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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

Rock Turkey '15 Recap #1: Golden Fleece.

These guys was good.  I was troubleshooting my recording setup during the first half of their set, but I got 16 good minutes.  Mastered it real quick in my mother's living room before I drove back to Texas.  This board mix worked pretty well, thanks in part to the band's excellent balance with the stage volume.  Brandon O. did the rest with knobs, faders and a lot of help getting it from the board to my thing.  The stage manager in me salutes you! Download it, listen to it, see them tonight! Golden Fleece ROCK TURKEY '15 at Peoria Pizza Works.MP3