Art Bell

[GravitySucks]

That was actually my first Zappa album 

My big brother gave it to me one year for Christmas. Awesome, hilarious, great music...classic Zappa!

The part about the flys and the maple syrup got me too 

Kaiser broiler foil, Aunt Jemimi syrup and a pair of blunt scisssssssors....

Studebaker Hawk. Some say he could write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin. Others said he looked like Zubin Mehta.

I asked you kindly not to get me started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-0b0_SqyM0

[Uncle Duke]

The term "stalker" is misleading, meaning someone who's out hunting for Mr. Bell.  It's why I write "threatener" instead.  The threatener knows who & what he wants, & where that person is.  No need to stalk.  The target also claims to have a good idea of who the threatener is.

How long have you been in law enforcement?  Care to give any particulars on your history in the career field?

[Robert]

Radio is not easy, especially if one is producing, hosting and running their own board. Those are usually three distinctly different talents and are usually performed by three different people.

Yes.  I gather that even at WFMU, most of the time, the person on air is supplemented by at least one other volunteer silently in studio.  Some of them I know are solo, but I think they're a minority.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Heather and she does deserve kudos for what she is doing.

That said, talk show hosts with way more experience would kill to have her job and in any other world would have her job.

Why wouldn't talk hosts with way more experience already have a job that's as good or better?  Is there a surplus of them floating around?  If so, I'd think they'd get Noory's job first.

Let me give you just one example: did any of you last Friday catch the way Art uses dead air? The way he has a pregnant pause between certain words and sentences? He's truly masterful at it. A real good talk show host should never be afraid to use dead air to their advantage, program directors be damned. One does not have to talk constantly to fill air time just to fill air time, it is very amateurish. A talk show host is not a DJ....

I didn't hear that program, but have heard Art enough over the years to know exactly what you mean.  Pauses are like the white space that improves readability, but it doesn't fit all programs.  Art's a master of timing.  But I wouldn't call his pauses "dead air", because that term should be reserved for longer blanks that make a listener think something is wrong, or that cause someone tuning across the dial to skip.

Ken & Andy used to play dead air chicken on their show.  I think the record was something like 20 mins.  But that's because Ken's the stn. mgr.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Kaiser broiler foil, Aunt Jemimi syrup and a pair of blunt scisssssssors....

Studebaker Hawk. Some say he could write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin. Others said he looked like Zubin Mehta.

I asked you kindly not to get me started.

And you could have left it alone, but you just had to go all Billy and Ethel, didn't you?  Now I'm going to have the beef pies part of that and "Eddie Are You Kidding?" stuck in my head for the rest of the night.

"Beef pies, he was born right next to the beef pies/Underneath Joni Mitchell's autographed picture."  You swine.

[Robert]

How long have you been in law enforcement?  Care to give any particulars on your history in the career field?

Who wrote anything about law enforcement?  I'm just summarizing what's known of the situation.

[Uncle Duke]

And you could have left it alone, but you just had to go all Billy and Ethel, didn't you?  Now I'm going to have the beef pies part of that and "Eddie Are You Kidding?" stuck in my head for the rest of the night.

"Beef pies, he was born right next to the beef pies/Underneath Joni Mitchell's autographed picture."  You swine.

"I'm coming over shortly/Because I am a portly/You promised you could fit me in a $50 suit...."

[GravitySucks]

And you could have left it alone, but you just had to go all Billy and Ethel, didn't you?  Now I'm going to have the beef pies part of that and "Eddie Are You Kidding?" stuck in my head for the rest of the night.

"Beef pies, he was born right next to the beef pies/Underneath Joni Mitchell's autographed picture."  You swine.

An expense account? And per diem, too?

The way they change the guitar riffs in that song have always amazed me.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

"I'm coming over shortly/Because I am a portly/You promised you could fit me in a $50 suit...."

Et tu, Duke?

[Uncle Duke]

Et tu, Duke?

Sorry

[GravitySucks]

Et tu, Duke?

Got ya covered Duke 😎
http://youtu.be/ew675oduqd8

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

An expense account? And per diem, too?

The way they change the guitar riffs in that song have always amazed me.

I'm amazed that album and the Fillmore East album were written, rehearsed, and performed in such a short period of time!  It was also around the time FZ did recorded the album with Zubin "Studebaker" Mehta and the LA Philharmonic. "Hit it, Zubin!"

[Uncle Duke]

Got ya covered Duke 😎
http://youtu.be/ew675oduqd8

https://youtu.be/yKFUOnnSF0c

My favorite song on the album (and Zappa song overall).  Can you imagine the indignation this song would evoke if recorded/released today?

[GravitySucks]

https://youtu.be/yKFUOnnSF0c

My favorite song on the album (and Zappa song overall).  Can you imagine the indignation this song would evoke if recorded/released today?

I loved you ever since I saw you underneath the Shell No-Pest strip late one night... Yep. Those No-Pest strips were taken off the market. Too toxic.

LOL

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

My favorite song on the album (and Zappa song overall).  Can you imagine the indignation this song would evoke if recorded/released today?

It's not my favorite, but to write a song that mentions maple syrup, Canadian incest, Kaopectate, mayonnaise, and "Jon Provost and Leo G. Carroll together, baby" is quite an impressive accomplishment!

[GravitySucks]

It's not my favorite, but to write a song that mentions maple syrup, Canadian incest, Kaopectate, mayonnaise, and "Jon Provost and Leo G. Carroll together, baby" is quite an impressive accomplishment!

And he was a spokesperson against drug use.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

And he was a spokesperson against drug use.

Very much so, even in the sixties.  He didn't need them though, because his mind was naturally tuned into a frequency all its own.  I don't like everything he wrote, but he produced an astounding body of work that never failed to challenge the virtuoso musicians who played in his bands.

[PKaiser]

Why wouldn't talk hosts with way more experience already have a job that's as good or better?  Is there a surplus of them floating around?  If so, I'd think they'd get Noory's job first.

Uh, Noory's job isn't open that I'm aware.

Art's a master of timing.  But I wouldn't call his pauses "dead air", because that term should be reserved for longer blanks that make a listener think something is wrong, or that cause someone tuning across the dial to skip.

Semantics. I think you missed where I called them "pregnant pauses?"

[nooryisawesome]

At least Art seems happy. Good for him.

[CornyCrow]

I also have not decided whom I will vote for, but I will keep you posted. Anyone else who has not decided who they'll vote for? Let us know.

I think Trump should discourage violence at his rallies.  He does the opposite. 

I'm not sure which way I'll vote, or if I'll vote at all.  I read something (I think it was Alex Jones - sorry) that was interesting.  The comment was that there are a lot of folks whose issue is the economy, either investments or poor or no jobs, etc.  That vote is split between Trump and Sanders.  Who benefits from the split vote?           Hillary.

 

[SredniVashtar]

The term "stalker" is misleading, meaning someone who's out hunting for Mr. Bell.  It's why I write "threatener" instead.  The threatener knows who & what he wants, & where that person is.  No need to stalk.  The target also claims to have a good idea of who the threatener is.

What does he want? If it's to keep him off the air then we can expect another incident very shortly, can't we? Art has now deliberately done something to jeopardise the safety of himself and his family, if we believe that these threats were designed to keep him off the air.

Art has to claim that he knows who the stalker is to justify there not being any investigation. It's quite simple.

[SciFiAuthor]

At least Art seems happy. Good for him.

That's the weirdest damned condiment bucket I've ever seen. And where the hell is the ketchup?

[onan]

That's the weirdest damned condiment bucket I've ever seen. And where the hell is the ketchup?

I forget where you live. But if you are ever in Apache Junction, AZ, there is a restaurant called the Mining Camp. It has similar amenities. Damn, now I have to go back.

[SciFiAuthor]

I forget where you live. But if you are ever in Apache Junction, AZ, there is a restaurant called the Mining Camp. It has similar amenities. Damn, now I have to go back.

I live in quasi-rural Missouri where they stop serving breakfast at 4 am and the average age for restaurant patrons is 87.

[GravitySucks]

I live in quasi-rural Missouri where they stop serving breakfast at 4 am and the average age for restaurant patrons is 87.

You could have convinced a couple more of them to vote for Trump if you weren't wearing that silly dolphin outfit.

[SciFiAuthor]

You could have convinced a couple more of them to vote for Trump if you weren't wearing that silly dolphin outfit.

I was actually wearing a human outfit. With Trump hair.

[onan]

I live in quasi-rural Missouri where they stop serving breakfast at 4 am and the average age for restaurant patrons is 87.

This should probably go in the "annoy" thread, but I experience something similar here, although more convoluted. The easiest to access "breakfast" restaurant doesn't open until 10:30, which means 11:00. One would think stoner, well, maybe I suppose, but if so, they are the senior stoner's club.

But the annoy part is the groups that frequent the Mcdonalds and Hardees with their rather loud bible study groups.

[SciFiAuthor]

This should probably go in the "annoy" thread, but I experience something similar here, although more convoluted. The easiest to access "breakfast" restaurant doesn't open until 10:30, which means 11:00. One would think stoner, well, maybe I suppose, but if so, they are the senior stoner's club.

Sounds like my kind of place. Here it's just old farmers and retirees that fled St. Louis that think 7 am borders on the evening.

But the annoy part is the groups that frequent the Mcdonalds and Hardees with their rather loud bible study groups.

Yes, I've seen such things. Their conversations amuse me. Some days it's complaining about the "gay invasion" and how they infiltrate by opening antique stores in god-fearing rural towns to murmurs about how Catholics are kind of okay, but aren't really Christians.

[Uncle Duke]

I forget where you live. But if you are evokr in Apache Junction, AZ, there is a restaurant called the Mining Camp. It has similar amenities. Damn, now I have to go back.

Reproduction, galvanized metal buckets are very common in BBQ restaurants across the country.  Most use them to hold sauces and other condiments, but I've been to at least one place where the buckets are used as lamp shades for bare bulb lamps hanging from the ceiling over each table.

Any one here live in San Antonio?  Used to frequent a BBQ joint near Randolph AFB, it was a former gas station (Pure?), I think it was called Rudy's.  Also there was a pizza place in a somewhat seedy area not far from Brooks AFB known for its enormous pizzas, the largest only available to eat in because it was literally too big to get through the door.

[onan]

Reproduction, galvanized metal buckets are very common in BBQ restaurants across the country.  Most use them to hold sauces and other condiments, but I've been to at least one place where the buckets are used as lamp shades for bare bulb lamps hanging from the ceiling over each table.

Any one here live in San Antonio?  Used to frequent a BBQ joint near Randolph AFB, it was a former gas station (Pure?), I think it was called Rudy's.  Also there was a pizza place in a somewhat seedy area not far from Brooks AFB known for its enormous pizzas, the largest only available to eat in because it was literally too big to get through the door.

I'm packing my bags as we speak.

[ItsOver]

That's the weirdest damned condiment bucket I've ever seen. And where the hell is the ketchup?

Maybe they ordered hot dogs.