Ska Radio Days... Part II

Two posts in one night… and both music posts. Actually, this one is a follow up to my first attempt at recreating my old ska radio show from the 90s. This is my second attempt and while it’s fun… getting it to really sound right isn’t going so well. Getting the levels on the voice right is really tricky and I know I need to work on that. Hell, I was so frustrated by the voice levels I considered recording a version of this “show” without any voiceovers — but Dennis says he likes the voiceovers, and he was the only person I asked, so given a 100% result on my all too small sample size, the voiceovers stays in.

A couple people complained that I didn’t put up a playlist on the last show, so here’s the playlist for this one:

Artist/Song Pressure Cooker/Nuthin’ Better The Fenicians/Funk In A Deep Freeze Franceska/Get Up Hepcat/I Can’t Wait The Robustos/No Strangers Here Firebug/On The Move The Debonaires/Right Hand Man Blue Rivers & The Maroons/Witchcraft Man Crazy Baldhead/Heartbreak Victor Rice/The Ring Stubborn All-Stars/Because Of You The Jumpstarts/Take Me With You The Slackers/Body Double Michael “Bammie” Rose/Rockfort Rock Chris Murray/The World’s About Me The Pietasters/Same Old Song The Aggrolites/Jimmy Jack Determinations/Sayanora

Once again, this was a lot of fun to put together, minus the frustration over the levels and such. I’ve been talking to Dennis about recording some more of these shows using his professional DJ equipment (and having him co-DJ) so maybe future shows will get a bit better. Speaking of future shows, I recently got a huge package of music from Chuck Wren at Jump Up, so as I plan out the next show, I’m going to try to include a bunch of stuff from there…