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Hey, for those of you who live in the south bay: My friends Greg and Bev are hosting a musical variety show tonight on the radio, featuring a bunch of musicians including me. So if you're near a radio from 8 to 9:30 tonight, try tuning in KKUP (91.5). Let me know how it is; I don't plan on listening myself.

(There doesn't seem to be an Internet stream. Google's cache tells me that,, once upon a time, somebody used to keep a car stereo permanently tuned to KKUP and then run the audio through a Linux server and out onto the net with Icecast. But no longer.)

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Well, radio was weird and cool. I felt very subdued, but fortunately I have some very subdued songs that go with that. Also when they were setting up the microphones I adopted a weird posture that led to not hearing my guitar very well. I think the radio audience could hear it okay.

The cool part was mostly hanging out in the studio with a bunch of other musicians (and it's a good thing they were there--playing to no audience at all would've been weirder still). I liked playing a couple of songs with Russell and Tim--sort of a preview of our upcoming show--and listening to all the other singers.

Also weird and cool was that Dave Emory was there. I used to listen to his show a lot, I think on my way home from guitar classes at Gryphon. A web site linked to from his site accurately describes his work as "thoughtful, scrupulously documented and vitally important political information and analysis." His politics are described as "anti-fascist"; it's no stretch to call him a conspiracy theorist, but that doesn't mean he isn't right. I think he was trying to conduct a phone interview in the next room while we were singing and applauding, possibly about connections between Ramzi Yousef and Terry Nichols. There are archives of For the Record online.

I sang along with Gemma Hayes all the way there and all the way back. You should too.

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P.S. As I write this, All I Want is making its way from Netflix's San Jose distribution center to my mailbox. I hope you're happy, europopkid.