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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Super88: Top 15 All-Time Peoria Rock Band Probably.

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Super88 has now been rolling for 20+ years.  Twice as long as the Beatles because they’re twice as good, I guess.  Soon, the albums ROCK N’ ROLL EXTRAVAGANZA and LIGHTS IT UP  will be released to the world via widespread rampant streaming and downloading services, just like The Beatles.

For now, though, I want you to know that they are available on Bandcamp.com and you should check them out.  Best stuff I’ve ever worked on (RnR Extravaganza - rhythm guitar).  It was recorded by Mark Rubel (Pogo Studio) in Champaign/Urbana in 2005/2006.  I think that, at the time, after I had announced that I was up and moving to Chicago, that this might be it... let's blow the money we have saved on an album in the studio... however, I was unraveling at the time, may remember it wrong... regardless, this happened.  Mark Rubel is a badass.  Fantastic guy to work with.  If audio engineering never existed, he'd be a name in the game of psychiatry.

There are a handful of things that, looking back, I wish I had known how important they were at the time.  2002-2012 was a hell of a time.  "War And Peace" style.  There is, and likely always will be, a piece of me that I was back in the (309) rockin in Super88.  Kids... appreciate it, because eventually you find yourself in Texas and you can't come home to figure out what could have been.  Enjoy it now, enjoy it later, enjoy what's to come.  Don't be stupid.

The reason "LIGHTS IT UP" isn't pictured here isn't because I didn't play on it... or bother to really learn those songs... it's because the CD wasn't sitting here, so I still have to scan it.  It's an outstanding album.  I'm not floating any bullshit.  If you like cock-rock'n roll... b'zzap.  You've Got It.

$5 for these albums?!?  That's nothing.  That's the cost of a Shiner Bock at Peoria Pizza Works.
However, if you like it and you want to play it on your podcast or whatever, hit me up and I'll hook you up.  309roseman@gmail.com


Strong guts?  Listen to one of my first shows with them in ‘02.

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