Den 1. marts er det 50 år det ikoniske "Dark Side of the Moon" udkom. Mange tal taler deres eget sprog om albummets popularitet og blivende status som et af rockhistoriens vigtigste album – her er bare et enkelt: Gennem 24 år lå albummet på den amerikanske album top 20.

I anledning af jubilæet har POV Mediano Musics Jan Eriksen inviteret Pink Floyd eksperten Thomas Ulrik Larsen i studiet. Blandt sine mange meritter er Larsen tidligere guitarist i det danske hyldestband Pink Floyd Project. Altså har han været den danske David Gilmour i en periode. Eriksen og Larsen taler da blandt meget andet også om Gilmours guitarspil i podcasten.

"Gilmour er bluesguitarist. Det er nogle relativt enkle figurer, men der er noget med anstrøget. Noget af det, man ofte glemmer, når man taler guitarsoli, er at man er ilde stedt, uanset hvad man laver, uden rytmik. Han er en fantastisk rytmeguitarist, og det hører man også, når han spiller soloer,", siger Thomas Ulrik Larsen.

"The Dark Side of the Moon" er det første Pink Floyd album med Roger Waters som eneforfatter til teksterne, og det første, hvor de enkelte numre hænger sammen i suiteform. Med andre ord er det Pink Floyds første konceptalbum.
For første gang taler Waters direkte til sine lyttere uden flyvske metaforer. Det handler om alt det, der truer med at påføre det moderne menneskes ”Brain Damage” - penge, dødsangst, fobier, identitetskriser, nationalisme samt samfundets manipulation af vores tanker og holdninger.

I dag står "The Dark Side of the Moon" med Thomas Ulrik Larsens ord som:

”Den langsommelige kæmpe, der ikke vil gå væk. Det der med, at det trisser afsted fra start til slut. Der er et enkelt nummer, nemlig Money, hvor de kommer op i omdrejninger. Det er den langsommelige dinosaurus, som har været her siden tidernes morgen, og vi hører den stadigvæk. Det har noget med dens langtidsholdbarhed, at den har fået denne her status."

Og selvfølgelig kommer podcasten omkring ”The Gig in the Sky”, der har givet sangerinden Clare Torry en evigt lysende plads i rockarkiverne med sin udtryksfulde sang – som nogen har kaldt "en dødskantate".

Ifølge Thomas Ulrik Larsen kan det nu ligeså godt handle om sex.

Det siges, at "The Great Gig in the Sky" blev brugt som lydspor til de såkaldte liveshows i Amsterdam, hvor man kan se par dyrke sex," siger han.

NB – POV Mediano Musics aftale med rettighedsorganisationen KODA, som vi selvsagt respekterer, kan vi kun spille uddrag af de enkelte numre. Desuden forekommer de enkelte numre ikke i samme rækkefølge som på albummet. Så meget desto mere grund til sætte albummet på grammofonen, CD-afspilleren eller finde det på pc, iPhone e.lign., når du er færdig med podcasten.

I podcasten taler Thomas Ulrik Larsen og Jan Eriksen bl.a. om:

- det stiftende medlem af Pink Floyd, Syd Barret – er det rigtigt, som myten siger, at Waters tekster direkte handler om Barrets psykiske sygdom?
- sammenhængen mellem The Dark Side of the Moon og tidligere Floyd-album, specielt Meddle.
- udviklingen fra psykedelisk band til del af den voksende engelske bølge, progressiv rock, også kendt som prog rock. Eller var Pink Floyd overhovedet et prog rock band?
- hvad det var for noget med Wrights joystick?
- et eller rettere flere bud på, hvorfor albummet har opnået sin status som et af de vigtigste rockalbum nogensinde.

50 år med The Dark Side of the Moon: Den musikalske dinosaur, der ikke vil gå væk

Track List: 

Breathe (Common Creation Remix)
Time (KaktuZ RemiX)
The Great Gig In The Sky ( Paul (AR)  Remix)
Money -Electrix Epilepsi Remix
Brain Damage (Omega Remix v1) 
Comfortably Numb (Waldeep Unofficial Remix Radio Edit)  
Hey you (Sebastian Busto Remix)
Wish You Were Here (Blake Jarrell Remix)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Billka Edit)
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun  (Bedouin)
Sheep (DOMA Remix) 
Proper Education (Eric Prydz club mix)
High Hopes (Alejo Gonzalez & Barklas Remix)
Welcome To The Machine (PRZM Remix)
One Of These Days (Soul Machine Remix)
Cluster One (Carl OS Unofficial Remix)
Marooned (Kobo Remix)

Reimagine Pink Floyd [DJ Set/Remixes]

This is Part 3 of 3 of the National Cynical Network (NCN) album/program, 'NCN - Dark Side Variations (Deluxe 50th Anniversary Special)'.

This is a tribute to the progressive psychedelic classic rock band Pink Floyd's legendary, iconic and timeless masterwork, their album 'The Dark Side of The Moon' and is being released to the public on March 1st, 2023: exactly 50 years TO THE DAY that the original LP was released (March 1st, 1973).

It is a collection of variations (i.e. mixes, remixes, covers, genre-bending re-interpretations, edits, sample usages, and some mashups: some variations and mods done by NCN) of the well-known pieces from the original album, all of which are represented here in some kind of transformed state.

Interspersed, is work by 'Polyphonic' (who can be found on youtube) who acts here as a kind of 'greek chorus' explicating and giving background info on the entire work and its songs.

The original 3hr. 2016 mix by NCN called 'Dark Side Variations' upon which this muchly-expanded version is based, can be found on Mixcloud:

https://bit.ly/3ZgtRa2

The Bandcamp version (use BUY button) is slightly better quality than what is offered here on SoundCloud as it was mastered at 48khz instead of the 44khz encoding only allowed here. The Bandcamp version is on 31 separate tracks. 

This program (the 2023 Anniversary Deluxe) is also streamable at Mixcloud in its entirety in HQ Sound:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-dark-side-variations-deluxe-50th-anniversary-special/

Some sequences/edits from the show share some playlist 'dna' with the 2016 version, many of these portions have been re-mastered (using lossless audio sources where possible) and/or 'augmented' (i.e. added to/enlarged) for this special production.

The overall structure of this program, for the most part, follows the original tracklist sequence of the 1973 Pink Floyd release but, at length and in-depth, exploring each piece through the mix technique of 'version medley' or mixes consisting of variations on each piece. Insight into the history, origin, meaning and interpretation is credited mostly to Polyphonic but this (sometimes modded by NCN) expository material is occasionally woven with work by other commentators, music and with interview clips by members of Pink Floyd.

Some portions depart from the tracklist sequence for variety.

Part 3 starts with the second half of our treatment of the song 'Us and Them' all the way through to the end of the album tracklist (including long variant sets on the songs 'Any Colour You Like' and 'Brain Damage' as well as independent sets showcasing variants of the songs 'Time' and 'Money'.

Generally, intact usage of Pink Floyd songs, in their original form, is avoided in this program, but there is some exception to this in the final track of our work. Material from the original album is used in our treatment of the 'finale' and somewhat in the treatment of the first song 'Speak to Me'/'Breathe'. This material was taken from lossless file copies of the rare, said-to-be-definitive pressing of the original work which is from a Japanese import LP version known among fans as the 'Holy Grail' version of the original album.

NCN hopes that you will enjoy this offering and that it peaks the interest of listeners not only to the work of Pink Floyd, but to the many cover, remix and DIY artists represented herein. I will try to fill out all the accreditation info eventually but for now, the day of posting (March 1st) have been working extra hard to get this production completed and posted by this special anniversary date. In the meantime, if anyone has any questions about  specific sources, feel free to leave a question and we'll get you the information. Thanks.

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NCN - Dark Side Variations (Deluxe 50th Anniversary Special)

NCN - Dark Side Variations (Deluxe 50th Anniversary Special) - Part 3 of 3

This is Part 2 of 3 of the National Cynical Network (NCN) album/program, 'NCN - Dark Side Variations (Deluxe 50th Anniversary Special)'.

The entire album/playlist is available on SoundCloud, here:

https://soundcloud.com/nationalcynical/sets/ncn-dark-side-variations-deluxe

This is a tribute to the progressive psychedelic classic rock band Pink Floyd's legendary, iconic and timeless masterwork, their album 'The Dark Side of The Moon' and is being released to the public on March 1st, 2023: exactly 50 years TO THE DAY that the original LP was released (March 1st, 1973).

It is a collection of variations (i.e. mixes, remixes, covers, genre-bending re-interpretations, edits, sample usages, and some mashups: some variations and mods done by NCN) of the well-known pieces from the original album, all of which are represented here in some kind of transformed state.

Interspersed, is work by 'Polyphonic' (who can be found on youtube) who acts here as a kind of 'greek chorus' explicating and giving background info on the entire work and its songs.

The original 3hr. 2016 mix by NCN called 'Dark Side Variations' upon which this muchly-expanded version is based, can be found on Mixcloud:

https://bit.ly/3ZgtRa2

The Bandcamp version (use BUY button) is slightly better quality than what is offered here on SoundCloud as it was mastered at 48khz instead of the 44khz encoding only allowed here. The Bandcamp version is on 31 separate tracks. 

This program (the 2023 Anniversary Deluxe) is also streamable at Mixcloud in its entirety in HQ Sound:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-dark-side-variations-deluxe-50th-anniversary-special/

Some sequences/edits from the show share some playlist 'dna' with the 2016 version, many of these portions have been re-mastered (using lossless audio sources where possible) and/or 'augmented' (i.e. added to/enlarged) for this special production.

The overall structure of this program, for the most part, follows the original tracklist sequence of the 1973 Pink Floyd release but, at length and in-depth, exploring each piece through the mix technique of 'version medley' or mixes consisting of variations on each piece. Insight into the history, origin, meaning and interpretation is credited mostly to Polyphonic but this (sometimes modded by NCN) expository material is occasionally woven with work by other commentators, music and with interview clips by members of Pink Floyd.

Some portions depart from the tracklist sequence for variety.

Part 2 of 3 follows the playlist where Part 1 left off, treating the piece 'Great Gig in the Sky' (in the manner described above) up to and including the first half of our treatment of the song 'Us and Them'. It also feature tracks, independent of original tracklist order, showcasing variants of the songs 'Time' and 'Money'. 

Generally, intact usage of Pink Floyd songs, in their original form, is avoided in this program, but there is some exception to this in the final track of our work. Material from the original album is used in our treatment of the 'finale' and somewhat in the treatment of the first song 'Speak to Me'/'Breathe'. This material was taken from lossless file copies of the rare, said-to-be-definitive pressing of the original work which is from a Japanese import LP version known among fans as the 'Holy Grail' version of the original album.

NCN hopes that you will enjoy this offering and that it peaks the interest of listeners not only to the work of Pink Floyd, but to the many cover, remix and DIY artists represented herein. I will try to fill out all the accreditation info eventually but for now, the day of posting (March 1st) have been working extra hard to get this production completed and posted by this special anniversary date. In the meantime, if anyone has any questions about  specific sources, feel free to leave a question and we'll get you the information. Thanks.

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NCN - Dark Side Variations (Deluxe 50th Anniversary Special) - Part 2 of 3

This is Part 1 of 3 of the National Cynical Network (NCN) album/program, 'NCN - Dark Side Variations (Deluxe 50th Anniversary Special)'.

The entire album/playlist is available on SoundCloud, here:

https://soundcloud.com/nationalcynical/sets/ncn-dark-side-variations-deluxe

This is a tribute to the progressive psychedelic classic rock band Pink Floyd's legendary, iconic and timeless masterwork, their album 'The Dark Side of The Moon' and is being released to the public on March 1st, 2023: exactly 50 years TO THE DAY that the original LP was released (March 1st, 1973).

It is a collection of variations (i.e. mixes, remixes, covers, genre-bending re-interpretations, edits, sample usages, and some mashups: some variations and mods done by NCN) of the well-known pieces from the original album, all of which are represented in some kind of transformed state.

Interspersed, is work by 'Polyphonic' (who can be found on youtube) who acts here as a kind of 'greek chorus' explicating and giving background info on the entire work and its songs, with some band member interview clips.

The original 3hr. 2016 mix by NCN called 'Dark Side Variations' upon which this muchly-expanded version is based, can be found on Mixcloud:

https://bit.ly/3ZgtRa2

The Bandcamp version (use BUY button) is slightly better quality than what is offered here on SoundCloud as it was mastered at 48khz instead of the 44khz encoding only allowed here. The Bandcamp version is in 31 separate tracks. 

This program (the 2023 Anniversary Deluxe) is also streamable at Mixcloud in its entirety in HQ Sound:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-dark-side-variations-deluxe-50th-anniversary-special/

Some sequences/edits from the show share some playlist 'dna' with the 2016 version, many of these portions have been re-mastered (using lossless audio sources where possible) and/or 'augmented' (i.e. added to/enlarged) for this special production.

The overall structure of this program, for the most part, follows the original tracklist sequence of the 1973 Pink Floyd release but, at length and in-depth, exploring each piece through the mix technique of 'version medley' or mixes consisting of variations on each piece. Insight into the history, origin, meaning and interpretation is credited mostly to Polyphonic but this (sometimes modded by NCN) expository material is occasionally woven with work by other commentators, music and with interview clips by members of Pink Floyd.

Some portions depart from the tracklist sequence for variety.

Part 1 has a long sequence of introductory segments before it really gets into the 'Dark Side' music material. It follows the original tracklist in the manner described above, up to the intro of the 'Great Gig in the Sky' section which begins Part 2 of 3:

https://soundcloud.com/nationalcynical/ncn-dark-side-variations-deluxe-2-of-3
 
Generally, intact usage of Pink Floyd songs, in their original form, is avoided in this program, but there is some exception to this in the final track of our work. Material from the original album is used in our treatment of the 'finale' and somewhat in the treatment of the first song 'Speak to Me'/'Breathe'. This material was taken from lossless file copies of the rare, said-to-be-definitive pressing of the original work which is from a Japanese import LP version known among fans as the 'Holy Grail' version of the original album.

NCN hopes that you will enjoy this offering and that it peaks the interest of listeners not only to the work of Pink Floyd, but to the many cover, remix and DIY artists represented herein. I will try to fill out all the accreditation info eventually but for now, the day of posting (March 1st) have been working extra hard to get this production completed and posted by this special anniversary date. In the meantime, if anyone has any questions about  specific sources, feel free to leave a question and we'll get you the information. Thanks.

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NCN - Dark Side Variations (Deluxe 50th Anniversary Special) - Part 1 of 3

A good song for a pink floyd fan or somone whos having a rough day and wants to calm down to something with a slow beat and good instruments

Lofi Man

Man On The Moon

Vaporized (mixed by Dark Side Of The Moon)

This old song was made when i was young, inspired by the beauty of the moon and the mystery of its dark side.

Saints N' Demons Album

The Dark Side of the Moon

"One Day, I'm gonna grow Wings"
It's an experimental single from my upcoming album, a mix of "Ok Computer" and "The Dark Side of the Moon."

P.S: I had to add an old mix to be able to upload the song without any problems, but I still hope you like it.
The minutes for each song will be in the comments.

Let_Down_Tress (Fake_Plastic_Trees(Grocery Version)/Let Down(TDSOTC Version))

Recovered from a set of mysterious cassette tapes that once belonged to my uncle. After months of piecing together fragments and cleaning up the audio, what remains appears to be an unreleased album—one that, according to scattered notes and rumors, was abruptly shelved in 1997. Why it was buried… I’m still not sure.

Special Thanks:
@jk_dxniels
@n0ise.metal
My Family and Friends

Without them, this project would not have been possible

This is a fan-made project created for artistic and non-commercial purposes only.
All rights to any referenced or sampled material belong to their respective artists, bands, and record labels.
This work is not intended for profit or commercial distribution — it is a conceptual and experimental tribute, born from admiration and creative inspiration drawn from albums such as OK Computer, The Dark Side of the Moon, and others that deeply influenced the creator.

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The Dark Side Of The Computer (Part A)

Here are more recordings that I was able to recover, I think that each time, I already have an idea of ​​how it would have sounded... even so, why was this project canceled?

Special Thanks:
@jk_dxniels
@n0ise.metal
My Family and Friends

Without them, this project would not have been possible

This is a fan-made project created for artistic and non-commercial purposes only.
All rights to any referenced or sampled material belong to their respective artists, bands, and record labels.
This work is not intended for profit or commercial distribution — it is a conceptual and experimental tribute, born from admiration and creative inspiration drawn from albums such as OK Computer, The Dark Side of the Moon, and others that deeply influenced the creator.

The Dark Side Of The Computer (Part B)

Follow me ;)
Just exploring my own music. 
Amateur musician
Instrumental music.
Instagram: creedjunior_music

The Dark Side Of The Moon is the evil twin of https://soundcloud.com/mooninmypocket, pretty influenced by the former industrial Techno Club GERBEREI (1994-2013) home-based in Schwerin, Northeast Germany.

Phineas is the curator and primary creative force behind a multipronged 'Latent-Einstein Outreach Ministry' comprised mostly of 'mutated MetaMedia audio mixes' meant largely to be a therapeutic and sonic REPLACEMENT FOR DRUGS for the Masses and the 'Not-That-Reality-Oriented'. He is a self-styled 'MetaMediagician' in this respect, as well as a formerly official canonized (and carmelized) 'Church of the SubGenius' (lapsed) 'SAINT'.

The neologism (meaning literally a 'new word') 'MetaMediagician' is a 'Pre-Zuckian' use of the prefix 'Meta' (which may be confirmed through 'The Internet Wayback Machine's cached copies of Narco social media accounts so... 'nyyyah') and denotes an artist who utilizes content from the media at large like a 'painter's pallette' in order to make further developed or synthesized 'macro' media work out of that media content in a more or less 'collage'-type format. 

Phineas' efforts in this regard have evolved from the personally expressive to the social therapeutic and have been structured around more and more relatable 'universal themes' with the general goal of attaining a more enlightened understanding of the matter or matters at hand.

Phineas is a very late Baby Boomer (a 'Barely Boomer' as he terms it) and is a 'PROUD MENTAL PATIENT' (since 1984) who has never married and has no kids and who lives alone in Silicon Valley since age 9 after his family moved out to San Jose from the Midwest. He has been creating and distributing Experimental audio artwork of one sort or another SINCE THE 1970s. NOTE that the featured profiled pic is from 1983: the year right before he 'GOT SICK' and became disabled lifelong.

Phineas' birth name is James Scianna (surname is typically pronounced 'SEE-ah-na' although the proper Italian pronunciation is actually: 'SHIAHn-nah').

The alias 'Phineas Narco' was created by Phineas around the time of the onset of his overarching, disabling mental health condition at age 19 (guardedly referred to typically as 'the exact same diagnosis as had by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys') and is serious.

Phineas' condition exists independent of and unrelated to his creative skills, artistic life and efforts although it often inspires the subject matter of those efforts that are about mental illness and its aspects.

The alias name 'Phineas Narco' was created around the time of the onset of Phineas' illness as a 'church name' for his inclusion in 'The Church of The SubGenius' an actual mind control cult that Phineas was involved with for many decades but resigned from in 2024.

The two names refer to figures in Greek mythology. 'Narco' is meant as a contraction of the name 'Narcissus' (in the non-pathological sense) and is not meant as a reference to drugs. The name 'Phineas' refers to an ancillary character in the story of 'Jason and the Argonauts'. In addition to this, there is some identification with the character Phineas from the John Knowles novel 'A Separate Peace' although the significance of this 'referential idea' would not fully blossom until life events from 2021 to 2024 had occured in Phineas' life.

In addition to his involvement in the SubGenius mind control cult, Phineas also had a months-long dalliance with The Church of Scientology in 1991 in San Jose, CA in order to see, from the inside, what it was all about, working for the organization for many months but cleverly 'escaping their clutches' by pre-programming into his brain, in the pre-indoctrination period, a predetermined 'escape response', in other words *Phinny's cue to 'exit stage left* when a Church representative uttered a certain inevitable phrase to him, which of course they DID.

Bye, bye Scientology.
They were NOT PLEASED.

Phineas's current religious identification is Christian. He considers himself to be a Man of God but does not ascribe to any particular 'church' organization, being perfectly comfortable with his own, personal sense, useful understanding and concept of God.

Phineas has had a robust, lifelong interest in Psychology and has earned a trained certificate in Peer Counseling which he has utilized in volunteer efforts in his local community. So he is 'certified and certifiable' simultaneously holding both 'consumer' and 'practitioner' status in the mental health community.

Phineas also has since childhood had a driven natural affinity for, and very keen interest in language and its usages, even studying vocabulary and etymology on his own as a child, long term as an interest. 

 When Phineas was given a standardized IQ test as a child, he was found to have a verbal comprehension score of 139 which is very, very high.

Phineas was also tested positively as being on the 'autism spectrum' in an official capacity much later in life although the severity of this was not deemed to be problematic enough to require treatment.

Phineas' post-Highschool educational efforts can be classified as 'some college' but also as 'MUCH some college' taking many, many courses of interest in a number of local community colleges all with no intention or desire of ever earning any sort of degree during his 20's and 30's. These self-interested,  self-motivated educational efforts typically resulted in high grades and included a number of efforts in artistic, drama, media production, Psychology and English courses and curricula. Otherwise, Phineas has  mostly acted as an 'autodidact' (a term meaning essentially someone who is 'self taught') in his extracurricular learning efforts.

Phineas has worked intensively and creatively with the likes of such groups and artists such as Negativland, Bran Flakes, TradeMark Gunderson of (The Evolution Control Committee), Doktors 4 "Bob" and Big City Orchestra with whom he has collaboratively help create online virtual theatrical video events for his 'musical mashup movies' for the 3-D immersive VR community environment 'Second Life'.

His work has been lauded by the likes of the late comedian George Carlin and mainstream media critics such as Brad Kava (The San Jose Mercury News) and Richard Von Busack (The San Jose Metro).

https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.05.02/midnightvoice-0236.html

Phineas has also worked extensively and creatively, for decades collaboratively, at the Pacifica Radio flagship radio station KPFA in Berkeley, CA as well as the prestigious, exclusive and critically-acclaimed college radio station KFJC located at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA. These former creative efforts were reviewed favorably by the aforementioned mainstream media critics at the time.

Despite all this 'impressive display' of extraordinarily unique talent and brainpower, Phineas frequently has difficulty putting on his own pants.

Phineas notoriously once mailed a package containing one of his radio shows to Ted Kaczynski ('The Unabomber') in the mid-nineties to where the notorious insane criminal resided at the time at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado after having secured the notorious serial bomber's exact mailing address through the help of a local (and quite amused) reference librarian.

The program in question was called 'Bombscare', the result of a year-long creative effort by Phineas and was broadcast mixed live around that time by Phineas and Negativland band member, the late Don Joyce on KPFA. The show was, in part, about Mr. Kaczynski, his schizophrenic illness, and the years-long federal investigation into his serial mailbombing crimes.

The program represented a 'high-watermark' in Phineas' creative efforts and the IRONY of Phineas' sincere (yet arguably more than a little irrational and probably uhm... misguided) motivation in going about MAILING A PACKAGE TO THE *FUCKING UNABOMBER* containing his SHOW which was *ABOUT THE FUCKING GODDAMN UNABOMBER* was eclipsed in Phineas's semi-deranged mind by a literally a genuine and curious desire to 'find out what Ted thought about it'. 

Uhhhh... YEAH.
We *wish* we were kidding about that, but we're actually uhhm... NOT.

The package in question was summarily and promptly returned to Phineas, by Supermax prison authorities via US Mail, unopened and without comment.   Which MAKE SENSE. After all, ANY PRISON which houses the *GODDAMN FUCKING UNABOMBER* that gets... *a package* for... UH...  *HIM*... 

...is CERTAINLY... 
** NOT GONNA FUCKING OPEN IT!!! ***

And so, that... as they say... was THAT.

Around this time as well, Phineas mailed an identical tape copy of the 'Bombscare' show highlights to a very different person: the late iconic and legendary comedian George Carlin under the somewhat disingenuous guise of procuring 'permission' for using a Carlin audio sample in the show. 

However there was, like with Kaczinsky, the somewhat diffuse motivation of 'wanting to know what he thought about it'. 

The somewhat 'ruse' of offering the tape up to Carlin 'for review' to 'get permission' arose when Phineas self-consciously realized Carlin was 'in the show' he wanted to send and was offset by the perceptive comedian 'understanding' most likely that Phineas really just wanted feedback. Also, Phineas too was in fact sincere in that he would have snipped out the Carlin sample if permission was not forthcoming from George. 

With that, Phineas procured permission to send the tape to Carlin through the comedian's publicist and a voicemail message from George. The sequence in the 'Bombscare' program that includes the Carlin sample may be heard here in a track from the album/show's full listing on Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/track/more-fun-for-me

Some weeks after sending that tape of the show to George, Phineas discovered a message response from George in his voice mailbox.

In the voicemail message, Carlin was almost 'beyond enthusiastic' about the tape Phineas had sent to him. His praise of the work was almost uncontainable and Carlin articulately and happily lauded and sang its praises sincerely for over a minute, with all the salty facility of language and attitude he was so well known for in is in his lifetime, waxing eloquent about how great and fabulous he found it, and specifically praising the 'middle ear' range of artistic efficacy in which the sonic power of the program had 'hit'.

The uncut recording of Carlin's enthusiastic voicemail message to Phineas about the show can be heard here:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/track/carlin-voicemail-to-phineas-narco-about-bombscare-c-1997-8

Phineas' immediate reaction to hearing this message of personal endorsement from this hyper-known source there in his own personal voicemail at the time was one not so much of elation, pride and happiness but rather an almost *stunned awe* as if he had thought of one day to get an interesting looking penny assessed by a pawnbroker only to suddenly learn that the coin was in fact worth TEN MILLION DOLLARS.

It is interesting to note in regard this phone call message that George started out his performative career as a radio DJ working at WINO in New York and that his brother the late Patrick Carlin (who George tells Phineas in the message his wants to send the show tape to) also worked in radio and ran a podcast. So, both men would have had a firsthand appreciation of the program as a live-mixed radio effort.

Also, and I have been unable to definitively confirm this, although I seem to recall hearing this from somewhere at one point: Carlin's brother Patrick also kind of lived 'out in the woods' Walden Pond style far away from the mainstream infrastructure of the more developed sections of society. So, if this were in fact true, his 'lifestyle' could be said to be not all that different than that of 'The Unabomber' himself.

Minus the 'exploding' part. *Ahem* 

WELL, A MAN NEEDS A HOBBY!! When he LIVES ALONE so what are you gonna do? Sometimes it's RUNNING A PODCAST and sometimes it's BLOWING PEOPLE UP!!

Further to this: in researching Carlin's life, it became known to Phineas that prior to him becoming the legendary, well-known mainstream comedic show business talent that he turned out to be (which he was rather forced to do in order to raise a family which was expensive to do and also ultimately to pay off his massive tax bills) Carlin originally only had the ambition or 'dream' or intention of being just an obscure artist doing abstract, weird art like in an apartment somewhere on his own merely for his own enjoyment and just living his life like that.

Sort of like... how... Phineas Narco... does.
Go figure.

The phone call from Carlin ultimately motivated and accelerated Phineas' artistic career at a crucial time of growth. It gave Phineas the confidence of knowing that his work had worth and was on the right track with an appeal to an audience, who was like George in terms of sensibility and values, and he was able to rest assured that this endorsement was one HUNDRED PERCENT genuine, no bullshit and SECURE because Phineas knew that Carlin was NOT the kind of guy for Hollywood bullshit. 

So, this ringing endorsement was like a shiny gold coin of the purest stock gifted to him right into his pocket. IT WAS HIS. And he was able to use that currency for capital in the artistic journey to come.

Thanks, George.

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To view, stream or download (at NO required cost) Phineas Narco's mediage artwork which is freely available to everyone online, go to any of the following sites:

YouTube
Mixcloud
SoundCloud
Bandcamp
or
archive.org

...and search for "Phineas Narco" [using quotemarks] and also 'NCN' and/or "National Cynical Network" [with quotes around as well] in combination if need be:

Recent interviews with Phineas on Youtube for 'Innerviews' with former Carlin and Zappa employee Gerry Fialka:     

Part 1: https://youtu.be/AsaZK74Qqu8
Part 2: https://youtu.be/0t9Suf8490o

Phineas Narco's ENTIRE DIGITIZED BODY OF BODY OF WORK (Including much special, rare and heretofore otherwise unreleased, unfinished. upcoming and never-heard before material) termed 'THE VAULT' is now available via DROPBOX in a 1.5TB-sized comprehensive online archive and can be now accessed using THE FOLLOWING LINK:

http://bit.ly/4dllBLQ

Enjoy!g

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Naci en Venezuela pero por la situación de Venezuela tuve que mudarme a Chile para estar mejor economicamente a pesar de eso, prefiero mi pais,no soy muy sociable pero si habilidoso y cuando quiero hacer algo, lo hago y haci llegamos a este presente, gracias por leer esto  ;)

Hasta la proxima

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