Nobody's a Critic

Googled a band to get here?

This was originally a whine about getting a lot of traffic and finding out nobody gives a fuck about what a great avant-garde/rock/noise? guitarist I was/am because my music player ---> gets no love.
Boo hoo.

I can do better than that. Whining, I mean.

There's an upside.

I get a lot of internet hits from people who are searching for the bands listed in my weekly radio playlists- which are just cut and pasted from the station's site- so it makes me feel good that folks are still interested in bands like Gong, The Soft Boys and Sweetwater...just to name a few.
Instead of whining about not getting any hits on my music player, I should be glad that good taste isn't wholly extinct.

So check out the station's schedule- chances are there's a show or three that you might like. It's live radio done by neighborhood volunteers and funded largely through individual donations. We purchase some news programming from NPR, Pacifica and others, but all of our music programming is done by real DJs playing CDs and vinyl in real-time. We recently celebrated our second year on air.

I've been in it since almost the first broadcast- I started as a sound engineer during the first fundraiser two years ago and have been there ever since. Now I'm on the air at least once a week. It's helped me through some bad times.

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When I was twenty I was convinced of two things, one of which became true:

1) My music would be heard around the world.

2) I wouldn't know about it because I'd be dead.

Sure, #1 is only true because of a handful of international web pals, but it's still cool.
And I can't say enough good stuff about living to see it happen.

That's really cool.