Some random disc jockeys from various radio stations around Columbus, OH in the 1970s: WCOL 92X, WNCI, WBNS

614 radio bumpers 1970s

The 1981 Talent Show Side A
Independence High School
Columbus, Ohio USA
Side A: direct mixer dub from sound booth
Donna McLean - The Way We Were / Evergreen
5:30 Dawn Cochran & Don Kimbro - The Closer I Get to You
Jamie Wagner - Send in the Clowns
Marcus Gresham - The Entertainer
Silverstone - Rush / Working Man

Independence High School

IHS 1981 Talent Show [1/2]

An example of the lo-fi recording made from a monophonic Emerson AM/FM/Clock cassette record used to smuggle recordings from live concerts by a relatively clueless 16-year old kid.

Sweet Baby (1981)Clarke/Duke Project @ Ohio Theater: lo-fi snippet

Jaco solo with Weather Report 
June 27, 1981
Palace Theater
Columbus OH
Original recording, property of @plook
Never released before 2022

Live @ Palace Theater

A Jaco Pastorious solo (1981)

Weird Ass Tracks

What song is this?

An audio snippet digitized from a mix tape found by the roadside back in the 1980s. It's been 3+ decades and I still do not know the source. Google doesn't either. Will you answer the call?

Mystery Dialog

Stay Demented: QFM96 Sunday Night Special disc jockeys throw to DJ Mike Eiland at 11:PM kicking off The Jazz Hour which followed the Doctor Demento syndicated program. A really-rough-cut of my old cassette collection digitized to MP3 20 years ago where each cut is the beginning of a tape side (which I used to record jazz fusion songs). From crappy monophonic tapes digitized to lofi MP3 in 2002:

√ Wow: check
√ Flutter: check
√ Stiction: check
√ Bad bias: check
√ Dirty heads: check
√ Overcompressed digital artifacts: 32kbps 16KHz ouch
√ Monophonic recording of a stereo source? FTW!

Stay Demented: DD lead-in to WLVQ-FM96 Jazz Hour (80s)

You are listening to plook radio. 
From 2007, my Shoutcast station identifier
Music from Last Summer in Rio (1981) Telecommunication by Azymuth 
Vocals by "Shit Talker", a voice synth for Windows 98
A reboot of the synth is here: 
https://hackaday.io/project/9197-shit-talker-phoenix

Telecommunication

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Scanning radio stations while recording to cassette tape late one Sunday night in 1980,  I happened upon the WLVQ-FM-96 Jazz Hour hosted by Mike Eiland, and suddenly a 15-year old boy discovered jazz-rock fusion courtesy of the drum break at 2:45 in "Sweet 'n Savvy" by Spryo Grya from the album Carnaval. If music defines life, then in this moment my life changed. As a fledgling drummer, the tightly syncopated drums in this song were like aural fireworks, the likes of which I'd not heard before. This was my fiery introduction to jazz, and the tape recording presented here even leads into "Demogomania" by jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. His 1980 Civilized Evil tour would become my inaugural jazz concert (not to mention my first ever concert) that I would attend on my 16th birthday that year at the Palace Theater in Columbus, Ohio. The concert came just a few months after first tuning in the Jazz Hour hosted by Mike Eiland and laid the foundation for a lifetime of jazz music appreciation.

My Moment of Jazz

Shazam can't identify this track

Shazam cannot identify this track either...

Another track recorded in the early 80s that Shazam can't ID. 
Sounds like Cozy Powell or Jeff Beck? What do you think?

Yet another 1980s JRF track Shazam cannot identify!

ModTrakker Groove One

A message from Rick sometime in the early 1990s.

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