My latest Retroactive show (Saturday) was awfully sloppy--I kept losing my place when backselling the music--but I did a little pre-recorded piece that was a lot of fun.
The birthday feature was Lou Reed, the birth anniversary was Bob Wills, and the angle of my bit had to do with all the well-intentioned music being recorded for disaster victims in Haiti, Chile and elsewhere. Plenty of folks don't enjoy those benefit recordings ("Hasn't Haiti suffered enough?" asked Seattle's The Stranger weekly), so I said that what we need is a unique pairing of artists. The problem is that, to cite the
most basic example, Bob Wills is no longer alive and cannot collaborate with Lou Reed.
I used the intro of Wills' version of "Trouble In Mind," (from the 1940s' The Tiffany Transcriptions) before Tommy Duncan's vocal comes in, and did my own half-singing of Reed's "I'm Waiting for the Man" lyrics. I changed some of the lyric phrases ("Up to Lexington 1-2-5/He says he's got some beer for me and something else I should try"),
adding my take on Bob's trademark, high-pitched "Aw Haw!" at the end. It came out pretty cool sounding--better than most of the radio show, at least.
The birthday feature was Lou Reed, the birth anniversary was Bob Wills, and the angle of my bit had to do with all the well-intentioned music being recorded for disaster victims in Haiti, Chile and elsewhere. Plenty of folks don't enjoy those benefit recordings ("Hasn't Haiti suffered enough?" asked Seattle's The Stranger weekly), so I said that what we need is a unique pairing of artists. The problem is that, to cite the
most basic example, Bob Wills is no longer alive and cannot collaborate with Lou Reed.
I used the intro of Wills' version of "Trouble In Mind," (from the 1940s' The Tiffany Transcriptions) before Tommy Duncan's vocal comes in, and did my own half-singing of Reed's "I'm Waiting for the Man" lyrics. I changed some of the lyric phrases ("Up to Lexington 1-2-5/He says he's got some beer for me and something else I should try"),
adding my take on Bob's trademark, high-pitched "Aw Haw!" at the end. It came out pretty cool sounding--better than most of the radio show, at least.
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