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Posted: **Fri Apr 27, 2001 3:10 am**

Hi,I recently got access to a computer with sound capabilities, and of course used the opportunity to listen to the auditory elements of this very site.I have to admit that I was a bit underwhelmed by the two Shanna's Voices files. Maybe I had built them up too much in my head.On the other hand, the FANS meeting file was very cool. Are there plans for a follow-up? What happened to those voices? Were the FANS triumphant? How will the mandatory FIB appearance be worked in? And, ever one to analyze how media are used, I should point out that the idea of stolen voices in a drama conveyed exclusively through sound is most intriguing; I'd love to see how you pull it off.Nicolas

Posted: **Fri Apr 27, 2001 8:05 am**

Interesting reaction. I felt that the two Shanna's voice recordings added more to the comic than the Fans! meeting. Tell me, did you re-read the entire story, or just fish around for those pages so you could here the audio? I suspect that part of the reason those audio tracks were so effective for me is that they were so unexpected; I'd log in for my daily dose of Fans!, and there'd be this neat little audio track that seemed to perfectly catch the tone of the comic. Then again, that's just my opinion.

Posted: **Sat Apr 28, 2001 10:40 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Nicolas Juzda:
And, ever one to analyze how media are used, I should point out that the idea of stolen voices in a drama conveyed exclusively through sound is most intriguing; I'd love to see how you pull it off.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>It's high time for the "radio drama" medium to get a shot in the arm.------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton

Posted: **Sat Apr 28, 2001 11:38 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Czhorat:
Interesting reaction. I felt that the two Shanna's voice recordings added more to the comic than the Fans! meeting. Tell me, did you re-read the entire story, or just fish around for those pages so you could here the audio? I suspect that part of the reason those audio tracks were so effective for me is that they were so unexpected; I'd log in for my daily dose of Fans!, and there'd be this neat little audio track that seemed to perfectly catch the tone of the comic. Then again, that's just my opinion.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I just re-read those two pages. And I knew what they were going to say. And I already knew that Shanna would end up safe and sound. And I had built them up in my head. Etc.I'm perfectly willing to admit that I heard them under less than optimum conditions.Nicolas

Posted: **Sun Apr 29, 2001 1:13 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Maccabee:
 Uncle Don had a legion of fans -- until one day, after he read his last strip, he thought they'd cut the signal and they hadn't. "That ought to hold the little bastards!" flew over the airwaves and into living rooms all over the tri-state area. Now back then, this was a Robert Downey, Jr.-class entertainment scandal. That last strip really was Uncle Don's last strip.PS -- Tom, if you love that era, you've got to watch Radio Days (directed by Woody Allen). It gives a wonderful feel for the period.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Wow. That reminds me (in a more dramatic way) of our local childrens showman for about 20 years (5 years, either side of the 80s). His name was Ramblin Rod and he did a show that can only be compared to Bozo the Clown, only with less audience participation and less humor from the host. He'd have a bunch of kids on thes bleacher seats, come out on this rolling boat with his trademark brown overcoat covered in buttons and pins that kids had sent him, and get to know us local kids. He'd do smiling contests and a prizes would go to the best smilers as well as to any brithdays in the audience. Sometimes the Chuck E Cheese dancers would come on or other entertainment people like a juggler or something. Between these there would be old Loony Tunes or Popeye episodes. When I got to High School I heard rumors about how much he hated children. Well he never broke character like Uncle Don but I always had a small personal resentment towards him.When I was a kid I had a problem pronounce my "R"s. So is I said airplane it would sound like a-ew-plane. Rocket would be wocket and so on. Anyway, when I went on the show for my cousin's birthday, he asked me my name and I (being proud I knew my WHOLE name because I was 5) told him my name was Thomas Ross Munkres. He said "Oh well it's good to have you here Travis." Now I KNEW I said my name right and I certainly wasn't Travis because Travis was the son of my mom's friend and he was older than me. I tried to correct him three times but he just wouldn't listen and moved on. He stayed cheerful and happy the whole time though so he was good at it. Now I can understand an actor that had to deal with kids every day for 20 years might get a little bitter. It happens to lots of people, but at least he didn't show.
Thanks Greg, I'll keep an eye out for that movie. I have a love for the age but I don't get to follow up on it much. I'm hap[py when I do though. Just ask Czhorat, I made him show me to the Chrysler building in NYC. I think his exact words to Vallie were "...and for some god awful reason he wants to go to the Chrysler Building!" (Oh, I hope ya don't mind me quotin ya Czhorat <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"> )------------------
Tom the Fanboy
http://www.geocities.com/tee-moss[begin Fans! code]
E(xkodt)M++FF-A++W+++FCt++(s)Ip20000406f1mcKt+cCp- -bw++Ll++
[end Fans! code]

Posted: **Sun Apr 29, 2001 3:30 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by gwalla:
 It's high time for the "radio drama" medium to get a shot in the arm.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>AMEN to that.
Anyone ever see the History Channel sitcom (or maybe A&E) about an old radio station called "Remember WHEN"? I loved that show. It took place in the 40s and had all the classsic radio elements. My favorite part was the sound effects man, Mr. Foley, who never spoke a word. I mean, he was funny enough just with that name*! Anyway, I got hooked on the Christian children's show "Adventures In Odyssey" as few years back and got a bunch of the audio tapes for it. I'd love to have a show that I could tune into every week and just listen to the story unfold. I love that sense of nostalgia that goes along with it (this is one of the reasons my camp counselor name is Retro). I just love to imagine being back in the age of pneumatic tubes and automats and 4 foot radios and newsreels. Ahhhhh.....the good old days that I've romanticized in my head since my father wasn't even alive then............
most of my friends wished they coulda been around at woodstock or in Rennaisance Europe. I want to be in NYC between the depression and WW2. Weird.............. *shrugs and goes back to listening to his mambo and big band songs*PS
*I'm not going to
explain this joke
because I want you
to go look it up
yourself if you
don't get it.------------------
Tom the Fanboy
http://www.geocities.com/tee-moss[begin Fans! code]
E(xkodt)M++FF-A++W+++FCt++(s)Ip20000406f1mcKt+cCp- -bw++Ll++
[end Fans! code]

Posted: **Sun Apr 29, 2001 5:46 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Tom the Fanboy:

most of my friends wished they coulda been around at woodstock or in Rennaisance Europe. I want to be in NYC between the depression and WW2. Weird.............. *shrugs and goes back to listening to his mambo and big band songs*<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>My parents were around back then, and I occasionally get to hear these wonderful stories about the period. Fer instance, my mother's family got the New York Times, which then as now didn't have a "funnies" section. Neither did the Herald-Tribune, the most respected of the Republican-leaning newspapers. Consequently, a lot of little kids' only source of daily comics were the political cartoons (which mom just didn't get at the time). Well, when there's a market niche like that... in stepped "Uncle Don." Every week he'd read the Sunday comics section of the Journal-American to the little kids in the New York metropolitan area whose horrid parents insisted on respectable journalism. My mother was an avid listener. She can still sing the theme-song.Uncle Don had a legion of fans -- until one day, after he read his last strip, he thought they'd cut the signal and they hadn't. "That ought to hold the little bastards!" flew over the airwaves and into living rooms all over the tri-state area. Now back then, this was a Robert Downey, Jr.-class entertainment scandal. That last strip really was Uncle Don's last strip.Ironically enough, my mother doesn't remember this broadcast but my father does. Mom insists that she would have kept listening to Uncle Don even if he did think she was a little bastard. He was her only supplier, man!If this sounds a lot like a Simpsons episode -- well, Matt Groening knows his entertainment history too.Greg Eatroff,
Little Bastard # 47682 of the Uncle Don Fan ClubPS -- Tom, if you love that era, you've got to watch Radio Days (directed by Woody Allen). It gives a wonderful feel for the period.------------------
Risus est telum ultimum contra tyrranem. Nullus dictator exercitibus allibus ridiculem vulgi longe resistare potest.

Posted: **Sun Apr 29, 2001 5:49 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Tom the Fanboy:
 Thanks Greg, I'll keep an eye out for that movie. I have a love for the age but I don't get to follow up on it much. I'm hap[py when I do though. Just ask Czhorat, I made him show me to the Chrysler building in NYC. I think his exact words to Vallie were "...and for some god awful reason he wants to go to the Chrysler Building!" (Oh, I hope ya don't mind me quotin ya Czhorat <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"> )
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>You can quote me whenever you want, so long as you credit me. I went back through some of my old mail, and all I can see on the topic is: "Tom mentioned a desire to see the Chrysler building, of all things."Not that your quote doesn't sound like something I might have said; I don't keep all of my personal correspondance.

Posted: **Sun Apr 29, 2001 10:09 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Tom the Fanboy:
Anyway, I got hooked on the Christian children's show "Adventures In Odyssey" as few years back and got a bunch of the audio tapes for it. I'd love to have a show that I could tune into every week and just listen to the story unfold. I love that sense of nostalgia that goes along with it (this is one of the reasons my camp counselor name is Retro). I just love to imagine being back in the age of pneumatic tubes and automats and 4 foot radios and newsreels. Ahhhhh.....the good old days that I've romanticized in my head since my father wasn't even alive then............
most of my friends wished they coulda been around at woodstock or in Rennaisance Europe. I want to be in NYC between the depression and WW2. Weird.............. *shrugs and goes back to listening to his mambo and big band songs*<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>KABL, the AM station in the San Francisco area that plays big band and swing, has a midnight show on Saturdays (IIRC) where they play two episodes of old serialized radio dramas. Also, KPFA (Berkeley's Pacifica public radio affiliate) has a show called "Trial and Tribulation" that dramatizes historical court trials (Nuremberg, the Scopes Monkey Trial, etc.)My dad has tapes of a bunch of old radio programs. The Green Hornet, The Shadow...I've also heard the Uncle Don gaffe. It's a staple of bloopers collections, right up there with "...and now let's take a leak out the window!"------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton[This message has been edited by gwalla (edited 04-29-2001).]

Posted: **Mon Apr 30, 2001 7:45 am**

Well, no one's mentioned this yet, but it's certainly worth mentioned. <A HREF="http://www.radiospirits.com" TARGET=_blank>www.radiospirits.com</A> specializes in radio dramas, comedies, variety shows, what-have-you. Most of the comedies I wouldn't recommend (either the bar has been incredibly lifted or humor just worked DIFFERENTLY), but you can get some FANTASTIC deals. 60 episodes for $60, and like that.In addition to peddling this oh-so-refined narcotic, Radio Spirits also produces a weekly two-or-three hour show devoted to their product, hosted by Stan Freeburg. For those of you in the Seattle area, you can catch it on 770 AM, after the KIRO Mystery Playhouse.I don't know if the Playhouse is nationally syndicated... that's brand-spanking new radio shows, most of them written and directed by Jim French. The best one's Harry Nile, about a really shiftless detective living in Seattle in the forties and fifties. You can buy old episodes of THAT at Fred Mayers. It's all good.~f
No flow, no crescendo: F!

Posted: **Mon Apr 30, 2001 11:18 am**

Foley sound effects rock, Tom <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif">

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2001 9:33 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ebijin:
In addition to peddling this oh-so-refined narcotic, Radio Spirits also produces a weekly two-or-three hour show devoted to their product, hosted by Stan Freeburg. For those of you in the Seattle area, you can catch it on 770 AM, after the KIRO Mystery Playhouse.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Is it called "When Radio Was"? That's the one on KABL, and I believe it's hosted by Freedberg.------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2001 9:46 am**

It's a weird thing about how the Keenspace boards handle posting records.. I noticed this while I was strolling through the board archives a while ago. Once a topic has been 'shelved' so to speak, it seems to display its actual post number by poster (Some of Tom's posts showed up as 43 or 72, even though he has well more than that many posts to his name), but the 'current' and active topics list the poster's total number of posts. I don't know how it keeps them straight when they go to archive, but that seems to be the method.-Wish
Archive Inspector

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2001 11:23 am**

One, two...three. This is only my fourth post on this board.~f

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