Posts by James Whittemore
In/New & Out/Old. New releases from the past 6 months followed by 1950/60 oldies. Claypool Lennon Delirium, Spongetones, Juliana Hatfield, Sheb Wooley, Sam Cook, Little Richard, Solomon Burke, & more. TurboTunes with Nö AI - Thur. 4/23 at 2:55pm Pacific. Repeats Sun 1am & Mon 10am on www.korcfm.com
8 years ago: My partner of 40+ years has lost her mind and is dressing our 10 yr old Border-lab mix in velcro snap-on pajamas that don't need to be removed for final bathroom duty. Izzy is, of course, humiliated yet curious.
News To Me! On TurboTunes with Nö AI, Songs new to me. New favorite - Terry Thompson, son of Richard & Linda Thompson. Tommy James sans Shondells, MGMT, Linus of Hollywood, Viv Stanshall, Tame Impala, Jane Siberry, & more. Thur. 4/9 at 2:55pm Pacific. Repeats Sun 1am & Mon 10am on www.korcfm.com
15 years ago today back in San Mateo: Vostok, Infernal Noise Machine, LP-1, cheapo midi controller & iPad mixed to MasterLink; will add Demeter RealReverb. No laptop, no overdubs. Too much/too Little? Too soon; very rusty.
No, not at all. Not even close.
Guest host Bobo The Sock Puppet on Turbotunes spins some favorite music. For a Sock Puppet his taste is somewhat childish. Emmitt Rhodes, Brian Eno, Sandy Salisbury, Bruce & Terry, Boy George. Thur. 4/9 at 2:55pm Pacific. Repeats Sun 1am & Mon 10am on www.korcfm.com Setlist for last week below.
Oh, that Jazz? - TurboTunes with Nö AI this week. Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, Sarah Vaughan, Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon, Earl Fatha Hines, Modern Jazz Quartet culled from the recordings I grew up with. Thur. 4/2 at 2:55pm Pacific. Repeats Sun 1am & Mon 10am www.korcfm.com Setlist last week below.
Took a quick hike around the Marys River trail and boardwalk yesterday with Turbo. Warm, sunny, and lots of sneezing (me, not Linda & Turbo).
Approaching my mid 70s and the most exciting event of the year? Buying a new electric lawn mower. Get off my lawn, you kids!
Last week we heard Singers. Now, music no singers (mostly). From live 1970 Miles Davis, Philip Glass, Mad Professor, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Wang Chung, Roy Wood, to The Beach Boys with vocals removed. TurboTunes with Nö AI Thur. 3/26 at 2:55pm Pacific. Repeats Sun 1am & Mon 10am on www.korcfm.com
Great solo tune from Martin Gordon, 2006: youtu.be/CDzATYWaakw?...
Singers Who Croon on TurboTunes with Nö AI Thur. 3/19 at 2:55pm Pacific. Repeats Sun 1am & Mon 10am on www.korcfm.com Frank Sinatra, Julie London, Nancy Wilson, Dana Countryman, Mel Torme, Bryan Ferry, Manhattan Transfer, and much more. Melodies, arrangements, soaring voices, old and new tunes.
I saw that in a theater when it came out. I was 9 and loved it. Off to find a copy....
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Gnu Music Review YTD on TurboTunes with Nö AI at www.korcfm.com Thur. 3/12 2:55pm Pacific, repeat 3/15 1am & 3/16 10am. All tunes new releases since 1/12026. Squeze, Spoon, Alabama 3, Ray Stevens, Bob Lind, John Pizzarelli, Iron & Wine, + more. Many genres, lots of fun. Setlist from last week below.
"...it has been a nervous year and people have begun to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis."
- Tom Lehrer, 1955
Day of Noise 24 Festival, Stanford University, 2013. "First rehearsal/planning session; 5 weeks before a 1 hour live performance slot as a duo. *NO* LAPTOPs."
One of my favorite lps of all time. Bought it the week it came out, played it too much, bought another a few years later.
I'm not afraid now of the dark anymore
And many mountains now are molehills
Back in Berlin they're all well fed
I don't care
People always bored me anyway
Older than middle age but had large heat pumps put in last fall. Solar panels and large battery wall going in this spring. Also turning backyard along creek from grass lawn to bioswale with native plants this year.
We had import quadraphonic reel tapes from RCA Japan, including some Tomita. The room was a converted attic and we sat in the middle o& the 4 speakers while the chickens in Pictures at an Exhibition ran around us in perfect frenzied circles.
Home attic studio 1973 in Morris Plains, NJ. MiniMoog with external s&h and drum modules, RMI Electra-Piano, Mutron phase shifter, TEAC 3340s, 4 speakers and 4 mono amps, on other side my friend's Synthi A and full drum kit along with cassette decks, turntables, and a Tandberg tube RtoR 1/2 track.
Some gear I loaned to the new University performing arts center, PRAx, for the grand opening 6 month exhibit on technology in music.