Wednesday, April 4 2012

Episode 160: Term of a Friendly Coin

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 21 2012 (10:00 PM - 12:30 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The boys discuss their trip to Chicago to visit the M’ville Bar & Grill and to take in an RCPH show.  We also learn about a few new listeners, including an evil doppelgänger from the darkest timeline. (Special guests: Joe Maj and Annie.  Cameo by Jennifer.)”

    You can download the entire Schuba’s concert from Archive.org: here, here, or here.  (Third link is in 24bit, HD audio and is highly recommended.)
    Epilogue comes from March 30 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

      >  Download Episode 160

Thursday, September 22 2011

Episode 154: What We Did On Our Summer Vacation

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, September 21 2011 (10:30 PM - 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The boys are back with a month and a half of news, stories from RCPM’s show in Pontiac, Listener Ed’s Alpine Valley review, along with concert roundups of the Camden and, almost as if we planned it, Alpine Valley.  (Cameos by Lee and Jennifer.)”

    Feel free to read along…

      >  Download Episode 154

Saturday, January 29 2011

Episode 141: When It All Falls Down Under

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, January 26 2011 (10:30 PM - 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Our Australian correspondents fill us in on Jimmy’s tour Down Under, Mickey rounds up the Irvine CA show, and Schmoe provides the latest about his nipples.  (Special guest: Jennifer.)”

    Jimmy sure knows how to make an exit.  His return to Australia after twenty-two years made headlines, but probably not the way he would’ve wanted.
    Mike provides this week’s title.  Alternates include:

Gravity Storm
Last Man Standing
Stars Fell In Australia
Why the Things We Do
Survive
Beyond the End…Of the Stage
Face Plant For the Night
Sinko de Jimmyo
I Wish the Stage Could Last Forever
When the Stagefront Betrays Me
A Pirate Looks at Floory
Defining Gravity
Changes in Altitudes

    01:43 - The Criterion Collection’s Broadcast News Blu-ray
    05:39 - according to Time and Date.com
    06:35 - photo of Buffett on gurney, from Channel 9 in Sydney

    06:44 - TMZ’s write-up and their front-row video:

    06:53 - An alternate angle, on YouTube:

    08:19 - more video from TMZ.com: Steven Tyler fell off the stage in Toronto, in August 2010
    08:55 - Listener Brett guested in Episode 30
    09:07 - audio is off the video from 6:53
    09:54 - Listener Mat’s video, at the Sydney Opera House:

    12:25 - the Auckland show was scheduled for Saturday; I was confusing it with Radio M’ville’s broadcast of the second Opera House concert on Friday
    12:35 - Jim Mayer’s Twitter post
    15:01 - our partial research shows Hordern Pavilion is twice the capacity of the Opera House
    15:30 - Listener Fiona’s pictures, at our WAOTNC Photo Gallery
    18:15 - a couple hours after this recording, we got word the Auckland concert had been officially canceled
    18:57 - “Buffett to appear on Lionel Richie Album” from Buffett News
    30:28 - this quote followed “Creola”
    37:56 - sorry, the M’ville Liquor Chiller deal ended on January 28 2011
    38:37 - Mike bought us M’ville Spiced Rum for Christmas back on December 22
    39:06 - Molly Maid
    39:15 - Larry is the proprietor of Zodiac, and back on December 3 he hosted a poker party — at which Schmoe and Scott knocked out half of his outdoor Christmas decorations when they decided to cut across the front lawn rather than use the sidewalk like grown-ups.
    42:53 - to be honest, Mr T’s “thumb dance” has morphed over the years from him simply standing up and pointing to the back of his t-shirts into us doing these moves from Airplane!
    45:12 - this was pretty much confirmed in the video Jimmy recorded the next day:

    49:25 - nope, not “Katie”: it’s Leah Flanagan
    56:58 - Colin Hay will be at the Ark (in Ann Arbor MI) on April 28 and April 29
    57:12 - vegemite on Wikipedia
    58:31 - Vitameatavegamin
    58:40 - welcome to Schmoe’s second nipplecast.  The first one can be heard in Episode 126
    1:03:40 - Chafe Free
    1:05:22 - Good God, that was the longest lead-up ever!  I hope the joke is worth it…
    1:06:34 - …oh well…
    1:06:51 - more audio off the video from 6:53

      >  Download Episode 141

Monday, September 6 2010

Episode 135B: The Other Half

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, September 1 2010 (9:30 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Listener Ed’s 2010 Alpine Valley review plus a concert roundup from Bristow VA.  (Cameo by Jennifer.)”

    Feel free to read along with us:

And clips from the concert are part of our concert roundup in Episode 132B.
    01:20 - for more on “shadows tall”, consult Episode 98
    02:20 - Listener Ed’s blog
    03:33 - here’s Listener Ed’s proof:

“Just wanted to show that the cell network could not process calls even though I had 5 bars.”

    04:12 - I had the same thing happen at our Pine Knob show.  As the intermission started, I tried sending one of my photos to TwitPic.  A song and a half into the second set I finally gave up.
    09:14 - our own concert roundup is part of Episode 132B as well
    19:55 - here’s the photo I refer to
    22:40 - “stopped mentioning”.  I meant to say “stopped mentioning”.  The exact opposite.  What a dumbass.
    22:50 - this was brought up in Episode 131.  The mistake has been corrected, but here’s our screen-grab of it.
    23:20 - “Margaritaville (Live) - Single” by Bret Michaels & Jimmy Buffett [iTunes link]
    35:50 - the change in audio is because I moved the mics for the joke.  The “We’re back” was in case the joke immediately followed the concert roundup.

      >  Download Episode 135B

Wednesday, June 23 2010

News From the Front

    Back home from another great Buffett show at Pine Knob.  Here are a few images from our amazing Row A seats.  I shot some video too but the quality is quite poor (my phone is two years old); I at least used it for the freeze-frames of Bret Michaels surprise duet on “Margaritaville” and when Jimmy came by us at the end of the show.  The pictures have been upload to our Photo Gallery, or you can also check them out at my Flickr page or my Mobile Me gallery.

Nadirah singing “Creola”

“GOOOOAALLL”

Bret Michaels guesting on “Margaritaville”

Fins to the left

The laying on of hands

    Update: our tailgate video was edited late in the afternoon and uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube:

Sunday, August 16 2009

Pine Knob Tailgate (2009)

    Straight from the lab, its reels still drying, here’s our tailgate video from Thursday’s concert.  We start off at Schmoe’s Cantina, pay a visit to St Hedwig’s, drive up to Clarkston, meet up with Schmoe and Co again, encounter lots of Woo Girls, see another great show, and, ultimately, return to the cantina.
    Thus…

    In total, viewable at YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Vimeo and Viddler.

Friday, August 14 2009

A Pleasure and a Hell of an Evening (2009 Edition)

    Buffett Day has come and gone in Michigan.  The concert is over and, as Mike would say, Summer is now over too.  SunLover over at the Buffett News discussion board has made MP3s of the concert available, if you didn’t catch it or want to hear it again.  I’m working on a quick little tailgate video from yesterday, but for now here are some cellphone photos I took during the show.

Mike’s and my view from row II

    And one from Scott…

Scott’s view from row O