chris olivarez

Pleased to see the Cannon's being reissued.

Do you mean singing a dozen notes where one would be fine for a single syllable? That's called melisma. And yes, they're over doing it. ← Thank You.

Man that's a shame. He was too damn young!!!!

Also I think Mariah,Whitney etc get far too tied up with their vocal technique. Would the correct word be "oversinging?".

I like "Paradise".

I never pictured that happening all those years ago while watching Blue Lagoon. Me thinks she paid attention in them there classes at Princeton. And in all seriousness it is a serious problem. More power to her for trying to help and for standing up to that little dork Cruise. ← Right on!!!! Good for Brooke and fuck Tom Cruise-fuck that pompous Jackass!!!!!

Also Manfred Mann.

Happy Birthday Late!!!!

JSngry that Mark dude reminds me of some people that I've had the misfortune to work with over the years. I love your description.

Welcome to the weird world of pompous, anal retentive grown-ups at college radio stations... Part of me feels that there's actually something a little unhealthy about this particular species - sorta like the high school teacher whose major reason for teaching is that he never really grew out of the high school mentality. It's more than a little creepy, IMO. ← Trust me. Pompous,anal retentive "grownups?" in radio are not limited to college stations but it is unfortunate that they are there as well.

I'll consider it.

Jim and I briefly met Chick and his wife in Florida; they were perfectly kind and friendly. ← I'm sure it would have been nice meeting Chick but the Scientology brownshirts never gave us the chance. ← Chick was very very nice and he and I had a nice discussion about the Hammond organ. Cool cat. I am glad he didn't start lecturing about Scientology, however. ← Consider yourself lucky.

Currently 75 degrees in Pagosa. It's been an ideal day.

Gabor Szabo not only dropped out but sued Scientology but he dropped the suit a year prior to his death.

Not so much scared as appalled. I'm sure that a lot of people on the list are not involved with Scientology but a lot of them are. It's disturbing that bright,talented people are taken in by these snake oil salesmen.

Jim and I briefly met Chick and his wife in Florida; they were perfectly kind and friendly. ← I'm sure it would have been nice meeting Chick but the Scientology brownshirts never gave us the chance.

This brings back unhappy memories of attampting to meet Chick after an RTF concert. I was working for a radio station in Phoenix at the time and station employees were invited to a meet and greet for Chick after the show. The catch-the meet and greet was at the Scientology church. When we got there it didn't take long to get very bad vibes. The scientologists could care less that we were just there to say hello to Chick they told us in so many words to join up or get out. Needless to say we left and I never got to meet Chick and to be honest with you I view that as no great loss.

I was dumbfounded going through that list. That's just terrible.

73 Degrees in Pagosa Springs and windy.

Anything for a Star-Bucks.

Hopefully some will make it to the US.

Eh? The managerial "staff" all went on summer break? Nice work if you can get it... or should I invoke a less "out" tune? ← Not uncommon at student-run stations. At WHRB, they run automated loops almost all summer long. Lately people have been getting lazy and just been reusing old loops from previous holiday breaks. (Fortunately, I think I put Organissimo on one of those old loops, so it's quite possible that Joe, Jim, and Randy are in heavy rotation all summer.) ← Organissimo in very heavy rotation is a good idea. The rest of it isn't.

Trying to decide between a steak or some chops.

Man we need that grinning little devil smilie for the board.

62 Degrees and cloudy right now but the temperature is supposed to be climbing in the next couple of days.