WFMU's Beware of the Blog

Weird NJ contributor Wheeler Antabanez

Billy Jam says:

New Jersey explorer, writer, photographer, filmmaker, welder, artist, skateboarder, avid Passaic River canoe traveler, graffiti lover, urban anthropologist, prankster, high school dropout, WFMU listener, Weird NJ contributor, and as he calls himself "run of the mill trespasser" are all titles befitting Wheeler Antabanez who will be a guest on WFMU today (Nov 20th 3-6pm) on Put The Needle On The Record when he will talk about his passion - New Jersey, especially the rundown abandoned funky parts - and take phone calls from listeners on exploring the abandoned buildings of the Garden State. But in the meantime, as a primer for his WFMU appearance, here are a sampling of video clips of some of Wheeler's adventures plus his interview with Beware Of The Blog (BOTB).



BOTB: Are you NJ born and bred, and when & where did you first start your explorations?

WHEELER: I grew up in Caldwell, which put me in easy bicycle range of the abandoned Essex Mountain Sanatorium. My friends and I happened upon the hospital while we were exploring the woods in North Caldwell behind Matarazzo’s Farm. The first thing we saw was the entrance column with a huge swastika spray painted across the front. It was in the peak of summer, the buildings were completely overgrown, and Overbrook, which is what we used to call it back then, was the scariest thing I had ever seen. It didn’t take us long to grow the balls to enter the building. By the time I was 15 or 16 I knew the layout so well it was almost like I owned the place. In those days I had an M17 BB gun hidden in the rafters above the auditorium. When I walked the halls with that weapon in my hand, I felt like nothing could hurt me, even on the darkest midnights. Looking back, I was lucky to have never been shot by the sheriffs’ officers on patrol, because the gun looked real. The best part was the innocence of our destruction. We found the place long after it had already been trashed by generations of teenagers, so it didn’t seem like a crime to break the windows, or smash the toilets. Over the years I’ve worked many construction jobs and smashed up plenty of plumbing. Somehow demolition has never seemed like much fun compared to when I used to run wild through the sanatorium.

BOTB: Is NJ truly a haven for all things weird and funky and abandoned?

WFMU's 24-Hour Marathon in progress!

WFMU's 24-Hour Marathon began last night at 7pm and runs until 7pm tonight!

We've set aside our pride to interrupt programming this Fall for our first, and hopefully last, 24-hour Marathon. Our coffers are empty thanks to the combined evil forces of the recession and WFMU falling short of our March Marathon goal. Help us raise enough money in 24 hours to stay on the air through the winter months!

Today's festivities will be action-packed, including co-host madness, on-air prize drawings, and all of the fun-loving insanity and surprises you've come to expect from WFMU Marathons. Check out our new Radio Bear t-shirt, as well as a fresh batch of DJ Premiums by Tom Scharpling, Terre T, Evan "Funk" Davies, Marty McSorley, Ken, Maria Levitsky, and Seven Second Delay that are up for the taking. Visit our pledge page for details.

We hope you can help us out with a year-end donation! Pledge online or by calling 800-989-9368. Thanks to everyone who has pledged their support thus far!

Other ways to help WFMU this Fall:

Spread the word about our 24-Hour Marathon!

• Facebook: add our "Support WFMU" app to your profile
• Blogs / Tumblr / Other Sites: add our banner to your blog or site (grab code: orange version | black version)
• Twitter: post a link to WFMU's pledge page (use this short URL http://bit.ly/DpOvl and our pledge line, 800-989-9368), add #wfmuthon to any posts about our Marathon
• Donate your used car: If you can't make a cash donation, you can always donate your car. Call 877-411-3662 to arrange for vehicle pick-up.
• Tell your friends about WFMU's iPhone app!

WFMU holds a 24-Hour Marathon, Nov 17th-18th

WFMU prides itself on holding only one on-air fundraiser per year: our annual Marathon, which is a 2-week-long frenzy of great prize giveaways, hilarious co-host banter, surprise guests, and more caffeine than a case of Sparks (RIP). The listener support we bring in during the Marathon is normally enough to fuel our fire for a full year. While WFMU came very close to making our goal during the Marathon this March, we still fell short (I smell recession).

Because it's tough to operate with an empty bank account and there's an entire winter to get through until our next Marathon, WFMU needs to break with tradition by holding a brief on-air fundraiser next week.

This will be our first and hopefully last ever 24-Hour Marathon, and we will do our best to make sure it is chock-full of fun-loving antics and amazing giveaways. We hope you can help us out with a year-end donation, and be sure to tune in next Tues-Wed! The deets:

WFMU's 24-Hour Marathon
Tuesday November 17th, 7pm - Wednesday November 18th, 7pm

Donate Now
Swag
Co-Host Schedule
Marathon Info

We've got a new t-shirt up for grabs (pictured above), as well as a fresh batch of DJ Premiums by Tom Scharpling, Terre T, Evan "Funk" Davies, Marty McSorley, Ken, Maria Levitsky, and Seven Second Delay. Check out our pledge page for details.

DJ Steinski Presents: Southern Preachers On The Radio

Head on over to the WFMU Ichiban blog for a guest DJ set from Steinski entitled: Not A Cloud Upon The Name Of The Lord.  It's an hour's worth of "old-fashioned, holy spirit anointed preaching from the word of God".  Perfect for Sunday morning coming down.

Praise The Lord! (mp3)

WFMU's Record Fair - this weekend!

Get your game face on and your vinyl flipping fingers warmed up: WFMU's annual Record Fair hits the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan this weekend! Besides 10,000 square feet of amazing CDs, LPs, DVDs and artworks, there will be live broadcasts all weekend long, and live music from the Trashmen, People Like Us, Kevin Blechdom, Heavy Trash (w/ Jon Spencer) and more (full schedule here). Check out movies in the A/V Lounge or deface your favorite record sleeve at the LP Modification Booth!

Location:
Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street, NYC

Hours and Admission:
Friday, October 23rd, 7-10pm, $7
Saturday, October 24th, 10am-7pm, $7
Sunday, October 25th, 10am-7pm, $7
Early Admission: Friday, October 23rd from 4-7pm, $25 (includes re-admission all weekend)

Download this flyer (PDF), print it, and present at the ticket booth to receive $2 off admission.


Live Bands and Guest DJ sets

Saturday 10/24

• Chip Taylor (11:30am), wrote "Wild Thing," "Angel Of The Morning;" live acoustic set.
• The Trashmen (2pm), best known for their smash hit "Surfin' Bird."
• Heavy Trash (4pm), rockabilly love child of NYC rockers Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray.
• New York Night Train DJ set (6pm), with Jonathan Toubin spinning rock and soul.

Sunday 10/25

• Electric Chaircuts w/ Nelson Loskamp (noon), electrosonic haircuts.
  
• Kevin Blechdom + BARNWAVE + special guests (1pm, A/V Lounge).
• People Like Us (2pm, A/V Lounge), audio/visual collage... avant retard!
  
• Chris Brokaw (3pm), of Codeine & The New Year; 12 string guitar trio.
• Damu the Fudgemonk (3pm, A/V Lounge), an Akai MPC 2000 and turntables.
  
• La Cumbiamba eNeYé (4pm), European, African, and Colombian sounds.

(photo by the junes, CC by)

Another Trip With Doctor Memory

"Just like real life..." Another live slice of radio history from October fourth, 1970, as we re-live the second half of the episode: I Could Always Shoot Him With the Camera, as presented by the Firesign Theater in the white label version of their delirious Dear Friends series.

The tracklist for the second side (my recorded-off the-radio version is missing the last sketch)----

1 Orson Welles bit  2 Punter's Girls   3 Sound effects war    4 Fresh chef    5 Sex jail    6 Sex movies    7 W.C. Fields    8 FDR and Hitler    9 PP's The Mutt and Smutt Show

 

Someone would be wise to release all of the Dear Friends shows that exist in a new edition. The group themselves might not be too thrilled with their old material and airchecks, but there are so many brilliant and telling moments when hearing them riffing and supporting each other live on the air that these recordings really deserve a wider audience, as well as just being dissected and savored by the many existing fans of their work. It would file nicely alongside of Goon Shows on the radio and other such classic fare. Or perhaps some lucky collector who owns all of these records would be kind enough to post them all on their blog at high quality...ha ha ha..."dream on, laughing boy!"

Enjoy this little dollop of live surrealism.

I Could Always Shoot Him With the Camera

Old Jersey vs. New Jersey, Part 2

Billy Jam sez:

In the first part of this series (posted a week ago) I included an MP3 of people on the streets of Jersey City speaking on their knowledge (or lack thereof) of the origins of the name of New Jersey. This time I am including an sample of what the folks I stopped on the streets of St. Hélier in "old" Jersey had to say when quizzed on their knowledge of New Jersey (MP3). I am also including my new favorite old Jersey song which sums up so perfectly the unique and special place that is the small island of Jersey, Hedley Le Maistre's "Jersey, Mon Vie!" (MP3).

Friday, October 2nd's WFMU live remote broadcast (during Doug Schulkind's timeslot) from Jersey's capital of St. Hélier during the Channel Island's 2nd annual Branchage Film Festival was an amazingly wonderful event to be a part of, and a rewarding one on many levels. First off it was a really great idea of the festival's director Xanthe Hamilton to link "old" Jersey with New Jersey via WFMU - something she presented to a receptive FMU station manager Ken Freedman about five months ago, and whose concept grew in scope since. And secondly for the dialog it began between the two Jerseys - one which we hope to keep going on the air here at WFMU. Expect to regularly hear "Jersey Bites" on Friday afternoons during the new WFMU Fall/Winter season which kicked into effect Monday, October 12th.

If you missed last week's broadcast it is archived - in playlist and audio forms - here, and includes a wide variety of guests getting on the FMU airwaves to share insights on the island of Jersey; a place that may only be 45 square miles in size but is incredibly rich in culture and history. A British Crown dependency the Bailiwick of Jersey, as it is officially known, is 100 miles south of England and lies only 14 miles west of the coast of Normandy, under whose rule it was once governed.

The WFMU remote show guests included Philip Malet de Carteret whose ancestors - several centuries ago - owned the land now known as the Garden State and were the ones responsible for giving New Jersey its name. The interview I conducted with him at his historic manor in the parish of St.Ouen (Jersey is divided into parishes, not counties) ran a lot longer than the segment included in the remote broadcast. Hence snippets of it will be played over the coming months on the air. Same for the organic Jersey dairy farmer Ian Mitchell, who was a live guest during the October 2nd remote but whose farm I visited the following day (see video below) and recorded more footage about the Jersey cow (a highly intelligent & unusally friendly animal) and its rich dairy product.

Exercises in Internet Avoidance, Part Two: Strong Bad Email

Watching funny cartoons on the funny Internet can get in the way of important things like incessantly checking email and downloading ribbons of underground metal and free improv radio broadcasts and stuff. In fact, I had been so busy checking email and, uh, previewing CDs which I then deleted and ordered from Amazon that I totally missed out on Homestar Runner, just like the same way how everyone always knows about everything before me until someone said something about going to Crazy Go Nutz University and I was all "Wisconsin Tourism Federation?" I was soon set straight.

Homestar, a sort of emasculated Trix rabbit with a lisp is kinda funny, but I immediately took to this grouchy Mexican wrestler guy who guess what he does? It's so cool. He checks email ! So here I was watching this little Mexican wrestler guy that sounds like Jack Klugman and looks like an egg, but it was all like distracting me from checking my own email. But so then get this, I found it on DVD!

So like, really, the whole nonlinear thing of the internet makes me nervous. There was this blob of episodes to watch and I couldn't remember which ones I'd already watched and I was worried about finding the ones I liked again and I was kind of freaking out, so the DVDs are cool for that because they're nice and orderly and stuff. Well, except for these bonus feature Easter egg things which you have to find and then you forget what you're doing and next thing you know you're missing your window for downloading another demo by another French black metal band.

So yeah, I got a couple of the DVDs, including SBEmail's 50 Greatest Hits which was of course the most economical option because they were the greatest and because it actually contained 50-five greatest hits, including "Radio" (see up above), a valuable episode on death metal and "Personal Favorites" which is like a meta sorta besta within the greatest hits.

In short, my live is richer now. I have begun faking a Spanish accent when writing emails, even though I'm not really sure that's what Strong Bad's accent is really. And my bandwidth is reserved for more important things, like tracking down Slits bootlegs. Now if only they could figure out a way to put emails on paper and bring them to my door.

Evan Parker show from Bryce on WFMU

Following up Nat Roe's Evan Parker post and to whet your whistle still further. I was riveted last Friday listening to Bryce's show on WFMU. Chock full of prime Evan Parker. Check it! 

People Like Us end of season album download

People Like Us says:

It's the end of the Summer Season and so time for DO or DIY to unplug the ethernet cable, give the ol' modem a bit of a dust and take the next season off. But before we go we haven't forgotten that it's somewhat a tradition to make a downloadable collection of the best of all things avant retard for your ears and eye-pods, you lucky people - complete with downloadable artwork. So here it is. I always say there's nothing like art, and this is nothing like art.

Do or DIY - "Awful Fun" (zip file: MP3s and artwork)

Separate Files:

Artwork (PDF)

Track 1 (MP3)
Track 2 (MP3)
Track 3 (MP3)
Track 4 (MP3)
Track 5 (MP3)
Track 6 (MP3)
Track 7 (MP3)
Track 8 (MP3)
Track 9 (MP3)
Track 10 (MP3)
Track 11 (MP3)
Track 12 (MP3)
Track 13 (MP3)
Track 14 (MP3)

ATP-NY 2009: PANDA BEAR (MP3)

If you're anything like me, then this cutie's album Person Pitch really made your summer 2007 something a little more magical than it would have been without it.

Using only a couple of exquisitely-picked loops and a shitload of very specific reverb, Panda Bear (a.k.a. Noah Lennox a.k.a. 1/3 or so of Animal Collective) creates small but very detailed worlds of songs that take you somewhere Brian Wilson might have gone if he had only stuck to the good kinds of drugs and understood the internet.

If you're already familiar with the work of tha bear, the live set, recorded and broadcast during All Tomorrows Parties just a few weeks ago, will sound very much like what you heard on the album, but with a lot more fun insight and deep-diving into the sparklies, yelps, and high-impact loop layering technology that make the PB experience exactly what it is.

Download a free MP3 of BROS courtesy of the FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE.

Expertly mixed by Rob Christiansen as part of WFMU's live broadcast from ATP (more recordings here). Photo by heybelinda = Creative Commons by-nc-nd

Celebrity Anti-Drug PSA's, Part Four

Under the pretext of drug control suppressive police states have been set up throughout the Western world. The precise programming of thought feeling and apparent sensory impressions by the technology outlined in bulletin 2332 enables the police states to maintain a democratic facade from behind which they loudly denounce as criminals, perverts and drug addicts anyone who opposes the control machine. Underground armies operate in the large cities enturbulating the police with false information through anonymous phone calls and letters. Police with drawn guns irrupt at the Senator's dinner party a very special dinner party too that would tie up a sweet young thing surplus planes.

"We been tipped off a nude reefer party is going on here. Take the place apart boys and you folks keep your clothes on or I'll blow your filthy guts out."

We put out false alarms on the police short wave directing patrol cars to nonexistent crimes and riots which enables us to strike somewhere else. Squads of false police search and beat the citizenry. False construction workers tear up streets, rupture water mains, cut power connections. Infra-sound installations set off every burglar alarm in the city. Our aim is total chaos.

Loft room map of the city on the wall. Fifty boys with portable tape recorders record riots from TV. They are dressed in identical grey flannel suits. They strap on the recorders under gabardine topcoats and dust their clothes lightly with tear gas. They hit the rush hour in a flying wedge riot recordings on full blast police whistles, screams, breaking glass crunch of nightsticks tear gas flapping from their clothes. They scatter put on press cards and come back to cover the action. Bearded Yippies rush down a street with hammers breaking every window on both sides leave a wake of screaming burglar alarms strip off the beards, reverse collars and they are fifty clean priests throwing petrol bombs under every car WHOOSH a block goes up behind them. Some in fireman uniforms arrive with axes and hoses to finish the good work.

William S. Burroughs / The Wild Boys

Kevin Nutt on BBC Lancashire Radio 9/26

WFMU's esteemed host of Sinner's Crossroads, Kevin Nutt, will present a 40-minute gospel set on the BBC Lancashire's "On the Wire" program this Saturday, September 26th.

OTW host Steve Barker is celebrating his program's 25th Anniversary and invited Mr. Nutt in on the festivities. Check out OTW's blog here.

Kathleen Hanna & AdRock visit WFMU

Keili says:

Disregard any and all messages, songs, and movies directing you to "Kill Your Idols." On Monday, September 14th, the sanctified grand poohbah of Riot Grrrl herself, Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin and LeTigre centerpiece, KATHLEEN effin' HANNA, blessed WFMU with an appearance on Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keili, to chat about youth empowerment and to share her personal herstory and experience with our devoted listeners.

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Tagging along for the fun was the king of Boggle himself, The King AdRock, Adam Horovitz of the world-altering Beastie Boys and BS 2000.

Listen as the studio walls buckle under the pressure to contain so much sheer talent and the floor shakes with the realization that these superstars are still relatable people who can make time to have a fun chat on freeform radio without having to promote any product.

While you're in the thick of reawakening the grrrl inside you, head on over to Kathleen Hanna's blog for some hilarious photos, art tips, and lady-centric commentary.

Celebrity Anti-Drug PSA's, Part Three

Pull up a tattered divan, load another noggin of taduki into the hookah and listen to the reasoning of these wise sages, seven in number. This batch of psa's is a particular treat, taken alone, they would ably represent the fun and goofiness of the entire series of "Get Off" radio records.
But first, an obligatory quote:

Resemblances exist between snowflakes and leaves. Seeing it snow, we think we can see tiny flowers falling from the sky. Why are the leaves that fade in autumn goldenly beautiful, and why do we think the spring flowers have tongues, comprise a sort of conversation? At the sight of leaves we think of hands fingered as if with buds. The feathers of the birds, the leaves on the trees, the delicate, feathery, fingery snowing in winter are related, we think ourselves entitled to say. The wind seems a thoughtless creature, not to be trusted; the windless calm, sensible of its own beauty, is as sweet as obedience that blissfully flows about within itself. Does the wind sense its own windiness? Does the leaf know how beautiful it is? Do snowflakes smile and flowers bewitch themselves, and do curls have some idea of their curliness? A river resembles a supple, rushing wanderer in its flowing, and water in its tranquility is like a beautiful woman with white gloves and blue eyes. Thick foliage cloaks the delightful delicacy of the twigs. That lovely things exist is a lovely thought. Waves and branches have snakelike shapes, and there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which surely feels, now and then, from its so wonderfully charming confinement, the pull of longing: the leaf.

Robert Walser / Prose Piece

Join us for the IBJ Schmooze Cruise, Oct 11th!

WFMU's Glen Jones and X. Ray Burns celebrate their recent 2009 Marathon victory with the first-ever IBJ Schmooze Cruise and live broadcast around Manhattan on Sunday, October 11th.

You can be a part of this incredible nautical disaster!

The IBJ vessel departs at noon, and the cruise will last until approximately 4pm. It's time to rock the boat! For more info or to purchase tickets, click here.

Here's How / To Mix Them

Imagine a forty-year quest for the "perfect steak" , which ends sadly with no perfect steak ever found, after thousands of slabs in the finest dining establishments in the world. This then, is the famous tragedy in the life of Maurice C. Dreicer, mixologist , radio personality, author and Manhattan native. Along with inventing a "device for testing caviar" and hosting the radio programs "Find the Phoney" and "What's It Worth?", Dreicer found time to record the best-selling 10" ep: Here's How / To Mix Them, which of course you recall is the "world's only verbal cocktail manual".

Scripts and Clips

In the midst of our grand de-hoarding effort (Everything Must Go! preferably for cash) I came across a box full of scripts for “Truckstop Teaparty,” a radio show I used to do on WFMU. I’ve been told that people often didn’t realize there were scripts for that show, probably because I always sounded so befuddled, but in fact every word I said on-air was written out in advance. In fact, even the umm’s and uh’s were written out, in an attempt to make myself sound more “natural.” This was because I was so terrified of being on the radio that my mind went completely blank every time I went on mic. If I hadn’t had something to read, no sound would have come out of my mouth at all. So it was interesting to see what words were coming out in 1989-90-91.

Even more interesting were the hefty piles of newspaper clippings I’d saved with every show’s script. These were news stories I’d reference as I talked about “News of the Dead” or “Danger!” or any of the various other regular Truckstop Teaparty features. It’s incredible to me that newspapers—common, everyday tabloids--were ever so informative, with long, well-referenced articles about all sorts of actual news. There seemed to be a lot of stories about eroding privacy rights, the plight of homeless people, the environment, and political upheaval in other countries: Iran, Romania, Panama, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and so on. There were “first woman” stories (the first woman to lead U.S. troops in combat, the first woman minor-league umpire, etc.) and weird racism stories. There were way too many stories about accomplished, talented people dying of AIDS. There were stories about drugs, murders, serial killers, and the successful development of the first genetically engineered foods. There was a story about how the first President Bush had admitted falsifying intelligence information to win approval for the first war in Iraq. These newspaper stories were literate, well-written, and told you something, and it was kind of shocking to see how much newspapers have changed in just … well, okay, 20 years ,,, and how much everything else is still the same.

 Anyway, I threw ‘em all out. The only clipping I kept was a torn bit of a longer article, the final three paragraphs of what apparently was a review of something—a book or TV show involving Nat Hentoff?—written by someone named Vince Passaro. Here’s what he wrote:

 “Censorship begins in fear: fear of contradiction, fear of insult and injury, fear of confusion, paradox and despair. Hentoff points out that in many cases the censoring parties have valid objections to the material they wish to suppress. Yet he also shows that the best way to deal with ideas you don’t like is to inform yourself about them and counter them with ideas of your own—to debate, in other words. But where does a culture learn the language of debate? Currently, we willingly misuse the word to refer to the meeting of opposing political candidates in which rehearsed speeches pass as answers to predictable questions. If that’s what we call debate, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll last as a democracy.

“In fact, the great censorship of our times is the self-censorship of our reporters and editors, our writers of books, our television commentators. Why is it that the Iran-contra story had to be broken by a Lebanese weekly, although several American journalists knew of it? Why was the great menace of Iraq trumpeted far and wide, with fancy graphics and musical scores, while the arming of the menace, by us, illegally, is still only mentioned in whispers? Why is it that there is so little discussion, in an election year, of the S&L failures and a possible collapse, of greater magnitude, in commercial banking?

“Like vampires or cave-dwelling fish, we have lost the ability to live in light because no one has been shedding any. Unless you have a $40-million production budget, it’s pretty much impossible to disseminate an upsetting idea in this country; when you do, the crowds scream as if they’ve been hit with acid. Hentoff, for all his fervor, never takes the parties responsible for our condition to blame. We don’t need to be introduced to school boards in the heartland to see censorship in action; all we have to do is open our major dailies, or watch network news.”

 “Major dailies”—who’s even gonna know what that means in 5 years? And yeah, I googled him. I don’t think Vince Passaro is writing book reviews for tabloid newspapers anymore, and I don’t think any future Vince Passaros are, either.

 Thanks for reading my blogpost this time, and may God bless.

Just Released: WFMU's iPhone App

Hot off the presses, it's WFMU's very own iPhone app! Not so long ago, WFMU became the first radio station to offer streams for the iPhone, way before the app craze took off. We've finally joined the teeming masses...

Click here to get the free WFMU Radio app via iTunes (or go to the iPhone app store, and search for "WFMU"). The app is complete with song title, artist and show info as well as two, count 'em, two streaming options - 32k and 128k MP3. It's the easiest way yet to listen to WFMU from anywhere on a phone!

You can of course still use the Public Radio Player app, which is also free. Many thanks to Webhamster Henry, tech Czar Doron and DJ Frangry for help with the new free WFMU iPhone app.

Celebrity Anti-Drug PSA's, Part Two

I'm back with more 1970's music celebrity Anti-Drug PSA's, to keep you on the right track, and away from the hard stuff.
Again, we have a wide variety of styles of presentation, as well as opinions and 'information' about 'hard drugs' and pharma abuse.
In this installment we begin to hear a few of the more 'informally' recorded PSA's, some of which appear to have been recorded while actually at work in a studio (such as the upcoming Curtis Mayfield PSA) and others that sound as if they were caught on the artist's home demo setup, such as this week's Seals & Crofts announcement.
There are so many favorites here, so many moods and colors of 'warning' and 'caution'. I'm always tickled by the light tone of the Linda Ronstadt piece,  the heaviness of James Taylor's (no wonder),  and the cold, hard logical approach of Mary Travers.
As I look ahead to the NEXT seven files in the series, my gosh, they get even better! Part three has some of my very favorite-est PSA's of all, so be sure to stay tuned for that next installment.
And remember:
"If you get high, be sure you don't die."
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Linda Ronstadt

Seals & Crofts

Carly Simon

James Taylor

Cory Wells

Mary Travers

Robin Trower