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I was doing some cleaning in my desk area and I found something I hadn't seen in quite awhile. For five years I did weekly Internet Radio shows for a station called The DooWop Café playing mostly obscure Rhythm & Blues and Vocal Group Harmony records (more commonly referred to as "DooWop" though what is and isn't considered as such is fiercely debated amongst fanatics) from the 1950's and early 1960's. I found four CD's of shows that I had recorded to my hard drive as I was doing them in real audio format. At the time of these airchecks I am in my late teens and early twenties and my audience is 75% over the age of 40 (if not over 45). In hindsight it is sort of funny. I am giving Top 40 treatment to obscure music to an audience that is pretty much two times my age. I am overly enthusiastic and at times running my mouth at a mile a minute. I am surprised that I didn't give any of these people a heart attack (let alone myself). Unfortunately things didn't end well with my relationship to the station. Even at the time I was doing the shows that the airchecks represent, my musical tastes were expanding well beyond what I was playing. A few years later when I tried to present a musical argument to them about how their music had influenced music that came after it they told me in mo uncertain terms that I had gone too far outside their musical comfort zone and we eventually parted ways and not on good terms either.
So yeah I am waxing nostalgic and rambling on. I'll stop now.
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