Space Pirate Radio

 

I don't think that it is possible to have another "Guy" on the air. I think he might have written off radio for good, even though the streaming possibility would make it easier, although it would probably kill his ability to use movies, tv, and other things over the air, as it would likely get criticized and bring unnecessary and unwanted comments.

 

His comedy would still work, but some of his more subtle commentary would likely have to be curb'd I bet, but I think he is clever enough to hide it better. He's not a better writer today than he was then, but he is clever. I do think that what he might miss the most from any radio station is the large collection of sound effects, which made up the bulk of the backgrounds for his skits. We need more philosophy bowling! And a few more Moliere's!

 

Hiyas Witchin ... I wonder if the movie you are mentioning is the one Ray Milland ... and I think it was called "The Uninvited". But there were also others, like "Forbidden Planet", and "X, the Unknown" (never seen it that I know, btw!!!) and I have no idea which a couple of other films are ... the hatfield/mccoy style of gunfight that went on non-stop for so many minutes that makes you think it was Sam Peckinpah's unknown film of some sort!!!! I still hear that one, and I think it was the sound of plates, glasses and windows and other things getting smashed that really made that effect work so well.

 

There still is, NOT, a single radio show out there comes close!

 

Or worse ... I have not found in 30 years, anyone that can mix music so well and blend it right. Every "radio" person out there has no ears for music and can only segue to another hit song.

 

Sadly, or happily, depending how one looks at it, life goes on. But as is usually the case ... some good things will be gone, dead and wasted! And I don't mean stoned!

 

So sorry if it didn't sound right, and it was not meant to sound as bad. But we can always discuss Moliere and his philosophy bowling while ripping his tights! I do have a heart and losing another person that appreciate a piece of history, in my book, is not my idea of I hate life. I love the work he did and I know that all the folks that were all together and a part of it in one way or another, were all very special, and valuable.

 

Not sure it will work getting Guy to touch the rights to the show ... I think he's too busy to appreciate what it takes to own the website, and what he could/should/would do with it. But, from the couple of shows I have heard in the 90's, things were vastly softer and less "on it", or as exploratory and off the wall as the earlier shows were. Playing bootlegs in a top FM station might be an issue, that Guy has not told us about, but I doubt that 30 years later it is an issue. I could be VERY wrong! But Guy was hardly the only one doing it! There could be other un-savory moments, but all in all, I don't think that his comic point of view was that bad, or any worse than a Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx or anyone else around the time. I thought it was more surrealistic and not quite as TV-Soap-PrimeCrap defined. It was more intelligent and more artistic, if not more literary!

 

I do not feel that I should grab the ownership of these as they are not mine to own and I do not wish to have yet one more thing that might create more friction. But it is his choice, and chance to come out of the woodwork, if we can put it that way, for a new age, time and place. The blog is good, but not enough ... it's missing the music!

 

Dirk has a terminal illness and only wants to cover the cost of owning these domains for the past 15 years (@ $100 a year) - I don't see that as ripping anyone off.

 

Happy Birthday SPR on January 27th. God Almight ... 40 years.

 

The hard part of it all? Folks here don't believe it and even think we're fabricating Raving and Drooling!

 

Happy wishes to you and the family Blob ...

 

The more I read this, the more I shed a tear now and then, as to how much listening is being done to music that has no connection to anything, except another 5 minute cut. I was going to do a thing at Live365, but their support is horrendous and in the end, they only wanted "cuts" and they did not understand the rest at all. Like before, I wanted to do a nonstop collage for a couple of hours and then mix poetry, prose, and other comments like yours (with permission, of course) to try and get people to "re-connect" with music and the inner life of the magic theater, that so many of Guy's shows were about ... and I'm just glad to know that I am not the only one out there that knows this and "the secret" ... behind most music!

 

There aren't many of us that describe the music so poetically and artistically, like we do!

 

Good nourishment for the soul, let me tell yahhh ... like you don't already know!

 

Happy New Year to you et al!

That's one thing that is missing from a lot of stuff out there, and I have gone through the Live 365 list, for example, and the folks running that place are nuts, and just repeating the same pieces over and over again. Well, they could get cynical on us and say that moon and sun still come up, but I get the feeling they don''t know how to trip and enjoy the time and space at all! The music is meaningless to them, in the middle of ... next song!

 

I still have moments, for example, listening to some things ... like Pink Floyd, and then Third Ear Band back to back, and its very nice, and followed by Colin Townes ... and each time I hear the Third Ear Band album it's very clinical and academic, but it's empty, compared to how it was played, and next to which pieces. On top of it, Guy even had sound effects of rain, some light thunder going in the background.

 

It takes a very special FEEL and appreciation for music, to be able to do this. Most folks in radio are just playing their favorites and it's so damn obvious in Live 365 or FM or any of those listed places! They always go back to a "song" that is a "classic hit" ... they forgot how to close their eyes and live!!!

 

Say hi, to your brother, btw ... miss his funny antics while we were cooking!

This kinda defeats the whole thing, and in some ways, it was a fair criticism that Guy had about me ... because I wanted the music, too!

The show, for all intents and purposes, was a "movie" from beginning to end, and separating the parts of the movie, broke it up into nothing. Having the music, is of course, what radio is about! He DID have a promo that said "like a foreign movie without the sub-titles" and I think that is appropriate, specially when you stop at a Foreign Film Festival and you can see how many folks DON'T go to foreigh films, and instead go see all the American, and English films ... excuse me, here in Portland they will go if Pedro Almodovar shows up!

 

There are a lot of things in these, that are difficult to identify, because Guy himself also did many sound effects and fun things that ended up in the midst of the music, and might not necessarily be an album at all. Adding these on top of an album, with the tv or some foreign radio behind it, made it even more foreign and interesting to listen to, which was a nice touch, all around. He also had a friend that had a nice synthesizer and I can not tell you how much he and that friend played with it, and recorded, but it would be very much like Guy to go find out and fool around on it and do something strange/weird/different/funny ... !!!

It is one of the things that is missing in "radio", yesterday and today, that will never be there again! The  most radio can do is 3 teacher songs back to back ... wooowwwww ... before the next commercial!  Oh, wait, I just heard one of those DAW radio stations with the same beat for 4 hours, and someone just throwing sound effects forwards and backwards and no music! How intelectual that sounds! Maybe listening to the turkeys at KUFO here in Portland is better! Radio is dead! Long live Guy!

 

I just don't think that Guy is interested in radio, or some of its morons and megalomaniacs! And Xirius and the other one are just more of the same corporate bullmerde selling only their stuff. They would never be man enough to give Guy 10 minutes!

AND this is the part that a board like this will have a hard time dealing with. You can't hear just the music.

 

You have to have the song or the album, and if there was an experience with it ... IT'S GONE!  In some cases, the music is even better because of his show!