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...
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It's NYE 20 Years Later... Let's Go to Marky D's Basement.

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HAPPY NEW YEARS!  ALL OF THEM! (TIME MACHINE JOKE)

It struck me this morning, on the toilet, that EarScum has to post something for New Years Eve.  I have several recordings from various NYEs, but one is entirely more appropriate.

If you didn't know Marky D, you missed out.  While it's crazy to think that he's been gone for almost 20 years, it's also crazy to think that he was only 26 or so at the time.

Let's not get sad, though.  Let's party in his basement like it's 1997 or 1998.  You'd think the owner/operator of a time machine would be organized with his dates, but very much no.

I think this was recorded 12/31/97.  I think it was NYE '98 that I was snowed into 99 W. Phoenix Ave... I've got a recording for that, too.

First up: Badger Boys.

Never heard of them?  They didn't have a name yet.  It was just Dan Malin on drums and Tom Kirk on bass and it was intense.  While recording (in an unfinished basement with NO sound proofing), I was crouched down next to Dan by the drums.  It was intense.  An understatement, but he really got into it.  Tom went equally apeshit on bass.  It was intense.

Later on, they recorded an album with various assistants.  I remember Shayson Clay and Tommy O'Donnell being on there.  Maybe we should hear that too.  Posted below.

I haven't touched this in quite awhile and it was recorded with wild compression (in a basement).

I chose the that track because its the only one I have a title for.  Need to dig out the CD liner.

Tommy gave me this CD back when he lived across the street from Steve Knoth and Marinated Brains was rehearsing over there.

2nd: "No-Name Band w/ Jerred, Chuck, Matt & dude."

I actually don't know who went first.

That's not all that happened.  A new band hatched that night.  Another band that hadn't yet come up with a name.  On the cassette, it says something like "No-Name Band w/ Jerred, Chuck, Matt & dude." "Dude" being Randy, not Dennis Dwyer, "The Dude."

Shortly after this, they became known as Guilty Pleasures and not long after that, they all moved to Chicago.

The only other thing I remember from this night was Josh Matlock attempting to jump from the top basement step to the bottom, but he hit his head on the low ceiling and just crashed down the stairs.  No serious injuries.


You may hear Marky D in the room.  Listen for his laugh.



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