365 Days #258 - Lud Aarons on Genesis of a Music (mp3s)

MP3:
Lud Aarons on Genesis of a Music, part 1 (29:28)
Lud Aarons on Genesis of a Music, part 2 (26:30)

KPFK is a good radio station, but prior to the management's purges in the early '90s it was an excellent radio station. Back then it had three unusual music programs, the Tom (Recchion) and Tony (Mostrom) Show, Jackie Apple's Soundings, and David Porter's Genesis of a Music.

Once a month Porter would stop the music and invite one Bill Mitchell to expound and sometimes rant about politics for an hour. And one particular Sunday morning Mitchell invited one Lud Aarons. This is my recording of that portion of that broadcast—the transition between the two parts is awkward because I had to turn the cassette over. It gets good about 11 minutes in.

I've searched for references to Aarons on the 'net to no avail. I'm not even sure I have his name spelled correctly (I've searched variations). But I think his voice is one of those sampled by Negativland in their "The Bottom Line."

Not too long after this broadcast, Mitchell called Bill Clinton "just another fascist son of a bitch" on the air. Not too long after that the program was cancelled, as were the Tom and Tony Show and Soundings.

- Contributed by: Andrew Lander

Comments

[Mr Fab]

The wacko that has been running KPFK (into the ground) for the last 5 years has got the boot. Hopefully things will improve now.

I thought Tom & Tony left on their own? Maybe not. What an insane show they had - from Esquivel to John Oswald to improv madness. And this was in the '80s.

[Andrew Lander]

It's entirely possible they themselves cancelled their show! I don't remember the specifics, just that all three shows seemed to come to their ends over the course of a few months.

[Webster Hubble Telescope]

Lud Aarons voice sounds a lot like Mark Levin, Sean Hannity's butt-boy. But he does not have the same political agenda.

[babs]

The name is likely spelled 'Ahrens'.

[Bill Mitchell]

I am greatful to have ever been on, loved Lud Arons, regardless of spelling. He was inspirational and humble in suffering those less focused or visionary as he.

I just listened to the broadcast, and remembe well the time we spent together. He was not not interrupted, because he had more to say than I did, and I did the program month after month, as if it was my last program. And came in fact from the White House, via the in-house opportunist who wanted their salaries more than free speech radio to happen, and I was all of that for sure. thus had to go, and no with the snow job, or was it a Clinton blow-job!