RECORD RAID: Record Show in New Orleans on the 24th

These things are my brainchild and with a few more staff members and nearly THIRTY vendors this time, my baby appears to be growing up. We're back at Tulane this time, at the quad across from The Boot. Outdoor show under a huge oak tree. Dan Phillips over at HomeOfTheGroove likes it, so apparently I'm doing something right.

Check out the website and the facebook page for more. Hope to see you there!

P.S. I usually don't post my personal projects here (P.S. listen to Storm Surge of Reverb) especially if I haven't been updating lately. Wellllll I think I've got a few things...

The Unnaturals live on Storm Surge of Reverb

This has been on the backburner for a while, kinda like the blog itself. I've had the Unnaturals on my show before, but wasn't able to make myself a copy. Well here they are again, a New Orleans surf & instrumental band, playing live on my radio show on August 22nd. Sound quality is rough and I can't say it was my best editing job either, but still sounds great!

7 songs:
Attack of the 50 Foot Betty
Miedo
Rumblebee
Holiday in Cambodia
Unnatural Progressions
Whiskey Surf / Misirlou
Unnatural Progressions

Also, here's the full show

Let my people podcast

If I haven't made this at all clear on this blog, I'm a radio DJ and I'm very proud of my shows. I put a considerable amount of effort and thought into them and I think the result is unlike anything else found on the dial. I don't want to call it an art because “what IS art?”, but it's certainly a craft and one that many people have convinced me that I'm pretty good at.

Now let me jump ahead so that I can tie it back together: as I understand them (and there's plenty of ways to get lost), the rules of music podcasting are that you cannot give the listener any sort of reference that would allow them to pinpoint where a song within your digital file would lie, so that a listener couldn't use your source to pirate the songs you played. Furthermore, you are expected to pay royalties, likely through soundexchange. Terrestrial broadcasts (FM radio) are typically covered by sort of blanket licensing, where they pay a yearly fee that should cover the royalties that they play, albeit not accurately but that's another story. These licenses do not apply to the digital realm, and in order to be legal, music radio shows must essentially pay up twice for the same broadcast, not that anybody actually does that. If you follow the playlist guidelines and don't announce your songs, your podcast may exist for up to two weeks before it must be erased, barring extra licensing.

Copyright law has always been a cobbled mess of compromises to keep everybody in their respective industries happy, and in doing so keeping very few happy. Since the easy sharing of digital media hit the internet, these laws have been damaged, ignored and rearranged, leaving a picture in my head reminding me of the genetic mess in The Fly muttering “killllll meeeee”. I don't have a suggestion for how to fix copyright (I think it's a deluded notion altogether), but I get it and can see from different viewpoints.

Copyright is the motivation for these limiting podcasting rules, but I'm more concerned with the result. By essentially outlawing digital sharing of broadcast media, you'd might as well say “this is one American cultural force (perhaps even art) that may not be archived nor, collaterally, documented.”

Radio's impact on musical history has been oft-spoken, rarely experienced. By nature, it's nearly always local and temporary. So while we hear about Alan Freed's stake in Rock & Roll history, almost nobody has heard what that show sounds like since it was first broadcast. Let alone, you would never hear about the local DJs that had a more intimate cultural impact on their local communities, both in Rock & Roll and the many other 20^th century musical movements that history can't find the narrative for. The narrative, once again, was local, temporary, and perfunctory (though no less important), and so impact was left mostly to personal memory.

Radio deserves a more powerful legacy, as it is not only starting point of musical culture, counterculture, subculture, and unculture, but its own unique soundwaves and voicework are significant cultural forces. I can say with confidence that my own show has had significant local cultural impact, as listeners have told me time and again. But my own surf rock show was heavily motivated by a former stationmate, Rockabilly Willy on WESU. I'd wager that both of our shows were heavily influenced by the likes of Wolfman Jack. The funny thing is, my knowledge of Wolfman Jack is pieced together from small bites and text; I've never been able to get my hands on a broadcast or an archive, just as you will never hear Rockabilly Willy. Hell, I'll never hear him again either, and soon I won't be able to tell you much about it. Nevertheless, his shows changed my life.

In the information age storage is cheaper than ever and radio recordings are way less cumbersome than they were when fans hit the reel to reel trying to capture something they felt was important. I hope that we come to a sane law that allows us to capture history before it's deemed worthwhile, as that's usually the only history that's really interesting.

My radio show has a podcast

OK I swear I have real stuff to update this blog with, but I finally went ahead and podcasted my surf & instrumental radio show. It's here.

http://worrrd.com/hunter/podcasts/SSOR.xml

This post left intentionally bare to anticipate a real update this afternoon

Storm Surge of Reverb: Surf Radio Show has moved timeslots

Apparently the citizens like the weekly shock therapy that is my radio show, so we're moving to Mondays from 4-6PM CST. You can stream it at www.wtulneworleans.com

If you want to check out playlists I'll be posting them at surfguitar101 here

and also making updates to this facebook fanpage

I think in the past I've posted links to where I sometimes put archived shows. I think I'll keep dumping them there

WTUL RECORD FAIR ROUND 2

The November WTUL Record Fair was a success for just about everybody involved, so we're doing it again, bigger and better on March 20th. So far we're looking at about 20 vendors with room to expand (If you'd like to be among them, my e-mail is hunterking ot inbox.com. Tables are CHEAP!) We'll have old 45s, tapes, punk 7"s abound, turntables, CDs, you name it. "Admission" is free and open to anyone.

The location has changed SLIGHTLY. Still on Tulane's campus, but now next to part of their student center

(ignore the loading dock nonsense and coloring. Yes there will be signs)


Facebook event here

WTUL Record Fair in New Orleans November 14th

I have a lot of big things up my sleeve right now which is why this blog is slow (about to resume!) but here's one of them. I'm trying to organize New Orleans' first regular record fairs in a long, long time. I know a good number of vendors (and am still looking for more) and I think this could really take off.  Please spread the word and if you've got facebook, mosey over here

STORM SURGE OF REVERB has Moved!

To today! Sundays from 4-6PM CST every week.

www.wtulneworleans.com

this poster obviously outdated...

Playlists are still being posted at sg101

old shows are here

new actual posts coming up, it's been a rough couple of weeks

Another SSOR tomorrow... do you want to keep seeing these?

I post Storm Surge of Reverb updates on my myspace, surfguitar101.com, facebook and here. While it doesn't really hurt the site in the sense that it makes it oh so much more googleable, I feel bad when half of these are radio show posts. Do people enjoy seeing these playlists or should I stick with the real posts? By the way, I've got at least two more of those comin' up.

Anyway, if you don't know the drill

NOON - 2 CST

WWW.WTULNEWORLEANS.COM

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And the playlist:

Estrume'n'tal - vacalgada
Impala - The Scratch
Los Banditos - Kalaschnikow
Fifty Foot Combo - Dimitrius
Husky & The Sandmen - Malibu Run
Bitch Boys - The Breeze & I
 
Ramblin' Ambassadors - Frank Slide Song
Ramblin' Ambassadors - Hangin' tree
The Ultras - Rocket Boy
Sandy Nelson - And Then There Were Drums
The Ventures - Exploration In Terror
 
Messer Chups - Mr. Hyde & Mr. Hyde
The Emporers - The Breeze & I
Pandoras - Haunted Beach Party
Man...or Astroman? - Transmission from Venus
El Ray - Jack the Samurai
New Dimensions - Avalanche
 
Frantics - Oh yeah
Gee-Cees - Buzzsaw Twist
Johnny Guitar - Mon Du Dow
The New Dimensions - Wild Wave (Didn't mean to play that)
The Pagents - Big Daddy
Reeker - Don't Call Me Flyface 
 
Crimson Ghosts - Where Eagles Dare
Archers - Hybrid Moments
The Staggers - Eagles Surf
Tremolo Beer Gut - OK Boys
Hangee V - Batman (the 4 of us)
Torquays - Pit Stop
 
The Panasonics - Kaiser Pan
The Bedwells - Karate Again
Tornadoes - Moon Dawg
Johnny Devlin - Red River Rock
Routers - Washington and Lee Swing
Scramblers - Mister Hot Rod 
 
Lively Ones - We Got A Thing In The Groove
Cavernarios - El Bravo
Surfites - Mercurian Surf Stomp
Johnny & The Shamen - Dick Tracy
Phantom Surfers - Buy High, Sell Low
A-Bones - The Fez Man Walks
 
The Atlantics - The Boys
Sea Lions - Hevenu Shalom Alechem
Link Wray - Hold It
Treble Spankers - The Model

SSOR Tomorrow at NOON EST

So my surf show is now at a listenable time and, for the summer, a half-hour longer. In fact, I'm going to be DJing for the hour preceding SSOR, but I don't think anybody wants to listen to 3 hours of surf any more than I want to DJ it.

That's Thursday, May 14th at Noon CST @ www.wtulneworleans.com. As always, playlist will follow broadcast

Apemen - Shake Your Hoover
Preston Epps - Bongo Rock
The Tiki Men - That's The Way It Goes
Mustangs - Dartell Stomp
Virg, Murf & Prof - Way Out
Ernie Freeman - Raunchy

The Revels - Comanche
The Bikinis - Bikini
Lee Allen - Cat Walk
Irving Ashby - Big Guitar
Baby Cortez - Getting Right

Jorgen Ingmann - Apache
Guitar Gable -Guitar Rhumbo
Classie Ballou - Classie's Whip
The Dynatones - Steel Guitar Rag
Flat Duo Jets - Dexter's Lament
Teisco Del Rey - Camel Walk
Freddie King - Heads Up
The 5.6.7.8s - Green Onions
Lonnie Mack - Wham!
Chuck Berry - Berry Pickin'
Tom & Jerry - Rumble
(a break somewhere in there)

Jerry Cole & His Spacemen - Power Surf
The Chantays - Pipeline
Jon & the Nightriders - Depth Charge
The Busters - Bust Out... at 33rpm

The Busters - Bust Out at 45
Richie Allen & The Pacific Sufers - Surfer's Delight
The Super Stocks - Rendondo Beach
Urban Surf Kings - Moguls
The Lively Ones - Surf Rider

The Pyramids - Penetration
The Halibuts - Surf Drums
MOAM - Static Ding
The Volcanos - Pompeii
Ramblin' Ambassadors - Frank Slide Song
Switch Trout - COLAL

Barbwires - Thor Island Thunder
The Bills - ?
The New Dimensions - Misirlou
The Royaltones - Royal Whip
Los Straitjackets - My Heart Will Go ON

WWOZ bloggin'

here's a very slim version of how jazz fest has been going for me

and here are some of the extras. For the most part I've been spending only a few minutes as each thing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hunterkingnola/tags/wwoz/
I'll organize them some other time, there's still plenty to do tonight

STORM SURGE TONIGHT + a few other things

That's right, another show of unapologetic instrumental rock & roll at 2AM CST, WTULNEWORLEANS.COM (as in Thursday morning)

but in the meantime, two things:

1) I actually just listened to a 45 I'm going to slip on here. Blog's not dead.

2) but my file hosting is. For some reason Wesleyan doesn't want to host their alumn's website crap forever. Unless somebody knows a good, free solution for hosting and easy streaming of single songs, there might be a little downtime for 45s while I figure out my own little server.

playlist:
Dick Dale - Mr Eliminator
Krontjong Devils - Skateboard USA
The Ventures - The Fourth Dimension
The El Caminos - Big Surf
Paul Revere and the Raiders - Orbit (The Spy)

Earl Palmer's Party Rockers - Johnny's House Party Part 1
Red Garrison & His Zodiacs - Taboo
Dave "Baby" Cortez - Hot Cakes! 1st SXerving
Kip Tyler and His Flips - On the Flipside
Alan Pierce - The Growl
The Lifeguards - Everybody Outta The Pool

The Razorblades - Grease Your Hair and Get Tattoed
Barbacoa - Taco Bell's Cannon
The Sir Finks - Can't Be Still
The Bahareebas - Dunewalk
The Mobsmen - Chunkje

The John Schroeder Orchestra - Nightrider
Alvin Cash & the Crawlers - Twine Time
Laika and the Cosmonauts - Disconnected
The Weisstronauts - Get it Together
The Castanets - Funky Wunky Piano
The Hypnomen - Lucumba

The Bad Beers - Russian Rocket
The Ramblin' Ambassadors - Cupcakes di Milo
Mad 3 - Ali Baba
Switch Trout - Pedal Pressure(Bomb the Radio)
Famous Monsters - International Monster Pressentation
The Mag Seven - Sleepwalk
Wau Y Los Arrrrgs!!! - Copa, Raya Paliza

Urban Surf Kings - And the Horse You Rode In On
Cozy Cole - Bad
Bill Justis - College Man

Storm Surge of Reverb RETURNS TO RADIO

As I've said on here before a few times I've regularly been DJing at Tulane's radio station for a while, pulling out random 7"s and CDs that look interesting. Usually it tends to be about 4 garage songs and then one latin number. That's all fine and dandy, but I miss doing shows that really mattered to me, like my old surf show I was doing at WESU

So it's time to bring it back. one problem: WTUL isn't as loose about their "specialty genre" programming. I tried applying for a surf show in the fall but couldn't make the meeting. My e-mails asking if there was something else I could do were ignored. 

So here I am DJing while Tulane students are out on break, doing two shows per week. A few weeks ago I sent out another e-mail about how I'd like to do a surf show. Again, ignored. I figure it's time for a little civil disobedience, so while it will be slightly on the down-low, I'm bringing my show back come hell or hurricane water (looking forward to the show title making more sense now). The catch is.... I only have this slot until the Tulane students come back, which is until the 16th I believe. That's two shows, and after that we'll see what happens. 

I'm going to post the playlist here afterwards, but if you want to see old ones or whatever, here are some links

WESU's forums

Surfguitar101 forums

myspace.com/stormsurgeofreverb

edit:

here's the playlist

the dynotones - gear grinder (beach party a-go-go) 
the barbwires - the cheater (searider) 
robert johnson and the punchdrunks - ali pang (fried on the altar of good taste) 
the mummies - the thing from venus (never been caught) 
link wray and the wraymen - new studio blues (slinky! the epic sessions) 
rat holic - good grief (wipe out with) 
the shadows - theme for young lovers (shadows are go!) 
the centurians - intoxica (bullwinkle pt. 2) 
the apemen - surf dracula (sounds of the apemen) 

fifty foot combo - le dimanche matin (caffeine) 
messer chups - Anton La Vey 66.6 FM (crazy price) 
tremolo beer gut - death valley '69 (while squaresville is watching from afar) 
the original surfaris - bombora (surf monsters) 
hawaii samurai - ali baba (the octopus incident) 
the bomboras - war of the satellites (head shrinkin' fun) 
the coffin daggers - cruel sea (the coffin daggers) 
the astronauts - the hearse (competition coupe) 
the raybeats - the backstroke (guitar beat) 
the moe greene specials - $1000 ride pt 2 (the moe greene specials) 
the razorblades - longboard queen (the dark side of the beach) 
johnny and the hurricanes - red river rock (featuring red river rock) 

mustang voodoo surf - the good, the bad, and the ugly (guitaro loco) 
stereophonic space sound unlimited - theme from "the organizer" (plays lost TV themes) 
ramblin' ambassadors - cupcakes de milo (vista cruiser county squire) 
the ventures - go-go dancer (a-go-go) 
the windows - bikini bra in surf (promotional) 
the phantom surfers - the beach girls and the monster (the music from the big-screen spectaculars) 
the astronettes - firewaters of alpha gabba (astronettes) 
longboard ranch - bejal (rides again!) 
kayama yuzo with nokie edwards - crazy driving (kayama yuzo with nokie edwards) 
sandy nelson and the sin city termites - lock it in (nelsonized) 
eddie angel - police raid on toe rag (guitar party) 

bo diddley - diddling (Is A Gunslinger) 
Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm - twistin' the strings (ike's instrumentals) 
The Royal Pendletons - keg tapper 
the spotnicks - rocket man (live 62) 
the surfites - comet's tail (escapades in space) 
the kingsmen - come home baby (volume 3) 
the kickstands - haulin' honda (black boots and bikes) 
the squares - congo square (get hip?!!) 
the supertones - scrambler (surf fever 2000) 
Dick Dale & his del-tones - mr. peppermint man (45) 

I don't remember what I played after that, I was just filling time until the next DJ came, but I remember I played a new Madeira song, Space Cossacks, and then to keep it going, Twang! Marvels - Return of the Space Cossack. Also The Champs - Meet me at the Clubhouse, Langhorns... maybe that's it? 

Thanks for listening those of you who did

Another Funk/Soul Show tonight

Once again I'm covering for WTUL's Funk and Soul show at Midnight Central time tonight. To stream it online just go to www.wtulneworleans.com or tune in at 91.5 FM if you're in the area.

The playlist will be edited in after the show

edit: true to my word

Cliff Nobles - Judge Baby, I'm BACK
African Music Machine - Black Water Gold
The Mighty Imperials - Kick the Blanket
Connie Price and the Keystones - Sucker Punch
The Soul Finders - Why Don't You Do Right
Major Lance - Rhythm
Syl Johnson - Come on Sock it To Me
Robert Willis - Stoop Down

The Meters - Ease Back
Booker T and the MGs - Soul Clap '69
Ramsey Lewis - Party Time
Menahan Street Band - Birds
Mandrill - Positive Thing
Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns - Say Blow By Blow Backwards
J Blackfoot - You can't Take It With You
Apollo - Space Cannibals

The Emperors - Karate
Honey Cone - Stick Up
Sweet James - Soul Man
Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators - Soul Investigators Theme
Black Merda - Reality
Hannibal - All Nite Long
O.V. Wright - Ace of Spade
Boogaloo investigators - Moove to the Groove
King Khan and his Shrines - Pickin' Up the Trash

Blo - Blo
Bad Medicine - Tresspasser pt 2
Dr. Victor Olaiya - Omelebele
The Rwenzori's - Handsome boy (pts 1 & 2)
The Nite-Liters - Afro-Strut
(around here I kind of forget because the next DJ couldn't make it and I needed to figure out what to do. I just kind of played whatever was in front of me)
The Kustard Kings - Jungle Boogie
The Wild Magnolias - Smoke my Peace Pipe

Sun Ra - Hot Skillet Mama
Curtis Mayfield - We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Sun - Radiation Level
Ebony Rhythm Band - Soul Heart Transplant
something or rather
Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller

Tonight

The Rock & Roll Hoo-Ha What What, though it hasn't been demonstrating it much, is a funk friendly internet place. Tonight at Midnight Eastern I'll be doing a live funk show streamable at wtulneworleans.com

I'll update this posts with playlists when I have them. 

Hopefully it'll be a show of victory

edit:

Nice one dumbass, you live in CENTRAL time, not Eastern. Anyway, Obama won, my show was great, they apparently played me in some bar

here's the setlist:

Curtis Mayfield - We Got To Have Peace
Cane and Able - Who's Gonna Take The Weight
Cliff Nobles - Love Is Alright
Ike Turner - Gettin Nasty
Major Lance - I Just Can't Help It
Ebony Rhythm Band - Don't Get High
Billy Preston - Space Race

Meco - Star Wars
Fred Wesley & The JBs - Damn Right I Am Somebody
Chet Poison Ivy - Poo Poo Man
Clarence Carter - Funky Fever
Golden Toadstools - Silly Savage
Tom and Jerrio - Boo-ga-loo
The Emperors - My Baby Likes to Boogaloo
Kashmere Stage Band - Do You Dig It, Man?

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Baby How Long
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - Waiting For Your Touch
Rufus Thomas - Push and Pull pt. 1
Eddie Bo - Hook and Sling pt. 1
Dyke and the Blazers - Funky Broadway Pt. 1
Mandrill - El Funko
The Gaturs - Wasted
Budos Band - My Girl
Brothers Johnson - Come Together

Femi Kuti - Sorry Sorry
Karl Hector + The Malcouns - Debere
Afrique - Hot Mud
Fugi - Jo Jo
Ofo & The Black Company - Allah Wakbarr

The Bamboos - Step It Up

I was a music director once

And I've been quoted! Actually I guess my quotes have been quoted!

I wrote this stuff for QRD last year, I guess mostly because I was bored and opinionated. Apparently this pretty sick blog Spinning Indie that deals with college and community radio thought I had something interesting to say.

I'll spare you from the wall of text from me blockquoting their blockquotes but I thought I'd throw it up here. I'm mighty proud and maybe you'll be bored enough to care

For the insomniacs: I'm on the radio tonight

3AM to 6AM Central time tune into WTUL 91.5 (www.wtulneworleans.com) and I'll spin rock & roll at the least appropriate time of day. I have nothing planned in particular but always expect lots of surf and I'll probably crawl through the 7" collection again