hey…you…the few, the weird, the wonderful listeners to this silly daily online radio vanity project. we’ll be deep in the wayback, long on the tunes…rockin’ the 1s and 0’s…making it up one tune at a time. wholesome free-range, artisanal segues and cageless, grass fed tunes, rare and well done and frank’s here, too the allison
Wait…what? Gen Z can’t see the American dream of home ownership any time soon…millennials are facing their mid life crisis zone….gen x are nearing retirement… and here I am going on 75 and doing a daily freeform radio show for shits and giggles with a refurbished heart for an audience that leaks members daily. things
all the signs are there, it’s true. the weather prognosicators point to meteorlogical autumn on september 1st..labor day weekend is touted as the end of summer…schools are , indeed, refilling for the new school year and freakin’ pumpkin’ spice is everywhere. all true. this is also true. the cosmos dictates the 23rd of September as
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this sunday (08.27) at noonish on cygnusradio.com’s loco archives show, two great shows from the 34 plus year history of thelocalbandsshow as aired on wplr…original commercials, concert calendar and your hosts the one and only james velvet and rick allison part one aired august 27 th 2006 You’ll hear :big fat combo…welcome…off the bridge…echoing august…frank
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it’s an otherwise empty two hour vessel into which we pour our take on the cool, the groovy, the timely, the tasteful . at least that’s the plan. reale-ity radio prog edition goes jazz on us and the wayback machine poots out many reminders of les temps perdu. oh, and there’ll be a little something
wanna know the truth? the truth isn’t christie or Vivek or nikki or the rest of the dwarves in milwaukee . the truth isn’t jack smith or Fani or the pair of septuagenarians running to rule the world. the truth is that that’s all just a clownshow. and incredible damage being done behind the cover
somewhere where notes aren’t exactly notes…that nuanced thing called the quarter tone…somewhere near the beat but not quite ,an off beat thing called syncopation…simultaneous improvisation …vamping…tradin’ eights…that’s frank and me…it’s jazz , really. the allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Stolen Moments (You Belong to Her) Carmen McRae & Betty Carter Stolen Moments Lucinda Williams Stolen
