Demented podcasters sound the retreat

The Mad Music Archive has seen a shakeup of late, with ill-advised podcasts removed in favor of ASCAP- and BMI-friendly streaming audio, and comedy music host David Tanny crawling back to his bitterly abandoned Live365 network.

Seems these guys can’t shake their Weird Al addiction. And now that they’ve acknowledged copyright law, which requires permissions and hefty mechanical royalties for the right to offer protected content in download form, the short-lived podcasters can only retreat to the stunted medium of Internet radio. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 5:52 pm Tue, May 20, 2008.

DT introduces my new song (wink, wink)!

Hey, guess what? I have a new song out!

It’s so new, in fact, that I didn’t even know I had a new song until David Tanny played it on his show!

What happened was, I fixed a few problems with (Jerry Lewis) Fly Me To The Moon, hoisting my MP3 up on the rack and fiddling a bit with the volume and EQ.

This is all dull recording engineer stuff, but your ears are going to thank me. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 11:39 pm Mon, Apr 28, 2008.

DT’s back and mad all over

David Tanny is the former proprietor of the Mad Music Dementia Top 20, a program he abandoned at the end of 2007 after voters drove him meshugeneh by demanding the same songs week after endless week.

My own (Jerry Lewis) Fly Me To The Moon, for example, rode the charts for the final 10 weeks of the year. Enough already!

But Dave returned anew in January with the Mad Music Comedy Zone, a weekly, two-hour show that offers a wider range of content and more closely resembles his old I Still Get Demented show, a comedy staple on streaming radio network Live365. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 3:34 am Sun, Apr 6, 2008.

MMA makes room for me in MP3 Store

Always reaching for the elusive puzzle piece to guarantee the smashing success that has long eluded me, I’ve decided the answer is another place to sell my mp3s.

And so, in best self-referential manner, I’m pleased to announce a new addition to the Turetzky Syndrome family of music retail outlets.

For all those comedy fans who never buy my music — and there are so many of you — on iTunes, all of my crap is now available at the Mad Music Archive MP3 Store. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 1:18 am Sat, Feb 2, 2008.

I’m No. 10 (and 11)!

Best I can tell, Captain Wayne dispenses with unreliable Internet polling and picks his own year-end “top songs” list for the Mad Music Show.

That worked out just fine for me, as the Cap’n selected Fly Me To The Moon and I’ll Get Old And Die as the Nos. 11 and 10, respectively, new songs for 2007.

Why did he pair my songs on the year-end chart? So they wouldn’t be “lonely.” That’s my kind of methodology. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 10:15 pm Mon, Jan 21, 2008.