Space Pirate Radio

     no, there is no podcast or even archived shows for these current broadcasts.  I am a dinosaur who started in live radio in 1968 & continue in that mindset for more reasons than the obvious.  SPACE PIRATE RADIO, which I created in 1973, was meant to be a live broadcast, with the idea that like early Ham Radio it was broadcasting similar to shortwave, to many listeners worldwide. than taking the concept of Pirate Radio in the 60s, I sci-fi transferred it to outer space... a satellite (way before satellite radio was created) broadcasting down to a media controlled Earth, or on a Pirate Ship in Space, or from a studio on the Moon. 

after years of broadcasting on California FM (& AM) radio stations, I have transferred the show to a live global internet broadcast, seizing on the facilities of Twitch TV.  the global audience comes closest to my early childhood dream in 1961 to combine Ham Radio, Shortwave Radio & commercial radio without the commercials together.  I have never been happier with the possibilities...  now becoming realities.

goshorootie, boys & girls!  another Far Out broadcast of Guy Guden's SPACE PIRATE RADIO tonight at 12 

hello, everybody...

    for some reason, I find I am unable to write anything on other subjects, or post a new topic...

    I am allowed to get a test message here on my SPACE PIRATE RADIO page, so I will limit my thoughts to 

    this corner for the time being.  if anyone has knowledge why this happens on my glowing cathode, I

    would appreciate it...

    anyway, happy to say that my little creation, GUY GUDEN'S SPACE PIRATE RADIO has been having a 

    great time over on Twitch TV.  30 shows have already been broadcast.  46 years old and beaming in

    the classic time zone of 12 Midnight Pacific, Sunday night, Monday morning.  but now also in the same

    slot Friday night, Saturday morning, 12 Midnight Pacific.  this makes it a little easier for those who sleep

    in.  

    of course, now with the power of the immer net wireless thing, SPACE PIRATE RADIO is truly global.

    like the Strawberry Shortwave I always envisioned the show to be... I'm sipping on my glass of Rodan

    Light White Wine in darkness, while my tuned in friends in Japan are 16 hours ahead of the day.  it 

    makes me very happy to have friends listening in Spain, Italy, Germany and the U.K.  also talking in 

    chat with other friends listening in Detroit, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Portland, Santa Barbara & Austin.

    so let me invite the curious to tune in this Friday and Sunday on Twitch TV.  it's all free, folks... join, 

    Follow & tune in.  it's a trip.  thank you...

    http://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio

Got my feet wet these past two weeks ... not able to make it through all 6 hours the first time, but this last time I made it, barely ... though I had to go in and out of bed all the way through Tuesday!

I am impressed ... considering that what I have is before 1982, and only a bit from here and there that I got from Paul some eons ago on a cassette kind of sampler of the latest stuff ... the show has continued to be interesting and not give in to the commercial touches that I remember being forced on you at the start.

It was nice to hear a few comedy bits ... well, we didn't get HOMER, but he is on sabbatical studying his next adventure! But all in all, it was cool to actually hear a couple of things from the old days, mixed in with new things, that even I have not kept up with ... and a couple of things that I could not even remember .. CAN anyone? ... but all in all, it was fun and exciting, even to remember a few bits and pieces from the past.

On discussing the show on another location, the comment was that there would be a need for you to provide a listing so folks would know what things are, and maybe even go after them ... I suppose that it could be said that the idea of the whole thing is also to make sure that the artists benefit from the show ... so his comment makes sense, and although I like the "trip" side of things and not knowing what they are/were, yeah, over the years, I still have a lot of bits and pieces on the old shows that I can not identify at all ... and I would have gotten the CD's, which I have acquired for most of the stuff on the shows I have.

So, there is a good side there ... I don't think we need to get detailed here, maybe just a list of the artists and leave it at that ... to help people find/appreciate that same music at home. HOWEVER, today there is a wider/larger ability to record the show and enjoy it all the same ... although the chat won't help in the recording of the music ... but for me, that is enough to enjoy the continuity of the show ... but not knowing some of the stuff ... yeah, I like Guy's show more than a lot of music, but I would like to welcome the ability to endorse the artists that are featured and then some.

Hopefully some more folks will show up and get a good/solid listen, so they can find out what this whole thing is about ... and I have not yet posted on the "Prog Radio" thread, because compared to many of those shows, this one does not fit ... the majority of things listed over there are not "Progressive" for my tastes, in that they are so conventional and metric (tops) oriented design and presentation, possibly because that is all those folks have ever heard and they can not conceive of a stream of consciousness that your show is ... something that I would even say ... is way too literate for many listeners. 

Some Requests: 

1. Philosophy Bowling!

2. Homer!

I realize that some of the music you used to play is probably way too much "rock" for the style and flow of your show these days, but I miss some of the finest bits you ever did ... like talking about the sodas and getting your shorts clean (Guru Guru behind it -- and now there is a better version on the live album release ... longer, too!), and a myriad of other things you did here and there ... but all in all ... son of a gun ... there still isn't anything out there half as good!

Thank you DamoXt7942 for having unlocked this thread ... much appreciated.

Let me see ... one ... two ... three ... four ... five ... six ... seven ... eight ... nine ... ten ... I'm trying to see if I can get far enough to figure out which birthday it will be Thursday Night/Friday Morning!

I shall be up all night for this one, playing nothing but ... many shows!

Happy Birthday SPR, you ol' tripping sun!

best to you...

Just to let you know, that though I regularly check into here as often as I can, time permitting.  And that I

especially enjoy contributing to threads like WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?, READ ANY GOOD BOOKS

LATELY?  and various discussions and polls... my main source of SPACE PIRATE RADIO information seems

to be at Twitter; singular articles and illustrations on THE MELTING WATCHTOWRE at guyguden.BlogSpot.com

and at Facebook (which I held back from for the longest amount of time, but consented to when I found so

many people who don't use the Twit Hair).

 

I still hope to come back here and answer to some of the outrageous, one sided posts from eons past.  Although sometimes it doesn't seem worth the effort, an opinion that i know to be unexplained or an outright

fabrication, bothers me when it remains singular and seemingly unchallenged and definitive.  *giggles*

 

these are desperate times and desperate measures, etc. etc. etc.

 

best of the Winter Solstice to you all (or U-Haul... whichever Moves You).  cheers!