The 35 Minutes That Sum It Up Best: Motivational Karaoke, "Spring Training Eve"

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Today while driving around South Austin, my iPod bringed me a blast from me past.  A 35-minute segment of Motivational Karoke, the WESN radio show that Chris Golwitzer and I painstakingly crafted from 2002-2005.  It wunt crafted.  It wunt no pain. Part 5 of "SPRING TRAINING EVE (2/22/04) just seemed to sum up what we were about. It starts with an interview with Ted Leo after he blew out his voice in Champaign and I finished the singing for him.  That ends with a clip of Babe Ruth with a fake swear word beeped in. We played Ted Leo quite a bit. A new song that's old now. A lengthy, lie-riddled microphone break, back-selling a lot of things that we used to play.  A tongue lashing of the DJs on before us. An explanation of what Google is and how to spell it, followed by the futile spelling of our very long impossible find website. We were doing Dream Warriorisms then because we were on from 12-2am at that time.  We went retro and pulled out...
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Beward the Bubba.

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I did this one awhile ago, but let's go ahead and throw it out there again for ol' Steve Knoth.

Back then, when someone asked me if I wanted to come by and play with their band they were starting, I seem to remember saying yes a lot.  These days, I have trouble finishing those conversations.  Big difference between then and now.

I don't remember if it was Steve or David Hall that invited me to come by.  I arrived and discovered that not only did David not know how to play guitar, or that Steve didn't know how to play bass, but Mel, on drums, was still figuring it out, too.  So it took.  That evening spawned a lot of evenings on Steve's porch on Market St?  Or Monroe?

More recordings of the Brains will show up eventually, but in this one, recorded at The Gallery (Normal, IL) 9/23/99 will happen now.  Pretty sure it was a board recording, as the acoustic guitar was really loud and the electric was real quiet.  So one night, for something to do, I put the tape back into the 4-track and recorded a new guitar track.  Didn't even make much of an attempt to make it good.  I think I was just experimenting with the songs.  Fast forward to a couple years ago when I came across the tape and said, "aw hell," and mixed it.  I was more interested in visiting Steve and these songs.  Hadn't hung out in quite awhile.

I should listen to this again before posting it, so I can be sure about what I'm talking about, but in the meantime, have a visit with The Marinated Brains.  The lineup at the time was Steve, Mel, Stephanie & myself.

Also, if you know where the "BEWARE THE BUBBA" picture of Steve in his HS wrestling getup that was on the wall at The Gallery, please speak up.

DOWNLOAD THE MARINATED BRAINS .ZIP!!!

(photo assembled by R. Fish Carpenter)

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