Tough crowd

These Schnauzer Logic guest spots are bruising.

At first, host Robin Goldstein greeted me with yards and yards of welcoming new-guest laughter, stoking my ego and sending me running for my copy of One Hundred and One Elephant Jokes to plan further hilarious interviews.

By my seventh and latest appearance, however, the introductions had grown perfunctory, the silences following my punchlines leaden, dissatisfied, even threatening. Several regular members of the studio panel even failed to appear for my visit, citing “work” or “family” obligations. Continue reading

Posted in: Interviews at 7:15 pm Fri, Apr 11, 2008.

Could you talk a little faster?

When I listen to Big Phil express his cogent, progressive political point of view, I frequently imagine not just how much better life will be once we’re rid of the Bush Administration, but also what I might have done with the valuable time lost waiting for Phil to formulate a sentence.

“Well, this week it’s time again to put aside (long pause) political ramblings and sexual frustrations (longer pause) and present another edition of Big Phil’s Love Parade, the Music Show. This is No. 9 (extra-long pause). It’s nice to kind of take a break every now and again and listen to some really great music,” Phil begins. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 2:05 am Tue, Apr 8, 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.

Some of my favorite People I Know

Steve Wheatley might be the most voracious client of the Podsafe Music Network, grabbing dozens of new tracks for his daily Dalecast.

Now, People I Know, introduced recently on Steve’s U.K.-based power pop program, isn’t exactly new. My brother-in-law, John, produced the track during two Terre Haute recording sessions that spanned some five months, concluding in fall of 2006.

People I Know is a family project. I sing lead and play guitar, John sings and plays bass, guitar and keyboards and my niece Morgan and my mom add background vocals. Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 1:30 am Fri, Apr 4, 2008.

That was the week that was

Turns out my Powerplay week on Dalecast did more than drive (Jerry Lewis) Fly Me To The Moon to the top of the Podsafe Music Network comedy charts for the month of March.

Not until Top Of The Podsafes featured my tortured Jerry Lewis impersonation did I realize that Fly Me To The Moon was the No. 2 song on the entire PMN for the week of March 8, 2008! Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 11:23 pm Sat, Mar 29, 2008.