Bruce Van Dyke

various shows for various sounds

a reminder as to our latest schedule here in OCTOBER 2018

monday thru friday–6 to 10am  Bruce Van Dyke’s Big Bucket O’ Tunes, with disc jockey Randy Shuffle making the selections.

Don Darue’s Risky Biscuit Hayseed Hoot, in its 26th year (!) now plays on Jive Radio on Wednesday 12 noon to 2 pm.  and on Saturday from 2pm to 4pm.  the finest in modern Americana music with a healthy dose of smart ass attitude.

Sister Tiny’s Song & Dance (yes, THAT Sister Tiny, the one from KFAT)–Weds. 10 am to noon, Sat. noon to 2 pm.

Di’s Jive Cafe (presented by Diane Michaels, the diyatollah of rock n rollah)–Weds. 2 to 4 pm. Sat 4 to 6 pm.

at all other times, you’re hearing the The Master Bucket of Schizoclectic Musical Noodles, prepared by Ascended Masters of The Great Gaian Groove Thang.  so there’s that.

 

BVD’s new class at TMCC

The Superb Six: Truly Great Rock Albums

 

(this is the blurb that appeared in the catalog of the Washoe County Continuing Education Catalog this summer)
Celebrate and appreciate six of the greatest recordings in rock music history. Listen to and discuss one classic creation each week embellished with equally classic videos. The lineup is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, Beggar’s Banquet by the Rolling Stones, The Who Sell Out by The Who, American Beauty by the Grateful Dead, L.A. Woman by The Doors and For the Roses by Joni Mitchell. Hear why these records still have the power to impress and dazzle despite being 40 to 50 years old.

Class Details

6 Sessions, beginning Weds. October 10.  at Truckee Meadows Community College, main campus.  room 204 in the Vista Building.  7-830.  your instructor–bruce van dyke.  cost–$59

REVISED ALBUM LINE-UP!  take note, please.

The Stones–Beggar’s Banquet

The Doors–L.A. Woman

Joni Mitchell–Blue

The Dead–1970 (both Workingman’s and Beauty)

King Crimson–In The Court of The Crimson King

John Lennon–Plastic Ono Band (first solo)

SO IF YOU WANNA TAKE THE CLASS, EASY WAY TO GO….JUST CALL 829-9010.  (office of Washoe County Continuing Education)

shazam!!!!

every once in a while, we like to remind you of an app that really helps Jive Radio listeners with song and artist identification.  it’s a wonderful application called Shazam.  it’s free and it downloads to your device in 1-2 minutes at the most.  once you install, it’s very simple to use.  when you hear a song that sparks a desire for info, you just hold your device up to the speaker as the song plays.  within seconds, Shazam will identify (usually) the song, the artist, and often the album title.  it’s a very spiffy app and a very handy helper for us at Jive, where most of the time, the songs are being played via random shuffle mode of a computer at Jive Central HQ, and aren’t being identified after airplay.  Shazam is our favorite CYA app here at JR!

I’ve found that Shazam will make the call about 80-85% of the time, and when you consider some of the crazy, obscure stuff we occasionally throw out there, that’s a most acceptable batting average.

of course, when you listen to the shows of Sister Tiny, Diane Michaels, and Hayseed Don Darue, you WILL get songs and artists identified, cuz they old school bossjox!  so that’s nice……

59 out of 60

that number reflects the reality of Jive Radio programming.  that for every 60 minutes you listen, you will hear 59 minutes of our various schizoclectic music selections.  not bad!

of course, if that’s just TOO MUCH music, you have plenty of places to find relief on your radio/internet dial.  but we are relentless in our pursuit of 59/60.

and also……96.5 FM in redmond, oregon has new call letters.  the station used to be KSQI.  but now, it’s officially KJIV. the jive is alive in the high desert of Oregon!  we are hopeful of bringing a mind boggling galaxy of tunes to towns like Redmond, Culver, Tumalo, Terrebonne, Prineville, Sisters, and Bend.

here is our list of musical genres…….rock, pop, blues, zydeco, jazz, reggae, soul, r & b, country, bluegrass, jam, country rock, jazz rock, rockabilly, americana, lounge, unnameable, super goofy, totally weird, music of the spheres, mongolian throat singing, psychedelic yodeling, humpback whale classics, malevolent mariachi, and so forth.  enjoy!

Schizoclectic work on Labor Day

so here is the jumpin’ JIVE coming out of the BVD Bucket of WTF-it on this monday holiday morning.  watch out, it gets kinda jittery……

English Beat–mirror in the bathroom

The Who–the seeker

Country Joe & the Phish–flyin’ high

Velvet Underground–who loves the sun

Heaven 17–(brothers and sisters) we don’t need this fascist groove thang

Paul Simon–paranoia blues

Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express–whenever you’re ready

Putumayo World Music–Doly Doly

The Dead–bertha

Sly and the Family Stone–dance to the music

Prince–jam of the year

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys–bubbles in my beer

Jerry Band–how sweet it is

Laurie Anderson–born never asked

Albert King–laundromat blues

Sam Butera & the Witnesses–dig that crazy chick

please note the last six songs…..hopping from Prince to Bob Wills to Jerry G to Laurie A to Albert King to Sam Butera shows off a nice streak of ADVANCED SCHIZOCLECTIC ULTRA-JIVE.  where we say hold on and enjoy the multi-genre ride!  flingin’ musical noodles all over the dang kitchen…….

more on the kerfuffle between the BIA and Burners

to back up the assertions made in the previous rant, seen below, just look at these stats released by the pershing county sheriff last year after Burning Man 2017.  these are the drugs confiscated by cops, listed in descending order……

818 grams of psilocybin mushrooms (about 30 ounces)

23 ounces of pot (more mushrooms than pot?  and now you know why blinky lights kick ass in Black Rock City! )

12 ounces of Ecstasy (Molly, MDMA)

almost ONE OUNCE of coke

217 hits of LSD

4 ounces of Ketamine (!)

about a half ounce of METH

 

and remember, these are figures for a city of 75,000.

gee, where are all the OPIATES?  where are all the big bad OXYs…..contin and codone?  how about all the JUNK/HORSE/SMACK?

Burning Man is all about ECSTATOGENS.  not OPIATES.  get a better cover story for hassling burners, feds.  put a little time into it next year, ok?  cool?  because this opiate cover story is BEYOND BALONEY!