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16 May 2008

Radio b – Deafness Is The Best Defense AWRIGHT METACHAT!! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK OUT WITH WHATEVER EQUIPMENT YOU’VE GOT OUT?! Two full hours of what commercial radio would surely refer to as a “rockstravaganza” – if commercial radio actually had the cojones to play such an awesome set. The mayhem begins at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT . For you European-types using metric time, that’s just under two hours from now.

post by: bmarkey at: 11:11 | 32 comments

*gets out equipment*

posted by taz 16 May | 11:52

Rockstravaganza? Sweet.

posted by gaspode 16 May | 11:56

I'm making soup today, so I will be rocking out with my crock-pot out.

posted by BitterOldPunk 16 May | 12:05

*sigh* I'm at work and can't listen. Maybe if I pretend I'm listening...

posted by Zack_Replica 16 May | 12:41

It's mostly old stuff, Zack. You've prolly heard it all before. You could read the setlist and re-create it in your head!

Problem solved. Next problem?

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 12:46

Brothers and sisters, I wanna see a sea of hands out there. Let me see a sea of hands.

I want everybody to kick up some noise.

I wanna hear some revolution out there, brothers. I wanna hear a little revolution.

Brothers and sisters, the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are gonna be the problem, or whether you are gonna be the solution.

You must choose, brothers, you must choose.

It takes 5 seconds, 5 seconds of decision.

Five seconds to realize your purpose here on the planet.

It takes 5 seconds to realize that it's time to move.

So now I’m gonna ask you one question:

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHAT TIME IS IT?

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 12:57

Um, it's rolling now.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:02

Okay, they haven't sorted out their issues with redirect; I've changed the title link to go to the metachat page of LoudCity.

Tomorrow, I'll just change the link on the radio page, and if it changes later we'll deal with it then.

posted by taz 16 May | 13:08

in other words, RADIO B IS ON AND WORKING. yeah.

posted by taz 16 May | 13:09

Thanks, taz, and grrr to LoudCity.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:10

I'm listening!

posted by gaspode 16 May | 13:11

Welcome, welcome all.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:12

I hope we didn't miss much, because this is gooooood.

posted by taz 16 May | 13:12

Everybody ready? Then let's all sing along!

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:14

*puts lotion on skin*

posted by gaspode 16 May | 13:15

The set so far:

MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance – Rock & Roll Junkie
Garland Jeffries – Wild In The Streets
Ian Hunter – All-American Alien Boy
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – American Girl
The Avengers – The American In Me
The Clash – I’m So Bored With The USA
King Crimson – Thela Hun Ginjeet

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:26

This song is the one we used to play to remove slow-moving customers at closing time at the record store. Worked every time.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:44

...and Mudhoney kicks off the "Salute to Seattle" section of today's show.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:49

The Black Angels – You On The Run
Tom Verlaine – Words From The front
Richard & Linda Thompson – The Cavalry Cross
Lou Reed – Waves Of Fear
Mudhoney – Blindspots
Sleater-Kinney – Entertain

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 13:58

Soundgarden – Sub Pop Rock City
Skullbot – Lookout
The Gits – Second Skin
Radio Birdman – Descent Into The Maelstrom
Celibate Rifles – Bill Bonney Regrets
The Jesus Lizard – Thumper
Hot Snakes – Audit In Progress
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 14:25

I'm really enjoying it, B.

posted by taz 16 May | 14:42

Thanks, taz.

I was really happy to see that Les thugs are reforming specuifically to play the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Festival - and they're playing on the day we're going! Yay!

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 14:45

Oh, I guess we have preview for a reason. That should be "Les Thugs" and "specifically".

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 14:46

"specuifically" is not without its charm.

posted by taz 16 May | 14:49

Rocking out well. Two people are trying without success to repair a car and yelling at each other outside my open-because-it's-hot window, and this ALMOST drowns them out. Wait... ooh, there's a four-part-swear I've never heard in real life before!

posted by wendell 16 May | 14:50

Blue Öyster Cult – ME 262
Hoodoo Gurus – Leilani
The Prissteens – The Hound
Les Thugs – I Love You So
REM – Finest Worksong
50 Foot Wave – Petal
New York Dolls - Frankenstein

And The Dolls will wrap it up for today. as always, thanks for listening.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 15:00

Thank you, luv.

posted by taz 16 May | 15:02

Good timing... they just left in the repaired car...

posted by wendell 16 May | 15:03

Thanks bmarkey! I missed the last few songs, but got most of them in.

posted by gaspode 16 May | 15:06

Bmarkey - how do i handle output issues in Winamp?

I tried a test set tonight and according to Wendell, it was skippy, unlistenable nightmare music.

Is this an internet connection issue, i.e. out of my hands?

posted by Lipstick Thespian 16 May | 22:36

You're asking me? I'm having a good tech day when the computer fails to burst into flame when I start it up.

Were you doing anything else - downloading, Skyping, whatever else you kids might do - while the set was playing? That will cause problems.

I had some issues late last year that required uninstalling and re-installing winamp, so that's a possibility, too. I was using an older version, and shoutcast didn't want to play with it anymore. So that's another possibility.

After that... I dunno. Trawling the winamp boards might help. Or it could just be a connection issue and therefore out of your hands.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 23:00

Or what Zack_Replica said in your radio htread.

posted by bmarkey 16 May | 23:01

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