Tonberry Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 OMG! All right, so, for those fo you who know, I've had a radio show on CKCU for about 2 years now. It's been an overnighter, though, from 2am to 7am. Pretty hard to get listeners, blah blah blah... Well, finally, my toiling has paid off, and starting February second, I'm being promoted to 11am to 12pm every wednesday... I'm pretty excited about this, but it means a few things - I need a theme to my show. Five hours was fine for me to play whatever the hell I wanted, but now, I'm thinking I need a theme... So I considered it... and what better theme could there be than Jam Bands? However, the snag in this plan, is that I don't have enough music to do that on my own. I have some nero, a little GTB. JSB, moe., Phish, and now Slowcoaster... but not nearly enough to do an hour a week without getting extremely redundant... So... I'm going to come to you guys with my hats in your hand. Who can lend me some good music, who can recommend good music, who can perhaps burn some for me... and so on, and so forth... Caveat -- and this may hurt the cause -- Live stuff has to be short. Like really short. I love a good, 20-30 minute condor like the rest of you, but, I can't be having it on an hour long program... it would be 75-100% of the music I play... Caveat two: Swearing would not be allowed... before I could sneak it in, but no longer... All right... Also, I need to name the show. I'm thinking 'Jammy Dodgers' or 'Where's My Heady Jams?' or something like that... So... can anyone help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggo Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 ooo good stuff ed!! my mom lets me stay up that late :: edit to add: and may i reccommend... the allman brothers. hard to choose any one song, though... i'll make ya up a nice heady ABB mix... and leave off the 33 minute mountain jam.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottieking Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 if I may make a humble suggestion, don't limit yourself to the jam. You've got more room to play if you make it a groove type show. That way you can slip in funk, jazz, some beats, a classic stones tune, whatever. Play to the masses who jones for the groovy goodness and surprise'em with some jam. Maybe there's your name. Goodness. my2sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gentlemonkey Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 good thinking dr.king... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaggyBalls Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 dont' forget to go for the post! talk until the key moment of explosion...that's what the cue feature is for...and you can use longer songs. there's no reason for ther to be silence when you talk...keep the attention. you'll have the best 11-12 spot on the roster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonberry Posted January 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Actually Dr. King's entirely right.... As is Senor Beats.... All right... that's much more to do. And yes, Meggo, I'd heart you forever for some Allmans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Slip in some Slip! Their Alive Acoustic and Alive Electric are top notch. Congrats on the upgrade Tonberry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Geez, I'd just be different and play two 30 minute killer jams. honestly, have you looked at a typical 'jamband' 1 hour setlist? There are usually 5-8 tunes in there. The other beauty is that you have this entire community online that records and performs the music that can feed the show. IT would be easy, and people would like it even though you might imagine that they wouldn't. I'd have it on every wednesday at work. Just call it a live music show, stay clear of any studio material, and don't play live CRAP There, that's my dream show, minus the funny banter ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonberry Posted January 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Sadly Bouche, it's me, and I'd need to hear my voice far too often for your dream to be realized... Plus... station regs... I have to pop in all the time and say stuff. That said, on weeks I may not feel up to snuff, I could certainly just lob a big ol' 30 minuter in there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonberry Posted January 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 I like the Slip, Shar, sadly, I have zilch. And thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Well will you be at BNB this Saturday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonberry Posted January 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Unknown... but unlikely. I'm probably working... and also next to broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questcequecest? Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 hi, i'm broke. nice to meet you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 bnb has some great tunes to play. they could even be a theme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Tonberry, I got your back! I finally got my CD's out of storage, and I have, oh, I don't know, about 700 discs of live jam band shows... CanJam, US bands, more nero than you can shake a stick at, etc. A lot of these discs will eventually be given to The Sloth, but you could borrow whatever I have for the moment. After I give them to The Sloth, I'm sure you can borrow them off of him. It'll be like the 40 Main Music Archive... Let me know what you're looking for and I'll hook you up... Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrtrhhrtgg Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 check out archive.org, you can find whatever downloads u want there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeker Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Ed just come over to the house with a stack of blank cds and we'll get our burners working for ya, between the 4 of us we'll make sure you have a huge collection by the time you leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonberry Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 That's a good idea, Tre-vor. And with not using 4 cds a week for the old show, I'm sure I can splurge... Ok. Cool. Also, Del, that sounds great. I'm sure I'll be at your door, hat in hand at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatpatguy Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 congrats on the show man.. that's awesome! I can hook you up with lots of groovy jazz, funk and soul stuff if you want to branch out a bit from the straight up "jam band" sound. I can also offer you any and all of my jam band records, both live and studio. I bet bradm can really help you out too, especially if you want to put a local/regional slant to the show. Having a radio show for the community is going to kick ass.. rock on man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonberry Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Well, I just hope I don't let anyone down. I'm certainly not the most musically inclined one on this board -- which isn't to say I don't love music... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 There's a pile of music that sits on the fence of the jam scene... tetering on the acidjazz genre...definitely worth checking out... King Sunshine, Kobayashi, Quatertones, Moses Mayes, The Hummers, Velvet, The Chamelon Project, Menervous Beat, God Made Me Funky ... all great Canadian dance/funk acts... All you have to do is send them an email that you want to play their music and I'm sure they'd send you something. Also you have a sh!t load of music that is right at your fingertips at the station? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatpatguy Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 that's a good point about contacting bands directly.. I know if a DJ contacted me directly I'd send them anything and everything as for content, I think any band that is mentioned favourably on this board will be a safe bet as a band that will go over well with any jamband fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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