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...

Super88 House Party - Bradley University - 9-23-02

A party band farewell to Laura Satterfield!

Then she came back.

I always remembered this recording as the worst of Super88.  I remember it being a model of being a sloppy band, but going back over it... it's not that bad.

I only had a 256kbps MP3 of this set, but I went ahead and mastered it anyway.  Cranked it like a party band.

I can't really remember the technical aspects of this show/recording.  I have a cassette of this somewhere, which leads me to believe that I recorded it with my 4-track... perhaps the last time I used it to record a live show.  The bass was loud and proud on it, so it was probably after Chris got a big boy rig and Dave and I were still swapping out disgruntled, poorly matched guitar amps.  You can hear the vocals really well, too.  Not sure where the recording mics were placed.  Don't care.  You don't, either.

This is Part One, of a Super88 trilogy.  Stay tuned.

The Entire Set (listen/download)
"I Wanna Be Your Dog" (listen/download)


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