Thursday Toast & Jam Session 8/25/05

On this date in 1718, The Big Easy, New Orleans, Louisiana was founded. To celebrate this event, I sprinkled in some New Orleans based bands and New Orleans related songs into today's show. Today was also the 2nd airing of the Toast & Jam Goodtime Guide. I'm serious when I say music is best heard live. I wager that you won't be dissapointed.


Thursday Toast & Jam 8/25/05

Phish - What's The Use - The Siket Disc
Grateful Dead - Eyes Of The World - San Francisco, CA 10/19/74
Funky Meters - Hey Pocky Way - Bonnaroo 2003
Keller Williams - Love Handles - Home
Phish - Cars, Trucks, Buses - Ventura, CA 7/30/97
The Doors - Alabama Song>Back Door Man>Five to One - Vancouver, BC 6/6/70
Galactic - Crazyhorse Mongoose>Prom Queen>Doublewide - Austin, TX 10/31/04
The Wailers - Jammin' - Austin City Limits Music Fest 2004
Kudzu Kings - Superliner - Jackson, MS, Jubilee Jam
Allman Brothers Band - Dreams - Live At Ludlow Garage - 1970

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See ya next week!

Tuesday Toast & Jam Session 8/23/05

Today's second hour was dedicated to the memory of the late Robert Moog (1934 - 2005). If it weren't for him, R2-D2, Particle, and a load of great synthesizer music would have never been made...well maybe it would have been made, but it wouldn't have sounded the same, that's for sure.

On August 23rd, 700 years ago, William Wallace was executed by the English. It's important to remember that in his native Scotland, he was seen as a champion of justice, a hero, but to the English, he was no more than a brigand, an insurgent...and even a terrorist. It's interesting how a cultural shift can color our perceptions of people. It's something that we should be aware of in our everyday lives in the interactions we have with all kinds of people, and it was Tuesday's "Something to think about".


Tuesday Toast & Jam 8/23/05

Phish - What's The Use - The Siket Disc
Gov't Mule - Mr. Man - Deja Voodoo
David Grisman Quartet - Chili Dawg - Lyons, CO 7/26/03
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - Kashmir - No Quarter
The Other Ones - St. Stephen>The Eleven - The Strange Remain
R.E.M. - Get Up - Green
The Boston Pops (Conducted by Keith Lockhart) - Main Title For Braveheart - The Celtic Album
Hydra - We Are The Planet>Milestones>We Are The Planet - Milwaukee, WI 4/15/05
Particle - Launchpad - Austin, TX 6/15/05

Democracy Torrent!

The video for Democracy Now! is now available on BitTorrent! If you missed that day's show, just download it and not only listen to it, as I know many of you KEOS listeners are want to do, but also watch!

How cool is this?!

Sunday Morning Sidewalk 8/21/05

I mixed the order I laid down on the selist to the order in which the songs were actually played. The third set in the show was dedicated to Cindy Sheehan and the protestors in Crawford, TX. The last set of the show was all bluegrass which turned out to be a good segue into eTown.


Sunday Morning Sidewalk 8/21/05

Jerry Garcia - Answer to the question, "What is a hippie?" - Acid test Reels
Galactic - The Beast - Ruckus
The Ravines - Birds Of North America - Self Portriat With Bird
Afroskull - IT - Tuscaloosa, AL 2/1/01
Kevn Kinney - (Welcome To) The Sun Tangled Angel Revival - Kevn Kinney's Sun Tangled Angel Revival
Grateful Dead - Help On The Way>Slipknot!>Franklin's Tower - Oakland, CA 10/31/91
Moses Guest - Song for Dead - Moses Guest
R.E.M. - Driver 8 - Fables From The Reconstruction
Gov't Mule - Star-Spangled Banner>Thorozine Shuffle - Rochester, NY 2/13/03
Phil Lesh Quintet - Liberty - Chicago, IL 11/19/03
Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now! - The Revolution Starts Now!
Keller Williams - Above The Thunder - Home
Acoustic Syndicate - Brown Mountain Lights - Charlottesville, VA 2/22/03
Yonder Mountain String Band - Not Far Away - Old Hands
South Austin Jug Band - Old Settler's Brakedown - South Austin Jug Band

Thursday Toast & Jam Session 8/18/05

In honor of the memory of Vassar Clements I played a tune he sat in on with the Codetalkers just last October. I guess Jerry and Vassar are trying to get Old & In The Way back together right about now.


Thursday Toast & Jam Session 8/18/05

Phish - What's The Use - The Siket Disc
Greyboy All-Stars - Nautilus - Snowmass Village, CO 8/29/03
The Codetalkers - Isles of Langerhan - Magnolia Fest, Live Oak, FL 10/22/04
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - New Orleans, LA 5/3/76
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Falling From Above - Greendale
Kevn Kinney - Everything's So Different Now - Kevn Kinney's Sun Tangled Angel Revival
Phish - Cars, Trucks, Buses - Ventura, CA 7/30/97
Oysterhead - Mr. Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order
Galactic - Uptown Odyssey - Ruckus
Afroskull - IT - Monster For The Masses
Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet - Red Rocks, CO 8/12/79
Particle - Make It Real - Bonnaroo 2003

Fare Thee Well Robert Moog

Who's this you ask?

Good question, and it has an interesting answer. Robert Moog was one of the pioneers of synthesizer music. His Moog Synthesizer was used to make the sounds of R2-D2 in Star Wars and Steve Molitz of Particle uses a Moog Synthesizer for all those wild keyboard effects among other instances that you might have heard his synthesizers at work.

He will be missed, but his legacy will live on.

Robert Moog (1934 - 2005)

Fare Thee Well Vassar Clements

Yesterday morning, fiddle player par excellence, Vassar Clements shuffled off this mortal coil.

He will be sorely missed...

Tuesday Toast & Jam 8/16/05

So it begins...

The re-tooling of my sleep schedule is beginning. I've also been working on my syllabus and lecture notes for the class that has forced me into this situation. I say forced, and that could be read as an unwillingness to move to mornings, but it's not really like that at all. I have found that waking up in the early morning leaves me with more time to do stuff during the day. Yeah, it's a simple concept, but it's amazing how the simple solution will often escape us.

Anyway, here's what was on yesterday.


Tuesday Toast & Jam Session 8/16/05

Artist - Song - Album (Show)

Phish - What's The Use - The Siket Disc
The Beatles - Good Morning, Good Morning - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping - Revolver
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Squeeze>Three's Company Theme>Squeeze>Don't Worry, Be Happy>Squeeze - Bonnaroo 2004
Gov't Mule - Slackjaw Jezebel - Deja Voodoo
Stockholm Syndrome - Empire One - Holy Happy Hour
Allman Brothers Band - Dimples - Live At Ludlow Garage
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Document
Umphrey's McGee - JaJunk Pt. 1>13 Days>JaJunk Pt. 2 - Anchor Drops
The Other Ones - Rainbow's Cadillac - The Strange Remain
FRED - Poor Heart - Sharin' In The Groove: Celebrating The Music Of Phish
Phish - Weekapaugh Groove - Oxford, MS 10/13/94
Throwaway People - Chicken Fried Spank - While You Fly
Keller Williams - Victory Song - Home

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See ya tomorrow morning bright and early...

Jerry Garcia USPS stamp petition

The link in the title above is a petition to try to get the United States Postal Service (USPS) to make a Jerry Garcia stamp. If they can do it for Elvis, they can do it for us. Hell, with all the trading of tapes and cds through the mail over the years, they should know that it would bring a profit to them.

Anyway sign the petition...



Jerry Garcia Stamp Proposal #1

Tracing a random throught

This past weekend was pretty busy for me. Didn't really get a chance to completely let go until Sunday. That isn't to say it wasn't fun, just that it took a lot out of me.

So start out on Thursday evening. Had some last minute paperwork to attend to at the university before my folks came in for the weekend, so I got home quickly to prepare some enchilladas for them (Thanks to Leann for showing this to me. Hey, I think I might have improved it though, tell me if you're interested.). Anyway, it was a good meal and we sat and talked for a little while before going to bed. I took the futon.

I woke up early to get to the university to turn in that paperwork before heading off to the graduation ceremony. At the last moment I realized that I didn't bring any reading material for the graduation ceremony, so I picked up a pen and a couple of pieces of paper to doodle on while I was out going through this useless gesture to bring some sense of pride to my folks. This is what I came up with when it was all said and done. Also played chess on my cell phone when the diplomas were being handed out. Bastard ingravers made an error with mine so I have a form in the tube my diploma was supposed to be in...bummer...total bummer. Have to get this form into the A&M offices over near the metro center which is located in Bryan. Maybe I'll take care of that tomorrow after the show. At any rate, here's what I drew during the ceremony.



I call it: Tracing A Random Thought

So, instead of doing the "proud graduate" picture with my folks, I charged right back to the psychology building to make sure this paperwork went through then headed directly back to my place. We met Heather later that afternoon for lunch, and then went out to the Grimes County Fairgrounds for The 2005 Navasota Blues Festival. That was a blast, but maybe too much of one seeing as how I was pretty tired when I left there. Sleeping on the futon wasn't always the best way to get rest. I switched between the recliner and the futon to get a reasonable amount of sleep.

Saturday, we toured the older buildings on the Texas A&M campus. I headed out for a show I had agreed to tape a while back then came home for some sleep. Basically just vegged out all day yesterday. After one rollercoaster of a week, that was exactly what the doctor ordered.

Tuesday Toast & Jam Session 8/9/05

Today's show was "Dead"icated to the memory of our friend Jerry Garcia. Thank you so much for all the music, Jerry. You know our love will not fade away.


Tuesday Toast and Jam Session 8/9/05

Artist - Song - Album (Show)

Grateful Dead - Beautiful Jam - Port Chester, NY 2/18/71
Grateful Dead - Creme Puff War - Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 11/19/66
Grateful Dead - It Must Have Been The Roses - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 2/22/74

********** A MOMENT OF SILENCE 6:23 AM CST (4:23 AM PST) **********

Grateful Dead - Dark Star - William & Mary College 9/11/73
Grateful Dead - Chinacat Sunflower>I Know You Rider - Stanford University 2/9/73
Jerry Garcia Band - Rueben and Charise - Cats Under The Stars
Bob Weir and Friends - Jack A Roe - Chicago, IL 11/17/78
Grateful Dead - Whiskey In The Jar - Rehearsal Session 2/16/93
Grateful Dead - Loser* - Port Chester, NY 2/18/71
Jerry Garcia Band - Deal - New York City, 10/31/87
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station* - San Bernadino, CA 2/26/77
Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away>Going Down The Road Feeling Bad>Not Fade Away - Dusseldorf, Germany 4/24/72

* First Live Performances

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Have a great day!

Sunday Morning Sidewalk 8/7/05

There has been some confusion as to who takes the first Sunday of the month in our rotating show, Sunday Morning Sidewalk. After dancing all night at the KEOS fund drive finale, I was pretty sore when I came into the studio on Sunday morning. Started out as a pretty pedestrian kinda show, nothing really special, but it turned into a pretty fun experience overall.

As to who fills the first Sunday slot from now on, our old friend Mark Purcell, originator or the Sunday Morning Sidewalk radio show, is coming back and will be taking over for the first Sunday and for many first Sundays to come, hopefully.

Welcome Back, Mark!


Sunday Morning Sidewalk 8/7/05

Artist - Song - Album (Show)

Jerry Garcia - What is a hippie: - Acid Test Reels Interview
Galactic - The Beast - Ruckus
Allman Brothers Band - Instrumental Illness - Hittin' The Note
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Falling From Above - Greendale
Trey Anastasio Band - Alive Again - Austin City Limits Music Festival, 2004
Galactic - Crazyhorse Mongoose - Stubb's BBQ, Austin, TX 10/31/04
Gov't Mule - Sco-Mule - The Deepest End
Keller Williams - Kidney In A Cooler - Laugh
Allman Brothers Band - Intro>Statesboro Blues - Live from the Atlanta International Pop Festival 7/3-5/70
Moe. - Let It Be - Camden, NJ 12/31/03
Moby - Run On - Play
Particle - The Banker - Launchpad
R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend - Green
Little Feat - Cold, Cold, Cold>Dixie Chicken>Tripe Face Boogie - Boston, MA 10/31/75

Tuesday Toast and Jam Session 8/2/05

Last Tuesday was part of our summer fund drive. As you can see, I threw out some of the hardest hitting stuff I knew to throw out, but no calls. Fortunately, we did meet the goal of this fund drive, and won't be bothering the public with out inner panhandlers for a few months.

We started out with a big belated happy birthday to Jerry Garcia.


Tuesday Toast and Jam Session 8/2/05

Artist - Song - Album (Show)

Phish - What's The Use - The Siket Disc
Grateful Dead - Morning Dew - MIT 5/6/70
Gov't Mule - Patchwork Quilt - The Deepest End
Bob Dylan - Subterranian Homesick Blues - Jones Beach, NY 6/30/88
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Mellowship - Mafreless - Mellowship
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - Kashmir - No Quarter
Phil & Friends - Brown Eyed Women - Chicago, IL 11/19/03
Los Lobos - Is This All There Is? - Live From The World Cafe Vol. 19
Allman Brothers Band - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Live At Fillmore East
Kevn Kinney - This Train Don't Stop At The Millworks Anymore - Kevn Kinney's Sun-Tangled Angel Revival
The Wailers - Exodus - Bonnaroo 2003

Setlists for the Loose Logic Set (7/28-29/05 and 8/4-5/05)

For the fund drive editions of The Loose Logic Set. We played the most recent Phil and Friends shows from The Fillmore in Denver and Red Rocks

Lineage for these shows: AT822>Sound Professionals SP-6 Stereo Mic Preamp>Nomad JB3>Cakewalk Music Creator 2003>Nero

For a setlist of The Fillmore show (broadcast on 7/28-29/05), click here, then click on 7.15 on the lefthand side of the screen.

For a setlist of the Red Rocks show (broadcast on 8/4-5/05), click here, then click on 7.16 on the lefthand side of the screen.

Jerry Garcia Commemorative Video

Download this and get something to dry your eyes.

The End of the Loose Logic Set...

It is with much regret that I have to inform you that The Loose Logic Set is a thing of the past...at least for the moment.

In this upcoming semester, I have to teach a 9 a.m. Intro to Psychology class on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Seeing as how doing a show till 2 a.m. usually puts me in the mood to sleep till 9 a.m., things have got to change for my job's sake.

However, I am not leaving the station completely. In an attempt to transform myself into a morning person, I have asked to take over the Thursday Eclectic Coffeehouse slot. The negotiations with the management team are still in the works (i.e. They haven't given me the go-ahead to take on the Thursday slot), but I will also be on the Tuesday Eclectic Coffeehouse as usual since I took the slot out of a guilt trip e-mail a couple of months back. For those who liked Touchstone Radio, I am trying to work out a deal to get that back on the air as well.

Again, The Loose Logic Set is not leaving because of poor fund drive response. After all, we did have one pledge last night, and I'm grateful for that. But while I'm on the subject, where were the rest of you slackers!? I mean, if you had called in to say, "Hey, man, I don't have any cash. You know how it goes", then I would have felt a little better about the whole thing. Oh well...didn't get anything during the Eclectic Coffeehouse slots either. The only reason I got anything the last fund drive is because I cohersed people into giving a little outside of the normal begging on the air. I'm starting to think that if this music can't earn cash for the station on its own merits, then I should just take it off the air completely and we can all slack together over at my place and listen to it. At least it would be without any form of commercial interruption whatsoever.

So as you can probably gather from the mood of this post, I'm kinda blue today because I played some of the newest and finest stuff in my collection and received no green. On the air, I got a little red in the face. Not that you could see it, but you could probably hear it in the dark tone of my voice. Just remember that if KEOS blacks-out all you'll ever hear at 89.1 FM in College Station and Bryan will be white noise.

Your Daily Insight on Jerry Garcia

Has it been 10 years already!?

Man, it doesn't seem like it. I mean, I was a surly 17 year-old in the fall semester of my senior year of high school when I got the news that Jerry was gone. He would have been 63 this year.

Anyway, check out the link above and see what various artists have to say about Jerry all through the month of August.