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Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Music for times like these
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: Sanity music day
You ever take a "sanity sick day" at work?
Maybe you call it a "mental health day."
Maybe you never have taken such when life is getting you down. And maybe you did a few days in jail for punching a couple of people in the nose after they had the nerve to say "Good morning!"
Maybe you should have taken the voluntary sanity sick day instead of the involuntary soap-on-a-rope sojourn.
Well, we are down here in the 3 Chords & the Truth bunker here in Omaha, by God, Nebraska . . . and there's nowhere to run to when you're already in your hidey hole. Because it's crazy out there.
So, on this edition of the Big Show, we're doing the next best thing. This week, it's the musical equivalent of a mental health day.
I strongly advise you to take advantage of this Mental Health Edition of the program. Consider the alternative.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Sunday, August 20, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: State of emergency
This is 3 Chords & the Truth.
A state of civil emergency has been declared for your area of the United States of America.
We're in it deep now, bucko. And there doesn't seem to be a manual for how to handle a mess like this.
Repeat: A state of civil emergency has been declared for your area of the United States of America.
This is your emergency podcast, 3 Chords & the Truth. Stay tuned to this Internet frequency for further instructions. And music.
Much music will be found on the Big Show. Remain calm and listen to the best in music entertainment right here on your Internet dial.
Once again: A state of civil emergency has been declared for your area of the United States of America. This is 3 Chords & the Truth.
Be there. Aloha.
This is 3 Chords & the Truth.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Saturday, August 05, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: The Electrical Process
This week on the Big Show, I guess we could talk and play into a big horn in the studio here in Omaha, by God, Nebraska . . . but I'm betting it'd sound bad and you wouldn't hear anything very well.
So we're using the electrical process, instead.
That means we're enunciating into a professional RCA broadcast microphone and using the best in audio and phonographic technology to bring to you the finest in musical entertainment on 3 Chords & the Truth. On the other hand, a fair amount of the music you will hear on this week's edition of the program predates the best in audio and phonographic technology.
Yes, some of these folks in the mid-1920s were speaking and singing into large horns in the studio which, in turn, wiggled a little stylus into a wax master recording. If you wanted microphonic amplification, you would have to go -- wait for it -- on the radio.
In 1925, the record industry had some catching up to do. It would begin, on some recordings, on some of the largest labels, late that year. Behold electrical recordings. Some were even Viva-tonal.
NO, I don't know what that was supposed to mean. Uh . . . it's viva but it is also tonal.
All I know is I want a little drink. Oh. . . .
1925. Damn.
But I digress. The point to this week's edition of the Big Show is that we're getting as far away from 2017, musically and zeitgeist-wise, as we possibly can without hiring a colonial band of fiddlers to drop in at your residence to play some Virginia reels for you.
That's the deal. And we're going back, in some cases, to 1925 and big recording horns in recording studios to do it.
Victor studio, Camden, N.J. -- 1925 |
WE'LL HEAR one of those, and we'll tell you what the record radio announcer went on to do not long after he was announcing records . . . on the actual record.
And as crazy a notion as this is, it's no match for modern times. So there's that.
So, vo vo oh de oh do and twenty-three skidoo, everything's jake on the Big Show. But don't get zozzled. That would be against the law.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Friday, August 04, 2017
Thursday, July 27, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: Staying on track
It don't come easy
You know it don't come easy
It don't come easy
You know it don't come easy
And I think I like how, back in my olden day, music didn't come easy. Well, at least as easily as today.
There's something to be said for stumbling across your musical passions the old-fashioned way -- happenstance, listening to the radio, a friend's record collection . . . something catching your eye at the record store. One in a building, not online.
Much also is to be said for having alien, uncool stuff imposed upon you via real Top-40 radio stations, as well as your parents' iron grip on the television . . . and the living-room console stereo . . . and the car radio, then being shocked, shocked when your youthful prejudice begins to waver.
THERE'S something to be said for having an 8 track instead of an iPod or iPhone to keep you in (CLUNK) tune. There's especially something to be said for music as a loudspeaker-based communal experience instead of an earbud-based solitary one.
What does any of this rumination have to do with this week's 3 Chords & the Truth? Beats me. I guess this -- the Not Easy way -- is where the show comes from.
We worked for it. And we're passionate about the music.
Modern times. Alas. . . . |
After all, it's so good it'd be a crime to keep it all to yourself.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Saturday, July 15, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: Only the Big Show has it!
Now . . . add a new dimension of musiphonic enjoyment to any home or personal music system -- entertainment center, hi-fi setup, smartphone, boombox or Internet-enabled television.
Any sound or video system you have can sing out with the thrilling sounds of the world's finest music podcast, 3 Chords & the Truth. Now, our psychoacoustic thermistor keeps the music flowing at a steady rate and a comfortable volume -- easy to hear over the yapping dog, the whining kids, the nagging spouse or the constant negative press covfefe.
It even plays over the exciting new product of 1969 . . . the compact-sized clock radio / color television (adapters not included). Everything you need to amaze family and friends is now at your fingertips, and a wi-fi dance party can be organized in a snap!
THE BIG SHOW is the surprise revolutionary music product of the season, and you can have it all for the low, low price of . . . nothing.
Plays instantly at the finger-touch of a button or a touchscreen link. Comes in all colors of the rainbow.
Expert music curation is standard; some episodes may contain trenchant commentary. This week's edition may contain themes not fit for stupid people or the clueless. No offense intended but may be taken.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: An amazing audio value!
Here, in one delightful podcast, you will find yourself encountering a FULL-SPECTRUM sound experience, carefully curated for your musical enjoyment by an experienced media professional.
BUT IT IS! It's right at your fingertips -- absolutely free -- on the Big Show.
Give us your attention, and 3 Chords & the Truth will give you a world . . . of music! FREE!
That's a bargain, no matter how you look at it. Go to www.revolution21.org and see what we're talking about. Don't delay!
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: Hot planet, cool music
Welcome to 3 Chords & the Truth: The "Climate change? What climate change? Why have my Chuck Taylors melted onto the sidewalk?" edition.
Did I mention that it's going to be about 100 degrees in Omaha today?
Damn Chinese and their insidious global warming hoaxes!
Must think cool musical thoughts. Must. Think. Cool. Musical. Thoughts.
It's the Big Show, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: It's all in the messaging
We'll be listening to 3 Chords & the Truth
while waiting for a certain phone call.
It's the Big Show, comrade. Be there. Aloha.
while waiting for a certain phone call.
It's the Big Show, comrade. Be there. Aloha.
#MAGA
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Friday, May 12, 2017
Next on the Big Show
There are two explanations for this: 1) We all took some really bad s***, and it's all a bummer of a trip, man! 2) It's real, and Americans voted for some bad s***, man!
Either way . . . bummer, man.
It's the Big Show, y'all. Be there in a while. Aloha.
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Saturday, May 06, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: Record party in the kitchen!
HOUSE PARTY
LOCATION: 3 Chords & the Truth kitchen.
WHEN: Whenever you show up. We'll be around.
WHAT: I set up my portable phonograph on the kitchen table. Bring records, BYOB. We'll
play music and have refreshments.
Just make yourself at home A good time will be had by all.
Especially Uncle Buddy.
Yes, he's bringing his Jerry Vale records.
UNTIL: Uncle Buddy gets three sheets to the wind.
IT'S THE BIG SHOW!
ALOHA!
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Saturday, April 29, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: Circular seasoning
This job is a lot harder than I thought it'd be.
Thought I'd just charge straight ahead on 3 Chords & the Truth. See the hill; take the hill.
Instead, I'm an ever rollin' wheel, without a destination real.
I'm an ever spinning top, whirling around till I drop.
Oh, but what am I to do? My mind is in a whirlpool!
Give me a little hope, one small thing to cling to. You got me going in circles -- oh, round and round I go!
And I can't even tell you about the show without cribbing Friends of Distinction lyrics!
Sad!
I'm just going in circles. How can I make radio great again like this?
WELL . . . let's us just accentuate the positive. Eliminate the negative.
And latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mister In-Between.
AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't even write this stupid descriptive doomaflatchie without plagiarizing in circles. It's like circling the drain of professional life. The painted ponies go up and down on the carousel of life.
I give up. Now I'm stealing my way into abject depression about the fleeting nature of time -- and my lost youth.
Listen, the show is good, despite it all. Some stuff about circles. And some stuff you can dance to. Right here on the Big Show.
Really, it's all good. And it's not like I have a nuclear arsenal at my disposal or anything.
IT'S 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
It blowed up good. It blowed up real good.
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Listen to the Big Show. It's a (CLUNK!) blast.
If you don't get the joke . . . ask your parents.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
3 Chords & the Truth: Colliding subcultures, or . . .
. . . radio at a time far, far away.
You know the spiel. It's the standard 3 Chords & the Truth spiel: We've subcultured ourselves to death. Almost literally.
In the radio sense, that's a boring thing. Do you like just one kind of music? Do you only want to know anything about one kind of music . . . or about only one tiny, tiny segment of the population that looks suspiciously a lot like yourself?
I didn't think so. If you were that unbelievably narrow of taste and of mind, you wouldn't be here.
The Big Show is the place for the inquisitive and the easily bored. It's the place where cultures collide constantly -- as we've said this week in promoting the program. And -- again -- it's freakin' glorious.
NOW, I'm not sayin', but on this edition of the show, Sinatra and Steppenwolf may well coexist on your Internet connection. Might even collide.
That'd be something to hear. But I'm not sayin', you understand.
I am sayin', however, that this here program is all about what radio, at its best, used to be. It's about starting there and pushing forward.
So, forward.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Friday, April 21, 2017
Coming up on the Big Show
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What could it be now?
Kind of like radio once upon a . . . GAAAAAH! Still trite.
OK, let's put it this way. Some of you will recognize it. Others will have their minds blown -- as usual.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
The magnificent Musicbox
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Because good music needs brand awareness?
It's 3 Chords & the Truth. Be there. Aloha.
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