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gbfmif wrote:

> After much previous newsgroups (discussion) I come back to an initial
> thought/belief/question.
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> To set the stage, and be honest, I am an old fart DJ. Played "shows"
> (not songs strung together and certainly not play lists or commercials
> - unless I agreed with them - and got away with it - (so fire me or
> get someone else to run your station from 8 PM till shutdown), and oh,
> by the way, I will play old radio shows after "Official" shutdown time
> like Lights Out and Outer Limits, etc. - so live with it) ) in late
> 60's and early 70's. Am not, and never was, famous and "known" like
> many of the DJ's I tried to emulate (Clyde Clifford - KAAY - etc.)
> Just tried to contribute as a DJ (have no talent as an artist, just as
> a DJ trying to do a show) to play artists and songs no one else had
> heard of integrated with then "popular/emerging" artists (remember,
> was late 60's and early 70's - whole different world than it is
> today), and spent lots of time finding these groups, songs and
> artists, listening to the sounds, harmonics, and oh yeah, occasionally
> words, to fit them together into a radio show.
>
> So - here is my question - Does anyone besides me miss those radio
> SHOWS? Does anyone besides me think there is a HUGE audience out
> there, just as warped as I am, who would LOVE to hear radio Shows
> (like Clyde Clifford - Beaker Street, or MOD Washington, or KINT
> Underground - and many others) and from a today's commercial station
> view, PAY to relive and rejuvenate that explosion of music and artists
> with today's musical talent in the context of radio shows?
>
> Have no idea how to accomplish this, or if it can be accomplished -
> just know I miss it. I also know from my view, that there is nothing
> on air today (that I have found) that causes me to be compulsively
> sure, at such and so hour, that wherever I am and whatever I am doing,
> I will in no uncertain terms tune in to a specific station to hear the
> ---- SHOW like I used to do.

Well I'm answering everything, so forgive me for adding here, but I'd
love it. I think when you place the emphasis on the quality of the
music, you get good music. That is so simple that you wonder why radio
doesn't do that. They can't. That's where all this industry mess gets
into it.

IF like you said you could cover finances, without tampering with the
music, then you could have what you dream of.
One idea that I like a lot is this. Micro payments. It means that every
time the audience clicks on a site it pays a very small fee (say 1/10 of
a penny). Then have these micro payments cover, either the songs you
like, like a net jukebox, or like you mention, pay a penny or so and
here a no-ad radio show financed by the pennies of thousands, not by the
payola or ads.

It's not impossible. But , you know from my other posts, that I think
nothing can be done until we get rid of the monopoly that is ruining
everything IMO. (PS I'm probably your age too)

Now the boycott info
   * * *
It is time to stand up for local musicians and end the real boycott
the radio boycott of local music.

Do it because you support local music
Do it because you hate local radio
Do it because you don't wear wingtips
Do it because it'll be fun to stir things up for the first time in 20
years
Do this or anything you think would help or work better.

Thanks for adding your thoughts and keeping the thread moving,

to others reading this:
Please, for the sake of local musicians, don't drop out - instead
Support local musicians, and oppose the media/art monopolies by refusing

to by  products
advertised on local radio until local radio plays local music . Give
your comments and keep
this thread/boycott going, thanks

Tom Hendricks, editor of the zine Musea and Hunkasaurus of Hunkasaurus
and
His

Pet Dog Guitar
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com


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