From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V99 #72 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com X-BompList-Administrator: efd@interport.net bomp-digest Monday, February 15 1999 Volume 99 : Number 072 It's another issue of bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or use the form at . The following subjects are included in this digest: Re: Let's Work Out! It's "T" Time! Scott Swanson Re: Dans le lonely garage Ron Thums Re: Dans le lonely garage "Beryl Roberts" Steve Coleman's Testifying Joe Bonomo request catalog "JOGA SUSILO" Re: 80s scene "JOANNA M" Re: Closing of the Psychadelicatessen "Jim Lemanowicz" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:35:12 -0800 (PST) From: Scott Swanson Subject: Re: Let's Work Out! It's "T" Time! >>That's what I want (Guy & the Turks+Tony Jackson) > >I have a 45 by this title that came out in early '64 on RCA, by "The >Cicadas"--someone trying to imitate the Beatles. It actually charted in >Seattle. The song was written by Carter/Lewis. I don't know anything >more about it. The Marauders did it in June of '63, and it cracked the British Top-50. Hope this helps, Scott (swandwn@agora.rdrop.com) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:10:25 -0600 (CST) From: Ron Thums Subject: Re: Dans le lonely garage We have several listeners who call up regularly... regarding upcoming shows, new releases, cars, whatever. As far as first-time or infrequent callers, the number of calls we get varies wildly. Sometimes it's just one or two, but there are times I've spent virtually every off-mic minute on the phone with chatty callers. That doesn't happen too often, though. We don't ever solicit requests -- first, because we play entirely from our stash, and we don't haul our record libraries to the studio with us. Second, because it just opens the floodgates for a lot of totally inappropriate requests. (Really, it makes you wonder if some of them come from folks who are even listening to the program. I'm absolutely convinced that some folks just call up stations via the phone listings and blanket the airwaves with their requests. How else do you explain the occasional request that ends with the "listener" asking you what the station's frequency is?) Whenever someone DOES call in a request (and it fits in with the genres we play) we'll try to dig it up and play it the following show, working a set around it. Actually we get a lot more requests for a specific ARTIST than songs though, and that makes it easier. (BTW, I concur with kopper's suggestion -- a DJ/programmer can encourage more calls/requests by "thanking" listeners for previous calls/requests, even if there weren't any. There's a time-honored tradition of making up Letters To The Editor in the print media as well, so it's not like you'd be the first prevaricator. Just don't overdo it, or you won't be able to tell the truth from fiction... kinda like king finger-wagger Bill Clinton.) Personally, I would much rather talk to a listener and find out what kind of music (artists, genres) they like to hear on the show, than to fill specific requests. I think specific song requests work better anyway on a longer show (say, three hours) than one that runs 60-90 minutes. If you actually CARE about the structure of your show, do you really want to break up the flow to accomodate some totally off-the-wall request? I sure don't. This matters more on a shorter show, where on a longer one there's more opportunity to bury the damn thing. Soliciting information from listeners ("If anybody knows something about this band/event give me a call...") is a good way to break the ice with listeners. Give out the studio phone number between sets. (You gotta continually let the listeners know it's okay to call, if that's what you want.) Community/college radio stations never know how many listeners they actually have, so all you can do is blindly try to build as big as audience as you can. Ask listeners to tell a friend about the show if they like it. Dropping little postcard-sized mini-fliers at record stores, shows and other places where you prospective listenership hangs is a nice way to help get the word out. I printed up a bunch and distributed them at the Soma "Big Hits Of Mid-America" shows here and reached a bunch of folks who didn't even know about the station, much less that there was a radio show that actually PLAYED this music. Also a good idea is the exchange of mutual plugs between your show and other like-minded shows, if any, at the station. A good, punchy promo carts is good also, if your station uses them. Realize that sometimes you'll do a great show and get a bunch of calls, and other times you'll do a FANTASTIC show and the phone will be dead. Who know why, but just keep pluggin' and never forget how lucky we are to be able to inflict our tastes on other lovers of this great music! Ron ________________ RADIO RUMPUS ROOM: An unholy mix of surf, hot rod, rockabilly, '60s garage, psychedelic, and trad/alt.country -- Fridays 9-10:30 p.m. KFAI 90.3 FM (Minneapolis) and 106.7 FM (St. Paul) Weekly playlists & more at http://www2.bitstream.net/~rumpus2/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:59:02 +1000 From: "Beryl Roberts" Subject: Re: Dans le lonely garage Alex Wrote: HA! I had a local rock (read: Boston) show at my old station a few years back which was preceeded by a rap/hip-hop show. I constantly got requests for "shout-outs" to varoius folks at "The Point", a nearby housing project. I'd ask if they knew what I was playing at that moment and they couldn't answer me. I get exactly the same thing on one of my other radio shows (At the moment I do UFO, Hellmetal and am in the process of taking over "The Spy Show" for a while anyway) HellMetal is on before "Blackbeat" (not what I'd call R'n'B, but they seem to think it is) and we're constantly getting calls for shout-outs and requests for the lame shite they play....sometimes as early as the first 10 minutes of the bloody heavy metal show!!! They're obviously not listening to us, so I usually just tell 'em to call back after Blackbeat starts instead of taking messages, just so the suckers will have to pay for another phone call later on!!!Hee hee! That's a bit mean isn't it? Oh well, I figure they deserve to be penalised somehow for actually wanting to listen to that crap! As for the other shows I do, The Spy Show gets quite a few calls, but mainly I think it's because they're in a more accessible timeslot than UFO (Spy Show is on Monday Afternoons, 3 til 6pm and UFO is on Saturday nights, midnight til 2am) on UFO we mostly get drunken or otherwise affected people ringing in to find out "what the hell this weird shit yer playin' is cos it's messin' with my head" or Cab drivers ringing in to tell us the can't believe we play certain songs that they haven't heard for the last 30 years or so, which is cool! Overall though we do seem to get more people contacting us via the 'net during the show than by phone, or at least trying to, unfortunately though, our "Internet" computer is in a completely different part of the building from the studio which makes things a little difficult, but, hey it's Triple Zed, "Difficult" is our specialty!!!! Judy Jetson - -----Original Message----- From: APiandes@aol.com To: bomp@xnet2.com Date: Saturday, 13 February 1999 12:12 Subject: Re: Dans le lonely garage > >Mimi la Twisteuse wrote: > > >> In the three years I've done this show, practically NOBODY >> has ever called! > > For the first 6 months or so of "Coffee & Smokes", I got no calls. Now I >average 2-3 calls a show. I've had as many as 8 or 9 when the show has run >over several times due to one of the rotating hosts on the show which follows >mine forgets her turn at the mike. I have several regulars who call every >couple of weeks or so, as well as local luminaries who have called up here and >there to give me a pat on the back. I often get calls for mainstream stuff >that isn't bad but you can hear 1,000,000,000,000 times a day on commercial >radio. > I've given away a few CDs as well as movie passes. I almost never give away >club tickets because when you have a show on Saturday morning, the tix are >given away by then, but when they're available, I don't have any problem >having at least one listener try to claim them. My guess as to the size of my >audience, knowing full well that I'm probably pipe dreaming, I reckon falls >somewhere around 125 or so, mebbe 150 tops. > While I was in college doing radio in the early 80s, I did an overnight >show for several years. Folks who were as drunk as I was would call and try >to invite themselves over fairly often. Sometimes I'd put 'em on the air and >let 'em ramble. Sometinmes I'd let 'em come over to the studio. I'm surprised >I'm still alive. > >>I sware, the calls I get are either wrong numbers, or >> people who want to hear the Beastie Boys. > > HA! I had a local rock (read: Boston) show at my old station a few years >back which was preceeded by a rap/hip-hop show. I constantly got requests for >"shout-outs" to varoius folks at "The Point", a nearby housing project. I'd >ask if they knew what I was playing at that moment and they couldn't answer >me. > > > > Dans le Garage is apparently the station's most >> popular radio show and is the 2nd most popular radio show amongst all of > > I don't know how popular my show is. I imagine it will be one of the most >popular at 'MFO when the RealAudio setup finally is hooked up. Coffee 'n' >Smokes one of only half a dozen shows out of 75 or so with its own mailbox, so >I guess it's kinda popular on its own. > > >> I don't rely on calls, but it is nice when people let you know they >> actually LIKE what you play, or give you some encouragement! > > I like what you play, I listen every week. I often plug the web shows when >plugging my own site which has the links to them. > >http://members.aol.com/apiandes/Main/ > >Alex Piandes >Coffee 'n' Smokes >WMFO (91.5fm) >Medford, MA > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:34:42 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Bonomo Subject: Steve Coleman's Testifying Well, Steve, I couldn't have put it better myself.... I remember when I first saw The Lyres in '83, I couldn't tell them apart from the poor roadies lugging their equipment about. I said to myself, "Now, that's rock & roll." Anyone who's read my "Super Rock" piece on Steve's Fleshtones web page knows my story about running into various Fleshtones members after a gig at a local McDonald's, and they were just a few normal guys trying to pool up enough change for burgers. No fashion requirement there (though I *might" have admired Zaremba's boots...). Surprisingly, Steve, the flames have been few and far between. Joe _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:20:28 PST From: "JOGA SUSILO" Subject: request catalog Hi, Guys can I request your paper catalog? Please e-mail me back. Regards ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:08:16 +1100 From: "JOANNA M" Subject: Re: 80s scene It was so interesting reading these posts about when and where people saw bands, its kind of like a vicarious experience. Its good to know some people dont take for granted where they live and take full advantage. Living in Australia I can only wish to have seen The Lyres, Chesterfields...I'm soooo jealous. But I did take every living opportunity to see the Stems and yea the Gurus (and now DM3). Blair what do you think of DM3?. The one thing I did notice about the Kings (who I thought were >>brilliant) was when they played with the Hearts, was their schtick was the >>same in LA and San Diego. Despite putting on a wyld show, with Greg >>banging >>mike stands to no end, the jokes and stage moves were identical at both >>shows. >>Still, seeing them was a highlight in my life, they were brilliant. > >Well, 'tis verily true that one of Greg's bits was always obliterating mic >stands (he took out a nice chunk of ceiling in a few clubs with 'em, as a >matter of fact.) However, I always thought of that to be Greg's prop. > >As to jokes... Hmm, well, it was rare that I'd see them two nights in a >row, except if they played Maxwells one night and NYC the next. But then >they knew damn well they were getting a good chunk of the same crowd, so I >suppose they wouldn't even consider pulling out the same bits. > >I saw the Kings numerous times in the mid-80s, since I was going to school >up in Rochester, then I'd be home on Long Island (within striking distance >of NYC) on vacations (which somehow seemed to be when the Kings would be >hitting town.) Besides, People's Express had flights from Rochester to >Newark off-peak for $38 round trip. I knew a couple of Rochester high >school girls who used to head down to The Dive for a good weekend. > >Every show The C. Kings did in the mid-80s was mind-numbingly great. They >blew the doors off every club they were at. I remember someone asking me if >I was sorry I hadn't been around for the 60s, or that I'd missed out on the >NYC punk scene. No way. The scene I was experiencing in the mid-80s (be it >up in Rochester, with the Kings, Projectiles, Swing Set, Absolute Grey, >Hidden Charms, etc., NYC with the Fuzztones, Vipers, Outta Place, Tryfles, >et al., or on Long Island with The Mosquitos, Secret Service, Plastic >Device, and more) was phenomenal. > >To me, bands like The Chesterfield Kings, The Fleshtones, The Hoodoo Gurus, >and The Lyres were at least as good as any of the bands I was hearing on >Pebbles comps. And this gets back to something that Steve Coleman was >saying... All I had to go on with those bands were a couple of recordings. >With the bands I was seeing, not only did they have a bunch of records, but >I got to see just how damn good they were live. (And, to me, the live show >is the absolute indicator of how good a band is.) > >In the mid-80s, The Chesterfield Kings were one of the absolute best on the >block. It's true that I didn't like the direction they went with Berlin >Wall of Sound, but, well, bassist Andy Babiuk says he hated that one, too. > >There are, of course, a few bands I'm kinda bummed I never got to see from >the mid-80s... Of these, The Telltale Hearts, The Stems, and The Milkshakes >are at the top of my list. I suppose I could throw the early Creeps onto >that list, too. > >But I saw some amazing rock'n'roll. Sure, some of the bands were very into >the 60s look/sound. It didn't matter to me, 'cuz it was great rock'n'roll. >It's possible that such material may not stand the test of time simply >because it wasn't done in 1966. To which I respond, if I played it back to >back with a 60s track and didn't tell you, would you not enjoy it? > >Just another point of view, > >Blair > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:12:41 -0000 From: "Jim Lemanowicz" Subject: Re: Closing of the Psychadelicatessen Everyone should be aware that Spiney Norman has a live DJ gig here on Thursday nights in Massapequa, NY at one of the best bars to ever grace the ground on Long Island - The My Room Lounge on Merrick Road. Email me at lemonjim@pouch.com if you must... - -- On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:54:45 k n wrote: > >Sorry to anounce that the Psychadelicatessen is closing its doors after >10-ish years. >The web site will still be up, unless they take that away too. >www.wusb.org/psycdeli >Anyone who has done radio knows that it only takes one PD to ruin your >day. > If listeners of the show are so inclined, they can contact him at: >programming@wusb.org > > -Spiney > Free web-based email, anytime, anywhere! 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