Transcript from AI:
Hello, everybody. It’s finally February 1st. This is Charlie Cheney hosting Charlie Cheney’s music exam on our special FAWM launch. FAWM.org has officially allowed us to start posting songs today after a slight delay this morning.
Oh, the forums were hopping this morning as the timer went to 0 and for some reason unbeknownst to any of us, I have not spoken with BRRR yet. We couldn’t post for a little while, but it has been magically repaired by Burr as usual. Burr fixes all things and people are posting songs as fast as you can count, which is awesome. I’ve grabbed some songs off the site from some people who I know will not mind if I play them. And they gave me in the past, they gave me permission to play their songs from previous forms, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and, assume that Steven’s gonna give me permission to play a new song.
Helen already gave me permission. Helen and Hoopshank have done a few songs, already posted a few songs this morning, and I wanna play one of theirs in a little bit. I’m just getting going here. I wanted to put out a thank you to the State of Michigan this morning for allowing me to drive 70 miles an hour because I jumped in the car. I’m fully packed for the road show today And I jumped in the car and drove down to Stevensville, Michigan.
I’m in the Culver’s restaurant broadcasting the show. We do have a caller on the line. I think this might be Helen, so I’m going to bring her on. Hello, caller. Who is this?
Hi, Charlie. It’s Helen. Hi, Helen. Can you hear me? Yes.
I can hear you great. That’s really Congratulations on posting the first song from London. Thank you. Very awesome. The ceremony is first song and a collaboration, even cooler that it’s a collaboration.
Yeah. All the songs I’ve written so far are. I spent from midnight till 4 AM with Hoopshanks writing songs last night. Awesome. Awesome.
And were you at your flat or at Hoopshanks flat or where mine. Yeah. At mine. Yeah. And you’re right in London.
Right? Yes. Yes. Where where are you located in London? Between Basel Green and Hackney in East End.
East End. Cool. Well, I know that you’re calling. You only have a few minutes to call in due to the long distance telephone call. It’s actually okay because, I’m actually on Skype now.
So you can talk to me as long as you want. Oh, great. Well, it sounds great. That’s awesome. So, everybody who’s listening realized that you can call in from overseas on Skype for pennies per call and join in on the conversation.
We’d love it if you’d call in. I’ll say the phone number here since I’ve got some time with Ellen. The phone number to call into the show is 914-338-0421 in the United States. If you’re overseas, I’m sure you have to dial the add the country codes on the front or something, but it’s 914-338-0421 and you can call in and chat with me online about how FOM is going for you. And hopefully, we’ll get a bunch of callers, we can all start talking together.
So how did the how did the the feast session go last night? How many songs did you get done with Hoops? I went last night and, one this afternoon. So I think it went very well. I think some of the songs are pretty good.
One of them is, just an acapella cacophony, but, most have gone quite well, I think. And it’s good fun. Love Cool. A ceremonious kickoff for the for the week. We’ve got another caller coming in.
Let me see who this is. Let me bring him online. This is always fun when I just do this call. Let me see if I can click the unmute button. A 916 area code caller.
Hello, caller. Who is on the line? On the line is Joel D. Canfield. Joel.
I finally remembered. Our resident Spin Head. You’ve gone to your real name this year though instead of Spin Head. Last year we had there was a big conversation, a lot of people talking about who they really were and their names and things and a lot of other farmers helped me realize that if I would never introduce myself on stage as Spin Head that I’m more comfortable performing using my real name. So this year I decided to be me.
There it is. And that’s okay. That’s okay indeed. Helen, you know Hey. Speak You’re completely I’m actually being myself as well that, I decided against.
I would have seen Helen Helen Robson this year, but I decided not to. Yeah. You’re still staying with Helen’s evil twin. Is that right? Yeah.
Last week because I think we’re changing it, and, I don’t know. I guess, because people know me is that well, and I don’t know why. Maybe I’ll change it still. Well, that’s because you’re the evil twin as opposed to the other twin. Right?
I’m both. I’m. I don’t know. Don’t ask difficult questions. Right.
The difficult ones, the hard ones to answer. But let’s play a song. I want to play this first song by Helen and Hoopshank. This was the first song posted on the fall boards today in honor of February album writing month, and this is called copy. Yep.
We’re gonna write some songs. Yeah. We’re gonna write some songs. Some of them might be quite good, undoubtedly some of them won’t. But we hope that there’s none about dingoes.
Oh, we’re going to like the song. Then we’re gonna come round your house. Now flower to your eyeballs. We’re gonna come round your house. There it is.
The ceremony is first song of FAWM 2009 from Helen’s Evil Twin and Hoopshank. You can go to faum.org/song/one, because it is song number 1. You can listen to it and leave comments. Already quite a few comments on that song as it is the ceremony’s first song and both of the players are well known in FAWM lore, so very cool. A great way to kick it off too with lots of FOM references, Helen, to Strangledisco and Crutio and dingos.
Well, no dingos, right? You’re saying no dingos? Well, hopefully. I I can’t guarantee that dingoes won’t creep in, but I suspect it’ll be a different animal this time. Yeah.
Yeah. I would think so. So very awesome. Very awesome. Now, Joel, have you posted a song yet?
I haven’t been able to. I’ve been driving all morning. I I drove 3 hours to get down to my location where I’m broadcasting from. But how about you, Joel? Have you been writing yet?
I just recorded the mandolin track to my first song when I realized that it was time to give you a call. So I’ve got the mandolin part recorded and the vocals written. I was just about to record the vocals when I decided I’d call you instead. Thank you, sir. Thank you.
Awfully nice to meet you. Live if you if you have time for a live debut of my first song. Wow. That sounds awesome. You’re just gonna play it for us live?
Well, I figured this is another year to push myself out of my comfort zone, because it would absolutely panic me to play it live, but boy that would be fun. How about a verse? Okay. Well, yeah, I’ll give you the first verse in the chorus and then the happy ending. Well, that sounds great.
I’m up. Hit me. Okay. Is that that sound okay there? Oh, it sounds like coming over the phone, but this is brave.
I’m all into it. I’m going to put myself on mute so you can’t hear the music in the background in the restaurant here. So go ahead. All right. This is just the first verse in chorus and a little bit of but not faded.
And more of the same. Charlie’s still on mute, I think. I don’t know if I am. I think I blew Charlie up. Shoot.
I was gone. Sorry. I had muted myself, so you didn’t hear the background music. That was awesome. Our first live performance on Charlie Cheney’s Music Exam for the FAWM broadcast.
That is so cool. And I thought that mandolin sounded great over the air, Joel. Super. Yes, I think telephones were specifically designed to carry the tones of a mandolin or maybe not. Awesome.
Very cool. Hey, I’ve got another song, lined up here from Stephen Wesley Giles. He posted a song this morning and it’s called something about teenage vampires. Maybe it will tell us in the as we listen to it, maybe the title will appear. So hold on, here it goes.
This is by Stephen Wesley Giles. That was just okay. Just the other I’m gonna put it on you. Don’t get around. I don’t feel lunch.
I don’t feel the way that I’m in the yard. Don’t make a There was an airplane up in the sky. I think it was symbolic like the tear in my eye. Or the black and royal, the albatross that hung from my neck like Betsy Ross. I will overwhelm you with my intellect.
Then I’ll take you apart like a vampire neck that has never known a better sun, was never known anyone. And say, don’t get around. I don’t eat lunch. I don’t see the way that I’m meant to y’all turn. Yeah.
There it is. That was Teenage Vampire Lovesick Blues by Steve Applehead. This is at song number 37 posted today apparently because it’s at fom.org/songs slash 37. And Steve started working on that last night and recorded much of it in according to his notes in GarageBand technical thing here, it says vocals recorded on the M Audio Nova through a project Mix. Io.
I don’t understand what any of those words were, but that was what you put on the notes. So go check that out, Stephen Wesley Giles, Teenage Vampire Lovesick Blues. I’m trying to, get the other folks back on the line. Helen and Hello? Joel.
There you are. I had you on mute while I played this on. Anybody else would like to call in, you can call in at 914-338-0421. The time is now 2:19 p. M.
Eastern Time in the United States of America. We’ll be on the air for about another 25 minutes. And please feel free to call in and tell us how Foam is going for you. Now I don’t know if you guys heard, but I did post couple of photos this morning. I have packed my Dodge Colt, my little 2 door hatchback Dodge Colt with all of my gear, my bass and my electric guitar, my acoustic guitar, my amplifier, microphones, all my clothes, everything, all my recording devices, they’re all in the back of the car.
I posted a photo on the forums today, and I drove off from my house, and I’m about halfway to Chicago, a little more than halfway to Chicago, and I’m broadcasting live from Scenic Stevensville, Michigan in the Culver’s restaurant on their free wireless. Because all that will fit in a Dodge Colt. Everything fits in the Colt. And I can even see out the back window. I piled a cooler full of food and beer in the front seat and a bunch of box full of cords and stuff like that.
I’m looking at my coals out the window. And I’m driving to Chicago where I’m going to stay this week and broadcast the show from Chicago all week. And then after that, I’m starting the month long tour where I’m going to drive approximately 5,000 miles over the month of February doing shows from all over the Northeast. So the official I think it’s now a couple of like, darling. Such commercial The official roadshow has started, so I’m going to be home one night out of the next, like, 27 nights.
So that is my new exciting adventure this week. So I’m very excited, very excited. I’m going to try and document it all with photos and, of course, the radio show here and see if I can get some videotape. I’m going to drive up to Madison next week and see if I can meet with Burr and Nancy and John Crossman and the many, many other Madison farmers. And I’m going to try and drive cross country and meet as many farmers as I can and do co writes and so forth, so very excited.
It’s going to be cool. We’ll make a PBS special out of it. Yes. Well, Dusty Mason, who I’m going to go see him, he’s another FAWMer. He lives in Sellersville, Pennsylvania and I used to live out near him.
I live about 30 miles away, in Jamison, Pennsylvania, both of which are northern suburbs kind of of Philadelphia. In any case, he is going to help me do some documentation when I’m out there, and he was saying that too. He says we should get as much video footage as we can and see if we can’t put together some kind of video document that could be possibly broadcast on PBS or something like that, sort of this American Life type of a deal. So we’re definitely going to try and document it as well as we can. Without a call to all the FAWMers to do their own video and contribute it to the project because then it doesn’t have to all be you.
You can supplement it with a couple hours of other nuts. Yes. That would be awesome. I just completed a course at the there’s a great cable access television station near me in Michigan, in a town called Wyoming, Michigan. In fact, it’s all supported by Comcast Cable.
It’s part of their deal for public access. And I was trained in how to use all of their studio cameras and their editing gear and their audio gear and everything so that I can make shows and I will be able to take all this footage and load it into their computers and mix it down into broadcast shows. So, I’ve slowly been putting all this together in hopes that I could put together some cool shows out of this trip. So, yes, it’s all coming together. It’s all coming together for sure.
Let me write the book for you. Sweet. That would be awesome. That would be totally awesome. Now that I finally remembered the show, I hate to bail on you, but I got a place to be, and they want me to shower first Dan.
Shower in February? Yeah. It’s fine. What’s a shower? Well, thanks for calling in, Joel, and check out the you know, thanks.
Please call in again in future episodes. Oh, you you ain’t heard the last of me. Awesome. And check out the Wiki for the tour dates and so forth, and, we’ll talk to you again soon. Alright.
And Alright. Bye. Bye bye, Helen. Bye, Joe. So, Joe is gone.
That means somebody else can call in. In fact, we can have up to 4 callers simultaneously. So, anybody who wants to call in, we got plenty of lines. In the meantime, Helen, I was thinking I would play Dan Wallbink’s first posted song Oh, yes. Stole my heart.
Yeah. So I have. I I’m gonna queue that up right now. And here it is. This is by Dan Wallbank.
Dan’s in the UK as well, isn’t he? Yes. He’s in Leicester. Lester. All right, Dan.
That’s Wallbank from Lester. I will play this song and then I’ll get you the information on it as it’s playing. We’ll be back in a minute. And now I wish I’d never said that you’d always have my heart. You always go too far.
You’ve no sense of irony, and you know it really seems that you took that knife to me. And so while I hear bleeding, wondering how I’m breathing, wondering what you’re feeling with that hard mind. And I’m anticipating this really is degrading, and next I’ll be waiting for What am I supposed to do? I’m afraid to try to move. I don’t know why I’m still alive.
You’ve got me hooked up to a tube. My friends said I should watch my back. They didn’t say my front at all. Good luck without me getting rid of all the bloodstains on the wall. And so while I hear bleeding, wondering how I’m breathing, wondering what you’re feeding with that heart of mine.
And I’m into a jar. Yes. You stole my heart, took off in your own car. And that was Dan Walbank and his first posted song to FAWM this year. And of course I’m on the wrong screen, so I can’t remember what it was called.
I had it all ready to go. Let me switch over, here we go. It’s called You Stole My Heart, and it was song number 4 today on FAWM or 4 this year actually we should say on FAWM. And you can go check that out at foam.org/songs and the number 4. So, leave some comments, listen in, just like any song on FAWM, you can come in and listen.
For those of you who are FAWMers putting on songs, of course, you probably know how to do that. For those of you who may be listening, who aren’t FAWMers, you want to just come hear brand new songs being made as we speak posted nearly every few minutes here from all over the world, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Denmark, the United States, tune in, fawm.org, fawm.org, just come over and listen in and leave your comments and find some cool new music. You’re certainly welcome to come over and do that. Alright. I’m going to try and get back over to Helen here and say hi one more time.
Hello. Hey, Helen. How’s it going? There you are. Sorry I brought you off mute.
It’s okay. You are? Checking in yeah. I can hear you. I was just checking in on the chat.hypnopedia.org site.
Boy, it’s pretty happening over there. A lot of people in the in the chat room. Tim Wille from Denmark just gave me permission to play his first song, which I’m excited to be able to do. Excellent. It’s a good song.
I like it. You know, I haven’t heard these. I just as I was packing, as I was getting ready to go, the songs just started to come online and I had downloaded a bunch of them from the forum. I have one forum list where before songs could be posted where everyone was where each of you were putting up links to your MP3s, the first MP3s sort of before posting and it was actually really handy for me because I got to download those MP3s directly out of that forum and have a whole slew of them that I could upload for the show. And I didn’t get a chance to to listen to them yet, so I’m listening to them hold on the air here, which is awesome.
Oh, we have a caller. It might be Burr. Let’s check-in. I’m trying to bring you off hold here. Hello, caller from Madison, Wisconsin.
Hello, Charlie. This is Burr. Hi, Burr. How you doing? How are you today?
Are you are you Happy FAWM Day. Happy FAWM Day to you. I read on the forums that maybe you stayed up pretty late last night, but I wasn’t sure. Well, I stayed up until about midnight. I I was hanging out on the chat at the media with some of the other FAWMers for a while and crashed around midnight.
I I I, I thought about getting up at 6 o’clock this morning just to make sure that the song posting unlocked without a hitch. And then, then I decided, no. It’s probably fine. If I get myself up, then I’ll be awake, and I’ll be groggy all day. And then I woke up at about quarter to 8 with an uneasy feeling.
I checked about No tone hasn’t been posted yet, and I thought, oh, crap. Oh, crap. That means that means that the forums are gonna be a flutter with, what’s not on this one? Yeah. And they were.
Yes. Fortunately, it’s a quick fix. Took me about, you know, 2 or 3 minutes. It’s one of those minor bugs that we probably couldn’t have even caught until the clock actually counted down. Right.
Yes. That’s what I kept thinking. I was like, how could we have emulated that in advance you know, so even if we were into testing? So, yes, things like that will happen, but awesome that you were able to have a cool head and go in and prevail. Yes.
Well, yep. I’m just glad to see I’m I’m amazed to see so many I mean, if I if I check the website right now, there are a 107 Phong so far. And and, the 2nd year the 1st year that FOM was open to the public as opposed to just the 4 founding farmers doing it on a lark, there was I think we had just over 300 songs total. So we’re a third of the way there yet, and people have only been posting songs for 3 hours. No.
Man, that’s awesome. So cool. I haven’t had a chance to write yet, but I’m excited to start writing tonight. So Yeah. I haven’t had a chance to write it, but I’m not sure when I’m gonna have a chance to start, but I’m, I’m looking forward to it as well.
Cool. Well, it was great to see you come online and snap everything back into place. I knew you would. I didn’t know I had no doubt Most people were probably still asleep or, you know, not there was just the the hardcore farmers who’d been waiting like like Helen and and Dan Walderick and It was midday for us. Well, I guess that’s We weren’t we weren’t being hardcore.
It was midday. We can all name her. Chance. She won’t admit to the fact that she was hitting the refresh button on her browser every 16 seconds, But, you know No. I couldn’t get anywhere near my computer because Hoop Chunk was hitting the refresh button every 5 seconds.
I had had a dream, though. I’ve had a dream that that you’d change the rules about when you could post because Hoop Chunk was so determined to post our first song before Tim Villa. No. And, I’m sorry. And I had this dream.
I had this dream. I got up at 11 o’clock and checked it, and there were 17 songs posted already. Anyway Well, it was very fun to see. Now now I’m trying to remember. Did Tim get the first song last year?
Yes. I think he did. Yes. He did. I think it was Ben Barden from Australia in 2007.
And I don’t remember the years before that, but it became sort of this sort of a bit once we hit a critical mass of several 100 active farmers that sort of became a rite of passage or a status thing. Right, a little bit of friendly competition indeed. For sure. Well, hey, I’ve got a song lined up. I want to play Tim Bill his song here before we run out of time.
So, can you guys hold on for a second and we’ll come back in after the song is over? Awesome. I’m going to put you on hold. And this is Tim Villa from Denmark playing his new song, Founder in the Gutter. I think Charles is going to get a drink.
Per perhaps so. Are we on here or we’ve been muted? I can hear you, but I’m good. I’m good. I wonder if the radio people can hear us.
It’s really funny because you’re listening to me saying chat before. We’re really listening to chat before. When Joel was playing his song, when Joe finished playing a song before and and Charlie had accidentally didn’t realize he’d muted himself, Tim was saying before, oh my god. I would be so gutted if that happened to me. So I find it very funny that he did.
I do keep doing that. I keep muting myself, but, I’m back now. Yep. Dan and wife. How is how about that?
I found her in the gutter. She handed me the butter. I love that. And he got to use his own tags. Did you see the new tag he used for that song?
Hippie corps. I think he started yet another new genre. Yeah. Hippie corps. Well, you know, the the the psychedelic freak out with about a minute left to go or something was was a nice touch.
That was more thoughtful. Well, we’ve got 4 minutes left in today’s broadcast. Thank you too very much for calling in. If anyone else wants to call in to say hello on this fine opening day of FAWM, you can still call in. It’s 914-338-0421.
If you don’t call in today, you should be able to call in tomorrow night. It will be the next show at 10 p. M. Eastern. On Monday night weeknights, we’re doing the shows at 10 PM. Eastern Time in the U. S, and on weekends, we’re doing it at 2 PM. So that people from the U.
K. Have a more reasonable hour to call in such as you, Helen. So that’s why we made the different times for the weekend. So I’ll be doing the show tomorrow night from Evanston, Illinois as part of my global road trip of roadshow radio. So I hope you’ll call in.
Oh, if anyone is in in this greater Chicagoland area, Evanston area, feel free to contact me through the Fall Bulletin Board Store or on my email or whatever or phone and let’s get together. You can come do the show with me, maybe we can do a co write or something. I’ve got a place where we could play some music tomorrow night, Monday night. So give me a call. I would love to do a call rate with anyone who’s in the area.
Well, Burr, how are you feeling on the 1st day? You’ve got a couple of minutes left to give us your thoughts. Well, I’m glad things have gone off gone off, mostly with what I hit so far. I still have looks like I still have a bit of work to do on this site, but I knew that was gonna happen. It’s just, right now, I’m making lunch.
Cool. Taking a little bite? The same. And now same. At there at the Culver’s in Evanston, Illinois.
Well, cool. I guess, I guess we’ll just go out with a song here. I’ve got another song I’d like to sort of go out with. So thank you again, Bert, for calling in. Helen, thanks for calling in.
Thanks for having us. Let’s see your final farewells, and I hope to call in again in future episodes. Let’s go out with one of Helen’s other songs from before Phong. This is called Zombies on the Dance Floor. Thanks for tuning in to Charlie Cheney’s music exam.
Tune in again tomorrow, the next day, the day after as we continue to do our special FAWM broadcast here at blogtalkradio.com/charleycheney. See you soon. Bye.