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April 28, 2009

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 DURANNEW MOON ON MONDAY
R.E.M.RADIO FREE EUROPE
BLUE PETERFALLING
DAVID BOWIECAT PEOPLE (PUTTING OUT FIRE)
DAVID BOWIELET'S DANCE
DEPECHE MODEEVERYTHING COUNTS
NEW ORDERAGE OF CONSENT
THE MOTELSSUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
ENDGAMESLOVE CARES
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERSCOME ON EILEEN
ADAM ANTHERE COMES THE GRUMP
THE SMITHSTHIS CHARMING MAN
THE TUBESSHE'S A BEAUTY
HEAVEN 17TEMPTATION
FOREIGN PRESSSET YOUR LOVE IN MOTION
TIC TOCCRITICAL PATH
EDDIE AND THE CRUISERSWILD SUMMER NIGHTS
EBN-OZNAEIOU SOMETIMES Y
RUN DMCROCK BOX
3DNEARER
MOTORHEADI'M THE DOCTOR
MOTORHEADGO TO HELL
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEESDEAR PRUDENCE
THE STOMPLISTICSFIFTEEN AND GONE
HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWSHEART 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.

April 22, 2009

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.

April 19, 2009

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 JONESALL I WANT
JESSE JOHNSON'S REVUEBE YOUR MAN
PETER MURPHYCUTS YOU UP
THE WILD SWANSBRINGING HOME THE ASHES
MARSHALL CRENSHAWTHERE SHE GOES AGAIN
REMDON'T GO BACK TO ROCKVILLE
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOODTWO TRIBES (INTERMISSION LEGEND MIX)
JESSE JOHNSON FEAT. SLY STONECRAZAY
KURTIS BLOWTHE BREAKS
DEVOTHAT'S GOOD
THE JETSYOU BETTER DANCE
PRINCEBATDANCE
MICHAEL MCDONALDI KEEP FORGETTIN' (EVERY TIME I'M NEAR YOU)
THE NEW MONKEESVICTIM OF LOVE
GRACE JONESI'M NOT PERFECT (BUT I'M PERFECT FOR YOU)
MEN AT WORKBE GOOD JOHNNY
THE SMITHSSTILL ILL
DAN HARTMANI CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU
THE HEARTBREAKERSBORN TO LOSE
KILLING JOKEEIGHTIES



























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

April 4, 2009

This week

Totally sucked.

PLAYLIST:

JEFFERSON STARSHIPLAYIN' IT ON THE LINE
ROMANTICSONE IN A MILLION
EDDIE MURPHYPARTY ALL THE TIME
JEFFERSON STARSHIPSTRANGER
PETE SHELLEYON YOUR OWN
INXSTO LOOK AT YOU
EXOTIC BIRDSDANCING ON THE AIRWAVES
INXSJAN'S SONG
AL JARREAUBOOGIE DOWN
MICK JAGGERTHROWAWAY
IGGY POP AND DAVID BOWIEISOLATION
IGGY POP AND DAVID BOWIESISTER MIDNIGHT
THE JAGSBACK OF MY HAND
FAR CORPORATIONSTAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
RICK JAMESDANCE WIT' ME
THE OUTFIELDMYSTERY MAN
NICK JAMESONWEATHERMAN
THE KINKSDO IT AGAIN























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

-Leon