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...

Give Thanks To Semicids!

I had NEVER heard this.  In 1994, working at Tobins Pizza, Matt "Baldy" Crummett, pointed over at delivery driver, Rob Reed, and something like, "that guy is an awesome drummer.  He was in Semicids."


I think I've seen all these guys in something else (Ed in 100 other bands), but it was real cool to hear this, and then make it louder.


It would be real cool if anyone had something to add... photos, stories, corrections, etc.  I'm guessing most of you AT LEAST haven't heard this in a long time.  Hopefully, I've done it justice.  It was bad ass to begin with.


With no further ado, Happy Thanksgiving Bloomington/Normal Punk Rock History!

(the above MP3s are of the entire album, uncut)
Here is a ZIP file, that includes the individual remastered tracks and artwork.
You have to download this one, then "extract" it to where you're music is on your computer.
I'll soon upload and add links to individual songs, for now, this should do you.
I also have a cassette of Semicids LIVE at 104 W. Willow in Normal on 5/3/90 coming.
Were you there?

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Ed's your guy.  Thanks for the tapes... thanks for the rock.

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