[Mako]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Tom's show (Gagliarchives) is a bit of a different animal. He is independent, and does a 4 hour show each week. It's not always about songs, and he has interviews and sponsors.

Heya Rick,

Thanks popping in on the thread, nice to hear from you!

For my show, I try to keep the music between 171 and 173 minutes. My intros collectively run 5-7 minutes. Please let me know if that's in an acceptable range.

What finally pushed me over the edge into Sniveland was Thursday's Progressive Shores. Sean has a righteous and most appreciated taste in world music, coupled to an overly loquacious love affair with the mic.

Constantly popping in between each track for an extended monolog describing the nuances of the track, the band's family tree and where it fits in to the prog scene is, with the deepest of respect, boring and annoying in a pedantic sort of way.

I feel like I'm in music class with an instructor, not listening to righteous new and interesting prog. All DJ's must keep in mind that most of us are listening for entertainment, not edjumication here. Sure, slide some nifty tid-bits, show dates and fun trivia in there, but please spare the audience the lectures.

Frank Zappa has a (lousy) album titled Shut up 'n play yer guitar. That's sound advice from FZ that should be ignored at your own peril ;-)

As for the promos, I discontinued mine mostly because Jim leans towards not needing any promos. Given that, it's too much of a hassle. I do continue to create and play a 30-45 second promo played 10 times a week for the current show. Every time I upload it though, it gets on the request list. So a few days after I fix it.

Thanks for dropping the promos (the faux military-esque one in particular did not work well at all). The current set of promo's, save the Gnosis Guy ones, sound good, work well and accomplish their goal with out yelling, screaming or annoying the listeners.

Each show on the Moon is handled differently. I am always open to suggestions, so specifically about my show, just let me know.

I'm all good with it, save suggesting that keeping the old AM radio formula of 3 consecutive tunes in mind (where that makes sense) is not a bad idea.

A bit of a lead in/lead out to a 3 tune set is cool, no worries there, but if I need to a laptop to take notes about what you're talking about inbetween each tune or set, well...[/quote]

As for the player, I prefer MP even though it shows nothing. The ease of use for me is better. If I want to know what's playing, I go to a set list or the now playing window. I can tell you I always post my list and it appears there. Then again I'm not playing Bulgarian stuff so my tunes are more known.

Yeah, the set list is handy, and I appreciate you all posting it for when I'm relegated to using MP.

I'll often have a yellow sticky with band names and tunes nearby - when something new strikes my fancy, I scribble that down until I hit some critical mass and then go researching/shopping. WinAmp makes that easyt do - glance 'n scribble, while MP makes that annoying by forcing me to pop open a browser &ct..

Hope that helps.

Sure did, thank you!

CYa!
Mako