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tonight in taint town - live - 07/30/08

Posted by Bob Rogers on July 30, 2008 @ 12:06 pm | Post a comment

taintradio: an international alliance of independent producers
tonight in taint town live 7-3008
midnight to 4am (EDT)

*all times approximate

CRUISIN’ WITH ABDUL #4 - 7/28/2008

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Shotgun Shack Blues - 07/30/08

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 30, 2008 @ 11:13 am | 2 Comments

Shotgun Shack Blues 07/30/08

8pm - midnight (EDT)

Host: Kevin Spurlock

Listener response?

Posted by Rafi Zabor on July 30, 2008 @ 2:39 am | 3 Comments

I just sent in a typically miscellaneous show in which I managed to call Claudio Monteverdi Giueseppe Monteverdi instead, and mistranslated a French album title. Oh well.

But I do wonder, assuming anyone out there is listening at all, what sort of listener response there might be to the largely jazz/classical music mix I’ve been putting together. That mix reflects my own tastes as a listener—as does the lesser admixture of world music, which would be larger if I were more knowledgeable—but it also reflects the contents of most of the conversations I’ve had with jazz musicians in the last few years. Most often, when I ask someone what they’re listening to—I won’t name names, but you’d know them if I did—I’m more likely to hear about classical music than jazz. Any jazz or just taintradio listeners having the same experience, or at least the same predilections?

In the course of my clarinet show, Updoc #5, I mentioned getting seriously into classical music in response to reading Robert Stone’s novel A Hall of Mirrors back when it came out and I was 21 years old: I thought that if anyone as hip as Stone was into Mozart to the degree he was, there must be something to it, so I set out from the nearer shores of Bartok and Stravinsky to try to understand the whole tradition, even if where I lived had more to do with Trane and other jazz giants of that time.

My yen for classical music was redoubled when, working as a jazz critic in the late seventies, I had a pressing need to listen to music of which I was not professionally required to come up with an opinion, and even occasionally a judgment—although I wrote mostly as an enthusiast, and seldom even reviewed albums I disliked, and only then when the musicians were financially secure enough not to be adversely affected, if that might be possible. These days I listen to at least as much classical music as jazz, and for reasons of pure pleasure, though as it happens, listening to the jazz programming on taintradio, which has been pretty terrific, has got me swinging back the other way.

So anyway: I’d be grateful for listener response to what I’ve been putting on the e-air, and shucks, I’ll be sad if no one writes.
Best regards::::::::::Rafi Zabor

tonight in taint town - live - 07/29/08

Posted by Bob Rogers on July 29, 2008 @ 4:08 am | Post a comment

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tonight in taint town live 7-29-08
8pm-2am

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tonight in taint town - live - 07/28/08

Posted by Bob Rogers on July 28, 2008 @ 5:06 am | Post a comment

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tonight in taint town live 7-28-08
midnight to 4am (EDT)

host: Bob Rogers

tonight in taint town - live - 07/27/08

Posted by Bob Rogers on July 27, 2008 @ 5:06 am | Post a comment

Tonight In Taint Town - live - 07/27/08

Host: Bob Rogers

Musicians needed - Please!

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 27, 2008 @ 3:41 am | 1 Comment

At the expense of sounding like Ah-nold in one of those “Terminator” movies, I’m sounding the alarm. The machines are taking over!!

This is news?! They’ve been taking over on the music scene since before the Moog synthesizer. Yes, but even with the Moog you had to have skills to play it! (plus muscles to move it, the thing weighed 1/2 a ton!).

I guess my concern is that in man’s transition from rock to hollowed-out log to acoustic stringed to electric, the skills required to create a sound that was pleasing to the human ear remained intact. Now, with the new technologies, it’s “set it and forget it, no user-accesible parts here!”

Now does that mean that there is no interest in music among our children? Far from it. In fact, one of the most popular games available is a simulation of a rock guitar musician. For some expert insight into this game, I interview my 16-year-old:

“So, you pretend to be this musician and you try to play what he is playing?” ” Well, no the “guitar” doesn’t have any strings, it has colored buttons.”

“Okay, so the buttons make sounds and you have to match your sound to what he is playing?” “No, the “guitar” doesn’t make a sound at all, you have to match the colors on the screen to the color-coded buttons on the “guitar”.”

“Want to go see a Blues concert? It features people playing real guitars that make a sound.” “No, that’s boring.”

“What are you going to do tonight dad?” “I think I’m going to slash my color-coded wrists!”

Revoltingly,

Kevin Spurlock

Analog and More - Playlist - 07/26/08

Posted by Barry Portier on July 26, 2008 @ 5:37 pm | Post a comment

Analog and More

July 26th 2008 Playlist

Barry Portier

Rhythm & Blues revue - Ep. 7 - 07/26/08

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on July 26, 2008 @ 12:40 pm | Post a comment

Rhythm & Blues Revue Ep. 7 07/26/08

Host: Kevin Spurlock