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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 a Motivational Karo
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Super88 Remasters for the Big Thanksgiving Reunion.

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In 2003, maybe 2002, Super88 rolled into Lisa Falzone studios, in Joel Madigan's basement.  We cut 5 songs.  I was still pretty new to the band.  I think we had Joel remix it 2 or 3 times, before he did himself a favor and erased the masters.  I found an unmastered mix recently going through moldy boxes of CDs.  The disc unfortunately had some glitches in the audio that couldn't be fixed, but I went ahead anyway. Download the album ZIP file Listen to it WHOLE Sometime after that we recorded again in Dave Moe's basement studio, I think.  It was a hazy crazy time and PBR was running the show.  This collection was mixed pretty loud.  I'm not sure if I did anything to it already, but it sounded pretty dry.  I just mastered it.  Big and loud.  I like it. Download the 2003 or 2004 Dave Moe Mix (aka "The White Album") .ZIP Listen to it as it was intended.mp3
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2 Nights of Madness, with ArsoNick Scum.

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Dates are getting hazy.  By dates, I mean remember what year something happened.  I think this happened in 1998 or 1999.  I was living in a house with 3 other people on Oak St. in Normal. Keith Harrell had a CD of sound effects and I used it over night to make this ridiculous collection of madness.  "PSYCHOSIS!"  The longer tracks with the madnessy songs weren't made that night, but around that time.  Keith recently sent me these MP3s.  He likely has the only surviving copy of that very short run cassette.  He and I may have had the only two. I don't know what to tell you.  You have to download a ZIP file on this one.  I'll put one up for a sample, and then you're on your own. ArsoNick Scum - PSYCHOSIS!.ZIP Listen to "A NO GOOD BUM." Night of Madness #2 took place while I was living in Dimmitt's Grove in Bloomington.  This was 1999, definitely after the first night of madness.  One of my roommates was Matt Pulford, owner of a Nintendo E
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