Episode 60: Fare Thee Well (For Now!)

Finally posting this from the airport in Toronto, after writing up part of it in a motel somewhere creepy in the middle of nowhere, New York and part in a dilapidated taqueria in the outskirts of Buffalo… (The above photo is pretty much irrelevant; we didn’t take any pics this episode.) Had such a wonderful, wonderful time on the last radio show of this “season”! Pizza Mike, Patrick Cooper, Mack Guillory, and Joey Oakley were at the station playing, talking, lol-ing, sharing memories, etc, it felt like the cozy good ol’ days (before every episode was a maelstorm, in the best of ways.) We got to hear some great original tunes plus a fun group Rolling Stones sing-a-long where we barely ever swore. Gas station food, double-fisting O’Doul’s and Bud Light Lime (I am probably[/hopefully] the only person on the planet deranged enough to do this….), Pizza Mike’s detailed, riveting, and far-too-prompt answer to the question “what are you going to do on Thursdays now?” … A good time was had by all.

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Episode 58: WORLD PREMIERE(s)!!

We WORLD PREMIEREd brand new original acoustic live ditties and brand new freshly recorded album tracks. We reprised the WORLD PREMIERE of Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes by having Marc “Pepe Peligroso” Paradis back on the air. (On the civilian side of the air, that is–he is also a DJ at WHIV.) I think I am capitalizing WORLD PREMIERE to evoke the PHYSICAL CHALLENGE of Rory Danger, who we also spun. What fun!!

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Episode 57: Guru Revue

Live music, flowers, chit chat and more! That was one of those episodes that felt like a well-oiled machine…everyone efficiently performed 2 excellent songs, nothing really inconvenient happened, we were cleared out in time for Steve to start on time, I got introduced to some new music, Gianni took these winsome pics (and videos which I will slap on here later) …A+!

ALSO! We are having a Crawfish Boil at Checkpoint Charlie’s on 4/22 (Sunday) to fund the live album! Live music by a bunch of our regular lurkers, crawfish simmered by Brooks Webb & Michael Darby, laundry right adjacent. Cmon out!

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Episode 56: 15,000 Seconds of Live Radio

http://www.offbeat.com/news/video-washboard-lissa-nervous-duane/

This came up in my facebook memories <3. Anyways, special extended edition last Thursday as we were covering for Steve Williams’ show 9-11pm as well. Thank you to all you new friends and old ones for tuning in, tuning up, hanging out, etc., many thanks to Sharappa for all these videos and Natasha for the photons! The GoFundMe page to produce a live Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes album from the last season can be found here at gofundme.com/mmbrh ; please consider chipping in! (Or sharing with your social mediaites.) Half the proceeds will go to WHIV 102.3 FM New Orleans, the other half to the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic in honor of Washboard Lissa.

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Episode 55: Hair in the Chair (+ help fund the CD!!)

Almost halfway to fundraising goal, and playlist from last Thursday’s show! Thanks to all the musicians and lurkers who hung out, and to my Annie and Dan (my aunt & uncle in from Massachusetts!) for hangin’ with all us crazies 🙂

If you like what you hear, please considering chipping in to help make our live album! All proceeds go to good causes: 50% to WHIV 102.3 FM, and 50% to the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic! Big thanks to all who have chipped in so far; every little bit helps!

Visit the GoFundMe link here to support the Musicians’ Clinic, badass community radio, and New Orleans music!

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Episode 54: GoFundThisLiveCD!

Launched the gofundme for the Musicians, Mentors, & Barroom Heroes Highlights (& Low-Lifes…) album, which is in the works as we “speak”! Thank you so much to everyone who’s kicked in, youse rock. Click here to contribute! All album proceeds will go to WHIV 102.3 FM and the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic. Plus, you’ll get to hear live tunes/shenanigans from the past year of music and madcappery!

Several of the magicians who will appear on the album played live on last week’s show, we spun a bunch of local recorded tracks, we drank some seriously basic drinks (O’Doul’s out of a mug, vodka cran…) …a good time was had by all. Thank you to Rose for these photos I klepto’d 🙂

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Episode 53 (S2): Club Foot / Peaches Joint Alumni Meeting

Great episode! Below is an extended playlist; wouldn’t have had time to play everything cuz we had so many guest/audience requests phoned/”phoned” in. Yay! Thanks to Elise, Corey, Jim, Natasha, and Dick for pickin tunes.

During the 7-8 hour, had my pal Richard “Dick Deluxe” Egner in the studio with his old friend Richard Marriott, founder of the Club Foot Orchestra. They talked about their work with that ensemble, a San Francisco-born, performance art-centric group that made a name for itself providing complex soundtracks to classic silent movies (check out their website here: http://www.clubfootorchestra.com/) and also played a couple of lovely duets! (I always love having brass instruments in the studio.) Big thanks to Elisabeth Beaird for taking photos of the Richards, and to Natasha Sanchez for this photo of Jim Sniff I klepto’d from a different episode, see below.

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Episode 52 (S2): My Last Brain Cell is Called Custer

Fun 4-hr episode with a slew of familiar faces/guitars/etc back in the studio! The unofficial theme was, “Eh, fuck it,” but of course the actual theme was “?”.

Big thanks to Lili and Natasha for taking these pics! And this playlist is probably only 90% accurate (and maybe 60% in the correct order) because my brain spontaneously shut off approximately 75% of the way through the show. (Being away from New Orleans for a few months made me revert back to my natural state of being a perversely-early bird, plus the uptick in sobriety is always a jolt to the system….)

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Episode 51 (S2): Mics, Open & Pizza

So wonderful to be back on-air for Season 2 during our new timeslot, 7-9pm every Thursday! Heard some words of… wisdom? from Pizza Mike and some killer original tunes from real, live locals including awesome first-time MMBRH playa’ Sean Markey, longtime favorite lurker/photographer/Buffa’s-open-mic-host extraordinaire Natasha Sanchez, and Checkpoint’s open mic host Jim Smith, who can now attend this show since it’s not on Sundays anymore! (Had a nice round-table discussion about open mics as well… tried to call Mike Darby to get his 2 cents, but apparently none of his cents had been going to his phone bill…)

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