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November 18, 2004
i used to be fummy
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Come with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when men wore long hair and women wore long hair and barbers sold pencils and drank themselves to death on sterno. When tattered bands of freeform Fm stations clustered at the cheaper ends of the dial, and Djs weren't afraid to play comedy or dramatic bits by fellow tattered longhairs who remembered those ever more glorious days of even much more long ago when radio ruled the ether, and Djs were the cheap jack filler between great comedy and drama series...
Come with us to the fourth tower of inverness, to the ZBS media foundation's mp3 samples of all their various shows. From jack Flanders to Ruby, with stops in between for Saratoga Springs, you will know Little Frieda. (now maybe little Hairball will shut up about her). ZBS was new age before there was such a thing, mystical before Madonna bought Kabalah as well as being homey before the Prairie needed a Companion.
The Word Jazz and Now, Nordine archive is here. Listen with your mind. Almost 50 years of hallucinogenic playfull radio material. Some visuals too. No sign of the levi's ad though. Chicago'a Ken Nordine is The Voice Of Radio, and even out weirded the Grateful Dead (ok, it's easy to out weird the Dead).
We are all bozos on this bus: The Firesign Theater on the web. Mp3s, flash animation, XM radio, Real streams, etc. etc. Maybe we didn't need the Flash Version of Mark Time, but we need Tirebiter, he's a man of the people. The site chronicles the rise and fall and fall and rise and fall of the weekly religious radio show for draft deferment specialists, and full on satire records that followed, as well as their solo outings
(Since i forgot to mention when i posted this, these are the official sites, and include the usual order forms and what not so you can own all this loverly content.)
Posted by parody at November 18, 2004 06:59 PM
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