RAD 1983 (RAD)

Soooooooooooooooo Friday was the second to last Kitchen before the show slips into the unknown... Wild stuff. As the penultimate broadcast, I wanted to give it a bit of a theme. I settled on doing one particular year. I thought about it for a good seven or eight seconds before it hit me: 1983. The best year in music ever. So, I got to thinking, and I got to Wikipedia-ing, and before I knew it I had an awesome playlist which I shared with the world on April 24, 2009. Word. Also of complete note: Physical comic Patrick Ferri, my extremely funny cousin, came in with his girlfriend Lorie to co-host and brought a few most excellent vinyl cuts and stories from '83 (since I wasn't alive at the time) to add to the show. Rounding the program out was an ultra rare 7" Patrick brought in from an Albany band called The Stomplistics. On the back of the 45 sleeve was even a "Thank-you" column mentioning WCDB!!! Isn't that something?

BUT enough of me babbling, to the photos!


All photos by HELLO BUNNI, thanks Bunni!!!


Nice sepia tones...! haha






DAAAAAA crew

and...

THE PLAYLIST! Glazed with extra 1983.

DURAN DURAN	NEW MOON ON MONDAY
R.E.M.	RADIO FREE EUROPE
BLUE PETER	FALLING
DAVID BOWIE	CAT PEOPLE (PUTTING OUT FIRE)
DAVID BOWIE	LET'S DANCE
DEPECHE MODE	EVERYTHING COUNTS
NEW ORDER	AGE OF CONSENT
THE MOTELS	SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
ENDGAMES	LOVE CARES
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS	COME ON EILEEN
ADAM ANT	HERE COMES THE GRUMP
THE SMITHS	THIS CHARMING MAN
THE TUBES	SHE'S A BEAUTY
HEAVEN 17	TEMPTATION
FOREIGN PRESS	SET YOUR LOVE IN MOTION
TIC TOC	CRITICAL PATH
EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS	WILD SUMMER NIGHTS
EBN-OZN	AEIOU SOMETIMES Y
RUN DMC	ROCK BOX
3D	NEARER
MOTORHEAD	I'M THE DOCTOR
MOTORHEAD	GO TO HELL
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES	DEAR PRUDENCE
THE STOMPLISTICS	FIFTEEN AND GONE
HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS	HEART AND SOUL

Co-hosts are what's really good, thanks again Pat!!!

AND THEN THERE WAS ONE.

Tune in next week for the conclusion to,
the 80s program that kept Albany educated on what they missed,
since 2005,
It's The Kitchen,
on WCDB.

Good night Albany.
-L

PS - Check out the super awesome cart that I'm grossly misusing my power as my last week as PD and forcing all freshman DJs to play four times an hour:
(Just kidding, it's only three) Thanks Joe!

Wow, I'm going to miss this.

Colin Hay

Colin Hay, originally uploaded by lf979883.

Awesome concert tonight! I went to the Egg to see Colin Hay of Men at Work fame for an intimate acoustic show. In between songs from his early and current days, he shared many stories from his years as an entertainer/musician. Very cool stuff.

RELATED: Men At Work's 1983 masterpiece "Business As Usual" will be featured on the Kitchen next Friday, April 24, as part of a special 1983-themed show. Word! Listen in!

PS Colin Hay: If you google yourself someday and find this blog post, I just want to say, you're awesome. Ask your girlfriend to lay off the a capella flute, though. Not as entertaining.

Colin Hay, originally uploaded by lf979883.

ANTEPENULTIMATE

I've gotten so good at this, I can DJ with my eyes closed!

Last Friday marked the third to last Kitchen! It was a lot of fun. DJ And-a-half came by for one last co-hosting session. He put the finishing touches on an automation system for the station! It's really exciting, because a guaranteed 24/7 schedule will do a lot for our local image. I recorded my voice for twenty automation-related voice breaks (along with twelve saying "The time is one o'clock..." etc) so I might end up living on at WCDB as a ghost, night DJ that's always around when no one else is. That would be pretty cool! We'll see.
Here's some photos Joe took from the day-

We went to take a look at the old transmitter, here's our shoes on the way up the elevator




I noticed the "REM" light and noted it would be cool if the transmitter was programmed to make that light light up whenever we played REM. I did end up playing REM as a request from my dad, I wonder if the unit got the joke...
Also of note - To the left of my finger in the above picture - After my REM statement, Matt immediately wondered aloud if there was a band called SWR TEMP. Haha.

Here's my office, soon to be not my office... :-(



As for this week's show, the playlist was as follows...

HOWARD JONES	ALL I WANT
JESSE JOHNSON'S REVUE	BE YOUR MAN
PETER MURPHY	CUTS YOU UP
THE WILD SWANS	BRINGING HOME THE ASHES
MARSHALL CRENSHAW	THERE SHE GOES AGAIN
REM	DON'T GO BACK TO ROCKVILLE
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD	TWO TRIBES (INTERMISSION LEGEND MIX)
JESSE JOHNSON FEAT. SLY STONE	CRAZAY
KURTIS BLOW	THE BREAKS
DEVO	THAT'S GOOD
THE JETS	YOU BETTER DANCE
PRINCE	BATDANCE
MICHAEL MCDONALD	I KEEP FORGETTIN' (EVERY TIME I'M NEAR YOU)
THE NEW MONKEES	VICTIM OF LOVE
GRACE JONES	I'M NOT PERFECT (BUT I'M PERFECT FOR YOU)
MEN AT WORK	BE GOOD JOHNNY
THE SMITHS	STILL ILL
DAN HARTMAN	I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU
THE HEARTBREAKERS	BORN TO LOSE
KILLING JOKE	EIGHTIES

I'm going to cover Colin Hay's acoustic concert at the Egg in Albany this Tuesday for the newspaper. Very cool! I can't wait to check it out. I hope he plays a lot of old Men at Work tunes!! If the photos come out good, I might have to make a mid-week update with the contents of that concert.

So with only two Kitchens left, I'm feeling pretty choked up about it all. I can't believe that this time has finally come. Back when I was a sophomore, I felt like graduation would never arrive! Now, here I am, closing up my radio show. In fact, I'm in the library right now and should be writing an essay (and writing two other essays and reading two books) but instead I'm doing this! The station has been a great aside for me while at SUNYA. I love it, and I look forward to coming back and reliving my days at future reunions (Maybe I'll find my place as a Joe Schepis of sorts). It's weird to think that I might be talking to a WCDB DJ some day who is right now in a crib... Wild!

Anyway, next week's show will be focussed on a particular year: 1983, to be exact. I find it to be the pinnacle of the decade in music, and I hope you'll enjoy it too.

See you next week...
-LEON

This week

Totally sucked.

PLAYLIST:

JEFFERSON STARSHIP	LAYIN' IT ON THE LINE
ROMANTICS	ONE IN A MILLION
EDDIE MURPHY	PARTY ALL THE TIME
JEFFERSON STARSHIP	STRANGER
PETE SHELLEY	ON YOUR OWN
INXS	TO LOOK AT YOU
EXOTIC BIRDS	DANCING ON THE AIRWAVES
INXS	JAN'S SONG
AL JARREAU	BOOGIE DOWN
MICK JAGGER	THROWAWAY
IGGY POP AND DAVID BOWIE	ISOLATION
IGGY POP AND DAVID BOWIE	SISTER MIDNIGHT
THE JAGS	BACK OF MY HAND
FAR CORPORATION	STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
RICK JAMES	DANCE WIT' ME
THE OUTFIELD	MYSTERY MAN
NICK JAMESON	WEATHERMAN
THE KINKS	DO IT AGAIN

Well, see you next week. Hopefully things get better by then...

-Leon