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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

LOS DESPEINADOS! Who?

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Songs by Mario Guzman and his guitar.  Nick Hagen on bass, Phil Stern on drums.  I think that was it.  Steve Bullwinkel's 8-track reel-to-reel machine and mixer.  Spent the first 5 hours trying to figure it out.  Turned out a couple channels didn't work and the heads were very dirty.  We were in Phil's mom's basement.  She was out of town and we went late.  A posse came looking for Steve. Tony SanFilippo mixed this in his studio, I believe.  I wasn't involved in that.  He did a great mix.  I just cranked it.  Made it look mean. TRACK 1 TRACK 2 TRACK 3 TRACK 4 TRACK 5 I would buy that EP.