thomas schelling says…’nobody , no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, can draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.’ so don’t ask what I’m gonna play. it’s not now yet…but it will be… and then we’ll both know and with lamar and frank here it gets even
(the first few minutes are technically challenged. skip ahead for the quality entertainment you crave) the sonic spectacle is matched only by the total lack of preparation (unless you consider a life in radio , preparation) …a whizbang wayback and other amusements are on offer. can I interest you in my favorite waste of time?
Anaïs Nin said “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are” we’ll split the difference today. the Allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Rick Allison
if you will, consider the transmission a non fungible token of my esteem . yes, it has no value when traded and its value is most likely only in the mind. mine and , maybe, yours. it won’t get you a cup o’ Joe or a buy you a ride on public transit. it’s just
the magic of radio past…no playlist…no consultant perpetrated focus grouped music ..just an old school freeform radio style, vanity project, noodling. with a pinch of history…garnished with whatever comes into my head. why should you listen? just a poke in the eye of radio reality , of course. the allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Rick
in lieu of a go to recipe for radio excellence…we resort to the time tested method of flinging spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks. and Wednesdays there are three cooks in the kitchen we’ll limit stains by going with a white sauce. the allison transmission cygnusradio.com Rick Allison
it’s time to perform the alchemy of turning the led of 2 mundane hours of into something approximating the gold of an old school on-line radio style internet thingee… balancing the new, the weird and the wayback . Shazam ! the allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Rick Allison
wouldn’t the transmission have more listeners if it stuck to the hits? wouldn’t the transmission have more listeners if it played just one kind of music? wouldn’t the transmission have more listeners if it were a tad more predictable? maybe. but it wouldn’t be the transmission. listen if you like. ‘like’ if you listen. the
Hippocrates called the 4 human temperaments :Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, and Phlegmatic. we’ll try to ‘humor’ each ingredient in today’s little freeform vanity project . we’ll dust off the the book of the day via the waybackmachine™ . and open a can of ‘what the heck’ musically on you. that’s the plan…as humble as it is
in explaining cygnusradio to those who’ve not experienced it before, the phrase that most often comes to my mind is ‘the inmates have taken over the asylum’ can we stipulate that one of the problems with modern radio is computers? (and salesmen and lawyers and stockholders and consultants…) here on Cygnus though everything we do
