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The Mad Music Show: Demento’s disciples
The Mad Music Show, Show 94
Date: October 1, 2007
Full episode: People, Places & Things
Summary: A tentative, alternative Dementia movement is afoot, as comedy music podcasters begin to explore a break with the genre’s spiritual father, whose own playlist grows ever narrower.
In fact, Wayne Ross founded the Mad Music Archive as a tribute to Dr. Demento, but shifted focus when his site drew unwelcome attention from the distributors of the Dr. Demento Show.
A labor of love
“Anything destined to be loved is also destined to be hated,” Wayne writes on his site.
Now, Wayne hosts (as Captain Wayne, the funny music pirate) the Mad Music Show, providing an almost-weekly selection of songs by his favorite artists.
Along with other podcasters (among them David Tanny, Tom Rockwell and Tyrone Kahn, all of whose own programs are available on MMA), Wayne mounts an edgy, but not quite rebellious challenge to AM radio-bound Dr. D.
Put me in, coach
I’m happy to contribute an overexposed tune of my own to the cause. Wayne played My Fat Ass Itches as part of his recent People, Places & Things episode.
“We’re gonna start off with a fat, itchy thing,” Wayne says by way of introduction.
The new shows don’t exactly reinvent comedy music, and honestly, the audience for this sort of content ain’t all that large to begin with.
But Dr. Demento’s disciples are more accessible to artists and listeners than the original. If he’s wondering where his audience is moving, all he has to do is check out the MMA.
A fat, itchy thing (0:45).
Posted in: at 6:06 pm Fri, Oct 5, 2007.
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