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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Blue Bonnet Plague Had Nothing to Do With Texas.

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I think that lately.  "Blue Bonnet" is a common name around Austin.  In the 309, it was just about the butter.

This was one of the two bands I was in right after Suburban Sluts.  This one was most related.  I took Ben with me.

Ben and I discussed making a band.  Neither of us had any great desire to put a lot of work into it, including the songwriting process.  Just spit 'em out.  I was kind of doing my "later Black Flag" thing.  We looked for awhile for a drummer and eventually found, and though we were both aware she had NO drumming experience, decided that Stephanie was perfect for the job.  A natural.  It worked out well.  Pretty funny that was her first band, though.  We had almost no structure.  It was fun.

We didn't do too many shows.  Didn't last too long.  Hard to say how long, as short times expand in the future.

This show was towards the end (which was towards the beginning, as well) at The Gallery.  We kept it pretty loose, using various 4th members, stage setups, whatnot.  It was fun.

I am definitely having feelings lately... those cliche feelings.  I wish I knew how much fun I was having.

Technical notes***

I finally relented on the rack mount compressor on this live recording.  As with most recordings I did at The Gallery, Tiamat, Pizza Works, & elsewhere, I place both my microphones on the ceiling about 3-5 ft. apart.  Until this point, I cranked the threshold on the compressor all the way down and the ratio all the way up.  I had next to no knowledge of what I was doing, only that that way made everything audible.  For this show, or one shortly before it, I decided to play that a little more compassionately.  Whatever, I cranked the shit out of it a few days ago.

This one is just one complete mp3.  50min long.

Blue Bonnet Plague:
Nick Roseman - Guitar/Vocals
Ben Zinnen - Bass/backing vocals
Stephanie Knox - Drums/backing vocals

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