 8:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Hunterian @8:08

You and me both! I find new stuff in his pieces each time I listen. What a fascinating career! There's virtually no one else like him. 🎸 ♥ 8:13pm
Austin Rich: "Not to touch the Earth / not to see the Sun."

Lines from a Doors song. Interesting. Was Ken a Doors fan?

🎸 ♥ 8:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @8:13

en.wikipedia.org... 🎸 ♥ 8:17pm
Austin Rich: "Artists are all eccentric."

Now how would Ken know that?

🎸 ♥ 8:18pm
WR:

↳ Austin Rich @8:14

Hi Austin.

More likely I think Nordine is referencing The Golden Bough by James Frazer, which is where the Doors got it from (as can be read on the wikipedia link you posted).

♥ 8:18pm
Hunterian:

↳ WR @8:18

Answer is correct (60th chapter, The Golden Bough) 🎸 ♥ 8:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @8:18

Oh! I didn't even read the wiki! Though that makes sense, as Morrison seemed to be interested in literature and poetry. 🎸 ♥ 8:20pm
Austin Rich: And now I hear a Beatles sample... ♥ 8:22pm
Hunterian:

↳ Austin Rich @8:20

Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble… 🎸 ♥ 8:27pm
Austin Rich: In the span of 30 minutes, Ken really covers a lot of ground. 8:28pm
Imaginos: Why am I suddenly picturing roos? 🎸 ♥ 8:31pm
Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org... 🎸 ♥ 8:33pm
Austin Rich: These shows I'm playing are sourced from archive.org, and seem to be the same .mp3s that Ken used to have available on his website, before those all disappeared, shortly after his death. At the end of each episode, there's an "ad" for how you can order what you just heard on a CD, which was how the mp3s from Ken's site would end. I have cut the ads off, for this presentation. 🎸 ♥ 8:36pm
Austin Rich: With regards to the mp3s that are on archive.org, I have noticed that they are often over-compressed, and the balance between channels seems off here and there. As is my nature, I do a little fiddling with the recordings, to get them to sound as good as possible, before I run them. It's not like the work I do on Dimestore, but I still like them to sound a close to how they should sound as possible. 🎸 ♥ 8:37pm
Austin Rich: I wonder if anyone has gone through all of Ken's shows and made "annotations" for what is in each episode? I haven't found anything in the general searches I've done... 🎸 ♥ 8:38pm
Austin Rich: "Shave and a haircut..." 8:39pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:38

Two bits 🎸 ♥ 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:39

I have noticed that the "Shave And A Haircut" secret knock is starting to disappear... 8:43pm
Imaginos: My friend and I still use it 🎸 ♥ 8:44pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:43

That's good. I recall when I started meeting younger folks, they would use various video game music riffs for their secret knocks. (I recall one roommate with a "Super Mario Bros." Secret Knock.) 🎸 ♥ 8:47pm
Austin Rich: In the last episode he was looking for a dictionary of sayings like this. Now he's got a whole pieces of saying like this. 8:47pm
Imaginos: Needle in a haystack is easy. Magnet. Hard is looking for a specific needle in a pile of needles   8:50pm
Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids. Greetings from mile marker 237 on Ohio I90 🎸 ♥ 8:51pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Barno (from Akron) @8:50

Barno... the name sounds familiar. Are you a DJ on Sheena's Jungle Room, perchance?   8:53pm
Barno (from Akron): Ha ha ha awesome thanks so much for filling in tonight. Such short notice you are a superstar. 🎸 ♥ 8:54pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Barno (from Akron) @8:53

No problem. I'm always around for the hour before my show, so I'm aware of anything going on before I take over. It's not hard to put on something easy.   8:55pm
Barno (from Akron): Welcome to Pennsylvania 🎸 ♥ 8:56pm
Austin Rich: Thanks for listening everyone! Stick around for Dimestore Radio Theater, on next!