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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

You Know... I Forgot I Had a Blog. For That, I Give You the Re Re Re Mastering of an Album.

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I had remastered this on a computer donated to me by my very good friend, Alex Moore, of LUNCHROOM AUDIO in Buda, TX.  Naturally, as will happen on a computer from 2005, I eventually couldn't boot it up.  I bought a thing, 3 years later, that made it possible for me to retrieve the only .WAV version of the album... the whole recording session, actually... what there ever was.  It was partially recorded living in Chicago and partially recorded after moving to Austin.  It's kinda about the move, but more about a change in life.  Deal with it. Long story short, before I re-release it to all those streaming places that pay me a partial penny per download, just download it for free... but the way I intended it is best... that is as a whole album. Back in the day we called that a "concept album."  There was a race of people that had attention spans of 45+ minutes... them was the target audience. Relax... I broke it up into tracks, too. PS.  I have another album re