Radio Free D’ni

To start off the weekend of Myst’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, I did a show on my own, as neither Mal nor Ed was able to host.  As I was the first one to start, I was able to fit in a long-ish preshow too 🙂

The Myst memories included the start of my involvement with computer gaming, which was Adventure, later known as Colossal Cave, on a Data General Nova.   Several tracks were also from the year of Myst’s first release, 1993.

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A very satisfying show, with more than 20 listeners all the way through, and a maximum of 27. A lot of old favourites in the set list, which no doubt helped. Hugh was able to join us on the stream too.
Preshow and postshow tracks were the ones that didn’t quite make the show cut, again, and all had Bruford on drums.

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100 shows 😮

We never thought we’d get this far, but to be fair we don’t think too much ahead, the next few shows, perhaps regular events such as cavern anniversaries, and more recently the new year review of artists we’ve said goodbye to over the previous year.  Yet, here we are, our first century completed, and still not short of ideas.

Our theme was No.1 hits, but that was to a certain extent a reason to have familiar songs on the show so we could leave the mic open.  Which we did, and you were able to hear all of the thrashing around that goes on behind the scenes.  Including my late arrival, forced on me by an unexpected mandatory update to the Teamspeak client.  Which failed, so it was -reinstall from scratch- time.

All of the tracks had been No.1 somewhere, at some time, including the pre and postshow tracks.  It was Hugh’a birthday, so he had prior engagements, and could not join us.  Selections came from four of us (Mal, Ed, Hugh and I) and we had an audience of more than 30 listeners, something we have not managed for some time.  Do come again 🙂

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A great selection from Edison Rex, of the best tracks from our previous 25 shows.  Without further ado: –

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Another in our series collecting oddities and songs with strange connections.  This time, Hugh added his ideas to the mix, but unfortunately could not join us on the show.

Preshow and postshow from Mal’s stash, B and C

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With Ed still suffering from internet connection woes, Malaclypse stepped up and arranged the hardware to enable him to host the show.  And it was a good debut, with no dropouts or awkward silences, very encouraging.  We began with only seven listeners, but finished up with a peak of 24, which was very pleasing.  Unfortunately Hugh Lynch was not able to join us on air, having suffered a PC failure himself.  His help in compiling the show is gratefully acknowledged.

As promised, here is a link to a YouTube copy of the original 1980’s SynthAxe demo tape

Mal added  some post-postshow tracks, which I will add when he tells me what they all were 🙂

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The first of a two-part appreciation of Allan Holdsworth, a favourite of both Hugh Lynch and myself.  Edison Rex suffering from his piece of BT Internet wet string drying out, and with a very poor and intermittent connection, could not host the show.  This accounts for why mine was the only voice from the team that you heard – apart from the jingle, that is.

Preshow began with a Tony Williams Lifetime track, from one of Allan’s happiest collaborations, then a track from one of his albums as a sideman with French electric violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, before playing the title track from what must be the only studio bootleg album, Velvet Darkness.  Holdsworth and bandmates performed some warm-ups and run-throughs, and were just ready to record the album when the producer said “Right, we’ve got enough tracks for the album now, thank you and goodnight”!  We finished with some of Allan Holdsworth’s earliest recorded work, with his band of Yorkshire mates ‘Igginbottom (covering the Beach Boys, of all things) and with jazz fusion trumpeter Ian Carr’s Nucleus.

The last track in the postshow is a relatively rare example of Holdsworth’s work on accoustic guitar.

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