Name it!

 

As you know I'm getting ready to put together my own show again ...

 

The last one was called ... simply "The Space" ... and it was mostly dedicated to long journeys into the mind and music of many people ... and I will probably still do that, but will also do some different things.

 

I'm already working on the first show, and I promise you all a 2 hour bombastic experience that is going to have a lot of people rather pissed off at me ... but all I will tell you, that if your reaction is not the same as "Apocalypse Now", or "Brazil", or "Blade Runner", that a lot of what will be taking palce and happening in that time span, is not going to be something that you like, appreciate, or want to deal with it.

 

So ... beware ... and my only compliment will be to one person and his work, because in the end ... he was progressive ... when everyone else was sucking lollipops and enjoying their top ten songs!

 

So far ... one of my choices is ... "What is does it all mean? Progressive?"

 

Only originality need apply ... not interested in fandom ideas like "progzillah".

 

Thanks

 

From your own posts I would suggest:

 

"Progressive, on this board, is about the Art!"

I for one would really dig such a show! I think a lot of the stuff you play will be right up my alley.

As for a name: 

Ear Transplants for the wicker

Music from the outskirts

Ear-sauce

 

In the early days, when I room'd with Guy (was his roomate for the first 4 years of the show until 1978 fall, when I couldn't afford all the driving to UCSB and back to town), he had some rather far out and interesting shows, a couple of which went almost the whole 4 hours non-stop with a myriad of things, from tv, radio history, sound effects, music, things going backwards, things going forwards and then some, and almost non-stop. And there was a portion in one of these shows that kinda gave a nice listen to a Pink Floyd theme or two that repeat in many places and albums. It was rather interesting and far out.

 

On one of those shows, it was a revolution theme, and if you have never tied up the play Marat/Sade to a myriad of rock music ... you have no idea ... and he blasts it off the scales. From Beatles, to Bonzos, and others, but sadly the folks in here, do not get/understand why a collage like that was so important ... it was, just another Revolution #9 ... and updated ... but no one does that on radio, and fewer still, have any conceptual ability to even consider doing something like that ... and I know  I can't ... and am not trying to copy, though I will probably use parts of Marat/Sade as well, as other movies and works. It was like listening to Faust 40 years ago ... and realizing ... this is fun ... and you just enjoy the fun with it! Guy's show, at that time, was that crazy. Later, he became more segment oriented and he did more music and all his comedy and sound effects things kinda dwindled down to his clever writing and voices, which he had many and then some ... Peter Sellers and Mel Blanc were the only two others I could ever say could do more voices/characters than Guy did ... and his comedy stuff on the radio was ... precious more often than not.

 

In the end, I've always said that Revolution #9 is the greatest symbol of how we mis-represent rock music and how we always expect that song to be bigger and better than us ... and here is something that is way bigger than all of us, right next to us ... but a song is more important to our imaginations -- and our fantasies! So, we're all fans, and this is all that we care about? I specially like (and want to use!) the one about Syd Barrett's lines ... "people have stood ... and cheered ... something they did not understand!" ... and the folks that like Syd Barrett here can not deal with his sordid humor and his point, that he was making, and Roger is doing the same thing with The Wall!

 

Can I do it right? ... I don't know ... I'm still gathering things ... but the whole first series of shows will not be called "progressive" because of the music and what is played and my wanting to show off why some music is progressive and the rest is not.

 

It will be ... strictly ... an experience!

 

Mine is designed to be a trip ... and a return to the forever land of the mind, not just mine. And Snow Dog ... you turkey ... one of your ideas is still the best descriptive of them all. Dean's btw, I'm preparing a comedy routine around it!  They will all be various dishes served by a Chef!

 

Hehehe!

 

I am looking to find something that is similar to the very things that excited me to listen to radio, and find all this wonderful stuff ... and if there is an audience fine, and if not, you will keep on hearing a crazy doing his thing ... but it will NEVER, EVER, be the same as anyone else, or anywhere near it ... I still get excited when hearing Beaubourg ... I get excited listening to Faust in those first albums ... I love the freedom of the crazy stuff in GuruGuru's first two albums ... and I love tripping in the middle of Echos, or ATM ... when the effects and the guitar wails forever ... and your body does a swan dive in space ... you want to fly ...