Best Show history from the old, old board

[buffcoat]

 Re: Tom S. -- other gigs?
« Reply #2 on: Jan 25th, 2003, 12:49am »  Quote  Modify 

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I used to have a straight music show on WFMU before launching The Best Show. I did it for a few years - it didn't have a name. Slowly but surely more and more talk started creeping into the program. 
 
Then one night the interview with Ronald Thomas Clontle happened, and the blueprint for something different was there. 
 
Unfortunately, not soon after that I took off my show for a combination of personal and job-related reasons. I honestly didn't see myself coming back to WFMU to do another music show. But somebody told me that I should come back and do the kind of show I'd want to do - after all, it's a freeform station.
 
So I pitched a concept for a show to the great Brian Turner and he liked it. And here we are, two years later.
 
And yes, Chris Stamey has been kind enough to help us with the assembly and production of the Rock Rot and Rule and Chain Fights CD's. He's a great guy and one of my all-time favorites - those first two dB's albums are tops in my book.
 
Tom

[Gregory]

Tom is right, those dB's albums are great.

[orangewhip]

She doesn't have to have her DB's record back now"

[buffcoat]

But there's not a lot of things that she'll take back.

[bookem_dan-o]

But there's not a lot of things that she'll take back.

It's a bit odd that I knew of the Young Fresh Fellows before I had ever heard of TMBG

[jed]

Speaking of Best Show History, does anyone know anything about the first two shows?   In an archive I just listened to Tom told Paycheck that someday he would "unearth them."  I guess that never happened.

[Matthew_S]

Re: Tom S. -- other gigs?
« Reply #2 on: Jan 25th, 2003, 12:49am »  Quote  Modify 

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I used to have a straight music show on WFMU before launching The Best Show. I did it for a few years - it didn't have a name. Slowly but surely more and more talk started creeping into the program. 
 
Then one night the interview with Ronald Thomas Clontle happened, and the blueprint for something different was there. 
 
Unfortunately, not soon after that I took off my show for a combination of personal and job-related reasons. I honestly didn't see myself coming back to WFMU to do another music show. But somebody told me that I should come back and do the kind of show I'd want to do - after all, it's a freeform station.
 
So I pitched a concept for a show to the great Brian Turner and he liked it. And here we are, two years later.
 
And yes, Chris Stamey has been kind enough to help us with the assembly and production of the Rock Rot and Rule and Chain Fights CD's. He's a great guy and one of my all-time favorites - those first two dB's albums are tops in my book.
 
Tom

Buffcoat, can you post the direct link to this thread?  (Is this the original board or the 2nd version?)  I have a vague recollection that I started the thread from which this is quoted... asking about Chris Stamey rings a bell...

[buffcoat]

Verily, Matthew_S, it was ye:

http://www.friendsoftom.com/board/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=fotboard;action=display;num=1043426136