For the Listeners & Anyone Who Cares
Wow … lots of cool things in the current music thread on CitizenWausau.com. You might want to wade through it and add your own comments.
Last night’s Roundtrip, my radio program on WNRB-LP (93.3 FM, Wausau) was a bit out there at times, reflecting a mix of then and now, and more than a few extra-long cuts:
Traffic, Glad … just to get things going on an up tempo
Steve Winwood, Raging Sea … Traffic’s ex-front man from his ‘08 release (he’s still got it)
Audioslave, Out of Exile
Velveteen, The Getaway … can anyone get me some background on this mysterious tune and group?
Coldplay, Violet Hill … from their very good new album
Counting Crows, Long December … counting the hours until we see them next week in Milw.
Joni Mitchell, See You Sometime … ah, nice interlude
Roxy Music, The Bogus Man … long, dark cut from glam-rock’s best group
Patti Smith, Land … about 9 minutes of Patti’s punky poetry set against a wall of NYC avant garde rock
Weezer, I’m the Greatest Man That Ever Lived … sort of a Bohemian Rhapsody for 2008
George Harrison, Brainwashed … ex-Beatle gets pretty cynical here, quite rightly so
Sufjan Stevens, All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
Muse, Starlight
Genesis, Stagnation … art rock trip with Peter Gabriel at the wheel
Nazz, Under the Ice … Todd Rundgren’s early band
Todd Rundgren, Little Red Lights
Death Cab for Cutie, I Will Possess Your Heart … obsession
Coldplay, 42
The Who, It’s Not True … from the dawn of their history
citizenweston said:
Tom, I’m usually intrigued by your playlists, but it always seems like I’ve got something going on during your timeslot. Have you ever considered recording your broadcast as a podcast? You could post it on CW the morning after so all us folks who don’t get the chance to tune in could still listen. I don’t know if that goes against what you’re trying to do with your radio program, but I think opening it up and allowing people to listen at their convenience would bring in a lot more listeners. Dino and Andy would probably be able to help too since they used to do a podcast a long, long time ago. I think it was called the Insophisticate, hard to remember since they haven’t done one in so long.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:53 am #
Tom Neal said:
Thanks. There is a big obstacle to podcasting the show … licensing issues. It is basically illegal to do with music unless the music is un-copyrighted, and if you’re caught, the financial penalty can be huge. This is different from web streaming which is ok to do. We are looking at recording our shows as digital files, though, and they can conceivably be re-broadcast during vacant airtime slots. And, files can be shared with friends.
Anyway, what you suggest is something a lot of people want, but it’s just not legal right now.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:27 am #
Alex Tallitsch said:
King James was a huge Phil Collins fan.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:49 am #
Dino Corvino said:
While I love the idea of free media, the idea of me not going to jail is more appealing.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am #
Tom Neal said:
Dino … spoken like a true Deadhead.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:17 am #
robertmentzer said:
Pshaw. If anyone complains you just take the podcast down. And besides, no one will complain. You can just fly under the radar and not go to jail at all… You know, probably…
August 18th, 2008 at 6:54 pm #
Tom Neal said:
Well, there is that sticky issue of being associated with a real live radio station and getting them in trouble.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:30 am #
citizenweston said:
Wouldn’t they like the free publicity?
I kid. However, it is frustrating that copyright laws can prevent people from being exposed to new music that they might normally not have heard using modern technology. I enjoy radio a lot, but we are really in an age of convenience where I’m used to getting my content pretty much when and wherever I want. Radio just doesn’t and will not be able to provide the same convenience. Is the law for fair use covered as long as you are only live broadcasting, and becomes illegal as soon as it becomes a download? Also, is Rhapsody able to offer full songs for online play because they own the rights to every song they sell? Do works of music fall under the same laws as literature, where it is no longer under copyright after a certain amount of time, like 50 years or something?
August 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am #
Citizen Wausau » Blog Archive » Your Voice for Aug 19th said:
[…] Fresh off the epic music discussion on the main board, Tom Neal posts another fun playlist that includes a little something old and a little something […]
August 19th, 2008 at 11:23 am #