Cover of a Ween song from my first record, "Serotonin" -- recorded in my living room on a Tascam 4-track in 2000.

Push Th' Little Daisies

A 2000 cover of Weird Al Yankovic recorded on my four-track.

One More Minute - Weird Al Yankovic cover

We play none of your favourite songs - We're too busy talking about real life.

NewsTalk 1290 CJBK Promo - None Of Your Favorite Songs

What happens when you put aggressive Auto-Tune on Geddy Lee's voice from Moving Pictures. (For demonstration purposes only.)

Rush Autotuned Red Barchetta

What happens when you put aggressive Auto-Tune on Geddy Lee's voice from Moving Pictures. For this one, I also applied it to the guitar track. (For demonstration purposes only.)

Rush Autotuned Limelight

I keep hearing this ad and it takes me a few seconds to realize it's me reading it.

Arbys ad with deep, gritty voice

2011 - 05 - 03 Doug At 1am After Elxn Coverage

Gordon at 2, and his mommy Amanda at nearly 3, doing a duet of the alphabet....nearly 35 years apart.

2015 - 10 - 30 Amanda And Gordon Abcs

Gordon, almost 3, joins CJBK's Al Coombs on London @ Large.

2016 - 03 - 01 Cjbk - Gordon's Radio Debut

From Symposium 2004? Shaun Jette playing Bobcaygeon by The Tragically Hip.

Shaun Jette - Bobcaygeon - Symposium

Canadian talk radio host Tom McConnell heaping praise upon Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard and host Conrad Thompson. (Hear TMC at cjbk.com and iHeartRadio Canada)

Mon Nov 06 2017

Talk show host praising Something To Wrestle With

I challenged myself to throw something together fast and not dither over details and perfection. Here's what I came up with after a night and a half.

Drifter In The Dark (Ween Cover)

My cover of Older by They Might Be Giants.

Older (They  Might Be Giants cover)

Audio from stories published in the 1990s in Cygnals Zine by Scott Simpson.

1997-03 - Cygnals - David Bronstein

1999-04 Crazy radio-in-his-stomach guy - on University Avenue, Toronto

Archival files from my quest to demonstrate that CityTV's Mark Dailey spoke the word "Subdivisions" in the Rush song Subdivisions. I'm no longer convinced, and Mark has sadly died, but the question remains for some.

Subdivisions-dailey-1997-whole-from-ra

Subdivisions-dailey-2002-whole

Subdivisions-dailey-comparison-2007

A 1997 interview with then-TTC General Manager David Gunn about what was originally supposed to go on with the Lower Queen subway station.

TTC GM David Gunn on Lower Queen subway station

Back in the Napster era, a friend of a friend found this track labeled "SWEDISH FUNK" and nothing more. He downloaded it and found this groovy hip-hop track about riding a bus. Problem is, none of us has ever been able to properly identify the artist or source. It's just been passed down through the decades as SWEDISH FUNK. Can anyone offer insight?

SWEDISH FUNK: The Bus

London Ontario radio program director. Early-40s broadcaster. In my spare time, I record music 'n such in my home studio. My DAW of choice is Reaper.

Scott Simpson

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