Posted in music, radio, tagged Accousitc, Cover song, Electric Feel, Lisa Brown, MGMT, My Turn, The Zone @ 91-3, The Zone Afternoon Show on November 1, 2010| 10 Comments »
Lisa Brown was on the Zone today for My Turn.
She did a great job, and just before go home time at 5PM, she let it be known that she plays a mean acoustic cover of MGMT‘s “Electric Feel.”
SWA?
4 minutes later, she is going live… and you know what? it sounded pretty darn good.
Go with yourself.
Posted in ...this is your father speaking, radio, tagged EVP, Ghosts, Halloween, Madelyn, radio, scary on October 30, 2010| 2 Comments »
Its Halloween, no better time to go for a ghost hunt in Victoria. Using my two-year-old daughter as bait… we first headed to Lime Bay in Esquimalt and searched around Spinniker’s Pub. Seeing no definite evidence of the super-natural, we were off to the basement of the Rialto Hotel. Again, we were having no luck until suddenly….
The music I used for background you can find on this mix:http://www.mixcloud.com/jeremybaker/m…
I also sample Art Bell from a Coast to Coast AM broadcast on EVP’s from 2005.
Thank you for making the time to have a listen.
a slightly less compressed mix lives on Mixcloud: The Haunting of Madelyn
Go with yourself.
Posted in ...this is your father speaking, radio, tagged Madelyn, Modern Rock Inbox, The Zone @ 91-3 on October 26, 2010| 6 Comments »
This afternoon, Coral and Madelyn came to visit me at the radio station. They came with coffee and they came just as it was time for me to hop in the studio to jam out today’s Modern Rock Inbox. Mads loves going on the radio, so I dragged her into the Production B studio and hit record.
Have a listen.
The finished product: The Modern Rock Inbox on The Zone @ 91-3.
and if you’re interested in the recording session, here is the raw audio that I chopped up for the inbox.
Go with yourself.
Posted in radio, tagged bad words, Pee, Piss, Urinate on October 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
It was a long day at the old radio factory today.
Friday night, during the request hour at 6PM…. I had to urinate so badly, but the phones was ringing off the hook. What is a frazzled Zone @ 91-3 radio DJ to do?
Go with yourself.
Listen at Mixcloud: ZAS >> I Pissed In A Cup
Posted in neat-O gang, radio, tagged Bow Hunting, Bowhunter Magazine, Esquimalt on September 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I went to Shoppers Drugmart in Esquimalt last night to buy some medicine for my little sick monkey (or Baby Sick Money as I call her). I thought, “hmm, maybe I want a magazine?”
I perused the magazine racks past all the thousands of wedding magazines, Cosmo, Home Decor and I spy… Bow Hunter.
Wow. I get that people are into hunting with a bow… but are there enough Bow Hunters in Esquimalt that it needs a whole magazine? Is it that mainstream that I will find my Bowhunter right beside my Rolling Stone, People, and National Geographic?
Listen: ZAS >> Bowhunter
Download: The Zone dot FM slash Jeremy
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, radio, tagged Candy Candy, Denial, Guilty About Girls, Jordy Birch, Pure on September 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Remember that band Pure? We used to play (used to? still do!) on the Zone. Like that song “Denial.”
Yeah good song.
The principle artist from that Vancouver heritage modern rocker is Jordy Birch and his new project, Guilty About Girls, is one of my favourites on the Zone right now.
Jordy took a few moments to talk about The Nails, his old band; Pure, how the song “Candy Candy” is not as sexual as I thought it was, and how New Westminster is a bit of a dive.
Posted in music, radio, tagged 30 Seconds to Mars, INXS, Justin Bieber, Neon Trees, Tyler Glenn on September 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Neon Trees are a massive popular rock band.
The radio feature cut we’re jamming on the Zone is called “Animal” and it currently sits at #2 on the Billboard Alternative Rock Charts, #8 on The Zone’s Modern Rock Countdown and #23 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Not bad for a little band outta Provo, Utah.
Tyler Glenn is the lead singer and he took a few moments to do a quick interview and talk about their cover of The Bieb’s “Baby,” coming from Utah and their show September 22nd at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver with 30 Seconds to Mars. He also says something about admiring the lead singer of INXS. Sure.
Check it: Interview with Neon Trees’ Tyler Glenn on The ZAS
Posted in radio, tagged Belfry Theatre, Billy Bishop Goes To War, Interview, Musicals, radio, Ryan Beil, That actor from the A&W commercials, The Zolas, Zach Gray on July 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow (Thursday, July 22nd) Billy Bishop Goes To War opens at the Belfry Theatre.
Actor Ryan Beil stars as Billy Bishop who… goes off to war. First as a Calvary Officer but then later, as one of the greatest flying aces of the epic ordeal.
Many of us know Ryan as “that guy from the A&W commercials.” But there is so much more to this Vancouver actor!
Zach Gray is from Vancouver band The Zolas. His father wrote the original musical! Nice.
Have a listen>> Interview with Ryan Beil and Zach Gray
Thank you for making the time to check out this interview.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, radio, tagged Ennio Morricone, Jimi Hendrix, modern rock countdown, Sam & Dave, Sirius Hits 1 on June 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Getting ready to roll into another weekend and that means another Modern Rock Countdown.
The Modern Rock Countdown (MRC) is a show that has been on The Zone… I think since the beginning of the radio station back in June 0f 2001.
I inherited the show from Layne Mitchel (or maybe Rick Lee; I don’t even remember) when those guys took off to Edmonton in 2006 and I’ve been doing it since.
Basically, its a countdown show. I base it loosely on the Sirius Hits 1 Weekend Countdown. The first summer Coral and I got our Jeep, it came with a year of Sirius satellite. It was also a time before Madelyn was born, so that summer Coral and I did a ton of road trips.
The next summer was Pemberton and Coral and I did a ton of driving that summer with our new baby. The soundtrack through most of the hinterlands of BC and Alberta was Sirius Hits 1 (and Howard Stern).
At the time, I wasn’t too happy with the style of the countdown and I loved the Hits 1 countdown (even though it was top 40, had a great style and flow).
So I took a few ideas from that show (playing last week’s number one song at the beginning of the countdown the following week before song 20), tighter breaks between songs, playing the number one song from last year just before the current number 1.
The show has also evolved a few music interludes.
I have always begun the show with Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower.” I don’t remember I time when that song hasn’t opened up the show.
The music before I play the #1 Song, One Year Ago is Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Coming.”
The show’s closing theme is Ennio Morricone’s “Ecstasy of Gold.”
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, radio, tagged Champ, Dom, Interview, radio, Tokyo Police Club, Wait Up (Boots of Danger) on June 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The pride of Newmarket, Ontario… Tokyo Police Club have a brand spanking new album out today called Champ.
Yesterday on the ZAS I had the chance to talk with Graham Wright, TPC’s keyboardist about their radio song “Wait Up (Boots of Danger)”
SWA? Boots of Danger what does that even mean? lets find out.
Interview>> Graham Wright on The Zone Afternoon Show
MP3>> Tokyo Police Club “Wait Up (Boots of Danger)”
MP3>> Tokyo Police Club “Wait Up (Boots of Danger) [Dom Remix]”
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 