Hi,
One of the most fun things to listen to during the days of Guy Guden's Space Pirate Radio stuff in Santa Barbara, was that the radio station had a complete BBC sound effects library and it was 24 LP's big at the time, or something like it.
One of Guy's favorite deeds, was to play the sound effects, always at the wrong speed, and then distort them with all the fun tools available ... and then, with all those TEAC's at the station ... you also had to hear these backwards.
Some of the best, that Guy used a few times and then some:
- a fart backwards
- different farts backwards
- a jet taking off backwards
- airplane taking off backwards
- showing the Beatles evil thoughts in Helter Skelter played backwards in its entirety
- showing the station what they thought of the Average White Band, by playing it backwards (Atlantic Ave)
- playing Revolution #9 at double speed, to make fun of a ____________ (hehehe!!!)
- playing Golden Earring (Are You Receiving Me?) to a complete halt, to make a point! (other dj said that the song was not rock'n'roll, and Guy slowed the album to a complete stop and said ... who cares, it's great music!).... then re-starting the song from 0 to 33rpm.
- playing some classical music and re-inventing the history of music with Debussy drunk (various speeds on the music) and the like.
All in all, it was really just like hearing a lot of the early tv/radio shows when sound effects were manipulated senseless to get an effect, and Guy used these as his set pieces and stages for many of his comedy bits, my favorite of which is ... philosophy bowling! This place would not like that one, I don't think! Some of these effects, also reminded us of a lot of the analog sounds that the new machines were creating, thus helping create a very large library of ideas centered around a sound or two ... and I find it funny/weird, that many folks here have not done this ... because the results and the amount of learning you get from it, is insanely fun and lovely ... !!!
Ohhh, by the way, this was on KTYD in Santa Barbara, which still exists, and was then a number one FM station.
post edited by Moshkito - 2016/01/09 13:18:34