Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from October 8, 2024 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting October 8, 2024: The Wiggle Room with MarkTime: Take Him to Detroit

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MarkTime  Program Intro – Kentucky Fried Movie, and CityNerd 9/25/2024   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
WJR Detroit  WJR Detroit MI - 11/8/1938 Wake Up and Sing   Favoriting
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WJR Detroit MI 
WJR Detroit MI – 1/2/1986 Night Flight 760   Favoriting
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WDET Detroit MI  WDET Detroit MI – 8/3/1990 Dave Dixon   Favoriting
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WABX Detroit MI  WABX Detroit MI – 1969 Dave Dixon sample   Favoriting   0:56:51 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Krys O.:

Hi!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 7:51pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @7:51
Nice to see you in the chat!
Avatar 👻 7:54pm
MarkTime:

Hulloh all!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @7:54
I know nothing of Detroit, save what I learned from RoboCop. I assume this radio show is after he starts roaming the streets?
Avatar 7:56pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @7:53
Nice to be here. Looks like smooth sailing
Avatar 👻 8:00pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @7:56
I know nothing about RoboCop sorry
Avatar 8:01pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @7:56
Detroit? Goid Doctor
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:01
Oh, you're right! I do know about Dr. Detroit. At least, I know the song by Devo quite well.
Avatar 8:02pm
Imaginos:

Love Kentucky Fried Movie. It could never get made today
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
WR:

Hello Wigglers
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Austin Rich:

This is decidedly BEFORE RoboCop was wandering around Detroit.
Avatar 👻 8:05pm
MarkTime:

Amazingly clean audio on this transcription ... on a record perhaps?
Avatar 👻 8:06pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:05
Maybe the Steampunk version of RoboCop
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:05
I suspect. I'm not sure tape was being used regularly in 38.
Avatar 8:07pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:06
Cylinder maybe?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:06
I'm sure some AI artist could produce that for us.
Avatar 8:07pm
Imaginos:

↳ MarkTime @8:06
Chicken man?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:07
Cylinders only had a few minutes of recordings time on them, so it wouldn't be ideal for a transcription. It's probably just a very well preserved Transcription Disc, but who can say, really, without doing more research into how WJR did things back in the day.
Avatar 👻 8:09pm
MarkTime:

↳ Imaginos @8:07
You got me thinking of the steampunkish robot in the TV version of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" which did had some Chickenman-like attributes
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:09
I still need to see that. I really loved those books, and while I know the show is quite different, I've still heard good things. I don't mind if the books are different, so long as the thing I'm looking at is good, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Krys O.:

↳ Song: "WJR Detroit MI - 11/8/1938 Wake Up and Sing" by "...
This is soooooo good!
Avatar 8:10pm
Imaginos:

Was thinking of this.
dyn1.heritagestatic.com...
Avatar 👻 8:11pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:08
WJR was quite a high-budget station back then, and produced many of the Hermit's Cave episodes for the network
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MarkTime:

↳ Imaginos @8:10
So cool!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:11
They probably sent out nice Transcription Discs, then. All the fancy stations had nice machines that could cut very good sounding discs. That's my guess; you could usually get 15 to 30 minutes a side on those discs, depending on the machines.
Avatar 👻 8:13pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:10
I loved both the books and the TV versions, which yes were very different from each other. Sadly the ratings on BBC America were bad
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Krys O.:

Transcription discs started around 1925. They ran around 80 rpm.

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 👻 8:14pm
MarkTime:

Spoiler alert: a bit of Hermit's Cave sneaks into this show
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:13
I should check it out. I'm sad so many things still depend on ratings. I thought the promise of the future was that we could all enjoy our favorite crazy shows.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:13
Oh yeah, this wiki page is good readin'! Thanks for the link.
Avatar 👻 8:19pm
MarkTime:

Sorry for the bits of noise ... this aircheck was recording in eastern Pennsylvania. These 50kw stations got a lot out of their wattage in those days
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:19
This sounds great, compared to some airchecks I play on Dimestore Radio Theater.
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
WR:

↳ Song: "WJR Detroit MI - 11/8/1938 Wake Up and Sing" by "...
That was great!
Avatar 👻 8:21pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:20
Heck, in the dead of winter I could hear WJR in Chicago in the daytime
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:21
I feel like I could get more stations, further away, when I was younger. But I wonder if that is the Radio Equivalent of, "back in my day..."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Austin Rich:

Plenty will live to be 75... or older.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Krys O.:

Richard Hell is 75.
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Imaginos:

↳ Krys O. @8:25
Albert Bouchard is 77
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Krys O.:

↳ Krys O. @8:25
And he still looks fiiiiiiiiiine.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:25
I mean... he is a hunk o' handsome, at any age.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:25
That guy is about as punk as they come, drumming in the Dictators.
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MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:24
How much of it is more electronic noise, and how much is slacking off on transmitter engineering? At least a few have sold land around their transmitter sites having forgotten about the ground systems installed in the 1930s
Avatar 8:27pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:26
Not just punk. Bouchard is the All Sound.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:26
I bet you're right. I know nothing of the engineering side of things. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the only one... engineers included.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:26
I remember taking meter readings while doing a show. We had less than 1400 watts. The WFMU transmitter is on top of a mountain in West Orange.
Avatar 👻 8:30pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:28
At iFartMedia-type companies, their poor Chief Engineers have to handle an entire group of stations
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:30
I seem to recall that I had to take some sort of readings when I was on the air in the 90's Was that what that was? I had to turn that in with my playlists and other documentation.
Avatar 👻 8:31pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:30
Ah yes, the days when DJs needed a basic FCC engineering license
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:31
Ken Freedman still has my license, I believe.
Avatar 👻 8:34pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:34
Mine got left behind when I left KALX Berkeley, darn
Avatar 👻 8:37pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:31
Sounds right
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Krys O.:

When I was on midnight to 3 am, I'd have to shut the transmitter down. We weren't 24 hours yet at that time. I had to play a cart, take meter readings and step by step turn these bakelite knobs off.

I miss the carts. Used to make them, erase crappy ones, etc.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:37
I enjoyed the cart machines. I used to hang out with our Production Director at KWVA, when he would make carts for commercials and stuff. A lost art!
Avatar 👻 8:40pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:37
A couple of us KALX tape nerds would have some fun with the carts, like editing out the stop cue tones or re-starting the carts too soon
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:40
Don Joyce would do that, so he could get looping carts. Apparently he was a real wizard at editing carts for use on his show.
Avatar 👻 8:41pm
MarkTime:

And I really loved editing reel-to-reel tapes with a grease pencil and razor blade
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:41
I have my parents reel-to-reel player, with a box of reels. I need to get it serviced. I'd love to use it again.
Avatar 👻 8:43pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:41
Don had real skills ... editing and finding content. Sadly I only met him once at KPFA
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:41
My brother let me take an 8mm camera on a class trip to D.C. in junior high. He showed me how to edit the film too. I loved that.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:43
Never met him, but we traded a couple e-mails. I saw him play once, doing OTE in front of a crowd. It was really impressive to watch, live.

I miss him everyday.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Austin Rich:

This was delightful, Mark! I always appreciate your slices of radio past.
Avatar 👻 8:53pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:52
Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Krys O.:

Thanks, Mark! Detroit is not as scary anymore after hearing this. ;)
Avatar 👻 8:56pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:55
You're welcome! I recommend the CityNerd Youtube videos in general, but for sure his recent visit to Detroit
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Austin Rich:

A delightful shoutout to TMBG.
Avatar 👻 9:00pm
MarkTime:

Ouch!
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