Items: Observed / camera and radios (various), at a café in Okayama, Japan, Aug 2020
Items, observed: Camera and Radios (various), Okayama
Tag Archives: radio
Note: regarding WKRP on TV and music licensing, Oingo Boingo, Fast Times etc.
As an aside, the reason the most excellent show – WKRP – is played so infrequently in reruns or released in box sets etc. is because of the huge challenges/expenses of licensing the music.
Even though the songs are only used for a few seconds, it’s not like they like they could edit out Foghat (or Three Dog Night, or Average White Band) when Venus Flytrap or Johnny Fever introduces “… and now here’s Foghat…” Though the various TV re-runs and some boxsets so try to replace music with generic similar tracks (to great failure)
Though some movies tried to change the soundtrack to skirt licensing fees when released on VHS (notably, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was sued by Danny Elfman for removing the Oingo Boingo song at the end… Mr. Elfman won, the song was reinstated and he cashed out, again).
Artifacts: Cameras / and Radio (at Amandya Café, Higashi Okayama, Japan, 2020)
Visit Amandya Café
Artifact: Radio (somewhere in Phitsanulok, Thailand)
Artifact: Radio (in an Okayama barn)
Artifact: Sony Radio and friends (in a coffee shop in Kurashiki, Japan)
In a coffee and toast shop…
Artifact: Radio (in an Okayama bar window)
Artifact: Radio (in a Sanur coffee shop)
Artifact: Radio (in a Galle, Sri Lanka collection)
Letters and postcards aren’t the only way to send a delightful dispatch…
Of course, letters and postcards aren’t the only way to send a delightful dispatch to a distant friend… as another Canadian said “the medium is the message” as such, message depends on the medium. As such, choose the medium for your message to evoke emotion and put the story, no matter how brief, in a pleasing context.
Artifact: Radio (in a Muscat Gallery)
Tuning in, dropping out – static on this radio transmission, pick up the shortwave on 420mhz (moreorless)
Campfire Stories with DaveO (radio air check 2009) – Urban Vancouver #7
In 2009, i made an very off-the-cuff audition show for Vancouver’s then-new, now-defunct “The Shore 104” radio station with the idea create a rather eclectic music and story-telling show.
The “show” was recorded live in one take, no takebacks (though i shoulda/coulda) with John Bollwitt engineering at his West End apartment. Later added an intro bit which kinda got messed up but anyhow,… the project went nowhere as the station struggled out the gates and soon fired most on-air folks and changed format blah blah blah. As such, getting it off the harddrive and into your ears so you can laugh at my cheesiness and rock out to the setlist.
Gather round for: Campfire Stories with DaveO (air check for The Shore radio) – 1:38:39, 118MB, 2009-07-21
PS some of this music isn’t “podsafe”, licensed etc. but used for demonstration and educational purposes – if issue, please let me know via gravellybeach@gmail.com
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