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

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 a Motivational Karo

Finally, Guitar Wolf @ The Gallery - "Nomo, Illinois: Lock City!"

OK.  This is certainly one of the prizes of my cassette vault.  1999 @ The Gallery (Normal, IL), raging through the U.S. with Nashville Pussy... GUITAR WOLF.  One of the best shows I've ever been at.  First time I ever got a rock n' roll burn on my face. This was a board recording.  Didn't mix it, it was already done with typical live sound board mix... very loud drums & vocals and it sounds like the bass was either so loud the mic was turned down or the mic had been knocked off the amp all together.  I did what I could to preserve the sound as it came off at the show. Guitar would would do a thing where they would pull someone out of the audience, give them the guitar and make them "jam."  This show, it was the great Mario Guzman, who also got on stage with them at House of Blues. What else, folks?  You tell me. "Nomo, Illinois: Lock City!"  Guitar Wolf @ The Gallery - Normal, IL 1999 (click to listen and/or download) (Anyone got the actua