Sea 7 States (almost) on the (Un)radio

I mentioned in an earlier post that I thought that this video existed somewhere in the archives.

This is some pre-air silliness and rehearsal/recording preceding a live session on Knoxville's WUOT-FM "Unradio" program.

The audio seen being recorded in this video was previously posted here.

The audio of the actual broadcast as well as a description of the session was previously posted here.

Sea 7 States on WUOT-FM "Unradio" (pre-air)

Bonnaroo? No, but here's Ashley (two)

Two Unradio's from Mr. 'Roo himself, Ashley Capps.

I'm too lazy today to sit down and figure out the dates, but the killer Grace Jones "Nightclubbing" track makes it at least post-1981.

Ashley Capps 01
Ashley Capps 02

(Un)Radio (Un)Radio

Two Unradio segments from 1983 with Ashley Capps and Paul Parris.

WUOT-Unradio1983-PaulParris.mp3

WUOT-Unradio1983-AshleyCapps.mp3

Capping it off

When it rains, it pours. The recording computer error has been solved, and so the backlog of tapes is pouring forth. Today we get an UNRADIO show from Mr. Bonnaroo himself, Ashley Capps, circa 1984. This particular show turned me on to Gil Scott-Heron and specifically his anti-Reagan-election song "Re-Ron".




Today's show comes to us via a Savoy Echelon I cassette (with lifetime guarantee!)




UNRADIO-AshleyCapps-1984

Still the weekend...

Still the weekend...

so let's finish up the UNRADIO tape from yesterday's post.
This is side two of the Supertape Gold, and features an hour hosted by Mike Dotson (as well as the sound of the very thin 120 minute 1.0 mm tape being eaten by the cassette deck towards the end).

UNRADIO - Mike Dotson

Another Saturday Night, and I Ain't Got No Radio

But I do have Unradio.

An hour-long show with Paul Parris.

WUOT - UNRADIO - Paul Parris

This from a splendid Radio Shack 120 minute Supertape Gold.

Getting Away With Radio Murder

This post will definitely fall into the genre of "limited appeal." These tracks are from another of what must have been a boring night for me manning the controls at WUOT while hour-long reels of UNRADIO played (not that the shows were boring, but just sitting there was, and there were only so many times that I could smuggle my girlfriend out of her house and up to Knoxville).

The board op got to do one hour of live programming each show, usually between 3 AM and 6 AM, with the "big shot" hosts (Mike Dotson, Cy Anders, Paul Parrish) taking up the prime hours from midnight. Somewhere I probably decided that almost nobody was actually listening, so I determined to see if I could provoke any response from whatever audience might be out there.

I must have planned it ahead of time, as I didn't normally carry Donnie Osmond and Partridge Family records around with me to regular UNRADIO shows, and I don't think that I had ever played the Dry Lungs industrial comp on the air before, either.

Regardless, I decided that a Partridge Family and German industrial band P16D4 remix and a Donnie Osmond-Maybe Mental remix were what the airwaves of East Tennessee needed that morning.

Partridge Family-P16D4 remix

Donnie Osmond-Maybe Mental remix

Nope, nobody called to complain.

UNRADIO Part the Third

It's Saturday, so it's a good time for another UNRADIO post. These two shows (from an unknown date in the mid 80's - but it's no earlier than 1985) feature Mike Dotson.

UNRADIO-Mike Dotson 01 (this show starts out with a rough-sounding section of crumpled tape, but clears up eventually)
UNRADIO-Mike Dotson 02