A commenter on this site suggested I podcast my programs and, actually, I do, but for some reason it never occurred to me to include my podcast info on this page. Well, here it is!
My RSS Feed:
http://etherwaveradioshow.podOmatic.com/rss2.xml
My Pod-O-Matic site:
http://etherwaveradioshow.podomatic.com/
I really don't quite understand this whole podcasting thing yet, I'm learning on the fly, but I think there are all kinds of buttons you can push on my Pod-O-Matic page that will hook you up so that you can get the new Etherwave Show as soon as I post it. That's pretty cool, right?
Ok, I'm going to go eat. . . before I get scurvy. (Pirate woes. . .)
---Fumbling Cap'n Bloody Greybeard
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Let the fun begin. . .
This blog was created to notify interested listeners of the where and whens of Captain Greybeard's Etherwave Radio Show. I am a devout music fan and find particular enjoyment in sharing my sounds with the world around me. Unfortunately I am also geographically isolated (I live in a valley in Western Washington, USA), stuck in a mill-town that thinks of itself as a retirement community. There are very few locals residents who share my particular tastes in music: new wave, punk, goth, industrial, techno, acid house, electro, disco, dub, psychedelic, and indy rock and pop; and sometimes I just want to broadcast my beats and rhythms outward, towards those who might actually give a damn.
I grew up even further in the woods than I live now, in a place where cable tv didn't reach, in a time before satellites were a common household item, even before VCRs had hit it big. In those days I had an antenna on the roof that could pick up about four tv channels, my step-dad's record collection, and radio. I wasn't allowed to TOUCH the records, my step-father was an audiophile and a collector, so I spent most of my time scanning the radio and playing with my brothers' cheap little tape-decks. (I got He-Man toys, but quickly got bored with those.)
By the time I was eleven I was already making "pause-mix" tapes, compilations of my favorite radio songs, plus some "original" material. By the time we moved (mostly) out of the woods, my early teenage years, I'd already become a lover of new wave and the then coagulating "alternative" music scene (typified by things like 120 Minutes on MTV and Nightflight and such.) It was only a short leap from making my own mix tapes to making compilation tapes for people from my quickly growing "underground" music selection. Then I discovered night clubs , deejaying, and concerts, started hanging out a clubs and music halls, reading books on different musical movements and band biographies, took a few classes that let me STUDY musical subcultures, and so on and so on. And finally, I got a computer and began cranking out mixed-cd's for people, individual mixes aimed at particular listeners, but I never did it for money. NEVER. I was into sharing. Sharing and educating.
In the town where I live (with my wife and two kids and five cats), there are only four places to buy new music: Target, Walmart, Fred Meyer, and one locally owned store. And, for most of the people in this town, that's plenty. I see myself as an ambassador of the alternative, a trail-blazing guide who's been to the other side and seen what people in the "BIG CITY" see every day, but that the people here don't even know exists. I'm here to show the chosen few that there is another way. (And I HAVE made some in-roads. I've deejayed at several local bars, though never for very long before I'm fired for annoying more people than I bring in; and I've opened the eyes of many local "punks" and "alterna-kids" (mostly friends of my daughters) to the HISTORY of the styles of music and such that they seem to enjoy. It does my heart good to see a fourteen-year-old claim that The Clash is one of her favorite bands.)
And, dammit, I'm SICK of exclusionary musical avenues. Radio stations and tv channels that only play ONE type of music. There is no reason why someone can't enjoy punk AND disco, or techno AND goth, or hardcore industrial noise AND classic rock. Screw genre. Screw exclusion. Screw defining yourself by what you AREN'T.
So, I've put together this little idea: Why not do a "pirate radio" broadcast over the computer, without having to worry about the FCC knocking on my door in the middle of a show. Besides that, I can't afford all that equipment you need to properly put together a REAL radio show, especially when you consider I live in a valley. I'd need some serious antenna muscle just to reach anyone even remotely interested in Gang of Four or Peaches. Instead of all that trouble, I've decided to just prerecord my show on my computer (I have one of those anyway for school, and I even have DSL until they realize I don't have enough money to pay my bill and shut me off) and then I'll upload the program to a hosting site and let 'er rip. I'll send out a few notices that my "broadcast" is available, and whoever wants to can listen in.
Sounds like fun to me.
---The Cap'n
I grew up even further in the woods than I live now, in a place where cable tv didn't reach, in a time before satellites were a common household item, even before VCRs had hit it big. In those days I had an antenna on the roof that could pick up about four tv channels, my step-dad's record collection, and radio. I wasn't allowed to TOUCH the records, my step-father was an audiophile and a collector, so I spent most of my time scanning the radio and playing with my brothers' cheap little tape-decks. (I got He-Man toys, but quickly got bored with those.)
By the time I was eleven I was already making "pause-mix" tapes, compilations of my favorite radio songs, plus some "original" material. By the time we moved (mostly) out of the woods, my early teenage years, I'd already become a lover of new wave and the then coagulating "alternative" music scene (typified by things like 120 Minutes on MTV and Nightflight and such.) It was only a short leap from making my own mix tapes to making compilation tapes for people from my quickly growing "underground" music selection. Then I discovered night clubs , deejaying, and concerts, started hanging out a clubs and music halls, reading books on different musical movements and band biographies, took a few classes that let me STUDY musical subcultures, and so on and so on. And finally, I got a computer and began cranking out mixed-cd's for people, individual mixes aimed at particular listeners, but I never did it for money. NEVER. I was into sharing. Sharing and educating.
In the town where I live (with my wife and two kids and five cats), there are only four places to buy new music: Target, Walmart, Fred Meyer, and one locally owned store. And, for most of the people in this town, that's plenty. I see myself as an ambassador of the alternative, a trail-blazing guide who's been to the other side and seen what people in the "BIG CITY" see every day, but that the people here don't even know exists. I'm here to show the chosen few that there is another way. (And I HAVE made some in-roads. I've deejayed at several local bars, though never for very long before I'm fired for annoying more people than I bring in; and I've opened the eyes of many local "punks" and "alterna-kids" (mostly friends of my daughters) to the HISTORY of the styles of music and such that they seem to enjoy. It does my heart good to see a fourteen-year-old claim that The Clash is one of her favorite bands.)
And, dammit, I'm SICK of exclusionary musical avenues. Radio stations and tv channels that only play ONE type of music. There is no reason why someone can't enjoy punk AND disco, or techno AND goth, or hardcore industrial noise AND classic rock. Screw genre. Screw exclusion. Screw defining yourself by what you AREN'T.
So, I've put together this little idea: Why not do a "pirate radio" broadcast over the computer, without having to worry about the FCC knocking on my door in the middle of a show. Besides that, I can't afford all that equipment you need to properly put together a REAL radio show, especially when you consider I live in a valley. I'd need some serious antenna muscle just to reach anyone even remotely interested in Gang of Four or Peaches. Instead of all that trouble, I've decided to just prerecord my show on my computer (I have one of those anyway for school, and I even have DSL until they realize I don't have enough money to pay my bill and shut me off) and then I'll upload the program to a hosting site and let 'er rip. I'll send out a few notices that my "broadcast" is available, and whoever wants to can listen in.
Sounds like fun to me.
---The Cap'n
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