The Facts Beyond Jazz Music

Many people think that jazz is the music of the elite and well-established people. But, if you look into the roots of jazz, you will see the opposite. Jazz is an art of expression in the form of music. Jazz music is the fundamental music in human life.

Jazz tradition evolved from the lifestyle of black community in America who has been oppressed. Initially, the tradition began from the influence of tribal drums and gospel music, blues and field hollers (the shouts of cultivators). Its birth process has demonstrated that jazz was closely related to the life defense and expression of human life.

The interesting thing from jazz music was that the origin of the word "jazz" was derived from a vulgar term used for sexual acts. Most of rhythms in jazz were ever associated with the brothels and the women with an unfortunate reputation.

Then, in the journey of jazz, it eventually became an art form of jazz music, both in the specific composition and improvisation, which reflected the spontaneous melodies. Jazz musicians usually expressed their feelings that were uneasily explained because this music should be felt within the heart.

RUSSIAN HORNY CHOIR

This article sez that in the 1700s: "...in Russia a unique and bizarre custom of wind playing developed. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and this would certainly seem to be so in this case. Prince Kirilovich Narishkin, the Master of the Hunt to the Empress Elizabeth, had become frustrated with the sound coming from the horns used to signal the progress of the hunt. The coppersmith on Narishkin's estate made the horns in question, and apparently no attempt towards consistency of pitch had been made. So in 1751 the prince had sixteen new instruments made which were tuned to play a D major chord. The technique of overblowing was not taught on these simple instruments, so standard practice called for a single note to be played on each horn."

It's called 'Russian horn capella' music, and, yep, as with hand-bells, only one note can be played on these giant instruments (hence the need for big groups), but you'd never guess to listen to this lovely album - it's played with such expert precision that one could be fooled into thinking it's just a couple/few musicians playing, not a large ensemble flawlessly passing notes back and forth.

Apart the peppy "Funiculi Funicula" it's pretty much standard classical classics, e.g. Mozart, "William Tell Overture," "Ave Maria," etc.

Russian Horny Choir (Concert)

I had to translate everything from Russian using the somewhat inaccurate Babelfish, and since the results were kinda funny, I just left it, making no attempt to clean 'em up.

Thanks to whoever the reader was who left a comment heppin' me to this stuff, sorry I can't remember your name/find your comment, sir!

A Brief History of Country Music

The origin of country music can be traced back as far as the 1920's. Many people especially those from outside the USA often think that it is a new music genre due to the rise of young country singers and groups such as Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum who brought the genre back to life and introduced it to the world once again. For those who are interested in the history of music and its many different genres, they should also be interested in finding out the history of country music. It is undoubtedly one of the most popular music genres in the USA today. It is even popular outside the USA such as in Canada and Australia, as numerous American country singers and musicians today have also gained fame outside of their home country.

One of the most popular sub-genre of country music in the 1930s and 1940s was honky tonk. It was usually identified by the heavy use of guitar, bass, drums, and steel guitar. In those days, the most famous and probably the best country music "hero" was Al Dexter, an American musician and song writer who came up with the name "honky tonk". His first hit song was "Honky Tonk Blues". "Pistol Packin' Mama", another one of Dexter's many hits, was used as the marching chorus of the New York Yankees in the year 1943. Ernest Tubb, also known as the Texas Troubadour, was also considered a pioneer of the sub-genre. In fact, the rise of honky tonk was by his biggest hit, "Walking the Floor Over You", released in 1941.

Celine Dion Pop Music CD Review

One word describes the CD Celine Dion from Celine Dion... AWESOME!

Celine Dion has been a super star in the Pop genre for quite some time now and Celine Dion is an excellent illustration as to why.

Celine Dion has a pleasantly varied, mix of 13 tracks that are very well written songs by this clearly outstanding artist. With many of the songs displaying a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Clearly drawing from what I can only imagine are her own real life experiences. At different points touching on the most real emotions like love, and the pain of failed relationships can certainly be heard.

I'm of the opinion that Celine Dion is certainly Celine Dion's best work in a few years. A totally enjoyable CD and an outstanding release. What I call must have music. I give it two thumbs up because it's a collection that even the casual Pop fan can appreciate and enjoy.

While this entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 1 - Introduction----Love Can Move Mountains, track 6 - Did You Give Enough Love, and track 13 - Nothing Broken But My Heart

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is Track 4 - If You Could See Me Now. It's a great track!

Celine Dion Release Notes:

Celine Dion originally released Celine Dion on March 31, 1992 on the Epic label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Introduction----Love Can Move Mountains 2. Show Some Emotion 3. If You Asked Me To 4. If You Could See Me Now 5. Halfway To Heaven 6. Did You Give Enough Love 7. If I Were You 8. Beauty And The Beast - (with Peabo Bryson) 9. I Love You, Goodbye 10. Little Bit Of Love 11. Water From The Moon 12. With This Tear 13. Nothing Broken But My Heart

Personnel includes: Celine Dion, Peabo Bryson (vocals); Walter Afanasieff (acoustic guitar, keyboards, programming); Michael Landau, Michael Thompson, Bruce Gaitch (guitar); Kenny G. (soprano saxophone); Dave Koz (saxophone); Israel Baker, Ralph Morrison, Betty Moor (violin); Alan de Veritch, Margot MacLaine, Marilyn Baker (viola); Frederick Seykora (cello); Robert Stone (contrabass); Fred Berry (flugelhorn); Robbie Buchanan (piano); C.J. Vanston (keyboards); Guy Roche (keyboards, synthesizer); Jimmy Johnson (bass); John Robinson (drums); Rafael Padilla (percussion); Claytoven Richardson, Melisa Kary, Vicki Randle, Sandy Griffith, Jeanie Tracy, Jean McLain, Terry Wood, Larry Jacobs, Joely Fisher, Liz Constantine, Joe Diggs, Diane Warren, Kitty Beethoven (background vocals). Producers: Ric Wake, Walter Afanasieff, Humberto Gatica, Guy Roche. Engineers include: Bob Cadway, Dana Jon Chappelle, Guy Roche.

TOYS VS ROBOTS: THE MAD GENIUS OF FRANK PAHL

UPDATE 7/25/11: album back on line

Frank Pahl is ond of the most criminally underrated composers/mad scientists at work today.
And while I still maintain that "We Who Live On Land," the album he recorded with The Scavenger Quartet that I wrote about a couple years ago, is one of the best albums of the '00s, I do thoroughly enjoy a more recent album of his, "Elementary," with the trio Little Bang Theory.

"Elementary" is performed entirely on toy instruments. It's all instrumental, and wanders over a fairly wide emotional range - no cute kiddie stuff here (not that I mind cuteness). The song writing is pretty ambitious, with some fairly lengthy "suites", tho with toy instruments you inevitably have a built-in nostalgic sweetness that keeps pretensions at bay. Utterly wonderful stuff, but it's in print, available from his site and elsewhere, so not gonna post it, but I did included a couple songs off it as BONUS! tracks, included with this other excellent Frank Pahl album that doesn't seem to be for sale anywhere.

Frank Pahl and Klimperei "Music For Desserts"

Pahl sez about this 2001 release: "What can I say? This is my favorite. All tracks began with home made automatic instruments. [French group] Klimperei laid down their sympathetic magic and I mixed."

And that's something I didn't realize when I first reviewed The Scavenger Quartet album: how many hand-built robot instruments are featured in Pahl's music, mixed in with all the strange, often antiquated human-played instruments. Da man plays: "Piano, Piano [Prepared, Prepared Barrel], Organ [Binary Air Quartet, Microcontrolled Air Quartet, Hohner Organette], Clarinet, Tipple, Marimba [Toy], Cello, Guitar [Tenor], Harmonium, Euphonium, Harp [Peacock, African], Flute [Bulgarian], Trombone [Toy], Trumpet [Toy], Bass Drum, Whistle, Ukulele, Ukulele [Automatic, Buzzsaw, Binary Quartet, Family], Zither, Zither [Automatic], Percussion, Percussion [Automatic], Performer [Autoglock, Binary Doorbell Quartet, Washing Machine, Jason Ortega's Auto Chime, Double String Trio, Virtual Pet: Gerbil, Humming Choir Loop, Shrutti Box]." No, I'm not entirely sure what all that means either, but it does give you an idea of how unique this music is, without losing a melodic approachability.

Top 50 Music Quotations

Discover the phenomenonal complexity of music and reflect on the way it can positively influence your life with this sound collection of riveting quotes...

   1. "Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below." -- Joseph Addison
   2. "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." --Maya Angelou
   3. "Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance." -- Louis Armstrong
   4. "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbach
   5. "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." --Johann Sebastian Bach
   6. "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." -- Ludwig van Beethoven
   7. "Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." -- Ludwig van Beethoven

   8. "Music can change the world. " -- Ludwig Van Beethoven
   9. "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." -- Leonard Bernstein
  10. "Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. " -- James Brown
  11. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." -- Thomas Carlyle
  12. "All music comes from God." -- Johnny Cash
  13. "If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. " -- Edgar Cayce
  14. "Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. " -- Ray Charles
  15. "Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. " -- Miles Davis
  16. "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." -- George Eliot
  17. "You are the music while the music lasts." --T. S. Eliot
  18. "We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. " -- Jerry Garcia
  19. "Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife." -- Kahlil Gibran
  20. "When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have." -- Edgar Watson Howe
  21. "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent." -- Victor Hugo
  22. "The history of a people is found in its songs." -- George Jellinek
  23. "Music is the vernacular of the human soul." -- Geoffrey Latham
  24. "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." -- Walter J. Lippmann
  25. "Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind." -- Hal A. Lingerman
  26. "Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world." -- Giuseppe Mazzini
  27. "Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously." -- Henry Miller
  28. "I started making music because I could." -- Alanis Morissette
  29. "Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. " -- Alanis Morissette
  30. "Music is spiritual. The music business is not. " -- Van Morrison
  31. "Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought." -- Theodore Mungers
  32. "Without music life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  33. "In music the passions enjoy themselves." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  34. "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." -- Charlie Parker
  35. "Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. " -- Elvis Presley
  36. "It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. " -- Lou Reed
  37. "The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway." -- Lionel Richie
  38. "Music should never be harmless." -- Robbie Robertson
  39. "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music." -- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
  40. "All music is important if it comes from the heart. " -- Carlos Santana
  41. "Music is the key to the female heart." -- Johann G. Seume
  42. "The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. " -- Bruce Springsteen
  43. "All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it." -- Bruce Springsteen
  44. "In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." --George Szell
  45. "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." -- Henry David Thoreau
  46. "For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech." --Unknown
  47. "Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us." --Unknown
  48. "I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing." -- Eddie Vedder
  49. "Music at its essence is what gives us memories. " -- Stevie Wonder
  50. "There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it." -- Ron Wood

ME PLAYIN' SONGS 'N' TALKING 'N' STUFF

Contributing more than 2 hours of audio monkeyshines to combat the alarmingly low levels of weirdness in our atmosphere, Greg "Spacebrother" Bishop and Yours Truly present:

Radio Misterioso 04/24/2011

includes the following ingredients:
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" intro
Marlin Wallace "Weird Weird Music" [we spend a lot of time on the show exploring the overlooked outsider musician Marlin Wallace]

talk break

Duke Errol "Back To Back Belly To Belly (Zombie Jamboree)"
People Like Us "Happy Lost Songs"
Mickey Katz "Doity Dog"
(technical difficulties)
Rusty Diamond "Skellykins"
Ralph Lowe "Munchikens"
Dee Dee King [aka Dee Dee Ramone] "I Want What I Want When I Want It"

talk break [we discuss the song-poem phenomena; cassette tapes; Yiddish culture]

Jack Blanchard "A Weird Little Christmas"
........."........ "Dance of the Living Dead Chickens"
Paul Super Apple "Intro/Apple Love"
Marlin Wallace "That Flying Saucer"
Rodd Keith "Run Spook Run"
Milton Berle "Songs My Mother Loved"
People Like Us "The Sound of the End of Music"
Joe Perkins with Jimmy Riddle "Little Eephin' Annie"
Jesse Lee Turner "The Voice Changing Song"

talk break: eephing & yodeling; Daniel Johnston & Roky Erikson; the Rusty Blanchard hit song we couldn't recall was "Tennessee Bird Walk," what normal people think is weird music; will outsider music go mainstream?; Greg sticks the mic out the window to try to eavesdrop on arguing homeless guys; Sammy Hagar abducted by space aliens]

Marlin Wallace "Thing From Another World"
Benny Bell "Everybody Wants My Fanny"
Thurl Ravenscroft "Diamond Bar"
Akeem 'The Dream' Olajuwon "The Unbeatable Dream" [I featured this record on my "Curl Activate" collection]
Marlin Wallace "Mosquiters"
Mr Fab and Spacebrother try to rap from the "Hip-Hop Prayer Book"

talk break: Francis Dec

Snatch & The Poontangs "Two-Time Slim"
The Vampires "The Whip"
Red Ingle & The Natural Seven - the wackiest song about torture ever!

talk break: albums about trees and loggers

Red Ingle & The Natural Seven: Cigareets & Whiskey & Wild Women

"America's Most Nonsensical Band"

Continuing our survey of Spike Jones-like comedic music from the 78rpm era (we've already checked out Irving Aaronson and Borrah Minevitch & His Harmonica Rascals) comes this album surveying the long, prolific career of one of the greatest novelty/oddball groups of the era, the Korn Kobblers (no relation to that Korn). During their 1940's heyday, they were a constant presence on the radio and concert circuit.

Apart from the lyrical nonsense of songs like "Horses Don't Bet On People" ("horses don't have no remource-es...") and "I'm My Own Grandpa" (a song that really does my head in trying to follow it), their musical attack was a mad riot of frantic Dixieland horns, barrelhouse piano, furious drumming and, well, look at that tricked -out washboard, festooned with "electric auto horns, siren, klaxon, doorbell, whistle, woodblock, and twenty-one auto and bicycle horns." Song styles range from hillbilly to cosmopolitan swing, from children's music to Irish dialect humor. Essential.


The Korn Kobblers

1. When You Wore A Tulip 2. Up In The Balcony 3. Myrtle The Turtle And Flip The Frog 4. Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue 5. I'm My Own Grandpa 6. I Can't Get Offa My Horse 7. If You're Cheating On Your Baby 8. Oh You Beautiful Doll 9. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate 10. The Light Turned Green (And The Light Turned Red) 11. Drifting And Dreaming 12. Ain't She Sweet 13. Since They Stole The Spitoon 14. Trumpet Blues 15. Never Make Eyes (At Gals With Guys Bigger Than You) 16. We Got To Put Shoes On Willie 17. Horses Don't Bet On People 18. Clancy Lowered The Boom 19. Why Did I Teach My Girl To Drive 20. Dardanella 21. Don't Shoot The Bartender (He's Half Shot Now) 22. Don't Give Me No Goose For Christmas, Grandma

If you want more, hezzie.com can hook you up with plenty more CDs and DVDs.

Stairway to Gilligan's Island

To celebrate the legacy of the recently deceased Sherwood Schwartz, creator of a favorite childhood TV show of mine, "Gilligan's Island," here's another one of my childhood faves, the ingenious proto-mashup by a San Fran band, Little Roger and the Goosebumps:

"Gilligan's Island (Stairway)"



(Thanks to WFMU!)

THE EVERYDAY FILM: THE FIRST 4 ALBUMS

The Everyday Film has a new, er, "song" - for lack of a better word - up on iTunes called "Emotional Margin Call." Go buy it! After all, he (she? they? it?) gave me permission to post his first four releases here.

Music doesn't usually scare me. But as I wrote when I reviewed the first two albums:

"The Everyday Film's album "The House I Used To Turn Into" was, on first listen, one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard (and maybe on second and third listens as well.) Much of it isn't what most people would even think of as music: a vocoder-ized voice pitched way down loooooow mutters cryptic non-sequiturs, interrupted by brief shards of industrial music-like sounds. "Song" titles include: "The Boy In The Wall," "We Don't Exist Yet," "Budgeted Out The Perverted," and "A New Class of Paranoia." The final track on the short album (27 tracks in 15 minutes) is the sound of some poor soul begging for his life while Mr Vocoder Voice mumbles banalities like "relax in the sun...take a vacation...take a 'me' day..." over unsettling electronic drones. That's entertainment!

Not to scare you all off, but it can be a fascinating, sometimes funny headphone experience, and a wicked beat even turns up...A 12 minute follow up CD...seems slightly less creepy, and the song titles aren't as twisted. It'll still be dismissed as sick shit by 99.9% of the population, tho."

The Everyday Film - First 4 Albums

The Everyday Film mails CDs to my PO box from time to time, and I get the occasional email from him, but I still don't have a shred of biographical info on him , or pictures, and the return addresses have been from different states each time. I used to call him "the Jandek of electronica," but, as one of you commented, he seems to be far more reclusive than even that notoriously shy outsider. There's no longer even a website for the band, so, for now, this is the only place to get these releases. Thanks very much to The Everyday Film for letting me post these here.

Karaoke Music and Equipment

Karaoke is a very common form of interactive entertainment where people are able to follow the lyrics and music of a song and they can sing along with a microphone. It is considered to be a very good way of fusing music and fun and it is normally done utilizing local popular songs. The popularity of Karaoke entertainment is well known all over the world and people enjoy singing along with their favorite songs while attending parties, celebrations and at their local clubs as well.

Players

Most players come as a package which combines a multi format player, an instrument mixer, recording function, SD card reader with amplifier. You will not need too many cables to install this player to your TV and you will be ready and set to go whenever you want to start your party. It is better to look for something which compliments your existing stereo, sound system or microphones. You can find CDG Karaoke Players, VCD Karaoke players and DVD multiformat karaoke players as well. Looking for a branded player may be the best choice or if you already have a branded stereo system then perhaps choosing the same brand may be the best option.

New Wave Covers For Oldies Lovers - Part 2

As I wrote in PART ONE, "During the upheaval of the late '70s/early '80s punk days, there was a real changing-of-the-guard feeling that led many groups of the time to cover classic oldies from the sacred rock 'n' roll canon in an irreverent (if not downright disrespectful) fashion. One of my recent obsessions is to to collect as many of these as I can find..." And why not? It's fun, weekend/summer barbeque music for maniacs. There's even a surf music section.

New Wave Covers For Oldies Lovers, vol2

1. The Toy Dolls - Blue Suede Shoes
2. The Minutemen - Ain't Talkin' Bout Love
3. Lene Lovich - I think we're alone now [Japanese version]
4. The Plastics - Last train to Clarksville
5. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tighten Up [These guys, featuring Ruichi Sakamoto, actually reunited to perform (at the Hollywood Bowl) for the first time in 30 years; hope they performed this one, it is absolutely bonkers]
6. Zoogz Rift - But The Picture Has A Mustache ["Inna Gadda Davida"]
7. The Fibonaccis - Purple Haze
8. Black Randy & The Metrosquad - Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud)
9. James Chance & The Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself
10. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
11. Sun Yuma - Subterranean Homesick Blues
12. Comateens - Summer in the City
13. Bakersfield Boogie Boys - I Get Around
14. Nash the Slash - Dead Man's Curve
15. Zoogz Rift - Walk Don't Run
16. C. Newman & Janet Smith - California Girls
17. Lemon Kittens - Shakin' All Over
18. Pere Ubu - Pushin Too Hard
19. Butthole Surfers - American Woman
20. The Better Beatles - Paperback Writer
21. The Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want)
22. Gina X - Drive My Car
23. Sex Pistols - My Way

Music Recording Equipment

The quality of any music depends upon the quality of recording and the music recording equipment used. The quality of each and every device used in recording makes a difference in the excellence of the music. While the primary equipment required to record music is a microphone there are other supporting devices that add to the superiority of the recording.

Another aspect that one has to take care is where the recording is going to be done. Indoor studio recording equipments are totally different from the devices and tools used for external outdoor recordings.

If you are planning to set up a recording studio, you must always choose quality equipment even if it seems to be a bit expensive. Not only will they serve as a long time investment, they will also save you from post recording hassles and disorders.

The mixers and accessories make your work easier. Extensive collection of music recording equipments such as Headphone & In-Ear Monitors, Mastering Recorders, Mixers & Accessories, Multi-track Recorders, Portable Recorders, Power Conditioners, Signal Processors, studio tracks, studio racks, monitors and more can be found on the Internet.

Digital recording equipments offer the best and highest quality audio. A branded digital recording set costs thousands of dollars. They can be purchased either at any of the music recording equipment store or online. They also offer used devices for discounted prices. No doubt they would be in good working condition. By buying them, one can save money to set up an efficient studio successfully. The equipment used for recording performs various tasks.

Portable Recorders and Multi-track Recorders

For a home recording unit, portable multi track recorders are available in the market that deliver excellent results. They can record tracks simultaneously, edit the present ones, mix tracks, overdub new ones and perform various other tasks. The portable multi-track can handle anything from live recording to full band configuration. Other features of the recorders include studio like surroundings, ability to work on AC or DC power and easy to set up anywhere.

Power Conditioners and Signal Processors

The power conditioners are one of the most important devices used in the recording set to reduce the noise level and supply an uninterrupted source of power. These devices not only reduce the noise on the floor but also improve the range and clarity of the sound. The signal processors reduce the buzzing and humming sound caused due to current low in the power supply sources during the recording. They take care of sensitive signals and filter the radiation and sound.

Headphone & In-Ear Monitors

Headphones and in-ear monitors are small devices fixed in the ear to monitor a specific sound track closely. Monitoring and mixing can be done efficiently using good headphones and in- ear monitors. Such devices with better fitting and better sound help in audio recordings. They help in getting rid of acoustics and maintain a track of single sound. Singers and musicians use these devices in studios to stay in sync with the other tracks.

Mixers & Accessories

The audio mixers or sound mixers are basically takes in two or more sounds, mixes them as required and emits it as a single output signal. Besides sound mixing the equipment has controls with which signals can be merged, sound levels can be adjusted and special effects can be added to the existing sounds. Sound mixers come in different sizes and capacities. You can get huge unit to portable, easy to handle mixers, which are used for various purposes. They are usually described through the number of channels they support. Sound mixers can be installed at home and in studios, and they can even be used on stage during live performances.

THE MUSIC FOR MANIACS MORNING ZOO!!!!!!

Good mooooooorning, maniacs! Mr Fab with ya. Got the traffic report comin' right up, but FIRST, two albums by American morning radio personalities we're GIVING away to the FIRST THREE CALLERS right here on the Music For Maniacs Morning Zoo!!!! *hooting, hollering, and cowbell noises*

First up, an album from 1989 by Johhny B, big fave outta Chicago. He does it all - slick '80s pop, blues, and wild rock! He's a rebel - you won't see HIM on MTV! Gotta love that "Moo Moo" song about a guy who broke into the zoo to do it with a cow! I mean what's crazier, a perv with the hots for a bovine, or a zoo that has boring animals like cows? I can see them for free if I drive thru the country! What else they got, cats and dogs?!

Jonathon Brandmeier

1. When Friday Comes

2. You Won't See Me On MTV 3. How, How, How (The White Boy Blues) 4. Nothin' In My Mind 5. Breakin' Up Isn't Hard To Do (With Someone Like You) 6. The Moo-Moo Song 7. Country Music Star 8. Good Sturdy Woman 9. How'm I Gonna Be A Dad? 10. Makin' Love In The Aid-Ees 11. Sweet Home Chicago 12. Just Havin' Fun 13. We're All Crazy In Chicago 14. JB Reprise

Here's a more recent album courtesy of Reno, Nevada's home for country music, K-Bull. Country music song parodies, weee doggies! My fave's "Time Marches On," a pretty scathing satire of them country folk. All in good fun, folks! And that's "no bull!"

Teflon Cowchip Band "Bullfoonery"

1. JJ Got Run Over By A John Deer 2. Any Woman Of Mine 3. Frankenstein 4. Fever Blister 5. Cheese And Macaroni 6. C-H-R-I-S-T-Y 7. Girls Do

It All The Time 8. Bigger Than A Buick Regal 9. Time Marches On 10. Homeless 11. Paddle My Bum/Dust On His Bottom/Any Woman Of Mine At Christmas Time

Okay, these albums might not be that funny. As sociological documents, however, they're priceless.

(Thank (or blame) frequent contributor windbag for the Teflon Cowchips!)